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First day of school...
This afternoon, I had my first class. Gonzalo walked me to Habla, during which he told me that he was leaving in 15 days to go teach English in Texas. He said that he doesn't want to leave, especially with his mother and father getting older and having neices and neiphews, but that there is no job in Mexico that pays like his teaching gig in Texas. So, he is going. Everyone in this house will miss him. He's one of ...
... day re the 0630 start tomorrow. There were more swish digs on the Ave Reforma. Most of the streets in town are numbered, the Mayans apparently finding it easier to deal with numbers than names.
Passed the Plaza de Toros, the bullfighting ring. It is done 'Spanish style' here: the bull is killed and eaten. A boo from the Sarki peanut gallery thereon. How 'bout a little respect for local ways? The Park of the Americas [something like that] was quite nice. All ...
Ruins Anxiety
... assume just because someone might not enjoy the same fiscal comfort as me, doesn't mean they don't live a better quality of life. Still, I find a conflict there.
And I try and get over it and have a nice time at Chichen Itza. Pulling into the massive packing lot, I was gripped with the same sort of anxiety that I felt the day after Christmas when I had to go into WalMart, and to the electronics system no less. I have a fear of a certain sort of crowd, ...
Introduction to the Mayans
... a dense forest. The next ruin we come across is a great example of a Mayan Ball Court and then further on is the Great Pyramid. Unfortunately for me you can still climb the 32 meter high structure and so that's just what we did! Although scary it does give you some amazing views over all the ruins of Uxmal and was definitely worth the slightly shaky climb back down.
We spent the remainder of the morning walking around the rest of the ruins, sweating in ...
Nice Change from Cancun
... min walk grabbed what we needed got to the front counter to find out again that you cant buy beers after 5pm on a Sunday and it was 5.15pm. Then when we got home and cooked pasta with this kind of sausage that the sausages tasted like feet and we couldn't eat them. That was pretty much the last straw for me cooking in hostels now. You can eat out for nearly the same price, get what you want and have no hassle.
Last day just had breakfast and then caught bus to ...
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Hyatt Regency Merida
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Los Aluxes
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Hotel El Conquistador
Paseo De Montejo Ave #458, Merida | 5 star hotelfrom $63 -
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Calle 60 No. 491, Esquina con 57, Merida | 3 star hotelfrom $88 -
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Casa del Balam Hotel
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The National Council for Education Support Professionals (NCESP) works within NEA to represent the specific interests of education support professionals. Any active NEA ESP member is eligible for NCESP membership.
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675denny 55 wins in what, 25 yrs. Outstanding!23 Days ago | ||||||||||||||||||
caajunchef This jerk will find fault with someone else for something he doesn't like then cry to anyone and everyome who will listen to his pathetic whining. He belongs in the same playpen as Dwight Howard and all the other crybabies who can't man up for their own faults. RW might have won over 50 races but he cried about the hundreds of others he didn't win. Frankly, he doesn't belong in the HoF.25 Days ago | ||||||||||||||||||
TruthNoBS I still think they need to start looking at more modern era drivers for future hall inductions, and don't necessarily think it needs to be loaded up with 50s and 60s era drivers and owners. Though the more I learned about Herb Thomas, he sounds very deserving. But Cotton Owens - 9 wins gets you in the hall of fame? I know the name is cool but I'm questioning that. I still don't agree with Bud Moore being in there either.25 Days ago | ||||||||||||||||||
TruthNoBS Rusty rambled and took more time by far than the others, I actually didn't mind it too much though. Plugged a lot of names throughout his speech of people that helped, sure they appreciated it. Wasn't sure either on his comments towards Beadle and running out of money, and acting like he wanted to be with Penske all along, sort of appeared he was just brushing aside the great accomplishments of that 27 team. When in fact he may not have ever been better than he was in '88-'89 in that car.25 Days ago | ||||||||||||||||||
stewartw84 Met Rusty Wallace at a very small airport in SC while we were weathered in back in his hayday driving the MGD car. He was an absolute jerk to all of us. We were flying 4 Navy Helocopters out to the Boneyard in Arizona...I for one will never call him Mr. Wallace!25 Days ago | ||||||||||||||||||
Golong Godeep Rusty Wallace is n-o-t worthy. He won one Cup championship. He was competitive in the early years. The rest of the time he just showed up.26 Days ago
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T0ny Perkis Nascar has turned into a soft man or womens sport. I miss the old days and the grit of the drivers.
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Former Oilers Thought the HoF show was cool...Rusty Spoke for a bit too long. It was almost as if he didnt want to stop heating his voice. It was interesting since I don't know the much of the early history.26 Days ago
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hardwood_2x4 I'm a huge fan of Steve Wallace. He brings excitement to every race he runs. He crashes & wrecks into everyone including his own teammates.26 Days ago | ||||||||||||||||||
Aaron_Bear_Den I love Rusty Wallace, and props to him on a great career, but I'm surprised he got into the Hall of Fame so quickly. I really thought it would take another year or 2, with so many big names still not in. Still well deserved, though. 26 Days ago | ||||||||||||||||||
V-Da-Man I have lost nearly all interest in NASCAR, but was an avid fan in Rusty's younger days. Congrats Rusty! even though I still think you are an A--Hole.27 Days ago
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GravityKing Hall of Fame Jeopardy for $500. "In what sport did Leonard Wood, Buck Baker, Herb Thomas, and Cotton Owens compete?" "Anyone? Anyone?." Buzz. Buzz. "Sorry, time's up. The answer is, 'what is NASCAR?'"27 Days ago
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thebullforever Congrats to Rusty Wallace. Been a fan since 1989 when I was 6 years old. Watched every race I could and watched him win a championship that year mostly thanks to Ricky Rudd who took out Earnhardt on the final lap at North Wilkesboro. I remember the race in 1991 where he fell 3 laps down at Bristol because of a flat tire, there was a rain delay, turned off the TV figuring the race was gonna be called because of the rain, picked up the paper the next day and he had won the race. This guy was a master at coming from laps down to win races, he did it at bristol a few times, went 2 laps down at Dover and won that race. Theres probably 10 or 12 races he should have won but had mechanical problems with his car, blew an engine or transmission went out while he was leading and the one at Martinsville in 97 where they claimed he jumped the last restart when he was leading the race. A bunch of BS. Anyway I have fond memories of this guys whole career, successes and disappointments.27 Days ago | ||||||||||||||||||
nuccionino Lol at everyone jealous this is on the front page. Yes, the second most popular sport in America has a HOF, and yes it is front page worthy. That and the fact Rusty works for ESPN. Get ready for a lot of NASCAR coverage on ESPN starting in about 9 days. I'm excited! 27 Days ago | ||||||||||||||||||
Mulachicrunch Just a note for the "who cares about NASCAR" crowd. Last weeks Super Bowl had a live crowd of 71,000 people. Next weeks Sprint Unlimited EXHIBITION race at Daytona averages 82,000 live attendees. The following weekends Daytona 500 will have about 150,000 fans. Last year, in a still lousy economy, NASCAR averaged 100,300 tickets sold per event. Considering many of these tracks are way out in BFE (Watkins Glen, NY, Martinsville, VA, Pocono, PA) that's pretty darn impressive.Logistically speaking NASCAR puts on 38 events every year bigger than the Super Bowl. But, hey if you you want to tell yourself they are all dumb hicks, have at it. 27 Days ago


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Yahoo News ^ | 2-4-14 | Will lerner
Posted on Tuesday, February 04, 2014 12:57:17 PM by afraidfortherepublic
The game was called "Cross the Line," an ironic title because that's exactly what parents of students at a middle school in Marinette, Wisconsin think the educators did. WLUK Fox 11 News is reporting that Marinette Middle School played the game in which 5th through 8th graders were grouped together and asked to step forward if they had a "yes" answer to questions like, "Do your parents drink?" and "Has anyone in your family been to jail?"
It's unclear who exactly was leading the game. Parent Amanda Fifarek was not happy with the activity, telling WLUK, "It was too personal. It's just things your kids don't need to be disclosing to other kids." It's hard to argue with Ms. Fifarek. 6th grader Sarah Maitlin told the station, "[The school employee] asked if you ever wanted to commit suicide to step forward and then after that she asked if you ever experienced or wanted to cut, to step forward." I'm going to say maybe that kind of conversation is best left to a one-on-one.
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"As a man who was raised in inner-city Washington, I know that many District families believe that sex is more than biological—that it should be a full expression of committed, life-giving love," McGroarty says. "Many families will be horrified that the District education establishment is demeaning sex-related education topics to the level of a standardized test."
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We live in an age of babies. It's official. And I HATE it. Today, as I was fundraising for the YAF 9/11 Never Forget Project, I was pulled into the office of my head of school. I was told to take down the posters we had up, that read "Never Forget" with pictures of various attacks on Americans, such as 9/11, the bombing of the Marine barracks, and a picture of Daniel Pearl with a gun to his head. Now, my head of school said that the picture with the gun was inappropriate. Granted, I do go to a school with kids from Pre-K to 12th. Still, this is a perfect opportunity to educate all children on violence, and the violence committed against Americans. Censorship is part of the problem in this country. What we allow is violence in music, video-games, TV and movies. What we don't allow, is showing real life violence and what its consequences are for innocents.
This is a problem that is plaguing this country, these "helicopter" parents. I know I was subject to it once, because I remember 9/11, but I never understood it until about 5th grade. Parents have become too protective, but in all the wrong ways. Parents have dulled the outside world, playgrounds, schools, extracurriculars etc, so much, that kids go inside. Those studies that say we're addicted to the internet? We're addicted to movies and TV? We're violent because of video-games? Good job worried parent. That's probably your fault. You censor useful things, like literature (Harry Potter etc.) and instead let your kids play Call Of Duty, to go blow a Russian's head off.
This is the epidemic that contributes to America's problem. You know how all us conservative complain on government dependency and such? Well, part of that is due to the fact kids aren't allowed to grow up anymore. They can't go break an arm on the playground, because the playground is plasticized and "safe." They can't learn about violence because God forbid we teach about violence in school, we'll just let kids get desensitized at home without any moral or ethical basis for them to understand what they're watching. The point is, again, kids don't grow up anymore. Therefore, when they're older, and their parents don't want to support them anymore, they turn to Big Daddy, a.k.a., the government.
Yes, this may seem pointless, and rambling, and I am sorry. This is my first post in quite some time. I've been on a school retreat, fundraising for 9/11, at church and taking care of some personal matters. No worry, I should be back now.
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A newborn baby was ripped from its mother's arms by officials from the New Hampshire Division of Family Child Services accompanied by police last night after authorities cited the parents' association with the Oath Keepers organization as one of the primary reasons for the snatch, heralding a shocking new level of persecution where Americans' political beliefs are now being used by the state to kidnap children.
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This week we begin a new series in this column walking through the gospel of John. John's gospel is one of four in the New Testament which gives the account of Jesus' life and ministry while He walked on this earth. Gospel means good news! And these gospels present to us the "good news" that Jesus Christ came to live a life we couldn't live, die for the sin we couldn't pay for, and rise again from the dead that we might have eternal life through faith in Him. And that gives us purpose for life!
The other accounts (Matthew, Mark, Luke) were written to relate specifically to the Jews, Romans, and Greeks; but John's gospel was written to the whole world, telling the world of God's plan of new life through a relationship with Jesus. Probably the most quoted verse in all of the Bible is John 3:16, "For God so loved the WORLD that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish, but have eternal life (NASB)!" The key verse of the book of John is found in chapter 20, verse 31: "These things have been written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing you may have life in His Name (NASB)!" The gospel of John was written as proof that Jesus is God's Son, in fact, God Himself in the flesh! John does this by recording His WORDS (what Jesus said about Himself), His WORKS (the miracles Jesus performed), and His eye WITNESSES (what others testified about Him). The only conclusion that can be reached after seeing His works and hearing His words and the words of the witnesses is: Jesus is God in the flesh! Yet, many people missed who He was. Have you?
Some interesting parallels are found between the Genesis account of creation and John's account of the new creation Jesus came to give us. In Genesis 1:1 it says, "In the beginning God..."; and in John 1:1 it says, "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things came into being by Him, and apart from Him nothing came into being…(NASB)." These verses are, of course, talking about Jesus Christ being that "Word" who was there in the beginning. In Genesis, as we read about God's creative acts we see that God "spoke" everything into existence through His "word"; and in John, Jesus is the "living Word" spoken to us. In Genesis, the first creative act on earth was "light"; and in John 8:12, Jesus calls Himself "the Light of the world". Jesus was there in the beginning when life began, and because of this, He is able to give us a new beginning by trusting in Him!
As we walk through this gospel together, remember this: What we read here is God's WORD to you, it is God's WILL for you, and it is what God wants to use to WORK in you! As you and I decide to believe it, choose to receive it, and are determined to see Jesus in it, we will never be the same! My prayer as you read this column in the many weeks to come is that they will be encouraging words to you, God will use His Word to speak to you wherever you are in your life and walk with Him, and you will find His wonderful purpose for your life. That purpose begins with a personal relationship with Jesus Christ, the Son of God, and it continues as we choose each day to follow Him and let Him make adjustments in our lives!
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Feb 10, 2012 11:52 AMOne of the recurring themes in the financial press in recent years is a warning to income-oriented investors not to pile into dividend-paying stocks to boost portfolio income. The Wall Street Journal has a recent article on this topic titled, "Why Dividend Stocks Aren't the New Bonds." This article is motivated by the fact that $17 billion flowed into equity-income funds in 2010 even as $80 billion flowed out of U.S. equity funds.
The arguments made by the WSJ article are similar to those in a November 2011 blog post by Vanguard's Chief Economist, Joe Davis, titled "Dividend-Paying Stocks Are Not Bonds." Similar thinking on this topic can also be found in a 2010 article by Larry Swedroe, a well-known advisor and financial columnist, titled "Why a High-Dividend Stock Strategy Isn't a Good Approach."
The main implication of these articles is that investors are simply chasing yield and are moving money from low-yield Treasury bonds into higher-yield dividend-paying stocks. This may be true, but there are some ideas that show up quite frequently in these debates over the relative merits of dividend stocks vs. bonds that do not get sufficient attention.
A central theme of these articles is that investors do not understand that dividend-paying stocks are (in general) riskier than bonds, and that simply looking at yield is likely to lead them into ramping up the risk levels in their portfolios. This concern is certainly valid. As I show below, dividend stock funds tend to be much riskier than intermediate government bond funds. There is, however, a crucially important point that seems to get lost in this discussion: With the yields on Treasury bonds as low as they are, there are very rational reasons to adjust allocations to reduce the exposure to Treasury bonds and increase exposure to dividend-paying stocks.
I explored this topic in a previous Portfolioist post titled, "Burton Malkiel: Buy Munis, Foreign Bonds and Dividend Stocks," which was based on a December Op Ed piece by Burton Malkiel. Malkiel, who may be largely credited with providing the intellectual foundation for simple indexed portfolios, proposes that the current state of the market is so extreme that traditional bond allocations need to be reconsidered. In particular, he believes that the yield of Treasury bonds is so low that the long-term inflation-adjusted yield on these bonds is likely to be negative, and proposes that municipal bonds and dividend-paying stocks should see increased allocations, while Treasury bonds should see their allocations reduced. Not surprisingly, Malkiel's position was denounced by index fund purists who believe that such a change in basic asset allocation smacks of market timing.
To really think through the idea of substituting income asset classes for all (or part of) a Treasury bond allocation, it is crucial to compare both the yields and risks of possible asset allocations. By way of example, I have selected a number of ETFs that represent different parts of the income-generating asset universe (see table below).
Sample of Asset Classes and Representative ETFs.
It is straightforward to obtain the yields for these ETFs. It is also simple to obtain the historical risk levels of the individual ETFs (from Morningstar, for example). Calculating the historical volatility of a portfolio is a little harder, and calculating a forward-looking simulation of risk is considerably more involved. In the table below, I have compiled these figures for a number of alternative portfolios.
Model Portfolios: Yield vs. Risk (Historical Risk is Trailing 3-Year Volatility and Projected Risk is From Mone Carlo Simulations.)
The first 'portfolio' is 100% allocated to an intermediate Treasury fund (IEF). This ETF has a 2.5% yield as of this writing and historical and projected risk levels that are very similar. What does 7% volatility mean? My standard rule of thumb is that you can lose roughly twice the volatility in a plausible 'worst case.' So, with IEF you are getting paid 2.5% in yield and may face roughly 14% - 15% in losses in a really bad 12-month period. The most recent Consumer Price Index data shows a 12-month change of 3%, so the yield of this fund is below the rate of inflation.
An investor who allocated 1/3 of his money into each of the three representative dividend-oriented stock funds (DVY, SDY, and VIG) would end up with a higher yield (2.9%) but a vastly higher risk level, with historical volatility of 16.8% and projected future volatility of 17.9%. In other words, such a portfolio has slightly higher yield than the Treasury fund but more than twice the risk. This hardly seems like a good tradeoff. I would imagine that this sort of simple-minded substitution is what authors are warning against. This is not the whole story, however.
The third sample portfolio in the table above is a simple combination of 20% allocated to dividend stocks (DVY), 40% allocated to investment-grade corporate bonds (LQD), and 40% allocated to a national insured municipal bond fund (PZA). This portfolio has 4.1% yield, markedLY higher than that of the Treasury fund, and also has less risk than the Treasury fund on a trailing and forward-looking basis. Even if we are willing to raise the maximum risk level of our model portfolio to 7.7% (the projected volatility for a 100% allocation to IEF), there is no allocation to Treasuries that will raise the yield of this portfolio.
It is important for anyone contemplating this type of substitution to understand that while the risk levels of the portfolio yielding 4.1% above is similar in magnitude to that of the intermediate Treasury index, the sources of risk are different. The returns from IEF have a -98% correlation to the 10-year Treasury yield. All of the risk in IEF is interest rate risk. In the portfolio that mixes dividend stocks with muni bonds and corporate bonds, the return has only a -9% correlation to the 10-year Treasury yield. The risk in this portfolio is a combination of interest rate risk, corporate default risk, municipal default risk, and market risk.
What these results demonstrate is that while it is correct that simply replacing bonds with dividend-paying stocks is quite likely to result in a massive increase in portfolio risk, there are intelligent arguments which support investors scaling back on their allocations to Treasury bonds and adding allocations to dividend-paying stocks. The key to this process is to properly balance risk vs. yield.
I deeply hope that there are not a lot of investors who sell Treasury bonds and buy dividend-paying stocks simply because the stocks have higher yield. The possibility of such an ill-advised decision does not, however, detract from the fact that there are sensible ways to scale back Treasury exposure and increase allocations to other asset classes with more attractive yield-to-risk characteristics.
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WESTWOOD, Calif. (KABC) -- Three fountains on the UCLA campus were hit by pranksters - the water was colored a rather suspicious red.
The targeted fountains included the inverted fountain near the school's Knudsen Hall, the Shapiro Fountain in front of Royce Hall and the fountain at UCLA's Sculpture Garden.
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"One of our students will get them back," said UCLA football player David Carter. "Our students are smarter than theirs anyways. So we will find a better way to get them back."
"I think the Trojans should be worried about retaliation of some blue and gold because Bruins don't stand for that," said UCLA student Veronica West.
UCLA campus police say there are no other reports of vandalism, at least not yet. But based on the long history of pranks between the two schools, the Trojan Knights are watching Tommy Trojan closely.
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The New York Yankees made their first roster move of the spring earlier tonight, announcing the acquisition of a new relief pitcher. The team has picked up RHP Shawn Kelley from the Seattle Mariners. The release from the team is below:
The New York Yankees today announced they have acquired right-handed pitcher Shawn Kelley from the Seattle Mariners in exchange for minor league outfielder Abraham Almonte.
Kelley, 28, went 2-4 and posted a 3.25 ERA (44.1IP, 16ER, 44H, 15BB, 45K) in 47 appearances over three stints with Seattle in 2012, averaging more than one strikeout per inning. Additionally, he made 14 appearances for Triple-A Tacoma, going 2-0 with 6 saves and a 0.90 ERA (20.0 IP, 9H, 2ER, 4BB, 0HR) with 25 strikeouts.
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Originally selected in the 13th round of the First-Year Player draft by Seattle, Kelley has a 10-9 career record with a 3.52 ERA (128.0IP, 121H, 50ER, 39BB, 122K, 19HR) over parts of four Major League seasons with the Mariners. In six minor league seasons, he has an 8-3 record with a 1.78 ERA (121.2IP, 92H, 24ER, 39BB, 7HR) with 138 strikeouts.
In a corresponding roster move, 3B Alex Rodriguez has been placed on the 60-day disabled list. The Yankees 40-man roster stands at 40 players.
Kelley offers a fastball/slider combination in his arsenal, typically sitting 92-93 MPH with his fastball. However, he is a fly ball pitcher (28% ground ball rate in 2012), which is a style that may not play well in Yankee Stadium. With the major league bullpen largely set, Kelley will likely head to Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre to start the season.
In Almonte, the Yankees give up a young center fielder who was, at best, the sixth or seventh best outfield prospect in the farm system. Almonte hit .276 in 78 games with Double-A Trenton last season and stole 30 bases in 35 attempts and was named a midseason All-Star in the Eastern League.
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Dangling miniature Christmas lights and plastic fish combined with tin pails of saltine crackers on all the tables give this dim, narrow seafood eatery in the middle of the Park Cities a surprising slightly laid-back, urban seaport feel. Start out with a batch of iced, fresh oysters on the half shell. If the famous slither of the damp raw creatures doesn't do it for you, try the oyster nachos--tortilla chips topped with chipotle tartar sauce, fried oysters and pico de gallo. If you're not dieting, fried catfish tacos, a basket of thick waffle fries and a cold longneck make a glorious combination. Half Shells is tiny, and they don't take reservations, so plan on a wait during peak hours. The bar crammed in the back is a pleasant spot to pass the time--that is, if you can negotiate a seat.
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