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Alred's a pretty decent writer and blogger, but if the texts he is alleged to have sent Alvarado are any indication, he's certainly no John Donne or Elizabeth Barrett Browning in the love poetry department.
"I barely remember you, but I really want to fuck you," read one.
"Carol I'd strap you down to my bed and I or my friend would make your eyes shine," read another.
Alvarado must not have responded in the way Alred hoped, because his next text allegedly read, "Carol I hate your fucking ass." Then he apparently rebooted the Casanova campaign, because the next text reportedly said, "Carol any chance you would give me some pussy?"
Alvarado went to the police, telling them, according to the complaint, that the messages "shocked, offended, annoyed and harassed her." Alvarado asked Alred to call her and she then managed to tape Alred copping to the sleazy sexts. He was arrested Saturday and was still in jail when the Texans took the field yesterday.
"I started writing a little book about my own experiences teaching in Houston, and analyzing the reasons why we are making so little progress, then I got distracted and lost motivation. I put the 121 pages on a new blog if anyone has an interest in these issues," Alred wrote on January 10, the day after he was allegedly pumping Alvarado's inbox full of smut. One wonders if that was the distraction he mentioned above.
Here is Alvarado's statement on the matter:
Electronic communication and social media have revolutionized the way we interact with one another. Today I find myself in a distressing situation in which I am the victim of the unintended consequences of these technological breakthroughs.
Upon receiving a number of unsolicited and unwanted graphic and sexually explicit, borderline violent emails and Facebook messages, I knew it was necessary to contact the police in order to best protect myself, the community at large, and even to protect the perpetrator from his volatile and seemingly self-destructive behavior. I believe this individual is in need of help, and I am positive that our criminal justice system will rehabilitate him and set him back on the right path.
I want to thank the Houston Police Department for their diligence and their support during this unfortunate yet enlightening ordeal. Although this is the first time I have been personally exposed to this type of situation, it was clear to me harassment is not acceptable on any level, and it is important for everyone to know that sitting in silence only endangers others who are potential victims."
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Indian man stages own kidnapping to fund Macau trip - reports
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- December 29, 2009
- Man, 22, stages his own kidnapping
- Demands ransom from father
- Was going to 'spend NYE in Macau'
A 22-year-old man from India with a taste for the high life unsuccessfully staged his own kidnapping at the weekend, demanding $US40,000 ($45,000) from his father to fund a trip to Macau, according to reports.
His bungled attempt landed him in jail rather than in the Chinese gambling resort when he was caught red-handed picking up the ransom at a New Delhi shopping mall.
"His girlfriend wanted to celebrate the New Year's Eve in Macau," a senior police officer in New Delhi told the Hindustan Times (HT).
"He wanted to fulfil her wish but was not able to bear the expenses."
Pawan Verma had run up debts of 850,000 rupees ($20,000), the HT and Times of India newspapers reported, owing to a lifestyle that made him a regular at plush bars in the capital.
Police said Verma's father, a local businessman who owns two shops, would decide if he wanted to press charges.
"If the father, who is a complainant in the case, decides to withdraw the complaint, the son can walk free with the orders of the court,'' the police officer said.
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To a medium bowl, add chopped cucumber, tomato, and avocado.
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Skip to comments.Confession of an Ivy League teaching assistant: Heres why I inflated grades
Posted on 07/07/2014 9:47:37 AM PDT by TigerClaws
he revelation that the median grade at Harvard is an A- prompted lots of discussion, especially among Ivy-league educated journalists. Some speculated high grades reflect intelligence. Others say professors just want their students to get jobs, or, selfishly, they want favorable teaching evaluations. As a teaching assistant in the economics department at Columbia, I too inflated student grades, but for none of those reasons. +
I just didnt want to deal with all the complaining.
(Excerpt) Read more at qz.com ...
Apparently in the Ivy league you pass just by showing up, actually attempting to turn in work gives you an A
He should have given them what they deserved. When these students get into the REAL WORLD, their bosses won't 'inflate' their salaries or massage their egos. The students are getting set up for failure......................
Back in the 50s, when I went to Harvard, they were still giving a "Gentleman's C" to students in some courses for showing up and doing the basic work, but I think the inflation started back then, or certainly in the 60s.
Students at top universities are used to being at the top of their class. Always were the best and brightest,most talented, most accomplished and most praised. Then the get to Harvard or such and find out that everybody else is also brilliant and they are just one of the crowd. It takes a whole lot more to stand out.
Set up for failure?
Look at our current President.
Most of them will go to their family connected do nothing job and get well paid for acting important.
Society is being set up for failure.
Kerry's GPA at Yale was very similar to Bush's and probably for the same reason--both were heavily involved in extra-curricular activities and having fun, rather than doing the best they could in their courses. Of course the media never drew the conclusion that Kerry was dumb.
As an adjunct faculty, I did not want to deal with deans who would make a failing student redo a paper and have me grade it again (as if the first time wasn't painful enough) for no extra pay.
At many private colleges, professors are rated by their students rather than their research. How do you imagine hat affects grades? Ask any professor about the lousy students in class who complain that their grades were "unfair."
Case in point................
That coupled with alleged educators who have abdicated all responsibility for making judgements on how much a student has learned for a variety of reasons -- they don't want to deal with the hassle of students complaining, they don't feel they can judge others, etc.
Its part and parcel with the decline of our country. No one is held to account or judged by objective standards anymore.
I said, "Oh, that explains it. Thanks".
As I turned to go, he asked, "Aren't you going to argue? Complain? Go to the department head?"
I replied, "No. It's your class. It's your scale. Those are your rules. As long as it applies to everyone, I have nothing to complain about. Thanks again."
This actually happened to me twice, with different professors. Yet it let's me know that my degree is actually worth something, and wasn't simply handed to me because my liberal parents could foot the bill at Princeton or Harvard.
Btw, the angry girl in the picture accompanying the article should be the poster child for Liberalism in America today. Angry, self-righteous, entitled.
It's a little more complicated than that.
I was acquainted with the dean of admissions to the graduate school at a highly ranked university. His job was to sort through seven thousand applications from top students throughout the world and to say "no" to six thousand of them.
Assuming that the dean's ability to identify top students was at least somewhat related to the students' abilities, then the university would end up with the top fraction of available students.
Most of these students are going to be extremely hard-working and very intelligent students. Many will have come through high school and earned their bachelors degrees without ever having earned a grade less than an "A".
During their years at the university, some of the students will simply stop working at their courses. These students deserve to be penalized for "laying down their pencils" as one professor described it to me.
The majority, however, will continue their hard-working ways and master the material presented in their classes.
My proposal would be to abandon the letter grades in favor of the grade-points. The professors should expect performance from the average student that deserves a "4.0".
From that point, one can hope to earn a "4.1" or a "4.2" or a "4.3" as recognition for having excelled relative to the rest of the class. One should recognize that "grading on a curve" only makes sense when the performance of the population justifies having a pre-ordained percentage of students in each grade category. The actual performance of the students in a graduate-level engineering course might be such that a few stragglers deserve to be penalized, the majority deserve to be rewarded as they are used to being rewarded, and standouts should be recognized.
The university can even make the cutoff for avoiding disciplinary action a "3.5", for example.
The reality is that grades SHOULD inflate as the population becomes more and more refined by winnowing out the weaker students.
The fact that one makes it to one of these schools is the achievement and the grades don't matter!
High school students are just as bad as they are trying to get accepted into a top university. They are very worried about their GPA and of course its never their own fault. I correct them when they refer to the grade I "gave them". I tell them they earned it and if they want to know who is at fault to "look in the mirror".
WRONG, WRONG, WRONG! Today's Ivy League grads are heading for lives of "public service," where the only factor influencing their merit raises will be their membership (or lack thereof) in a politically favored group. Transgenders will get the biggest trophies.
My guess would be that grade inflation exploded with the advent of affirmative action.
Yep—I knew a prof at an Ivy League school who was straight up told that she could not fail or nearly-fail a black or Hispanic student.
Say, didnt the Nincompoop-in-Chief matriculate at an Ivy League school?
That was my view.
One class, Animal Physiology, was one of those marker classes that if you wanted to go to Med School you had to do well in. The class was purposely set up for failure for the majority and the Professor very explicitly explained that to us. Now he didn't mean failure in the sense of final grades but failure in that hardly anyone would actually pass individual tests and in the end he would adjust grades accordingly to reflect the average.
In the end only three people out of approximately 150 students received top grades, the rest were mired in B's and C's, and even a few fails. I was happy to get a B in that course because it was brutally tough for our level of instruction(no pre-req other than BIO101) but a few people threw conniption fits over B's.
I faced the same problem when I graded a student's final as B+ thinking it was a generous interpretation of her work. When I was as much as told to raise it to an A I knew I finished at that school. I resisted grade inflation pressures for about 16 years but enough was finally enough.
Of course, that's not what I said. I suggested that a failing student might be awarded a "3.4" and if such performance becomes the norm for that student then disciplinary action, possibly including expulsion, would then be justified.
The point I was trying to make is that "A" students in high school don't magically become "C" students simply because all the lower performing students are eliminated from the population. I think "grade inflation" makes more sense than "re-norming", which is what I would call it if the percentage of students in each grade category is held constant despite the fact that it is the students with the lower grades which are being eliminated from the population.
I was a student that despite being a year younger than my peers could read the text book, attend class and generally do B work without study, homework or applying myself in the least. That worked for elementary and secondary schooling.
When I hit the University level, bang — brick wall. In my Junior year a counselor looked at my mid-term grades of 8 hours of A and 7 hours of F and said, "You don't really want to be here, do you?" He was right, for that period and time in my life.
Many bright kids are poor students or pupils. In my case work experience and independent study took me from the most basic positions to a good top job in my 30s. I spent the next 35 years thereafter climbing the income ladder but it was a ladder where I could have started at a higher rung if I had been a more conforming pupil and a little less "bright."
A lot of today's students are going to enter the business world and find they don't advance because what we get now out of the university systems are candidates that often can't understand a contract or specification, write a business letter, do simple math with consistent results or have a work ethic of any caliber.
Some years back I inherited a new hire who was had a double masters degree in Engineering and Architecture. He could not accurately count toilet partitions and urinal screens off a set of plans and document it legibly. He could not add a dimension string consisting of feet, inches and fractions and consistently come up with the right answer. He was a 3.6 student as I recall. He always had somewhere to be immediately after five o'clock.
I recall interviewing a candidate with a PhD in engineering. He was unable to answer a relatively simple question involving rotation within a two-dimensional coordinate system. Even more telling was that he didn't even pick up the pencil I supplied and didn't attempt to even understand the question. This person was evidently used to having things easy and didn't see the necessity of even humoring me during the interview.
I was actually selected late in the day to do the interview because the prior interviewers realized that the candidate was consistently dodging the technical questions. I was expected to press the issue in order to determine whether the candidate had the requisite skills or did not. He evidently did not.
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If the testimony of his former contemporaries is anything to go by, Mohammed Emwazi (aka 'Jihadi John') appears to have mistaken the state of his social life for the state of the world. According to a former head teacher, Emwazi was bullied at school and did not have many friends. Meanwhile a man called Abu Ayman who met him in Syria described his as a "cold loner" who showed an unusual degree of taciturnity and "wouldn't join us in prayer".
And so for all the arguments which put Islamist violence down as a 'terrible indictment' of this or that aspect of Western policy, London Mayor Boris Johnson was probably closer to the mark when he described Jihadists as "porn-obsessed losers who can't get girlfriends".
Put another way, bitter and socially awkward virgins are often drawn to ideologies which seek to police women's chastity and reap violent revenge on the society that has shunned them. Ideological creeds like Isis, which seek to turn women into sex slaves and cling to a cartoonish masculinity festooned with heavy weaponry and ultra-violence, come ready-made for the Mohammed Emwazis of the world.
This is why the media's obsession with Emwazi's supposed 'radicalisation' is myopic. Based on no evidence at all it is inferred that if only we could locate Emwazi's grievances (British foreign policy/the brutality of the security services etc) we might safely inoculate society against further outrages. 'It is our fault,' as the solipsistic argument has it; we just have to find out why the Jihadists are so angry with us.
Human beings have long been attracted by the promise of utopia (heavenly or earthly); and in Britain at least racism has undoubtedly helped to push young Muslims into the arms of proselytizing Islamists with their ready-made and all-encompassing explanations of us-versus-them. But another way of understanding the anger of a person like Mohammed Emwazi - and Jihadist fanatics more generally - is to locate it within the penumbra of male - and particularly adolescent male - insecurity.
The obsession throughout Jihadist politics with the behaviour of women ought to be the giveaway. Islamism's original theorist Sayyid Qutb concocted his politicisation of Islam partly based on disgust at political repression in his own country, but as he documented in Milestones, he was also repulsed at the freedom afforded to American women. Similarly, the British-born Islamists who plotted in 2004 to murder clubbers in the Ministry of Sound nightclub in London did not cite Palestine or imperialism as their casus belli, but instead gleefully talked about murdering "those slags dancing around".
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In pictures: Anti-Isis protests in Jordan
1/15 Amman, Jordan
Members of Jordan's Al Assaf tribe burn a ''Wanted Dead'' poster of Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al Baghdadi at a rally
2/15 Amman, Jordan
Jordanian protesters carry an effigy of leader of the militant Islamic State Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, during a march after Friday prayers in downtown Amman
3/15 Amman, Jordan
Jordanian Queen Rania (C) holds a placard during a demonstration to express solidarity with the pilot murdered by the Islamic State
4/15 Amman, Jordan
A protester dressed in a Jordanian flag joins others as they hold up pictures of Jordanian King Abdullah and Jordanian pilot Muath al-Kasaesbeh, while chanting slogans during a march against Islamic State
5/15 Amman, Jordan
Jordanians hold banners shouting slogans during a demonstration to express their solidarity with the pilot murdered by the Islamic State
6/15 Amman, Jordan
Jordanians carry banners and pictures of executed Jordanian pilot Muath al-Kassasbeh while shouting slogans against the group calling themselves the Islamic State, during a march after noon pray in downtown Amman
7/15 Amman, Jordan
Protesters hold up pictures of Jordan's King Abdullah and pilot Muath al-Kasaesbeh as they chant slogans during a rally in Amman to show their loyalty to the King and against the Islamic State
8/15 Amman, Jordan
Jordanians chant slogans to show their support for the government against terror during a rally
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Jawdat al-Kaseasbeh, a brother of slain Jordanians pilot Muath al-Kaseasbeh, reacts to people gathering to show their support for the government against terror during a rally
10/15 Amman, Jordan
A Jordanian protester kisses a poster bearing the image of Jordanian pilot Muath al-Kasaesbeh during a rally to show their loyalty to King Abdullah and against the Islamic State
11/15 Amman, Jordan
A Jordanian shouts slogans during a rally against the Islamic state group and in reaction to the burning alive of Jordanian pilot Maaz al-Kassasbeh by the group's militants
12/15 Amman, Jordan
Jordanians carry pictures of pilot Maaz al-Kassasbeh at a protest against Islamic State
13/15 Amman, Jordan
Supporters and family members of Jordanian pilot Lt. Muath al-Kaseasbeh express their anger at his murder at the tribal gathering chamber in Amman, Jordan
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14/15 Aye Village, Karak, Jordan
The King of Jordan, Abdullah II (L), embracing Safi al-Kassasbeh (R), the father of the recently executed Jordanian pilot
15/15 Aye Village, Karak, Jordan
Jordan's Queen Rania offers her condolences to the family of Jordanian pilot Muath al-Kasaesbeh, at their family home of Muath
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Women 'flaunting it' are after all a constant and humiliating reminder of the budding terrorist's own sexual inferiority.
This is a recurring theme within extremist politics: one man's terrorist may sometimes be another man's freedom fighter, but more often the contemporary Jihadist resembles a man hacking away at a tree with an axe because the apples are out of reach. They are the "jealous younger brothers in search of an abstract fraternity," as Arthur Koestler described the Communist fanatics of the 1930s who were seduced by the promise of a utopia in which they would finally hold the whip hand.
Young men like Mohammed Emwazi are not born evil, but nor is it possible to insulate them from the bruising blows to the self-esteem which occur in adolescence and adulthood. As such, we may never find the spark of 'radicalisation' which turned 'nice' Mohammed Emwazi into a brutal killer nicknamed 'Jihadi John'. As with so many middle class children who turn to revolution in all its various forms, the promise of a violent overthrow of civilised society may simply be another way of making up for slights suffered in the school playground.Reuse content


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- P G Barth on behalf of the Dutch X-ALD/AMN Study Groupg
- aDepartment of Neurology, bDepartments of Internal Medicine and Psychiatry, cDepartment of Dietetics, dDepartment of Neurology, Division of Clinical Neurophysiology, eDepartment of Radiology, fDepartment of Biochemistry, gDepartments of Pediatrics and Neurology, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
- Dr B M van Geel, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Department of Neurology, PO Box 22700, 1100 DE Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Telephone 0031 20 5663842; fax 0031 20 6971438; emailb.m.vangeel{at}amc.uva.nl.
- Received 29 September 1998
- Revised 28 January 1999
- Accepted 4 February 1999
OBJECTIVES X-linked adrenoleukodystrophy (X-ALD) is an inherited disorder of peroxisomal fatty acid oxidation, biochemically characterised by the accumulation of saturated very long chain fatty acids (VLCFAs), particularly hexacosanoic acid (C26:0). Dietary treatment with a 4:1 mixture of glyceroltrioleate and glyceroltrierucate ("Lorenzo's oil") normalises plasma VLCFA concentrations, but neither ameliorates nor arrests the rapid progression of neurological symptoms in the cerebral variants of X-ALD. The efficacy of "Lorenzo's oil" in the milder phenotypes of X-ALD was assessed, as this has been much less investigated.
METHODS Twenty two patients who were treated with "Lorenzo's oil" for at least 12 months for a median period of 2.5 (range 1.0–6.0) years were studied. Two had asymptomatic ALD, four the "Addison only" variant, 13 adrenomyeloneuropathy (AMN), and three were symptomatic female carriers.
RESULTS The plasma C26:0 concentration normalised or near normalised in 19 patients (86%), in the three others it decreased significantly. Nevertheless, disability as measured with the extended disability status scale score increased mildly (0.5 (95% confidence interval (95% CI) 0.25–1.0)) in the 16 patients with neurological symptoms. Furthermore, one "Addison only" patient and one patient with AMN developed cerebral demyelination, and another "Addison only" patient developed AMN. Adrenocortical insufficiency evolved in one patient with AMN, and hypogonadism in one patient with asymptomatic ALD and two patients with AMN. Nerve conduction, evoked potential studies (SEP, BAEP, VEP), and abnormalities on cerebral MRI did not improve. On the other hand, side effects were often noted—namely, mild increases in liver enzymes (55%), thrombocytopenia (55%), gastrointestinal complaints (14%), and gingivitis (14%). We also found a mild decrease in haemoglobin concentration and leucocyte count.
CONCLUSIONS The data suggest that treatment with "Lorenzo's oil" neither improved neurological or endocrine function nor arrested progression of the disease. Furthermore, the oil often induced adverse effects. Therefore, it is advocated that "Lorenzo's oil" should not be prescribed routinely to patients with X-ALD who already have neurological deficits.


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Lotus Flowers Powerpoint for Buddhism
Powerpoint about the significance of Lotus flowers in Buddhism. Used with year 1. After discussion we created tissue paper Lotus flowers.
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Buddhism for FS children. Thanks a great resource that is wonderfully visual for my FS class!


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Franz Ferdinand are a Scottish rock band, formed in 2002 and based in Glasgow. The band's original lineup was composed of Alex Kapranos (lead vocals and guitar, keyboard), Nick McCarthy (rhythm guitar, keyboards and backing vocals), Bob Hardy (bass guitar), and Paul Thomson (drums, percussion and backing vocals). The band has been known for being one of the most popular post-punk revival bands, garnering multiple UK top 20 hits and selling over 3 million albums worldwide, as of late 2009. They have been nominated for several Grammy Awards and have received two Brit Awards—winning one for Best British Group, as well as one NME Award.
The band began by releasing their debut extended play, Darts of Pleasure, in 2003, under Domino Records. The band gained recognition in the United Kingdom after the EP's title track peaked at number 44 on UK Singles Chart. In January 2004, the band released the song "Take Me Out". The song went on to achieve global recognition, charting in several countries, and earned a Grammy nomination for Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal. It has since been noted as the band's signature song and has received critical acclaim from critics. The band subsequently released their eponymous debut studio album on 9 February 2004 to critical acclaim. The album won the 2004 Mercury Prize and earned a Grammy nomination for Best Alternative Album.
In 2005, the band released their second studio album, You Could Have It So Much Better, which was produced by Rich Costey. The album went on to earn critical acclaim from critics as well as a positive commercial performance, peaking within the top-ten in multiple countries. The album earned a nomination for Best Alternative Album and one of the singles released from the album, "Do You Want To", earned a nomination for Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal at the 48th Annual Grammy Awards.
The band's third studio album, Tonight: Franz Ferdinand, was announced in late 2008 and released in January 2009. The album was notable for featuring a change in the band's musical style, as the band had shifted from a post-punk-focused sound, which was featured on their first two albums, to a more dance-oriented sound. The album gained a positive commercial performance as well as positive reviews, but not as much acclaim as their first two albums. A remix album of Tonight, titled Blood, was subsequently released in July 2009.
Four years after the release of Tonight, the band released their fourth studio album, Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Action. In 2015, it was announced that Franz Ferdinand and American rock band Sparks had formed the supergroup FFS. The two released the album FFS in June 2015. In 2016, it was announced that Nick McCarthy had taken a break from the band to focus on family matters and other musical projects, but will be returning.
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Amazon Says That Frisco Is For Lovers ... Of Crappy Books and Movies
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The people of Frisco buy so many romantic comedies, romance novels, relationship-help books and Barry White albums on Amazon.com that the website has ranked it the 20th "most romantic" city in the United States.
Amazon's methodology was to ask a bunch of 12-year-olds (or James O'Keefe) what constitutes "romantic" and rate accordingly. Joining Frisco on the illustrious list are noted hotbeds of sexy schlock Miami and Las Vegas, as well as that bastion of free-wheelin' free-love and Joseph Smith-sanctioned underpants, Salt Lake City.
I'm not saying it's a stretch to imagine that the people of Frisco have particularly bad taste in entertainment and reading material. I am saying it's a stretch to think that the extended director's cut of Good Luck Chuck and leather-bound copies of the Mars-Venus collection are giving the inhabitants of our northern exurb express tickets to Nekkietown. If anything, this kind of mainstream hetero-centric, gender-essentialist crap does far more harm than good when it comes to real-life relationships, which is why even supposedly good-natured jokes like this one from Amazon get me all panty-hackled.
Then again, some people like clown porn, and some people just want to lock eyes with their signed photo of Dr. Phil while they're gently banging away to "Can't Get Enough Of Your Love, Babe." On the upside, having easy access to a 99-cent Ikea breakfast -- two scrambled eggs and bacon! -- might be worth risking an encounter with furry handcuffs.
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BOULDER, Colo. -- Mountain lion encounters in Colorado arent exactly rare, but they dont usually produce such great photo opportunities.
Gail Loveman, who lives in Boulders Pine Brook Hill neighborhood, snapped a handful of photos of a standoff involving a mountain lion and her Maine cook [sic] cat, Zeus.
It happened last Thursday evening when the cougar walked up her porch and peeked through a sliding glass door.
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One cat staring at another. :)=^..^=
Over to you Slings and Arrows! :)=^..^=
Here's thread for your jarhead bear! ;P
THANKS! You beat me to it! :)=^..^=
A photo finish, to be sure.
I'll tell you what - these photographics are absolutely beautiful. I can't say enough good things about this photo essay. Spectacular!
yes. I agree.
Man, those Cougars are beautiful, their bodies have great lines. Unfortunately, they would eat you if there wasn't a barrier there.
We've got an Abyssinian that looks almost exactly like that Cougar.
Time to cull the pack.
I would, then again I'm not a cat fan haha. Although I also would of made some nice wall mounts from those cougars if they were on my property, no way I'd leave them around to feast on my kids.
We had a fairly normal sized but a little bigger cat mate with a cat we found in a swamp with a torn out under arm that was a nice sized but not big. Kept them separate but somehow they mated. They had kittens that were 30 pounds of lean weight when grown. One of them grew so fast and big that it got really sick, the vet thought because it's body just wasn't keeping up with it's huge and rapid growth. The family that took her thought she was going to die but somehow once she was grown she came out of it. Something unusual happened with the mix of two fairly normal sized cats. The whole batch sure were beautiful.
The bottom picture is so gorgeous. Someday, after The LORD comes back, we will be able to walk up to them and pet them. That picture sure makes you want to be able to do that!
What part of Wisconsin was that?
Saw a picture of your dog on your page. Hope your whole family including him stay safe.
Lived in Madison at the time.
BIG problem with them not being afraid. And this is daylight too. I wouldn't be caught outside NOT packing ...
Thanks so much Bell ... We're relatively safe from cougars here in Connecticut [excepting the unusual stray from South Dakota LOL ... lions here have been declared *extinct*] ...our biggest worry is dying from a thousand paper cuts from the liberal regimes that proliferate the Northeast.
Yep. Where there's one...there's more! Guess it's the price you pay for living in God's country. They are magnificent critters...which explains my fascination with them....thankfully from afar. :)
Looks like a young male..they are especially beautiful cats.Your kitty's quite gorgeous as well!
Sorry..I meant Gail's kitty...
"Heavens to Murgatroyd!"
If you still have one of the queens from that litter, I might want to breed them sometime. I live in Eastern MN. I have an unaltered red male that's 17 lbs lean and I'm looking to breed a few orange coated biggies.
Back now.
He died eight years ago and I still miss him
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Goldman Beefs Up Investment-Banking Ranks
Goldman Sachs Group Inc., GS 0.09 % revving up its investment-banking operations as deal volume accelerates, added a top executive to the unit's leadership and overhauled its senior mergers-and-acquisition ranks.
The bank told employees on Monday that Richard J. Gnodde will become the third co-chief of investment banking while Gordon E. Dyal, current global head of M&A, will become co-chairman of the division.
Mr. Gnodde will join John S. Weinberg and David M. Solomon, who now lead Goldman's investment bank. Mr. Gnodde, who is based in London, will keep his current duties as co-chief executive of Goldman Sachs International, which encompasses non-U.S. operations of the securities firm, alongside Michael Sherwood.
Goldman said that once Mr Dyal joins Christopher A. Cole as co-chairman of the investment bank, he will be succeeded by Yoel Zaoui and Gene T. Sykes as co-heads of M&A. Mr. Zaoui works out of Goldman's London office, and Mr. Sykes is based in the U.S.
The moves aren't part of an effort to signal or shape a possible succession plan atop the company, led by Chairman and CEO Lloyd Blankfein, said a person familiar with the matter. Instead, Goldman is pushing to increase its volume of investment-banking business outside the U.S. where growth prospects are strong, putting executives with an international background at the highest levels of the division.
Mr. Gnodde joined Goldman in London in 1987, quickly rising through the ranks. He was named co-head of Goldman's investment bank in Japan in 1997 and co-head of Asia's investment-banking division in 1999.
Like its main Wall Street rivals, Goldman is striving to win more investment-banking business in emerging markets such as Brazil and India in an effort to capitalize on the fast growth of those economies.
Goldman's investment-banking chiefs generally spend more time managing the operation and making deals with companies that are looking to acquire other firms or raise capital through securities offerings. Client-wooing and other external relations are the primary duty of the chairmen of the investment bank.
Investment banking cemented Goldman's reputation on Wall Street but was overshadowed during the past decade by the rise of trading.
Inside Goldman, the rise of traders such as Mr Blankfein and Gary Cohn, Goldman's president and Mr Blankfein's number two, forced investment bankers to take a back seat. The abrupt departure of Jon Winkelried, Goldman's co-president, in Feburary 2009 left the investment banking side of the business without a representative at Goldman's top table.
Now, as deal-making recovers, Goldman is pushing hard to increase its investment-banking stature. The raft of new rules that followed the financial crisis have also increased the relative importance of investment banking to securities firms by clamping down on previously lucrative activities such as "proprietary trading" with the bank's own capital.
Goldman earned $1.6 billion in investment banking revenues so far this year, according to Dealogic, second only to J.P. Morgan Chase JPM 0.34 % in the global rankings. Last year, Goldman had investment-banking revenues of $3.9 billion.
Mr. Dyal joined Goldman in 1998 and has been a co-head of investment banking in Europe since 2001 and global head of M&A since 2004.
Mr. Zaoui joined Goldman in 1988, and has made his career in mergers and acquisitions, becoming co-head of European investment banking in 2004.
Mr. Sykes previously was co-chairman of M&A and chairman of the firm's technology, media and telecommunications investment-banking group. He joined Goldman in 1984 as part of its M&A unit.
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(The Root) — Anyone who's ever been lifted out of a bad case of sads by a new shade of lipstick, slinky red dress or sexy new 'do will absolutely identify with writer-director Ava DuVernay's new short film, The Door, released this week. The fifth installment in Miu Miu's Women's Tales series, DuVernay's film charts the transformative power of clothes and friendship in a tight story that clocks in at just under eight minutes.
But oh what a marvelous eight minutes they are. Featuring the jaw-dropping designs of Miuccia Prada against an equally stunning set, actresses Gabrielle Union, Adepero Oduye, Emayatzy Corinealdi, Goapele and Alfre Woodard weave a silent yet resounding tale of love in the time of closet envy. DuVernay, who in 2012 became the first black woman to win the Sundance Film Festival's best director award for her feature film Middle of Nowhere, recently talked to The Root about black women, friendship and high fashion.
The Root: How did Miu Miu first approach you for its Women's Tales series?
Ava DuVernay: It was shortly after Sundance in 2012 where my film Middle of Nowhere was honored. Miu Miu approached me through my agent and just offered it to me, which was lovely for me. I'm an independent filmmaker, so I don't go in pitching my projects. I just write my stuff and make it myself. So to have someone from the other side of the world recognize the work I've been doing and offer me the space to create something was really unexpected and really lovely.
TR: Tell us the story behind The Door.
AD: It's basically a story about friendship among women. The ways in which our sisters, the women in our lives, really hold us up at times when we can't hold ourselves up. They help us walk through those doors. They tell us where those doors are.
For black women — and, really for all women — the friendships that we share are far from catty, far from competitive, far from the things that are talked about when you actually get women together. So the film is about a woman who is in a dark place, and each one of her friends comes to her door bringing their own healing, and eventually she's able to walk through the door on her own.
TR: From Adepero Oduye to Alfre Woodard, the actresses in the film are absolutely stunning and talented. How did you go about casting the film?
AD: It starts with me and my casting director, Aisha Coley, in a room trying to figure out who has the flesh and blood and DNA to bring these characters to life. I knew that I wanted to work with five women. Alfre Woodard was the first person who came to mind. I was thrilled when she gave a very quick, enthusiastic yes.


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Defenders do not usually get the glory like the strikers, but they are absolutely vital for a team to be successful. At the moment there are a lot of very talented young defenders plying their trade at top clubs around the world.
Below is a rundown of 5 centre backs under 22 years old who have the potential to become world class.
Manchester United International Break review: Rooney shines, Depay struggles - originally posted on Soccerlens.com
Manchester United players are on their way back to Old Trafford after international duty and will start preparing themselves for the high octane clash against Liverpool this weekend.
France pipped the Netherlands by a goal to nil in Amsterdam on Monday evening to keep themselves perched at the top of their 2018 World Cup qualifying group on goal difference.
The decisive goal was scored by Paul Pogba on the half-hour mark, with the £89million man rasping one in from distance his first goal for France from outside the box in his last 60 attempts.
While the finals of Euro 1988 were played out in West Germany, the tournament ended up belonging to one of the great Netherlands teams of all time.
Indeed, the seemingly eternal rivalry between the two nations provided a constant backdrop to the tournament.
The eight nations to make the final stages were Italy, Denmark, Spain, England, USSR, Holland and the Republic of Ireland, along with host nation West Germany, whose fearsome side featured the likes of Lothar Matthaus and Jurgen Klinsmann.
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Having gone off the boil for Manchester United of late, Memphis Depay is also facing criticism for his recent performances at international level too.
Depay, who has something of a reputation for his suspect attitude in his native country, failed to provide any kind of creative catalyst as the Netherlands' Euro 2016 qualification campaign went tits up last week, with ex-Twente manager Co Adriaanse sticking his oar in in the aftermath.
When England take on Holland at Wembley tonight, all eyes will be on three players, who have got a big point to prove. Roy Hodgson, the England manager, was happy with his side's 3-2 victory against Germany last week and felt his young England team can make a big impression in the European Championship finals this summer.
Congratulations are most definitely due to Leicester City midfielder Danny Drinkwater, who has received his first ever call-up to the England squad for the upcoming Euro 2016 warm-up friendlies against Germany and the Netherlands.
Drinkwater, 26, has put in a hell of a shift in the middle for the Foxes this season, grafting away tirelessly while the likes of Jamie Vardy and Riyad Mahrez continue to gild the lily upfront.
Footballing legend Johan Cruyff has today passed away after his battle with cancer.
The Dutch footballer was suffering from the illness since October and his official site have revealed that the former Barcelona forward has died of cancer, aged 68.
Cruyff won the Ballon d'Or thrice during his time with Ajax and Barcelona.
Man Utd player finding it difficult to deal with LVG's team selection - originally posted on Soccerlens.com
Hollandwinger Memphis Depay has explained that it is difficult for him to accept being on the bench for Manchester United.
The former PSV player joined Manchester United for a fee of£25min the summer and has struggled to fit in at Old Trafford.
Chelsea want Guardiola in May, PL winning manager lined up as caretaker - originally posted on Soccerlens.com
Chelsea are planning a move for Carlo Ancelotti or Guus Hiddink imminently. Roman Abramovich is looking for an interim manager should he decide to sack Jose Mourinho.
Chelsea eyeing Pogba alternative, LVG scouts defender, striker dreamt Man United move - originally posted on Soccerlens.com
Chelsea and Manchester United are looking to sign Porto duo, Ruben Neves and Bruno Martins Indi.
After an exciting summer transfer window, it seems the Premier League giants are already busy lining up January moves for their preferred targets.
Manchester United player likened to legendary James Bond villain - originally posted on Soccerlens.com
Manchester United winger, Memphis Depay has been likened to the notoriousJames Bond villain, Goldfinger, by theDutch footballing legend, Van Hanegem.
Van Hanegem, considered as one of Holland's finest players, claimed that Memphis Depay is extremely conscious about his fashion and that there was no use for that on the pitch.
Champions League draw 2015/16: Manchester United handed dream group - originally posted on Soccerlens.com
The UEFA Champions League draw has been completed in Monaco this evening.
UEFA Champions League 2015/16 Group Stages
Premier League giants Manchester United and Chelsea will be happy with a relatively easy group.
Wolfsburg Identify Kevin De Bruyne Replacement - originally posted on Soccerlens.com
Wolfsburg have identified FC Twente Enschede attacking midfielder Hakim Ziyech as the potential replacement for Kevin De Bruyne should the Belgian make his move to Manchester City, according to Dutch outlet Voetbal International.
Dutch star comments on United transfer and chat with LvG - originally posted on Soccerlens.com
Manchester United's number 1 target to replace David De Gea, Jasper Cillessen, has today stated that he has not received any offers for a move to Old Trafford. The Ajax goalkeeper, who starred under Louis van Gaal in the Netherland's run to the semi-finals in the World Cup finals in Brazil last year, looks like he is set to stay put in his home country.
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I hold it, that a little rebellion, now and then, is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical . it is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government
Thomas Jefferson
I pray this doesn't become a bedtime story.
Hebrews 11:3 By faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that the things which are seen were not made of things which are visible.
What if all we have today is what we gave thanks for yesterday?
Let the views of others educate and inform you, but let your decisions be a product of your own conclusions. (Jim Rohn)


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Five Reasons You Should Quit Using Internet Explorer
For more than ten years, I've been assisting companies in building and maintaining their Web sites and Web applications. There are lots of things that can be frustrating about this process, most of which have to do with a lack of knowledge on the part of my clients, which is not entirely their fault. If I didn't have to know about such things, I wouldn't want to either.
But one thing that drives me nuts and is often a problem perpetuated not by my clients but by nerds and engineers is the idea that Internet Explorer is a good browser. Too often, my clients are required to use IE for intranets because lazy developers have built them to work only with that browser or, worse yet, with an old version of it.
IE creates all sorts of problems for developers because Microsoft doesn't deal with the nuts and bolts of the Internet in the same way as other companies. As a result, Web sites that look great and work perfectly in Chrome or Firefox or Safari look like crap and cease to function when you open them in Explorer. Fortunately, people are turning away from IE in huge numbers. In 2002, more than 80 percent of Internet users surfed the Web using IE. Today, it's less than 20 percent, making it even more ridiculous to develop something that only works with that browser.
So, if you are in that 20 percent still wasting your time and making Web site developers hate you, here are five reasons to switch to something else.
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4. Security Clients have often told me their IT departments claim IE is significantly more secure than other browsers. This is simply not true. A recent comprehensive security study concluded that Chrome is substantially more secure than other browsers, IE in particular.
3. Compatibility There hasn't been a version of IE for Mac since Safari was developed in 2003 despite the fact that there is a Windows version of Safari. Frankly, what Mac user would want it? The lack of compatibility, particularly with mobile devices and the iPad, makes IE nearly obsolete.
2. Memory Suck When you spend a lot of time on your computer, the one thing you don't want is software that hogs your active memory. When one piece of software requires a lot of your computer's attention, it slows the machine's performance and makes using it really annoying. While it isn't quite as memory-intensive as Firefox (get on that, Mozilla), it still takes a ton of your computing power.
1. Code Problems When programming code for the Web, the goal is always to make it simple and fast-loading. Unfortunately, IE makes that difficult because it doesn't like to play by the same rules as everyone else. Most browsers operate using a set of generally agreed-upon standards to make browsing easier and help coders. Microsoft, as usual, has decided to write its own playbook and it creates a mess for developers. It also means the Internet you view while using IE can be radically different from the experience of Firefox and Chrome users and not for the better.
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Authorities arrested a man involved in a fatal shooting in north Toledo.
40-year-old Patrick Harris faces charges of homicide and aggravated assault. The shooting happened March 11, 2013 in the block of 2800 North Summit. Authorities said the male victim had been shot in the head.
U.S. Marshals found Harris in Indianapolis Thursday morning. Officails said police arrested him when Harris answered the door.
Harris is being held at the Marion County jail. Toledo Police Department said Harrison will be extradited in the next 10 days.