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If you're anything like the average New Year's Resolution-setter, you've probably already declared that 2012 will be your year. And that means different things to different people. It might be the year you pay off your credit cards, fit back into your "skinny" clothes, or finally take that dream vacation you've been eyeing.
Given the volatility of the real estate market over the last few years, my guess is that more than a few of you are also considering including real estate resolutions on the short list of things you want to take care of over the next 12 months.
Whether your stage of life renders you more interested in buying, selling, getting right side up - consider adding one of these real estate resolutions to your list:
1. Buyer Resolution: fix up your financials and buy a home. It's no secret that the mortgage lending world is tough out there. But don't let that stop you from buying a home in 2012. The name of the game is to prepare, prepare, prepare.
In particular:
- Pull your papers together: Spend January gathering up: your past two years' federal tax returns and W-2s; your last two months' pay stubs; and statements from bank and other asset accounts, like retirement accounts and investment accounts. You might also find it handy to have marriage and divorce certificates on hand, as well as the statements from any credit, auto or student loan accounts you hold.
- Also, start keeping a running file to collect and keep handy new stubs and statements throughout the year; when you find your dream home, your lender will ask you to refresh your application with the latest versions.
- Compile your cash to close: If you're serious about buying a home this year, you've probably already started saving up - or at least know where and how you plan to access your down payment funds. Early this year, meet up with your real estate and mortgage brokers and do a double-check on how much cash you'll need for your down payment and closing costs to buy the sort of home you're looking for in a location you'd like.
- Also, touch base with your team on timing matters around any gift money or money from your own retirement accounts that you plan to use toward your purchase. You might need some lead time in order to draw your own funds, specific documentation of where the monies came from, or a couple of months for the money to sit and 'season' in your own accounts before the lender will greenlight the deal; the best practice is to make yourself aware of any such requirements as soon as possible.
- Have your mortgage pro run your credit report. Again, if you're planning to buy this year, chances are good you've already pulled your own reports from the three bureaus. But as you move down the home buying timeline, it's imperative to get your mortgage broker or banker to pull their versions of your reports, as that what the lender will go by.
This is another task you should check off your to-do list sooner rather than later. If by chance an error or issue does arise, you'll need some time to remediate your report, whether by paying off that mystery collection, disputing an erroneous ding on your own or paying for your broker to obtain a Rapid Rescore.
2. Seller Resolution: Price it, spruce it and sell it. A too-high price is a sure-fire way to ensure your home lags on the market, causing you more anxiety and costing you more money as the days turn into weeks, months or even longer. Rather than testing the market, the end result of overpricing is usually that you end up receive no or lowball offers, or even resigning yourself to lowering the price below what you could have originally gotten, to offset the stigma of desperation buyers sense when a home has been on the market a long time.
Resolve to price your home right before it goes on the Multiple Listing Service. Study your local market, visit Open Houses similar to yours, look at as many recent comparable sales as possible, and talk to your agent in detail – talk to several agents, if that makes you more comfortable -- before landing on your home's list price. 2012 is going to be another competitive year for sellers, so manage your own urge to overprice in order to position your home to best the competition.
One more thing – given the intense level of competition among homes, curb appeal can go a long way to entice buyers to come and see your house. Of course, it behooves you to stage the inside too, but don't overlook outside upgrades like shrubbery, flowers and painting the exterior.
And before you worry about breaking the bank, use your agent as a resource to get insight into what local buyers want, aesthetically, these days. Chances are there are a few critical, inexpensive projects you can undertake to boost buyers' desire to come in and have a look around. Keep costs down by painting trims, doors, eaves and focusing on landscaping, and using your repair budget on small fixes like driveway cracks and fallen shutters.
3. Owner Resolution: Get right-side up. Over 25 percent of Americans who have a mortgage owe more than their home is currently worth. While getting right-side up, so to speak, is certainly easier said than done, it's not impossible (especially if you include getting your payments lowered in your definition of right-side up).
2012 might be your year to:
- take advantage of newly expanded federal underwater refinance programs like the Home Affordable Refinance Program (HARP 2) and Hardest Hit Funds (if you live in one of the states on this list);
- get assertive about getting a loan modification – even if you've been rejected before, and even if you have to get help from a non-profit credit counseling organization or a program like NACA's Home Save program;
- get a second job or rent out a room to catch up on payments or pay down your balance or, if all else fails;
- put your home on the market, listing it as a short sale.
Keep in mind that the federal income tax exemption on mortgage debt that is forgiven through a foreclosure or short sale is currently set to expire on December 31st of this year, but banks are taking around 2 years after the first missed payment, on average, to foreclose on homes. If you list your home as a short sale with an experienced short sale agent, stat, you have a better chance of avoiding the potentially massive income tax implications of offloading your upside down home than you do if you just stop making the payments and walk away from it!
Talk with a local agent with a their track record of closing short sales, and with a local attorney and CPA before you make this move.
4. Renter Resolution: Make the rent vs. buy decision and start saving, if you decide to buy. Depending on where you live, it might actually be cheaper to own a home than to rent it! Mortgage rates hit record lows last month (below 4% for a 30-year-fixed!), and there are tons of homes on the market, tilting the supply-demand imbalance in buyers' favor. If you live in an area with a strong buyer's market and think you might be ready to commit to homeownership, this is exactly the right time to start getting serious about making the decision whether to proceed down the path to home ownership.
It can take months – even years – to save enough cash to buy a home, not to mention the many moons it takes today's buyers to find and buy a home. So, if you do decide to buy, you'd be wise to start your saving up for a down payment now to maximize your chances of getting into the market while home prices are still relatively low (even if that is a year or more down the road).
In that vein, look for spending cuts you can make that will enable you to save as much as possible each month until you reach your goal. Take on extra work, if you can, to stash more cash in your savings account. And consider setting up a separate savings account called "Home" where you can watch it grow and stay inspired to keep moving toward your goal.
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Chris Carmichael, personal coach to Lance Armstrong and founder of Carmichael Training Systems, today officially launched Chris Carmichael's 10@50 . To celebrate Carmichael Training Systems 10th Anniversary and Chris's 50th birthday, he has decided to compete in La Ruta de los Conquistadores and offer a $10,000 package of race entry, 7 months of CTS coaching, 3 training camps, and full race support at La Ruta to 10 qualified athletes. To qualify, athletes must submit applications and commit to attending all three training camps, including one recon camp in Costa Rica.
La Ruta has earned a reputation for being the world's toughest mountain bike race. Held November 17-20, 2010, the 4-day race travels from Costa Rica's Pacific coast, through the mountains, to the Caribbean Sea. But the beauty of Costa Rica's rain forest belies the danger and adversity riders must face. Steep terrain, deep mud, deteriorated train trestles, and sweltering heat and humidity are just some of what riders need to conquer. Only about half who start reach the finish line.
Asked why he chose La Ruta, Chris commented, "The 10th Anniversary of CTS and my 50th birthday are significant milestones in my life. Some people buy cars or boats to celebrate; I choose to go complete the biggest physical and mental challenge I ve faced since preparing to race the Tour de France 24 years ago. When it comes to finding an authentic challenge, La Ruta is the real deal."
Chris's familiarity with La Ruta developed through long talks with 2009 La Ruta champion Manuel Prado, a CTS Athlete who works with coach Adam Pulford. Prado will play an instrumental role in the reconnaissance training camp in Costa Rica. When asked about his rationale for including 10 everyday athletes in his 10@50 challenge, Chris said, "In the lives many of us lead, we face stress from work, family, and even fitness goals, but we have few opportunities to truly discover how deep we can dig. La Ruta offers that, and the 10 people who come with me to Costa Rica will return with a new perspective on stress, adversity, and accomplishment."
The application process will have two phases. The initial phase is an online questionnaire available at www.surveymonkey.com/s/T6WNZQG. In the second phase, video submissions will be required from selected athletes. The application deadline for Phase 1 will be February 28, 2010. Finalists will be notified March 5th, and will need to submit a video application by March 26th. Final selection of the 10 athletes will take place by March 29. The 10@50 coaching program will commence on April 1.
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It is next to impossible to predict how rushing water is going to react when people start fiddling with a river. It takes time and usually a couple seasons of tweaking to build the perfect feature in a river. A feature that first and foremost is not dangerous but also delivers some kind of fun during both peak and low flows.
Sometimes, park designers hit a home run on their first try, like River Restorations did with the soon-to-be-famous Glenwood Springs wave. And sometimes, a hole becomes a raging boateater at high flows, like River Restoration's scary spawn on the Eagle River under the Bob Bridge in Avon. For a few weeks this season, kayakers and rafters alike were steering well clear – even portaging – this frowning menace.


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LONDON — No one ever tried to make a movie out of "The Female Eunuch" or "The Second Sex." But when London Times columnist Caitlin Moran published her autobiographical feminist manifesto "How to Be a Woman" this summer, it sparked a bidding war between the U.K.'s leading film companies.
Described by its publisher as "part memoir, part rant," "How to Be a Woman" draws on Moran's unconventional life experiences to put forward her own version of feminism, but with jokes.
This involves a frank and frequently hilarious discussion of issues, including pubic grooming, the naming of female body parts, the pleasures of masturbation, the horrors of childbirth, guilt-free abortion and the merits or otherwise of Lady Gaga and media personality Katie Price as role models.
Film4 topper Tessa Ross fended off a strong challenge from Eric Fellner at Working Title to snag the rights — not so much by offering vast amounts of cash (though Moran admits that helped), but by bribing her with cigarettes.
"Tessa is the kind of woman I love," Moran says. "She's brilliant, fierce, a proper feminist and a bit nuts. And when she took me to lunch at the Wolseley, she had a pack of (cigarettes) in her bag, even though she doesn't smoke, because she thought I might like one. That's what she had that the others didn't."
Moran is co-writing the script with her sister Caroline, with whom she has also written a sitcom pilot for Channel 4, titled "The Big Object."
Now 36, Moran was a teen prodigy, the eldest of eight children brought up by hippie parents with no money in a three-bedroom house in working-class Wolverhampton.
She left school at 11 to avoid being bullied for being, in her own words, "a freak," won a writing competition, published a novel at 15, became a music journalist, then a national newspaper columnist and TV presenter before she was 20. She has written for the London Times ever since, and was named critic of the year and interviewer of the year at the 2011 British Press Awards.
"How to Be a Woman" has sold 150,000 copies in the U.K., where many female readers greeted it with a rush of gratitude. Harper Collins will publish it next year in the U.S.
"I wasn't surprised by its success, because there was such a massive hole where something like this should be," Moran says. "Someone who says, 'Bollocks to all this, I'm just going to relax, take off these uncomfortable shoes, let my belly hang over the waistline of my trousers which I bought one size too small because that's what we do, flop down and tell you the truth about what's it's like to be a woman today.'?"
It's not obvious material for a movie, but Moran says the film will draw on her adulthood, while sitcom "The Big Object" will tackle her adolescence. "I'm Woody Allen-ish, in that all I can do is write about myself," she explains. "(The movie's) going to be about having the worst boyfriend ever, and how you dump him. There won't be characters called Caitlin and Caroline, but there will be a Caitlin Moran-style narrator, so you'll get the rants that way."
Ross allowed Moran to pick her own producer, so she went for Nira Park at Big Talk, the company behind "Attack the Block" and Edgar Wright's fanboy comedies. Big Talk has an overall deal with Studiocanal, which is co-developing "How to Be a Woman" with Film4. Moran is repped by her film and TV agent Rachel Holroyd at Casarotto Ramsay.
On the page and in person, Moran is a whirlwind of words, ideas and gags, which come tumbling out with little attempt at self-censorship.
She describes her decision to write a film as "a massive act of Wolverhampton revenge on behalf of womankind for all the shitty movies we've had to put up with for the past 30 years."
The success of the book is in danger of turning Moran into what she claims to dread — a celebrity. After her unhappy flirtation with TV presenting in her teens, she has resisted many offers to lure her back onto the smallscreen. "I don't want to be famous. I don't want to be recognizable. I just want to be a writer behind my desk."After bursting onto the media scene as a teenager, she says she spent five years in her 20s getting high, then the next five having babies, and it was only when her youngest daughter started school three years ago that she rediscovered her drive. Two days later, she sat down to start writing her sitcom, and she says she's worked at least six days a week ever since.
"Being very, very stoned, and then very, very tired, got in the way, but the minute you are stuck on your own for nine hours a day with a baby, you can't wait to go out to work and earn enough to pay someone else to look after them," she laughs.


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House Republican candidate fails to include military disclaimer in campaign literature
Apparently Republican House candidate Dave Pigott doesn't read the conservative blog Peak Politics or he'd know he was violating a Department of Defense rule by mentioning his military background without including a disclaimer.
Peak Politics has loved beating up on Democratic congressional candidate Brandon Shaffer for using pictures of himself in the Navy, but failing to add the disclaimer that use of the information doesn't mean a Department of Defense endorsement.
Pigott is running in House District 33 in Broomfield against former Rep. Dianne Primavera, a Democrat. A variety of campaign mailers and letters mention his military experience — the West Point graduate has served in Iraq and now is in the Colorado National Guard — but don't include any disclaimer.
Piggot today took responsibility for the omission, saying, "I design all of my mailers myself so it's definitely on me."


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Reports that Windows Phone 7 initially won't be available at launch on the Verizon Wireless network are hardly a surprise, given that all test units were assigned to AT&T. But now comes word that it might be awhile before Verizon Wireless users will be able to get their hands on Windows 7 Phones.
That's because, according to News.com's Ina Fried, Microsoft will need to create an upgrade to Windows Phone 7 to support CDMA networks. Both Verizon Wireless and Sprint's networks are CDMA-based while AT&T's and T-Mobile's networks are GSM-based.
How extensive that upgrade will be and when it will arrive is unclear, reports All About Microsoft's Mary Jo Foley but it appears Microsoft is targeting the first half of 2011.
If anything, Microsoft should have aimed to release WP7 on CDMA networks first, and then worry about GSM support. By not offering support for CDMA from the outset, it only gives Google's Android further opportunity to become entrenched on Verizon's network.
That might not be so terrible if Verizon didn't have the largest percentage of subscribers in the U.S. with a share of over 31 percent, according to comScore. Perhaps Verizon wanted no part of Microsoft after the Kin debacle? Or maybe Microsoft feels it's getting even with Verizon for heavily pushing Android phones.
Whatever the case, Microsoft should have endeavored with more priority to deliver Windows Phone 7 on Verizon's network at launch. If Microsoft wants to have any chance of slowing the momentum of Android, its phones need to be on Verizon's network and prominent among the carrier's dealers. It wouldn't hurt to have them available with Sprint as well.
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As some may, or may not know PUSH Green, a newly formed arm of PUSH Buffalo, has been created to:
1. Expand access to weatherization services across Erie County for all residents, regardless of income.
2. Work with homeowners who are interested in lowering their utility bills and making their home more comfortable through energy efficiency improvements like insulation and high-efficiency furnaces that help to reduce our region's energy usage
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Student pharmacists receive awards
KINGSVILLE, Texas — Students at the Texas A&M Health Science Center (TAMHSC) Irma Lerma Rangel College of Pharmacy received premier awards at the annual Texas Society of Health-System Pharmacists (TSHP) meeting April 26-28 in Austin.
Jesse Castillo from Fort Worth, Texas, and Martin Strait from Fairport, N.Y., both third-year student pharmacists, won first place against more than 70 teams in the Clinical Skills Competition. The competition included addressing a patient case with multiple health problems. The students were given two hours to address the case in writing, and on the second day the students defended their decision orally.
Madeline King, third-year student pharmacist from La Porte, Texas, won first place in the Disease State Management competition and Nola Finke, fourth-year student pharmacist from Bryan, Texas, received honorable mention. King and Finke were presented with a patient with a chronic illness. The students were given an agreement with a physician to adjust medications to help the patient. They counseled the patient and composed their response for judging.
TAMHSC-Rangel College of Pharmacy Student Society of Health-System Pharmacy (SSHP) had 29 students in attendance, 11 two-person teams participated in the Clinical Skills Competition and 10 individual students participated in the Disease State Management Competition. Twelve students presented a poster describing their research work. The Antibiotic Awareness and Immunizations Committee with the student chapter of SSHP was awarded the Innovation Award.
TSHP awarded scholarships to Castillo, King and Purvi Patel of Hamilton, Texas, all third-year student pharmacists.
The SSHP chapter president, Regina Roy, third-year student pharmacist of Dallas, was installed as chair of the Student Section Executive Committee (SSEC) of TSHP. Jacob George, second-year student pharmacist, and Justin Shanks, first-year student pharmacist, were also installed as members of the SSEC.
"Their efforts and successes definitely left a mark on the conference and made the Rangel College of Pharmacy shine," said Andrea Mora Luce, Pharm.D., assistant professor of pharmacy practice and co-adviser of SSHP chapter.
More than 50 students, alumni and friends listened to Indra K. Reddy, Ph.D., professor and founding dean, discuss college initiatives, successes and future developments at the alumni and friends reception Friday night at the conference.
The TSHP 2013 annual seminar, Moving Pharmacy Forward: A Capital Idea, was at the Renaissance Austin Hotel. The TAMHSC-Rangel College of Pharmacy had a booth throughout the conference, and a reception for alumni and friends. Students presented posters, participated in clinical skills and diseases state management competitions and attended presentations.
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No matter where your interests lie, you can have a lot of fun, and meet a lot of interesting people if you volunteer your services for community events. On Saturday, I had the privilege of being on the scene as various volunteers came together to prepare for the Moose Lake Area Music Festival Street Dance, Rebuilding Hope. Although the purpose was a fundraiser for the Flood Relief Fund, the secondary gains were many. This wonderful event offered the opportunity for a community and surrounding area residents to come together and enjoy a day of music, dancing, eating, having a beer, and most of all, visiting with one another.
The rousing music of the Chmielewski's encouraged people to get up and do the polka. There is nothing quite like polka music to get the body limber and your blood moving. It's also a cheerful sound that makes your feet tap and your fingers drum on tables. It sets a tone for the festivities to follow.
I think one of the most enjoyable parts of volunteering time is the chance to meet lots of people. I sat at one of the ticket tables for the opening hours of the Music festival. There were all kinds of participants who stepped up to buy admission tickets and tickets for the various raffles being held. Raffle items were donated by various businesses in the area. In my column next week, I will endeavor to list each of them and say, "Thanks for your generosity!" At this time, I do not have all their names, but I do know their generosity knows no bounds.
In my few hours of visiting with various people, it was evident that this day of community acknowledgement was appreciated by all. Attendees ranged in age from the very young, which raced and played on Elm Avenue, to an older, more sedate crowd who danced and visited at picnic tables.
Channels 3 and 6, were on hand, as well as Fox 21 News. Moose Lake Flood Manager Tom Paull was interviewed by the news crews as they filmed the event. Paull did an incredibly fine job of organizing this community event. On hand were city officials and numerous volunteers, ranging in age from teenagers to seniors.
Yes indeed, into the day's events a little rain did fall. But it did not dispel the mood of cheerful friendliness that was noticeable everywhere. Joe Jitter's and Moose Lake Florists remained open during the afternoon of the event.
From my seat at the ticket booth area, I was able to watch the music groups, the groups of people coming and going, and the children running and playing in the street.
It is an enjoyable experience to be part of this community celebration of renewal and recovery. During this past year, residents of Moose Lake and other area residents have worked hard to deal with the aftermath of the flood. Although not everything is back to ship-shape and normal, this community is well on its way to a brighter future. Moose Lake's celebration is one of the bright spots.


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Event Number 2710
Friday, November 2nd, 2012
- Physics Department Colloquium
- Anticipating sudden transitions in biological populations: Cooperation, cheating, and collapse
- Time: 3:30 pm
- Place: 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm)
- Speaker: Jeff Gore, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Abstract: Natural populations can suffer catastrophic collapse in response to small changes in environmental conditions, and recovery after such a collapse can be exceedingly difficult. We have used laboratory microbial ecosystems to study early warning signals of impending population collapse. Yeast cooperatively breakdown the sugar sucrose, meaning that below a critical size the population cannot sustain itself. We have demonstrated experimentally that changes in the fluctuations of the population size can serve as an early warning signal that the population is close to collapse. The cooperative nature of yeast growth on sucrose suggests that the population may be susceptible to cheater cells, which do not contribute to the public good and instead merely take advantage of the cooperative cells. We confirm this possibility experimentally and explore how such social parasitism can lead to population extinction.
- Host: Gilbert
- Poster: http://www.physics.wisc.edu/twap/posters/2012/2710.pdf
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Black Sea Watershed
In weeks and years past, each of us has argued on this page that Moscow was pursuing a policy of regime change toward Georgia and its pro-Western, democratically elected president, Mikheil Saakashvili. We predicted that, absent strong and unified Western diplomatic involvement, we were headed toward a war. Now, tragically, an escalation of violence in South Ossetia has culminated in a full-scale Russian invasion of Georgia. The West, and especially the United States, could have prevented this war. We have arrived at a watershed moment in the West's post-Cold War relations with Russia.
Exactly what happened in South Ossetia last week is unclear. Each side will argue its own version. But we know, without doubt, that Georgia was responding to repeated provocative attacks by South Ossetian separatists controlled and funded by Moscow. This is a not a war Georgia wanted; it believed that it was slowly gaining ground in South Ossetia through a strategy of soft power.
Whatever mistakes Tbilisi has made, they cannot justify Russia's actions. Moscow has invaded a neighbor, an illegal act of aggression that violates the U.N. Charter and fundamental principles of cooperation and security in Europe. Beginning a well-planned war (including cyber-warfare) as the Olympics were opening violates the ancient tradition of a truce to conflict during the Games. And Russia's willingness to create a war zone 25 miles from the Black Sea city of Sochi, where it is to host the Winter Games in 2014, hardly demonstrates its commitment to Olympic ideals. In contrast, Moscow's timing suggests that Putin seeks to overthrow Saakashvili well ahead of our elections, and thus avoid beginning relations with the next president on an overtly confrontational note.
Russia's goal is not simply, as it claims, restoring the status quo in South Ossetia. It wants regime change in Georgia. It has opened a second front in the other disputed Georgian territory, Abkhazia, just south of Sochi. But its greatest goal is to replace Saakashvili -- a man Vladimir Putin despises -- with a president who would be more subject to Moscow's influence. As Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt pointed out Saturday, Moscow's rationale for invading has parallels to the darkest chapters of Europe's history. Having issued passports to tens of thousands of Abkhazians and South Ossetians, Moscow now claims it must intervene to protect them -- a tactic reminiscent of one used by Nazi Germany at the start of World War II.
Moscow seeks to roll back democratic breakthroughs on its borders, to destroy any chance of further NATO or E.U. enlargement and to reestablish a sphere of hegemony over its neighbors. By trying to destroy a democratic, pro-Western Georgia, Moscow is sending a message that, in its part of the world, being close to Washington and the West does not pay.
This moment could well mark the end of an era in Europe during which realpolitik and spheres of influence were supposed to be replaced by new cooperative norms and a country's right to choose its own path. Hopes for a more liberal Russia under President Dmitry Medvedev will need to be reexamined. His justification for this invasion reads more like Brezhnev than Gorbachev. While no one wants a return to Cold War-style confrontation, Moscow's behavior poses a direct challenge to European and international order.
What can we do? First, Georgia deserves our solidarity and support. (Georgia has supported us; its more than 2,000 troops are the third-largest contingent in Iraq -- understandably those troops are being recalled.) We must get the fighting stopped and preserve Georgia's territorial integrity within its current international border. As soon as hostilities cease, there should be a major, coordinated transatlantic effort to help Tbilisi rebuild and recover.
Second, we should not pretend that Russia is a neutral peacekeeper in conflicts on its borders. Russia is part of the problem, not the solution. For too long, Moscow has used existing international mandates to pursue neo-imperial policies. We must disavow these mandates and insist on truly neutral international forces, under the United Nations, to monitor a future cease-fire and to mediate.
Third, we need to counter Russian pressure on its neighbors, especially Ukraine -- most likely the next target in Moscow's efforts to create a new sphere of hegemony. The United States and the European Union must be clear that Ukraine and Georgia will not be condemned to some kind of gray zone.
Finally, the United States and the European Union must make clear that this kind of aggression will affect our relations and Russia's standing in the West. While Western military intervention in Georgia is out of the question -- and no one wants a 21st-century version of the Cold War -- Moscow's actions cannot be ignored. There is a vast array of political, economic and other areas in which Russia's role and standing will have to be reexamined. Moscow must also be put on notice that its own prestige project -- the Sochi Olympics -- will be affected by its behavior.
Weak Western diplomacy and lack of transatlantic unity failed to prevent an avoidable war. Only strong transatlantic unity can stop this war and begin to repair the immense damage done. Otherwise, we can add one more issue to the growing list of this administration's foreign policy failures.
Ronald D. Asmus, a deputy assistant secretary of state in the Clinton administration, is executive director of the Brussels-based Transatlantic Center of the German Marshall Fund of the United States. Richard Holbrooke, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations in the Clinton administration, writes a monthly column for The Post.


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The Rise of Open Source 3-D Printers
The 3-D printing industry emerged from its 30-year slumber in 2012 as if it suddenly realized the snooze button had been pressed one too many times. To the cheers of investors, cheaper hardware has combined with versatile software to push 3-D printers into wider manufacturing applications, and to the door of the home office. Mr. Market has responded by sending share prices of 3D Systems and Stratasys skyward. But has all the enthusiasm caused you to overlook one key trend? Are you taking the market leader status of these two companies for granted?
The results from a study on household 3-D printer use conducted last May by DIY researchers Jarkko Moilanen and Tere Vadén may surprise some investors. Despite having only 358 respondents it is the most detailed study conducted to date. Moreover, it highlights one important trend for investors: open source will play a big role in the future of the industry.
Here's how printer use breaks down by manufacturer, which I've updated to reflect the furious pace of industry consolidation:
Here is the same graph broken down by manufacturer type:
This blindside-competition raises many questions, so let this serve as a crash course on open source 3-D printers.
What's the deal with open source?
Open source 3-D printers have cut out an important niche with DIY enthusiasts - and therefore household printers - thanks to the expiration of dozens of tightly held patents. The consolidation occurring within the industry is, in a way, the result of patent expiration, too.
Ah, patents. They're my saving grace, right?
It's more intricate than that. Many companies have fallen into the dustbin of history clasping massive IP portfolios. That being said, it appears that the leading open source printers are in the clear. The recent Kickstarter darling Formlabs, a stereolithography 3-D printing company, may not be so lucky. By now you are probably familiar with the company's bout with 3D Systems. Formlabs cites the following expired patents to defend itself:
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This list would seem to vindicate Formlabs if it wasn't for U.S. Patent No. 5,597,520, which references the 14 patents above, but doesn't expire until April 25, 2014. The pending lawsuit serves as a reminder that the impressive IP built and acquired by 3D Systems and Stratasys should not be taken lightly. Of course, the final decision must be made by a court.
Ok, so who is this RepRap you speak of?
RepRap is "humanity's first general-purpose self-replicating manufacturing machine." In other words, RepRap users are actually encouraged to print the parts needed to assemble and sell other RepRaps (functionality trumps aesthetics here). This is obviously not meant to be a profitable business model, but RepRap itself is not the direct threat to the current leaders' assumed dominance of the personal 3-D printer market.
Ultimaker and MakerBot, both spawned from the RepRap community, market Ferraris compared to their RepRap predecessors. They combine the open source ethos with sleek designs and leading functionality that has stumped even their deep-pocketed counterparts. In fact, Ultimaker won three Make Magazine awards: "Best Open Hardware," "Fastest," and "Most Accurate." By comparison, 3D Systems' Cube won one award for "Easiest to Use."
Think open source can't compete in industrial applications? In 2011 MakerBot enjoyed a sizable 21.6% market share for both industrial and home printers. The company's recently opened store in NYC aims to carve out a big chunk of the growing household market.
Can an open source business model really flourish?
That question has become a big concern of investors in recent years, but the success of open source software might provide some key insights. Consider this: In 2010 open source software made up 75% of the portfolios of the top 2,000 companies worldwide. That number is expected to leap to 99% by 2016.
The dominance of open source software - and emergence of open source 3-D printers - has been powered by the rising use of Linux. Red Hat , the top commercial Linux contributor and first $1 billion open source software company, has been the market's driving force in multiple arenas. For example, the company's partnership with Rackspace is pushing more and more cloud computing users to adopt open source projects - up to 64% in a recent survey. And, of course, everyone knows about Google which has built a $235 billion empire on the heels of its search engine. Big G's Android operating system (Linux-based) enjoys over 70% of the smartphone market.
Computers, the cloud, smartphones, and now 3-D printers are being transformed by selling products that flourish in the public domain. Simply put, open source makes your world better. So before you count out smaller 3-D printing companies like Ultimaker and Makerbot, just remember that a few short years ago we were using sites like AskJeeves and Lycos for searching the web. Google it if you don't believe me.
Foolish bottom line
Here at The Motley Fool, we believe it is Foolish to keep an eye on the competition. Ultimaker and MakerBot may be out of reach for the individual investor at the moment, but they are making plenty of noise. Are you keeping an open mind about the market leader status of 3D Systems and Stratasys?
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Tesla CEO Elon Musk may not admit it publicly, but right now he has to be laughing to himself.
During the final weeks of the presidential campaign, Republican nominee Mitt Romney called Tesla a "loser." Romney was lumping Tesla in with Solyndra, Fisker, A123 and lithium-ion cell maker Ener1.
All five received Department of Energy loans. Given the way Solyndra collapsed and Ener1 and A123 filed for bankruptcy, Romney was hammering President Obama on DOE loans and government getting involved with private companies.


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Certainly the most publicized and arguably one of the best video games to debut in 2010 thus far is that of Rockstar's Red Dead Redemption. Instead of stealing cars and wreaking havoc downtown Grand Theft Auto style, Rockstar's six years of development on Red Dead Redemption lets us jump into the old west to ride horses, hunt wildlife and track down your old gang members.
Gone are Uzis and Bazookas as we welcome six shooters and classic wooden rifles in the first game I'd label a real interactive cowboy simulator. Red Dead Redemption is possibly the most expensive video game ever made and you can see why while riding through the beautiful vast open world it takes us to. It features a story ripe for feature film adaptation and that's precisely what Brad Pitt plans to do.
According to Showbiz Spy, Brad Pitt is looking to adapt the Game of the Year contender into a movie although absolutely no details are present and they don't know much about the game what consoles it's on. We also don't know who has the rights to the project but their sources claim that Pitt is the favorite for the part and has been given first refusal rights. Take this is a big rumor.
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"The idea is to make this in the style of an epic Western movie but with a few modern touches."
While it's no surprise at all that Red Dead Redemption will get a movie made from it, it's interesting (and exciting) to see one of Hollywood's biggest names associated with it. With Jon Favreau working away on Cowboys and Aliens and the Coen Brothers' True Grit debuting this December, it looks like Westerns are making a bit of a comeback (Ignore Jonax Hex).
As we all know, video game movies always seem to end in an awful product but Red Dead Redemption *should* be different. It has strong characters, strong dialogue and a strong story already there - they just have to make a classic Western movie out of it. I say that as if it's simple but we know how easily a studio and director can ruin this property like so many other video game franchises before.
The tale of Red Dead Redemption takes place in 1911 and follows protagonist John Marston, an ex-gang member whose family is held captive by government agents to force him to hunt down his old associates. Traveling from New Austin to Mexico and meeting some very memorable characters along the way, the game lets players experience the Old West like never before, with gameplay elements including authentic horseback riding, poker games, cattle herding to good ol' gun fighting.
Brad Pitt played a cowboy as the title character in The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford and I can certainly picture him as John Marston, the silent but deadly lead in Red Dead Redemption. Get a tan, longer hair, some grime and scars and bingo!
[Update: There's a lot of discussion about whether or not Pitt is the right guy and today I thought Sean Bean would be perfect for this part - he just has to disguise the accent. Thoughts?]
If you happen to own a PlayStation 3 or an Xbox 360, this is a must-own title. Read our Red Dead Redemption posts on Game Rant.
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Awards season heats up Jan. 12 with Golden Globes
Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild nominations are out, and the Academy Award nominations will be announced Jan. 16, so now is the time to catch all the nominated films still in theaters or coming soon.
There is a lot of buzz for "Inside Llewyn Davis," the latest film from the Coen brothers set in Greenwich Village folk music scene in the '60s. Starring Oscar Isaac as the titular character, the film feels slightly unfinished — not quite a masterpiece, but darn close. The movie spans a week in the folk singer's life as he insinuates himself into the lives of everyone around him — sleeping on couches, borrowing money, hitching rides, and generally making a nuisance of himself.
It seems certain he is destined not to make it as a solo artist (we learn early in the film he was one half of a duo before his partner killed himself), but when he sings, it's so clear his songs are heads above what is passing for popular. Much is being made about co-stars Justin Timberlake and Carey Mulligan, but the film's middle involving Davis thumbing a ride to Chicago to talk to a music promoter is the best. Stuck in a car with a cranky, heroin-addicted jazz musician (John Goodman) and his driver (Garrett Hedlund), the proceedings are slightly surreal, but Davis's reactions are priceless.
With T-Bone Burnett as the music supervisor, it would be hard to go wrong with the essential component in "Inside," and the musical performances provide some of the best scenes with all actors singing and playing their own instruments. The choice of de-saturated photography gives the film an authentic vintage feel. Add it to any Top 10 list, but whether it will earn the big prizes remains to be seen.
The highly anticipated Martin Scorsese film "The Wolf of Wall Street" arrived in theaters on Christmas Day. That's not big news, but you have to wonder about pushing a critical hit like "August: Osage County" into January to make way for this debauched biopic based on Jordan Belfort, a financial con artist who took innocent investors for hundreds of millions.
Starring frequent Scorsese collaborator Leonardo DiCaprio, the movie does more to promote the use of drugs and strippers than anything. So what is so special about Belfort that he deserves the Scorsese treatment? Nothing. Better to skip the last two hours, which are just repeated scenes of DiCaprio and his co-conspirator (Jonah Hill) snorting coke, dropping Quaaludes and chasing half naked women. How ever did Belfort find the time to con thousands of people out of their savings?
The best scene is front-loaded into the movie as Belfort begins his career on Wall Street. His first day on the job, he captures the attention of a top broker, played by Matthew McConaughey. The drugged up, designer-suited fellow invites Belfort to lunch and offers up some hilarious advice as a self appointed quasi-mentor, which includes a lot of tips that cannot be mentioned here. After McConaughey departs, it's all downhill and while there are nominations for the film itself, it's noteworthy that its actors have yet to receive any.
Seeing "Saving Mr. Banks" reminded me that Emma Thompson is an actor who rarely disappoints. While the movie follows a predictable trajectory, it is Thompson who elevates the story of how Walt Disney (Tom Hanks) charmed notoriously cantankerous author P.L. Travers (Thompson) into signing over the rights to her beloved novel, "Mary Poppins." The film being, more treacly than supercalfraga … well, you know, will probably hurt Thompson's chances to win any awards, but she is earning much deserved nominations.
Also on your "must see" short list are two films unlikely to make it to local theaters: "Philomena" starring Judi Dench and Alexander Payne's "Nebraska" starring Bruce Dern, with both stars earning a lot of attention. "Inside Llewyn Davis" goes into wide release this weekend. "August: Osage County," which is producing multiple nominations for actors and the film, is in theaters next weekend. As is "She," the futuristic Spike Jonze film that has received much critical acclaim recently.
The Golden Globe Awards will air Jan. 12 on NBC. The SAG Awards will air on TNT/TBS on Jan. 17. The 2014 Oscar nominations will be announced Jan. 16, and the awards show will be broadcast March 2 beginning at 6 p.m. on ABC.


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Yet she can earn up to $1,000 a week these days, an unimaginable fortune for a Tibetan nomad. With the money, she has bought herself a shiny new Honda motorcycle. She and her husband gave up their tent for a house they built themselves with solar panels, a satellite dish and television.
The worm, Lhamotso explains, "has changed our lives."
What Tibetans call the worm is actually not a worm but a fungus -- Cordyceps sinensis, to be precise -- that feeds on caterpillar larvae. Or, to give the fungus its more poetic name, "winter worm, summer grass," because its appearance changes from one to the other with the seasons.
The worm is a prized ingredient in traditional medicines here, with prices in the last few years skyrocketing to the point where prime specimens are worth their weight in gold, literally, about $900 an ounce. Even the most ordinary pickings command prices rivaling that of French truffles, another famous fungus.
Because the caterpillar fungus is indigenous only to the 1,000-mile-long Tibetan plateau running from western China to Nepal, the money has hastened the nomads' lurching transition into modernity.
"It is a bit like a gold rush in the Wild West. It's brought enormous wealth to these communities," says Andrew Fischer, an economist specializing in Tibet at the London School of Economics.
For centuries, Tibetan nomads added caterpillar fungus to their soups or tea, believing it boosted stamina, endurance, lung capacity, kidney function and, of course, sexual performance. Its use for medicinal purposes was documented as far back as the 14th century. But until recently, the fungus was cheap and abundant enough that Tibetans also would feed it to yaks and horses when their energy was flagging.
The fungus' popularity took off after the 1993 World Championships in Athletics, when Chinese female athletes stunned the world by breaking records in nine track and field events and their coach gave partial credit to an elixir containing the fungus (along with turtle blood and deer penis).
More recently, Houston Rockets basketball phenomenon Yao Ming revealed that he too is a fan of the fungus. Then came the 2003 epidemic of SARS, sudden acute respiratory syndrome, which set Asian consumers off on a frenzy of buying anything that might boost immunity.
China last year exported $43 million worth of caterpillar fungus. In China and abroad, it is touted as a treatment for everything from impotence to aging.
"Yes! Grandma & Grandpa, you may not be a world-class athlete shattering world records, but wouldn't it be great to feel like one?" claims one promoter out of Canada.
The center of the caterpillar fungus trade is in Qinghai province, particularly the Tibetan enclave of Golog. Here, the bu -- Tibetan for worm -- is by far the largest source of cash and dictates the pace of daily life. During the peak fungus hunting season, schools close down to allow children to help. People with jobs shirk work to prospect for riches.
The winding roads into the mountains are roped off with checkpoints run by police whose job is to keep out outsiders who might clash with locals. Every year, several people are killed in turf battles, often ethnically tinged, pitting Tibetans against Hui Muslims, another minority, or against Han Chinese.
The season runs for about 40 days, beginning in early spring when the snowmelt turns the mountains brown and spongy as though covered with a dirty shag carpet. Timing is crucial. If you dig too early, you get a live, wriggling caterpillar. It's best to dig just after the fungus has killed the larvae.
For practitioners of traditional medicine, it is this strange interplay between the animal and the plant kingdoms -- the yin and the yang, as it were -- that makes the caterpillar fungus such a prize.
The best caterpillar fungus is found at higher elevations, places such as Heitushan, the 14,000-foot Black Earth Mountain in Golog, where Lhamotso lives.
The climb is steep, that even a nomad used to the elevation will be huffing and puffing, so Lhamotso counts herself lucky to have the motorcycle. She and her daughters, 10 and 16, pile on and zigzag uphill in a cloud of dust until the terrain gets too rough and they must walk.
Lhamotso, who like many Tibetans goes by one name, wears traditional clothes -- black wedge-heeled lace-up shoes and an ankle-length black dress, her head swathed in pink and turquoise scarves to keep out the sun and dust. Her daughters are more modern; the younger, Hiriti, in jeans and white sneakers, scrambles energetically up the mountain, helping her mother.
Children are useful on the hunt because their sharp eyes allow them to pick the fungus out of the clumps of grass and sodden earth -- a little like finding a needle in a haystack. Although the dead caterpillar is rather unprepossessing in appearance, it's not nearly as disgusting as it sounds: sort of like a little yellow root with a stalk growing out of the top.
"It is very boring work," complains Hiriti, who just this year began fungus-hunting at 10, the same age her mother started.
Reaching into the pocket of her faux leather jacket, the girl pulls out a tissue and unwraps what looks like a 3-inch-long twig, the only piece she found all day. She will sell it for about $3, but it could command a retail price of $10 in Singapore or Tokyo.
"I think people must be insane to pay so much," Lhamotso says. "It's only in the last two years it has gotten so expensive. It's crazy, but it is good for us. How else would I make so much money? I can't read or write."
Lhamotso and the girls expect to make at least $6,000 this season -- about triple what most Chinese families earn in a year. Last year's take was enough that Lhamotso and her husband built their house, the interior wallpapered with photographs from magazines of an assortment of celebrities, movie stars, Mao Tse-tung, the Dalai Lama.
Over a stove burning dung in the center of the main room, Lhamotso boils a kettle of water to make yak-butter tea, a salty brew popular here. The television is the only appliance.
The worm has helped pay for the house, but more important, it has provided the motivation and the money for Hiriti to get an education. The family pays $30 a month in tuition at a Buddhist monastery where Hiriti studies Tibetan, Chinese, a little English and math. (Lhamotso says they can afford tuition for only one child and that her older daughter is needed to help with traditional chores such as milking yaks.)
The caterpillar fungus has made it painfully apparent to Lhamotso and her husband how crippled they are by a lack of education. Neither can speak Chinese or do basic math. So they must rely on intermediaries, many of them Muslim traders, to do the counting, weighing, calculating and marketing of their pickings.
"We need to have one person in the family who is educated," she says.
Lhamotso is well aware that fungus may not be a reliable source of income for much longer. The fungus is growing scarcer each year from over-harvesting and changes in the fragile ecosystem of the Tibetan plateau.
"When I was young, somebody could just walk out of the tent and dig 800 to 900 pieces in a day. Now we have to hike three hours up the mountain and the best we do is maybe 50 pieces," says Tsering, 38, in a straw hat who was picking one afternoon with Lhamotso and her friends.
The bottom could drop out of the market if artificially cultivated caterpillar fungus catches on in Asia, as it has in the U.S., where much of the supply is cultivated. Many people believe that the prices for caterpillar fungus are ridiculously high and that the bubble will burst soon.
"It is expensive because it is rare and it is rare because it is over-exploited," says Lin Zhibin, a pharmacology expert at Peking University Health Science Center.
Another concern is that the relentless digging on the mountains is contributing to soil erosion and desertification that keeps a perpetual cloud of dust swirling around Golog.
Although the caterpillar fungus has given the nomads a financial boost, Tibetan intellectuals remain ambivalent about its benefits to society as a whole.
"It is not good for the environment or for building harmonious society," says Tseten Dargye, a Tibetan educator and a physician in Dawu, one of Golog's main towns. "People have become territorial. There are a lot of fights between family and friends and the possibility of corruption."
The real problem is that Tibetans themselves have become used to the easy money and the creature comforts it buys -- the motorized transit, the houses, the televisions.
"People can't go backwards. For years, it's been like digging up gold, but more valuable," says Daodu, 31, a teacher. "People today can't survive without it."


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This hits close to home, because home is a shithole (that's what $1500 rents you in Silicon Valley) and I'll soon be paying IKEA plenty to make it look less so, because it's right around the corner in the East P.A. and I can't afford Ethan Allen. And if you want to trick out your Sims pad with BJARNUM or HENSVIK or DIKTAD or whatever fake words the Swedes come up with next, that expansion pack has now dropped (as of Thursday). This is the trailer showing all the shit you'll be throwing in your Sim dumpster in three years.
Clearly, there is very little probative value to this post, I just wanted to write the word DIKTAD (the name of a toy chest they sell). Three years ago my friend Ryan (Flying Squirrel, to those in the know), who now writes for the Sacramento Bee, went to IKEA with me to help me trick out my former shithole (rented for $1095 a month. Housing bubble? What is this you speak of? Rent is a rock solid investment that only appreciates.) We came around the corner and saw DIKTAD and that instantly became our new term of abuse for each other, like "Heat Stick" and "Grandma's Tongue." And now I bequeath it to you. Please call each other that in the comments.
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Walled Lake Western teacher out of job after adult website incident
A Walled Lake Western High School teacher who projected an Internet browsing history on a classroom screen that included the name of an adult website is no longer employed at the Walled Lake Consolidated School District.
The incident happened Tuesday, Oct. 16; Walled Lake Western Principal Joseph Bell notified parents of the school's students by email that afternoon.
Watch a report on the classroom incident on today's News at Noon.
"I regret to inform you that there was an incident today in a classroom in which a teacher inadvertently projected onto the classroom screen a web browser history which contained the name of an adult website," Bell said.
"We do not consider the website to be school appropriate and I am sorry if this was upsetting to students in the classroom."
The adult website was not opened on the computer or projected on the screen, Bell said in the email.
On Wednesday, Oct. 24, Superintendent Kenneth Gutman told district parents and staff in an email that the teacher was no longer employed in the district.
"We want you to know this staff member is no longer employed by Walled Lake Schools," Gutman said.
"We hold staff members to high standards of accountability. When allegations surface, we follow our policies and engage in providing appropriate due process prior to taking action for any individual in question. When situations like this arise, the District has an obligation to do a thorough investigation."
The teacher was placed on administrative leave as soon as the district learned of the incident, Gutman said in the email.
Contact staff writer Dustin Blitchok at 248-745-4685 or email@example.com. Follow him on Twitter @SincerelyDustin.


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For more than fifty years the Monterey Institute has offered summer intensive language instruction ranging from elementary to advanced level. This summer around 150 students are enrolled in the MIIS Summer Intensive Language Program (SILP) studying six different languages: Arabic, Chinese, French, Japanese, Russian, or Spanish in an intensive eight-week program. The program pushes students to strongly improve their language skills over the summer digesting three semesters worth of material with their full-time language focus.
All of the classes emphasize language acquisition in a cultural context and have strong focus on communication. In addition to in-class instruction students are assigned special tutors and can participate in a variety of cultural activities and field trips. Japanese students traveled to Santa Cruz on June 18th to take part in a Japanese cultural festival and just a few days earlier Chinese students walked to the beach where they roasted marshmallows on a bonfire, enjoyed yummy s'mores and played games to get to know each other outside the classroom setting. To keep up with what is going on in classrooms and beyond this summer visit the SILP blog.
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A committee looking at the possibility of an exam school or International Baccalaureate program coming to Worcester public schools will recommend an IB program be considered but will not make a recommendation on whether it will have an exam school.
The ad hoc committee was asked to investigate the feasibility of establishing an exam school and make recommendations about a focus for the school and about its admission policies. The mayor did not charge the committee with recommending whether to establish such a school, according to Chairman Tracy O'Connell Novick, who is also a member of the Worcester School Committee.
The committee will recommend a classical liberal arts focus for the school and will most likely recommend multiple criteria for admissions, rather than relying solely on an entrance exam or other standardized test. Some members of the committee wanted to ensure that the test score alone could not make a student ineligible.
There has long been nostalgia in the city for the old Classical High School, which was not selective in its admissions when it closed.
The reason for the classical liberal arts interest this time, however, seems to be because there are already other selective science, technology, engineering and mathematics high school programs in the city, from the elite Massachusetts Academy of Math and Science at Worcester Polytechnic Institute to the in-district and much less selective Worcester Technical High School.
Mayor Joseph M. Petty, who said in his inaugural address that he would investigate the possibility of an exam school, appointed a varied group of people to look into that and an IB school, and he will get a varied report. The committee could not agree to recommend an IB program be implemented, but voted 10-1 (with two people absent) to recommend the city's high schools consider doing so.
School Committee member Donna Colorio was the lone holdout. Her reservations included the fact that the IB organization is based outside the country and that the committee would not have control over the price of portions of the program, such as the exams themselves. Other members, however, pointed out that the district doesn't control Advanced Placement or textbook prices, either.
International Baccalaureate programs offer intensive, in-depth courses followed by standardized exams. There is already one in Worcester, at Abby Kelly Foster Charter Public School.
The committee is scheduled to give its report to the mayor by the end of February. At its meeting tonight, members did not vote on whether to have an exam school, but many said they opposed one. The report's recommendations on the details of such a school will be couched in a phrase similar to �were the city to start an exam school.�
Looming behind all the discussions were the sheer cost of starting either new program.
Brian E. Allen, the school district's chief financial and operations officer, said an IB program for 250 11th- and 12th-grade students would cost $417,277 in its fourth year. That assumes that it uses existing teachers and facilities.
An exam school for 500 students in Grades 9-12 would cost almost $5.3 million in its fourth year, which includes the addition of new teachers but not facilities, furnishings and equipment.
�If we can find money for one of these, perhaps that money should go into the existing programs,� said ad hoc committee member John Emilio. The committee had planned to discuss its draft in executive session last night but voted 7-4 to stay in open session after a reporter objected.


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Yeah, Anastasia eventually will notice that she has to sustain control over them. But as for now its only been a short time since the initial creation if Therese creatures. Many if them were still rising when she started mobilizing. Eventually while fighting feena she will realize the kind of toll it takes in order to keep control, after all she has never managed to control an army of this proportion before, and most likely never will.
This is where the concern for balance characters comes in.There is nobody on the mortal side that is capable of creating small armies of super undead plant assassins, let alone do it with no detriment to their character or ability. Or even have the ability to fight it off without a large NPC army at their back. And your saying you did all this without using the roots power, and completely unaffected by the use of such powers.
Just a minor note for your reference, Feena changed back into her humanoid form in my last post.
I've notice people posting a bit less frequently these days, which is to be expected as school and work start back up again. As such, some patience may be needed if you are waiting on people to reply. Still, everyone should try to get in a reply every few days or so.
Feena...could have her pet heal the queen....then she might let feena keep her?
So no cocks? Cock nipples? Bigger breasts? Smaller breasts? Younger appearance? Older appearance? Bigger nose? Lactation? A tail? Cat ears? Glowing eyes? Glowing sweat? Glow in the dark lips? Slit pupils? Demon horns? Curvy hips? Second head? laser eyes? Purple skin? Blue skin? Pink skin? Golden hair? Golden nipples? Chocolate panties? Turtle shell? Flower tattoo on left butt cheek? Leopard spots? fur? Ginger puebes? Second personality? Tiny bladder? Laser hair? sonic boom voice? Cherry flavored pussy? Tickle me Elmo? None of those mutations sound appealing?
Zana, would I have your permission to suggest anyone still interested in this type of rp to take a gander at Hell's Redemption? Its cheeky I know!
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Friday, April 20, 2012
Thai Fishcakes
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Yum! Love the addition of green beans. Fishcakes can sometimes be a little so-so texture wise, plus I'm always trying to up the family's veg intake.ReplyDelete
This will definitely be on the menu soon (and I'm so looking forward to everyone's Sweet Heat posts this month - Thai is one of my favourite foods)
These fishcakes look amazing! And I love the cucumber dipping sauce that goes along with them =)ReplyDelete
These sound so tasty! And so different! Thanks for the great recipe!ReplyDelete
I adore Thai Fishcakes... so thanks for the recipe... I am making thai chicken tomorrow... cant wait!ReplyDelete
Oh my! This is perfect outdoor eating too. I can't wait until the sun comes out! (At the moment we're in galoshes!)ReplyDelete
Thanks everyone! I'm such a huge fan of Thai food and all the exotic fragrant flavours. These fish cakes are super easy and really tasty and I love the Cucmber Dipping Sauce and could (and do!) quite easily eat it on it's own!!ReplyDelete
mmm...these look so tasty. Great flavour combinations!ReplyDelete
Great looking Thai fishcakes. I agree with you the crunchyness of beans make the fishcakes even better. I'd love to take part in your monthly Sweet Heat. I'll have a go in May? GGReplyDelete
- AnonymousApril 25, 2012 at 7:36 AM
was going to make soemthing similar the other day, adore fishcakes with a thai twist. I made a delicious Thai massaman curry last night, flavours were amazing!ReplyDelete
Looks very fragrant. Delicious. I've never made these but often thought about after eating them at the local Thai.ReplyDelete
Thanks for sharing your recipe :-)
There's something about the title that is always a little off putting for me, personally. However, these look so beautiful they might just be worth the try. Looks fantastic!ReplyDelete


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ST. LOUIS - The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) today announced that the agency and attorneys for a class of over 5,000 women have reached an agreement in principle with Rent- A-Center, Inc. to settle two lawsuits alleging class-wide sex discrimination under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The company has agreed to pay a cash settlement of $47,000,000 and to begin making wide-ranging institutional changes. Rent-A-Center, based in Plano, Texas, is the nation's largest rent to own company with over 2,200 stores in all 50 states.
"This precedent-setting agreement will transform the entire corporate culture of Rent-A-Center from the bottom up," said EEOC Chair Cari M. Dominguez. "EEOC will not allow the existence of workplace barriers that operate to exclude on the basis of gender. We are fully committed to the task of ensuring that all individuals have the freedom to compete in the workplace on a level playing field."
In addition to the monetary payments for victims, the agreement also provides that Rent-A-Center will offer 10% of future vacancies over a 15 month period to women who are claimed to be past victims of discrimination, and that the company will create a human resources department led by an experienced vice president who will report directly to the president or the CEO. The settlement if approved by EEOC, attorneys for the class, and the Court will provide for a Consent Decree and will settle claims of across- the-board sex discrimination pending in two federal courts.
The settlement is intended to resolve two cases, Wilfong et al. and EEOC v. Rent-A-Center, pending in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois in East St. Louis, Illinois, and EEOC v. Rent-A- Center, pending in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Tennessee in Memphis. It includes an agreement on the part of the rent-to-own giant to make significant changes to its employment practices, including developing policies designed to ensure equal employment opportunities and non-discrimination for female job applicants and employees in the future. The company has committed to create and maintain a Human Resources Department a particularly significant step forward because it dissolved Human Resources in 1998 when it acquired Rent-A-Center.
"The Commission is particularly pleased that this settlement will move Rent-A-Center closer to the goal of providing true equality of opportunity for women," said Donna L. Harper, EEOC Supervisory Trial Attorney in St. Louis and lead lawyer on the case. "Our duty as a federal law enforcement agency is to provide both compensation for victims and future opportunities that put women on a equal footing with men. This proposed settlement does both."
The settlement will extinguish an earlier agreement in principle for $15,000,000 that was reached with different attorneys in a closely parallel lawsuit (Bunch et al. v. Rent-A-Center). The attorneys in the Wilfong case, the EEOC, and the National Organization for Women opposed that settlement as inadequate and unfair. Although the Bunch case will be dismissed as a result of this new settlement, the plaintiffs in that case will be entitled to their portion of this new settlement. The settlement in principle announced today also includes the following provisions:
The Court will determine attorneys' fees and costs to be paid out of the settlement fund and the way in which the class members will receive their portion of the settlement.
In addition to enforcing Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits employment discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin, the EEOC enforces the Age Discrimination in Employment Act; the Equal Pay Act; Titles I and V of the Americans with Disabilities Act, which prohibits discrimination against people with disabilities in the private sector and state and local governments; prohibitions against discrimination affecting individuals with disabilities in the federal sector; and sections of the Civil Rights Act of 1991. Further information about the Commission is available on its Web site at www.eeoc.gov.