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Transfer Window: Summer 2015The very best posts from KUMB over the years ...
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Too many people are leaving Carroll out of the team. I think because of his extended absence a lot of people are forgetting just how good he is.
I think if he gets an decent run in the side without the ball being constantly launched at his bonce, a lot of us will be pleasantly surprised.
I've ben banging this drum since he arrived. He really is very good with the ball at his feet and has a wicked left foot.
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I agree wholeheartedly, if he can stay fit ( big if ) with the quality he now has playing around him I think he could finally deliver what we know he is capable of.
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Agreed. Our hideous end to last season coincided with his absence I think.
Also a valuable defender at set pieces. What Andy needs to do is contain his courage. He goes for every ball...even the impossible sometimes.
Brian Robson suffered many injuries and was equally fearless.
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Likewise! With the other options there's no need to overplay him in games either.
Fingers crossed for the lad.
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fuc*ing stunned.
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How can you base your plans on someone who is rarely if ever fit? The few games he does play he is usually finding his way back to fitness.
On that basis alone it is sensible to plan for a team that doesn't involve him.
There is also the issue of whether he fits with the way Bilic wants to play. I cant see him being mobile enough to lead the line alone for us in the away games. So id think he will be used more at home to provide variety in our attack. But he may not be first one the team sheet even at home. To be fair, that may help manage his fitness.
I'm not so sure about good with the ball at his feet. Or course if you compare his control with Valencia.... What he will be able to do is receive the ball in to his feet and hold a defender off. If we can get men making runs past him we could get a lot of joy from that.
Put it this way. If he were for sale now, no way would we be in the market for him. And if we could recoup what we paid we'd do so. But as things are, I'm sure Bilic will look to make best use of him.
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You keep banging this drum. How many points did you expect after the first four games?
My answer to your question would be, delighted and ****ing amazed, especialy if they were Champions
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Just read this
Arsenal fans planned to protest on Wednesday evening outside Emirates over lack of action in the transfer window but no one turned up .
Also Arsenal made a deadline attempt to sign Simone Zaza
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If they are sitting 18th in the table ...........not so good
If they are top ..............wow great
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So a big thank you to everyone for their (sensible) contributions to this year's thread ... and on that note, it's to the Hall of Fame we go.
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Sunday, April 27, 2008
At Hyeres 2008……Hyeres, South of France
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Everything about this picture is stunning. The colour is insane.
love the pants and the shoes
it's blushing pink! Do you take this picture in the afternoon, is it indoor or outdoor? I'm curious.
Just wow. The location kind of reminds me of a mini golf place, but it also looks like she might be on another planet or something. Haha.
Excellent photograph, excellent pants and shoes.
dusky dreamy lovely rosey illuminated & nostalgic
the jacket, the shoes, the belt,the pants stunning i have got to visit france oh and sart some pics of mens fashion in france please
those shoes!
i agree, the colors are insane.
love it.
A great composition – there is something very Miami Vice to the rolled up sleeves in what i presume is a linen jacket?
I love her shoes! :)
Another amazing photograph with an incredible mix of light. How the subject remains lit while the light is clearly fading and without the use of flash is a mystery, but that's what makes Sart such a master photographer.
this really is a beautiful shot, looks like a still out of a movie. it's amost hyponotic!
this outfit is great, and rather than being eclipsed by its surroundings, is merely complimented.
the belt is a tad long however.
when's that makeover going to happen? i can't wait to see the outcome. is it still going ahead?
keep up the great work
Love those trousers..
Wow!Youre photos are really great. Im very inspired. Love the pictures you have taken of people on the street.
Anything, anyone in that setting would be knocked out. Great image … the girl, well … whatever.
Slight Don Johnson look going on here. Love the pants
I'm totally crazy about this out fit and the girl is lovely.
Cheers Ji PĂ©
The depth, lines and colours of this photo are stunning.
The background is out of this world beautiful
this is beautiful! the colors, and the path! and the blurred lights on the background…
very nice pic
omg WONDERFUL!
She's slim and lovely, but the proportions and pleats on those pants are really unflattering.
I am in love with this photograph. Inspiring outfit as well! Cheers!
The pictures is amazing – loving the colours.
You can tell that is not the USA because that crooked path is a lawsuit waiting to happen. Imagine her trying to navigate that in those big heels after a few cocktails! Awesome photo.
how fun!
Is anyone out there like me and not really excited to have the eighties return?
This picture is simply gorgeous. It really captures the essence of the sounth of France.
i don´t like this look, only the shoes and the photograph
I love it. Something about the outfit and the backdrop makes me think I'm looking into a carnival/circus circa 1920s. So dream-like.
I don't even care about the outfit…as a photograph this is absolutely incredible. The woman somehow stands out and blends in all at the same time. wow…just wow.
trendy, yet not fun…
Each piece is charming…but together they don't do much.
It seems very formulaic, falling into disproportion just by keeping up with cool. The pants look big. and the colors weak.
While I think the background is amazing, I think the outfit ruined the picture. I'm sorry, but those pants no matter how fashionable they may be they are hideous and do nothing for her. It has potential of being a great outfit but some parts need a little help.
Again, I know that we are supposed to be talking about clothes here. But, this message is for you Scott. What a piece of art this is. Amazing light, color! Is that the ocean back there? Truly beautiful. I love that time of day when the world becomes blue. Blue in the best possible way! I love it!
wow the colors just play out wonderfully! like her outfit full of personality.
just amazing colors and the lights and the clothing. wow. awesome background!
i don't know… something is "off" about this look, and to me it seems like she's trying a bit too hard because i notice the clothes first, and not her as a whole. maybe it's the belt? not sure… and i love pleated pants and jackets with rolled-up sleeves. contrast this look with that woman wearing the cropped pleated pants and high heels a little while back (i think it was taken in milan, and there was a guy checking her out in the background). in that picture, i noticed the woman first. here, my eye goes right to that belt… and i'm not totally loving the shoes, either. but the location is fantastic!
I love how the blue of the sky and the jacket and the reddishness of the shoes and pinkness of the ground almost make her emerge outwards from the photo, as if she was born to be there at that time. Perfect. Just perfect.
Ralph Lauren preppiness meets Scandinavian coolness.
I would never try this style becaues I'm short, but this person looks great. Great pants, and great colors. Beautiful face.
absolutely stunning
This picture is surreal… the colors and geometry are really cool
wow. Not just the outfit, but the backdrop makes this photo indescribable. So beautiful. Well done.
wow, stunning. the blazer is perfect. so simple yet so fantastic
The composition of this photo is stunning…the pink walkway just kind of leads you into the sparkling backdrop. I also love the relaxed look on her face and the way her messy hair gives you the illusion that this outfit wasn't planned to a tee (which it obviously was!)
The jacket is a little ill-fitting for my taste, but she worked the proportions well–the clothes are heavy in the middle area (with the pleats and belt) but not overbearing on her frame. Fastening the belt like that MADE the outfit, and those shoes are perfect for the pant.
wow, the colors are amazing and i love her ensemble. that belt, and the cuffed sleeves really make it . . . also the buttons on the bottom of her pants.
The androgyny and laid back look of this outfit is great. She looks like she's wearing her boyfriend's clothes, but at the same time she's very put together.
I wish I knew where I could find pants like those. They're fantastic!
great photo!!!!!!
hey sart- i've been reading your blog for a while and really really enjoy everything you have to post. it's absolutely wonderful journalism.
quick question though: i'm traveling to london and paris in a few weeks and am curious what's big over there right now as far as fashion goes for men. i like to blend in when i travel, so if you have any particular tips and/or hints, that would be great.
keep up the awesome work!
it's like she has her own runway.
i actually thought she was on one, and you took this picture before the start of a fashion show :)
i only realized it wasn't after i enlarged it :-p
love the shoes.
What an awesome shot!!!
Where is she standing?
Love the shoes and the photograph is just generally amazing, but…are those SHOULDER PADS? I'm getting that 1983 feeling, which maybe was just a bad year for me since it's giving me the heebie-jeebies.
Those pants are totally boss, and she pulls them off perfectly.
that picture remind's me music from Lost Highway…
Anxiety hidden in colour…
You are a genious.
That's all I can say. (The blue, the pink, the sand, the lights)
beautiful background
like a magic film
Very interesting picture in terms of colors.
As far as the clothing is concerned I am so not a fan of this style. I know this is highly subjective but I really have the feeling that these pants just make girls…. well…. big thighs, big bottoms. Some call it feminine shapes. I am sorry but to me this is the brute femininity of the stone age. Combined with the unisex jacket this girl, although very beautiful, looses most of its sex appeal to me. There is no elegance to me there…
Lovely, lovely Photograph! Great pants, great shoes. I could see her in a blousey white tank top and a tiny cropped sweater vest, mixing the old with the new.
love the contrast cuff on the jacket.
the pants are an interesting shape. I think a different belt could have worked better, but overall the outfit works. not to mention the photo itself is magnificent
WOW. Awesome outfit, awesome background. Im noticing a rolled sleeves on jackets trend no?
wow, love it, everything just goes together so well
The colours, subject, depth of field, focus all look surreal! Like Alice in Wonderland meets Dorothy's dusty pink road to OZ, or the French beach. Stunning!
I can't stop starring at this. I'm mesmerized.
I don't love her outfit, but agreed, the photo itself is beautiful. Amazing colors!
Those pants seem to be "bombachas de campo", the pants gauchos use everyday to work in the argentinian pampas.
An amazing picture, as usual. But the outfit reminds me about everything that I hated about the eighties (pleated pants, unflattering proportions, Don Johnson etc) and I realized that I still hate them.
So South of France.
It's funny, Sart. At first glance– probably because I knew what kind of event you were at — I thought she was in a blue tent "the strand" installation!
Beautiful photo, kiddo.
The clothes? Well, I was post-punk arty in the 80s and hated this sillhouette then… but now? I kinda like it!
– desertwind
Big clunky brown sandals with wooden soles and big balloony pants: This is pretty much the uniform on every other Parisian girl, these days.
This looks like its in the middle of no where or a barren desert, but here comes a vibrant soul out of it. This photo takes me somewhere.
What is the exact location in France?
love the photography, only thing i don't like is the pants, as much as I try I just stand them
Aside from how great her outfit is, I kust want to mention what a stunning shot this is. Amazing color, depth and composition.
I would have worn those pants in about 1982. Only someone who wasn't born or not old enough to wear them back then would consider them now. When I was in high school in the 70′s we sometimes dressed in 1950s style clothes (like saddle shoes) for fun. Like this, it was a costume.
stunning picture, sart. the outfit … not good. just not good.
You are, quite simply, a real artist. If this blog was around when I was studying the arts at university, I would have become a photographer, instead of a journalist.
I find real joy in your photographs, Mr. Sartorialist.
I don't like the outfit either, but your pics are great, and I always selfishly want to see more more more!
this is at the beach??? Wow. I've never seen anyone wear clothes like that at the humid, sandy beach.
If I was a woman, I'm sure I'd look like her.
Nice job on this pic, Sarto. But there's something funky on your website you need to pay attention to.
With such a beautiful background, I'm disappointed in the clothing on the girl.
Another case of the clothes wearing the girl, not vice versa. It's a shame because she really shouldn't have to try so hard.
something about the colors and the string of lights gives an old school circus/fairground quality to the picture. it's magical! love it!!!
I am not trying to be anonymous, but, having not yet posted a comment, I don't know how to offer an observation without having in hand, as it were, an "identity." (I have one, I am reasonably sure, though not so much in hand.)
Let me just say that I love this site. I love it, truly. It is romantic in all the best possible ways. And though I do not have occasion to be try every inspiration, times and places being what they are, I do regularly feel inspired. Which, times and places being what they are, is an extraordinary thing.
And so I must confess. This outfit is not for me. It is not perfect. It is not even great. True, the photography is, as it always is. And the eye for something distinctive, yes.
But I wonder. Are not some of these pictures taken with irony? Even a little?
In this ironic moment, times being, et tout ca, not every one of these pictures is meant to be admiring, surely. Just interested. Which is wonderful, to have been piqued. But some are perfect, and most not. And this one is too, for my plebeian tastes, too boyfriend-rolled.
But please do continue. I am in your debt.
this is absolutely dreamy.
amazing shot
this picture is so surreal
i love it so much
this is amazing! what a backdrop! its like a circus! she is very cute.
Fantastic picture! I assume you had to use a tripod for this, right? And is that a flash illuminating her or just ambient light and a long exposure?
this photo is out of this world. My mind is completely blown. It looks like a painting! Bravo.
Does anyone know who the shoes are by? They're so cute!
"Follow the pink brick road"….
definitely not Kansas!
Kudos to the Wizard(ry) of Sart!
Not something I would ever attempt to wear, but it really has character and she looks totally at ease in it. And the colors really are amazing. I love love love the strings of light. It's so surreal.
the colorsm the background and the relaxed but dressed up girl looks amazing
I thought this shot has a hint of Lacroix.
Maybe its the vibrant colors…she could well be standing in a Christian Lacroix Fashion show.
Great Picture, you make candid shots look GOOD!!!
god these pants are everywhere! but the lady looks really good
The style is definitely there, but the pants are too big for her – they are not as flattering as could be. It's all about proportions.
I loved the '80s, but it's true sometimes the fashions weren't so flattering. The pleats and fullness up top, narrowing at the ankle make her look like she has thunder thighs, which is impossible since all women in the south of France are slim as cigarettes.
Magical shot!
Her beauty moves me. Her wide bone structure looks great in this outfit. From her neck to her ankles, it's bold and masculine, but those cuffs and shoes are aggressively feminine and sexy. Wonderful balance. I am in love.
love the shapes here! the shoes are gorgeous. i love the extreme style of the pants, but i don't know if i'd have the confidence to wear them!
I guess pleated pants making a come-back!
Love this photo! The colors are intense! It looks like a movie setting on a long pier with carnival rides and, maybe – a proposal by nights' end.
wow, you must have very still hands. I would have blurred the hell out of this picture with those light conditions. very nice!
there are no words to describe this color combination – it is brilliant! not a fan of the pants, but love everything else.
I love her pants!! The bottoms remind me of sleeves…
I like this pic….i feel a slightly tailored jacket (in the same colour) would be a better option.
I love this site-it clears my head out,somehow-But why are there so very few pictures of women over twenty five?
This photo is incredible. It's like Stardust Memories, but in color. I can picture Marie-Christine Barrault in this outfit. Beautiful. Like a dream.
this photograph is fantastic. the silhouette of her pants, she cut of her jacket, the shoes, the lights in the background, the foggy french blue cote d'azur, this is completely breathtaking. it looks like a still from a film that i would wait in line 2 hrs to see.
Love the shot – absolutely gorgeous, but is she seriously doing that belt thing from the 80′s? And those pants?!?!?!?! Honey, please!
the picture is stunning, and the look… perfect.
she's so femenine, even with these clothes.
Lovely photo. I like the retro pants and jacket. It's interesting to see longer looser jackets coming back after all the shrunken ones we've seen for a while now.
That belt, though, ugh. I've seen people wear belts this way before, with the long dangling end just hanging there…it just looks so vulgar – like a big tongue sticking out from her pants. It reminds me of a codpiece too, meant to draw attention to the crotch in a too-obvious way. Is it just me who sees it like this?
The shoes are immense, and I love the backdrop, but I have a problem with this blazer – I get the period ref, but it's just not flattering. The scenery make it a gorgeous picture nonetheless.
What's with all the 80′s haters out there? There are 80′s looks that are tired to be sure, but this looks so comfortable, cool and sexy.
This woman is dy-no-mite…and on a set like that (remember the film "Betty Blue"?) I dare you not to fall in love.
it's very balenciaga, all she needs is a vibrant scarf!
*Very* unique pants (but only someone with very slender upper legs could really pull this look off…), and one of the best shots I've seen from you so far. :D
lovely lovely lovely! positively stunning
she is absolutely stunning..love the harem pants and the gladiator sandals!and the jacket is to die for…she also looks like a very sophisticated woman..wow..
incredible location. makes me want to be there. the colours are stunning.
LOVE IT! even though i had the same outfit in 8th grade.
I actually love both: the clothes and the background!
Personally, there are some kinds of clothes I'd never try on, or have no courage to try…
But I just love the way she looks.
This looks like an impressionist painting.
the background really evokes a dream-like, fairytale vibe in the picture! The zig-zag path (kind of like the yellow-brick road a la Wizard Of Oz, but red brick) and the dots of white light littered over a rich blue backdrop all add to the dreamy effect. Love how the blues of the shirt and backdrop contrast nicely. Pants are definitely new to me…haven't seen those before!
The backdrop is brilliant! Great capture!
your photos always leave me speechless.
stunning colors. looks like a dreamscape. i'm so amazed by so many of your photos…
im from argentina and i discover the sartorialist in cosmopolitan tv…
when i look this photos always i feel so happy but sad too because i know that never can be in that countries and see people like that. i love your pictures are awesome and this one is so beautiful i love it! bye
i want to be her
Absolute. Pink vs blue, male vs female, only horizon line can divide the both sides.Great!
Love the heels !!
one of the best photos i ever seen in this blogue.
I'm mesmerised by this picture. It's so dreamy and unreal because everything about it is so beautiful.
I love how every piece to the look just comes to together and works wonderfully together. The pants are phenomenal. I love the button detailing on the ankle. Also, the blue blazer is so ethereal and airy and compliments the khaki pants. I also love the leather ballerina shoes- very neat!
OK. I love the shot, the setting, it's beautiful and feels like a long lost carnival. But the clothes to me are not attractive. Too baggy in the pants, and thighs and no shape to the top.
magical photo~ candyland colors..
Her pants are wonderful!
there's something…I dunno.. really 80s about this that I like. a lot. her swimmer's hair, the hot pink hot blue, tapered pants and blazer. all very wonderful.
I've had this as my wallpaper for a while, having to explain it to anyone looking over my shoulder at my laptop. It is just amazing, I think it's the colours that I like the most, delicious, very Tim Walker, followed by the designer version of the Pierre Hardy/Gap shoes I own and cannot walk in. The matching belt, the jodhpur-peg crossover. I want to live there and be her, simple as that.
this is just so my style. totally loving it :)
oh my god !
this picture looks like
david lynch if he was a bit brighter :D


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Valerie Horsley, PhD
Associate Professor of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology and Associate Professor of Dermatology
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Valerie Horsley began her scientific training as an undergraduate at Furman University and was awarded her Ph.D. from Emory University. After completing a Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation postdoctoral fellowship in Elaine Fuchs' laboratory at Rockefeller University, Valerie started her independent laboratory at Yale University in the Department of Molecular Cellular and Developmental Biology. Horsley's lab uses the mouse as a genetic model system to study how adult stem cells within epithelial tissues maintain tissue homeostasis, can contribute to wound healing, and can be a factor in cancer formation. She is now the Maxine F. Singer Associate Professor of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology at Yale, has received a number of awards including the Pew Scholar Award, Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, and the Rosalind Franklin Young Investigator Award.
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|Emory University (2003)
|Furman University, Biology (1998)
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Rosalind Franklin Young Investigator AwardGenetics Society of America, American Society of Human Genetics, The Gruber Foundation (2012)
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Former Playboy pin-up Kendra Wilkinson reportedly is pregnant with her second child.
Hugh Hefner's ex is expecting another baby with husband Hank Baskett, according to Us Weekly.
Wilkinson, 28, wed the former football player in 2009, and they are already parents to son Hank Baskett IV, 3.
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Superintendent Mark McEwan said: "Shortly before 4am today, Thursday November 12, police received a report that a man aged 24 had been assaulted by four others at Altcar Park. It is alleged that one of the men had a handgun. They left the scene in a small silver car."
The victim did not require hospital treatment.
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Andi Buckner and her twin brother, Bolden, have had enough of the rough streets of Detroit. When they can no longer bear the drugs and abuse within their home, the twins make their escape: Bolden to the military, and Andi to wherever the wind takes her. With few belongings and no specific destination, Andi eventually finds herself across the table from a kind old man in a quaint cafe in Spring Hollow, Montana. Louis "Gramps" Granger, a retired cop, takes Andi under his wing. Andi soon finds a peace she's never known as she roots herself in the small town, working at the cafe and living in a cabin on Gramps's property. But her peace is short-lived...
When an enemy from Gramps's past murders the old man, Andi's need to see justice served draws her into an investigation far beyond her own abilities. But hundreds of miles away, her twin brother senses her despair and heeds her silent plea for help. Andi is soon reunited with her brother as well as with Bolden's friend, private investigator Mason Crowther. Together, the trio delves into a mystery and soon discovers that the murderer's motive goes far deeper than any of them imagined. With the truth almost within reach, they find themselves directly in the path of a killer who will stop at nothing to finish what they've started...
I listened to this book using Bookshelf Plus on my commute to and from work. I admit I may have taken the long way home a time or two to keep listening. This is the 3rd book I've listened to by Clair Poulson and I'm becoming quite a fan of his writing.
Gramps is an endearing character from the beginning. You can't help but really like the old guy - just like Andi, the main character. She stumbles into a mystery but with the help of her brother and his friend they unravel the truths.
This keeps you intrigued to the end.
I love this book. I'll probably listen to it again. I loved how it isn't sappy, yet it has characters that really care for each other. All except the bad guys of course. lol...
Clair Poulson has done it again. He's written a compelling mystery with interesting characters and plenty of exciting twists and turns. Andi is a sympathetic character from the beginning as she flees a dysfunctional family life in Detroit for the peaceful small town life of Spring Hollow, Montana. And her new found friendship with Louis Granger, a retired detective, that everyone in town calls Gramps helps her feel right at home. But Andi's peaceful existence is complicated greatly when she finds Gramps murdered on their favorite hiking trail. With the help of the local sheriff as well as her twin brother Bolden and her brother's friend, private investigator Mason Crowther, Andi hopes to find the murderer of her friend. But in the process, Andi finds herself in the line of fire. But thanks to the efforts of Gramps, she may just have the skills required to survive. There is of course some romance going on in and around the excitement between Andi and Mason. An enjoyable read for those who enjoy suspenseful romantic mysteries.
(3.5 Stars) Andi has no idea of the danger she's in when her old friend, Gramps, is murdered. In a race against time to discover the murderer, Andi, her twin brother, Bolden, and his friend, Mason, endure danger and suspense like you won't believe.
My feelings on this book are like a yo-yo. I found myself getting caught up in the drama and suspense one minute and then getting dragged down by the inconsistencies and clumsy relationships the next. And I'm not just talking about romantic relationships. The character interactions, at times, are gauche and there are some repetitions that I felt were unnecessary. There are two instances where the wrong names are used, so if you're picky about those kinds of technicalities, beware.
That aside, I thought I knew who did it and just how the book was going to end by the time I read a few, but boy, was I surprised! This isn't a boring, predictable storyline at all. The twists and turns had me doubting myself and second guessing my theories. A plethora of possible suspects emerge and the danger levels would've had me passed out cold from my nerves, had I been in Andi's shoes. For the most part, she's a competent heroine and I enjoyed the steady tension.
Content: very mild romance; moderate violence (murder, violence, attacks, etc--some blood, but not extremely gory); mild religion (the characters are LDS--Mormon--and some references are made to faith and believes).
*I received a copy through the publisher. A positive review was not required and all thoughts are my own.*
I so love a good suspense story!
This book is fantastic! Riveting even!
I loved how Andi and Gramps came together-- and the list of suspects keeps you reading until the very last page to know what really happened-- Such great writing!
Do not miss out on this one!!!
Clair Poulson has a gift for writing and telling a story. I've read so many of his books but I think this one is my favorite of his last few.
Andi is such a tough girl. All through this book I though to myself that if I were the main character in this book I would be dead. Andi knows martial arts, is a deadly shot with a gun, has nerves of steel, can keep a car from flipping with her master driving skills, knows how to use a knife and did I mention those nerves of steel? Yeah, I'm nothing like that. I'd be dead. Twenty times over. Andi deserves a cape. And maybe the ability to fly.
I enjoyed the pacing of this book. The forward momentum was always there and I was interested the whole time. There were so many bad guys, so many plots and so many different angles that just when I thought I had things figured out, I had to think again. That's a fantastic thing in a mystery/suspense book!
Content: Some violence
-I received a copy of this book from the publisher. A positive review was not required and all opinions expressed are my own.
This is the fourth book of Clair M. Poulson's that I have read. So far it has been my favorite. He has many books that I have yet to read.
This book is about a young lady who grew up in an abusive home. She needed a new start, so she drove, not knowing where she would end up. She landed in in Montana after meeting "Gramps". They needed each other and were drawn together as a granddaughter and grandfather. Gramps was a detective and put many bad guys in jail. This book is what happened when the bad guys found him.
Deadly Inheritance has many intense moments. Andi, her brother (Bolden), and his detective friend (Mason) are trying to unravel the clues to find the killer. Danger comes from all sides. They need to keep their wits about them and find the bad guys before they are hurt or killed.
The plot has many turns. The plans of the killer are intricate and hard to figure out. Just when you think that you know exactly what is happening there is more to the story. It was pretty tricky how it is all brought together and resolution is found.
I read this book quickly and found it enjoyable. There is romance, mystery, action, and adventure. The book contains violence.
Wow, I loved this book so much! I didn't want to put it down until I'd finished.
I loved Andi in this book. I loved that she is such a strong young woman character. Andi's been on her own since she was 16, because she couldn't trust her mother to pick a man who wouldn't beat either of them. So she moved out. The start of this book finds her moving on, across the country on her own, with no idea of where she's headed.
I loved the way she met Gramps. She had stopped in a small town at a diner, sick and tired of food from convenience stores. But the diner was swamped and the one waitress didn't notice Andi. Gramps realized this and went out of his way to invite Andi to sit with him and make sure she got something to eat. I LOVED Gramps, I loved the kindness he had and the bond he developed with Andi. I loved how he was looking out for her, before he was dead, but even after he was dead. Such an amazing character.
And then there's the plot and that's also great! It's so suspenseful and you won't believe how it ends. I was really sad when Andi found Gramps dead. But so glad when his dog was still around to protect Andi and be her friend.
This is such a great book! I can't wait for more from this author, he's one of my favorites!


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Fey invasion gone awry
This is the second book by Kristine Kathryn Rush for me. The first was Diving into the Wreck about an formidable female protagonist called Boss (we never learn her name) and her exploration of an old derelict of the spaceways. This is something different.
The Sacriface is a fantasy with a blend of sword & sorcery, high fantasy and folk lore. The Fey are a race of warriors as beautiful as they are brutal. Their powers are collected from the traditional folklore more than Tolkien's Middle Earth. No one can stand against them until they invade the peaceful Blue Island, an island that has been safe from invasion for centuries. The people there live peaceful lives and don't know anything about war. The islanders even have a religion with a self-scarifying Jesus-like prophet.
It should have been an easy grab for the Fey but then one of the islanders discover that holy water acts as a poison killing the Fay instantly and the tide turns. The Fey has to go hiding in the Shadowlands created by their leader Rugar son of the Black King.
The rest is mostly intrigues to get the upper hand.
What makes this story interesting beside the novel take on the Fey and magic is the characters. The Fey was lead by a Vision of warrior princess Jewel walking through the Blue Island Royal Castle like she owned it. Jewel has vision too of the striking young prince Nicholas. Jewel and her fellow Fey remind me a bit of S. A. Salvatore's Drews. Nicholas is trained in the art of war and when they finally meet it is in a sword fight. I am impressed by Jewel and Nicholas love story but most of the story centers on diplomacy and treachery. You have to like that kind of stories (exemplified by C. J. Cherryh) or you will probably think this is too slow.
Rush has turned the Elves into Orcs and uses religious intolerance that strikes close to home combined with interesting characters and drama. I liked this audiobook quite a lot.
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The Sacrifice (The Fey 1) by Kristine Kathryn Rusch – Audible Frontiers (2010, First 1995)
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The Fey have swept across three continents and never faced defeat. But now they have reached Blue Isle, where there dwells a people of simplicity and faith, untainted by war. Yet as they face invasion, the Islanders discover a deadly undreamed-of power of their own. So begins a conflict that must destroy one race or the other–or maybe both.


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Los Angeles, CA (October 7, 2013) — Multimedia entertainment studio Electus, an operating business of IAC (NASDAQ: IACI), has licensed Bet on Your Baby to China's largest commercial broadcaster, CCTV-1. CCTV-1 has committed to launching the series at 6pm on Sunday, October 13. In addition to the deal with CCTV-1, the distribution outfit has licensed Bet on Your Baby into 21 other territories. The hit reality competition series which airs on ABC in the United States is a primetime gameshow in which parents try to predict their child's next move in an effort to win money for their child's future education.
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How to run the MESS CD-i Emulation driver?
>> Wednesday, November 4, 2009
I think it's a little difficult to try the MESS CD-i driver ourselves. I'm trying to get a detailed tutorial here on how to get MESS running including the CD-i driver, but I don't have a lot of experience with it yet. With the help of the community though there's enough space to experiment. This post will give you some raw help on where to get the files and how to get starting.
The best start is to look at the MESS Emulator tutorial at Atariage. In this tutorial, they focus on learning to play GCE Vectrex games by using MESS. However, the procedures outlined in this tutorial apply to any of the game platforms that are supported by MESS, including the new CD-i driver.
To play CD-i games by using MESS, you need the following: 1. The latest MESS version. 2. CD-i BIOS ROM. 3. CD-i game ROMs
You can download the latest MESS build right here. Now, You need to unzip BobZ's automatic MESS SVN build (download here) over the latest "official" build, otherwise your CD-i driver is way out-of-date.
Then you need to put one of the exact ROM images that MESS CD-i currently supports in the roms/cdimono1 folder; it supports either cdi200.rom or cdi220b.rom. Using CD-i Link (from cdifan's CD-i Emulator) you can obtain the ROM from your CD-i player. Otherwise, google might help you too :).
Finally you need to get one or more chd images and put these in the software folder. You can use chdman (included with MESS) or cdifile (get it here) to create one.
Finally run MessUI and off you go!
Devin: "I like the CHD method of archiving software as well, it really does condense the ISO down saving much needed space on the hard drive. That's probably the one advantage over CD-i Emulator although you can't beat the simplicity and functionality of CD-i Emulator. Doubt this will change either as MESS has to maintain a level of complexity to incorporate all the systems it emulates!"
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Those who sustained losses in the designated counties can begin applying for assistance by registering online at www.DisasterAssistance.gov or by calling 1-800-621-3362. Disaster assistance applicants, who have a speech disability or hearing loss and use TTY, should call 1-800-462-7585 directly; for those who use 711 or Video Relay Service (VRS), call 1-800-621-3362. The toll-free telephone numbers will operate from 7:00 AM to 10:00 PM (local time) seven days a week until December 15, 2011.
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Thanksgiving table talk and the National Day of Listening
Here's a roundup of practical Thanksgiving Day advice for ways to collect family history around the Thanksgiving table. (Or before or after). I offer these in hopes that it adds some depth to your family holiday. These are blog posts and articles by others around the blogosphere.
Oh, and are you aware of a holiday tip that's not mentioned here? Please let me know. I'm happy to make this collection grow to reflect the good advice and suggestions that are out there.
Paula's Genealogical Eclectica has a list of good conversation-starter interview questions. [via Little Bytes of Life]
I wish I had asked my Grandma Gert what it was like to be 21 when women earned the right to vote in 1922. I would have had asked her mother, Nana, for details on growing up without a mother and why did they leave Canada.
Here are a few of her questions (geared toward the women elders in her family):
- What was it like to make the decision to leave your home country and come to the U.S., Canada, England, or _____
- What was it like to walk the picket line during the ___ strike?
- What were the family dinners like as you were growing up?
National Day of Listening—The day after Thanksgiving is yhe National Day of Listening, according to StoryCorps. (an alternative to that Big, Big Shopping Day)
The Root features an essay by NPR's Michele Norris—ambassador for the National Day of Listening project. Norris remembers her father carving the Thanksgiving turkey.
He'd hover over the turkey for several minutes, holding his cherished electric knife and humming a little tune to himself before leaning in to apply his surgical skills to our supper. His whistle-while-you-work anticipation was a little ritual in our home, and I miss him so much, it aches during the holidays.
He died back in 1988, long before I married and had children. My kids now know a lot more about my father's triumphs and his struggles on a life journey that took him from the shadows of the steel mills in segregated Birmingham, Ala., to middle-class life in an integrated Minneapolis neighborhood. Even so, my kids will never hear the sound of their grandfather's voice because I never recorded him in conversation. That's a shame. And it carries even more sting because I have spent almost two decades working in broadcasting, first in television and now in radio, as a co-host of All Things Considered.
The Smithsonian Institution's Photography blog has a post devoted to capturing family memories at Thanksgiving, too.
Personal Historian Beth LaMie offers 6 ideas to stimulate family stories at holiday gatherings. I'm particularly inspired by her ideas to involve people of all ages. I can use that. I've heard lots of stories, but once I think about ways to make the old (to me) stories come alive for my nieces, it's all new again.
#4 Draw from the Hat
Here's your chance to get really creative. Write a variety of questions onto small slips of paper and put them into a hat or bowl or basket. You can customize the questions to fit your own family or group of friends, mixing serious questions with silly ones. Be prepared to allow guests to switch the question if they are embarrassed or reluctant to answer. Remember that the purpose of the questions is to learn more about them while having fun with everyone.
Now this sounds like a fun thing to do with my 9-year-old niece. She can collect question ideas from everyone. And then ask the questions. Get that storytelling ball rolling.
This is also the first Thanksgiving a year after my dad's death. Last year's was not long after his memorial. I think this year is time to start a new tradition.
p.s. see the photo in the header of this site? That's my nephew interviewing his grandma (my mother). Maybe it's time to bring on the big microphone again.
In the (currently snowy!) Tacoma, Washington News Tribune, Dorothy Wilhelm recalls a Thanksgiving overseas in Taiwan, and describes her plans for this year's Thanksgiving to get combined with an idea for getting the youngers involved.
I am planning to try something different this holiday. The grandkids are beginning to express an interest in family history. It's about time. So I hope to use the time that we would ordinarily spend critiquing the lifestyles of absent relatives to begin creating our own family history.
As one of my sons said, "I'm interested in how we came to be who and how we are. But I suppose one big thing, if it's still possible to pin down, is when exactly did our various forebears come to America, and why?"
[…] I learned from Lakewood historian Cy Happy that sometimes it's easiest to start with one single event. Start with the elders at the table. Ask them to recall their first day of school, or the first Thanksgiving they remember. Who was there? Where did they come from? Who were their parents? Choose a moderator and record everything. Don't get bogged down in the details of what really happened. We do not all remember things the same way.
Maureen "photo detective" Taylor's November email (scroll down to Gather Round the Table: Family History at Thanksgiving) observes that there are family stories behind dishes, utensils, recipes, and picture-taking (but of course).
Families often pass on furniture, dishes and flatware to descendants.
If you have these objects in your house do you know their history? Do you know who owned them? In museum terms this is the provenance of the object-the whole history of ownership.
She urges you to get a photo of everyone. (in looking for the photos for this post, I re-discovered digital videos that capture A "dogpile" on Uncle T!)
Let's get downright genealogical. I favor the stories and legends, but Bobbi Holmes at Ancestorsafari. Prepare a "standard questionnaire sheet" and interview the people there—oldest first. You write down the answers, don't make the person you're asking do it.
What is your full name and the correct spelling? You may be surprised to learn that your favorite Uncle Ronny is actually named Reginald.
What was the date and place of your birth and marriage?
What is the full name of your spouse, and his/her date and place of birth, death or divorce?
What were/are the full names of your parents, along with your parent's place of birth, marriage and death?
And, while you're at it…. Finally, another way to approach Family History. The United States Surgeon General declares Thankgiving Day to be National Family History Day (history? yes… medical history).
Over the holiday or at other times when families gather, the Surgeon General encourages Americans to talk about, and to write down, the health problems that seem to run in their family. Learning about their family's health history may help ensure a longer, healthier future together.
Take that to heart. Along with the stories that you usually associate with family history. (and aren't you glad I didn't find an illustration related to the mouth for family oral history? So am I.)
Happy Thanksgiving.
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Fallout: New Vegas 'Dead Money' on PS3, PC Feb. 22; Future DLC Hits All Platforms Simultaneously
Though Bethesda did not specify how much the "Dead Money" DLC will cost when it arrives on the PlayStation Store and on PC via Steam and Direct2Drive, we presume it will be priced at $10 like the Xbox Live Marketplace release. Shacknews has contacted Bethesda for clarification on the content's price.
The publisher also revealed that three more downloadable content packages will be released for Obsidian's Fallout: New Vegas "in the coming months." Unlike the first DLC, however, all future content for the game will arrive on the Xbox 360, PS3, and PC simultaneously.
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Wednesday, September 23, 2009
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Election day brings good childhood memories for me … and topping the list is the laughter of certain special lady I only knew as Jean. Whenever election times nears and I hear about candidates wanting to do this or that, or promising change or the moon, I often think, if they only knew how to laugh like Jean, they would make a much more positive impression on people they wanted to vote for them.
I grew up in a home where township voting took place every two or four years. I guess it influenced my sister and I more than we ever realized.
We lived along K-15 highway in Menno Township, and if it was an election year, our garage went through a whirlwind cleaning job the day before the big day. Then, and I never really knew why, our garage became grand central station for voters in our precinct. Election day meant people were in our garage before we got up, and they did not leave until after we went to bed. It was fascinating to have all those people coming and going all day long.
I remember waking up to the smell of coffee wafting out of the garage and hearing Jean Schmidt laughing and visiting. I would sit out of sight on the stairs of our back porch, listening to the people as they came in and out of our garage. There were some quiet moments, when all I could here was the click of a pencil on a voting board, or footsteps and the swish of a booth curtain. Mostly however, there was always something going on if Jean was volunteering.
I did not really know Jean, after all, I was just one of those kids who were supposed to be not seen and not heard, but I could recognize her laugh anywhere. Jean had a great laugh, one of those contagious sounds that made everyone within hearing distance giggle along or at least smile, even if they had no idea what she was talking about.
Of course, the best thing about having an election take place in my very own garage was sneaking in when no one was watching and trying to see what was in those cloth booths. I was fascinated, and pretty good about sneaking around the garage to get a peek inside those booths.
Of course, it was more fun if Jean caught me than my own mom, and I often went giggling back in a hurry to my listening perch on the back porch steps.
I don't remember much about candidates or issues voted on, but I remember Jean, and what a fun person she was, even though I did not really know her. It is funny how I think of her every election day. She was a local dairy farmer's wife, but she should have run for office. She would have made a great political leader as she had an opinion about everything, and a witty, humorous way of getting her point across without offense.
When I voted on Tuesday, I was delighted to see my sister behind the volunteer polling table. When I asked why she was there, she said she had such fond memories about the voting that took place in our own garage years ago that she just had to get involved. And before I even asked her, she asked me if I remembered Jean. I bet a lot of other people remember Jean too.


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Nov. 12, 2009
NORTH DARTMOUTH, MA- Two members of the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth men's soccer team have joined Head Coach Henry Almeida in receiving Little East Conference post-season honors.
Junior midfielder Jason Couto (Somerset, MA/Somerset HS/Bristol CC) has been named first team All-Conference, while freshman defender Brady Paradis (Tiverton, RI/Providence Country Day) was named second team All-Conference.
Couto led UMass Dartmouth with five goals and two assists for 12 points this season, while Paradis saw action in all 18 games.
"We're pleased for both of them," said Almeida. "Jason's been a true leader for us and a calming influence on the entire team. His first team honor is well-deserved. Brady started every match for us. We're excited for him making the second team as a freshman. It's an indication of the big things to come."
Almeida received the coaching award in his second season at UMD. "I'm honored," said Almeida. "When you look at the experience and the resumes of the coaches in the Little East, just to be a part of that is fantastic. I started 14 years ago as the freshman coach at Dartmouth High School, and to be Coach of the Year at the collegiate level is great. It gives me a lot of thirst to come back and do even better next year."
"Henry was worked tirelessly to re-establish this program to where it was in its glory years," said UMass Dartmouth Director of Athletics Ian Day. "He took a team that was picked to finish next to last in the Little East to one that came very close to winning a tough conference and earning an NCAA berth."
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Houston authorities have impounded a second pit bull involved in a weekend mauling that killed a homeless woman, and the dogs' owner has received multiple citations for improper care of the animals.
On Monday, the Harris County Institute of Forensic Sciences identified the woman as Christina Burleson, 43. The agency determined "blunt and sharp force injuries of the neck and upper extremities" as the preliminary cause of death.
Her last known address was the Servants of Christ United Methodist parish in southeast Houston.
Burleson, who also was known as Christina Bell, was attacked around 2 a.m. Sunday on Glen Prairie near Leonora by the female pit bulls. The animals caused minor injuries to two men - one of whom tried to pull the dogs off of Burleson.
Both pit bulls will be euthanized following an investigation, according to Christopher Newport, a city spokesman for the BARC animal shelter.
One of the dogs, estimated to be 1 year old and around 30 pounds, was caught shortly after the incident by City of Houston Animal Control officials.
That pit bull was "covered in blood" later determined to match the deceased woman, Newport said.
A second animal was impounded Sunday afternoon when officials located a woman who claimed both dogs, and she surrendered custody. The animals are being held in quarantine, Newport said.
The owner has been cited for allowing the dogs to run at large. After officials discovered four puppies in her apartment, she also was ticketed for not having current rabies vaccinations or pet licenses for any of the six dogs and for violating the city's animal "care and keeping" regulation.
"The apartment was kept in an awful condition," Newport said, adding that there were "feces and urine everywhere."
The Houston Police Department and the Harris County District Attorney's Office will determine whether to pursue criminal charges against the owner.
"We'll see what HPD needs as far as evidence for potential prosecutions before we put the dogs down," Newport said.
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Dr. Barbara Given of the Michigan State University nursing faculty will present the address "Optimizing Health Care Outcomes: Interdisciplinary Team Research" on Friday, Oct. 12, at 3 p.m. in the Maas Center auditorium as the annual Gentile Lectureship presented in conjunction with Homecoming Weekend at Hope College.
The public is invited. Admission is free.
Given is associate dean for research, director of the doctoral program and the University Distinguished Professor in the College of Nursing at Michigan State University. The address will discuss the trajectory of her program of research, which spans 30 years.
Her research has focused on behavioral interventions to assist patients and their family care-givers in managing their therapeutic plans to cope with chronic illness so that the patients have good outcomes. The research benefited from an interdisciplinary research team that brought expertise to designing strong interventions for patient and family care. The lecture will conclude with reflections on the future of health care given major changes in the health care system.
The Gentile Interdisciplinary Lectureship at Hope was established in 2005 by faculty colleagues, former students and friends of Dr. James Gentile. Gentile joined the Hope faculty in 1976 and served as dean for the natural sciences from 1988 to 2005, when he became president of Research Corporation, a private foundation in Tucson, Ariz., that supports basic research in the physical sciences.
The Maas Center is located at 264 Columbia Ave., on Columbia Avenue at Street.
The lecture is among several activities that will be taking place during the college's Homecoming Weekend, which runs Friday-Sunday, Oct. 12-14. Additional information about the weekend, which includes a variety of lectures, arts events and athletic competitions open to the community, as well as reunion activities for graduates from 1984 through 2012, is available online at hope.edu/homecoming.


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County Noxious Weed Director Rollin Schmidt told county commissioners that someone had called recently to tell him about dandelions growing through the asphalt on 40th Road near Burns.
When Schmidt went to investigate, he found it wasn't dandelions, but field bindweed, a noxious weed targeted by the state. What made the discovery unusual is that the road was overlaid with two inches of asphalt in 2012.
"I've never seen this," Schmidt said.
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Schmidt said he would spray the area as soon on the first available calm, dry day.
Sales tax revenue dips
For the third month in a row, county sales tax revenue was lower than the same month in 2012.
Sales tax revenue for April was $46,878, down almost 6 percent compared to 2012. However, because of an unusually large payment in January, the sales tax revenues for the year remain up 49 percent at $313,001 through four months.
Jail sales tax was $41,223, bringing the total for the year to $276485.
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It doesn't happen often, but it does happen. Once in a blue moon, even the great Warren Buffett makes a mistake.
In his latest annual letter to his Berkshire Hathaway shareholders, Buffett lamented "some dumb things" he did in 2008. He apologized for his ill-timed investment in ConocoPhillips, as well as a smaller stake in two Irish banks, which he dubbed "unforced errors."
And those were far from the first flubs Buffett has made during his illustrious investing career. His purchases of shares in Pier 1 Imports and US Airways were poor investments, and he compounded his ill-fated acquisition of Dexter Shoes by using Berkshire shares instead of cash as currency. In fact, Berkshire itself was a poor investment -- Buffett greatly underestimated the capital requirements and competitive pressures endemic to the textile industry.
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But when prompted for his greatest investing miss in an interview last year, Buffett didn't mention any of those gaffes. In fact, Buffett's biggest mistake wasn't a bad investment at all -- it was a good investment that could have been great.
"There have been a few things where I've started to buy them and then they've moved up," Buffett said. But instead of adding to his position in these great businesses, Buffett "stopped at a tiny fraction of where we should have gone."
Buffett specifically cited his failure to purchase additional shares of Fannie Mae in the early '80s and Wal-Mart in the mid-'90s. "Both of those deals would have made us as much as $10 billion, and I managed to absolutely minimize the profits," he said.
The Oracle was similarly wistful about Costco: "We own a little at Berkshire, but we should have owned a lot," Buffett lamented. He blamed his failure to buy more shares on "temporary insanity."
Don't be insane -- swing the bat!
Buffett often likens investing to a game of baseball, where every potential investment is a new pitch, and there are no called strikes. Patient investors can sit back and wait for the perfect pitch, ready to deposit that 2-0 fastball into the centerfield bleachers. But before you step into the batter's box, you must first identify what your perfect pitch looks like.
Buffett likes to swing at easily understandable businesses "whose earnings are virtually certain to be materially higher five, ten, and twenty years from now." After taking too shallow a cut on companies like Costco, he learned that "over time, you will find only a few companies that meet these standards -- so when you see one that qualifies, you should buy a meaningful amount of stock."
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Each of these companies is an easily understandable business whose strong competitive advantages mean their earnings are very likely to be materially higher five, 10, and 20 years from now. But while their growth prospects remain strong, their share prices are the cheapest they've been in years. In such a volatile market, there's a chance these companies could fall farther, but I believe they're much closer to the bottom than the top.
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It used to be that your health plan's annual out-of-pocket maximum was more like the safety net under a high wire: You were glad it was there, but you didn't actually plan to use it.
These days, it could take one measly trip to the pharmacy for you to lose your balance and fall into that net.
I'm sorry (yet again) to report that recent changes in drug pricing mean more of you will face sticker shock when you fill prescriptions and more of you will be on the hook for thousands of dollars as a result.
Q: My health plan splits prescription drugs into four categories, including "specialty" drugs. What are those?
A: Let's start with an important definition: Your out-of-pocket maximum is the most you would have to shell out for health care and prescription drugs before your insurance starts covering all costs. (Your monthly premiums do not count toward your out-of-pocket maximum.)
This year, out-of-pocket maximums are capped at $6,350 for an individual plan and $12,700 for a family plan.
When it comes to prescription drugs, your cost depends on the kind of plan you have and the drug you need. For instance, health plans have long charged us less for generics than brand-name medications.
Now say hello to the category of "specialty drugs."
These are really, really expensive medications that treat diseases and chronic conditions such as cancer, HIV/AIDS, multiple sclerosis, hepatitis C and rheumatoid arthritis.
As if being sick weren't bad enough, you face potentially huge bills for your medications if your insurer places your meds into the specialty category.
That's because these drugs generally don't come with a flat dollar amount co-pay but instead with "co-insurance," which is a percentage of the cost of the drug — sometimes as high as 30 or 40 percent.
"Someone that takes a medicine that is $9,000 or $10,000 is going to hit their out-of-pocket maximum in January or February," says Liz Helms, president and CEO of the California Chronic Care Coalition.
These specialty-drug tiers first appeared in Medicare plans before migrating to the private market and employer-based plans. Now, California officials have embedded specialty tiers into nearly all plans sold through our health insurance exchange, Covered California.
For example, a "Bronze" plan (lowest monthly premium but highest out-of-pocket cost) sold through Covered California sets your share at $19 for a generic drug, $50-$75 for a brand-name drug (these drugs are split into two categories, which is fodder for another column) and 30 percent for a specialty drug.
In June, the consulting company Avalere Health analyzed 123 plans offered by state health insurance exchanges, including Covered California, finding that, for instance, more than 60 percent of the plans place all covered drugs for multiple sclerosis in the specialty-drug tier.
If a medication you take falls into the specialty category, there are some steps you can take to avoid or pay a monster bill:
• Talk to your doctor about alternatives. Are there drugs that will work for you in a cheaper category?
• Shop around, says Bill Remak, chairman of the California Hepatitis C Task Force. Some pharmacies may offer you a better deal than others on your portion of the bill.
• Do your homework. If you know you have a condition that requires these medications, consider buying a health plan that costs you more each month but has lower out-of-pocket costs for drugs. "Patients are telling me, 'If I knew my drug was going to cost this much with this tier, I would have gone with another plan,' " Remak says.
Groups such as the Patient Advocate Foundation have compiled resources for people who can't afford their meds, including links to organizations — and even drug companies — that provide financial aid.
Some pharmacies will go to bat for you with drug companies. Komoto Healthcare, with four pharmacies in Kern and Tulare counties, is creating a "patient assistance program" because so many of its customers have been hit by huge co-insurance rates for specialty drugs this year.
"We have patients who need these medications to stay alive," says president and CEO Brian Komoto. "We're trying to find ways to get them through."
State officials, too, are reacting. Spurred by a request from the Chronic Care Coalition and complaints from consumers, the state Department of Insurance is investigating whether specialty tiers violate any laws.
"If an insurer designs coverage that singles out certain medical conditions for higher cost-sharing, that would likely violate anti-discrimination laws," says Deputy Commissioner Janice Rocco.
Also, a measure by Assemblyman Rich Gordon of Menlo Park would cap the amount consumers would pay each month for prescription drugs at one-twelfth the out-of-pocket limit — or about $530. If you take one or more of these expensive specialty drugs all year, you would eventually meet your entire out-of-pocket maximum, but it wouldn't hit all at once.
The bill is pending in the state Senate.
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Samsung Galaxy S5 Concept: Curved Aluminum Body With 2K Display, Iris Scanner, 4GB of RAM
With January fast approaching, all eyes are on Samsung. The company is rumored to unveil its next flagship smartphone, the Galaxy S5 sometime in January, and Samsung fans are pumped to say the least. Not only will the Galaxy S5 be a direct follow-up to the Galaxy S4, it is expected to usher in a new age of smartphone specs, supposedly touting a 64-bit processor, an iris scanner and 3GB of RAM. With today's news of Samsung developing 4GB RAM modules for use in smartphones, we could see that amount pop up in the Galaxy S5. A new Galaxy S5 concept design has graced the interwebs, giving us a look at what Sammy could have in store for us in 2014.
The newest concept design comes to us from GalaxyS5Info, who have created a few other Galaxy S5 concepts earlier this year. The new concept plays with the curved body idea, even though the S5 isn't expected to rock one. It sure looks cool though!
Here are the key specs of the Galaxy S5:
- Android 4.4 KitKat
- 64 Bit Exynos-Octa core processor
- 5.25″ Flexi-UHD (2K) display
- 16 MP ISOCELL camera
- Wireless headphones ; Quad-surround speakers
- Iris scanner
The conceptualized Galaxy S5 features a 5.2 inch flexible curved display with 2K resolution, a 16MP ISOCELL camera capable of capturing 4K images and videos. The front-facing camera come sin at a whopping 4MP, with a proximity and ambient light sensor residing nearby. An iris scanner is included, as well as quad speakers which reside on the edges of the device.
Time will tell just exactly what the Samsung Galaxy S5 is made of. Until then, enjoy the concept, and check out our Best of Galaxy S5 concepts post. More pictures can be found at the source below.
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