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In April of 2011, 60 Minutes did a segment on Eli Broad. If you're not familiar with Broad, he built KB Home (formerly Kaufman and Broad Home Corp.) and SunAmerica (which was sold to AIG). These days, Eli and his wife Edythe are solely devoted to philanthropic efforts that advance entrepreneurship for the public good in education, science and the arts. It's their activity in the arts that 60 Minutes reported on.
Broad has collected art for four decades. With numerous museums named after Eli and Edythe in the Los Angeles area, the couple has amassed a personal modern art collection of about 2,000 works by more than 200 artists. Valued at more than $1 billion, the collection is so expansive that it needs to be kept in a large warehouse. When once asked what he looks for when purchasing art, Eli's response was simply, "Art that is important."
The difficulty in this is trying to anticipate which artists will be considered historically important by art experts in the future, rather than collecting those whose work is already deemed important, such as a Jackson Pollack or Claude Monet. To be important, the art needs to bring something new to the table. It must display an exceptionally developed level of skill in a medium that has been well honed.
Analyzing the world of independent broker-dealers, we looked for firms that might meet the criteria of "important." What we came up with are two defining characteristics:
- The firm must bring something new to the independent broker-dealer channel, such as a positive change of focus and direction.
- The firm expands the business model so that the channel becomes an increasingly viable alternative for advisors to seek out.
Here are the five firms that we feel meet the criteria of important.
Commonwealth Financial Network: Taking practice management to a higher level
No other firm has defined, developed and executed practice management as well as Commonwealth, and for that, they are important.
With humble beginnings, founder Joe Deitch (left) went through the natural struggles of a new/young business owner. Knowing that he had a lot to learn, Joe entered the Harvard Business School OPM (Owners of President's Management) program. Commonwealth had its struggles in the mid-'80s, with firms going out of business at a rapid pace, the tax reform act of 1986 and the October stock crash of 1987 creating a very difficult environment in which to operate a financial services business. Joe has attributed the Harvard OPM program to his firm's survival through this difficult market, as well as the 1989 birth of their Practice Management Department.
Today, Commonwealth's Practice Management Department operates with the philosophy that excellent wealth managers may not have all the tools necessary to be excellent CEOs of their own small business. Thus, the department gives the advisor more face time with clients by helping with the CEO functions (staffing, risk management, marketing, business planning and dashboarding) all of which are critical to the success of their practice, but none of which are in and of themselves revenue generating.
Raymond James Financial Services: Attracting wirehouse reps
Prior to the emergence of Raymond James Financial Services, independent broker-dealers were considered a fringe model for reps with insurance backgrounds. Raymond James made the independent model a viable, sought-out option for wirehouse advisors.
The early and mid-'70s were a very difficult time for Raymond James in a declining market that meant declining margins with the static overhead of a retail model. In 1975, Raymond James acquired a struggling mutual fund sales and financial planning firm, Financial Service Corporation (FSC), and merged it into its existing independent broker-dealer – IM&R – along with most of its top talent.
For the years following, Raymond James grew substantially, bringing credibility to the independent broker-dealer channel that did not exist prior. By 1999, they changed the name from IM&R to Raymond James Financial Services and have grown to become the second largest independent broker-dealer. To this day, Raymond James maintains a primary focus of recruiting wirehouse advisors, averaging 85% of recruits coming from this channel. In some years, like in 2009, recruits came almost entirely from wirehouse firms. Building a platform that has the look, feel, advisory platforms and technology similar to what wirehouse reps are accustomed to, but in an independent wrapper, has given Raymond James the success that it enjoys today. Cambridge Investment Research: The hybrid model
Prior to the early '90s, the hybrid model was rare and largely ignored, until Cambridge embraced it. The firm's evolution as the leader of the hybrid model makes it important.
Founded in 1981, it wasn't until the early '90s that Eric Schwartz (left) decided to follow the hybrid model as the wave of the future. The beginnings of this new business venture did not come easily, though, as the firm lost its two biggest offices (about 75% of its revenue) because those offices decided to forgo all commissions and become fee-only.
Eric's first response was fear, anger and a wrong conclusion that the independent broker-dealer business was an obsolete model. Luckily he didn't quit, and after listening to financial planners who wanted to do more fee business, Eric spent three years preparing for and designing the Cambridge way of making it easy to do both fee- and commission-based business.
After committing to both fees and commissions, the hybrid model really became active in 1995. Within seven years Cambridge revenues grew close to 20-fold—from modest revenues of $2 million in 1995 to $40 million in 2002. Fee-based business, the hybrid and commission business model, and the independent broker-dealer channel have gone from relative obscurity to a huge, rapidly growing segment of the financial services industry. Cambridge leads that wave because of their early commitment and vision of things to come.
First Allied: A focus on wealth management
By developing a platform consistently centered on a single target market (accredited investors and wealth management), First Allied has brought a focused approach to wealth management which makes them uniquely important.
Over the years, First Allied has built a comprehensive fee-based platform, broad range of alternative investments and private equity offerings. The firm has also built a client acquisition program that enables their representatives to capture new, high-net-worth clients that include doctors, federal employees and a retirement income program.
First Allied's program sales initiative has brought a good deal of success, along with some obstacles. The firm has experienced some advisors who participate in the programs but have not followed the game plan. Or, some of these advisors have failed to follow up with qualified prospects in a timely and systematic manner and then pointed the finger at the firm for their lack of success. They have also experienced some advisors who lack the sales skills to consistently close the business. As a result, they have added actionable sales skills training to the wealth management training they provide in partnership with Cannon Financial Institute, both in the baseline Certified Wealth Strategist (CWS) certification training and the advanced Masters training curriculum.
The focused approach has worked well for First Allied as they consistently rank in the top five for average production per rep, which currently falls around $375,000. The advisors who engage in their wealth management and development program surpassed the GDC and asset growth of their own advisors who did not by 66% (2008–2011). The Comprehensive Group: 100% advisory payout model
Only a handful of firms offer the 100% hybrid model. One that has proven it can be implemented successfully and profitably is the Comprehensive Group.
Tim Smith started the Comprehensive Group in 1998. In 2001 he took on partners to expand the company's scope and further penetrate the hybrid market. Addressing this venture, Tim was quoted as saying, "We have strained at times to upgrade our technology on the fly, a bit like jumping aboard a moving train while holding an egg in each hand." Along the way, there have been numerous personnel issues—as with all companies—and of course challenges in meeting the regulatory requirements while still growing and maintaining profitability. The Comprehensive Group has marketed almost exclusively by serving as a resource to the primary custodial firms in the country, and receives referrals from them when they want to onboard a new RIA firm in need of a fee-friendly broker-dealer. They have grown at double-digit rates for more than 10 years now, going from 20 registered reps to nearly 260 now, plus staff. They have focused on little or no compensation on the RIA side, with a fair payout on the broker-dealer side.
The Comprehensive Group evolved into the 100% advisory payout model because Tim owned an RIA before starting the broker-dealer, and understood the resentment among advisors toward sharing those revenues with a broker-dealer. As a result, each deal they created was designed to eliminate any RIA revenue participation. In the vast majority of cases, they have been able to accomplish this.
Making this model work requires some give on the broke-dealer/commission side of the ledger by the advisor or production group. In addition, Comprehensive focuses their RIA oversight on proprietary, technology-driven solutions, which is both efficient and cost effective. Finally, they offer excellent service in those areas where they support an advisor, but they also limit those areas in number, so that they are not duplicating support they already have access to at the custodial firms. This enables them to keep costs down, balancing the lower revenue in the equation.
Who's Next?
If I were to do as Eli Broad did, and foresee future important independent broker-dealers, a recent entry to that space would be HighTower, which has made it to No. 12 on the 2012 Inc. 500 list of fastest growing private companies. In a few years, when we revisit the "important" independent broker dealers, I suspect HighTower will be among them.


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No i phone or complicated portable just a good old fashioned British Telecom standard issue telephone, the one's I grew up with, they are considered retro now, I so enjoyed curling up on the sofa, twirling the curly cord in my fingers and using this to call absent friends and loved ones.
Friday, January 4, 2013
Happy New Year
No i phone or complicated portable just a good old fashioned British Telecom standard issue telephone, the one's I grew up with, they are considered retro now, I so enjoyed curling up on the sofa, twirling the curly cord in my fingers and using this to call absent friends and loved ones.
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Wishing you and your family a very happy and healthy 2013!ReplyDelete
Your brother's home is lovely.
Very nice Dash. England, and then Prague. Great programme for the Holidays! I wish you a very happy new year! Looking forward to more stories in 2013... Veronique (French Girl in Seattle)ReplyDelete
I've longed to go to Prague ever since watching the movie "The Illusionist". SO jealous! Looking forward to vicarious vacationing when you post about it! 8-)ReplyDelete
Missed you friend, hope you received my Christmas wishes.ReplyDelete
Gros bisous and hoping for a whole lot of peace and happiness in 2013 for you and M.,
A very happy new year to you Dash, may 2013 bring you much health and happiness!ReplyDelete
Such beautiful shots, specially loved that old school phone - happy new year to you!ReplyDelete
Hello DashReplyDelete
Your stay in Yorkshire sounds marvelous and such a comfortable home. I will be very much looking forward to reading about Prague, I have not been.
Wishing you good health, happiness and prosperity in 2013
Your brother's home looks gorgeous, love the red phone!ReplyDelete
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Happy New Year Dash :) xxReplyDelete
Such memories those phones bring, don't they? We stayed at a 'historic hotel' not long ago and photographed the phone in our room -- a black version of the one you pictured. I remember those from my childhood, which had me questioning my 'historic' age. Beautiful photos.ReplyDelete
happy new year :)ReplyDelete
your blog is so fresh, cute.. i like your images..
I have been a bit worried at your absence after reading about Crusoe being ill on Backwards in High Heels blog - I hope he is now recovered.ReplyDelete
I love your brother's sitting room. I too have gone back to the the phones of my youth, mine is black. I got fed up of the batteries dying on me mid-call on the cordless phones. These olds phones look much more stylish plus I find the earpiece on them much more comfortable for long chats.
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Dear Tricia, thank you for concern regarding Crusoe it turned out to be a deep cut under his tongue, which the vet missed initially. Tongues bleed an awful lot! He was anaemic for a while but is now fighting fit and back to his usual self.Delete
Happy travels Dash...it looks like you are having a wonderful time. Your brother has great taste, why am I not surprised?ReplyDelete
Happy New Year and best wishes for an inspiring year...
Jeanne xx
Sounds like a wonderful adventure! Can't wait to see what you have to share. (And your brother's home looks lovely!)ReplyDelete
Happy 2013! Even if you were just indoors, it looks like a fabulous indoors to spend your time in.ReplyDelete
Ah yes. The great British phone. Memories of curling up in the hallway on the telephone table (talk about retro) twisting the cord round as we summoned up the courage to call.....ReplyDelete
Happy New Year to you too...sounds like you've been having a wonderful time.ReplyDelete
Looking forward to reading your posts in 2013!
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Diamond Bar honored its heroes Thursday during its community day at the Los Angeles County Fair in Pomona. The fair honored three residents who have helped shape the lives in the community.
These local heroes work tirelessly to make life better in Diamond Bar. They have volunteered many hours of community service without any payment.
Tony Yi Torng is a great example. This community leader has lent his organizational skills to many groups in the city. Time freely given despite a demanding job as a project manager and technical fellow with Boeing in Huntington Beach.
"I'm a Buddhist, so I believe that good works come back to us as good karma," Torng said before the community reception.
The mechanical engineer has made a difference in the city. He chaired the planning commission from 2009-2011. Torng also volunteers on the traffic and transportation commission.
If you've seen all the wonderful new buildings at Mt. SAC, thank Torng for part of it. He also chairs the citizens oversight committee that watches over more than $575 million in construction bonds raised in Measure R and RR.
"The money has been well spent, making Mt. SAC one of the best community colleges in the state," Torng said.
While two sons, Perry and Jerry, attended Diamond Bar High, Torng volunteered with Walnut Valley Unified, serving on the high school interview panel. He was also a board member of the Chinese American Parent Association and the Brahma Foundation.
Torng shares his expertise in mechanical engineering while mentoring the high school's robotics team.
"One of my favorite events has been the Lunar New Year celebration," said our hero, who has chaired the grand event for three years. "So many people enjoy the lunar celebration every year."
A board member of the DB Chinese Association since 2001, he served as president from 2003-2005.
If all that weren't enough, our hero was nominated by Kathleen Newe with the Friends of the Diamond Bar Library. A Friend since 2001, Torng has been a board member as well as president in 2008.
Since 2006, Torng has co-chaired the amazing Wine Soiree fundraising event for the local branch of the Los Angeles County Library.
"We've raised more than $350,000 that goes directly to the Diamond Bar Library," Torng noted.
Bea McMillan is Diamond Bar's senior hero. She's the wife of Pastor Larry McMillen at St. Denis Parish, where she has been very active for more than 20 years.
A member of the women's council, McMillan chairs the decoration committee and had been a long-time member of the bereavement committee at the local church.
"I couldn't serve on the bereavement committee after our 35-year-old daughter died from a brain aneurysm. She donated her organs and we received a letter from a woman who received her heart, thanking us for saving her life," McMillan said. "Everyone should sign up to donate their organs."
Now McMillan volunteers her time with the Donate Life Foundation. She is also a volunteer cuddler, holding babies in the intensive care unit at Citrus Valley Medical Center. She knits caps for premature babies.
Civic duties include serving as an inspector at the local election precinct for more than 40 years. She's also been the secretary for the Mt. SAC Relays for many years.
"She leads by example by helping and praying for others, and has saintly patience as exemplified by her 57-year toleration of her husband," Pastor McMillan wrote in a nomination.
"Mrs. McMillan is one of the most giving and caring persons I have ever met," agreed Richard Malooly of Diamond Bar in his nomination form. "Bea has traveled to the state prison in the Central Valley to chaperone children so they could visit their mothers, who were incarcerated. A bus trip of over 12 hours."
She said she was surprised by the unexpected honor. She was going to take her three grandsons with her to the county fair.
Diamond Bar High senior Atharshna Singarajah was selected as the city's young hero. She was nominated by city Councilman Jack Tanaka and his wife, Wanda.
"She has the heart and commitment to serve our community," Jack Tanaka explained. "Atharshna is always positive and works very hard to get things done."
The Tanakas mentor the local high school Leo Club, where Atharshna served as president of the 365 member club. The Brahma was also president of Leo District 4L4, supervising 10 Leo Clubs in the area.
"Out of thousands of Leos around the world, she was picked as the International Leo of the Year in 2012," the councilman said. "Atharshna has been a wonderful volunteer since middle school."
She had been named the outstanding student in the sixth and seventh grades at Chaparral Middle School. The young woman received Diamond Bar's outstanding volunteer award in 2011.
In high school, the young hero also served as band librarian and section leader. She was also a Link Crew leader.
"This year, Atharshna was in charge of collecting donations for veterans and their families, sold bracelets to raise money for victims of Hurricane Sandy, donated to Canine Companions and collected toys for the Spark of Love," Jack noted.
She said she was honored to receive the recognition at the L.A. County Fair. The Brahma couldn't wait to wave to friends while riding in the community day parade through the fairgrounds.
"The most important thing in life is experience. While education is an important factor, nothing beats the quality and benefits you get from experience," she wrote in a senior profile.
"I believe that every person needs to live to his or her fullest and take advantage of every opportunity, because as of now there is only one life a person has, and if one decides to throw their life away then there's no getting it back," she concluded.


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Ferris State - Women 2nd, Men 4th At GLIAC Championships
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Big Rapids, Mich. - The Ferris State University women's cross country team placed second while the men came in fourth at the 2011 Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (GLIAC) Championships held on Saturday (Oct. 22) in Ashland, Ohio.
The Bulldog women, who are ranked first in the Midwest Region and third nationally, earned runner-up honors with 57 points behind champion Grand Valley State, which finished with 21 points in the 13-team field. The Lakers entered the meet ranked seecond in the nation and also second in the region behind FSU after winning the NCAA Division II Championship last year.
Ferris State had the women's individual champion as senior Tina Muir clocked 21:18.60 in winning the 6K women's field by more than 20 seconds. The three-time All-American won the women's division featuring 119 runners.
Behind Muir, the Lakers took the next four spots en route to winning the team championship. Sophomore Samantha Johnson, who has been the Bulldog's number two runner for the past two seasons, did not run at the GLIAC Championships.
FSU's next highest finisher was junior Anna Rudd, who finished ninth overall in a time of 22:28.19. Junior Alyssa Osika took 15th place (23:08.17) followed by junior Shelby Janutol in 16th place (23:19.13).
Freshman Kristie LeSage came in 23rd for FSU (23:35.15) with junior Felicia Slate taking 27th place (23:40.81). Sophomore Brittany Anderson placed 34th Junior Jordan McGuire wound up 53rd (24:22.26) and freshman Kayla Smith was 76th (25:23.30).
The Lakers also captured the men's division with 17 points and were followed by Ashland (71), Wayne State (93) and FSU (119) in the top four overall. GVSU's Anthony Witt was the individual champion (25:24.34) on the 8K course.
Junior Tyler Crossman paced FSU by finishing eighth overall (26:09.30). Senior Alex Best was 27th (26:43.83), sophomore David Silversmith came in 28th (26:46.31) and junior Ryan Chute placed 29th (26:53.07). Freshman Spencer Gerber was 32nd (26:56.02) with freshman Andrew Harper coming in 34th (26:58.03).
Senior Steve Neshkoff placed 43rd (27:12.53), freshman Charlton Craig came in 52nd (27:27.58), sophomore Bill King took 65th place (27:54.42) and sophomore Connor LaRowe wound up 77th (28:28.60) in the 117-runner division.
Ferris State will host the 2011 NCAA Division II Midwest Regional Championships on Saturday, Nov. 5, at FSU's Katke Golf Course in Big Rapids, Mich.


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April 1 – April Fool's Day – If it sounds too good to be true today, rest assured it is!
April 2 – National PB & J Day – Have you tried a grilled triple decker PB & J? Today is your day!
April 3 – National Chocolate Mousse Day – Enough said.
April 5 – National Caramel – Test this phrase out today. "One of everything with caramel in it, please."
April 6 – National Caramel Popcorn Day – Leftovers from yesterday?
April 11 – National Pet Day – One extra walk today will be healthy for both of you!
April 13 – Friday the 13th – Don't test your luck on your renewal lease- sign yours today!
April 12 – National Grilled Cheese Day – Think outside the GC box today and try something new!
April 23 – National Picnic Day – Day date or just relaxing, picnics are a forgotten treasure- try one!
April 27 – National Tell a Story Day – Keep them positive and share them often today!
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NEW YORK — The big-screen adaptation of E L James' "Fifty Shades of Grey" has cast its lead roles.
Charlie Hunnam will play the 27-year-old billionaire Christian Grey, and Dakota Johnson will play the college student he captivates, Anastasia Steele. Focus Features and Universal Pictures announced the castings Monday.
The 23-year-old Johnson is the daughter of actors Don Johnson and Melanie Griffith. She has had small roles in "The Social Network" and "21 Jump Street."
The 33-year-old British actor Hunnam starred in this summer's robot-monster battle "Pacific Rim." He currently stars in the FX series "Sons of Anarchy."
Directed by Sam Taylor-Johnson, the film is to be released next August.


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This is a broken commit because I decided to do this at a bad time. Sorry! The build will be working after next commit, I promise (and I won't push till then). This commit reflects the licensing in the files after I used my auto-add/remove script.
Modified the Behaviors to take a scoutname.
Scoutname now specifies which scout the behavior will affect. Scoutname must be passed to the constructors of each control module (some of which are now in need of modification), so that they can publish to the correct topic....
Made a lot of changes to the general structure.
Applied object-orienting techniques to the code, cleaning it up considerably. Major design changes are as follows:
Updated motors code.
Changed the definitions for the set_motors message, which forced a fewimplementation changes as well.
Changed "libscout_node" to "node" and "n" to "node" in other packages.
Only added libbuttons files. Adding changes to libscout that make libbuttons work.
Added libheadlights.cpp(cpp/h). Also updated constants.h and libscout.(cpp/h) for libheadlights. Have not compiled yet, but it should work.
Added the ROS stack with the libscout, motors, and sonar packages to the reposititory, and associated files. There are probably still things missing. Libscout won't run properly, but it and motors will compile. Sonar is probably broken, but nothing depends on it yet, so this shouldn't be an issue.
Created first version of git repository; added libscout and motors packages.
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Kevin Goldstein looks at those minor leaguers who saw their stock jump the most:
Chicago White Sox: The breakout pitcher of the year, right-hander Dan Hudson went from a non-descript fifth-round pick in 2008 to a big-leaguer, pitching at all four full-season affiliates while finishing with a 2.32 ERA and a remarkable 166/34 strikeout/walk ratio in 147 1/3 innings. All of the scouting evidence indicates that this breakout's for real.
Runner-Up: An undrafted free agent out of Arizona, all C.J. Retherford has done is hit at every level. That continued at Double-A, as the second baseman hit .297/.340/.473 in 128 games for the Barons, including 46 doubles.


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How to Get Grounded
Young farmers in Vermont surmount the high cost of land with support from family, friends, and investors
Written onAugust 19 , 2013
On a road in Cabot, not far from the land that Laura Dale and Cyrus Pond bought this past March, you can look out to the west at a horizon dominated by the undulating spine of the Green Mountains. For many young farmers in Vermont, the cost of land can seem as daunting and insurmountable as the largest of those mountains in the dead of winter. If becoming a landowner is like traversing a high peak, then finding the right land is akin to taking the first step toward the base of that peak. And finding the money to actually buy that land can be the real challenge, the final ascent.
Here are the stories of three groups of farmers and how they found and bought land in Vermont. These farmers are all in their 20s and 30s, with deep experience living off the land and growing food, but not a lot of monetary wealth to show for it. As they looked for land, they experienced common feelings: a frustration with banks, a sense that maybe they should look for land in another state, and eventually, gratitude for the support of family, friends, and private investors. For other young farmers in Vermont, these stories can shed light on how to find and purchase farmland, how to get to the top of that mountain.
When Laura and Cyrus found a posting on Craigslist for the land that is now their Backroads Farm, they had known each other for just four months and it was the first property they had looked at together. For a variety of reasons, the land just felt right to the two Vermont natives. For Cyrus, who had been living nearby on leased land while getting his hardwood flooring business off the ground, there was a big incentive to buy in an area where he already had feelings of connection within the local community.
"It's the people here—you can't re-create the energy that the people have in Vermont," Cyrus says. "It's what the people are trying to do, their intentions, their attitudes, their humor; it's about having good neighbors and sharing farm implements. It's just the whole package, its special."
Laura, for her part, had been actively looking for land in northern Vermont for several years, partly with the seasoned insight of her parents. As she explains, "My parents were homesteaders, they built their own house, they built up the land. My mom has this deep understanding of what it takes to do this and has a very realistic outlook on the compatibility of land. She came up [to see the property] and said, 'How soon can you close? This is it.'"
For the past several years, Laura had been working on farms in Vermont. But as for most young farmers, the low wages and seasonality of the work did not leave her with adequate resources to purchase land. Cyrus, in the process of launching his business, was also in no position to afford the $139,000 price tag of the land they now own. Their first attempt at securing a loan left them with common feelings of frustration. "We went to the bank," explains Cyrus, "and we both qualified for a loan, no problem, but I only had this year's tax returns [and the returns from another state]. But they said, 'Sorry you can't use the returns from another state.'" Says Laura: "And I had only just started making enough money to qualify for the loan, since I'd been farming and not making any money." "So," Cyrus continues, "we thought, 'What are we going to do? There's this awesome property and we can't afford it.'"
In the end, Laura's family loaned her and Cyrus the money to buy the land, with a two-percent interest rate and a reasonable repayment plan over a number of years. At that interest rate, Laura's family is making more money than if they'd put their money in a bank, and Laura and Cyrus are paying less than if they'd taken out a bank loan. Laura strongly recommends this kind of private financing: "It works out for both people. It's an investment for the parents—they're making money. And they're enabling a young farmer. Avoiding the bank seems to be the best way to go."
Dropping down out of the hills of Cabot, you'll most likely find yourself on Route 2, following the Winooski River as it winds through valleys and towns. One year ago, if you had been paying attention, you might have noticed a new sign alongside that of the Onion River Campground: the Onion River Farm stand. What you probably didn't know when you stopped at the farm stand was that the land was purchased a year and a half ago by a limited liability corporation (LLC) called El No Namo. It was formed by Jaqueline Rieke and Josie Green of Nutty Steph's Chocolaterie in Middlesex (Jaqueline being the owner of Nutty Steph's and Josie being the head chocolate maker).
In 2006, when Josie became frustrated with mounting debt and disgusted with dissecting lab rats, she abandoned her neuroscience degree and moved to Vermont, where she lived in a teepee and had a garden for the first time. As she moved around, from Morrisville to Hyde Park to Cabot, she worked with her friends to grow food and took part in the birth of Woodbelly Pizza and Provender Farm, all the while keeping an eye out for land of her own and strengthening her own ideas and vision. When she started working at Nutty Steph's Chocolaterie three years ago, the desire to find a place to put down solid roots had grown and her goals had begun to solidify: "My plan was to really set things up the way I wanted to and have a cooperative situation," she says, "a cooperative house or just work on land with people and share resources. I'm passionate about food preservation and really want to spread that knowledge to anyone who wants it."
Despite her thorough search, though, the hope of finding land began to fade. Land prices just seemed too high, and Josie was preparing to give up. "I was thinking: I've been trying to do this thing in Vermont for four or five years. I've moved around from land to land to land—always someone else's land—and I was just really getting tired of it. I was thinking I might leave and move to New York."
In the midst of her low, Josie drove by the Onion River Campground with Jaqueline one day and remembered that the land and the campground business had recently been put up for sale. She suggested they stop and look at it. "So we walked around, saw the greenhouse, just kind of got really excited about it, and she [Jaqueline] just got it in her head to buy it." Tapping into all the connections she had developed in establishing her thriving chocolate business, Jaqueline found a private investor, an individual who agreed to loan them the money to buy the land. They formed the LLC together and bought it. Now a business partner at Nutty Steph's, Josie oversees the collaborative management of the Onion River Farm stand, where she and several other young people are working on honing their farming and marketing strategies in order to pay back their loan as soon as possible.
"It's just so healthy for me to have land," Josie says. "This is a way that I found that's really grounding for me: working in the dirt, working with food. It's a spiritually fulfilling quest for me. So having this, and having decision-making power, is just really amazing for me."
Continuing west once more along the Green Mountains' long ridge line, and up into the hills around Worcester, you'll find Good Heart Farmstead and the home of Katie Spring and Edge Fuentes. Next to Katie and Edge's yurt, there's a small, picturesque sheep flock grazing alongside an immaculate garden bed, with the Worcester Mountain Range spread out like the perfect backdrop on the opposite side of the valley. Katie and Edge had bought their 15 acres for $85,500 one year prior to my visit, in the spring of 2012. Much like Josie's, their land search had left them nearly burnt out and on the verge of abandoning their hope of living off the land in Vermont.
"In the summer of 2011 we were farming on someone else's land," says Katie. "We got really frustrated with our land search and we got frustrated with our farming situation—we got frustrated with a lot of things about our living situation and were feeling like, 'Where are we going to go?' We decided we were going to move back to Alaska and start a pizza business. We were pretty close to doing it all in and buying tickets."
As they considered their options, though, Katie and Edge decided to stay in Vermont. After a winter of intensive thinking and planning, they honed their mission, namely to provide good local food to their community, especially low-income families. They also made a conscious effort each week to take an active step in the land search process. As they began to see the different options, a checklist formed in their heads of all the details that would help inform their decision. "It was all those little things that we started learning as we were seeing different places," Edge says. "Does the field flood? Can we feed gravity through our whole fields to our crops? Are the neighbors cool? Is the road driveable? So when we had all those boxes to check, we could come up with a way to value it. If it had a beautiful view, we could add a little bit more; if it had bad access, we could take some value off of it."
In the end, just like Laura and Cyrus, Katie and Edge found their land through a Craigslist posting and received a private loan from their family with a two-percent interest rate and a 15-year repayment plan. "It [closing on the land] was really exciting," Katie says. "We had each asked our parents for $55,000, so that's what we knew we were working with." The land had originally been listed at a price that would have completely depleted the loan, so Katie and Edge negotiated a lower price knowing they would need some of their loan for startup capital. Says Edge: "We were thinking, Okay, what's it going to cost to put power to the place? and When do we want to live there? and What are the costs of needing to live there?"
Katie and Edge have advice for young farmers looking for land to buy. "At each place you go to," Katie says, "it's so important to spend a lot of time there, just sitting there, getting a feeling for not only what it would be like as a farm, but as your home too, because you're probably going to want to live there. If we didn't have a farm and for some reason we both thought we'd go get off-farm jobs, I would still just love living here, either way."
Edge adds, "I think it's most important to understand what it is that you want and what's going to work for you, so then you can in some way ask for it, whether you're asking for money or asking for an arrangement. If you don't have the understanding of what you're going to do and what you really want and what your vision is, then you won't ever be able to communicate it."


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WASHINGTON – A new scandal is consuming the U.S. Navy and one of the world's most venerated captains: Cap'n Crunch.
The legendary cereal icon's status as a captain has come under fire after eagle-eyed writers noticed that Cap'n Crunch only wears the bars of a Navy commander, not those of a captain. In the U.S. Navy, captains wear four bars on their uniforms, while commanders — one rank below captain — have three bars.
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A lawsuit was filed Friday against a former Iowa Boy Scout leader.
Attorneys representing a man now in his 40s said the suit names Kenneth L. Newell, Boy Scouts of America and the Mid-Iowa Council of Boy Scouts.
The attorneys held a news conference on Friday to discuss the case. They said the victim still lives in Iowa.
They said the sexual abuse happened in the late 1970s when Newell was a scout leader of Troop No. 202 in West Des Moines.
The lawsuit claims that Iowa Boy Scout officials failed to supervise Newell to prevent him from abusing boys. It also claims the Boy Scouts knew they had a "serious problem with pedophiles in Scouting, and failed to warn Scouts, their parents and local troops about the dangers of abuse in Scouting."
"The Scouts were aware of a significant problem long before this action took place," said Patrick Hopkins, one of the attorneys who filed the lawsuit.
Hopkins told KCCI that he has talked with a few others in Iowa who said they were also sexually abused, but none of them have filed lawsuits.
"We're devastated that something happened to a young man or could have happened to a young man," said Bob Hopper, scout executive and CEO of Boy Scouts of America Mid-Iowa Council.
Hopper also talked about the broader allegations that the Boy Scout organization committed fraud and negligence by covering up instances of sexual abuse.
"I have a hard time with that just because I know what our organization has been doing in my own experience as a scout and as a staff member for all that time. Tough time hearing that and we are going to address it in the most forth right way we can," said Hopper.
A telephone number for Newell could not immediately be located. Newell has not been criminally charged.


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The largest 'dead zone' ever recorded is headed for the Gulf of Mexico this summer, as high levels of pollution runoff, elevated by Midwestern floods, seep into the ocean.
The dead area could grow to as much as 8,500 square miles of toxic deep ocean water—killing all marine life in its path—warn National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration scientists.
The findings signal a warning not only about the Gulf of Mexico, but about the many dead zones that develop each year across the world's oceans.
Dead zones emerge deep beneath the marine surface when pollution runoff from farms seeps into the ocean, releasing nitrogen that feeds large algae growths.
When areas become over-grown with algae because of excess nitrogen, they become depleted of oxygen and thus toxic to marine life, choking and killing fish in a process scientists call 'hypoxia.'
"Dead zones are becoming more common worldwide in areas where coastal waters are swamped with nutrients, particularly nitrogen, from sewage or fertilizer," NOAA scientists explain.
This year's runoff is especially bad, because heavy rains and floods this spring are flushing Midwestern farm pollutants into the ocean.
The Gulf of Mexico dead zone is expected to swell far beyond its usual 18,000 kilometers, alarming scientists.
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Unregulated large-scale farming is to blame for the vast pollutants the rain washes into the ocean. Time Magazine reports:
The major factor driving the size of the dead zone—beyond changing flooding patterns—is the use and overuse of fertilizers in America's rich Midwestern corn belt. The U.S. Geological Survey estimated that 153,000 metric tons of nutrients flowed down the swollen Mississippi and Atchafalaya rivers during May—a 16% increase over the nutrient load average seen during the past 34 years.
As Bloomberg points out, ethanol production carries much of the blame:
The culprits behind the dead zone are many, but one deserves special attention: corn. Unlike, say, soybeans, which can grow without fertilizer, corn can't grow without it. It takes 195 pounds of fertilizer to grow an acre of corn.
And the U.S. grows a lot of corn -- more than any other country. What's more, 40 percent of the U.S. corn crop is devoted to making ethanol, which fuel companies must blend with gasoline under a congressional mandate. The Gulf dead zone is yet another reason for Congress to kill that mandate.
Green groups charge that the lack of state and federal regulations of big agribusiness is responsible for the toxic zones choking ocean life. State and federal initiatives are too reliant on farmers' voluntary self-regulation and come nowhere near to meeting nitrogen reduction goals.
In May, native and indigenous communities walked over 1,700 miles along the Mississippi calling for an immediate halt to the flow of pollutants into the river.


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The idea was to have an all-purpose bike and the pictures show 3 configurations: with handlebar bag, for randonneuring; with basket, for small errands; and with trailer, for big errands. The lowrider mounts on the fork make a light touring configuration possible, too, although I haven't tried that yet. I use the 3 shown every week. Switching from one to another is easy: the BicycleR Evolution trailer attaches with a quick-release compressor fitting and rubber straps attach the basket to studs (bolts, really) on the front rack.Good job Glenn! Check out the lights and the Sugino PX cranks. The rest of the photos are here.


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In the previous Soulcalibur games, guard impacting was performed by pressing
▷G (forward and guard;
6G, in fighting game direction terminology).
In Soulcalibur V, this was removed. Guard impact still exists, but it uses the soul gauge, and apparently requires a different combination (likely involving
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Phil Whittington UpdateSunday, January 28th, 2007
Aunt Marva Lee just called me with an update on Phil to pass along. The type of Leukemia he has is Lymphocytic Leukemia. He will have blood tests tomorrow (Monday) to determine the stage of the disease and what avenues of treatment should be pursued. He hopes to have the results by Wednesday.
Phil is in hopeful spirits and has a good attitude going into this. Remember, the Leukemia was found during a physical and not because of any symptoms. The doctor has told him many people discover they have the disease the same way and not because they are feeling bad. We can certainly be thankful that he is not feeling bad.
I will post more updates as I get them. Do also keep Aunt Marva Lee and Uncle Phillip in your prayers as this has rattled them pretty well.


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Helicopter lands ~ Manoir de Coat Amour
Guests arrive at Coat Amour using all modes of transport. The great majority come by car, usually fairly modern ones, although we have had quite few vintage cars here and some veteran ones too.
Some arrive by train, some by bicycle, others by motorbike, some walk and some fly to Brest or Dinard (Pleurtuit) or Rennes, and then hire a car. We have some guests that have flown their light aircraft into Morlaix (Ploujean) airport.
Today was a the first time somebody arrived in their own helicopter. The Robinson R44 Raven II helicopter flew in this morning and landed in our field adjacent to the swimming pool. It all seemed so simple, and what a way to travel! It is a very stylish machine finished in a royal metallic blue, with a range of about 250 miles when flying at 120 mph.
The owners often go off for the weekend and sometimes fly in company on safari type jaunts ~ what fun.


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Call at first overturned on O's first challenge
As a result of the ruling, Jones scores on single by Cruz in sixth
BOSTON -- The Orioles were among the last teams in Major League Baseball to challenge a call, but it was worth the wait. After Nelson Cruz was originally called out at first in the sixth inning, the umpires overturned the call following a replay review, which meant Cruz had an RBI single and the game against the Red Sox was tied at 2. Baltimore lost the game, 4-2.
With two outs in the sixth, Cruz hit a ball deep into the hole at third base, and Brock Holt backhanded the ball before throwing across the diamond for a close play in which Cruz was initially ruled to be out at first base. Manager Buck Showalter came out and challenged the call, with the replay taking 49 seconds, and the umps ruled Cruz safe at first, with Adam Jones, who was at third, scoring on the play.
"We've had about 10 or 11 that [replay coordinator Adam Gladstone] has been right about, too," Showalter said. "Just because you didn't challenge doesn't mean he's been wrong. I asked Adam at the end, I go, 'How did that feel?' And he goes, 'Real good.' It's a process that worked out for us."
The Orioles and Cardinals entered the day as the only two clubs in Major League Baseball to not have a replay challenge this season. The overturned call also marked the 500th RBI of Cruz's career.


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Can't find something you like? Most of the cards on this website are blank inside, and can therefore be used for any occasion.
Did you know? Artists with work featured on Moondragon receive royalties when their cards and prints are sold. All our cards and prints are produced in the UK, and in some instances we're buying directly from the artist themselves. By buying from us, not only are you helping us put food on our table, but you're putting food on the table of our artists too!


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Back in January, Google CEO Eric Schmidt allowed himself a rare snipe when asked about the iPad.
"You might want to tell me the difference between a large phone and a tablet," he said. Now, Google is apparently planning a "large phone" of its own, and will have to answer that same question itself.
According to the New York Times, Schmidt "told friends at a recent party in Los Angeles about the new device, which would exclusively run the Android operating system." It's worth noting that the company's own Chrome OS could do the trick, but Android is a bit more entrenched app-wise. Then again, it doesn't help comparisons to the upcoming tablet being a large phone.
U.S. & World
And that's pretty much it for details right now, aside from the obvious report that Google is in talks with content publishers to bring books, magazines and more to the future device. It's not an official official announcement, but it's about as close as you can get with a full-blown press release.
New York Times, via Gizmodo


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John Ortiz has been a DJ since 1978. He began by working events throughout the greater LA and Orange county areas, handling events for celebrities and movie industry events. He also worked as a DJ for weddings and other events. After his time in the big city, he later moved to the Central Coast of California to be closer to family. He then partnered with Michelle, his wife, who became very active in the business ventures. Together, they branched out working to provide an assortment of different services in the DJ business.
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Every since John Ortiz went to the school dances, in Junior High, he knew what he wanted to do for a career. He wanted to be a DJ with two turntables and a microphone. In Jr. High, he worked to get himself what he needed to begin his days as a DJ. Ever since, he has been spinnin' the most up to date, sickest and illest tracks while packin' the dance floor with party people night after night. At his DJ engagements, he makes it hard for guests to just sit there on their hands and not get up and dance. Working as a DJ at over 5000 weddings, in addition to other parties and corporate events, in his 30 plus years in the industry, he is still getting as much enjoyment out of being a DJ as ever. John has been providing DJ services and rental equipment for Weddings, Corporate Events, Birthdays, School Events, Anniversaries, Yacht Weddings, and more.
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sudafedam necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 114 diseños de 24 diseñadores freelance.
Community's Child
Did you know that children can be confiscated from homeless parents and placed into the foster care system? Community's Child – a 501(c)(3) non-profit – operates a transitional housing facility for homeless women with infants. During their two-year stay with Community's Child, homeless women regain custody of their children, enroll in classes, work part-time and attend self-improvement classes so that they graduate from the house as self-sufficient individuals. Outside of the house, Community's Child holds job training workshops, food distribution events and dental clinics for the disadvantaged in the community.
Community's Child's target audience is potential donors, including individuals, small businesses, foundations and government agencies. The logo you create will serve as an important part in our brand imaging and marketing.
As Community's Child has expanded its scope of services outside of the house to include job training workshops, food distributions and dental clinics for the community, we have outgrown our logo which currently showcases the silhouette of a mother and her infant.
What we would like:
- A logo that POPS and conveys compassion and confidence
- A reference to a mother and her infant AND to the community (to show that a community ought to support its members)
- If possible, a reference to a house (to commemorate Community's Child's beginnings – though this is less important than the requirement above)
- The words Community's Child in a professional, legible font
- A logo (can be one logo or two versions) that would look good on both plain (i.e., letterheads, business cards) and colored backgrounds (i.e., website, newsletters)
What we would like to avoid:
- Stick figures, cartoon images and complicated fonts
We have never submitted a design proposal before. Please pardon our lack of industry lingo and feel free to ask us any clarifying questions you may have. We are really looking forward to all of your awesome designs.
FYI - Our current logo is attached.
Descubre cómo funciona un concurso de diseño u obtén más información sobre nuestros servicios de diseño de logo.


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i am developing a project that i need to show a webPage. I dont need a webBrowser, only show one or two pages.
I tried it using a JEditorPane, it's what i want, but dont have support to cookies and a flashPlayer.
i need the cookies to do a login in the page, and flashPlayer because what i want to see in the page is in flash.
can someone know and tell me a project or something like this that i can use in my project?
Thanks a lot. sorry for the english.


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With its exuberant, swooping facade, Frank Gehry's newest building, the Walt Disney Concert Hall in downtown Los Angeles, looks anything but old-fashioned. And yet in at least one way, it's an architectural throwback. In an era when office parks, suburban developments, and even skyscrapers seem to zoom to completion in a matter of months, the $274 million hall, which opens Oct. 23 with three nights of inaugural performances by the L.A. Philharmonic, recalls the days when significant public buildings sometimes took decades to finish.
It wasn't planned that way, of course. The project had its start back in 1987, with a $50 million gift from Walt Disney's widow, Lillian. Working with a Japanese acoustician named Yasuhisa Toyota, Gehry quickly produced some very promising preliminary designs. The building seemed destined to be not just Gehry's most important in Southern California, where he's lived for nearly 60 of his 74 years, but among the most important of his career.
Then, in the mid-1990s, a ballooning budget, fund-raising troubles, and other problems stalled the project. It wasn't revived until 1997, when it received a new infusion of cash from the Disney family and others. That year saw the opening of Gehry's Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, which turned Gehry into a world-famous "starchitect," doing exactly for his reputation what Disney Hall was supposed to. And indeed the two buildings have a lot in common: Both are composed of a jumble of organic forms sheathed in gleaming, windowless metal panels. (In Spain the material is titanium. In Los Angeles the facade was originally going to be limestone, but budget cutbacks or seismic worries, depending on which story you believe, forced Gehry to go with panels of brushed stainless steel.)
Is the long-delayed Disney Hall, then, just a consolation prize for Los Angeles? Does one of the biggest cities in the world find itself in the odd position of playing second fiddle to a Basque regional capital with a population under 400,000? Not exactly. The building is a fantastic piece of architecture—assured and vibrant and worth waiting for. It has its own personality, instead of being anything close to a Bilbao rehash.
And surprisingly enough, it turns out that all of those postponements and budget battles have been a boon for the hall's design. What the finished product makes most clear is that like plenty of artists, Frank Gehry tends to work better with restrictions, whether they're physical, financial, or spatial. Without them, his work tends to sprawl not just figuratively but literally.
Even though it cost more than a quarter of a billion dollars and covers 293,000 square feet, Disney Hall is a tighter, more focused effort than many of those Gehry has produced after Bilbao, when the commissions came rolling in, his budgets suddenly became freer, and he found himself with clients perhaps less likely to challenge his authority. The hall manages to be at once lean and wildly expressionistic. It looks like a building in which every design decision has gone through two layers of scrutiny: one financial, the other aesthetic. Gehry had many years to tweak the project, and he's managed to polish it without sacrificing any of its vitality.
Like a lot of Gehry's work, the new building relates remarkably well to the city, though the visual fireworks of its facade and its plush interior spaces may well distract a lot of people from this fact. It occupies a full city block at the top of Bunker Hill, across the street from Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, a gilded late-modernist mistake that used to house both the Philharmonic and the Academy Awards and today hosts neither. (The Oscars are now handed out at the new David Rockwell-designed Kodak Theater, a few miles away.) The facade soars, bends, and dives in a number of directions, in typical Gehry fashion, but that movement is always checked by the limits of the city grid. Seen from above, the building looks like a bunch of flowers contained, barely, within a perfectly rectangular flower box. Indeed, that tension—between free-flowing imagination and the limits imposed by physics and budgets—is what defines the building as a whole.
That tension continues inside. There is a small performance and lecture space, for example, that Gehry created simply by stretching out one rounded corner of the huge lobby until it was big enough to operate as a quasi-separate room. It's a setting for chamber music and pre-concert lectures that didn't require any new walls or floors or even a stage. It makes something remarkable out of nothing.
Other details in the lobby, from the walls lined in Douglas fir to the remarkable treelike columns (whose stocky, branching form Gehry says he stole from the Czech architect Joze Plecnik), promote a dreamlike and otherworldly feel, a detachment from the hustle-bustle and the grime of the city. But the lobby is also open to everybody: You don't need a ticket to walk through it, as is the case in many concert halls. This is an old-school public space in the tradition of Grand Central Terminal or Bertram Goodhue's low-slung central branch of the Los Angeles Public Library, which is only a few blocks away from the new hall.
There is still more productive tension inside the auditorium itself, which holds about 2,200 people and during daytime performances will be naturally lit by mostly hidden skylights and one tall window. The free-flowing, organic forms that Gehry loves to use are offset by the rigorous acoustic demands that any architect of a concert hall has to contend with. (In an auditorium of this kind, every exposed surface, from balcony railings to seat upholstery, can affect how the orchestra sounds.) As it turns out, Frank Gehry and concert halls are well-matched. Acousticians have realized over the last few decades that convex—or outwardly bulging—curves can be very effective, bouncing and dispersing sound waves produced by an orchestra. (Concave curves, on the other hand, can trap sound.) And in buildings from Paris to Seattle, Gehry has produced what easily qualifies as architecture's most varied and complete collection of convex curves. There's no definitive word yet on whether Disney Hall's acoustics are indeed good; the orchestra's first performance is still a few days away. But the early word from the musicians, who began rehearsing in the new auditorium over the summer, has been positive.
All of these dualities are fitting for a concert hall. An attraction of going to the symphony is trading in your regular self for a better-dressed, more cultured one. Symphony orchestras these days are looking for ways to attract younger, hipper audiences as their core supporters grow older, while at the same time preserving the sense of refuge that will always be classical music's main drawing card. Gehry's design cleverly explores both sides of that divide: It is a building where the members of a democracy can go to feel refined, to be lifted from the everyday.
Gehry, along with a few of his more admiring critics, likes to define himself as a combination of artist and architect. That job description suggests that he envies the kind of pure creation that painters and sculptors can indulge in, distant from the demands of zoning boards, engineers, and French horn players. But in fact the Disney Concert Hall seems to make the opposite case about his talents. It's full of evidence that Gehry is an architect in the most public-minded and collaborative senses of the word—that he's a master at figuring out ways to allow inspiration to serve practicality, and vice versa.


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I am socially awkward penguin.
Posted December 5th, 2012 at 7:18 PM by Liliana Vess
Ok so basically my uni is doing a "school disco" type party where everyone dresses in shirts and their old school ties and such and they play old music that was played in old school discos, like YMCA and stuff. The guy who's planning it is in my class of about 30 people, and we also go to LGBT society together so we both at least know each other exist.
Like most uni things there's a facebook event for it, and a crap ton of people have been invited to it including people who aren't teaching students. The other day I saw that an american student who I live with, who studies psychology and is leaving before the event btw, replied to the event. So I went on the page to see if I should say I'm attending, and see that I was never sent an invite. Whilst scrolling through the invited members list I see that not only more people like the american student who won't be able to attend were invited, the university ducks were invited too.
I don't think I'll be going to the party anymore.
TL;DR Ducks get invited to more parties than I do.
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Posted December 5th, 2012 at 8:23 PM by Squirrel
Yeah, I second Alex's comment.
Nice one David!
Posted December 5th, 2012 at 8:40 PM by Hikamaru
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