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How to Invest in a Bearish Economy
Stocks are versatile in that you can make money from these investments even when they go down in value. Techniques range from using put options to going short, or doing a short sale of stock.
For traditional investors, the more appropriate strategy is first and foremost to avoid or minimize losses. Making money betting that a stock will fall is closer to speculating than actual investing, so make sure you see the pitfalls and act accordingly.
Consumer discretionary sectors
When the economy is struggling or contracting and people are concerned about their financial situation, some sectors will undoubtedly suffer. If you have money tied up in stocks attached to companies in these sectors, you may suffer as well. In today's economic environment, you should avoid sectors such as "consumer discretionary," which refers to companies that sell products or services that people may want but usually don't need.
In other words, when consumers (both individuals and organizations) have to make hard choices on tighter budgets, the first areas of spending that will logically shrink are those goods and services that simply aren't that necessary in people's daily lives.
Here's an example: In trying times, those who typically eat at fancy, expensive restaurants will cut back. Maybe they'll eat at fast food places or simply opt for good ol' home cooking. Multiply this choice by millions of consumers, and you see that high-end restaurants (and their stocks, if they're public companies) will see their fortunes sink. Your logic and common sense are very useful here.
The real estate return
Real estate is a major sector, of course, but it has really been licking its wounds in recent years. Real estate may take a few years to truly recover before stock investors can see some obvious opportunities. Cautious investors should wait until the industry shows some consistent traction in terms of housing starts and a strong shrinkage in the national inventory of unsold property.
Are there opportunities for "contrarians" and speculators? Sure! Of course, the risks are still high, so if you're talking investing, then having some patience is a better bet for now.
To find out more about what's going on with this sector, check out Realtor.com and Realestatetopsites.com.
The great credit monster
Too much debt means that someone will get hurt. The unprecedented explosion in debt may have given the economy a huge boost in the late 1990s, but debt now poses great dangers for the rest of this decade.
This massive debt problem is obviously tied to real estate. However, it goes much further. Individuals, companies, and government agencies are carrying too much debt for comfort. It's not just mortgage debt; it's also consumer, business, government, and margin debt. The latest addition to this horror show is college debt, which recently surpassed $1 trillion (as of September 2012).
With total debt now in the vicinity of more than $50 trillion, saying that a lot of this debt won't be repaid is probably a safe bet. Individual and institutional defaults will rock the economy and the financial markets. Bankruptcy is (and will continue to be) a huge issue.
Debt will (and does) weigh heavily on stocks, either directly or indirectly. Because every type of debt is now at record levels, no one is truly immune. Even if a company has no debt whatsoever, it is not immune because consumer debt (credit cards, personal loans, etc.) is at an all-time high. If consumer spending declines, the retailer's sales go down, its profits shrink, and ultimately, its stock goes down.
Exposure to debt is quite pervasive. Check your 401(k) plan, your bond funds, and your insurance company's annuity. Banks and mortgage companies issued trillions of dollars' worth of mortgages in recent years, but after the mortgages were issued, they were sold to other financial institutions. A huge number of mortgages were sold to the most obvious buyers, the Federal National Mortgage Association (FNM) and the Federal Mortgage Assurance Corporation (FRE).
These giant, government-sponsored entities are usually referred to as "Fannie Mae" and "Freddie Mac." They were taken over in 2008 by the federal government because of gross mismanagement and overindebtedness (in the trillions!).
What's a stock investor to do?
Well, remember that first commandment to avoid or minimize losses? Make sure that you review your portfolio and sell stocks that may get pulverized by the credit monster. That includes many banks and brokerage firms.
Make sure that the companies themselves have no debt, low debt, or at least manageable debt. (Check their financial reports.)
For the venturesome, seek shorting opportunities in those companies most exposed to the dangers of debt.
Cyclical stocks
Another type of stock that you should be cautious about is cyclical stocks. Heavy equipment, automobiles, and technology tend to be cyclical and are very susceptible to downturns in the general economy. Conversely, cyclical stocks do very well when the economy is growing or on an upswing (hence the label).
As individuals and corporations get squeezed with more debt and less disposable income, hard choices need to be made. Ultimately, the result is that people buy fewer big-ticket items. That means that a company selling those items ends up selling less and earning less profit. This loss of profit, in turn, makes that company's stock go down.
In a struggling, recessionary economy, investing in cyclical stocks is like sunbathing on an anthill and using jam instead of sunblock — not a pretty picture.


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At Berkeley
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The Best Man Holiday
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Charlie Countryman
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Cold Turkey
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Dear Mr. Watterson
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Go for Sisters
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In the Name Of
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Approved for Adoption
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Black Nativity
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The Past
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Wilde Salome
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Walking With Dinosaurs: The 3D Movie
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47 Ronin
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August: Osage County
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Grudge Match
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The Invisible Woman
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Labor Day
On a back-to-school shopping trip, a reclusive single mother and her 13-year-old son encounter and take in a man in need, who turns out to be an escaped convict but also bonds with them both. With Kate Winslet, Josh Brolin, Gattlin Griffith and Tobey Maguire. Written and directed by Jason Reitman. Paramount Pictures firstname.lastname@example.com
The Wolf of Wall Street
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The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
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Lone Survivor
Four Navy Seals on a covert mission to take down a high-level Al Qaeda operative are ambushed in the mountains of Afghanistan and face insurmountable odds. With Mark Wahlberg, Taylor Kitsch, Emile Hirsch and Ben Foster. Written and directed by Peter Berg. Universal Pictures
One Chance
A biopic telling the story of Paul Potts, a Welsh cellphone salesman and amateur opera singer who became an overnight sensation via the reality TV series "Britain's Got Talent." With James Corden, Alexandra Roach, Julie Walters and Mackenzie Crook. Written by Justin Zackham. Directed by David Frankel. The Weinstein Co.
The Adventurer: The Curse of the Midas Box
When his parents vanish and his younger brother is kidnapped, a 17-year-old boy follows a trail of clues to a mysterious hotel and discovers a dangerous supernatural realm. With Michael Sheen, Lena Headey and Sam Neill. Written by Christian Taylor and Matthew Huffman. Directed by Jonathan Newman. RLJ Entertainment
Banshee Chapter
On the trail of a missing friend who had been experimenting with mind-altering drugs, a young journalist is drawn into a dangerous world of shadowy government chemical-research programs. With Katia Winter, Ted Levine and Michael McMillian. Written and directed by Blair Erickson. XLrator Media
A former college sports star turned trainer finds new purpose when his gym's new owner tries to turn the neglected business into a reality show. With Brian Drolet, Hoyt Richards and Nic Nicotera. Written by Drolet and Richards. Directed by Chris Livingston. GoDigital
The Truth About Emanuel
A troubled teenage girl becomes preoccupied with her mysterious new neighbor, who bears a strikingly resemblance to her dead mother. With Jessica Biel, Kaya Scodelario, Alfred Molina and Frances O'Connor. Written and directed by Francesca Gregorini. Tribeca Film

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By Aaron on Tuesday, December 26, 2017We had a 2015 Enclave and absolutely loved it. The quiet ride and comfort was great. The technology was lacking but we had the AWD for safety with driving in bad weather. Gas mileage for 3 years averaged 19MPG. Now we upgraded to the 2018 Premium and wow, what an upgrade. The ride is smoother and quieter which we didnt think was possible. More 1st row space, comfy seats, great technology package, push button parking brake, electrical folding 3rd row seats, and the 9-speed transmission really helps the acceleration which was lacking in the 2015. Its an amazing car and you should really test drive it. My wife and I are hooked. The only drawback so far is the 3rd row headrests. The block some sight lines when changing lanes. I just put those down and problem solved.
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safety was important and this vehicle made it !!
By art on Tuesday, March 27, 2018safety features are great to aide in driving safely. Helps make up for an aging driver reactions and vision. Comfortable suspension ! Plenty of space ! Driver seat could be more comfortable ! Chrome on dash glares in outside rearview mirror distorting image ! I placed black electrical tape over the offending strip of chrome ! In total it is a fine auto , but I will be more discerning on the seat comfort.
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Moore Postnikov factorization allows us to view homotopy types of topological spaces as being constructed out of standardized building blocks, i.e., Eilenberg-MacLane spaces.
The relevant classification result has long been known for 2-stage spaces, i.e., those constructed from just two building blocks. The 3-stage case is in general unresolved.
We investigate the latter question in situations where the factorization-viewed as a fibration-has an H-cogroup base space and a product of Eilenberg-MacLane space fibres. A precise classification result up to fibrewise homotopy type is obtained for such cases.
This result appears to generalize to higher-dimensional cases in a relatively straightforward manner.
This study focuses on free surface flow past a circular cylinder based on a two fluid model at a Reynolds number of R=200. The cylinder is forced to perform harmonic streamwise oscillations in the presence of an oncoming uniform flow. The effects of the free surface presence at a submergence depth of h=0.75 for a fixed Froude number, Fr =0.2 are investigated on the vortex shedding modes and fluid forces acting on the cylinder. Calculations are performed at a fixed displacement amplitude of A=0.13 in forcing frequency-to-natural shedding frequency ratio range 1.5-3.5.
A (k,l)-colouring of a graph G is a covering of its vertex set by k independent sets and l cliques, generalizing both the colouring and clique covering of a graph. The bichromatic number of G is defined as the minimum integer r, such that G is (k,l)-colourable for all k+l=r. In this talk we will investigate some fundamental properties of the bichromatic number.
Given a graph G, an H-decomposition of G is a partition with its edge set into subgraphs isomorphic to H. A rational H-decomposition of G is a nonnegative rational weighting of the copies of H in G such that the total weight on any edge of G equals 1. The study of graph decompositions plays an important role in graph theory and combinatorics and has numerous applications. We will present a proof of the fact that any sufficiently large circulant (under several mild conditions) admits a rational decomposition into copies of any non-trivial graph on at most k vertices. This proof will showcase a linear algebraic connection between decomposition of these graphs and families with dominant differences.


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For more than 20 years photographer Frank Jump has been documenting New York's fading ads. Slowly vanishing signs of yesteryear, the building ads are ephemera that has stubbornly persisted in our constantly changing urban landscape, in defiance of development, decay and all the other challenges conspiring against them. The most common term for such remnants is ghost signs, but Mr. Jump prefers fading ads. "I never felt comfortable with the word ghost," he says. "I don't really believe in ghosts."
While some may see such remnants of the past as manifestations of loss, Mr. Jump sees them metaphors for survival. "Like myself, many of these ads have long outlived their expected lifespan," he explained in a recent interview. In 1986, at the age of 26, Mr. Jump was diagnosed with HIV and told that he had a few good years left. Despite the discouraging prognosis, a decade later he was finishing his long-postponed college degree when he saw a massive, faded sign for Omega Oil at 145th Street and Frederick Douglas Boulevard.
Mr. Jump describes the Omega Oil sign as a moment of discovery that awakened "a love of the urban mystery." And an obsession with documenting the signs that had, either through chance or accident, outlived the products that they were painted on the sides of buildings to sell. Since 1999, Mr. Jump has been sharing his signature photographs, as well stories of the products they sold and the buildings that they graced, on his Fading Ads blog. Earlier this year he published Fading Ads of New York City, his first book on the subject, although he is adamant that it will not be his last.
And while Mr. Jump admits that his project does stimulate the nostalgic impulse and a longing for the past (whether it is the ideal past of the sign's heyday, or our own dimly remembered histories that such signs seem to conjure up), he's not looking to turn back time, or stand in the way of progress. He'd like for the signs to be left alone, neither restored to their former brilliance nor demolished, but left "to fade to imperceptability."
At the beginning of October, The Observer attended a Landmarks West lecture that Mr. Jump gave at the Society for Ethical Culture on the Upper West Side. The next afternoon, we talked the next afternoon about the Fading Ads project, nostalgia, change and the disappointments of digital archiving. Below is an abridged version of our conversation.
The Observer: You talked about seeing the Omega Oil sign and how that sign, the hidden world it opened up to you, and this project changed the course of your life. What about fading ads caught your interest and kept it?
Frank Jump: The moment I started seeing fading ads, I saw myself in these signs. I lost countless friends to AIDS between 1979 and 1990. You wake up and 15 of your friends have died. The signs personified the phenomenon. They would disappear, but there's also a survival metaphor. Sometimes I'd walk a street that I've walked so many times before and all of sudden I'll see a sign I never noticed before. Now I'm so tuned into them.
The Observer: It's funny you mention that. Right after the lecture, we were walking and waiting for a the light to change we suddenly noticed a fading ad—a block from where we live—that we'd never seen before. Do people often tell you that after looking at your photos they start to notice fading ads all of a sudden?
Frank Jump: They do; it's one of those few specific phenomenon that once it catches your attention you start to notice it everywhere. It's like when you learn a new word and all of sudden you start hearing it all the time. You're reinterpreting your landscape, and the things that have always seemed so familiar all around you. It's almost subliminal.
The Observer: When did sign painting disappear as a form of advertising?
Frank Jump: It hasn't really. I think that writing on walls is one of those things that has always communicated well to humans. If you go back to the cave paintings in Lascaux, those were types of advertisements, where that person hunted, what they killed… I think it's an art form that will always be around.
The Observer: But it isn't as common as it once was.
Frank Jump: There are some painters now, Colossal Media, they do wonderful works of art. Of course, it's all done the new way, in these vibrant colors, but the paint is all plastic, so the paintings don't fade, they just chip. Old signs were fairly toxic, the paint was lead, but they lasted. And the other thing is, once brick and concrete walls are no longer around, glass towers don't really lend themselves to paintings. I think the future will be big holographic 3-D images, projections that don't take up any space and disappear when you turn them off.
The Observer: Like Bladerunner?
Frank Jump: [Laughs.] Yeah.
The Observer: What will the next fading ads be? What remnants of modern day advertising or other cultural detritus do you think people will be discovering 100 years from now?
Frank Jump: Guerrilla street art, posters, stickers. What makes New York such an interesting place is that it's filled with artists. I think what will last—besides architecture—is graffiti, urban ediglyphs [a term Mr. Jump invented to describe the interaction between advertising and street art; a combination of the words edifice and petroglyph.] It's always fun to see how people alter advertising.


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The Trail Ridge Quilters are putting the finishing touches on many beautiful handmade quilted creations which they will display and sell at their annual tea and sale to be held on Saturday, June 7, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. This sale will be held at a new location this year – Estes Park Senior Center – 220 Fourth Street.
Featured at this sale will be baby and children's quilts, wall hangings, placemats, seasonal items, table toppers, cloth children's books, purses, potholders, small gift items, and much more. "We are excited for everyone to see the many items we have for sale this year," said Jeanne Allen, member of the Trail Ridge Quilters. "These items make great gifts for any occasion."
The Trail Ridge Quilters were originally formed as a Newcomer's Interest Group and was a way for members to get together to share a common interest and a love of quilting. Their common purpose and goal is to raise monies for the medical center. The first year, they raised $300. In 2010, they funded a total of $5,150 that was used towards items requested by various departments at the medical center. In 2011, they had a great year and presented Estes Park Medical Center with a check in the amount of $8,650. In 2012, they raised $9,300. Various departments at EPMC submitted applications to the quilters to be considered for funding. The funds were used to purchase the following items in 2013:
• Three temporal thermometers for Estes Park Medical Group
• Patio table and four chairs for Prospect Park Living Center
• two leg rest sponges and three body wedges for the diagnostic department
• Ultrasound table for medical imaging
• Electronic scale for Estes Park Medical Group
• Digital handrail scale for the cardiac clinic
• $1,130 to the medical surgical department to update the pediatric room, making it youth friendly.
This dedicated group of quilters spends the year planning and sewing the various hand quilted items. Estes Park Medical Center is grateful for their support. It has helped the medical center purchase equipment that assists our physicians and other healthcare professionals in providing the very best patient care.
This sale is a wonderful opportunity to purchase some very special one-of-a-kind quilted items that will make a unique and treasured gift.


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As we described last week, some blue state politicians are looking for ways around new tax rules that limit annual state and local tax deductions to $10,000.
Affluent taxpayers in high-tax states such as New York and California face higher tax bills as a result of the tax overhaul, and some communities may face pressure to lower local taxes and reduce services.
But while the financial stakes are serious, there may be a benefit for the politicians who are leading the fight, according to Politico.
New York Gov. Mario Cuomo, a potential presidential candidate who has described the new tax rules as "economic civil war," is raising his national profile as he leads the charge against the Republican tax overhaul.
"In a funny way, Cuomo's been handed a political gift here," Hofstra University's Larry Levy said, adding that "putting the state on war footing, invoking the language of conflict, is a brilliant political strategy."


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James Edward Franco (born April 19, 1978) is an American actor, film director, producer, screenwriter, author, painter, performance artist and professor at New York University. He left college in order to pursue acting and started off his career by making guest appearances on television series in the 1990s. Franco landed a lead part on the short-lived cult hit television program Freaks and Geeks and later achieved recognition for playing the titular character in the TV biographical film James Dean (2001), for which he was awarded a Golden Globe Award. He achieved international fame with his portrayals of Harry Osborn in Sam Raimi's Spider-Man trilogy.
Franco is critically acclaimed as an actor. He has done both dramatic and comedic work in projects and has appeared in an eclectic range of projects since the 2000s, ranging from period to contemporary pieces, and from major Hollywood productions to less publicized indie films, as well as fantasy movies to biopics and soap operas. Other notable films include Pineapple Express, a stoner comedy that earned him his second Golden Globes nomination, the Harvey Milk-biopic Milk (both 2008) as well as Danny Boyle's 2010 movie 127 Hours, about real-life mountain climber Aron Ralston's struggle to free his hand from a boulder. His performance in 127 Hours earned him nominations for many high-profile awards, including the Academy Awards, Golden Globe and SAG Awards.
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Rack of Lamb with Spicy Juniper Berry Glaze
- Serves 4
- Hugh Carpenter, Camp Napa Culinary
- Pairs well with:
- Cabernet Sauvignon, Napa Valley
Hugh Carpenter, host of Camp Napa Culinary, is one of the most popular and entertaining cooking teachers in America. In 28 years of teaching, more than 100,000 students have attended his classes in cooking schools in California's Napa Valley wine country and across America. For more information on Hugh Carpenter and Camp Napa Culinary visit his website at www.hughcarpenter.com
Hugh shares his delicious recipe for Rack of Lamb with Spicy Juniper Berry Glaze. Enjoy with Cakebread Cellars Cabernet Sauvignon.
2 1 lb. racks of lamb, trimmed
2 T. juniper berries or minced fresh rosemary
1 tsp. freshly ground black pepper
3 cloves garlic, minced
1 T. grated orange zest
3/4 C. freshly squeezed orange juice
1/2 C. thin soy sauce
1/4 C. extra virgin olive oil
2 T. honey
2 tsp. asian chile sauce or your favorite hot sauce.
Advance Preparation:
Trim any excess fat from the lamb and place in a shallow baking dish. Crush the juniper berries using a mortar and pestle. Rub the juniper berries and the pepper over the lamb. In a bowl, combine the garlic, orange zest, orange juice, soy sauce, oil , honey, and chile sauce and mix well. Reserve 1/2 cup of the marinade for basting. Coat all sides of the lamb with the remaining marinade. Cover and refrigerate for at least 10 minutes and up to 8 hours.
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Prepare a medium fire in a charcoal grill or preheat a gas grill to medium. When hot, brush the grill rack with oil, place the lamb on the rack, and cover the barbecue. Cook, turning and basting occasionally with reserved marinade, for about 15 minutes, until the meat registers 130° F on an instant-read meat thermometer for medium rare. The meat should still be very pink in the center. Alternatively, roast the lamb in a 425° F oven for about 20 minutes. Transfer the lamb to a cutting board and let rest for 5 minutes. Cut the racks into chops and divide among warmed dinner plates. Serve at once.
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Serve with garlic mashed potatoes and endive-watercress salad with blue cheese.


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I love it on Florida Kickoff Classic nights when tons of kids come crawling out of the gridiron grass like cinch bugs disguised as college football prospects.
They're all over the place.
It leaves people like myself scrambling for a roster trying to figure out, "Who's that?"
Believe it or not, I like when players come out of nowhere who we missed on the summer recruiting trail. It keeps us on our toes, helps people understand that as much as someone calls us experts we are more like observers, and it's always a good feeling to see a player emerge from anonymity.
Several players did that on Friday night and while there are plenty who might say they "told you so," in the long run the only thing that matters is seeing the player make a name for himself.
Here's a little breakdown, and it's not nearly a complete run-down:
It's too bad a storm had to roll in on the Edgewater-Hagerty game because I sure would have liked to have seen more of new Edgewater running back Sean Capobianco. A transfer from Apopka, Capobianco's name came up recently as someone we might watch.
He transferred to Edgewater after struggling academically at Apopka since his parents' divorce in his eighth grade year. John Capobianco, a longtime teacher at Edgewater, went through all the hoops to bring Sean to Edgewater last winter for the spring semester, and the move has paid great dividends for Sean in the classroom.
"You wouldn't believe the paperwork I had to bring to the hearings up in Ocala, but we did everything by the book and wouldn't do it any other way," Capobianco said. "I'm just thankful to get my son over here and get him back on track. I think he can even pull a 3.0 this semester and he's right on target now to graduate and everything. "
In just two quarters against Hagerty, Capobianco had a pair of touchdowns in his Eagles' debut. It's early and that was a jamboree game, but he did look good, as did the other Edgewater players, especially the defense.
Poor Hagerty QB Jeff Driskel, the Florida commit and top-ranked QB in the country by most rankings services, was running for his life against the Eagles' defense. He may have even woke up Saturday morning with the No. 19 overlaid on his No. 6 jersey as many times as Deion Green hit him.
But Green wasn't the only one. Another Apopka transfer Jaquail Ashley showed what we already knew, wreaking his own havoc, as did numerous Edgewater defenders like Karl Joseph, who had a pick of a Driskel pass. Everybody pretty much got a piece.
Edgewater's sophomore quarterback J.B. Woodman was impressive as well, taking the offense down the field on three scoring drives, and even had a touchdown pass to Alton Howard, who made a nice, leaping catch. Edgewater faces a tough test in the real opener on Friday against Dr. Phillips. The Panthers blanked Flagler Palm Coast 42-0 in their jamboree game.
In Lake Brantley's 20-0 win over Wekiva, it was not so much about who emerged, but what. In fact, George Clayton is in his 15th season as coach at Lake Brantley High, and something tells me this has never happened before — three TD passes in one game, and none on the ground. Although RB Ti'on Green did have a 97-yarder called back.
Able-armed quarterback Jordan Strittmatter threw two touchdown passes — recipients were Pierre Youngblood-Ary and Corey White — and then backup Colin McGrath also hit White with a TD pass. Preseason questions included those about Clayton using his receivers, like Youngblood-Ary, who has offers from Northwestern, Navy, Middle Tennessee, Memphis and FAU. He obviously has some ideas, but don't expect Clayton to go on a wild passing spree. He's had throwing QBs before, and they handed off in the triple option.
And Green gives Clayton plenty of reason to hand off or pitch out again this season. He's the top junior running back in Central Florida.
Other Friday Night Highlights
- Oak Ridge and Apopka had a crazy shootout that eventually saw the Blue Darters pull away 47-25. The Pioneers, who led 19-6 at one point, were led by the athletic tandem of Ricky Harper and Rayshawn Jackson was quite a load to handle for the Apopka defense, and the emergence of Oak Ridge QB Andre Scott showed the Pioneers have some promise this season. But the experience of Apopka QB Keon Brooks and RB Tom Smith — Tennessee commit — proved too much in the end. The new name for Apopka fans to remember is junior WR Synjohn Lilly, who had a pair of TD catches.
- We already knew Ocoee WR-CB Trenier Orr was an excellent athlete, but he went one step beyond that against Boone, playing quarterback for the Knights, who kept pace with Boone until weather interrupted play. The game was called at halftime, 15-13 Boone. There may not be a better all-around athlete in the area besides Pop Saunders — a Florida commit — at DeLand. Both players can take over a game at any moment.
- Speaking of Boone, we know the Braves probably have the most sophomore talent in the area with the likes of RB A.J. Turman and speedy WR Marvin Bracy, Oviedo transfer QB Alton Meeks was very impressive Friday night. Meeks opened up his Boone debut by threading a bullet through the Ocoee defense to Joe Martinson in stride and Martinson did the rest for a 37-yard TD. Meeks looks like the real deal.
- Deltona pinned a surprising 17-0 shutout on Sanford Seminole. Sophomore quarterback Bryce Natale was intercepted twice and two Seminole fumbles led to Deltona TDs. Natale did have a 76-yard touchdown pass to Ronnie Moore called back for offsetting personal fouls, but he threw a pick on the next play. Wolves kicker Alex Noboa joined a long list of talented Central Florida kickers after connecting on a 39-yarder.
- Bishop Moore had plenty of players pick up the slack for injured running back Tyler Floyd. Senior RB/DB Kyle Dickinson scored twice, including a 55-yarder, ala Floyd. Senior QB Michael Calabro had an outstanding passing performance, completing 13-of-16 passes for 177 yards, and also snuck in from the 2-yard line for a rushing TD. He spread the ball around the field to Dickinson, Blake Tiralosi, Braxton Carroll, Ben Richardson and Ryan Stanney. Junior kicker Duncan Brennan hit a field goal from a little over 40 yards.
- Lake Mary athlete Taylor Richards, a Purdue commitment who had a pair of TDs in the Rams' blanking of West Orange on Friday, has set his official visit date to West Lafayette, Ind. He be in town for the Boilermakers contest with Michigan on Nov. 13. He said Monday he is still solid with the Boilers.
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- Zach Marmetschke, a standout linebacker/fullback at Lake Mary, suffered a sprained right ankle against West Orange and is unsure when he might be back on the field. Marmetschke, who is one of the more scholarly athletes in Central Florida, has numerous Ivy League invitations, as well as an offer from Furman. "The doctor said when I am able to run on it without a limp I can go back," Marmetschke said. "It is feeling better and better every day and as of right now it is just a day-to-day thing. I am just doing therapy and everything I can to get better." Knowing Zach, the hard-nosed athlete will be back Friday night, but he should probably sit this one out.
- Talented Liberty offensive lineman Marck Castillo, who was one of the Top 30 players in the Central Florida Super60 for 2011, has quit the Liberty squad for unconfirmed reasons. It's surely tough to see that kind of talent go to waste. Calls to Castillo went unanswered, but we'll keep trying to find out his plans for the future.
Chris Hays is the Sentinel's recruiting coverage coordinator and can be reached at email@example.com.


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Dan's time is divided between three primary tasks involving hydrology and hydraulic engineering: advising and assisting NRCS state offices with projects, developing software to assist project planners and engineers, and participating in a professional cadre to provide training in the many river and watershed related courses offered by NRCS.
A 1980 graduate of Georgia Tech in Civil Engineering, Dan began his career working for Boeing in Seattle as a structural engineer on the 767 commercial aircraft. Having also worked for the Corps of Engineers in Memphis Tennessee as a co-op student in hydraulics, he returned to the Corps in Los Angeles in 1984. Including a one-year stint as a Regional Hydraulic Engineer with the Federal Highway Administration, Dan now has over 35 years of experience in hydraulics and hydrology, and holds a professional engineering license for the states of California and Oregon.
Dan's technical work with the Corps included flood analyses, such as 100-year floodplain determination for the Los Angeles River through the San Gabriel Valley urban area. He analyzed alluvial fan flow for an innovative flood protection barrier to protect Redlands CA from boulder-laden floods coming down out of the steep San Bernardino Mountains. He analyzed the tide-influenced system of canals and pump stations draining the flood prone coastal city of Huntington Beach.
Joining SCS in Portland in 1991, Dan has been the Columbia River Basin river flow forecaster, which included snowpack analysis for over 180 river gages. He recently served as editor for a national technical note providing guidance for hydrologic modeling of post-wildfire watersheds. He serves on the HecRas support team, providing training and project support. He is one of the most experienced NRCS hydraulic engineers in the 2D modeling capability of HecRAS. Dan also serves as a user-support contact for the climate data generation model GEM6.
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PLEASANT HILL, Mo. - Grain Valley coach Jimmy Tucker did his best to maintain his composure following a disappointing 38-15 district loss to undefeated Pleasant Hill.
"I want to address the seniors," Tucker said, as many of the eight seniors on the 4-6 team huddled together, tears streaming down their faces. "I've never been as proud of a group of seniors as I am of you."
Tucker was all but abandoned by a class that started with 40-some underclassmen and ended with the eight seniors he was addressing at midfield at damp Pleasant Hill.
"You guys mean so much to me, to this program. I can't thank you enough."
While the senior class on this year's team was small, the underclassmen could help energize a program that features a bright future.
"I hate to play like this, in the biggest game of the season," said sophomore quarterback Kellen Holland, who was 20 of 37 for 182 yards with two touchdowns and four interceptions. "I played a bad game. Our defense didn't do anything, and we lost our last game and have to say goodbye to the seniors.
"It's like Coach said, they meant so much to this team – they meant everything to me and all the other underclassmen. We came over here tonight thinking we were going to get the win, and we didn't play well enough.
"Pleasant Hill is a good team, and we needed to play a lot better than we did tonight to win this one."
After a scoreless first period that was plagued by electrical problems which caused the scoreboard to malfunction, the 10-0 Roosters put up 14 second-quarter points. They tacked on 17 in a third period that was delayed several minutes following an injury to Roosters running back Mason Hertzog, who was taken off the field on a stretcher with his helmet taped to a body board.
The Eagles managed one first-half score on a 33-yard pass from Holland to David Hudgens with 52 seconds left in the half.
"When it was 14-7 at the half, we were still in the game," Tucker said. "Our defense, I thought, played its best – or one of its best games this season – but we had so many turnovers and they had the short field all night long.
"We made a couple of big stops in the red zone, but we kept turning the ball over and hurting ourselves."
Running back Brandon Cassity was the most painful thorn in the Eagles' side as he carried the ball 19 times for 115 yards and three touchdowns.
After the Roosters built a three touchdown lead, they kept the ball on the ground to run out the second-half clock.
Grain Valley's final score came in the closing seconds of the game when Holland hit senior running back Brice Quinn for a 20-yard TD. Zach Ehlen then carried the ball into the end zone for the 2-point conversion.
"We played all year with only eight seniors, and the eight seniors we had gave it everything," said senior Hunter Ramirez, who had eight receptions for 54 yards and five carries for 45 yards. "Our eight seniors were a part of this program the last four years, and I'll never forget my time here. We didn't have as much success as we'd have liked, but we worked hard, and I am so proud to call them my teammates."


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This week's photo assignment comes to your from our friend Bradford Benn and the fine folks at the BMW MOA Foundation.
The holidays are upon us and as usual, they are full of surprises. In an attempt to retain some semblance of sanity, we humbly offer these simple rules - with some twists:
* Photos must be shot this year: between December 14th and January 1st, 2008.
* Think about if you would like to receive a Holiday Card with this image as the cover, don't be surprised if someone from the BMW MOA Foundation asks if the images can be used for a Fundraising Card. Yup, Brad is looking ahead to the card for 2008. If you haven't ordered cards yet for 2007, check these out.
* You must provide the EXIF information if asked (we'll help you, if you'd like to know how to get it).
* No photoshop alteration (we're looking to improve your skills with your camera, not software).
* Your photograph must adhere to the theme, which will be described below.
* Post only one photo per post, so that commentary can be easily provided for that photo. You may post more than one photo, but try to keep it to a handful.
* Title your photo so it can be referred to later.
* Post your photos in this thread only. Do not start a thread in reply to this assignment. Please post your photos no later than next Wednesday.
* And, the most important rule: have fun! We're looking to spread the joy that many of us derive from taking pictures, particularly ones that tell a story of some kind.
This week's theme: "Holiday Warmth and Motorcycling"
This week you are invited to take a picture of that sums up the Holiday Season and motorcycling. Could this be a motorcycle parked in front of snow? Santa on a motorcycle? Eight motorcycles pulling a sleigh? A motorcycle menoraha? What does the Holiday Season and Motorcycles mean to you? Show us in a picture.
Once again, we encourage you to think about composition and see your viewfinder as a finished print. What will you include within--and exclude from--it's borders and why?
Now get out there and show us Holiday Warmth and Motorcycling.


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Forum Post: The reality of our economy
Posted 6 years ago on July 31, 2013, 3:39 p.m. EST by Riley2011
from New Britain, CT
This content is user submitted and not an official statement
I read an article in the New York Times on Sunday in which the president claimed that he is now focusing on the middle class. I personally do not know who is middle class anymore, it feels like there is either rich or poor. The media jumps on the bandwagon and claims that jobs are coming back, yet the Sunday news in our area only has two pages of jobs, and the average under 10.00. I agree with Girl Friday, the housing numbers are a sham as well as the stock market. Does everyone feel that we are better off than we were three years ago?


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The Ambivalent Worlds of Iranian Cinema
Bahram Beyzai is one of the most well-known directors in Iran today. His last film, "Killing Mad Dogs," came out three years ago and was one of the biggest hits of the past decade in Iran. But with only a few exceptions, the film could hardly be found on screens in the West. The same was true of his films "Pastry Girl," The Wind Carpet," and "Fire and Water," which had also been successful at home.
Are Iranian films a grand illusion?
Beyond the question of how well a film's content can be translated across borders, there is also a question as to whether or not the Iranian films that reach us in the West are at all representative of Iranian film. Cineastes have indeed complained that the exported films create a false, exotic image of Iran. For example, films such as "Children from Heaven," "The Silence," "A Time for Drunken Horses" and others are humanist fables about solidarity and friendship. The setting is often in poor suburban or colorful rural areas. The protagonists are often children.
The charge that these films are alienating to the rest of the world is only partly justified given the confusing realities of Iranian life—realities which oscillate between medieval traditions and urban modernity. Many of these films are colorful and rich in metaphors and indeed bear witness to a "typically Iranian" disposition. They all spring forth from an authentic poetic vein. Classical Persian lyricism creates simple, clear and yet highly complex images with which directors proclaim their critical—often subversive—views in symbolic form.
But this aesthetic has recently become fashionable. Some films are now produced with the goal of potential success abroad. Spectacular cases of censorship appear to be orchestrated scandals aimed at insuring the success of films in the West.
The Iranian Perspective
The search for an "authentic" Iranian cinema is not easy. Perhaps audiences can help here: In Teheran moviegoers in the last eight years haven't been able to see a single Arab film in Iranian cinemas. Indian cinema was also not represented.
It seems that the West is ultimately closer to home than Iran's Sunni neighbors. Although only six to eight Hollywood films—edited, of course—reach Iranian cinemas each year, and although Iranians are proud of their hundred-year-old film tradition, the youth in particular are still enthusiastic consumers of Western images. All new Hollywood films are available on CD, DVD or video.
Cinema screens in the towns are dominated by homegrown action films, love stories and family comedies, which are often modified versions of old Hollywood flicks. But it is also true that some of the Iranian films that are treasured in the West are very popular in Iran as well, for example films by Rassul Sadr Ameli ("Taraneh, Age 15"), Rakhshan Bani-Etemad ("Under the Skin of the City," "The Blue Veiled") oder Manijeh Hekmat's ("Women's Prison"). These filmmakers have been able to produce numerous films that were successful in the West.
Prominent directors as liars and egomaniacs
Other directors who are said to aim their work at foreign festivals are less appreciated. The Teheran film critic Mehdi Abdollahzadeh refers to the films of some prize-winning directors as a theater of lies, citing for example Jalili ("Delbaran"), Makhmalbaf ("Kandahar") oder Madjidi ("Baran"). Indeed, in the eyes of many critics Makhmalbaf has lost his reputation as a filmmaker who addresses social issues in a way that is critical of the government. Some see him as an egomaniac who in more interested in burnishing his renown in the West than in his audiences at home.
And for example the Oscar-winner Madjidi is considered by some to be a talented plagiarist. Abdollahzadeh compares the questionable artistic merit of these filmmakers to great names such as Bahman Ghobadi ("Marooned in Iraq") or Abbas Kiarostami ("Ten"), who have also won prices and enjoyed success in Europe.
In a land of paradoxes and ambiguities that is currently in a phase of social upheaval, the questions of "art vs. commercial commodity" or "authentic vs. fake" remain a question of taste.
The future of Iranian cinema is still uncertain. But this much can be said: the transformation in cultural politics under President Chatami favors a decentralization of the film industry and the establishment of private production companies. This is also leading to a decline in censorship and a more direct tackling of controversial social issues—a development that has already taken hold and will continue to change more than ever in the past both the content and aesthetic of Persian film.
Amin Farzanefar, © Qantara.de 2004
Translation from German: Christina White


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Associate Dean, Division of Professional Studies
A jointly registered program:
CCC: Associate in Science Degree, Transfer Program
Elmira College: Bachelor of Science or Bachelor of Arts Degree
This program is designed for students planning to transfer to Elmira College as Childhood Education majors. Qualified students who enter this program at CCC are simultaneously accepted into Elmira College. At Elmira College, students may choose to pursue either a Bachelor of Science or Bachelor of Arts degree. During their final semester at CCC, students will meet with Elmira College advisers who will register them for their next semester. Students must maintain a 2.7 or higher Grade Point Average for successful transfer.
Graduates will have the skills and knowledge necessary to transfer to the Education Certification program at Elmira College only. All teachers in New York State must successfully complete one year of language at the college level. They must also complete their education program and pass all state certification exams before receiving their initial certificate.
It is highly recommended that students consult with their adviser each semester.
High school or equivalent preparation required: No special requirements.


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tki necesitaba un nuevo diseño de banner publicitario y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 62 diseños de 15 diseñadores freelance.
The Key to Italy
We are a vacation rental agency based in Italy. http://www.thekeytoitaly.com
Our business is about renting private apartments located in the hisorical city center of Rome, Venice and Florence for short term stays.
Our clients are primarily families from USA,Canada,Australia or UK and average stay is between 3 nights and a week.
We have about 50+ apartments in Rome, 50+ in Venice and several in Florence
Our strenghts are:
1) Top Accommodations
2) Personal Service
3) Independent Reviews from previous guests
4) Super Central Locations
5) Trusted Brand
6) Local assistance
We need banners for google remarketing campaigns (primary) and google content campaigns.
Our clients are primarily families from USA,Canada,Australia or UK and average stay is between 3 nights and a week.
Our goal is to convince travellers to submit an inquiry via a simple web form (name, arrival/departure dates, persons, email) so that one of our travel agent can get back to them via email with a list of proposals (private apartments for rent).
Here is an example of a landing page.
Similar landing pages with slightly different content will be created ad hoc for each specific campaign.
Banner sizes:
728 x 90 Leaderboard (required)
120 x 600 Skyscraper (required)
468 x 60 Banner (required)
160 x 600 (optional)
336 x 280 (optional)
300 x 250 (optional)
Our idea is that banners should:
1) show pictures of some of the most beautiful properties we have (or other engaging pictures of interiors) to give a sense of what their accommodation would look like if they rent with us
2) show (3) major features (maybe with bullet points) from our value proposition
3) have a CTA Button like 'check with us', 'book now', 'check our accommodations'
4) have a message like: "100+ Stunning Private Apartments for rent in Italy", "Wide choice of impressive Private Apartments for rent in Rome,Venice and Florence"
Images and bullet points might be rotating
We would like to be consistent with our brand colors and style.
Some sample images of apartment interiors can be found here: http://promo.thekeytoitaly.com/veni…36zw8w.jpg
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In a manner very similar to Gabourey Sidibe's casually-epic shutdown of her critics this week, Lena Dunham responded to Jezebel's request for her unretouched Vogue images via Twitter.
I'd like to say that I'd have the same laissez-faire attitude if someone bothered Anna Wintour on my behalf for something so...superficial and gross, but honestly, I can't say that I would. Love it.
Follow Tess on Twitter.
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Balmain Cemetery - Tricia Mack
Balmain Cemetery is now the site of Pioneers Memorial Park in Norton Street. Balmain Cemetery of 11 acres fronted Derbyshire Road, bounded by William and Allen Streets and Norton Street, Leichhardt, NSW. The cemetery opened in 1868 and closed in 1912 - a burial ground that accepted 10,608 internments.
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Teacher resources and professional development across the curriculum
Teacher professional development and classroom resources across the curriculum
Students in any language arts class must learn to ground their responses to a text in the words of the text itself. But in reader-response-oriented classrooms, this might be even more important.
Unsophisticated readers often read something quickly and rely on their first impressions for all future discussion and writing; they seldom see the point of going back and rereading, or of looking back to note a writer's exact words when paraphrasing. Many a classroom literature discussion has gone awry when students have attempted to talk about a text without having it open for reference in front of them. Though asking students to find evidence for their point of view in a text is an age-old demand, new methods of doing this can work especially well in a reader-response classroom.
To get students in the habit of finding evidence, many teachers use learning logs or double-entry journals that ask students to copy out quotes that interest them from a text and then write down why. This prevents students from making the kind of response to their reading that is so global as to be meaningless, such as "It was good" or "It was kind of boring." It also helps them to slow down and take note of the author's voice, tone, and style.
During class discussions, whether with the whole class or in literature circles, the teacher might demand that each opinion or assertion is backed up by the words of the text. Because this can keep a discussion from flowing naturally, it need not be done every time; doing it once or twice will serve to remind students of how important the practice is. Particularly significant lines from a text chosen by the teacher or students might be blown up on large paper or written on the board for a deeper response. Students can be asked to draw (see above, "Using Visual Imagery to Respond to Texts" ), write, or talk about these quotes.
A fun way to have students find evidence in a text is to make it a game or "scavenger hunt." Asking students in pairs or small groups to "find a line that demonstrates x" can make it interesting for them, and can spur the kind of text-grounded discussions for which a literature teacher constantly hopes. For instance, a teacher might give small groups of students a list of such "find a line" challenges: "Find a line that shows the main character is secretly angry at his father;" "Find a line that shows the dullness of the town portrayed in the story," etc. These challenges can begin with the literal, where students can find nearly the exact words of the challenge in the text, and move on to the interpretive, where they need to infer meaning from the text.
By instructing students to find evidence in the actual words of a text, teachers train them to be careful readers, and help them develop an awareness and appreciation of different writing styles.
Because students can interpret the reader-response philosophy to mean that anything they say is right, methods that help them connect their responses to the actual words of a text are helpful in keeping the response focused.
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All Clubs registered with the IRONMAN TriClub Program get the chance to participate in the 2020 IRONMAN African TriClub Championship which will take place at wild coast of IRONMAN 70.3 South Africa.
The club with the most points in no matter the the division will be crowned 2020 African TriClub Champion. The top five individual AGR athlete results from each club will be added together to receive a club grand total. So the more athletes racing from your club, the better your clubs chance of winning!
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Coach predicts Sonnen's UFC career is over
Chael Sonnen's coach has raised question marks over whether the middleweight will continue fighting in the UFC, revealing he might go and do something else.
Sonnen gave himself the big build-up to his fight with Anderson Silva for the middleweight title on Saturday, but when the moment arrived he was defeated. He must now either rebuild his 185lb career or chase Jon Jones' belt at 205lbs.
As a fighter who has always said he would not compete unless he was on course for a world title, Sonnen's future is in limbo right now. He is a distance away from getting another crack at a UFC belt, and coach Neil Melanson wonders if new challenges beckon.
"Any time you're a part of training camp or you're friends with somebody and they lose, you just worry about them like, how are they gonna handle it mentally? Are they gonna come back from this?" Melanson said on The Verbal Submission.
"I don't know what Chael's plans are, but I got a feeling he's done fighting. I don't know. I've just got a feeling he's done. Maybe I'm wrong, but I think he was serious when he said, 'If you beat me, I will leave forever,' and there's a very good chance of that.
"I never met anyone that had a scenario where it's like, 'If I don't win this then I'm done,' it never worked out positive for them because, just in my experience, you have to love the grind and if you love the grind, eventually you'll get what you want because you give up what you need to give up.
"Apparently Chael had his limit like, 'This is it, I've had enough. If I don't win this then it's all not worth it.' Having lost that, yeah, there's a very good chance he could pursue other things.
"He's a very smart guy, very well spoken. I know, whether he'll admit to it or not, he has a lot of passion to be a broadcaster of sorts. He seems to excel in any type of speaking arrangement. He loves doing interviews. He loves hyping fights and I'm sure he loves training.
"He's a good fighter. He's a great fighter and he's an awesome athlete but he can't fight forever and maybe he's at a point he'd like to do something else. Maybe I'm wrong. I hope I'm wrong."


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AAPL: Einhorn's Right, Major Capital Allocation Change Needed, Says Bernstein
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Toni Sacconaghi of Bernstein Research, who has an Outperform rating on Apple (AAPL) shares, was on CNBC briefly a short while ago to discuss the interview earlier this morning with David Einhorn of Greenlight Capital who is agitating to have shareholders reject Apple's proxy vote on blocking preferred shares.
Einhorn thinks Apple needs to issue perpetual preferred shares with a 4% dividend yield to close the enormous valuation gap he sees in Apple.
Sacconaghi was inclined to agree with Einhorn, though he actually thinks the company should take on large amounts of debt:
Look, like any set of calculations, Einhorn's idea is based on a series of assumptions, and we could bicker with some of them. The broader issue that Einhorn is bringing to the table, and it's one Bill Miller raised yesterday, is that Apple investors are dissatisfied with Apple's capital allocation strategy. I fully agree with those views. Others have suggested, and I believe, Apple should take on debt and raise its dividend. The fact is, for a company to have $137 billion and add $40 billion per year, is destroying economic value. The important thing is, Apple is actively talking with major shareholders now about returning incremental cash. They did this a year ago. After that they announced the initial dividend last march. They are now going through a similar process. I don't think that means anything, but there is a precedent, at least, here. So first and foremost, they are looking at this. The majority of the cash, $85 billion, is off shore. So, to return that cash, they are going to have to pay a tax. The alternative is to take on debt. They don't want to take on debt, and they don't want to pay a tax, is the issue.
Asked by the hosts if he was surprised that Apple wants to take away the possibility of preferred shares from its charter, Sacconaghi responded,
It's hard to say where that notion came from and why Apple wants to eliminate it. In many cases, shareholders actually do want the preferred stock provisions eliminated, because they can be used to avert a takeover. But given Apple's market cap, they are not going to be taken over. The real reason behind why Apple is proposing to have prop 2 eliminated is not clear at this point.
Sacconaghi said the biggest catalyst to get Apple shares going at this point would be "a major return in cash" to shareholders. "If they raise the dividend 15%, it's not going to move the stock. They need a major change in capital allocation."
But will it happen?
I'm not holding my breath on that. Then again, Apple is a company that never returned any money to shareholders, and they took a step a year ago. I'm not betting on significant change in policy in next few months. To get value investors to own this stock to really move it, you need a dividend in the high 3% range, ideally you need a dividend in the 4% plus range.
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - On a crisp fall afternoon in New England, MIT men's lightweight crew opened its 2012 season at the 48th annual Head of the Charles, the largest rowing regatta in the world. The Engineers, who competed in the last men's event of the regatta on Sunday, finished the course with a time of 15:07.69.
Bow #14, led by senior coxswain Michael Hwang (Seattle, Wash.), posted the fifth fasted time out of the 18 teams that were entered in the Men's Lightweight Eights event, finishing a few seconds after Yale and Princeton and narrowly beating Cornell.
MIT will compete in three more events this year, the next of which will take place on Saturday, Oct. 28 at Princeton, before closing the 2012 season and returning to the water again in April.
Boat Lineups
Lightweight Eights (Bow #14)
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Designed by Fanny Adam, an arts student who was clearly living in a cramped dorm, the multi-functional Story sofa is an even more accomplished transformer than Optimus Prime. It changes from a sofa, to a bed, to a dining table—all the while providing ample storage with drawers and cubby holes.
The best part is that come moving day you only have one piece of furniture to carry downstairs. And since it's made from an engineered wood covered in Formica, it probably doesn't weight that much either. It could very well be the world's most perfect sofa—that you heartbreakingly can't buy because for the moment there's only one in existence, created for Fanny's final design thesis.


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Beautiful building site with hard woods in the Boardman River Valley. Private setting, ideal for nature lovers, yet close to shopping and other services. Hiking, fishing, canoeing minutes away on the Boardman River. See the deer and other animals right in your own yard. 12 parcels in phase one, under ground electric and paved road in all lots perk.
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