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Dianna Torscher Benson is a 2014 Selah Award Finalist (winners not yet announced), a 2011 Genesis Winner, a 2011 Genesis double Semi-Finalist, a 2010 Daphne de Maurier Finalist, and a 2007 Golden Palm Finalist. In 2012, she signed a nine-book contract with Ellechor Publishing House. She's the author of The Hidden Son, her debut novel. Final Trimester is her second release. After majoring in communications and a ten-year career as a travel agent, Dianna left the travel industry to earn her EMS degree. An EMT and a Haz-Mat and FEMA Operative since 2005, she loves the adrenaline rush of responding to medical emergencies and helping people in need.
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This blog post is part of Build Your Stack,® a new initiative focused exclusively on helping teachers build their book knowledge and their classroom libraries. It was written by member Rachel Polacek.
When you're scrolling Instagram, what do you look for? Do you like seeing authors interacting with and supporting one another? Are you interested in expanding your students' reading lives by sharing your favorite authors' accounts with them? Then you need to check out all the great YA authors on Instagram!
I have often used Instagram to find information about new books, awards, author tours, and more, and I've found that one way to intrigue middle and high school students to become invested in current YA literature is to have them follow these authors on Instagram as well! I've had conversations with students about something funny Becky Albertalli posted, or how some authors seem like they're friends with one another because of the way they interact on social media.
Instagram has led students to explore new books and find connections beyond their current favorites.
In this list, I've included some of my favorite Young Adult authors to follow on Instagram and have highlighted at least one of their books that you can share with your classes.
Maybe after reading, your students will want to follow these authors, too!
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to those of you who've read AVLEOS: thank you. thank you for your love and your support and for all your messages about the book. it means more to me than you know. ❤❤❤ tomorrow i'm changing gears; i'll be getting ready for the launch of DEFY ME on Tuesday (at @bntustin!), and i'll be hitting the road for the DEFY ME tour the very next day. (you can check out my website—or a previous IG post—for all the info on my upcoming tour stops.) hope to see you soon! ????????
Tahereh Mafi
I actually followed Tahereh Mafi, author of the Shatter Me series, on Instagram before I read any of her books. I was drawn to her phenomenal style and creativity, and kept her books on my GoodReads "To Read" list, however, I didn't end up reading any of them until A Very Large Expanse of Sea came out.
This story follows Shirin as she navigates the challenges of high school while also being a hijab-wearing Muslim teen in the aftermath of 9/11. AVELOS (as Mafi often calls it) was a perfect "mirror and window" book for me (terms credited to Dr. Rudine Sims Bishop). It was a mirror because I was also a teenager in 2002, so many of the typical high school issues Shirin faces are incredibly familiar. It was a window because I did not have the experience of being a Muslim girl or wearing a hijab in the post-9/11 United States—plus I have no idea how to breakdance. Shirin's powerful voice shines throughout this story, and I wish that when I was in high school, I could have had the gift of this reading experience.
Julie Murphy
Julie Murphy's Instagram is like walking into a candy store—it's so bright, colorful, and positive. She is one of those authors who is friends with others and helps to build others up. When Netflix recently released the film of her book Dumplin,' she was constantly posting updates on filming and on her excitement over the release. Dumplin' is a book that spoke to my soul, and I feel like it is a reflection of Murphy's own persona. Willowdean is a strong, fierce main character who sticks up for others and doesn't care what people have to say—she's going to do what she wants. Murphy's Instagram captures this same fearless spirit and is a joy to peruse.
Adam Silvera and Becky Albertalli
Okay, I'm cheating by combining these two, but their Instagram accounts go together like peanut butter and jelly right now. My favorite thing about Adam Silvera and Becky Albertalli's posts is how much fan art they share! Their recent novel, What If It's Us, has received a huge fan following, and deservedly so. It's an adorable YA romance of missed connections, and the characters are so complex and likeable. The reader roots for Arthur and Ben to finally have their much-needed reunion after a chance meet-cute in a post office (complete with a flash mob!) at the beginning of the story.
Nic Stone
Nic Stone's account is another style obsession—this woman's lipstick collection alone rivals any Sephora store. A self-proclaimed Slytherin, Stone's account is full of glamorous selfies (excluding her six-week stint of #nomakeup shots), with a mix of book talks and family posts sprinkled throughout. Her critically-acclaimed Dear Martin was an instant bestseller, and was a book I couldn't keep on my classroom shelf. Stone brings history and current events together by paralleling injustice in elements of the Black Lives Matter movement to elements of the Holocaust. Dear Martin has Justyce and his classmates grapple tough topics and conversations, and does so with the messiness and care of real life.
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Last night was another one of those nights where you wonder if they're sure they got the right guy. Sheesh. So much love and gratitude for being honored as part of the Frederick Douglass 200. I met and got to spend some time with Nettie Washington Douglass, who is the great-granddaughter of Frederick Douglass AND Booker T. Washington. Right. We shared time with the young people at @rosaparks_truthisreal, then she presented me and others with the award in the evening at the @libraryof_congress. These are some photos from the evening. Shouts to fellow writer awardees @jacqueline_woodson @lee_minjin and @officialsandracisneros. Yes, that's Sandra Cisneros in photo #5! And to the incredible journalists and essayists nominated as well. And the activists, politicians, abolitionists, entrepreneurs, feminists, and diplomats. (Soo much brilliance in the room. Sheesh!) Truly an honor to do this work with y'all. Also, shouts to @ibramxk and the @antiracismctr, along with my homie @afrominimalist. Happy 201 Frederick Douglass. We still working. #thefd200
Jason Reynolds
As you scroll through Jason Reynolds's Instagram, you may notice some familiar and notable faces, including Jacqueline Woodson, Laurie Halse Anderson, and Nikki Giovanni. Reynolds is one of those authors who celebrates others and seems to be humbled by his own accomplishments. And he should be proud of those accomplishments—he's published 12 books within the last few years! His entire library appeals to my middle school students, but a current favorite is the Track series, which was just wrapped up with the publication of Lu this past fall. The series follows four middle school kids—Ghost, Patina, Sunny, and Lu—as they navigate the challenges of life alongside high expectations of their track coach, and they find support in each other along the way.
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I'm ecstatic that THE ASTONISHING COLOR OF AFTER is a finalist for the LA Times Book Prize!!!!! And in some truly phenomenal company. If you also saw the news I posted yesterday…suffice it to say, I'm having an incredible week. ???? ✨ I really cannot fully express what all this means to me. I tucked my heart into this book and let it sail out into the world, and the world has been so incredibly kind. I'm ridiculously grateful to all my readers, to the awards committees who saw fit to give my book a nod, to my brilliant publishing teams, to my phenomenal agents, to my CPs, to the friends who have endlessly listened to me scream about the highs and bitch and moan about the lows. What a wild ride this is. ✨ P.S. The US paperback (pictured above!) is out March 19th and features an updated Author's Note. ❤????❤????❤????❤???? #theastonishingcolorofafter #astonishingcolorofafter
Emily X.R. Pan
The aesthetics of Emily X.R. Pan's Instagram are incredibly striking to me, and they seem to reflect the beautiful magical realism of her first novel, The Astonishing Color of After. In this story, Leigh processes her grief after her mother's death but keeps seeing something strange: a red bird, which Leigh is convinced is her mother. She travels to Taiwan, her mother's birthplace, to visit her grandparents and try to solve the mystery of what her mother, the bird, is trying to tell her. Come to Pan's Instagram for the artfully-arranged books, but stay for her photos in her cozy writing residency, fantastic clothes, and lovely artwork!
So what's the point of getting online when you could just spend your time reading?
While I enjoy scrolling Instagram to see what my favorite authors are doing, I also love having the chance to add a YA connection to their scrolling. Instagram is an intricate web of talent and support, and you and your students may just be surprised by what you end up reading next!
Rachel Polacek (@rachelpolacek) is currently in her 6th year teaching 8th grade Language Arts in Dublin, Ohio. She aims to be a reflective teacher, which is one of the reasons why she loves writing about teaching. She is an avid reader who tries to consume a wide variety of literature and nonfiction, but her heart lies in middle grade and young adult fiction.


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Gay conservatives say the candidate should take a hint from Marriott's "Be You, With Us" campaign.
The campaign's page on Marriott's website.
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Marriott International, the hotel mega-chain that once counted Mitt Romney as a corporate board member — and whose owner is among the candidate's top donors — has launched an agressive marketing campaign targeting gay and lesbian travelers.
The campaign, titled "Be You, With Us," is promoted on the company's website with photos of smiling same-sex couples and a guide to gay pride festivals throughout the country. It offers special deals for gay couples, as well as a sweepstakes that will award grand prize winners a trip to the 2013 gay pride events in either New York, San Francisco, or Berlin. On Marriott's web page advertising the campaign, there's a section devoted to wedding accommodations for gay couples.
Romney's gay rights rhetoric was more measured than most of his Republican rivals' in the primaries, but he remains strongly opposed to same-sex marriage and civil unions. What's more, his campaign drew criticism from the LGBT community last month when an embattled gay spokesman quit, under fire from social conservatives. (The campaign said at the time the aide's sexuality was unrelated to his departure.)
But the gay-friendly marketing effort on the part of a conservative company with close ties to Romney — and a Mormon-run business that offers a free copy of the Book of Mormon in every room — reflects the increasingly difficult politics of the Republican platform on LGBT issues, said conservative gay rights advocates.
"As a former business leader and Marriott board member, Governor Romney should recognize that inclusion wins in business and in politics," said Christian Berle, a spokesman for the Log Cabin Republicans. "Governor Romney's campaign needs to fight for every vote in this election, and that includes tens of millions of LGBT Americans and their allies."
Jimmy LaSalvia, executive director of GOProud, said it's unsurprising that J.W. Mariott Jr., the company's owner who has donated heavily to Romney, would approve such a campaign.
"GOP donors support Republican candidates because they know that conservative policies are good for our country, but they are no different from anyone else in America," said LaSalvia. "All Americans are thinking more and more about how policies affect their gay friends and family, so that's why we are seeing so many them support gay organizations and causes."
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Did you ever believe technology would replace the teacher?
I just read this article by the Christensen Institute. And the answer to my question is, of course, no, we never dit. Nobody working in school ever considered replacing the teacher with technology. We all know that there are a lot of systems that are made to help the teachers in their work. They are made to take lower-order work off teachers' plates. Good systems will show us the data we need, will suggest lesson plans for our students like in a Spotify playlist, tailored to every student's needs, talents, interests, and level of competencies. It is a great idea to use the data in a safe and sensible way and at the same time, we need to be careful with how data is used. I hear about schools where they have video surveillance in every classroom. To me, that is a scary thought. And I just read about the system they have in China. A true nightmare. Source: Nordic business insider
- China plans to rank all its citizens based on their "social credit" by 2020.
- People can be rewarded or punished according to their scores.
- Like private financial credit scores, a person's social scores can move up and down according to their behavior.
Based on this system they can ban you from travel, slow down your internet speed and make sure your kids can not attend the best schools. Source: Nordic business insider
Let's rely on data and use it wisely, but let's rely more on the teacher. Here are some areas from the above-mentioned article!
1. Technology can't … provide higher-order feedback
Software is great for generating immediate, automated feedback on students' mastery of basic knowledge and skills. Software cannot give feedback on many of the qualities that really define great writing—such as whether the students' rhetoric and logic will resonate with her intended audience. It takes a human to give feedback on the more nuanced aspects of human communication.
2. Technology can't … get to know a student
Software can make a lot of useful inferences based on patterns it finds in the data it collects. But it can't collect data on all the important factors that shape a students' learning experiences, nor can it model all of the psychological complexity of childhood and adolescence. Real knowing and understanding is a human-to-human experience.
3. Technology can't … care about a student
Where do students get the motivation to learn? At times motivation may come from pure intellectual curiosity. But more often than not, motivation comes from relationships. A student becomes excited about science because a teacher who cares deeply about her also cares deeply about science. Students often work to learn and to achieve for the praise and approbation of people who matter in their lives. Software, for all its wondrous abilities, can't offer that sense of genuine caring.
But teachers can't …
The article ends by saying that even if the teachers can do all the things listed above, they rarely have time to do it all. It is a matter of capacity. Meeting regularly with each student takes time. That is where the block scheduling we have at our school may help. It is easier to make sure you talk to every student if the English class is from 08:30 -1:10 pm on Mondays as it is for me.
Edtech used wisely can help free time for teachers to tailor the learning to each individual students and to build strong relationships. Like using a suitable learning management system for instance.


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For this year's Silver Skate Festival, artist Riyaz Sharan turned the beautiful Heritage Village Medicine Wheel Art Installations into beautiful permanent illustrations that will last beyond our Week of Winter.
Using Medicine Wheel learnings and knowledge shared by cultural advisor Elder Francis Whiskeyjack, Riyaz made beautiful, illustrated recreations representing The East - Eagle, The South - Buffalo, The West - Bear, and The North - Wolf.
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Rapid Industrialization, urbanization and incessant infrastructure developments have led to a paradigm shift in the way electricity ...
Rapid Industrialization, urbanization and incessant infrastructure developments have led to a paradigm shift in the way electricity is generated, transmitted and consumed and it has resulted in immense stress on the age old electrical grid infrastructure. In addition, challenges due to increasing energy demand with higher quality of power and reliability are mounting. The rapid increase in penetration of nonlinear loads such as data centers, large variable-speed drives and other power electronic devices across the grid have resulted in increased reliability and power quality concerns. The concept of smart grid provides a host of solutions to many of the issues faced by the current electric grid by taking advantage of next generation technologies such as distributed generation, distribution automation, energy management systems, advanced metering infrastructure (AMI), renewable energy generation technologies, plug-in hybrid electric vehicles, two-way wireless communication and internet, to name a few.
Increased awareness of the depletion of energy consumption and environment, need for safe and steady operation of the power grid to provide high quality and reliable power supply to consumers in the digital age have thrust activities in the realm of smart grid to the forefront throughout the world.
What is a Smart Grid?
The basic concept of a Smart Grid is to add monitoring, analysis, control, and communication capabilities to the national electrical delivery infrastructure to maximize the throughput of the system while reducing the energy consumption. The smart grid will allow utilities to move electricity around the system as efficiently and economically as possible.
As illustrated in Figure above, the smart grid can be defined as a system that employs digital information and control technologies to facilitate the deployment and integration of distributed and renewable resources, smart consumer devices, automated systems, electricity storage and peak-shaving technologies. Some of the other definitions of the smart grid are:
· Convergence of information technology and communication technology with power system engineering.
· The smart grid is a broad collection of technologies that delivers an electricity network that is flexible, accessible, reliable and economic. Smart Grid facilitates the desired actions of its users and these may include distributed generation, deployment of demand management and energy storage systems or the optimal expansion and management of grid assets.
· A smart grid is an electricity network that can intelligently integrate the actions of all users connected to it – generators, consumers and those who do both – in order to efficiently deliver sustainable, economic and secure electricity supplies.
· Application of digital information technology to optimize electrical power generation, delivery and end use.
· Interaction of geographically dispersed equipment being able to perform coordinated operations through better communications and control.
· Set of advanced technologies, concepts, topologies and approaches that allow generation, transmission and distribution to be replaced by organically intelligent, fully integrated services with efficient exchange of data, services and transactions.
· Intelligent response and interaction between supply availability and demand.
With increased automation, especially in the form of sensors at distribution levels, the smart grid will significantly enhance and improve the quality and the amount of data processed by the sensors and metering infrastructure. Such an approach would not only significantly improve the efficiency, power quality and reliability of the entire system but will also lead to increased customer participation, reduction in peak demand, reduced financial losses and more importantly reduced CO2 emissions and other environmental impacts.
Scope of a SmartGrid
Though a clear and concise definition of the Smart Grid is still evolving, there are several characteristics that remain common to many smart grid architectures. These characteristics clearly define the Smart Grid's potential benefits to the overall electric power system. They are:
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Comparison between the traditional or the current electric grid and the proposed smart grid.
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January 23, 2007
Tata Motors Revenue Growth of 37% at Rs.6957 Crores
Operating Profit Up By 53% at Rs.952 Crores
Net Profit Growth of 12% at Rs.513 Crores
for the 3rd Quarter
3rd Quarter
Tata Motors revenue for the quarter ended December 31, 2006, on a stand-alone basis (net of excise) was Rs.6,956.84 crores an increase of 37% compared to Rs.5,074.86 crores in the corresponding quarter of 2005-06. Profit before Tax (PBT) was Rs.708.74 crores, an increase of 20% over Rs.591.77 crores in the previous year quarter. The PBT in the corresponding quarter of last year included a gain of Rs.164.30 crores on account of sale of shares of Telco Construction Equipment Company Limited, a subsidiary of the company. Net Profit was Rs.513.17 crores, an increase of 12% over Rs.460.23 crores for the corresponding period.
The consolidated revenue (net of excise) was Rs.8,176.03 crores for the quarter ended December 31, 2006, an increase of 37%, compared to Rs.5,969.78 crores in the corresponding quarter of the previous year. The consolidated Profit after Tax (PAT) for the current year quarter is Rs.602.07 crores, an increase of 9%, compared to Rs.550.67 crores for the corresponding quarter for the previous year.
The vehicle sales volume for the quarter was 1,41,827 units, compared to 1,11,228 units during the corresponding quarter last year, an increase of 28%.
Nine Months, ended December 31, 2006
The company's revenue (net of excise) on a stand-alone basis was Rs.19,250.70 crores in the first nine months of 2006-07, an increase of 40% against Rs.13,755.58 crores in the corresponding period last year. PBT at Rs.1,793.38 crores, witnessed growth of 28% over Rs.1405.77 crores in the previous year period. The Net Profit was Rs.1,336.74 crores, an increase of 25% over Rs.1070.77 crores for the previous year period.
Consolidated revenue (net of excise) in the first nine months of 2006-07 at Rs.22,649.63 crores recorded an increase of 43% against Rs.15,876.23 crores in the corresponding period last year. The consolidated PAT at Rs.1,520.18 crores compared to Rs.1,205.49 crores, recorded a growth of 26%.
The vehicle sales volume in the first nine months at 4,07,925 units grew by 33% compared to 3,05,786 units in the previous year period. Exports amounted to 38,834 vehicles during the period, a growth of 11% compared to 34,849 vehicles during the previous year period.
During the first nine months, Tata Motors launched a new Tata Safari range, a face-lifted Indigo Sedan & Indigo Marina range of vehicles and a new 1.2 litre engine option on the Indica V2 Xeta range, which have met with an enthusiastic response. Tata Ace, the new mini-truck, continues to post strong growth with its gradual extension across the country as well as with its launch in Sri Lanka. In passenger vehicles exports, Tata Motors entered Ghana with its complete portfolio.
At the end of the first nine months, Tata Motors' market share in commercial vehicles is 64.7 % compared to 60.2 % in the previous year period, and in passenger vehicles the market share is 16.1 % compared to 15.8 % in the previous year period.
The audited financial results for the quarter and nine months, ended December 31, 2006, are enclosed.
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Wifi rabbit notifier plugin for Hudson
Par Eric Le Merdy le vendredi 19 décembre 2008, 09:40 - Blog - Lien permanent
Everybody wants a BuildBunnyI rediscover yesterday Larinou, my electronic wifi buddy bunny, a brilliant representative of its Nabaztag species.
I decided to create an Hudson plugin to let my bunny alert me of my builds. I have already seen equivalent plugin for Teamcity for exemple. The Hudson plugin architecture is elegant, maven facilitates rapid immersion in the source code, provides an out-of-the-box debugging environment with Jetty and the "HelloWorld" template is brilliant to start. It was pretty pleased to implement.
A quick overview of the pluginYou will see the Nabaztag Notifier as a post build notifier:
You should then set the serial number of your bunny buddy and the associated token (not as a password in this preliminary version of the plugin).
The Hudson system configuration offers a new section related to the plugin:
This place you can configure the main API URL (in case it changes from the settings I use in France and you can set a custom voice for your bunny.
The result is that your bunny now alerts you about any build result. The position of the ears vary in respect with the buidl result. The rabbit will seam sad if a build is broken... Even if the API provides the way to light the rabbit with Hudson "build colors" (red/yellow/blue), my rabbit nevers turns on. By the way, the plugin is implemented in case Violet decide to let us pilot the colors.
One drawback is that the communication between the Hudson build machine and your wifi rabbit is not direct (there is a reverse engineering open-source project to achieve this goal). The communication is intermediated by Violet, your rabbit great creator.
Please find the first version of the plugin below (I will propose it to be a part of the main plug-in list on dev.java.net or I will put source on sourceforge later):
An overview of the rabbit messages
Project free-style-job gets better ! Here is the status : back to normal
Edit: Seams like the idea was in the air: Stephan developed the same plug-in, the same day. He invokes the "white rabbit" effect. But which plug-in is the One ? The first to be committed of course !Project free-style-job gets better ! Here is the status : stable


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Forget The Lions & Tigers...Bears Defending Their Turf
During the 38 trading days so far in 2014, we've seen a pullback of 106.5 points on the S&P 500 (NYSE:SPY) (5.76 percent) and a rebound of 105 points (6.07 percent). So, the bottom line is that while the ride has been a bit on the wild side, the S&P currently stands at almost exactly the same spot it ended 2013.
It is also interesting to note that of the two trends that have occurred so far this year, the downtrend essentially took place over a span of 8 days while the rebound retraced the entire decline in 10 days. The market has spent the rest of the time - 20 trading days or 4 full weeks - doing next to nothing.
See also: Breakout or Fake Out - How Can We Know For Sure?
As such, it is safe to say that we've got a turf war on our hands. So, since we believe in maintaining an objective view of the market action, we decided it was time to check in with the bear camp and see what they had to say for themselves.
The Bear Arguments
Those seeing the glass as at least half-empty have a host of arguments as to why the market indices simply can't move any higher from here. So let's run them down.
Overhead Resistance: While the first bullet point on the bear PowerPoint could change at the drop of an ignition algo, our furry friends contend that the price action of the S&P itself is a problem. The argument is the fact that the venerable market index has flirted with new all-time highs almost daily over the past week and yet has not been able to break on through is a negative omen.
Intraday Price Action: Speaking of price action, if you've been watching the market on an intraday basis lately, you are likely nodding your head on this one. Bear algos have been run early and often over the past few days. Each and every intraday advance has been met immediately with sell programs. Just yesterday, for example, the S&P dove from 1852 to 1841 over a period of about 15 minutes - for no reason at all. And the bears tell us that this type of action is surely not positive.
Waning Momentum: The bears also suggest that the bounce off the February 3rd low was driven by short-covering. And now that the big blast has occurred, the "oomph" to the upside that was evident from February 6 - 14 has morphed into something akin to sputtering. Exhibit A here is the fact that the S&P rocketed up 5 percent in just seven trading days and has only been able to tack on 0.36 percent in the ensuing seven.
Double Top: While chart reading is more art than science, the bears argue that there is a double top formation developing on the weekly chart of the S&P.
S&P 500 Weekly
To be sure, this formation isn't a sure thing and it wouldn't take much to invalidate it. However, if the bears can continue to hold the line at 1850 on any further breakout attempts and then push the weekly chart to a close below 1780, the S&P could lose an additional 75 points - in a hurry.
An Aging Bull: Although this one isn't particularly new, another argument coming out of the bear camp involves the number of candles on the current bull market's birthday cake.
Some investors contend that the current bull market began on March 10, 2009, the day that Jaime Dimon stood in front of reporters and said something to the effect of "You guys know we're making money, right?" Since that time, the S&P 500 has gained 173 percent. Wow.
And in just eight trading days, the bull market will celebrate its 5th birthday.
The problem, as far as the bears are concerned, is that the median bull market seen since 1900 has gained a little over 69 percent over a period of about twenty months. So...
See also: How To Identify A Stock-Picker's Market
Other analysts argue that the difficulty seen in the summer of 2011 qualified as a bear market. The S&P 500 lost just about 19.5 percent over a period of three and one-quarter months as investors fretted about Europe and the fact that the debt rating of the United States had been dropped below 'AAA' by Standard & Poors.
Assuming that the last bear market ended on October 3, 2011, that means that the current bull market is about 28 months old and has produced a gain of 68.2 percent. So, with the percent gain of the current bull right at the median seen over the past 113 years and the duration more than eight months longer than the median, we can see how some may consider this to be an aging bull market.
The 1929 Chart Parallel: You have likely seen this already, and the pattern may be broken by now, but Tom DeMark has been making a big deal about the parallels seen on a current chart of the Dow Jones Industrial Average (NYSE:DIA) with that of 1929. Below is a copy of the chart published by Mark Hulbert on MarketWatch. Of course, the bears are all over this one. See for yourself.
Slowing Growth: Yet another complaint from the market's nattering nabobs of negativity is the fact that economic growth is clearly slowing in places like China (NYSE:FXI), which is the world's second most important economy. Granted, the growth rate in China is still expected to be 7 percent or so in 2014. However, this is a far cry from the growth rates seen over the last few years.
Then there is the state of the economy in the good 'ol US of A. Even the most ardent bull will have difficulty denying that there have been bushel barrels full of punk economic data flowing in since December, when the weather first turned ugly for much of the nation. And while our heroes in horns have dismissed each and every weak report by "blaming it on the weather," there are those who believe that there has been some actual weakness in many of these reports.
Inflation Percolating: I know what you're thinking, "Inflation, seriously?" Although there aren't any signs that inflation is about to overheat, the bears suggest that the rate of inflation has nowhere to go but up. And since the stock market has historically performed poorly when inflation is on the rise, the bears tell us that this could be a problem that sneaks up on investors this year.
Quality of Earnings: While earnings for the S&P 500 are expected to hit record highs again this year, our bearish buddies contend that the quality of those earnings numbers is suspect. The argument here is that revenues aren't expanding as fast as the EPS numbers and thus, the great numbers are being artificially manufactured by cost cutting and share buybacks. And this scenario, we're told, can't continue forever.
So there you have it... a bevy of bearish inputs to brighten your morning. And from my perch, this laundry list is the reason the bears have been able to defend their turf lately.
However, before you get too depressed, there is one more chart you may want to consider. See below.
NASDAQ Weekly
While the bears may have issues with the action on the S&P 500, the chart of the NASDAQ (NYSE:QQQ) appears to be doing just fine, thank you. And yes, there is a fair amount of talk about a new bubble forming in the NASDAQ. However, those that failed to see the technology and housing bubbles are the same folks looking for a bubble now. I'm just saying...
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Absent from the stage and on a self-declared "indefinite hiatus" since May 2019, Turnpike Troubadours — a band known as much for its volatility as for its literary songs and stomping melodies — have hit the most-anticipated reset button in Americana music. The group will headline the venerable Red Rocks Amphitheatre outside of Denver on May 14.
The concert is part of a full-fledged return. Expect more shows — including possible appearances ahead of the Red Rocks date (tickets go on sale Friday, Dec. 3.) — and album news as the Oklahoma six-piece knocks off the dust. During an exclusive, full-band Zoom interview with Rolling Stone, the members were quick to emphasize that they have missed simply being the Turnpike Troubadours.
"There's a thing that happens when you've worked with someone for a long time that's just magic," Evan Felker, the band's front man and songwriter, says. "The chemistry that we have, and being able to play off of each other without speaking or anything like that, it's an amazing little phenomenon. And it happens for three or four minutes at a time, and I'm very appreciative of things like that now."
Arriving at that appreciation, not just for Felker but the entire band, took three years of patience, uncertainty, and self-reflection. For nearly a year, the band played into a headwind of tabloid headlines and social media chaos focused on Felker's personal life and a series of abrupt, high-profile concert cancellations that left fans and venues alike seeking answers. In the time since that 2019 pause, each member found opportunities to move on to something new, but not one gave up on Turnpike.
"We're ready to get back to playing shows," Ryan Engleman, lead guitarist, says.
Adds fiddle player Kyle Nix: "We're getting the band back together!"
The Turnpike Troubadours are Felker, Nix, Engleman, R.C. Edwards on bass, Gabe Pearson on drums, and Hank Early on steel guitar and accordion. Founded in 2005 and touting four official albums, Turnpike rocketed from Oklahoma's Red Dirt scene to the pinnacle of Americana music while taking delight in remaining independent.
I came into Turnpike's orbit when all that unraveled. The last documented instance of the full band sitting for an interview, pre-hiatus, came in fall 2018, when they discussed their music with me for the book Red Dirt: Roots Music Born in Oklahoma, Raised in Texas, at Home Anywhere. A few weeks before the book's release in August 2020, Felker called. Since that interview, and the band's hiatus, Felker needed me to know he had changed. He had become sober. He had married his wife, Staci, for the second time. He had gone off the grid, spending his days working on a ranch in Southeast Texas. I rewrote Turnpike's portion of the book, and Rolling Stone excerpted Felker's phone interview.
Since then, Evan and Staci welcomed a daughter, Evangelina Hartford Felker, in January 2021, and he contributed to a virtual fundraiser for the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation organized by his friend and Old 97's front man Rhett Miller in October.
"Having Evan on the CF benefit sure was a sweet thing," Miller tells Rolling Stone. "He had done this with me a few years back, in the Before Times, live and in person, and I had a feeling that asking him to sit down and sing a couple of songs while Staci filmed him would be an easy first step back into the public eye. He did great."
After that, it seemed fitting to bookend my Turnpike chronicles with the new group interview. As it played out, each member said they stayed content, musically and personally, during the hiatus.
Nix was the most visible. He recorded and released Lightning on the Mountain & Other Short Stories, a full-length solo album featuring, as he puts it, "An assortment of story songs, and a hoedown to top it off," in June 2020. Nix wrote 15 of the album's 17 tracks, and most members of Turnpike contributed. He formed and toured with his own band, the 38's, which features Pearson on drums. For our Zoom chat, he pulled into a rest stop en route to a headlining show.
"I really just dove head-first into creating as much as I could," Nix says. "It was a therapeutic outlet. That was all I wanted to do, and all I needed to do since we weren't out on the road. But then you throw Covid in, and it was pretty tough… I fell into some rough times, started drinking a little too much. I finally had to pull my ass out of the mud and get my head straight and sober up.
"Creating has been therapy for me, trying to get better as a fiddle player, musician and songwriter," he continues. "And getting back on the road with my band has really helped. I didn't realize how much I actually missed it."
In addition to playing drums for Nix, Pearson spent the hiatus and pandemic working toward a degree from Southeastern Oklahoma State University.
"I went back to college in fall of 2019, and I'm getting close to finishing my bachelor's degree," Pearson says. "Then Kyle called me, and we've toured since the start of this summer with his band, so it's been 'go to school and play music' all day, every day for me."
Edwards, like Nix, spent the hiatus fronting another band. RC and the Ambers has always been a side project for Edwards, but he toured heavily with the group since 2019, headlining in and around his hometown of Tahlequah, Oklahoma, and finding prime spots at festivals such as the 2020 and 2021 installments of Mile 0 Fest in Key West, Florida.
"It's been really fun spending a little more time, making a record for that project, and putting it all together a little more than it was before," Edwards says. "It's more organized now, and I'm happy with it, but at the same time I'm looking forward to getting back and doing [Turnpike] again."
The record mentioned was Big Country, released in September. Early produced it in his home studio in Tahlequah, part of his immersion in the region's music scene, with a major life event to cap it off: He got married.
"I moved to Tahlequah about a year before we went on hiatus," Early says "So, I've enjoyed kind of dipping my toes in the Tulsa music scene. I've gotten to play with a lot of really cool people up there. And I've spent a lot of time in my home studio. I built it out a bit, and have produced a few records for people, start to finish, right here. R.C.'s was the first, but I've done four or five projects since then. I'd never done any of that before, so it was all a new experience."
The dust had barely settled on Turnpike's 2019 break when Reckless Kelly needed a guitar player to replace David Abeyta, who left the band after 19 years as part of Willy and Cody Braun's Idaho-to-Austin roots-rock outfit. Engleman accepted and toured with Reckless for the final third of 2019, starting with an appearance at Reckless's Braun Brothers Reunion festival in Challis, Idaho. He planned to stay on the road in 2020, when the band intended to tour behind their double album American Jackpot/American Girls, but the pandemic shelved that. When Reckless finally returned to touring in summer 2021, Engleman passed on his invitation (which led to Austin pedal-steel mainstay Geoff Queen joining the band).
"I was pretty fortunate to get picked up by Reckless," Engleman says. "Those guys were great, and the amount of learning from a musical standpoint was pretty awesome. It was a lot, learning to cut back-and-forth between what I would do and what David did. It was really great, rolling along, and then Covid hit, and Reckless shut down."
Willy Braun is the front man and primary songwriter for Reckless Kelly — who, along with Shovels & Rope, will join Turnpike on the May 14 bill at Red Rocks. He said Engleman's personality made touring easy for Reckless after Abeyta's departure.
"Nobody was going to play like David, so Ryan was really perfect," Braun tells Rolling Stone. "He's a versatile player who can rock out and play bluegrass, and offstage he is a really great hang. And that's almost a bigger piece of the puzzle than being a great player, when you're on the road a hundred days with someone."
Engleman ended up spending the bulk of 2020 as a pandemic parent to his son, JR, currently just shy of 8 years old, and scratching a fishing itch.
"I hadn't really been home since my kid was born," Engleman says. "His school shut down, and we were trying to home-school like everybody, and it was a lot of strife for a while. But we kind of learned to live in that environment. Reckless called in February, and said, 'OK, we're ready to go if you are,' and I was so conflicted about it, but eventually told them I wanted a bit more time for myself while I had it."
Taking time for themselves was important to all of the members, but none more so than Felker.
After shifting so far out of the spotlight as to be nearly impossible to find, reconciling his marriage, getting sober, and becoming a parent, the cop-out would be to note that none of the band underwent more changes than Felker. But, typical of the contemplative front man, there's more to it than that.
A wordsmith as a songwriter — the ease with which Felker shifts between the cut-with-a-blade introspection of, say, Jason Isbell, and the whimsical pontification of, say, Todd Snider, lends a range to Turnpike's catalog that is unique even in Americana — Felker is also direct in conversation. When discussing his recent past and Turnpike's future, he does so with sincerity and charisma, noting that "well-rounded" is a better way to describe him now than any before-and-after portrait would be.
"I have not been traveling. I stayed in one spot for about the past three years," Felker says. "I head back up to Oklahoma to visit my family, and then I go back. I really did the opposite of the rest of these guys. I focused so much on my art and my creativity for so long that I let everything else slide.
"But I found sobriety and recovery, and that was the greatest thing that ever happened to me. I'm coming up on two years, completely sober and out of recovery. And a few days after that will be my daughter's first birthday, so it's all a big one," he says. "I've learned so much about how my life was not well-rounded. I mean I knew that. I knew that it was just one thing. It started out just being music, and then eventually it was just drinking, and that was it for me."
According to Felker, the only way he could envision a life leading a barnstorming Americana band again was if he could first create a life as far away from it as he could get.
"There were a lot of things, when I was stuck in a room in a rehab facility, that I thought I really am going to put some time into. I wanted to be a decent carpenter, or just pie-in-the-sky things like training cattle horses and stuff. Now, I'm really able to do all that! I've learned more than ever, this cowboying stuff has changed my life drastically.
"I'm really, really happy with the things I get to spend my time on now," he continues. "I love music still, but it was time to spend a year or two and catch back up, because the person I presented myself to be — and who I thought I was — was lacking in some areas. Now, I feel like myself, and I'm proud of what I'm capable of doing. It's a nice feeling, it truly is."
Miller, who notably filled his solo and Old 97's catalogs with hard-drinking tunes before sobering up himself, can not only relate, but also offers some insight into what Felker may expect when he is behind a microphone again.
"Speaking from personal experience, it's a weird thing re-entering the world of music as a sober person," Miller says. "Most of us who wind up having problems with booze or whatever get to that point because we are using substances as a crutch to help us deal with the pressures of the job. Those pressures don't go away once we sober up, but we discover that there are healthy ways to deal with them. And guess what? Those healthy ways wind up being a lot more effective than just drowning our insecurities in booze. I love Evan like a brother and he knows that I will always have his back. I'm also a Turnpike fan and am so glad that they're going to be back together again."
Felker, for his part, also recognizes the life he currently lives is conducive to raising his daughter — Evie for short — alongside Staci.
"Being a parent, so far, for me — especially since I'm in one spot all the time; in the past year, I've probably been away from my daughter maybe 10 or 12 nights, of her entire life — is easy to do, if you're around," Felker says. "It would be trickier if I was gone a lot more. That said, Staci still has to take up all the slack. But most of what I do is around the house. I spend my time within a mile of home every day, so I always feel like I'm close."
"For 10 years, I was in a bar every night. If you expose yourself to that long enough, you're going to wind up needing some help. I know I did."
When Turnpike returns to the road, fans should expect a more measured approach to tours than the "any gig, any time" outlook the band adhered to for a decade. They'll certainly aim to find as much time at home as they find under spotlights.
"We have to keep things well-rounded," Felker says. "Life has to have some sort of balance, otherwise it'll spin off into outer space. We were in the bars — for 10 years, I was in a bar every night. If you expose yourself to that long enough, you're going to wind up needing some help. I know I did. I don't miss it. I don't miss that. I miss playing music, don't get me wrong, but I don't miss being drunk and telling the same stories over and over again, not at all."
To facilitate such a balance, the band has turned to New York-based TMWRK management, which gained industry notoriety managing DJ and EDM artists such as Diplo and Cashmere Cat. But the simple act of assembling a team first meant bringing the group's six members back into the fold.
That happened in mid-November, when an afternoon of raucous laughter cut right through the hiatus and marked a fresh start for six people who, it turns out, really enjoy hanging out with one another.
"We all got together last week, and I don't know that I've ever had that good of a time in that little space of time," Engleman says. "Just giggling and cracking jokes, and seeing people you love for the first time in two, three years. Everybody's happy and having a good time."
If fans anticipated a drawn-out, detailed end to this chapter, the camaraderie won out.
"It all really did just fall into place again," Nix says. "We didn't miss a beat. It's funny how that works."
Since hitting pause, Turnpike have hung over the worlds of Red Dirt and Texas music like a haze. Festivals they would normally headline went on without the band. And while it's true the pandemic likely delayed this comeback, the fact remains that the genre will have gone nearly three years without the band when it hits the stage again.
According to Departed front man Cody Canada, one of few Red Dirt artists to have experienced heights similar to those of Turnpike Troubadours (when he fronted Cross Canadian Ragweed) and turmoil similar to Turnpike's (when Ragweed publicly split in 2010), Red Dirt without the band has not felt the same.
"Turnpike is very important to Red Dirt for one reason: They're a great band with intelligent writing," Canada tells Rolling Stone. "There's no filler. No fodder. It's poetry in motion. It's music that makes you fall in love and dance. There's no gimmick."
For their part, the Turnpike Troubadours expect all of the above — the magic, the poetry and the connection — to fall into place the first time they face a crowd again.
"The energy of the crowd … I'm so excited to experience that again," Early says. "This rabid energy, to go out on the stage and have all that directed at you, it's amazing."
"I won't ever take another moment on stage for granted with those guys," Nix says. "On stage in general, it's such a blessing to be able to do something you love so much. To do it with guys that have been through everything together, I'll leave it all out there, for sure."
Felker recognizes that part of Turnpike being ready for their fans again also means embracing fans who never stopped being ready for Turnpike. He said he's looking forward to the spotlight, when it comes, and sharing it with his five bandmates.
"We're the same guys. We're not even that much older. In fact, in some ways we might be younger," Felker says. "We've also always had pretty neat chemistry with the crowd for the vast majority of our shows. And I do miss that, because that's not something you can really replicate in life. There's nothing else that gives you that."
Josh Crutchmer is the author of the book Red Dirt: Roots Music, Born in Oklahoma, Raised in Texas, at Home Anywhere (Back Lounge Publishing, 2020).


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"The Trump model of 'just deny and attempt to make these women out to be liars' is not very effective as a legal strategy in this day and age," said Washington attorney Joseph Cammarata, one of the lawyers who represented Paula Jones in her 1994 sexual harassment lawsuit against Bill Clinton—which ultimately resulted in the 42nd president's impeachment.
"You've got defamation claims available, courts that are receptive to claims against the president of the United States for unofficial business, and a skeptical public," Cammarata added. "The more you peel back the onion, the worse it gets. At some point there may be an opportunity to depose Mr. Trump, and he's going to have a tough time dealing with all this stuff."
Media lawyer Charles Glasser, meanwhile, said about the spicy melodrama involving the president and his minions: "This whole thing is a trough of slop, and every pig who thinks he's got a meal coming is running to the trough."
Radio shock jock Bubba Clem—the former best friend of Hulk Hogan who arranged to make the notorious hidden-camera video of the pro-wrestler having consensual sex with Clem's then-wife—inserted himself into the ongoing soap opera last Friday by recounting a 2007 interview with Daniels in which she discussed her fling with Trump.
Press secretary Sanders inadvertently raised the stakes to the presidential level, and reportedly displeased her boss, by revealing to a surprised White House press corps in the briefing room March 7 that a previously confidential arbitration proceeding—in which Team Cohen was trying to enforce the NDA, had been "won in the president's favor."
Among the entertaining cast of characters who've dined out on the salacious Trump-Stormy saga since Jan. 12, when The Wall Street Journal revealed Cohen's $130,000 hush-money payment to Clifford on behalf of the 45th president mere days before the 2016 election, none has supped more splendidly than Clifford's attorney Michael Avenatti.
The 47-year-old Los Angeles lawyer—a dashing race-car enthusiast and former Democratic political operative who has practically taken up residence on cable and network television programs in recent days—has clearly mastered the finer points of orchestrating a PR campaign for a client.
It was Avenatti, not the folks at 60 Minutes, who publicized Clifford's interview with CNN anchor Anderson Cooper, a regular contributor to the top-rated CBS magazine show.
Much to the annoyance of the 60 Minutes crew—who don't disclose stories in production until they are fully baked and scheduled for broadcast—Avenatti tweeted out a winsome photo of himself, Clifford, and Cooper, prompting a tempest of speculation about a broadcast TV bombshell set to explode in the president's face.
Four days after Avenatti's tweet, BuzzFeed published a story headlined, "Trump Lawyers Are Considering A Challenge To Stop '60 Minutes' From Airing A Stormy Daniels Interview"—an assertion apparently based entirely on an unnamed "person informed of the preparations," who was quoted by the website: "We understand from well-placed sources they are preparing to file for a legal injunction to prevent it from airing."
Asked about BuzzFeed's scoop, Avenatti emailed a response that dragged Trump into the fray while striking a tone of public spiritedness: "I certainly hope they think twice about this. It would be a sad day in our democracy were the President to authorize such a filing."
Asked point-blank if he was BuzzFeed's source, a supposition made by several people interviewed by The Daily Beast, Avenatti replied with an email—which he placed on background, not to be quoted directly—that expressed amusement at this theory but didn't confirm or deny it.
A spokesman for 60 Minutes declined to comment on reports that the Stormy Daniels segment—which is still being reported out and fact-checked—will air this coming Sunday.
As of Wednesday evening, Team Trump had filed no such lawsuit against CBS, and several prominent First Amendment lawyers told The Daily Beast that it would be pointless, and counterproductive, for Trump or Michael Cohen to do so.
"Even assuming the underlying NDA is upheld, that does not mean that it has any legal impact on CBS, let alone impact that would permit a prior restraint to be issued limiting its right to broadcast as it chooses," New York-based First Amendment lawyer Floyd Abrams told The Daily Beast. "So I think the likely impact of litigation will be a larger audience for 60 Minutes and greater dissemination of the very information the president and his lawyers seek to suppress."
Washington-based media lawyer Laura Handman agreed, saying that the legal precedent against prior restraint of journalists was firmly established by the Supreme Court in the Pentagon Papers case—a 1971 ruling that has yet to be successfully challenged.
"Any [prior restraint] argument that they would make to a judge would be universally held as facially unconstitutional walking in the door," Glasser said, adding that a lawyer filing such an action might risk court sanctions for a frivolous lawsuit.
Neither Michael Cohen nor his attorney, Lawrence S. Rosen, responded to The Daily Beast's requests for comment on BuzzFeed's report, which quickly gained sufficient traction to become fodder for a New York Times story— thinly sourced except for ubiquitous quotes from Avenatti—and late-night comedy.
"Why would Donald Trump be scared of a show whose logo is a ticking clock, slowly counting down the seconds until the time is up?" Stephen Colbert joked on Monday night's installment of the CBS Late Show.
Cammarata, meanwhile, said attorney Avenatti so far has had the upper hand.
"I think he's got them pinned back in a bad spot," Cammarata said. "I think his legal strategy has been superb."


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OnePlus 5 received the latest official Oxygen OS 4.5.7 OTA firmware update. OnePlus has recently rolled out the official Oxygen OS 4.5.7 for OnePlus 5 variants. This new firmware update comes with a couple of new features like multiple optimizations, Improved WiFi Connectivity, Standby battery enhancements, many bug fixes, the most desired feature EIS (Electronic Image Stabilization ) has been added to the 4K video recorder and much more.
Also, this firmware version comes with 1st July security patch to fix regular bugs and improve the performance of your device. OnePlus has rolled out this latest official update via OTA to all OnePlus 5 users in a phase-wise manner which means not all users can get the Oxygen OS 4.5.7 at the same time. If the official update has not yet reached in your region and you are not on the train to wait for the update then still you can install it manually by following this simple step by step guide.
OnePlus 5 comes with 5.5-inch Optic AMOLED display with a screen resolution of 1440 x 2560 pixels protected by Corning Gorilla Glass 5. This smartphone is powered by Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 processor clubbed along with 6GB or 8GB RAM and 64/128 GB ROM. Not necessary but it is better to take a full backup of all your valuable data before proceeding. If you are interested in installing the Oxygen OS 4.5.7 OTA update on your OnePlus 5 smartphone then go ahead and follow the given steps.
This guide containing the rooted and cleaned Oxygen OS 4.5.7 Update can be used for the OnePlus 5 devices only. Do not try to install this firmware on any other device or incorrect variant. It is recommended to check the model number of your device first.
- Create a proper backup of all your existing data and settings on the phone before proceeding to the installation guide using a recommended custom recovery.
- Enable USB Debugging Mode on the OnePlus 5 by navigating to Settings > Developer Options.
- Verify that you've properly installed the OnePlus 5 USB Drivers on the PC.
- Your device should be rooted with the latest version of a custom recovery like CWM or TWRP installed.
- The bootloader of your OnePlus 5 must be unlocked.
- Make sure that the battery level of the device is above 80% before going ahead.
Required Files:
- Download Oxygen OS 4.5.7 Official Update
- Download Oxygen OS 4.5.7 Full ROM
How To Update OnePlus 5 To Oxygen OS 4.5.7 OTA Official Firmware:
Step No 1: First, setup ADB and Fastboot on your PC.
Step No 2: Download the Oxygen OS 4.5.7 official file on the desktop of your PC from the above given link and rename it to ota.zip
Step No 3: Next, Enable USB Debugging on your Oneplus 5 by navigating to Setting > Developer Options.
Step No 4: Connect your OnePlus 5 with your PC/laptop.
Step No 5: Open the folder where you have placed the downloaded OTA.zip file and open command windows within the folder.
Step No 6: Type the following command and hit Enter to reboot your phone into Recovery Mode.
adb reboot recovery
Step No 7: Select the "Install from USB" option in Recovery Mode.
Step No 8: Type the following command and hit Enter.
adb sideloaded ota.zip
9: The installation process will be initiated, so wait for the installation process to be completed. Once the process is finished, select reboot from the main Recovery Menu.
Done! You have successfully installed the OxygenOS 4.5.7 update on OnePlus 5.


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From Liberty University: In response to the growing financial strain that college costs are putting on today's graduates, Liberty University has announced that it is freezing its tuition rates. Residential students in the 2019-20 academic year will enjoy the same value in tuition and room and board costs as they did in 2018-19.The decision marks the first time in 10 years that Liberty has been able to freeze rates, a rare action for private colleges and universities.President Jerry Falwell said Liberty will continue to offer innovative financial solutions and packages to help students receive the education they want without the extra financial burden."The impact of freezing tuition, combined with the new Middle America Scholarship, is a major increase in financial support for our students," he said. "We understand how challenging it can be to pay for college. We want our students and their families to be able to focus more on education and less on making ends meet, and we've taken several steps to make that happen."
The new Middle America Scholarship is helping students from middle-income families who typically earn between $35,000 and $95,000 per year. Students with an expected family contribution from the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) that is 1-18,000 will receive the scholarship to bring them up to the equivalent of the full Federal Pell Grant amount each year, and when combined with the Liberty Champion scholarship, the value will be up to $5,095.
"For eligible students, if the federal government does not award them a full Pell Grant, Liberty is paying the difference," said Robert Ritz, executive vice president of finance. "This program is designed for new resident undergraduate students beginning in the fall of 2019."
Also starting next fall, Liberty will increase its investment in a scholarship program that will aid students from the local area. The Stay Close, Go Far Promise Scholarship program, sponsored and funded by the nonprofit Lynchburg Beacon of Hope, is the first local initiative of its kind in Virginia. The program pledges to invest up to $8,000 per local student (those who attended a Lynchburg City School from the ninth to 12th grades) over four years to go toward tuition at a partnering higher education institution. Liberty is one of the six colleges and universities to take part, but it's going a step further by providing an additional $8,000 to help with the cost of meal plans. Through Liberty and Lynchburg Beacon of Hope, eligible high school graduates can receive up to $16,000 in scholarship aid over four years at Liberty. For more scholarships for Virginia residents, visit the admissions website.
Liberty's online undergraduate students are also seeing more financial assistance. Liberty is providing digital textbooks and instructional materials to undergraduate students in its online program free of charge. This affects more than 700 courses, saving students up to $975 per year. Across the university's online program, total savings could exceed $12.2 million.
Additional discounts and scholarships are also being made available to members of the military and first responders. Visit Liberty.edu/Scholarships for more information.


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Here's a building for sale on Lander Street in need of a complete gut rehab. This is not a project for a first time DIYer. There are floors and walls collapsing. Most likely the home will need to come down to the studs. However, there are a few original details that can probably be salvaged, few may they be. Next door a pocket park has been started and other properties are being rehabilitated. It is located just one block away from Broadway. Like all of Newburgh – so much potential if you can see past the decay.
44-46 Lander St Newburgh NY (Eileen Daly, BH&G)
Asking Price: $14,000
Year Built: 1900
Size: 1,266 sq ft
Neighborhood: NoBro
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Distance to NYC: 58.1 mi, 1 hour 9 mins
Public Transportation: MetroNorth to Beacon, then take ferry across
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Coast to Coast Development on the Southeast Peninsula
ST. KITTS, JANUARY 4TH 2011 (CUOPM) – Describing the new decade as very promising, St. Kitts and Nevis Prime Minister Hon. Dr. Denzil L. Douglas called on nationals to take advantage of every opportunity provided in the economy to realize the goals that are within reach.
He told the Nation that plans and activities outlined, is not on a shelf in a Government Department, but many of the projects and initiatives are ongoing.
"Christophe Harbour and Coast to Coast Development are already happening; Kittitian Hill and Beaumont Park are already happening; Marriott Vacation Club, Silver Reef, Ocean's Edge and Sunrise Villas are already happening. The construction and sale of residences at Beacon Heights, Dewar's Estate and Buckley's are ongoing. The geothermal energy project is already happening. Wind energy production is already happening. Hence, I am not pointing you to a "pie in the sky," said Prime Minister Douglas.
He invited nationals and residents of St. Kitts and Nevis to embrace the vision for change and progress "outlined and to reach for the prize that is before us."
Prime Minister Douglas asked nationals to look to the future with hope and optimism.
"I urge you to set ambitious goals as citizens of our Federation and to take advantage of every opportunity provided in the economy to realize these goals. I also urge you to embrace and adopt the national vision as your very own," said Dr. Douglas who expressed confidence that through united efforts "we will march steadfastly to that new society we are creating here in St. Kitts and Nevis."
Sandy Bank Beach Club under construction as part of the Christophe Harbour Development
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Throughout 2016 Russia made frequent headlines on most global news sites. This infamy was a result of Russia's aggressive foreign policies. In addition to its belligerent actions in Ukraine which started in 2014, Russia's image as an aggressor was further enhanced by its increasing involvement in Syria, and partly by its involvement in European and later American politics.
To an untrained eye Russia appears to have become a global superpower, a force to be reckoned with. The country is led by a strongman with domestic approval ratings consistently over 80%. Mr. Putin's government can annex other countries' territories despite the rest of the world's disapproval (Crimea), stage covert or not so covert cyber-attacks on other states (Estonia in 2007, the US during the 2016 presidential campaign), fight hybrid wars in Europe's backyard (Ukraine's Donbas region), violate NATO airspace (the Baltic States throughout 2016), wage information wars with the outside world (media propaganda in the EU and beyond), or engage in more traditional warfare on behalf of belligerent leaders in places far away from home (Syria). But even such "superpowers" have to deal with large scale challenges abroad and at home, as aggressive foreign policies don't come without serious consequences. The Western democracies have experienced serious setbacks over the 2016, practically guaranteeing that 2017 will be a turbulent one for the US and the EU, but it doesn't mean that life will be easier for Putin's Russia in the coming year.
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Lens Thickness
Distance or short sight
The simplest form of spectacles is the single-vision lens, made to a single prescription to correct a particular eyesight problem.
Concave lenses, designed to correct short sight, are generally thinner in the centre than they are at the edge.
Convex lenses, designed to correct long sight, are usually thinner at the edge than at the centre.
The curvature of the lens, its thickness and weight will depend on the amount of long or short sight it is designed to correct.
The lens material will also influence the thickness and weight of your lenses, as will the size and shape of the spectacle frame you choose. Most lenses are now lightweight plastic and there is a wide range of materials available to suit your prescription and lifestyle.
There are three factors that influence lens thickness:
- The material used to make the lens
- Your prescription applied to the lens
- The frame size that the lens is going to fit
Choosing the optimum lens for your glasses is thus a complicated matter.
We give a little guidance to help you choose lens thicknesses for your prescription and we check your lens choice before we make your glasses. We will contact you if we feel that the lens you have chosen will not make perfect glasses.
This will mostly happen if either the sphere or cylinder of your prescription exceeds +- 4.00 but can occur at lower prescriptions. If the change required to your order is not significant, we will try to absorb the cost. In all cases we will e-mail you and let you know so you can decide if you want to proceed.
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We offer lenses from a standard index of 1.5 through to ultra-thin index of 1.74. As a guide, and based on a standard plastic frame, we would suggest selecting the index below.
If you have a thin metal frame, to make your glasses look their best, we would suggest selecting a higher index lens.
- 1.5 index, if the sphere of your prescription is below +/- 2.50D
- 1.6 Index, (25% thinner and lighter) if your sphere is between +/- 2.50D to 5.00D
- 1.67 Index, (33% thinner and lighter) if your sphere is between +/- 5.00D to 7.00D
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Worst decision ever.
First, I waited too long, hitting the road around 8 a.m. I also failed to recharge my phone and Garmin, which died a half mile short of home. The portion of the trail that I chose had a significant detour, which just threw off my mojo. I wasn't properly rested or hydrated, but thought I'd just shuffle through the miles. But I wore the T-shirt I won from Kim's blog, so at least I looked bad ass.
I ended up laying out on someone's driveway in hopes that a break would help. I eventually gave up on trying to keep pace and switched to survival mode, running and walking to get home. There was a downpour for the last mile, so I ended up a soaked, soggy mess.
I feel discouraged, but keep trying to remember that one bad run doesn't make a bad runner.
Just looking at me exhausted Napoleon, who claimed all of our couch pillows in the name of France. He looks so cute post groomer that I didn't have the heart to snatch back a few of the pillows to prop up my legs.
I hope my race Tuesday morning goes better. I signed up for, the I Run Because ___ 5K, a free race put together by Lululemon near my work. I hope they give away some gear, because I love their stuff but am too cheap to actually buy it (remember the $100 running top I lusted over? Didn't buy it). Any freebies will gladly join the free yoga mat I scored there last November.