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Facebook nearly regains $38 IPO price -- finally
The shares are up more than 42% since reporting a huge earnings and revenue beat for the 2nd quarter. CEO Zuckerberg's stake has jumped from $13 billion to $18.8 billion.
Facebook (FB), the stock that so many people love to hate, came oh-so-close to regaining -- finally -- its initial public offering price.
The shares hit as high as $37.96 Tuesday, 4 cents under the $38 price the stock fetched when it went public in May 2012. They fell back slightly, ending the day at $37.61, up $2.18.
The percentage gain was second-best among stocks in the Nasdaq-100 Index ($NDX). Facebook helped the Nasdaq Composite Index ($COMPX) and the Nasdaq-100 finish Tuesday at highs last seen in the fall of 2000.
Facebook ended Tuesday up 43% in the four trading sessions since Wednesday afternoon when it reported second-quarter results that beat Wall Street estimates and proved that the company can generate revenue from advertising on its mobile site.
Moreover, the stock is up 114.3% from its intraday low of $17.55, reached on Sept. 4, 2012, and it's up 41.3% for the year.
There wasn't much news to go with the price gain. Tiernan Bay of Barron's called the stock's performance on Tuesday a "post-earnings victory lap."
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Facebook went public on May 17, 2012 at $38. Shares opened for trading the next day at $42, hit $45 but ended the day at $38.23. The IPO was probably overpriced, and the Nasdaq market, which had won the Facebook listing, had problems getting trades to execute, infuriating investors even more.
It was downhill for the shares -- amid great derision -- from there until September. The resurgence came after many pundits confidently predicted that the shares would ultimately drop below $10.
Before the earnings report, there was talk that teenagers were starting to move on from the social-networking site.
Zuckerberg said during the company's July 24 conference call that "the number of teens using Facebook on both a daily and monthly basis has been steady over the past year and half."
Facebook's rally came as the U.S. stock market was decidedly mixed on Tuesday. The Dow Jones industrials ($INDU) were down 1 points to 15,521. The Standard & Poor's 500 Index ($INX) gained 1 point to 1,686. The Nasdaq was up 17 points to 3,616, its best finish since Sept. 29, 2000.
The Nasdaq-100, which includes most of the largest Nasdaq stocks, added 16 points to 3,085, its best close since Nov. 7, 2000. Facebook contributed about 20% of the index's gain on the day.
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If the referendum for a transportation sales tax in metro Atlanta fails this month, the cause is likely to be a lack of trust.
The most obvious trust gap is the one that separates most tea partyists from government spending. No surprise there. But the trust deficit that matters most in the July 31 vote, and the one that runs the deepest, separates white and black in metro Atlanta.
Or, if you prefer to keep things on a more civilized plane, it creates a divide between Democrats in Fulton and DeKalb counties on one hand, and Republicans in the other eight counties on the other.
All along, the strategy for passage of the transportation sales tax has been based on keeping the vote close in GOP strongholds such as Cobb and Gwinnett counties, then running up the score with strong African-American support in Atlanta and areas south of I-20.
This week, Channel 2 Action News released a poll, conducted by Rosetta Stone Communications, which showed only 38 percent of voters in the 10-county region in support of more spending to get metro Atlanta moving. In Fulton and DeKalb counties alone, support was measured at 49.6 percent – well short of what's needed to make the formula work.
One reason for any lack of enthusiasm is the penny sales tax that Fulton and DeKalb residents already pay to fund MARTA. Passage would apply the transportation sales tax to all counties. The penny gap would remain.
But there is a larger unease growing, at least within the DeKalb and Fulton county political communities. As Republicans finally turn their heads toward the need for a regional transportation solution, some African-American lawmakers and other elected officials worry that their role in a transit system that they have managed for better than three decades is about to be lessened – or largely subverted.
As the Legislature shut down this spring, one bill lost to the clock would have transferred the power to appoint two members of the MARTA board from the Fulton County Commission to a council of six north Fulton mayors. In exchange, MARTA would have been allowed – for three years – to spend its sales tax revenue as it liked.
Longstanding state law prevents the transit system from spending more than 50 percent of sales tax revenue on operations – things such as salaries and electric bills. With sales tax revenue down because of the recession, the restriction is on hold until next year. But a financially pinched MARTA wants a extension and had reluctantly acquiesced, we're told, to a deal brokered by House Majority Whip Edward Lindsey, R-Atlanta.
Lindsey said his bill is certain to return in January for quick passage.
Not long after the MARTA bill suffered this temporary setback, House Speaker pro tem Jan Jones, R-Milton, held a session with north Fulton constituents eager to create a new Milton County. The process would begin in January, the lawmaker told them. "My goal is to end Fulton County and bring government closer to the people," Jones said.
Taken together, Jones' comments and the MARTA bill sent a shiver down the spines of many black leaders in Fulton and DeKalb who are now being asked to turn out voters in July. "It's definitely a concern," said DeKalb County Commissioner Lee May, who opposes the referendum.
He understands the consequences. "DeKalb County residents are the type of voter that this initiative needs to win. We understand that in order to realize a benefit, you have to pay for it. Others in the region have shown a tendency to not want to pay for things," May said.
The removal of Fulton County's authority to appoint members of the MARTA board is only a precursor of things to come, May said. "It's a slippery slope. You can see we're clearly headed in the same direction as Fulton County with the cityhood movement. They'll be coming for DeKalb soon."
But Republicans say trust is a two-way street. Jones, the No. 2 leader in the House, doesn't deny the remarks she made last month, but says they weren't reported in full. "We're looking at Fulton County as a model that is no longer relevant. It's not that it's good or bad. It's just not relevant," Jones said.
The House leader said she is willing to move slowly, and that the future of Fulton County shouldn't become part of the transportation debate. "I'm a patient person," she said. As for the measure to give north Fulton mayors the power to appoint members of the MARTA board, Jones said her voters need to have a more direct stake in transportation decisions.
"If they felt that they had a seat at the table, they would certainly be more likely to trust it and be interested in it," Jones said.
Lindsey, author of the MARTA compromise, said much the same thing. "The fact of the matter is, Fulton County looks very different than what it did in the 1970s when we set up who all got to appoint whom. We now have all these cities up in north Fulton," Lindsey said. And their residents pay a penny for MARTA, too.
Lindsey characterized the MARTA bill that will return next year as a piece of hard bargaining on both sides that would make Mick Jagger proud. "Everybody doesn't get what they want, but they get what they need," he said.
In exchange for increased north Fulton authority over MARTA, the transit agency gets more control over its own cash flow for three years. And that should be just enough time for state to establish a bona fide, regional transit system, Lindsey said.
Who controls it, and who pays for it, remain open questions.
- By Jim Galloway, Political Insider
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June 30th, 2012
9:43 am
The Transportation Initiative as it is loaded up with projects now should be eminently destroyed. This Initiative is all about asphalt gravy for well connected asphalt and heavy equipment contractors. Any imbecile can see that the ten county metro does not need any new roads. We build more and bigger roads we get more and bigger gridlocks. We need MARTA slicing up the metro area like railroad engineers working with Ginsu knives- Not a foot more asphalt.
June 30th, 2012
9:49 am
blahblahblah. If the legislature thinks this is the best plan ever, then pass it and raise taxes for it. don't put it on the people – it is a HORRIBLE plan for anyone who wants *real* transportation. But that is irrelevant. We send people to atlanta to do a job, not push it back to the voters. DO YOUR JOB. And *that* is the main reason I'm voting against it.
That and – HELLO – how much does the GDOT spend every year? Again, if this is so great, then allocate more money to them, and deal with actually doing your job. If you think it's the right thing to do, then vote for it as a LEGISLATOR.
June 30th, 2012
9:49 am
Oh well… There goes the transit system I was hoping that the backwards northern counties would finally vote for but then again I don't expect reason from most of those people. They love sitting in their cars for hours a day on 400. I live north of the perimeter and I chose to live in Atlanta but I am amazed how many people here don't get the ideal of mass transit here. In any other metro area this would have been done already. Here the whole deal rides on the vestiges of racism and economic warfare. Truly a sad day for all of the metro Atlanta area.
June 30th, 2012
9:50 am
correct – no new roads needed, ramzad. they only create more traffic.
In any event, when this fails, the legislators will take it as some sort of sign that people don't want a transportation plan. not as a sign that they aren't doing their jobs. *sigh*.
Such a shame I'm leaving Georgia.
June 30th, 2012
9:51 am
Roy: but this plan doesn't *just* contain stuff about mass transit – which A LOT of people in the city at least, support. It contains billions for roads. which are so not needed. what atlanta needs is a way to get around – without a car.
June 30th, 2012
9:53 am
Good grief, JIm! Does EVERYTHING in Atlanta have to boil down to race. I am SICK of it!
The bottom line is: N. Fulton taxpayers have been screwed as the golden goose for–literally–decades. The current configuration of the County Commissioners gives N. Fulton a disproportionally smaller voice in government affairs, including the TIA/TSPLOST abomination. Just look at it–Why does the city of Atlanta have a disproportionate say in the projects list than the same taxpayers in N. Fulton? Somebody–with logic and reason—please explain that.
N. Fulton Taxpayers have sent hundred$ of MILLION$ to the capital over the last decades–and have pathetic 3rd world roads to show for it. We have paid for MARTA since the 70s–literally BILLION$ transferred to an entity that provides us little to no service. THEN, add in the Ga400 Toll Road–disproportionally paid for by N. Fulton– we were lied to AGAIN!!
Fool me once, Twice, Three TIMES, and now you want me to trust you on TSPLOST?
We've been foolish, but we're not stupid!
June 30th, 2012
9:58 am
Jim always seems to make it about race or wealth. This is about the health of the region. Go North Jim.
June 30th, 2012
9:58 am
altmon: Would not say roads are not needed. I understand the need to fix that too. There are some far flung areas of the area that just need a road. My thoughts are that we can get a mix of it all. Don't throw the whole thing away just because of that. Buses, trains and cars: let's put it all on the table.
June 30th, 2012
10:00 am
Todd: LOL! Of course it is. It always is. That stuff never goes away. It is just below the surface. This is America for pete's sake. History book would do you good.
June 30th, 2012
10:08 am
Just Nasty & Mean: AMERICA has always had issues with race and economic inequality. No company moves here for North Fulton. They move here because if the infrastructure of the Atlanta area. If Atlanta falls then all of Georgia fails. Companies move away and house values plummet. The last think anyone wants is a southern version of Detroit. 400 serves the northern part of the county so they should they should pay for that. This is about extending the transportation resources to the long overlooked areas of North Fulton that did not exist in their current form in the 70s. I would not look at this as an "US against THEM" argument. If that is the case, then we all lose.
June 30th, 2012
10:17 am
Roy Jones—You've only missed one point. We've been screwed too many times to trust ANYBODY!
Vote NO! to the TSPLOST that doesn't end congestion, and NO! to the developers wet dream it represents.
June 30th, 2012
10:18 am
It's not a penny sales tax, it,s a one persent sales tax. Big difference.
June 30th, 2012
10:25 am
Galloway editorialized the following: "support of more spending to get metro Atlanta moving". The AJC itself has admitted that little congestion relief is in this plan – it is mostly expansion of development for longer commutes instead of encouraging or having the market place move jobs located closer to the suburban resident workforce. The net effect on traffic congestion is nil.
This blog does (finally) point out that Atlanta leaders fear losing control of their MARTA piggy bank.
June 30th, 2012
10:28 am
So, Todd….Is it "healthy" for the region to take $8B out of the local economy and pee it away on development projects (Beltline) that doesn't help congestion one iota?
If we're going to do this, let's do it RIGHT and make it about relieving traffic–not about some political agenda (project list) by some government hack.
June 30th, 2012
10:34 am
Anyone who has faith in a transportation plan designed by politicians in either party eeds to take a trip to the funny farm! Politicians design things to help their campaign contributors and then try to sucker the voters into supporting their boondoggle with all kinds of lavish promises. Vote No!
June 30th, 2012
10:42 am
Anyone who eliminates race from the junction we have arrived in regional transportation is drinking from the voodoo public policy Kool-Aid puddle.
We know that MARTA was, up to two years ago, was never in Cobb or Gwinnett, because white suburban people believed that MARTA was going to be a pipeline for black criminals to come out of Atlanta into their communities. That is not conjecture. It is fact.
Of course, that theory did not make sense then and it does not now. I have never seen anyone getting on MARTA with a flat screen TV mounted to his chest, but white people believed that the absence of MARTA was an asphalt moat around their communities. Now, the moat has become their worst transportation nightmare. Don't flip the script like this area is not a place where black people and white people at one time killed each other on sight. It is not an accident that Martin Luther King, Jr. had to come out of Atlanta.
June 30th, 2012
10:48 am
When is Atlanta going to realize that adding more lanes and more asphalt doesn't solve anything…ask LA. They learned the hard way and have been expanding their rail network since 1990. Having 10 lanes go east and west doesn't solve a thing. Look at NY, Chicago, Boston, DC, etc….do you think they have roads with 10 lanes??? No. They expand their rail lines. If you don't like it, get on the train. Its faster, cheaper, saves gas and you can actually get work done without getting into an accident. Until Atlanta builds a real rail network, it will always be classified as a second tier town.
And for all you people that complain about crime, get on the train in NYC or DC or Boston…millions take those trains every single day and they are very safe. Fact is, people want to live near the train stations because its convenient. Major business centers and residential centers have grown up around train stations in NY, DC, etc.. Security cameras, police, etc are all over the place…very rarely does anything bad happen compared to the volume of people using the trains.
June 30th, 2012
10:48 am
It is not just the Tea party members who do not trust this added tax. Politicians have put the transportation priority too low on our current taxpaying list in favor of their pet projects. The added TSPLOST plan came first, and many lists were massaged only to curry favor to special interest political friends and contributors. Lots of non-Tea party supporters have seen through the veil of deception, and oppose this added tax which is non-productive.
Only the most liberal voters who have never seen a tax they won't approve, and special interests (hence politicians) who will benefit greatly via taxpayers are fighting for this boondoggle.
June 30th, 2012
10:48 am
If North Fulton would have just remained apart of Atlanta this wouldn't have ever been a problem. They formed these other cities without purposely to sepparate them from other parts of the area (and yes race and income played a factor in this). Marta needs to be expanded and there should not be any arguments at all. As for road construction…no one seems to have any problems when GA 400 is widened. What the focus should be is why we have to vote on this anyway, when gas tax, portions of sales tax, GA Lottery all are suppose to fund transportation projects throughout the State. We should be blaming those idiots running our state, like our last governor, current governor and all of republicans. I wanna know where the hell is all that money going?????
June 30th, 2012
10:52 am
I'll be voting no on TSPLOST.
A) I do not believe this tax will ever sunset. It's a lie politician will tell to get what they want, then soon forget ala Ga 400.
B) Until the state legislatures get real about supporting a true regional transportation system without taking all the power from the 2 counties that have supported it for 40 years. Or just get out of the way and let us finish building it without unreal restrictions.
I'm sick of hearing about the need for local control as they are hell bent on wrestling said control from the locals. Also tired of hearing the state should not be subsidizing mass transit so they deny Marta yet find state money to subsidize bus service from their counties.
June 30th, 2012
11:01 am
Metro Atlanta is a collection of suburbs. We are not a compacted metro area like NYC, Chicago, London, Paris or the other handful of successful transit systems. Even those require massive taxpayer financial support.
To make MARTA service the whole metro area, and make it a viable alternative to cars would cost $100 BILLION or more. MARTA was destined for failure the day it was born.
The answer is to embrace what metro Atlanta is–a collection of suburbias. It is the lifestyle we chose to live and why we stay here.
Why not make congestion solutions map up with what we have, who we are and what we want, instead of trying to social engineer solutions that do not, and will NEVER, solve congestion?
June 30th, 2012
11:03 am
Galloway is such a liberal clown. I live in Buckhead and receive no representation (thanks Ed Lindsey) after this weeks decision to add the biggest tax increase in American history (thanks John Roberts) there is no way I am ever voting for another. I am so sick of the class warfare and the games Democrats are playing.
I will as many other business owners be reducing future hiring to try and cope with Obamacare, with regards to transit there is no trust because the corruption in Metro politics is too widespread.
Congrats America on the 2008 election you now buried the country's superpower status
June 30th, 2012
11:09 am
jim just didnt throw outa note about race; its simply the truth; they hate the president; they hate marta because it will bring african americans to cobb and cherokee county; this state has to join the 21st century; its backwards enuf without denying expanding and growing our transportation needs. the republicans only want to use our taxes to defeat roe against wade; continue unwanted wars; defeat gay marriage and further all their own social agendas. this is real life…..SPLOST was passed for just these kinds of things; i.e. capital improvements to improve quality of life for our citizens; you just dont get it; we are already decaying our infrastructure because we dont want to pay taxes to do it; get over it. once again they dont have a plan in place of splost…..or anything else. grow up; all of you above except for one or two prove the point that jim makes about black and white; this country could fall on that attitude……beginning with the tea party who would rather do nothing……..aargh
June 30th, 2012
11:11 am
Ryan; I am delighted that you are so angry and uber frustrated. I hope more Right Wing zealots take the pills you are. You are a fool if you believe you can cut your way to prosperity. It seems to me that
the next 4-6 to six years will be very difficult for you. You earned it well with your bankrupt me me me thinking.
June 30th, 2012
11:13 am
We don't have a transporation problem, we have a land use problem. There is no amount of money that will allow us to continue to buy houses in old cow pastures further and further away from jobs and activities. As long as the average resident of the metro continues to increase the length of their commutes and to make most of it primarily on old roads that were built for rural agriculture, we'll have more tranportation projected needed than we can ever afford.
TSPLOST does absolutely nothing to address this. Zero. It's a very expensive bandaid on a wide open axe wound. The underlying problem must be addressed but that would require courage and hard work from the legislature who is more interested in getting drunk every night and having sex with lobbyist than actually serving the people who elected them.
As for the individual, you can do your part by NOT LIVING AN HOUR or more away from your job and the activities you participate in. That my friends is the ultimate in personal responsibility. Too bad for most in this state, personal responsibilty is just a meaningless buzz word. Don't want to pay for more roads and transit? Stop creating the demand for it! Otherwise you are just another welfare queen looking to the big government to take care of the problem you've personally created for yourself. Parasites!
June 30th, 2012
11:18 am
Trust – Go no farther that GA-400
June 30th, 2012
11:20 am
To say that race is not a part of just about every single issue in Georgia is just plain crazy.
North Fulton Republicans blatantly flaunt it all the time. They are up in arms over MARTA management and lack of representation. They scream about the incompetence of the county government and complain that their tax dollars are being diverted away from them.
However, on the state level silence. The Georgia DOT is incompetent, they make MARTA seem like a well oiled machine. The folks in north Fulton never, ever bring up the fact that 35% of all gas tax revenue collected in metro-Atlanta is siphoned off to other parts of the state. They never mention the federal funds that also get siphoned off to other parts of Georgia.
Sorry north Fulton, MARTA is not the cause of your problems, stop the whining. Go after your Republican politicians that continue to allow rural Georgia to sponge off your tax dollars.
Wake up to the fact that while rural Georgia was getting fancy 4 lane highways where they weren't needed local developers were developing every inch of land making new freeways that you love so much impossible.
June 30th, 2012
11:25 am
It's race-mongering journalism like this that stokes the fires of racism.
I am not thinking one bit about race in my decision not to support this new tax. I live in North Fulton and just want to be able to get back and forth to work or anywhere else I want to go without sacrificing undue hours in the car.
If we are going to talk about trust, we can't do so without mentioning the lie that has been perpetuated on everyone who uses Georgia 400. After that massive deceit, how are we ever to believe anything that Big Brother promises us about a transportation tax or issue?
The only bone that we've been thrown at all on 400 is to utilize emergency lanes in the morning commute…lanes that have to be merged into and out of. As far as I can see, this is not doing much to improve the plight of the commuter…but endangers any metro Atlantan who might one day need the services of an emergency vehicle during those times. To put it succinctly, the shortsightedness of this practice will put lives at risk. It is only a matter of time.
Read my above comments carefully. They do not have a single thing to do with race. They have everything to do with trust, however.
June 30th, 2012
11:30 am
Just fix MARTA! Extend lines North, NW, NE, W and E. These are all of the choke spots entering the city. They also should consider a commuter rail line from areas further out. (like the L.I.R.R in NY).
This is unfortunately a product white-flight in Georgia. Urban Sprawl is real people and Jim Galloway hit the nail on the head with the issues. Honestly, it is time for the solutions to come about without bickering because it is affecting everyone White and Black.
June 30th, 2012
11:31 am
T-splost is a fair tax because it is a sales tax and anybody who spends money in the region will leave that sales tax in that region for roads and bridges. T-splost revenue never goes into the general fund. DOT has no jurisdiction over any of the t-splost money. Why would you not want to improve the area where you live? Good grief! Look at what t-splost really is, not what has been or should have been, but look at the t-splost revenue itself. The above arguements are moot points when you don't use tunnel vision to view it.
June 30th, 2012
11:33 am
It is not about race, it is about years of mismanagement. Take Gwinnett, the county commissioner never saw a development that they did not like. Land zoned for 1 house per acre was rezoned for 4 (or more) houses per acre without concern about roads or schools. Would MARTA be useful in Gwinnett? Maybe? But where can I go on MARTA? Braves game? No (there is a bus, but they keep threating to stop it). Why was a MARTA stop not built at the staduim? City of Atlanta owned the parking lots. If the governmet can show that they can manage what they have, then we might give them more to manage. Until then, I must vote no. Not based on race.
June 30th, 2012
11:40 am
North Fulton is screwed by the idiots running Fulton County. We pay the penny sales tax to MARTA for exactly what??? A couple of parking lots ran by MARTA.
Let's not forget how the good 'ole GOP screwed us even further by keeping the GA 400 toll.
I will be voting no for the piece of garbage.
June 30th, 2012
11:46 am
"DOT has no jurisdiction over any of the t-splost money
That is a lie. The DOT is given the authority the divvy up the monies to the counties & cities.
June 30th, 2012
11:47 am
400 will forever be a toll road because it is overused.
June 30th, 2012
11:50 am
We need to quit talking about traffic and talk about a 12.5% tax increase in the city of Atlanta which has a high sales tax already. It's too late to pile on more sales tax since the schools etc have already been extended. In Manhattan the sales tax it 8.875% and with this increase we would be paying 9%. It's just too much.
June 30th, 2012
11:53 am
@KnowItAll Chicago and London are spread out as much as Atlanta, and they have great public transit. Heck, you can travel to/from Chicago to Indiana, across state lines, with ease. You can catch a train between London and Paris, across countries, and arrive in 2:20. Other countries promote bike share programs and motorbike use. Here, you can't even get around within a county on public transit, let alone from county to county.
To me, the problem always has been the low class stigma some people associate with mass transit and the poor regional planning the area has historically had. How can you have good public transport without a unified plan covering the whole metro area? The answer is not more roads, unless they lead to a transit station.
June 30th, 2012
11:54 am
Crazy how the mistakes of the 1970's are still hurting this amazing area of town. Now it is muddled up in nonsensical answers of HOV lanes with no HOV exits, mixed use communities, trolleys and emergency lane usage.
June 30th, 2012
11:55 am
June 30th, 2012
11:56 am
Awesome cities with great transportation: London, D.C. New York, Chicago Paris, Hong Kong and Japan. We need to take some notes.
June 30th, 2012
11:58 am
Everything is done through politics, through proper politics. If you demonize everything you will get nothing. So Atlantans stop being so damn negative!
June 30th, 2012
11:58 am
One major reason I'm voting against this one: They lied about GA-400 tolls. End of story.
June 30th, 2012
12:00 pm
Jim, you should know it isn't racial – it is purely a matter of Fulton and DeKalb not being willing to have capital improvements added to the rail line for us to try to support when it is already in trouble in spite of the sales tax we're paying. Either put in a region-wide rail tax that includes MARTA or leave rail to continue deteriorating.
June 30th, 2012
12:01 pm
I'm voting no in July because I don't trust the government. 400 toll funds misused by Barnes and promises broken by Perdue. I'm also going to do everything I can to see that Deal is not reelected. These administrators with the state government are irresponsible and two faced.
June 30th, 2012
12:03 pm
June 30th, 2012
12:20 pm
Miltonman: I don't know where you got your information, but you need to get a reliable source. DOT DOES NOT have any jurisdiction over the t-splost money. What part of the fair tax stays in the region and is spent by a panel of members who LIVE IN the region do you not understand? This is a new fair concept for improving the roads and bridges in a certain region, financed by the fair sales tax collected in that region. Get your facts straight before you begin spouting misinformation. Please.
June 30th, 2012
12:25 pm
As an admitted far-right conservative I nonetheless cannot accept Gullible's reasons for a possible failure of the TSPLOST vote. My reasons are not only a distrust of governing bodies (and that includes REPUBLICAN-RUN CITIES/COUNTIES) it is that there will be too much emphasis placed on padding some developer, contractor, or paver's pockets. As I stated in another blog, Why on God's earth do we need a "Belt Line?" Why do we have budgeted $$ for the absolutely useless, $$-wasting Gwinnett Transit System?
I, personally – and I know many, many conservative non-"Tea Party" individuals that could give less of a rat's a$$ about politics, race (gotta love how Gullible throws that in!), or the supposed fight between the ITP's and the OTP's. It's the George Washington's and Abe Lincoln's I'm more concerned with.
Again, I aks> Just WHO BENEFITS FROM THIS MONSTROSITY?
June 30th, 2012
12:27 pm
Everytime this comes up, everyone starts screaming racism because we don;t want Marta in our neighborhood. It has nothing to do with race and everything to do with crime. We "racists" sit on 400 every day becasue we want to be as far away as possible from the criminal element allowed to run rampant in this town. Most crimes in this city are committed by welfare rats. That's not racism, it's a FACT. I don't hear about gangs of white people robbing people of their cell phones in the middle of the day. Right now, the Northside is relatively safe because of the lack of public transportation.
In addition, the 400 toll will be the death knell to this project. We were promised that the toll would end as soon as the road was paid for. Instead, we were forced, illegally, to pay for Atlantic Station. If we vote yes, we will get nothing, and all will be diverted, as usual, to the southside where most people do not work or pay taxes. We are sick and tired of being stolen from and lied to.
Keep calling us racists, we don't care because right now you cannot get here without a car, and that's the way we want to keep it.
June 30th, 2012
12:27 pm
Marta is doing badly with a 1% tax. Dekalb just noticed they have a gaping hole in their school budget. I don't think I trust them with handling the revenue another 1% tax responsibly at this point. VOTE NO.
June 30th, 2012
12:28 pm
June 30th, 2012
11:56 am
"Awesome cities with great transportation: London, D.C. New York, Chicago Paris, Hong Kong and Japan. We need to take some notes."
All three of the U.S. cities that your cited made the top 10 list of "Most Traffic-Jammed Cities in America" – Atlanta wasn't on the list.
June 30th, 2012
12:30 pm
How quickly can they come after Dekalb County? If I thought voting for ANYTHING would strip Dekalb County of ANY control over ANYTHING I'd be the first one in line to vote come voting day. It doesn't matter what color your skin is. When you have a job and you don't do it well you lose that job. Period.


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Campus involvement was key to success for Wichita couple
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There are many parallels in the lives of Wichita State alumni Kris and Leslie Wessel.
They were both Jabara scholars. Both real estate majors. Before even graduating, they managed to get part- and full-time jobs in their field. And today, they're both working as real estate agents in Wichita.
Oh, and they're married to each other.
With such similar experiences, it's not surprising that Kris and Leslie also agree on the most valuable part of their time at Wichita State: campus involvement.
"I'd say the biggest influence on my experience at WSU and success since would be being involved on campus while I was there, including on-campus housing, different organizations and our Greek system," Leslie said. "Our best friends and quite a few of my clients still come from those connections that Kris and I wouldn't have made otherwise."
The student experience
Leslie graduated in 2006, and since then she's worked for The Carnahan Group at J.P. Weigand & Sons Inc. Kris, who graduated in 2005, works for The Martens Cos. He started there when he was a junior and has been there since.
They've been married for seven years and have a 2-year-old son, Kasten.
There's a bit of disagreement on where they met: Kris said it was at an event for Jabara Scholarship winners. Leslie said they first met as part of the same student organization, SIFE.
"I like to tease her, because I was apparently not too memorable the first time, and she does not remember our first introduction," Kris said. "We met again through SIFE, and I was apparently more memorable the second time."
Regardless, they said, it was more than just attending classes that made the difference.
Leslie is a big proponent of living on campus for at least a year. She lived in Fairmount Towers and Wheatshocker Apartments, and Kris lived in the Phi Delta Theta fraternity house.
"I think it is very important to be involved on campus," Kris said. "Education is your purpose for being there, but the college experience is what makes you a whole person.
Taking part in the campus life opportunities is what helped Kris become a well-rounded person and not just a good student.
"I cured a lot of my shortcomings over those four years," he said. "In my campus involvement, I met a lot of other students who didn't fit into the same mold I did. You can learn a lot from someone who has different talents than you do."
Stepping stones
Also vital to their career success was the ability to find a related job in real estate while they earned degrees. It got their foot in the door of the industry, helped build their resume and gave them experience beyond the classroom.
It's one of the benefits of going to college in an urban environment, Kris said.
"There are tons of degree-holding college grads out there, so it is important to have some kind of advantage over the other candidates," he said. "In a city like Wichita, there are a lot of opportunities that you don't get in a smaller college town."
The job he had as appraisal assistant at The Martens Cos. was the perfect complement to his coursework, Kris said.
Midway through her junior year, Leslie got a job at Ritchie Development as a new home sales consultant assistant. She worked there until shortly after graduation.
She worked full time while taking classes at night.
"The position was key in giving me real estate sales and management experience, getting my Realtor's license and a great stepping stone to where I am now."
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Got this system for a small (about 12 x 12) home office. Have one bulb in the ceiling fan, one in a small lamp in the far corner o Got this system for a small (about 12 x 12) home office. Have one bulb in the ceiling fan, one in a small lamp in the far corner of the room and one in an accent light behind my laptop while on its stand. Setup couldn't be easier... insert the bulbs and turn them all on, plug the signal unit into one of the open ethernet ports on your base station (cable included) and connect the AC adapter. Start the app up and press the button on the signal unit and you're all set. Bulbs at their highest setting are brighter than expected though still not as bright as conventional bulbs but that's to be expected. Really phenomenal option for people who work from home and want total control over the brightness of multiple lights to optimize their screen work. Price may seem steep but it is what it is. Though once you install it and use it you'll think it's worth every penny. …
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Very cool product. App could use some tweaking to make it a bit easier to use as there was a bit of a learning curve. All in all Very cool product. App could use some tweaking to make it a bit easier to use as there was a bit of a learning curve. All in all, set up was very easy (less than 3 minutes). I have the starter pack and 2 additional bulbs. I'll be ordering 10 more today to set up more rooms. Groups are a bit of a pain to set up as you have to create a scene and from what I can figure out so far can only set up colors in a group from an existing photo. Colors can be adjusted on an individual light but won't save unless in a scene. Could be I need to spend even more time on the app. Fade function didn't work in my first few trials but again I expect this to be me just taking more time to figure everything out. I also haven't been able to get a group programmed on my iphone to appear on the home ipad for others to use. Not sure if there's a way but will be a pain to set them up on multiple devices. Only a 2 year warranty even though they say the light is good for 15. Having stated all the learning issues, it's a very cool product, easy to get started and in my opinion completely replaces a crestron type lighting system. It is expensive but much less than a home lighting system would be. I will continue to hopefully replace every bulb in the house as various sizes are hopefully released. …
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Feels more affordable!
Once the initial financial hit has been taken on the Starter pack with hub, each successive bulb feels a lot more reasonably price Once the initial financial hit has been taken on the Starter pack with hub, each successive bulb feels a lot more reasonably priced. Easy to add to the existing lighting scenes. …
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Great, but a design flaw means these can emit a high pitched whistle.
These lamps are great fun and I was very happy with mine to start with. They are bright, create a range of colours well, and 2 or These lamps are great fun and I was very happy with mine to start with. They are bright, create a range of colours well, and 2 or 3 can light a room in the evening. The iPhone app has been improved recently too.
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Fast setup
Easy to set alarms up
Easy light recipe creation from photos
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Fast setup
Easy to set alarms up
Easy light recipe creation from photos
Lots of customization if your iPhone is Jailbroken ( I can tap my home button twice to turn my lights on using HueHueHue and have all of my lights turn on )
5 Hue lights = one light bulb. Lots of light for less $
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Dimmer or On/Off switch is mad expensive for what it is …
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How does this bulb differ from the one that's listed for $29.95?
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- Sep 19, 2014
The cheaper bulb is just a single colour. This one is multicoloured.
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- Sep 20, 2014
Can you connect two hubs to hue?
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- Apr 24, 2014
Each bulb can be connected to only one bridge (hub). You can have multiple bridges but then you won' Each bulb can be connected to only one bridge (hub). You can have multiple bridges but then you won't be able to connect your bulbs to any bridge (as I suspect you're trying to do). If you use multiple bridges then you will have to use two different apps to control each set of bulbs (the ones that are connected to the bridge via that app). …
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- Aug 27, 2014
How many bulbs can I control from 1 bridge?
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- Aug 6, 2014
Best Answer:
You can have up to 50 bulbs on one bridge.
- Answered by Karen W
- Aug 11, 2014
Bulb life?
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- Jun 26, 2014
Does this light bulb have an E26 connector?
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- Jun 11, 2014
What is the distance limitation of the bridge?
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- May 4, 2014
Not sure but you can use other HUE bulbs to increase the range of the bridge to your bulbs. Each bul Not sure but you can use other HUE bulbs to increase the range of the bridge to your bulbs. Each bulb will piggyback on the other to increase the range of the bridge. However, you should be aware that in that case, the furthest bulb may not work (they will light up like a standard bulb but cannot be controlled from the phone app) if the ones in between are physically switched off. …
- Answered by Soumik S from Toronto
- Aug 27, 2014


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Hello, This is my English Literature Blog. Through this blog I hope to gain perspective as well as a deeper understanding of what literature means to me, how it effects me, and what it tells me about the world I live in.
The title of the blog will change depending on my current book.
Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
It feels like I have a secret. Something weighing heavy on my heart, and I'm itching to tell it. The problem is; it only feels like I have a secret. There's nothing there. Nothing at all. I'm trying to figure out what it could be, or what it could have been. Did I misplace it? Did I forget it? Did it fall out? I can't tell. I'm itching for vulnerability. For love. For lust.
These past few days I've been reading Confessions by Saint Augustine. He has such a longing for love. Such a connection to love. He says, Love is his weight. It's what moves him any direction. Sometimes it is towards a girl, sometimes towards the Lord. Sometimes it leads him to a religion that helps him come to understand the conflict within himself. How can he make peace with the struggle within himself? Find something that consoles him, tells him that how he's feeling is supposed to be that way and he might as well ignore it and indulge the good. This is my rudimentary summary of the first five books and what my tutors and lecturers have said. It's a bit crude, it's a bit of a bad paraphrasing, but this is how I'm coming to understand him.
See, he has this great big ball of tension pulling at him inside. He wants to be good, but he wants to be bad simply because in being bad it is a rebellion against the order of the world and through that it affirms himself. It gives him authority over something in this world. He does bad actions for the satisfaction of themselves and no other good. And to him that's more evil than murder which is done of a perverted necessity.
These are his confessions, his accounts of figuring out things in his life. The story of him making mistakes over and over and what he makes of them. There is a lot of lust. There is a lot of Augustine simply wanting to be loved because he's in love with the idea of love. Burning passionate love. Of being idolized and to Idolize someone, and he's willing to pay the price of the jealousy, because one knows it's impossible to ever fully know that they love you completely.
He's a bundle of mess. And when you feel like a bundle of a mess, it's reassuring that one of the most brilliant men in time has felt as you did, especially when you know it was in a time so long ago.
Inside me there's this conflict, and there's nothing provoking it, not really. Perhaps stress, but it doesn't feel like that kind. It's this longing. It's like Augustine's weight. It's a longing for love.
but, I'd like to keep up with this blog. I am after all taking a 'crash course great books' year next year, and prepping in the summer using this blog would be fantastic. :)
Long story short, I'm not gone.
"Man's Longing for Paradise is Man's Longing not to be Man."
- Milan Kundera
I can remember clearly as a young child thinking that every decision I made was important. I would spend hours collecting, browsing, reading backs and covers of books to try and decipher which book was really worth all that time, energy and emotional investment in. That said, sometimes I would allocate my time to books just to simply be engaged, immersed and swallowed whole by a posh little fantasy world. Other times, I just took too long to decide and my mother grabbed a book out of the pile and forced me to read it; the story of how I came to read six of the twelve lavish Gossip Girl books by Cecily von Ziegesar. (You get hooked after the first one.) Mostly when it came to the kinds of books I read when I was younger I always wanted there to be something challenging with them. In grade five I read Elsewhere by Gabrielle Zevin which tells the story of a girl who dies in a bike accident and finds herself in an afterlife where everyone ages backward till they return to earth. As a ten year old this was an idea that grabbed my imagination and forced me to look on my beliefs and question "what happens after you die?
The following year I read Feed and Thirsty both by M.T. Anderson. Feed to this day remains one of my favorite novels, it tells the story of teenagers in a future where computers are directly inserted into our brains. They allow us to message telepathically, watch television in our head, and get news on the latest sales as we walk in malls. On the surface the 'feeds' in their heads seems like a good idea the book had me questioning how safe technology is, and it gave me a paradise lost convention. Of course I didn't really know what that was at the time, but I was starting to make connections. The main character, Titus, falls in love with a girl he met on the moon named Violet. After a clubbing accident with a hacker all their feeds go temporarily down, all recover well except Violet who had the 'feed' microchip installed in her head a lot later in life then her new friends. The damage is slowly killing Violet and Titus has to watch. It posed the question of what will happen to our society if we keep moving along with these ideas of consumerism. Obviously the books views were negative, but it gave me a chance to question them. It was and still is haunting the lack of control they were given over their own minds, brains, bodies, thoughts and lives.
In grade six or seven, I read this ridiculous book by Pete Hautman called Rash. It's quite possibly the most preposterous, ludicrous story I've ever read, but the concept. The abstract ideas behind it are horrifying. The basic plot is : it's the year 2074 and all contact sports have been made illegal, one is only allowed to run indoors on a track made of squishy foam. The protagonist, Bo, finds himself in a prison for spreading a rash around his school. The prison is in the canadian tundra where he is forced to make pizzas everyday and his cell mate is there because he's too fat. The two of them end up on an illegal football team while they're there and in the end Bo's rouge computer science project attempts and succeeds to bust him out of jail. This sounds nuts, and it was especially insane to read, but because it was so fast of a read there is a lot of time afterwards to process just exactly was the message was. Hautman caused me to reevaluate people's obsession with safety. The overbearing protectiveness, the whole concept that someone knows what's best for you and how to look at authority.
These are all books I read in middle school or before, but it's evident what stuck with me. The stories that made me think. That engaged my imagination to conceive a world slightly different from my own and conjure up the ideas that came along with the slight changes. I was forced to think of life after death, of consumerism and just in control are we our own minds and thoughts, and to question what is safe and who do I listen to ? A reoccurring theme in all of my childhood favorites is this longing instilled in the stories that the past is better. The present is a possibility to change these possible futures.
I'd lost the password to this blog, please forgive my lack of updating !
I have a post in the works which will talk about literature ( my favorite books ) and how it can expand the mind both in intellect and in imagination.
( this will be a short post )
We had our discussion on Catcher in the Rye today. The really cool one where everyone's parents came in and gave us other perspectives on our lonely character . They seemed to stress the idea of Holden having a mental illness, and whether or not that meant we were seeing mental illness through the lens of an adolescent or adolescence through the lens of mental illness. They looked closer at the parenting, and how didn't his parents see there was something going wrong, because he clearly showed signs of a manic episode. But at the same time, how did they not see the signs when they were teenagers, he smoked, he drank, he barely ate or slept…ect.
It was interesting. The more the book went on, the less the general population of our classroom seemed to relate or admire or even like Holden as a person.
Hopefully, you'll forgive me because of the head space I'm in. Well, it's because of the head space I'm in that allows me to write this post, and ( here's the tie to English Literature ! ) understand Tess from Tess of the d'Urbervilles.
I hope you recall I mentioned that I was about to have Day 2 of my assessed discussions on Tess as well as another novel, Alias Grace by Maragaret Atwood. There was an outline of questions that we were to discuss or use as a tool to start a conversation and keep it going. My group went all over the place, in both days of the discussion from " which book has more redeemable male characters ? " to " which book has a stronger sense of hope at the end? " (Note * there will be spoilers and Note * there were also other questions that weren't such either or based )
Hope. Which one had a greater sense of hope, I suppose that means I'll have to start by telling you what Alias Grace was / is about.
Quick Summary : Atwood wrote a book about a true murder case that took place in the 1850s in Toronto / Richmond Hill. James Mcdermott and Grace Marks were convicted of killing her employer and his mistress. James was hung, while Grace escaped the death sentence and was left to lead the rest of her life in asylum and in a penitentiary. ( what happened to quick ? ) The novel takes place mostly in first person perspective of Grace's head and Dr Simon Jordon who is trying to analyze her brain. ( I suppose…I'm still working on effectively summarizing things ) Back to Hope. In the end of Tess, she is captured and most likely put to death for committing murder, while Grace is free to go and marries little Jamie in the countryside. It sounds obvious which was more hopeful, but I stood strong with my sappy little point.
( Sketches of James Mcdermott and Grace Marks )
After the event in which Alec raped Tess (we are taking this for fact, though there is some debate) all Tess ever really wanted to do was die. She was suicidal. Examples are numerous.
To name a few :
1) After her baby sorrow dies and she wonders about the date of her death
2) When she speaks to Angel about the wall of days before her shouting " beware ! Beware "
3) After Angel rejects her and she says was was going to hang herself
4) when Angel sleep walks her to her grave and she wishes she could fall into the river and drown in his arms
5) At the d'Urbervilles grave and she says she is on the wrong side of this gate
Lets Toss away the side of that most people, including me (some of the time) see angel as a -insert curse word here- and didn't like it when he came back for her, Tess enjoyed it. Tess after all her miseries was allowed some happiness, and then was allowed peace to die. Inferred from the " I am ready " she speaks as she willingly walks to her doom.
It was frustrating to most people, but to me, it was somewhat hopeful. Tess after all is a classic Tragic hero where the tragedy is bound to happen because of their fatal flaw.
It is restful, tragedy, because one knows that there is no more lousy hope left. You know you're caught, caught at last like a rat with all the world on its back. And the only thing left to do is shout—not moan, or complain, but yell out at the top of your voice whatever it was you had to say. What you've never said before. What perhaps you don't even know till now.
- Jean Anouilh (Antigone 1943)
( Above, a nice summary of the original trilogy of which Antigone fits into, you know with courser language…it's last one in case you were wondering )
Perhaps it's not hope, but just utter peace as 'The Chorus' in Anouilh's adaptation of the Classic Greek Tragedy Antigone suggests.To me, it felt this way because Tess was depressed, even when she was happy. She couldn't stop feeling like she shouldn't feel as she did. She took no sympathy, not that much was offered to her, though she displayed it to others, such as when she broke all those dying birds necks. Tess keeps living because unlike those birds who have been shot, she feels and is told that what she has suffered was of her own fault and has NO right to feel that way, and she beats herself up further for feeling as she does. It's that tension that makes it a relief.
And this is where you're all going to rant at me, and get really mad. It's that emotion ( watch my words) that I can relate to. No, I can't relate to being a fallen women in the 1890s with rigid social conventions that won't allow me to have severe depression after the death of my child that was born through rape. Fortunately, I have never been raped. But I understand that feeling of feeling horrible and feeling like you have no right at all to wish such awful things upon yourself. If you have that emotion, it really amplifies Tess's strength not to harm herself and to even accept happiness for the short period in which she agrees to marry angel and hasn't yet felt guilty. She can't let herself be happy, because she feels that her previous ill emotions over 'nothing' ( for it was her fault * winces over how untrue that statement is* ) don't allow her to have happiness. She needs to pay for both the act and the emotions.
A lot of people in my discussion group felt as if Hardy's character's fell flat and were two dimensional and therefore they couldn't relate to them. While I agree that Hardy's main focus was the plot and that Tess seemingly is there just to perpetuate that 'modern tragedy feel', Tess is dimensional, and so is Angel Clare. ( if interested I may make another post because I did find some brief evidence ) It's both Hardy's delicate imagery & subtle ( something that made me mad ) symbolism, as well as his characters that have made me make three posts on this novel. That being said, Hardy really should have stuck to Poetry, he really is good at that. ( More to come on that ! )
( Thomas Hardy. Look at the mustache ! )


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The announcement comes after Peters was named more than a year ago as successor to Miller, who has managed the Value Trust fund for almost three decades.
In an interview, Miller, 61, described the move as a long-planned transition to give Value Trust its next generation of management. He said he timed the change to coincide with the 30th anniversary of the fund's launch.
When asked if this marked a gradual transition toward retirement, Miller said, "I haven't really thought about that."
He added that by managing fewer funds, he hopes to have "less bandwidth taken up."
"Normally for most people, one fund is enough," Miller said.
Miller praised Peters' "steady hand" during the 2008 financial crisis, adding that Legg had eyed Peters as a potential portfolio manager for Value Trust from the day he was hired in 2005.
Since its founding in 1982, the Value Trust fund has become synonymous with Miller, who has the unmatched record of beating the benchmark Standard & Poor's 500 index for 15 consecutive years. His streak was broken in 2006.
In recent years, Value Trust has struggled, losing 55 percent in 2008 and becoming one of the worst performers among its peers. Miller beat the S&P 500 again in 2009 but has lagged behind it since then. Investors have headed for the exits, helping to reduce the fund's assets from more than $20 billion a few years ago to less than $3 billion now.
Besides the Value Trust, Peters will continue to co-manage the Legg Mason Capital Management Special Investment Trust and mid-cap strategy with Albert Grosman. Peters dismissed speculation that he would be less bold than Miller in betting on undervalued stocks and sticking with them for an extended period.
"On some vectors at this point I'm probably more aggressive than Bill is," he said in an interview. "The key for me is, when the opportunities are there from a valuation standpoint, they'll be more than fully reflected in the fund."


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[Editor's Note: We, at the Megaphone, apologize to Alma Aguilar for the printing error in the textual version of the Megaphone. Due to a printing error, a whole column was lost and never found.]
The Latino Heritage Symposium will take place at Southwestern University in the McCombs Ballroom April 25-26. The symposium's objective is to address social issues and obstacles that challenge Latinos in their pursuit of success. Among these issues are education, immigration, citizenship, language, identity, health, gangs and drug dealing.
"It's an event dedicated to help educate the SU and Georgetown communities about issues Latinos and members of other minorities face," Linda Pena, Latinos Unidos Parliamentarian, said.
They would like to use this event to bring people together to voice their opinions on issues that face Latinos as well as other minorities in our society.
"The Latino Heritage Symposium will help create dialogue between Latinos and people of other cultures." Pena said.
The symposium will be composed of several lectures, workshops and possibly some exhibits. Some SU professors have already agreed to present during the event.
"There will be a mix, such as Communication Studies professor Hector Amaya and professor of Religion and Philosophy Alejandro de Acosta," sophomore Hector Ruiz, Latinos Unidos vice president, said.
Community members such as Diana Maldonado, president of the Round Rock ISD school board and award-winning government efficiency expert, will also be present to voice their opinions on Latino issues.
According to sophomore Erin Fonseca, Latinos Unidos president, the symposium has been held at SU before. Latinos Unidos took it upon themselves to make this third time the event was offered to students the best yet.
"We wanted to make an event and make it a success. It's important for the community to know the issues that Latinos face on an everyday basis," Fonseca said.
This year, the symposium's theme is "Achieving Success as a Latino: Building Bridges, Breaking Barriers."
For Fonseca, this theme signifies that minorities at times face different barriers that they must overcome in order to reach success.
"Latinos have to overcome things that others sometimes do not while staying true to their culture," Fonseca said.
The organization, with some help, has been working since January of this year to make sure the event is a success.
"Latinos Unidos has been organizing this, with some help from Ms. Ebony Rose," Pena said
Even though this is the Latino Heritage Symposium, they have been making an effort to incorporate other organizations that represent on-campus minority groups.
"We are reaching out to other organizations such as Ebony, Asia Club, International Club, SU Natives," Ruiz said.
This semester, Southwestern has had a couple of other events going on, which makes Ruiz slightly concerned about attendance.
"There are other symposiums and speakers, I'm worried that the campus will not be motivated to come," Ruiz said.
Nonetheless, Latinos Unidos is making a strong effort to get others involved.
"People from other schools have already confirmed that they will be attending. Some alumni have already said they are coming, and they have also offered to help with what they can," Ruiz said.
In order to put on this event, Latinos Unidos will be using money from its budget in order to pay event costs. Other organizations on campus have also contributed funds in order to make this event possible.
"We got money from the Diversity Enrichment Community, whose purpose is to promote diversity. Also from the Community Chest, which is a group that allocates money to organizations in order to promote campus involvement," Ruiz said.
This symposium is a free event, and anyone from the community is welcome to attend.
"This event is open to anyone who is interested in learning about the problems minorities are currently facing in the educational system," Pena said.
If anyone would like more information about the Latino Heritage Symposium or would like to volunteer, you may contact any Latinos Unidos officer.


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i have missed it, and had not realised i did.
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Indians can't bowl - Where has the rumour come from as I myself and many indian friends arwe competent fast bowlers ?
With the English bid I said: Let us be brief. If you give back the Falkland Islands, which belong to us, you will get my vote. They then became sad and left
looks plumb
Originally Spoken by Brendon McCullum
You have got to earn the right to be aggressive.
Bond was certainly right about Bracewell getting his outies back.
~ Cribbage ~
Rejecting 'analysis by checklist' and 'skill absolutism' since December 2009
Record for wickets before lunch?
+ time's fickle card game ~ with you and i +
get ready for a broken ****in' arm
wow ....smith gone
Oooh. Good turnaround.
RIP Craig Walsh (Craig) 1985-2012
Proudly supporting the #2 cricketer of all time.
Dougggggg. Swing?
Northern DistrictsProudly supporting KS Williamson, TG Southee, TA Boult, DR Flynn, BJ Watling, CJ Anderson and IS Sodhi
Yes ! at this rate we'll bowl them out for 11
Generally Saffers dig in and go huge in situations like this though. Can only think of India vs Durban when they were rolled for 130 after dismissing India for 200ish.
As I say that smith goes
DOUGEH YOU BEUT. **** yeah
the session would be topped off with amla skying an ugly slog outside off to a half volley
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Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin will no longer be getting a government discount when jetting around the world.
Page and Brin's six-year deal to buy cheap jet fuel from the Pentagon ended Aug. 31, according to the Wall Street Journal, when the U.S. Department of Defense killed the arrangement between NASA and the billionaires. The decision came after Pentagon official Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, wrote a letter questioning the terms.
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We talk a lot about taking regular backup of your data, but even being a regular user of your Home PC, you may often forget or ignore it totally. One of the reasons may be that you still have not zeroed in on a good data backup software yet. Sometimes you expect your data backup software to take regular and automatic backups of your data, no matter what. However, not many softwares have a full-fledged capability to take regular and automatic backups of your data. Today, in this article I shall write about a data backup software that I use so that you could give a try too. The software has a no-nonsense interface and has plenty of cool features that will ease out your job of taking crucial data backups. Above all, the data backup is more of a social backup and you can even choose to take backup at your friend and family's network too!
Crashplan is the software I'm writing on today and some of you might be already familiar with this cool tool. Getting a better insight into the software's program will surely help those who haven't tried using this software. Well, as such, Crashplan software has different schemes and products to suit Home users, Business professionals, corporate companies etc., This article will focus on Crashplan's basic and free version that can be the best for Home Users who wish to take backups of personal data.
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Natanaël, seven, still doesn't know how to read! Not particularly bothered by this state of affairs, matters are brought to a head when he receives a very special gift - an inheritance of priceless old storybooks, bequeathed to him by his eccentric old aunt. Too lazy to read the books himself, Nat's parents decide the boy is beyond caring. And soon decide to break up the library and sell them off. But Nat dramatically discovers that the legendary characters found within the ancient pages - ranging from Alice (of 'Wonderland') to Peter Pan will vanish if the collection is split up. Shrunken to miniature size by a conflicted witch, Nat finds himself suddenly in the magical world of fairy tales and on a thrilling, suspenseful adventure to save his new friends and restore them to their rightful state. With a gorgeous musical score, this colourful and delightfully fashioned animation is a wonderful romp through the classics of children's literature in a thoroughly contemporary and exciting story.
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- Director: Dominique Monfery
- Producer: Christian Davin, Clement Calvet
- Scriptwriter: Alexandre Reverend
- Editor: Cedric Chauveau
- Composer: Christophe Heral
- Animator: Rebecca Dautremer, Richard Despres
- Voice Cast: Gursharan Mann, Joanne Farrell, Paul Bandey
Suitable for all Ages (G)