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My comment for Euromoney on banking sector risks: http://www.euromoney.com/Article/3574602/Europes-bank-stability-is-in-question-say-country-risk-experts.html.
Saturday, July 30, 2016
30/7/16: Europe's Bank Stability in Question
My comment for Euromoney on banking sector risks: http://www.euromoney.com/Article/3574602/Europes-bank-stability-is-in-question-say-country-risk-experts.html.
Posted by Constantin Gurdgiev at 9:01 AM
Labels: banks, EU banks stress tests, Euro banks, Euromoney, European banking
Friday, July 29, 2016
29/7/16: Tax Regime, Apple, Fraud?
We have finally arrived: a Nobel Prize winner, former Chief Economist and Senior Vice-President of the World Bank (1997-2000) on Bloomberg, calling Apple's use of the Irish Tax Regime 'a fraud': http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-07-28/stiglitz-calls-apple-s-profit-reporting-in-ireland-a-fraud?utm_content=business&utm_campaign=socialflow-organic&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&cmpid%253D=socialflow-twitter-business.
This gotta be doing marvels to our reputation as a place for doing business and for trading into Europe and the U.S.
The same as Facebook's newest troubles: http://www.irishtimes.com/business/technology/facebook-tax-bill-over-ireland-operation-could-cost-5-billion-1.2738677.
But do remember, officially, Ireland is not a tax haven, nor is there, officially, anything questionable going on anywhere here. Just 26.3 percent growth in GDP per annum, and booming corporate tax revenues that the Minister for Finance can't explain.
Posted by Constantin Gurdgiev at 10:54 AM
Labels: Apple, Corporate tax haven, Facebook, Ireland, Tax haven
Friday, July 22, 2016
22/7/16: Brexit сближает Ирландии...
My comment for Kommersant (in Russian) on Brexit risks for Ireland: http://www.kommersant.ru/doc/3043700.
Posted by Constantin Gurdgiev at 4:15 PM
Labels: Brexit, Ireland, Ireland and UK, Kommersant
Thursday, July 21, 2016
21/7/16: Article 50: Facts
There is a lot of poorly informed nonsense being pushed around the media (especially 'new media') about Article 50 process relating to the Brexit. The best, most cogent and brief summary of what actually is involved in this process was provided back in February by the Open Europe think-tank here: http://openeurope.org.uk/today/blog/the-mechanics-of-leaving-the-eu-explaining-article-50/.
Posted by Constantin Gurdgiev at 11:10 AM
Labels: Article 50, Brexit, EU
Wednesday, July 20, 2016
20/7/16: McKinsey's "Generation Worse"...
A new study from McKinsey looks at the cross-generational distribution of income as a form of new 'inequality', in words of the authors: "an aspect of inequality that has received relatively little attention, perhaps because prior to the 2008 financial crisis less than 2 percent of households in advanced economies were worse off than similar households in previous years. That has now changed: two-thirds of households in the United States and Western Europe were in segments of the income distribution whose real market incomes in 2014 were flat or had fallen compared with 2005."
In other words, McKinsey folks are looking at the "proportion of households in advanced economies with flat or falling incomes" - the generational cohorts that are no better than their predecessors.
Key findings are frightening: "Between 65 and 70 percent of households in 25 advanced economies, the equivalent of 540 million to 580 million people, were in segments of the income distribution whose real market incomes—their wages and income from capital—were flat or had fallen in 2014 compared with 2005. This compared with less than 2 percent, or fewer than ten million people, who experienced this phenomenon between 1993 and 2005."
So that promise of the 'sharing economy' and the 'gig-economy' where people today are enabled to derive income (and thus wealth) from hereto under-utilised 'assets'… pwah! not doing much. The 'most empowered' - web and gig-economy wise cohorts? Ah, they are actually the "worst-hit" ones. "Today's younger generation is at risk of ending up poorer than their parents. Most population segments experienced flat or falling incomes in the 2002–12 decade but young, less-educated workers were hardest hit".
For those of us who, like myself, tend to be libertarian in our view of the Government, McKinsey study tests some of our accepted 'wisdoms': "Government policy and labor-market practices helped determine the extent of flat or falling incomes. In Sweden, for example, where the government intervened to preserve jobs, market incomes fell or were flat for only 20 percent, while disposable income advanced for almost everyone. In the United States, government taxes and transfers turned a decline in market incomes for 81 percent of income segments into an increase in disposable income for nearly all households."
Except, may be it did not, because counting in disposable income while allowing for taxes and subsidies is notoriously difficult and imprecise. And may be, just may be, all the fiscal imbalances that were accumulated in the process of achieving these supports in some (many) countries will still have to be paid by someone some day?
There is a reduced connection between current growth metrics and income outcomes on the ground (don't we know as much here in Ireland, with 26.3% jump in GDP in 2015?): "Before the recession, GDP growth contributed about 18 percentage points to median household income growth, on average, in the United States and Europe. In the seven years after the recession, that contribution fell to four percentage points, and even these gains were eroded by labor market and demographic shifts."
And the forward outlook? Bleak: "Longer-run demographic and labor trends will continue to weigh on income advancement. Even if economies resume their historical high-growth trajectory, we project that 30 to 40 percent of income segments may not experience market income gains in the next decade if labor-market shifts such as workplace automation accelerate. If the slow growth conditions of 2005–12 persist, as much as 70 to 80 percent of income segments in advanced economies may experience flat or falling market incomes to 2025."
There are some wrinkles in the study. For example, in the U.S. case - cross time comparatives do not provide for the same data base, as pre-2014 data does not include state and local taxes. VAT and sales taxes are omitted across the board. And some other, but overall, the paper is pretty solid and very interesting.
So here is the key summary chart, positing the massive jump in the numbers of households on the declining side of market incomes:
And the chart showing that the taxes and transfers side of income supports is no longer sustainable over time:
Which brings us to the main problem: on the current trend line, politics of income supports from the fiscal policy side are unlikely to be able to contain growth in political discontent. Advanced economies are heading for serious tests of democratic institutions in years to come. Buckle your seat belts: the ride is going to get much rougher.
Friday, July 15, 2016
15/7/16: A Booming Tax Haven? And Why Not?
Yes, we all know, Irish GDP in 2015 grew by an officially idiotic 26%. And yes, I am no longer gracing these illusionary / delusionary numbers with an attempt at any serious analysis. Doing so would be too big of an intellectual subsidy to the world of Irish officialdom. So here are two quite opposite (in their top-line accuracy) views of the same problem, that both, in the end, arrive at the same conclusion:
One view is from Fortune magazine http://fortune.com/2016/07/13/ireland-tax-haven-gdp-up/ where the headline says all you need to know
And another is from the Irish Times, that rows in with a more 'diplomatic' (aka - easier to chew by the Dons of the Irish Civil Service) discourse that is worth reading, despite it containing some pretty delusional (see my twitter stream from today on this) statements: http://www.irishtimes.com/business/economy/ireland-s-gdp-figures-why-26-economic-growth-is-a-problem-1.2722170#.V4i7kuyVTic.twitter.
In the nutshell, Fortune got it right at the top level, Irish Times got some beefier discussion of the details.
Posted by Constantin Gurdgiev at 3:32 PM
Labels: Irish economy, Irish GDP, Irish tax haven
Wednesday, July 13, 2016
13/7/16: Xenophobic Britain, Good Europe Mythology
You know the shrill of the deeply wounded 'Remain' supporters from the UK Referendum that did not go their way? Ah, yes: "Older Britain, that won, is xenophobic, racist, anti-migrant. And the young Britain, that lost, is the opposite of that."
Ok, there are stereotypes. And then there are stereotypes. The 'old Britain' that is allegedly such a terrible place is the one that built one of the most multicultural societies in the world. That's right: the young Britain was not even born when that happened.
But never mind history, here's the most current (1Q 2016) data on attitudes to multiculturalism from the not-so-pro-Brexit source, PewResearch:
By opposition to multi-ethnic society, the UK ranks 5th in the group of these countries, tied with on-so-progressively-liberal Germany, and better than core-European-values Italy and Holland, ahead of the beacon of European democracy Poland. By actual support for multi-ethnicity in society, the UK ranks third, ahead of all other European countries in the survey other than Sweden.
Of course, the U.S. leads all the countries in terms of support for multi-ethnic society. Not surprisingly.
Here's another interesting snapshot from the same study:
So if we are to look at the Left-Right gap, the UK is at the widest differential in opinions on diversity in Europe. But, and here is a major but, with 27% of Conservatives (Right) supporting diversity, it has the most 'liberal' Right in Europe after Sweden. Oh, and notice the little blow up for the 'xenophobic Republicans in the U.S.' meme - that too is absolute bullshit, since U.S. conservatives are more supportive of ethnic diversity liberal / Left Europeans except those in Sweden and the UK.
You can glimpse few more insights into the Pew survey here: http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/07/12/in-views-of-diversity-many-europeans-are-less-positive-than-americans/.
Posted by Constantin Gurdgiev at 11:08 AM
Labels: Brexit, Demographics, ethnic diversity, European politics, PEW Research, social diversity, UK
Monday, July 11, 2016
11/7/16: Russian Strategy Change? Perhaps... and Lets Hope So
A rather interesting analysis from The Moscow Times on the emerging directional change in Russian geopolitical strategy: http://www.themoscowtimes.com/opinion/article/a-modest-deal-vladimir-putins-new-d233tente-op-ed/574322.html.
As someone who consistently stressed the need for both, Russia and the West, to (1) actively seek cooperative resolution to the ongoing process of confrontational politics, and (2) pursue consistent policy of de-escalating relations, with a specific focus on potential sources of risks (e.g. accidental encounters in the international air space or waters), recent change in rhetoric from Moscow is certainly welcome. In time, I suspect, we will see more comprehensive strategy emerging from Kremlin statements, but for now, even less-than-comprehensive statements are a good sign.
As a note of caution, I do not agree with the entire set of the author conclusions. Just highlighting the important nature of change. The degree of risks severity here is highlighted by a range of surveys and public opinion views, here is a snapshot of investors' key concerns:
In this environment, last thing anyone needs is more geopolitical risks.
Posted by Constantin Gurdgiev at 2:08 PM
Labels: geopolitical risks, Nato, Political risks, Russia, Russia and the West
Sunday, July 10, 2016
10/7/16: Europe's Banks: Dinosaurs On Their Last Legs?
Europe's banks have been back in the crosshair of the markets in recent weeks, with new attention to their multiple problems catalysed by the Brexit vote.
I spoke on the matter in a brief interview with UTV here: http://utv.ie/playlists/default.aspx?bcid=5026776052001.
Now, Bloomberg have put together a (very concise) summary of some of the key problems the banks face: "Europe's banks have been a focal point of investor skittishness since Britons voted to leave the European Union, but reasons to be worried about financial firms pre-date the referendum. Whether it be the mountain of non-performing loans, the challenge from fintech firms and alternative lenders encroaching on what was once their turf, or rock bottom interest rates eroding margins, the problems facing Europe's lenders are mammoth."
To summarise the whole rotten lot: European banks (as a sector)
- Cannot properly lend and price risk (hence, a gargantuan mountain of Non-Performing Loans sitting on their books that they can't deleverage out, exemplified by Italian, Slovenian, Spanish, Portuguese, Cypriot, Greek, Irish, and even, albeit to a lesser extent, German, Dutch, Belgian and Austrian banks);
- Cannot make profit even in this extremely low funding cost environment (because they cannot lend properly, while controlling their operating costs, and instead resort to 'lending' money to governments at negative yields);
- Cannot structure their capital (CoCos madness anyone?);
- Cannot compete with more agile fintech challengers (because the dinosaur mentality and hierarchical structures of traditional banking prevents real innovation permeating banks' strategies and operations);
- Cannot reform their business models to reflect changing nature of their customers demands (because they simply no longer can think of their customers needs); and
- Cannot succeed in their traditional markets and services (despite being heavily shielded from competition by regulators and subsidised by the governments).
Instead of whingeing about the banks' plight, we should focus on the banks' resound failures and stop giving custom to the patrician incumbents. Let competition restructure Europe's banking sector. The only thing that sustains Europe's banks today is national- and ECB-level regulatory protectionism that contains competition within the core set of banking services. It is only a matter of time before M&As and organic build up of fintech players will blow this cozy cartel up from the inside. So regulators today have two options: keep pretending that this won't happen and keep granting banks a license to milk their customers and monetary systems; or open the hatches and let the fresh air in.
Posted by Constantin Gurdgiev at 9:34 AM
Labels: Banking, Capital markets, EBU, ECMU, EMU, European banks, Fintech
Friday, July 1, 2016
1/7/16: Sunday Night Bailout: Italy
As I have noted on Twitter and in comments to journalists, Brexit has catalysed investors' attention on weaker banking systems. As opposed to the UK banks, that are doing relatively well, given the circumstances, the focal point of the Brexit fallout is now Italian banking system, saddled with excessively high non-performing loans risks and with assets base that is, frankly, toxic, given their exposure to Italian debt and corporates.
Take a look at Kamakura Corporation's data on default probabilities across European financial institutions:
Nine out of twenty five top European financial institutions suffering massive increases in default probabilities over the last 30 days and 90 days are Italian, followed by five Spanish ones. Of five UK institutions on the list, only two are sizeable players worth worrying about.
Not surprisingly, as reported by the WSJ (link here) the EU Commission has approved, quietly and discretely, over Sunday last, use of Italian government guarantees "to provide liquidity support to its banks, ...disclosing the first intervention by a European Union government into its banking system following the U.K. vote to leave the EU." The programme includes EUR150 billion in Government guarantees and is supposed to ease the short term concerns about Italian banks that, based on Italian officials estimates will require some EUR40 billion of new capital. No one quite has any idea who on earth will be supplying capital to the banks heavily weighted by high NPLs, burdened with massive fallouts in equity valuations and faced with low returns on their 'core' assets (especially Government bonds).
As WSJ notes: "Italian banks have lost more than half of their market capitalization since the beginning of the year, as investors fret about some EUR360 billion in bad loans still logged on their balance sheets. That drop in market value compares to an average decline of less than one third for European lenders. Some Italian banks have seen their shares plummet by some 75% in the first half of the year." Anyone looking into buying into their capital raising plans needs to have their heads examined.
Of course, we know that there is only one ready buyer for the Italian banks 'assets' - the Italian state. Back in April this year, Italy announced the creation of the Atlante fund, designed to "buy shares in Italian lenders in a bid to edge the sector away from a fully-fledged crisis".
As noted in an FT article (link here): "the fund... can also buy non-performing loans." The background to it is that "Italian banks have made €200bn of loans to borrowers now deemed insolvent, of which €85bn has not been written down on their balance sheets. A broader measure of non-performing debt, which includes loans unlikely to be repaid in full, stands at €360bn, according to the Bank of Italy. So is Atlante — with about €5bn of equity — really enough to keep the heavens in place?"
Sh*t no. Not even close to being enough. Which means the State is now fully hooked in banks risks. As the FT article details, the idea is that the Italian Government will buy lower-seniority tranches of securitised trash [sorry: assets] at knock-down prices, leaving senior tranches to private markets. In other words, the Italian Government will spend few billion euros borrowed from the markets to subsidise higher valuations on senior tranches of defaulting loans.
An idea that such schemes are anything other than Italian taxpayers throwing cash at the burning building of the country banking system is naive. Despite all the European assurances that the next bailout will be 'different', it is clear that little has changed in Europe since the days of 2008.
Posted by Constantin Gurdgiev at 9:18 AM
Labels: Euro area banks, Euro area debt, European debt, Italian banks, Kamakura, Non-performing loans, UK banks
Sunday, June 26, 2016
26/6/16: Black Swan ain't Brexit... but
There is a lot of froth in the media opinionating on Brexit vote. And there is a lot of nonsense.
One clearly cannot deal with all of it, so I am going to occasionally dip into the topic with some comments. These are not systemic in any way.
Let's take the myth of Brexit being a 'Black Swan'. This goes along the lines: lack of UK and European leaders' preparedness to the Brexit referendum outcome can be explained by the nature of the outcome being a 'Black Swan' event.
The theory of 'Black Swan' events was introduced by Nassin Taleb in his book "Black Swan
Theory". There are three defining characteristics of such an event:
- The event can be explained ex post its occurrence as either predictable or expected;
- The event has an extremely large impact (cost or benefit); and
- The event (ex ante its occurrence) is unexpected or not probable.
Let's take a look at the Brexit vote in terms of the above three characteristics.
Analysis post-event shows that Brexit does indeed conform with point 1, but only partially. There is a lot of noise around various explanations for the vote being advanced, with analysis reaching across the following major arguments:
- 'Dumb' or 'poor' or 'uneducated' or 'older' people voted for Brexit
- People were swayed to vote for Brexit by manipulative populists (which is an iteration of the first bullet point)
- People wanted to punish elites for (insert any reason here)
- Protests vote (same as bullet point above)
- People voted to 'regain their country from EU'
- Brits never liked being in the EU, and so on
The multiplicity of often overlapping reasons for Brexit vote outcome does imply significant complexity of causes and roots for voters preferences, but, in general, 'easy' explanations are being advanced in the wake of the vote. They are neither correct, nor wrong, which means that point 1 is neither violated nor confirmed: loads of explanations being given ex post, loads of predictions were issued ex ante.
The Brexit event is likely to have a significant impact. Short term impact is likely to be extremely large, albeit medium and longer term impacts are likely to be more modest. The reasons for this (not an exhaustive list) include:
- Likely overshooting in risk valuations in the short run;
- Increased uncertainty in the short run that will be ameliorated by subsequent policy choices, actions and information flows;
- Starting of resolution process with the EU which is likely to be associated with more intransigence vis-a-vis the UK on the EU behalf at the start, gradually converging to more pragmatic and cooperative solutions over time (what we call moving along expectations curve);
- Pre-vote pricing in the markets that resulted in a rather significant over-pricing of the probability of 'Remain' vote, warranting a large correction to the downside post the vote (irrespective of which way the vote would have gone);
- Post-vote vacillations and debates in the UK as to the legal outrun of the vote; and
- The nature of the EU institutions and their extent in determining economic and social outcomes (the degree of integration that requires unwinding in the case of the Brexit)
These expected impacts were visible pre-vote and, in fact, have been severely overhyped in media and official analysis. Remember all the warnings of economic, social and political armageddon that the Leave vote was expected to generate. These were voiced in a number of speeches, articles, advertorials and campaigns by the Bremainers.
So, per second point, the event was ex ante expected to generate huge impacts and these potential impacts were flagged well in advance of the vote.
The third ingredient for making of a 'Black Swan' is unpredictable (or low predictability) nature of the event. Here, the entire thesis of Brexit as a 'Black Swan' collapses.
Let me start with an illustration: about 18 hours before the results were announced, I repeated my view (proven to be erroneous in the end) that 'Remain' will shade the vote by roughly 52% to 48%. As far as I am aware, no analyst or media outfit or /predictions market' (aka betting shop) put probability of 'Leave' at less than 30 percent.
Now, 30 percent is not unpredictable / unexpected outcome. It is, instead, an unlikely, but possible, event.
Let's do a mental exercise: you are offered by your stock broker an investment product that risks losing 30% of our pension money (say EUR100,000) with probability of 30%. Your expected loss is EUR9,000 is not a 'Black Swan' or an improbable high impact event, but instead a rather possible high impact event. Conditional (on loss materialising) impact here is, however, EUR30,000 loss. Now, consider a risk of losing 90% of your pension money with a probability of 10%. Your expected loss is the same, but low probability of a loss makes it a rather unexpected high impact event, as conditional impact of a loss here is EUR90,000 - three times the size of the conditional loss in the first case.
The latter case is not Brexit, but is a Black Swan, the former case is Brexit-like and is not a Black Swan event.
Besides the discussion of whether Brexit was a Black Swan event or not, however, the conditional loss (conditional on loss materialising) in the above examples shows that, however low the probability of a loss might be, once conditional loss becomes sizeable enough, the risk assessment and management of the event that can result in such a loss is required. In other words, whether or not Brexit was probable ex ante the vote (and it was quite probable), any risk management in preparation of the vote should have included full evaluation of responses to such a loss materialising.
It is now painfully clear (see EU case here: http://arstechnica.co.uk/tech-policy/2016/06/brexit-in-brussels-junckers-mic-drop-and-political-brexploitation/, see Irish case here: http://www.irishtimes.com/news/politics/government-publishes-brexit-contingency-plan-1.2698260) that prudent risk management procedures were not followed by the EU and the Irish State. There is no serious contingency plan. No serious road map. No serious impact assessment. No serious readiness to deploy policy responses. No serious proposals for dealing with the vote outcome.
Even if Brexit vote was a Black Swan (although it was not), European institutions should have been prepared to face the aftermath of the vote. This is especially warranted, given the hysteria whipped up by the 'Remain' campaigners as to the potential fallouts from the 'Leave' vote prior to the referendum. In fact, the EU and national institutions should have been prepared even more so because of the severely disruptive nature of Black Swan events, not despite the event being (in their post-vote minds) a Black Swan.
Posted by Constantin Gurdgiev at 1:33 PM
Labels: @MIIS, Black Swan, Brexit, Risk and Resilience, Risk management
Tuesday, June 21, 2016
21/6/16: Real Ireland and the New 'Fiscal Space'
My comment for the Sunday Business Post on the Summer Statement by the Irish Government, covering fiscal space for 2016-2021 is available here: http://www.businesspost.ie/comment-sorry-real-ireland-youre-low-on-list-of-government-priorities/.
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This week, he's getting into an old-school frame of mind.
The Rebels (1-0) host Southeast Missouri (0-1) on Saturday in the team's home opener. Ole Miss will undeniably be more talented than the Redhawks, who play at the Football Championship Subdivision level, but must prepare for Southeast Missouri's option offense that the coaching staff compares to the system Nebraska used in the 1990s.
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College Officers
Jeff Pittman
Jeff Pittman, Ph.D., began his role as chancellor of STLCC in July 2015. Pittman previously served as the statewide vice president of corporate college services and online education at Ivy Tech Community College of Indiana, and has served in wide variety of academic leadership roles for the college for the past 27 years in four geographic regions and the system office. Most recently, Pittman was instrumental in the reorganization and development of a lean organization for the delivery of Corporate College customized workforce training and services to business, industry, and individuals throughout the state of Indiana. Pittman also served as chancellor of Ivy Tech's Wabash Valley Region for 11 years, and simultaneously worked as the statewide vice provost of distance education for three of the years. Under Pittman's leadership, the college's enrollment in online education doubled from more than 32,000 students per year in 2008 to 69,000 students in 2010. Pittman's doctorate in educational leadership, administration, and foundations is from Indiana State University. His master's degree in human resource development is from Indiana State University, and his bachelor's degree in business is from Indiana University.
Andrew langrehr
Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs
Andrew Langrehr was appointed as vice chancellor of academic affairs in July 2015. He provides district-wide oversight of the college's curriculum-related policies, articulation of courses and programs, assessment of student learning outcomes, institutional research, and instructional resources. Langrehr previously served as the vice president of academic affairs at St. Louis Community College-Meramec. He was hired at St. Louis Community College as a full-time chemistry instructor in 2001. He served as both the department chair for physical and engineering sciences and the academic dean for the science and technology division prior to his appointment as vice president. Andrew was a full-time chemistry instructor at Jefferson College (Hillsboro, MO) before coming to St. Louis Community College. He began his community college career as an adjunct chemistry instructor at Kirkwood Community College (Cedar Rapids, IA). Langrehr studied chemistry at both Central College (Pella, IA) and the University of Iowa earning a B.A. and M.S., respectively. He also holds a Ph.D. in education from the University of Missouri-St. Louis.
Virginia (Ginny) Schorle was named the College's Chief Information Officer (CIO)/Vice Chancellor of Information Technology in February 2016. Ginny previously served as the College's Director of Technology Planning and Management. As CIO, Ginny will serve as the strategic and visionary leader for the integration of educational and business technology in support of the College's mission. She will provide direction, guidance and support on all operational technology matters including architectures, integration, systems, data center, security and data privacy, data management, customer support, enterprise applications, telecommunications, disaster recovery, and all other aspects of the technology infrastructure.
Paul Zinck
Vice Chancellor of Finance and Administration
The College named Paul Zinck Vice Chancellor of Finance and Administration in February of 2016. Previous to this appointment Paul was Acting Vice Chancellor for Finance and Administration and was also Controller for the College. Paul is Chief Financial Officer for the District and is responsible for all activity related to the College's $150 million budget, accounting, and finance. He directs financial aspects of the self-funded health insurance and coordinate activities and administration of insurance programs for the College. He also oversees the engineering and design department, district facilities, and auxiliary business enterprises; and perform duties as treasurer for the STLCC board of trustees. Paul's other higher education experience includes adjunct instructor position at Lindenwood University and McKendree University and administrative and finance positions with Washington University and McKendree University. Previous to entering higher education, Paul served at many different assignments over a 20-year career in the U.S. Army, during which he received numerous millitary awards and decorations. Paul holds both a Master of Business Admnistration degree and a bachelor's degree in accounting, both from McKendree University.
Leadership Team Members
Larry Johnson
Provost, Forest Park
Larry D. Johnson, Jr., D.A., was named provost of St. Louis Community College-Forest Park in July 2016. He serves as the chief executive of the campus, providing academic and administrative leadership. Johnson brings more than a decade of experience as a faculty member and academic leader in community and technical college education. Prior to joining STLCC, he served as the associate dean of academic affairs at Broward College-South Campus. He began his career as an English and Reading Instructor at Tallahassee Community College. He has also served as an Instructor, Student Concerns Officer, Associate Professor and Division Chair of Arts & Sciences and Developmental Education. Johnson holds a Doctor of Arts degree in Humanities from Clark Atlanta University, a Bachelor of Arts degree in English Literature from Florida A&M University and a Master of Arts degree in Humanities (Medieval to Baroque Studies) from Florida State University. He is currently pursuing a graduate certificate in Institutional Research in Higher Education.
Elizabeth Gassel Perkins, Ed.D.
Elizabeth Gassel Perkins joined STLCC as Provost of the Florissant Valley Campus in August, 2016. Prior to joining STLCC, Perkins served in a variety of academic roles at Darton College. Perkins most recently served as interim vice president of academic affairs at Darton. She began her career at Darton in 2006 as an English instructor. Perkins earned her doctorate in leadership with an emphasis in higher education from Valdosta State University. She earned her bachelor's degree summa cum laude in English and a master's degree in English from the University of Montevallo.
Carol Lupardus
Provost, Meramec
Dr. Carol Lupardus was named Provost of STLCC-Meramec in July, 2016. Prior to this role, she was Vice-President for Academic Affairs at STLCC's Florissant Valley campus. She came to St. Louis Community College as an Assistant Professor of Teacher Education in 2001. Dr. Lupardus is currently serving STLCC as a member of the college team participating in the Higher Learning Commission's Academy for the Assessment of Student Learning. She also serves as the co-chair for the STLCC Continuous Quality Improvement team. The Missouri State Board of Education appointed Dr. Lupardus to the Missouri Advisory Council for the Certification of Educators representing the Missouri School Boards' Association where she served for five years. She was reappointed for a four-year term representing the Missouri Community College Association in 2013. In 2007, she was elected as President of the Community College Division of the Missouri Association of Colleges of Teacher Education. In 2005, Dr. Lupardus earned her Ph.D. in Educational Leadership from Saint Louis University. She holds a master's degree in education from Saint Louis University and a bachelor's degree in education from the University of Missouri-Columbia.
Michael Dreith
Associate Provost
Michael Dreith began his duties July, 2016. He was born and raised near St. Louis in Illinois, and established his career in print and broadcast journalism. In 1986, he joined the faculty at Lewis and Clark Community College, teaching radio, public speaking and humanities. In 2001, Dreith was named president of Frontier Community College (Fairfield, Ill.), thereby becoming the first Illinois community college graduate to become president of an Illinois community college. In 2007, he served as president of Western Texas College (Snyder, Texas). He was named president of John A. Logan College in May 2012. He holds a bachelor's degree in workforce education from Southern Illinois University-Carbondale, a master's degree in media communications from Webster University, and a doctorate in higher education from Nova Southeastern University. He was twice elected as the president of the Lewis and Clark Faculty Association. Dreith is an avid photographer, loves Cardinal baseball and college basketball. He is a Paul Harris Fellow and has been the president of three different Rotary Clubs.
Jo-Ann Digman was appointed executive director of the STLCC Foundation in March 2011. She previously served as the executive director of InSight St. Louis, a non-profit dedicated to recruiting students from Historically Black Colleges and Universities to St. Louis to live and work. She also served as vice president of external relations for the Merisant Company. She was director of external relations for Monsanto, and was assistant to the chancellor at Saint Louis University. Digman also served from 1986-92 as district director for U.S. Sen. Christopher "Kit" Bond, and as a caseworker from 1979-82 for U.S. John Danforth. She holds both master's and bachelor's degrees in social work from Saint Louis University.
Rebecca Emerson
Executive Director for School and Community Partnerships
Bill Miller was appointed as assistant vice chancellor for human resources in June 2015. Miller has over 35 years experience in human resources, having worked in the corporate arena for McDonnell Douglas (Boeing), Ancilla Systems, in both Missouri and Illinois for Lutheran Senior Services, and for the Toney Watkins Co. In 2004, Governor Matt Blunt appointed Miller to the St. Louis County Board of Elections. Miller was appointed by Governor Jay Nixon as the state's personnel director in 2009. After leaving the state in 2012, Miller was again appointed in 2014 as Commissioner on the Missouri Housing Development Commission. Miller is a member of the Society of Human Resources Management, St. Louis Leadership Center (FOCUS St. Louis) and the Human Resource Management Association. He is a past member of the College of Healthcare Executives, a past board member for the Alzheimer's Association and past president of 100 Black Men of Metropolitan St. Louis. A Vietnam era veteran, Miller holds a master's degree in business from National Louis University-Chicago and a bachelor's degree in aeronautics from Tennessee State University.
Mary Nelson was named St. Louis Community College general counsel and chief legal officer in September 2014. Nelson has more than 30 years of experience in the public and private sectors, including stints in two mayoral administrations in St. Louis, positions in state government, and partnerships in several firms. Nelson's law practice concentrated in real estate, construction, and business law. In June 2015 she was appointed to serve on the Missouri State Highways and Transportation Commission. She was the first African-American woman appointed to Missouri's Administrative Hearing Commission, leaving that post to accept her current position with STLCC. Nelson served as president of the St. Louis Board of Police Commissioners, on the 2001 Missouri House of Representatives Reapportionment and Redistricting Commission, and served two terms on the Board of Trustees of the MU Law School Foundation. An active member of the Missouri Bar, Nelson has held leadership posts for the Bar Foundation Board of the Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis, and the Mound City Bar Association. Nelson earned her bachelor's degree in political philosophy from Princeton University. Her juris doctorate is from the University Of Missouri School of Law.
Kedra Tolson
Executive Director, Marketing and Communications
Kedra Tolson was named interim executive director of marketing and communications in February 2016. She previously served as marketing and communications coordinator at St. Louis Community College's Florissant Valley campus. Prior to joining STLCC, Tolson served as communications manager for Jazz St. Louis, a non-profit organization that promotes, presents and preserves jazz in St. Louis through performances, education and outreach activities. She also served as media relations manager for the University of Missouri-St. Louis, and communications and marketing director for Focus St. Louis. Tolson returned to STLCC in 2010 after having served as assistant coordinator for community relations from 1997 to 2001. She has served on the Florissant Valley and districtwide Institutional Affairs Council and is currently co-chair of the Higher Learning Commission Self-Study Criterion 1 (Mission) Committee. Tolson earned her bachelor's degree in mass communications from Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville.


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Obviously there are ISSUES as the stock has declined from over $10 to under $2 in two years. However, none of those issues have showed up in financial results, which have been improving. The AWN agreement has me a bit perplexed. I don't know why ALSK is giving up control of its wireless assets just to de-lever. The deal is both good (in the short run) but bad (in the long run). Regardless the current share price reflects something much worse going on.
Why did they need this complicated deal with GCI when there's a better one staying it alone or selling their wireless business outright to VZ. Even though VZ is building out 4G in ALSK, all voice traffic of any newly acquired subs by VZ will go over ALSK's 3G network (4G networks are only used for data!) - roaming revenue to ALSK will actually increase as VZ enters the market. Also it's likely that VZ is going to require backhaul and PP&E from ALSK to grow and maintain it's network with the lower 48 - I'm not that technical so not sure that is true, but it does still seem like VZ needs ALSK. At least VZ likely needs ALSK's network in the interim to spending possibly hundreds of millions to replicate it? Regardless the AWN seems needlessly complicated, a concoction of GCI and bankers which ALSK shareholders are paying for ($13m in legal and advisory fees upon closing alone).
Why have no shareholders gone activist to try to uncover what could be going on here? I own shares, but not enough to meaningfully count. In the meantime i'll continue buying more at these levels with the hope that someone more resourceful gets involved....any well reasoned comments are appreciated
Sentiment: Strong Buy
Likely the entry of Verizon into Alaska will muddy the waters - can Alaska really support one more player without one going belly up? Eventually someone will buy the assets of ALSK, or perhaps they will survive in another manner (business systems only?) . . .but it is a risk at this point, so under $2 is likely where they will stay until the picture is clear. Many of us thought Verizon would just make an offer - they could now buy ALSK with pocket change, but guess VZ has other ideas.
Muddy waters for sure....;the game I don't get is why ALSK would give up control of their wireless assets so cheaply especially when roaming revs from VZ are expected to increase over the short-term (I got this insight from the company's own recent presentation to bondholders) - this should give ALSK more leverage to extract higher roaming fees from VZ in the short term with their increased reliance on ALSK's 3G network to carry voice calls. It's clear to me that something is afoot that ALSK/GCI maybe even VZ and their bankers aren't being forthright about to equity owners.
I also believe management should be more pro-active about addressing the drop in the share price - especially since they own more shares today than they have at any point in the past (checked a lot of Form 4's - obviously somewhat a function of the stock drop and RSU vesting - but they are holding the stock, not dumping it).
What worry's me is this 'Eventually' talk about someone buying ALSK's assets....that's why I think this seems ripe for an activist to whip management into shape. When things clear up I'm hoping the correction in ALSK higher is quick.


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I've been ruminating lately on the progression of a career, particularly in the management of identity and purpose over time. Social media has the habit of affording certain identities to people that aren't as fluid as one might like. Sometimes when you do a thing, you become known as the person who did a thing, and then you become the person who did a thing. The Boy Who Lived etc etc. The problem is, I did a thing or two, but I'm not really that person any more. I've only tweeted twice in two months. Blogged even less. I hesitate now before I hit post and more often than not, I don't, in the end. If anyone asked you what I'd done lately, or even what my job title was now, you probably wouldn't be able to answer. I seem to have hung up the cowboy hat; I don't think I can trade any more on the strength of being an innovator or provocateur. You could say it was because I'd had a child. You could say it was because I'd been dragged through a misconduct case for my use of social media. You could say it was because I'd been forced to change jobs. You could say it was because I've got older and (more?) cynical and jaded. But at the end of the day I don't think it's particularly any one of those things, or perhaps it's all of them. I was going to say something sage here about how one can sustain a fluid identity over time via 'identity curation' but The Shovel, in all its scathing glory, has ruined the term for me forever. But since 'identity choosing' is fairly awkward I'll just go with the fact that sometimes it's time to put the old in a box somewhere and start something new. I don't want to be that guy who rides on the coattails of old news. I haven't yet found my niche to carve out in my new gig, but it's about time I started.
I came across this today, in an oddly fortuitous set of circumstances – Sarah & Duck is one of Hannah's (ok fine, and mine) favourite shows and I was looking up pictures for her. One happened to come from this article: http://www.awesomedepartment.com/blog/innovation-with-sarah-and-duck/ Say what you like about children's TV allegories, the guy makes some excellent points. And given higher education is often rather like an empty packet of sweets and a ball that won't bounce, fairly relevant. If you don't have kids and/or a penchant for cartoons and have never seen it, hit up iView for some Friday afternoon viewing. http://iview.abc.net.au/programs/sarah-and-duck/
So. Workplace change. Super fun happy time. I shouldn't complain too much, because I'm in the fortunate position of having a continuing appointment so I will more than likely come out the other end still having a job. And yet. The new org chart removes all but one academic positions, so it's essentially guaranteed that I will lose my academic position and be reassigned as professional staff. I'm not sure how I feel about this. I've been an academic for five and a half years now. I never planned to be an academic, just kind of fell into it. Despite this, I seemed to be rather suited to it. I made a fairly decent name for myself as an unconventional scholar. And without really meaning to it's become fairly tied to me as an identity. When people ask what I do I say I'm an academic. It's no secret that I've been ragingly cynical about many aspects of academia and have criticised the sector heavily along the way, but despite that it was still my niche. A far better fit for me than the classroom ever was. And I'm not sure how I feel about leaving that behind not by choice. Ostensibly, it's not a huge shift to step into learning design on a professional classification. I'll get paid more, for one (I still think someone should do a 'Things that pay more than Academic A" tumblr). The work will probably be similar, given how far my role has morphed away from academic development in the last year or so. I'll have the same colleagues. I'll lose the dead end career path associated with academics in central non-teaching roles. And yet. And yet. I got an email from Academia Obscura the other day, noting that I was on some list or another as a 'favourite academic tweeter'. This site still gets hits daily from being listed on The Thesis Whisperer as "more like us". I have half a PhD done (albeit once again on suspension through not winning at work/life balance). The academia category on my blog is fairly extensive. It's a lot of stuff to turn around and mark as no longer relevant. I think more than anything the thought of no longer having an institution to poke from the inside bothers me. Cowboy learning designer seems like a different genre. Not that I've done all that much poking of late but the principle is still there. So, I don't know. While no new positions have been allocated yet it's certain I won't have an academic one so I suppose this counts as my obligatory 'leaving academia' post, without the catharsis that would have come with doing it of my own accord and saying 'sayonara suckers'. Don't get me wrong, there's a lot of things I won't miss. But, being the rogue academic isn't one of them. I'll miss that title. Onwards, though, I suppose, and I will see you all in another dimension, with voyeuristic intention (do I get bonus points for both beginning and ending with a painful musical reference?).
A couple of weeks ago Steve stumbled across html5up while looking for wordpress themes. They are not, in fact, wordpress themes, which initially disappointed me until I worked out they were actually fabulous. What they are are very clean, simple, responsive HTML5 templates, free under creative commons licensing. You saw me use one for the introductory page for this project. I originally saw the potential as content containers that look slick and are responsive (which is one up on most educational systems – sorry Moodle, I like you but slick and responsive aren't your middle names). My supervisor, though, has started using one as a presentation tool, which really I am a bit dirty about since I didn't think of it first. It's true that they do require delving into code to edit, but it's not nearly as daunting a prospect as you'd think. Even if you're clueless with the actual code it's easy enough to locate the placeholder text and images and change them (a html editor like atom makes this much easier). Then it's just a matter of chucking the package somewhere accessible and pulling index.html up on the screen when it's time to present. The advantage of this is that you are guaranteed to have something that works and looks good regardless of the size or resolution of the presentation screen, you can present from any device at all with no issues with installed software etc and it's easily shareable afterwards without having to slideshare it up. Plus, single-page scrolling makes navigation much less painful than flicking through slide decks or suffering the rotating canvas of doom (aka prezi). Just for interests' sake I've knocked up a dummy one: Link to full page here Or as an iframe: At any rate, definitely worth a look next time you need to do something, website, presentation or otherwise.
In my post yesterday I referred to a myriad of elephants in the room regarding the teaching of academic integrity, which I thought I'd unpack here a bit. Many of them are symptoms of sector-wide problems and tie in with other significant issues like casualisation. I'm certainly not saying anything new but I still think it's worth discussing. 1. Expectation vs reality When teaching academic integrity people expect you to refer to the policy and the consequences of transgressions. If you do plagiarism, disciplinary action will happen. It sounds good in theory, but realities are very different. Let's talk about the casual lecturer who isn't paid for administrivia and red tape. Let's talk about the lecturer who's so time poor it's more trouble than it's worth to follow up investigations. Let's talk about the lecturer who is pressured to pass full-fee paying students and turn a blind eye to plagiarism. Let's talk about all the systematic issues that mean the likelihood of consequences eventuating for plagiarism and cheating is not nearly so high as everyone would like to believe. 2. Assessment I've said it before and I'll say it again. Essays are the #1 easiest type of assessment to plagiarise and cheat on. Ghostwriters are everywhere and ridiculously easy to engage. Quizzes and exams are similarly easy to cheat (if you're not convinced, search youtube for 'how to cheat on an exam or quiz'). Until we have a system that supports the use of more authentic assessment types, this is still going to be an issue. And using more sophisticated and restrictive technologies to try and catch them or lock them down is not the solution, students who have access to a massive online hive mind will always be one step ahead. 3. Do as I say, not as I do All academics adhere to the principles of academic integrity without question, right? Sure, we might know how to cite. But how many of us are attributing images we use in our online courses, or seeking permission for those bound by copyright? If it's on Google it's free to use, right? There are some significant holes in our understanding of things, particularly regarding the use of digital media. 4. Biting the hand that feeds you It's a hard reality that many universities are extremely reliant on full-fee-paying international students. And any significant disciplinary action runs the risk of jeopardising that. In some instances the customer really is always right. 5. Representation vs stereotyping A particularly fraught issue when using actors is – do you cast characters that international students can identify with, or do you shy away from that lest you be seen as typecasting? 6. Siloing Finally, the complex issue of life management. It's easy to think academic integrity exists in a silo, just learn this and don't do the naughty things and it will all be fine. But the reality is that many students are managing complex issues, some of which take priority over studies and over behaving with integrity. For some the shame of failing pulls far stronger than any potential risk of being caught. So there you have it. None of these elephants can be addressed, all of them will impact the ability for any kind of strategy around academic integrity to have the level of impact we'd like. But until we see significant changes in the system, all we can do is fix the things we can. Godspeed, Brenda and Damo, godspeed.
One of the projects I've been working on of late is redesigning our whole approach to academic integrity. Now, because we can't just direct students to dontbeanidiot.org (although I dearly would love to substitute that for most policies), it's been a fairly substantial project. How do you teach 20,000-odd students academic integrity with any sort of impact? It's fairly safe to say that current practices are not particularly effective. In general it seems to be something that's approached from a compliance training perspective – read this policy, take this quiz. It's interesting to notice how educational research dovetails into parenting. I'd read Alfie Kohn years ago as an educator, but he has also done some significant work on parenting, particularly gentle parenting and the ineffectiveness of punitive discipline and punishment. And while the concept of discipline is usually applied to younger children, it makes sense to extrapolate to adults and assume that trying to teach by saying 'here are all the ways you will be punished if you don't learn this and do something wrong, now prove that you remember them' is probably not all that effective a strategy. What's the alternative? The key problem is – how do we convince people that this matters? If someone looks at a list of punishments and balances that against the likelihood of being caught, the perceived difficulty of actually learning the skills involved and the potential ramifications of failing, one can understand why one might be tempted by the ease of procuring ghostwritten work (which is astonishingly easy, if you've ever looked) etc. What's missing is making that choice matter to the student. What's in it for them? How does acting with integrity benefit them? Reputation is a currency people understand. People also like stories. Stories and games. Stories invest people emotionally. Games give safe spaces for skill development with immediate feedback. Compliance training doesn't do any of this. For academic integrity training to have impact, students need to care about the benefits to them and to others, to understand how cause and effect works (not just cause and punishment) and be able to develop skills without fear of ramifications. Which leads us to the Academic Integrity Kit. I'm not sure where Kit came from but it's stuck. What it is, is a digital storytelling narrative crossed with a FPS (first person shooter, for non-gaming types) and a choose your own adventure book. Rather than the standard approach to scenarios and storytelling where it's observed at a third-person remove, we shot all the footage either over the shoulder of a playable character or as a screencast so the narrative is brought into the first person. Each character is a messy, real-life trope with complex competing priorities, rather than a black/white good/bad positioning removed from any context. Students make decisions on behalf of their character and see immediate consequences of these decisions, both in terms of policy and of the effect on their reputation and future career prospects. One key point that we're trying to make is that it's not just academic integrity, it's integrity in general and the principles apply in all areas of life – like the mother in law who posts photos of your kids to Facebook without asking. And it's all held under the umbrella of the excellent dad-joke tag line our graphic designer Ivan came up with – 'it's your CV, not ctrl-C ctrl-V'. It's not a panacea. The dialogue is contrived as we weren't allowed swearing or slang. Artistic liberties were liberally taken in order to fit 9 designated areas to cover into a designated 'half hour or less' module with at least a semi-believable storyline. We had no budget to speak of so acting quality is not great in places (largely due to me having to play one of the characters – those who know me will know how ridiculous that concept is). There are an astronomical number of elephants in the room (which I'll cover in a different post). It's built in Captivate and auth-walled in Moodle which frustrates the open-or-die side of me. But – it's a better way of thinking about academic integrity, and hopefully a better way of doing. It may or may not have more impact, since it's yet to be tested, but it's a strong entry into the 'we really need to be doing this better' conversation around the teaching of academic integrity. While you won't be able to access the full kit, you can take a look at the mockup splash page that introduces the module and a couple of screenshots, so here you go. I've also submitted a poster to Ascilite on this so if you're lucky you can come chat to me about it IRL too. Splash page Project team is myself, Steve Carruthers who I think only exists online in his photographer form, Iain Mackay and Ivan Thornton who I am not sure exists online at all.
Following on in my thinking about badges, Colin's comment re: badge literacy on my last post deserves some exploration. Little graphics that you stick on some website somewhere are a hard sell to a university, because: 1. Boy Scouts. The actual concept is identical and the niche for this type of credential is identical but the association of nine year olds in funny hats sewing patches on their shirts is not doing us any favours. 2. Gamification. The idea that you can bribe students to do things with cutesy digital carrots is also not doing us any favours. 3. Related: academics are generally allergic to anything that is not dripping with rigour. 4. The buzzword bingo keynoter set who like to simultaneously hype and fearmonger badges under the guise of 'future'. 5. Anything that involves new technology generally sounds bad, because generally universities have a history of implementing new technology badly. In short, badges suffer more than their fair share of bad press. And as such, the idea that "badges have the potential to support by surfacing the less-obvious learning that is often hidden due to the focus on grades and transcripts" sounds fairly implausible. So how do we sell it? In my completely anecdotal experience, people generally fall into three camps regarding badges – the Boy Scout set, the fence sitter set and the gamification set; dismissal, ambivalence or poor fit for use. Which tends to be a recursive loop of doom; the more the Boy Scout set see flippant, gamified use of badges, the more they are dismissed as trivial and gimmicky and the more ambivalent the fence sitters become. All of these groups have somewhat disparate needs in regards to raising badge literacy; here is my quick and dirty field guide. Badge literacy for Boy Scouters Clearly identified use cases Clear identification of the niche that badges fill and the current problems exist that badge implementation may help solve Badge graphics that look 'serious' A badge that looks cutesy or gimmicky or uses poor graphic design will only damage perception of badges further Scholarly evidence Evidence to support the notion that badges and microcredentialling are not passing fads and executive whimsy. Actual policy a bonus. Concrete examples (either theoretical or best practice from other institutions) Demonstration of the process in practice, ideally from someone who has already done it because people like the word 'leading' in theory but in practice nobody wants to be the first institution to do crazy things. Badge literacy for Gamifiers Clearly identified use cases Clear identification of the niche that badges fill and the current problems exist that badge implementation may help solve, as separate from superficial learner engagement and motivation Emphasis on 'big picture' (professional portfolio usage, context, durability etc) Awareness of where badges sit as part of an individual's overall portfolio and knowledge of the intended audiences to put individual badges in context Reputational awareness Awareness of the implications of public-facing badges and how media and research coverage of badge use will reflect on them and their institution Alternate strategies for motivating learners Since an already-identified need for learner motivation exists, this group needs alternate strategies to address this need that do not require the use of badges Badge literacy for Fence Sitters Clearly identified use cases Clear identification of the niche that badges fill and the current problems exist that badge implementation may help solve Assurance of technical stability and ease of use People get very tired very quickly of yet another system that's going to be hard to use, break a lot, and probably be superseded in a couple of years. Compelling arguments Mostly a combination of items from the previous two groups. Shiny powerpoints optional. Obviously this is by no means exhaustive, but it's something to chew on while sitting in red tape purgatory.


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Chocolate, Peanut Butter & Oatmeal Squares
Total Time
Prep 5 mins
Cook 7 mins
My ds got this when he was in cub scouts. It's a fast & easy snack & the kids love it.(me too)
Ingredients Nutrition
- 1⁄2 cup margarine
- 2 cups sugar
- 1⁄2 cup milk
- 1⁄2 cup hershey cocoa
- 1⁄2 cup peanut butter
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 3 cups dry oatmeal (I use 1 minute)
- Put first 4 ingredients in large sauce pan.
- Bring to boil, stirring constantly Remove from heat& add remaining ingredients Mix well& spoon into 9"X13" pan Refrigerate, cut& serve.
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Delicious! Quick, easy & very satisfying!
These are good. They had a little troubles setting but we liked them.
Great combination!! I typically make cookies out of this recipe (we call them boiled cookies, but they have many different names) - but these squares were delicious! Here's a tip: After heating the first 4 ingredients to a rolling boil, stir constantly while boiling for 2 minutes and then remove from heat and add other ingredients. This helps it to set better. Also, there's really no need to refrigerate. They set just as quick at room temperature, and really are less likely to dry out if not put in the fridge to set. Just be sure you cover after they set. I have made this recipe with quick oats and old-fashioned oats and it always turns out for me.


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Posted Monday, August 4th 2014 @ 4pmHour 1- Charch fills in for Common and has Dave Sinykin on to chat about Favre's number being retired then Brian Oake joins to talk about the Paul McCartney concert and everything music!! Hour 2- Brian Oake and Paul Fletcher chit chat music artists over 35 with Charch. Colin Covert calls in to talk movies with Charch!! Hour 3- Rosey joins Charch to talk about the Paul McCartney Concert and Ron Rosenbaum calls in. The guys then chat Brett Favre, Great sports broadcasters, and Vikings Training Camp!!


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By Wendell Lee
Scott McCall
How many times did you celebrate mistakes in your last practice? Last season?
Often times as a coach and teacher, I have witnessed the frustration of the mistake. The stick slams the ground, the head goes down, the mind goes to an alternate dimension.
I have debated with many coaches on whether to let them play on or to stop play and highlight the event. As I like to coach younger players, I find it advantageous to blow the whistle and make a brief point if there is a "teachable moment." Young minds won't remember the circumstances if you wait to mention it at the end of practice.
There are a few other benefits that come with this change in philosophy. Here's an example:
We're doing a footwork drill and Henry slips and falls because he is going too fast. He loses the ball. Some players laugh at his folly, some comment, Henry slams his stick, and my whistle blows.
I pull all of the players together and to their surprise, I am going to reward Henry! I praise Henry for the following: He pushed his body and skill to the limit. How else is he going to know where the limit is? Isn't this really the reason we practice?
I highlight the trust and effort that he has given to the team to improve by finding the edge. I remind all of the players that they too are going to make mistakes and that mistakes are the only way to find the edge. Within seconds, the drill proceeds, and all of the players are going faster and pushing harder. Some even begin trying to slip in hopes that I will point them out as well. Although the latter is not the goal, I am confident that in seeing this behavior, the message and the lesson were received.
The earlier we celebrate the mistake, the earlier the flushing ritual begins. Teaching players to leave mistakes in the past is difficult. I am often bothered by a loss for as much as a week. If I'm honest, some of those losses have never truly gone away. Teaching players to flush the mistake and get on with the job at hand is predicated on how you the coach handle the player's mistake.
Celebrate mistakes now and the trust between player and coach is strengthened. The true benefit of being a Double-Goal Coach is the ease with which trust and commitment can develop between player and coach. By celebrating the mistake, you let all of the players know that you respect them, and that you know mistakes are part of the game. If you celebrate the mistake in a truly positive manner, they know you have their backs.
When I stopped focusing on mistakes in games and stressing them more at practice, I had players whose emotional tanks were always topped off. They were ready to give me every bit of focus and effort that I could hope for come game day. Even with an admittedly huge ego about wins and losses, I've found that Double-Goal coaching principles (coaching for wins and life lessons) are a lot easier to adhere to and ultimately the best way to achieve success.
Almost all players want to please you the coach. Regardless of the antics that they use to hide their mistake or weaknesses, they want to do it right. The caring coach is mindful of this basic fact and builds a relationship based on this positive starting place. When I make a bigger deal about a mistake in a positive manner than a goal or an assist, I think they get the notion that mistakes are okay.
How we discuss the mistake now will ultimately impact the effort that the player will give to eliminate future instances. I know it sounds utopian, but it works!
Wendell Lee is the director of programs at US Lacrosse. Suggest topics for future parent blog posts in the comments section.
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Pitch Dingman Competition
The Pitch Dingman Competition is the University of Maryland's only business competition exclusively for Terps. Held annually, students can compete for more than $30,000 in start-up funding. The competition consists of a fall Semifinals and a winter Finals competition. Top student entrepreneurs deliver pitches to judges who are experts in entrepreneurship, angel investing and venture capital.
Interested in applying? Check out the application deadlines and eligibility requirements below. Also plan to come in to a Dingman Fridays session to discuss your business idea!
The 2016 Winners
uBoard, Natalie Urban
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Final Competition
Tuesday, February 16 from 6 to 7:30 p.m.
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Read about the semifinal round of competition held in December.
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**All teams selected as Semifinalists are guaranteed $250 and all teams selected Finalists are guaranteed $500
All applicants must be a current student at the University of Maryland. Applicants will be evaluated on the uniqueness of their ideas, the current traction and scalability of their business, and the viability of their business as measured by the steps that they have taken to mitigate risks. For the Semifinal and Final rounds, judges will also take into consideration the contestants' progress toward their goals and steps taken to grow their business since time of application. Click here to start your application to the Pitch Dingman Competition.
Completing Your Application
You must complete an application for your team to be considered for the Pitch Dingman Competition. The application consists of a series of questions about you and your business as well as a pitch deck. If selected for the Pitch Dingman Competition, your pitch should be a two-minute presentation providing a brief overview of your business idea. It is meant to help you—as an entrepreneur—to practice and hone your ability to verbalize and sell the idea to early stage investors such as friends and family, angel investors and venture capital firms. The key is to share your passion and enthusiasm for your idea. Your pitch deck should be short (no more than 5-7 slides) and to the point. Some topics to consider including in your pitch deck are:
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June 20, 2008 Owing the IRS back taxes can be a painful experience. It can be even more painful being levied by the IRS because of the debt. Fortunately, the IRS does have solutions to these situations.
Once, you click the press release title "Maryland man receives....", than you can read the whole press release. Here is the whole release.
Maryland man receives emergency help from JK Harris
NORTH CHARLESTON, SC - Owing the IRS back taxes can be a painful experience. It can be even more painful being levied by the IRS because of the debt. Fortunately, the IRS does have solutions to these situations.
Sean Stewart knew he owed the IRS, and because of a levy placed on his wages, he knew he needed help, and fast. That's when he turned to JK Harris & Company, the nation's largest tax resolution company, and its Emergency Management Team.
"Some People say 'you could've done it yourself,' but I say, its the peace of mind knowing that someone that has experience is doing it," the Bowie MD man said. JK Harris really worked quickly and efficiently keeping me abreast of what was going on with my case and kept me with updated correspondance relentlessly. Thank you JK Harris."
JK Harris immediatly went to work on the case for Stewart. With one telephone call to the IRS, Stewart's case specialist discovered her client was not compliant, meaning he had not filed all of his tax returns, and the IRS would not release a levy without them being filed.
After being informed about this, Stewart contracted JK Harris to complete his missing returns. Once Stewart filed the returns, JK Harris was able to negotiate an installment agreement with the IRS in which he would pay $43,262 debt in monthly payments. And perhaps, more importantly, the levy was released.
"My EMT Case Specialist was very professional and timely when it came to dealing with my tax issues," Stewart said. "The fact that during the process, she was understanding, helpful, conscientious and very attentive when I had questions or concerns in regards to what was expected of me, gave me peace of mind that I needed to not be stressed and feel confidence that things would be handled in an expeditious fashion."
And his case specialist had confidence in Stewart as well.
"He admitted he understood that this was an issue of his own making, and that he would do whatever was necessary to fix the problem," Stewart's case specialist said.
This whole press release is a lie. I am taking a look at the JK harris webpage and there is no mention of Emergency Management Team. JK Harris has an uneducated case specialist working on a taxpayer's case. Case specailist make about $10-11 an hour and have no expertise in taxation. There is no such thing as a emergency management team and is created for testimonials by Josh Baker. Peace of mind ties into the advertising that is on the jK harris webpage. Josh, why don't you tell the truth how JK Harris & Co took money from taxpayers ($3000 plus) and did absolutely nothing except prolong their tax nightmares. On several occassions,paperwork was lost by one case worker who was replaced by another case worker and than another.
Clients of JK harris filed complaints here on ripoff report about how inadequate the case workers were. Another complaint was that case workers were replaced quite frequently. I believe the turnover with case workers is relatively high at JK harris. The case workers nor the traveling salespeople are by no means tax professionals. If case workers had a consicence, they quit or get fired.
Josh, I think you just made this up for your advertising press release. I like to make a suggestion. Next time you tell a lie, at least get the dates right. THis press release has 2 different dates (March 21 and June 20, 2008). Josh, you need to pay attention to detail like this to get your story straight.
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Jonathon has provided a viable option below. In the meantime, I have already compiled a database with statistics for Fairfield on a monthly/quarterly/and yearly basis dating back to 2001. If you're interested in the # of units sold, average list/sale price, median list/sale price, and/or average market time I can provide them to you. I also have the % change for each category compared to the same time period of the previous year. Please let me know if I can help.
Real Estate Professionals also can supply property history, too. The cost is a usually the chance to make your acquaintenance in hopes that you will do business with them.
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The statistics Chris mentions below would also be very helpful. I will try to contact him as well.
If you would like accurate inforamtion about homes that have sold, I would be glad to let you search the MLS for free. Visit fairfieldhomes.listingbook.com Within minutes, you can retrieve data directly from the MLS, about homes that are currently on the market, homes that are pending, and homes that have sold. HAVE FUN!
However, if you're looking for comps, the question is whether you SHOULD. In many areas, data on sales of property from, say, 2006 would give an entirely misleading picture of the value of a property. There are plenty of areas around me (Northern Virginia) where houses that sold for $500,000 in 2006 are selling for $225,000 today. Condos that sold for $300,000 in 2006 are selling for $90,000 today. And other areas--more to your point--where properties sold for $400,000 in 2006 and there are no recent sales. No way to tell for sure what those properties are worth.
My suggestion would be to contact a Realtor. Don't just ask for sales. Ask for properties that were listed and didn't sell. Maybe they were withdrawn. Or maybe the owner decided to rent the property instead.
In the example above, of a $400,000 property without recent sales comps, I'd look at all activity. Maybe a few houses were listed last year at $300,000 and didn't sell. That tells you the price is somewhere below $300,000. Maybe a house was listed for sale at $320,000 and for rent at $1,700 and ended up being rented. Again, an indication that $320,000 was too high.
That's what I'd do before relying on sales from three years ago.
Hope that helps.
In some instances may have past 6 months past, many issues are involved.
If you dont have a realtor investigate MLS sold properties, an appraiser is next option


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On February 15, 2015, at approximately 3:17pm, officers from the Indiana State Police in Sellersburg responded to a single vehicle, roll over crash on I-265 near the 7.6 mile marker.
The Indiana Department of Education released 2015 school accountability grades today. The final grades were approved unanimously by the State Board of Education during the January 26 Board meeting.
A standoff situation in Sellersburg that began in the early morning hours on Friday ended peacefully after seven hours.
Just in case you missed it the first time six years ago, this is your chance. You don't want to miss this opportunity again!


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Spring 2016 Visiting Artists & Scholars
Mirror of Life Panel Discussion
Thursday, February 11, 2016
12:30 - 2:00 PM Escondido Theatre, SUB
Sang-Mi Yoo (Associate Professor, School of Art), Moderator
Rafael Beneytez-Duran (Associate Professor, College of Architecture)
Mari Michael Glassell (Assistant Professor, College of Architecture)
Jessica Meuninck-Ganger (Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)
Kuhn Park (Associate Professor, College of Architecture)
Visiting Artists & Scholars
A Conversation with Terry Allen
Tuesday, February 16, 2016
Formby Room – Southwest Collection
Dr.Soraya Murray, Assistant Professor, Film & Digital Media, UC Santa Cruz
"The Visual Politics of Video Games: Assassin's Creed Liberation"
Thursday, March 23, 2016, School of Art B-01
Amanda McDonald Crowley, New York-based cultural-worker and curator
"Art/Tech/Food/: Cultural Collaborations"
Tuesday, April 12, 2016, School of Art B-01
Carolyn Boyd, Archaeologist and Executive Director of SHUMLA School of Texas State University
"Peco River Rock Art"
Wednesday, April 20, 2016, 5:30 PM in Art B-01
JOINT: Video-Poetry Collaboration
A collaborative project between the visual arts students enrolled in Assistant Professor Jiawei Gong's Transmedia classes, and the creative writing students of Professor John Poch, PhD of the Department of English. The project's visiting artists are funded with a special grant received from the Ryla T. & John F. Lott Endowment for Excellence in the Visual Arts (in the School of Art) and supplemental funding from the College of Visual & Performing Arts.
Jem Cohen, New York-based filmmaker, photographer & multi-media artist
Film Screening with the director
Museum Hours (2012, 106 min)
7:00 PM, Thursday, February 18, 2016, Alamo Drafthouse Cinema (Free)
Todd Boss, Minneapolis-based poet, public artist & film producer
7:30 PM, Tuesday, March 8, 2016, English LH001
Alex Henery, Boston-based filmmaker from England
Event TBA
7:30 PM, Tuesday, March 22, 2016
Screening of Final Video Poems by JOINT
7:00 PM, Tuesday, May 3, 2016, Alamo Drafthouse Cinema (Free)
Interarts Faculty Research Lectures
Presented by the College of Visual & Performing Arts
Dorothy Chansky, Ph.D., Director, Humanities Center at Texas Tech, Associate Professor in the School of Theatre & Dance
"Lone Body/Lone Voice: Wilella Waldorf, 'Girl Critic'"
Tuesday, March 29th at 7:00 PM in Art B-01
Andrés Peralta, Ph.D., Assistant Professor in the School of Art
"Latino narratives on the perception of otherness, gender, and sexuality"
Tuesday, April 5th at 7:00 PM in Art B-01
Andy Gibb, Ph.D., Associate Professor in the School of Theatre & Dance
"The Passion of James O'Neill: The Politics of Morality in 1879 San Francisco"
Tuesday, April 12th at 7:00 PM in Architecture 001
Heather Warren-Crow, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Interdisciplinary Arts in the College of Visual & Performing Arts
"Ever Since Ke$ha Woke Up in the Morning Feeling Like P-Diddy": Vocal Fry, Affect, and Energy in the 21st Century"
Tuesday, April 19th at 7:00 PM in Architecture 001
Exhibitions and speaker programs at the School of Art are supported by a generous grant from the Helen Jones Foundation of Lubbock. Additional support comes from Cultural Activities Fees administered through the College of Visual & Performing Arts.


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I loves these the only complaint is my dogs like to take the rim off and chew them up so know I try to glue them be for I use them
I bought 40 of these (small & large) to donate to animal rescue. They needed bowls to attach to carriers for pets being flown long distance. They are so sturdy, stable and durable that they ended up using them in all of the cages in the vets office too! :)
I have used these for years and can't live without them. They are great in travel crates because they prevent water slopping all over the dog and the bedding. But, I also use them as food dishes with the plastic rim removed. They will fasten easily on any crate and they clean easily. They are not as noisy as stainless. My puppies are sometimes afraid of metal bowls. These work a treat.
I have purchased these bowls many times in the past as our Humane Society does dog transport rescue and we send dogs in crates. They need a temporary water source.
These are WONDERFUL with traveling crates and the "spill proof lip"
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FYI, the current build is broken because of some Qt issues.
On the bright side, Qt is split up into two packages so you don't need to install the demos and extras. ;)
I'm working on another build to hopefully fix the runtime issues, but for now, I would recommend skipping this build, only the simplest of apps will run properly.
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