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ergot er·got (ûr'gət, -gŏt')
A fungus that infects various cereal plants and forms compact black masses of branching filaments that replace many of the grains of the host plant.
The dried sclerotia of ergot, usually obtained from rye seed and used as a source of several medicinally important alkaloids and as the basic source of lysergic acid.
A fungus (Claviceps purpurea) that infects rye as well as other cereal grasses fed to livestock. Ergot forms sclerotia (masses of hyphae) that replace individual seeds in the spike of the infected plant and contain a complex mixture of alkaloids, several of which are medicinally important. Ergot is the basic source of ergotamine and lysergic acid. Ingestion of infected rye produces convulsions, hallucinations, and severe vasoconstriction that can lead to gangrene. Ergot poisoning may have been responsible for outbreaks of mass hysteria and reports of demonic visions in medieval Europe.


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Priced Right!!! No cleaning fees in Hot Springs
- bedrooms 3
- baths 2
- sleeps 6
- pool no
- hot tub no
- pets allowed yes
- type House
- community Fountain Lake
rates (USD)
/ night
$ 700 - $ 1,000 / week
$ 1,800 - $ 2,500 / month
vacation rental description
This vacation rental is located just 5 miles from downtown Hot Springs and BathHouse Row. It is a mere 7 miles from Oaklawn Horse racing and casino facilities. Magic Springs and Crystal Falls amusement park is 10 minutes away from this rental. It is Nestled in a beautiful valley with an overlook of a small private lake (or large pond, has 50ft. dam with spillway). The drive is a scenic experience in itself. The area is so wooded, each season offers a new visual of beautiful foliage.
After a full day of tourist attractions, you will feel you have stepped into a whole new environment for a peaceful evening. Many deer in the area.
This rental is 1500 square feet. It has log siding but modern inside.
Small pets allowed if potty trained and cause no damage. Pet deposit is $100 non refundable.
There is a wal-mart approx. 10 minutes away, near the Hot Springs Village area. A Sonic is approx 5 min. away. (CALANDER IS ACCURATE)
house rental amenities
Full Kitchen, king bed, queen bed, two twin beds
washer and dryer, fire pit, patio, grill, hbo/cinemax
2 flat screen tv's
Wifi Internet
activities and attractions in Hot Springs Arkansas
Oaklawn horse racing and casino facilities
Magic Springs and Crystal falls amusment park
Bath House Row, shopping, art, duck rides, golf,
Lake Hamilton, jet ski rental,party barge rentals,mini golf, Horse and carriage rides
Old Mill Wedding Chapel, 2 miles away
vacation rental rates
2 night minimum stay NO CLEANING FEE NO PET FEE
Accept Visa/Mastercard, Credit card info required, even if paying cash for security purposes
$150 to $200 a night, depending on # of people, season and demand
IF WIFI NEEDED 2 nights $20, 3 nights $25, 4 to 5 nights $35, 6 to 7 nights $40
$700 to $1000 a week depending on # of people, season and demand

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Ambergeddon - Ale Asylum
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Ratings: 449 | Reviews: 160 | Display Reviews Only:
Reviews by scaliasux:
4.7/5 rDev +18.4%
Appearance - Medium dark amber. Cloudy. Thick, creamy tannish head with good persistence. Looks outstanding.
Smell - Sweet caramel maltiness. Hops clearly present - pine and orange.
Taste - Sweet caramel beginning quickly overwhelmed by strong citrus hops character, a little pine too. Flavorful and a very nice balance.
Mouthfeel - Medium. Crisp.
Overall - High quality beer from a local brewer that's largely overshadowed by better known high-quality local brewers. This is probably their best known offering, though, with a well deserved following.
07-14-2011 04:08:45 | More by scaliasux
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4.43/5 rDev +11.6%
Im leery of lumping hop bomb reds like this and Troegs Nugget Nectar in with the likes of Capital Amber or Leinies Red. It almost seems like cheating. Comparatively, all regular reds and ambers should get straight ones or twos when held up to imperials like this and so I find my self reviewing three styles of beer, (Amber, Red, and Imp. Red), within one category on BA. Despite my hesitancy to rate the imperials considerably higher than perfectly drinkable but much less hopped reds and ambers, I have to admit that this is one kick-but beer. Appearance is a dark amber-red with orange hues and a thin creamy off white head. Aromas of pine resin and grapefruit are strong. Malts are present but the decent toffee/caramel backbone is largely overshadowed by huge citrus hops. This beer is juicy, pulpy, 100% grapefruit. Its damn delicious, very bitter, but with a creamy finish reminiscent of Dreadnaught. I will even go as far as to say that this is the best of Ale Asylums initial 10 offerings.
06-15-2006 16:43:30 | More by DaPeculierDane
4/5 rDev +0.8%
09-04-2013 00:27:52 | More by mull0263
3.25/5 rDev -18.1%
03-01-2014 03:03:49 | More by dmheinz57
4.53/5 rDev +14.1%
Thanks to my friend Brian for donating this to the cause.
A: Nice solid red amber. Hint of haze. Creamy colored soft finger head dissipated to a thin layer and ring but is with you throughout. Lacing is pretty good - abstract spottiness.
S: Light and uplifting citrus smell. Mostly lemony for me. The caramel malt and typical sour ale is there but the citrus is dominant and thank goodness because it is lovely. There may be a hint of sweet floral there too.
T: I got some peppery notes up front with the typical caramel and breadiness following. There throughout but farther back on the palate is the citrus hop. The citrus has some sweetness coming through also. The finish goes into a dry and bitter hop aftertaste. It never delivers a big hop bite but it is pleasing nonetheless.
M: Medium body. Malt makes it feel quick full and creamy. The medium to low carb works well and keeps it lively.
D: I was expecting more of a hop kick from this beer based on the description. Having said that, I really enjoyed it and knocked it back so quickly, I was sad that I didn't have another. I am really developing a taste for reds that have an American IPA aggressiveness to them.
09-01-2009 02:38:00 | More by sgoodship
4.33/5 rDev +9.1%
Enjoyed on tap at Ale Asylum in Madison, WI. Pours a hazy, dark amber body with an off-white head that lasts. Aroma is of light caramel with floral hops. Mouthfeel is medium bodied with toasted caramel flavors and a nice bitterness in the finish. Great drinkability, I'd buy a 6 pack of this.
11-27-2009 20:34:53 | More by blackearth
3.75/5 rDev -5.5%
07-03-2014 02:01:23 | More by Punchy_Munchie
4/5 rDev +0.8%
08-15-2012 03:42:19 | More by danthehopslamman
4.25/5 rDev +7.1%
03-10-2014 21:16:52 | More by flixmex
New Hampshire
4.22/5 rDev +6.3%
I tried this at the Ale Asylum and ended up buying a 6 pack to go.
The head was about a inch high. The darker reddish amber color was quite a bit darker than I expected for an "amber" but very clear and bright. Much more hoppy aroma than I expected but very pleasant, I couldn't really detect any malt though.
The malt flavor was subdued after the initial taste but a strong hop finish. Very different to most any other amber I've tried.
The body was full and the bartender told me the alcohol was 7.5%.
No problem drinking a couple of these after I got to my final destination. But the question remains, is it an amber? To me I would describe it as American strong ale more like an Arrogant Bastard or a Eye of the Hawk than the typical amber. I'll buy more if and when I find it again.
07-30-2007 12:40:13 | More by Doppelmax
4.72/5 rDev +18.9%
Pours an excellent orange and amber color with a big white head that left great lacing and retained very well. Smell is full of pungent grapefruit and citrus hops. The beer was poured cold into a regular pint glass, not exactly the best for accenting aromas, but it still had plenty of aroma coming right to me. Taste has a good malt background, even a touch of biscuit in there while still having the hops be the leaders. It was nice to be able to have a malt background and still be pummeled with hops, one of the hoppier beers I've had as of late. Higher than medium bodied with medium carbonation levels, just seemed to fit very well with this one. Very drinkable, I could drink this by the pitcher, and perhaps I'll just have to do that next time. Excellent beer here, this is worth seeking out.
03-12-2007 19:01:37 | More by badbeer
2.91/5 rDev -26.7%
Picked up a sixer of this for the Packer/49er playoff game, wasn't a huge fan of it then or the outcome of that game, reviewing while watching the Super Bowl.
A-Significant chill haze, ruddy amber color with a thin finger of off-white head that quickly recedes to a skim.
S-Lots of hops (spicy, earthy, citrus, grass) upfront with some caramel, toasted graininess as well.
T-Hops hit you hard, like the aroma they are earthy and spicy with a lingering bitterness overwhelming the malt.
M-Medium bodied and carbonated with a lingering bitter finish.
O-Definitely a beer for the hophead, this one is too much for someone looking for a traditional amber ale. If the hops were toned down a bit this one has potential, just not balanced enough.
02-03-2013 23:33:48 | More by deebo
4.25/5 rDev +7.1%
11-14-2011 15:35:33 | More by bpfrush
4.29/5 rDev +8.1%
Poured from a 12 oz. bottle into a Sam Adams "Perfect Pint" glass. No bottling date marked.
Appearance: Pours a deep brownish amber orange with a lot of rising bubbles. Big four finger off white head with good retention. Leaves a lot of creamy lacing around the glass.
Smell: An assertive hoppy aroma with lots of balancing sweet caramel malts. A spicy smell of herbal, earthy, and grassy hops with some pine resin. Hints of citrus orange peel, tangerine, lemon, and grapefruit. Big malt presence with hints of sweet caramel, toffee, toast, biscuit, and yeast. Fairly damp smelling with a good balance of hops and malts. Solid aroma.
Taste: Like the aroma hints at, a bold and well balanced taste of hops and sweet toasty malts. Earthy, grassy, and herbal hops up front with some spicy pine resin. Notes of citrus orange peel, grapefruit, lemon, and tangerine. Solid bready balance with toasted malts giving a taste of sweet caramel, toffee, toast, biscuit, grains, and yeast. Strikes a really good balance between the spicy and bitter hops and the sweet malt.
Mouthfeel: Medium bodied with a moderate amount of carbonation. Creamy, chewy, and very smooth.
Overall: A very good hopped up Red Ale. Kind of reminds me of Great Lakes Nosferatu. Bold hops with a big malty backing.
03-13-2013 07:04:10 | More by MattyG85
4/5 rDev +0.8%
12-16-2011 01:14:39 | More by tyleeis
3.9/5 rDev -1.8%
A darker color amber flows out the bottle. Sizeable beige meets off white head develops, in around the 1" variety. Aroma of malty roasted nuts. Aroma also imparts more hops than most amber ales. Honey like sweetness along with it.
Taste, still heavy handed with the hopping, and I mean that in a good way. Lots of caramel, not really much in the way of toffee. Syrupy, yet drinks like it is light bodied at the same time. Carbonation is appropriate for what this beer has going for it. Drinks like a hybrid of a pale ale, ipa and amber ale. Grapefruit and caramel equate to a bitterness that is far from a one trick pony. This stuff is a decent option if there is no nugget nectar around (taste is different than the nugget hop, but you get the idea).
The sweetness that comes out a little as it warms gives you a little light barleywine vibe, without the excess malt or alcohol.
Alcohol remains in the background. Wow, its almost 7%! Score! Butter and dry through the finish.
Thanks to the extra from someone in Wisconsin!
03-26-2013 18:43:27 | More by Beerandraiderfan
West Virginia
4/5 rDev +0.8%
09-17-2013 22:19:51 | More by williamjbauer
4.25/5 rDev +7.1%
08-25-2014 23:44:44 | More by Zonian1
4.2/5 rDev +5.8%
(Served in an American pint glass)
A- This beer has a golden dark orange body with a white head of foam. A faint hazy but a gentle carbonation was still visible.
S- The faint spice and green hops had a pine note in the background.
T- The taste of dry pale malt had a light toasted malt flavor to it with a spicy pine hop finish. I got the sense that there was a faint hint of ginger in the spice but it could have been sitting to close to my friends Hopalicous. The hops did have a nice exotic spice to them.
M- This beer has a medium light mouthfeel and a smooth texture.
D-This beer was very drinkable while being a big beer in terms of flavor. Nice complex malt and big exotic hops this well worth the stop at Ale Asylum.
06-29-2006 23:12:16 | More by rhoadsrage
3.5/5 rDev -11.8%
12-15-2013 02:43:57 | More by richkrull
4/5 rDev +0.8%
07-16-2013 20:01:00 | More by Fuzzycuffs
4.4/5 rDev +10.8%
Ambergeddon was a focal point in a recent trade with BYOFB, so many thanks to him for helping me get a try at a great beer.
It's beautifully creamy on the pour, as a brown head is churned up thickly and settles about 2 fingers tall, then refuses to go anywhere for awhile. The only thing better would be if the head had remained the entire time, though it sticks around for some time. The brew itself is a thick brown with orange hues, and it's no joke that this is an unfiltered beer. Fantastic lacing is left in clumps.
The aroma explodes out the bottle very nicely but, interestingly, softens after that. Bitter hops balance with enough sweet malts to balance, floral and herbal in the hops but with a distinct citrus and touch of tropical fruits as well against a caramel malts presence with some biscuit beside.
The flavor is outstanding, and I'm glad I got two bottles; both were dated the same but one, apparently, was slightly off. The first was not as hoppy as I expected with a bit of a briny finish. In the second bottle, I got all that I expected and no brine at all. All the same herbal, floral, citrus and tropical fruits hop flavor comes out with an additional grassiness and balances with the same caramel malts with light grains undertones and the biscuit turning a little more like fresh dough. The hops are the key, though, and the complexity is outstanding, especially for something with such good balance.
The mouthfeel is smooth and silky, not neglecting crispness but never losing its creamy heft, with a nice depth. The body is medium and it's semi-dry.
I'm glad I got to try this one. The hype is deserved.
09-15-2011 23:55:40 | More by Brenden
4.25/5 rDev +7.1%
07-31-2012 02:26:58 | More by InVinoVeritas
4/5 rDev +0.8%
12-17-2012 14:20:38 | More by UWBadgerFan4Life
4.55/5 rDev +14.6%
Generally clear rusted goldenrod edged with a tight and sticky khaki draping.
The nose issues notes of hard caramel, almonds, Bing cherries, orange peels, grapefruit juice, and desiccated August gardens.
Ushers into the mouth, with the flailing hop spume creating undertows in the gentler malt wave. It rises first with a toasted sense of nuttiness and breads, with almonds, walnuts, and phantoms of rye. It sweetens at the crest, full of monkeybread, peanut brittle, and frosted apple turnovers. It crashes thunderously. Churning citric pulp of grapefruit, lime, and orange, and rasps it across a bed of rosewater and dried lilac. The citric hues ebb as the rip current of floral dry notes surges back across the tongue. It recedes with a ferocious pull of black pepper. The remaining wash lingers with churning eddies of dried herb spiciness.
Moderate in to and across the mouth. For a beer as dynamic as this, the structure seems a bit spare. But that may indeed be its glory. The slightly thin feel enables this to be gulped, if not ultimately inhaled and drowned upon.
07-18-2007 07:20:39 | More by cokes
Ambergeddon from Ale Asylum
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Well in the middle one it looks like you actually used the render as the bg and used adjustments but I could be wrong.
Middle one is defiently my favorite just seems better than the other two to me. (Could just be the girl in it but who knows )
Only thing I don't like on the 3rd one is that really white bright light (brush maybe) on the predator's face.
Its just a little too bright for me even though it helps with blending. o_o
But all in all, they are all really good, really nice work Skorm. :D


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PLATTSBURGH — A local doggie daycare has installed state-of-the-art artificial turf in its outdoor play yard.
Deidre Berman, who owns Canine Adventures with her husband, Greg, said they installed about 4,600 square feet of artificial turf in the fenced-in play area in early May.
"It has many, many benefits," Berman said.
The material is low maintenance and allows liquids to drain through to five-inches of sand below. It eliminates holes and trenches the dogs used to dig in the play yard, which makes the area safer for both dogs and humans.
Dog owners happy
Her clients are happier, Berman said, because the dogs now come home very clean.
The project was funded with a $20,000 grant through the Town of Plattsburgh's Microenterprise Grant Program. Berman said that to qualify, she had to hire at least one new employee and attend business training provided by the North Country Small Business Development Center.
There is also an 1,800-square-foot interior play area featuring a rubber floor, which is better on a dog's joints.
Canine Adventure opened in 2008, and only offered doggie daycare at that time. Grooming was offered for awhile, but the business now offers training classes instead.
Those are provided by Canine Adventure Head Trainer Deb DeSilva, who is also president of the Clinton County Canine Club. She has 25 years experience as a communications professor in college, which she is now applying to both people and their canine companions.
DeSilva said she is a certified American Kennel Club Good Citizen and Socialization, Training, Activity and Responsibility (S.T.A.R.) Puppy Evaluator. She has earned more than 75 continuing education units from dog-training workshops and plans to take the Certification Council for Professional Dog Trainers exam in September.
Canine Adventure offers a wide variety of group and individual training classes from off-leash puppy training for dogs from 10 weeks to 24 weeks old on up. Consultations for advice on choosing the right breed of dog are also available.
The idea is to get dogs socialized as early as possible, after which they are ready to attend daycare. Berman said puppies are often isolated from other dogs and can be overwhelmed when they first interact with other dogs.
Focuses on positive
DeSilva said her training is all based on positive reinforcement, not aversion techniques such as prong or shock collars. That may take a little longer, she said, but is more likely to last longer.
"Our goal is to help them become well-rounded," Berman said.
Play groups are organized by the size of the dog. There is one staff member for every 10 dogs.
The center has a lot of interactive toys to provide pets with mental stimulation.
"That can really lower their negative behaviors," Berman said.
Staff from Canine Adventure have made presentations in schools and child day-care centers on interaction with dogs.
Canine Adventure started a small retail business about a year ago. Berman carries a variety of high-quality foods, treats, toys and dog accessories.
She said most people don't realize you should change the type of food a dog eats periodically so it has a more well-balanced diet. DeSilva said that can also help prevent pets from developing allergies.
Originally from Plattsburgh, Berman worked as a veterinary technician while earning a degree in Animal Behavior and Psychology.
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She trained domesticated animals at SeaWorld Adventure Parks and was later assistant manager of a large doggie daycare in Virginia.
After she returned to Plattsburgh, Canine Adventures was launched due to her fascination with watching dogs interact.
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For more information, visit www.canine-adventure.com or call 562-0552.
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The Target security breach and the Snowden revelations about NSA surveillance have raised awareness of data privacy to new levels, making Data Privacy Day more relevant than ever in 2014. And yes, Data Privacy Day is a real thing, observed on January 28.
News of Amazon's plans to use aerial drones to deliver packages raises the prospect of clashing values in areas like use of air space and technology, not to mention privacy and plain old malice.
Domestic violence is not something that gets discussed much in information security circles, but there are few people that need advice on assuring their online safety more urgently than victims of stalking and domestic abuse. What can people do to protect themselves when there is a known and persistent threat?
This is a quick reminder that the September 23 deadline for compliance with the new HIPAA regulations is rapidly approaching. Organizations that handle protected health information (PHI) need to be sure they are up to speed on the changes and ready to withstand scrutiny. In general, you will need new NPPs and BAAs (Notices of
An infographic of recent healthcare IT security statistics paints a striking picture of much security work yet to be done, even as new medical privacy regulations go into effect.
Is your company ready for September 23, 2013, the deadline for compliance with HIPAA 2.0? The revised omnibus privacy and security regulations incorporating HITECH expose a lot more companies to possible fines.
The Xbox One Kinect microphone – one of the hi-tech new features of Microsoft's new Xbox One console – has raised security concerns since it "listens" to users even when the console is turned off.
Britain's hi-tech government intelligence agency GCHQ should know better than to send passwords in plain text via email – but has been doing so due to "legacy systems", it admitted in a statement this week.
A prototype multi-cursor system designed to improve the security of on screen password entry has been posted onto DigInfo, the Tokyo based news site that promotes cutting edge technology from Japan.
Results from an eight country Accenture survey shows that US doctors surveyed have mixed feelings about electronic patient records (EPR). While some 82 percent want patients to update their own records, only a third (31 percent) believe they should have full access.
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A French-Moroccan national was jailed by a Dublin court after being found guilty of hacking into the business accounts of an online betting company, according to the Irish Independent.
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In our last post (part 1 of 2), we dove into Facebook timeline privacy and security, prompted by the universal imposition of the timeline view that is currently under way on the world's largest social network. In this second part, we continue reviewing our Facebook timeline from other people's perspective, using a tool called View
With the recent announcements of password breaches at LinkedIn, and warnings from Google about state-sponsored attacks on Gmail accounts, it seems like a good idea now to review some password security basics. In this blog post, we're going to take a look at a rather low-tech solution to a decidedly high-tech problem: How to guard
Like Facebook, Twitter wants to know which websites you visit and so it has a system for tracking you as you click from site to site, a fact that leads to a pair of interesting questions: "Did you know that?" and "Are you okay with that?" As we will see in a moment, this system
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Attention CEOs and HR Managers: Facebook login credentials belonging to current or prospective employees are not something that any employer should request, use, or posses. Why? Apart from the violation of security and privacy principles? The risks far outweigh any benefit you imagine you could gain by logging into a social media account that does


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Alumnae Association Board of Directors
The board of directors provides guidance and leadership to the Alumnae Association of Smith College. Directors have a range of experience and expertise that benefits the Association, its staff, and alumnae. If you would like to be considered for a director's position, please click here.
Kathleen (Kate) Barnes Grant '75
Portland, OR
President, 2013–2017
|SMITH VOLUNTEER EXPERIENCE: Member, AASC Nominating Committee; member, board of counselors; NAAC for Western states; Alumnae Admission Coordinator; class secretary; president, secretary, and member, Smith College Club of Oregon.
PROFESSIONAL AND CIVIC EXPERIENCE: Counselor, college counselor, dean of students, Catlin Gabel School; director of advising, Lewis & Clark College; dean of first-year students, Wellesley; senior assistant director of admission, Smith; board member, Journeys of the Heart Adoption Services; Sunday school teacher, Unitarian Universalist Association; college counselor, Minds Matter.
Laura Thomas Rivero '84
|Miami, Florida
|Vice president, 2011–2014
|SMITH VOLUNTEER EXPERIENCE: Chair, AASC Nominating Committee; Alumnae Association Regional Coordinator (AARC) for Florida; class Fund agent (25th reunion); former president, Smith College Club of Miami.
|PROFESSIONAL AND CIVIC EXPERIENCE: Assistant United States Attorney, specializing in criminal and civil appellate law.
Erika Smith Brewer '86
|New York, New York
|Treasurer, 2011–2014
|SMITH VOLUNTEER EXPERIENCE: Class Fund agent; secretary and Fund team coordinator; board of trustees, Smith College Club of New York City; chair, Membership Committee; Theater Benefit Committee.
|PROFESSIONAL AND CIVIC EXPERIENCE: General manager, The Wallace Dillman and Brewer Family Farms; vice president, JPMorgan Chase and predecessor banks; treasurer and chair of finance and development committees, Calhoun School Board; treasurer, brown bag program, Christ and St. Stephen's Episcopal Church; board of trustees, The Brownstone School; board president, Yerkes Cemetery Association; chair of planning and budget, St. Bartholomew's Episcopal Church Vestry; volunteer, Gay Men's Health Crisis Child Life Program.
Olwen O'Herlihy Dowling AC '95
Huntington, MA
|Clerk, 2012–2015
|SMITH VOLUNTEER EXPERIENCE: Member, Smith Medal Committee; founder and chair, Ada Alumnae Art Exhibition; member, Hampshire County Smith College Club.
PROFESSIONAL AND CIVIC EXPERIENCE: Visual artist in oil, watercolor, printmaking—intaglio etching, and scenic design; exhibitions in the United States, Ireland, and Europe; member, National Association of Women Artists and New England Watercolor Society. More than two decades of experience in theater management and production, including the Miniature Theatre of Chester (MA); the Great Lakes Shakespeare Festival; the Blackstone Theatre; the Abbey Theatre and Olympia Theatre Dublin in Ireland; and the Apollo Theatre London. Member, Actors' Equity Association; executive and associate director, Northampton Center for the Arts; summer program events coordinator, Smith.
Susan Cernek '02
|New York, NY
|Director, Communications Liaison, 2013–2017
|SMITH VOLUNTEER EXPERIENCE: Invite former professors' classes into workplace each semester and lead a panel discussion with colleagues on the fashion and publishing world; regularly hire and mentor Smith interns.
PROFESSIONAL AND CIVIC EXPERIENCE: Fashion development director, Glamour, which includes helming designer collaborations, new-product development, social strategy and special initiatives; previous fashion director, Glam Media; previous fashion features editor, Elle magazine.
Jo Deutsch '82
Cheverly, MD
Director, 2013–2017
|SMITH VOLUNTEER EXPERIENCE: Member, Smith College Club of Washington, D.C.; host Smith interns.
PROFESSIONAL AND CIVIC EXPERIENCE: Federal director, Freedom to Marry; more than 26 years of experience in the labor movement as the head of government affairs programs at the Association of Flight Attendants– CWA, American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, and the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union; at-large board member, Americans for Democratic Action; board member, National Stonewall Democrats; volunteer, Girl Scouts; community artist and homeschooling organizer for public arts project; fundraiser for school.
Megan Gardner '98
|San Francisco, CA
|Director at Large, 2012–2015
|SMITH VOLUNTEER EXPERIENCE: Led class Fund team; treasurer, Smith College Club of San Francisco; member, Smith College clubs of New York, Boston, Minneapolis, and San Francisco.
PROFESSIONAL AND CIVIC EXPERIENCE: CEO, PlumDistrict e-commerce and online community for mothers; director, strategy and business development, Ameriprise Financial; Harvard Business School Leadership Fellow; senior associate, investment banking, SoundView Technology; investment banking, Deutsche Bank.
Ileana Jimenez '97
|New York, NY
|Chair, Affinity and Special Interest Group Committee (ASIC), 2013–2017
|SMITH VOLUNTEER EXPERIENCE: ASIC, founding member, 2007; Association of Latina Alumnae of Smith (ALAS); LGBTQ Alumnae Alliance; Smith Book Award coordinator; alumnae admissions; Smith Women in Education panelist, 2011; keynote speaker, Smith Discovery Weekend, 2008.
PROFESSIONAL AND CIVIC EXPERIENCE: Educator and activist; founder and sole blogger, feministteacher.com; recipient, 2011 Distinguished Fulbright Award in Teaching for research on creating safe schools for LGBT youth in Mexico City; founder, New York Independent Schools LGBT Educators Group; faculty associate, Bard Institute for Writing & Thinking; board member, Astraea Foundation; education blogger for Care2, Feministing, Gender Across Borders, The Huffington Post, Ms. magazine, On the Issues, Smith Alumnae Quarterly and the Women's Media Center.
Dale LaFleur '93
|Tuscon, Arizona
|Director, 2011–2014
|SMITH VOLUNTEER EXPERIENCE: President, treasurer, member, Smith College Club of Tucson; member, Smith College Club of Seattle.
PROFESSIONAL AND CIVIC EXPERIENCE: Director, institutional relations, Office of Global Initiatives, The University of Arizona; over fourteen years' professional experience in international education focusing on the development of international institutional partnerships and student mobility programs; recipient of a master's in student development administration from Seattle University; member of numerous organizations, including NAFSA: Association of International Educators and the European Association of International Educators; currently pursuing a doctoral degree at the Center for the Study of Higher Education at the University of Arizona; proud mother of two children.
Joan Miller '80
St. Louis, MO
NAAC Chair, 2012–2015
|SMITH VOLUNTEER EXPERIENCE: Region 8 NAAC; vice president, Smith College Club of St. Louis; Book Award coordinator; member, BASC, Gold Key.
PROFESSIONAL AND CIVIC EXPERIENCE: Attorney in private practice, St. Louis. Member, Rotary Club of St. Louis; board member, Boys Hope Girls Hope program committee; member, Women Lawyers Association; member, Mound City Bar Association; volunteer, Legal Advocates for Abused Women.
Sarah Cross Mills '66
Portland, ME
Chair, Clubs and Regional Networks, 2012-2015
SMITH VOLUNTEER EXPERIENCE: Writer, Alumnae Profiles, San Francisco/Marin Smith Club Newsletter; President, San Francisco/Marin Smith Club; Class of 1966 Secretary; Class of 1966 House Rep and 2011 Reunion Participation Chair; President, Maine Smith Club
PROFESSIONAL AND CIVIC EXPERIENCE: Teacher of English and Social Studies, Roslyn, NY, and Brookline, MA; Adjunct Faculty, Institute of Open Education (now Cambridge College); Co-founder, The Teachers' Institute, Brookline, MA; Manager, The est Foundation, San Francisco, CA; Management and FranchiseeTrainer, Supercuts Corporation Headquarters, San Rafael, CA; National Advisory Council, Beyond War Foundation, Palo Alto, CA; Board of Overseers, Walnut Hill School for the Arts, Natick, MA; Portland Regional Advisory Council, Maine Women's Fund, Portland, ME
Rachel Nyback '92
|Hermosa Beach, California
|Director, 2011–2014
|SMITH VOLUNTEER EXPERIENCE: Member, Smith College Club of Los Angeles; admissions volunteer in Los Angeles and Kuwait; class Fund volunteer; 10th Reunion volunteer.
PROFESSIONAL AND CIVIC EXPERIENCE: Rector, St. Cross Episcopal Church in Hermosa Beach, CA; teacher for nine years in public suburban Los Angeles schools and at Universal American School in Kuwait; volunteer with programs for feeding the homeless and AIDS patients; mentor to new clergy; Hermosa Beach police chaplain; lead overseas youth pilgrimages.
Anjana Shakya AC '91
Kathmandu, Nepal
Director at Large, 2012–2015
|SMITH VOLUNTEER EXPERIENCE: Active member of EKTA, Smith's South Asian students' group; actively involved in International Students Day; peer educator for HIV/AIDS and contraception.
PROFESSIONAL AND CIVIC EXPERIENCE: Founder and chairperson, Himalayan Human Rights Monitors and Beyond Beijing Committee; vice chairperson, Global Family Village; co-convener and steering committee member, Asia Pacific Women's Watch; core member, South Asia Women's Watch; member, Fulbright Selection Committee; director, International Institute for Human Rights, Environment, and Development (INHURED) International; chief auditor, labor rights, Verité; program officer, the Asia Foundation.
Leslie Brooks Solomon '82
|New York, NY
|Smith Fund Representative, 2010–2014
|SMITH VOLUNTEER EXPERIENCE: Member, Advancement Committee, Smith Fund cabinet; served as special gifts co-chair, 25th Reunion; class president; special gift agent; class fund agent; vice president, Smith Club of New York.
PROFESSIONAL AND CIVIC EXPERIENCE: Principal and owner, Allomet Partners, LLC; board member, Turnaround Management Association, New York chapter; serve on Temple Shaaray Tefila youth committee; recipient, MBA, Wharton School of Business.
Katharine M. Swibold '82
|Tarrytown, NY
|Chair, Classes Committee, 2013–2017
|SMITH VOLUNTEER EXPERIENCE: Special gifts chair; class agent; class co-vice president (Reunion co-chair); class co-president; member, Westchester and New York City Smith clubs.
|PROFESSIONAL AND CIVIC EXPERIENCE: Executive assistant to vice president for development, Barnard College; member, board of education, Tarrytown; almost 30 years' experience in not-for-profit management, including Sleepy Hollow Tarrytown Chamber of Commerce, the Mental Health Association of Westchester, and the American Farm School; co-founder of a gift-basket business; former board member, Tarrytown/Sleepy Hollow American Youth Soccer Organization, Kendal on Hudson retirement community, elementary school PTA (co-president), and the Foundation for the Public Schools of the Tarrytowns (president); coordinator of summer soccer camp; class volunteer for the Ethel Walker School.
Sarah Trabucchi '00
Brooklyn, NY
Chair, Nominating Committee, 2012–2014
|SMITH VOLUNTEER EXPERIENCE: Member, Nominating Committee; class secretary; alumnae admission volunteer; chair, class of 2000 Fund team.
PROFESSIONAL AND CIVIC EXPERIENCE: New York Times and USA Today bestselling author (under Sarah MacLean); director, corporate communications and media relations, Scholastic; communications and brand manager, City Year New York; publicity director, Goldberg McDuffie Communications; national conference presenter, American Anthropological Association; guest lecturer, anthropology department, Harvard; volunteer, Scholastic Reads; volunteer, Project LEARN adult learning and literacy programs, Rhode Island; volunteer, Transitions to College; volunteer mentor, Girls Write Now; judge, Scholastic Art and Writing Awards; recipient, master's in education, Harvard, 2004.
Catherine Webb '70, MD
|Chicago, Illinois
|Director, 2011–2014
|SMITH VOLUNTEER EXPERIENCE: President, Smith College Club of Ann Arbor, Michigan; board of directors, Smith College Club of Chicago; class Fund agent (25th Reunion); special gifts committee (30th Reunion).
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We're back, and it's juuuuuust starting to get cold outside and half the league has a bye this week, so we must be in Week 7. Or maybe Week 8. Or 9 or 10. Whatever. The middle of the season blends together.
But before we get to this week's games, let's revisit last week. I was at the Eagles-Redskins game this past Sunday, and all things considered it was pretty fantastic.
The weather was perfect, we got to watch Rex Grossman set himself on fire in front of 82,000 people, and likewise, we got to watch a classic Skins fan meltdown. And we even got to see Vince Young! On the whole, you couldn't have asked for a whole lot more. There was just one problem.
You don't realize how dependent you are on the RedZone channel until you're sitting in a stadium and all you have to update you on the rest of the NFL is an analog scoreboard straight outta the 1970s. Yeah, yeah, yeah--if you go to an NFL game you should be focused on the game you're attending. But it still sucks. Doubly so if you happen to be gambling on the other games.
See, no matter what happens with your picks, if you're watching on TV, you can always find some way to rationalize what's going on around the NFL. You can blame a stupid head coach, or a team that got lucky, or a player that dropped a touchdown, or, or...
Yes, that's why you're losing all your money.
There are enough variables in any NFL game that you can always find a way to explain away a few failures, thereby restoring faith in your own expertise.
But in a stadium? All you have is that stupid scoreboard to remind you how stupid you are. And that's how I wound up sitting at FedEx Field feeling like a complete idiot watching my Week 6 picks slowly fall apart this past Sunday without anyone to blame but myself. Watching team after team lose a lead and/or cost you a cover just amounts to a browbeating if you don't at least have someone to blame it on.
In the end it felt like a huge victory to escape the week at 6-6-1. Sure, George Brett said a tie is like kissing your sister. But hey, that's still a kiss. Maybe mediocrity's not so bad, you know? 50 percent of the time, we were dead-on! And yes, "maybe mediocrity isn't so bad" is the new motto of this picks column. Without further ado, this week's games...
As usual, all picks in BOLD.
Chicago at Tampa Bay (PK) ... Every single year we joke about how horrid the London NFL game is, and yet... Somehow it keeps getting worse. Look at the series history in London.
- 2007: Giants 13, Dolphins 10
- 2008: Saints 38, Chargers 32
- 2009: Patriots 35, Bucs 7
- 2010: Broncos 24, 49ers 16
British must think that 75 percent the NFL's the most depressing, mind-numbing shit on earth. Which... You know, if you didn't have Sunday Ticket and/or RedZone, that might not be far off. Did you happen to watch Monday Night Football this past week? I mean, good God.
(BTW: If the UK wants an NFL team, we damn well better get a Premier League team over here.)
Houston at Tennesse (-3) ... If I were going to an NFL game this weekend, I would almost certainly be beating myself up for picking the Texans. By like, the second quarter. Instead we can all just blame the whole thing on Matt Schaub.
Denver at Miami (PK) ... Karlos Dansby on the "Suck For Luck" campaign:
"It's not right, bro. It's not right. We put too much into this, man, to have the fans say that – period, point blank — or even promote that campaign. It's kind of sad."
"It pisses me off. I don't understand nothing about that. I put too many hours into this, man, put too many years into this, sacrificed too much to ask somebody to put that stipulation on me and my teammates. Because I know how much we put into this."
Oh man. Come on, Karlos.
(IMPORTANT NOTE: Karlos Dansby could kick all our asses.)
San Diego at New York Jets (-1) ... First there was Rex:
"Well, I think I would have had a couple rings. I'm telling you, those teams were loaded. There's no question about it. But things happen for a reason. Obviously, Norv Turner has done a great job there. And A.J. (Smith) and everybody. That's a great franchise. He was probably the best guy for the job at that time."
Of course I woulda won. But yeah, Norv's done a great job there not winning all this time.
And then there's Norv:
"I didn't have a chance to ask him this, but I was wondering if he had those rings with the ones he's guaranteed the last couple of years."
Ohhhhh! That hurts. Norv raises an important point, which is that Rex Ryan is generally full of crap. But the fact remains, Rex is only full of crap because he's constantly screwing with everyone just for the hell of it (or possibly because he's a coaching genius). So maybe Norv won the battle this week, but something tells me Rex will win the war. Mostly because he's not Norv Turner.
Atlanta at Detroit (-3.5) ... All in favor of Megatron playing running back say AYE!
Seattle at Cleveland (-2.5) ... Pretty surprised this wasn't the London game.
Pittsburgh at Arizona (+3.5) ... LATE EDIT: Whoops! We forgot this game earlier. As much as I'd like to pick against the Steelers here, backing Kevin Kolb is just a little bit too terrifying.
Kansas City at Oakland (-7) ... Was there a double-standard in the way the media covered Carson Palmer's trade demand? Would the media have treated Randy Moss differently?
Of course. In case you forgot, America's kinda racist, so people like to get mad at selfish-seeming black athletes. But in fairness to the media, most of the reason that story got underplayed is because nobody really gives a s**t about Carson Palmer anymore.
(And yet, it just seems like he's being underestimated this week...)
Washington at Carolina (-1) ... The best part will be afterward, when a hard-fought Skins win leads to Washington fans talking themselves into John Beck. The SH*T ROMNEY ERA BEGINS!
Green Bay at Minnesota (+10) ... At some point, Green Bay's going to play a close game. On the road against a rookie quarterback before a bye week? Seems like an easy game to overlook.
(That is EXPERT analysis, goddamnit.)
St. Louis at Dallas (-14.5) ... It's not just that the Cowboys lose. I'm a Wizards fan, too. I'm used to losing. But it's how they lose that drives me completely insane every single week. They're clearly a pretty good team, too. But Jason Garrett just keeps finding new ways to overthink everything and stab fans in the heart.
Remember that shovel pass in the red zone last week? Because that's when I knew that they were going to lose the game. This is what the 2011 Cowboys season has come to.
Speaking of the red zone... Hey, Jason:
Indianapolis at New Orleans (-15.5) ... Can't believe I picked the Colts to cover last week. The first rule of fight club is never better on the motherf***ing Colts, ever. (And now watch them cover.)
Baltimore at Jacksonville (+9) ... Gruden. Jaws. Tirico. It's Monday Night Football!


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When it comes to healthy cooking, one of the greatest skills a body can master is lightening up her favorite recipes. You're reducing fat and calories, which is good for your waistline, but at the same time you never feel deprived because you're always eating what you like. You don't need pricey ingredients either, and after a while, you won't need to consult any guides. You can lighten any dish straight off the top of your head.
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Stores are in the catbird seat, even rejecting clothes that haven't been worn.
So many people are selling used or unworn and unwanted clothing that resale shops can be picky, rejecting even the priciest, most fashionable items if they're not a good fit for the store, The Wall Street Journal reports. When resale shops do buy, the price may be shockingly low.
"Even the really, really great stuff that's in really great condition, they didn't even accept it," Ally Peet told the Journal after a Plato's Closet in Utah turned thumbs down on her Dior and Juicy Couture apparel. "They said (the brands) wouldn't sell well here."
Resale shops are part of the triumvirate of used clothing depositories, which includes thrift stores and consignment shops. All are doing a booming business as people look for highly discounted apparel. Reportedly teens are among their best customers.
The WSJ offers some tips if you want to successfully sell your clothing items to a resale shop:
Web site encourages poetic commentary on U.S. finances.
We've all read (and some of us have written) reams of prose about the economy in the last few years.
Perhaps it's time for some economic poetry.
The Peter G. Peterson Foundation, formed by the co-founder of the Blackstone Group private equity fund, has decided that's just what the nation needs: fiscal haiku. So it has created a Web site, appropriately named fiscalhaiku.com, where people can express their feelings about the economy in the formatted Japanese poetry called haiku. A haiku has 17 syllables, five in the first line, seven in the second and five in the third.
So far, more than 375 people have waxed poetic, or attempted to, about the current economic climate. A few samples:
The quest for riches
led us into temptation.
Now we're all flat broke.
Will the new policy change your eating habits at the movies?
One of our more popular posts was about a question asked by Frugal Dad: Is sneaking candy into the movie theater frugal or cheap?
That question comes to mind again now that theater giant AMC Entertainment Inc. has banned outside food and drinks at all of its 304 theater complexes after testing the idea at several locations. If you want to eat or drink during the film, you've got to buy your grub at the overpriced concession stand. Regal Entertainment, the nation's largest theater chain, also bans outside food.
Don't buy online without first searching for discount codes.
Cyber Monday saw increased sales this year, and sales weren't the only thing that increased in number. More shoppers are using online coupons, USA Today reports.
While sales on Cyber Monday were up 13% from last year, 42% of shoppers say they plan to spend less this holiday season than they did last year, Nielsen analyst Maya Swedowsky told the newspaper.
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One way they hope to do that is by shopping sales and using coupons. And shoppers did both Monday. Coupon Web sites, such as RetailMeNot.com and CouponCabin.com, reported significantly higher traffic on Cyber Monday compared with last year. RetailMeNot had 1.1 million visitors, up 57%. CouponCabin was visited 400,000 times, up 65%, USA Today reported.
She ended up with a substantial windfall by following these steps.
This guest post comes from "vh" at Funny about Money.
When the job ends on Dec. 31, I'm planning to consolidate all my checking and savings accounts into just three: a checking account, an emergency savings account, and the self-escrow account to pay annual property tax and insurance bills. Right now I use one checking account as a "pool" from which incoming cash is disbursed to a half-dozen "cookie jar" accounts dedicated to various expense and savings needs.
The other day, thinking ahead to what the simplified system will look like, I added up all the money that has accumulated in the cookie jars and then estimated the last few pittances due this month. And I was astonished to discover how much cash has quietly accrued, painlessly, without my trying very hard to save.
Hang on to your hats, folks: More than $26,500 is sitting there in the credit union! That's about $16,500 more than I thought.
What accounts for this startling windfall?
Is this what friendship is all about?
This post comes from Marla Walters at partner blog Wise Bread.
After my first Arbonne "party" last weekend, I made a list of the other product sales "parties" I have attended. Can you match this?
- Pampered Chef.
- Princess House.
- Mary Kay.
- Tupperware.
- Christmas Around the World.
- PartyLite.
- Oriflame.
- Amway.
- Stampin' Up.
As it turns out, I have been to 19 of these things (some two or three times). I guess that makes me quite the party animal.
"Network marketing is the future!" proclaimed the Arbonne representative. Network marketing and multi-level marketing are terms that can be used interchangeably. The concept is that products are sold by an individual, but a distributor network is needed to build the business.
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Interpersonal relationships and word of mouth are relied upon to market and sell. If I like a moisturizer from Mary Kay, the idea is, I'll tell my girlfriend about it. In multi-level marketing, sellers get paid for their own sales plus the sales of others whom they bring into the company. In "direct sales," the agent deals directly with customers, usually in a party atmosphere. These aren't new concepts -- I remember my mother going to Tupperware parties in the '70s.
In case you haven't attended one of these shindigs, here is the rundown:
Better yet, give a charitable gift card so the recipient can select organizations to help.
To gift card or not to gift card? Everyone has an opinion about that. But research suggests that those pieces of plastic can in fact make the perfect gift.
Bob at ChristianPF found the information in Kiplinger's magazine: University of Pennsylvania economics professor Joel Waldfogel estimates that Americans waste billions each year buying holiday presents that are underappreciated by the recipients.
Waldfogel, the author of "Scroogenomics: Why You Shouldn't Buy Presents for the Holidays," said, "When I buy for myself, I spend $100 only if I see something that's worth at least $100 to me. But if I buy gifts for other people, how do I know what they would have spent for them?"
He added that "surveys that I've conducted over the years show that recipients value gifts at about 20% less than what was spent. That's about $13 billion a year wasted."
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CHAPEL HILL — The fourth round of the N.C. High School Athletic Association playoffs represent undiscovered territory for East Chapel Hill after the Wildcats downed Heritage 3-2 Wednesday.
Zachary Lee provide the go-ahead goal and then assisted on what proved to be the game-winner Wednesday as East Chapel Hill turned a 1-1 halftime tie into the wildcats' first win ever in the NCHSAA 4A playoffs' third round.
"The two goals in the second half were great," said East Chapel Hill coach Austin Collins, who's led the Wildcats into the state playoffs in both of his first two seasons with the varsity. "The main thing I wanted was for us to maintain the pressure and get a second goal and then another. You can't ever take your foot off the gas in the playoffs."
Not even a late "own goal" by East Chapel Hill (17-1-2) could dampen the Wildcats' enthusiasm about reaching the 4A fourth round for the first time. The Wildcats did it as a 3A team and have made the playoffs every year since moving up to the 4A in 2006, but reached the third round just once since then and lost 6-1 to New Hanover in the 2008 third round.
Heritage (16-8-0) was making some history of its own Wednesday at Wildcat Stadium. In just their third year of varsity play, the Huskies were happy to be involved in the second round.
"This is our first group of seniors, and we've only four of them," Heritage coach Scott Sloan said. "The high school soccer playoffs are all about creating memories, and they've made some great ones."
East Chapel Hill appeared to have control early after Michael Balog headed in a left-footed cross from Louis Levin for a 1-0 lead just 12 minutes into the match. But Heritage answered with an almost identical goal with 3:22 left in the first half. Nando Morales sent a long throw-in from the corner across the six-yard box, and Tyler Van Hall headed in the equalizer from the far post for his 11th goal in the last eight games.
"We got a little stuck toward the end of the first half," Levin said. "But we started right back in the second like we started in the first half."
Levin helped get things going in the 63rd minute by banging a hard shot that ricocheted off the hands of Heritage keeper Calvin Hamblett. Lee pounced on the ball and one-timed it from just off the far post for a 2-1 East Chapel Hill lead.
With 8:51 to play, Lee sent a pass forward to Alexander Yokum, who made the most of his one-on-one with the keeper for a 3-1 lead.
That seemed to be plenty of insurance until a Wildcat reserve defender, desperate to keep the ball away from Van Hall inside the penalty area, tried to clear it over the back line but instead fired it into his own goal with 24 seconds left.
"In the end, I was putting in guys who had been sitting all game and were stiff and cold," Collins said. "They really weren't ready."


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Community banks are wheeling and dealing.
• At the end of August, Mountain 1st Bank and Trust, a 12-branch bank based in Hendersonville, agreed to be acquired by a much larger regional bank, Raleigh-based First Citizens.
• Last month, High Point-based Bank of North Carolina, which has a presence in the Triangle, completed its acquisition of Randolph Bank & Trust of Asheboro and its six branches, including one in Mebane.
• On Friday, Raleigh-based CapStone Bank, which has four branches, agreed to be acquired by NewBridge Bank of Greensboro for stock valued at $63.6 million.
NewBridge announced the Capstone deal a month after it completed its acquisition of Security Savings Bank, a six-branch bank based in Southport. And Capstone itself had acquired Patriot State Bank of Fuquay-Varina in January.
The M&A (mergers and acquisitions) wave is coming, is here, said Tony Gaeta, a banking attorney with the Raleigh law firm Wyrick Robbins Yates & Ponton. I dont think its a tsunami ... but a number of them are catching the wave.
Nor is the wave restricted to local banks.
Its statewide and nationwide, said Thad Woodard, president and CEO of the N.C. Banking Association.
Woodard predicts that North Carolina, which has more than 100 banks and savings and loans operating in the state, will have 10 fewer banks by the end of 2014 as mergers and acquisitions thin the industrys ranks.
Some community banks are even looking to make themselves more attractive acquisition candidates by seeking to make small acquisitions, said Woodard. He called it applying a brighter shade of lipstick.
Industry experts say the current realities of banking have created a bigger-is-better scenario.
Factors such as increased pressure on banks from federal regulators in the wake of the recession, a low-interest-rate environment that limits what banks can charge for loans and the inability of many community banks to raise capital from investors have made it especially hard for smaller community banks to go it alone.
Costs are higher. Capital requirements are higher, said Tony Plath, a finance professor at UNC-Charlotte. Revenue growth is slower and your profit margin is slimmer. Well, put all that together and community banking sucks.
Thats driving smaller banks into the arms of larger banks, which are better positioned because they enjoy economies of scale.
Some community banks that are selling out have been struggling mightily.
That was the case with Mountain 1st Bank, which was acquired by First Citizens for just $10 million. All but $2 million of the purchase price went to pay off funds that Mountain 1st received under the federal bailout program for banks, the Troubled Asset Relief Program.
Gaeta called Mountain 1st a deeply troubled bank. It had been under the gun to raise additional capital since 2010, when it entered into a consent order with state and federal regulators.
Desirable deals
Mountain 1st CEO Michael Mayer said when the First Citizens deal was announced, As you would imagine, we have pursued every avenue available for us to raise capital.
Plath said that in North Carolina the banks in the most vibrant urban markets the Triangle, Charlotte and the Triad are especially attractive acquisition targets.
NewBridge needed a bigger presence in Raleigh. Thats what made Capstone worth overpaying for, Plath said. They paid a lot of money for Capstone. If Capstone were ... in any smaller market in North Carolina, it wouldnt have attracted the value that it did.
NewBridge officials couldnt be reached for comment on the Capstone deal.
Given the advantages of being bigger, Plath predicts that the next wave of deals will be mergers of equals between community banks that already have grown through acquisitions.
Among the community banks that have been in acquisition mode is Raleigh-based VantageSouth Bank, which roughly doubled in size earlier this year when it completed its acquisition of East Carolina Bank.
Terry Earley, chief financial officer of the 45-branch bank, said VantageSouth is focused on completing the integration of East Carolina Bank into its operations and sees ample opportunity for organic growth as well.
That said, he added with regard to the possibility of future acquisitions, we always have our eyes and ears open for good opportunities.
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Enslaved to Ron Paul
by omnipotentpoobah, Sat May 14, 2011 at 10:30:38 AM EDT
"With regard to the idea of whether you have a right to health care, you have realize what that implies," the senator said. "It's not an abstraction. I'm a physician. That means you have a right to come to my house and conscript me."
"It means you believe in slavery. "It means that you're going to enslave not only me, but the janitor at my hospital, the person who cleans my office, the assistants who work in my office, the nurses." – Rand Paul
Rand Paul (R-Craters of the Loon) is a tough man to like, but I have to give him credit for being remarkably consistent, if not wholly, about his Libertarian beliefs. He believes that toilet regulations are an affront to capitalism that will destroy the vaunted American plumbing infrastructure. He similarly believes a human right to health care is slavery.
Pity the Poor Conscripts
It seems Rand is afraid that as a doctor he'll be "conscripted" to give health care to a goldbricking, unemployed cancer victim living in an AMC Pacer currently parked in front of their foreclosed home at 1313 Mockingbird Ln. Rand doesn't mention that he'll likely be paid handsomely for his conscription. He also hasn't given up his own health insurance in order to throw off the terrible shackles of slavery.
There are a number of arguments about whether the right to health care or free-flowing toilets are any business of government. There are still logical debates to have, as there should be. However, Rand's penchant for ideological absolutism and absurd comparisons like health care = slavery cheapens an important debate and makes it impossible to get any work done.
It also makes him look like he has the IQ of a ham sandwich, but that's a whole other post.
Excuse Me But the Cracks in Your Fidelity are Showing
Although Rand's often off-the-chart comparisons may sound like total fidelity to his principles he often injects quirks and oddities that left unchecked would harm the country much more than help it. They also point out cracks in his passionate fidelity.
For example, slaves got food and water (two other items Rand thinks aren't human rights). They got those services because slaves were too valuable to do otherwise. Providing services, even to those you hate, doesn't make slavery. Slavery comes from the single pin that the enslaved have no choice. Which isn't the case in Paul's descriptions.
Paul is a Presbyterian. Can we automatically decide that if he complies with God's every command that God has enslaved him? After all, God's slavery is infinitely more total and absolute than a government decree (which isn't the case, nor will it likely be) that health care is a human right.
I wish Rand would choose his battles, and especially his analogies, more carefully. All they do is muddy the water and keep the country in perpetual rancor and decay.
In other words, stop enslaving the rest of us with your silly, distracting speeches.
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looking at the settings category "Build and Execute" and its tab "Qt Versions" I have only 2 entries, both under "Automatically detected" (Nokia SDK 1.2, translated from German):
Desktop Qt 4.8.0 for GCC (Qt SDK) and
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TULSA, Okla. (AP) - Oral Roberts University forward Steven Roundtree has been named the Summit League's player of the week.
The award was announced Monday by the conference.
Roundtree averaged 19 points and seven rebounds per game in three games last week.
He scored a season high 24 points and had 10 rebounds in a win over Austin Peay, 22 points and nine rebounds in a loss to Texas-San Antonio and 11 points in just 22 minutes against Arkansas-Pine Bluff.
This is the second time Roundtree has been named conference player of the week.
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Matt Barnes and Adonal Foyle of the Orlando Magic are celebrating birthdays today. Barnes is 30, while Foyle's 35.
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Orlando Magic forward Mickael Pietrus will celebrate his 28th birthday today.
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On OS X 10.9 Mavericks, Apple's browser now puts limits on what Adobe's Flash Player can do, making it harder for malware authors to run rampant on people's Macs.
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Hi - Sporeville, the first book in a trilogy called The Wellborn Conspiracy, just came out today (Sept. 4)
It's an SF story set in 1886 Nova Scotia, and intersects with some of my Victorian paranormal short stories.
There's a bit about Sporeville on my website at the above link, but I'm interested in suggestions of what readers would like to see - a synopsis? excerpts? a sample chapter?
P.S. Here's a recent review of Sporeville:
"Fans of Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy will certainly enjoy this novel. In fact, readers who like gothic literature, science fiction, fantasy, and history will all relish this book... I cannot wait for the sequel...It was absolutely the best, most delicious thing I have read in some time."
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Gloucester — Joseph T. Castellucci, 80, died unexpectedly Thursday, November 8, 2012, in the Addison Gilbert Hospital. He was the husband of Dorothy F. (Caulk) Castellucci.
Born in Medford on March 9, 1932, he was the son of the late Generine S. and Sabina (Galiazzo) Castellucci. He and Dorothy had resided in Beverly for forty years, prior to moving to Gloucester in 2011.
As an automotive mechanic, Joe owned and operated M & J Truck Repair in Gloucester for twenty years. In keeping with his love of automobiles, Joe was a member of the Atlantic Auto Racing Association and enjoyed racing for over twenty years.
He was a former commissioner, coach, administrator and member of the Beverly Pop Warner youth football program for 35 years. He was also very involved with the Little League for thirty years.
In addition to his wife of fifty-nine years, he is also survived by his children, Mary Ellen, wife of Rick Lepage, Michael, husband of Deb Castellucci, Steven, husband of Cathy Castellucci, Joe, husband of Michele Castellucci, Robert, Castellucci, companion of Michele Croteau, Nancy, wife of Robert Hall, Deb, wife of Jon Kwong, David, husband of Lisa Castellucci, James Castellucci; a sister, Marie Harrison; and sister-in-law, Rose Castellucci; twenty-four grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren. He was also predeceased by his grandson, Nathan Kwong; his brother, Thomas Castellucci and brother-in-law, Robert Harrison.
ARRANGEMENTS: His services will be held on Monday in the Calvary Chapel Baptist Church, 384 Washington Street, Gloucester at noon. Visiting hours will be held on Sunday afternoon in the Pike-Grondin Funeral Home, 61 Middle Street, Gloucester, from 2 – 5 p.m. and also on Monday at the church prior to the service from 10 - 12 a.m. Relatives and friends are cordially invited to attend. Prayers of committal will be held on Tuesday in the North Beverly Cemetery, Beverly at 9:30 a.m. In lieu of flowers, expressions of sympathy may be made in his memory to Day by Day, Adult Day Care, 4 Blackburn Center, Glouceste, MA or the Calvary Chapel Baptist Church, 384 Washington St., Gloucester, MA 01930. For more information and to send online condolences, please visit www.grondinfuneralservices.com.


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The designation of Texas Southern University as a "special purpose" institution for urban programming provides a foundation for its programmatic goals.
In support of Texas Southern University's mission statement the Office of Alumni Relations is committed to providing a foundation for its Alumni.
Office of Alumni Relations Mission Statement
The Office of Alumni Relation's mission is to build a loyal alumni base that supports the University, its administration and programs through communication. The Office will promote the University's goals and promote a spirit of unity and allegiance among graduates, former students, and friends.
The Office for Alumni Relations offers the following services:
* Serves as liaison to the Texas Southern University National Alumni Association.
* Attends quarterly Executive Committee Meetings of the National Alumni Association.
* Represents the Office for Alumni Relations at official National Alumni Association special functions to include banquets, luncheons, alumni class meetings, homecoming activities, recognition programs and other events.
* Serves as liaison in nurturing and building relationships with the alumni association and local chapters.
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ARCADIA, Calif. (March 6, 2010)—Most all Pick Six players at Santa Anita on Saturday went off the rails in the Gr. I Santa Anita Oaks, as 1-2 favorite Blind Luck ran third, helping to result in a carryover of $207,271 and the likelihood of a total pool of over $1 million on Sunday.
The Oaks, carded as race eight, which was the third leg in Saturday's Pick Six, was taken by the John Sadler conditioned Crisp, who paid $13.60 to win. Ridden by Joel Rosario, Crisp is a 3-year-old Kentucky-bred filly by El Corredor, who is owned by Michael Talla.
The Pick Six began with race six, the $60,000 added Pasadena Stakes. It was won by Make Music for Me, who paid $15.40 to win under Mike Smith. A 3-year-old Kentucky-bred colt by Bernstein, Make Music for Me is trained by Alexis Barba and owned by Ellen and Peter O. Johnson, Sr.
Saturday's seventh, the Gr. I, $150,000 Sham Stakes, went to the California-bred Alphie's Bet, providing Barba with back-to-back stakes wins. Ridden by Alex Solis, Alphie's Bet paid $19.00 to win. A 3-year-old colt by Tribal Rule, he's owned by Johnson, Sr. and McWilliams. He was bred by his co owner, Teresa McWilliams.
The ninth, the Gr. I, $250,000 Frank E. Kilroe Mile, was taken by Proviso, who prevailed by a nose under Mike Smith. A 5-year-old English-bred mare, she paid $11.40 to win. Trained by Bill Mott, she is owned by her breeder, Juddmonte Farms.
The 73rd running of the Gr. I, $750,000 Santa Anita Handicap, presented by San Manuel Indian Bingo and Casino, was taken by Misremembered, who paid $10.80 with Martin Garcia up. The 4-year-old Kentucky-bred ridgling by Candy Ride is trained by his breeder, Bob Baffert and is owned by Baffert and George Jacobs.
Saturday's 11th race went to Crash Landing, who paid $10.00 under Joe Talamo. A 6-year-old California-bred gelding by Flying Continental, Crash Landing is owned by his breeder, Harris Farms, Inc and is trained by Marty Jones.
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"First Place" is the best place for your next family vacation. Enjoy soaking up the sun on the decks while taking in the ocean views....or relax in the hot tub on the top level screened porch, a wonderful addition for your vacation. With a great corner lot location and only feet away from the beach access, you will want to make "First Place" your place for your next vacation on the Outer Banks.
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The southbound lanes of Del Prado between 1600-1700 south were shut down Saturday afternoon for several hours.
Police officials say a Wal-Mart semi truck snapped a power pole as it pulled into the parking lot of the store.
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PEKIN, Ill. -- With just nine days left until the biggest shopping day of the year, on Wednesday night, residents got a hands on look at some of the year's biggest tech gadgets.
The Pekin Public Library hosted its first ever "technology petting zoo".
The free event provided participants with different tablets and e-readers to test out for themselves.
Attendees were also educated on differences in cost, size, and capabilities of the products.
"We're hoping to provide a neutral environment where people can see a variety of products and learn a little bit about them," said Assistant Director of Pekin Public Library Alissa Williams. "You know we're not trying to sell them anything, we just want them to know what technology is out there."
This year's tablets were provided by the Pekin Public Library and Verizon.


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...extremely odd IMO
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...extremely odd IMO
Give them chance Damo.
There's all kinds of intricacies going on behind the scenes that we aren't privy to, like 're-indexing' and other crazy terms that only the techy types understand LOL.
Simon seems to have packed it in. He's a broken man. Sad times.
Perhaps a lady has her shackles on him.
I doubt a wench could get between simon and his stickers, posters and transitions collection.
Perhaps a lady has her shackles on him.
Yeh him mum, making him tidy his bedroom and stopped him hanging round CBBC chatrooms too.
Speaking for yourself derms ?
You come across as a paedo obsessed nonce .. Nantwich's very own Pete Townsend, hiding behind his pc and user names ... textbook in profiling terms. You cunt.
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