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Salem College is a private institution that was founded in 1772. It has a total undergraduate enrollment of 945, its setting is urban, and the campus size is 57 acres. It utilizes a 4-1-4-based academic calendar. Salem College's ranking in the 2014 edition of Best Colleges is National Liberal Arts Colleges, 156. Its tuition and fees are $24,566 (2013-14).
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Salem College, a residential liberal arts college for women, values its students as individuals, develops their unique potential, and prepares them to change the world. Founded in 1772 as a school for girls, Salem is the oldest continuously-operating school in the nation dedicated to the education of women. Today, Salem is known for the Women in Science and Math Program, Center for Women Writers, School of Music, and Center for Women in Business. A January term allows special opportunities for internships and study trips, and a signature general education program includes first-year seminars, service learning, liberal arts breadth, and an innovative interdisciplinary capstone to create a strong foundation for life-long learning. The campus is located adjacent to the restored 18th century village of Old Salem and is four blocks from Downtown Winston-Salem, The City of Arts and Innovation. Salem is a special environment where students experience the rewards of rigorous academic work, expand their capacity for creative, analytical and ethical thought, and prepare for positions of leadership and responsibility in a changing world. Salem welcomes and educates both women and men from the community through its Fleer Center for Adult Education (age 23 and over) and the Graduate Program in Education.
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The student-faculty ratio at Salem College is 11:1, and the school has 88.9 percent of its classes with fewer than 20 students. The most popular majors at Salem College include: Business Administration and Management, General; Sociology; Biology/Biological Sciences, General; Communication, General; and Psychology, General. The average freshman retention rate, an indicator of student satisfaction, is 78.5 percent.
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Salem College has a total undergraduate enrollment of 945, with a gender distribution of 4.3 percent male students and 95.7 percent female students. At this school, 51 percent of the students live in college-owned, -operated, or -affiliated housing and 49 percent of students live off campus. Salem College is part of the NCAA III athletic conference.
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Pratt Institute is a private institution that was founded in 1887. It has a total undergraduate enrollment of 3,076, its setting is urban, and the campus size is 25 acres. It utilizes a semester-based academic calendar. Pratt Institute's ranking in the 2014 edition of Best Colleges is Regional Universities (North), 20. Its tuition and fees are $43,126 (2013-14).
The Pratt Institute is a New York City destination for students interested in the arts. Based on the principle of "Poetic Pragmatism," academic programs at the school emphasize balancing practical skills with an artistic vision in hopes of improving the world. The school's main campus is in Brooklyn, where students can live in university housing, though it's not a requirement. The Pratt Institute also has a building in Manhattan's Chelsea district. For students interested in athletics, the Pratt Institute Cannoneers compete in the NCAA Division III Hudson Valley Athletic Conference.
Pratt Institute is well known for some of its graduate fine arts programs, including interior design, industrial design, and graphic design. The school also offers graduate degree programs through its School of Information and Library Science. The Pratt Institute has graduated notable artists including William Van Alen, the architect of the Chrysler Building; fashion designer Betsy Johnson; and esteemed actor Robert Redford.
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Globally recognized for its distinguished academic reputation, Pratt Institute is one of the most prestigious independent specialized colleges in the United States. Founded in 1887, Pratt offers undergraduate and graduate degree programs in architecture, art and design, information and library science, and liberal arts and sciences to 4,700 students from around the world. The mission of Pratt Institute is to educate artists and creative professionals to be responsible contributors to society. Pratt seeks to instill in all graduates aesthetic judgment, professional knowledge, collaborative skills and technical expertise. With a firm grounding in the liberal arts and sciences, a Pratt education blends theory with creative application in preparing graduates to become leaders in their professions. Pratt's programs are consistently ranked among the best in the country, and its faculty and alumni include the most renowned artists, designers, and scholars in their fields. Its interdisciplinary curriculum promotes collaborative and creative strategies for design thinking, and provides students with unparalleled training facilities. Classes are taught by leading professionals in their fields, and students make important connections within their fields through faculty and Pratt's career services office. Pratt's inspirational campus in the beautiful Clinton Hill section of Brooklyn and in Manhattan on West 14th Street places it in one of the world's epicenters for arts, culture, design, and business and provides its students with an exceptional learning and working environment that extends beyond its campus.
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The student-faculty ratio at Pratt Institute is 10:1, and the school has 71.4 percent of its classes with fewer than 20 students. The most popular majors at Pratt Institute include: Architecture; Graphic Design; Design and Visual Communications, General; Interior Design; and Industrial and Product Design. The average freshman retention rate, an indicator of student satisfaction, is 82 percent.
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Pratt Institute has a total undergraduate enrollment of 3,076, with a gender distribution of 34.9 percent male students and 65.1 percent female students. At this school, 52 percent of the students live in college-owned, -operated, or -affiliated housing and 48 percent of students live off campus. Pratt Institute is part of the NCAA III athletic conference.
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Pratt Institute offers a number of student services including placement service, health service, and health insurance. Pratt Institute also offers campus safety and security services like 24-hour foot and vehicle patrols, 24-hour emergency telephones, lighted pathways/sidewalks, and controlled dormitory access (key, security card, etc). Of the students at Pratt Institute, 4 percent have cars on campus. Alcohol is permitted for students of legal age at Pratt Institute.
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At Pratt Institute, 58.2 percent of full-time undergraduates receive some kind of need-based financial aid and the average need-based scholarship or grant award is $10,877.
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It's a beautiful day in Iowa and I'm in my summer "office" (the swing in the backyard) enjoying the day. One of my horses just came running up from the bottom pasture to the fence near me. It was like I called him or something. I'm totally jamming to Godsmack, Disturbed, Judas Priest and others as I type away. I still need to find a job so I can afford to keep this little farm, but today I'm just chillin' and life is good. Can't wait for the meet & greet next Tuesday in Dubuque with Godsmack!!!!!
Later I'm going to cut out some more videos of Archie rocking to Godsmack tunes. Plus somewhere I have some cool videos of my horses running around in the pasture and I want to get those posted too.
We have paint horses (3) and a couple of minis. I had to laugh at "a whole bunch of cats"! Most farms with animals do have a lot of cats. We have 5 permanent ones. I grew up in the city, so we have all of ours spayed & neutered. I do need to get their shots updated though. The cats stay outside, but we treat them all like pets and everytime I go outside at least one is waiting for me at the back door. We also have a German Shephard named Hector. And of course we have birds inside, including Archie, who is a huge Godsmack fan (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWztRjGLeMw).


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The Oakley Surf Shop Challenge Crowns Jack's Best in the West
The fourth stop of the SURFER Magazine's Oakley Surf Shop Challenge series brought the best surf shop teams in Orange County together to do battle for the title of "Best in the West." On an overcast, shoulder-high Friday morning at 54th Street in Newport Beach, seven teams-Huntington Surf & Sport, Jack's, Laguna Surf & Sport, Frog House Surf Shop, SurfSide Sports, Katin Surf Shop, and Spyder Surfboards-showed up with two pro team riders and two surf shop employees ready to dominate the tag-team format event. Jack's and Katin were so intent on winning they even chose to pull in ringers from Hawaii in the form of John John Florence and Tyler Newton, respectively.
Round One consisted of two heats, from which the top four teams overall would earn a slot in the final. Of the first-round standouts, Tyler Newton, Teddy Navarro, Shaun Ward all put on impressive performances, and Frog House's Richie Collins proved that Newport's not just an arena for the young aerialists, as he instantly slotted himself in a barrel unlike any that had been seen all morning.
As Round One drew to a close and the local rivalries reached full volume, three teams remained on the bubble for finals' qualification. With five minutes left on the clock, Jason Watson of Laguna Surf and Sport needed just a mediocre wave to bump HSS from the final. In the dying moments, he snagged a mid-size set and made it back to the tent before time was called, but in the end, Laguna came in just a tenth of a point short, allowing HSS the slot in the final after all.
HSS joined Jack's, as well as Surfside and Katin, in the Orange County showdown final. The heat kicked off with an on-fire Shaun Ward who immediately set the bar, taking off on the lefts and earning Jack's a 13.44 two-wave total, the highest score of the day for a non-whammy-rider.
After Ward's opening performance, it seemed Jack's had it in the bag until the team's whammy rider, John Florence, finished off three waves without throwing up his arms to double his score, making his final wave a mandatory whammy wave. To the dismay of his team members, the final wave offered little scoring potential, earning him a meager 1.2 points. Doubled, his whammy score was less than his back-up wave of a 2.8, meaning that his double-whammy didn't even count toward the team's total score. This left the competition open once again to any of the final teams.
It was Surfside's Chase Wilson, who picked up where Shaun left off, whammying a 6.2-point air, putting Surfside back in contention. But with 20 minutes remaining, Jack's still held the lead, until HSS's whammy surfer Christian Saenz paddled out and blew up taking home a grand total of 18.6 points and the lead. In a true race to the end, Victor Done brought Surfside back in the mix with 6.7-point backhand snap in the pocket. In a true to-the-buzzer final, all teams were within striking distance of the win during the last five minutes of the heat; each team needed just one mediocre score to take the win
As the clock ticked down, Jake Saenz from HSS got the wave he needed for the win, but because he wasn't able to get back to the tent before the horn blew, they were given a 5 point deduction, leaving Jack's victorious in the end.
"I've never surfed in a format like this-it's definitely harder, but it was a fun contest though for sure," says Jack's whammy rider, John Florence. "I ride for Jack's and they called me a couple days ago and asked me if I want to be on their team. I didn't really have a strategy; I just paddled out there and tried to get lucky. It didn't really work out for me in my heat, but it all turned out okay in the end."
For their win, the Jack's team took home Firewire surfboards, custom Buell wetsuits, a full-page SURFER ad, gear from Oakley, a month's supply of Muscle Milk and an invite to the Oakley Surf Shop Challenge National Championships in Huntington Beach, CA, on September 13, 2010 where they will face off against the remaining seven Regional Champions in a winner-take-all, one-heat one-champ final.
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1. Jack's Surfboards (Shaun Ward, John Florence*, Clay Crandal, Bobby Okvist)
2. Huntington Surf & Sport(Bryan Van Arsdale, Derek Peters, Christian Saenz*, Jake Saenz)
3. SurfSide Sports (Nick Skawinski, Chase Wilson*, Ryan Lopiccoll, Victor Done)
4. Katin Surf Shop (Teddy Navarro, Kyle McGeary, Alex Gullett, Tyler Newton*)
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Most people are still not aware that the world is slowly and surely plunging into a 1930 style deep depression if not worse! No classes of investments are spared!
Real estates are the worst lot and the bottom is still a far way away….NYC will be the worst hit in time to come!!
I'll come around 5 years later and make a killing!
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The Veterans Affairs Department plans to move 600,000 employees and contractors to Microsoft's cloud-based email and calendar system over the next five years, the vendor managing the transition said Tuesday.
VA will pay HP Enterprise Services $36 million to manage the transition to Microsoft's Office 365 for Government, HP said in a press release. The first phase of the transition will involve moving 15,000 employees to the cloud-based system, HP said.
"VA is moving to cloud-based email and collaboration as part of a broader effort to leverage emerging technologies to reduce costs, increase efficiencies and, most importantly, improve service delivery to our nation's veterans," Charles De Sanno, executive director of VA's Enterprise Systems Engineering group, said in a statement.
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GSA established blanket purchase agreements with 17 cloud email vendors in August, hoping to save time and money for future agencies making the transition. Those vendors mainly offer email systems managed by Microsoft and Google. They also offer Domino Web, an IBM system, and Zimbra, an open source system.
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Well to be fair his next step up was a shit kicking lol
Don't Cain and him train together? I could also see that as another possible reason for him to drop down.
Originally Posted by beardown98
Other than some TUF winners it is really rare to see a guy just win and then still drop down in weight.
Well to be fair his next step up was a shit kicking lol
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Am I crazy or is DC the first Contender dropping a weight class without losing?
Other than some TUF winners it is really rare to see a guy just win and then still drop down in weight.
Am I crazy or is DC the first Contender dropping a weight class without losing?
Daniel Cormier sees Jon Jones fight happening – but maybe not for UFC title
"If I get through Rashad Evans, I deserve that shot," Cormier said on The Steven Austin Show. "But there's no hype, there's no fight-building, there's just 100 percent truth. One day, he and I will settle that. But I don't even know if it'll be for the belt because if Gustafsson gets his hands back on him, I'm not so sure he can go through that again."
Cormier said the first time he met Jones, their rivalry started. And it has built slowly over time – until starting to pick up steam when Cormier decided to drop from heavyweight to Jones' home at light heavyweight.
"Sometimes two people just don't get along, and that's just how it is," Cormier said. "We've never seen eye to eye, and it just doesn't work out. I mean, the very first time I met the guy, he thought the only way to strike up conversation was to insult me. He's just not very good socially, and that kind of led to that whole thing, but I can't wait to get my hands on him.
"Jon and I will never be friends. We don't talk to each other. We steer clear of each other because we know that when that cage door closes, the time that him and I are in there, then we'll make some magic. Then it will be magic. When you watch me and Jon Jones stand across the cage from one another, it's going to be magic. I can't wait for that day."
Cormier was cordial about his rivalry with Jones – with one exception: "We still don't like Jon Jones. He's an a–hole," Cormier told Austin.
But when looking at his potential future adversary, Cormier said Jones' first fight with Gustafsson may have hurt him in the long term.
"I think the effects of that fight are taking a bigger toll on Jon Jones than it did on Alexander Gustafsson," he said. "Gustafsson was right away ready to get back in the cage with him. Jon said, 'Nope, I'm going to fight somebody else.' So Gustafsson moved on to the next man and then scheduled a fight, whereas Jon had three scheduled, and they had to reschedule them because I think there's a little bit of questions in his head."
212 already? Well that wasn't too hard after all . This is definately a good sign for Cormier, if he sticks to his diet he'll be fine. If he continues this gradual cut he'll have more energy come fight night as opposed to sitting in a sauna for hours.
Jones Talks Rival Daniel Cormier: 'I really don't like him too much'
It's kind of a no-brainer. Anybody who pays attention to the sport knows who's coming, you know who's deserving. You've got to give Alexander Gustafsson the No. 1 contender spot behind Glover Teixeira. Then with the way Daniel Cormier has been performing, he's top three at the heavyweight division. Lets see how he competes at the light heavyweight division but with the tear he's been on, if he can continue that, it's unquestioned that he deserves a shot, as well.
"I really don't like [Cormier] too much, but right now he's coming across as being good for the sport. He's a really articulate guy. He's doing a lot of broadcasting and commentary. He's a winner and an Olympian. So even though I don't like him, I do respect what he's doing for our sport."
In a recent interview with a CBS Local Radio Station out of Washington D.C., UFC light-heavyweight champion, Jon Jones discussed his ongoing rivalry with UFC heavyweight, turned light-heavyweight, Daniel Cormier.
Originally Posted by slikguy
You're kidding right? DC is practically one good shit away from making weight.
The fact that he's @212 3 weeks from fight time means he did it right by adjusting his diet and work out regime.
Maybe so but we've seen Anthony Johnson day of the weigh in's weighing 188 for a middleweight bout just to have a doctor make him rehydrate and have him go back up to 197. I'm not saying that this will happen in Cormier's situation but I'm just saying there are so many unknowns for someone who has never made this cut before and has had such trouble cutting weight in the past.
I just think DC is a very solid fighter who has come out and proven skeptics wrong time and again. No one thought he would be able to handle Bigfoot standing, he was given little chance against Barnett, and many thought Mir would sub him. None of that happened and he clearly dominated each fight. As a matter of fact, I don't think we've even seen him in remote trouble against some of the best guys in the sport.
LHW is a different story and Rashad is a perennial 1-3 LHW who has amazing tools. I hope to see DC tested but I'm not sold on this narrative about how Rashad will be able to both outwrestle and outstrike him. I guess that's why they fight the fights rather than just let us nominate the winners.
Originally Posted by Cat--Smasher
Cormier is a brown belt in jiu jitsu... Jones is, what, a white belt? Not that we have seen Cormier's jj shine in the UFC or Strikeforce.
Matt Hughes was a white belt ...... how did that work out for him? lol
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For those sick of file manager after file manager that essentially do the same thing, with only a slightly different interface, let's just say that Eagle Mode (EM) takes a more ambitious approach. In the words of EM's documentation:
Eagle Mode is an advanced solution for a futuristic style of man-machine communication, in which the user can visit almost everything simply by zooming in. It has a professional file manager, file viewers and players for most of the common file types, a chess game, a 3-D mines game, a multi-function clock and some fractal fun, all integrated in a virtual cosmos. By featuring a separate pop-up-zoomed control view, help texts in the things they are describing, editable bookmarks, multiple input methods, fast anti-aliased graphics, a virtually unlimited depth of panel tree, and by its portable C++ API, Eagle Mode aims to be a cutting edge of zoomable user interfaces.
For those chasing a lightweight file manager, you're looking at the wrong project. I almost choked when I read the system requirements: CPU 3.4GHz...per core! Plus, 1GB of RAM and a gig of hard drive space for temporary files at runtime—this is an ambitious project that shoots at the opposite end of the scale! Nevertheless, don't despair if you don't have all the hardware requirements; I still found the project usable on my apparently measly 512MB of RAM and 2.14GHz per core.
Thankfully, the software requirements aren't as Draconian as the hardware requirements. The only major dependencies are Perl, GCC, libx11-dev and the libxine-dev library for playing multimedia files. There is a list of other smaller non-essential dependencies that is long enough to make you scroll down the page (such as tar, xterm, JPEG libraries and so on), but they're really the kind of things you would expect for a file manager (and unless you have a system that's more sparse than a nightclub in Salt Lake City, you probably have them all installed anyway).
So, head to the Web site, grab the latest tarball, extract it and open a terminal in the new folder's main directory. From here, I really recommend reading the documentation included in the doc directory, which, unlike a lot of documentation, actually is well set out and easy to navigate. But, for the impatient, enter the following commands:
$ perl make.pl build
And, as root or sudo:
# perl make.pl install
I got an error in the middle of compiling EM, which said:
Building emAv failed, but that project is not so essential. So if you don't know how to solve the problem, you could continue the overall building now, and live without the features the project provides. Continue? [y(es)/n(o)/a(lways)]: y
After doing some Googling, I still couldn't find out what emAv was, but it seems to be non-essential, and the installation continued on unfazed. EM seems to run fine without it. Once the compilation has finished, change into the installation directory, which by default will be:
$ cd /usr/local/eaglemode/
And, enter this command to run it:
$ ./eaglemode.sh
Once inside EM's main screen, you'll be presented with a scene that is deceptively conventional—a file manager in your home directory. Double-click on a file, and it opens it. But, double-click on a folder, and it opens a terminal within that directory—that's weird. There's a bunch of extra info in the bottom right of the folder too, what's that about? As soon as I roll the mouse wheel upward, the whole scene suddenly zooms in, and I can see the contents of those files in detail. That's kind of cool, but it still isn't what I'd call groundbreaking. Then, I give the mouse wheel a few quick rolls backward, and the whole idea of Eagle Mode unfolds in an instant. When you zoom out, you find that everything is placed within a 3-D virtual cosmos—a star field consisting of files, applications and fields of stars. Keep zooming out, and eventually it is revealed that you are looking at a cosmos that is living within the eye of an eagle—just the kind of artistic silliness of which I approve! Zooming out to the end of the universe displays this proud eagle in its entirety.
Zoom back in to the eye of the eagle and you return to the virtual cosmos where you can zoom in to programs and folders in great detail. Clicking on an area of the universe changes the "aim" of the zoom, and if you hold the scroll wheel in and move the mouse in any direction, it will scroll around the screen that way. Included in these applications and objects are things like system folders, a clock, documentation and games, and I'm sure there are some hidden objects in that star field somewhere. For those looking for a distraction, a version of Chess has been included (with a rather aggressive AI, it must be said) and a game simply called Mines that is a mind-bending 3-D take on the classic Mine Sweeper.
Overall, if you're sick of navigating your PC with something that feels like it was designed by a bank manager (or if you simply want to put all those GHz your new PC came with to use), Eagle Mode just might be for you (not recommended for boring people though).
John Knight is the New Projects columnist for Linux Journal.
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The restaurant is under new management and will don the new name, Asian Deli.
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The eatery will have 48 seats and the hours will remain the same.
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Treat your GOGmix as your child - name it! ;)
Coming up with a cool and descriptive title should be your first priority. Being original is in your best interest - bet you wanna get lots of nice votes, right? Go all crazy if you want, but be sure to keep it civil!
So, what are the ingredients?
Pick a game that belongs in your GOGmix from the list, or find it by typing something in the text field. Relevance is key here - Earthworm Jim doesn't quite fit the "Sexiest heroines of all time" bill now, does it?
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4-Her's looking to improve or brush up on their animal showing techniques should join us for the Multi-County Livestock Clinic on Nov. 17, 2012. The clinic will take place at the McClain County Expo Center from 9 a.m. – 2 p.m. The registration is only $10 and will include lunch and a t-shirt. All youth that are in 4-H are eligible to attend.
The clinic will include personal instruction on showing, information on livestock judging, and question and answer with industry professionals. The RSVP is due by Oct. 26, 2012 if you plan on getting a t-shirt. Please contact Brook at Grady County Extension office for more information (405) 224-2216.
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Hedge fund zillionaire Paul Singer is super-mad at the Federal Reserve and Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke over inflation they have not yet quite unleashed. In his eyes, they're guilty of "lower and lower discipline, less and less conservative stewardship of the precious confidence that is all that stands between fiat currency and monetary ruin."
Hedge fund zillionaire Seth Klarman has the same Bernanke bee in his bonnet.
"Is it possible that the average citizen understands our country's fiscal situation better than many of our politicians or prominent economists?" he wonders, and no prizes for guessing that Seth considers it highly probable.
And it's not just those two, of course. Fellow master of the universe David Einhorn is on record accusing Ben and the other gluttons at the Fed of an unnatural love for jelly donuts. Yet another investing legend, Stanley Druckenmiller, just called the Fed's bond purchases the "most inappropriate" monetary policy ever.
All this has "prominent economist" Paul Krugman looking for the roots of Bernanke rage in the personal financial interest of the hedgies. He can't figure why they're assailing monetary policies that are the textbook response to the dismal economic conditions that spawned them, and broadly within the economics mainstream (as reflected by the broad support for current policy among the Fed's policy makers, I would add.)
All this with stocks at record highs, amid what Singer calls the Fed's "distorted recovery." Perhaps this is a simple case of performance envy as Joe Weisenthal and Mark Dow suggest, or maybe more a matter of the Fed messing with the unbridled market mechanism the hedgies worship, another possibility Dow cites.
Perhaps more than anything it's the politics: Singer, Klarman and Druckenmiller were enthusiastic Mitt Romney supporters and donors last year. And Singer was a bigtime bankroller of George W. Bush as well, so it's more than a little rich for him to fulminate about how the Fed missed mounting financial leverage and risk-taking in the runup to the crash, after financing a leader and a party that encouraged more of both. But Einhorn is a Democrat, the square peg that doesn't fit.
It certainly isn't religion or class: every one of these titans of finance grew up in a middle-class Jewish family, just like Bernanke and Krugman. So if Singer wants to whine about "frantically-flailing, over-educated, posturing bureaucrats," I'm sure it takes one to know one, Mr. Harvard Law J.D. whose father was a pharmacist just like Bernanke's.
Klarman's dad was a public health economist at Johns Hopkins who sent his son to Cornell and thence to Harvard Business School. So if the "average citizen" has got more financial horse sense than prominent economists as Klarman claims, perhaps he should have saved himself the tuition. And if he still thinks that "with all the printing, the credibility of our entire trust-based monetary system will be increasingly called into question," well then ditto.
There's something to the notion that if you hold market mechanisms sacred, and if you're used to the being able to move a market in the stock simply by expressing an opinion about it (and sometimes without even bothering to express an opinion) then there might be some resentment of an institution determined to manipulate asset prices in the name of economic therapy. Before only you could do that, albeit only in a given stock. Now the Fed can do it to stocks as a class in the name of an objective as trivial as keeping most of the schmoes employed, adding insult to injury by leaving your fund trailing the market.
Worse yet, for those convinced that it's wrong, is that the Fed's medicine is gradually working. AIG has repaid its bailout; Fannie Mae has almost repaid taxpayer debt. Jobs are slowly trickling back. Housing is growing again.
Meanwhile problematic inflation still hasn't happened like we've been warned for years it definitely would. Banks, the institutions with the power to create some via more enthusiastic lending, are simply not cooperating in sufficient volume. And so the rising tide money the Fed supposedly creates inflates asset prices in such a way as to make an index fund vastly preferable to a hedge fund.
It's enough to make one wonder what a hedge fund manager is for these days, besides misinforming the public about economics.
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You appear to have a slightly different opinion of Ben Bernanke's performance than Steve Forbes. But this is America and that is great. Maybe what they are complaining about is the fact that rules of law, business fundamentals and years of fiscal prudence have been rendered void and worthless under Obama and Bernanke.
I am talking about ….my years of fiscal prudence have been rendered worthless by Bernanke's policies ….I have a choice to either reach for yield or use savings to pay for what I anticipate I would pay for with interest ….. .05% of ANY amount does not buy much. Even with NO inflation ….according to Ben
For a majority of Americans, yield has no meaning, never did and never will. Not in any life-altering way, anyway. Those of us that understand the conversation tend to have other options.
Who said anything about constitutional rights to a rate of return? Now, since you brought it up, I have a comment on Constitutional …..If Obama ….Ben ….and all of our elected and regulatory officials stick to providing, and hence, taxing for only items provided for by the Constitution and I would have so much of …my own money left ….I would not have any concerns about ….rate of return!
I think the issue is not constitution or rights.
As long as as our economic system subscribes to the free market system of allocation of capital, it should not be hindered in its discovery of the cost of that capital by an institution or authority with unbridled powers.
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Hector Raul Gastelum isn't conceding the Hispanic vote to Democrat Ben Hueso in the March 12 special election to fill a state Senate vacancy in the 40th District, saying: "He's not going to out-Mexico me."
Mexican-born Gastelum, who said his father was killed 24 years ago by the Arellano Felix cartel in the first wave of Tijuana drug violence, is a 38-year-old Realtor whose dad worked with former congressman Duncan H. Hunter.
At a county Republican meeting this week in Rancho Bernardo, Gastelum won the unanimous endorsement of the party's Central Committee.
"I've been making progress," Gastelum boasted in a short talk. He said he traveled to El Centro recently and secured the endorsement of the Imperial Valley NAACP—a traditional Democratic ally.
"I connected with them," he said, indicating Hueso made only a token appearance. "It's not what you say; it's how you say it."
With 140,000 Latino voters in the 40th District—about 45 percent of the district that includes Imperial Beach—he sees his chances as reasonable.
But of the 314,886 voters in that South County district, Democrats outnumber Republicans by nearly 2-to-1, and 52 percent of voters labeling themselves Latino or Hispanic are Democrats.
Some 16 percent of Latinos in the district are Republicans while 28 percent list no party affiliation, says the Registrar of Voters Office as of Feb. 10.
Gastelum, a Chula Vista resident, is unfazed.
"If I wanted to run the easy way, I'd run as a Democrat," he told 200 fellow Republicans at Monday's meeting at the Rancho Bernardo Inn. "That's a slam dunk. … It's an uphill battle, [but] I'm not looking at the odds."
But Gastelum decided to enter this race, his first try at elective office, because he had a "sickening feeling" while watching the Democratic victories in November.
"If I want to change, it starts with me," he said. "The only way to get our state back is to [enter races] in Democratic territories and punch them in the stomach."
Gastelum, who tweets frequently, charmed the GOP crowd with stories of his Catholic school upbringing and said: "We need more private schools here. We send our students to godless [public] schools."
His lone GOP rival in the five-person Senate field is Xanthi Gionis, founder of Carlsbad's Aristotle University, which came under intense media scrutiny after it was revealed to lack accreditation for its public-health school and was being blasted by former students.
Gionis had been scheduled to seek the party's endorsement at Monday's meeting, but she called county Chairman Tony Krvaric about noon that day to say she wouldn't attend.
Krvaric told Patch that Gionis said "it wouldn't be good for the party" to appear at the meeting, where news media were expected.
For his part, Gastelum showed appreciation to the audience for its endorsement: "The media says we're not diverse! Thank you, thank you, thank you."
The San Diego County GOP, taking a cue from state party chairman candidate Jim Brulte at his Rancho Bernardo appearance in January, also endorsed two other candidates of color Monday night.
One was Harmeet Dhillon of San Francisco (who also has a second home in Sonoma County), who is running for first vice chairman of the California Republican Party.
Dhillon, born to a physician in India, has been a U.S. resident since age 2. She told of her journey beginning in North Carolina (where she witnessed KKK cross burnings and her family befriended Sen. Jesse Helms) and at Dartmouth College (where she was featured on 60 Minutes as the editor of a conservative campus newspaper taking on liberal college speech codes).
At the University of Virginia Law School, she said, she was president of the largest Federalist Society chapter in the nation.
But after 9/11, she took on a role as a national spokeswoman for the Sikh community, whose turban-wearing men began coming under attack—mistaken as Muslims.
Her job was to explain "why we are the Sikhs and why you shouldn't shoot at us," she said.
In San Francisco—"very hostile territory" to Republicans, she said—she employed the "buddy system" for staffing voter-registration booths.
In 2008, she ran for state Assembly in District 13—joking that the 13 stood for its percentage of Republicans. (It's even less now, she said.) She lost, but said she won nearly double the GOP registration.
As first vice chairman of the state GOP, she said, she "would be a workhorse, not a showhorse" and employ modern media strategies to grow the party, which she also serves as a pro bono (unpaid) attorney.
(She also owns a yarn company, and her retired nuclear engineer husband, attending the meeting, wore a scarf she made.)
The lifelong Republican, 44, stressed: "If we only talk to each other … pretty soon we're going to disappear," and vowed to reach out to nontraditional GOP groups, such as the American Civil Liberties Union.
At Dartmouth, she said, the ACLU came to her aid. She's been grateful ever since.
Also showing gratitude was Sandy Spackman, a Laotian immigrant. She's among nine people running in a March 26 election to serve the remainder of San Diego Councilman Tony Young's term in the heavily Democratic 4th District of southeast communities.
Spackman called herself the only Republican running.
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Spackman, who lists herself on the ballot as "Administrative Coordinator/Educator," was dwarfed on the dais by Krvaric, a tall Swedish-born immigrant.
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By Jimmy Durkin
Tuesday, February 8th, 2011 at 4:09 pm in Basketball, East Bay Prep Sports.
Part deux? The rematch? Whatever you want to call it, the most anticipated boys basketball game of the regular season is likely the round two Hayward Area Athletic League showdown between Bishop O'Dowd and Castro Valley on Thursday, Feb. 17. It's the final game of the HAAL season for both teams and, assuming neither team loses another game, it will decide the league title and automatic berth to the NCS playoffs. That's significant moreso for earning home games than making the playoffs (both will be among the top seeds regardless).
The good news is the game has been moved from Chabot College to Cal State East Bay to accommodate an even larger crowd. The schools are still anticipating a sellout and are currently conducting a presale for tickets to the games. The girls play at 6 p.m., followed by the boys at 7:30 p.m. Tickets can be purchased at the Castro Valley High student union and finance office or through the Bishop O'Dowd athletic website. Tickets will not be sold at Cal State East Bay on the day of the game. Passes will not be honored for this game. General admission cost is $6, students, children and seniors are $4. Attendees must also purchase a parking pass upon arrival at CSUEB at the parking meters.
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Los Angeles Clippers 7-footer Byron Mullens is entering his fifth NBA season after spending his first two in Oklahoma City and the last two in Charlotte, and the 3-pointer looks like it will be an even bigger part of his game.
Mullens didn't attempt a single 3-point shot while with the Thunder, but in 2011-12 he went 12-51 (23.5 percent) from long range and last year he took it a step further, going 66-208 (31.7 percent). It remains to be seen if the 24-year-old center will have the same green light in L.A. that he had with the lottery-bound Bobcats each of the last two seasons, but if preseason is any indication he just might.
Mullens is second in the league with 7.2 3-pointers attempted per game, despite averaging only 21.8 minutes in the Clippers' six exhibition games thus far. Looking ahead, even if Mullens plays in only 70 games in the regular season and averages 5.0 3-point attempts per game, that'd still give him 350 for the season, shattering the career-high (208) he set last year. However, if Mullens doesn't improve on his efficiency from behind the arc, his minutes could decrease. He is shooting 30.2 percent in the preseason so far, and the Clips have a plethora of other bench players who are more than capable of shooting the 3 more efficiently (Jamal Crawford, Antawn Jamison, Matt Barnes, Darren Collison and even rookie Reggie Bullock).
Still not getting why he is not told to be used as a roller going to the basket more often. Mullens has has strong athletic skills he should be looking for lobs and putbacks like Hollins. I understand the original need was floor spacing but if his shot is not falling from deep let him try to operate in the post and from mid range.
He has a player needs to find whatever way he can to help the team. His defensive effort has to step way up and be more consistent with what he does on defense.
Let him have the green light... on one condition: Unless his boxscore shows at least as many rebounds as 3pt attempts, he gets a DNP-CD next game.
He needs to be better with his shot selection for sure, but he just needs to make more shots, there's really nothing else about it
He also needs to roll to the basket more, but before that, he certainly needs to be making more shots from outside.
its a mistake to let him shoot so many threes
its not a mistake,he has the go signal of coaching staff to build more confidence on shooting three's.
of course he does. I just hope the coaching staff is doing the right thing because so far it doesn't look like the right decision
When the bell rings, the "right thing" will be done.
Blake could be a 21% 3pt shooter, yet nobody wants him taking those shot. Maybe Mullens should move in a tad
Blake last season shot better than Mullens from 16-23 and 10-15, Mullens needs to step in all the way to the rim, lol
^^ More than a tad... his FG% outside the paint was exactly the same as his 3pt% last year. He needs to be in the paint or outside the arc. Anywhere in between and he's even less efficient.
No I rather have him chucking 3s than shooting midrange jumpers. His midrange jumper sucks and he can't finish for crap. At least 3 point shots are worth more points.
I rather have Mullins focus on his midrange, rebounding, and defense. This is where we need him the most.
I'm worried about his lack of even trying on defense!
the guy has already admitted he sucks on defense and struggles to rebound - 2 things that are pretty much NECESSARY if you want to last in this league as a fringe big. so what's he do? he jacks up an incredible amount of 3s leading to an insane amount of opposing fast breaks. someone's trying to go after austin rivers PER numbers this season.
Mullens just needs to get DNP-CD's. There's no reason to play him over Jamison/Lou/Hollins.
So far it's just practice. I'm still high on him. Lots of guys look like $hit in preseason and turn it on for the first real game.
Agree with Ice that they should be rolling him to the rim a lot more. But I don't like the idea of working him from midrange. He's going to be a hot-cold guy all year, let's make sure the hot times are from deep.
It's only preseason.I highly doubt that Doc would give him the green light to fire up so many 3's in the regular season.Doc probably just wants Mullens to build confidence in his shot so when we need him to shoot from 3,he isn't hesitant to do it.Doc won't let players stay on the court if they have poor shot selection.
Defense and rebounding is all about desire. That is all you need to know when you hear a player admit he is not good at these.
I haven't seen his three's leading to many fast-break baskets. I know the general consensus is that longer shots lead to longer rebounds and fast-breaks, but they do also lead to more offensive rebounds.
Also just to add, not specifically responding to you, we have to remember that a 20 foot - inside 3PT line jumper and a 3PT shot are both long jump-shots that have a similar chance of leading to a long rebound. So this idea that he will somehow benefit the team more by shooting mid-range jumpers (unless he becomes like a 48% shooter from 16-23 like a Marc Gasol) is false.
Andrew, Doc has said if a player takes a shot that is a good shot for him, he isn't worried about that, even if he misses. Glen Davis was taking a shot that isn't a good shot for him and with 54 seconds left in the game while down 5 points. Yea, it's a bad shot for sure.
Isn't Mullins around a 0.3 three point shooter? Around 0.4 two point? Why does everybody want him to shoot threes? Even though you hay be bad on defense alone you can always help team defense with effort.
Why can't he rebound? He's seven feet tall? Does this mean "man up"?
You would think he shoots better inside the three point line, but....
Byron Mullens last season:
10-15: 35.4% / 72.4% assisted
16-23: 31.5% / 82.9% assisted
3PT: 31.7% / 95.5% assisted
The eFG% for 2 pointers is the same as their FG. The eFG% for 31.7% 3PT is 47.6% which is still bad, but 10% higher effectiveness than his best mid-range area, and spotting up from 10-15 isn't really spreading the floor the way we'd like. When he's shooting from long mid-range, he's worse than when he's shooting three's.
Unless he's hitting over 47.6% from either of those ranges, the 3PT shot is more effective, but just for the sake of stretching the floor, not necessarily the most efficient shot, he would still have to be shooting about 44% from 16-23 for teams to consider him a threat. He's 13% away from that....
Basically let's just look at it like this. Blake a Griffin shot better from mid-range than Mullens while creating FARRR more of those shots from 10-15 and 10% more from 16-23.
Blake Griffin:
10-15: 35.8% / 38.5% assisted
16-23: 34.0% / 72.7% assisted
....and Blake does not have the same length or ability to shoot over people and he's a main option type player. The difference is pretty massive for a guy that is theoretically an adequate shooter isn't it?
What's funny to me about Charles Barkley is he says Doc is coming into a headache with the Clips because of our frontcourt players... but then he said he LOVES the Mullens acquisition. Really? So he hates BG & DJ but loves Mullens?
Yep you aren't much of a floor spacer if your mid range game is inferior to BG's. Mullens is open and assisted a lot more too.


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July 2010 -- Passing on a Family Legacy
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We hope that July provides you an opportunity to take a moment away
from the harried pace of life. Maybe it's time to sit on the porch
with a frosty glass of iced tea or lemonade, or to enjoy a gentle
swing in the hammock listening to the sounds of summer. Let your mind
drift back to family memories of yesteryear and then come forward to
those of today. What do you want to preserve and pass on to your
children and future grandchildren? What kind of legacy do you wish to
leave for your family?
Legacy--such a legal sounding word, yet it embodies so much of who we
are, where we came from, where we're headed. According to Webster, it
includes receipt of a money gift from a will or something received
from an ancestor or predecessor. However, it can also encompass such
intangibles as history, ideas, beliefs, stories, or wisdom passed down
from generations that may uniquely identify us as the Smiths, the
Roberts, and so forth.
In the grand story of Scripture, God lays out the legacies of people
he chose to carry the promises he gave. He speaks to his people of the
importance of raising memorials to remind their children and
grandchildren of what God did and will continue to do. In like manner,
it is worth our time to reflect on what legacy we want to leave our
families. So many times in our homeschools we think all the teaching
and learning of academics takes precedence. However, what is more
important and what our children will remember longer is how we reacted
to life and to each other.
Intangible Legacy
Some intangibles that may become part of your family memories are how
you overcame the crises that came into your lives--monetary, health,
death. Or how did you handle the situation when one parent lost a job,
and it took a while to find another? Or how did you celebrate family
milestones, achievements, new babies?
Another area that will be passed on is your religious faith. What you
believe, how you worship, and how this faith impacts daily living is
being watched carefully by your children. From your example, they will
be considering and then choosing their own faith walk.
Did you know that even the way your family handles its finances can
become a legacy? Your view of debt, tithing, investing, and generosity
are all handed down. This will become apparent if you are teaching a
financial management elective to your teen.
The ways families spend time together is worth chronicling. Becky's
family heralds from Pennsylvania. Her mother grew up in Lancaster
County and has a large extended family. Every July there is a family
reunion with usually about 400-plus of the relatives gathering for a
day of games and food. It is a wonderful time to catch up with
families not seen for awhile or meet new relatives and to hear
stories, the reminiscing of the older generations to the younger.
Maybe your family has a special vacation place you go to each year and
you have memories to record. Don't let them slip from your mind.
Tangible Legacy
In addition to the intangible legacies we pass on to our children,
there are often pieces of furniture, quilts, or china that become
special to families and can be handed down from generation to
generation. If there are stories attached to these articles, take time
to write them down and recite them to your children. For example, one
of Diane's most cherished pieces of furniture is an antique
combination radio/phonograph player that belonged to her grandparents.
It even contains a short wave radio component with which her parents
recall listening to updates on World War II. A butter churn from her
grandparents is also a conversation piece.
Diane's daughter displayed her mother and grandmother's wedding
dresses at her recent wedding reception. A table was set aside to
display wedding pictures of the parents, grandparents, and
great-grandparents. It was a blessing to realize that all of these
ancestors stayed true to their vows "until death do us part."
Maybe you can take a field trip around your house to recount how
collectibles came into the family. The history behind them can bring
alive what is being learned in the books. For instance, that Civil War
sword that hangs on the wall--whose was it? Where did he live? How did
that family react to the war? Were they fighting against a brother on
the other side?
Have you ever made a family favorite from an old family recipe? Was it
passed on to you when you married to be passed on to your daughters
when they marry? Such a simple item produces a rich opportunity for
Preserving the Family Legacy
So when your children ask, "Tell me about my great-grandfather," take
time to tell the stories. Better yet, write them down and compile them
into a book for your family. When your teens are looking for something
to do this summer, suggest they interview their older relatives. If
they don't live close by, this can be done over the phone or by email.
If your grandparents came through Ellis Island as they immigrated to
America, you can research and find the name of the ship they sailed on
and also take a look at their signature from the ship's manifest.
There are even websites, http://www.hslda.org/elink.asp?id=8570 , that
will give you suggestions on how to preserve what you want to pass on
to future generations.
Next year you may wish to include an elective in your high school plan
that would have your teen research his genealogy,
http://www.hslda.org/elink.asp?id=8571 , and heraldry, construct a
family tree, write his family history, and more. Now that's an
elective that won't be seen on many transcripts!
Beginning a New Legacy
For some, the above suggestions may sadden you as you realize that
there is not much of a family legacy that has been passed down to you.
Please know that this does not have to continue into the future! The
Lord can help you to begin a fresh new legacy to which future
generations will add. You can start a heritage that will be a blessing
to your descendants.
Journaling is a good way to begin. Take time (once a month or so) to
document milestones, special events, or "highlights and lowlights" of
your family. Items and happenings that you think you'll never forget
will fade if you don't record them. For the past 15 years or so, Diane
and her family have taken time on New Year's Eve to record each family
member's high point, low point, and special prayer request. In Becky's
family, the New Year's Eve tradition is walking back through time by
watching all the old family slides (some of you in the digital age may
not know what slides are!) and recounting memories of family members
who are now in heaven and events long forgotten. Hopefully, these
memories will be passed on and will provide insights for those yet to
be born.
In this age of emails, phones, and computers, the handwritten letter
is becoming extinct. But such a personal note carries much impact and
can be kept for rereading. Here are some suggestions for you:
> Write each child a personal letter on his/her birthday. Tell them
how much you love them, areas in which they've grown, why you are
proud of them, and how they have blessed you. (Note: this is not the
time to criticize or suggest how they should change :).
> Send a note to your child (through snail mail!) as you think of
something that you'd like to pass on to them--it may be a note of
encouragement, a funny story you remember from their childhood, or a
recollection you have from your high school days.
> Letters from Dad may give you added suggestions.
http://www.hslda.org/elink.asp?id=8572 .
As homeschoolers, you have made the commitment to invest much time and
effort into your families. Because the daily grind can sometimes be
exhausting, we encourage you to remember that you are building on the
legacy of hope and faithfulness that's been exemplified in the cross
of Jesus. He is the author and finisher of your faith, and He is the
foundation of the legacy that you leave behind.
Next month, we'll switch gears and discuss various parameters to
consider when choosing a college, trade school, vo-tech school, and
other post-high school institutions.
Thankful for the legacy that's been passed down to us,
Becky Cooke and Diane Kummer
HSLDA High School Coordinators
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> October 22, 2010--Map Your Future, Indianapolis, IN (Becky and
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Now comes news reports about Democrats in Kentucky trying to poach Judd to run against Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, of Kentucky. Judd was born and raised in Kentucky and she has not said no to a future in politics.
There had been some speculation in political circles this past year that Alexander might not seek another term. But Alexander had a "meet and greet" with long-time supporters recently and he assured them he would seek another term. Alexander is a former two-term governor of Tennessee and twice ran for president.
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Swim for Freedom (Swim4Freedom) is an 8.2-mile (13.2 km) open water swim in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin on 5 August 2012. Individuals and relays are welcomed to the marathon swim. Steele Whowell organizes the fundraiser for Special Operations Warrior Foundation.
Dan Projansky has completed the Swim4Freedom event 4 consecutive times swimming all butterfly.
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- Dan Projansky, Channeling A Special Warrior Within
- Swim for Freedom
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