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Older News » Dad's the wordLast updated 10:55 AM on 15 September 2011
Dads that help out at school know how good it feels when they see their child's proud face and the rewards that come from their involvement.
Research consistently shows that the more a father is involved and supports his kids at school, the better the academic and social success for both boys and girls. Research also suggests parental involvement fosters stronger family bonds and encourages resilience in children – that ability to 'bounce back' from life's setbacks – and the benefits are limitless.
What can you do at school?
- Ask the boss for one morning off a week or one morning a month to walk your kids to school or to do a school-based activity. You will get to know their friends' parents at the front gate or inside the school.
- A barbecue is a great social magnet, where you can meet lots of other parents and teachers. Dads in Education is an organisation that can help you hold a father's day barbecue at the school or volunteer to man the barbecue at the school fete.
- If you're keen on a particular sport, you could help out with coaching a school team.
- See about joining the P&C or a different school committee to get a more hands-on role in your child's education.
- If you have expertise in a particular subject area (such as science, spelling, reading or maths) see if you can help with these subjects in the classroom.
- The Engaging Fathers Program has developed some school resources to help fathers become more involved in their schools.
- Got other ideas? Speak to your child's teacher or principal about your ideas and how you might like to be involved.
Read more, or post a comment about this article in Dad's the Word, Issue 2 of NSW Public School's School Parents ezine.
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"'The Nation's Property': Merchant Sailors and the Rise of Liberal Political Economy in the Atlantic World, 1800–1870"
Leon Fink, University of Illinois at Chicago
Even as he identified the welfare of "nations" with the expansion of "wealth"—both of which, he believed, required restraint from governmental interference—Adam Smith (1776) allowed himself some wiggle room when it came to shipping and sea power. It was no accident, he suggested, that the "first civilized" nations were those, around the coast of the tame Mediterranean Ocean, which had first succeeded in "the infant navigation of the world." Maintaining access to that navigable world and, if possible, control of the world's trade, it followed, was a crucial mark of national power. The Smithian exception to the free market regarding national shipping and naval interests rested on long legs that carried even "liberal" England (not to mention lesser, more self-isolating states) to carefully nurture and regulate its maritime trades at least through the mid-19th century.Both in symbol and fact, abolition of the British Navigation Acts in 1849 represented a key disjuncture (one is tempted to say 'watershed') of economic policy, even as they invited a new era of regulation in British shipping. For, even absent an older mercantilist emphasis on a favorable national balance of trade, there remained (for "modern" policy and economic thinkers, just as for Smith) the residual strategic considerations that the merchant marine, or commercial sea labor, constituted a "nursery" (as training ground and reserve labor force) for the navy and national defense as well as a key economic lifeline that could not be allowed to be ceded to potentially hostile powers. Thus it was that 'labor' issues resonated throughout the 19th century at the center of national political debates about trade and shipping. Recruitment, disciplining, and ultimately, the welfare of seamen were seen to have vital national implications. Even after mid-century, this assumption carried equally abiding force within the liberal, free-trade-oriented policies of a world-dominant United Kingdom as it did within the more rigidly protectionist policies of Britain's biggest contemporary trade rival, the United States. It was no coincidence, therefore, that political argument over the role of government in the marketplace, the freedoms accorded workers as citizens, and even the presence (or exclusion) of non-citizens within national enterprises played out in a series of dramatic 'sea battles' across the 19th century.


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Krispy Kreme to open second Greenville location
Krispy Kreme confirmed Friday that it will be opening a second Greenville location.
The new Krispy Kreme will be on Woodruff Road beside Hardee's in front of Sam's Club and Kohl's neat Interstate 385.
The land is being graded, and a sign on the property says Krispy Kreme is coming. The new Krispy Kreme is expected to open in January.
Meantime, Krispy Kreme is serving their fall specialty doughnuts through Oct. 31 that include pumpkin, Halloween sprinkle, cobweb (a chocolate-iced doughnut with Kreme filling with a web of white icing) and pumpkin spice cake. For more on the fall lineup and goodies and games , go to KrispySkremes.com.


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NEW YORK (AP) — New York City comptroller candidate Eliot Spitzer hasn't filed an ethics report on time with the city Conflicts of Interest Board.
The Wall Street Journal (http://on.wsj.com/15hivRy ) reports that Spitzer is one of several candidates who hadn't filed a financial disclosure report by last Thursday's deadline.
The fine for missing the deadline is between $250 and $10,000. But the board automatically extends a one-week grace period before imposing any fines.
A lawyer representing Spitzer's campaign told the newspaper the candidate was "very busy" last week collecting petitions to secure a spot on the Democratic ballot. Martin Connor says Spitzer planned to file the report in the coming days.
Spitzer launched his campaign just days before the deadline to submit petitions. He resigned as New York's governor in 2008 amid a prostitution scandal.
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Emergency services were limited in many parts of Florida as Hurricane Irma struck the sunshine state.
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ST. LOUIS, Mo. - Greenville College's David Massengill, a senior from Neoga, Ill., has been named the Diamond Sports SLIAC Baseball Hitter of the Week for the week of April 25-May 1.
Massengill, a 6-2 outfielder/pitcher, went 11-for-21 at the plate for a .524 batting average in five games played last week. He also scored nine runs and had six RBI and one home run.
Massengill recorded four multi-hit games, including going 3-for-5 with five RBI, Three runs and on home run in a 15-11 win over Principia College. He also added three hits and three runs in a 9-3 win also against Principia.


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Near the memorial plaza, police barricades blocked access to the site, even as life around the World Trade Center went on, workers rushing to their jobs and construction cranes looming over the area.
Name-reading, wreath-laying and other tributes were also held at the Pentagon and at the Flight 93 National Memorial in Shanksville.
"No matter how many years pass, this time comes around each year - and it's always the same," said Karen Hinson of Seaford, N.Y., who lost her 34-year-old brother, Michael Wittenstein, a Cantor Fitzgerald employee. "My brother was never found, so this is where he is for us," she said as she arrived for the ceremony with her family early Wednesday.
Memorial organizers expect to take primary responsibility for the ceremony next year. They said Wednesday they'll keep the focus onthe victims' loved ones, and aim to make the annual ceremony more low-key and perhaps private as the years go by.
The 12th anniversary also arrives with changes coming at the Flight 93 National Memorial in Shanksville, where officials gathered Tuesday to herald the start of construction on a visitor center. At the Pentagon, plans call for a morning ceremony for victims' relatives and survivors of the attacks and an afternoon observance for Pentagon workers.
Around the world, thousands of volunteers have pledged to do good deeds, honoring an anniversary that was designated a National Day of Service and Remembrance in 2009.


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Medal of Honor: Portraits of Valor Beyond the Call of Duty contains the stories and photographs of most of the living recipients of the Congressional Medal of Honor. The text is by our old friend Peter Collier, with an introduction by President Bush.
James Robbins of National Review describes the book; the following story is typical:
One is struck by just how young they look. One of them, Jack H. Lucas, had celebrated his 17th birthday five days before he hit the beaches at Iwo Jima. He had been a Marine truck driver in Hawaii when he stowed away on the USS Deuell in order to get in the action. On Iwo his unit fought a close struggle in a trench with a Japanese suicide squad. Two grenades landed near Lucas, and he dove on them to save his buddies. One failed to detonate; the other inflicted grievous wounds. Lucas was almost left for dead, but when his comrades were removing his dog tags he managed to wiggle his hand. He went through 22 surgeries, but made it back alive. When he was discharged in September 1945, he returned home and entered high school as a freshman.
Robbins adds this thought on the role of character in heroism:
Sometimes circumstances impose conditions of surpassing danger when life loses its nuances and complexity, when action is more important than deliberation. These are the moments when character comes to the fore. Such times are rarely predictable; one cannot plan for them, nor summon inspiration from dry wells when they arrive. Having the positive qualities of character ready when they are needed necessitates always having them. Most of us will never have to face situations as extreme as those described in this book, but we can draw inspiration from the men who lived through them, and received the recognition of a grateful nation.


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Ashley Ronay, left, and Leah Mayo, recent graduates of ECU's masters of public health program, engaged the community to evaluate solutions for obesity. Photo by Cliff Hollis.
GREENVILLE, N.C. (June 8, 2013) — Summer's longer days and warmer temperatures offer more opportunities to eat fresh fruits and vegetables but not everyone knows how or where to get healthy foods.
Recent graduates of East Carolina University's masters of public health program spent the fall and spring semesters on two projects related to fresh fruits and vegetables. One project examined kids' experiences in a community garden, and the other looked at factors like zoning and how it can impact access to fresh foods in rural eastern North Carolina.
ECU alumna Ashley Ronay worked with students enrolled in the Pitt County Community Schools and Recreation afterschool program at Wintergreen elementary and intermediate schools through a participatory research project called Photovoice, a method where children took pictures of what the community garden meant to them.
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The children, ages 8 to 11, volunteered in the Making Pitt Fit Community Garden on County Home Road and tended plots when people were out of town. Some had never been in a garden. "Some indicated that they had never tried a strawberry or blueberry," Ronay said.
The children were asked to take 10 pictures and to pick two photos to discuss during a group meeting. "It was hard for them to choose because they wanted to talk about all of their pictures," Ronay said.
Five main themes developed as Ronay and her faculty adviser, Dr. Stephanie Jilcott Pitts, assistant professor of public health in the Brody School of Medicine, analyzed the data:
The children tried new foods, and ate more fruits and vegetables.
The children recognized some of the foods, like chili peppers, as ingredients used to cook food at home.
Some learned how to garden because it was their first time caring for plants.
They developed an appreciation for nature and learning how and where plants are grown.
They liked helping others and having fun in the garden.
Pitt County Community Schools and Recreation's Alice Keene, special projects coordinator, and Courtney Riggs, after-school coordinator, were important partners, Ronay said. The research could lead to similar projects in the future.
Keene said the project would not have been possible without Ronay and ECU.
"It is still amazing to me all that they learn, from planting to pollination, to 'good bugs to bad bugs,' to watering, harvesting and enjoying the wonderful foods," Keene said. "While all this is happening, they are also getting critically-needed physical activity. Many of them have brought their families to the garden and some parents have even started a small garden at home because their children insisted on it."
Enhancing access to healthy foods
In a separate study, recent ECU graduate Leah Mayo examined the associations between farmer's markets, zoning and land-use policies in rural northeastern North Carolina.
"The built environment is thought to have an influence on one's health," Mayo said.
Between November and March, Mayo gathered data on 13 northeastern counties: Bertie, Camden, Chowan, Currituck, Dare, Edgecombe, Gates, Hertford, Martin, Northampton, Pasquotank, Perquimans and Washington. Hyde and Tyrrell didn't have available zoning so they couldn't be included in the study.
The counties are some of North Carolina's most economically-distressed and least healthy with 20.5 percent living in poverty and 33 percent classified as overweight or obese.
"Access to healthy foods is one way to combat obesity," said Mayo, adding that studies have shown low-income and minority neighborhoods have less access to healthy food outlets. One study from California showed a higher concentration of fast food restaurants located in minority and low-income areas than healthy food outlets.
Even in rural areas that have fruit and vegetable or roadside stands, residents may not know about them or have difficulty getting to those outlets, Mayo said.
Examining effects of zoning
Mayo worked with county managers and planners to access land use data, and gave each county a 'healthy food zoning' score based on their zoning regulations and examined the association of this score with the numbers of fruit and vegetable outlets.
The study revealed that many zoning ordinances don't include healthy food outlet-related language or may not specifically mention places like roadside or produce stands or farmer's markets. She also looked to see if the zoning permitted healthy food outlets in different zoning districts.
"Increasing healthy food outlet language and increasing permitted uses of these outlets would make it easier to open such an outlet in places of need within a community," Mayo said.
If a place is not mentioned in the zoning or is not permitted in a certain district, an application and approval process would be required. This could be difficult for someone working in the agricultural industry due to the demands of the work, Mayo said.
Overall, Mayo found planners were receptive to adding the language to the ordinances.
Ultimately, a change in policy could improve access to healthy foods in rural areas, eliminating food deserts, "to make healthy living an easy choice," said Mayo, who is based in Edenton and serves the 15 counties as the Region 9 Community Transformation Grant active living coordinator for Albemarle Regional Health Services.
"With these two projects, Ashley and Leah did a great job of engaging the community to evaluate real-world solutions to the major public health problem of obesity," said Pitts, who advised both students on their projects.
Samuel Hardy, whose wife owns a stand at the Pitt County Farmer's Market, selects ripe tomatoes for the ECU researchers to take home. Photo by Cliff Hollis.
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Senior forwards Kendall Rodriguez and Ashley Wakefield can't wait for tipoff tonight.
Senior forwards Kendall Rodriguez and Ashley Wakefield can't wait for tipoff tonight.
It will be their first chance to move past their subpar performances Saturday against No. 1 Stanford. The Pacific women's basketball team visits Saint Mary's (7-3) at 7 p.m. at McKeon Pavilion in Moraga, hoping to snap back from two consecutive losses after a 7-0 start.
The Tigers were overmatched by the Cardinal in a 78-43 loss at Maples Pavilion. Rodriguez didn't score (0 for 8 from the field) and Wakefield went 0 for 13 from the field and scored one point. Both were blunt in assessing what happened.
"That was maybe the worst game of my life," Wakefield said. "It gets to you but I have to shake it off and move past it. I just wasn't converting shots I usually do."
Rodriguez had scored in each of her previous 88 starts over three-plus seasons and is 28 points shy of 1,000 for her career, but failed to make a field goal or attempt a free throw in 25 minutes against Stanford.
"That might be the first time ever I've haven't scored any points at all," Rodriguez said. "It was so out of character. I don't know how to explain it."
Coach Lynne Roberts said she met with both players this week to make sure there wouldn't be any lingering effects.
"They're seniors, so they get it and they were both embarrassed by how they played," Roberts said. "They're both competitive and will bounce back."
Wakefield called this a revenge game for the Tigers, who let the Gaels escape Spanos Center on Nov. 19, 2011 with a last-second 68-67 victory on a layup by guard Jackie Nared. The junior remains seventh-year coach Paul Thomas' leading scorer (18.5 per game) and the Gaels have had impressive road wins against Big West Conference foes UC Santa Barbara, UC Davis and Cal Poly. Saint Mary's will be Pacific's travel partner when the Tigers join the West Coast Conference starting next season.
Roberts said her team has worked hard in practice this week, as it hopes to avoid going into the Christmas holiday break on a three-game losing streak. Pacific will host USF at 4 p.m on Dec. 29 and Cal State Bakersfield at 2 p.m. on New Year's Eve. The Tigers open their final season in the Big West against UC Davis at 4 p.m. on Jan. 5 at Spanos Center.
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"Gotham" has found its first villain. Robin Lord Taylor will play a young Oswald Cobblepot, aka The Penguin, in the upcoming Fox series that will follow the early career of Commissioner James Gordon—and Batman's future foes.
Warner Bros. Television already announced that former "Southland" and "The O.C." star Ben McKenzie will play a young Det. Jim Gordon. Now it has announced four other regular cast members who will populate Gotham City.
Taylor ("Another Earth," "The Walking Dead") will play Oswald Cobblepot, a low-level psychopath who works for gangster Fish Mooney. The man who will become The Penguin hides his sadistic lust for power behind an exquisitely polite demeanor. A Warner Bros. release says he has the brains of a chess grandmaster and the morals of a jackal.
Zabryna Guevara ("Burn Notice," "3 lbs.") will star as Captain Essen, Gordon's boss at the GCPD Homicide Squad. Captain Essen, says Warner Bors., balances the worlds of police and politics with a Machiavellian skill that's as much corporate litigator as cop.
Sean Pertwee ("Camelot," "Devil's Playground") will play Alfred Pennyworth, a tough ex-marine from East London who has loyally served the wealthy Wayne family of Gotham City. After the tragic deaths of Bruce Wayne's parents, he's fiercely protective of his young charge.
Erin Richards ("Breaking In," "Being Human," "Merlin") will star as Barbara Kean, an emergency room doctor and Jim Gordon's fiance. Loyal Barbara stands by her future husband, a difficult task in a world as corrupt as Gotham City.
"Gotham" is based on characters published by DC Comics. Bruno Heller, the man behind CBS' "The Mentalist" and HBO's "Rome," wrote the pilot script and will serve as executive producer. Danny Cannon, who has worked on CW's "Nikita" and CBS' "CSI" series, will direct and executive produce the pilot.
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March 12, 2010
2009 USTFCCCA Full Press Release - Women
2009 USTFCCCA Full Press Release - Men
The Sacred Heart men's and women's cross country teams were named one of U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) All-Academic Teams for the 2009 season. The Pioneer men posted a team grade point average of 3.27 while the women's team sported a 3.45.
The Pioneer men were joined by Northeast Conference member Monmouth, Quinnipiac and Wagner on this year's list of All-Academic teams. The SHU women were joined by league member Central Connecticut State, Monmouth and Quinnipiac on this year's list.
For a team to be considered for the USTFCCCA All-Academic Team award, they must have competed and compiled a team score at an NCAA Regional Championship and also have a minimum 3.00 team cumulative GPA.
The Cowboys of Oklahoma State University were named the 2009 NCAA Division I USTFCCCA Men's Cross Country Scholar Team of the Year. In November, Oklahoma State won their first NCAA Cross Country national title since 1954 with a 127-143 victory over runner-up Oregon. On the women's side, Villanova University was chosen the 2009 NCAA Division I USTFCCCA Women's Cross Country Scholar Team of the Year. Villanova won their eighth NCAA Women's Cross Country title in November, defeating runner-up Florida State 86-133.


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BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan (AP) - A Soyuz rocket carrying two Russians and an American has blasted off for the International Space Station.
The crew of Roscosmos Sergey Ryzhikov and Andrey Borisenko and NASA astronaut Shane Kimbrough lifted off as scheduled from the Russian-operated Baikonur launch facility in the steppes of Kazakhstan at 2:05 p.m. local time (0805 GMT) Wednesday.
Their Soyuz MS-02 space capsule is set to dock at the space outpost two days later.
The launch was originally set for Sept. 23, but it was postponed because of a technical issue with the Soyuz spacecraft that was eventually fixed.
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Gotta love the *nix security Official Link to ArticleA Survey released by Evans Data reveals that 92% of respondents have never had their Linux systems infected with a virus.
The survey, titled Summer 2004 Linux Development Survey, also reports that 78% of Linux developers have never had their systems hacked.
Additionally, a mere seven per cent had been hacked three or more times.
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Shooting suspect held without bond
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A man accused in the shooting death of 23-year-old Jer'ray Moore is being held without bond.
Devaughn Griffin, 22, appeared in court Wednesday. He faces charges of first-degree murder and use of a weapon to commit a felony in connection with the April 6 shooting.
Prosecutors said Griffin convinced witnesses at the scene near 83rd and Underwood to lie about what happened.
A warrant was issued for Griffin last week; he turned himself in to authorities Monday.
Griffin's preliminary hearing has been set for May 13.
LaMichael Fewell, 22, also faces charges in connection with the shooting. He turned himself in to Kansas authorities after a warrant was issued for his arrest.


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By Adam Reilly
June 7, 2011
BOSTON — Most politicians who cheat on their spouses do it the old fashioned way: In the flesh. But if you've been paying any attention to the news, you know that Congressman Anthony Weiner took a more modern approach by carrying on extramarital dalliances via Facebook and Twitter.
On Monday, when the New York Democrat copped to his indiscretions at a press conference, he leaned heavily on the language of social media. "Last Friday night I tweeted a photo of myself that I intended to send as a direct message as part of a joke to a woman in Seattle," Weiner said. "Once I realized I had posted to Twitter, I panicked, I took it down, and said that I'd been hacked."
He then admitted to exchanging sexually-charged messages and photos with several women around the country.
In this brave new world of sexting and photo-tweeting, are Weiner's misdeeds any less objectionable because they happened online? Or, to put it differently: Did the congressman actually commit adultery?
In Boston Tuesday, some people balked at using the A-word to describe Weiner's transgressions. But almost no one seemed to think the virtual nature of his missteps was a mitigating factor.
"Is it adultery? I just think it was just stupid," said Christina Luconi of Boston. "To be so stupid, being a sitting congressman, in his office, in his underwear—just the worst judgment ever."
"When you're married you swear to God in front of 50 witnesses—you don't do those things!" said Richie, a Boston man who declined to give his last name. "It's not the etiquette of the pledge."
At least one person, though, argued that Weiner's sins were being exaggerated.
"I think it is different," Tania Ortiz of Boston said when asked if Weiner's online affairs were less objectionable than the traditional, in-person variety. "If you're having intercourse with somebody, I feel like that's way more of a reason to be considered a cheater. But if you're just like sending pictures — that's wrong too, I'm not saying that's good. But it's not as bad as going and having sex with somebody.
Anthony Weiner would probably agree. But judging from the response to Weinergate—the public might not be so understanding.
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οἱ σὺν ἀσπίσι πολέμιοι ἀπόλλυνται.
The enemies who have shields are being destroyed.
οἱ πολέμιοι σὺν ἀσπίσι ἀπόλλυνται.
The enemies are being destroyed (along) with their shields.
The distinction is often slight, of course.
Luke 13:4 ἢ ἐκεῖνοι οἱ δεκαοκτὼ ἐφ' οὓς ἔπεσεν ὁ πύργος ἐν τῷ Σιλωὰμ καὶ ἀπέκτεινεν αὐτούς, δοκεῖτε ὅτι αὐτοὶ ὀφειλέται ἐγένοντο παρὰ πάντας τοὺς ἀνθρώπους τοὺς κατοικοῦντας Ἰερουσαλήμ;
The placement of ἐν τῷ Σιλωὰμ seems a bit odd to me. I would expect either
ἐκεῖνοι οἱ ἐν τῷ Σιλωὰμ δεκαοκτὼ ἐφ' οὓς ἔπεσεν ὁ πύργος, where the emphasis is which men (the ones in Siloam) or
ἐκεῖνοι οἱ δεκαοκτὼ ἐφ' οὓς ἔπεσεν ὁ ἐν τῷ Σιλωὰμ πύργος
where the emphasis is on which tower (the one in Siloam.)
But what is being emphasized here? The location not of the men or the tower itself but of the falling? Can there be a distinction between the location of the tower and the location of the disaster? What is the difference, for that matter, in English, between
When the towers in New York fell, the world changed.
When the towers fell in New York, the world changed.
Ask 100 fluent English speakers what the difference is. Most will say there is no real difference, and the rest will not be able to agree on what the difference is, because it is so slight. Most will say the difference is more stylistic, and may say one just sounds a little better than the other.
Getting back to Luke, every translation I have seen, for example,
KJV: Or those eighteen, upon whom the tower in Soloam fell...
blurs the distinction (rightly, I think) by using the phrase "the tower in Siloam" except for this one:
TCNT: Or those eighteen men at Siloam on whom the tower fell...
which contradicts the usual Greek rule, and this one
Rheims: Or those eighteen men upon whom the tower fell in Siloe...
which follows more closely the Greek order, but seems somehow like strained English.
My feeling is that the word order here, as so often happens in Ancient Greek, is more euphonic than semantic.


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The Mills County Fair Board has announced its desire to construct a large climate-controlled building on the south side of the Mills County Fairgrounds in Malvern.
The structure would house the Mills County Extension and Outreach office and would also serve as a community center with seating capacity for up to 400 people. The building, which would be utilized for a variety of activities during the county fair, would feature a full kitchen, bathrooms, storage areas, utility room, storm shelter and attached bathroom and shower facilities.
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July 6 - Raytheon of Chesapeake, Va., reported criminal mischief.
Trista Boles of Hastings reported a theft.
July 11 - Isaac Harless of Pacific Junction reported a burglary and theft.
July 12 - Michael Nunez of Glenwood reported an identity theft.
Doug Polaschek of Hastings reported a theft and burglary.
Zoey Frink of Henderson reported a theft.
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Nathan D. Godwin, Lincoln, Neb. - third-degree harassment, pleaded guilty, jail sentence suspended, ordered to pay $65 fine, court costs and fees.
John Michael Hudson, Hastings - interference with official acts, pleaded guilty, pleaded guilty, ordered to pay $100 fine, court costs and fees.
Michelle Lee Grimstad, Glenwood - violation of school attendance regulation, pleaded guilty, ordered to pay $100 fine, court costs and fees.
TREYNOR — A flurry of runs late by Treynor ended East Mills' baseball season with a 14-2 loss in five innings Thursday night in the Class 1A, District 16 semifinals at Treynor High School.
Treynor scored 10 runs in the last two innings, including six in the fifth, to win the game via the 10-run rule.
"They're a good team," East Mills Coach Cole Buchholz said after the game. "They hit the ball one through nine and everybody can hit."
ATLANTIC - For the second straight game a home run played a major factor for the Glenwood softball team.
But this time, the Rams came up on the wrong end of that long ball.
Karly Olson's two-run homer in the bottom of the fourth inning was all Winterset needed to get past Glenwood 2-0 in the Class 4A Regional final at Atlantic last Tuesday.
Mills County residents who have never spent time in the Mills County Jail in Glenwood will have the unique opportunity to take a behind-the-scenes tour of the 97-year-old facility Tuesday, July 17.
Tours will be offered throughout the day as part of a public information campaign leading up to a county-wide special election on Aug. 7 for a $6.4 million bond issue that would fund construction of a new jail and county law enforcement center.
Construction work is on schedule and staff at Glenwood's City Hall are preparing for a move to their new offices later this month.
The new City Hall, located in the former Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter Day Saints building at 5 N. Vine St. on the southeast corner of Town Square, will open to the public Monday, July 23. The first city council meeting in the new City Hall will take place Tuesday evening, July 24.
Funeral services have been set for U.S. Army Sgt. James Skalberg of Emerson, who was killed June 27 in Afghanistan.
The service will take place Saturday at 10 a.m. at Bethlehem Lutheran Church in Red Oak with burial to follow in the Emerson Cemetery.
Visitation will be at Bethlehem Lutheran Church Friday from 4 - 8 p.m.
Skalberg died when the military vehicle he was driving detonated an improvised explosive device. First Lt. Stephen Prasnicki, 24, of Virginia, was also killed in the explosion.
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Many parents have moments where they don't like their own kid, but the feeling is fleeting. But what if you truly can't stand the child born to you? The essay that appears in the June issue of Redbook, "Why Don't I Like My Own Child?", explores this question. The author, who writes under a pseudonym in order to protect her child, explains that her feelings of disappointment toward her anti-social, developmentally delayed daughter, Sophie, which were only quelled by a diagnosis of growth hormone deficiency at age 7.
Plus: Mom Decides Parenting is Not for Her and Leaves
Disappointment, frustration and confusion are all emotions that accompany any kind of situation where expectations aren't met, including parenting. So why do a first-time mom's expectations of a vibrant, loving child and the reality of an eccentric, maladjusted kid, and the feelings of dissatisfaction that come with it, inspire such outrage? Just check out some of the comments on the article, and on TODAYMoms, which featured an anonymous interview with the mom this morning.
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That cracking sound you hear is the destruction of the NCAA's control over collegiate athletics as we have known it. The centralized power of this body to dictate rules and standards to universities is being eroded rapidly. On Friday, U.S. District Judge, Claudia Wilken, dealt a major blow to the NCAA and the concept of amateurism by ruling in an antitrust case that the rules barring athletes the ability to profit from their own likeness, names, and images were an "unreasonable restraint of trade." This blockbuster ruling follows by a day the decision of the NCAA to grant the strongest collegiate conferences the right to create their own rules. The impact of these two events will change collegiate athletics forever.
There has been a dramatic widening of the gap between colleges that run professional level football and basketball programs and those who don't. These superpower schools have new stadiums and arenas that have luxury boxes, expanded capacity, and sponsorship. These buildings provide amazing levels of revenue. The level of alumni support and donations for the superpowers has reached epic levels. Texas A&M raised $450 million to revamp their 88,000 seat stadium so that it seats 109,000 fans. They will have 100 new luxury boxes, with prices ranging from $1 million to $15 million to simply reserve. The University of Texas has its own Longhorn television network. The SEC is unveiling its new network, joining the Big 12 and Pac 12. The marketing and memorabilia revenues for the superpowers are huge. These superpowers know they have the ability to cut their own media deals without NCAA aid.
The ability for these schools to create their own systems means that they will have a competitive advantage in attracting blue chip athletes. They can create "attendance incentives" granting their athletes an additional $5,000. They can pay additional stipends for need. They can fully guarantee scholarships for an incoming athlete instead of the year-by-year right of a college to terminate. We may see bidding wars for elite prospects. The ruling by Judge Wilken in the Ed O'Bannon case means that players can be paid any time their name and license are used in a marketing program. The NCAA may no longer be in a position to make deals that don't include player compensation. What does "amateurism" mean in this environment?
The great majority of colleges lose money in their athletic programs. When coach June Jones suggested that lower revenue schools play football in the spring to be competitive, many pundits scoffed. They are not scoffing now. The lower-revenue universities will have to devise new strategies. If they decide to compete in sports like basketball and football, it may drain funds from other sports.
This shift poses a threat to sports like college wrestling and threatens the continuance of money-losing sports. The role of the university in providing the most students with the most opportunity to learn from sports is threatened. The NCAA decision creates major conflicts with Title IX. Women's sports could be especially hard hit.
The NCAA has been way too slow in reacting to the realities of expanding television revenue, expanding marketing, and new playing facilities. It was unrealistic to think that college players scraping by on scholarship would be content to struggle with their economics. Certainly a scholarship carries major economic value; but many of the athletes are only playing college sports as a way station to professional sports. The playing field of college athletic economics has not been level for quite some time. A new day has come.


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In its statement today making official the fait accompli it at first denied—that Jimmy Fallon will take over the Tonight Show from Jay Leno next year—NBC noted that this was not the first time it unseated a first-place late-night host. Said NBCUniversal CEO Steve Burke, "We are purposefully making this change when Jay is #1, just as Jay replaced Johnny Carson when he was #1."
True enough. Hey, fun fact: NBC once replaced another Tonight host when he was #1! Fella by the name of Jay Leno! As I wrote a couple weeks ago as this deal was coming together, there is an awful lot reminiscent of when NBC briefly ousted Leno in 2009–10 for Conan O'Brien (a name never mentioned in today's press release), from the personnel to the motivations to the overtones of generational warfare.
And the parallels kept coming today. Jay, we are being assured, is on board with the change. His statement: "Congratulations Jimmy. I hope you're as lucky as me and hold on to the job until you're the old guy. If you need me, I'll be at the garage."
Sounds like all's peaceful in Burbank! Except [rewinding noise] here's Jay Leno in 2004, when NBC announced the handover to O'Brien in five years: "When I signed my new contract, I felt that the timing was right to plan for my successor, and there is no one more qualified than Conan. Plus, I promised my wife Mavis I would take her out for dinner before I turned 60." Come 2009, it was O'Brien who ended up on the menu.
(One more item for your NBC-Statement-Bingo card: the network believes the Winter Olympics will be a great launchpad for Fallon, a statement it has made for every one of its disappointing post-Olympics seasons for the past decade and more.)
Well, who knows? As I wrote before, things could well be different this time. Jay could have fewer options to jump networks and threaten NBC. Fallon could be a better fit for 11:35. Or, with the rise of Jimmy Kimmel, the youth-demographic argument may just be more compelling today. Maybe things really are happier now: Leno and Fallon sang that duet, after all!And even if the video was pure PR, it was surprisingly sentimental, depicting Leno as finally resigned to one last good night.
(Another unknown: who will take over Fallon's gig on Late Night. The buzz is around Seth Meyers, a funny guy but probably the least-different choice NBC could make short of just giving Fallon Tonight and expanding it to two hours.)
What we do know is that when Leno leaves Tonight—for another few months or forever this time—he'll leave the institution smaller than when he found it. If Tonight is still the biggest show in late night, its overall ratings are much smaller amid a vaster array of entertainment choices: Comedy Central, Adult Swim, Kimmel and—most important—whatever's recorded on your DVR.
That's mostly the fault of time, technology and a changing TV business; we don't share anything as universally as in the three-channel heyday of Carson. But even in proportion to its ratings Tonight is not the kind of influence in the cultural conversation that it once was. (The exception, of course, being when NBC dumps hosts of the Tonight Show.) You can't measure politicians' fortunes anymore by how they're being joked about on Tonight, not when there are so many other forums for mockery; the more pointed, substantive satire of Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert, even with smaller audiences, has more public reverberation than Leno's go-along-get-along humor. And while Fallon's a nice guy and busts a great rap, he's not likely to change that.
The Tonight Show is still relatively popular, and it can still make NBC a lot of money (but on a much-tighter budget, another factor here). But it's no longer the kind of unifying mass entertainment that, when I interviewed him in 2009, Leno said he got into TV to do: "That's what TV is to me, a gathering place."
Most everything I know about Jay Leno says he will want to find another gig on TV, but if there's one thing that might really send him into retirement this time, it could be that change. Maybe the only gathering place now left for Jay Leno really is his garage.


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- Ninety one local veterans took the trip of a lifetime to the nation's capitol yesterday. The Never Forgotten Honor Flight made its thirteenth trip to Washington D.C. Newswatch 12's Lyndsey Stemm got to go with them. The veterans shared their stories and wisdom with her-- and perhaps most memorably-- they shared their experiences yesterday. We'd like to share those with you this week. Tonight, meet Andy."Doing a lot of tears, I'll tell you. Because I'm proud of those guys. I don't care how much we served, or how much we suffered; they paid the absolute price," says Andy DeFelice, from Nekoosa.Andy served with the U.S. Army in the 60's. Normally, that would put him lower on the list-- The Never Forgotten Honor Flight takes the oldest veterans to Washington D.C. first. But Andy is one of three special veterans on the trip."You know, I've been a sick man. It's part of the reason I'm here, because I'm a very sick man with Leukemia and Prostate Cancer, and no stomach," says Andy.Andy's one of three terminally ill Vietnam era vets along for this trip. It's the war he identifies with most, though he served mostly in Germany through the start of Vietnam. Even so, there was no shortage of action in his service. "We had a great opportunity with "Operation Big Lift", when they airlifted all those troops over on maneuvers," says Andy.He regrets not keeping in touch with those Army buddies. But that makes this trip with 90 other veterans all the more special."Once you're in the service you're in a brotherhood you'll never, ever loose. That's just the way it is. I don't care if you're Army, Navy, Marines or what. You're a brotherhood. That's what I loved about it and I still do," says Andy.Andy saw the trip as an opportunity to pay tribute to people who died in battle. He couldn't believe anyone would want to honor his service. But his arrival in Washington proved him wrong.Forty eight years after he left the Army, Andy got to see the memorial built to honor his generation of service men and women. What struck him most was seeing all the names of those who were lost."Sadness and shock of all these lives. It's just a waste... a waste," says Andy.Like many veterans, some memories from war time still follow him. But what haunts him is how other soldiers were affected."The way those guys were treated when they came back from Nam; I'll never forget that. Because when you serve, you serve your country. And that's what those guys did. That's the sad part. I don't know, words can't express the way I feel about these guys. All of these guys. And this trip and what everybody's done for us," says Andy.Seeing the memorial makes him feel like they're finally being treated properly."It's time. It's time for all of those troops. God bless them," says Andy.But the Honor Flight folks didn't let Andy get away without his own fair share of being honored. When they got back from the trip he and his 90 brothers-in-arms got the hero's welcome many veterans didn't get all those years ago. Tomorrow night we'll go along with the veterans to the World War Two memorial. It was the last of the major wars to get a memorial in D.C. You'll get to meet Joe, from Tomahawk. He'll tell us why he joined his four brothers in the war, even though he didn't have to.
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Professor of Cell Biology; Special Advisor, MD/PhD Program
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Cell Biology: Membrane Traffic
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For most of my research career, I have focused on the
processes of synthesis, trafficking and exocytosis of secretory
proteins from the pancreatic acinar cell which has served as the
paradigm for examining the "Intracellular Aspects of the Process of
Protein Secretion"*.
My early work as a graduate student with George Palade at the Rockefeller University was involved in defining the role of the Golgi complex in the process which culminates in the formation of zymogen granules. Subsequently, among other topics, my laboratory examined the development and regulation of exocytosis of secretory proteins from the acinar cell, membrane biogenesis and polarity in epithelial cells, and the relationship of cell polarity to the basement membrane.
Later work on this topic examined in detail the role of low Mr GTPases in regulated exocytosis. Since regulated exocytosis is accompanied by compensatory endocytosis of excess membrane inserted into the apical plasmalemma, we went on to illustrate an essential role of the actin cytoskeleton in this process and have demonstrated that proteins required for formation of endocytic vesicles (clathrin, adaptors, dynamin etc.) assemble at sites of exocytosis prior to compensatory membrane retrieval. After more than 30 years carrying out cell biologic research with an impressive and accomplished group of graduate students and postdoctoral fellows, I decided to close my laboratory in 2001 in order to focus my interests on teaching Cell Biology and Histology to first-year medical students.
As part of my teaching interest, I also direct the MD/PhD Program at Yale University School of Medicine. This allows me to be involved in the education of both medical students and graduate students. The dual degree Program is meant to provide trainees with a broad exposure to human biology and medicine, and to an in-depth and rigorous training in one of the scholarly disciplines relevant to medicine. The ultimate goal of educating this group of students is to bridge the gap between basic research and clinical medicine.
*Palade, G.E. Intracellular Aspects of the Process of Protein Secretion. Nobel Lecture, December 12, 1974. published in Science, 189:347-358, 1975.
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|Yale University, Honorary (1975)
|Rockefeller University (1966)
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Honors & Recognition
Teacher of the Year Award, Class of 2008Yale University School of Medicine (2005)
Bohmfalk Prize for teaching excellence in the basic sciences (1999)
Distinguished Achievement AwardAmerican Gastoenterological Association (1993)
NIH Merit Award, R-37-DK17389 (1988)
Honorary Medical StaffYale New Haven Hopsital (1987)
The Eric W. Hamber Gold Medal & Prize (1960)
Horner Gold Medal ( Internal Medicine) (1960)
Alpha Omega Alpha (1960)
Professional Service
American Pancreatic Association (1989 - 1990) President
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Is your organization asking the right questions when planning for the cloud? If not, progress can be slowed as you work to integrate multiple externally hosted IT services. Lately, cloud solutions have not been expanding as rapidly within the federal government as they have in other sectors, and one reason might be failure to deal with important questions upfront when evaluating how cloud services will be integrated.
Here are a set of often overlooked questions that can help agencies establish a true enterprisewide plan for how to tap into a wide range of on-demand services.
Does the agency have the right rules in place?
Decisions on data ownership and authorized access apply to any system and are not unique to cloud. But when multiple cloud providers are part of the mix, rules need to be very specific and formal. A large systems integrator can often help agencies set formal rules.
There should be rules governing who is authorized to purchase a cloud service or seat license to understanding what service-level agreements (SLAs) need to be requested. There should also be a framework for how service levels are monitored and enforced, whether by the agency itself or via a third-party subscription with companies such as Rackspace and LogicMonitor that can handle those duties for the enterprise.
How do the agency's rules on data centers apply to the cloud provider?
Agency rules on firewall and router configuration settings, authorized ports for connections and packet monitoring will affect bringing cloud-based services into the enterprise. If rules cannot transfer, is that a deal breaker? Or can you work around the limits of the provider's system? GFI Cloud's management console offers configuration monitoring and management.
How will cloud services be integrated into the enterprise?
Even the most basic cloud services – e-mail, for example – can't be treated as a stand-alone solution. Decisions must be made about how other applications interact with the service. With e-mail, case management solutions or shared calendars may need to interact with the cloud provider's system. Consider the following questions:
Will system interactions be done via application programming interfaces, or will most data be imported into a shared datamart, perhaps via XML exchanges?
How will user profiles be set up to manage access control, read and write permissions and more? Existing identity management tools include Hewlett Packard's Unified Profile solution and the System for Cross-domain Identity Management.
How will trouble ticketing be handled when issues extend beyond the scope of just the government's own networks? Will end users need to interact with the help desks of multiple service providers, or will a central resource be used to coordinate all tickets, acting as an interface to the help desks of individual cloud providers? A central resource that helps with ticket coordination is preferable to most end users, but it can be an added layer of expense.
Can all cloud services be offered in a way that lets employees take advantage of centralized resources such as data analytics tools, reporting, and knowledge management systems? This can get complicated, because the analytics tools need to send queries and cull data from multiple systems. Both IBM and the SAS Institute are masters in this domain, and they can help set up analytics tools capable of reaching across multiple cloud services.
The set of questions listed here are important, but there are many others. The Federal CIO Council has established committees to handle many of these issues. It's worth monitoring their reports to see how others have dealt with these tough integration issues.
Agencies really do need a robust service-oriented architecture in place before cloud can gain traction. Asking the types of questions listed here will help organizations move down that path.
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Shawn McCarthy, a former writer for GCN, is senior analyst and program manager for government IT opportunities at IDC.
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I work in a large agency that has moved mission critical applications to the cloud. It has been a mess. This article doesn't really touch on our problems. Getting everything working together is much more complicated than we were led to believe. So many issues, lots of down time. Users are very, very unhappy. The IT group has lost most of what remained of its credibility.
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LONDON (AP) — Britain's Serious Fraud Office has launched an internal inquiry to determine if there is a conflict of interest in its use of software linked to a firm it is investigating.
The SFO, the U.K. government department responsible for investigating complex fraud, acknowledged Tuesday that it had begun a probe into Hewlett-Packard's allegations that British company Autonomy had misrepresented its true value during sale negotiations with HP.
However, the fraud office also noted that it uses an Autonomy product, Introspect, for document management.
"The SFO is keen to ensure that there is now no conflict of interest or perception of such a conflict, and it is obliged as a first step to make inquiries to ensure that it can continue as the investigating body," the office said in a statement. "It is undertaking this work at present."
HP, which is based in Palo Alto, Calif, has accused Autonomy of fabricating sales to drive up its sale price. The U.S. company paid about $10 billion for Autonomy in 2011, only to write $8.8 billion off that figure last November.
Autonomy founder and former chief executive officer, Mike Lynch, has strenuously denied HP's allegations and demanded that the company provide more evidence. HP has repeatedly said that it is cooperating with legal authorities looking into the allegations.
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Many economists, including Alan Greenspan, have blamed a spike in oil prices this spring for slower economic growth and higher inflation in June.
But in case you hadn't noticed, the spring oil-price spike has been nearly matched by an equally bad summer price spike. Many economists doubt the latest jump will have a similar drag on economic growth -- though it could push inflation higher.
For 12 out of 15 days in late May and early June, oil was above $40 per barrel -- and above $41 on seven of those days -- while the average price of a gallon of gasoline jumped above $2 a gallon, a new record, for two straight weeks.
Oil prices fell steadily through June. But in the past 14 days, oil prices have been above $40 a barrel for 11 days, including six days above $41. Mercifully, gasoline prices haven't returned to the $2 average mark, but they're still much higher than earlier in the year and could breach $2 again shortly.
Higher energy prices act as a sort of tax on consumers who need gasoline to get to work and the mall and on companies who use oil products to do business.
So why shouldn't the current oil-price jump hurt just as badly as the one in spring?
For one thing, according to some economists, as long as prices don't keep climbing, consumers can grow accustomed to higher levels.
"If gas prices are just holding steady and not increasing, and if incomes are rising, your gas bill is the same, and [consumer] demand can rebound," said Steven Wieting, senior economist at Citigroup. "That's the most likely scenario here."
As for businesses, they're much less sensitive to higher oil prices than they were, say 30 years ago, when oil-price spikes triggered brutal recessions.
Despite the higher oil prices, Tuesday brought reports of improving consumer confidence and retail sales in July, seemingly justifying the belief of Greenspan and other observers that the economy would shake off the earlier oil spike, even if prices are still relatively high.
"June's swoon is indeed proving to be temporary," said Sherry Cooper, chief economist at BMO Nesbitt Burns.
But if higher oil prices are here to stay, as seems to be the case, then higher inflation could be here to stay, too.
When crunching inflation numbers, economists like to strip out energy costs because they can be volatile and can obscure longer-term inflation trends. But if oil prices rise to a high level and then stay there, they eventually bolster inflation expectations and lead to higher prices overall.
"The fact that oil is remaining above $40 leaves me all the more convinced that core CPI will continue to climb higher, that we're on the verge of having the annual rate break above 2 percent," said John Lonski, senior economist and bond analyst at Moody's Investors Service.
The core CPI, or consumer price index excluding food and energy costs, has been below 2 percent, on an annualized basis, since December 2002.
But it has risen fairly sharply this year, from an anemic 1.1 percent to 1.9 percent in June, and Greenspan and the Fed have started raising their key overnight lending rate to stem the flow of money into the economy and temper inflation risks.
The Fed has promised to take it easy raising interest rates, and Lonski and other economists believe it will.
Despite higher energy prices, labor costs -- the biggest component of inflation -- are still tame, and the Fed would likely prefer to avoid making a big stink in financial markets, the housing market and the 2004 presidential election with a more brutal rate-hiking campaign.
Still, even if consumers and businesses can largely shake off higher oil prices, few economists doubt they can completely ignore the pain.
For one thing, higher oil prices have put pressure on stock prices often this year and could do so for the rest of the year, according to Ed Yardeni, chief investment strategist at Prudential Equity Group.
"After rounding up all the usual bearish suspects to blame for the market's disappointing performance this year, I've narrowed the problem to the price of oil," Yardeni wrote in a note to clients Tuesday afternoon. "Investors fear that higher energy costs must eventually depress earnings growth."
As a result, Yardeni cut his year-end S&P 500 target to 1190 from 1300 and cut his recommended stock allocation.
Higher borrowing costs, along with bloated energy prices and a weaker stock market make up a trifecta of trouble that could curb economic growth in the following year, according to a recent note by David Rosenberg, Merrill Lynch's chief North American economist.
Rosenberg noted that, in every year since 1954 when equity prices have declined, the Fed's overnight lending rate has risen and oil prices have climbed, the economy's rate of growth has sunk by an average of 2.5 percentage points the following year. The exception was 1977, when economic growth actually improved the following year.
Though he doubted the rate of gross domestic product (GDP) growth would slow from roughly 4 percent in 2004 to below 2 percent in 2005, he said he does expect the rate of growth to slow to about 3 percent.
And quicker Fed tightening, along with oil prices above $45, would sink the rate of growth even more.
"A consensus-style 3.5-percent Fed funds rate," he wrote, "coupled with oil moving to a $45-to-$50-per-barrel range -- neither of which, by the way, forms our base case -- would certainly do the trick."


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U.S. stocks slumped, sending the Dow Jones Industrial Average toward its biggest drop since September, and Treasuries rose after a gauge of China's manufacturing shrank. Emerging-markets stocks fell while gold and natural gas rallied.
The Standard & Poor's 500 Index (CME:SPH14) fell 1% at 3:34 p.m. in New York, while the Dow dropped 1.1%. The Stoxx Europe 600 Index declined 1% from a six-year high. The MSCI Emerging Markets Index slid 1.3%, with a measure of Chinese shares in Hong Kong tumbling 2.1%. Treasury 10-year (CBOT:ZNH14) yields slumped to a seven-week low. Natural gas jumped 0.9% and gold rose to the highest since November. Turkey intervened to stem the lira's nine-day slump, the longest run of declines since 2001. Argentina devalued the peso, allowing it to plunge the most in 12 years.
Chinese factory output may contract this month, a preliminary survey from HSBC Holdings Plc and Markit Economics signaled today as the People's Bank of China added further funds to the financial system to ease a cash shortage. In the U.S., applications for unemployment benefits rose in the latest week and purchases of previously owned homes climbed less than projected in December. Companies from McDonald's Corp. to Microsoft Corp. were scheduled to report earnings today.
"Any kink in the growth story would give this market a reason to sell off a little bit," James Dunigan, who helps oversee $118 billion as chief investment officer in Philadelphia at PNC Wealth Management, said by phone. "The Chinese PMI was the start of that, and you get some piling on with the emerging markets. Nobody should be surprised if we get a little pullback of some sort. The overall story is the foundation is still there, the economy is improving."
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The S&P 500 is down 1.2% for the year while the Dow has tumbled 2.4%, after the S&P 500 jumped 30% to a record last year, the most since 1997. Three rounds of Federal Reserve stimulus helped the benchmark index rise more than 170% from a 12-year low in 2009.
The rally has boosted equity valuations to near the highest level since 2009. The S&P 500 trades at 15.5 times the estimated earnings of its members, more than the five-year average multiple of 14.1, data compiled by Bloomberg show.
Data today showed jobless claims rose by 1,000 to 326,000 in the period ended Jan. 18. The median forecast of 50 economists surveyed by Bloomberg projected 330,000. Purchases of previously owned homes climbed 1% in December, less than projected. The Conference Board's index, a measure of the outlook for the next three to six months, climbed 0.1% after a revised 1% gain the prior month, the New York- based group said today.
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While most high-schoolers were off skiing or visiting family the week after Christmas, a group of five young outdoor enthusiasts was still attending class.
But they weren't being quizzed on world history, English, or how many sides are on a parallelogram.
They were learning the skills it takes to survive in the backcountry.
"The mountain is just as much a part of our backyard as the river," said Bob Brownback, Hood River Parks and Recreation outdoor program manager. "We feel it's our duty to help educate people about safety on the mountain just as much as on the water."
With that in mind, Brownback -- an accomplished mountain climber and backcountry survivalist -- and outdoor program coordinator Scott Baker organized the first-ever Holiday Adventure Camp, Dec. 27-30.
Brownback and Baker devised the curriculum, promoted the course and taught the skills the kids will need if they venture into unpredictable backcountry terrain.
"This program is similar to teaching water safety at the pool," Brownback said. "We prevent having to rescue people through education."
Parks and Recreation also rallied the help of Mt. Hood Meadows, which contributed three learn-to-ski packages (lift tickets, equipment) and four additional lift tickets for Dec. 30; the Alpinee Hut, which offered a sort of home base for the students and instructors; and the Hood River County Commission on Children and Families, which provided four $100 scholarships that went toward the $135 class fee.
"All who asked, received," Baker said of the scholarships. "In return, the kids will perform five hours of community service with Parks and Rec, and hopefully remain involved with similar courses in the future."
Baker and Brownback hope that the Holiday Adventure Camp will be the first of many -- with another one tentatively planned for spring -- and would like for it to rival the learn-to-windsurf classes in the summer.
"Our idea is to have regular outings and events, and organize a true Alpinee Club again," Brownback said. "We'd like to get people involved at a young age so they can help us build the club back to where it once was."
Some of the skills covered at the Holiday Adventure Camp were an introduction to map and compass, trip planning and preparation, snow shelters, packing for winter travel, avalanche awareness, beacon searches, and even some rock climbing techniques on the Alpinee Hut chimney.
"The camp was a real success," Baker said. "The kids had a great time and learned some very valuable backcountry skills and knowledge. We hope they tell their friends about it because we don't want it to be the last one."
In addition to discussing course material in the warm confines of Alpinee Hut, the kids also took advantage of many hands-on learning opportunities. One exercise sent them out on a "blind navigation" route in the snow-covered woods at Post Canyon, and each hiker had to rely on the other to help the group find its way.
They also learned snowpack evaluation, avalanche rescue scenarios, and how to build a four-man snow cave -- a skill that both Brownback and Baker have mastered over the years. Some kids even learned how to ski.
"Surprisingly, three kids didn't even know how to ski or board before this course," Baker said. "They're all converts now."
Baker said Parks and Recreation is trying to organize another adventure class for spring break, but will offer snowshoe trips on school holidays in the meantime. The first scheduled snowshoe trip is on Martin Luther King Day (Jan. 21). They will also try to go President's Day (Feb. 18) and on teacher in-service days.
For more information about the snowshoe trips, adventure classes or other Parks and Recreation activities, call Brownback or Baker at 386-1303.
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