Long Distance, Valentine's Day Does Not Have to Suck : The ...

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For those of us in long distance relationships, the holiday that can be the hardest is Valentine?s Day. You end up third-wheeling with your parents, at a Forever Alone Party with your single friends or curled up on the couch watching a Nicholas Sparks Movie Marathon on ABC Family. Either way, it?s usually not your idea of a fun way to spend a day focused on the ones you love. Here are some ways to make LDRs easier during Valentine?s Day and all year round.

A Dress-Up Skype Date:
If you?re anything like me, you know that pajamas are the usual garb for a Skype date. I hardly ever make an effort when Skyping with my boyfriend, just because I know that he thinks I?m pretty no matter what. So why not mix it up a little? Dressing up, though it seems silly, shows that you care enough about each other to try. It will be like those moments before prom or your first date when you both see each other making an effort: nostalgia can be a good thing sometimes.

Letters and Packages:
I know that this is a little reminiscent of Dear John, but seriously, when was the last time you received a handwritten letter? It may be old-fashioned and very slow, considering our space-age ways of communication. Texting, e-mail, Facebook and even the cell phone relieve some of the stress of being far away from your loved one, but they can also take away some of the romance. As college students, we love getting things in our mailboxes, so try and surprise your special someone every once in a while with a letter or even a small care package.

Do Things Together: Sounds impossible, right? Think again. It might sound lame, but during the Super Bowl, a Patriots game or even a favorite movie, call one another and watch together. If you think about it, people in short distance relationships do not spend all of their time together talking, so don?t sweat the silences. Just watch the movie together and maybe talk about it afterwards. A good game or movie can sometimes spark a really good conversation.

Be Sweet: Some days are harder than others. When you?re feeling icky or your significant other is down in the dumps, be nice. My favorite ways include retelling the day that you met, remembering good times and planning for future good times. Sometimes you can get caught up thinking about either being alone or just being without that person, and you forget that the loneliness won?t last forever. You will see him/her soon?if not on break, then whenever you can. ?

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BBC journalists go on strike over job cuts

LONDON (AP) ? BBC journalists walked off the job Monday in a 24-hour strike to protest job cuts at the broadcaster.

Staff mounted picket lines outside of the BBC's studios in central London and around the country. Programs went on, but many shows were canceled, including the flagship morning news radio program "Today."

National Union of Journalists general secretary Michelle Stanistreet said poor decisions by the BBC leadership were leading to quality journalism being compromised. The union says 2,000 jobs are at risk in BBC cost-cutting. Many will be eliminated through attrition, but about 30 jobs are targeted for compulsory layoffs.

The union said members across the BBC, including the World Service, are at risk of compulsory redundancy.

The BBC said in a statement that it was disappointed by the union's actions. It said it had no choice but to meet savings targets that will require job cuts.

The BBC is funded mainly by a mandatory 145.50 pounds ($228) annual levy on all households with color TVs. Britain's government froze the fee in 2010, and the corporation has been forced to make cuts.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/bbc-journalists-strike-over-job-cuts-090335707--finance.html

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Funeral for Pistorius' girlfriend on Tuesday

JOHANNESBURG (AP) ? The family of Reeva Steenkamp said Sunday her body was back in her hometown of Port Elizabeth after the model and reality TV contestant was shot dead inside the house of Oscar Pistorius. A private funeral will be held on Tuesday.

Adam Steenkamp, the brother of Pistorius' late girlfriend, told The Associated Press "Reeva is back home."

The family said that Steenkamp, who was shot multiple times and killed at the double-amputee Olympic athlete's home early Thursday, will be cremated in a ceremony closed to the public and the media in the city on South Africa's southern coast.

Pistorius was charged with her murder and is expected to make a second court appearance ? also on Tuesday ? for the start of his bail hearing. He remains in custody in a police station in Pretoria ahead of that hearing.

The 29-year-old Steenkamp was seen laughing and smiling on South African television Saturday night after national broadcaster SABC chose to air the first episode of a reality TV show in which she was featured. Her family said it did not oppose the program being aired because Steenkamp wanted people to see it and a short tribute to her was shown before the episode.

A fellow contestant on the "Tropika Island of Treasure 5" show told AP Television News that Steenkamp "was always making sure everyone was OK."

"Fun, crazy, loving, beautiful, gorgeous. She really was an angel and I still haven't come to terms with what happened," Katleho Molai said of Steenkamp. "I haven't really eaten, I'm struggling to sleep. So it's been really hard to come to terms with what's happened to her."

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Nastasya Tay of APTN contributed to this report.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/funeral-pistorius-girlfriend-tuesday-142128082.html

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Performing arts center ahead of schedule - Nevada Daily Mail

The shell of the Ella Maxwell Center for the Performing Arts at Nevada High School is awaiting the completion of the west wall and the installion of the roof to become weather tight. Photo by Ralph Pokorny/Daily Mail

Construction on the Ella Maxwell Center for the Performing Arts is running ahead of schedule and the current estimated completion date is Aug. 21, Aaron Hight, Crossland's construction manager for the project, told the Nevada R-5 Board of Education during a work session before their regular monthly meeting Wednesday.

"That's 31 days ahead of schedule," Hight told the board.

There is still a lot of winter left, so weather can still create construction delays until the roof in installed, he said.

Hight told the board the project is 16.08 percent complete, but that number will go up once the roof is installed and the building is closed in.

Hight said that the concrete for both the upper and lower level stages has been poured.

He told the board that until now they have kept the floor inside the arts center flat to facilitate work, but on Monday they will start digging out the interior of the building so they can pour the floor. That will take three or four days.

"That will take four separate pours for the interior floor," he said,

"The load bearing walls will be completed this month," he said.

Hight told the board they will be bringing in a 220 ton crane in mid-March to put the steel roof supports on the structure.

The crane will be located in Ashland Street, north of the construction site.

Initially Hight told the board that their plan was to have the crane in place between the time students are dropped off at the high school and when they are picked up in the afternoon.

However, R-5 superintendent Dr. David Stephens suggested that since the school break will be from March 10-16 that might be a good time to do this.

"I'll make sure that happens then," Hight said.

He told the board that the floor for the multi-purpose building has been poured and now the work on it is largely at a stand-still until the steel for the building is delivered.

"We will get the steel at the end of March," Hight said.

While waiting for the steel he said they will be able to start work on the masonry walls.

In addition to the work on the performing arts center and the multi-purpose building, Hight said that he has been working with Elliott Hunter, the architect for the projects at the high school, and Stephens on increasing security at all of the district's school buildings.

"Next week we will visit all of the schools and will do the work over the summer," he said.

Hunter told the board they are developing a plan.

"It will mean adding an air lock at most of the schools," he said,

Visitors will be able to enter the first door and then need to be buzzed in the second door, he said.

"It's not bullet proof, but it's the cheapest option," Hunter said.

Source: http://www.nevadadailymail.com/story/1941922.html

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16-Year-Old Actress Turns Into Stock Day Trader ... - Yahoo! Finance

Rachel Fox isn?t an ordinary 16-year-old. She's already graduated from high school and has been a working Hollywood actress for years, appearing in shows like Desperate Housewives as evil Kayla Scavo and in the film Dream House with Daniel Craig and Naomi Watts. When she?s not on set she can often be found on stage, singing and playing guitar in an indie rock band.

That would be a packed schedule for most of us, but Rachel has another activity that?s a real passion. For the last year-and-a-half she?s been actively day-trading stocks with her own money. She says she's been racking up stellar returns, claiming a 30.4% gain in 2012, versus the benchmark S&P 500 which gained 13% for last year.

While she?s doing it all, she?s also helping teach people about investing via her website FoxOnStocks.com. On the site she updates her thoughts on the markets and posts videos for those new to the game; teaching them how to do the basics like finding quotes and understanding what a stock option is. For now, the blog is just for fun, she has no plans to monetize; just teach others how to invest, the way her Mom taught her.

From the time she was 8-years-old her mother would read to she and her sister from a book on finance that was kept in the house. Even as she was teaching her daughters fundamental investing, Rachel?s mom was warning them about the stock market.

?She had explained that the market is different nowadays; it?s not so ?oh you buy something, you hold it for a long time, and can grow with the company,'? Rachel says in the attached video, casually dismissing 100 years of stock market theory. ?Nowadays we have day traders, institutional investors and people who just rip the market up and make stocks go like crazy.?

Which is why Rachel started trading stocks with virtual money, until she proved to her parents that she had a knack to make smart investments. In November 2011, she began trading using her own income from acting.

?Last year I made 338 day trades,? she says proudly. Trading that often is not just a hobby. Rachel is up at 6:30am every morning, looks through her account, scans headlines and then makes her picks for the day. She uses a standard brokerage account and makes use of an app that enables her to trade on her smartphone.

?The days when I?m working on set in between takes I?ll be on my iPhone trading; it?s a solo project,? she shrugs, ?I?m just doing this.? There?s not a frenetic stock exchange vibe surrounding her at work, just a young actress trading stocks on her phone. Most of her co-workers probably just assume she?s texting the way people her age are ?supposed? to. She doesn't talk about trading with other Hollywood-types; she only shares some investing ideas with her parents on occasion.

Her methodology for stock picking isn?t going to be in one of her mom?s textbooks anytime soon. For the vast majority of her trades she?s going strictly by her gut instinct and technicals, or stock charts. She tries to ignore the news flow that fundamental players live off, and instead watches price action and lets the charts guide her on when to buy and sell.

Her dream targets are companies that have been pushed too far away from their normal trend. It?s what traders call overbought or oversold.

?If the stock is seriously sick with one of those cases I?ll just go right at it,? she says sounding just a little like a grizzled trading floor veteran being channeled through a teenage girl. ?I?ve got some shark instincts.?

Rachel?s best trade so far in 2013 is a short sale on high-end jeweler Tiffany & Co. (TIF). ?The stock kept going up and up and up and was really overbought and I had the instinct,? she explains. After putting on her short position, she woke up the next morning to find a trader?s dream: the shares were collapsing on weak earnings. ?I short sold it and the next morning when I woke up it had dropped $3 or $4; it was perfect,? she says.

Not all trades are wonderful though. Rachel says her first trade was her worst trade. When she was 15-years-old, she got a stock tip from a family friend at Thanksgiving dinner. It was a $2 stock, sure to go to $10 she was told. The stock is now trading under a penny. But the beating she took didn?t make her want to quit; it motivated her to start generating her own ideas.

?I learned not to take stock tips from people because I think it?s so important that you enter and exit trades on your own instinct.?

In the bigger picture Rachel sees no reason why she can?t trade and act at the same time. ?It?s going to be Oscars while day trading,? she says about her future. ?I?m going to be acting until I can barely see anymore and the same with stock trading. I?m going to be stock trading forever.?

She also plans to continue blogging and expanding her video content. The topics she covers aren't just for traders like herself. Rachel wants to give people the basics and let them decide how to best fit it to their personal temperament and goals. ?I?m just doing what my parents did with me. I?m saying ?here?s the market, here?s how it works.??

And she's even tackled questions about her age in a recent blog post. For now, she leave us with some advice you just wouldn't expect from the average teenager:

?Learn how to make your money grow, it is one of the most empowering things you can know.?

What do you think about Rachel's advice and ambition to act, trade, and teach? Let us know in the comment section below or visit us on Facebook!

Source: http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/breakout/16-old-actress-turns-stock-day-trader-143823005.html

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