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Limelight Networks Inc. Stock Downgraded (LLNW)
- The company, on the basis of change in net income from the same quarter one year ago, has significantly underperformed when compared to that of the S&P 500 and the Internet Software & Services industry. The net income has significantly decreased by 515.2% when compared to the same quarter one year ago, falling from -$2.27 million to -$13.94 million.
- The company's current return on equity has slightly decreased from the same quarter one year prior. This implies a minor weakness in the organization. Compared to other companies in the Internet Software & Services industry and the overall market, LIMELIGHT NETWORKS INC's return on equity significantly trails that of both the industry average and the S&P 500.
- Net operating cash flow has significantly decreased to $2.05 million or 62.73% when compared to the same quarter last year. In addition, when comparing to the industry average, the firm's growth rate is much lower.
- Despite any intermediate fluctuations, we have only bad news to report on this stock's performance over the last year: it has tumbled by 45.84%, worse than the S&P 500's performance. Consistent with the plunge in the stock price, the company's earnings per share are down 500.00% compared to the year-earlier quarter. Naturally, the overall market trend is bound to be a significant factor. However, in one sense, the stock's sharp decline last year is a positive for future investors, making it cheaper (in proportion to its earnings over the past year) than most other stocks in its industry. But due to other concerns, we feel the stock is still not a good buy right now.
- LIMELIGHT NETWORKS INC has exprienced a steep decline in earnings per share in the most recent quarter in comparison to its performance from the same quarter a year ago. The company has reported a trend of declining earnings per share over the past year. However, the consensus estimate suggests that this trend should reverse in the coming year. During the past fiscal year, LIMELIGHT NETWORKS INC swung to a loss, reporting -$0.21 versus $0.41 in the prior year. This year, the market expects an improvement in earnings (-$0.03 versus -$0.21).
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A&A buys Totally Chocolate building
A&A Customs Brokers has consolidated its operation in Blaine after buying the former Totally Chocolate building last month from Jeff Robinson.
The company employs 25 people and until moving into the 29,000 square foot facility at 1855 Pipeline Road was spread out among three locations, two in Blaine and one in Ferndale.
"By doing this we brought it all back to Blaine, including the jobs," said owner Graham Robins.
He and his wife Candy started the business just north of Blaine as A & A Contract Customs Brokers Ltd. in March of 1979. He operated intermittently in the U.S. as well, renting the old Blaine Building Materials warehouse, and by 1992, with offices in Ontario, Quebec and Manitoba, his business needed a more substantial U.S. presence.
In January of 2004 they changed the name of their business to A & A Contract Customs Brokers USA Inc. Over the next two years they expanded into warehouses in Blaine and Ferndale and were looking at a second Ferndale site when he heard about the chocolate factory's building becoming available.
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So I went to see a midnight screening of 2012 last night. While this movie is wholly idiotic and about three hours long, it was made even more interminable by the wannabe-black frat-boy douche behind me that wouldn't shut up. About an hour in, I lost it, stood up and told him to "Shut the fuck up or I'll bash your fucking brains in!". Normally, I like to think of myself as a level-headed fella, but talking during a movie is one of the few things that will drive me over the edge into violence. What ever happened to cinematic politeness and respect for others?
Paul WS Anderson is back on Castlevania. God, does anyone really care anymore? At this point I'd be happy if Uwe Boll made the damn thing just so we can quit reporting on it.
In other Paul WS Anderson news, a prequel to last year's (INSANELY AWESOME) Death Race is in the writing stages. It will focus on the early years of Frank...oh, wait a minute...yep, Paul WS Anderson is off the project...no, hold on...OK. He's back on.
Hey, if you were going to pen a remake of the 1980s horror classic Fright Night, wouldn't your first pick be some chick who regularly writes episodes of Private Practice and Grey's Anatomy? No? WELL THAT'S WHY YOU'RE NOT A HOLLYWOOD STUDIO EXECUTIVE, YOU WORTHLESS PILE OF SHIT.
A Salt Lake City homeowner set up various traps to catch a local burglar. The thief, a certain Mr. Joseph Pesci, wiped paint and feathers out of his eyes and vowed to "Get that Goddamn Kevin McCallister!" as he was being led away by cops.
Russian Prime Minister Putin won the respect of the Russian hip-hop community at a recent party. Not from his hip-hop skills, mind you, but for passing out free loaves of bread. IN MOTHER RUSSIA, THERE AIN'T NO PARTY LIKE THE SOCIALIST PARTY 'CAUSE THE SOCIALIST PARTY WILL SHOOT YOU FOR DISSENTION! WHAT A COUNTRY!
n 2005, Andrew Stimpson, a 25-year old British man, is reported as the first person proven to have been "cured" of HIV. Sadly, he was killed two days later, by, ironically enough, a bus full of AIDS patients.
Alright. And, on that note, I hope you enjoyed today's Fowler Friday, because I am off next week. I'll be at Horrorhound Weekend, representing with Mark and Casey. Come up and say "hi". If you're lucky, maybe even Colin Farrell will show up and spray you with beer that is being use to simulate an ejaculating penis. OI, SLAG OFF YA WANKERS.
Here are details of Darren Lynn Bousman's next film "Abattoir". His previous film was "Repo: The Genetic Opera".
The first official teaser poster for "A Nightmare on Elm St.". It's still shadowy (as was yesterday's picture that came out), so hopefully we'll get a real nice look at Freddy Krueger sooner rather than later.
Official poster for "Saw VI". All I'm saying is, these people know how to make promotional art.
And speaking of "Saw", the director of the original, James Wan will be directing "Castlevania". He'll be working on his own version of the script with Producer Paul W.S. Anderson, and taking over helming duties from there. So, as of now it sounds like this long dormant project has some new life in it.
Taste something funny in your Big Mac secret sauce recently? Ya, it was probably people. If Charlton Heston were here, he'd be screaming right now.
Hey dumbass... I'm sure that bison is real pretty, but you probably want to stay more than 10 feet away when taking pictures of it, or else you'll probably get your ass gored.
1982: Vic Morrow is killed filming a stunt sequence for "Twilight Zone: The Movie" near Valencia, California. Morrow and two child actors are chopped into bits by the main rotor when a helicopter positioned dangerously close to the talent suddenly crashes.
It's been a long holiday weekend and as such, it's time to play catch up! Due to a faulty alarm clock, I'm sitting in for Eric once again on the news desk!
"Buffy" fans, it's time to arm your keyboards and get ready to hit the message boards. The folks at Vertigo entertainment are getting ready to relaunch "Buffy" once again. The folks at Vertigo are teaming up with the original movie direct Fran and Kaz Kazui to throw together this big screen take. The promise is a relaunch and not a sequel or a prequel. Can the fandom handle a non Whedon buffy with yet another perky blonde stepping into the slayer's shoes?
Sad news for "Castlevania" fans; the Paul W.S. Anderson big screen adaptation is officially dead. No more chances of Simon Belmont and clan on the silver screen. Could this be a sign of the end of video game movies?
Despite reports of raucous boo-ing and general hate for "Antichrist" at the Cannes Film Festival, lead actress Charlotte Gainsbourg was named Best Actress of the festival. It's seldom that horror is given any accolades at such events so kudos to Gainsbourg for drawing the nod despite the widespread distaste for the moving coming out of France.
A Chinese man sat perched on a bridge last week, ready to jump, when another man broke through the police tape and shoved him off. Sounds like somebody's got a case of the Mondays.
In an effort to show solidarity to the country's beleaguered seal hunters, Canada's Governor General guts a freshly slaughtered seal and eats its raw heart in front of onlookers.
A 3 year old London toddler was stuck in a 5 day long coma due to meningitis. Assuming all was lost, the child woke on day five singing the complete lyrics to Abba's "Mama Mia". Sure, the kid's fine now, but what are they going to do about all the Hollywood lawyers suing for copyright infringement?
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Republican lawmakers in the North Carolina General Assembly said they hoped to be with the summer's short session by the Fourth of July.
Plenty of work remains for the Legislature after Independence Day.
The General Assembly is addressing key bills and looking to hammer down a revised budget all while the Senate race between Democratic Sen. Kay Hagan and House Speaker Thom Tillis heats up.
William Peace University political science professor David McLennan said the long summer session could impact the race, potentially benefiting Hagan.
Tillis remains in the middle of a budget battle with the North Carolina Senate.
"Thom Tillis can't go out and do campaign activities five days a week, seven days a week," McLennan said. "It keeps him from talking about Kay Hagan, which is his number one task."
Tillis said he doesn't believe he is down slightly in polls because he is still in session.
"It's because Kay Hagan and dark money is spending about $4 million in this state trying to attack us," Tillis said. "I think that when people see what we're doing in the Legislature, providing raises to teachers, protecting our environment, helping to grow the economy, I think that's all a plus."
Hagan said it is because Tillis has been behind a "disastrous legislative agenda." Hagan mentioned North Carolina teachers not receiving a pay raise in five years.
"There is a huge contrast in this race between me putting North Carolinians first and Thom Tillis' special interest agenda," Hagan said.
Despite the lost time, McLennan adds Tillis can make up that ground on the campaign trail since a lot of voters don't actually start paying attention to the political races until after Labor Day.
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Sally Henzell has a reputation. Before coming to her personal haven on the largely untouristed south coast of Jamaica, I heard things like, "She is far and away the most creative person you'll ever meet" and "If Sally there, bwoy you mus cyan leave without an interview." So when sitting down at Dougie's Bar at her earthy-perfect resort called Jakes, I was delighted when she said, "You can bust my brains as much as you like."
When asked where she was when Jamaica gained its Independence 50 years ago, she painted a beautiful picture: "I was at school and we took a bus down to MoBay to see Princess Margaret, and all the little girls were in little skirts and waving flags." Then she sips from her rum and water, counts with her fingers tapping the bar, lets out a laugh and exclaims, "Oh wait! I was 21. That was something else! Scratch it!" But it illustrates a point: Sally is a very visual person.
Sally's late husband is Perry Henzell, who co-wrote, directed and produced the cult classic film with a soundtrack for the ages, The Harder They Come. Sally did all of the art direction on all of Perry's commercials and films. "By 'art direction,'" she says, "you must know that meant props, costumes, makeup, continuity, photography-everything. And Perry fired me several times!" When filming was done, she made herself a souvenir: "I made a belt from the spent bullet shells-and used a real one for the clasp," she says with a wink, "I'd go out wearing the belt slung low with my purple crochet shorts that were this big," she recalls, and indicates with her hands that there wasn't much to them at all.
Sally says her only preparation for art direction was window dressing in Switzerland. I give her a curious look and sip my delicious rum punch. "You see, my mother had a list of careers that were acceptable for girls-and read them off starting with the letter A. I didn't say a word, but when she reached W, I leapt out of my chair at window dressing!" So Sally was sent to Switzerland, where apparently one can get good a window dressing education. Her first job was at Selfridges, making nine pounds a week. "That's all my training!" she says with a laugh as we move across the patio to the restaurant for dinner.
But there is no education that could teach such innate sensibilities. Every detail at Jake's is brilliant. Bright mosaics line many surfaces, absolutely nothing has a hard edge-and no two rooms are at all alike. Sally has been privy to this languorous and lovely part of the island since she was a child, coming for summers and every break to a modest home that echoes with lashing waves. "My father built Treasure Cot in 1941 and did her best to keep Treasure Beach dead secret. She told people there were sharks and terrible weather." Sally's memories of that time are indelible: "Daddy was a goggle fisher (aka snorkeler) and made his first goggles from calabash and rubber tire. His gun was two pieces of pipe and a rubber band-and that's how he shot fish for us." And if you look at the Matchbox 20 album cover for "The Last Beautiful Girl"-that's Sally's mother.
Fifty years later, someone pointed to the land Jake's now resides on, and Sally instinctively bought it. Her son Jason, who's undeniably made Jake's the 30 rooms and two-restaurant amazingness it is today-was working at a bank in Montego Bay before moving as south as the island stretches-to help. "If it hadn't been for Jason, nobody would have heard of us past Mandeville," Sally says and we roar with laughter-because Mandeville isn't far at all. Jason's business sensibilities are the perfect balance to his mother's creativity. In fact, she was terrified at the opening: "The first people arrived and I jumped into the sea and swam and swam! I didn't want to actually fill the rooms and make money-it was just kind of a three-dimensional art class to me."
Sally began dreaming of what Jake's would look like when she was on holiday in Brazil with Perry. "I just see things. I drew it then exactly as it is now." She wanted to name it something in Portuguese but eventually settled on Jake's, which was the name of her parrot. To get the pool built as she'd imagined it, she flagged down a bulldozer randomly going down the remote road: "I yelled 'I need you to dig a hole!'" For that, she paid the man USD 7 Jamaican Dollars, which today, is about USD 80US.
As we finish dinner, she says, "Fate played a part and brought my parents here. I said to a friend once, 'Just imagine, I could have been born in England and been an ordinary girl!' I have had a wonderful life." "Yes, absolutely amazing," she concludes as she looks up into a tree twinkling with metal cocoons of her own design.
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Small bowel tissue smear is a laboratory test that checks for disease in a sample of tissue from the small intestine.
A sample of tissue from the small intestine is removed during a procedure called esophagogastroduodenoscopy (EGD). For more information on this procedure, see EGD.
The sample is sent to a laboratory, where it is sliced, stained, and placed on a microscope slide for examination.
For information on how to prepare for the removal of tissue from your small intestine, see EGD.
For information on how it will feel to have a sample of intestinal tissue removed, see EGD.
Your health care provider may order this test if you have signs or symptoms of an infection or other disease of the small intestine. In most cases, this test is only done when a diagnosis was not able to be made from stool and blood tests.
A normal result means no disease-related substances or changes were found in the sample when examined under the microscope.
The small intestine normally contains certain healthy bacteria and yeast. Their presence is not a sign of disease.
Normal value ranges may vary slightly among different laboratories. Talk to your health care provider about the meaning of your specific test results.
An abnormal result means that certain microorganisms, such as the parasites Giardia or Strongyloides were seen in the tissue sample, or that there were changes in the structure (anatomy) of the tissue.
A laboratory smear poses no risks to the patient. For risks related to obtaining a sample of intestinal tissue, see EGD.
Examination of tissue by a pathologist can help in the diagnosis of certain intestinal infections.
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Semrad CE. Approach to the patient with diarrhea and malabsorption. In: Goldman L, Schafer AI, eds. Cecil Medicine. 24th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Saunders Elsevier; 2011: chap 142.
Giannella RA. Infectious enteritis and proctocolitis and bacterial food poisoning. In: Feldman M, Friedman LS, Brandt LJ, eds. Sleisenger & Fordtran's Gastrointestinal and Liver Disease. 9th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Saunders Elsevier; 2010:chap 107.
Croft AC, Woods GL. Specimen collection and handling for diagnosis of infectious diseases. In: McPherson RA, Pincus MR, eds. Henry's Clinical Diagnosis and Management by Laboratory Methods. 22nd ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Saunders Elsevier; 2011:chap 63.
Salwen MJ, Siddiqi HA, Gress FG, Bowne WB. Laboratory diagnosis of gastrointestinal and pancreatic disorders. In: McPherson RA, Pincus MR, eds. Henry's Clinical Diagnosis and Management by Laboratory Methods. 22nd ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Saunders Elsevier; 2011:chap 22.
Fritsche TR, Selvarangan R. Medical parasitology. In: McPherson RA, Pincus MR, eds. Henry's Clinical Diagnosis and Management by Laboratory Methods. 22nd ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Saunders Elsevier; 2011:chap 62.
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Koko's always got a new project cooking, even though they usually end in total disaster. This time will be different, Koko promises herself. This time, she's decided to Be Good. But how can a girl whose greatest talent is causing trouble get her act cleaned up? If she's being honest with herself, Koko isn't even sure what "being good" means.
Jon knows what being good means, and that's why he's going to Peru to support his girlfriend's humanitarian mission. That's good, all right, but is it what he wants? Jon has a promising future as a musician. Is he ready to give that up—maybe forever?
Two very different people, both struggling for direction, find their way into each other's lives in Jen Wang's first graphic novel. Honest, wrenching, and incredibly funny, Koko Be Good is a tour-de-force debut about human nature and the inhuman efforts we make to find ourselves.
A richly woven story of three misfits, each of whose intersecting lives threatens to crash and burn, but who survive and even thrive emotionally, unfolds in gorgeous watercolor-hued panels and tight, credible dialogue. Koko is a 20-something who really wants to be "good," although she has a tendency to do just the wrong thing so often that others have difficulty trusting her motives. Slightly older Jon wants to join his older girlfriend in do-good work in Latin America, but she drops him. Faron, a teenager somewhat younger and less independent than Koko, works in a Vietnamese restaurant, where he is the scapegoat. All three characters are fully developed, delightfully drawn, and actively portrayed in contemporary San Francisco, whose neighborhoods also come to life on the large pages. This is stellar storytelling and art, opening a complex but accessible window onto real-life situations and self-discoveries. It should be most appealing to literary graphic-novel readers, other readers willing to crossover for the sake of a high-quality bildungsroman, and anyone else looking for beautiful and subtle art. Much more than a boy meets, or loses, girl affair, the story of Koko, Jon, and Faron is a multicultural fable in which universal truths are made fresh and inspiring. -- Booklist, starred review
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JERUSALEM — Israel's powerful foreign minister was charged Thursday with breach of trust for actions that allegedly compromised a criminal investigation into his business dealings, throwing the country's election campaign into disarray weeks before the vote.
While Avigdor Lieberman was cleared of more serious allegations against him, the indictment sparked immediate calls for the controversial politician to step down. He declined to do so at a news conference but said he would consult with his lawyers on what to do next. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu also rallied behind his close ally.


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I had a conversation Monday night with a friend who, along with paying tuition, provided her daughter with $1,300 a month for living expenses in college. That money went to rent, meals and extras.
I felt Scrooge-like as I only gave my two older children $400 a month to cover rent once they left the college dorms and moved into shared off-campus rental apartments where they were responsible for their meals.
I didn't pay anything else toward their related living expenses. My kids held part-time jobs so I assumed they could cover their own groceries. (One worked in a restaurant and ate there a lot, while the other made a lot of Ramen noodles, They both graduated college in less than four years, probably because they were starving. )
Turns out that my miserly ways could have had some value.
There is a fascinating new study in the American Sociological Review that shows that the more money parents pay toward college, the lower their kids' grades.
According to The New York Times:
Students from wealthy families are more likely than those from poor families to go to college, and those whose parents pay their way are more likely to graduate. But according to "More Is More or More Is Less? Parent Financial Investments During College," a study by Laura Hamilton, a sociology professor at the University of California, Merced, greater parental contributions were linked with lower grades across all kinds of four-year institutions.
"It's a modest effect, not big enough to make the kid flunk out of college," said Dr. Hamilton, whose study was published in this month's American Sociological Review. "But it was surprising because everybody has always assumed that the more you give, the better your child does."
Dr. Hamilton suggested that students who get a blank check from their parents may not take their education as seriously as others. She became intrigued with this possibility years ago, after spending a year living in a college dormitory and observing the students, then following them through graduation and, eventually, interviewing their parents.
"Oddly, a lot of the parents who contributed the most money didn't get the best returns on their investment," she said. "Their students were more likely to stay and graduate, but their G.P.A.'s were mediocre at best, and some I didn't see study even once. I wondered if that was nationally true, which led me to this quantitative study, which found that it is."
"There were some affluent families who thought their children were spoiled and didn't pay the whole cost, and there were some families who had scrimped and saved and borrowed from family members and taken out loans," she said. "And the affluent families aren't hurt the most by the lower grades, because they had the connections to call the head of NBC or the N.F.L. and get their child a job. It's more of a problem for the middle-class parents, who worked hard to pay the college costs, used up their retirement funds and are out of money by graduation time."
The study is also discussed this week in Inside Higher Ed:
This finding backs the idea that parental financial support can act as a "moral hazard" in that students make decisions about how seriously to take their studies without having personally made the investment of cash in their educations.
The impact of parental contributions on grades was lower (but still present) at highly competitive institutions. Generally the grades were lowest for students with high levels of support from their parents at private, out-of-state and more expensive colleges.
Before parents reading this article cancel those spring semester tuition checks and Facebook message their college-age kids to get jobs, there are two important caveats to the study.
One is that the study found a positive association (even controlling for other factors) between increased parental contributions and graduation over five years. In an interview, Hamilton said that she explained this finding (even if apparently contradictory with the results on grades) because those with minimal levels of parental support have a much more difficult job paying for college, and those who can't pay, can't graduate. "Kids who don't have funds, they don't stay," she said.
January 15th, 2013
4:51 am
It could be that the students receiving the most money also knew that their well-to-do parents would have connections for finding employment after graduation. I had many classmates who knew that there was a partnership-track or upper management job waiting for them in daddy's company when they graduated, regardless of their GPA. Those students without family resources know they will have to find jobs based on their own qualifications, so they may have more incentive to work harder. A good follow-up study would be to find out which set of students is making more money 5 years after graduation.
January 15th, 2013
6:13 am
This is an interesting finding. However, the vast majority of my students are not from wealthy parents. That they don't take their education as seriously as they should is also quite evident. So money may not be the determining factor. If I had to guess, and I have no hard research to back this up, many (most?) college students don't take their education as seriously as they should because . . . they're young and immature.
January 15th, 2013
6:57 am
Of course, there are also the outliers like me. I did not work in high school or college, went through in less than 3 years before AP classes were offered by taking overloads, and graduated with a 3.7. My folks wrote a check at the beginning of the term, with a modest $10 per week for "fun" and my job was to study hard and live within those means.
MY kids, however, had to work some; as a single parent with their tuition/room and board over $30,000 per year it was tough. Their work paid for anything above tuition and room and board.
I see this type of phenomenon at K-12. Our Lions Club is very generous in buying kids their glasses and paying for the eye appointment. However, we have had some kids who have "lost" or deliberately destroyed those glasses, more than once. A couple have had their parents hauled into court for other neglect, and the judge has told THEM to buy and expect the child to take care of the glasses, or face jail time! Much more motivating when the parents are required to pay.
January 15th, 2013
7:51 am
Duh. I went to college straight out of high school on my parents dime and with a partial scholarship. By the second quarter I had a full scholarship. By the third quarter I had dropped out with a really crappy GPA. When I started back, I had to do it on my own dime – my dad did help me get short term loans, but other than that it was all on me. Graduated Cum Laude. Having to pay for it all myself made all the difference in the world.
January 15th, 2013
8:02 am
Anything received with no effort is never valued as much as something earned.
January 15th, 2013
8:18 am
No surprise here. We are living in an "entitlement" society. What has happened to "work ethic?" I earned my way through college, almost every penny. The total amount of money my parents paid for my education was less than $1000.00. I worked for the entire four years I was in college, maintaining a 3.8 overall average and graduating cum laude with a dual major. Was it easy? No! I worked my butt off. My parents could not afford for me to go to college, so I had to make it happen on my own. I am proud of my conviction to learning and my fortitude in getting through it all. I never thought it was the responsibility of my parents to pay my way. Working to achieve your personal education goals is a great way to set the foundation for a successful life. The only person in anyone's life who always looks out for #1 is you. Today's youth just don't get it. Until they do, I feel America is going to continue to drop in international prestige. We need to instill in our students the importance of making commitments to their own education and future. Today, we do a terrible injustice to everyone by giving them everything they think they deserve.
January 15th, 2013
8:27 am
lahopital – 4:51
That is exactly correct.
And, it explains the large number of incompetent and mediocre upper level managers we, the less privileded, have to put up with.
January 15th, 2013
8:30 am
When I graduated from private high school my parents told me it is time for college but I had to pay the entire thing. Not just room and board but tuition. I chose a college that was affordable. During the 4 years I worked like a dog during the summers to pay for school during the year as well as at night. I struggled but made it through and graduated on time. During the experience I hated my parents for not "giving" me the education I "deserved". I graduated on a Saturday and started work on that Monday to start earning money as I was broke. In the end, my parents did give me the education I deserved. It was one of personal responsibility and accomplishment. Not sure how I will handle the same situation with my own sons in a couple of years but I can tell you it won't all be on my dime.
January 15th, 2013
8:33 am
My parents paid every bit of my college expense and I coasted. Now I cannot apply for a graduate program, because my 30-year-old transcript does not pass muster. Buckle down students, turns out there is a "permanent record" that will follow you.
January 15th, 2013
8:36 am
By the way, my parents were not wealthy and I did non-paid work on our farm every summer and every spring break.
January 15th, 2013
8:41 am
I was so glad when I read this article yesterday on another site! First of all no one is entitled to the "good life" while going to college. $1300 a month is ridiculous when people raise families on less than $1000 per month. I am not necessarily against parents paying for their kids to go to college. If I was a parent, I would do anything within my power to make sure my children received an undergraduate education in order to give them the best possible chance for economic success. That being said, I would not pay for college with loans or my retirement savings. There are far too many options (including requiring your child to obtain a part time job, going to a junior college for two years or commuting to campus while living at home) to sacrifice my future for the sake of four years of fun. Just ask my mother in law who is now working three years after she was supposed to retire after putting her son through five years at UGA only to have him move back home and work part time at Pottery Barn. He claims he would like to find a job in his field but is too busy with his 30 hour a week job. Obviously he did not learn time management while in college because he did not have to. Personally, I can always tell the difference between students who work and do not work. Generally speaking the students with part time jobs are better at time management and rarely miss class. Even with a full load of fifteen hours, students have PLENTY of time to balance work and school. Learning to balance is an essential life skill and I am disheartened when I see otherwise bright kids who are not motivated to learn that because their parents are intent on extending their adolescence.
Full disclosure: It was never an option for me to go away to school. I worked full time while I was in college and commuted to school three days a week. I graduated with a 3.0 GPA and no debt. I also had plenty of fun during those years!
January 15th, 2013
8:45 am
I think it will be interesting to do the same study years from now…
College costs, as a percentage of income, is vastly different today than it was 20 years ago when I was a student. There is no way I could foot the entire bill for my children like my parents did for me…but saying that, I worked every summer and made my own $$ for expenses beyond room, board, books, and tuition. Anything I wanted to do besides eat, sleep, and study was on my own dime.
I took out loans for my graduate work and paid it all myself. Did much better in grad school, academically, than in undergrad…but that was an issue of MATURITY in my opinion rather than my paying my own way.
January 15th, 2013
8:51 am
If this study proves true, would not the same hold true for HOPE? Certainly, my apathetic students would benefit from more incentives to succeed.
January 15th, 2013
9:16 am
$1300 is an awful lot of money…..
January 15th, 2013
9:44 am
We have two daughters, 18 and 26. The younger made Dean's List her first semester and the other has straight A's in her graduate prorgam. They're both footing their own bills- our college freshman is a Zell Miller Scholar supplemented by loans and scholarships and a PT job. The grad student is working 3 jobs and getting grants and loans. Our freshman is incensed whenever she feels a professor is just phoning it in- it's HER money they're wasting. If you're looking for poster children for self-financed education, look no further.
January 15th, 2013
10:45 am
To me there is only two classes of students. Those that can afford to go to college and those that are left behind. I know when I was a kid, I was left behind. If they cannot make it, then they can work with me in a low end job.
January 15th, 2013
10:47 am
This might be purely a statistical reflection of motivation. The students whose parents pay for their expenses are more likely to be going to college because their parents want them to go. The students who share the costs are more likely to be in school because they want to be there.
January 15th, 2013
11:09 am
If you have no skin in the game (and never probably did as you were given inflated grades in high school and every other modern convenience) then you have not developed a work ethic. Your parents have raised another entitlement baby and not a responsible adult. This country will fall because of this phenomenon. I hope this generation gets a fire in the belly about something, anything; because they will not be able to compete against the hungry in the world.
January 15th, 2013
11:15 am
The world needs ditch diggers too.
January 15th, 2013
11:16 am
Personally, I believe that the most important factor in getting the most out of college is an understanding between parent and student that paying for higher ed will be a joint venture. We started a college fund for our son when he was three months old. When he was around 15, we began talking college. I showed him the numbers, the money in the fund and the projected costs of college. It was obvious to him that he needed to get and keep the HOPE scholarship. This he did. He also realized that his lifestyle would be VERY "bare bones" unless he contributed, especially true once he decided to get two degrees, a decision requiring Summer school and overloads most semesters. He got a job tutoring math at the university, working 20 hours per week. Problem solved. He will graduate in May with degrees in Mathematics and Philosophy/Logic with a 3.7 GPA. Our total outlay was about $28,000. He kicked in around $6,000. BTW, we made it clear up front that (1) he was to complete his undergrad work in four years, and (2) neither he nor we would go into debt to pay for schooling. It's amazing what kids can do when they have to. We feel that we got our money's worth.
January 15th, 2013
11:19 am
Interesting … I think there's plenty of merit to this study and I'd be willing to bet it pans out upon more study.
Due to various circumstances, some of my own doing, some due to family obligations, I went to two different schools in two different states. The first time, right out of high school, I worked but I also had a LOT of fun, but I was also getting more help from family. The second time, I was in my mid-20s, had been in the workforce and knew what I wanted to do. My grandfather helped me quite a bit by giving me $1,000 a month for rent and living expenses, but I had to work hard, share with him how my classes were going and what my grades were and I had to provide for my own food and supplemental spending money for car insurance/gas/fun/etc. I also had loans, which I have now finished paying off.
I can definitely say the second time around, I worked harder and made better grades … it wasn't that I had done badly the first time, but being a bit older than the average college student and having my financial aid be totally up to me and earning the scholarships I got the second time around made it a much more meaningful experience. Plus, I was working on the weekends at a grocery store and I had a weekday part-time campus job (work study) as well, so I stayed pretty busy all the time.
January 15th, 2013
11:30 am
$1300 a month?
Good Lord, that's nearly as much as I net every month working, and I have a college degree!
January 15th, 2013
11:42 am
Maureen tell you friend to adopt me.
January 15th, 2013
11:53 am
My dad use to say, "Rich kids go to college and poor kids go to work".
January 15th, 2013
11:55 am
The privilege of having parents to help pay for your education is a dream. My parents died at the end of my freshman year. I struggled for the next four years to graduate after transferring closer to home. I missed the few dollars they scraped together to send me. On my own I earned a small scholarship playing soccer, became an RA, got PELL grants, took out a lot of loans, jobs on and off campus and finally a real job in television as a reporter BEFORE graduation. Paid off my loans in about ten years. I made it because I wanted to do the responsible thing and graduate. GPA wasn't the greatest but I made it. Will I comfort my 17 year old with a hefty monthly allowance this fall? Only time will tell.
January 15th, 2013
11:58 am
I wonder if the American Sociological Review has ever thought to apply these same study parameters to recipients of government assistance. I would imagine the findings would be very similar.
January 15th, 2013
12:02 pm
woodrow- if there is a will to go to college, there is a way. Just a matter of, how badly you want it? Grants, working through college, loans, GI Bill; all possible. Start first with community college for cheapest rates. I started out making minumim wage because I had no skills. Set goals, sacrificed and achieved so today; very well compensated. Amercia is the land of opportunity; still. Life is about the decisions each of us make.
January 15th, 2013
12:12 pm
I made great grades in High School, went to college on my parents dime, made really good grades, went to Law School on my parents dime, graduated with honors and have just made partner in a rather large firm.
My "job" was to make good grades, take my education seriously, make good decisions and to stay out of trouble.
I never had to work during school, yet somehow I know how to put in 60+ hours a week at my position now. I guess there is an exception to every rule.
January 15th, 2013
12:17 pm
While I agree that a child should pay for college, as he'll appreciate it and work harder, with parents income used to calculate what aid a child will get, there is no way that my child could make enough to pay full price for his tuition at even an instate school (maybe with HOPE, but only maybe).
College should not be a parent's responsibility and should be on the child. A parent's income shouldn't be used to determine a child's aid, and it should all be more affordable. The dorms now a day are plush and posh, compared to the dorms that I had 20 some years ago.
January 15th, 2013
12:18 pm
"I wonder if the American Sociological Review has ever thought to apply these same study parameters to recipients of government assistance."
Christina, you should head over to CNN and check out an article posted today about recipients of government aid. You may be surprised at what you find.
January 15th, 2013
12:33 pm
Well this brings up the issue of all these kids who have lower grades because the govt is paying all from cradle to grave………
January 15th, 2013
12:40 pm
@AnotherView Depends on how the kid views HOPE. I got a full ride, but I also worked my butt off in high school to get the scholarship, and again in college to maintain it. I viewed it as my job; my grades paid for school and my work paid for spending cash. Also, my parents were VERY clear that if I ever lost HOPE I'd have to pay for everything myself. Great motivator.
But, of course, if parents don't have a consequence for their child losing HOPE (like many of my friends' parents neglected to do) then of course their kids aren't going to try. It's not a matter of payment, it's a matter of consequences. If people don't see any to their actions, then they won't care.
January 15th, 2013
1:03 pm
any data on how the girls with sugar daddies do?
January 15th, 2013
1:11 pm
Sometimes parent's expectations exceed what the student is capable of achieving, so the parents sets the student up to fail. Examples would be parents willingness to pay for an engineering degree, but not an easier degree, or parent's expecting the student to maintain a full course load at all times. The purse string here is a dependent factor, and the cause is unrealistic expectations. If you are paying for your own education, then you can gage your course load and courses to match your capabilities. Additionally, nobody is going to guilt trip you into not dropping a class, except for maybe the instructor.
January 15th, 2013
1:14 pm
I apologize, the grades are the dependent factor, and the purse string is an independent variable.
January 15th, 2013
1:40 pm
For what it is worth, I paid almost exactly the same amount to my kids' expenses when they moved out of the dorm. My agreement was to pay the same as room and board in the dorm towards their rent payment in an off campus apartment. It ended up being between $400 and $450 per month. They were responsible for all other expenses. But I don't have any clue as to whether it helped or hurt their grades.
January 15th, 2013
1:49 pm
I began university right after high school on my parents' dime and attended for a quarter and a half, earning two Bs and a D before dropping out. Five years of working made me realize that I could only go so far without a degree, but at that point my parents wouldn't pay for me to return to school, so I worked part-time and took out loans to cover my rent and other expenses. After my return, I made mostly As (never less than a B), made the Dean's List, graduated with honors and never defaulted on my student loan, now paid off. Naturally, I believe one works harder and enjoys greater rewards if one has some skin in the game.
January 15th, 2013
1:51 pm
P.S. I wonder today at the students in our halls who complain about having to wait in line to buy books paid for by HOPE. HOPE came along the year after I graduated from university.
January 15th, 2013
2:51 pm
I don't know when your kids were in College but the scenario now has changed. There are now too many people looking for jobs, even the ones students used to be able to get part time. The Hope Scholarship is even less now a days. Tuition keeps going up. We are on a crash program in higher education. An average HS student these days have to take some remedial courses. Student loans today are very high in cost and the default rate is almost as high. With the Obummer economy; things do not look bright for the future in higher education.
January 15th, 2013
4:56 pm
My generous parents did pay for my tuition, room and board at an expensive private school. I made deans list every semester but one and graduated with honors in 4 years. I actually was very motivated by the fact that my parents were making that sacrifice for me. There was no way I would be able to look them in the eye with poor grades. I did work part time during the year and full time every summer. I paid for all my extras myself. I think some of it is just plain work ethic. Some people have it, some don't.
January 15th, 2013
7:07 pm
Girls with sugar daddy's perform wonderfully, both in and out of the classroom!
January 15th, 2013
8:17 pm
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January 16th, 2013
10:46 am
Heh, I wonder if part of the incentive for students who work is seeing how boring and low-paying the jobs are that you have to get with no college degree, and realizing if you don't work your butt off you're going to end up with one of those jobs. Certainly think it worked for me.
January 16th, 2013
7:23 pm
Agree with all of the above: students work harder when it is their money on the line.
January 17th, 2013
12:36 pm
The students who have the highest GPAs in High School, tend to excel in college, and are often handed scholarships from their colleges when they are admitted, and therefore need less money from parents to pay for tuition. They know that to keep their scholarships, they need to keep their grades up. However, mediocre students with parents who have cash, feel less of an incentive to work hard and require more money from the get go, because they don't receive scholarships that they need to maintain with high GPAs.
January 17th, 2013
4:21 pm
I went to school on my dime and the government's as I had to get some student loans. However, I would not have expected my parents to pay as I was a parent myself and 47 years old when I decided to go to school. I was the first member of my family to obtain a college degree and did it while working full time and raising two children who were in their teens by the time I started. I had to work my heart out and lose many hours of sleep for a few years to get it all done but I knew it was worth every hard minute when I graduated with a B.A. cum laude. The interesting thing is that my daughter began attending the same university during my last year there. She never even asked for money because she knew we didn't have it. Her dad and I helped when we could, which was in very small ways. She worked on campus all four years and worked another year and a half on campus after graduating. She knew how to cut corners, scrimp and save, and still have fun. She graduated suma cum laude and even more impressing is that when she left to start college again in a distant city she took enough money with her to pay for three years of rent, money that she had saved without us even knowing that she had. She again graduated a couple of months ago with a second degree and a second suma cum laude. Once again she worked, scrimped, saved and had fun. She and I both took our college education very seriously and we have had this conversation before and both believe that having to pay for school out of our own pockets made us truly appreciate our opportunity to get an education and made us exceptionally proud that we made the most of it. We also have talked about classmates we had who were going to school on Mom and Dad's time and partied all night and slept through class. It truly is a sad commentary on the state of our society. In my opinion the worst part isn't that some students play while they are supposed to be working and studying. The worst part is that those parents think they are helping their child and don't see the grave damage they are doing until it is too late.


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Susan Snyder's vision for Chase Creek Marketplace was simple: Provide "handcrafted gifts by people we know." Since the store opened eight years ago, artists from Clifton and Morenci have showcased their work. Snyder herself even contributes her wares, which include earrings, rosary bracelets and knit caps.
What was the inspiration for the marketplace?
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Chase Creek Marketplace is located at 215 Chase Creek Street in Clifton. For more information, call 928-865-1251 or visit www.chasecreekmarketplace.com.
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Urbanears Sharing is Caring Combo: Plattan Dark Grey & Medis Cobalt
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Show someone you care by sharing your music...Use the ZoundPlug for instant music sharing. The ZoundPlug is not really a plug, but a socket that lets you share your music with a friend. Simply plug in another pair of headphones via the empty outlet on the earcap and enjoy!
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Designed to be "the perfect classic headphone," The Plattan combines innovative functions and performance with today's technology. A full-size headphone that allows full, rich, secluded and clear volume, sound and thumping bass (112dB, 20kHz), The Plattan furthermore folds down to the size of a fist for maximum mobility and convenience. Double click the button on the wire and it will change tracks, single click and it will pause the track! Featuring Urbanears' patented Zound Plug on the ear cap, allowing for a friend to plug in and enjoy your music.
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An unprecedented experience in ergonomics and functionality, the Medis Tomato is an in-ear headphone with a microphone and remote built in on the fabric cord. Featuring the ingenious EarClick solution, the Medis simply stays in place by securing the earpiece at two points rather than one. With four interchangeable ear pads included, the Medis will fit almost any ear. The sound on these harvest-fresh headphones is dynamic and clear, so your listening experience is guaranteed to please all your senses.
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|Trash to Treasure is a non-profit organization that has a mission to locate clean, re-usable materials and redistribute these items as valuable educational and artistic resources.
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- operating a facility for clean, re-usable materials (called "clean scrap")
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TEACHERS in Broward County often spend hundreds of dollars each year to supplement their classrooms with needed creative and interactive materials for their students. We help educators by providing an inexpensive source of materials in addition to workshops to learn how to maximize the creative and educational potential of these diverse materials.
BUSINESSES in Broward County pay some of the highest waste disposal costs in the USA. We help businesses identify materials destined for the trash that can be creatively RE-USED instead. This helps businesses achieve significant savings by reducing their waste disposal costs. Donating tangible property is also a no cost way for businesses to support non-profit organizations in the community and benefit from tax deductions.
ARTISTS, both professional and "crafty," are often on the lookout for interesting materials with which to work. We offer a variety of unusual materials for common purposes, and common materials for unique creations.
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We believe that sustainability and community are critical values that reflect the paradigm shift of the changing world. These values foster the arts, science, economic justice, environmental balance, peace and compassion.
How our resources~ our "stuff"~ are managed plays a profound role in environmental health or degradation, human well-being or deprivation, even war and peace.
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We are all familiar with the respectful reference to Mother Earth, but in the Native American Ojibwe language, the bar is raised by using both "Mother" and "Grandmother" to personify the human relationship with our precious, one-of-a-kind, Planet.
The heritage of nurturing community and creativity is at the heart of what Trash to Treasure Creative Reuse Center is about.
These are times of awakening and commitment to live sustainably with a renewed recognition of the values of thrift and responsibility. This journey to re-think the "stuff" of our lives is empowering and liberating.
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Trash to Treasure members believe that imagination, play and learning are inseparable and that providing children with open ended materials stimulates discovery and develops problem-solving skills. Children who learn to think and create perform better academically and develop healthy self-esteem.
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Trash to Treasure members are committed to reducing and recycling waste. Recycling saves money, energy and reduces air and water pollution while protecting our precious natural resources. Reusing clean scrap not only reduces disposal costs for businesses, it also reduces new product consumption, which also impacts the environment. As we learn to re-use what is available, the demand for a continuing supply of raw materials, and the associated environmental impact, is significantly reduced.
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This Is Not a Film
It is fairly difficult to write about a film that proclaims itself not to be, and that deemphasises so many of the elements one would normally assess. There is no soundtrack, no particular emphasis on cinematography, no interesting casting choices, no intentional costume design, no script, and it is incredibly refreshing.
Through the means of an iPhone and camera, This Is Not a Film tracks a day in the life of Jafar Panahi, an Iranian filmmaker awaiting his appealed sentence. At the time, he was under house arrest for having supported the opposition party, and was sentenced to six years in prison and a twenty-year ban on film-making and foreign interviews. This documentary of sorts cleverly loopholes these restrictions as he is shown talking to his lawyer, neighbours and describing his rejected screenplay, not directing but presenting the reality of his situation, and through that addressing the issues that caused it to arise. Leaving the audience to piece together the context, Panahi is captivating in his honesty and calmth, in being able to conjure an entire world of setting and situation through revealing the limitations he has been constrained by.
This Is Not a Film comes together beautifully with the correlations between Panahi and his screenplay, in which a girl is banned from going to university by her conservative parents, and is locked in a house. This unrealised film within a film, conveyed on his carpet partitioned off with yellow tape adds a further layer of incomplete stories told, as Panahi selects moments from his screenplay, tantalising the audience's curiosity with fragmented narration, in much the same way the closing sequence of the student-cum-concierge does so humorously. This student, who comes to collect the rubbish, the neighbour with the noisy dog and the specificity of the filming day being a national one of celebration instils a lovely sense of locality about the film. This makes its serious message on state censorship all the more affecting due to its personal feel.
Often the cinema tends to be a voyeuristic or escapist experience, and This Is Not a Film seems to harness both these elements to convey what is going so wrong in some film industries. The audience is provided with a Big-Brother-esque awareness of privacy being both voluntarily and unconsciously intruded upon (the neighbours provide some comic relief in this area), presented with Panahi's own longing to escape back into stories that aren't actuality. And this hits home. This may not be a film, but it is definitely worth a watch.


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Guitar Hero 5 Trailer Outlines New FeaturesHaving a hard time keeping track of all these music games? You're not alone. This Guitar Hero 5 trailer will help a bit, as it succinctly outlines what to expect from Activision's next rhythmic offering.
Guitar Hero 5 hits stores on September 1.
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Index to the Diabetes Sucks T-Shirts and Gift Ideas design
Diabetes is the name of a 3 metabolic diseases in which a person has high blood sugar – either because the body does not produce enough insulin or because the diabetic's body does not respond to the insulin that is produced. This results in high blood sugar, which produces the classic diabetes symptoms of polyuria (frequent urination), polydipsia (increased thirst), and polyphagia (increased hunger).
Advice for anyone coping with diabetes is that:
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Welcome to Chronic-Illness.org.
Proceeds from this Web site fund chronic illness and chronic condition awareness and support.
In addition to the chronic illness- and chronic condition-related articles, information, and t-shirt and gift idea designs on this site, Chronic-Illness.org is also the home of the Chronic Illness Realities comic strips.
Pammy is the main character in two comic strips by Pamela Rice Hahn, the first of which is the Writing Woes comic strip. Pammy is a writer who is also disabled because of chronic illness and chronic conditions, so she also appears in the Chronic Illness Realities comic strip.


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By Peg 5-24-12
Ah, my friend, said Mother Baobab,
its been quite a while since our last visit,
but not a day has gone by
wherein you are not surrounded in thought
with loving Blessings to nourish you.
I see you have given voice
to yet another Dimension of Yourself
and it is with Joy I welcome The Boglivia here
to share yet another aspect of wisdom
with our growing family of One!
Interesting, is it not,
what renderings may come from a little rock?
Like us all, so much more than what it appears to be
More than color, texture, temperature
It quietly and patiently awaits
our sensing of its energy
and freely shares its gift of knowledge
when we are willing to be open to its offerings.
For it has been said that information is found
in bone and stone.
And behold, just look at the insight
It has revealed to you!
There is such a subtle rhythm to Life,
a flowing connection,
if we, as you say, simply allow ourselves
to open to it.
So Boglivia, Big Elephant, and Deb
thank you for sharing this insight.
May your coconut continue to fill!
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Wetland Tourism Case Study: India - Lake Tsomoriri
Lake Tsomoriri is one of the highest lakes in the world, at 4,595 metres altitude, and lies in the Changthang Cold Desert Sanctuary of Ladakh in the Jammu and Kashmir state of India. Surrounded by marshes of sedges and reeds, the lake covers almost 12,000 hectares (120 km2). It provides vital breeding grounds and key staging posts on migration routes for over 40 species of water birds; in particular, it is important as breeding ground for the highly threatened Black-necked Crane (Grus nigricollis) and Bar-headed Goose (Anser indicus) (Chandan et al. 2006).
|Lake Tsomoriri
Credit: ©Pankaj Chandan / WWF-India
The region also supports the Himalayan blue sheep (Pseudois nayaur), Tibetan argali (Ovis ammon hodgsoni), Kiang (Equus kiang), Tibetan Wolf (Canis lupus chanko), Lynx (Lynx isabellina), and Snow leopard (Uncia uncia).
A tent-dwelling tribe of nomads, the Changpas, live and graze their livestock on pastures around the lake. The Changpas depend on livestock for their livelihood and produce the world famous Pashmina wool used as raw material to produce pashmina (Cashmere) shawls (Gujja et al. 2003).
Tourism to Ladakh has been growing over the past 20 years (Dawa 2008). In 1989, the region received very few visitors, and this was followed by fluctuating numbers of tourists as the region experienced a period of political instability. By 2006, however, as the political situation became more stable, numbers increased dramatically to around 50,000 tourists a year. This increase was also linked to the development of transport infrastructure in the region, India's updated national policies on tourism, and investment in marketing and promotion. During the summer season of 2011 Ladakh saw a huge growth in tourism with the area receiving more than 170,000 tourists, the highest total so far.
|Training Programme Lake Tsomoriri
Credit: ©Pankaj Chandan / WWF-India
Tourism now plays an exceedingly important role in Ladakh's economy, and the Ladakh Autonomous Hill Council (LAHDC) has set out objectives to scale up tourism's contribution to the economic and social well-being of the people of the region, while protecting the region's fragile ecosystems and cultural heritage through sustainable development. Tourism to the lake is run by the tour operators of Ladakh, based at Leh, and is promoted by the Jammu & Kashmir Department of Tourism and the All Ladakh Tour Operators Association (ALTOA) based at Leh.
Tsomoriri, which is major attraction for tourists, has experienced rapid development of tourism ever since it was first opened up to outside visitors in 1994. At present about 20,000 tourists, mainly from European countries and other parts of India, visit Lake Tsomoriri each year during the short summer season between June to September. The construction of a metalled road which connects the capital of Leh and the village of Korzok near Lake Tsomoriri has made it much easier for tourists to reach the lake. In fact, the reputation of the lake is an important feature in attracting tourists to visit and travel in the Ladakh region, even though comparatively only a small proportion of the tourists visiting the region actually travel to the lake itself.
A survey of tourists visiting Tsomoriri has found that tourists come to experience its scenic beauty and remoteness, as well as the local culture – which includes the 300-year-old monastery at Korzok, the local village and the nomadic herders. It also attracts tourists who want to see the lake's birds and wildlife, as well as adventure tourists taking part in trekking and jeep safaris. The survey also showed that most tourists feel that the local communities should benefit from tourism.
Unfortunately, tourism development around Lake Tsomoriri has taken place without any systematic planning or controls. As a result, tourism camps have been located in areas where there is a high risk of disturbing wildlife, and provisions for garbage and sewage disposal are inadequate. Tourist facilities have been built near the lake shore without proper impact assessment, and this unplanned development has long-term negative impacts on biodiversity and key habitats, as well as on the scenic value of lake.
The peak tourism period also coincides with the peak breeding period for the lake's avifauna. In addition, although the economy of the Ladakh region has benefited from tourism, most of the benefits have accrued to tour operators at Leh and others based outside the area. The Changpas and the inhabitants of Korzok have so far received relatively limited benefits from tourism, while experiencing all the problems caused by the uncontrolled influx of tourists, including damage to pastures, accumulation of wastes in the environment, and social tensions.
The evidence shows that wastes, pollution, and environmental damage are increasing around trekking routes and campsites, and they affect both people and wildlife (Geneletti & Dawa 2009). Grazing, without local consent, of pack horses accompanying tourist groups is reducing pastures available to livestock owned by local people. Off-road driving of jeeps over the pastures is causing soil compaction and damage to vegetation, reducing productivity, and opening these fragile soils to erosion. There are also reports of jeeps being used to chase kiangs and other species. Thus, overall, one of the biggest threats to Tsomoriri comes from unregulated tourism.
|Black-Necked Crane, Lake Tsomoriri
Credit: ©Pankaj Chandan / WWF-India
Lake Tsomoriri is under the administrative control of Department of Wildlife Protection, Government of Jammu & Kashmir. WWF-India initiated a conservation project in the area in 2000 to involve all the key stakeholders, especially the local community, in the conservation process. A management plan for the site was prepared in 2007 and is designed to ensure that tourism is operated and developed in a sustainable manner that contributes to the livelihoods of local people and protects the lake's environment and wildlife (Chandan et al. 2008). The management plan sets out guiding principles for tourism in and around the lake – these include protecting community interests to ensure that local people receive a fair share of benefits from tourism, and that their rights to use the key sources of their livelihoods, such as pastures, are respected; conserving the natural heritage of the wetlands, including the role of traditional management by local people; and managing tourism to sustain the wetlands as an important place for tourism and recreational use, through proper planning, community-based tourism such as local homestays and local guides, and protection of key habitats from damaging tourism activities.
The management plan was prepared in consultation with the local communities, which now regularly participate in management decisions at the site. A local community trust called Tsomoriri Conservation Trust has been created with technical support from WWF-India and is active in promoting community interests, including the development of community-based tourism. WWF is also working with the tour operators of the region to involve them in the conservation of the lake. Many tour operators are regularly helping, for example, in various garbage cleanliness drives in the area. In addition to this, regular education and awareness programmes are also organized for the armed forces personnel present in the area. All these efforts are collectively directed towards the conservation of this lake to ensure a better future for local communities through sustained livelihoods and for wildlife through protection of critical habitats.
>> Link to PDF CaseStudy: India - Tsomoriri
>> Link to Annotated Ramsar List: India
Information provided by Mr. Pankaj Chandan & Ms. Archana Chatterjee, WWF-India
Chandan, P., Gautam, P. & Chatterjee, A. 2006. Nesting sites and breeding success of Black-necked Crane Grus nigricollis in Ladakh, India. Waterbirds around the world. Eds. G. C. Boere, C, A. Galbraith & D. A. Stroud. The Stationery office, Edinburgh, UK. Pp. 311-314.
Chandan, P., Chatterjee, A. & Gautam, P. 2008. Management planning of Himalayan high altitude wetlands. A case study of Tsomoriri and Tsokar Wetlands in Ladakh, India. Proceedings of Taal 2007: The 12th World Lake Conference: 1446-1452.
Dawa, D. 2008. Environmental impact assessment of tourism development in Ladakh, Indian Himalaya, PhD thesis, University of Trento.
Geneletti, D. & Dawa, D. 2009. Environmental impact assessment of mountain tourism in developing regions: a study in Ladakh, Indian Himalaya. Journal of Environmental Impact Assessment Review.
Gujja, B., Chatterjee, A., Gautam, P. & Chandan, P. 2003. Wetlands & lakes at the top of the world. Mountain Research and Development, vol. 23, no. 3, pp 219-221.
The Ramsar Secretariat selected 14 case studies for a publication on wetlands and sustainable tourism, to be launched at the 11th Conference of Parties, July 2012.


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The Otterbein University Equestrian Team finished 7th at the Intercollegiate Horse Show Association National Championship, held May 2-5 in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
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Otterbein finished their regular season as the Zone 6 Championships held at the West Virginia University on April 6, which helped secured their spot at the national championships.
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