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Activities: Lightbox Gallery
Clicking on any of the thumbnails brings that image into focus, and allows you to scroll through the
gallery at your leisure. Using the Lightbox scripts creates nice transition effects when loading and
scrolling through the images.
For Moodle 2.x, YUI version:
Maintained by: NetSpot <http://www.netspot.com.au>
Original plugin by: Paul Holden <pholden[at]greenhead[dot]ac[dot]uk>.
For the Moodle 1.9 jQuery version:
Moodle jQuery Lightbox Gallery v1.0.0 (16th Nov 11)
Ported to jQuery from:
Lightbox Gallery v2.2.1 (12th May 09)
by Paul Holden pholden[at]greenhead[dot]ac[dot]uk
Port performed by Andrew Hancox at Kineo.
External documentation URL: https://github.com/andrewhancox/Moodle-jQuery-Lightbox-Gallery/wiki
Source control URL: https://github.com/andrewhancox/Moodle-jQuery-Lightbox-Gallery
Bug tracker URL: https://github.com/andrewhancox/Moodle-jQuery-Lightbox-Gallery/issues
Website URL: http://www.kineo.com/
Useful links
- Wed, Sep 16, 2015, 7:36 AMA downloading button for individual photos would be the top of my needed features list. We take photos of class events then have trouble viewing and sharing the photos. A way to do that inside moodle would be easier and help build a stronger class community.
- Fri, Sep 18, 2015, 11:45 AMHi all,
I've just put up an update for the 2.7 and 2.8/2.9 versions of the plugin, the change notes for each are the same:
* mod_form: Show all settings without needing to click 'show more'
* GITHUB-69: Fix overlay to be on top of the clean navbar
* GITHUB-66: Add a download link to the lightbox interface
* Bug: Prevent error displaying when adjusting a thumbnail without first picking up/down
- Mon, Nov 9, 2015, 8:14 PMHi all,
I've just finished a round of testing for lightboxgallery against Moodle 3.0 RC2. I couldn't find any regressions in functionality or issues in the install/upgrade process when using the most recent release - as such I've flagged it (v22.214.171.124 of the plugin) as compatible with Moodle 3.0
- Mon, Nov 23, 2015, 3:09 PMI am writing to report a bug that when adding an image having the same name with an image that is already added in the gallery activity, the gallery cannot upload the image and gives an error message. It is not user-friendly, especially for students to get a error message with no tips about what they can do. I hope this bug can be solve soon.
- Sat, Mar 5, 2016, 3:21 PMHi,
I have just updated Lightbox Gallery update Release 22.214.171.124 on moodle 2.9.
Since this update, teachers are not able to use Lightbox gallery. When we use an existing gallery or add new Lighbox Gallery activity, it gives "Internal Server Error".
Your help is highly appreciated.
- Mon, Mar 7, 2016, 7:03 AMHi Imran,
Would you be able to provide more detail "Internal server error" could be any number of things. If possible, it'd be good to know what you're seeing in your web servers error log when the error shows up.
- Mon, Mar 7, 2016, 9:09 AMHello Imran and Adam,
I'm not sure if it's related, but sometimes I also get this error when trying to access a Gallery after updating through Moodle. I've found that it's due to the permissions on the plugin directory/files. Once the permission are reset to what it was previously, the gallery/plugin works fine.
- Mon, Mar 7, 2016, 12:42 PMHi Adam, Ali,
Thanks for your reply.
It is showing 500 Internal Server Error.
Will it be possible, if I update it back with older version 184.108.40.206 or problem may become more complexed.
Following is message that appears as I click any Lightbox gallery:
"The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.
Please contact the server administrator, firstname.lastname@example.com and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.
More information about this error may be available in the server error log.
Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request."
- Mon, Mar 7, 2016, 1:07 PMImran,
Part of your error message states: "More information about this error may be available in the server error log."
That's where you'll need to check what the actual error is.
Simply replacing the plugin with the older version will have Moodle complain about the version mismatch if you've already run Moodle upgrade with that new version in place.
- Mon, Mar 21, 2016, 8:11 PMAdam, Imran,
I.m getting an error in moodle 3.0:
This page contains the following errors:
error on line 2 at column 62: attributes construct error
Below is a rendering of the page up to the first error.
However the page is empty..
What to do?
- Tue, Mar 22, 2016, 6:18 AMHi Bert,
Please report your issue at: https://github.com/netspotau/moodle-mod_lightboxgallery/issues
It'll help if you can provide more detail when you make your report. What page are you trying to access? What version of PHP are you using? What version of the plugin are you using? Do you have access to the error_log of your webserver to supply the actual error message?
- Fri, Apr 1, 2016, 1:48 PMProblem solved: Thanks to everyone for discussion and guidance.
I have just renamed folder public_html/mod/lightboxgallery to lightboxgalleryOld and then installed latest update mod_lightboxgallery_moodle30_201509180.zip, now it is up and running. (Problem solved)
- Tue, Apr 5, 2016, 8:01 PMHi,
i have a question, is it possible to turn of the the download button?
- Tue, May 24, 2016, 1:12 PMHi Mirko,
Currently there is no way to turn off the button. Were you wanting to turn it off because its showing up weird, or to prevent people downloading images?
I ask because if its the latter, there won't really be anything stopping a user just right clicking on the image and saving it anyway.
- Thu, Jun 2, 2016, 8:20 AMHi,
First of all, I'm new on moodle.
I'm having a problem trying to find the folder where the image are stored in. Do you know how it works?


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Neil Armstrong's Spacesuit
Neil Armstrong's spacesuit, flown on Apollo 11, is inspected and prepared for shipment from the Paul E. Garber Preservation, Restoration and Storage Facility in Suitland, MD to a new storage facility at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, VA. From left to right, Amelia Kile, Samantha Snell, Lisa Young, Stephanie Harris.
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Enhance Male Virility and Performance with Yoga
Although it is not springtime, I seem to be getting a lot of emails and requests from guys looking to enhance their sexual prowess and performance in bed. So for this month's Learn Yoga Asana series, I thought it would be good to learn a pose which is known for improving male sexual health and virility. This pose is Chair Yoga Pose and I am quite a fan of it myself.
There is no question that proper diet, exercise, reduced stress and proper rest are factors in improving a man's sex drive and his overall sexual fitness, but in addition to these general guidelines, yoga also has some more specific poses and exercises designed for such enhancement. Many of these exercises focus on the groin and legs regions, which is responsible for the sexual meridians, sex organs and sexual energy. You will find a list of these exercises and other related techniques towards the bottom of the article and below you will find details of Yoga Chair Pose for Male Sexual Health.
You will find complete details of Yoga Chair Pose in the following article: Kundalini Yoga Chair Pose for Sexual Health. This pose is part of the Free Online Kundalini Yoga Exercises collection, where you will find many more great yoga poses and exercises.
Yoga Pose for November
Yoga Chair Pose for Enhancing Male Sexual Health
Illustrations of Chair Pose
Modified Chair Pose – Illustration #1
Full Chair Pose – Illustration #2
Yoga Chair Pose Video
(You will find more videos here – Free Online Yoga Exercise Videos)
Instructions for Yoga Chair Pose:
- Have your feet about shoulder width apart and toes pointing outward.
- Then reach down as I have shown in Illustration #2 and grasp your ankles. You torso should be parallel to the ground and have your head up looking forward. Please pay careful attention to how the arms are brought from inside out for this pose.
- Do Long Deep Breathing or Breath of Fire as you hold the position from 15 seconds to 3 minutes.
- If you are a beginner or have bad knees, do the Modified Chair Pose I have shown in Illustration #1 above.
- Be sure to take a break if your legs start to burn too much and after taking some rest come into the pose again and continue.
- If you need motivation to push yourself as you feel the burn, just remember how happy you are going to make your partner once you increase your virility and enhance your sexual fitness :-).
This pose is excellent for strengthening your thighs and buttocks, in addition to increasing sexual energy and virility.
More Yoga Poses for Sexual Stamina:
The 2 places where you will find many excellent techniques regarding male and female sexual health and sexual fitness are below.
Tantra Yoga | Balancing Sex Chakra Program
Yoga Exercise for Male Sexual Health
Learn Yoga Asana Series:
If you have been doing the monthly learn yoga series with us, you would have built up quite a repertoire of very useful yoga exercises, meditations and breathing techniques. You will find these techniques in the article series below, in case you have missed any of them.
If you enjoy this or any of the articles on Mastery of Meditation and Yoga, please so share it with your friends on Facebook, Twitter, E-mail, etc. I appreciate your support.
Article Series - Learn Yoga Asanas Series
- Learn Yoga | Yoga Asana Challenge of the Month
- Yoga Practice Pose for September | Yoga for Thighs
- Important Hatha Yoga Posture for October Practice
- November's Yoga Pose - Aura Magnification with Eagle Pose
- Simple Everyday Yoga Exercise for December Practice
- Daily Yoga Exercise for February | Heal that Back
- Daily Meditation Practice For February | Find Joy, Peace and Happiness
- Yoga Pranayama for Everyday Practice | Kapalbhati Pranayama Video
- Yoga, Pranayama and Meditation for March | Detox Your Body and Mind
- April Yoga - Yoga Ab Workout Routine with Free Exercise Videos
- Real Yoga - Please Send Me Your Yoga Pictures and Photos
- Brain Fitness Exercises for May
- Powerful Yoga for Bulding Self Confidence | June Exercises
- September Yoga Exercises for Nerves of Steel
- The Best Anti Aging Yoga Exercise | Yoga Poses for November
- Hot Yoga Exercises for December Practice
- Yoga for Lower Lumbar Back Pain | Yoga for Skiing
- Enhance Male Virility and Performance with Yoga


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In the latest edition of All Access, we return to Richmond, Virginia for a glimpse inside a University of Richmond men's basketball practice. Follow along as head coach Chris Mooney leads the Spiders through a series of quick-fire warm-up drills before getting into competitive 2-on-2 action in the post.
Star Passing
We begin with this rapid-fire passing drill that plays out in the middle of the court. The drill utilizes one ball but comes from multiple angles. Players must concentrate throughout and move fast. Be sure to deliver good passes to your teammates each time, step into the catch, and don't jump. Be attentive and move briskly.
Layup Drills
Next, players pass and cut before delivering a layup. Each athlete must really work on shooting all different types of layups. This makes the layup drill game-like and realistic. Whether you go with reverse layups, opposite hand layups, or something else, fly in hard each time and assume that you must finish the play against an active defense.
2-on-2 Post Up
In this final series, the ball gets rotated back and forth between coaches around the perimeter. Meanwhile, players go 2-on-2 down low. Offensive players fight for positioning and try to get open for a high percentage shot. At the same time, the defense works on getting good positioning and preventing any entry pass for an easy bucket. Notice how the defense fronts the post and brings that extra element of pressure.
After a few passes between coaches, the ball gets entered and the action plays out. Players will switch up from offense to defense and vice versa. Also, watch as the players demonstrate hustle plays, such as diving out for loose balls and taking charges.
The previous clips can be seen on Championship Productions' DVD "All Access Richmond Basketball Practice with Chris Mooney." To check out more videos in our all-access lineup, click here.
Follow along with Richmond head men's basketball coach Chris Mooney as he breaks down three layup drills that reinforce typical cuts and movements within the Princeton Offense. After leading off with Pass and Cut Layups, Mooney finishes up with Dribble In Layups and Layups Down the Side.
Overview: For Coach Mooney, the Princeton Offense is geared toward players who are able to dribble, pass, shoot, play together, and move via cutting and not screening. There's a huge emphasis on cuts within this offense.
Therefore, when we pass and cut within the offense, try to focus on the same thing: Pass and then turn the pass into a cut. When finishing, teach your players to shoot righty layups on left side and lefty layups on right side. We do this because we are closer to the rim. It gets the ball to the rim quicker (with your closer hand).
Drill Breakdown: For this drill, two players will work together at a time. The first player starts by passing cross-court to his teammate and then cuts hard toward the basket. He then quickly receives the ball back and goes in for the layup. Don't slow down when going up for the layup. Go up as quickly as you can.
Tips: Try different layups every time, such as layups at the front of the rim, left, right, reverse layups, etc. Don't slow down. Fly right on in there. Also, eventually switch sides of the court with the pass and cuts. It's important to practice this because you never know what kind of layup will show up in the game.
For "Dribble In Layups", start at half court. Make one hard move at the top of key and go in for a layup. Don't slow down when going in for the layup. Go as fast as you can to practice shooting layups at top speed. After about three minutes, switch sides of the court.
Finally, with "Layups Down the Side", look to catch the pass where hash mark is and then drive in from here and make a layup down the side. Emphasize one-foot layups. Also, make this simulation realistic like you must beat the defender. Go fast. After three minutes, switch to the left side.
The previous clips can be seen on Championship Productions' DVD "Chris Mooney: Team & Individual Drills for the Princeton Offense." To check out more videos highlighting the Princeton Offense and other offensive sets, simply visit our basketball library.
Learn from Richmond head men's basketball coach Chris Mooney as he reveals five shooting drills that are particularly effective for the Princeton Offense. After simulating a three-part cross-court shooting drill, Mooney and company also run through two-foot layups and the full-court drill "And Twos."
Richmond takes a lot of three-pointers, especially standstill threes or Sunday shots. In this three-part drill, use three balls and divide players among two lines. Be sure to emphasize getting off good shots and not as much on how hard you are moving. Shooters should get their own rebound.
Start off by coming across nice and easy at the top of the key. Catch the pass from your teammate, shoot from the top of the key, and get your own rebound. Shoot for four-and-a-half minutes at three different spots. For the next part, throw cross-court passes and have two coaches stand in the middle as if in a zone defense. Alternate each rep. Try to throw good hard overhead passes. It's tough to do, so look to do it every day in practice. Then finish with the passing line at the top of the key. Have the guys go down and shoot a corner three. Spend 90 seconds at each spot. The goal is to hit 80 shots (adjust if necessary).
Tips: Try to teach your players to catch and shoot. When you don't catch and shoot, you really stagnate your offense. Don't hold onto the ball too long or stare things down. You shouldn't always be trying to make a play with your dribble.
Richmond basketball has adapted this drill because of the physicality of the game. Sometimes initiating the contact down low almost gets you rewarded. The Spiders like to practice this because they have a lot of flare or drift screens in their offense and this creates a lot of opportunities to drive.
Get coaches down low to create contact for the guys. When forcing the contact, layups can be harder to make. Coaches, don't be concerned about what hand players shoot the ball with. Coach Mooney has had players go their entire career without making an opposite hand layup, but they've made a heck of a lot of layups. But the key here is whether they can get the ball up to the rim and absorb a lot of contact and still make the shot.
Start off with a line of players up on the wing and beyond the three-point arc. Have the players drive against a coach down through the lane and then take it strong to the hoop for a two-foot layup against a low block defender. Look to protect the ball and go strong to the rim.
This is a five-man full-court layup drill that typically starts out in sets of four. It's also one of Richmond's favorite drills. You're looking to get four layups total. It's called "And Twos" because if there's a missed layup or dropped ball, or any confusion, add two more layups to it. It's not uncommon to get up to 12 or 14 layups.
Players must worry about who will get the rebound and who will get the outlet. So when running down the court, encourage your players to talk to each other. This drill is not scripted. The Spiders teach a lot of five-man basketball, so the emphasis is often on picking things up on the fly. There isn't too much time for diagramming things. Rather, it's about understanding how things work with four other guys on the floor.
Tips: There should be no dribbling in this drill. You should only focus on passes. Also, you don't have to re-inbound the ball every time. Plus, the player who shoots the layup CANNOT get the rebound.
The previous clips can be seen on Championship Productions' DVD "Chris Mooney: Team & Individual Drills for the Princeton Offense." To check out more videos highlighting the Princeton Offense and other offensive sets, head over to our basketball library.
In this week's edition of All Access, we take you back to Richmond, Virginia for a behind-the-scenes look inside a University of Richmond men's basketball practice.
First, watch as head coach Chris Mooney sits down with his coaching staff for a pre-practice meeting. The coaches take turns emphasizing specific goals and strategies the team needs to work on. Finally, we'll take you out to the basketball court as the Spiders run through baseline charges, the "4 around 1" motion offense, and several other offensive sets.
This all-access pass derives from the first few days of practice during the 2009-10 basketball campaign.
We start things off with a pre-practice coaches meeting as Coach Mooney and his staff talk about the daily practice plan. Discussions revolve around elbow defense, personnel for drills/sets/coaching points, Robert Parrish comparisons, two-foot finishes, and how to take hits on a drive (see below with "baseline charges"). The roundtable discussion also emphasizes a few other plays and specific areas that players need to work on in order to make them effective.
In "baseline charges", players practice taking charges in the paint. First, a player will start out with possession as the charger and rams into a defender stationed out in the lane. After this, the offensive player quickly changes over to the defender and takes a charge. Players then rotate through. Notice how players yell out to emphasize the hit. Also, zero in on the quality footwork and stance needed to pull off the charge.
The "4 Around 1" offense is a motion offense that uses four perimeter players and one post player. It's an ideal system to use when your team has solid outside players and fewer post players. Meanwhile, it's also designed to gain favorable matchups.
In this particular practice session, Richmond is coming down the court in their transition spots. On offense, the squad will run staggered screens away after the point guard passes to the wing. They can also look to make a swing pass via staggered screen on the opposite side. Then after either staggered screen move, it's a "4 around 1" pass and cut.
Coach Mooney also provides some detailed coaching instruction for the defensive players in the drill regarding how they should play the initial passes and staggered screens up top.
Tip: The top guys on defense should have their feet on the elbow and keep their chest facing the ball.
The previous clips can all be seen on Championship Productions' DVD "All Access Richmond Basketball Practice with Chris Mooney." To check our entire collection of All Access videos, simply head over to our basketball library.
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Part of their 2010 holiday collection (and doesn't it just look like the world's most fabulous Christmas tree star?), the new Stila Color Wheel Eye Shadow Palette ($38, back in stock soon - dammit, it already sold out! Keep refreshing your browsers, kittens!!!) is a shadow addict's dream come true. Why? 37 eye shadow shades. Mirror. Two double-ended brushes. A 16 page instruction look book. Signature Stila quality, color payoff, and staying power. Dearest readers, do we even need to explain why this is so awesome? BUY IT. That is all.
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1. What is the difference between the STYLELIFE ACADEMY and the STYLELIFE CHALLENGE?
The Stylelife Challenge was a 30-Day contest based on Style's proven attraction and seduction principles. Participants were encouraged to record their progress and were judged on the quality of their outer and inner transformation.
The Stylelife Academy is a real and the world's first Online "Academy For Attraction" that teaches Style's complete Self-Improvement-System for men and delivers it as a tailored program with coaching for individuals to fit their lifestyle, experience level and pace.
2. Should I join the STYLELIFE ACADEMY, if I completed the STYLELIFE CHALLENGE?
The Stylelife Challenge had 29 assignments that taught "How-to-Get-a-Date". It was a one-size-fits-all approach that many people missed or couldn.t keep up with due to pace, time or experience level limitations.
The Stylelife Academy includes hundreds of missions, hundreds of e-books, video and audio demonstrations. It is customized for each individual and includes direct coaching from Stylelife experts. It is a complete Self-Improvement-System that instructs members how to succeed not only in meeting the women of their dreams, but attracting, dating and keeping them.
3. Why is the STYLELIFE ACADEMY not FREE like the STYLELIFE CHALLENGE?
The Stylelife Challenge was a one-time contribution from Style to give back to the community which has given him so much.
The Styelife Academy is an ongoing real university, complete with offices, support staff and full-time coaches, that delivers exclusive material through a high-bandwidth website. The universities goal is to provide more valuable benefits at less cost than any other Social Transformation System but it has to be financially self-sustaining.
4. Will there be another STYLELIFE CHALLENGE?
Yes! There will be another contest called "The StyleLife Challenge" in which participants are encouraged to record their progress and will judged on the quality of their outer and inner transformation. No date has been set yet.


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Sea Shepherd's Paul Watson On Realtime With Bill Maher
Captain Paul Watson protects whales and educates people about the enormous amount of plastic in the oceans.
Cove Guardians: Video from Sea Shephard Conservation Society
The slaughter of 20,000 dolphins, porpoises, and small whales occurs in Japan each year.
Music for the Oceans: Aqualise's Nightwaves Creates Awareness of our Planet's Seas
By Marco Britt
What happens when your passion for creating and composing music collides with your awareness of the environment, specifically the love of the oceans—and then you're smacked with a feeling of helplessness which leads you to question what can you do?


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Whole Wheat Cinnamon Graham Squares
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- 6 cups whole wheat flour
- 1 1/2 cups rolled oats
- 1 cup (packed) brown sugar
- 2 teaspoons salt
- 2 teaspoons baking soda
- 3 tablespoons ground cinnamon
- 3/4 cup honey
- 1 1/2 cups oil
- 1 cup cold water
1. In a large bowl, whisk together the dry ingredients. Make a well in the center of the bowl.
2. In a separate bowl, combine honey, oil, and water. Mix well, then add to dry ingredients and stir until mixture forms a thick, crumbly/stiff dough.
3. Grease two 10x15-inch jelly roll pans. Put half of the dough on each sheet and press flat, using your fingers or a spatula. Using a pizza cutter or butter knife, slice each sheet into 24 squares.
4. Bake sheets at 400 degrees for 13-18 minutes, or until lightly browned, switching racks half-way through baking.
5. Remove pans from oven to wire racks, and allow the cookies to cool on the pans. Re-slice, remove from pans, and store in an air-tight container or bag.
This recipe was submitted by one of our readers and has not been tested by our food editors. We are not responsible for errors in this recipe, but if you find one, please let us know.
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Burma i/ˈbɜrmə/ BUR-mə, also known as Myanmar i/ˌmjɑːnˈmɑr/ MYAHN--MAR, is a country in South Asia and Southeast Asia. It is bordered by India, Bangladesh, China, Laos and Thailand. One-third of Burma's total perimeter of 1,930 kilometres (1,200 mi) forms an uninterrupted coastline along the Bay of Bengal and the Andaman Sea. At 676,578 km2 (261,227 sq mi), it is the 40th largest country in the world and the second largest country in Southeast Asia. Burma is also the 24th most populous country in the world with over 60.28 million people.
Burma is home to some of the early civilizations of Southeast Asia including the Pyu and the Mon. In the 9th century, the Burmans of the Kingdom of Nanzhao, entered the upper Irrawaddy valley and, following the establishment of the Pagan Empire in the 1050s, the Burmese language and culture slowly became dominant in the country. During this period, Theravada Buddhism gradually became the predominant religion of the country. The Pagan Empire fell due to the Mongol invasions (1277–1301), and several warring states emerged. In the second half of the 16th century, the country was reunified by the Taungoo Dynasty which for a brief period was the largest empire in the history of Southeast Asia. The early 19th century Konbaung Dynasty ruled over an area that included modern Burma as well as Manipur and Assam. The country was colonized by Britain following three Anglo-Burmese Wars (1824–1885).


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Amazingly, the qualifying rounds for tomorrow's big race at Talledega went off without incident, despite a wild session and some debris on the track at the end of round 2, which never caused the drivers to stop although a red flag did go up. However, the biggest surprise of the day came when Childress Racing (and its allied teams Joe Falk and Circle Sport Racing) took every position from 1-6 on the grid, beginning with Brian Scott, who earned his first pole in 6 career starts. Scott earned the honor by driving his No. Whitetail Chevy SS for a lap in 48.293 second at 198.290 mph. His highest previous start position was number 12 in the Daytona 500.
Starting in the top 10 positions along with Scott will be Paul Menard, followed by A.J. Allendinger, Austin Dillon, Casey Mears, Ryan Newman, Danica Patrick, Kevin Harvick, Kurt Busch and Carl Edward. The back of the pack will feature Kasey Kahne and Martin Truex Jr., after both of their cars failed the qualifying inspections, and thus had their times disallowed. Drivers who did not make the cut included Dave Blaney, Eric McClure, Joe Nemechek and JJ Yeley.
Live coverage of the race will begin at 12:30pm ET on Fox TV.


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I have a MacBook and I would like to check out Fedora. I have created a bootable USB stick with UNetbootin, but it won't boot on my mac. It does on a friends PC (win7). I think this has to do with BIOS vs. EFI, bit how can I solve the problem so I can boot from it on my mac.
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A Brief Overview Of Common 401k Mistakes
by William Lemerond - Mar, 2010
Believe it or not there are many mistakes that can be made along the way when it comes to financial retirement savings and investing. Unfortunately a good many of these mistakes center around the 401(k), which can be a tremendous boost to your retirement plans when used properly in order to build your portfolio. The problem is that the mistakes are often the only things we hear when it comes to retirement plans and investing....
Perhaps the Most Important Area Of Investing - Psychology
by William Lemerond - Jan, 2010
When you are striving for investment and financial excellence, you will have to do so by overcoming some tough obstacles. When you focus on the financial or investing problems you have, you are most likely going to generate feelings of guilt, anger or frustration in yourself. These feelings that arise are the silent investment account and financial killers; when investing you need to invest emotionless, which will help you foc...
When In An Interview Paint A Picture
by William Lemerond - Nov, 2009
In order to captivate someone's imagination and attention, particularly an employer in your case, you must paint picture with your words. When the mind thinks deeply and critically, it thinks in pictures. If you're not creating mental images to get your point across, you're missing out on a lot of potential interest. You're just not hitting the nail on the head, or scoring points. Involve the person interviewing you, by gettin...
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by William Lemerond - Nov, 2009
Your financial position will always catch up with, and match your mindset. When individuals think of money attraction, normally they are thinking of money that they can physically hold and take to the bank. Cash flow is important, but it is your mindset that will determine your future wealth, and the scope of your money attraction. Your ability to adapt your mindset to envision and stay open, creative, and positive is very imp...
Retirement Plans For the Self-Employed
by William Lemerond - Nov, 2009
SEP IRA: With a SEP IRA in 2009 there is a $49,000 maximum contribution. This IRA is easy to set up and requires minimal administrative responsibilities. Disadvantages of this option begin with the fact that contribution limits are smaller than the limits of an Individual 401k at the same income level. This IRA does not have a catch-up plan provision like the Individual 401k, and loans are not permitted. Main advantages...
An Attitude For Success
by William Lemerond - Nov, 2009
If you want success in what you are pursuing, then you must have the attitude for success. You need to have the right attitude, which is the right set of beliefs that will guide you to take the proper actions towards achieving your goals. How can you be sure you have the right attitude for success? After all, there is a multitude of beliefs and values on can have. I have comprised a list below, a very good list that can ser...
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by William Lemerond - Nov, 2009
We seek reclusion from our current job as early as possible to relax all day, take a vacation whenever we want, pursue a lifelong dream, or for any of the other perks that come from retirement. Some of us may be waiting with great anticipation and counting the days until retirement, others will wait with patience and don't think much of it, and another group of us may not ever want to retire and hate the thought of it. Whic...
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How the Top 25 Fared Week 12
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Multi-Day Connemara Guided Walking Breaks for Small GroupsWalk Connemara is offering multi-day guided walking tours specially designed to suit groups arriving from
The Breaks are "self-packaged"; the accommodation, walking and transport components are booked separately. The prices below include the accommodation but not the transport; you would need to check (and book) the flights, and car hire yourself. See how to book below. Please email us to enquire.
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You choose how many days' walking you want and the
type of walks you prefer. You book your accommodation and rent a car
that suits you. You choose where to have your meals, whether it's pub
grub or a gourmet restaurant. Our Walk
Details page has examples of the types of walk on
Accommodation Partner:
We recommend Cornerstones B&B, a high-quality local B&B known for its home baking which has spectacular views of the mountains and sea from every bedroom.
Tour Details:
Here is a breakdown of the Walk Connemara Tour
(between 2 and 9
days). Our schedule is adaptable to suit your flight arrival time. For
those who simply want to relax on the day of arrival, the schedule for
Day 1 can be postponed until the following morning. Remember this tour
will be customised for how you
want it, so you can view this as a suggested schedule.
Day 1:
Your guide will meet you at your accommodation to plan your walking schedule. Our guide has detailed knowledge and experience of the local area and will be able to advise you on the best walks to suit your specific interests and fitness levels taking into account the weather and local terrain. This will be a detailed discussion and will greatly enhance your experience of Connemara. Following this discussion you will be able to take in a full-length walk in the local area.
(Note that times are shown as a range as they depend on your flight time and the day of the week).
For Lufthhansa flights, arriving 13:10, we would recommend delaying the first walking day to Day 2.
Days 2-9:
The Guided Walking Tour and accommodation are
priced independently, enabling various accommodation options.
Cornerstones B&B is offering a discount and complimentary
refreshment when you arrive if you have booked a Walk
Connemara Tour.
The total price is the accommodation cost plus the guiding price (per walking day). For example, for a group of eight (four couples), a three day walking tour in March-June would cost €192/per person. This includes three nights of accommodation with breakfast, three days of guided walking (including a walk on the day you arrive), the use of walking poles plus two copies of the "Connemara and Mayo" guide book. This price excludes flights, car rental and other meals. For smaller groups, the total package cost per person is higher. For instance, with a group of four (two couples sharing) the package price for the three day walking tour in March-June would be €289/per person. The tables below show the prices for various group sizes and numbers of walking days.
Price per person sharing of walking tour with accommodation in Cornerstones B&B for different group sizes and walking days:
For smaller groups or couples, the price per person will be higher. Alternatively, there is the possibility to join one of our Scheduled Walks. Please ask us for a quotation if you cannot see a price for the option that you require.
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This isn't your typical demo. Instead of playing through the first 20 minutes of the game, players will be able to take on the game's first dungeon, Twilight Cathedral, in its entirety. This dungeon, packed with 90 minutes of gameplay, contains dozens of puzzles, new pieces of equipment, and two huge boss battles against the demon Jailer and the bat-winged Tiamat.
This demo promises to represent all of the key features of Darksiders. Hopefully this means that if you liked the demo there will be no huge changes in the full game like there were in Brutal Legend and its demo (The demo revealed typical hack and slash gameplay with some vehicle combat while the full game almost immediately shifted into real time strategy where the demo ended.)
David Adams, General Manager of Vigil Games commented:
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If you're already interested, you can ride on over to any local retailers and pick it up for about $49.99. But if you're still not sure, the Darksiders demo will be available in the Xbox live marketplace on February 25th, 2010.
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well, I guess it is my royal responsibility to check out the new vet. I go tomorrow morning - checkup & shots. I will be 7 soon, so wonder how they work with more seasoned kitties. Mom says they use the same traveling cardiologist Tigger has been seeing, so that is good. And the girl mentioned that they have gotten about 6 clients within the past few weeks from where we are leaving. That says we are not alone in our thoughts. So, keep ya paws crossed & we willlet ya know how it goes.
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Good luck Maizy with the visit to your new vet tomorrow and hope your mom likes them! Purring that all goes well and you get a clean bill of health!
Good to know you're not the only one moving away from that vet. I hope they realize they have a problem and will fix it. Hope it all goes well!
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Awww poop, that was supposed to be from me! Geez, I'm so embarrassed.
Good lucky lovely one! Let us know how it goes!
Maizy...we hope ewe like yur mew vet almost az much as ewe like yur mom...welll...may bee knot THAT much...az much az ewe like treets....uh, catnip...noe....fish......hhhmmmmm....
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WALNUT CREEK, Calif. - Washington's Mar. 4 men's basketball road game at Arizona will tip off at 3 p.m. Pacific Time, the Pacific-10 Conference office announced today. The game will be televised live by FSN.
The Huskies' final regular-season contest is one of two Pac-10 games slated for telecast on Mar. 4. Those games were not announced until today so the conference and its broadcast partners could provide the best possible matchups.
The other Pac-10 game that will be televised on Mar. 4 is the UCLA-Stanford game in Palo Alto that will air on CBS at 1 p.m. Pacific Time.
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Other recommended writeups :
- Hadoop World NYC (Hilary Mason)
- The View from HadoopWorld (Stephen O'Grady)
- Post Hadoop World Thoughts (Deepak Singh)
- Hadoop World, NYC 2009 (Dan Milstein)
- Hadoop World Impressions (Steve Laniel)
Location: Roosevelt Hotel, NYC
1235 Joe Cunningham – Visa – Large scale transaction analysis
– responsible for Visa Technology Strategy and Innovation
been playing with Hadoop for 9 months
probably many in audience learning and starting out with Hadoop
1) VisaNet overview
2) Value-added information products
3) Hadoop@Visa – research results
About Visa:
- 60 Billion market cap
- well-known card products, and also behind the scene information products
- Visa brand has high trust
- For a card-holder a Visa-card means global acceptance
- For a shopowner, if you get a Visa payment aproval you will be payed
VisaNet is the largest, most advanced payment network in the world
28M locations,
130M authorizations/day,
1500 endpoints,
Processes transactions faster than 1s
1.4M ATMs,
Processes in 175 currencies,
Less than 2s unavailability per year (!)
- according to my calculations six 9s (0.999999366)
16300 financial institutions
Visa Processing Architecture
Security/Access Services -> Message|File|Web
VisaNet Services Integration -> Authorization|Clearing&Settlement
Dispute handling, Risk, Information
Scoring every transaction (used for issuer to approve/decline transaction)
Value added Info products
- Info services
Client: Portfolio Analysis, Visa Incentive Network
Accountholder: transaction alerts, accoutnt updater, tailored rewards
- Risk management services
Account monitoring
Run a pipeline of prototypes in lab facility in SF
Any technology taken into Visa needs to match scalability and reliability requirements
Research Lab Setup
- VM System:
Custom Analytic Stacks
Encryption Processing
Relational Database
- Hadoop Systems
Management Stack
Hadoop #1 ~40TB / 42 nodes (2 years of raw transaction data)
Hadoop #2 ~300TB / 28 nodes
Risk Product Use Case
Create critical data model elements, such as keys and transaction statistics, which feed our real-time risk-scoring systems
Input: Transactions – Merchant Category, Country/Zip
Output: Key & Statistics – MCCZIP Key – stats related to account, trans. type, approval, fraud, IP address etc.
Research Sample: 500M distinct accounts, 100M transactions per day, 200 bytes per transaction, 2 years – 73B transaction (36TB)
Processing time from 1 month to 13 minutes! (note: ~3000 times faster)
(Generate synthetic transactions used to test the model)
Financial Enterprise Fit
- key questions under research:
- what will the Hadoop Solution Stack(s) look like?
- File system, Transaction Sample System, Relational Back-end (integration path), Analytics Processing
- Internal vs external cloud
- How do I get data into a cloud in a secure way.
- How does HSM and security integration work in Hadoop
- What are the missing pieces?
Why Hadoop@Visa?
- analyze volumes of data with response that are not possible today
- requirement: need to fit with existing solutions
Cross Data Center Log Processing – Stu Hood, Rackspace
(Email and apps division, work on search team)
Use Case Backgound
- "Rackapps" – Hybrid Mail Hosting, 40% use a mix of exchange and rackspace mail
Use Case: Log Types
Use Case: Querying
- was the mail delivered?
- spam – why was it (not) marked as spam
- access – who checked/failed to check mail?
more advanced questions:
- which delivery routes have the highest latency?
- which are the spammiest IP?
- Where in the world do customers log in from
- billing
Previous Solutions
- 1999-2006 – go to where log files are generated, querying with grep
- 2006-2007 / bulk load to MySQL – worked for a year
Hadoop Solution
- V3 – lucene indexes in Hadoop
- 2007- present
- store 7 days uncompressed
- queries take seconds
- long term queries with mapreduce (6M avail for MR queries)
- all 3 datacenters
Alternatives considered:
- Splunk – good for realtime, but not great for archiving
- Data warehouse package – not realtime, but fantastic for longterm analysis
- Partioned MySQL – half-baked solution
=> Hadoop hit the sweet spot
Hadoop Implementation
- collect data using syslog-ng (considering Scribe)
- storage: deposits into Hadoop (scribe will remove that)
- 2-4 collector machines per datacenters
- hundreds of source machines
20 solr nodes
Implementation: Indexing/Querying
- indexing – uniqe processing code for schema
- querying
- "realtime"
- sharded lucene/solr instances merge-index chunk from Hadoop
- using Solr-API
- raw logs
- using Hadoop Streaming and unix grep
- Mapreduce
Implementation: Timeframe
- development – 1.5 people in 3 months
- deployments – using clouderas distribution
- roadblocks – bumped into job-size limits
Have run close to 1 million jobs on our cluster, and it has not gone down (except for other reasons such as maintenance)
Advantages – storage
- all storage in one place
Raw logs: 3 days, in HDFS
Indexes: 7 days
Archived Indexes: 6 months
Advantages – analysis
- Java Mapreduce API
- Apache Pig
- ideal for one-off queries
- Hadoop Streaming
Pig Example – whitehouse.gov mail spoofing
Advantages – Scalability, Cost, Community
- scalability – easy to add nodes
- cost – only hardware
- community – cloudera has been a benefit, deployment is trivial
Data Processing for Financial Services – Peter Krey and Sin Lee, JP Morgan Chase
Innovation & Shared Services, Firmwide Engineering & Architecture
note: certain constraints what can be shared due to regulations
JPMorgen Chase + Open Source
- QPD (AMQP) – top level apache project
- Tyger – Apache + Tomcat + Spring
Hadoop in the Enterprise – Economics Driven
- attractive: economics
- Many big lessons from Web 2.0 community
- Potential for Large Capex and Opex "Dislocation"
- reduce consumption of enterprise premium resources
- grid computing economics brought to data intensive computing
- stagnant data innovation
- Enabling & potentially disruptive platform
- many historical similarities
- java, linux, tomcat, web/internet
- minis to client/server, client/server to web, solaris to linux, ..
- Key question: what can be built on top of Hadoop?
Back to economics driven – very cost-effective
Hadoop in the Enterprise – Choice Driven
- Overuse of relational database containers
- institutional "Muscle memory" – not too much else to choose from
- increasingly large percentage of static data stored in proprietary transactional DBs
- Over-Normalized Schemas: still Makes sense with cheap compute&storage?
- Enterprise Storage "Prisoners"
- Captive to the economics & technology of "a few" vendors
- Developers need more choice
- Too much proprietary, single-source data infrastructure
- increasing need for minimal/no systems + storage admins
Hadoop in the Enterprise – Other Drivers
- Growing developer interest in "Reduced RDBMS" Data technologies
- open source, distributed, non-relational databases
- growing influence of web 2.0 technologies & thinking of enterprise
- hadoop, cassandra, hbase, hive, couchdb, hadoopDB, .. , others
- memcached for caching
FSI Industry Drivers
- Increased regularity oversight + reporting = More data needed over longer period of time
- triple data amounts from 2007 to 2009
- growing need for less expensive data repository/store
- increased need to support "one off" analysis on large data
Active POC Pipeline
- Growing stream of real projects to gauge hadoop "goodness of fit"
- broad spectrum of use cases
- driven by need to impact/dislocate OPEX+CAPEX
- looking for orders of magnitude
- evaluated on metric based performance, functional and economic measures
- avoid the "data falling on the floor phenomena"
- tools are really really important, keep tools and programming models simple
Hadoop Positiong
- Latency x Storage amount curve,
Cost comparisons
- SAN vs Hadoop HDFS cost comparison (GB/month)
- Hadoop much cheaper
Hadoop Additions and Must Haves:
- Improves SQL Front-End Tool Interoperability
- Improved Security & ACL enforcement – Kerberos Integration
- Grow Developer Programming Model Skill Sets
- Improve Relational Container Integration & Interop for Data Archival
- Management & Monitoring Tools
- Improved Developer & Debugging Tools
- Reduce Latency via integration with open source data caching
- memcached – others
- Invitation to FSI or Enterprise roundtable
Protein Alignment – Paul Brown, Booz Allen
Biological information
- Body – Cells – Chromosomes – Gene – DNA/RNA
Bioinformatics – The Pain
- too much data
So What? Querying a database of sequences for similar sequences
- one-to-many comparison
- 58000 proteins in PDB
- Protein alignment frequently used in the development of medicines
- Looking for a certain sequence across species, helps indicate function
Implementation in Hadoop
- distribute database sequence accross each node
- send query seq. inside Mapreduce (or dist.cache)
- scales well
- existing algorithms port easily
So What? Comparing sequences in bulk
- many-to-many
- DNA hybridiation (reconstruction)
Ran on AWS
- if whole dataset fit into one computer
- Used distributed cache, assign each node a piece of the list
- But if the does not fit on one computer….
- pre-join all possible pairs with one MapReduce
So What? Analyzing really big sequences
- one big sequence to many small sequences
- scanning dna for structure
- population genetics
- hadoop implementatoin
Demonstration Implementation: Smith-Waterman Alignment
- one of the more computationally intensive matching and aligmnent techniques
- big matrix – (sequences to compare on row and column and calculations within)
Amazon implementation
- 250 machines
- run in 10 minutes for a single sequence. Runs in 24hrs for NxN comparison
- cost $40/hr
==> very cool 3D video of amazon ec2 nodes
- failing job due to 10% of nodes stuck on something (e.g. very long sequences)
Real-time Business Intelligence, Bradford Stephens
- Scalability and BI
- Costs and Abilities
- Search as BI
Tools: Zookeeper, Hbase, Katta (dist.search on Hadoop) and Bobo (faceted search for lucene)
- http://sourceforge.net/projects/bobo-browse/
- http://sourceforge.net/projects/katta/develop
100TB structured and unstructed data – Oracle 100M$, Hadoop and Katta 250K$
Building data cubes in real time (with faceted search)
Real-time Mapreduce on HBase
Search/BI as a platform – "google my datawarehouse"
Counting, Clustering and other data tricks, Derek Gottfried, New York Times
back in 2007 – would like to try as many EC2 instances as possible
- freeing up historical archives of NYTimes.com (1851-1922)
(in the public domain)
- 2009 – web analytics
3 big data buckets:
1) registration/demographics
2) articles 1851-today
- a lot of metadata about each article
- unique data, extract people, places, .. to each article => high precision search
3) usage data/web logs
- biggest piece – piles up
How do we merge the 3 datasets?
Using EC2 – 20 machines
Hadoop 0.20.0
12 TB of data
Straight MR in Java
(mostly java + postprocessing in python)
combining weblog data with demographic data, e.g. twitter clicks backs by age group
Do you need help with Hadoop/Mapreduce?
A good start could be to read this book, or contact Atbrox if you need help with development or parallelization of algorithms for Hadoop/Mapreduce – firstname.lastname@example.com. See our posting for an example parallelizing and implementing a machine learning algorithm for Hadoop/Mapreduce


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Henne moving up on Dolphins' wish list?
Although my partner and seemingly every NFL exec at the Combine has grown in love with Delaware quaterback Joe Flacco, it seems that the Dolphins are focusing their ardor on Michigan quarterback Chad Henne as their potential second-round pick.
My sources say that the Dolphins haven't made any contact with Flacco since checking him out at the Senior Bowl and Combine, while a radio interview by Henne with ESPN-760 host Evan Cohen indicates he could be the pick at No. 32 – if he's still there.
"They wanted to know my character, what I am as a person, as a player," Henne told Cohen. "[We went] through what I know, how I go about myself during the game and off the field. So, I've had good contact with them."
Last week Dolphins quarterbacks coach David Lee and national scout Ron Labadie dined with Henne before attending his Pro Day the next day. Henne said they have another scheduled dinner with him next Tuesday in Ann Arbor, and possible a private workout on Wednesday.
The nearly 6-3, 226-pound Henne is not as mobile or as large as the 6-6 Flacco and is more of a pocket passer, so he will need more developing. Because the Dolphins offensive line is a work in progess, expect John Beck and Josh McCown to battle it out this year while developing a young quarterback such as Henne.
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LA Galaxy announced on January 14th that they would be trading their midfielder Hector Jimenez to Columbus Crew. Jimenez was rarely a starting in the lineup but was a good player non-the-less; so, it was still a bit upsetting to Galaxy fans. It looks like just another name LA Galaxy is clearing off their roster as they continue to make changes.
25-year-old Hector Jimenez had been with LA Galaxy for 3 years but is still considered an MLS rookie. He came to the MLS right out of college when Galaxy chose him in the second round during the 2011 SuperDraft. Having never played for any other teams in the MLS this may be a bit of a change for the midfielder, but his career is still young, and he still have a lot of play left in him. Hopefully, he will continue to do great things.
LA Galaxy has been making a lot of moves this offseason. They ignored picking up anyone in the supplementary draft, but they did have to let go of Sean Franklin, because they wanted to dodge salary cap issues. Also, in the past two weeks they've picked up two stikers, Samuel and Rob Friend, which is a great offensive move for LA Galaxy.
Jimenez and a first round SuperDraft pick was given to Columbus to gain more allocation money and a second round pick. It really seems like Columbus is getting the better side of the deal, but that's only because the amount of allocation money is never disclosed due to league policy. Why would the LA Galaxy want more allocation money? They may be setting up for a big move, but with their 3 DPs already in place, what other big name can they gain without DP funds? Bruce Arena obviously knows what he's doing, and fans will just have to wait and see.


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From Antiplaner.com – The state of California has a $41 billion budget deficit. This is even worse when you realize its total budget is $143 billion, so the deficit is is 29 percent of the budget.
The planning advocates who frequent this blog will deny it, but it is no coincidence that California has the strongest smart-growth laws in the nation and the worst deficit of any state in the nation.
Land-use restrictions that crammed 94.5 percent of the state's residents into just 5.1 percent of the state's land also made the state's housing the least-affordable in the nation — and some California cities the least-affordable in the world. This led to an exodus of people and jobs. The bursting of the housing bubble devastated many recent home buyers and took the state's (and world's) economy with them.
Meanwhile, the state has overspent on high-cost transportation systems in five major urban areas, while stinting on the forms of transportation that people actually use. (Californians travel more than 400 billion passenger miles by auto in urban areas and take transit only 7 billion passenger miles.) This did little to relieve the traffic that makes Los Angeles and San Francisco-Oakland the worst-congested urban areas in the nation while it added to the state's deficits.
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Does this post sound familiar? 86% of Pima County land is owned by a government entity. Pima County has already committed $200m to buy the remaining 14%. Will the voters approve another $500m to run up the credit card for more open space? Less land, higher cost to develop (sewer hook up fees, impact fees, time to finish developments) and what you get is housing that becomes unaffordable to our working poor community. Add in a dash of NIMBY from the City of Tucson neighborhood activist and what's a community to do? Without leadership, I'm afraid we'll have more of he same.
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State caught in avalanche of job losses
Conditions are even worse in Los Angeles County, which saw its unemployment rate jump to 10.5% in January from 9.2% the month before.
The deep job losses follow a sharp drop in the gross domestic product — the value of all goods and services produced — in the waning months of 2008. Nationwide, GDP shrank at an annual rate of 6.2% in the fourth quarter, the Commerce Department said Friday. That was far worse than the 3.8% drop the agency had estimated, and the biggest decrease since 1982.
Paul Policarpio knew it was only a matter of time before he would be laid off.
Taxpayers lost big on Rio Nuevo bond sale
By not delaying it, as other US areas did, city may have to pay extra $10M or more
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Tucson, Arizona | Published: 02.15.2009
When other communities across the country were pulling out of the bond market in December as the failing economy pushed interest rates higher, Tucson forged ahead with a Rio Nuevo bond issue.
The move potentially cost taxpayers more than $10 million in extra interest — money that could have gone into projects instead — because the municipal bond market recovered in January and February, experts interviewed by the Arizona Daily Star said.
One municipal bond expert put the potential loss at as much as $18 million.
The city's bond adviser, Shawn Dralle of RBC Capital Markets, estimated the savings from delaying the bond sale would have been a much smaller $5.4 million over the life of the bonds, from 2011 to 2025.
Tucson issued $78 million in bonds for its Downtown redevelopment district Dec. 15-17, as state lawmakers were openly threatening to take back the state sales taxes that go to Rio Nuevo because of the project's perceived lack of progress.
Several experts said interest rates now would be about 1.2 percentage points lower than the nearly 6.5 percent the city sold its bonds at in December. Dralle estimates the rate difference would be only 0.25 percent to 0.5 percentage points lower.
Several Tucson officials said no one could predict future interest rates, and added that the city sold the bonds to get Rio Nuevo projects moving. The legislative threats weren't a factor, they said.
But numerous communities across the country delayed their bond sales in December. A January report from JP Morgan Asset Management said many issuers were postponing year-end bond sales because they were unwilling to pay the high yields required to attract buyers.
Just three days before Tucson's sale, New-York based municipal bond adviser Freda Johnson told Bloomberg News it was recommending "borrowers delay their sales if at all possible" because of high yields and weak demands.
Mayor Bob Walkup said the bonds were sold to get Rio Nuevo moving in response to criticism from the public and the media about a lack of progress. He said the legislative threat to take the money back "wasn't even a discussion."
"I think we still did the right thing at that moment," Walkup said, adding the city can't predict interest rates. "If you find the guy with that crystal ball, let me know because we can make a lot of money." Action delayed elsewhere
Deven Mitchell, executive director of the Alaska Municipal Bond Bank Authority, said the bank pulled back two bond issues in early to mid-December, one for a prison and the other for money that would be loaned to municipalities. The Alaskan bonds had similar ratings to Rio Nuevo's, although Tucson spent $750,000 on bond insurance to boost its rating several levels.
The bond bank waited for the markets to calm down and then sold its bonds "as soon as possible" at rates under 6 percent just before Christmas and again in January.
It's a difficult decision, Mitchell said, because if you need the money to start construction, it can be better to issue the bonds than wait.
But the amount of construction to be done with the $78 million in Rio Nuevo bonds is limited, with $58 million split between design and construction for 13 projects Downtown and on the West Side. One expert questioned the amount of "soft costs" for design in the bonds.
A total of $20 million went to pay back a loan to the city, into a reserve fund or for bond insurance.
Issuers as disparate as the state of Minnesota, the District of Columbia and Oklahoma City delayed bond sales at the end of 2008 because of market conditions.
In Florida, top state officials questioned the state bond director in January over a bond sale for universities on Dec. 14 with an interest rate of 6.16 percent, pointing out that another Florida issue a month later fetched a rate of 4.7 percent. The director blamed volatile credit markets. Higher interest costs
Michael Stanton, publisher of the Bond Buyer newspaper, looked at the difference in market rates — calculated from municipal market data or MMD — between December and the second week in February.
He said the average rates today are about 1.2 percentage points lower than rates were in December, resulting in roughly $10 million more in interest costs for the December bonds.
Stanton made a second calculation of only $4.3 million in savings using an index of revenue bonds — which are paid off with revenuelike sales taxes. But the Rio Nuevo bonds are backed not just by sales taxes, but by the city's general fund as well.
Alvin Boutte Jr., managing director and head of the Midwest region for Chicago-based investment banking firm Grigsby & Associates Inc., estimated the difference in interest rates cost the city $18 million in interest over the life of the bonds. He estimated the city would pay 5.2 percent on the bond issue today.
In a larger issue by the city of Chicago on Jan. 20, Boutte said, the interest rate for 15-year bonds was 4.81 percent. By contrast, the yield for Tucson's 15-year bonds is 6.79 percent.
The companies that underwrote Tucson's bonds declined to estimate what the difference in interest rates cost Tucson. Stone & Youngberg said there were too many variables to calculate. Piper Jaffray referred calls to the city's bond adviser, Dralle at RBC Capital Markets.
In a statement, Dralle said the rates did drop in January but that much of the drop was "on paper" because there were few sales, and many issuers had higher credit ratings — although the city paid $750,000 for bond insurance to boost its credit rating equivalent to AAA.
Dralle said the bonds got the best rates they could at the time they were sold, and estimated that Rio Nuevo bonds today would sell with interest rates between 6 percent and 6.25 percent because of "a worsening economy and with Legislative threats to the revenue."
Jaret Barr, assistant to City Manager Mike Hein, said interest rates have dropped, but estimated the impact was more like $5 million.
He added the city talked about waiting but decided to move forward to keep projects going. He challenged those who criticize the city's decision to tell him what the interest rates will be in March, since they think the city should have been able to see the future. Deliberately hurried
State Rep. Frank Antenori, R-Tucson, has railed against the city bond sale for months, contending the city knew it was getting a bad deal but went out to market anyway to commit the money so the Legislature wouldn't be able to take it away.
"It was deliberately done in a hurry to use it as a bargaining chip," Antenori said. "Because it was somebody else's money, they just did it."
Councilwoman Nina Trasoff countered that Tucson proceeded in order to jump-start important projects, acting on the advice of its bond attorney.
"You can always second-guess these things," Trasoff said. "It's always easy in 20/20 hindsight to say, 'gee, if.' "
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