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This week, I present the fourth in my series about essential attitudes and understandings that you'll need to successfully manage your retirement portfolio. Once you've developed an optimistic view of the future, shunning the temptation to chase past performance and avoiding inadvertent speculation, the time has come to face the reality that math isn't fair.
Mathematics is the language of financial planning and investing. And just like any other language, it can be mastered only by study and frequent use. I am a left brained, number-crunching calculator head. My undergraduate degree is in mathematics and I've never met a chart or graph that I didn't like. Unfortunately, few people are mathematically fluent. Here's a quiz—
A $10,000 investment goes up 10% in year one and down 10% in year two. After two years will the value be less than, equal to or greater than $10,000?
The investment grows to $11,000 in the first year and declines to $9,900 in the second year. Although the average annual rate of return is zero, the annualized rate of return, the only one that matters to your portfolio, is -0.5%. It's not fair.
If the investment goes down 10% in the first year and up 10% in the second year will this change the answer?
Its value will decline to $9,000 in the first year and rebound to $9,900 in the second year—the end result is the same. It's not fair.
The lesson to be learned is that a percentage loss hurts your portfolio more than an equal percentage gain helps it. Oh, if only it wasn't so. It doesn't matter whether the loss or gain occurs first, any percentage loss can only be erased by a larger percentage gain. For example, losing 50% in a $10,000 investment leaves you with $5,000. A 100% gain is required to return to $10,000.
The mathematics of gains and losses is the reason why stock market volatility can be so devastating. Assume that investments A and B will have the following returns for the next 10 years. Which one would you rather own?
Investment A is very volatile with spectacular returns in five of the 10 years. Losses in four of the five down years will be only half of the prior year's gain. In no year will a loss be greater than the prior year's gain. Yet, its average annualized rate of return for the decade would be only 2.2% and a $10,000 investment would grow to $12,380 vs. $13,439 for investment B. The mathematics of gains and losses is the culprit behind this surprising result—which would be the same regardless of the sequence of returns.
Often, the allure of potential high returns leads investors to buy inappropriate investments. More often than not, the sales pitch for these investments never mentions volatility and would not pass muster if the buyer was mathematically fluent. Most investors couldn't handle the volatility of investment A. Volatility often leads to poor, panic-driven decisions. You probably know someone whose portfolio was devastated by the volatility that stocks experienced from October 2007 to March 2009. Having sold in panic, they have remained on the sidelines and missed the bull market that we have enjoyed since then.
Unfortunately; too many financial professionals believe that it is their duty to provide clients market-beating returns. As a result many portfolios contain potential volatility that exceeds their owner's risk tolerance. Am I the only person who thinks that there's a big disconnect here? Wise investors place a high value on low volatility and slow and steady growth over the long term. In the example above, a higher annualized rate of return accompanied by less volatility would lead them to choose investment B.
Few investors have calculated the target rate of return necessary to meet their retirement goals. Having a greater portfolio allocation to stocks than necessary is asking for trouble. Higher stock allocations are accompanied by greater volatility and investors rarely benefit when volatility is combined with the mathematics of gains and losses.
The time that it takes to recover from a loss is more than just a function of market returns. The unfair laws of mathematics are also at work, making the time for recovery longer than most investors realize. This is why the first rule of good financial planning is to minimize damage. Having a fluency in the language of mathematics is one of the most powerful defensive weapons at your disposal. If you feel math-challenged, do yourself and your family a favor. Find a trustworthy financial planner to act as your "math translator".

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Gun Culture, USA
And what comes then comes from my friends who love their guns? This, now making the rounds of the gun nut Facebook page nearest you:
Welcome to the world the NRA has created. Sure, some people demand that we do something!, but it's theatre. Nothing gets done. True, most of the proposals for what to do are hasty and only vaguely more informed than the above graphic. (I've long been skeptical that we can do much of anything about gun violence in the US, given the realities. Still, practical, reasonable measures could help — treat guns like cars, for instance. But such ideas are politically impossible.) The general lack of quality to our national conversation on guns is not some fluke. It was created and is sustained by wealthy interests. The NRA fundraises and fundraises, lobbies and lobbies. Their leaders will do their best to look sad and concerned and serious, but don't miss the dollar signs in their eyes. They've spent decades training a solid subset of their membership into paranoia, which for the NRA means training those people to respond to tragedies by sending money and spreading macho idiocy.
Funding for studies by the CDC of gun violence has fallen 96% since 1996. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, & Explosives has been crippled by the NRA's minions in Congress. Including blackmarket weapons, there are almost certainly more guns than people in the U.S., but they're owned by a minority of the population. And only a small group of that minority buys into the paranoid ideology of the NRA. But boy do they buy into it. They buy the gear and they buy the hooks, lines, and sinkers. They buy and they buy and they buy.
|NRA's America's First Freedom magazine, November 2012
Want to make money even in a difficult economy? Get a Federal Firearms License and open a gun shop. The best locations are in states with lax gun laws of their own that border states with tougher gun laws. You'll get lots of loyal customers, many of them wealthy, from over the border. Stock mostly military-style guns and pistols, the sorts of things that the liberal politicians are always complaining about. Stoke your sense of being a rebel and also your sense of being an oppressed minority (nobody understands the healthy, Constitutional need for lots of guns except your friends and customers; even some of your family members may look askance; people judge you, they don't understand you, they probably want to disarm you and make you weak and vulnerable, but you'll show them, won't you?). Jack up your prices. Remind your customers that the jackbooted thugs will be confiscating these guns as soon as they can get their grubby pinko hands on them. Best to own ten. No, ten's too few. The more you own, the less likely it is that the people who fly the black helicopters will be able to find them all. And you know about the ammo shortages, right? Do you really want to be caught without enough ammo when the shit goes down? Don't you have a family to protect? Don't you have a sense of your own patriotic duty? Well, then, don't ever have fewer than 5,000 — no, preferably 10,000 rounds of ammo for each of your weapons. Because you never know. Have you heard what they're talking about in Congress? Have you seen the latest bulletin from the NRA? Well, then you know things are dire, friend. Maybe you should buy another. Just in case. You never know...
And then you, the owner of the gun store, can sit back and count your cash. Sure, some of your customers will kill themselves, some of the family members of your customers will kill themselves, and some of those folks might even kill other people. But so it goes. Profit is American.
Don't tell anybody, but be sure to vote for Democrats. Business isn't all that great when a Republican is president. The customers get complacent and some of them begin to wonder what they need all those guns for, all that ammo. Encourage your customers to help the NRA, but you yourself should probably donate to the Brady Campaign, because it does wonders for business. You can spew all sorts of toxic rhetoric about them in the shop, but you know that the people who publicly call for major gun control laws are helping to make you rich. Enjoy the irony. Enjoy the money. Enjoy the tragedies.


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In this lesson, students participate in a skit presenting a mock-up of a planetary surface rover they designed. Students will be able to: demonstrate their knowledge of Mars and rovers by presenting their team skit; present their rover, its... (View More) requirements and features to the class; answer questions asked by the class based on research conducted during the unit; incorporate feedback from others and ideas from other presentations into student work. The lesson plan has a number of appendices, including: standards alignment, essential question, and exit ticket. This is Lesson 15 of the elementary school version of the 6-week Mars Rover Celebration curriculum. (View Less)
In this lesson, students will design a planetary surface rover to conduct a planetary surface investigation. It uses the 5E learning cycle and is designed around an essential question: How will creating a prototype of your rover help you prepare for... (View More) the Mars Rover Celebration? The lesson objectives are to: learn about scientific careers to gain a better understanding of a sampling of careers that have contributed to designing and developing Curiosity; draw a detailed, final-design sketch/diagram of the rover that will be built; identify missions, requirements and features of the rover using labels and captions when necessary. A number of appendices are provided, including standards alignment. This is Lesson 12 of the elementary school version of the 6-week Mars Rover Celebration curriculum. (View Less)
In this multi-day activity, students use infrared and visible images of animals and sort them into broad categories based upon the learner's own reasoning and observations of the images. Further explorations reveal that warm and cold-blooded animals... (View More) can be identified and characterized using infrared images. The lesson features background information for the teacher, pre-requisite skills and knowledge for the student, a mini-exploration of Infrared Image Technology, multiple image sets, assessment information, student worksheets, extension and transfer activities, and additional resources. This is lesson 1 on the Infrared Zoo website. (View Less)
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Predicting Weather by Connecting the Basic Cloud Types with Information Collected from the Weather Station
In this activity, students are challenged to predict the next day's weather based on cloud observations, prevailing winds, and barometric measurements over a period of several days. The activity can be done as guided or open-ended inquiry and serves... (View More) as an authentic assessment to conclude a unit on weather. Resources needed to conduct this activity include weather instruments, some of which can be constructed from household materials. The resource includes background information, a pre-activity inquiry exploration for students, teaching tips and questions to guide student discussion. This is chapter 16 of Meteorology: An Educator's Resource for Inquiry-Based Learning for Grades 5-9. The guide includes a discussion of learning science, the use of inquiry in the classroom, instructions for making simple weather instruments, and more than 20 weather investigations ranging from teacher-centered to guided and open inquiry investigations. (View Less)
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This is a lesson about the field of astrobiology, the study of life in the universe, and ice as a preservative for evidence of life. Learners will consider the relationship between ice and life as they investigate the conditions required for life to... (View More) exist and sustain itself. They will study the impact of freezing on microbes and life processes and will learn about extremophiles, organisms that live in extreme conditions. Activities include small group miming, speaking, drawing, and/or writing. This is lesson 8 of 12 in the unit, Exploring Ice in the Solar System. (View Less)
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In a positive way, you might say that Ron Beals is chicken.
In a positive way, you might say that Ron Beals is chicken.
It's a reputation he's earned for being the chicken bar-b-cue master at the Liberty Hall Club for more than 20 years, preparing twice yearly feasts to help support the village scholarship fund, Village Day, the Liberty Hall building on Main Street and advance its historical significance to the village.
The club bar-b-cue will be held beginning at 4 p. m. Sunday at Liberty Hall. The dinner, which includes baked potato, "Bob McClusky's special cole slaw," cranberry sauce, rolls, watermelon, punch and coffee is $9 and orders can be made up "to go."
Beals said some of the proceeds go to the Village Day scholarship fund and some to maintain the building. "We're going to have to pay taxes this year. That's about another two thousand. They're clamping down on non-profits," Beals said, "unless you're a church." He pauses, looks at you, and adds: "You want to preach?"
The bar-b-cue predates the Village Day that began 18 years ago, says Beals, a Taunton native who learned the art of fowl grilling from "Ed LaFleur, a part-time turkey farmer in Taunton."
When Beals moved to the Cape, he went to work for Ed LaFleur's son, electrician Ray LaFleur, a member of the Liberty Hall Club, who had also moved to the Cape.
"Ray has the secret recipe for the sauce," Beals winks, "but he is sort of passing it on."
Beals said each serving is a half chicken. They are purchased through the popular Sam Diego's Restaurant in Hyannis. "Clarke Buchanan, one of the partners at Sam Diego's, is a member of the (Liberty Hall) club," Beals said.
"Last year we served 230 meals on Village Day." This year Beals and a crew of volunteers are preparing 250 meals," he said optimistically.


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Bundesliga: Augsburg 1 Schalke 2
Klaas-Jan Huntelaar scored twice as Schalke came from behind to cement their grip on a UEFA Champions League spot by beating Augsburg 2-1.
The Dutchman displayed clinical form in front of goal to guide Jens Keller's men to a victory that sees them leapfrog Bayer Leverkusen into third place ahead of their visit to Bayern Munich on Saturday.
However, the visitors had looked set for a defeat against sixth-placed Augsburg, who themselves have hope of a place in the top four, when Tobias Werner put Markus Weinzierl's side in front after just five minutes.
Midfielder Werner capitalised on an ill-advised header back to goal from Schalke defender Tim Hoogland to slot a cool finish past Ralf Fahrmann and into the bottom corner.
But Schalke found a way back into the game 12 minutes before half-time as Huntelaar netted his first.
The striker tapped in a rebound from close range after Kevin-Prince Boateng had been skillfully played in by Julian Draxler, only to see his effort saved by Alexander Manninger.
And Huntelaar completed the turnaround four minutes after the interval, slotting home from Sead Kolasinac's pull-back to finish off a sweeping move from the visitors.
Draxler then had a goal disallowed for offside, but that proved immaterial as Schalke hung on despite a late onslaught from the hosts.


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This is a modified version of the Wii Classic Controller? library by Tim Hirzel to be compatible with Arduino 1.0. I (Robbert Brandsma/brandrob) also added a define (REPORT_ON_HOLD) that will modify the behaviour of a button that is pressed for two or more updates. When defined (the behaviour of the original library), a button press will only be reported once. When not defined, a button press will be reported for as long as the button is held.
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My favorite high school athletic moment is:
Winning the first ever girl's basketball state championship title my senior year in the school's history.
My favorite class or professor at Brandeis is:
Introduction to Literary Studies [with Laura Quinney] because it's the first step in becoming an English major, and also because I really enjoy the literature we read in class.
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I knew I would be challenged both academically and athletically and I also love the campus and the community feel of Brandeis.
My favorite meal at Brandeis or in Waltham is:
the gyro from Wilson's Diner.
AND MORE: Four year starter at point guard for the basketball team and at center back for the soccer team at Coginchaug Regional High School... Led the Blue Devils to the 2012 Connecticut State Class S title... Was a first-team All-Shoreline Conference selection five times, including twice in basketball and three times in soccer... Has worked at the TPC Golf Course in Cromwell, Conn., at The Travelers PGA event held there.


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The Microbe Discovery Project outlines an ambitious new study by top researchers that has collected patient samples, but needs desperately funds to complete the work.
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I went to a Jimmy Buffett concert Friday morning. No, seriously.
As a way of unveiling the new name and logo for Landshark Stadium, the one formerly known as Dolphins, then Joe Robbie, then Pro Player, then Dolphins again, then Dolphin Stadium, new owner Stephen Ross is enlisting the help of his friend Jimmy Buffett.
Buffett, who has been invited to join the Dolphins as a minority owner but has not committed, performed three songs at the venue before invited media and serveral "VIP" guests that included men in hula skirts, people wearing fake parrots as headgear, and yes, even makeup. It was quite a scene with Dolphins great Kim Bokamper and Dolphins mediocre Joe Rose dancing with one another as if drunk and in love.
The new logo is a fin rising out of a depiction of the stadium.
As I told you first in a post about three weeks ago, Ross wants to glamorize Dolphins games. He wants people to think of game day as an event that transcends football. He wants to make Landshark Stadium the place to be on home game Sundays in the fall and winter. And to do that, in part, he intends to attract and invite A-B-C- and D-listers to the games as well as athletes and celebrities from other sports.
The only "celebrity" at the venue Friday, aside from former Miami players, was former Miami Heat center Alonzo Mourning.
Ross intends to institute a
red aqua orange carpet so paparazzi can get their shots of the so-called stars before they parade around the field prior to the game, then head behind the windows of their private suites. (Yeah, you didn't think Paris Hilton was going to sit in the stands did you?)
So why am I telling you this?
Because it is freaking, fracking fascinating when you consider that the new owner is trying to turn the business side of the organization into something of a showcase while the guy running the football operation loves collecting lunch pail players and fielding a blue collar team.
It is a startling contrast of approaches within the same organization.
Ross wants the beautiful people to come out to his games. He wants stars and glitz. He wants the Dolphins organization to represent and embody South Florida, Miami, and South Beach with all its diversity and flavors and attractions.
Bill Parcells wants a team made of players that make a living behind facemasks and are happy staying relatively anonymous. Did you see the Parcells video a couple of posts ago on this blog? He warns his quarterback against being "a celebrity quarterback."
"We don't need any of those," Parcells admonishes.
And I know he pretty much feels the same way about running backs, and tight ends and defensive ends and safeties and every other position on the field. Parcells would rather his players not write books and not appear on reality or interview shows. He'd be fine with a namelss, faceless band that just thinks, eats and breathes football.
So you have the juxtaposition of those two different approaches within the same organization -- one on the business and marketing end, the other on the football side. And I would tell you neither is wrong. But neither is completely right.
Let's face it, the reason people want to buy tickets is to see their team win. And the stars that really attract fans are usually in the game. Sure, it would be cool to go to a football game and, by chance, see Jennifer Aniston walking to her suite. But that experience would not be worth a nickel if you're walking out of the stadium later unhappy because your team hasn't enough firepower to beat great opponents.
So the hope is the Dolphins soon find some bigtime stars on the football roster. While the stars in sunglasses and walking with entourages don't get in the way of the real show.
[BLOG NOTE: I saw former receiver Nat Moore and safety Shawn Wooden at the event today. We talked for a while and out of those conversations I will tell you on this blog on Saturday the importance of veteran leadership and how a lack of that hurt John Beck and continues to hurt Ted Ginn Jr. So check back Saturday for that insight from two men worthy of respect.]


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By David Duenas
Finally, the first rain of the summer comes at the end of it. And it is soft… I can hardly hear it even now. Outside it is still warm, and the rain is warm too. They are soft delicate kisses on the skin…earth, raw cement, the flesh of leaves and windblown whispers… Everyone's secrets spinning rhythmically in the rain. And the subtlety of it is so tight and small, it is mostly silence. But a musical silence, as when a boy is caught looking at the object of his affection, and she returns his stare, at first confused, and then delighted.
The rain tonight won't mean anything, and doesn't need to. It needs only to touch, extend its arm and reach to the surface of anything, and hold and fall like lovers on an unmade bed. To dry up and age and become nothing once again. To be, finally, beautiful.


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Adam Lambert to Star on 'Pretty Little Liars' Halloween Special
A new "A" is set to make an appearance on everyone's favorite show 'Pretty Little Liars,' specifically Adam Lambert! Let's just say that the town of Rosewood is about to get rocked, just… without the murder and missing young teenage girls and all. Again. Well, we think anyway.
It turns out that the 'American Idol' runner-up will be filming a role for the hit ABC Family show as early as next week! News of the casting move was first reported by Ryan Seacrest on his radio show, and he noted that Lambert's episode will air in October; just about that time when girls everywhere will get a "desperately needed fix" of the show two months after the season's end.
Since the current said season is about to come to an end in mid-August — we know, we know, we're kind of buggin' about it too — the show is already teasing the new season with a Halloween based episode; Lambert will be making his onscreen appearance alongside 'PLL' cutie Lucy Hale, who plays Aria, and will also be singing two songs. "Yep— imma be a Pretty Little Liar!" read a tweet from Lambert, confirming the news.
And while we were kind of surprised by the addition of Lambert (no one really famous has stepped foot on to the set), we're kind of excited to see where the writers will take this. At least Mr. Seacrest sees this as a good move on the show's part. "Is there a better pick than Glambert for that episode?" said Seacrest. "That guy is a Halloween party on two legs!"
We're kind of hoping for a 'Rocky Horror Picture Show' theme here! He'd make a killer Frank-N-Furter!
Listen to Ryan Seacrest Announce Adam Lambert's New Role


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First I have to express an obscene amount of gratitude to Bowman Dickson for illuminating what will be challenging for students learning related rates, and sharing how he deals with it. I basically just took his post and reorganized it into a lesson that will work for me. This post will probably make more sense if you read his first.
Second, I have been thinking this morning about what this lesson has to do with the recent discussion at dy/dan. There's probably a way to turn these into a problem we could pose without words through the cunning use of video production skills I don't have. It's really fun to think about.
Here's what I'm giving the kids. Here are relevant documents: handout for the kids, smart notebook file, ggb's that I made.
Update: Mimi Yang, a.k.a. thebomb.com, revised the cone tank ggb to reflect a constantly changing volume. That file is in there too.
SUPA Calc Lesson 4-6 : Fold this paper in half to hide the bottom half. Please don't look at the example problem while we are doing the investigation. It will just get in the way of your learning.
1. Blow up a balloon!
2. Go here: http://bit.ly/calcballoon
3. Figure out everything you can about rates with the balloons. Record your observations below… (there is no one right way to do this. Make it make sense to you.)
4. Which one is more like inflating a real balloon and why? Write about it.
5. What is going on with the other one? Write about it.
Air is being pumped into a spherical balloon so that its volume increases at a rate of 100 cm3/s. How fast is the radius of the balloon increasing when the diameter is 50 cm?
(Here, we'll set up a solution with a diagram, givens, equation, etc, in a very structured way.)
6. Go here: http://bit.ly/calclad
7. The model depicts a 10-foot ladder leaning against a wall. If the bottom of the ladder slides along the floor at a constant rate, what happens at the top of the ladder? Why? How did you figure it out? Write about it below.
A ladder 10 ft long rests against a vertical wall. If the bottom of the ladder slides away from the wall at a rate of 1 ft/s, how fast is the top of the ladder sliding down the wall when the bottom of the ladder is 6 ft from the wall?
8. Go here: http://bit.ly/calccone
9. A conical tank is filling with water. Use the slider to change the height of the water in the tank. How are the height and radius related? How are the height, radius, and volume related? Write about it.
10. Imagine you are standing in a municipal pumping station, watching this tank being filled with water. What do you think is more likely: (a) the height of the water is changing at a constant rate, (b) the radius of the water is changing at a constant rate, or (c) the volume of the water is changing at a constant rate? Why?
A water tank has the shape of an inverted circular cone with base radius 2 m and height 4 m. If water is being pumped into the tank at a rate of 2 m3/min, find the rate at which the water level is rising when the water is 3 m deep.


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The University of Northern Iowa volleyball team (24-9) received a bid to the NCAA volleyball tournament on Sunday. The Panthers will be going up against the Kansas State Wildcats (21-8) in the first round match on Thursday at 5:30 p.m. in Lincoln, Nebraska. The other match up in Lincoln features Maryland Eastern shore and No. 4 seed Nebraska.
The Panthers will be making their 18th overall NCAA appearance, and this is seventh consecutive season they have made the NCAA tournament. UNI is 13-17 all-time in the NCAA tournament and have advanced to the Sweet 16 on three occasions, most recently in 2002. Last season, the Panthers defeated Niagara (3-0), before falling to Florida (3-1) in the second round.


text: I have attempted to create a twist and a niche to everyday photography. I enjoy the color and patterns of God's unique designs. Muddled photography is altering and 'muddling' photographs in such a way as to frame and focus. Designs, shapes, and colors are often taken for granted because we see them everyday or their beauty is buried beneath a host of other things. Often distractions draw our attention away from an object's unique features. When a certain pattern or design is framed in an abstract way, the pattern or design can often be better appreciated or appreciated anew. Often times when a photograph is created in a hue or adjusted in ways in which our eyes are not accustomed to seeing it, the object's fresh sense of beauty takes on a fresh appreciation.I've also chosen to add character to the artwork by naming these altered photos in a unique fashion. The titles I choose for the photos are added to the finished piece in lower case lettering and with no spacing or grammatical symbols so that the title 'A Beautiful Flower Along the Neighbor's Fence' appears on the muddle work as 'abeautifulfloweralongtheneighborsfence' carrying on the muddled effect.I usually have at least a small portion of the original photo left to shine through amidst the muddle. I believe our world is full of confusion and pain. Many of us are blessed enough to be able to see some semblance of structure or at least one thing that makes sense in life. My art is based upon that approach to life. This world is muddled but thank God we sometimes have moments, meet people or enjoy something that lifts our hearts. I believe these small moments are signs that someday we will all be able to enjoy a world untouched with abstraction and muddle.


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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - The Association of Collegiate Water Polo Coaches (ACWPC) recently announced its 2007 All-America selections, and sophomore Devin Lewis was rewarded for his remarkable contributions to MIT's record-breaking season by being named to the Division III Second Team. The utility player's goal-scoring exploits helped turn the Engineers into an offensive juggernaut, as the team finished the season with 358 goals, setting a new MIT standard.
With the honor, Lewis became the water polo program's first All-America recipient since 2004, when David Lohrey was also tabbed as a Second Team honoree.
Lewis was Tech's third-leading scorer with 55 goals, bringing his career tally up to an even 100 and placing him fourth all-time on the MIT scoring charts. The San Francisco, Calif., native was named the Most Valuable Player of the Division II/III Eastern Championship after scoring 14 times in the tournament to help the Engineers take both the Division III Eastern Championship and Small College Championship crowns. He was also named to the All-Tournament First Team.
The All-America selection is Lewis' second postseason honor for the 2007 campaign, as he also copped First Team All-North accolades from the Collegiate Water Polo Association (CWPA).


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Merton "Mert" Martin, 90, passed away at home in Paso Robles, Calif. on St. Patrick's Day, March 17, 2013.
Merton "Mert" Martin, 90, passed away at home in Paso Robles, Calif. on St. Patrick's Day, March 17, 2013.
There will be a graveside service at 1 p.m. on Saturday, March 30, 2013 at the Fort Jones Cemetery, followed by a reception at the Martin residence in Cheeseville.
Mert was born in Greenview on Oct. 25, 1922 and was raised in Scott Valley. He is the oldest of five children, with his surviving brothers Emmett, William and Robert still living in Siskiyou County. His deceased brother James was also a longtime resident of the county.
Mert worked for Northrop Aircraft in Orange County, Calif. for over 30 years. He happily retired at the age of 58 around 1981, which allowed him the time to do the woodworking that he loved. He was a very talented, self-taught artist, with his specialty being western-themed dimensional pictures, and replicas of pistols and rifles. He loved to say that he was "making sawdust!"
Mert was happily dedicated to his family. He met the love of his life, Sylvia Martin, in the 1940s while he was in the Veterans Hospital in Auburn, Calif. They were married for over 60 years when she passed away six years ago. They lived in Garden Grove, Calif. for almost 50 years, and the past 10 years in Paso Robles with his daughter and son-in-law.
He is survived by his son Michael W. Martin of Etna (Cheeseville) and his daughter Shari R. Cooke and son-in-law David A. Cooke of Paso Robles, five grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren. He had numerous friends that lovingly "adopted" him as their dad. He was a beloved husband, father, grandfather, great-grandfather, uncle and friend who will be greatly missed by all.


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what beautiful photos..and your kids are equally as beautiful as well....
I am glad you all had fun..it gives the kids something to talk about when they get older too.
I used to want to go to disney land, now I want to go where you were lol
welcome back home.
Actually....I only have the girl. Laikin Kelly.
The two boys belong to my best friend Chantelle. We went up to kariba with them. First time I've ever been away with 'friends' and lets say....I like living in my own house with my own family!
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Starkos needed a new button or icon design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 181 designs submitted by 45 freelance designers.
Musicality is a web music player for Mac. We take popular music services like Pandora, Last.fm, and Grooveshark—whose browser-based interfaces can be clumsy and cumbersome—and make them easy to use, with keyboard shortcuts, the Apple remote, song notifications. Our goal is to unify all of your music, no matter where it lives, and make it feel like part of your desktop.
We've had an intentionally low-key launch to help us find and fix any kinks. Now we're getting ready to move to the new Mac App Store, and we want Musicality all dressed up and looking good for the big show.
You can learn a little more about Musicality and us at http://industriousone.com/musicality.
We've found a niche with creative professionals who like to listen to music while they work, but don't want to be distracted.
This is for the Mac, and so should follow Apple's guidelines here:
Required sizes are 512x512, 128x128, 32x32, 16x16.
Other than that, the sky is really the limit. I'd like something colorful, fun, and ideally a little unexpected (pretty much the exact opposite of our current icon). To help get things started, here are a few images I found on 99designs and the web that I liked—though I'm wide open to new ideas.


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The City of Poughkeepsie recently installed three Pay Stations on Market Street as part of the Parking Meter Pilot Program. The intent of the pilot program is to assess the functionality of the parking meter pay stations prior to expanding the program to the downtown area.
A metered parking zone has been established on Market Street, between Church Street and Main Street. The zone includes all parking spaces on the East side of Market Street. The regulations for the metered zone will take effect on Monday, December 9, 2013. The parking zone is active Monday through Friday from 8:30am to 4:30pm and Saturdays 9:00am to 3:00pm. The parking fees for this zone are $.50 for 15 minutes, $1.00 for 30 minutes, and $1.50 per hour. Pay stations are located in front of 17 Market Street, 31 Market Street, and 53 Market Street.
To pay the parking fee, follow the directions on the Pay Station. Cash, credit cards, and debit cards are accepted. Once your transaction is complete, simply place your ticket on the drivers-side dashboard of your vehicle, face up. Failure to pay the parking fee or correctly display the parking ticket will result in a fine.
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Checking in on the… Ivy LeaguePosted by rtmsf on January 16th, 2009
David Zeitlin is the RTC correspondent for the Ivy League.
Let's see … what to report from the Ivy League from the last two weeks. Hmm. Cornell beat a team by 54 points. That's fun – even though they did it to Division III Ursinus. What else? What else? Oh! Yale and Columbia both added to the New Jersey Institute of Technology's record 50-game Division I losing streak. Good for them. And … I think that's about– oh wait, I almost forgot! Harvard had probably its greatest win in school history while providing the Ivy League with its best moment in quite some time. That's probably the big story of the week, right?
When Harvard (9-6) pulled off that shocker over Boston College last week, however, it seemed like there were two overriding sentiments: One was that since B.C. had just beaten then-No. 1 North Carolina, then Harvard should be the new No. 1 team in the land. And two, how 'bout that Tommy Amaker, huh? While I agree that Harvard is the best team there ever was or ever will be, I am hesitant to heap all of the praise entirely on Amaker. Instead, I would like to take a moment to praise former coach Frank Sullivan, a very good man who had little success at Harvard but whose lasting legacy might be leaving the program with Jeremy Lin. Granted, Amaker has brought in a very talented freshmen class, and has probably instilled a newfound belief into his players, but Lin is simply playing at another level right now. Against Boston College, the junior guard scored a game-high 27 points while dishing out eight assists. Here are some highlights of Lin schooling the Eagles.
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Not So Hip 2 Da Game: 90s Rapper Sues Upstart Mac Miller For Doing What Rappers Do
from the sampling-is-how-hip-hop-works dept
And, of course, it's quite common for those mixtapes to involve some sort of infringement, but generally no one has a problem with this (unless you're clueless legacy entertainment industry players), especially since these mixtapes are all given away for free, and generally do help promote those other works. It's really become the "new radio" in hip hop.
But there's always someone who lets jealousy get in the way. That appears to be the case with Robert Hall, better known as the rapper Loud Finesse, who had a hit in 1995 called "Hip 2 Da Game." You may remember it:
It turns out that one of the songs Mac Miller released for his mixtape was called Kool Aid & Frozen Pizza, which has him rapping over the same music track:
The lyrics are entirely different, but the music is obviously the same.
Note, again, that this song was given away for free in a YouTube video and mixtape. It was never sold. It's not on Miller's album. But, jealousy rears its ugly head and Lord Finesse has now sued Miller and his label, Rostrum, and the popular mixtape site DatPiff.com for $10 million -- and the fact that this is all about jealousy is pretty clear from the details of the lawsuit. It points out that Miller got famous, in part, because of his mixtape and thus Finesse seems to think that Miller needs to pay him for getting famous. Once again, he's being sued for $10 million, because of a song which he never sold.
Of course, if you know anything at all about hip hop, you know that its roots came from rappers building on the works of others, taking rhythms and beats and putting new lyrics over them. What many consider to be the very first popular hip hop song, "Rapper's Delight," by the Sugarhill Gang, came about when they rapped over "Good Times" by Chic.
So, you might wonder, does Lord Finesse have a history of building on the works of others? Glad you asked. Why yes, he does. He's widely sampled other artists. Oh, and the music in Hip 2 Da Game? You guessed it. Sampled. It's from Oscar Peterson's excellent jazz song, "Dream of You." Tragically, there doesn't seem to be a YouTube version of that up, but if you have Spotify, you can listen to it here:
Hip hop artist/commentator on culture and copyright, Dan Bull, found this whole situation pretty ridiculous and decided to do what he does best: write and perform a song about it. And, better yet, he did so using the same musical backing track from Finesse... er... Peterson.
This is actually interesting at a variety of levels (and equally unfortunate at a number of levels). The mixtape culture and building on the works of others is really pretty core to the hip hop world. There's a mostly unspoken agreement just within the culture that as long as you're not selling the tracks, it's encouraged to take the rhythms from another and build on it. Going against those social norms which have been pretty strongly developed over the past decade plus, is really hitting back against the basic rules that the community has established for itself, outside of what copyright allows.
In fact, the hip hop mixtape/blog world has been fascinating to watch over the past few years, in part because it actually shows how cultural norms can often set the rules for how these things work, without having to fall back on copyright laws at all. Basic social pressure can often keep most people in line. But when one breaks those social norms -- whether because of jealousy, or because they think there's a quick profit to be earned -- it can come back to haunt them.
That said, there's actually an interesting tie-in to another story we wrote about recently, discussing innovation vs. permission as frameworks for how progress should occur. While we were mostly talking about technology/entrepreneurial innovation, it clearly applies to creativity as well. All sorts of music creations came about because of innovation without permission. Soul music, jazz music, hip-hop and rock-and-roll all exist basically because of people deciding to innovate by building on the works of someone else without permission. Trying to shove a permission based system into that creates massive chilling effects and limits the kind of great music that can be created. Copyright is supposed to be about promoting progress, and yet, once again, it's used to hold it back.


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Law enforcement sources tell TMZ that the controlled substance Jason Davis -- aka Gummi Bear -- was busted with over the weekend was in fact cocaine.
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Re: "DEA raids four Denver marijuana sites related to VIP Cannabis," May 1 news story.
Recent seizures at four medical marijuana businesses in Colorado for money laundering from Colombian sources only reinforce the need for the banks to be involved in this new industry. Marijuana businesses are not allowed by federal law to work with banks, and because of this they are cash heavy, which increases the opportunity to launder money.
The government needs to make banking immediately available so that there will be accountability and regulatory rules for this new industry. It makes sense to have the most comprehensive regulations and oversight in place to make this a legal mainstream business. Colorado and the federal government need to sit down together and come to a consensus on this issue.
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I tend to very few vivid memories from my youth, but, from time to time, I do have 'recollections' of conversations I overheard, stimulated by my current reading and writing. This is one of those.
This past week on Monday I posted a map of the farm lands where my Dad's family, and he, started in Iowa. On Wednesday I posted a photo of Mom and I on the farm where we lived when I was born. On Thursday, I posted a photo of Mom and Dad on their rented farm. Cousin GeneJ sent a comment about the land and this family history we share that prompted the following 'recollections.'
(likely my Dad or his brother - cannot tell, with certainty)
As March 1 approached each year in our community, in the 1940s and 1950s for sure, other years I'm sure were the same, the conversation among the men-folks always included who would get their rental agreements renewed on their farm lands and who was buying and selling farmland nearby. March 1 was the change-over date. If land was to 'change-hands,' either by sale or for the farmer renting the land, it was always done on March 1 - the start of the new year. If plowing had been done in the fall in anticipation of spring planting, an allowance was always made in the sale/rental agreement for that work that had already been performed. There were often discussion like: I sure wish he had not plowed that 20 acres last fall… I'd like to have done something different with that land, this year, now that I will be in charge. Talk like that was common.
For young farmers, who did not yet own their own land, or who wanted to expand their acreage, the ability to acquire a (or another) farm to rent was crucial. There were not a lot of opportunities because most farmers farmed the land they owned. Most of the land rented out, was already committed to the current renter, and he was depending on it for his family. So, the person just starting out had to really 'scramble' to get their chance - and 'scrambling' was not seen by some as a 'seemly' thing to do… you had to be subtle, you had to boast of your abilities 'without boasting.'
Sometimes a farmer who was renting, if for whatever reason lost his rental for the next year, he might have to go several miles away, or farther, perhaps into another county, in order to obtain a farm to rent, to keep himself and/or is family going, for the coming year. The alternative would be to 'hire yourself out' to a larger farmer for that year - and that was a step back, not forward, for the independent small Iowa farmer.
I can clearly recall the anxiety of some of Dad's close friends who 'lost their lease' and had to make that transition to a new place, if they even could, on March 1. My Dad, Pete, worked very, very hard to make sure that never happened to him, and it didn't. He only moved twice: first, from a family land rental to one on his own; then to land he was able to buy - where he spent the rest of his life as a farmer. Ah, the memories. And there will be more. Stay tuned.
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- 4 tablespoons olive oil, divided
- 2 tablespoons fresh lime juice
- 2 tablespoons grated lime peel
- 1 1/2 tablespoons honey
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon (generous) ground chipotle chile pepper*
- 1 1 1/2-pound skinless salmon fillet, cut into 1 1/4-inch cubes
- 18 large sea scallops
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- 2 dozen mussels, scrubbed, debearded
- 2 dozen Manila (small) clams, scrubbed
- Cilantro Dressing (see recipe)
Recipe Preparation
Whisk 2 tablespoons oil and next 5 ingredients in small bowl. Arrange salmon and scallops on separate sides in 13x9x2-inch glass baking dish. Pour marinade over and toss to coat, keeping fish and scallops apart. Let marinate at room temperature at least 30 minutes and up to 1 hour, turning occasionally. Drain separately, reserving marinade.
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Silly me, I thought the object was to win games, not hit home runs.
Sandy Alderson is talking about altering the dimensions at Citi Field in an effort to boost the Mets' paltry home run total, which is odd considering his background as a fundamentalist. You know, high on-base percentage, advance the runners and cut down on strikeouts.
When he took over his goal was to rebuild the Mets with pitching, speed and defense. Let's not get teary eyed about Shea Stadium, either. Afterall, how many World Series have the Mets won in their history? Two, and both those teams were built on pitching.
David Wright is on-board with this because, well, afterall, he hasn't hit for power in two years, but that's more a product of the beaning by Matt Cain and a poor approach at the plate, not to mention being injured and missing two months this year.
Overall, the Mets have hit 103 homers and given up 141. They've been outhomered 87-58 on the road and 54-45 at Citi Field. Those numbers are about right for a team below .500.
Before Alderson tinkers with the dimensions, he should consider what the Mets' home run production might have been had Wright not missed two months, Ike Davis not been out for most of the season, Carlos Beltran not been traded and Jason Bay hit up to his contract. Take those four factors and the Mets would have closed the homer gap considerably.
But, are home runs really the issue?
The Mets are fifth in the National League with 686 runs scored, which is good enough to contend, but are 13th in runs given up with 712 (4.21 ERA).
Clearly, pitching is the problem, not a lack of power.
Home runs give a team an psychological jolt in that they know they can come back from a deficit, but the boost is even greater from the knowledge its pitching won't put it in a hole.
It was funny to hear pitching coach Dan Warthen say moving in the fences would help his staff because it would force them to concentrate more. What a joke. If the Mets' pitchers give up a lot of runs now, wait until the fences come in. Warthen is simply towing the party line. Have his pitchers walk fewer hitters and have him build a bullpen then he can talk. Until then, concentrate on Mike Pelfrey.
And, it's not as if moving them in will enable the Mets to close the homer gap. The disparity would be roughly the same because the real disparity is in talent.
If the Mets want to do something, it ought to be to get better players, specifically pitchers. Moving in the fences is a gimmick, and teams don't win with gimmicks. They win with talent.
Ways to Train: Baseball Tips
If you're looking to improve your batting average, slice that ERA in half, or simply enhance your ability to interact with your fellow teammates on the field, you'll want to make sure you're practicing the right things so that you don't waste your time on nonsensical efforts. Fielding, batting, and pitching all require very specific types of training, and while there is certainly overlap (and most players have to know how perform at least two of those 3 functions at any one time), there are also individual items to focus on for each as well. Below, we'll cover each of the three aforementioned areas, and what type of training approach you should take for each.
Swinging at a baseball flying toward your face at nearly 100 miles per hour seems like a fairly easy feat when you're watching a Mets game or another team performing at the major league level. That easiness only appears that way because you're watching masters of batting at the plate, the peak of players available for the game. For the typical baseball player, connecting the bat to the ball can be quite difficult to master, at least in a way that produces actual hits consistently over time. The best way to practice batting is through repetition, so head over to the batting cages if you want to face pitch after pitch until your swinging improves. Pitching machines come in a variety of speed settings, so you can surely find one that'll pitch to you at the speed you need.
Unfortunately, they haven't developed a baseball batting machine that works quite as well as the pitching version yet, but catching a pitcher's ball is easier for the average person that throwing a 95 mph fastball. In order to practice your pitches, find someone who is competent at using a glove, and throw to that person over and over again. Remember to also switch up your pitches so that you don't become dominant using only one type of pitch.
This article doesn't have the space to cover the many different fielding positions individually, but on the whole, there are some simple things to keep in mind when standing in the outfield or around the bases. Make sure you're using a glove that's been broken in, first off, so that you're comfortable using the glove and don't feel limited in movement. Since baseball fields don't have roof cover and many day games are played, you'll also want to practice fielding balls in direct sunlight, as often times you'll have to face straight up in order to catch the ball. So long as you can run and judge a ball accurately as you are moving towards it, you'll be in good shape on the field.


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I'd like to thank you both for all the efforts you've made to bring some rhythm to our lives. Lindy is the best and you are the best at bringing it to us. Looking forward to all the fun in the coming year.
I'd like to thank you for the great teaching and the unforgettable Beantown Camp. In my top five of best memories, three are related to Lindy Hop. Thanks for being my first Lindy Hop teachers and I hope to see you some time next year during one of my visits to Boston!
I am still so grateful for the lessons we had with you - you and Tony truly gave us the first dance we dreamed up, and that we (and our guests!) won't soon forget! Thank you again and looking forward to seeing you soon!
A year ago, we were a young couple in (desperate) need of dance lessons for our wedding. Lucky for us, we happened on one of the monthly Uptown Swing events in Brookline, discovered Tony & Aurelie, and now we can't get enough!
Tony & Aurelie are knowledgeable, fun teachers that deliver well-balanced lessons—always adding new moves to the mix, covering (necessary) technique, and giving personal feedback. Lindy is so much fun and we continue to have a blast learning it together (even after the wedding). We have Tony & Aurelie to thank for our new found addiction that will certainly keep us dancing (and laughing) together for years to come.
Aurelie & Tony are such wonderful Lindy Hop teachers. I absolutely love their classes. Their fantastic dedication in nurturing their students and in providing a terrific strong supportive Lindy and swing community is a total inspiration. Uptown Swing—their dynamite monthly dance in Brookline, is not to be missed! Their most incredibly phenomenal premier Beantown Lindy Hop Camp for the worldwide Lindy community is truly absolutely amazing beyond words.
It is a pleasure being part of the Swing dance community. Aurelie & Tony you make everyone enjoy dance in a warm inviting happy way.
I think you consistently have the best dance: great dancers, lots of energy and great bands.
We want to express to you our deep gratitude for your participation in making New Year's Eve a hugely successful event. Your performance was wonderful. We continue to hear compliments from the evening's attendees.
Thank you for doing a tremendous job as DJs and dance teachers at our wedding…We were thrilled to see so much energy on the dance floor…It's impossible to overstate how instrumental you were in catalyzing that energy…thank you for creating a fantastic wedding.
The dancers at the event were a huge hit and added excitement and flair to our Swing into Spring theme.
I have heard nothing but wonderful comments from many Festival patrons and our other performers about your performances at the Milford Oyster Festival. I also appreciate that your group helped to work up the audience to participate…Your dance routines were what I have been looking for for a long time and the period attire only made it more appealing.
So you are great dance instructors and are solely responsible for all the fun I've had dancing over the last 8 years, as I got better and better, so thank you for all that.
…just want to thank you for being such wonderful teachers, delightful people, and powerful advocates and supporters of the Swing dance community! It has been terrific participating in your classes; I learned so very much and enjoyed myself all the way.
Just to thank you (Tony) and Aurelie for your wonderful dance instruction…I really appreciated the teaching methods that you and Aurelie used. You broke everything down and allowed us plenty of opportunity to practice (again and again) the moves we'd just learned. Also, you were so very positive and encouraging–not to mention generous with the time you spent with me/us individually! AND, you were great not only at identifying my areas of "weakness", but at giving very specific and concrete suggestions on how to address whatever it was that was going wrong. Incredibly helpful!
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When I think of what it means to be a traveling Lindy Hop instructor, it is always Beantown that comes to mind. For me it has been the model against which the rest of my teaching career has been measured. Every year, Beantown is one my very favorite places to teach. The people have the right attitude for learning, the setting is always great for classes, and the week-long camp provides enough time to really help people to change their dancing for the better. And on top of it all, you will rarely find a nicer crowd of people.
I attended Beantown in 1999 and 2000. Both were pivotal times for my dancing. I spent the week immersed in dancing with amazing other dancers that I had never seen before. I met and worked with dancers from San Francisco, Chicago, Seattle and Sweden, all with their unique talents and personalities. We danced all day and all night. The combination of having a camp a manageable size like Beantown for a whole week really allowed our classes to band together and forge relationships with each other and the teachers. I'll never forget our last class with David Dalmo one week. David had put together an incredibly challenging and interesting routine and had us all perform it for one another. There was electricity in the air and by the end of the class, we were spent. Something had happened and my dancing was never the same afterward. If you've never experienced this type of thing, I recommend it. It pays off in so many ways.
Beantown is such a unique and rare Lindy experience. The environment is so warm and welcoming, that returning to Beantown each year seems like a bit of a family reunion. The instruction is beyond compare, with the top instructors from around the world and the tracked classes that really allow you to bond and progress with your group and the teachers. The college campus setting is comfortable and convenient, and provides a great backdrop for campers to dance or relax at their leisure; with the next dance, class, meal or party being only a few steps away.
Thanks again to you guys for running the event. It really was a fabulous time, everything from the delicious cafeteria food to the awesome live music and the outdoor barbecue, and the all around feel of the camp.
Thanks for another great Beantown this year! I count myself lucky to be able to attend. Thank you for making it happen! Beantown is the crème de la crème of dance camps!


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Story by Maka Kapanadze | Volunteer | Heifer Georgia
Edited by Medea Tsitskishvili | Program Director | Heifer Georgia
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Heifer Georgia held opening ceremonies for two facilities in two separate projects fruit distribution and agricultural distributionthis month. The Subtropical Fruit Collection Center in Batumi, West Georgia, was celebrated on December 10, 2012, and the Information and Agri-Distributional Center in Tbilisi opened on December 11.
The opening ceremony in Batumi was attended by Archile Khabadze, chairman of the government of Ajara; Giorgi Tavartkiladze, minister of finance and economy; Zaur Putkaradze, minister of agriculture; and other authorities. Staff from local press and TV covered the event.
The government of the region of Ajara donated 1.5 acres of land with an old building to the project initiated by Heifer Georgia. The full rehabilitation and equipping of the building was done through co-financing by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Poland (Polish Aid) and Heifer International. The center will help smallholder farmers to process and market their subtropical fruits.
The building has a moisture-resistant interior and is equipped with fruit-labeling and box-packaging machines. The building also boasts a 40-foot refrigerator-trailer. The facility will have five permanent and 15 seasonal employees and tends to attract customers from Russia, Ukraine and Belarus. Citrus will be consolidated, labeled and packaged according to the contractors requests. It will significantly improve customer-service quality, which will have a positive influence on the marketing process.
On the following day, Heifer Georgia held the inauguration of the project co-financed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Poland (Polish Aid) and the Information and Agri-Distributional Center in Tbilisi. Beneficiaries of this project and smallholder farmers throughout Georgia will have access to high-value retail markets in Tbilisi directly, bypassing the middle man.
In the framework of this project, a building of 191 square yards with a 359-square-yard backyard was purchased and reconstructed. A cooling room (set at -20 degrees Celsius) with a capacity of almost 50 square feet and a dry room with rust-resistant shelves are in the basement. The center is equipped with counter refrigerators and vacuum-packaging and dry-packaging machines, and an eight-ton minivan refrigerator. The center will have five permanent employees.
This ceremony was attended by Stephen M. Haykin, mission director at USAID; Rudolf Schoch, regional director of the Swiss Development and Cooperation Agency (SDC); Hiroki Tokunaga, deputy head of Mission of the Embassy of Japan; representatives of the Embassy of Poland; and other representatives of international organizations.


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When President Obama told students in Mexico that without the support of U.S. Latinos he would not be president, he wasn't talking about the GOP's Ruben Barrales. But Barrales gets the message. He is the son of immigrants, and San Mateo County's first Latino supervisor. Mexico gave him its Ohtli medal, for his work on behalf of Mexican Americans. Once a Democrat, he went to work in the George W. Bush White House and ran San Diego's regional chamber of commerce. His principal task now, as head of GROW Elect, is cultivating Latino Republican elected officials in California, not exactly fertile soil for the GOP of late. He has his ideas why, and what to do about it.
This year, Latinos will become the majority in California. How can you get more of them into your party and elected?
The joke is, I'm representing a minority within a minority: Latino Republicans. We can probably have our convention right here in your office.
GROW Elect is going to add what I hope will be real competition for the Latino vote, because right now, one party is taking the Latino community for granted and the other has really not done anything. To Latinos who happen to be Republican, [I] say, "You care about fiscal responsibility or education reform or doing something different in your community? Then I want to provide a support network." Democrats have had a stronger message. They've been more inclusive in the ethnic communities.
You concentrate on California candidates and local politics, nonpartisan and not.
I've seen a lot of outreach models; I'm done with outreach. The GROW Elect model is inclusion. How do you change a party? How do you reflect the community? You help get them elected. Then they are the party. In a few years I want to be able to point to Latinos and Latinas who are standing up for free enterprise and budget reform and pension reform.
As of March 5, we've helped to elect or reelect 33 Latinos to office. I'm looking to raise that to hundreds. And I'm not just interested in winning elections. That's just politics. I'm interested in a network that gives Latinos an opportunity to be on school boards or city councils and make a difference. I want to see both parties there competing for the vote. Show us what you got! Bring it on!
California Republicans dug themselves a hole long ago with Propositions 187 and 209. In 1998, when you ran for state controller, Republican Gov. Pete Wilson wouldn't meet with you.
Let's just say I was honored to have the support of [then-Texas ] Gov. Bush; Jack Kemp, one of my political heroes; John McCain; and other national Republicans. They understood we need to represent everybody.
Bush got 44% of the Latino vote in 2004 compared with Mitt Romney's 27% in 2012.
I was drawn to Bush because of immigration reform. He talked about immigration as a positive thing for the U.S., which I believe it has always been, although it's been polarizing at times. And he talked about education reform, helping black kids and Hispanic kids and poor kids. To me that was appealing, for a Republican to talk like that.
Tone matters. Latinos have this impression that the Republican Party doesn't care about them. One way to bridge the gap is Latinos who are elected officials, who can communicate with the Latino community.
I was working for President Bush when my mom came to visit. We were in front of the Vietnam Memorial, and she's saying, "Hijo, look at all the Latino names on the wall." [The numbers] really struck me.
It's an analogy to what we're trying to do. We want Latinos represented in the party, to be able to see themselves in the party, so the party can represent them more.
What kind of immigration reform do you embrace?
The spectrum: H1B visas — if you come here and study or come with a special expertise to help our high-tech innovation economy; all the way to temporary workers — if you're willing to work hard in jobs quite frankly that a lot of Americans won't take, in agriculture and other work, and you want to go back to your home country. Let's develop a program that lets you do that. That was part of the bracero program.
Does immigration reform mean citizenship?
Maybe for some, but I don't think for all. I know this is a big debate. I know for some that's important; for others, they just want legal status — they still want to be citizens of their home country. I'd like to see a path to citizenship, and definitely to legalization. Not amnesty, but something to become eligible to become a citizen.
What about the Dream Act?
GROW Elect doesn't take positions on policies, [but] personally I think it's important to allow these dreamers the opportunity to become productive citizens here. I was at an event with some of these kids — some of them are so inspirational, so driven, so intelligent, and they just want an opportunity. We're going to be in a position where we need to bring more immigrants in to bring our workforce to a level that's growing our economy.
Didn't your father come to the U.S. as a temporary worker?
He came initially in the 1940s, during the bracero program. He fell in love with this country, loved our economic system, democracy. He married my mom, then they came back and settled in the Bay Area. He's my American hero because he believed in what this country was all about.
You worked in his roofing business.
I'm the first in my family to go to university, UC Riverside, and I went home the best-educated roofer on the San Francisco peninsula. I didn't appreciate then as I do know what it's like to earn your living with your hands.
I don't think one side has a monopoly on what's best for folks like that. I want a society [where] you can grow up as a roofer's son and have opportunities, so you don't say, "This is your station in life, so we're going to have to give you more, and going to have to tax these [other] people to pay for services for you." I want a society where you can come from a very poor background and build something through entrepreneurial spirit and hard work.
Your father was paralyzed in a roofing accident. You didn't speak English when you began school. I'm thinking of workers' comp, of bilingual education. Did programs like that lead you to become a Democrat at first?
I was young! A lot of the Democrat platform, progressivism, it's really appealing. But by the time I became a supervisor [in San Mateo County], my neighborhood was 90% Latino. Crime was an issue, the streets, the services, and I thought, if the folks in charge are all Democrats, then I want to try to change management, or at least influence management.
Yet issues like abortion and gay marriage seem to rally the GOP.
There's an important base of the Republican Party for whom those are important, but not everyone has to fit the same mold. I think there's more pragmatism within the Republican Party.
You announced your candidacy for San Mateo supervisor at the fabled Palo Alto garage where Hewlett-Packard was founded. Why?
To me Hewlett and Packard were like the epitome of America, two guys in a garage who came up with an idea and built this fabulous company. It may be stretching it a bit, [but] my dad started out our little roofing company in our garage — different net outcomes, but that same spirit of entrepreneurship. I want people to have drive. I don't want to see us become a country where taxes are too high or regulations are too onerous, so instead of starting my own small business, I'm just going to get a job. That undercuts the American spirit.
Why aren't there more Latinos in high places in Silicon Valley?
I'm not blaming anybody, but I don't think our public education system is running on all cylinders. Poor kids, Latino kids, African American kids, kids with special needs, they all need different attention and resources.
In the West, we say Latino. In the East, they say Hispanic. Which do you prefer?
I feel more comfortable saying Latino; I don't really have a preference.
What is it about the frictions between California and Mexico?
I'm oversimplifying, but Californians have kind of turned their backs on the border. Only folks south of Interstate 8 really recognize the border for what it is, a real asset. It's a binational region. People are afraid of it or prefer not to think of it.
It's a broad statement, but Florida people understand the connection there with Latin America; in Texas, not everyone, but there's an appreciation for the border and the economy. I'd like to see more of an appreciation of the economic opportunity for Californians with Mexico. [It's] tremendous.
Latinos are diverse, but do people look at you and say you're not Latino?
All the time! [Sometimes] Latinos don't realize Spanish is my first language, and on the other side, people don't realize I am Latino and may say derogatory things.
You must have cringed when Don Young (R-Alaska) referred to "wetbacks."
It was very poor judgment. We've got to be conscious of the language we use. Put yourself in the shoes of the Latino community and use some common sense. If you inadvertently offend people just by the words you use, it makes it difficult to win the argument.
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This interview was edited and excerpted from a taped transcript. An archive of Morrison's interviews can be found at latimes.com/pattasks.


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Our Far South voyage to highlight pristine ocean under threat
Posted on 09 February 2012
Our Far South, a voyage to Antarctica and the sub-Antarctic Islands, will set sail tomorrow (Fri 10 Feb) to highlight the global importance of this last great unspoiled wilderness and the urgent need to protect it from growing human-made threats.Wellington, New Zealand - Our Far South, a voyage to Antarctica and the sub-Antarctic Islands, will set sail tomorrow (Fri 10 Feb) to highlight the global importance of this last great unspoiled wilderness and the urgent need to protect it from growing human-made threats.
WWF-New Zealand's marine advocate Bob Zuur will be joining scientists and other Antarctic experts for the month-long voyage organised by philanthropist Gareth Morgan, seeking to raise awareness of the area and inspire people to speak out to protect this vital marine ecosystem.
Bob Zuur will blog regularly on the expedition's progress throughout the month-long voyage, and can be followed here. Regular web updates will also appear on WWF New Zealand's website and via Facebook and Twitter (hashtag #ourfarsouth).
Bob Zuur said: "Antarctica's Southern Ocean is famed for its majestic isolation and magnificent wildlife including Emperor penguins, Albatross, Ross Sea Killer whales and colossal squid. It is also of global importance to humanity.
"Antarctica is a critical laboratory for the study of climate change, and in a rapidly warming world it is vital we paid heed to the story it tells."
Far away, so close
The Southern Ocean's Ross Sea, which lies about 3500 km from New Zealand at the edge of the Antarctic continent, is renowned by scientists as one of the most significant remaining large marine ecosystems with its top predators still intact.
WWF will be using the voyage to highlight the growing threats facing this important polar region, which include overfishing, tourism, shipping and climate change. Mining and oil exploration also pose potential future threats to the region.
"This almost pristine marine environment will not stay this way for long unless there is a coordinated international effort to protect it. Current measures are not enough to stem the tide of human activities that threaten this great southern wilderness," said WWF's Marine Programme Manager Rebecca Bird.
"By creating a network of Southern Ocean marine protected areas we can help fish stocks and other species – from sea bed crabs through krill to giant whales – recover. The Ross Sea shelf, slope and wider region should be designated a marine reserve, and we urge the New Zealand Government to play a central role in international negotiations around Antarctica later this year."
The New Zealand Government is a signatory to the Commission to the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR) which will meet in Hobart in October. WWF will be advocating for a strong international commitment to protecting most, if not all, of the Ross Sea.


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Leonardo DiCaprio Starts the New Year with Girlfriend Toni Garrn
Leonardo DiCaprio and his model girlfriend Toni Garrn grab a bite to eat while vacationing together on Thursday (January 2) in Mexico.
Spywitnesses say that the 39-year-old actor and the 21-year-old model didn't talk much during their lunch and focused mainly on their food.
PHOTOS: Check out the latest pics of Leonardo DiCaprio
After just eight days at the domestic box office, Leo's latest movie The Wolf of Wall Street has grossed $47.3 million.
"This guy, Jordan Belfort, really took on a life of its own within me as an actor," Leo said about the amorality of his character. "This attitude of what these characters represent in this film are ultimately everything that's wrong with the world we live in," he said.
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Technical advances in imaging have increased their applicability to diagnosing conditions of the musculoskeletal system, especially in the postoperative setting, where traditionally metallic artifacts have hindered evaluation. Advances in computed tomography (CT), magnetic resonance (MR) imaging, ultrasound, and nuclear medicine have resulted in improved overall image quality. Specific modifications of imaging parameters, especially in CT and MRI, have improved the radiologist's ability to diagnose potential hardware complications such as loosening and osteolysis. Sonography can evaluate the periprosthetic soft tissues and enables both diagnostic information and therapeutic treatment at the same sitting. Lastly, diagnostic scintigraphic applications such as positron emission tomography (PET) have increased specificity in diagnosing potential infection in the arthroplasty setting. This review discusses some of the current applications of CT, MRI, ultrasound, and nuclear medicine in evaluating the postoperative orthopedic patient, concentrating on the appropriate imaging evaluation for the painful arthroplasty patient.
This article appears in HSS Journal: Volume 2, Number 1.
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About the HSS Journal
HSS Journal, an academic peer-reviewed journal, is published twice a year, February and September, and features articles by internal faculty and HSS alumni that present current research and clinical work in the field of musculoskeletal medicine performed at HSS, including research articles, surgical procedures, and case reports.
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Location and General Characteristics
Minnehaha neighborhood is located in south Minneapolis. The neighborhood is bound on the east by Hiawatha Avenue, on the south by 54th Street East, on the west by 34 th Avenue South and on the north by Minnehaha Parkway East. Minnehaha and its neighbor Hiawatha both received their names from an Ojibwe mentioned in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem, The Song of Hiawatha. Minnehaha means "laughing waters," as the waterfall in what is now Minnehaha Park were dubbed in Longfellow's poem.
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A decorated NSW police officer who sexually assaulted a girl on a dance floor during an assignment to protect world leaders in Perth has been spared prison but is set to lose his job.
Ian Ronald Sleigh, 45, wept openly in the dock after he was convicted of sexually assaulting the 22-year-old daughter of a West Australian policeman he had met last October while in the state to work at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting.
Having consumed eight full strength beers on an empty stomach at the Elephant and Wheelbarrow nightspot in Northbridge, Sleigh put his hand up the skirt of the young woman before roughly groping her genitals.
The shocked woman immediately told other police in the pub what had happened, and Sleigh was arrested and initially charged with sexual penetration without consent.
That was replaced with a sexual assault charge, to which Sleigh pleaded guilty to on Monday.
On Thursday, Justice Bruce Goetze fined Sleigh $7500 - an amount he said would go to the victim - but spared him a prison term, which he said would have been made doubly hard by his position as a police officer and convicted sex offender.
"You have suffered a severe amount of public humiliation ... which in your case has been amplified by reason of your position," Justice Goetze said.
"Prison is a penalty of last resort, and in my view this offence does not require a term of imprisonment.
"It is not an easy decision but that is the one I have come to."
Justice Goetze said the assault had left the young victim emotionally traumatised and needing ongoing counselling.
The court was also told - notwithstanding her family link to the police - that her view of the force had been changed by Sleigh's assault.
Earlier, Detective Inspector Peter McKenna, Sleigh's commanding officer in the Manning/Great Lakes area on the NSW mid-north coast, told the court his former colleague had been suspended without pay following his guilty plea.
He now faces the almost inevitable consequence of losing his job of 13 years.
Det Insp McKenna said while the force had been shocked and disgusted by Sleigh's conduct, he still had supporters within the police, and had been retained on desk duties while waiting for the case to come to court.
"He is disgusted with himself as to what has happened, and the flow-on effects to himself, his family and the NSW police," Det Insp McKenna said.
"I can't emphasise how out of character this is.
"But my expectation is that he will be dismissed. The impact on the community is going to be immense."
The court heard Sleigh had been forced to sell his house to pay for the legal fees incurred during the case, and his teenage son had been teased and was undergoing counselling. Sleigh also had been physically ill through the stress of the case.
Sleigh said nothing as he left court.