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The research agenda I will discuss here today focuses on the historical
role of financial variables in this adjustment process. My first line of
research --with Hélène Rey from Princeton-- shifts the
focus of the analysis
from the current account to the net and gross international investment
positions and the role of valuation effects. My second line of research
--with Ricardo Caballero and Emmanual Farhi from MIT-- discusses the
role of
financial development and emphasizes the global supply of financial assets.
In the following discussion, I consider each in turn.
Here is a way to think about the orders of magnitude involved: at the end
of 2004, the Bureau of Economic analysis reports US gross external assets
and liabilities equal respectively to 85% and 107% of US GDP, implying a
NIIP of -22% of GDP. That year, the trade deficit on goods and services
reached 5.3% of GDP. The standard approach suggests that the US will need
to run significant trade surpluses, at some point in the future, to
stabilize its external debt. Part of the adjustment, however, may also come
from lower returns on US assets held by foreigners, relative to the return
on foreign assets held by the US, i.e. a wealth transfer to the US. Since
most US liabilities are denominated in US dollars, and approximately 70% of
US foreign assets are denominated in foreign currencies, this wealth
transfer can take the form of a depreciation of the US dollar. For
instance, consider an unexpected 10% depreciation of the US currency. It
implies, ceteris paribus, a transfer of 5.9% (0.7*0.85*0.1) of GDP from the
rest of the world to the US that would more than cover the trade deficit.
Could it be, then, that movements in currency and asset prices contribute
systematically to the adjustment process and if so, by how much?
One may be tempted to dismiss even the possibility of such predictable
valuation effects. After all, usual interest parity considerations would
rule them out: asset and currency prices should be expected to move in such
direction as to deliver similar returns, when measured in a common
currency. I will return to this important theoretical issue shortly, but I
want to concentrate first on what the data have to say.
The first task is to construct accurate measures of a country's NIIP at
market value. In Gourinchas and Rey (2006a), we assemble a quarterly
dataset of the US gross foreign asset and liability positions at market
value since 1952 disaggregated into four broad asset categories (direct
investment, equity, debt and other --mostly bank loans and trade credit),
and compute capital gains and total returns on these global
portfolios components.
This exercise delivers a number of important "stylized facts." First, it
is well known that the investment income balance --the balance of
dividends and earnings on direct investment paid to and by the US-- has
remained positive despite mounting net liabilities. What is less well-known
is that the evidence on total return on US external assets and liabilities
is consistent with the evidence on yields: since 1952, the US enjoyed an
average annual excess return on its gross assets of 2.11%. Moreover, this
excess return has increased to 3.32% since the collapse of the Bretton
Woods system of fixed exchange rates. About one third of this excess return
reflects the role of the US as a world financial intermediary, borrowing
mostly in the form of low yield-low risk assets (loans and debt), and
investing in high yield-high risks assets (equity and FDI). The remaining
two thirds arise from return differentials within asset classes. This
reflects mostly the ability of the US to borrow at very low interest rates,
a fact sometimes interpreted as evidence of the "exorbitant priviledge"
the US enjoys from its unique position in the international monetary order,
as the issuer of the world's reserve currency.
Gourinchas and Rey (2005) turn to the question of the international
adjustment process. We cast the analysis in very general terms, relying
simply on a country's intertemporal external constraint and a no-Ponzi
condition, and characterize two adjustment channels. The traditional
"trade channel" links current imbalances to future trade surpluses. The
novel "valuation channel" shows that expected future excess returns on
the NIIP
can also potentially contribute to the process of adjustment. Formally, our
empirical approach builds on Campbell and Shiller (1988), who look at the
adjustment process of the dividend price ratio, or more recently Lettau and
Ludvigson (2001), who look at movements in the consumption-wealth ratio.
Like these papers, we construct a measure of cyclical external imbalances
--akin to the deviation from trend of the ratio of the trade deficit (the
flow) to the NIIP (the stock)-- and relate it to future expected net
growth and excess returns. In contrast with these papers, we allow for slow
moving structural changes in the data, capturing increasing trade and
financial integration. The empirical results indicates that up to 27%
of cyclical external imbalances are eliminated via predictable
adjustments in future returns, and 64% are eliminated via future
improvements in the trade balance, accounting for 91% of the
fluctuations in external imbalances. We then turn the argument on its head:
if the valuation channel is operative, current cyclical imbalances,
properly measured, should predict future excess returns, and possibly
future currency movements. There again, we obtain very strong
predictability results, from 1 to 16 quarters ahead, both in and out of
sample. A global imbalance today strongly predicts future positive excess
return on US external assets and a future depreciation of the U.S. dollar.
This last result is especially striking: the classic paper of Meese and
Rogoff (1983), established that no exchange rate model could significantly
outperform the random walk at short to medium horizons. Our results
decisively overturn their conclusion.
A successful theory will need two critical ingredients: consumption and
portfolio home biases. The former implies that a stabilization of the
current account must be accompanied by relative price and real exchange
rate movements. The latter requires that domestic and foreign assets are
imperfect substitute and implies that wealth transfers are accompanied by
predictable and partially offsetting exchange rate movements (see Obstfeld
(2004)). The connection between consumption and portfolio home biases is an
active topic of research (see Obstfeld and Rogoff (2000), Coeurdacier
(2005) and Heathcote and Perri (2005)). Under some conditions, home
portfolio bias can emerge as a consequence of the tilt in preferences
toward the home good.
Gourinchas and Rey (2006b) build on this literature. We consider a
two-country Lucas tree economy with complete markets and preferences for the
home good (see Kollmann (2006) for a related model). Preliminary results
indicate that, in models with perfect risk sharing, external adjustment
operates via strong and unexpected valuation effects, but no predictable
valuation effects. The intuition for that result is the following: in an
endowment economy, efficient risk sharing requires that a country runs a
trade deficit when domestic output is relatively low. To do this, the
planner's allocation generates an unexpected valuation gain that offsets
current and expected future trade deficits. One way to implement this
allocation is for foreigners to hold claims to the domestic tree and vice
versa: under reasonable preference assumptions, the negative domestic shock
lowers the value of domestic equity relative to foreign equity and
generates an unexpected capital loss for foreigners, which turns the
domestic country into a net creditor. In the meantime, the decline in the
relative supply of the home good requires an instant real appreciation,
followed by a subsequent depreciation. Crucially, this expected real
depreciation is offset by expected adjustments in asset returns. Therefore
it does not generate predictable excess returns nor contributes to the
adjustment process.
Looking ahead, the next obvious step is to build general equilibrium
models of international portfolio allocation with incomplete
markets. I see this as a major task that will close a much needed gap in
the literature between effectively complete markets models and the special
cases that assume away predictable return or eliminate current account
fluctuations (see, inter alia, Baxter and Crucini (1995), Corsetti and
Pesenti (2001), Heathcote and Perri (2005), Pavlova and Rigobon (2003),
Tille (2005)). One interesting step in that direction is Evans and
Hnatkovska (2005).
Along the way, we are witnessing a renewal of interest in the old
partial-equilibrium portfolio balance literature of Kouri (1982), and more recently
Blanchard Giavazzi and Sa (2005), that generate predictable valuation
effects. In these models interest rates are constant and the exchange rate
performs the dual role of allocating global portfolios between imperfectly
substitutable domestic and foreign assets, and affecting the trade balance
through traditional expenditure switching effects. Whether the insights
from that literature survive in a modern dynamic global portfolio model is
a question of great interest.
Caballero, Farhi and Gourinchas (2006) develop a stylized model to account
for these three observations. Its key feature is a focus on the ability of
different regions to supply tradable financial assets, and how this impacts
equilibrium world interest rates and global capital flows.
The model is quite standard, except for two features. First, it assumes
that only a fraction of current and future domestic output can be
capitalized into tradable financial claims. The present value of the
remaining share of output constitutes a non-tradable financial asset.
Second, the model is non-ricardian: as in Blanchard (1985) or Weil (1987),
current households do not have full rights over the non-tradable asset:
some of these rights might belong to future unborn generations. In a
ricardian setting, the relative supply of tradable and non-tradable
financial assets is irrelevant: an increase in the share of income
capitalized into tradable assets increases the supply of those assets but
decreases the supply of non-tradable financial assets by the same amount,
and hence raises the demand for tradable financial assets one for one. This
leaves equilibrium allocations and interest rates unchanged. By contrast,
in a non-ricardian setting, an increase in the share of income capitalized
into tradable assets increases the total supply of financial assets and
affects equilibrium allocations.
The fraction of output that can be attached to tradable financial assets
might differ across countries, reflecting different levels of financial
development, of protection of property rights, of intermediation capital or
of any financial friction.
The model considers what happens when regions that are good asset suppliers
experience a sustained growth slowdown (continental Western Europe and
Japan in the early 1990s), or when the quality, or acceptance of financial
assets deteriorates (emerging Asia and Russia after the Asian crisis). In
both cases, the global supply of financial assets declines. This depresses
global interest rates, generates persistent capital flows into the US and
an offsetting current account deficit. From the good's market perspective,
global declines in the supply of financial assets abroad increases the
value of US financial assets, hence US wealth when portfolio are not
perfectly diversified. This increases consumption and leads to a trade
We extend the basic structure along two dimensions. First we allow for
domestic and foreign direct investment. Direct investment generates
intermediation rents for the US (as documented in Gourinchas and Rey
(2006a)) that further relax the US external constraint and finances
permanent trade deficits. Second, we introduce heterogeneous goods to
discuss real exchange rate determination. The exchange rate patterns
generated by the expanded model are consistent with the data, while leaving
the broader pattern of capital flows and global returns largely unchanged.
In the short run, under the assumption of home consumption bias, the
increase in US wealth translates into higher relative demand for US goods
and a real exchange rate appreciation. In the long run, we find that the
real exchange rate depreciates only moderately.
This line of research highlights the role of financial factors for current
imbalances. It indicates that the current configuration of asymmetries is
likely to continue until the conditions for the initial imbalances are
reversed (higher growth among asset suppliers, Europe and Japan, or
financial development among asset demanders, emerging Asia). Along that
path, the US may build large net external liabilities. Of course, such
leverage is risky. Our framework emphasizes that these risks do not arise
unavoidably from the current situation.
It should also be emphasized that while some strangers in the lab playing
anonymously do behave altruistically and spitefully, the majority behave
selfishly. In non-competitive environments, some games are relatively
to the introduction of some players with deviant preferences; others are
not. Centipede grab-a-dollar type games, of the type studied by McKelvey
Palfrey, are very sensitive to players willingness to give money away in
final period. Even more economically important are finitely repeated
games. Here a little bit of non-selfish play - willingness to reward an
opponent in
the last round - goes a long way. It is pretty well established both in
laboratory and out that a long finite horizon can induce quite a bit of
cooperation. I think it is pretty likely a consequence of preferences on
part of some people that care mildly about other players.
In practice I think a lot of institutions rely pretty heavily on a mild
degree of altruism by most people, and a lot of spite by a few. The
system - the rule of law - depends in my view quite heavily on this.
the desire for revenge, many fewer crimes would be reported. Bear in mind
that there is an important public goods aspect to reporting crimes. If
relatively neutral witnesses didn't have a mild preference for telling the
truth and "seeing justice done" it is hard to see how the system could
function particularly well.
A great deal of work on preferences that are altruistic and spiteful is ad
hoc; and some of it does not stand up well to scrutiny as a result. The
problem I see is that preferences that are an ad hoc solution to one
at the same time lead to nonsense results, or contradict existing theory
setting where existing theory does quite well. It isn't enough to show
a particular model of altruism and spite solves some particular problem.
has to be shown also that (1) it remains consistent with existing theory
domains where existing theory already works and (2) that is works across a
broad variety of different problems where altruism and spite exist.
Moreover, most preference puzzles are quantitative not qualitative, so I
think the scope for theories showing that particular modifications to
preferences shifts things in the right direction to explain one particular
anomaly are not all that useful at this stage. My paper used an ad hoc
description of preferences, but tried to bring some of this discipline to
bear. Fehr and Schmidt's work has also been aimed at providing broad
quantitative solutions.
I also think that axiomatic theory of the type being conducted by Gul and
Pesendorfer is an important antidote to the ad hoc approach - it is a good
thing, in my view, that the type of preferences I examined satisfy the
Gul-Pesendorfer axiom system. The reason that the axiomatic approach is so
important is that it gives us a much broader understanding of what
preferences are like, what domains they are consistent with selfish
preferences over, and some general reassurance that they do not have
and undesirable features. It is not easy, given a particular functional
form, to see transparently what implications that function has in all
settings - that is, what axioms it might satisfy and violate. The
approach also enables us to know which variations on preferences are
"reasonable" in the sense of satisfying the same set of axioms, while
limiting the range of solutions we look for. How difficult would economics
be, for example, if for the most part we did not think that preferences
were concave?
This book is at the intersection of modern time series and modern asset
pricing theory, two fields that are by themselves already challenging for
all graduate students. For those how have mastered the basics, Ken
Singleton gives us the ultimate treatise of empirical asset pricing.
The book is structured such that it can be read in different ways: there
are purely econometric chapters, only a few of which are required reading
for the rest, followed by chapters that cover dynamic asset pricing
theory, focussing on pricing kernels, linear and consumption-based models,
each first covering theory, then empirical methods that can test them. The
last part of the book treats no-arbitrage models in the same way. The
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both the seminal and the latest, and an author who is a pioneer of the
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◗ Daddy Nose Best, who won the $75,000 DeBartolo Memorial Handicap last Saturday night at Remington Park, is being pointed for the $100,000 Remington Green on Sept. 29, trainer Steve Asmussen said. The 1 1/16-mile turf race is one of a handful of stakes supporting the Grade 3, $400,000 Oklahoma Derby.
◗ Tastefullyxcessive, a stakes winner who won last week's allowance prep for the $200,000 Remington Park Oaks, will be considered for the Sept. 29 race, said trainer Bret Calhoun, adding that he wants to see how the race develops. Tastefullyxcessive was a 4 1/4-length winner with a Beyer Speed Figure of 80.
◗ A yearling filly by Desert God brought $77,000 to top the annual New Mexico-bred auction put on by the Ruidoso Horse Sale Co. Ed Wright Cattle Co. purchased the filly, who was consigned by Joe Allen. The sale's average price was $10,224, up from last year's figure of $9,593.


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Man On The Street: Abercombie And Fitch Controversy (Video)
Here at Elite Daily, we've done a lot of coverage on Abercrombie and Fitch CEO Mike Jeffries and his controversial comments about the company's target market. In a nutshell, he doesn't want to sell clothing to over-weight women or people who wouldn't be considered the "cool kids." He's kind of a huge dick.
But we're done with giving you our opinions on him — we finally wanted to hear what you, the people, had to say. So I went out on the streets of NYC and stood outside Abercombie and Fitch on Fifth Avenue to ask people what they thought of the CEO's statements. We even managed to sneak into the store for a little bit before…well you'll see.
Check out the latest addition of MOTS (Man On The Street): Abercombie and Fitch Edition.
The people of the street have spoken. Take that Mike Jeffries!
Also, the older woman in the blue shirt and I are now dating. Our children will not be wearing clothing from Abercrombie and Fitch.


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Ho Chi Minh, the great goateed leader of the Việt Minh independence movement, died a long time ago—a really long time ago—but his body has endured.
Encased in glass and lying under soft amber light in a massive Soviet-style mausoleum, Ho Chi Minh's body has been suspended in animation as though covered in paraffin wax for more than 4 decades. His remains are on display only a few hours each day and a couple of months every year. Since neither of us had seen an embalmed body before, we were lucky to be in Hanoi at the right time.
Open for public viewing from 9 to 12 in the morning, the mausoleum predictably had a long waiting line. A line in which we were told the cold hard rules of behavior: no photos, no cameras, no talking, no hands in pockets, no chewing gum, no eating, no drinking, no smoking, no laughing, no smiling, no bodily movements. We could walk into the mausoleum in two lines (march might be a more appropriate word to use here), pay our respects, and leave. A security guard asked uswhere we were from and what we were doing here. Fortunately, we don't look very subversive, so we got in without a hassle.
Seeing Ho Chi Minh's body was a strange experience. He sort of resembled a puppet attached to strings. I kept thinking that he might stand up and do a jig at any moment. It was incredibly unreal. Everyone else seemed to think so, too. As the lines of people filed out, the common look on faces was one of bewilderment. Palms wiped foreheads, hands scratched heads. A few people looked sick.
So, anyway, viewing the embalmed body of a Communist leader has now been checked off the list of things to see in my life. That's good.


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Solange Knowles' inspiration? Marijuana
World Entertainment News Network Houston-born singer Solange Knowles literally lived and breathed for her work while making her new album — she was holed up in a house on the California coast with her musician pals for an entire month until her project was complete. [Read More]
Will Smith aims to learn the language of each country he visits.
Hollywood star Will Smith plans to learn the language of every country he visits on his movie promotional tours so local reporters don't need to struggle with translating his words. The I Am Legend star's actress wife, Jada Pinkett Smith, admits she is in awe of his extensive linguistic skills because she can barely master […] [Read More]
Fab birthday present: Ringo Starr's drum to become museum exhibit
Ringo Starr is set for a very special honour to mark his upcoming 70th birthday – the gold-plated drum he bashed on the Beatles' 1964 U.S. tour is to become a museum item in New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art will display the snare drum as part of a special exhibition honouring his big […] [Read More]
Bobcat Goldthwait goes back to school for Kinks movie musical
Former Police Academy star Bobcat Goldthwait is turning The Kinks' Schoolboys in Disgrace album into a new movie. The madcap star, who directed Robin Williams' dark comedy "Dad of the Year", has written a script inspired by the British band's 1976 album – which he lists among his favorites. The Kinks' Ray Davies will executive […] [Read More]
Sandra Bullock and Jesse James speed up divorce by declining alimony
Sandra Bullock and Jesse James secured a quick divorce by each refusing to claim alimony and waiving the right to have their assets independently valued. Bullock's marriage to the cheating TV mechanic was officially dissolved by a judge in Texas on Monday, just two months after the Hollywood star filed for divorce. In her legal […] [Read More]
Scorsese sees Harry Potter pal Rupert Grint as next Leo DiCaprio
Handout Martin Scorsese wants Harry Potter star Rupert Grint to play a gangster in one of his movies, insisting he has the potential to be as successful as Leonardo DiCaprio. The 21-year-old actor, who has played Ron Weasley in all of the wizard films, recently wrapped up shooting the last installment of the franchise. He […] [Read More]
Aretha Franklin to perform charity concert with Condoleeza Rice?
Aretha Franklin is teaming up with an unusual collaborator at an upcoming show – former U.S. Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice. The legend will join forces with her politician pal, who is a classically trained pianist, for a charity concert in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on July 27. The gig will incorporate some of Franklin's biggest hits […] [Read More]
Ally Sheedy 'outs' daughter as lesbian on red carpet
Actress Ally Sheedy used her appearance on the red carpet at a recent gay event to 'out' her daughter as a lesbian. The "Breakfast Club" star took her teenage daughter Rebecca to a charity event in Los Angeles earlier this week for The Trevor Project, a non-profit group dedicated to helping youngsters who are questioning […] [Read More]
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This kit fits together nicely and is pretty sturdy. While not the lightest option, it is designed well and is not "heavy". I like to just take the pot, lid and spork... leave the cup at home to save a little weight. As mentioned, the spork feels quite fragile. I like this kit a lot. See my video review at http://www.backpackersreview.com/gear-reviews/stoves-cookware/74-gsi-pinnacle-soloist
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HILLSVILLE — An accreditation report for Carroll County schools shows that the division once again made "10 for 10" under state test score standards, but missed the mark set by the federal No Child Left Behind act.
Director of School Improvement Beverly Parker rapidly summarized 18 pages of reports for the Virginia Standards of Learning and federal No Child Left Behind testing results at the Carroll School Board regular meeting on Sept. 8.
Hanesbrands Inc. will stop making its own yarn in a move that will close one plant and two warehouses in North Carolina.
Hanesbrands has agreed to sell most of its yarn manufacturing operations to Parkdale, a yarn maker based in Gastonia, N.C., that will supply a substantial amount of Hanesbrands' yarn needs.
The sale is expected to close in the fourth quarter and would result in Parkdale operating three of the four Hanesbrands yarn production plants.
INDEPENDENCE — What began as a committee to bring a fairground to Grayson County has now shifted its focus to bringing the county an Agro-Tech Center instead.
The venue would host events such as cattle and horse shows, farmers' markets, craft and art shows and more.
Members of the newly named Agro-Tech Center Committee updated the board of supervisors on their progress Sept. 10 and gained support for funding of a feasibility study.
HILLSVILLE ee* Carroll County's ambitious water distribution project has one more step to complete before construction can begin.
The Public Service Authority recently sought bids for more than 100,000 linear feet of water lines, two pump stations and a large water storage tank.
The project will connect existing water systems on Virginia 620, Airport Road and Virginia 100 to the operational water plant in Austinville, which is already producing water for Wythe County and Wytheville, Carroll's regional partners.
WASHINGTON, D.C. ee* Oakland Elementary has become the second school ever in Carroll County to earn recognition as a "Blue Ribbon School" from the U.S. Department of Education.
Oakland was one of 13 schools in Virginia to receive the designation, announced Sept. 15 by Arne Duncan, the U.S. secretary of education.
The Blue Ribbon Schools Program honors those schools that show academic excellence or that demonstrates impressive gains in student achievement to above-average levels.
HILLSVILLE ee* The Carroll County Public Service Authority, after a public hearing Sept. 14, has cleared the way for condemnation actions on the ongoing regional water project, as well as many utility projects planned for the future.
While county officials have said the goal was to acquire the right to cross a small piece of property needed for the regional water project, the authority included that and many more projects in its public hearing for the acquisition of real estate and easements through purchase or eminent domain.
The annual Lord's Acre Havest Sale will be held Saturday, tomorrow, at Felts Park in Galax.
A worship service will be held at 9:30 a.m. and the sale opens at 10 a.m., with proceeds to benefit the churches of the area.
Shoppers can stock up on all kinds of fresh, fall produce, canned goods, homemade pies and handmade crafts, attend worship service and visit with friends and acquaintances.
The event is sponsored by Carroll-Grayson United Workers for Christ Association and is a main fundraiser for many local churches.
ELK CREEK -- Rain was the main event Friday night at Elk Creek Dragway, and with more than two inches per hour falling at the track, the night's action was washed out. Saturday turned into a race around the raindrops event, and the fans that braved the weather saw a great show.
MARION -- Galax swept the boys' and the girls' individual championships at the Walker's Run cross country meet, a 3-mile race held Saturday at Hungry Mother State Park in Marion.
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If you're thinking about all the errands you have to do this weekend, you might want to add a trip to the post office to your list.
The price of stamps go up Sunday, January 27. Stamps will now cost you 46 cents, which is up a penny.
If you want to send a postcard, that will be more expensive, going from 32 cents to 33 cents.
The postal service says it needs to increase prices because of record losses.
On a good note, the post office is introducing a new forever global stamp, that will let you send a letter all over the world for just $1.10.


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M&S Energy is supplied by SSE, offering energy options from the well-known clothing and food retailer
M&S Energy's customers will benefit from SSE's award-winning customer service team — SSE have been voted #1 in customer service in the uSwitch customer satisfaction report seven years in a row.
M&S Energy are also known as Marks and Spencer Energy
M&S Energy are not available to households in the Isle of Man, Channel Islands, Ireland and Northern Ireland.
Why we like M&S Energy
M&S may be better known for clothing and food than energy, but after teaming up with SSE they entered the UK's gas and electricity market. They have opted to keep it simple for customers, offering just two energy plans.
Customer satisfaction
M&S Energy had less than 150 responses in our independent YouGov survey, so we can't show a customer service rating. This is not necessarily an indication of poor performance.


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Boats of Note
Tiara 44 Coupe – Displayed by Alexander Marine USA
This is the little sister to the Tiara 50 Coupe with very modern and contemporary interior. BoatTest.com says: "This yacht's focus is all about entertaining in elegance and cruising in posh style."
Fleming 65 Venture I – Displayed by Chuck Hovey Yachts
Yacht designer Tony Fleming's personal boat, and hull number one, of the Fleming 65, in which he has cruised 43,000 Miles from Alaska to Galapagos Islands to Nova Scotia and back. Tony Fleming himself will be in attendance onboard.
This amphibious craft was specifically developed to take the hassle out of the boat launching/retrieval process. Sealegs is powered on land by a small inboard engine which drives steerable, hydraulic motorized wheels. At the push of a button the wheels retract or extend, similar to an airplane undercarriage; and Sealegs swiftly transforms itself from an all-terrain vehicle into an ocean-going powerboat.
2015 Marlow Hunter 37 – Displayed by Specialty Yacht Sales
The Marlow Hunter 37 features a voluminous interior that offers a generous aft cabin, considerable storage for long journeys, great living areas and headroom matching many 40 footers. Her large main and smaller headsail combination are also easier to control and hard chine in her hull design increases form stability as well as creating more interior space.
Endurance E658 – Displayed by Hampton Yacht Group
The newest addition to Hampton Yacht Company's successful Endurance fleet is the E658. The E658 offers a wide 18' beam with four staterooms, four heads and full beam master suite. Four staterooms, four heads and full beam master suite.
American Tug 365 2015 – Displayed by American Tugs and Trawlers
The new American Tug 365 incorporates new features including an extended upper deck for entertaining & covered aft cockpit; new anchor locker; and new Sapele jointer work and U-shaped dinette. The American Tug 485 will make its 2015 debut at the show. Measuring in at just under 50-feet; she is designed to maximize allowable moorage space, while providing the amenities and room desired by a family.
Hobie 60 – Displayed by The Multihull Company
This is a catamaran of historic interest as she was designed, built, and enjoyed by the founder of Hobie Catamarans. Katie Sue is the nautical equivalent of Frank Lloyd Wright's home. She cruises at 20 knots and has 14 integral fuel tanks giving her the range to reach the distant shores of Hawaii or the far reaches of the Pacific Rim.
Jeanneau Sun Odyssey 349 – Displayed by Marine Servicenter
2015 Cruising World Boat of the Year Winner x 2! Marc Lombard hard-chine hull with twin rudders & large twin wheel cockpit. Fantastic sailing performance with all sheets led aft to helms for ease of single-hand sailing. Below decks the 349 has the living space of many larger yachts. Featuring a bright open salon with 6'4" headroom and lots of unique storage areas including a flip up nav table aft to port. Huge head with complete separate shower and large storage garage aft of shower also accessed from the cockpit. Nice fwd cabin with double doors – all in a 34' Boat.
50 Eastbay SX – Displayed by Stan Miller Yachts
Stan Miller Yachts and Grand Yachts, Inc. are excited to announce the West Coast debut of the Grand Banks 50 Eastbay SX at the Seattle Boat Show at South Lake Union. The 50 Eastbay is the newest addition to the popular Eastbay series from Grand Banks Yachts. With stunning, sleek lines and a finely tuned hull form, the 50SX slices through the water, turning heads wherever she goes.


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In the event of a web collapse, one group who would be facing a more serious worry than whether or not their followers were responding favourably to their Tweets would be members of the armed forces.
PW Singer, author of Wired for War – The Robotics Revolution and 21st Century Warfare, warns that any interruption to either service would severely limit the operational capacities of military units.
"Operationally in Afghanistan, for example, units are defi nitely reliant on the SIPRNet [Secret Internet Protocol Router Network – the US military's own classified communications network] for communications and intelligence data,"
he says. "Without it, you would have units yelling, 'Where's my intelligence, I'm about to go into this village in Afghanistan.' There would be mass chaos. Not complete inability but definitely hindered ability to operate."
The US Defence Department operates 15,000 separate different computer networks and 4,000 installations in 88 countries. Many of those are civilian and interestingly, while the SIPRNet holds the key to mission information, an interruption to public internet networks could cause far worse problems for the military.
"There are portions of the regular internet that underpin these operations," Singer says. "Logistically, forces deal with commercial companies who get the soldiers everything from their ammunition to the food that they eat."
A drop in service would not render us impotent, however. The means of deploying weapons would not be seriously affected. "Most of our launch capacity is not tied up in SIPRNet," says Singer. "You've got 15,000 military networks out there. If I'm able to crack into SIPRNet, it doesn't mean that I'm able to crack into a ship's missile system."
There have been glitches, though. Early in 2010 a routine software update resulted in an error that meant 10,000 GPS receivers – there are 800,000 US Military receivers attached to everything from aircraft carriers to individual bombs – were unable to log on to the network, making them impossible to track.
Technical failures to our internet connections aren't really what defence departments around the globe are worried about; it's the threat of the enemy getting inside our communications tools and changing the information within them that has the generals worried. "That could defi nitely have a worse effect," says Singer. "Imagine if a hacker were able to change the data of a GPS target, to add three degrees to every 20th one. The resulting carnage would lead people to lose faith in the use of GPS.
"The concern is not so much the system going down, but reaching the point where it becomes unreliable. If a system
goes down, we can reconstitute it, but once the trust in that system has gone, it's very difficult to get it back and that's
a much bigger risk and, indeed, easier for adversaries to carry out."
If we were to ever revert to non-net dependent defence systems, would armed forces just be able to regress back to methods that worked in the past? Mr Singer, who co-ordinated the defence policy task force for Barack Obama's presidential campaign, is in two minds.
"Would it mean you immediately go back to the same style or are you now so dependent on modern methods that you're unable to operate? Perhaps now we're more sophisticated we'd know how to use the older technology better. "Imagine if GPS disappears. I was able to get from point A to point B without GPS. But what about the generation that has grown up with it? How about that soldier in the fi eld that has always had GPS telling him where he is? If he's forced to go back to using 1960-level methods, he may not be able to operate."
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Save on bikes this week at Toys"R"Us! Save $25 on all kids character bikes, including Disney Princess, Hot Wheels, Toy Story and more. Plus, receive 20% off on a variety of Huffy bicycles, including mountain bikes, tricycles and more. Both sales are valid Sunday, 4/11 through Saturday, 4/17.


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Special Issue "Prodrugs"
A special issue of Pharmaceuticals (ISSN 1424-8247).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 January 2014)
Special Issue Editors
Guest Editor
Prof. Dr. Jarkko Rautio
School of Pharmacy Faculty of Health Sciences University of Eastern Finland P.O.Box 1627 FI-70211 Kuopio Finland
Website: http://www.uef.fi/en/farmasian-laitos/prodrug-technology
Interests: prodrugs; CNS drug delivery; drug transporters
Co-Guest Editor
Dr. Kristiina Huttunen
School of Pharmacy Faculty of Health Sciences University of Eastern Finland P.O.Box 1627 FI-70211 Kuopio, Finland
Interests: design and discovery of prodrugs; perforin inhibitors
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We would like to invite you to submit an original manuscript, communication or review for this special issue. Your contribution to this topic will greatly enhance the understanding of this important topic to the readers of Pharmaceuticals. We would like the focus of this issue to be on the structure-activity relationships between promoiety structure and absorption, targeting and/or activation. Additional focus on the physicochemical changes that the prodrug moiety adds to the molecule and how that results in different PK, distribution kinetics and toxicities are also welcome.
Prof. Dr. Jarkko Rautio
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Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. Papers will be published continuously (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.
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on 2/26/2012 12:12:00 PM
Age: 30-35
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Hair: Black, Other, Other
Eyes: Green
The pump is a nice idea but if you do a full pump you get way too much product and end up wasting the majority; a quarter pump is really all that's needed. It's difficult to blend, which I dislike as the delicate area doesn't need all that pulling! I also find, that regardless of blending, the product itself creases.
As an eyeshadow primer, it's useless. :(
For something this costly, it's a waste.
on 2/26/2012 12:06:00 PM
Age: 36-43
Skin: Combination, Fair-Medium, Cool
Hair: Blond, Other, Other
Eyes: Blue
I got a mini version of this in Benefit's Full Glam Ahead set that has two other minis with it, a Bad Gal Lash mascara and High Beam highlighter. The Bad Gal lash is one of the worst mascara's I have ever used - the reason I bring it up on this review is because it is part of this set and I have already reviewed in a long time ago. I didn't like it then and I don't like it now. For $12 for all three products however, this set is a steal! I don't actually like Stay Don't Stray enough to buy the full size of it because Elf's e/s primer is actually better and ta da . . . it's only $1. This would make a great gift though because it's a great way to try the products and the packaging is irresistible. Benefit packaging is so cute!! I think they spend more money on packaging and paying some really creative people to name their products than the actual ingredients put into their mu because I have yet to find something in their line I truly like.
on 2/24/2012 7:50:00 PM
Age: 18 & Under
Skin: Combination, Fair-Medium, Not Sure
Hair: Brunette, Wavy, Medium
Eyes: Brown
I don't like this product at all. First off it is kind of an expensive product, $26 for a tube. I bought mine in a sample set for $10 with two other mini products. I go to school and have activities through out the day. I have semi oily eye lids so that might add to the issue. I normally apply my make up around 6:40 in the morning and take it off around 9. It is a very think concealer like product. I creases on my eye lids as well. After 6 hours my eye shadow looks horrible! I don't recommend this to anyone! Stick to Urban Decay Primer potion or Too Face shadow insurance!
on 2/22/2012 7:27:00 PM
Age: 18 & Under
Skin: Dry, Medium, Neutral
Hair: Black, Straight, Medium
Eyes: Black
I ran out of my Urban Decay Primer Potion, and when I saw that my local Shoppers Drug Mart sold Benefit products, I decided to try this out. I have extremely oily lids, and without primer, my eyeshadow would probably crease in less than 2 hours. With this primer, my eyeshadows take about 3-4 hours to crease. It does work quite well, but not as well as the UDPP. I love the fact that the product comes with a pump, and a little goes a long way. I only need a tiny dot for both eyelids. I don't use this as a concealer primer, so I can't really say how well that works.
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Hair: Red, Curly, Coarse
Eyes: Blue
I have dryish skin that is starting to show fine lines. This did even out my under eye area, and made my concealer stay put, however i found it drying. As an eyelid primer, it creased after about hours on me, but that is applying over a heavy eye cream. Will not repurchase because it is drying and emphasizes my fine lines.
on 2/19/2012 10:13:00 AM
Age: 19-24
Skin: Normal, Fair-Medium, Not Sure
Hair: Brown, Other, Other
Eyes: Brown
I purchased some beauty mini kit at sephora and in it was a small sized tube of this primer.. The small tube actually lasted me a really long time so i imagine if u buy the large regular size it would last forever. The pump is great i like thAt and i also like that the product has a neutral color to it so it not only "holds shadows in place" it gives your eylids a clean slate to work with. I always look for primers with a bit of a natural color to them as opposed to clear. Now the most important part and where it failed is in holding my shadows without creases., bottom line it doesnt. My eye shadows were creased within the hour or application. And i buy high end eyshadows and theyve never creased with any orher primer so i know this primer is the culprit. I was actually convinced for a while that i loved it and was ready to buy till i used my too faced shadow insurance and was like omg the benefit one is creasing my shadows snd so i bought a mac primer instead. So overall wouldnt buy.
on 2/15/2012 7:01:00 AM
Age: 19-24
Skin: Normal, Fair-Medium, Warm
Hair: Brown, Straight, Medium
Eyes: Brown
I still wonder why there are so many negative comments about this product. So far I find this product really good but there are some of the product description that I may negate on basing on what I experienced about this primer.
First of all the product itself. I find the product easy to apply and easy to blend out. It made my eyeshadow stand out and last for about 6 hours. Note that I have this really oily eye lids and that after 2 hours (without an e/s primer) my eyeshadow starts to crease and the oil from my lids tends to make my eyeshadow disappear. So when I started using this product, it actually prevents my eyelids from being oily for about 6 hours and to no disappointment my eyeshadow stay put. So I agree with it that it stays put and no creasing - for the eyeshadow at least. Also note that I am only using an eyeshadow palette which I bought for only $3 which wasn't also a famous product and it doesn't really stand out when applied without any primer at all. So I wonder why others said here that it didn't work for their eyeshadows? Maybe it depends on your eyeshadow product or the way you applied it. Because for me, it really did work well even though I used this with cheap eyeshadows.
Second, it says that it also prevents your concealer from creasing. Well I say no, not at all. My concealer doesn't make any difference with or without this primer on. I see no improvements when I used this prior to applying my concealer. That's why I only use it as an eye shadow primer cause its a waste of product when it does nothing at all to your concealer.
Third, I like the packaging. The pump makes it easier to get the product you need. I have no problems with the packaging.
In conclusion, I like this product - only as an eyeshadow primer. But its not worth the money. Its too expensive and I can still get better eyeshadow primers out there at a cheaper price. I wouldn't repurchase.
NEW UPDATE: I am starting to hate this product. Since I've got oily and hooded lids, my eye shadows starts to crease for less than 6 hours now and I regret spending so much with these.. totally turned off.
on 2/11/2012 8:11:00 PM
Age: 19-24
Skin: Sensitive, Fair, Cool
Hair: Other, Other, Other
Eyes: Hazel
This product is ridiculous. I love benefit products so I thought I would give it a try. I don't believe you need a concealer primer! The concealer should be able to take care of the job all on it's own. As far as it's effectiveness as an eyeshadow primer, there are MUCH better out there.
on 2/9/2012 8:18:00 PM
Age: 19-24
Skin: Acne-prone, Fair-Medium, Cool
Hair: Blond, Straight, Medium
Eyes: Blue
I was pretty disappointed with this product. The women at Sephora recommended it as an eyelid primer/eyeshadow base. I didn't notice that it didn't work, but I didn't notice that it did anything either, and for it's price, it definitely was not worth it. I do use it as an undereye concealer though, so for that it seems to do just fine.
on 2/9/2012 6:20:00 PM
Age: 36-43
Skin: Dry, Fair, Not Sure
Hair: Black, Other, Other
Eyes: Green
I love Benefit. No, really. Every other benefit product I have is ace. This doesn't work. At all. On any level. It is actually amazing in its abject refusal to do any of the things it claims it will do. I do, admittedly, have oily eye lids, but do you want to know how long it took for my eye make up to smudge? Do you? Oh, okay, I shall tell you. TEN MINUTES. As in, quicker than if I were to put no primer on at all.
As for being a concealer primer, now, here it does something special. It makes the concealer gather into your lines in the most bizarre manner whilst also drying the under eye area. Nice.
It is nearly twenty quid. When I returned it to the shop, the benefit lady suggested that perhaps I was not applying it correctly. I assured her I had, due to my magical ability to read and understand diagrams, and then I had to stare at her for a bit before she would take the thing back. For twenty quid, I would expect a primer to work, and also to perhaps dance the macarena and bring its own wine. Which, incidentally, the Nars one does. Work, that is. If it dances the macarena it must do it when I am asleep.
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Orange is the New Black is the show to be talking about this summer, and its cast is the hottest group of performers in Hollywood. If you've been a diehard fan since season one, this is nothing new; you probably feel like a proud relative as you've watched this relatively unknown ensemble command the spotlight. They're winning awards! They're on late-night TV! They're riding floats!
After 26 episodes, it's understandable to be going through serious Orange withdrawal. Aside from keeping up with Instagram and watching old episodes of Law & Order how are we supposed to stay in touch with our Orange favorites until season three premieres? 2015 feels like multiple lifetimes away, and the cast is keeping busy by booking jobs outside of Litchfield. Is it possible to laugh with Pornstache without laughing at him? Can Nicky stand to friend yet another privileged white girl who loves the sound of her own voice? From GIRLS to Shondaland, let our guide to your favorite Orange stars' next gigs help fill out your entertainment calendar for the coming months.
You haven't seen the Orange cast until you've seen them take on their costars' roles. Check out the cast do impressions of each other in the video below.
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Hawks Soar Past Panthers in Key AMCC Win
- Release Date:
- January 17, 2006
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BRADFORD, PA – The visiting Hilbert College men's basketball team poured it on in the second half, defeating the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford (6-7, 3-3), 73-65 in a key Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference (AMCC) win.
Holding a 28-23 halftime lead, the Hawks would shoot 66% from the field and knock down 45 points in the second stanza. Junior forward Corey Vander Sluis (Syracuse, NY/West Genesee) erupted, connecting on 13 of 19 shots, as he finished with 28 points and 10 rebounds on the evening.
The Hawks (5-7, 3-3) started fast and furious as they would only allow UPB to hold a lead for 1:15 during the course of the game. A lay-up by Hilbert junior Ron Dussett (Buffalo, NY/Buffalo Traditional) with 2:15 left to play gave the Hawks their largest lead at 67-52. The lead would eventually dwindle down to four with 00:46 seconds to play on a three pointer by guard Dan Thomas, but the host Panthers would not get any closer.
The Hawks owned the paint on the evening as they outscored the Panthers 48-26 down low. Dussett added 13 points for Hilbert, while holding current AMCC scoring leader Ryan Race to 7-17 shooting and 15 points.
The Hawks return to action at home this Friday, January 20th in another key AMCC match-up against Mount Aloysius College. The game is scheduled for an 8:00 PM tip-off.
Hilbert College, located in suburban Hamburg, N.Y., south of Buffalo, is a private four-year college founded in 1957 in the Catholic Franciscan tradition. With nearly 1,100 students, Hilbert is a dynamic Western New York college that offers career-focused majors, including one of the top criminal justice programs in the region, and more than 50 minors and concentrations. The college's engaging, student-centered campus community offers numerous leadership, internship, and service learning opportunities from which students launch successful careers while making positive changes in their communities. The Hilbert Blueprint promotes a well-rounded student experience over four years – starting with the Foundations Seminar in the freshman year, followed by Sophomore Service, Junior Symposium, and culminating with the Senior Capstone. Hilbert has expanded its academic offerings with the college's first graduate programs and new Accelerated Degree Programs geared to adult learners.
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Welcome to KW Farms online!
Breeder of AGS/ADGA/NDGA Nigerian Dwarf Goats and APHA Paint Horses
Location: Wapato, WA 98951. Near Yakima, WA.
Contact: firstname.lastname@example.com
We have taken our time in selecting the right animals to add to KW Farms. Our Nigerian Dwarf breeding program consists of some outstanding individuals. We have very carefully selected goats that fit our strict expections. Striving for an all around, true miniature dairy goat, one with a beautiful udder that can milk, good conformation, good genetics, and a great pedigree. Our Nigerian Dwarfs come from some of the best bloodlines available. As a bonus, you will also find our herd to be quite colorful, including many with moon spots and blue eyes. We love quality with color. Quality being most important to us. Take a look at our goat pages on the website for more information. The Breeding Schedule page shows who is bred to who and when they are due. The New Arrivals page shows any new kids born. Each goat has it's individual page with lots of photos, pedigree information, and more! Just click on their name under their photo on the Sr. Buck/Doe and Jr. Buck/Doe pages. If you have any questions about our goats or breeding program, please don't hesitate to contact us!
Our Paint Horse breeding program was formed around the Billy Shoe Shine bloodline, with our stallion being a Billy Shoe Shine son, homozygous for black and tobiano. Call Me Billy or better known as "Shiner," by those who knew him personally. We have had some beautiful foals born in the past years by him. Sadly, in fall 2013, Shiner suffered a leg injury that could not be repaired, we made the tough decision of having him put to sleep. We have been blessed with a beautiful grullo splash white tobiano colt by him and look forward to having him carry on Shiner's genetics. Temperament is very important to us and these foals have been the kindest, most easy going horses I have had the pleasure of being around. They are athletic, easy to train, and can go in just about any direction. We don't have many foals born, in fact, we haven't had foals born here since 2010, however, 2014 we have two due in May. Looking forward to seeing our last Call Me Billy foal and our first Eight Second Ride foal. Please visit our APHA Horses page for more information on our horses.
We adore our animals and hope you will too. Have a wonderful time looking around and be sure to let us know if we can do anything for you or if you have any questions. If there are any website or navigational issues, please let us know. Don't forget to sign our guestbook while you're here. We would love to hear from you. Thanks for stopping by and be sure to visit again!


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Millions saw the horrific images of the World Trade Center attacks, and those who saw them won't forget them. But a New Jersey homemaker saw something that morning that prompted an investigation into five young Israelis and their possible connection to Israeli intelligence.
Maria, who asked us not to use her last name, had a view of the World Trade Center from her New Jersey apartment building. She remembers a neighbor calling her shortly after the first plane hit the towers.
She grabbed her binoculars and watched the destruction unfolding in lower Manhattan. But as she watched the disaster, something else caught her eye.
Maria says she saw three young men kneeling on the roof of a white van in the parking lot of her apartment building. "They seemed to be taking a movie," Maria said.
The men were taking video or photos of themselves with the World Trade Center burning in the background, she said. What struck Maria were the expressions on the men's faces. "They were like happy, you know … They didn't look shocked to me. I thought it was very strange," she said.
She found the behavior so suspicious that she wrote down the license plate number of the van and called the police. Before long, the FBI was also on the scene, and a statewide bulletin was issued on the van.
The plate number was traced to a van owned by a company called Urban Moving. Around 4 p.m. on Sept. 11, the van was spotted on a service road off Route 3, near New Jersey's Giants Stadium. A police officer pulled the van over, finding five men, between 22 and 27 years old, in the vehicle. The men were taken out of the van at gunpoint and handcuffed by police.
The arresting officers said they saw a lot that aroused their suspicion about the men. One of the passengers had $4,700 in cash hidden in his sock. Another was carrying two foreign passports. A box cutter was found in the van. But perhaps the biggest surprise for the officers came when the five men identified themselves as Israeli citizens.
'We Are Not Your Problem'
According to the police report, one of the passengers told the officers they had been on the West Side Highway in Manhattan "during the incident" — referring to the World Trade Center attack. The driver of the van, Sivan Kurzberg, told the officers, "We are Israeli. We are not your problem. Your problems are our problems. The Palestinians are the problem." The other passengers were his brother Paul Kurzberg, Yaron Shmuel, Oded Ellner and Omer Marmari.
When the men were transferred to jail, the case was transferred out of the FBI's Criminal Division, and into the bureau's Foreign Counterintelligence Section, which is responsible for espionage cases, ABCNEWS has learned.
One reason for the shift, sources told ABCNEWS, was that the FBI believed Urban Moving may have been providing cover for an Israeli intelligence operation.
After the five men were arrested, the FBI got a warrant and searched Urban Moving's Weehawken, N.J., offices.
The FBI searched Urban Moving's offices for several hours, removing boxes of documents and a dozen computer hard drives. The FBI also questioned Urban Moving's owner. His attorney insists that his client answered all of the FBI's questions. But when FBI agents tried to interview him again a few days later, he was gone.


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May 26, 2011
News Release
Colorado Department of Education Publishes Improvement Plans For All Districts and Schools Under New Accountability Act
News Release
Commissioner of Education Robert K. Hammond today announced the publication of improvement plans for all districts and schools in the state under the first implementation cycle of the Education Accountability Act of 2009.
To access a district or school improvement plan, visit the performance tab of SchoolView: http://www.schoolview.org/performance.asp
"By engaging in a continuous improvement cycle to manage performance,
districts and schools can improve their effectiveness and outcomes for
students," said Commissioner Hammond. "We strongly encourage parents and
community members statewide to explore these plans and learn more. Every
school is unique and has its own story to tell."
The Education Accountability Act requires each Colorado district and school to develop or update an improvement plan each year. In developing these improvement plans, districts and schools must analyze student academic data to reflect on their performance strengths and challenges, and identify the root causes of these issues. Districts and schools also must develop strategies for addressing low performance and then describe how implementing these strategies will address the identified issues during the course of the next school year.
Plans were submitted to the Department for publication on April 15, 2011. CDE reviewed and approved district turnaround plans, and provided support as requested in the development of all other plan types. The published plans may reflect revisions districts and schools have made to their plans following official submission to CDE each year on April 15. As planning is an ongoing process, these documents reflect a "point in time" submission.
To date, 179 district plans have been published and 1476 school plans have been published. School districts with 1000 or fewer students had the option of submitting one district-level plan that addressed their challenges and improvement strategies at both the district and school level, or submitting separate district- and school-level plans.
Plan Components
The Education Accountability Act of 2009 requires the following components in all plans:
- Trends: Positive and negative trends in the levels of attainment by the district or school on the performance indicators.
- Root Causes: Root causes for each identified student academic performance challenge for the district or school that must be addressed to raise the levels of attainment on the performance indicators.
- Targets: Ambitious but attainable targets that the district or school will attain on the four key statewide performance indicators (academic achievement, academic growth, academic growth gaps and postsecondary and workforce readiness).
- Strategies: Specific, research-based major improvement strategies that are appropriate in scope, intensity and type to address the district's or school's root causes of areas of low performance.
- Resources: Identification of local, state and federal resources that the district or school will use to implement the identified major improvement strategies.
- Interim Measures and Implementation Benchmarks: Interim measures and implementation benchmarks to assess whether the identified strategies are having the desired performance results and whether or not the strategies are being carried out as planned.
In addition, districts and schools on turnaround plans (the lowest-performing 5 percent of districts and schools) must also include at least one of the following approaches among their improvement strategies:
- Turnaround Partner: Employ a lead turnaround partner that is immersed in all aspects of developing and collaboratively executing the plan, and that serves as a liaison to other school partners.
- District/School Management: Reorganize the oversight and management structure of the district or school such that the new structure provides greater, more effective support.
- Innovation School: Recognize the district's school as an innovation school or cluster it with other schools that have similar governance management structure to form an innovation school zone pursuant to the Innovation Schools Act.
- School Management Contract: Hire a public or private entity to manage the district's school pursuant to a contract with the local school board or the Charter School Institute.
- Charter Conversion: For schools without a charter, convert the district's school to a charter school.
- Restructure Charter: For schools with a charter, renegotiate or significantly restructure the district's school charter contract.
- Other Strategy of Comparable or Greater Effect: Includes those interventions required for low-performing schools under the federal Elementary and Secondary Education Act.
Unified Improvement Plan Template
The Colorado Department of Education created the Unified Improvement Plan (UIP) template to streamline planning efforts. The UIP template incorporates multiple state and federal improvement planning and accountability requirements into a single improvement plan, and provides a roadmap to assist districts and schools in addressing the above components.
"Prior to the Unified Improvement Plan, districts that were identified as in need of improvement under the various state or federal accountability provisions (for example, state accreditation or federal Title programs or both) were required to submit an improvement plan for each program area where they fell short of expectations," said Patrick Chapman, Executive Director of Federal Programs Administration. "With the Unified Improvement Plan, districts need only submit a single comprehensive plan, which meets multiple state and federal requirements."
In the 2010-2011 school year, districts and schools on priority improvement or turnaround plans, as well as any districts requiring state review due to High Priority Dropout designation or federal No Child Left Behind improvement designations, were required to use the Unified Improvement Plan template. All other districts and schools were highly encouraged to use the template for 2010-11, and will be required to use the template in 2011-2012.
Improvement Planning Support
This spring, the Colorado Department of Education reviewed and provided feedback to district and school priority improvement and turnaround plans. In addition, a State Review Panel of Colorado education experts reviewed turnaround plans to provide recommendations to the Commissioner regarding a district or school's overall capacity to improve.
Between late June and September, the Department will offer a series of differentiated training opportunities to support improvement planning. District and school leaders are encouraged to attend any session that meets their needs.
For more information, including training dates and locations, visit http://schoolview.org/UnifiedImprovementPlanning.asp#UIPTrainings
The Education Accountability Act of 2009
The Education Accountability Act of 2009 was signed into law by Governor Ritter on May 21, 2009. Its purpose is to align conflicting accountability systems and create a common understanding of school, district and state performance using the Colorado Growth Model as its cornerstone. The Education Accountability Act holds the state, districts and schools accountable on a set of consistent, objective measures and reports performance in a manner that highlights progress towards the goals of the Colorado Achievement Plan for Kids Act of 2008 (CAP4K): ensure that all students graduate high school ready for postsecondary education and workforce success.
As a part of the Education Accountability Act, in November 2010, the Colorado Department of Education accredited districts with one of five ratings: accredited with distinction, accredited, accredited with improvement plan, accredited with priority improvement plan or accredited with turnaround plan. In December 2010, the Colorado State Board of Education assigned schools to one of four plan types: performance plan, improvement plan, priority improvement plan or turnaround plan.
The basis for district accreditation and school plan type assignments were the district and school performance framework reports. The performance frameworks measure attainment on the four key performance indicators identified in the Education Accountability Act as the measures of educational success: academic achievement, academic growth, academic growth gaps and postsecondary and workforce readiness. State-identified measures and metrics for each of these performance indicators are combined to arrive at an overall evaluation of a district's or a school's performance. For districts, the overall evaluation leads to their accreditation. For schools, the overall evaluation leads to the identification of the type of plan schools will implement.
The Education Accountability Act then requires districts and schools to develop and implement an improvement plan based on their assigned district accreditation rating or school plan type assignment.
This accountability cycle of performance reporting, district accreditation, school plan type assignment, and district and school improvement planning is an annual process. The next cycle begins again August 15, 2011, when districts and schools will receive their preliminary 2010-11 district and school performance framework reports.
For more information on school plan type assignments, visit: http://www.cde.state.co.us/communications/Releases/20101103spf.html
For more information on district accreditation, visit: http://www.cde.state.co.us/communications/Releases/20101130dpf.html
To access a district or school performance framework report, visit the performance tab of SchoolView: http://schoolview.org/performance.asp
To access additional district or school performance data, visit the SchoolView Data Center: https://edx.cde.state.co.us/SchoolView/DataCenter/reports.jspx


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News, Articles
Ads of the World featured on The Guardian
A few days ago, The Guardian, a leading UK based newspaper, featured Ads of The World on their Technology section.
Ads of the World has been running on Drupal for the 4 years it has been in existence, and is a very high traffic site.
Presentation: Monitoring Drupal using Nagios Integration
On Thursday February 19, 2009, Khalid gave a presentation on Integrating Nagios with Drupal at the Waterloo Region Drupal Users Group.
We have announced this integration a few weeks ago.
The slides from the presentation are attached below.
New module: Nagios monitoring for your Drupal sites
2bits.com has released the Nagios monitoring module that integrates your Drupal site (or hundreds of sites!) into with the Nagios monitoring application.
The module reports to Nagios that the site is up and running normally, including:
Symantec using Userpoints on their community site
Symantec has launched a community web site that uses Drupal, and the 2bits.com developed and maintained Userpoints.
See how they use userpoints, and how here.
Presentation: Diagnosing and Speeding up a Slow Drupal Site - A Case Study
Thanks to all of those who braved the cold snap and showed up for the Drupal Users Group monthly meeting for January 2009.
This was a case study on a site that was forced to move from a shared host to a VPS, yet was still slow, and how we diagnosed the problem, and found a solution for it.
Here are the slides for the talk, in PDF format.
Making Subversion/SVN recognize CVS Id and Revision tags
Many Drupal developers use Subversion (SVN) internally within their organization, due to its many benefits over what the Drupal project's repository uses: the dated CVS.
One annoying aspect though is that almost all Drupal files use CVS style tags, such as the $Id$ one. Subversion does not recognize these by default.
How to delay somewhat heavy operations to improve user experience
We had a need from a client where they wanted to check certain complex conditions from a relatively big decision matrix. Without going into specifics, they wanted to check a progressive set of rules for users and taking certain actions when all the conditions were met.
Checking one or two conditions is not a problem on a modern day web site, but because the rules are progressive and have to be all checked from the start every time, that involves a lot of processing, a lot of database queries and basically a lot of time.
DrupalCon session: Backend Drupal Performance Optimization and Tuning: A guide for everyone
We have proposed a session for DrupalCon Washington DC 2009. The topic is one that is dear to our hearts and a common : Backend Drupal performance optimization and tuning: a guide for everyone.
This distills the many articles on Drupal performance tuning and optimizations on 2bits.com that we have written over the years.
Please vote for this session if you would like to attend.
The importance of tuning APC for sites with a high number of Drupal modules
As we observed before, configuring APC with low memory can be a drag on performance, causing high executing times.
We saw this recently for a client with a large web site on a dedicated server that approached 2bits.com for performance tuning.
How to reduce page load times by sending emails via cron, rather on page submission
A frequent problem we see at client sites is when they click submit on a page, whether it is a creation of a node or a comment, and then the site does not come back for several minutes.
Is your Drupal or WordPress site slow?


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Incredible Pizza Review
Here at Incredible Pizza Company we always value true and honest opinions. Check out this review from Memphis blogger Edie, author of Carter Chaos.
My family got the privilege of trying out Incredible Pizza of Memphis for free. I was sent a special blogger's coupon that covered our meals and some bonus cards to play games. My kids were SO excited as they have been hearing about Incredible Pizza from all of their friends. I really wasn't sure what to expect but I was game for the trip. We happened to be taking a little family vacay with my mom and stepdad to Memphis so that was the perfect time to try it out!
We didn't have any trouble finding it. As you can see the building stands out!
The buffet was so big! There was a salad section, a taco/ nacho section, baked potatoes, veggies, pizza, and dessert! There was a slushie machine and several soda stations. We piled high some plates and went into the Diner seating area. There are 4 seating areas at Incredible Pizza Memphis. The Diner, the Family Room, the Gymnasium, and the Drive In. There was a movie showing in the Drive In and the kids wanted to sit there but most of the tables were reserved for a big group that was coming in so we went to the Diner instead. As we ate we discussed some other fun seating areas that they could have like a beach/ fishing theme, a rustic cabin, a theme park or carnival theme, etc. I think they really could do a lot more with the themed seating areas.
|We had the diner to ourselves
Once we picked our table we headed for the buffets. On closer inspection there weren't many pizzas out at that time. We did see a sign to create your own pizza. My mom attempted to do that but they happened to be pulling one of the ones she wanted out at the exact same time. She did say several were sitting in a window ready to be put out. With so many empty places on the buffet I'm not sure why they weren't putting them out quicker. However we found plenty to eat. The cheesy bread cut into pizza shaped slices were everyone's favorite! Apple also enjoyed a loaded baked potato she built on the bar. The pizza was decent. For the regular price, the pizza and all the extras were well worth it. After 2 plates of pizza and extras (did I mention the green beans were fabulous?), we went for the dessert bar. OH.MY.WORD! The fresh baked, hot cookies were the BEST. Peanut butter and chocolate chip were available and they went great with the ice cream that was included. Of course we had to have some slushies too.
After that we were full and the kids were over the top excited to go to the game room area. Now this isn't your typical arcade. Not only were there TONS of video games, there was mini golf, laser tag, indoor go carts, bumper cars, and more. We tried everything except the laser tag. Honestly we really wanted to do laser tag too but the price wasn't clearly displayed and I never got around to asking the cost. Apple BEGGED to do the golf carts until her Papaw finally agreed to go with her. She had so much fun. That was her favorite part of the hours we spent there.