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Wed, Jan 30, 2008, 6:06 pm // Craig Mayberry
The GPI starts with personal consumption and then adds and subtracts to account for items not included in GDP. GDP does not include things like; value of parenting or housework, value of higher education, value of volunteer work, loss of leisure time, underemployment, resource depletion, impact of carbon dioxide emission, and income distribution. These items all influence the long-term health and well-being of citizens, yet is not accounted for in GDP. If you divide the total GDP and GPI by population, you get the per capita amounts, or amount per person. If you factor in these items, a vastly different picture emerges (see graph). GDP per person has continued to increase at a steady rate since 1950, while GPI per person has been stagnant for the last 20 years.
One explanation is that GDP does a good job of measuring how we feel about our pocketbook, while GPI measures how someone feels in his or her heart (or gut). The implication for the perceived discontent is that in the end, people are listening to their heart, and not their pocketbook. The other implication is that wealth does not necessarily equal financial wealth. Politicians are rushing to protect our pocketbook and prop up GDP, yet continue to ignore the restlessness in our hearts. Certainly many politicians talk about protection of natural resources, reducing carbon emissions and improving income distribution, yet the numbers suggest that it has only gotten worse; there appears to be a disconnect between policy and results. The thought of a recession sends fear into the eyes of most politicians and instant action to correct it, but the 20 years of stagnant growth of the GPI barely raises an eyebrow.
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On the Field
Add Justin Smith to the list of veterans that have missed time so far in training camp.
But unlike some of the other key players that have sat out so far, Smith's absence Friday was likely a simple day off. The 33-year-old was sporting a small wrap on the middle finger of his right hand.
Aldon Smith missed his third-straight practice Friday. There's been no indication of the severity of the injury, but it does not appear to be serious. Smith sat out the majority of the team's OTAs in order to rest and rehab his surgically repaired shoulder that was operated on after the Super Bowl.
Newly signed receivers Austin Collie and Lavelle Hawkins made their 49er debuts, entering full-team drills to start the second portion of practice. Both players had a short catch each. Late in the session, rookie quarterback B.J. Daniels tried to hit Hawkins deep down the left side of the field, but he was unable to keep both feet in bounds. For now, Collie wearing No. 6 while Hawkins donned No. 4.
To make room on the roster, the team waived reserve center Sherman Carter and punter Colton Schmidt.
But the hits to San Francisco receivers didn't stop coming Friday. This time it was Ricardo Lockette who didn't dress for practice. He appeared to hurt his right hip Tuesday and looked hampered in each session since. He joined Kyle Williams, A.J. Jenkins and Kassim Osgood as receivers to miss time in the first week of camp with a minor setback.
Rookie wideout Quinton Patton continued to wear the blue 'no-passes' jersey and a small cast on his left middle and pointer fingers. Despite the blue jersey designation, Patton caught a few balls with his right hand only during individual drills.
The only interception of the day came when Tramaine Brock jumped Anquan Boldin's short out to the left and plucked Colt McCoy's pass out of the air. Nnamdi Asomugha made a play on a similar route, but let the ball hit him in the chest and it fell to the grass. Had he been able to come down with the ball, it would have been an easy score.
The 49ers worked on their two-minute drill for a majority of the first half of practice. Colin Kaepernick continued to have a good camp and hit Vernon Davis on a number of deep routes. Phil Dawson hit two of three field goals from longer than 50 yards on the windy afternoon.
The free safety position continues to be a revolving door as a Trenton Robinson and Eric Reid both saw reps alongside Donte Whitner.
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Asomugha worked with the second and third teams.
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Happy 4th, Kathleen!
Wonderful poetry feature at EIL. And the artwork is delightful. Another great pairing of words and images.
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Oh wow! Wonderful poetry and wonderful art, as always. THANK YOU!
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We are driving from South Western PA to Acadia National Park in ME in mid July. I'm thinking that a night or two in Connecticut would be good on the way up. If we were going straight through we would take 84. Anywhere that's worth stopping or spending a night or two? We are open to camping, cabins or anything.
If you are looking to stay somewhere quaint in CT, I suggest the Beechtree Cottages in Madison, CT. It's in close proximity (down the street) to Hammonassett State Park, which features lovely beaches and walking trails. They're super cozy.
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How Banks Repaid TARP: The Other Bailout Repayment Lie 3 commentsMay 4, 2010 7:35 PM
Too big to fail banks repaid their TARP money with other bailout money. To suggest that TARP was profitable to the taxpayer (as multiple, recent articles have suggested) is to use one-sided accounting that overlooks the 11 TRILLION dollar+ bailout nation that TARP played only a small (albeit noisy and notorious) part of. CNNMoney (http://money.cnn.com/news/storysupplement/economy/bailouttracker/index.html) and the NYT (http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/02/04/business/20090205-bailout-totals-graphic.html) have detailed and itemized the GDP sized totals of the bailouts beyond TARP. I will explain how bailout money poured into some of the less notorious programs was laundered through to repay the TARP portion.
While there are a few more moving parts to this scam, the mechanics are very much the same as the GM loan repayment lie (http://seekingalpha.com/article/200137-gm-loan-repayment-mischaracterization-at-best-lie-at-worst), essentially moving publicly financed money from one pot to another. The trick here is to identify the pots and understand how they work.
- Borrow $1 at 0%, lend $10 against it at 3-4%: The biggest item not on the CNN or NYT breakdown is a Federal funds rate of 0%. This has enabled banks to "borrow" from the Fed at 0%, and then "lend" it to the taxpayer at 3-4% (http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=aucooSmI6UQQ). Given fractional reserve banking rules they can multiply these spreads by a factor of 10. If you're wondering how a failing bank can make a huge positive spread lending money to the exact same entity that bailed them out (Treasury and the taxpayer) so am I.
- Raising capital under the "too big to fail" guarantee: Selling stock is much easier when the government has repeatedly said you won't be allowed to go out of business. This is a key reason why smaller banks have not been able to raise the capital to repay TARP.
- Fannie and Freddie are banks' garbage cans: Banks sold most of their bad loans to Fannie and Freddie, where they are now festering and losing money like hot garbage. Very little of the actual residential loans were kept on banks' balance sheets. The heavy losses are coming from the heavy holders.
- The Great Abyss of AIG: Throw $100B+ down one end of AIG, and kick it out the other end to Goldman Sachs and various European headquartered banks.
- Trash for Cash, TAF and TALF: You give us "hard to sell assets" (trash). We give you cash. Can I get that deal on the junk in my basement?
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This all stands to change as Congress is set to renew legislation forbidding VC-backed companies to participate as stated earlier and predictably this leads to worries that smaller operations will be squeezed out.
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Yes, VC-backing means you have more money but that doesn't protect you from the uncertainties of the market nor does it allow you the freedom to pursue avenues not approved by VCs such as orphan disease treatments. The issue is not black and white so I for one welcome discussion on it and would rather not exclude VC-backed ventures but would rather go after market capitalization, i.e. a company that is values at more than say $100M since that I feel is a better indicator for the amount of funding and work a venture or company has done.
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Great room, has everything we want and the hotel is in a convenient location. On the downside, because of its age, everything creaks!
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Good location, shame about the rest!
Let's be clear. This is NOT a 4 star hotel. Business travellers should note there are no safes for laptops even at recption. The hotel had no record of my booking on arrival and the receptionist had difficulty with english. The upgraded room which I received as a result of the lost booking was small but clean. Had booked at a siscount rate but definitely not worth the �240 rack rate. The window was cracked and the shower controls were very stiff. The TV had bad reception and was only a 14" portable. Breakfast was poor and the bread had seen better days. Good location but tries to be what it is not.
The worst deal in all of London
To preface this review, I originally booked the Grange Holborn Hotel and when they were overbooked, they sent me to this hotel. I would never have booked this personally.
To begin, the staff was friendly and courteous. The facilities, however, are horrible. The bar is very tiny and does not seat very many people. The room are the worst I have have ever paid USD $250 a night for. I got - a double bed that wasn't big enough to sleep two people. The windows would not close completely and the street noise was incredible. I couldn't get a good night sleep. On the other side, all of the noise from the hallway filters into the room. I mean ALL the noise. It is like sleeping in a paper box. The room wasn't big enough for two suitcases. No internet. I didn't even stop for breakfast - I just wanted to get out of there. I have stayed in Motel 6's that were quieter and bigger.
Avoid this hotel, at all costs. Believe me - the costs are high. I would have paid USD$40 for this room. Not $250. Complete rip off. Grange Holborn is probably the best deal in London.
The hotel is rated as a 4 star on Expedia, which is totally inaccurate; it is barely a 2 star. The rooms are tiny (even for London), they decor is dark and dreary which makes it feel even smaler, there is absolutely no sound proofing so we had a dreadful nights sleep, I booked a double room but the bed was barely bigger than a single and there was no hot water for a shower the next morning. However tempting the location is take my advice and DONT DO IT
Never Again !
We had booked a room at Blooms Town House Hotel but on arrival we were shunted into the sister property - the White Hall with no explanation. although i cannot fault the staff the carpets desperately need to be replace and the smell is nearly unbearable. The bed was tiny, and the red wallpaper made the room seem even smaller and somewhat claustrophobic.
The breakfast was downright disgusting, cheap sliced meat, eggs that had been boiled for at least half and hour, terrible pastries and croissants but worst of all. Two women from the street came into the hotel, helped themselves to the buffet and left before anyone had even noticed - one of them even tasted the fruit salad from the serving spoon before replacing the spoon in the fruit. Needless to say we felt somewhat queasy after witnessing this.
Good hotel and location, very small rooms & beds
Stayed here in December 2003 and thought the hotel was very nice and in a good location but the room was small even by London standards. I had booked a double room but ended up there on my own and to be honest there would have been no room for my husband in the bed! It was adequate for me - I would call it a queen size bed, slightly larger than a single and no way coudl accomodate two people, so beware when booking. The staff and location however I can not fault, they were great.
What a great location and nice boutique hotel!
My nine year old son and I visited London during April 2004 and stayed at the Grange White Hall. The location of the hotel is outstanding - right next to the British museum, right on Russell Square and 2 blocks from the Picadilly Line. We took the Underground right from Heathrow to the hotel for $10 - no switching . It was easy to walk everywhere from the hotel and the neighborhood was really lovely and relaxing to be in.
Our room was nicely sized for London, with a very pretty marble bath and nice appointments. Our room faced Montague St, which can be somewhat noisy with cars, but there were insulated windows which muffled the street sounds very well. There was a delightful absence of cigarette smoke throughout the hotel.
Breakfast was typically European (e.g. tried to be nice but was YUCKY), but the ambience of the breakfast room is lovely. Next time, we'll just have coffee in the breakfast room and then have breakfast in one of the nice local coffee shops. We would return to the hotel and recommend it to anyone.
Wonderful place to stay
This place was wonderful! You get a beautiful room, nice location, curteous staff, and breakfast!! If you are looking for a wonderful cozy place to stay that's extremely close to anywhere you'd want to go in London - listen to me and stay at this wonderful place!!
Good service and clean
My husband and I stayed in this hotel for 4 nights since 31Dec03. It is situated in a convenient location near to the tube across the park. We were given a room at the end of the coridor. It is spacious, clean and well decorated with the bed comes with 4 posts. The facilities are good and we find the staff are friendly and helpful. The breakfast is excellent. The normal rate is expensive. However, we managed to get a special deal for the winter. Overall, we are very satisfied with our stay there.
Great botique luxury hotel
I recently stayed (June 2003) at this hotel with my new wife and can thoroughly recommend the executive rooms overlooking the garden area. Traditional furnishings in above average size rooms (for London CBD) and with high quality fittings. The buffet breakfast was excellent. The staff were reserved but helpful. The three night weekend rate was a bargin and the hotel is wonderfully situated for the west end theatre and shopping on oxford street.
Will never return, except in emergency situation.
If this is the same White Hall Hotel that is backed up to a museum; My son and I stayed at the White Hall in the summer of 2001. It was a good example of rich old architechture with very tall ceilings, rich tapestry and much smaller than twin beds. The rooms were very small, but had a nicely appointed tea cabinet with an electric pot, real china, and instant coffee, dry creamer, and tea bags. It was in a very convenient section of town, close to museums and the tube, but I would not recommend it, nor would I return there unless there was a big change in staff. They did, however, allow us to check in just a little early. The rooms were stuffy with a lot of noise. The building was dark, but basically clean; although our room had no wash cloth, no access to the mini bar (locked refridgerator), and not very helpful staff. In fact, they were down right rude...and seemed to take the attitude that we were some sort of thieves or something. They hid (not very well) behind walls and watched us, then questioned us and followed us to our room when we took the stairs instead of the ancient elevator: They never at any time offered assistance for anything, and if asked, for instance where to catch a taxi, they were very curt and not very helpful. We went to the downstairs resturant and waited for what seemed about 15-20 minutes, but the only sign of life was a blaring T.V.. When we returned later that night, we were watched out of the hotel window and a rude man ran down and let us know that the resturant was closed and we were not to be there. The hotel lobby bar was still open for snacks, but no one suggested it. Breakfast was included in a lovely, but cramped dining area, but except for the cheese was not very good. It did include cold lunchmeat and cold fish. As I said, It was basically clean and in a good location, but I would never go there again. The rate we paid seemed very steep for such a small, dark, stuffy room with tiny beds, but I had nothing to compare it to.
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Top Rank CEO Bob Arum will discuss the possibility of a November 22 fight between Manny Pacquiao and Chris Algieri with Art Pelullo in Los Angeles today.
Pelullo, the promoter for Ruslan Provodnikov, got promotional options on Algieri after the Long Islander super-welterweight lifted Provodnikov's WBO title with a unanimous decision June 14.
Such a matchup wasn't on anyone's GPS until Algieri upset Ruslan Provodnikov, despite the fact that his eye resembled the coin slot in a vending machine.
The fight most likely will be in Macau, Arum said Tuesday.
Algieri is 20-0 after beating Provodnikov for the WBO light welterweight title on June 14. The former kickboxer from Huntington, N.Y. also has a master's degree in healthcare science from the New Jersey Institute of Technology and is about as pure an underdog figure as anyone can be against Pacquiao.
"You don't find guys like him in boxing very often," Arum said to BoxingScene.com. "He's a very well-spoken guy with a good image and the people in China will appreciate that. I also think the fight will do very well on the East Coast. But it isn't done yet."
Most people felt Pacquiao would fight Juan Manuel Marquez for the fifth time this fall, but Marquez has been ambivalent about that fight and particularly the location.
"I haven' been able to travel so it's been difficult," said Arum, who is recuperating from a knee replacement operation. "But I don't get the impression that Marquez wants to do this fight at this time. Maybe next year."
Mark Whicker has been a sports columnist in Southern California for 27 years.
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What an absolute stinker!:nonono:Comment by GRUSTLER on 07-09-2014
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BRUSSELS, Belgium - Forced from their Baghdad home by sectarian violence, an Iraqi Christian couple in their 70s have spent the past two years bounced between detention centers in Greece and Belgium, terrified of being forced back to Iraq.
Their odyssey underscores the plight of thousands of Iraqi Christians denied refuge in Europe while European Union nations argue about who is responsible to help them.
Many are caught in a legal limbo.
With the notable exception of Sweden, Western governments - wary of letting in a seemingly never-ending stream of refugees from various countries - are not prepared to accept large numbers of Iraqis. But the Christians say returning to Iraq is tantamount to a death sentence.
"People are being ping-ponged around Europe all the time, and more and more are being detained," said Judith Kumin, the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees' regional representative in Brussels.
The fate of people like the Iraqi couple, given the pseudonyms Abel and Leah by the UNHCR, is only now beginning to generate concern at the highest levels.
Last week, President Bush and Pope Benedict XVI discussed the worsening problems of Iraqi Christians during a meeting at the Vatican.
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Iraq's Christian community, was mostly left alone during Saddam Hussein's reign but is now a prime target of terrorists.
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The U.S. Centers for Disease Control this month awarded a $200,000 grant to the state of Vermont to address the threat of the Zika virus. The money will be split between the state Agency of Agriculture and the Department of Health and used to trap and test mosquitos as well as to educate health providers and the public about the virus.
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BRANDON — Many who have seen the latest offering from Otter Valley's theater students would say their success at the Vermont State Drama Festival was, well, inevitable.
The one-act of the same name — "Inevitable" — created by the students themselves under the direction of OV Theater Director Jeff Hull and Assistant Director Anita Hughes, won State Champion Show at the festival in St. Johnsbury on April 9 and has been chosen for the New England Drama Festival in Old Saybrook, Conn., on April 23.
BRANDON — The Otter Valley Union High School Walking Stick Theater group is used to excelling in the arena of high school drama. Under the guidance of director Jeff Hull, the group has earned accolades statewide for its work in one-act plays and musicals. And in 2015, there was international praise as well, as the troupe was invited to the renowned International Fringe Festival in Edinburgh, Scotland.
But this year, Walking Stick has created an original one-act performance piece unlike anything they've done before, and the work is getting noticed.
BRANDON — Voters in the Rutland Northeast Supervisory Union overwhelmingly approved budgets on Tuesday for the new Otter Valley Unified Union School District and Barstow Unified Union School District formed under the state's Act 46 school consolidation law.
The state's only side-by-side school district is now fully funded and among the first consolidated districts to be formed under the law, which passed last year.
BRANDON — We have a deal.
The Rutland Northeast Supervisory Union and the Otter Valley and Rutland Northeast teachers have agreed in principle to a new one-year contract.
BRANDON — Voters in the eight towns in the Rutland Northeast Supervisory Union school district will see three school budgets on their upcoming town meeting warnings, but it is likely that the vote on only one of those budgets will count.
That's because those voters last month approved the new Otter Valley Unified Union School District under the Act 46 school consolidation law, but the towns warned school budgets under both the old system and the new one since that vote could still be petitioned for reconsideration.
SALISBURY — A man charged with threatening employees with a gun at a Leicester scrap yard two weeks ago was arrested on Feb. 4 after violating an unrelated "no stalking" order in Salisbury.
Vermont State Police arrested Kadia Barenbaum, 56, of East Middlebury after responding to a trespassing complaint on Shard Villa Road in Salisbury just before noon this past Thursday.
LEICESTER — Parishioners arrived at the Church of the Nazarene on Route 7 in Leicester for Sunday morning services on Jan. 24 to find four bullets holes in the church sanctuary.
The bullets appear to have been fired into the church from outside on the south side of the building.
One of the bullets was lying on the floor of the church and has been turned over to Vermont State Police, who have considered a possible link to an incident at Brandon Scrap Metal four days earlier.
BERLIN — State Rep. Steve Carr, D-Brandon, was cited for suspicion of driving under the influence last week in the town of Berlin after being stopped by local police.
According to a press release issued by the Berlin Police Department, Carr, 66, was pulled over on Thursday, Jan. 14, at 11 p.m. after committing "multiple traffic infractions" while driving along Route 62 in Berlin.
BRANDON — Voters in all eight Rutland Northeast towns on Tuesday not only approved the proposed school governance unification plans, they also voted for candidates to create one, 13-member Otter Valley Unified Union School Board and a four-member Barstow District Board to oversee the new school districts.
While the number of board representatives a town receives is based on population, there are also four "at-large" board seats weighted equally to the town seats.
Residents in every town voted on each of the board seats.
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Willie Lum Howell of Eutawville died on June 21, 2014. He was 89.
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Ryan Braun, Brewers teammates help Habitat for Humanity kick off 30th year
Milwaukee Brewers slugger Ryan Braun climbed the ladder to the second floor of the house going up in the 2100 block of N. 38th St. Wednesday, surveyed the situation, then went to work swinging a hammer, instead of a bat.
Wearing a blue Brewers hard hat, Braun, along with teammates Matt Garza, Logan Schafer, Kyle Lohse, team manager Ron Roenicke and even the racing sausages joined an estimated 100 volunteers for Milwaukee Habitat for Humanity's "Blitz Build," the official kickoff marking the 30th year of Habitat building houses in Milwaukee.
Wives of Brewers players and coaches, along with others from the baseball club's organization, joined the Habitat effort on the street that will build four single-family homes and renovate two others in Milwaukee's Washington Park neighborhood, an area hit hard by foreclosures.
Braun and the Brewers Community Foundation donated $50,000 to sponsor the building of the house that's under construction for Monique Davis, a receptionist, and her young son, who now rent an apartment.
While Braun admitted he's not very handy when it comes to building, Habitat has become his main cause, he said.
"I'm happy to contribute and do something that has a positive impact on the lives of others and something special with Habitat in Milwaukee," he said to the other volunteers who gathered in the street for the event.
He added that he's been an active Habitat supporter for 10 years, supporting Habitat in California before coming to Milwaukee.
Braun, along with the other celebrity helpers, posed for pictures with volunteers who crowded around them before everyone got back to work on the other houses on the block.
"It's cool to have the star players come out and that I'll get the house Ryan supported and worked on," Davis said. "But he can't do too much because he has to be careful with his hands and arms."
As part of getting a Habitat house, Davis will put in more than 300 hours in sweat equity. The house will have a 30-year mortgage at 0% interest.
She expects to be in her three-bedroom, 11/2 bath house in about a month.
In the past 30 years, Habitat has built, renovated or improved more than 500 houses in the Milwaukee area, according to Brian Sonderman, executive director of Habitat Milwaukee.
While Habitat has built houses all around the city, it is now focusing on one neighborhood, Washington Park, and on building one block at a time for maximum impact, he said.
This summer the work will be centered on this street, which already has seven Habitat families.
By the end of this building season, homeownership in the 2100 block of N. 38th St. will be 78%, he said.
"This is the second of a five-year investment of $20 million to construct and rehab homes in one neighborhood," Sonderman said.
While about 5% of the funds come from city and government sources, the majority of the money comes from repayments made by Habitat homeowners, and donations from corporations, foundations and individuals, Sonderman said.
Habitat is also working with the Milwaukee Police Department on issues of safety in the neighborhood and partnering with Victory Gardens to provide more than 500 garden beds all over the city.
Among the volunteers on hand Wednesday were four high school students who said they live in Milwaukee but attend West Allis Central High School.
"We're helping today and tomorrow and then coming back this summer," said Amber Brooks, 17, who said the volunteer work was part of their school activities.
Ric Simon, an account executive with United Parcel Service, said this is his ninth year of volunteering with Habitat.
"I'm blessed to have had a nice home to grow up in, and you take it for granted," he said, adding he enjoys building a house for a new generation of children.
Looking down the block, he pointed out houses that he had worked on in 2006 when he started working with Habitat.
"It's real special to be back," he said.


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Prior to joining ACVB, Pate served as president of Career Sports & Entertainment, a national sports marketing and representation firm. He is the former chief marketing officer of BellSouth, one of the world's largest communications companies, where he spearheaded the development and marketing of the BellSouth brand both nationally and internationally.
Pate also held positions at MCI, where he supervised domestic and international advertising and public relations, and at Knapp Inc., an Atlanta-based marketing services firm specializing in solutions for large corporations. In addition, he spent six years at the Southeast Dairy Association, producing advertising and marketing programs. He began his career in non-profit, working in public relations positions with Goodwill Industries and the American Red Cross.
Pate has received many awards and honors for his work from both Advertising Age and the American Marketing Association. Atlanta Business Chronicle has named Pate to its list of the 100 Most Influential Atlantans for the past five years running and in 2014, he was voted one of Atlanta Business Chronicle's Most Admired CEOs. He was also named 2010 Corporate Marketer of the Year by the Atlanta Chapter of the American Marketing Association. Hospitality Sales & Marketing Association International recognized Pate as one of the 2011 Top 25 Most Extraordinary Minds in Sales and Marketing.
He serves on the board of Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, College Football Hall of Fame, Commerce Club, Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce and Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl, as well as on the Board of Councilors of the Carter Presidential Center and the Industry Advisory Board for Georgia State University's Cecil B. Day School of Hospitality Administration. Most recently, he was named to the Woodruff Art Center's Board of Trustees. Pate is a past chairman of the board of the Atlanta Sports Council, the Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl and ACVB.
A native of Atlanta, Pate grew up in Decatur and attended Georgia State University where he received his undergraduate degree in journalism and his graduate degree in communications.


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Sometimes when you're sculpting, you'll need to follow an existing design. Now, as much as I enjoy sculpting free form from my imagination, sometimes you just have to get a reference image to work from. In this video I'll show you how to import a reference image and then how to get your sculpting to match that image. Now, Sculptris doesn't actually have an image plane feature, but we can basically get that result by changing the background image. So, let's go ahead and click on Options. Now, most of these settings are best left alone, however there are some things that are going to help us with this.
For one, I want to minimize the effect of perspective distortion while I work with the reference. That's because my reference image is going to be an orthographic drawing and I don't want it to be trying to line up our perspective model with an orthographic drawing. So what I want to do is change the perspective Field of View to the lowest setting. There is still going to be a little bit of perspective but it'll definitely be minimized. This kind of simulates the effect of looking at the model through a telescope, which reduces the appearance of perspective distortion.
Next we want to import an image to use in the background. Before we actually click on the background button though, I want to show you what we're going to be working with. I'm just going to switch over to Photoshop. Here, I've got an image that is the same pixel height and width of the monitor that I'm working on. If I go to Image>Image Size. You could see that this image is 1280 by 720. If you're working on a different resolution monitor make sure you're setting your image to the resolution of your monitor. Alright! Some things to note, I went ahead and filled the background with a gradient, just so that it mimics the gradient that we find in Sculptris.
It really doesn't have to be anything special; it could just be a solid gray or a dark gray or something like that. Most importantly here however, we've got the concept art that I want to work from. I made the art white, so that it would be easy to see against a dark background. You don't have to do anything so fancy; you could just simply have a black drawing on a white background and it would work just fine. I'm just making it like this so it'll be easier to see in the video. So go ahead and save your reference image out--I've already got it saved--and let's load it up in Sculptris.
So now let's click on Background and let's go into the Reference folder and open up hank.jpg. Let's click OK to exit the options. Let's zoom out from this sphere so we can line it up with the reference. First I want to place it kind of roughly over the chest area of our character here. What I want to do is get the Grab tool out--make sure to turn off Global--and I just want to start grabbing on this and just kind of roughly banging it into shape so that it fits the overall proportions of the concept art.
I just want to get the overall height going here. Now, it doesn't have to be anything particularly accurate at this point. I just want to get the height the same so that when I move the sculpt over to the side view, I can get everything lining up. Okay, so the height is pretty good. Alright! So now I'm just going to rotate to the side view and hold down Shift so that it snaps and let's move this over here and now with the good old Grab tool, I just want to get this lining up better in the side view.
It might take a little bit of tweaking back and forth to get this right. And now I can just grab on the feet to pull out his shoes. You might need to switch back and forth a little bit, so I'm actually going to go back to the front view, and also notice that as I rotated it the scale got off a little bit, so I'm just going to zoom in until the size of the height lines up better.
Alright, so now I can just do a little bit more editing; make sure it lines up again in the front view, just kind of a back and forth process. Okay, pretty close. Now here is one issue. This technique works great for getting the outline, but what about any internal shapes? The sculpt is blocking the reference when it comes to the face. One way around this is to hide the sculpt by holding down H and clicking on it. So now I can kind of see where the face should go inside here, where facial features need to be.
So what I can do is hit Ctrl+H to bring it back and I can get my drawing tools, bring this down a little bit and I'm going to try hitting H, holding down H and clicking one more time. Okay, so I want to put the mouse there, so now I can just kind of sculpt, actually I have my brush mask still enabled so I want to turn off enable, and let's just draw kind of the mouth where it should go. I'm going to hold down H to hide that again, okay so the nose should go about there.
I'm going to hit Ctrl+H and kind of brush on the nose there, see the eyes roughly there. It's not going to be perfect, but we can definitely tweak it after the fact. So now let's look at this from the side view, group this over, and now we can go back and then grab and kind of push this around so that the facial features line up a little bit better. Alright, so let's look at the model.
Now it's far from finished; we haven't even started on the hands really. However, this does give us a solid foundation to continue sculpting and tweaking. Now let's restore everything to the way it was before we started messing with the perspective in the background. So I'm going to go into Options, and let's set the Field of View back to 35: the default. Also, I want to get the original background again. So let's click on Background and what I want to do is find my Sculptris Application folder again, go into Sculptris Alpha 6>Data and pick background.png. Alright, click OK.
Alright, so our perspective is back to normal and our background is back to normal as well. So there is definitely a lot of work left to do on this character. You know, you'd want to sculpt all of this musculature and get a lot of the details in. However, what we've got so far is pretty accurate to the concept. You know, since we lined everything up, we know that the proportions are accurate and it's a really great position to keep working on this character. Using a reference image can really be helpful, if what you're trying to sculpt needs to match an existing concept design.
Without the ability to import a background image, it would take a lot more work to make sure that the shapes and proportions of the sculpt were matching the original art.
- Loading and saving a model
- Sculpting with the Draw and Inflate brushes
- Sculpting creases
- Flattening and exaggerating detail
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WASHINGTON - Immigrants who helped send $23 billion home to Latin America and the Caribbean last year say the transactions are too costly and put undocumented workers in danger of arrest.
Only 9 percent of 302 U.S. immigrants interviewed for the study use banks to send money home, according to the study by the Pew Hispanic Center and the Inter-American Development Bank. Eighty-three percent still use wire transfer companies, and the remaining 8 percent send money home by courier or family member, according to the study released Friday by the Pew Hispanic Center and the Inter-American Development Bank.
Once a cottage industry in which cash was hand-carried across borders, the international money transfer business has bloomed into a network of banks, automatic teller machines and, increasingly, credit unions that move money electronically between accounts.
But although costs for transfers have dropped, many immigrants still pay fees totaling 10 percent to 15 percent of the amounts they send back to their families, an average $200 to $300 at a time, the report said.
"If you look at what it costs you now to either go overseas and pay a bill with a credit card from an American bank or make a withdrawal from an ATM, the costs are a fraction of what (immigrants) pay" to repatriate money, said Roberto Suro, director of the Pew Hispanic Center.
The center and the Multilateral Investment Fund of the development bank conducted the research to gauge how immigrants are responding to the changing money-transfer industry and to spur financial institutions to enter the market.
Interviews with immigrants were conducted by Miami-based Bendixen & Associates for the Pew Center. Those interviewed were Latin American adults living in the United States, many for at least 10 years, who regularly send money home.
The immigrants said they don't use American banks because they require them to have U.S. documents and because fees and minimum balances are expensive. Some feared opening an account could lead to being deported or detained.
Increasingly, banks are accepting identification cards issued by Mexican consulates, known as matriculas, although the number that do is still small, said Donald Terry, Multilateral Investment Fund manager. The Mexican government issued 740,000 such ID cards in the first nine months of 2002.
The study said reducing the cost for immigrants to 5 percent of their transactions would free more than $1 billion next year for some of the poorest households in the United States, Mexico and Central American countries. Until recently, most migrants paid companies such as Western Union up to 20 percent of the money they wired home.
According to earlier reports by the Inter-American Development Bank, money sent home to Latin America and Caribbean countries quadrupled in the last decade.
The amounts took a dive after Sept. 11 but soon recovered to total $23 billion last year.
The researchers say banks are doing a better job of tracking money sent home by immigrants, or remittances, which could account for some increases. Increased numbers of immigrants and better services also account for larger totals.
The researchers estimated that $14.2 billion will go to Mexico, El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras this year, most of that sent by U.S. immigrants. The study estimated $18 billion would be sent to those countries in 2005.
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