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By Jodi Upton, Jack Gillum and Steve Berkowitz, USA TODAY
Even with a 7-foot center, Northern Iowa had a size disadvantage when it faced powerhouse Michigan State in the NCAA men's basketball Sweet 16 last week.
Michigan State outspent the upstart Panthers by $9.4 million to $1.5 million in men's hoops last year. Spartans coach Tom Izzo, who will be participating in his sixth Final Four this weekend, makes more than $3 million a year — more than 10 times what Northern Iowa's Ben Jacobson had been making.
Yet their athletic departments have one thing in common: Without millions in help from their universities, neither could pay its bills. Michigan State's $81 million budget last year included $3.7 million in university subsidies. Half of Northern Iowa's $17 million budget came from subsidies and student fees.
In a climate of spiraling costs, skyrocketing coaches' salaries and softening revenue, athletic programs with much deeper pockets than Northern Iowa's are showing signs of strain, a USA TODAY analysis of college sports finance data finds.
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The reasons are legion, but among public schools in the NCAA's top-level Division I, coaches' compensation is now the biggest hit on the budget. In 2007, one men's basketball coach whose school had played in the previous year's NCAA tournament was making at least $2 million, according to a USA TODAY study done that year. This season, a new version of the study finds nine, including Duke's Mike Krzyzewski and Louisville's Rick Pitino, who made more than $4 million.
That's as drops in ticket sales, declining endowments and other issues have translated to increased dependence on subsidies at Division I public schools, USA TODAY found in its most recent examination of college athletic finances.
About $1.8 billion in student fees and university funds went to cover gaps in athletic operating costs at those schools last year, the newspaper found. The analysis was based on thousands of pages of inflation-adjusted NCAA athletic data reported since 2005, from open-records requests to hundreds of Division I public schools.
With many states making recession-driven cuts in higher education funding, school subsidies for athletics are starting to become a target. Last week, the Iowa board of regents instructed its three schools to make plans to "substantially reduce or eliminate" support of athletics from tuition and taxpayer dollars; Northern Iowa had been planning to tap booster funds to finance a new deal for Jacobson.
Few athletic departments can pay for themselves. Even the nation's largest athletic department, Ohio State's, didn't generate more than it spent in 2009 — the first time that has occurred in recent memory. But it has resources: This fall, Ohio State will raise the price of public football tickets $7.
"That's $8 million right there," athletics director Gene Smith says. "We'll be tight, but we won't be in the red" in 2010. But "we're a different beast. We're a different world."
Schools with less budgetary cushion, such as Northern Iowa, can't keep spending their way into a regular basketball tourney spot. "I think the hurdle is more in sustaining than it is in achieving," Northern Iowa athletics director Troy Dannen says.
Even with Jacobson's new contract — a 10-year deal that guarantees a $167,000 raise and annual increases of $25,000 — Dannen knows he might lose Jacobson to one of the stratospheric packages other schools offer.
"We cannot forget who we are," he says. "We can't play a game financially that we aren't prepared to play."
A question of priorities
At the moment, that game has dizzying implications.
Between 2006 and 2009, the average pay for a head football coach at the NCAA's 99 big-time public schools rose 46% to $1.4 million, a fat increase that has caught the attention of Education Secretary Arne Duncan, a former Harvard basketball player.
"Great football coaches are worth a tremendous amount," Duncan says. "But at a time of declining revenues and declining financial aid, the coaches are up 46%? In the insular world of high-stakes, very competitive sports, that might make sense. But if you talk to an average parent or an average 16- or 17-year-old and give them those facts, they'd have a hard time understanding why that's the priority."
Athletics directors say they are willing to pay such salaries because men's basketball and football generate much of their departments' revenue.
But paying a winning coach to be a rainmaker won't do much for the department's bottom line, because new money is plowed back into the program to keep up with the spending arms race.
According to several studies, including one co-written by the now-White House budget director Peter Orszag— in his previous life as a Brookings Institution fellow — for every $1 a school pays to build its athletic program, it gets $1 back in new revenue. In other words, with rare exceptions, spending more on a football or men's basketball program does not yield increases in alumni giving, net operating revenue, winning or academic quality.
The reform-minded Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics has spent the last 1½ years examining athletic financing with the same zeal it showed in addressing academic scandal in the early 1990s. It plans to issue a report, including policy recommendations, in May or June.
"There are pressures that one would predict would keep (spending) going up if nothing is changed, and I think it's clear that for at least two more years, expenditures for the academic sector are going to go down," says commission co-chairman Gerald Turner, president of Southern Methodist University. "I think that is not a position most universities want to be in — or that they'll find sustainable, either operationally or politically."
Even when the money to pay coaches comes from shoe contracts or media deals — not taxpayers — it's money that can't be used elsewhere at the university, Arizona regent and former U.S. senator Dennis DeConcini says. Speaking last fall about non-taxpayer funds backing huge coaching contracts, including one that guaranteed new Arizona's men's basketball coach Sean Miller $2.3 million this season, DeConcini said, "I thought ... 'I don't care if it's coming from heaven, it's money that should be used on the education side.' "
DeConcini is now leading a regents committee examining all aspects of the athletic programs at Arizona's three Division I schools and hopes to have recommendations by July.
Subsidizing athletics isn't inherently bad, says Jeff Orleans, the former Ivy League executive director and now a consultant to the Knight Commission. "We've always assumed in this country, for better or for worse, that athletics is worthy of institutional support if a board of trustees wants to make that decision," Orleans said during a panel discussion in January at the NCAA convention, "because it's part of the educational experience."
"On the other hand," Orleans has written, "there appears to be no good reason for an athletic department consistently to need more institutional funds than are budgeted."
In the red at Houston
But some athletic departments still operate like they have a university credit card.
Between 2005 and 2007, the once-formidable University of Houston program spent $20 million more than it brought in — even when accounting for student fees and university money. Only when the university kicked in substantial additional support over the next two years could the department balance the budget.
Altogether, over the last five years, the university has covered $43 million in athletic expenses while student fees have covered $21 million. And the athletic department still is facing an $8 million accumulated debt — $6 million in operational funds and $2 million to restore endowments that no longer cover the costs for which they were intended, according to executive vice president for administration and finance Carl Carlucci.
Carlucci says the athletic department is expected to pay it back eventually but in the meantime the university will continue to write checks without requiring spending cuts beyond a 5% decrease all Texas schools may have to make this year and next.
"I do recognize that there is a reason institutions invest in athletic programs," Carlucci says, referring to the positive public attention that schools seek in exchange for the type of financial risk Houston is taking.
Carlucci says the university's budget office staff is now deeply involved in athletic budgeting matters, demanding plans for increased fundraising and attendance, plus the negotiation of better concession, royalty and travel contracts. "We ask tough questions. We make them unhappy every day," he says.
But when football coach Kevin Sumlin became a target for other schools after Houston went 10-4 this season, he got a new six-year contract that for 2010 includes a 60% increase in the guaranteed amount to $1.2 million.
"We're not going to handicap the (athletic) program, because a losing program will be worse for us" in terms of the athletic department's ability to pay down its debt, Carlucci says. "We have an AD (Mack Rhoades, in his ninth month at the school) who we think can make that investment pay off, and we're going to give him support."
Even big schools feel pinch
Even at the handful of schools that usually run a surplus, times are tough. At Ohio State, ticket and concession sales are down. "The behavior of our customer has changed, and it will be that way for quite some time," athletics director Smith says.
"It just says the economy sucks out there," says athletics director Lew Perkins of Kansas, where expenses outpaced revenue for the first time since 1988, according to the department. Athletic departments are "spending what they have to. What's happened is the revenues, because of the economy, are going one way and our expenditures — travel, all those kinds of things — are going up and up and up. Tuition goes up. You have no control over it."
But Perkins acknowledges having control over what KU pays coaches, and its highest-paid by far is men's basketball's Bill Self. In 2007, Self was guaranteed $1.6 million. That season, the Jayhawks were a No. 1 seed in the NCAA tournament and advanced to the round of eight. In 2008, they won the national title as Self's alma mater — rival Oklahoma State — was looking for a new coach. He spurned Oklahoma State, and KU responded with a new deal that this season guarantees him nearly $3.4 million.
"We felt like after a national championship ... we wanted to put him in the top five or 10 highest-paid coaches," Perkins says, "and that's about where he is right now."
Perkins says the budget crunch will ease. "We're not in a panic mode at all," Perkins adds. "We think we're going to be fine. Everybody, Ohio State and all these other schools, I think we just have to manage our dollars differently than we did before. ... But you can't stop the operation."
At Kansas, the men's basketball players took a few more trips by bus instead of plane this season. Michigan State cut overall expenses in 2009, and conference meetings across the nation this spring are expected to focus on ways to trim budgets. An NCAA panel is reviewing the recent proliferation in athletic department employees. "We're trying to make (the department) as lean and mean as possible," Houston's Carlucci says. "But we're paying for talent. We're in a competition for fans (in the Houston area). When Sumlin wins, we can count on more ticket sales."
Carlucci paused, then prefaced his next comment with a rhetorical question.
"Is this heresy? It's like any other entertainment business."
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Among my newly engaged friends, the wedding guest list seems to consistently cause friction between brides, grooms and their families. The couple faces big decisions about plus-ones, backsies (inviting those who invited you), concerns about capacity and, in general, whether or not someone is close enough to be invited. Does the invite list fall to the person who is paying or the person who is being celebrated? How can one best balance competing interests and values?
Are you a bride or groom whose parent has hijacked your guest list? A parent who feels like your friends and acquaintances should be a part of your child's big day? What's most important to you when it comes to deciding who is invited to a wedding?
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A recent photo of WoAi with his mum.
Today is Mothering Sunday in the UK, so if any of the Shanghai readers here are from the UK, don't forget to give your mum a call today. It's very easy to forget because in China there's no indication anywhere of this special day – I think the Chinese tend to follow the US Mother's Day, which always falls on the second Sunday in May. In the UK of course, you would not be able to avoid knowing with all the commercials for flowers and chocolates.
A slightly "less recent" picture of WoAi and mum (1971 to be precise and yes, they had colour film back then!).
Happy mother's day mum, love you lots!


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Prince of Persia: Warrior Within Review
publisher: Ubisoft
developer: Ubisoft
genre: Action Adventure
PIII 1000, 256MB RAM, GeForce 3, ATI Radeon 7500 or better
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release date: Dec 02, 04
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We explain why Spiderman is a wuss and Indy Jones is God
I don't know for you, but mine was a generation of Indiana Jones wannabes. To us, the figure of a man with a frowning look and a five-day' beard was some sort of a God. Because of Indy, we developed a life-long hatred of snakes and rats and adoration of hats and whips. No wonder then there's so many people devoted to S/M in my generation (We must not have seen the same Indy movies -Ed). But the reason we loved Indy above all was because he was so damn practical. Remember the scene where he was racing through the market square and there was this guy on the other side, making a show of his swords? Then you must remember what Indy did: instead of fooling around with the fellow, he simply drew his gun and shot him.
Hey look, I hit the pinata! What do I get?
Thank you for teaching me that Russian dance, man! It rocks!
The new installment in the legendary PoP franchise and the sequel to PoP: Sands of Time, Prince of Persia: Warrior Within bears a certain resemblance to Indy and his proverbial whip. But in what sense, you will discover later on in this article. For now, I would like to concentrate on other aspects of this game. Let's start with the story, shall we.
You say there is a *story* to this?!
Ah yes, the story; what should I tell you about the story? There's not much of it anyway, and the characters fall into a clich' and overall do not have a lot of, erm, character. There's the handsome prince, who follows the trend of a good-looking-but-rugged-and-dirty main hero with a somewhat tortured look. Then there's the wise old man, who tells the prince that he will die - of course, not before he meets his fate. (So that explains the tortured look.) Then there's the monstrous Dahaka, the incarnation of the mentioned Fate. Last but not the least, there is also a female villain in a sexy outfit, whom we shall simply label as the "Bitch." She has something to do with the Empress of Time, so it's not hard to understand you'll need to defeat this Empress in order to prevent the creation of the Sands of Time. In order to do that, you will be forced to travel to the past and back to the present, unraveling the story and fighting tons of pesky creatures with swords and other weapons in the game's large arsenal.
The game takes place on an island where you will explore the castle, which is as usual, filled with different traps, physics puzzles and various enemies. I guess you've already judged from the story the game's taken a much darker turn this time, and the rest of the game is in accord with the mentioned principle. The prince has a darker and more sinister look, and the same goes for the settings and the atmosphere. That doesn't mean this game doesn't look good - quite the contrary: lots of dark and misty corners do not serve as an excuse for blurry or sloppy graphics, so the textures and character models are very detailed. While Warrior Within looks amazing, its biggest quality lies not in the graphics, but in the superb and highly natural animation - a hallmark of all the Prince of Persia games. Taking into account the game's features, a new and improved combat system with lots of new moves and actions, it is obvious that the numerous and complex battles play fabulously. I enjoyed every single moment of combat, even when I was losing. The prince has a certain number of simple moves that when combo-ed yield some really spectacular ones, in the visual sense and every other. It is possible to decapitate your enemy, even to split their bodies in half. You can also grab a bad guy and use him as a shield; you can strangle them from behind or jump over their heads and finish them off from behind. The game features a double wielding option, but there's a catch to that - your left hand weapon cannot be used indefinitely and has to be replaced with some of the weapons your enemies tend to drop when they, you know... lose their head (no pun intended). While dual wielding has its advantages, it also deprives you of some of the cool combat possibilities, so the choice of whether or not you want to dual wield will depend mostly on your specific fighting technique. Unfortunately, while fighting the bosses (i.e. the Bitch mentioned at the beginning of this article), you'll spend most of your time blocking their blows so your infallible "master-swordsman" skills don't do too much good against them.
The most common enemies aren't very difficult to beat, as they serve only to keep you interested, but there are some who present a real challenge. It will take you a lot of time and patience to beat these other guys, not only because they are nasty, but also because you want to keep your health. Since you cannot save your game when you wish, it will sometimes take you a lot of reloads until you are ready to pass onto the next stage. Bear in mind this game is fiendishly difficult - even on the easy difficulty setting you will die frequently. Difficulty levels are well balanced, so if you're a beginner feel free to opt for the easy level - that will do.
Apart from decapitating enemies, the other important segment of this game are the puzzles which are numerous, well-conceived and sometimes extraordinarily difficult. Also, expect to fall into ravines and from balconies until you learn how to walk the walls, swing on poles, jump from column to column, and slide down the curtains and such - but such is the story of any Prince of Persia game. This means you'll get to see that annoying "Game Over" screen quite often - unless, that is, if you do not use your ability to rewind time and correct your mistakes. This can sometimes be a bit frustrating, as you'll need to repeat the last segment you just played all over again, and that can get cumbersome after a while. As for the puzzles, most of them are rather obvious (the in-game sequences are most helpful), but several are incredibly difficult to solve. Sometimes you'll spend a lot of time looking for a clue, so the game will require that you do a lot of running around while looking for a suitable position where an action can be performed. The camera does not help you with this, as the convenient and helpful 'look around' feature has obviously been sacrificed for a 'cinematic' one. Listen, when I'm hanging from the top column and an angry acrobat is jumping on my fingers, I *really* don't care how I look - I'd rather know what I'm doing, if possible. The camera is controllable to a limited degree, and the situation is significantly better than before but, on the other hand, there are some instances where it is impossible to see precisely where you're jumping even if employing the first-person or the overhead view.
Did you know drinking a *lot* of water was healthy?
Apart from this, Warrior Within is incredibly fun to play - or at least, would be, if it weren't for the ridiculous story and the silly and repetitive dialogue. Yes, in terms of dialogue, Warrior Within actually beats Silent Hill. I admit I've seen worse, but the dialogue is undoubtedly crappy. There are several phrases that repeat at regular intervals, moreover they are voiced in an unsatisfactory manner - the problem with the voices is not that they are not expressive, but rather that they are over-expressive. As for the overall quality of the sound, it is truly excellent although there are occasional sound glitches, but that is nothing serious as it happens very seldom. The sounds are not diverse enough and consist primarily of sword-clashing, your puffing and panting as you perform your acrobatics and repetitive ambient sounds.
While the sound is not that diverse, I could not see that as a fault as this game does possess an intense atmosphere, so you will never notice an absence of sound. The background music by GodmSmack is rather good, but I honestly do not think that heavy-metal melodies go well with this type of game (Agreed -Ed). And no, I did not expect to hear Sting performing his "Desert Rose" either, but the Arabic feel of the Sands of Time is stomped on and burned alive by GodSmack's heavy guitar riffs.
8.7 Very Good
Greatly improved combat system with some spectacular combos and moves, excellent level design, some clever puzzles, superb animation, great fun to play;
The music is not bad, but it's not for this game; occasionally irritating camera angles, boss fights can get tiresome, the dialogue is silly and the story is crappy.


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Mary Helen Immordino-Yang of USC Dornsife' Brain and Creativity Institute has received the 2013 American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Early Career Award for Public Engagement With Science and Technology.
An assistant professor of psychology at USC Dornsife with a joint appointment at the USC Rossier School of Education, Immordino-Yang's research focuses on the neuroscience of social emotion, self-awareness and culture. She is dedicated to encouraging the education community and the general public to think about and understand neuroscience, and to using neuroscience research to better society.
Immordino-Yang said she was grateful that AAAS promotes the visibility and integrity of science and for its focus on scientific education.
"Science is mainly funded by the public, and we do this work ultimately so that it can benefit society," Immordino-Yang said. "For me, engaging teachers and parents in thinking about affective and social brain development serves a double purpose: I have the opportunity to think together with educators about how the scientific findings can be used to innovate in schools. And interacting with practitioners' practical perspectives often pushes me to think about what research is still needed, where scientific theories lose explanatory power and the implications for my future work."
Immordino-Yang has authored numerous essays for teachers explaining findings from her research. Her essays have been disseminated to K-12 schools worldwide. She also gives monthly talks to teachers, parents, administrators and superintendents. Since 2006, she has taught an annual four-day residential course for teachers on neuroscience.
The course, which will be hosted in Miami this year, informs teachers about neuroscientific research and helps K-12 teachers develop classroom curriculum. She also helped develop an online master's-level course for educators based on her workshops, funded by the Annenberg Learner Foundation, which was used by more than 17,000 individuals around the world in 2012, its first year.
Immordino-Yang makes it a priority to reach out to the public. In October, for example, she delivered the Ellbogen Symposium keynote speech at the University of Wyoming, delivered lectures and taught classes for pre-service teachers, and met with state lawmakers.
In addition, she spoke at a public Montessori preschool, taught a sixth grade science class and gave a public television interview on how questions and issues in neuroscience and education can inform one another.
Immordino-Yang is passionate about getting K-12 students interested in the neuroscience of social emotion. She has taught classes on the topic at several grade levels and has invited classes from urban schools to her lab to observe neuroimaging. Among other outreach efforts, each summer, Immordino-Yang hosts three local high school students from among the least advantaged schools in the city for internships.
A member of the USC Dornsife Neuroscience Graduate Program faculty, she also leads a $600,000 National Science Foundation Career-funded study involving the influence of community violence on brain and social growth. Focusing on three Los Angeles high schools, she studies the ways in which social emotions, self-identity and inspiration about one's future develop neurobiologically and psychosocially among adolescents, and the role of culture in fostering health and resilience.
She will accept the AAAS award at the association's annual meeting in Chicago on Feb. 14.
The AAAS seeks to "advance science, engineering and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all people." Its goals include enhancing communication among scientists, engineers and the public, promoting and defending the integrity of science and its use, and fostering education in science and technology.


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May 27, 2016
The Mississippi Supreme Court has received all the paperwork it needs to settle a dispute over where a special election for Trent Lott's old U.S. Senate seat should appear on the ballot. The court has given no indication of when it might rule.
Gov. Haley Barbour, decided last week the race between Republican Roger Wicker and Democrat Ronnie Musgrove should appear near the bottom of the Nov. 4 ballot.
Trudy Berger, a Democratic election commissioner from Pike County, sued the governor. Hinds County Circuit Judge Tomie Green ruled Friday that the race must go near the top of the ballot.
Barbour appealed to the Supreme Court. Berger's attorneys filed their response Monday. They say Green was correct in ordering the governor to put the special election near other federal races.
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Reader, I haven't seen the final episode of "Breaking Bad." I haven't even seen the final season of "Breaking Bad", or even the final episode of the first season of "Breaking Bad." And though I have just willfully thrown away whatever Playlist cred I might ever have gained, I promise you this—I am working on it. I have seen most of the first season now, and I don't know why I wasn't watching it before..
But please excuse me, if I serve you up a chemical cocktail of "Breaking Bad" links without necessarily examining them in detail myself, lest I encounter the dreaded spoiler. So, here it goes. First up, as you may have seen on this very site, Jesse Pinkman (ok, Aaron Paul) is set to appear in the upcoming "Need For Speed," which has inspired the folks over at Vulture to cut the two together to give Jesse new life in a new trailer. Pinkman lives! Which you shouldn't take to imply that he died or anything, because honestly, I have no idea.
Secondly, for those of you who want to go deep into the mind of showrunner Vince Gilligan, here's a really impressive, hour-long interview he did with the great British TV critic Charlie Brooker (who you should really start reading and watching if you don't already) at last month's Edinburgh International Television Festival (via Cinephile Archive). You can watch Gilligan discuss the genesis of the show and the day-to-day running of it: it's not just interesting as a look at "Breaking Bad" but at the mind of a man who is now surely one of the most powerful people in television, and whose next steps will be closely watched. Speaking of which, I'm off to watch more "Breaking Bad." Please, no-one talk about it til I'm done.


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Stock Splits Are Hot Again
Investors will continue to cheer on stock split announcements even when they don't fully understand them. It's simple math. It's zero-sum math.
Investors will continue to cheer on stock split announcements even when they don't fully understand them. It's simple math. It's zero-sum math.
Although confidence in the economy is at a 7-year-high, most investors still feel the effects of the recession and think they've hit a financial ceiling.
Investors bracing for the U.S. Federal Reserve to wind down its monetary stimulus have fled emerging markets in recent months.
JPMorgan Chase Chairman and CEO Jamie Dimon said he may consider leaving the bank where he has held the top post since 2005, if shareholders vote to split his duties.
Apple sold $17 billion worth of bonds late Tuesday in the largest sale of corporate bonds ever, part of a plan to increase its share buyback program and boost its dividend.
Reuters published on Thursday evening an online obituary for Hungarian-born American financier George Soros, who remains alive, giving a harshly critical portrait of his life.
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The U.S. stock market has been on a bull run since early 2009. At the same time, individual investors have been pulling billions of dollars out of stocks each year.
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Good communication is key in determining how pleased clients are with their brokers, and there has been a dip in satisfaction. But its not because advisers are communicating less with their clients than they did before the recession. Actually, it's quite the opposite.
An Iranian-American businessman who hosted a popular Persian language radio show called Economy Today has been indicted on charges that he robbed investors of $20 million in a Ponzi scheme than ran for six years.
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Hedge funds, which experienced sharp drops in assets during the credit crisis, now hold an all-time high of more than $2 trillion in capital, according to a new survey by Hedge Fund Research Inc. The figure is 50% higher than crisis-driven lows reached in the first quarter of 2009.
The Federal Reserve is finally admitting that not all the big banks are healthy: Bank of America won't get to pay increased dividends. But none of those financial giants should be allowed to, and a logical look at the reasons they say they want to dole out the cash makes it totally clear why.
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Booz Allen Hamilton Holding has priced its IPO at $17 a share, setting its $238 million offering at the low end of its range. The offering from the management and technology consulting firm, which largely serves government clients, apparently failed to inspire prospective investors.
As consumer and investor confidence shows signs of mending, rekindled fears of inflation are on the rise as well. Faced with higher costs and limited pricing power, many companies may have to hammer profit margins -- a possibility that has already started to take a toll on stocks.
A new report says 55% of investors say they now accept any positive gains as investing success in these volatile markets, while another 23% believe break-even investment returns can also be considered successful.
There have been some questions over the past few weeks about whether the General Motors IPO would include restrictions on money put into the shares from investors overseas. GM made it clear recently the the U.S. Treasury would hold some of its share indefinitely as opposed to disposing of them as soon after the IPO as possible.
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Guys! Jennifer Aniston is blonde! Very, very blonde.
The gorgeous actress was seen on the set of her new movie, currently being called the Untitled Elmore Leonard Project and showed off her new do. While it is a wig, it's still pretty shocking to see Jen so blonde.
Sure she's always been "blonde," but never like this! Imagine if she'd had this blonde hair during her Cabo, bikini fest. It would have been such a shock. Suddenly blonde and showing off her bikini bod? What would we have done!
Jennifer is currently shooting in Greenwich, Connecticut. The movie follows the story two criminals, played by Mos Def and Will Forte, who kidnap Jen hoping her husband will pay a huge ransom. Turns out, the husband doesn't wanna pay and hilarity ensues. I'm just excited to see Jennifer in a movie not playing a romantic lead.
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Who better than rock mag Rolling Stone to give ace movie ranker "Sight & Sound" (which recently listed the top 50 documentaries of all time) a run for its money? Rolling Stone has ranked the 40 greatest rock documentaries (of all time, natch).
To cut to the chase: at the top of Rolling Stone's list, the king (or queen!) of rock docs is "Don't Look Back," D.A. Pennebaker's 1967 film about Bob Dylan's 1965 tour through the United Kingdom. As Rolling Stone puts it, "Don't Look Back" is the "permanent blueprint for the public's image of mid-Sixties rock & roll": Pennebaker's film helped to turn Dylan into the icon of a generation, and as one of the earliest films on the list, it set a standard that inspired other docs for many years to come.
Pennebaker's got another top 10 spot with number seven's "Monterey Pop," the 1968 chronicle of flower-power at its height, featuring performances by the Who, Jefferson Airplane and Janis Joplin. (He's also got the David Bowie-centered doc "Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars" at 28 and "Depeche Mode 101" at 16.) Other top 10ers include Martin Scorsese's 1978's "The Last Waltz," about the Band's final performance in San Francisco in 1976, the Rolling Stones' traumatic paradigm shifter "Gimme Shelter," "What's Happening! The Beatles in the U.S.A." and, of course, Michael Wadleigh's iconic "Woodstock," an Oscar winner and a box office hit--which, incidentally, launched the long-time collaboration of Scorsese and editor Thelma Schoonmaker.
Reading through the band names in Rolling Stone's top documentaries list is like attending a celestial dinner party of rock and roll's greats: Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, The Sex Pistols, Joni Mitchell, Neil Young, Madonna, Radiohead. It's the kind of list that makes music lovers--and even more importantly, music and film lovers--dream about building a time machine. As James Gunn showed us in "Guardians of the Galaxy," the music of the last fifty years is so evocative that it feels just as natural in the depths of space as it does down here on Earth.
Check out Rolling Stone's full list here, plus a clip of Pennebaker's "Don't Look Back," below.


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I used one portion of my SketchUp project drawing to make a self-adhesive drilling guide template. I've done this before with great success, most recently using SketchUp to design the curve profile for a corbel that supported a cedar outdoor towel rack. Using SketchUp to make a project template gives me the chance to work out design options and accurately locate center point placement without making mistakes and wasting precious wood.
If you haven't yet given SketchUp a test drive, consider doing so as it will most definitely become a valuable tool. Its great for doodling sketches of future projects and finalizing the design of the next project you take to the shop. Just remember, the more you use it the better you will become!
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The signs don't appear to be good for running SL on a Mac purchased today or in the future. So far, everyone who is doing that is using a 2011, correct?
Not sure I totally understand the question - FWIW I'm running 10.6 on a 2010 Mac Pro and some older machines.
Also, while there may exist some 2011 Macs that can run 10.6, that does not mean all 2011 Macs will.
If buying a new Mac, you will probably want to run a current OS on it.
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Phi Theta Kappa
Phi Theta Kappa is a nationally-known honor society for students who have achieved a standard set up by their local chapter. Phi Theta Kappa membership guarantees you access to more benefits than any other student organization. As a member, your academic excellence will be recognized with the Golden Key membership pin, membership certificate and identification card, notation of membership on your diploma and transcripts and the privilege of wearing regalia at graduation that sets you apart as a Phi Theta Kappa member. Membership also provides exclusive access to online benefits including the eScholarship Directory, listing information on scholarships designated exclusively for Phi Theta Kappa members and letters of recommendation for scholarships and employment.
To be a member of the Sigma Iota Chapter, you must meet the following requirements:
· minimum cumulative GPA of 3.50 and maintain a 3.50 GPA following induction
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If you think you meet these minimum requirements and would like to join, please email the faculty mentor, Maria Elmshauser at email@example.com. The email must contain your mailing address, phone number, email address, full name and student ID. If you qualify, you will receive a reply email in mid-October/March with an acceptance letter, instructions to complete the application for induction and instructions on paying your one time dues of $60.
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- Jules Michelet - Student Encyclopedia (Ages 11 and up)
French historian born on Aug. 21, 1798, in Paris."Oh, how I need... increasingly to know and to love France!" In writing his 17-volume Histoire de France (History of France), historian Jules Michelet did come to know his homeland, and the result was a powerful portrayal of France and its people.


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Bonds are an oxymoron as they have many conflicting parts. Investors have typically used bonds in the past for ways to provide a relatively stable stream of income, usually in retirement years. They can also be used as a hedge against other investments, such as stocks or real estate, in a diversified portfolio.
But bonds have been getting a bad rap after last year's losses, based on concerns of rising interest rates. This is part of what makes bonds contradictory and confusing - because they often work opposite of a stock or equity investment. Some investors never truly understand the workings of a bond and therefore have a hard time knowing what to expect from this type of a fixed-income vehicle.
A bond is basically a loan or an IOU issued by a corporation or government entity. These are usually issued to raise money. When you purchase a bond, you are giving the issuer your money to use and they will pay you interest in return. Bonds are usually issued for certain periods of time or terms, such as 10, 20 or 30 years.
The longer the term, the more vulnerable you are that interest rates will change over that period of time, and perhaps you could have gotten a better deal with another issuer when interest rates rise. Therefore the value of a bond declines when interest rates rise. This can be due to the fact that your bond is now worth less when you go to sell it because it is still paying last year's interest rate. If you are seeking a more competitive interest rate, then so will the next buyer want that higher rate as well. Therefore, to unload the bond in a rising interest rate environment, you could end up taking less than full value to get rid of it.
Investors hold bonds for two main reasons: to provide income and to provide a hedge against equity based investing. Since a bond is a debt instrument, it has the potential to behave opposite of an equity or stock investment. One main reason this occurs is when there is economic growth, stocks can rise in value along with growing consumerism. When the economy expands due to more spending, interest rates start to rise along with potential inflation and growth. When rates increase, the value of the bond declines, which leaves the bond holder with a lower market value. Therefore, this can be a good diversifier in a portfolio of stocks when there is a stock market correction; some bonds have the potential to increase or act opposite.
The last few years of painfully low interest rates have many bond investors frustrated. They are not getting the yields they are used to and the concern is that when rates do finally rise, their bond values will fall. However, the first few months of 2014 proved this theory wrong. When stocks tumbled, bonds started to recover. This shows that diversified portfolios that hold non-correlated instruments are very important in your portfolio.
If interest rates rise gradually, and at the same time there is moderate and increasing growth in the economy, then bonds could still fare quite well. The shorter duration is less risky and adding other types of equities and alternatives to your portfolio will help keep you balanced. This is a good time to review your accounts with your advisor to determine how much fixed income you need to be represented by bonds and in what duration and yield.
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My husband and I recently bought our first home. The house was built in 1940 and at that time Ivy was planted throughout the entire front yard. As you can imagine, after 60 years it's very very deep and thick. I would like to replace this with grass. What is the best way to remove all this ivy?
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I, too, bought an old house (circa 1920) with a LOT of ground Ivy. In fact, enough to kill off a couple of trees. I've been pulling it out and off my house for 3 years now. It seems to be getting a little thinner, (or maybe it's just killed everything else off!) But I would also be interested in a better way to get rid of it if someone has one!
One recommended way to kill off vegetable garden weeds is to cover with heavy plastic. The heat will kill off everything after a week or so. Ugly for the front yard but may work.
I agree with david... my Aunt had the same problem with pachysandra taking over her side yard... she mowed it over with a lawn mower (put the bag on first!!!) and then covered the whole area with black plastic - held down by bricks on the edges, and left it that way for practically all of August last year, and it was gone. good luck!
I have a semi-similar problem-- the "lower 40" at my new homestead has about 1-1/2 acre of Kudzu (and about half of that is the "double whammy" of Kudzu AND Privet hedge ). The approach I'm taking is to bush-hog it, and as it sprouts fromt the individual runners and tubers, spray it with Round-Up brush killer. And be persistent for a couple of years.
You probably won't need to go to this extreme, but something like this would be a quick way to nuke the Ivy.
is this a good idea for my soggy backyard?
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Definitions of atheism vary, but most of us who use the label to describe ourselves would agree that it involves the rejection of belief in god. For some, it involves the belief that god does not exist (i.e., "strong atheism") which is a somewhat stronger position against the concept of theism. For many of us, it has acquired a broader meaning, including the rejection of anything supernatural (i.e., angels, demons, ghosts, miracles, etc.). This more expansive meaning is probably better described as "naturalism," "materialism," or a related term, but this can be debated another time. My focus for this post is on whether atheism (i.e., the rejection of belief in god) is really where most of us are (or should be).
Suppose for a minute that there is a god. Further suppose that this god bears no resemblance whatsoever to the god of Christians, Jews, Muslims, etc. This god is an inexplicable force of energy, moving through the vast universe at random. This god does not have anything similar to human intellect, purpose, intent, emotion, etc. In fact, this god is a force in the way that gravity is a force (i.e., intent/mind/personality are irrelevant). This god sets creation in motion (e.g., big bang, etc.) and then moves on to the next galaxy in a random fashion. This god sets the process in motion but has nothing at all to do with the created life forms. This god never communicated with Jesus, Abraham, Mohammed, etc. Lacking consciousness, awareness, and purpose, this god is no more aware of us than sunshine is aware of us. (As I understand it, this is what deists believe).
Could you accept the possibility that this sort of god might exist? Regardless of whether you believe that such a force is necessary or even plausible, could you accept the possibility? If you answer "yes," is it still accurate to call yourself an atheist?
Personally, I would have a much easier time accepting the possibility of this deistic god than the Christian god with all the absurd dogma attached. But if I accepted such a god, I would clearly not be an atheist. The more I reflect on this puzzle, the more convinced I become that it is not the idea of god per se that I find so disturbing; it is the idea of the Christian/Jewish/Muslim/etc. god which I find both absurd and destructive.
Of course, the true absurdity may simply be linguistic. Why bother to call this random energy force god at all? Does that resolve the puzzle? Maybe this explains why many people can accept spirituality while rejecting religion. In any case, I don't believe that the notion of a deistic god is necessary.
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Saturday 6 August 2011 is firmly carved into the minds of Nicholas Kennedy, Mum Julie, step Dad Peter and sister Emily.
Nicholas was driving to help a friend when he was involved in a horrific car accident; their lives were instantly altered in ways they could never imagine.
Nick was 17, a Year 11 student at All Saints College, Maitland. The accident occurred just one hundred metres from his home at Raymond Terrace.
The accident caused a compound fracture of Nick's lower right leg, a deep gash on the back of his left leg, and more.
News spread quickly. Julie's spontaneous instinct was to pray; this was all she could do to help her son survive his appalling injuries. She pleaded with God to spare her son.
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Ring heat flux sensors
The RHF series consists of heat flux sensors designed for studies of fouling behaviour during combustion processes. A RHF is meant to be part of so-called "deposition probes" or "fouling sensors" (typically designed by the user) in slagging and fouling experiments. A typical sensor actually contains 4 separate heat flux / temperature sensors, so that directional fouling information can be obtained as well.
RHF series has been designed to be used in scientific as well as operational experiments to study fouling behaviour. The user can build his own deposition probe or fouling sensor, and use a RHF (or an adapted version of it) as a building block. In practice many RHF sensors are built into probes that also measure temperature and take gas samples (so-caled suction probes). RHF's can be supplied in many different dimensions.
Compared to traditional deposition probe designs, advantages of a RHF are that it can provide "directional" information, and that calibration is no longer an issue. The latter is done at the manufacturer. In addition the calibration is far better under control (even traceable) and response times are faster.
RHF01 is provided with 4 calibration constants; one for every sensor.
Click on drawing in Gallery for dimensions of a RHF series example: RHF01 ring heat flux senor consists of four temperature / heat flux sensors (1), in a stainless steel housing (2), with either flat connection for welding- (3) or alternatively threaded connections (4). Metal sheathed wire (5) is usually extended with PTFE wire (7). The sensor is typically incorporated in so-called deposition probes. Cooling should be provided by either air or oil. Dimensions in the drawing are only serving as example. All dimensions are in mm.
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The 5th International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction is organized in cooperation with the AAAI and Technically Co-Sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society. Proceedings will be published by IEEE Computer Society and will be indexed in IEEEXplore.
This ACII edition will emphasize the humanistic side of affective computing by promoting publications at the cross-road between engineering and human sciences (including biological, social and cultural aspects of human life).
The conference will address, but is not limited to, the following topics:
Regular Papers
The papers should feature original work (i.e., not submitted to another conference or journal while in review by ACII). Authors of a selected subset of accepted papers will be invited to publish extended versions in one of the two journals that have already agreed to publish such contributions.
Doctoral Consortium
The Doctoral Consortium (DC) serves as forum for PhD students to share ideas about the theories behind affective computing, its development, and its application. Submissions should describe PhD research that is at a stage where feedback from the international community might be of value. DC Submissions will be reviewed, and accepted contributions are published in the conference proceedings. The Professor Fiorella de Rosis award will be presented to the best DC paper. Details about the Doctoral Consortium and submission are communicated in a separate CFP.
Interactive Events (Demos)
The ACII 2013 Interactive Events (Demos) Session is the ideal forum for researchers and practitioners to showcase recent advances in affective computing. The session will feature live demonstration of both mature systems and prototypes, and the presenters will have the opportunity to discuss their systems with the broader international scientific community and the public at large. Two-page Interactive Event extended abstracts will be published in the Conference Proceedings. Details about the Interactive Events (Demos) and proposal submission are communicated in a separate CFP.
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Authors of accepted work (papers, extended abstract, demos) have to register in order to have their work published and they have to attend the conference to present their work.
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if these thoughts of forced re-construction are really thought out;
if the upset over no changes really should be cause for that upset;
if, like in 2007, the negative ones will be able to face themselves if/when our guys pull off a comeback.
Allow me to share a moment. This won't be my finest effort, for I am falling asleep as I type. {I have edited it a little 2 days later ... I apologize it was typed so messily.}
1) if these thoughts of forced re-construction are really thought out.
I recall the anger of paying some of Lugo's contract to get rid of him – and several others as well. But there is a strand of thought here that says "unload the fat cat's and their contracts."
Pray tell how? If Henry and Co. should dump the players, there is very little they could do in re-building because they would still be paying huge amounts of cash in the remainder of those very contracts. How would they get rid of all the problem children in the gang and not still owe exorbitant amounts on huge contracts?
Doesn't make sense to me to dig a whole deeper and deeper … and somehow think the ledgers will be clear to make new responsible decisions that you all would be happy with. Don't try to be dishonest about this. There is no genie in a lamp that will honor your/our wishes to dump the core of $170+/- million a year and start fresh.
Even if we only got rid of your favorite problem children and their contracts, which would not truly relieve the financial burden we are all so well aware of.Your ire and sensible thinking doesn't qualify as valid currency for the next step you propose, never mind taking care of you're the old problems you so commonly address.
2) If the upset over no significant changes really should be cause for that upset so often framed on this site.
First, already you are not enamored with large deals, expensive pieces, long distant shots in the dark.Not only have we been snake bitten by these contracts, but many other teams have been too. Without listing our issues, take a quick look at one the Yanquis have famously failed at … Burnett is now a solid Cy Young award leader at the Burgh , 14-1 and dominant. I could list several others … but for decency sake and length of post will not. I could list others not in the Rivalry, but why? Each one would just be a starting point for more argumentation.
Then, who would be coming our way? Dempsey didn't want to come east, Atlanta OR Boston. Garza is injured and hasn't pitched in almost 2 weeks. Grenke (sp) never wanted to come to Boston, or so old reports in KC said. Cliff Lee? Hmmm. One win this season … hasn 't pitched awfully or whatever, but …
Would you really want Pence or the Flying Hawaiian? Are either that much of an upgrade? Ok, there was Hanley Ramirez …but suddenly LA had all the right parts for that deal.
3. If, like in 2007, the negative ones will be able to face themselves if/when our guys pull off a comeback.
If Josh and Jon get their mojo back, so do we. Having a rough season is an unforgiveable sin .... whew!
But there is never/rarely appreciation, that in a game as fickle as baseball, even if you field the "best" team it nowhere guarantees a championship. Shall I list the countless "sure things" that have lost to division winners or wild cards that just barely make it – and in a series or two, they –the "lesser" team- plays better and suddenly become not the ones who skim by but are recorded as WS C?
No, I'm not happy with losing and in ALL frankness, almost kissed this season good bye when Tex tied the game Lester had been given a 6-1 lead.
But when is it appropriate to be thankful for how much pleasure the Sox have given?
Yes. Losing stinks and wears at the soul, but in the larger frame of it all, when are we glad to be Sox fans, no matter what? ONLY when we are in the playoffs? Only when we are crowned WS champs? There are some who post here that aren't even happy with that. They claim they are, but it is such a fleeting moment, the memory of it must be like the thought of a good meal, quickly past the gums, slowly through the g.i. tract (track?) and swiftly out the other end… and as much as losing stinks, that fast farewell to a goodly thing surely does too.


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I've been a member of Stack Overflow for about 6 months and since I hit 1.5k, my rep count has always been "2k" on the mobile site. I use Chrome on a 'droid (naturally). Even now that my rep on Stack Overflow has gotten to 2k and on The Workplace I'm just 1.6k, both count as "2k" on the mobile version of both sites. Bug?
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If I understand you correctly based on the clarifications you gave in the comments, this is still by design.
Here is your profile that shows "2k" for both Stack Overflow and the Workplace:
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As you can see, rounding is working as expected. This is by design because mobile has limited space to work with. Your reputation is not incorrect. The individual profiles still show the full, correct amount below your avatar. It is simply displayed in a different, more compact (and admittedly approximated as a result) way on the Accounts list.
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A federal judge in Richmond on Tuesday dismissed all or parts of nine of the 12 counts in the lawsuit, filed by a University of Virginia student. The student fled in terror when her vehicle was swarmed by state ABC agents last summer in Charlottesville.
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Waterways in western Montana have dropped to alarmingly low levels, frightening the farmers who depend on irrigation and worrying river managers charged with protecting the fish.
Sunday afternoon NBC Montana met with Jed Whiteley, a Clark Fork Coalition project manager, to find out what people can do to help.
Whiteley tells us extremely low water levels can be detrimental to sensitive trout populations.
"We're very concerned about the state of our rivers and the impact on the fish right now," he says. "Usually right around 68 degrees the trout really start to suffer, and like today, this river will probably hit close to 73 degrees by this evening."
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