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are there any URMs that think AA is TOO helpful in admissions process?
are there any URMs that think AA is TOO helpful in admissions process?
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Re: are there any URMs that think AA is TOO helpful in admissions process?
Reply #110 on:
March 16, 2005, 02:58:43 PM »
I have to agree and disagree with you Ryan. I mentioned earlier that parents are not very supportive - especially in high school when you are dependent on them. My mom would get me to school two hours late and say I was "sick". She'd pick me up early so I could help her at work and called them "dr.'s appointments". I transferred high schools four times because my mom moved from place to place (including shared housing) because we couldn't afford it. Working with her about thirty hours a week while in school b/c I had to didn't give enough time to "go to the library and pick up a pencil". Moving from school to school and testing into the same level of english or math everytime when it turns out I had the same math course three years (each school had its own name for it). Counselors never got to know me and never gave me advice as to what college even was. Yeah, my friends got pregnant. That wasn't smart because I know for a fact they knew where to get the free birth control. But perhaps, they were crying for help or attention, though not a justification for their mistake.
I had friends that dropped out. My best friend still gives me excuses as to why he can't get his ged. Now THAT is unexusable. That is when I draw the line and say, "yeah, grab a pencil and paper and get your a#@ to the library". But, it's not just playing nintendo and hoops in high school. That's when the student doesn't have many choices. The key is getting that student to break the cycle.
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Re: are there any URMs that think AA is TOO helpful in admissions process?
Reply #111 on:
March 16, 2005, 04:57:04 PM »
Where there is a will, there is a way.
If someone REALLY wants to get somewhere in life they will try. Someone upper class can end up in the ghetto just as fast for crying out loud.
My mom decided to tell me as a sophomore in high school that she no longer needed to do anything for me, but I still go to tschool on time, in fact I took EXTRA classes. I had to take the city bus, which was terrible but I made it. My mom refused to help me fill out any forms or anything since eighth grade. I am in college now, my MOM didn't want me to go she was vehemently opposed to it in fact. But I AM nonetheless here.
How is that explained, except that I wanted something and worked hard for it. I got where I am and no one should be able to take that away from me, because of my skin color. In fact I am called things I am NOT all the time, things that it is REALLY uncalled for to say at the time it is said.
Re: are there any URMs that think AA is TOO helpful in admissions process?
Reply #112 on:
March 16, 2005, 05:54:00 PM »
Almass said:
What you achieve does not have at all much to do with racial affiliation but rather it is CULTURE that seperates the major achievers, achievers, slight achievers, and not so high achievers.
CheezWiz said:
I believe that historic social factors like slavery, Apartheid, or winning/loseing a war effect a culture. Do you agree?
Almass said:
Yes I believe those event affect culture
So, if culture is the mitigating factor in whether or not a person is successful or not. And social factors have an effect on a culture. Then isnt it unfair to say that a person who is born into a culture that does not support achievement is just lazy and unmotivated? Isnt it also unfair to blame the characteristics within that culture that bring about that unsupportive environment like gangsta rap without addressing the social factors that aided the occurrence of those characteristics? Cant we say that those of us who were born into cultures that support achievement have a leg up on those who were not?
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Re: are there any URMs that think AA is TOO helpful in admissions process?
Reply #113 on:
March 16, 2005, 05:58:46 PM »
"Cant we say that those of us who were born into cultures that support achievement have a leg up on those who were not?"
I don't think so at all really.
Re: are there any URMs that think AA is TOO helpful in admissions process?
Reply #114 on:
March 16, 2005, 06:08:39 PM »
ryanjm said:
Personally, I believe it doesn't take much more than a few pencils, a teacher, and a library card to become educated enough to succeed at the average college.
But isnt a child given those tools at a disadvantage when compared to the child with a iMac, a team of highly qualified educators, and access to numerous resources (including tutors or SAT/LSAT prep)? I would posit that you need a lot more than a pencil and a library card to get into and succeed at an elite or good university. And if you do, that path was a lot harder than the average or advantaged student. I dont think that the disadvantaged should be limited to the average. AA helps equalize that inequality.
AND to angmill08 and SillyMia AMEN. Although ryanjm is right, it is easier to blame the poor for being poor isn't it.
Re: are there any URMs that think AA is TOO helpful in admissions process?
Reply #115 on:
March 16, 2005, 07:07:37 PM »
We here seem to be addressing aggregates, not individuals. Now talking about persons, whether it is unfair to put the blame on them in particular for a lacking part of their culture (priority and emphasis on education), I am not sure if they are to be blamed but I am not addressing whether they themselves should be blamed. I am instead addressing that blaming externality for matters in which internality is the overriding and deciding factor, is innacurate. Gangsta rap, that might have gained vigor and strength of influence because of injustices, is not really a factor of that culture that in itself de-establishes the importance of education in that culture. Extarnalities(social injustices) seem to effect for the most part such cultural aspects as harsh feelings, expressed through music, other on the surface charectaristics and external consequences, they hardly penetrate internal core charectaristics of cultures that are already there.
Externalities, if a certain core charecteristic in the culture is there, cannot change that. Meaning that if the importance of education is already there then social injustices will not make those factors of a culture dissipate. There hasn't been relatively as much prioritization on education within the African American, Hispanic, and Native American cultures. That is what we need to change, in conjunction with helping persons from those cultural backgrounds with programs such as AA for the meantime. But those accomodations should in no doubt be the sole means of solution. These programs do not address the core problems, that is, lack of significance on education, they only make a way to go around that problem. We can help to accomodate by these programs but most importantly we need to address the core cultural issues.
If we move from aggregates to talk about individuals then it shouldn't be the assumption that as soon as we say African American and African American culture we are immediately talking about a person in the ghetto who is downtrodden and that that culture is actually relevant in any significant way to that African American person. African Americans as an aggregate are poorer than whites but that does not mean Africans Americans individually are poorer than others. By applying an aggregate classification to individuals a distorted picture is painted. Many African Americans are descendents of slaves and former salves, but many also immigrated thereafter and had no affiliation to slavery, at least not to American slavery.
Re: are there any URMs that think AA is TOO helpful in admissions process?
Reply #116 on:
March 16, 2005, 08:18:26 PM »
Easier to blame the poor for being poor? I just think it's "correct" to blame people's problems on *gasp* themselves. If I flunk out of college, I don't blame my parents' lack of support, or my teacher that yelled at me, or my roommate partying all night. No. I blame myself because no matter what factors influence me, I have control of my own destiny. Me. If I screw up, it's because _I_ screwed up. Blaming environmental factors my problems is the easy way out. It takes the blame off of anything I could have done, and places it with what everyone else did, as though I have no control over myself and my actions.
As for comparing advantages afforded rich kids in private schools:
I went to a great public school. It was ranked in the top 3 in the state. Everything I learned there could have been taught using a few books, a few pencils, a teacher, and a library card. Nothing more. All of the extra things; sports, clubs, computers, etc... were peripheral. If you want to learn how to read and write, read and write. Doesn't take anything fancy. You want to learn math? Get a math book and work with a teacher. Science? Read books at the library. History? Library. Teacher unncessary but could be helpful.
Do rich kids have an advantage at nice schools? Sure. Is it a big one? No. Not for someone motivated to learn. And it sure doesn't prevent them from getting into a good college and attending law school if they really want to, with scores good enough to get in without help.
Re: are there any URMs that think AA is TOO helpful in admissions process?
Reply #117 on:
March 16, 2005, 08:29:22 PM »
I love what you had to say and agree with most of it. Let me ask you this. Do you think that the aggregate has internalized, what you interpret to be, a lack of value place on education
by choice
or do you think that the external factors have effected the culture in a way that caused that type of thinking? By this I mean that if Blacks, speaking of the underprivileged section, were exposed to the type of schooling that their privileged non-Black counterparts have (hi quality teachers, funding for technology and supplies, and the like) would that change the attitude towards education? Also on the reservation and plantation there was not a need for the type of education that makes one competitive for todays work/school environment. For a long time Blacks (as close as our parents generation) were no given full access to the job market. Do you think that these could have anything to do with the views towards education? Or, do you really see it as a choice that is knowingly made?
I think thats really crappy to tell a little kid that because they were born poor that they have to buck up and go to the library to learn it themselves while the privileged kids are taught in the third best school in the State. I bet your view would change if those computers and teachers were taking away and you were given a calculus book, a pencil, and told to learn it.
Re: are there any URMs that think AA is TOO helpful in admissions process?
Reply #118 on:
March 16, 2005, 08:44:46 PM »
Yes, alamss and cheezwiz, a good question about culture. I'm not sure myself. A lack of value on education is always a choice. In life you're almost always faced with a choice.
It would seem obvious to anyone that education "should" be valued because that's almost the only way to get a decent job and be paid well. Not valuing education is like not valuing your health--it's stupid. Whether your culture dictates you should or should not value education should be irrelevant if you, as an individual, are smart enough to realize what is or isn't valuable in the world as we know it.
Re: are there any URMs that think AA is TOO helpful in admissions process?
Reply #119 on:
March 16, 2005, 10:34:13 PM »
I've seen several arguments on this board that seem to exaggerate the privilege of not being poor. Tutors, private schools, prep classes are just some examples. I always thought my family was fairly well off, so I'm surprised I didn't receive all these bonuses. I'm wondering how many people out there actually led this life of privilege.
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Barry Rubin offers his preliminary analysis on the results of the Israeli Election:
As expected, Israel has once again made Benjamin Netanyahu its prime minister. The results were not as positive for him as they might have been but are good enough to reelect him.
While some might find this paradoxical, the results show that Israelis have a basic consensus and yet have very different ways of expressing their political positions. This isn't surprising given the fact that 32 parties were on the ballot.
First, though, a myth that has at times become a propaganda campaign should be exposed. There were numerous reports in the Western media that the Israeli electorate was going far to the right, didn't want peace, and that Israeli democracy was in jeopardy. None of this had any real basis in fact and the election results show these claims to be false.
The main story of the election was supposed to be the rise of the far right Ha-Bayit ha-Yahudi Party. In fact, though, it received only about 10 percent of the vote which is usual for that sector. In comparison, about one-third went to liberal or moderate left parties, and about one-quarter to centrist parties.
According to reports which are not final but are close to the ultimate result, Netanyahu's Likud-Beitaynu list received 31 of 120 seats. The Labor Party made some comeback with 17 but came in third. Labor's hope that its showing would make Israel a mainly two-party system clearly failed.
The big winner was Yair Lapid's Yesh Atid with 19 that became the second largest party, while Tsipi Livni's party obtained 7. The appeal of Lapid and Livni are precisely that nobody really knows what they stand for but it is certainly nothing to either extreme.
In other words, 26 seats went to vaguely reformist somewhat centrist or mildly liberal parties that don't have any clear or strong stands except to promise better government.
On the far right, Ha-Bayit ha-Yehudi, led by Naftali Bennett, got 12.
On the far left, Meretz obtained 7, better than it expected, while the Communists got 3, the Islamists 3, and the Arab nationalists 2. The last three parties depend mostly on Arab votes and it was a poor showing for that deeply divided sector.
Finally, in the Jewish religious sector, Shas, representing Mizrahi (Middle East-origin and especially Moroccan-origin) Jews received 12 and the Askenazic (European-origin Jews) Yahadut ha-Torah party received 6. While socially conservative, these parties do not have strong stances on issues other than gaining government support for their communities.
The bottom line is, then, that those mainstream forces that aren't supporting Netanyahu (I'll explain this point in a moment) hold 43 seats, more than he does. But their inability to unite and different orientations prevent them from emerging as a bloc.
Israeli politics cannot be understood by analogy with those of other countries. Neither class and economic nor even peace process issues are fundamental in Israeli politics. At present, the critical issue is who will or won't form a coalition with Netanyahu's party. Many voted for Lapid with the idea that he would go into a government with Netanyahu and be a moderate influence pushing for more attention to improving domestic infrastructure.
The idea of Netanyahu as a rightist is outdated. It is precisely because he moved Likud to the center--albeit with a significant right-wing faction remaining--is the secret of his success in gaining two consecutive election victories. The failure of the peace process, the second intifada, the rise of Islamism, and the Palestinian abandonment of negotiations with Israel all have made his broad analysis of the situation acceptable to most Israelis. His opponents focus mainly on stressing dovish credentials rather than offering specific alternatives.
Attention now turns to the question of how Netanyahu can put together a coalition that will hold 61 seats, a majority needed to form a government. Netanyahu was disappointed at only getting 31 seats rather than up to 35 or so. He will have to give more to coalition partners but he can work with the results.
There are several possibilities. Netanyahu never wanted a right-wing government with Bennett. Even if he did, a combination with that party would only get him up to 43 and he would be hard-put to find partners who would join such a combination. In theory, pulling in the two religious parties would let him reach 61 but he knows that this is a situation that would both cause big international problems and create a situation in which he could be daily blackmailed by threats of his partners to walk out of the coalition.
A coalition with Lapid would be far more attractive and bring him quickly to 50 seats. The problem is that Lapid doesn't mix with the religious parties, especially Shas. While his party is less explicitly anti-Haredi (what is usually, but wrongly, called Ultra-Orthodox") than his late father's similar party he still wouldn't be eager for such a combination.
Since the far left is clearly not a coalition partner and both Labor and Livni have said they would not go into a coalition with him, unless they change that decision, Netanyahu has a problem. The irony is that if Netanyahu would ever be forced to go with Bennett it was because Labor and Livni left him no alternative.
The easiest way out would be to persuade Lapid—who is an unknown quantity—to sit with the religious parties. At any rate, tough weeks of negotiations lie ahead to create a coalition after President Shimon Peres designates Netanyahu as having the first option to form a government. He will then have three weeks to do so. One of Netanyahu's main arguments would be: Join me or I'll have to depend on the far right and you don't want that to happen.
Note: This article is a work-in-progress trying to serve as a quick analysis of the election. The numbers cited above are not final results and even a small shift would be significant in coalition calculations.
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If you are really interested here are some details.
A. Netanyahu's decision to combine with Avigdor Lieberman's party was probably a mistake, driving moderate liberal voters to Lapid.
B. On the right of Netanyahu's party, he lost probably to Bennett among those who wanted to express their harder-line views or believed that Bennett would pull Netanyahu to the right in a coalition. That might have amounted to 3-5 seats Netanyahu might otherwise have obtained. Still, the much-exaggerated rise of the right-wing failed to materialize, especially when one adds that Bennett's party is the only one that might be said to directly represent the Dati (Modern Orthodox) sector. In the 2000 elections, the two small far-right parties got 9 seats, comparable to Bennett's 12.
C. In the center-left, voters had to calculate whether to vote for Livni, Lapid, or Lapid's old party Kadima (which didn't win any seats). The fact that Lapid is an attractive candidate, seems like a nice guy, and has no record to turn people against him helped his cause. In contrast, Livni is not personally popular and has failed on several occasions.
D. On the left, people had to decide whether they wanted to cast anti-Bibi votes with Labor or Meretz. A Meretz slogan, sniping at Labor, described the party as "your real voice against Bibi." Wanting to show a tougher opposition stance, a number of people voted for Meretz thus hurting Labor. (One might calculate that as involving two to four seats.) If Labor became the opposition leader, as seems likely, it cannot depend on the close, consistent cooperation of any other party.
E. Short-lived centrist parties like Lapid's and Livni's have been a feature of Israeli politics since 1977. Every such party has ultimately failed after a promising start, with the latest example being Kadima itself which went from a government party to oblivion in less than a decade. Lapid's own father also headed such a party which fell apart without ever accomplishing anything.
F. Arab voting was down and while this may express some dissatisfaction with Israel's existence, it also means that Arabs have little leeway to affect policies. This is a key reason why Arabs are about 20 percent of the population but only won about 7 percent of the seats, though another is that a lot vote for Zionist parties for various reasons. Arab disunity has also prevented them from becoming more of a political factor. In 2000, with a smaller proportion of the population, the Arab parties elected 12 parliamentarians as opposed to only 8 today.


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Faelynn wrote:I am so sorry to be a bother, but I must have been overlooked when i sent this request in 5 months ago
I was wondering if it could possibly still be transcribed?? I would be eternally grateful!!
Thank you so much for your time!!
This can happen, but not in that case. If you have a look on page 42, in my post of Sun Jul 29, 2012, 6:53 am, you'll see that I did it. I see you changed your post when quoting it , what you say here for the font is not what you asked a that time, so I did what you asked first.
I guess I shouldn't be surprised, there are so many people who ask and don't stay for the answer *sights*... but at least you came back...


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In 1985, a well-known graffiti artist known as Robbo colorfully tagged the underside of a bridge running over Regent's Canal in Camden, North London. One of the first pieces to go up in London (and certainly the longest standing piece in London), Robbo's piece has become known as something of a landmark piece for graffiti art enthusiasts and taggers alike. Many graffiti artists and taggers are considered lucky if their piece endures for more than a few months. However, for the past 24 years, aside from some toy graffiti and over-tagging, Robbo's name has remained largely untouched.
Just this past December, change affected not only the scene along the Canal, but this towering testament to King Robbo's legacy as Bristol-based street artist Banksy returned to London to continue his street art projects. Among them are his rats (a commentary of how the artist is the lowest form of being), a witty phrase evoking political commentary, a boy fishing, and a city worker.
It is the latter of these four project has generated the most amount of controversy lately. This is because Banksy has actually grayed-out a significant portion of Robbo's locally familiar tag, leaving only strips of it to act as wall paper. The city worker, rather than removing the piece, is pasting it up using tools that traditionally refer to wheatpasters and in fact carrying additional wheatpaste rolls under his arm.
While some have said that this might be Banksy's way of paying homage to the Robbo piece, from a territorial perspective, this modification comes as a rather biting slap in the face to Robbo- not only because Banksy has painted his own piece over the original, but because he has turned Robbo's piece into a wheatpaste, a form of street art that is in general very much disliked by aerosol artists. Perhaps it's in response to the actual slap in the face that Banksy received from Robbo, made public this past year in the book London Handstyles. In it, Robbo described a "tense encounter" between the two. Recalling how he was introduced to Banksy, Robbo claimed: "He asked what I wrote and I told him. He cockily replied 'never heard of you' so I slapped him and said, 'you may not of heard of me but you will never forget me.'"
While internationally renowned street artist Banksy is busy premiering his new film at the Sundance Film Festival, graffiti legend Robbo came out of retirement on Christmas to again defend himself against the slight dealt to him by Banksy in London at the tail end of 2009. (Here it is important to remember that most street artists have teams, so what is going on may not directly deal with a single person.) Not only has Robbo eradicated the last traces of the original Robbo tag (including the rolled up paper under the worker's arm), but he has written King Robbo (king being the term used to describe a graffiti legend, or one who has earned a considerable amount of street credit) so that it seems as if Banksy's city worker is painting the tag rather than pasting it up.
A few days later, and the boy fishing along the Canal was altered as well. Rather than pulling out the slimy words "Banksy" from the Canal (originally meant to imply that Banksy was garbage in the way that his rat project implies that artists are vermin), a white sign now hangs from the fishing pole reading "Street Cred," implying that this is what Banksy has lost by confronting Robbo.
Not since the days of Picasso and Matisse has the art world been so shaken by such a bitter rivalry. It was even said that Picasso hung "Portrait of Marguerite" in a room and threw (fake, thankfully) darts at it with his friends. Similarly, this most recent artistic exchange has caused many in Team Robbo and Team Banksy to take up arms against the other by taking to both online forums and the streets to battle it out. While many graffiti aficionados have lined up in either the Banksy camp or the Robbo camp (mostly arguing art and purpose vs. respect and territory), many are questioning whether the recent modifications are in fact the result of deep seated conflict or if they are simply the product of witty banter. (Some even suggest that this might be a publicity stunt, what with the recent publication of London Handstyles and Banksy's venture to the Sundance Film Festival to release his film "Exit Through the Gift Shop.")
Despite the story presented in London Handstyles, it's rather hard to say. After all, despite Picasso and Matisse's bitter rivalry, they spurred each other to new levels of creativity through their competition. Robbo didn't respond by simply wiping out the Banksy piece and retagging the wall. Rather, Robbo (much like Banksy did for him), left a portion of the original piece by Banksy up while modifying the overall work to his liking (having the artistic "last word," as you will). From the perspective of this street art academic/critic, Banksy did something that was not only natural in the world of street art and graffiti, but a big favor to Robbo by transforming the piece.
If you Google Robbo, Robbo tags, or Robbo graffiti, you will be hard pressed to find something either on the web or in images section that mention him solely, or provide an image of his tag other than the Regent's Canal piece. Because Banksy is such an internationally-known name, it can be argued that he has brought Robbo to a more main-stream audience, and therefore inducted this piece (and, indeed, Robbo himself) into the international graffiti and street art scene.
If something becomes a permanent fixture in the landscape, it runs the risk of being taken for granted, and therefore leaves its viewers unaffected and unimpressed. While I recognize that the lifespan of this tag might be impressive to graffiti artists and taggers, once something becomes an accepted part of the landscape, it becomes fair game to street artists. This is because the true definition of street art is to challenge the way we think about our visual landscape through intrisically ephemeral and thought-provoking pieces. By revitalizing this relic, Banksy has forever immortalized it by giving it a new life and a new meaning. Because Banksy breeched the taboo of territory, he made it one of the current hot topics in the graffiti and street art world. Finally, by responding as he did to Banksy, Robbo crossed from the realm of graffiti artist and tagger into the world of street art. In this sense, Banksy has invigorated the environment of Regent's Canal by changing the dynamic by initiating this creative dialogue and competitive exchange.
Many, including myself, will be tracking Banksy's movements following the Film Festival and eagerly await to see what (if anything) happens when Banksy returns to London from Park City.


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It's hard to say which are more startling – the accusations of fraud against fund manager Frank Mazzola, or the emails he's still sending out to investors asking for more money.
Since 2009, Mazzola's business has been buying stock in much-talked-about pre-IPO private companies, like Facebook and Twitter, pooling that stock into funds, and then selling stakes in those funds to wealthy individuals.
At least, that's what Mazzola says his business is.
The SEC says different.
In March 2012, the SEC charged Mazzola and Felix Investments, the brokerage firm he co-owns with his uncle John Bivona, with several counts of fraud.
Specifically, the SEC said Mazzola and his partners "misled investors about the compensation they earned, engaged in undisclosed self-dealing adverse to the funds and the funds' investors, lied about the amount of stock the funds actually held, and freely misstated material facts· about the companies in which the funds were investing to attract potential investors."
The SEC's complaint is actually plainly written and gets into juicy details.
It's long, though.
So here are the highlights:The SEC says Mazzola lied to investors about how much Facebook stock his funds actually owned. The SEC says Mazzola neglected to tell his investors that Facebook had blocked him from buying Facebook shares. The SEC says that when Mazzola was unable to find more Facebook stock to add to his funds, he responded to overwhelming demand by allowing early investors in the fund to sell their positions to new investors at a significant mark-up. One of those early investors was Mazzola's uncle, a partner in Felix. The SEC says Mazzola falsely claimed his funds were "Facebook-approved." The SEC says Mazzola inflated his own fees by paying a third-party broker-dealer fees to find Facebook stock, and then collecting a percentage of those fees. The SEC says Mazzola falsely claimed to know the financials of Twitter, and used the information to solicit investment.
Mazzola and the SEC have not settled. We're told to expect a trial to begin on January 21 in San Francisco.
Mazzola tells us, "This is a civil fraud charge and just that a charge."
It does not mean we did anything wrong or are accused of committing a criminal act and we look forward to resolving this issue especially since it has been going on for most two years now. We have never stolen from anyone and if we did I do not believe we would be having this email exchange today. We were originally accused of being a Ponzi scheme for selling Facebook stock we did not own but after delivering every share of Facebook stock, LinkedIn stock and several other opportunities that we have had liquidity events for we have proven those allegations false. If I am guilty of anything it is the strong conviction I have in the companies we are involved with and I am not afraid to express how I feel. You for the most part get to write what ever you want about anyone you want with little or no repercussion other than eventually you will be proven right or wrong. We are fighting this charge at a great expense because we feel we did nothing wrong.
Meanwhile, Mazzola is still going about his business.
A reader sent us the following emails that Mazzola has recently sent out to clients.
In this email, Mazzola revels in the news that Twitter announced its IPO. He tells clients he has some more stock to sell. He says, "Opportunities like this do not come around every day so we are pounding the table."
When reading this email and the ones that follow, the key thing to remember is that Mazzola's opinion is not based on reality. He doesn't know Twitter's financials, which are private, and he doesn't know how many shares of Twitter are outstanding.
From: Mazzola Frank?
Date: Friday, September 13, 2013?
Subject: With a tweet, Twitter kicks off next big tech IPO?
With a tweet, Twitter kicks off next big tech IPO
Needless to say I feel like I just hit the lottery I have so many friends which I never knew I had before twitter's filing. They are obviously all begging for whatever twitter stock they can get and for good reason. We have stock at $31 that I am offering out to investors. Whatever is left at the end of the day we are buying for ourselves. This will be in my opinion a $30+ billion company day one and $100+ billion company in the not so distant future. Opportunities like this do not come around every day so we are pounding the table which we have been for some time telling our investors to take advantage of it as we intend to do so ourselves.
The same goes for Bloom Energy, Palantir, ZocDoc, Badgeville and oDesk. They are must own opportunities in my opinion and they also have a very limited shelf life in that we do not have much stock and we expect major events for all of them in the short-term. As I have said numerous times we are in the middle of one of the most prolific times in history to be investing. Fortunes will be made and lives changed if you believe and act. We have access to the hottest companies all of which in my opinion are the next big thing.
If you are interested in twitter or any other of our opportunities I mentioned let us know.
Sharing another link about the Twitter IPO, Mazzola speculates about the size of Twitter's market cap. He thinks it will be big.
From: Mazzola Frank
Date: September 19, 2013 at 4:13:13 PM PDT
To: undisclosed-recipients:;
Subject: Twitter IPO
Twitter in talks to add banks to IPO, set fees: sources
I agree with the article that the IPO will happen in November but I disagree with the $15 billion valuation. Once we get Facebook's and Google's earnings in late October they will have more than enough ammo to walk the value up and still insure a massively successful IPO. I think you are looking at a $25 bil+ val at the IPO and a big gain day one. If they do price it at $15 bil which I highly doubt we still get to where I expect we will be day one. Either way I strongly believe we have a very big win in a relatively short period of time which to me spells buy!
In this one, Mazzola follows up on the Twitter news to share his "opinion" with his clients, which is that "Twitter is going to be huge – the biggest most important social media company."
From: Mazzola Frank
Sent: Monday, September 23, 2013 4:10 AM
Subject: Twitter Poised to Become Next Biggest IPO of the Century
In my opinion Twitter is going to be huge – the biggest most important social media company. They will dominate TV advertising, mobile advertising, they are the second screen and adding music as a revenue vertical is a no brainer and those are just a few of the reasons why I feel so strongly. Owning twitter today is one of the most compelling investment opportunities I have ever seen and I believe you will regret not taking advantage of it!
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In this one from a few days later, Mazzola warns clients that demand for Twitter stock is high, and that he's sold out of it. (But there's a chance clients can get in if they really want, so they should make an order anyway.)
From: Mazzola Frank
Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2013 5:31 AM
Subject: We are out of twitter stock...
We placed the remainder of our twitter stock last night so we are done. We are doing a firm close on Friday and whoever has not sent their paperwork or arranged for payment by Friday we are going to cancel those orders. So there is still a chance to get stock and we will handle those orders in a first come first serve basis. If you did not get stock and are still interested let us know and we will do our best to fill your order with any stock that gets put back.
In this email, Mazzola says he is out of Twitter stock, but he has "several other opportunities." "Like Twitter," he says, "they too will grow quickly."
From: Mazzola Frank
Date: September 25, 2013 9:45:18 AM PDT
To: undisclosed-recipients:;
Subject: What we have left in pre-IPO opportunities...
We have placed all of our Twitter and Palantir so we are completely out on both. We do have several other opportunities which we are very excited about the potential for substantial returns. Like Twitter and Palantir they too will go quickly. The IPO market is the hottest it has been in recent memory and only getting hotter and the companies listed below we believe will all file for IPO in the short-term if not already. We also believe each has the potential for substantial gains in a relatively short period of time.
Badgeville 40,408 at $10 per share
Bloom Energy 71,647 at $20.50 per share
Fab 125,000 at $6.95 per share
oDesk 53,185 at $6.75 per share
ZocDoc 5,662 at $17.00 per share
With the changes to the marketing laws under the JOBS Act now in effect (9/23 the new rules went into effect) are reach is far greater as a result inventory is moving much quicker. I have said numerous times that we are in one of the most prolific times in history to be investing and we are still in the early innings. We believe our roster of companies represent the best of the best and warrant consideration in every private equity portfolio. We have been able to show our investors venture capital like returns with a fraction of the typical hold time associated with venture capital/private equity type investments and we expect our current roster of companies to do the same.
If you are interested in any of our current opportunities let us know.
We asked Mazzola about his emails, and he said:
Every person who receives my emails is either an investor in one of Felix's funds or has requested information about the funds or someone I have done business with in the past (including the person who forwards my emails to you). I say what I believe is really going to happen - my opinion - right or wrong. Also all my emails are approved by our compliance department prior to me sending them out.
What always struck me as odd is you are not the least bit curious or concerned about our performance or whether or not we are making our investors money? I think you would be shocked at what we have accomplished the past four years and the next few years are shaping up to be even bigger!
If you would like to speak in greater detail call me I have always taken your call!
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Last season Florida State finally reasserted its on-the-field dominance of rivals Miami and Florida. After this year's National Signing Day, it appears they've also found their mojo on the recruiting trail, too.
Coming off a 9-4 season and an appearance in the ACC Title Game, the Seminoles pulled in what's considered to be the best collection of new players in the country, reports ESPN.
FSU's class boasts the nation's top defensive tackle prospect (Tim Jernigan of Lake City, Fla.), the top safety prospect (Karlos Williams of Davenport, Fla.) and top tight end prospect (Nick O' Leary of Palm Beach, Fla.), which bodes well for the program putting a strangle hold on the talent rich Sunshine State. The 'noles also added top five national running back/linebacker prospect James Wilder Jr. from Tampa, whose father once toted the rock for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
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But on a day for college football fans that mixes part of the giddy anticipation of Christmas morning with the palace intrigue of a Gossip Girl season finale, several of the nation's other glamor programs also racked up top classes as well.
The Southeastern Conference, which is home to the last five BCS national champions, cleaned up with nine schools in the consensus top 25 rankings. Auburn, Alabama, Georgia and LSU led the way with top ten classes.
Despite being on probation, USC made waves on Groundhog Day, also landing a top ten class led by top-20 national player, wide receiver George Farmer. The Trojans also scored a couple of big out of state stars: Ohio offensive tackle Aundrey Walker, long considered a lock for the home state Buckeyes, and Kentucky linebacker Lamar Dawson, who seemed bound for either Kentucky or Tennessee.
Texas and Ohio State also landed among the nation's elite, while the big surprises in the top ten were Clemson and Notre Dame, the former coming off a losing season and the latter getting a jolt of energy from Coach Brian Kelly's first full recruiting class.
Even though the ink has dried on the majority of intent letters, there's still a little bit of drama left to unfold. Two of the nation's top five ranked players: South Pointe (SC) defensive end Jadeveon Clowney and Dematha (MD) offensive tackle Cyrus Kouandjio have yet to sign. Clowney, considered to be the number one player in the country, is considering Alabama, South Carolina, Clemson, North Carolina and Auburn while Kouandjio - who verbally committed to Auburn but hasn't signed on the dotted line - is still considering Alabama, New Mexico, California and Connecticut.
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The "America's Got Talent" and "Britain's Got Talent" host wed Celia Walden in Oxfordshire, England, on Thursday, a Piers rep confirmed to Access Hollywood.
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According to the Telegraph, Piers didn't ask Simon to be his best man because the former "American Idol" judge is "terrible at timekeeping."
However, Simon did send his well wishes.
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It's very slight, only about 2 px or so, but the color contrast between the dark banner and the beige bg is very strong. I feel like it makes the site looks sloppily designed.
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BALTIMORE, Md. – Dan Collins found his calling with Community Theater.
"Being on the stage and acting gives me the opportunity to shine some of my own light. This is my creative expression," he said.
However, offstage, Collins Dan is shining the spotlight on a personal problem.
"I found this lump. So, I ran off to my doctor and he said, 'oh you got a hemorrhoid,'" Collins explained.
Hemorrhoids affect about 10 million Americans at any given time, but Dr. Sergey Kantsevoy says most have no idea hemorrhoids could kill you.
"Hemorrhoids by itself can cause significant blood loss. It is life threatening, if you're losing a lot of blood," said Sergey Kantsevoy, MD, PhD, Clinical Professor of Medicine at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, Director of Therapeutic Endoscopy, Institute of Digestive Health and Liver Disease, at Mercy Medical Center.
Chronic blood loss can lead to anemia, or worse.
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Carmelo Anthony flops in return to Denver
- Carmelo Anthony played his first game in Denver since forcing a trade from the Nuggets to the Knicks
- Anthony left with a sore right knee early in the second half after scoring just nine points on 3-of-12 shooting
- The Nuggets blew the game open with a 21-1 run midway through the second quarter to lead by 22 at the break
DENVER (AP) — His return to Denver having gone so awry, Carmelo Anthony is returning to New York to get his ailing right knee drained.
"I just didn't have it. I tried," Anthony said after scoring just nine points before leaving early in the third quarter of the Knicks' 117-94 blowout loss to the Nuggets on Wednesday night.
It was Anthony's first game at the Pepsi Center since he demanded a trade to New York more than two years ago, leading to a blockbuster deal that reshaped both franchises.
With the crowd jeering him and his knee barking at him, Anthony had one of his worst games ever at the Pepsi Center, his home for the first eight seasons of his NBA career.
"It started tightening up, started stiffening up. Some movements that I couldn't make, movement laterally, felt like I didn't have no pop, no power," Anthony said. "I tried it in the second half, coming out after halftime. I couldn't move."
So, the Knicks went on to Portland after the game without Anthony, who's heading across the country in the opposite direction.
"I'm going to go get it drained, get the fluid out. Get to the bottom of it quick, so I can get back on the court," Anthony said.
Anthony might have pushed himself more than he should have in order to play in Denver.
"I was always concerned," he said. "I was being naive to myself, saying OK. Trying to psyche myself out, 'I can do it. I can do it.' But there comes a point where you've got to figure it out and get to the bottom of it and move on."
Looking back, maybe the Knicks shouldn't have let him play. He returned Monday night at Golden State after missing three games with knee pain.
"I kind of rolled with what he was thinking," Knicks coach Mike Woodson said. "He wanted to play and we played him. The third quarter, he had to pull out. Melo doesn't pull out of very many games. Obviously, it's bothering him. We're going to send him back to be evaluated."
Wilson Chandler scored 24 points and the Nuggets led by as many as 34 points on the way to winning their 10th straight game and 14th straight at home.
This one was such a laugher that their starters didn't play the fourth quarter.
Neither did Anthony, who was 3-of-12 shooting when he left a couple of minutes into the second half.
The crowd that mostly jeered him chanted derisively, "Where is Melo?" throughout the fourth quarter.
Not on the court and not even on the bench.
By game's end, the chant had morphed into, "Who needs Melo?"
The Nuggets raced out to a 64-42 halftime lead with Anthony in New York's lineup and they stretched it to 97-69 after three quarters with him in the visiting locker room.
Iman Shumpert led New York with 20 points, but the Knicks were manhandled on the boards 53-33 and outscored 62-24 in the paint.
"I like my team, and I'm proud of it," Nuggets coach George Karl said. "Not a lot of those guys were here for the drama that went on here and to play with that much pride tonight I thought was first class."
The Nuggets used a 21-1 run to drain the drama from this game midway through the second quarter when New York went almost 7½ minutes between buckets, falling behind 54-31.
"They couldn't score and we ran by them on almost every possession," Karl said. "It was a great energy, the building had an electricity to it. I think our team was at playoff intensity mode. I also think we caught New York in a bad place. Sometimes that happens."
The Knicks trailed 58-28 when they lost Tyson Chandler for the night with a bruised left knee after he slammed into Corey Brewer under the basket and had to be helped to the locker room.
Anthony received a mixed but decidedly strong reception during pregame introductions — when the public address announcer accidentally presented him as No. 15, his number during his eight seasons in Denver, and not his current No. 7.
Masai Ujiri, the Nuggets executive vice president who famously said on the night of the trade, "We got killed," called the deal a win-win Wednesday and said there were no residual hard feelings.
"Honestly, we've moved on," Ujiri told The Associated Press. "Melo was great, great kid, just saw him at halfcourt and spent some time (with him). I think it worked out for everybody. The Nuggets as an organization has moved on and Melo has moved on."
Asked if they were better without him than they were with him, Ujiri demurred.
"I can't answer that question. It's a tough one."
The numbers say they are — albeit barely.
Denver is 100-57 since the blockbuster trade.
In the 157 games before the deal, they were 99-58.
Anthony wasn't the only former Nugget returning to the Pepsi Center. He brought J.R. Smith, Kenyon Martin, Raymond Felton and Marcus Camby with him.
During the first timeout, there was a video tribute to them accompanied by John Sebastian's iconic "Welcome Back" song.
That turned out to be the highlight of the night for the former Nuggets.
Anthony waxed nostalgic about his return after practice Tuesday night, but he hardly recognized the team he left — and not just because they were decked out in their new canary yellow uniforms. Lawson is the only Nuggets player who was teammates with Anthony 25 months ago, but 10 other Nuggets can trace their arrival to Anthony's departure from Denver.
Although there was plenty of animosity when the deal went down Feb. 22, 2011, time has smoothed things over. The Nuggets landed a bevy of young players, trade exemptions and draft picks they've used to retool their roster, and the Knicks got a bona fide superstar to build a team around.
The resurgent Knicks (38-24) are still leading the Atlantic Division. The Nuggets (44-22) are in the hunt for home-court advantage in the playoffs.
Karl said he was glad this game had finally come and gone.
"Yeah, I think it's time to let everything go and it was probably too long in getting it here," he said.
NOTES: Gallinari hit his 500th career 3-pointer. ... The Nuggets have won 32 of their last 42 games. ... Woodson said Chandler is probable for Thursday night's game.


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Controls a linear actuator or an horizon to horizon one through the parallel port. These are the old fashioned traditional actuators, not to be confused with a Diseqc motor. A Diseqc motor takes its power from the antenna cable, while a linear actuator takes its power from a separate cable so it's usually stronger and moves faster. The downsides are that you have to use a separate cable with 2 wires for power+2 for position control, and that digital receivers only speak Diseqc, so you either have to find a model that can drive the motor (very expensive), use an external box that translates diseqc to 36v motor drive, ore use vdr with this plugin and a simple circuit.
Hardware requirements
- standard pc parallel port
- simple home made interface (schematics included)
Software requirements
- Linux 2.6.x (this is because of the use of a kernel module, if someone is willing to port it to 2.4.x it should work there too)
- vdr >= 1.3.20
The kernel module has to be compiled separately
cd PLUGINS/src/actuator/module make
Now see plugin installation.
There are some patches provided with the plugin. The plugin will work without them but it will be more useful with them.
cd $SOURCEDIR/VDR patch < PLUGINS/src/actuator/patches/vdr-XX.XX-position-display.diff
(change XX with the actual version supplied with the plugin). With this patch vdr will show you when the dish is moving after switching channels
cd $SOURCEDIR/VDR patch < PLUGINS/src/actuator/patches/vdr-XX.XX-sort-by-source.diff
this patch adds more sort options to the channel list, specifically it can sort them grouping by source, and the source is alway shown, so you know if the dish is going to move before switching to a particular channel
cd $SOURCEDIR/VDR patch < PLUGINS/src/actuator/patches/vdr-XX.XX-steerable.diff
Vdr now checks for a lock during 5 seconds after switching channels. If the new channel is on a different satellite there won't be a lock at once: depending on the distance vdr will get stuck up to 5 seconds and then, if the position hasn't been reached yet, will show a black screen. This patch reverse to the old behaviour (i.e. vdr doesn't wait for a lock. It doesn't seem to have adverse effects here but YMMV). The same patch also gives more time for the dish to reach the target after starting a recording.
Remember to recompile vdr if you apply any of these patches
The module uses the parallel port interrupt, so be sure an interrupt is used (default: no interrupt)
modprobe parport_pc io=0x378 irq=7
Then don't forget to load the kernel module
insmod $SOURCEDIR/VDR/PLUGINS/src/actuator/module/actuator.ko
In the setup-menu of the plugin you have to select the dvb card which is connected to the dish driven by the actuator (see below in #Known Problems about multi cards setups).
You can also set a minimum screen refresh time (in ms) that will be used in the plugin main menu: I found that, with a dxr3, if you refresh the screen too often the osd gets garbled. I set it to 250 for my dxr3. Note that too low a value will cause high cpu usage.
Position Counting
The plugins assumes that the position increments when the dish is moving west and decrements when going east. You have to connect the motor according to this rule.
Position limit
In order to protect the dish, there are two soft limits, and the plugin will take care not to move the dish beyond those limits (you should also set the limit switch on the actuator itself anyway).
The soft East Limit (the origin) is always 0, while the West limit is adjustable in the plugin main menu.
Normal usage
When you switch to a channel that's on a different satellite, the plugin will take care to move the dish. If you patched vdr, a message will show the current dish position while it is moving and eventual error messages.
The plugin main menu allows you to manually move the dish and to store the position for each satellite.
The main menu shows the current dish position and target on the top line, then you can see the signal information and various selectable options in the central area. You select an option with the up, down, left and right buttons, then you activate it pressing ok.
The options are:
- Drive east
- will move the dish east.
- Halt
- will stop the movement of the dish.
- Drive west
- will move the dish west.
- Recalc
- stores the position of the currently selected satellite as the current dish position, that has the effect of recalculating all positions relative to the current one.
- Goto X
- will move the dish to the specified position (you can enter the position using the numeric keys).
- Store
- will store the current dish position as the position of the currently selected satellite.
- X Steps East
- will move the dish X steps east (you can enter the number of steps with the numeric keys).
- Enable/Disable limits
- will either enable or disable the softlimits. Take care when you're moving the dish with the limits disabled.
- X Steps West
- will move the dish X steps west (you can enter the number of steps with the numeric keys).
- Set East Limit
- will use the current position as the east limit (i.e. 0) and it will also recalculate all stored positions relative to the new 0.
- Set Zero
- will use the current position as the east limit but it won't recalculate stored positions.
- Set West Limit
- will store the current position as the West Limit.
- Satellite(source) selection
- using the left and right key you can select a different satellite. If it has a position stored, you will see here the position and pressing OK the dish wil go to that position, otherwise you'll see the message Position not set.
- Frequency
- here you can enter the frequency of a transponder you want to manually tune to by pressing OK. Pressing left and right will select the polarity. Note that you select the other parameters in the following entries (that will also tune to the new transponder by pressing OK).
- Symbolrate
- enter the symbolrate of the transponder you want to tune manually.
- Vpid
- enter the vpid to select when manually tuning a transponder. If it's possible the new channel will be shown on screen.
- Apid
- enter the apid to select when manually tuning a transponder. If it's possible the new channel will be shown on screen.
- Scan transponder
- will tune to the transponder selected with the previous parameters and scan it for new/updated channels. Note that the operation will be allowed only if the dish is positioned at the currently selected satellite.
Satellite scanning
if the plugin can find a file for the current source in the "plugins/transponders" subdirectory of the configuration directory, there will be an additional option "Scan Satellite". The two numbers at right are the index of the transponder from where the scanning will start (so that you can make a partial scan) and the total number of the transponders found in the file. If you press left or right you can select a different transponder and its data will be shown in the Frequency and Symbolrate fields. If you press OK all transponders, starting from the selected index, will be scanned. A message and a progress bar will be shown, and pressing any key will stop the operation, leaving the index at the current position so you can resume scanning later on. The header of the screen will show the total number of channels found and the number of new ones.
The name of the transponder file for a satellite is XXXX.ini, where XXXX represents the satellite position in tenths of degree, eg. for 28.2E the filename will be 0282.ini, for 30.0W the filename will be 3300.ini (i.e. (360.0-30.0)*10). The file format is the same as the channelscan plugin, which in turn claims to use the same format as the windows program prog-dvb.
These messages can either appear on screen after a channel switch (if you patched vdr) or in the plugin main menu.
- Dish target
- x, position: x : will show the current dish position while it is moving.
- Channels found
- x, new: x : while scanning a transponder/satellite this message will show the total number of channels found and the new ones.
- Position reached
- when the dish has reached the target position.
- Motor wait
- when there's a reversal of the direction the motor will stop for a couple of seconds.
- Motor error
- when no pulses are coming from the motor (it can be either the motor is stuck, the reed relay isn't working or a problem with the wires, the parallel port or the interface circuit).
- Position not set
- there's no position stored for the desired satellite.
- Not positioned
- some options in the plugin main menu are only allowed when the dish is positioned at the currently selected satellite.
- Dish at limits
- while manually moving the dish it has reached either the east (0) or the west limit.
- Position outside limits
- the specified position is outside the preset limits.
- Scanning, press any key to stop
- this message appears during the transponder or satellite scan in the plugin main menu.
Circuit diagram
This is the needed interface between parallel port and satellite dish drive.
Known Problems
Please see the README file for an up to date list of known problems
- The plugin will load the current dish position at start-up and stores it on disk each time it detects it has changed. It's possible to lose the actual position if the pc crashes while the dish is moving. In this case you have to manually peak the dish at a known satellite (it may be necessary to disable the limits) and use the "Recalc" function. I'd like to store the position in the cmos ram (in the kernel module) but I don't know where I can find a couple of free bytes (and if the pc crashes while storing the position, it may not have updated the cmos ram checksum).
- When the pc is turned on or off my parallel port sets all data lines at 1, driving both relays for a very short while. Due to the wiring of the relays the motor should not move anyway. If you don't like it you can modify the circuit to add some more logic to avoid the problem.
- vdr assumes that, as soon as a channel has been switched to, the new source (satellite) is valid, even if the dish is moving, so the autoupdate function will assign new/updated channels to the wrong satellite. The plugin's workaround is to disable autoupdate while the dish is moving and restore the previous setting only when it has reached the target satellite. It's possible that the plugin will fail to restore the value of this setting. If you see that channels aren't updating anymore check this setting (main menu->configuration->dbv->update channels, note that while the dish is moving this setting is always "no", so check and modify it only when the actuator is idle).
- in a multi card setup, vdr considers all cards equally capable of providing any source (satellite), regardless to the dish/lnb the card is connected to. This is obviously wrong. Attached to the following post you'll find a patch to configure which sources (satellites) a card can relly tune to: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.vdr/14038
- Vdr now checks for a lock during 5 seconds after switching channels. If the new channel is on a different satellite there won't be a lock at once: depending on the distance vdr will get stuck up to 5 seconds and then, if the position hasn't been reached yet, will show a black screen. See the #Patches section for a patch to reverse to the old behaviour (i.e. vdr doesn't wait for a lock. It doesn't seem to have adverse effects here but YMMV). The same patch also gives more time for the dish to reach the target after starting a recording.
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Once again another quasi-government agency wants more of your money � surprise, surprise.
To the editor:
Once again another quasi-government agency wants more of your money � surprise, surprise.
The Onslow County school board is pushing for more money due to a perceived growth in students. This will result in a large property tax increase.
Yes, Onslow County was the fastest growing county in state. This was due to a rapid increase of 10,000 troops at Camp Lejeune and very high levels of multi-year government contracts to build new housing and government facilities including buildings, barracks, shooting ranges, etc. Many of these multi-year contracts were accomplished by out-of-state contracting companies whose employees relocated to Onslow County during the years it takes to complete the contracts.
I have no idea where the Onslow County Board of Education is getting its future growth numbers. Over the last several months, Camp Lejeune has stated that Lejeune will be cutting up to 8,000 Marines and in the next two years government contracting is going to be cut 90 percent.
Assuming that each Marine has a wife and at least one child, this is 24,000 people leaving Onslow County. The reductions in personnel are starting this fiscal year � not five years from now. As the government finishes its new housing projects, more military will be required to live on base.
The personnel being cut will go back to their home states. The government contract employees will go to the next job somewhere else and a larger portion of the remaining military will be required to live on base. It does not take a rocket scientist to figure out Onslow County may be one of the fastest shrinking counties in the state.
Currently, there are not any military bases undergoing BRAC (Base Realignment and Closure) so we will not be receiving any additional military from bases being closed.
My guess is that the school board knows all of the information above and sees its window of pushing for more money quickly fading. There is absolutely no reason to expand our school system when all of the above facts show a shrinking community.
As a property owner who is sick of getting taxed to death, I know I am firmly against a property- tax increase � especially when the facts do not support what is being asked for
Chris Moncourtois