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Have Stocks Put In 'No-QE' Top?
Two Significant Shifts Put The Stock Rally In Doubt:
- Central bank action seems less likely in the short-run.
- A key risk-on ratio looks similar to past stock market peaks.
Unless Ben Bernanke can spark some renewed interest in risk assets, selling pressure could continue. Below we outline our concerns and what we will be watching in the days ahead.
Central Banks Could Disappoint
Prior to looking at a troubling chart for stock investors, it is important to understand what spooked the markets in recent days. The head of the European Central Bank, Mario Draghi, is not among the central bankers gathered in Jackson Hole this week. Mr. Draghi's absence has raised questions about the ECB's plans to intervene in the European bond market. On top of that, Dennis Lockhart, the Atlanta Fed president, threw some cold water on the QE3-is-coming-soon theory. Thursday morning, Lockhart told CNBC:
"If we were to see deterioration from this point, let's say a persistence of job growth numbers that were well below 100,000 per month, or see signs of disinflation that could signal the onset of deflation, then there wouldn't be much of a question about policy."
On August 28, we pointed out some caution flags on the chart of the S&P 500 (SPY) relative to intermediate-term Treasuries (IEF). While the chart that follows looks complex, it is based on the simple concepts of support and resistance. When the ratio is rising, stocks are in favor relative to bonds (see chart below). When the ratio is falling, bonds are strong relative to stocks. An updated version of the chart as of Thursday's close is presented here; the stock/bond ratio is at the top with the S&P 500 below it.
- Points A1 and A2 (see chart) show the twin peaks made by the S&P 500 last spring. Points B1 and B2, which occurred simultaneously with the stock market's peaks, show where the stock/bond ratio (SPY/IEF) was rejected by the downward sloping blue trendlines (acting as resistance for risk).
- Points C and E show where the stock/bond ratio is running into similar resistance in the present day. The red arrow to the left of B2 shows an important support break for "risk" relative to "risk-off" (see gap to left of arrow). The break of support for risk in April occurred on the same day the S&P 500 peaked at point A1.
- Point E shows a similar break of risk-on support that occurred on August 30 (this week). The two red arrows show similar support breaks for risk relative to risk-off. The horizontal line F could act as support for risk in the days ahead, meaning we must keep an open mind about where stocks go from here.
- The blue arrow shows the S&P 500 flirting with a break of support near 1,400 (bottom of chart). If stocks remain weak, point D shows an area near 1,388 where buyers may become interested again.
Back on the QE3 front, CNBC was told after the close Thursday by Charles Plosser, President of the Philadelphia Federal Reserve:
"My current assessment of the both the economy and effectiveness of QE is that I don't think it really meets the cost-benefit analysis."
Shorter and Shorter Rallies?
If you follow our work, you know we have been buyers of risk since early July. We have also made the case for higher highs in stocks, but not without some caveats. After the close on Thursday, we revisited some "shorter-duration" concerns that have prompted us to book some profits over the past two weeks. We have taken profits in oil stocks (OIH), oil (USO), Germany (EWG), and small caps (IWO). How could the market peak so soon after seeing bullish set-ups in stocks, oil, and precious metals? The time between buy signals and sell signals may still be in a pattern of shorter and shorter durations (see green lines below). If so, we have to be open to the possibility of legitimate sell signals occurring soon after seeing buy signals.
Weak Close Before Jackson Hole
Thursday's close was weak. The chart below shows a bullish breakout in the stock/bond ratio (see blue arrow). Unfortunately for the bulls, the risk-on breakout failed (see red arrow). Risk-on momentum on the 30-minute chart was also turned back by the bears in the final half hour of trading (orange arrows).
An Emerging Markets Short?
Heading into Friday, we have a substantial cash position. If the SPY/IEF risk-on/risk-off ratio continues to break support, we will most likely hedge our long positions rather than entering additional sell orders. While emerging markets (EEM) were extremely oversold at the close on Thursday, if EEM closes below 38.85 on Friday, we may consider taking the bearish side of the trade via EUM (or similar vehicle). For those scoring at home, the 00:15 mark of an August 29 video shows key bull/bear demarcation levels you can monitor in small caps (IWM). If the small cap rally falters, it would be a red flag for all stocks, commodities, and precious metals. Should small caps continue to show impressive relative strength, it would increase the odds of risk assets pushing higher. Bullish or bearish, IWM can help us monitor risk.
Are We Calling A Top?
Absolutely not, but we have seen enough to make some fairly significant changes to our client portfolios. We do not care if the market goes up or down. Our objective is to maintain a prudent exposure to growth assets. The only way to do that in this centrally-planned financial world is to maintain a posture of maximum flexibility, which requires an open-mind. On one hand, if Uncle Ben delivers at Jackson Hole and the S&P 500 clears resistance at 1,415, we are happy to redeploy our cash in a bullish manner. On the other hand, if buy signals start to look like sell signals, who are we to argue?


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E&H Theatre Department, in official association with Barter Theatre, the state theatre of Virginia
As an artistic director and one immersed in live theatre every day of my life in what has become one of the nation's most vital regional theatres, I experience on a regular basis how significant it is that students of theatre immerse themselves in a liberal arts education. Those young actors who have had a well-rounded and all encompassing liberal arts education are better prepared, more fully understand the human condition, more thoroughly explore the depths and the heights of what theatre is really meant to do, and, in general, succeed and move forward in our theatre at a faster pace for having been given the insight and knowledge that only liberal arts can give. For me, understanding literature, philosophy, psychology, sociology and all of the combined aspects that make up a well-rounded, liberal arts education are essential to success within the world of art and theatre.Richard Rose,
Producing Artistic Director, Barter Theatre
The E&H Theatre Department operates in a unique and powerful association with the Barter Theatre, a professional LORT D Equity House located in Abingdon, Va, ten minutes away from the Emory & Henry campus. Students receive personalized attention from the high quality professional theatre-makers at the Barter Theatre who take a vested interest in your career as a student in the department.
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Seeing 10+ shows a year at the Barter Theatre followed by customized talkback sessions only for Emory & Henry Theatre students.
Experiencing workshops and master classes given regularly by Barter professionals.
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Death Cab For Cutie Sounds Off
September 21, 2005 - Bassist Nick Harmer talks about 8-bit gaming and the war of words with Barry Manilow.
Natalie Gulbis Interview
October 14, 2004 - The Anna K. of golf talks calendars, courses, and strange autograph requests.
Tiger Woods 2005 Swings into Stores
September 21, 2004 - Electronic Arts announced today that Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2005 has shipped to North American retail.
Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2005
September 21, 2004 - It's that time of year again: winter is looming, the lure of the TV's warming glow grows stronger, and your copy of Tiger 2004 is completely played out. This is where EA's yearly installment comes in to play with Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2005, a title that has been refined and expanded to make it the best of its kind yet. The team has certainly used the past year to polish up what was already an addictive golf videogame, but much like with 2004 most of the advancements come in the form of features and not necessarily gameplay enhancements. The end result with Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2005 is ultimately the game last year's version was trying to be. And that's a good thing.
Charles Howell III Interview
September 17, 2004 - Golfer talks Tiger, Augusta, and Thurston Howell III.
Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2005
September 16, 2004 - EA's yearly update to its acclaimed golf series is on the way shortly. Yes, Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2005 will be in stores soon. We've got some of the final version in the office and figured you faithful Insiders deserved a deeper look at how it will all play out. So, we've captured lengthy cuts from the PlayStation 2, GameCube, and Xbox versions. They're all different movies, so you can get a good look at the game and how it looks across the consoles at the same time.
Tiger Woods 2005 is Gold
September 10, 2004 - Electronic Arts announced today that Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2005 has gone gold, meaning production on the latest in the acclaimed golf franchise is now complete.
Tiger Tuesday
September 7, 2004 - New courses and Dream 18 info and media.
Tiger Tuesdays
August 31, 2004 - A look at the gameplay additions made for 2005.
Tiger Tuesdays
August 24, 2004 - Everything you need to know about Tiger Proofing.
Prove You're a Tiger
August 20, 2004 - Now you can make Tiger Woods 2005 as tough as you want.
Tiger Tuesday
August 17, 2004 - The legends come out of retirement.
Games of Summer 2004: PlayStation 2
July 21, 2004 - The summer has arrived. You could be basking in the hot outdoors. You could be working up an honest sweat by playing sports, hiking, surfing, skateboarding or swimming. Or you could be going to the movies and watching your favorite celebrities battle robots and swing around skyscrapers. But why do any of that when there are new PlayStation 2 titles to be purchased, to be played, and to be bested? Better to spend your summer in a dark bedroom, blinds drawn, all doors closed, and your eyes glued to the bright tube of your new high-definition, flat-screen television. Better to block out the persistent sun with thoughts of Burnout and Madden.
Adam Scott Interview
July 16, 2004 - From the British Open to Tiger Woods 2005.
Reality Bites
June 30, 2004 - Playing Tiger versus the Real Thing - at SpyGlass Hill Golf Course
E3 2004: Tiger Woods Golf 2005
May 11, 2004 - Legends, Tiger Proofing, and the Game Face.
Pre-E3 2004: EA Announces Lineup
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A weekend full of food and drink
Tickets have just gone on sale for the third annual Austin Food & Wine Festival April 25-27. It's early, but you'll want to invest now. The popular festival includes more than 40 events and a host of food, wine and cocktail tents. Guests will find grilling demonstrations, live music, panel discussions and interactive fire pits with food being cooked by Texas chefs like Dallas' Tim Byres and Franklin Barbecue's Aaron Franklin of Austin.
The weekend kicks off with a Feast Under the Stars pre-festival event (tickets $185) at Austin's Butler Park. Expect to see Abacus' Kent Rathbun, Love Shack's Tim Love and other notable chefs. On Friday, the Taste of Texas event ($150) at Republic Square Park will include a long roster of state chefs and live music by Escort.
The evening of April 26 includes the Rock Your Taco event ($150), when big-name chefs like two-time champion Tyson Cole of Uchiko compete to create the ultimate taco, to the sound of live music by JC Brooks & the Uptown Sound. Expect to see TV personality and food writer Andrew Zimmern on the judging panel.
Guests can meet more chefs in the Chefs' Showcase April 26-27. Throughout the weekend, plenty of sommeliers, cocktail pros and beer experts will be on hand. Tickets cost $250 for a Taste pass with access to demos, seminars, tastings and more; Savor passes, which cost $850, include priority access to events and entry to the Taste of Texas and Rock Your Taco evening parties. A program list will be online Feb. 25.
Contact: austinfoodandwinefestival.com
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Outdoor events abound in the Hill Country
It's not too early to start planning springtime outdoor adventures in the Texas Hill Country, and there are many hiking, running and riding options already on the calendar. Below are a few we suggest, but you'll find many more upcoming events — including numerous 5K and 10K runs, the Enchanted Rock Duathlon and the Texas Gran Fondo Bicycle Tour — online.
The 112-mile, nine-day Original Texas Star Trail Ride treks through Fredericksburg, Luckenbach, Stonewall, Johnson City, Blanco, Fischer and Wimberley, ending in Driftwood. The ride begins Feb. 28 and ends March 8. Both riders and spectators are invited.
Contact: texasstartrail.com
There are multiple happenings in the Enchanted Rock State Natural Area. At 9:30 a.m. every Saturday and Sunday, guests can join park interpreters, who will lead interpretive trail hikes while sharing historical and geological info, on one of two routes. And, at 8:30 a.m. on March 8, visitors can get an introduction to trail running with "Run With the Ranger." Admission to the park for both events costs $7.
Contact: tpwd.state.tx.us/state-parks/enchanted-rock
If you want to get outside without sweating, check out the ninth annual Bluebonnet Tractor Ride on April 12 in rural Gillespie County. The Antique Tractor & Engine Club hosts the event, at which vintage tractors trek through the area to scope flowers and scenery.
Contact: rustyiron.org;visitfredericksburgtx.com
Saddle up for annual Cowboys Days Festival
The largest annual event hosted by the New Mexico Farm & Ranch Heritage Museum returns March 8-9: It's the 15th annual Cowboy Days Festival, a nod to the state's ranching traditions. There will be arts and crafts, dummy roping, blacksmithing, pony and horseback rides, musical performances and demonstrations.
Flying Cloud Productions, a Las Cruces company, will treat attendees to a 19th-century fashion show and will re-enact an Old West saloon gunfight. Admission to the event costs $4 per person (children under age 4 enter free) and includes museum access and activities.
Contact: nmcowboydays.com; 575-522-1232
South Texas State Fair will be March 27-April 6
A fair with a carnival midway, a rodeo, a livestock and poultry show: No, we're not talking about the State Fair of Texas, but the second-largest fair in the state, the South Texas State Fair. This year's fair runs March 27 through April 6 and is organized by the Beaumont Young Men's Business League.
Main attractions also will include a kids pavilion and petting zoo, plus the more unusual: There will be a live stingray exhibit, a Texas marine boat show and the Flores Family Thrill Show (among the highlights: a motorcyclist maneuvering on a high-wire). There will also be roving performances and shows by the Caboodlestoppers, which includes a pedaling poet on a bike and a one-man band.
There also will be plenty of food — barbecue, funnel cakes, deep-fried Oreos, lemonade — along with a quilt show and vendors selling everything from jewelry to furniture.
Tickets cost $8 for adults, $4 for students and seniors, and are free for children under 10. Check the website for a full event calendar and a map of the fairgrounds.
Contact: ymbl.org
Warm up at Après Ski Cocktail Classic
Mountaintop parties with hot toddies, seminars, fireside talks, a tasting area and a pub crawl await guests at the second annual Après Ski Cocktail Classic March 13-16 at the Westin Snowmass Resort and in areas throughout Aspen Snowmass.
Highlights include a cheese fondue and champagne pairing, and the opening party with an ice-cutting event on Thursday. On Friday, guests can visit a coffee and cocoa pop-up; swing by the Grand Tasting Village for a range of spirits, cocktails and toddies; attend a private-reserve tasting with sommelier David Johnson or classes including homemade cordial-making; and enjoy a cocktail dinner at the Eight K Restaurant at the Viceroy Snowmass Hotel.
On Saturday, there's the Après party, a seminar on the resurgence of gin, and more tastings. On Sunday, festivities include the seven-stop Great Après-Ski Pub Crawl along with classes on the history of absinthe and barrel-aging cocktails. Expect to spot James Beard-honored mixologist Charlotte Voisey and wine guru Steve Olson, among others, at the events.
All-access tickets cost $365 and include a two-day entrance pass into the tasting village, seminars and invitations to special events and parties. A local pass, which costs $150, includes a one-day admission to the tasting area, three seminars, the opening party and the pub crawl. Check the website for more information and to buy tickets.
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Michael Conforto and Dylan Davis lead Oregon State to CWS
By THEO LAWSON
Seattle Times staff reporter
Even before they landed on the same Redmond High baseball team, the same College World Series-bound Oregon State squad and subsequently, the same All-Pac-12 team, Michael Conforto and Dylan Davis were quietly competitive companions.
The relationship between the Beavers' sophomore outfielders is unspoken in many ways on the field. It's one that might be better judged by back-to-back home runs than a conversation overheard in the dugout.
So in Game 2 of Oregon State's NCAA Super Regional against Kansas State last weekend, with the Beavers facing elimination, that relationship spoke loud and clear.
Conforto slammed a home run to right-center field in the first inning, giving the Beavers a 1-0 lead. A jittery Davis was waiting in the on-deck circle.
With a 2-1 count, Davis connected, sending a towering home run to almost the same location.
While the consecutive homers might have shocked Kansas State pitcher Blake McFadden, and a fair majority of fans at Goss Stadium in Corvallis, a few OSU fans had witnessed the spectacle before.
"They did that a number of times over the years, so it was fun to see that happen again in college," said Mike Conforto, Michael's father, a former Penn State linebacker. Michael's mother is Tracie Ruiz-Conforto, the former Olympic synchronized swimming star.
"They want each other to be successful but each one wants to do one better than the next," said Pat Davis, in attendance for his son's first-inning home run.
The former Redmond stars lead Oregon State into the World Series, beginning with a game against Mississippi State at noon (PDT) Saturday in Omaha, Neb.
It's not the first time the two have been together in Omaha. In 2007, their Northwest Diamond Sports team played in a tournament that coincided with the CWS. It was in Omaha where they were first introduced to Oregon State.
A few Northwest Diamond alums had played with the Beavers and Conforto and Davis, 14 and 13 at the time, were introduced to the OSU players.
"I just remember us standing there, waiting for the team to get back to the hotel, pulling in in the big buses and our sons just looking at that, thinking it's really cool," said Mike Conforto. "And now they're going to be riding the bus into the hotel."
Oregon State went on to win the 2007 College World Series, its second straight.
For Michael Conforto, it won't be the first time playing in a World Series. As an 11-year-old, he represented Redmond North in the 2004 Little League World Series.
Davis had played on the rival Redmond West team but the two joined forces a year later. Fast forward a few years and they had become double trouble for KingCo Conference opponents, playing for coach Dan Pudwill's Redmond Mustangs.
"You get sophomores into the program and you're never sure that they can compete at the varsity level," Pudwill said. "We realized we had something very special on our hands. Turns out we did, I think we won 17 games in the regular season their sophomore year."
Conforto and Davis graduated in 2011 as two of the top five players in the state after helping Redmond finish fourth in the state tournament.
Saturday in Omaha, the Beavers seek their 51st season victory, a mark that would triple Redmond's win tally when Conforto and Davis were Mustangs sophomores.
If it's up to Conforto and Davis, OSU won't have it any other way.
Source: Oregon State University Washingtonians in World Series Oregon State, which begins play in the baseball College World Series on Saturday, has nine players on its roster from Washington, including former Redmond stars Michael Conforto, the Pac-12 player of the year, and Dylan Davis, a first-team Pac-12 star. Pos. Player Year High school By the numbers OF Michael Conforto Soph. Redmond Pac-12 player of year, .320, 11 HR, 45 RBI OF Dylan Davis Soph. Redmond First-team Pac-12, team-best .343, 5 HR, 58 RBI OF Joey Jansen Soph. Kamiakin .286 with 6 RBI in 42 at-bats INF Jerad Casper Jr. Tahoma .167 with 11 RBI in 66 at-bats LHP Matt Boyd Sr. Eastside Catholic 10-3, 2.13 ERA, opponents hit .198; first-team Pac-12 RHP Scott Schultz Jr. Gig Harbor 2-1, 2.03 ERA, 10 saves; Pac-12 honorable mention LHP Max Engelbrekt Fr. Bishop Blanchet 5-1, 1.30 ERA, five saves RHP Tony Bryant Sr. Kennewick 1-0, 1.76 ERA, allowed just 15 hits in 30.2 innings. RHP Taylor Starr Sr. Kelso 0-1, 3.94 ERA in 16 innings pitched
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22nd February, 2012
Penny Appeal-funded Orphanage Opens
Penny Appeal is delighted and proud to announce the opening of its first orphanage.
Mera Apna Ghar (My Own Home), situated in Sohawa in the Punjab region of Pakistan, opened its doors on January 1st 2012 and is now home to five orphaned girls, a house mother and her son.
The building is currently being rented by Penny Appeal and it took less than a month for the Pakistan team to furnish the home to a high standard and prepare for the orphans' arrival.
The aim of Mera Apna Ghar is to provide orphans and homeless children with important basics, such as a clean environment that they can call home, a mother to look after them, healthy food and clothing. Penny Appeal is also supporting the children's education with all of the children studying at Pakistan Science Academy nearby. Social activities are also an important part of life at the orphanage and trips to local places of interest are organised regularly for the girls.
This is a world away from what the orphans have known so far: the girls had never received any education and had not been allowed out of the house. They had no hope of breaking free from poverty and were likely to have become house slaves, serving in other people's homes. Now, thanks to Penny Appeal's Pakistan team and members of the local community, these girls are receiving a full quality of life that they could only have dreamed of.
There is room at the orphanage for five more girls.
Project Manager Habib Nawaz commented: "Mera Apna Ghar was founded with the aim of brightening the futures of orphaned and homeless children. I am confident that this orphanage will be a great success as we have secured the valuable support of prominent people in this locality, who have promised to support the home as if it were their own project."
Penny Appeal Chairman Adeem Younis added: "The establishment of Mera Apna Ghar was the result of a number of factors coming together at the same time and we are very grateful to Habib and his team for making this happen so quickly.
"It is very rewarding to be able to provide a home for these orphaned children and to play a part in their futures. We wish to extend our thanks to members of the local community for their support and advice and, as always, to our generous supporters."
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WASHINGTON, Feb 6 (Reuters) - The U.S. government is clearing the way for people displaced by Superstorm Sandy more than three months ago to temporarily move into low-income housing by suspending some tax regulations on those rental apartments and houses.
Under Internal Revenue Service regulations, housing agencies can only rent to people with incomes below a certain amount at projects that were financed with tax-exempt bonds. The tax agency said on Wednesday it was suspending the income limitations.
Owners of apartment buildings would continue to receive a special tax credit for renting to those with low incomes, even if people displaced by Sandy with higher incomes move in, the IRS said.
The low-income qualifications are effectively on pause until Nov. 30.
Thousands of people were displaced after the storm came ashore on the East Coast in October, and many are still struggling to find adequate shelter while the region is in the grip of winter.
Altogether, nine states and the District of Columbia were declared disaster areas by President Barack Obama. New York, New Jersey and Connecticut were the hardest hit.
Last month, U.S. government-backed housing giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and the Federal Housing Administration extended by 90 days their disaster-relief assistance for borrowers whose homes were damaged in the storm.
Meanwhile, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo plans to spend up to $400 million of the state's federal recovery money to buy out the owners of homes that were destroyed.


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The new Chair of the Congressional Black Caucus spoke at a panel hosted by Tavis Smiley at George Washington University Thursday night. During the panel, she called Republicans who dared to cut food stamps some "evil." And that wasn't all:
In a George Washington University panel discussion on poverty hosted by PBS's Tavis Smiley, Fudge expressed her disappointment with colleagues who voted to cut food stamps by $16.5 billion over the next 10 years.
"These same people believe if you do not work, you are lazy," Fudge told the symposium, which was aired on C-SPAN. "These same people believe that if your children don't get a good education, something is wrong with you. These are the craziest people I have seen in my life. Just absolute nuts.
"These people are evil and mean. They care nothing about anybody but themselves. And so, if you think you are going to have anything bipartisan, you need to think again. It is not happening."
If you don't work, and you can, but you allow someone else to provide for you, what does that make you?
I'd say it makes you lazy. Do it long enough and it's all you know. Then, you've gone from being lazy to being a dependent.
And what does it make the person who is forced by the government to provide for you?
Well, what do you call a person who works and has the fruit of his labor taken from him against his will?
A subject? A slave?
But we're the evil ones because we don't want to create a dependent mindset in America.
We're evil because we don't want to turn a nation of once free people into a nation of subjects, who slave away all day, giving according to their ability so others can have according to their need.
And then, there's the money line:
"They don't understand that the government's job is to take care of its people."
A thousand times wrong.
I'll take care of myself. I'll feed my children.
I need to government to protect my rights so I can, and otherwise stay out of my way.
Luckily, it seems Fudge's words didn't go unopposed. Speaker Newt Gingrich was on the panel and challenged Fudge to expand the discussion:
Suggesting that real dialogues take longer than the amount of time allotted for Thursday night's panel, Gingrich offered to match members of the Congressional Black Caucus with Republican members of Congress, and have each spend three days in the others' district.
"Those six days will lead to a conversation that will both help us move back towards a little bit of healthy bipartisanship and help each side have a slightly different understanding and maybe start to create some friendships from which we could actually begin to rebuild the ability to govern this country," Gingrich told Fudge.
"If you can make it work, I'm in," Fudge replied. "If you can get your side to do it, I'm in."
I'm guessing that whatever time and day Newt can arrange, every Democrat is busy. Every time.
I hope I'm wrong, but I'm guessing I'm not.
Here's the entire panel, courtesy of CSPAN's video library.


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Tax Freedom Day, which measures how many days the U.S. must work to pay to cover the annual taxes, will be April 17. That's four days longer than last year, which means Americans are needing to work more to pay taxes. Tax Freedom Day is a calendar-based illustration of how much the government spends. The data assumes work across the nation begins on January 1, Americans earn the same wage every day while spending nothing. The information is provided by Tax Foundation.
Americans will spend more in taxes in 2012 than they will on housing, food, and clothing combined.
Americans will work 15 days to pay sales and excise taxes.
In 2012, Americans will work 12 days to pay for property taxes.
It will take Americans seven days to pay for taxes such as car, severance, and estate.
Taxing individuals is the biggest part of Americans' tax costs.
Forty-three states have a state income tax in addition to the federal income tax. Paying these taxes together takes about 40 days of work for Americans.
It will take Americans 24 days to pay for social insurance or payroll taxes. These taxes go to social programs like Medicare and Social Security.
Social insurance and payroll taxes were reduced by 2 percentage points for 2011 and were recently extended through 2012.
Taxes on corporations and businesses are passed on to people in the form of higher prices, lower pay, less employment, or lower share value.
This includes federal borrowing and arrives on May 14, the sixth latest in American history.
The latest it has ever occurred was during World War II, when it landed on May 21 in 1945.
Americans will pay $2.62 trillion in federal taxes and $1.42 trillion in state and local taxes.
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"Dorian Blues" is one of the best gay-themed films to come out (pardon the pun) in the last few years -- and it was written and directed by one Tennyson Bardwell, who, despite being named Tennyson Bardwell, is straight. I don't have any theories on what that means, I just think it's interesting.
The film covers a few years in the life of Dorian (Michael McMillian), a suburban kid struggling, at the end of high school and into his college career, with his sexuality. He undergoes the usual events -- acting straight, pursuing religion, choosing asexuality, a bad first boyfriend -- in what amounts to a funny and pleasant character arc and a highly enjoyable film.
Set around 1990, Dorian lives in upstate New York with his blowhard father (Charles C. Fletcher), wallflower mother (Mo Quigley) and favored-son younger brother Nicky (Lea Coco). Where Dorian has always felt "different" and certainly didn't have much in common with the other boys, Nicky is a football hero and a handsome trophy for his proud father to display to the neighborhood.
Dorian's realization that he is gay only serves to widen the gap between him and his father, but his brother loyally defends him and tries to understand him -- at least he does after his initial advice that Dorian hide his orientation.
"Just keep denying it," he counsels. "Remember what Hitler said: You tell a lie long enough and loud enough, eventually they'll believe it."
Dorian replies, "So your advice is, be more like Hitler?"
Bardwell's screenplay has more than a few laugh-out-loud lines, drolly delivered by the mildly sardonic Michael McMillian and the somewhat more earnest Lea Coco. One small problem lies in the casting, though. Nicky is Dorian's "kid brother," but the actor who plays him looks several years older. I don't buy them as brothers at all, much less with Nicky as the younger one.
Which is too bad, since both McMillian and Coco are perfect otherwise. McMillian, who looks like a skinnier, shaggier-haired Topher Grace, makes Dorian smart and sweet, completely sympathetic even if what happens to him is the same series of plot points that gay characters go through in all coming-out films.
Coco, meanwhile, is exactly what the target audience wants: a hunky jock with a sensitive streak who protects his brother and who's a good-enough actor to pull it off.
The film becomes maudlin later on as the melodrama with Dad and a few improbable scenarios threaten to ruin its honesty, but it ultimately survives the crisis and ends smilingly. It's a sweet and likable movie, if not an expert one, and a respectable entry in the genre.
Outrageously, the DVD case has a quote from the New York Times that reads: "Humor that will delight the 'Napoleon Dynamite' set." Now, the only similarity I can see between "Dorian Blues" and "Napoleon Dynamite" is that they both feature scenes set in high school, but whatever. To capitalize on this stellar Times quote, the cover has Dorian and Nicky standing in front of some multi-colored lockers -- just like "Napoleon" has, never mind that the lockers featured in "Dorian Blues" are all the same color. It's a pretty amusing and transparent maneuver.
There are optional English subtitles, but no alternate language tracks.
VIDEO: The anamorphic widescreen (1.85:1) transfer is nicely done but from a less-than-perfect source print. Still, it's not a terribly visual movie anyway, so what's here is reasonable.
AUDIO: Three options: Dolby Digital 2.0, Dolby Digital 5.1, and DTS. All are excellently mixed and balanced. There aren't many sound effects to speak of -- one wonders why they bothered to provide three options -- but the narration and music blend well with the dialogue. Not much else to say about the audio here....
EXTRAS: There are two brief deleted scenes (1:40 total). One has Nicky telling Dorian how to act before they enter the strip club; the other is Dorian being depressed at NYU and ranting about homelessness. Both are amusing and short; there was no reason not to keep them in the movie.
The only other extras are the film's theatrical trailer and some trailers for other TLA releases. Yippee.
The movie is very good, particularly if you belong to its target demographic (i.e., gay), but the DVD presentation is only so-so. A director's commentary at the minimum would have been nice. Only if you LOVE the film should you buy the DVD; otherwise, give it a rental and enjoy a pleasant one-night stand with it.


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[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 219 (Monday, November 14, 2011)]
[Pages 70510-70512]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-29285]
Federal Employees' Group Life Insurance Program: New Federal
Employees' Group Life Insurance (FEGLI) Premiums
AGENCY: Office of Personnel Management.
ACTION: Notice.
SUMMARY: The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is announcing changes
in premiums for certain Federal
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Employees' Group Life Insurance (FEGLI) categories in accordance with
sections 870.401(a)(2) and 870.402(a)(3) of title 5 of the Code of
Federal Regulations. These include changes to premiums for Option B
(most age bands), Option C (all age bands), and Post-Retirement Basic
Insurance. These rates will be effective the first pay period beginning
on or after January 1, 2012.
DATES: Effective Date: January 1, 2012.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Marguerite Martel,
[email protected], (202) 606-0004.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This notice announces changes to FEGLI
Option B (most age bands), Option C (all age bands) and Post-Retirement
Basic Insurance. The last premium change for some age categories of
Option B and Option C and Post-Retirement Basic insurances was on the
first pay period beginning on or after January 1, 2003 (Option B and
Option C coverages had a three-year phase-in of premium changes ending
in January 2005). Those changes coincided with the implementation of
the Federal Employees' Life Insurance Improvement Act, Public Law 105-
311, (112 Stat. 2950) which provided expanded coverage choices for
employees, retirees, and compensationers with Option B and Option C
coverage past age 65.
The premiums in the FEGLI Program represent estimates of premium
income necessary to pay future expected benefits costs. The rates for
all coverage categories are specific to the experience of the FEGLI
group and are not based on mortality rates within the general
population. Actuarial analysis of changing mortality rates makes
periodic premium adjustments necessary.
Accordingly, OPM has completed a study of funding and claims
experience within the FEGLI Program. Based on this updated actuarial
analysis of actual claims experience, OPM has determined that changes
are required to Option B, Option C and Post-Retirement Basic premiums.
These changes reflect updated mortality and claims rates from actual
program experience within each FEGLI category. The legislative
structure of the FEGLI Program assumes that we set premiums for each
age band independently of the other bands, so that each age band is
financially self-supporting.
Based on updated experience, premiums for all Option B age bands,
other than the oldest groups (ages 75-79 and ages 80 and over), will
decrease. Premiums for Option C age bands under age 45 will also
decrease. However, a rate increase is needed for Option C premiums for
those ages 45 and over. Premiums for Post-Retirement Basic FEGLI will
also increase slightly for those enrollees who elect the 50% Reduction
and No Reduction. These increases are necessary due to the experience
of the group and are necessary to sufficiently fund the projected
future increases.
We will issue guidance to all agencies for the purpose of
counseling employees and we will notify affected annuitants directly
via OPM's Office of Retirement Services. The FEGLI premium rates will
be maintained on the FEGLI Web site http://www.opm.gov/insure/life.
The new FEGLI premium rates for Option B, Option C and the Post-
Retirement Basic Option are as follows:
Option B Premium per $1,000 of Insurance
Age band Biweekly Monthly
Under 35.......................................... $0.02 $0.043
35-39............................................. 0.03 0.065
40-44............................................. 0.05 0.108
45-49............................................. 0.08 0.173
50-54............................................. 0.13 0.282
55-59............................................. 0.23 0.498
60-64............................................. 0.52 1.127
65-69............................................. 0.62 1.343
70-74............................................. 1.14 2.470
75-79............................................. 1.80 3.900
80 and over....................................... 2.40 5.200
The premiums for compensationers who are paid every four weeks are two
times the biweekly premium.
Option C Premium per Multiple of Insurance
Age band Biweekly Monthly
Under 35.......................................... $0.22 $0.48
35-39............................................. 0.29 0.63
40-44............................................. 0.42 0.91
45-49............................................. 0.63 1.37
50-54............................................. 0.94 2.04
55-59............................................. 1.52 3.29
60-64............................................. 2.70 5.85
65-69............................................. 3.14 6.80
70-74............................................. 3.60 7.80
75-79............................................. 4.80 10.40
80 and over....................................... 6.60 14.30
The premiums for compensationers who are paid every four weeks are two
times the biweekly premium.
Annuitant Basic Premium per $1,000 of Insurance
Monthly withholding for Monthly withholding for
each $1,000 of your BIA each $1,000 of your BIA
Election before age 65 (in after age 65 (in
dollars) dollars)
75% Reduction................................................. 0.3250 (*)
50% Reduction................................................. 0.9650 0.64
No Reduction.................................................. 2.2650 1.94
\*\ No cost.
Compensationer Basic Premium per $1,000 of Insurance
Withholding every 4 Withholding every 4
weeks for each $1,000 weeks for each $1,000
Election of your BIA before age of your BIA after age
65 (in dollars) 65 (in dollars)
75% Reduction................................................. 0.30 (*)
50% Reduction................................................. 0.89 0.59
No Reduction.................................................. 2.09 1.79
\*\ No cost.
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Premiums for other FEGLI coverages, including the Basic Employee
premium and Option A (all age bands), will not change at this time.
These rates will be effective the first pay period beginning on or
after January 1, 2012.
U.S. Office of Personnel Management.
John Berry,
[FR Doc. 2011-29285 Filed 11-10-11; 8:45 am]


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That's the snare drum that will accompany publicly professed Real Salt Lake supporter and Rancid drummer, Branden Steineckert, on the rock band's North American tour this summer. Steineckert posted the picture to his Instagram account on Wednesday night, and it's been making the social media rounds ever since.
This isn't the first time Steineckert has gotten involved with the soccer teams he supports. The master on drums penned what has become RSL's unofficial official in-stadium anthem after it caught on Internet fire following a promomotional video prior to the 2012 season. This also lead to Steineckert sitting down with the Major League Soccer video guys for a feature interview about his love for the game, and RSL.
In short, Steinkeckert is pretty rad (do the kids still say "rad?"). Perhaps he can drop that drum off with the American Outlaws — guaranteed to take good care and put it to good use — for the US national team's upcoming World Cup qualifiers against Jamaica, Panama and Honduras. After their 4-2 friendly defeat against Belgium on Wednesday night, we'll take whatever little boost we can get.
And US goalkeeper Brad Guzan is more than stoked to be featured prominently on the Centennial-themed design as well.
Big props to my boy @801punx. Stoked to be part of the new @sjcdrums kit for this tour. @rancid @ussoccer #Boss #JB twitter.com/bguzan/status/…— brad guzan (@bguzan) May 31, 2013


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A new investigation by The Intercept reveals how racist anti-Muslim neocons are driving the nation's law enforcement agenda.
The anti-Muslim hate that might have fueled the the Oak Creek murderer is more widespread than you think.
In the US today, the very ordinariness of Muslim-American life has become grounds for suspicion.
As his trial unfolds, Norway exorcises some of its xenophobic demons.
Let us realize that the best way to honor the loss of innocent life on one day is to remember taking of innocent life on all days.
On Tuesday, ten years after I got my green card and ten years into the war on terror, I became a citizen of the United States. Why I did it.


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JEREMY HOBSON: According to the latest tally from the Census Bureau, women own less than 30 percent of the nation's businesses. Well today the Small Business administration is taking a step to up that number by helping women-owned businesses win government contacts.
Marketplace's Nancy Marshall Genzer reports.
NANCY MARSHALL GENZER: Say I own a small business. Let's call it, Marshall-Genzer Enterprises. Starting today, I can certify online that my business is owned by a woman.
For the first time, federal contracting officers are actually setting aside contracts for certified, women-owned companies. The penalties for a business that misrepresents itself on a government website have been strengthened. SBA spokeswoman Hayley Meadvin says it'll be easier for the government to prove fraud.
HAYLEY MEADVIN: It gives the federal government a little bit of teeth to really make sure the small business contracts are flowing to the intended recipients.
The SBA will also be on the lookout for corporations that use woman-owned companies as fronts to get government contracts. There's just one problem. There aren't enough government workers overseeing the contracts.
Allison Stanger is an economist at Middlebury College.
ALLISON STANGER: If you want to insist that the law be upheld, you've got to have the bodies there, doing it.
Stanger says, in some cases, government contractors are overseen by, other contractors.
In Washington, I'm Nancy Marshall Genzer for Marketplace.


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Find the resources you need to care for a loved one
Andrew Spear
When Pat Franta's then 91-year-old mother could no longer get out of bed because of emphysema and severe arthritis, Franta moved into her mother's Strongsville home and became her caregiver.
She spent hours on the telephone finding help — home care aides, home-delivered meals and transportation to medical appointments — so her mother would be taken care of while Franta worked her full-time job.
It took Franta, 59, to the breaking point.
"I'm a nurse practitioner," she said. "I should have known where the resources I needed for full-time home care were, but I didn't."
Eventually Franta learned about the caregiver support program provided by the Western Reserve Area Agency on Aging (AAA) in Cleveland.
Using materials the agency provided and with the help of an AAA care coordinator, she found the necessary resources to support her mother at home rather than having to move her to a nursing facility.
Franta is now telling people her age about the program because "they may not need help from them now, but that can change in the blink of an eye."
Most caregivers are unpaid
Family and friends provide about 80 percent of the care for older individuals, said Jane Taylor, AARP Ohio state director.
Nearly 1.7 million Ohio residents helped care for a frail adult family member in 2009, according to an analysis (pdf) by the AARP Public Policy Institute (PPI). The economic value of that care, PPI estimated, was $17.5 billion.
About one in seven Ohio residents is 65 or older; by 2030 that will increase to nearly one in four, according to Miami University's Scripps Gerontology Center in Oxford.
As the state ages, more services to help family caregivers will be needed, Taylor said.
To help address that growing need, AARP Ohio is launching a program for caregivers.
On Nov. 13, AARP Ohio will begin making automated calls to about 130,000 members who have expressed an interest in caregiving issues.
During the calls, representatives of the Ohio Association of Area Agencies on Aging will discuss the available in-home services. AARP representatives will discuss information that is available online to caregivers.
In addition, the experts will discuss programs caregivers can tap into, such as:
- Care management programs that provide education and training for family caregivers through local AAAs or the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.
- Caregiver support groups through organizations such as the Alzheimer's Association and the American Cancer Society.
- In-home respite programs that provide breaks for caregivers, often with fees based on ability to pay.
- Public benefits that can help pay for groceries, medications and utilities.
More money for home-based care
AARP Ohio and Central Ohio AAA volunteers will staff a phone bank from 5 to 6:30 p.m. Nov. 27 during the WCHM-TV, Channel 4, news program. Viewers with caregiving questions can call 614-821-4444.
The volunteers will provide information or refer callers to caregiving resources in the Columbus area.
More resources are now available because the Ohio General Assembly allocated an additional $152 million for home- and community-based services this year.
AARP Ohio advocated for the additional money for the services, which allow frail people to remain at home rather than move to a nursing home.
"With these programs," Taylor said, "we are going to link thousands of caregivers to resources they never even knew existed."
For more information on and assistance with caregiving, visit the AARP Caregiving Resource Center.
Eileen Beal is a writer living in Cleveland Heights, Ohio.
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Local area, metropolitan area, satellite, and packet radio networks; routing algorithms for wide area networks; optimal design of packet-switched networks; congestion and flow control; fast packet switching; gigabit networks. Prerequisite: E E 565 or permission of instructor.
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Functional elements of communication networks: Multiplexing, Switching, Routing. Review of Markov Chain theory, Scheduling and Processor Sharing Queues, Stochastic models of stream traffic. Multiplexer analysis for stream traffic. Bandwidth sharing in centralized wireless networks (packet scheduling). Bandwidth sharing in distributed wireless networks (multiple access protocols).
Student learning goals
Understand fundamental design and analytical techniques in communication networks
Design and analyze networked communication systems
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Recommended preparation
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What makes some clays such powerful antimicrobial agents capable of killing MRSA and other virulent bacteria? It's a question that University at Buffalo researchers have been studying for several years. With funding from the National Institutes of Health-National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, the UB geologists are studying the surface characteristics of a broad range of naturally occurring antimicrobial clays, including some clays from France to determine why they are such effective killers of bacteria.
Researchers from Arizona State University's School of Earth and Space Exploration, to whom the UB researchers are under subcontract on that grant, have recently shown that these French clays can destroy Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus, also called MRSA.
The UB researchers also have modified and patented a type of clay that is highly successful in destroying a range of bacterial agents. It will soon be tested against MRSA.
Some of their results will be presented today at the annual meeting of the Geological Society of America in Denver.
Rossman Giese, Ph.D., professor of geology in UB's College of Arts and Sciences, and Tracy Bank, Ph.D., assistant professor of geology at UB, are using several techniques to study the clays, including atomic force microscopy.
In particular, they study the weak interactions that are responsible for the stickiness of clay particles.
"We look at the attraction or repulsion between natural and modified clays and bacteria," said Giese.
Unlike antibiotics, which are essentially a chemical weapon against bacteria, antimicrobial clays kill through purely physical means, he explained.
"The bacterium has to come into physical contact with the clay in order for something to happen." Giese said.
That contact turns deadly.
"The antimicrobial agents in the clay poke a hole in the cell wall of the bacterium causing the bacterium to leak to death," he explained. "The nice thing about that is that there is no way that the bacterium can evolve to avoid it, so resistance to the antimicrobial clay is unlikely to become a problem."
The clay developed by UB researchers has been very effective in lab testing.
"Our studies show that when we mix a bit of our modified clay at very low levels into sewage sludge that contains all kinds of bacteria, the modified clay kills everything," said Giese. "Nothing will grow in it."
The formulation developed by Giese and colleagues in the department and in the UB School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences was recently licensed to a Buffalo startup company, called Bioclay, Inc.
The first application for that product is to treat HEPA filters in hospitals with the clay, in order to trap and kill potentially lethal bacteria.
In addition to Bank and Giese, other UB researchers who developed Bioclay are Pat Costanzo, formerly a faculty member in the UB Department of Geology, Paul J. Kostyniak, Ph.D., professor of pharmacology and toxicology and director of the Toxicology Research Center, and Joseph A. Syracuse, research scientist with the same center.
Bank and Giese are also looking at other antimicrobial properties of clays, including a project with researchers at the UB School of Dental Medicine on how decay-causing bacteria may interact with teeth and how the bacteria might be prevented from remaining in contact with teeth.
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Drew Miller
You got noticed in the Oklahoma drill Monday night. How satisfying was that?
It was the first day in pads, and I was all amped and juiced up. I hadn't hit anybody since the January bowl games, and I'm glad the coaches gave me the opportunity. I had a lot of experience at Florida in one-on-one drills with the whole team watching.
Were you disappointed you weren't drafted?
I was prepared if that happened. I know it's a business. Teams are going to do what they have to do. I'm glad I'm getting an opportunity to make the team. Ultimately, all I care about is making the team, not where I got drafted.
You switched positions your senior year from guard to center. Do you think that hurt you in the draft?
I'm not sure, but now it's helped me because I need to play both positions here.
Why did you sign with the Jaguars?
I was blessed that I had a lot of choices, but the Jaguars were the best fit. They said they didn't draft any rookie offensive linemen and didn't have any others coming in. They were true to their word. When I showed up, I was the only rookie lineman. I felt like I had a good shot here. That's why I came.
Did the fact you're a Florida native who played at Florida help sway you?
It wasn't a factor at all. My second choice was either the Giants or the Redskins, but I had a visit here [before the draft], and I was familiar with the coaches. This was my only visit, so I saw how I'd fit in. ... I had a comfort level here.
What are your strengths?
I'm very athletic, versatile, play multiple positions. I learn things quickly and picked up the offense pretty quickly.
What do you have to work on?
I'm not sure how to explain it, but I need to do things the veterans can do like picking up things. And I want to be more explosive on my blocks every day.
- With most players wearing teal baseball caps, the Jaguars had a light workout without pads Friday morning. Only 506 fans attended the session.
- The residual effects of the team's annual rookie hazing were on display during the morning workout. Several staffers and rookies took the field with new haircuts, and it appeared the most popular style was the balding-man look (hair on the sides, totally bare on top). Rookie defensive end Quentin Groves wore the balding look with a twist. Carved into the remaining hair on the back of Groves' head was a huge "G."
- With the defense not tackling well early in Friday night's scrimmage, running back Maurice Drew caught a pass on a crossing route before bumping into an official on a 34-yard gain.
- Despite having adequate coverage on wide receiver Dennis Northcutt, safety Gerald Sensabaugh was called for a pass-interference penalty on a deep pass.
- Offensive tackle Tony Pashos neutralized defensive ends James Wyche and Brent Hawkins in back-to-back repetitions during one-on-one pass-rush drills in the night session.
- Undrafted rookie fullback Anthony Cotrone appeared to suffer a leg or knee injury during the scrimmage. Coach Jack Del Rio was uncertain about Cotrone's status.
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The Arkansas Prostate Cancer Foundation is teaming up with the Challenger league in Pine Bluff for a baseball game at 2 p.m. May 4 at Ed Brown Field.
The Arkansas Prostate Cancer Foundation is teaming up with the Challenger league in Pine Bluff for a baseball game at 2 p.m. May 4 at Ed Brown Field.
The purpose of the game is twofold, according to Arkansas Prostate Cancer Foundation director of development Patrick Presley: To encourage early screening and detection of prostate cancer and also encourage families to show children that baseball is a game they can play and enjoy, no matter what obstacles they face.
Carissa Lynne Garner, who lives with Spina Bifida, will be one of the players in the game.
�Well, it�s like when I�m playing baseball, I�m in a whole different world,� Carissa said. �I mean it is so fun and everything. It just takes me out of our world. I can�t help it. When I run the bases, I get tired if I have to run all the way to third but it is so much fun. I can�t explain it. And, if I have to run to home, I get really tired but it is worth it. I just have so much fun with it!�
The motivation for the partnership, Presley said, is that legendary Pine Bluff coach Ed Brown passed away from prostate cancer. Brown helped start Little League Baseball in 1952 and coached the Jaycees Little League team for 35 years, winning 21 Little League championships, two city titles and the 1980 National Little League All-Star championship. He also helped start the Babe Ruth program and restart Pine Bluff High School�s baseball program.
The goal of the APCF and the Challenger league is to see the event grow into teams from across the state coming to Pine Bluff to participate.


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So, from one, purely technical point of view, you can say that it's 100% done and playable. From a more demanding point of view, it's about 60% done, meaning that I would like to replace about 40% given an opportunity (just like we replaced the interface, for example). I can post a list of things I want to fix, if someone's interested and, perhaps, would like to help.
Well, one thing that always bugged me was the complete and utter lack of anything resembling art direction. I underestimated this aspect, which is probably the biggest mistake I've made developing AoD. We have visually interesting locations like the towers, the Petra-inspired location, the temple, some tombs and underground places, but the towns look… I don't even know what word I'm looking for. Generic? Uninspiring? Boring?
Somehow they don't look like towns, but like a loose collection of buildings. At least in the Spiderweb games the towns are way too abstract for someone to say "wait-a-minute! That doesn't look like a proper town at all" (I'm too lazy to take screenshots right now, but I think we have a town shot on the website, so take a look). Anyway, we decided to throw away the town maps and start basically from scratch, splitting each town map into districts and spending more attention/time on each district, doing it right this time.
I decided to start posting short updates to a) show that the project is not dead and b) to entertain you with crazy game development stories.
For the last 4-5 months we've been working on the combat system. While it sounds simple (I kill you with death -> u die lol!!!!), it's actually not. And no, I'm not taking about all kinda hit/miss calculations, clevar AI, the ruleset, or anything remotely interesting. I'm talking about some annoying, minor, but time-consuming crap like dropping and picking up weapons and other junk.
Our general pick-up system is simple. You click on the eye icon* and get a window that shows you all available (not in containers) items in each map(!). We have, basically, an invisible container where all the local junk is contained and dropped into when you discard an item or kill someone. Since we don't have a lot of junk lying around that seems to work well. All ingredients (leafs, sulfur, etc) are also in the container (different areas have different items - there are no leafs in desert locations, obviously). The access to the ingredients is skill-based. Let's say there are 40 "healing" leafs in an area. If your alchemy is 50, you only see 8 leafs in the pickup box. You can't see any items, weapons or ingredients, on the ground; everything is handled via the pickup window.
Anyway, moving on. In combat your can't access the general pickup window. Some battles involve allies and smarter testers waited for a better equipped characters to die and then grabbed their stuff telekinetically, being 5-10 squares away. That didn't work for us, so we had to change it. You can pick up only what's on the square you stand on (think XCOM). That way if you see a dropped weapon and you want it NOW!, you move your ass to that square and pick it up. Alternatively, you can wait for the battle to be over and then pick up everything through the general pickup window.
Now, that seems to work, but you can't see items that are on the ground, which creates a problem. Yesterday my character was disarmed by NPC A and then was knocked away by NPC B's hammer of painful death. So, here I was, disarmed and far away from the square with my axe. What was worse I couldn't even remember which square it was after the NPCs moved a bit. So, we decided to use the NWN2 "lootbag" system, which I hate with passion. We wasted a few weeks trying to come up with a better system and trying different things, but failed. Well, we'd have stupid little chests instead of bags. After a battle is over, the chests will disappear and all the loot will go into the main invisible chest. So, that's the kinda stuff that we are dealing with at the moment, in case someone's wondering.
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12/12/12 …
is the day on which we will ever see, in this earthly life, such a repetitive date.
12/12/12 …
is the day on which we will ever see, in this earthly life, such a repetitive date.
Our eldest daughter turns 12 today! :o)
@inara: Congrats to your daughter!
And six minutes to go before 12:12 pm Central Time!
I guess it doesn't matter that its actually 12/12/2012. Maybe if we were living in the year 12 or 1212 id be excited but then again we wouldn't be using the same calendar so I guess not.
VexillaRegis ~ thank you! She was supposed to be born on Christmas eve, but Our Lady had other plans. ;o) I just got back from picking up the annual 2 dozen roses ~ one vase for Brynn & one for Mary (which goes on the piano under our life size replica of Our Lady of Guadalupe). As a bonus, our parish has a Low Mass tonight!
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A tragic, off-campus incident early Sunday, Oct. 28, left three people dead. At a private residence in the area of Plumb Lane and Arlington Avenue in Reno, gunshots were fired at approximately 1 a.m. Three were killed, including Derek "DJ" Jensen, 23, a University undergraduate student.
"I am deeply saddened by this senseless tragedy, and know it will cause unimaginable grief for the families and friends of the victims," said Milt Glick, University President. "On behalf of the University community, I extend my deepest sympathies to the families and friends of these three young men."
Students who are emotionally impacted by this incident and loss are strongly encouraged to access counseling services by calling University Counseling Center at (775) 784-4648 or Reno Crisis Call Center at (775) 784-8090.
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- There are about 10-12 kids milling around outside with a husky dog, some of the kids are smoking. It's crowded inside. Lots of people standing. I find a single seat on a couch and camp it before I place my order (passion shaken iced tea lemonade, no sweetener). I later find there is an outlet behind a neighbor's chair. I have found my camping spot for the night. Counter people are friendly.
- There's good oldies music on interspersed with less good oldies music.
- 10pm: Very crowded. 10 kids outside, another 15+ inside without seats, not counting those sitting on the floor. A lot are trying to consolidate groups though. It shouldn't take more than 15 minutes to find a seat alone. Might take 40 in a group of 3+. Not too noisy, beside loud music.
- My allergies start bothering me and I take an asthma pill (Bronkaid). The active ingredient is ephedrine. Will try to avoid too much coffee.
- 11pm: Less crowded. Outside kids are still at ~10, plus 4 cops. Maybe 5 more people milling around inside. Definitely less people standing at counters or sitting on the floor, if there are any. No line to order anymore.
- Christmas music has started and I am not pleased. Dude across from me is rocking out to "Little Drummer Boy" though. If he does this to all the music this will be alright.
- 12am: A little more crowded, but not much. Internet is still too slow for hulu, I discard fantasies of playing Team Fortress 2 or Altitude tonight. Christmas music has mercifully stopped,
- 1am: Most seats are still filled, but there's a lot less activity and a few empty ones by now. People still have to walk around a bit to find seating for groups 2+. Singletons are sitting easily. Music has mellowed out considerably. Outlets are in much lower demand.
- 2am: Opera now, but not much else different from 1am. Still pretty busy in here.
- 2:30am Evicted. Forced to sit in a corner while someone cleans my area. She's been shuffling us in sections.
- 2:45am Returned.
- 3:00am Maybe 20+ people left in the store, still nowhere you can sit in isolation, but there's enough seating for anyone who'd come in. Still 3 kids outside smoking cigarettes, I'm not sure if they ever come back in or of what they're doing out there.
- 3:15 - 400am More Christmas music.
- 4:00am Dudes outside are gone. The population has plateaued since 2am, I think it's only only going to get busier from here on in. Christmas music is driving me insane. Pa rum pum pum pum.
- 430am: Went for a walk with my bag, someone took my seat. It's okay, I sit across from them.
- 5am They've turned the awful music up very loudly. People walking in are forced alert by bad harmonies followed by very quiet singing and plucking, then very loud harmonies again. There's a loud industrial grinder or a backing track by Merzbow. Even when the grinder stops, the music is way too loud. Either they're trying to pump up employees, scare away all-nighters, or supplement their stimulants with fight or flight response. I and a few late night students are undeterred.
- 6am Breakfast rush is coming. Lines are longer. Place is busier. People are whiter. Music is much better now.
- 7am. Full on morning grind. Children and mothers and students. Everyone looks as haggard as I am. Music is okay. Easy listening.
- 8am Ebbing again, less business. Sun is fully risen. I'm out to Bob Marley and Andrew Bird.
- Internet speeds in Mbps
- 10pm: 0.13 down / 0.29 up (yeah it sucks)
- 11pm: 0.22 down / 0.17 up (still sucks)
- 12am: 0.24 down / 0.10 up (sucking no less)
- 01am: 0.70 down / 0.50 up (great success)
- 02am: 0.24 down / 0.12 up (and back down again.)
- 03am: 0.28 down / 0.12 up (poop)
- 04am: 0.25 down / 0.19 up (see above)
- 05am: 0.28 down / 0.28 up ()
- 06am: 0.09 down / 0.19 up
- 07am: 0.37 down / 0.85 up
- 08am: 0.78 down / 1.21 up (best speed yet.)
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Dorinda Clark-Cole
- reviewed by Russ Breimeier Copyright Christianity Today International
- 2002 1 Jun
Dorinda Clark-Cole is one of the renowned Clark Sisters, the gospel quartet comprised of daughters of the late great choir director and composer Dr. Mattie Moss-Clark who have been recording since the mid '80s. Referenced as "the jazzy one" by her sisters because of her improvisational skills, Dorinda is also the Vice-President of the International Music Division of her denomination, the Church of God in Christ. The Detroit native is also an administrator and instructor at the Clark Conservatory of Music (founded by her mother), as well as a devoted wife and mother of two. It's a wonder that Dorinda found the time to make a solo album, though she certainly has enough talent to warrant one. (Two of her sisters are following suit soon – Karen Clark-Sheard's latest is just around the corner, and Elbertina Clark's arrives next month.)
Dorinda co-wrote five of the twelve songs on her self-titled solo debut, which is a mix of four studio tracks and eight live recordings. Produced by Aspah Ward, the live tracks recorded in her hometown at Bailey Cathedral are the usual high-energy pop-gospel songs you'd expect from Yolanda Adams or Beverly Crawford. Upbeat songs such as the soulful pop of "If It Had Not Been for the Lord" and the gospel funk of "I'm Coming Out" showcase a talented backing band and allow Dorinda to flex her vocal muscles. The latter is a different way to say that God sees us through all the trials of this world. Powerful gospel ballads such as "You Don't Have to Leave Here" and "You Can't Take My Joy" allow Dorinda to become more dramatic with her singing, supported by a strong backing choir. "Nobody Like Jesus" harkens back to a more classic fast gospel sound, as does the bluesy "You Can't Hurry God." On "I'm Still Here," Dorinda makes her original song about the daily blessing of life sound like a true gospel standard, as if it were a classic by Shirley Caesar. Fans of The Clark Sisters also will want to check out "Show Me the Way," which features all four of them singing jazzy gospel pop as only they can.
I was even more impressed by the studio tracks, which were produced by PAJAM (Paul Allen and J. Moss, Dorinda's cousins). Three of the four tracks are well-produced modern R&B, especially the encouraging "You Can" and the hidden track "You Need Him," which isn't so hidden since the lyrics are printed in the CD booklet. "It's Not Me" is a darkly hued R&B track that defers all acclaim and praise from Dorinda to God. The standout of all the studio tracks is "No Not One," a smartly conceived blend of the traditional hymn with the Clark Sisters' classic "Angels." Dorinda's sister Karen sings backing vocals on all the studio tracks, but it's most welcome on this particular song because of the tight jazz harmonies between Dorinda and Karen, reminiscent of En Vogue or The Manhattan Transfer.
I have two observations about Dorinda's solo album. First, I understand the spontaneity and excitement that come from performing a reprise in concert. This album features two of them for the songs "I'm Coming Out" and "You Don't Have to Leave Here." It's puzzling that the reprises are edited into separate tracks on the CD, with the original versions fading out at the end only to fade back in for the reprise and overlapping a few seconds between the tracks. It makes for a slightly awkward listening experience, and I'm not sure why they didn't just let the live tracks occur more naturally. The other concern is whether or not listeners will take to an album that alternates between the live contemporary pop-gospel of Yolanda Adams to the studio tracks that have more in common with the modern R&B beats of Brandy. If you know you like both, then by all means check out the solo debut from Dorinda Clark-Cole. Her album proves what listeners have known all along: She's a truly talented gospel artist and music minister.


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BidaskClub upgraded shares of Chase Co. (NYSEMKT:CCF) from a sell rating to a hold rating in a report released on Tuesday morning.
Chase (CCF) opened at 94.05 on Tuesday. Chase has a 12 month low of $61.02 and a 12 month high of $116.15. The firm has a 50-day moving average price of $103.92 and a 200 day moving average price of $100.31. The company has a market cap of $870.72 million, a P/E ratio of 21.38 and a beta of 1.64.
Chase (NYSEMKT:CCF) last released its earnings results on Wednesday, July 5th. The construction company reported $1.12 earnings per share for the quarter. Chase had a return on equity of 24.60% and a net margin of 18.27%. The firm had revenue of $64.90 million during the quarter. On average, equities analysts expect that Chase will post $1.91 earnings per share for the current year.
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In other Chase news, Director George M. Hughes sold 500 shares of the company's stock in a transaction on Monday, July 17th. The stock was sold at an average price of $109.46, for a total transaction of $54,730.00. Following the completion of the sale, the director now directly owns 1,899 shares in the company, valued at $207,864.54. The transaction was disclosed in a filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which can be accessed through the SEC website. Insiders have sold 900 shares of company stock valued at $94,080 over the last 90 days.
Large investors have recently added to or reduced their stakes in the company. Campbell & CO Investment Adviser LLC boosted its position in shares of Chase by 23.7% in the second quarter. Campbell & CO Investment Adviser LLC now owns 2,977 shares of the construction company's stock worth $318,000 after buying an additional 571 shares during the last quarter. Acadian Asset Management LLC boosted its position in shares of Chase by 41.5% in the second quarter. Acadian Asset Management LLC now owns 14,745 shares of the construction company's stock worth $1,574,000 after buying an additional 4,328 shares during the last quarter. Russell Investments Group Ltd. boosted its position in shares of Chase by 140.9% in the second quarter. Russell Investments Group Ltd. now owns 3,713 shares of the construction company's stock worth $396,000 after buying an additional 2,172 shares during the last quarter. Seizert Capital Partners LLC purchased a new position in shares of Chase during the second quarter worth approximately $1,784,000. Finally, Swiss National Bank boosted its position in shares of Chase by 9.6% in the second quarter. Swiss National Bank now owns 12,500 shares of the construction company's stock worth $1,334,000 after buying an additional 1,100 shares during the last quarter.
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