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The Student Loan Bubble
by Jim Walsh | Posted July 20, 2012
The left-leaning web site ProPublica specializes in long-form journalism — labor-intensive, 3,000-plus-word articles dedicated to serious treatments of big subjects. Think of the long pieces that appeared in The New Yorker during the 1970s and early 1980s and you get the idea. While I find ProPublica's reflexive and unexamined bias in favor of statist schemes irritating, I do read its articles. They are usually earnest and sometimes worthy efforts.
Lately, a ProPublica article about a semiliterate gardener's struggles to manage his dead son's unpaid college loans got some traction in the mainstream media. (While I don't understand ProPublica's business model completely, it seems to involve licensing its long stories to other news organizations.)
This gardener's woes fit neatly into the mainstream media's narrative that student loans are an evil, evil thing about which Good King Barack needs to do something. And, by "do something," moronic opinion-shapers mean without saying: subsidize borrowers' bad choices with capital redistributed from taxpayers.
This proposition is wrong on many levels. It also reflects faulty assumptions and bits of specious logic that are worth some examination — because they explain many of the problems that plague America today.
First, a quick review of ProPublica's telling of the gardener's tale.
Francisco Reynoso lives in Palmdale, California — a dusty far suburb, north of Los Angeles. He doesn't speak much English (though he is a naturalized citizen) and earns about $20,000 a year from his labors. While the story doesn't offer many details about Reynoso's work, in southern California "gardener" is often a euphemistic way to describe a causal day laborer — the kind of guys you see milling around Home Depots and such outlets, looking for work.
On this meager income, Reynoso supports his wife and daughter. He used to support a son, too. But, in a tragic turn, that son — Freddy — died in a one-car accident in September 2008.
Freddy had recently graduated from Berklee College of Music, a school in Boston that combines elements of a conservatory with the rigors of a traditional four-year college.
It was a bit strange that a gardener's son had matriculated to a place like Berklee. It's no community college . . . or even a state university. Rather, its reputation has long been as a pricey second-tier Julliard. The school's comprehensive fee is nearly $50,000 each academic year.
A lazy person might describe Freddy's enrollment at Berklee as a version of "the American Dream." The son of a laborer enters a world traditionally reserved for the elite, etc. But it sounds like Freddy never really entered that world. In 2005, after he'd been admitted to Berklee, the young man needed to borrow significantly to enroll. Reynoso cosigned on a series of student loans that allowed Freddy to attend. By 2008, when Freddy was finished at Berklee, he moved back to Palmdale and was driving into Los Angeles most days. Trying to find work. According to his family, Freddy was driving back from the city on the night that he ran off the highway, rolled the car, and died.
As a father, perhaps Reynoso should have told Freddy that borrowing hundreds of thousands of dollars to get a degree in music was a bad financial decision.
The principal amount of the money Freddy and his father had borrowed was nearly $170,000. With interest and fees added, the amount they'd have to repay would be closer to $300,000. The lenders didn't mind much that Reynoso didn't have the means to repay those amounts because, as we'll see in more detail later, various government subsidies that support the student-loan market make rigorous underwriting unnecessary.
So, lenders lend. But why do borrowers borrow? Why did a gardener making little more than minimum wage agree to guarantee so much in college loans? His answer: "As a father, you'll do anything for your child."
It may not seem sporting to criticize a simple man's devotion to his son . . . but what if that devotion is ignorant and misguided? According to a survey of music industry salaries produced by Berklee itself (and based — tellingly — in the "Parent Questions" section of its web site), most of the jobs its graduates pursue offer starting pay of less than $25,000 a year. That's not enough income to support the debt service on nearly $200,000 in student loans.
As a father, perhaps Reynoso should have told Freddy that borrowing hundreds of thousands of dollars to get a degree in music was a bad financial decision. Some people are poor because they make bad financial choices. An unintended consequence of government programs that give material support to such poor people is that they're free to make more bad choices. In the hands of Francisco Reynoso, Freddy's government-subsidized student loans were a loaded gun . . . or a hangman's rope.
A few months after Freddy's fatal accident, collectors started calling Reynoso to demand payment on the student loans for which he'd cosigned.
The loans that allowed Freddy to attend Berklee fell into several categories — as they do for most borrowing students. There were some direct government loans, which carry the lowest interest rates and most favorable terms for the borrower. In most situations, they don't require parents to cosign. But there are limits to the amounts available on these favorable terms; in most cases, a student can only get a few thousand dollars each academic year in this "cheap" money.
After that, a borrowing student needs to go to so-called "private" lenders. These are banks and specialized finance companies that offer loans with higher interest rates and less-favorable terms for borrowers. But the "private" loans are still subsidized heavily by the government and share unique traits with the direct government loans — most importantly, the loans cannot be discharged in bankruptcy.
(A personal aside: When my oldest child was getting ready to leave for college, we reviewed her finances and found we were a little short on the cash she would need for her comprehensive fee. She shook off the shortfall as no big deal; the college was happy to help her apply for student loans. I advised her only to borrow as much as was available in direct government loans and to avoid the higher-interest private loans at all costs. She rightly noted this advice was ironic, coming from someone who advocates against such government programs; but she heeded the irony and will graduate next year with a nominal amount of relatively cheap debt to repay.)
This is the major reason why the "private" student-loan lenders don't bother with rigorous underwriting. Since the loans can't be discharged in bankruptcy, the lenders or their agents can hound borrowers and cosigners for repayment endlessly.
In Freddy's case, he borrowed about $8,000 in private money from Bank of America and about $160,000 from a company called Education Finance Partners. Neither lender kept the loans for long; as is typical in the market, the "loan originators" sold Freddy's paper to other firms that focus on servicing debt or bundling it with other student loans and "securitizing" those bundles.
According to ProPublica, Bank of America sold the loan it made to Freddy to a student-loan financing specialist called First Marblehead Corp.; Education Finance Partners, which has since declared bankruptcy, sold the loans it made to Freddy to a unit of the Swiss banking giant UBS.
The loans purchased by UBS may have been sold, in turn, to the Swiss National Bank (analogous to the U.S. Federal Reserve) when the National Bank made a Fed-style bailout of UBS in 2009. Details are sketchy because of Swiss privacy laws.
So, if the ownership of the debt was unclear, who were the collectors calling Reynoso for repayment? A separate company, called ACS Education Services, which owns some student debt and contracts with other lenders to manage and collect on their loans for a fee. ACS is a unit of Xerox Corp. and one of the bigger players in the student-loan servicing market.
But Freddy was dead — and one might think that that fact would have an effect on the lenders' collection efforts. Some student loan companies have a policy of canceling loan balances when a borrower dies. (Direct student loans from the government are generally cancelled if the borrower dies.) But, since Reynoso had cosigned for his son's "private" loans, the lenders have the legal right to pursue payment from him.
A fundamental fraud lies beneath all this do-gooder claptrap. And that fraud may eventually destroy the foundations of many schools.
It's easy — and emotionally satisfying, perhaps — to focus outrage at lenders like Bank of America and Education Finance Partners, or behind-the-scenes operators like First Marblehead or ACS Education Services. The establishment Left and media outlets like ProPublica certainly focus on them.
But these lenders and finance outfits are really just service providers, working the levers of government to find ways to make a few points here or there while helping to facilitate state-sponsored transactions.
The core transaction in the ProPublica story was between Freddy Reynoso and the Berklee College of Music. Freddy was pursuing a dream of being a professional musician and Berklee was selling an expensive credential that might help in that pursuit.
Freddy died. But Berklee is doing well. It has an endowment of nearly $200 million and is in the midst of an ambitious expansion of its campus — which at present comprises of some 21 buildings in the Back Bay area of Boston. The College's website described the opening of one new building in this way:
Adorned with bright colors, the unique and hip space has an industrial feel, in step with Berklee's cutting-edge sensibility. The building also houses the Berklee Writing Center, Berklee's English as a Second Language Program, an Africana Studies Room, conference and seminar rooms, and a café.
More hip space in the Back Bay is in development. And Berklee has recently opened a satellite campus in Valencia, Spain.
According to a September 2011 report from the Center for Social Philanthropy and the Tellus Institute, Berklee President Roger H. Brown makes more than $550,000 a year. And five other senior administrators make more than $300,000 a year. It's good money — although, by elite college standards, it's not that much.
President Brown's official biography recounts sanctimoniously the work that he's done in places like Thailand and the Sudan for various humanitarian outfits (some connected with United Nations). It boasts about the big child-daycare company he started with his wife, but it doesn't mention the years he spent working for Bain & Co.
I'm sure Mitt Romney will understand.
Of course, the bio focuses on the efforts Brown has made to move Berklee closer to the first-tier of private colleges:
In 2007, Brown launched the college's first capital campaign with a goal of raising $50 million. He has initiated Berklee's Presidential Scholars and Africa Scholars programs that provide full-ride scholarships to give top musicians around the globe a Berklee education. He has overseen the expansion of the City Music Program beyond Boston in an effort to provide educational opportunities for talented but economically disadvantaged urban youth. . . . Brown worked with the city of Valencia, Spain, and the Generalitat Valenciana to create a Berklee campus in Valencia.
He's the very model of a modern major-general. Working the levers of government in Spain to set up a ritzy international campus. Overseeing the expansion of programs to provide for the disadvantaged. Initiating programs to give scholarships to top musicians around the globe.
But a fundamental fraud lies beneath all this do-gooder claptrap. And that fraud may eventually destroy the foundations of schools like Berklee College of Music.
For decades, striving institutions of higher education have been working the levers of government — and, specifically, the student loan market — to redistribute capital from the lower and middle classes into their self-styled "elite" pockets. A regressive racket if ever there was one.
The pieces are all present in Freddy Reynoso's story. Nearly $200,000 was taken from people who can't afford it, facilitated by banks and the federal government, and transferred into the coffers of a music college already sitting on an endowment of several hundred million. If the sanctimonious Roger H. Brown really wanted to help disadvantaged youth, he should have given Freddy Reynoso a free ride. But why should he do that? Uncle Sam is willing to arrange for Berklee the pretense of high-minded altruism and the profit margins of a payday lender.
Roger H. Brown won't stop this deal. So Uncle Sam needs to.
Jim Walsh owns Silver Lake Publishing, which has recently published Seven Principles of Good Government — Gary Johnson's 2012 presidential campaign book.
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The taxpayer's losses were realized the moment the loans were made. No use crying over spilled fiat; the benefit of popping the student loan bubble is more than enough to celebrate.
Wed, 2013-07-24 03:33
Courtney Allen
The government has taken on the job of making sure that every American can have a house and a college education. The banksters arrange the loans at interest higher than the risk should demand since the government backs the laons. Wow housing bubble burst and now the college bubble is bursting and the banksers profits and bonuses ade up as is the taxpayers debt. Reread the story above changing only "college loan" to "home mortgage" and change "college education" to "home" and it reads well. And final note is that in both cases the folks at economic bottom are the loosers and those at the top winners!
Wed, 2012-07-25 15:26
Surely, sensible caring parents will begin to dissuade their children from this educational madness. Barring structural reform of our statist economy, an ever higher portion of college grads will find little in the way of gainful employment. When this education bubble collapses, it will devastate the U-system.
If you want to help your children and grandchildren, open an Education Savings Account at birth, put in a small monthly amount, and as they say, "fuggidaboutit!" This is easy compared to the pain the pen in one's hand generates at a cosign time. Ouch!
Mon, 2012-07-23 17:47
Jon Harrison
The only way to make a college education truly affordable for most people is to abolish student loan programs. We would then be at a point where only 10 or 20 per cent the population could afford college, and tuition (i.e., prices) would have to come down. Right now we have a situation in which everyone is told they must attend college, while student loan programs enable everyone to afford to go no matter what the cost. In these circumstances college costs will just keep on rising. A large, captive market allows the supplier to charge whatever he likes. Higher education has become a bigger racket than the Postal Service.
The GI Bill (1944) was a good idea, but by the 1970s there were too many people attending college who had no business being there, and since then the situation has only gotten worse. Government programs have an inherent tendency to metastisize, and as a result we end up with corruption, debt, and warped markets. This overexpansion of government at home, together with our decision to become a worldwide (as opposed to continental) empire, are the main reasons for the sorry decline of our civilization.
Excellent writing in this piece, by the way.
Sun, 2012-07-22 22:54
The new GI bill is even more comprehensive. I have a nephew, and several cousins going to any college they wish public or private, free of charge to them and their parents, because their parents served as career military.
The hope being, I think, that they will also go into the military as a career, as a great many do, and at the least, see the US government jobs as a first option.
It is creating a permanent "warrior class".
Tue, 2012-07-24 19:02
Jon Harrison
Yes, the creation of a warrior class is a worry. Yet the alternative, conscription, is no longer wanted by the military, as too many of the conscripts would lack the skills necessary to serve ably in the force. In any case, conscription absent a declared war is not to be encouraged.
It's very interesting to me that despite the enormous historical changes of "modern times" we still see the same phenomena unfolding -- professionalization of the military, decline of the small farmer, consolidation of great wealth in a few hands, depreciation of money, etc., etc. The same processes working themselves out today as in Egypt, Rome, and the other great civilizations. I'm not a strict determinist because I'm convinced that free will does exist (though with constraints), but every culture follows the same trends. The big picture indicates that our culture and values will eventually disappear, just as those of our predecessors have.
Fri, 2012-07-27 17:35
Rodney Choate
Bailouts, bailouts everywhere,
And all our dough did shrink.
Bailouts, bailouts everywhere,
And now we're on the brink.
Sat, 2012-07-21 21:26
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The Central Connecticut volleyball team defeated William and Mary in five sets on Friday afternoon. The match was part of the opening day of the New Hampshire Holly Young Invitational. The Blue Devils improve to 4-4 on the season with the victory.
The Blue Devils dropped a close opening set (26-24) in extra points, but CCSU quickly answered with a victory in the second (25-23). After a 25-21 setback in the third, CCSU delivered back-to-back victories in the fourth (25-19) and fifth (15-12) sets to win the match.
The accurate hitting of senior Jamie Rademacher helped power the Blue Devils through the match. Rademacher connected for a kill on 15 of 25 attacks and committed just two errors to post a .520 hitting percentage that was the highest in the match.
As a team, the Blue Devils recorded 59 kills and setting for almost all of those was freshman Makenna Lommori. Lommori totaled 53 assists in the match.
Lommori also contributed on defense as one of three CCSU players to record double-digit digs in the match. Sophomore Brittany Schumacher led the way with 21 digs, followed by senior Emily Cochran with 14 and Lommori with 10. Sophomore Amalia Ashley and senior Allyson Porter came close to double-digits with nine and eight, respectively.
The Blue Devils also played well at the net on defense. Junior Veronika Ban had three solo-blocks and contributed to five assisted blocks. As a team CCSU recorded 10.0 blocks in the match.
On the attack, Cochran led the way with 18 kills, followed by Rademacher's 15 and 14 from senior Blaike King. Senior Jennifer Waddill and Ban each had five kills in the match.
The Blue Devils will return to the court tomorrow for two more matches and the conclusion of the Holly Young Invitational.

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Growth rate?
Bamboo holds the record growth of the plant world. Some species can grow to over a meter in 24 hours (1.20 m recorded in the South of France)
Bamboos encountered in Europe can reach up to twenty meters in height. Adult size depends on several factors which are mainly the species or variety, climate and soil quality. They can be classified into four categories according to their adult size.
-The dwarf bamboo is not exceeding 1.50 meters
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-The medium bamboo can reach 3.00 to 9 meters
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The rods of bamboo (called : culms), emerge from the soil in their final diameter and grow to full size in a season. Temperate bamboos in 2 months, tropical bamboos 4 to 5 months. During these few months, each new shoot will grow vertically as a telescopic antenna. Fully-grown side branches grow laterally from the nodes in the upper part, called branches. Then the leaves develop. In subsequent years, the culms grows neither in height nor in diameter. It will harden the wood. It is for this reason that culms should ripen up for several years before being cut and be used in construction or crafts.
Resistance to cold?
Some species of temperate climates can withstand up to -20 ° C. In very cold weather, the first organs who will suffer are the leaves and buds and finally the rhizomes. In areas with cold winters, young bamboo plants should be protected by the foot of straw or other permeable insulation, so that the rhizomes do not suffer.
Two types of bamboo distinguish the mode of development. Those who tend to spread on the surface and to colonize space, are called: creeping. Those who remain in a compact clump with no tendency to expand are said clustering. The creeping bamboos are relatively easy to control. The most radical is the anti- rhizome barrier, formed by a plastic screen buried vertically about 60 cm on the outskirts of the plantation. We can do without, with the condition to dig a small trench 20 to 30 inches deep and cutting once a year the rhizomes who try to cross to the other side. We can also do nothing but the output period of the seedlings (called spears ), we will have to cut all those out of permitted locations. This operation is repeated several times during the exit period. It presents no difficulty because the seedlings are very tender and brittle. On top of it, it will be a good opportunity to pick them up, cook them and enjoy them .
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Just got out of an interesting session with Garmin at the Telematics Update show.
Garmin said that fine detail analysis of a car's behavior including speed of acceleration; speed of braking; and avoiding hills could dramatically increase the range of an electric vehicle (EV)... or reduce the carbon footprint of a gas vehicle. This is over and above traditional information like speed and distance. It was, quite frankly, an implementation of geospatial analysis I hadn't thought of.... That is until the business/green aspects were provided to me...
Since EVs currently only have so many charging locations, you don't want to get stuck down the wrong road or halfway up the wrong hill.... ;)
The question will be how well an organization can integrate the various telematic information to create that analysis:
- Dynamic EV information like battery charge
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to provide an EV's driver with the "operational BI" on how/where to drive.
Other than shortest distance or shortest time how many elements due you think the average driver can process or agree to process from a navigation system?
Or does it depend on training associated with running out of "juice" on the wrong side of a hill from the charging station? ;)
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Hello and happy start of the week to everyone! Today I want to talk about two books, The Innocent Wife by Amy Lloyd and Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult, which seemed perfect for me at first sight but ended up being a bit disappointing. That's not to say I didn't enjoy them, but not as much as I had hoped.
Release: 2018
Publisher: Cornerstone
Genre: Mystery/Thriller
I really loved the concept of this book, as I've always enjoyed creepy stories and I'm fascinated by women who write letters to convicted men. However, Samantha wasn't a character I could connect with and I struggled with most of her decisions, as she wasn't crazy enough for me to find her remotely interesting. I actually liked the first part of the novel better than the other half.
Of course, I never liked Danny at all either, but the book was actually really entertaining and overall an easy read. I'm sad to say that I didn't care much for the mystery. It wasn't entirely predictable but it wasn't surprising either.
Many thanks to the publishers and Netgalley for my copy
Release: 2016
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Genre: Contemporary
I read this book as part of a ReadAlong , and it was a very interesting novel to discuss. The book deals with racism and discrimination and the different points of view gave it a deeper approach. Small Great Things grew on me as the plot advanced (the second part of the book was much better in my opinion), but I found it so incredibly manipulative that I can't really say I liked it.
I had read a couple of Jodi Picoult's books years ago and loved them, but I think I've just outgrown them. I'm not in the mood for being taught a lesson on every page and she is basically the opposite of subtle writing. Everything is so dramatic and hey, the book talks about racism, so of course the main character's daughter is going to want to dress up as Moana and there will be a debate about the blackface issue, even if it's totally unrelated to the main plot.
Turk was a horrible human being, but his perspective was fascinating, I love to "hate-read" and he gave me exactly that. The trial was entertaining, but then again, I love trials. Oh, and that last twist was completely ridiculous in my opinion.


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Will anyone miss GeoCities, the antiquated homepage service Yahoo bought for $3.5 billion in 1999, and then left to rot? Venture capitalist Fred Wilson will — he hasn't seen that kind of payday in ages.
Long before Web 2.0, long before MySpace, Twitter, Tumblr, and the like, entrepreneurs were trying to exploit the human urge to communicate. Amazon.com acquired PlanetAll, an online address book and calendar service, in 1998 for $87 million. That same year, AOL bough ICQ, a rival instant-messaging service, for $407 million. Long before Del.icio.us, there was HotLinks, a Web bookmarks service founded by Jonathan Abrams, who would go on to found, yes, Friendster; it was sold for a pittance. And before Ning, there was online community-builder eGroups, swallowed up by Yahoo. And whatever happened to the original SixDegrees.com? Bought for $125 million in 2000, then shuttered the next year amidst the bust.
Did any of those acquisitions benefit the acquirer? In some cases investors made out. But the brands and services are forgotten, neglected by their owners and abandoned by fickle Internet users.
The point is that the ideas of the Web 2.0 craze aren't new. They've merely been rehashed with slicker technology. The only thing that has really changed is the emergence of a new wave of investors with short memories, willing to take a gamble on companies with the appearance of fast growth and popularity.
Wilson is the exception: Someone who ought to know better, but hasn't learned his lesson. Or learned the wrong one. GeoCities was a fluke, driven by the crazed equity markets of the late 1990s, and the madness caused by six dueling portals all eager to establish themselves as the leading Internet destination, and willing to pay anything for pageviews. What does it mean that Yahoo was willing to pay $3.5 billion for GeoCities, but not $3 billion a few years later for Google?
Yahoo is now closing GeoCities, which prompted Wilson to reminisce about his old venture capital firm Flatiron Partners' hundredfold return:
I learned a lot from that deal. I learned that the Internet is all about people expressing themselves on pages they own and control. I learned that a business deal made over dinner and a handshake can turn into hundreds of millions of dollars, I learned that good partners are worth every penny of returns you give up to get them, and I learned that selling too soon is not too painful as long as you don't sell too much. And most of all I learned that you can make 100 times your investment every once in a while. And when you do, it's something special.
GeoCities, which offered people a crude kind of Web presence at a time when most people found building websites too technically intimidating, certainly offers lessons. But perhaps not the ones Wilson has in mind.
Websites which allow us to idle away time with our friends will always attract a large share of our online attention. The lesson of GeoCities is that they're only lucrative as long as there's a greater fool around.


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Women's Golf Looks to Improve on Day Two
Clarksville, Tenn. – The Tennessee State women's golf team ran into trouble during the first round of the F&M Bank Austin Peay Intercollegiate. The young Tiger squad shot a 72-over, 360 at the Par-72, 5,960 yard Clarksville Country Club.
Sarah Needleman led the Tigers as she shot a career low 86 as she hit 11 fairways and eight greens on the day. Needleman used consistency on the par-3's, as she pared four of the five on the course.
Kelly Merkel carded one birdie during her 17-over, 89. On the par-5, 2nd, Merkel's drive found the right side of fairway and landed underneath a tree on the dog-leg uphill right. The sophomore followed with a knockdown 4-iron from 190 out that landed 20 yards in front of the green and chipped to 1-foot of the pin to set up the birdie.
Freshman Natalie Spicer hit seven fairways and five greens on her way to an 18-over, 90. Spicer was able to convert up-and-downs on the 10th, 14th, 15th and the 17th.
Amelia Dap recorded the final scoring round for TSU with a 95. The sophomore used an up-and-down on the par-5, 2nd, for one of her four pars on the day.
Laura Bremer cut 11 strokes from the front nine to the back nine and finished the day with six greens and averaged just over two putts per hole.
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To date, Mozilla community volunteers have provided Firefox user support that has met, and often exceeded, the needs of the tech and the early adopter users of Firefox. As Firefox's market share grows beyond early adopters, our user support needs also to evolve. The Firefox Support Working Group has spent the last month doing research and community outreach on how Mozilla should evolve user support through a community based approach.
We've had dozens of community volunteers participate through open phone calls, in person meetings, forum posts, blog posts and emails. As a result of this process, we have developed a draft overview and product requirements document for Firefox Support.
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Illinois wide receiver Chris James couldn't make the plays himself last year. But after tearing the anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee during the Camp Rantoul preseason scrimmage, James lived through his roommate, quarterback Juice Williams.
Illinois wide receiver Chris James couldn't make the plays himself last year. But after tearing the anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee during the Camp Rantoul preseason scrimmage, James lived through his roommate, quarterback Juice Williams. "Juice is my best friend,'' James said. "I told him that I would play through him. When he played well, I would play well. When he played poorly, I played poorly. I put that burden on him.'' Back on the practice field on the first day of spring drills Wednesday, James is determined to repay Williams for the enjoyable season last fall. A sophomore who used his redshirt season last fall after starting the final four games as a true freshman, James is a likely starter at outside receiver this fall. James' return is timely at a position where the Illini are still searching for athletic playmakers. "Chris has been a guy who had a really high football IQ,'' said offensive coordinator Mike Locksley. "He understood passing game concepts in terms of inside and outside receiver. He didn't lose a beat in terms of the mental part of it. Now it's a matter of knocking the rust off. "We've moved him to outside receiver. It gives us more experience. We're trying to put the best four guys in the game at receiver. Anybody who gives us a chance to make plays in the passing game will play a key role.'' After missing Illinois' eye-opening season a year ago, the 6-foot, 188-pound James plans to be in the middle of the action. The former Chicago Morgan Park star caught five passes for 76 yards in his rookie season, including a 47-yarder in the season finale against Northwestern. "I feel like they moved me to a position to play me,'' James said. "It's all on me. The coaches have done their job. It's all on me. "Juice is really counting on me to come back. He's putting the burden on me to fulfill what I didn't do last year -- making plays in critical situations when I'm needed, make first downs, move the chains.'' James limped off the field and thought it was just a sprain during the team's main preseason scrimmage, but the medical staff told him the following day the ligament was torn and his season was done. James underwent surgery in early September. "We definitely hoped to have his game experience,'' Locksley said. "He played some as a freshman. When he went down, that set him back and set us back.'' Days later, he hit rock bottom. He couldn't find the Illinois-Western Illinois game on TV. It was hidden on an alternate Big Ten Network channel. "I was so ticked off,'' he said. "I kept calling my brother and asking him, 'What's the play?' '' There were the days when James "walked like a zombie,'' he said, still unable to bend his knee. It took five minutes to shuffle to the bathroom. But by the end of the season, James practiced for the Rose Bowl, even though there were no plans for him to play. He dressed for the game and went through pregame warmups. "That's my best friend,'' Williams said. "He's a great target with sure hands every time. Just having him with the rest of the receivers will be excellent. (The injury) was difficult for him. He took it hard for the first couple of days. After awhile, he accepted it and worked hard. "With his sure hands on the outside and (Benn) on the inside, I just pretty much pick a target, close my eyes and throw it.'' James will be glad to repay his roommate and make the big play. John Supinie can be reached at email@example.com. For more coverage, read Illini Talk blog at www.sj-r.com and www.pjstar.com.


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Bessemer City basketball coach Danny McDowell likes to talk about the ABCDs of the game: accountability, behavior, character and discipline.
�(Brad James) did all those things,� McDowell said. �When you bring that to the basketball floor, good things are going to happen for you.�
Good things definitely happened for James, who was voted player of the year in the Southern Piedmont 1A/2A Conference by the league�s coaches. Balloting was conducted after the regular season and prior to the conference tournament.
--Full all-conference team below--
The 6-foot-6 senior forward averaged 18.7 points, 12.5 rebounds and 1.5 blocks, leading the Yellow Jackets to a third-place finish in the SPC.
James scored in double figures in 26 of the team�s 27 games and recorded 19 double-doubles. He scored a career-high 40 points in an 82-74 win against Cherryville, shooting 18-for-25 from the field and 4-for-8 from the foul line.
�Every team we played, they geared up to stop him,� McDowell said. �He had one fabulous career and a great, great season for us. And he�s such a coachable kid. I hate to see him go.�
The Yellow Jackets finished 19-8 after reaching the second round of the 1A state playoffs. That represented Bessemer City�s most wins since a 20-8 mark in 2008 and the second-most wins in 17 years.
Aaron Reeves was voted SPC boys coach of the year by his peers after leading Lake Norman Charter to a 13-1 league record � good for first place by three games. The Knights finished 23-5 overall after reaching the third round of the 1A state playoffs.
Lake Norman Charter led the 14-player all-conference team with three selections.
On the girls� side, North Lincoln guard Antaijah �Ace� Easter was voted player of the year by the coaches after averaging 25.8 points, 8.3 rebounds, 2.9 steals and 2.7 assists. The 5-foot-9 junior reached 30 points in 12 games, including a high of 41 against East Lincoln.
Easter led North Lincoln to a 17-10 record, including a 10-4 mark in the SPC for third place.
Jimmy Carr was voted girls coach of the year after leading Lincolnton to a share of the SPC title with Lake Norman Charter. Both teams went 13-1 in conference action. Lincolnton then went on to beat Lake Norman Charter in the conference tournament championship game.
Lincolnton and Lake Norman Charter each placed three players on the 14-player all-conference team.
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Southern Piedmont 1A/2A Conference postseason basketball awards
Player of the year � Brad James, Bessemer City
Coach of the year � Aaron Reeves, Lake Norman Charter
All-conference team:
Lake Norman Charter � Davis Elkins, Jamon Cunningham, Malik McCormick
East Lincoln � Chazz Surratt, Tyler Brock
Bessemer City� Brad James, Tyrece Meeks
Lincolnton � Alonzo Mobley, D.J. Cunningham
Highland Tech � Josh Neely, Kameron Harper
Cherryville � Brandon Warren
North Lincoln� Christian Ramos
West Lincoln� Brett Huff
Player of the year � Antaijah �Ace� Easter, North Lincoln
Coach of the year � Jimmy Carr, Lincolnton
All-conference team:
Lake Norman Charter � Alex Busch, Ezinne Mbamula, Sierra Wiley
Lincolnton � Treasure Avery, Bridget Derr, Alexis Killian
North Lincoln� Ace Easter, Payton Bruce
West Lincoln� Rylee Marsh, Rebecca Owens
Bessemer City � Madison Carter
East Lincoln� Jennifer Allison
Cherryville � Paige Wyont
Highland Tech � Madison Armstrong


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Cool and mysterious, this blue- and black-swirled RPG dice set evokes images of a foreboding and awesome ancient power. Gaze into their crystal mist, but not for too long, lest you too be drawn in to what magic awaits.
Included is a complete set of 7 swirled dice: 1D4, 1D6, 1D8, 2D10, 1D12, and 1D20. Impress your friends by showing up at the gaming table with these unique and attractive dice.
This set is a swirled mix of blue and black with gold numerals.


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Today, we headed to Mahone Bay for a book signing. It just so happened, the Father Christmas Festival was on. I took a few photos and wanted to share.
I hope you enjoyed this peek at the Father Christmas Festival. I'll be blogging about the book signing we attended next time I post. I'm excited to tell you all about Janet Barkhouse's picture book, " Pit Pony." Drop in and find out all about it.


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Less than a week ago, it appeared that Oscar Pistorius's feel-good story had come to an end, as the double amputee sprinter had failed to post a worthy time in the 400 meter race at the Olympic qualifiers, effectively killing his chances to represent South Africa at this summer's games.
The South African Olympic committee made a surprise decision today, though, when it selected Pistorius to compete in the 400 and 4x400 relay as a member of the South African team. Pistorius will become the first ever amputee to run at the summer games.
Pistorius walked a hard road to get this moment, first being told that he wouldn't be allowed to compete in the 2008 Olympics, and then failing to qualify for the games once his ban had been overturned. Whether Pistorius wins a medal or not seems beside the point. The fact that he has even made it this far is a monumental accomplishment.


text: The Paris based designer duo Amandine Chhor and Aïssa Logerot realised these fantastic projects in cooperation with local associations and skilled workers from Cambodia and Morocco. 'artisanat du sud' is the newest series of furniture handcrafted by women from Akka oasis in Morocco. The tables tops are made from woven palm leaves.


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Well. if you follow along the So You Think You're Crafty competition you already know I was voted off last week. *sigh*
My Seashell Windchime just didn't make the cut.
I was so NOT ready to leave yet.
This wasn't what I had originally planned for the week. We had a death in the family and ended up being out of town for most of the week. So I ended up doing something quick.
It was something I was planning on making anyway, just not for the competition.
Anyway, I didn't take pictures when I was making it, but it is so simple
I started with a starfish and tied a long length of fishing line to each leg. Do starfish have legs???
Then I just hot glued my little shinny shells to the fishing line. Be careful I burned myself with hot glue a lot.
Next I tied a string to hang done in the middle and glued on various shells.
I screwed a little hook into the starfish and hung it outside.
It makes me happy every time I walk in or out of the house.
This week it's all about Ombre.
I had the most gorgeous dress for this weeks project! I'll show you tomorrow.
There are some really great ombre projects soooo make sure you go {HERE} and vote for your favorite.
And since I'm no longer in it I'll tell you who I voted for.
I love the OMBRE Necklace
Isn't it beautiful?!
I would love to have a necklace just like this!!!
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Personal guarantees
When contemplating your business finance options as a company Director, you might consider offering a personal guarantee as an assurance for a business loan or another source of credit. This puts you into a direct relationship with the lender, who could pursue you personally if your company goes insolvent. But is it a risk worth taking?
It can certainly be an attractive option. In times of financial security when business is good, it can be a means of attaining business finance to expand that might otherwise be denied. And the personal guarantee is not uncommon by any means.
But before you become a personal guarantor, you should know the legal basics of the contractual relationship you're entering, and the prospects and consequences of the guarantee being enforced.
What is a Personal Guarantee?
When you provide a personal guarantee to a third party creditor, usually the bank or another business lender, you're agreeing to act as guarantor for the debt obligations of another party, the principal — for example your company. That means if your company defaults on a loan repayment, you've guaranteed that you'll step up and pay instead.
Your obligation is secondary to the primary one between the borrower and the lender, so if your company doesn't have any repayments due then you can't be found in a position of liability.


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Abstract: The paper is concerned with the measurement of emotions and the study of the role of emotions in consumer choice. Contemporary neurological findings suggest that emotions may play a role in its own right, quite different from the way in which they have been considered in traditional consumer choice behaviour theory. A large-scale study including 800 respondents, covering 64 brands, provide findings on emotional response tendencies for the brands, and relate these to involvement, type of need gratification, purchasing behaviour, etc. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6657
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Customer Engagement
Why personalised interactive video needs to be integrated in your marketing machine
By Liz Roche, Director of Product Marketing, Customer Engagement Solutions for Digital Commerce Solutions at Pitney Bowes
Digital channels have exploded in importance over the past few years, becoming valuable tools for businesses to reach their current and potential customers. As such, businesses have begun to integrate digital marketing into their overall sales and marketing strategy.
One digital channel in particular is becoming an increasingly vital piece of the customer engagement puzzle: video. According to research from eMarketer, the average U.S. adult spends one hour viewing digital video every day. And, what's more, that number only continues to grow.
It's clear that businesses have a real opportunity to leverage the power of video to meet their customers' needs. Yet, because it's "digital," many businesses mistakenly think of that video as a separate component from their overall sales and marketing strategy.
Video shouldn't be viewed as something separate, or even a simple add-on to customer engagement strategy. And businesses should absolutely avoid seeing it as a standalone offering in their omnichannel approach. Instead, video and digital marketing needs to be fully integrated into the sales and marketing machine for the greatest opportunity for success.
There are solutions to help incorporate digital marketing techniques into the traditional marketing tactics that businesses have being using for many years. Online personalized interactive video is one way companies across a variety of industries can improve customer experience, customer engagement and omnichannel opportunities, and boost their bottom line.
Here's why digital needs to be integrated – not separated – from the traditional marketing machine.
Customer Experience
Recognising the growing need, and in an effort to quickly implement digital marketing into their business, many companies are largely separating the digital and traditional sides of marketing. The thought here is that it will be too cumbersome and time-consuming to weave the traditional and digital marketing techniques together. But, businesses are missing a huge opportunity to leverage the insights from digital and traditional marketing to create a more complete view of their customers.
By bringing digital and traditional together, businesses can move from many separate conversations into one dialogue. This helps create a unified and personalised conversation, bringing a customer through an incredibly individualised lifecycle.
Through personalised interactive videos in particular, customers form a more connected relationship with an organisation. Companies use customer data to allow the consumer to "self-serve" in a personalised and interactive way. That, in turn, helps businesses increase customer satisfaction and generate many other positive results.
Better Engagement
According to eMarketer, 77 percent of U.S. Internet users perceive companies that produce digital video marketing as being more engaged with their customers. What's more, more than seven in 10 also said they had a generally positive impression of a brand, product or service after viewing digital video.
But it's clear that it's not just a perception of better engagement – digital and video marketing actually help improve engagement between companies and their customers. Why? Well, we know that customers are constantly being inundated by a variety of channels and communication, competing to win their attention. Personalised interactive video actually allows customers to customise their own experiences and therefore, stay more engaged.
Cross-Channel Opportunities
We all know the problems that siloed communications can bring to an organisation. They prevent information from flowing freely between departments, and also stop collaboration from happening naturally across different areas of an organisation. By breaking down these silos, and integrating their digital and traditional marketing approaches, companies can develop more effective strategies for unifying their customer communications and open up the doors to cross-channel opportunities.
Just think of all the valuable customer data that's flowing in from marketing videos, as well as traditional marketing collateral. If a company isn't sharing that data across all areas, they will miss seeing the big picture of their customers and potentially make mistakes in their individualised customer approach.
When individual departments share information on customer lifestyles, purchasing behaviors and more, businesses are able to fully optimize their marketing strategies and increase sales across the board.
Impact on the Bottom Line
Businesses might be concerned that integrating video and digital marketing into their overall marketing machine will take money and time that they just don't have. But, what businesses might not recognise is that a personalised interactive video can be easily integrated into a multichannel communications strategy. Once that video approach is in place, personalised interactive videos can be used to help better streamline business processes, which has a positive impact on that bottom line.
They also can be used to help create easy-to-understand personalised video bill and statement explainers, which means customers can be more informed about what they're paying for. Interactive video helps businesses proactively present information to customers in an understandable way, allowing them to receive information when they need it, dramatically reducing call center inquiries. That, in turn, can help save on the bottom line as well.
Digital and Traditional Together
It may seem daunting at first, but businesses will reap the benefits of uniting their digital and traditional marketing tactics. Video and PIVs in particular, cannot be separated from a business' overall communications strategy.
By integrating video – and particularly personalised interactive video – with traditional marketing, not only will companies see huge leaps in positive customer experience and customer engagement, they'll also open up the doors for new cross-channel opportunities and savings on that bottom line.
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Amazon Wood Fishery - peaceful location set in Polegate woods.
Summer Hill Lane, Polegate, BN26 6RG
Tel: 01323 449502
Amazon Wood
Belfry Fishery- a quiet rural setting at Hellingly near Hailsham
Hellingly, nr Hailsham BN27 4DU
Tel: 07967 557632
Belfry Fishery
Brick Farm Lakes - a rural trout fishery with full amenities, between Hertmonceux and Windmill Hill, Sussex.
Brick Farm, Windmill Hill, Herstmonceux, BN27 4RS
Tel: 01323 832615
Brick Farm Lakes
Falkenvil Fishery - aka 'The Mushroom Farm' - a large 5 lake fishery located between Eastbourne and Hailsham.
Saltmarsh Lane, Hailsham, BN27 2RJ
Tel: 07867 526753
Falkenvil Fishery
- a three lake fishery set in peaceful surroundings on the outskirts of Framfield, near Uckfield.
Brook House Lane, Framfield, nr Uckfield, East Sussex,TN225QJ
Tel 01825 890948/07798 751175
Framfield Fishery
Furnace Brook Fishery and Tench Fish Farm - a 5.5 acre lake full amenity complex located in Cowbeech near Hailsham.
Trolliloes Lane, Cowbeech, BN27 4QR
Tel: 01435 830835
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Horam Manor Fishery - a ten lake full amenity complex located north of Hailsham.
Horam Manor Farm, Horam, TN21 0JB
Tel: 01323 840889
Horam Manor Fishery
Sharnfold Farm Fishery - a two acre lake on a farm complex with many amenities, located between Stone Cross and Hailsham.
Hailsham Road, Stone Cross, Eastbourne, BN24 5BU
Tel: 01323 768490
Sharnfold Farm Fishery
- a three lake fishery set amidst the beautiful South Downs countryside just south of Lewes.
Swanborough Farm, Lewes, East Sussex, BN7 3PF
Tel Geoff Mason 07495 677201/Ben Taylor 07974 267780
Swanborough Fishery
Wylands Fishery AKA Wylands International Angling Centre - large ten lake full amenity complex located between Battle and Catsfield.
Wyland Farm, Powdermill Lane, Battle, TN33 0SU
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About: Telidon is an font reminiscent of dot matrix printer fonts of the 1970s and 1980s and are still in use today on retail receipts. Telidon is useful for simulating LED pixel board graphics. If you want a rougher, more authentic dot matrix printer look, Telidon has a sister family called Telidon Ink which has a distressed, inky appearance. The extended styles have doubled pixels, just like the dot matrix fonts of yesteryear.


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ESSAY- Trapped in Haiti: A true story with a tragic ending
The network news video showed French rescue workers digging through rubble of a Port-au-Prince luxury hotel and cutting through the rebar, and there was my brother-in-law.
"Clinton? Clinton?" they say on the video.
Clinton groggily lifts his head from the rubble and asks, "Yeah? What do you need?"
What do you need? When my husband heard those words on the television we'd huddled around, he turned to me and said, "That's Clint in a sentence. Those words tell the whole story of who he is."
We (my sister, my husband and I, five of her children and a daughter-in-law) had been huddled over computers and in front of the TV in their Westchester County home for three days, searching for any information, monitoring Facebook, other media and websites, trying to get any news of Clint–- Clinton Clark Rabb– and his co-workers, who had not been heard from since the quake. We narrowed their whereabouts down to the Hotel Montana, which was frightening since the hotel had been leveled.
We had practically given up hope, when, at 11:30pm Friday night a call came in from a reporter from the London Times.
Clint was alive? He was alive! Those moments were jubilant, incredulous, wonderful. We hugged, we cried, we looked at each other in disbelief. We thought, at that point, that our dear brother would be quickly rescued, and we celebrated at seeing him alive. That video was such a gift. In that easy-going, soft Texan drawl, his words were a song to us.
After 55 hours of entrapment in a 5 x 7 x 3-foot space, Clint, his friend and co-worker, Sam, and their friend and consultant, Jim, had been found together in the rubble of the Hotel Montana where they'd gone to dinner.
Before we saw the video on MSNBC, we had received a crackling, hard-to-hear call from Haiti. The Times reporter was calling my sister to tell her that her husband was alive. He told her that he asked Clint, as he lay trapped, if there were any messages he wanted to get out.
"Tell my wife I deeply love her, and we're going to survive this," he said. "And I'm praying for all those who did not survive."
Jim was pulled out virtually unscathed, but Clint and Sam had large slabs of concrete crushing their legs. Laying right next to Clint, his good buddy Sam passed away before he could be freed.
Fifteen hours after Jim was pulled out, the French surgeons finished their amputation of Clint's legs to free him. The French surgeons who had worked on his amputations in hot, 3-foot-high quarters wept and hugged as the helicopter took him away.
Thanks to those French surgeons and a search and rescue team from Fairfax, Clint made it out of the rubble and on to Guantanamo Bay and then was flown to the North Broward Medical Center in Florida. He was in critical but stable condition.
When my sister, Suzanne, arrived in Florida, Clint was on a ventilator and heavily sedated. When he was able to see her, his eyes grew wide. He tried to smile, but with so many tubes, it wasn't possible. She told him how much she loved him. She told him how we had all been searching nonstop and that he was home, with love and support from around the world. His eyes well up with tears, but within seconds he was asleep, the sedation was so heavy.
She thought she was saying hello to the rest of their life. He would face his life as a double amputee, but if anyone could meet that challenge, it was Clint. Sadly, she was saying goodbye.
The next morning Clint's body crashed as his body rejected the dialysis. There were too many factors— we don't yet know the details— only that with my sister praying at his side, he left his body. Suzanne lay on his bed next to him for a long while after they took all the tubes and equipment away. She talked to him and held his hand. She told him that she would try to carry on his legacy of selfless service to God and mankind.
In the days that followed, in a voice choked with emotion, Jim would tell us via the phone about their time in their concrete cave. Jim told us they sang "Peace Like a River." They prayed. Jim's cellphone was their only light, but they used it to assess their situation.
Jim said they had been in the hotel lobby, having just arrived for dinner, when the ground shook. Jim said he turned to Clint and said, "it's an earthquake," but before they could react, the whole building collapsed on them. The hotel's desk held some of the concrete, allowing them to survive in that small space. Jim told us that Sam and Clint were in so much pain, but he said that Clint didn't talk of his pain; he spent most of his time trying to relieve Sam's pain.
Jim would break off pieces of flat plaster from above them and hand them to Clint, and Clint would push on Sam to shift his weight and push the plaster underneath, to hold his body in different positions to relieve the stress. He said Clint would try to distract Sam from his pain with conversation and song. They were so thirsty as they lay there hour after hour. At one point, Clint told them, "When I get out of here, I'm gonna get a bunch of ice cold Coke Zeros. I'm going to line them all up on a table and drink them all."
Jim said Clint paused, and then said, "No, not Coke Zeros, make that real Cokes."
Clint was a missionary. He worked for the General Board of Global Ministries as Executive General Secretary of Mission Volunteers and traveled the globe assisting and advocating for those who could not advocate for themselves: the poor, the oppressed, the hungry, the sick. He was in Haiti for a meeting with various churches and organizations addressing Haitian health care needs. We have started a nonprofit public charity to carry on his work.
The author and her husband have a book design business and a yoga center in Nelson County.


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Google and global investment firm KKR & Co. agreed to acquire six solar farms in California and Arizona.
The $400 million solar farms were developed by Sharp's Recurrent Energy unit and will have a 106 megawatt capacity, or enough to power 17,000 homes, according to Bloomberg News. The solar farms will be online by January.
Google and KKR will be giving "equity and debt financing" for the projects, Bloomberg reported. Google will give $80 million to the project and has already spent about $1 billion total in renewable power. This is Google's 14th acquisition.
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Google has been at the forefront of green power, including several projects involving windmills and solar power, but its investment never seems to cover the entire project. In fact, the wind farm in Oregon received $1.2 in local, state and federal subsidies, while Google only pitched in 10 percent ($100 million.) This new Google solar farm investment is slightly higher for the tech titan, which covers 20 percent of the project.


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B. Sitios.
When you say sitio anywhere in the Philippines, it readily means a locality within the smallest local government unit, the Barangay. Elsewhere, if you google the word, in Spanish-speaking countries, it means site in the internet sense.
Our sitio may range in size from a fairly densely populated small village to just a tiny chapel organization composed of even just a family. A sitio (literally meaning site) does not have fixed official boundaries and thus is very loose as to its territory.
By necessity of organization and governance, a barangay leader would need so-called ward leaders in the barangay. But that sitio "leader" is not elected by his constituents, and has no defined set of responsibilities and certainly no set of authorities under the local government code. Of course, since the barangay is really the lowest level local government unit.
Once merely termed lugar (place) as place of residence in the old parish records, old settlements and localities towards the 1850s began, in the church records, to get the tag of barrio, although about a decade later the books reverted to calling them again as lugar.
Anyway, a number of our present-day sitios were already old localities of the town before contiguous localities were then merged to form the administrative Barrio (again) late in the 1800s. But these original localities had old archaic native names that we today would be hard-pressed if asked what those names meant.
Although this generic term has been entirely appropriated in the Philippines for governmental use, the Philippine sitio does not really enjoy official status. Unlike the barangay the creation (and division and abolition) of which follows established procedures in the Local Government Code, in the case of the sitio, it not being a local government unit (it's existence is not even acknowledged by mere mention in the same Code), the naming of sitios does not follow formal procedure and is not really covered by an official act. Thus, its naming, up to the present simply follows the time-honored informal route by which localities were named, which has always been so since time immemorial when the people themselves, or even just a single individual, calls or refers to a place by a name, other people take him up on it, and the name of the place takes root.
And the practice still obtains today. For example, a person lives a little farther from the others in a sitio named, say, Saging. The place presumably got its name from its most obvious character which was, ka bright gyud…the presence of plenty of platanos, the variety of bananas we call saging. It does not matter anymore, except for the record, that the place was once given the name by someone because of the presence of saging, which as since then all but cut down to make way for houses. Anyway, since he's built his hut on a hilly portion a little off the main neighborhood, the individualistic man writes down his residence as Upper Saging. As time goes by and he gets new neighbors, they'll all be writing their addresses as Upper Saging and — voilà — a new sitio is born. Come election time, the barangay captain will be taking a census of voters of Upper Saging for, shall we say, political purposes.
Moreover, in the above example, Saging has now de-facto ceded some area just by the arbitrary "founding" of a new sitio within its old territorial limits.
Not just its boundaries but since the sitio is not an official entity, the spelling of its name is just as unofficial. And this can lead to Lamacan being also Lamakan, Moag also as Muag or Mowag (the old Visayan spelling was Mulag), or even evolve and perpetuate, as with our surnames, a wrong spelling: Relis from Riles from the Spanish rieles.
Now, all the places (the equivalent of today's sitios and of some barangays) that appear in the old parish books are obviously Cebuano. A rare exception is Canal, which is Spanish. But what strikes you the most about these old Cebuano place names are their being, anyway most of them, almost archaic, sometimes their construction are combinations of words.
Take Cangkabayo, for instance. Kabayò is our own pronunciation of the Spanish word for horse, caballo. The inclusion of kabayo indicates that the place name appeared only after the Spanish had arrived. But as to the Cebuano part of the word, Cang-. What does it signifiy? Ordinarily Cang- signifies ownership and refers to an owner. Thus, cang-Aleonar would be a possession of Aleonar's. In that sense of Cang-, cangkabayo does not make sense unless that long ago, horses owned property, or if kabayo was a person nicknamed thus for, we can imagine, all sorts of naughty equine properties, themselves. The new sitio name, Mangkabayo (to go horseback) is infinitely more understandable. But probably because mang-kabayo is the contemporary usage and we simply no longer know what cang-kabayo actually meant.
The place name Catadman has really taken the wind off me. It is very near the word Catarman and Catagman. The latter is a syncope of katagaman, meaning a source of regret. Why would a place be a source of regret?
Anyway, old Cebuano place names would make up a fitting dictionary of sorts and it would certainly add to our understanding of the evolution of our native tongue. Here's wishing the Ludabi will sit down with local historians and compile a really authoritative dictionary.


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A federal judge in Washington, D.C., has rejected a proposal by the federal government that would have dropped nearly 4 million acres of designated "critical habitat" for the marbled murrelet.
The consent decree proposed last summer would have partially settled a lawsuit brought by the American Forest Resource Council, southwestern Oregon's Douglas County and the Carpenters Industrial Council against the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The groups argued the agency inappropriately set aside habitat for the bird in 1996.
The threatened seabird nests in coastal forests in Oregon, Washington and California.
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The de facto historian of UVA student and town life, Coy Barefoot, has assembled an array of then-and-now photographs of UVA-area Charlottesville scenes for your viewing pleasure in the latest edition of the alumni magazine.Read more on: historylost charlottesvillethe corner district
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"Siff Hall", what a wonderful memory, this is where we loved to go to get a peak, and I was once roundly punished, by my father, for going there.
"Stiff Hall" was what I meant to say
Love these pictures Coy and terrific commentary. So sad that the reflecting pool behind Mem Gym is gone, what a wonderful ice rink that could have been. Now, we have a beautiful pond next to the Dell, that is pristine, -- guess today's students are better behaved.
". By the summer of 1952 the pool had become a ââ?¬Å?sunken mire," full of carp, trash and floating beer cans, according to the Cavalier Daily"
Fascintating history and pictures, thank you Coy; this is a real service for the community. I moved to Charlottesville in 1921 and lived in Lyndhall Apartments . Named after Mr. Lyndsay and Ms Hall, who built the apartments. We never believed the story about Anastasia, because she didn't speak Russian. In those days whenever someone needed money they took in student boarders.


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Garden Catering goes above, beyond
Tuesday morning following the storm we went out in our car to see the aftermath. After many turnarounds and dead ends because of fallen lines and trees ,we made our way to Sound Beach Avenue in Old Greenwich. To our surprise, Garden Catering had its door open and a hand-written "Open" sign posted.
We went in and there was the owner Frank Carpentieri, Jr., making egg sandwiches in their gas grill in the dark and serving hot coffee they had driven over from their Stamford location. There were no lights, no register but there they were serving the community the best way they could. We've always loved GC for their dedication to the Old Greenwich community and their always present smiles. But this time they went above and beyond to help out.
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Old Greenwich
In a trying time, O.G. residents pulled together, got on with it and even laughed together.
Having been through many a flood in over half a century, we would first of all like to thank our mother, Til Connal, who always made every Hurricane, Nor'easter, and the flooding that came with them, an adventure. Mother of eight and with husband Scotty away for every single flood, it is extraordinary how she managed to make it fun.
One time, younger brother Alan, sitting at the top of the basement stairs watching the waters rise asked, "Do we put the life jackets on now mom?" Later, she admitted that it was trying, but you just had to deal with it and not let the eight kids know that you were a little worried. Our Dad called in once and Mom told him there was good news and bad news. ... The boat was tied to the car, which was the good news.
The bad news was that the car was underwater! Hurricane "Sandy" is without any doubt the most difficult and devastating. Our mother's training paid off and made the entire experience much more bearable.
So, thanks, Mom! So many distraught people, many who have never had to face this before. Our heart goes out to those who have faired badly.
The mop-up continues. We would like to say thank-you to just a few:
The Fire Station who ensured there was plenty of sand and bags for the filling.
Total strangers that turned up, rolled up sleeves and selflessly helped shovel to fill the bags.
To Greenwich, the First selectman and the head of police for the constant updates on the status of our community.
To the hosts of the much needed "Block Party" at Edgewater Drive, where laughter was heard amongst the sorrow.
The American Red Cross, The W. Civic Centre and Eastern Middle School and all the volunteers.
The family that celebrated "Reverse Halloween," going door to door, bringing candy to the households that hadn't a moment to think about this event. It was very touching.
Greg and Chris from "Aux Delices" who drove around delivering piping hot chocolate to shivering householders sorting through their soggy mess.
Our Australian friend, who came for a holiday and ended up lugging furniture and filling sandbags and who constantly tended a fire to keep us warm and "boil the billy."
Family and friends that rallied to help. A special thanks to Lynn and Knuck. THANKS TO ALL THE AMAZING UTILITY PEOPLE, who came from everywhere to help us.
Now, we are all stiff and sore and exhausted. We at 53 Edgewater are still without power and gas. But hey, it has been an "adventure" that has made us proud to be part of this community and very proud to be part of this neighborhood. And thank you Mom for the training !
Thank you, Old Greenwich.
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What if you gave everyone in The Wizard of Oz swords, and instead of the Wicked Witch of the West throwing fireballs she throws decapitated horse heads? Boom, Game of Thrones meets Oz. And that's exactly what Warner Bros. TV wants their next big magical series to be.
THR is reporting that the studio wants to make Red Brick Road "a continuation of the Wizard of Oz story but told in a Game of Thrones fashion, filled with politics, intrigue and violence." Oooh intrigue! The series is created by Rob Prior, who is a well-known concept artist and has actually drawn a few images of this Red Brick Road before (above). And holy shit look at the Tin Man — that is awesome. There's no telling if the series will be based on these drawings, but take solace in the fact that Prior is a gifted character creator, so there could be some cool beasties in our future.
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Caltech graduate student Frank Malina changed history but few people know much about him.
Malina along with a group of five associates known as the "Suicide Squad" were among the early pioneers of rocketry and rocket propulsion and became the founders of what would later become the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL).
To mark its 75th anniversary, JPL will air "The American Rocketeer," the first of three documentaries on the history of JPL and Malina's involvement.
"He came out to CalTech to study Aviation and before you knew it, he had a knock on the door from some rocket enthusiast who said 'let's build some rockets' at a time when the word 'rocket' and 'science' hadn't been put together yet," said Blaine Baggett, JPL Communications Director and one of the documentary producers.
During World War II, JPL's first mission was military. The lab developed booster rockets that were strapped to Army aircraft to assist takeoff. Later, in response to German V-2 missiles, the lab would build guided missiles.
"The American Rocketeer" will air November 3 on KCET. A public preview screening is also planned for Oct. 25 at 8 p.m. at Caltech's Beckman Auditorium.
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DAC2 click carries LTC2601CDD, a 16-bit digital-to-analog converter, along with voltage output screw terminals. The chip has high rail-to-rail output drives (±15mA min) and double-buffered data latches. The board communicates with your target MCU through the mikroBUS SPI pins with clock rates up to 50MHz. Additionally, the CLR pin (in place of default mikroBUS RST pin) clears all the registers.
The single nibble of improvement between a 12-bit DAC and this 16-bit DAC means you get 61440 more discrete values to convert into a voltage.
This board uses either a 3.3V or 5V power supply, determined by the placement of a solder jumper (in the 5V position by default). Another solder jumper allows you to set the reference voltage either to VCC or 4.096V (in the VCC position by default).
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Sticking with inspiration from Elizabeth Gilbert (Monday's post: Selfish, Selfish, Selfish!), today I'm throwing Richard from Texas into the mix. Those who read Eat, Pray, Love immediately know the character who's referred to as 'Richard from Texas.' If you haven't read the book, picture Total Zen Dude meets Southern Gentleman, Texan accent and everything.
Without giving anything away, I think it's safe to say that anyone who's heard of the book knows it's about Gilbert's journey to herself. The book is broken into thirds and it's at her second destination that she meets Richard at an ashram in India.
Classic Richard from Texas
I once heard Gilbert tell a story during an interview of how she was bearing her soul to Richard, lamenting the break-up she had had with a boyfriend. She was saying, "Oh, I wish this, and I wish that…." On and on. When she was done, Richard very matter-of-factly said:
"Groceries," (as she was affectionately called by him), "You gotta stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone oughta be."
Talk about cutting to the point! Said so cleverly and with his unique humor, and still with such directness and honesty, I can only imagine those words snapped her out of her stupor.
I gotta tell you, as much as I scramble around day-to-day to jot down quotes that speak to me, that's one quote I did NOT have to write down.
How often do we wear our wishbone where our backbone ought to be? How often do we just plain wear that wishbone OUT?!!?
Well, I have what I believe is an answer to that. I think we use our wishbone over our backbone in direct proportion to how much we Trust. (Did you see that one coming? Come on! I know you did!! This is Trust Life Today you're reading, folks!)
Seriously now. The more we wish, and I'm talking about the kind of wishing that has no action behind it, the kind that is just one step away from the prayer that turns into begging (you know the kind) – – the less we Trust.
Using our backbone first however, implies Trusting ourselves, a Trust that comes from within.
Using our backbone over our wishbone doesn't mean that we always know exactly what to do, by the way. The right course of action at that moment might be to do nothing, to wait. It might be to ask for help. But beginning from our backbone over our wishbone offers us a real vantage point. We are leading from a position of strength.
And where does this strength come from? When I say Trust comes from within, I don't want you to hear me say it's all Me, Me, Me. No, no, no…. The strength to lead from our backbone comes from KNOWING YOU ARE TAKEN CARE OF. By who, you ask? By God, Our Creator, the Universe, whatever language sits well with you, but it's that Force, that Greater Force Than I, that lives within me, that lives within you, which provides the strength I spoke of. Provides Faith. Provides Trust.
You are stronger than you know.
Put that backbone to good use.
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