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- Shah Rukh Khan; Deepike Padukone; Arjun Rampal
- Distributor:
- Eros International Ltd
- Release Date:
- 09/11/2007
- Country:
- India
- Language:
- Hindi
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- Action; Bollywood; Drama; Romance;
BBFC Consumer Advice:Contains moderate violence.
This film is based on reincarnation. At first,in 1977 Om Prakash Makhija(Shah Rukh Khan) falls for Shantipriya(Deepika Padukone). Om Prakash is ready to give up life for Shantipriya.He feels betrayed by her. She feels betrayed in love.Then calamity stikes somehow Om dies. Later in 2007, Om kapoor(Shah rukh khan) takes rebirth. Om remembers his past life and tries to tell Shantipriya/Sandy that he was the guy she liked in his past life. Thus begins the saga of Om Shanti Om.

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Title: The use of transition-state theory to extrapolate rate coefficients for reactions of OH with alkanes
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Year: 1982
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Lt. Bill Gmelin (1932-1955), USAF
William J. Gmelin was the grandson of Ludwig Gmelin, eldest brother of Adolph Gmelin, and thereby second cousin to Marilyn Matthews Riis and Robert T. Gmelin.
Note: The eyewitness testimony quoted here is taken from United States Air Force Accident Report 55-6-16-5, obtained by me through the Freedom of Information Act.
William Jay (Bill) Gmelin was born in New Rochelle, New York, in 1932, the only child of bank accountant William Julius Gmelin (1899-1995) and his wife, Mildred J. Thomas (1898-?).
Bill married fellow New Rochelle native Mary Jane Butler, an elementary school art teacher, in his senior year at Dartmouth University. After graduation in the spring of 1954 Bill entered the Air Force.
In June of 1955 Second Lieutenant William Gmelin was a student pilot in the 3307th Pilot Training Group at Marana Air Base near Tucson, Arizona, with 97.25 hours of flight time. Mary Jane was 8 months pregnant with their first child.
"Lt. Gmelin appeared perfectly normal in all respects on the days preceding and including 16 June 1955." – Richard H. Bruns, 2nd Lt., USAF
"Lt. William J. Gmelin was in my car pool and I was the one who drove on 16 June 1955. Lt. Gmelin was in his usual good spirits that day. As I recall he had gone swimming that day around noon time and that was not unusual fatigue for him as he went swimming whenever a P.T. period permitted. He made no unusual comments to me that day and from all that I witnessed it was just an ordinary flying day." – James W. Sorensen, 2nd Lt., USAF
"The first flight of the day, June 16, 1955, didn't commence until approximately 1445 hours, as the first two planes assigned to us had to be written up. Lt. William J. Gmelin flew on this first flight with [civilian flight instructor George] Jones and they didn't return until approximately 1630 hours at which time I went up for a fifty minute dual ride." – James W. Sorensen, 2nd Lt., USAF
"I was on tower duty on the night of June 16, 1955, with Mr. Bushman. Mr. Jones flew the first flight of the evening in aircraft #313 on a dual navigation mission. Take off time was 1942. When he returned he was instructed to park #313 on the regular row." – H. H. Samuels, Flight Commander
"To the best of my knowledge and memory, Lt. Gmelin was in his normal good spirits and physical condition on 16 June 1955. He possessed his normal confident manner and appeared to look at this flight as just another flight. When Mr. Jones and I met him at the aircraft he was ready to climb in. Lt. Gmelin said he had performed the pre-flight check except for the lights. I checked the lights while Mr. Jones pre-flighted the aircraft. Lt. Gmelin got in the aircraft and performed his cockpit checks. Lt. Gmelin started the aircarft, signaled chocks out and rolled out to the runup area in a normal manner." – Ralph D. Brown, 2nd Lt., USAF
"[Mr. Jones] was assigned aircraft number 636 for dual local with Lt. Gmelin, this takeoff time was 2243. They remained in the pattern and completed four touch and go landings then departed for the area orientation in the area. His last pitchout call was made at 2313." – M. J. Bushman, Senior Instructor (Tower Operator)
"Tower records and all other evidence indicated that the aircraft… was at or above 5000 feet when trouble of an undetermined origin occurred. No radio call was made by the aircraft." – Jack l. Selling, Operations Officer
"I had taken off from Davis-Monthan AFB at 2310 MST and was climbing to altitude over the field. On one of the circles when approximately three miles south of D-MFAB, I noticed a brilliant flash north of Tucson. I noted the time to be 1135 MST." – Lyle A. Geer, Captain, USAF
"While on the way to work at Arizona Public Service Company, Saguaro Plant, 4 miles south of Red Rock, on the night of June 16, 1955, about 2 miles south of the plant I was watching the large amount of planes in the air, and someone remarked about it. Suddenly I noticed a large flash of light which was almost blinding. The approximate time was 11:30 PM. After the flash this light burned very bright…." – Lawrence J. Davies
"I was driving a truck for Time Freight Lines, Inc., on Thursday night, June 16, 1955, on my way between Phoenix and Lordsburg, New Mexico. Between Picacho and Red Rock, Arizona, I saw a plane flying at a low altitude, approximately 150 or 200 feet and it had its wing and tail lights on. About 60 seconds or so later it crashed and exploded and began to burn." – Lee T. Hendricks
"I was riding to work on the night of June 16, 1955, seated in the rear seat, and I was looking across the desert into the darkness when right before my eyes I saw a terrific ball of fire rise up from the ground. … I saw nothing before I saw the countryside light up by the ball of fire. On reaching work I checked with the Phoenix dispatcher and then called the flight commander at Marana, who informed me it may have been one of their planes." – Gerald W. Parks
"Flying dual in aircraft #641 with Lt. Adkins, we were dispatched to investigate the crash. At the scene of the crash there was considerable fire. The desert brush was burning an area about 500 feet or more long and 150 feet wide. The aircraft was burning in about four or five different parts in an area of about 50 feet circle." – Roy Elder, Instructor Pilot
"I saw a flaming mass and then almost instantaneously an explosion. My instructor, Mr. Elder, reported the crash to the control tower, and they dispatched us to the scene of the crash. We were told to stay there and inform the tower on anything we could see. … We directed the crash crew to the scene by talking to the tower and they relayed our directions to the crash crew. We also used our landing lights to give them the general direction of the crash." – William K. Adkins, 2nd Lt., USAF
"On the night of the 16 we were coming to work at the Saguaro Power Plant. … When the plane hit it made a very bright flash and the fire leaped a great distance into the air. The flash didn't last very long, but when we got to the plant I went to the top of #2 boiler and there was still a good size fire. About 1:00 AM I noticed some headlights going out to the fire. At daybreak we could still see smoke out there." – Charlie Goitia
An investigation and hearing into the crash were conducted in the weeks that followed. The investigation's conclusion:
"The cause of this crash is undetermined. The imprint of this aircraft on the ground at the point of impact and dispersal of the debris indicates that the aircraft struck the ground in a near vertical dive and exploded upon impact. There was no radio call from the crew and no evidence of fire in flight either from nearby eyewitnesses to the explosion or from examination of the empenage. The attitude and speed of the aircraft is believed to be the only key to the accident cause. Either fouled primary controls or misuse of controls through disorientation or other such factors are the only apparent conjecture possible. The extent of distortion of the aircraft and engine left little chance of establishing whether or not there had been a mechanical malfunction. There was no foreign object likely to have fouled controls found in the wreckage."
Bill's dog tags were recovered from the debris field; there were no identifiable remains.
Peter Gmelin was born on July 13, 1955.
A few years later, Mary Jane married William Gill, who adopted Peter. Mary Jane Gill retired from teaching at age 60, returned to school, became an art therapist, and lives today in Prescott, Arizona. Peter Gmelin, now Peter Gill, is presently living in Nashua, New Hampshire.
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Johann Karg (1525-1588), Abbot
Johann is the 10th great-grandfather of Richard, James, Gary, Mark and Mike.
Johann Karg was born January 7, 1525, to shoemaker Michael and Felicitas (maiden name unknown) Karg in Augsburg, Bavaria.
An accomplished student at school, Johann was awarded a scholarship by Augsburg's mayor Wolfgang Rehlinger to the University of Tübingen, where he earned the degree of Master of Arts in February 1542.
On December 21, 1542, Johann entered the school of theology at the University of Wittenberg, where he attended the lectures of Martin Luther, Philipp Melanchthon, Caspar Cruciger the Elder and Johannes Bugenhagen. Johann participated in the funeral of Martin Luther in the Wittenberg Castle Church in February 1546.
Johann was appointed Deacon of the Cathedral of Our Lady in Augsburg in July 1546, the Deacon at St. George's Collegiate Church in Tübingen in 1552, and Superintendent of the Abbey at Blaubeuren in 1556.
In November 1557, Johann married Sarah Buck (c1534-1613) in Blaubeuren.
The following year, Johann was appointed Superintendent of the Abbey at Cannstatt, then, in 1559, commissioned by the Duke of Württemberg as Court Chaplain in Stuttgart with a seat on the Württemberg Council.
Johann assumed the prelature of the monastery at Hirsau in 1569. In addition to the management of the monstery and its school as Abbot, Johannes authored a number of textbooks and other theological writings and a hymnal under the Latin translation of his name, Johannes Parsimonius.
Johann's and Sarah's only known child, Judith (our ancestor), was born at Hirsau on January 5, 1576. Judith married Johann Wilhelm Gmelin in Calw, Württemberg, on January 09, 1600.
Johann Karg died at Hirsau on December 24, 1588.
Henning Jørgensen Gagge (c1520-1562), Royal Bailiff
Henning Jørgensen Gagge is the 13th great-grandfather of Richard, James, Gary, Lisa, Carl, Jane, Bruce, James, Anne, Bonnie, Wendy, Pamela, Gail and Paul; and the 14th great-grandfather of Asher, Owen, Caitlyn, Becky, Andrew, Joshua, Connor, Derek, Dylan, Priscilla, Lukas, Abigail, Trevor, Ross, Elliot, Britt and Erik.
Henning Jørgensen Gagge was born about 1520 at Lehnsgård in Østerlars, on the Danish island of Bornholm. His father was Jørgen Eriksen Gagge (?-1551), Royal Bailiff for Bornholm and proprietor of the Lehnsgård estate; his mother's name is unknown. Royal Bailiff was a title held by a nobleman selected by the king as his personal representative and chief administrative official for a locality.
Henning was a Courtier to King Christian III in København when, on July 21 1551, he was appointed to succeed his late father as Royal Bailiff for Bornholm.
Henning took up residence at Spillegård, Åker, where he brought his wife, Elsebeth Elline Clausdatter Cames, after their marriage in Rønne in 1552. Elsebeth was the daughter of a Councilman in Rønne, Claus Cames, who had come to Bornholm from his native Scotland. By 1555 Henning and Elsebeth were living on Claus' estate, Store Almegård, in Knudsker.
Henning and Elsebeth had six known children: sons Jørgen and Albrecht, and daughters Elsebeth, Eignis, Benedikte, and another (our ancestor), name unknown, who married a prosperous shipping merchant and Councilman, Herman Bohn.
Henning died at Store Almegård on June 29, 1562, at the age of about 42. Elsebeth died there, also, on October 23, 1578.
Abraham Pieterse Vosburgh (1620-1659) and Geertruy Pieterse Coeymans (c1632-1689)
Abraham Pieterse Vosburgh and Geertruy Pieterse Coeymans are the 9th great-grandparents of Richard, James, Gary, Lisa, Carl, Jane, Bruce, Cathy, Ron, Stacey, Matt and Sandy; and 10th great-grandparents of Asher, Owen, Caitlyn, Becky, Emily, Jack, Jill, Jordan, Mike and Brian.
Abraham Pieterse Vosburgh was born in Brabant, Holland, in 1620, the son of Pieter Jacobse Vosburgh. His mother's name is unknown.
Abraham was trained as a carpenter and emigrated to New Netherland in 1649 and settled in Rensselaerswyck. Initially, he was engaged to perform renovations on the Patroon's house. In April 1651 he leased a house and lot north of the Patroon's house for 16 florins a year.
That same year Abraham married Geertruy Pieterse Kuijemans (AKA Coeymans), born c1632 in Utrecht and a 1639 emigrant to New Netherland with her parents, Pieter and Jannetje Kuijemans and six siblings (one of whom, Barent, went on to become the first settler of present-day Coeymans, New York, a suburb of Albany). Abraham and Geertruy had five known children: Maretje (our ancestor; born 1656), Peter, Jacob, Isaac and Abraham.
In the "Oath to the Patroon taken by all the householders and free men of the Colonie, November 23, 1651," is found the name Abraham Pietersz Vosburg. On April 15, 1652, Abraham and another man, Derrick Janssen, were appointed surveyors of buildings: they were sworn in two days later.
On March 17, 1654, a warrant was issued to the treasurer, "in favor of Abraham Pietersen Vosburgh, carpenter," for the amount of 200 florins for building two bridges. On May 19, 1654, he was fined for not finishing the bridge over the Second Kil. That he experienced difficulty in completing his contract is shown in the Court Minutes, for on May 30, 1654, he stated that work on the bridge over the Third Kil would be begun in eight days. Further difficulties in the completion of the work took place in June, and he was compelled to employ Andries De Vos as his attorney to protect his interests. On September 2, 1654, a warrant was issued to the treasurer, "in favor of Abraham Pietersen Vosburgh for his work on the two bridges in Beverwyck." But this evidently did not settle the matter, because as late as May 1, 1655, the Court granted him a delay in paying his fines for not completing the work on time.
On September 30, 1656, Hans Jansz and Abraham Pietersz Vosburch obtained a lease of the water power on the creek south of the farm of Jan Barentsz Wemp. The lease commenced January 1, 1657, and ran for six successive years; rent was set at 100 guilders or 100 good merchantable boards and two pair of fowl each year. A condition of the lease was that the lessees were not to sell liquor to the Indians. A sawmill was erected on the creek, which was in later years known as Wynant's Kil. Hans Jansz was more or less of a silent partner in this enterprise; at least his name never appears again in the records in connection with it.
After hostilities by the local Esopus Indians, the Dutch colonial Director-General Pieter Stuyvesant visited Rensselaerswyck in June 1658. The following is from Stuyvesant's journal: "Four carpenters came also on the 18th engaged by Mrs. de Hulter to remove her house, barns and sheds (within the stockade) and on the 19th three more, whom I had asked and engaged at Fort Orange to make a bridge over the Kil. They were also to help the others remove their buildings, for which they had asked me before my departure for Fort Orange." Abraham Pieterse Vosburgh was one of the carpenters engaged by Stuyvesant.
The outlying settlers withdrew within the stockade for better protection, and no further encounters with the Indians took place until a fateful day in September 1659.
A man named Thomas Chambers engaged eight Esopus Indians to break off corn-ears for him while he was gathering his crops for the winter. On a Saturday evening, after the day's work, Chambers gave the Indians a quantity of brandy. After drinking the brandy the Indians became noisy and quarrelsome; when the brandy was exhausted, they tried to obtain more from Chambers, who refused. After a time soldiers were sent out from the fort to ascertain the cause of the disturbance. The nervous soldiers fired upon the drunk and disorderly Indians, killing one.
The following morning, Sunday, The next day the Indians returned with hundreds of reinforcements, and destroyed crops, killed livestock, and burned buildings. A dispatch was sent up the river by boat to Albany to summon assistance. As the dispatch party returned, they were captured by the Indians.
Among the thirteen men captured was "a carpenter, Abraham by name." In a letter from Vice-Director La Montagne to Director-General Stuyvesant, dated September 26, 1659, he states that the capture took place "at the Esopus last Sunday the 21st inst. about two o'clock the afternoon," and in the list of those captured the name Abraham Vosburgh appears.
The next day, one captive was exchanged for an Indian prisoner, while another escaped during the night, leaving ten in captivity. A letter to Director Stuyvesant from Ensign Smidt of the Dutch garrison at Esopus, dated November 1, 1659, states that as a result of the good efforts of two "Mahikander" Indians, two prisoners were returned to the Fort "on the first of this month." In a subsequent letter from Ensign Smidt to Vice-Director La Montagne, dated November 13, 1659, he writes: "it is true we have got back two prisoners, but they keep [one] yet and have killed all the others." The surviving captive, Evert Pels, was still in captivity as late as February 24, 1660. According to contemporary accounts, Pels' life was saved by an Indian maiden whom he afterwards married.
With the death of Abraham, Geertruy Pieterse carried on raising her children, all of whom were under ten, alone. Her story can be pieced together from the Fort Orange Court records. Her name appears before the Court many times, both as plaintiff and defendant. Geertruy was zealous in preserving her rights; she was clearly a fighter and possessed of sharp wits.
Geertruy did not remarry within a year or two as was usually the custom with the early settlers, but remained a widow for nearly ten years and fought her battles unaided. Her second marriage, with Albert Andriessen Bratt in 1669, was short-lived (perhaps 18 months) and ended in divorce. After her divorce, Geertruy continued to use the name Vosburgh; in fact, from the evidence in the records, it is probable that she never used the name Bratt at any time.
Geertruj sold the mill in 1674. The final years of Geertruy Vosburgh's life were spent in Kinderhook, New York, surrounded by the families of her sons, all of whom became prominent citizens in that community. Geertruy died in February 1689.
The sole daughter of Abraham and Geertruy, our ancestor Maretje, married Isaac Janse Van Alstyne in the Dutch Reformed Church in Albany on October 20, 1689.
William King (1595-1650), Religious Rebel, Progenitor of Presidents
William King and Dorothy Hayne are the 10th great-grandparents of Richard, James, Gary, Lisa, Carl, Jane, Bruce, Cathy, Ron, Stacey, Matt and Sandy; and 11th great-grandparents of Asher, Owen, Caitlyn, Becky, Emily, Jack, Jill, Jordan, Mike and Brian.
William King is believed to have been born in England in 1595. His parentage is unconfirmed, although he may have been the son of William King (1565-1625) and Ann Bowditch (1573-c1625) of Weymouth, Dorset. William married Dorothy Hayne in Sherbourne Abbey Church of Saint Mary in Sherbourne, Dorset, on February 17, 1617.
Found among the records of the Hull Company as passengers aboard the "Abigail" sailing for Salem in the Massachusetts Bay Colony on March 20, 1635, are the following:
60. William Kinge, aged 40 years.
61. Dorothy, his wife, aged 34 years.
62. Mary Kinge, his daughter, aged 12 years.
63. Katheryne Kinge, his daughter, aged 10 years.
64. William Kinge, his son, aged 8 years.
65. Hanna Kinge, his daughter, aged 6 years.
Another child, Samuel, who would have been two in 1635, is absent from this list, but appears later in Salem. William and Dorothy had three additional children in Salem: Mehitable (1636), John (1638) and Deliverance (1641).
William was a member of the First Church at Salem but joined the Antinomians in 1637. Antinomianism literally means being "against or opposed to the law", and was a term used by critics of those Massachusetts colonists who advocated the preaching of "free grace" (i.e. the belief that divine grace, and not earthly deeds, is the only means to salvation) as opposed to "legal" preaching. Antinomians were also called Anabaptists and Familists, and were considered seriously heretic in early New England. William was ordered by the authorities in Salem to sever his connections with the Antinomians but he refused and was forced to surrender his gun.
Sometime later William was banished temporarily from Salem for sheltering persecuted Quakers. One of William and Dorothy's children, Katherine, married a staunch Quaker, John Swezey.
William died in 1650 in Salem, after which his widow and children left Salem for the more religiously tolerant Southold, Long Island. Dorothy died at Southold in 1684.
Curiously, not one but two of William and Dorothy's daughters are our direct ancestors. Hannah (1629-1688), who married Richard Brown (c1629-c1687) in Salem in 1650, is 9th great-grandmother to Richard, et al. Deliverance (1641-1689), who married John Tuthill (1635-1717) in Southold in 1657, is another 9th great-grandmother. Hannah's and Richard's granddaughter, Elizabeth Brown, married her first cousin, John Tuthill, grandson of Deliverance and John, in 1707.
Another of Deliverance's and John's children, Henry, would become the great-grandfather of Anna Tuthill Symmes, First Lady of the United States and wife of President William Henry Harrison. Anna's grandson, Benjamin, also became President of the United States.
One of Hannah's and Richard's children, Hannah, would become the 4th great-grandmother of President Warren Harding.
Not to be outdone by his siblings, John King, brother to Hannah and Deliverance, is the 5th great-grandfather of President William Howard Taft.


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The former Cuyler Presbyterian Church is located in the Boerum Hill neighborhood of northwestern Brooklyn, Kings County, New York. Designed by Staten Island architect Edward A. Sargent, the building is an example of High Victorian Eclectic design with elements of both Gothic and Romanesque styles of architecture. The Cuyler Presbyterian Church began as an extension of Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian Church to support its growing programs. The chapel was built one-half mile away from the Lafayette Church in the North Gowanus neighborhood (now called Boerum Hill). In 1907, Lafayette Church concluded the Cuyler Chapel to be well led and active, warranting its establishment as an independent organization: Cuyler Presbyterian Church.
In 1926, Reverend David Munroe Cory, as the tenth pastor of Cuyler Church, practiced an outspoken, activist ministry in the tradition established by his predecessor, Rev. Dr. Theodore Ledyard Cuyler. His life-long labor activism and involvement in politics well-suited him for a ministry in North Gowanus. When he took the helm of Cuyler Church, many of his neighbors were of Irish and Italian descent. In the 1930s, a new group of migrants arrived: American Indians, primarily Iroquois, from the Mohawk reservations of Kahnawake and Akwesasne in Canada and upstate New York. Attracted by New York City's great building boom fueled by Depression-era public works and, later, the post-war economic revival, they came to find work in the high steel industry helping to build New York City's modern cityscape. First journeying back and forth between city and reservation, then bringing their families to live with them in Brooklyn, the Mohawk ironworkers formed a new community in the vicinity of Cuyler Church.
Reverend Cory welcomed the newcomers to his church. He conducted his interactions with the new residents with a degree of cultural sensitivity that was remarkable for his time. Learning their language was only one of the ways he met his new congregants on their own terms. He also translated religious readings into the Mohawk-Oneida dialect, and promoted the reacquisition of Indian traditional culture, making the resources of the church available to the native community for that purpose. Some native congregants participated in leadership roles within the church and held periodic fundraising pageants on its behalf. The Church also served as a community center where people would often gather to hear news from home, tell stories, trade information, and hold cultural events. In the mid-to-late 1950s, a combination of factors led numerous Mohawk families to leave the North Gowanus enclave, including a lull in construction that decreased employment. In 1955, Reverend Cory left Cuyler Presbyterian Church and became pastor of Homecrest Presbyterian Church in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn.
The church was converted into residential use in the early 1980s. Although changes were made to accommodate residential living space, the interior retains sufficient integrity to convey its former function as a cornerstone of the Mohawk community in Brooklyn.
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The tab for speculating in the stock market is about 4% a year, according to the calculation of one influential wealth manager. That's a harsh penalty to pay when the S&P 500's average annual result over the past 15 years is barely above that amount, at 4.28%.
Eric Nelson of Servo Wealth Management goes through the grim numbers in his July newsletter to clients.
The Oklahoma City-based registered investment advisor and Dimensional Fund Advisors loyalist starts his analysis at the professional money manager level, arguing that their performance as measured against indexes shows they lack market-beating skill.
Unlike top athletes or surgeons who demonstrate superior abilities, Nelson's scorecard reveals that just 20% of fund managers beat their index from 2008 to 2012 and that the number who did so in most categories closely matched the number of mutual funds that were outright closed "due to horrendous underperformance."
For example, 24.6% of active large-cap funds beat their index during that period, while 27.7% of active large-cap funds were shut down. The category that exhibited the least correspondence was not to the credit of professional managers: Just 9.6% of active short-term bond funds beat their index—far less than the 21.7% of such funds that closed during that period.
Nelson attributes manager selection to a Lake Wobegon mentality that assumes their manager is better than average. Yet he argues that people select their better-than-average managers based on past performance that doesn't persist.
Nelson cites data from Standard & Poor's showing the performance of the top managers from 2003 to 2007 in the subsequent five-year period from 2008 to 2012. Just 24.1% of top quartile managers remained in the top quartile, whereas 19.3% fell to the second quartile, 20.3% to the third quartile and 23.1 dropped to the last quartile; the missing 13.3% lost their jobs as their funds were shut down.
The wealth manager concludes: "So even when narrowing the search for a professional active manager to only those who have previously produced the best results, we still find the chance of future index-beating returns is no better than choosing at random (by chance, we'd expect to have 1/4 odds of landing in each of the four quartiles, and a bit less when we consider the odds of disappearing completely)."
Nelson notes there are actually greater odds (nearly 37%) of a top fund falling to the bottom quartile or disappearing than remaining in the top quartile (24%).
The professional advisor emphasizes that this poor performance emanates from people with chartered financial analyst (CFA) designation and Ivy League MBAs.
"If they can't get it right," he asks, "what is the chance that a do-it-yourself investor running a Charles Schwab or Morningstar stock screener for a few hours in the evening or on the weekends will perform better?"
Drilling down further, Nelson next takes a page out of John Bogle's book, literally, and considers both the underperformance of active managers and bad investor behavior.
Bogle's The Clash of the Cultures shows that large-cap funds returned 4.1% to investors from 1997 to 2011, compared with 5.4% for their S&P 500 benchmark. While the numbers are both small, Nelson points out that that means 37% less wealth over 15 years for active fund investors, and 72% less wealth over the same time period compared to the wealth managers' clients invested in his favorite DFA US Large Value Fund (DFLVX).
"But even this dismal result is too generous," Nelson says, since naughty investors typically dump poor-performing funds for those with recent good performance, which subsequently perform poorly, which "amplifies the return deficit."
Citing Bogle again, Nelson shows that investor returns trail fund returns by nearly 2% on average.
"So between poor professional management and bad investor behavior, the total cost speculators pay is almost 4% per year!" Nelson says in summary, calling on investors to save their wealth through the discipline of a fee-only investment advisor.
Check out Your Move, Bogleheads: Advisor Finds DFA's Returns Trump Vanguard's.


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Allison listened to the scary and spectacular ending on the radio, then caught replays of the crash Monday morning - a scene that looked eerily familiar. It was Allison's twisting, airborne spin in 1987 that led to restrictor plates the following year at Talladega.
The driver responsible for the change, designed to slow down the cars, doesn't agree with Edwards that NASCAR needs to adjust the rules again to prevent a death at that track.
"In modern entertainment there's a risk, but the risk is part of the attraction," Allison said by phone on Monday.
Like Edwards' last-lap accident on Sunday, Allison's car also went airborne, collided into the steel-cable fence and scattered debris into the crowd. Allison was running over 200 mph when his crash happened.
Edwards said he hoped his own accident, which sent his car flying around like the tractor in the movie "Twister," will make NASCAR consider rules to make the racing at Talladega safer.
"We'll race like this until we kill somebody," Edwards said Sunday, "then (NASCAR) will change it."
Allison, who lives in Mooresville, N.C., called that an overstatement.
"Well, it's scary, but it's exciting for the fans. It always has been," Allison said. "Part of the attraction of Talladega is the potential for danger."
Allison should know that as well as any driver. He didn't even have to catch the replay to know what Edwards experienced.
"It was pretty spectacular, but it was nothing compared to what I did," Allison said. "My wreck was way bigger, way more guard rail, way more cars involved."
Allison was running fourth on the 21st lap in 1987 when his engine blew and slid under the car. When he ran over it, the engine sliced the rear tire.
Allison's car slid sideways, became airborne and went tail-first high onto the steel-cable catch fence at the front of the grandstand near the finish line, tearing a 150-foot hole in it and scattering debris into the crowd.
He was able to walk away and the race was red-flagged while the broken fence and steel cables were replaced. Some fans sustained minor injuries, just like in Edwards' accident.
Allison's son, Davey, won the 1987 race and the two hugged in Victory Lane. Davey Allison died in 1993 when his helicopter crashed into a track infield.
Restrictor plates are used at Daytona and Talladega to combat the high speeds at NASCAR's two fastest tracks. The plates typically keep the field bunched tightly together, and fans usually see cars racing three- or four-wide. All it takes is one mistake to lead to massive pileups dubbed "The Big One."
Allison had no suggestions about how to make Talladega safer for fans and drivers. He said all parties understand the risks at one of the sport's most dangerous tracks.
"It's as safe as we see modern entertainment," Allison said. "If you're at a hockey game and the hockey puck comes into the grandstands and hits you in the head and kills you, it's not safe. If you're at the football game and the football hits you in the head and kills you, you're not safe. If you're at a baseball game and the baseball hits you and kills you, you're not safe."


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Cameron Bairstow had 16 points with seven rebounds and reserve Jamal Fenton hit a trio of key 3-pointers in the second half to lead No. 19 New Mexico to a 60-50 win over Boise State on Saturday night.
Tony Snell added 12 points with six rebounds and four assists for the Lobos (22-4, 9-2 Mountain West).
Derrick Marks was the only player to score in double figures for the Broncos (16-8, 4-6). Marks had 19 points and seven rebounds, and reserve Kenny Buckner grabbed 11 rebounds for Boise State.
After holding a 29-23 lead at halftime, the Lobos extended it to 38-29 after Tony Snell hit two free throws with 13 minutes remaining. Over the next eight minutes, Fenton provided New Mexico's only points with all three of his 3s. They were his first 3-pointers in four games. Fenton, who finished with 11 points, had missed 10 straight attempts coming into the game.
Boise State pulled to 47-46 with 5 minutes left following Marks' short jumper from the paint.
The Broncos, however, failed to score on their next 11 possessions, including missing three foul shots, and New Mexico pulled away, converting 6 of 7 from the line during that stretch.
Over the final 5 minutes, the Lobos went 11 of 13 at the line to finish 19 of 25 overall. Boise State was 5 of 10 from the line.


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Because the old one was from, like, page 50 or something..and now it's, like, page 145, and doesn't have a couple of characters. Leaving the other one up because I got lots of informative responses on it.
I'd be extremely intrigued if anyone chose Marissa or Jeremiah, but I figured I should put them down anyway. And, of course, the cat stays on the list. He's very important. I've heard theories!
Mostly, I figured Brody should be on there.
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Shannon Shoemake
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2008:Finished 23rd in a field of 86 in the Mid-America Opener at Evansville (8/30) in time of 16:29.26. ...Finished 66th (16:47.23) at Belmont-Vanderbilt Invitational (9/5). ...Finished 124th (19:27.90) over the 5-K course in the Greater Louisville Classic (10/4). ...Finished 78th (19:49.10) over the 5-K course in the University of Evansville Invitational (10/18). ...Finished 29th (19:13.38) over the 5-K course in the Atlantic Sun Conference Championships (11/1). ...A-Sun All-Academic Team.
2007:Atlantic Sun All-Academic Team.
2006:Atlantic Sun All-Academic Team.
High School: Track and cross country teams captain. Member of 2004 Cross Country State Champions. ...State Track runner-up for four years. Fifth place finish in state 2-mile (2006). ...Third place finish in State 4x800 (2005). …DMR school record (12:43). …Mile 5:23. …3200m 12:02. …800m 2:26. … 400m 62 seconds. …Cross country 5k 20:31.
Personal: Parents are Barbara and Joe Shoemake. …Enjoys Maroon 5, Indianapolis Colts, San Antonio Spurs, and Dallas Mavericks. …Major is Elementary Education.


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|Weird Sisters
|Organisation information
Musical group
The Weird Sisters were a very popular band in the wizarding world, and on the Wizarding Wireless Network. Albus Dumbledore booked them to perform in Hogwarts at the 1994 Yule Ball. Despite their name, all eight known members are male.
Performing and singularityEdit
The Weird Sisters are a popular band among young wizards and witches.
Among the Weird Sisters' songs was "Do the Hippogriff", "Magic Works" and "This Is the Night" which they played at the Yule Ball.
Among the band's instruments were a set of drums, several guitars, a cello, a lute, a double bass and some bag pipes. When performing in Hogwarts during the Yule Ball, they performed on a magically-appearing stage.
All members of the band were described as being extremely hairy and all wore black robes that had been artfully torn.
The band was popular enough that the marriage of the bass player (Donaghan Tremlett) in 1995 made front-page news in the Daily Prophet, in Harry Potter's Fourth Year at Hogwarts .[1]
Known band membersEdit
- Heathcote Barbary - Rhythm guitar
- Gideon Crumb - Bagpipes
- Kirley Duke - Lead guitar
- Merton Graves - Cello
- Orsino Thruston - Drums
- Donaghan Tremlett - Bass
- Myron Wagtail - Lead singer
- Herman Wintringham - Lute
The term "Weird Sisters" was the name given to the three prophetic witches in the play "Macbeth," by William Shakespeare ("weïrd" being Old English for "fate" or "destiny"). Harry Potter series author J. K. Rowling has stated is quite possibly her favourite Shakespeare play.[2]Interestingly, the Spanish edition of the books refers to the band by the name las Brujas de Macbeth (Macbeth's Witches). It is also interesting to point out a second allusion to Macbeth made in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (film) when the Frog Choir sings "Double Double Toil and Trouble", which is a direct quote from the play.
This is arguably where J. K. Rowling got the idea for the band's name from, although a variant of the name, Wyrd Sisters, was used as the title of a 1988 Discworld novel by Terry Pratchett.
There is also a possibility that the name is a play on the heavy rock band, Twisted Sister.
However, the name has no relation with a popular pop rock band, Scissor Sisters, as the American band was formed in 2001.
Behind the scenesEdit
- Nymphadora Tonks and Ginny Weasley are both fans of the Weird Sisters.
- In the film version of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire the band which performs deliberately goes unnamed throughout the film because of a legal dispute between the film studio and Canadian folk band Wyrd Sisters. [3] The band is simply introduced as "The band that needs no introduction!" Because they are identified in the book as the Weird Sisters, it's safe to assume the band in the film was designed to be them.
- Members Merton Graves and Herman Wintringham do not make an appearance in the film.
- The band's songs were written by Jarvis Cocker, who plays singer Myron Wagtail. "Do the Hippogriff" was a collaboration between Cocker and rhythm guitarist Jason Buckle (Heathcote Barbary).
- The Scottish band Franz Ferdinand, confessed fans of the books, were originally invited to play the Weird Sisters.[4]
- In an interview, J. K. Rowling stated that the instruments that they played included bagpipes, cello & electric guitar and that they were Harry Potter's favourite band.[5]
- At least as portrayed in the Harry Potter films, the Weird Sisters is considered to be a wizard rock band.[6]
- Profiles of female members of the Weird Sisters can be seen in the PC video game of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.
- All appear on Chocolate frog cards at the Harry Potter Exhibition.
- In the film version of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, piper Gideon Crumb plays keyboards as well as bagpipes. In the book series, however, there is no mention of the band having a keyboard player.
Portrayers of the Weird SistersEdit
- Jarvis Cocker (of Pulp) as Myron Wagtail – vocals
- Jonny Greenwood (of Radiohead) as Kirley Duke – lead guitar
- Jason Buckle (of All Seeing I) as Heathcote Barbary – rhythm guitar
- Steve Mackey (of Pulp) as Donaghan Tremlett – bass
- Steven Claydon (of Add N to (X)) as Gideon Crumb – keyboards and bagpipes
- Phil Selway (of Radiohead) as Orsino Thruston – drums
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (video game) (PC version) (Appears in portrait(s))
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (First appearance)
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (film)
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Mentioned on a shirt) (Mentioned in the Daily Prophet)
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (At the funeral for Albus Dumbledore)
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Mentioned on a poster)
Notes and ReferencesEdit
- ↑ Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
- ↑ The Leaky Cauldron and Mugglenet Interview
- ↑ http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/arts/story.html?id=ece18f65-1eb9-4829-9e2b-1d50a0dca298 Wyrd Sisters keep fighting the good fight
- ↑ Franz Ferdinand To Play Ugly Sisters In Next 'Harry Potter' Flick?, MTV
- ↑ J.K. Rowling at the Royal Albert hall, available on Accio Quote!
- ↑ Harry Potter Page to Screen: The Complete Filmmaking Journey, Page 135


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"Top Chef" will soon be serving up nothing but the sweet stuff.
Bravo announced Monday it has ordered a new series, "Top Chef: Just Desserts," which will dump the savory and focus only on chefs who can bake up the best sugary treats.
Casting for the spinoff will begin today in Chicago and continue in Washington, D.C., Boston, Atlanta, New York, Dallas, Las Vegas, Los Angeles and Portland in the coming weeks, Bravo announced.
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The sweet series is Bravo's second spinoff of the award-winning "Top Chef" franchise -- last summer, its "Top Chef: Masters" broke onto the Bravo scene and earned itself a second season renewal last week.
"Top Chef: Just Desserts" will follow the traditional "Top Chef" format, as judges eliminate chefs each week based on their cooking prowess. It will be produced by "Top Chef" masterminds Dan Cutforth and Jane Lipsitz at the helm.
"Top Chef" is in its sixth season, "Top Chef: Las Vegas," currently airing on Bravo.
More information about where to try out for "Top Chef: Just Desserts" can be found on Bravo's Web site.


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The Samsung SCH-U750, or Alias 2, is now rumored to be coming to Verizon Wireless on May 11th. It will share the same dual-hinged design as its predecessor, the U740, but will replace the QWERTY/numeric keyboard with a dynamic keyboard. We've covered this odd little handset before but it really does bear repeating as one feature in particular has some definite potential — the keyboard. This novel electronic ink-based keyboard will display a standard numeric keypad when the phone is opened as a traditional portrait clam shell. Use the dual hinge to flip the phone open in landscape however, and the keyboard will switch to a texting-friendly QWERTY keyboard. The Alias 2 will also feature a 2.6-inch QVGA internal display, 2.0 megapixel camera, proprietary feature phone OS laden with Verizon customizations and dedicated hot keys for one-touch access to Bluetooth, text messaging, voicemail, camera, voice commands, games and alarms.
No pricing yet but expect it to launch with a price tag consistent with Verizon's other feature phones – $200 to $250 before rebates and NE2 discounts (with the obligatory 2-year contract, of course). Hit the jump for a few preview shots of the dynamic keyboard.


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QuarkXPress is the most powerful and versatile page layout and design software on the market — and by extending it, you can make it even more powerful.
There are three main reasons to extend QuarkXPress:
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Academy Award Winners Christopher Walken and Philip Seymour Hoffman strike all the right chords with Academy Awardr Nominee Catherine Keener and Mark Ivanir in this powerful story that blends raw emotion with fiery passion to form an unforgettable cinematic masterpiece. After 25 years together, the members of a world-renowned string quartet learn that their beloved cellist (Walken) may soon be forced to retire. But the news stirs up equally painful challenges when competing egos, harbored resentment, and irrepressible lust threaten to derail the group as they struggle to maintain harmony in their music


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Trailer FrenzyA special place to find the newest trailers for movies and TV shows you're craving.
Now that they've converted the film to 3-D and (reportedly) increased its Channing Tatum levels, Paramount needs to remind people that the G.I. Joe movie sequel Retaliation is actually coming out on March 29th (unless they decide to postpone it again at the last second). Step one: 1) this new trailer, full of new footage including ninjas, Bruce Willis, crazy military vehicles (something direly missing in the first movie) and more ninjas. Step two: Put an exclusive four-minute preview of the movie in front of Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters when it opens on March 1st. It's not the most foolproof plan, but it is a better plan than sending four guys in a white rental van to stop terrorists from blowing up the Eiffel Tower.
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City of Sohna is a popular tourist location, especially as a weekend and conference retreat. It is located 24 km from the city on the highway from Gurgaon to Alwar. It is famous for its hot springs and ancient Shiva temple. Situated in the foothills of Aravalis.
A fair Called Gangasnan is organised every year in the month of November. Another fair is organised during the months of July and August to celebrate the festival of Teej. Other attractions include a grand park situated on the top of hills and maintained by Haryana Tourism. It has state of the art lodging, and a restaurant overlooking the town.
Damdama lake is known for its boating and picturesque landscape.
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According to legend, Arjun (one of the five Pandav brothers) dug these wells when he was thirsty. In ancient times, Sohna is believed to have been the abode of hermits and the main kund , called Shiv Kund which is said to have medicinal properties and curative effects. Devotees consider it sacred and during solar and lunar eclipses, they gather here to take dip in the water.
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|One-pot, no soak Tuscan Bean Soup with Rosemary and Chicken
Hot, cold. Hot, cold. The weather here is like a menopausal woman. To be fair, it hasn't been hot. Except in my house where there's a radiator stuck on high. According to local legend, it can't be fixed until summer. Who said? So when I clean the bathroom upstairs, I turn into a sauna. That's right, I used the correct pronoun.
Outdoors yesterday, the temperature hit about 41 degrees Fahrenheit. The Macalester College running club (We live about 4 blocks from "Mac.") ran by in T-tiny shorts singing,
"We're having a heat wave, a tropical heat wave. The temperature's rising; it isn't surprising..."While I'm the first girl to put on her tee shirt and grill (actually I don't grill outdoors and don't care to learn--that's what Dave is for), I'll always have to admit I adore indoor and cozy cooking. I like it cold enough to leave the oven on for hours happily braising while I read. ("I'm cooking today.") Or for a soup to giggle and pop all afternoon on the stove. I'm the woman Hillary Clinton didn't want to be...I did stay home and bake cookies. Among other things. So I'm the only person in the Twin Cities who is glad it's still kinda cold. (It's 67 in Colorado Springs; I've been watching.) Everyone else is giving their flip flops a test run in the lingering snow while I am snug in my Clarks' boots. I'll give you this: my blood is still thickening after 15 years in Colorado where the beautiful weather is a well-kept secret.
What's the pits is that the dogs are so funky dirty stinky from the melting snow-mud that I'd like to drop them off at the groomers and let them live there for the next month. We've got a dog shower in the basement (no joke) that I guess I'll break down and use, though they'll just be filthy again in ten and my back will hurt.
|Dad's in a big meeting on the phone; we have to stay out. Whah.
|Here's the No-Knead Bread I made for the soup.
Here's to you. I hate you.
I don't think so. Touching bread together is a means of healing. In many ways.
Here's to this soup; it's something you could easily share. Don't be afraid. People love to be invited. They don't care if you haven't swept (and if they do, they need to get over THAT), but they care that someone is interested enough in them to want to spend an evening --a morning, an afternoon-- with them. They care that someone loves enough to cook. A restaurant meal (much the thing now) isn't the same. To begin with, the restaurant:
- is expensive
- might not be healthy
- wants you gone
- wants to have someone else at your table
- wants to make more money
- doesn't put your love into the food
|Beans, water, ham hock and rosemary...it starts like this.
|Start with a great ham hock.
|Cook the beans with onion, rosemary and the ham hock. No salt.
|Remove the hock, add stock, chicken pieces, and veg.
|Throw in a couple of tomatoes with the chicken and vegetables; remove to cool, peel easily, and chop.
|Chop the rosemary finely this time; you don't want to eat a Christmas tree.
|Carefully chop meat from hock. Remove fat and tendons; check for bones.
|Now that's an easy way to peel a tomato.
|The chicken, simmered in liquid, is done quickly. Remove, cool, skin, bone, and shred.
|Put it all back in the pot and let her roll. Turn down and simmer.
Tuscan Bean Soup with Rosemary and Chicken makes 5 qts approximately
1/2-3/4# dried cannellini or northern white bean/navy beans
1 ham hock (I used half a large one)
2 large onions, peeled and chopped, divided
4 cloves garlic, chopped, divided
1/2 t freshly ground black pepper
2 sprigs rosemary, divided (Leave one whole; mince the other.)
3 pieces chicken with bones and skin
1 qt chicken stock, low or no salt
1 c white wine or water
2 firm red tomatoes (or 1 15 oz can chopped tomatoes)
1 c chopped carrots
3 stalks celery with leaves, chopped
(1/4 c chopped cabbage, 1/4 c chopped green beans, optional-I had them and put them in.)
1/4 c chopped parsley
Kosher salt; freshly ground pepper (start with 1 tsp salt and 1/8 t pepper)
Several drops of Tabasco or other hot sauce (or a pinch of crushed red pepper or ground cayenne)
1 c fresh spinach leaves
1/2 c Parmesan
Zest of 1 fresh lemon
- Bring to a boil beans and 2-3 qts peppered (no salt) water. Add ham hock, 1 of the chopped onions, and a whole sprig of rosemary. (Leave the stem in until soup is done; the leaves will have cooked and become quite tender at the end of 3 hours.) Lower heat, cover partially, and let cook at a low boil for about 1 1/2 hours until beans are becoming tender. Add some water if beans are not boiling freely. Remove ham hock, cool, shred (leave out fat and gristle) and return meat to pot.
- Add chicken stock, wine or water, 3 pieces of chicken, and all of the vegetables/herbs (including the other chopped onion, the other sprig of minced rosemary, and the other 2 chopped garlic cloves) except the spinach. Stir in salt, pepper and Tabasco. Return to a boil; lower heat and simmer 2-3 minutes. Remove tomatoes and let cool a few minutes. Skin, chop and return tomatoes to pot.
- Cook soup until chicken is no longer pink in middle and vegetables are tender, 20 minutes or so. Remove chicken and let cool for five minutes. Skin, bone and chop. Return meat to the pot; discard bones and skin. (Unless you have a dog who likes chicken skin.) Taste and adjust seasonings.
- Remove 2 cups of the soup and puree in the food processor or mash well with a potato masher. You could also use an immersion blender very briefly.* Return mashed soup to pot, stir, and bring to a boil. Cook a couple of minutes and lower heat to a bare simmer.
- Add spinach; cook 1 minute. Stir well. Taste and adjust seasonings. More salt? Pepper? Hot sauce? Carefully add just a teense of any of these and taste again. Serve hot with 1T grated Parmesan and a 1/2 tsp lemon rind to top each large bowl. A dusting of pepper might be welcome as well.


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The final lineup for the London 2012 Festival has been announced, with 12,000 events taking place around the country.
The 12 week arts festival is the culmination of the four-year Cultural Olympiad and runs from 21 June until 9 September.
At the launch event, festival director Ruth Mackenzie said that the festival would leave a legacy of art works and will offer young people the opportunity to gain their first job in the arts.
As part of the summer of celebrations, The Royal Opera House will present a number of works including David McVicar's new production of Les Troyens, Metamorphosis: Titian 2012 in conjunction with the National Gallery and BP Summer Big Screen relays of three works from the Royal Opera House to over 25 locations around the country. Further events presented by the Royal Opera House can be found on our earlier blog.
The full programme guide can be downloaded from the London 2012 Festival website.


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In the past few hours a number of Register readers have complained that they were unable to log on to the service.
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The banking giant confirmed to El Reg it was having problems today.
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Business 101: Writing Grant Proposals – OnlineBusinessDegree.org
Grants are funds that are disbursed to a recipient or organization by a government department, foundation, or corporation to fund a specific project. Organizations and foundations in all states – Arizona, Georgia, Louisiana, Michigan, New Mexico, to name a few, rely on grants to continue to operate. To receive a grant, an application or proposal must be submitted to a potential funder and the recipient must meet certain qualifications. This could require the individual or business to have tax-exempt status or become registered as a local government or nonprofit organization. This commonly occurs with nonprofit programs, freelance writers, graphic artists, and various educational projects that require funding to maintain. In many cases, these grants do not need to be repaid but must be tracked, making it extremely important for grant proposals to be as concise and detailed as possible.
- What is a Grant?
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Developing Ideas for the Proposal
For a successful grant proposal, the applicant should be familiar with all the criteria that are related to the program, basic requirements, and knowledge of application forms and procedures. The grant proposal should be thoughtfully prepared and packaged before submission. The process typically begins with a Request for Proposal (RFP) which must be approved before the project details can begin development. As an organization competing against others for the same funds, it's essential that project goals be clearly established.
- Developing and Writing Grant Proposals
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- Writing Grants
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Community Support
Once the grant proposal has been developed, it's important to look for community support. Individuals or groups who represent professional, academic, or political organizations can be extremely persuasive to the agency who is conducting the review process and may be required or requested as part of the grant proposal. Letters of support or endorsement from local government agencies that detail the project commitment and sanction can be very valuable to the grantor agency. Community support can be found through local meetings to persuade the top decision makers in the community to understand and approve of your concept and gain support by neighboring community groups.
- Grant Proposal Preparation Introduction
- Endorsement Letters
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Identification of a Funding Resource
For a grant proposal to be considered as a sufficient candidate for funding, the grantor agency and applicant should have the same intentions. The Catalog Browse sections, as well as the Types of Assistance section of the program catalog can assist applications in making a choice of related programs. Once an organization has found a potential grantor agency, they can call to request a grant application kit and ask the agency for advice and suggestions on the specific project. It's also a common practice to visit the agency's headquarters or regional office to establish details face-to-face and secure the proposal and references.
- A Guide to Funding Resources
- Identification Number System
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- Finding, Writing & Getting the Right Grant
- How to Find the Right Grant
Getting Organized to Write the Proposal
Throughout the grant proposal process, it's essential to stay organized and keep notes and ideas written on paper. Maintain several files for accessibility, such as "Ideas", "Proposal Outline", "Resources", etc. Documents should also be collected and stored, including tax exemption certifications, incorporation articles, and bylaws. Finalized proposals should be cleanly typed, free of errors, easy to read, and packaged neatly. Binding may require hard covers to present an attractive and well organized final proposal that will leave a positive impression on its readers.
- Nonprofit Grant Writing Tools
- How to Enhance a Grant Proposal
- Online Grant Proposals
- The Written Grant Proposal
- Organizing a Proposal
Outlining Project Goals
The grant proposal should clearly outline the project in a summary near the beginning of the proposal. This could be on a separate page or on the cover letter but should only be a brief two to three paragraph section of text. The proposal project summary should consist of all the important points and objectives that were outlined throughout the final proposal. Since the summary will be one of the most important sections of your grant application, it's critical that it fully supports your ideas to impress the grantor agency. The influence and consequences of the project should also be highlighted and explained towards the end of the proposal.
- The Components of a Grant Proposal
- Writing a Grant Application for Funding
- Steps to Successful Grant Writing
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Presenting a Credible Applicant or Organization
For a successful grant proposal, the applicant must gather information from several aspects of the organization involved. Many grant proposals require applicants to describe the organization and its operations from the past and present. When developing a credible grant application, be sure to include a brief biography of key staff members and board members. It's also recommended to include the goals and objectives of the organization, tract record with other grantors, philosophies, and positive success stories. Finally, add in any available data on the goals of the grantor agency to help establish credibility on the applicant's behalf.
- The Art of Grant Writing
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- US Government Grants
- Guidelines for Writing Grant Applications
- Grant Writing TIps
Stating the Problem/Purpose
The problem or purpose of the proposal should be documented clearly within the proposal as this key element will be the underlying factor of whether or not you receive the grant. Both formal and informal assessment documents should be collected. This factual information should address the purpose of creating the proposal and its beneficiaries. The applicant should also mention the economic and social costs that will be affected if funding does occur, as well as the nature of the problem along with evidence if possible. Additional information, such as how the organization discovered that a problem existed and what is currently being done to fix the issue. Be sure to discuss other alternatives that remain when funding is exhausted.
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Designing a Plan of Action
The designing of the final expectations, or plan of action, refers to how the organization plans to solve the problem stated in the proposal. The design should include a flow chart that states the organizational features, as well as details about the project. The plan should discuss the various forms of transportation, faculties, and services required to put forth this solution. Diagrams may be developed to hold separate sections of information, such as inputs, throughputs and outputs. Always justify why a certain course has been taken and what financial expenses may be associated with the project.
- Tracks to Success
- Writing a Successful Grant Proposal
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Planning the Budget
Funding can change yearly and therefore should not be your own source of financial support for the proposed project. There are many aspects that should be considered when creating a project budget, including hidden costs that may be subject to inflationary pressures. Within your budget, be sure to create room for rental costs, utilities, equipment, buildings, food, salary increases, insurance, telephones, internet, and transportation. There may also be costs associated with audits, evaluation systems, leases, down-payments, accounting systems, and other long-term commitments that could put a damper on your project budget.
- Grant Proposal Budget Preparation
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The last time Alabama-Tennessee felt like a rivalry on the field has one distinct pinpoint. It stands 6-foot-4 and weighs 350 pounds.Terrence Cody is forever cemented in University of Alabama football lore for batting down Tennessee's attempt at a game-winning field goal in 2009, a play that helped Alabama win 12-10, preserved its undefeated season and propelled a run to the national championship.
The last time Alabama-Tennessee felt like a rivalry on the field has one distinct pinpoint. It stands 6-foot-4 and weighs 350 pounds. Terrence Cody is forever cemented in University of Alabama football lore for batting down Tennessee's attempt at a game-winning field goal in 2009, a play that helped Alabama win 12-10, preserved its undefeated season and propelled a run to the national championship. "Yeah, that's the most common question I get – that's the only thing Alabama people ask me about," said Cody, a fourth-year pro with the Baltimore Ravens. "And all I did was jump. Stuck my arm out and jumped. And I felt something hit, I didn't know what it was at first. But when I heard the stadium start screaming, I mean, you could feel everything. When I heard all of that I just started running. Took my helmet off and started running." Since the block, Alabama has run to three national championships. Tennessee has floundered with three head coaches. There are other things we know to be true about Alabama-Tennessee today. There is rich history. There is hate. There has been no suspense in four years. There have been no Tennessee wins for six. All of the known leads to one unknown: Is the rivalry still relevant? "Going back to making these rivalries relevant, we need to start winning some of these games," Tennessee's first-year head coach, Butch Jones, said Wednesday. "But our players understand the challenge ahead and we have a tremendous amount of respect for what they've done, but it is a rivalry game and we're looking forward to Saturday." Tradition-rich rivalry There is no debating about the game's tradition. Alabama-Tennessee began in 1901, and by 1908 – the start of a 40-year hiatus in football play between Alabama and Auburn – Tennessee became Alabama's chief football concern. Back in those days, even body parts took a backseat to wins. During the 1913 Alabama-Tennessee game, as the story goes, Hargrove Van de Graaff's ear was cut so severely that it dangled from his head. To stay in the game, he tried to yank it off. His teammates stopped him. Alabama won, 6-0. Paul W. "Bear" Bryant played against Tennessee with a fractured leg in 1935. Alabama won in Knoxville, Tenn., 25-0. By 1970, the series record was 23-23-7. "The Alabama-Tennessee rivalry is probably historically one of the biggest in Southern football," said Cecil "Hootie" Ingram, a former Alabama player (1951-53) and major college coach who returned to UA as athletics director from 1989-95. He went 1-1-1 against Tennessee as a player, including a scoreless tie in 1952. "Of course through many years Alabama and Auburn didn't play and Tennessee was the game," Ingram said, "and that's why today the late middle-aged and older people still regard Tennessee as the biggest rivalry game that we play." The stature of the rivalry grew through the decades. When Bryant returned to Alabama as head coach in 1958, his players understood how important the game was to him. A new tradition began, too, as Alabama celebrated wins over Tennessee by smoking cigars. The tradition continues to this day. "There are always major problems when it comes to beating Tennessee," Bryant told The Tuscaloosa News in 1980, even with his team in the midst of an 11-game win streak over the Vols. "But there is no problem whatsoever getting a team ready to play against them. Our players get themselves ready to play against Tennessee." It has been a series of streaks: the longest was Alabama's 11 straight from 1971-81. Tennessee's longest was seven straight from 1995-2001. Alabama won seven in a row from 1986-92, a number the Crimson Tide can match on Saturday. Still, the series between the two winningest programs in the Southeastern Conference withstood the temporary one-sidedness. For Alabama's fan base, the disdain for Tennessee intensified as recently as 2002, when then-Tennessee coach Phillip Fulmer aided the NCAA in its investigation into Alabama's recruitment of high school prospect Albert Means, an investigation that led to Alabama being slapped with five years of probation. "As one of several coaches contacted by the NCAA regarding these serious violations by a small group of boosters, my response was honest, in line with our code of conduct, and the right thing to do," Fulmer said in 2004. Alabama fans begged to differ, vilifying Fulmer and making him the centerpiece of the rivalry until he left Tennessee in 2008. Alabama coach Nick Saban was well aware of the rivalry's background before he arrived in Tuscaloosa in 2007. "I knew it was a big game," Saban said. "If you're in college football, you kind of recognize what the big rivalry games are all over the country. But I think that until you really get to a place and feel it from the supporters and the fans and the players and everybody that's involved in the organization, you really get a true sense of what the game means to everyone." Alabama dominance In the 112-year history of the series, 95 games in all, neither team had ever won three straight by 30 points or more until now. Alabama-Tennessee has rarely seen a streak this dominant, either. Alabama has won six straight by an average of 21 points, the largest margin of victory for any streak in the series in 50 years. Las Vegas sports books expect Alabama to flirt with a fourth blowout on Saturday, with the Crimson Tide favored by 28.5 points. The fortunes of both programs are just as broad. Alabama is 68-7 with three national championships since 2008. Tennessee is 32-37, a dismal 13-30 in the SEC and has employed four head coaches in the same stretch. "When I was in school, it was bigger than life. It was the most important week of the year. Nothing else came close," said ESPN radio host Paul Finebaum, a 1978 Tennessee graduate. "It was what you lived for as a college student in Knoxville, and it remained that for many years. It wasn't special because of where I went to school or where I was living, it was special because it was the most important game on the board, it was dramatic and you loved it. "But that has changed, and it's all gone now." While Alabama-Tennessee was heated for decades, Alabama's firm control in the series coupled with its national success has changed the face of the rivalry for the younger generation. Cody, now a legend in the rivalry, didn't know anything about it's importance until he arrived on campus at Alabama. Current players Landon Collins and Cyrus Kouandjio didn't either. "The biggest rivalry I heard of was Auburn-Alabama until I came down here," Kouandjio said. "It was the older guys, the mature guys that have been around Alabama for a long time, they're the ones that are really into this game because of the history between Alabama and Tennessee." Quarterback AJ McCarron considered Tennessee "just another school." "Not for me," McCarron responded when asked if any part of the rivalry plays into his thinking this week, a far cry from Bryant's sentiment 33 years ago. "I play on this team, so every week is rivalry week to me because it's the next opponent on the list and they're trying to keep us from our goal, so it really doesn't matter to me." The sentiment has been passed down to the fan base as well. A poll of 272 Alabama fans on TideSports.com overwhelmingly voted Auburn as Alabama's biggest rival at 59.9 percent. Tennessee was No. 2 at 21.9 percent, followed closely by LSU (at 18.1 percent), a less traditional rivalry boosted by Saban's ties with both programs and their recent success. "That's a generation that precedes me and anybody else," Finebaum said of the days when Alabama-Tennessee was considered a marquee rivalry. "You just can't say that with a straight face any longer. If suddenly you said the Alabama-Tennessee game is off the calendar next year, I'm going to say, 'Well, so what?' And I say that as a huge fan of the series, as someone who lived it, who loved it. But now, in a new era, realizing that it's not really important, it doesn't really matter." Current UA students haven't been on campus long enough to see anything resembling a rivalry; a UA student who enrolled in 2010 has seen Alabama outscore Tennessee 122-29. Alabama has led by at least 20 points entering the fourth quarter of all three games. Hard feelings No matter what has happened on the field, the hate hasn't died down. If anything, the recent domination has turned Alabama trash talk into all-out revelry. The hashtag #TennesseeHateWeek rolled through Twitter timelines starting Monday. Links to YouTube videos and photos of Cody's block were rampant. A photo of Tennessee coach Butch Jones in his high school marching band (he played football, too) surfaced. Facts from the last time Tennessee won – UA running back T.J. Yeldon was in sixth grade, gasoline was $1.91 a gallon – were tweeted and re-tweeted. Campuses weren't spared. On Wednesday at Tennessee, "The Rock," an iconic, spray-paint blanketed boulder-turned-message-board was covered in crimson with the message "Roll Tide Roll." By Wednesday afternoon, it was painted orange and white. In the middle was an Alabama T-shirt taped up and crossed out with an orange X. And for the third straight year, Gallettes, a popular bar and staple of the Tuscaloosa strip since 1976, pulled the Tennessee-made Jack Daniels whiskey off its shelves for the week as its expression of solidarity. "We've gotten a pretty good response from it. I like doing it because it riles everyone up, kind of stokes the fire," Gallettes co-owner Jeff Sirkin said. "Tennessee fans are more than welcome to drink here. They're just going to have to drink something else." Sirkin, a 1996 UA graduate, remembers when wins over Tennessee didn't come so easy. He graduated when Tennessee's longest win streak in the series was in full stride, a run kick-started by a quarterback named Peyton Manning. Tennessee won those games by an average of 15.2 points, its most dominant streak over the Crimson Tide. "I feel like the rivalry has taken a back seat because (Tennessee) hasn't been competitive and because of the run we've been on," Sirkin said. "But there are a lot of people who say they hate them more than they hate Auburn. A lot of people feel that way. "I guess I'm a little old school. It goes far back for me, I remember the days when we couldn't beat them. The new kids, they don't know the history with 'Bear' Bryant, the victory cigars, they've never really experienced the highs and lows." Uncertain future Competitive or not, the future of an annual Alabama-Tennessee game past 2015 is uncertain. Through 2015, the SEC will continue to utilize its eight-game 6-1-1 format where each school plays six division games, one permanent cross-division rival – ensuring Alabama plays Tennessee each year – and another cross-division opponent that rotates annually. With the expansion of the league to 14 teams, keeping the exact eight-game, 6-1-1 format means it could take programs six years to rotate through everyone in the opposite division. If the league stays at eight conference games, it could change to a 6-2 format, ending the permanent rivalries and starting a two-team rotation. If that happened, Alabama and Tennessee would no longer play each year. During SEC Media Days in July, SEC commissioner Mike Slive announced a formal review of a nine-game conference schedule. That idea has not been embraced by the league's coaches, who voted 13-1 against a nine-game schedule during the spring meetings in Destin, Fla. Saban was the lone supporter of the nine-game conference slate. Saban has publicly backed the idea of going to nine games, a move that would vastly improve the chances that the permanent cross-division rivalries like Alabama-Tennessee and Auburn-Georgia would stay around. At nine games, the popular belief is that league could use a 6-2-1 format that keeps the Eastern Division vs. Western Division rivalries intact while also rotating through the opposite division faster. "I think that it's important to the fans that we play the quality games. I think it's important that we keep the games that the fans are really interested in as natural rivalries," Saban said Monday. "I also think it's very important for every player to play everybody in the league in his career, which if you only play two teams from the other side, that doesn't really happen. "I know there's issues with it and I understand the opposition to it, but I think we all need to think of the fans first. You've got to have games that people are interested in coming to see. You want to fill the stadium, and I think that's where it all starts." A rivalry again? How can Alabama-Tennessee feel like a rivalry on the field again? One Tennessee win, while hard to envision in the short-term, would be enough. Tennessee has improved noticeably under Jones, and despite the heavy underdog status today, his team rides into Tuscaloosa with confidence. Tennessee narrowly missed an upset against Georgia two weeks ago, then knocked off South Carolina on a last-second field goal last week for its first SEC win of the year. There are signs of an eventual turnaround. If this game's streaky history tells us anything, it's that Tennessee can be good again. "The way I look at it is that when you play an SEC team, no matter what the odds are, you better be ready to play," Ingram said. "We just had a Saturday in the SEC go by that kind of reminds you of that. It's like the old Texas story: There ain't no horse that can't be rode and there ain't no rider that can't be thrown. That's the motto I've tried to keep in my career in athletics. You've got to be aware and be prepared every week." Until then, it'll be about history and hate and wondering when Tennessee will emerge. "It's a huge test for us and it's also a great opportunity," Tennessee quarterback Justin Worley said this week. "We hate Alabama just like they hate us. They've had the upper hand the past few years, they've had the upper hand on everybody. It's an opportunity for us to show what we've matured and turned into. I think we're all excited about it."
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Vince Griffin grew up in his parents' dry cleaning business, working there while in high school and joining it full time after graduation.
Vince Griffin grew up in his parents' dry cleaning business, working there while in high school and joining it full time after graduation.
But about six years ago, his parents, Jerry and Brenda Griffin, sold the business, Jerry's Cleaners, which had grown into one of the larger dry cleaning operations in Tuscaloosa.
"We decided to get out of dry cleaning and get into other ventures," Vince Griffin said. "I got into the asphalt business, but my heart just was not in it. I just loved dry cleaning."
So he said he decided to do what he knows best. He is getting back into dry cleaning.
He plans to open Griffin's Dry Cleaning & Laundry with two locations before the end of the year.
"My dad is a silent partner in the business, but he and my mom are retired," the younger Griffin said.
Griffin's Dry Cleaning will have a shop north of the river at McFarland Boulevard and Watermelon Road where customers will be able to drop off and pick up their dry cleaning. It also will have its dry cleaning plant at 2217 Skyland Blvd., next to the Seventh Day Adventist Church. The Skyland location also will a drop-off and pickup service for customers.
Vince Griffin, 44, said he has the dry cleaning equipment installed at the Skyland location, a building his family owns. His father will have an office there for his other business ventures but will not be working in dry cleaning.
"I have been in dry cleaning for 25 years," Vince Griffin said. "I just like working with the people, your customers and your crew. They become like family."
Over the years, there have been some changes in fabrics and fabric blends, he said, but the key to good dry cleaning is following the garment's label instructions and knowing what caused the spots that need specific treating, he said.
Griffin said he plans to have about 20 to 25 employees between the two stores. Both locations will offer same-day service on weekdays for items dropped off before 10 a.m., he said.
Both locations will be open from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. Mondays through Fridays and from 8 a.m. to noon on Saturdays. No dry cleaning will be done on Saturdays but customers will be able to drop off or pick up items that day.