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PIKEVILLE, Ky. — The new Pike County Schools administration announced a new era for the district at the December meeting of the Pike County Board of Education on Thursday.
Pike County Schools Superintendent Reed Adkins and Director of Instruction Sherri Heise unveiled the new emblem, mission statement and vision at the meeting.
"We have been working on our mission since last Spring and into this year," said Adkins. "Our mission was developed by our community, our staff, the central office staff and our administrators."
Mission and vision
"The mission was developed by community members, classified staff, board members and students," Heise said. "Over 200 members were present during the sessions which consisted of five stakeholder forums in each of the five geographical areas of Pike County."
That team went through a process where they identified four cornerstones. Defined what the mission should be. The students created the four cornerstones of the mission statement.
"We looked at the trends across all five regions and only selected what was present in all five regions,
Heise said. "At the second session, the students conducted and facilitated the ending of the session when the decision was made. The students determined what was important to them through this process."
The new mission statement of the Pike County School District is to provide quality instruction in applied student and safe learning environment that fosters holistic learning for all students, promotes clear communication among all stakeholders and ensures equitable use of resources.
"We also had a significant turnout of community membership with this," Heise said. "People who are not parents, but supporters of Pike County Schools."
Community support was well received as that also translates to part of the new vision adopted by the Board.
"The former mission of Pike County was 'Focus on the Students," Superintendent Adkins said. "It was a great vision, and I think we did a great job under Mr. Lester's tenure. We moved into the proficiency level, and we're proud of that. But over the last few months, we've been discussing a new vision for the new administration that focuses on three important factors: students, staff and community."
The new emblem, which was also adopted on Thursday night, features a triangle to reference this relationship.
"We felt like a triangle would be an appropriate representation of this," Adkins said. "The students are at the top of the triangle, the most important thing, but in order for the students to do a great job, you need a really strong base. In our triangle, the base is created by the staff and community."
The emblem includes colors from every school in Pike County.
"It was a difficult task with 19 schools, but we did it," Adkins said. "We wanted everybody to feel included."
The new vision uses the acronym PIKE to convey the Board's vision:
Preparing Incredible Kids Everyday. Excellence Happens Here.
"We want to be excellent," Adkins said. "We've said it over and over, good is the enemy of great. We want to be great."
According to Heise, the new mission statement had a 96 percent approval rate before its adoption on Thursday.


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Bedrooms: 3
Bathrooms: 1 Full | 1 Three-Qtr
Lot Size: 0.43 Acres
Lot Dimensions: 120x155
Year Built: 1982
Garage Dimensions: 2 car
Garage: Attached Garage, Driveway - Asphalt
Style: (SF) Three Level Split
Water: City Water/Connected
Sewer: City Sewer/Connected
Square Feet: 2409
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Below Ground Sq Ft: 1000 (approx)
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Dining Room: 12x12
Kitchen: 18x13
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Deck: 14x14
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Clifford Chance structured finance senior associate Kieron Dwyer is to join Wragge & Co's growing banking and finance team as a partner.
Dwyer told The Lawyer that he chose to make the move from the world's largest to the mid-market firm because he wanted to "try something different, something more entrepreneurial."
Wragges' banking and finance team has brought in 33 per cent more revenue over the last year, according to team head Chris Brierley.
He commented: "Asset-banked finance is a major driver, but our team doesn't do those billion-pound deals characteristic of the magic circle. Typically our deals are £150-250m."
In his former job Dwyer built up considerable international experience, including spending three years in Clifford Chance's Tokyo office and advising on the privatisation and acquisition financing of the Eleme petrochemical plant in Nigeria. He was also the senior associate on the Al Hidd independent water and power project in Bahrain.
These international credentials, combined with his skills and experience in the energy sector, helped him land the job said Brierley.
Dwyer declined to comment on whether he was up for promotion to partnership at the magic circle firm.
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Beauty may only be skin deep if the art of looking beautiful has caused suffering to animals and environmental damage along the way. The chemist's shelves show a bewildering array of personal hygiene and body- care products.
Beauty is big business and teenagers, who are naturally concerned about their image, are easy targets for the cosmetics industry.
Did you know that each year millions of animals are experimented on to test cosmetics and toiletries? A further 100,000 animals are estimated to be killed annually in the United States for the same reason.
Because many cosmetics include solvents, colours, fra grances and preservatives that are toxic, most companies test their products for acute toxicity and skin and eye irritation.
These tests may include dripping hairspray into the eyes of rabbits (the notorious draize test) or applying products to the shaved and often abraded skin of a rabbit or guinea pig.
Many companies now make and sell cosmetics without testing the ingredients on animals. One company in Holland, for example, tested its make-up and body lotions on a convent of nuns who sympathised with the company's battle against animal testing requirements.
Even some of the larger cosmetics giants have announced bans on animal testing but the majority of cosmetics are still tested on animals.
Most cosmetics are not really needed. A diet of fresh fruit and vegetables, fresh air and exercise will probably do more for your hair and skin than any amount of cream in a bottle. But if you really have to use cosmetics, only choose those brands which you know have not been tested on animals.
And what about natural cosmetics - surely these must be good for the environment? It seems nowadays that just about every cosmetics bottle and jar boasts some 'natural' ingredient - aloe or avocado - but a quick look at the label shows that this is usually a negligible part of the product.
There are no studies which show that natural cosmetics are any healthier for your skin than synthetic cosmetics and people may be just as allergic to natural substances than synthetic ones.
Beauty is more than skin deep.
The earth is beautiful too and we need to learn to value a beautiful river as much as a beautiful face.
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Nurse Aide Registration occurs daily from 8:30am-4:00pm Monday-Friday in the Ferguson Center for Allied Health and Workforce Development, Room 308.1
September Nurse Aide I Classes
Orientation: 9/21-9/23
Class: 9/28-11/17
|W-F, 8am-3:30pm
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Class: 9/13-11/2
|T-Th, 8am-3:30pm
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Orientation: 9/6-9/15
Class: 9/20-1/28-17
T,Th evenings, 6-9pm
Saturdays, 7am-3:30pm
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October Nurse Aide I Classes
Orientation: 10/20-10/24
Class: 10/25-12/15
|T-Th, 8am-3:30pm
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November Nurse Aide I Classes
Orientation: 10/25-10-27
Class: 11/1-12/16
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Orientation: 11/16-11/18
Class: 11/21-16-2/8/17
|W-F, 8am-3:30pm
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If you have any questions please call 828-398-7878
Course Description
Short-term training that prepares individuals to work as caregivers in a health care setting such as a nursing home, hospital or home health care.
Students will attend a mandatory orientation for 15 hours prior to beginning the Nursing Assistant class, this occurs the week prior to class start date.
- 160 Hours of instruction - 96 classroom hours and 64 clinical hours
- Taught by a Registered Nurse
- Approved by the North Carolina Division of Health Service Regulation
Students must register in person for NA I classes.
- Bring with you the negative results of a tuberculosis (TB) skin test. The TB skin test may take anywhere from 48 - 72 hours for the results to be read. This test is available at a doctor's office, urgent care or a County Health Department. Each will charge a fee for this test. TB results are good for one year only.
- Effective March 1, 2017 for all students doing clinical experience at Mission Health Systems, the following immunizations are required prior to registration:
- Tdap (Tetanus, Diphtheria, Pertussis) vaccination, and subsequent booster every ten (10) years
- Measles vaccination, unless Student provides serologic confirmation of immunity, or documentation of physician diagnosed measles
- Rubella immunization, unless Student provides serologic confirmation of immunity, or documentation of physician diagnosed rubella
- Mumps immunization, unless Student provides serologic confirmation of immunity, or documentation of physician diagnosed mumps
- Hepatitis B vaccination series (unless Students sign an appropriate declination form)
- Varicella immunization (chicken pox), unless Student provides serologic confirmation of immunity, or documentation of physician diagnosed varicella
- Influenza vaccination(s) as required by Mission, for experiences occurring any time between October 31st and March 31st.
- Effective March 1, 2017 for all students doing clinical experience at Mission Health Systems, the following immunizations are required prior to registration:
- Make sure you have a non-expired, government issued picture ID, such as a U.S. driver's license or a U.S. passport, which must be presented at registration.
- Tuition: $211.35 (includes: Tuition, Supply Fee, Technology Fee and Insurance)- Payment Options:
- Students should bring in exact amount if paying with cash
- Write a check to A-B Tech for the exact amount
- Bring a written authorization for payment from your organizational sponsor or the employer who will pay for your class
- Students may also pay with American Express, Master Card or VISA
- Due to the demand of the Nurse Assistant classes, minors (those between 16-18 years of age), will be admitted to class per college policy. Exceptions may be made for minors with a High School Diploma or GED at the time of class. For further information please contact 828-398-7332.
- Students will need to provide a High School Diploma/GED or transcripts stating that they have graduated from High School. A completed Bachelor's or Master's Degree will also be acceptable. If unable to provide any of the mentioned documents a free reading test will be required. Reading tests are completed in the Hemlock Building on the Asheville Campus, students must score at the 9th grade level or better to be able to register for Nurse Aide classes. Please call the Nurse Aide office for directions, on how to schedule a reading test-828-398-7878.
- Finally, bring all the requested items listed above in person only.
Please call the Nurse Aide information line, 828-398-7600, for dates of upcoming registrations. No fax or online registration is available for NA I classes.
~~~~~Important Information~~~~~
- Prior to the clinical experience a background check and drug screening will be required thru Intellenet Inc.
- In order to take the Nurse Aide State Exam, you will need to have a United States Social Security Card issued by the Social Security Administration. This must be the actual card, not a photocopy. If you do not have your original card, you can apply for a duplicate at the Social Security Administration Office which is located off Chunns Cove Road in the Center Park Office Complex on Piney Mountain Road. This card cannot be laminated. The name on your picture ID and the social security card must match.
***All classes are on a first come, first serve basis.
***Attendance for all days of orientation is required.
***Attendance for all class days is mandatory, so please check your schedule to make sure you can attend classes as scheduled.
***Class dates are subject to change so please call the NA Office at 828-398-7878 to confirm class availability.
Class Schedule Options:
Day Classes (8 Weeks)
Tuesday - Thursday or Wednesday - Friday
Classroom hours: 8:00 AM – 3:30 PM
Clinical hours: 7:00 AM to 3:30 PM
Evening Classes (4.5 Months)
Two evenings per week - (Monday and Wednesday or Tuesdays and Thursday)
Classroom hours: typically 5:00 PM – 8:00 PM, or 5:30 PM - 8:30 PM or 6:00 PM -9:00 PM
Clinical hours: 7:00 AM to 3:30 PM - (7 Saturdays)
Find out more about Financial Assistance and Continuing Education Scholarships.
If you have any questions regarding these registration procedures, please call 828-398-7878 (Asheville Campus classes) or 828-398-7700 (Sherri Davis for Madison County classes).


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Author's Notes: Hi everyone… this is Gamma issuing another apology for taking so long on the chapter. But if you don't hate me too much for the constant delays on this story, then you should know that I've been nominated for Best Slytherin Author, and if you want to vote for me, you should go to wwwDOTfanfictionDOTnet/u/2270025/Couture-Girl and fill out the poll :) I'd be ever grateful!
The boy who had driven the van that had almost run into Bellatrix scrambled over the ice in an attempt to reach her. She just groaned and lay back against the tire of the car that Edward had pushed her against. There was no more energy in her for talking to the boy. There was no more energy in her for anything. She couldn't recall ever before in her life feeling so exhausted, confused, or filled with burning and soul-consuming hatred.
"Stay here!" he told her.
"I'm not going anywhere," she muttered, not quite loudly enough for him to hear.
"I'll get help!" He struggled towards the school, then stopped, turned back towards her pulled a notebook from his pocket and scribbled down a string of numbers. He threw it at her. Bellatrix didn't even have the energy to catch it, and it skittered along the ice beside her.
"What is that?" she asked tiredly.
"Well, I know I just met you… and I almost killed you… but it's my number." He grinned hopefully at her. "Call me, maybe?"
"You nearly killed me – you want romance now?"
"That's rather sexy, actually," she mumbled.
He didn't even seem to hear her, but continued to make his way towards the school, picking across the ice. Bellatrix sighed and closed her eyes. She didn't expect to get any sort of proper help from the school, of course. She just hoped that she would die before the Muggle doctors that they would surely send her to started cutting her up or putting leeches on her or whatever it was that doctors did these days. Maybe she would be able to die quite quietly and pleasantly, here in the parking lot, and never have anything to do with Gam- or Edward Cullen ever again.
Yes, she would rather like that, really. Dying like this wouldn't be bad at all…
But before she could even start to consider how best to lie down so that she would look decently dignified when she was dead, a dozen people came rushing out to see her, all with looks of profound concern mixed with soul-consuming lust upon their faces.
"Please go away," she told them, as they crowded around her, but no one was listening to what she was saying. Then she heard someone loudly proclaiming, "I'm a doctor! Let me through!"
"Oh God, you?" Bellatrix asked, disgusted, when the handsomer doctor Carlisle from the hospital stroke through the crowd. He moved so gracefully that it was almost a dance, albeit a very boring one that looked a lot like walking.
"She needs to go to the hospital," he proclaimed to the group of people standing around. "Even though she's very obviously all right, she needs to come to the hospital so that she can feel helpless." He looked down at Bellatrix. "You want to feel helpless, don't you?"
If I wasn't already helpless, you would be dead right now.
"Mmm," was her only response. She would have leapt up and strangled him with her bare hands if she thought that she could have managed it, but she didn't think that she could, so she didn't bother.
He lifted her up easily in her arms.
She tried to slap at him, but he didn't even flinch, and it hurt her palms. It was like hitting a stone statue.
"Please, Miss Swan," he said cordially as he carried her out of the parking lot, "Don't hit me. It won't do you any good, and it's not particularly enjoyable for either of us."
"Put me down, and I'll stop hitting you!"
"Don't be silly," he said, laughing quietly, and then, without even the slightest change in tone, "and don't even think about filing a harassment lawsuit because if you try to sue me, I will drink your blood."
Bellatrix stared at him in horror.
"That had damned well better be an exaggeration."
Carlisle laughed maniacally, then put her into the back of a helpfully present ambulance and shut the doors. Bellatrix shivered violently and stared after him as the ambulance careened towards the hospital, sirens blaring.
"Muggles are dangerous," she said out loud, and she hoped that Gam- was listening.


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I Cannot Close My Eyes
I wrote this poem while I was on a school trip to Auschwitz. I give it no other introduction, I'll just set the scene for you...
I follow ghostly footsteps,
Tread where they trod;
Feel the winter that bit them cold,
But I cannot close my eyes.
A barbed wire fence leads our way,
Feel their hearts break like mine:
Arbeit Macht Frei,
But I cannot close my eyes.
A baby runs across the yard,
Graves of his brothers lie beneath;
Hand- sized clothes clutch my heart,
But I cannot close my eyes.
I see rooms of combs and shoes,
Brushing ghostly hair, covering forlorn feet.
Walking a shadow's trail,
But I cannot close my eyes.
The chambers cry; weep like willows,
The gas dances and smoke swirls,
As souls pass away through flame
But I cannot close my eyes
Packed carriages roll along the track,
A Nazi train-track to despair;
I scream out at their naive faces,
But I cannot close my eyes.
The machine churns out yet another,
The branded lambs, led to the slaughter.
Systematic extermination they say,
But I cannot close my eyes.
My eyes well with falling tears,
My stomach churns as I turn away.
Yet I cannot close my crying eyes;
You must not close your eyes...


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LONDON, Sep 24 (Reuters) Tim Henman has warned that increasing betting in tennis could risk the integrity of the sport.
Henman, 33, the former world number four, says in an interview with BBC television's Inside Sport programme to be broadcast today that he has heard of players being asked to influence the outcome of matches.
''I personally have never experienced it but, listening to the players talking, it seems it goes on,'' said Henman, who ended his 14-year career at the weekend by helping Britain to a 4-1 win over Croatia in the Davis Cup at Wimbledon.
''We've got to be very careful, very vigilant about it as tennis doesn't want to be associated with that.'' Henman's comments come a month after the ATP began investigating possible irregular gambling patterns on a match at the Sopot Open in Poland between world number four Nikolay Davydenko and Martin Vassallo Arguello of Argentina.
Davydenko denies any involvement and will give his version of events to the ATP next month.
Etienne de Villiers, the chairman of the ATP, said in a statement: ''All professional sport needs a level playing field in order to maintain its appeal and integrity.
''This is especially true for tennis which is a one on one gladiatorial contest. The ATP, and all involved with tennis, therefore treat any form of corruption extraordinarily seriously and we have established rigorous procedures and programmes; and severe penalties for transgressing our codes of conduct.
''With regards to the recent match involving Nikolay Davydenko and Martin Vassallo Arguello, we have instigated a full ATP investigation and we will be using all means available to us - including independent, external resources - via our Anti-Corruption Rules to conduct a complete and thorough investigation.'' ''That said, it is important that we not jump to conclusions especially when players' reputations could be unfairly tainted.
''What we must do is carry out a comprehensive and immediate investigation and that is what we are doing.'' SERIOUS ACCUSATIONS Henman tells the BBC: ''There have been some pretty serious accusations in the tennis world and I, for one, will be interested to see what comes out of it.
''No-one has ever approached me. I obviously wasn't the right material. People have always bet on tennis but the magnitude seems like it has increased.
''It's an easy target because it's a two-horse race and there is a lot going on. You talk about a Grand Slam -- there are 64 men's matches and 64 women's matches from the first round and there is a lot that can be bet on.'' Henman also says there should be tough penalties for any player found to be involved in betting irregularities.
''We have to be sure from a player's point of view that anyone who is involved shouldn't be allowed back in the game for good,'' he says.
Roger Draper, chief executive of the Lawn Tennis Association says in the programme he also believes that tennis has a problem with betting.
''I think we would be looking at the world through rose-tinted spectacles if we thought it didn't go on,'' he said. ''I think the way it's going it's becoming as big an issue in sport as doping.
''I think most of the sports are hooked on to it. Sport is the second fastest growing sector of the economy at the moment - and the biggest growth area is betting.
''So we have to keep our eyes open, our ears to the ground and work with the betting companies rather than just ignore the problem and think it's going to go away. It isn't going to go away.'' Reuters BJR DB2059


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Here is another example of solving Laplace's equation in rectangular coordinates. We have a rectangular pipe extending in the direction with boundaries at , and . The potential on each face is held constant and satisfies
The problem is to find everywhere inside the pipe. We can use the separation of variables technique to arrive at a solution of form:
Because the problem is symmetric in we must have , which means that and we can write
where we've absorbed the constants and into and .
The boundary condition at means that . At first glance we can't do much with the boundary conditions at the other three faces. Let's leave this solution for the moment and try a different approach.
In the original derivation of the separation of variables solution, we had the equations
We made the implicit assumption that the constants were non-zero, requiring only that their sum is zero so as to satisfy the full Laplace's equation:
In this problem, though, we can use a trick to get the solution. Since the problem doesn't depend on , we can consider the two equations
The general solution of this pair of equations is linear in each of and separately in order for the second derivatives to be zero. Thus we get
and the overall solution is thus
Applying the boundary conditions on we get
This must be true for all so either or . If we choose the latter case, then everywhere, which isn't much use, so we'll take .
At the other boundary, we have
Again, this must be true for all , so and . Thus a solution that satisfies the boundary conditions is
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The 65-year-old stabbed retired headteacher Mr Parkinson, 63, at the £330,000 flat in Sanderling Lodge, Rope Quays, Gosport, Hampshire, on March 22 last year.
The seven-day trial heard the couple had a drunken row which started with Mr Parkinson blaming his wife for buying around 20 properties in Rutland that lost them money - something Parkinson said had upset her as it went back on a promise not to blame each other.
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Femi Oke: Do you remember all that public rage about our banks that gave their employees bonuses?
Nancy Pelosi on tape: It isn't right, it just simply isn't right, when there is a reward, a spelled-out-in-advance reward for those who take undue risk, when they fail they get a bonus, the taxpayer gets the bill.
Femi Oke:That was Nancy Pelosi in March of this year. But Swiss bank Credit Suisse has found a very creative solution to the bonus-paying problem: pay part of your employee bonuses in toxic assets. Toxic assets are all of those bad loans that the banks have made. Jesse Eisinger is a financial writer who has worked at the Wall Street Journal and Portfolio. So, Jesse, just imagine that I work at Credit Suisse for a moment and I'm getting paid toxic assets as my bonus. What do I actually get?
Jesse Eisinger: What you get is an interest in a complex security, all these securities that we've heard about. Really what you're doing is getting an income stream from a bunch of loans that Credit Suisse has made. In fact, you have helped make those loans, and so you're eating what you cooked. Or as I like to say, you're eating your own garbage.
Femi Oke:Right, OK. So does that mean that I actually have to pay out any money because I have toxic assets? Do I lose money?
Jesse Eisinger:No, what happens is, you get an interest in a security. So you've gotten a bonus and you've gotten a bonus half in cash, as you normally did. Instead of stock, this time you got an interest in a loan, in a fixed-income security, and you get an interest payment. If the value goes up, you get part of that as well.
Femi Oke:Ah, I get it. Light bulb moment.Todd Zwillich: So what's in it for Credit Suisse? Do they get to unload these toxic assets off their books that they're giving to employees?
Jesse Eisinger:Exactly. So they get two benefits from this. They get a little nice publicity from financial writers like me who praise them. And then they also got to move the toxic assets off the books. The central problem with the banking system globally, as we know, is that the banks made collectively way too many bad loans to commercial real estate, to residential real estate, to companies that can't afford to pay them back, and they're having to take write-downs. So Credit Suisse took a write-down on this collection of loans and gave portions to the employees.
Todd Zwillich: The other thing we know about this global crisis, though, is that nobody knows what toxic assets are worth, and what the market wants to pay for them, the banks won't accept. So if you're an employee who just got a bonus in toxic assets, do you have any clue what it's worth, if anything?
Jesse Eisinger:That's exactly the crux of the whole issue, and this transaction lends a lot of insight into that. What happened is they priced these at 65 cents on the dollar. Essentially they said, "All these bundles of loans we've taken from all over the world, and we've taken commercial real estate, and we've taken loans to companies, we're going to price them at 65 cents on the dollar." And that sheds a lot of light on what they may be worth, what the banks think they may be worth, when they're trying to sell them in the Geithner plan that we've heard so much about. Maybe they're worth 65 cents on the dollar, but we don't really know. At least the banks think, at least Credit Suisse thinks, that this kind of loan is worth this to the employees. Now, residential real estate securities are going for much less now, sometimes 20 or 30 cents on the dollar, so this is a lot higher than those really toxic assets. There are degrees of toxic assets.
Femi Oke:Do you think they were exaggerating how much they're worth just to make their employees feel a little better perhaps?
Jesse Eisinger:This presented this interesting negotiation, because the employees now are pitted against the employer. The employees want them to be marked down as low as possible, so that they're paying essentially the lowest price and then they get the appreciation. The employer has the interest of paying them in a higher price, so if they got them for 25 cents on the dollar, they'd obviously have more upside than if they got them at 90 cents on the dollar. And they ended up with this compromise and they tried to be disinterested in how they arrived at it. We'll see if it's too optimistic or not. It'll take about five years for it to play out.
Femi Oke:Has this ever been done before, Jesse?
Jesse Eisinger:No. The banks haven't really faced this problem in this kind of scale before, so they haven't had this kind of toxic asset problem before. Credit Suisse is the first to do this, and to my knowledge they're the only ones to do this. The problem with pay, as Nancy Pelosi pointed out, is all the bankers were incentivized to solely perform on a short-term basis. They had extraordinary myopia. They only were paid on the basis of producing loans rather than how the loans performed. This goes to the heart of solving that problem, but it won't really solve it because no bank has the interest of acting unilaterally. Credit Suisse, they did this, this is a one time deal, it was very good that they did this, but no bank is really going to really, sort of, jump into this and give their employees less money or money in difficult-to-price assets again. And that's why I think pay should really be regulated.
Femi Oke:Jesse Eisinger. He's a financial writer who has worked at the Wall Street Journal and Portfolio. Jesse, I understood you for five complete minutes. Congratulations. Thank you so much.


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What do you want to know? I am sure you have local colleges with programs for the landscape industry. They would be more relative, due to being in the same region you are going to work in.
There are tons of do-it-yourself landscaping books out there on the market. There are also thousands of landscaping websites that you can look at. Some are well done while others are not. Like Kirk said I'd check with your local community college or extension unit for courses. You will learn what works in your climate the best and what pitfalls to stay away from.
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Biographies are hard. Ace detectives and thorough interviewers don't always make eloquent writers—and don't even mention dance expertise—which is why the skill of Julie Kavanagh, who trained in ballet before becoming a journalist, is such a rare and obvious pleasure. In her new Nureyev: The Life, a follow-up to her masterful Secret Muses: The Life of Frederick Ashton (1996), Kavanagh tells the star's life story: from his 1938 birth on a train to his 1961 defection and 1993 death from AIDS (he was diagnosed in 1984 but kept it largely a secret for nearly ten years). Admittedly, Kavanagh does not shy from relating her subject's insatiable sexual appetite, but her book is just as rigorous and insightful a look at a vital era of dance, displaying Nureyev's deep hunger for learning and teaching. Kavanagh's research led her to previously undisclosed correspondence from the Danish dancer Erik Bruhn as well as the discovery of Teja Kremke, an East German dancer who not only captured a young Nureyev on film—the footage was shown in a recent documentary—but encouraged him to move to the West. A hero, just like Kavanagh.
Why did you want to focus on Nureyev?
To begin with I felt very reluctant. I didn't think there was anything I could get that anyone else hadn't before. It was the Russian story that really grabbed me. And actually, I didn't think that he'd been well written about as a dancer. The previous biographers were good reporters, but they didn't have deep dance knowledge. What really helped me to infiltrate his mind was learning about how important Petipa and Bournonville were to him. If you think about it, they were the motivation for everything he did and everyone he met. He sought out Erik Bruhn because he felt that [Bournonville training] was an element missing from his own dance training. He had a fling with Maria Tallchief because she could get him to Balanchine. It sounds simplistic in terms of understanding him, but one had to tackle that arcane aspect in order to get into that very complex mind.
What kind of process do you follow?
It does take time. The thing with biography is that you can't just go in there and interview. You've got to become friends of your subject's friends. It's not just treading in their footsteps—you've got to immerse yourself and, in a way, I didn't want to do that again. I did it with Ashton. You lose friends! Ashton's friends were all in their eighties, and I was very sad [in the case of Nureyev] to lose Wallace Potts, whom I became very close to. I was very sad to lose Maude Gosling.
When do you start writing?
When I feel I've got the meat, I put it all on the computer and then what takes the time is distilling it all. I think with someone like Nureyev, who did so much, the danger is to want to put everything in—actually, most of my time is spent taking everything out. And the trouble with a lot of biographers now is that they put all these facts and hundreds of quotes in, and they don't have a sense of narrative. I think that's vital. I don't really like biography as a form, I love fiction.
Did you know Nureyev?
He was a pinup of my teenage years when I was at the Royal Ballet School. I met him in '76 when I interviewed him for Valentino. He was filming in Blackpool; at that point he was a huge star, and at the end of the day he was watching all these takes and decided he didn't want to do an interview. He was being the typical prima donna. But I think the publicist told him that I'd been a dancer, and he softened and we had this amazing dinner together where we drove out in his limo to a restaurant and sat by the fire, and he was drinking Pimms. His masseur rang up to say that Singin' in the Rain was on television, so we kind of ended up sitting with our dinner on a tray in front of the television. And then I had lunch with him about a decade later in 1986 at his Quai Voltaire apartment [in Paris]. He was ill by that time; it wasn't the same experience. He was having a real embattled time with the Paris Opera—the dancers were going on strike, and he was very defensive. He looked terrible, his hair was thinning, and I kind of felt let down by him—at that point, I didn't think he should have been dancing! I just spent the time staring at my feet.
You were embarrassed for him for not getting off the stage?
Yes, and angry that he would demean himself in that way. But having written the book, I understand totally that he was doing it to blot out illness and because he was a dance addict. What I think was great about him was that he was still coaching dancers and passing on his knowledge. He grew in my estimation as this incredible, intelligent figure. What an amazing teacher and mentor he was! I don't think there's been another dancer who's ever been that to that extent. Dance was everything.
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"Year-over-year single-family homes sales climbed 9.2 percent, with a total of 3,049 homes sold. The average price was statistically flat at $194,765."
HAR chairman Wayne Stroman sees a balanced supply of housing inventory.
"Month's inventory is at its lowest level in two years — 5.7 months — and that's a lot better than the national figure of 7.2 months. That doesn't mean that it takes 5.7 months to sell a home. It means that that's how long it takes to sell all of the single-family homes on the market based on the past year's sales activity."
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A boil water advisory has been put in effect for customers of the Logan County Public Service District (PSD) at Hidden Valley and from Big Creek to Harts Creek including Big Harts and Little Harts. An interruption of water service has occurred and prompted the need to boil water.
Customers of the PSD in the affected areas are being told to bring water to a rolling boil, let it boil for one full minute and let it cool before using or use bottled water.
Customers of the PSD in the affected area should share this information with other customers – especially those who may not be able to receive notice of the advisory.
The PSD will inform customers when the boil water advisory has been lifted. For more information, please contact the Logan County PSD at 304-946-2641.
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BECKLEY, West Virginia -A Burke County inmate that walked away from a highway work crew in Wilkes County nearly a month ago has been taken into custody.
Authorities in West Virginia said Wednesday evening Jason Strickland had been taken into law enforcement custody in West Virginia, according to a press release issued by the North Carolina Department of Transportation.
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