text: The 27-year-old Italy international in the summer swapped Roma for St Mary's in a deal that could be worth up to £14.6million. The signing was quite the coup by Southampton but one that has yet to bear fruit, with Osvaldo managing just three goals in 13 appearances. Club-record signing Dani Osvaldo will not be leaving Southampton any time soon, insists manager Mauricio Pochettino. The forward is currently serving a three-match ban for violent conduct and there have been reports that he may well have played his last game for the club. Inter Milan and Fiorentina are apparently interested in taking him back to Serie A, but Pochettino will not let the Argentina-born striker leave. "In Italy, in Spain, in Russia and Argentina with Boca Juniors, too," Pochettino said in English of the constant speculation, before adding through his Spanish interpreter: "He is very happy here, he has been training very well. "He is very expectant to be fulfilling his contract here. He is also expecting the birth of his son and is expecting his son to grow up in England. "I am very sorry about all these rumours happening right now, but they are just not true." Asked if expectation brought by the lofty price tag has had a negative impact on Osvaldo, Pochettino added: "I don't think he was an expensive player, I would say. "If you look at the prices in the market, I don't think he was an expensive player. "If you look at the price to his quality, he is a cheap player. I don't mean cheap in a negative way, I mean he is value for money. "The hardest thing has been his adaptation to the league, that has been the most troubling thing and something he has been working on." Press Association


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MONTPELIER – Dry and breezy conditions across Vermont are expected to continue into this weekend which will continue to bring high risks of wildfires in Vermont. In windy conditions fires that do occur could spread very rapidly and become unmanageable. Local fire departments throughout the state have responded to several wildfires already this season.
State officials and local fire departments remind Vermonters that the increased potential for wildfires necessitates certain precautions by all. In general, debris burning is the leading cause of wild land fires in Vermont. These fires cause property damage; lost natural resources; and like all fires, can result in a loss of life. Most people never intend to start a wildfire and can avoid this by choosing a day to burn when fire danger is low – and such days are NOT in the immediate forecast. Persistent dry and windy weather in the state has made grass, brush and leaves susceptible to uncontrolled fires, but common sense and caution by all Vermonters can prevent wildfires.
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Unity felt after attacks endures
Twelve years ago, terrorists attacked the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon, hitting symbols of the industrial and military might that underpin American power.
Local Marines helped lead the counterattack into Afghanistan with an arsenal steeled by other values of the nation, including duty, courage and sacrifice for the common good.
During an evening colors ceremony on national Patriot Day, Marine Corps Air Station Miramar will recognize the "9/11 Warrior" who continues to defend America, civilians and troops who died, first responders to the attacks and San Diegans who lend their support.
Even with Osama bin Laden dead and the NATO campaign in Afghanistan scheduled to end next year, Americans should always pause to remember Sept. 11, said Maj. Gen. Steven Busby, commanding general of the 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing.
"We can never lose sight of the fact that the world is a dangerous place. And this nation is fortunate that they've got young men and women willing to volunteer to put themselves at risk to protect the freedoms that we hold dear," Busby said.
The Marines lived up to their "first to fight" and "tip of the spear" ethos after the attacks, including commanders based in San Diego County who played key roles in the invasions of both Afghanistan and Iraq.
Retired Marine Gen. James Mattis led the first conventional troops into southern Afghanistan during the invasion, including a Camp Pendleton-based Marine Expeditionary Unit deployed at sea. Then in 2003 Mattis and the 1st Marine Division led the charge toward Baghdad, Iraq.
The evening ceremony was organized by sergeants and corporals, the backbone of the Corps and what Busby calls the air wing's "VIPs." The tone will be mostly celebratory, in honor of the people who pulled together after the attacks. Not just the Marine Corps, but an entire nation.
But TAPS will play in memory of the almost 3,000 killed on Sept. 11, 2001, and nearly 7,000 U.S. troops who have died in subsequent combat.
Two Marines killed in action serving with the air wing headquartered in San Diego will be honored. Nearly one year ago, on Sept. 14, 2012, insurgents infiltrated Camp Bastion, part of the complex that serves as Marine headquarters in southwestern Afghanistan. Six Harrier jets from a Yuma-based squadron were destroyed and two more were heavily damaged.
Lt. Col. Christopher Raible and Sgt. Bradley Atwell, two Marines who ran to the flight line to fight off the insurgents, were killed in rocket-propelled grenade attacks.
"They are two men who understood selfless service and sacrifice, two extraordinary leaders who did exactly what we would hope leaders of Marines would do," Busby said. "Take action to protect those they were responsible for and then accomplish the mission at hand."
Almost 5,000 people were invited to the colors ceremony, including Medal of Honor recipients and Marine veterans Dakota Meyer, Robert Modrzejewski and Jay Vargas.
Meyer, the guest of honor, was awarded the nation's highest medal for valor in combat for his actions during the Battle of Ganjgal, in Kunar province, Afghanistan on Sept. 8, 2009, when he plunged repeatedly into an intense firefight to search for missing comrades. At 25, he is the youngest Medal of Honor recipient alive today and the first living Marine to receive the honor since 1973.
After spending the day visiting Miramar Marines, Meyer said he plans to speak about how the Marines and the nation as a whole came together after the attacks.
"Every day we are presented with situations we have absolutely no control of. Example ... 9/11. We take that and we turn it into something good," he said. "That's part of being a Marine, doing what's right and doing that for the nation."
The good that came of that terrible moment in American history included newfound respect for Vietnam War-era veterans, he said. "Look at the new Freedom Tower. Look at what we have done, showing Americans that we won't stop. What is that? That's the hope of putting it back in America, the pride."
In 2001, Busby had just given up command in San Diego to attend advanced military training in Washington, D.C. He was in a class on the Battle of Gettysburg at Fort McNair when someone ran in to say airplanes hit the Twin Towers.
"Everyone was raising their hand saying 'Send me, send me. Pull me out,' " he recalls. There was disappointment in the room of 500 or so students when the head of the school said: "I know what you want to do. You all want to leave. You're here to be educated. You're going nowhere," Busby recalled.
"They all wanted to get out of there and do what we are trained to do."
Meyer was in art class in middle school when the attacks happened. His teacher rolled a TV into class, and the students watched the towers fall. He enlisted after high school in 2006, largely to prove he could hack it as a Marine, he said.
Later when he served in the insurgent and jihadi stronghold of Fallujah in 2007, he saw a picture of the Twin Towers in an Iraqi home. And the image of the falling towers was still etched in his mind when he deployed to Afghanistan.
The Marines, like all U.S. troops, stepped up after 2001.
"Heading on to war and going over there and taking it to the enemy every single day. … They went over there and answered the call," Meyer said. "They're still over there doing it every single day as we're talking. They've kept the enemy off our soil."
Another who volunteered during a time of war was Sgt. Roberto Gonzalez, 26, of Detroit. He enlisted in 2004 and serves as an aircraft refueler at Miramar, as well as the host of the 9/11 ceremony.
Gonzalez, who deployed twice to Iraq, was stationed in Afghanistan during last year's attack on Camp Bastion. Just like on 9/11, the Marines bolted into action after an unexpected attack at home.
Early into what would be a six-hour firefight, Gonzalez and his fellow platoon members learned that their fuel bags were on fire and at least one Marine was seriously injured.
Gonzalez was crouched behind a concrete barrier with two other sergeants when an insurgent began shooting at them from about 50 meters away. The whiz and crack of an incoming bullet was deafening.
They fired their rifles until the insurgent slumped to the ground and blew himself up with a grenade.
Afterward, Gonzalez felt proud of how the Marines responded. "They weren't scared or nothing. No one was hiding behind someone … saying I'm not going to make it or anything like that," he recalled. What got them through was "training, and their determination that night."
It drew them together. "We definitely got tighter after that. We still talk about it, joke about it, saying 'What's up, war hero?'" or pretend to be deaf from an incoming insurgent round.
That camaraderie is what he loves about being a Marine, like the spirit that united Americans when the homeland was attacked.
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University of Hawaii at Manoa astronomer David Sanders is one of a group of scientists who have combined observations made with the Hubble Space Telescope, the Spitzer and Herschel infrared space telescopes, and ground-based telescopes in Hawaii to assemble a coherent picture of the formation history of the most massive galaxies in the universe, from their initial burst of violent star formation through their appearance as high stellar-density galaxy cores and to their ultimate destiny as giant ellipticals.
This solves a decade-long mystery as to how compact elliptical-shaped galaxies that existed when the universe was only 3 billion years old, or one-quarter of its current age of 13.8 billion years, already had completed star formation. These compact ellipticals have now been definitively linked directly to an earlier population of dusty starburst galaxies that voraciously used up available gas for star formation very quickly. Then they grew slowly through merging as the star formation in them was quenched, and they eventually became giant elliptical galaxies.
"This is the first time anybody has put together a representative spectroscopic sample of ultra-compact, burned-out galaxies with the high quality of infrared imaging of Hubble," said Sune Toft (Dark Cosmology Center at the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen), the lead investigator for the project who is currently on a six-week visit to the UH Institute for Astronomy in Honolulu.
"We at last show how these compact galaxies can form, how it happened, and when it happened," Toft added. "This basically is the missing piece in the understanding of how the most massive galaxies formed, and how they evolved into the giant ellipticals of today. This had been a great mystery for many years because just 3 billion years after the big bang we see that half of the most massive galaxies have already completed their star formation."
Even more surprising, said Toft, is that these massive, burned-out galaxies were once extremely compact, compared to similar elliptical galaxies seen today in the nearby universe. This means that stars had to be crammed together 10 to 100 times more densely than seen in galaxies today. "It's comparable to the densities of stars in globular clusters, but on the larger scale of a galaxy," said Toft.
In tying together an evolutionary sequence for these compact massive galaxies, Toft identified their progenitors as highly dust-obscured galaxies undergoing rapid star formation at rates that are thousands of times faster than in our Milky Way galaxy. Starbursts in these galaxies are likely ignited when two gas-rich galaxies collided. These galaxies are so dusty that they are almost invisible at optical wavelengths, but are bright at submillimeter wavelengths, where they were first identified nearly two decades ago by the SCUBA (Submillimeter Common-User Bolometer Array) camera on the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope in Hawaii.
Toft's team assembled, for the first time, representative samples of the two galaxy populations using the rich dataset in Hubble's COSMOS (Cosmic Evolution Survey) program.
They constructed the first representative sample of compact quiescent galaxies with accurate sizes and distances (spectroscopic redshifts) measured from the Hubble Space Telescope's CANDELS (Cosmic Assembly Near-Infrared Deep Extragalactic Legacy Survey) and 3D-HST programs. 3D-HST is a near-infrared Hubble spectroscopic survey to study the physical processes that shape galaxies in the distant universe. The astronomers combined these data with observations from the Subaru telescope in Hawaii and NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. This allowed for accurate stellar age estimates, from which they concluded that galaxies formed in intense starbursts 1 billion to 2 billion years earlier, in the very early universe.
The team then made the first representative sample of the most distant submillimeter galaxies using the rich COSMOS data from the Hubble, Spitzer, and Herschel space telescopes, and ground-based telescopes such as Subaru, the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope, and the Submillimeter Array. This multi-spectral information, stretching from optical light through submillimeter wavelengths, yielded a full suite of information about the sizes, stellar masses, star-formation rates, dust content, and precise distances of the dust-enshrouded galaxies present early on in the universe.
When Toft's team compared the samples of these two galaxy populations, they discovered a link between the compact elliptical galaxies and the submillimeter galaxies observed 1 billion to 2 billion years earlier. The observations show that the violent starburst activity in the earlier galaxies had the same characteristics that would have been predicted for progenitors to the compact elliptical galaxies. The team also calculated that the intense starburst activity only lasted about 40 million years before the interstellar gas supply was exhausted.
The paper detailing these results, "Submillimeter Galaxies as Progenitors of Compact Quiescent Galaxies," is being published today in the Astrophysical Journal (http://iopscience.iop.org/0004-637X/782/2/68/article) and is also available on the arXiv preprint server at http://arxiv.org/pdf/1401.1510v1.pdf.
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Nearly half a million people voted for Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki in Baghdad, making him by far the leading candidate in the province where the most seats are at stake, according to partial results from this month's election in Iraq.
Those hundreds of thousands of supporters in the capital, along with many thousands more who voted for Maliki's coalition in outlying provinces, could be in for a jolt in coming months if his powerful enemies succeed in derailing his bid for a second term as prime minister
Especially now that he's neck and neck with a secular rival, former interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi, Maliki's chances of retaining his premiership are dubious.
Maliki has no outright majority, no mandate and precious little support from factions that would be the key to his survival. The campaign against him is so robust that members of his own State of Law coalition haven't ruled out dumping him as the prime minister nominee in order to lure partners that would give them a dominant voice in the next government, according to interviews with Maliki's allies, opponents and independent observers.
Even if Maliki pulls off a second term over the objections of rival parties, his opponents have said privately that they'd block his efforts in parliament and open up potentially embarrassing corruption inquiries, strategies that could lead to an even weaker and more violent Iraq just as U.S. forces prepare for a full withdrawal by the end of next year.
"There's a lot of resistance to him. There are a number of parties who'll find it difficult to strike a deal in a new government with him as prime minister, not necessarily with his coalition," said a Western diplomat, speaking only on the condition of anonymity because he isn't authorized to make public statements. "On the other hand, if he does especially well, a large seat differential between his coalition and the second-place finisher, that'll change the dynamic."
Neck and neck with Allawi
With about 80 percent of votes counted, the race is too close to call, but so far there's only a minuscule seat differential between Maliki's bloc and the mixed-sect ticket led by Allawi, a secular Shiite Muslim who appears to have picked up the Sunni Muslim vote. As of late Tuesday, Allawi had even edged ahead of Maliki in the nationwide popular vote.
At last count, Maliki's bloc was ahead in seven provinces, Allawi's Iraqiya slate was ahead in five and the main Kurdish coalition and the Shiite religious Iraqi National Alliance were leading in three provinces apiece. With no faction expected to win a clear majority, the season has arrived for deal-making and shifting alliances.
While Maliki's State of Law coalition is among the most cohesive, mainly because his Dawa Party forms the backbone, his co-candidates are bracing for an uncomfortable ultimatum from opponents: Drop the coalition's main attraction — the man who got them the most votes — or risk losing influential allies that could transform those votes into real power in the next government.
"The State of Law alliance is directly tied to the persona of Maliki, so nominating somebody else is a betrayal to the voters," says Sajah Qaddouri, a Dawa Party candidate from Maliki's coalition. "If the other political blocs forced or imposed another character, this is an appropriation of our rights. But Mr. Maliki would accept the nomination of someone else if it's in the interest of the future of Iraq. For now, we don't have a substitute. We respect the will of the people. But if the future of Iraq requires us changing Maliki, we'd change him."
To his supporters, Maliki is the leader who stood up to fellow Shiites — followers of the militant cleric Muqtada al Sadr — in order to quash militia violence and impose a semblance of order on his anarchic, long-suffering nation. A conservative Shiite guerrilla in his opposition days, Maliki has rebranded himself a nonsectarian centrist, courting voters who'd grown alarmed at the extremism of Iraq's leading politicians.
His detractors, however, have portrayed him at various times as an American puppet, an Iranian proxy, a grandstander given to authoritarian whims and a die-hard Islamist who still reverts to sectarian talk when it's politically expedient. Those detractors form a mosaic of Iraq's biggest forces, including some prominent Kurds, Allawi, most Sunnis and almost every other large Shiite grouping: the Sadrists, the Fadhila Party and the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq.
"The last man standing will be prime minister, and Maliki will be shot down by the Kurds, Allawi, ISCI and the Sadrists," says a senior candidate from a rival Shiite party, speaking only on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitive topic. "...The Americans now will face a huge problem. Any prime minister will not be strong. They'll all have burdens. I don't think any Cabinet will survive four years."
(Hammoudi is a McClatchy special correspondent. Special correspondent Mohammed al Dulaimy contributed to this article.)
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They've been shooting MIB III down on those blocks for the past two weeks.
If you know of or come across a movie filming post it here. I'll start things off with the Men In Black III movie shoot tomorrow 6/21 on Walker Street between Broadway and Lafayette (one block south of Canal). Expecting to see Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones.
Post 'em if you know 'em
They've been shooting MIB III down on those blocks for the past two weeks.
They love to film jut about everything in Cortlandt Alley between Canal and White. Two weeks ago they filmed episodes of Boardwalk Empire, and a bunch of movies like the Smurfs and Tower Heist
MIB III turned Mercer Street at Howard into 1970's NY a couple of weeks ago. They tried to make it look gritty like the old days, but it's hard to replicate 100 years of dirt and grime after an area has been gentrified and spiffed up.
True, even the lower east side is challenging now with the sore thumb modern buildings sprouting up randomly mid-block. Also FYI, today's MIB 3 shoot has been moved, no word yet on the new location
They can just green-screen them out. Or whatever computerized eraser they use whenever I see new films/programs of old NY.
New Yorks Unlikeliest Movie Star: The Alley
By Nick Carr (blog: http://www.scoutingny.com/)
Bryan Derballa for The Wall Street Journal
The Franklin Place alley in Tribeca has been a Hollywood favorite for years,
but a new condo project has put the location out of action indefinitely.
In Hollywoods version of New York City, the giant metropolis is teeming with secretive, cinematic alleyways the ultimate urban character actor, always on-call to lend a film a sense of lived-in grit.
Take The Nanny Diaries: the 2007 film uses an alley as the sort of backdrop that leaves no doubt the story is set in New York. In The Sorcerers Apprentice, a deserted alley brings the hero to a hidden magic shop, and the titular character in The Talented Mr. Ripley lives in a ramshackle apartment down a similarly photogenic byway.
Yet the actual city is short on shortcuts. In fact, each of the above scenes was filmed at a single location Franklin Place in Tribeca that is now being remade by a real-estate developer.
The scarcity of Manhattan alleys that fit Hollywoods dank, dilapidated typecasting has made those that exist into the citys unlikeliest icons, virtually unknown to locals but filmed almost as often as the trademark skyline. Most are hidden south of Canal Street, far from the rigid organization of the uptown street grid.
Theater Alley, tucked inside the Financial District, still bears a vaudevillian wall painting from Billy Bathgate, which filmed there in 1991. Matt Damon took a rainy shortcut down Tribecas Staple Street in the 2011 film The Adjustment Bureau.
Crocodile Dundee, the Highlander and the Smurfs have all made their way down Chinatowns Cortlandt Alley, as have the detectives on nearly every New York-based police procedural in recent years. In the trailer for the upcoming Men In Black 3, Will Smiths character has a run in with an alien and a graffiti artist in the same gritty alley. (The film takes liberties with the location, with dialogue that incorrectly places the scene north of Canal.)
Like all desirable New York real estate, scarcity makes these rat-infested and grime-covered passages surprisingly expensive as filming locations. Private owners control a few of these back streets, including Broadway Alley in the East 20s and Great Jones Alley in the East Village.
Robert Moezinia, a property owner on Franklin Place for 15 years, can rattle off a list of shoots in his alley. Men in Black, Law and Order, Merrill Lynch commercials, European advertising for vodkas and soft drinks, he said. I had a very good situation.
Hollywoods favorite image of the dangerous New York alley is not completely fictitious: Moezinia can recall dead bodies found dumped in Franklin Place over the years. What leaves him disappointed, however, are the small cameos his alley plays in the finished film.
They shoot for hours, Moezinia complained, yet it would only be five seconds in the movie.
In the case of privately owned alleys like Franklin Place, the property is often divided up among several owners with whom a production company will make individual deals. The total cost for securing one of these alleys can range from $5,000 to $10,000 per day, and beyond. Producers who forgo paying for access can find their productions shut down by the police.
On public alleys, including Theater and Cortlandt, there is no official cost beyond a $300 fee required to apply for any shooting permit in the city, according to a spokeswoman for the Mayors Office of Film, Theatre & Broadcasting.
But the owners of properties abutting the public alleys claim a right to six feet of land measured out from their buildings, and they will typically seek payment in exchange for keeping parking spaces clear during filming. For alleys barely measuring 15 feet across, its a request that cannot be ignored.
Theres bad news for directors addicted to Manhattans alleyways: the spaces are under pressure from the same forces that drained the grittiness from much of the city in the last two decades.
The Franklin Place alley is out of commission indefinitely amid construction on a luxury condominium tower. The dilapidated buildings that made Theater Alley a dependable star were torn down recently to make way for more condos, effectively destroying its archetypal look.
With ever higher prices for the dwindling supply of alleys, filmmakers will ultimately need to make a choice: pay up to portray New York as the seedy wonderland of the pop-culture imagination or drop the alley cliché in favor of more authentic locations.
The first two MIB films were lots of fun; however, the second one clocked in at something like 85 minutes which is an obvious money grab. I suspect MIB 3 may be even shorter, still. Let's see how it turns out.
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Location shooting in the LES at Orchard St and Broome St, reported by Gothamist:
Photos: Soderbergh Transforms Lower East Side Into Early 20th Century NYC
They were shooting on Front St at the Seaport from 4AM till 2PM today.
The plastic pipe along the curb hooks up to a fog machine.
The posters are reproductions of real company period advertizing. The dog is smoking Surbrug Golden Scepter pipe tobacco. Bicycle ads were popular - Victor and Crescent bicycles. Red Cross Stoves. Singer Sewing Machines.
I just couldn't live in those times. Not even a well-turned ankle.
Standbys. Break a leg?
obviously this thread never took off but here's a website that compiles some shooting locations not just in NYC but other cities too:
Filming in New York
TV Series: Gotham
Stars: Ben McKenzie
Location: Steiner Studios, Brooklyn
TV Series: The Mysteries of Laura
Stars: Debra Messing
Location: Silvercup Studios, Broklyn
TV Series: Vinyl/Rock and Rock
Stars: Olivia Wilde
Location: Airport Museum in Farmingdale
TV Series: Shades of Blue
Stars: Jennifer Lopez
Location: West between Noble and Milton in Brooklyn
TV Series: Limitless
Stars: Jennifer Carpenter
Location: Broadway Stages in Ridgewood
Movie: All We Had
Stars: Katie Holmes
Location: New York 59 and S Remsen St, Monsey
TV Series: Falling Water
Location: 500 Tulip Ave in Floral Park
Movie: The Silent Treatment
Stars: Greg Kinnear
Location: Nostrand and Eastern Parkway in Brooklyn
TV Series: The Affair
Stars: Dominic West
Location: Lehman College, Bronx
Credit: @Pretzone
TV Series: Person of Interest
Stars: Jim Caviezel
Location: 32nd St and Lexington in NYC
TV Series: Elementary
Stars: Jonny Lee Miller
Location: 43rd and Greenpoint Ave in Sunnyside, Queens
Credit: @carolinexsun
TV Series: Blue Bloods
Stars: Donnie Wahlberg
Location: Washington Heights (this is all I know so far, will post updates as I have them, this is the tip I got, can't read sign) UPDATE: 176th St and Broadway in NYC
TV Series: The Blacklist
Stars: James Spader
Location: East Tremnt Ave, Bronx
Credit: @TheCityOfLights
Something is filming at Pilling St and Central Ave, Brooklyn, too
TV Series: Billions
Location: 52nd St and 6th Ave, NYC
TV Series: Broad City
Location: Washington St and W 13th in NYC


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Seminars target oil, gas issues for landowners
STARKVILLE, Miss. -- Landowners will receive insights into oil and gas lease issues during daylong educational events Jan. 24 in Lowndes County and Feb. 22 in Wayne County.
"Balancing Farm Success with Oil and Gas Growth" is for agricultural producers as they make future land-use decisions. Program topics include financial impacts, legal obligations and environmental management strategies. The programs begin at 9 a.m. and conclude after a panel discussion that begins at 3 p.m.
The Mississippi State University Extension Service is organizing these events. The first seminar will be at the Lowndes County Extension office at 485 Tom Rose Road in Columbus. The second will be at the Wayne County Library at 1103-A Mississippi Dr. in Waynesboro.
Find the agendas and printable registration forms at the MSU Extension Center for Government and Community Development website at http://gcd.msucares.com/register.
The seminars are part of the Black Warrior Region Oil and Gas Education Series for Agricultural Producers. They are sponsored by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Southern Extension Risk Management Education Center.
For more information, contact Extension instructor Rachael Carter at 662-325-3141 or email@example.com.


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MIAMI - If needed, there's plenty of things Miami and Chicago could use as extra motivation before meeting in a playoff series, like how the Heat rolled to a win when they met in the Eastern Conference finals two years ago or how the Bulls snapped the reigning champions' 27-game winning streak down the stretch of this regular season.
Then again, maybe the simple fact these clubs don't particularly like each other is all the fuel they'll need.
Top-seeded Miami plays host to fifth-seeded Chicago in Game 1 of an East semifinal series on Monday night, with the Heat coming off a week of rest after sweeping Milwaukee and the Bulls dealing with aftereffects of a grueling, seven-game first-round series.
Chicago took an injury-and-illness-riddled roster into Brooklyn and ousted the Nets on Saturday night.
"Them being the Bulls is enough," Heat forward Chris Bosh said Sunday. "Heat-Bulls, I think that's enough to really get your minds going and have some passion for the series. I mean, it's the second round. We have some major accomplishments we're trying to get to and they're a good, tough basketball team. I think given our history before, that's enough to lace 'em up and get going."
The teams split four regular-season meetings, each going 1-1 in home games.
For Miami, the biggest injury question is Dwyane Wade, who is officially listed as day-to-day with bone bruises around his right knee, but is expected to play on Monday. For Chicago, the medical report is far tougher to decipher. Luol Deng wrote on Twitter that he would "see you guys in Miami" after missing the end of the Brooklyn series because he needed a spinal tap to rule out meningitis, and Kirk Hinrich missed the last three games of Round 1 with a calf injury.
The status of Deng and Hinrich for Game 1 remained unclear Sunday.
"We know how good Miami is," Bulls coach Tom Thibodeau said. "We're going to have to be at our best, or playing great basketball. They're a very deep team, extremely well-coached, very well-balanced. So we're going to have to be at our best, right from the start."
The Bulls arrived in Miami early Sunday and took the day off, which was surely a well-needed break.
Meanwhile, a couple hours before LeBron James formally picked up his fourth NBA MVP award, the Heat were in their practice gymnasium at their home arena, mouth guards in place, knee pads in position, going through a physical workout. For the first time since ousting Milwaukee, they took the floor knowing which team would be their next foe.
"We're preparing to make sure that we play our game, in our building," Heat coach Erik Spoelstra said. "We haven't played in a week and we understand that. We've been working hard this week. Our guys are looking forward to getting out there and competing. So let's tip this thing up."
The Derrick Rose watch is still on for the Bulls.
The star point guard hasn't played in more than a year after needing reconstructive knee surgery. Rose often works out before games and there's almost daily speculation about whether he will return in these playoffs — so the Heat say they will be ready either way.
"We gameplan with the awareness of everybody," Spoelstra said. "But again, the majority of what we do won't change. We've built up these habits."
Regardless of who's healthy or not, the Bulls got Miami's attention — as if they didn't have it already — by the way they fought through plenty of adversity in the opening round.
Bulls forward Carlos Boozer said after Saturday's win in Brooklyn that he didn't think many people expected Chicago to win.
"We've been hearing that noise all year that we don't have enough, that we're missing this and we're missing that," Boozer said.
James insisted the Heat aren't among those who might think that way. In fact, the now four-time MVP said he expected Chicago to pull off the rare trick of winning a Game 7 on the road against Brooklyn.
"It's how it should be in the East right now," James said. "It's the top four teams. That's what I believe. No matter the seedings, it's the top four teams, with us, Chicago and Indiana-New York."
Bulls centre Joakim Noah said he expected a physical matchup — "it's going to be a war," he said — and the Heat said Sunday they were bracing for plenty of rugged play in this series.
In fact, it almost sounds like both sides would be disappointed otherwise.
"It's going to be hard-fought," Heat forward Shane Battier said. "It's going to be physical. It's going to be emotional. And I think it's going to be well-played. That's all that matters."
Miami needed only five games to beat the Bulls in the East finals in 2011, even after losing Game 1 of that series. The teams figured to be on a collision course last season before Rose went down in the first round, and this year Miami dropped a 101-97 decision in Chicago that left the Heat six games shy of matching the 1971-72 Los Angeles Lakers' NBA-record 33-game winning streak.
And now, here they go again.
"We've got to win four games and we've got to take it game by game," Wade said. "Can't worry about that. That was the regular season. That was fun. That's over with. This is a different ballgame."


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Late last month, President Trump signed into law a $670 billion defense spending bill for fiscal 2019. Now, Travis J. Tritten writes in the Washington Examiner, the fight over the next such bill is already ramping up: "The Pentagon and lawmakers are now facing the imminent return of the same thorny budget issues that have snarled on-time funding and hobbled the Pentagon for years, as well as a wild card with the November midterms and a ballooning deficit."
Under Trump, Congress agreed to lift spending caps in order to boost both defense and non-defense spending for two years. But the caps imposed by the Budget Control Act of 2011 remain in place for 2020 and 2021, meaning that the military faces a $71 billion drop in funding at a time when military leaders like Defense Secretary James Mattis and their allies in Congress are looking to put more money toward the implementation of a new National Defense Strategy.
"Mattis and the Pentagon have indicated the military will need about 3-5 percent budget growth over the coming years to stay competitive against adversaries such as Russia and China, which the new strategy puts at the top of U.S. national security priorities," Tritten writes.
The outcome of the looming defense budget battle may depend on November's midterm election — and the deteriorating deficit outlook. If Democrats win control of the House, Rep. Adam Smith (D-WA) would likely become chairman of the House Armed Services Committee. "Smith believes the growing U.S. debt is making large Pentagon budgets untenable," Tritten writes. "Smith has made clear in recent weeks that his vision as Armed Services chairman would be a scaled-back military role in the world, fewer nuclear weapons, and a hard look at shaving defense spending."


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Friends remember girl, aunt killed in KCK apartment fire
Arson suspected in weekend fire
Friends are remembering a Kansas City, Kan., woman and her 2-year-old niece who were killed in an apartment fire over the weekend.
The fire broke out at an apartment building early Saturday and Brandi Johnson and Amiyah McClenton could not escape.
McClenton, who was often called Miyah, would have turned 3 next month. A neighbor said the little girl loved to wave at her.
The neighbor said the girl was the apple of her mother's eye and had a baby brother. The neighbor said Amiyah's mother was beside herself with grief.
Her aunt, Brandi Johnson, was babysitting while Amiyah's mother was at work. She had five sisters, who told KMBC 9's Peggy Breit that they miss her terribly.
Police said they believe the fire was deliberately set after an argument between a man and a tenant. They said they are interviewing a man in connection with the case, but no charges have been filed.


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Hands down this is the best condiment in the universe.
I will express my fondness of it in Haiku:
Mustard, my one love...
In spring, I think of you most
On my plate, divine
Now there is a place for honey mustard, brown mustard, etc etc.
There is no place higher in my heart for just plain yellow mustard.


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Merit scholarships help law schools enhance their cachet, but grading curves often make it impossible for students to keep the grants.
LIKE a lot of other college seniors, Alexandra Leumer got her introduction to the heady and hazardous world of law school scholarships in the form of a letter bearing very good news. The Golden Gate University School of Law in San Francisco had admitted her, the letter stated, and it had awarded her a merit scholarship of $30,000 a year — enough to cover the full cost of tuition.
To keep her grant, all that Ms. Leumer had to do was maintain a grade-point average of 3.0 or above — a B or better. If she dipped below that number at the end of either the first or the second year, the letter explained, she would lose her scholarship for good.
"I didn't give it much thought," she said. "I didn't think it would be a challenge."
Her grades and test scores were well above the median at Golden Gate, which then languished in the bottom 25 percent of the U.S. News and World Report annual rankings of law schools.
How hard could a 3.0 be? Really hard, it turned out. That might have been obvious if Golden Gate published a statistic that law schools are loath to share: the number of first-year students who lose their merit scholarships. That figure is not in the literature sent to prospective Golden Gate students or on its Web site.
But it's a number worth knowing. At Golden Gate and other law schools nationwide, students are graded on a curve, which carefully rations the number of A's and B's, as well as C's and D's, awarded each semester. That all but ensures that a certain number of students — at Golden Gate, it could be in the realm of 70 students this year — will lose their scholarships and wind up paying full tuition in their second and third years.
Why would a school offer more scholarships than it planned to renew?
The short answer is this: to build the best class that money can buy, and with it, prestige. But these grant programs often succeed at the expense of students, who in many cases figure out the perils of the merit scholarship game far too late.
On the Golden Gate campus recently, a group of first-year students at risk of losing their scholarships were trying to make sense of the system. Most declined to be identified for this article because criticizing the school seemed, at minimum, undiplomatic. But the phrase "bait and switch" came up a lot. Several assumed that they were given what is essentially a discount to get them in the door.
"I had a friend once who told me that hunting is a sport," said one Golden Gate merit grant winner who anticipated coming up shy of a 3.0 average. "I said, 'Hunting is not a sport.' He said: 'Sure it's a sport. It's just that the animals don't know they're in a game.' That's what it feels like to be a law student these days. You have no idea you're in a game."
The school's dean, Drucilla Stender Ramey, declined to say exactly how many students would lose their scholarships this year, suggesting that doing so would violate the privacy rights of the students. She acknowledged, though, that lost merit scholarships have been the source of much campus misery.
"Of course some students are disappointed," she said. "I thought I'd be 5-foot-10, and I'm 4-11. But if you gave students sodium pentothal," also known as the truth serum, "they'd say, 'This is a new and very difficult undertaking, the school will support me as best they can and, hopefully, with hard work and good luck, I'll be able to retain my scholarship.'"
Nobody knows exactly how many law school students nationwide lose scholarships each year — no oversight body tallies that figure — but what's clear is that American law schools have quietly gone on a giveaway binge in the last decade. In 2009, the most recent year for which the American Bar Association has data, 38,000 of 145,000 law school students — more than one in four — were on merit scholarships. The total tab for all schools in all three years: more than $500 million.
It's a huge sum, particularly when you realize that merit scholarships were exceptionally rare at law schools a mere generation ago. But given that many students lose their grants after the first year, the question is this: What exactly are law schools buying with all of that money?
JERRY ORGAN, a professor at the University of St. Thomas School of Law in Minneapolis, has been one of the few academics to study law school merit scholarships. Six years ago, after a conversation with the school's director of admissions, Professor Organ learned that the number of applicants weighing merit scholarship offers had soared since his days as an applicant in the early 1980s.
"I'm from a middle-class family, and I couldn't ask my parents for tens of thousands of dollars to pay for law school," he said. "So, in the days before the Internet, I read through lots of law school brochures and discovered that just a handful offered merit scholarships."
The difference between the early '80s and today, he concluded, can be summed up in one name: U.S. News, which began ranking law schools in 1987.
If it sounds absurd that America's legal education system could be whipsawed by, of all things, U.S. News, you have yet to grasp the law school fixation with rankings. Unlike undergraduate colleges, law schools share far more similarities than differences, particularly in the first-year curriculum.
So a lot of schools regard the rankings as their best chance to establish a place in the educational hierarchy, which has implications for the quality of students that apply, the caliber of law firms that come to recruit, and more. Striving for a high U.S. News ranking consumes the bulk of the marketing budget of a vast number of schools.
Which is where scholarships come in.
The algorithm used by U.S. News puts a heavy emphasis on college grade-point averages and Law School Admission Test scores. Together, those two numbers determine about 22 percent of a school's ranking. The bar passage rate, which correlates strongly with undergraduate G.P.A.'s and LSAT scores, is worth an additional two points in the algorithm. In short, students' academic credentials determine close to a quarter of a school's rank — the largest factor that schools can directly control.
So the point of most merit scholarship programs, Professor Organ said, isn't merely to tempt prospective students who might otherwise not attend, though that clearly is one result.
"What law schools are buying is higher G.P.A.'s and LSATs," Professor Organ said. In other words, the schools are buying smarter students to enhance their cachet and rise in the rankings.
Each does it a little differently.
The University of Florida's law school requires students to maintain a 3.2 G.P.A. to keep their scholarships; at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in Manhattan, it's a 2.95. The Chicago-Kent College of Law has a number of grant offerings, one of which sounds like the refueling options for a rental car: students can get a $9,000 annual scholarship guaranteed for all three years, no matter what their G.P.A., or $15,000 a year on the condition that they earn a 3.25 or above. If they get between a 3.0 and 3.25, they keep half the scholarship. Below a 3.0, it's gone.
Some elite schools don't give any merit scholarships, and some give them conditioned only on maintaining good academic standing — which translates to "don't flunk out." But merit stipulations — or stips, as they are known by students — are used by 80 percent of law schools for which information is publicly available, Professor Organ found.
And it's not just institutions in the bottom half of the U.S. News rankings. If your school is ranked 35th, perhaps you're gunning for No. 30 and you can see No. 40 creeping up in the rear-view mirror.
Of course, there is nothing inherently wrong with incentives that ask students to earn strong grades in exchange for a break on tuition. But given that students are often shocked when their scholarships disappear, there are some basic questions about good faith and full disclosure here — an irony, given that those topics are covered in law school.
Catering to the U.S. News rankings also has "strange and unintended consequences," says Thomas F. Guernsey, dean of the Albany Law School.
To him, the strangest is that the bulk of law schools skimp on aid to students who can least afford tuition. The number of need-based scholarships has actually shrunk in the last five years, according to A.B.A. figures, to 18,000 from 20,000 five years ago.
Mr. Guernsey said he'd like to scrap Albany's system and give money away in the third year, based on the student's ability to pay off loans. "But if I moved money to loan repayment assistance," he said, "I wouldn't have the money to give to applicants for scholarships coming in, which is likely to mean that the best applicants will go somewhere else."
Another consequence of merit mania: a lot of heartache and anxiety. After fall semester exams, it dawns on thousands of 1L's, as first-year law students are known, that their financial future is about to change dramatically for the worse.
As realities set in, many are irate. Others, like Ms. Leumer, who graduated from Golden Gate in 2009, feel snookered.
"By the middle of second semester of that first year, everyone saw the system for what it was," she said. "We were furious. We realized that statistically, because of the curve, there was no way for many of us to keep our scholarships. But at that point, you're a year in. They've got you. You feel stuck."
GOLDEN GATE LAW was founded in 1901, and sits today in a modern building of concrete and brick in the city's Financial District, not far from Fisherman's Wharf. Six years ago, the school attracted some unflattering attention when the A.B.A., which accredits law schools, put it on two-year probation. One reason was that the percentage of graduates who passed the bar on their first attempt, at just over 30 percent, was too low.
Ms. Ramey, who became dean in 2009, said the probation did nothing to affect the number or size of scholarship offers. But in 2006, Ms. Leumer quickly realized that she was surrounded by dozens of students just as motivated to get a 3.0 as she was. Concern turned into worry when, in her first semester, her grades included a B-minus in torts and a B-minus in contracts.
Translated numerically, she had a 2.786.
"I felt like I was getting used to a new form of testing," she recalls, "and had to just get more efficient at studying."
In the second semester, she raised her grades in almost every class, except one. She ended the year with a 2.967. In the parlance of 1L's, she had "curved out."
By then, Ms. Leumer had a serious case of scholarship remorse. Her goal had been to get a law diploma without taking out huge loans, but as the first year ended, she was looking at a $60,000 bill for the next two years of tuition.
A friend and classmate, Rachael Welden-Smith, wound up with a 2.9 in the first year, and, with that number, a deep sense of regret. The previous year, she'd been accepted and sent a deposit to a higher-ranked law school, but she chose Golden Gate when it offered to cover half her tuition with a merit grant.
"At the time," Ms. Welden-Smith said, "I didn't think of the law school as a business."
What both women realized too late is that it's often mathematically impossible for everyone to keep their grants. This year at Golden Gate, for instance, 57 percent of first-year students — more than 150 in a class of 268 — have merit scholarships. But in recent years, only the top third of students at Golden Gate wound up with a 3.0 or better, according to Ms. Ramey, the dean. If past patterns hold, dozens of first-year Golden Gate scholarships are about to vanish.
Ms. Ramey says it is statistically possible for 70 percent of first-year students to maintain a 3.0. She also maintains that Golden Gate 1L's are well informed about the odds they face in keeping scholarships.
"Students who have done well in college assume they will do well in law school," she said. They would know better "if they read our materials, if they listen to anything we told them in our admission process, or read our course catalog."
Actually, it takes a bit of forensic accounting to figure out how hard it is to keep a 3.0 at Golden Gate. Knowing the G.P.A. that a school expects of its merit winners says little unless you also know where it sets its curve — essentially, its median grade. A 3.0 at a school where the median is 2.6 is a lot harder to achieve than at a school where it's 2.8.
It also helps to know how many others in a given class have the same offer — information that Golden Gate, like many schools, puts on its Web site but not in its congratulations letters.
Students who don't seek out this data tend to regard merit scholarship offers as a school saying "We love you." It's more like an invitation to a foot race, and before you get to the starting line you'd better know how fast to run and how many others are running.
"I went online and found a standard deviation calculator," said one Golden Gate 1L, explaining what he did to size up the difficulty of achieving a 3.0. Then he taught himself how to use that calculator. He entered data from the school's student handbook, which includes a table with details like the maximum and minimum percentage of A's, B's, C's and D's that a professor can award in a given class.
"The school puts the information on the top shelf," said Cassady Toles, another Golden Gate 1L, "but there is a ladder in the room."
Many schools, it seems, expect students to find the ladder. The Wayne State University Law School in Detroit tells merit scholarship winners in congratulations letters that they will need a 3.25 G.P.A. to keep their grants, worth nearly $25,000 a year. That means students need to wind up in the top third of their class. But that information isn't in the letter.
How come?
"It's not that we couldn't include it," said Ericka Jackson, assistant dean of admissions. "We are always looking for ways to improve communications with students, and that is an easy fix."
Then again, disclosing exactly how hard it is to get a 3.25 could diminish Wayne State's appeal to students the school wants most, which could have real repercussions. So many schools are packed so tightly together in the U.S. News rankings that even minuscule gains and losses have an impact.
In the most recent U.S. News rankings, released in March, the median LSAT score at Baylor Law School in Waco, Tex., stood at 162, up two points from the previous year. But that small uptick is part of the reason the school rose to No. 56 in the rankings — up eight spots on the list of 190
How many of Baylor's 1L's are on merit scholarships? Ninety percent, according to David Swenson, a professor who helped design Baylor's grant program. Given the G.P.A. requirements, he added, 8 out of 10 of those students can expect to keep the money next year.
"It was an accident," said Professor Swenson, when asked why the school offered more scholarships this year than it is likely to renew. A greater number of 1L's than expected enrolled at Baylor last fall, he explained, making it the largest class in the school's history.
IN the world of law school deans, U.S. News plays roughly the same role as the final standings in Major League Baseball — rise and you're golden, sink and you're fretting. The dark comedy in all of this is that many deans consider the rankings to be absurd. They know that schools' reputations don't change much in a given year, and that the U.S. News algorithm can amplify tiny vibrations into quakes.
But as much as academics bemoan the algorithm, it has an audience that can't be ignored, comprising students, lawyers, judges, university presidents and parents.
A lot of parents.
"I remember when I was at Northwestern, a mother called me because her son was deciding between law school at Emory and Boston University," said Rayman L. Solomon, now the dean of Rutgers School of Law at Camden. "He wanted to go to B.U., which was a couple spots behind Emory, because he wanted to live in Boston, not Atlanta. And she was convinced that he was throwing his life away."
Faith in the meaning of the rankings all but forces a school to offer merit scholarships. Every fall, admissions offices and applicants begin an immense, multilayered haggle that resembles nothing so much as a bustling souk. Aspiring 1L's shop for the best combination of money and prestige, and schools dangle acceptance letters and dollars.
As common as G.P.A. requirements are, they often barely register in applicants' deliberations. The very human tendency to overestimate one's talents is part of the problem. Like the children of Garrison Keillor's fictional Lake Wobegon, all incoming 1L's seem to believe that they are above average.
Consider what happens at Chicago-Kent, the school that offers students less scholarship money ($9,000) if they want it guaranteed, and more ($15,000) if they can clear the 3.25 G.P.A. hurdle. Ninety percent opt for the larger and riskier sum, according to school officials. A "significant" number later lose their scholarships, says the school's dean, Harold J. Krent.
"The real issue is that students don't think about this decision in the sophisticated way that you'd like them to," he added. "A lot of students think, 'Well, worst comes to worst, I'll borrow the money,' without realizing how painful it is to pay that money back over time."
Credit Chicago-Kent with forcing students to consider a trade-off, at least for a moment. Other schools phrase their scholarship offers in lump-sum terms that seem to encourage wishful thinking.
"The maximum value of your merit scholarship is $105,914 over the course of your three years of full-time study," read an offer from the George Washington University Law School. A few paragraphs later, it said "as long as you maintain a 3.0 cumulative G.P.A."
Officials at George Washington said they would not discuss their scholarship program.
Combine the optimism of students and the enticing language of law schools, then toss in the curve, and an inevitable result is legions of irate and disappointed 1L's.
"Some students would show up crying; others would throw things," says Jennifer Wright, a professor at St. Thomas, recalling her time teaching at a school with competitive merit scholarships, the name of which she asked not to be used in this article. "I had a lot of stuff on my desk. When they wanted to throw something I'd tell them, 'Use the bean bag, not the paperweight.' "
POPULAR student mythology has it that the A.B.A. requires law schools to grade them on a curve. Not so. But by loading up 1L's with curved classes, Golden Gate and other schools all but ensure that the first year of law school is far more difficult than the two that follow. Which is another way of saying that for many merit grant winners, law school becomes easier, but only after it is too late.
Ms. Leumer's experience is typical. She took few classes that were graded on a curve in Years 2 and 3, and her grades kept improving. Her cumulative G.P.A. for all three years was 3.14.
Her parents chipped in to help with tuition but used money the couple badly needed; her father, a Teamster who drove a tractor at a horse track, had been laid off.
"It was a strain," said Ann Robertson, Alexandra's mother and a philosophy teacher at San Francisco State University. "And we weren't able to help 100 percent."
Several current Golden Gate students who arrived on merit scholarships say they expect to owe more than $100,000 if — the more pessimistic say "when" — they lose the grants. Tuition is now more than $38,000 a year. Because money is also needed for rent, food and books, the bills climb from there.
These students will scramble for loans as law schools suffer through what looks increasingly like a public relations debacle.
A lot of livid graduates and some slightly mortified professors have lately been contending that law schools are misleading prospective students about the marketability of a doctor of jurisprudence.
But the A.B.A. seems unaware of the issues raised by merit grants. Its annual survey of law schools is granular enough to ask for the number of hours the library is open, but it doesn't ask how many students lose their scholarships each year.
The schools already know that number. Why not publish it?
"That is a good question, a legitimate question," said Bucky Askew, who directs the A.B.A. division that accredits schools. "It hasn't been an issue brought to our attention. Nobody has written us, contacted us, to say, 'This needs to be on the table.' "
Why is merit scholarship retention not part of the U.S. News data haul? "The main reason is that we haven't thought about it," said Robert Morse, who oversees the rankings. "It's not a great answer, but it's an honest answer."
Then Mr. Morse thought about it.
"This isn't meant to be sarcastic," he said, "but these students are going to law school and they need to learn to read the fine print."
In a forthcoming paper, Professor Organ proposes a simple system of greater disclosure that, among other figures, would detail the number and percentage of students on scholarships in all three years. Reducing lost-scholarship sticker shock, he suggests, could serve schools' long-term interests. Alumni who feel that they were on the losing end of a raw deal are less likely to send donations. Ms. Leumer, for instance, hears from Golden Gate now and then, asking her for money.
"Many times, I've drafted my response in my head," she says.
Suffice it to say, the response does not include a donation. But in one crucial way, Ms. Leumer contributed to Golden Gate the day she passed the California bar on her first try. Thanks in part to all those merit grants, the school's bar passage rate has been rising in recent years and is now roughly double the level when it was on probation.
Ms. Leumer today is volunteering at an environmental nonprofit organization as she looks for a paying job in a gruesome recession in the legal market. She has some warm memories of her years at Golden Gate, but ultimately, she says, the place did not work for her. But by spending $60,000 on tuition, and by helping to bolster a key statistic, she worked for Golden Gate.


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China's bird flu death toll rises to 16
China's government has warned the number of bird flu infections could rise.
BEIJING - Two more people in China have died from a new strain of avian influenza, bringing to 16 the number of deaths from the H7N9 virus, and the government has warned that the number of infections could rise.
The latest victims were from the commercial capital of Shanghai, where the majority of the 77 cases have been found, the official Xinhua news agency reported late on Tuesday.
The exact source of infection remains unknown and no human-to-human spread of the virus has been confirmed.
Samples have tested positive in some birds in poultry markets that remain the focus of investigations by China and the UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO).
"Because the source of the infection has not been effectively controlled, it is possible that the number of cases of infections could continue to rise," Xinhua said, quoting a risk assessment of the virus by the National Health and Family Planning Commission.
Zeng Guang, the chief scientist in charge of epidemiology at the China Disease Prevention and Control Centre (CDPCC), said about 40 percent of the victims have no clear history of poultry exposure, the Beijing News newspaper reported on Wednesday.
"How did these people get infected? It's a mystery," Zeng was quoted as saying.
According to a Reuters analysis of the infections, based on state media reports, only 10 out of the 77 victims as of Tuesday have had contact with poultry.
The CDPCC declined to comment when asked by Reuters.
The panic over bird flu has caused many Chinese to shun eating chicken for fear of catching the virus.
China's poultry sector has recorded losses of more than 10 billion yuan since reports emerged of the new strain two weeks ago, an official at the country's National Poultry Industry Association said on Tuesday.
Authorities have slaughtered thousands of birds and closed live poultry markets in Shanghai and Beijing in an attempt to reduce the rate of human infection.
An international team of flu experts will go to China this week to help with investigations into the virus, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Tuesday.
China said on Sunday the virus had spread outside the Yangtze River delta region in eastern China, with cases reported in the capital Beijing and the central province of Henan.


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Proponents of factor investing – which differs from traditional asset allocation by focusing on specific return-driven strategies — say it's an efficient way to build portfolios and create more favorable risk/return profiles.
While an intriguing concept, some advisors may lack the analytic tools required to implement the theory. Also, their clients may lack access to the funds using factor investing.
That combination created an opening for factor-investment funds for retail investors, and several fund managers, including ETF-management firm QuantShares, now offer these products.
Bill DeRoche (left), CFA, QuantShare's chairman and CEO, recently responded to questions about factor investing in an interview with AdvisorOne, such as the risk factors that can drive returns, like growth vs. value, as well as more esoteric measures such as volatility, momentum, dividend yield and the health of a company's balance sheet.
What is factor investing?
DeRoche: A factor represents a theme for grouping equities that helps explain return differences among securities. Factors are distinct from industries.
Factor investing involves using the selected theme as a mechanism for ranking each security within the investable universe. A set of rules then translates the ranks into long and short portfolio positions.
Consider a value example. Historically value stocks have outperformed stocks that are considered more expensive. Investors can capture this return difference through products that are long "cheap" stocks and short "expensive" ones. Value could be defined as a combination of ratios such as book to price and earnings to price.
Securities within the investable universe would be ranked from least expensive to most expensive by the defined factor. From the ranks, two portfolios are created, a long portfolio consisting of the top ranked securities and short portfolio consisting of the bottom ranked securities. The return difference or spread between the long and short portfolios will capture the "value premium".
How long has factor investing been used in investment management?
Factor investing has been around for many years, though it has evolved substantially from its earliest days when Professors Graham and Dodd were teaching the benefits of value investing at the Columbia Business School in the 1930's.
The addition of market neutral techniques to isolate a particular attribute was a big step in the evolution of factor investing. In the early 1990's, the research of Professors Fama and French provided the basis for the value and small size factor strategies. Recently, the trend in factor investing has been towards passive investment products and more liquid offerings.
What are the analytics behind it?
Many of the more common investment factors depend on fundamental metrics derived from company financial statements. Market cap, valuation ratios, such as book to price or earnings to price, and returns provide the analytics necessary to build size, value and momentum factor portfolios.
These analytics are readily available from a number of third party vendors and are often used as the basis for investment decisions by portfolio managers.
As an investment strategy, how has it performed relative to the appropriate benchmarks?
As market neutral investments, it makes sense to evaluate these strategies in an absolute return framework. In particular, investors should consider the returns expected for the risks incurred. On this basis, two of the strategies that have performed well are value and small size.
These factors have delivered strong risk adjusted returns and could be considered for a strategic or long-term portfolio allocation. Other factors, though they explain a significant amount of volatility, tend to identify shorter-term movements in the markets. Allocations to factors in this category, such as momentum and beta, could be used for risk reduction or as a tactical short-term view.
Why should advisors consider factor investment-funds for their clients' portfolios?
More than ever, investors understand the importance of asset allocation, diversification and risk management. Adding factor strategies to an overall investment portfolio provides investors more opportunities to diversify, preserve wealth and minimize drawdowns while maintaining the potential for upside.
Factor-based portfolios offer a number of benefits to investors, including:
• Attractive returns relative to the risks incurred,
• Low correlations to the broad market offering significant diversification benefits,
• Hedge fund like returns at a lower cost, greater transparency and increased liquidity.


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I am a teenager, and thinking of going into church ministry when I'm older. I am attracted to the OPC, based on its faithfulness to Scripture. I noticed that the OPC holds to a "strict-subscriptionist" interpretation of the Westminster Confession of Faith and Catechisms. I agree with them on every point, except perhaps one which I would like clarified.
The WCF, Chapter XXIV (Of Marriage and Divorce) reads as follows:
It is lawful for all sorts of people to marry, who are able with judgment to give their consent. Yet it is the duty of Christians to marry only in the Lord. And therefore such as profess the true reformed religion should not marry with infidels, papists, or other idolaters: neither should such as are godly be unequally yoked, by marrying with such as are notoriously wicked in their life, or maintain damnable heresies.
Now I fully agree that Christians may not, without sinning gravely, marry others who are not Christians. This is clearly Biblical teaching. However, would I be wrong in saying that Roman Catholics can be saved in spite of their Church?
So, my first question is whether you can please provide any Biblical evidence that a marrage between a Protestant and a saved Catholic is inherently and absolutely wrong (aside from the difficult circumstances it entails). My second question is, if I interpreted this article of the Westminster Confession of Faith in the sense that marriage with papists is bad but not absolutely forbidden by Scripture and thus not worthy of formal church discipline, would I be automatically barred from being an OPC minister?
Thanks so much for taking the time to read this!
Thanks for writing a letter that's quite sophisticated for a teenager. I hope the Lord will lead you into the ministry if that is his calling for you.
The Orthodox Presbyterian Church can fairly be called a strict-subscriptionist church. But that statement doesn't end the matter. Men who are ordained in our church vow to receive the Westminster Standards "as containing the system of doctrine taught in the Holy Scriptures." Some men take that virtually verbatim, while others disagree with a word or phrase in the confessional standards. Still others may, before a presbytery, take exception to something, and their views still be deemed within the "system of doctrine." But that's somewhat rarified theology which doesn't directly address your concerns.
Of course a Roman Catholic can be saved in spite of his church. That's a safe position to hold. A separate issue is marrying a Roman Catholic. And imbedded in this is the criteria for judging who is saved. We all agree that only God knows the heart. With that agreement certain necessary matters have to be observed. That's why, in the Orthodox Presbyterian Church tradition, it is the church session—not an individual like you or me—that makes the judgment that a person makes a credible profession of faith: not an infallible judgment and certainly not a subjective, theoretical opinion of the kind your remarks seem to suggest.
So let's say an Orthodox Presbyterian Church member wants to marry a "saved Roman Catholic." My counsel would be that he/she come before a church session as a candidate for communicant church membership, and be received into the church. That's the best we can do, humanly speaking, to determine whether one is saved, a believer in the Lord Jesus Christ.
That's the concern of the Westminster Confession of Faith: that we have a believer on our hands, whom a believer may marry with God's approval. The Westminster Confession of Faith's "necessary" qualification for a Christian marriage is to marry "only in the Lord" and not be "unequally yoked" with an unbeliever.
Indeed, the Roman Catholic Church does hold "damnable heresies": the mass, confession and absolution by a priest, purgatory, Mary as "mother of God," "the queen of heaven," and "co-redemptrix," to say nothing of a pope speaking "ex cathedra" on doctrinal matters which members are bound by.
To repeat somewhat, it's not enough for any individual to judge whether a person is "saved." Leave it to the church to determine that question, and also the question of marrying a "saved" Roman Catholic. At the least, such a Roman Catholic should be interviewed by a church session. For such a marriage to take place, approval by a session is a must.
I hope my reply answers at least some of your concerns.
"Questions and Answers" is a weekly feature of the OPC website. The answers come from individual ministers in the Orthodox Presbyterian Church expressing their own convictions and do not necessarily represent an "official" position of the Church, especially in areas where the Standards of the Church (the Scriptures and the Westminster Confession of Faith and Catechisms) are silent.
The questions come from individuals like yourself. If you have questions about biblical and theological matters, you are invited to send them by e-mail by using the "Pose a Question" link on the OPC home page or by clicking here.
At least one new question is posted each week, so there should always be something new here for you to read. (For those people who would like to look at previous questions and answers, they will continue to be available as well.)
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Jemile Weeks – A's are calling up their 2nd base prospect. Jemile, schlimazel… Hasenpfeffer Incorporated! Weeks has a brother in the major leagues. $5 says you can name him. Hint: His first name sounds a lot like Sickie. They're similar players. 20/20 potential over a full season but should wear one of those old Asian lady masks while on a plane so they don't catch anything. I'm slightly less excited about Weeks because he's yet to show big power or health in the minor leagues. In AL-Only leagues, of course you take the flyer.
Scott Sizemore – Was recalled. For right now, I'd take a wait and see approach in mixed leagues, but at MI that could change quickly. BTW, MI Is A Name I Call My Middle Infielder was almost a Razzball t-shirt. Alas, for now, you have the Sparky Anklebiter and It's Tough Being Part Of A Platoon. More to come. Or not. Depends on how these sell, I'm told by the little man with a top hat, cane and tuxedo.
Adam Rosales – Kirsten Drunkst's co-star of Crazy/Beautiful hit his first home run. He'll probably co-own the A's 3rd base timeshare with Sizemore. Should help him save thousands on resort developer fees.
Dee Gordon – Was called up yesterday by the Dodgers. Gordon's fast. And skinny. He's 150 pounds. That's how much my mustache weighs soaking wet. He's like Juan Pierre at shortstop. Holy effin' effholes, that's a beautiful thing. Imagine 60 steals at shortstop. That's like an 80's sitcom dream where the wavy lines come in and Edna Garrett is making you a pot roast in a nightie. That's like Alcides Escobar and Everth Cabrera wrapped up in a burrito of "These are terrible examples, but I'm trying to make a point by lowering expectations." Gordon has decent enough on base skills to make the speed work, but he's raw and only 23 years old. Nobody likes you when you're 23! I'd take a flyer in every league where you need speed, just remember he could steal 35 bases from now until October or he could struggle and be replaced by Furcal in a few weeks. It's rookie nookie and it could give you a nice adrenaline rush or make you itchy.
Ted Lilly – 6 IP, 2 ER, 6 baserunners, 4 Ks vs. the Phillies wasn't a start I wanted to gamble on. Sonavabench!
Marcus Thames – 0-for-4. Back in the lineup and batting third… The .247 career hitting Marcus Thames. Three ladies and gentlemen, your 2011 Los Angeles Dodgers!
Hanley Ramirez – Finally lands on the DL for the first time in his career. Check it off the bucket list.
Javier Vazquez – 4 IP, 6 ER, 9 baserunners, 6 Ks. After benching or dropping him before his previous solid starts, I figured the only way to get him to throw a terrible game was to stick him in my lineup. Worked like a charm. Slanted mouth emoticon.
Jake Peavy – To the DL with a strained right groin. "Hold on, honey, I'm just straining the fusilli… Wait, is this Jake Peavy's right groin?" Talk about an awkward moment.
Alex Rios – He's out for a mental break, which in the medical community is called "being out to lunch," but I'm not a doctor, though I did fall asleep watching a Scrubs rerun last night. For those with questions on Rios, the girl who's dating me for my fantasy baseball 'pertise/mustache, dropped him yesterday. If she can do it, I bet you guys can too.
John Danks – 7 1/3 IP, 0 ER, 8 baserunners, 6 Ks and he tied Wilson Valdez with one win.
Matt Garza – 4 IP, 4 ER, 9 baserunners, 3 Ks. Welcome back!…And bleh. It's usually wise to sit a guy coming off the DL until he shows he's healthy unless he has a good matchup. Against the Reds wasn't a good matchup and his next start isn't much better.
Dexter Fowler – I've said this a few times on this web log, but how do teams get away with DL'ing whomever they want? A few days ago the Rockies were talking about demoting Fowler, now he's suddenly DL'd. Don't have to wear a monocle to find that suspicious.
Charles Blackmon – He's effectively replacing Fowler. His AAA stats look great .346/10 HRs/12 SBs but he plays in Colorado Springs which is like Coors sans humidor. (BTW, doesn't this guy have a perfect Caribbean name? U. of Colorado isn't too far away – could we call him the Buffalo Soldier?) He hasn't shown great power or speed in the minors so he may turn out to be somewhere between Spilborghs and Seth Smith. Wouldn't be surprised to see him platoon with Spilborghs since he's a lefty. Worth a shot in daily leagues, but wouldn't take a silver bullet for him.
Chris Nelson – 2-for-4 and he's now started four days in a row. The Rockies really suffer from too much upside. All of their guys are intriguing if they'd just play every day.
Brian Matusz – 5 1/3 IP, 2 ER, 9 baserunners, 3 Ks and the win. This start was against an A's lineup that is ranked 25th or lower in all major hitting categories. They only have 33 home runs as a team. That would be bad in the dead ball era. The Ghost of "Home Run" Baker, "Shut your non-wooden teeth mouth, you rapscallion!"
Anthony Rizzo – Padres are expected to call him up any day now, Annie Potts. You wait with bated breath. Or baited if you're into misspellings.
Frank Francisco – 2/3 IP, 1 ER. He took the loss and blamed his inability to get major league hitters out. Wait, no, that was me that blamed that.
Felipe Paulino – 6 2/3 IP, 1 ER, 6 baserunners, 4 Ks. He could throw a gem next time out or he could give up 7 earned in 3 innings. The mouth on the left side of the screen says "Risk" and the mouth on the right side says "Upside."
Joakim Soria – Was renamed the closer as the manager said, "Who are we kidding? We got Alex Gordon leading off, a guy with C cups as our DH… Nothing on our team makes sense except our closer. Soria's back in!"
Asdrubal Cabrera – 3-for-4, 2 RBI, 2 runs and his 12th home run. He prefers if you call him The Drubal. If you see him in public, lower your eyes. You don't meet eyes with The Drubal.
Josh Tomlin – 6 IP, 6 ER. This was a solid start. Correction. No, it wasn't.
Brennan Boesch – 5-for-6, 5 RBIs and 2 home runs. Now has 3 home runs in the last three games. Well, he looked good in April for a second, then he looked terrible in May. So it seems like you have another 23 days to own him.
Nelson Cruz – I'd mentioned he hit two home runs yesterday but I'm afraid I'm going to jinx him and he's going to get hurt. Moving along…
Matt Tolbert – 7 for his last 15, and that's The Tolbert Report.
Jimmy Rollins – Battling a sore knee. Going for an MRI. They should just put an MRI machine behind 2nd base in Philadelphia and Utley/Rollins will decide before each hitter who'll get x-rayed. "Reyes is stealing. Throw to 2nd. Utley applies the tag….Reyes is out! And so is Utley for 15 days!"
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