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Illegal Immigration Game Has Some Calling Foul Play
A game of "Catch an Illegal Immigrant" is getting one college conservative group in hot water. The Young Conservatives of Texas plan to hold that game Wednesday on the Austin Campus of the University of Texas. Group members will have on name tags that say "Illegal" and if students see them they can bring that person to a designated area to "turn them in" for a $25 gift card.
The conservative group says they only want to start a conversation on campus about illegal immigration. School officials say even though they respect the right of free speech, the game would be a willfully ignoring the school's honor code. KTRH News has the complete statement below:
Statement from Dr. Gregory J. Vincent Regarding YCT Game Scheduled for Nov. 20
Apparently drawing from a 2005-06 plan of Young Conservative organizations on campuses across the country, the UT Austin chapter of Young Conservatives of Texas (YCT) is hosting a game on campus this Wednesday called "Catch an Illegal Immigrant."
The game involves students walking around campus with the words "Illegal Immigrant" on their back. Students who capture the marked students and bring them back to the YCT table will be rewarded with a $25 gift card.
As was the case with the YCT bake sale on the west mall last month, such tactics are inflammatory and demeaning. And once again in trying to be provocative, the YCT is contributing to an environment of exclusion and disrespect among our students, faculty and staff by sending the message that certain students do not belong on our campus. Some UT Austin students are undocumented, and under Dream Act legislation signed into law in 2001, these students are entitled to attend state universities. They are part of a growing diverse population on campus and in the state of Texas—a population that plays increasingly larger roles in our intellectual, economic, political and cultural communities.
The university honor code entreats students to abide by the core values of the university, one of which is freedom, but two others of which are individual opportunity and responsibility. The university also values free speech and our campus continues to be an arena that inspires dialogue from diverse viewpoints. However, it is also meant to be a community where students exhibit respect for each other while holding those viewpoints.
If the members of YCT carry out their plan for "Catch an Illegal Immigrant," they are willfully ignoring the honor code and contributing to the degradation of our campus culture. And once again, they will have resorted to exercising one of the university's core values to the detriment of others. Such actions are counterproductive to true dialogue on our campus, and it is unrepresentative of the ideals toward which our community strives.
The Young Conservatives of Texas also stirred up controversy back in September with an Affirmative Action Bake sale. At that event brownies were sold and the prices based on the race and gender of the buyer.


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Former Star Tribune editor: coverage of Arizona immigration law "could be ticket to heaven or hell!"
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Tim McGuire, the Frank Russell Chair for the business of journalism at Arizona State University's Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication, is weighing in on coverage of Arizona's harsh new immigration law. The Minneapolis Star Tribune's former editor offers some sage advice to local journos that shouldn't be overlooked by those at the national level. To sum up his advice, though the entire piece deserves a read, McGuire suggests:
- Read the freaking bill!
- The legal distinctions matter
- Capture the historical context and avoid the oversimplifications of the national
- Avoid "he said she said."
- Find answers, don't create questions.
- This a business story and don't forget it!
- Human stories must be done from all perspectives
- This is a dangerous story and don't minimize that
- Every journalistic organization needs to be a true discussion facilitator
- This is a national story, embrace it and own it.
The advice may seem a bit elementary but McGuire is right to encourage such basic standards. In fact, national outlets would do well to take the suggestions to heart as well. If coverage of health care reform is to be any indicatation of things to come, coverage of immigration reform and Arizona's new law will be riddled with right-wing misinformation and fear mongering. Heck, we're already seeing it from many right-wing media figures:
- Rush accuses Dems of opposing AZ immigration law to "maintain vote fraud"
- Right-wing mark debate over AZ immigration law with racially charged rhetoric
- See no evil: Hannity, Palin dismiss concerns about racial profiling in AZ law
- Why did the Washington Post publish George Will's immigration rant?
- Wash. Times dubs immigration protesters the "Tequila Party," says they are "[a]ngry, hateful, violent, extremist liberals"
- Palin claims AZ immigration law "essentially replicates, duplicates the federal law"
- Hannity, Palin disagree with Fox News colleagues, declare it a "myth" that AZ law will lead to racial profiling
- Ingraham attacks Rep. Grijalva over boycott call, wonders if he believes U.S. "owes reparations" to Mexico
- Discussing whether AZ immigration law is constitutional, Beck declares, "The Constitution is not a suicide pact"
- Praising AZ immigration law, IBD says "Arizona has a window seat to an illegal invasion"
- Buchanan: "Arizona acted because" the federal government failed to "protect the states from invasion" of "illegal aliens"
There is a whole lot more where that came from.
McGuire is right when he says coverage of the issue "could be [a] ticket to heaven or hell." I'll let readers decide for themselves which ticket most media conservatives seem to have purchased.
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Kline and his colleagues sent letters today to Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius, and Attorney General Eric Holder asking big questions about the executive actions the administration has already taken to curb school violence, its congressional proposals to boost mental health and improve school safety, and how effective existing school safety programs have been. The letters are signed by Kline, plus Rep. Todd Rokita, R-Ind., the chairman of the House subcommittee that oversees K-12 policy, and Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-N.C., who oversees the higher education policy subcommittee. The lawmakers want Duncan to tell them:
- The purpose, schedule and end game for a "mental health listening tour" that Duncan and Sebelius are planning to kick off soon.
- How the department plans to determine "best practices" in school safety that will be laid out in model plans, scheduled to be released in May.
- Exactly where in the U.S. Department of Education all these new school safety programs would be housed. (Remember the department recently demoted the Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools.)
- How would these proposals differ significantly from school safety and counseling programs already on the books, such as the Elementary and Secondary Education Counseling program. (That's something Politics K-12 has been wondering too. The administration slated the counseling school program for consolidation in its last budget request. And it has previously done the same thing with school safety programs, including Safe and Drug-Free Schools State grants.)
- How these new proposals would avoid the pitfalls of Safe and Drug-Free Schools Grant program, which was scrapped because the Obama administration and Congress decided that the funds were spread too thinly to make a real difference.
- Which districts have gotten school safety grants, and what the program evaluations have looked like.


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I drive a 07 RR SC.
So on a regular day, I stop by the gas station to refuel my gastank.
I get back in my car, and the key will not turn to the right. I try over and over, and the key will not turn. The key is not stuck, it will not turn.
I call the dealership, and they tell me it is the battery. Luckily I am at the gas station so I have a someone attempt to give me a boost....nothing.
My radio, headlight everything worked fine. Yet the key will not turn.
So to make this story short, I get my car towed to the local dealership. I am being charged $750 for a replacement of my ignition starter where my key goes.
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hey folks i was a t sams club the other day and i saw that they now sell winches. but it is a champion brand i have never heard of that brand befor and was wondering if anyone knew anything about it cause i was thinking about getting one if it is decent. its a 7500 lb with 210:1 plantery gear system and a periment magnet. and you cant beat it for the price at 300 bucks. just wondering yalls thoughts. it will not be used very often
I run one on my jeep it has been a good winch, I have pulled myself out plenty of times with it.
They are good winches that are becoming more popular. If you do not use it everyday, you should be able to get some good life out of it. If you plan on doing some hardcore wheelin though, I would probably step into a Warn or Mile Marker. You may also want to look at Tabor, they are Warn's offbrand and are considerably cheaper. Just a thought...
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Feminism and Western Civilization. What do?
The manosphere, a "reactionary" (lol) blogging counterculture that emerged against feminism, is a perfect example of a present day market failure. All of the free association afforded by the internet, and the demand for an anti-feminist culture produces blogs about picking up skanks and/or celebrating being a sullen asshole. The former is at least entertaining and educational, the latter is poison.
In the sullen asshole category is the Men Going Their Own Way movement. Here are bloggers dedicated to moralizing their fearful hatred of the Western vagina.
The MGTOW manifesto states their goal is "to instill masculinity in men, femininity in women, and work towards limited government!" The first goal is an honorable one, but is sabotaged by an impossible second and retarded third objective.
When the most "red-pill" brand of masculine identity amounts to sexual separatism, ancapistan for your penis, it becomes apparent you need to re-think your stance on "rational" human action.
(Protip: Less "Human Action," more "Might Is Right.")
Consider the second goal. What does a man know (or care) of femininity? A superior man is not also a superior woman; the two genders are fundamentally different and therefore unequal. The conflict between the two genders, the biological desire/distrust of difference, is what makes the dialectic, what intertwines the two, what creates love and desire and progress.
It can no longer be a dialectic or relationship if you control the opposition's narrative. MGTOW seeks a male-created/controlled feminine ideal that better resembles a cow. Making someone "yours" does not entail making them an object, manly-man. Go fuck a Big Mac.
The MGTOW who advocate giving up women entirely are thankfully more logical and less destructive. You are indeed better off staying home with the e-titties if you think the feminine exists as a pre-assembled mirror with a vagina; you would be horrified to see what was reflected back, anyway.
Now for the third objective, limited government: because nothing is more manly than limitation, amirite?
The purpose of this oxymoronic libertarian ideal is to prevent people from imposing their will on others (particularly theirs). Different wording, same barriers to entry. Funny, it's never "statist" controls when a libertarian desires it.
MGTOW "masculinity" thinks an equally-castrated society would be the best means of acquiring their traditional family ideal. They forget that families were traditionally held together by a strong and domineering patriarch.
Government emerges to reflects the culture, and that culture is a reflection of the family.
Liberalism is a broken home, MGTOW seeks joint custody.
Libertarianism and a thorough misunderstanding of the feminine purpose makes it impossible for MGTOW to ever achieve a coherent masculinity. You really want to understand manliness? Lrn2Filmer.
Society began when a man was willing to kill another over his woman. Humans transcended animalism when the first man crowned himself Patriarch, ruler of his family. The first Kings were Fathers of Families. THIS should be the ideal men seek, not angry and cowardly sexual secessionism. Take the power away from the bitches who never earned it; the reason society is as shitty as it is now is that avoiding pain and conflict has been confused with morality and strength. You think you can build a better society, when you can't even conquer a single bitchy Western woman? GTFO.
Society ends when men believe they don't need a woman to challenge or complete them. Man becomes an animal when he thinks it is ideal to walk away from the conflict that builds society. MGTOW correctly intuits the problem as being feminism, but they do not go any further. The movement is therefore complicit in the Liberal deconstruction of both Father and Family.
Calling your cowardly, roundabout anarchy "reactionary" is thoroughly offensive. You are at best conservative anti-natalists.


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If you haven't succumbed to the widespread paranoia about carrying a pocket knife with you every day, you understand that a dull knife is a useless and even dangerous tool. Even though pocket knives might seem quaint or from a bygone era, they are very useful every day carry tools and I recommend everyone carry one. I'm old enough to remember the days when you could open consumer products without scissors, straight blades or chainsaws. Try opening a cd or a blister pack without pneumatic shears and you'll know what I'm talking about. Pocket knives can be used for opening many packages, taking the staples out of things, cutting through tape, scraping leftover sticker gunk off stuff, or even cutting an orange. I use mine every day and when it is sharp it is a joy to use. The Lansky sharpener is a clever kit that takes a minute or two to set up; this is it's one flaw. Once you've got it set up,it is very good at sharpening small pocket knife blades that are too little for kitchen knife sharpeners. It uses a series of diamond stones and a lubricant with an guide that keep the blade angle just right. It is foolproof to use and works very well on little blades which is why I have one. It works well on larger blades too but the electric sharpeners are quicker for kitchen knives and the Razor Edge System beats any system out there for putting a true razor's edge on any blade. I like my Lansky, it is readily available and fairly priced. Get yourself one of these kits and start carrying a pocketknife. You won't have to worry about finding scissors every time you want to open something or cutting your arteries when you want to listen to a cd. Pocket knives are cool tools!


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Pyrodactyl Games has a new update for their RPG Unrest on Kickstarter. In the update we get news Chapter 3 is nearly finished, and the developers will be at EGX Rezzed.
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You're welcome Couch. I'm really glad I backed this game. While it may not be the most beautiful 2D game ever made, it has a certain charm to it. Now that they've added in character animations, it looks like a children's story book come to life. Pretty impressive considering their team / budget is so small. Last I heard they're shooting for a tentative May release date.
I also backed it and love the graphic style. I'm very interested to see how exactly the gameplay works out. I'm sort of worried that it will be to much of an adventure game. I don't need a lot of combat in a RPG, but I do need an interesting character building/ ability system.
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I am currently installing a hot tub in my house, and I have been hearing different people talk about testing the pH levels of the water before actually connecting it to the tub.
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Proper PH allows your sanitizer to work at the optimum level. With hot tub water being heated its very important.
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Jan. 11, 2011
Saturday, Jan. 15 -- vs. No. 23 Ohio State - "The Dual" (U-M Indoor Track Building), 11 a.m. (field events)/1 p.m. (running events)
The University of Michigan women's track and field team is in action at home for the first time in 2011 this Saturday (Jan. 15), hosting No. 23 Ohio State in "The Dual." Field events begin at 11 a.m., while running events start at 1 p.m.
The meet is also a "pink meet," with proceeds from t-shirt sales going to the U-M Women's Health Program for breast cancer research. All children (eighth grade and younger) are welcome to participate in track events from 10-10:40 a.m. prior to the start of the meet.
First Dual Meet Since 2002 -- The dual meet against Ohio State is the first dual for the Wolverines since the 2002 season. In its last dual competition, Michigan fell at Indiana, 81-80, on Jan. 12, 2002. U-M entered the final event, the 4x400-meter relay, with a 77-76 advantage, but the Hoosiers won the last event by .72 to earn the 81-80 decision. It is the first home dual meet since Jan. 12, 2001, which was also against Indiana. The two teams tied that dual, ending with an 81-81 stalemate.
First "Dual" with Ohio State -- The Michigan and Ohio State men's teams renewed their "Dual" rivalry in 2008, but Saturday's meet against OSU marks the first time the women's teams have squared off in dual competition. The meet marks the second competition for both teams in 2011, as Ohio State hosted the Buckeye Classic last weekend and the Wolverines competed at the EMU Invitational (Jan. 8). OSU sprinter Madison McNary was named the Big Ten Track Athlete of the Week after winning the 60- and 200-meter dashes at the Buckeyes' home opener.
Schedule of Events
Field Events
11 a.m. - weight throw and high jump
Noon - pole vault and long jump
12:15 p.m. - shot put
1:15 p.m. - triple jump
Running Events
1 p.m. - mile run
1:10 p.m. - 60-meter hurdles
1:20 p.m. - 400-meter dash
1:30 p.m. - 600-meter run
1:40 p.m. - 60-meter dash
1:50 p.m. - 800-meter run
2 p.m. - 200-meter dash
2:10 p.m. - 3,000-meter run
2:25 p.m. - 4x400-meter relay
Wear Your Pink -- This weekend's meet against Ohio State is designated a "pink meet." The first 500 fans will receive a pink pom pom and everyone wearing pink will be entered into a raffle for pink adidas prizes. Proceeds from t-shirt sales will go to the U-M Women's Health Program to support breast cancer research. The topic of cancer hits close to home for the Wolverines, who lost former trackster Joi Smith to a rare form of cancer in 2007. [ Release ]
Get There Early! -- Children (eighth grade and younger) are invited to participate in track events from 10-10:40 a.m. prior to Saturday's meet. In addition, U-M Marching Band Drum Major David Hines Jr. will perform at 10:45. Select Wolverines will also be available for autographs prior to the start of field events at 11 a.m.
Two Straight Home Meets -- Michigan begins a two-weekend home stand this weekend with the meet against Ohio State. Following the dual match against Ohio State, the women will team up with the men to host the annual Simmons-Harvey Invitational on Jan. 22. The Invitational is named for former women's head coach Kenneth "Red" Simmons and former men's coach Jack Harvey.
EMU Invite Rewind -- The Wolverines kicked off the 2011 season just down the road at the EMU Invitational, winning four events. Junior hurdler Julian Purvis (Oakland, Calif./St. Elizabeth) set a new Bowen Fieldhouse record in the 60-meter hurdles, crossing the line in 8.47. Sophomore Erin Pendleton (Lindsey, Ohio/Woodmore) won the 20-pound weight throw with a toss of 17.74 meters, setting a new career best.
Freshmen Make a Splash -- Two freshmen earned their first career victories over the weekend at the EMU Invitational. Taylor Pogue (Goodrich, Mich./Goodrich) won the mile run in 5:01.08, beating Eastern's Lauren Quaintance (5:08.84) by more than seven seconds. Erin Busbee (Cleveland, Ohio/Collinwood) won the long jump with a mark of 5.86 meters (19-02.75) as the two freshmen accounted for half of Michigan's individual wins at the event.
Trio of Captains to Lead U-M -- Fifth-year senior Alisha Cole (Cadillac, Mich./Cadillac), senior/junior Allison Liske (Zeeland, Mich./Zeeland East) and senior Danielle Tauro (Manahawkin, N.J./Southern Regional) will serve as captains for the 2011 season. Tauro repeats as captain for the second consecutive season while Cole and Liske were chosen by their teammates for the first time. [ Release ]
Who Is Back -- The Wolverines return 22 letterwinners from last year's team that picked up a pair of eighth-place finishes at both the 2010 Big Ten Indoor and Outdoor Championships. Michigan swept both Freshman of the Year awards with sophomores Jillian Smith (Manahawkin, N.J./Southern Regional) and Erin Pendleton earning the honors. Smith (indoor 800-meter run) and Pendleton (outdoor discus throw) were the only Wolverines to win individual Big Ten championships during 2010. The Wolverines won their seventh consecutive distance medley relay title and return Smith, Danielle Tauro and sophomore Rebecca Addison (Spring Lake, Mich./Grand Haven) from that team.
Fresh Faces -- Michigan welcomes 19 new student-athletes to the roster this season. Of those 19, 10 competed for the Wolverines during the cross country season. Michigan finished runner-up at the 2010 Big Ten Cross Country Championships and 22nd at the NCAA Championships during the cross country campaign.
Staying in Washtenaw County -- The Wolverines stay close to home for the first few weeks of the 2011 season, as the season kicked off down the road at Eastern Michigan last weekend. First up at the U-M Indoor Track Building is this weekend's dual meet against Ohio State. The women will then team up with the men to host the annual Simmons-Harvey Invitational on Jan. 22. The Wolverines will then head to Indiana University for the Indiana Relays, Jan. 28-29, in their first real road trip of the season.
Same Name -- The Wolverines have three sets of sisters on the 2011 team in addition to three other sets of same last names. Sisters Andrea Marcos (Farmington Hills, Mich./North Farmington) and Erica Marcos (Farmington Hills, Mich./North Farmington) both compete in pole vault; Emily Pendleton (Lindsey, Ohio/Woodmore) and Erin Pendleton both throw; and Chloe Prince (Okemos, Mich./Okemos) and Nicole Prince (Okemos, Mich./Okemos) both run mid-distance for the Wolverines. In addition, Alicia Patterson (DeWitt, Mich./DeWitt) and Kaitlyn Patterson (Cadillac, Mich./Cadillac), Amber Smith (Cleveland, Ohio/Collinwood) and Jillian Smith and Alexandria Williams (Wallingford, Pa./Strath Haven) and Brittani Williams (Detroit, Mich./Jackson) all share last names but are not related.
Qualifying Standards for NCAA Championships -- For the first time, provisional standards are no longer part of the qualifying process. Championship fields will first be filled with those who declare for their events with automatic status. Then, the remainder of the field will be filled by the highest-remaining ranked performances. [ Indoor Qualifying Standards ]
Michigan women's track and field is now on Twitter. Sign up and follow the Wolverines (Michigan_track) with up-to-the-minute news and information throughout the season and beyond. Twitter is a free casual, online social network that is designed to connect businesses, organizations and individuals. Each Twitter post (or "tweet") can be received on a user's cell phone via text or on the web.
Michigan women's track and field is also on Facebook. Connect with the program, alumni and fans by clicking the "Like" button at facebook.com/michiganwomenstrack. Facebook is a social network service and website with more than 500 million active users.
Saturday, Jan. 22 -- host Simmons-Harvey Invitational (U-M Indoor Track Building), 10 a.m.
Fri-Sat., Jan. 28-29 - at Indiana Relays (Bloomington, Ind.), 5 p.m.


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Opening remarks:
"Obviously we're very disappointed in the outcome of the ballgame. It was a tough loss. I thought that our football team was very well prepared. I thought that the way we started the game was the way we had practiced for the last 10 days, the efficiency, the effectiveness, the things that we were doing, both offensively and defensively and special teams.
"I thought our kids gave a great effort. I hate the way that it ended. The struggles that we had in the second half were not things that we were not anticipating - we talked all week long about Christian Ponder, how good of an athlete he was, his ability to throw the football - I guess he completed his last 16 passes n a row at the end of he ball game.
"The heartbreaking things sometimes are the things that you do to yourself, the penalties we incurred on some of the special teams that allowed our offense to have to start backed up. It's one of the worst things that can happen on kickoff returns is to get blocks in the back and holds and all of a sudden you're at the 10, now you're 90 yards away. The big pass play was another backbreaking thing.
"You give up a 98-yard pass play that probably is not going to happen if they've got to go 98 yards. We've got them in perfect position, backed up, we need to get a three-and-out and we're going to get the ball inside the 50 and we're doing some good things."
"It was disappointing. I'm proud of our kids' effort. We've just got to bounce back and we've got to continue to build on the things that we did good tonight and continue to grow as a young football team and try to get better for the next one.
On the lack of composure down the stretch:
"You never like to blame injuries for anything about the way that you played, but some things that we were able to do in the first half, we were not able to do ... Jordan Hemby got knocked out, now you lose your nickel and your dime package. Bruce Carter got nicked up and he wasn't able to play so some of the other packages that you've got and so all of a sudden new guys are thrust into roles that they haven't played very much, whether they kind of lose a little big of composure on the big stage and didn't play as well as we needed them to ...
"A lot of things that you go through as a football program, you can't script this. You've got to go through games like the Notre Dame game where you win at the end of the game, you've got to go through the Connecticut game where you win at the end.
"A lot of these lessons that you learn are bitter, they're painful, they're not fun to go through, but sometimes you have to go through.
On Florida State's second half play:
"They really didn't change. They ran the same things that they were running in the first half. They might have made a few adjustments but it was still basically the same offense. They just came out, and they knew they couldn't run the ball so they started passing the ball and finding gaps in the secondary."
On playing the national Thursday night game:
"We looked at this game as though it could have been the turning point in our season. But we lost, and we're not going to let this ruin our season. It's one loss. We're going to look at the tape and try to learn from it. We're just going to move on and just learn from the game."
On being 0-3 in the ACC and the remainder of the season:
"It's either you stand up to the challenge or you back down. I definitely know that me and my teammates are going to stand up to the challenge. I refuse to lose. I hate losing. Everybody hates losing. But I will never let anybody on this team quit and I definitely am looking ready to next week."
On the loss:
"The defense did a great job in the first half. We've just got to play four quarters. We let this one slip away."
On dealing with the loss:
"We've just got to keep fighting. We've got a tough game next week against a great opponent. We've just got to get back in here and get back to work."
Can you turn this into a positive?
"Always. We can build on it. Looking at it offensively, we played good. We moved the ball like we knew we could. Things that you can learn from a loss are just like the things that you can learn from a win."
On not capitalizing down the stretch:
"You've just got to finish. That's all it comes down to."


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Study Abroad Program
The Study Abroad Program champions the OBU Mission Statement which says "As a Christian liberal arts university, OBU transforms lives by equipping students to pursue academic excellence, integrate faith with all areas of knowledge, engage a diverse world, and live worthy of the high calling of God in Christ." There is no better way to accomplish each element of the OBU Mission Statement at the undergraduate level than to study abroad.
The importance of travel and study abroad is widely recognized, and recent studies indicate employers look for graduates who have international study experience. Statistically, graduates who have traveled internationally and studied abroad possess a broader perspective, a sense of direction and greater flexibility than those who have not.
In addition to enhancing career opportunities, studying abroad contributes to personal growth enabling students to develop intellectually, absorb varying cultures and adapt to international differences.
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Discussion in 'Fable' started by Nacthenud, Oct 23, 2008.
I've been looking for a fable similar to this :
Can someone here help, or? I'm horrible at this.
Well, it happened......
I finally joined the PC Master Race.......bow down to me you lowly wenches!
pfft. lame.
j/k - grats on the PC.
I just started Strider on PS4. Fun, fun, fun.
Thanks, having a blast with modding Skyrim!
My current favourite mod:
That is a great mod.
Played a bit more Strider. Still fun. You have to like that old-school style of game though.
I was wondering about the new Strider; good to hear it's old school still.
It's a combination old-school Strider mixed with metroidvania progression and exploration. More than anything it just "feels" good to play.
Tooting my own horn: Vesti Community Spotlight.
Also, I "beat" Fallout 3 night before last. I hate games that make you go to a previous save after you beat the game. There's still a ton of things for me to do, so now I have to do them with the main story line just sidelined. It's annoying.
'grats on both counts Serti.
It kinda sucks, cause now I don't know what game to play.
How about Kingdoms of Amalur? That seems up your alley.
I didn't really like it. In theory it had most everything I like in a game, but it just didn't do it for me. I really disliked how it was a walled game. It pretended to be open world, but it was all corridors.
EDIT: I found Fable III last night, maybe I should replay that.
I only ever got a couple hours into Fable III and then got distracted by other shinies...
I think I liked it. But I don't really remember anymore.
I just got two tickets to Mexico.
That's cool, haha impromptu vacation?
No, my friend is getting married in June about 20 miles from Cancun. I've been to Mexico, I used to live a 5 minute walk from Los Algodones. But I've never been past there. I'm gonna spend 10 days in the Yucatan.
I would tell you my thoughts on destination weddings, but we've done that conversation. 'grats on getting the tickets. Must make the excitement all the more real.
Indeed. And I'm still super excited to go to Mexico for the first time. This will mark off a bucket list thing, too. Win/win.
Doesn't marking off bucket list things just mean you have less reason to live?
Nah, there's still plenty on the list. And I can do each list thing more than once, and get bonus points I get to spend in the after life.
Oh. Nobody told me about the bonus points system... I'm woefully behind then...
It depends on your religion, I'm sure. I'm a pantheist agnostic that believes in reincarnation. So when I die, I get to kick it around Valhalla for a bit, then when I want to I can put my points towards a new life. Points are given for difficulty in previous lives, and amount achieved. So like, if you're low on points, you can chose to have a difficult life, but if you have enough points you can be a Kardashian.
Is there an eventual "win" state?
Well, you can choose to stay in the after life. But eternity is a really long time.
I miss playing video games... been over a week now.
Stupid tax season.
I forget it's still tax season, as I got mine done like a month ago.
yeah, I'll be smoked until the end of April.
Going to Vegas with my wife in May though.
Whooo, that's exciting! Been there before?
We went there on our honeymoon. This time a group of her family (parents, cousins, aunts & uncles) are all going, so it will be a very different experience this time.
I've never really gotten the allure of Vegas, but I know a lot of people love it.
I didn't expect to like Vegas. I don't drink and I don't really enjoy gambling, so I figured it would be pretty "meh", but then I actually had a great time. Just wandering through the hotels on the main strip is entertaining enough with lots to see. We also attended a screening of a new TV show (for free), went for a gondola ride, took in a Cirque de Solei show, had a super-fancy dinner, awesome buffets everywhere, went to Star Trek: The Experience, etc, etc.
So I got super-sick Monday evening. Fever of 104. Slept through all but 5 hours of yesterday. Now I'm in my office feeling crappy, but at least getting some work done. Looking forward to going back to bed tonight...
Well, I guess that all makes sense. I just don't think I'd like all the stupid drunk people. And I can be a stupid drunk person, so that's saying a lot. Shows and stuff would be fun, probably, though.
Oh noes! I hope you feel better soon.
Star Trek is back in Vegas? I've always wanted to attend that!
No. Sorry to get your hopes up. I was listing things I did when I went to Vegas on my honeymoon. That was a while ago now. We're not newly-weds.
Le bamp.
Went to a live theater thing tonight. One of my coworkers was Harry in Company. It was way funnier than I was expecting. I thought it was gonna be boring, but I actually enjoyed myself.
So far, I've always been pleasantly surprised with the live productions I've been to. There was one that was a bit too artsy, but plenty more entertaining ones!
I've only been to two, and one of them was through grade school and it was awful.
Well, yeah, grade school productions aren't going to hold a candle to a professional show.
It's kind of like going to a grade 8 band concert versus going to a symphony orchestra.
No, it wasn't grade schoolers, it was a field trip when I was in grade school.
I remember seeing the Nutcracker ballet when I was a kid; our teacher took us to it for a school trip. At the time, I didn't think much of it lol
Hey here's something new, a Hercules trailer with the Rock lol
Looks fun enough, cheesy but fun haha
Then there's this!
wtf is that?
The new Michael Bay Ninja Turtles trailer came out, and someone made this little image based on it haha. Mikey kinda looked like Shrek


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2014 Gulf Coast Showcase Official Bracket Released
By: Joey Daniels (GBJoeyD)
GREEN BAY, Wis. (GreenBayPhoenix.com) – Playing in one of this year's premier preseason tournaments, the Green Bay women's basketball team will be one of the first teams to take the court after the 2014 Gulf Coast Showcase bracket was officially released on Friday.
To view the official bracket with dates and times click here.
The field is loaded with strong women's basketball programs from across the country, including undefeated and 2014 National Champion Connecticut. The Phoenix will play Georgia Tech in the opening game of the tournament, which will be followed by Arizona State against Villanova. The other half of the bracket features Vanderbilt versus Minnesota and UConn versus College of Charleston.
The three-day event will be played in Germain Arena, located in Fort Meyers, Fla., and will run Nov. 28-30. The Phoenix will play the first game of this year's tournament against the Yellow Jackets at 11 a.m. CT on Friday, Nov. 28. Each team will play a total of three games in a bracket format.
Green Bay will face Georgia Tech in a preseason tournament for the second time in four years, having beaten the Yellow Jackets in 2011 as part of the San Juan Shootout. Both teams were ranked in that game, with the Phoenix checking in at No. 18 and Tech at No. 25.
This year will mark the first time the Phoenix will play in the state of Florida since 2008 when they traveled to Miami to face FIU and Miami. Green Bay won both games in the Sunshine State that year.
First round matchups:
11 a.m. CT – Green Bay vs. Georgia Tech
1:30 p.m. CT – Arizona State vs. Villanova
5 p.m. CT – Vanderbilt vs. Minnesota
7:30 p.m. CT – Connecticut vs. College of Charleston
Game times for Saturday and Sunday will be the same with semifinal games on Nov. 29 at 6/8:30. Sunday's championship game will tip at 7:30 p.m. CT.
For more information on the event and to purchase tickets, fans are encouraged to visit www.gulfcoastshowcase.com and follow on Twitter at @GCShowcase.
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Furnace won't Fire by itself
I'm new to this service --have read a lot of threads on this subject, but my furnace problem is a little different. I have a HEIL updraft (LP Gas) furnace that goes through the pilot light sequence OK, but won't fire off byitself. Serviceman replace the pilot light AND the gas valve, but no success.
I now find that, removing the sight plate in front of the burners, then waiting for thepilot light to come on, THEN slamming the plate back onto its opening seems to cause some pressure in the flame chamber, and it will start. Almost like some kind of pressure, (or lack thereof), problem.
Service guy is stumped. My wife promises to keep me in beer if I sleep by the furnace through the night and keep the house heated.
Any suggestions?
Call the service guy back, have him return your payment, reinstall your old parts and get a new company to come out and fix the problem.
Furnace won't fire by itself
Thanks for all that help. Is that a Union-sanctioned tip that you answer every question with?
Thanks for all that help. Is that a Union-sanctioned tip that you answer every question with?
:laughing: lol
Solved it myself by going through the process entitled "Instructions For The Homeowner" on page 15 of Honeywell'sManual for their SmartValve, available on the internet. Probably I should have done this in the first place and saved me some dough--Oh well, I got a new valve outof it.
You may not have wanted to hear it but you know that DVR was right if you were paying for it. The service tech is suppose to know more than the HO. Keep that in mind when it goes off warranty and definitely don't call that guy back. If you call him you'll end up replacing your whole furnace part by part.
jogr--thanks--I really shouldn't have "chastised" DVR for giving me the standard Union response. He may have been right in the long run. I appreciate the responses I got from everyone. Now that my furnace is working again, you may never hear from me again--until something else goes wrong. This DIY service is something, isn't it!!!
2) If he was any good he would have fixed it, ie: time for a different pro.
3) The Union would never sanction giving a HO advice to work on an appliance that could in all probability be turned into a house leveling bomb.
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Why does Collard keep his position and the penalty is carried forward for a tap and pass,but Shedden gets a 4 second penalty for nudge to pass Jackson?
Not sure how Jordan thinks he will get away with pushing Gio.


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It said that software giant Computer Associates, plus Questar and Leggett & Platt, have paid it to use code that SCO claims has been illegally included in Linux.
The US firm has also taken legal action against DaimlerChrysler for its use of the open source operating system.
The legal action against the car maker is the second suit launched against companies using the popular software.
Legal battles
The news caps a busy week for SCO during which it announced that car parts firm AutoZone was the first end user to be sued.
Technology news site CNet revealed that early versions of SCO documents showed that it was originally planning to sue the Bank of America.
This week also saw EV1 Servers become the first firm to go public with the news that it had paid SCO to use some of its intellectual property.
SCO claims that computer code it owns has been illegally included in recent versions of the Linux operating system.
It started a $5bn lawsuit against IBM accusing the computer giant of putting this code into Linux.
This week a US Judge ordered both IBM and SCO to disclose more information about the disputed code.
The payments by the four companies are widely being seen as insurance policies to head off the threat of legal action later on.
Computer Associates said its payment was made as a settlement with another company and was not made as a result of SCO's licencing program.
It added that it did not approve of SCO's methods.
SCO is seeking payments from those running Linux for use of this disputed code.
Financial results announced by SCO this week show how the legal action is affecting its bottom line.
During the quarter ending on 31 January SCO lost $2.25m. During the same period last year it lost only $724,000.
Much of the loss was blamed on the legal costs.
By contrast SCO has only won $20,000 in licence payments for its disputed intellectual property.
Code questions
Many people in the open source movement dispute SCO's ownership of the code in question.
The fact that SCO has declined to make public which parts of Linux it claims to own has fuelled scepticism in the open source movement.
Those who oversee the kernel, or core, of Linux have offered to remove any parts of it that have been illegally included. But, so far, SCO has not taken up this offer.
Doubts about SCO's claims have also been raised by websites that specialise in the history of Unix and other operating systems.
They have dissected some of the components SCO is known to be claiming as its own, showing where they came from and how widely they are used.
SCO is being forced to go to court to defend its claim on this computer code.
In an ironic twist to the whole saga, server monitoring firm Netcraft has revealed that the US District Court in Nevada, where SCO filed its lawsuit against Autozone, uses Linux software to run its web server.
Questions were also raised about Microsoft's involvement in the saga.
Open source guru Eric Raymond revealed an e-mail which he claimed showed Microsoft was investing in SCO.
SCO disputed the claim and said the consultant who wrote the message was mistaken about Microsoft's involvement with SCO.


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CBS Sunday announced it will move the Nov. 5 SEC showdown of No. 1 LSU vs. No. 2 Alabama from an afternoon game to primetime to air at 8:00 p.m. ET.
The scheduling resulted from a deal between CBS and ESPN that also had this ripple effect: Army-Air Force, which had been scheduled for NBC's Versus cable channel, will now fill the Nov. 5 time slot that had been scheduled for LSU-Alabama. And now Versus, on Nov. 19, will get Colorado St.-TCU from the CBS Sports Network cable channel.
CBS' SEC TV deal allows it to air one game each season in primetime, and it picks that game before the season begins. It's already aired one primetime game -- Alabama-Florida -- but managed to get LSU-Alabama moved through what CBS programmer Mike Aresco says was "a trade" with ESPN, which has an SEC Saturday primetime TV deal. CBS generally gets the first pick in terms of SEC TV assignments.
Aresco declined to say exactly what the deal involved. On what ESPN got out of CBS in the deal, spokesman Mike Soltys says: "What we got in return was future scheduling considerations for next season."
Reid Cherner has been with USA TODAY since 1982 and written Game On! since March 2008.
He has covered everything from high schools to horse racing to the college and the pros. The only thing he likes more than his own voice is the sound of readers telling him when he's right and wrong.
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Most people would start to grow significant strands of white hair during their 30s and 40s. It embarrasses them but they can no longer ignore the problem. Many people start to dye their hair but that is not a lasting solution. Although there is no harm in getting your hair dyed, but there is nothing like naturally flawless black hair.
There is no way to reverse natural greying of hair as it depends on genetic factors, but you can prevent premature greying (hair becoming white) by following the tips given below:
#Walk early morning on wet grass bare foot.
#Use of Avla – Make a paste of Avla in water and apply to the hair. Let it rest for 1 to 2 hours and then rinse. Distinctly thickened and blackened texture of the hair would be visible after rinsing. You can also use Avla hair oil for massaging your hair.
#Fresh juices – Have fresh vegetables or their juices. The juices include carrot, lettuce, alfalfa and the like. These provide energy and vitality to your body while the drinks such as refined sugars, soft drinks, white flours and pastries.
#Indian gooseberry – Have as much of this fruit as possible. It is known to be a tonic for preventing white hair. You can also make a lotion with Indian gooseberry, lemon slices and coconut oil. Massage your scalp thrice a week and leave for an hour.
#Bhringraj oil - Use this oil to massage your hair. Consult with an Ayurvedic practitioner to know more about anti-pitta herbs as they help in preventing greying of hair.
#Fruit juices and honey – Apart from Avla, honey, brahmi, Shankhpushpi, Vacha and brahmi ghrutam are known Ayurvedic treatments for preventing white hairs.
#Black tea -Take black tea (without milk and sugar) and massage it on the roots of the hair. Leave it for 1 hour and then wash it.
#Shun unhealthy habits – Abuse of alcohol, prescription drugs and smoking have been linked to inhibition in hair growth.
#Try a home remedy - A home remedy for darkening gray hair involves making a weekly poultice. It is made from henna powder, coffee, yogurt, fenugreek, mint juice and basil juice. You need to apply for 3 hours before rinsing with a shampoo.
#Curry leaves – Boil curry leaves in coconut oil and apply the mixture on your hair. It is a good treatment to prevent formation of white hairs.
#Coconut oil with lemon – A traditional method of preventing white hair formation is mixing coconut with lemon or almond oil and massaging of scalp.
#Eat fish and other seafood (they contain iodine) which is required for melanin production.
#Relax -Excess stress can exacerbate premature gray and white hair. Avoid taking on more than you can handle. Employ breathing exercises and meditation techniques to promote feelings of relaxation and calm in your life.
#Take Vitamin B12 supplements. Vitamin B12 deficiency sometimes causes premature gray or white hair. You can find Vitamin B12 naturally occurring in meat, dairy products and eggs


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State Synergies and Disease Surveillance: Creating an Electronic Health Data Communication Model for Cancer Reporting and Comparative Effectiveness Research in Kentucky
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health information technology, disease surveillance, comparative effectiveness research
Purpose: This case study describes the collaboration between a state public health department, a major research university, and a health extension service funded as part of the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act to establish an interoperable health information system for disease surveillance through electronic reporting of systemic therapy data from numerous oncology practices in Kentucky. The experience of the Kentucky cancer surveillance system can help local and state entities achieve greater effectiveness in designing communication efforts to increase usage of electronic health records (EHRs) and health information exchanges (HIEs), help eligible clinicians meet these new standards in patient care, and conduct disease surveillance in a learning health system.
Innovation: We document and assess the statewide efforts of early health information technology (HIT) adopters in Kentucky to facilitate the nation's first electronic transmission of a clinical document architecture (CDA) from a physician office to a state cancer surveillance registry in November 2012. Successful transmission of the CDA not only represented a landmark for technology innovators, informaticists, and clinicians, but it also set in motion a new communication mechanism by which state and federal agencies can capture and trade vital cancer statistics in a way that is safe, secure, and timely. The corresponding impact this has on cancer surveillance and comparative effective research is immense. With guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Kentucky Cancer Registry (KCR), the Kentucky Health Information Exchange (KHIE), and the Kentucky Regional Extension Center (KREC) have moved one step further in transforming the interoperable health environment for improved disease surveillance.
Credibility: This case study describes the efforts of established and reputable agencies, including the KCR, the state department of health, state and federal governmental agencies, and a major research university in leveraging existing networks, infrastructure, and federally awarded funding to implement interoperable health information systems for disease surveillance. Project assessment through quasi-qualitative interviews with key stakeholders facilitated evaluation of attitudes and beliefs for continued use of the cancer surveillance model.
Conclusion and Discussion: In Kentucky, the cancer reporting initiative leveraged and enhanced a solid foundation for statewide collaboration to achieve better health and improved disease surveillance through a learning health system. Leveraging the Meaningful Use (MU) program as an overarching policy and structural driver is imperative. The cancer reporting initiative in Kentucky suggests that future surveillance and reporting initiatives will require locally adaptable solutions and that there is a need for increased technical assistance in rural settings. Kentucky's experience also indicates that stakeholders should be diligent in identifying state-level criteria that align with MU for vetting EHR vendors.
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Reams, Christopher; Powell, Mallory; and Edwards, Rob
"State Synergies and Disease Surveillance: Creating an Electronic Health Data Communication Model for Cancer Reporting and Comparative Effectiveness Research in Kentucky,"
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This guide (PDF, 4 pages) by the National Gang Center and Institute for Intergovernmental Research provides law enforcement with an overview of the OJJDP Comprehensive
NGC has published a Spanish version of the Parents' Guide to Gangs.
NGC has published a Spanish version of the Parents' Guide to Gangs. This resource is designed to provide parents with answers to common questions about gangs and to help them recognize and prevent gang involvement.
The National Gang Center published an updated version of the "Parents' Guide to Gangs."
"The key is to be positive and do positive things ... It's hard at the beginning, but if you have people trying to help you and show you tools … then it's worth a try and you won't regret it."
OJJDP, BJA, and the National Gang Center developed "Why Youth Join Gangs," an online video that features (a) gang researchers and practitioners providing their perspectives on gang joining and (b) youth sharing their gang experiences. The video highlights risk factors that may play a role in a youth's decision to join a gang and behaviors that might be observed when interacting with youth at high risk of joining a gang.
This brief from the Bureau of Justice Statistics discusses national crime rates, violent assaults, and the percentage in which a gang or gang member was identified as the perpetrator. Rates of gang violence are given by gender, race, and age.
These reports from the Federal Bureau of Investigation summarize arrest data from police agencies across the country, from 1995 to the present day. Topics covered include crime in the U.S., hate crime, and law enforcement officers killed and assaulted
This National Youth Gang Center bulletin gives a comprehensive discussion on the effects of gangs within communities and the lifelong effects of this problem. Factors taken into account include demographics of a community, and the impacts gang activity can have on the economic and physical climate of an affected area.
This strategic planning tool developed by the OJJDP helps communities assess the severity of their gang problems and plan their responses. The tools provided include: a community resource inventory to record community assets such as programs and services; planning and implementation questions to help assess what prevention and intervention programs match with their needs; descriptions of risk factors categorized by age and domain (individual, family, etc.); and a program matrix that lists appropriate programs and their descriptions.
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Although his name was somewhat under the radar with most college coaches 2014 safety/wide receiver Zykiesis Cannon's numbers and film are starting to open a lot of eyes. The Carolina High standout was the state's leader with receiving touchdowns and interceptions last season and he's fresh off a visit with the South Carolina Gamecocks. The junior prospect talked with SCPrepNation.com all about it.
"I went down to Columbia for the Junior Day this weekend. I got to meet Coach Spurrier and the athletic director Ray Tanner. I also had position meeetings with coach Lorenzo Ward and got to talk with the defensive backs coach Brown a lot. It went really good!"
So what did Brown have to say to the 2014 prospect?
"He said they probably will be recruiting three defensive backs and that they really like me. He gave me a couple of pointers on my technique because he said he watched my tape twice."
Cannon's trip to Columbia was the second school he's visited as he's previously traveled to check out UNC-Charlotte. Other schools have made their interest known as of late for the play maker from Greenville County too apparently.
"Louisville just started recruiting me. I am going to their Junior Day on February 23rd. I'm also going to visit Clemson on March 2nd."
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The stock market has recently tested any investor attempting to be patient for a reasonable valuation. While conventional financial wisdom holds that you should usually wait until a stock's valuation is fair (or even a bargain), investors ignoring that advice have been enjoying the most glorious success recently. The Motley Fool's own real money Rule Breaker portfolio, one of the most successful portfolios I've ever seen with an annualized return of 81% since its 1994 inception, has as one of its investing criteria that "a significant constituent of the financial media is recently on record for calling [the proposed stock] overvalued." (The portfolio only recommends this disregard for valuation in stocks that fit its other criteria, which means first-mover companies in emerging industries with strong backing and management.)
While investors shunning valuation measures have been using their profits to buy new cars and houses, investors holding stocks with understandable valuations have generally seen returns well below the S&P 500. Over the past year many of the Internet stocks have soared over 1,000%. Major technology and communication stocks, such as Dell Computer (Nasdaq: DELL), Sun Microsystems (Nasdaq: SUNW), and MCI Worldcom (Nasdaq: WCOM) are up 90%-175% over the past year. While there was a very brief period in the fall where these stocks were beaten down, most of the securities appear to be solely on an upward trajectory. On the other hand, smaller-cap stocks in the Russell 2000 index, about which many traditional value people are swooning, have returned zilch this year after being down 2% last year.
The urge to jump on board a rising ship is strong. When something starts moving and keeps going up, it is understandable to want a piece of the action. Nonetheless, long-term investors will usually benefit from showing restraint. While excellent companies (at least those that are not crazily priced) invariably see their stock price increase over periods of twenty or more years, history is littered with quality companies that hit roadblocks at some point. These bumps occur for myriad reasons, such as investor concern about future performance, temporary company missteps, a weak macroeconomic environment, or other negative surprises. Once you've found a company with terrific long-term prospects, these periods tend to be the best time to step up to bat and throw the stock into your portfolio.
This investing perspective is probably related to when I came of age as an investor. While I have been following the markets closely since the mid-1980s, I graduated from college and actually started making money in 1993. The summer of 1993 was interesting, because a lot of great companies were in serious trouble. At that time, you could buy wonderful companies like Merck (NYSE: MRK), Nike (NYSE: NKE), and IBM (NYSE: IBM) at substantial discounts to their historical valuations. All of them had severe short-term problems, yet each proved to be superb investments.
In the summer of 1993, IBM recorded one of the biggest losses in corporate history, thanks to a one-time restructuring charge of $8 billion. Excluding that hit, the company still posted an operating loss and revenue was down from the prior year. Beyond financial problems, Louis Gerstner had just joined the company as CEO and was implementing a complete overhaul of IBM's strategy and corporate culture. The stock traded as low as $20, down from nearly $70 in early 1991 (all prices adjusted for subsequent splits). Right now, almost six years later, those efforts have proven fruitful and IBM is up over eight-fold from the depths of 1993.
Merck's stock, along with those of all the major pharmaceutical makers, was depressed in the summer of 1993 over fear of the universal health care initiates proposed by newly elected president Bill Clinton. Had these proposals been enacted, investors feared that profit margins of the drug makers would have been squeezed. While the companies were expected to continue showing profit growth, the dizzying expectations priced into the stocks didn't appear likely to be met. Merck stock hit a low of $14 5/16 in the summer of 1993, down from $28 in early 1992. Today, with plans for universal coverage just a memory, the company is again enjoying solid profit growth and its stock is selling for more than five times the 1993 nadir.
The summer of 1993 was also an active time for Nike -- shareholders were running for the doors, dumping the company's stock. The company had warned that it wouldn't meet earnings estimates and the outlook for the next year was downbeat, with economic problems in Europe and a slowdown in U.S. sales being blamed. Its stock fell to $10 13/16 from a peak of $22 9/16 in December 1992. Six years later (and after another scare over the past couple of years), Nike is on the rebound, trading at over five times its 1993 low.
Having seen the melee surrounding these stalwart stocks in the early 1990s, I feel that just about every company is susceptible to being knocked at some point. Sometimes the problems will be caused by company screw-ups, at other times they will emerge from Capitol Hill. Our friends on Wall Street, ever vigilant about short-term performance, also regularly raise concerns about the next quarter that have little bearing on a company's long-term fundamentals. When these situations occur, I become more enthusiastic about putting my money into high-quality companies.
You usually don't have to rush in and scoop up companies trading at attractive valuations (the dip last fall being a major exception). IBM and Merck both fell for two and a half years from their peaks to troughs. Nike's fall was more rapid, lasting for over a year from its high in 1992 to its low in 1993. You can generally take your time evaluating the company's business model, financial structure and reputation before investing your money.
Paying prices that assume perfect execution in both the near-term and hereafter doesn't make a lot of sense to me. While investors who got into the above-mentioned stocks at their pre-crisis peaks did fine if they bought and held through the decade, I find it preferable to invest my dollars when investors are overly pessimistic about a stock rather than overly optimistic. Such an attitude will keep you out of the highest-flying stocks, yet you will be saved from experiencing the negative impact of a turn in investor sentiment (which will happen at some point).
If you can't resist the urge to be where the action is, you can always allocate a portion of your portfolio (that you don't and won't need) into "crazy money." Invest those dollars into "story" stocks where the financials don't make any sense but the story sounds great. You'll often lose most, if not all, of your investment in these stocks, but every once in a while you'll hop in on an America Online (NYSE: AOL) or Amazon.com (Nasdaq: AMZN) and earn phenomenal returns. Having just a little exposure to these kinds of stocks should make it easier to stick to a long-term value strategy while adding a little pizzazz to the investing process.
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Don Giovanni
First performed in Prague in 1787, Mozart's Don Giovanni (Italian for Don Juan) is the story of a notorious womanizer who destroys marriages, uses and dumps the women he gets to go to bed with him and kills the father of a woman he is trying to seduce. This being an opera of its time, Mozart and librettist Lorenzo da Ponte get away with discussing all this by having Don Giovanni receive his due reward by the end in majestic operatic fashion (a statue that comes alive, no less!).
Baritone Adrian Erod of Austria, who is making both his U.S. and role debuts with this production by the Houston Grand Opera, sings the lead role. He says that even though he gets dragged down to the bowels of hell at the end, it's a fun role. And, he points out quickly, ''The Commendatore is not a good guy either.'' The second of three operas (The Marriage of Figaro and Cosi Fan Tutte bookend Don Giovanni), this work is far from the first or last to deal with the legendary lecher who thinks of no one but himself. ''Giovanni is more than a character. He's like a symbol. Everyone who comes and sees the opera has another picture already of what Don Giovanni means to him,'' says Erod, who has been performing mostly in Europe and Japan while doing a lot of Mozart, Rossini and Britten.
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/// Idol Return Delivers Lackluster Ratings
Season 12 of American Idol got off to a somewhat iffy start as the two-hour premiere failed to live up to last year's debut. According to Nielsen fast-national data, the season opener averaged 17.9 million total viewers, down 4 million or 18 percent versus the 2012 premiere . The new-look Idol—Mariah Carey, Nikki Minaj and Keith Urban have stepped in for the departed Jennifer Lopez and Steven Tyler—absorbed an even bigger body blow in the target demo, averaging a 6.0 rating among adults 18-49, down 19 percent from the year-ago 7.4. Idol peaked in the 8:30 p.m. half-hour, averaging a 6.8 in the demo. Fox needs Idol to do a lot of heavy lifting this season if it's to have a shot at returning to prominence in the demo. After sixteen weeks of the 2012-2013 broadcast television season (through Sunday, Jan. 13, 2013), Fox is in third place with a 2.4, down 20 percent from last season. The network is also in fourth place among total viewers. Along with its recent ratings difficulties, Idol has grayed considerably since it premiered in 2002. In its inaugural run, the series boasted a median age of 31.9 years; last season's 50.7 marked a 59 percent increase from Season 1. Media buyers estimate that the average cost of a 30-second spot on Idol's Wednesday broadcasts is around $350,000, down 30 percent from a unit cost of $500,000 in the most recent cycle. Thursday's results show is a bit cheaper ($300,000). Sunday Night Football boasts the steepest sticker price in prime time; a :30 ran around $535,000 during the 2012 NFL campaign. Last year's Wednesday night show averaged 18.1 million viewers and a 5.4 in the demo
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Here's a quick "micropoint" conversation on Moore to the Point audio about starting an adoption fund in your church. Right after I finished speaking to the Naomi's Fund group at Southeast Christian Church here in Louisville, I stepped into the hall for a quick conversation with the founders Andy and Julie Gould.
After Andy and Julie lost their daughter at birth, they were led to start a fund to empower adoption. Hear from them some recommendations on how to use a fund like this.


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