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(CNN) -- The first thing we need to do to get serious about student debt? Stop calling it "student debt."
"College debt" or "education debt" might work. Anything but student debt -- because not just students but entire families are paying the cost of our broken system for funding higher education.
Case in point: The other day, one of the top stories on CNN.com was about two grieving parents who lost their child but are still stuck with her student loan bills.
This story represents so much about what is wrong with our system of financing higher education -- not to mention our national priorities.
The full story is worth reading, but here is the short version: Steve Mason co-signed $100,000 worth of student loans for his daughter, Lisa. When she passed away, her parents were stuck with the debt, which had ballooned to nearly $200,000.
And now, these two parents, who took in three young grandchildren, are almost utterly without options.
If it were not for a George W. Bush-era law limiting financial protections for consumers, bankruptcy would be their last resort. But today, thanks to provisions in the 2005 Bankruptcy Bill, private student loans are one of the only forms of debt that cannot be discharged under any circumstances.
If these were federal student loans with lower interest rates, the amount the Masons owe might not have ballooned quite so much. More importantly, they would have access to repayment plans or even some token financial assistance. But theirs are private loans.
And if conservatives had not waged a war to defund higher education to pay for tax breaks for their favored donors, perhaps the Masons and others like them might have avoided this tragedy altogether.
Instead, our young people are graduating off a cliff. America's global competitiveness is at risk. And our economy is struggling as families young and old neglect other purchases to pay down a combined more than $1 trillion in education debt.
Of course, this problem is solvable.
First of all, not allowing student loans to be discharged in bankruptcy was a blatant handout to the banking industry.
Democrats have been pushing to change this law for years. But even Wall Street's allies in the Republican Party should be able to see that this provision is putting lenders' profits over families' pain.
Second, the private student loan industry must be reformed.
Lenders use deceptive marketing, sky-high interest rates and hidden fees to make big bucks off of kids trying to get an education. If protecting young people from exploitation is not a sexy election-year issue, I do not know what is.
Third, this debt crisis demands more than half-measures.
Federal student loans cannot be refinanced. Private loans are often inescapable scams. But the source of the problem is cuts to public education, which cause tuition to soar even as our paychecks stay the same.
Here is a prediction: In 2016, some candidate is going to "go big" on education debt. He or she will call out the Republicans in Congress who have blocked commonsense fixes, then go further.
A crackdown on deceptive lenders and out-of-control collection agencies would be just the start. Little would boost our economy more than forgiving debt outright. And then there is the big one: We could make all public colleges free with what we are already spending on hodgepodge federal financial assistance.
The candidate who proposes all that will win. Politicians already know that education debt is a top voting issue for young people. They are about to find out that it matters to their parents, too.
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Shooting multiple films from a franchise consecutively is a time-tested way to maximize the economy and speed with which films get into theaters, and so the studio is considered having director Justin Lin and screenwriter Chris Morgan get to work on both "Fast" 6 and 7, reported 24 Frames. It's the same approach Paramount is considering for "Transformers."
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CSAIL Postdoc Chintan Vaishnav has presented a mathematical analysis of the effects of regulation on the telecommunications industry to an audience of regulators and other academics, suggesting that regulators concentrate more on building consensus among disparate economic stakeholders while preventing companies from stifling competition through market dominance. Read more in the MIT News Office Oct. 6, 2010 article by Larry Hardesty titled, "Why telecom regulation needs to change. Research suggests that the approach that worked with a few large companies with aligned interests needs revisiting in the Internet age." The article is also posted below in its entirety.
The Internet has had an obviously revolutionary effect on the way people find and disseminate information; but it's had no less revolutionary an effect on the organization of the telecommunications industry. Where the industry was, in the past, dominated by a few huge companies with aligned interests, it's now a tumult of startups charging hard in different directions. Google and Facebook became billion-dollar companies with virtually no control over the networks on which their services depend, and there's no guarantee that their interests will converge with those of Verizon and Comcast.
In this new environment, argues Chintan Vaishnav, a postdoc in the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, regulatory bodies, too, need to adopt a new approach. The weekend of Oct. 1, at the Telecommunications Policy Research Conference in Arlington, Va., Vaishnav presented a thoroughgoing mathematical analysis of the effects of regulation on the telecommunications industry to an audience of regulators and other academics. The upshot of his analysis: In the Internet age, regulators need to concentrate more on building consensus among disparate economic actors; at the same time, they need to prevent companies from accumulating such dominant market positions that they stifle competition.
In the social sciences, emphasizing consensus building is not a radical idea. But, Vaishnav explains, "It's a sea change for the regulator, because they have no consensus-building capability in their organization. They only have a policing capability. The challenge today is just to get people to agree that this is necessary." Vaishnav hopes that the mathematical rigor of his analysis will help promote that agreement.
The purpose of a regulator, Vaishnav says, is to balance societal objectives with economic vitality. In the case of telecommunications, the central social objectives are emergency communication, access for the disabled, and law enforcement. But today, meeting those objectives is much harder than it used to be. The old telephone infrastructure guaranteed access to emergency providers to anyone who dialed 911, but many of the computer applications that enable voice communication over the Internet don't. Similarly, federal agents trying to track down terrorists used to just subpoena phone records; but if the terrorists are using different voice applications, text services, and Web servers, with data traveling over multiple networks managed by yet other companies, who does the subpoena go to?
Thus far, the Federal Communications Commission has been loath to regulate the Internet. Precisely because the telecommunications ecosystem is so much more complex than it used to be, no one is certain what effect regulation might have. To help answer that question, as a doctoral student in MIT's Engineering Systems Division, Vaishnav built a sophisticated mathematical model of the relationships between the various economic actors in the telecom industry. As a postdoc, he has continued to refine the model in collaboration with both Charles Fine, a professor in the MIT Sloan School of Management, and with CSAIL's Advanced Network Architecture Group, led by David Clark, who was the Internet's chief protocol architect in the 1980s.
Vaishnav's model identifies five factors that drive the telecom industry: corporate strategy, customer preference, technology innovation, regulatory policy, and industry structure. In the model, changes in any one of those factors cause changes in the others. But the model also breaks each of those factors into similarly interrelated but finer-grained factors, which are in turn broken into even finer-grained factors. For instance, customer preference is determined by product features like price, quality and innovativeness, as well as so-called network effects that depend on the number of people using a given product. But those features are determined by deeper considerations, like the time and money required to improve the product features, or the maximum gains that any one improvement could conceivably provide.
Where the economic literature already described systematic correlations between such features, Vaishnav incorporated those correlations into his model. Where it didn't, he interviewed engineers, telecom regulators, and managers at technology firms to determine what, in fact, the correlations were. Once he had mathematically described this dense thicket of correlations, he validated the model against historical data, ensuring that it accurately predicted the effects of changing market dynamics on four outcomes: compliance with regulation; the cost of enforcing and coordinating compliance with regulation; competition; and innovation.
Finally, he performed simulations using data that describe today's Internet and found that, without changes to the regulatory framework, it was impossible to optimize all four outcomes. In particular, consensus building emerged as a way to keep down the cost of compliance under conditions that were otherwise conducive to competition and innovation.
"Chintan's work I think is the first example I've seen of a comprehensive examination of some of the interaction effects that go on in this sort of regulatory ecosystem," says Mark Bykowsky, a senior economist at the FCC. "What he has is a system of differential equations, and when you solve those differential equations, you get a certain market outcome. But the equations are all interrelated. So A affects B, B affects C, C affects A, and things like that." But while the model does demonstrate the value of consensus building, Bykowsky says, "solving that sort of coordination problem — that sort of consensus building — is an extremely difficult problem, and one that needs a lot of additional work." According to Bykowsky, the FCC has, in fact, experimented with trying to build consensus among relatively small numbers of Internet companies around the vexed topic of Net neutrality, and the results were discouraging.
But Vaishnav agrees that consensus building is hard, which is why it's the topic of his ongoing research. He's currently investigating historical cases in which disparate economic actors with competing interests did, indeed, eventually arrive at consensus, to see what lessons they might hold for the Internet age. One example is the standardization of the shipping containers that carry retail goods around the world, which need to be transferred among trains, trucks and shipyards in different countries with different specifications. "It's a classic case like the Internet itself," Vaishnav says. "The Internet has packets that standardize how the data should be packaged so that they can go over a variety of networks. Similar is the case where you ship things from country A to country B."


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As he blazed around the final turn in the 800-meter run at last weekend's Eastern Relays, Butler High School's Tretez Kinnaird was right where he wanted to be—alone.
The 11 runners who started the event with him at the University of Louisville's Cardinal Park were now distant background figures as the junior raced against time.
"I knew that last lap I was going to be all by myself and I needed to make a move no matter how much I was hurting,†said Kinnaird, who is the defending Class AAA state champion in the 800.
For months Kinnaird had trained to break the 1:50 mark and now he wanted more than anything to do it here, in his hometown, for all his family and friends to see.
"With about a hundred (meters) to go I kicked it into another gear,†recalled the Louisville commit. "… I saw 1:49 and just ducked my head and hoped for the best.â€
When he raised his eyes, the scoreboard read 1:49.97, a new personal best and the third fastest 800 in the U.S. this year.
Kinnaird's 800 was just one of several memorable performances from the elite meet held April 27 and 28.
Holy Cross junior Jacob Thomson bested a strong field and set a record for the fastest 3,200 ever in Kentucky when he clocked an 8:58.62 on the meet's first night. The reigning Class A state champion in the 800, 1,600 and 3,200 broke former St. Xavier standout Bobby Curtis' decade-old mark of 8:59.63.
"I knew it was going to be a fast race,†said Thomson, who also notched a personal best in the 1,600 (4:10.69), good for third place. "With about two laps to go I realized we had a shot to break 9:00 and that was definitely a little bit of motivation.â€
Ronnie Baker, a 2011 All-American and senior at Ballard, won the 100-meter dash in 10.59 and followed it up with a 400 victory in 47.42. Trinity junior James Quick took the 200 in 21.64 and Will Short of Manual claimed the 2,000-meter steeplechase title in 6:39.71.
Assumption's Katherine Receveur won the 1,600-meter run (4:56.84) and teammate Emily Bean was tops in the 3,200 (11:05.80). The Rockets won both the 4×800-meter relay (9:21.43) and 1,600 sprint medley relay (4:22.39) to clinch the girls' team title. Houston High from Tennessee won the boys' title.
Other local winners were Sacred Heart's Jazmin Smith (high jump, 5-4), North Oldham's Brianne Brown (long jump, 18-9), Male's Kenya Johnson (triple jump, 34-8 ¼) and Central's Jaylyn Johnson (300 hurdles, 46.57). Ballard won the girls' 800-meter sprint medley in 1:50.21.
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There was little doubt that anything would throw the dream off-kilter.
By the end of yet another victory -- its 22nd in 23 matches -- St. Joseph's girls soccer team lined itself near the 50-yard line at Falcon Field with medals draped around each player's neck. There, they raised a state championship plaque as well, the program's first title in five years.
Paced by goals from Samantha Grasso and Jenna Bike close to two minutes apart in the first half, No. 3 St. Joseph downed top-ranked Suffield 2-1 in the Class LL state championship Saturday morning.
"It's an indescribable feeling not to have lost all season," said Grasso, who was crowned the match's Most Valuable Player.
It was Grasso's goal -- notched with 19:27 left in the first half off a feed from Bike -- that spotted St. Joseph a 1-0 lead. And it was Bike's tally -- only 1:57 later on a breakaway -- that stunned previously unbeaten Suffield (19-1).
"We knew they were great," said Suffield coach David Sullivan, whose team had surrendered only two goals in its previous 19 games. "Did we think we were going to shut them out? No. Did I think we'd give up two goals in the first 20 minutes? Not a chance."
But that's just what the Wildcats did. It was enough to catapult the Cadets (22-0-1) to their third state title and first in Class LL.
The Cadets built a 10-7 advantage in shots, including 6-2 in the first half when they forced Suffield goalkeeper Meredith Ouellette to make two diving stops.
"Our game's about possession. No one all year has dictated a game to us," St. Joseph coach Jack Nogueira said. "We've always dictated a game by hanging onto the ball."
The Cadets, who outscored opponents 9-2 through their first three tournament games, controlled the pace until a frantic, late push by Suffield.
Playing with a bright sun to their backs, the Wildcats sliced into the lead with 9:42 left on Brittany Champagne's blast from the top of the box.
"The sun was going to be so bad. We were trying to take advantage of that," Sullivan said. "But (St. Joseph) did a great job. ... They had five people back."
Desperately needing an equalizer, Suffield put a few more chances on net but was denied by goalkeeper Molly Meehan (two saves).
After the final seconds ticked away, and after St. Joseph huddled near its sideline for one last pep talk, Nogueira discussed how his team might've been better prepared after falling in the M state final last season, 4-1 to Northwest Catholic.
"By being in the finals last year, did it get us better prepared for this year? Maybe," Nogueira said. "Soccer's a game of matchups too. I thought we matched up well with Suffield. Last year, we obviously matched up horribly against Northwest Catholic."
Regardless of the matchup, the players weren't going to let their last match put a damper on a remarkable season, one that also included an FCIAC championship.
"Coming into the game, we were pretty confident that we were going to win," Grasso said. "We had an undefeated season. This was going to be the top."
To the Cadets' delight, it was.
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SET THE SCENE: UMBC and Hartford meet in a critical America East Conference match-up at UMBC Stadium on Saturday, April 12. The opening face-off is set for 3:30 p.m. Both squads are coming off setbacks in the five-game America East schedule and will be battling to maintain contact with the top of the league. Live video streaming is available on www.umbcretrievers.tv with Gary Stein and Kevin O'Neill on the call.
RETRIEVER UPDATE: UMBC held a 6-4 halftime lead, but the host Binghamton Bearcats outscored the Retrievers, 9-1, in the second half and earned a 13-7 America East Conference victory at the Bearcats Sports Complex on April 6. UMBC had its two-game winning streak snapped and fell to 5-5 overall and 1-1 in league play, FR A Max Maxwell led UMBC with a goal and two assists, while SO M Pat Young and SR A Matt Gregoire each scored a pair of goals. Gregoire, who leads the team with 31 goals and 34 points, has scored all of his season's goals in the last eight games. Red-shirt FR G Connor Gordon is ranked sixth in the nation with 12.20 saves per game. The AE Rookie of the Week on March 31 owns a save percentage of 55.2 percent, which is 17th-best in the country.
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LAST YEAR'S RESULT/ALL-TIME SERIES: UMBC leads the series, 7-5, and snapped a four-game slide to the Hawks with a 16-12 victory at UMBC Stadium in 2012. The teams met twice in 2013, with Hartford triumphing, 15-14, in overtime at Al-Marzook Field in the regular season, but UMBC rallying for a 15-13 victory in the America East semifinals at Stony Brook. The Retrievers are 4-1 versus the Hawks at UMBC Stadium.
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Greenspan Says More Banks, Institutions May FounderBy Reuters - Print
Greenspan called the current crisis a once or twice in a century event and said insolvency would only end once U.S. house prices stabilized.
LONDON (Reuters) - More banks and financial institutions are likely to face insolvency and need bailouts before the global financial crisis is over, according to former Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan.
Writing in the Financial Times, Greenspan called the current crisis -- which started a year ago -- a once or twice in a century event and said insolvency would only end once U.S. house prices stabilized, underpinning mortgage-backed securities.
Until then, the threat of collapse among banks and other global financial institutions would persist.
"Fears of insolvency have not, as yet, been fully set aside," Greenspan wrote in an article published online on Monday. "There may be numbers of banks and other financial institutions that, at the edge of defaulting, will end up being bailed out by governments."
The former Fed boss, who stepped down as chairman in 2006 after nearly 20 years in the job, said a "sustained level of global equity prices" was critical if banks were to recapitalize themselves and reassure skittish investors.
By extension, continued falls in global equity prices would have a debilitating impact, he said, despite the offset of rising global savings rates.
"Lower global stock prices could impede the recapitalization of banks and other financial institutions. Debt issuance would also be suppressed as it leverages off the level of equity," he wrote.
"The price of equities worldwide will determine whether the international financial system can maintain a modicum of stability as it eases out of its credit crunch, or falls back into another period of angst and turmoil."
Greenspan said increased market regulation was not the answer, and could do more harm than good.
"The cause of our economic despair, however, is human nature's propensity to sway from fear to euphoria and back, a condition that no economic paradigm has proved capable of suppressing without severe hardship," he said.
"Regulation, the alleged effective solution to today's crisis, has never been able to eliminate history's crises."
Instead of believing that more rigidity in the system would prevent breakdown, he said continued flexibility was required.
"We may not easily confront or accept the price dynamics of home and equity prices, but we can fend off cries of political despair which counsel the containment of competitive markets.
"It is essential that we do so. The remarkably strong performance of the world economy since the near-universal adoption of market capitalism is testament to the benefits of increasing economic flexibility."
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How Market Fares After Labor Day Will Determine if Groupon's IPO Is Delayed — Or Even Pulled (Or Not)
No other recent Web 2.0 company has undergone more scrutiny of late than Groupon.
And that's why some are wondering if — especially given the still dicey economic situation and the continued turmoil in the markets — the Chicago-based social buying company might delay or even pull its IPO.
Not so. Yet, at least. But that could change quickly.
Several sources close to the situation said that while Groupon's management and board have not ruled out such a scenario, they will not make any determination about such a drastic move until after the landscape becomes clearer and also after the summer is officially over tomorrow.
"Clearly, the markets are much different than when Groupon started this public offering process," said one person who is familiar with the internal debate within the company. "But no one can get a real sense of whether it gets better or worse for the next few weeks — that's where the real questions begin."
It's not a bad thing for Groupon to be asking.
While gaming start-up Zynga, in comparison, ferrets away quietly on its way to an IPO, Groupon has been getting a daily smackdown on one of the many issues that seem to have captured the — mostly negative — attention of investors and the media.
Among the topics most mentioned: Groupon's controversial accounting called ACSOI, or adjusted consolidated segment operating income; questions about its growth prospect in more mature markets; worries about whether the company can cut its marketing costs and still retain customers; and whether it will garner the giant valuations, once upward of $15 billion, that have been bandied about.
Aside from defending itself in a recent email sent to employees from its CEO Andrew Mason, Groupon cannot give complete public answers to these questions until after its IPO, due to regulatory rules.
While Mason's damn-the-torpedoes missive seemed to be trying to communicate a strong confidence in the company, it's clear that all the attacks on the company have become frustrating for him.
His internal communication, which was published here first, has also attracted more controversy, and some have suggested it violates regulatory rules.
So far, although it seems likely, the Securities and Exchange Commission has not commented on the email.


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Dear sister Madaline:
The weather here of late has been very good. The days are very warm but the nights are cold. Water our greatest need is scarce each company is only allowed so much water but the boys find enough for cooking and drinking purposes only. Wine is very cheap and can be gotten in large quantities. Wine is cheaper than water. The people sell the real wine for sixty cents a quart while back home the same wine costs up to about $1.50. Women may be seen around our camp selling bread, butter, milk and strawberries. Most things we buy are cheap compared to what the American people charge back home. As yet dear sister I have not been in want of anything as I have enough money to last until payday; the eats I always see that I get enough, and now for work I have done guard and other details but not as much as I thought we would have to do.
I am going to confession at 9:45 this morning as confessions are going to be heard by an American priest father Cherrie. How is pa? Try and write and tell me how you all feel as you know dear sister – I am just as anxious about you all as you are of me.
Must close now will write you again tomorrow, I am
Your loving Brother
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by Winn Hardin, Contributing Editor - Automated Imaging Association
Robotic Industries Association Posted 09/08/2010
When a U.S. company called on manufacturing solutions provider Comau Inc. (Southfield, Michigan) to develop a vision-guided robotic workcell proof-of-concept for manufacturing specialty solar cells, Comau was responding to several trends affecting the photovoltaic industry.
First, economic sluggishness and low petroleum prices have softened solar cell markets, despite a growing interest in renewable energy sources around the globe. U.S. companies are particularly challenged because, despite being a leader in the development of photovoltaic product designs, the country has considerably higher labor prices than many emerging or developing markets in Asia and Europe. Companies are responding to both of these challenges by requesting smaller, more flexible manufacturing solutions that can do more production, assembly and quality control functions in a small footprint and at lower cost than traditional manufacturing that depends heavily on specialized tooling and skilled labor. As the economy returns to health, manufacturers can then simply add addition workcells and ramp up production without having to recreate the 'wheel.'Economic sluggishness and a need for developed countries to compete with manufacturing costs from low-cost labor markets means that customers want smaller, more flexible vision guided robotic assembly workcells for photovoltaic manufacturing. Vision is helping to make that happen. See the entire story on Machine Vision Online.


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Wordless and Outdoor Wednesday...or...A Bug's Eye View
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These are just beautiful! What kind of flowers are pictured? In a word - FANTASTIC!ReplyDelete
Oh goodie, I was hoping you would post some of these. But where's my little ant? These are just gorgeous. What is the first flower? Hugs, KatReplyDelete
These flowers turned out beautiful. They are so crisp and clear; I feel I could reach out and touch them. It also makes me covet a better camera!
Oh, Debbie, I just have three words to say...gorgeous gorgeous gorgeous!ReplyDelete
Be a sweetie,
Shelia ;)
Deb... your photos are magnificent! I think I wouldn't mind being a bug in your garden today! ;)ReplyDelete
Beautiful! Love it..ReplyDelete
Happy WW
Lots of luv,
Wonderful shots...they're beautiful...ReplyDelete
If I was a bug, I'd choose those flowers!! They're wonderful!! Happy Wednesday! DanaReplyDelete
You did an amazing job with your photography- beautiful flowers- exquisite detail....ReplyDelete
Beautiful photos Debbie! What kind of camera do you have??? ☺ DianeReplyDelete
That shade of purple-pink is one of my favorite colors of flower.ReplyDelete
Beautiful flowers Debbie!!ReplyDelete
Debbie, you have really got this camera thing mastered. I love these pictures, but I am with Kat, I miss the little ant. lol They are all just gorgeous. You really do have some gorgeous flowers. Hugs, MartyReplyDelete
Beautiful! Thanks for sharing.ReplyDelete
Very pretty! CHEERS! MicheleReplyDelete
How beautiful!!! great pictures!ReplyDelete
Beautiful pictures, beautiful flowers. RietReplyDelete
Debbie, Les photos sont magnifiques! Quelle couleur! Quel détail! Hier je l'ai essayé et j'si pris des photos sans problème sauf le "focus" - quoi faire? Peut-être tu peux me montrer lundi. à lundi...LindaReplyDelete
I've been taking a class this week at a local college for recertification for school on pollination. Your pictures had me examining the flower parts to imagine how it happens for that particular flower. You do a beautiful job with your photography.ReplyDelete
I love your pics ! Taking pictures is so addicting...ReplyDelete
Hugs ~ Kammy
Dear Debbie, Happy Outdoor and Wordless wednesday...ReplyDelete
what a photographer you are becoming.
Deb... todays "Blog of Note" is "Avignon in Photos" . I throughly enjoyed my visit to her blog... bet you will too! go check it out...ReplyDelete
What marvelous photographs. Thank you so much for sharing them with us.ReplyDelete
beautiful photos, happy outdoor wednsday!!ReplyDelete
Howdy DebbieReplyDelete
Wow those are eye popping flowers.
Thank you so much for sharing the photos.
Blessings of joy to you .
Have a wonderful rest of the week.
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Absolutely gorgeous flowers!!!ReplyDelete
I always love to see the close-ups of the flowers. I also love the sidebar pics of those precious kitties!ReplyDelete
A whole post full of blooms in my favorite color. How thoughtful of you! ;)ReplyDelete
Beautiful, Debbie! Love the color of the flowers. You do well as a bug. ;-)ReplyDelete
Love ya...
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The flowers are gorgeous! Thanks for sharing.ReplyDelete
love the beautiful color in those flowers!!ReplyDelete
Gorgeous lacecaps and excellent macro photography!ReplyDelete
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I love these photos. Just beautiful!! I haven't a clue what they are but the bug sure likes them as well!!
Happy Wednesday! :-)
Just beautiful! I love flower pictures! Happy WW!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJune 24, 2009 at 7:06 PM
Hi Debbie~~Happy WW! Those flowers are just so beautiful...what gorgeous colors!!ReplyDelete
They look like Lace cap Hydrangea?ReplyDelete
I have a bush with half lace cap halp mop head that I bought from a farmer who grew them.. Now I do it myself too..
Great pics Debbie..Missed you at the White Party yesterday!
Beautiful shots! I love the detail you can see in close ups that is often lost in the "big picture." ~~RhondaReplyDelete
GORGEOUS! Almost makes me want to be a bug! laurieReplyDelete
Wow! So pretty, Debbie! What do you call them?...ChristineReplyDelete
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Fairfield, Conn. - THE Fairfield Board of Education voted late last month to have the town's two high schools start their day 20 minutes later, beginning in the fall, part of a movement around the state to get teenagers more sleep.
Greenwich P.T.A. members have been asking the school board to consider a delay, and board members in West Hartford have also been discussing later start times. Other schools have also looked into the issue, but have made no changes. Wilton became the first school district in the state to make the change when it delayed middle and high school starting times by almost an hour in 2003.
"The typical teenager can't fall asleep until 11 at night, and they need nine hours' sleep per day," said Kate Dowden Babushkin, a Fairfield parent who served on the school task force that reviewed the issue. "They have to be up at 6 a.m. These kids are getting six to seven hours of sleep a night, and the bottom line is, they are exhausted."
The school board had at first considered delaying the start time, currently 7:10 a.m., by 40 minutes. But concerns about after-school activities and morning traffic congestion led members to approve the 20-minute delay instead.
Dr. Edward O'Malley, director of Norwalk Hospital's Sleep Disorders Center, said that a shift in adolescent sleep patterns was causing teenagers to stay up later. He said a lack of sufficient sleep could lead to depression, emotional instability and difficulty in paying attention in school. Even 20 minutes extra, he said, can make a difference.
"Twenty minutes adds up to almost 2 hours a week, so across a school year that is probably an additional 30 hours," Dr. O'Malley said. "We do know sleep debt is cumulative, and you can pay off that debt, so any change, any delay, is helpful."
Some board members and students say they are concerned about a later end to the school day.
Cynthia G. Foothorap, a member of the Fairfield Board of Education who voted against the switch, said it was not up to the schools to regulate sleep.
"It's a student's responsibility to schedule their day so they have a decent night's sleep," she said.
Ms. Foothorap said she was concerned about students having to leave class early to make it to after-school activities.
David Shulz, athletic director of the Fairfield school system, said students involved with sports could be affected. He said students on some teams would have to leave classes at least 15 minutes early to get to their programs.
Some students questioned whether they would use the extra 20 minutes to sleep.
"I'm still going to wake up early, and I'll have so much extra time," said Corey Katz, 15, a freshman at Fairfield Warde High School. "But I'll get tired later."
Matt Vosburgh, 17, a senior, said that while students might sleep later, he was not in favor of the switch.
"When you look at the good that would come out of it with what you will have to work out, it's not proportional," he said.


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It was just announced that former NFL defensive back Greg Hardy would be making his UFC debut on January 19th in his first ever card which will air on ESPN. As of Tuesday the contract hasn't been officially signed yet but the major problem here is that Rachael Ostovich will also be fighting on the same card as she is set to take on Paige Vanzant. Why is this a problem well Ostovich's husband is currently facing second degree assault charges for beating her last month.


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MVC Men's Volleyball Defeats Hannibal La-Grange
MARSHALL, MO - The No. 8 Missouri Valley College Vikings men's volleyball team defeated Hannibal La-Grange Thursday night in a conference thriller that needed all five games for victory.The Missouri Valley Viking men's volleyball team was down two games to none, but rallied back in the final three to take the victory 20-25, 31-33, 25-20, 25-19 and 15-5.
Junior Outside Hitter Peterson Silva who finished with 20 kills, six digs, and five blocks, while Freshman Outside Hitter Stan Bosovik had 12 kills and two blocks. Senior Libero Aaron Ka'aiwaihia-Ebanez contributed nine digs and Freshman Middle Blocker Jose Martins finished with six blocks. Junior Setter Will McCracken had 49 assists and 12 digs.
The win improves the Vikings to 5-3 overall and 2-2 in MAMVIC play. Hannibal La-Grange drops to 1-5 overall and 1-3 in conference. The Vikings will be in action again Feb. 12 when they travel to Davenport, Iowa to face No. 9 Grandview University. Game time is set for 7pm.


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It has been much too long since I last blogged here! As usual, I have a good excuse: I've been too busy living to write.
So what have I been up to? Instead of trying to write about it all at this point, it might be easier to show you.
We had a short, if occasionally dramatic, winter. A series of large rainstorms in February did major damage to our Olympic Discovery Trail. The mudslides have long ago been cleared from the waterfront section, but the big bridge across the Dungeness River is still closed. The river has permanently (well, for the foreseeable future) changed course, and the whole western side of the bridge will need to be rebuilt.
It's possible to detour around this section of the trail by road, but it does make long bike rides a bit more complicated.
To the west, the Elwha River is finally running clear again after the historic removal of the two large dams. It's great to see that pure blue-green water!
In April we drove down to Monterey, California to ride the Sea Otter Gran Fondo. The Sea Otter Classic is one of the largest competitive bike events in the country, and the Gran Fondo is one of the few non-competitive events included in it. We rode 51 miles of the beautiful coast of Monterey and Pacific Grove. We were having so much fun riding that I never took any photos along the route! But here we are enjoying the lunch afterward.
We came home with 24 bottles of Pliny the Elder, which we happily shared with several of our friends.
Meanwhile, Port Angeles has been in the news. You may have heard about the Polar Pioneer, a large off-shore oil rig that Shell wants to deploy in the Arctic. It was moored in our harbor for nearly a month before making its way to Seattle, where it was greeted by hundreds of protestors. We didn't like it being here either, so it was a relief to see it go, even though each move puts it that much closer to its intended destination.
It is huge! At over 400 feet tall, it was the largest thing in view from everywhere in town, but especially imposing viewed from right on the waterfront.
We've been so busy we've hardly had time to brew beer, but we've gotten a few batches done. Meanwhile I've judged several times and have now been promoted to Certified rank. I was also asked to judge at a commercial competition, the Washington Beer Awards, where I judged mostly robust porters and barleywines. It was a real honor to participate, and I can't wait for the results to be announced so I can find out who brewed those tasty beers that my team judged!
This past weekend I ran another half marathon, and earned another PR on a very warm day. You can read more about that here.
Yesterday I celebrated my half marathon with an easy hike. We had a destination in mind, but we turned around early when we met up with this mother and baby.
We could have just shooed them off and hiked on. The Park management wants hikers to shout and throw rocks to discourage them from approaching people. But we could see and hear other hikers shouting just a bit further up the trail, so we knew there were several goats and that some of them were refusing to budge. Soooo, it was time for us to go.
And it's time for me to go now too. I haven't ridden my bike since a couple of days before the half marathon. It's time to get out there and enjoy this beautiful day!


text: Recent Grants & Awards HIGHER EDUCATION CAPITAL MATCHING GRANTS PROGRAM, (HECap) AWARDS $1,720,812 TO IONA FOR CONSTRUCTION/RENOVATION OF RYAN LIBRARY In April 2005, then Governor of New York State (George Pataki) adopted a budget which included a new program to help finance construction at private colleges. Under this program, HECap, the state set aside matching grant program funds for capital projects and equipment purchases by private colleges and universities statewide. In order to obtain these funds, Iona needed to raise $3 for every $1 we were eligible to receive. Iona College was in the first group of eligible colleges to apply and one of the first to successfully gain approval to receive $1,720,812, to aid in the renovation and construction of Ryan Library. US DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES PROVIDES $249,480 IN SUPPORT OF IONA'S COLLABORATIVE EFFORT—PROJECT RISE: REACH FOR INDIVIDUAL SUCCESS AND EMPOWERMENT Iona received $249,480 from the US Department of Health and Human Services Department in support of project RISE. This program provides a wide range of youth development programs, services, and activities tailored to meet the unique needs of the most at-risk youth and to assist these young people toward the development of their full potential. The program, now in it's second year, is led by Iona, and our partnering organizations are: City School District of New Rochelle, Boys & Girls Clubs of New Rochelle, Bronx Westchester Area Health Education Center and the Metropolitan Regional Health Information Center, Cornell Cooperative Extension of Westchester, The Guidance Center, New Rochelle Municipal Housing Authority, New Rochelle Youth Bureau, New Rochelle Neighborhood Revitalization Corporation, Sound Shore Medical Center, Westchester County Youth Bureau. NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION GRANTS $145,420 IN SUPPORT OF IONA'S STEP PROGRAM The New York State Department of Education awarded $145,420 in support of Iona's Science and Technology Entry Program (STEP). This program was developed to enhance the math and technology skills of minority and low-income regional high school students. The goal of STEP is to support their participants in continuance of their studies after graduation in the fields of mathematics, science, technology and/or licensed professions where minorities have been traditionally underrepresented. THE STEFANO LA SALA FOUNDATION, INC. AWARDED IONA $3,000 TOWARDS THE CONSTRUCTION/RENOVATION OF THE RYAN LIBRARY The Stefano LaSala Foundation, Inc. contributed $3,000 in unrestricted funds toward Iona College's Vision of Excellence campaign for the construction and renovation of Ryan Library. IONA RECEIVES A $15,000 LIBRARY PLANNING GRANT FROM THE ANDREW W. MELLON FOUNDATION The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation awarded Iona $15,000 in support of the enhancement of the College's library services. These funds aided in the planning and design efforts of the Development Committee with the Ryan Library upgrade and expansion. As a result, the Development Committee was able to visit "best in class" universities and incorporate ideas to improve upon the library's services and technology. IONA COLLEGE RECEIVED $5,000 FROM A LEGISLATIVE INITATIVE FACILITATED BY GEORGE LATIMER FROM THE NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION The NYS Department of Education awarded $5,000 to Iona College at the direction of Assemblymen George Latimer, which was utilized to upgrade and incorporate the latest technology enabling information retrieval, storage, and presentation capabilities within the Ryan Library. These funds purchased several network infrastructure components, which provide switching capability and required ethernet network interface to be used for information retrieval. THE SUCCESS CENTER RECEIVED TWO GRANTS: $15,000 FROM CON EDISON AND $2,500 FROM THE ST. VINCENT DE PAUL FOUNDATION, INC. Iona College was granted $15,000 from Con Edison and $2,500 from the St. Vincent DePaul Foundation, Inc. in support of the Students United in a Community Center for Educational Success (SUCCESS). The SUCCESS Center provides academic support to elementary school aged students from the New Rochelle community. Children from low-income households are paired up with Iona College Mentors who provide a positive and supportive environment to our young students. For over 10 years, the SUCCESS Center has provided New Rochelle's youth with a nurturing setting that promotes academic excellence. IONA COLLEGE'S Office of Mission and Ministry RECEIVES $10,000 FROM THE RASKOB FOUNDATION Iona College's Office of Mission and Ministry received $10,000 from The Raskob Foundation to assist the student volunteers in their apostolic works of charitable and social justice service. The assistance received from The Raskob Foundation provides much needed supplies and food for continued efforts with the Midnight Runs, Project Sunshine, and the SUCCESS Center. JOSEPHINE LAWRENCE HOPKINS FOUNDATION GRANTS IONA $5,000 FOR THE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY LECTURE SERIES The Josephine Lawrence Hopkins Foundation awarded a $5,000 grant, in memory of the late Josephine Lawrence Hopkins, in continued support of Iona's Science and Technology Lecture Series.


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He's the Sheen you probably don't follow on Twitter, but the one Hollywood wants to hear a lot more from.
Michael Sheen may be in contention for the unofficial title of the Hardest Working Actor in Show Business. But unlike some previous titleholders (sorry, Sam Jackson), his emphasis is on quality over quantity. The British actor has been such an increasingly ubiquitous presence in film and television for the past year, one wonders if he's not secretly using the hard-drive CG avatar created for him in "Tron: Legacy" to get the jobs done.
Along with that sci-fi film, Sheen's had a droll supporting stint in Woody Allen's "Midnight In Paris," took on a recurring role as Liz Lemmon's seemingly inevitable soul mate on the NBC series "30 Rock," was nominated for an Emmy for once again portraying British Prime Minister Tony Blair (whom he previously played in "The Deal" and "The Queen") for HBO's "The Special Relationship," and he has a heart-wrenching turn a man who's marriage is already in trouble when it's suddenly rocked by the devastating consequences of his son's deadly campus shooting spree in the emotionally raw "Beautiful Boy," opening June 3.
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With a return engagement as the vampire Aro in the upcoming "Twilight: Breaking Dawn" films and a stint on the London stage as Hamlet ahead, Sheen admits he's aware he may seem a bit omnipresent of late, but he tells PopcornBiz that the working actor in him has been thrilled with the wealth of opportunities that have come his way.
"I can see that on the outside things change over time, but from the inside it doesn't feel any different, really," he says. "I've never been someone who has waited for other people to go, 'And now you can do what you love doing.' I just do it. I'm part of my career, and it's been allowing for that so I don't have to wait around. So I work on film, stage and TV and radio. The diversity of it does two things: One, it allows me to challenge myself as an actor and enjoy myself, but on the other hand it stops me from having to be waiting at the end of a phone."
"Beautiful Boy" director Shawn Ku had admitted to experiencing difficulty getting his challenging project past the traditional Hollywood gatekeepers to reach actors whose reputations could get the film – shot in a brisk 18 days – off the ground, but Sheen says he plays by different rules when it comes to finding material that excites him.
"A lot of that depends on your relationship with the people you pay to be in between you," he says. "The people who I work with have a fairly strong sense of what it is that I like, and even if it's not the same thing as their taste I think there's enough middle ground to go 'I don't think he's going to like this – but he might.' I say 'I want to see stuff.' Because of the range of things, I work on a whole variety and types of projects, scales of budget and independent films and studios films; I think certainly for myself it doesn't matter what the project is. They know the sort of things that I respond to. It doesn't matter if it's a 30-day shoot or a six-month shoot or all that kind of stuff. I'm going to relate to the material and the character. So I think that opens it up for a lot more."
"Beautiful Boy" grabbed his attention, Sheen says, because as a father (he has a daughter with former partner Kate Beckinsale) he could dig into his psyche to relate all too well to the notion of something going horribly wrong with his child.
"There's a terrible thing that I discovered when I became a parent was that – and I guess that it's a part of the natural, biological process or whatever – you find yourself imagining terrible things happening to your child, so that you're more aware," he explaisn. "On an animal level, you go 'That might happen, so I have to make sure that it doesn't.' So you protect the child, but psychologically it puts you through a terrible thing. I'm sure that every parent knows that, that you find yourself thinking these awful things, seeing these situations happening. It's awful. I know that I've spoken to some people who kind of go, 'Yeah, I thought that I was a really bad person for thinking those things,' but I think it's just natural."
"In the same way, the most joyful thing is having a child and it's wonderful and you feel things that you've never felt before and a capacity for love that I never felt before," he says, adding with a wry grin "But at the same time you're aware that you're cursed for the rest of your life."
"Beautiful Boy" opens in limited release this Friday


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Letter, E. B. Whitman to Geo. L. Stearns Esq.
Author: Whitman, E. B.
Date: April 30, 1858
Whitman's April 30, 1858, letter to Stearns described the harmonious work conducted by the "State Convention" and its nomination of state officers under the Leavenworth Constitution. That movement, he told Stearns, would probably not "amount to much if the Lecompton Constitution is rejected. He also mentioned continued tension in Bourbon County and the route of U.S. troops by "the free State boys" of Fort Scott.
Location of Original: KSHS Call Number: John Brown Collection, #299, Box 1, Folder 31
Item Number: 102702 Number of images: 3
Keywords: Adams, Henry J.; Conway, Martin Franklin; Denver, James William, 1817-1892; Fort Scott, Kansas Territory; Free State Convention; Lane, James Henry, 1814-1866; Leavenworth Constitution; Leavenworth Constitutional Convention, March-April 1858; Lecompton Constitution; Parrott, Marcus J., 1828-1879; Robinson, Charles, 1818-1894; Stearns, Geo. L. (George Luther), 1809-1867; Territorial government; United States. Army; Whitman, E. B.
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Using these thresholds, here are three-year data (to help smooth out small sample fielding volatility) of all fielders who have played a minimum of 1,500 innings at a given position, put to the "should you be a DH" test via their three-year UZR/150 ratings. (Because Fangraphs' WAR system doesn't use UZR data to determine the value of catchers, they are omitted here.) The results are presented below. Click to enlarge. You can download my DH data sheet by clicking here. …
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Fellowship in Reproductive Endocrinology & Infertility
The fellowship training program in Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility, directed by Dr. Steven Young, is approved by the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology for one fellow in each of the three years of training. The program provides an intensive subspecialty training experience in clinical care and in basic, translational, and clinical research. The program is one of the very few to have all of its graduates achieve subspecialty certification in Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility. Two recent graduates began a new subspecialty practice together in Chattanooga, TN. Others are in academic or private practice in numerous locations across the country. For additional information about this fellowship, please email Carol Freeman.


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Green Terror (Andinoacara rivulatus)
From The Aquarium Wiki
Andinoacara rivulatus
250 Litres (66 US G.)
22.9-33cm (9-13 ")
6.5 - 7.5
10-20 °d
5-8 years
This animal is available captive bred
Additional names
- False Green Terror, Gold Saum
Additional scientific names
- Acara aequinoctialis, Acara rivulata, Chromis rivulatus, Aequidens rivulatus
Origin[edit | edit source]
- South America: Pacific slope from the Esmeraldas River in Ecuador to the Tumbes River in Peru.
Sexing[edit | edit source]
- Males are much more colourful, larger and develop a nuchal hump as they mature.
Breeding[edit | edit source]
- Green Terror's are substrate spawners and caring parents. They form a bond at a young age, mature fish are more difficult to bond.
Tank compatibility[edit | edit source]
- Green Terrors are best kept alone or with a few small dither fish (which may get eaten) or robust catfish such as Plecos in a 208 Litres (55 US G.) or more. If you wish to keep them with other species of Cichlid you'll need at least a 379 Litres (100 US G.) or more to allow for territories. This fish can really live up to its common name!
Diet[edit | edit source]
- They will accept most foods including pellet and flake as well as live/frozen food such as brine shrimp.
Feeding regime[edit | edit source]
- 3 times daily for juveniles (12.7cm (5") and smaller)
- 2 times daily for adults (12.7cm (5") and larger)
- Only feed small amounts, only what they can eat in 2 minutes.
Environment specifics[edit | edit source]
- A well-filtered tank is a must. They enjoy thick rockery and robust plants as well as several pieces of driftwood.
Behaviour[edit | edit source]
- An aggressive fish, and should be kept with fish of the same or larger size only in a huge tank. While it is aggressive, it is not as aggressive as the Jaguar Cichlid. Being Cichlids, they do dig, and plants will probably get uprooted in the process. Best kept solo.
Identification[edit | edit source]
- A very attractive fish, with yellow/orange edging to the fins. It is an oval-shaped fish with a rounded caudal fin. The dorsal is pointed. The upper back is dark-green with the flanks being iridescent paler green. The body is generally quite iridescent giving the impression of several colours and bars.
- Often misidentified as Andinoacara stalsbergi.
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Could improve breathing, but costs 50 percent more than regular concrete
(Eindhoven, Netherlands) — Eindhoven University of Technology (EUT) researchers revealed that 45 percent of nitrogen oxides on the road can be removed by creating a roadway made with concrete that is blended with titanium dioxide.
The study was conducted by the EUT in the Netherlands on a 1,000-square-meter repaved road. Jos Brouwers, professor of building materials at the EUT, noted that the air-purifying test in the new pavement proved to be effective in the laboratory, and has now proved to be effective outdoors as well.
When tested outdoors in the town of Hengelo, the pavement blended with titanium dioxide showed a 25 to 45 percent reduction in nitrogen oxide that came in contact with it as opposed to regular concrete. Titanium dioxide is a photocatalytic material that grabs airborne nitrogen oxides and converts it to harmless nitrates with the help of the sun, and it is washed away by the rain. In addition, the mixed material breaks down dirt and algae, so it is sure to stay clean.
The cost of lacing titanium dioxide into the concrete costs approximately 50 percent more than traditional concrete, but the increase total road-building costs is only 10 percent.
The idea of adding titanium dioxide to concrete is not a new concept. In 2007, Italian company Italcementi developed a cement that was also laced with titanium dioxide, and could neutralize certain harmful pollutants. It's called TX Active, and when exposed to sunlight or ultraviolet light, the titanium dioxide transforms any nitrogen oxides or sulfur oxides into harmless nitrates or sulfates which can be washed away by rainwater, much like the titanium dioxide mix that EUT researchers are testing in the Netherlands right now.
Researchers at the EUT are still conducting additional testing, but see a lot of advantages to using titanium dioxide-mixed concrete that could help people breathe cleaner air. But despite these advantages, it will take awhile for this project to come into effect due to the time and cost it will take to repave every road.
Source: http://www.dailytech.com/Titanium+Dioxide+in+Pavement+Could+Dramatically+Reduce+NOx+in+Air/article19003.htm


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