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New York Jets running back Mike Goodson is facing drug and weapons charges after a New Jersey traffic stop.
The Jets say they are aware of the arrest and are gathering information.
State police say Goodson was a passenger in a vehicle driven by 31-year-old Garant Evans of Roselle. Police found them stopped on Interstate 80 in Denville at about 3:15 a.m. Friday.
Sgt. Adam Grossman says both men were charged with marijuana possession, drug paraphernalia possession and weapons offenses stemming from a handgun found in the vehicle.
Evans is charged with DWI and another weapons offense.
Both men are held pending transfer to the Morris County jail.
Goodson played three seasons for Carolina and one for Oakland before the Jets signed him to a three-year deal this offseason.


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I haven't dared get excited about the sunshine for fear of jinxing it - so I'm sort of ignoring it, pretending it's not there. ("Oh I see, a really sunny day again. Whatever.") I've never been that bothered about sunshine - it's nice but really any old weather will do. But with a toddler - even one refusing to toddle, such as Kitty - life is 100% easier if you can doss about all day on a patch of grass somewhere poking at beetles, rather than sweatily pulling on three layers of fleece and puffa and marching grimly down the road to stare gloomily at some goats at the City Farm.
And the good thing about my parents' house, despite it being 800 miles from the nearest shop, pub or tube station, is that is has a massive garden - beetles galore to poke at. And a slide! We may never leave.
Especially not as my mother stuffs us all full of food, all day long. I don't really eat lunch these days, I can't be bothered. But my mother will not take no for an answer and follows me around with halves of sandwiches and peeled segments of apple. And every night she puts dinner on the table for no fewer than five people. Pow, pow, pow, night after night. She's never in a piss about it - like I always am - never in a screeching fury about the relentless grind of it. She just does it. I know that's what most people's mums do, what most of you do, it's just impressive to see it close up.
A recent hit was stuffed pancakes. A lot of you have probably had enough of these after Shrove Tuesday, but if you never got round to it, they are absolutely delicious. Kitty scoffed the leftovers the next day. Kitty is, by the way, roundly humiliating me by eating things out of my mother's hand that she won't touch from me.
Anyway these pancakes are just an assembly job, really. One for a Sunday night, when you've got a weeny bit more time maybe. Make the crepes with a normal pancake batter, sautee ham, mushrooms and whatever else you want, stuff and roll the pancakes and arrange in a line on a baking tray then pour over a cheese sauce (white sauce plus cheese) and cover with grated gruyere, emmenthal, parmesan or any other rubbery/hard cheese you've got knocking about. Stick in the oven for 15 mins at 180C.
No if you'll excuse me, I've got to go and have minor surgery; I'm not allowed to eat anything after 11am today so I've got an hour to raid the fridge. It's nothing serious so don't get all excited that I might finally drop dead. But feel free to be sympathetic all the same.

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RageAgainstVoid wrote:One player wants to play soccer, the other wants to kill him.
What I referred to from the finals some hours ago, in case you missed that. Asshole was allowed to play on. The game defined through that referee allowed for playing like that, ergo that shit must have been alright, right? and so it happened galore.
It was you who stretched PtW to not only justify but even cheer on fouling in soccer. It is also you who stretches PtW already by having it justify rule abuse in any game at all; if anything, PtW's freedom of play is meant to be within a certain space of sanctioned play, to make effective use of it, that is first of all the very spirit of competitive tournament play. Anything else is scientific talk in game theory meant for better understanding of certain aspects of the world, but with limits to how we want to play our games--a confusion all too often with some tourney players when they pick up some tidbits, twisting it in their attempts to explain themselves. That you even brought up PtW at all in a discussion about cheese and fouls which are acts outside the game, is meaningless. Yes, cheese is outside the game as much as fouls, because as much as fouls can often not be prevented, only punished hindsight according to a consensus of what is acceptable play, cheese can often not be prevented as well until a next patch of the game--only refrained from or punished by the community to have any chance of worthwhile matches at all meanwhile. That's the point of it, to make the best out of what's there explicitly, that's the interim patched-up game for the players and spectators, until things get improved implicitly in a real patch. All competitive tourneys have various rule overlays for exactly this reason. However what you did here was arguing the exact contrary, you contradicted the very foundation you fielded: You used PtW to justify degeneration of play merely because it's implicitly possible to do, whereas this on its own has never been justification enough in competitive play anywhere, be it for computer games or real world athletics.-Y- wrote:First off PtW deals (mostly) with competitive multi-player computer games. Stretching it to a new domain dilutes PtW and makes it more fuzzy.
The stark devision is actually most perfectly useful to this discussion, because it glaringly shows the very core of the problem: the problem is when the computer world does not make use of the abundant possibilities and superiorities it has above real world athletics such as soccer, not making use of advantages inherent to the medium because of misconstrued ideas on freedom and tolerance.-Y- wrote:Real world and computer world are starkly divided by the games coding. This is the main problem with your football example,
It was you who repeatedly justified the breaking of rules with PtW, just as so many people use Sirlin's writing not only to justify their play in the game as is, but even to fend off any changes to the game in order to keep that play. Your own statements are in conflict with each other, because you have yet to make up your mind on what it means and in what space it makes sense to apply.-Y- wrote:he obviously broke the explicit rules of the tournament which is in conflict with PtW
It's not about oversights in implicit rules, it's making the best out of explicit rules, this is what it always has been about, because every game ever created has "oversights" in implicit rules, there's always something that is not or cannot be accounted for inside and outside. And there is a real world embedding the game box, you can "win" a chess match by threatening the opponent with physical harm should he make a good move, nothing in the implicit rules can prevent this or even mentions this as wrong; social context, common sense, explicit rules do, they have always covered up for that and whatever else, they complete the game so that a meaningful play can take place, they are intrinsic as well as direly needed, circumvention of which defeats the game, not the opponents. This is nothing different from frowning upon and explicitly outlawing building cheese until a later patch, not despite but because the game currently cannot handle this implicitly. This goes hand in hand, these provisions are meant to complement for mutual benefit, it has always been this way, not against each other as you describe it. The practical question for fans of a game is not "how can we fuck this game all over for a win until the game gets changed or no one plays anymore", it is "how can we play this game such that playing and winning still make sense until it's changed?"-Y- wrote:, on the other hand, one can interpret this as an oversight in implicit rules which is PtW.
It always is and it always requires, because you yourself on your own are already a social construct to begin with. The players create the game by negotiation and agreement, and they carry responsibility to all those involved. If only one player is involved, then that's that, he still faces himself, and this makes single-player a mere difference in scale, not an exception to the principle.-Y- wrote:Speaking of, while a (computer) game is created in a social context it doesn't require a social construct to exist, as it can be played without any players at all (replace players with bots for instance).
The hell, this is what we are talking about the whole time, and this is what you argued against the whole time and still do in other passages now, on basis of PtW!-Y- wrote:You get what you measure. If you want to watch sportsmanship in a game, measure it. Players (especially professional) aren't stupid, they'll optimize for what it takes to win.
There is a sanctioned consensus of what the game is, and that consensus forces the player the moment he agrees to the game, or should force if that wasn't eroded on false grounds.-Y- wrote:Each player has its own vision of what designer meant that matches his best overall game-style. Each player, in a game will try to force other players into a game that suits him the most.
What the fuck is that kind of reasoning? Pan-galactic logic from the 7th dimension?-Y- wrote:Playing to Win doesn't excuse the player; It just says that he can do whatever he wants.
What's much more important is that it's up to a better judge, be it the referee or the game designer, or be it peers and audience, basically to everyone else but him.-Y- wrote:Its still up to the player to judge if acting like a douche is most beneficial for him.
Great fucking sportsmanship, give me a break. The very word sportmanship means to value your opponents and the spirit of the game more than victory. And cheese and fouls by definition always promise much more reward than risk, they are a no brainer to such a bastard, not an intricate consideration to play, the moment there are lapses in enforcement, which is why they are so common then.-Y- wrote:Most top players are also great sportsman because playing like a douche carries many risks and some aren't willing to take those risks (in case of a foul/fake - you bring air of negativity which in turn is more stressful, judges are less likely to believe you and probably will favor your opponent in a dispute and the very act also carries a risk of getting suspended).
You used PtW to justify degeneration of play merely because it's implicitly possible to do, whereas this on its own has never been justification enough in competitive play anywhere, be it for computer games or real world athletics.
You did. You even encouraged it. Literary. You are just hiding behind word and phrase games as you see fit.-Y- wrote:I never justified.
The effect on other's performance beyond that match is not part of the definition of foul; severity further qualifies but not quantifies it. A foul is breaking the rules, be they implicit or explicit, simple as that.-Y- wrote:And second are you in all seriousness comparing a foul to a cheese? Are you saying a move that can affect your performance not just in this but potentially in all other matches for a long time, be compared to an exploit in a game whose effect wears off after the game is over?
-Y- wrote:As for the Pan-galactic logic 7, think about it all PtW says play however you choose/want. If you choose to play a certain way that is your choice; PtW didn't make that choice for you. Didn't God made a similar deal with man?
-Y- wrote:This statement would be true if ToB was played for a long period of time without any counter strategy being developed or leading to a degenerative play in the long run (long run taking months at the very least). To my knowledge I never used cheese in ToB as a specific example as I'm unaware of the gameplay (I may have used cheese as a general term).
No, no that is definitely not what you were talking about, that was what we were talking about, we were talking about changing the implicit game and denouncing cheese explicitly meanwhile. Your talk amounts to "Better freedom than safety" to justify (oh right! you just explained!...) cheese and fouls just because it's possible to do, even if that means no one plays it anymore, basically saying "that's that then" when we were talking about actively preventing exactly this abandonment. You even disagreed on the very notion of denouncing "players" and "play"-styles with asshole and bastardly, based on all that.-Y- wrote:I interpret PtW that way for the same reason I use pessimistic locking - "Better safe than sorry". If you make a game so assholes can't spoil it much, then regulars will enjoy it as well.
-Y- wrote:A question for you:
In the middle ages a King defeated his enemy. In such cases most Kings executed their enemies without a flinch but this King decided to give the defeated a chance to join him as an ally (King didn't demand anything in return). Was this act an act of good will? Of sportsmanship?
Mengde wrote:It's good sportsmanship to concede when you know the other guy's won.
-Y- wrote:blablub
RageAgainstVoid wrote:Denied. You're done here. Take the pity rests of this matter to another place on the web if you care. Notice something? I gave you a taste of your own medicine
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While we all wait with bated breath for President Obama to figure out if he wants to be more or less of a stickler on domestic energy production, i.e. as he dithers at the fork in the road of letting the economy do what it does best and take fuller advantage of our abundant energy resources, or pandering more heavily to his greenie base and bringing the pain on non-'renewable' energy sources, there is ample available evidence of the type of economic gains we could be letting loose if we could commit to the former choice on a national level. Thank goodness for federalism:
Legislators in Texas, the biggest energy producer among U.S. states, will begin deliberating its next two-year budget with a surplus forecast today to match an $8.8 billion record set in 2007.
The Texas economy has topped budget projections over the past 15 months, as booming energy output fueled job growth and an 11 percent fiscal first-quarter gain in sales-tax receipts, the biggest source of general-fund revenue. Even after paying off $7 billion in health and school bills, Comptroller Susan Combs said today that the state will be flush heading into 2014. …
Disciplined spending policies have helped Texas retain top credit grades from Moody's Investors Service and Fitch Ratings. …
As the taxable value of oil produced in Texas surged to $39.1 billion in 2011 from $18.4 billion in 2009, the state led the nation in employment gains, adding about 700,000 jobs, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. The state unemployment rate has tumbled to a four-year low of 6.2 percent. Oil and natural-gas drilling rigs more than doubled by mid-2012 compared with two years earlier, and the industry's workforce climbed 9.2 percent, Combs said.
An inbound crush of revenue, private sector productivity, job creation, economic growth — this is everything we are giving up while the Obama administration has tried to forcefully mold the energy economy of their greenest political fancies by delaying on drilling leases for federal lands and waters, flexing their regulatory muscles and waging a war on coal, "investing" our money in their pet projects, and bandying around with potential new regulations to crack down further on hydraulic fracturing. This pretty much sums up the possibilities, if only President Obama would fully pursue them:
You know who else inherited an economy from Bush? Rick Perry.
— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) January 8, 2013
And speaking of the type of greenie-pressure Obama is facing from the other side of the energy spectrum, it is looking increasingly likely that President Obama will finally approve the full Keystone XL pipeline in the coming months, and you can bet that the eco-crowd not taking the news well:
More than 70 green groups urged President Obama in a Monday letter to kill the Keystone XL pipeline to make good on promises to address climate change.
In their letter, the groups said Obama should speak out more often on climate change, impose emissions limits on existing coal-fired power plants and focus on creating clean-energy jobs.
They added the president also should shut down the proposed pipeline that would bring Canadian oil sands to Gulf Coast refineries.
"Hurricane Sandy made it tragically clear that many communities are extremely vulnerable to climate change. We can and we must build back better — with investment in sustainable infrastructure, not the kind of carbon-intensive development that helped drive this problem in the first place," the groups wrote in the letter.


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The Markets
Profit-taking from 2013's strong run as well as currency and credit problems in several emerging markets threatened to derail the stock market as 2014 began. Those factors, combined with the prospect of less support from the Federal Reserve, a slowing Chinese economy, and renewed Cold War tensions, led to a volatile quarter for equities. After a dismal January, equities regained some strength once Congress avoided a fight over raising the debt ceiling limit. By early March the S&P 500 had hit a new all-time closing high; on the bull market's fifth anniversary, the S&P was only a couple of hundred points away from having tripled since its March 2009 low. At that point the NASDAQ was up more than 4% for 2014, well ahead of the S&P 500 for the year and more than 5 percentage points ahead of the Dow industrials, which spend much of the quarter in negative territory.
However, the rest of March was a great equalizer, narrowing the gaps between the various indices. A slump in tech and biotech stocks handed the NASDAQ its worst month since October 2012 and cut its year-to-date gain to half a percent. The small caps of the Russell 2000 also suffered in late March. However, the S&P 500 proved more resilient, managing to hang on to its 2014 gains.
The international uncertainty lured back money that had been invested overseas in recent years and helped counterbalance some of the fear about Fed monetary policy. Money that had been pulled from bond mutual funds during 2013's second half began to flow back in during the first quarter of 2014,* helping to cut the benchmark 10-year Treasury yield almost a third of a percent as prices rose. After last fall's slide, gold rallied from nearly $1,200 an ounce to almost $1,380 before the late-March swoon took it down to just under $1,300. The price of oil gained a couple of dollars a barrel in Q1, ending at just over $100 a barrel, while the dollar remained little changed.
Quarterly Economic Perspective
- U.S. economic growth slowed in the fourth quarter of 2013, according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis. The 2.6% annualized increase in Q4 gross domestic product was lower than Q3's 4.1% gain. That helped cut inflation-adjusted GDP for all of 2013 to 1.9%, compared to 2012's 2.8%. Meanwhile, after-tax corporate profits were up 2% for the quarter--slightly less than in Q3--and a 3.7% drop in corporate taxes last year left corporate after-tax profits up 6.9% for all of 2013.
- Unemployment barely budged during Q1, remaining not far above the 6.5% unemployment rate that the Fed had targeted as a potential threshold for raising short-term interest rates. However, at its March meeting--the first under new chair Janet Yellen--the Fed's monetary policy committee said any interest rate decision will be based on a variety of economic data, and will likely come "a considerable time" after the end of its bond purchases, now down to $55 billion a month after three rounds of tapering. Most committee members expect the Fed's near-zero target rate to end 2015 at 1%.
- In the wake of Russia's Crimean takeover, European Union countries and the United States agreed to prepare tough economic sanctions that could be imposed if Russia makes further moves to destabilize Ukraine. Also, the G8 nations canceled the summit that had been scheduled to be held in Sochi in June and ejected Russia from the group.
- European leaders declined to take stronger action to counteract an inflation rate so low that it raised concerns about the possibility of deflation. However, central banks in some emerging-market countries, including Brazil, India, Turkey, and South Africa, raised rates sharply to try to stem capital outflows from their currencies and/or fight inflation.
- Now you see it, now you don't: Mt. Gox, at one time the largest Bitcoin exchange, filed for bankruptcy after 850,000 bitcoins--nearly half a billion dollars' worth of the virtual currency--disappeared faster than Ukrainian flags over Crimean government buildings. However, Mt. Gox subsequently said it had located 200,000 bitcoins in digital wallets used before June 2011.
- Housing suffered from frigid weather throughout much of the country as housing starts and sales of both new and existing homes saw strong declines during the quarter. However, building permits issued in February--an indicator of future activity--offered shoots of hope, rising 7.7% during the month.
- U.S. manufacturing also appeared to be affected by winter weather, though by the end of the quarter, two key Fed manufacturing surveys as well as that of the Institute for Supply Management® had shown signs of rebounding. Manufacturing data from China raised bigger concerns. Indications that the country's breakneck growth could be slowing across the board raised concerns about the potential global impact if reduced demand there affects emerging markets whose economies rely on exporting commodities to China.
- Overall inflation remained tame at both the consumer and wholesale levels. Both annual inflation rates have hovered in the neighborhood of 1% since October, giving the Federal Reserve plenty of breathing room to keep interest rates low.
- The Senate Banking Committee's bipartisan leadership announced plans to replace Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac with a system of government-backed mortgage insurance that would be administered by a new Federal Mortgage Insurance Corp. If adopted, the legislation would require a minimum down payment for FMIC loans, create a mechanism for standardizing mortgage-backed securities based on them, and require private lenders to suffer a 10% loss before insurance payments would be triggered.
Eye on the Month Ahead
As a relentless winter finally begins to release its grip on much of the country, investors may get a clearer sense of whether sluggish Q1 economic data was primarily the result of bad weather or something more troubling. Speculation about the timing of a Fed rate hike will likely continue, along with Fed tapering. Overseas, the state of China's economy will continue to be a focus, and the potential for tougher economic sanctions against Russia, which could affect global oil supplies, also bears watching.
Data sources: Economic: Based on data from U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (unemployment, inflation); U.S. Department of Commerce (GDP, corporate profits, retail sales, housing); S&P/Case-Shiller 20-City Composite Index (home prices); Institute for Supply Management (manufacturing/services). Performance: Based on data reported in WSJ Market Data Center (indexes); U.S. Treasury (Treasury yields); U.S. Energy Information Administration/Bloomberg.com Market Data (oil spot price, WTI Cushing, OK); www.goldprice.org (spot gold/silver); Oanda/FX Street (currency exchange rates). All information is based on sources deemed reliable, but no warranty or guarantee is made as to its accuracy or completeness. Neither the information nor any opinion expressed herein constitutes a solicitation for the purchase or sale of any securities, and should not be relied on as financial advice. Past performance is no guarantee of future results. All investing involves risk, including the potential loss of principal, and there can be no guarantee that any investing strategy will be successful.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) is a price-weighted index composed of 30 widely traded blue-chip U.S. common stocks. The S&P 500 is a market-cap weighted index composed of the common stocks of 500 leading companies in leading industries of the U.S. economy. The NASDAQ Composite Index is a market-value weighted index of all common stocks listed on the NASDAQ stock exchange. The Russell 2000 is a market-cap weighted index composed of 2,000 U.S. small-cap common stocks. The Global Dow is an equally weighted index of 150 widely traded blue-chip common stocks worldwide. Market indices listed are unmanaged and are not available for direct investment.


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Immigration and the 2007 French Elections
This report examines the political context surrounding the 2007 French presidential election as it relates to immigration. It provides an overview of the state of immigration in France and highlights notable demographic trends since 2000.
Data presented in the report reveal an upsurge of permanent migration flows to France in the first half of the decade; numbers further illustrate that this growth is largely attributable to burgeoning family migration stream figures—a result of the large-scale regularization initiatives of the late 1990s, which extended legal status to certain family- and humanitarian-based migrants. While temporary flow levels during the same period show greater variance, student and refugee streams consistently channeled the greatest share of temporary migrants into France.
The second half of the report tackles how the contest between center-right l'Union pour le Mouvement Populaire (UMP) candidate Nicolas Sarkozy and center-left Parti Socialiste (PS) candidate Ségolène Royal—and its outcome—will likely impact the country's future immigration and integration agenda. Based on Sarkozy's track record as Interior Minister of France, the author predicts the UMP candidate will continue to advance provisions that open France to high-skilled immigration, stem illegal immigration, restrict family migration, and promote integration into French society. Sarkozy's stance will likely balance tougher enforcement measures targeting unauthorized immigrants on one hand, and efforts to address the socioeconomic challenges of disadvantaged immigrant groups on the other. The author anticipates Royal will take a more moderate stance on immigration and direct her policy focus toward expanding regularization efforts and championing bilateral or multi-national development initiatives.


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Carla Speed McNeil Wins LA Book Prize/
MAY 1, MILWAUKIE, OR—Finder: Voice continues to be one of the most talked about books of 2011, and word of its story and artwork has spread far and wide. So far, in fact, that Carla Speed McNeil has been awarded the prestigious Los Angeles Times Book Prize in the Graphic Novel category for Finder: Voice!
Praise for Carla Speed McNeil's Finder:
"I love Carla Speed McNeil's Finder, and I imagine the reason I love it is the same reason it doesn't get more attention in the comics press: it's simultaneously straightforward and labyrinthine, genre-based and uncategorizable . . . For me, and for other readers who have gotten pulled into McNeil's weird and woolly far-future world, Finder is one of those comics."—The Comics Journal
"It's been entirely too long since we were able to experience Carla Speed McNeil's unique brand of sociological science fiction with its emphasis on character, class and culture. Once again McNeil immerses you in her meticulously detailed world and you're immediately caught up in a beautifully drawn and deftly written story."—ICv2
"You'll keep turning the pages in Voice to put the pieces of the puzzle together and to see what Grosvenor does next. It is an intricate tale, and Carla Speed McNeil is a master storyteller—with her words and art."—ScienceFiction.com
"McNeil conveys more emotion and depth through the slick line of a raised eyebrow than most can with an entire book, played out in a world that is unquestionably familiar and unshakably alien."—Bleeding Cool
"McNeil excels at tying her many character and story elements together and anchoring them in the same increasingly familiar universe, making her fictional world, its inhabitants and their issues and experiences all the more real to the invested, gratified reader."—No Flying No Tights
Awards and nominations:
Unshelved Book Club's Book of the Month, February 2012—Unshelved
#1 on Comics Worth Reading's Best Graphic Novels of 2011—Comics Worth Reading
#2 on Comics Bulletin's Top 10 Best Graphic Novels of 2011—Comics Bulletin
#4 on Publishers Weekly's Best Books of 2011, Comics—Publishers Weekly
#4 on ComicsAlliance's 11 Best Comics of 2011—ComicsAlliance
#29 on Comic Book Resources' Top 100 Comics of 2011—Comic Book Resources
About Dark HorseFounded in 1986 by Mike Richardson, Dark Horse Comics has proven to be a solid example of how integrity and innovation can help broaden a unique storytelling medium and establish a small, homegrown company as an industry giant. The company is known for the progressive and creator-friendly atmosphere it provides for writers and artists. In addition to publishing comics from top talent such as Frank Miller, Mike Mignola, Neil Gaiman, Brian Wood, Gerard Way, Felicia Day, Guillermo del Toro, and comics legends such as Will Eisner, Neal Adams, and Jim Steranko, Dark Horse has developed its own successful properties such as The Mask, Ghost, Timecop, and SpyBoy. Its successful line of comics and products based on popular properties includes Star Wars, Mass Effect, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Aliens, Conan, Emily the Strange, Tim Burton's Tragic Toys for Girls and Boys, Serenity, and Domo. Today Dark Horse Comics is the largest independent comic book publisher in the US and is recognized as one of the world's leading publishers of both creator-owned content and licensed comics material.


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It's been fun to get our New England Yankee family together to celebrate together after the Christmas craziness is all over. We look forward to it every year, and cousins come from Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts and Rhode Island. I looked through our old family photos and found group pictures of the whole family over the past 25 years. Here is a sampling!
|1991 in Holden, Massachusetts, my nephew was a few days old!
This may be one of our first Three Kings parties.
|2001, San Juan, Puerto Rico at the mall called
Plaza de las Americas, posing with Kings instead of Santa!
|2002 My Dad and his brother used to
celebrate their New Years birthdays
at our Three Kings party. Dad died later that year
and Uncle Robert died in 2005.
We used to put the birthday candles
on top of the Kings Cake!
|2008, Hope, Rhode Island, snow kept the Maine cousins away
|2011, everyone posed for this photo holding goodies
sent from See's Candies in California by our uncle.
He loved the photo!
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Welcome to Pay it Forward with Jackie Inc.
Pay it Forward with Jackie is run exclusively by volunteers; there are no paid employees. Pay it Forward with Jackie is an official 501c3, tax-exempt,organization.
Pay it Forward with Jackie is built on the hopes and dreams of a childhood cancer patient, a little girl, named Jackie, who inspires to "pay it forward". Our mission is to provide relief to the poor by working with local agencies, and provide gift certificates and/or bill payment to qualified applicants with special consideration to families in struggling with a childhood cancer diagnosis. In addition, our mission is to increase the number of people on the National Bone Marrow registry.
"The person you help today may be the person you thank tomorrow."


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August 2012 Classic, Limited and Vintners Series Wine Tasting
Chianti has such a wide range of quality levels; from thin, insipid plunk to elegant, complex wine...and whom I consider one of the best unheralded makers are the folks at Castellani. Here is Piergiorgio Castellani in a wonderful interview here at Wine of the Month Club.
And, run through the August wines with Paul and Ed for some good humor and insights into this months selections. Good wines means good fun.
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Some 50km northwest of Berlin, venerable tree-lined avenues home in on the rolling forests that cradle lakes on Brandenburg's border with Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania – where this landscape is protected as Müritz National Park. But just south, on the languid shores of Grienericksee, lies the pretty little town of RHEINSBERG, where Frederick the Great claimed to have spent his happiest years as a young crown prince living in a modest Schloss, studying for the throne and giving occasional concerts.
Rheinsberg's tiny centre is worth a quick exploration, and though there are few real landmarks, it features genteel, leafy, cobbled streets and several pottery workshops on the south side of town, which carry on centuries-old local traditions. Digs south of the Schloss have traced the origins of the local industry to the early thirteenth century, and Rheinsberg continues to be known for ceramics and faïence (tin-glazed pottery), though today's most popular pieces are sturdy rustic ones with cream and dark blue glazes.
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About ACTEMRA and RA
ACTEMRA® (tocilizumab) was the first RA treatment to directly block the action of a protein in your body called interleukin-6 (IL-6). This protein is believed to play a part in RA.
Without ACTEMRA
IL-6 connects to the cell and tells the cell to activate. When the cell activates, it may contribute to the signs and symptoms of RA.
With ACTEMRA
ACTEMRA blocks IL-6 from connecting to the cell.
The way ACTEMRA is believed to work was suggested in preclinical research. It is not known exactly how it works in the body.
Important Side Effect Information | Stomach tears
If you have diverticulitis (inflammation in parts of the large
intestine), talk to your healthcare provider before taking
Some people taking ACTEMRA may develop a hole in the wall of their stomach or intestines (also known as a perforation). This happens most often in people who also take nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), corticosteroids, or methotrexate.
Tell your healthcare provider right away if you see any of these side effects:
- Fever
- Stomach-area pain that does not go away
- Change in your bowel habits
Support for living with RA
Learn what the ACTEMRA & You patient support program has to offer.
Before reading more, please see the Important Side Effect Information for ACTEMRA
This information does not take the place of talking with your healthcare provider about your medical condition or your treatment.
Important Side Effect Information
After reading about ACTEMRA, please talk to your healthcare provider if you have any questions.
ACTEMRA is:
- Available by medical prescription only
- For adults with moderately to severely active rheumatoid arthritis (RA) who have used one or more disease modifying antirheumatic drugs (DMARDs), such as methotrexate, that did not provide enough relief
- For adults with giant cell arteritis (GCA)
- For people with active PJIA ages 2 and above
- For people with active SJIA ages 2 and above
It is not known if ACTEMRA is safe and effective in children with PJIA or SJIA under 2 years of age or in children with conditions other than PJIA or SJIA.
ACTEMRA can cause serious side effects
Serious infections
ACTEMRA changes the way your immune system works. This can make you more likely to get infections or make any current infection worse. Some people have died from these infections.
Before taking ACTEMRA, tell your healthcare provider if you have:
- An infection, think you may have an infection, are being treated for an infection, or get a lot of infections that return. Infection signs, with or without a fever, include:
- Sweating or chills
- Shortness of breath
- Warm, red or painful skin or sores on your body
- Feel very tired
- Muscle aches
- Blood in phlegm
- Diarrhea or stomach pain
- Cough
- Weight loss
- Burning when you urinate or urinating more often than normal
- Any of the following conditions that may give you a higher chance of getting infections. These include: diabetes, HIV, or a weak immune system
- Tuberculosis (TB) or have been in close contact with someone who has TB. Your healthcare provider should test you for TB before starting ACTEMRA and during treatment with ACTEMRA
- Lived in or currently live in parts of the United States known for fungal infections. These parts include the Ohio and Mississippi River Valleys and the Southwest
- Hepatitis B or have had hepatitis B
Be sure to contact your healthcare provider or nurse if you see any signs of these side effects.
Stomach tears
If you have diverticulitis (inflammation in parts of the large intestine), talk to your healthcare provider before taking ACTEMRA.
Some people taking ACTEMRA may develop a hole in the wall of their stomach or intestines (also known as a perforation). This happens most often in people who also take nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), corticosteroids, or methotrexate.
Tell your healthcare provider right away if you see any of these side effects:
- Fever
- Stomach-area pain that does not go away
- Change in your bowel habits
Changes in blood test results
Your healthcare provider should do blood tests before you start receiving ACTEMRA. If you have rheumatoid arthritis (RA) or giant cell arteritis (GCA) your healthcare provider should do blood tests 4 to 8 weeks after you start receiving ACTEMRA and then every 3 months after that. If you have polyarticular juvenile idiopathic arthritis (PJIA) you will have blood tests done every 4 to 8 weeks during treatment. If you have systemic juvenile idiopathic arthritis (SJIA) you will have blood tests done every 2 to 4 weeks during treatment. These blood tests are to check for the following side effects of ACTEMRA:
Low neutrophil count: neutrophils are white blood cells that help the body fight infection
Low platelet count: platelets are blood cells that help with clotting, which stops bleeding
Increase in liver function test levels
Increase in blood cholesterol levels
You should not receive ACTEMRA if your neutrophil and platelet counts are too low or your liver function test levels are too high. These may cause your healthcare provider to stop your ACTEMRA treatment for a time or change your dose. Your cholesterol levels should be checked 4 to 8 weeks after the start of your treatment, and then every 6 months after that.
Increased risk of cancer
ACTEMRA may increase your risk of certain cancers by changing the way your immune system works.
Hepatitis B infection
If you have hepatitis B, a virus that affects the liver, or are a carrier of the virus, ACTEMRA can cause the virus to become active. Your healthcare provider should test you for hepatitis B before starting treatment. Tell your healthcare provider right away if you see any signs of these symptoms:
- Feeling very tired
- Vomiting
- Chills
- Dark urine
- Skin or eyes look yellow
- Clay-colored bowel movements
- Stomach discomfort
- Skin rash
- Little or no appetite
- Fevers
- Muscle aches
Serious allergic reactions
Serious allergic reactions, including death, can happen with ACTEMRA infusions or injections, even if they did not occur with an earlier infusion or injection. If you had hives, a rash, or experienced flushing after injecting, you should tell your healthcare provider or nurse before your next injection.
Contact 911 immediately, as well as your healthcare provider or nurse, if you experience any of these reactions:
- Shortness of breath or trouble breathing
- Swelling of lips, tongue, or face
- Chest pain
- Feeling dizzy or faint
- Moderate or severe abdominal pain or vomiting
Nervous system problems
While rare, multiple sclerosis has been diagnosed in some people taking ACTEMRA.
Most common side effects
Tell your healthcare provider if you have these or any other side effect that bothers you or does not go away:
Upper respiratory tract infections (like common cold and sinus infections)
Increased blood pressure (also called hypertension)
Injection site reactions
ACTEMRA & pregnancy
Tell your healthcare provider if you are planning to become pregnant, are pregnant, plan to breast-feed, or are breast-feeding. You and your healthcare provider should decide if you will take ACTEMRA or breast-feed. You should not do both. If you are pregnant and taking ACTEMRA, join the pregnancy registry. The purpose of this registry is to check the health of the pregnant mother and her baby. To learn more, call 1-877-311-8972 or talk to your healthcare provider to register.
Reporting side effects
Tell your healthcare provider right away if you are experiencing any side effects. You may report side effects to the FDA at 1-800-FDA-1088 or www.FDA.gov/medwatch. You may also call Genentech at 1-888-835-2555.
For more Important Safety Information, please see full Prescribing Information and Medication Guide, including Serious Side Effects.


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Philips cd-i memorabilia
>> Monday, August 19, 2013
Magazines, flyers, catalogues and some interesting stuff... All collected by Alan from Philips CD-i Zone:
Showcasing the power and spec of the 220 model.
This features dozens of unknown professional cd-i releases/point of sale discs. The XDRA discs all feature, along with the 'Getting Ahead' series. Also there is 'The Memory Works'. I'm going to make some enquries to see if I can track down some of these discs...
Very interesting find! A U.S.A. cd-i magazine from 1993, possibly the only issue ever released. Featuring reviews of Alice in Wonderland and an interview with the Cheers actor pictured. Fantastic!
Interesting brochure encouraging you to buy cd-i and pick up airmiles at the same time!
The games list features 2 interesting entries... Microcosm and Return to Cybercity (both unreleased)
From William Wallace's collection. This was distributed by the UK store Dixons, on the launch day of Chaos Control for cd-i in 1994. Very rare today, this is the first one I've ever seen. A true collector's item. MANY THANKS William for sharing this picture.
Check these out!! Never seen them before, didn't know they were released along with the game. Can anyone confirm this? They definitely were not part of the peacekeeper revolver boxset. Very cool stuff..
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When Eminence High School English teacher, Cara Puckett, offered me the opportunity to be a guest judge for her students' Poetry Out Loud competition, I eagerly accepted.
I like poetry, I like teenagers, how hard could it be?
Then I checked out the Poetry Out Loud National Recitation Project website and started to appreciate the complexities.
Participants were to choose two poems from a list of thousands spanning hundreds of years and representing all the different types of poetry.
Our Governor is calling it the most widespread natural disaster in our state's history. This was my second widespread natural disaster since taking office. In the case of the tornadoes of 2004 and this recent ice storm, I have been extremely proud of the caring and resourceful people of this county. At this time I would like to thank a few of those who pitched in to make the best out of the recent event.
On Feb. 3, the snow caused considerable headaches for many motorists. The timing of the snow and more of it than was forecast caused many parents to have concerns about the safety of their children while traveling home from school. I, like every employee of the Henry County Public Schools, make the safety of our children my number one priority each and every day. It gives me great comfort to know that the transportation staff performs their duties with a great amount of professionalism.
The recent power outage made me realize that perhaps my self-image has always been slightly askew. All my life, I have fancied myself the "pioneer" type; delighting in the sight of my baby's freshly washed diapers flapping in the Kansas breeze, making jam out of the wild blackberries I picked myself on our farm, knitting cotton dishrags for the kitchen, and helping haul water when we still depended on a cistern. I have always felt the simple life was for me, as if I could step into the pages of a Laura Ingalls Wilder book and feel completely at home.
On behalf of the City of Eminence, I would like to thank the many, many volunteers who gave of their time to assist the citizens of Eminence and Henry County during the recent snow and ice storm emergencies. The list is so long that I cannot mention everyone by name, but you know who you are. I am so proud to live in a community where people care so much for one another.
I am a senior at Henry County High School, and I'm writing to bring awareness about the importance of pet owners getting their pets spayed or neutered. Spaying and neutering a pet can make animals calmer and some animals feel less of an urge to run away from their home. Pets that have had the procedure done can no longer reproduce, so spaying or neutering your pet can help control the pet population. Needless to say, there will be no unwanted animals roaming the streets going hungry.
We would like to express our sincere appreciation for Tommie Kendall and his sports coverage in our community. We will always value the support and encouragement he has provided to our swim team. Since 2004, he has attended nearly every meet in order to provide accurate and pertinent information to our local community regarding our swim team. This includes traveling several miles to away meets which take place in the evenings and on weekends. Our sport is not the exception, he does this for all sports in our county.
One of the most significant and damaging health care issues facing the Commonwealth of Kentucky is the abuse of prescription pain medications. Nowhere is this problem more evident than in hospital emergency departments. As the predominate health care provider for families and employers of Carroll County and surrounding communities, the medical staff and board of directors of Carroll County Memorial Hospital are taking bold steps to address this drug problem in an attempt to protect our communities from this abuse.
On behalf of the citizens of Henry County I would like to express our appreciation to the following businesses and individuals that gave up their time and donated food and supplies for the Community Center and other shelters during the recent ice storm: Dairy Queen, Cook's Pharmacy, Norm's, Kentucky Fried Chicken, Chat-N-Nibble, Dollar General Store, Family Dollar Store, Cowboy's, Five-Star B.P., Scribers Station, Hometown Pizza, New Castle Café, Eminence City Council Members, Eminence Police, Henry County Sheriff's Department, Red Cross, North Central Health
When times are tough, the last thing a family would ever do is jeopardize the money it knows it can count on.
I believe the same should hold true for Kentucky as well.
That is why I have filed legislation during the current legislative session that would allow video lottery terminals (VLTs) at our horse tracks. If we don't protect and promote an industry that has a $4 billion economic impact on our state, we will lose far more in the years ahead than our reputation as the horse capital of the world.
With all due respect to Mother Nature, please, turn off the snow machine. Well, okay, more accurately, don't turn on the ice machine again.
While some of our residents may still be without power, I count my blessings that we were only out for about half a day.
When our power conked out just after 9 a.m. Wednesday morning, Derek and I huddled up with extra blankets, and the cats, and read. All day.
We were a little stir crazy — not being able to check e-mail, or Facebook, or play a video game or two.
This past summer, the Henry County athletic field house became a reality for athletes of the Henry County Public Schools. The indoor turf, weight equipment, lockers, training room equipment and various other items are top of the line, but would not have been possible without the tremendous outpouring of support from our community. A special thanks goes to the fundraising committee comprised of Mark Vaughn, Steve Williams and Lyndon Johnson. These gentlemen set and met the goal of raising $70,000 to fully equip the facility.
Monday night into Tuesday morning, Henry County received a winter storm that practically shut it down. Residents lost power all over and police officers in Eminence set out to check on everyone, especially the elderly. The Fire Department opened their doors and was called on almost immediately. City workers had already started working overtime trying to make our streets passable. The Eminence City Council was opening the Community Center insuring that residents from all over had shelter.
A recent movie called "The Bucket List" tells about two men, one terminally ill, who decide to take on a list of things they've always wanted to do before they 'kicked the bucket" – hence the name. I am not terminally ill, thank goodness, but I have a 'bucket list' of my own. Unlike the goals in the film, mine are modest and inexpensive, even trivial, but then I never claimed that my life would be a blockbuster movie.
Henry County is blessed with many generous hearts. We've had so many people ask us what they could do to help the community. Everyone knows that times are hard with this economy. It has only made the kindness in the hearts of the community come together and want to help those less fortunate. To the pastors, church groups, work groups, teachers and staff, students, families: thank you! We thank you for the food and supplies that many have brought in for our community pantry. We thank you for the monetary donations and providing "Santa&rdq
The 2008 election season has come and gone. It is now time to start focusing on future elections, specifically those involving our local government offices. We are less than a year away from the filing deadline for county judge-executive, magistrates, sheriff, county clerk, prosecuting attorney and many other county and city-elected positions. The filing period is between Nov. 4, 2009, and 4 p.m. on Jan. 26, 2010. Now is the time to get involved for anyone considering candidacy in any of these local government offices,
I do not understand the recent actions (or, better, inactions) of the Henry County Local. The Local promises to strive "for accuracy, fairness, and clarity in its coverage' but recently has been failing to provide any of its promises. A few weeks ago the Local published the official notification of the audit of the Henry County Fiscal Court performed by state auditor Crit Luallen.
One of the more welcoming trends in Kentucky in recent years has been our declining highway fatalities. Though one is too many, there is greater evidence that increased seatbelt usage and the relatively new graduated driver's license for teenagers is having the effect we in the General Assembly had hoped.
In 2005, there were 985 people who died in automobile accidents on Kentucky's roads, the highest total since the early 1970s. Fortunately, we have seen a steady drop since then, with last year's listed at 822 – a nearly 17 percent reduction.
I thought I had an odd and unique hobby, but after reading the article about the man visiting Sligo, I realize there are others doing what I enjoy doing.
On Thursday night, Jan. 15, 16 mailboxes on Bates Lane were vandalized – most were smashed on one side by some object and several were knocked completely off their pedestal! I would guess that this vandalism was perpetrated by young people, who were out driving around and thought this would be fun. Someone (or a group) who would do this must have a perverted sense of what is fun. Obviously, they have no respect for other's property; but, vandalizing U.S. Postal Service mailboxes is a Federal offense!
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Each of the 98 luxurious bedrooms at The Four Star Macdonald Inchyra Hotel & Spa have been tastefully decorated and designed for relaxation or why not treat yourself to added luxury with an executive superior room. The Macdonald Inchyra Hotel & Spa really does offer something special, indulge yourself now at our newly refurbished Vital Health & Wellbeing Club including a state-of-the-art Fully Equipped Technogym, Spa Relaxation Room, 8 Spa Treatment Rooms. Spa 'Tea Room, 20 Metre Swimming Pool, Aroma Steam Room, Rock Sauna, Ice Fountain, Experience Massage Shower & Rasul areas.
Set in a traditional Scottish manor house, the Macdonald Inchyra Hotel & Spa has an excellent reputation for warm hospitality and excellent service. The hotel lies in it's own beautifully landscaped gardens on the outskirts of Falkirk and Grangemouth, our unique position just off Junction 5 of the M9 motorway makes us and ideal choice for the business traveller visiting Grangemouth, Falkirk and only 20 minutes driving distance from Stirling and Edinburgh Airport. This friendly hotel is perfect for weekend breaks and exploring the heart of Central Scotland. As part of a £5 million investment, the Macdonald Inchyra Hotel & Spa has launched its new restaurant, The Scottish Steak Club. Whether eating from the a la carte or lounge menu, guests can expect the finest selection of meats and wines, all sourced from local producers. Get down to business in one of our flexible meeting rooms or hold a conference for up to 750 delegates in one of the largest conference venues in Scotland. Romantic wedding receptions and ceremonies can be held in the elegant and newly refurbished Inchyra Suite and the hotel's grounds offer a picturesque location for those memorable photographs
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SBA Head: Agency Will Avoid Major Blow From Cuts
Administrator Karen Mills said that the SBA won't need to furlough employees because it already cut staffers through early retirements.
NEW YORK (AP) -- The head of the U.S. Small Business Administration says she doesn't expect operations at the agency to be dramatically affected by automatic federal budget cuts scheduled to begin March 1.
Administrator Karen Mills said that the SBA won't need to furlough employees because it already cut staffers through early retirements. "We are down the requisite amount of expenses, but we're not having to furlough to do it," Mills said in a Friday meeting with reporters.
Mills also expects little impact on the amount of loans the SBA guarantees. According to the White House, SBA loan guarantees would be cut by up to $902 million. In the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30, the agency guaranteed $30 billion. But Mills said demand for one type of loan, known as the 504 loan, is expected to fall this year, and that will likely mean the agency will be able to meet demand for its other loans. There was a sharp increase in 504 loans last year because of a now-expired provision allowing them to be used as a mortgage refinancing tool.
"We are not slowing down giving loans to anyone," Mills said.
Mills says that many small businesses have already felt the impact of the budget cuts that are known, in congressional parlance, as sequestration. She noted that contracts at the Pentagon, the agency that has the biggest federal contracting budget, were down sharply in December in anticipation of the budget cuts.
"Small businesses suffered a large part of that because spending was delayed in anticipating of sequestration, and so they didn't get their contracts," she said.
Mills announced last week that she plans to leave the SBA this year, but would stay in her post until a successor is chosen and sworn in. She declined Friday to speculate on who that might be. Mills, who worked for private equity firms before coming to the SBA in 2009, said she's undecided about what she'll do next.


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So go check Lacey out and give her some love if you don't know her.
In my craziness that is the end of the school year, I've seen a ton of fun linky parties out there. I haven't had time to link up with any of them, but being awake at 4:30 there is no time like the present. I have several projects that I want to work on with my teaching this summer and have several professional books to read to help me with that. So I'm linking up with Clutter Free Classroom's Summer Reading party.
The biggest thing I want to work on this summer to have set up next year is math work stations and differentiating my math instruction. So of course I've got Debbie Diller's Math Work Stations book to read. I also have this book Math for All that has been on my shelves for a few years. I haven't had time to read it so I'm hoping this summer will be the time.
Eventually I would like to read the Cafe book as well but I'm not sure that's on the schedule for the summer. My second big project to work on for the school year is my writing instruction. I don't know that I will be able to implement quite what I want to next year if I'm going to focus on Math but I think adding a little here and there will be good. So I plan to participate in the book study Mrs. Wills is hosting for the book In Pictures and Words.
I also hope to read a lot of non professional fiction books. Books full of mystery. Books full of other people's lives. Books full of futuristic societies. I love to read and in the summer I can sometimes find myself reading several books a week.Summer hasn't officially started for me yet. I still have a day and half of work time at school. But it's already shaping up to be a busy summer. I'm going to keep my almost 2 year old niece, Sophie, once a week. I'm starting to teach a class at church on Wednesday nights for 1st and 2nd graders. Then the month of July, I'm going to be tutoring some of my students. I have 6 signed up. We'll see how it actually pans out when July rolls around. And there is the the business of getting married and being a wife. That happens in 17 days or so.
I am also trying to plan a workshop type thing for my school sharing some of the things I've learned through blogging. It is just an idea in my head right now. With our new evaluation system, to get a good score on some of the professional rubric you need to lead things. So I've been turning this idea over in my head. I would love to share the things that I've learned and it would help with getting a higher score in my evaluation.
I'm excited about all that is going on.What are you reading? Check out Clutter Free Classroom's Party.


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Estate Planning 101:Bank account safety
By Attorney Marlene S. Cooper From the Los Angeles Sentinel
The FDIC (Federal Insurance Deposit Corporation) protects depositors against the loss of their insured deposits if an FDIC-insured bank or savings association fails. Several years ago IndyMac Bancorp Inc., a Pasadena-based mortgage lender, failed and was taken over by federal regulators. At that time account holders risked losing all of the money held by that bank in excess of $100,000 since FDIC only provided deposit insurance up to $100,000. This situation caused many people to examine their bank accounts to see if they stood to lose their life savings should their bank fail. In addition, the nation's attention was turned to Wall Street and its excesses.
On July 21, 2010 President Barack Obama signed a law which permanently raised the maximum FDIC insurance coverage amount to $250,000. Thus, generally speaking, if a depositor's accounts at one FDIC-insured bank or savings association total $250,000 or less, the deposits are fully insured. Where that account is in the name of a revocable living trust, special rules apply which could potentially insure the amount held up to $1,250,000 depending on the number of beneficiaries and each beneficiary's designated share of the revocable trust deposits. It should be noted too that the $250,000 coverage amount signed into law is retroactive. This means that those that lost money in 2008 or after due to lack of coverage when an insured bank failed may receive a refund.
The foregoing discussion is a general overview of the rules regarding FDIC coverage and it should not be relied upon as determinative of insurance coverage for any specific account. FDIC rules are complicated and can be found at the FDIC's website, http://www.fdic.gov. The FDIC has an on-line interactive application that can help you learn about deposit insurance called Electronic Deposit Insurance Estimator (EDIE) located on its website. It allows you to calculate the insurance coverage of your accounts at each FDIC-insured institution. Of course, you can always contact your bank or savings institution to have your accounts analyzed and obtain comfort and peace of mind that your money is 100 percent safe.
© 2013 by Marlene S. Cooper. All rights reserved. (Marlene S. Cooper, a graduate of UCLA, has been an attorney for over 30 years. Her practice is focused entirely on estate planning, estate administration and probate. You may obtain further information at www.marlenecooperlaw.com, by e-mail at firstname.lastname@example.com, by phone at (626) 791-7530 or toll free at (866) 702-7600. The information in this article is of a general nature and not intended as legal advice. Seek the advice of an attorney before acting or relying upon any information in this article).


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FORT WORTH, Texas -- Joey Logano's "Final Four" at Texas Motor Speedway had nothing to do with the NCAA men's basketball championship set for Monday night in nearby Arlington.
Logano and crew chief Todd Gordon's decision to pit for four Goodyear Dual Zone tires during the final caution period of the rain-delayed Duck Commander 500 propelled the Team Penske star to his first NASCAR Sprint Cup Series victory of 2014.
"We've been in contention every race this year to win, and I'm proud to be a part of that," said Logano, who extended a streak that has produced seven different winners in as many Sprint Cup races. "I felt very confident about this race. For some reason I told Todd, I said, 'We're going to win this week' and I was mad when we didn't get the pole. But I felt like we had a car that could win today."
Logano, 23, scored his first career victory on TMS' 1.5-mile quad-oval and fourth in 190 career Sprint Cup starts at the expense of four-time series champion Jeff Gordon under a green-white-checkered-flag finish that extended the race to 340 laps from the originally scheduled 334.
Logano, driver of the No. 22 Shell Pennzoil/Hertz Ford Fusion, passed Gordon via a crossover move on the inside heading into Turn 1 on Lap 340 en route to margin of victory of 0.476 seconds. Kyle Busch finished third with Brian Vickers and Sunoco Rookie of the Year candidate Kyle Larson rounding out a top five that was shuffled by the day's seventh and final caution on Lap 333.
Logano was working on a 3.053-second lead over teammate Brad Keselowski when Kurt Busch, winner of last week's race at Martinsville Speedway, brushed the outside wall in Turn 2. During the ensuing pit stops, Logano and Keselowski opted for four tires and fuel. Gordon, of Hendrick Motorsports, and Vickers, of Michael Waltrip Racing, opted for right-side rubber only and exited pit road 1-2.
"When you've got 40-something laps after the last pit stop and a pretty sizeable lead, really, all you're thinking is, 'Where's the white flag?'" Logano said. "Brad was able to catch us a little bit and then you go into Turn 1 and see the No. 41 (of Kurt Busch) up against the wall and you're like, 'Please, no caution.' And, of course -- boom -- it comes out and you're like, 'You've got to be kidding me.' So you get so mad that you can barely control yourself. Really, I was just so mad.
"And then he (Todd Gordon) made a last-minute decision to put fuel in it, gave me better balance for what I needed and the guys made the 'money stop.' I was the first guy out with four tires on."
Similarly, Gordon praised crew chief Alan Gustafson for a "great call" to go with two tires on the final stop given his standing when the yellow flew.
"I mean, coming in sixth, you're in that position that you can gamble," said Gordon, driver of the No. 24 Axalta/Texas A&M; School of Engineering Chevrolet SS. "You're not going to win it with four (tires),you're not going to win it with none. I knew it was going to be hard to hold those guys off.
"I got a pretty good restart, so I was happy about that. Got through (Turns) 1 and 2. I was shocked I was leading off of 2, to be honest. I wish I would have run a little bit higher down (Turns) 3 and 4. I'm sure Joey was going to go wherever I didn't. Probably would have been a little bit better off on the top. He crossed over and got into the back of me pretty good. At that point I was just thinking, 'I want to finish.' Looked out my mirror, those guys were racing hard behind me. A great second-place finish for me."
Kyle Busch, winner of this event last year, said he was looking at solid third-place results before the final sequence. "Of course, the inevitable comes out with the yellow and you have to come down and get tires -- just way too long out there on tires," said Busch, driver of the No. 18 Interstate Batteries Toyota Camry fielded by Joe Gibbs Racing. "I chose four just because I absolutely killed my stuff about three laps prior to that caution coming out so I knew that was our only chance. Just drove the hell out of it there those last two laps and got all she could and come home third. Good, deserving finish for us here."
Keselowski was poised to give team owner Roger Penske a slam-dunk 1-2 finish behind his teammate when the final caution flew. Keselowski exited the pits fourth with four tires, one spot behind Logano. But he was charged with speeding off pit road -- a miscue that dropped him to 15th.
"That last caution was a shame," said Keselowski, driver of the No. 2 Miller Lite Ford. "I was just trying to get a little too much on pit road and wanted to get us out front to be able to win the race and tried a little too hard. We're in it for wins. We're not in it for finishing second."
Gordon emerged as the new points leader after HMS teammate Dale Earnhardt Jr. crashed out of the event on Lap 12, finished 43rd and dropped to sixth in the standings. Gordon holds a four-point (259-255) lead over Matt Kenseth of Joe Gibbs Racing heading into Saturday night's Bojangles' Southern 500 at Darlington Raceway.


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SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. (MarketWatch) — How much will you lose this time around? Four years ago, on March 30, 2009, our column headline announced: "6 reasons I'm calling a bottom and a new bull."
The Dow fell from 14,164. Hit bottom at 6,547. And Wall Street lost over $10 trillion of America's retirement market cap. You lost lots. But it's back up more than 100% since. We forget.
Here's the one other story that you can't afford to miss today
Time for another crash? Oh yes. Remember: Investors Business Daily's publisher, Bill O'Neil, wrote in his classic, "How to Make Money in Stocks": "During the last 50 years, we have had 12 bull markets and 11 bear markets … The bull markets averaged going up about 100% and the bear markets, on the average, declined 25% to 30%." And "the typical bull market lasted 3.75 years and the classic bear market lingered only nine months."
Today's bull is over four years old, in dangerous territory.
Yes, you are facing an aging bull. Ready for pasture. But Wall Street's still gambling with your money. Remember, Wall Street casinos have already lost roughly $10 trillion twice this century. Twice. And soon Wall Street will do it again.
But exactly when? Here's how to figure "exactly" when. In his classic, "Stocks for the Long Run," economist Jeremy Siegel studied all the "big market moves" between 1801 and 2001. Two centuries of data. Conclusion: 75% of the time there's no rational explanation for "big moves" in stock, not up, not down.
So stop asking, maybe some technician, quant or high-frequency trader can predict short-term swings. But the "big market moves?" Never.
So "exactly" when? America's top experts are warning us — it'll happen before year-end. That's "exactly" when. Why? It's obvious. By year-end 2013 our aging bull will be 4 ½ years old, well past Bill O'Neil's "average" 3.75 years for a bear drop putting a bull out to pasture.
So any rational investor would have to conclude that Mr. Market — as Warren Buffett's mentor Benjamin Graham called the stock market in his classic "The Intelligent Investor" — would know that a bear drop, a crash, meltdown, or something very painful is coming very soon. Indeed, could happen anytime, maybe even tomorrow, because this bull is old-old by Bill O'Neil's basic calculations.
Mr. Market will soon lose $10 trillion of your money, repeating 2008 and 2000
So the real question is not when, nor if, but how much will you personally lose in this third crash of the 21st century? Ask yourself: How would a rational investor estimate losses? Simple: a rational investor would logically estimate that Mr. Market could easily drop around 50%, again.
Another way of saying it is that Mr. Market's latest roller-coaster ride will cost today's Main Street American investors a new loss of another $10 trillion in market cap. Why? Because the Dow will loses half its value, crashing from today's roughly 14,400 to 7,200.
That's a reasonable conclusion by a rational investor, using the Graham-Buffett calculator logic on today's Mr. Market. Remember: the Dow went all the way down to 7,286 in 2002 after the dot-com crash. Then crashed even deeper to 6,547 in 2009 after the Wall Street credit meltdown.
Handy-Dandy Investors Crash Loss Calculator: 25 portfolio killers
Here's our little behavioral-economics calculator to help you figure out whether you'll lose 50% when Mr. Market comes crashing again.
Quickly scan through the following list of common investor biases and bad habits. Don't stop to think rationally about any one. Just keep tabs on roughly how many of the 25 fit some investment decisions you made during the dot-com era and in the years leading up to the recent bank credit meltdown.
And do it very fast. Maybe five seconds or so each. When you finish your scanning and have your number (even if it's just a rough estimate like 12 of the 25) then we'll go to the last step in our Handy-Dandy Investors Loss Calculator:
Overconfidence bias: You love trading and gambling. You pay little attention to the fees, commissions and taxes, because your know you'll score big.
Blinders: Investors often stereotype certain companies, stocks and funds as "winners" or "losers" (Dell? Apple?), often missing turning points signaling a change in company fortunes, opportunities and reversals.
Heroics: Irrational investors tend to overestimate their stock-picking abilities, underestimate Mr. Market. Then later exaggerate their successes, talk about the one that got away.
Denial: Once locked in, irrational investors hate admitting they've made a bad decision. It's an ego thing. So they hang on to losers, even refuse to sell losers. It's un-American. Or means you're not as manly or as smart as you thought.
Attachment bias: You fall in love with "special" stocks. You exaggerate virtues, downplay problems and then hold on too long.
Extremism bias: Irrational investors have trouble assessing risk, often bet big, and lose big. Probable events become certain. Unlikely events become impossible. So you're likely to miscalculate your risks.
Anchors: In your mind you tend lock in price targets, like a hundred-buck stock or Dow 15,000, then minimize any data that suggests you're wrong.
Ownership bias: Once purchased, you value what's yours even higher, like overvaluing your home. That blinds you to the real value, adds to your losses.
Herd mentality: For all the talk about macho individuality, the truth is, most investors don't think for themselves and tend to follow the crowd, or blindly track some trend.
Getting-even bias: You lose, then you try to break even taking extra risk, doubling-down. You get overanxious, overreact, and you lose more.
Small-numbers bias: Making decisions on limited data that's incomplete and likely exaggerated.
Loss aversion: Many cautious people tend to avoid losses more than seek gains. That fear keeps investors out of the market too long, and in "safe" money markets.
Pride: You hate selling losers, hate admitting error. You have a no-talk rule.
Risk averse: You take too little risk after a big loss or a losing streak, get too conservative, don't trust yourself, and miss opportunities for higher returns.
Myopic bias: You think recent data's more important than older information. So you may pull back after a losing streak, or ride a winning streak till you lose it.
Cognitive dissonance: You filter out bad news and tend to ignore and discard new information that conflicts with your biases, preconceptions and belief system.
Bandwagon: You disregard fundamentals. You think you understand "momentum." You conclude that "so many" followers can't possibly be wrong.
Confirmation: You're not only critical of any news that contradicts your beliefs, you blindly accept any data that confirms beliefs.
Rationalization: You are superlogical and can marshal lots of evidence to back up whatever you first decide to buy, even if it's based on limited logic and data.
Anchoring bias: You rely too much on readily available data, just because it's available, even when you know it could be faulty.
House money: You treat winnings as if they belong to the house or casino. Then you take bigger risks, giving it all back, and then some.
Disposition effect: You tend to lock in gains and hang onto losses, selling shares in an up market, hanging onto losers too long, similar to loss aversion.
Outcome bias: You judge your decisions on results rather than the context when the decision was made. That'll result in misleading you the next time.
Sunk costs bias: You treat money already invested in a stock as more valuable than future opportunities, so you often hang on rather than sell and reinvest.
Perfect behavioral storm: Separately, each bias is bad enough. Combined, they become bubbles, set you and wipe you out. Either way, quants and behaviorists can easily manipulate you into what they want, blowing bubbles and popping them without you ever knowing what's happening … manipulating you like a mindless puppet.
OK, you probably have a rough count, and likely not that exact. No problem. Let's say, for example, you estimate that out of this list of 25 known investors biases, you've made investment decisions that were irrationally based on 10 of these bad habits and biases.
So here's how you can use the Handy-Dandy Investors Crash Loss Calculator to figure your losses in the next crash. Very simple to estimate: If you estimate you exhibited 10 of the 25 bad habits and biases in the past, that suggests a portfolio drop of 40%. And if Mr. Market only goes down 50%, like it did in the 2000 crash and again in the 2008 meltdown, your losses would be between 20% and 40% of your portfolio's total value.
Of course the real value of this exercise is not the numbers game. Besides, if you're gaming the system, it may be impossible to stop. But if you're ready, then this exercise makes you aware of the fact that Mr. Market really is overdue a crash.
And more importantly, if you lose money again, it's your fault. Yes, the problem is yours, it's all in your head, your own behavioral biases, quirks, blind spots and bad habits, and not Mr. Market's problem. He's just doing what Ben Graham and Warren Buffett tell us he always does.
So, get your behavioral act together and prepare for the crash that's dead ahead, with no biases or bad habits.


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