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Supporting Entrepreneurship and Economic Development Sierra Leone {SEED-SL} is a non-for-profit and non-governmental organization formed in 2009 to create economic partnerships with the poor, through innovative assistance for entrepreneurship - including direct micro-credit loans in form of equipments and materials(eg: sewing machines) as well as simple business training to Sierra Leonean war affected victims.
SEED-SL is driven by the hope of a better world and inspired by the vision of a society where all people can live independently in justice, good health and peace. We believe that by our activities we can turn that hope into action.
Our target communities are in the southern and eastern regions of Sierra Leone.
Our Intervention areas are in micro-finance, skill training and peace sensitization.
It all started when Mohamed Salia at age 14, lent his money for school books ($50) to a widow to re-start a petty trading business, on the condition that she returned the money within two months so that he can buy his text books at the beginning of term, without his father noticing. She started selling cakes again and paid back the money in time. With increased profits she bought another bag of flour to sell even more cakes to feed her family.
At 17 he lent 500 Euros from his friend in Germany for six war affected widows to start up their business enterprises. Today they are economically empowered and sustainable.
Now, at 22, he wants to do more. So together with his team, they have set up the organization SEED-SL to economically empower Sierra Leonean widows and ex-combatant youths to become self-reliant.
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(CNN) -- Nancy Ehrlich was nearing 50 and frustrated, teaching at her small Pennsylvania town's elementary school with colleagues who didn't share her love of technology.
Then, last summer, she found Twitter.
Now, Ehrlich -- who turns 51 in a few weeks -- barely qualifies for the fastest-growing club on the Web. The number of internet users over 50 who use social-networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter have nearly doubled in the past year, according to a study released Friday.
"It definitely has changed my whole life -- that's how significant Twitter is to me," said Ehrlich, who now regularly chats with educators around the world and helps host a weekly forum for them on the micro-blogging site. "At first, I didn't really get it. But I just kept watching it and, before you knew it, I was hooked."
Between April 2009 and May, the percentage of internet users 50 and up who said they use social-networking sites has risen from 22 percent to 42 percent, according to the survey by the Pew Research Center.
Respondents 65 and older reported a 100 percent increase, while those between 50 and 64 jumped 88 percent.
By comparison, the number of users from 18-29 who said they use networking sites rose a much more meager 13 percent.
For anyone who logs on to sites such as Facebook and Twitter, the increase in older users is probably pretty obvious.
It's not unusual for three generations of one family to chat on Facebook now. (Yes, teenager, that means grandma might comment on your angst-ridden status update.)
And just last month, Ivy Bean, who, at 104 was believed to be the world's oldest active Twitter user, passed away in England -- a sad event tweeted by nursing-home staff to her more than 60,000 followers.
But the Pew report highlights just how dramatic, and fast, the spike in older users has been.
"Young adults continue to be the heaviest users of social media, but their growth pales in comparison with recent gains made by older users," said Mary Madden, a senior research specialist with the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project and author of the report.
"E-mail is still the primary way that older users maintain contact with friends, families and colleagues, but many older users now rely on social-network platforms to help manage their daily communications."
Roland Provost, 65, said he's definitely noticed the increase. He's been on Twitter and Facebook -- as well as being an active "World of Warcraft" player -- for several years.
"It's been a major evolution in the last year or so ...," said Provost, of Dover, New Hampshire. "Almost all my old high school friends are on. It's been amazing to reconnect.
"Before a year ago, I was there, but I didn't know anybody else over 30."
Older users often say keeping in touch with family and friends is a key reason they use the networking sites.
"There are few other spaces -- online or offline -- where tweens, teens, sandwich generation members, grandparents, friends and neighbors regularly intersect and communicate across the same network," Madden said.
And while the stereotype of older users has been that they only log in every so often to look at pictures of the kids or grandkids, the report suggests otherwise.
About 44 percent of respondents who said they use Facebook-like sites said they had used one within a day of when they got the phone call.
In all, 47 percent of internet users from 50-64 said they use social media, as did 26 percent of those 65 and older.
They still have a long way to go to catch up with younger users, though -- by comparison, 86 percent of 18- to 29-year-olds say they use social-networking sites.
Ehrlich, whose Twitter account is @NancyTeaches, said she also uses Facebook. But she's found the two sites are good for different things.
"Facebook is the people I went to high school with and Twitter are the people in my life now," said the Ambler, Pennsylvania, teacher. "For my age group, it's a very reflective time in our lives, so that's why I think Facebook is so popular.
"But as a teacher, I had a different agenda. I wasn't looking to reconnect with people, I was looking to learn and feel challenged."
The Pew report is based on a nationwide telephone survey in the United States of 2,252 adults. The margin of error is 2 percent for the total group and 3 percent for internet users.


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Badminton welcomes a new season with the Victor Korea Open Superseries Premier which began today at the SK Handball Stadium.
Most of the top players – except two-time Olympic champion Lin Dan – are competing so fans can expect high-quality action this week. The current world No. 4 from China has not taken part in any tournament since the London Olympics last August.
World No. 1 Lee Chong Wei (Malaysia) and principal opponent Chen Long (China, 2) will obviously be the ones to watch in Men's Singles. However, there are some who can cause some damage, especially if the top guns are rusty early in the season.
Lee takes on No. 12 Wang Zhengming (China), and he will be wary of the Chinese youngster's ability. China have a strong presence in both singles draws, with six Chinese in the Men's Singles main draw. Fourth seed Du Pengyu, also of China, will be the dark horse – the world No. 5 reached four major finals last year and will be keen to begin 2013 on a good note. Then there is Chen Yuekun, winner of the Macau Open Grand Prix Gold, who qualified to the main draw. The other Men's Singles qualifiers were: Lee Dong Keun (Korea), Pisit Poodchalat (Thailand) and Yong Zhao Ashton Chen (Singapore).
Of the non-Chinese players, Tommy Sugiarto (Indonesia), Parupalli Kashyap (India), Viktor Axelsen and Hans-Kristian Vittinghus (both Denmark) will hope to make it to the business end of the tournament.
Women's Singles also boasts a formidable line-up. Li Xuerui (China), winner of an astounding eight tournaments in 2012, is on a 15-match unbeaten streak and will be overwhelming favourite for the title. Her compatriots Wang Yihan (2), Wang Shixian (5), Jiang Yanjiao (7) and Han Li will make it difficult for the non-Chinese opposition to break through. Their biggest threat will come from India's Saina Nehwal (3), who beat a few Chinese players last year. Interestingly, Nehwal's compatriot PV Sindhu, who upset Li Xuerui at the China Masters last year, is in her quarter. Sindhu will however have to get past Lindaweni Fanetri (Indonesia) in the first round.
• Three of the four qualifying slots in Women's Singles went to Korea: Lee Jang Mi, Lee Min Ji and Kim Hyo Min (right), with the fourth going to Hsu Ya Ching (Chinese Taipei).
• Mathias Boe/Carsten Mogensen (Denmark) are the top seeds in Men's Doubles after an impressive late season in 2012. The qualifiers were three Korean pairs (Kim Jae Hwan/Kim Jung Ho; Cho Gun Woo/Kim Dae Eun and Kang Ji Wook/Lee Sang Joon) and one Malaysian-Scottish pair (Tan Bin Shen and Robert Blair).
• In the Women's Doubles, super-successful pair Tian Qing/Zhao Yunlei have been split. Zhao is partnering Cheng Shu, while Tian will play with Bao Yixin. The top seeds are Yu Yang/Wang Xiaoli.
• Xu Chen/Ma Jin (China), winners of five Superseries titles last year, are the top seeds in Mixed Doubles, with their compatriots and rivals, Zhang Nan/Zhao Yunlei, seeded fourth. Denmark's Joachim Fischer Nielsen and Christinna Pedersen are seeded sixth.
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OLYMPIA — Lawmakers meeting to discuss the start of the 105-day legislative session on Thursday made it clear that education will be the No. 1 issue in Olympia this year.
The Supreme Court's McCleary decision on education dollars has been hanging over their heads for more than a year, but it was obvious at The Associated Press Legislative Preview that education will truly overshadow every other issue before the Legislature this winter.
"McCleary is about moving education forward; it's not just about dollars," said Sen. Rodney Tom, D-Medina, who will be the majority leader of the newly formed "majority coalition caucus" that includes the Senate's 23 Republicans.
Legislative leaders said that besides funding, they also want to focus on student success, as well as the achievement gap between rich and poor children and among kids from different ethnic groups.
Sen. Ed Murray, the Senate Democratic leader, agreed: "We have to get at the opportunity gap, or we won't move the needle."
Democrats have a small majority in the chamber, controlling 26 of 49 seats. But with Tom and fellow Democrat Sen. Tim Sheldon, of Potlatch, recently agreeing to work with Senate Republicans, the coalition holds a 25-24 advantage.
Lawmakers are still working out how to share power between Republicans and Democrats in the state Senate and whether a bipartisan approach is workable before the legislative session begins Monday.
"What the citizens are interested in is governing. The bipartisan issue is an inside game," Murray said.
But despite their ongoing discussions about who will chair Senate committees, both Murray and Tom said education would be a more important issue than politics.
"I'm just excited that education is being talked about as a central component of a legislative session," Tom said, after reminiscing about some empty committee rooms of the past when education issues were being discussed.
Rep. Ross Hunter, D-Medina, said there's no agreement in the Legislature about how to come up with more than $1 billion for education, as a down-payment on the McCleary decision. He predicted lawmakers would pull something together for the short-term and then start planning for a sustainable, long-term solution.
About 43 percent of the state budget — $13.6 billion — currently goes to public schools.
Various revenue ideas were tossed out during the hours-long preview: devoting future Internet sales tax revenue to education; using sales tax income from marijuana for schools; putting school buses into the transportation budget and using a gas tax to pay for school transportation; and reviving the levy swap idea that was reviled by some during the political campaign.
Gov.-elect Jay Inslee said he was open to any creative idea and promised "this is not going to be resolved overnight."
Like Hunter, Inslee predicted it would take years to solve the education funding puzzle.
When asked if he had a dollar number he wanted to see infused into K-12 schools this year, Inslee said, "I have a number in my head, but I don't have the money in my pocket."
He talked about using economic growth, closing tax loopholes and government efficiency to cover some of the cost.
The Washington Supreme Court has given lawmakers until 2018 to fully fund basic education and the reform plans the Legislature has already passed, while making sure local school districts are not forced to make up for a lack in state money through the use of local tax levies.
Lawmakers have said they need to find more dollars for all-day kindergarten, student transportation and class-size reduction, as well as technology and equipment to supply schools of the 21st century.
Higher education also got a share of the attention on Thursday, with lawmakers and Inslee calling for a recommitment to the state's public universities and more focus on sending Washington kids to college to fill science, technology and engineering jobs.
It's a "crime against nature" not to have enough skilled workers for high-tech jobs, Inslee said.
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Employment in cultural occupations
Involvement in culture and leisure activities
The most recent data about the involvement of persons aged 15 years and over in selected culture and leisure activities were collected in April 2001 as part of the ABS Work in Selected Culture and Leisure Activities Survey. During the 12 months prior to interview in April 2001, an estimated 2.5 million persons (16.8% of the Australian population aged 15 years and over) were involved in some form of paid or unpaid work relating to the culture and leisure activities covered in the survey. These figures exclude involvement solely for the respondent's own use or that of their family.
As table 12.19 shows, the Australian Capital Territory had the highest rate of involvement in this type of work, at 28.8% of residents aged 15 years and over. This was significantly higher than the Australian rate of 16.8%.
More persons had paid involvement in writing (214,800), design (210,700) and visual art activities (175,800) than in any other culture or leisure activity in the survey. Of those involved in writing, 40.0% received payment; for design, 60.2% received payment; while for visual art activities, 34.9% received payment. The activity with the highest percentage of people with paid involvement was television, with 64.6% of the 83,600 people involved receiving some payment.
How Australians spend their free time
Generally, Australians fit their leisure activities into their free time, that is, the time left over after personal, family, educational and employment responsibilities. The 1997 Time Use Survey showed that Australians aged 15 years or more spent on average about 5 hours (316 minutes) or 22% of their time per day on free time activity as their main activity (table 12.20). People frequently undertake more than one activity at the same time (e.g. housework and listening to the radio). If simultaneous activities are included, Australians spent just over nine hours (552 minutes) on free time activities. Time spent using audio and audiovisual media (e.g. listening to the radio and watching television) showed the largest increase when comparing all activities (including simultaneous activities) with main activities. As a main activity, an average of just over two hours (131 minutes) was spent on using audio and audiovisual media. However, when simultaneous activities were included, time spent on this activity nearly doubled to over four hours (257 minutes).


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First Interstate bank is a 12 billion community bank with over 120 banking offices, along with online and mobile banking services throughout Idaho, Oregon, South Dakota, Washington, and Wyoming. The Chamber of Commerce is excited to welcome First Interstate Bank! The mission statement of First Interstate Bank is to continuously strengthen their relationships with…Read More
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Gerardo Gutierrez, right, a laborer with Lorentz Bruun, levels dirt while excavating at the site of a new six-story, 177-unit apartment building in the Pearl District. The FFA Architecture and Interiors, Inc.-designed project, called The Parker, will encompass an entire city block bounded by Northwest 12th and 13th Avenues and Pettygrove and Quimby Streets.
John Stone, a heavy equipment operator with Lorentz Bruun, removes dirt from a Pearl District site which will be the future home of a 177-unit apartment building.
A plan to renovate the Grove Hotel into a youth hostel has been shelved by developer David Gold, who says he was unable to find a restaurant tenant to occupy the building's ground-floor space. Gold says that a nearby homeless "rest area" across the street from the building made it impossible to find a restaurant to rent the space.
A series of painted doors form a fence around the Right 2 Dream Too homeless "rest area" at Northwest 4th Avenue and West Burnside Street in Portland. The area has been in use since October 2011 and, according to developer David Gold, is the reason he was unable to find a restaurant tenant for the now-defunct Grove Hotel redevelopment project.
Siteworks Design | Build is performing a tenant improvement on a 1,622-square-foot space at 2035 N.W. Overton for ISITE Design, a digital advertising agency. The space will become an incubator for upstart businesses and will connect to ISITE's next-door space via an overhead door that is being installed on a common wall. Other work includes finishing drywall surfaces, minor trim work, and installation of conduit for data lines. The eight-week project is slated for completion this month.
Michael Hansen feeds lids into a machine that will sear them onto cans of Monster energy drink at Portland Bottling Co. in Northeast Portland.
Kelly Held examines cans of energy drink for damage as they come off of an accumulation table at Portland Bottling Co. in Northeast Portland.
Dennis Sackhoff is the developer of an 81-unit apartment project on Southeast Division Street which has become the focal point of the debate over whether Portland should require parking for multifamily projects. Sackhoff is losing $4,000 a day on the partially-constructed project, which had its building permit revoked by the Oregon Land Use Board of Appeals in February.
Alicia and Cooper Johnson stant in front of the 2,600-square-foot building they recently purchasedon North Albina Avenue for their motion production studio, Cardboard Castle.
An undisclosed party is under contract to purchase the 76,575-square-foot Yamhill Marketplace building at 110 S.W. Yamhill St.
Michael Robinson, center, a partner at Perkins Coie and attorney for developer Dennis Sackhoff, speaks against proposed parking regulations for apartment developments in front of Portland's city council.
Mayor Charlie Hales, center, and Portland commissioners Amanda Fritz, left, and Dan Saltzman, right, listen to testimony during a hearing on minimum parking requirements for new apartment projects.
Eli Spevak, a developer with Orange Splot LLC, speaks against an emergency action for minimum parking requirements during a meeting of Portland's city council. Spevak argued that changing the rules for development after a project has begun would discourage building in the city.
General contractor LMC Construction is renovating a 48-unit HUD apartment complex in Beaverton. The Carleton Hart Architecture-designed remodel of the Spencer House Apartments includes all new utilities, a full exterior renovation including new insulation, sheeting, siding, and roofs, and minor interior upgrades. Work on the project began last month, and is expected to last through July.
Jenelle Isaacson, founder and owner of Living Room Realtors, says that an increasing number of home buyers in the Portland market are purchasing properties to use as rentals.
Lois Cohen is the president of Lois D. Cohen Associates, a firm which provides support services for DMWESB businesses, facilitates public involvement and school-based outreach with projects.
An 11,302-square-foot commercial space at 600 N.W. Naito Parkway, Suite G, is for sale at a listed price of $1.35 million.
Jordan Schnitzer is president of Harsch Investment Properties, which is leading the effort to redevelop the century-old Centennial Mills site in Northeast Portland.
Joe Albbe, an employee of Gale Contractor Services, installs netting for blown-in insulation at a house being built in Southwest Portland by New Tradition Homes in partnership with the Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance as part of the Next Step Homes pilot program.
A home under construction in Southwest Portland being built under the Next Step Homes pilot program features energy efficiency and green building techniques, including tighter envelopes, ductless heating and heat recovery ventilation systems.
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Larry Hanson rotates inventory at a Henningson Cold Storage facility in Gresham. The company is planning on building a 260,000-square-foot facility in Salem on property owned by NORPAC Foods.
Skyline Interiors is remodeling a floor of the 620 Building on Southwest Fifth Avenue in downtown Portland for Myhre Group Architects. Work on the 7,360-square-foot space includes the addition of walls, repair of the ceiling, doors, glazing, casework, flooring, HVAC system, lighting, sprinklers, and finishes. The work was designed by Myhre Group, and is slated for completion by the end of April.
Mike Teems, a carpenter with Skyline Interiors and member of Local 146, installs a window frame on an office in a downtown space that will be the future home of Myhre Group Architects.
Officials in Beaverton are looking to convince residents to fund a new public safety building to house the city's police department and municipal court workers. Both are currently located at Beaverton City Hall, which lacks the adequate space to house both departments.
The men's locker room at the Beaverton Police Department's city hall location is often cramped during shift changes. City officials are hoping to build a new public safety building to replace what they say are inadequate facilities.
Mel Jones is a diversity manager with Skanska and one of the developers of the contractor's BOOST program, which helps DMWESB businesses gain a footing in the construction industry.
Brothers Luis, left, and Juan Brambila, both carpenters with Zejas Commercial, install gypsum sheathing on the exterior of a mixed-use project at the intersection of Southeast Division Street and 33rd Place. The building is one of three that Urban Development Partners has planned for the intersection.
Hawthorne East, a 71-unit affordable housing apartment complex in Southeast Portland, was recently acquired by Minneapolis-based Simpson Housing for $6.2 million.
Innovative Housing, Inc. housing development director Julie Garver, left, and executive director Sarah Stevenson stand in front of a building which at one time housed the storied Erickson Saloon. The nonprofit is planning on converting the building and the adjacent Fritz buildings into a 62-unit workforce housing project.
A building in Portland's Old Town/Chinatown neighborhood which once housed Erickson's Saloon is set to be converted into a 62-unit workforce housing project by nonprofit developer Innovative Housing, Inc.
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Texas State's Phoenix Saxophone Quartet wins Down Beat awards
By Colin Ashby
University News Service
May 30, 2013
Texas State University's Phoenix Saxophone Quartet has won two awards from Down Beat Magazine.
The Down Beat Student Music Awards are given out by the jazz music magazine for performances in jazz education. To win the award, students must submit their recordings to the Down Beat website. The quartet won the undergraduate classical group award. Josh Weisbrod-Torres, baritone saxophonist of the group, won the award for undergraduate classical soloist.
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The quartet is an undergraduate classical group part of the Texas State Wind Symphony Saxophone Section. The group was formed in 2011 by four students from Texas State's School of Music. The group studies under the direction of Todd Oxford, Texas State saxophone instructor.


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Interagency Policy Statement on Funding and Liquidity Risk Management
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|Interagency Policy Statement on Funding and Liquidity Risk Management
Attached is an interagency policy statement approved by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and the other supervisors of U.S. depository institutions.1 This policy statement provides guidance on sound practices for managing the funding and liquidity risks of depository institutions. The practices set forth in this guidance are entirely consistent with established Federal Reserve guidance contained in the Commercial Bank Examination Manual and the Trading and Capital-Markets Activities Manual. The interagency guidance is also consistent with the principles of sound liquidity risk management issued in September 2008 by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision titled Principles for Sound Liquidity Risk Management and Supervision.2 Therefore, this interagency guidance represents the formal codification of international supervisory guidance and provides a unified set of supervisory expectations among the U.S. supervisors.
The guidance articulates the process that depository institutions should follow in appropriately identifying, measuring, monitoring, and controlling their funding and liquidity risks. In particular, the guidance re-emphasizes the importance of cash flow projections, diversified funding sources, stress testing, a cushion of liquid assets, and a formal, well-developed contingency funding plan as primary tools for measuring and managing funding and liquidity risks. The Federal Reserve expects all supervised financial institutions to manage their liquidity risk using processes and systems that are commensurate with their complexity, risk profile, and scope of operations.
The interagency guidance targets funding and liquidity risk management at insured depository institutions, including state member banks. The basic principles presented in this policy statement also apply to bank holding companies (BHCs), which should manage and control aggregate risk exposures on a consolidated basis, while recognizing legal distinctions and possible obstacles to cash movements among subsidiaries.
BHCs (including financial holding companies) should develop and maintain liquidity management processes and funding programs that are consistent with their complexity, risk profile, and scope of operations. Appropriate liquidity risk management is especially important for BHCs since liquidity difficulties can easily spread to both depository and non-depository subsidiaries, particularly in cases of similarly named companies where customers may not always understand the legal distinctions between the holding company and subsidiaries. For this reason, BHCs should ensure that liquidity is sufficient at all levels of the organization to fully accommodate funding needs in periods of stress.
Liquidity risk management processes and funding programs should take into full account the institutions lending, investment, and other activities and should ensure that adequate liquidity is maintained at the parent holding company and each of its subsidiaries. These processes and programs should fully incorporate real and potential constraints, including legal and regulatory restrictions, on the transfer of funds among subsidiaries and between subsidiaries and the parent holding company. BHC liquidity should be maintained at levels sufficient to fund holding company and affiliate operations for an extended period of time in a stressed environment when access to normal funding sources are disrupted without having a negative impact on insured depository institution subsidiaries.
Material nonbank subsidiaries, such as broker-dealers, are expected to have liquidity management processes and funding programs that reflect the principles outlined in the attached guidance and are consistent with the subsidiaries' complexity, risk profile, and scope of operations. A nonbank subsidiary that directly accesses market sources of funding and/or manages specific funding programs should pay particular attention to:
- Maintaining sufficient liquidity, cash flow, and capital strength to service its debt obligations and cover fixed charges;
- Assessing the potential that funding strategies could undermine public confidence in the liquidity or stability of subsidiary depository institutions; and
- Ensuring the adequacy of policies and practices addressing the stability of funding and integrity of the institutions liquidity risk profile as evidenced by funding mismatches and the degree of dependence on potentially volatile sources of short-term funding.
The Federal Reserve's Trading and Capital-Markets Activities Manual and Bank Holding Company Supervision Manual contain more in-depth discussions of the specific considerations surrounding the principles of safe and sound liquidity risk management of BHCs, as well as legal and regulatory restrictions surrounding the transfer of funds between holding companies and their subsidiaries.
The general principles presented in this policy statement also apply to foreign banking organizations (FBOs) operating in the United States. The U.S. operations of FBOs are expected to have appropriate liquidity risk management processes in place that are consistent with established international standards. Supervisory expectations for the U.S. operations of FBOs are the same as those for comparable domestic organizations. FBO branches and agencies are also expected to comply with the basic tenets of sound liquidity risk management with full recognition that the application of these principles depends significantly on the specific business models, governance structures, funding approaches, and liquidity risk profiles of the operations. For example, funding dependencies between a branch and home office, and governance structures without boards of directors, may preclude compliance with some basic principles as specifically articulated in the attached guidance for standalone legal entities. In such cases, appropriate mitigating controls should be in place.
Liquidity risk for the U.S. operations of FBOs should be managed with processes and systems appropriate for the U.S. entities' size, complexity, risk profile, and scope of activities. Regardless of the scope or scale of U.S. operations, the risks undertaken are expected to be managed with: 1) effective governance and management oversight as appropriate; 2) adequate policies, procedures, and limits on risk taking; and 3) strong management information systems for measuring, monitoring, reporting, and controlling liquidity risks. While elements of these risk management processes may be implemented locally or outside of the United States, the Federal Reserve expects to have ready access to the information necessary to maintain an understanding and assessment of these functions.
More detail regarding supervisory expectations for safe and sound liquidity risk management of the U.S. operations of FBOs are contained in SR letter 08-9/CA letter 08-12, "Consolidated Supervision of Bank Holding Companies and the Combined U.S. Operations of Foreign Banking Organizations," and in the Examination Manual for U.S. Branches and Agencies of Foreign Banking Organizations.
Reserve Banks are asked to distribute this letter to financial institutions supervised by the Federal Reserve in their districts, as well as to their own supervisory and examination staff. Questions on the attached guidance or the Federal Reserves supervisory approach to liquidity risk management at supervised institutions should be addressed to: Jim Embersit, Deputy Associate Director, Market and Liquidity Risk, at (202) 452-5249; Ricardo Crumble, Supervisory Financial Analyst, Market and Liquidity Risk, at (202) 728-5852; and Mary Arnett, Supervisory Financial Analyst, Market and Liquidity Risk, at (202) 721-4534.
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Alpine Lakes of the Colorado Rockies, Photo Gallery, Summit County - Eagle County - Clear Creek County, Colorado
Alpine Lakes of the Colorado Rockies
Summit County - Eagle County - Clear Creek County
The Rocky Mountains stretch over 3,000 miles from Northwest Canada down to New Mexico. The Rockies are comprised of at least 100 individual ranges with the tallest peaks concentrated in Colorado. Glacial valleys throughout Colorado are studded with hundreds of alpine lakes, many of which are close to major population centers and accessible by maintained trails. Click here for detailed hiking trail information in Aspen, Vail, Breckenridge, Frisco and Clear Creek County.
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The Mohawk Lakes are a collection of 7 alpine lakes and tarns in the Ten Mile Range, just south of Breckenridge CO
Lost Lake (11,612') is located 4.95 miles north of Copper Mountain Ski Resort along the Gore Range Trail
Willow Lake (11,795') is an arduous 6.2 mile hike from Maroon Lake in the Maroon Bells - Snowmass Wilderness
The Willow Lakes are a cluster of 4 lakes at and above treeline in the Eagles Nest Wilderness near Silverthorne CO
Upper Tuhare Lake (12,365') fills a massive cirque carved from the Holy Cross Ridge in the Holy Cross Wilderness
Snowmass Lake (10,980') is one of many highlights on the venerable 4 Pass Loop near Aspen CO
Deluge Lake (11,746') is a challenging hike from Vail Valley in the Eagles Nest Wilderness
The Wheeler Lakes fill shallow depressions in broad alpine valleys north of Copper Mountain in the Eagles Nest Wilderness
Cathedral Lake (11,866') fills a large bowl ringed by Malamute Peak (13,348'), Cathedral Peak (13,943') and Leahy Peak (13,322') in the Maroon Bells-Snowmass Wilderness
Boulder Lake is located 2.85 miles from Rock Creek Trailhead in the Eagles Nest Wilderness near Silverthorne, CO
Gore Lake (11,414') is a demanding 6.1 mile hike from Vail Valley in the Eagles Nest Wilderness
Lost Man Lake (12,482') forms the headwaters of Lost Man Creek, a tributary of the Roaring Fork River in the Hunter-Frying Pan Wilderness
The Missouri Lakes are a cluster of 4-5 postcard-caliber lakes in the Holy Cross Wilderness south of Minturn CO
The Square Top Lakes lie in open tundra west of Guanella Pass along the South Park Trail below Square Top Mountain (13,794')
Independence Lake (12,487') is a moderate 1.8 mile hike north of Highway 82 in the Hunter-Frying Pan Wilderness
Crater Lake (10,076') is framed by the iconic Maroon Bells near Aspen, CO
Treasure Vault Lake (11,675') is a short detour off the Missouri Pass - Fancy Pass Loop in the Holy Cross Wilderness
Hikers enjoy a great view down Chicago Lakes valley on the hike to Mt Evans from Summit Lake
Upper Blue Lake (11,915') is located midway up McCullough Gulch in the Ten Mile Range south of Breckenridge
This is one of several unnamed lakes in upper McCullough Gulch on the north side of Quandary Peak in the Ten Mile Range
Salmon Lake (11,192') fills a rocky bowl off the Gore Range Trail in the Eagles Nest Wilderness
Lincoln Lake (11,624') in the Mt Evans Wilderness Area is distinguished by large stands of ancient bristlecone pines around its shore
Pitkin Lake (11,362') is located 4.45 miles north of Vail in the Eagles Nest Wilderness Area
View of Lower Chicago Lake (11,545') in the Mt Evans Wilderness, one of the area's most popular destinations
The Crystal Lakes are located just south of Breckenridge at the head of a broad glacial valley in the Ten Mile Range
Layers of travertine ring the edge of Hanging Lake and give the water its unique turquois color
Hanging Lake is fed by a fan of scenic waterfalls along Deadhorse Creek
This is one of several unnamed alpine lakes between Eccles Pass and Red Buffalo Pass on the thru-hike from Frisco to Vail
Summit Lake (12,830') is located right along the Mt Evans Scenic Byway - double bonus: the fishing here is reportedly terrific!
Herman Lake (11,987') is a moderate day hike with easy access from I-70, just east of the Eisenhower Tunnel
Aerial view of Lower Cataract Lake on the way to Eaglesmere Lake in the Eagles Nest Wilderness
Hell's Hole (11,564') occupies a wide, marshy basin ringed by ancient bristlecone pine in the Mt Evans Wilderness
American Lake (11,365') is located 3.1 miles from Castle Creek Road in the Maroon Bells - Snowmass Wilderness south of Aspen
Lower Turquoise Lake (11,095') is a long but moderate hike from Beaver Creek Ski Resort in the Holy Cross Wilderness
View of Ethel Lake from Mt Flora (13,132') along the Continental Divide Trail near Winter Park, CO
Lonesome Lake (11,571') is located 5.2 miles from Homestake Reservoir in the Holy Cross Wilderness - and arguably one of the area's best kept secrets!
Silver Dollar Lake (11,235') is a short hike from Guanella Pass, 9.9 miles south of Georgetown CO
Abyss Lake (12,650') fills a deep glacial cirque between Mt Bierstadt (14,060') and Mt Evans (14,265')
Booth Lake (11,434') is located 4.35 miles above Vail Valley in the Eagles Nest Wilderness Area
Echo Lake (10,707') is located just off the Mt Evans Scenic Byway 13.5 miles south of Idaho Springs
Eaglesmere Lake (10,397') is comprised of two small lakes separated by an isthmus in the Eagles Nest Wilderness
Upper Missouri Lake (11,502') is the largest lake in the Missouri Lakes cluster
Fancy Lake (11,540') is located 2.7 miles from Homestake Road in the Holy Cross Wilderness, .6 miles and 830' below Fancy Pass
Upper Cataract Lake (10,744') is 5.45 miles from Surprise Trailhead in the Eagles Nest Wilderness
Lake Constantine (11,371') is located 3.95 miles from Tigiwon Road in the Holy Cross Wilderness
Grouse Lake (10,728') is a moderate day hike near Minturn CO


text: Originally appearing here. During his run for the presidency, Barack Obama instilled hope in medical marijuana supporters by pledging to respect state laws on the matter. And for the first two years of his term, he was generally faithful to his promise. Yet suddenly, and with no logical explanation, over the past eight months he has become arguably the worst president in U.S. history regarding medical marijuana. 1. In 1970, Nixon signed into law the Controlled Substances Act, which placed marijuana in Schedule I — the most restrictive of the five schedules, which declared that marijuana has no medical value whatsoever. Since then, all seven presidents have been content to keep marijuana in Schedule I, even going so far as to have (1) DEA bureaucrats overrule the DEA's own administrative law judge on the matter, and (2) Health & Human Services reject scientific petitions for rescheduling. 2. In 1978, the Carter administration created the "compassionate IND" program, which allowed patients to apply to (what is now known as) HHS to legally receive monthly shipments of the federal government's marijuana. Reagan left this program untouched for all eight years of his administration, but the first Bush closed the program to new applicants halfway through his term. 3. From 1969 to 1992, it was relatively easy for state governments and private institutions to investigate marijuana's therapeutic uses: The mechanism was to get FDA approval for a research protocol, then obtain DEA permission to store and handle the marijuana, and then NIDA would provide the marijuana. After Clinton took office, his team created a new hurdle, requiring a separate HHS review of the scientific merit of an FDA-approved research protocol, which has essentially prevented all but a few research projects from moving forward over the last 18 years. Indeed, just last month, Obama's HHS rejected an FDA-approved protocol that would have researched whether marijuana can reduce PTSD among combat veterans. 4. After California voters passed the first state medical marijuana law in November 1996, the Clinton administration threatened to take away the prescription-writing authority of physicians who recommend medical marijuana to patients. This bad policy was successfully blocked in federal court on First Amendment grounds. 5. In 1998, the Clinton administration filed a civil lawsuit to close down the premier Oakland dispensary at that time; this case went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, which ruled 8-0 against that dispensary in 2001. Since then, the Bush and Obama administrations have routinely dragged dispensary owners into federal court. Most recently, on October 7, Obama's four federal prosecutors in California announced a coordinated plan to shut down most dispensaries in the state. 6. Clinton's drug czar actively spoke out against good ballot initiatives in 1996, 1998, and 2000. And Bush's drug czar campaigned against ballot initiatives and state-level bills for all eight years of the Bush administration. Obama's drug czar hasn't lobbied or campaigned against medical marijuana reform measures (yet), but he has publicly opposed medical marijuana generally. 7. In 2000, Clinton signed into law a bill that made it harder for the federal government to seize property through civil lawsuits. Unfortunately, the federal government can still wreak havoc when it wants to, and the Bush and Obama administrations have both threatened some landlords (almost exclusively in California) with property forfeiture if they lease their properties to medical marijuana growers or dispensaries. 8. The IRS started going after medical marijuana businesses under the second Bush regime, and the IRS has continued doing so under Obama. In a fluke of how federal law is written, the IRS is arguing that businesses can actually deduct the cost of the marijuana that they're selling, but businesses cannot deduct other costs (rent, salaries, insurance, supplies) that any other business would normally deduct. If this doesn't change, almost all dispensaries will either go out of business or become tax evaders; either way, the federal government will be deprived of tax revenues. 9. This past spring, Obama's U.S. attorneys in Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Montana, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Washington state issued letters to local and state government officials at carefully chosen times, for the purpose of killing medical marijuana reform measures or hampering implementation in each state. 10. Over the last couple of years, medical marijuana businesses have been having trouble finding banking institutions that are willing to accept their money. When members of Congress asked Obama's Treasury Department for guidance, the Treasury Department said that each banking institution would have to determine its own tolerance for risk — without defining what might constitute a risky situation. And now, just in the past couple of weeks, the Obama administration has been scaring California banks into dropping all businesses that are involved with medical marijuana. 11. On September 21, Obama's ATF issued an open letter saying that gun shops cannot sell guns to medical marijuana patients — or people who are known to be addicted to drugs other than alcohol or tobacco, ironically enough. So those are the footnotes for the chart. Depressing, huh? But there may be a way forward through this mess: Since Colorado, Maine, and New Mexico set up state-licensing systems for medical marijuana businesses in recent years, literally zero such businesses in these three states have been raided by the feds. (All the raids we hear about — in California, Michigan, Montana, and Washington state — do not involve any state-licensed businesses. At best, some of the targeted businesses were licensed by local governments in California under a loosely worded provision of California state law.) Technically, federal prosecutors can civilly or criminally target any marijuana businesses they want — in any state — until we change federal law. But, for the time being, the feds appear not to be targeting medical marijuana businesses with state licenses. It's worth noting that my organization has successfully enacted new laws that include state licensing in Arizona, Delaware, Rhode Island, and Vermont over the last two years. (And D.C. and New Jersey have licensing systems, too.) So we may have a way forward. Unfortunately, the plan now assumes hostility from the former marijuana user in the White House who used to profess notions of hope, change, and compassion toward the less fortunate. Shame on him. Despite his 2008 campaign promises, President Barack Obama has been faltering on his original claims that he would allow medical marijuana to be left in the hands of individual states. His administration's Department of Health and Human Services recently refused to sell government-grown medical marijuana to MAPS for our approved research on American combat veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder. According to the argument presented in this article, compared to other United States presidents, Obama's recent actions surrounding medical marijuana may mark him as the worst president in history for medical marijuana.


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CSS Filter Effects landing in WebKit
Filter effects have been around for awhile but were designed to work in SVG. They're fantastically powerful at applying effects like color intensity, warping, or blurring to an image before it's composited and rendered into the document.
Well, way back in 2009 Mozilla said SVG wasn't enough! They ended up taking filters one step further and allowed them on HTML content in Firefox 3.5. Check out Paul Irish's timeless demo of SVG filters on a playing
<video>. Again, only works in Firefox but still the bees knees.
Flash forward to the end of 2011 and Adobe (plus others) have been hard at work bringing this amazing technology to CSS. Specifically, I'm referring to CSS Filter Effects 1.0, which WebKit has started to implement.
The magic happens with a new prefixed `filter' property in a style rule:
/* gray all images by 50% and blur by 10px */
img {
-webkit-filter: grayscale(0.5) blur(10px);
Enabling filters directly in CSS means that nearly any DOM element can take advantage of them! Images,
<canvas>, you name it. You can even [see what the web looks like without glasses](javascript:document.body.style.webkitFilter='grayscale(0.5) blur(3px)';return false;).
Try it out! (works in Chrome Canary and WebKit nightlies)
The spec also defines CSS shaders, which will eventually bring OpenGL shader technology to CSS. That's very VERY exciting! However, there are security considerations any time you open up the GPU of a system. For this reason, WebKit only has CSS filter functions implemented for now.
Chrome 18.0.976.0 (currently canary), Webkit nightly
In Webkit nightlies, filters can be applied to hardware accelerated content ( e.g.
img { -webkit-transform: translateZ(0); } ). In Chrome, filters on accelerated content are still a work in progress (use the
--enable-accelerated-filters flag). This includes
<video>, which is accelerated by default.


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They Have the Same Name We Have
The internet is run by a naughty bunch. No matter how sweet and innocent something might be, nothing is safe from being turned into a naughty and frankly vile meme. And we can't help but giggle when we see them, obviously.
sniggering meme creators have made meme to various explicit and crude situations from the shows.So, on that note, let's celebrate the very best ones. WARNING: These images will seriously ruin your childhood forever, and some are very NSFW.
1. Toy Story
Mind blown.
2.The Little Mermaid
They've got a point...
3. Spider-Man
Naughty Peter Parker causing mischief everywhere he goes.
We're so sorry.
5. We Also have the same name of the girls
Sophia for Sophia G Spot Vibe
Hope you ENJOY the names :)


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Are Microsoft Execs In Open Revolt?
Having been surpassed by Apple in smartphones, tablet computers and even market capitalization, Microsoft is reportedly undergoing something of an internal crisis: Senior executives are said to want to push out CEO Steve Ballmer. Oh, the humiliation.
It's one thing to face a coup in the cutthroat waters at, say, Oracle, or to fail to impress the coldly efficient robotic PhDs at Google, or the hipsters at Twitter. But Microsoft is just straight ahead nerdy and at the company started by uber-geek Bill Gates, Ballmer has long been embraced for his quirks, including screaming and profuse sweating to pump up the troops at company events, and self-consciously cornball comedy skits.
But after 30 years, some of Ballmer's fellow execs are rising against him, says Peter Lauria at the Daily Beast, finding him to be the biggest misfit in a company of misfits. That level of uncool has to sting, especially when rival Steve Jobs at Apple is revered as a God not just by Apple staff and fanboys, but by Wall Street, too. Even when reporting record earnings, as he did today, Ballmer gets no respect. The CEO's underlings might have few practical options for pushing him out, as Jena McGregor writes at the Washington Post, but Ballmer has to miss the love he enjoyed from underlings when Microsoft was riding higher. And make no mistake: When you turn your back on Steve, it burns.
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New Jersey Opera Theater is Off and Running As a Summer Resident at McCarter Theatre
Nancy Plum
New Jersey Opera Theater took on a lot this summer in its move from a student to professional theater organization. The company presented five productions in a two-and-one-half week period, plus a myriad of master classes and discussions on musical, production, and performance topics. In its move to McCarter Theatre, the company wisely stayed off the main stage, performing instead in the Berlind Theatre, a delightful space with stadium seating, so there is no bad seat in the house.
The third production of NJOT opened on Thursday night, the New Jersey premiere of Jules Massenet's rarely heard Chérubin, a saucy 19th century sequel to Mozart's Marriage of Figaro (also in NJOT's repertory this summer). Chérubin continues the story of the page Cherubino, known from Mozart's opera as a personification of conflicting innocence and burgeoning adolescence. In Massenet's opera, Cherubino is all grown up, but the innocence is long gone when this Chérubin is around, you'll want to lock up your teenage daughters. Like Mozart's Cherubino, Chérubin is a pants role for mezzo-soprano, and Amanda Polychronis' portrayal of this Lothario was so real it was creepy. Ms. Polychronis had a swagger that immediately set Chérubin apart from the rest of the men, and like the later 19th century Fledermaus character Prince Orlofsky, this character knows exactly what he was doing in his quest of just about every woman that walked. Ms. Polychronis sang the role with confidence, self-assurance, and vocal accuracy and style.
One of the best results of the Opera Theater's activities this summer was the wide arrany of singers who appeared in the productions, including the ancillary cast of Chérubin. The opera is introduced by Le Philosophe, sung by Michael Anthony McGee, a solid bass with a nice lyric quality to his voice. Le Philosophe surrounded himself with two other animated singers Jeremy Bolin as Le Compte and Kyle Hastings as Le Baron, creating scenes in which it seemed the solution to every problem was to draw a sword.
The true object of Chérubin's affections was Nina, sung by Westminster Choir College graduate Paige Cutrona. Ms. Cutrona, like most of the other singers of the cast, was able to fill the hall well with a lyric soprano, very forward in tone but suitable for the French language. Her first act aria, accompanied by solo cello, was especially elegant. Nina competed for Chérubin's love with La Comtesse, sung by Valerie Kraft; and La Baronne, sung by Kristen Dubenion-Smith. There is a great deal of dialog in this opera, and all of the singers kept the plot moving along with well handled scenes of speech. Director Marc Verzatt staged the production to accentuate the humorous, aided by the supertitles.
L'Ensoleillad is the great Spanish dancer invited to join the opera's opening celebrations, and is another female whom Chérubin has his eye on. Elizabeth Rosenberg commanded the stage well, whether enticing or repelling Chérubin, with a solid soprano voice well suited to 19th century repertoire.
In the Berlind Theater, the orchestra sits at the foot of the stadium seating, at times a bit too close for the thick orchestration of the opera, despite the limited number of players. With the ensemble this close, one can hear every flaw (although these were few once the opera got going). Conductor Mark Flint kept players and ensemble together well, in music that evoked 19th century Paris. An animated chorus could have used a bit more precision in the men, but added to the music and drama sufficiently.
Among the most impressive aspects of the production were the sets, designed by Hannah Price, combined with the lighting as designed by Barry Steele. Based on hues of blues and tans, the lighting and set together created a space which did not detract from the performers. NJOT spared no expense in costumes, and designer Marie Miller offered a wide variety of 19th century ensemble outfits for the characters.
New Jersey Opera Theater took a huge risk in moving to a significant venue and presenting as many events as the company did this past summer. The audience for Chérubin was a near full house, and from all appearances, their other productions also drew well. Many singers were involved in these productions, giving these performers summer employment and opportunities for new roles, both of which are critical. NJOT seems to be settling on a winter season of one production and a full array of summer activities, which would suit the audiences at Berlind Theater just fine.


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Drew Magary's Thursday Afternoon NFL Dick Joke Jamboroo runs every Thursday during the NFL season.
I know we've covered all the reasons why Patriots fans are horrible in the past. And yet, I feel as if the subject remains inexhaustible, like Robert Caro exploring the life of Lyndon Johnson. There's just so much ground to cover here, and every year, Pats fans manage to outdouche themselves.
Take last week, for instance, when Pats fans roundly booed their own team for daring to keep the Jets in the game and Simmons produced this pussy runoff of a column that featured fatalistic emails from Patriots fans:
The Patriots with a one score lead give me the same feeling as A-Rod batting in the 9th inning.
-Cory, Miami
Oh hey, a baseball analogy. Never saw that coming. Why do you people even WATCH football if you're just gonna spend all day baseballicizing it?
In February of 2005 Tom Brady was 27 years old, had three Super Bowls, and was coming into [h]is prime. Now he's 35, still has three Super Bowls and is exiting his prime. How is this possible? Trading 80% of your first round picks is a start. Wasted prime.
-Muzz, Woburn MA
That's a real email. Some fuckhead from Wooooooobuhn sat down and wrote that with 100 percent sincerity. POOR YOU. Tom Brady didn't win the seven Super Bowls you think he should have won because you had a few bad drafts. Truly, you are the longest of long-suffering fanbases. Never mind that you came within two plays of having FIVE Super Bowls, one as recently as eight goddamn months ago. No, no ... now you're snakebitten, am I to understand that correctly? FUCK YOU. Wasted prime? You won two conference titles! I'd fucking KILL for that. But to a shitheel Pats fan it's just: "Meh. Not a fackin' title. TOTAL WASTE."
And then there's Simmons's own contribution to this repulsive pity party:
I didn't even mention our Hall of Fame QB, who now takes two intentional groundings a game, throws it into traffic in the red zone and randomly ducks during pass plays even when nobody is behind him.
WAHHHHHHHHH FUCKING WAHHHHHHHHH. Your Hall of Fame QB, who is still markedly better than just about every other NFL quarterback, sometimes make mistakes now! OH THE FUCKING HORROR. Meanwhile, people in Cleveland have to watch Brandon Weeden from their bonfire shanties.
Drew Magary writes for Deadspin and Gawker. He's also a correspondent for GQ. Follow him on Twitter @drewmagary and email him at email@example.com.
You Pats fans have First World Sports Problems. You've been treated to a fucking DECADE of uninterrupted excellence and you dare ask for sympathy when your team—which is still an obvious AFC favorite, mind you—reverts ever so slightly to the mean? DIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE. DIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIE. You are all horrible people. I know you want every second of your fan experience to be some kind of Russian novel, but it isn't. You root for a really good team that's been really good for a really long time. So don't expect the rest of us to hand you tissues just because you're sad that the Patriots won in underwhelming fashion. I hope your stupid team loses a million billion games in the new decade. And I hope typhoid runs rampant in Gillette Stadium and it needs to be demolished for disinfectant purposes.
Pretty sure somewhere Tom Brady just ducked for no reason. What's the over/under on the number of games before he gets shipped to KC or San Diego?
-Dr. Jeff, Narragansett
OH MY FUCKING GOD. All of you, kill yourselves.
The Games
All games in the Jamboroo are evaluated for sheer watchability on a scale of 1 to 5 Throwgasms.
Five Throwgasms
Giants at Cowboys: We need to do something about the storm-warning graphics posted by local affiliates. The graphics take up 80 percent of the available screen space. Whenever one pops up during a game, I try to duck below the TV to see if I can see PAST the graphics. All for a goddamn rain alert. Half the time, the rain doesn't even hit your town. But no, let's just go ahead and plaster an alert the size of a nuclear-strike warning across the screen for 10 minutes because six people in East Scuttlefuck County are gonna get two inches tonight. AND WHY IS THERE A RADAR MAP ON THE SCREEN? I don't need all this. You people are punishing viewers at home just to validate your own soon-to-be-extinct weatherman jobs. Can we just replace meteorologists with on-camera iPhones already? I don't need this much of a weather alert.
Four Throwgasms
Falcons at Eagles: I bet people who quit watching football this season still watch movies all the time, conveniently ignoring the fact that STUNTMEN DIE. Yeah, you never thought of that, did you, Mr. High and Mighty?
By the way, our own David Roher compiled a whole historical record book of fantasy awards that I'll be fapping to for the rest of the day. Do enjoy.
Three Throwgasms
Saints at Broncos: I have to vote the week after next, and whenever I go to the polls, all I do is ask a nearby volunteer standing outside the electioneering area to give me a sample ballot showing me everyone I'm supposed to vote for. I bet those sample ballots handed out by Democrats and Republicans probably do more to help candidates win than any other form of political advertising. You could spend a billion dollars on a bunch of ads no one will pay attention to. But hand me a flyer that cost a tenth of penny that tells me whom to vote for, like the good sheep that I am? GOLD.
Redskins at Steelers: Apart from my own team, I'm pretty sure there's no other team I'd rather watch play right now than the Redskins. They could put every RG3 game in primetime and I wouldn't put up a fuss. It doesn't even matter if they go 6-10. Watching RG3 play is fucking awesome.
Seahawks at Lions: A friend of ours recently got a dog, and people who get dogs fail to understand that their dog causes every other family around to get Dog Fever, which is 10 times more powerful than Baby Fever. One glimpse of a new dog and your kids will bitch for YEARS to get one. My wife went up to me the other day.
HER: Maybe we should get them a pet.
ME: No. Fucking. Way.
HER: Not a dog. Just a little pet. Like a fish.
ME: Don't you get it, woman? A fish is a gateway pet. You get a fish, then the fish becomes a hamster, and then the hamster becomes a guinea pig, and then the guinea pig becomes a dog. All in the span of three months. You get a fish, you may as well get the dog and then kill yourself.
HER: All right, all right! You don't have to be such a dick about it.
ME: Yes, I do. Because dickishness is the only antidote to Dog Fever. NO DOGS. YOU WILL ALL WAIT 20 YEARS UNTIL WE GET ONE.
Two Throwgasms
Panthers at Bears: Halloween is next week. But if you have kids, you know that Halloween essentially started a week ago, because people jump the gun on Halloween all the fucking time. People in offices put out candy dishes on Oct. 1. Neighbors boo each other. Some people have Halloween-themed birthday parties with shitloads of candy sitting out. Halloween has been stretched out into the monthlong candykakke that will soon murder all of our endocrine systems. By the time actual Halloween is around, I've stuffed enough candy inside me that you could beat me with a broomstick and have 800 rolls of Smarties come spilling out.
By the way, I'm always on the lookout for new Halloween candy. If they make a fun size of that new caramel Milky Way, I'm jumping on that like a trampoline. Those peanut butter Snickers squares are also quickly climbing the rankings. When I see one in a Halloween bag, I grab that shit immediately. The kids don't even notice when I rob them blind. SUCKERS.
Dolphins at Jets: God, I love Yahoo's automated fantasy-game writeups, like this from my league from two weeks ago:
Makes my team's win feel so much more official to see it written up. And better writing than SportsGrid! Can't argue with that. Next year, I'm totally calling my team "My Manpussy." I won't even care if I lost every game.
Chargers at Browns: If you're stuck in a meeting or a class waiting for a doctor, I strongly recommend whipping out a pen and spelling your name in block letters. It makes you feel like a superstar. I spent half my academic career writing out my name and the name of my fictional metal band—DRAGONSLAYER—in block letters. It never gets old. LOOK AT HOW THICK THE LETTERS ARE. THAT'S TREMENDOUS.
One Throwgasm
Colts at Titans: There was some kind of food festival in the area last week, and so I went with my kids. And every time I go to something like this, I always forget about the possibility of crowds. Not once does it occur to me that there will be nowhere to park, and that five million other assholes will show up because they also have nothing better to do.
I got to the festival and there was a giant blinking sign that read "PARK HERE FOR SHUTTLE BUS TO EVENT." I don't think event planners understand how averse people are to taking parking shuttles. I'd rather lose a finger than ever have to stand there like a jackass and wait for a parking shuttle. I turned that car around instantly.
49ers at Cardinals: I really hate it when broadcasters use the term "young man" to describe any player. THIS YOUNG MAN HAS SUCH A BRIGHT FUTURE. You know what? You're not his coach. Or his dad. Or his headmaster. You're a guy in a booth. And he's another guy out on the field. Don't try to pull seniority on him. That's horseshit. YOU OLD MEN HAVE A LOT TO LEARN IF YOU WANT TO MAKE IT AS NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE BROADCASTERS.
By the way, Frank Gore has some serious skull cellulite. Like a head full of cottage cheese. Some people need hair.
Raiders at Chiefs: When he wasn't busy doing his whole "Baseball is so magic, you guys! How can you not love my Cards?" shit, Leitch took a moment last week to do an excellent writeup on the new Nets arena in Brooklyn:
The sightline onto the court is fine, but the angle is so steep, we found ourselves a bit terrified. It honestly felt like we were about to go down a ski slope.
I think one of the modern miracles of sports is that drunk people don't go tumbling down the upper deck stairway every week. I sat in the nosebleeds at the old Yankees Stadium once and all I could think was I'm gonna fall. I'm gonna slip on a peanut shell and go plummeting down the aisle, smashing my face on every step on the way down. Steep stadium seats are scary as shit.
Jaguars at Packers: I fucking hate that Ray Lewis Visa ad, where Ray-Ray gets all pissy that some reporter is actually asking him a difficult question, and then I'm supposed to be happy that some little girl walks up and asks him what his favorite fucking rainbow is or whatever. Screw that. Ray Lewis should be asked difficult questions 12 hours a day.
Bucs at Vikings: Sometimes, if I'm watching a game on the DVR, I'll press down on the skip button too hard or too long or something, and then it fast forwards all the way to NOW, and then I react as if I've just been stabbed. NONONONONO! TOO FAR! I DON'T WANT TO KNOW! LOOK AWAY!! Then I have to scramble to go back without ever looking at the score and praying I don't spoil it for myself. I am good at technology.
Rams vs. Patriots (in London): Lance Armstrong got stripped of his seven Tour de France titles this week. Denying history is a practice that, in America, is restricted almost exclusively to the world of sports. And even more amazing is that people almost always go along with it. Whoa hey, he got stripped of his titles! I guess he's officially dead to me now. It's a powerful thing, to strip someone of a sports title. Somehow, it has a broad-ranging impact on the culture despite the fact that stripping away a title doesn't really do anything. It doesn't rid you of a memory. It doesn't give you any more information than you already had. It's merely a direction, a command to everyone to forget all about this piece of nasty business. That's quite a trick to pull off, which is why we need to strip people of shit more often.
I wish we could strip records and titles from people outside of the sports world. After all, Lance Armstrong's disgrace has been in the works for years. I'm looking for bigger game. I'd like to see us begin stripping people of presidencies and Nobel Prizes and sexual conquests. If historians could find a way of stripping Warren Harding of his presidency—of vacating his years leading the country from the history books—then I think we'd be onto something. I don't know why vacating things is strictly the domain of sports and the Grammys and the Politburo. I see no reason why you shouldn't dump a terrible girlfriend by declaring to her: "I'm going to have to strip you of your three consecutive years as my one true love. Melanie down the street will now claim those titles. YOU WHORE." In general, it's always good to try and erase historical events, because THEN NOTHING BAD WILL EVER HAPPEN AGAIN.
Pregame Song That Makes Me Want To Run Through A Goddamn Brick Wall
"Healer," by Torche. Reader Jordo:
Think QOTSA's "Go w/ the Flow" with a gay lead singer. Torche's whole catalog is riff-tastic.
I can get on board with that. This is legitimately good shit. MOAR TORCHE PLEEZ.
Nazi Bill Simmons Lock of the Week!
Lots of sports sites, to demonstrate the arbitrary nature of gambling, like to have animals and random celebrities pick games to see if they can outwit their expert counterparts. There's no reason we at Deadspin can't also get in on the fun. So we've asked a fictionalized, Nazi version of popular sportswriter Bill Simmons to pick one game a week for us. Take it away, Nazi Simmons.
"This week, I like the Falcons getting 2.5 points on the road against the Eagles. By all means, Vegas, keep giving the Eagles too much credit. We really appreciate it. These Jews who set the lines in Vegas are so lazy, you know? They think they can just swindle good white Christians out of their money by setting these ridiculous point spreads. Go ahead and keep doing it, Vegas. Keep talking yourself into the Eagles by two-and-a-half. Soon I'll have enough of your gelt to buy ESPN and finally make Jew House—my reality-show idea about 16 Jews living together in one house, with one being killed by audience vote at the end of every week—a real show. Look for David Jacoby to write recaps of Jew House every week over at Fatherland!"
2012 Nazi Simmons record: 2-4
Chris Johnson Memorial Fantasy Player Who Deserves To Die A Slow, Painful Death
Matt Stafford, who salvaged a terrible game on Monday night with a touchdown pass in garbage time. But still, holy shit has he fallen off the face of the Earth. He and Cam Newton should just walk around wearing t-shirts that say, "I'M SORRY, AMERICA."
As for Chris Johnson, reader Danny says:
I was burned by him last year and smartly avoided him in the draft this year. So far this year, it has brought me great joy to see him suck the life out of another team. Like I did last year, this year's owner has tried to pawn Johnson off on anyone stupid enough to take him. I happily refused multiple times, telling the team's owner what an idiot he was for taking Johnson in the draft. I finally got to play this guy in Week 7, who only started Johnson because four other players were on bye. Johnson rushes for 2 TDs and 195 yards and destroys my team. What an asshole.
Gregg Easterbrook Is A Haughty Dipshit
I hope that Gregggggg spends this week picking apart half of the Criminal Minds oeuvre. Why doesn't that show feature more people being searched in airport terminals?
Last night the final presidential debate and "Monday Night Football" aired simultaneously. Sports nuts and political junkies were torn.
Because those two groups have so much in common!
Why not combine the events? This is what "Monday Night Football" would sound like if it used a presidential debate format:
I'm gonna spare you Gregggggg's comedy routine here. Suffice it to say, it took the crab cake.
"Inexcusable" seems the word for the disintegration of the Detroit Lions... Detroit players continue to dance and strut as if they were holding the Lombardi Trophy, when in fact they reside in the cellar.
Sounds like an acute case of GLORYBOYISM. As always, Greggg would like to note that losing teams lose because they are bad people, and not simply because they play poorly. I'm sick of all this me-first dancing and strutting and cock-walking. WHO DO THESE YOUNG MEN THINK THEY ARE?!
They have invested recent first- and second-round choices in tailbacks Jahvid Best and Mikel Leshoure, both perennially injured.
The lesson, as always: NEVER take anyone in the first or second round. You're just asking for it, frankly.
TMQ readers are aware that one of my bête noirs is action movies with air shafts large enough to hold car washes and drive-through burger joints.
Other TMQ bêtes noires:
• Jews
• Dancers
• People who stay out past midnight
• Mainstream media people who failed to pick up on TMQ's expose of the Winnipeg Observatory's wasteful spending practices
• Cellists
• More Jews
That a team receiving the opening kickoff and scoring a field goal on that possession can end the contest with a recovered onside kick is a little-known quirk of the new NFL overtime format.
But TMQ knew! He knows all the little things that you, YOU DISGUSTING FAT MASSES, fail to notice. Aren't you glad he's here to show you the way? Bow down before your Football God God.
What coach will be the first bold enough to try this?
Uh ... none of them, because it's still almost certainly better to kick off?
Houston just chewed up the Baltimore offense, holding Joe Flacco to a 45.4 passer rating, barely north of the 39.6 rating an NFL quarterback receives if every one of his passes clangs to the ground incomplete.
CLANGGGGGG! I think we all know that a ball bouncing off Field Turf sounds exactly like a tuning fork being dropped on a bathroom floor.
Andy Ashkar of Camillus, N.Y., was revealed to have won $5 million in a lottery six years ago, and to have waited till the last possible moment to claim the prize. According to the Syracuse Post-Standard, Ashkar feared the huge sum "would negatively influence his life." He claimed the money only after deciding to split it with his brother Nayel. Andy Ashkar, congratulations for making a spiritually sophisticated decision.
Gregg Easterbrook, GOD OF THE LOTTERY GODS, applauds your restraint and has now instructed the Lottery Gods to stock your home with many tasteful books, including all of the ones written by Gregg himself.
By the way, why didn't Andy take the money right away and then invest it in some kind of locked fund so that it would grow? Or is that not spiritual?
Next summer's "Man of Steel" is a reboot of the 2006 "Superman Returns," which did not even have the dignity to be a reboot, instead being a remake of the 1978 "Superman: The Movie."
It was a sequel to the Richard Donner Superman movies, not a remake. Such errors are my bête noire. ISN'T IT FUN TO NITPICK, GREGGGGGG?
Cleveland trailed 17-13 and faced fourth-and-1 on the Indianapolis 41 halfway through the fourth quarter. When the punt boomed, TMQ wrote the words "game over" in his notebook.
One day I'm gonna steal that notebook and find that it just says "GAME OVER" written in crayon over and over again.
Suicide Pick Of The Week
Last week's picks of the Oakland, New England, and Buffalo went 2-1, putting me at 13-8 for the season. Again we pick three teams for your suicide pool and something that makes you want to commit suicide. This week, the picks are Green Bay, Chicago, San Francisco, and MSNBC's print ads. Look at these things.
If you people want to run for office, run for office. You aren't a bunch of elder statesmen.
Great Moments In Roach Killing History
Reader Ken sends in this story:
I used to live in Tallahassee Florida, which is an armpit and home to every awful insect imaginable. Because of the heat and humidity, the roaches grow to epic sizes and they fly. After a hard night's rain, they run all over the streets. One late night while home alone, I spied a toaster oven-sized roach scurrying around what passed for our living room. I immediately sprang into action and made a mad dash to assassinate him. I hit him once pretty hard, but a large Florida roach is remarkably athletic and this one scampered off and hid out. I searched around but couldn't find him.
Having lived around them a long time, I knew I hadn't seen the last of this bug. I didn't finish the job. He would come back when I least expect it to seek revenge. I became really paranoid and convinced the roach would climb into my bed that night. I know that sounds nuts but I actually kept the light on and couldn't fall asleep. A little after 2 am, I don't know what caused me to glance over at the edge of my mattress, but there they were, two wiggling antenna. I jumped out of bed, and sure enough, there was the roach, just as I'd crazily imagined. I've never felt so vindicated and panic-stricken. I immediately beat him to death, flushed his body and slept like a baby.
That roach had a good plan but I was one step ahead. Roaches will seek revenge.
This is why Florida must be destroyed.
Fire This Asshole!
Is there anything more exciting than a coach losing his job? All year long, we'll keep track of which coaches will almost certainly get fired at year's end or sooner. And now, your potential 2012 chopping block:
• Mike Holmgren (FIRED!)
• Marty Hurney (FIRED!)
• Norv Turner
• Mike Munchak
• Chan Gailey
• Jason Garrett
• Greg Schiano
• Jim Schwartz
• Pete Carroll
• Rex Ryan
• Romeo Crennel
• Pat Shurmur
• Ron Rivera
• Mike Shanahan
• Andy Reid
(*-possible midseason firing)
Even though the Jets are terrible, I kinda think Rex Ryan might not get fired at the end of this year. I mean, they have no business being competitive with anyone, and yet they easily could have beaten New England if Antonio Cromartie or Stephen Hill could catch a fucking ball.
In other news, here's a quote from Chargers GM and noted penis AJ Smith this week:
"Obviously we cannot play as a team. We appear to not be able to handle adversity or finish games. Individual and team confidence appears to be going south. In the next 10 games, we will either rally and see a slow, steady rise from the ashes to a division championship, or the beginning of a new era in Chargers football."
A friend of mine who likes the Chargers says: "This is great because he's acting as if that new era will also employ him. FUCK HOLE, HE IS."
Gametime Snack Of The Week
Kitchen-sink cookies. They had these at my neighborhood Halloween party last year and I plowed through half the Tupperware container. I am a cum dumpster for cookies. I never stop eating them.
By the time we had to go trick-or-treating for real, I was already stuffed and on the verge of nausea. But did that stop me from eating candy? IT DID NOT. I bravely plowed through and ate enough Snickers Minis to make my heart explode. I'm a healthy person.
Gametime Cheap Beer Of The Week
Cave Creek Chili Beer! Reader Patrick sends in this spicy dogshit from the bullet-ridden wasteland of Arizona.
Originally brewed in Arizona, now moved to Mexico, this spicy brew features a Serrano Pepper that is "hand-dropped" into every bottle.... Got to question the hygiene of this process a little, AMIRITE?
I have always been suspicious of a beer that has on its package "Best When Served EXTREMELY Cold". I found that this is because at any other temperature, it is undrinkable. Curiously foamy, REALLY spicy, and has an aftertaste that puts one in mind of hangover fueled by Taco Bell... Not a good thing.
When I went to U. Michigan for a semester, there was a Taco Bell near campus that I used to go to every day. And every day, I would get a bean burrito because it was the cheapest thing on the menu and I didn't have much free cash on me. To this day, the idea of eating one more Taco Bell bean burrito makes me wanna throw up. So many beans. It really does feel like you're eating out someone's ass after a while. Oh, and this beer looks horrid. I MUST HAVE IT.
Robert Evans's MVP Watch!
Time to start thinking about who the leaders will be for the NFL's MVP award. So every week, legendary Hollywood producer Robert Evans will join us to give us his assessment. Take it away, Mr. Evans.
"Baby, my favorite for NFL MVP is still Robert Griffin III of the Redskins! A lot of people are talking about the fabulous Lana Wachowski this week. Talented? YOU BET! Born with a penis? ABSOLUTELY. But let me tell you, ol' Lana isn't exactly a trailblazer in the world of tranny directors. Let me tell you a little story about John Waters. Strange guy. Always made sure there were two 500-pound women flanking him everywhere he went. I know a lot of people think of John as a kind of zany uncle type, but I think he was deeply disturbed. One night at Woodland, he opened up his briefcase for me and there was a dead rabbit inside.
"'Isn't that crazy?' he asked me.
"'Sure, John,' I said. 'Now, why don't we do some normal things, like snort some blow and make it with a couple of starlets in a tub of Hershey's Syrup?'
"But John wasn't interested, of course. He only liked albino pre-teen boys. He pulls me to into a corner and tells me he wants to show me something. Now, I was hoping that John would consider directing a musical version of Citizen Kane I had lined up called Citizen Can-Can. It would have been BIG. Instead, Waters pulls down his skinny suit pants and all I see is a tuft of hair and what looks like a butterflied chicken breast.
"'The hell is that?' I ask.
"'It's my new vag!' Waters screams. 'Isn't that OUTRAGEOUS?'
"Turns out ol' John got his genitals re-done every year, just for the sake of kitsch. He's a man in odd years, a woman in even years. Last time he took his pants down at my house, it looked like a giant melanoma. I won't be inviting him back."
Sunday Afternoon Movie Of The Week For Browns Fans
The Color of Money. This movie has the shittiest ending of any movie ever. (SPOILER AHEAD) I spent two hours waiting for Newman and Cruise to face off, and when Newman finally breaks, the movie ENDS. What in the living fuck? You guys have some nerve.
Gratuitous Simpsons Quote
"I've just enrolled in the screenwriting class. I yearn to tell the story of an idealistic young Hindu, pushed too far by convenience store bandits. I call it 'Hands Off My Jerky, Turkey'."
Enjoy the games, everyone.


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