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SUNRISE, Fla. (AP) The Florida Panthers have named Dale Tallon as the club's new general manager, replacing Randy Sexton less than a year after he was officially named to the post.
The Panthers made the announcement on Monday, a day ahead of a news conference at which the 59-year-old Tallon is to be introduced. Tallon comes to Florida after working in the Chicago Blackhawks' front office for more than a decade. He also played for three NHL teams from 1970-80.
"Dale brings with him a proven track record and an impressive franchise-building resume that we believe is the perfect fit for the future of the Panthers organization," Cliff Viner and Stu Siegel, Florida's managing partners, said in a statement.
Sexton, officially named as Panthers GM in October, oversaw the team's contract negotiations, scouting, administration and player development after Jacques Martin left the franchise in June to coach the Montreal Canadiens.
"We thank Randy Sexton for his service to our organization and appreciate his continued support throughout this transition process," Viner and Siegel said.
Tallon was hired as Chicago's general manager in June 2005 but was moved to a senior adviser of hockey operations position in 2009 less than two months after the Blackhawks advanced to the Western Conference finals.
The Blackhawks drafted young stars Patrick Kane (FSY) and Jonathan Toews (FSY) during Tallon's tenure as GM, and he was credited with trades and free-agent acquisitions that helped turn around the once-struggling franchise.
Tallon has quite a challenge awaiting him in Florida. The Panthers, who finished last in the Southeast Division this season, haven't been in the playoffs since 2000. They also haven't won a postseason series since 1996 or a playoff game since 1997.
"I look forward to getting to work and will immediately evaluate our club's framework, as we diligently prepare for the upcoming draft and free agency signing period," Tallon said in the statement.
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Hey guys...decided to join today; seems like an informative place and the members seem nice.
I carry a Springfield XDsc in a Blackhawk CQC for open carry, and put it in a Tommy Theis IWB for CC(at home; I took the CFP class on 07/21 and am waiting for my permit as is my wife) I also have an XDm 4.5 on the nightstand.
I'm 38, own my own home-based business and play guitar(the gear of which I'm almost more obsessed about than guns and gear)...got a beautiful wife and a happy healthy 12 yr old daughter, a foot-long red goatee and a bunch of tattoos.
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Hey guys. Thought I would add to this thread, instead of creating another.
I'm also from Utah. Have had my CCP for a few years, but have never felt comfortable carrying my 229 around. Like many, I recently decided to alter my lifestyle and daily habits to make the commitment to carrying daily. Have a new firearm on the way, that I had a chance to shoot and compare to others. I've been lurking in here the last two weeks and tried to use the feedback and opinions in posts to help me with an initial setup. Belt, IWB holster and a mag pouch are also on the way.
Really looking forward to learning and trying to find some credible resources, to use in practicing and developing my skills.
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Financial Aid "Shopping Sheet" on the Horizon
by C. Claire Law, M.S., IECA (South Carolina)
The January 30 issue of Chronicle of Higher Education reports that the White House will soon require colleges to offer students and parents a "standard" comparison shopping sheet that will enable parents and students to compare and contrast multiple awards from multiple colleges. This form comes just after colleges had to comply with the U.S. Department of Education and post a "Net Price Calculator" (NPC) on their Web site. Since financial aid awards are part of the communication and marketing stream of a college, every award can look different. This upcoming form, financial aid "Shopping Sheet" (you can see the draft form here) will help families better understand and evaluate the amount of aid each college offers.
The government is aiming for transparency so that parents and students will understand how much federal student aid they are eligible to receive. This encourages private colleges to disclose criteria by which they award their internal institutional aid. The Institutional Methodology (IM) criteria is "private," which makes it hard for families to gain an idea of whether a college is awarding only federal aid or its own institutional aid. It's difficult for parents and students to understand that criteria. Do private colleges that award a scholarship or tuition discount do so only when there is a demonstrated federal need? Alternatively, do they award "pure" merit aid based on grades and test scores alone, regardless of the family's ability to pay? Parents must ask this question outright.
So often when a parent appeals their financial aid award, the standard reply is "you don't qualify for more" or "others need it more than you," but parents don't understand whether the college is referring to federal aid or institutional aid. Financial aid officers can certify parents for PLUS loans (Parent Loan for Undergraduate Students) through which parents can borrow up to the full cost of education. However, while they may qualify for the loan, many parents can take on only so much debt before it starts affecting their retirement. Colleges will likely need to loosen their purse in order to keep themselves competitive, desirable, and affordable.
Over the last few decades, families have accumulated large amounts of student debt, which some say is larger than the amount owed on mortgages. There has to be a limit to the amount of self-help aid, such as loans, that parents take out. I'm focusing on parents' debt because students can borrow only limited amounts, which seldom cover the cost of college. In his State of the Union Address to the nation on January 24, President Obama indicated that the government will allocate more work study dollars into colleges. He then asked "What will colleges themselves do?" Will they match an equal amount of funds to award on-campus jobs to students who don't qualify for federal work study?
This financial aid shopping sheet will be a very useful form. However, it still won't be accurate because public and private colleges don't post the upcoming academic year's cost of attendance until a month or two before new students enroll. Try visiting any college Web site at this time. You will not find the exact cost of tuition, room, board, fees and books for students who will enter college this fall. Some families don't realize that these costs have been increasing on average from 4% to 8% every year. This increase often results in an award letter with a bigger PLUS loan for parents for each of the four years of college. So parents can afford college but they have to be willing to borrow more each year and forgive the fact that the exact cost of attendance is not posted until just before the student enrolls.
Typically, colleges post their new cost of attendance after their governing board has met. Even when I call in late spring of the student's senior year, the financial aid director is not sure of the bottom line cost of attendance (COA) for my student who will enroll in August/September of 2012. Why should students send in their deposit to a college when they don't really know the exact cost? I have heard parents say that when the total cost is $58,000, a few thousand here or there don't make a difference. However, for those parents who are budgeting every few hundred dollars, it makes a huge difference.
In addition, this gives the perception that the college is less expensive than it actually is, because families calculate their future costs based on prior year's fees and estimates. It messes up the family's calculations, the Net Price Calculator, and any future financial aid shopping sheet.
In this economic climate when even the middle class feels the economic squeeze, parents need to know the true costs in order to plan their college payments. According to financial aid expert Lora Block (IECA, Vermont), "Public colleges are hampered by the fact that state budgets are done so late and the budgets determine the cost of attendance." Thus it won't be easy to obtain that information about public colleges earlier in the year. Parents need to overstate costs of attendance in their calculations. There are, however, some costs that would be easier to estimate, like the cost of books and supplies. We all know that $800 to $1,200 per academic year does not begin to cover the cost of textbooks. It's hard to convince first-year students to be thrifty when all they can think of is personalizing their dorm room with their favorite rug, bed spread, and curtains. However, if they want to be smart, they will buy used textbooks and shop for them online!
C. Claire Law, M.S., co-authored "Find the Perfect College for You." She identifies colleges that match the student academically, socially, and financially. She can be reached at [email protected]
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The cost of books and room and board can trend downward at some schools – offering some solace to financially strapped students and parents. Many schools have programs allowing students to rent textbooks for a fraction of what it costs to buy. Also, in certain instances, moving off campus and buying and preparing one's own food rather than living in the dorms and participating in the college meal plans can be significantly less expensive.


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After starting the season 17-24, the Twins moved 22-year-old lefty über-prospect Francisco Liriano from the bullpen into the rotation on May 19. They then played .500 ball over their next twenty games before catching fire in mid-June, winning 18 of 19 games, 15 of which came against National League teams, specifically the Dodgers and the four weakest teams in the NL Central. After dropping a pair of series to the Royals and Rangers, they again went on a tear after the All-Star Break, winning 12 of their first 14 games of the second half, a stretch that concluded with a three-game sweep of the White Sox.
Those streaks obviously weren't all Liriano's doing, but the decision to move Liriano into the rotation was a lynchpin for the team, which started the season with Tony Batista at third, Juan Castro at shortstop and with plans to carry Ruben Sierra. Not long after Twins got wise on Liriano, they dumped Batista (.236/.303/.388), Castro (.231/.258/.308), Sierra (5 for 28 with one extra base hit and four walks) and Kyle Lohse (7.07 ERA), replacing them with Nick Punto (a surprising .307/.383/.405), Jason Bartlett (finally living up to his minor league track record with a .342/.409/.447 line), Jason Tyner (ditto, hitting .314/.343/.346 in place of the injured Shannon Stewart's .293/.347/.368 in left field), and, of course, Liriano (12-3, 2.19 ERA, 10.74 K/9). Add in a tremendous two months from Justin Morneau (.387/.415/.719 with 18 homers in June and July) and you get a Twins team that went 42-17 (.712) from May 19 until July 28.
It was that later date when Liriano suffered a hard luck loss against the Tigers after which he complained of pain in his pitching elbow. He's made just one abbreviated start since then and the Twins have gone 18-13 in his absence. That's a .580 record, an almost exact match with the team's overall record, but a considerable drop from the dominant two months in which Liriano took the hill every fifth day, and not enough to push them past the White Sox, who currently sport a .586 winning percentage.
Once again, Liriano has been the lynchpin as the team has started to regress without him. Brad Radke, who has said he will retire after this season, has been pitching with a torn labrum and a shredded rotator cuff, figuring there's no reason to save his arm. It worked in August, when he posted a 2.48 ERA, but his shoulder is deteriorating faster than expected and didn't respond to his latest cortisone shot. As a result, Radke won't start Saturday, and could be done for the season, and thus his career. That's bad news for a rotation that's still without Liriano and is still carrying tonight's starter Carlos Silva, who has a 6.50 ERA on the year. While rookies Boof Bonser and Sunday's starter Matt Garza appear to be rounding into shape, Scott Baker, who will take Radke's turn tomorrow, has been on the Richmond express all year and sports a 6.93 ERA in 12 starts.
To make matters worse, the offense is experiencing some correction, with MVP candidates Morneau and Joe Mauer cooling off and Punto coming back to earth. It doesn't help matters that Luis Castillo sprained his ankle and could miss the entire series this weekend. Thus, despite the continued excellence of Johan Santana and the bullpen (which has added dominant rookie Pat Neshek to the Big Three of Nathan, Rincon and LOOGY Dennys Reyes), the recent surge of surprise clean-up hitter Michael Cuddyer (.311/.398/.594 in August), and last night's addition of Phil Nevin (who will replace the Rondell White's miserable .215/.242/.308 at DH), I'm just not convinced that this team can overtake the White Sox, despite the two teams being tied in the loss column, without getting Liriano back, and soon.
The latest report from Will Carroll is that Liriano is throwing "sneaker sessions" (meaning he's throwing off a mound, but in sneakers rather than cleats, the unproven theory being that the reduced traction also reduces effort and strain on the arm) and could return mid-month. Unless Bonser and Garza maintain their improvements and Nevin hits like he did in Chicago rather than the way he didn't in Texas, that might not be soon enough
Minnesota Twins
2006 Record: 77-55 (.583)
2006 Pythagorean Record: 75-57 (.565)
Manager: Ron Gardenhire
General Manager: Terry Ryan
Home Ballpark (2005 Park Factors): Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome (101/101)
Who's New?
- Jason Bartlett (minors) replaced Juan Castro
- Jason Tyner (minors) replaced Shannon Stewart (DL)
- Michael Cuddyer replaced Jason Kubel in right field
- Nick Punto replaced Tony Batista at third base
- Phil Nevin replaces Batista on the roster and Rondell White at DH
- Boof Bonser (minors) replaced Kyle Lohse
- Matt Garza (minors) replaced Francisco Liriano (DL)
- Pat Neshek (minors) occupies an extra roster spot created by the acquisition of Nevin
- Dennys Reyes (minors) replaced Scott Baker
- Baker was called back up to replace Brad Radke (injury) in the rotation
- Alexi Casilla and Chris Heintz are September call-ups
Current Roster
1B – Justin Morneau (L)
2B – Luis Castillo (S)
SS – Jason Bartlett (R)
3B – Nick Punto (S)
C – Joe Mauer (L)
RF – Michael Cuddyer (R)
CF – Torii Hunter (R)
LF – Jason Tyner (L)
DH – Phil Nevin (R)
R – Rondell White (OF)
L – Jason Kubel (OF)
R – Lew Ford (OF)
S – Luis O. Rodriguez (IF)
R – Mike Redmond (C)
S – Alexi Casilla (IF)*
R – Chris Heintz (C)*
L – Johan Santana
R – Carlos Silva
R – Scott Baker*
R – Matt Garza
R – Boof Bonser
R – Brad Radke**
R – Joe Nathan
R – Juan Rincon
R – Jesse Crain
R – Pat Neshek
L – Dennys Reyes
R – Willie Eyre
R – Matt Guerrier
15-day DL: L – Francisco Liriano, L – Dave Gassner
60-day DL: R – Shannon Stewart (OF),
*September call-ups
Typical Lineup
S – Luis Castillo (2B)
S – Nick Punto (3B)
L – Joe Mauer (C)
R – Michael Cuddyer (RF)
L – Justin Morneau (1B)
R – Torii Hunter (CF)
R – Phil Nevin (DH)
L – Jason Tyner (LF)
R – Jason Bartlett (SS)


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StrikerS Nano 10 – 14
The Nano's using the second episode's material. My favourite is probably No.14. Poor E(ro)lio.
I don't know whether to tsukkomi Fate-chan or Hayate here….
Silently, Fate gains a secret rival… for her figure though, luckily…
Tiana, you're so easily cheated.
One will always worry about their beloved ones.
E(ro)lio unexpectedly gets claimed so young.
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Wild Bill's Riders was established in 1962 in Albertville, Wisconsin. Each year the club hosts three to four horse shows at our show grounds and several social gatherings. In 1999 the club purchased land east of Elk Mound, Wisconsin and moved the arena, food stand and entry stand to the new show grounds. Since then we have added running water, lights and a second arena. The second arena is now used for warming up horses and trail classes. In the fall of 2000 some of our members had a roof raising party and built a shelter for people to sit under on those hot summer afternoons while they watch the show. It comes in handy on rainy days too!
WBR holds several social functions each year also. Members have fun together with and without horses. We enjoy trail rides in the summer and fall, hay rides in the winter, card parties and our annual bingo party-awards banquet (pot luck of course). Sometimes we get together at the show grounds just to ride and talk about all the great things we have done with our horses. Our members keep their horses busy with trail rides, driving, game and pleasure classes, team penning, drill team and many other activities.


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Public Use Limits are outlined in the Director's Compendium and are meant to maintain the environmental and scenic values of Wolf Trap. Please be respectful of park resources and other park visitors. For rules during Filene Center performances, visit Filene Center House Rules.
1. Open fires and/or cooking devices are not permitted within the park at any time.
2. "Tenting", i.e., the pitching of any kind of tents for shelter, including large event tents, is not permitted except by permission of the Director.
3. Organized sports (baseball, soccer, football, croquet, etc.) are not permitted at any time, nor is the erection of sports equipment such as nets, goals, etc. Informal games, such as catch, frisbee, etc., are permitted in the Meadow area.
4. Flying model powered airplanes or model rockets is prohibited.
5. Items such as signs, decorations, and balloons are not to be attached to any park structures or natural features except the third party deck areas. Balloons are permitted as part of pre-performance picnics and events, provided that these events occur outside the Filene Center House. Helium balloons may not be released at any time.
6. Skating, rollerblading, and skateboarding are permitted on the paved parking lots when not in conflict with other park activities. They are prohibited elsewhere in the park, including park roads, paths, the Filene Center and Plaza areas.
7. Bicycles are permitted on park roads and on the paved parking lots when not in conflict with other park activities. They are prohibited in all other areas of the park, including trails, grassy areas, and woods.
8. Cross-country skiing, snowboarding, and snowshoeing are permitted in the park on established trails and grassy areas. Sledding is permitted on grassy areas only. No winter activities of any kind are permitted in the Filene Center House or Plaza areas, or on park roads.
9. Ice skating on the Farm Pond is prohibited for safety reasons.
10. Smoking is prohibited in all areas of the Filene Center.Smoking is also prohibited in box office and theater entrance lines, within 25 feet of theater entrances, in rest-rooms and in the Theatre-in-the-Woods.E-cigarettes are prohibited in the house covered seating area.Smoking is allowed in parking lots and in park areas outside of the areas where it is prohibited.
11. Pets, except for service animals, are prohibited in the Filene Center House, in the Theatre-in-the-Woods, in picnic areas, and in any area of the park being utilized for an authorized event. Where pets are permitted, they must be restrained on a leash of no more than six feet in length. Pet owners/handlers are responsible for removing pet excrement.
12. Swimming, bathing or wading in the park is prohibited, due to safety considerations.
13. Camping or overnight park use is prohibited.
14. Small scale activities by park patrons, such as birthday parties and other celebrations, are allowed on park grounds provided that the Director is notified in advance, that the activities do not conflict with primary park uses, and that the activities comply with all other items in this compendium. Small scale activities are private activities not associated with commercial or non-profit organizations that do not greatly impact the park facilities, or are within the general range of gatherings typical of picnics and similar uses. Generally, small scale activities have 25 or fewer attendees. Users are expected to provide their own clean-up and carry out all trash, and park in the paved public parking lots. No amplified sound is allowed. Advance notification allows the park staff to ensure that appropriate restrooms are unlocked and other preparations made for visitor safety and assistance. It also ensures that the area to be used for the event will not be in use by another event. (Note: The use of the
15. Large scale activities that are held in one of the third party use areas require the advance notification and approval of the Director. Large scale activities that do not use one of the third party areas must have a special use permit. Large scale activities are those that generally have more than 25 attendees. All large scale activities must be held in conjunction with a theater performance. View the Application for Special Use Permit (PDF, 120KB) and Wolf Trap Special Use Permit Additional Conditions (PDF, 76KB).
16. The public use of unlicensed motor vehicles is prohibited at the park, with the exception of motorized wheelchair use by mobility impaired persons.
17. People who can legally possess firearms under applicable federal, state, and local laws can legally possess firearms in this park.Federal law prohibits firearms in certain marked facilities, including the Filene Center.
18. Fishing with a rod or line is permitted in the park's Farm Pond.All fishing is "Catch and Release" and all persons fishing must possess a valid Virginia State Fishing License.Fishing is not permitted in Wolf Trap Creek.19. Food and drink may still be brought into the Filene Center.For the safety of the public, however, all coolers and picnic baskets to be allowed in are limited to a maximum size of 15" x 15" x 22" or smaller (48-quart capacity cooler/63-can capacity) and other containers such as bags, backpacks, carts, purses are restricted to a size no larger than 14" x 13" x 10".To facilitate visitor safety, all such coolers, baskets and other such containers will also be subject to security inspection for explosives, weapons, firearms and ammunition.This public use limitation and security inspection will apply only to patrons who wish to enter the Filene Center and will not affect patrons who picnic and/or recreate outside the gates of the Filene Center.


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Scott Olson, author of ten books and many articles, essays and stories, as well as editor of six books and two journals, will be reading at Central's Museum of Culture and Environment in Dean Hall Friday, Nov. 8 at 7:30 p.m. This event is free and open to the public. Books will be available for purchase at his reading courtesy of The Wildcat Shop.
Primarily a nature writer, Olson incorporates his knowledge of airplanes, fires, rural communities and nature into his work.
Olsen is the author of several books, including "At Speed: Traveling the Long Road between Two Points" and "Hard Air: Adventures from the Edge of Flying." He is also the author of a blog called "A Week in Fire," and is the editor of many anthologies. Olson was listed among the Notable Essays in "Best American Essays" for the years: 2013, 2011, 2010, 2008, 2004, 2003, 1998, and 1997.
He is now a professor of English at Concordia College in Moorhead, Minn. and editor in chief of the literary journal "Ascent."
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Endermologie: Massage therapy by vacuum suction
Endermologie is a deep massage therapy done with vacuum suction so that the skin and subcutaneous tissue (dermis and some fat) is kneaded into a rolling device while negative pressure holds the skin in the rollers.
It may reduce bulk slightly but temporarily. It may smoothen uneven contour with cellulite, but again, it is a temporary effect.
Most patients undergo Endermologie treatment two or three times per week for a month, and then may continue with once per month, or less, to maintain their result.
Endermologie is Deep Tissue Massage with Suction
Endermologie is a painless and nonivasive mechanical massage that stimulates the reactivation of fat release and production of collagen and elastin. With a series of at least 10-14 weekly treatments Endermologie can slim fat cells, smooth cellulite, firm the skin and sculpt your figure.
Unfortunately, the benefits seem to be temporary, so while most patients are pleased with the improvement achieved, a maintenance program will be necessary.
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Don't waste your money on endermologie. It's a bogus treatment that deals with kneading skin between two rollers using suction. It doesn't make sense and doesn't work.
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BeschreibungPolitical parties are the fabric of democratic politics. In 1991 a new Russia emerged after seven decades of one-party dictatorship, claiming to be on the road towards democracy. In this volume the authors analyse the many contradictions, dilemmas, and paradoxes of reconstituting free party politics and democratic rule in a severely traumatized country. Frequently from a comparative perspective they deal with a range of topics, from the behaviour of the new parties in parliament, the role of ideology in cementing party organizations, to the character and prospects of the transient Russian party system.
InhaltsverzeichnisParty development in the regions: when did parties start to play a part in politics?, Ruth Brown; regional party system gormation in Russia: the deviant case of Sverdlovsk Oblast, Vladimir Gel'man and Grigorii V. Golosov; the electoral effects of presidentialism in post-Soviet Russia, Robert G. Moser; party platforms: towards a definition of the Russian political spectrum, Sarah Oates; ideology, uncertainty and the rise of anti-system parties in post-communist Russia, Stephen E. Hanson; left or right? the CPRF and the problem of 'relevance' in a time of uncertainty, Neil Robinson; should party in parliament be weak or strong? the rules debate in the Russian state duma, Moshe Haspel; political conflict and institutional design: paths of party development in Russia, Thomas F. Remington; where now in the study of Russian political parties?, Frederic J. Fleron, Jr., Richard Ahl and Finbarr Lane; the lessons of comparative politics: Russian political parties as independent variables?, Paul Webb and Paul G. Lewis; electoral statistics, 1993-96, Stephen White
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Another epic post. Hey, it's -41 here with the windchill (Celsius, though when it gets at that temperature, celsius and the other crazy nonsensical system that I can't spell are about the same), and today is an indoor day (I started writing this last week, and with the windchill, it bottomed out at -58.6... but some of my comments about Nationals seem off now. Oh well)
I've mentioned elsewhere, but for me I tend to look at the Olympics as the climax to the previous four seasons of figure skating. The various narrative threads that got explored need to be tied up to my satisfaction (or else shakes fist!!!). A good example of a satisfying ending would be the Nagano Ladies: the last three World Champions on the podium, a great rivaly in the top two, Chen Lu's beautiful comeback and reaction to her skate (heartbreaking). All retrospective, but still. It's beautiful to see when it happens correctly. When it doesn't, well, it's rather depressing.
So how would I like to see the rest of the season play out....
Canada Firstly, a strong nationals performance from Patrick Chan. Yes, I'll cough up to pretty much dismissing him as a medal candidate after Skate Canada (you'd think I'd learn after dismissing Joubert after TEB, wouldn't you?), but a strong Nationals performance will make me flip back so hard it'll cause whiplash. He's clearly got the stuff, and I think he can compete with the quad kings without one (which he won't get), which makes him fairly unique (Oda and Lysacek I think will need a quad, but moreso because I think they'll go for it. If that makes any sense. In other words, because we know they've got a quad in the repetoire and we know they're talking about adding it, they'll be held to that standard) For the second spot, I'd like it to go to Sawyer. Ten doesn't impress me, Chipeur is regressing from last season (watch his 4 Continents performance from last year), and Reynolds is too much of a wild card (thought that 3-3-2 he does near the end of his program is awesome). Sawyer got a GP medal (in the weakest field, admittedly) and really does stand out for his musicality and flexibility.
As for the other Nationals, I'd like to see Daisuke Takahashi beat Oda (if Oda competes); Ponsero doing well (pretty pretty please?) - though frankly, I'd rather see Amodio/Ponsero and Preaubert at the Olympics rather than Joubert (no denying that the latter earned it, though). And American nationals? Simple: I want Lysacek, Abbott, Wier, Rippon, Carriere, Bradley and Mroz to skate brilliantly (is Miner competing seniors nationally?). Should be simple, right? Lysacek's skating this season like a champion (in terms of confidence and what he's laying out on the ice), but this is a pretty diverse group of skaters with at least two masterpieces for programs (Rippon's and Abbott's short programs). And I want Michel Brezina to push Verner. I don't want Verner to implode or anything (I really enjoy both his programs, and probably more so than Brezina's), but I really would like to see improvement from Verner, and maybe the pressure of losing the number one spot will light a fire in him. Didn't hurt Buttle or Lysacek.
Now, at Euros, I want only one thing to happen and it's Stephane Lambiel on top. I doubt it'll happen everything posted here and elsewhere isn't positive, but I'd love him to get gold at Euros. For that to happen, it'll take Plushenko withdrawing (and maybe Joubert as well), but that's what I want. Presuming 4CC is depleted, it'll be cool to see Denis Ten get his first senior ISU medal, though that really depends on who the US, Japan and (even) Canada sends.
Now, the Olympics... Okay, some stats first
In the Vancouver quadrennia (2006 worlds to 2009): four world champions, three multi-medalists/four one-time medalists, seven medalists total
In the Turin quadrennial: three world champions, three multi-medalists/six one-time medalists, nine medalists total.
In the Salt Lake quadrennial: two world champions, four multi-medalists/one one-time medalist , five medalists total
In the Nagano quadrennial: two world champions, three multime-medalists/four one time-medalists, seven medalists
In the Albertville quadrennial (skipping Lillehamer for obvious reasons): two world champions, three multi-medalists/four one time medalists, seven medalists
To me, this speaks clearly to the breadth of field currently competing. Now, it is a bit misleading. One time medalist implies one hit wonder, and given that my analysis groups skaters like Elvis Stoijko (one medal in the SLC quadrennial), Alexi Yagudin (one medal in the Turin quadrennial) and Lysacek, Lambiel, et al in that category... well, not entirely a fair representation. But in general, the diversification at the top (four world champions in four seasons (which we've also seen in ladies, again, which is unprecedented) and the way the standings get shaken up consistently (see Verner's topsy-turvy relationship with the top ten/five) speaks to said breadth. And to me, I'd love to see that continue at the Olympics.
Unfortunately, that means no Plushenko (well unfortunately to me. Not so much to others I think). One of the stories of this quadrennial has ben the decline of Russia. Their medal haul is at a scant 25% this quad what it was in the previous four quadrennials. Before Plushenko came back, there was a fair chance that the nation (as Russia/Unified Team/Soviet Union) wouldn't win any gold medals for the first time in 50 years. Now with his confidence and jumping abilities, he's the top contender (again). Which is boring for me because I don't like watching him skate.
I really did want Chan to win gold, but like Buttercup says, I think his skating would progress more readily if he misses out on the podium. But who knows how long he wants to go for. Beyond him, Takahashi is my favourite and he's got two gorgeous programs. My desired outcome (that has a reasonable shot at happening and only if Plushenko withdraws and the universe redraws itself)
01. Daisuke Takahashi
02. Patrick Chan
03. Tomas Verner
04. Brian Joubert
05. Jeremy Abbott
06. Stephane Lambiel
07. Evan Lysacek
08. Nobunari Oda
09. Takahiko Kouzka
10. Samuel Contesti
This top ten is rather shoddily put together, admittedly. I had a hard time balancing plausibility (pretending that Plushenko won't show up) and what I want.


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It's been a few years since we last checked in with Raymond "Boots" Riley, front man of the Coup—a funk and hip-hop group known for its humor, intelligence, and in-your-face agitprop. Steeped in radical street politics, the Oakland, California-based group has been shaking things up for two decades with albums like Kill My Landlord, Genocide & Juice, Steal This Album, and Party Music—which gained notoriety for songs like "5 Million Ways to Kill a CEO," but revealed a softer Riley in cuts like "Wear Clean Drawers," a heartfelt facts-of-street-life for his baby daughter. The band's 2006 Epitaph album, Pick a Bigger Weapon, which made Rolling Stone's Top 50 albums of that year, includes the track "BabyLet'sHaveABabyBeforeBushDoSomethin'Crazy." Nowadays, besides raising three kids and working on new Coup material for an indie film, Riley is collaborating with Rage Against the Machine's Tom Morello in a newer group called the Street Sweeper Social Club. For a Mixed Media special in our November/December issue, I asked him about his recent projects, favorite tunes, and the joys of fatherhood.
Mother Jones: You're working on your first new album since 2006, right? Give us a taste for where it's headed, thematically.
Boots Riley: Actually, I put out an album in 2009 and an EP in August 2010 with Street Sweeper Social Club. The next album by The Coup will be the soundtrack to a movie that I've written, and in which I play the lead. It's a dark comedy with magical realism inspired by my days as a telemarketer. It's called Sorry To Bother You.
MJ: What's your favorite new or upcoming hip-hop release?
BR: Kanye West, Good Ass Job. I heard his a cappella version of "Mama's Boyfriend" on the Internet and I'm extremely excited by the prospect of good songwriting, great beats, and a concept album, as opposed to just a collection of songs.
MJ: How about a release outside your genre?
BR: Janelle Monaé, The ArchAndroid. Good songwriting, great beats…and it's a concept album as opposed to just a collection of songs.
MJ: Shuffle your iPod and name the first five songs that pop up.
BR: 1. Gregory Isaacs, "Sad To Know You're Leaving"
2. U2, "Ultraviolet (Light My Way)"
3. Bob Dylan, "Mixed-Up Confusion"
4. Cee-Lo Green, "All Day Love Affair"
5. The Magnetic Fields, "The Book Of Love"
MJ: What's the latest song, good or bad, that super-glued itself in your brain?
BR: "Bed Intruder Song" from Auto-Tune The News
MJ: Three records you never get sick of listening to?
BR: 1. Stevie Wonder, Songs In The Key Of Life
2. Prince, Controversy
3. Michael Jackson, Off the Wall
MJ: Any guilty musical pleasures?
BR: I don't ever feel guilty about anything that I like. Okay, yes I do: "Bed Intruder Song" from Auto-Tune The News.
MJ: Favorite holiday-related song or album?
BR: Albert Hague, "You're A Mean One, Mr. Grinch"
MJ: Favorite politically themed song or album?
BR: Public Enemy, It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back
MJ: You have a teenage daughter and two young sons. How has being a father changed your worldview?
BR: Becoming a father made me a lot more sentimental than I ever was before. I never cried at movies before I became a parent. I feel music more intensely. I think of my political ideas as ideas about how I want to interact with other human beings as opposed to abstract theories about how the world should be.
MJ: Okay, pop. Let's hear your picks for most-tolerable kids music.
BR: The Dino 5, Marlo Thomas & Friends' Free To Be…You And Me, and Captain Underpants
MJ: Do you let the younger ones listen to your records, or only the songs with no cussing?
BR: The cussing is how I get them to listen to my lyrics!
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Courtney R. said, "...seeing. It used to be a private house and there's even an indoor wintergarden inside. One of my all-time favorites. The The Morgan Library & Museum is also wonderful--two totally different styles but you should see both the museum and the library. They also have..." See More
peter f. said, "...The Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, the Ground Zero 9/11 Memorial Museum, and the The Morgan Library & Museum, are my suggestions they are all unique. The CH has been recently been completely renovated and has some mesmerizing interactI've displays. It,s the Smithsonian design museuM...." See More
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Sifting through U.S.-listed ADRs of foreign companies is like hitting the last minutes of a two-day garage sale. The pickings are pretty awful.
IBD's Top 15 World Stocks, a daily list of the top-rated ADRs trading on the NYSE or Nasdaq, only shows 11 names in Friday's edition. There simply aren't enough names that cut the mustard to fill out all 15 slots.
Rather than lower the standards to make the list, IBD's editors chose to change the name of the list to Top World Stocks. Even so, too many of the names that appear are either flawed or simply subpar.
The latest addition to the list, Swiss-based TE Connectivity (TEL), shows quarterly EPS gains that are choppy and, for the past three reports, below the 25% mark you want to see in a leader.
When the company reports its December-ending quarter, analysts expect earnings to shrink 4% from its year-ago period.
But all isn't so bleak. MercadoLibre (MELI) is trying to reprise its role as a market leader. That by itself is some feat. Few can do it.
The stock's chart is accomplishing some much-needed repairs.
Shares of Latin America's premier online auction site had formed a very ugly base from May through October 2011. The pattern runs 48% deep and shows too many wide, sloppy moves — mostly to the downside.
The base, a double bottom with handle or a cup with handle, is asymmetrical. The right side shows a sharp ascent, making the entire pattern lopsided.
How can a stock repair a chart like this? By building a new, attractive base atop or next to the flawed structure. MercadoLibre is doing just that.
Look at the past six weeks. A six-week cup appears, running just 18% deep. The base's bottom touches the 200-day moving average, while the bulk of the pattern holds above the 50-day line. Volume has been attractively tame while this cup formed.
Note, too, that this cup began as a breakout from the earlier, deeply flawed base. That breakout had failed, falling as much as 14% from the 90.09 buy point.
The six-week cup shows a buy point at 95.58. But the right side is still forming, and a handle may yet appear.
MercadoLibre lets sellers offer goods through online auctions or virtual stores through its network of platforms in a dozen Latin American countries.
While based in Argentina, MercadoLibre wins more than half its revenue from Brazil, the region's anchor economy.
MercadoLibre also helps facilitate transactions with MercadoPago, an online payment system that looks much like PayPal.
MercadoLibre flew past earnings estimates in its Q3, which was reported after the close Nov. 2. It netted 60 cents per share, 36% more than its year-ago result. Analysts had expected 43 cents.
Revenue jumped 46%, its biggest gain in seven quarters. This gauge, too, beat the Street.


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Do you love reading the fine print? Do you enjoy figuring out how many penalties and fees your credit card can impose? Probably not, yet many credit cards come with pages-long terms and conditions that many consumers struggle to understand.
But at the same time, the credit card industry is nothing if not intensely competitive, so card issuers eventually decided that there was a market for simple credit cards. These are cards that have the fewest fees and penalties.
Who Needs a Simple Credit Card?
There are many types of credit card users who would want a card that is as simple as possible. First, there are those who are new to credit cards, and don't want to have the potential of incurring extra expenses. In addition, there are those who are experienced credit card users who have learned the hard way about all the fees and penalties that can be incurred. Finally, there are those who hold a credit card for just occasional use. These infrequent cardholders have no need for all the rewards, perks and benefits offered by high-end credit cards, and their corresponding cost and complexity.
How to Choose a Simple Credit Card
Before you apply for a credit card, it's important to know where your credit scores stand so you don't apply for a card that you won't get. This year's winners, for example, require a good or excellent credit score. You can check your credit scores for free on Credit.com.
Regardless of what type of credit card you are shopping for, the key terms will always be found in a standardized format often called the Schumer Box. Credit card issuers are required to present this table to new applicants showing all the interest rates and fees that will apply to account holders. Key rates and fees to look for include the standard interest rate, the annual fee, and fees for foreign transactions, balance transfers and late payments. The fewer the fees, the simpler the card.
The Winner: PenFed Promise
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RA's Andrew Ryce follows along as the celebrated Brazilian DJ/producer performs his final ISAM show in Los Angeles and preps his new album as Two Fingers.
Nick Connellan profiles the "new" masked techno producer who wants the focus to be placed squarely on his music.
The Items & Things boss counts down five of his favourite synths.
We go to the UK to find who your favourite selectors rate.
In advance of his appearance at The Warehouse Project, Kristan Caryl catches up with the rising DJ/producer.


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Meanwhile at AS220's Main Gallery (115 Empire Street, through April 24), Mary Snowden and Lauraberth Lima offer chickens and risqué vegetables.
Lima makes mixed media montages from photos and magazine fashion shots, sometimes finished off with patterned mask-like drawings on top. Her best work is witty and surprising, like Anatomy, which shows an arrangement of vegetables, including a twinned carrot that, looked at with the right frame of mind, resemble a pair of orange legs with a root growing between.
While you're there, check out the back room at AS220's Project Space (93 Mathewson Street), where Seamus Hames presents a series of small delicate black-and-white pen drawings. With fine lines shaded by hazes of tiny dots and hatching, he envisions folksy cartoony landscapes: a town nestled in a verdant valley or great cliffs rising above an ocean shore and a little boat steadfastly chugging out to sea.
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Lady Gaga misses out on 'Muppets' cameo
Lady Gaga lost out on the chance to make her big screen debut in new family movie 'The Muppets'.
Los Angeles: Pop sensation Lady Gaga lost out on the chance to make her big screen debut in new family movie 'The Muppets' after her cameo was cut from the final edit.
The 25-year-old 'Judas' hitmaker is a self-confessed Muppets fan and agreed to film a funny sequence in the film along with comedians Ed Helms and John Krasinski, reported MTV online.
But Gaga's first film feature dream did not materialize as director James Bobin was forced to drop a number of scenes to bring the three-hour movie down to 98 minutes.
"Lady Gaga's big moment from the film was cut. With her entourage, including Ed Helms, Eric Stonestreet... and John Krasinski, Gaga would have gone head-to-head with Miss Piggy in a sequence," a statement read.
And Gaga wasn't the only pop star to miss out on a 'Muppets' cameo, Katy Perry's musical sequence, in which she spoofs her hit song 'I Kissed A Girl', didn't make the cut either.
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OpEneR prototypes at RIVE2013
OpEneR prototypes n°1 and n°2 were presented on RIVE2013 in Alès. This event occurs biennially on the "Pôle Mécanique", the circuit of Alès, located in South of France. The aim is to exhibit ecological technologies of the automotive industry to the public and also to policy makers. Visitors had the opportunity to discover,to test the OpEneR vehicles and to give their feedback. Managers of the project also gave a conference upon it.


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You can learn this and other amazing things by reading America's wonderful newspaper of record, The New York Times.
Brilliant, guys. Brilliant.
You can learn this and other amazing things by reading America's wonderful newspaper of record, The New York Times.
Brilliant, guys. Brilliant.
Thanks, Scott. You inspired a rant:
Gee, do you think they could have been more condescending? Not to mention stomach acidly-flowingly hypocritical. Somebody get me some TUMS.
…I'm afraid Mr. Leonhardt is only pretending to realize that you can't stop an idea, and for that matter a Polity, whose time has finally arriving. You may as its opponent revise it through subjective definitions, retard it with the capacity to synthesize public opinion and subsequent reaction, but in terms of rhetoric this only squanders the reserve of Political Capital when it becomes necessary, and then critical to expend. Moreover, Mr. Leonhardt should accordingly realize that each time he, and others of his persuasion, take it upon themselves to contextually apply the term "anti-Semite" That it not only serves to diminish its effective quality in silencing any legitimate and objective opposition, this by numbing the Intellectual public to the term ad nauseum. But also expedites the discourse to a juncture where the excesses, mistakes and liabilities of any Political entity will end, and its appeal begins to outweigh its former deficits. In this has the neo-Conservative and the Left begun to put themselves on the defensive…and having been there most of a misspent life I can tell Mr. Leonhardt that it's no place to be.
What do you mean things didn't work out?
I thought Jefferson had more to do with it than Ayn Rand. Stupid me.
Speaking of Mr. J he gets a run over at Human Events (what other kind are there?) which is pretty interesting.
I quote because cut and paste is easier than typing. The link is here.
"The policy of the federal government,†wrote President Jefferson, "is to leave her citizens free — neither aiding nor restraining them in their pursuits.†Today, we are not allowed to plan our own retirement, design our own health insurance, or even devise our own children's education. The endless intrusion reaches every facet of our lives from where we can hike in the woods to how our hamburgers must be cooked. Both parties instinctively look to government as the first answer to all problems. Even Republicans propose solving issues like illegal immigration by hiring 30,000 new federal employees.
There is one crucial difference: unlike our colonial ancestors, contemporary Americans voluntarily agreed to all these usurpations with their votes. We have been warned frequently to be alert. In 1835 Tocqueville wrote, "the American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money.â€
So I wonder what that NYT-wit thinks of Mr. J? Throw that one down the memory hole.
Now both Mr Jefferson and Ms Rand have their respective personal problems from a libertarian perspective, Jefferson's slave holding and Rand's McCarthyism. But so what? There is no need for any of us to polish their statues. I don't see egalitarians falling all over themselves to excuse the personal wealth of FDR, Fred Engels or any damn commie or quasi-commie in the book. And as for global warming being fixed by "libertarian paternalism", the NYT-wit doesn't have a clue. The "classic" libertarian response to pollution is property rights not paternalism. Libertarian paternalism is an interesting newish idea (that I think is all wrong) but the main thinkers in the LP space have never pushed it as a GW solution. The guy is confusing LP with what economists call "Pigou Taxes". He hasn't done his homework. By the way, the "classic market failure" of global warming is really government failure. It's governments that own the atmosphere. I'm not saying privatisation would work, or is even desirable here, but as a matter of historical fact, the atmo is run by the guys who run the world's gitmos.
…Each day we sit in relative insignificance, we get stronger. But each GI and Marine The neo-Con drops into the meat grinder that is Iraq? Each son shipped home aluminum casket? He gets weaker.
…We'll win in the end, any fool can see it.
…War, in all its inherent and Nationalist deference may squander lives, decency, and property. But never reason.
If anyone is interested…
There is a podcast and links to the work of Richard Thaler, the pioneer of "Libertarian Paternalism", here.
Most "libertarian" and "free market" economists generally fall into the "greenhouse skeptic" camp, or are at least (like me) "greenhouse agnostic" (i.e. it's outside of my skill set). There is of course a minority (probably growing) who we could (I suppose) call "greenhouse believers". There is a significant number of this group of economists who support what are called pigovian taxes, an outline of this position is provided by academic economist Greg Mankiw (see here). Generally these economists tend to be drawn from the more mainstream neoclassical group, and maybe from some of the neoclassical mainstream's more government friendly (sub-)schools (e.g the Chicago and Public Choice schools). Generally speaking "Austrian school" economists are not found in this group. There is at least one significant exception. Edwin G Dolan. He wrote a popular book back in the late 1970s called Tanstaafl the Economic Strategy for Environmental Crisis. TANSTAAFL stands for "There Ain't No Such Thing as a Free Lunch". Dolan's book is still around on Amazon and can be picked up for cents.
P.S. By the way Dolan has outlined a more "Austrian" approach to the Global Warming problem, as distinct from the 'pigovian' approach, that can be read online via this PDF file (24 pages) see here.
…Allow me to cut to the chase Gentlemen, Vladimir Putin is Vozhd. The Slavic term has long since spoken for itself.
…No, "Vozhd" translates to terms like Boss, Chief, Strongman, etc.
The NY Times article is absurd and Mr. Gregory's response was wonderful – he managed to articulate my major gripes with the conservatives, liberals and libertarians with clarity and brevity.
I fear Mr. Doherty's new book will contribute to the tendancy of libertarians to classify and catagorize each and every possible type of libertarian – allowing them to ignore issues and focus on personalities. I've come up with a new system of catagorizing libertarians. There are the principled correct-thinking libertarians that agree with me and there are the sell-out opportunist libertarians that are assholes.
As for Rand, Jefferson, Rothbard, Browne, and all the other dead people that living libertarians seek to associate themselves with, let them rest in peace. Perhaps it is time to quit looking to these super-human beings and rely on our own damn wits to shape the future instead of trying to analyze the past. The past may be instructive, but the answers to an increasingly bleak future do not lie therein.
There are a lot of folks doing great work as we speak – Anthony Gregory, Sheldon Richman, James Bovard, Jacob Hornberger, Lew Rockwell, Robert Higgs, Justin Raimondo, Butler Shaffer, and others – and the libertarian movement in general ignores the work they do. I don't see these writers wasting much ink on issues regarding whether Rothbard was a radical, Rand was a bitch, or Jefferson was banging his slaves. That is because nobody, myself included, really gives a rat's ass in the context of living in the fascist police state empire unfolding before us.
actually 'vozhd" just means 'leader', it comes from 'vodit" which means 'to lead'.
none of which which does not preclude Putin for at the least working for the devil 🙂
…Yeah, he's become a Dictator
"There are a lot of folks doing great work as we speak – Anthony Gregory, Sheldon Richman, James Bovard, Jacob Hornberger, Lew Rockwell, Robert Higgs, Justin Raimondo, Butler Shaffer, and others – and the libertarian movement in general ignores the work they do."
Ignored by the movement, they are the libertarian movement. About 5 more names or institutions and that's it. What else would there be?
"Anthony Gregory, Sheldon Richman, James Bovard, Jacob Hornberger, Lew Rockwell, Robert Higgs, Justin Raimondo, Butler Shaffer. . . . "
What a ridiculously flattering list to be on.
Anthony: You're a good writer and young enough to continue for 40 more years. Keep it up and you might surpass some of those other folks.
Angela: You ask "What else would there be?"
How about that crypto-fascist pro-tax warmonger that gets more airtime than all other "libertarians" combined – Neal Boortz. He's the face of libertarianism among the general public instead of Lyndon Larouche. Then there is Glenn Beck who claims to be a libertarian. Of course, there are the Eric "We're All Libertarians Now" Dondero types. Unfortunately, what passes as the libertarian movement is rife with idiots, liars, psychotics, opportunists, and clowns wishing to redefine freedom to resemble slavery.
Tom: I'm talking about libertarians, not conservatives. Boortz is a libertarian the same way Julia Roberts is beautiful. Repeating it over and over does not make it so.
Who the fuck is that last one? I only deal with celebritarians, not punch lines.
There is some hope with the LP Radical Caucus which I interviewed today on the Liberated Space. The interview is at http://www.blogtalkradio.com/liberatedspace.
For conclusive proof, I'm an asshole go to http://www.liberatedspace.com/phorum/read.php?f=7&i=3395&t=3395
I believe Boortz broke in to politics as a speechwriter for (segregationist) Lester Maddox.
It's an absolute certainty that Pravda wasn't going to blame the failure on too much central planning.
Angela: I listened to your LP radical interview and am curious what happened at "Portlandâ€. Did the LP get neutered by an inundation of closeted Republicans?
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Women are making significant headway in fields from law to business — Mary Jo White runs the Securities and Exchange Commission (following Mary Schapiro before her), Indra Nooyi is the CEO of PepsiCo, and Ellen Kullman has led a sharp turnaround at DuPont. Yet the tech world, for all its "leading edge" talk, can still seem a bit behind the curve in accepting women into its ranks. Startup Weekend, the global non-profit that focuses on entrepreneurial education, recently launched several "Women's Edition" events in an effort to begin addressing this question, but many of the events still tend to draw more male attendees than female.
Many people still talk of a "Silicon Valley mafia" where doors remain virtually closed to women. The recently publicized IPO for Twitter seemed only to highlight this perception; there was only a single woman among its top officers, and she had only been with the company for a few weeks at the time of the IPO's announcement. White men made up its entire board of directors; indeed, all the executive officers — save for the recently hired general counsel, Vijaya Gadde — as well as all the primary investors were white men. Yet research has shown that having women on boards increases, over time, the rate of return to shareholders — one of the reasons that the European Union is moving to quotas of female directors.
As the female CEO of a real estate crowdfunding start-up, I have a keen interest in seeing other women succeed in the tech world. Sources have said that less than 6% of U.S. employed women work in the computer industry, and that only 2 percent have a degree in the engineering or computer science fields. There clearly seems to be a supply-side problem with getting enough women into the pure technology positions; the image of the geeky man hunched over his computer may simply repel many younger women from pursuing a career in the high-tech fields. Yet the technology side of our business is key — as it is with many other start-ups that rely on the internet to speedily increase their customer bases or other aspects of business operations.
It's not always highlighted in the media, but I believe that more and more women are finding a career niche in places where business and technology meet — an area where coding skills aren't necessarily the dominant factor in professional success. So, while the media have been focused on a small group of women leading purely high-tech companies — Meg Whitman, Marissa Mayer, and Sheryl Sandberg are the most obvious names — there are a whole host of lesser-profile women who have made headway by leveraging their expertise in other areas of business to become leaders of tech-based companies.
Susan Feldman and Alison Pincus developed the idea of using the internet to promote "flash sales" of home goods, designer and vintage items — and now One Kings Lane, their company, is a $300 million business business employing 475 people. Shelly Sun co-founded BrightStar Care, a fast-growing franchise provider of home healthcare and medical staffing that's now at over $200 million in gross revenues and recently launched a technology arm to take on third-party clients. Ranjini Poddar co-founded Artech Information Systems, a $200-$300 million IT services provider, and leveraged her success by partnering with a university in India to create a new women-focused information technology center in Rajasthan.
There are more. Heather Harde of technology superblog TechCrunch, Alexa von Teobbel of LearnVest, Kass Lazerow of GOLF.com and Buddy Media, all followed a similar pattern of using their existing business (or customer) experience and combining it with the internet's power to create a new kind of business venture. And Sophie Amoruso of Nasty Gal — another Los Angles-based-company — has figured out how to leverage the customer feedback of her vintage clothing site to grow it to a $100 million business.
The example shown by these women can, I think, point the rest of us in the right direction. Today's businesses often require some minimal technology expertise — at least an idea of what a good user experience should be and how process flow can smooth the way to the "Buy It" button. The larger vision and leadership, though, needs to derive from utilizing our experience in other arenas and melding it with today's technology to form new business ideas. Our business at Realty Mogul began exactly this way – I took my background in wealth management and real estate finance and partnered with my co-founder, Justin Hughes, to create a "crowdfunding" platform that simplifies passive investing in real estate opportunities.
Ultimately, the innovation economy is all about results, as the "Women's Edition" functions sponsored by Startup Weekend tend to reinforce. The investors using my company's platform for real estate investing need us to be the smartest people in the room — regardless of sex — to help them be linked up to opportunities to which they might not have otherwise had access. It's nice to know, though, that so many women — not always highlighted in the media — have led the way and have shown how many paths there can be toward success in technology-related businesses.
Jilliene Helman is CEO of Realty Mogul.


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Speaking from the Gut
Gudrun Guts career spans decades. The pioneering electronic/experimental music artist was briefly a member of seminal noise band Einstürzende Neubauten, then went on to co-found the groups Mania D, Malaria! and Matador. On her own, shes produced film scores, videos and radio plays; she also started two record labels, Moabit Musik and Monika Enterprise, to further her idiosyncratic musical vision. In 2007, she released her solo album, I Put a Record On; today she co-hosts Oceanclub Radio with Thomas Fehlmann, and also performs and curates electronic media shows around the world.
Gut will speak tonight as part of the University of Colorados Visiting Artist Program. We chose her primarily because of the work she does with helping women forge into the digital realm, explains Valerie Albicker, the programs coordinator. Shes really supporting women and young women, in particular into sound work. With more than twenty years experience as a woman in a largely male-dominated field, Gut brings a unique perspective and sardonic wit to such topics as why more women dont get involved in the music field. Its a serious question, Gut says. By now I think that women might just not be interested to join in a dying scene. Maybe this is because its male-dominated?
Find out more at 7 p.m. in room 100 of the ATLAS building, 1125 18th Street in Boulder. Admission is free; for information, call 303-492-2539 or visit www.colorado.edu/arts/events/va.html.
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