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I reread the article a couple of times. Couldn't believe the frankness of the first stanza - shocking to see the MSM report any semblance of the truth - especially funny since when I pulled the article up, there's a big KB Homes advertisement on the top banner. Too funny.
But then you really get into the meat of the article, and you could just hear Catherine Reagor's editor over her shoulder saying "Cat, no, we just CAN'T be that strong. Water it down a bit - give us some wiggle room. We have a BUSINESS to run here don't forget (nudge nudge)."
Also, as HP'ers know, I've been very critical of this reporter's work - calling it frankly lazy, as she rushes out to get Real Estate Industrial Complex quotes, and never adds a disclaimer or even questions the quote. Here's some doozies from the piece and my commentary:
"economists say it looks as if the slide will continue for at least the next six months, possibly pulling down home values as much as 10 percent before it's done" - WHO, CAT? WHAT WONDERFUL STABLE OF SOURCES DO YOU USE TO MAX OUT AT 10%? L-A-Z-Y.
"No one is calling for the Valley's housing market to crash as it did in 1990" - WRONG - HOUSINGPANIC WHICH YOU READ IS CALLING FOR A CRASH CAT.
Valley home values will drop a little," Sullivan said. "Look at demand and supply. - OK CAT, HERE WAS YOUR BIG CHANCE. DEFINE "A LITTLE". ASK A FOLLOW UP QUESTION. REPORT FOR GODS SAKE.
A drop in home prices alone won't be a crushing blow to the Valley's housing market. - UH, CAT, NICE THROW-AWAY SENTENCE FROM YOU HERE. IS THAT YOUR OPINION? THEN SAY 'THIS REPORTER BELIEVES'. AS YOU KNOW, HP BELIEVES THE DROP IN HOME PRICES IN PHOENIX WILL DEAL A DEVASTATING BLOW TO THE VALLEY'S HOUSING MARKET AS WELL AS THE VALLEY'S TOTAL ECONOMY.
"The only people who will really be affected are those who purchased last year, when there was fluff in the market," said Elliott Pollack, - FOLLOW UP CAT! THE ONLY PEOPLE? OK, I GUESS THE ILLEGAL MEXICAN LABORERS WON'T BE AFFECTED, EH? I GUESS THE TENS OF THOUSANDS TO LOSE THEIR JOBS WON'T BE AFFECTED? I GUESS EVERY HOMEOWNER IN PHOENIX WHO LOST PAPER WEALTH WON'T CARE EH? I GUESS FOLKS WHO CASHED OUT THEIR EQUITY AND NOW HAVE CRUSHING DEBT AREN'T AFFECTED? WHAT A JOKE
I could go on and on, and maybe I will on another post. I'm happy to see the article written, but I continue to be saddened by the poor reporting skills of Catherine Reagor and her Arizona Republic editors
June 22, 2006
Breaking down the Arizona Republic piece a bit more
I reread the article a couple of times. Couldn't believe the frankness of the first stanza - shocking to see the MSM report any semblance of the truth - especially funny since when I pulled the article up, there's a big KB Homes advertisement on the top banner. Too funny.
Posted by blogger at 6/22/2006
55 comments:
- panicearly said...
keith keith keith,
Reagor is a Reagorjitator, just prints what is said. she might be trying but thats not her job description.
- June 22, 2006 8:36 AM
WE are over 50 000 houses on the market today!!!! in Phx.
- June 22, 2006 10:45 AM
Found the Article to BS.
In December 2006 I paid 1 pound of gold for my house. Now it is worth 1 pound 12 onces.
Housing is strong really strong here in Arizona
- June 22, 2006 10:46 AM
Gold today is still about $50 an oz more than it was in january, are you saying Arizona housing has doubled in price in the last 6 months?
- June 22, 2006 11:02 AM
Phoenix foreclosures are about to increase.
Fear grips Phoenix housing market.
- June 22, 2006 1:22 PM
- uknowwhoiyam said...
"Home prices may dip 10% as fear grips Valley market."
"10 percent?" "May dip?"
I think that's the understatement of the month. Will dip 25% is probably closer to the truth; time will tell.
- June 22, 2006 1:22 PM
Watch for the invisible owners!
- June 22, 2006 1:34 PM
Phoenix foreclosures are about to increase.
- June 22, 2006 1:34 PM
Reagor isn't the only one. Nine out of ten of my google alerts have articles where the reporters interview real estate/industrial complex members when exploring the down side that we are now in. Result: rosy forecast, what bubble? soft landing, needed correction, etc. I would like to see the bubble over and done with, but I believe it's going to be painfully long and slow slide.
- June 22, 2006 2:35 PM
In December 2006 I paid 1 pound of gold for my house. Now it is worth 1 pound 12 onces.
Wow, that was some stunt. A house you bought in the future is worth less than it is today. Well, that's what Keith has been saying all along, although why you used your time machine to buy a depreciating asset is beyond me. Oh well, to each his own.
- June 22, 2006 2:41 PM
Some whiner sent a letter to the editor complaining the market is bad enough, the paper did not need to make it worse!! Guess the truth doesn't matter??..
Hmm wonder if it was a realtor....
- June 22, 2006 3:03 PM
- zinger said...
To: keith sold me his gold
You sound like someone who is new to buying gold.
I understand that new gold investors who jumped in when gold was over $600 and over $700; are now hurting with the sharp drop.
But why did you buy?
Were you just looking to make a quick speculative buck from a fast rising gold price?
If not, you will be fine and should thank the PPT for putting gold back ON-SALE so that you can protect more of your FIAT before the dollar bites the dust.
If so, easy come - easy go... stop blaming keith for your speculative losses. UNLESS, you can prove that keith has insider information as to the timing and intent of the PPT and its allies; who are the 800 pound tiger defending FIAT by bashing GOLD.
***WARNING: GOLD is in a GOLBAL WAR ZONE.
On one side, sits the establisment (Central Bankers and Goverments) who hate gold and will sell it from what remains of their stashes to prop up their paper fiat currencies.
On the other side, sits private investors (including hedge funds), who view gold as the ultimate global money and a protector of long term purchasing power in the face of negative real rates on fiat savings.
New developments: China and Russia are starting to switch sides from the first side to the second. They both still hold very large dollar reserves and have economic ties to the US trade, so their switch is going to be stealthy and gradual; but this is one of the long term drivers of the overall gold bull market that we have been in for a few years now. The WAR is going to make GOLD very choppy from here on.
- June 22, 2006 3:14 PM
- blogger said...
here's today's az rep letter to the editor supporting them in printing the story
A duty to report full story
Jun. 22, 2006 12:00 AM
A letter writer complains about a negative news piece concerning the real estate market and its potential effect on the economy ("Real estate reports hurt economy," Letters, Tuesday).
I say The Arizona Republic has not only the right but the duty to report such stories.
I have no sympathy for the agents, brokers, builders or the slew of investors who have invaded and profited enormously from the real estate boom in Arizona. Like the dot-com boom, what goes up must come down.
The only sympathy I have is for the hard-working Arizonans who cannot afford a single-family home thanks to the feeding frenzy of the past few years. -Tim Haggerty, Cottonwood
- June 22, 2006 3:23 PM
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send your letters to the az republic here
- June 22, 2006 3:24 PM
- Smart Grid blogger said...
Region's housing market deflates
By NOREEN SEEBACHER
Original publication: June 22, 2006)
It's over.
The crazed phase of frenetic home buying in Westchester, Rockland and Putnam counties has screeched to a halt — leaving some industry experts wondering if the sound they hear now is the housing bubble bursting.
"The market isn't soft. It isn't even slow. It's dead," said Liz Rosenblatt, an agent with Fuerst & Fuerst Inc., a real estate firm in New Hempstead.
Scott Stiefvater, a broker-owner at Stiefvater Real Estate Inc. in Pelham, said prospective homeowners are still looking at properties. "They just aren't buying," he said. "I'm getting a little worried."
After nearly seven years of unprecedented strength, the housing market has taken an unexpectedly steep slide, real estate professionals throughout the Lower Hudson Valley concur. It's gone from multiple offers for more than asking price just hours after properties were listed for sale to no offers at all, even after price reductions.
In Wesley Hills, for instance, Rosenblatt recently dropped the price on a four-bedroom, 2.5-bath raised ranch to $495,000 from $545,000. "There still aren't any offers," she said.
Christine Garafola, an associate broker at Coldwell Banker Gumbo Realty in Armonk, dropped the price on a four-bedroom, 2.5-bath center-hall Colonial in Mahopac from $949,000 to $889,000 in less than three months. The owner still isn't getting what he's asking.
Stiefvater said potential buyers are looking for value but skeptical of bargains. He cited an impeccably maintained four-bedroom, three-bath Cape Colonial recently reduced to $659,000 from about $700,000. "The current list price is below market value. But now buyers think something is wrong with the house," he said.
Both P. Gilbert Mercurio, chief executive officer of the White Plains-based Westchester County Board of Realtors and Westchester-Putnam Multiple Listing Service, and Ann Garti, chief executive officer of the Greater Hudson Valley Multiple Listing Service in Goshen, said sales are down and inventories are up.
The number of homes on the market in Westchester and Putnam counties has swelled from about 1,000 at the end of the first quarter of 2005 to about 1,500 at the end of the first quarter this year. In Rockland, inventory soared from 734 at the end of the first quarter of 2005 to 1,325 at the end of the first quarter this year.
Real estate brokers have concerns because inventory continues to grow, at an average pace of five to 10 listings in most communities each week. Stiefvater said there usually are about 25 homes for sale in Pelham. Now, he added, it has climbed to more than 80. In Clarkstown, Rosenblatt said, there usually are about six residential properties for sale. "Right now, we have about 45," she said.
Despite the higher inventories, Mercurio said prices, overall, are at least stable and, in some cases, up slightly from a year ago. "By no means has the market collapsed," he said. "We perceive it as a return to what we have historically considered a normal market."
The problem, real estate agents and sellers agree, is that normal feels uncomfortably slow — at least in comparison to the pace of sales and price appreciation during the past few years. Garti said, "It only takes one or two years of a superheated market for people to forget that what they are experiencing is not normal. What is happening now is a leveling off."
Data for the second quarter won't be available until July, but signs of a slowdown already were evident in the first-quarter numbers.
In Westchester and Putnam, for example, the report released in April shows that there were 1,823 closings in the first quarter of this year, down 9 percent from a year earlier. Single-family home sales fell 14 percent, compared to the first quarter of 2005, while co-op sales slipped 5.7 percent in that same period. Only condominium sales were strong, posting a gain of 3.8 percent.
In Putnam, first-quarter home sales were 11 percent lower this year than 12 months earlier, the report continued. Rockland had a more modest decline in the first quarter, when 323 homes and 134 condominiums were sold, compared with 325 and 136, respectively.
Real estate agents and brokers speculate that second-quarter statistics will show an even steeper decline in sales.
Nationwide, the National Association of Realtors projects that sales of both new and existing homes will drop significantly this year. David Lereah, NAR's chief economist, expects new home sales to drop 13.4 percent and existing home sales to drop 6.8 percent nationwide in 2006. But he said neither buyers nor sellers should panic.
"In recent years, we were occasionally challenged to find appropriate superlatives to describe surprisingly high home sales," Lereah said. "Now the housing market has cooled, but 2006 is still expected to be the third strongest on record."
Lereah said the economy actually would benefit from the slowdown in the housing market. "We need a solid housing sector to provide an underlying base to the economy, and slower appreciation will help to preserve long-term affordability," he said.
At least some homeowners, however, are panicking. Worried that increased supply will lead to rapid price deceleration, they are rushing to put their homes up for sale. Some of them think the market will only get worse, real estate agents said.
Peter Bell, broker-owner of Balch Buyers Realty in Mamaroneck, said most sellers are willing to negotiate and are eager for offers. "Last year, only about 10 percent of all homes in this area had been on the market for more than three months. Now, at least a third have been on for more than three months. Since more properties are on for a longer periods, you see more price reductions to more reasonable levels.
"Sellers are also entertaining lower down payments and more contingencies in the contract, including delayed closings to allow time for the sale of the buyer's home," Bell said.
One sign of the slowing market is the return of bridge financing, or short-term loans that allow a buyer to close on the sale of one home while waiting on the sale of another. During the heyday of the sellers' market, buyers could comfortably sign contracts to purchase a home before they even put their own property on the market, because they knew it would sell in a matter of days.
Now, as David Moore, a mortgage broker with Concorde Funding in Greenwich, explained more buyers are experiencing a time lag between the purchase of one property and the sale of another. If they have an existing home equity line of credit, they may be able to tap the equity in their existing homes to finance the purchase of another.
However, Moore said lenders would not approve home equity lines on homes that already are on the market. In those cases, the owners may need to get a bridge loan for a term of three to 12 months.
Moore said another option for buyers is a double decker or piggyback loan. The buyer obtains one mortgage for 80 percent of the cost of the property and a second mortgage for an additional 10 percent to 15 percent of the cost. "This way, when they sell their original home, they can use the proceeds to pay off the second mortgage," he said.
In a slow market, Moore said, the key to making deals is creativity.
- June 22, 2006 3:51 PM
San Diego at 22,300 = RECORD
Yes - the population adjusted record was hit on Tuesday. . .and it is still climbing. . .where will it end 25K? 30K?. . .took a drive up to La Jolla yesterday, and the way up through Mission Beach, Pacific Beach is littered with For Sale signs - many with "price reduced.". . .interesting that La Jolla didn't have a lot of for sale, but those homes don't turn over that much.
- June 22, 2006 4:06 PM
First you build the inventories, then you have the massive sale, it happens with all retail garbage, and that is exactly what a home is, in the 4th quater, when the recession is in full swing, you will start to see the mother of all sales.
- June 22, 2006 4:06 PM
Hot off the Dow Jones:
Freddie Mac: 30-yr mortgage averages 6.71% vs 6.63%
THAT will finish it off. . .
- June 22, 2006 4:19 PM
- The Thinker said...
Yes, the housing bubble is a product of the creit bubble, when the credit bubble ends, so too will the housing bubble.
- June 22, 2006 6:00 PM
A little OT but speaking of credit bubbles; how do you think the biggest, most reckless borrower in existense is going to fare over the next few years, with growth slowing I assume tax revenue will follow. The non social security/medicare part of Uncle Sam's budget will be half interest payments in a few years. I would like the fed's to pare back some programs but that amount debt service can't all be covered by cuts.
- June 22, 2006 6:18 PM
The massive speculatory bubble and its demonesque offshoot, the Real Estate bubble are nearing its end.
Rising inventory, sales falling, credit expansion over. The end has come. The cycle is reversing itself.
Matter of fact. I would love to see data 3 months from now, October 22nd. The carnage will mostly likely be high as the bubble will most likely have just popped. The financial chaos will be bad enough. Makes for good drama. But bad for peoples health.
- June 22, 2006 6:35 PM
- ocrenter said...
so Phoenix inventory as it stands at 10:35AM is 49,999.
Bubble Markets Inventory Tracking
- June 22, 2006 6:41 PM
CNBC is airing a live special report on the Housing Crisis tonight at 8:00 P.M. east coast time. Wonder if they'll come clean or just try to spin it. This should be very interesting.
- June 22, 2006 7:49 PM
reagor is a lot more honest than the san francisco chronicle's kelly zito,who has an article today (try sfgate.com) on the may dq news report for the sf bay area,with a chart.she claims to quote from the dq news report...and i invite one and all to google dq news,read THAT report,and then read ms zito's article.any resemblance is purely coincidental.the santa rosa press democrat's coverage was if anything more deceptive...without the blatant lying.....you can email ms zito,or her editors at sf gate...i did.
- June 22, 2006 8:10 PM
It's comical. She notes that presently in Phoenix 1 in 3 dollars are generated in the real estate industry. Just a
paragraph or so before that she says the market won't bottom out as it did in the 90s because the economy outside of real estate is good. Well sweetie THERE IS VERY LITTLE ECONOMY OUTSIDE OF REAL ESTATE IN PHOENIX.
- June 22, 2006 9:25 PM
What infuriates me about the housing situation, more than anything else, is that one can lay out all of the facts....not opinions, but actual statistics...about the turn in the housing market and the economy, and yet so many people still think it will be a soft landing. I don't know how in the hell these people are coming to that conclusion.
Massive overbuilding, rising mortgage rates, leveling or declining home prices, rising inventory, increasingly negative savings rates, longer days on market, lower housing sales, less orders for new homes, higher % of people taking out ARMs and option ARMs, spiking cancellation rates, lower job creation, higher layoffs, higher foreclosure rates, higher credit card debts, sharply declining builder confidence, decreasing index of leading economic indicators, housing stocks 30-50% or more off their highs, coming off the largest price increase in real estate history...THESE ARE ALL FACTS.
And what do the housing bulls submit as a response?
"We're going to have a soft landing!"
"Just wait until the fourth quarter!"
"Housing is always a good investment!"
"There is no housing bubble!"
A professor once told me in 1999 that the lowest scores on the SAT were from people who declared journalism as their chosen field of study. The previous distinction went to those seeking an elementary education degree, which had held the title for many years.
And we wonder why the majority of people in this country are so stupid.
- June 23, 2006 12:58 AM
- j_e_r_k_s_t_o_r_e said...
Why does she always interview r.e. investors? Why can't she find an academic or an...yeah -- an economist? Huh? Oh...she did? Gimme that paper. Oh. You're right. So...yeah, he is an economist.................AND A WHA-?!?
- June 23, 2006 5:42 AM
The CNBC special was great.
It will be one more pin to burst the bubble.
CNBC has been totally sour on RE all week and now this caps it off.
Next step- it's all over the regular news.
- June 23, 2006 6:20 AM
I subscribe to this newsletter just to keep and eye on sales in my area, I thought you would all enjoy this piece. He refers to it as "Silly Arizona Republic article last Sunday on real estate market
June 20, 2006
Here is an excellent review of U.S. housing booms and busts from the FDIC.
They define a bust as a 15% decline in prices within 5 years. With that criteria, they only found...
... two major episodes of home price busts. The first began in the mid-1980s in the "oil patch" cities of Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, and some of the western states. This episode includes the most severe price declines of our entire sample, with nominal prices in one city falling by as much as 40 percent over a five-year period. Another episode of large nominal price declines occurred in selected metro areas of the Northeast and California beginning in the early 1990s.
Nevertheless, the unnamed analysts in Catherine Reagor's article below predict a 10% decline this year alone which, given that the median home price increased January through May this year, really means a greater than 10% decline in 7 months.
I don't buy it.
The median home price may be down a bit in December compared to today but that 10% figure is just silly. It would be an interesting example of how newspapers work except that I'm sure the article needlessly scared many people.
Posted by John L. Wake at 01:22 PM | Permalink
Locally, new home builders need to cut back on construction and let the market catch up with them.
Nationally, builders are discouraged.
Rising mortgage rates, deepening affordability issues and the retreat of investors/speculators from the marketplace have prompted single-family home builders to further adjust their perspectives on the new-home market, according to the National Association of Home Builders/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index (HMI) for June, released today. The HMI declined four points from an upwardly revised reading in the previous month to hit 42 for the latest report, its lowest mark since April 1995.
Posted by John L. Wake at 11:16 AM | Permalink
June 19, 2006
Reagor's article seems to have worried a client of mine. I bet a few Realtors got a few emails about it.
The part were she really lost a lot of credibility with me was this.
If prices fall 10 percent this year, as analysts predict, the median price of an existing Valley home would dip to around $238,000.
That 10% decline was the main point of the article. In fact, it was the subheading "Home prices may dip 10% as fear grips Valley market." That subheading was just irresponsible.
A 10% decline this year is simply not in the realm of possibility.
Reagor used a different data sourse in her example but if you use Arizona Regional Multiple Listing Service (ARMLS) data you'll find that the median home sale price in January 2006 was $255,000. In May 2006 it was $259,900, an increase of $4,900. So, in the first 5 months of the year the median price went up, not down!
So to get a 10% decline this year, the median price would have to fall to $229,500 or a fall of $30,400 from May's median home price.
A price decline of $30,400 in 7 months would be a real estate bubble of biblical proportions. The median home price wouldn't go down by $30,400 by year's end if Roosevelt dam broke.
Who were those "analysts," anyway, who predicted a 10% decline this year?
(Did I misread her article? Did she mean it other than the way I took it?)
Posted by John L. Wake at 10:37 PM | Permalink
June 18, 2006
Father's Day morning, this morning, I went out and met some clients to write up their offer on a home.
I felt very "fatherly" going out and working a bit on Father's Day. I really enjoyed it and I felt good about it.
It seems working makes me feel "fatherly."
Posted by John L. Wake at 07:39 PM | Permalink
Catherine Reagor of the Arizona Republic has a well researched article today, How low will it go?, but it is unjustifiably pessimistic.
If prices fall 10 percent this year, as analysts predict, the median price of an existing Valley home would dip to around $238,000.
She mentions a lot of experts in her article but not which one gave her this gem of a quote.
Right now, the median home price in the Valley is higher than it was in January, see the chart I posted on June 16th. The median home price may fall a bit by the end of 2006... but by 10%?!... that's just silly.
The money quote for me was from Elliot Pollack, an economist I respect.
"There was never the demand for more than 45,000 to 50,000 new homes in Phoenix last year," Pollack said. "It could take six to 18 months before the market absorbs the extra homes and gets back to normal."
If the home builders only need 6 to 18 months to get their inventory into line, the entire Arizona residential real estate market is golden.
It looks like the economy will be great for the next year or more. If a recession hits after that, the Arizona real estate market should be well positioned to handle it.
Posted by John L. Wake at 03:04 PM | Permalink
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|The winning experiment will be launched into Earth orbit aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft. NASA recently selected Falcon 9 / Dragon to transport cargo to the International Space Station.
|SpaceX DragonLab™ – a free-flying, recoverable, reusable spacecraft capable of hosting pressurized and unpressurized payloads.
|The Microgravity Research Competition is open to U.S. universities and non-profits organizations with industry partners. The winning team will also get to witness the launch of their experiment from Cape Canaveral, Fla.
|SpaceX is excited to offer our Dragon spacecraft as a platform for in-space experimentation services to mainstream researchers, said Elon Musk, SpaceX CEO and CTO. "We plan to fly DragonLab missions starting in 2010 for this express purpose, Musk said.
|In space, there is no gravity-induced convection, sedimentation, hydrodynamic shear force, hydrostatic pressure, or mass transfer, according to the competition announcement. Experiments in microgravity can reveal novel mechanisms fundamental to cell processes, disease processes, and the adaptation of living systems to changes in physical forces, it said.
|The announcement, available at www.labflight.com, provides an overview of microgravity's practical applications and details on the competition. Proposals are due on March 20, 2009.
|The application and judging process will be supported by the Rice Alliance for Technology and Entrepreneurship. The winner will be announced on April 18, 2009 at the Awards Banquet for the 2009 Rice Business Plan Competition hosted by the Rice Alliance.
|We very pleased to participate in this important competition, said Brad Burke, managing director, Rice Alliance, because of the important role of commercializing the promising technology research and innovations.
|About Heinlein Prize Trust
|The Heinlein Prize Trust is a non-profit foundation which promotes the commercial uses of space. It provides financial prizes to commercial space entrepreneurs, enhances public awareness of commercial space, and uses space to inspire students about opportunities of the next frontier. For more information, see www.heinleinprize.com.
|About SpaceX
|SpaceX is developing a family of launch vehicles and spacecraft intended to increase the reliability and reduce the cost of both manned and unmanned space transportation, ultimately by a factor of ten. With the Falcon 1 and Falcon 9 vehicles, SpaceX offers highly reliable/cost-efficient light, medium and heavy lift capabilities for spacecraft insertion into any orbital altitude and inclination. In addition, the Dragon spacecraft provides Earth to LEO transport of pressurized and unpressurized instruments, cargo, and crew, including resupply to the International Space Station (ISS) in 2010.
|SpaceX was recently awarded a Cargo Resupply Services contract by NASA. The $1.6B contract includes 12 flights between 2010 and 2015 with a guaranteed minimum of 20,000 kg to be transported to the ISS.
|Founded in 2002, the SpaceX team now numbers over 650, with corporate headquarters in Hawthorne, California. For more information, please visit www.spacex.com.
|About Rice Alliance for Technology and Entrepreneurship
|The Rice Alliance for Technology and Entrepreneurship (Rice Alliance) is Rice Universitys flagship initiative devoted to the support of technology commercialization, entrepreneurship, and the launch of technology companies.
|Since inception, the Rice Alliance has assisted in the launch of more than 230 technology start-ups which have raised more than $500 million in early-stage capital.
|The Rice Alliance is host to the Rice Business Plan Competition, the largest and richest business plan competition in world. Thirty-six graduate schools compete for over $700,000 in prizes each year.
|Source: Heinlein Prize
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GRAMMY Museum
Music Epicenters
Project Group
DateDecember 2008
LocationGRAMMY Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Exhibition DesignGallagher & Associates
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Three interactive stations present the cities and people that changed the sound of American music since the 1880s, while a dynamic projection of the United States plots visitor choices of musical epicenters overhead.
Three stations surround a 10-foot, cut-out map of the United States on which historical, music-related images dynamically come into focus, drawing visitors across the museum to investigate a wealth of American music history. The viewing and listening stations are portals into America's Music Epicenters—the birthplaces of original American music. Exploring the stations' U.S. maps, visitors can choose epicenters of significance from the 1880s to the present day, read accounts of the music shaped at these locations, watch archival videos, and play songs representing these moments in musical development. As visitors explore the musical epicenters at the stations, their stops activate the overhead map: colorful, concentric circles and relevant images emanate from the selected cities, engaging passersby or observers in the experience as well. Music Epicenters is a fun and engaging experience that illustrates the historical significance of America's role in the evolution of music over the last century.
Press & AwardsAdobe, MAX Awards, Finalist, October 2009"For the Record: The Grammy Museum Preserves Pop Music History in a Digital Format," Lighting & Sound America, Judith Rubin, August 2009
Imagine ten Grammy-winning artists, representing a variety of musical genres, all performing at once—but with the sound mixed so that some are dominant and others are in the background to varying degrees, allowing you to distinguish one from the other. This is the museum's three-minute, 20-second lobby experience, as the visitor walks through a short hallway with video looping on both sides, entering the world of music.Communication Arts, Interactive Design Annual, Information Design, 2009
An amazing amount of great work! There is a richness in the various interfaces and experiences that encourage interaction. What a great way to tell stories of music.American Association of Museums Muse Awards, Gold, Interactive Kiosks , 2009
Well done! Grammy Museum! It can be regarded as a good example to show how a museum combines the museum collections, historical material and interactive kiosks and seriously depicts the possibilities and the potential what a future museum could be."The Buzz: Installation Spotlight: The Touch and Feel of Music," Sound & Video Contractor, Jessaca Gutierrez, April 14, 2009
Perhaps the most complex and intriguing installation at the museum is the Crossovers area. This exhibit is a 19ft. table that acts as both a projection screen and a touchscreen...Up to 20 guests at a time can tap an image that's being projected onto the table to listen via headphones to 150 genres of music. Guests interested in one genre of music can use the table to open up photos, songs, and dialogue about that particular genre's importance and history—possibly linking them to other genres and learning about surprising connections between music categories."Culture Plays Countermelody at New Grammy Museum," USA Today, Edna Gunderson, December 3, 2008
Visitors enter on the fourth floor and wind down through three levels of exhibits. The highlights: The entrance is an audiovisual tunnel pulsating with overlapping segments of Grammy performances. Large touch-technology tables allow exploration of 160 subgenres, from modal jazz, emo and zydeco to Celtic, Norteño and two-tone."Record, Study and Hear Music at New Grammy Museum," Associated Press, Sandy Cohen, December 3, 2008
Guests are welcomed by wall-sized video screens and the 'Crossroads Table,' a touch-sensitive digital display that shows how different music genres interrelate. Interactive maps highlight the musical legacies of various American cities, and short video series delve into emerging music styles from the past five decades and how they correspond with pop culture."Grammy Museum Takes a Broad, Hands-On Approach," Los Angeles Times Music Blog, Todd Martens, December 2, 2008
Guests are immediately whisked to the fourth floor, where they're greeted with an 18-foot touch-screen table that looks and feels like something out of a James Bond movie. There, they can put on headphones and scroll through genres—tap 'outlaw country,' for instance, and a Waylon Jennings song plays."Behind the Music," Downtown LA Scene, Ryan Vaillancourt, December 1, 2008
The museum floor dedicated to the recording process holds eight listening stations featuring lessons from producers, engineers and artists. But in Dupri's 'studio,' where he talks to visitors via a flat-screen television, the lesson goes beyond how-to. If you step into this sonic laboratory, you're not walking out until you make some music.
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Calling all entrepreneurs! Get ready for Vator Splash SF
Like other Splash events and competitions, CEOs and/or founders of 10 companies, chosen by their peers and vetted by judges, will have the opportunity to present onstage and give a three-minute presentation in front of some 400 business professionals, comprising of executives from startups and large companies, angel investors, VCs, and media.
Vator will hold its bi-annual SF Splash event at Cafe du Nord in San Francisco, on the evening of September 27.
To be among the top 10 promising start-up presenters, you must apply by joining this competition.
Even though success is not defined by how much money a company has raised, Thumbtack, Getable, Grovo, Astrid, Udemy, and Geeklist have gone on to raise millions of dollars collectively from venerable VCs, soon after presenting at Splash.
"The process of inviting everyone one we knew to vote for us, even before the event, was a fantastic way to build support for our company. Then presenting at Vator Splash was a blast. The short presentation style ensured the audience was engaged and the follow-up questions from the judges were on-point and constructive. At Vator Splash, I made great connections with a number of investors and had a number of follow-up meetings. We were able to raise our last round entirely from investors who discovered us from the publicity we generated from Vator Splash," said Jon Paris, CEO and founder of Astrid.
"Working with Vator, and Bambi, is a pleasure. She's really passionate about uniting great ideas with the right people. We actually tied for first in last years Vator Splash SF and as a direct result raised $150,000 from an investor who saw us pitch. TEEC Angels approached us right at the event and invested soon thereafter. Reuben Katz, CEO and founder of Geeklist.
"Vator has acted as a launchpad for my startup in terms of awareness and exposure. As a winner of a Vator competition, my startup enjoyed early traction and buzz. Vator has kept my business relevant in the minds of investors, entrepreneurs and potential employees. I've made many invaluable connections to the investor and entrepreneur community." Tim Hyer, founder and CEO, Getable.
"DogVacay.com won Vator Splash LA in June 2012. The competition allowed us an opportunity to meet and pitch against some of the great Los Angeles startups and further foster our entrepreneurial community. There was such a positive energy with so many great minds providing insightful feedback throughout the night. Two paws up, Vator!" Aaron Hirschhorn, founder & Top Dog, Dog Vacay
"Events like Vator Splash are critical for startups to generate awareness. We were a top 10 finalist for Splash LA. It provided us with an amazing opportunity to network and gain exposure to a whole community of investors and VCs. Soon after, we raised $3M as a result of the momentum/exposure from the event and the platform in general." Peter Vogel, founder of Plink.
The Top 10 finalists win:
- The opportunity to give a three-minute presentation onstage.
- A professional video of their presentation produced by Vator
- A free ticket to the event, and discounted tickets for their network
- Discounted tickets for future Vator events
- A bottle of wine, courtesy Cult of 8
- $500 of free outsourced work, courtesy Ziptask
At the night of the event, the judges will choose the overall Splash winner. The audience will choose the People's Choice winner.
The Splash winner will get:
-- Professional video of his/her presentation
-- One-hour sit-down meeting with Javelin Venture Partners
-- A magnum of wine, courtesy Cult of 8
-- A demo table at the next Splash event
-- Discounts to Vator events
-- The opportunity to be an online judge for the next Splash
-- Two hours legal consultation, courtesy DLA Piper
-- Two hours accounting consultation, courtesy Grant Thornton
The Splash People's Choice Award will get:
-- One-hour sit-down with Javelin Venture Partners
-- A magnum of wine, courtesy Cult of 8
-- Discounts to Vator events
-- Demo table at the next Splash event
-- Two hours legal consultation, courtesy DLA Piper
-- Two hours accounting consultation, courtesy Grant Thornton
Vator Splash is hosted by Bambi Francisco. Investors from top VC firms, such as 500 Startups, Alsop Louie, Andreessen Horowitz, AngelPad, AOL Ventures, August Capital, Battery Ventures, Bessemer, Betaworks, BlueRun, Bullpen Capital, Blumberg, Canaan, Claremont, Crosslink Capital, DFJ, Emergence Capital, Felicis, First Round, Founders Fund, Freestyle Captial, Greycroft, Greylock, Google Ventures, Hummer Winblad, IVP, Industry Ventures, IDG Ventures, Javelin Ventures, Khosla Ventures, Lightspeed, Mayfield, Morgenthaler, North Bridge, Polaris, Redpoint, RRE Ventures, Rustic Canyon, Shasta Ventures, Softech VC, SV Angels LLC, Norwest, NYC Seed, Scale, Technology Crossover Ventures, Techstars, Venrock and more will be attending or have attended our events.
To be among the top 10 promising start-up presenters, you must apply by joining this competition.


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Writing Courses from Fall 2004
The Fall 2004 Writing Courses are over, but this course information is on the site so that you can see what courses we have sponsored in the past.
- Placing Pictures, with Virginia Boyd
- Thursdays, September 9 - October 14, 6:30 - 8:00pm, in Chapel Hill
Class participants will be asked to write about the places that they most long to return to and those that they were happy to escape.
- Creative Journaling Toolbox, with Cherokee Pinder
- Thursdays, September 9 - October 14, 6:30 - 8:30pm, in Raleigh
Offers a creative, nurturing atmosphere for you to explore and experience a variety of writing techniques designed to enhance creativity, authenticity, and self expression.
- Build Your Own Book, with Barbara Brannon
- Saturday, September 18, 9:00am - 5:00pm, in Wilmington
In this intensive hands-on workshop, you�ll begin the day with your chapbook manuscript and leave with a finished, bound book and a CD of your layout.
- The Artist's Way, with Maureen Ryan Griffin
- Saturday, October 2, 10:00am - 5:00pm, in Chapel Hill
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Pitch is a love letter to the typewriter.
A typewriter has a singular purpose: putting letters onto a page. Put the paper in, stab away at the keys and letters instantly appear. It is tactile, analogue, immediate. The German «Schreibmaschine» means 'typewriter', and upon closer inspection is literally composed of the words 'writing machine'. For me this is the perfect definition for a typewriter.
With a legacy of functionality, romance and literary seriousness, writers and journalists used typewriters to great effect. No formatting, no typographic styling: just the writer and their words. It's a humble, beautiful object, a representation of mechanical refinement and industrial design. It is an honest machine, it does exactly what you tell it.
The honest aesthetic of the typewritten text these writing machines produce is wonderful. I wanted to capture this particular aesthetic with Pitch. The aesthetics of typewritten text are largely due to three things: monospacing, type style, and the artefacts of struck paper.
Monospacing was initially a mechanical necessity for typewriters. In short, each letter takes up exactly the same amount of horizontal space. The opposite of monospacing is 'proportional' spacing, which is what the majority of typefaces have. Having a fixed width allowed the typewriter engineers a predictable unit of measure to advance the strike. When a key is pressed, a letter strikes the paper and the carriage moves along a fixed distance.
A fixed width introduces many interesting design challenges. Choosing the width is a paramount concern. If it is too wide the narrow letters (like i j l) start to sprawl and stretch. Too narrow, and wide letters (like W M) are squeezed into ridiculousness.
Pitch has almost exactly the same dimensions as Courier. Courier has a good fixed width—it is a '10-pitch' typeface: at 10 point it will fit 10 letters to the inch. With its excellent dimensions and proportions it strikes a fine balance. The cap height is quite small (eliminating the need for smallcaps), it avoids becoming tall and narrow which would create disharmony with the lowercase. The x-height is generous, giving the lowercase necessary breathing room.
Courier was designed by Howard 'Bud' Kettler in 1955 for IBM. It has since become thoroughly ingrained within the typographic landscape, inspiring and influencing a few notable typefaces. Kettler is a terrific 21st century ode to Courier by Eric Olson. It reminds me of Crouwel's stamp numerals and 'Polytene' typeface for Olivetti, later digitised and expanded into the Gridnik family by David Quay. Peter Biľak from Typotheque used the same 10-pitch set width as Courier for Fedra Mono. Courier Sans is a clever reworking of Courier to circumvent the rules of a student assignment. Its popularity lead to its expansion into a full family and eventual retail release by Lineto.
There is no real typographic need for monospaced fonts. Apart from programming and numeric tabulation, almost all typographic tasks can be happily managed with proportional fonts. Despite this, monospaced typefaces maintain a healthy presence in contemporary typography. Initially I disliked the choice of Courier in graphic design. It didn't seem 'typographic', it felt arbitrary and default. It was, of course, just rubbing up against the bounds of my own taste. I have since learned to love Courier. This is due to some of my favourite typographers using it to great effect: Catherine Griffiths for the TypeSHED11 identity, Duncan Forbes for works like Object Lessons and Play On, and the inimitable Hort for the witty Bauhaus Dessau Foundation redesign.
Type Style
Remington & Underwood are stalwarts of the typewriter genre. There are many variations on the theme, but these two typify it for me. I admire the warmth and weirdness of these styles. The clarity of the light weight and the ball terminals create a charming texture. They defy narrow classification, they are almost monoline Clarendons or British Egyptians. Perhaps they were modelled from styles such as Caractéres Maigres and Antiqua-Zierschriften? Perhaps it is simply an unanswerable classification question. Either way, the light weight and robust skeleton adapts superbly to monospacing.
What is also important about these styles is the monoline construction: each letter is made from a line of uniform thickness. This is a constant feature for most classic typewriter letterforms, from Remington and Underwood to Courier and Lettera. Even the digital incarnations of Courier maintain a nearly perfect monoline construction. Again, this is quite unusual—most typefaces have stroke modulation and optical correction. Where possible I made the strokes in Pitch monoline, disregarding my natural inclination to optically correct. This is particularly evident in the bolder weights, which correlates to ink-spread the artefacts of struck paper.
The Artefacts of Struck Paper
Typewriters are analogue. A struck letter will never give the exact same impression twice. This is one of the more charming aspects to typewritten text. I tried to emulate this once before by making a crude monospace version of National. I gave it the right ingredients—rough outlines and random alternates—but overcooked it.
It is a failed experiment. So, with Pitch, I wanted to avoid all the obvious analogue parallels to typewritten text: irregular strike, soft outlines, fluctuating baselines. Specific analogue emulation wasn't my goal. Besides, FF Trixie HD does it better than anyone else! To me, Trixie is the final word in distressed digital typewriter typefaces. There is nothing inherently wrong with skeumorphism in type design, it just wasn't right for Pitch. I didn't want to limit its application to emulating faux-typewriting. This is why I chose to work from the type-founders versions of typewriter fonts, not the typewritten texts themselves.
What did interest me about the struck letter is how it becomes bolder. The harder the key is hit, the more ink it impresses into the paper. The ink spreads around the letterform, pooling in some areas—especially where two strokes join. It's a linear way to make the letter bolder. (In typeface design, weight is usually added more to vertical strokes that horizontal ones.) I followed the brutish bolding effect by adding weight to Pitch in the same linear fashion where possible. Coupled with the angled brackets, ball terminals and monoline strokes, the overall effect is very analogue, very typewriter-ish.
The origins of Pitch
The roots of Pitch are most certainly in Darling. Darling started its life as an uppercase-only caption face for the first Klim type specimen. Like National, I attempted to monospace Darling but it was an absolute disaster. It was too delicate and florid, the proportions were all wrong. I abandoned it and looked more closely at existing typewriter typefaces. What I needed was something with the raw material of Darling, the pragmatism of Courier and the warmth of Remington.
I kept a few things from Darling: the light weight, the practical slabs, the linear skeleton, most of the ball terminals and the flat apexes of M. However, the catalyst was a sketch I made of simple angled terminals. These were the perfect synthesis of digital and analogue that I was searching for.
There are few noteworthy historic italic typewriter styles. Luckily, buried deep inside my Bauer'sche Giesserei type specimen is 'Schreibmaschinenschrift'. This was the starting point for the Pitch italics, particularly the wonderful k.
Not everything in Pitch is sourced from the typewriter genre. As explained earlier, monospacing causes problems with wide characters. Fractions can be troublesome, they usually need a lot of elbow room. Most typewriters employ stacked fractions, or 'nut fractions' as they're known in the trade. Nut fractions are narrow, but they're also too tall for my taste. The fractions in Pitch are the perfect balance: the split-bar prevents gumming up visually and allows the numerals to be a decent size. This is a old solution: Linotype nailed it almost a century ago with their 5.5pt Excelsior newspaper typeface.
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In what is the deadliest incident for Ukraine soldiers sent from Kiev to battle separatist forces in the east of the country, 49 military personnel were killed on Saturday as their transport plane was shot down by anti-aircraft fire in the city of Luhansk.
Vladislav Seleznyov, a spokesman for the military operation in east Ukraine, told Reuters by phone: "Forty-nine people were killed. All were Ukrainian military personnel."
The latest violence will likely intensify clashes in the eastern regions where Ukrainians opposed to the Kiev government continue to resist its authority as they clamor for autonomy and closer ties with neighboring Russia.
As Reuters reports:
The Luhansk region is at the heart of the rebellion launched in April by separatists who want Russia to absorb the Russian-speaking east following the annexation of Crimea in March.
Government forces control Luhansk airport but local media said fighting was under way on Saturday in the city, control of which is important for patrolling the nearby border with Russia.
The rebels also said the Ukrainian air force had fired on the industrial town of Horlivka, just north of region's main city, Donetsk.
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Agence France-Presse reports that An estimated 270 people have been killed in the violence over the past two months.
On Friday, the U.S. government—which has strongly backed the Kiev government and endorsed the newly-elected President Petro Poroshenko—accused Russia of sending weapons into eastern Ukraine. According to the Guardian, "Friday's statement from the U.S. State Department "did not explicitly blame Russia for supplying the weaponry directly to the Ukrainian separatists. But it stated Washington's unequivocal belief that the tanks had crossed the border and hinted at Moscow's complicity."
The Associated Press reports:
NATO released images on Saturday, said to show recent Russian tank movements near the border which "raise significant questions" on Russia's role.
The tanks seen in Ukraine, NATO said, "do not bear markings or camouflage paint like those used by the Ukrainian military. In fact, they do not have markings at all, which is reminiscent of tactics used by Russian elements that were involved in destabilizing Crimea."
Denis Pushilin, a leader of the separatist Donetsk People's Republic, told Russian state television Friday that rebels had the tanks but it was "improper to ask" where they got them.
Clashes in the southeastern port city of Mariupol, also on Friday, reveal continued and widespread unrest across those portions of the country with no end in sight. So far, talks between Kiev and separatist leaders in the east have gone nowhere and a tentative financial settlement over gas payments owed by Ukraine to Russia have stalled.


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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Several groups are teaming up to hold Gun Appreciation Day across the country and in Jacksonville on Saturday.
As part of the day, they're asking people to go to their local gun stores, gun shows or gun ranges with the Constitution and American flags. They said they want to send a message to Congress and President Barack Obama.
This is the first year for Gun Appreciation Day, and there are mixed opinions.
"Not now. This is a sad time, we're trying to recover from Sandy Hook," said Valeria Braziel, of Jacksonville.
Many others support the day, saying someone needs to stand up for Second Amendment rights.
"I think it is our right to bear arms and we have the right to protect our families and to protect our belongings, so I don't have a problem with it," said Doug Warren, a local supporter. "I think our founding fathers would be proud that someone is standing up for what's right and what we believe in."
Sponsors of Gun Appreciation Day include the Second Amendment Foundation, Conservative Action Alerts, Social Security Institute, AmeriPac, Guns & Patriots, RedState, and many more.
For more information, visit gunappreciationday.com.
Meanwhile, the two-day Jacksonville Gun Show opens Saturday at the Jacksonville Fairgrounds. It's open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday. Entry costs $8 and parking is free.


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Editor's note: CNN Contributor Bob Greene is a bestselling author whose 25 books include "Late Edition: A Love Story;" "Fraternity: A Journey in Search of Five Presidents;" and "Once Upon a Town: The Miracle of the North Platte Canteen."
(CNN) -- They're not just constant characters on a television screen, these candidates who every four years seek the presidency. They're not present only to give us something to talk about for months on end.
"What you feel like on certain days is a slow-moving target," said George Herbert Walker Bush, reflecting on the unsuccessful campaign when he sought reelection to the White House.
They grin and wave at crowds, asking for our votes while implying eternal sunniness. To reveal that they are vulnerable to hurt would seem to be an admission of weakness.
"I didn't like it," Gerald Ford said, speaking of being defeated when he ran on his own for president. "I was sad. But I never let my feelings be reflected publicly. ... Inwardly, inwardly. I never let it out. It's not my nature."
The candidates know that only one person can win a presidential election, and that the loser, no matter how accomplished, will forever be associated with the fact of his defeat. Sometimes it is the incumbent; sometimes it is a challenger. The feeling of emptiness is the same, although the men who have lived in the White House and have then been denied a second term understand especially well just what it is they will be leaving behind.
News: Polling center--down to the wire
"I think when I lost the reelection campaign for the presidency," Jimmy Carter said, "I think I did my best, and although Rosalynn was pretty -- well, bitter -- after the loss, I was not. I had to spend a long time assuaging her disappointment -- I'm sure she would agree with this if she was here in the room right now -- and I said to her, 'Rosalynn, we have a good life ahead of us.'"
In my conversations over the decades with men who have served as president of the United States and who have had to leave office before they wanted to, we have spent significant time talking about the emotions that accompany the leave-taking. These are men who have reached a pinnacle the rest of us will never come close to achieving. Yet when they are turned away, their past accomplishments cannot fully soothe the sting.
On Tuesday night, two men of considerable talent, soaring ambition and lifetimes full of triumphs will find out which one of them has been selected for a job they each covet, and which one has been rejected. Either Barack Obama or Mitt Romney is certain to be wounded to his core, even while the other man is celebrating to wild cheers.
News: If Obama wins a second term...
Very few people have known what it is like, on that highest of levels, to be seen as having failed.
"If I had feelings," Richard Nixon said, "I probably wouldn't have even survived."
His own final leave-taking, of course, was different from an election-night defeat. He had lost the presidency on a November night in 1960, then won it on November nights in 1968 and 1972. He might well have assumed that the defeats of his life were all past tense. And then came the resignation at the height of the Watergate crisis in August of 1974.
He was defiant -- proudly so -- in not wanting to be seen as actively seeking sympathy. "I never wanted to be buddy-buddy," he said. "Not only with the press. Even with close friends. I don't believe in letting your hair down, confessing this and that and the other thing -- saying, 'Gee, I couldn't sleep, because I was worrying about this or that.' I believe you should keep your troubles to yourself.
"That's just the way I am. Some people are different. Some people think it's good therapy to sit with a close friend and, you know, just spill your guts ... so perhaps the younger generation should go in every time they are asked how they feel about this or that, and they should reveal their inner psyche -- whether they were breast-fed, or bottle-fed.
"Not me. No way."
The first President Bush, in talking about the pain of losing to Bill Clinton in 1992, also bristled at the memory of being expected to reveal to the public his private feelings: "I didn't feel comfortable with all this 'Larry King Live' and MTV," he said. He imitated the voice of a hard-bitten political adviser: "'Everybody else has been on MTV, you gotta show 'em you can communicate with the youth.' I kept being told ... "
He let his voice trail off.
Carter, recalling his 1980 loss to Ronald Reagan, told me: "So, yeah -- I think there is a lot of misapprehension about who a person is, even when he's being looked at all the time. ... A lot of the reporters who almost sort of condemned everything I'd done and said, and they were insinuating that I didn't have any intelligence, I didn't have any judgment, I didn't have any moral convictions ... I mean, it wasn't unanimous, but it was there. And even the reporters who were most negative about me, in my post-presidential years they have said, 'Wow, this guy has finally listened to what I said about him as president, and he's changed his ways now, he's got a little bit of sense, a little bit of judgment. ...'"
Opinion: Stand up for centrist candidates
Carter laughed, with more than a hint of harshness. "I don't think I've changed," he said.
On Tuesday night, the man who loses will have to assure his supporters that he and his family will be just fine. Betty Ford told me that her husband, after his defeat, did his level best to give that impression.
"He really did try to be very stoic in his face," she said. "He told us that there always has to be a winner and there always has to be a loser, and that you shouldn't be in politics if you aren't aware of that. We didn't talk a lot about it, because there was no sense in dwelling on it. We both felt pretty terrible. But we couldn't change it."
The real anguish Tuesday night will take place behind closed doors. Few will bear witness.
In the 1972 election, George McGovern, who died last month at the age of 90, was wiped out by Richard Nixon. McGovern's press secretary, a novelist and former Los Angeles Times reporter named Dick Dougherty, later recalled what it was like to be in McGovern's hotel room that evening as McGovern was, line by line, editing his concession speech:
"His eyes welled over and a tear fell that was so large it splashed when it struck the top of his hand. A terrible sound came from him that was like a giggle except that it was as much a sob as a giggle. He got up. He said: 'I don't know why I do that when I'm sad -- why I laugh.' He moved quickly toward the bathroom. [McGovern's wife] Eleanor, beginning to cry again, said: 'George always does that. He always laughs when he feels most badly. ...'"
They are not just names and moving images on millions upon millions of smart phone screens, these people who ask us to make them our president.
And one of them, on one November night every four years, finds out what it is like to be told: Sorry. We've decided to go with someone else.
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The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Bob Greene.


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China's icebreaking research vessel Xuelong, orSnow Dragon, will soon begin another summer in the arctic.
Chinese state media Xinhua reports the Snow Dragon is set to leave its Shanghai base next week to embark on a sixth summer expedition to the North Pole.
A crew of nearly 130 scientists and other crew members will take part in the 76-day trip, which will mostly focus on environmental research in the polar region, officials from the Polar Research Institute of China said.
The team will set up eight short-term and one long-term observation stations on the sea ice of the Arctic Ocean, setting up what one scientist called the largest on-ice observations in China's arctic expeditions so far.
The project is also seeking information as to how El Niño might affect the polar region, especially with regard to ice coverage.
The trip figures into what has become an increased presence in the arctic by China and other non-arctic nations. The intergovernmental agency known as the Arctic Council has granted China and 11 other nations permanent "observer status" as of 2013. As early as 2010, China was sending ice breakers through the Arctic Ocean, following a route that could cut shipping times to northern Europe by up to two weeks when compared to the current route through the Indian Ocean and the Suez Canal.
The Xuelong is China's only functioning ice breaker, but Chinese media The China Daily reports the country is expecting to build a second icebreaker by 2016.


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Bisons sweep Syracuse
With a little bit of luck, some timely hitting and the red-hot Lucas Duda, the Bisons powered past the Chiefs, 9-4, Wednesday afternoon from Coca-Cola Field.
Duda homered for the third straight game to snap a 4-4 tie and Buffalo benefited from numerous Syracuse miscues to close out a two-game sweep of their divisional rival.
Duda's homer rescued the Herd as Syracuse fought back from 4-0 down to tie the game in the fifth inning. The Triple-A rookie led off the bottom of the frame and drove a 2-1 offering from Chiefs' starter Matt Chico to right-centerfield.
The blast was Duda's fourth in only 14 games with the Bisons. He hit six homers in 45 games with Double-A Binghamton to start the season.
The Bisons kept the rally going in the fifth inning to break open the game. Mike Cervenak singled and scored two batters later on an RBI-hit from Justin Turner. The game then swung even further in the Herd's favor as the Chiefs infield allowed Andy Green's two-out pop up to land on the Coca-Cola Field dirt. Jorge Padilla made the miscue hurt with a booming two-run double off the left field wall.
Syracuse's defense cost them in the second inning, as well. The Bisons scored two runs when Tobi Stoner and Turner reached on errors and centerfielder Justin Maxwell dropped Padilla's fly ball.
Buffalo also scored a pair in the first inning on Andy Green's double-steal of home and a bases-loaded wild pitch.
Stoner (4-7) earned the victory for Buffalo, his first at Coca-Cola Field this season. Stoner allowed four runs in five innings of work.
The victory pulled the Bisons to within 4.5 games of first place in the International League North. Division-leading Scranton/Wilkes-Barre plays Wednesday night in Pawtucket.
BISONS NOTES:Andy Green's steal of home in the first inning was the Bisons' first swipe of the plate since Asdrubal Cabrera on August 15, 2006 in Pawtucket…Mike Cervenak reached base all five times he came to the plate with three singles and a pair of walks. The Bisons third baseman also had a stolen base…Jorge Padilla finished the game 3-4 with a pair of doubles and four RBI.


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Maine is known for the bounties of its rocky coast, for its hard-working people and, more recently, for its high divorce rates.
Yes, divorce. Maine has the second-highest rate of divorced people in the nation, according to the latest U.S. Census data.
The census estimates that 13.7 percent of Mainers age 15 and older are divorced, based on the 2011 American Community Survey. Nevada is No. 1 at 14 percent. Both are well above the national rate of 11 percent.
Experts say a variety of factors contribute to divorce trends, including the struggling economy, education levels, religious practices, social values and, more recently, social media. And several of those divorce risk factors may be especially high in Maine.
"I listen to people all day long talk about their divorces," said Dathan Hunter, owner of a Portland hair salon by the same name.
The 36-year-old Cape Elizabeth resident said a lot of those people regret their divorces, something he can relate to after two divorces of his own. "It happens so quickly, that it's done and then you kind of lift your head up and say, 'Wow, we're divorced,'" Hunter said.
Despite his own experience and the stories he hears, Hunter said he was surprised that Maine had a rate of divorce that's higher than so many other states.
Maine's distinction at No. 2 sets it apart from its neighbors in the Northeast, where the overall divorce rate is 9.4 percent. That includes New Jersey, which at 8.6 percent is the lowest in the nation.
In fact, Maine's divorce rate is more akin to the South, where several states have divorced populations well above the national average, including Arkansas at 13.4 percent and Kentucky at 13.2 percent.
Some experts say that is partly because the economic struggles of working-class Mainers, and the lower percentage of college-educated citizens, put the state in league with its Southern counterparts more than its Northeast neighbors.
"Maine is a relatively poor state, which is something we have in common with the South," said Jeanette Andonian, a professor of social work practice and human behavior at the University of Southern Maine.
Maine's median household income of $46,033 is comparable to the $46,548 median income in the South but far less than the $56,728 in the Northeast, according to the census.
"I think the economy is playing a huge role here," Andonian said. "For the last several years, you keep hearing about businesses downsizing and people losing their jobs. Stable, living-wage jobs are harder to come by in Maine. That job insecurity trickles down, which not only makes it harder to put food on the table, but also creates social and relational stress that leads to arguments and worse."
As with incomes, Maine stands apart from its Northeast neighbors when it comes to education levels. In the Northeast overall, 32.8 percent of post-college-age adults have bachelor's degrees or higher, compared with 28.4 percent in Maine and 26.4 percent in the South, according to census data.
"Without a college education, people are three times more likely to get divorced than people with a college education," said Brad Wilcox, director of the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia.
The gap between divorce rates among the more and less educated has grown in the past 30 years as fewer first marriages have remained intact overall, according to Wilcox's 2010 report, "When Marriage Disappears."
The percentage of intact first marriages among people with no high school diplomas dropped from 67 percent to 39 percent from the 1970s to the 2000s, according to the General Social Survey, National Data Program for the Sciences, University of Chicago. Among people with bachelor's degrees or more, the percentage of intact marriages dropped from 73 percent to 56 percent.
Andrew Horton has seen how education might play a role in a couple's ability to navigate troubled times. He's a Maine Superior Court justice who recently published a book, "Do Your Divorce Right," with longtime friend and colleague John David Kennedy, a Maine District Court judge.
"A lot of issues that come into court are due to people not being able to communicate effectively," Horton said. "It may be that education gives you the ability to consider things more broadly and work things out so that divorce isn't necessary."
While Maine shares lower incomes and education levels with Southern states, it does not share the South's attachment to religious organizations. And that does not help Maine's divorce rate either, experts say.
Wilcox points to a "general deinstitutionalization of American life among the working class" as fueling the divorce trend.
An increasing number of people in this category are living together instead of getting married, he said. And if they do get married, many aren't going to church and are therefore more likely to divorce, he said.
Just over one in four Mainers — 27 percent — attend church at least weekly, according to a 2010 Gallup survey. That is in line with weekly attendance rates in other New England states but much lower than attendance rates in the South, where 50 percent to 63 percent of people attend church weekly.
"When people don't have the message and the support that a religious community provides, it's more difficult to stay married," Wilcox said. "Couples who attend church together are more likely to stay together."
While the minimum legal age for marriage is 18 in Maine, as it is in most states, the census collects data on people as young as 15 to count those who may have married with parental consent or court permission.
Although studies show people who marry young are more likely to divorce, that does not help explain Maine's high divorce rate. The median age at first marriage in Maine is 27 for women and 29 for men, each in line with the national median, according to the census.
Kristin Gustafson, a family law and divorce attorney in Augusta, said she's seeing more young couples with young children getting divorced and getting remarried fairly quickly. As a result, she's seeing more blended families, which creates a whole new set of challenges.
"Younger people seem quick to choose divorce when things get difficult or they feel the tug of a new relationship," Gustafson said.
That trend may reflect another big factor in divorce today: social media such as Facebook. The use of social media to kindle new relationships, or rekindle old ones, may be particularly enticing in mostly rural Maine, where many people are isolated and social interactions are limited to their home, workplace and children's activities, she said.
"I can't count the number of people I've seen who either they or their spouse reconnected with someone from their past on Facebook and rekindled an old romance," said Gustafson, who is a fellow of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers. "Or the precipitating factor is a wholly new relationship that has occurred entirely online."
Marriage and parenting skills have never been regular topics of conversation, Gustafson said, and that is especially true in Maine, where people tend to mind their own business, she said.
However, for anyone considering divorce or dealing with the aftermath, Andonian recommends counseling, whether as a couple, a family or an individual.
"Even if it's a last-ditch effort, it's never too late," Andonian said. "The grass is not always greener."
Hunter, the Portland hairstylist who has two ex-wives, said he thinks that the state's older and generally less religious population contributes to the high percentage that have been divorced.
And, he said, he wishes more people would think ahead, and stay married.
"I think in this day and age, people are just very short-sighted and self-interested," Hunter said. "Plus they have very high expectations and standards that they set in relationships."
Staff Writer Karen Antonacci contributed to this report.
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I'm curious about the study group, but am a little confused about what's happening now, and where. Might as well add 'who', 'how' and 'what' to the list
Are there active readers involved these days?
I'm working on some other material lately. More specifically I'm reading Unfinished Tales, along with Understanding Middle-Earth (Martinez), and misc. essays.
I recently bought History of ME, though it's a very nice hardcover edition and I'm afraid to open it! So I might also get a stack of the paperbacks, used, as 'working' copies.
All that is a very long-winded way to say, I might not be reading LOTR in sync with the schedule, assuming it's still happening!
Which brings me back to my original question: what IS happening?


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There's no need to suffer from adrenaline withdrawal when the triathlon season draws to a close. There are loads of cycle sportives around at this time of year to tempt you to go long and stay strong on the bike. Sportives are the cycling version of a marathon - with one key difference: there are no fixed distances, making each one a unique blend of breathtaking scenery, great camaraderie and often testing undulations. And since they are officially non-competitive, you'll only be racing yourself. Whether you opt to ride hard or take your time, follow these tips for sportive success.
Train right
While your triathlon training should stand you in good stead, you'll need to ramp it up before a sportive. "You could be cycling for five times longer, so make sure you get used to riding at least two-thirds of the sportive distance," says elite triathlon coach Peter Freedman (www.driventotri.com). Train with at least one long ride a week, building mileage by 10 per cent each time. Hill repeats will also help: find a four or five per cent gradient and ride uphill for eight to 10 minutes in a high gear. Recover by riding slowly back down in an easy, lower gear to loosen up your legs.
Wear it well
Endurance cyclist Markus Neuert, director of www.cyclefilm.com, reckons that you don't need to dress like Lance Armstrong to enjoy sportives. "For entry-level sportives, mountain-bike shorts with a padded Lycra inlay are much more comfortable than full-on Lycra. You can always 'upgrade' to streamline kit as you progress."
Going up...
Pay attention to your hands - their position should change as the sportive gets steeper. Mike Cotty, the first British finisher of L'Etape du Tour 2006, rides most of the event with his hands on the tops of the handlebars: "This puts less stress on the back and opens up the lungs." But on a climb, "especially if you stand up out of the saddle, you may prefer to ride with hands on the brake hoods. You gain leverage by pulling on the hoods through each pedal stroke."
...and down
Keep your legs spinning even on easier downward stretches. A cadence lower than around 60 revolutions per minute will allow too much cramp-causing lactate acid to build up, according to 29-time Ironman finisher Mark Kleanthous (www.ironmate.co.uk). "Pushing on in higher gears results in these low cadences - opt instead for an easy gear at a higher cadence," he says. Hold the drops, the lower part of the bars, to increase stability as you descend.
Key kit
An Allen key costs a couple of pounds but could save you a lot of face, especially if transporting your bike safely means removing the saddle or loosening handlebars. Hilly sportives put bolts under serious pressure, as Kleanthous warns. "If the seat pin bolt goes, the saddle might drop, and handlebars that come loose can twist round with disastrous results. Listen for creaking noises, then grease and tighten bolts carefully." Four-, five- or six-millimetre keys are the most common sizes and can easily be stashed in a pocket.
Keep it simple, says 20-year-old triathlete Philip Graves, who became the youngest ever Ironman champion, thanks to a stunning bike split - 112 miles in 4:57:22 - at Ironman UK 2009. During sportives Graves drinks most of his calories, packing a selection of flavoured isotonic drinks. Salt tablets help prevent cramps. And Graves' secret mid-race weapon? Marmalade sandwiches: "The marmalade gives you a sugar kick and bread supplies carbs."
Round the bends
"When it comes to corners, better safe than sorry," cautions Graves. "Ideally, all your braking should be done before you get into the turn." Then keep your centre of gravity low by leaning forward, hands on the drops of your handlebars. Graves balances himself by putting out his knees "like a Moto GP rider." Ideally, you could sweep through onto the other side of the road to soften your arc, but don't take a chance if there's traffic around. Instead, slow down and turn tightly around the apex of the corner.
Watch out
Check the route for tunnels and wooded sections beforehand, and make sure you adjust your shades in plenty of time to cope with daylight changes. "You need to move your sunglasses forward so you're looking past the lenses, but your eyes take a few minutes to adapt to the light," says Cotty.
And relax
"Sometimes, cyclists reach the end of a sportive with their back and arms hurting more than their legs, just because they've been so tensed up while riding," says Freedman. Avoid this by prioritising muscle stretches like you prioritise fuel: every 15 minutes or so, rotate your shoulders, flex your wrists and shake out your arms.
Autumn is a great time to hit the road for a sportive. Whether you want to test your pins in the Pennines or come over all Keats and celebrate the season at the scenic Ride of the Falling Leaves, there's a great sportive out there to tempt you - and after the excesses of the triathlon season, the modest fees will come as a nice surprise, too.
Check out these websites to find out more about sportives:


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Valentine Masked by the Mayor
Stop it. Stop looking at me like that. If you want a Bobby Valentine/Red Sox dramaschlobfest post then go check out the worldwide leader in sports smut.
This is Red State Blue State.
And today we're talking about THE MAYOR.
That's right. While Larry Lucchino was busy going behind Red Sox GM Ben Cherington's back to hire a sexy manager (note: it only took them TWO FRIGGIN MONTHS TO DO THE DAMN THANG), the Cincinnati Reds announced that Sean Casey — The Mayor — would be enshrined in the Reds Hall of Fame.
Hot diggity dang!
Nevermind that Casey got in the Reds Hall of Fame by way of a fan vote. Dude hit .305 lifetime for Cincinnati, not to mention the millions of smiles he instigated, just for being a big goofy loon armed with a sweet, sweeping lefty swing. The Mayor is one of baseball's good guys — the kind you wish you could trade for the likes of Milton Bradley, Kevin Brown and John Rocker — and it's about time the good guy got some love, even if it is in Cincinnati, where sports have gone to die (just kidding, Andy Dalton).
If you watch the MLB Network, you know The Mayor's comedic timing and all-around fun fella persona aren't just the stuff of clubhouse lore. He really is an unfettered goofball. And his laugh is contagious, especially after 6 beers.
And if this Mayor induction leaves you feeling nothing else, at the very least you should feel good that the guy who brought you the only 5-7-3 ground-out in baseball history (vid here, tentatively, until the MLBAM nazis take it down) will be memorialized along with this guy:
Hate me, just don't hate me 'cuz I'm right.


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Miracast & Airplay big screen share apps (one-way) ;
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Support 3G and WiFi network;
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Easy ROM update, simply insert the firmware card to GPS slot, user-friendly.
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Support miracast (Android) & Airplay (iPhone) protocol, via WI-FI transmit the data rapidly;
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Shelter needs help caring for dozens of dogs seized by state
Animals taken from Wilton home
More than 90 animals were removed from a home in Wilton last week, according to the Maine Animal Welfare Program.
State animal welfare officials seized the animals after receiving a complaint about unsanitary conditions at the property.
"The case started with a complaint to animal welfare, and through the course of the investigation, the agent found enough probable cause to initiate the search warrant," said Liam Hughes, animal welfare director.
The seized animals include 75 dogs, 17 birds and three chickens. Officials said many of the animals were starved and sick, covered in feces and infested with parasites.
All of the animals have been taken to the Franklin County Animal Shelter in Farmington.
"Food and water, consistency and attention and some basic medical care has really brought (the animals) around, so they're playful and interested in interacting, and that's really heartwarming," said Heidi Jordan, executive director of the Franklin County Animal Shelter.
The shelter has received donations from the community to help care for the dogs but needs more help.
"We brought in three gallons of bleach, eight rolls of paper towels and about 320 pounds of dog food for puppies and adults," said resident Cindy Cassidy.
Cassidy said it's the least she and her granddaughter, Caitlynn, can do to help those who can't help themselves.
"It's our way of giving back, and it's a great way to teach my granddaughter about giving back to the community, because that's what it's all about," said Cassidy.
The affidavit filed by the animal welfare program identified the owner of the seized animals as Nancy Champagne of Wilton.
According to the affidavit, crates filled with animals were found in the kitchen and lining the living room walls.
Her home had a strong smell of ammonia, court records indicated.
The affidavit described unsanitary conditions inside the home and animals that were dirty and unfed.
Officials said Champagne is still considered the animals' owner until the state can prove she shouldn't be.
"If the majority of the animals are surrendered to us, we want to make sure they get out to the best homes they possibly can, but that's going to be up to the discretion of the judge," said Hughes.
A court hearing will be held in May to determine what will happen to the animals.