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In a state like Alabama that breathes in passion for college football, the buzz for the kickoff of the 2012 season is at a fever pitch just days away from kickoff.
Entering the season as the defending national champions, Alabama fans are anxious to see if the Tide can notch its first back-to-back national titles since 1978-79.
Nick Saban may have lost a number of the key contributors that formed the nucleus of the Tide's title-winning squads in 2009 and 2011, but the strength of this year's squad appears to lie in the trenches on both sides of the line of scrimmage—where the depth chart is littered with upperclassmen.
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Alabama begins the season ranked at No. 2 , but what are the Tide's chances to collect its 15th national title?
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MANASQUAN -- Fishermen plucked three people from a lifeboat 20 miles outside Barnegat Light Sunday morning after their 80-foot vessel went up in flames, according to the Coast Guard.
The three fisherman were on board the Captain O J Riggs, which was harvesting scallops. One of them broadcast a mayday call just before 3:25 a.m., reporting an engine fire and later the deployment of a life boat, said Petty Officer Chris McLaughlin.
A nearby fishing boat, Miss Peaches, relayed the message to the Coast Guard. The agency sent a helicopter from Air Station Atlantic City, a rescue boat based at Coast Guard Station Manasquan and the Coast Guard Cutter Elm, with a home port of Atlantic Beach, N.C.
When they arrived between 90 minutes and two hours later, McLaughlin said, crew members on a second nearby fishing boat -- the A.L. Milliken -- had lifted the three from the lifeboat.
The rescue boat took the three survivors to Coast Guard Station Manasquan. None were injured.
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Dozens of people packed Wednesday night's North Bergen Planning Board meeting at Township Hall for a hearing on the Appleview Development, a proposed five-story, 59-unit residential building that would be near the Galaxy Towers on River Road in Guttenberg.
The developer, Appleview LLC, is proposing to build on 2.3 acres of land at 7009 and 7101 River Road, on the North Bergen/Guttenberg border.
For more than a year, Appleview LLC has been seeking approval to not only combine the two lots, but also to build closer to both the Palisades cliff and River Road, surpassing the maximum building coverage for the lots.
Peter Steck, a planning consultant who was brought in by the attorney representing residents from the Galaxy Towers who oppose the project, testified that the Planning Board should not approve the variances for the building until modifications are made.
He said the development is too close to the Palisades and too close to River Road. He added that someone walking on the street would not be able to see enough of the Palisades.
During cross-examination, however, Steck admitted that certain township ordinances are vague in their wording.
The Hudson-Meadowlands Sierra Club and area residents have been fiercely opposed to the project. They say it would violate township and county ordinances that prevent developers from both building into the Palisades and blocking the view of the cliff from the street.
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Mexico City – Mexico City authorities have set up the Guinness-certified largest nativity scene in the world as part of their Christmas festivities.
The nativity scene, which cost $2 million to create, was unveiled Wednesday by capital Mayor Marcelo Ebrard in the parking lot of the giant Azteca stadium.
The scene, which covers 20,000 square meters (215,000 sq. ft.) and has 5,000 figures and 700 tons of infrastructure, is comprised of 57 smaller scenes that recall the biblical passages discussing the birth of Jesus in Bethlehem more than 2,000 years ago.
Organizers said that this nativity scene took 70 days to fashion and that task was performed by architects, engineers, designers and historians, among others.
They said that many of the pieces and figures - including camels, burros, elephants, the Three Kings, an angel and some of the residents of Bethlehem - were crafted by Mexican artisans and many of them actually move.
The Mexico City government said in a communique that the scene has set two Guinness records, one for the largest nativity scene in the world and another for having the greatest number of figures for a scene of this type.
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Skip to comments.Hydrocarbons Deep Within Earth: New Computational Study Reveals How
Posted on 04/18/2011 6:12:10 AM PDT by Red Badger
A new computational study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences reveals how hydrocarbons may be formed from methane in deep Earth at extreme pressures and temperatures.
The thermodynamic and kinetic properties of hydrocarbons at high pressures and temperatures are important for understanding carbon reservoirs and fluxes in Earth.
The work provides a basis for understanding experiments that demonstrated polymerization of methane to form high hydrocarbons and earlier methane forming reactions under pressure.
Hydrocarbons (molecules composed of the elements hydrogen and carbon) are the main building block of crude oil and natural gas. Hydrocarbons contribute to the global carbon cycle (one of the most important cycles of Earth that allows for carbon to be recycled and reused throughout the biosphere and all of its organisms).
Geologists and geochemists believe that nearly all (more than 99 percent) of the hydrocarbons in commercially produced crude oil and natural gas are formed by the decomposition of the remains of living organisms, which were buried under layers of sediments in Earth's crust, a region approximately 5-10 miles below Earth's surface.
(Excerpt) Read more at sciencedaily.com ...
A snapshot taken from a first-principles molecular dynamics simulation of liquid methane in contact with a hydrogen-terminated diamond surface at high temperature and pressure. The spontaneous formation of longer hydrocarbons are readily found during the simulations.
Oil is regenerating ping.............
Renewable resource.
But methane and hydrocarbons are responsible for global warming 5 miles under the earth.
Bookmark bump.
been saying it for years..."peak oil" is a myth...
What we have is "restricted production"...
Fossils From Animals And Plants Are Not Necessary For Crude Oil And Natural Gas, Swedish Researchers Find
Discovery backs theory oil not 'fossil fuel'
New evidence supports premise that Earth produces endless supply
40 to 95 miles deep, that is one heck of a long straw to get at it...
We were put here with God given talents on a planet with more resources than we can use in the time we have before the Revelation,
and of course, the left, under the direction of the "god of this age", their ideological father, wants to restrict our usage of those God-given resources.
My guess is that we are currently using oil faster than the earth is producing it, but it does show that there is a lot more out there than previously thought and we should go use it. The more oil they find and the more we use, the more skeptical I am that it was formed only from decomposing animal matter. There is too much oil in too many different rock types and formations for that.
Coal, on the other hand, while also plentiful, is more than likely formed from decaying plant matter. It does have the fossils in it. Lots more plant matter than animal matter. Always has been.
And what about the methane lakes found on Saturn's moon, Titan?
Considering we can make light, sweet crude from our own garbage, I would say that the idea that oil can only be made of decaying animals is a fantasy that should have been removed from the public idea 50 years ago.
You never heard of Titanic dinosaurs?
As long as living things continue to die. . . . . . . .
the abiotic process of oil confirmed once again. we just need to pump the existing out to order to give the new more room into which to rise.
I find it hard to believe that the (compacted, concentrated, partially converted to hydrocarbons) mass of dead plants and animals is greater than the amount of oil we have consumed to date.
I guess that it oozes to the top like a big zit..............
Igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary.
If you find hydrocarbons located within the igneous rock, you can make the case for abiotic oil, but if you find the hydrocarbon trapped by the igneous rock, you can't make the case.
If you find hydrocarbons located within metamorphic and/or sedimentary rock, you made the case for an organic origin. If you find hydrocarbons trapped by metamorphic and/or sedimentary rock, you can't make the case for abiotic oil.
Nice mental image Red... :)
And there are more than a dozen different varieties of coal.
Oil is oil........
oil ping
I agree
"I find it hard to believe that the (compacted, concentrated, partially converted to hydrocarbons) mass of dead plants and animals is greater than the amount of oil we have consumed to date."
When I consider how old the earth is, however, I can believe it. Read "Annals of the Former World" by John McPhee, if you ever get the chance. Your head will spin when you start to think about how OLD the earth is. There was a lot of time for those plants to die and get dirt piled on them.
Wow. Abiogenic hydrocarbon formation. Amazing idea.
Oil is............. "Earth Juice"
Interesting. Possible new/more efficient catalysts for improving/replacing Fischer/Tropsch?? We've got lots of methane, but are short on octane and cetane (gasoline and diesel)
There's heavy oil, light sweet oil, tar sands oil, three in one oil...
If crude oil is found outside a sediment I´d like to know about it.
MY personal favorite: Hawaiian Tropic Oil..................
That would be awesome.
If we can quickly, cheaply and efficiently convert methane to gasoline or diesel we would never run out of fuel...........
If crude oil is found outside a sediment I´d like to know about it.
I'm sure you can find some in here..............
You mean Dmitri Mendeleev may have been right? But that would make him to be some kind of chemical genius or something.
But like B4Ranch above, I'm also following Rossi's "cold fusion" reactor with GREAT interest. Nothing about the way it has been handled indicates "scam" to me.
But how much is "a lot," really? It isn't just a factor of time, but of time under the correct conditions (which are rare). If the right conditions are not there 99.9% of the time, a billion years is shrunk to an effective million years, and probably less than that. It appears that for large stretches of time much of the earth has been under hostile conditions for large scale decomposition under great pressures. What percentage of the earth today (which is mature and therefore "ideal") exhibits these conditions? Not many acres.
The whole plosive "Billions and Billions," uttered in reverential and sacred tones, needs to be de-mystified. We should not be so quickly, almost religiously, enamored by "the Big Number." To put it in a little perspective, if the groundskeeper can't coax a billion blades of grass to show up on the White House lawn this year, it's going to look like real crap.
Periodically he was a genius............
>>Nothing about the way it has been handled indicates "scam" to me.<<
A couple of years ago I attempted to buy into his experiment but was turned down. Not because the amount I offered was too small but because he is determined to finance it himself. That's what told me this man had a winner.
I've got a billion weeds in mine...............I know. I've pulled them all at least once...........
Mmmmmmmmm, juicy caboosies.
With my Geology degree in hand, I have a difficult time believing that crude is found outside of sediments.
The premise of this story is difficult for me to buy into;
What say you guys?
I agree with you.
But I get tired of discussing the point with people on Free Republic that don't even understand what sedimentary rock is and how it is formed from the surface.
Also, in the refinery, we use heat and pressure to break down crude oil into simpler, smaller hydrocarbon molecules, not the reverse.
For any that think differently than that, they should try applying the math of our current consumption rate times a few hundred million years.
The volume would suggest if that was possible, the problem would not be finding oil, but how to keep from drowning in it.
Who's to say that crude oil cannot be formed in several different ways.
There's more than one way to skin a cat and make Chinese food.............
FWIW, I have less than no idea what I'm talking about :)
From what I've read, I understand that at one time there was actually very little oxygen roaming around the atmosphere, it was mostly CO2. As the plants got their foothold, the oxygen was freed, (kind of all at once, relatively speaking) to the extent that all of the iron in the oceans oxidized at once (relatively) giving us that band of red rock that can be found all over the earth. You can see it in Eastern Pennsylvania, where the very old mountains are showing us their roots. That had to be A LOT of plants to release that much oxygen.
And the conditions don't have to be perfect all over the earth. Those perfect conditions move around the earth as the climate changes (and I don't mean that in the evil climate change way!!).
To grab hold of these time periods, think about the Rocky Mountains, which are young, they were born 80-55 million years ago. The earth is 4.6 billion years old. (It helps me to refer to a billion as 1000 million....so the earth is 4600 million years old, and the rockies only 55 million.) (So I get really irritated at global warming people, 'cause I want to know what the heck melted the glaciers 12 THOUSAND years ago.)
I'm babbling, I know I'm babbling. Just remember that the rain forests are happily decomposing, and an awful lot of the coal came from shallow seas filled with seaweed.
Oh, this is not to say I don't believe that the earth could be cranking out oil all by itself. Enough pressure, and I'm guessing you could rearrange those carbon chains any darned way you want to!
Your mileage may vary! I do love this stuff, though!
The compacted matter is far greater than we have pumped out. We have plenty of oil and will for the foreseeable future.
We just need a Prez who will give the OK to drill. There is one on the horizon who will do so as she is very aware of the situation we are in with oil.
You have a geology degree? I'm so jealous!
Seeing is believing, and when the day comes that there is a clear instance of abiogenic crude oil (without migration from other sedimentary formations), I'll gladly study it and maybe even believe it--if the evidence indicates that is the case.
In the meantime 'recharging' oil wells may have been merely coned in by overproduction and recovered after twenty years or so of sitting stagnant, or be 'recharged' along migration pathways (usually faults) by a deeper sedimentary reservoir. (Why drill deeper if you are getting the oil anyway?)
And yes, I have a degree in Geology and I've been examining drilled samples and cores on wellsites for over 30 years.
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It has taken me just over 24 hours to calm down enough to write this little blog. 12 kids between the ages of 4-6 had the unfortunate experience to have me as their baseball coach 2 hours after this match. It's safe to say the red mist had fully descended and those little guys did their fair share of running last night. Dinner was forced down and frankly I just couldn't wait to get to bed such was the mood that LFC's collapse had put me in.
It was not a great game of football on Sunday but Liverpool did enough to win the match by taking their chances. We started quite brightly in this match but Stoke did so as well. At times they were passing the ball quite quickly and looked dangerous.
After the depressing performance at Sunderland, where "Liverpool did not turn up" according to our captain this was exactly the tonic the players, staff and supporters needed. To win any game 3-0 at home was a welcome sight but to batter our neighbors from start to finish, capped up by a fantastic hatrick by one of our greatest ever players made it even sweeter.
I watched the game against Sunderland on Saturday in utter disbelief. I just couldn't get my head around the fact that Liverpool, who passed and moved so well against Arsenal 7 days before, could come out and lose to Black Cats. We had zero energy, zero ideas and zero chances.
Liverpool's 2-1 loss to Arsenal at Anfield had to be the most disappointing game of the season. To play like we did at Bolton and get beat is deserved. To play like we did on Saturday and lose proves that football is a funny old game.
Honestly I can't remember the last time we have played so well against Arsenal. Normally they always have lots of chances against us and we seem to chase the game. However, in this match we completely dominated from start to finish. I didn't even realize Van Persie or Yossi were even playing until about the 15th minute.
Liverpool were camped out in Arsenal's half and we are such a better side when Carroll doesn't play. Our passing is quicker, shorter and along the ground. The big man has been better recently and has shown signs of working harder for the team but I'm just not sure he will ever be a first-team regular. Kuyt and Suarez were unplayable at times with Henderson having a fantastic bounce-back game after his disappointing League Cup final performance.
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Rio Rancho SWAT ends peacefully
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Rio Rancho police said they've peacefully resolved a SWAT situation near a local middle school.
Around 5:45 a.m., police received a report of an auto burglary. When Rio Rancho police responded they saw a few people run into house. Authorities thought they were armed, so the SWAT team was called to assist.
The standoff ended peacefully with several people being taken into custody.
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Back in August, several of his players were involved in breaking curfew and underage drinking, which ultimately escalated into a brawl in which two players were booked with battery. The only significant punishment handed out by Miles as a result of that incident was the suspension of the two players for a few games, while the remainder of the participants walked free. Now, three Tiger players have been suspended for illicit drug use for what appears to be just a single game.
I am certain that if I had failed a drug test, I would have been fired from my job with no chance to return. If Coach Miles had been a bit more stern with his punishments back in August, perhaps today's predicament would not exist. Let's hope that he takes advantage of the current situation to teach his players that there are significant negative consequences for bad behavior, just like there are in the real world.
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Currently, when a budget is not passed by July 1, state employees are paid federal minimum wage.
"A budget is a blueprint of our priorities. In this case, the Democrats are saying state employees are more important than the blind, aged, disabled, and those who are in nursing homes," said Strickland during the floor debate. "If we're going to provide state workers their salaries during budget delays, we should also ensure funding for those most in need.
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Teriyaki Burgers with Grilled PineappleAngie McGowan
It's grilling season, and we've been firing up our grill almost every weekend, and some during the week too. I make burgers about once a week, and love to change them up by adding different flavors and toppings. For these Asian inspired teriyaki burgers, I added teriyaki and soy sauce to the ground meat, along with a few other spices. I topped my burgers with grilled pineapple and red onion. They were so good. You could also use canned pineapple slices as a shortcut if you like. To core our fresh pineapple slices, I called my husband to the kitchen to "MacGyver" it. He used a 2 liter soda bottle cap to core my slices. A pairing knife might be easier though if you don't have a fancy pineapple corer.
Teriyaki Burgers with Grilled Pineapple Recipe
For the burgers
2 lbs ground beef
3 tablespoons teriyaki sauce
1 tablespoon soy sauce
pepper to taste
1/2 teaspoon onion powder
1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
1/4 teaspoon ground ginger
Other ingredients
freshly sliced and cored pineapple
sliced red onion
fresh lettuce
hamburger buns
For the mayo
1 teaspoon Wasabi powder
1/2 teaspoon water
1/4 cup mayonnaise
1. For mayonnaise, combine wasabi powder in water until dissolved. Mix in with mayonnaise and set aside.
2. For burgers, combine ground meat with all spices, teriyaki sauce and soy sauce. Mix with hands. Form into 4 – 1/2 lb patties.
3. Grill burgers until desired doneness. Grill pineapple and onion slices.
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counseling intervention, an intermediate-intensity assistance intervention,
and an advice comparison intervention. After 24 months, there were no significant
overall differences in self-reported physical activity among the 3 groups.
Improvements in cardiorespiratory fitness among women in the counseling and
assistance groups were significantly greater than in the advice comparison
group, but there were no significant differences in cardiorespiratory fitness
among men. In an editorial, WeeArticle stresses the magnitude of the health risk
associated with sedentary lifestyle and low physical fitness and discusses
strategies that may improve adherence to physical activity recommendations.
Invasive meningococcal disease has increased among young adults during
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study among US college students from September 1, 1998, to August 31, 1999,
to determine rates of and risk factors for meningococcal disease in this population.
The overall incidence rate for undergraduates was 0.7 per 100 000 persons,
lower than the rate of 1.4 per 100 000 in the general population of 18-
to 23-year-old nonstudents. However, the incidence rate was highest among
freshmen living in dormitories (5.1 per 100 000), and the risk of meningococcal
disease was significantly higher among freshmen living in dormitories compared
with other college students. In a population-based surveillance study from
January 1, 1990, through December 31, 1999, in Maryland, Harrison and colleaguesArticle
found that the incidence and proportion of cases of meningococcal infection
among persons aged 15 through 24 years initially increased and then markedly
decreased in 1998-1999. In an editorial, WengerArticle discusses immunization strategies
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subclavian vein. The rates of mechanical complications did not differ between
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trials among patients with acute coronary syndromes published from January
1996 to March 2000, Lee and colleagues found that although enrollment of persons
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Ethics, Water Conservation, and Sustainable Gardens
How a botanic garden and arboretum in Michigan started "walking the talk" of environmental conservation.
By Robert E. Grese, ASLA, and David C. Michener
Ethical issues concerning the use and abuse of water resources are among the most critical environmental challenges facing public
gardens. Here in Michigan, as with many parts of the United States, we have
taken the availability of clean water for granted for generations. The lakes,
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our landscape. We are surrounded by the world's largest freshwater ecosystem
and have an abundance of groundwater resources.
At the University of Michigan Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum, where our staff manages four distinct properties totaling
more than 700 acres, every set of irrigation-intensive displays, every sealed hardscape, every eroded feature sends a message. How and where we use or waste
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At our botanical gardens and arboretum we are not starting from an ethically neutral position—our gardens exemplify traditional models of
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When You Know It's Going to RainGiyen Kim
As a Seattleite the one thing that you know for sure is that it's going to rain. At some point in the not so distant future, the sky is going to cloud over and the rain is gonna come. Based on this knowledge, one makes the decision to live your life prepared or unprepared. You either own performance fleece and dress up in layers OR you are like me and get caught in a rainstorm in a dress and open toed heels. You will find no Gortex in my closet.
Until recently, I used to revel in my irreverrent, carefree, fist at the sky outlook in life. I am going to do what I want to, when I want to, with nary a care in the world. No planning. I am open to what the universe brings me. I am positive (albeit depressed sometimes) therefore I only invite positive things to happen to me. I am a card carrying, Eckhart Tolle reading, new age philosophizing woman of the 21st century. This is totally working for me. Right? Yeah right.
As of today, I am officially coming off of my third MRSA in three months. I let me tell you, I've tried with great will to be positive about this. This time the infection was in my eye socket and nose. Seriously. I looked like a cross between one of those mutant goldfish with their eyes all bulging out of their head and bozo the clown. Potential complication? Infected eyeball. Blindness. Infection spreading to brain. In other words – scary. My doctor told me that that less than 3% get MRSA infection a second time and less than 3% of that 3% get it a third time. This makes me special. If I get it a fourth time, I think I get a ribbon and a free lunch at Ruby Tuesday.
And oh, did I mention that I they also found a lump in my breast? Yep, I'll be getting my first mamogram next week.
Now, now. Don't worry. I am not getting all depressed and going to the dark and scary place. I'll start worrying when they rush me to the hospital because I can't see out of my left eye. Or when they tell me that I need to make an appointment with the oncology department. For now, I am going to use all this illness as fodder to start reevaluating my life and actions. This is, after all, the Live Big Project – right?
I can't help but realize that my live in the moment, go with the flow tendencies aren't really working for me anymore. It's been proving to be more a sign of being undisciplined and irresponsible than carefree and fun. I don't think that I've ever been a person who is prepared. I am a no Gortex in the rainy Pacfic Northwest kind of girl, right? Well that really hasn't worked out for me. I have dreams about how I want life to be, but I never quite seem to get there. Don't get me wrong I am not unhappy, I feel very blessed. It's just that I am feeling unfulfilled and dispassionate about my current trajectory. Plus, all this lack of planning and discipline is creating grumpy, out of shape, sickly, Giyen. Not good.
I can't believe I am saying it, but I think I need some goals (gasp!) and action items (omg!) to help me get to where I am going. Being positive and open to the potpurri of life is not enough. I think I need a … PLAN! Oh God, please don't tell my irreverent self that I said this. The next thing you know, I'll be writing a mission statement. And then hell will freeze over.
Because I am relatively simple person, writing big lofty goals seems overwhelming. Writing a list of 5 or 7 priorities seems a bit more manageable to me. In a quick, back of the napkin assessment, I've decided that doing the following things (one or all) on a daily basis will help keep me focused in small tangible ways:
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The ASTON/Lake Partners LASSO Alternatives Fund Turns Five
CHICAGO —April 21, 2014 — Aston Asset Management, LP (Aston) is pleased to announce that the ASTON/Lake Partners LASSO Alternatives Fund I-Class (ALSOX) reached its 5-year anniversary on April 1, 2014, making it one of the few multialternative fund-of-mutual funds to reach that milestone. As of March 31, 2014, the Fund had a total of $492 million in assets under management.
"We teamed up with Lake Partners because of the depth and breadth of their experience in managing alternative strategies," said Stuart Bilton, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Aston, "and we are delighted, but not surprised, with the success of the ASTON/Lake Partners LASSO Alternatives Fund."
Aston is the investment adviser to the Fund, while Lake Partners is the subadviser. The Fund is an actively managed fund-of-funds that invests in mutual funds utilizing alternative and hedging strategies. The Fund employs Lake Partners' LASSO® Long and Short Strategic Opportunities® investment approach, which relies on institutional research to construct a diversified and liquid portfolio of alternative strategies. The objective of LASSO is to seek long-term total returns with lower volatility than the overall stock market and reduced correlation to conventional stock and bond portfolios.
"Our LASSO strategy serves as a liquid, user-friendly, all-in-one solution for advisers as they seek to build client portfolios with additional exposure to the alternative investment universe," said Rick Lake, Co-Chairman and Treasurer of Lake Partners and co-portfolio manager to the Fund. "Our firm has over 25 years of extensive experience in alternative investments which gives us a unique perspective on selecting the strategies for the Fund."
Rick Lake and brother Ronald Lake, Co-Chairman and President of Lake Partners, both have more than 30 years of experience in the investment management industry and serve as co-portfolio managers on the Fund.
To request more information, please contact Tony Kono at 973-850-7323 or moc.cnirpcj@onokt.
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Survivors include one daughter, Jean Sanderson of Waynesboro, Mississippi; two sons, Jesse and wife Gloria Simon of Slidell and Shelton Simon of Slidell; one sister, Hilda Hargrave of Crowley; 12 grandchildren, 23 great-grandchildren and 11 great-great-grandchildren.
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"The world needs bad men. We keep the other bad men from the door." -- Cohle
Meaning no disrespect to Woody Harrelson, who is acting his rear end off, but "True Detective" has very quickly become the Matthew McConaughey show.
McConaughey originally read for the role of twisted good ol' boy Marty Hart, but said he immediately connected with the role of Hart's brooding partner, Rustin Cohle. He knew then what we're finding out each week, McConaughey and Cohle were meant for each other.
Cohle is a character show runner Nic Pizzolatto was born to write and McConaughey was born to play. From his existential soliloquies to the haunted eyes, hollow heart and measured gait, what Pozzolatto and McConaughey are doing with Rust Cohle is something special. While the show's eight-episode arc is likely too short to allow Cohle to become a cultural signpost character, like Tony Soprano or Don Draper, that's the level of art that's going on here.
In "The Locked Room" (police slang for an unsolved case, but in this case a direct Cohle reference to the fragile human psyche, a recurring topic for both the detective and the series), it becomes crystal clear that not only does Cohle understand he's being questioned about the 2012 murder, but that he's performing for detectives Gilbough and Papania, preaching to them about human nature and police work, even practicing a little iconography for them, turning a fragile aluminum can into an even more fragile human being.
But as Cohle slips between sounding totally insane and absolutely enlightened, we're left to wonder exactly what is going on in that interrogation room and how much we can trust what we've seen about Cohle the cop and Cohle the man and how much is a fairy tale. As as Cohle tells us at the revival tent, "If the common good's got to make up fairy tales, then it's not good for anybody."
As noted previously, one of the great things about this show is the way it takes on cliché directly. So, of course, when it becomes clear that Cohle is developing a bond with Hart's wife, what does he do? He literally mows Hart's lawn. Literally. We mean he actually mowed the freakin' lawn! And somehow, it worked (although you'd imagine the actors involved had a difficult time getting through it with a straight face) because it told us something about Cohle in a very genuine way.
Despite the nihilist bluster, this is a man who had faith once upon a time and who'd like nothing more than to be able mow his lawn while his wife makes sweet tea and his daughters play house. And it's the knowledge that he'll never really do that again that's made him the person he's become. How can you be happy when your happiness is gone forever? The answer is that you can't, although you can pretend and go through the motions of being happy again. Cohle has made it clear that he understands that and is not going to play. It's something his partner already senses. "For a guy who sees no point in existence, you sure fret about it a lot," Harts tells him at the revival tent. Just as we saw the crucifix and then heard Cohle say he wasn't a Christian, this week we saw Cohle denounce religion and the preacher and then use the same techniques in his interrogation. It's very clear that he understands intimately the lifestyle he now decries.
But Cohle knows Hart just as well (theories already abound on the Internet that they're the same person, but we're not buying it, that's just too much M. Night Shaymalan talking). When Hart cautions Cohle about obsessing over the case and bending facts to fit his theories (how many references have we had now to "bending the narrative"?), Cohle fires back. "You're obsessive, too, just not about your job." And as we get a further glimpse at Hart's dark underbelly (manipulating his wife in an argument, attacking his ex-mistress's new paramour), we know that's a dead-on assertion.
Enter the corpses. Dozens and dozens of them, in newspaper clippings, in case files, everywhere in Cohle's life, as he pores through information on old murders looking for the one little detail that someone missed that will make a light bulb go off.
The corpses of those dead girls are a character unto themselves in "The Locked Room," unable to talk but telling stories none the less. Finally, it's the spiral tattoo between the shoulder blades of Rianne Olivier that tells Cohle the story he's been looking for. Rianne was presumed drowned in a flood, but some abdominal wounds and that tattoo tell Cohle a different story. When he sees her system was full of crystal meth and LSD, the similarities to Dora Lange are too many to ignore.
Only hours upon hours of exhaustive, obsessive police work leads the partners to Reggie Ledoux and his meth-making operation. As Cohle neatly ties up his setup for Gilbough and Papania, Ledoux enters the story looking every bit the monster he's cast as. But step back a second from the frightening visage of the man with the machete in the gas mask and ask yourself something about Cohle. During that insomnia-fueled weekend of corpse after corpse and case after case, was he looking for clues – or an alibi?
More detective work: + Speaking of daughters playing, after the reveal this week that the Harts' oldest daughter got in trouble at school when she was caught with crude sexual drawings, it seems likely she also arranged the dolls in that weird almost-sexual tableau we saw last week. Obviously, those are some scary behaviors for what appears to be a child of 10. What did she see or experience to develop such graphic sexual expressions at such a young age? + If you're keeping score at home, in Episode 1, Cohle plainly said he's "not a psycho" while in Episode 3, Hart crazily told his mistress and her paramour that he's "not a maniac." Riiighhht. + Another Shea Whigham sighting! The veteran character actor, best known for playing Eli Thompson in "Boardwalk Empire," has now appeared in "American Hustle," "The Wolf of Wall Street" and "True Detective" (as tent preacher Joel Theriot) in the past three months. That's a pretty amazing streak. + What does it say about the depth of these episodes that we've been rambling here for 1,100 words and there is still so much that happened in "The Locked Room" that we haven't touched on? + If we needed any more clues to the marital strife on the horizon for the Harts, the music heard throughout the episode included "Stand By Me" by the Staple Singers, "Does My Ring Burn Your Finger?" by Buddy Miller and "I'm a One Woman Man" by Johnny Horton. + Theory update: After re-watching episodes 1 and 2 last week we were 97.5% sure our much-trumpeted theory on the end game here was correct. While nothing in "The Locked Room" disproved our theory, we now are 71.6% certain.
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Interesting fine print. Even if you only get one day in the nose bleeds, 10 instead of 25 is better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick. Considering the attendance of the last 3 SAs, this one should be interesting.....At SA Portland, they had so few people that they let people stay for the Gala for free just to fill some seats....SA ontario wasnt exactly crowded, either.
And I'm hopping a flight to the lovely Northwest today. Just a day till practice sessions!
I'll be on the plane tomorrow am
Looks like I will be there Sunday! Can't wait. Now, to get tickets. Looks like I'll have a choice: buy now online, or take my chances with the $10.00 seats. Hmmm....
I will try to make the Friday meetup, but if I miss it, or you do, my husband & I will be in Section 103, Row 10, seats 1&2. Since that is the handicapped seating, it will probably will be folding chairs. He is a heavyset gentleman with a cane & glasses. We are both in our 60's, but he doesn't look it, lucky fellow. I'm short, fat, and have short, dark hair & glasses. And I hope an orange T on Friday.
I'll be in 101 row 3 seat 6. I have an entertainment book for the area. I'll check for 1/2 off restaurants.
On Sunday, I'll be in Section 107, Row 11, Seat 8. I'm crossing my fingers that no one tall sits in front of peewee me!
Getting excited! I have work today then I will drive over tomorrow morning. I hope to catch the women's/dance practices tomorrow morning.
Anyway, look forward to seeing some GS folks at our meetup 5 p.m. tomorrow at the main entrance. I'll use my iPad to flash the GS logo just in case i can't stand out from the other Asians who will be there. Otherwise if you can't make it, I've posted where I'm at, so just come by and say hi.
I'm so jealous, you guys! It's not fair!
Have a great time. My favorite part of skating events is hanging out with other fans... it's much more fun that way!
I already have tickets but the the $10 offer says "One Day Admission Only." Does that mean both events on Saturday or Sunday? Shouldn't it say one session only?
Yes, I am wondering, does all this orange paraphenalia mean I should root for Netherlands in speed skating should I ever attend an event?
BTW, we arrived, and everything so far has been as my grandad would have said, "slicker'n eel snot."
Seattle airport is a rat warren, but they really have done a lot to make it relatively painless, despite having to go down multiple escalators and take a tube train, standing up holding a pole, to get to the baggage claim. It's obvious that the city grew, and there was no where for the airport to go but up-I have never seen so many multiple floor car garages next to one another. And you have to take a bus to get to all the car rentals, and that new facility is still 5 floors of cars.
The second we got to the baggage carousel, there were our bags, first out of the chute!!
We took our GPS from home and therefore had no trouble finding the hotel (Best Western that backs up to a golf course with ducks waddling across it at all hours.). It is very tranquil, and being Seattle, the coffee is good, free, and plentiful. It is good to be near one of the internet centers of the universe, because this motel has the fastest internet I've ever had in a motel/inn/hotel!!
The arena is about a mile from the motel, and the parking around it is very reasonable (and free).
And there are a lot of restaurants in the area. We asked the guy who fixed the TV in the room where a good Mexican restaurant was, and he directed us to one (Taqueria Rincosito) that was both low price and excellent, not to mention having fast service, including take out, and the Mexican sodas made with sugar rather than High Fructose Corn Syrup (which is like a visit back to our childhood, when sodas were made that way). Having spent a lot of time in San Francisco & Austin, TX, in our working days, we like good Mexican food, but there is none to be had in CT (there is OK sort of Mexican food, but no good Mexican food).
Even if the arena is no good, I'm ready to approve Kent Showare center for another event!
Today we are resting up & killing time until the GS meetup at 4 to 5.
I hope you guys have a fabulous time!
Dang! so near and yet so far.. ( why am I broke with an out of date passport ? )
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