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Zillow Group Cl C (Z) market momentum is building as the Awesome Oscillator (AO) is showing a down-trend in the name over the past 5 bars. Awesome Oscillator shows the difference in between the 5 SMA and 34 SMA. If to be precise, 5 SMA of midpoints is subtracted from 34 SMA of midpoints which allows to see the market momentum. Awesome Oscillator buy signals are created when the indicator crosses from below 0 to above 0, and sell signals when reversed. The oscillator changes from green (upward movement) to red (downward movement) and back to green again. The oscillator was developed by Bill Williams and outlined in his book titled "New Trading Dimensions".
Another technical indicator that may assist in measuring the strength of market momentum is the Average Directional Index or ADX. At the time of writing, the 14-day ADX for Zillow Group Cl C (Z) is standing at 22.56. Many chart analysts believe that an ADX reading over 25 would suggest a strong trend. A reading under 20 would suggest no trend, and a reading from 20-25 would suggest that there is no clear trend signal. The ADX was created by J. Welles Wilder to help determine how strong a trend is. In general, a rising ADX line means that an existing trend is gaining strength. The opposite would be the case for a falling ADX line.
Zillow Group Cl C (Z)'s Williams Percent Range or 14 day Williams %R is sitting at -17.79. Typically, if the value heads above -20, the stock may be considered to be overbought. On the flip side, if the indicator goes under -80, this may signal that the stock is oversold. The RSI, or Relative Strength Index, is a commonly used technical momentum indicator that compares price movement over time. The RSI was created by J. Welles Wilder who was striving to measure whether or not a stock was overbought or oversold. The RSI may be useful for spotting abnormal price activity and volatility. The RSI oscillates on a scale from 0 to 100. The normal reading of a stock will fall in the range of 30 to 70. A reading over 70 would indicate that the stock is overbought, and possibly overvalued. A reading under 30 may indicate that the stock is oversold, and possibly undervalued. After a recent check, the 14-day RSI is currently at 64.21, the 7-day stands at 70.65, and the 3-day is sitting at 85.17.
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VitaminD wrote:musikmachine wrote:VitaminD wrote:Anytime they want to send me vouchers for magazines for no charge, I'm all for it.
Kind of odd they sent me 2 10 dollar vouchers though. I wonder if those can be combined..
That is, if I add more email addresses to the offer and get more vouchers, can those be stacked on one account (and thus I could get an entire yearly subscription for free)?? The offer said one 50 dollar deal per account, not per person.. so I figure it might be fair game.
Am i sensing an internet Zinio scam?
hah! I wouldn't even be thinking it had it said per person. That, and I probably hang around slickdeals too much.
Now everyone's thinking it!
VitaminD wrote:Btw Wolfram is pretty nice. The CM version is missing 1 modulator, patchbay routings, and the filter is locked to Lowpass. Still capable of quite a variety of sounds.
I'm also half tempted to see what I can create with just magazineware. It is surprisingly capable..
Loomer Cumulus is nice too for mangling drum loops, i guess it's a cut down version of Sequent. Yeah a nice way to augment your setup, already used a few of the plugins, i see upgrades in my future (blessing or curse? ).

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The Mork Dress
Added Sep 11, 2010
Sydney (Inner We...
From many moons ago…
And distant galaxies away.
I do like the '50s fashion phase we're all going through. But the '50s styles are just not my body shape. The Whats your fashion era? helped me realise the '70s and '20s are mine.
So, here's a fun jumper. Started… well, remember the Alabama Chanin Contest ? I spent the first weekend of that two week contest working on the hand-stitching on these pleats. Before deciding it wasn't Alabama enough despite the stars and stripesy feel to the colour scheme. Then, it sat on a chair whilst I finished Water and Jam and G'day Alabama. And then, the tessuti and burdastyle and stitches and craft contest: came along… and then… and then… In fact, I started it long before I got the overlocker. And am pleased I finally went back over its innards to stop those pesky fraying edges.
Behold this late arrival from the '70s. I like its humble and happy vibe. It says, "I am going to the future right after I milk some of these cows".
Variations. The instructions called for the yoke to be topstitched in place. I lined it up to do just that, when POW the '70s jumped right out and hit me in the face. I mean, I like the '70s 'n'all but I DO want to wear this in public. To tone it down, I skipped the top stitching on the front yoke – it is a little softer by using a regular seam on it. Also: No way was I going to put buttons on the shoulders!
– inseam pockets!!
– invisible hem with the machine
P.S. Did you see the look on the other girl's face when she saw someone had the same thing on as her?!
Material Notes
heavy cotton; cotton thread; and contrast stitching in linen thread
Related Techniques
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the loveable Mork!
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Sep 22, 2010, 03.46 PMby bathina
Great job you did and your choice of pattern is unike! I love it
Sep 18, 2010, 12.19 AMby hniuniu
good it is beautful ,i like it,thanks
Sep 17, 2010, 03.22 AMby tudorrose69
Hi, just to let everyone know, I just purchased this exact pattern at Etsy.com, size 10 and uncut.
There currently is ONE more of these available at Etsy.com. Just enter "Simplicity 7128" int the ALL category search and you should be able to find it. The remaining patter is in Size 8, and it has already been cut. So HURRY, HURRY, HURRY to Etsy if you want to buy this pattern! I checked E-Bay and they did NOT have it. Can't wait to play with this one! I'll keep you advised. This pattern is ADORABLE, NICE JOB with the project!
Sep 16, 2010, 08.45 AMby gray
Sep 16, 2010, 06.38 AMby pixelink
YES…REVIVE THE SEVENTIES!! Adore your dress and your inspiration on making <3
Sep 16, 2010, 03.46 AMby missdandy
1970s is, hands down, my favorite fashion decade! I really, really love this dress, especially all of those pleats and the inseam pockets!
Sep 15, 2010, 11.29 PMby artemis-ivorywings
This is adorable!
Sep 15, 2010, 06.25 PMby gone2beach
Love it…maybe Simplicty will bring that pattern back!!
Sep 14, 2010, 06.12 PMby loulourosa
this is a verry lovely dress, I like the details and the shape, gorgeous!
Sep 12, 2010, 07.47 PMby michelleiswell
I love this! And I am guessing you called it the Mork dress after 'Mork & Mindy' that crazy television show? I do think buttons on the shoulders would be fabulous, but I understand what you were going for! LOVE THIS. Where did you find the pattern?
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Sep 17, 2010, 03.24 AMby tudorrose69
If you to to Etsy.com (see my post above) you can find this pattern! You may need to or not, change the sizing. Shouldn't be too difficult! Good luck in finding this.
Sep 12, 2010, 07.04 AMby sewella
What a fabulous dress you've made! The work looks impeccable – a true piece of art!
Sep 12, 2010, 06.06 AMby Ralf Schmitz
very lovely dress! i am not too much a fan of the 70th to be honnest, but i really like this one, as it's pattern has been "transported" (or beamed) into our time and looks really stunning like it is!
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Sep 13, 2010, 01.53 AMby Passiona Cottee
Hi Ralf, Thank you. Congratulations on your 50th project. I am glad you think this has been "beamed" into now. I tried for that. From the look of your gentleman's collection I think you would totally rock the 1870s ! ;)
Sep 12, 2010, 04.48 AMby huff
Great dress! I have this pattern and it's so nice to be able to see what it looks like all made up and worn by a human!
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Sep 13, 2010, 01.13 AMby Passiona Cottee
oh, hi. Huff! You're in Australia, too. Cool. Fancy us both having the same vintage american pattern… what a coincidence! I think it would be nice to make the shirt version of this, too – the one with the patterned contrast piece also on the cover. It would be easy(-er) to make if you machine stitch the front pleats like the pattern says to do.
Sep 13, 2010, 08.09 AMby Passiona Cottee
Oh, and yes… Happy to assist you seeing this on a human. How long are the legs of the girls on the pattern cover!!??
Sep 11, 2010, 01.52 PMby carolinam
Great dress, well made, fun story, perfect colours, good fotos (the front one of you and the patternlady is so good). I see this i think: i want that! then i think: but it is not realy my style?? but stil, it attracts me for some reason….
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Sep 13, 2010, 12.28 AMby Passiona Cottee
oh, gosh. thanks for your honesty. I get what you mean about liking the look of something even though it may not be your style. I also think it is perfectly natural… you can like it and I promise you don't have to wear it!
Sep 11, 2010, 01.51 PMby skeeler
I love it. You did a great job! On another note, have you considered becoming a copywriter (if you're not one already)? Love this line: "I am going to the future right after I milk some of these cows".
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Sep 12, 2010, 11.55 PMby Passiona Cottee
Hi skeeler, that is really nice of you to say. It is easy to find expression for things I am passionate about. I have been inspired by the blogs of many of the burdastyle members, too, and would like to start one of my own.
Sep 16, 2010, 06.37 AMby pixelink
I agree!!
Sep 11, 2010, 11.17 AMby bopippdo
this is very nice…!!
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Sep 12, 2010, 11.46 PMby Passiona Cottee
Thanks Bopippdo, I am glad you like it
Sep 11, 2010, 09.48 AMby nessys
This is so cool! I really like the hand-stitched top stitching – it really adds a lovely, individual, warmly-home-spun vibe to this. Blue and red are always winners when you pop them together! I think the red trim on the original was a bit overstated – so I like your toned-down version lots. The pockets are perfection Darl, perfection. I love the mirror image of you and the pattern – well done!
I am also rather proud of you vegan boots! I will have to look into these.
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Sep 11, 2010, 11.21 AMby Passiona Cottee
Thanks sweets. "Beam me up baby" is such a cute take on it. Like a groovy star trekker. You even picked up on the home-spun vibe! And, yes, you must check out Toms shoes. When u buy a pair, they give a pair to a child in need! And they ship to Australia.
I have just now updated the description with a little more of the story about this pattern's progress and context. Chat soon, Nessy :)
Sep 11, 2010, 09.01 AMby magdamagda
wow this looks like such a fun dress! I totally love it, very inspiring!
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Sep 11, 2010, 11.22 AMby Passiona Cottee
Thank you Magda. I'm going to have fun fun FUN in this one.
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In order to improve the User Interface and better communicate to the user when something is happening that they need to wait for, we have started to modify some of our larger (slower) pages to display messages like Processing… or Reloading… while they are cycling through a postback. (Yes, I understand this could be improved by using AJAX / Callbacks and so on, but even then, you need to let your user know that they need to wait for that section to be re-rendered, so for the moment these pages will continue to use good ol' Postbacks.) It's a very simple trick, really. All I want to do is when some control triggers a postback, first run a little client-side JavaScript to hide the main contents of the page (such as a GridView) and display the appropriate message. This lets the user know, "Hey, we're doing something, don't click another link or scroll and try to take action right now."
The first places I hooked this up were easy. Most common cause of a postback: Buttons. And when you're writing the markup or declarative code for an ASP:Button control, there is the handy OnClientClick property which is designed for just this purpose…to run client-side JavaScript before the postback occurs. This is distinguished from the OnClick property which tells the control what Server-side code to run. Great! Done! Easy!
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Anderson's attorney, Jack Hittle, told The Star that he is offering customers 75 percent of customers' claims and that the first few checks are in the mail.
A spokeswoman for the Indiana attorney general's office told The Star that Anderson's decision to close her Fishers studio with no notice and no refunds sparked a complaint under the Indiana's Deceptive Consumer Sales Act.
This isn't Anderson's first brush with legal trouble. The 32-year-old native of Noblesville, IN, opened two gyms (one of which folded) with rent deficits of $25,000 each, according to the newspaper. In 2005, judges awarded $450,000 to past landlords suing Anderson, who filed bankruptcy to escape the debts. Last year, Anderson faced a lawsuit by a former student who invested $100,000 as a partner in Tracy Anderson Studios. Anderson was arrested last December and jailed briefly after one judge tired of the delays in the efforts to collect $2,100 on two cases Anderson had lost.
Anderson's publicist offered no comment to The Star on Tuesday, except to accuse former customers of "lies" and "slander" in their anonymous remarks to an Internet blog about Tracy Anderson Studios.


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Harvard Study: No Discernible Advantage to Fouling While Up ThreePosted by rtmsf on August 25th, 2010
One of the coolest sporting trends of the last decade in sports has been the increasing usage of statistical analysis to make determinations about the games that we love and follow. While Bill James, Nate Silver and others have done yeoman's work in popularizing the use of these metrics, they've mostly focused on the professional side of sports (and political polling, in Silver's case). One notable exception, Ken Pomeroy's site of college basketball tempo-free statistics, has been invaluable in how we all understand and evaluate the game, helping to debunk common myths while also alerting us to teams and players under the radar of the national consciousness. Another up-and-coming group that is showing it wants to enter the fray by analyzing some of the big questions in the game is the Harvard Sports Analysis Collective, who just two weeks ago presented us with the most unlikely finish of the 2009-10 season, a random game between Cal State Fullerton and Cal State Northridge.
Well, the HSAC is back, and today's release is even better. Addressing the widespread end-of-game question among announcers and pundits over whether a winning team should foul in late-game situations when up three points, the HSAC makes a rather curious finding. It seems that over the past decade or so, there has been a slow but steady increase in the so-called conventional wisdom that fouling in those situations is the right play — the thinking being that the odds of the opponent making the first free throw, missing the second, and still securing the rebound and making another shot in a short period of time are very low. That part is true. The odds are low. But what is equally low from a statistical standpoint are the odds of a strategy of simply playing defense and hoping you get the stop. From the article:
In the 2009-2010 season, I found 443 instances where a team held the ball down three points during their last possession of a period (either the end of the 2nd half or an overtime period). In 391 of those cases, the team leading did not foul. In 52 cases, the team chose to foul. […] Of the 52 teams that committed a foul, six lost the game for a winning percentage of 88.46%. Of the 391 teams that did not foul, 33 lost the game for a winning percentage of 91.56%. Both a two sample t test of proportion and a Chi-squared test fail to reject the null hypothesis that there is a difference in winning percentage between the two strategies. In this sample, teams that did not foul won slightly more often. For the less statistically inclined, this means that there is no significant difference between the two strategies. [emphasis added]
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Queensland towns vie for heat peak
Birdsville and Thargomindah, two remote Queensland towns, are vying for the state's top temperature in decades as the current heatwave sears large regions of inland Australia.
Birdsville recently jumped to 49 degrees, equalling a level reached by the town in 1981, and not far from a 49.2 level reached in 1972.
Thargomindah, about 1100 kilometres west of Brisbane, earlier touched 48.8 degrees before a thunderstorm doused the extreme heat, lowering it to 44 degrees, said Brett Dutschke, senior meteorologist at Weatherzone.
It's been Queensland turn today for the most scorching temperatures, although other towns located near the Corner Country where NSW, South Australia and Queensland meet had similarly blistering heat.
In fact, it's getting so hot in outback Queensland that roads are melting and some rail services are being halted.
Train services in central Queensland are being slowed down, with some grinding to a complete halt.
Queensland Rail confirms that the Spirit of the Outback service was terminated at Emerald yesterday and passengers are being taken by bus to Mount Isa.
Moomba yesterday reached a maximum of 49.6 degrees - the hottest recorded in Australia for 15 years.
Other towns nearing that mark today include the NSW towns of Bourke at 48 and Walgett at 48.5.
Hotting up
Some moisture is finally moving in from the delayed northern monsoon and southern coastal regions are cooler than in recent days. Heat, though, is again building up in areas to the west of Uluru, Dr Dutschke said.
"Once we get to Tuesday to Thursday of (this) week, the interior could be just as hot as today," he said.
"The trees are chasing the dogs"
By Thursday, a large area of Victoria and South Australia will see heat in the low- to mid-40s, while Tasmania may see temperatures in the mid-30s.
"I'm sure we'll get some severe fire danger weather and total fire ban days," he said. "The air won't be as dry as the last batch of serious fire conditions."
Dr Dutschke said that while coastal regions had enjoyed periods of cool conditions, the interior of Australia had seen three weeks of unrelenting and unusually hot conditions.
"It's the duration and the intensity of the heatwave that's making it the stand-out," he said.
At least nine of the first 12 days of 2013 have seen average maximums nationwide of above 39 degrees. At least seven of the hottest 20 days in terms of average maximums have fallen in this year alone although the all-time record of 50.7 degrees at one site - Oodnadatta on January 2, 1960 - remains unbroken.
Railway, power
Some reports claimed that QR National feared the railtracks would buckle in the extreme heat, but a spokeswoman said it was more out of concern for the passengers.
Aurizon, which runs the state's coal railways, is inspecting its lines to make sure tracks haven't been damaged.
''Due to the high temperatures currently being experienced, Aurizon has imposed speed restrictions on various parts of its central Queensland coal network,'' a spokeswoman told AAP.
In the far north, at Cooktown and Hopevale, residents were without power on Saturday night after what Ergon Energy said was ''catastrophic malfunction'' at a local substation.
''Luckily the power is back on for most people and we have some more portable generators on the way,'' a spokesman said.
''But it certainly wouldn't have been a terribly comfortable evening for a lot of people.''
Towns in the state's far west have been sweltering in the heat, even at night, for weeks.
Birdsville, Thargomindah and Ballera all recorded temperatures above 37C at midnight (AEST) on Sunday.
The bitumen roads in those towns are melting daily, but locals say they're getting used to the extreme heat.
Kate McDonald, who manages the Birdsville Hotel, said the temperature on the verandah is currently 50C.
''For us, hot is hot, but it's never been quite like this,'' she told AAP.
''We've had hot weather for 10-11 weeks now. You get hot water from the cold water taps.
''There's no break from it at night either, it's really hot when it's dark.''
Nigel, who was cooling down at the Birdsville Hotel bar but was shy about giving his surname, said it was so hot ''the trees are chasing the dogs''.
''Hoping that they pee on 'em,'' he said.
He predicted a cool change would come through - in June.
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Four Bollywood movies were slated for release today. Reviewers feel not one is worth your time and money!
While Issaq fails on performances, the veteran actors of Bajatey Raho (Vinay Pathak, Ranvir Shorey and Dolly Ahluwalia) are brought down with bad script. Nasha has some surprise element for Poonam Pandey fans as it's more emotions than skin-show.
Director Manish Tiwari has adapted Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet in Issaq. Set in Varanasi, the film is supposed to be a modern take on the tragedy. Critics find it too loud.
The Prateik Babbar- Amrya Dastur-starrer is completely missable. Sanjukta Sharma writes for Mint, "Storytelling is linear and predictable, performances by the lead actors, Prateik and Amyra Dastur as Rahul Mishra and Bachchi Kashyap, are far from electric." Sanjukta finds the movie too loud. "On the whole, ISSAQ is absorbing and convincing in parts, not in entirety. The final outcome could've been even more impactful had it not been stretched, writes Taran Adarsh for Bollywood Hungama.
Produced by Shailesh R Singh and Dhaval Gada, the movie also stars Ravi Kishan, Rajeshwari Sachdev, Makrand Deshpande, Neena Gupta, Prashant Narayanan, Sudhir Pandey, Amit Sial, Vineet Kumar, Yuri Suri, Prashaant Kumar and Evelyn Sharma.
Twitter buzz:
@ParakramRana: Issaq is a beautiful film. Superbly directed, awesome cinematography & performances by everyone. Very proud of @AmyraDastur93. Go watch it!?
@manishalakhe: If Shakespeare bhaiyya been alive he would have suicided jumping off bridge on Ganga maiyya #Issaq is suppessal
@CilemaSnob: ahahahahah #InstantClassic RT @ReelReptile Prateik Babbar looked like he was acting for Rs. 12 in Issaq.
Bajatey Raho
Director Sashant Singh's Bajatey Raho looked promising with a star cast that included Dolly Ahluwalia, Ranvir Shorey and Vinay Pathak. The movie, however, gets mixed reviews from the critics.
The film has some competent actors in the cast and they give it their best shot, feels Saibal Chatterjee (NDTV). Meena Iyer, Times of India agrees, "Dolly Ahluwalia, on a roll since Vicky Donor, is adept as are Ravi Kishan, Tusshar, Ranveer and Vinay." But Saibal feels that the humour, whatever little there is of it, is at best pedestrian. The film is not laced with humour-laden situations/episodes in entirety, adds Taran Adarsh.
Poonam Pandey's Bollywood debut has been directed by Amit Saxena. And he directed Jism in 2003, no less. But critics aren't too happy with his 2013 stint.
Madhureeta Mukherjee writes for Times of India, "Amit Saxena's erotic thriller shows more emotion than eroticism. It has some flashes and moods of his first outing Jism, though at a story level it falls way behind." Incidentally, even the emotional angle is not explored properly, feels Taran Adarsh: "One can't really blame the writer/s for the lack of novelty in the story as there's hardly anything that one can write in a film where the mainstay/focus is purely on skin show, which, incidentally, is limited too."
Khalid Mohamed writes for Deccan Chronicle, "Honestly, with a far more sensitive and cliché-free screenplay, this Nasha could have been a superior product. At most, here's old Nasha in a new bottle. Tastes flat."
Twitter buzz:
@Koimoi: #Nasha is not a love story, not erotica just plain trash.
@Aakashmootha: Just saw the movie #Nasha. Some sensational work done by @iPoonampandey
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Produced and directed by Joe Rajan, the movie hasn't left critics impressed.
Renuka Vyavahare writes for Times of India, "The film sends out a good message to youngsters like 'family comes first', 'respect your elders', etc. It has its share of sweet moments, but overall, as a rom-com, it fails to leave a mark."
Taran Adarsh couldn't agree more, "There's not much of drama here. The culmination... doesn't give you the feeling of euphoria. Besides, the overtone of Goan culture seems a bit over the top here."
Twitter Buzz
@Kaleidoscopikk: Coz parents are patient enough to sit through a bad movie;)"@Viacom18Movies: #LuvUSoniyo a love story that you can watch with your parents!"
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Main Street Specialist Marc Cittone presented the Colorado Department of Local Affairs-endorsed program to the Urban Renewal Authority Board on Thursday. The Board, encouraged by City Manager Rick Klein, agreed to sign on as a candidate to take part in the Colorado Main Street Program.
Main Street Specialist Marc Cittone presented the Colorado Department of Local Affairs-endorsed program to the Urban Renewal Authority Board on Thursday. The Board, encouraged by City Manager Rick Klein, agreed to sign on as a candidate to take part in the Colorado Main Street Program. La Junta will be joining the communities of Steamboat Springs, Granby, Berthoud, Lyons, Brush, Fruita, Rifle, Montrose, Victor, Ridgway, Lake City, Westcliffe and Silver Cliff and Lamar.
Main Street was organized by the National Trust for Historic Preservation and in Colorado operates under the auspices of the Colorado Department of Local Affairs, represented at this meeting not only by Cittone but also by Regional DOLA Manager Lee Merkel.
The program is intended to help the candidate establish and build the organization's structure, leadership and resources. It will encourage active public/private participation in downtown revitalization. Chairman Lynn Horner pointed out the need for cooperation with private owners to preserve downtown historical buildings, including foundations and roofs.
Main Street will provide Main Street 101 Training for all board and committee members. It will organize an assessment of the downtown area and help to establish a dedicated point of contact for training and communications. The city is expected to complete an annual work plan and conduct a historic survey of the downtown area. Sandra Leonard said that a historic survey was drawn up by Frances Keck in the 1980s and would provide much useful information.
Quarterly and annual reporting are required and there must be local government support. Mack Burtis said the City Council must be on board for the program to work: they are, after all, the elected officials.
The benefits of the program are technical assistance, financial assistance, networking, exchange of information and additional publicity. Merkel said the assistance grant program of DOLA is now back in effect, with $20 million in grants per cycle. The money comes from mineral severance tax, divided among all 64 counties of Colorado. La Junta has benefited from these DOLA funds before, in the curb, gutter and sidewalk project and the City Park wall project.
The Gates Foundation is wanting to help out in southeastern Colorado, said Board Member Rebecca Goodwin, but is looking for communities with plans in place. This should be a good start. The program was also presented on Thursday evening at the Community Conversations.
Plaza Building update
The decision about Urban Renewal Authority Board's recommendation for restoration or demolition of the Plaza Building will be made at a noon meeting on April 2 at the Council Chambers. People who wish to speak will be allowed a designated period of time and then the vote will be taken.
What: Urban Renewal decides their recommendation on the Plaza Building
When: 12 noon, Tuesday, April 2 (expected to be two hour meeting)
Where: City Council chambers, La Junta Municipal Building, 601 Colorado Ave.


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24 February 2014
All of Shirley Jackson's Novels Are Now in Print
As of a few weeks ago, all of Shirley Jackson's novels are now in print in the United States, thanks to Penguin Books. (UK editions of some are scheduled for March.) I noted in July that this was scheduled to happen, and I fully intended then to write all about the novels individually, but that hasn't yet happened. (I still plan to do so as soon as possible, but the whole getting-a-PhD thing is a bit of an obstacle at the moment.)
I've been reading Jackson's work for most of my life, but finding copies of any but her most famous books has always been difficult — and in the case of Hangsaman, nearly impossible unless you wanted to shell out a lot of money for an old copy. When the Library of America announced they were putting together a Shirley Jackson volume a few years ago, edited by Joyce Carol Oates, I had high hopes that it would include at least one of the lesser-known novels, but it didn't. Yes, The Haunting of Hill House and We Have Always Lived in the Castle are magnificent — the latter especially seems to me one of the greatest American novels of the second half of the 20th century — but the other novels are not bad, and are often fascinatingly weird. There's a perfection to Hill House and Castle that the other novels never quite achieve (few novels do!), and the lesser-known novels are, perhaps, a bit more novels of their eras than the well-known ones, but they're still very much the novels of Shirley Jackson, and so unlike anything else.
Really, pick up The Sundial or Hangsaman or The Bird's Nest and within a few pages, or even paragraphs, you'll know you're in Jacksonland.
It's taken a long time for Jackson to be known as more than just the writer of "The Lottery", and for her other stories and novels to be as appreciated as they deserve to be, but thanks to Penguin we can now look at her entire body of work. What struck me as I've gone back to that whole body and not just a few favorites (I can't tell you have many times I've read the story "One Ordinary Day, with Peanuts"!) is how skilled with language Jackson was. This summer, I re-read Castle, and wondered why I'd never noticed before just how extraordinary her sentences are. The other novels are sometimes a bit wayward in their structure, or somewhat unsatisfying in their conclusions, but they all show Jackson's sensitivity to words and rhythms (like a somewhat less purple Theodore Sturgeon). Because I had always focused on the weird, disturbing qualities of her fiction, I missed some of the beauty and humor. Looking at more of her writing makes the humor especially come through — though of course we should have known from Life Among the Savages and Raising Demons that she had a ... wicked ... sense of humor.
In any case, if you've learned to love Jackson, there's no need now for your love to be left only for her most famous works.
Labels: novels, Penguin, Shirley Jackson
13 February 2014
I was remiss in not noting the book release of my friend and comrade Jeff VanderMeer's new novel, Annihilation, the first volume in the Southern Reach Trilogy, to be followed by Authority and Acceptance later this year. It's getting lots of good press, great reviews, and wonderful support from its publishers. (You can read the first chapter here, if you're curious.)
Labels: books, Jeff VanderMeer, novels, weird
10 February 2014
Stuart Hall (1932-2014)
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I was stunned this morning to learn of the death of Stuart Hall, one of the great intellectuals of our time. Stunned not because it was entirely unexpected — he was not in the best of health, and had mostly retired from public life — but simply because it feels strange to live in the world after Stuart Hall.
It's entirely likely that you have never heard of Stuart Hall. His fame, particularly outside of the UK, is mostly related to a specific academic field (cultural studies) and his work has not been as well collected and disseminated as it deserves. I was late to his work, learning of it only when I began my master's degree (in cultural studies), and at first I couldn't see its significance — a lot of what he said seemed tied to specific events, specific moments, and many of the ideas he considered were, I assumed at first, part of an academic past that was no longer relevant. His sentences tended to be complex, his vocabulary and range of references even more so. But something about what he wrote made me think I was missing something, and I'm glad I had that perception, because I was right. At some point, with some essay or another, it began to click into place. And from that moment on, I sought out everything I could find by Hall.
There will, I hope, be insightful reflections on his work in the wake of his death. I hope there will also be some new collections of his writings, because we need them. What most sticks with me about Hall's work is its nuance and insistence on tackling ideas in their complexity and contradiction rather than simplifying them, even if simplification would make us more comfortable or more righteous. I am wary of saying anything more right now, because to do so would risk just such simplification of his own ideas. Instead, below the jump, I will leave you with some links to writings by Hall, interviews with him, and a couple of video and audio items.
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Through my Wine Time column in The Tahoe Weekly, I keep an eye on Nevada's developing wine industry. This is a great step in the right direction!


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Many of us deer hunters romanticize the scenarios in which world-class deer should be killed. Often, this means hunting one specific buck for weeks, months, even seasons on end with many close calls. The hunter might place trail cameras to monitor the deer's movements or tend to food plots in hopes of narrowing the buck's home range.
In the end, the hunter kills the buck after "outsmarting" the deer on its home turf.
There's nothing wrong with dreaming a little dream. I'm not saying it never goes down like that, because sometimes it does. However, in the case of world-class bucks, the opposite seems to be reality: Hunter goes hunting; things don't go quite as planned; and, seemingly by pure luck, the hunter comes home with a world-record buck.
It happened with the Jordan Buck. On Nov. 20, 1914, James Jordan and Egus Davis rented a horse and wagon for the day so they could hunt deer just south of Danbury, Wis. Both hunters would have been happy to fill their tags with does. In fact, Davis did just that at first light. While Davis tended to his deer, Jordan kept hunting along a railroad right-of-way. Before long, an oncoming train spooked a huge 10-pointer past Jordan. He placed the iron sights of his .25-20 Win. on the running buck's neck and started firing. By the time he was out of shells, he had hit it once. With only one cartridge remaining in his pocket, Jordan trailed the buck to a riverbank and finished it off.
It also happened with the Hanson Buck. On the second day of Saskatchewan's gun season in 1993, Milo and three friends spotted a monster buck entering a patch of willows. Three mini deer drives and perhaps more than a dozen shots later, the world-record buck was on the ground for good.
And then it happened with the Johnny King Buck.
King, who was toting an iron-sighted Savage .30-30 Win. that had been in his family for 70 years, spent a few unproductive hours on stand on opening day of Wisconsin's 2006 deer season. At that point, he left the woods to meet his family and friends for an annual deer drive of a small woodlot. King and his uncle had turns to be "standers." They took their positions along a power line. As they were waiting for the drive to begin, both saw a flash of white in front of them. They both got shots at the running deer, but missed. The buck never left the woodlot, however, and King eventually made a killing shot. Upon retrieving the deer, he soon learned that one of his shots had struck the buck at the base of one of its thick antlers.
How could three 200-plus-inch typicals fly so far under the radar and eventually be killed so unceremoniously? You can say it happened by fate, happenstance or 100 percent dumb luck.
That doesn't concern me. I'll call them all world-class reality hunts and then marvel in the beauty of these incredible whitetails.
What's your favorite buck of all time? Hit "reply" to this blog and enter your choice to be entered in a new weekly drawing for a free book from D&DH. I will announce the winner in next Tuesday's installment of this blog.


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Message from Dr. Lunsford Concerning Karissa Kaye's Recent Visit to LeTourneau
We had the pleasure of having Karissa Kaye, a 2009 graduate who is now a professional marriage and family therapist, come back to campus to teach as a guest lecturer in some of Dr. Melanie Roudkovski's and Dr. Phil Coyle's psychology classes.
Many of you might remember Karissa. She earned her bachelor's degree at LETU a few short years ago in interdisciplinary studies with minors in Christian ministries, biology and psychology before attending Richmont Graduate University in Chattanooga, Tenn., where she became well-acquainted with Phil and Judi Coyle before they came to LETU.
As a transfer student from Alpena, Mich., Karissa initially came to LETU to play soccer and become a doctor, but she found her calling was more as a "doctor of the soul."
When talking about her undergraduate experience at LeTourneau, Karissa shares that members of the faculty her became like family to her, describing one as "like a second mom."
She describes her experience in front of the classroom this week as a guest lecturer as "surreal" when she realized that just three years ago, she was on the other side of the lectern, and now, her professors have accepted her as a colleague.
She sees that her Christian faith is integral to the work God has called her to do. She understands that relationships matter, and in her work as a Christian marriage and family therapist in Maryland, she counsels hurting people dealing with trauma and intimacy issues.
Karissa is an excellent example of our LETU mission statement. She is a professional of Christ-like character, who is pursuing her calling and claiming her workplace as her mission field. She truly sees her work as a holy calling with eternal impact.


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September 30, 2007
Homecoming 2007 ended on a beautiful note as more than 120 current and alumni members of the Wabash Glee Club took the stage for an extraordinary two-hour concert.
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"Music is amazing," Glee Club Director Richard Bowen told the a full house in the College's Lewis Salter Concert Hall. "As we get older, maybe we can't run the 100-yard dash like we used to, but we can still sing. And at the end of the evening, everybody wins."
The concert was the highlight of the weekend's Glee Club Reunion, which brought together generations of Glee Club singers—from the Class of 1941 to the Class of 2011—as well as Glee Club directors from three different eras.


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UPDATED:The hunter's name is Paul Keller. Keller and his son Seth, both already harvested huge bucks this season. Seth bagged his first bow buck at 10 years old, scored 153.
Keller's buck is being reported at 27 points and a first score of 244 inches nontypical.
BREAKING NEWS: Possible Record Buck Down In Wisconsin
Details are still coming in, but this one appears to be a legit contender for the state record nontypical crown.
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On Sept. 18 a hunter near Marion, Wis. killed a buck that is reported to score near 244 inches nontypical on the Boone & Crockett scoring system.
Here's a first look at the incredible buck.
Three years ago, Deer & Deer Hunting was first on the scene when the current Wisconsin record nontypical was killed by Wayne Schumacher, of Fond du Lac, Wis. D&DH managing editor Jacob Edson and TV producer Chris Hermans got an exclusive first look at that amazing animal that grossed roughly 251 inches. Schumacher's rack was dried for the required 60 days and measured by a team of certified scorers, earning the record-setting score of 243 6/8 inches.
If early reports are true, this Marion buck could eclipse Schumacher's buck. We'll keep you posted as details come in.
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Twenty-one horses have been entered for Saturday's Kentucky Derby, one more than the maximum field of 20.
The entry box closed Wednesday morning, with the draw to determine post positions set for later in the afternoon. The field is limited to the top 20 horses based on points earned in designated prep races.
Leading the way is undefeated Verrazano, winner of the Wood Memorial. He's one of five colts trained by Todd Pletcher.
Pletcher also will saddle Overanalyze, Revolutionary, Palace Malice, and Charming Kitten.
Oxbow and Will Take Charge will be the record 46th and 47th Derby starters for Hall of Fame trainer D. Wayne Lukas, a four-time Derby winner.
The 21st horse on the points list is Fear the Kitten, an also eligible who would need a defection by early Friday morning to get into the 1¼-mile race.


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Jonesburg Family Farm Thrives with help from Extension
University of Missouri Extension's Grow Your Farm program helps individuals interested in farming to refine business strategies, develop marketing and diversify traditional farms with alternative endeavors.
Justin Knoll strolled underneath the sunscreen netting that sheltered the potted flowers, grasses and other plants that are staples of Seven Cedars Farm.
While other 20-somethings have left the farm, Justin recently returned to manage the family farm in Jonesburg. His parents, John and Melissa Knoll, decided to diversify with the help of the University of Missouri Extension Grow Your Farm program.
"We want to give Justin an opportunity as a young farmer to succeed," John Knoll said. "We had ideas coming in, but the program reinforced our plans, gave us direction and actually excited my son and made him eager."
At the Warrenton MU Extension center last summer, the Knolls attended Grow Your Farm classes with six other families, including those with established farms, some with "town jobs," and those without land who are just now deciding to get into farming.
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SOUTHPORT, Conn. — Eagle Hill Southport School, an innovative learning space for students with ADHD and dyslexia and other language-based learning differences, will expand into the former People's United Bank adjacent to campus.
The school bought 226-228 Main Street Monday and will begin renovations on the building in May, according to the board of directors.
"This is a very exciting time to be part of Eagle Hill Southport School because it continues to deliver on its mission to provide transformative educational experiences that have lifelong impact on its students," said Virginia Cargill, board chair Chair and a Southport resident. "This expansion marks a pivotal change in each student's daily experience that will enrich their learning; and it, quite literally, opens our doors even wider to the greater community of learning differences and education."
The new building's architectural footprint will include a new admissions suite and a new communications center. The space vacated by those departments, which are currently housed in the Pequot School building, will be reconfigured in the future based on the campus master plan developed with Peterman Architects, Inc.
As part of a strategic campus master plan, the renovated building will serve as a hub of creativity for Eagle Hill Southport School students and faculty, featuring large, open classroom space for music, the arts, movement and teacher training.
"The new building represents an opportunity to invest in connecting research-to-practice in unique ways to serve our community of inspiring and talented learners," Headmaster Benjamin Powers said. "I feel a great sense of privilege and honor to launch such an important and thoughtful space for our next generation of leaders, innovators, and creative thinkers."
Since its inception in 1985, EHSS is dedicated to creating an environment for students with language-based learning differences and ADHD that recognizes individual strengths, promotes independent thinking, develops self-esteem and self-advocacy and supports a successful transition for continued academic achievement.
In the last 32 years, EHSS has grown from serving 20 students to 110, aged 5 to 15, across more than 20 communities in Connecticut and New York. To learn more about EHSS, visit www.eaglehillsouthport.org.
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Performance Fees
S&P Capital IQ upgraded its opinion of BlackRock today to buy from hold on interest in its passive equities and its investment pipeline of $49 billion, wrote analyst Sonia Parechanian.
Performance fees, earned by funds for beating certain benchmarks, also boosted BlackRock's earnings in the fourth quarter, rising 63% to $239 million. Investment advisory fees increased 12% to $2.1 billion.
BlackRock's board approved an increase in share repurchases of an additional 7.5 million shares, bringing the firm's purchasing capacity to 10.2 million shares. The firm bought back 868,500 shares in the quarter, bringing the total to almost 9.1 million shares repurchased in 2012.
In October, BlackRock created the iShares Core Series, which is made up of six ETFs with lowered fees and four new ones, to attract individual and institutional clients looking to invest over the long term. Earlier in the year, it combined the sales teams for iShares and BlackRock's retail funds to increase market share.
"BlackRock remains a top pick in 2013," Citigroup Inc. analysts led by William Katz wrote in a Jan. 4 research note. "We are encouraged around the solid organic growth as BlackRock's iShares pricing strategy begins to build momentum."
ETF Growth
ETFs have been the fastest-growing segment of the asset- management business, benefiting money managers such as BlackRock, Vanguard and State Street Corp. In the 12 months ended Nov. 30, ETF assets in the U.S. increased 24% to $1.3 trillion, compared with 11% for mutual funds, which hold $12.9 trillion, according to data from the Washington-based Investment Company Institute.
Fink, who co-founded BlackRock in 1988, said in October the U.S. is about a year away from having a more robust economy and has recommended investors put cash into equities as bond yields have shrunk to record lows.
BlackRock, which acquired Barclays Global Investors in December 2009, offers actively managed stock and bond funds, passive strategies, hedge funds and portfolios that use mathematical models. The company's move into passive strategies came with the purchase of Barclays Plc's San Francisco-based investment unit, which owned iShares, the world's biggest provider of ETFs. Last week, BlackRock agreed to buy Credit Suisse Group AG's ETF unit, which has $17.6 billion of client assets under management and 58 funds.
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CASTLETON — At noon on Tuesday at the Castleton State College baseball diamond, everything appeared to be in place for the Addison County team at the Vermont American Legion state championship tournament.
Late that morning, left fielder Dylan Raymond's two-run, ninth-inning single gave AC a 7-5 win over Colchester that ran the county nine's record in the tournament to 4-0 and eliminated the defending champion Cannons.
BRISTOL — The Rice baseball team came to Mount Abraham Union High School on Tuesday as the winner of four straight, while the Eagles entered the game on a three-game slide, including allowing Otter Valley to rally for a win on the previous Friday.
Unfortunately for Coach Jeff Stetson's squad, those trends did not reverse on Tuesday — Rice pounded out 16 hits off four pitchers, scored 12 runs in the first two innings, and improved to 8-3 with a 19-3, six-inning victory.
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VERGENNES — Residents of the five towns in the Addison Northwest Supervisory Union will head to the polls on Tuesday to vote for the second time on a budget for Vergennes Union High School.
In the first vote, on Town Meeting Day, voters rejected a 2014-2015 spending proposal of $9.73 million by a tally of 961-747. A majority of voters in each of ANwSU's towns voted "no."
VERGENNES — In a packed high school library that has become characteristic of recent board meetings, the Vergennes Union High School board on Monday evening warned a new budget that will force administrators to lay off staff.
The spending proposal totals $9,417,197, which is $316,725 less than the budget Addison Northwest Supervisory Union voters rejected on Town Meeting Day. It is also less than the budget for the current fiscal year.
VERGENNES — The Vergennes Union High School board on Monday began the process of drafting a new budget for the school after voters in the five Addison Northwest Supervisory Union towns rejected the original spending plan on Town Meeting Day.
Comments by VUHS board members and ANwSU officials there and afterward showed some differences on how much and even whether to cut the budget, including the need for staff reductions.
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CRYSTAL LAKE – McHenry County College trustees removed an agenda item amid criticism that trustees were trying to push through an extension of the president's employment with a lame duck board.
Trustee Cynthia Kisser asked the trustees to push a vote on President Vicky Smith's contract until the next board meeting April 25.
The board is considering extending the president's employment agreement by a year to June 2015. Smith's contract stipulates that a decision must be made by June 15.
Critics, who asked that the decision be made by three newly-elected trustees, might not be pacified by tabling the matter because the vote will still come before outgoing board members. There are three meetings April 25 – the final meeting of the outgoing trustees, a largely ceremonial meeting to swear in new members and elect officers, and the first meeting of the new board.
The item can't be put on the agenda of the new board because only the chairperson can set agenda items. The chairperson won't be decided until after the new board is sworn in, so that wouldn't satisfy the 48-hour advance notice required by the Open Meetings Act.
Tuesday's special meeting was called for emergency repairs to the college's storm and sanitary pipes but also included an action item on Smith's employment contract.
"I didn't think it was going to cause a problem," Chairwoman Mary Miller said of putting the president's employment fate on the special meeting agenda. "It was surprising to me that it was taken that way."
Still, Miller believes that a vote to extend Smith's contract is in the purview of those who evaluated the president, in other words the sitting board members.
"To me, it's the responsibility of the current board because we've worked with her for an entire year, and we've already performed her evaluation," Miller said.
Kisser and Trustee Linda Liddell agreed. Liddell said Smith's contract doesn't allow enough time for the elected board members to conduct an evaluation of the president. In the future, she'd like to see the contract amended so the issue doesn't come up every election cycle.
But not everyone agreed with the board. Almost 10 people implored the trustees to hold off, including newly-elected board members.
"To me, there seems to be ample time to bring the three new board members up to speed to make an informed decision," said Chris Jenner, who won an MCC seat last week. "I urge [you] not to take action on Dr. Smith's contract extension until the new board is seated."
Jenner, Tom Wilbeck and Molly Walsh also were elected.
A satellite overflow room was set up for the public to watch a live broadcast of the meeting, after the board room quickly filled.
Others who spoke said it undermines the will of the voters who last week ousted incumbents Carol Larson and Barbara Walter. Dennis Adams did not seek re-election.
"A consideration to extend the president's contract is anti-democratic and in effect subverts the will of the community who have spoken," said Jim Gould, an MCC instructor.
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Thomas Mallon - Watergate
Many historians have written about the Watergate conspiracy. But can a novelist throw new light on this traumatic moment in American political history?
Thomas Mallon does just that in Watergate, using drama and comedy to take readers behind the scenes of a national scandal, creating "a universal tragicomedy of ludicrous errors and malignant crimes, epic hubris and sorrow."
Mallon is the author of Henry and Clara, Two Moons, Dewey Defeats Truman, and Aurora 7.


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Home Market Bias on the Wane
Search for Yield Fueling Interest in Emerging Market Debt Strategies
SMITHFIELD, RHODE ISLAND and HONG KONG, PRC, Dec. 6, 2012 /CNW/ - Forty-three percent of institutional investors worldwide will likely increase exposure to global bond strategies in the coming years, according to a Pyramis Global Advisors® survey of pension schemes and other institutions from Europe, Asia and North America. These respondents oversee more than USD$5 trillion in assets.
Yields in many developed markets are extremely low, causing institutional investors from Europe to Asia to look beyond their home markets for fixed-income strategies that can deliver higher yields. In Europe, 38% of investors surveyed said they will likely increase allocations to non-domestic fixed-income strategies. The trend is even more pronounced in Asia, with 54% of investors indicating plans to increase exposure to non-domestic fixed-income strategies.
"With historically low yields in many safe haven bond markets and increased credit risk in a number of European countries, it is not surprising that many institutional investors are beginning to look beyond their borders," said Charlie Morrison, president of Fixed Income.
Growing Demand for Emerging Market Debt
Globally, 24% of investors surveyed said they will increase allocations to emerging market debt (EMD) over the next few years.
"The trends for emerging market debt remain positive," said Tom Hense, chief investment officer of the High Income division. "Attractive yields and improving credit fundamentals are fueling investor demand in these markets."
Currency and Derivatives Policies Evolving
The 2012 survey also indicated changing attitudes toward currency hedging. Traditionally seen as a way to hedge risk, currency hedging is now seen by many investors as a potential source of alpha as well. This trend is most apparent in Asia, where 47%of investors surveyed view currency as both an added risk to the portfolio and a potential source of alpha. This view was also held by 30% of the investors surveyed in Europe, followed by 24% of the respondents in Canada and 21% of the survey participants in the U.S.
The use of derivatives, which fell out of favor after the financial crisis in 2008, is once again on the rise. Sixty-four percent of all investors surveyed allow their managers to use derivatives. Of those surveyed, 47% use derivatives for downside protection, 43% use them to tactically adjust beta exposure and 42% use them to lengthen duration.
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Pyramis Global Advisors conducted a survey of institutional investors during June and July 2012, including 632 investors in 16 countries (193 U.S. corporate pension plans, 109 U.S. government pension plans, 92 Canadian pension plans, 149 European and 89 Asian institutions, including pensions, insurance companies and financial institutions). Assets under management represented by respondents totaled more than $5 trillion USD. The surveys were executed in association with Asset International, Inc., in the U.S., the Canadian Institutional Investment Network in Canada, and the Financial Times in Europe and Asia. Institutional executives responded to an online questionnaire or telephone inquiry. A report on the survey is available at www.pyramis.com
About Pyramis Global Advisors
Pyramis Global Advisors, a Fidelity Investments company, delivers asset management products and services designed to meet the needs of institutional investors around the world. Pyramis is a multi-asset class manager with extensive experience managing investments for, and serving the needs of, some of the world's largest corporate and public defined benefit and defined contribution plans, endowments and foundations, insurance companies, and financial institutions. The firm offers traditional long-only and alternative equity, as well as fixed income and real estate debt and REIT investment strategies. As of September 30, 2012, assets under management totaled more than $190 billion USD. Headquartered in Smithfield, RI, USA, Pyramis offices are located in Boston, Toronto, Montreal, London and Hong Kong.
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Leaves basal or cauline, alternate to whorled, simple to compound
Inflorescence: 1° inflorescence a head, each resembling a flower, 1many, generally arrayed in cymes, generally subtended by ± calyx-like involucre; flowers 1many per head
Flowers bisexual, unisexual, or sterile, ± small, of several types; calyx 0 or modified into pappus of bristles, scales, or awns, which is generally persistent in fruit; corolla radial or bilateral (rarely 0), lobes generally (0)45; stamens 45, anthers generally fused into cylinder around style, often appendaged at tips, bases, or both, filaments generally free, generally attached to corolla near throat; pistil 1, ovary inferior, 1-chambered, 1-seeded, style 1, branches 2, generally hair-tufted at tip, stigmas 2, generally on inside of style branches
Fruit: achene, cylindric to ovoid, generally deciduous with pappus attached
Genera in family: ± 1300 genera, 21,000 species (largest family of dicots): worldwide. Largest family in CA. Also see tribal key to CA genera: Strother 1997 Madroño 44(1):128. See glossary p. 25 for illustrations of general family characteristics.
Annual, perennial herb, subshrubs, shrubs
Leaves opposite or alternate, simple to deeply divided or compound, sessile or petioled
Inflorescence: heads radiate, discoid or disciform, solitary or in cymes; peduncles short or long; involucre cylindric, hemispheric, or bell-shaped; phyllaries in 23 ± equal series, linear to ovate; receptacle flat to conic, naked
Ray flowers: ligules yellow or white
Disk flowers many; corollas yellow or white, 4-lobed; anther tips triangular; style tips tapered
Fruit linear to oblanceolate, very flat, sometimes weakly 34-angled; surface dark brown or black, glabrous or puberulent; margins generally ± thick, puberulent to strongly ciliate; pappus 0 or a crown of fringed scales and 02 slender bristles
Species in genus: ± 75 species: sw North America
Etymology: (Greek: around the margin, from thick fruit margin)
Reference: [Powell 1974 Rhodora 76:229306]
Horticultural information: STBL.
Subshrub 1555 cm, short-rough-hairy
Stems many, much-branched
Leaves generally alternate; petiole 16 mm; blade 715 mm, 110 mm wide, linear to widely ovate, tip acute to obtuse, margin generally entire, rarely serrate or lobed
Inflorescence: heads discoid, 1few, loosely clustered; peduncles generally 15 cm, bracts leaf-like; involucre 3.57.5 mm diam, bell-shaped; phyllaries 1419, 56 mm, lanceolate or oblong
Ray flowers 0
Disk flowers: corollas 3.54.2 mm
Fruit 2.53 mm; 1 or both surfaces rounded or ± angled, puberulent; margin hairy; pappus 0 or a crown of vestigial scales, rarely with 1 bristle
Ecology: Rocky places
Elevation: 13002800 m.
Bioregional distribution: White and Inyo Mountains, Desert Mountains
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Lady Tigers get beat in MSC Tourney 'if necessary' tilt
Campbellsville University forced an if necessary game Saturday, but Lindsey Wilson put away their third straight MSC Softball Tournament championship by scoring nine first-inning runs in the title tilt, winning 20-2.
The Lady Tigers had won six straight tourney games (after a loss in the opener) to force a second game, taking charge of the morning encounter 11-7 on the shoulders of Courtney Turpin's seven-hit, complete-game win.
Georgetown College (30-12, 16-4) swept Campbellsville University (32-18, 14-7) softball in convincing fashion Tuesday afternoon, 6-0, 5-1.
Jordan Cornett singled in the first and Courtney Turpin singled in the second for CU's only hits in the first game.
CU led 1-0 in the second game when Heather Oakley hit her eighth homer of the season. But Campbellsville was relegated to only three more hits — Bailey Dillender, Brooke Boils and Kristin Benton.
The baseball Tigers swept their Mid-South Conference three-game series with Cumberlands over the weekend and downed Cumberland (Tenn.) on Tuesday.
After a 13-3 romp on Friday (behind Chance Kopacz' four-RBI game), Ryan Richardson and Michael McBride hurled shutouts on Saturday.
Rusty Devitt improved to 3-0 as CU upended Cumberland (Tenn.) 9-2.
CU travels to Rio Grande this weekend.
Pollock named Mid-South Women's Golfer of the Week
Campbellsville University's MeLeigha Pollock is the Mid-South Conference Women's Golfer of the Week, conference officials announced on Monday.
Pollock earns her first weekly conference award of the season and of her career.
A ninth-inning rally by the Campbellsville University Tigers was overshadowed with a pinch-hit, walk-off home run to lift Bellarmine University over No. 13 Campbellsville University 8-7 at Knights Field on March 28.
Campbellsville used a walk, single and walk to load the bases in the top of the ninth and then pushed two runs across on an RBI walk by Michael Durham and an RBI hit-by-pitch for March Garza.
The Tigers left nine runners on base in the game, including seven in scoring position.
Campbellsville's Lady Tigers fiddled away a first-half lead, drew even early in the second half, but could not maintain their momentum, losing to the home-standing St. Catharine's Lady Patriots 75-61 Saturday afternoon.
Campbellsville built an early 11-4 lead on threes by Courtney Clifton (two) and Mackenzie Lee. But, CU would not hit another three the entire game and shot 27 percent from the field. As a matter of fact, after hitting four of its first six shots, CU went 3-22 the rest of the half. The Lady Tigers hit 16-58 shots from the field.
Campbellsville University's Tigers, playing some of their best basketball of the season, dismantled St. Catharine College and came away with its fourth straight win 71-58 Saturday in Springfield.
The Tigers, who hit 5-7 on three-pointers in the first half while the Patriots (0-17) were shooting blanks, burst out to a 37-17 lead at the half.
SCC closed to within 39-26 two and a half minutes into the second half, but CU responded with a 10-3 run of its own, punctuated by a fall-away three by Cedric Henderson as the shot clock was winding down.
Campbellsville scored the first eight points of the second half and that was enough to propel the Lady Tigers to a sloppily-played 77-60 win on Feb. 4 at West Virginia Tech.
Leading by eight with 11:30 to go in the game, Campbellsville pounded the offensive glass and worked to a 64-48 margin with four minutes to go. Caroline Owen drained a three-pointer to give the Lady Tigers that lead. That lead increased to 17 when Lindy Young hit two free tosses with 1:32 remaining.
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