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MINERAL WELLS - More than 300 third- and fourth-graders from several Wood County schools are spending a day learning about safety in a variety of areas, from ATVs and farm machinery to fire and electrical safety.
This year's program also included a program about healthy lifestyles and nutrition.
The Wood County Farm Bureau Safety Day Program is in its 13th year, said coordinator Janet Wigal with the farm bureau.
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Mike Coartney, with Mon Power, talks about electrical safety Tuesday with local fourth-graders during the first day of the Wood County Farm Bureau's annual Safety Day program at the Wood County 4-H Campground at Mineral Wells.
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Charlene Villers, youth nutrition outreach instructor with the WVU Extension Service in Wood County, talks about healthy lifestyles and nutrition Tuesday during the annual Wood County Farm Bureau Safety Day program for local elementary school children.
"Every year, we try to improve and bring on different instructors who are going to help the children with safety. Our goal is to send our children away from the Safety Day program with knowledge of how to take care of themselves," Wigal said.
Safety Days is sponsored by the Progressive Agriculture Foundation and receives support from the Wood County Commission, Farm Credit and the Little Kanawha Conservation District.
Throughout the day, students visit eight safety stations. This year's stations include: healthy lifestyles, electrical safety, fire safety, school safety, ATV safety, farm machinery safety, sun safety and disability awareness.
Fourth-grade students from Mineral Wells and Emerson schools attended Tuesday's program, while fourth-graders from Fairplains and Franklin and third-graders from Lubeck are going through the program today.
In a new addition to this year's program, Wigal said the farm bureau received approval to do the Healthy Lifestyles program, which featured instruction about healthy food choices, nutrition and related matters. The instruction was provided by Charlene Villers, youth nutrition outreach instructor with the WVU Extension Service in Wood County.
Wigal said the Mineral Wells program was one of five chosen throughout the country as a test site this year. West Virginia was one of nine states identified as having an obesity problem with school-aged children. The program is seeking to educate children about healthy eating habits and provide information about healthy lifestyle lessons.
As a test site, Wigal said officials will collect information about what students learned through a pre-test, on the day of the program and through a post-test about a week after the program. The goal is to see what students knew before the program, what they learned and what they retained regarding healthy lifestyles and eating, she said.
The information will be turned over to Progressive Agriculture which will provide it to the University of Alabama for study and review, so improvements in the program can be made in the future, Wigal said.
Darcella Maul, a fourth-grade teacher at Mineral Wells Elementary School, has been bringing students to the Safety Day program since its creation and believes it's one of the best programs her students do each year.
"Seriously, if we had to give up every field trip we have, we would give them all up except for this. Our children learn everyday life skills here," Maul said.
Over the years she has been attending Safety Day with her students, Maul has seen it change and grow to cover a variety of subjects, from basic fire safety to sun safety to healthy lifestyle information.
"Every school should have it, it's just a wonderful program," she said.


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Ercilia Carrizo Munoz stands next to a Chilean flag as she waits for her son Esteban Rojas Carrizo, who is part of the 33 miners are trapped at the San Jose collapsed mine, to be rescued in Copiapo, Chile, Wednesday, Aug. 25, 2010. The miners, who have been trapped since the shaft they were working in collapsed on Aug. 5, were confirmed to be alive Sunday when they were reached by rescue teams via a small hole through which they could pass messages and see the miners with a camera. The message at left reads in Spanish "Be strong brother miners, be strong Esteban, Pablo, Tono and Ariel. Let's go Queero".(AP Photo/ Natacha Pisarenko)

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Congratulations to Elder's Chris Schroer, who was voted the Beacon Orthopaedics Primetime Performer of the Week for Oct. 12.
Voting ended Monday at 11:59 p.m., with Schroer receiving 53 percent of the vote.
The junior running back carried the ball 22 times for 210 yards and three touchdowns on Friday. Schroer's efforts helped lead the Panthers to a 28-14 win over Winton Woods.
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Felande Ross saved his 4-year-old neighbor from the fire that ultimately killed her father. (WRDW-TV / Aug. 6, 2012)
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AUGUSTA, Ga.-- Felande Ross is the neighbor across the street who rescued a little girl trapped inside her fiery home, but it is a bittersweet day for him because he couldn't save her father, too.
"If I had just waited for the firefighters, she probably wouldn't have had a chance," Ross aid.
The words of a hero who knew that it was up to him to save a life. Now, more than 12 hours after it happened, he thinks back to what was going through his head in that moment.
"I was scared. The only thing I was trying to do was at least to save some lives. That's all I was thinking about," he said.
Richmond County deputies say the fire started in the kitchen, probably at the stove while a father of three was cooking. They were all inside when the fire started.
That's when two of the kids heard the fire alarm and ran to their neighbor's house to get help.
Vickey McKie saw the kids running around the street and immediately asked them, "What was wrong, what was going on and they and they said that their house was on fire and that their dad and their sister were still in the house."
As soon as he heard that, Ross sprang into action.
"Got to the side and got the window open and I was screaming for the little girl. I was like Destiny can you grab my hand? Can you grab my hand? And she wasn't making any noise, and I was like Destiny, oh my God. It's OK, it's OK. Please just grab my hand; just grab my hand," he said.
Blinded by the smoke, he crawled in the side window and felt his way around until he found her. Once he got her out, Ross went back to try to find her father, but by then, it was too late. The roof started caving in, and all he could do was watch.
"He was a good person. He had a kind heart, a sweet heart. He would give you the shirt off his back. He would do anything for you," McKie said.
"I know he's so proud of me right now. Anything I could do for him, anything ... We always stayed there for each other. And I know he'd be real proud of me for doing that for him," Ross said.
Ross says he had help. He wanted us to know a man named Miller Jenkins also helped him rescue the little girl. The 4-year-old is at the hospital for smoke inhalation, but the other two kids are fine and with their mother who was at work when this all happened.
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A Clean, Well Lighted Place: SMP exhibitions coordinator Juliana Romnes believes that a museum setting allows students an enriched experience and a space for quiet contemplation, where students can explore multiple viewpoints and allow new ideas to surface. (Below) SMP gallery assistant Aubrie Rodriguez makes final adjustments to an image from the exhibition "Critical Mass."
In the brave new world of photo education, boundaries between disciplines have disappeared and lines are blurring between past, present and future. Digital technology has made photography into a very different discipline than it was in the past, while a long and rich history of the medium hangs in the wings, not to be lost or forgotten. These issues made us curious to explore schools dedicated to photo education and connected to a media-specific museum setting. Museums play an essential role in the development and preservation of arts and culture and provide an important haven for artists, so we felt a closer look would be enlightening. Featured here, we explore three very distinctive programs associated with major photography museums, to learn about the value-added benefits these institutions offer students.
Daytona State College/University of Central Florida
Two Undergraduate Programs Sharing the Benefits of the Southeast Museum of Photography
FOCUS ON CULTURE: The SMP serves as a focal point for both the school and the wider community. "It's a pretty dynamic situation to have the museum on campus," says professor Steven Benson. (Above) The Florida sunset is reflected against SMP's facade.
photo © Steven Benson
The Southeast Museum of Photography (SMP) has been an integral component of the photography program at Daytona State College (DSC) in Florida since it first opened in 1992. Three simultaneous exhibitions are curated to complement and challenge one another across SMP's broad-based mission, which incorporates all photographic styles and themes."The museum and its programs, collections, exhibitions and guest speakers provide an intangible quality that personalizes each student's understanding and relationship to the medium," says Dan Biferie, chair of DSC's School of Photography, which has a 50-year history in photo education. Daytona's two-year program culminates in an associate of science degree, after which students can pursue a bachelor of science degree through the University of Central Florida (UCF), in a program that's completely integrated and based in Daytona. Also, a brand new associates degree program in Interactive Media Production blends photography and digital arts with journalism.
In 2007, SMP moved into a new, multipurpose complex, which includes increased space for galleries, education and offices, a public access reference library and photographic resource center, a new museum bookstore, a coffee shop and a 90-seat cinema/screening room. That same year, a consortium was formed between SMP, DSC's School of Photography and UCF's School of Visual Art and Design to establish the Southeast Center for Photographic Studies.
Biferie notes, "Being a state college, DSC has an open-door admissions policy (and very reasonable tuition). We embrace this philosophically; the idea of giving everyone a chance appeals to us. Students, therefore, arrive with different skills, equipment and ideas.""There's an amazing mix of students in the program," Steven Benson, professor and chair of interactive media points out. "Some of them are established professionals that really just want to refresh their skill sets and learn some new things. They've had years of experience, and they bring that into the classroom, which really helps to makes it a rich environment. Then there are other students who have just finished the intro class, because they needed to be brought up to speed with basic information before starting the degree program."
While DSC's curriculum is heavily rooted in technical skills such as studio lighting and digital proficiency, these aptitudes take on practical meaning in the surrounding museum facilities and in the work of accomplished visiting artists who exhibit, lecture and teach as part of the regular museum programming.
"Students realize that they aren't creating in a vacuum but are connected to a living tradition, and they may get the sense that they're part of the dialog and might add to the conversation through their own hard work," Biferie says.
As a former student, SMP exhibitions coordinator Juliana Romnes is a prime example of the direct benefits to the museum/school partnership. She started as an SMP volunteer, then became a work-study student during her studies at DSC and UCF. "Through working at the museum, I came to realize the importance of protecting and conserving photographic objects, sharing the history of photography and exploring the complicated, multifaceted roles that photography plays in society," she says. Romnes has worked full time at SMP since 2006 while also obtaining a master's degree in nonprofit management.
She notes that future museum programming will have even closer ties to photo education, with a portion of the gallery space dedicated to faculty-curated, rotating exhibitions from the museum's permanent collection, tied directly to various course curriculums. "For example, exhibitions could be curated to supplement studio lighting lessons, composition basics or excerpts from a specific photographic style or historical movement," she says.Another example of the benefits to SMP's mix of exhibition programming and education is the 2012 exhibition of Keliy Anderson-Staley's tintype portraiture, which was supplemented with a hands-on workshop. Photo students were nominated by their instructors to assist during two days of shooting, gaining direct experience in creating contemporary wet-plate collodion tintypes. Students, faculty, staff and the general public volunteered to have their photographs taken with a setup similar to that used in the 1860s.
"They do a wonderful job of integrating the photo program with the museum schedule at Daytona State," says Anderson-Staley. "The presence of the museum allows students to see photography as an art form, prepared for display and consumption within a broader art world, but then engagement with photographers helps them see the practical side of art making. It was great to see the whole community engaged."
International Center of Photography, New York, New York
Photographic Museum, Collection and Multidisciplinary Education Program Under One Roof
Of the Moment: A view of ICP's recent Triennial exhibition "A Different Kind of Order," which includes a number of former ICP students. Block notes that the careers of many young photographers were formed at ICP before they came to the attention of ICP's curatorial team.
© 2013 International Center of Photography, photo by Benjamin Jarosch
Founded in 1974 by Magnum photographer Cornell Capa, the International Center of Photography (ICP) is a leading museum, school and research center dedicated to the practice and understanding of photography in all its forms, located in Midtown Manhattan.
"There's a special sense of community created by the fact that everyone at ICP approaches photography in slightly different ways," says Marina Berio, chairperson of ICP's general studies program. "All around them, students have not just teachers and administrators but also curators, librarians, printers and other people who've chosen to spend their lives dedicated to studying and promoting the photographic image. This creates a sense of continuity between the academic experience and what might come afterward."
ICP's wide range of educational opportunities include full-time, one-year certificate programs in either general studies (GS) or photojournalism/documentary photography (PJ), a two-year master of fi ne arts program in advanced photographic studies with Bard College, hundreds of continuing education classes, a Teen Academy for high school-aged students and other community partnerships.
"At a place like ICP, students have the opportunity not only to acquire skills through our classes, to gain awareness and intimacy with the medium, whether through history or critique, but also to experience artists using photography in all the different ways," explains Phil Block, ICP's director of education and deputy director for programs.
Berio notes, "Most art students see contemporary photography by walking around in Chelsea, but our students can spend a whole afternoon with one image by either a historical photographer or someone like Jeff Wall or Tina Barney."
Berio is a strong believer in the importance of giving students access to photography in a way that's not mediated by the commercial gallery world, and she incorporates this philosophy in her curriculum. "Every term, I send my students over to the ICP collection to write a paper about one photograph," she explains. "It's not a research paper but an in-depth analysis of one physical object. They're required to write not only about the composition and meaning of the image but also about scale, tonality, the particularities of a specific process and other dimensions of photography that are only observable in an actual print. They also write about the function that the print might have served for its viewers in the past, and how they interpret it now."
ICP's extensive and specialized library collection is another essential aspect of educational programming. Librarian Deirdre Donohue notes, "Each full-time student is required to have a half-day library orientation and I do a more advanced weekend workshop with the certifi cate students a month later. I also co-teach a class for MFA students with ICP's collections curator and associate curator. Increasingly, photographers need to become excellent researchers, as opposed to simply technicians," she adds.
All ICP students can apply for work-study opportunities, and many students choose to work within the collections or exhibitions programs. "Many of our students have great skills that are very useful in this new digital world, to collections and archive management and so on," says Block.
Examples of the interactions between ICP's educational, curatorial and archival components are numerous: Images from the new (and growing) Vishniac archive were scanned and databased by interns and work-study students; many of the long-lost Robert Capa negatives from the Mexican Suitcase exhibition were printed for exhibition by students. Berio recalls a past Hungarian student who helped to translate Cornell and Robert Capa's letters to their mother. "I don't think it necessarily influenced his photography, but it was a wonderful experience for him to have as a photo student," she says.
Donohue cites a recent example from ICP's Triennial exhibition "A Different Kind of Order," which included an installation by Nayland Blake, founding chairperson of the ICP/Bard MFA program: "Nayland selected both works from the museum's permanent collection and invited submissions of 'zines from his MFA students, so the installation is a true melding of work being made at the moment and that has been preserved and collected curatorially."Collections curator Edward Earle has this insight about such a dynamic learning environment, "Everyone enters ICP thinking they know what photography is, and they leave with as many fresh questions as they do answers."
OF THE MOMENT: A view of ICP's recent Triennial exhibition "A Different Kind of Order," which includes a number of former ICP students. Block notes that the careers of many young photographers were formed at ICP before they came to the attention of ICP's curatorial team.© 2013 International Center of Photography, photo by Benjamin Jarosch
George Eastman House/Ryerson University
Leading Institutions in Photographic Preservation and Collections Management
Preserving the Past: PPCM masters students spend their second year working in the field. "That's the best way for them to learn, dealing with professionals on a day-to-day basis," says Burley. (Above) Vintage prints line the wall of a GEH classroom while a student views archival materials over a light box.
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As the world's oldest photography museum and one of the oldest film archives, the George Eastman House (GEH) International Museum of Photography and Film "has a very rich and long history of training professionals in the field," says Robert Burley, associate professor and former program director at Ryerson University's School of Image Arts in Toronto.GEH has been an essential resource for Ryerson students since the two institutions began working together in 1999. The second year of Ryerson's master's degree program in Photographic Preservation and Collections Management (PPCM) is spent in the field, and many master's candidates choose to complete their studies at Eastman House.
Ryerson's PPCM students spend their first year in Toronto, in classes that range from the examination of historical processes and research methods to learning about photographic collections and museum studies to chemistry classes, among many other options. After eight courses the first year and a summer internship at a collecting institution, students complete a second year of coursework and practicums in a real-world situation—either at Toronto-based
museums or GEH.
"We like to think of Eastman House as a teaching museum," says Jessica Johnston, GEH assistant curator (and a Ryerson PPCM graduate). "Students are embedded within the museum and get exposed to all facets of our operations, especially in the department of photographs. We generally work with between six and 16 students, so it's a very manageable group," she adds. All coursework is done at the museum, with students attending classes two to three times a week, as well as participating in institutional service opportunities (ISO).
The ISOs are one of the things that make this program special," Johnston explains. Coworkers in all areas of the museum are asked to submit details about projects needing completion that might be of interest to students. After compiling project descriptions in a binder for the students to choose from, they interview for preferred positions with the appropriate contact. "ISOs are beneficial on many levels," she adds. "They give students experience in working where their interests lie, they fill in blanks we can't always provide in courses and they allow students to practice interviewing in a museum setting."
In addition to the partnership with Ryerson, in 2012, GEH initiated an eight-month certificate program in collections management, modeled after an existing program at GEH's Selznick School of Film and Media Preservation. "We felt there are probably archivists, librarians or curators with advanced degrees who are missing in-depth education about how to care for and manage photographic collections," says Johnston. "The idea is that all these photo collections are going to increase in value, both academically and to society, and the desire to take care of them is going to become more pronounced."
The increasing importance of collections (and digital asset) management and related transformations in the medium of photography have also been central to Ryerson's PPCM master's program. Burley notes that while Ryerson's School of Image Arts has been in existence for more than 50 years, the PPCM program has been around only since 2004.
"We noticed that each year our undergraduate students in the photography studies program knew a little less about how physical, photo chemical images were created and a little more about the digital world," he explains. "We could see a new demand for graduates to take care of physical photographic collections, and at the same time, there was a whole new world opening up with digital collections. Digital technologies were not only starting to change the way photographs were being made, used and distributed, but they were really changing the nature of museums, how museums relate to their audiences and how they operate as educational institutions.
Although the PPCM program has a short track record, it is extremely successful. "Our students have found employment in a number of different kinds of jobs in museums, archives, libraries, private collections, education departments, working for private preservation/ appraisal companies and working in the digital area," says Burley. I think we have about an 85 percent employment rate in the field." He quotes former GEH program manager for PPCM and current curator-at-large Dr. Alison Nordström as saying, "'Our students come out of the program with a CV that looks like they've been working in the field for two years'—and that's useful," he adds.


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Hello! My name is Andrew Boehm (the kids all call me Mr. B as my last name is difficult to pronounce) and I'm the 4th Grade teacher here at Marysville school. I began here four years ago as a student teacher for Mrs. Chedester and Mrs. Chambers and I've learned heaps about myself through my experience teaching alongside the both of them. This is my first year teaching a grade level classroom after spending the previous two as the technology teacher here. I'm very excited to be a part of the Marysville team. After teaching overseas in Japan for a year in 2009, my passion for education lead me to pursue this as a career full time. As with any new teacher, some days are easier than others, but as a whole, I can't imagine myself teaching anywhere else.
This year we've covered a lot of material in class. Our schedule differs daily, but the mornings are usually spent with the kids working in Reading and Math block. After Math, we have an early lunch and recess, then it's back to work with Writing and one of our daily 'Specials' (Library, Art, Playworks, Technology), another chunk of Reading, some Number Corner, and finally Social Studies or Science.Friday's our afternoons are spent in Drama, Counseling, and P.E. back-to-back-to-back. Phew, that's a lot to cover! It's important your student comes to school on time, well rested, and ready to learn.
Reading homework for the week will be assigned on Mondays and will be due back on Friday. Math homework is more sporadic, but you can usually anticipate your student coming home with 2-3 math assignments per week. These assignments are expected to be completed the night they are assigned as many of the skills we want student's to gain through these assignments will be applied the following day in math. That being said, I know other things can get in the way of homework time, so as long as math homework assignments are completed and turned in by the Friday they are assigned then they will not be considered late.
In writing, we are currently working on creating Personal Narrative pieces. These are true stories based on events from the writer's life. Student's are asked to write about a topic that is important to them and to be sure to include such key elements as character & setting descriptions, dialogue, and sensory details. Our Personal Narratives should also contain a strong lead to get the reader really interested in our topic.
Social studies has been a fun time for the students. We have covered the basics of how to properly read and develop a map. Currently, students are learning about the geography of Oregon and creating their very own topographical maps. We will eventually discuss the Oregon Trail, but for now, laying the groundwork of the layout of Oregon is critical to future comprehension around the travels westward.
Art varies from week to week. We have worked on monochromatic art, self portraits, and recreations of classic art pieces just to name a few. Right now, we are in the midst of creating some wonderful 3-D pencil drawings which I'm excited to share on my walls in the upcoming weeks.
If you have any questions or concerns about the events in class, please feel free to email or call me at your convenience. I check my email regularly so that is the best way to get a hold of me after hours. I look forward to hearing from you!
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Apple's promised iOS4 update has been pushed out for the iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS and iPhone 3G. iOS 4.0.1 apparently "improves the formula to determine how many bars of signal strength to display," after Apple discovered they had been using the wrong calculations. Previewed earlier today in the iOS4.1 developer beta, the update is expected to make the iPhone's signal meter more accurate, but not address the hardware issue experienced by iPhone 4 owners where holding the smartphone in a certain way can significantly impair antenna performance.
Apple's solution for that remains to be seen; the company has arranged a press conference tomorrow morning at 10am PT - which we'll be liveblogging at http://live.slashgear.com/ - to discuss the iPhone 4, but given no hint as to what exactly they'll be covering. At least two analysts have suggested a hardware fix may be in the works.
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It's time to apply for CJSF. Using your grades from 4th quarter, you need 10 points when A's are worth 3 points and B's are worth 1. If you earned a B in an accelerated class, that would be worth 2 points. Remember that PE doesn't count in the totals. If you have ten points, find the application on our website, print it and fill it out. Complete your community service requirement and attach your letter. Then attach your report card and turn it in to Mr. Simms in room 16, Ms. E-L in room 21, or Mr. Smiley in room 22. You have until Friday, January 29th. If you have questions, see Mr. Simms, Ms. E-L, or Mr. Smiley.
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CJSF membership is open to all students who meet the eligibility requirements and submit their application to one of the CJSF advisers before the deadline. To be eligible, a student must:
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Captain John Smith Chesapeake National Historic Trail Advisory Council
Notice Of Meeting.
As required by the Federal Advisory Committee Act, the National Park Service (NPS) is hereby giving notice that the Advisory Committee on the Captain John Smith Chesapeake National Historic Trail will hold a meeting. Designated through an amendment to the National Trails System Act (16 U.S.C. 1241), the trail consists of "a series of water routes extending approximately 3,000 miles along the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries in the States of Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, and in the District of Columbia," tracing the 1607-1609 voyages of Captain John Smith to chart the land and waterways of the Chesapeake Bay. This meeting is open to the public. Preregistration is required for both public attendance and comment. Any individual who wishes to attend the meeting and/or participate in the public comment session should register via email at email@example.com or telephone: (757) 258-8914. For those wishing to make comments, please provide a written summary of your comments prior to the meeting. The Designated Federal Official for the Advisory Council is John Maounis, Superintendent, Captain John Smith National Historic Trail, telephone: (410) 260-2471.
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The Captain John Smith Chesapeake National Historic Trail Advisory Council will meet from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. on Wednesday, March 21, 2012.
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Christine Lucero, Partnership Coordinator for the Captain John Smith Chesapeake National Historic Trail, telephone: (757) 258-8914 or email: firstname.lastname@example.com.
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Under section 10(a)(2) of the Federal Advisory Committee Act (5 U.S.C. App.), this notice announces a meeting of the Captain John Smith Chesapeake National Historic Trail Advisory Council for the purpose of discussing a land protection strategy and to update the Council on implementation projects.
The Committee meeting is open to the public. Members of the public who would like to make comments to the Committee should preregister via email at email@example.com or telephone: (757) 258-8914; a written summary of comments should be provided prior to the meeting. Comments will be taken for 30 minutes at the end of the meeting (from 4 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.). Before including your address, telephone number, email address, or other personal indentifying information in your comment, you should be aware that your entire comment—including your personal identifying information—may be made publicly available at any time. While you can ask us in your comment to withhold your personal identifying information from public review, we cannot guarantee that we will be able to do so. All comments will be made part of the public record and will be electronically distributed to all Committee members.
Dated: February 23, 2012.
John Maounis,
Superintendent, Captain John Smith National Historic Trail, National Park Service, Department of the Interior.
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$25 Million Ad Campaign Sprints Online
Above, the new Crossroads GPS ad.
WASHINGTON– Attack ads must attack quickly in the ever-shortening news cycle.
That was apparent Friday when Crossroads GPS released a spot slamming President Barack Obama for a high unemployment rate at 9:49 a.m. – a whole 79 minutes after the data, showing the rate remained at 8.2%, became public.
"America's jobless rate is still too high," said the ad, the first of a $25 million effort the group is launching in nine swing states. The ads will air on television starting July 10.
Eager to get a jump on the news, well-funded campaign groups are now sometimes preparing multiple versions of TV ads before politically important events, releasing only the relevant version afterwards. Crossroads had actually produced two spots prior to Friday's jobs report. The other would have attacked Mr. Obama for causing the unemployment rate to go up, a Crossroads aide said.
Sometimes planning can only go so far.
Unsure of which way the Supreme Court would rule last week on Democrats' health-care law, Americans for Prosperity, a free-market advocacy group funded by the billionaire Koch brothers, produced and focus-group-tested three different ads.
But the group, like many others, did not foresee the court upholding the law under the government's taxing authority.
The three versions were scrapped, and in less than 24 hours AFP had released its latest TV spot, drawing on previous message-testing by the group.
"President Obama promised us his health care law is, 'absolutely not a tax increase,'" the ad said, quoting a TV interview by Mr. Obama. "Now we know that's not true."


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Dwyane Wade was unable to go in the Miami Heat's preseason opener against the Atlanta Hawks. The 30-year old guard has been recovering from arthroscopic knee surgery he had in the offseason. He hopes to be able to play in the team's exhibition game in China tomorrow, though.
According to Ira Winderman of the South Florida Sun Sentinel, Wade will attempt to play Thursday. She said an appearance by Wade would be particularly important since he just signed a deal with the Chinese shoe company Li-Ning. The most important thing for Wade, though, is getting back on the court to prepare for the regular season.
"If I continue to respond the way it is, and my trainers and doctors give me a go-ahead to play, I would love to get out there and at least play at least some minutes, try to get my conditioning."Wade battled through the left knee injury throughout the 2012 postseason. Despite the injury, Wade and the Miami Heat were able to fulfill their promise of bringing a championship to South Beach. The Heat beat the Oklahoma City Thunder in the Finals to take home the championship. Wade was clearly bothered by the knee in the Finals, but he managed to play through it.
In his career, Wade has averaged 25.2 points per game and 4.6 assists per game. He is a perennial All-Star and has already led the Heat to two championships in his time there. Last season, Wade averaged 22.1 points per game alongside LeBron James and Chris Bosh. His health will play a major role in the Heat's ability to defend their title this season. This team was built around Wade and built to compete for multiple championships, but injuries could derail that at any time.
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IDS Credits Clegg In Winning Welfare War With Osborne
It looks as though Iain Duncan Smith has won his battle with the Treasury on radical reform of the welfare system.
As The Times reported on Friday, a good many individual benefits are to be scrapped and replaced with two simple universal credits. The idea is to simplify the system and encourage work. After initial up-front costs it will, in theory, eventually deliver savings. The Treasury is sceptical of such reforms, fearing that simplification will increase claimant uptake and savings will not materialise.
I revealed in the summer that IDS and George Osborne had a stand-up row over the welfare budget, with a deal eventually being brokered in which IDS delivers cuts but gets to keep several billions for his reforms. The shape of those reforms will be announced at Tory conference next week.
Oliver Letwin has been the key number cruncher, but I hear that Duncan Smith's most important cabinet ally against Treasury opposition was Nick Clegg. The Deputy PM argued forcefully that if the cuts were being made then they might as well involve once in a generation large-scale reform and leave a legacy.
Another factor is that Clegg's chief of staff is Richard Reeves, formerly an aide to Frank Field. The former welfare minister under Tony Blair learnt what happens when radical reform at the start of a government is torpedoed by the Treasury. Field was stitched up by Gordon Brown and then abandoned by Blair, who had told him to think the unthinkable but then couldn't get the results past his Chancellor.
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Another photo from Pirinópolis, Goiás. Our group was just taking a break in some bar when I realized the white dobe flying from the roof in the direction of the beautiful little house in front of us and the contrast with blue sky would give me a beautiful shot! Technique information: Nikon D100 focal distance: 35 F: 11 Expo time: 1/320 s
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Cruise Safety, a Century After Titanic
My print column examines the statistics the cruise industry and its critics use to judge its safety, a century after the Titanic sank.
The key source for safety stats, cited by cruise trade groups, is GP Wild International Ltd., which conducts research and consulting in the cruise-ship industry, and has several major cruise lines as clients. The company collects reports of fatalities resulting from what it calls operational incidents, including collisions and fires but excluding people who drown after going overboard.
"We make the figures as comprehensive as we can but that isn't to say they are completely all-embracing," said Peter Wild, owner of Haywards Heath, U.K.-based GP Wild. "I think that's true with most figures, really."
Jim Walker, a Miami-based attorney who used to defend cruise operators but now represents passengers in lawsuits against the industry, criticizes the anecdotal nature of the GP Wild methodology. "My concern is, they're picking the stuff out of the newspaper, just like I am," said W Walker, who blogs about deaths and other negative incidents onboard ships at his website, Cruise Law News. "I don't pretend to be a statistician with a database. I'm just finding stuff randomly, and I think they are, too."
Meanwhile, the International Maritime Organization, a London-based United Nations agency that regulates the industry, collects some statistics, but they are incomplete, in part because many countries don't report their safety statistics to the IMO and the agency has no way to compel reporting. The current fuzzy state of IMO statistics can be seen in a report last September from the organization that tracks performance indicators for the maritime industry. It included death counts for all seafarers from both the IMO and from the maritime-research organization IHS Fairplay. The IMO counted 1,622 deaths in 2010 — more than six times the 250 deaths counted by IHS Fairplay.
Paul Clemenson, of IHS Fairplay, said the discrepancy arises because his company counts only casualties that occur in incidents that damage the vessel, while the IMO counts other casualties as well.
Even if there were a comprehensive database of cruise casualties, comparing it to other industries would involve lots of complications. The U.S. Bureau of Transportation Statistics records deaths and passenger-miles for other modes of transportation, but not cruise ships, because data aren't available. Yet even for these other modes of transport, BTS spokesman Dave Smallen cautions against making direct comparisons. For some forms of transportation, deaths after an accident are counted only if the person dies within 30 days, whereas for others the death can occur 365 days later. Plus, suicides — for example, on rail tracks — are counted.
There's also the question of whether to compile data for all ship passengers, or separate cruise-ship data. "If we're talking about passenger ships, it's all passenger ships," said Ross Klein, a sociologist at Memorial University of Newfoundland in St. John's, Newfoundland, who tracks cruise safety and crime statistics at his website, cruisejunkie.com.
However, Michael Crye, executive vice president at the Cruise Lines International Association, an industry group, said cruise ships are far safer than "a ferry boat operating in pick-a-third-world-country." He added, "I'm sorry, those aren't our ships."
There are other complicating factors. Everyone agrees that deaths from accidents should be included. But the cruise industry calls for excluding people who go overboard, which accounts for over 100 incidents of people dying or going missing since 2000, according to Klein; and from natural causes, even if they are related to an illness acquired on board. Crye said many of the overboard deaths are suicides, and says of deaths from illness that some cruise passengers "are of a demographic, where they are at the natural end of their lives." Controlling for age and health before getting on board a plane, train, automobile or cruise ship requires data that also aren't available.
Crye called into question Klein's overboard stats, saying, "We don't know where Mr. Klein gets his information and to our knowledge his figures have never been verified by a credible, independent third party." The cruise industry doesn't offer an alternative as it doesn't publish its own overboard count.
Walker, the lawyer and cruise critic, acknowledged the industry is far safer than it was in the time of the Titanic. How much safer, he said, isn't clear. "The number of incidents clearly are down over the course of a century, because of technological improvements in radar, sonar and underwater mapping. Ship construction is totally different. The likelihood of an incident is less than 100 years ago. The problem is that ships are so much larger now, and the industry has grown." Walker added, "You have an industry that won't talk numbers in an environment where there's no central database."
Further reading: The National Safety Council ranks modes of transportation by fatality rates in the U.S. Senate and House committees held hearings on cruise safety earlier this year. Last month CLIA called for the IMO to boost collection of safety statistics. Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty said in a recent report that one in 100 ships of all types were lost per year in 1912, compared to one in 670 in 2009.


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I´m 44 and have ridden bikes for 35 years. Currently own a 1997 Royalstar and a 1979 yamaha Ag in almost original condition with only 3000 klm on the clock. A few years ago I came accross an old Royal Enfield in a farmers shed. All he wanted was a carton of VB for it. I couldn´t resist. Later on (a couple of years) I sold it for $1000 sight unseen, as I knew deep down that I would never get around to restoring it. Still wish I had it though as it gave me a great deal of enjoyment just sitting in the shed. Every now and then i´d pull it out and show someone, then put it back. Great Stuff. In my job I have a lot of contact with local farmers, often visiting their farms. We all know what farmers are like, they never throw anything out. That´s where I see a lot of bikes left in the back of a shed. Particulary now that quads have come into vogue. Often the old bikes can be picked up for bargain prices.
1979 Yamaha AG 100
Bought this off a neighbour about three years ago. It has 3000 genuine klms on the clock. The only thing that it was missing was the indicators and front rack. I currently use it a couple of times a week checking fences, travelling between home and machinery on our property.
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U.S. Dist. Judge Rebecca B. Smith (E.D. Va., H.W. Bush) sentenced union boss Donnie L. Block on Sept. 6 to a year and a day in federal prison for embezzling more than $38,000 from the Bakery, Confectionery & Tobacco Workers Int'l Union Local 66 in Portsmouth, Va. Smith also was ordered Block to make full restitution. He was indicted for a $38,703 embezzlement in Sept. 2000 and pled guilty in May. Smith said she added the additional day to Block's sentence to ensure that he spends the time in a federal prison. Sentences less than twelve months are generally served in local jails. Block, who has been free on bond, is scheduled to report to prison within 60 days.
Donnie L. Block pled guilty May 14 to embezzling more than $38,000 from the Bakery, Confectionery & Tobacco Workers Int'l Union Local 66 in Portsmouth, Va. He served as the local's president since 1995 and was indicted for a $38,703 embezzlement on Sept. 20, 2000.
The Dep't of Labor's Office of Labor Mgmt. Stnds. found that Block embezzled dues paid through payroll deductions between 1997-98. He wrote and cashed more than 100 checks drawn on the local's bank account causing it to be overdrawn. Four checks, for almost $1,500, were cashed at a Las Vegas casino. He also wrote two checks to his wife, worth $700. Reportedly, the couple recently separated due to his gambling. U.S. Dist. Judge Rebecca Beach Smith allowed Block to remain free on bond until his Sept. 6 sentencing. He faces up to five years and a $250,000 fine. [Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk) 5/15/01]


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Nov. 8, 2004 to Nov. 8, 2004
pp: 19-25
Andrei Tsaregorodtsev , Centre de Physique des Particules de Marseille, France
Vincent Garonne , Centre de Physique des Particules de Marseille, France
Ian Stokes-Rees , University of Oxford, UK
DOI Bookmark: http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/GRID.2004.22
DIRAC (Distributed Infrastructure with Remote Agent Control) has been developed by the CERN LHCb physics experiment to facilitate large scale simulation and user analysis tasks spread across both grid and non-grid computing resources. It consists of a small set of distributed stateless Core Services, which are centrally managed, and Agents which are managed by each computing site. DIRAC utilizes concepts from existing distributed computing models to provide a lightweight, robust, and flexible system. This paper will discuss the architecture, performance, and implementation of the DIRAC system which has recently been used for an intensive physics simulation involving more than forty sites, 90 TB of data, and in excess of one thousand 1 GHz processor-years.
Andrei Tsaregorodtsev, Vincent Garonne, Ian Stokes-Rees, "DIRAC: A Scalable Lightweight Architecture for High Throughput Computing", GRID, 2004, Grid Computing, IEEE/ACM International Workshop on, Grid Computing, IEEE/ACM International Workshop on 2004, pp. 19-25, doi:10.1109/GRID.2004.22


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How many games will the Warriors win with Kevin Durant? Which teams will jump from the lottery to the playoffs? Kevin Pelton uses real plus-minus to project the 2016-17 records for every team.
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News 12 First at Five, Wednesday, July 11, 2012
AUGUSTA, Ga. -- Commissioner Alvin Mason's attorney says going to trial would be the worst thing in the world for his client accused of domestic abuse.
We first brought you the 911 call that landed commissioner Alvin Mason behind bars. He is now preparing to go before a judge on charges of battery-visible harm, simple assault, and simple battery.
"When do you think this will go to court?," we asked Mason's attorney Freddie Sanders. "I think it will be in the next 30 to 60 days. The state court judges recused themselves. All of them did."
There are new questions now about whether the case will hold up in court.
"If you ask me we don't have a case," said Sanders. "But if you ask the prosecutor, I guess it is what side you are on."
It turns out, Mason's wife Velma signed his consent of release form.
"I feel I am not in any danger based on my husband coming home," said Velma. "It would be best that we work our issues out at home."
"I didn't mean to make it sound like we are absolutely going to trial," said Sanders. "I always have in the back of mind something can be worked out. We can all reach some kind of agreement and try to get the family back together."
A team that originally called for a speedy trial is now questioning the need for a trial at all. This all comes after Velma Mason filed an official statement in court.
"My husband perceived that another family member was in potential physical harm and naturally intervened," Velma said. "During this intervention, emotions flared up and my husband displayed aggressive behavior toward me, his wife."
Velma goes on to say, "I believe my husband didn't intend to hurt me; I have never been afraid of my husband ... I prayerfully believe this type of behavior will not be conducted in our home again."
"It would be the worst thing in the world to have a man and a wife that are both good people down there testifying against each other," said Sanders.
Judge Jerry Daniels from Burke County State Court has been assigned to the case.


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Exalogic Virtual Tea Break Snippets - Scripted Template Generation from an existing vServer
By The Old Toxophilist on Feb 22, 2013
Note: This has been superseded by the Script described in the "Exalogic Virtual Tea Break Snippets – Simplified Exalogic IaaS Cli".
As part of your Exalogic Virtual environment you may want to build vServer that will be used, going forwards, as a template for future vServers. Currently the "Exalogic Elastic Cloud Administrator's Guide" has an appendix describing how this can be achieved using the OVMM interface. Based on internal A-Team work it is now possible to achieve this directly from a compute nodes command-line without accessing OVMM.
As a result of this I have built the script below that will take
the files associated with a "Stopped" vServer and converts them to
a template.
For this templating process to work the script will need to be
executed on a machine with access to the /OVS/Repositories/*
directories and this means running directly on one of the Compute
Nodes (I generally run it on Compute Node 1).
Because of the space and resource limitations of the Compute Node
(minimal OS) we will need to create a and mount a Share from the
internal ZFS to save the working files and ultimately the
Template. To this end the script will take a number of parameters
that will specification of these directories. If these are not
specified the script assumes we have the ZFS /export/common/images
mounted on /u01/common/images.
As can been seen from the Usage section below the script only
mandates the Name of the vServer to be copied but assumes that the
user has stopped the vServer previously. Once the template has
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1Relating to or situated near the anus: the anal sphincter
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- It is girdled by the external anal sphincter, a striated muscle structure that is part of the pelvic floor musculature.
- The diagnosis is made by examining the anus and anal canal, and it is important to exclude more serious causes of bleeding, such as colorectal cancer.
1.1 Psychoanalysis (In Freudian theory) relating to or denoting a stage of infantile psychosexual development in which defecation is the major source of sensuous pleasure and the anus forms the centre of self-awareness.
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- It could be demonstrated that creative thinking in science is closely connected with a specific reparation mechanism common in the anal stage of development.
- Or we can think of the anal stage of development as an attempt to control biological urges with the new surging power of symbolic meaning and mastery.
- On the psychic level, as I have tried to demonstrate by analyzing the central joke as if it were a highly condensed, overdetermined dream image, it involves a regression to the anal stage.
1.2 informal Anal-retentive: he's anal about things like that
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- As with other aspects of my life, I'm capable of being rather anal about pleasure: I will go here, I will do such-and such, with so-and-so, and I will enjoy myself.
- We all know about wishful thinking, about denial and defence mechanisms, repression, narcissism, Freudian slips and the anal personality.
- I am simply not anal or autistic enough to beat the people who really love this game.
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- I've always been this sort of person who thinks ahead, anally breaking the years up into three or four year segments and thinking about what each segment would contain, I would compartmentalise my life into challenges.
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Abilene man, 27, jailed on possession of child pornography charges
ABILENE, Texas - A 27-year-old Abilene man faces felony charges for allegedly downloading child pornography.
Clifford Marquez was arrested Monday night after a tipster reported him after child porn was found on his girlfriend's computer, police said.
According to police, Marquez allegedly admitted to downloading and collecting hundreds of images.
Marquez is being held in lieu of $5,000 bond in Taylor County Jail on 3rd-degree felony possession of child pornography charges.


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What's The London Silver Fix, And Why's It Going Away?
The fix is off.
London Silver Fixing Limited, the company that runs the silver benchmarking process known as the London silver fix, has said it will cease from August 14, ending a practice that goes back 117 years.
So just what is this fix, and why is such a venerable City of London institution about to call it a day?
What is the silver fix?
It's a daily price benchmark for the silver spot market. The fix is set during a conference call at noon London time between Deutsche Bank, HSBC and Bank of Nova Scotia. During the call, the banks exchange bids and offers for silver on behalf of themselves and their clients, declaring the price 'fixed' when supply and demand is equal at a certain price.
So why is that important? Isn't silver traded constantly on the spot market?
Sure, but since spot silver is traded 24 hours a day, the daily fix provides a snapshot of prices that industry participants can use to price deals. While some traders prefer the volatility of a constantly-moving spot price, larger players like miners and industrial consumers, which buy and sell in bulk, prefer to execute their deals on a set daily price.
Well that seems pretty crucial. Why is it being stopped?
Because in April Deutsche Bank resigned from the silver panel, and also a similar panel that sets the benchmark price of gold, leaving just HSBC and the Bank of Nova Scotia. This is a situation that both banks deemed nonviable, a person familiar with the matter said (there's been a lot of scrutiny of price-setting lately) and they resigned their own seats. Deutsche Bank resigned as part of a wider withdrawal from the commodities business.
What does that mean for silver buyers and sellers?
Unless a new system is established, buyers and sellers will either need to price their deals on the moving spot silver price, or use another daily benchmark such as the silver futures closing price on the U.S. Comex exchange.
What happens now?
Well, the three banks will continue to publish the fix up to and including August 14 2014. Beyond that, no-one is really sure.
A consultation process will take place to explore possible alternatives. The Bullion Market Association, an industry body, has said it will work to ensure the London silver market continues to work. The silver market is entering unknown territory.


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Remember the angry fans that created a petition and then darkened several screenshots to their liking? Well one gaming blog managed to sit down with the lead designer of Diablo III, Jay Wilson. At which point they showed him the altered screenshots to get his thoughts on them.
He took each one and broke down exactly why it couldn't be put into a game. Essentially he pointed out that in the end they were just pretty pictures and wouldn't actually work in a game. Partially because it would make it much harder to see the monsters you're fighting.
He did state that there will be no rainbows in Diablo III, so at least they got that much. You can see the full break down of his thoughts here and if you're curious about a particular screenshot, he addresses each one individually.
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West Virginia Chemical Spill Claims Trickling In
When Freedom Industries Inc. sought Chapter 11 protection shortly after chemicals leaked from its storage tank into a river, it was expected to face an onslaught of bankruptcy claims from the 300,000 some West Virginians whose water supply was contaminated as a result of the spill.
But the deluge never happened. As of July 3, just 70 claims were on file in Freedom's bankruptcy case, court papers show, despite a broad campaign to advertise the Aug. 1 deadline by which individuals and businesses affected by the spill must stake their claims for compensation from Freedom, which has shut down since entering Chapter 11.
With the deadline fast approaching, the Charleston, W.Va., bankruptcy court this week authorized additional advertisements targeting the areas hit hardest by the spill—the West Virginia counties of Kanawha, Boone and Putnam.
James W. Lane Jr., as the court-appointed official in charge of gathering claims, will lead the charge. In court papers, he said he plans to not only continue advertising in local newspapers, at a cost of up to $5,000 but also hit the radio waves. He's aiming to broadcast 30-second ads with information on how to file claims, with 60 ads running per week for two to three weeks at a cost of up to $5,300.
Mr. Lane is also turning to a more modern medium to get the word out—Facebook. He recently started a page on the social-networking site called "Freedom Bankruptcy Claims" to notify people of the deadline and provide other relevant information. (As of 11 a.m. CDT Thursday, the page has 64 likes.) He also proposed spending up to $500 on Facebook ads if such a strategy "appears to have merit and bring results."
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> I've been using XGetImage to capture screenshots, at the moment saving
> them to xpm files. I'm having two problems though:
> 1. It's very slow and freezes my system for a few seconds.
Use XShmGetImage instead of XGetImage.
> 2. On the unmap the XGetImage doesn't take a screenshot until after
> the window has been unmapped, so I just get an image of what was
> behind it. Similarly, if I try it on the map event then I seem to
> catch it in the middle of painting the window.
You're a bit vague on where these events are originating, and how you
are capturing them. I'm going to assume your program requests events
on various windows using XSelectInput(), and attempts to take a
screenshot when an UnmapNotify event is received. This, as you have
seen, will not work. This is because the X server generates the event
after the window has already been unmapped. Similarly, a MapNotify
event is generated immediately when a window is mapped, typically
followed by an Expose event. When the client responsible for the
window receives the Expose event, it will (typically) redraw the
contents. You have no way of knowing when the client is finished with
this (which could be never, in the case of an animation).
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Disney stock is extremely cheap
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third-quarter earnings report, expected out before the market opens
The Street is looking for GM to report earnings of 96 cents per
share on revenue of $36.66 billion. GM posted earnings of $1.54
reported last quarter, and $1.20 for the same period last year.
Through the quarter, shares moved 33.5 percent lower to $20.18.
Shares are 23.5 percent better since the end of the quarter, but 32
percent lower in 2011. GM has traded in a range of $19.05 to $39.48
over the last 52-week time frame.
Last quarter, GM reported a book value of $20.47 per share and cash
of $20.98 per share. From a valuation standpoint, GM is going for
about 5.8x next years earnings, compared with 7x for Ford Motor (
) and 14.3x for Toyota (
Data from Bloomberg has 16 analysts with a Buy on the stock, five
at Hold, and none suggesting to Sell. The Street price target
average is $37.50, with a low of $24 and high of $43.
U.S. auto sales through the quarter: 7.6 percent risen in July, 18
percent in August, and 20 percent in September. Investors might
want to heed some caution, however, as October sales saw just a 1.7
percent increase.
On the other hand, reports Tuesday suggest CEO Dan Akerson is
aiming to improve GM's margins significantly through cost cuts,
amid some of the best financial reporting GM has produced in over
20 years. With 6 percent margins, one analyst commented, GM leads
only Toyota, Renault SA and PSA Peugeot Citroen. Peers Ford and
Volkswagen boast margins at 7 percent or better.
One way GM plans to do this is reducing the number of vehicle
architectures. From 30 designs right now, GM would like that to
move closer to 14 by 2018 through the building of more high-volume
vehicles with the same frame. Also, GM hopes to reduce the number
of engines used in its vehicles. It cut that number from 20 to 16
in 2009, and would like to hit just 10 by 2018.
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Report: MoneyGram staying public after buyout talks fail
In June, there were rumors that Dallas-based money transfer company MoneyGram International was considering a sale.
Then such speculation went quiet.
Citing three sources familiar with the matters, Reuters is reporting today that the company will "remain public after talks with private equity firms over a leveraged buyout did not result in an offer in line with its expectations."
According to Reuters, MoneyGram was in final stage talks with Carlyle Group, one of the largest private equity firms based in Washington D.C. One source told Reuters that MoneyGram's board was hoping for an offer in the mid-$20-per-share range.
MoneyGram shares are trading down at around $18.97 this afternoon.
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