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ATLANTA -- To increase engagement and let its supporters have more ways to share in the excitement, the Georgia State Athletics Department is designating a new hashtag to help GSU Panther fans stand out from other college and professional teams. Starting with the Blue-White Spring Game on Saturday, fans are encouraged to use the hashtag #allblueallin to show their school spirit and unity across every type of social media year-round for all athletic events.
What does "All Blue. All In." mean? It's about the passion that the growing Panther fan base exhibits daily. It's about standing together with current students, alumni and fans around the state and nation, being committed no matter the result on the field and leading the rally cry to show pride in Georgia State and its athletic programs.
"The football coaches, student-athletes and staff are proud to represent Georgia State and we know our fan base is as excited about the future as we are," Georgia State football coach Trent Miles said. "They care and want to see all the teams in the department succeed. They're All Blue, All In and we want them to show it. For football, support is crucial as we still have a young program. Our fans will be loud in the stands on game day, but we also want them to show their school spirit the rest of the week and in the offseason."
Proudly wearing blue to support their teams in the stands leaves a lasting impression. Using #allblueallin throughout social media will have a similar effect in front of a larger audience, and it will separate Panther fans to let their voices be heard even louder.
"Since my arrival, we have seen our fan base grow tremendously and having a packed-out Sports Arena is important for our student-athletes as they feed off of the energy that our fan base brings," GSU men's basketball coach Ron Hunter said. "The future is extremely bright for Georgia State Athletics and we believe in 'All Blue, All In.' We hope that our students, alums and fans will buy-in to help give us the best homecourt advantage in the Sun Belt Conference."
Committing to the Blue and White by the student-athletes means more than going all in for their school, teammates and coaches. It's also for the faculty and staff, the other students in their classes and alumni who love to have the chance to boast about their alma mater's athletic programs. Fans now have a better opportunity to show how driven they are to see the Panthers succeed as well.
"A homecourt advantage is a tribute to fans and when our fans are really into a game and cheering, our players truly respond," GSU women's basketball coach Sharon Baldwin-Tener said. "Our support rose last year and I think with the prospects for our season ahead, having Panther fans be all in with us would make a huge difference in wins and losses."
The Blue-White Spring Game will start at 1 p.m. ET and will be played at the Georgia Dome, home of Georgia State football. Admission is free.
Saturday's scrimmage will include family friendly events coordinated with Team Tiger. On-site registration begins at 10 a.m. before pregame activities start at 10:30 a.m. Among the events will be a chance for registered children 8th grade and under to go through drills on the field with GSU players, participate in educational stations as well as an obstacle course and interactive inflatables.


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Just recently I have learned that New Jersey has enacted legislation requiring that standards be developed for the ''humane raising, keeping, care, treatment, marketing, and sale of domestic livestock.''
This is an unparalleled opportunity to lead the nation in the ending of intensive confinement and all its attendant horrors.
For example, all but 3 percent of laying hens in this country are kept in cages measuring 16 by 18 inches. As many as six hens may be crammed into a single one of these cages. To keep these wretched animals from pecking, bloodying and killing each other, they are ''debeaked,'' a painful and debilitating procedure which prevents proper eating and drinking.
In the case of veal, a calf is taken from its mother almost immediately after birth and placed in a tiny, enclosed stall, "a veal crate'' from which he will emerge only for the trip to the slaughterhouse several months later. The animal cannot turn to groom himself and cannot lie down. He cannot escape his own excrement.
The diet he will eat in his dark confined crate, is purposely deficient in iron, which causes anemia. That, together with lack of exercise, will render his flesh white and tender -- pleasing the gourmet palate. Because these conditions are so unnatural, so stressful, and unhealthy, he will be bolstered with massive amounts of antibiotics to keep him alive until he is killed.
Likewise the ''sow stalls'' which imprison pregnant pigs, sometimes for years, are another abomination which should be abolished. Depriving the animal of her natural locomotion, they cause leg and foot lameness again needing antibiotics.
The overuse and abuse of antibiotics to prevent illnesses in animals who, were they properly treated would not require them at all, now threatens the human population. This alone should be justification for drastic reform to agricultural practices.
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FHP drops road-block report after southbound I-95 crashes
Published: Saturday, January 19, 2013 at 3:50 p.m.
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The Florida Highway Patrol has cleared its road-block reports after separate crashes on southbound Interstate 95 Saturday afternoon.
The first crash occurred about 3:44 p.m. in the southbound lanes south of the LPGA interchange in Daytona Beach, according to FHP.
A second southbound crash happened at 4:04 p.m. near Ormond Beach, between Old Dixie Highway and U.S. 1, according to FHP.
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seeking the three corners
It's been awhile since my last blog. I planned on writing something the other day, as I've had a bunch of things to say, but didn't as I couldn't find any words until tonight. Once I started, I couldn't stop, and I have even more to say that'll be coming soon in a few days. If this was a business, I'd probably be wise to break these posts up into shorter segments and post more frequently instead of rarer, longer posts, but whatever.
I guess I'll break my thoughts into POINTS:
Theory Blogging. I wrote two fairly long theory posts, one about my own personality and one about poker. I'm not finished with the latter, and I don't know what I did with the former, and unfortunately all I want to write is the personality-theory one but don't want to start from scratch (edit later : looks like I did). That's kind of annoying. The poker theory post isn't anything groundbreaking but it does look at a bunch of things from a perspective I've never heard before and I think does a good job of expressing my ideas. Once I finish it, I'll probably give it to Vivek to critique, modify it somewhat, then.. I don't know yet. If I really like it, and Vivek thinks it's highly valuable, then I won't publically post it and I'll only give it to people I'm actively coaching or people I want a critique from. More likely, it'll just be a solid article that I'll post here/PITR/PokerVT and let it go from there.
Live Poker. For the first three years of my live career, I never wore headphones while playing live. After I turned 21, though, I had the pleasure of sitting with someone who was one of the biggest douchebags I've ever met in my life, constantly talking about how much money he had and how awesome he was, all the while being a pretty terrible player in reality. Sitting there with no way to drown out his masturbatory screeching, I was left to bathe in loathing, entertaining myself by fantasizing about all the ways the gentleman might be annihilated and/or eviscerated. After that tournament's merciful end, I swore to never play a live tournament ever again without bringing headphones. I've found that just putting them on without actually playing music is usually enough to stop the extra-annoying clowns from trying to talk to me, so that's what I've been doing lately unless I have the need to drown out someone's inane babble/harpy-voice.
Obsession. My theory post was about this topic, and I didn't find it, but decided to write it from scratch, so here goes. All through my life, I've had clear bouts of obsession. I've only recently had this pointed out to me, by my friend/mentor that I mentioned awhile ago, in that same conversation, in fact. He's right about this, as well. I was obsessed by so many things over the years, and then usually, the activity was abruptly left by the wayside. When I was actively engaged, though, I usually was pretty good at what I was focusing on, and I tended to live and breathe said activity.
A good recent example of this was a few years ago when I got involved into fighting MMA. I trained every day, ate like a nazi, worked out a ton, wanted to spar with anyone who would work with me, and did little else but fight or train. A few months later, I fell back in love with poker again and cold-quit training/fighting. I don't think I've fought even once since the day I dropped it ~20 months ago.
I feel this level of obsession, if not even greater, taking over now – this time with poker. In the past two months I have developed a massive hunger like I've never had before to crush poker, especially live. Every day, and I do mean every day, I'm working on my game and actively trying to improve. I'm discussing hands, watching videos, writing poker theories/articles, responding to any sort of hand sent to me or posted on the PokerVT forums, or, obviously, playing/analyzing my play. I'm just devouring information. I really feel like I'm on a warpath, the end goal being to destroy tournament poker. My confidence hasn't ever been higher – but I'm not letting that serve as an easily usable excuse for not working on my game – instead, I'm using it to propel me to work harder. I want to crush so badly I dream about poker, something I haven't regularly done since when I started playing. I've been playing cash again, too, and I'm planning on getting back into it fully, as you can see in my…
Poker Goals: My goal this year, as I stated to someone earlier today, was simply "to crush". However, I guess I should set out some more defined goals. In priority order…
- Win a live tournament. Pretty simple. I feel like once I run good live I will destroy, but this hasn't happened yet and it's been a little frustrating. These huge idiot clownboxes win tons of money live, and the only thing keeping me from winning live is variance – or so I think. However, I've been working specifically on my live game, and the person who has played with me most in live 10ks+ is Daniel Negreanu – and when I asked him to critique me from a live player perspective, he said he never got a tell or anything off me during our 20 hours of playing together. He recently gave me some more direct counsel, summarized as: "Be patient, you'll do well in time." I also heard he called me a "rising star" or something in a UK poker magazine, without ever mentioning he was doing this to me. This is a pretty sick vote of confidence, and I'm honored. I also ought to mention how supportive Vivek has been of helping me with my desire to conquer live poker, as DN is new to team jcarver, while Vivek has been a close friend for seemingly forever. I owe Vivek an untold amount for all his support, friendship, and his time in teaching & helping me grow as a player. Vivek's always been there to review live stuff with me with as well as the typical online stuff we've been going over for years, and I really do appreciate it. With the support of two such high-caliber players, I'm confident this is an achievable goal.
- Win another sunday major, as well as the monday 1k. I actually really want to win the monday 1k, not sure why, but I just love that tournament. This is a pretty easy goal for me since it's already in line with my usual 95% play rate on Mondays and near 100% playrate on Sundays. Included in this point are some more minor goals – I want to hold the top score on BBC's frontpage and maybe make another run at OPOY. I actually would set a broader goal of P5's top 10, bluff OPOY, and maybe OPR or whatever, but these volume-based titles sort of run counter to goal #1 as it's tough to do both. If I can do it just by playing sundays, though, then great, let's do it.
- Become proficient (again) at other forms of poker. I think I'll have no problem getting fully back into cash games as I already feel really confident returning after a 6mo hiatus at cash. I guess I can say something like "win over a 100k sample at 3/6 and 5/10″, but I hate things like that because they're so arbitrary and dumb. Also, if I'm winning that much money at 3/6 and 5/10, anyone who knows me at all fucking knows I'll be playing 25/50 before I get to 25k hands of 3/6, nevermind 100k. I should probably be a little bit more of a nit with BR management than last time I took 100/200+ shots, though. Also included in goal #3 is to become good at HORSE and 8game, both of which DN has offered to help me with. Pretty sure I can't be terrible at either with some high level coaching + putting the time in to learn them.
Obsession, continued. One of my longest obsessions was teaching karate. I took it very seriously and worked very hard to become the best instructor I could – it came pretty naturally to me, and I loved teaching from the beginning. I put a ton of time into learning all I could about karate, teaching, and the industry. Eventually, I was given control of the 4-6 year old program at an unheard-of 14 years old, after having had only 2 years of teaching experience. The program had only a meager 6 children enrolled when I started. I'm pretty sure being given the program wasn't so much a vote of confidence by management, more of a "here go nuts it's a freeroll for us", but that didn't matter to me at the time.
I took control of my project with a drive unparalleled by anything I'd done before. I made all the necessary phone calls, arranged events, did pretty much everything both administrative and active on the deck, and worked endlessly to build rapport with all my students and their parents. I taught every class, 5 or 6 days a week, plus the admin work, all while going to school, loving every minute of it. I spent my days thinking about how I could improve the program, learning new drills, or finishing my curriculum for next month, and spent my nights amongst my students. More important, I think, than being naturally good at it, I wanted to be good at it and I was determined to succeed. I never turned down a chance to improve myself, my activities, or my program.
Primarily through word of mouth, my program grew incredibly rapidly. We went from having initially only 6 students enrolled to over 100 regular students in only one year. It was a pretty fun time in my life, even though I was making pretty much no money doing an insane amount of work (people were making money, just not me), but I was obsessed with making that project the best it could be. When the time came where I was supposedly decided on going away to college, management decided it was wise to "wean" the students off onto a replacement primary instructor, and even though I eventually decided to stay home for college, management's decision was already made. The program disintegrated, as far as I know, after it was mostly wrested from me. I taught for a few more years, but my passion for martial arts instruction peaked with that 4-6 year old program.
My time as a martial arts instructor taught me many things, not least of which was that I truly do enjoy teaching. I've found teaching poker to be a very agreeable experience and have been enjoying it quite a bit. I've had mutually beneficial and positive experiences with almost everyone I've taught in the past, and I'm truly happy that I am able to open a door of opportunity for some people whom without my help might not be able to take this rather unique path of existence.
In recent days, I've been considering taking on one or two new students. This idea is bolstered by my recent reading of the Analects of Confucius, the great teacher, who seems to have a great deal of things to say to me - especially as an instructor. Confucius states :
"I do not open the way for students who are not driven with eagerness; I do not supply a vocabulary for students who are not trying desperately to find the language for their ideas. If on showing students one corner they do not come back to me with the other three, I will not repeat myself."
This passage happened to strike me rather deeply as I happened upon it while considering taking on my next student and made me ponder what virtues I'll be most looking for in them. Someone remarked to me recently that I seem to be extremely open and dedicated to the growth of my students. This is true, I said. I will openly discuss everything I know with my students, if they are willing to ask the questions and able to hear the answers (no point discussing high level stuff if you don't know basics, that sort of thing). This same person then replied how silly it seemed that not all of my students have taken advantage of what I offer in knowledge, but he theorized no matter how many thousands of people would love to have the same opportunity of learning, I cannot force some individuals to be motivated – at least not for long. Potential may be left untapped, things left untaught, an opportunity might be on the verge of being forever wasted, and it's tough to see your students not reach their maximum potential. Such things may be the greatest downside of being a teacher.
I've been here before. I've seen many superb students quit because they had other priorities or had no love of the arts. We've all seen organizations or people not achieve the most they could have, not due to lack of talent, but lack of dedication. Some people just don't have the hunger, and as a teacher, no matter how much you want to impart them with your own passion, every push is just that – a push. A teacher can only push so many times before realizing the simple physics that moving an object by force does not mean the object is ever going to keep moving for long once you stop pushing. Without one's own drive to want to succeed, without the desire to learn, without the thirst for knowledge, without the impetus for self-improvement, how can one ever be an exemplary practitioner of his art and achieve what he is capable of? Are these two goals not most commonly the goals of any good teacher as well? Once it has been attempted by the teacher to inspire, create passion, motivation, hunger, but the results are consistent only in being ephemeral, one wonders if perhaps the desire to find the other three corners is more important than the speed or natural skill one has in finding them.
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Shopping galore all within walking distance of umi Brighton's Seafront Hotel
If you are looking for a more high street shopping experience, head over to Churchill Square. This shopping center is a brief five-minute walk from umi Hotel Brighton. The Square is full of over 80 well-known high street named retail stores, providing anything you might be looking for. In addition to its retail stores, Churchill Square also houses a Farmer's Market. The Market is open all week long, but Saturday is its busiest day attracting a variety of stands selling local foods and handmade specialties.
That is not all the shopping there is near umi Hotel Brighton, neighborhoods like The Lanes and Kemptown and streets like Western Road are full of local shops, boutiques and high street name stores all within a short walk of umi Brighton's Budget Seafront Hotel.


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As we broke exclusively here on WrestlingNewsWorld.com on Friday, Sting's cryptic Tweets that pointed to 07.14.14 had to do with his inclusion in WWE 2K15, something similar to Ultimate Warrior's inclusion in WWE 2K14 last year.
We also noted [and repeated in our Raw preview] that Sting was not booked for Raw as of early Friday morning. It's worth noting some are speculating WWE will air a segment featuring the Stinger [via satellite] to promote his inclusion on WWE 2K15 and that's entirely possible, however, the basis of our initial report is still clear: Sting's Tweets had to do with the video game and he was not booked to appear live and in-person.
For those that missed the Tweets, we'll run them again below:
— Sting (@Sting) July 8, 2014
— Sting (@Sting) July 8, 2014
Sting and WWE are working together on a DVD/Blu-Ray compilation due out in September, that is confirmed. The extent of their relationship beyond that is unclear. I know there have been rumors about possible creative plans to use Sting at Wrestlemania 31 next year and he desires a match against The Undertaker. All of this hinges on a number of factors, none less important than the desire and health of Undertaker himself. As I reported shortly after Wrestlemania 30 this year, "the streak" ending means nothing in regards to the prospective dream match from happening.


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Interview with Lance Panigutti co-owner Boulder Racing & Without Limits Productions
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Insightful interview with Lance Panigutti, co-owner of Without Limits & Boulder Racing. Lance and his brother Tony put on 40 events over the country including XTerra, Triathlons, Cyclocross & Road Racing.
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October 21, 2010
In recognition of his years of outstanding service and devotion to organized dentistry, including his recent leadership of the American Dental Association (ADA) Foundation, Dean Emeritus and Professor of Orthodontics Dr. Arthur A. Dugoni was awarded the Presidential Citation from ADA President Dr. Ronald L. Tankersley on Oct. 12.
Dugoni received the Citation during the ADA Annual Session held in Orlando, Fla. The event brings together thousands of leaders in dental practice, research, academics and industry each year.
The American Dental Association Foundation (ADAF) has announced that Dr. Arthur A. Dugoni will be stepping down as president of the organization after six years of service. Dr. David Whiston, who served as Association president from 1997 to 1998, will succeed him. The ADAF is dentistry's premier philanthropic organization.
"We are so grateful and appreciative of his service," said Jeff Beutler, interim chief executive officer for the ADAF. "Not only for his leadership during that time, but for his mentoring of ADAF staff and volunteers, which will have a positive effect for years to come."
During his leadership, Dugoni continued to bring dental practitioners, educators, researchers, manufacturers, dental trade associations and laboratory groups together to work for the betterment of oral health for all people. His proudest achievement has been the success of the "Our Legacy — Our Future" campaign. A fundraising effort with a goal of raising $1 billion to support dental education, the campaign has so far received more than $560 million, with 55% of the 141 partners reporting to date.
"Now more than ever, I am deeply proud of our profession and all that we have accomplished together," Dugoni said during his presentation to the ADAF House of Delegates meeting on Oct. 9. "I am grateful to you my professional colleagues for asking me often to serve our profession over these past 60 years. I tried hard not to disappoint you. A first-century Roman poet wrote 'To be able to look back on one's past life with satisfaction is to live twice.' I now can look back and realize I have lived 170 years."
To better serve the public and the Foundation's goals in support of its four pillars of education, research, access to care and charitable assistance, Dugoni led recent actions by the board of directors to constitute the Foundation with new bylaws and enhanced governance, including four vice presidents, its own audit committee, interim chief executive and financial officers.
An exemplary educator, practitioner and leader, Dugoni became dean of Pacific's dental school in 1978 and is one of the most respected figures in the dental profession. He has served as president of the ADA, the American Association of Dental Schools, the American Board of Orthodontics and the California Dental Association. Dugoni was a member of the Council of the FDI World Dental Federation for nine years and served as treasurer and member of the FDI Executive Committee for six years.
Although Dugoni concluded his deanship at the Dugoni School of Dentistry in 2006, he continues to be involved with the school and the university.
Throughout his career, Dugoni has received countless awards and citations. In 2004, he became the first and only person in the United States or Canada to have a dental school named in his honor while holding the position of dean. He was elected to the prestigious FDI World Dental Federation List of Honour in 1998, which is limited to 30 individuals worldwide. Dugoni has presented more than 1,000 lectures, papers, clinics and essays and is the author of more than 175 published articles.
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When compiling our annual real estate trends article last year, we saw the year as a turning point in the market. The bottom of the cycle seemed to have been reached, and it should begin to swing upward as we moved into 2011. This seems to have proven to be true, at least for the re-sale market. The number of sales has increased and the number of listings on the market reduced. New product or development properties still seem to be working through this, but that's natural after a downturn cycle in the market; recovery is led first by the re-sale market and then followed by new product as developers start building again.
Most realtors we talked to believe that we are over the worst but that it's going to be a slow recovery, continuing well into next year. The Vallarta multiple listing service, Multi-List Vallarta, seems to confirm this with average inventory levels dropping slightly, from 1,100 to 1,000 re-sale property listings this past season, and with new property inventory (development projects) dropping slightly as well.
Below are trends we see currently taking place in regard to the local real estate market.
The trend I hear most often when talking to realtors about the local real estate market is that it's no longer about price per square foot or square meter, as was the custom in years past. Today, buyers have in mind a price they can afford or a limit to what they are willing to invest, and they want to see what's available at that price point. If they wanted two bedrooms but only one-bedroom units are available at that price, that's what they'll look at—just don't try to get them to move out of their price comfort zone.
This has led to one-bedroom condominiums becoming popular again, whereas you couldn't give them away in 2007. Back then, buyers wanted an extra bedroom or two for visiting friends, plus a TV room or an office, and they were willing to pay for it. Developers stopped including one-bedrooms in their inventory or drastically cut back on them, instead starting to build three-bedroom units—but no longer. They are popular once again, meeting the price comfort level for many. The most popular price range in 2010 was $100,000 to $200,000, and that's not something a developer can provide except for one-bedroom units.
The same goes for maintenance or carrying costs for the property. Buyers also have a number in mind for what they can afford to pay monthly. And with one-bedrooms being about 60% the size of two-bedroom units, maintenance fees are 40% less, another very good reason to consider a one-bedroom unit.
It continues to be a buyer's market, especially the higher you go in pricing. At the lower end of the market, realtors report that prices seem to have stabilized, especially below $400,000. The average difference between original list price and selling price has been 15%. Above the $400,000 level, it's not so much that prices are dropping but that there is a lack of interest in this price range. The first quarter of this year saw quite a bit of activity in the million-dollar range, but with properties that were originally listed much higher selling at discounts of 35% to 50%. For properties above $1.5 million, there has been very little activity. For estate properties listed at over $2.5 million, a few have sold but for basically half of the original asking price. The market is adjusting, and that is healthy. Traditionally, during market downturns, Vallarta has not seen major drops in pricing. This is primarily because it's still a cash market; there is not a lot of financing, which means little to no foreclosures.
Before we can expect any significant change in the market, uncertainty must decrease, especially with regard to the USA. Americans were the primary buyers of tourism real estate in Vallarta for years, ahead of Canadians and Mexicans, but that trend has been reversed. Americans are still uncertain about the strength and direction of their economy, the value of their homes and whether they have saved enough for retirement. Although the US stock market has recovered, US real estate has not.
As we mentioned last year, this uncertainty is reflected in the local real estate market, not only by a drop in the number of people looking at real estate but also by the fact that those who are looking are not rushing into anything or making quick decisions. They realize that properties are not selling briskly and they have time to look around to ensure they get what they want. In years past, people typically viewed 7 to 10 properties before they were ready to make an offer. Today, it's 25 to 35 properties. As one broker put it, there's a lot of "hand holding" as clients are taken through the purchasing process, much more than in previous years. If not, the deal can go sideways.
It's been three years since the market first began to slow down, and it seems sellers now realize the market is not going to bounce back as quickly as they would like. So, those who need or want to sell have become a lot more realistic with their listing price. As one realtor put it, it's gone from the "How high can you price it?" of 2003 - 2007 to "How low can you get it?" As mentioned above, the market has firmed up in the lower end, but it's difficult to determine if a bottom has been reached for higher-end properties because of a lack of demand.
Five years ago, the tourism real estate market primarily was composed of American buyers, with some realtors estimating that sector as high as 75%. Today, after the downturn in the US economy and the rise in value against the dollar for both Canadian and Mexican currencies, it's leveled out so that it's evenly distributed between the three groups. In 2010 it was the Canadians and the national market that kept realtors in business. While Canadians are buying real estate in regions all along the bay, Mexicans prefer areas such as Nuevo Vallarta or the Hotel Zone high rises. They already have what many Canadians or Americans are looking for—the quaint villages with plazas and cobblestone streets—back home in or near Guadalajara or in the Bajio region; they want something that looks more like Miami.
As in the USA, 2003 - 2007 saw the average size of homes increase substantially, including the building of "McMansions." Vallarta was no exception, with some incredible homes built during this time, especially along the North Shore of Banderas Bay. Although few of these homes actually came on the market, when they did, they were testing the market between $10 and $15 million. Nothing ever sold for that. For the few that did sell most recently, it was at a serious discount.
At the current time, there is little interest in this part of the market. It involves a serious investment, which those who can do it don't seem willing to do at this time. One architect I talked to recently, who specialized in this segment of the market, said it's dead and he does not think it will be coming back for quite some time. He's now designing condominiums projects, with a lot less amenities involved.
The market is particularly difficult for developers right now. They benefited greatly during the boom years, but now many find themselves with product that is not what people may be looking for, developed at costs that make it hard for them to adjust and be competitive. They find themselves competing with the re-sale market—which is seeing good activity—and, in some cases, with re-sales in their own projects.
Today, developers are carefully reconsidering the make-up of their inventory offerings, as mentioned previously, less three-bedroom units (if any) and more one-bedroom units. Amenities (gymnasiums, restaurants, oversized pools, concierge service) that in the past helped draw in many buyers are now looked upon as negatives. Buyers are looking at the cost to the HOA to provide these types of amenities and are saying it's too much, they don't need it. The indulgences of earlier days that created lineups of interested buyers are now scaring some away.
There currently isn't much new development taking place. Existing developers who have phased in their projects are scaling back the size of units and reducing the number of bedrooms for future phases. While there were 100-unit-plus developments with only three-bedroom units in the past, you can now find projects with mostly one-bedroom units or seriously downsized two-bedroom units. New projects that are coming online tend to be smaller in overall size, along with the units themselves, and offer limited amenities, in order to be price competitive. Remember, it's all about price points now.
Although there has been little or no new development taking place in the region, there continues to be interest from long-term development companies, which usually are looking 5 to 10 years down the line in accumulating large parcels of land for mega-developments. For the first time in some time, we have large development/investment companies making offers on large tracts of land suitable for real estate/tourism development. They are confident the market will come back, and when it does, they will be ready to take advantage of it.
We recently contacted every development we could that was open for business and came up with 136 projects. Of these 136 projects, we calculated that they have about 2,300 units actively listed for sale. This is down from a high of 7,200 in 2007.
However, what needs to be taken into consideration is a "shadow" market of dormant inventory. Since 2008 many developments have scaled back the size of their projects, with some cancelled, but many decided to only release product in phases. A good example would be Alamar. We originally included that this project had over 600 units for the market. However, they only released for three towers, and eventually even put the third tower on hold. This reduced the number of units they have on the market, but it doesn't mean this product will not be released sometime in the future. There are still around 500 units that Alamar will decide to introduce to the market at some point.
We calculate that there are about 2,500 dormant units waiting on the sidelines. Fortunately, they do not directly affect our market at this time, but any new developer considering starting up a new project in the region should be aware of this inventory. Since much of it hasn't been constructed yet, although the land most likely has been paid for, they have the flexibility of introducing product that is more relevant to the current market, such as smaller units with fewer amenities, at perhaps a better price.
In 2007, 53 new projects came onto the market, providing a total inventory of 5,400 units. In 2009 only 8 new projects entered the market, with just 200 units. In 2010 there were 9 new projects, providing over 400 units.
Speculation drove a large part of the market in years past. Today, real estate investment has to make sense and stand on its own merit, any potential upside gain considered a bonus and not necessarily a reason for buying. Single-property speculators are gone, and even the investors, to some degree, except for some bottom feeders that every real estate agency reports dealing with. There's been a shift from people buying a "vacation" property to now buying a "retirement" property. People are looking for a place not only to vacation in but to have as their primary or secondary home in the near future. This is all good long term, but it doesn't help sellers and developers who want sales now.
With regard to investment buyers, Vallarta just doesn't have the foreclosure or distress properties to the extent that can be found in the USA. Since properties here were purchased primarily with cash, there is no need to sell at this time unless the owner is over-extended back home. This traditionally has been the case for Vallarta in other downturns in the market.
More owners are entering the rental marketplace now. Budgets are tighter, and owners who would not have rented in the past are doing what they can to cover HOA and utility expenses. This is flooding what is an already saturated market. Short-term renters realize this and are bargaining, obtaining good rates. While rates will most likely go down, homeowners who wish to rent will need to offer not only better prices but also better services and extras, such as full maid service, a chef and/or bundled extras such as golf rounds, massage services and restaurant coupons.
With the increase in violence in Mexico between rival drug cartels and the police and soldiers trying to suppress them, along with the coverage it has been receiving in the American press, it's understandable that people are concerned about security. However, the violence is concentrated mostly along the border and around Mexico City and has not affected Americans or Canadians living here, especially in this region of the country. Yet, no matter how safe it may be, there is no question that US media coverage of this—in our opinion, over-sensationalizing it—is affecting the real estate market.
Coming out of this past recession, Americans have lowered their level of expectations considerably. The over-exuberance—the rush to use credit, feeling richer than perhaps they actually were—is mostly over. In its place comes a more realistic prospective homebuyer, who realizes that big is not always better and that they can actually get by with a lot less in regard to their home size and still have a great second-home-in-Vallarta experience. As mentioned earlier, buyers are now coming to the market with a price they are comfortable investing, along with how much they can afford for monthly living expenses such as HOA fees and all that goes with owning a home. They realize they don't really need the extra bedroom, especially when they see the difference in both purchase price and maintenance fees. They see the extras at condo projects, such as gyms or concierge services, not as nice amenities but as unneeded extra carrying costs. The Baby Boomers, who continue to be a large part of second-home buyers in the region, still want a second home somewhere warm during the winter; however, their expectations of what they need are more in line with what they can afford or should be investing.
An interesting trend that has come out of this is that people are looking at what are traditionally non-tourist-type properties, not social housing but a step above. These usually are gated communities of townhouses, which can provide a home of a decent size at a very affordable price, usually under $150,000. The most popular region for this is in and around Nuevo Vallarta and Flamingos.
Whenever a real estate market slows down or is on the downward side of a cycle, the region experiences a lull in development, along with those things related to it. Roadways are no longer actively trafficked by flatbed, container or dump trucks dispersing dust everywhere and creating heavy wear and tear on the road system, and utility services are no longer overly stressed. For most of the past decade, Vallarta seemed to be in a continual state of construction development; it never stopped. It was like living in a never-ending construction job site.
When there's this much development taking place, the government has difficulty keeping up and providing proper infrastructure. Well, they have plenty of time to catch up now, and that's exactly what they are doing. Although the Vallarta municipality certainly doesn't have much in the way of financial resources, the mayor seems to have done a good job of obtaining funds on the state and federal levels to undertake major city works.
Currently, the Malecon is being extensively renovated; funding has been found to renovate at least half of the South Shore highway, along with a badly needed sidewalk; the main tunnel on the Libramiento is being widened to provide four-lane traffic; and the highway to Punta Mita is being redirected, straightened and widened between La Cruz and Pontoquitos. There are also a number of smaller projects going on all around bay. In downtown Puerto Vallarta, a number of new viewpoints have been renovated on the hillside behind town, along with sidewalks being rebuilt in a charming manner. This is all good. When the market cycle turns back up, Banderas Bay will be ready.
One realtor had an interesting take on a trend he believes is currently evolving. When 9/11 happened, it was thought that it would certainly slow down activity in the local real estate market, but it didn't. As a matter of fact, it helped fuel the largest real estate boom Vallarta has seen. Americans were shocked, not just by the horrendous event itself but also by the wake-up call for some that it could have been them. This got some thinking that they weren't getting any younger and should be working less instead of more, spending more quality time with family, traveling more and, perhaps, buying that condo they'd been thinking about down in Puerto Vallarta. The economic downturn that followed only elevated this sentiment.
This takes us to the Baby Boomers. They didn't disappear, but their long-awaited retirement was unfortunately delayed for some. Now that the economy seemingly is getting back on track—the US stock market up to nearly pre-crisis level—many have recovered any losses they incurred and can more seriously consider retirement or at least take further steps in that direction, like buying a condo in Puerto Vallarta.
The realtor's take is that a pent-up demand is being created. Some people have called off buying, but many have just delayed it for awhile for reasons given earlier, but they still intend to buy. And each year brings even more who are holding off. But at some point, the moment is going to seem right for these buyers, and there will be a flood of them looking to buy real estate—perhaps not a tsunami, but something significant.
Additionally, in today's financial markets it's difficult to find good places to put your money. So some are thinking, Why not invest in a home in a warm place—where I can at least physically enjoy it—at prices that are looking quite good these days? He concludes that the recent uptick in activity he has seen is because the "demand" is now starting to come into the marketplace. We'll be keeping an eye on this particular trend!


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This past summer, my grandmother packed up thirty-two years worth of memories and moved to a town home located closer to family members in Springfield, Missouri. The photographs in this book are attempts to record details about the house in Grove: those details that were always exactly the same, the details that had changed since Mamma had begun packing, and the details that I never paid attention to until I knew I would never see and experience them exactly this way again.
The text in this book is written by Mayfield family members and is presented with the images to better encompass our family's varied memories of Grove.
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Look, up in the sky, is that a car or is that a plane? No, it's you, or it least it can be you with the latest flying car now taking pre-orders for production. A flying car is something that only the fictional "Jetsons" owned up until now. With a new company offering their SkyRunner to the masses, you could be a proud owner of the latest road to air vehicle, according to NewsMax on July 26.
This is a flying car that can go from the road to the runway, letting you take your journey all in one vehicle. The biggest problem in developing a plane that turns into a car deemed roadworthy, was what to do with the wings.
You can't just have the wings spread out on a car going down the highway, so this company need to devise something to get the wings out of the way when using the car mode of this vehicle. Once they figured this out, the third generation flying car is now deemed road and air worthy.
As you can see on the SkyRunner website, this car isn't one of the funky looking cars of the past, the company actually paired the flying aspect with an all-terrain-vehicle. So it can travel places where you wouldn't venture with a traditional car.
The New York Daily News reports that this flying car is more like a "para-jet" than it is a plane. It has "para-glider" wings, which gives it the best of both worlds. It travels at a good speed and it can glide if you ever encountered trouble.
The SkyRunner can reach speeds of 60 mph in the air from a standstill in 4.3 seconds. On the ground it can reach speeds up to 115 mph. Using its three-blade carbon propeller it gets off the ground when you reach the speed of 37 mph.
It appears the creators of this flying car thought of everything as far as safety goes. The plane is built like a glider, so if anything happened while on a flight, the plane would gently glide to the ground. By doing this they have put the possibility of a crash landing very low.
The company is getting "a lot of interest from the leisure sector" of the population. There are also other uses for this flying car when it comes to search and rescue and military use. The company is still in the process of evaluating these uses.
SkyRunner is hoping to get enough pre-orders to go into production with the flying cars. Anyway you look at it the SkyRunner probably won't be parked in every driveway across the nation anytime soon.
The cost of one of these vehicles runs $119,000 to $139,000, putting the flying car out of reach for a vast number of people in the general population. While it could be a toy for the rich and famous, as it carries a price tag similar to some of the high-end sports cars.


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- 3 mashed bananas (the more ripe the better!)
- 1 cup Vanilla Almond milk
- 2 eggs
- 1 tablespoon Baking powder
- 3 cups Rolled Oats
- 1 teaspoon Vanilla Extract
- Mini Chocolate chips or Goji Berries or whatever you want to use.
What to Do,...
Turn your oven on to 375 degrees.
Mash up 3 Bananas in a bowl.
After you've mashed the Bananas, add the following ingredients into the same bowl with the Bananas and mix well.
- 1 cup Vanilla Almond Milk
- 2 eggs
- 1 tbsp Baking power
- 1 tsp Vanilla Extract
Now mix it in with your oats and let the mixture sit for about 10 minutes or so. This is when you add whatever else you want to put in.
I divided my mixture between 3 bowls and put Goji Berries in one, chocolate chips in the 2nd and didn't add anything to the last bowl.
Use your own discretion on how many chocolate chips or berries you add in but don't go overboard.
Spray a muffin pan and/or liners with with non-stick spray.
This recipe made 16 cups and you can see the three different types I made. (Goji, Chocolate, Plain)
Not sure which is my favorite, it's a toss up between the Goji and Chocolate Chip. Not a big fan of the plain ones and will be adding something to all that I make in the future.
I think sliced up Cranberry would work well.
Bake for about 25 minutes or until you see the edges starting to brown.
As you can see, the cookie can below only contains 7 of them because I ate most of them the first night.


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Patrick Timmons of Oklahoma is the winner of John and Martha King's "Let Us Be Your Mentors" Sweepstakes, featuring a flight with John and Martha in King Schools' FalconJet to Palm Springs for dinner, hangar flying, and mentoring.
Kings offer savings to pilots wanting to beat ATP deadline
To help pilots wanting to beat the FAA deadline by getting their ATPs before Aug. 1 — after which new requirements make it much more difficult — King Schools is offering a 50% saving on its ATP ground school and test prep.
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OSHKOSH — King Schools has released a free iPad and iPhone compatible app that connects to King Schools Online Knowledge Test Courses and allows customers to download the course's video lessons.
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OSHKOSH — Today at AirVenture John and Martha King of King Schools launched a new sweepstakes to promote mentoring in aviation. The sweepstakes winner will receive an all-expense-paid vacation for two to San Diego, California, where they will spend a day with John and Martha, including starring in their own King video segment and traveling to Palm Springs with the Kings in their Falcon Jet, where they will share hangar flying over dinner.
King Schools updates online FIRC
John and Martha King, co-chairmen of King Schools, have updated the King Online Flight Instructor Refresher Course (FIRC) to include a new lesson on scenario-based training (SBT).
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Pilots facing the closure of towers at familiar airports will now have some free help from King Schools.
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This week at SUN 'n FUN, John and Martha King, co-chairman of King Schools, released an online version of their Airline Transport Pilot (ATP) written exam preparation course.
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After some years, I ran into John and Martha King of King Schools at the National Business Aviation Association (NBAA) Convention this fall and caught their Light Business Aircraft briefing on jet ownership. As usual they were frank, straightforward and fact-based. They told it like it is. It was refreshing, educational too. They know how to communicate and teach.
John and Martha King receive Brewer Trophy for aviation education
The National Aeronautic Association (NAA) recently presented John and Martha King with the Frank G. Brewer Trophy for Aviation Education "…for their passion and dedication in making aviation knowledge more accessible to pilots worldwide by combining elegant technology with clear, fun teaching featuring courseware that simplifies complex concepts for students."
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Backstage news & notes from Raw in Green Bay…
– This week's episode of WWE Monday Night Raw was re-written several times before they went live on the USA Network. We're told the reason for the re-writes had to do with last minute changes to the SummerSlam lineup.
– We're told WWE has delayed the stuff between The Shield and Mark Henry due to the uncertainly of Big Show's status. Apparently he is medically cleared but remember, WWE thought that a couple of weeks ago.
– Speaking of The Shield, did you notice how The Wyatt Family's segment/match immediately followed them on this week's Raw? We're told Vince McMahon was upset about this as he specifically stated he did not want both groups on the same hour.
– One of the reasons for Alberto Del Rio's attack on Ricardo Rodriguez on this week's show is that WWE felt Del Rio wasn't over enough as a heel because people love Ricardo. Believe it or not, there was also a disciplinary component to it as Ricardo has drawn heat for openly complaining about his Wellness Policy violation.
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Welcome to the Greenlandic parser project
This is one of the home pages of the Greenlandic parser project. Use this page if you will analyse Greenlandic text, convert the Kleinschmidt orthography to modern orthography, look at a translitteration of text, or if you just would like to read about the parser. The other homepage of this project is at Oqaasileriffik, where you will find a search interface for (unanalysed) text, and a very nice interface for word analysis and paradigm generation.
The project is a joint project between Grønlands Sprognævn (Oqaasileriffik) and the University of Tromsø.
The project is, or rather, will be, documented here.
The infrastructure, language independent components and methodology behind the Greenlandic parser is the same as the one behind the Sámi parsers documented elsewhere on these pages. Whatever language-independent information given on the Saami parsers should thus also hold for Greenlandic.
A new version of the Greenlandic spell checker and hyphenation tools for the Windows version of the MSOffice suite (KUKKUNIIAAT ver. 2.0) is now ready for download. It is free of charge and can be downloaded here.
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St. Martin de Porres High School juniors team with sixth-graders to create bilingual storybooks for children in Honduras.
The storybook is a collection of more than 40 single-page stories — each written, illustrated and translated by a team of three students and conveying messages of hopefulness or overcoming adversity.
Over several days last winter and spring, St. Martin de Porres High School juniors teamed up with sixth-graders at Luis Muñoz Marin, a predominantly Hispanic public school in the Clark-Fulton neighborhood, to create bilingual storybooks that will be sent to a Honduran orphanage for HIV-positive children.
"I love kids, so I was really happy we were able to do this," says St. Martin de Porres' Damian Cowan. "I wish I could have gone [to Honduras] just to see them opening the books."
Cowan and a friend worked with a Muñoz Marin sixth-grader to create a story about a boy who loses his favorite pencil.
"It's about him doing all this crazy stuff to find this 'magic' pencil," Damian explains.
Although 2012 was the third year for the project, it was the first time St. Martin de Porres students teamed with Hispanic students to work on the book. Esperanza, a local nonprofit group that promotes Hispanic educational achievement, facilitated the two schools working together and helped secure a grant from Baldwin-Wallace University for the printing costs.
St. Martin de Porres Spanish teacher Rebecca Levis, who helped coordinate the project, says the new collaboration allows the students to learn from each other.
"It connected not just sixth-graders and high school students, which in itself has quite a bit of impact on both sides," she says, "but it also connected the cultures."


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Kittatinny Mountains > High Point (New Jersey) > Climber's Log
High Point (New Jersey) Climber's Log
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|The edge
Date Climbed: Apr 1, 2002
|2nd hp in the same day...
it was a race to get to NJ...
Got lost on the way there!!
|Posted Mar 14, 2007 3:03 pm
|AT side trip
|side trip during AT thru hike 1976
|Posted Feb 14, 2007 9:40 pm
|Cool, crisp day
Date Climbed: Dec 9, 2006
|I visited High Point during a business trip to CT. Thankfully, the park was open and I could drive up to the monument as I was suffering from the flu. It was a beautiful crisp, clear December morning, and I was the only one there. This is my 17th state highpoint.
|Posted Dec 10, 2006 2:57 am
|Summit Construction...
Date Climbed: Nov 25, 2006
|A beautiful warm day. Monument closed off due to construction but could still access the banckmark nearby. Spent some time wandering the nearby trails.
|Posted Nov 30, 2006 1:16 am
|Cold, rainy, just me.
|Here late in the day on a rainy afternoon. No one at top but me. Fencing and construction, but I walked around to the top anyway.
|Posted Oct 19, 2006 8:17 pm
Date Climbed: Oct 10, 2006
|The monument was closed while we were there. Nice views from the highest point in New Jersey though. HP #14
|Posted Oct 16, 2006 10:14 am
Date Climbed: Jul 5, 1998
|Up and down quick
|Posted Aug 29, 2006 6:11 am
|Cross Country Fun
Date Climbed: Feb 1, 2005
|The snow was fresh, deep and i wanted to try cross country skiing so played hookie from work and took some lessons, got rentals at the center, did the swamp loop then headed for the monument. What a beautiful day with crisp skies of blue against the snow.
|Posted Aug 26, 2006 5:02 pm
|Route Climbed: AT
Date Climbed: Sep 4, 2005
|nice hike to the top of NJ
|Posted Aug 10, 2006 11:12 pm
|Route Climbed: Road
Date Climbed: Jun 10, 2006
|Beautiful views! Very, very windy! Nice 'stairmaster' work-out up to the top of the tower. HP #16.
|Posted Jun 10, 2006 7:44 pm
|Route Climbed: Monument Trail
Date Climbed: May 21, 2006
|Ok views (pretty drizzly), but lovely spring in North Jersey. Surprised to see very few people around.
|Posted May 22, 2006 1:55 pm
|Route Climbed: AT Southbound to Monument Trail.
Date Climbed: Apr 9, 2006
|After spending a frigid night at Sawmill Pond Campground I drove the the trailhide and hiked up. Very pleasant and only encountered a few people on the trail, but I was alone on the summit. Amazing views...and a very big monument tower that is too big for the mountain.
|Posted Apr 9, 2006 10:56 pm
|Route Climbed: Appalachian trail Date Climbed: September 1994
|Nice little mountain. Good views of surrounding NJ, PA, and NY. Can see the Catskills from top.
|Posted Jan 27, 2006 12:09 pm
|Route Climbed: Road Date Climbed: September 23, 2001
|Highpoint #9, as part of a family trip.
|Posted Jan 2, 2006 11:45 pm
|Route Climbed: Route 23 Date Climbed: September 30, 2005
|The highpoint of New Jersey is in the High Point State Park in the far North-West corner of the state, just a few miles from Port Jervis, NY. It's an easy drive from New York City, but it's just far enough out that as you get within 30 miles or so of the park, the slums have given way to suburbs and the suburbs have given way to rolling hills with pretty fields, farms and forests.
I arrived at the end of September and the road was lined with farmer's stands selling pumpkins and chrysanthemums; the weather was a perfect warm autumnal afternoon and the view from New Jersey's highest point was lovely. Hawks soared in the sky over the valley and the leaves were just showing a hint of color.
The park entrance is on the right of Rt 23 North, and a paved road leads from the entrance all the way up to the 200-foot mini-Washington Monument with parking at the foot.
Directions to High Point, NJ from the the NYC area (east/south)
From the South: Take I-287 to Rt 23 North
From the GW Bridge: Take I-80 West to Rt 23 North
Follow Rt 23 North High Point State Park
~ 7 miles north of Sussex, NJ
~ 3 miles north of Colesville, NJ
The road goes directly up to the monument at the summit with parking just below
|Posted Oct 2, 2005 9:12 pm
|Rob A
|Route Climbed: A.T. Northbound Date Climbed: Sept. 30 2005
|I have lived in Jersey for 18 years and been hiking in Jersey for at least 10 years, this was the first time that I hiked to the state's high point. I drove up once in the winter about 12 years ago but to me, that did not count. The day was very clear. I could see the Catskills, and the Delaware Water Gap.
|Posted Sep 30, 2005 3:58 pm
|Route Climbed: Monument Trail Date Climbed: August 4, 2005
|Enjoyed High Point. Nice views I didn't think possible in NJ. Clear morning for the most part, but it was TOO hot!
The second time I went to High Point was 10/31/08. It was days after a rare October snowstorm hit the State. I made a trip report about it
|Posted Aug 6, 2005 4:06 pm
|Route Climbed: drive-up Date Climbed: July 26, 2005
|Stopped by this one on a whim as I was passing by on my way to Vermont.
|Posted Aug 1, 2005 9:28 pm
|Route Climbed: drive-up Date Climbed: July 19, 2004
|Visited this state highpoint when I happened to be travelling in the area anyway.
|Posted Jul 19, 2005 10:12 pm
|Route Climbed: Road Date Climbed: Many Times
| This is a nice little mountain for being in New Jersey. It's got great views all around. Very windy most times that I've been there.They say you can see NYC on a clear day, but I've never seen it from here myself.
Fitting for New Jersey that it should have a giant concrete monument on its highest point. And that is in a constant state of repair. I've been at the summit maybe over 10 times and I've yet to climb the momument cause its always closed for some reason.
|Posted Jun 27, 2005 8:30 pm


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Journey of the Magi
by T.S. Eliot
Journey of the Magi Theme of Religion
The birth of Jesus, the three kings, and Biblical allusions galore. "Journey of the Magi" has religion written all over it, and that's just the obvious stuff. Since the whole poem is about the coming of Christianity, every word is packed with religious meaning that can be picked apart with a fine-toothed comb. Allow Shmoop.
Questions About Religion
- What do you think about Eliot's embellishment of a story from a sacred text? Does he pull it off? Is it okay for a poet to do something like that?
- Do you think this poem is symbolic of Eliot's own conversion? How can you tell?
- Why does the religion of the Magis' people suddenly seem "alien" to them? Who's to blame? Could this maybe be a good thing?
- What do you think is the purpose of all the Biblically symbolic language in the second stanza? Why pack in so many allusions in such a tiny space?
Chew on This
The heavy symbolism in the second stanza of "Journey" lends the poem a sense that even the Magus is unaware of just how significant a journey he is making.
The tone of "Journey of the Magi" shows us that religion is an intensely complicated, often painful, and sometimes even fatal process, not simply something that just exists.


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Player of the Day: Len Shackleton
safc.com pays tribute to a club legend.Arguably the most gifted player to don the red and white stripes in the club's history, Len Shackleton scored 101 goals in his time on Wearside and racked up 348 first-team appearances.
Len joined Arsenal as an amateur but didn't quite make the cut, though he took it upon himself to earn a fine reputation during wartime soccer – prompting Newcastle United to break their record fee and bring him to Tyneside once peace returned.
His debut for the Magpies was memorable as the team set a new record win with a 13-0 success over Newport County with Shackleton bagging six of the goals.
However, Len's stay at Newcastle lasted only 16 months and he moved to Sunderland in February 1948 for the first fee to top £20,000.
Shackleton scored on his home debut in a 2-0 win over Huddersfield Town at Roker Park and went on to add three more goals in his 14 appearances at the end of the 1947-48 season.
The Bradford-born inside-left would continue to impress as his time on Wearside passed with eight goals in the following campaign, including a strike against his former club Newcastle and a match-winning double against Chelsea in December 1948.
Sunderland achieved their highest ever finish in Shack's decade with the club in the 1949-50 season as Bill Murray's side finished third with Len scoring 16 goals in 42 appearances.
The attacking frontline of Shackleton, Ivan Broadis, Dickie Davis and Tommy Wright returned 65 of the Black Cats' 83 league goals during the campaign.
Sunderland continued to hover in mid-table throughout Shackleton's stay and the skilful player was regularly on the score sheet.
Some level of success came for the team in the 1954-55 season as the Black Cats finished fourth and also made the semi-finals of the FA Cup before being defeated by Manchester City.
The Wearsiders narrowly avoided relegation in Shack's penultimate season before eventual relegation followed in his last, though he played only once that season after giving in to a long-suffering ankle injury.
Whilst with Sunderland, Len was capped five times by England and he scored his only goal for the Three Lions in a 3-1 win over World Champions West Germany in 1954.
That goal was the last England goal scored by a Sunderland player until Darren Bent notched against Switzerland in September 2010.


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ROSSENDALE MP Jake Berry has secured a meeting with a Government minister to discuss the possibility of a commuter rail link between Rawtenstall and Manchester.
Mr Berry led a discussion in the House of Commons yesterday about developing the existing track between the valley and Manchester.
After the success of the debate, he has arranged a meeting with the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for transport Norman Baker.
Mr Berry said the link was essential to ensure that investors came to the area and would help commuters trying to get to work.
He said: "This rail link is absolutely vital for our future. It is certainly my top priority to try to get this right back on the agenda.
"This is a very long term project. It is still very much a dream but I am hoping to move it to reality."
Mr Berry said it was possible that the the £30million for a full commuter link would be made available in 2019.
Coun Alyson Barnes, leader of Rossendale Council, said: "As a council, we are actively pursuing this in terms of trying to persuade the county council to get behind it and identify the need to get a rail link to Rawtenstall.
"But at the minute we do not have the reserves to do it ourselves. It is quite complex and costly."
But if the link was only extended to Bury, where passengers could transfer on to the Metro to get into Manchester, it would cost around £8million.
Coun Barnes said: "This would be a starting point that I would welcome because I think it gives an option to people trying to get on the M66, which is one of the most unpleasant commuter routes in the country."
Graham Jones, MP for Haslingden and Hyndburn, said: "Lancashire County Council needs to step up to the plate on upgrading this link to Rossendale and establish a framework for building up the case and taking this forward.
"I'd suggest rather than spending £32million on rural broadband, perhaps Lancashire County Council could consider the people and economy of Haslingden and commit to this rail link."


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Celebrating heels & the women who wear them.
You'll feel like it's the weekend everyday with this casual and lovable style by Diba. The Week End brings you a black leather upper with cute buckles at the top and vamp. A 1 1/4 inch block heel completes this pretty boot.


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Bad blood at UFC 114
Preview by Brady Crytzer
Following the completion of his "A-Team" remake, Quinton "Rampage" Jackson has returned to the fistic fantasy world of the UFC to finally do battle with light heavyweight star "Sugar" Rashad Evans.
While both men have previously held the world light heavyweight championship, this showdown is deeply personal and will be fueled by rage and animosity. Cooler heads always prevail, but who will be able to set aside their emotions and earn another shot at the light heavyweight belt? Read on to find out.
Striking: What do you get when you combine two fighters with quick hands and thumping power? A light heavyweight showdown over a year in the making. Though these two warriors were scheduled to meet in January, this main event isn't any less enticing. Rashad Evans proved his KO wins over Sean Salmon and Chuck Liddell that he is a quick, smart counter puncher with fight ending power. Though he has had knockouts before, his recent performances lead one to believe that he will not be purely focused on trading blow with Jackson. "Rampage," fresh off of the filming of the sure-fire hit (sarcasm) remake of "The A-Team," has been a fan favorite for his ability to show off his brutal banging ability. In his 2007 win over Chuck Liddell, Jackson proved that he has fight ending power in his left hand. In his 2008 win over Wanderlai Silva…he proved that he has it in his right hand, too.
Jackson will be focused, as always, on stuffing the takedown and throwing heavy leather at Evans. While Evans won't rely solely on his stand up, he will utilize quick counters to effectively set up takedowns. Jackson carries two sledgehammers into the cage however, and he will use them to hurt Evans on the feet.
Grappling: The edge in experience and skill falls to Rashad Evans. In a camp consisting of Georges St. Pierre, Nate Marquardt, and the monstrous Shane Carwin, it really says something when they all tip their hats to the ground supremacy of Evans. A wrestler at Michigan State, Evans began his MMA career as a powerhouse grappler but has quickly evolved into a well-rounded show stopper. His takedowns were spectacular in his last outing against Thiago Silva, and they will be largely responsible for a win over Jackson, should it happen. "Rampage" doesn't possess a black belt in anything, but his pure grit and out-of-this-world toughness makes him nearly impossible to take down. Once his is taken down however he is well out of his element
Evans enjoys an edge as the better-rounded fighter, and a well rounded attack anchored by his wrestling will be just what the doctor ordered for "Sugar" Rashad.
How They Match Up: Evans wants this fight in a bad way, and if Quinton Jackson is unfocused he will be grossly overmatched.
Jackson initially bowed out of their January contest due to Hollywood obligations, and while he was proudly sporting a Mr. T Mohawk, Evans was hard at work at Greg Jackson's New Mexico fight factory.
Rashad Evans showed some issues with his chin against Silva, and that is always a concern with a natural brawler like "Rampage." A Jackson KO here would be a stretch, though.
Evans defeated Silva by mixing up his game and outworking the dangerous Brazilian. He will do the same to Jackson. While we haven't seen it take center stage in a long time, expect Evans' wrestling to score the points and his striking to steal the show.
Jackson is tough to stop without stopping his cold in his tracks, so keep an eye out for a unanimous decision win for Evans. With that in mind fear not "Rampage" fans, Jackson will keep things interesting by stinging Evans on the feet more than once in this fight.
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The Buzz, 11-18: Fetes
and Farewells
Joyce Festival on 'Hiatus'; Paris Quarter Celebrates its Ballerina
By Paul Ben-Itzak
Copyright 2004 The Dance Insider
Altogether Gone (for
Mecca for many, resentfully
maligned by others, for the first time in 20 years New York's new
year's harbinger of dance, the Joyce Theater's Altogether Different
festival, has been suspended, an official at the theater told the
Dance Insider yesterday. "We are taking a hiatus from Altogether
Different to re-evaluate its format and place in New York," Elizabeth
Fort, the Joyce's marketing director, announced.
The theater's stated
reasons for the hiatus are somewhat opaque. "Since (the festival)
began in January 1985," Fort said, "theaters and service organizations
dedicated to dance have changed the marketplace. Theaters like Dance
Theater Workshop and the Duke present similar companies and similar
festivals." In fact, DTW and its Fresh Tracks festival of new artists
have been around since before Altogether Different's inception,
as the Sampler Festival, in 1985. The Duke, operated by the New
42nd Street, is largely a rental facility and does little presenting.
If any theaters have
usurped Altogether Different's sometimes questionable claim as a
foundry for emerging artists in recent years, they've been Danspace
Project at St. Mark's Church, which the past two seasons has programmed
a slew of younger artists who in other times would have had to wait
much longer for entry into New York's major dance theater circuit;
and the Joyce's own Joyce SoHo facility. Young companies are more
likely to surface there -- either presenting themselves or as part
of the annual Joyce SoHo Presents festival -- than in Altogether
Different, which in recent years has featured predominantly mid-level
companies which have yet to find a larger audience, rather than
meeting the festival's stated artistic mission of focusing on young
Audience development,
fundraising, and other infrastructure guidance for young companies
is also part of the festival's mission, but whatever infrastructure
assistance the Joyce has provided its Altogether Different companies
has not been enough to push many of them to the next level.
The festival's very
name has also made it an easy target for the resentment of some
authentically emerging choreographers, who in recent years took
to referring to it as "Altogether the Same."
"We're taking the hiatus,"
Fort said, "to strategically assess how the Joyce can best serve
(the) dance community."
As you might imagine,
the Buzz has a couple of suggestions for executive director Linda
Shelton, program director Martin Wechsler, and the rest of the Joyce
brain trust:
**Cultivate young and
truly emerging companies by concentrating your efforts on Joyce
SoHo, 'growing' successful programs like the residency and mentor
ones. You deserve the community's accolades for what you've achieved
in this pristine space, and its encouragement to continue to expand.
**At the larger Chelsea
space, concentrate your efforts on presenting -- in their own seasons
proper -- mid-level or even veteran companies that have been stuck
in the Altogether Different ghetto, returning two or three times.
It may be too late for these particular companies now, but past
examples would have included Doug Elkins, Mark Dendy, and Sean Curran.
Only Curran among these has really had consistently sound and aggressive
management -- notwithstanding his US touring since he turned its
booking over to IMG. Elkins -- the most musical choreographer of
his generation -- seems to have imploded, or at least his company
has, appearing only sporadically. Dendy is simply the most brilliant
spectacle-maker of his generation, a quadruple threat able to create
barefoot and on pointe, stinging theater as well as original dance.
If they were working in France, all three of these men would have
long ago been granted their own choreogrpahic centers and the resources
and centrality that come with them. In the US, they struggle.
Where was I...? Oh yes:
How does this relate to Altogether Different? To truly help companies
emerge, and not just tread water, I think the Joyce would be better
advised to devote resources currently diffused among many middling
companies of varying merit to supporting the work of a handful of
artistically talented but administratively challenged choreographers.
But what do you think,
dance insider? Has Altogether Different met its stated mission,
expressed by Fort as "to further the Joyce Theater Foundation's
mission to serve and support the art of dance and choreography and
to enhance the public interest in dance by helping young companies
with audience development, fundraising and development, administrative
structuring, etc."? And, going forward, as the foundation takes
this pause to "strategically assess how the Joyce can best serve
that dance community," as Fort put it, do you have any ideas? Write
me at email@example.com.
Or drop a line to Linda Shelton at firstname.lastname@example.com or Martin Wechsler at
Taglioni Feted in Her Quarter
If Marie Taglioni was
the 19th century's first star, the Paris neighborhood that benefited
the most from her luminosity was the 9th quarter, home to the old
Theatre de l'Academie Royale de Musique on rue Peletier which saw
her greatest glories, including the March 12, 1832 premiere of her
father Filippo Taglioni's "La Sylphide," in which she became the
first dancer to use pointe artistically. (Also not far from where
I write you now on the rue de Paradis.)
So it's fitting that
the quarter should celebrate the bicentennial of the birth of the
world's first grand ballerina who was also its own, which it does
tonight at its city hall, 6 rue Drouot, beginning at 7 p.m. Free
to the public, the event includes a round table featuring Taglioni
expert Pierre Lacotte, who's staging of Filippo Taglioni's "Sylphide"
is considered the authoritative one; ballet historian Sylvie Jacq-Mioche;
and music professor Francoise Meginant. The discussion is moderated
by Martine Kahane of the Paris Opera Ballet.


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African Foundation for Development
The AFFORD website is currently being updated
Webinar - Diaspora and Migrants as Entrepreneurs and Social Investors
As part of preparations for the Global Forum for Migration and Development (GFMD) 2015, which will take place in Turkey from 12 to 16 October, the Global Working Group on Diaspora and Migrants in Development, coordinated by AFFORD, would like to invite you to its first webinar on 'Diaspora and Migrants as Entrepreneurs and Social Investors: Creating an Enabling Policy Framework'.
AD3 2015: Responding to African Humanitarian Disasters: The Role of Diaspora Actions and the Policy
We are excited to announce that African Diaspora and Development Day (AD3) 2015 will take place on 3 July from 6pm at the School of Oriental African Studies, University of London (SOAS). In partnership with Centre of African Studies (SOAS), this year's AD3 will focus on the role of the diaspora in African Humanitarian disasters and the implications for policy.
The APPG on Diaspora, Development and Migration (APPG-DDM)
Britain's seven million strong diaspora communities now have a new channel of engagement with national politicians to promoting international development in their countries of heritage.
The All -Party Parliamentary Group on Diaspora, Development and Migration (APPG-DDM) was launched on February 3rd at a packed event in the House of Commons, with attendance from MPs, Peers, and diaspora communities from Africa, Asia, the Caribbean and Latin America.
AFFORD AD3 4th July 2014
Report on AFFORD AD3 2014: AD3 2014 Supporting Africas Youth - Gender Education and Job Creation.pdf
United Nations High Level Dialogue on Migration and International Development
Remarks by Mr Gibril Faal
HLD Civil Society Steering Committee Member,
Director of GK Partners & Chairman of African Foundation for Development (AFFORD)
15 July 2013
|3 October 2013
|Click images to download copy of speech
African Foundation for Development (AFFORD) is a pioneer of the concept of 'diaspora-development'.
Founded in 1994, the charity was responding to the disjuncture between mainstream international development and diaspora action. At the time, international development policymakers in donor countries and multilateral agencies did not understand, accept or recognise the nexus between effective development in Africa and the substantial and substantive action of the post-cold war African diaspora.
Early priorities were decidedly innovative, bold, profound, credible, practicable and ambitious responses to the prevailing disjuncture between mainstream international development and marginalised diaspora action. Thus in demonstrating the multiple dimensions of the diaspora input in the development of host and countries of origin, AFFORD set out its mission "to expand and enhance the contribution that Africans in the diaspora make to Africa's development".


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I have a friend that recently posted on Facebook that she is considering a vegetarian or vegan lifestyle as well as possibly going gluten free. I know the basics-a vegetarian eats a plant based diet, while a vegan does not include any animal product, such as eggs or milk in their diet and gluten free are foods without wheat. I know there are more facts to these lifestyles, and pros and cons of each one so as usual, my curious mind searched for some answers in order to assist my friend.
Vegetarian- The broad definition of a vegetarian is someone who excludes meat, poultry and fish from their diet, but include dry beans and lentils (these take the place of meat and fish as the major source of protein). According to the American Dietetic Association, vegetarians are also at lower risk for becoming obese, due to diets with significantly lower levels of saturated fat and cholesterol. However, vegetarians can most easily become deficient in protein, calcium, iron, vitamin B-12 and vitamin D, due to the fact that these nutrients are less prevalent in plant-based diets. The lactovegetarian diet includes plant foods plus cheese and other dairy products. The ovo-lactovegetarian (or lacto-ovovegetarian) diet also includes eggs. Semi-vegetarians don't eat red meat but include chicken and fish with plant foods, dairy products and eggs.
Vegan- In addition to being vegetarian, vegan do not use other animal products and by-products such as eggs, dairy products or honey. The key to a nutritionally sound vegan diet is variety. A healthy and varied vegan diet includes fruits, vegetables, plenty of leafy greens, whole grains, nuts, seeds, and legumes. The term ethical vegan is often applied to those who not only follow a vegan diet, but extend the vegan philosophy into other areas of their lives, and oppose the use of animals or animal products for any purpose such as wearing furs or leather.
Gluten Free- A gluten-free diet is a diet that excludes the protein gluten. Gluten is found in grains such as wheat, barley, rye and triticale (a cross between wheat and rye). Avoiding wheat can be challenging because wheat products go by numerous names. The hardest part of the gluten free diet is probably when you realize that wheat is in almost every processed food imaginable. Gluten-free food is normally seen as a diet for celiac disease, but people with a gluten allergy should also avoid wheat and related grains.
There are numerous reasons why someone, like my friend, would adjust their diet to meet their needs. Some of these reasons are:
• The negative impact of animal foods on health
• The damage associated with animal foods and the environment
• Religious beliefs
• The desire to protect and respect animals
With any of the lifestyles discussed, the key is to be aware of your nutritional needs so that you plan a diet that meets them.