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Tracking the Storm: Analysis
-- The Carolina Hurricanes threw just about everything they could at Philipp Grubauer, but the Washington Capitals came out on top in the third meeting between the two division rivals this season, 4-2. Jordan Staal and Riley Nash found the back of the net for the Canes, but Grubauer's 39 saves plus the Capital's three power-play goals were the difference. "I thought we played a pretty solid game. We had a lot of chances, but we couldn't just get the one we needed at the right time," forward Jeff Skinner said. "He (Grubauer) made big saves for them. We just couldn't put one by him at the right time, especially down the stretch we had some real good looks."
-- Grubauer's body of work was arguably most impressive in the first and third periods. The Canes had a 1-0 lead after 20 minutes, but it easily could have been three times that with quality scoring opportunities from Skinner on a breakaway and Staal with a partial break, among others. Down the stretch, a shot from Alexander Semin beat Grubauer but slid just wide of the net, coming inches from a tied game. "He made big saves," head coach Kirk Muller said. "We had quality opportunities – breakaways, shots in close. We had enough chances to score, but he did the job."
-- Five-on-five, the Canes put forth one of their strongest efforts this season. They outshot the Caps 27-17 in five-on-five play and 41-29 overall. "Our guys right from that road trip on have been playing hockey like this," Muller said. "I thought we sustained a lot of pressure. We moved the puck well, we got great scoring opportunities, we played well defensively and we didn't give up much. Overall, 5-on-5, I've got to be pretty pleased with the overall effort of our hockey club."
-- More times than not, that kind of even-strength effort would result in two points for the Canes. Instead, tonight they only managed one five-on-five goal, a blocker-side finish from Staal after a beauty of a one-touch pass from Alexander Semin. "We had the chances that could have made a big difference right there," Muller said. "When you're generating that much and playing well defensively, we've got the guys and personnel, the goals will come. It just didn't happen tonight."
-- Special teams, then, was the difference tonight. All three of the Caps goals were scored on the power play (3-for-4); on the other side of the spectrum, the Canes were 1-for-5 on the man advantage. "Five-on-five, we were all over them," Staal said. "We were the better team five-on-five, but three power-play goals, you can't let that happen. That's not good enough, and that's how you lose games."
-- Muller on special teams: "They have a potent power play, and obviously it was a big difference tonight," Muller said. "They made us pay for it. We had opportunities too. We just fell short."
-- Muller said he was acting on a gut feeling this morning in deciding to put Cam Ward in net. Ward made 25 saves on 28 shots. At the end of the day, it's tough to hang three power-play goals on the goaltender alone. "He battled through it. At the end of the day, we didn't win the hockey game," Muller said. "But, five-on-five, he made some big saves. The power play was really the difference tonight."
-- Some random tidbits: The Canes' lone PP tally came off the stick of Nash, his first-career power-play goal. It was a simple play, as Andrej Sekera sent a puck toward the net, and Nash was there to clean up the rebound. … Sekera led the Canes with 26:19 of ice time, his second-highest total of the season. He logged 6:36 on the power play and 3:20 shorthanded. Muller called him the team's MVP this morning. … That was the Canes' first regulation loss this season when scoring first; they were 7-0-2 coming into tonight when notching the opening goal. … The Canes are now 1-3 in their black third uniforms this season, the lone victory coming Nov. 7 against the Islanders.
-- Tonight's loss widens the gap between the Capitals, who sit in second place in the Metropolitan Division with 41 points, and the Canes, who are just outside of the playoff picture with 35 points. Carolina is back in action on Saturday in Tampa Bay. "Our guys have been really resilient," Muller said. "You're not always going to get the outcome you want, but we've been battling like this for a while, picking up points here and there. Over time, if you keep playing like that, the results are generally in your favor. We're playing good hockey. We just have to find ways to pick up points."
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RALEIGH, N.C. -- Alex Ovechkin scored his 400th career goal into an empty net to seal the Washington Capitals' 4-2 win against the Carolina Hurricanes at PNC Arena on Friday.
The Capitals' second-ranked power play struck for three goals in the second period. Marcus Johansson, John Carlson and Troy Brouwer scored with the man advantage.
Ovechkin became the 89th player in NHL history to score 400 goals when he put the puck into the empty net with 24.5 seconds remaining.
Capitals rookie goaltender Philipp Grubauer made 39 saves, improving his record to 4-0-1. He made several stops when Washington held off a Hurricanes power play that began with 4:50 left in the third to preserve the win.
Trailing 1-0 heading into the second period, Washington's power play went to work. With Eric Staal's high-sticking penalty carrying over from the first period, Johansson pounded home the rebound of Nicklas Backstrom's shot 41 seconds into the period.
Carlson made it 2-1 with another power-play goal at 8:34, blasting a knuckling shot from the middle point.
The Hurricanes tied it 2-2 with a 5-on-4 of their own less than three minutes later when Riley Nash cleaned up the rebound of Andrej Sekera's wrister. It was Nash's first career power-play goal.
Washington claimed the lead again on its third straight power-play goal. Mike Green broke his stick on a shot from inside the blue line, and Brouwer got a piece of it on the way through the slot to deflect it past Carolina goalie Cam Ward at 14:11.
Backstrom assisted on all three goals, lifting him into a tie for the NHL lead with 32. He leads the League in power-play assists with 21. He has two goals and 13 points on his current five-game point streak.
After generating a half-dozen quality scoring chances in the first period, Jordan Staal scored his eighth of the season with 3:28 remaining to start the scoring. Staal took Alexander Semin's touch pass from the neutral zone and skated into the right circle before beating Grubauer over the blocker.
Grubauer had to be sharp throughout the first 20 minutes. He fended off Jeff Skinner on a breakaway early in the period, then stopped Jordan Staal 13 seconds later on a forehand from the slot. The Hurricanes outshot the Capitals 13-10 in the first and 41-29 for the game.
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by Laurie Halse Anderson
Speak Chapter 88 Summary
- On Monday, there is much prom gossip. Apparently, there was massive prom drama. At least nobody died this year.
- Heather's prom decorations were awful, which is probably why she isn't at school.
- Rachel is doing just fine though.
- Andy Evans tried to dirty dance her at the prom and she almost slapped him.
- Andy got drunk and slept with his face in a bowl of dip.
- Rachel gave Andy back all his gifts, but in the form of ashes.
- Andy's friends think he's a joke.
- Only two more weeks and school is out.
- Melinda hopes that adulthood is worth the torture of high school.

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At Last! Winners!
What the Toy Camera Contest Is
The Toy Camera Contest celebrates -- you guessed it -- Toy Cameras, the cheap and cheesy little cameras with low end specs and intriguing results. We encourage all amateur and professional photographers to enter this contest, and you may enter as often as you wish. Entries are accepted from April 24, 2006 until
June 15, 2006 June 22, 2006 at midnight, Pacific Standard Time. And like any proper contest, there are rules, judges, and prizes.
The Rules
Subject Matter: The subject matter criteria for the Toy Camera Contest are the same as for any submissions to FILE magazine; if you are unfamiliar with these, refer to the Submissions page for details.
Acceptable Toy Camera Images: Only images shot with a "Toy Camera" will be considered. What is a Toy Camera? The following definition (cheerfully ganked from the Wikipedia) may help:
Toy cameras are simple, inexpensive film box cameras made almost entirely out of plastic, often including the lens. The term is misleading, since they are not 'toys' in the sense that these cameras are actually capable of taking photographs. Many were made to be given away as novelties or prizes. The Diana, an inexpensive 1960s 4x4cm novelty box camera from Hong Kong, is typically the camera most associated with the term 'toy camera'. Other cameras, such as the Lomo LC-A, Lubitel, and Holga, while originally intended as consumer, mass-market cameras, have also become identified with the term.
The list above is far from exhaustive; for example, there are also a bunch of other models whose names were pulled from a list of rejected Girl Scout Cookie names: Dories, Debonairs, Banners, Snappys, and Yunons. Whatever the camera's whismical name is, the only rule in this contest is that the images must be shot using a Toy Camera. We are working on the honor system here, folks, but if we suspect any tomfoolery, we reserve the right to ask for proof of compliance, and if not satisfied, we will disqualify an image. To check out some examples of Toy Camera photography, use the Search FILE feature (type in the keyword Toy Camera), or check out ToyCamera.com, a web site devoted to the genre.
How to Submit: Use the Submission form (select "Toy Camera" in the Project drop-down list and enter the camera type with the Title) to upload a file, or use the Feedback form to send a URL that directly links to your image(s).
~ Images are .jpg files that are less than 200k, and that they are at least 700px at their widest point.
~ Submissions have a name or pseudonym and an e-mail address.
~ Submissions include the type of camera used.
Jim Coudal
Jim Coudal is a designer and a principle in Coudal Partners, a design, advertising and interactive studio in Chicago.
Kevin German
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Marshall Sokoloff
Marshall Sokoloff is a photographer living in Toronto. His work can be seen on his web site, Blurbism.
Troy Dalton
Troy Dalton is a Northern California figurative painter who studied with Wayne Theibaud and Bob Arneson.
Sam Javanrouh
Sam Javanrouh lives in Toronto, where he works at a visual effects and animation company and runs an acclaimed photoblog.
Greg Storey
Greg Storey is a designer living in Orange County, California and who runs the amusing and occasionally cranky weblog, Airbag.
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Wil Wheaton to MRAs: You're idiots. MRAs: Yeah, well, you're a mangina! And women actually like you! And your narration is bad!
So the Men's Rights movement has faced some setbacks in the past. The Southern Poverty Law Center profiling them as a movement filled with hate (if not literally a hate group by the SPLC's strict definition). Events that literally no one showed up to. Paul Elam.
But MRAs have never faced anything quite like this.
Wil Wheaton — yes, that Wil Wheaton, the one who was on Star Trek TNG — has stated publicly that he thinks they're a bunch of idiots:
Naturally, this tweet has the fellas in the Men's Rights subreddit feeling hurt and angry. Well, they always feel hurt and angry, so I guess I mean they feel even more hurt and angry than usual, with a lot of this hurt and anger directed in a Wil-Wheatony direction.
Here are some of their comments. I don't really have any jokes to make about them because, I mean, just read them. I can't top this sort of ridiculousness.
Click on the individual comments to see them in context on Reddit. Oh, and note that this comment at the top has MORE THAN ONE HUNDRED UPVOTES.
Wait. What is "hanglowstankin?" Oh, never mind.
Also, I would bet a mint-in-box Wesley Crusher action figure that Wheaton didn't call you guys "idiots" because he wanted to pander to "pussy" but rather because you are the sorts of guys who routinely refer to women as "pussy."
But Wil had one defender amongst the Men's Rightsers:
EDIT: H/T to the AgainstMensRighters for pointing me to this.
Posted on January 21, 2014, in antifeminism, are these guys 12 years old?, boner rage, evil wives, evil women, hypergamy, irony alert, manginas, men who should not ever be with women ever, misogyny, MRA, one hundred upvotes, oppressed men, reddit, twitter and tagged anti-feminism, antifeminism, men's rights, misogyny, MRA, reddit, wil wheaton. Bookmark the permalink. 379 Comments.
The issue with life expectancy is that it is an average, and so the longer one lives, the longer one is expected to live, because mortality sources and associated probabilities change with age. And if you live to be 75, then clearly you didn't die at a younger age. But this is a mathematical argument and I don't expect many MRAs to be able to understand it.
And, of course, shorter male life expectancy has *nothing* to do with the choices that males make that place them in greater harm's way from avoidable causes of death: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1781916/
One of the interesting conclusions:
These findings suggest that violence and use of firearms, as well as drug and alcohol use, are important contributors to the sex difference in mortality and that public health efforts targeting these factors could dramatically close the sex gap in life expectancy. Men are much more likely than women to use drugs and alcohol and approximately 75% of homicides are related to the use of drugs or alcohol or the selling of illicit drugs. Furthermore, about half of all deaths from motor vehicle accidents among men are related to the use of alcohol, compared to 33% among women. Although women are almost twice as likely to be diagnosed with major depression and three times more likely to attempt suicide than men, men are more likely to successfully commit suicide. This difference occurs partly because men are more likely to use effective methods such as firearms or hanging, and tend to use drugs and alcohol, which increase impulsive behavior.
My mourning period over losing Kitt was very brief.
I am a little taken aback that someone from Germany throws around the term "fascist" as an insult so easily. It's not surprising when a lunkheaded American with no historical knowledge uses terms like fascist and nazi because they have no sense of the real history and import of those words. You'd think a German would know better, but Kitt was dolt and I guess that countered any cultural awareness.
Since BB69 has flounced, I'd like to point to one of his earlier posts.
buttboy69 on January 21, 2014 at 7:44 pm
I post at r/mensrights. I don't believe in so-called "male privilege" at all. But yes, even though I post at r/mr, I recognize that the benefits associated with being female are ultimately minor when stacked up against money.
He hates when people discuss other social oppressions on tumblr (and here) but he hangs on a board where a bunch of guys complain about how gendered oppression either ruined, or in the future will ruin, their lives. That makes a ton of sense.
Oh wow, that was some cute ideas about how class trumps anything.
Gee, it's not like I became poor due to mental illness snowballing into disability into unemployment into homelessness or anything. And I'm sure those things had nothing to do with my being trans! (Though that's complicated and massively subsumed in the multi.)
Nope, class doesn't interact with ANYTHING.
What a priceless little wanker.
And body hair standards too.
It would be extra funny if the Constitution era woman these guys suddenly found on their doorstep was Abigail Adams.
I freakin love Wil even more now!!


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The Morning Leverage: Ardian Raises Largest-Ever Secondary Pool
From this morning's LBO Wire:
Olympus Partners is taking the North American operations of Pregis Corp. off of AEA Investors' hands. Amy Or reports that Olympus, which typically targets investments from $20 million for growth capital deals to $300 million or more for buyouts, agreed to buy the business in a transaction that is expected to be completed by the end of May. AEA will continue to own Pregis's European operations once the deal with Olympus is complete.
More stories available to LBO Wire subscribers: Henry Cornell, a former vice chairman of Goldman Sachs Group's merchant banking division, raises $921 million for a private equity fund called Cornell Capital Special Situations Partners I LP…Omnicare plans to sell its medication management operations that cater to hospice and palliative care…and Apollo Global Management emerges as the winning bidder for the assets of party goods supplier Event Rentals.
(LBO Wire is a daily newsletter with comprehensive analysis of all the investments, deals, fundraisings and personnel moves involving private equity firms. For a two-week trial, visit our homepage, scroll to the bottom and click "try for free.")
Elsewhere on the Web:
Ardian, the former private equity unit of French insurer AXA, has raised $9 billion for secondary investments in existing buyout funds, Ryan Dezember reports for The Wall Street Journal.
Chinese pork producer WH Group delayed its Hong Kong initial public offering and reduced its size by more than half, Ned Levin and P.R. Venkat report for the Journal. The company, backed by Shanghai-based buyout firm CDH investments, the private equity arm of Goldman Sachs and Singapore state investment firm Temasek Holdings, seeks to raise $1.34 billion to $1.88 billion, according to a term sheet, which is well below the $3.8 billion to $5.3 billion originally planned. The Journal reported yesterday that WH Group was planning just such a reduction in its IPO price range.
Shares in Japanese hotel and railway operator Seibu Holdings closed 11% above their initial offering price, Atsuko Fukase reports for the Journal. Due to a lower-than-expected IPO price, Cerberus Capital Management had earlier reversed an initial decision to sell 15.5% of Seibu's shares. The U.S. private equity investor will continue to hold its 35.4% stake.
Risk Capital Partners-backed coffee chain Patisserie Holdings has joined the list of companies seeking to list on the London Stock Exchange's AIM market, just a day after private equity firms Inflexion and LDC outlined their plans to list National Accident Holdings, Dan Dunkley and Ian Walker report at LBO Wire's U.K. sister publication Private Equity News (subscription required).
Pacific Equity Partners may have raised as much as 3.1 billion Australian dollars ($2.88 billion) for its fifth fund, Business Spectator's Data Room reports via the Australian.
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As you read and watch the news, it can be easy to forget that it is brought to you each day by real people, who have real lives and face real challenges.
With its cast of characters and the daily decisions they all need to make, working in a newsroom rarely has a dull moment. That being said, however, the evening of Friday, June 29, was shaping up to be a pretty average one. By about 9:45 p.m., we only had a few pages left to compile and all the articles that were scheduled to go into the Saturday edition had been filed. I was looking forward to smooth sailing into the weekend.
The rain had begun to pour and the wind was howling outside the window next to my desk, but the only concern I had was that it would clear up enough to allow me to make the five-hour drive home that evening. I had plans for the weekend, and a little rough weather wasn't going to stop them.
But suddenly, in a flash, everything changed - and my plans for the next 24 hours were drastically altered.
The lights cut out in the newsroom and the six of us inside were plunged into darkness. I've been through plenty of power outages at newspapers in the past, though, and I was sure this would be no different from the others: a short bit of downtime, and then we could resume working toward our midnight deadline.
It wasn't long before we all realized that wouldn't be the case.
That midnight deadline came and went without any sign of power restoration. I had made calls to FirstEnergy that hadn't given us any hope for a speedy response, and calls to local emergency officials that confirmed the magnitude of the storm reached far beyond our walls.
With thoughts toward the tens of thousands of people in our area who'd battened down the hatches and were in need of updates, we worked together throughout the night to try to provide them. Our cellphones died one by one, but we continued to make calls and search for news online that we could upload to The Journal's Facebook page. Our staff photographer Ron Agnir and sports editor Rick Kozlowski ventured out into the storm to take photos and write about the disaster zone they witnessed.
Any newspaper editor will tell you the same thing - no matter what circumstances, the paper has to print. So when the sun rose over Martinsburg after a long, dark night and there still was no newspaper for that morning, my distress level rose higher. I just had to hope that, in the wake of the storm, our readers would understand. I had nothing else to fall back on.
We finally got up and running - sort of - on generator power just after 10 a.m. Saturday. I worked with three others in a makeshift newsroom under one hanging light in the creative services department in the basement of our building for about two hours to finish up Saturday's paper, which was printed in Winchester.
Immediately after finishing Saturday's paper, we had to start working on Sunday's paper, which was to be printed in Altoona and needed to go on an early deadline to get out before the Altoona Mirror's scheduled run. Playing musical chairs between the three computers that were connected to the generator in our "bunker," we put that paper together in record time - two reporters, two paginators, a proofreader and I. Finally, at about 7:30 p.m. Saturday, the last pages were on a thumb drive ready to be sent to Altoona and the ordeal - in my case, a 32-hour "workday" - was over.
The power at The Journal offices was restored at some point overnight between Saturday and Sunday. (I don't know exactly when it came back. I was in my apartment in the middle of the best 11 hours of sleep I've ever had.) We were able to return to our regular schedule for the Monday paper - able to better turn our focus toward the plight of the thousands of local residents who remained without their power for days.
Were those Saturday and Sunday papers perfect? No. But they got made, and whenever people received them (I understand there were some who didn't get their Saturday papers until Sunday morning), we hope they appreciated the hard work and dedication that went into producing them.
The employees who were here Friday night into Saturday morning deserve special credit for their dedication during the outage: Kozlowski and Agnir; copy editors Justin Griffin and Drew Temple; and Brandon Brown of the sports department. The guys who took unexpected phone calls on Saturday and came in early to help out also should be recognized: proofreader Jamie West and Eric Jones of the sports department. Our reporters who worked that Saturday, John McVey and Rachel Molenda, also did a great job changing their plans on the fly, getting out into the community to report on the damage, and typing their stories up quickly under great pressure in our "war room."
Throughout the night, morning, day and evening, I went through alternating feelings about the situation. At times, I had rushes of adrenaline and clearly comprehended how valuable of an experience this was for our staff, myself included. At other times, I just put my head down on the nearest desk and wished for an end to the nightmare.
I know, though, that our inconvenience and day filled with stress was nothing compared to what so many others in our community faced - no power for days, refrigerators full of spoiled food, thousands of dollars' worth of structure damage, etc. And that's where people who work in news once again need to detach and look at the bigger picture, beyond their own roadblocks in the process, and do the job of disseminating information. I am very proud of everyone here at The Journal who did just that last weekend.
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Oh, she is surely going to pay for that. Wait until she goes even one further ..... Penelope Soto finds out what happens when you flip the bird to the judge.
Penelope Soto, who was arrested for possession of Xanax, got 30 days in jail after she gave the finger to Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Jorge Rodriguez-Chomat on Monday (video below).
When Soto was asked about her assets, including her jewelry, during the hearing, she laughed
"It's not a joke, you know, we're not in a club now," Judge Rodriguez-Chomat scolded her. "We are not in a club, be serious about it."
"I'm serious about it, you just made me laugh," Soto answered. "You just made me laugh, I apologize. It's worth a lot of money... Like Rick Ross. It's worth money."
Judge Rodriguez-Chomat asked Soto if she had taken any drugs in the past 24 hours, which she denied.
Judge Rodriguez-Chomat then set Soto's bond at $5,000 and said "bye, bye."
In response, Soto laughed and replied "Adios."
Judge Rodriguez-Chomat called Soto back and reset her bond at $10,000, to which Soto replied: "Are you serious?"
Soto walked away, gave the finger to Judge Rodriguez-Chomat and said: "[expletive] you."
Judge Rodriguez-Chomat called Soto back again and gave her a 30-day jail sentence for contempt of court.
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Posted: Tue Oct 14, 2008 8:02 pm
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Haha certainly put it in the wrong place what is wrong with me???
Thanks for advice ladies, I will keep and eye out for a cold, there is one going around the family so could be on its way. I don't even want to think about her putting things up her nose, its bad enough trying to keep things out her mouth!!!
Posted: Tue Oct 14, 2008 8:37 pm
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She still has milk in the morning and before bed so maybe that. Her nana asked me the other day if she had been eating something with garlic in it because she smelled of it, she hadn't though. Its weird! Knowing Olivia she has probably pinched something and taken it back to her cave to hide so I don't know she's got something


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When he wasn't training for training for his title fight against Julio Cesar Chavez, Jr . this summer, Sergio Martinez spent most of the time badmouthing his Mexican rival. But less than a week after defeating Chavez to take the title from the Mexican, Martinez had kinder words for his rival in light of a reported failed drug test following the fight.
"I hope it was a misunderstanding," Martinez said, in response to a question about Chavez testing positive for marijuana .
"I hope that if they re-test him it gives a negative result, and that it doesn't affect a future rematch," he added.
Still, Martinez said that anytime there was a failed drug test it was a black-eye for the sport.
"It's very sad when an athlete tests positive for doping, whatever it is he has consumed. We have to set an example," he said.


text: Chris Algieri talked about the negotiations for his Nov. 22 showdown with Manny Pacquiao in Macau and analyzes the style matchup with the Filipino hero during a media roundtable. "He's never fought a guy as large as me who is athletic," Algieri said. "Guys who move, guys who have angles, guys who are stylish boxers give him trouble."


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Excessive crop loss due to fruit-drop can greatly reduce profitability of certain orchard operations. A commercialized natural growth regulator product, AVG (ReTain), was reaffirmed to possess potential for reducing nut-drop of 'Desirable' pecan; thus, potentially increasing yield in 'Off' crop-load years. The research found that a single application of a half rate of AVG was as effective as a full rate; thus, potentially reducing the cost of AVG application in their efforts to improve nutmeat yield in 'Off bearing years. Additional details of research can be found in the report of parent project 6606-21220-009-00D, Pecan Cultivation and Disease Management.


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Kushti Bok means good luck in Romany. We chose the name to reflect our objectives to support and encourage people within our communities to overcome discrimination, isolation and stigma.
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So, after three Saturdays of poetry events in a row, I thought I'd share a few insights that may be common knowledge to you; but if they're not, I hope they're helpful.
– Open-mics are tough. Envy the slam poet and performance poet for their ease at standing up there, doing their thing. The trade-off is that they spend however many hours carefully crafting pieces meant to be said aloud, memorizing the lines, and practicing the delivery so that it's perfect; also, very few poems of this ilk publish well in print. But it can be agony to read, re-read, and re-re-read a piece meant to be read on the page, trying to tweak it for live performance. And you can't judge it from the audience reaction: they will always applaud, at least. I suppose if you get whoops and a standing ovation, that might be something. But just be proud that you managed to mold a piece effectively from one medium to another.
– There is a strong older woman contingent at poetry events. This was articulated directly yesterday by two women I heard having a conversation, and they were right; on the other hand, I disagree with the disparaging things they were saying about "young people". (And considering I was sitting next to them, I think "tactless" is a pretty good adjective.) I don't have a problem with this contingent, but if you find a particular gravitational anomaly affecting the themes in your work and voice, consider you might be subconsciously working in this audience group. (And depending on your definition of "older woman" – for me, there's a fair bit of leeway – I defy anyone who is baffled by their presence in poetry to hear Patricia Smith read.)
– You may feel unaccountably inspired just by going to these things. On the surface, only the first event I went to this month had a writing exercise/workshop for an hour, with Peter Murphy; there were two open mics, but the rest of the time was taken up by panels. But you hear opinions, thoughts, snippets of famous poems, names to look up, beautiful metaphors from poets' lives, and most of all, the poets' voices that give them undeniable humanity. It's easy to be intimidated by our idols, but when you see that their hands can shake and they can not have good answers to questions, it keeps you striving. If we are dirt, then a day at a poetry event is the dark, spreading mud: be patient, and the pure spring water will begin to appear.
– This is my opinion on taking notes: wait until after the talk. It depends on your memory capacity, but I find it rude to scribble notes all throughout a talk that's not a professor's lecture. Dorianne Laux's event at the Dodge was entitled "a Conversation"; yesterday, the poets asked for the house lights to be brought up so they could see the audience's faces. Of course you don't want to miss any gems that are tossed out during a panel, but barring the occasional Really Good Scribble, I suspect they like to see people's reactions, expressions, etc., not heads bowed over a notebook. There will always be downtime at the end to review and summarize, and the memory will still be fresh. (Unless you're one of those people that rushes up at the end to monopolize the poet's time and demand autographs.)
– Take a chance on poets you don't know. Beyond the registration fees for an event, save a little bit of cash for the inevitable book table, where you can skim the selections and purchase something by an author you don't have in your collection. Occasionally, a panel speaker will really resonate with you: go and buy their book! I had never read Natasha Trethewey before last Saturday, and now I can't get enough of her. This is how you grow and change in your own work, by tasting and digesting bits of other people's. And certainly, you ought to support the poets you love and admire, but not only them. They have, in turn, inspired other poets, whose work it's good to get to know as well.
– I should have had Twitter this whole time. So, that will probably happen. But I swear to all that's holy, I am only going to use it for poetry, and I am not going to link tweets I follow to my phone. Last thing I need is my phone pinging every five minutes with someone else's inane thoughts: I have enough of my own.
And a poem to follow, once I think of a title for it. Cheers!


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Civil War Confederate General. An 1826 graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point, he first served at Sackett's Harbor in New York before being transferred to the 6th United States Regular Infantry regiment at Jefferson Barracks, Missouri, operating as regimental adjunct during the Black Hawk War. He married Henrietta Preston in 1829, and after being forced to resign his commission in 1834 to take care of his ailing wife, he set up a farm near St Louis where he cared for her until she died in the summer of 1835.The next year he moved to Texas and enlisted in the Texas militia. By August, he was appointed Adjutant General and in 1837 was promoted to Brigadier General in command of the entire Texas army. After a duel with the man he replaced, he was injured in the leg and was unable to take his new command. On December 1838, he was named the Secretary of War of the Republic of Texas by President Mirabeau B. Lamar and concerned himself with fighting the Cherokee along the eastern border. After his term expired in 1840, he returned to Kentucky and lived there several years, marrying Eliza Griffin on October 3, 1843. Shortly afterwards the two moved back to Texas and settled at the China Grove Plantation in Brazoria County. With the outbreak of the Mexican War, he reenlisted in the United States Army, and was commissioned as Colonel of the 1st Texas Rifle Volunteers and served in Monterrey, Mexico as inspector general. From 1849 to 1860 he was assigned to various duties over the western frontier; from the Indian fighting in the Great Plains in 1855 to escorting the Mormons to Salt Lake City from 1858 to 1860. By the end of 1860, he was working in the Pacific Department of the Army in San Francisco, California. Upon hearing that Texas had seceded and sided with the Confederacy at the outset of the Civil War, Johnston resigned his commission and returned home. Enlisting in the Confederate army upon arrival, he was appointed a Brigadier General by Confederate President Jefferson Davis and assigned command of the Western Department. Taking Bowling Green, Kentucky as his base of operations, he called for volunteers and worked on honing them into soldiers. After moving his base to Corinth, Mississippi, he led his men at the April 1862 Battle of Shiloh, by all accounts performing brilliantly on the field until his natural eagerness for involvement led him to ride too far ahead of his troops. He was shot, like Stonewall Jackson later would be, by his own men. Hit behind his right knee in the same leg he had been wounded in the duel many years ago in Texas, the nerve injury from the duel did not give him notice how severe this wound was. The bullet had severed an artery and Johnston's boot filled with blood. After first ordering his medics to tend to the others, he started feeling faint and his men had to help him dismount from his horse. Once his men carried him to a small ravine out of range of the Union soldiers, Albert Johnston died on the Shiloh battlefield on April 6, 1862 of massive blood loss. The man whom Jefferson Davis called the Confederacy's finest general was laid to rest in New Orleans until 1867 when he was re-interred at the Texas State Cemetery with full honors in recognition of his service to Texas.
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I wrote about the "Samson Option" here last year – this will not be the nice controlled implosion that we were all told about for so long….
Syrian Forces Have Fired Scud Missiles at Insurgents, U.S. Says
Syrian forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad have fired Scud missiles at rebel fighters in recent days, Obama administration officials said on Wednesday.
The move represents a significant escalation in the fighting, which has already killed more than 40,000 civilians in a nearly two-year-old conflict that has threatened to destabilize the Middle East.
One American official, who asked not to be identified because he was discussing classified information, said that missiles had been fired from the Damascus area at targets in northern Syria.
"The total is number is probably north of six now," said another American official, and that the targets were in areas controlled by the Free Syrian Army, the main armed insurgent group.


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When my grandmother proclaimed, "They have bees in their bonnets," she was referring to her friends who talk repeatedly about an idea they think is important but others do not.
Those bees seem to have bombarded the bonnets and beanies of some elected officials, who get an idea, approve it, and then urge its passage, year after year, by asking voters to pay for it.
Take, for example, the decade-long proposal for a public safety building in Palo Alto that would cost $65 million. Every survey the city took showed there weren't enough votes to pass a bond measure to pay for it. Yet, these long-lived bees are still busy buzzing away, and even though the latest poll shows little voter enthusiasm, council members now are saying they have to find other ways to raise money from us.
The bees are bombarding us again:
The Santa Clara County Valley Transportation Authority wants to take two lanes of El Camino Real from San Jose to Menlo Park and convert them into bus lanes so that VTA buses can go faster down El Camino Real. Los Altos and Mountain View totally rejected the idea, Palo Alto had a couple of enthusiastic council members but the idea never got official support, and other cities have problems. Nevertheless, VTA officials are now plowing ahead and spending many dollars for consultants to come up with a major thoroughfare downsizing/bus plan. The word "no" apparently is not understood.
Just mention the word "green," and the Palo Alto City Council majority will immediately support a proposal. That's green as in the environment, not vegetables. Add global warming and the votes will be unanimous, no matter the price tag. Some of these ideas are valid, others are untried but the council always gives them a green light.
Part of the drive to be green and to do the newest environmental thing is so this city can get "best in the nation" awards. Promise council members that they have a chance to make Palo Alto one of the top cities in the country and usually a nine-zip approval vote follows.
Voters turned down the idea of licensing Palo Alto businesses a couple of years ago, yet some council members continue to pursue these licenses, which will do little for businesses but provide the city with more revenue from them. Council members may claim they can better track businesses in the city, but all they really want is the money.
For years, Palo Alto officials have given Stanford a hard time, despite the fame and fortune the university brings to our fair city. Assorted council members and city staffers declare they don't like to or want to work with the university, and have demanded expensive solutions from it. Take, for example, the city's insistence in the mid-1980s for Stanford to have a traffic demand management program. The university complied, purchased a lot of Marguerite buses and has been transporting students, faculty and staff in them for years. Thirty years later, Palo Alto is now looking at a traffic demand management plan for itself, primarily for downtown workers. It's amazing that city officials are just now thinking of applying their traffic demands to themselves.
Road potholes and repair problems? Yes. Sidewalks sagging? Yes. Some streets were repaired but Palo Alto has a long way to go -- lack of funds, we are told. But building new bike paths or a $10 million bike and pedestrian bridge over Highway 101 is no problem. By the way, Portland beat out Palo Alto as the most bike-friendly city, so we can't even finish first in this endeavor.
All I can say for these refusals to drop an idea is, "Buzz off, bees." When voters say no, what's so hard to understand about this two-letter word?
Diana Diamond is a columnist for The Daily News. Her email is firstname.lastname@example.com.


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13 February 2012 BBC News updated at 16:35 ET
Firefighters have said an Essex man who stripped to his underwear and crawled across thin ice to rescue his dog is lucky to be alive. Sunday's rescue on the River Stour at Dedham, near Colchester, was captured on camera by a passer-by. It has led to fresh safety warnings to dog owners not to go into freezing water after their pets.
A man who stripped down to his underwear and crawled across a frozen river to rescue his trapped dog has been condemned by firefighters.
According to an eyewitness, the man fell into the River Stour, in Dedham, Essex, at about 10:00 GMT on Sunday but managed to climb out with the animal.
Fellow dog walker Paul Wenborne, who witnessed the incident, described it as a "foolish act of bravery".
An Essex Fire Service spokesman said: "This was extremely dangerous."
Fish porter Mr Wenborne, 52, of Rayleigh, Essex, said he was amazed at the man's actions.
'Stripped down'
"I was with two friends and we couldn't believe what we were seeing," he said.
"He stripped down to his pants and started crawling across the ice.
"About a yard or so from the dog, he fell in but managed to get hold of the dog and put it on the ice.
"He then had to swim two or three yards and then crawl back on the ice to dry land.
"He put his clothes back on and carried on. It was a foolish act of bravery."
Essex Fire Service confirmed it was not called to the incident.
Last week, Essex assistant divisional officer Stuart McMillan issued a warning about icy lakes and ponds.
"Even though this ice appears to be strong it can be eggshell thin and anyone who falls through into the water below could get trapped under the ice and would only be able to survive for minutes in the freezing water," he said.
"The most common cause is people chasing their dogs out on to the ice, and I urge people not to do this.
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A 27-year-old pregnant woman at St. Joseph's Hospital and MedicalCenter in Phoenix, Arizona, became gravely ill. Doctors told her unless she aborted her 11-week-old fetus she would likely die.
Sister Margaret McBride was part of the ethics panel at St. Joseph's that decided that the young woman could have the abortion she needed. As a result, the woman's life and health were preserved, but the bishop of Phoenix declared Sister Margaret McBride excommunicated.
Join us in sending a letter of support for Sister McBride today.
It is almost impossible for people who work within the institutional church to stand up for their beliefs when these beliefs conflict with the bishops. The staff of Catholic hospitals must be encouraged to provide the best care for their patients-even when the bishops disagree.
While her personal position on choice is not clear, we do know that Sr. McBride acted in a thoughtful and pastoral manner with regards to this patient as part of the ethics panel. We need to support Sr. McBride and honor her courage and commitment to staying true to her conscience and to providing the healthcare women need.
Please take a moment to write a letter of support to Sr. McBride. Send your letters to email@example.com. We will be compiling your letters and notes, and will send them on to Sr. McBride so that she knows she is not alone during this difficult time. We need her to hear from everyone, from all communities and all faith traditions, so please share this action with your friends, colleagues and family.
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The three-time World champion won the IBF belt from Bute last May and it has been reported that the 32 year old Romanian-Canadian could be in line for a shot at the WBC title on the same night as Froch vs. Kessler II.
The announcement of that fight led some to speculate that a Bute rematch was no longer on the cards, but the Nottingham super middleweight still intends to travel to Canada before targeting a blockbuster UK bout against Andre Ward.
"People always ask me how many fights do I have left but right now it's all about focusing on Mikkel Kessler," said Froch.
"I know what an intense war that will be but after I've avenged my loss I want to return to Montreal and take care of Bute again.
"It looks like he is in line for the WBC title so a fight for all the belts would be a huge occasion over there.
"The final piece in the jigsaw is Ward. He beat me fair and square first time round but I promise it would be one hell of a different fight here in the UK."
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Objectives This report looks at the use of metrology data for online control of robots and other automated and mechanized positioning devices. Scope of this document The integration of the Leica T-Mac, and allied technologies, in process control operations is reviewed. This report also contains a review on "Adaptive Robotic Control" which will cover applications of triplanar camera systems, robot arms and robot CMMs. Examples of processes include: - • Adaptive Control with the T-Mac / API technologies • Real-time feedback • Datuming of mobile precision machine tools There is an overlap with SoA report no. 2 on "Structure mapping" which deals with 6DOF measurement for hidden feature location. Report no. 2 contains background information on measurement techniques and system operation which are not duplicated here. Cross-references are used as may be appropriate.
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Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey, on Revisiting the Banks of the Wye during a Tour, July 13, 1798
by William Wordsworth
Eyes and Vision
Symbol Analysis
The poem is mostly about how the speaker is able to compare what he sees with his eyes to the memory of the scene he's been carrying around in his mind's eye (yes, we just used a metaphor!). The literal eyeball is the barrier between the poet's mind and the scene in front of him. It's not surprising that eyes, both literal and figurative, are important.
- Line 24: The speaker uses the simile of the "blind man's eye" to describe the way he was able to see the river valley in his mind's eye during his long absence. It's a negative simile, though – he says that it's not like a "blind man's eye." In other words, his mind's eye sees things almost as clearly as his real eyes.
- Line 47: The speaker is talking about the calming influence of the beautiful scene at the river Wye. His gaze doesn't dart from object to object in a frenzied way; his "eye" is "made quiet." We could read this as a synecdoche, because it's not just his eye, but his entire mind and body that are "made quiet." So the "eye" is being used to stand in for the whole person.
- Lines 82-3: The speaker is saying that when he was the young, boyish "William," his interest in nature was purely visual. Nature had no "interest" for him that wasn't what he could see with his "eye."
- Line 106: the speaker is saying that the "spirit" (100) in nature connects everything together, which is why he's "a lover" (103) of all natural things that can be perceived with "eye, and ear" (106). But then he goes on to say that the "eye and ear" are able to "half create" the things that they "perceive." Wait, what? Does this mean that our eyes play tricks on us? Well, yes. And the speaker is also suggesting that the "eye and ear" have a kind of consciousness that we're not aware of, so that they "half create" without our even being aware of it.
- Lines 117-9: There's a lot going on in these lines. First of all, the speaker uses the metaphor of "read[ing]" (117) to describe what he thought he could sense from looking at Dorothy's eyes. He also uses synecdoche. He makes Dorothy's eyes stand in for her entire personality. Finally, the speaker uses another metaphor when he talks about the "shooting lights" coming out of her eyes. We have to assume that her eyeballs are not literally shooting laser beams. She's just looking around with such excited pleasure that it's like her eyes are "shooting lights."


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LITHONIA, Ga. (AP) -- A man suspected of shoplifting DVD players at a Walmart has died after a confrontation with workers at the Atlanta-area store.
Walmart spokeswoman, Dianna Gee said, "This is truly a sad situation. We're in the process of working with law enforcement to determine all of the facts and cooperating and providing any information we have to assist in the investigation. Our associates are trained that the safety of our customers and our associates is our first priority. No amount of merchandise is worth someone's life."
Atlanta news outlets report the man was pronounced dead after an altercation with workers outside a store in Lithonia.
A police report shows that a middle-aged man was caught shoplifting two DVD players from the store about 1:30 a.m. Sunday. He left, but three employees caught him and had an altercation in the parking lot.
Police arrived to find the store workers on top of the man, who was unresponsive and bleeding from the nose and mouth.
He was later pronounced dead at DeKalb Medical-Hillandale hospital.
An official says the employees who were involved have been suspended with pay during the investigation.
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Why Do Dividend Strategies Tend to Outperform?
Thornburg Investment Management
Cliff Remily
February 22, 2010
Why Do Dividend Strategies Tend to Outperform?
Thornburg Investment Management
Cliff Remily
February 22, 2010
In an earlier article, we addressed how we look for companies that have an ability and willingness to pay increasing dividends. We illustrated how high and rising dividends tend to outperform the market and briefly described how independent academic and practitioner research has shown that just because a company pays a dividend does not mean the company cannot grow its earnings. In this paper, we delve deeper into the supportive research and provide two specific holdings as examples. The importance of these findings is to illustrate how we look to pay a rising dividend over time. The way we accomplish this is to buy companies that are able to grow their earnings power and increase the dividend along with the increase in earnings.
One primary role of a public company's management team is to allocate capital among various projects to maximize returns for shareholders. Unfortunately, conflicts can arise between management and minority shareholders. For instance, a ceo may have a pet project that continually loses money yet receives annual funding. Another conflict is that the highest returning projects may entail more risk than the manager wants to take, for risk of losing his or her job. This can hurt shareholders if the risk versus reward trade-off is in favor of taking the project. Finally, management teams may engage in empire building, acquiring companies at a premium in order to grow their own organizations. This occurs from ego as well as the likelihood that the management team is compensated more for managing a larger company.
The managers of the Thornburg Investment Income Builder Fund believe capital allocation decisions are one of the critical long-term driving forces for company success and, ultimately, stock performance.
How can we determine if a company is allocating capital correctly? Without perfect foresight, we have to rely on history, current decisions, and management guidance. One indication that management takes capital allocation seriously is through its dividend policy. A dividend monetizes a portion of earnings for minority shareholders, which retained earnings do not. This brings the present value of future cash flows forward, and all else being equal, raises the value of the firm. Companies with good business models generate higher metrics of profitability such as return on equity (roe) as well as cash flows. This cash needs to be deployed, and when a company has a high roe, it takes less retained earnings to grow the business relative to those with lower roe. Along with many subjective and qualitative factors, we look for these companies that have strong business models as well as the ability and willingness to allocate capital prudently.
We've often discussed the original study by Arnott and Asness titled "Surprise! Higher Dividends = Higher Earnings Growth?" The authors were the first to find that companies with higher payout ratios actually had higher real earnings growth over the subsequent 10-year period. This is counterintuitive, as one would expect a dividend-paying stock to translate into low growth. The table below provides the results of the study, clearly illustrating that companies paying out more cash as dividends (quartile four) had the highest subsequent 10-year eps growth.
Surprise! Higher Dividends = Higher Earnings Growth
Real Subsequent 10-year Earnings Growth
Source: Robert D. Arnott and Clifford S. Asness, "Surprise! Higher Dividends = Higher Earnings Growth?", Financial Analysts Journal, Jan/Feb 2003. Data analyzed: 1946-2001.
In every case over these rolling 10-year periods from 1946 to 1991, the highest dividend payers had the highest earnings growth. These results were not just on average, but were robust through the strongest and weakest markets as well. We share the authors' opinion that it is possible to have high earnings growth without paying dividends. In fact, most growth companies that have annual growth rates of 20%, 30%, or more, typically do not pay dividends since they need this capital to sustain their investment opportunities. However, we believe growth rates of this magnitude are few and far between and not sustainable over the longer term. A growth manager skilled at analyzing high-growth companies should be able to navigate this segment of the market. The point of this study is not to diminish growth as an investing style, but rather to show that dividend-paying stocks on average do indeed grow earnings over the long term at higher than average rates.
The relationship between dividends and growth is not confined to domestic companies. The same study was replicated in multiple markets, including Canada, Australia, France, Germany, Japan, Netherlands, Switzerland, and United Kingdom. The results are listed below. In Canada and Australia, the study focused on the ten-year subsequent eps growth, while the others used five-year growth rates.
Do Higher Dividends Lead to Higher Earnings Growth? By K.C. Parker
Real Subsequent 10-year Earnings Growth
Source: K.C. Parker, "Do Higher Dividends Lead to Higher Earnings Growth?", Simon Fraser University, 2005.
International Evidence on the Payout Ratio,
Real Subsequent 5-year Earnings and Dividend Growth
Source: Owain ap Gwilym, James Seaton, Karina Suddason, and Stephen Thomas, "International Evidence on the Payout Ratio, Earnings, Dividends, and Returns", Financial Analysts Journal, Jan/Feb 2006.
The results were consistent with the original Arnott and Asness study, providing very robust evidence that this is a phenomenon worthy of attention when analyzing the long-term expectations of stocks. They validate our pursuit of companies that have an ability and willingness to pay dividends.
These studies were built off the Arnott and Asness research and were tested to ensure statistical validity (e.g., accounting for high payout due to temporary earnings weakness, which could result in earnings recovering faster than the market). Although history is not a perfect indicator of the future, it is comforting to have the above studies support our belief that capital allocation and payout policy matter. This goes to the core of our investment philosophy in the Thornburg Investment Income Builder Fund.
Two examples of companies in the portfolio that exhibit strong capital discipline are British Petroleum (bp/ ln) and Sysco (syy). Although these are in two vastly different industries, they both have a history of displaying a willingness and an ability to pay dividends. In fact, over the previous five years, bp has increased its dividend by 19% annually and Sysco by 12%. These types of investments help support the Investment Income Builder Fund's goals of paying an attractive dividend today and increasing the annual distribution over time.
bp is an integrated oil company with global operations. Most integrated oil companies do not pay attractive dividends and are not widely recognized as being prudent users of capital. bp's average payout ratio is 36%, placing it in the top quartile of its peers. Its current yield exceeds 5.5%, it trades at a 2010E pe of 9.5x, and it had a reserve replacement ratio (rrr) of 116% in 2008. The rrr means that every barrel produced and sold is replaced with 1.16 barrels of reserves. Therefore, bp is illustrating that it is possible to increase oil production, pay an attractive dividend, and grow oil reserves while being prudent with its capital. Over the previous decade, bp's earnings have grown at a 15.5% compounded annual growth rate (cagar) and management has raised its dividend at a 10.1% rate over the same period.
Sysco is a food distribution company that provides food to restaurants, hospitals, education facilities, and other health facilities. The company has increased its dividend at a 10-year cagar of 15.6% while growing earnings at a 9.0% rate over the same period. This is a true consistent earner that certainly feels the effects of the current downturn in consumer spending; but due to its low cost of capital and debt levels, Sysco takes advantage of buying smaller competitors. This accelerates growth rates as the economy recovers from its naturally occurring recessions.
The Investment Income Builder Fund paid a $0.50 per share dividend in 2003 and for the year ending 2009, $1.04. This is a 13% cagar rate over six years. We could not have achieved this increase without investing in companies with growing earnings. We scour the globe looking for the companies that we believe can balance the goals of paying an attractive dividend and finding future growth projects. Other unsustainable means of generating income include 1) writing covered call options; 2) buying companies with increasing payout ratios, which will come to an end once the average payout reaches 100%; 3) constantly trading up for higher-yielding investments. All of these are unsustainable in our opinion and are not how we manage the Thornburg Investment Income Builder Fund. Fortunately, there are historical studies that support our view on the importance of capital allocation in meeting the long-term goals of the Fund. n
Following a dividend-focused strategy does not assure or guarantee better performance and cannot eliminate the risk of investment losses.
Data presented are the most recent available. Inclusion of subsequent periods could change the results.
The views expressed by Mr. Remily reflect his professional opinion and should not be considered buy or sell recommendations. These views are subject to change.
Thornburg Investment Income Builder Fund
Average Annual Total Returns
1-Yr 3-Yr 5-Yr Incep.
Without sales charge 36.60% 1.81% 7.35% 11.88%
With sales charge 30.42% 0.26% 6.36% 11.15%
Blended Benchmark* 24.04% -2.43% 3.03% 7.18%
S&P 500 Index 26.46% -5.63% 0.42% 5.30%
30-Day SEC Yield: 5.31%
Performance data shown represents past performance and is no guarantee of future results. Investment return and principal value will fluctuate so shares, when redeemed, may be worth more or less than their original cost. Current performance may be lower or higher than quoted. For performance current to the most recent month end, visit thornburg.com. The maximum sales charge for the Fund's A shares is 4.50%. The Fund's A shares carry a 30-day redemption fee of 1%.
There is no guarantee the fund will meet its investment objectives.
Not FDIC Insured • May Lose Value • No Bank Guarantee
Before investing, carefully consider each Fund's investment goals, risks, charges, and expenses. For a prospectus containing this and other information, contact your financial advisor or visit thornburg.com. Read it carefully before investing.
*75% MSCI World and 25% Barclays Aggregate Bond Index.
Thornburg Funds are distributed by Thornburg Securities Corporation.® • 2300 North Ridgetop Road • Santa Fe, NM 87506 • 877.215.1330 • thornburg.com
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"Japan is in a troubled era right now," Yayoi Kusama, the avant-garde legend, told the opening night crowd at Roppongi Art Night 2012 this past Saturday, a massive cartoon balloon version of her, outfitted in a red polka dot dress, hanging behind her. "The fact that even now you are able to see the amazing works of so many amazing artists… makes me truly believe that I had a reason to live."
The installation's cheery, bright image hung in stark contrast to the more austere, modern architecture of the Roppongi Hills complex. Ms. Kusama was speaking two days after her 83rd birthday, at the third "annual" version of the one-night festival, which was cancelled last year after the March 11 disasters. Ms. Kusama first became famous in the 1960s, claiming to have called Andy Warhol a rival. She has credited her art for helping ease psychological problems, for which she has voluntarily lived in a mental health institution for decades. Ms. Kusama moved to New York in the 1950s where she painted her first set of iconic "Infinity Net" paintings, structured monochromatic designs spread across entire canvases.
Ms. Kusama is also known for her large-scale projects and use of polka dot prints, like her piece at this year's Roppongi Art Night. She read a selection of her poems, including one written after the March 11 disasters: "Ah, what has happened! Even though love has continued to scream out everlastingly. The earthquake and tsunami and nuclear disaster have caused people's hearts to hurt… "
Ms. Kusama continues to enjoy artistic success, with exhibits at top museums like the Tate Modern in London, and a collaboration with Louis Vuitton in the works.
"I pray for everyone to be genki again," Ms. Kusama begged the crowd softly, sporting a polka dot outfit and red wig matching the balloon image. "Please everyone be genki."


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In this article, I'm gonna' shed some light on how to troubleshoot Misfire Codes (P0300, P0301, P0302, P0303, P0304) on your Nissan Altima (or Frontier, Xterra) with the 2.4L 4 cylinder engine.
You'll learn some of the most common causes of a misfire condition and more importantly, where to find the test articles to solve the misfire issue.
Here are the main points of this article. You can start at the beginning or click on each heading (below) and go directly to it:
In lay man's terms, a misfire condition, simply describes an engine that isn't running on all cylinders. On the 2.4L Nissan 4 cylinder engine, if just one cylinder goes dead (for whatever reason), you are gonna' feel it... since your engine is now running on 75% power.
If two engine cylinders are misfiring... your car will have a very hard time staying running, not to mentioning you'll have no power to drive it down the road. Here are some of the most common symptoms of a misfire condition:
There are three very important components that each cylinder, in your engine, needs to be able to produce power and they are: air, fuel and spark. If any one of these is missing, the specific cylinder that is being affected will go dead (not produce power).
This means that the misfire could be caused by a fault in the fuel system, or in the ignition system, or an engine mechanical condition. Now, in most cases... it's usually a lack of spark that's to blame for the misfire, but not always. Let's take a brief look at the different things that can cause your Nissan 2.4L engine to misfire...
Ignition System: If any one engine cylinder is not getting spark because a BAD spark plug, BAD spark plug wire, BAD Distributor Cap, etc... you'll have a bona-fide misfire on your hands. At the end of this article you'll find the links to the test articles that'll show you how to test these parts.
Fuel System: If fuel is missing from any one specific engine cylinder, it will misfire. The most common cause of this missing fuel, is a BAD fuel injector (and fuel injectors can easily be tested).
Engine Mechanical Condition: One of the most overlooked causes of a misfire is a worn out engine cylinder. This extreme wear and tear will cause a lower than normal compression condition that no matter what gets replaced.. your Nissan will continue to misfire. The best way to check for this, is by doing an engine compression test and comparing the compression readings of all 4 cylinders to each other.
Another thing that will cause a misfire (normally at idle) is vacuum leaks coming from a large vacuum hose or the intake manifold gasket. Another common cause, is oil leaking onto the spark plug tubes and coating the spark plug wire boot and spark plug with engine oil.
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intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much —the wheel,
New York, wars and so on —whilst all the dolphins had ever done was
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MAINERS, GETTING A FIRST HAND LOOK AT THE CUMBERLAND COUNTY CIVIC CENTER'S 33 MILLION DOLLAR RENOVATION.. AS THE VENUE OPENED ITS DOORS FOR ITS FIRST EVENT TODAY. THE MAINE HOME, REMODELING AND GARDEN SHOW IS CELEBRATING IT'S 24- TH YEAR. W-M-T-W NEWS 8'S KATIE THOMPSON WAS THERE FOR A CLOSER LOOK.... A SPECIAL CELEBRATION AND HONOR FOR VIRGINIA AVERY OF WELLS...FOR BECOMING THE FIRST MEMBER OF THE PUBLIC TO STEP INSIDE THE NEWLY RENOVATED CUMBERLAND COUNTY CIVIC CENTER. "i really thought it was nice its big its all open I like the floors theyre not slippery so, we're really excited that it's open again. OPEN AGAIN- JUST IN TIME FOR THE ANNUAL MAINE HOME REMODELING AND GARDEN SHOW. ON THE FLOOR YOU'LL FIND ONE-HUNDRED AND EIGHTY VENDORS SHOWCASING PRODUCTS AND BUSINESSES FROM ALL OVER THE STATE. AND IT'S A FRIENDLY AND INVITING ENVIRONMENT...FOR BOTH BUSINESS OWNERS, AND CONSUMERS. "this show is awesome. I mean people come in from everywhere." "It gives us a chance to show the kind of quality of work that we do and just the personal attention." ALTHOUGH WINTER SEEMS NEVER- ENDING... EVENTUALLY THE SNOW WILL BE GONE. SO, NOW IS THE TIME TO THINK SPRING, AND ASK QUESTIONS, ESPECIALLY WHEN IT COMES TO YOUR YARD. "if you want a design, where you want the design or where you want it installed. Start interviewing landscapers now, see who you like. So come springtime, you'll be ready." "What are some of the more common questions you get from people. what do you have for a deal? for a home show deal? and we have a four person hot tub starting as low as 29.95. wow. yeah, so this could be in everyone's backyard!" MAYBE THAT COULD BE THE CURE FOR THESE LONG MAINE WINTERS IN PORTLAND KATIE THOMPSON WMTW NEWS 8.
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A Summary of rainfall since January 1st
Near or above normal rainfall across portions of north and central Georgia since January 1st has helped loosen the grip of the Drought that has affected portions of Georgia since March of 2006. Several periods of soaking rains have brought improvement to rainfall deficits and soil moisture. Since the beginning of the year, portions of north and central Georgia have received measurable rain approximately every two weeks. Throughout this cycle, the rainfall amounts have increased with each successive event. A comparison of rainfall deficits for the past 30,90,180 & 365 days available for Atlanta, Athens, Columbus and Macon shows rainfall values are near or above normal for the past 30 days at each location. Meanwhile, the Rainfall Scorecard shows how monthly rainfall totals compare with years past for Atlanta, Athens, Columbus and Macon.
While there has been beneficial rainfall, significant hydrological impacts to water supply, stream flows and ground water tables continue over northeast Georgia. This includes that Lake Lanier Basin which continues to be significantly impacted by the long term severe drought.


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