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First 2000 Days Faith Summit
Thanks to all of those who participated and made the Faith Summits a success.
Faith leaders from across the state are coming together to discuss the vital role places of worship play in building a strong foundation for learning and health for the youngest members of our communities.
Five regional summits were held in Greenville, Concord, Fayetteville, Burlington and Marion.
Completed Summits:
Greenville, NC
September 12, 2013
9:00 AM – Noon
Cornerstone Missionary Baptist Church
1095 Allen Road
Greenville, NC 27834
Concord, NC
September 17, 2013
McGill Baptist Church
5300 Poplar Tent Road
Concord, NC 28027
Fayetteville, NC
October 1, 2013
Snyder Memorial Baptist Church
701 Westmont Drive
Fayetteville, NC 28305
Rutherfordton, NC
October 15, 2013
Second Baptist Church
191 Green Street
Rutherfordton, NC 28139
Burlington, NC
October 29, 2013
First Presbyterian Church
508 W. Davis Street
Burlington, NC 27215
Cycling for Education: Meet Amanda Gladin-Kramer
Meet Amanda Gladin-Kramer from Hillsborough, North Carolina. She plans to bike across North Carolina to raise awareness about the deep cuts the state made to education. She will follow a 476 mile route–a mile for every dollar cut . As part of her effort, she is raising funds for three organizations, including The North Carolina Partnership for Children. Advocates for Children Services and East Durham Children's Initiative are the other beneficiaries of Amanda's efforts.
You can follow Amanda's journey on her blog, Bike NC and you can support her cause online.
Resource Library
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2011 General Assembly Leadership
The North Carolina House of Representatives and Senate have begun naming their leadership positions. Here's who has been appointed to date.
Speaker: The Honorable Thom Tillis (Mecklenburg)
Majority Whip: The Honorable Ruth Samuelson(Mecklenburg)
Majority Leader: The Honorable Paul Stam (Wake)
Joint Caucus Leader: The Honorable Marilyn Avila (Wake)
Speaker Pro-Tem: The Honorable Dale R. Folwell (Forsyth)
President Pro Tem: The Honorable Phil Berger (Guilford and Rockingham)
Majority Leader: The Honorable Harry Brown (Jones and Onslow)
Majority Whip: The Honorable Jerry Tillman: (Montgomery and Randolph)
Appropriations Co-chair: The Honorable Peter S. Brunstetter (Forsyth)
Appropriations Co-chair: The Honorable Neal Hunt (Wake)
Appropriations Co-chair: The Honorable Richard Stevens (Wake)
Rules Chair: The Honorable Tom Apodaca (Buncombe, Henderson, and Polk)
Caucus Liaison: The Honorable Jean Preston (Carteret, Craven and Pamlico)
Freshman Senate Leader: The Honorable Bill Rabon (Brunswick, Columbus, and Pender)
Deputy President Pro Tem: The Honorable James Forrester (Lincoln, Gaston, and Iredell)
Caucus Secretary: The Honorable Fletcher L. Hartsell, Jr. (Cabarrus and Iredell)
Minority Whip: The Honorable John Stein (Wake)
Minority Leader: The Honorable Martin L. Nesbitt, Jr. (Buncombe)
Early Childhood Leadership Network
Smart Start's National Early Childhood Leadership Network supports selected state leaders in their systems-building work. Network members participate in training, technical assistance and networking activities throughout the year. The Leadership Network is supported with funding from The Birth to Five Policy Alliance. Contact us if you are interested in more information about the Leadership Network.
Smart Start's Approach to Building State & Local Networks
Smart Start is a living laboratory of state and local system-building efforts that bring together all the people involved in a young child's life—families, teachers, doctors, caregivers, social workers, and many others—to ensure every child has all they need for healthy growth and development.
Our state and local capacity-building work and innovative programming have gained national recognition for nearly two decades. In response to growing demand from other states for information and technical assistance, the Smart Start National Technical Assistance Center (NTAC) was created in 2001 with funding from the W. K. Kellogg Foundation.
Smart Start NTAC provides technical assistance to individuals, organizations, communities and states, guiding them through the process of developing a high-quality, comprehensive early childhood system. States turn to Smart Start for assistance in systems development, collaboration, governance, standards, monitoring, finance, programming, provider support, and evaluation.
Every state in the nation has requested assistance and resources from Smart Start. In addition, Smart Start's network has worked intensively with 11 states and one city.
Public Awareness
Contents (click to jump to that section):
General Information
What Can You Do
Communications Plan
Legislative Events
Outreach Campaigns
Data Resources
General Information
- How Legislators Make Decisions
- What You Should Ask Your Candidates
- Glossary of Terms
- Legislative Basics
- The Legislative Process
- Effective Advocacy Tips
- Know your Elected Officials and the Issues, www.congress.org and www.votesmart.org
- NAEYC Advocacy Tool Kit
- Child Advocacy Actions That Work, Children's Defense Fund
- "Effective Advocacy at ALL Levels of Government"
What You Can Do
Faith Community
Advocacy Communications
Grassroots Efforts
- First Things First Grassroots Coordinators' Job Description
- Guide to Non-Partisan Voter Registration Drives
- The Nonprofit Lobbying Guide: The essential book for nonprofit leaders who want to understand the federal law on lobbying and voter education for 501(c)(3) nonprofits. The guide discusses building a legislative program, effective lobbying communications and establishing a public policy committee. It includes stories from nonprofit leaders who have spent their careers lobbying in the public interest.
Communication Plans
- Spitfire Strategies Smart Chart: A step-by-step guide to building a successful communications campaign. The report comes complete with a communications planning tool you can fill in as you go
- Communications Tool-Kit: By Cause Communications offers practical information in every area, including developing and budgeting a communications plan and identifying tools to raise awareness. Resources include an event checklist, sample audience survey, photo/video release forms and sample design style guide.
- Communications Plan Quick Tips
- "Connecticut Strategic Communications Briefing." This briefing paper documents the progress of early childhood outreach in Connecticut and provides an example of how one state developed a message and strategies, and their early lessons learned in implementation
- FrameWorks Institute: Critiques, designs, conducts and evaluates communications campaigns on social issues.
- NC Smart Start Assessment
- Strategic Communications Audits: An important part of communications planning is making sure that an organization can carry out planned strategies. This working brief by the Harvard Family Research Project for the Media Evaluation Project of the Communications Consortium Media Center focuses on helping non profits assess their capacity.
- 10 Ways to Measure the Impact of your Communications: Guidelines for Evaluating Non-Profit Communications Efforts. This publication by the Harvard Family Research Project for the Media Evaluation Project of the Communications Consortium Media Center summarizes four working papers on communications evaluation and offers guidelines for the evaluation of nonprofit communications efforts.
- www.buildinitiative.org/files/evaluatingcommunications.pdf www.mediaevaluationproject.org/Paper5.pdf
- Survey Monkey: Provides tools for creating professional online surveys quickly and easily. Surveys with limited features are free, and surveys with advanced features cost a small monthly fee
- Communicating About Children
Legislative Events
- Tuesdays for Tots
- Tuesdays at Home
- Ounce of Prevention: Early Childhood Advocacy Day 2009
Outreach Campaigns
- Durham Partnership for Children Corporate Champions – Link includes tools and resources and reports/research.
- Docs for Tots: Engaging Pediatricians in Advocacy Work. The Docs For Tots NC Initiative is working to connect health professionals with meaningful ways to support early childhood initiatives that influence the overall health of our young children.
- More about Docs for Tots
- Building Brighter Futures: Campaign funded by Blue Cross and Blue Shield of NC. TV campaign targeted to parents of young children with messages on health, safety and child care. Campaign pointed to a toll-free number and free Parent Resource Guide.
- Parent Resource Guide: Funded originally by AT&T to serve as a calendar-style developmental guide for children birth through age 5. One of the most widely distributed publications of the NC Partnership for Children, Inc.
- Smart Start Oklahoma
- First Things First Arizona
Data Resources
- Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute
- Kids Count
- U.S. Census Bureau
- Child Trends DataBank
- Child Stats.gov
- National Center for Children in Poverty
- Families and Work Institute
- Born Learning
Policies and Procedures
Contracts and Grants Templates
Policies and Procedures
- Contracting Manual for local partnerships. Includes samples and templates of contracts, financial status reports, competitive bidding, types of contracts and grants, templates, match guidelines. Specific to North Carolina Smart Start program. Email firstname.lastname@example.com to access a copy of this manual.
- Competitive Bidding Policies and Procedures (North Carolina)
- Grant Resource Manual: Helps local partnerships with grants administration and includes sample forms, policies and procedures, worksheets, budgets, checklists, etc. (North Carolina)
- Performance Improvement Plan: Developed to improve the financial and programmatic accountability of selected local partnerships. (North Carolina)
- Audit Penalty Policy for Local Partnerships (North Carolina)
- NCPC Annual Timeline: Financial, Compliance & Contracts (North Carolina)
- Cash and In-kind Match (North Carolina)
- Contracts and Procurement Policies (California)
- Financial Management Guide: Chapter 1, Contracting (California)
- Fund Allocation and Contracting processes (California)
Contracts and Grants Templates
- Professional Services Contract (North Carolina)
- Purchase of Services Contract (North Carolina)
- Financial Assistance Contract (North Carolina)
- Contract Amendment (North Carolina)
- Grant Agreements (North Carolina)
- Required for use for CASH grant activities with child care facilities and other nongovernmental entities,
- Required for use for NON-CASH grant activities with child care facilities and other nongovernmental entities,
- To be used for grants to individuals such as professional development supplements. Should not be used with child care facilities.
- Contract Templates: Look under Commission Resources/Fiscal Management and Compliance/First Five Financial Management Guide/Model Documents. (California)
- Sample Contracts, Agreements, Scope of Work: Look under Commission Resources/Fund Allocation and Contracting. (California)
- Iowa Fiscal Agent Agreement: In some states, contracts are managed either by another entity or using the policies/laws of the state. In these cases, you will need to ask the early childhood initiative to send you that information. (Iowa)
- RFP Template (North Carolina)
- Competitive Bidding Checklist (North Carolina)
- Monitoring Policy & Procedures Worksheet (North Carolina)
- Sample Monitoring Schedule (North Carolina)
- Sample Monitoring Checklist (North Carolina)
- Sample Monitoring Report (North Carolina)
- Sample Action Plan Format (North Carolina)
- Direct Service Provider (DSP) Monitoring Worksheet (North Carolina)
- Program Monitoring Tools: look under Commission Resources/Fund Allocation and Contracting/Contract Administration. (California)
- Review Process Scoring Sheets: Look under Commission Resources/Fund Allocation and Contracting/Review Process. (California)
Legislation, Executive Order, Ballot Initiative
Organizational Development: State & Local Organizational Structures
Organizational Development: Boards
Organizational Development: Human Resources
Legislation, Executive Order, Ballot Initiative
- North Carolina Smart Start
- Prop 203: Arizona Early Childhood Development and Health Initiative
- First 5 California
- Oklahoma Smart Start
- Iowa's Community Empowerment
- Early Childhood Iowa
- South Carolina's First Steps
- Colorado Smart Start
- Virginia's Smart Beginnings
- Vermont's Building Bright Futures Executive Order
- Michigan's Early Childhood Investment Corporation
Organizational Development: State & Local Organizational
- Early Childhood Iowa: Describes how ECI is organized and the roles and responsibilities of each of its components and Iowa Community Empowerment and Tool Kit
- Pennsylvania's Office of Child Development and Early Learning
- First Five Association of California, and California Children and Families Foundation
- Arizona's First Things First:
- Developing a System of Governance and Self-Assessment
- Governance and Self-Assessment System
- Responsible Governance Statement
- Vermont's Building Bright Futures
- Connecticut's Early Childhood Collaborative
- Virginia's Start Strong Council was developed to expand access to quality pre-kindergarten for four-year-olds – and Smart Beginnings, Virginia Early Childhood Foundation, a public-private partnership, was founded in 2005 to provide grants, training and TA to local and regional initiatives – and the Office of Early Childhood Development which provides funding to enhance the quality, affordability and supply of child care – Press Release for OECD
- Michigan's Early Childhood Investment Corporation, Great Start Blueprint
Organizational Development: Boards
Boards: Structure/Composition
- NCPC Board and Local Partnership Board Composition
- NC's Local Partnerships' Boards – Revision to Local Partnership Board Composition
- South Carolina's First Steps Board Composition
- Michigan's Great Start/ECIC
- Virginia's Smart Beginnings
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- Iowa's Community Empowerment Board Responsibilities and Job Descriptions
- South Carolina's First Steps Board of Trustees
- NC Smart Start Governance Self-Study
- Essential Administrative Functions for an NC Smart Start Local Partnership
- NCPC Board Operations including Articles of Incorporation, Bylaws, Quorum, Designees, Proxy Voting, Closed Sessions, Insurance Coverage, etc. Click on the link, then "Category Explorer" and then the individual files, as desired.
- NCPC: Expectations for Board Member Involvement in Fundraising and Public Awareness and Outreach, 9/08 (Attachment 8)
- Arizona's First Things First Governance System: Chap4/Chap4Attachment9.docBoard Officers and their Duties, Executive Committee, Duties and Job Description of Board Members, Principles of Engagement
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- http://www.ncsmartstart.org/about/boardcommittees.htmNC Partnership for Children Board Committees
- Arizona's First Things First Committees and Subcommittees
- Development Committee Workplan
- Arizona's Program Committee Charter
- Arizona's Audit and Finance Committee Charter
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Policies and Procedures
- Arizona First Things First
- Conflict of Interest
- North Carolina
- Arizona
- Iowa, Tool V
- Bylaws, Articles of Incorporation
- Strategic Plans
- Dealing with Transition of Executive Directors
- General Resources
- "Transforming Board Structure: Strategies for Committees and Task Forces",
- "Why Boards Don't Govern", Jan Masaoka & Mike Allison
- "Governance as Leadership: Reframing the Work of Nonprofit Boards",
- "Culture of Inquiry: Healthy Debate in the Boardroom"
- "The Drucker Foundation: The Leader of the Future",
- "Sample Job Descriptions for Board Officers"
- Establishing Effective Boards and Councils, pp.7-10
- Sample Board Member Job Description, Application, Code of Ethics, Orientation
- "Board Committee Job Descriptions"
- Policy Samples from Board Source
- "Bylaws in Brief",
- Building Early Learning System: The ABCs of Planning and Governance Structures: The publication describes strategies for financing and governing an early learning system.
- Beyond Parallel Play: Emerging State and Community Planning Roles in Building Early Learning Systems
- Board Source: Membership including bi-monthly newsletters, e-news, web resources, discounts on books and training
- Board Café: A newsletter and other resources for nonprofit boards
- Help 4 NonProfits: Articles on governance, personnel, board mechanics, marketing and more.
- Professional Development Nonprofit Resource Center
- Resource Directory/Nonprofit Genie (FAQs)
- NC Center for Nonprofits: Established to serve North Carolina nonprofits but offers a number of free resources applicable to other states.
- The Five Dysfunctions of a Team
- Smart Start: Building Community-Owned Public-Private Partnerships
Organizational Development: Human Resources
- Organizational Charts
- Job Descriptions – Executive Directors, State Level
- Job Descriptions – Other State Level Positions
- Job Descriptions – Local/Regional Level
- Hiring Executive Directors
- Salary Schedules – Benefits and Compensation
- Personnel Policies
- Performance Review
- General Resources
Organizational Charts
- North Carolina Partnership for Children
- Iowa Community Empowerment Structure, diagram
- Michigan's Early Childhood Investment Corporation
- Local partnership, Durham County, North Carolina
- Local partnership, North Carolina, Wake County
- Local Partnership, Nash-Edgecombe Counties, North Carolina
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Job Descriptions – Executive Directors, State Level
- North Carolina Partnership for Children's Minimum Education and Experience Standard for Local Partnership Executive Directors
- NC Smart Start – President and CEO
- Alabama's Executive Director
- Oklahoma's Executive Director
- Virginia's Executive Director
- Washington State's Department of Early Learning Director
- Thrive by Five's President and CEO
- Arizona's First Things First Executive Director
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Job Descriptions – Other State Level Positions
- North Carolina, Program & Planning Director
- North Carolina, Program & Planning Consultants
- North Carolina, Financial Consultant
- North Carolina, Evaluation Specialist, state level
- North Carolina, Data Analyst
- Arizona, Communication Director
- Arizona, Legislative Liaison
- Arizona, Early Childhood Programs Administrator
- Arizona, Policy and Research Administrator
- Arizona, Policy and Program Specialist
- Arizona, Regional Council Administrator
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Job Descriptions – Local/Regional Level
- Generic Local ED Job Description
- North Carolina, Durham County Executive Director
- North Carolina, Nash-Edgecombe Counties' Executive Director
- Durham County, North Carolina, Finance Director
- Durham County, North Carolina, Program and Evaluation Manager
- Cumberland County, North Carolina, Contracts Coordinator
- Arizona, Regional Council Coordinator Arizona Regional Manager
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Hiring Executive Directors
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Salary Schedules – Benefits and Compensation
- North Carolina Partnership for Children's salary ranges by position titles
- Board Source: "Developing a Compensation Philosophy" and "Chief Executive Compensation: How Should Your Board Determine Compensation?"
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Personnel Policies
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Performance Review
- North Carolina Partnership for Children – sample staff evaluation form
- Iowa Board of Directors' Self Evaluation
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General Resources
- Hiring a New Executive Director? By Jan Masaoka
- Compass Point Hiring a Director for a Nonprofit Agency
- "How Much to Pay the Executive Director?"
- Board member and Executive Compensation
- "Annual Evaluation of the Executive Director"
- Board Source: Membership including bi-monthly newsletters, e-news, web resources, discounts on books and training Board Café , a newsletter and other resources for nonprofit boards
- Help 4 NonProfits: Articles on governance, personnel, board mechanics, marketing and more WNC Nonprofit Pathways
- Professional Development Nonprofit Resource Center
- Duke University Continuing Studies, Nonprofit Management Certificate
- Resource Directory/Nonprofit Genie (FAQs)
- Employee benefits and compensation including basic and technical information, Free Management Library
Leadership Development Program
- State Early Childhood Policy Leadership Forum: Sponsored by Zero to Three and the National Governors Association. Selected 10-12 early childhood professionals in high-level state leadership positions to participate in an 18-month process to help develop and strengthen statewide, cross-system early childhood policies and programs.
- Leaders of the 21st Century, Zero to Three National Center for Infants, Toddlers and Families. Three retreats over two years for up to 30 early career and mid-career professional from a wide range of disciplines, agencies and universities who are engaged in significant work on behalf of infants, toddlers and families.
- The Buell Early Childhood Leadership Program, University of Denver: Offers an academic certificate or a Master's concentration in Education Administration in the field of Early Care and Education. This program is targeted to meet the needs of experienced and emerging administrators in early care and education settings.
- Emerging Leaders Project, Children's Defense Fund: Four day institute providing guidance in exploration of personal leadership capabilities, relationships with other peer leaders and development of a personal action plan – for up to 35 early care and education professionals from across the nation.
- National Head Start Fellowship Project, Head Start Bureau and Commission on National Head Start Fellowships: Eight to ten fellows per year spend 1 year as full-time paid special assistants to senior managers, policymakers, educators and researchers.
- Kellogg Leadership for Community Change, W.K. Kellogg Foundation: Six communities of 25 participants each study a particular issue in depth and learn how to mobilize leadership to deal with the issues. Grants to cover costs of attending sessions up to four days and month.
- The Duke University Advanced Certificate in Nonprofit Leadership, Duke University: A comprehensive program that offers students the opportunity to enhance leadership skills through a theoretical study using reflective practices.
- The Center for Creative Leadership, Greensboro, NC: Offers a variety of group and individual leadership training programs.
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State and Local Leadership Development Models
- Down East Partnership for Children, Rocky Mount, NC. The Community Fellows Program is an intensive outreach program designed to provide coaching and skills enhancements to community-based grassroots leaders involved in early care and education, school readiness and transition to school and family support services. The program focuses on leadership development and is designed as a two-year program with an option for participation in the third year.
- Early Childhood Leadership Directions, Oregon State University. Cohorts of 17-20 professional from the fields of health, mental health and education participate in 4-day intensive retreats over a one-year period with the focus on equipping new leaders to build personal and interpersonal leadership qualities and skills. , support leaders in guiding teams, staff and organizations towards community change and guiding leaders in sustaining organizations, influencing policy and mentoring others.
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- Collective Leadership Framework: A Workbook for Cultivating and Sustaining Community Change, "The Power of Servant Leadership"
- "Good to Great and the Social Sectors: Why Business Thinking is Not the Answer"
- "Why Leadership Development Efforts Fail"


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Follow-Up | Dow Indicator | Preview
In case anyone cares whether Dodd-Frank or the Volcker Rule defused those financial weapons of mass destruction known as derivatives, they can start worrying. Not only have the rules failed to curtail the risky FWMD, but they are larger than at the height of the financial crisis. And they are concentrated in four banks: JPMorgan Chase JPM -0.38218677301429044% JPMorgan Chase & Co. U.S.: NYSE USD59.95 -0.23 -0.38218677301429044% /Date(1427922010371-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 17991245 AFTER HOURS USD60.03 0.08 0.13344453711426188% Volume (Delayed 15m) : 109342 P/E Ratio 11.24765478424015 Market Cap 225861207656.823 Dividend Yield 2.6688907422852375% Rev. per Employee 403805 More quote details and news » (ticker: JPM), Citigroup's C 0.19409937888198758% Citigroup Inc. U.S.: NYSE USD51.62 0.1 0.19409937888198758% /Date(1427922010112-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 21416878 AFTER HOURS USD51.71 0.09 0.1743510267338241% Volume (Delayed 15m) : 160801 P/E Ratio 23.357466063348415 Market Cap 156359805295.533 Dividend Yield 0.07748934521503294% Rev. per Employee 390166 More quote details and news » Citibank (C), Bank of America BAC 0.1299545159194282% Bank of America Corp. U.S.: NYSE USD15.41 0.02 0.1299545159194282% /Date(1427922099463-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 72542066 AFTER HOURS USD15.45 0.04 0.25957170668397145% Volume (Delayed 15m) : 611788 P/E Ratio 42.80555555555556 Market Cap 161908965623.612 Dividend Yield 1.2978585334198571% Rev. per Employee 436397 More quote details and news » (BAC), and Goldman Sachs GS 2.2663190934723625% Goldman Sachs Group Inc. U.S.: NYSE USD192.23 4.26 2.2663190934723625% /Date(1427922020109-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 4018630 AFTER HOURS USD192.25 0.02 0.010404203298132445% Volume (Delayed 15m) : 12818 P/E Ratio 10.918746982477067 Market Cap 81883680314.7839 Dividend Yield 1.2485043957758934% Rev. per Employee 1079350 More quote details and news » (GS).
That's according to the second-quarter derivatives report of the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency. It tallied $222.5 trillion of notional derivatives held by insured U.S. commercial banks and savings associations, compared with $203.5 trillion in the second quarter of 2009.
"It's outrageous," says Lawrence Parks, executive director of the Foundation for the Advancement of Monetary Education, who included the statistics in a recent presentation. "If these guys were making bets with their own money, go to it. But don't come to me after you've lost and say, 'I'm too big to fail, give me money without limit.' "
To be sure, new Dodd-Frank rules on swaps dealers just took effect on Friday. But Sheila Bair, the former head of the FDIC who now chairs the Systemic Risk Council, says in an e-mail that, while some derivatives are ordinary hedges, their sheer magnitude, complexity, and opacity "creates an almost impenetrable web of interconnections that makes our global financial system vulnerable to systemic shocks." Her advice? Rules to get risky derivatives out of federally insured banks.
Last Week: Review
A Housing "Bust"
The U.S. government filed a civil lawsuit against Wells Fargo, WFC -0.8455882352941176% Wells Fargo & Co. U.S.: NYSE USD53.94 -0.46 -0.8455882352941176% /Date(1427922017464-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 15321671 AFTER HOURS USD54.1 0.16 0.29662588060808304% Volume (Delayed 15m) : 115205 P/E Ratio 12.905849982055269 Market Cap 279919829726.54 Dividend Yield 2.5954764553207266% Rev. per Employee 340658 More quote details and news » the biggest mortgage lender, accusing it of "reckless" lending during the housing boom and 10 years of alleged misconduct related to government-insured FHA loans. The lawsuit alleges that FHA paid hundreds of million of dollars in insurance claims on defaulted Wells Fargo mortgages as a result of false certifications by the bank. Wells denied the allegations, and said it believes it acted in good faith and compliance with federal rules. Separately, Wells reported that net income rose 22% in the third quarter, to a record $4.9 billion, but revenue fell short of analysts' expectations.
Turning a Corner
JPMorgan Chase JPM -0.38218677301429044% JPMorgan Chase & Co. U.S.: NYSE USD59.95 -0.23 -0.38218677301429044% /Date(1427922010371-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 17991245 AFTER HOURS USD60.03 0.08 0.13344453711426188% Volume (Delayed 15m) : 109342 P/E Ratio 11.24765478424015 Market Cap 225861207656.823 Dividend Yield 2.6688907422852375% Rev. per Employee 403805 More quote details and news » posted a record quarterly profit, and CEO Jamie Dimon said housing "has turned the corner." But ZeroHedge noted the results included big one-time items; it said net interest margin dropped to a new record low; and quarterly nonperforming loans rose by the most in years. The bank lost at least $449 million on an earlier wrong-way credit derivative trade by the "London whale," bringing total losses from that to more than $6.2 billion. Dimon didn't comment on a Wall Street Journal report that the bank's chief financial officer would leave his post.
Buying Spree
Japanese mobile carrier Softbank 9984.TO 0.5196304849884527% SoftBank Corp. Japan: Tokyo JPY6964 36 0.5196304849884527% /Date(1427992200000-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 20m) : 2402600 P/E Ratio 13.389217872798586 Market Cap 8380609417500 Dividend Yield 0.5743825387708213% Rev. per Employee 121362000 More quote details and news » is in talks to buy a big stake in Sprint Nextel, S -0.2109704641350211% Sprint Corp. U.S.: NYSE USD4.73 -0.01 -0.2109704641350211% /Date(1427922221155-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 18299020 AFTER HOURS USD4.73 % Volume (Delayed 15m) : 578246 P/E Ratio N/A Market Cap 18760165739.6299 Dividend Yield N/A Rev. per Employee 931368 More quote details and news » with the value of the deal estimated at close to $12.8 billion. Investor Carl Icahn, the largest holder of truck maker Oshkosh, OSK -0.9223201475712236% Oshkosh Corp. U.S.: NYSE USD48.34 -0.45 -0.9223201475712236% /Date(1427922310052-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 747020 AFTER HOURS USD48.34 % Volume (Delayed 15m) : 4224 P/E Ratio 13.971098265895954 Market Cap 3812450641.76025 Dividend Yield 1.406702523789822% Rev. per Employee 552608 More quote details and news » offered to buy the remainder of its shares for $32.50 each, a 21% premium to their pre-bid close.
Grim Tally
The nation's budget deficit totaled $1.089 trillion in the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30, narrower than the year before but still about 7% of the country's 2012 GDP, Treasury said.
Happy Campers
The Thomson-Reuters University of Michigan sentiment index unexpectedly jumped in early October to the highest level since 2007. And, those filing new jobless claims fell to the lowest level in more than 4.5 years.
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta warned that the U.S. was more vulnerable to foreign computer hackers who could disrupt key infrastructure. China said a report raising concerns that its telecommunications gear could be used for spying could harm relations with the U.S.
Big Nut
The IMF said European banks may need to sell up to $4.5 trillion of assets through '13 if policy makers fail to impose austerity or set up a single supervisory system. A Fed official wants a cap on bank size.
In Brief
• EADS, BAE ba.ln 0.09551098376313276% BAE Systems PLC U.K.: London GBP524 0.5 0.09551098376313276% /Date(1427924118000-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 6395707 P/E Ratio 0.22514763195843285 Market Cap 16537174344.2671 Dividend Yield 4.694656488549619% Rev. per Employee 203026 More quote details and news » dropped merger plans amid government resistance.
• S&P cut Spain's sovereign credit rating to just above junk.
• Iran reportedly could make weapons-grade fuel in two months.
He Said:
"We didn't participate with the [Fed], OK? We were asked to do it. We did it at great risk to ourselves. Would I have done Bear Stearns again…? It's real close."
JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon on its takeover of Bear
The Numbers
The angel-investor market picked up in the first half, says the Center for Venture Research at the University of New Hampshire.
$9.2 billion total investments in the period
3.1% increase in investments from the 2011 period
27,280 number of ventures to get angel funding, up 3.7%
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Foley-Somers Launch "No New Taxes" PetitionStory | Sep 2, 2014 | 8:39 AMRepublican candidates Tom Foley and Heather Somers on Tuesday launched an online "No New Taxes Petition" aimed at highlighting Gov. Malloy's 2011 tax hikes, which were the largest in state history. The Republicans have made the economy a central issue...
Foley Says He Won't Use Layoffs To Close Next State Budget DeficitStory | Sep 2, 2014 | 2:09 PMRepublican gubernatorial candidate Tom Foley expanded his effort Tuesday to reassure state employees, saying he would not use layoffs to help close a projected, $1.4 billion deficit in next year's state budget. Foley, who already has said he would...
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Saturday's local interest college football roundup: Maine shuts down Norfolk State offense to thwart Spartans' upset bidStory | Aug 30, 2014 | 8:57 PMNorfolk State nearly pulled off one of the best wins in school history Saturday night, but Maine -- ranked 25th in the Football Championship Subdivision -- escaped with a 10-6 home win in Orono in the opener for both teams. Daniel Collins found the...
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2014-15 Men's Lacrosse News
March 30, 2015
Men's Lacrosse to Play Final Home Game on Coker's Campus
The Coker men's lacrosse team will play its final home game of the 2015 season at the Coker Soccer Field on Friday (Apr. 3) against Tusculum.
March 30, 2015
Coker's Ryan and Smith Named SAC AstroTurf Men's Lacrosse Players of the Week
Coker's Ryan and Smith have been named SAC AstroTurf men's lacrosse players of the week.
March 28, 2015
Cobras Collect 8-5 SAC Win Over Indians
The Coker men's lacrosse team beat the Catawba College Indians 8-5 in SAC action on Saturday (Mar. 28) night.
March 25, 2015
Cobras Move into First Place with 8-6 SAC Win Over Bulldogs
The Coker men's lacrosse team improved to 3-0 all-time against Wingate University and moved into first place of the SAC standings after its 8-6 win on Wednesday (Mar. 25) night.
March 21, 2015
Cobras Beat Crusaders 15-7 in Non-Conference Tilt
The Coker men's lacrosse team picked up a 15-7 non-conference win over the North Greenville University Crusaders on Saturday (Mar. 21) night.
March 16, 2015
Coker's Ryan Named AstroTruf SAC Men's Lacrosse Defensive Player of the Week
Coker men's lacrosse player Tim Ryan has been named the AstroTruf South Atlantic Conference Men's Lacrosse Defensive Player of the Week.
March 13, 2015
Bretton Scores Four as Second Half Surge Propels Cobras Over Bears
John Bretton netted four goals in the Coker men's lacrosse team's 12-11 come-from-behind victory over Lenoir-Rhyne University on Friday (Mar. 13) afternoon.
March 12, 2015
Weather Alters Men's Lacrosse Game Against Bears
The Coker men's lacrosse team's game against Lenoir-Rhyne University on Saturday (Mar. 14) has been rescheduled due to inclement weather.
March 10, 2015
Ryan Comes Up Huge in Coker's 11-10 OT Victory Over Lynn
Tim Ryan registered 16 saves and picked up 11 ground balls in Coker's thrilling overtime victory over Lynn University on Tuesday (Mar. 10) afternoon.
March 7, 2015
Coker Notches 18-9 SAC Victory over Lincoln Memorial
Mike Martiello netted two goals and dished out four assists to lead the Coker men's lacrosse team to an 18-9 SAC victory over Lincoln Memorial University on Saturday (Mar. 7) afternoon.
March 6, 2015
Cobras Set to Host Railsplitters in SAC Matchup
The Coker men's lacrosse team will play host to the Railsplitters of Lincoln Memorial University in South Atlantic Conference action on Saturday (Mar. 7).
February 28, 2015
Coker Drops Non-Conference Tilt with Falcons
The Coker men's lacrosse dropped a non-conference game to the Pfeiffer University Falcons on Saturday (Feb. 28) afternoon.
February 25, 2015
Wednesday's Coker Men's Lacrosse Game at Mount Olive Cancelled
The Coker men's lacrosse game scheduled for Wednesday (Feb. 25) at Mount Olive has been cancelled.
February 21, 2015
Late-Game Heroics Give Cobras 12-11 SAC Victory Over Lions
Josh Smith's goal with four seconds left in the fourth period gave Coker a 12-11 SAC win over the Mars Hill University Lions on Saturday (Feb. 21).
February 20, 2015
Cobras Take on Lions in SAC Home Opener
Coker will face the Lions of Mars Hill University in a South Atlantic Conference matchup on Saturday (Feb. 21).
February 18, 2015
Cobras Drop SAC Opener to Royals
The Coker men's lacrosse team fell to the Queens University of Charlotte Royals in its SAC opener on Wednesday (Feb. 18) afternoon.
February 16, 2015
Coker Men's Lacrosse Game Time at Queens Changed
Wednesday's (Feb. 18) Coker men's lacrosse game at Queens University of Charlotte has been moved up to 3 p.m.
February 14, 2015
Cobras' Comeback Falls Short Against Lions
The Coker men's lacrosse team dropped a 14-9 non-conference game to the Lions of St. Leo on Saturday (Feb. 14) afternoon.
February 13, 2015
Coker Men's Lacrosse Opens Season Against St. Leo
The Coker men's lacrosse team will get its 2015 season underway with a non-conference tilt against the Lions of St. Leo University on Saturday (Feb. 14).
January 27, 2015
Men's Lacrosse Looking for Titles in 2015
The Coker men's lacrosse team, led by All-SAC selections Mike Martiello and Dylan Marks, will be on the hunt for some hardware in 2015.
November 24, 2014
Coker Men's Lacrosse Inks Seven for 2015-16
Coker men's lacrosse coach David Olliver announced the addition of seven new faces to the program.


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GM recalls 1.5M vehicles
DETROIT -- General Motors is recalling more than 1.5 million vehicles, including SUVs, vans and Cadillacs, for defective airbags and other problems.
The new recalls, including more than 75,000 in Canada, come as GM faces multiple investigations over its handling of a recall of more than 1.6 million small cars for defective ignition switches. The new recalls aren't related to that issue, but the company did say they're part of a broad product-safety review prompted by the ignition-switch problem, which is linked to 12 deaths.
GM expects to spend about US$300 million in the first quarter to repair the vehicles in the new recalls as well as the vehicles in the small-car recall. GM announced last month ignition switches in older models of the Chevrolet Cobalt, Pontiac G5s, Saturn Ion, Chevrolet HHR, Pontiac Solstice and Saturn Sky need to be repaired.
The government is investigating why GM didn't act sooner to recall cars with the faulty switch after first getting reports of problems in 2004.
CIBC CEO got $10.01M
TORONTO -- CIBC president and chief executive Gerry McCaughey earned $10.01 million in total compensation last year, according to documents filed ahead of the bank's (TSX:CM) annual meeting next month. The pay packet was up from the $9.93 million he received from the bank in 2012.
McCaughey's compensation for 2013 included a base salary of $1.5 million, $3.74 million in share-based awards, $935,880 in option-based awards and a $3.12-million cash bonus. The value of his pension earned for the year amounted to $717,000.
That compared with a base salary of $1.5 million, $1.92 million in share-based awards, $960,000 in option-based awards, a cash bonus of $2.94 million and $1.92 million in long-term incentives in 2012.The value of McCaughey's pension earned in 2012 amounted to $687,000.
Richard Nesbitt, CIBC's chief operating officer, was the second-highest-paid executive at the bank, with a total of nearly $7.41 million for last year, up from $7.36 million in 2012.
Nakamoto hires lawyer
LOS ANGELES -- The man Newsweek claimed is the creator of bitcoin has hired a lawyer in an attempt to clear his name, repeating a denial he made to The Associated Press more than a week ago that he has never had anything to do with the digital currency.
In a statement issued by his lawyer, Ethan Kirschner, Dorian Satoshi Nakamoto said Monday he "did not create, invent or otherwise work on" bitcoin. In the magazine's return to print this month after more than a year, Newsweek's cover story declared Nakamoto to be the "face behind bitcoin." Despite the repeated denials, the magazine has stood behind the story.
Nakamoto, 64, did not say whether he plans to sue the magazine. He repeated he had not heard of bitcoin until his son told him a reporter asked about it in mid-February. He said he has not been able to find steady work for 10 years and had cancelled his Internet service last year "due to severe financial distress." Nakamoto said he is trying to recover from prostate surgery in 2012 and a stroke last October.
Ohio students take first
A group of students from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, won the $20,000 first-place prize this weekend in the 10th annual Stu Clark Investment Competition at the Fort Garry Hotel.
Their business pitch, Disease Diagnostics, was for a new way to diagnose malaria that is already receiving interest from health authorities in malaria-affected regions.
Organized by the Stu Clark Centre for Entrepreneurship at the University of Manitoba's Asper School of Business, the competition attracts high-powered business school teams from across North America and around the world.
Second place and $10,000 went to a team from Northwestern University in Chicago for Innoblative Designs, a breast-cancer treatment technology. Third place and $5,000 went to a team from the University of Louisville for Systemica Health, a new technology to treat gum disease, and fourth place and $2,000 went to a team from the University of Manitoba for Exigence Technologies, an antimicrobial technology to deal with tough bacteria on hospital fabrics.
Systemica Health, Disease Diagnostics and Exigence Technologies placed first to third in the one-minute Idea Pitch portion of the competition, and teams from Johns Hopkins University, Thammasat University in Thailand and the University of Arkansas placed first to third in the logo competition.
BlackBerry lays off 120
Blackberry has laid off 120 employees in its product development and wireless technology divisions as part of an ongoing cost-cutting plan, the company said Monday.
The reductions were centred at its headquarters in Waterloo, Ont., where most of its staff are based.
It's part of a plan announced last year to lower expenses, partly through the elimination of about 40 per cent of the company's workforce.
BlackBerry has also been looking for other ways to lower costs and squeeze more money from assets as the smartphone maker tries to reposition itself with business customers.
In December, the company sold a handful of buildings to the University of Waterloo for $41 million under an agreement that would allow the company to lease back some of them for up to five years.
Earlier this month, BlackBerry sold its U.S. headquarters in Irving, Texas, to Brookfield Property Group for an undisclosed amount. The company plans to lease back at least part of the six-building location.
BlackBerry is scheduled to report its fourth-quarter and full-year results March 28.
The company's shares closed down 19 cents at $10.13 Monday on the Toronto Stock Exchange.
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Last fall, after wondering for years about whether I should buy produce from farmers who claim that they are "organic, but not certified," I dug into some big questions about certification. That process led me to explore many other seemingly respectable food labels that—while much less popular than organic—seemed to offer a similar, if slightly different level of transparency between eaters and farmers. Read more
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Each winter, tens of millions of Americans buy and decorate Christmas trees. Yet few of us think about what it takes to keep these trees looking so healthy and lush.
For most growers, it takes pesticides–and lots of them. It turns out that the majority of Christmas tree farms are plagued with destructive pests and noxious weeds that suck nutrients and moisture from the soil, leaving young trees sickly and ugly. As a result, the Christmas tree industry has become dependent on chemicals of all sorts. Read more
More Money, Fewer Facts: Final Week of Oregon's GMO Labeling Race
Oregon is awash in GMO labeling cash. Even before the seed giant DuPont Pioneer dumped $4.46 million to oppose mandatory GMO-labeling in Oregon late last week, Ballot Measure 92 had already been on record as the costliest in the state's history. Read more
Organic vs. "Organic": How Much Does Certification Matter?
Whenever we go to the farmers' market together, my husband and I disagree about whether we should buy the pricey certified organic berries (my husband's vote) or the less expensive ones grown without certification, but described by the farm as "sustainably produced." If I look deep into a farmer's eyes and she tells me that her fruit is "no-spray," I'll buy her berries, saving almost a buck a pint. (After all, the strawberries we grow in our own backyard are not certified organic, but I feel good about eating them.)
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In many ways, Shari Sirkin and Bryan Dickerson, the farmers at Dancing Roots Farm in Troutdale, Oregon, have made it. They run a popular Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) program, their heirloom vegetables grace the menus at some of Portland's finest restaurants—including Ned Ludd, Irving Street Kitchen, and Luce—and last year they won the prestigious Local Hero award from the environmental nonprofit Ecotrust. Read more
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Pistol Crowned King Of Punk
17th June 2005
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The Libertines Manager Wants Band To Reform
1st May 2005
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Doherty Attacks Barat In New Song
13th September 2004
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Gallagher Sells Manager Gift
3rd September 2004
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Libertines Star Vows 'Never To Rejoin The Band'
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5th May 2004
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25th June 2003
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Best place to hunt cougars?
Anyone have any tips? I know one spawns in Kanien:keh (where you go when you first leave the valley) but it'd be nice to actually hunt them instead of kill one, leave the frontier, come back, etc.
2 years ago
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If you go to the dimond basin and go to the tallest mountains, then you will find a bunch of cougars. I was there and got 17 cougar pelts. The fun part is that once you kill them all you just run around the mountain and they respawn so you could do it the whole day. I only was able to find them at night. You can get alot though.
2 years ago
there is also one or two cougars near the fort in Scott's Plains. They are just north east I think. There is one more location but I can't think of it off the top of my head, I think it is near the center area of the frontier on a rocky outcrop that is highly elevated. Good luck finding some new pelts!
2 years ago
Go too the fast travel spit in kanien:keh and head south too the diamond basin you will come to a big mountain climb up and you should find some there
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Posted by Anonymous, 1 ReplyAlguien me podria decir si con 6 meses seria suficiente? Read more »
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The human papillomavirus (HPV) may be to blame for the alarming increase of young adults with oropharyngeal cancer, according to researchers from Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit. Detroit,
A new study published in the Journal of Virology on June 05, 2013 says that viruses like HPV, HBV, and EBV were found in cancerous tumors.
A new study, published in the Journal of Cancer Education on July 16, 2013, says that Latina women are "less likely to be aware of HPV and the HPV vaccine than non-Latina women, and fewer Latinas
The percentage of adolescent girls who were vaccinated against the cancer-causing human papillomavirus in 2012 was unchanged from the previous year.
A study published on July 2, 2013 in the Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Research showed that high-risk HPV strains were significantly more vulnerable in the second trimester of pregnancy.
The human papillomavirus (HPV) triples the risk of people developing yet another cancer, oesophageal squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC).
A new study, published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology on June 17, 2013 showed that 33% of all throat cancer cases may be caused by HPV infection.
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A human papillomavirus (HPV), a member of the papillomavirus family, is capable of infecting humans. HPVs establish productive infections in the skin or mucous membranes. Most of the 200 known types cause no symptoms in most people. Some types can cause warts, while others can lead to cancer. There are more than 30 to 40 types of HPV that are typically transmitted through sexual contact and infect the anogenital region. High risk HPV, can lead to cancer, in fact HPV infection is a cause of...
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