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Michael Pollaro, Contributor
I give an Austrian economist's take on financial markets & economics
The next Great Recession is in the making. The money supply trends say so. And it is looking more and more like this next Greater Recession is going to be one for the ages…
The money supply, as measured by THE CONTRARIAN TAKE's broad (and preferred) TMS2 metric (TMS for True "Austrian" Money Supply), posted a 14.6% year-over-year increase in February, making this the 39th consecutive month of double digit year-over-year rates of monetary inflation. All told, TMS2 is up a huge 50% over those 39 months. Even more interesting is what those TMS2 metrics were leading up to the housing boom turn credit bust turn Great Recession – 37 consecutive months for a cumulative increase of 50%.
Here's a look at the monetary record through a TMS lens beginning year 2000…
So what's this got to do with the next Great Recession? Isn't this monetary grease what the economy needs to heal and grow?
Well, in stark contrast to what mainstream economists and market analysts proclaim, this is not what the U.S. economy needs to heal and grow. No, all this monetary largesse will do is GUARANTEE the next Great Recession. To Austrians, ALL monetary "booms" – booms founded on the creation of central bank money (Base Money) and bank-issued on-demand deposit liabilities in excess of bank reserves (what Austrians call Uncovered Money Substitutes) must ALWAYS end in economic busts, roughly equal in size and intensity to the preceding monetary boom. By distorting interest rate and price signals and, as a consequence, creating malinvestments that must eventually be liquidated, monetary booms ALWAYS end in economic busts.
So, far from a good thing, to Austrians the booming monetary inflation cycle we currently find ourselves in is pretty scary stuff. Scarier still though is the likelihood that this inflation cycle is far from over!
You see, with excess reserves of nearly $1.6 trillion (courtesy of three plus years of Federal Reserve credit and asset purchase programs) private banks – now sporting improved liquidity and capital ratios, a Federal Reserve still cleansing bank balance sheets of MBS and Agency debt and of course near zero rate funding costs perhaps as far out as 2014 – seem a bit more willing of late to pyramid up those reserves into money and credit; i.e., to create on-demand deposit money out of thin air by making loans and buying assets.
Assuming conservative reserve ratios of 10% on 0n-demand deposit liabilities, starting from a money supply base of $8.4 trillion as measured by TMS2, that suggests a tripling of the money supply. (See this essay for a full discussion).
And if private banks can't muster enough monetary largesse to juice the U.S. economy and payrolls at a level sufficient to suit a deflation wary Chairman Bernanke, you can be assured that there is always the next asset purchase program or some other creative monetary tool lying in the wings ready to give private banks a hand in supposedly spurring economic growth.
In other words, this monetary inflation cycle may still have a lot of gas left. And that means at 39 months and 50% money supply growth and counting, this inflation cycle may end up making the Great Recession look like child's play.
To learn more about the formulation of the True "Austrian" Money Supply, its superiority to mainstream money supply measures and to track its course for the U.S., Eurozone, Japan and U.K. currency blocks click HERE.
Mr. Pollaro,
Money supply, in and of itself, does not actually mean very much. Consider the equation MV = Py where M is the money supply, V was the velocity at which money changes hands, P was the average price of goods and services, and y was the total quantity of goods and services, then if M were to increase while V and y were to remain constant, then logically P should increase in direct proportion the increase in M. So in a stable and simple economy, M and P should increase together.
However, during a recession, people do not spend their money as much, they conserve – save. As a result, V declines. Retailers reduce their inventory, y declines. In this environment the money supply can increase with no impact on prices. Without increases in velocity, increases in money supply means little.
Of course there are several different money supplies. The Federal Reserve Bank and the Mint only produce a small amount of the total money supply. M0 or MB is simply the amount of physical money printed by the Federal Reserve and the mint. However, the M1 supply which consists of includes all physical money including demand deposits, which are checking accounts, and Negotiable Order of Withdrawal Accounts contains cash and assets that can quickly be converted to currency. M2 is equal to M1 plus all time-related deposits (e.g. CDs), savings deposits, and non-institutional money-market funds. There are other, broader measures, e.g. M3 is M2 plus large and long-term deposits. This does not even account for money created by the use of credit cards, debit cards, &c.
According to the Federal Reserve, the Base Stock (M0) has skyrocketed from just over 800 BUSD to over 1,600 BUSD in 2009 the current nearly 2.8 BUSD, or 3.5 times since 2008. However the M1 money stock, during the same period, only grew from 1,400 BUSD to 2,200 BUSD (X1.6) and the M2 increased from 7,500 to 9,500 BUSD (X1.3).
Since cash (M0) is only a small part of the overall money supply, even with a massive increase in the amount of cash, the impact on the overall supply money is small. Further, the velocity of M1 today (7.1) is actually down quite significantly since 2008 (10.2) and is at the lowest level since the mid-1990′s. The current velocity of M2 (1.6) is also down as compared to 2008 (2.1) and is the lowest it has been since the min-1960′s. It is worth noting that a lot of the money that has been printed and been put into bank account and is simply sitting there (1,600 BUSD) with a velocity of zero.
What this means is that the massive infusion of *cash* (M0) has had little impact on the total supply of *money*. Much of that cash is simply sitting in bank faults collecting dust. This is why the velocities are so low and there is amount of monetary inflationary pressure is low.
Money is like the blood in the circulatory system of higher animals. It is essential to move food from the intestines to every part of the body and move waste back to the kidneys. If you like, the heart is the banking system, it helps to keep the blood moving. However, the body is powered by the consumption of food (with oxygen). The blood does not create the food, it just delivers it. While a weak or diseased circulatory system can certainly cripple an otherwise healthy body, a body robbed of food, no matter how healthy the circulatory system, will not function.
Money operates the same way: capitalist economies are powered by the creation and exchange of commodities (goods and services) and money facilitates that exchange but money does not create those commodities. While a weak or defective monetary system will cripple an otherwise healthy economy, an economy that is not producing goods and services, no matter how healthy the monetary system is, will not function.
The Great Recession is primarily caused by a collapse of investment of capital in the economy. With a decided decline in the production and purchase of commodities, money is used less i.e. it has a low velocity. The amount of money in circulation is not the cause of recession but a measure of it.
Mr. Pollaro,
You wrote:"those mainstream M's, especially the broader M2 and M3 metrics are an amalgamation of money and credit instruments, the latter to be excluded full stop from the Ms. Its something I discussed through an Austrian lens here…
Where it is basically argued that only *cash* is money (M0) and credit cards are dimissed as "not money". This is simply terribly out of date concept. I would invite you (and the interested reader) to consider how much of your own personal economic activity is mediated through cash and how much through checks, credit cards, debit cards, gift cards, electronic payments, &c. Only a very small portion of the economic life of the 21st century is cash based. To say that the form of money that constitutes over 90% of all economic transactions (i.e. non-cash) is not really money is no different than saying the only "real news" is news that is not found in the internet.
You also wrote:"Americas Great Depression and Great Recession both were not caused by the Fed's reluctance/limitations to money printing post the stock market crash, but because the Fed printed way to much money before the crash"
However most of that money did not actually go into circulation, as your blog rightly notes, most of it went into bank vaults. How can dollars sitting in bank vaults cause the problems that you cite. More to the point, there was comparatively little change in the amount of money that constitutes the vast majority of modern currency, non-cash forms of money.
Correction: the percentage cited – 90% – of non-cash transactions is too high but it is a very large percentage and growing.
According to the Austrian school of economics (von Mises, Rothbard, et. al.), you are absolutely correct. Their position is that anytime that the money supply is increased, no matter the reason, it always results in inflation. They would also point out that an increase in productivity, while generally perceived as increase in value, should cause prices to go down, while at the same time increasing real profitability. Perhaps that's counterintuitive, but they would point to an example in the 1870's where just exactly that scenario occurred.
On the other hand, they point to Hoover's attempt to inflate our way out of the deflation (which is wrongly perceived as recession or depression) of the late 1920s and early 1930s and then FDR's massive increase on what Hoover did as being the reason that, instead of lasting a year to a year and a half, we had a Great Depression lasting at least 12 years. I believe that the term "soft landing" is one that has been used to describe similar efforts in the last 30 years or so.
The bottom line is that if we are ever to have a stable economy, we must do away with the Fed, have sound (not fiat) money, and end fractional reserve banking. I know that is considered radical thinking, but the truth is that we have been told the lie that we need all these things so long that most everyone believes it. But understand that none of these things benefit anyone but those in and connected with banking.
Further, it can rather easily be seen that fractional reserve banking is at the heart of the "business cycle." Fractional reserve banking easily permits an expansion of money and credit which is used in inordinate amounts for stock trading and other financial transactions (making money on money transactions). The expansion is much less used for expansion of business that involves normal goods and services. That expansion and loosening of credit results in less and less sound investments. And, of course, the stock market goes up, so this period is generally considered a boom. Then the time comes that the bad investments begin to be exposed for what they are and they collapse and are normally liquidated. This period is called a bust. So, you have the bust.
I said that eliminating fractional reserve banking should eliminate this, but that isn't quite true. If the Fed is just printing money as they have so often done, then the extra money being filtered through even a greatly altered banking system would still result in great amounts of money being put into financial only transactions, which are, as evidenced by the MBS meltdown, much more subject to uncertainty than real business transactions. Quoting from page 109 of "Models.Behaving.Badly." by Emanuel Derman, a physicist, a quant and a major developer of financial models for Wall Street, "QED (quantum electrodynamics) predicts atomic properties to an accuracy of more than 10 significant figures; the best models in finance are not accurate to even one. More to the point, no one in finance knows how to specify what 'accurate' means, because so many of its variables are related to human sentiment."
So, really the only way to end business cycles is to, at least, do all the things I mentioned above: do away with the Fed, have sound (not fiat) money, and end fractional reserve banking. Will these things ever be done? I don't know, but I do know that it will take a lot of guts in a lot of people: the President, the Congress, and businessmen everywhere because the opposition from banking will be enormous, not to mention from Congress, the President, and the Fed, and a host of others who benefit from the system as it is, plus an even larger group that continues to be duped by the lie. Many of these have grown enormously powerful and the bankers have grown enormously wealthy, too, because they managed to get the benefit of the present banking and monetary system. They won't give up what they have easily.
But I believe that there is at least one solution and it may be the only solution: In the words of Justice Louis Brandeis, "Publicity is justly commended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases. Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants; electric light the most efficient policeman." First, each of us needs to stop believing the lie and then, those of us who have the guts need to begin speaking the truth, the louder, the better.
Hello cwbird,
You wrote:"The bottom line is that if we are ever to have a stable economy, we must do away with the Fed, have sound (not fiat) money, and end fractional reserve banking."
I must point out that there were booms and busts, inflation and deflation, long before there was a Federal Reserve Bank. Expansions and recessions are a result of the inherent nature of capitalism, no can over turn the business cycle.
Further, anyone who does not like fractional reserve banking can use the alternative which already exists, it is called a "safe deposit box". One simply puts all of one's cash in the safe deposit and it is retained 100% by the bank. Of course there is a monthly charge, so there is in effect a negative interest rate. Most people prefer to earn interest on their deposited money and the only way to do that is for the bank to loan out a portion of the money. The bank earns interest and it shares part of that interest with the depositor.
Finally, all money is fiat money whether it is made out of gold, silver, cinnamon, conch shells, or paper. Further, in the past when gold was used, there were still "panics" and "booms", inflation and deflation. Having a money system based on one particular commodity or another does not change the fundamentals of economics.
IMHO, adding fuel (excess US dollars) to the fire (total US monetary supply) is also about to be influenced by the the US dollar beginning to be nudged from the lofty, previously unchallenged position as the world's currency reserve . . . an action continuing to unfold (in part) with gold being used as a medium of exchange between Iran and any willing/wanting trading partners (due to Iran having recently been banned from SWIFT) as well as China initiating a broader implementation and acceptance of the renminbi in the pursuit of world trade transactions.
Michael…Any idea where $600 BILLION came from (MZM plus TMS shows it) post QE2? It happens to be able to finance the US Economic Ponzi (deficit) and no one seems to have an exact idea of how it was created.
It wasn't created through fractional reserve lending (velocity is down to record lows), and the Fed did not print it…so where did it come from?
Yes, I know Liquidity Swaps accounts for $110 BILLON of it, but how about the rest. Any ideas?
Thanks. –MikeM
PS I really study your charts often. Great work! I appreciate it a lot. Your my goto source to visually see the insanity of central banks.


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2016 Smallman Street
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2204 E. Carson Street
South Side
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Tequila Willies
15th & Smallman St.
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2003 E. Carson Street
South Side
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Strip District
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The Town Tavern
2009 East Carson St., South Side
Popular with the college crowd, the Town Tavern in Pittsburgh bills itself as a "New York" style club, modeled after the original in Greenwich Village. Two large bars and upstairs dance floor means the place is usually packed.

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I'd like to make a short comment on the Product Review (December '95 pg. 34): Caldera Network Desktop.
I agree with Roger Scrafford "It's slick..." etc., but if Caldera could separate the commercial stuff from the free parts they would be playing more on the "team of FSF and Linux".
I would be willing to pay for products like the full-blown CRiSP editor (Yes I love it, being a Brief user way back) or WordPerfect 6.1 with HTML.
But a student or hacker could download the Caldera Desktop for free.
As Linus Torvalds says (and I fully agree): "...the future is the desktop..."---meaning that what Caldera is doing for Linux is very important.
With this separated distribution method, maybe the Caldera Desktop could be a big success (like Netscape?).
O.J. -> Ole J. Utnes (email@example.com)
P.S. Keep up the good work with LJ.
To answer your first point: Caldera does separate them, very carefully. It makes it very clear in the manual which parts are free, and which are commercial, and makes it clear that you can install only the free parts on as many machines as you wish.
The desktop application is one of the commercial pieces they licensed from someone else, just like the font server, backup.unet, and the NetWare connectivity tools.
However, the Caldera Network Desktop is based on Red Hat Commercial Linux, and all the free pieces of CND are in Red Hat, which is available for FTP from many sites on the internet, including ftp.caldera.com, so your wish is granted.
That is, your wish is granted unless you specifically want them to give away their desktop application. Linus wasn't talking about a desktop metaphor like Looking Glass when he said that the future is in the desktop. He was talking about machines that sit on the desktop, as opposed to servers that live in a "glass house" and are administered by all-knowing gurus.
I think the index should:
Quietly appear in every December issue.
Be printed on the last pages of the issue (like in science journals).
And, by the way, I think my father's TeX'ed index is better. But that's my own biased opinion. I think he e-mailed you about it just because you printed yours...
Peter Galbraith, research scientist email@example.com Maurice-Lamontagne Institute, Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada
You will be glad to know that the index is scheduled to appear in every December issue, covering the previous year.
It will probably not be printed on the last pages of the issue. We've sold that advertising space, and we can't just take it back for a month.
Your father's index is different—it's more like the index to a book; ours is more like an extended table of contents. We may end up providing his index via the WWW and/or FTP.
You might also check out our index on our WWW site (http://www.ssc.com/). When we have all our articles on-line, that should be capable of a full-text search; it's currently capable of a keyword search.
First I said: "Oh, a possibly boring issue..." from the titles on the cover. But no! You had a really good article on find, and I knew I'd learn something in that Linux System Administration article on adding a new disk.
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Also, a note on "Hints for splitting Linux across two disks". I use her method of moving directories and pointing soft links to them as a last resort. Isn't it better to mount the second disk under /usr (or something) to begin with and then safely fully install Linux? Then at least everything is where is should be with a minimum of (sometimes confusing) links on the system.
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Finishing 38th at New Hampshire, Casey Mears suffered his worst flat track finish of the year. His previous four attempts on this track type ended in a 14th at Phoenix, 24th at Martinsville, 19th at Richmond, and 23rd at Pocono.
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Rose Syracuse has held one job - one job only - for her entire life. For 73 years, she worked mainly in the accounts department at the Macy's Department store on 34th Street in Manhattan. She's worked for Macy's longer than anyone else - ever. And last week, after all those decades, she retired. Rose Syracuse joins us on the line from New York. Thank you very much for taking the time to talk to us.
ROSE SYRACUSE: Oh, that's fine. And Rose Syracuse would not have retired if she hadn't broken her hip.
WERTHEIMER: Oh, dear.
Originally published on Tue September 4, 2012 3:05 pm
Anyone with a 401(k) retirement plan has been painfully aware of the gyrations in the stock market in recent years. The market has come back up lately, but the economy is still in low gear, so many analysts aren't too bullish in the short term. Also, treasuries and CDs are offering tiny returns.
So what's the average American trying to save for retirement to do? Answers are percolating at an annual economics retreat in Maine.


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CHAPEL HILL — Difficult news today out of Chapel Hill, where North Carolina announced that womens basketball coach Sylvia Hatchell is temporarily stepping away from coaching after she was diagnosed with leukemia.
Hatchell had been preparing for her 28th season as the Tar Heels head coach. She is one of three womens coaches in history to 900 games, and she ranks second all time behind Pat Summitt in career victories. Hatchell last month was inducted into the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield, Mass.
Here are some statements that UNC released related to Hatchell and her condition:
From Hatchell:
I am going to be involved in a treatment plan established by Dr. Pete Voorhees, medical oncologist, and his team from the UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center. I have the utmost confidence in my doctors. There is a reason why the North Carolina Cancer Hospital ranks as one of the top cancer facilities in the nation. I will remain very much involved with my team and day-to-day operations here at UNC and expect to return to my sideline responsibilities as soon as possible. My veteran staff and team will be well prepared and meet any challenges until my return. Dont forget I am a Tar Heel woman!
From UNC athletic director Bubba Cunningham:
Sylvia has our complete support and is in our thoughts and prayers for a full recovery. Sylvia is a fighter and her enduring spirit will aid her greatly. Her staff and players, family and members of the athletics and University community will do what we can to bolster those efforts. Sylvia has been a long-time supporter of the Lineberger Center and is in the best hands possible.
From Dr. Pete Voorhees, medical oncologist at the Lineberger Cancer Center:
Sylvia remains strong and in good spirits. She is physically and mentally tough, and this will serve her well on her journey. We are optimistic that she will do well.
From Dr. Shelley Earp, the director of the Lineberger Cancer Center:
Coach Hatchell has been a tireless ambassador for our cancer center for the last 15 years. She has helped us in countless ways. Now it is our turn to be there for her with the best care and our teams full support.
From UNC mens coach Roy Williams, who went through a cancer scare about a year ago:
Im heartbroken for Sylvia, Sammy and Van. I know how much Sylvia loves to coach and compete with her team so any time that she misses will be difficult. But shes tough and she will fight this with everything she has. All of us at Carolina and all of her friends in the coaching community will support her 100 percent in this fight."


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Succulents are uniquely beautiful. Their soft greens and blues evoke water and the dessert simultaneously. They grow in arid climates, far from life-giving rains, and yet there is no plant that looks healthier and more full of moisture and life. Succulents store moisture in their thick leaves. They can live for months without being watered and they last for many days detached from their roots. As such, they are the perfect plants for wreaths, garlands, bouquets, and wedding sculptures. They are also inexpensive and come in a wide variety of shapes, colors and textures. Some succulents have leaves that look like rose petals and they curl in round, romantic blossoms. Others have long, broad, red leaves, like a thick, otherworldly orchid. They can work within many different types of themes and venues—from rocky winter beaches to summer picnics.
Succulents are easy to take care of and they live for a long time. As such, they are perfect favors for plant lovers and plant-a-phobes alike. Anyone can care for a succulent! Include a card on recycled paper with care instructions and rest assured that your gifts will grace the windowsills of guests for years to come.
The Bouquet
Succulents make stunning. They're exotic with complicated textures and shapes. Since most succulents come in a variety of greens, you can combine many different species and still achieve a unified look. Succulent bouquets are true to their name: luscious, rich, and mellow.
On the Cake
It may seem strange, but succulents look, well, succulent! Arranged just so on a crisp white frosting backdrop, they're so full and rich they almost look like confections themselves. Frosting flowers actually look more like succulents than like their petaled cousins so combining live succulents with frosting flowers will look perfectly natural. (The succulents pictured above are actually made from fondant! Could you tell? I couldn't!)
In Your Hair
Wearing flowers in your hair is the oldest trick in the book. Why not give your 'do some originality and pizzazz with a ripe, green succulent! Tuck one behind your ear for a pretty, demure look, or weave them into a complicated up-do for something a bit more outrageous.
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Greater Maywood Rural Community Services will present Kaitlyn Jackson's Country Music Show at 7 p.m. Saturday at the former Sidney Center School Building on county Route 23 in Sidney Center.
Jackson was a recent winner of the "American Idol Experience" at Disney's Hollywood Studio near Orlando, Fla. She also was honored with the 2011 Horizon Award by the New York State Country Music Hall of Fame.
She has opened for country artists such as Joe Nichols, Josh Gracin, Bryan White, Andy Griggs, Mark Wills, Jeff Bates, Trent Willmon and Emerson Drive. In the pop arena, she's opened for Melinda Doolittle, the Veronicas and many others. She also sand with Kenny Rogers and Linda Davis during Roger's television Christmas show.
In Nashville, she's worked with Trisha Yearwood and George Strait, as well as songwriters CJ Watson, David Harper, Brandon Maddox, Max Abrams and Dave Tough.
Locally, she was a member of the touring musical theater group Musical Kids on the Go. She's played lead roles in "101 Dalmatians," "High School Musical" "Annie," "Oliver" The Sound of Music" and more.
In addition to singing, Jackson has been dancing since she was 2 years old, and has one American Dance Awards in lyrical and modern dance. In 2011, she performed on Broadway and joined the Phoenix Project Dance professional dance company.
Tickets are $6 in advance and $7 at the door. For more information, go to gmrcs.org.


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Medill has a long-standing reputation for journalism excellence. As the media industry undergoes unprecedented change, Medill leads the way. We train a new generation of multimedia journalists and communicators who will not only thrive in this landscape but also help shape it. Alumni work as social media managers, mobile journalists and account executives for public relations firms.MORE
You know us as Medill, home to a premier graduate journalism program. Our students learn enduring professional skills and techniques for storytelling that are essential to contemporary journalism. The one-year program emphasizes real-world, hands-on experience, from working in the Chicago and Washington, D.C., newsrooms to reporting abroad for news organizations in the Global Residency Program.MORE
Graduate education in IMC was invented at Medill, and the program continues to lead innovation in the field. Students work collaboratively with peers and top-tier global companies to gain strategic and quantitative skills, with an emphasis on analytics that inform consumer insights. Students develop proficiencies across traditional and digital media in order to influence consumers and build business in today's complex global marketplace.MORE
Medill's faculty member and founder of The Chicago Bureau, Eric Ferkenhoff joined the morning show with Steven Cochran to talk about telling the stories of people whose voices rarely are heard.MORE
Medill Associate Professor Douglas Foster narrates his experience of witnessing firsthand Brazil's loss in the 2014 World Cup.MORE
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Medill IMC Online welcomed 17 of its 95 working-professional students to campus June 11-15. Former Publicis Groupe/Vivaki CEO Jack Klues spoke to the class to inspire students to pursue what he calls, "the right kind of ambition."MORE
Summary: Medill IMC student Samira Tunku Shahabuddin (IMC14) shares how she took her marketing skills from Malaysia to Australia before she crossed the ocean to pursue an IMC degree at Medill.MORE
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Medill Integrated Marketing Communications Professor Kalyan Raman received the Distinguished Ver Steeg Research Fellowship on May 8 for his research in CSF Dynamics and media mix optimization.MORE
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With 'Slut' Rant, Rush Limbaugh Has Become GOP's Own Worst Enemy
Rush Limbaugh harms the conservative case against Obama's contraceptive mandate by making it about the evils of birth control.
Somebody other than the Democrats needs to speak up about Rush Limbaugh, and it might as well be me. There's radio silence on the right—it's as if everyone's hoping if they ignore him he'll go away. Conservative leaders need to make it clear that he doesn't speak for the rest of us. His remarks this week attacking women were inexcusable.
When a Georgetown University Law student named Sandra Fluke testified before an "unofficial" hearing chaired by Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi on the federal mandate for free contraception coverage, she urged religious institutions to cover birth control pills used for medical purposes. Fluke gave the example of her friend who later lost an ovary after not being able to afford the birth control pills prescribed to keep her ovarian cysts under control, which were not covered by Georgetown's insurance plan.
[See a collection of political cartoons on the Catholic contraception controversy.]
"What does that make her?" Rush Limbaugh said of Fluke on Wednesday, according to the Washington Post. "It makes her a slut, right? It makes her a prostitute."
"She wants to be paid to have sex," Limbaugh continued. "She's having so much sex she can't afford the contraception."
On Thursday, Limbaugh continued his diatribe. He echoed remarks made last week by former Sen. Rick Santorum supporter Foster Friess, saying, "I will buy all of the women at Georgetown University as much aspirin to put between their knees as they want." Here's the clincher: "So Miss Fluke and the rest of you feminazis, here's the deal," he said. "If we are going to pay for your contraceptives and thus pay for you to have sex, we want something. We want you to post the videos online so we can all watch."
(Let's leave aside the argument that since most insurance plans cover Viagra, we're already "paying men to have sex." I'm unaware of any women asking for videos so we can watch and get our money's worth. No thanks, guys.)
[Read the U.S. News debate: Will the Culture Wars Benefit the GOP in the 2012 Election?]
I've defended Limbaugh in the past, but no more. I'm sick and tired of the name-calling, the character assassination, the incivility. There's nothing wrong with being partisan—standing up for what you believe in and convincing others to join your cause. Limbaugh used to be great at that. But what he did this week wasn't partisan. It was over the line. He could have made a reasoned case against Georgetown being forced to cover the cost of the pill, and instead he decided to call women who disagree "sluts." Really?
Has he forgotten that women make up 53 percent of the electorate? He's given the Democratic National Committee it's dream-come-true scenario, allowing them to say the GOP is "waging a war on women." They're circulating petitions and raising money, and the liberal media has jumped on board to help, giving them plenty of free coverage. In advertising terms, you'd say Limbaugh is bad for the brand.
Does he not realize that Republicans had a great constitutional issue that went to the heart of religious freedom and government overreach—an issue that united religious leaders and especially the Catholic vote heading into the fall election? By turning it into a debate about the evils of contraception, he's made sure the right loses the argument.
[Washington Whispers: Congressional Candidate Uses Limbaugh 'Slut' Comment as a Fundraiser]
Is he not aware that when he uses hateful language like this, calling names and questioning people's motives, he drives good people away from politics and disgusts voters? No wonder Maine Sen. Olympia Snowe is retiring because of the incivility in politics; good people see stuff like this and have no interest in going into public service. I've thought for a long time that the reason so many great conservatives are sitting out the presidential race—former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels, Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan, to name a few—is because they see how ugly national politics is getting and want to take a pass.
Rush Limbaugh has become Republicans' own worst enemy. As Paul Ryan once said, "With friends like these, who needs the left?"


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By Evamarie Socha
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— SHAMOKIN – The city of Shamokin will get $1.34 million in funding to repair damage to the stone wall along Shamokin Creek sustained during Tropical Storm Lee in 2011, Sen. Bob Casey, D-Pa., announced today.
The funding is from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Federal Emergency Management Agency. It is specifically is for permanent repairs to 1.23 miles of stone wall along Shamokin Creek that were damaged in the flood.
"The recovery process from Lee has been challenging, but this funding is a positive development in Pennsylvania's effort to rebuild from the damage," said Casey. "I will continue to push the federal government to provide as much help as possible to the communities affected by storms so Pennsylvanians whose lives have been disrupted can get back on their feet."


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Anna Kournikova's Biggest Loser Blog: Episode 12
December 7, 2011 at 10:15 am , by Ladies' Lounge
It's the last episode before the season finale, and the final four contestants left the ranch to continue working on their weight loss at home. John, Antone, Becky and Vinny got to show off all of their hard work to everyone in their hometowns, and it was really touching watching everyone welcome them back. You could really see how much all of the contestants have changed, both inside and out. Hearing Becky say that she was determined to finish what she had started was amazing. She is a true fighter. It was funny to see Antone really put his time management skills to work when he used his kids as weights. And with so many of his health issues under control, Vinny proposed to his girlfriend!
Later, all of the contestants and trainers traveled back to the El Mirage desert for the final challenge of the season—the biggest loser marathon. The winner would get a guaranteed spot at the finale as a finalist! Seeing how far the eliminated players had come while they were on their own was great. I was especially proud of Joe, who has grown so much since that first mile walk. Even though Joe was pulled out of the marathon, he's still a winner for beginning the journey to reclaim his health.
The race for first place between Ramon and Courtney was really close! But in the end, Ramon won the marathon and $25,000 from Walgreens. And just like that, he's back in the competition to become the biggest loser of the season! After a very long day in the desert, I went out to meet my original blue team members, Johnny and Debbie, to finish the marathon with them. Just like in the first challenge, we crossed the finish line together! It's truly incredible how much all of the contestants have accomplished in such a short amount of time. Running a marathon is just the beginning!
At the weigh-in, we got to see how much work the final four contestants did at home. Unfortunately, Becky and Vinny fell below the red line, but either of them could come back and be the winner of the at-home prize. The three finalists competing for the official title of the Biggest Loser will be Ramon, Antone and John. Tune in next week for the live finale to see who wins!
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Family: Felidae
The bobcat is one of three native cats in the Pacific region of the United States, along with the mountain lion and the Canadian lynx (Ingles 1965). It has a small head, heavy body, long legs and large, padded paws. Its fur is pale brown to reddish with black spots. The underparts are white. The tip of the tail is black above and white below. The white underside of the tail serves as a signal for its kittens to follow when the bobcat holds the tail curved up when hunting for food.
The bobcat's sharp-pointed ears are tipped with dark, inconspicuous tufts. Compared to the Canadian lynx, the bobcat has shorter hindlimbs, smaller feet, and shorter ear tufts. Bobcats live 10-12 years in the wild, and up to 25 years in a zoo.
Size: It's a relatively small member of the cat family-the head and body measuring between 60-100 cm (24-40 inches) long, and the tail adding about another 20 cm (5 inches). Adult females weigh 6-9 kg (13-20 lbs) and adult males can weigh 9-13 kg (20-29 lbs).
Range and Habitat
The bobcat ranges from southern Canada to southern Mexico, and can be found throughout most of the United States. It inhabits a wide range of habitats, from rimrock and chaparral areas of the western United States to the swamps and forests the eastern United States. The bobcat dens in rock crevices, hollow logs, and thick brush.
Natural History
Behavior: Mostly nocturnal, the bobcat is a solitary animal. It ranges usually within a two mile radius, but may wander as far as 25 to 50 miles. Like the mountain lion, it mates briefly and the females raise the cubs alone. The cubs leave their mother within a year to live on their own.
Reproduction: Mating normally occurs in spring. After a gestation period of 50-60 days, the kittens are born. Litters usually contain two kittens, but may have as many as four. The kittens eyes open after 10-11 days.
Prey: Bobcats are carnivores, and eat primarily mammals: rabbits, woodrats, squirrels, and mice. Like many predators, however, they are opportunistic and will eat almost anything including birds, reptiles and amphibians. They can leap up to 10 feet to catch an animal.
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Giles Rests, Friar Bats Follow Suit
Harry "Bud" Black finally gave Brian Giles most of the night off (who did earn a walk in the 8th, staying the game after pinch hitting), giving a nod to rarely utilized reserve Edgar Gonzalez. Reminiscent of the 2008 campaign, Edgar made the most of his opportunity, swatting a bomb off former Padre Randy Wolf, staking the Padres to a 1 run lead in the top of the first. Unfortunately, the Padre bats were otherwise quiet, and Chris Young, who allowed one run in 7 innings vice 5 punch outs, was just short of the perfect pitcher he had to be in order to capitalize on the offense his club would contribute for the night. After giving way to Edwin Moreno and Cla Meredith, who both posted zeros on the board, Luke Gregerson allowed 3 hits and run without recording an out, giving the Dodgers their second walk off win in as many nights.
Run Bud Run?
After reaching first on a fielding error in the 4th, Edgar Gonzalez (leading off the inning while batting second) was erased attempting to swipe second base. Scott Hairston, hitting third, then fouled out for the second out, bringing up cleanup hitter Adrian Gonzelez with nobody on base. FF understands that a struggling team needs to shake things up at times to score a few runs, but we'd also love to see a station-to-station approach with the Adrian, who is the only hitter on the team that strikes consistent fear in opposing pitchers. It may very well be that this was a calculated approach with Adrian facing a lefty in Wolf, but he is still the club's finest, most consistent batting threat.
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There has been a gap between Microsoft Excel and the top tier business intelligence (BI) platforms for many years. The Microsoft Excel 2010 Pivot Table enhancements along with a couple of other BI features have made it a real competitor for enterprise BI. Excel has traditionally been used for standalone analysis and the standard tool that everyone exports their final reports into. Professional business intelligence has traditionally been reserved for the likes of SAS, Business Objects and SAP.
Microsoft Excel 2010 (with the Excel 2010 Pivot Table) along with SQL Server 2008 R2, SharePoint 2010 and the free Microsoft Excel 2010 add-on "PowerPivot" has resulted in a high end business intelligence and reporting solution.
This tutorial covers a straight forward scenario with an Excel 2010 PivotTable connected to a SQL Server 2008 R2 database using a simple SQL query. I am also using Slicers for visual filtering which is new in Excel 2010. I will cover more complex BI techniques using Data Analysis Expressions (DAX) in PowerPivot for Excel 2010 in the near future. This latest release of Microsoft Excel 2010 can provide a real value for your user community.


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Q&A with Penguins defenseman Ben Lovejoy
By Shelly Anderson / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
The NHL lockout has wiped out training camp and early games in the 2012-13 season, but the Post-Gazette will help you catch up with the Penguins with an occasional Q&A. Today, we chat with Ben Lovejoy. The 28-year-old defenseman and Dartmouth graduate has been a regular participant in lockout practices at Southpointe, except for some days recently when he had to go home to New Hampshire to attend to tree damage to his house that happened during Superstorm Sandy. You might also remember Lovejoy from a couple of star turns on HBO's "24/7: Road to the Winter Classic" a couple of years ago, a series that has gotten a lot of extra play lately on the NHL Network.
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Question: What has the experience of this lockout been like for you?
Answer: It's really just been weird. A lot of us come to Pittsburgh to work. We haven't spent a lot of time here. We don't have free weekends. We don't have nights free. A lot of us have been able to experience the city a little differently. On the ice, it's certainly been different. I think that we've done a good job with our intensity, but it's not the same without the coaches out there. It's not the same as when you have someone picking apart every aspect of your game. If I miss a pass in [regular] practice, it's not funny. If I miss a pass [in a lockout practice], it's laughable. It's definitely different.
Q: What specifically are you doing in the area in that extra free time?
A: Just getting to know Pittsburgh. Just a little bit of everything. When I'm in season, everything about our life revolves around hockey. During this lockout so far, we work from about 9 to 2, and then you're able to not think about it -- other than Tweets you read about not playing.
Q: Is there a rivalry between you and teammate Craig Adams based on you having gone to Dartmouth and him to Harvard, or is there some type of unity because you're both Ivy Leaguers?
A: I think a little bit of both. I think there's mutual respect. I cheer for Ivy League teams whenever they're playing anybody else. It's a special league because the Ivy League does have to put academics first. I have mutual respect for other guys that played in that league because I know that they did go to class. [Laughs] There is a bit of a rivalry. He might try and look down on us, but I think that Dartmouth has a bit of a chip on its shoulder because we're not Harvard. So that is probably more of a rivalry in my eyes than in his.
Q: Do you follow the Dartmouth football team?
A: I do. It's funny because I did not when I was there. But I have since gotten into it. A kid that I worked out with in Pittsburgh, at a gym called ESI in Bridgeville, is the starting quarterback at Dartmouth. I got to know him well. His name is Alex Park [from Upper St. Clair]. Because of that, I began following it.
Q: Going back to the Harvard rivalry, it had to be a little disappointing that Dartmouth lost to Harvard in football homecoming.
A: I wasn't there for homecoming. I went back the week after homecoming because the Dartmouth hockey team was away the homecoming weekend. That is obviously way more important to me than the football team.
Q: What's your favorite meal?
A: I think it's just chocolate. All kinds. Right now I'm into dark chocolate, but I will eat it all. Just straight chocolate. But for a meal, I love a good filet mignon, and I love spaghetti.
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Posted 12 November 2012 - 10:30 AM
I'm Dan Bylsma, and I'm Fired!
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"Grind dem bitches"
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It's A Great Day for Hockey!!!
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By TOM MAY
I went to see a movie last weekend, even though I am really not a movie goer. Story lines that come from books are usually better in my mind when I am reading them than when they are translated to the big screen.
I am not a fan of horror and gore movies. I am not a fan of moronic comedy movies. I am not a fan of real-life movies. Most of the time I wouldn't pay $9.50 to live the real-life story, let alone watch it with bunches of people in a theater. When I go to the cinema, it tends to be comic-book movies. Action. Adventure. The spectacular. The good guy wins. The bad guy loses. The good guy kisses the girl.
But last weekend, I went to see "42."
I hesitated to see this movie because I am not a Dodger fan. I grew up in the days of Mickey Mantle, Whitey Ford, Bobby Richardson and Elston Howard. I was, and still am, a Yankee fan. One of the first World Series that I remember watching on television was in 1963 — and you guessed it, the Dodgers swept the Yankees in four straight games, marking the first time the boys in pinstripes had lost a World Series without even a whimper.
Since that time, I have added another reason to not be a Dodger fan. I went to college in Cincinnati during the days of the Big Red Machine. I watched games in Riverfront Stadium involving Pete Rose, Johnny Bench, Joe Morgan and Tony Perez. The Dodgers were more than bums now — they were the team that started a Reds' losing streak when they took a road trip to the coast.
The movie was a good baseball movie; but it was a great movie to stir memories. I was reminded of the day my grandfather took me out to an old ball park in Terre Haute, Ind. in 1961. Terre Haute had a minor league team in the Three-I League — teams from Indiana, Illinois, and Iowa — during the 20s through the 50s. Most of the time the Terre Haute team was called the Hottentots — yes, that's right — later shortened to just the Tots. Many years the team was unaffiliated with a Major League team, though for a couple of years they were the farm team of the old Saint Louis Browns, and later the Phillies and the Tigers. They played in a stadium near Deming Park that by the 1960s sat vacant most of the time.
The stadium was not empty that summer night in 1961. My grandfather took a 5-year old to see a baseball game in a ball park that he knew like the back of his hand. He told me stories of his love for baseball and the incredible players that he had watched play in this old run-down confine. The Negro League had disbanded but several teams continued to barnstorm across the country. One of those teams was the fabled Indianapolis Clowns. That night they called Terre Haute home, and a nostalgic grandfather wanted his grandson to see "the greatest pitcher of all time," Satchel Paige. No one knew for sure how old Paige was — he claimed to not even know himself. By any measuring stick he was near 60. He pitched one inning and the three men who faced him didn't even come close to touching the ball.
The movie showed the Brooklyn Dodgers and their AAA farm team the Montreal Royals as they trained in Daytona Beach in 1946. About 25 years later, I would be a senior in high school watching the Major League expansion Montreal Expos taking on the Los Angeles Dodgers in the old stadium on the same property. I recognized places and players, people and parks. I grinned as Red Barber provided the vocal thread that tied the story together from his perch in the catbird seat. I cheered as a dancing Jackie Robinson stole everything but the pitcher's socks. I winced as I realized that Jackie's reality must have been far worse than a PG movie would allow.
In the midst of the movie, I realized an important lesson in my quest for a life that is boiled down to the bare necessities. A simple life is one that is not marred by prejudices against people — race, creed or religion.
At the end, I stood up and applauded.
I applauded Jackie's character, integrity and fortitude. I applauded that Eddie Stanky defended Jackie in Philadelphia. I applauded that Pee Wee Reese stood next to Jackie, and that I taught his granddaughter in class. I applauded that things, though still not perfect, have changed. I applauded that a white man came up to Jackie on the street and encouraged him on.
I prayed that I would always be that man.
— Tom May is the Minister of Discipleship at Eastside Christian Church in Jeffersonville. He is an adjunct instructor in the Communications Department at Indiana University Southeast.


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By Ryan Richardson
Globe Staff Writer
JOPLIN, Mo. —
On a question put front and center by the recent mass shooting in Newtown, Conn., Nickie Humphrey and Ben Hinkle find themselves on opposite sides.
Humphrey, of Joplin, believes that constant exposure to violent video games is part of the problem.
"These things play a part in the progression of already-seeded issues some people may have," Humphrey said. "They trigger an area of the brain regarding violence.
"These games, in my opinion, are a continuous onslaught to that area of the brain, and it's not healthy."
Hinkle, a former Missouri Southern State University student who is now a law student at Washburn University in Topeka, Kan., doesn't believe video games should be blamed.
He noted that "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3" sold more than 6.5 million copies within 24 hours of its launch. It broke $1 billion in sales in 16 days.
"You have probably 10 million people playing it, and two of them shot some people," Hinkle said. "Run the percentages on that, and you will see that the percentage of gamers who decide to kill is much smaller than the percentage of nongamers who kill. Not a real issue."
Humphrey and Hinkle were responding to a Globe online survey about the impact of violent video games. Their debate reflects not only the arguments being heard around the country, but also the passion.
Brad Bushman and Chris Ferguson are on opposite sides of the argument, too.
"Violent video games increase aggressive thoughts through physiological arousal," Bushman said.
He is a professor of mass communication at Ohio State University. He was one of eight scholars from the United States and Japan who published an analysis in 2010 of dozens of studies conducted around the world into the effects of violent games on players' behavior.
"Concerning public policy, we believe that debates can and should finally move beyond the simple question of whether violent video game play is a causal risk factor for aggressive behavior," their analysis concluded. "The scientific literature has effectively and clearly shown the answer to be 'yes.'"
The public debate "should move to questions concerning how best to deal with this risk factor," the report said.
"People who have aggressive thoughts are much more likely to have aggressive behavior," Bushman said. "This makes people numb to the pain and suffering of others."
Ferguson, too, is an expert. He teaches in Texas A&M University's Department of Behavioral, Applied Sciences and Criminal Justice. He thinks Bushman and his colleagues should not be so quick to declare the impact of violent video games as definitive. He thinks the 2010 analysis is flawed.
"There was a selection bias," Ferguson said. "He (Bushman) and his colleagues didn't include many studies that did not find any effects from violent media."
Ferguson led a review of other scientific studies that he published in 2009 in the Journal of Pediatrics. He determined that "results from the current analysis do not support the conclusion that media violence leads to aggressive behavior. It cannot be concluded at this time that media violence presents a significant public health risk."
The public debate, he concluded, would be better focused on other issues that may be triggers for violent behavior.
But Bushman said experiments demonstrate that a person who plays violent video games three days in a row shows more aggressive and hostile behavior than people who don't play. It's not certain what the impact would be on people who play these games for years because such testing "isn't practical or ethical," he said.
'Shadow industry'
It's still unclear what or even if any games were played by Adam Lanza, the 20-year-old Newtown shooter, but investigators are reviewing his gaming habits, and online and cellphone records for game purchases.
The CEO of the National Rifle Association, Wayne LaPierre, says it's time that the country focus on the issue.
"There exists in this country a callous, corrupt and corrupting shadow industry that sells, and sows, violence against its own people," he said at a Dec. 21 news conference. He cited video games "with names like 'Bulletstorm,' 'Grand Theft Auto,' 'Mortal Kombat' and 'Splatterhouse.' And here's one: It's called 'Kindergarten Killers.' It has been online for 10 years."
He also criticized violent movies such as "Natural Born Killers" and added: "Isn't fantasizing about killing people as a way to get your kicks really the filthiest form of pornography?"
Kevin Martin, of Joplin, disagrees.
"Blaming videos is no different than blaming guns," he argued. "If video games are to blame, then how do you account for the millions of gamers who play those games and do not commit violent crimes?"
Eric Steele, of Carl Junction, said he considers himself a supporter of the Second Amendment. He said he supports the NRA, but he doesn't like LaPierre's argument.
"I am concerned about certain positions they, and many others ... have taken," he said. "Recent statements have shown them willing to sacrifice freedoms in a desperate attempt to save the Second Amendment. While we must protect the Second Amendment, I will not advocate restricting the First Amendment by pushing for controls in the entertainment industry."
'Played out'
After the shooting in Newtown, some of the surviving children in that community threw away video games containing violent scenes and set up bins so others could do the same. They called their effort "Played Out: Choose Not to Play."
An organization called GamerFitNation called for a one-day "cease-fire," asking video game players to refrain from playing violent video games on the one-week anniversary of the Newtown shootings.
And U.S. Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., has asked the National Academy of Sciences to look at the impact of violent video games and movies on children.
"Some people still do not get it," Rockefeller said. "They believe that violent video games are no more dangerous to young minds than classic literature or Saturday morning cartoons. Parents, pediatricians and psychologists know better."
He also called on the Federal Trade Commission and the Federal Communications Commission to review the effectiveness of video game ratings.
Parental role
At Vintage Stock's Northpark Mall location, manager Brandon Bond sees the issue not only from a gamer's and retailer's perspective, but also as a parent.
He said he has worked with the Entertainment Software Rating Board system since its inception, and noted that the industry is taking steps to govern the problem.
"I feel that we are a step ahead of the movie rating system in the way that there is a clearer age bracket separation," Bond said. "Factor in that there are clear details on the back explaining exactly what caused this game to be rated the way it was."
The ESRB rating system is voluntary, though virtually every game sold at retail is rated. But while the games are rated, the U.S. Supreme Court also has ruled that states cannot ban the sale of violent video games to children without parental supervision, which is what California tried to do in 2005.
"Our policy here at Vintage Stock is set in stone," Bond said. "If it is a mature game, we do not sell to underage kids, period."
Ultimately, Bond said, much of this lies in the hands of parents, who may have the most important role to play in the debate.
He said he attempts to educate parents when they inquire about the content of games and encourages them to hold a dialogue with their children on what they play.
"Parents have to play the biggest role in what their kids play, not the retailers," Bond said. "There has to be a dialogue on what is age appropriate and what isn't or all the ratings in the world won't matter."
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS and Scripps Howard News Service contributed to this report.


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To the editor
Regarding Mayor Carolyn Kirk's campaign kickoff announcement (the Times, Tuesday, Sept. 24), the mayor must be kidding when she's running with the dog park and the fish shack as among her major accomplishments.
Her tenure and her pet projects have really been the failed I-4, C-2 acquisition, the ParkingLot Walk and the killing of the Fuller School building.
The fact she also wants to run on her snow removal leadership and her handling of the Fire Department as her strong points is very strange. Doesn't she think the readers remember very well.
I think she is believing her own "Mayor's Desk" columns as reality.
I am also amused by her quote of "this isn't my city. This is our city."
A more appropriate quote would be what she is famous for — as in "My way or the highway."
Mayor, you are correct — this is our city, and we want it back."
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In order to meet the growing demand for nursing education for people who have or will have a bachelor's degree in a non-nursing field, OHSU School of Nursing has reinstated an Accelerated Bachelor's of Science with a major in nursing degree program (ABS). The ABS program is designed to allow those students who currently have or will have a bachelor's degree from an accredited institution with a major other than nursing to take the nursing courses required to get the B.S. with a major in nursing. This generalist nursing program is five quarters of full-time nursing coursework starting summer term on both the Portland and Ashland campuses. This program will prepare the graduate for R.N. licensure and will also give interested students the necessary credentials to pursue a graduate degree in nursing. At the completion of the Bachelor of Science Nursing curriculum, the B.S. degree is awarded and graduates are eligible for professional registered nurse licensing examinations.
The School of Nursing also offers an Accelerated Bachelor's to Master's program in Midwifery and Psychiatric Mental Health. This accelerated option allows students to pre-identify their graduate area of interest and enroll seamlessly into the Midwifery or Psychiatric Mental Health program directly after completing the undergraduate nursing degree to achieve the Master of Nursing of the Doctor of nursing Practice degree. This pathway is a great option for applicants who are already familiar with the Midwifery or Psychiatric Mental Health fields and are seeking an Advanced practice degree. This option is only available on the Portland campus and additional application items are required.


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"Sludge Diet" documentary screening
"Sludge Diet," a documentary about the health effects of sewage sludge, will be shown at 10 a.m. at the United Church of Chapel Hill, 1321 Martin Luther King Blvd., Chapel Hill.
Overeaters Anonymous
Overeaters Anonymous meets from 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. at Carrboro United Methodist Church, 200 Hillsborough Road. 919-448-7010.
Triangle Stamp Club
The Triangle Stamp Club meets the second Monday of each month at 7:30 p.m. at the Church of the Holy Family, 200 Hayes Road. firstname.lastname@example.com.
Yoga Class
A yoga class for people new to yoga, people in treatment for cancer, caregivers or cancer survivors, is from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. by the UNC Comprehensive Cancer Support Program at Carolina Pointe II, 6011 Farrington Road. Cost is $5 per session. unclineberger.org.
Breastfeeding Group
Breastfeeding Cafe, an informal drop-in gathering of breastfeeding moms, is from 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. at the Red Hen, University Mall, 201 South Estes Drive.
Restorative Yoga
Cornucopia House Cancer Support Center, 5517 Durham-Chapel Hill Blvd., offers a free Restorative Yoga class for anyone affected by cancer from 3 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. 919-401-9333.
Walking Group
A walking group for women 55 and older will walk trails in Meadowmont at 3:30 p.m. 919-967-4054, firstname.lastname@example.com.
Canine Playtime
The Chapel Hill Small Dog Meetup Group will gather from 5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. at the Southern Village Dog Park, 1000 Dogwood Acres Drive. This is for dogs under 25 lbs. firstname.lastname@example.com.
Divorce Support Group
DivorceCare, a seminar and support group offering information in a small-group setting for people experiencing divorce, will meet from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. at Orange United Methodist Church. Book fee is $12, scholarships available. 919-942-2825, email@example.com.
Nar-Anon, a twelve-step program designed to help relatives and friends of addicts recover from the effects of living with an addicted relative or friend will be from 8 p.m. to 9 p.m. at Westminster Presbyterian Church, 3638 Chapel Hill Road, Durham. 919-596-2915, nar-anon.org.
Gamblers Anonymous
Gamblers Anonymous meets at 7:30 p.m. at Amity United Methodist Church, 825 Estes Drive. 888-862-1298.
Overeaters Anonymous
Overeaters Anonymous meets from 7:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at Carrboro United Methodist Church, 200 Hillsborough Road. 919-933-1355.
Support Group
Triangle Bladder Cancer Support Group meets from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. the second Tuesday of every month at Carolina Pointe, 6011 Farrington Road. trianglebcs.org.
Knitting for Charity
Knitting for Charity, a needlework group that provides knitted and crocheted items for charity, meets from 1 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. in Meeting Room A at the Chapel Hill Public Library, 100 Library Drive. Bring acrylic yarn and knitting needles or crochet hook. 919-968-2780.
Residents 50 and up can register to play bingo from 2 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. at the Carrboro Century Center, 100 N. Greensboro St. Call 919-918-7364.
Farmers' Market
The Fearrington Farmers Market at Fearrington Village on U.S. 15-501 South opens at 4 p.m.
Overeaters Anonymous
Overeaters Anonymous meets from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. at Evergreen United Methodist Church, U.S. 15-501. 919-933-1355.
Meditation 101
This class will introduce beginners to meditation from 7 p.m. to 8:15 p.m. every Tuesday at Kosala Buddhist Center, 711 W. Rosemary St., Suite E, Carrboro. Walk-ins are welcome. For details, go to meditationinchapelhill.org or email Monica Heiser at email@example.com.
Support Group
The Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance support group meets from 7:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. at Binkley Baptist Church, 1712 Willow Drive. 919-428-6296.
Support Group
SMART Recovery sponsors a free recovery group for drinking and other addictive behaviors at 7:30 p.m. at Binkley Baptist Church, 1712 Willow Drive. trianglesmartrecovery.org.
General Meditation Class
This class for anyone interested in Buddhist meditation will be held from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at Kosala Buddhist Center, 711 W. Rosemary St., Suite E, Carrboro. The classes provide an introduction to Buddhist philosophy, psychology and meditation. For details, go to meditationinchapelhill.org or email Monica Heiser at email@example.com.
Blood Drive
The American Red Cross and the Orange Water and Sewer Authority (OWASA) will sponsor a blood drive from 11 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. in the Community Room of OWASA's Administration Building, 400 Jones Ferry Road, Carrboro. The American Red Cross seeks donors, especially those with blood types O-negative, B-negative and A-negative. Walk-ins are welcome after noon. To make an appointment, go to redcrossblood.org and enter sponsor code "owasa," or contact Kelly Chapman at OWASA at 919-537-4370 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
Nancy Peacock at FlyLeaf Books
Author Nancy Peacock will present her novel "The Life and Times of Persimmon Wilson" at 7 p.m. at FlyLeaf Books.
Nar-Anon is a twelve-step program designed to help relatives and friends of addicts recover from the effects of living with an addicted relative or friend. It will meet from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. at Immanuel Temple Seventh Day Adventist Church, 2102 South Alston Ave., Durham. For details, call 919-383-4236 or visit nar-anon.org.
Melon Festival with Kidzu Children's Museum
Kidzu Children's Museum will lead kids' activities Saturday, Aug. 17, at the Carrboro Farmers Market, 301 West Main St. There will also be watermelons and cantaloupes for sampling in the market gazebo beginning at 8:30 a.m.


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