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Here are a few thoughts by prominent coastal residents who offered up their visions of what they'd like to see happen in the new year.
Nicole Burgess, a cycling advocate and activist who serves as secretary of the Peninsula Community Planning Board (PCPB), not unsurprisingly had her favorite mode of travel in mind when presenting her 2014 wish list when she said, "Let's talk bikes: Ciclosdias in PB — March 9; Bike share coming to downtown and the Peninsula soon; BikeSD endorses David Alvarez; myself and many students will be on Nimitz (Boulevard) and Centraloma at 8 a.m. next week."
Burgess said she'd also like to see "opportunities to make our neighborhoods safer, more beautiful and more enjoyable. There's an opportunity at OB Elementary to create an absolutely beautiful and more effective type of crosswalk rather than the current proposed one."
Regarding the media, Burgess said, "On a broader idea, I always like opinion pages and short stories on individuals/groups that are making a positive contribution to their neighborhoods."
Norm Allenby, one of Burgess's colleagues on the Peninsula Community Planning Board and a retired civil trial lawyer, was thinking about the environment when formulating his 2014 wish list.
"We draw down our aquifers with no thought of refilling them," he said. "We don't harvest our rainfall, but sluice it to the ocean. We import our water, largely use it once, pollute it, sort of clean it up and pump it to the ocean. We have created a freshwater spring at the end of Point Loma supported by an underwater stream, aka, our sewer system. That spring discharges 150 million gallons of water a day, close to the amount of water we import daily."
Better yet, said Allenby, "We can retain that water, cleanse it and reuse it on site where it was first created, greatly reducing our need for imported water. Were we to require in all future construction that a building have its own water plan, including rain harvesting and onsite recycling in closed systems, we would retain water in our watersheds, make rain (evaporation), grow trees, not drain our aquifers, and use the abundance of water we have. We could then retrofit by retrofit in existing structures create water plans that would allow them to become less water independent on imported water."


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1856 $1 MS64 Certification #07342753, PCGS #6944
Owner's Comments
A gem for the date! Stunning, nearly mark free surfaces are graced with subtle pastel toning and generous luster. A bit of striking weakness is forgiven in the overall quality of the coin.
Expert Comments
Q. David BowersThe following narrative, with minor editing, is from my "Silver Dollars & Trade Dollars of the United States: A Complete Encyclopedia" (Wolfeboro, NH: Bowers and Merena Galleries, Inc., 1993).
Coinage Context
Still another "trade dollar": Most 1856 Liberty Seated dollars were exported, many via the clipper ship trade to selected Chinese ports, where they were melted. During the era, millions of dollars' worth of tea and silk were imported from China into the United States. Other dollars were sent to Europe (see following). Still others may have gone to South America.
By 1856 the San Francisco Mint had been in operation for over two years, but despite requests to do so, it had not yet struck any silver dollars. The Philadelphia Mint had sent no dies of this denomination, nor would it until 1859.
Silver to China and India: The Bankers' Magazine and Statistical Register reported the following: (October 1856, p. 303.) "WHERE DID THE GOLD AND SILVER GO? It is well known that the silver coin held by the banks in the United States, eight or 10 years ago, has almost entirely disappeared to this day. The remnants are composed of small coin, reserved for change. Gradually, from the years 1848 to 1855, all of the available silver coin of this country was exported to Europe; but there it did not remain. The exhaustion of silver noted in the banking and commercial history of the United States, for the past eight years, has also taken place in Europe ....
"The government of the United States has adopted measures, rather late, it is true, but for the present effectual, for the prevention of further large exports of silver, by offering a liberal premium for silver coin, thus converting it into new coinage, with such alloy that its legal tender value at present is fully 10% over its market value as a commodity. [The reference here is to the Act of February 1853.] When we inquire further as to the causes and means of exhaustion of silver in Europe, we find that the preference felt for the metal in China and India demands a continued export of all that can be realized .... "
The same publication, issue of September 1856, pp. 200-201, noted that in England much silver had been exported directly to China and the East Indies amounting to £1,716,100 in 1851, £2,630,238 in 1852, £4,710,665 in 1853, £3,132,003 in 1854, and £6,409,889 in 1855. "The main cause we opine lies in the enormous increase of Chinese exports of silk and tea to England and North America." Presumably, large amounts of American silver coins were sent from the United States to China during the same time for essentially the same purposes.
A. Barton Hepburn's History of Currency in the United States, 1915, included a column for exports of domestic U.S. coins in millions of dollars per year. The figures are enlightening: 1850 $2.0, 1851 $18.1, 1852 $37.4, 1853 $23.5, 1854 $38.1, 1855 $54.0, 1856 $44.1, 1857 $60.1, 1858 $42.4, 1859 $57.5, and 1860 $56.9. Most of these coins had to be gold, as silver coinage did not rise above $9.1 million in any year except 1853, and averaged something under $5 million per year. The net result was, for all the out-pouring of coin in the 1850s, the total amount of specie in the country barely increased after 1853, and actually declined from 1857 to 1860. (Harry E. Salyards, M.D., called my attention to the Hepburn citation and furnished comments concerning it.)
Numismatic Information
Circulated grades: Although 1856 has more than double the circulation strike mintage of 1855, in circulated grades the rarity of the two dates is about the same. If anything, the 1856 seems to be slightly the rarer of the two. In 1859 in his American Numismatical Manual, Dr. Montroville W. Dickeson called the 1856 silver dollar rare, and this was just three years after it was issued!
In his 1984 study published in The Gobrecht Journal, "Availability of Liberty Seated Dollars by Grade," John Kroon noted that he found 22 specimens (in all grades) of 1855 and just 18 of 1856. Contrasting this, the 45th edition of A Guide Book of U.S. Coins prices the 1855 at $1,375 in VF-20 grade and the 1856 at only $400. Such inequalities usually straighten themselves out in the numismatic market. Today, the 1856 seems to be bargain priced!
The date 1856, with slanting 5, is large (almost oversize) and bold on all silver dollars of this year.
Mint State grades: Although the 1856 dollar is an extreme rarity in Mint State, the appreciation of it by advanced collectors, and, to an extent, its market price, have been dimmed slightly by the availability of Proofs of this date. Proofs, although rarities in their own right, have served to absorb some of the demand for top-grade coins. Mint State 1856 dollars are few and far between. Like the 1855, here is a fantastic sleeper.
Circulation strikes:
1-4. Normal Date: Breen-5453. Five die pairs were prepared for circulation strikes, but it is not known if all were used. All known examples have large date with slanting or italic 5. Some early impressions have "chin whiskers" to Miss Liberty, or file marks in the die below the chin.
5. 1856/4 Overdate: Breen-5454. Walter H. Breen reports an overdate, "1856/4," noting that it is extremely rare and that New Netherlands Coin Company's Sale 47, Lots 1147-48, offered two of these, distinguished by having a plain straight line, the crossbar of the underdate 4, within the 6. Unpublicized.
Dies prepared: Obverse: Unknown; Reverse: Unknown
Circulation strike mintage: 63,500; Delivery figures by day: January 30: 10,000; January 31: 18,000; February 4: 17,000; February 9: 18,500.
Estimated quantity melted: Unknown
Characteristics of striking: Usually weakly struck, typically with Miss Liberty's head and stars 8 through 10 flat. On the reverse, the eagle's dexter leg is often weak.
Known hoards of Mint State coins: None
Most 1856 circulation strike dollars were exported.
Examples are rare today in all grades.
Additional Information
General Silver Coinage
The Annual Report of the Director of the Mint, 1856, advised that since the passage of the Act of March 3, 1853, authorizing a reduction in the weight of silver coins, silver coins were circulating effectively. The director of the Mint felt, however, that the nation would never "fully realize the benefit of a sound specie circulation until all bank notes, at least below the denomination of $20, shall be excluded from circulation." However, this statement did not apply to silver dollars, which did not circulate in the United States.
Most private bank notes stopped circulating before the end of the Civil War, thanks to new laws. Evidently, after 1861 the Treasury wanted a monopoly, partly because many banks failed and left their creditors with worthless paper money, and partly to help finance the Civil War. Nevertheless, the United States did not enjoy a sound specie circulation until mid-December 1878, when for the first time in American history, federal silver coins, gold coins, and paper money were all on a par with each other.
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Review: Nikka Whisky From the Barrel
Posted by Arctic Wolf on May 15, 2011
Nikka is the second largest distiller of whisky in Japan owning two distilleries at Yoichi and Miyagikyo. The Yoichi Distillery is located on Hokkaido which is Japan's northernmost Island where the climate is apparently very similar to Scotland. The Miyagikyo Distillery is located on Honshu island in central Japan. Information on this blend is a little hard for me to decipher from the bottle, but gleaning what I can from Internet sources I have found that the whisky apparently includes Malt whiskies from each of the Nikka Distilleries as well as grain whisky from Miyagikyo. The label says the whisky is double matured, and I believe that the final maturation was in a first run bourbon barrel. I taste a sherry influence as well making me believe that at least some of the whiskies which comprise the blend have seen time in Sherry casks.
Here is an excerpt from my review:
"…There is quite a wallop of flavour associated with the Nikka Whisky as one would expect from a cask strength offering. Rich burnt caramel, woody tannins and rich baking spices all mingle together. I taste a whisper of Apricot Brandy winding through the flavour profile. Raisins, dates and prunes add to the complexity…"
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Skewered Chicken with Peanut Sauce
Sate-style chicken is always a popular choice. The golden brown chicken is accompanied with a delicious homemade peanut sauce. You'll find that these will be devoured quickly.—Nancy Stec, Upperco, Maryland
Total TimePrep: 30 min. + marinating Grill: 10 min
Makes2-1/2 dozen
- 3 pounds boneless skinless chicken breast halves
- 1/2 cup orange juice
- 1/2 cup reduced-sodium soy sauce
- 1/4 cup lime juice
- 2 tablespoons chunky peanut butter
- 2 garlic cloves, minced
- 2 teaspoons curry powder
- 1 teaspoon ground cumin
- 1 teaspoon ground ancho chili pepper
- 3/4 cup coconut milk
- 1/2 cup chunky peanut butter
- 1/4 cup lemon juice
- 2 tablespoons reduced-sodium soy sauce
- 1 tablespoon brown sugar
- 2 garlic cloves, minced
- 1 teaspoon grated fresh gingerroot
- 1 teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes
- 1/2 cup heavy whipping cream
- Minced fresh cilantro
- Flatten chicken to 1/4-in. thickness; cut lengthwise into 1-in.-wide strips. In a small bowl, combine the orange juice, soy sauce, lime juice, peanut butter, garlic, curry powder, cumin and chili pepper.
- Pour 1 cup mixture into a large resealable plastic bag. Add the chicken; seal bag and turn to coat. Refrigerate for at least 4 hours or overnight. Cover and refrigerate remaining mixture.
- Drain chicken and discard marinade. Thread chicken onto 30 metal or soaked wooden skewers. Moisten a paper towel with cooking oil; using long-handled tongs, lightly coat the grill rack. Grill chicken, covered, over medium heat or broil 4 in. from the heat for 3-4 minutes on each side or until no longer pink, basting with reserved juice mixture.
- Meanwhile, in a small saucepan, combine the coconut milk, peanut butter, lemon juice, soy sauce, brown sugar, garlic, ginger and pepper flakes. Cook and stir over medium heat until smooth. Cool slightly. Transfer to a food processor; add cream. Cover and process until smooth. Sprinkle chicken with cilantro. Serve chicken warm with sauce.


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No. 26 Darien boys upset No. 7 Guilford 71-56 behind Staubi's 32 points
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Ahead by only a single possession with two minutes to go, No. 26 Darien sunk 15 of its final 18 free throws to knock off No. 7 Guilford (16-5) 71-56 Monday night. Led by senior guard Matt Staubi, who poured in a game-high 32 points, the Blue Wave (11-10) claimed its first state tournament win in 24 years. Darien will now move on to take on No. 10 Avon Wednesday night at 7 p.m.
"I'm very, very proud of them," Darien coach Kyle Marian said. "It's a great thing for our community. We're looking forward to getting on the road again and trying to making this next push to do something that hasn't been done in a long time."
The Blue Wave led for the entire second half, after taking a 25-24 edge with three minutes left in the second quarter. Staubi posted 20 points prior to the intermission and was picked up by his teammates down the stretch, primarily from the foul line. Senior guard Bobby Fitzpatrick hit seven-of-eight free throws in the final 1:35, en route to a 13-point performance.
"It's one of those things where if other players, Chima, Ames, Bobby, George, don't grab those rebounds, don't set those screens or hit free throws, it doesn't open up for me," Staubi said. "But when I get going, I get going."
As the Indians continued to trap Staubi in the back-court in the final frame, four other Darien players scored to help ice the game. Azuonwu collected 11 total points and a number of critical rebounds, as did senior George Phillips. Darien's 71-point performance was only the second time all year that Guilford allowed an opponent to score more than 60 points.
"We knew they were better than their record," Guilford coach Jeff DeMaio said. "We knew they play in a tough conference. We got very accurate scouting information. Usually, we play teams in the 40s and the 50s ¦ they had 31 at the half. They just made a lot of shots."
The teams played to an even 10-10 third quarter, highlighted by a then-game-high nine-point Darien lead. Indian guards Will Cofrances and Shaun Ross continued to attack the paint with success, but they failed to come closer than two points.
"They were a good team," Fitzpatrick said. "They kept throwing punches at us when we had the lead. But the thing was, we kept punching back."
As a team, Guilford knocked down just five of 10 free throws, missing the front end of two one-and-one opportunities in the fourth quarter. With less than one minute to go, Staubi nailed a pair of free throws following an intentional foul call to extend Darien's lead to 10 points and seal the game.
With a win at Avon on Wednesday, Darien would past the second round of the state tournament for the first time in more than a quarter-century.
"You do hear kids talk about it around school," Fitzpatrick said. "But we know we're here to play ball. Play ball and just get as far as we can in the tournament."
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Darien 71, Guilford 56
Chima Azuonwu 5 0-1 10 Ames Murray 1 0-0 2 Bobby Fitzpatrick 2 7-8 13 Alex Preston 0 0-0 0 Matt Staubi 10 10-13 32 Hudson Hamill 1 1-2 3 George Phillips 2 7-9 11. Totals: 21 25-33 71.
Nick Rubino 1 0-0 3 Ian Robinson 0 0-0 0 Luke Dombroski 6 1-3 14 Mike Afeltra 1 0-0 3 Mark Healy 0 0-0 0 Tony Pensa 1 0-0 2 Wyatt Vilaseca 0 0-0 0 Max Ehrlich 0 0-0 0 Will Cofrances 8 1-1 21 Tyler Donlan 0 0-0 0 Chris Rogers 0 0-0 0 Shaun Ross 3 2-3 8 J.P. Barrett 2 1-3 5
Totals: 22 5-10 56.
3-pointers: D--Staubi 2, Fitzpatrick 2; G--Cofrances 4, Afeltra, Dombroski, Rubino


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New York, NY – New York Rangers President and General Manager Glen Sather announced that forward Ruslan Fedotenko underwent an appendectomy today, and will be sidelined for three weeks. The surgery was performed by Dr. Ronald Simon at the New York University Tisch Hospital in Manhattan.
Fedotenko has missed the last five games due to a shoulder separation sustained during the second period of a 7-0 win vs. Toronto on January 19. He has registered nine goals and 10 assists for 19 points, along with 16 penalty minutes and a plus-eight rating in 48 games this season. The Rangers have posted a record of 8-0-1 when he tallies a goal, and are 12-2-2 when he registers a point. Fedotenko also ranked fourth on the team with 106 hits at the time of his injury. The 10 year NHL veteran skated in his 700th career game on November 24 at Tampa Bay.


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Morenci Chief of Police Larry Weeks is hoping to use the rapport he's built with area police departments into successful management of the county sheriff department.
Weeks officially kicked off his bid last week for election to the post of Lenawee County Sheriff when he spoke with county commissioners Thursday.
His entry into the field will place him in a primary election in August 2008 against the other two candidates who have stated their intentions, Al Navarro and Malcolm Winn.
Weeks said he has no dissatisfaction with his current job as Morenci's chief nor with the community. If elected, he intends to continue living here.
"I enjoy living here and I feel that my family is invested in the community," he said. "My children's education is important and Morenci schools are fulfilling that."
His decision to run for sheriff stems from a desire to advance his career in law enforcement.
"From a personal standpoint, I've worked hard to improve my skills and education," he said. "I'm confident I can apply those skills to the Sheriff's Department and improve on the services offered."


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Chef Edward Lee takes Audrina Patridge around South Korea to experience some of the country's best cuisine. Watch it all on 1st Look this Saturday after Saturday Night Live on NBC and learn how to make some of the best Korean dishes around.
Persimmon and Sunchoke Salad
Makes 2 salads
1 very ripe teardrop persimmon
1 teaspoon rice vinegar
Juice of 1 yuja fruit
Pinch sea salt
2 firm fuyu persimmons
½ cup water
½ cup rice vinegar
1 ½ teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon sugar
1 cup chopped nori
1 cup water
2 teaspoons gochujang paste
1 teaspoon soy sauce
2 tablespoons sesame oil
4 ounces sunchokes scrubbed clean
2 teaspoons sesame oil
Sea salt
4 shishito peppers
4 raw chestnuts, peeled and cleaned
4 perilla leaves
1. Make persimmon puree by scooping out the flesh of the ripe persimmon into a blender. Add the vinegar, yuja juice and salt. Puree on high to get a smooth puree.
2. Make the pickled persimmons by peeling the fuyu persimmons and slicing into thin rounds. In a pot, boil the water, vinegar, salt and sugar. Turn off the heat and pour hot liquid into a container with sliced persimmons. Cover and let cool in the refrigerator for 2 hours.
3. For the nori puree, add the nori, water, gochujang, soy sauce and sesame oil to a pot and simmer for 10 minutes. Let cool and puree in a blender on high. Add a little more water as needed to get a thick puree.
4. Pre-heat oven to 400 degrees. Cut sunchokes into large pieces. Toss with sesame oil and salt. Roast in the oven for 20 minutes or until the sunchokes are soft to the touch. Let cool at room temperature.
5. Grill the shishito peppers whole until charred. Set aside. Slice the raw chestnuts very thin. Set aside. Chiffonade the perilla leaves. Set aside.
6. To plate, add a little persimmon puree to a plate. Curl the pickled persimmon slices and add to plate. Add a little nori puree to each persimmon curl slice. Add a few pieces of the roasted sunchoke. Add 2 pieces of the grilled shishito. Add a few sliced chestnuts and finish with some of the perilla leaves. Finish with a little more sea salt and sesame oil and serve immediately.


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DigitalMaelstrom brauchte ein neues Logo Design und hat einen Wettbewerb auf 99designs gestartet.
Aus 54 Designs von 22 Designern wurde eine Gewinner gewählt.
Need a new eye pleasing logo for an Italian Restaurant.
balsamo's pizza
home of the 24 inch pizza
Desired Color Scheme:
See green in description.
Desired Style:
Accepted File Formats:
Vector Formats (.eps, .pdf or .ai); Layered Formats (.psd or .tiff)
I am the owner of Balsamo's Pizza... a pizza shop that has been in the same location for 20 years exactly now. I just bought the shop in April of 2007 and have totally redone the place. I am an amateur photographer as well and my photography hangs on one side of the pizza shop, and the other side has 2 42" lcd tvs and the walls are official Glidden Philadelphia Eagles Green with signed memorabilia hung everywhere.
The old owner had no logo whatsoever and no ambition to market his place and his product. We have the largest pizza from Philadelphia to the Jersey shore... it is a massive 24 inch 16 slice round pizza and it rocks! That is what I am centering my business as no one in my area can even compare anything to it. Not. Even. Close.
I am looking for a logo that can be from 'creative and fun' to 'crisp and classy'.
'creative and fun' because as of now we are just a pizza shop, although a high quality food place which is decorated rather nicely compared to most pizzerias, but nothing super fancy.... and we like to have fun.
'crisp and classy' because within a few years we may move into a new place and be more of a sit down restaurant (but this is a big maybe).
Existing logo is here: http://www.balsamospizza.com/logo.jpg it is something that i designed rather basically and quickly but it has served me well. This is just a reference please do not think it has to look very similar to this.
I am really open to all ideas and entries... there are only a few requirements and ideas:
Vector format (although personally I do not have a program to use it,but i do have photoshop so vector and .psd would be nice)
no capitalization ANYWHERE (except if you choose to incorporate XL in the design which is the name for the 24 inch pizza). i do not capitalize anything to do with my store as far as sings, menus, flyers, (what is going to be my website which is going to be a separate contest).
Font for name 'balsamo's pizza' MUST be century gothic, no bold or italics or underline.
Font for 'home of the 24 inch pizza' can be whatever you think matches with your design, or leave it century gothic.
The logo can be similar to the existing one meaning easily dropped onto a solid color page with no background of its own, or it can have its own background.. ie: pizza oven, pizza peel or stones or whatever you dream up.
Since i am centering my business around the XL 24 inch pizza it might be a good idea to have the pizza (as in the exisiting logo) in it whether as a background or a pic under it near it or whatever. it can be drawn, cartoonish or a real photo. It does NOT have to have the/a pizza, but i think it would suit my marketing best.
I also make my slices of pizza that i sell individually from this XL pizza. I have signs out front stating we sell the biggest slices in the known universe (which we pretty much do) so if not a pizza maybe the idea of a big slice.
COLORS right now the store has stained PINE wood paneling and i JUST got done getting my business cards (didn't think i would be doing something like this) so try and match that green somewhere in the design.
if you can incorporate the website http://www.balsamospizza.com into it the better but do not force it, if it does not look good do not include it.
I am pretty open minded and would like to see different ideas. Once this is contest is done and I choose a design I will be needing a website design so this logo will be incorporated directly into that contest.
I also ask the following:
The person who enters the contest is the legal owner of the entry.
Any imagery contained needs to be royalty free for commercial use.
Signed contract from the designer, assigning copyright to me, before issuing payment and in writing, warrants the originality of the artwork.
Any questions can be directed to email@example.com
Thanks and good designing!!
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People familiar with Shiʿi scholarship in North India will have heard of the famous polemical defence of Shiʿi theology entitled ʿAbaqāt al-anwār fī imāmat al-aʾimmat al-aṭhār or the library associated with the author and his family, the Nāṣirīya in Lucknow (presented run by Sayyid ʿAlī Nāṣir Mūsavī better known as Agha Roohi). A family of Mūsavī sayyids from Khurāsān, namely Nishāpūr, settled in Kintūr in Barabanki east of Lucknow and very much in the heart of Avadh in the 14th century (incidentally that is pretty much the same time as the main branch of my paternal ancestors Rażavī sayyids from Nishapur as well settled in the Delhi area before moving on to Allahabad and other parts of eastern UP including Ghāzīpūr). Interesting one of the descendants of this family, famous because of his own grandson, was Sayyid Aḥmad Mūsavī (d. 1869), the grandfather of Sayyid Rūḥullāh Khumaynī (d. 1989). Sayyid Aḥmad was born in Kintūr and later moved to the shrine cities of Iraq as many scholars did in around 1830 as British encroachment in Avadh increased; he later eventually settled in Khomein in 1839. On his death in 1869, his body was transferred to Karbalāʾ for burial in the shrine city.
But I want to focus to the main branch of the family. Sayyid Muḥammad Qulī son of Muḥammad Ḥusayn, known as Mīr Muḥammad Qulī (1775-1844) joined British service early on and served as a judge in Meerut. He had studied with the famous mujtahid of Lucknow Sayyid Dildār ʿAlī Naṣīrābādī (d. 1820). He was appointed to the top clerical post of ṣadr al-ṣudūr in 1837 and eventually retired to Lucknow a year before his death. A jurist in his own right, he was the author of a number of refutations of the anti-Shiʿi polemic penned by Shāh ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz (d. 1823) the Tuḥfa-yi ithnāʿasharīya including Tashyīd al-maṭāʿin li-kashf al-ḍaghāʾin, al-Sayf al-nāṣirī, Taqlīb al-makāʾid (lithographed in Calcutta, 1846), and Taṭhīr al-muʾminīn ʿan najāsat al-mushrikīn. The former has been published by the press established by the Mūsawī Jazāʾirī Shūshtarī family whose branch settled in Lucknow and were related to the Kintūrīs. The best study of Shāh ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz's polemic and Shiʿi responses remains the late Sayyid Athar ʿAbbas Rizvi's Shah ʿAbd al-ʿAziz: Puritanism, Sectarian Polemics and Jihad (Canberra: Maʿrifat Publishing House, 1982). Mīr Muḥammad Qulī was one of the first Shiʿi ʿulamāʾ to recognise the threat posed by the polemic in inciting violence against Shiʿi symbols, commemorations and also people - further evidence from the past, as we see in the present that violent language of othering, of takfīr and attacks on Shiʿi symbols ultimately leads to the killing of the Shiʿa as well.
However, his two sons became far more famous. First, Sayyid Ḥāmid Ḥusayn (1830-88), the youngest son, had studied jurisprudence and fiqh in Lucknow with Sayyid Ḥusayn son of Dildār ʿAlī Naṣīrābādī (d. 1856), philosophy with Sayyid Murtażā (d. 1860) son of Sayyid Muḥammad Sulṭān al-ʿUlamāʾ and hence a grandson of Sayyid Dildār ʿAlī, and literature and other humanities with Sayyid Muḥammad ʿAbbās Jazāʾirī Shūshtarī (d. 1889), and later went to study in the shrine cities of Iraq. He wrote Asfār al-anwār ʿan waqāʾiʿ afḍal al-asfār on his travels in Iraq, and Zayn al-wasāʾil and al-Dharāʾiʿ in fiqh. He is primarily famous for the ʿAbaqāt al-anwār which was also written in refutation of Tuḥfa-yi ithnāʿasharīya. The work consists of 12 sections dealing with 12 ḥadīth in support of the Shiʿi case and in refutation of the polemic. The first two volumes on Ghadīr lithographed at Newal Kishore in Lucknow in 1294/1877 is available here. The second volume of part five on the famous saying of the Prophet identifying ʿAlī as bāb madīnat al-ʿilm was lithographed in 1317/1898 is available here. The whole text was not completed (only 11 lithographed volumes have been published) especially there was an initial section on Qurʾanic proofs for the imamate which was never written. The contemporary scholar Sayyid ʿAlī al-Mīlānī has written both a summary and a commentary on the text. That text is available here. In search of materials for the text, Sayyid Ḥāmid Ḥusayn travelled widely and collected manuscripts - his library was inherited by his son Sayyid Nāṣir (1867-1942) and established as the Nāṣirīya library in Lucknow, was recognised as Shams al-ʿUlamāʾ by the government of India in 1916 and a major leader in Lucknow. The contemporary scholar Muḥammad Riżā Ḥakīmī wrote an intellectual biography of Ḥāmid Ḥusayn which was published in 1980.
Second, Sayyid Iʿjāz Ḥusayn was born in 1825 in Meerut where his father had been posted as a judge. He died in 1870 and was buried in Lucknow in the graveyard of Sayyid Dildār ʿAlī. Unlike his younger brother he was not known as a major theologian, although he had studied with Sulṭān al-ʿulamāʾ and his younger brother Sayyid Ḥusayn, both sons of Sayyid Dildār ʿAlī in Lucknow. However, he did write three significant works which are essential research tools on the networks of ʿulama and works available at the time. The first one is Kashf al-ḥujub wa-l-astār ʿan asmāʾ al-kutub wa-l-asfār first printed at the Asiatic Society in Calcutta in 1911. Before the publication of Āqā Buzurg Ṭihrānī's al-Dharīʿa ilā taṣānīf al-shīʿa and more modern works, this was the main source for research into Shiʿi texts especially those available in India. The second is Shudhūr al-ʿiqyān fī tarājim al-aʿyān, a major two volume biography of scholars. The third, although it is associated with him despite the text being anonymous, is Āʾīna-yi ḥaqq-numā, another account of scholarly networks based on the work of students of Sayyid Dildār ʿAlī.
Mīr Muḥammad Qulī's eldest son is probably the least known. Sayyid Sirāj Ḥusayn (1823-65) like his father worked in the British judiciary and administration and was one of the first Shiʿi ʿulamāʾ to engage with the new learning in English and translated works of science in Persian and Urdu. He was also associated with Sir Syed Ahmed Khan and encouraged by the moves to establish Aligarh (although he died before its foundation). It was his son Sayyid Karāmat Ḥusayn (1852-1917) who became a pioneer encouraging the education of girls in the next generation as one of the key responses to the shock of the loss of power and prestige with the advent of formal empire after 1857. He also served as a professor of law at Aligarh.
These are some of the key sources that one needs to draw upon for research into the intellectual history of Shiʿi Islam in India. The two volume work of Sayyid Athar ʿAbbas Rizvi still remains the standard but there is still much to do on the actual development of ideas and on networks of scholars. This is the first of a number of notes on scholarship in Avadh.
UPDATE 1/12/16: Tashyīd al-maṭāʿin has now been published and can be downloaded from here.
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Wednesday, September 14, 2011
Scholarship in a sayyid family of Avadh I: Musavī Nīshāpūrī of Kintūr
2 comments:
- S M Faiz Haider said...
I have been trying to put ulema of India on Wikipedia and in that drive I have used parts of this post in Wikipedia article for 'Syed Mir Muhammad Quli Musavi' (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syed_Mir_Muhammad_Quli_Musavi), as I didn't found copyright tag on your post. But now have found myself involved in 'copyright violation' case and one way to get out of this is that you allow the use of this content on Wikipedia.
Please respond on my request ASAP.
Your brother in Islam.
Sayed Mohammed Faiz Haider
- January 8, 2012 at 7:04 AM
- Mulla Sadra said...
yes of course - no problem with copyright on this
- January 9, 2012 at 11:07 AM
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Required reading for this blog post is the fully consolidated Lennar analysis on my site. That analysis was performed right before Lennar started selling off bulk assets at a sharp discount, which spawned this follow up analysis.
Insolvency: a financial condition experienced by a person or business entity when their assets no longer exceed their liabilities, commonly referred to as 'balance-sheet' insolvency
I am now delivering on the long ago promise to make public the granular calculations of my opinion on Lennar's (the nation's largest home builder) recent property sales to raise cash. I looked at the date the models was completed by the analysts, and yes, it has been over a month. Well, here it is. It has not been proofread yet, so forgive any typos. To begin with, I alleged Lennar was near insolvent over a month ago. Events since then have simply validated my opinion, and intensified them as well. I believe that Lennar did the right thing by selling the assets. They simply waited too long. I have heard from at least two, unrelated private equity parties who both said, unbeknownst to each other, that they have been trying to buy land from Lennar but Lennar had been unrealistic with their expectations in terms of the valuation of the property. Now they are selling at 50% discounts. This should have been done last year. The cost to their net worth will now be astronomical, and as you can see they have already stepped into the realm of insolvency. I will have the full 60 page analysis ready for dowload in a day or two, free for registered users and super free for those who have used the invite tool in the user menu to invite thier friends to visit the blog.
In the Lennar model, I backed into the valuation write down (impairment) it would take to push Lennar's fully consolidated financial statements (not the stuff they have been reporting, but the real deal with all assets and liabilities taken into consideration) into a debt to capital ratio in excess of 100%, or in other words - insolvency. The magic number is anything above 8%. At 8%, Lennar's assets no longer exceed the value of thier liabilities. This is excluding all non-recourse debt and anything that does not contractually bind the company to explicitly extend capital such as maintenance agreements, performance agreements, etc. This is telling, as you may know, since they recently sold large parcels of land and work in process at a 50% discount to reported book (that is 60% as reported in the press, less rights of first refusal and partial ownership of the new venture). This wasn't their tertiary properties (like this one in Chicago) either. Thus, any write down on much of the existing properties will probably be worse since macro conditions are worsening and a significant amount of the properties left are inferior to what they just sold. We haven't gotten very far into this story and already it doesn't look good.
I've decided to make this update as conservative as possible, so I will apply the greatest possible benefit of doubt towards Lennar's favor. For instance, the largest property sale was reported at a 60% discount. I reduced it to 50%. I will assume that that reduced discount is 100% overshot as compared to the rest of Lennar's current inventory and further reduce it by 50% to apply it as a mark to market at 25%. Now, I will redcue that even further for work in process and finished homes and assume a 15% discount on those properties since they are more liquid than raw land (eventhought the original sale included whole finished communities, work in process and raw land and still came out to a 50% off sale). So let's assume we have a weighted average of about 18% discount to current inventory book values. I feel this is extremely conservative, particularly if you read A note on mortgages, overly optimistic recovery rates and recent events... , where in California a 33% price reduction would not move a finished existing REO. Centex, Beazer, Hovnanian, et. al. are having similar issues despite some discounts considerably over 30%. Alas, let's stick with our 18% mark, and consider it the mark that will be fed into the Lennar model.
This 18% combined with the relatively heavy debt load Lennar carries put's roughly 10.2% past the level of insolvency. Now, I truly believe that the 18% mark is definitively on the low side, but it is more than enough to surpass the 8% needed to make Lennar insovent. Included in the calculations is:
An 18% FAS 144 impairment factor to bring inventory mark to makret as a result of inventory valuations available from the recent asset sales. We have provided this factor instead of a one time charge, but included both for the sake of comparison and chose the one that would have the least impact according to GAAP rules, to be as conservative as possible. I obviouslydon't feel this woud be either one time or extraordinary, hence probably belongs in FAS 144 category.
During 4Q2007, Lennar sold properties at sales price of $525 million with a net book value of approximately $1.3 billion. As a result I expect Lennar to write-down a minimum loss of $775 million in 4Q2007.
During 4Q2007, Lennar has sold 8,300 homesites to Metro Development Group and 11,000 sites to a strategic land investor. As a result, total home sites have been reduced by 31,108 to include the effects of these 2 transactions.
Thus, not only is Lennar currently insolvent, but according to Alman's Z score analysis, they are nearly assured to be heading into bankruptcy, sporting a score considerably below what it would take to consider them a bankruptcy candidate, and trending considerably lower the next 8 quarter where it will slightly improve in a lateral trend. It is unlikely that Lennar will be able to survive like this for such an extended period. I need to check to see if my team has discovered any tripped covenenats, but chances are they either are tripped or will be tripped within a year.
From a purely fundamental perspective, it is easy to see how Lennar got to this point. Let's browse through the numbers and compare to the macro backdrop.
As you can see, there earning have deteriorated horribly. Lennar' earnings are a function of their margins, which are highly correlated with housing values. That shouldn't be the case since they can pass lower and higher costs off to thier customers. The problem is that Lennar funds acquisistions with debt, and the processed is lagged. So, when the market is rising, Lennar benefits wth cheap inventory and productive leverage. When the market is falling, they have overpriced inventory that won't move, negative margins and the leverage strangles them. This relationship leaves Lennar (as well as other builders, this is not a Lennar specfic phenomenon) with a extremely sensitive and leveraged connection with landvalues as you can see in the chart below.
The chart below is a dated example of my housing value forecasts. I was more pessimistic than most pundits in terms of the severity of the housing downturn, and it appears that even I undershot the mark. Although I feel that these projections may not be accurate in terms of being slightly optimistic, they still can easily illustrate a trend for the purposes of showing the predicament of Lennar. Using the sensitivty of Lennar's share price comparison above with the value forecasts below, you can guess where the market will push Lennar's share prices. This is not taking into consideration thier insolvency.
These are the comparative Census regions to assist in making the following chart on gross margins more coherent.
Now, knowing that thier margins are highly sensitive to housing value fluctuations, where do you think those are going, and what effect do you think that will have on Lennar's solvency?
Even if we exclude the impairments (which drive everything deeply into the negative), Lennar's operating margins are heavily negative in almost all operating areas.
Revenues look no better.
Which brings us round robin back to the issue of Lennar's solvency.
Now, Lennar and the homebuilders in general have become a trading commodity, and thus their share prices don't necessarily directly reflect the fundamentals on a day to day basis. In the case of Lennar, I have felt that this has offered me an oppurtunity, since I believe this company is truly done for. Even if they raise significant cash by selling off assets, if they sell them off for anywhere near what the most recent market transactions have priced them at, they will still be balance sheet insolvent. I am betting that their creditors don't perform the level of analysis that I do, and as long as they are not reading this blog now, they will not be pulling credit right now. Since these have become trading commodities and traders look at price and not value, I ignore daily price fluctuations except as oppurtunities to increase a bearish standpoint. But those who fancy themselves fundamental investors and trying to go long are most likely doing so by attempting to measure book value and trying to find a bottom. Bottom fishing is gambling and not worth the risk in my opinion. In the case of Lennar, the bottom is either bankruptcy and/or liquidation. Like I said, a dangerous gambit - there are easier ways to make money.
The bottom fishing value guys look at Lennar, and probably see this:
They then say, "Hey, anything below $14 is a B-U-Y!" Unfortunatey, they don't see what's below if they are not careful. I am all for value investing and buying on the cheap. It is just that sometimes, you get what you pay for!


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So much is new this spring for Prince Fielder.
The All-Star slugger took the field for the first time with the Texas Rangers on Wednesday, the day before the first official full-squad workout.
Fielder says he had a nice, easy day meeting his new teammates after reporting to camp. They were on the field for more than an hour, taking grounders and then some batting practice.
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My Brilliant Publicity Schedule
It's a big couple of months for my books. Here's what they're up to:
USA & Canada
The paperback is out March 13, and I tour two weeks later. The early word is that I'm headed to Los Angeles, Denver, Milwaukee, Madison, Chicago, Austin, Phoenix, and San Francisco. So the result of that polite discussion seems to be that Phoenix beat out Dallas, Milwaukee supplanted Boston, and LA and Madison combined to defeat Ann Arbor. I'm not saying that necessarily reflects on the inherent worth of those places. But you could certainly read it that way.
The dates and places should be confirmed shortly, and I'll post 'em here.
Also in the US & Canada, an audio version of Syrup has been released. I wonder if that's some kind of record, a publisher coming out with an audio version nearly eight years after the book. No, probably not. In fact it wouldn't even be close. I don't know why I brought that up.
Australia & New Zealand
I've spent most of the last year moaning about my publishing troubles in Australia. Because it really grates on me that in my home country I am near-completely unknown, while in the US I am near-completely unknown, but not quite so much. This has nothing to do with wanting recognition for my artistic achievements, you understand. It's about impressing chicks. But now I have a publisher, Scribe, and they've been crazy busy organizing publicity ahead of the March 5th publication. Seriously, you want your publisher to be enthusiastic, but this is almost beyond that. Just today, they've sent me… let me check… eleven emails. I have conversations with them that go like this:
Scribe: "Wow. Company. It's such a great book."
Me: "Thanks."
Scribe: "I mean, seriously. I own ten copies. Not for publicity purposes. For myself."
Me: "Oh, that's… keen."
Scribe: "Sometimes at night, I take off all my clothes and rub myself with the pages."
Well it wouldn't surprise me. Anyway, the result is I'm doing a lot of Aussie media and book readings and festivals. Here's what I have details for so far: the Como Writers Festival in Melbourne on the 17th and 18th of February, a Sydney book reading hosted by supercool comedian Wil Anderson on Friday March 16, the Sydney Writers Festival in May, and the Melbourne Writers Festival in August.
The Netherlands
The Dutch Company paperback is out in March, and the publisher has produced this incredibly slick Zephyr Holdings website. It's got desktop wallpapers and email-your-friends cartoons and everything. I have no idea what they're about, because they're in Dutch. But I bet they're frickin' hilarious.
Unfortunately I suspect that this means Company needs to sell about a million copies or Uniboek will collapse under the weight of its outlandish web design expenditure. But fingers crossed.
They also seem to be re-publishing Jennifer Government under the title Logoland, and synchronizing the cover with Company's. I love synchronized covers. They make me feel collectible.
United Kingdom
Still bugger all. Sorry.


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Labyrinth and U-Store open on Nassau St., plan celebrations
Labyrinth Books will open its doors this month on Nassau Street, where it will serve the University's bookstore needs, while the Princeton University Store will complete its transition to expanded insignia and apparel operations by opening its own new location on Nassau Street.
Labyrinth plans to open by Wednesday, Nov. 14, at 122 Nassau St., and the U-Store is scheduled to open Thursday, Nov. 15, at 116 Nassau St. Both stores are planning grand opening celebrations to introduce their offerings to the community -- scheduled for Wednesday, Nov. 28, at the U-Store and Thursday, Dec. 6, at Labyrinth.
"The addition of these two quality independent retail establishments to Nassau Street will benefit both the University and the greater Princeton community by providing an array of merchandise and services, not only to faculty, students and staff, but to visitors to Princeton and the residents who live here," said Paul Breitman, the general manager of University Services who has worked closely with both businesses on their transition.
The opening of both storefronts is the result of a close collaboration with the University following a decision announced in December 2006 by the owners of Micawber Books to close and sell their location to the University. Labyrinth, an independent bookseller, owned and operated a store serving Columbia University in New York from 1997 until the store changed ownership in 2007, and it currently has another location at Yale University in New Haven, Conn. The Princeton store will be Labyrinth's largest at 10,000 square feet.
According to the store's owners, the opening of a new independent bookstore of this size and with this depth of inventory -- at a time when independent bookstores are closing in university towns and across the country -- is an important counter-trend.
"Princeton University recognizes the role of a bookstore as a space where knowledge is celebrated, and where town and gown can intersect," said Cliff Simms, who owns and operates the store with co-owners Dorothea von Moltke and Peter Simms. "Princeton University has taken the changing bookselling landscape in town as an opportunity … to help ensure that there will still be an independent, community bookstore on Nassau Street and that it can meet the University's own book-related needs, including course books, as effectively and economically as possible."
The timing of Labyrinth's opening will give faculty teaching classes in the spring term an opportunity to use the bookstore's multi-pronged system to order course books and have them stocked before the semester begins. Faculty will be informed via e-mail of the options for ordering books, with an online ordering website serving as the primary tool, in addition to desk copy assistance and foreign language book ordering.
Labyrinth is asking instructors to submit book orders by Dec. 5 to help the store have books available before students leave campus for the break at the end of the fall semester.
Before the end of the fall term, students will receive notices outlining Labyrinth's distinctive method of providing texts to customers. This consists of a system through which students provide staff with course or professor information and receive the books directly from store staff.
The store owners say the hands-on system ensures that students are served personally, receive their assigned books quickly and leave with information they need about books that are not yet available.
The grand opening at 4:30 p.m. Dec. 6 will offer an opportunity to members of the campus and surrounding communities to explore Labyrinth's diverse inventory of 80,000 titles, to meet its booksellers, and to learn about its extensive events programming.
"The project at Princeton," von Moltke said, "is to put down roots in the community so that the store can grow to be a site for an ongoing exchange of ideas, trying at all times to reach across intellectual as well as social divides."
While returning to Nassau Street for the first time since operating a music shop in the current Chase Bank location in the 1930s, the U-Store has served the campus and the community for more than 100 years. It began as a student enterprise in 1890 and later incorporated as a campus cooperative in 1905.
The store's new 6,500-square-foot location will boast the world's largest selection of apparel and gifts bearing the Princeton insignia for students, alumni, visitors and the general community.
The store's primary location at 36 University Place -- its home since the late 1950s -- will discontinue the textbook services being assumed by Labyrinth, while continuing to offer dorm supplies, convenience and prepared foods available 24 hours, stationery and educational learning supplies, small electronics, health and beauty products, and a full-service Clinique cosmetics counter. The Princeton Pharmacy and Pequod Printing also will continue to operate at the store.
"The University and the town merchants have been very supportive of our change in direction, and it has generated much excitement," said James Sykes, president of the U-Store. "We believe this new opportunity, a storefront on the town's main thoroughfare, will better position us to directly serve the needs of the students and the community while adding to the lively retail mix on Nassau Street."
The space previously occupied by textbook sales and insignia and apparel operations at the University Place location is slated to house four of the University's administrative support groups for students: Career Services, the Study Abroad Program, Health Professions Advising and the Community Based Learning Initiative.
Schematic designs are being completed of the store's second and third floors and upper mezzanine to prepare the space for the administrative offices to move in during the 2008 calendar year.
The Nov. 28 grand opening celebration for the U-Store's Nassau Street location will begin at 3 p.m.


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PLEASANTON, CA -- Charter Properties, a Pleasanton, CA-based developer, and Leisure Sports Inc., owner and operator of ClubSport fitness resorts, will partner to build a 50,000-square-foot lifestyle fitness resort in Dublin, CA, the companies announced.
The upscale club will be located in The Promenade, situated within the 1,500-acre master planned community of Dublin Ranch. The Promenade is surrounded by medium-high and high-density residential neighborhoods. The 110,000-square-foot Charter Properties and Leisure Sports mixed-use project will include the fitness club plus retail and office space on the pedestrian-friendly main street of The Promenade.
The fitness club will feature upscale amenities and services, including eight dedicated studios for group exercise, yoga, Pilates and cycling. Personal training, wellness and nutrition counseling will be an integral part of the fitness services offered. A resort-style pool, plush locker rooms, a day spa with nine treatment rooms and a café with healthy menu options will also be included.
Leisure Sports will own and operate the facility, which has yet to be named. The new club will be a sister club of ClubSport Pleasanton, which has been in operation for 25 years.
All components of the project are currently in the design stage. Development plans will be submitted shortly to the City of Dublin. Construction is slated to begin in late 2008, and opening is expected in 2009.


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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) The Indianapolis Colts keep doing unthinkable things.
They're winning close games with a rookie quarterback and one of the league's youngest teams. They're winning with an interim head coach, and now, they're on the verge of making it back to the playoffs without Peyton Manning.
And it's all thanks to a new cast of comeback kids.
``You know you have a chance until the last tick goes off the clock with those guys -as long as you can keep it within a manageable striking distance,'' coach Bruce Arians said Monday describing his experiences with three quarterbacks he's coached: Andrew Luck, Manning and Ben Roethlisberger.
Manning and Roethlisberger have the Super Bowl rings to prove it.
Luck doesn't have his ring yet, but his resume is getting stronger each week.
He's led the Colts to last-minute winning drives against Green Bay and Minnesota, an overtime win at Tennessee and, on Sunday, delivered another masterpiece with two TD passes in the final 2:39 to rally Indy from a 33-21 deficit to a stunning 35-33 win at Detroit as time expired. It was Indy's first winning score with no time left since 1990, yet another chapter in Luck's uncanny rookie season.
The two-time Heisman Trophy runner-up has already broken Cam Newton's single-game record for yards passing by a rookie; broken Manning's record for most 300-yard games as a rookie (six); and has won more games (eight) than any quarterback taken No. 1 overall since the 1970 merger. He's still on pace to break the league's single-season rookie marks for attempts, completions and yardage, and when Luck has needed big passes in clutch situations, he's been almost unstoppable.
In one key measure, games decided by eight or fewer points, Luck is a gaudy 7-1. The only loss came on an improbable an 80-yard TD pass with less than a minute to go after Luck had given Indy the lead with another last-minute score. Compare those numbers to Manning, who won eight one-possession games at four different times during his 14 seasons with Indy, and had a career-high nine only once, in 1999.
Luck's latest chapter came in Manning-like fashion Sunday when the 6-foot-4, 234-pound quarterback threw a perfect 42-yard strike to LaVon Brazill despite having a defender wrapped around his legs. That score got the Colts within 33-28.
After a desperately needed defensive stop, Luck went back to work with 1:07 on the clock and no timeouts.
He started the drive with a 9-yard run, then dropped a perfect lob into Reggie Wayne's hands for 26 yards with 52 seconds left. After a spike, Luck sprinted around Ndamukong Suh and stepped out of bounds for a 16-yard gain. He followed that with a 10-yard completion to Dwayne Allen that gave Indy four chances at the end zone from the 14 with 24 seconds left. Luck's first three passes all fell incomplete, but on the final play, a scrambling Luck spotted the open Donnie Avery short of the goal line, flicked the ball to him and nearly outran Avery into the end zone as time expired.
``They don't know no better, don't know any better, man,'' Wayne said after the game. ``They just know to just keep playing, at the end of the game, just see the way we fall out. That's a credit just to the coaches. Just keeping the guys into it, keeping them to play toward the end and guys just go out there and keep fighting and fighting till it's all over.''
It also explains why the Colts are closing in on an improbable playoff trip.
If Indy beats Tennessee (4-8) at home Sunday, all the Colts would need to clinch a postseason spot is one more win and a conference loss by either Cincinnati (6-5) or Pittsburgh (6-5). Since the franchise moved to Indy in 1984, the Colts have made the playoffs just three times without Manning.
But with only two teams outside of the AFC's four division leaders having fewer than seven losses, and because Indy hasn't played either the Bengals or Steelers, the tiebreaker would be based on AFC record. With two wins in their last four games, the Colts would be 10-6 overall and 7-5 against the AFC. Cincinnati and Pittsburgh, who play Dec. 23 in Pittsburgh, already have five losses each against AFC foes.
Indy closes the season by hosting Tennessee, visiting Houston and Kansas City before facing the Texans in a Dec. 30 rematch at Lucas Oil Stadium - a game the Colts have pegged as the possible return for head coach Chuck Pagano.
Arians, who took over for Pagano after he was diagnosed with leukemia Sept. 26, has gone 7-2. Only three coaches in league history have won more games after a midseason coaching change: San Diego's Don Coryell (8-4 in 1978), Wally Lemm (9-0 in 1961) with the Houston Oilers in the AFL, and Hamp Pool (9-2 in 1952) with the Los Angeles Rams.
But Arians isn't looking at records, closing flurries or the playoffs. He wants the Colts to focus on what they did do best - succeeding when nobody else expects it.
``There's some really good football teams behind us and we just have to take care of our own business, and we will worry about all that (later) because a lot of the teams will play each other in these last few weeks,'' Arians said when asked about looking at possible playoff scenarios. ``There's plenty of time to worry about it.''
Notes: Arians said Pagano was expected to complete his third and final round of chemotherapy Tuesday and he could be back at Lucas Oil Stadium on Sunday, though Arians said it would be ``tough'' because this is when Pagano's white blood-cell count is expected to drop. ... Indy's players got a second straight Monday off, their reward for winning on Sunday. ... Arians did not update the injury status of starting offensive linemen Winston Justice or Joe Reitz, who both left Sunday's game with possible concussions. ... Arians did, however, give his own injury update after taking a hard fall when Lions safety Don Carey ran into him following an interception. ``Just a little stiff, a little stiff,'' Arians said. ``But I'm OK. I can take their best shot.''
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Fresh off a strong showing at the UVa Fall Classic, the Liberty men's tennis team returns to the court this weekend with an appearance in the Wake Forest Fall Invite in Winston-Salem, N.C. The tournament gets under way tomorrow morning at the Wake Forest Tennis Complex and will conclude on Sunday.
Liberty is one of 17 schools who will be sending players to the tournament, including contestants from five nationally ranked schools. Also joining the Flames will be Wake Forest, Charlotte, UNCG, Penn State, Davidson, Norfolk State, UNCW, Duke, Furman, Stetson, South Carolina State, Iowa, NC State, East Carolina, Lenoir-Rhyne and Elon.
A quartet of doubles tandems will open play for the Flames at 9 a.m. tomorrow morning. In the A Flight, Shea Thomas and Jorge Azuero challenge Wake Forest's Anthony Delcore and Pedro Dumont. Thomas and Azuero will be looking for their second doubles flight title in a row, after capturing the Blue bracket championship this past weekend in Charlottesville.
Dillon Segur and Stan Vaughan face Joel Cook and Luke Synn of Furman in the B Bracket, while Egon Samaai and Alejandro Llamas are pitted against Davidson's Ricky Saad and Evan Watkins in the C Flight. In the final doubles draw, Guillem Secanell and Carson Greve challenge Alex Calott and Carl Solik of Charlotte.
Liberty has eight players slated to compete in singles action. Greve is the Flames' earliest participant, squaring off against Watkins at 10 a.m. in the D1 Flight.
Thomas faces Norfolk State's Dimitry Zyhmantovich in the top singles flight, beginning at 11 a.m. After posting a 3-1 record and finishing third in the difficult top draw at the UVa Fall Classic, Thomas has a 6-4 singles mark so far during the fall season.
Secanell follows shortly after Thomas, playing UNCG's Nazhone Wilkins at 11:15 a.m. in the D2 Bracket. An hour later at 12:15 p.m., Segur challenges top-seeded Sam Bloom of Wake Forest in the B1 Flight.
Llamas and Vaughan both will play at 1:30 p.m. in the C1 Bracket. Vaughan, who is tied with Thomas and Azuero for the team lead in singles victories this fall with six, goes up against Furman's Juan Sheppard, while Llamas plays Paul Cisti of Charlotte.
Azuero will look to carry the momentum of his singles title at the UVa Fall Classic into his opening singles match versus Igor Braga of Norfolk State at 12:30 p.m. in the C2 Flight. Also competing in the C2 Bracket at 12:30 p.m. will be Samaai. The sophomore faces Iowa's Andres Estenssoro.
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Payscale.com analyzed the data in its online salary database and has revealed the college degrees that go along with the jobs that have the lowest median pay for their respective career professionals in its 2012-13 College Salary Report. Note - these figures represent the typical annual combination of pay, bonuses, commissions and profit sharing earned by people who have been successful in working in these fields for at least 10 years and were willing to participate in Payscale.com's survey, which means the reported median incomes will likely be inflated above each field's actual median incomes....
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"According to our research, people in these majors typically believe their work makes the world a better place," says PayScale's lead analyst Katie Bardaro.
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Say what you will about the careers that go with the degrees above, but at least many of the people who pursue these degrees might actually get jobs in their fields of study, if only low paying ones. Kiplinger's Caitlin Dewey takes things several steps further and identifies the college degrees in Payscale.com's database that combine low pay with high rates of unemployment for their graduates!
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Real Housewives of Beverly Hills most notorious houseguest Cedric Martinez refuses to give up the limelight or let go of Lisa Vanderpump's coattails! Speaking exclusively to Wetpaint Entertainment, Cedric accuses Lisa and her husband Ken Tood of inflicting major damage to his life!
"Ken stabbed me in the back and Lisa twisted the knife, but they didn't kill me," he laments. "It was a rough year, but I've landed on my feet." And things are going well for the former moocher – he now has a job he loves, his own place, and a tell-all memoir in the works.
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Since dating and subsequently marrying Eddie Cibiran, LeAnn has undergone a drastic weight loss, gotten breast implants, and started mimicking some of Brandi's Twitter pics with those of her own (I'm sure you all remember the identical bikini poses!). LeAnn has even faced criticism for her weightloss from E! host Giuliana Rancic!
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Dana also talked about how friend and co-star Taylor Armstrong is coping in response to the recent tragedy in her life. Dana admits: "She's rebuilding. [She] will never be the same person again."
She also confronts the rumor that Taylor may be dating Most Eligible Dallas star Matt Nordgren after numerous reports have spotted them together. "They're just 'silly stories,'" Dana insists!
A new episode of RHOBH airs tonight! The ninth episode titled 'Otherwise Engaged' Mohammed throws Pandora an over the top circus-themed engagement party, featuring camels, circus performers and snakes. But no Kim! Kim is a no-show since she is hiding her boyfriend, who according to IMDB, she has been dating for two-years! And Kyle has a tense dinner with Taylor and Russell who threaten legal action against Lisa for supposedly planting stories about them in the tabloids!
The new episode airs on Bravo at 9/8c and a preview clip is below! On tonight's WWHL Halloween Spectacular the guests are Chris March, Gail Simmons, and Real Housewives of Atlanta's Phaedra Parks and Apollo Nida. I so can't wait!


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Lawmakers outraged over Iran U.N. choice, seek change in law
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(Reuters) - Hardline U.S. lawmakers said on Tuesday they were concerned about Iran's selection of a U.N. envoy linked to the 1979-1981 hostage crisis, and called on the Obama administration to do what it can to prevent him from taking up the post in New York.
"That really has got to be a serious question, as to whether or not the State Department gives ... a visa to him," Democratic Senator Robert Menendez, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, told Reuters.
President Hassan Rouhani has chosen Hamid Abutalebi, a veteran diplomat seen as a moderate, to be Iran's new ambassador to the United Nations.
People who know Abutalebi said he was part of the Muslim Student Followers of the Imam's Line, which occupied the U.S. Embassy in Tehran in November 1979, although not among the core group of student activists inside the embassy who captured and held the hostages.
Reports of his ties to the crisis infuriated lawmakers, many of them hardliners who said they reinforced doubts about prospects for negotiations between Iran and world powers over Tehran's disputed nuclear program.
"We shouldn't accept him. We should change our rules or laws if we have to so that somebody who is guilty of that kind of behavior should not be allowed in the United States of America," said Arizona Republican Senator John McCain, a frequent critic of President Barack Obama's foreign policy.
Lawyers for former U.S. embassy workers held in Iran for 444 days said on Monday the ex-hostages were angry about Abutalebi's nomination and wanted him barred from New York.
Republican Texas Senator Ted Cruz introduced legislation that would change U.S. law to allow the country to bar someone who had "committed overt acts of war against the United States" from entering the country.
"This nomination is willfully, deliberately insulting and contemptuous," Cruz said in a speech in the Senate chamber.
The United States, which severed diplomatic ties with Iran during the hostage crisis, is required to allow U.N. diplomats to come to New York under its host country agreement. It does, however, reserve the right to refuse visas to those seeking to work as diplomats at the world body's headquarters in New York.
Since Rouhani took office in August, Washington and Tehran have taken tentative steps toward improving relations, above all through high-level bilateral negotiations on the sidelines of talks on Iran's nuclear program between Tehran and major world powers. Obama and Rouhani spoke by telephone in September.
Many of the lawmakers who spoke out over Abutalebi are among those most skeptical about prospects for any fruitful negotiations with Iran.
Illinois Republican Senator Mark Kirk said he thought the administration should bar Abutalebi and that he would lobby other senators to back him.
Kirk co-sponsored a bill with Menendez seeking to impose tougher sanctions against Iran during the negotiations, despite the Obama administration's insistence that such legislation could prompt Tehran, and other negotiating countries, to walk away from the talks
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A s I've said before, "Sexual preference should have nothing to do with measuring a person's ability to perform a job in the workplace." And, yes, this has to do with the mayor's race in the City of Jasper. These are beliefs I try to apply no matter where circumstances raise the question.
While I obviously no longer live in Jasper and some might feel I have no business with an opinion about the mayoral contest there. I invested 16 years of love and sweat equity in a town I continue to love and care about, not to mention the issues of fairness and equal opportunity. I would argue that most of the free world has a stake in this election.
I am privileged to know, and to call friend, both men seeking election in that mayoral race — current mayor Mike Lout and challenger Max Griffin. The issue uppermost in the minds of half the free world today, thanks to extensive publicity, is Max's sexual preference.
I know Mike extremely well. We were competitors and good friends. We're still good friends and will remain so. No one cares more about Jasper than Mike.
I don't know Max as well, even though his then-wife, Anita Buckmaster Griffin, worked for me at The Jasper Newsboy. Max worked out of town. I know many of the Buckmaster family. Anita's brother, Billy Buckmaster, is a former coach, teacher and administrator in the Jasper Schools.
The Griffin family is prominent and well known in town and the Griffin name is strongly associated with one of the major banks there.
Max is an airline pilot, who has extensive experience managing large numbers of people for that airline.
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And, yes, it is about defending the right for someone to do something that, as individuals, we may not approve. I say it is our absolute responsibility to defend those rights at whatever cost, because that's how these freedoms for all of us were paid for in the first place.
Fair-minded individuals might have a hard time deciding for whom to vote.
That is certainly a great reflection on both candidates because they're both well qualified. Each loves Jasper and cares about the well being of the city and its residents.
If people wish to be harsh in their view of each candidate, those who have strong faith-based beliefs about the rite of marriage can certainly take issue with the incumbent as well. He and Debbie "The Widow" (Mike's appendage for her) Foster have been together for many years and, though they each have long maintained separate residences, they would not intentionally mislead anyone about the extent of their relationship and any level of cohabitation.
Their relationship and arrangements are their business. It's personal. I also happen to know the commitment is deep.
While I know Max, I don't know if there is a partner and co-habitation or not. Knowing Max, though, if there is a partner, I feel sure his commitment is equally as deep.
Frankly, it's none of my business, in the case of either candidate.
Nor anyone else's.
If you're going to judge them as mayoral candidates, do so on the very impressive qualifications and experience each has to fill that office. Not on their personal life choices. Then cast your vote.
Good luck to both candidates and to the voters and residents of Jasper.
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Washington becomes state number 22 in Ocean Doctor's 50 Years – 50 States – 50 Speeches Expedition with a visit to the South Shore K-8 School in Seattle! The Expedition s a journey of outreach, education, and discovery announced by Dr. David E. Guggenheim on his 50th birthday to bring at no charge speeches and multimedia education programs about the oceans to schools in all 50 U.S. states and 5 inhabited U.S. territories. By its culmination, the expedition will reach more than 100 schools and tens of thousands of students, with whom the "Ocean Doctor" is sharing firsthand accounts and important lessons about the oceans and their conservation. The expedition is also promoting renewed interest in science and science careers among the students visited. Finally, the expedition is collecting thousands of messages from the students to be delivered to leaders in Washington, DC at the conclusion of the journey.
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Single tripod leg extension.
The light magnesium mounting head serves as module basis for 10 different inserts. The module insert can be changed at all times using a special wrench (included in the delivery of the changing module). The fixation in the cone ensures a positive-locking, clearance-free connection of the components.
Thanks to the stop system, it is possible to set angles of spread at approx. 20°, 40°, 60°, 80° and 100° by means of a wing catch. The stop system is designed in such a way that the specified loads of the tripods are also guaranteed at a maximum inclination of the tripod legs.
- 重量: 2,20 kg = 4.85 lbs.
- 收缩高度: 58 cm = 23 inches
- 最低高度: 18 cm = 7 inches
- 最高高度: 89 cm = 35 inches
- 载重: 18,00 kg = 39.68 lbs.
- 抗震性: 非常好
货号: 12360/75
Availability: in stock
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Goldman: Most Pro Stock Pickers Lagged in 2012
Nearly 2/3 of US stock fund managers lagged their benchmarks last year, partly because of jolting changes in which sectors led the market during 2012, Goldman Sachs says.
Kudos to the investors who fled US stock mutual funds last year–roughly a net $150 billion left such products in 2012, according to an analysis of ICI figures. Meanwhile during the 12 months through November, the amount of assets in broad-based US stock ETFs increased by $99.09 billion, according to ICI data.
Those who left actively managed funds for passive index products look pretty smart, as the S&P 500 jumped 13% in 2012.
Goldman also notes 88% of hedge funds were lagging the S&P 500 as of mid-December. At that time, the average hedge fund was up 8.1% for the year.