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I recently wrote in Cartoonistry about the importance of boating and fishing to the Palm Beach lifestyle. In that column I mentioned that my grandfather was an avid early sport fisherman. In the early 1930s, he was a member of the Anglers Club, which merged with the Sailfish Club to create the premiere yachting and fishing club that we know today.
My grandmother maintained that membership at the Sailfish Club for the rest of her life. As a result, my siblings and I were frequently invited to Christmas and Easter parties, and spent many afternoons and evenings as guests.
Whenever possible, I explored the many mounts, trophies and photographs of historic regattas, tournaments and fishing catches displayed around the clubhouse. While the Sailfish Club has its social side, its real DNA is in yachting and fishing. That's why, in the early '90s, I was shocked to learn that club directors were risking the loss of their docks in a fight with the state attorney general over membership policies.
Several high-profile Palm Beachers had complained about denial of Jewish applicants, which ran afoul of Florida non-discrimination policies pertaining to the state-leased land on which the club's docks were built. The club denied that it discriminated ethnically, but the attorney general insisted on proof and the addition of a non-discrimination clause to the club's bylaws.
After the club postured and stalled for two years, a frustrated Gov. Lawton Chiles and his Cabinet canceled the club's lease on Aug. 24, 1993. No trespassing signs were put up on the docks and the state threatened to demolish them if matters weren't resolved within the year.
The following weekend, my Palm Beach Daily News cartoon not only gave my opinion on the situation, but also how I believed my grandfather and other founding members of the club would have felt about it. The club's handling of the affair had been nothing short of childish.
At the time, most Palm Beach clubs maintained secretive and unwritten membership application procedures. Some had blatantly anti-Semitic policies regarding members and guests, and maintain them to this day. The irony was that the Sailfish Club was historically one of the least offensive clubs in this regard. But apparently, a group of individuals was indeed blocking applicants for ethnic reasons, and the directors felt they should have the same rights to unspecified membership practices as other private clubs that didn't lease state land.
The loss of the dock lease was a wake-up call. The club worked with the attorney general and the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith to resolve issues. It added the state's non-discrimination clause to its membership policy and reached out to potential Jewish and black members. In April 1994, the state renewed the club's dock lease for a trial year.
Seventeen years later, the Sailfish Club's docks are busy, and it doesn't seem to be any worse off after having been dragged, kicking and screaming, to a more inclusive membership policy.
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You knew Tiger Woods' wallet took a hit in the wake of his marital problems, but now you can put an exact number on it: $22 million.
The superstar golfer's estimated endorsements for 2010 are worth $22 million less than last year, according to a study by Sports Illustrated, which looked at the 50 highest-earning American athletes.
Woods is still No. 1 on the list, as he has been for the rankings' seven years. But his estimated total earnings of more than $90 million are down from 30 percent from nearly $128 million two years ago. Most of the decline is in lost endorsements.
Golf rival Phil Mickelson is again No. 2 with total earnings of more than $61 million. His estimated endorsement income is $52 million, compared with $70 million for Woods.
Floyd Mayweather Jr., LeBron James, Alex Rodriguez, Shaquille O'Neal, Kobe Bryant, Derek Jeter, Peyton Manning and Dwyane Wade round out the top 10.

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It was another strong day for the old crop contracts with May corn leading the way! May corn finished 29 cents higher at $6.53 while July corn finished 18 cents higher and is now 27 ½ cents discount to May! July soybeans closed 13 ¼ cents higher while November closed 3 ¼ cents higher (new spread high again). May wheat closed 16 ¼ cents higher at $6.42 ¼.
Monday is first notice day for May grain futures. With spreads moving like they have the past few days I would think this volatility will continue right into delivery. I have included a chart of May – July corn to show the massive rally it has made over the past two trading sessions.
Chart: May – July Corn
The USDA announced heavy new crop corn sales this morning with an "unknown destination" buying 1.440 Million MTs! China reportedly bought 120,000 MTs of old crop corn and 116,000 MTs of new crop soybeans. Also another "unknown destination" bought 110,000 of new crop soybeans.
We continue to see export demand pick up and now it is flowing into new crop corn. We will have to see how the flat price reacts during delivery next week. Old crop soybeans continue to gain on new crop and are now trading July at a $1.31 ½ premium over November. What is rather surprising is the market also has November soybeans trading at a 23 ½ cent premium to March 13! The common theme with the money-flow is bullspreading! Bullspreading has also helped push the July soybeans over $15 today which we haven't seen front month beans trade above $15 since July 2008! An interesting fact: in 2008 we only had 8 weeks total where FM beans were able to touch or trade above $15.00.
Lastly I wanted to discuss the massive changes we saw on today's Commitment of Traders report. The "managed money" reportedly lowered their net long corn position by 43,511 contracts! It is no wonder corn has had a hard time sustaining any strength! They now stand with a net long position of 103,079 contracts of corn. Soybeans added a meager 2,615 contracts to their net long position but stand with a massive 243,389 net long position!
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2012 New Balance Collegiate Invitational
NEW YORK, NY. – The UMBC track and field teams once again broke records this season, this time while competing against over one hundred collegiate programs from across the country, Friday and Saturday at the New Balance Collegiate Invitational held at the 168th Street Armory.
In one of the last heats of the meet, the women's 4x200 meter relay of Kirsten Jones (Brentwood, Tenn/M.L.K Magnet), Ebonique Jones (New Castle, Del./William Penn), Briana Young (Bowie, Md./Elizabeth Seton) and Lauren Leclercq (Jessup, Md./Meade) shattered the UMBC all-time record with a time of 1:41.38. The previous mark was set back in 2010 with a time of 1:43.97.
Also for the women, freshman Mary Katherine Kulp (Vestal, N.Y./Vestal) continued her strong rookie campaign moving up to fifth all-time running a 2:18.08 in the 800m.
Meanwhile, classmate Kalane Abbey (Laurel, Md./Laurel) ran a personal best 57.56, and now stands at fifth all-time for the 400m. In addition, Paulette Fogle (Washington, D.C./Bishop McNamara) jumped to sixth on UMBC's record book with a 1:16.09 in the 500m.
For the men, junior Cameron McDearmon (Owings Mills, Md./Franklin) continued his string of strong performances setting a personal-best in the weight throw with a toss of 17.65m (56' 11").
Aaron Brooks (Upper Marlboro, Md./DeMatha) also added to the UMBC throwers' impressive meet by improving his school record in the shot put with a toss of 16.13m (52' 11").
In addition, Andrew Smith (Chadds Ford, Pa./Garnet Valley) is now qualified for the IC4A meet in March after running a 1:54.60 in the 800m, claiming victory in his heat in the process.
The Retrievers head back to New York City for the second straight time next weekend when they compete in the Rider/Lafayette Invitational.


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The Las Vegas event may have been smaller than last year's in Chicago and 2012's in Atlanta, but the atmosphere was much more upbeat and enthusiastic. Two years ago on my visit to Atlanta, the immigration officer informed me dismally that it was too late for green jobs after hearing the purpose of my trip. This year the topic of wind power was met with positive comments and references to its waterand other resource-efficient qualities, clearly a pressing concern for a city that dazzles the otherwise dark desert skies with its nightly electricity consumption.
Kiernan, marking the completion of his first year in office, outlined a long-term strategy for US wind power, a shift away from the annual wrangling over production tax credits (PTC). While not throwing away the PTC request - it has after all created the current mini-boom - the industry must focus much further ahead, and put the fight against climate change top of the agenda. Susan Reilly, CEO of RES Americas and new AWEA chair, echoed the sentiment, telling conference delegates that wind energy is the fastest and cheapest way to reduce carbon in an energy portfolio.
There are some promising signs. American utilities and power companies are diversifying their portfolios with a greater share for renewable projects, a trend that has also been noted in Europe. While ten years ago US utilities were merely keeping an eye on carbon pricing, now they are factoring it into their business projections, said Gabriel Alonso, CEO of EDP Renewables North America. Influential hi-tech firms such as Microsoft are monitoring their carbon footprints and taking steps to reduce them, with wind power often playing a significant role.
Even the US government is looking to a longer-term future and a serious commitment to carbon reduction. The Department of Energy (DOE) helpfully released a vision that wind power can realistically produce 10% of US electricity by 2020 (the current figure is just over 4%), 20% by 2030, and 35% by 2050. That huge expansion, if realised, need not come at a high cost to consumers. DOE predictions see a marginal increase in bills for users until 2030, from which point prices will fall.
This vision involves offshore wind energy, and includes projections for cost reductions in that technology on a scale similar to that which has been achieved onshore.
Kiernan clearly recognises that AWEA has to do more than lobby policymakers for tax concessions in support of wind energy. It has to win the argument for wind power's place in a low-carbon energy-generation future among the general public. After all, they elect the politicians.
Only last year Steve Sawyer, CEO of the Global Wind Energy Council, was lamenting that his American homeland has a reputation for doing the right thing - but only after it has tried all the other ways. Now in its 40th year, has AWEA got the muscle to push the US into leading a major carbon reduction strategy? The wind industry needs to be ready to play its part in providing the solution.
Jacki Buist is editor of Windpower Monthly


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Efhialelbum, A. and Flatau, P. (2013) Did Foreign Direct Investment contribute to the Libyan Economic Growth in Transition Period? Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences, 4 (9). pp. 46-55.
Summerfield, T., Young, L., Harman, J. and Flatau, P. (2010) Child support and Welfare to work reforms: The economic consequences for single-parent families. Family Matters, 84 . pp. 68-78.
Jamieson, K.L. and Flatau, P. (2009) The Child Protection System and homelessness prevention and Early Intervention Strategies. Parity, 22 (2). pp. 15-16.
Flatau, P. (2009) Goals and targets and the National Framework on Homelessness. Parity, 22 (1). pp. 8-10.
Flatau, P. and Paris, A. (2009) Homelessness Early Intervention Programs in the private rental market. Parity, 22 (3). pp. 42-44.
Hendershott, P.H., Ong, R., Wood, G.A. and Flatau, P. (2009) Marital history and home ownership: Evidence from Australia. Journal of Housing Economics, 18 (1). pp. 13-24.
Zaretzky, K., Flatau, P. and Brady, M. (2008) What is the (net) cost to Government of Homelessness Programs? Australian Journal of Social Issues, 43 (2). pp. 231-254.
Dockery, A.M., Flatau, P., Ong, R. and Wood, G.A. (2008) An analysis of the impacts of tax and welfare reform on effective marginal tax rates 1982-2002. Australian Journal of Labour Economics, 11 (3). pp. 203-206.
Flatau, P., James, I., Watson, R., Wood, G. and Hendershott, P.H. (2007) Leaving the parental home in Australia over the generations: Evidence from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (Hilda) Survey. Journal of Population Research, 24 (1). pp. 51-71.
Flatau, P., James, I., Watson, R., Wood, G. and Hendershott, P.H. (2007) Leaving the parental home in Australia over the generations: evidence from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (Hilda) Survey. Journal of Population Research, 24 (1). pp. 51-71.
Wood, G., Watson, R. and Flatau, P. (2006) Low income housing tax credit programme impacts on housing affordability in Australia: Microsimulation model estimates. Housing Studies, 21 (3). pp. 361-380.
Wood, G., Watson, R. and Flatau, P. (2006) Microsimulation modelling of tenure choice and grants to promote home ownership. The Australian Economic Review, 39 (1). pp. 14-34.
Chotikapanich, D., Flatau, P., Owyong, C. and Wood, G. (2003) Poverty and income inequality measurement: Accommodating a role for owner-occupied housing. Economic Record, 79 (SpecialIssue). S26-S39.
Flatau, P., Galea, J. and Petridis, R. (2000) Mental health and wellbeing and unemployment. The Australian Economic Review, 33 (2). pp. 161-181.
Flatau, P. (1997) Census unit record data. The Australian Economic Review, 30 (1). pp. 103-112.
Flatau, Paul (2006) Essays in the Development, Methodology and Policy Prescriptions of Neoclassical Distribution Theory. PhD thesis, Murdoch University.
Flatau, P., Conroy, E., Thielking, M., Clear, A., Hall, S., Bauskis, A., Farrugia, M. and Burns, L. (2013) How integrated are homelessness, mental health and drug and alcohol services in Australia? Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute, Melbourne.
Zaretzky, K., Flatau, P., Clear, A., Conroy, E., Burns, L. and Spicer, B. (2013) The cost of homelessness and the net benefit of homelessness programs: A national study. Findings from the Baseline Client Survey. Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute, Melbourne.


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22 A good name is more desirable than great riches;
to be esteemed is better than silver or gold.
2 Rich and poor have this in common:
The Lord is the Maker of them all.
3 The prudent see danger and take refuge,
but the simple keep going and pay the penalty.
4 Humility is the fear of the Lord;
its wages are riches and honor and life.
5 In the paths of the wicked are snares and pitfalls,
but those who would preserve their life stay far from them.
6 Start children off on the way they should go,
and even when they are old they will not turn from it.
7 The rich rule over the poor,
and the borrower is slave to the lender.
8 Whoever sows injustice reaps calamity,
and the rod they wield in fury will be broken.
9 The generous will themselves be blessed,
for they share their food with the poor.
10 Drive out the mocker, and out goes strife;
quarrels and insults are ended.
11 One who loves a pure heart and who speaks with grace
will have the king for a friend.
12 The eyes of the Lord keep watch over knowledge,
but he frustrates the words of the unfaithful.
13 The sluggard says, "There's a lion outside!
I'll be killed in the public square!"
14 The mouth of an adulterous woman is a deep pit;
a man who is under the Lord's wrath falls into it.
15 Folly is bound up in the heart of a child,
but the rod of discipline will drive it far away.
16 One who oppresses the poor to increase his wealth
and one who gives gifts to the rich—both come to poverty.
17 Pay attention and turn your ear to the sayings of the wise;
apply your heart to what I teach,
18 for it is pleasing when you keep them in your heart
and have all of them ready on your lips.
19 So that your trust may be in the Lord,
I teach you today, even you.
20 Have I not written thirty sayings for you,
sayings of counsel and knowledge,
21 teaching you to be honest and to speak the truth,
so that you bring back truthful reports
to those you serve?
22 Do not exploit the poor because they are poor
and do not crush the needy in court,
23 for the Lord will take up their case
and will exact life for life.
24 Do not make friends with a hot-tempered person,
do not associate with one easily angered,
25 or you may learn their ways
and get yourself ensnared.
26 Do not be one who shakes hands in pledge
or puts up security for debts;
27 if you lack the means to pay,
your very bed will be snatched from under you.
28 Do not move an ancient boundary stone
set up by your ancestors.
29 Do you see someone skilled in their work?
They will serve before kings;
they will not serve before officials of low rank.
23 When you sit to dine with a ruler,
note well what[a] is before you,
2 and put a knife to your throat
if you are given to gluttony.
3 Do not crave his delicacies,
for that food is deceptive.
4 Do not wear yourself out to get rich;
do not trust your own cleverness.
5 Cast but a glance at riches, and they are gone,
for they will surely sprout wings
and fly off to the sky like an eagle.
6 Do not eat the food of a begrudging host,
do not crave his delicacies;
7 for he is the kind of person
who is always thinking about the cost.[b]
"Eat and drink," he says to you,
but his heart is not with you.
8 You will vomit up the little you have eaten
and will have wasted your compliments.
9 Do not speak to fools,
for they will scorn your prudent words.
10 Do not move an ancient boundary stone
or encroach on the fields of the fatherless,
11 for their Defender is strong;
he will take up their case against you.
12 Apply your heart to instruction
and your ears to words of knowledge.
13 Do not withhold discipline from a child;
if you punish them with the rod, they will not die.
14 Punish them with the rod
and save them from death.
15 My son, if your heart is wise,
then my heart will be glad indeed;
16 my inmost being will rejoice
when your lips speak what is right.
17 Do not let your heart envy sinners,
but always be zealous for the fear of the Lord.
18 There is surely a future hope for you,
and your hope will not be cut off.
19 Listen, my son, and be wise,
and set your heart on the right path:
20 Do not join those who drink too much wine
or gorge themselves on meat,
21 for drunkards and gluttons become poor,
and drowsiness clothes them in rags.
22 Listen to your father, who gave you life,
and do not despise your mother when she is old.
23 Buy the truth and do not sell it—
wisdom, instruction and insight as well.
24 The father of a righteous child has great joy;
a man who fathers a wise son rejoices in him.
25 May your father and mother rejoice;
may she who gave you birth be joyful!
26 My son, give me your heart
and let your eyes delight in my ways,
27 for an adulterous woman is a deep pit,
and a wayward wife is a narrow well.
28 Like a bandit she lies in wait
and multiplies the unfaithful among men.
29 Who has woe? Who has sorrow?
Who has strife? Who has complaints?
Who has needless bruises? Who has bloodshot eyes?
30 Those who linger over wine,
who go to sample bowls of mixed wine.
31 Do not gaze at wine when it is red,
when it sparkles in the cup,
when it goes down smoothly!
32 In the end it bites like a snake
and poisons like a viper.
33 Your eyes will see strange sights,
and your mind will imagine confusing things.
34 You will be like one sleeping on the high seas,
lying on top of the rigging.
35 "They hit me," you will say, "but I'm not hurt!
They beat me, but I don't feel it!
When will I wake up
so I can find another drink?"
24 Do not envy the wicked,
do not desire their company;
2 for their hearts plot violence,
and their lips talk about making trouble.
3 By wisdom a house is built,
and through understanding it is established;
4 through knowledge its rooms are filled
with rare and beautiful treasures.
5 The wise prevail through great power,
and those who have knowledge muster their strength.
6 Surely you need guidance to wage war,
and victory is won through many advisers.
7 Wisdom is too high for fools;
in the assembly at the gate they must not open their mouths.
8 Whoever plots evil
will be known as a schemer.
9 The schemes of folly are sin,
and people detest a mocker.
10 If you falter in a time of trouble,
how small is your strength!
11 Rescue those being led away to death;
hold back those staggering toward slaughter.
12 If you say, "But we knew nothing about this,"
does not he who weighs the heart perceive it?
Does not he who guards your life know it?
Will he not repay everyone according to what they have done?
13 Eat honey, my son, for it is good;
honey from the comb is sweet to your taste.
14 Know also that wisdom is like honey for you:
If you find it, there is a future hope for you,
and your hope will not be cut off.
15 Do not lurk like a thief near the house of the righteous,
do not plunder their dwelling place;
16 for though the righteous fall seven times, they rise again,
but the wicked stumble when calamity strikes.
17 Do not gloat when your enemy falls;
when they stumble, do not let your heart rejoice,
18 or the Lord will see and disapprove
and turn his wrath away from them.
19 Do not fret because of evildoers
or be envious of the wicked,
20 for the evildoer has no future hope,
and the lamp of the wicked will be snuffed out.
21 Fear the Lord and the king, my son,
and do not join with rebellious officials,
22 for those two will send sudden destruction on them,
and who knows what calamities they can bring?
23 These also are sayings of the wise:
To show partiality in judging is not good:
24 Whoever says to the guilty, "You are innocent,"
will be cursed by peoples and denounced by nations.
25 But it will go well with those who convict the guilty,
and rich blessing will come on them.
26 An honest answer
is like a kiss on the lips.
27 Put your outdoor work in order
and get your fields ready;
after that, build your house.
28 Do not testify against your neighbor without cause—
would you use your lips to mislead?
29 Do not say, "I'll do to them as they have done to me;
I'll pay them back for what they did."
30 I went past the field of a sluggard,
past the vineyard of someone who has no sense;
31 thorns had come up everywhere,
the ground was covered with weeds,
and the stone wall was in ruins.
32 I applied my heart to what I observed
and learned a lesson from what I saw:
33 A little sleep, a little slumber,
a little folding of the hands to rest—
34 and poverty will come on you like a thief
and scarcity like an armed man.
8 And now, brothers and sisters, we want you to know about the grace that God has given the Macedonian churches. 2 In the midst of a very severe trial, their overflowing joy and their extreme poverty welled up in rich generosity. 3 For I testify that they gave as much as they were able, and even beyond their ability. Entirely on their own, 4 they urgently pleaded with us for the privilege of sharing in this service to the Lord's people. 5 And they exceeded our expectations: They gave themselves first of all to the Lord, and then by the will of God also to us. 6 So we urged Titus, just as he had earlier made a beginning, to bring also to completion this act of grace on your part. 7 But since you excel in everything—in faith, in speech, in knowledge, in complete earnestness and in the love we have kindled in you[a]—see that you also excel in this grace of giving.
8 I am not commanding you, but I want to test the sincerity of your love by comparing it with the earnestness of others. 9 For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sake he became poor, so that you through his poverty might become rich.
10 And here is my judgment about what is best for you in this matter. Last year you were the first not only to give but also to have the desire to do so. 11 Now finish the work, so that your eager willingness to do it may be matched by your completion of it, according to your means. 12 For if the willingness is there, the gift is acceptable according to what one has, not according to what one does not have.
13 Our desire is not that others might be relieved while you are hard pressed, but that there might be equality. 14 At the present time your plenty will supply what they need, so that in turn their plenty will supply what you need. The goal is equality, 15 as it is written: "The one who gathered much did not have too much, and the one who gathered little did not have too little."[b]
16 Thanks be to God, who put into the heart of Titus the same concern I have for you. 17 For Titus not only welcomed our appeal, but he is coming to you with much enthusiasm and on his own initiative. 18 And we are sending along with him the brother who is praised by all the churches for his service to the gospel. 19 What is more, he was chosen by the churches to accompany us as we carry the offering, which we administer in order to honor the Lord himself and to show our eagerness to help. 20 We want to avoid any criticism of the way we administer this liberal gift. 21 For we are taking pains to do what is right, not only in the eyes of the Lord but also in the eyes of man.
22 In addition, we are sending with them our brother who has often proved to us in many ways that he is zealous, and now even more so because of his great confidence in you. 23 As for Titus, he is my partner and co-worker among you; as for our brothers, they are representatives of the churches and an honor to Christ. 24 Therefore show these men the proof of your love and the reason for our pride in you, so that the churches can see it.
Holy Bible, New International Version®, NIV® Copyright ©1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc.® Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide.


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Feb. 28, 2002
Santa Clara
Head Coach Chris Denker
On Team Effort: We had some really good performances from some people, five in double figures, so I was real happy there, I just thing it was a really good all around effort. Our kids were really focused - the last three weeks we've been practicing hard and they've really been improving the last couple games.
On Defense: Really we tried to treat everyone the same. We just really tried to do a better job on the ball so they didn't get any deep penetration and kick to [Nakamoto].
One Game At A Time: I think last year we had clinched the [regular season] championship at Portland in the last game of the year. We beat Portland by 25 on their home court and we're playing them five days later. I think our kids thought well, weve got a championship, we're playing the same team we just drilled, so it's kind of difficult. I even talked to [Portland head coach] Jim Sollars about it, he said he was able to get his kids' attention right away because they knew they were either going to get blown out by 25 again or they were going to have to play better. I don't ever accuse our kids of not trying hard, but I think it's human nature to think well, you know, just go in there, we've got three games, who's going to win, what if Pepperdine gets upset, and they start evaluating the bracket instead of playing the game. And so that was our focus, as Becki said, one game at a time. We absolutely wanted to focus on San Diego and only San Diego. We really don't care who we play tomorrow because whoever it's going to be, it's going to be a darn good team, it's a good basketball league, so whoever we play tomorrow we're going to have to show up and play good again.
On the WCC: People don't realize, even top to bttom with all the good wins this conference has had - Gonzaga beat two teams who are currently winning their conferences, Portla nd beat Oregon and Oregon State, Loyola beat Arizona State and they're second or third now in the Pac 10, add our wins you name it, there's been great wins from our conference all the way around across the country. It's a great basketball league but I don't think it gets any respect.
Our RPI is 7, 2 spots ahead of the Pac 10, which makes us the basketball league on the west coast right now.
Junior Forward Kendra Rhea (17 points, 6 rebounds)
On Playing in Her Home Town: The fact that it was down here was huge to me - of course I wanted to play well in front of my family and the town, but just the fact that we won was huge, we want to keep on going.
Caroline Gruening (13 points, three three-pointers)
On Three-Point Shots: We were both really excited, I think we all were, to find out we were going to get another chance to play San Diego at their place because we hadn't ever beaten them here and so we wanted to go out and play our game and take what they gave us, and in the first half that was a lot of threes.
Becki Ashbaugh (12 points, 9 assists, broke 200-assist milestone for season)
On Three Point Shots: One thing we talked about was making them pay for doubling. We stepped it up and made the shots. Jen [Bradley]did an awesome job, came in and gave us a huge lift.
On the Game Tempo: That's been a focus for us all year, to come out and get off to quick starts. We know how hard it is to get down and have to battle back the whole game, so it feels good to take control early. Today, which we haven't done in five games, is we kept pushing and kept building on the lead and they never really got back in the game.
Last year vs. this year: One thing we've been talking about the last couple days is taking it one day at a time. Last year we were looking at it as a three game tournament instead of as a one game must win situation.
San Diego
Head Coach Kathy Marpe
I felt like to have a chance to win the ball game we had to come in and execute a good game plan, limit their good looks and shoot well. The opening minute of the game we were down 10-2 and we never recovered. We made one little run we made but that was the only one we made.
They did a good job defensively and they took us out of every offensive flow. We wanted to get a couple of good looks and they shut that down, and we had to stop and sort of reset. They took us out of our offense entirely and took Kerri Nakamoto out of the game.
I thought we had some good looks early on the inside that if we would've made those, we would've had a chance to win.
In that little run, we had three good looks, and they had four good looks - and they made theirs and we didn't.
Janeene Arendsen
We were frustrated, you could tell - they kept going on runs, nothing we could do could stop them. They took a lot of people out of their game tonight and that stopped our offense.
Reflecting: It's like Coach said in the locker room, you take all the things you learn in basketball, but more important you take all the things you learn in life. I've learned so much in the past four years here and this has put the cap on all the hard work - this team has worked, our coach has always said we're a blue-collar team and this game shows that sometimes hard work doesn't necessarily get things done.


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The Movies.com Review: 'Last Vegas' is an Amiable Time-Waster
Come to Las Vegas, everybody. Stay at the Aria. 50 Cent goes there sometimes. You can have his preferred schmancy suite if you've got the scratch. They have a Cirque Du Soleil show, too. Not the naked one. A different one. If you're a bunch of old dudes looking to calmly, gently, politely re-enact The Hangover and your names are Michael Douglas, Kevin Kline, Morgan Freeman and Robert De Niro, your caretakers will even provide you with Olympic competition-style number placards to hold up as bikini-ladies walk past you poolside and pose, hoping with all their might that you'll score them as a perfect 10 (old women need not apply because they are gross, obviously). That one guy from LMFAO will give you a comedy lapdance. At night the bikini ladies change into slinky dresses for you and sit on your lap in the discotheque. They love you.
The plot of this amiable time-waster involves the four lifelong pals reuniting for Douglas's bachelor party weekend before he marries a woman many decades his junior. Old scores need to be settled, old grievances aired and old Viagra jokes put on display. Mary Steenburgen pops up to be romanced by both Douglas and De Niro, echoing a similar love triangle that played out in their younger days, one that saw De Niro walk away with the girl. Freeman gets drunk on Red Bull and vodka, then dances (sort of) to Earth, Wind & Fire with a Cher impersonator. De Niro gives signature grumpy face and punches Turtle from Entourage. The labels on the booze bottles all face the camera and the Cirque cast members wander around the perimeter of the action in full costume, makeup and mugging mime-like personas.
Was there a script involved in making this movie? Maybe. Maybe just an outline and the direction from Jon Turtletaub (whose prior credits include 3 Ninjas, Cool Runnings, While You Were Sleeping and both National Treasure movies) for the four immensely appealing actors to hang out and act ingratiatingly goofy. And at times that's enough. You forget for long stretches that almost nothing is happening, that's how easy it is for these guys to coast on charm, especially Freeman and Kline, both of whom feel as if they're ad-libbing their best lines.
It's barely about friendship, though, much less about aging or mortality or the last of anything. Instead it's more like a chilled out, weapons-free RED or a romance-and-emotion-stripped Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, an experiment in what might be a fledgling genre, the geriatric "bro" movie where beloved actors existing in front of a camera is considered justification for propping up a film around it. Are you down for that? Sure, probably, if it's an option on a little screen embedded into that coach seat right in front of you on a cross-country flight. What else are you going to do, nap? Well, this is just like that, only with pictures.
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Teacher resources and professional development across the curriculum
Teacher professional development and classroom resources across the curriculum
A video workshop for middle school teachers; 8 one-hour video programs, workshop guide, and Web site; graduate credit available
This series was discontinued on June 25, 2019.
Workshop 1. Creating a Community of Writers
In this session, participants explore practical strategies — from desk arrangements to classroom organization to writing routines — that allow young adolescents to share their writing in an atmosphere of trust and safety and to recognize their identities as lifelong writers and readers. Go to this unit.
Workshop 2. Making Writing Meaningful
When teachers introduce subjects that matter to middle school students or allow them more freedom to choose and develop topics, the task of writing gains new meaning and purpose. In this session, participants examine how five middle-level teachers help their students connect to writing and understand its capacity to transform their own lives and the world around them. Go to this unit.
Workshop 3. Teaching Poetry
Poetry offers young adolescents an unparalleled opportunity for exploring feelings and learning about the power of written expression. This session showcases two master teachers as they help their students develop as writers and readers of poetry. Go to this unit.
Workshop 4. Teaching Persuasive Writing
In this session, participants visit two middle-level classrooms to see how teachers can help young writers develop effective and authentic persuasive pieces based on their own experiences and interests - for example, using cell phones in schools or altering their homework schedule. Go to this unit.
Workshop 5. Teaching Multigenre Writing
Multigenre writing offers students a wide range of options for expressing ideas and communicating knowledge. In this session, participants examine two different, but equally successful, examples of this eclectic and engaging writing approach. Go to this unit.
Workshop 6. Responding to Writing: Teacher to Student
In this session, participants see how five middle-level teachers use both formal and informal student/teacher conferences to monitor their students' progress and help them improve as writers. Go to this unit.
Workshop 7. Responding to Writing: Peer to Peer
Throughout the writing process, peer response can help young adolescents develop as thinkers and writers. In this session, participants explore strategies for structuring peer interactions and for teaching students to respond positively and productively to each other's work. Go to this unit.
Workshop 8. Teaching the Power of Revision
In this session, participants visit the classrooms of three teachers to examine strategies that help even reluctant writers see the power and purpose of revision. Go to this unit.
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29 February 2008
Vegetarians are pussies!
(See Romans 14:2, 1 Timothy 4:1-4.)
8 comments:
- Rev. Gigas said...
See Daniel 1:12-15 for cross reference.
A Fellow Dwindler
- Sat Mar 01, 05:12:00 PM 2008
- Dan said...
At least vegetarians can spell.
- Sun Mar 02, 04:49:00 PM 2008
- XXX said...
I believe "pussys" is an incorrect King James Version spelling for "pussies", much like "seraphim" incorrectly appears as "seraphims" in the KJV.
No word yet on whether or not the Mormon church has corrected this plagiarized error in the Book of Mormon yet.
- Sun Mar 02, 05:56:00 PM 2008
- XXX said...
(P.S. see http://skepticsannotatedbible.com/BOM/2ne/16.html#2)
- Sun Mar 02, 05:58:00 PM 2008
- susan said...
Vegetarians are not pussies. They are strong people, who have the balls to not eat meat. So i think you should shut your fucking mouth. And stop saying shit.
- Tue Jan 19, 04:55:00 PM 2010
- Steve Wells said...
Are you talking to me, susan?
I didn't say it, the Bible did.
- Tue Jan 19, 05:15:00 PM 2010
- Benjamin Martin said...
Steve Wells, the bible didn't say anything like that. Romans 14:4 -6
Romans 14:20 tells us not to eat anything that destroys God's work, sort of like how the current meat industry is destroying the earth. I don't think that God, nor the bible, ever called anyone a pussy. You shouldn't pull out specific verses to use when I can pull verses out of the same chapter that supports vegetarianism.
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Bears' Marshall fumes as Packers claim NFC North title
CHICAGO – This time, there were no smiles for Brandon Marshall as he stepped up to the interview podium.
Just days ago, the Bears' wide receiver was talking about having hope, comparing the Bears' season to the Charlie Brown Christmas tree, and talking about how playing the Green Bay Packers would be the biggest game of his career.
Yet in the bowels of Soldier Field on Sunday afternoon, Marshall was near tears, frustrated with himself and his teammates after a 21-13 loss to the Packers, who, with the win, claimed the NFC North title that just a month ago seemed to be easily within the Bears' reach. The Bears have lost five of six games since their 7-1 start, and face the possibility now of not reaching the playoffs at all.
BOX SCORE:Packers 21, Bears 13
"Everybody involved in offense should be held accountable, even if that means jobs," Marshall said.
In a brief post-game press conference that lasted only four questions, Marshall said the word "accountable" four times. It's a word that will be repeated here in Chicago plenty of times in coming weeks, as pressure mounts on head coach Lovie Smith, quarterback Jay Cutler (who fell to 1-8 in his career against Green Bay) and the rest of the Bears who have now lost six straight games to the Packers.
"It wears on me. It wears on everyone," Cutler said. "You don't want to lose to your rival year-in and year-out. Then it's not a rivalry anymore. It's domination."
Cutler threw another interception Sunday, his 14th of the season, and his 17th in nine career games against Green Bay. Cutler took responsibility for the interception on a pass intended for slot receiver Devin Hester, refusing to blame the error on a miscommunication or incorrect route. Cutler, who left last week's game against Minnesota early after suffering neck and knee injuries, admitted he isn't healthy, but said he will play next week at Arizona.
Yet Cutler's struggles only amplified the success of Green Bay's Aaron Rodgers.
It is of little surprise that the Packers' recent domination in this series began about the time Rodgers became the starting quarterback. In 11 starts against the Bears, Rodgers has led the Packers to nine wins. Rodgers has completed 70% of his passes in those games, and has thrown 19 touchdowns to only eight interceptions.
Rodgers threw for three more touchdowns against the Bears, each to James Jones, and passed for 291 yards after overcoming a dismal first quarter in which had as many sacks (two) as completions (two, for five yards). Receiver Randall Cobb, helping fill in for injured receiver Jordy Nelson, had six catches for a career-high 115 yards.
Combine that with a just-good-enough running game -- the Packers' trio of tailbacks combined for 94 yards – and a defense that didn't allow a third-down conversion, and there is no reason why the Packers' shouldn't be considered contenders in the NFC.
Since a 2-3 start that included early losses to San Francisco and Seattle, the Packers' only blemish came in a 38-10 loss to the New York Giants on Nov. 25.
"There's nothing more fulfilling. This is Step 1 of clinching the playoffs and knowing that you've got a shot now," said center Jeff Saturday, who clinched plenty of division titles in early December in his 13 seasons in Indianapolis. "Next step is trying to get some home field. That's not always in our hands, but if we keep winning games, we'll make it hard on the people in front of us."
Packers players happily wore their new NFC North champions hats as they left Soldier Field late Sunday afternoon. Many of these Green Bay players were part of the Super Bowl champion team two years ago, yet there was no shame in celebrating this win – especially against a rival that as recently as last month seemed to be on track to end Green Bay's streak of division titles.
"I'm not a drama-queen, but it is great that we won a championship today," Packers coach Mike McCarthy said.
The game itself was not without drama.
Marshall, who said this week he was taking the match-up against the Packers "personally" after being held to just two catches in the first meeting in September, scored the game's first touchdown on a 15-yard pass from Cutler. Marshall broke at least two tackles on his way to the end zone, and when he got there, he launched the ball into the north end zone seats.
Marshall had only three catches after that second-quarter score. Cutler looked for the Bears' other big receiver, Alshon Jeffery, four times, yet came away with no completions. Jeffery, a rookie, drew flags for illegal contact and defensive pass interference before being penalized three times for offensive pass interference. The first of those three calls, with 22 seconds left in the third quarter, nullified a one-yard touchdown catch.
Green Bay cornerback Tramon Williams, who spent much of the game matched up on Marshall, applauded the game officials for making the calls against Jeffery. On one of the calls, it was clear Jeffery had grabbed the facemask of cornerback Sam Shields.
"It's getting harder and harder, year in and year out for a (defensive back) to play because guys know what they can get away with, but (the referees) came through today," Green Bay corner Tramon Williams said. "They made the right calls that they were supposed. And for that reason, we won the game like we should have."
The Packers held a 21-7 lead early in the third quarter, but a fumble by running back Ryan Grant -- the 10th forced fumble of the season by Chicago cornerback Charles Tillman -- and Green Bay's special teams issues allowed the Bears to pull back to within one score by late in the fourth quarter.
Green Bay made the baffling decision to try a trick play on a fourth-quarter punt return. Cobb caught the punt and rather than run, threw a backwards pass to teammate Jeremy Moss. Moss couldn't catch the ball, and Chicago recovered at the 16-yard line.
But the Bears could only turn those two Green Bay mistakes into two field goals by Olindo Mare, signed last week to replace an injured Robbie Gould.
McCarthy said he would not be making a change at kicker, even after Mason Crosby missed two more field goals Sunday. He pushed a 43-yarder wide right, and had a 42-yard attempt bounce off the left upright. Crosby has missed 12 of his 29 attempts this season.
"He is our guy," McCarthy said. "He needs to make those kicks. He knows that."


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Now you see him, now you don't...
Justin Bieber got quite a scare during his concert in Saskatoon, Canada, Thursday when he adjusted his pants, walked a few steps and fell into a hole onstage with a loud thunk. He recovered quickly and soon hoisted himself up. Fans posted videos of the moment on Twitter and Instagram.
"Good thing I'm like a cat and landed on my feet," the 22-year-old Canadian singer told the crowd. "That scared the f--- outta me."
The hole is one of several that Bieber and his backup dancers use to rise up from during the show, CBC reported. It is unclear if Bieber suffered any injuries.
Bieber has been photographed and videotaped taking a tumble in public before. He fell down onstage while performing in Kansas City in April and videos were posted online.
In 2014, he himself shared a Vine clip of himself falling while skateboarding and the year before, he tweeted about falling down a flight of stairs, showcasing his injuries in a photo.
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Trinity Christian's Marquion Lane said Thursday he will take an official visit to West Virginia this weekend. Lane, who claims 17 offers, said the Mountaineers are his favorite.
DELTONA — Trinity Christian's Marquion Lane said Thursday that West Virginia is the top school on his list.
"The thing that puts West Virginia out front for me is that their coaches stuck with me from the move from DeLand to Trinity," Lane said. "And they stuck with me through my injury."
The 6-foot-2, 190-pound Lane, who claims 17 scholarship offers, fractured his right ankle in Trinity Christian's final regular-season game. He underwent surgery to repair the ankle in November, and he said he is recovering well.
"I'm back to walking," he said. "I'm running a little bit. I'm just trying to get back strong and get back to 100 percent."
Lane said he is planning to take an official visit to West Virginia this weekend. He said it will be the first visit he has taken.
"Some other schools wanted me to come, but because of my injury I didn't go," he said. "I didn't want to get there and not be able to do anything."
Lane said he may try to fit in another visit before Wednesday, and said he is also considering waiting until after that day to sign. He said he is also interested in Nebraska and Cincinnati.
"I'm just thinking about whether or not I should take a few more visits and see how it is," he said.
Lane played mostly quarterback for Trinity Christian last season, accounting for 2,094 yards and 23 touchdowns. Despite that production, he said West Virginia is recruiting him as a cornerback.
"I feel pretty good about cornerback," he said. "With my height, my speed and athletic ability, I can control the game. I feel good playing there. Whatever position gets me on the field early, I will play and I will try my best."
Kemp talks decision
DeLand tailback Jojo Kemp said Thursday night that he still has not made up his mind what school he will commit to Friday.
"It's a big decision," Kemp said. "I'm just going to talk it over with my family (Thursday night) and think hard.
"I want to put DeLand on my back. Mike (Gillislee) did it. Pop (Saunders) is trying to do it, and I want to do it."
Kemp is scheduled to give a verbal commitment to South Florida, West Virginia, Pittsburgh or Kentucky.
Kemp's announcement was originally reported to be scheduled for Friday morning at DeLand High School. But Thursday night he said he would make the announcement at 7:15 Friday night at his family's home in Deltona. .
Verbal commitments from athletes and verbal scholarship offers from colleges are non-binding agreements. Kemp, who claims more than 30 offers, will have a chance to make his new commitment binding on signing day.
Kemp rushed for 1,463 yards and 23 touchdowns last season.


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The following information is shared by Eddie Johansson in his FICO 101 Seminar provided by Independent Bankers Association of Texas.
FICO Scores: The Only Ones That Count
Credit scores drive many things in our current economy. Not only affecting loan approvals, they may also affect rates you pay on insurance, credit cards and the issuance of new credit of any kind.Pay attention to your FICO scores; avoid FAKO scores. Only Fair Isaac Corporation scores are accepted by lenders to qualify for loans. Most online scores are what Eddie calls FAKO. They are not FICO scores. You will find FAKO scores at FreeCreditReport.com, Experian's Credit Plus score, Trans Union's TrueCreditScore and many others. If you don't see FICO next to the score, it is a FAKO. MyFICO.com is the only place to get FICO scores online.
Small Mistakes Cost You Big Points
One 30-day late payment will lower a 680 credit score 40-60 points. Why so many points? FICO scoring is a future risk assessment, so it assumes that there is a high likelihood that the late payment was caused by a real cash shortfall. FICO is anticipating that the consumer is essentially broke and this late payment is the first sign of future defaults or possible bankruptcy.
Time Heals; Recency Kills
Bad events lose their punch over time. The "recency" aspect of a derogatory event is the most score influencing. Recency is in quotes because more creditors, and most collection companies, report incorrect recency data to the credit bureaus. (Some errors can be corrected by bureau disputes.) The error creditors always seem to make is to report a bad event as more recent than it actually was. This lowers your score and makes you appear less credit worthy than you really are. Scores will recover as time passes if there are no new bad events.
Revolving Accounts Matter the Most
Revolving accounts, such as credit cards, are by far the most score influencing. Because installment and revolving accounts were created for different reasons, they have a significantly different influence on scores. Installment accounts were designed for long term financing. Revolving accounts were designed for short term, 30-day to 90-day debts. FICO is weighted toward revolving debt which it regards as a much better indicator of credit worthiness. Think about what a teenager usually does with his or her first credit card and you have an idea of FICO's thinking here. You will most notice this difference when you pay down a debt. Paying off an installment account will have little, if any, effect on scores: a 1-4 point increase at most. Paying down credit cards to 5% of the limit or less provides a significant increase in scores.
Dollar Amounts Don't Count
It is not the dollar amount of credit card balances that influence scores, but rather the ratio of the balance to the limit. FICO scoring looks at credit cards (revolving accounts) solely as a percentage rate of the balance to the limit. The higher this percentage, the lower the scores. Because FICO is designed to assess future risk, it has to assume that every dollar it sees on a credit card balance is a dollar not in the bank. Put another way: FICO assumes if the money was in the bank the consumer would pay down the credit card to avoid interest costs.
Avoid New Accounts Before Major Purchases
New credit accounts lower scores. The more new accounts a consumer opens in a short time span, the riskier it is to give them one more account. This effect is separate from, and in addition to, the score decreases from the credit inquiries to open the accounts. Therefore the rule is: Never open a new account within eight months of a major purchase.
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Winners of signed copies of Atlantis Redeemed courtesy of Alyssa Day are -
- vslavetopassionv who said...I am totally with you on the mayo hatred. :) Is Atlantis real? Its interesting to think about but have no clue.
- bianca_riot who said...I'd like to think Atlantis is real! Love this interview, made me smile, so thanks!!! I love the covers too.
- CrystalGB who said... I think that there is a possibility that Atlantis is real. Like to keep an open mind.
- Lori who said... So Mote it be! Great interview, although I am wondering who influenced who in the crazy of it all. I have a idea...
- Hawkeyegirl who said... Congrats, the book sounds great and the interview was a riot! One of my favorite places to eat is Jason's Deli. It isn't strange or funny unless you know my fiance's name is Jason. So when I say I went to Jason's for lunch sometimes people look at me funny.
- Stella (Ex Libris) who said... Haha, Carolyn, this is the second interview I read of yours, and each one of them cracks me up! I can't wait to read Mind Games as I've heard brilliant things about it, BUT if it is really only 5 or 8% funny, then I'm begging you to please publish a funny book of yours very soon, I want to read something hilarious with your writing style! :-) My favourite restaurant is called Hemingway, it is located on the bank of a small lake, so the terrace of the restaurant has an amazing view, and you feel like you are dining on the water! The decoration is very Havana-like, sumptuous and tropical, the food are exquisite and the atmosphere is unique (there is also a cigar room and a pianist is playing live!). So it is a really fantastic restaurant.


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Area of Expertise: Transcriptional regulation in poxviruses
Poxviruses are a large family of viruses that are pathogenic for many species of
mammals, birds, and insects. They are the largest and most complex viruses
known, encoding approximately 200 different proteins. The expression of these
proteins is developmentally regulated in order to coordinate DNA synthesis and
progeny virus packaging. Different classes of genes are turned on or off as the
virus progresses through its life cycle. Our laboratory is studying the
molecular mechanisms of gene switching.
Poxviruses regulate gene activity primarily at the level of initiation of
messenger RNA synthesis. RNA is synthesized by a complex multi-subunit RNA
polymerase that is virus-encoded. The choice of gene to be transcribed by the
RNA polymerase is dictated by activator proteins specific to each of the three
gene classes. Our current interests are in identifying the transcription factors
that target the early, intermediate, and late virus genes and subsequently
characterizing how they activate transcription. Available evidence indicates
that the intermediate and late viral promoters are activated by the same
cellular transcription factor. This suggests a model in which the switch from
intermediate to late transcription is mediated by a competition between viral
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proteins across the nuclear pore complex. Indeed, we have found that nuclear
proteins, including transcription factors and soluble enzymes, are redircted to
the cytoplasm after virus infection. We are currently investigating how the
virus induces thses changes and the properties of the nuclear pore complex that
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The bailout bill is now the law. So what happens next?
WASHINGTON — The uphill battle to pass the unprecedented $700 billion financial-sector rescue plan was the easy part. A lot of heavy lifting still lies ahead. That was evident Friday when stock markets largely ignored passage of the legislation. The Dow Jones Industrial Average finished down 157.47 points, or 1.5 percent, to 10325.38. The S&P 500 and Nasdaq posted similar percentage drops.
Americans generally aren't any more optimistic than Wall Street investors. A new Ipsos/McClatchy online poll found that almost six in 10 Americans — 59 percent — lacked confidence in the government's ability to restore consumer and investor confidence. Only one in five thought the U.S. economy will be better off six months from now, while 40 percent think it will be worse. While not a scientific random sample, the online poll illustrates widespread public attitudes.
The stock market's continued slide and uninterrupted turmoil Friday in credit markets underscored that passage of the historic legislation is little more than a beginning to what is sure to be a long and complicated process of implementing the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008.
The rescue plan gives broad, unprecedented powers to Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson. Paulson, who was chairman of investment bank Goldman Sachs until 2006, can now purchase virtually any distressed asset he wants to help troubled banks return order to their balance sheets.
Critics view these powers as the antithesis of free-market principles, but the Bush administration persuaded lawmakers that having the government purchase distressed assets is the best and quickest way for financial institutions to regain trust in each other's balance sheets and in the companies that borrow from them.
"This is all about banks having confidence that they're going to get their money back," Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez told McClatchy.
In a statement after Congress approved his plan, Paulson warned that it won't be a panacea.
"There is no one-size-fits-all solution to alleviating the stress in our financial system. Each situation will be different, and we must implement these new programs with a strategy that allows us to adapt to changing circumstances and conditions, and attract private capital," Paulson said.
"The broad authorities in this legislation, when combined with existing regulatory authorities and resources, gives us the ability to protect and recapitalize our financial system as we work through the stresses in our credit markets."
With the guidance of a bevy of former Wall Streeters, Paulson must decide how to make the federal government a purchaser of toxic assets no one else wants. Most are bonds, and the mortgages of ordinary Americans form their underlying collateral.
The orphaned bonds are commonly called mortgage-backed securities. Few investors want them so long as home prices keep falling and foreclosures soar, raising doubts about the soundness of bonds supported by mortgages that may go unpaid.
A Treasury official, speaking on condition of anonymity because details of the agency's plans are still being worked out, said it's unlikely that Paulson would begin purchasing distressed assets from Wall Street banks until after the Nov. 4 election.
It could take up to six weeks, said the official, for Treasury to hire about two dozen full-time employees for the effort and to contract anywhere from five to 10 asset-management companies to help purchase and later resell troubled assets. Treasury also will have to publish procurement rules, adding to the delay before bad assets can actually be purchased and relief come to troubled banks.
"We would expect the Treasury to start ramping up the size of auctions over the next several weeks to fund the program — with an initial target of perhaps $100 to $200 billion in the program account by mid-November, but . . . actual purchases of securities are not likely until perhaps the second half of November," said Brian Bethune, an economist with forecaster Global Insight, in a note to investors.
Over the next several weeks, Treasury must convert the legislation — so vaguely worded that it amounted to a virtual blank slate — into an action plan.
"They need to figure out how best to ensure there are no conflicts of interest, they need to think about accounting treatment, how sales affect balance sheets of firms that have like assets," said Travis Larson, a spokesman for the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association.
What Larson's getting at is this: Current accounting rules require that banks express on their balance sheets the present-day value of these assets that no one wants to buy, which means those assets aren't worth much at all.
Once banks start unloading distressed mortgage bonds to the government, the banks must reflect on their balance sheets not the price they received from government, but the assets' present-day market price. If someone sells similar assets for less, that price must count.
Part of what Paulson hopes to accomplish is to help create a price level in dysfunctional markets for products no one now wants.
"The reality is the markets are frozen today in part because buyers and sellers can't agree on a price, and this process will create price discovery and find a market price," Larson said.
But for that to happen, another important detail will be how Treasury carries out the expected reverse auctions. Instead of offering a starting price for the bad assets and bidding it up, the government will lay out the most it will pay for a particular asset and the companies interested in unloading will race each other down in price.
Treasury must walk a fine line. It can't pay too high a price above what's perceived as fair-market value or there will be public outcry, but it must pay a price high enough to accomplish its goal — to provide banks an infusion of cash large enough to boost their balance sheets so they'll begin lending again.
"Treasury will be buying something higher than the distressed price, but they are not going to buy them at a price so high that it is going to make everyone solvent," said Vincent Reinhart, a former top economist at the Federal Reserve and now a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank. "In some ways what the legislation does is help facilitate consolidation" in the financial market.
There's already been tremendous consolidation since the government seized mortgage-finance companies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac on Sept. 6. That was followed by the collapse of investment bank Lehman Brothers, the shotgun marriage of investment bank Merrill Lynch to Bank of America and the failure and swift sale of Washington Mutual to J.P. Morgan Chase. Meanwhile, the sale of retail bank Wachovia to Citigroup, brokered by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., is now uncertain following a higher offer from Wells Fargo.
"One of these days we're going to look back on September 2008 in utter disbelief as to what happened," said Howard Simons, president of economic research firm Rosewood Trading in Glenview, Ill.
House approves historic bailout bill, Bush quickly signs it
Job losses signal that U.S. is in recession
Rescue package aside, economy faces deep challenges
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Valentine, former players raise money for LFY
BOSTON -- An off-day in a big league season is very rarely actually that, and for the Boston coaching staff, Thursday was no different."Got the office all set up, the apartment all set up, saw some of the guys out at the ballpark," Red Sox manager Bobby Valentine said. "Relax?
BOSTON -- An off-day in a big league season is very rarely actually that, and for the Boston coaching staff, Thursday was no different.
"Got the office all set up, the apartment all set up, saw some of the guys out at the ballpark," Red Sox manager Bobby Valentine said. "Relax? This is baseball season. Just have fun."
Valentine and his base coaches, Alex Ochoa and Jerry Royster, made time for a good cause, too. The three of them went to the State Room in downtown Boston, along with a handful of Major League alums like Jim Lonborg and Brian McRae, to help raise money for youth baseball clinics in the area, as well as other causes.
Longwood, an event planning and hosting organization, celebrated the launch of its charitable arm, Longwood Giving, with a gala that included silent and live auctions. The Major League Baseball Players Alumni Association was one of the beneficiaries.
"Since we've partnered with Major League Baseball Alumni last year, we wanted them to be a part of this launch," said Bill Wilk, executive director of Longwood Giving.
Valentine, who was traveling between public events in the offseason, is at it again, even during the regular season.
"If there's something for me to do, I'm really happy to do it, absolutely," Valentine said. "You start giving and you start seeing people smile, it puts you in the right mood and hopefully it will carry over to the mood [Friday]."
"It's charity time, it's things that you like to do," Royster said. "The fact that it's a Thursday and the day before Opening Day makes it easy for us with an off-day to be able to do something like this, even though we just got home [Wednesday]. It's a special time. Whenever you can find some free time to help out, you like to do it."
Longwood Giving, in conjunction with the MLBPAA, has helped to bring three baseball clinics to the Boston, Cape Cod, Mass., and Newport, R.I., areas, and more are planned for this year. The Alumni Association was formed in 1982 to raise money for charity and to help educate youths on the game.
"I do a ton with [the Alumni Association]," said McRae, who hit .261 with 103 home runs in 10 seasons. "It's fun being with the kids, because they want to learn. And a lot of them, the younger ones -- a lot of us retired way before they were born.
"They don't know what we did or care, but they knew we did something and they just know that we're willing to spend our time with them and they appreciate that. Because a lot of them -- especially when we do some work with the inner-city kids and kids that aren't as fortunate -- they just want somebody to come out for a few hours and act like they care about them. The baseball aspect is kind of secondary."


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In the last few years, Iranian popular cinema has become a bastion of civil opposition with a number of cheeky comedies. A new film, "The Outcasts" by Masud Dehnamaki, takes a particularly sensitive issue as the butt of its jokes: the Iran-Iraq war. By Amin Farzanefar
Following the sensational success of the divorce comedy "Atash Bas" comes another blockbuster which is breaking all the records in Iran: "Ekhrajiha" – "The Outcasts."
The film tells the story of Majid, fresh out of prison, as he returns to his neighbourhood pretending to have just come back from the pilgrimage to Mecca. As a "Hajji" he hopes to make an impression on Narges, the woman he is courting.
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The deception is found out and, to make things worse, Majid's rival for Narges's affections volunteers for the front. Majid has no choice: he has to join a rag-tag troop on its way to defend the sacred soil of Iran from the Iraqi onslaught in the first Gulf war.
But already in the recruitment office there are problems matching the sacredness of the task with the people who are supposed to be carrying it out. Majid's troop is a band of hash-smoking, hard-swearing gamblers who ignore the proper times for prayers—good-for-nothings at the front.
This insult to the Iranian cult of the martyr is all the more surprising when one knows who the director of the film is. The journalist Masud Dehnamaki himself fought at the front, saw active service during the fierce battles for the Southern Iranian port city of Khoramshahr, and has been an enthusiastic supporter of the Islamic Republic.
It is true that the dissident film maker Mohsen Makhmalbaf was once a party propagandist, and it is even true that Kamal Tabrizi, the director of the cheeky mullah-comedy "Marmulak," has made war films in the past.
The director on the far right
But Dehnamaki is the publisher of a series of ultra-conservative magazines, and is a central figure in the "Ansar e-Hesbollah," an organisation of violent ultra-hardliners loyal to the revolutionary leader, Ayatollah Khamenei. He has also used the "Basiji," a paramilitary volunteer force, to threaten dissident artists and writers.
These thugs were involved in the bloody crushing of student unrest in 1999 – and they seem to have had something to do with a plot to murder Said Hajarian, an adviser to the then president Mohamad Khatami.
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All the same, his documentary film "Faqr wa Fahsha" ("Poverty and Prostitution") drew attention for the first time to the taboo topic of prostitution. In order to make the film, Dehnamaki had to gain the trust of the poor and the prostitutes, and that meant he had to trim his beard and wear western t-shirts.
It seems as if he became aware that everything has become much worse under the current "scandal president." So it seem consistent that he is now tempted to distance himself publicly from the "sins of his youth."
Subtle propaganda masquerading as comedy?
So, against this background, is his joky film "Ekhrajiha" to be seen as a bold move of a reformed fundamentalist, or as a particularly subtle form of propaganda?
"The Outcasts" – like many Hollywood "anti-war" films, by the way – is a wolf in sheep's clothing: it starts from a harmless situation and appears to be critical of the system, but as it goes on it pulls the noose ever tighter.
The minor character of the Ayatollah has an interesting role in the plot – clerics do not have much of a reputation among city dwellers in Iran, and they are regarded as corrupt figures who have profited from the political system.
But in the film this representative of the state is set against a fundamentalist so rigid that, compared to him, everyone else seems like a moderate: while the fundamentalist Hisbollah fanatic wants to stop Majid from enjoying the sacred duty of going to the front, the Ayatollah wants to give everybody a chance: sweet and fitting is it to die for the fatherland.
The star producer Habibollah Kasesaz says straight out that he wants to use "The Outcasts" to boost the "Defa-ye Moghadass" genre – films about the Iran-Iraq war are now being given special financial assistance.
If that is the case, one could see Dehnamaki's work as a transition between the wave of cheeky comedies and a new ideological cinema.
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The reason for the surprising – for some, shocking – success of "The Outcasts" may lie in its "storm of film and dramatic effects," or in its all-star cast including Mohammad-Reza Forutan, Akbar Abdi and the up-and-coming Amin Hayayee, or in the slapstick humour which runs all the way through.
There is also the witty realism with which Dehnamaki portrays local detail, such as the "Jahelis," typical figures of the Teheran suburbs who once had a genre all their own, but who have long disappeared from Teheran cinema.
But they are not there for long in "Ekhrajiha" either: after the layabouts have been brought into line, the film ends unexpectedly. Majid and his friends die as martyrs and are bombed into paradise. The closing music is full of pathos, ending a story which began so lightly.
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Iran's Fajr Film Festival
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The Fajr Film Festival, one of Iran's largest cultural events, also serves as an indicator for the state of Iranian film production one-and-a-half years after President Ahmadinejad took office. Amin Farzanefar reports
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