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Crash Causes 'Extensive' Damage to Brick, Metal University of Louisville Sign
By Joseph Lord
So I passed this sign Tuesday near the Belknap campus the way to work. It used to say "University of Louisville." Now, it says "Unive uisville."
On Thanksgiving evening, a vehicle traveling at the intersection of Arthur Street and Brandeis Avenue left the road and struck the sign, according to a UofL Police activity report. The accident led to injuries that were not considered life-threatening.
A request for further info (like, how exactly that type of damage happens) from Louisville Metro Police—which is investigating the accident—was not returned on Tuesday.
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EAST GREENBUSH, N.Y. – A Troy man appeared in court twice on the same day for allegedly stealing computer merchandise.
Scott Cleland, 25, appeared in East Greenbush Town Court on February 20 to answer a charge of Larceny in connection with the theft of three children's hand-held computers worth $99 each.
Cleland was released on his own recognizance and went to the Troy Wal-Mart and proceeded to remove the security device attached to a $650 tablet computer and fled the store without paying for it. He was captured on surveillance cameras but security was unable to catch him.
Cleland was identified by security personnel and police officers who examined the surveillance recording. He was subsequently charged with a new count of Larceny.
Cleland was arraigned on the new charge on Friday, March 7. He was sent to the County Jail pending posting bail.
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Gov. Nathan Deal stopped by the G650 manufacturing facility Friday to help Savannah-based Gulfstream Aerospace celebrate General Aviation Manufacturing Week and thank the global company for its commitment to Savannah and the state.
Byrd Cookie Co., the family-owned Savannah bakery best known for its jars and tins of tasty cookies, will celebrate its 90th anniversary this year by opening the first of what will be six new retail stores up and down the Eastern seaboard.
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Sony Pictures has unveieled the trailer for "Ghost Rider : Spirit of Vengenace" and… well, it ain't what most of the Comic Con savvy were expecting following the footage tease and promises made by directors Neveldine and Taylor at San Diego. Nope, in fact this looks just like the first film… but with a couple of fun additions (fiery piss!). Question is, is Sony merely playing it safe by putting together a trailer that looks just like the original "Ghost Rider" because they're afraid the final product, which could potentially be wild and trippy (a'la most of Neveldine/Taylor's other films), will scare off those who enjoyed the original and are more receptive to a straight-up, fun no-brainer comic book movie?
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What is the one thing that every new student should bring to campus?
Comfortable shoes! You will want them for those walks up the hill for class. Also, be willing to try new things and get involved in eveything you can to make the best college experience!
Tips you would give students about getting involved are:
For any hobby that you enjoy, WKU probably has a club for it! Get involved in activities that you love but also those that may be brand new to you. Also get involved in clubs that are specific to your major, which will help you meet students that you have classes with who may become future study buddies
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I am also involved in Alpha Xi Delta sorority as well as the National Student Speech-Language Hearing Association (NSSLHA) within my major.
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It's kinda unbelievable that the iPhone still uses modal popups that completely interrupt what you're doing for notifications. But hope comes in the form of treachery: Rich Dellinger, who designed the Pre's elegant background notifications, is going to Apple. [PreCentral]
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Resurfacing after little more than a year, Vibe Magazine's September 2007 interview with Obama seems especially relevant this week. Tuesday (October 7) marks the last day to register to vote for this year's presidential election and it seems like almost everyone has something to say about it.
My opinion regarding celebrity endorsement of presidential candidates is a matter that I will keep to myself — but I am particularly interested in the the number of photographers who are choosing to endorse their candidate of choice. Above are fashion photographer Terry Richardson's images from the Vibe interview. Falling in step with his characteristic flash-on-camera style, Richardson's images are a welcome juxtaposition to the lack-luster stereotypical candidate portraiture:
An additional note, more than fifty photographers (including Elinor Carucci, Philip-Lorca DiCorcia, Mitch Epstein, Larry Fink, Todd Hido, Richard Misrach, Alec Soth and Joel Sternfled…et all!) have donated images to http://www.artforobama.net – an online auction benefit organized by five artists who "have come together to help the Obama campaign. Because we cannot afford to make large donations ourselves, we want to bring together the leaders of our community to help create change."
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Included in the bidding is this image by Larry Fink, another interesting take on the theme of Obama portraits I am exploring in this post. The auction is open from October 3 to October 10 and all money earned will be donated to moveon.org.


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Actually, Wondershare MobileGo for Android has two parts: a free app for your tablet or phone and premium software for your PC. The speed-up feature of the Android app frees up memory by closing apps that are not needed. On the other hand, the Windows software performs more functions such as installing apps, finding duplicate contacts, sending SMS, transferring contacts and files, importing as well as converting media and music files, including iTunes playlists, and one-click backup of data as well as records from your phone to your PC.
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Karen Gillan's Shaved New Super Villain Look!
Former Doctor Who companion Karen Gillan revealed her new hairless look on Saturday at the San Diego Comic Con while promoting the upcoming Guardians of the Galaxy movie, in which she plays an alien super villain!
Although the stunning actress had arrived at the event and made a previous appearance with a full head of hair, it turned out that she was in fact wearing a wig (not for the first time, of course!)
Describing her new hairstyle (can you call it that?) the one-time Amy Pond said:
It's liberating. I think everyone here should shave their heads.
(Via Digital Spy.)
5 Responses to Karen Gillan's Shaved New Super Villain Look!
First Matt Smith, then Karen Gillan. Next, Steven Moffat will shave his head.
I just hope she gave her gorgeous red mane to a charity that makes wigs for kids getting chemo!
Looks like Peri from Mindwarp here a little.
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What's the story behind "Uncle Joe"?Posted by: Mrs. Pernezny in Chorus, tags: history, song, uncle joe
"Uncle Joe" is a song that Concert Chorus is singing. It's a folk song with some unusual lyrics and kind of murky background. This is what I've been able to find out:
The melody was originally a Scottish/Irish fiddle tuen called "Miss McLeod's Reel." There are some variations on the lyrics, and there's no definitive history of the text. Some people believe that the "meeting" referred to in the first verse is a Shaker meeting. Shakers were a religious sect that would "shake" or dance as part of their worship. They might whirl or jump if filled with divine inspiration, so that may be the source of the words, "hop up, my ladies." Sometimes non-Shakers would attend the meetings as entertainment.
The single-footer is actually a single-footing horse. It is a specific horse breed used for work or trail riding, with a fast, smooth gait. I like this picture of a single-footing horse.
The "pacer" is another breed of horse, also known as a standardbred. It is best known for its ability to race in harness at a trot or pace instead of under saddle at a gallop. However, they can also be saddled and ridden. They are called standardbreds because, when the name was first officially used in 1879, the horse had to be able to trot a mile within the "standard" of 2 minutes and 30 seconds.
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The low ridge that runs parallel to the Garonne, on the right bank, stores the Premieres Cotes de Bordeaux. The white wines are found in the south and in the north the red wines dominate the area. The finest white wines come from Lou-Piac and Sainte-Croix-du-Uont, who never disappoint the fans of dessert wines. Their great sweet wines are especially delicious. For many of these types of wines, a new era is dawning; however, many growers in this region have converted over to the production of a dryer type of wine (I visited one when helping them improve their website with help of this great tips)
Graves and Entre-Deux-Mers
Actually, Graves was the ancient center of Bordeaux wine; instead of the Médoc that now holds sway. The area covers the left bank of the Garonne as a continuation of the Haut-Médoc southbound. The bottom is covered with a heavy layer of gravel or sand into a 'grave', as the French call it, hence the name Graves.
It is a flat country, and wherever you look, you see vineyards here and there marked by narrow lanes and dark pine groves. Graves is known for its white wines, even while it is the excellent red wines that are that are strong like the red wines of the Medoc. Some wines are just as good as the great wines of Pauillac and Margaux. What both have in common is the extraordinary fragrance and finesse.
Chateau Haut-Brion belongs to the absolute top of the charts for wines. This château, together with Chateau Margaux, Chateau Lafite Rothschild, Chateau Mouton Rothschild and Chateau Latour in Pauillac are where five premier wines are located. The white graves wine is dry to semi-sweet.
Only a part of the production delivers higher quality wines, and the rest may be described as 'cheap white wines. Graves has two appellations, the appellation Graves and Graves appellation Supérieures. The latter term means only that the wine has one percent more alcohol, so it has twelve percent, but it says nothing about the quality. Graves also cherishes its own classified wines, although for the first time since 1953 13 red and eight white wines may be placed on the label Cru classé. Drinking wine as the preferred alcoholic beverage is also the choice of people who want to lose weight. Most weight loss resources (like Wlzine's how to lose weight fast page) advice to never drink alcohol, but when they do, they advice to drink wine.


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Bill Nighy: Capaldi Casting "makes perfect sense"
Echoing the majority of Doctor Who fans sentiments when he first emerged under a cloud of celebratory confetti Bill Nighy believes that it 'makes perfect sense' that Peter Capaldi play the Doctor.
Nighy, who played Dr Black in Vincent and the Doctor and who last year revealed that he had turned down the role of the Doctor, said:
I think it's one of those things you read and you think, 'Well, of course Peter Capaldi is going to be Doctor Who, it makes perfect sense. He's a wonderful actor, and I would think he'll be a terrific doctor. He'll be very funny, dry, elegant and sharp, and I think it makes perfect sense.
And we agree. And I don't just mean those of us who's eyes are scanning these very words.
But I will say this… Bill Nighy likes him and that guy is all kinds of cool.
(Via Huffington Post.)
4 Responses to Bill Nighy: Capaldi Casting "makes perfect sense"
I agree, the show isn't just the actors, by far. It's one of the first shows I've seen where the writers are just as celeb as the actors (if, they get it right). It's one of those shows where everybodies' contribution is what makes it brilliant; prop makers, lighting, music, camera men, stunt, costumes, make-up, to say the least the directors & producers. Love 'em all!
Bill Nighy would make an interesting Master against Capaldi's Doctor!
Wouldn't he just. He also would have been a very cool Doctor himself.
I can just see and hear it. Nighy's Master says to Capaldi's Doctor, "So here we are again, Doctor, both of us survived, and both us now older in more ways than one."


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My eyes pacing around the room,
From door to soul.
The sam soul that lives behind the desk,
Observing our ways.
Planning an escape route,
Playing the scene in my head,
Indulging the patience,
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Maneuver to the door,
As eyes of others,
Gape at me with an ugly taste,
That my ears devour silently.
Opening the door,
To only see,
My closet waiting upon my feet.
Looking back,
To my bed that looked as if,
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A funny-man looking for love, a rocker scared of Brad Pitt, and a divorcee who wants her ex to "Shut up!"
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I can't believe what some of these people say! Don't they listen to themselves talk? How do they get away with it?


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Buy into an ETF built on junk?
Yield-seeking investors are increasingly jumping into riskier, higher-yielding debt via a convenient exchange-traded ticker.
It's kind of Orwellian that anyone would rapaciously buy an exchange-traded fund with the ticker JNK -- branding shorthand for "junk," Wall Street's sobriquet for high-yield, the riskiest layer of corporate bonds.
Nevertheless, the SPDR Barclays Capital High Yield Bond (JNK) ETF and competitor offerings are hot destinations in these yield-famished days. The appeal is irrefutable: You'll get precious little income from Treasurys and municipal bonds. Creditworthy corporations are borrowing at record lows. Why not then pile into riskier, higher-yielding debt, especially if you can do so via one tidy, exchange-traded ticker? (No need to ring Michael Milken.) What's more, Moody's sees the global default rate for "speculative-grade" debt ending the year at 2.8%, compared with an average of 4.8% since 1983. Yields have fallen 1.65 percentage points this year, to 7.05% on Nov. 1, according to Bank of America Merrill Lynch data.
What's not to love?
An overcrowded trade marked by 2007-like issuer complacency, that's what. More companies are demanding and getting easy terms on their junk issues. The most popular junk ETFs are going deeper into credit risk to scrape for yield. The sluicing of retail money into these ETFs is perpetuating what has historically proved to be a vicious trend. "Signs of over-exuberance are creeping into the corporate credit market," wrote Michael Lewitt, a hedge fund manager who publishes the Credit Strategist. "In the past, rising issuance of these types of low-quality bonds has been a warning that a market rally is coming to an end. … Today's new issues will be the troubled credits of tomorrow."
On Nov. 7, Standard & Poor's warned of the unprecedented dangers of a brave new junk bond world. Wrote credit analysts Diane Vazza and Evan Gunter:
"The ease with which investors can enter and exit ETF investments creates new and risky dynamics in the speculative-grade market with the potential flow of 'hot money.' Speculative-grade companies have a higher default risk than investment-grade companies. Therefore, when the credit cycle turns against investors, losses from defaults can quickly outstrip the additional interest payments that high-yield investors receive. Since we are entering the stage of declining credit quality in the current credit cycle, the credit quality of an issuer or a portfolio has become paramount."
Vazza and Gunter looked under the hoods of JNK and its rival, the iShares iBoxx $ High Yield Corporate Bond (HYG) ETF. They found that both funds owned a higher proportion of the riskiest junk debt versus the overall high-yield market. While the analysts estimated that the broad universe of high yield includes 7.9% of bonds rated CCC+ and lower, their share in HYG's portfolio is at 11.0% and in JNK is just under 10%. While higher risk juices returns in a favorable environment like the present one, the analysts explained, they take outsized losses once the credit cycle turns.
Sales of junk debt in the U.S. have come in at $294 billion so far this year, the fastest pace on record. It's in that booming backdrop that private-equity-owned companies have paid out $34.1 billion in dividends this year, according to Standard & Poor's Capital IQ Leveraged Commentary & Data. That's north of 2010's total of $31.5 billion and the $23.8 billion paid out in 2007, when the leveraged buyout market peaked. For comparison, $1.2 billion in dividends were issued in 2008 and $440 million in 2009.
This boom has prompted an echo-boom in payment-in-kind transactions, or PIK toggles, which let companies pay interest in debt rather than cash, essentially deferring payments to their investors. That tactic was a hallmark of the private equity bubble of five years ago. According to Moody's, as of mid-October two of the third quarter's 14 dividend financings enjoyed PIK toggle structures, including Emergency Medical Services' $450 million of notes to pay a dividend to Clayton, Dubilier & Rice and IDQ's $45 million deal supporting a payout to Castle Harlan. Last month, Petco also got in on the PIK toggle boom.
Caveat junktor: Moody's calculates that the default rate for companies that sold PIK-toggle bonds was 13% from 2006 to 2010, twice the rate for similarly rated issuers that didn't use the tactic.
"Low yields are driving more and more investors into really strange territory," says Lee Pacchia, a Bloomberg Law analyst who follows corporate bankruptcies. "They need to take on risk. While the market forces driving this trend could go on for a while, lowering standards could end badly. It's called 'junk' for a reason."
The institutional smart money is increasingly taking the other side of that trade. According to Bloomberg data, bearish options on HYG are at an all-time high: The number of outstanding puts on HYG has almost doubled since Oct. 19, to a record of 118,444 at the end of last month. Hedge funds seeking that bet on both gains and losses in credit attracted $12.6 billion of deposits in the three months ended Sept. 30, the most since the last quarter of 2007, according to HFR.
It all makes you wonder how quickly people may have forgotten the lessons of the credit bubble, or what one hedgie has called the era of promiscuous lending. Will today's junk boom end so differently?
"The history of money is a sad state of affairs," wrote Prudent Bear's Doug Noland in his recent post, titled "The Myth of Deleveraging." "Failing to learn from a litany of previous monetary fiascoes, 'money' is these days being abusively over-issued."
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When 34-year-old Willow Koerber Rockwell [32]made it public earlier this week that she was retiring from racing, effective immediately, it was only slightly surprising. Anyone who knows Rockwell—a two-time bronze-medal winner at the world championships [33], a consistent top World Cup finisher, three-time collegiate national champion—knows that it's not in her to quit. But Rockwell is also all about 100 percent commitment. And, now, that commitment is focused on her newborn daughter, Raven. We caught up with Rockwell at her home in Durango, CO, to talk about her retirement.
The news just became public this week. What's the response been like?
You know how in life there are those gray areas where you're unclear about what to do and there's all this confusion? That was the worst. Right now I feel really clear and calm. I know I made the best choice for my soul and my family and for the highest and greatest good of all of us, and that brings peace.
You've had some real ups and downs since the World Cup in South Africa [34]. Last week it seemed to come to a head, with you deciding to push into the rest of the season. Why the reversal?
It was all the little and bigger signs adding up. I wanted to be fully committed to the Olympics, or to winning the World Championships, and to racing at the highest level. But when I was in South Africa, I found that, to my surprise, it just didn't matter any more. I didn't know what happened, it surprised even me because for close to 17 years this has been the only thing that mattered.
It's like that part of my soul had healed—the chapter was completed, but I actually didn't know it yet. But when I went back I wasn't yet aware that I was finished [with racing]. There were no fireworks, no big moment where everything said "Wow, you're done with this and can walk away in peace." It wasn't like that. I don't think life is like that. It was just this gradual process of realizing where I was and asking myself tough questions.
I had a pretty bad crash the day before the World Cup in South Africa, and that hurt my spirit more than I had expected. About a week later, I crashed again, landed on the same hip. I was wondering what was going on. Why am I not enjoying this? Why am I crashing? And I told myself that I'm bigger than this, I'm better than this, and biking isn't going to get me down and I'm going to keep going. But then the next day I woke up and said, "No, I'm actually done." It was a process of letting go that I hadn't realized was happening.
That must have been hard to share with the team.
My team manager is great. Martin Whiteley, he really has a lot of compassion. He saw me with my daughter and knew that it was different. He really understood. And it's really okay. I feel like I've done my job as a racer by speaking the truth about what's been going on during this process and being real. I'm not just saying to people that I don't have struggles or that once you get to the top it's all just roses.
What comes next?
I don't want to say that I won't be involved in biking at all, but I really am geared toward working with women—either in athletics or women in general. I want to help women embrace the goddess nature in themselves, because I understand how hard it is to be fully embodied in everything it means to be a woman these days. And I want to really just let myself be here with my daughter and nurture that side of me.
Yes, I'm going to go for rides. But I'm also going to run, I'm going to do yoga, if I'm exhausted and my baby is sleeping I'm going to lay down and sleep. My goal right now is to just be able to be—and to listen to—myself, and learn the woman's intuition that was always there but that I just suppressed.
What's your advice for others who are working to find a similar kind of balance?
Be kind to yourself, and surround yourself with people who are supportive of your growth as a human being. Life is a learning process. Nothing stays the same, so really just keep pedaling with the changes. Through one chapter and on to the next, you need to embrace it all, because that's what a fulfilled life is.
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How To: Wear a Baby
It's always wonderful seeing babies all snuggled and content in their slings, and if you've ever thought, "Just how did they get that baby in there?" this fabulous video shows you ever so sweetly how it's done.
We've watched this video over and over again and found ourselves longing for the days when our son was enjoying his sling days, snuggled close.
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www.thebabywearer.com also is chock-full of different types of slings, pics, reviews, and tutorials.
I squealed at that! There's something very heartwarming about seeing a man being so gentle with his little baby.
that was probably the sweetest thing ever!
ok, that's only funny because the hubby and i went to BeByBaby last week to buy him a Moby wrap so he can wear our baby. we LOVE it! and of course while we were there, another couple was buying a wrap, and the dad put it on to walk out of the store with his baby. so precious! can't decide if i like it more than a sling. versatile so both he or i can wear it. in fact...my dad wanted to wear our baby at an event we were at this weekend.
Mine is cuter... :)
Thank you so much. This made me smile.
Lovely video...
...did anyone else notice that they have bumpers on the inside and the OUTSIDE of the crib? I have never seen that before...