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When the latest edition of the FIFA Confederations Cup kicks off in Brasilia on Saturday, the FIFA.com editorial network will be working hard to ensure that those following the tournament online or on mobile will have the best possible experience.
The regular features which you have come to expect over the years, such as exclusive interviews, photos and videos, daily round-ups and swift match reaction will form the cornerstone of our coverage, yet there are also new features in particular that users will come to know and love during Brazil 2013 and beyond.
Budweiser Man of the Match
The Budweiser Man of the Match Award will go to the best player of each game. The winner will be decided by fans who can vote from half-time until the final whistle of each match on our new MatchCast service, Twitter as well as the Budweiser mobile app.
Voting on MatchCast and the Budweiser mobile app will be self-explanatory, but to vote for the Man of the Match via Twitter you must use the hashtag template #fifaTRI0. Substitute TRI for the FIFA three letter country code of the team your Man of the Match plays for (i.e. "BRA" for Brazil or "JPN" for Japan). Next, replace the "0" with your player's squad number.
So to vote for Neymar in the opening match of the tournament, you would tweet #fifaBRA10
Your XI
Think you know better than Scolari, Del Bosque and Prandelli? Well, thanks to Your XI, you can imagine you're a national coach and select your starting line up!
Now that the squad lists have been announced, you can select your preferred first 11s for each of the group stage games. When the official starting lists are announced before every game, FIFA.com will also display the most popular XI as voted by our users.
Kick-off ball contest
If you can answer quiz questions about the FIFA Confederations Cup correctly, you could win a priceless Official Kick-Off Ball from a match at the FIFA Confederations Cup Brazil 2013!
Access the quiz by clicking on the link on the right hand side. When you enter the quiz page, you will see three FIFA Confederations Cup questions. Answer all three questions correctly and you will be eligible to win the Kick-off Ball for that specific match. If more than one user answers correctly, FIFA will select the winner at random from the full list of eligible users.
You can enter as many match quizzes as you like, but you only get one chance to submit your answers, so be sure to consider your answers carefully! Each quiz opens to coincide with the kick-off of the respective match. The quiz remains open until 30 minutes after the game has finished.
Brand-new MatchCast
Our editorial team who are based throughout Brazil will be keeping you right up to date with all of the action in a daily LIVE blog which begins at 9.30am local time every day from Friday 14 June until Sunday 30 June. This will be your one-stop shop for everything to do with the 'Confeds' with Twitter, YouTube, photos – and your comments all in one place. Our coverage on Twitter at @FIFAcom will also be enhanced; don't forget to use #confeds to join in the discussion.


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As we hinted last week, Queen and Adam Lambert will tour North America this summer. The complete list of dates can be found below.
Lambert, Brian May, Roger Taylor and supporting musicians will play 19 dates over the course of a month beginning June 19 at Chicago's United Center. They will have hit major venues in 18 cities (Las Vegas gets two shows) across the United States and Canada by the time they wind it up on July 20 at Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, Md., which is located between Washington, D.C. and Baltimore.
"I'm completely in awe of the Queen phenomenon," Lambert said via press release. "The thought of sharing the stage for a full set in North America is so beautifully surreal. I'm honored to be able to pay my respects to Freddie's memory; he's a personal hero of mine, and I am deeply grateful for the chance to sing such powerful music for fans of this legendary band. I know this tour will be a huge milestone for me, and with the support of Brian, Roger and the rest of the band, I feel like magic will be on display."
"Let's rock those beautiful arenas just one more time," May added.
Tickets go on sale March 14 at Livenation.com and through their mobile platforms. American Express card members will have access to a pre-sale beginning March 10 at 10:00AM for the U.S. dates and March 11 at 10:00AM for the Canada dates.
Queen + Adam Lambert 2014 North American Tour
6/19 — Chicago, Ill.
6/21 — Winnipeg, Manitoba
6/23 — Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
6/24 — Edmonton, Alberta
6/26 — Calgary, Alberta
6/28 — Vancouver, British Columbia
7/1 — San Jose, Calif.
7/3 — Los Angeles, Calif.
7/5 — Las Vegas, Nev.
7/6 — Las Vegas, Nev.
7/9 — Houston, Texas
7/10 — Dallas, Texas
7/12 — Detroit, Mich.
7/13 — Toronto, Ontario
7/14 — Montreal, Quebec
7/16 — Philadelphia, Pa.
7/17 — New York, N.Y.
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The discipline of community relations has evolved dramatically in recent years. Recognizing both the responsibility to support their communities and the business benefits of a positive reputation, companies have invested billions of dollars and millions of hours, resulting in a substantive impact.
Yet for many organizations, corporate social responsibility (CSR) is on the verge of the most dramatic change yet. It's a shift to the concept of creating shared value, which tears apart the traditional lines between a CSR program and the business it supports. In many ways, it makes community relations obsolete, as the entire business becomes a community relations effort unto itself. The emerging practice of creating shared value can transform how companies grow and impact communities around the world.
Through shared value, a company places an understanding of community needs such as housing and food at the center of its business and product development process. It doesn't simply try to meet community needs through a program that sits on the side of the business–it makes those needs a business focus. By meeting the demand for critical human needs, a company strengthens communities while tapping a burgeoning underserved market.
The financial and social benefits of creating shared value present an opportunity–and a challenge–for companies. Will a business place underserved people's needs at the core of every decision? Do companies develop products that will help to lift up the society in which they serve? Does a company fundamentally shift its business model to unleash the demand for basic services around the world? Shared value challenges companies to fundamentally rethink their products.
In a Harvard Business Review article on creating shared value, Michael Porter and Mark Kramer explored the impacts of blending capitalism with capacity building, citing a Thomson Reuters service that delivers weather and crop-pricing information to Indian farmers. Reuters estimates 2 million farmers pay US$5 per quarter for the service–and that 60 percent of them saw their incomes rise. The article also described Vodafone's mobile banking service in Kenya. In three years, 10 million Kenyans signed up for the service, which handles funds equivalent to 11 percent of the country's gross domestic product.
Global companies can't overlook the market potential of creating shared value. Innovating products to meet the needs of billions of people presents too large an opportunity to ignore. But the organizational transformation needed to create shared value is daunting. There's no playbook, it's a slow shift, and the path looks different for each company.
The journey
Cisco's journey to creating shared value began almost by accident, launching training programs in emerging markets because few local people had the skills to support the technology. Cisco quickly realized the impacts its training had on local communities–jobs, local value, and better quality of life.
These benefits came in tandem with establishing a workforce that could implement and maintain Cisco's networking technology. The resulting shared value prompted Cisco to formalize the training, and theCisco Networking Academy was created in 1997. This global education program teaches students to design, build, troubleshoot, and secure computer networks, increasing their access to career and economic opportunities. Networking Academy operates in 165 countries and is a cornerstone of Cisco's global services. The workforce trained through Networking Academy is essential to Cisco's global growth, and the training has improved the lives of more than 4 million people worldwide.
In the aftermath of the 8.0 magnitude earthquake that killed 68,000 people in China's Sichuan Province in 2008, the company invested $50 million, much of that in the form of technology, in a Cisco initiative calledConnecting Sichuan. Teams built smart hospitals and placed millions of health insurance records in data centers, increasing medical treatment capacity and helping patients save money. Using Cisco'sTelePresence technology, highly trained doctors now treat patients in rural areas.
"In terms of driving business growth, Connecting Sichuan is a powerful case study," says Kathy Mulvany, Cisco's director, corporate affairs marketing. "When we look to partner with governments for large-scale networking projects, we can point its success. Although new partnerships are not based on a single factor, this project goes a long way in demonstrating the value our networks can bring to potential customers." Mulvany also cites the branding benefits of creating shared value. "There are investors and potential partners who work only with companies that have a strong track record in corporate social responsibility," she says.
Measuring profits and value
Shared value rarely emerges through short-term investments made amid pressures of reporting quarterly profits. However, strategic business leaders realize that overstressed suppliers, ravaged natural resources, and devastated communities compromise their profits, supply chains and growth.
Leadership is essential to driving shared value. Although its champions exist at all levels, leaders must encourage shared value to emerge from the bottom up. For instance, it's crucial for Cisco Networking Academy staff to adapt training for local customs. The team in Israel added a socio-political component in the training. In Afghanistan, the team tailored the curriculum to fit cultural norms for teaching women. Executives must allow local flexibility and autonomy for shared value to take shape.
Shared value and beyond
Creating shared value drives also creates meaningful opportunities for employees. Take the story of Ash, a former inmate at HMP Wandsworth Prison in London. While serving time, Ash met Dave Thomson, a Cisco employee who volunteered in the prison as part of the Networking Academy. Dave and Ash met monthly, talking about making good decisions, and training Ash on computer networking. Later released from prison, Ash has worked for a year at Kelway, a Cisco partner company. Dave likely played a major role in Ash's transition from inmate to internal IT help desk professional.
Improving lives–like Ash's–is an important goal of the Cisco Networking Academy. But it's also essential to give employees like Dave the opportunity to do meaningful, high-impact work and to become satisfied because they're making a difference. It's shared value in action.
The transformation to creating shared value has its challenges. But the rewards–for the business, for its employees, and society–are worth the journey.
Read more about Corporate Social Responsibility at Cisco on our website.
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The Solo RepoSheet is a combination of two very successful concepts from Liko: Solo products for short-term patient specific use and RepoSheets for moving patients in the bed.
The Solo products from Liko are a good alternative for short-term patient specific use, in order to avoid the risk of infection or when washing is a problem. The RepoSheet is an excellent solution for repositioning patients in bed, a common cause of injury to nursing staff.
Often healthcare involves turning patients, to wash them or to prevent pressure ulcers, etc. It can also happen that the patient needs to be moved further up in the bed after having slid down towards the foot end. In both of these situations RepoSheet is a valuable and appreciated aid. Instead of moving the patient manually, you can easily use an overhead lift and the RepoSheet.
Solo RepoSheet is a variant of the RepoSheet and is intended for short-term use. Thus, the Solo RepoSheet should not be washed but can be disposed of when soiled or when the patient no longer needs it. The spreading of viruses and contagious bacteria, e.g. MRSA, is prevented. It is also a relatively economical solution, since laundering is eliminated.
Solo RepoSheet is manufactured from a soft and comfortable material with good "breathing" capacity.
In addition to the Solo RepoSheet, there are other lifting aids, such as slings and lift sheets, in our Solo disposable concept.
The Liko product range also includes the RepoSheet Original and the RepoSheet Original Ultra intended for long-term use for patients weighing up to 500 kg (1100 lbs.).
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Archangel Jophiel through Frixos Christodoulou | Athens, 1 June 10
Summer has come! Beloved workers of the divine consciousness, the presence of heavens approaches the grids of the light hologram of Earth. The gathered momentum of planet Earth (the energy grids of Earth) lead to an accelerating evolution and rotation of the energy fields of the Light.
Loved ones, the joy of Archangels approaches even more the field of the Earth this month in order to contribute in the process of cleansing and restoring the order in the material plane through a new paradigm.
The light being radiated from planet Mars/Jupiter (*1) this period calls forth the old paradigms of patriarchy to unhook from the energy bodies of the planet and humanity. This period you will experience an increased energy inflow and an enlargement or expansion of your energy bodies.
The general fear that is prevailing provokes a contraction to your bodies but soon will follow a dilation that will expand them. This dilation is a physical phenomenon that is happening due to the magnetic influence of the Sun and also from other factors such as the raise of the general vibration of the planet while you are in parallel affected by the approaching astral level. And since everything is depending from the possibilities appearing now to you in your lives and the way they affect you through your own personal choices.
Beloved, this time choose a new way, another paradigm for your life. Summer, this season, these three months that follow will present a series of planetary and stellar alignments that affect your galaxy as a total, and also your solar system and the very Earth of course.
Loved ones, this alignment taking place in June, on the 13th of June 2010, time 13:30, will bring about acceleration; will bring a new turn in the energy light grid embracing the Earth. The energy will be raised one more octave in order to approach more the higher astral levels.
The energy work taking place this period is preparing the planet and humanity with grace, to enter in a new fifth-dimensional reality. This is the new reality you are called to pass in. You know, sometimes it is difficult to do it since there is no reference point.
What is happening now is the deletion of all memory or in a better way the imprints of memory that exist within the collective of humanity and the planet. This helps you to unhook from the old examples and behaviors.
However they still continue to exist. Many times you see that there is no desire to return back in a past behavior of feeling, but many times you "return back" because you don't know the new and you don't surrender in this. You allow yourself to create something old, repeating, for once more. Strength and inspiration is needed for the creation of the new. Focus and clear intention are needed without attachment. Abundant flowing love and support in action is needed.
Beloved lightworkers, the Planetary Hierarchy of the Light put great efforts in supporting all people of Earth for a complete change, bringing huge amounts of energy and information in order to guide you smoothly and directly in front of the gate of the New Age of the Light that is coming.
Time, as you know it starts to collapse!
Time, as you know it, starts to be "abolished". You may have noticed the last period that the sense you have for time has changed once more. This is happening because, as we said to you, the astral level which is of a higher vibration of the third dimension, has approached. This means that you will see an acceleration of facts as they manifest in your reality. It won't be so much different in the way that "time goes fast" as you realize it, but in the way things manifest faster.
In the reality of the third dimension the power that sets manifestation in motion is supported more by the physical action. While you approach the astral level, you will see that the energy fuel of manifestation comes through the power of emotions and thoughts in order to create in matter along with the support of physical action. However every level has its own laws, and these laws always function on their level.
Loved ones, the Light of the Christ this era manifests in the consciousnesses of light workers and all people who listen to the truth of their heart. Beloved, don't get dispirited and don't despair. You enter another field and now you learn how this is functioning. The transition can happen easily and fast. Remember the compass of the heart and the light within that is guiding you now.
This June you will experience an alignment and energy light coding as a preparation for the galactic alignment with the photon belt. This coding comes from the center of your galaxy, Alcyone, and will be spirally transmitted to the planetary system of your solar system in order to prepare the collective planetary energies for the next evolutionary level. Signaling and igniting the beginning of a new cycle.
The energies of the planetary minds are about to change in the way they affect the Earth and many of the zodiacs you know will receive new light codes. This means also changes in influences that will be more intense and in alignment with the aspects of the Light.
Also you need to know that the actions of the Light and the unceasing work of the angels of the light embrace your lives with grace. In a more practical level, you will see an emergence of emotions in all people and in your environment generally.
You may notice sudden changes in your mood and moments with intense and hypotonic moods, with frequent alternations. Learn to focus correctly your energies and see how you can handle better the possibilities presented in order to be wholesome and beneficial for everyone.
Archangel Michael & The Cleansing of the Planetary Hologram:
Beloved light workers of God's work, I wish to bring a message to you. I Am Archangel Michael. This period the planetary hologram of the Earth is about to be severed from the distorted thoughts that exist in the humanity collective, in the codified history of this hologram.
This will bring great disturbance in the fields of the Earth till a new balance is achieved!
This cleansing will affect the entire hologram of the Earth in the time-space frames assisting in this way the ascension in a higher frequency of love and light. This information comes as a preparation and for your own understanding and proper adjustment for what is about to come.
From the Angelic Kingdom of the Light, Archangel Michael.
The Angelic Kingdom and the actions of the Angelic Hierarchy never abandon the planet and the continuous flow of the angelic energy works intensively. Finally we wish to emphasize something. The "contour" of the human consciousness is going to break in short period and huge amounts of energy will be released flooding the fields "above and below".
This "contour" looks like a veil that is covering you. Another way to describe it is like a protective shield that kept you safe we could say but the same time is a kind of barrier. The time to open this "contour" has began and soon you will say the light being radiated more through the pure consciousnesses and the light bodies of light workers on Earth.
Loved ones, give time to yourself to adjust smoothly in the new reality. Take care and pay attention to all of your bodies and give some time to investigate your feelings and your moods. While things are changing, attune yourself every day with the heart, with the truth of the Divine that is inside you and give time to your consciousness to align directly with the Source.
Beloved light workers of the truth of the
Light, we wish you a month full of pleasant realizations and soul
steps towards the Light within.
Planetary alignments in June 2010:
1. Greater alignment with the central sun of the galaxy.
2. Solar storm approaching after the 15th of June to 17th.
3. Increase of cosmic energy inflow.
4. Cosmic fire coming in preparing the way for the seventh ray.
5. The constellation of Ursa Major (Great Bear) changes orientation slightly. This will cause the synthesis of a new energy that will support the more direct stellar-planetary circle around the earth.
Other important dates in June:
Summer Solstice: 21 June
Full Moon: 26 June
Partial Lunar Eclipse: 26 June. Visible from Australia to East Asia (sunrise) and to North and South America (sunset).
Channeling from Archangel Jophiel through Frixos Christodoulou | 1 June 10, Athens
Notes & Comments:
(*1) Planet Jupiter on the Tree of Life corresponds to the Sephiroth Chesed (Violet flame, male energy) in combination to planet Mars-opposite Sephiroth Geburah, on the triangle they form with the Sun- Sephiroth Tifaret.
Α. 13 June 2010: Important planetary alignment. Planet Uranus, Jupiter and Mercury will be located on the one side of the Sun and from the other side we will be Venus, Mars and Saturn. While the Earth is located vertically to the Sun, forming a gigantic T.
The alignment will be completed on the 11th of July 2010 with a solar eclipse.
Obviously the fields of the Sun will be affected and solar flares or solar storms will be noticeable; affecting the Earthly fields in various ways. These planets in the way they are aligned, are in perfect correspondence and balance as they are represented on the Kabbalistic Tree of Life (Columns of Mercy and Severity), with the Sun in the center, and below planet Earth, and on the top is Neptune (Kether).
Β. On the Summer Solstice, the Great Bear (Ursa Major) points to the South and the "opening" of the constellation towards the East.
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Obama Wins 12th In A Row
The voting in the large delegate states of Texas and Ohio are still too tight to call. Separately, Rhode Island, where Senator Hillary Clinton had a lead in the day leading to the vote, also is still too close to call. Clinton needs big wins in both Texas and Ohio to prevent super delegates from abandoning her campaign.
[Elections 2008]
Senator Barack Obama won his 12th contest in a row taking the state of Vermont's election today.
Clinton then won Rhode Island 59% to 40% and estimates show her winning Ohio.
As of 11 PM Eastern Time, Obama and Clinton are knotted up at 49% each in Texas, which remains as tonight's super prize, with 35% of the precincts reporting.
The areas of dense population in Texas, such as Austin and Houston where Obama is expected to do well, haven't yet reported.
Exit data show Obama winning 89% of the African American vote to Clinton's 11%. Obama performed strongly with White voters, gaining 44% to Hillary's 55%. Hillary's expected support in the Latino communities translated into 63% to 35%.
Estimates show Obama won Vermont 60% to 38%. John McCain won the Republican primary race against Mike Huckabee in Vermont, Ohio and Texas.
Clinton needs also to win Texas to prevent super delegates from abandoning her campaign. Obama has now won 27 states compared to Clinton's 11. He leads in the total delegates count 1,386 to Clinton's 1,276.
Clinton was ahead in the super delegates count by 105 the beginning of February; Obama has shaved that led to only 38 and could overtake Clinton in the next two weeks.
There are 141 delegates at stake in Ohio and 126 in Texas. Unlike in most of the Republican contests, the delegates in Democratic contests are divided proportionately. Clinton mathematically cannot surmount Obama's lead.
Clinton tonight thanked Ohio and declared, "We're going all the way." Ironically, super delegates may abandon her before the week is over.
Two weeks ago, Bill Clinton said the race was over if senator Clinton fails to win both Texas and Ohio.
McCain wrapped up the Republican nomination tonight, which adds pressure on the Democratic Party to designate a candidate that the party can rallying behind as a standardbearer. Super delegates also lean towards whom they think can win the White House; the latest polls show that Obama has a better chance of defeating McCain. Scores of super delegates may declare allegiances tomorrow.
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Catan: Oil Springs Game Day at Yola
Eureka! Oil has been discovered on Catan! That's right, oil has been discovered on the island of Catan! And after many years of study, the great engineers of Catan have learned ways to improve production using this valuable new resource, both by converting it into other resources and enabling the upgrade of cities into metropolises.
Recognizing the value of making sustainability education fun and engaging, Worldwatch's Erik Assadourian has helped develop Catan: Oil Springs, a non-profit scenario for the award-winning board game that integrates a new resource into the mix—oil—and brings with it the opportunity for players to develop significantly faster, but not without risking industrial pollution and disasters such as coastal flooding triggered by climate change. Other sustainability challenges, including issues of development disparity, the resource curse, and limits to growth are integrated seamlessly into the game, where players struggle with whether they should use oil to grow even as they risk undermining the productivity of their lands and even risk inundation of the entire island of Catan.
Assadourian and co-creator Ty Hansen will be at Yola (in Washington D.C.'s Dupont Circle) on January 28 to celebrate the game's release. Lucky attendants will even be able to challenge the developrs at their own game! Join us at:
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I have encountered iterated integrals on papers dealing with multizeta values, polylogarithms etc.. Since then I am trying to figure out the motivations and purpose of the theory.
It seems the defintions and methods go back to K.-T. Chen. The integrals seem to converge like an exponential series. He published many papers on this topic. Some of these(as seen in his collected works) seem to relate to path spaces, loops spaces etc., and their homology/cohomology. Many notions in algebraic topology seem to be carried out in this context using the analytic tool of iterated integral. He calls it a "de Rham theoretical approach" to the fundamental group, etc.. Is this a "de Rham homotopy theory"? Are we able to capture topological properties by repeated integration? In particular I have in mind the "iterated path integrals" paper of K.-T. Chen in mind. There are lots of others too, and some of them are in the Annals; so one cannot question the mathematical importance of the topic.
I am sorry for asking a vague question. I am a beginner on a topic struggling to understand the concepts and motivations behind them. I will be grateful for any pointers towards more understanding, so that I can get started.


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On the stage of the Steep Theatre, designer Stephen Harold Carmody has re-created an everyday office: you see rows of files, a nice reception desk, inspirational art on the walls celebrating team work, dedication and other valuable corporate skills. But if you arrive at your theater seat early and find yourself staring at this design, you won't easily discern what this office actually does.
It remains that way for the first half of Adam Bock's 75-minute play "The Receptionist." Therein we watch the titular phone-answering employee, played by the chirpy Cheryl Roy, interact with a couple of workers, played by Peter Esposito and Caroline Neff, and find out if she can put plenty of people into other people's voice mails, while still keeping a little time to scold a fellow worker for walking off with all the good pens. There are no further clues when she picks up the phone — the standard greeting is "North East Office."
Plenty of workplaces — perchance the one you toil in yourself — don't actually do much, of course. And ever since Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant came up with the absurdist mockumentary "The Office," much fun has been had at the expense of the petty rivalries and battles involving power, status and the availability and cost of office supplies. And so for a good while, that's what you think you are watching here — a droll series of riffs on mundanity.
That turns out mostly to be a long tease — but any description of the other shoe that drops would spoil the show. Suffice here to say that the business of this office is not entirely savory (or sweet) and that the playwright's main point seems to be that certain problematic human actions here in America tend to get integrated into everyday routine, meaning that we too easily forget to challenge what lies beneath.
Bock's play, which was staged at Manhattan Theatre Club in New York in 2007 with Jayne Houdyshell in the central role, does not have a great deal to say about what we all should do about that, beyond wagging its authorial finger, but it certainly identifies the problem in a very bracing and striking theatrical manner, well suited to Steep's intimate space and its love of intensity and mystery.
Director Joanie Schultz's production is well-paced and generally effective, even if the lack of space on Carmody's set sometimes makes it tough to buy the moments when private conversations are supposedly not being overheard. The piece walks a fine line of believability and, on occasion, this production lurches too far away from truth.
But most of the time, Roy's character does her thing very deftly and amusingly. Both Neff, whose work is rich, and Esposito, who brings the right note of sadness, are careful to underplay their roles, adding nicely to the general sense of unease coaxed to the fore by the shrewdly generic. And Peter Moore, playing the visitor whose appearance up-ends the stability of this little corporate cesspool, is quite deliciously unmenacing, which makes him aptly creepy as he imposes the will of the central office, whose collective commandments are the nemesis of so many American workers, trying to keep their head down lest someone chop off their fingers.
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When: Through May 19
Where: Steep Theatre Company, 1115 W. Berwyn Ave.
Running time: 1 hour, 20 minutes
Tickets: $22-$25 at 866-811-4111 and steeptheatre.com


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Opened July, 3rd 2013
Rated PG
Runtime 1 hr. 38 min.
Starring Steve Carell, Kristen Wiig, Benjamin Bratt, Miranda Cosgrove
Directed by Chris Renaud, Pierre Coffin
Genre Animation
SynopsisIn summer 2013, get ready for more Minion madness in Despicable Me 2. Chris Meledandri and his acclaimed filmmaking team create an all-new comedy adventure featuring the return of (former?) super-villain Gru (Steve Carell), his adorable girls, the unpredictably hilarious Minions...and a host of new and outrageously funny characters.


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Democratic women eye city hall gains
The Democratic group EMILY's List has handed out a string of endorsements in recent weeks to a group of candidates with at least one thing in common: no matter how well they do in their campaigns, none of them will be coming to Washington.
That's because the influential women's organization is deploying its political muscle far away from the federal level, in several high-profile mayoral races where women candidates stand to make history by becoming the first female chief executives of their home cities.
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EMILY's List officials said the decision to dive into local politics with a new intensity stemmed from a desire to see more Democratic women in positions of executive power. By pursuing that goal in the 2013 elections, they hope to help set the stage for vaulting more women into governor's offices in 2014 – and perhaps putting a woman in the White House two years after that.
( Also on POLITICO: Governorships: Where are the women?)
Since the start of the year, EMILY's List has backed New York City Council Speaker Christine Quinn in a competitive Democratic primary and endorsed Houston Mayor Annise Parker for reelection. On Friday, the group's president, Stephanie Schriock, endorsed Los Angeles Comptroller Wendy Greuel for mayor in an event on the West Coast.
A clean sweep of those races would put women mayors in charge of three of the country's four largest cities. (The outlier? Rahm Emanuel's Chicago.)
There are likely more mayoral endorsements to come from EMILY's List, which played a prominent role in the Democrats' successful 2012 campaign to win female voters by a landslide margin. EMILY's List strategists pointed to Minneapolis and Seattle as two other potential targets for the group's involvement. The candidate field in both races is still taking shape.
( PHOTOS: Female senators in the 113th Congress)
Schriock said that she viewed the 2012 election outcome as "a mandate for women's leadership across the country" – one that prompted EMILY's List to seek out unconventional targets for advancing women in the federal off-season.
"We've been involved in some mayor's races in the past, but it hasn't really been a huge focus here, to be completely honest," she said. "It's really time for Americans around the country to see more and more women in these executive positions of mayor and, in 2014, in governorships."
Schriock acknowledged that it was a new challenge to engage EMILY's List members – and they number over two million – in municipal elections in cities where many supporters do not live.
But she said there was a "very supportive" initial reaction to the group's endorsement of Quinn in January. Schriock called that the beginning of arming members "with the conversation about why it's important to have women in executive positions, whether it's the mayor of New York City or the governor of Pennsylvania or the president of the United States."
( Also on POLITICO: Laura Bush: Some in GOP scared women)
The whole enterprise is also challenging on a more technical level: there's a web of local campaign finance laws to contend with, and that will help determine exactly how EMILY's List can support its favored candidates.


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- For the Ribbons in the Pokémon Mystery Dungeon series, see Sun Ribbon and Lunar Ribbon.
A Ribbon (Japanese: リボン Ribbon) is a special item that can be awarded to a Pokémon for a variety of reasons. Ribbons stay on a Pokémon permanently even across generations and can be checked in different ways depending on the game version.
- 1 In the games
- 2 In the anime
- 3 In other languages
In the games
Ribbons were introduced in Generation III, where they primarily serve as rewards for competing in Pokémon Contests, though certain Ribbons are obtainable by defeating the Elite Four or from special events, among others. They are viewable from the PokéNav in Pokémon Ruby, Sapphire, and Emerald. While in Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen they aren't visible, their data is still kept, and the correct Ribbons appear on a Pokémon if transferred to the Hoenn games or those from the following generations.
In Generation IV and V, more Ribbons were introduced, where they are viewable in the Pokémon's summary screen. While primarily obtained in Super Contests, Ribbons could still be obtained in a variety of ways.
In Generation V, Ribbons are kept, and though they aren't obtainable anywhere in-game, they can still be seen in the summary screen if obtained in Generation IV or from an event, which are the only ways allowed to obtain Ribbons. Pokémon Black and White introduced a few new Ribbons, which are only obtainable from events, as well as a categorization scheme, separating them as League, Contest, Tower, Memorial, and Gift Ribbons.
League Ribbons
- See also: List of League Ribbons
League Ribbons (Japanese: リーグリボン League Ribbons) are awarded to every Pokémon in the player's current party when he or she defeats the Elite Four in Generation III or in Pokémon Diamond, Pearl, and Platinum. There are two distinct League Ribbons, making this category have the least amount of Ribbons.
Contest Ribbons
- See also: List of Contest Ribbons
Contest Ribbons (Japanese: コンテストリボン Contest Ribbons) are awarded to the winning Pokémon in any of Hoenn's Contests and Sinnoh's Super Contests. A different Ribbon is awarded for winning in each of the four ranks of the five different categories (Cool, Beauty, Cute, Smart, and Tough), making a total of 20 Ribbons in each type of Contest. As those awarded in Contests and Super Contests are considered separate, there are a total of 40 Contest-related Ribbons obtainable in the games, making this category have the larger amount of Ribbons.
In Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire, the Normal Rank Ribbons for all five Hoenn Contests can be obtained at the Verdanturf Town Contest Hall while the Super Rank Ribbons are at Fallarbor Town. The Hyper Rank Ribbons are obtained in Slateport City, and the Master Rank Ribbons are at Lilycove City. In Emerald, all are obtained at Lilycove City.
In Pokémon Diamond, Pearl, and Platinum, all twenty Ribbons for the four ranks of Super Contest (Normal, Great, Ultra, and Master) are obtained at the Hearthome City Contest Hall.
Contest Ribbons are the only type of Ribbons found in the games that are featured in the anime.
Tower Ribbons
- See also: List of Tower Ribbons
Tower Ribbons (Japanese: タワーリボン Tower Ribbons) are awarded to Pokémon used to complete certain challenges in any of Hoenn's, Sinnoh's, or Johto's Battle Towers. There are a total of eight Tower Ribbons.
There are two Ribbons from the Battle Tower found in Pokémon Ruby, Sapphire and Emerald. They are awarded for clearing the Level 50 Battle Tower and the Level 100 Battle Tower in Ruby and Sapphire, or Open Level Battle Tower in Emerald. Ribbons are awarded to party Pokémon upon completion of the eighth consecutive Battle Tower challenge (defeating 56 Trainers in a row) and each challenge thereafter if a Pokémon does not already have a Ribbon. Defeating fifty Trainers in a row but losing before 56 does not award any Ribbons.
In Generation IV, two new Ribbons replace the two given out in Hoenn, though they serve the same purpose. Four additional Ribbons are given out after winning fifty times in the Double Battles, in Multi Battles against the CPU, in Multi Battles with someone, or reaching Rank 5 in the Wi-Fi mode.
Memorial Ribbons
- See also: List of Memorial Ribbons
Memorial Ribbons (Japanese: メモリーリボン Memory Ribbons) are normally given after fulfilling an in-game accomplishment. The first Pokémon in the player's party is usually the one to obtain this type of Ribbon, although some Ribbons are rewarded to all the members of the player's party. There are a total of fifteen Memorial Ribbons.
Gift Ribbons
- See also: List of Gift Ribbons
Gift Ribbons (Japanese: プレゼントリボン Present Ribbons) are normally found already with Pokémon given to the player, such as event Pokémon. Unlike most other Ribbons, Gift Ribbons are not simply given to a Pokémon already under the player's ownership.
There are "Pokémon Event" and "Pokémon Festival" Ribbons which have been distributed at Pokémon events and festivals. The description of these Ribbons may be "A commemorative Ribbon obtained at a mystery location." if the player has yet to obtain a Pokémon with one of these Ribbons themselves from an event—only obtaining a Pokémon with one from a trade.
Gift Ribbons available after Generation III normally prohibit Pokémon with them from being traded in the Global Terminal.
Other Ribbons
- See also: List of other Ribbons
Many Ribbons were made available as prizes from tournaments, among many events, in Generation III and only in that generation; they could not be transferred to other generations.
On the other hand, six Ribbons available in Generation III and IV data have no longer been made available in Generation V.
Tournament Ribbons
Some of these Ribbons may have been awarded to players who won tournaments at Pokémon events in Japan. Other Ribbons were never handed out.
There are Ribbons for Regional, National, and Global tournaments for 2003, 2004, and 2005. Each has a Champion Ribbon, a Runner-Up Ribbon, and a Semifinalist Ribbon.
Additional Ribbons are:
- Pokémon Battle Cup Participation Ribbon
- Pokémon League Advance Cup
- Pokémon Tournament Participation Ribbon
Pokémon Center Ribbons
There are Ribbons for the Pokémon Centers in Tokyo, Osaka, Nagoya, and New York.
Holiday Ribbons
- Summer Holidays Ribbon
- Winter Holidays Ribbon
- Spring Holidays Ribbon
- Evergreen Ribbon
- Special Holiday Ribbon
Tower Ribbons
- Darkness Tower Clear
- Red Tower Clear
- Blackiron Tower Clear
- Final Tower Clear
In the anime
Unlike the games, Ribbons are not attached to individual Pokémon in the anime. Instead, they can be compared to Badges earned at Gyms. They are considered proof that a Coordinator has won a particular Contest. Unlike with Badges, Coordinators only get a single chance of earning a particular Ribbon in a certain Contest within a specific time period. They also must compete with other Coordinators to earn it.
Once a Coordinator earns five Ribbons, they are able to enter and compete in the Grand Festival, the Contest equivalent of the Pokémon League Conference. Ribbons also do not expire, and multiple years can be used to collect the five needed for the Festival. However, after being used to enter a Grand Festival, the five cannot be used again. In addition, Ribbons can only be used in the Grand Festival of the region where they are earned, with the exception of some.
The following is a list of known Ribbons from the regions of Kanto, Hoenn, and Sinnoh. There are also Ribbons for the Johto region, although the locations where they are obtained are unknown.
Kanto Ribbons
- Saffron City Ribbon
- Silver Town Ribbon
- Wisteria Town Ribbon
- Chrysanthemum Island Ribbon
- Gardenia Town Ribbon
- Mulberry City Ribbon
Hoenn Ribbons
- Rustboro City Ribbon
- Slateport City Ribbon
- Fallarbor Town Ribbon
- Rubello Town Ribbon
- Verdanturf Town Ribbon
- Lilycove City Ribbon
- Izabe Island Ribbon
- Pacifidlog Town Ribbon
Sinnoh Ribbons
- Jubilife City Ribbon
- Floaroma Town Ribbon
- Alamos Town Ribbon
- Hearthome City Ribbon
- Sage Town Ribbon
- Solaceon Town Ribbon
- Celestic Town Ribbon
- Majolica Town Ribbon
- Gerbera Town Ribbon
- Beach Rose Town Ribbon
- Chocovine Town Ribbon
- Sandalstraw Town Ribbon
- Lilypad Town Ribbon
- Brussel Town Ribbon
- Daybreak Town Ribbon
- Neighborly Town Ribbon
- Arrowroot Town Ribbon
Other Ribbons
Aqua Ribbon
The Aqua Ribbon is the prize given to the winner of the Wallace Cup. It can be used for entering the Grand Festival in any region, not merely that of the region it is won in.
Terracotta Ribbon
The Terracotta Town Ribbon is a commemorative Ribbon awarded to the winner of the unofficial annual Contest in Terracotta Town. It cannot be used to enter a Grand Festival.
|Rustboro City Ribbon
|Saffron City Ribbon
|Mulberry City Ribbon
|Terracotta Town Ribbon
|Jubilife City Ribbon
|Solaceon Town Ribbon
|Celestic Town Ribbon
|Chocovine Town Ribbon
|Sandalstraw Town Ribbon
|Brussel Town Ribbon
|Daybreak Town Ribbon
|Arrowroot Town Ribbon
In other languages
|Pokémon Contests
| Necessary Spoils
Pokéblocks • Poffins
Contest Categories
Cool • Beautiful • Cute • Clever • Tough
Appeal • Battle • Dance • Visual
| Participation
Contest • Super Contest
Coordinator • Contest Hall • Contest Pass
The Grand Festival
Kanto • Hoenn • Sinnoh
Top Coordinator • Ribbon Cup
| Others
Combinations • Opponents (III • IV • VI) • Double Performance • Jamming
Ribbons (list) • Seals • Ball Capsules • Ranks • Judges • Announcers • Wallace Cup


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Aquahorse wrote:Can somebody explain me what's going in recent manga chapters Zodiak planning to research Forbidden Lands and then??
Nemomon wrote:[spoiler]Pariston is a great character, IMO. Like Ging said, he doesn't want to win, yet he doesn't want to lose wither. Pariston is going to do various guerilla actions, especially in the new Dark Continent arc, but I don't think he's a 100% villain. I for one waited hard when the Chimera Ants arc will end and when the Election arc will appear. In my opinion it is the most hilarious and with that the best arc in the entire HxH series.[/spoiler]
The Eleventh Doctor wrote:Never ignore coincidence. Unless you are busy. Then always ignore the coincidence.
k11chi wrote:HxH 2011 is basically over now. Sort of an epilogue left next episode, and then it's finished.
Kind of sad seeing as how the manga would be at 750s right now there was no hiatusxhiatus. The anime is most likely never coming back.
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Changing the lives of students struggling to read is the focus of a new program at Oldham County schools.
The district added the Reading Recovery partnership this fall, a short-term intervention program for first-grade students struggling to read. The program is used in more than 80 Kentucky school districts.
The program pairs students one-on-one with a Reading Recovery teacher for 30 minutes a day for 12 weeks.
Tony Cotten, publisher of The Oldham Era, recently presented a $670 donation from the newspaper and its subscribers to Blessings in a Backpack CFO Kevin Beam.
The Oldham Era hosted a subscription drive this fall with the promise that $10 from every full-price subscription would benefit Blessings in a Backpack, an organization designed to ensure students don't go hungry on weekends.
A new member joined the Oldham County Board of Education at Monday night's meeting.
Anne Coorssen, the district's general counsel, swore in Jennifer Beckner to finish the division five term vacated by former board member Jennifer Jones in September.
Beckner, a former PTA president at La Grange Elementary, has a bachelor's degree in counseling and rehabilitation and has worked for an adoption agency, youth homeless shelter and day care.
Students in eighth grade who wish to attend a Catholic high school next year are required to take the Catholic high school placement test scheduled 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 10.
Students take the test at the high school they plan to attend. They must bring a $10 fee and two No. 2 pencils.
The placement test helps Catholic secondary schools determine the most appropriate course work and academic path for meeting the needs of each student.
The latest charge in a string of Oldham County cases against falsified school enrollment was filed Friday.
James Elliot, who lives near Ky. 146 and Factory Lane, is charged with falsely enrolling his child in South Oldham High School.
Dan Orman, Assistant Superintendent of Student Services, said his office tried repeatedly to reach Elliot and even sent home a letter with the child.
In fact, it was the student who provided the correct address to school administrators.
St. Francis Preschool in Harrods Creek recently hosted the school's annual auction, The Palooza, at St. Francis in the Fields Episcopal Church.
The event raised about $15,000 to benefit the school with dinner, a silent and a live auction.
It was Linnea Wieck's lucky day. On Tuesday, she was presented with a $1,000 check.
Then again, 4-year-olds don't think about money very often, which is OK since the money is in a college savings account she can use in 14 years.
Little black barcodes dot the Goshen Elementary library, where they're taped to shelves, doors, desks and even book spines.
To the naked eye they just look like, well, barcodes. But scanned with a smart phone, the barcodes bring up text, videos and other information.
They're quick response codes — barcodes that can hold data for 4,300 alpha-numeric characters in one small square.
Plans to build a Brownsboro elementary inched forward Nov. 9 when the district's local planning committee voted to make the project a top priority in the district facility plan.
Committee members voted 18-2 to raise the Brownsboro school priority from 2a to 1b, a change school officials say will make about $1.9 million available in state funding previously restricted because of the prioritization.
South Oldham Middle School hopes to gain a $50,000 grant from The Clorox Company to replace worn out computers and upgrade the school's technological infrastructure.
Voting takes place now through Dec. 9.
People 13 and older can vote online or text "clorox6642" to 44144.
Standard messaging and data rates may apply.
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The Oldham Era is your source for local news, sports, events, and information in Oldham County and LaGrange, Kentucky, and the surrounding area.


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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Spending $3.6 million of his own money wasn't enough for Nashville mayoral candidate Bill Freeman. The real estate mogul and prominent fundraiser for President Barack Obama finished third in Thursday's vote to Councilwoman ...
I think I sent a Real Estate Agent and Home Buyer to their deathSun, 28 Jun 2015 15:02:39 -0700
Ok, so here's some back story before we get into the disturbing stuff. I work for a call center that handles real estate agents. I'm pretty much a glorified assistant to agents. But to about 300 different agents a day. I schedule appointments to show homes for them, and I call home owners, tenants, and listing agents to get approval to show their homes. It's a pretty monotanous job, but it pays well enough, and I get to sit down instead of be on my feet for 8 hours. Sometimes though, the monotony is broken by some pretty odd or interesting home owners. Old folks that have had their home forever and can't use a cell phone or computer. Or disgruntled people who are about to foreclose with the bank and just want to swear and have you identify with them. They're all usually pretty funny, at least in retrospect. What I'm about to tell you about now is not one of those instances.
My day started out fine enough. Aside from an intensely humid walk to work, I was feeling pretty good. As hot as it was, it looked bright and colorful everywhere, and I was in a pretty good mood. Sat down, stuffed a meal bar down my throat, and started making calls. About an hour into my work day, I came across an appoinment for a listing here in Texas. It was for a house on a farm road, and the price was pretty high for that market. It'd been withdrawn from the market for years and it had only just come back up for sale about two days ago. And like a lot of agents, one real estate agent saw the price and picture (both were very nice), and probably without even going out there, scheduled a showing for one his buyers.
This property had a listing agent with no contact info. That already struck me as odd. Sometimes, an agent sneaks in without contact info by setting up online, but it's pretty rare. It's extremely rare for an agent like that to list a home. It should actually be impossible due to our company policy, but it happens. Usually only on listings that have been in our system since the beginning, much like this one. It made me hesitate, but when you have to make about 400 calls a day, you don't hesitate for long on anything. I checked the contacts list and there was one choice. It didn't have a name. Just said "Home". This is not as rare. Whether it's bad work ethic on our behalf, or a home owner who wants to remain annonymous, a lot of tenants and sellers don't list their names. I didn't think too much of it, and went to make the call.
I phoned the "Home" number for the house and it rang and rang. After about ten rings, I was ready to hang up and mark it as a "Did not Answer", but then I got the machine. It was the generic automated voice that answered. I hate those more than nearly any annoying seller. They take forever and they're so loud and robotic. Just a pet peev I guess.
"Hello. No one is available right now to take your call. Please leave message for ...", the automated voice drolled out the long phone number, as I motioned my hand in a hurried manner. Like I could somehow speed it up through my impatience.
Once the beep sounded, I began my usual shpeel, "Hi, this is Wayne with (my company), I'm calling about your home on (the address). I have an agent named (showing agent) who would like to show your home to a buyer today at--".
I was cut off. The phone clicked and I could instantly hear what I can only describe as old-timey, 30's music echoing through the home. It was accompied by a low slapping or thumping sound. Like someone was dancing very slowly and loudly by themselves. The sounds were soon accompanied by a heavy and anxious breathing right up against the phone on the other end.
"Hello, is this the homeowner for (address)?", I asked, already getting the creeps.
There was a chuckle and snort through the heavy breathing, then just more music, slapping, and heaving. I could tell it was a man's voice. Sounded like a big man.
"Hello, sir?", I asked again.
"Yeah.", A raspy voice said. Then nothing else aside from that disgusting breath gurgling up and down.
"Yes sir, I have a (agent) that would like to show your home between 12 and 1 today, would that be possible?", I asked, running through the words.
"They got buyers with 'em?", the voice asked.
Well no shit, I thought, but didn't say. "Yes sir."
"How many?", he almost interrupted me.
"I'm not sure, sir. At least one.", I answered. It caught me a bit off guard, I'd never had a seller ask me that before.
He grumbled for a minute, and I could swear I heard someone scream bloody murder from somewhere in the apparently large house. I wanted to pretend it was part of the song, but there had been no vocals up to that point. And the scream wasn't exactly melodic. The slapping stopped and I started to suspect that it had never been slapping to begin with, but maybe chopping. I shuddered and then he spoke.
"Well, alright. Send 'em over. We'll entertain some new guests.", He laughed heartily and I could hear the phlegm in his throat. He hung up before I had a chance to say anything else.
I felt slimy, somehow. But, he gave me approval, and I was glad to be done with the call. I approved the appointment and went to the next call. A few calls went by and I had completely forgotten about the whole thing. I just absorbed myself in my mind numbing work, powering through my day.
It wasn't until about 3 hours later that I got a call from a home owner. They had been called earlier for a showing and the agent never showed up. I pulled up their information, and as soon as I saw the agent's name, I got a chill up my spine. It was the same agent that had shown the house with the music and the screaming. I pulled his profile up on my screen. I wasn't even paying attention to the complaints of the home owner on the line. I saw that this appointment was the next on his schedule, and it had been past the showing time for an hour. He never showed after going to that house on the farm road.
I rushed the angry home owner off the phone with whatever bullshit customer service response my brain manufactured. I don't even remember what I said. I tried calling the agent, but he didn't answer. It went straight to voicemail. With real estate agents, that's pretty common, but this time it was unnerving. I called his office, under the guise of getting approval for an open house on one of his listings. Usually a sure fire way to skip through the lies of "he's not in the office right now" or "he's currently with a client". But his assistant seemed sincere when she told me he hadn't returned to the office today, and that he wasn't currently answering his cell phone. She even seemed a little worried, as though this wasn't normal for him.
I tried to reassure myself that it was fine. It's quite regular for agents to just not answer their phones for days at a time. I pushed the weird and dark thoughts from my mind and went about my day. But like a fly that won't stop buzzing around your face, the thought just wouldn't leave my mind. The sound of the screaming, the odd old music, and the heaving, grunting man who seemed all too happy for visitors. What the hell did I send those people into?
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Experts on third world banana republics from the IMF and the Federal Reserve have said the U.S. has become a third world banana republic (and see this and this).
Are they right?
Well, let's look at Wikipedia's description of the four factors which make a country a banana republic.
Profits Privatized and Debts Socialized
The first feature of a banana republic as "A collusion between the overweening state and certain favored monopolistic concerns, whereby the profits can be privatized and the debts socialized."
✓ Check.
As I pointed out in November:
Nouriel Roubini writes in a recent essay:
This is a crisis of solvency, not just liquidity, but true deleveraging has not begun yet because the losses of financial institutions have been socialised and put on government balance sheets. This limits the ability of banks to lend, households to spend and companies to invest…
The releveraging of the public sector through its build-up of large fiscal deficits risks crowding out a recovery in private sector spending.
Roubini has previously written:
We're essentially continuing a system where profits are privatized and…losses socialized.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb says the same thing:
After finishing The Black Swan, I realized there was a cancer. The cancer was a huge buildup of risk-taking based on the lack of understanding of reality. The second problem is the hidden risk with new financial products. And the third is the interdependence among financial institutions.
[Interviewer]: But aren't those the very problems we're supposed to be fixing?
NT: They're all still here. Today we still have the same amount of debt, but it belongs to governments. Normally debt would get destroyed and turn to air. Debt is a mistake between lender and borrower, and both should suffer. But the government is socializing all these losses by transforming them into liabilities for your children and grandchildren and great-grandchildren. What is the effect? The doctor has shown up and relieved the patient's symptoms – and transformed the tumour into a metastatic tumour. We still have the same disease. We still have too much debt, too many big banks, too much state sponsorship of risk-taking. And now we have six million more Americans who are unemployed – a lot more than that if you count hidden unemployment.
[Interviewer]: Are you saying the U.S. shouldn't have done all those bailouts? What was the alternative?
NT: Blood, sweat and tears. A lot of the growth of the past few years was fake growth from debt. So swallow the losses, be dignified and move on. Suck it up. I gather you're not too impressed with the folks in Washington who are handling this crisis.
Ben Bernanke saved nothing! He shouldn't be allowed in Washington. He's like a doctor who misses the metastatic tumour and says the patient is doing very well.
Nobel prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz calls it "socialism for the rich". So do many others.
Devalued Paper Currency
The second characteristic of a banana republic is "Devalued paper currency in the international community."
✓ Check. Here's a chart of the trade weighted US Dollar from 1973-2009.
And here's a bonus chart showing the decline in the dollar's purchasing power from 1913 to 2005:
Politicians Use Time in Office to Maximize Their Own Gains
The third characteristic of a banana republic is:
Kleptocracy — those in positions of influence use their time in office to maximize their own gains, always ensuring that any shortfall is made up by those unfortunates whose daily life involves earning money rather than making it.
✓ Check. As I wrote last month:
Summers, Geithner, Bernanke and Congress like things just the way they are.
Of course they do … they're bought and paid for:
- Lobbyists from the financial industry have paid hundreds of millions to Congress and the Obama administration. They have bought virtually all of the key congress members and senators on committees overseeing finances and banking. The Congress people who receive the most money from lobbyists are the most opposed to regulation. See this, this, this, this, this, this, and this.
- Obama received more donations from Goldman Sachs and the rest of the financial industry than almost anyone else
- Summers and the rest of Obama's economic team have made many millions – even in the first few months of being appointed, or right beforehand – from the financial industry
- Two powerful congressmen said that banks run Congress …
The chairman of the Department of Economics at George Mason University (Donald J. Boudreaux) says that it is inaccurate to call politicians prostitutes. Specifically, he says that they are more correct to call them "pimps", since they are pimping out the American people to the financial giants …
Corruption Remains Unchecked, Politicians Are Only for Show
And the fourth characteristic of a banana republic is:
There must be no principle of accountability within the government so that the political corruption by which the banana republic operates is left unchecked. The members of the national legislature will be (a) largely for sale and (b) consulted only for ceremonial and rubber-stamp purposes some time after all the truly important decisions have already been made elsewhere.
✓ Check. There's no accountability.
For example, former Vice President of Dallas Federal Reserve, who said that the failure of the government to provide more information about the bailout signals corruption. As ABC writes:
Gerald O'Driscoll, a former vice president at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas and a senior fellow at the Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank, said he worried that the failure of the government to provide more information about its rescue spending could signal corruption.
"Nontransparency in government programs is always associated with corruption in other countries, so I don't see why it wouldn't be here," he said.
As I noted in October:
William K. Black – professor of economics and law, and the senior regulator during the S & L crisis – says that that the government's entire strategy now – as during the S&L crisis – is to cover up how bad things are ("the entire strategy is to keep people from getting the facts").
Indeed, as I have previously documented, 7 out of the 8 giant, money center banks went bankrupt in the 1980's during the "Latin American Crisis", and the government's response was to cover up their insolvency.
Black also says:
There has been no honest examination of the crisis because it would embarrass C.E.O.s and politicians . . .
Instead, the Treasury and the Fed are urging us not to examine the crisis and to believe that all will soon be well.
PhD economist Dean Baker made a similar point, lambasting the Federal Reserve for blowing the bubble, and pointing out that those who caused the disaster are trying to shift the focus as fast as they can:
The current craze in DC policy circles is to create a "systematic risk regulator" to make sure that the country never experiences another economic crisis like the current one. This push is part of a cover-up of what really went wrong and does absolutely nothing to address the underlying problem that led to this financial and economic collapse.
Baker also says:
"Instead of striving to uncover the truth, [Congress] may seek to conceal it" and tell banksters they're free to steal again.
Politicians are for sale.
And Congress made a big show of passing derivatives reform legislation, but actually weakened existing regulations. In fact, the legislation was "probably written by JP Morgan and Goldman Sachs" (two of the biggest derivatives players). In other words, Congress just rubber-stamped decisions which were already made elsewhere.
The same is true with every other piece of financial "reform" legislation which has been passed. See this and this.
It's all for show, folks. Dodd, Frank, Obama and all the other politicians of both parties (with the exception of a handful trying to do the right thing) are "consulted only for ceremonial and rubber-stamp purposes some time after all the truly important decisions [about economic legislation] have already been made elsewhere"
Without the Bananas
Wikipedia gives some additional background on the term "banana republic":
Banana republic is a pejorative term originally used to refer to a country that is politically unstable, dependent on limited agriculture (e.g. bananas), and ruled by a small, self-elected, wealthy, and corrupt clique.
Well, America isn't dependent on limited agriculture like bananas. But just about the only areas of growth are in the military and in giant companies lavished with buckets of cash and special "favors" by Uncle Sugar.
As one commentator succinctly put it, America has become:
A banana republic with no bananas.


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Ben Whishaw — Hunk of the Day [PICTURES]
Thank you, BBC America, for bringing us the miniseries The Hour, starring the broodingly good-looking Ben Whishaw as Freddie. He hails from Bedfordshire, which to our American ear sounds incredibly ye olde worlde exotic.
Over the pond, this 30-year-old hunk is a rising star. He's been in tons of movies, plays and TV shows, and we feel quite sure that before long he'll be a star here in America as well. The best news about this looker? He has a twin brother named James. This is one case when we don't mind seeing double.


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David Bowie, the chameleon-like star who transformed the sound — and the look — of rock with his audacious creativity and his sexually ambiguous makeup and costumes, died of cancer Sunday. He was 69 and had just released a new album.
Bowie, whose hits included "Space Oddity," ''Fame," ''Heroes" and "Let's Dance," died surrounded by family, representative Steve Martin said early Monday. The singer had fought cancer for 18 months.
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By By Ernie Stephens, Editor-at-Large | October 24, 2013
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Interesting people and products continue to fill the one million square-foot exhibit hall at the National Business Aviation Association's annual Conference and Exhibition in Las Vegas. Red Bull helicopter stunt pilot Chuck "Malibu" Aaron and friend Scott Urschel spoke to Rotor & Wing about a new product that was unofficially unveiled at the event. It's a portable, handheld lithium-ion battery that can start a twin-engine helicopter through the aircraft's external power jack.
The StartStick measures approximately 17 x 6 inches, and will start a turbine helicopter through its built-in connector. "This battery will start my twin engine BO-105!" proclaimed Aaron.
NBAA's exhibition hall will be open until the afternoon of October 24, with the entire event closing on October 25.
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Bartender's Choice: What to Order at Tabla in Portland, Oregon
Top bartenders tell you which cocktails to order.
"I've always been inspired by chefs," says Lia Termini, head bartender at Tabla in the inner-NE quadrant of Portland, OR. "I've always been interested in the different techniques they use to extract, preserve, intensify, and create new flavors."
Termini has adopted many culinary techniques and brought them behind the bar at Tabla. She makes her own cucumber juice ice cubes, with a clarity that is achieved through two days of careful filtration. She infuses vodka with pink peppercorns and fresh vanilla beans in a immersion circulator that is typically reserved for use in sous vide cooking, and she also keeps a glass jar full vodka packed with vibrant green stalks of lemon verbena plucked from an overproducing garden of a close friend behind the bar. Termini is very conscious of the careful balance of cocktails and food. She says, "The Mediterranean/Italian-style food served here is fantastic, and I don't want to make drinks that blow out the guest's palate."
Termini spends a large portion of her time behind the bar mixing Manhattans and Martinis, but keeps of steady stream of original cocktails rotating on Tabla's seasonal menu. "Drinkers are getting more curious but often need suggestions, so I'll often ask someone who orders a Manhattan if they would like to try something similar, like The Shame Spiral. It's made with Cynar, an Italian amaro, in place of the traditional, but sweeter vermouth," says Termini. "The responses are overwhelmingly positive and they often are then more willing to try other new cocktails."
Termini gets her inspiration for the names of her cocktail from the Simpsons, classic films, 90's rock songs, and Greek myths. The names often have some relation to the drink's ingredients, but just as often are simply a peek into Termini's playful wit. She let us in on the five best cocktails to order when you find yourself across the bar at Tabla. Check out her recommendations in the slideshow above.
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About the Author: Greg Harned lives in Portland, OR, where he enjoys cocktails, drinking and general mischief-making in candlelit speakeasies, swanky cocktail lounges and dingy dive bars. He manages Portland Craft Cocktails where he writes about his various exploits and also dabbles in the spirits trade. You can follow him on Twitter @craftcocktails.
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Hi everyone! My name is Anjeanette and I blog at byAnjeanette.blogspot.com. I am delighted to be sharing my first Moda Bake Shop project with you. I have been following Moda Bake Shop since its first recipe, and have been hooked on pre-cuts ever since. I designed a fun quilt with columns of linked Octagons. The background is a secondary pattern with the same linked octagons in columns. It is super easy to whip up with your favorite Layer Cake and some yardage. How lucky for me that I got to play with Fig Tree Quilts new Avalon line. This quilt would look awesome in a more bold line too.
3 5/8 yards Backing fabric (Avalon Nantucket)
Batting for finished size of 62″ X 62″
* It is important to have a consistent 1/4″ seam allowance.
1. From the Layer Cake select 25 squares and cut to 9.5″ X 9.5″ squares
2. I took out all my blue blocks from the Avalon Layer Cake and cut into (20) 3.5″ X 3.5″ squares. I had to use the scraps to piece a few of these together. I just chose the fabric with the smallest scale so it wasn't too noticeable.
(13) WOF strips @ 3.5″ subcut into:
(16) 12.5″ X 3.5″ rectangles
(140) 3.5″ X 3.5″ squares
(4) 9.5″ X 3.5″ rectangles
7. Pin the set in sashing piece to the snowball block and sew.
12. Carefully match seams and sew blocks into rows. Carefully matching seams again, sew rows together.
13. Sew two border strips (WOF X 3.5″) together. Do this for all four sides. Sew to your quilt top and bottom. Press and trim to the edge of the quilt. Sew side border on. Press and trim to the edge of quilt.
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TSU Track and Field Dominates Boston-Moon Relays
Nashville, Tenn. – A large crowd of Big Blue fans were on hand to watch the Tennessee State track and field teams capture 11 titles and an impressive 53 top-five finishes at the Boston-Moon Relays on Saturday.
Quanisha Sales played a big part in TSU's success, winning the 100-meter dash with a time of 11.97 seconds. The Nashville native was also the top collegiate runner in the 200, narrowly falling to an unattached runner by .05 seconds.
Sales later teamed up with fellow Tigerbelles Clairwin Dameus, Ashontae Jackson and Diera Taylor to take home a title in the 4x100 with a time of 46.50 seconds. Sales and Jackson then partnered with Breanna Adams and Gabrielle Todd to win yet another crown - this one in the 4x400.
Dameus had a big day as well. Before taking part in her team's first place finish in the relays, the freshman won the 400 meter hurdles with a time of 1:03.68. The hurdler then took second in the long jump with a leap of 6.03 meters.
Junior Britani Logan rounded out the winners for the Tiggerbelles when her shot put landed 13.05 meters from the starting line.
The Flying Tigers shined in the 200 meter dash as Osafa Hippolyte, Michael Johnson, Travon Alexander and Tyler Anderson finished first through fourth in the event. Hippolyte took home first prize after completing the run in 22.18 seconds.
However, Johnson got revenge in the 400, as he edged Hippolyte by only 0.1 seconds. Johnson finished with a time of 48.95.
The Flying Tigers also excelled in the relays as Alexander and Anderson combined forces with Jerome Henderson and Shaquille Cragwall to win the 4x100 with a final of 42.04 seconds.
Then, Johnson teamed up with Jamill Jackson, Jalon McCutheon and Emmanuel Thornton to take first place in the 4x400 by over 10 seconds. The TSU quartet completed the relay with a time of 3:20.10.
The men's long jump proved to be another display dominated by the Tennessee State team as Daryl Rice, Sean Jenkins and Cragwall placed first through third, respectively. Rice out-hopped his teammates with a jump of 2.08 meters.
The TSU teams will not travel very far for their next meet, as the Tigerbelles and Flying Tigers will compete at Vanderbilt on April 19. It will serve as the teams' final tune-up before the OVC Championship on May 3.
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Actress Julianna Margulies' legal battle with her former management team is heading to trial in Los Angeles next year.
The former ER star is locked in a legal dispute with bosses at D/F Management, who claim they are owed $420,000 in back payments for their alleged involvement in landing her roles on "The Good Wife" and as a spokes model for cosmetics brand L'Oreal.
Margulies fired back at the agents, who represented her from 2009 until 2011, in a suit last October, claiming her ex-manager Steve Dontanville failed to present her with a written document of his firm's agreement.
A judge has denied Margulies' motion to have the issue settled in a summary judgment and has now set a trial date for January 8 in Los Angeles.
D/F Management's lawyers are now seeking more money after "The Good Wife" was sold into syndication.


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I know automatics are no longer called slushboxes and haven't been for quite some time now. But when I was unspeakably young, that's what people called them because they shifted (or so it seemed) as if there was slush inside them instead of bands and drums and the occasional planetary gear, which is to say they pretty much sucked behind any engine with balls. For that reason, hot rodders preferred stick shifts for their immediate and positive engagement.
This doesn't exactly bring us to the 4L60E/65E four-speed overdrive automatic that churns in Red Dog's belly, so just call it poetic license. There are millions of these transmissions throughout the universe (with their favorable 3.06-, 1.68-, 1.00-, and 0.70:1 ratios), most of them in need of better internal gizmos--even when new. Remember, the manufacturers surely anticipate that you will be buying parts in the not-too-distant future, so just about everything is planned for failure. When you increase torque, as we have with the Red Dog's 5.3L, the inevitable creeps that much closer.
Vinci Hi-Performance has put 350 hp and 360 lb-ft of torque to the Silverado's wheels so far--and expects to add another 80 to 100 of each with the addition of a positive displacement supercharger, so it only made sense to incorporate a stronger, more viable link between the engine and the rear axle, along with the proper torque converter to liven things up. For this, we whistled 20 minutes up the pike to Monster Transmission & Performance.
Our conference clustered around several salient issues. We didn't want a high stall-speed converter that would take lots of throttle to get the truck moving. We didn't want part-throttle shifts that would constantly test the link between spine and skull. We didn't want the tires to chirp simply by dropping the lever in Drive. We didn't want to put drag slicks on it. We did want a smooth-shifting transmission composed of premium parts capable of withstanding 500 lb-ft with composure. We did want the full Monte when we flattened the throttle to the floor. Barking back tires is just fine with us.
Monster listened. Monster interpreted. Monster gave us exactly what we wanted.All the while, the original transmission felt strong enough but didn't shift up (especially the 1-2 exchange) to our liking. Despite the reprogrammed upshift quality via the Crane Powermax handheld programmer, the transmission would always hesitate a little before completing the shift. Though annoying, it more or less signaled that the transmission was beginning to slip, but this wasn't really palpable until the day we'd driven Monster's rendition.
The stock torque converter has a stall speed of 1,650 rpm. The Dacco (DAY-ko) performance converter that Monster favors pushes the limit to 2,300 rpm and, unless you make a point of it, behaves exactly like the OE unit. No heavy lurch against the motor when you pull the shift lever from Park to Drive. At 800 rpm, it's tight enough to crawl through a traffic light. When you mash the loud pedal, the thing hooks up and leaves without hesitation. Keep the pedal planted and the bulbous 295 Goodyears squawk their hearty approval on the 1-2 shift. Part-throttle upshifts are firm and immediate but never obnoxious, never embarrassing, never a jolt you didn't expect. Build on the brake a little and the back tires spin with ease. Is this a good thing? We don't know...but we like it. On the road, the revitalized tranny feels like it means it. Everything happens quicker and snappier, giving the truck that "of-a-piece" crispness.
The object of this lesson is to familiarize you with the things Monster changed in the 4L65E, rather than a step-by-step rebuild, which has been the subject of numerous tech journals and we have neither the space nor desire to recount it here. The Mega Monster lists for $1,895 with free shipping and no core fee. If you want something that will deal with 500 lb-ft day in and day out, that figure is pretty much in line. While some aftermarket tranny builders test their stuff on a type of dynamometer, Monster takes it a long step further. It runs in the real world. That ratty, road-rashed Monte SS with the scabby wheels, aka the perfect street race sleeper, has a 500hp 383 and is the test bed for every transmission Monster builds. More about that whole deal later.


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It looks like AT&T is continuing the crackdown on unofficial tethering as readers have reported another round of text messages from AT&T this morning:
AT&T Free Msg: We've noticed you're continuing to enjoy the tethering feature with your smartphone service. Remember, you need a tethering plan ($45/mo, incl. 4GB) to use this feature, so we're planning to update your line with the required plan soon. Visit att.com/dataplans or call 888-860-6789.
Last month AT&T sent out text and email notifications to iPhone users who used MyWi to tether their unlimited data plan. AT&T threatened to switch their plan over to the Data Pro 4GB tethering plan unless they called in, and some users reported success in keeping their unlimited plan when claiming they used large amounts of data from apps like Netflix and Pandora and weren't using the tethering feature.
It appears AT&T is pretty serious about putting a stop to unofficial tethering at this point and won't be letting up anytime soon. In addition, it was previously speculated that one of the tracking methods they used was simply targeting high data users (10GB seemed to be the threshold), but some users receiving the message have used tethering extremely sparingly, keeping their monthly data usage well below 10GB since the original message was sent last month.
Have you seen any new messages from AT&T regarding unofficial tethering? And more interestingly, do you think it's fair for AT&T to strip users of their grandfathered unlimited data plans for using the data they've already paid for in an "unofficial" way? Let us know in the comments!


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AMITY - Two women were taken to Reading Hospital after a three-vehicle head-on crash Saturday morning on Old Swede Road.
The injuries did not appear to be life-threatening, said Amity detective Jeff Smith.
Agnes Kammerer, 66, of Bensalem, was driving north on Old Swede Road when she lost control, Smith said.
'She apparently got her foot got stuck underneath the pedals while driving and lost control of her vehicle,' Smith said.
She crashed into another vehicle driven by Ardell Hageman, of Fleetwood, Smith said.
Hageman was driving south on Old Swede Road when she was struck by Kammerer's vehicle. Michael Orosz was driving behind Hageman and struck the rear of Hageman's car.
Orosz was not injured.Kammerer and Hageman had to be extricated from their vehicles by Amity Fire Rescue and taken by Southern Berks EMS to Reading Hospital.
Hageman was in stable condition at the Reading Hospital, according to a hospital spokesperson. Kammerer is no longer listed as a patient at the hospital.
All the vehicles were towed from the scene by Harner's Auto Body of Birdsboro.
The road was shut down for 30 minutes.
Earlier Saturday, around 7:20 a.m., there was also a crash on Route 422 westbound, near Route 662, when a vehicle driven by Sonnette Kotze, of Fleetwood, ran a red light and struck at truck carrying roofing materials and operated by Brett Malick, of Stowe,.
No one was injured, but a car for sale in the lot of Amity Car Smart, along with a traffic signal pole were struck by the roofing truck.


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The United Arab Emirates aren't booming like they used to, which is worrying. Judging from the latest, though, the UAE was only about three major architectural undertakings away from building an actual giant penis, so maybe it's for the best.
The Yas Hotel in Dubai's sister Emirate, Abu Dhabi, has earned the impressive (though weirdly categorized) title of the world's largest LED project, which, given that it's comprised of about 5,300 steel panels adorned with over 5000 lighting fixtures, I don't doubt it for a second. The lighting grid can change colors and display patterns, and, though it's a stretch, play low-res video.
Underneath this curvilinear shell is a typically extravagant 500-room hotel, which, bizarrely, is divided by a Formula 1 race track, meaning that this egregious phallic symbol is regularly entered and exited by other compensatory phallic symbols, raced in competition to win yet more phallic symbols, which is a bit too much for me to process, now or ever. [Inhabitat via Flavorwire]


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Cook the Book, Thanksgiving Special: Sam Sifton and Epicurious
Thanksgiving is just around the corner. Chances are you've already been scouring cookbooks and food blogs for the best recipes and advice for preparing a bang-up feast next Thursday. Recipes abound for anything Thanksgiving-related but there are few Thanksgiving-dedicated cookbooks out there.
This fall, however, marked the release of a book for the totally Thanksgiving-obsessed (and who isn't?): Sam Sifton's Thanksgiving: How to Cook it Well. After spending years answering the Thanksgiving help line over at The New York Times, the former dining critic has compiled a treatise devoted to a traditional version of the holiday meal.
There are no salads on Sifton's table, nor is there garlic (roasted or otherwise) in his mashed potatoes. He likes to roast his bird with butter, slowly, basting it as our parents taught us, and he sets the table in a formal arrangement with spaces even for dessert forks. Sifton presents a vision of Thanksgiving strictly tied to family and cultural tradition; his Thanksgiving is a quintessential one.
And yet, after reading the slim book and poring through the recipes, such an elegant meal seems possible, if not downright easy. Further, given the humorously opinionated tone of the book, it makes for a fun weekend read.
Perhaps, however, you want to reinvigorate your Thanksgiving table with bolder takes on tradition. The Epicurious Cookbook offers a bevy of Thanksgiving recipes filed away in its section on fall recipes. Offering a mix of star-studded celebrity chef recipes, member contributions, and recipes penned by the editors at Epicurious, The Epicurious Cookbook makes for an excellent addition to the advice written in Sifton's book as well as around the web.
This week, we'll be cooking Thanksgiving dinner from both books. We'll roast Tom Colicchio's Herb-Butter Turkey and bake off New England Sausage, Apple and Dried Cranberry Stuffing from The Epicurious Cookbook. Then we'll dive into side dishes courtesy of Sam Sifton. First we'll roast Cauliflower with Anchovy Bread Crumbs and then simmer a pot of Basic Cranberry Sauce straight out of his book. Finally, we'll prepare two dishes written by Sifton exclusively for Serious Eats readers: Braised Collard Greens and Creamed Onions.
Win 'Thanksgiving: How to Cook it Well' and 'The Epicurious Cookbook'
Thanks to the gracious folks at Random House and Clarkson Potter, we have five copies (each) of Thanksgiving: How to Cook it Well and The Epicurious Cookbook this week. All you need to do to win is to tell us about your greatest Thanksgiving success or most dramatic flop in the comments section below. Winners will be randomly selected to receive either book.
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Scholarship program
This program is open to T.R. Proctor students through an application process during the Spring of their Junior year of high school.
- Full tuition and fees covered by a scholarship through the Utica City School District
- Ability to earn from 24-30 transferable college credits
- Opportunity to transition into college, become accustomed to environment, level of responsibility, academic rigor, academic terminology
- Opportunity to participate in extracurricular college activities
- Builds resume and enhances college application
Application Process
February: Attend Informational Night and obtain application from your T.R. Protor High School Guidance Counselor
March: Take MVCC Placement Test
April: Complete application and return to your Guidance Counselor at TR. Proctor High School
May: Magnet Bridge Scholarship Committee meets and selects scholarship winners. Letters are sent to all applicants to make aware of application status.
June: Meet with staff at MVCC to create Fall class schedule
If selected to participate, students are responsible for the following:
- Attend mandatory orientation session in August, prior to beginning of classes
- Attend meetings with the Magnet Bridge advisor
- Accept full responsibility for course requirements/grades
- Be fully dedicated to college scholarship