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Outline of poetry
The following outline is provided as an overview of and introduction to poetry:
Poetry – a form of art in which language is used for its aesthetic qualities, in addition to, or instead of, its apparent meaning.
- 1 What type of thing is poetry?
- 2 Types of poetry
- 3 History of poetry
- 4 Elements of poetry
- 5 Some famous poets and their poems
- 6 See also
- 7 References
- 8 Further reading
- 9 External links
What type of thing is poetry?[edit]
Poetry can be described as all of the following things:
- One of the arts – as an art form, poetry is an outlet of human expression, that is usually influenced by culture and which in turn helps to change culture. Poetry is a physical manifestation of the internal human creative impulse.
- A form of literature – literature is composition, that is, written or oral work such as books, stories, and poems.
- Fine art – in Western European academic traditions, fine art is art developed primarily for aesthetics, distinguishing it from applied art that also has to serve some practical function. The word "fine" here does not so much denote the quality of the artwork in question, but the purity of the discipline according to traditional Western European canons.
Types of poetry[edit]
Common poetic forms[edit]
- Epic – lengthy narrative poem, ordinarily concerning a serious subject containing details of heroic deeds and events significant to a culture or nation. Milman Parry and Albert Lord have argued that the Homeric epics, the earliest works of Western literature, were fundamentally an oral poetic form. These works form the basis of the epic genre in Western literature.
- Sonnet – poetic form which originated in Italy; Giacomo Da Lentini is credited with its invention.
- Jintishi – literally "Modern Poetry", was actually composed from the 5th century onwards and is considered to have been fully developed by the early Tang dynasty. The works were principally written in five- and seven-character lines and involve constrained tone patterns, intended to balance the four tones of Middle Chinese within each couplet.
- Villanelle – nineteen-line poetic form consisting of five tercets followed by a quatrain. There are two refrains and two repeating rhymes, with the first and third line of the first tercet repeated alternately until the last stanza, which includes both repeated lines. The villanelle is an example of a fixed verse form.
- Tanka –
- Ode –
- Ghazal –
- Haiku –
Periods, styles and movements[edit]
- Augustan poetry
- Automatic poetry
- Black Mountain
- Chanson de geste
- Classical Chinese poetry
- Concrete poetry
- Cowboy poetry
- Digital poetry
- Epitaph
- Fable
- Found poetry
- Haptic poetry
- Imagism
- Libel
- Limerick poetry
- Lyric poetry
- Metaphysical poetry
- Medieval poetry
- Minnesinger
- Modern Chinese poetry
- The Movement
- Narrative poetry
- Objectivist
- Occasional poetry
- Odes and elegies
- Parnassian
- Pastoral
- Performance poetry
- Post-modernist
- Romanticism
- San Francisco Renaissance
- Sound poetry
- Symbolism
- Troubadour
- Trouvère
- Visual poetry
History of poetry[edit]
History of poetry – the earliest poetry is believed to have been recited or sung, such as in the form of hymns (such as the work of Sumerian priestess Enheduanna), and employed as a way of remembering oral history, genealogy, and law. Many of the poems surviving from the ancient world are recorded prayers, or stories about religious subject matter, but they also include historical accounts, instructions for everyday activities, love songs, and fiction.
Elements of poetry[edit]
- Accents
- Caesura
- Couplets – a pair of lines of meter in poetry. It usually consists of two lines that rhyme and have the same meter. While traditionally couplets rhyme, not all do.
- Elision
- Foot
- Intonation
- Meter
- Mora
- Prosody
- Rhythm
- Scansion
- Stanza
- Syllable
Methods of creating rhythm[edit]
Scanning meter[edit]
- spondee – two stressed syllables together
- iamb – unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable
- trochee – one stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable
- dactyl – one stressed syllable followed by two unstressed syllables
- anapest – two unstressed syllables followed by one stressed syllable
The number of metrical feet in a line are described in Greek terminology as follows:
- dimeter – two feet
- trimeter – three feet
- tetrameter – four feet
- pentameter – five feet
- hexameter – six feet
- heptameter – seven feet
- octameter – eight feet
Common metrical patterns[edit]
- Iambic pentameter
- Example: Paradise Lost,[1] by John Milton
- Dactylic hexameter
- Examples:
- Iliad,[2] by Homer
- The Metamorphoses, by Ovid
- Examples:
- Iambic tetrameter
- Examples:
- Trochaic octameter
- Example: The Raven,[4] by Edgar Allan Poe
- Anapestic tetrameter
- Examples:
- Alexandrine – also known as iambic hexameter.
- Example: Phèdre,[7] by Jean Racine
Rhyme, alliteration and assonance[edit]
Rhyming schemes[edit]
Stanzas and verse paragraphs[edit]
- 2-line stanza: couplet or distich
- 3-line stanza: triplet or tercet
- 4-line stanza: quatrain
- 5-line stanza: quintain or cinquain)
- 6-line stanza: sestet
- 8-line stanza: octet
- verse paragraph
Poetic diction[edit]
Some famous poets and their poems[edit]
- Anna Akhmatova
- Maya Angelou
- Ludovico Ariosto
- W. H. Auden
- Matsuo Bashō
- Charles Baudelaire
- William Blake
- Geoffrey Chaucer
- Samuel Coleridge
- Dante
- Kamala Das
- Emily Dickinson
- John Donne
- Rita Dove
- John Dryden
- T. S. Eliot
- Ferdowsi
- Robert Frost
- Mirza Ghalib
- Goethe
- Homer
- Gerard Manley Hopkins
- Horace
- Victor Hugo
- Alfred Edward Housman
- Omar Khayyám
- John Keats
- Jan Kochanowski
- Ignacy Krasicki
- Jean de La Fontaine
- Mikhail Lermontov
- Li Bai
- Stéphane Mallarmé
- W.S. Merwin
- Czesław Miłosz
- John Milton
- Pablo Neruda
- Ovid
- Petrarch
- Sylvia Plath
- Edgar Allan Poe
- Alexander Pope
- Ezra Pound
- Alexander Pushkin
- Rainer Maria Rilke
- Arthur Rimbaud
- Jalal ad-Din Rumi
- William Shakespeare
- Shel Silverstein
- Edmund Spenser
- Philip Sidney
- Tasso
- Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson
- François Villon
- Virgil
- Derek Walcott
- Walt Whitman
- William Wordsworth
- William Butler Yeats
See also[edit]
- ^ Two versions of Paradise Lost are freely available on-line from Project Guttenberg, Project Gutenberg text version 1 and Project Gutenberg text version 2
- ^ The original text, as translated by Samuel Butler, is available at Wikisource.s:The Iliad
- ^ The full text is available online both in Russian [1] and as translated into English by Charles Johnston.[2] Please see the pages on Eugene Onegin and on Nabokov's Notes on Prosody and the references on those pages for discussion of the problems of translation and of the differences between Russian and English iambic tetrameter.
- ^ The full text of "The Raven" is available at Wikisource s:The Raven (Poe)
- ^ The full text of "The Hunting of the Snark" is available at Wikisource.s:The Hunting of the Snark
- ^ The full text of Don Juan is available on-line
- ^ See the Text of the play in French as well as an English translation,
Further reading[edit]
- Richard Abcarian (15 July 2016). Literature: The Human Experience with 2016 MLA Update. Bedford/St. Martin's. ISBN 978-1-319-08812-5.
External links[edit]
- This outline displayed as a mindmap, at wikimindmap.com
- Poetry Out Loud List of Poems
- Poetry archives


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After suffering through drought in 2003 and 2004, Georgia's Douglas County experienced record flooding when hit with Tropical Storm Cindy and Hurricane Dennis the next year. Two fairly uneventful years passed. Then the pattern repeated: record-setting dry spells in 2007 and 2008 followed by flooding last September that killed seven people.
Climatologists expect the number of such dramatic swings to increase. In June 2009, the U.S. Global Change Research Program's Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States found that:
Unless they've experienced a flash flood firsthand, few people realize how powerful just a few inches of water are. Here, Douglasville-Douglas County Water and Sewer Authority engineer Johnny Barron shares what happened last fall as residents fled the deluge via the roads that criss-cross 200 square miles.
It was almost midnight on Sun., Sept. 20, 2009, and I was pacing the living room floor waiting for the power to come back on.
It had been raining all evening. Although I couldn't track rainfall on the Internet, I knew this was "the big one." I decided to get dressed and go into the office where I work as an engineer for the Douglas County stormwater utility in Georgia.
My first sign of trouble was the flooding on Highway 5. Five cars were stalled in three feet of water and the fire department was setting up a barricade. I'm familiar with the computer models used to map the local floodplains, so I knew the highway would be underwater during a 100-year flood. But I'd always had a hard time imagining that such a small creek could ever get that high.
The National Weather Service later reported that a persistent low pressure system stalled over Mississippi, bringing moisture from the Gulf of Mexico across the Southeast. Local meteorologists spoke of a "training effect" in which multiple cells of precipitation followed one after another across certain areas. The result was record-breaking rainfall.
Our own network of rain gauges measured 24-hour rainfall amounts of 15 to 21 inches in the western half of the county, with the most intense portion of the storm dumping more than five inches in one hour. The rainfall far exceeded the 500-year rainfall amount of 8.2 inches of rain in a 24-hour period.
Rainfall events above the 500-year storm event are difficult to classify. The chance of exceeding 10 inches of rainfall in a 24-hour period in north Georgia is one in 10,000, according to the National Weather Service.
"If the 500-year storm was a cup of coffee, this one brewed a full pot," says Brian McCallum, assistant director for the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Georgia Water Science Center.
The runoff from this event created a flash flood, the likes of which have never been seen in Douglas County. The USGS stream gauge on Dog River measured a peak flow of 59,900 cubic feet/second, dwarfing the estimated 500-year peak flow of 19,800 cubic feet/second. The flood level was 12 feet higher than the predicted 500-year flood elevation.
Fifty-three-year-old Wayne Hicks left his house just after 3 a.m. to help a friend whose house was threatened by rising waters. As Hicks drove his Dodge pickup truck along Banks Mill Road, the darkness and heavy rainfall obscured his view of the swollen Mobley Creek flowing over the road.
"I have a big truck. I didn't think there would be a problem," he recalls. "The next thing I knew, the truck was moving sideways. I immediately thought to roll down my window so that I could get out."
As he was clinging to a tree, Hicks tried to warn an oncoming motorist, but the roar of the water was too loud and he was concealed by the darkness. "There was nothing I could do to help," he says. "All I could do was watch the Jeep float by."
Frequent lightning illuminated his surroundings and helped Hicks plan his escape. With each flash, he identified the next branch to grab. He continued moving tree to tree until he was able to pull himself from the water.
He was fortunate: The driver of the Jeep that floated past was 44-year-old Debra Hooper. Her body was found a week later. She was one of seven people killed by the flooding.
The flash flood rose so quickly and was so widespread that there wasn't enough time for county officials to properly barricade flooding roads. Even where barricades were erected they weren't always effective. In some places, they were washed away as the water continued to rise. In others, motorists drove around them. Even if time and resources had allowed, many areas were inaccessible to county work crews because of the flooded roads.
Poor visibility compounded the problem. I saw it firsthand: The rainfall was so heavy that my headlights were inadequate. I could only see 10 to 20 yards ahead. At the edge of the flood, the water looked shallow. Because of my familiarity with the floodways, I knew where the rushing water was even if I couldn't see it. Sadly, the average driver was unaware.
That night dozens of cars washed off roads. County emergency services rescued 15 people. Others, like Wayne Hicks, rescued themselves. The death toll would undoubtedly have been higher if not for the efforts of emergency services and public works employees who worked all night.
By morning, almost 200 public roads were damaged, and more than 140 roads were closed. Emergency officials were urging people to stay home. Even so, traffic was a nightmare. The water and gas utilities were crippled as dozens of gas pipes and water mains washed out with the roads. Several utility poles fell over as the roads washed away, leaving thousands of people without power.
In all, the damage to infrastructure is expected to exceed $20 million in Douglas County alone. Private property damage was also severe. Dozens of dams washed out and many more were damaged. Many private driveways were rendered impassible. An estimated 300 families were displaced and more than 4,000 applied for federal assistance.
For all of the damage, though, nothing is more regrettable than the loss of seven lives on county roads.
— Barron (email@example.com) is an engineer for the Douglasville-Douglas County (Ga.) Water and Sewer Authority.

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Beth Schwartz, professor of psychology
LYNCHBURG - " Beth Schwartz remembers well the experience of becoming a new faculty member. In graduate school, she taught two courses, but did not receive extensive training in the best practices of teaching.
"You don't receive a Ph.D. in teaching," said Schwartz, a psychology professor at Randolph. "You receive it in your chosen field of study. However, most faculty complete graduate school with extensive knowledge of the content of their discipline and very little training in how to effectively teach others about that discipline, not to mention learning how to assess whether they are effectively teaching beyond the use of student evaluations."
Her newest book, Optimizing Teaching and Learning: Practicing Pedagogical Research , is designed to explore the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) in ways that allow faculty members to develop a research program that evaluates their own teaching methods or to simply develop measures to assess if students are reaching the learning goals for each class meeting or for a semester.
"This book aims to help faculty members become better at what they do," Schwartz said. Especially helpful for new faculty, the book can also be beneficial to veteran teachers because it allows them 'to take a step back' and really look at whether one's choice of teaching technique is the best way to teach that particular subject matter."
The book is the result of several years of work with co-writer Regan Gurung, chair of Human Development at the University of Wisconsin in Green Bay. The process began during her sabbatical in the fall of 2004. During the next four years, she and Gurung collaborated mainly through emails and many phone calls.
Optimizing Teaching and Learning: Practicing Pedagogical Research has already been released in the United Kingdom and will be released in the United States in January 2009.
Aimed at new faculty in higher education, the book can also be a guide for educators of all levels, Schwartz said.
The book is designed to teach the different methods of teaching and also to provide readers with the tools necessary to assess their own teaching. SoTL is one of the most dynamic areas of research in the field of higher education today, in which faculty members continuously evaluate the quality of their teaching and its affect on student learning. Faculty are held accountable for the effectiveness of their teaching, and in turn they are starting to engage more in SoTL-related intellectual exchanges, not only in their research agendas but also in the ways in which they teach the students in their classrooms. At the heart of the new movement is a simple idea: take a close look at how you teach and how your students learn, use the same methodology that you would use for formal investigations, and hold your research to the same standards, most notably peer review.
The book is designed to bridge the gap between the research and practice of SoTL, with instructions on how to design, conduct, analyze, and write-up pedagogical research. It also explores the advantages of disadvantages of various pedagogical practices and present applications of SoTL using case studies from a variety of disciplines.
Schwartz and Gurung recognized that there was no adequate resource that served to guide both to demonstrate how to conduct pedagogical research within any field of study and to provide best practices based on the existing pedagogical research findings. "We're really bridging that gap," Schwartz said.
In essence, the book guides teachers through the process of conducting research on their own teaching. They can compare different methods of teaching to see which creates the best results.
Schwartz and Gurung have conducted workshops on the book's topic at teaching and learning centers and teaching conferences across the United States and even in Canada.
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Chief Justice P Sathasivam had on Tuesday set up a three-judge panel comprising Justice RM Lodha, Justice HL Dattu and Justice Ranjana Prakash Desai to look into the allegations levelled in the young lawyer's blog earlier this month. The panel held its first meeting on Wednesday.
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The young woman, who cannot be named for legal reasons, blogged again to say that she would "depose only before the Hon'ble judges" since the committee had been constituted. She added that she would not speak to the media and hoped "all of you will understand my need for privacy."
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you're struggling within, in bondage to, fears or maybe there's areas of addictions
or habits or things that are gripping your soul. It doesn't have to be that way.
Jesus has made a way for you. Jesus has a made a way for you. It's called faith,
believing and trusting in Him. You'll never know until you commit your life to Him,
how much He will change you and turn your life around. How much He will
change you. God loves you deeply, passionately. He is willing to help you.
But He requires a step from you, a step to walking with Him. And so today, I
wonder is there any person here who's not a Christian yet - a Christian is a
person who's become a follower of Jesus Christ, starting to walk with Him, and
live life according to the life that Jesus gives him, according to the ways of Jesus,
a wonderful life, a blessed life - so a Christian's not someone who just comes to
church. That doesn't change you. It can help you, but it's only a decision,
consciously day by day, to walk with God. That's what changes you, and it starts
with inviting Jesus Christ to become your personal saviour.
I wonder is there anyone here today, right at that point; you'd like to become a
Christian; you want to give your life to Jesus Christ? Today would be a great
Easter to do that. When we celebrate Jesus rising from the dead, how wonderful
if you too could spiritually arise and be changed. I wonder if there's anyone today
and you're living with difficulties in your life, challenges in your life, perhaps
failures in your life, but today you know that God was speaking to you, that you
don't have to live there, that you can arise above it, through just simple
repentance and reaching out, and beginning to walk with Him again? If you know
God was speaking to you that way, would you raise your hand, say God's
wanting me to have a fresh start this Easter. God bless - many people wanting a
fresh start this Easter. It's wonderful to do that, because Easter we celebrate new
beginnings, be great to do that, start again, start afresh, let God give you a fresh
I'm going to ask, for everyone to just stand up, and each of the people that put
their hands up, would you like to make your way down to the front and make a
row just facing me. I'd love to pray with you and bless you, and lead you in a
simple prayer to receive Jesus. It'll only take a couple of moments, but it's a step
of faith, so you've made the decision in your heart, now you just put action to it.
It's quite a difficult thing to do that, but I know when you do that, God also
responds to you; so let's just rise together shall we, and those people who put
their hands up, I'd like you to make your way to the front, just stand here in front
of me. Just close your eyes now. This is a great decision you're making. It's a
decision just to acknowledge that your life is going bad. It's a decision to
acknowledge Jesus Christ died on the cross for my sins and He wants to change
me, He wants to help me, He loves me. You know there's greater love than no
one can show than they lay their life down and Jesus loves you, so no matter
what you've done, no matter what you're ashamed of, no matter where you've
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Steamboat Springs Grand Summit Resort Properties is prepared to fund improvements to Mount Werner Circle now that it has restructured a construction loan with Textron Financial Corp.
American Skiing Co. announced Wednesday that an agreement has been reached with Textron for loan defaults by Grand Summit Resort Properties, an ASC subsidiary that oversees the company's eight Grand Summit hotels including the Steamboat Grand.
Steamboat Ski and Resort Corp., which operates the Steamboat Ski Area, is a separate ASC subsidiary.
The Textron agreement relaxes amortization requirements on $42.6 million in outstanding real estate debt and helps Grand Summit Resort Properties with its liquidity.
"This agreement is a significant milestone in the restructuring of our real estate operations," said B.J. Fair, CEO of ASC. "Importantly, it allows us to meet our financial obligations to the city of Steamboat Springs for agreed upon Mount Werner Road and Transit Center improvements."
On Sept. 17, the Steamboat Springs City Council ruled that Grand Summit Resort Properties had defaulted on its agreement to share in the costs of improvements to Mount Werner Circle.
Mount Werner Circle is near the Steamboat Grand and provides access to Gondola Square, Ski Time Square and the ski area.
Initially, improvement costs amounted to $600,000, but Grand Summit Resort Properties officials said the city's requirements far exceeded the need and were too costly.
Last summer, plans were restructured and Grand Summit Resort Properties' costs reduced to $300,000.
But Grand Summit Resort Properties never signed the agreement, saying the company needed to restructure its debt to Textron before funds would be available.
Erik Preusse, ASC's senior financial analyst, said the $300,000 for the Mount Werner improvements is now available.
City Council President Kathy Connell welcomed news of the financial restructuring.
She said the City Council had to declare Grand Summit Resort Properties in default in order to protect the city's interests, but that she is anxious to resolve the issue.
"The city can either play hardball or try to work with (Grand Summit Resort Properties)," Connell said. "We want to work with them. I think everyone on the City Council wants and hopes we can get an agreement signed."
Under the existing agreement, Grand Summit Resort properties would pay $241,000 for improvements to Mount Werner Circle and $59,000 to remodel the Gondola Transit Center. The city will pay $127,000 for the Mount Werner Circle improvements.
Improvements on Mount Werner Circle include new sidewalks taking pedestrians into Ski Time Square, road widening, new turning lanes and landscaping.
Improvements to the Gondola Transit Center have not been determined. City Manager Paul Hughes said the city has agreed to match 50 percent of the contributions from Grand Summit Resort Properties and Steamboat Ski and Resort Corp., which has already agreed to contribute $100,000 toward the Gondola Transit Center.
"That means we are looking at a total of about $239,000 and we will have to sit down together and see what that will buy us," Hughes said.
It's unlikely improvements to Mount Werner Circle or the Gondola Transit Center could begin before next spring.
Preusse said the Textron deal should help the company accelerate sales of quartershares at the Steamboat Grand and the Grand Summit Hotel in Park City, Utah. About 50 percent of the quartershares in Steamboat and 25 percent of the quartershares in Park City remain unsold.
"With the loans in default, people interested in buying quartershares know that and it scares them off," Preusse said. "Those sales have slowed, and that's why it was important to get (the Textron) agreement signed."
The Textron agreement is not connected to ASC Resort Properties' negotiations with Fleet Bank. ASC Resort Properties and Grand Summit Resort Properties are separate real estate subsidiaries of ASC.
Last week, Fleet Bank filed documents seeking to foreclose on the Tennis Meadows, an undeveloped 44-acre parcel of land across Mount Werner Road from the Steamboat Grand. The Tennis Meadows is one of six properties American Skiing Company Resort Properties used to secure an $81.9 million loan from Fleet Bank in July 2001. The outstanding principal on the loan is $41.8 million.
Preusse said negotiations with Fleet Bank to resolve the debt are continuing.


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A toast to former Seattle Times reporter E.B. White (Yeah, that E.B. White)
So, it's E.B. White's birthday on July 11. I propose we hoist a cocktail in honor of the most famous Seattle Times reporter. Yes, it's true, the author of "Charlotte's Web" and co-author of every writer's bible, "The Elements of Style," used to live the ink-and-paper life, tapping away on our metro desk from September 1922 to June 1923 before he was, uh, fired.
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The industry's reputation for innovation and creativity has propelled PE forward as it drives value creation and business transformation in the companies it owns.
GPs have also become more focused on ensuring adequate alignment of interest with their LPs. More than 240 GPs have endorsed the ILPA principles which have issued a series of guidelines to help frame discussions with GPs around fund terms and conditions. In addition, GPs are increasing their reporting and transparency to LPs.
This trend reflects the limited partners' more rigorous fund manager selection processes, less capital available for new commitments as distributions have materialized more slowly than anticipated and a desire to reduce the number of GP relationships they manage.
Yet LP needs have changed in other ways, too. In recent years, they have become more strategic in the deployment of their PE allocations. Previously, allocations to PE might have entailed selecting managers at the upper, the middle and the lower ends of the fund size spectrum, with some regard to geography, LPs now require increasing granularity over their asset allocation decisions as they seek to manage their investments and risk more effectively, with some even targeting specific sub-asset allocations.
LPs have also become more focused on ensuring adequate alignment of interest with their GPs. The clearest demonstration of this has been the formation of ILPA, which has issued a series of guidelines to help frame discussions with GPs around fund terms and conditions.
PE has responded to these trends in pragmatic and entrepreneurial fashion, with the result that LP allocations to PE are set to continue increasing over the medium to long term. Investors view PE as a vital means of achieving strong risk-adjusted returns. Over the last five years, allocations by most major investment types have trended higher.
Average allocations by pension funds increased from 4% to 5% and those by endowments rose from 8% to 12%. These proportions could rise further as increased public market volatility and a continuing low interest environment impact LPs' overall returns in other asset classes
To allay investor concerns on alignment of interest, there appears to have been some movement in favor of LPs on terms and conditions in areas such as management fees: average fees dropped from 2% in 2008 to 1.71% in 2011, according to Preqin. And, in a bid to attract investors at first close, some funds such as BC Partners and EQT Partners have offered "early bird discounts" on fees.
Yet there has not been a wholesale shift in terms. Instead, in recognition of the partnership between LPs and GPs that is the foundation of PE, sponsors have proactively engaged with investors and sought to meet their individual needs. As LP portfolio management has increased in its sophistication, GPs are developing alternative ways to work with their larger LPs, including providing more co-investment rights.
Some are also establishing separate accounts for LPs, which provide large investors with more control over their committed capital. Partnerships such as those agreed between The Blackstone Group and the New Jersey Division of Investment and KKR and the Teacher Retirement System of Texas are two such examples.
These developments demonstrate both the staying power of the industry and how adaptable the PE model can be as they address the needs of the LPs. They help investors boost returns through direct exposure and offer them more control over their investments. They also provide additional capital to GPs at a time of lower credit availability and offer an alternative to club deals, which can be difficult to execute successfully.
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MJ..here is their web site..it has a map...NOTE: They haven't moved yet so go to the OLD location.
I usually don't go on Sat. because it is busier then. I am trying to get ready to go tomorrow or the next day at the latest. I need stuff to work on Elle's center.
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Last respects paid to Bharath Group CMD Ganapathi Pai
Mangalore, Oct 10, 2012: The final rites of late Ganapathi Pai, Chairman and Managing Director of Bharath Group, were held in the premises of Bharath Group near C V Nayak Hall on October 11, Thursday at 1:00 p.m.
MP Nalin Kumar Kateel, Congress Leader B. Janardhana Poojary, Naveen D'Souza, MLC Monappa Bhandary, BJP leader Srikar Prabhu and friends, relatives, staff members of Bharath Group paid their final respects to the deceased.
Sri Ganapathi Pai passed away at 11:00 p.m. on October 10, Monday at his residence in Mangalore, at the age of 77. He is survived by his wife, two sons, and two daughters. He was suffering from respiratory disorders for a long time.
Bharath Beedi Works Pvt. Ltd is the manufactures of famous 30 Brand Beedies and under his leadership the company emerged as one of the global leader in beedi business. He is credited to have brought gigantic growth to the company. He epitomized the spirit 'dare to dream and learn to excel'. Bharath Beedi Works Pvt. Ltd is a living testimony to his indomitable will, single-minded dedication and an unrelenting commitment to his goals. Today Bharat Group employs more than 50,000 people and generates revenue of Rs. 400 crore. Although his father Manjunath Pai established the business with the No. 30 bidi brand, it was Ganapathi Pai who took it to great heights. As he was the eldest son, he joined his father's business in 1954.
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(NEW YORK, July 19, 2000) — Barely one month after the Boy Scouts of America established its right to discriminate against gay members, long-time Scouts supporters are questioning their continued involvement with the organization, and the special government treatment long accorded the youth group increasingly is coming under close scrutiny.
And with every passing day, according to Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund, whose client James Dale narrowly lost his case before the United States Supreme Court on June 28, pressure is mounting on BSA to reverse its anti-gay membership policy. The latest effort came on Wednesday, when U.S. Representative Lynn Woolsey (D-CA) introduced legislation calling for BSA's federal charter to be revoked. Only a handful of organizations enjoy this special government imprimatur.
Lambda Senior Staff Attorney Evan Wolfson said, "As long as the Boy Scouts' leaders are insisting on an exclusionary membership policy, the rest of us, especially public schools, parents, and donors, are going to dissociate ourselves from discrimination against our kids."
Based on BSA's now-violated pledge to be 'open to all boys,' many government agencies, including police departments, military units and public schools, sponsor – literally own and operate – Scout troops, making public entities responsible for upholding the discriminatory policy. By its policy, BSA stands to forfeit the litany of governmental privileges it has historically enjoyed, including favorable tax treatment, access to facilities and services, and a close association with Congress, the President, the military, and other government agencies.
Wolfson notes that other youth organizations that receive similar public sponsorship, such as the Girls Scouts, Boys and Girls Clubs, and the National 4-H Club specifically ban discrimination based on sexual orientation. "At a time when our communities are grappling with violence and prejudice, all kids need to learn to value differences and respect each other. That is all the more reason why Scouting programs should be open to all boys regardless of sexual orientation," he said. "Government simply cannot be an accomplice to discrimination."
"The Boy Scouts may have won the right to discriminate in court, but the court of public opinion is showing itself to be far less tolerant of discrimination. It seems only right that those who care about Scouting and believe in its principles would exercise their leverage to end this discrimination," said Lambda Legal Director Beatrice Dohrn.
Since the Supreme Court ruling last month, financial support for the BSA has been questioned by public and private contributors alike. United Way agencies are withholding contributions, and the state of Connecticut recently removed Scouts from a list of charities state workers can support through payroll deductions. Reform Judaism and the Methodist and Episcopal Churches recently called for an end to the anti-gay ban, while current and former Scouts are returning their honors and badges in protest.
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Board is Split on Pepsi Split, Says NY Post
The board of Pepsico (PEP) is debating whether to split the company up, perhaps creating separate corporations out of its snack and beverage divisions, or having one company run the international business, and another the U.S. snack and beverage business, the New York Post reported today.
Some investors have been lobbying for a split -- a tactic that has been embraced by other food companies like Kraft (KFT) and Sara Lee (SLE) in recent months. Separate companies, the argument goes, can adhere to more appropriate strategies and capital allocation plans, and investors can choose which stock to buy into based on their risk tolerance. Pepsi's stock is basically flat for the year, and up just 5% in the past five years, versus 45% for competitor Coca-Cola (KO).
Pepsico CEO Indra Nooyi is also close to making two major international acquisitions, another source told the Post -- information then contradicted by another source.
In any case, the rumors themselves are helping the stock this morning, which is up 2.2%.


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Gale tears ACL, will retire from football
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Former Bobcat defensive lineman Preston Gale's journey to a professional football team came to a heartbreaking end last night.
Gale was in Ottawa Wednesday trying out for the Ottawa Redblacks of the Canadian football league. Gale, along with two other players, were vying for a single roster spot on the Redblacks defensive line.
Gale's agent, William Lower, told us last night that Gale impressed the Redblacks personnel and was set to sign a 3 year deal with the CFL team. However, on the final rep of his workout with the team Gale suffered a tear in his right ACL.
Gale is no stranger to knee injuries. Gale had previously torn his right ACL in his sophomore season at Montana State. In the Bobcat's 2013 fall camp, Gale also suffered a knee injury that cost him most of the 2013 season.
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What the Instagram Fight Says About Twitter as a Media PlatformMathew Ingram
Remember when Twitter was just a free and open conduit for whatever content its users wanted to distribute? Those days are long gone, replaced by the company's desire to control and monetize as much of its platform (and the content that flows through it) as possible. The latest skirmish in this ongoing battle came on Wednesday, when Instagram Chief Executive Officer Kevin Systrom confirmed that the service has removed support for Twitter's expanded-tweets feature, meaning Instagram photos won't be showing up in Twitter anymore. While Instagram's relationship with Twitter is complicated, its reasons for doing this should make other media companies stop and think about how they use (or are being used by) Twitter as well.
As noted by Nick Bilton in a New York Times piece and by my colleague Erica Ogg—and confirmed by a post on the official Twitter blog—Instagram no longer supports the expanded view of tweets that shows up on Twitter's website and in its official apps. These tweets have a special pane that displays excerpts from blog posts and news stories published by certain partners, or photos and videos from various external services. Twitter originally launched this as something called expanded tweets, but the feature has since become a much more ambitious platform called Twitter Cards.
A number of services and content providers (including GigaOM) have implemented support for Twitter Cards on the assumption that showing readers more of your content, wherever they are, is a good thing. Judging by Systrom's comments at the LeWeb conference in Paris, however, Instagram at some point clearly decided that doing this transferred too much of the value of its content to Twitter instead of allowing Instagram to capture that value itself. As he put it:
"This is an evolution of just where we are and where we want links from our content to go. … This is not a consequence of us getting acquired. This is a consequence of us doing the best thing for our business at this time."
As Systrom suggested in his remarks, Instagram's relationship with Twitter is even more complicated than it is with most other services because the company was recently acquired by Facebook—a giant platform that also has ambitions as a media company, and presumably spent almost $1 billion for the photo-sharing service so it could capture some of the referred value of those pictures. Twitter reportedly tried to acquire Instagram before Systrom's company agreed to Facebook's offer, and it recently announced it will be adding photo filters similar to those offered by Instagram.
In some ways, Instagram's action can be seen as retaliation for a move Twitter made earlier this year, when it cut off the photo-sharing service's access to Twitter's "follower graph" so that users could no longer easily find their Twitter connections on Instagram. But this isn't just about Instagram and its Facebook affiliation, because Twitter recently did the same thing to Tumblr—another service that had already implemented Twitter's expanded-tweets feature—by cutting off its ability to connect to the Twitter follower-graph API (application programming interface).
On one level, this is about Twitter's desire to become a platform rather than just a dumb pipe for distributing other people's content, something it clearly believes it has to do in order to monetize its network and thereby justify its alleged $10 billion market value (although some critics have questioned Twitter's approach in doing this). But it's also about how that decision is turning Twitter into a media entity—one that's trying hard to utilize the value of, or at least to exert some control over, content created by other companies, whether it's Instagram or the New York Times.
So what should media companies make of this maneuvering by Twitter? Blogging pioneer Dave Winer has warned repeatedly about the dangers of thinking the service is your friend rather than a full-fledged media competitor, and there are more than a few similarities between what Twitter is doing with its expanded tweets and what Google News and other aggregators do. That kind of behavior has drawn fire from billionaire media mogul Rupert Murdoch (among others), who has accused Google of "stealing" his content by excerpting the most important parts. Newspapers in some countries, including Germany, are lobbying for the search engine to pay them for this content.
The benefits of having your links and content appear on Twitter are pretty obvious: You can reach new readers, build relationships, entice users to come to your site, and so on. And you could argue that Instagram loses more value than it gains from the expanded-tweets feature because all of its content—that is, an entire photo—is displayed within Twitter's frame. By contrast, a blog post or news story should have enough value that showing a small excerpt (something that's arguably permitted by the "fair use" clause in copyright law anyway) shouldn't be a big deal.
That said, however, I think moves like the one Instagram has made should prompt more media companies to consider the relationship they have with Twitter. It's not just a conduit for your content to reach your users whenever and wherever you wish (if it ever was)—it's a proprietary network built by a company with monetization and expansion on its mind, and your content is part of that equation. What are you getting out of it, and why? And will that change in the future as Twitter's mission and vision evolve? What will you do if it does?
Also from GigaOM:
Flash Analysis: Is Twitter on the Cusp of Building a Business? (subscription required)
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NC State's Center for Excellence in Curricular Engagement is holding a launch event and open house on Wednesday and Thursday, Feb. 6-7. Campus faculty and staff are invited to attend events on both days to learn more about the center, which will integrate the university's land-grant engagement mission throughout the curriculum to help students understand and address community and social issues.
A plenary session and reception will be held on Wednesday, Feb. 6 at the University Club, located at 4200 Hillsborough St. The plenary session will run from 2:30 to 4:30 p.m. and will feature comments from Chancellor James Oblinger, Provost Larry Nielsen, and a keynote address from Dr. Andy Furco, associate vice provost for public engagement at the University of Minnesota. Furco's address is titled "Re-imagining Engagement Throughout the Curriculum: New Directions for Research-Extensive Land-Grant Universities." A reception will follow the plenary session from 4:45 to 5:45 p.m.
The center will hold an open house on Thursday, Feb. 7 from noon to 2 p.m. in room 310 of the First Year College Commons on Cates Avenue. The open house will feature welcome comments from Provost Nielsen at 12:30 p.m. followed by two sessions beginning at 12:50 p.m. and 1:20 p.m. where faculty and community leaders can discuss potential partnership projects and how engagement can be integrated into the curriculum.
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The Graduate School is launching a new program titled Preparing Future Leaders (PFL) that supports the professional development of graduate students and postdoctoral fellows. Beginning Feb. 1, the program is offering a series of Professional Development Seminars (PDS) and Responsible Conduct of Research (RCR) Seminars for spring 2008.
Spring PDS seminars address topics ranging from grant writing and grant processing to leadership, conflict resolution, and communication strategies. The RCR seminars address such issues such as animal use in research, social justice, professional ethics, responsible authorship, copyright, and plagiarism in the classroom.
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The College of Engineering will host a career fair Thursday, Feb. 7, and Friday, Feb. 8, from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the Jane S. McKimmon Center on NC State's campus. The event is free and open to the public.
The biannual event provides an opportunity for prospective employers to meet with engineering students interested in working for their companies. More than 320 companies are registered to participate in the event, and 3,000 students are expected to attend.
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Wolf Treks Travel Taking Reservations for 2008 Trips
The NC State Alumni Association Wolf Treks Travel Program offers educational travel opportunities to destinations around the world. Wolf Treks is taking reservations for the following destinations:
- Dublin, Ireland (May 19-27) – Spend your nights in an Irish castle hotel and your days exploring the beauty and culture of the countryside.
- Swiss Alps (Aug. 6-14) – Admire the beauty of the surrounding Alps while exploring medieval Berne, Zermatt, the legendary Matterhorn, a dairy farm in Gruyere and the celebrity hideaway of Gstaad.
- China and Yangtze River (Sept. 16-30) – Visit Beijing, the site of the 2008 summer Olympics, walk along the Great Wall, cruise the Yangtze River and enjoy cosmopolitan Shanghai. Tour is limited to 24 guests.
- Italy's Mountains and Lakes (Sept. 24-Oct. 2) – Visit Venice, Padua and Verona, as well as the towering Dolomites and the tropical shores of Lake Garda.
- Portrait of Italy (Oct. 21-Nov. 2) – Travel the Amalfi Coast to Rome, through the gentle Umbrian and Tuscan countryside to Venice, in a tour that showcases ancient sites, contemporary life, priceless art and beautiful natural scenery. Tour is limited to 24 guests.
- In the Wake of Lewis and Clark (Nov. 4-10) – Explore the Columbia and Snake rivers as you follow in the footsteps of Lewis and Clark.
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Campus Weight-Loss Support Group Accepting New Members
The NC State University employee chapter of the weight-loss support group TOPS – Taking Off Pounds Sensibly – is accepting new members through Feb. 6. The group meets each Wednesday from noon to 1 p.m. in room 2301 of the Student Health Center to provide education, support, motivation and encouragement related to weight loss, nutrition and exercise. The annual membership fee is $24, plus a $2 monthly chapter fee. Interested faculty and staff members may check out the Wednesday meetings for free through Feb. 6 before deciding to join. For more information, contact Tiwa Ashiru by email at firstname.lastname@example.com or visit www.tops.org.
Study Circles to Focus on Race Relations
NC State's Office for Equal Opportunity is sponsoring a series of "Study Circles" on campus this semester to discuss race and race relations. Study Circles are free and open to all faculty, staff, students and administrators, but pre-registration is required. The registration deadline for the spring is Feb. 25. Groups will consist of eight to 12 participants and will address issues related to race relations on campus and in the community. For more information, or to register online, visit http://www.ncsu.edu/equal_op/education/study_circles.html. Contact Beverly Jones Williams at 513-3836 or firstname.lastname@example.com for additional information.
Volunteer Support Available for Campus Events
Volunteers from the NCSU Encore Center for Lifelong Enrichment are available to help facilitate short-term projects, programs or events on campus or in the university community. Volunteers have assisted at events such as Service NC State, the Emerging Issues Forum, Arts NC State, and the UNC-TV festival, among others. Questions or requests for volunteers may be made to Betty Poulton, special programs coordinator at the Encore Center, at email@example.com or call 513-2049.
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Registration is open for the spring semester at the Crafts Center, with classes scheduled to begin Monday, Feb. 11. The center provides discounted rates to university students and employees.
Several classes are being offered this spring in the following areas: jewelry & lapidary; glass; fiber arts; and wood and clay.
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New Exhibits Open at Gregg Museum
The Gregg Museum opened Jan. 24 with two new exhibitions:
Randy Shull: Crossing Boundaries
Randy Shull of Asheville is one of the region's best designers and furniture makers. This mid-career survey will be a revelation in that the audience will be able to see several of the artist's large-scale pieces at once. The show will also travel to San Francisco, Washington state and New Orleans. The exhibit runs through May 11. Dr. Suzanne Baizerman, curator of the Randy Shull exhibition, will speak at the Gregg Museum of Art & Design on Thursday, Jan. 24 at 5:30 p.m. Baizerman is the former curator of crafts and decorative arts at the Oakland Museum of California.
Recent Gifts: Eye to Eye, Object to Object
Ken Trapp, now retired curator-in-charge of the Renwick Gallery, has chosen an exhibition that will reflect on some of the curatorial choices that Gregg Director Charlotte Brown has made in the past few years. He has selected what might seem at first to be pairs of strange partners but his eye and the objects share affinities that make for an exhibition both challenging and enlightening for the viewer. The exhibit runs through March 16.
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