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Hi! I'm new to these boards and would love to share in some collective wisdom. Educating our kid has become quite an adventure!
So my husband and I moved mountains and upset our current provider to get my 3 year old DD into a great part time program . Max 4 kids, totally project and child driven environment with this AMAZING teacher. Little did we know that she's incredibly radical politically and ultra crunchy. We thought it would be fine...
Well, on the first day it seems we did a lot of very bad things by just walking through the door. Literally. No marked entrance or exit, so DD and DH were instructed to go back out and in correctly. In the rain. Okaley Dokaley. The doors are within 2 feet of each other.
I totally get the ban on toys and no shoes on. An action figure was found inside a shoe in her back pack . But the teacher searched my Kid's back pack and sent my DH away with anything she didn't like.
The instructor also disallowed my Kid's backpack and sippy cup, too, and sent it back with him.So this is where I am stumped. This is a part-day program, and some days my DH drops off and I pick up, because we have staggered work hours- sometimes it'll be vice versa. Well, we go places and do things afterwards. So, if she isn't allowed a back pack or sippy, how do we make sure she has what she needs for the rest of the day?
She uses a regular cup, but she needs a sippy for rides in the car. Same for the change of clothes, extra sweater, shoes, lunch, etc. She may not need all that stuff while there, but will need it for later in the day after she leaves. If it stays in her cubby, I don't see what the issue is.
As much as I want to be cooperative, my head is swimming at the logistics of taking my kid from place to place and not being able to pack a back pack for her for the entire day. I can't figure out how to be prepared for other activities like swimming, gymnastics, care provider and play dates then nothing for new place). That on top of lunch,
My DH takes public transit and parks his car in a lot, so we can't have stuff hanging out the cars. There are times my DH and I tag team so he might pick up or I as well as drop off depending on work and other responsibilities. So having proper stuff on hand would be a huge pain if she isn't allowed a back pack.
How do you all do it? I had no idea there was anything "wrong" per se about a back pack or
sippy? I carry a water bottle and roll laptop bag with alot of stuff and doing so has served me well. Tips?
Have you had a discussion with her about the need to send this stuff in her backpack. What exactly is her objection to the backpack and sippy? Can she offer alternatives which help you and she can live with?
The backpack thing is weird!!....I would discuss your individual concerns. Maybe you can store a bag in the office or another area for the sole purpose of you and DH needs rather than for preschool. I cant see how that would be a big deal.
The teacher may not want to have the back pack in the cubby if other students arent allowed due to rules, but if you kept a bag in another location (ask her where!) for the specific reasons you stated I cant imagine why it would be a concern.
If you dont bring in a backpack- how do your kids take things back/forth to school?? We (I work at a preschool) send all sorts of art and papers home. A backpack is essential for keeping it all together.
Do they not allow a change of clothes?? That again, is odd. We keep a change for all students in their cubbies. Preschoolers have bathroom accidents, get really messy/dirty, spill on themselves, and/or sometimes need to change for various reasons. I cant imagine NOT having extra clothes for each child!
We dont allow toys from home, but if they *do* (and they do) come to school in a backpack- we just leave them in the backpack. No harm. I dont think we ever 'search' a backpack unless we are looking for a change of clothes for a student or they are looking for something specific (glove, etc) and we help them.
The sippy may be a Health Dept. rule. At our preschool- outside/open drinks are not supposed to be brought in unless they are kept in hand (a parent carrying a coffee) for health reasons. Kids drinks/cups are provided at school- special dietary needs are also provided so parents do not have to bring it in ( ex: child that does not drink dairy, school provides soy milk.). Food/drinks kept in cubbies (even stored) can attract mice and other creatures- esp if they accidently spill or leak.
it sounds really strange, my children have been in 2 diffferent preschools and 2 different elementary schools. All were required (including kindergarten) to have a ziplock bag of extra clothes, just in case. This stayed at school for the year so there was no carrying back and forth. All require shoes inside, I think it is a fire regulation. They also all have fire drills as that is mandatory, so i don't see how you could go without shoes. Toys were not allowed and if brought had to stay inside your backpack or cubby. The elementary schools this was a locker outside the classroom, toys only came out at recess. preschool, 1 it was a cubby and a hook outside the classroom, one was a hook and shoe basket inside the classroom. you came in took off your coat, took your indoor shoes out of the basket, if you brought a toy it stayed inside that basket until you left at the end.
Did she happen to look in the backback and see these abjectionable things, or did she purposely go looking for things? If so that is really strange!
I;m not sure why the sippy cup is so objectionable, would a spill proof sports bottle go over better?
I totally see why you need to have those things there, when someone else is doing pick up, I think if they cannot accomodate you they are being really unreasonable.
Once I explained a few things, I could see how relieved she was. DD uses her sippy for on the go water access, but leaves it in her back pack, and yes indeed drinks from regular cups. And yes, she had three pairs of shoes-- athletic shoes, rain boots and slippers ( for the indoor play time since it's a no-indoor-shoe place). And yes, she had a sweater, a puffy coat and a raincoat-- all of which she was going to need in the various places DD was going to be over the course of the day. And yes, she had a HUGE lunch, with GASP, a child sized cliff bar. DD knows to not eat the granola bar until after nap or after pick-up. I showed the teacher the special pouch to put any food in DD's lunch that was not allowed to be eaten until after program.
I made it clear that she needed the back pack and accessories not for the program, but for the rest of the day. She was so relieved to know that my kid is very easy going and not wedded to her "stuff", that bringing in a fully loaded back pack was something she admitted without prompting was a necessity.
Things will go great now that the teacher realizes we aren't going to send DD to school with HoHos and Disney DVDs. My husband and I do not appear to be crunchy types, but are actually pretty much in agreement with her philosophy and style of her program. I made it clear that we wanted feedback and really did not want to interfere with her program because we want our kid to have the magic of what she offers.
And lastly, she understands that we are blessed with a great kid who jumped right in and had a blast doing a project with a little kid who doesn't even speak English! They became pals immediately because DD didn't know Danish and thus, played a lot more collaboratively than the girl who kept telling him no ( neine?). The teacher took all these pictures sequentially and is going to write up the dialogue.
So we're all very excited that DD has the opportunity to blossom in this fabulous learning environment. We decided to go off the grid a bit after witnessing the toll a fake Montessori program ( aka Pre K bootcamp with cool toys) took on her creativity and self-assurance ( "Oh mama, I can't eat that, that's messy food. Teacher says I'm the messy one so I can't use the paint.")
After recovering from the shock of figuring out how bad the program really was, I got her into this wonderful, very cool cutting edge place. And yes, she can be as messy as she wants!
I guess the new teacher needs to realize we are neither commercial nor uptight, and we'll be fine. I think she already knows DD is totally into it!
So we're looking forward to learning more from all the other parents who are embracing emergent learning for their kids .
Glad it all worked out with some open dialogue. When I read the first post, I wondered if "ultra crunchy" was unhappy because the backpack and sippy cup were Disney/t.v. character logo'd items and/or there simply wasn't a lot of room in the cubby area for a lot of "stuff" and she was trying to reduce the clutter.
However, it would be unwise to judge a book by its cover. DD has minimal commercial or media influences. She has at most 1- 1.5 hours of screen time total per week --usually prerecorded Little Bear. The doctor gives out stickers and asked her if she liked Princesses. of course DD said yes. Dr. asked which was her favorite and she said Tinkerbell. D'OH! DD gets stuff with characters on them all the time but she has no idea who they are and what the significance might be. We ignore it and so does she. DD is thrilled to have shoes that blink. She doesn't care about what's on them.
This is why we're watching the teacher squirm and we're smirking to ourselves. We refuse to dress our kid in earth tones like a refugee to satisfy some preconceived ideal of crunchy. It sets off these red flags for the teacher and it totally cracks us up. She was shocked to hear that DD was a home birth baby, that we coslept, that she never had a crib, that she was potty trained looong before she was weaned, etc, etc.... Because my DH looks like a cornfed Ohio boy, I don't have dredlocks and my DD wears pink, sparkly, blinky Princess shoes, then we must be stunting her growth with artificial flavors and colors and raising her on stereotypes and battery operated toys. Not so.
What I like though, is that the teacher is aware of her own thought processes and is trying hard to not stereotype our child. And sure enough, she is falling in love with our little girl. DD is a great little kid.
And what makes it even more funny is the teacher suggested we bring in MORE stuff. For nap time we brought a blanket and that's all. DD doesn't have a blankey or special stuffed animal she needs to have to sleep. She has napped for a year fine without anything extra. Now teacher is saying to bring in a pillow and stuffed animal too . Sure, no prob!
So yeah, we're having an interesting time watching how the conformity trap exists everywhere. But the really cool part is I am seeing how the teacher is actively grappling with it and is able to not be knee jerk about it. If she can continue to be open to and inclusive of my mainstream *** appearing***** kid, she is in for a really neat surprise.
What fun it is for DD to have such a cool role model! Who knows, maybe for DD brown will become the new pink....
I've enjoyed reading this thread. It reminds me of when I was leaving high school and beginning college. I was hanging around with a fairly 'radical' crowd. I have never expressed my individuality through my clothing or hair or makeup. I have plenty of friends who do, and I appreciate it but it's not my thing. If it is comfortable, not worn out or stained, I wear it. LOL Anyway, at that time I ended up looking fairly preppy, traditional. I remember being at a party when this guy gave me a hard time for being such a conformist. I said, 'Dude, look around. Who in this room doesn't look exactly like everyone else." LOL He had to admit I had a point.
That's what makes this situation refreshing. I know DD loves it there and is getting so much from " the laboratory". Yet, the adjustment is so interesting. Teacher is indeed a strange bird, but I am able to communicate with her on a very real and immediate way that puts it all out on the table. We'll see....
I've enjoyed reading this thread. It reminds me of when I was leaving high school and beginning college. I was hanging around with a fairly 'radical' crowd. I have never expressed my individuality through my clothing or hair or makeup. I have plenty of friends who do, and I appreciate it but it's not my thing. If it is comfortable, not worn out or stained, I wear it. LOL Anyway, at that time I ended up looking fairly preppy, traditional. I remember being at a party when this guy gave me a hard time for being such a conformist. I said, 'Dude, look around. Who in this room doesn't look exactly like everyone else." LOL He had to admit I had a point.
ah yes the whole conforming to nonconformity thing.
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With the U.S. launch of Windows Phone 7 devices just around the corner (November 8), early reviews of the new mobile OS from Microsoft (and the hardware it runs on) are starting to emerge. So far, it appears that the product has a real chance to carve out a nice little niche in the budding smartphone market, though there are a few early hiccups.
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- Facebook is deeply integrated into the OS, and is unavoidable, which could irk some. Lack of Twitter integration is puzzling.
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I'll never forget talking to her more than two years ago. She poured out her heart of her unhappy marriage. She had been unhappy for a long time.
Then she said, "No one at my church knows this. We all walk around on Sunday like we're so happy and nothing is wrong."
Why? I mean why do we keep up the masks in the one place we should feel the safest?
When you have hidden pain or secret sins you will drift towards isolation. You will think you are the only one with this pain. You will think you're the only one who struggles with this certain sin.
You know you're not alone! Satan wants us to drift towards isolation. He wants us to retreat. He wants to keep those masks up because he knows when the masks come down, revival can begin!
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Deutsche Bank made loans valued at $50 million and $55 million to Mexicali-based Urbi, according to a complaint filed yesterday in New York State Supreme Court in Manhattan. In April, Urbi didn't make a $3 million payment on the $55 million loan and also failed to pay $1.55 million in interest on the two loans, Deutsche Bank said.
Barclays today sued Culiacan, Mexico-based Homex in the same court for an alleged breach of a swaps and derivatives agreement. Barclays said it incurred losses of 536 million pesos ($44.65 million) as a result of the default. Last week, Credit Suisse Group AG sued Homex, Mexico's biggest homebuilder by revenue, seeking $26.7 million over a canceled derivatives transaction.
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David Aguilar, a spokesman for Urbi, declined to comment on the Deutsche Bank suit, saying in a phone interview that the company hasn't seen the complaint.
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Barclays, in the complaint filed today, claimed Homex failed to make required transfers of $1.7 million to the bank in April as collateral to cover potential losses, triggering the default. London-based Barclays said Homex was obligated to pay 536.6 million pesos for the early termination of the contract.
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Another perfect week on Norwegian!: Norwegian Breakaway Cruise Review by CandDadventures
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Another perfect week on Norwegian!
Destination: Bermuda
Embarkation: New York (Manhattan)
As usual, the staff was great. We did not encounter anyone without a smile. We snorkeled with FantaSea and they were incredible! We toured the caves in St. George's and I can say one is enough - I'd suggest Crystal over the Fantasy cave. We would have done more around the islands, but you can only stuff so much into three days. Granted, this was our fourth visit to the country and we were happy to just relax.
On previous cruises with NCL, we've done upscale dining for most dinners. This time, we were so busy that we ate at the Garden Cafe for just about every meal. We're foodies, but we didn't mind! A tip: The delicious mushroom soup from Le Bistro was spotted on the buffet twice! I'll admit that I had a huge bowl. I also took chicken from food stations and cut it up over a salad.
We did pay extra for the spa. We're private More people and it is nice to just relax. Norwegian blended the male and female relaxation areas here and we liked and disliked that. Still, the spa area was wonderful. The black-tiled steam room (a.k.a. "Steam Room of Death" or the "Steam Coffin") was uncomfortable. It would have also been nice to sit in the hot tub and see the ocean.
One tip: This trip was to be on the cheap for us and we got an inside room. It was fine (as long as you pack lightly) but the worst thing is that we could loudly hear every time anyone along the line flushed the toilet. We hadn't previously experienced that annoyance in balcony rooms or penthouse rooms. I also think the ship could have used one more bank of elevators. At times, the walk to our room seemed lengthy. On the Jewel and Gem, there were fore, mid and aft banks -- Breakaway has just fore and aft.
I enjoyed the room coffee more than what was available on the buffet. This has to be the first time this has ever happened!
My review of the "Ultimate Beverage" beverage package is mixed. At first, it seemed like a great deal. We calculated that $49 dollars p/p a day is just a few drinks, right? In Manhattan, yes. Well, the drinks were affordable onboard at $7 to $8 a pop. Do the math: You have to drink a lot of drinks to break even. I decided to skip hangovers and lose money. It was fun to try new drinks, however. Trying the daily drink-of-the-day was a blast. I think the Blue Lagoon was the best.
Here's my annoyance: The separate soda package is $6.50 a day and you don't pay the 15% gratuity each time you get a refill. You do pay the gratuity on the "ultimate beverage package." We were annoyed to watch people with the soda package walk away with a travel-mug of soda as we were signing the gratuity line for a flimsy plastic cup, which cost about 32 cents for each soda. The package also doesn't include water, gourmet coffee or alcoholic coffee. Not sure why putting Baileys (which would be included in the package, all by itself) in coffee isn't included, but it is if you throw in a banana, other liquors and blend it up -- you've got a drink that is covered under the plan.
Water also wasn't included. How is this ultimate?
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We were traveling home via our motor home (40ft + a 15ft trailer) on Sunday evening. I called the Outback to ask what time they were closing and was told 10:30PM. We said great and got off the interstate and proceeded to the restaurant. We always call ahead due to the trouble of getting into parking lots with our massive motor home.
Upon arriving there the door was locked so we were walking, of course upset back to our motor home when I saw people in the carryout area. I knocked and asked what time they closed and was told 9:30PM. I told the waitresses and manager (I am assuming since she was in all black) about us calling 10 minutes prior and being told they closed at 10:30pm. They asked if that was us in the big motor home and I answered yes and that we wish we would have been told the correct time due to the difficulty getting up there. The "manager" told us to come on in and dine, this was 9:43PM.
She sat us in the lounge area and said a waitress would be with us shortly and immediately the bartender "Chris" began giving us looks and speaking loudly about his dislike of us sitting down.
He then proceeds to tell his buddies sitting at the bar something then walks back to the end of the bar, under the television and his buddies start yelling, "Hey Chris, What time do you guys close?" Chris replies, "9:30pm!!!" "Hey Chris, Want me to cash out my check?" "No, YOU guys are fine since you've been here!"
This type of behavior continues while there are also other couples sitting in the restaurant AND in the bar lounge area!
An older couple, probably in the early 70's start looking at him and a younger couple sitting right behind them.
This continues and I simply got up and informed the waitstaff what was going on but apparently by this time the manager who had put us at that table had left for the evening.
My husband wanted to say something but I reminded him, "You are a Physician, he is a bartender, and those guys are sitting at a bar on a Sunday night drinking."
My husband has two practices and I myself own 2 businesses and have 2 Master's degrees so we hold ourselves to a higher standard of character than I suppose a bartender at The Outback does.
If any of our employees had acted like that in front of any patients, let alone at least 5 couples, 3 in the bar area, 2 that were still seated in the dining area, they would have been fired on the spot, no questions asked! It is simply inexcusable!
The waitress took out order, and when my husband ordered a bottle of sparkling water the waitress told the bartender and as he was opening it he gave us both a nasty horrid look!
Now, be it that we don't own a restaurant, but being in the service business, the bartender having NO IDEA who we were, we could have been employees from corporate, a secret shopper (as I was one while in college and grad school), or perhaps the owner of another Outback location, this is how he treats people who were sat at that table by one of his bosses!!!
We left at 10:20PM, and the other two couples that were eating in the same area left maybe 5 minutes prior to us.
The waitress was great as was the food and we gave the waitress probably the biggest tip she has ever received from a table of two because we did appreciate her taking care of us. But we will never eat there again on our way home and we have also informed everyone we know via email in regards to this location.
The waitress said that they were always slow on Sundays at this location (our location in Charleston, WV is always packed on Sundays) and who knows how many others this bartender has offended and with today's social media it doesn't take long for the word to get around to boycott a location of any business especially when it is due to poor service. People simply do not put up with wait staff who think they are better than the people they are serving and whom are paying their wages through tips! There are too many restaurant choices today to choose from.
This employee not only needs to be reminded that while the customers are there each and every one of them is his boss! They choose to pay for the services and the food that this establishment provides.
He seems to simply not care at all, it's not his restaurant or reputation that is at risk! If he's fired he will simply go to another establishment and will probably poison it as well.
He was the most rude employee we have ever come across in the restaurant business, and that is speaking coming from a couple who have traveled around the world!!
The bartender and his friends were definitely out of line, I canunderstand his frustration but he should not have took it out oncustomer. Just glad to hear that no violence or loud arguments brokeout. I would have most likely been unable to restrain myself tochallenging the bartender for being so rude in front of my spouse.
You're lucky you did not hear the kitchen staff lol. Stillinappropriate to do that in front of customers though.
Sure the bartender may have been really rude and sure maybe he wasticked because not only you but a few more people had come in pastclosing time.
However, if you had just accepted that being told of an incorrectclosing time was a simple mistake and had moved onto the nextrestaurant that actually was open...you wouldn't have even had towrite this letter.
When you expect places to completely break their rules just becauseyou say so, than you should expect some sort of retaliation towardsyour self centered actions.
Those people probably worked their tails off all night long and justwanted to go home.
So remember this...be sure to open YOUR doors when someone comesknocking after you have locked up for the evening. This is the onlyway you'll ever be able to justify your complaint.
Ok, I agree that the bartender should've kept he comment to himself.However, what is up with you thinking that because your husband is aPhysician and you have 2 Master's degree makes you better thaneveryone else?
Master's degrees and Doctorates do not make you any better than therest of the world.
First off you called, the bartender should be angry and take hisinfantile frustrations out on whoever told you 10:30pm.
This would be a great scenario for, "What would you do?" I am so sickof people bullying customers who dare make them work an extra 10minutes past closing time.
Good luck, that jerk should be fired.
"...I simply got up and informed the waitstaff what was going on butapparently by this time the manager who had put us at that table hadleft for the evening."
I find it hard to believe that even if the one manager was gone therewas no other manager there. And since you seemed to be happy with thewait staff seems odd they did not get a manager.
I would bet there is more to the story than the OP has posted.
Finally if you did not get anything from the bar and since bartendersin many cases work mainly for tips you were NOT his boss.
And your point would be?????
How do you know that the bartender doesn't have a degree? In thiseconomy, there are stories of educated people are resorting to extrememeasures such as minimum wage jobs just to make ends meet.
Your letter was fine until you got to the whole academic part. Whatyou said is very berating and condescending to people in general whowork at non-degree jobs. Everyone has a starting point in life, andjust because you don't have a masters degree doesn't make you lessintelligent or lower in superiority to other people! Most people havetake these jobs to pay for school expenses in order to get theirdegrees! I applaud the people who have the most back breaking,berating, minimum wage jobs making 6 bucks an hour, so they can servethe so called "superior" people!
Wow, what a superiority complex you have. You are so much better thanthis mere bartender and assume to be his boss because you are acustomer. Does this mean if you ask for something completelyunreasonable he should just do it because you are who you are and thatyou're his boss?
Yes, he behaved poorly. That definitely needed to be reported butyour attitude says a lot about you. I used to work in a hospital andI used to report and "professionals" like you for just this type ofbehavior. They would think they were so much better than my staff,mere telephone operators. What they didn't realize is without thefolks on the bottom doing their jobs, it would be almost impossiblefor them to do their's.
I am glad you didn't let the bartenders bad attitude affect thewaitress's tip. Sometimes people take out their negative experienceout on the poor waitress.
However, I too am put off by your listing you and your husbandscredentials. I have an associate degree and my husband has a highschool education, so it would have been ok for the bartender to berude to us????
I work in a hospital and my husband is a manufacturer's rep and wealso are very aware of how important it is to make good impressions oncustomers, patients and co-workers. That is not something that isexclusive to those fortunate enough to have advanced degrees. I foundyour comment condescending.
I agree the bartender was being rude and hopefully that will be dealtwith.
it irks me that you think because of your degree's you are a "higherstandard" then a "bartender" maybe that "bartender" is working atnights to pay for going to college during the day and if it were notfor these "bartenders" you wouldn't have gotten a drink.
Me personally just because I have a degree I don't think myself as"higher standard" then anyone else.
it was nice of them to let you in after they closed.
Oh, so only uneducated bartenders can behave like boors?
Frankly, your complaint was fine until you muddied the waters with thealleged academic degrees and achievements.
somehow hit send too soon.
I love how you say "im not saying ALL well educated people have anattitude problem" and then you go ahead and say it anyways.
The letter writer didn't direct her thoughts at any one commenter inparticular. The fact you and a bunch of the others react with suchangst, irkiness and outrage says a lot more about your view of theworld around you and your place in it than anything the letter writersaid. It would appear none of you are comfortable with yourselvesand/or your life - if you were, you certainly wouldn't react with suchvenom toward a completely innocent remark that has nothing to do withyou anyways.
Talk about awful customer service! I hope you hear something back soonand that something gets done with that bartender. I have worked as aserver for years and I cannot imagine treating my customers that way.My boss would fire anyone who acted that way immediately.


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Here in the midst of earnings season, the most interesting aspect of the current tape action is the bounce-back pattern we're seeing in big-name stocks — despite disappointing Q1 numbers.
Several blue-chip companies have missed estimates, some by a country mile. However, the initial damage is being absorbed in a matter of a couple of days, only to see those same names bid back up to the levels seen prior to printing bad news.
The way I see it, there are two sides to this coin.
The positive takeaway is that clearly, global capital wants to own U.S. assets, regardless of whether the headlines are negative. Any pullbacks have been viewed as an opportunity to buy a brand name at a discount in an up market.
On the flip side, there has been a worrisome tendency for these bellwether names to beat on the bottom line while missing on the top line. With each earnings release from those blue-chip companies that are supposed to gauge the health of the U.S. economy in terms of manufacturing and exports of finished goods, the market keeps rewarding cost-cutting measures while ignoring the paltry organic growth.
I'm OK with this acceptance of sub-par revenue performance — as long as we get to the other side of the soft patch and see these industries re-accelerate growth later in the year. In the meantime, though, names that are showing growth and beating the Street make good and timely sense.
That's why I'm happy to see that Navios Maritime Partners LP (NYSE:NMM) is continuing to report upbeat revenues and shrinking expenses, even in a sector that can be uncertain.
Clearly the best-managed of all the dry-bulk shipping companies, NMM delivered Q1 results last week that had shares up nicely. Highlights of Thursday's release include $50.3 million in quarterly revenue — a 4.8% improvement that beat analyst forecasts — as well as a $31.2 million boost (5.4%) to quarterly operating surplus.
That latter point is all the more impressive considering Navios acquired four new shipping vessels during the period. According to Chairman and CEO Angeliki Frango, these acquisitions, which will be delivered in Q4 2013, are expected to command "more favorable rates than the current market" — another plus.
Shares of NMM have cleared their 200-day moving average on the news, and more upside momentum is firmly in place. As for Navios' hefty 11.6% payout, the next ex-dividend date is in just a few days, on May 8. In this environment, NMM is a great buy under $17.
Bryan Perry is editor of Cash Machine, a newsletter focused on dividends and income investing. His newest service, Extreme Income, also focuses on dividend investing with "income boosters" like momentum plays, option strategies, and more.


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Updated at 8:45 a.m. ET
Republican governors are standing together with one of their own through a new website backing embattled Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker.
As protests continue in Wisconsin over Walker's proposal to curb collective bargaining rights for unions, the Republican Governors Association has launched Stand With Scott -- a website that's also tied to Walker's Facebook page and Twitter accounts. More than 3,000 people said they "like" the page as of 8:30 a.m. Wednesday.
Texas Gov. Rick Perry, chairman of the GOP governors' group, leads the list of state chief executives praising Walker and his efforts to tackle the state's budget woes by challenging public employee unions and their pension and benefit costs.
Perry said Walker "is in the middle of what will be a defining moment for our country and the conservative movement." Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell, vice chairman of the RGA, said Walker is taking the "tough, but necessary, steps to balance the books in Wisconsin and get the state's fiscal house in order."
The site also features testimonials from Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour and Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal.
Although he is not featured on the website, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie made his views clear during a speech on Tuesday about his state's budget. Christie suggested that the uproar in Wisconsin and Ohio over unions is class warfare.
"In Wisconsin and Ohio, they have decided there can no longer be two classes of citizens: one that receives rich health and pension benefits, and all the rest who are left to pay for them," Christie said.
Catalina Camia leads the OnPolitics online community and has been at USA TODAY since 2005. She has been a reporter or editor covering politics and Congress for two decades, including stints at The Dallas Morning News and Congressional Quarterly. Follow her at @USATOnPolitics.
USA TODAY's Jackie Kucinich (@jfkucinich) and Fredreka Schouten (@fschouten) also contribute to the OnPolitics blog.


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Under the Same Blue Sky
A shopkeeper's daughter, Hazel Renner lives in the shadows of the Pittsburgh steel mills. She dreams of adventure, even as her immigrant parents push her toward a staid career. But in 1914, war seizes Europe and all their ambitions crumble. German-Americans are suddenly the enemy, "the Huns." Hazel herself is an outsider in her own home when she learns the truth of her birth. Desperate for escape, Hazel takes a teaching job in a seemingly tranquil farming community. But the idyll is cracked when she acquires a mysterious healing power--a gift that becomes a curse as the locals' relentless demand for "miracles" leads to tragedy.
On November 22, 1963, three shots rang out in Dallas, President Kennedy died, and the world changed. What if you could change it back? The author's new novel is about a man who travels back in time to prevent the JFK assassination.
1105 Yakima Street
When his wife Rachel, who is pregnant, leaves him, Bruce Peyton, while dealing with his spoiled thirteen-year-old daughter Jolene, is determined to get her back with a little help from his Cedar Cove friends.
13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl
Growing up in the suburban hell of Misery Saga (a.k.a. Mississauga), Lizzie has never liked the way she looks--even though her best friend Mel says she's the pretty one. She starts dating guys online, but she's afraid to send pictures, even when her skinny friend China does her makeup: she knows no one would want her if they could really see her. So she starts to lose. With punishing drive, she counts almonds consumed, miles logged, pounds dropped. She fights her way into coveted dresses. She grows up and gets thin, navigating double-edged validation from her mother, her friends, her husband, her reflection in the mirror. But no matter how much she loses, will she ever see herself as anything other than a fat girl?
An ode to George Orwell's "1984" told in alternating male and female voices relates the stories of Aomame, an assassin for a secret organization who discovers that she has been transported to an alternate reality, and Tengo, a mathematics lecturer and novice writer. Translated from the Japanese by Jay Rubin and Philip Gabriel.
77 Shadow Street
Once the center of madness, suicide, mass murder, and whispers of things far worse, the 1800s Gilded Age palace known as the Pendleton, has been re-christened in the 1970s as a luxury apartment building. But now inexplicable shadows caper across walls, security cameras relay impossible images, phantom voices mutter in strange tongues, not-quite-human figures lurk in the basement, and elevators plunge into unknown depths.
A Country Road, A Tree
From the best-selling author of Longbourn, a stunning new novel that follows an unnamed writer--Samuel Beckett--whose life and extraordinary literary gift are permanently shaped in the forge of war. When war breaks out in Europe in 1939, a young, unknown writer journeys from his home in neutral Ireland to conflict-ridden Paris and is drawn into the maelstrom.
A Dance with Dragons
New threats emerge to endanger the future of the Seven Kingdoms, as Daenerys Targaryen, ruling in the East, fights off a multitude of enemies, while Jon Snow, Lord Commander of the Night's Watch, faces his foes both in the Watch and beyond the great Wallof ice and stone.
A Dancer in the Dust
Twenty years ago, Ray Campbell, now a cautious risk-management consultant, was a well-intentioned aid worker dedicated to improving conditions in Lubanda, a newly independent African country. He is forced to reconsider that year of living dangerously when a friend from his time in Lubanda is found murdered in a New York alley. Signs suggest that this most recent tragedy is rooted in the far more distant one of Martine Aubert, the only woman Ray ever truly loved and whose fate he'd sealed in a moment of grievous error:
A Day in the Life of a Smiling Woman: Complete Short Stories
Although perhaps best known for her novels, British writer Margaret Drabble is also a master of the short story form. This collection includes stories published between 1964 and 2000, dealing with human relationships in all their messy, sprawling, painful, and glorious reality. In "Hassan's Tower," we meet a couple honeymooning in Morocco who discover to their chagrin how little they really know—or love—each other. "The Merry Widow" tells of a woman who has finally escaped a marriage filled with unhappiness and mistreatment, while the title story considers the delicate balancing act women must often perform as mothers, wives, career women, and as individuals with their own goals and interests. All of these stories are beautifully observed and lyrically written, and often full of black humor; they are like individual fabulous gems artfully pieced together to form a stunning whole.


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Tracy Morgan Upgraded to Fair Condition
Tracy Morgan's condition has been upgraded to fair, a major improvement for the comedian who was nearly killed in a June 7 collision. The crash happened overnight on the New Jersey Turnpike, while Morgan and some friends were returning from a gig in a rented limo bus. When a Wal-Mart truck swerved into them, Morgan and two others were badly injured and comedian James McNair was killed.
"Happy to pass along that Tracy has been upgraded to fair condition, which is a great improvement," Morgan's spokesman Lewis Kay said. "His personality is certainly starting to come back as well."
The driver of the Wal-Mart truck, Kevin Roper recently pleaded not guilty to death by auto and assault by auto charges. According to prosecutors, Roper had not slept in more than 24 hours when the accident occurred.
Morgan's assistant Jeffrey Millea has also been upgraded to fair condition, while Ardie Fuqua remains in critical condition.


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THE council has promised that Buckskin residents will have their bins collected.
Today is the normal day for refuse collections in the Buckskin area, but various road closures are still in place because of flooding, meaning the rubbish trucks cannot reach some homes.
Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council told The Gazette this morning that residents are being advised to put their bins out if it is safe and practical to do so.
Various roads including the bottom of Antrim Close, Sperrin Close and Bodmin Close are currently inaccessible to the refuse collectors.
But the borough council has said that bins will eventually be collected in these areas, possibly later today or tomorrow.
Residents are advised not to leave their bins out in roads which are flooded, and the council will arrange for them to be collected at a later date.
The council is waiting for updates on which areas have not had their rubbish collected.
Sophia Waite-King, senior media relations and communications officer for the borough council, said: "We definitely will collect these bins but we can't say when at the moment."
The council also confirmed that no further homes were evacuated last night, and the total remains at 19.


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Just a quick note for anyone wanting to update their HD install of BT2 final.
Connect to the internet as normal.
Open console and type cd /pentest/wireless
then simply type update-aircrack.sh
The script goes off downloads the latest beta from Aircrack-ng.
Clears the current version on the HD and installs the latest 1.0beta version.
30 seconds and your done.
Hope this helps, worked for me .
here is the script and what it does.
svn co http://trac.aircrack-ng.org/svn/trunk/ aircrack-ng
cd aircrack-ng
make clean
make install
chmod 755 airoscript/airoscript.sh
cp airoscript/airoscript.sh /usr/local/bin/airoscript.sh


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ATLANTA (AP) — Health officials say only 1 in 4 Americans with the AIDS virus have the infection under control with medications.
Part of the reason is that about 20 percent of those infected with HIV don't know it. People can be infected with the AIDS virus for years without developing symptoms.
An infection was once considered a death sentence. But medications that have been available for 15 years can reduce the amount of virus to low levels.
However, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found only a small fraction of those infected are being successfully treated.
Of the nearly 1.2 million people with the infection, about 40 percent are getting medications regularly. Worse, only 28 percent have the virus under control at low levels.
The CDC report was released Tuesday.


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Comment on: Creative England backs Finlay's new music documentary
Does Anonymous really think that we should only make films about music he or she likes? Sounds like a pretty limiting model. Orion is a story of fandom and of musicians and how far they will go to claim fame, even if they have to do it in the guise of another. It is the American dream Baby!


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If you've got a test that passes when run by itself but fails when run with the rest of the tests in your test suite, you've almost definitely got a test pollution problem. Test pollution happens when the results of one test live past the
tearDown of a test and impact the results of subsequent tests.
This can happen in any kind of environment that has side-effects, but in Groovy and Grails programming, is most often caused by making changes to a metaClass or singleton instance that you forget to remove when the test is done.
One other place where test pollution often rears it's head is when a set of tests run fine in development, but when pushed to an integration server it fails. Often, this is because the developer is working on OSX, but the build server is on Linux and those platforms run the tests in a different order.
These issues can be a real pain to track down and the most reliable approach is to figure out what tests run before the failing test (so tests that could be causing the failure) and run them in smaller and smaller batches till you figure out what the minimal set of tests are that, when run with your test, causes the failure to happen. Remove any test and the tests all pass.
In my recent upgrade of an application from grails 1.3.7 to grails 2.0.3 I hit quite a few tests that weren't properly cleaning up after themselves that needed to be identified. Running the test sets by hand became very tedious and time-consuming, so I automated it with a script.
To use the script, you need to have a file that contains a list of all of your tests in the order you want them to run (the order that is currently failing). The most reliable way to get this is to parse the test reports that
grails test-app generates. To make it easy, just stick this in your .bashrc/.zshrc:
function grailsTestOrder() {
grep testsuite target/test-reports/TESTS-TestSuites.xml | grep -v testsuites | cut -d\ -f8-9 | sed -E 's/name="(.*)" package="(.*)"/\2.\1/' | grep .
alias testorder=grailsTestOrder
It parses the generated TESTS-TestSuites.xml file and emits test class names with their full package, one per line. Now you can run these commands to generate a file called
testorder.txt that shows the order that your tests run in.
grails test-app # expecting a failure to happen, we just want the test order so we can replicate the issue
testorder > testorder.txt
Using that file, and the full package and class of the failing test, we can use this script to have it automatically identify the minimal set of failing tests:
#!/usr/bin/env groovy
// this script finds the test class that's causing test pollution in other tests. Just pass it
// a file name containing the test order that is failing and the particular test that is failing
// it will start doing a binary search by running combinations of tests that occur before the failing test
// and will eventually identify the smallest set of tests that are failing when run together
class BisectGrailsTests {
String testOrderFilePath
File testOrderFile
String pollutedTest
String testPhase = null
public BisectGrailsTests(args) {
def parseArgs(args) {
def cli = new CliBuilder(usage: "bisectGrailsTests.groovy -f testFile.txt -t com.example.FailingTest")
cli.with {
f longOpt: 'testOrderFilePath', args: 1, argName: 'filePath', "A file containing the test class names in the order you'd like to run them"
t longOpt: 'pollutedTest', args: 1, argName: 'pollutedTest', "The test class name that passes when run by itself but fails when the other tests are run"
p longOpt: 'testPhase', args: 1, argName: 'testPhase', "Only run with a particular test phase (ex: 'unit', 'integration', etc)"
def options = cli.parse(args)
if(options.'testOrderFilePath') {
testOrderFilePath = options.'testOrderFilePath'
testOrderFile = new File(testOrderFilePath)
if (options.'pollutedTest') pollutedTest = options.'pollutedTest'
if (options.'testPhase') {
testPhase = options.'testPhase'
println "Only running test phase $testPhase"
if (!pollutedTest || !testOrderFilePath) {
} else if (!testOrderFile.exists()) {
println "Unable to find test order file from given path: $testOrderFilePath"
void bisectTests() {
// run test by itself to ensure it passes
if (!testsPass("solo", [pollutedTest])) {
println "The passed test ($pollutedTest) fails when run by itself, there isn't test pollution we can detect if it's failing on it's own"
println "Here's the command to execute to see if you've fixed things:\n" + createCommand(withPollutedTest([pollutedTest]))
// now recursively run test with other tests and bisect till it fails
List bisectTests(List testList) {
// if the test list size is > 1, split into left and right hand sides
if (testList.size() > 1) {
List lhs = leftHandSide(testList)
List rhs = rightHandSide(testList)
if (!testsPass("left", withPollutedTest(lhs))) return bisectTests(lhs)
if (!testsPass("right", withPollutedTest(rhs))) return bisectTests(rhs)
if (testsPass("full", withPollutedTest(testList))) {
println "Unable to find any failing tests with this list, running them all appears to run without issue: \n" + testList.join(" ")
return null
println "Unable to find just one test that's causing problems. Running just with the left hand or right hand side of this narrowed list passes, but the full list fails"
println "full list (fails): " + testList.join(" ")
println "left hand side (passes): " + lhs.join(" ")
println "right hand side (passes): " + rhs.join(" ")
} else if (!testsPass("suspected", withPollutedTest(testList))){
println "The test that's causing pollution: " + testList.join(" ") // should only be 1
println "Here's the command to execute to see if you've fixed things:\n" + createCommand(withPollutedTest(testList))
return testList
println "Not sure what's happening, got to this list of tests, but everything passes with this list: \n" + testList.join(" ")
List leftHandSide(List testList) {
return testList[0..(testList.size()/2 - 1)]
List rightHandSide(List testList) {
return testList[(testList.size()/2)..-1]
List withPollutedTest(List testList) {
return [testList, pollutedTest].flatten()
List getTruncatedTestList() {
List testList = []
testOrderFile.eachLine { String line -> testList << line.trim() }
Integer badTestAt = testList.indexOf(pollutedTest)
if (badTestAt < 0) {
// it's not in the list, don't truncate it and we'll just append it on the end when we need it
return testList
} else if (badTestAt == 0) {
println "The bad test is the first test in the file list, it cannot be test pollution that is affecting this test"
return testList[0..<badTestAt]
Boolean testsPass(String runName, List testList) {
String command = createCommand(testList)
return runCommand(runName, command) == 0
String createCommand(List testList) {
String command = "grails test-app "
if (testPhase) command += "$testPhase: "
return command + testList.join(" ")
def out(prefix, message) {
println("${prefix.padLeft(12, ' ')}: $message")
Integer runCommand(runName, command) {
out runName, command
return command.execute().with { proc ->
proc.in.eachLine { line -> out runName, line }
new BisectGrailsTests(args).bisectTests()
Save that file in your path and make it executable with
chmod +x bisectGrailsTests.groovy. Now, if you run it without any parameters, it will show you the usage instructions:
% bisectGrailsTests.groovy
usage: bisectGrailsTests.groovy -f testFile.txt -t com.example.FailingTest
A file containing the test class names in the order you'd like to run them
-p,--testPhase Only run with a particular test phase (ex: 'unit', 'integration', etc)
-t,--pollutedTest The test class name that passes when run by itself but fails when the other tests are run
To run it for real, just specify the path to the
testorder.txt file and the class (with package) that's failing:
bisectGrailsTests.groovy -f testorder.txt -t com.yourcompany.TheFailingTests
Optionally, you can also pass it a testPhase ("unit", "integration", "functional") if you only want to run tests from that phase and don't think the pollution is happening across test phases (this is the most useful when the failure is happening in unit tests).
When the script runs, it goes through the following algorithm to identify the polluting test:
- Assert that the
pollutedTestdoes pass when run by itself
- Now, identify where the test occurs within the full list of tests and make a list of all test names before that test
- Then take the first half of the test list and run them in order followed by the polluted test
- If there is no failure in the first half, take the 2nd half of the tests and run those followed by the polluted test
- Take whichever half failed (so it contains the polluter) and recursively go back to step 3 with that half of tests, repeat until we find the test that's causing our test to fail
Once it's narrowed down the smallest list that's still causing failures, it will spit out the grails test-app command with the failing tests so it's easy for you to reproduce.
Now that you know what test is causing the issue, you need to figure out what in that test is the problem. The best approach here is to just start commenting out all of the tests in the suspected polluter and see if it still causes a failure, slowly start putting code back in until you figure out what's causing the issue. We're back to manual steps now, but at least you're working within a single test rather than your entire test suite.


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Let's Talk About Sachs
On November 21, "the world's best known economist" Jeffrey D. Sachs joins the long list of Henry George Distinguished Speakers to grace the Schimmel stage.
On Thursday, November 21, from 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m., Jeffrey D. Sachs will come to Pace as part of the 13th Annual Henry George Symposium to address the Age of Sustainable Development from an economist's perspective.
American economist Jeffrey D. Sachs is the director of The Earth Institute, Quetelet Professor of Sustainable Development, and Professor of Health Policy and Management at Columbia University. He is Special Adviser to United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on the Millennium Development Goals, having held the same position under former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan. He is also the Director of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network and the Co-Founder and Chief Strategist of Millennium Promise Alliance in addition to being director of the Millennium Villages Project. He has authored three New York Times bestsellers in the last seven years and is said to be "probably the most important economist in the world" by The New York Times and "the world's best known economist" by Time magazine, where he was also named twice to their list of the 100 most influential world leaders.
Past Henry George symposia have drawn such distinguished–and controversial–economists as Joseph Stiglitz, Nobel Laureate in Economics and Professor of Economics and Finance at Columbia University; William J. Baumol, noted Professor of Economics at New York University and Professor Emeritus at Princeton University; Robert Engle, Nobel Laureate in Economics and professor in the Management of Financial Services at NYU; and most recent Nobel Laureate of Economics Yale professor Robert Shiller.
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Worlds largest museum of Jewish history constructed in Moscow, a salute to Russias role in ending the second world war and a welcome back to the Jewish Russians who had fled the nation during those times. Putin is quoted as Any attempts to revise the results of World War II and deny the Holocaust are not merely a cynical lie, but also an act of oblivion of the lessons taught by history, a nod to the importance of the project.
Both Russia and Israel cherish the memories of the past war. We should clearly realize that attempts to revise Russias contribution into the great victory and deny the Holocaust, which was a page of disgrace in the world history, are not merely a cynical and unscrupulous lie, but also an act of oblivion of the lessons taught by history, Putin said. Our moral duty is to uphold the truth, defend honor, dignity and the honest name of the live and the dead. I am confident that the museum will be a vivid embodiment of the ideas of an international dialogue and accord.
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