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End of the World? Hear the 2012 Prophecy … Direct from the Mouths of the Mayan Priests
Ignore Second-Hand Information … Hear the Real Prophecy
Preface: The Mayan 2012 end of the world "prophecy" is scaring the pants off numerous children and suicidal teeangers. 1-in-10 people believe that the Mayans have prophesied the end of the world (and see this). A Google search for "Maya 2012" currently brings up 325 million hits, only slightly less than a search for the most popular words.
This post is a public service announcement to reach children and adults scared about the Mayan prophecy … to show with the Mayan priests' own words that the world will not end in 2012.
Many people are talking about the Mayan 2012 prophecy.
But few know what the Mayan priests actually said about 2012.
In reality, Mayan elders say something very different from what you might have heard.
For example, Wakatel Utiw – leader of the National Council of Elders Mayas, Xinca and Garifuna, Day Keeper of the Mayan Calendar, and 13th generation Quiche Mayan Spiritual Leader - says that the end of the Maya calendar has nothing to do with the end of the world.
He also explains that December 21, 2012 might not even be the end of this cycle of the calendar:
Contrary to popular belief the living elders of the Maya do not agree that December 21, 2012 is the end of their calendar. A new "Sun" represents the beginning of a new Long Count cycle in the calendar system of approximately 5,200 years, which they say may not happen for many years.
And see this.
(A brand new film called "Shift of the Ages" tells the Mayans' beliefs in detail … and gives their true warnings.)
Similarly, Tz'utujil Mayan elder Tata Pedro Cruz says that the world will not end in 2012:
Mayan elder and priest Carlos Barrios – who has extensively studied the Mayan calendars – says:
Anthropologists visit the temple sites and read the inscriptions and make up stories about the Maya, but they do not read the signs correctly. It's just their imagination. Other people write about prophecy in the name of the Maya. They say that the world will end in December 2012. The Mayan elders are angry with this. The world will not end. It will be transformed."
Leonzo Barreno – a Guatemalan native who was trained by Mayan elders to read the ancient calendars – says says the 'apocalypse' concept is a false interpretation of the Long Count calendar, that the Mayan elders taught him that December 21 this year simply marks the start of a new calendar:
'There are two sides to the story,' he told CBC. 'The one that we know is this apocalyptic meaning that has been given to the Long Count.
'The other side of the story is the Mayan side, which you rarely see on media articles, because they never interview my own people.'
'For them it's a joyous event, not an apocalyptic event. What is coming is the end of a calendar and the beginning of a new one.
Ricardo Cajas – president of the Collective of Native Organizations of Colectivo de Organizaciones Indígenas de Guatemala – says the date did not represent an end of humanity or fulfillment of the catastrophic prophecies, but that the new cycle "supposes changes in human consciousness." (Translation).
Pedro Celestino Yac Noj – a Mayan sage living in Cuba – says:
The 21st is for giving thanks and gratitude and the 22nd welcomes the new cycle, a new dawn.
Rather than being the end of the world, Mayan priest Jose Manrique Esquive believes that 2012 may bring a transition to a better time for humankind.
And AP noted in 2009:
Apolinario Chile Pixtun is tired of being bombarded with frantic questions about the Mayan calendar supposedly "running out" on Dec. 21, 2012. After all, it's not the end of the world.
Definitely not, the Mayan Indian elder insists.
Chile Pixtun, a Guatemalan, says the doomsday theories spring from Western, not Mayan ideas.
And if you don't believe what the current Mayan leaders say, please remember that archaeologists recently found a cache of ancient Mayan calendars which goes thousands of years past 2012. And see this.
Note: The Mayan elders do make prophetic warnings, but it has nothing to do with 2012. Specifically, they warn that we need to rein in war and pollution or we will destroy ourselves.
Given that numerous end of the world prophecies have come and gone without incident, and that the Pope has declared that – due to a miscalculation – we are currently in AD 2016, not 2012 – it is smart to take all date-specific predictions with a spoonful of cynicism.
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Seeing as we're both doing a late shift on that particular Friday it'll be interesting to see what rolls up to the ED doors.
OUR predition - there WILL be an outbreak of "The Crazies" on the 21st, especially seeing as it's the last Friday before Xmas, and we usually have an excess of "unfortunate accidents" around this time of the year anyhow. You would be (not) surprised how many of the Melbourne under 25 population would qualify for posthumous Darwin Awards without prompt (and these days costly) Medical intervention!
Interesting that we've seen a reduction in Paracetamol / Acetaminophen deliberate overdosage cases so far this Summer (for us!) - in fact quite a big reduction. I'm told that the Pharmacy has stocked up on acetylcisteine as usual, and the vials are almost collecting dust.
Fingers crossed that this trend continues, and maybe Christmas 2012 will turn out to be a far happier Christmas for all our "usual customers"!!
The sun stone in the photo is not Maya, and is often mislabeled as the "Aztec calendar" when it really is just a diagram of calendar days, and diagram of the creation/ending of the 4 ages prior to the current. Ironically, the current age is said to end by movements of the earth/earthquakes.
Someone mentioned it earlier, but like the Aztec tribes, modern Hopi and Maya Indians, among others, also share the belief of the cycle of ages, thinking circularly rather than linearly. Just like the outer band of the Aztec sunstone or even a modern clock, time loops over and over. It's at this beginning/end point where, as the Maya and Hopi are saying now, we respect the process and try to reevaluate the age we live in.
Which is why the non indigenous morons who say the Maya are predicting the end of the world are nothing more than uneducated carnival barkers. Unfortunately, when we all wake up on Dec 22, the Maya will be the unfortunate victims of ridicule for something they did not predict.
BTW, for those who repeat the saying, the Maya did NOT disappear, and this mantra should not be repeated. Stop watching Ancient Aliens or even NatGeo/Discovery for any information regarding their history. Abandoning ceremonial centers is not the same as disappearing. The masses just returned to their forest homes, not after certain ruling clans were eliminated in warfare. No space ships, no aliens.
GW thanks for spreading this message, and including modern Maya viewpoints, though the simple minded seemed to have already made up their mind that Maya = end of the world prediction.
The reason people think the world ends is that the previous world ended after 13 B'aktun = around 5200 years, so if it is a cycle, the world ends every ~5200 years.
According to a guide at one of the sites I visited, there were two classes of Maya, the educated priests that made up 5% of the population, and the common farmers that made up 95% of the population. Before the downfall, only priests were allowed to perform sacrifices. They were also the only ones with a formal education.
They called themselves the "real men" and the common people were called something like sheep. When you died, you had to pass through the seven layers of hell and 11 layers of heaven, and if you were a good citizen, then their savior character would appear in the form of a Jaguar and help you get through the trials in the seven hells. If you made it all the way through it all, you got reborn as a "real man" i.e. the elites.
They also had a thing every 50 or 52 years where everyone would destroy their earthly belongings, forgiveness of debts, etc. and start making stuff all over again. Excellent systems of social control, broken-window stimulus, etc.
While they didn't disappear, they had severe population loss; in the Yucatan, they are estimated to have lost 90% of their population, and in Belize, around 95%. This is all estimated to have happened between 900 and 1200 AD.
If 95% of the people in any western country died off in a couple generations these days, and all the post-secondary institutions, libraries and museums became ruins, I think most people would qualify that as TEOTWAWKI.
Two years max, then the shit which is already hitting the fan will have broken the fan:
In two years or less what economies can pay for crude will be less than what it costs to bring crude to the marketplace. Shortages that arise from this simple dynamic will be permanent ... as in thousands/millions of years.
In addition, there is no way to cheat, evade, negotiate, bargain, beg, whine, wheedle or kill our way around this process and its outcome. Our ability to raise money by borrowing will be useless and it is likely that all debt will become worthless at this time ... for this reason.
We have about 2 years to come up with a voluntary conservation scheme or a conservation scheme is going to be shoved up our asses. Sorry, no reach-around.
The Mayans are long gone. Those pyramids are probably thousands of years older than mainstream archeologists state as is the great pyramid at Giza. Perhaps the people who call themselves Mayans are genetically descended from the people who built those pyramids and devised that calendar, and perhaps not, but even if they are, they know as much about the real intent of the calendar as a barefoot Baptist preacher in Alabama knows about the esoteric knowledge between Jesus and his apostles. Not that I am writing that the end of this month is the end of the world. However, I do expect some very, very strange things to happen, as TPTW (the powers that were) cannot just let this go by. As some dickhead from Chicago put it, "Never let a good crisis go to waste." Perhaps another false flag bigger and better than 9/11. A nuked mid-sized USA city, or a 3D holographic alien invasion, or the announcement by NASA that we are about to be smacked by a giant asteroid at 80 km a second (which turns out to be a computer error when it doesn't happen). I have found (tentatively) from a lot of studying and sifting (I am retired),
1) That the end of the Maya calendar corresponds to the end of a lot of other indigenous calendars around the world including the Aztec and the Hopi.
2) If it represents any major change at all, it is primarily a change in human consciousness.
As to the end of the world, we don't need no stinkiiiing ancient calendar to figure that one out. Anyone who knows anything about biology and physics knows that when those mixed plutonium rods in elevated storage in Fuckyoushima go, it's lights out for all but the cockroaches.
Glad to see other people get onto this- I've warned about an alien 9/11, a nuke in the London financial district, or a derivatives blowup on Dec. 21. Werner von Braun warned about asteroid and alien hoaxes for decades. If they're going to do it, they will do it on Dec. 21. I am calling an epic fail. 2012 will be the beginning of the end for them. More on this later.
Remember the Olmecs? They were the ancestral civilization of central America, noted for carving giant stone heads. The heads look strongly African (big lips, wide, flat noses). The heads wear carved helmets which resemble Nubian military helmets from around the time of Ramses II. Nubia was Egypt's main rival back in the day. The Nubians actually built many more pyramids than the Egyptians (though they are much smaller). There are similarities between Mayan mythology and Nubian mythology. The Mayans themselves even look like they might be part black.
Establishment historians can't admit that black people might have done something awesome, and they might have done it thousands of years before Columbus. I am guessing they started between Egypt and Somalia and had to circumnavigate most of Africa before they even set out accross the Atlantic. Break out a globe and look how far they travelled.
Werner von Braun was a dyed in the wool Nazi SS major. He could have been executed multiple times at Nuremberg (Osama bin Laden proved that a person can die more than once) for his war crimes with slave, underground labor at Peenemünde if he weren't so valuable to the Project Paperclip guys. The report of the alien invasion hoax lies with the statements of Carol Rosin. While she is well meaning and probably honest, as her two hour interview on Veritas Radio indicates, she is also quite the doofus. A better, very brief portrait of von Braun is given by the late and lamented Fred Bell in his 2009 Veritas interview. His demeanor in NASA hadn't changed a bit from Peenemünde. Furthermore, NASA was founded almost exclusively by German Nazi scientists brought in under Operation Paperclip. Even its name was a sick joke - NASA - NAZI. In short, I wouldn't trust anything von Braun had to say. While many people speak the truth when confronted with pending (cancer) death, this does not hold true for religious fanatics, and I group Nazis in that category. Which does not mean that von Braun wasn't speaking the truth about an alien invasion hoax courtesy of TPTW. They certainly have the technology to do it with Project Bluebeam allowing them to project huge, 3D holographic moving images and audio where ever they chose. Caveat emptor.
Establishment historians can't admit that black people might have done something awesome, and they might have done it thousands of years before Columbus.
Neither can Trav777 --- according to him, they STILL haven't invented the wheel, or plumbing.
Poor, poor darkies.
<--- Credit card cash advance for a last bit of silver? <--- Bad idea.
Note that Dec. 21 is a triple witching options expiration (to coincide with a triple rebirth of the Sun). It's almost like someone lined up the cycles on purpose.
Usual naked shorting applies.
In fifteen days, I will throw out my current calendar and replace it with a new one. In 1000 years, will some archeaologist find my old one and determine that I believed the world would end on 1-1-2013?
The last year that I can configure a calender in Word 2010 is 2022.
I guess Bill Gates thinks the world will end that year...
No, just a planned culling of the world population by 95% by then. He and his wife are good humanitarians. Take your vaccine, sit down, shutup and die!
or just go outside. . .
sweat activated vaccines, *nods*
Okay...just to play both sides of this, my strategy is: 1) All chores have been suspended until December 22nd - cleaning house/shed/workshop, washing Harley/truck, etc. 2) The evening of December 20th I will have two half-gallon containers of Blue Bell ice cream, of the most devilish flavors, which will be eaten in one orgasmic evening ... I am working on Mayan Local Time, so all the bullshit about datelines, timezones, etc. which are being argued by the pseudo-intellectuals will have no effect on me ... Anyways ... Should still be coming off a good sugar high on December 22nd for all those chores ... and ... if there is no December 22nd I will have wasted no energy, and sugar is a preservative, so I should ferment for many decades ... Those are my plans as I await the outcome. :)
Mayan 2012? It is the equivalent of getting worked up over changing the office calendar at the end of the year. They just have a longer time span.
At this point I worry more about forgetting my Metamucil and getting caught in a tough dump.
Try beer instead ...
Or hearty European red wine from the south of France
Both are very good for, er, 'digestion' ...
- The "Nasties" will of course take advantage of this shite on dec,21.
Lotsa people will believe WHATEVER they are given...just like Re Li GioN.
Theres a reason they hooked everyone up to THEIR MatriCKz.
I wish they would STFU -and I request that ZH remove this article immediately. I am counting on extreme volatility between now and December 20th to be able to pay for my Chrsitmas.
Voyager 1 is about to leave our solar system. Voyager 2 is a ways behind. If anything is out there, they'll see them coming and resolve to squish us like the bugs we are to keep us from getting any further.
Don't worry the fear mongerers will simply tell everyone it was an error in how the year was perceived and that the correct EOW event was supposed to occur in 2021, not 2012 and they will continue to fuck you out of billions until that time and have 10 years to think up the next bullshit lie.
I wonder if those apocoplypse bunkers at undisclosed locations with rations of food offer refunds.
My favorite apocalypse story was about the secret, hidden survival bunker with all the modern conveniences including an internet video monitoring system and a gas powered generator to run them... and some smartazz broke into the generator bunker and stole it. Now THAT's a SECURE bunker!!! ROTFLMBO!!!
the true purpose of the mayan calendar?Electromagnetic Changes in our Solar System
thank you for that link - well worth the few minutes.
...hit the fan :)
It will be the end of the world as we know it.
Great, someone raining on my doom porn again....
come 22 december, i'm really going to miss the doom porn
really cant fap to much else anymore
i have wondered how soon after the 21st you will start to see storable food and other preps on ebay and craigslist at like 90% off
all of this confusion might have something to do with the fact that writing, in the sense that we think of it, along with recorded prophesy and history, was brought to the Americas mostly by Pizarro and Cortez. The Mayans were already gone by then
Come on Trav! Juan Pizarro is still with us. He was a very good lefty for the Chisox and was a very good hitter, often pinch hitting! Geez!
been awhile, trav. you in semi-retirement or something?
sometimes I doubt what is worse... that it ends or that it goes on...
If it wasn't for the "2" at 3 o'clock I'd never have noticed those hieroglyphs were "QE".
The Mayans had 12 months and 20 days to their calendar, thus stopping it logically at 2012...Visited a Mayan Temple in Belize, I think it was Mayan, it was not good juju. "Felt" like human sacrifices were held on the flat-topped pyramid we climbed. Ever since, when I hear about Mayan prophecy I pray to Jesus (for all our past, present, and future). Nothing good can come of limiting neg beliefs.
The Fed gives off bad juju as well...
No, Mayans never did sacrifices. It was the Toltecs, I think, who did that. Please at least learn about a culture that you're trying to 'dis ...
Are you sure on that.Saw a documentary claiming that remains
of human sacrifices were found in the water cisterns of the Mayans.
It was theorized that at the end of a super drought they turned to
human sacrifice to replenisnh the dwindling water supply,thereby poisoning
themselves.Carbon dating confirmed the timeline.
My understanding is that the Mayans were peaceful, but the Toltecs later conquered some of their holdings and instituted sacrifices...
The Mayan civilization died out quickly, right after their founding of a central bank. The human sacrifices of their gold miners turned out to be a mistake, too.
Sad stuff to see that they destroyed themselves trying to "save" themselves. Doing something insane to save themselves like like....QE Infinity.
Can we throw The Ben Bernank in the cistern now?
The Fed has adopted the Mayan system, sort of…
Mayan Long Count Calendar = FED long Count printer
Cataclysmic end of paper money with the adoption of electronic money, a new dawn of thievery will come with the sunrise
George Washington, the Mayans did in fact perform human sacrifices, but more archeologists and anthropologists believe that they did not perform them on anywhere near the monstrous scale that the Aztecs did. ALL Mesoamerican civilizations, starting with the Olmecs (the big stone head guys) engaged in human sacrifice to some degree, in fact.
It's all just context, anyway. What do we call it when we send young people to a desert 8,000 miles away to get blown up by a bunch of bearded primitives?
"Spreading democracy."
Yes, our occult puppetmasters have outdone the Aztecs by many orders of magnitude, but they have to disguise their human sacrifices as something else.
They hate us for our freedoms.
'Mesoamericanism' eternal nature of extorting the weak, harvesting the poor.
But hey, Indo-Olmeccian citizenism is as Tibetan-Mayan-Azteccian citizenism does.


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You will be surprised!
Prospective homebuyers are often told that the house they are looking at, is a "colonial." This real estate term typically means that it is a "colonial style," but what does that actually mean? Often, it means that the appearance of the house has very little relation to the true appearance of Colonial Period buildings! The focus of this series, however, is the "real thing" - houses that were actually built in earlier eras. We will briefly view the history of the Colonial Era in North America and then discuss the types of houses that were built during that era.
Readers are invited to submit questions on the selection and restoration of historical houses. Fill free to contact the author via email at firstname.lastname@example.com. He will do his best to answer your questions during the series or at least suggest others, who can. We hope you will enjoy the humor and can utilize the advice.
The time periods
The first Spanish attempt to establish a colony in what is now the United States was on or near Sapelo Island, GA in 1526. It only lasted 6 months. In 1562 French Huguenots (Protestants) established Charlesfort on Parris Island, SC. In 1564 the French Protestants established a larger fort on the Saint Johns River of Florida, named Fort Caroline. In the next year the Spanish established a fort about 40 miles south of Fort Caroline, and called it, Santo Agostino (St. Augustine.) The Spanish soon massacred most of the garrison at Fort Caroline. In 1566, the Spanish established the town of Santa Elena near the site of Charlesfort. It was planned to be the capital of the great new province of La Florida. The primary functions of Santa Elena and St, Augustine were associated with the protection and supply of Spanish treasure fleets that hauled the vast quantities of gold and silver being mined in Mexico and Peru.
The cornerstone of the Spanish colonizing strategy in the Southeast was the establishment of a network of mission compounds, initially concentrated on the coast of what is now Georgia. Very few Spaniards actually settled the region, outside of the towns of St. Augustine and Santa Elena. Spain was never able to subdue the Muskogean (ancestors of the Creek Indians) provinces beyond the coast. All Spanish colonizing attempts, north of the St. Johns River in Florida were destroyed or abandoned by 1700.
Spanish colonization of the Southwestern United States began in 1598. After much bloodshed, the Spanish were able to dominate the indigenous peoples, who lived in towns, but never were able to conquer such fierce tribes as the Apache and Navajo. Spanish garrisons did enable Mexicans to establish some communities and ranches in certain regions.
The first North American colony to be claimed by England was Newfoundland in 1583. Formal colonization efforts did not begin, however, until 1610, under the leadership of Captain John Smith. The first English attempt to establish a colony in North America was in 1585 at Roanoke Island, NC. It failed very quickly. A second attempt was made to colonize Roanoke Island in 1587. Almost immediately war broke out with Spain. All colonists had vanished by 1590, when an English fleet was able to return to the island with supplies.
Jamestown, VA was established in 1607 by the London Company. Although several times, famine, diseases or Indian attacks almost destroyed the settlement, it managed to survive permanently. The Virginia Colony was limited to the Tidewater Region until the mid-1600s when the Powhatan Indian Confederacy was finally crushed. From then on, new settlers spread inland.
The Plymouth Company established a little-known settlement known as the Popham Colony in Maine, also in 1607. The colony was abandoned after a year, because of leadership problems, but did manage to build a highly seaworthy ship, which crossed the Atlantic several times afterward. During the 1620s, New England was permanently settled. By the end of the century, English colonies had been established from Newfoundland, southward to Charleston, SC.
The French made several unsuccessful attempts to colonize Maine and the Saint Lawrence River Basin between 1598 and 1604. In the next few years a small colony were established in Nova Scotia and at the City of Quebec. These grew very slowly. In 1630 Quebec only had a population of 103. Canada never really had a substantial European population, while under the control of France.
Beginning around 1685, France began establishing trading posts in the basins of the Mississippi River and the rivers that flowed into the Mississippi. In 1690 France began colonization efforts along the Gulf Coast, which culminated in the early 1700s in the establishment of Mobile, Biloxi, New Orleans and Fort Toulouse in what is now Alabama. However, France lost all of its possessions in the continent of North America in 1763, which was the end of the Seven Years War. The date 1763 ends the French Colonial Period.
Spain also lost Florida in 1763, but was given the part of Louisiana, west of the Mississippi. Spain continued to occupy the Province of Louisiana until 1799. It was secretly held by France from 1799 until 1803, when it was then sold to the United States. Florida was given back to Spain in 1783 at the close of the American Revolution. The United State "took" West Florida in 1810 and 1812. Spain gave East Florida to the United States in 1819. The United States took possession in 1821. Spain lost all of its possessions in the Southwest in 1821, when Mexico won its independence. This date ends the Spanish Colonial Period. Of course, the English Colonial Period in the United States essentially ended in 1776, while its end in Canada really does not have a fixed date, but rather involves a gradual change toward a separate cultural identity.
Spanish colonial architecture
In stark contrast to what was being built in Mexico, Spanish colonial houses in both the Southeast and the Southwest evolved directly from Native American architectural traditions. In the Atlantic Coastal Plain of Georgia, the Muskogeans built houses with light, prefabricated wood frameworks and thick clay walls. These were finished with a crude plaster made from burned shells, crushed shells, white sand and kaolin (white) clay. A Spanish officer described these white houses in 1585 as "glimmering like pearls." Indigenous ethnic groups in the Gulf Coastal Plain, such as the Natchez and Apalachicola (Lower Creeks) built wood-framed houses, sheaved with wood planks.
Until the early 1700's or even the mid-1700's, the majority of houses in Saint Augustine reflected one of these indigenous traditions. The common folk and mixed-bloods lived in simple plank-sided houses with thatched roofs. (See the virtual reality image above.) Middle class families build waddle & daub houses, stuccoed with the same crude lime-crushed shell plaster that was used by the Georgia Creeks. This eventually evolved into "tabby" construction, in which the entire wall was composed of a shells, crude hydrated lime, and sand.
Throughout the late 1500s and 1600s, St. Augustine was repeatedly attacked by English, French and pirate invaders. The town was burned or partially burned several times. No houses from before 1701 exist. Our knowledge of the earliest architecture is primarily based on eyewitness accounts, and some evidence from archaeological studies.
Construction was begun on the massive Castillo de San Marcos in 1672. It was constructed out of a soft limestone known as coquina. Civilians wanted to also build major public buildings and the houses of the elite out of coquina, but were not allowed to do so by the King of Spain until around 1690.
An army led by Governor James Moore of Carolina completed destroyed St. Augustine in 1702, but was unable to capture Castillo de San Marcos. Presumably, the reconstruction of St. Augustine included more European style architecture, but this is not known for certain. The lightly framed, wood plank houses of the commoners did not last long in St, Augustine's humid climate.
Spanish colonists in the southwest immediately emulated the pueblo adobe construction upon arrival in the region. They continued to build variations of pueblo adobe architecture into the early 20th century. In the earliest houses, the Spanish settlers copied the indigenous construction method of stacking stones with clay mortar; then plastering the walls with clay. Later, as sawn timbers became available, more wood was used in the framing of the adobe structures.
English Colonial Architecture
The settlers at Jamestown built the exact type of houses that had been common in England since the Middle Ages. They were framed with heavy, dressed timbers, constructed by experienced carpenters, who were brought along specifically for that purpose. The interstices were filled with waddle and daub – a mixture of clay and straw. The earliest houses had no foundations other than a heavy "mud sill" beam. The half timbers houses were inadequate for the cold, windy winters of the Chesapeake Bay region. As soon as the waddle & daub dried, cracks formed at the joints with the timbers and allowed the wind to blow through. The earliest fireplaces were evidently built out of clay and logs, because there were few fieldstones on Jamestown Island. The original houses at Jamestown had dirt floors and thatched roofs.
As Virginia's colonists moved farther inland they are able to obtain fieldstones for constructing crude foundations and chimneys, mortared with clay. There were very, very few brick houses in Virginia until the 1700s. Bacon's Castle, included in the attached slide show, was one of those few brick houses. The builders found it less expensive to import the brick makers and kilns than to import the bricks! Lime plaster and mortar were only used by the wealthiest of homeowners. For much of the 17th century, all hydrated lime for building construction was imported from England. The reason was that there is very little exposed limestone in Virginia's narrow coastal plain and the Piedmont contains only igneous and metamorphic rocks.
Once explorers reached beyond the Blue Ridge Mountains, domestic lime did become available for construction. The Shenandoah Valley was underlain by dolomite limestone that was an excellent building material and source for lime. The crushed limestone rocks were stacked along with dried timbers into large cones. These cones were set on fire and the fires were allowed to burn red hot for several days, until most of the limestone was a grayish-white powder – a mixture of hydrated lime and ash. Masons dug pits near a planned construction site and filled them with slurry containing the crude lime, sand, a yellow-colored clay and water. The pits were covered. The masons would return in about 3-4 months to use the "slaked lime" for mortar. The word slime comes from "slaked lime."
In 1621, the settlers of Plymouth Plantation forgot to bring along experienced carpenters! Each family was expected to build its own house. During the first winter, most of them were forced to live in the Mayflower. They also constructed half timber houses, in-filled with waddle & daub, but added crude clapboards (wood siding) to partially block the winds. Most of the original houses were poorly constructed, one room hovels, which frequently burned to the ground.
About a decade after the founding of Plymouth, large numbers of Puritan refugees began arriving in Massachusetts. The tradition of houses framed with heavy timbers continued, but waddle & daub walls faded away. They were replaced with tightly nailed clapboards on the exterior and vertical boards on the interior. New England continued the tradition of primarily building wood houses into the late 1800s.
Throughout the Colonial Period, brick houses were rare in the American colonies, except near seaports. Cargo ships used bricks and paving stones for ballast. The cost of transporting bricks and stones away from port cities, (and later, domestic brick manufacturers) made them too expensive for most home builders. Stone masonry houses became more common in the early 1700s, when domestic construction lime was more plentiful. The stones were usually either gathered or quarried very close to the house site.
Log construction was introduced by Swedish and Finnish colonists in the mid-17th century, but really did not become commonplace until the 1700s; and then, only in the western frontier. They were primarily built by settlers of modest means in regions distant from saw mills. Many of the log houses of the late 1700s were two story structures that mimicked the proportions of Georgian Style houses. (See the attached slide show.)
The only location, where stuccoed English Colonial houses can be found in number is along the coast of South Carolina. Charleston's stucco tradition probably developed from the immigration of Caribbean planters and French Huguenots into the colony. Charleston also had the most cultural contacts with Spanish colonists in Florida and the Caribbean islands of any of the colonies.
French and Dutch Colonial Architecture
The Acadian, Quebecois and Dutch colonists all settled in regions with abundant sources of building stone. They immediately constructed stone masonry houses that were almost identical to their folk architecture in the mother countries. The continuance of European building traditions continued for some time after Acadia, Quebec and New York were taken over by the British.
French settlers on the Gulf Coast, however, found very little, if any, construction grade stone. Stone masonry was ill-suited for the hot, humid climate of the region anyway. Early French houses were frame versions of French stone architecture. Townhouses in New Orleans and Mobile continued the French traditions, but experience in the Gulf climate caused the rural French colonists to mimic the plank houses of the Apalachicola (Lower Creeks) who built wood-framed, plank-sided houses with wrap around porches; essentially, bungalows. What ultimately emerged in rural areas of the Gulf Coast was an architectural tradition that blended Lower Creek Indian house forms with French style floor plans and esthetic details.
Swedish, Finnish, German, Swiss, Austrian and Moravian Architecture
The Swedish colonies on the Delaware River contained over 100 Forest Finns. These non-Scandinavian colonists had a tradition of slash & burn agriculture and the construction of log houses. Apparently, most of the ethnic Swedish colonists also built log houses, because they were the most practical means to have shelter in the American wilderness. The log house tradition then slowly spread outward from the Delaware Valley.
German immigrants are also credited with introducing log houses to the New World. However, most of the German immigrants were Protestant refugees from the Palatinate. The German log building traditions are mostly associated with Bavaria and the Black Forest regions, which were then, predominantly Roman Catholic. Thus, what the German immigrants mostly brought with them were skills in building stone houses. The Moravians were Czech Protestants, who had last lived in the Protestant section of Germany, so they also carried with them masonry building traditions. However, there were Swiss and Austrian (Salzburger) Protestant immigrants to Pennsylvania, Virginia and Georgia, who did come from regions, where log houses were commonplace.
The most probable explanation as to why log houses and cabins became as "American as apple pie," was that new arrivals to the American colonies often had to pass through regions, where log houses had been built, in order to reach the far western frontier. Massive virgin forests grew everywhere in eastern North America. With a few simple steel tools, frontiersmen could erect solid log houses that withstood violent weather and musket balls, without spending a shilling for any imported or manufactured building materials.
In the next segment of this series, we will examine the architecture of the Federal Period in the United States and early 1800's in Canada.

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'American Horror Story' Season 3 Spoilers: "Coven" Cast Welcomes Alexandra Breckenridge / Will She Play Sexy Version of Frances Conroy?
'American Horror Story' Season 3 Spoilers: "Coven" Cast Welcomes Alexandra Breckenridge / Will She Play Sexy Version of Frances Conroy?
The younger version of Frances Conroy's character, Alexandra Breckenridge, from Season 1 of American Horror story is back for Season 3, according to show runner and co-creator Ryan Murphy.
In the wake of dealing with the death of Glee star Cory Monteith, Murphy took the time to share with fans about new cast additions to American Horror Story: Coven.
Murphy confirmed the new cast member Friday via his Twitter account:
"Very happy to announce the lovely and talented Alexandra Breckenridge will be joining AHS: Coven. -Ryan Murphy (@MrRPMurphy) August 2, 2013"
If you didn't catch Season 1 of the FX series, Breckenridge played the younger version of the "murder house" maid, Moira O'Hara. What makes Moira special?
Women see Frances Conroy. Men see Alexandra Breckenridge.
At first Moira is introduced through the eyes of Mrs. Harmon as a wearily creepy old maid, who's tied to the house in some supernatural way. When Mr. Harmon sees her, as if by magic, Moira transforms into a seductive young "thang" with a less clothes and longer legs. Moira [Breckenridge] spent all of Season 1 tempting Mr. Harmon into inappropriate behavior.
Will Alexandra Breckenridge reprise her role as Moira or does Murphy have another character in mind for Season 3 "Coven"?
According to a report from Spoiler TV, Conroy is back in Season 3 as a woman named Ruth. We also know the show has been searching for a, "red-haired 20-year-old-version of the character."
American Horror Story has already begun filming Season 3 in New Orleans. "Coven" is scheduled to premiere October 2013 on FX.


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"My task as an anthologist in this series," Block write in the introduction, "is threefold: first, I have to pick the stories; then I have to write a longish novella with my four series characters, whom we know only as the priest, the doctor, the soldier, and the policeman; finally, I have to hammer out an introduction."
The stories Block has chosen are delightful. His novella delivers what he promises. And the introduction is a heads-up plea for authors to ensure that their work will continue to be read after they are no longer around to write any more.
Included in this stellar anthology are the following stories and authors:
"Speaking of Greed" by Lawrence Block "The Word' by F. Paul Wilson "Hitler, Elvis, and Me" by Doug Allyn "One Hit Wonder" by Gabrielle Kraft "The $5,000 Getaway" by Jack Ritchie "Rotten to the Core" by Jeremiah Healy "Front Man" by David Morrell "Water's Edge" by Robert Bloch "A Taste of Paradise" by Bill Pronzini "Bits" by Mat Coward "Come Down From The Hills" by John F. Suter "The Wrong Hands" by Peter Robinson "The High Cost of Living" by Dorothy Cannell "My Heart Cries For You" by Bill Crider "Inside Job" by Ed Gorman "Deadly Fantasies" by Marcia Muller "Death Scene" by Helen Nielsen "Good-bye, Sue Ellen" by Gillian Roberts "Death and Diamonds" by Sue Dunlap "A Ticket Out" by Brenda DuBois
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Amanda Seyfried, here with her loose braid, plays Cosette in the 2012 version of the classic musical "Les Miserables."
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Amanda Seyfried playing the role of Cosette in the 2012 version of the classic musical "Les Miserables." She stars opposite Eddie Redmayne who plays her love interest.
From the article : Amanda Seyfried: her best hairstyles from "Les Miserables"
Amanda Seyfried: her best hairstyles from "Les Miserables"
There's been a lot of stir around the 2012 version of "Les Miserables" starring Hugh Jackman, Amanda Seyfried and Anne Hathaway, among others. Well, we'd like to create a little bit of stir of our own-- of the style variety, because we are feeling very inspired by Amanda Seyfried's get-up as Cosette in the film rendition.
After all, theatre and film are always a great place to seek style inspiration. Audrey Hepburn's look in "Breakfast At Tiffany's" is iconic and has been continuously recreated by vintage lovers everywhere and Julia Roberts' appearance in "Pretty Woman" made thigh-high boots more popular than mulled wine at Christmas.
While most of us aren't interested in rocking puffy sleeved frocks with lace collars and eight layer petticoats for a day at work, Cosette's vintage hairstyles are gorgeous and not too hard to recreate either.
Get girly with a side braid
Amanda's romantic side-braid is a classic pretty style and would be great with a floral print dress. A side-braid could even work well for winter, poking out from underneath a woolly hat or beret with a fitted and flared coat.
Half-up half-down à la Cosette
Ladies were rocking half-up, half-down 'dos long before Kate Middleton was born. By twisting your hair underneath your loose ponytail, you can create a similar style perfect for your own Christmas look.
Flower-clad chignon
Flower-clad chignons are the ultimate feminine style and we see a lot of them in the film. You don't have to wait for spring blossoms to get this beautiful style. You can sweep up your hair and add flower clips or even a sprig of plastic holly or mistletoe off the tree for a festive and elegant look. Just be careful your admirers don't think that it's a green light for smooches!
Back in the day...
Intricate hairstyles and ringlets were very popular during the Regency period, when the play is set. Braided buns, elegant chignons and ornate hair accessories including crowns, silk ribbons and bonnets were favourites with regency ladies... styles that were downright opulent. After all, intricate hairstyles have long been considered a symbol of power and status.
Inspired? So, go on-- give yourself your own "Les Mis" makeover for Christmas.


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Don't expect much fanfare when the new Salmon Creek Park & Ride opens Sunday. No event is planned, and none of the routes that serve it operate on Sundays. The first bus will actually arrive early Monday.
The new, relocated park and ride marks another milestone in the ongoing Salmon Creek Interchange Project. But other than leaving their cars on the other side of Interstate 5, C-Tran commuters who use the lot shouldn't notice much difference in service.
That's by design, said Washington State Department of Transportation project manager Allen Hendy.
"We tried to approach it where we would replace everything in kind," he said.
That doesn't mean there won't be a few changes: Users will notice new passenger shelters, better access for disabled riders, a new smoking area and extra bike lockers. The new "pervious" concrete covering the lot will allow rain and stormwater to drain straight through, filtered by several feet of dirt and sand below before it returns to groundwater.
Of the four bus routes that served the old lot — 9 (Felida), 19 (Salmon Creek), 105 (I-5 Express) and 134 (Salmon Creek Express) — the 105 and 134 will divert to the new park and ride this week, and their schedules will change by a few minutes here and there.
"The type of service that will come out of it is essentially the same as there is today," said C-Tran Public Affairs Director Scott Patterson.
The new lot advances the ongoing effort to revamp the northern convergence of Interstate 5 and Interstate 205. Part of the Salmon Creek Interchange Project meant closing the existing park and ride just north of Northeast 134th Street, between the two freeways. That closure will ease congestion along Northeast 134th, plus make room for a new ramp and stormwater ponds being installed in its place, Hendy said.
To replace the park and ride, crews built a new lot on the west side of I-5. The facility sits between Northeast 136th and 139th streets, just across Northeast Tenney Road from the Fred Meyer store.
The new park and ride cost about $3.8 million to build, said Clark County project manager Matt Griswold. That's included in the Salmon Creek Interchange Project's $133 million total price tag secured by WSDOT and Clark County.
Crew spent last week putting finishing touches on the facility, including work on bus shelters and landscaping. It sits near a new roundabout and other rebuilt roads that have already transformed the area west of I-5, tackled largely by the county as part of the Salmon Creek Interchange Project's first two phases.
Construction on the rest of the project, which will widen both I-5 and I-205 and extend Northeast 139th with a bridge over the two freeways, won't be finished until 2014, according to WSDOT.
Service in and out of the relocated park and ride will likely be slowed some by ongoing construction, Patterson said. But by the time it's finished, it should function more smoothly than the old location, he said.
"The main plus will be when the interchange project is entirely complete," Patterson said. "One of the cons is, it's going to be a while."
The new facility will shrink the Salmon Creek Park & Ride from 498 spaces to 472, according to Hendy. Since the lot was built, C-Tran opened a large park and ride lot and transit center off Northeast 99th Street. The old lot was typically about two-thirds full in recent years, Patterson said, though those counts have begun to pick up some.
C-Tran representatives spent part of last week at the old park and ride notifying commuters of the change. The agency has also used signs and email alerts to get the word out, while bus drivers train to get acclimated to the new setup.
The first bus to serve the new lot will be the No. 134, scheduled to roll in just after 5 a.m. Monday.
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"A nuanced critique of gender and heroism in popular culture as well as a powerful dose of Vitamin F(eminism) for the undernourished. From the birth of the 1940s comic book heroine, Wonder Woman, to the blockbusters of today, Wonder Women! looks at how popular representations of powerful women often reflect society's anxieties about strong and healthy women. Wonder Women! reveals the complicated negotiations girls and women face as they attempt to achieve confidence, strength, and agency in a society often at odds with those goals. Yet it also inspires through its evocative images, upbeat soundtrack, and richly contextualized history of American superheroines–including the everyday wonder women and action girls in our midst."–Container
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Cognizant (NASDAQ: CTSH) is a leading provider of information technology, consulting, and business process outsourcing services, dedicated to helping the world's leading companies build stronger businesses.
Headquartered in Teaneck, New Jersey (U.S.), Cognizant combines a passion for client satisfaction, technology innovation, deep industry and business process expertise, and a global, collaborative workforce that embodies the future of work.
With over 50 delivery centers worldwide and 130,000 employees as of September 30, 2011, Cognizant is a member of the NASDAQ-100, the S&P 500, the Forbes Global 2000, and the Fortune 500 and is ranked among the top performing and fastest growing companies in the world.
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Al Filreis, an English professor at the University of Pennsylvania, has been inducted as one of 14 founding members into the Minerva Academy, an honorary institution dedicated to promoting and rewarding extraordinary advancements and innovation in higher education around the world.
"Welcoming these distinguished educators as founding members of the Minerva Academy is a way to honor and recognize their contributions and accomplishments in teaching innovation," said Roger Komberg, a Nobel Laureate and governor of the Minerva Academy.
Filreis, who is also the director of Penn's Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing and faculty director at Kelly Writers House, was nominated for his contributions to and innovative thinking in teaching.
Housed in the San Francisco-based Minerva Institute for Research and Scholarship, a non-profit organization focused on higher education reform, the Academy provides a forum for the open exchange of new ideas and practical improvements in instruction.


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WWTC announces student ambassador
Published on Friday, April 29, 2005
Josh Berg of Bangor, Wis. has been selected as the 2005-06 Western Wisconsin Technical College (WWTC) Student Ambassador. Berg is a first-year student in the Culinary Management program at WWTC and was selected out of 42 candidates.
As Student Ambassador, Berg will address the WWTC student body at the graduation ceremony to be held on May 13 at the La Crosse Center in downtown La Crosse. He will also represent WWTC at the state level by working with other student ambassadors throughout the Wisconsin Technical College System. In addition, Berg will be speaking at a variety of college and WWTC Foundation events throughout the school year.
Berg is actively involved on the WWTC campus and in the community. He's been named to WWTC President's List of High Distinction, Who's Who Among America's Junior Colleges, and the National Dean's List. He's a charter member of Phi Theta Kappa, the International Honor Society of the Two-year College, and the vice president of scholarship for the sociey. He is actively involved in the Foods Club, which participates in a variety of events and fundraising activities throughout the year. He is also the Foods Club president.
In addition to his college achievements, Berg is a member of the La Crosse Coulee Chordsmen and an active member in the Bangor community, volunteering his time to raise funds for community projects and helping provide food preparation at events and celebrations. He also works at his family's restaurant in Bangor; his father is a graduate of WWTC's Food Service Management program.
WWTC Student Ambassadors must have a GPA of 2.5 or higher, volunteer experience at WWTC and in the community, nomination from an instructor, and display excellence in his/her program.
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Analysis by David Rieder
OMAHA, Nebraska, July 1. LAST night in Omaha, Jessica Hardy claimed a big win in the women's 100 free. However, her time of 53.96 did not break her into the top-10 in the world, leaving her one one-hundredth of a second out at 11th.
We saw some excellent depth behind Hardy, but how does that depth stack up the Americans against the starpower of the Netherlands and the resurgent Australians?
Just like yesterday, when we looked at the men's 400 free relay, we will here take a look at how the women's 400 free relay sets up headed into the London Olympics. Once again, this analysis considers the annual bests of any athletes headed to the Olympic Games, regardless of what meet the times come from.
The Netherlands
Ranomi Kromowidjojo, 52.75
Marleen Veldhuis, 53.95
Femke Heemskerk, 54.17
Inge Dekker, 54.43
Total Time: 3:35.30
Melanie Schlanger, 53.74
Cate Campbell, 53.84
Brittany Elmslie, 54.08
Yolane Kukla, 54.08
Total Time: 3:35.74
United States
Allison Schmitt, 53.94
Jessica Hardy, 53.96
Amanda Weir, 54.14
Missy Franklin, 54.15
Total Time: 3:36.19
No other country has four swimmers within the world top-50, so these three teams have established the three best in the world headed into the Olympics. Germany won the bronze medal at Worlds behind the efforts of defending Olympic champ Britta Steffen, but, aside from Daniela Schreiber, no one else swum fast enough to prepare Germany for a real run this year.
Kromowidjojo, Veldhuis, Heemskerk, and Dekker have swum on the Dutch team for years, establishing a four-year win streak in the event. Kromowidjojo has shown her cards this year, as her 52.75 stands as the textile best and top time in the world this year. The other three, though, remain mysteries. Heemskerk threw down a clutch anchor leg of 52.46 as the Dutch won the Worlds last year, and she held 53-mid swims consistently during the year. Veldhuis has swum better this year than she has since giving birth in 2010. Dekker has inconsistencies, but she can be a force.
Three of Australia's top four posted best times at their Trials, while Cate Campbell had not swum under 54 since 2009. Elmslie and Kukla have youth on their side, while Schlanger and Campbell have the experience of the 2008 Olympics to fall back on. Meanwhile, former world record-holder Libby Trickett qualified as a relay alternate, and her times keep improving following her comeback. Alicia Coutts finished fifth at Worlds last year, and she could too be a force, having swum under 54 the past two years.
As for the Americans, Franklin might have the most potential for improvement, having anchored the women's medley relay a year ago in 52.79 despite the Americans having already pulled away from the field. Schmitt placed third last night, but she swam a 53.94 less than a month ago, a time that would have won last night. Natalie Coughlin, meanwhile, aims to rebound from an off meet in Omaha when she gets to London, and she won the bronze in the 100 free at the last two Olympics, so she always brings the threat of a strong swim.
We expect this relay to come down to the Netherlands' star power against the depth of the United States and Australia. When all three teams' best times add up to within a second of each other, the race comes down to who steps up and who has the best relay exchanges. The Dutch, though, have to be the favorites, but they don't stand as far clear of the field as the Australians do on the men's side.


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Rocky River girls dominate Sun Valley, 49-36
By Kevin Baker
Sports Writer
The Rocky River Ravens girls' basketball team defeated the game but overmatched the Sun Valley Spartans last Friday night 49-36 on the Ravens' home court. This was the second time the Ravens and Spartans have played this year. The Ravens won the first meeting, at Sun Valley, 39-36.
The Raven girls had to come from behind in that game to pull out the win. There was no such drama this time around. The final score was not indicative of the Ravens' dominance.
The Ravens were intent to set the tempo from the beginning. They won the tap and immediately went inside the lane. The shot was missed, but the strategy was apparent. Rocky River wanted to push the pace. In fact, both teams came out of the locker room pressing full court. This seemed to play right into the Ravens' girls hands as they shot out to a 16-5 lead. Sun Valley fought back to 16-10 in the last minute of the first quarter. Rocky River had the ball last and worked the clock down for the last shot. Senior Center Aliyah Hason scored on a pretty inside move at the buzzer and the quarter ended with Rocky River leading 18-10.


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text: Municipals: A Glimpse of What's to Come? Guy Davidson June 19, 2013 Americas, Fixed Income Federal Reserve Chairman Bernanke reiterated today that a healthier economy would prompt the Fed to end its unprecedented bond-buying program, which has kept yields artificially low. Speculation on this question over the last several weeks has caused a sharp bond sell-off and rising yields. But we don't see this as the start of a rout for most municipal bonds. The timing and pace for closing out quantitative easing will depend on the rate of US economic growth—an unknown. That's why there's so much uncertainty in the bond market today. Our forecast is for the Fed to begin tapering its purchases off in September. But to understand what might happen when rates rise back to a more normal level, we think it's helpful to look at what has already taken place. The sell-off that everyone's worried about actually began last summer. Roughly 11 months ago, at the end of July 2012, the 10-year Treasury yield was 1.5%. Today it's 2.3%, an increase of 80 basis points. How did municipal bond portfolios react to this jump in yields? They actually provided modestly positive returns. Investment-grade portfolios returns averaged 0.2%, while high-yield portfolios returns averaged 2.6%. Those are far from the sharply negative returns most investors worry about. But what if yields go up another 70 basis points, with the 10-year Treasury yield hitting 3.0% over the next year? Based on the experience of the last 11 months, we believe investment-grade municipal bond portfolios could return between 0.5% and 1.0%, and high-yield portfolios could return between 3% and 4%. Those are modest returns, but they're positive returns in a rising-rate environment and higher returns than over the last 11 months—primarily because the starting yields are higher. We'd also expect investment-grade and high-yield portfolios to outperform municipal money-market portfolios. The Fed has pledged to keep the fed funds rate near zero until the unemployment rate drops to 6.5%, which isn't expected to happen over the next year. What if the economy continues to expand modestly and interest rates are largely unchanged? Expected returns could end up better, ranging from 2% for intermediate portfolios to 5% for high-yield portfolios. So, the average municipal bond should fare reasonably well, but does that mean all municipal bonds should be OK? Like a man with his head in the ice box and his feet in the oven, we can't expect the average to describe all points along the range. Long-maturity bonds, especially those with prices near $100 today, could lose between 4% and 6%. Likewise, leveraged municipal portfolios, like closed-end funds, could also experience significant losses. In short, we recommend reducing the interest-rate risk of municipal portfolios and focusing on holding intermediate-maturity and high-yield bonds, which should continue to provide the relative stability investors are looking for over the next year—even as yields rise to more normal levels. The views expressed herein do not constitute research, investment advice or trade recommendations and do not necessarily represent the views of all AllianceBernstein portfolio-management teams. Past performance of the asset classes discussed in this article does not guarantee future results. Facebook Twitter LinkedIn R. B. Davidson IIIDirector—Municipal Bond ManagementR. B. Davidson III joined the firm as Director of Municipal Bonds in 1992. He is Chairman of the Tax-Exempt Fixed Income Investment Policy Group and a member of the Taxable Fixed Income Investment Policy Group. Davidson also serves on the partnership committee at AB. Before joining the firm, he was vice president and head of municipal strategies at J.P. Morgan Securities and an associate economist at Lehman Brothers. He is the author of "The Value of Tax Management for Bond Portfolios," published in The Journal of Private Portfolio Management, Spring 1999; "Maximizing Expected After-Tax Returns," published by Probus in 1994 in the Handbook of Municipal Bonds; and "Analyzing Quality Spreads," published in The Municipal Finance Journal in 1991. Davidson was named to the Institutional Investor's All-America Research Team in 1992. He earned a BA with honors from Wesleyan University and an MBA from the New York University Stern School of Business. Location: New York Related Posts Some Silver Linings in China's Corporate Default Cloud Act Now: Volatility Ahead in US Treasury Market Four Factors that Make Global Bonds a Core Solution


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All important social platforms start with a context that sets the stage for how people will express themselves and connect on those platforms. Facebook was private, tightly-connected relationships; Twitter was real-time, public discussion; Instagram was visual expression. This initial context is critical in defining the social interactions and reasons for engaging on a platform.
Secret, by orienting around anonymity, taps into raw and honest human emotion and allows people to communicate in ways they can't on any other network. While I was at Twitter, I saw the incredible role pseudonymity and anonymity played in allowing people to broadcast and express themselves freely. From whistleblowers, to citizen journalists trying to get information out from under oppressive regimes, to the deeply personal, to the funniest parody accounts, anonymity allows expression that wouldn't have otherwise happened.
But where Twitter is about putting a range of ideas out there for public consumption, Secret is much more about having an unfettered conversation with people closely connected to you, where individuals are free to express themselves without fear of embarrassment or judgment. We think it's a fundamental and important part of social connectedness and we're incredibly excited to back David Byttow, Chrys Bader, and the rest of the Secret team.
More importantly, at Redpoint we invest in great teams and we have been blown away by the Secret team's ability to recruit, build and execute. They are one of the strongest teams we've seen and we think it gives them a huge competitive advantage to build and adapt a product to the emerging needs of their community. This is personally one of my first deals since I joined Redpoint and I'm really excited about working closely with the team on realizing the promise ahead of them. They understand and appreciate the power and responsibility that creating an anonymous network brings and we can't wait to see what they build for their community.


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When cool just wasn't cold enough, the word chill was brought in instead.
"This t-shirt is so cool!"
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'Chill' basically means cool or 'down'
There's this new guy in my class, he's chill.
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An adjective that I find easiest to use when I'm high. Laid back, easy-going, cool.
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Notable Books | Four readable memoirs reviewed by Susan Olasky
Epilogue: A Memoir
Writer Anne Roiphe struggles to deal with the sudden death of her husband of nearly 40 years. She finds herself having to learn how to do everyday tasks that he had always performed. As she tries to rebuild a life, her daughters place a personal ad for her in the New York Review of Books. She later places an ad on Match.com. The correspondence and awkward "dates" that ensue give her fodder to explore memories of her marriage, her grief, and her chances for new love. Roiphe rejects religion although she acknowledges that belief in something would give her tools for surviving. The book is terrifically sad because Roiphe has no hope that there's life beyond this one-or that a personal God, who cares about suffering, exists.
Child of Divorce/ Child of God
Steakley shares childhood memories in order to flesh out and explore the ways children are hurt by divorce. Her memories strike a balance between ugly reality and compassion-this isn't a blame-throwing volume, but it also won't provide comfort to those wanting justification to divorce. Her chapters weave research on children and divorce with short anecdotes from the lives of others and biblical wisdom meant to comfort those struggling with divorce-related issues, including God's sovereignty and goodness, and their feelings of abandonment and guilt. She also delves into the way the church can be both too hard and too soft on divorce-and how children are made to feel excluded because of their parents' failures.
Thinking About Memoir
Thomas offers helpful advice to the would-be memoirist. Much of the book consists of her own memories, which she uses as springboards to talk about writing and as prompts for writing exercises. She writes in the preface, "This book is also about the habit of writing as a way to keep track of what's going on in the front and the back of your mind. . . . Writing memoir is one way to explore how you became the person you are. It's the story of how you got here from there." The book draws attention to the need for silence: "Something interesting might enter your head if you let it alone. We are bombarded by media. We are overstimulated these days. We talk too much."
Acedia & Me
You don't have to agree with everything Norris writes about theology to find encouragement in her memoir of her struggle with acedia-an ancient term to describe a deep spiritual depression characterized by an absence of caring about anything. As she tells her own story and delves into topics of mental illness, counseling, spiritual disciplines, and prayer, Norris makes distinctions: "While depression is an illness treatable by counseling and medication, acedia is a vice that is best countered by spiritual practice and the discipline of prayer." Her book then shows how at moments of deep sadness and acedia, the Psalms have roused her from her torpor and have given her "the sort of hope that matters, for it can conquer not just acedia and despair, but death itself."
We live at a time when multi-tasking, productivity, and speed are all considered great virtues. In Distracted (Prometheus Books, 2008), science journalist Maggie Jackson examines the way technology has altered family life, concentration, and even the way our brains operate. Jackson doesn't think these changes are benign, as her subtitle-The Erosion of Attention and the Coming Dark Age-reveals. She prompts readers to confront important questions: "Do we yearn for such voracious virtual connectivity that others become optional and conversation fades into a lost art?. . . Do we split focus so finely that we thrust ourselves in a culture of lost threads?. . . Can a society without deep focus preserve and learn from its past?"
Mike Bechtle's Confident Conversation (Revell, 2008) divides the world into two kinds of people: those who have trouble talking and those who have trouble listening. He provides practical advice to both extroverts and introverts to develop communication skills that accept and grow out of their unique personalities.


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The purpose of the Community Action! Fund is to provide Partners in Human Rights Education Project teams and their students with the financial resources necessary to create effective Community Action! Projects. Community Action! Projects provide a unique means of integrating classroom learning about human rights with hands-on activities in the community. Through Community Action! Projects, students can more deeply understand the meaning of human rights in their own lives and the lives of others in their community.
In past years, Partners Project participants have funded their own projects, which limited the kinds of Community Action! Projects students could plan. Through the Community Action! Fund, teams and students can plan and execute creative Community Action! Projects that will benefit their local communities without being unduly hampered by financial considerations.
Each Partners Project team is eligible for one $50 to $400 grant per semester or half of the school year. Grants will be reviewed on a rolling basis at the beginning of each month. $2,500 is available for allocation per semester and will be distributed on a first come, first serve basis.
1. Design a community action plan with your fellow team members and students based on the human rights issues your class has chosen to address.
2. Complete the project description sheet included in this packet. This sheet will be used to evaluate the distribution of funds, so take the time to fill out the sheets carefully.
3. All grant proposals must be received by the Partners Project before the end of the
month prior to the month during which you want your proposal reviewed. For example, if you want your proposal reviewed and funds awarded in November, you must submit your proposal by the end of October.
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University of Minnesota
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1. The Partners in Human Rights Education office staff will compile and evaluate all submitted proposals during the first week of each month.
2. The Partners Project office staff representative will then make a recommendation regarding each proposal to the Partners Project Executive Committee at the Executive Committee's monthly meeting held on the second Monday of each month. The Executive Committee will discuss and vote on each proposal. Notification of grant acceptance or denial will be made during the business week in which the Executive Committee meeting occurs.
As you begin planning, think about the difference you can make in your own school and community. Write down the goals you want to reach. To make the job easier, make a list of those areas you know best and feel most comfortable working with in the project. If you need to find out more information, utilize your resources - call a community organization that is doing work in the area, talk with other Partners Project teams or Partners office staff, meet with your school administrators, and find out about the facts involved in the issue.
Next, think about the action steps you need to take in order to complete the project. Write down all the things that need to happen for you to reach your goal. Identify the resources and connections you will need to utilize. Make a calendar and assign duties and dates by which activities must be completed. Brainstorm strategies for overcoming any obstacles or impediments that you foresee.
To avoid burnout or frustration, start with smaller steps. Keep your goals in mind and stick with the actions that will help you reach them. Don't forget to ask for help if you need it. You may find that many people in your community will want to help.
All recipients of Community Action! Fund monies are required to fill out and submit to the Partners Project a Community Action! Project Planner. The Partners Project publishes Community Action! Projects in The Explorer so that all team participants may appreciate and get ideas from the work of other Partners Project members. The Partners Project also uses Community Action! Projects to write grant proposals and to supplement the Community Action! Project Manual.
Contact the Partners Project office staff at (612) 626-0041.
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Researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania have put sleeplessness on the map — literally. The research team, analyzing nationwide data collected by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), has produced the first state-by-state sleep maps for the United States, revealing that residents of Southern states suffer from the most sleep disturbances and daytime fatigue, while residents on the West Coast report the least amount of problems. The results are published online in the Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine.
"Sleep disturbance is a major public health concern. However, geographic dispersion of sleep problems, and the factors that may play a role in why some states or regions get better sleep, have been largely unexplored," said Michael A. Grandner, PhD, research associate at the Center for Sleep and Circadian Neurobiology at Penn and lead author of the study. "Our study generated the first sleep maps for the U.S. that include data on sleep disturbance and daytime fatigue across most of the country."
The findings suggest that, in general, those in the South are most likely to report sleep disturbance and daytime fatigue, and those in the West are least likely. Of the states where data was collected, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, and West Virginia ranked in the highest bracket for each category. The researchers note that this finding is consistent with other geographic studies, showing that many of the states that report worse sleep and fatigue problems are the same states that tend to report higher prevalence of other conditions, such as obesity, and that the pattern differed slightly between men and women.
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I used to commute 15miles round trip to and from work, but i moved not to long ago, and its closer to 50miles round trip. So i guess im just wondering how long commute is? I usually ride to work once a week, but 50miles is just killing me on a FS MTB... gota go invest in a road bike i guess
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GoPro (NASDAQ:GPRO) has been the most recent company to steal the IPO spotlight in 2014. With an initial offering price of $24, shares quickly rocketed higher, hitting $48 in less than a week.
The stock has started to cool down (currently near $43), but still, investors are valuing the company at $5.3 billion. Let's take a closer look at this company, which appears to be overvalued at current levels.
What is GoPro?
GoPro makes "the world's most versatile cameras" that are generally used for action-packed adventures, like skydiving, surfing, and mountain biking. Have a look below to get an idea of what these cameras attempt to capture:
From a consumer's standpoint, these little wearable cameras are incredible! It allows users to capture themselves or their surroundings in a way that was never before possible. But from an investor's standpoint, there comes an important question: valuation.
A look into the company's financial results
Here's what GoPro has generated in revenues and net income in each fiscal year starting from 2011:
|Revenue Growth
|Net Income
|Net Income Growth
|$234 million
|$24.6 million
|$526 million
|$32.2 million
|$986 million
|$60.6 million
Before moving on, let's take a look at the first three quarters of 2014, compared to the first three quarters of 2013:
|Change (year-over-year)
|$255 million
|$235 million
|Net Income
|$23.03 million
|$11.05 million
Those year-over-year quarterly results don't look very good. What gives? Despite how poorly the above quarterly figures look, the company explained this in the filing. It reasoned that because of delays in its Hero3 camera, it pushed a lot of 2012's fourth-quarter sales into the first quarter of 2013.
As a result, 2013's first-quarter results look great, while 2014's first-quarter results look meek. However, this does "not reflect the traditional seasonality in our business," the company stated in its S-1 Filing.
This sales flow into the first quarter of 2013 isn't really a big deal. However, it makes the year-over-year growth from 2012 to 2013 look better than it actually was, and 2014's apparent first-quarter growth slump look worse than it actually is. This is something for investors who are overly bullish or overly bearish to keep in mind.
So, where does the valuation stand?
A company that is growing revenues and net income the way GoPro appears to be obviously deserves some sort of premium. But with newly public companies, it can be hard to value, especially since it lacks so many traditional valuation metrics.
GoPro, a consumer cyclical company, trades at an eye-popping 5.8 times last year's sales. A price-to-sale, or P/S, ratio of 5.8 is far higher than the sector average of 1.1 times sales. And while I do believe GoPro deserves a premium to many of its peers, this is not what I had in mind. Near 3 to 3.5 times sales, I would find the stock more attractive.
In other words, with if GoPro trades in-line with sector peers at a P/S ratio of 1.1 times sales, it will need to increase sales over five times to $5 billion to maintain the same market cap as today. To me, this designates a stock as overvalued.
Furthermore, when looking at the company's diluted earnings per share, as per GoPro's S-1 filing, one will notice that it was $0.47 per share. It's good to see that it's at least profitable.
However, on a trailing-12-month basis, that puts GoPro's P/E ratio at 92 times last year's earnings. And remember, 2013's numbers were inflated because of the strong first quarter, (meaning 2013's earnings per share is higher than it should have been). The average P/E ratio for the sector is 28.
Final thoughts
I really like GoPro from a consumer's standpoint, and I love the business from an investor's standpoint. However, good products and a good business don't necessarily translate into a good investment when the valuation is factored in. I simply cannot justify paying these sorts of premiums for a pair of boots the company will take years to grow into.
At today's levels, it will take GoPro years just to grow into a fully valued investment. If the stock were to decline to $30 -- roughly 30% lower from today's levels -- then I would take a look at it on the long side.
At $30 per share, it would trade near 3.75 times last year's sales, which is still quite a premium to the sector average. However, given GoPro's rapid growth, I would feel more comfortable paying this type of premium for it, than the type of premium being demanded at today's valuation.
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Marke Freeman Points: 30 Rebounds: 12 Assists: 4FG: 8-11 (.727)
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CEDAR FALLS, Iowa - Senior Marke Freeman poured in 30 points and added 12 rebounds, as the Northern Illinois women's basketball team defeated Northern Iowa, 71-64, Thursday.
The Huskies (5-3) shot a blistering 59.0 percent (23-39) from the field, including an 8-for-11 performance by Freeman, who made six straight free throws in the last 65 seconds of the game to seal the win.
"It was a great team win - by far the best we've played intensity-wise, and energy-wise," NIU head coach Kathi Bennett said. "On both ends of the floor we really played together."
Northern Illinois led most of the way by controlling the tempo and forcing UNI (3-3) into difficult shots. The Panthers trailed by seven at halftime, but battled back to tie the game 56-56 at the 6:33 mark on a three-pointer by Lizzie Boeck. NIU answered with a lay-up by Kim Davis, two of her career-high 15 points, and a jumper from Freeman to take a four point lead.
"Kim brought incredible passion," Bennett said. "She led with her energy right off the bat... she was diving everywhere.'
The teams exchanged pairs of free throws leading into a crucial score from the right block by Ebony Ellis that put NIU up 64-58 with 3:22 left. Neither team would score again until Ellis fouled Oney, who hit two free throws to whittle the lead back down to four, 64-60 with 1:49 left.
The Panthers fouled Davis on the ensuing possession, who hit one of two free throws. Boeck answered with a lay-up, trimming the lead to 65-62 with 1:13 left. On the next play, UNI fouled Freeman who hit both free throws to extend the lead back to five. Oney hit a lay-up seconds later and was fouled, but failed to convert the three-point play, leaving her team down 67-64 with 60 seconds on the clock.
The Huskies failed to convert on their next possession, giving the Panthers life, down three with the ball and 22 seconds left in the game. Northern Illinois forced Northern Iowa's Erin Brocka into a bad pass from the high post, and the Huskies sealed the game with four free throw makes by Freeman.
"Our consistent pressure throughout the game makes mistakes like that happen," Bennett said. "That turnover was a sign of what defensive pressure can do."
Northern Illinois set out to control the game from the start. The Huskies allowed only 24.2 percent shooting (8-33), and the Panthers missed 15 of their 17 three-pointers in the first half. In addition to playing some of their best defense of the year, the Huskies shot the lights out. NIU hit 13-of-22 shots (59.1 percent) from the field, with 3-of-4 makes from Davis, 3-of-5 shooting by Freeman, and a 3-of-5 performance from Ellis, who finished the game with 12 points and five rebounds.
On the strength of both offensive and defensive proficiency, the lead for NIU grew as large as 11 in the first half. The Panthers trimmed the advantage to seven, 34-27, heading into halftime. The teams match one another point-for-point, each scoring 37, in the second half. NIU stayed hot from the field, hitting 10-of-17 shots (58.8 percent), while UNI connected on 50 percent (14-28) of its attempts from the field.
For Freeman, it was the fifth time in eight games this season she has scored more than 20 points, and the fourth time in her career she has broached the 30-point boundary.
"Marke had another incredible performance, but the most important thing to point out was it wasn't just scoring," Bennett said. "She made a difference defensively, her passing was great, when they pressed she took control, and she had energy all night long. Not to mention having 12 rebounds and being arguably one of the smallest players on the floor."
For UNI, Jacqui Kalin and Lizzie Boeck each had 19 for the Panthers. K.K. Armstrong came off the bench to add 10 points. The Huskies will break for finals week, and return to action at DePaul, Dec. 11 at 5 p.m.


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It is time to start talking about the 2013 vintage here in Sonoma County, as pruning takes place throughout our 15 AVAs to prepare the dormant vines for the coming year. Photographer George Rose shared these photos of morning in Alexander Valley with us, complete with a beautiful shot of fog and a dramatic sunrise, followed with a picture perfect blue sky. Photos from February 8, 2013.