| For life-long camerman, it's not a wrap
Andrew Laszlo snapped his first pictures at age 11 in his hometown of Papa, Hungary. He was the cinematographer for his last big-time American motion picture, the musical "Newsies," in 1992. Now he's moved on to teaching film students and authoring books.
In the 70 years between those first photos and today, Laszlo's life has been jam-packed with events both tragic and triumphant. As a teenager, he lost his family during the Holocaust and was sent to two concentration camps, Bergen-Belsen in Germany and Theresienstadt in Czechoslovakia.
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COMMENTARY: Saban's stingy media policies only hurting fans
The hypocrisy of Nick Sa ban is astonishing. So far this spring, the University of Alabama head coach has blown off the media several times. He's prevented reporters from speaking to players and assistant coaches most of the time. On Friday, after the Crimson Tide's first scrimmage of the spring, Saban refused to make players available to the media and opened the scrimmage up for only the first six minutes. This from a guy who owes most of his financial success to the very media he's now giving the shaft. Let's be real here, Nick Saban's reputation is mostly hype. He was overrated at Michigan State, overrated at LSU and rated about right in Miami. He's an average coach who, through mostly media attention, has garnered this reputation of being a great coach.
Using A Second Mortgage For An 80-20 No Money Down Home Purchase Loan
Editors Note: Many people find it hard to come up with the down payment for a home purchase. There are ways to get a loan with no money down. Here is an article on the subject: Many renters want to own their own home, but they simply don't have the down payment to make the purchase. If you're able to afford a house payment as much as your monthly rent, an 80-20 no money down loan could get you out of the rent trap. (80% first mortgage - 20% second mortgage) "It allows people to buy without a down payment, or for those people who would prefer not to touch their savings to get into a house," says mortgage expert. "What we're seeing is a lot of young professionals," he adds. "People who have gotten out of college and have good jobs. They have good credit, but they haven't had the opportunity to accumulate a lot of savings." The 80-20 loans are also known as piggyback loans.
Get Ready for the Fall?
"The bigger they are, the harder they fall." This old saying sums up the worst nightmare of every homeowner, every gold buyer, and every investor in today's market. Dare ye buy at the top? Every day, MSN Money publishes a list of the market's top stocks -- the companies whose shares have just hit their highest intraday price of any time in the past 52 weeks. Every day, investors read this list and tremble -- some with greed (big mo', baby!), and others in pure, unmitigated, acrophobic terror (whatever you do, don't look down). Over on Motley Fool CAPS, thousands of investors just like you are watching these same companies and voting their gut on whether they'll keep rising or stumble and fall. Usually, the ratings wax optimistic as stocks hit new highs -- after all, everyone loves a winner.
EFF lawyer warns of e-learning patent dangers
A broad e-learning patent held by education and course management software company Blackboard is a growing source of controversy in the education community. The patent, which covers an "Internet-based education support system and methods," could potentially threaten increasingly popular open-source course management platforms like Moodle and subject universities to the risk of litigation. In a recent interview with The Chronicle of Higher Education, Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) lawyer Jason Schultz explains the need for patent reform and describes the dangers of broad patents like the one granted to Blackboard. Although Blackboard has publicly pledged not to enforce its patent against open-source software distributors, universities, or non-commercial entities, there are many gray areas that make it difficult to guess what is permissible and what is not.
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