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Delegate Bobbie Hatfield did not request a recount of Kanawha County's 35th House district votes after her challenger squeaked out a 41-vote victory.
Hatfield, a Democrat who represented Kanawha County in the 30th district, was redistricted into the new, four-member 35th District. She came in fifth, following incumbent Delegates Doug Skaff and Eric Nelson and newcomer Suzette Raines and John McCuskey. McCuskey beat Hatfield by 41 votes.
The Kanawha County Commission Board of Canvassers reviewed about 1,100 provisional ballots Nov. 13 and declared the results for McCuskey at 10:07 the following morning. According to state code, Hatfield had 48 hours to request a recount of the votes. However, that 48-hour window closed with no word from Hatfield.
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The 85th Academy Awards are scheduled to take place on Sunday, February 24th in Los Angeles, and if you're looking for the winners, you've come to the right place. We'll be updating this article with each of the Oscar winners as they are announced, so if you don't have easy access to the telecast, be sure to check back here!
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The Razzie Awards, in their 33rd year of "incinerating cinema sins," announced the recipients of the worst film achievements in 2012 on Oscar Eve, Saturday, February 23, 2013. Click through for the full list of winners.
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The winners of the 28th annual Independent Spirit Awards were announced on Saturday February 23, 2013, in a ceremony hosted by Andy Samberg at a beach luncheon in Santa Monica. In a tight race for Best Feature, in the end Silver Linings Playbook took home the gold or, in this case, the bird on a pole. The event will be broadcast on IFC tonight at 10pm. See the full list of results below.
Saturday, Feb. 23 2013, 03:32 PM
Follow @RottenTomatoes on Twitter or click through to get the latest scoop on the Academy Awards right here at RottenTomatoes.com.
Friday, Feb. 22 2013, 04:34 PM
The 2012-2013 awards season has been full of ups, downs, and shots of Tommy Lee Jones' grumpy face. Matt Atchity and Grae Drake lay out all of the goings-on as we say goodbye to trophy-time. Click through for the details.
Friday, Feb. 22 2013, 09:27 AM
We at Rotten Tomatoes freely admit we're not the world's greatest Oscar prognosticators. Still, we did a bit better than usual this year; while there were some surprises (Sound Editing was a tie?!) and a few winners that aren't all that surprising in retrospect, most of our predictions came true at the 85th Annual Academy Awards. Read on to see how our forecast squared with the final results!
Monday, Feb. 25 2013, 02:00 PM
Watching the Academy Awards is a perfectly fine way to spend an evening, but let's face it: Half the fun of the Oscars is trying to predict who'll win, and the other half is bellyaching about who wasn't even nominated. It's in that spirit that we assembled this week's list -- looking back over the last few decades of Oscardom, plenty of worthy films have been honored, but just as many (if not more) have seen their contributions to cinema unfairly overlooked in favor of some rather questionable nominations. Obviously, this is meant to be a conversation starter rather than a complete list, but hey -- that's what the comments are for. Let's Total Recall!
Friday, Feb. 22 2013, 09:10 AM
The Writers Guild of America, West (WGAW) and the Writers Guild of America, East (WGAE) have announced the winners for outstanding achievement in writing for the screen during 2012. Winners were honored at the 2013 Writers Guild Awards on Sunday, February 17, 2013, during simultaneous ceremonies in Los Angeles and New York.
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Every year, the Razzies celebrate the worst that Hollywood has to offer. More than 48 thousand Rotten Tomatoes fans helped to choose the nominees, now it's time to pick the big winner. Cast your vote for Razzies' Worst Remake, Rip-Off or Sequel, and find out the results on Oscar Eve, February 23.
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The EE British Academy Film Awards took place on Sunday, February 10, and almost all of the major films getting awards attention this year took home a little something, from Silver Linings Playbook to Les Mis�rables to Life of Pi. See below for the full list of winners!
Sunday, Feb. 10 2013, 03:54 PM
The winner for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film for 2012 was announced at the 65th Annual DGA Awards Dinner on Saturday, Febnuary 2, 2013. Ben Affleck nabbed the prize, adding to the ever-growing list of kudos for his film Argo.
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Saturday, Feb. 02 2013, 07:43 PM
The Annual Golden Tomato Awards honor the best-reviewed movies of the year. From the biggest Hollywood hits to the most provocative indies, we've got the films that won the critics' hearts -- and probably inspired you as well.
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The SAG Awards ceremony -- the only televised awards ceremony in the industry that focuses only on performers -- was held at the Los Angeles Shrine Exposition Center on Sunday, January 27th. No one movie or TV show ruled the day, though NBC's 30 Rock took home both Comedy Acting awards and Steven Spielberg's Lincoln earned honors for Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor. Click through for the full results!
Sunday, Jan. 27 2013, 06:58 PM
The winners of the 24th Annual Producers Guild Awards were honored on Saturday, January 26, in a ceremony that took place at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, California. Click through for the full results.
Saturday, Jan. 26 2013, 08:11 PM
On November 27th, Film Independent revealed the 2013 nominees for the Spirit Awards. David O. Russell's Silver Linings Playbook and Wes Anderson's Moonrise Kingdom each earned five nominations, including Best Feature, Director and Screenplay.
Tuesday, Nov. 27 2012, 11:21 AM
Awards season is in full swing, and film fans everywhere are either debating their picks for who's about to win or arguing over those who've already won. That goes double for us at RT, and to celebrate our annual embrace of Oscar fever, we've decided to dedicate this week's list to the films getting ready to duke it out for this year's Best Picture Academy Award. With room for real-life stories, a little romance, a few songs, some hard-hitting drama, and even some action and/or comedy, this year's batch of nominees is certainly an eclectic bunch -- so let's take a look at them all, reminisce about how many we've seen, and then hit the comments section to weigh in on their odds of winning come February 24. It's time for Total Recall!
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This week's Ketchup actually represents a full three weeks since the last true Weekly Ketchup was published on December 21, 2012. Even so, most of these stories actually did happen in the last seven days, because the period before and after Christmas and New Year's is a time when Hollywood is basically a ghost town as far as movie development goes. Included in the mix are stories involving Tina Fey, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Brad Pitt, and directors Wes Anderson, Christopher Nolan, and Robert Rodriguez.
Friday, Jan. 11 2013, 04:20 PM
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The winners of the 18th annual Critics' Choice Awards were honored on Thursday, January 10, in a ceremony that took place in the Barker Hanger in Santa Monica, California. Argo came away with both Best Picture and Best Director, two of the top awards, while Steven Spielberg's Lincoln netted Best Actor and Best Adapted Screenplay. Click through for the full results.
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Nov 26: Gotham Independent Film Awards
Nov 27: Independent Spirit Nominations
Dec 03: New York Film Critics Circle
Dec 05: National Board of Reviews Awards, People's Choice Awards Nominations
Dec 06: British Independent Film Awards
Dec 09: Boston Society of Film Critics Awards, Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards
Dec 10: Washington DC Area Film Critics Awards
Dec 10: AFI Top 10 of 2012
Dec 11: Critics' Choice Nominations
Dec 12: Screen Actors Guild Nominations
Dec 12: Las Vegas Film Critics Society Awards
Dec 13: Golden Globe Nominations
Dec 16: San Francisco Film Critics Circle Awards
Dec 17: Chicago Film Critics Association Awards
Dec 18: Toronto Film Critics Association Awards
Jan 03: Producers Guild Nominations, Writers Guild of America Nominations
Jan 05: National Society of Film Critics Awards
Jan 08: Directors Guild Nominations
Jan 09: BAFTA Nominations
Jan 09: Razzie Awards Nominations
Jan 09: People's Choice Awards
Jan 10: Academy Awards Nominations, Critics Choice Awards
Jan 13: Golden Globe Awards
Jan 24: Golden Tomato Awards
Jan 26: Producers Guild Awards
Jan 27: Screen Actors Guild Awards
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Feb 10: BAFTA Awards
Feb 17: Writers Guild of America Awards
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Police arrest alleged fugitiveFebruary 18,2013READSBORO Police said a man found sleeping on the porch of a Tunnel Street residence Friday night is a fugitive from another state.
Around 11 p.m., police responded to a complaint from a homeowner stating an intoxicated man was asleep on the homeowners porch. Police learned the sleeping man, Jessey L. Deitner, 56, of North Adams, Mass., was wanted in Massachusetts for violating an abuse prevention order.
Deitner was being held in Rutland jail on $15,000 bail and is scheduled to be arraigned Tuesday in Bennington criminal court as a fugitive from justice.MORE IN This Just InStaff Report Full StoryBENNINGTON — A local man was killed in a one-car accident Saturday. Full StoryMONTPELIER Drivers who use hand-held cellphones and other electronic devices while driving... Full Story
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- RICHARD'S POOR ALMANACK: Giles Corey of Salem, Mass., is pressed to death during the Salem witch trials; on this day in 1952, film comedian Charlie Chaplin, while traveling to England, is denied re-entry into the United States by U.S. attorney general.
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John Burkoff on the Cautious Nature of the Penn State Investigation
Professor John Burkoff commented on the cautious nature of the investigation that led to the recent scandal at Penn State. As Pennsylvania's attorney general, Tom Corbett, who is now governor, led the inquiry. Corbett has defended his very careful, tight-lipped approach. According to Professor Burkoff, Corbett's approach was reasonable, but "It's not the only reasonable strategy... These are very difficult prosecutions, and I think it's correct that the more victims that are identified and the more stories that can be corroborated, the stronger the case is."
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Business Ideas in the News / March 25, 2014
According to NPR:, the US Military spends more than $20 billion annually on air conditioning in Iraq and Afghanistan. There has to be a way to profit from this.
The amount the U.S. military spends annually on air conditioning in Iraq and Afghanistan: $20.2 billion.
That's more than NASA's budget. It's more than BP has paid so far for damage during the Gulf oil spill. It's what the G-8 has pledged to help foster new democracies in Egypt and Tunisia.
"When you consider the cost to deliver the fuel to some of the most isolated places in the world — escorting, command and control, medevac support — when you throw all that infrastructure in, we're talking over $20 billion," Steven Anderson tells weekends on All Things Considered guest host Rachel Martin. Anderson is a retired brigadier general who served as Gen. David Patreaus' chief logistician in Iraq.
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Gurus see good times -- unless feds drop the ball
Ken Fisher, Bill Miller, and others say stocks should continue to thrive in 2010. But could government actions, or inactions, derail the rally?
Over the past week, several of the investing gurus who I keep an eye on have offered bullish takes on the markets, though several say upcoming government actions will play a key role in how things play out for both stocks and the economy.
Among the bullish is Kenneth Fisher, whose writings form the basis for one of my Guru Strategy computer models. Fisher told Bloomberg this week that the stocks that usually lead early in a bull market are those that fared well in the first half of the preceding bear market, but then got hammered in the second half of the bear. Fisher thinks we're still early in the rally, so he says he's high on materials, industrials, and consumer discretionary stocks, which fit that description.
Bill Miller, the fund manager who beat the market for a record 15 straight years, faltered from 2006-08, and bounced back strong in '09, also sees more gains ahead for stocks.
Miller told Canada's Globe & Mail that the outlook for both stocks and the economy is better than most think. "There ought to be strong returns in U.S. equities this year. I don't think that the risks … are anywhere near as great as what the consensus believes," Miller said, adding that he's very bullish on certain financial stocks. He warned, however, that missteps by the government could derail the rally.
Another top strategist concerned about the government: Mark Zandi of Moody's Economy.com. Zandi told Bloomberg that more stimulus is needed to prevent the U.S. from slipping back into recession. Zandi says inflation won't be a problem in 2010 or 2011, and that the government shouldn't forego further stimulus efforts because of inflation fears that may not come to fruition for another two years or more.
Bond guru Bill Gross of PIMCO also talked government policy in his latest investment outlook. Gross predicts that the Federal Reserve will begin to end its quantitative easing around the end of March, and that other governments are likely to do the same during 2010. As that happens, private investors may well start turning away from bond markets like the U.S., which is facing huge deficits, and start keying in on bond markets that have their fiscal house more in order, he says. One area he thinks could prosper: Germany.
Finally, newsletter guru Jim Oberweis offered a more upbeat outlook for 2010 for U.S. investors. He wrote on MoneyShow.com that the S&P 500 should return more than 10% for the year, because of "OOB" -- that is, "Out of Bonds". Investors have been shunning stocks and pouring into bonds over the past year or so, a trend that Oberweis says will change. "Inflation is coming, and owners of long-term bonds will lose money," he writes. "We believe that as bond returns begin to languish, money will flow from bonds to stocks, which tend to be more resilient in times of inflation." He also recommends shorting 30-year U.S. Treasury bonds
John Reese is founder and CEO of Validea.com, a premium investment research site, and Validea Capital Management, a separate account advisory firm. He is author of the new investing book, "The Guru Investor: How to Beat the Market Using History's Best Investment Strategies".
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By STEPHANIE BEECKEN6 News Reporter
KNOXVILLE (WATE) - About 25 employees of an East Knoxville recycling plant were evacuated Thursday afternoon after exposure to tear gas.
As many as eight workers were exposed to the non-lethal chemical at Scott Recycling, 5049 S. National Drive, in the Forks of the River Industrial Park.
Two emergency responders were also treated for exposure to the chemicals.
The leak happened when a worker opened an unmarked jar containing a yellow powder.
Scott Recycling owner Dan Scott told 6 News a customer mistakenly sent the tear gas canister with some electronic equipment intended for recycling.
"Apparently this was just a small jar and that's the reason we don't think this is probably anything serious," Scott said. "We are going to take all the precautions to make sure us and our community remain safe."
The workers affected reported burning in their eyes, nose and throat.
Dave Pittman, a compliance officer at Scott Recycling, said he wasn't inside the warehouse when the chemical was released, but felt the effects outside on the loading dock.
"All of the sudden on the dock my nose started burning like fire and my eyes started burning a little bit," he said.
The contamination was contained to the building, so no additional evacuations were necessary.
Employees who did not have to be decontaminated were sent home.
Scott said there should not have been any chemicals in the facility because they aren't used in the recycling of electronics.
He said they have never had an incident like this before.
The canister was apparently shipped from Mississippi, but was likely sent by mistake.
Knox County sheriff's investigators are looking into who owned the canister.
According to the company's website, the facility is used to recycle electronic equipment and dispose of toxic, obsolete, electronic waste.
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The mission of the Barnard College Community Involved in Tutoring Youth Program ("Barnard C.I.T.Y.") is to encourage Barnard students to become civically engaged in the College's surrounding neighborhoods through providing underserved and at-risk middle and high school students in the Morningside Heights, Harlem, and Washington Heights communities with the after school academic support they need to thrive and succeed in school.
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What is the Science Olympiad?
All of the Science Olympiad events aligns to the Georgia Performance Standards in many ways. The Science Practices outlined in the Next Generation of Science Standards are also prevalent in Science Olympiad events and provide a strong engineering integration.
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The fellowship began in 1994 as a training program for doctors with a background in emergency medicine. Dr. Michael F. Altieri, a pediatrician and one of the earliest fellowship trained pediatric emergency medicine physicians, devoted his career to teach the art of pediatric emergency care to doctors who would eventually staff general community emergency facilities. The program added a pediatrics track in 1997.
The majority of faculty is double-boarded in EM/PEM. Two members completed training in PED/PEM and the remainder completed two residencies in PED and EM. The fellows in the PED track spend time with board-certified emergency medicine faculty while on rotation in the adult unit. The faculty has appointments at George Washington University, University of Virginia and Virginia Commonwealth University.
Yes, the program is fully accredited through the Pediatrics RRC.
No! There is a separate curriculum for graduates of EM residencies. Application for the board exam for EM graduates is through the American Board of Emergency Medicine.
Some rotations require call, such as ward pediatrics (EM only) and PICU, as well as trauma surgery (ped track only). Duty hours approach 80/30 on these rotations, however, Duty Hour policies are adhered to strictly to prevent violation of the duty hours. Our close relationship with the pediatric chief residents ensures that scheduling is never an issue.
The faculty and nursing staff could not imagine the ED without fellows. It is fully staffed with 24-hour PEM coverage and double coverage during the evening hours by general emergency attendings. Fellows work in addition to these attendings, at peak pediatric hours, so there is ample supervision.
Average hours worked per week approaches 40 hours as a junior fellow. The shifts are ten hours long, usually from 1 p.m. to 11 p.m. and on weekends from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. or 4 p.m. to 2 a.m. The fellows do not work overnight.
Conference is held every Thursday, in addition to Emergency Medicine Grand Rounds with the GW residency once a month. Attendance is compulsory and protected time is given the night before and the morning of conference to allow attendance. Core pediatric lectures on Tuesdays are required while fellows are on inpatient or pediatric subspecialty lectures. Other general topics, such as medical legal issues, customer service, sleep deprivation and cultural competency, are provided at mandatory monthly Educational Grand Rounds.
Yes. The program director is present and the core faculty takes turns, as some of us have to work! Also present are residents and medical students. This is a specially designed learning experience, allowing ample opportunity to teach and be taught.
Salaries are based on mid-Atlantic averages. Benefits include health insurance, malpractice, etc., through Inova.
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Pai (as he prefers to be called) talks about Riverbed's evolution from WAN performance to application performance and now to datacenter performance. A number of Riverbed products including the Stingray Traffic Manager, Cloud Steelhead WAN Optimization, and the Whitewater Cloud Storage Gateway are available in the AWS Marketplace.
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From September to December 2004, the number of job gains from opening and expanding private sector establishments was 8.1 million, and the number of job losses from closing and contracting establishments was 7.2 million.
The gain in jobs in the fourth quarter of 2004 was the largest gross job gain since the first quarter of 2002. Expanding establishments added 6.4 million jobs and opening establishments added 1.7 million jobs from the third to the fourth quarter of 2004.
Gross job losses totaled 7.2 million in the fourth quarter, a smaller loss than the 7.6 million in the third quarter of 2004. In the fourth quarter of 2004, contracting establishments lost 5.7 million jobs and closing establishments lost 1.5 million jobs.
These data are from the BLS Business Employment Dynamics program and are seasonally adjusted. To learn more about job gains and losses, see Business Employment Dynamics: Fourth Quarter 2004 (PDF) (TXT), news release USDL 05-1562. Gross job gains are increases in employment resulting from expansions of employment at existing establishments or from the opening of establishments. Gross job losses are declines in employment at existing establishments or from the closing of establishments. The difference between the number of gross jobs gained and the number of gross jobs lost is the net change in employment.
Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, The Editor's Desk, Gross job gains and losses in the fourth quarter of 2004 on the Internet at http://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2005/aug/wk3/art05.htm (visited September 20, 2014).
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Judging from her hilariously dark new memoir Agorafabulous!: Dispatches from My Bedroom (out Feb. 14 from William Morrow), Sara Benincasa will always win the "Who has it worse?" game. Spent a week during college in your apartment, unable to get dressed or leave? Benincasa could barely leave her bed, and took to pissing in cereal bowls rather than dealing with unfriendly bathrooms. Think you've got a great, "Kids say the darndest things!" story from that year you spent teaching? Benincasa's time molding young minds involved Viagra and an adolescent erection. Seriously. We caught up with Benincasa over the phone about having enough confidence to write a memoir, the joys of medication and why she'd love a good heckler during her book tour.
Because you're cool, I want to ask: Did you ever have any reticence about writing a memoir when the publishing world is so glutted with them?
I think you either have to have a really original voice or you have to have a story that is insane and has never been told before. Or you have to have both. I would hope I have the combination. What sold it overall, in addition to having a pretty likable, accessible voice, was a story that involved me pissing in bowls. And my advice is if you can work defecation into your story in any way, people will love it. There's gotta be some kind of a hook, and in my case, agoraphobia and the ways in which I acted out was the hook. It was very strange and specific and weird, and not something that strikes a whole lot of people, although it's far more common than most folks would think. I tried really hard not to seem self-pitying in the book, but rather to seem kind of amused by my own struggle. Not to undermine anyone else's pain but to try to find the humor in the really dark shit. I love reading authors who take really dark stuff and make it funny without making light of it.
And you've been telling these stories in your stand-up act for a while, right?
I have two different acts. I have the one I do in the comedy club, and that tends to be lighter stuff, sex and relationships and jobs I've had. And then, when I'm outside of the club setting, I'll tell longer form stories and take more risks with stuff that might not be funny but is sad. If I were at Gotham Comedy Club, that would not be the appropriate place to tell these pissing in bowls and suicidal stories. And if I were doing a one-person show at, say, UCB, I would incorporate some of the darker material.
At what point did you decide to make the leap from the stage to writing a book?
My intent was always to use the live show to write a book proposal. Because writing is so lonely sometimes. I had a job at Sirius XM Radio and I would use all my vacation time to go to theaters around the country, and I would have a list of bullet points of stories I wanted to tell and I would experiment with different ways of telling them. And through that I was able to put together a book proposal. And I started in spring 2009 with the show and we sold the proposal in spring 2010 and we got a final version of the book ready to go in October or November of 2011. And now it's being published in February 2012!
I found during the course of writing it I gained a real sense of confidence, but also a sense of over-confidence. I thought, 'Oh, I've traveled all over the place telling these stories and I've been holding down a job and doing all these things a stable adult does. And maybe I don't need meds or therapy anymore.' So I weaned myself off them and it worked really well for four months. And then there was a trigger. I was in a relationship and he moved to another continent, basically, and then having to finish and turn in this thing triggered a really deep depression. And finishing up this project meant that I couldn't distract myself from these huge problems in my life that I hadn't dealt with. But I had an amazing editor and agent who gave me some extra time while I finished this up at my parents' house. And now I'm back on the medication. Tastes like freedom!
You're touring with the book, too, right?
I am doing a nine-city tour—if you count Manhattan and Brooklyn as two. Which I will do. At each place I'll have one other comedian there to do some comedy and I'll do a combination of standup and stuff from the book. I love reading, but I'm not such a big fan of hearing someone read.
I was sure you were going to say the other comedian would be there to heckle you.
I would love that, if someone screamed during a really sad part, "You suck!" I'm Sicilian and I'm from New Jersey. I love a fight!
Meet Sara Benincasa at Housing Works (126 Crosby St.), 7 p.m., Feb. 16, with an open bar from 7–8 p.m. Do not heckle her.
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5 reasons credit scores may not matter
As consumers become more savvy about their scores, it may be time to look instead at the underlying factors that go into them.
This post comes from Barry Paperno at partner site Credit.com.
Credit scores and the confusion they cause have once again stepped into the national spotlight with the release of th Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's "Analysis of Differences between Consumer- and Creditor-Purchased Credit Scores" (.pdf file). It's part of the Dodd-Frank Act requirement that the CFPB compare credit scores sold to creditors and those sold to consumers to determine whether differences between those scores put consumers at a disadvantage.
The study reported that as much as 73% to 80% of the time, an "educational" score obtained from one of the many consumer websites is likely to place the consumer within the same "credit-quality category" as a creditor-purchased score -- many of which are not available to consumers.
While many reacted to the report with surprise that up to one in four scores for consumers is significantly different than the ones lenders see, some of us who have advocated for years for more score disclosure were surprised that the scoring models were that accurate. Such results indicate a strong correlation between the educational and creditor-purchased scores.
While not necessarily the intent of the CFPB study, these rather unexpected results reveal that there just may be too much emphasis placed on credit scores nowadays, while the underlying credit report information and score factors that accompany most credit scores -- both educational and lender purchases -- can be just as important as, or more important than, matching the three-digit number a lender may be using.
With a goal of getting past credit scores by refocusing on credit report accuracy and using score factors for improvement, here are five reasons why your scores may not matter all that much anyway:
- If your credit is being reported accurately, just about any score based on your credit bureau information will provide a look into your creditworthiness as seen through the eyes of a lender.
- The conventional mantra of paying on time, keeping debt low and avoiding opening new accounts not only will help to improve any credit risk score, but also provides a great general financial management strategy to follow, score or no score. Understanding where your credit report is falling short is important to understanding how to improve your score. Credit.com's Credit Report Card gives you a grade for each of the five categories so you know where you stand.
- In addition to credit bureau risk scores, lenders often use other types of scores, such as behavioral scores and custom application scores, which are not likely to be available to consumers under even the best score disclosure scenario.
- Credit scores lose their freshness very quickly because they are based on the underlying data, which can change daily. So, even if the consumer is using a score derived from the same formula as the lender's, if it isn't of the same vintage it's not likely to be the same score.
- Credit score interpretation and other lending criteria differ from one lender to another, and they can change frequently within the same lender's credit programs. There is no realistic scenario where score "cutoffs" or other lending criteria will be available to consumers, so the mystery surrounding credit granting is all but guaranteed to continue.
Consumer access to credit scores over the past decade has helped consumers become more savvy and empowered than ever. It may now be time to reassess the importance of credit scores as the main consumer empowerment tool, and instead refocus on the credit report, score factors and managing credit responsibly.
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WASHINGTON -- As the battle over the healthcare law grinds on Republicans no closer to victory than when they forced the government shutdown a different fight was rising on a recent Saturday from inside Sharkeys, a bar near the campus of Virginia Tech, 260 miles away.
Lured by free beer, gift cards and the chance to win an iPad, 100 students heard a pitch from the young staffers of a group named Generation Opportunity: Obamacare is a bad deal, and you should opt out.
With enrollment in the insurance marketplaces under way, and tens of millions of taxpayer dollars being spent on a public-awareness campaign, critics are aiming a provocative counter-effort at a critical population: millennials, age 18 to 29, who may not feel the need or have the money for insurance.
Because if too few young, healthy people sign up, Obamacare will be denied the financial blood to support older, more needy participants. So the race is on for the attention of 2.7 million people deemed necessary to enroll in the first year for Obamacare to be successful.
Generation Opportunity, which formed in 2011 and gets funding in part from the conservative Koch brothers, is about to embark on a tour of 20 college towns nationally, including a Nov. 9 stop at the University of Miami. The pitch is that you shouldnt feel compelled by the government to buy insurance, and that it may be cheaper outside the marketplaces.
A blueprint for an upcoming tailgate calls for games such as beer pong and cornhole, free Taco Bell and beer. Pictures of people signing petitions to opt out would be sent over Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.
The group, and more recognizable conservative organizations such as Americans for Prosperity and FreedomWorks, show how the fight has shifted from Congress to the grassroots. Young people are among the laws most ardent supporters, but at the same time many are unaware of the benefits, providing an opening for critics.
Were happy to watch the law crumble under its own weight by young people making good decisions, said Evan Feinberg, Generation Opportunitys 29-year-old president. This is a creepy law.
The media campaign
Creepy put this group on the map.
Last month, Generation Opportunity launched two videos featuring Creepy Uncle Sam, who popped up between a young womans legs during a gynecological exam and asked a young man to roll over as he pulled on a surgical glove. The message: The government is messing with your healthcare.
Generation Opportunity, which has an office in Arlington, Va., and a staff of 30 full-timers, including a field director in Florida, never paid to put the videos on television. But they went viral across YouTube and Facebook, getting 3.5 million unique views in the first week, attracting widespread TV news coverage and a response from President Barack Obama.
It was a really fun moment for me to be out at a bar in Washington and see people watching Creepy Uncle Sam, laughing about it, sharing it with their friends, said Feinberg, a former Republican aide on Capitol Hill and tea party candidate for Congress in Pennsylvania.
On Tuesday, he was sitting at the bar in the Mayflower Hotel in Washington, buzzing with healthcare statistics and polished talking points. As Feinberg ordered an Oktoberfest beer, the waiter asked for his ID and that of the groups 24-year-old communications director, David Pasch, who delighted in the message the scene conveyed.
But a youthful vibe and YouTube smash is no guarantee of success.
The group has a budget of $750,000 for the opt-out campaign, a drop compared with the millions being deployed by advocates. The Creepy Uncle Sam videos have generated attention, but much of it focused on how the message is misleading. The government is not running the healthcare plans.
Some of the tea partys biggest donors, some of the wealthiest men in America, are funding a cynical ad campaign trying to convince young people not to buy healthcare at all, Obama said in a speech last month. Now, do you think if you get sick or if you get hurt and you get stuck with a massive bill, these same folks are going to help you out?
Feinberg compared the videos with an attack ad that Democrats made as Rep. Paul Ryan, the House Republican budget chairman, engineered a plan to restructure Medicare.
Theyre not suggesting Paul Ryan is literally pushing granny off a cliff but trying to make a policy point, he said. Were trying to make a policy point that Obamacare is creepy and invasive. Its obvious satire.
The group, he insisted, has never suggested that people go without insurance, but only consider that cheaper coverage may be available outside the networks.
Gail Wilensky, an economist and former director of Medicare and Medicaid under President George H.W. Bush, explained that the healthcare law pushes up rates for young people in order to make the program more affordable for greater users. The law says the most needy cannot pay more than three times of the least dependent. It should be 5-to-1, she said.
Obamacare offers tax subsidies to offset the cost, though how much depends on what a person earns and may not be available for some plans for example, a catastrophic-care plan in Florida for people under 30. The law also says people who opt out cannot be discriminated against if they want to join later, which may encourage some to simply pay the penalty, which starts at a modest $95 in 2014 but begins to rise.
Nobody meant to discourage exactly the people they need to get in, the young immortals, Wilensky said. But they did a whole bunch of things to discourage them. All of these things by themselves are not unreasonable, but when you put them together it can be serious.
The work of Generation Opportunity and other detractors, she said, could just tilt it even more. Even if their motivations are wrong, what they are suggesting may not be unreasonable. The message of check out and see what the alternatives are is perfectly sound.
Of course, even if people do follow the groups advice and obtain coverage outside a marketplace, they are still fulfilling a goal of health reform to get as many people as possible insured. People who go outside Obamacare surrender any tax subsidies.
The pushback
Fabien Levy, a spokesman for the department of Health and Human Services, said that enthusiasm has been high among young people. We made quality health coverage affordable, and now 6 in 10 Americans shopping for coverage in the marketplace can get coverage for $100 or less per month. Thats a great deal for young adults and all other Americans.
The Obama administration is highlighting success stories in videos, a sign of the stakes. To promote the marketplace, it has enlisted celebrities and the popular website FunnyorDie.com, and partnered with a group called Young Invincibles.
AARP has a campaign to get mothers to pester their children to sign up. And Enroll America, a group working on an awareness campaign, has fanned out across college campuses well ahead of Generation Opportunity.


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Losing your home to foreclosure is one thing. But walking away just because it's financially convenient could hurt down the road.
This post comes from Stacy Johnson at partner site Money Talks News.
With millions of Americans owing more on their mortgages than their houses are worth, many are opting for a "strategic default" -- allowing a house to go back to the bank, even though the borrower may be capable of making the payments.
In some states, those who choose a strategic default face lawsuits from lenders anxious to collect what they're owed. Now, the quasi-governmental agency Fannie Mae has announced it's upping the stakes by barring those who walk away from getting an FHA-insured loan for seven years.
"Walking away from a mortgage is bad for borrowers and bad for communities, and our approach is meant to deter the disturbing trend toward strategic defaulting," said Terence Edwards, executive vice president for credit portfolio management at Fannie Mae.
Fannie Mae also said that in states where such lawsuits are allowed, it plans to join lenders in suing borrowers who default. That won't apply to all borrowers -- just those who, in the company's opinion, are able to pay their mortgage but aren't willing. The company said homeowners who make a good-faith effort to repay their loan or have extenuating circumstances won't be affected.
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After 25 years of designing structural steel & reinforced concrete, I find myself asking "so……why?"
Why have I always used 1 ½" instead of the AISC recommended 1 ¼" ?
Embarrassingly enough I will have to say "because this is what I was always taught to use." But that don't make it right. "I hear a song in here somewhere…"
I have a client who, I know, will scrutinize my upcoming design to the Nth degree. If they see 1 ½" edge distances I will be asked why. What rational, engineering reason would I have to use 1 ½" edge distances instead of 1 ¼"? Other than it's easier to read on a tape measure. These are distances I will be showing on cap plate details, connection plate details, clip angle details, etc. Btw, all of this steel will be galvanized. This structure is comprised of a few monorails that will be extensions of existing monorails and will be connected (hung) from some existing roof framing steel, (roof steel is circa 1967 ). Thank you for all your help on this.


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As a storyteller, I have always loved movies with strong protagonists, clever humor and real life situations – even when the world in which they live is crawling with alien robots, or in this case, werewolves. It's the human condition to fall in love with characters that you can relate to. So, I strive to write mine with the kind of lovable and redeeming qualities you might find in Holly Golightly and the undeniable character flaws of Han Solo. Throw in some ruthless politics (like we all experienced this last election season), a compromising situation that'll make a desperate housewife blush, a dark secret or two and, ladies and gentlemen, you've got The Apollo Saga.


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Utilization of Language Learning Strategies by Iranian Post Graduate Students and Their Attitude and Motivation Toward English Learning
The current study tries to explore language learning strategies (LLSs) of Iranian postgraduate learners and the effect of motivation and attitude on their strategy use. Oxford's classification of language learning strategies is the framework of the current study. Her strategy taxonomy includes six categories as memory, cognitive, metacognitive, compensation, social and affective strategies. 156 Iranian post graduate students in Kerman province were selected according to two-step cluster sampling. Then, translated version of Oxford's strategy inventory for language learning (SILL) was administered to the participants to determine their strategy use. Attitude/motivation test battery (AMTB) was also used to identify the participants' type of attitude and motivation. After collecting and analyzing data, the following results were found: a) Unlike the findings of the majorities of the studies done so far on foreign language learners, Iranian post graduate students of art and science were found to be high strategy users; b) The participants reported the use of compensation, social, metacognitive, and affective strategies in a high level while memory and cognitive strategies were reported to be used at a medium level; c) No significant difference was found between overall strategy use of students with positive and negative attitude; d) No significant difference was found between overall strategy use of students with integrative and instrumental motivation; e) No significant difference was found between overall strategy use of students of art and science.
Key words: Language learning strategies; Iranian post graduate students; Learning attitude; Motivation; English learning
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We can say anything about their government, but we can't say that they are not really ambitious.
We can say anything about their government, but we can't say that they are not really ambitious.
This is ACTA by the backdoor. Is the same thing that they are pushing here in Mexico. Next thell will push the same legislation in the USA to "armonize" the laws in all the NAFTA countries.
Is the social interaction enabled by religion:
So where does that leave non-believers?
"Out of luck, I guess," Koenig joked.
"Actually, I would suspect that people doing the types of things like religious people do -- socializing, doing similarly complex cognitive tasks, would have similar benefits. But it is interesting that religion provides that whole package of things that people can adopt and pursue over time."
It would be really interesting to make an additional study to compare that against a group of people that are not religious but that have a simmilar level of social interaction.
9/11 for a quick and easy start.
I was in Kyoto last year in the Gion Matsuri event that is used by Sony to showcase their 4K tv sets so I can compare the real life event versus the recordings. The accuracy of colors and the resolution are really impressive, and nothing like I or pretty much anybody else have seen before. I think that for the first time the resolution and color space of a recording can give a real sensation of "being there" instead of only seing a moving picture, even without any 3D efects.
A snowballs in hell chance. If USA's says "jump" our president's answer is "how much?"
Is absurd to expect any other result when people elects politicians that think that the State is a problem, an obstacle to society -instead of a tool to provide and protect the general welfare- that should be destroyed and then find that under their government the State's institutions start to fail. Is no wonder than after a long spell under conservative governments, Tory and New Labor, the welfare institutions are in shambles but well, the Great UK have it's army in action around half dozen countries around the world and boomers ready to strike the Soviet Union, and a great funeral for the Iron Lady, that's a better investment of taxpayer's money than wasting it in health care.
As things currently stand, I think they have a better chance to take over Mexico than us take over them
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Mexico, that is what happens with Neoliberalism without counterweights.
When I was born Mexico was a richer country than South Korea. In 32 years of decadence, now I have found myself unable to park my car at home because a family in the neighborhood was murdered; taking detours because mobsters dropped human heads in the street; or being thankful because instead of the murder of the week we see in my community only the murder of the month. Beggars and homeless people everywhere, half the country living in worst conditions than the Cubans under the Castro brothers. Neoliberals call themselves Cristian democrats, but I would rather wish to be governed by Satanists than these scumbags.
Aren't we talking about the same guys that walked in front of the White House with a Confederate Flag? Judged by their policies and racial makeup, americans should be forgiving with foreigners that think that Lincoln was a Democrat and Jefferson Davis Republican.
Personally I think that if not on reality, de facto the Tea Party are the best agents that the Chinese government could have found to hasten the beginning of the New Chinese Century and put USA in the same place that the UK or France are today.
Americans will be at a loss to find new words to describe the new failed states north of the border of the current USA-Mexico. I suggest New Michoacán, New Tamaulipas, New Chihuahua or New Ciudad Juárez. Considering the higly issolationist and selfish nature of most conservatives in America, I have serious doubts that they could manage to form even a county.
Conservative and libertarian americans are really desperate to hand over world's leadership to China. I'm from Mexico,you would be tempted to guess that americans would want to know why my country is almost a failed state and South Korea that was a very similar country to Mexico 30 years ago -development wise- no. We have implemented many of those "small government" ideas, and now we have to bury our neighboors and double check if the trash bag on the street is really a trash bag or it is filled with a mutilated corpse. And they wonder why people risk their lives in the desert triying to slip in the USA:
Attack on privacy is a far more correct and honest asessment.
I wouldn't say that USA is Israel's government's pet, more like Israel's government's bitch or beaten wife; but, like in families, this sick relationship is bad and damaging for the couple.
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An estimated 133 million Americans cast ballots in the U.S. presidential election. Today, a local advocate talks about her non-profit's efforts to register and encourage more Asian-Americans to cast ballots this year. And two political activists share their experiences as observers of the Venezuelan presidential election.
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By Helen Kim Ho
Voting is often associated with duty, responsibility and obligation. Civic engagement efforts often guilt-trip people to the polls.
That's because inspiring people to vote is hard work. Voter apathy is prevalent in our country. In the 2008 presidential elections, only 64% percent of eligible citizens voted, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. We have the lowest voter turnout among a sampling of 14 developed countries, based on a Columbia University study.
Despite our freedom and success, we're one of the most civically depressed societies in the world. Polls show a high degree of cynicism and distrust toward government, fueled by a perception of ultra-partisanship.
As the presidential election approached, what we saw on the ground was unexpected. While setting up voter registration drives at colleges, storefronts, senior homes and churches, large numbers of people approached us eager to vote. This was especially true of the 500-plus newly naturalized citizens we helped after their swearing-in ceremonies. These new Americans have to wait years, pay $680 in fees and pass a rigorous examination to become citizens. They were excited to hear they could register in time to vote for the presidency.
While registering Georgia Tech students, intern Peter Yang was surprised by the amount of thanks he received from passers-by who were already registered. Other student groups at nearby tables even pitched in to help.
A group that has been gaining notice in national media for its growing political interest and power is the Asian-American community. Thirty-six Asian-Americans and Pacific Islanders ran for Congress this year, more than double the number from a record set two years ago. Asian-Americans equaled whites for the highest rate of donations to political campaigns in the 2008 election. Asian-Americans are swing votes in battleground states Virginia and Florida.
Asian-Americans are getting more politically engaged as we live longer in the U.S. For Georgians to equate all things immigrant with Latinos or foreigners loses out on a powerful voting bloc and misses an undeniable growth trend.
Still, Asian-Americans have the lowest percentage voter turnout of any group in our state. Lack of engagement is due to a myriad of factors, but mostly from voter apathy. Our Vote For Our Future Campaign sought to inspire new voters by connecting voting with togetherness, fun and excitement for a future in which we all share ownership. We enlisted the help of five community partners to help with awareness-raising and deeper outreach to key Asian ethnic groups. We organized voter registration "blitzes" in Gwinnett County where we designed our drives more like festive events and earned media coverage for our work.
Weeks ago, we also unveiled a billboard that appealed to the familial bonds parents and relatives feel for children. The billboard, displayed on I-85 between Steve Reynolds Boulevard and Beaver Ruin Road, showed photos of children asking adults to vote for their future. On Oct. 25, we co-sponsored a DeKalb and Gwinnett candidates forum to help citizens understand the issues and get questions answered.
One Asian-American gentleman explained to us that voting is a gift he received when he became a citizen. He had no plans to squander it. A gift by its nature is unexpected, not earned. After years of running into people who see voting as a burden or useless exercise, I was moved to tears to hear this truth.
Helen Kim Ho is executive director of the Asian-American Legal Advocacy Center of Georgia.
By Azadeh Shahshahani and Susan Scott
As we cast our ballots in Tuesday's elections, we were reminded of our transformative experience in Venezuela.
We spent the week leading up to the Oct. 7 Venezuelan presidential election learning about the electoral system that former President Jimmy Carter has called "the best in the world."
We observed it in action all over the country on the day of the election day as part of a group of more than 220 international parliamentarians, election officials, academics, journalists and judges. As predicted, Hugo Chavez was re-elected by a double-digit margin and with an unprecedented voter turnout.
In Venezuela, elections have become a national project which knows no party and constitutes a major investment.
As more elections are conducted under the National Electoral Council's (CNE) leadership, (over 15 since 1999), the electoral system has become increasingly trusted by the populace. It has been used by unions to elect leadership and even by the opposition last February to elect its standard bearer.
Since the 1998 election of Hugo Chavez and the adoption of the constitution, voter registration has climbed from 11 million in 1998 to almost 19 million today, the result of a robust registration program that throughout the country, targets the poorest communities. All but 3.5 percent of eligible voters have registered, and the number of polling places has increased from 20,202 in 1998 to 38, 239 in 2012.
The technology used to record, verify and transmit the votes provides for accessible electronic voting with a verifiable paper trail and instant transmission of vote counts from remote locations to CNE headquarters. CNE's anti-hacking and multiple transparent audit and identity authentication systems have put to rest past opposition claims of fraud.
At each of the polling stations we visited, there were observers present representing both major political camps. They expressed satisfaction with the integrity and transparency of the process regardless of their political affiliation. We, along with observers from both sides, witnessed the Citizens' Verification Audits after the polls closed, when the paper ballots were compared with electronic results.
We were present at the CNE headquarters in Caracas for the announcement of election results within a few hours of the closing of the more than 38,000 polling stations. And we watched as Henrique Capriles, the opposition candidate for president, conceded on television within the next hour.
What struck us most was the trust of the Venezuelan people in the integrity of the electoral system and Venezuela's commitment to getting more people to vote. We have much to learn from Venezuela to arrive at a truly transparent system invested in democracy, rather than disenfranchisement of our citizens.
Azadeh Shahshahani is president of the National Lawyers Guild. Susan Scott is past co-chair of the National Lawyers Guild International Committee.
November 9th, 2012
6:27 am
Having worked in Venezuela myself, I can confirm the opinion of the authors. The degree of political participation by Venezuelans is impressive, and not only in elections but in decision making daily on issues that impact their lives, particularly at the local level. It is this sense of empowerment that has many Venezuelans believing for the first time that they actually have a meaningful voice in the major decisions that impact their lives. This is the reason why voter turnout in Venezuela was 81 percent (a figure we can only dream about in the United States). As for the comment that more and more Venezuelans have fallen into poverty, well that is a ludicrous claim. According to the UN, under Chavez, poverty has plummeted from 55 percent to 27 percent. Just one more reason for many Venezulans to vote. Don't believe everything you see in the US media about Venezuela, it is about as accurate as the media's claims that Saddam had WMDs prior to the invasion of Iraq.
November 8th, 2012
3:49 pm
Venezuela has much to teach the United States of America. It elected a leader who systematically began to annihilate its economy. He pitted its citizens against one another – poor and uneducated against educated and wealthy. As the system began to collapse, more and more Venezuelans fell into poverty and became dependent upon government assistance. With no way to improve their lives, they continue to vote for the hand that feeds them. Keep the majority of citizens dependent and you hold all the power. Yes America, if we don't learn from Venezuela, we are in danger of becoming Venezuela.
November 8th, 2012
12:13 pm
As a person who has voted in basically every election including primaries and runoffs since I became eligible it is difficult to understand why some don't vote. Maybe it is distrust in government, but I think it is just plain laziness. Many folks are more concerned about American Idol than American Ideals. Now, I am not so sure what a group of people who elects that despot Hugo Chavez can teach us about anything.


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The persons described in this paragraph are—
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The determination under paragraph (1)(B) shall be made without regard to the overburden credit provided by section 418C.
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The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation may prescribe additional or alternative requirements for assuring, in the case of a plan with respect to which notice is required by subsection (a)(1), that the persons described in subsection (a)(2)—
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Harry Potter is a cash cow that Warner Bros. clearly hopes to milk a little more even after the final movie in the series hits theaters on July 15. The series has sold more than 400 million books, and its first seven movies grossed $6.4 billion, CNBC reports.
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