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I started my challenge to do 101 things in 1001 days in my blog. I've seen a few on blogs while I search around and I was wondering if any other mommies out there are doing this as well and if so,…Continue
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I'm not one of those people that go to a movie theater every time a movie comes out, but I do love movies. Who doesn't? There is a movie for everybody. In this To-Know-Me, it's all about ten of my favorite movies. Please believe there are a lot more than ten...but good thing there…Continue
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Everybody has favorite and non favorite scents. Scents are the biggest sense linked to our memory. It can make you happy, it can make tears come to your eyes or if too overwhelming it can give you a headache. I want to know what are your favorite ten smells and your ten non favorite smells. Comment here or either bloglovin or the bloggers club! Let's get smelling!
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Washington State routed by No. 25 Arizona State 55-21 as Taylor Kelly accounts for 7 TDs
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PULLMAN, Wash. – Washington State quarterback Connor Halliday was pretty sure why his team lost 55-21 to No. 25 Arizona State on Thursday night.
"We didn't block very well," Halliday said. "We didn't throw the ball very well. We didn't catch very well, and we didn't run very well.
"Plays were there to be made and we didn't make them."
Coach Mike Leach thinks the problems begin in his players' heads.
"We need to focus on the next play," he said.
Leach believes too many players are overthinking game situations, trying to anticipate all contingencies, rather than focusing on their assignments.
"It's too tempting to clutter our minds with other stuff," Leach said, and that can slow reaction time.
While the win qualified Arizona State for a bowl, coach Todd Graham has much bigger plans.
"I want to win the championship," Graham said. "It's one more down and five more to go to be Pac-12 champs."
Taylor Kelly tossed five touchdown passes and ran for two more scores for the Sun Devils. The redshirt junior threw for 275 yards and rushed for 66 to help ASU (6-2, 4-1) win its first road game of the season after two losses.
"Taylor is like having an offensive coordinator on the field," Graham said. "He does a tremendous job of audibling and dispersing the ball."
The Sun Devils jumped out to a 42-14 lead in the first half and never let the Cougars back in the game. Arizona State produced 557 yards of total offense and extended its lead in the Pac-12 South to 1½ games.
"Everything for us was to come out and start fast and kind of get the crowd out of the way," Kelly said.
Halliday had 300 yards passing for Washington State (4-5, 2-4), which has lost four of five. Halliday, who set an FBS record in his previous game with 89 pass attempts in a loss to No. 2 Oregon, was 29 of 54 with two touchdowns.
Marion Grice ran for 94 yards as ASU scored at least 50 points for the fifth time this season. Kelly completed 22 of 31 passes and was intercepted once.
"He is leading this team," Graham said.
Arizona State scored three times in the first quarter, thanks in part to great field position, and three more times in the second to build a lead the Cougars could not overcome.
"We tried to make too much happen," Leach said. "We focused too much on our opponent rather than on doing our job.
"We had a lot of self-inflicted wounds," he added, including dropped balls.
But Leach had praise for Halliday.
"This is one of the best games he's played," the coach said. "He didn't have a lot of time to throw."
Kelly marched the Sun Devils 67 yards on their first possession, scoring on a bootleg from 7 yards out.
Washington State went three-and-out on its first three possessions. After the Sun Devils took over on the Cougars 36 following a short punt, Grice ran the ball five times to get down to the 6. Kelly bootlegged into the end zone for a second time to give ASU a 14-0 lead.
Washington State's Gabe Marks fumbled after an 18-yard reception, and Robert Nelson recovered to give Arizona State the ball on the WSU 39. Kelly fired an 11-yard touchdown pass to Jaelen Strong all alone in the end zone for a 21-0 cushion with 3:20 left in the first quarter.
Marks redeemed himself on the first play of the second, taking a short pass from Halliday and weaving through the ASU defense for a 34-yard touchdown.
Arizona State's Deantre Lewis fumbled on the next series, and WSU's Ioane Gauta recovered. But the Cougars had to punt and Kelly moved the Sun Devils 62 yards, finishing with a 7-yard touchdown pass to D.J. Foster for a 28-7 lead.
After another three-and-out for WSU, Kelly fired a 51-yard touchdown pass to Richard Smith on the next play from scrimmage.
The Cougars turned the ball over on downs, and five plays later Kelly hit Chris Coyle with an 8-yard touchdown pass to make it 42-7 with 1:40 left in the first half. Grice's 32-yard reception was the big play on the drive.
Washington State replied with its best drive. The Cougars marched 75 yards and Rickey Galvin caught a 15-yard touchdown pass from Halliday to cut ASU's advantage to 42-14 at halftime.
Washington State scored first in the second half, on a 4-yard run by Jeremiah Laufasa to make it 42-21. The Sun Devils replied with Kelly's 23-yard touchdown pass to Foster.
Zane Gonzalez added a pair of field goals for Arizona State in the fourth.
The Sun Devils lead the series 25-13-2, having won nine of the past 10 games.
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Sour Mango Salad
Source: Recipe from Chef Hank Barrett
Using under-ripe mangos yields a salad with sour and subtle sweet notes. The sweet lime and fish sauce dressing causes the julienned mango to soften just enough to become tender, while still retaining most of its crispness.
2 cloves garlic, minced
1 jalapeño pepper, seeded, ribbed, and minced
1⁄2 cup scallions, thinly sliced on the bias
1 qt. (3 cups) unripe mango, peeled and julienned
4 tbsp. fish sauce
4 tbsp. fresh lime juice
1 tbsp. light brown sugar
1 pint pear or cherry tomatoes, sliced in half
1. Combine the garlic, jalapeño, and scallions in a bowl and mash together with a kitchen spoon. Add the mango and mash again.
2. Add the fish sauce, lime juice, and sugar, and mash until the sugar is fully incorporated (as if using a
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Dear Editor;
Hans Detweiler, former Illinois and Washington lobbyist, and currently the Director of Development for Rock Island Clean Line (RICL) in Illinois was recently profiled in Crain's Chicago Business. The following is an excerpt from the May 21, 2012 article:
"Also, today's rock-bottom wholesale power prices, in the low $30s per megawatt-hour, are too low to make the project (Rock Island Clean Line) economic. Mr. Detweiler expects that in five years, when he hopes the line will be built, prices will be modestly higher. He says, given how strong the wind blows in northwest Iowa, $45 per megawatt-hour would be sufficient."
According to RICL's own Director of Development, an increase of almost 50% in wholesale power prices is needed to make this project economically feasible?! That is absolutely not a "modest" increase! In stakeholder meet-and-greets, Hans Detweiler claimed that this project would lower our electric bills. That defies common sense.
In addition, this projected economical unfeasibility is budgeted on underestimated costs. Land values in Iowa and Illinois have increased 20-25% and are projected to continue to rise. Additionally, the tax estimates RICL is "offering" are based on outdated land values. It will take longer than the 20 years they are suggesting that they pay these ridiculously low taxes to realize the full impact of land devaluation from the transmission lines cutting through prime fields. Mr. Detweiler also claims that they will fix ALL damages in construction, including compacted soil and crushed tile, but cannot say HOW. Since they intend to build in the middle of sections, and away from roads, this would impact thousands of acres outside of the easements. More importantly, in our area sentiment is so strong against this project that landowners will not willingly sign over their land. RICL will have to take the majority of landowners to court in order to take the land at significant additional cost.
If RICL's project is economically unfeasible at underestimated costs of construction, unrealistic tax figures, outdated land value estimates, and difficulty in obtaining the land, how much would power prices really have to go up to make this project economically viable? What happens if or when the company goes bankrupt? How much would Iowa and Illinois residents and especially the landowners really lose then?
Mr. Detweiler neglects to say that we have "sufficient" potential wind power in Lake Michigan that equals anything in northwest Iowa. Transmission lines are most efficient and cost effective when production is close to the consumers. These transmission lines would by-pass the vast majority of Iowa and Illinois with the majority of the power going to the east coast. Per the FERC, the electricity cannot be limited to "clean energy" sources and denied RICL's request for a "renewable energy" label based on making it more "palatable" to the stakeholders.
We do not need these lines, nor would we benefit from them. The token jobs they say they would create in Iowa and Illinois are just that- tokens. We need to protect our NONrenewable farmland from private projects that are financially unviable and private companies who want to make a quick buck at significant expense to Iowa and Illinois residents.
Comments can be made on the Iowa Utilities Board Electronic Filing Page. Docket # NOI-2011-0002.
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Grants Can Improve Student College Success
WSLS Director Reflects on ACE President Visiting UW-Madison | February 20, 2013
New papers from the Wisconsin Scholars Longitudinal Study will be presented at these upcoming conferences:
Population Association of America Annual Meeting, April 11-13th, New Orleans
American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting, April 27-May 1st, San Francisco
Consumer Financial Decision Making Conference, May 19-21st, Boulder
Federal Reserve Board of New York Education Seminar Series, May 23rd, New York City
Study Overview
The Wisconsin Scholars Longitudinal Study (WSLS) is the first statewide longitudinal study of the impact of private need-based financial aid on college persistence and graduation. The study will follow approximately 6,000 low-income college students receiving need-based aid (e.g. federal Pell Grants) who are enrolled in either the University of Wisconsin System or the Wisconsin Technical College System. In addition to their standard aid package, approximately half of the participants have been randomly selected to receive a private multi-year grant from the Fund for Wisconsin Scholars.
The study addresses four main policy-relevant questions: (a) what are the impacts of private grants on college persistence and graduation?; (b) how do the impacts vary according to the way in which the grant is distributed to students (reduced loans versus increased cash)?; (c) how do the impacts vary by student and college characteristics?; and (d) how and why do the impacts arise? Study findings will have direct implications for both governmental and private grant programs and provide an important basis for addressing current debates about the future of financial aid in the state and nationwide.
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Review: Jameson 18 Year Old Limited Reserve Irish Whiskey
Posted by Arctic Wolf on March 17, 2011
Today is the day of St. Patrick, and in many places throughout the world, this is a day to revel in the Irish heritage which we either share by birth, or (on St. Patrick's Day at least) we share by spirit. We wear green; we attend parades; and some of us even drink green beer in what has become more of a secular holiday which celebrates Irish culture, than a religious holiday which celebrates the Patron Saint after which the day was first named.
And celebrating Irish culture is not a bad thing; it was after all the Irish who first distilled "uisce beatha", which translates from Irish into English as "the water of life". I could go into a long and detailed etymology, but suffice it to say that "uisce beatha" is probably very close to the original form of the word which would later become "whiskey". My blog is full of reviews of this wonderful spirit, but I must admit it is sorely lacking in content dedicated to the Irish variety.
Today, I will go a small way towards correcting this imbalance by reviewing a whiskey from the Emerald Isle which embodies the character and the class of spirits we call Irish Whiskey. And, one which bears a rather obscure link to St. Patrick's Day.
Like St. Patrick, who was born (in 385 A.D.) of Scottish parentage, but found his calling (and fame) in Ireland, so to John Jameson was also born a Scotsman (in 1740 A.D.), and he also found his calling (and established his fame) in Ireland with the company that bears his name, Jameson Irish Whiskey.
And so in honour of the celebration of the Day of St. Patrick, I chose to review one of the most premium Irish Whiskeys which is available in my locale, the Jameson 18 Year Old Limited Reserve Irish Whiskey.
Here is a link to my Review:
Review: Jameson 18 Year Old Limited Reserve Irish Whiskey
And in the interests of celebrating Irish culture, here are two additional links to my other Irish Whiskey reviews which were previously published on my blog:
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Teachers unions give $1 million to 'Protect Our Jobs' initiative
LANSING, Mich. – The effort to limit legislative oversight of public-sector bargaining has received large financial support from labor and teacher unions, The Detroit News reports.
According to The News, the American Federation of Teachers contributed $460,000 and the Michigan Education Association contributed $500,000 to the Protect Our Jobs Amendment campaign.
The News reported that many MEA district-level affiliates have given tens of thousands of additional dollars.
SOURCE: Detroit News, "Special interests spend millions on Michigan ballot initiatives," July 26, 2012
FURTHER READING: Michigan Capitol Confidential, "'Protect Our Jobs' Would Protect the 3 Percent at the Expense of the 97 Percent," July 9, 2012


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The Earthquakes are close to signing an experienced Argentine attacking midfielder, according to Spanish-language media reports Friday.
San Jose is supposed to reach a deal with Matias Pérez García of Tigre, a suburban Buenos Aires team playing in the country's first division. An unnamed spokesman told Clarin of Buenos Aires that Tigre would receive a $2 million transfer fee for the player.
An Earthquakes spokesman declined to comment Friday evening. President Dave Kaval said earlier in the week he would not comment on any negotiations. But Kaval reiterated the team's need for an attacking midfielder as it undergoes a transition from a direct style to possession style of play.
Perez Garcia, 29, seems to fit the Quakes' needs. He found a home at Tigre in 2012 when the club finish second in the '12 Copa Sudamericana. The 5-foot-5 playmaker has scored 17 goals in 73 games in all competitions for Tigre.
Perez Garcia also has played for clubs in Uruguay, Chile and France. Buenos Aires newspapers reported this month that the midfielder also was in negotiations with Racing, a bigger club in the Argentine capital. The midfielder has appeared with his country's youth national teams but never with la Albiceleste on the senior level.
Major League Soccer teams have until Aug. 8 to acquire foreign players per the FIFA summer transfer window.
The Quakes (5-8-5) showed the first signs of a new style in a 5-1 victory Wednesday over the Chicago Fire, playing Yannick Djalo on top with Chris Wondolowski. Target forwards Steven Lenhart (knee) and Alan Gordon (undisclosed) didn't play.
San Jose plays host to Spanish champion Atletico Madrid in an exhibition Sunday at Candlestick Park.
Contact Elliott Almond at 408-920-5865 and follow him on Twitter at twitter.com/elliottalmond.


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Strategic Plan
In March of 2013 Umpqua Community College completed a comprehensive planning process, setting forth a Strategic Plan to continue strengthening the College's ability to serve its stakeholders. This plan is based on the mission, "Umpqua Community College provides high quality college degree programs, workforce development, and community learning opportunities". This planning process resulted in five goals that will guide College decision making processes during the next five years.
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Download / View 2012-2013 Strategic Plan Progress Report
Process & Mission Statement
In 2007 Umpqua Community College completed a comprehensive process, setting forth a strategic plan to continue strengthening the College's ability to serve its stakeholders. This plan is based on our mission statement, "Umpqua Community College provides accessible and affordable quality college education, life-long learning opportunities, workforce training, and cultural programs for our communities". The strategic planning process resulted in four initiatives that will guide the College in the assessment and prioritization of factors that will influence institutional decisions during the next five years. Internal and external factors were considered. Input from the community, staff, and students determined the relevance and need expressed in the plan's four strategic initiatives. College committees developed the initial goals and measures related to achieving each initiative. The College, through its strategic plan, formalizes its commitment to continuously improve its services, marketing, communication, balance of programs, creation of new instructional programs, and to strengthen existingand develop new partnerships within our communities and in support of our mission.
Action Plans are developed each year based on the assessment of plan measures and changes in our environment. Each department and division may develop Action Plans detailing activities to help UCC to accomplish the goals and objectives of this plan. Action Plans will include a performance measure,who is responsible, timeline for completion, and an estimate of budget requirements. These Action Plans are used during budget discussions to ensure that resources are allocated. Annual and semi-annual progress reports to the UCC Board, campus and the community are developed to share the progress related to each initiative.
This 2008 through 2013 Strategic Plan is the foundation of planning and budgeting for the five year period. Only those items that require no additional funding and are committed to by the College or that are funded through the college budget process each year will be included in the plan's actions, measures, and evaluation for that year.
Work on UCC's Strategic Plan is a never-ending process. The College realizes the need for flexibility in responding to unforeseen developments and the value of using assessment of measures in determining the effectiveness of the action plans toward achieving its goals. The College ensures its ability to respond to community and student needs through its annual planning and budgeting processes. Data regarding external and internal factors, challenges, and opportunities affecting the College will be considered at that time. The College will determine whether a new mission statement, goals, and objectives are needed each year or if the current statements simply need to be updated. The result ofthese important discussions will ensure that Umpqua Community College remains responsive, proactive, creative, relevant, and essential in providing programs and services that meet the needs of its students and communities.
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Our Duluth, MN hotel's location is the best!
The Holiday Inn® & Suites Duluth Downtown is located 10 minutes from the airport & located in the heart of downtown Duluth, MN. Our amenities include free parking with ChargePoint car chargers, two restaurants and complimentary shuttle service. All of our rooms have a fridge, coffee maker and iron/board. We are near many businesses & Duluth attractions, including Canal Park.
Our leisure guests love to visit Lake Superior Zoo or Great Lakes Aquarium. History buffs enjoy touring Glensheen Mansion while outdoor enthusiasts have many options. Great area shopping and dining is just around the corner in downtown Duluth at Canal Park. We are located near the Duluth Entertainment & Convention Center (DECC) and the Aerial Lift Bridge.
Business travelers appreciate our 24-hour business center, Wi-Fi and computer access. We boast twelve meeting rooms that can accommodate 600 people. Since we're in the heart of the business district, you're near banks, hospitals, Enbridge, Allete Minnesota Power, Maurices Ascena Retail Group and United Health Care.
After spending the day in Duluth, MN, our hotel's guests can relax with two swimming pools or unwind in our brand new restaurant Lyric Kitchen Bar. The Greenery Cafe & Bakery is another option for delicious dining. We are the hub of the downtown Skywalk System, so you can easily get to your destination in comfort.
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Executive Vice President Billy Gatlin
Billy Gatlin, CCA Executive Vice President, is native of Merced County. Billy came to the association with nearly a decade of experience at the California State Capitol. Immediately before joining the CCA staff, he served as deputy director of the Assembly Republican Caucus under Assemblywoman Connie Conway (R-Tulare).
Billy serves as chief executive officer of both CCA and the CCA Feeder Council, overseeing planning, advocacy, finances, membership and personnel. In addition, Billy is the lead spokesperson for CCA and direct staff in advocating for CCA policy.
Originally from Atwater, Billy grew up surrounded by agriculture and says he is very excited to serve the state's cattle producers. His in-laws own and operate a ranch on the Central Coast and members of his family have been deeply engaged with CCA and cattle production in both the Central Valley and Central Coast region for many years. He received his bachelor's degree in Government from California State University, Sacramento, and resides in Herald with his wife, Hillary.
Prior to working for the caucus, Billy worked in the legislature and on a number of political campaigns. He served four years as chief of staff to Assemblymember Anthony Adams (R-Hesperia), a role in which he oversaw the assemblymember's legislative and political agenda, while managing staff and helping execute the office's strategic plan. Gatlin also worked for Assembly Minority Leader Mike Villines in 2004 and 2005.
Billy Gatlin can be reached at (916) 444-0845 or by e-mail at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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In the past year, Uptown has been in the news for everything from Wilson Red Line station renovations to celeb chef Bobby Flay filming at the Green Mill. Though beloved fast-food chain Sonic Drive-In hasn't committed to opening its first Chicago location there yet, this North Side neighborhood has seen plenty of new bars and restaurants take up residence since the start of 2012. Consider this your to-do list the next time you're in the neighborhood.
The Reservoir
844 W. Montrose Ave. 773-275-4000
Opened in: September
Uptown's latest watering hole is all about craft beer, with drafts such as The Lost Abbey Red Barn and Lagunitas Little Sumpin' Sumpin' ales at the ready. There's also something special for cocktail fans, too: Look for a handful of twisted classes to rotate seasonally. Right now, choices include a traditional pisco sour, Pimm's cup made with ginger beer and a blood orange sidecar made with Italian blood orange liqueur. To eat, shareable plates range from mussels cooked in Metropolitan Krankshaft kolsh to braised pork belly with poached apple and parsnip puree.
Lao Sze Chuan
4832 N. Broadway 773-293-4653
Opened in: September
Chef Tony Hu has a fleet of Chinatown restaurants, but he's probably most well-known for his first, Lao Sze Chuan. It's been serving traditional Szechuan cuisine since the late '90s, and now Hu has taken the concept north and opened a second Chicago location in the former Marigold storefront. The massive menu is about 90 percent the same as the Chinatown original, but the space itself resembles flashier sibling restaurant Lao You Ju with its plus red banquettes and candlelit tables. You can count on popular picks such as tea-smoked duck, dry chili chicken and crispy lemon shrimp, and though hot-pot cooking at your table isn't offered here, but you can order it already prepared.
Pecking Order
4416 N. Clark St. 773-907-9900
Opened in: June
After a summer of settling into its farm-fresh space, chef Kristine Subido's chicken-centric cafe is welcoming a flock of new features for fall. Within the past month, she's launched Sunday brunch as well as weekday lunch. Brunch highlights include her take on fried chicken and waffles with house-made coconut jam and sriracha-black pepper butter, as well as a Longaniza sausage burger topped with a fried egg and toasted garlic mayo. Cooler weather brings new seasonal dishes such as braised greens with bacon, coconut and ginger (replacing summer's popular corn salad) as well as two new fall punches--featuring ingredients such as bourbon, apple cider and metaxa, a Greek herbal liqueur—set to debut by next weekend. And delivery service starts Tuesday, so you'll still be able to get your chicken fix even when it's too chilly to leave your nest.
4250 N. Marine Drive 773-880-9115
Opened in: May
Even though Razon has been open for four months, the tucked-away location inside Imperial Towers has kept it relatively hidden to those who don't live in the building. The dinner menu features cheese plates sourced from Pastoral as well as hearty dishes such as pulled pork with barbecue-glazed pears or polenta with mushroom ragu. Deals such as a $10 grass-fed beef burger and duck-fat fries and $25 three-course dinner on Wednesdays sound worth the trip.
Miso Asian Kitchen
4449 N. Broadway 773-728-4449
Opened in: March
This Pan-Asian restaurant has seating for 10 but does a swift business in carryout. Chinese takeout classics such as orange chicken and crab rangoon are most popular, but the menu includes Japanese, Vietnamese and Korean specialties. That means plenty of tuna and salmon donburri (rice bowls), beef bibimbap, chicken gyoza and maki to go around.
Baker & Nosh
1301 W. Wilson Ave. 773-989-7393
Opened in: January
Le Cordon Bleu chef instructor Bill Millholland's bakery and cafe has been going strong since opening at the tail end of January. Next week, the menu adjusts to welcome autumnal flavors such as spicy pumpkin or carrot-ginger-raisin coffee cake, plus the return of cold-weather customer favorites such as a roast beef sandwich. A rustic fruit tart with ricotta, dried figs, pine nuts and honey is also set to debut soon. Millholland continues to offer his basic bread-baking and croissant-making classes that launched back in July; find details on dates and rates at bakerandnosh.com.
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36-Teams Compete to Build the Best Bot during 8th Annual Tournament
WHO: Thirty-six robots constructed of LEGO pieces will be put through their paces on Sunday, Dec. 9, during the Finger Lakes FIRST LEGO League Championship Tournament hosted by the University of Rochester.
TIME, DATE, PLACE: 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Sunday, Dec. 9, at the Goergen Athletic Center on the University of Rochester's River Campus.
9 a.m. to noon: Morning activities include judged presentations from each team.
1 to 3:30 p.m.: The tournament continues with the robotic competition, which may provide the best photo and video opportunities.
4 to 5 p.m.: Closing ceremony.
WHAT: Can FIRST® LEGO® League teams improve the quality of life for seniors by helping them continue to be independent, engaged, and connected in their communities? In the 2012 SENIOR SOLUTIONS Challenge, teams will explore the topic of aging and how it may affect a person's ability to maintain his or her lifestylesolving issues like getting around, keeping in touch, and staying fit.
Teams will research obstacles and then suggest ways to improve the quality of life for the seniors affected. Teams will also build, test, and program an autonomous robot using a LEGO MINDSTORMS® robot to solve a set of missions on an obstacle course. Throughout their experience, teams will operate under FLL's core values.
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Rich Fisher is in his fourth season as Nebraska's receivers coach and his 12th overall season of coaching at the Division I level. Under Fisher's tutelage, the Nebraska wide receiver unit has quickly developed into one of the most explosive and consistent groups in the Big Ten Conference.
Fisher's wide receiving corps dealt with adversity throughout the 2013 season, but still recorded a productive season. The wide receivers not only had to deal with their own injuries that sidelined Jamal Turner and Kenny Bell - two of Nebraska three leading receivers from 2012 - for portions of the year, but the unit also had to adjust to three different starting quarterbacks. Husker wide receivers combined for 160 catches and 22 touchdown receptions in 2013.
Senior Quincy Enunwa hauled in 51 catches in 2013, including a Nebraska record 12 touchdown receptions. He set the TD reception record in style, with a 99-yard touchdown catch against Georgia in the Gator Bowl. Enunwa's 51 receptions went for 753 yards, the ninth-best yardage total in school history.
Bell finished his junior season with a team-high 52 receptions, marking the third straight year he led the Huskers in catches. Bell joined Heisman Trophy winner Johnny Rodgers as the only Huskers to produce two 50-reception seasons. Entering his senior year in 2014, Bell has 134 career receptions and 1,901 career receiving yarrds and is on track to break Nebraska's career records in both categories.
Sophomore Sam Burtch (12 catches) and redshirt freshmen Alonzo Moore (six), Brandon Reilly (three) and Jordan Westerkamp (20) each recorded their first career catches in 2013, with the trio of freshmen combining for 29 receptions. Westerkamp has also caught two touchdown passes, including a 49-yard Hail Mary as time expired against Northwestern, believed to be the first successful Hail Mary in school history.
Westerkamp was named the Big Ten Freshman of the Week following his four-catch, 104-yard performance against Northwestern, while Bell repeated as an All-Big Ten selection in 2013, battling through injuries to earn honorable-mention accolades.
Bell led the way in 2012, earning second-team All-Big Ten honors. Bell set Nebraska sophomore records with 50 catches, 863 receiving yards and eight receiving touchdowns, leading the Huskers in all three categories. Bell, who also set an NU sophomore record with three 100-yard receiving games, finished fourth overall on Nebraska's season receiving touchdowns chart, fourth in receiving yards, sixth in 100-yard receiving games, seventh in receptions and ninth in yards per reception (17.5).
In 2012, Enunwa eclipsed his previous career totals with 42 catches for 470 yards on the season. He added a touchdown grab and a 100-yard receiving game at Northwestern, while blocking for an NU rushing attack that ranked eighth nationally. Jamal Turner hauled in 29 passes for 395 yards and two touchdowns, and played the best football of his career in the second half of the season. Senior Steven Osborne has also made his first 10 career catches in 2012, totaling 91 yards and two touchdowns.
In his first season in 2011, Fisher's receivers contributed to Nebraska's success in the passing game and also offered solid perimeter blocking for the Husker running game. Fisher inherited a talented but young stable of receivers. Under his direction, the group hauled in 107 passes for 1,434 yards, while averaging 13.4 yards per reception. The unit was highlighted by underclassmen who combined for 69 catches, 1,004 receiving yards and a 14.6 yard-per-catch average.
Leading the list of young receivers succeeding under Fisher's tutelage was Bell. As a redshrit freshman Bell led Nebraska with 32 catches and 461 receiving yards in 2011 and added three receiving touchdowns. Bell became only the second freshman in school history to lead Nebraska in both receptions and receiving yards, joining Nate Swift who accomplished the feat as a redshirt freshman in 2005.
Enunwa had 21 catches for 293 yards and two touchdowns, after recording only one reception as a freshman. Senior Brandon Kinnie had 22 catches in 2011 and finished just outside the top 10 on the Nebraska career receptions list. Junior Tim Marlowe had 12 grabs, after not recording a catch in his freshman and sophomore seasons.
Fisher also helped true freshman Jamal Turner make the transition from high school quarterback to college wide receiver. Turner had 15 catches for 243 yards and averaged 16.2 yards per catch for the Huskers in 2011.
Fisher came to Nebraska after two highly successful seasons in the prep ranks. He spent the 2009 and 2010 seasons as the head coach at Rivers School in Weston, Mass., where he compiled a 12-5 record.
In 2010, Fisher coached Rivers School to a perfect 8-0 regular season, the school's first undefeated regular season since 1915 and its only ISL championship. In fact, it was just the school's third winning season in the past 25 years and the first since 1979. The team also played in the Norm Walker Bowl at Gillette Stadium, the first-ever bowl game for Rivers School.
The successful season came in large part because of an explosive offense, as Rivers averaged more than 40 points per game. A pair of Rivers School standouts, Taariq Allen and Ben Patrick, earned All-Scholastic honors from the Boston Herald. A standout receiver, Allen is a redshirt freshman wide receiver for the Huskers.
The 43-year old Fisher spent several years in private business, including owning and operating New England Gridiron Football Camps from 2004 to 2009.
Fisher's collegiate coaching experience includes stops at Idaho, Colorado and Oklahoma State, most recently spending five seasons on the Vandals' staff from 1999 to 2003. Fisher tutored the wide receivers during his first two seasons in Moscow, then handled the inside and outside linebackers during his final three seasons.
Prior to his five seasons at Idaho, Fisher spent two seasons as a graduate assistant at Colorado, his alma mater. While with the Buffs in 1997 and 1998, Fisher assisted with coaching the wide receivers. In 1998, he helped the Buffs to an 8-4 record, capped by a victory over Oregon in the Aloha Bowl.
Fisher also spent two seasons as a graduate assistant at Oklahoma State in 1995 and 1996. With the Cowboys, Fisher worked with the defense, specifically in the secondary.
In nine seasons as a coach at the collegiate level, Fisher has worked with five players who went on to play in the NFL.
Fisher was a three-year letterwinner at Colorado during the Buffs' highly successful run in the late 1980s and early 1990s. An outside linebacker, Fisher lettered in 1990, 1991 and 1992 and was part of CU's 1990 national championship team. He started in 1991 until being sidelined by a knee injury. During his playing time, he also contributed to Big Eight title teams in 1989, 1990 and 1991.
Originally from Sugarland, Texas, Fisher graduated from Colorado with a degree in communications in 1993. Fisher and his wife, Tori, have two sons, Max and Alex, and a daughter Mason.
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Date of Birth: Dec. 4, 1970
Family: Wife, Tori; Sons Max and Alex, Daughter, Mason
Education: Bachelor's, Communications, Colorado, 1993
Playing Experience: 1988-92, Colorado
Coaching Experience: 1995-96, Oklahoma State (graduate assistant coach); 1997-98 (Colorado (graduate assistant coach); 1999-2000, Idaho (assistant coach/receivers); 2001-03, Idaho (assistant coach/linebackers); 2009-10, Rivers School, Weston, Mass. (Head Coach); 2011-present, Nebraska (assistant coach/receivers)


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BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Crews worked to clear a mudslide Friday and homeowners dug out property after severe thunderstorms swept across southwestern Idaho.
The storms hit Thursday afternoon, causing flash flooding in Oakley, dropping golf ball-sized hail near Mountain Home and creating a mudslide on Idaho Highway 55 between Banks and Smiths Ferry. Residents of a home in Eagle escaped unharmed after their house was struck by lightning and caught fire. Meanwhile, Idaho Power crews had to respond to multiple outages in Boise, Nampa, Caldwell, Star and other areas.
Larry Adams, a ranch owner from Oakley, said the flooding at his property lasted less than an hour, with silt- and mud-laden water pouring out of the foothills and leaving behind more than a foot of dirt and debris in many of his workshops and ranch buildings.
"I've been here since 1973, and I've never seen anything like this," Adams said.
Surrounding farm fields were strewn with debris in the aftermath of the rushing water.
"Luckily, the fields have already been put to bed and harvested, or else we'd have a whole other mess to deal with," Adams said.
In the Boise suburb of Eagle, a home caught fire after it was struck by lightning. The homeowners were able to get out unharmed.
And the Idaho Transportation Department said mudslides forced the closures of Idaho Highway 55, along with the Banks to Lowman Road between Highway 55 and Garden Valley. Officials were unsure how long it would take to clear and re-open the roads, and suggested that drivers heading north take highway 95 as an alternate route.
The National Weather Service in Boise said it received reports of golf ball-sized hail, mainly along the Ada County line and along Idaho 55 toward Horseshoe Bend. The highest recorded windspeed in Boise on Thursday was 41 mph, with a gust of 51 mph also recorded.
The National Weather Service says Idaho will get a break from stormy weather, with cooler, drier conditions expected through the weekend and temperatures expected to hover around 80 degrees in the Boise region.


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Amarillo, TX – Fr. Frank Pavone, National Director of Priests for Life, today praised Gov. Kathleen Blanco and the Louisiana legislature for enacting the nation's first state ban on partial-birth abortion since the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a similar federal prohibition.
"Louisiana is leading the way in what every state needs to do," said Fr. Pavone. "The violence of partial-birth abortion, moreover, is reflected in every abortion. We pray and work for the day when our final goal will be reached, the protection of every unborn child."
Priests for Life is the nation's largest Catholic pro-life organization dedicated to ending abortion and euthanasia. For more information, visit www.priestsforlife.org


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Lori Carlson, CFO, Rotary International
Pharmaceutical industry executive Lori O. Carlson has been named chief financial officer for Rotary International. Carlson will oversee all financial operations of Rotary International and its charitable arm, The Rotary Foundation, which have combined revenue exceeding $400 million and almost $1 billion in assets. Areas of responsibility include financial management, financial planning and analysis, treasury and investment, corporate reporting, accounting services, insurance, risk management and procurement. Carlson comes to Rotary International World Headquarters with nearly 30 years of experience in treasury, financial planning and financial reporting and control, most of it with the pharmaceutical companies Hospira Inc., where she was corporate vice president and treasurer, and Abbott Laboratories, where she held several positions, including assistant treasurer and treasurer for international operations. She replaces Peter J. DeBerge, recently promoted to deputy general secretary at Rotary.
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As President Barack Obama talked from the East Room of the White House last week about violence and young African-American men and boys, Memphis Mayor A C Wharton Jr. was among a group of mayors meeting in New Orleans who say they are ready to back a new approach to the problem.
Wharton is among the big city mayors who formed "Cities United" to explore common issues and concerns. And the meeting in New Orleans was the inaugural session of the coalition.
"We know where the challenge is – it's with young men of color," Wharton said on the WKNO-TV program "Behind The Headlines" the day after the gathering and the White House speech. "We've got to just fess up to that – face up to that. … Young male blacks in the city of Memphis are in grave jeopardy – in the United States as a whole."
The program, hosted by Eric Barnes, publisher of The Daily News, can be seen on The Daily News Video page, video.memphisdailynews.com.
Obama's approach to the problem is My Brother's Keeper, a private program with federal coordination and local support.
"The stubborn fact is that the life chances of the average black or brown child in this country lags behind by almost every measure, and is worse for boys and young men," he said.
My Brother's Keeper would work across several fronts, including mentorship programs and juvenile and criminal justice system changes aimed at a basic "disconnectedness" the president said is at the root of a cycle of problems and lowered expectations.
"We just assume this is an inevitable part of American life, instead of the outrage that it is," Obama said. "That's how we think about it. It's like a cultural backdrop for us – in movies and television. We just assume, of course, it's going to be like that. But these statistics should break our hearts. And they should compel us to act."
Wharton termed the problem "black boy crime" and he said it is the specific issue that some social services agencies and advocacy groups want to avoid.
"We have to stop saying, 'I don't do black boy crime. That's not my thing. I'm in health care.' 'I don't do black boy crime, I'm a minister or I'm a business person,'" Wharton said. "If you are in this town, you've been impacted by what young male blacks are doing. Your stores are closing. People are not investing. People are moving out. The fear factor is there. Let's face it. And everybody's impacted by it, so they are your little brother. The system at 201 Poplar will never do it alone."
Wharton said too often the reaction is based on an assumption that what works is an unforgiving and immediate response that makes black young men disproportionately more likely to find their way into the criminal justice system.
"We cannot do it simply by saying they are marauding out there. Let's just round them up and make everybody mad," he said. "See the value side of it when you get inside their heads and minds."
The issue isn't a new one for Memphis. But it is building critical mass politically.
A detailed U.S. Department of Justice investigation of Memphis-Shelby County Juvenile Court, which spanned several years, concluded black male juvenile offenders were disproportionately more likely to be transferred by the court for trial as adults and disproportionately more likely to be detained and face harsher punishments than their white counterparts.
The finding was one of several that led to a settlement agreement with county government and the court that is bringing about major reforms of court procedures, including due process protections.
Wharton, a former Shelby County public defender and criminal defense attorney, said the local criminal justice system is not working as it should.
"It's spotty," he said. "Does it meet the standards now? No, it does not because we are heavy on the prosecutions, heavy on the incarcerations, heavy on the punishment side. This is not to say that you just give up on suppression. You've got to hold people accountable."
The issue is likely to remain in the political spotlight this year as voters decide countywide races on the August county general election ballot for district attorney general, juvenile court judge and juvenile court clerk. All three races feature candidates who have expressed strong concerns about the current direction of the criminal and juvenile justice systems.
"More and more and more that's becoming the face of crime," Wharton said of young black males. "It's going to eat us alive if we don't get a handle on it. Let's just come to grips and stop tiptoeing around it."
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About one-fourth of the estimated cost of the new Davidson County Sheriff's Office project will be funded through confiscated drug money.
About one-fourth of the estimated cost of the new Davidson County Sheriff's Office project will be funded through confiscated drug money.
Davidson County Sheriff David Grice budgeted about $1,050,000 in forfeiture funds to acquire the site of the proposed office and pay for site preparation and construction.
While the Davidson County Board of Commissioners has yet to approve any building, Grice said he thinks the forfeiture funds have helped the project progress so far.
"It's expedited the situation because it is one-quarter of the theoretical cost of the project," Grice said.
A space needs study conducted in 2009 showed the sheriff's office in need of an additional 30,000 square feet of usable space. Grice said he has deputies working in storage closets at the current office, located on the bottom floor of the Davidson County Courthouse on West Center Street, and a new building would help the department consolidate.
In December 2011, commissioners approved the purchase of about six acres of land near U.S. Highway 64 East near County Home Road for $250,000. In October, commissioners voted to demolish several buildings for about $190,000 at the site, the former home of the Lank of Lexington manufacturing campus.
After originally planning to renovate the buildings at the Lank of Lexington site for the new sheriff's office, the board decided in July it would be more cost effective to clear the site and build anew.
The land purchase and demolition project were both paid for with drug forfeiture funds. There should be more than $500,000 left to help finance the actual building process.
"Anytime you can use dollars like that instead of using property tax dollars, it helps us as far as maintaining the tax rate like it is," said Zeb Hanner, assistant Davidson County manager. "That's money that they've confiscated that can be used for good purposes instead of bad."
Grice said he's used the drug money for the purchase of surveillance systems, police cruisers, night vision equipment, crime scene equipment and many other uses over the years. The office's new firing range, which Grice said will end up costing about $750,000, was paid for almost entirely with drug forfeiture funds.
Federal laws allow law enforcement agencies to retain up to 80 percent of assets seized from forfeitures.
Assets seized by the sheriff's office go into a fund operated by the Davidson County Finance Department, Grice said. County commissioners must sign off on each withdrawal from the fund.
Grice said funds have been seized during stops by the office's Interstate Criminal Enforcement team, as well as searches at houses in the area.
The Davidson County Sheriff's Office seized about $212,000 in 2011 alone, Grice said.
"We've been lucky with several seizures since I've been here," Grice said.
One traffic stop in June 2005, for instance, eventually led to one of the largest seizures in the department's history.
On June 21, 2005, deputies stopped a 2005 Chevrolet Impala for failure to maintain a lane of travel. After approaching the car and talking with its two passengers, Steven Tan and Xingyun Chiang, Lt. Marvin Potter of the sheriff's office noticed the passenger door of the car was improperly mounted. Canine officers detected an odor of narcotics, which led deputies to find 31 bundles of money wrapped in Chinese-language newspaper in the door.
The money, valued at $864,400, was seized. About $7,000 was also seized from Tan's person.
Tan and Chiang fought the seizure and in 2010, appealed the decision of a district court judge, who ruled in favor of the confiscation in a forfeiture proceeding. Finding no error, the fourth circuit of the U.S. Court of Appeals affirmed the decision.
"We have reviewed the record, and we conclude that the government presented sufficient evidence to carry its burden and show that the currency was more likely than not proceeds from a drug transaction," according to a copy of the court's judgment.
The county received about $697,000 from the seizure, according to court records.
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HAYNEVILLE, Ala. (AP) — A civil rights activist who died shielding a black teenage girl from a white gunman in central Alabama in 1965 will be remembered Aug. 10 with a pilgrimage in the town where the shooting occurred.
Jonathan Myrick Daniels, who was a student at Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge, Mass., was killed in Haynesville on Aug. 20, 1965.
Daniels and the teenager, Ruby Sales, and others had just finished spending a week in the city jail for participating in a voting rights demonstration. Daniels, Sales and two others went to a small country store to get soft drinks and were confronted by Tom Coleman, a part-time deputy who leveled a shotgun at them.
The 26-year-old Daniels pushed Sales to the ground just before a shotgun blast struck him in the chest, killing him instantly. An all-white jury later acquitted Coleman of manslaughter in Daniels' death.
Sales, who heads a group that focuses on racial economic and social justice, will participate in the pilgrimage next month.


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NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman says it looks like a full-82 game schedule "is not going to be a reality," as the lockout nears its seventh week.
Speaking at a press conference Wednesday announcing the New York Islanders' move from Nassau Coliseum to Brooklyn's Barclays Center in 2015, Bettman seemed resigned to looking at a shortened season with the NHL and the players' association still at odds after months of negotiations.
Thursday is Bettman's deadline to reach a new collective bargaining agreement in time to preserve a full season. But talks have not been scheduled for this week at all. Last week, Bettman offered up a third proposal to the NHLPA in Toronto, but he and union head Donald Fehr did not come to a deal.
This is the third lockout of Bettman's tenure. The stoppage began on Sept. 15.


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It's actually pretty simple: investing means putting your money to work for you. Essentially, it's a different way to think about how to make money. Growing up, most of us were taught that you can earn an income only by getting a job and working. And that's exactly what most of us do. There's one big problem with this: if you want more money, you have to work more hours. However, there is a limit to how many hours a day we can work, not to mention the fact that having a bunch of money is no fun if we don't have the leisure time to enjoy it
You can't create a duplicate of yourself to increase your working time, so instead, you need to send an extension of yourself - your money - to work. That way, while you are putting in hours for your employer, or even mowing your lawn, sleeping, reading the paper or socializing with friends, you can also be earning money elsewhere. Quite simply, making your money work for you maximizes your earning potential whether or not you receive a raise, decide to work overtime or look for a higher-paying job.
There are many different ways you can go about making an investment. This includes putting money into stocks, bonds, mutual funds, or real estate (among many other things), or starting your own business. Sometimes people refer to these options as "investment vehicles," which is just another way of saying "a way to invest." Each of these vehicles has positives and negatives, which we'll discuss in a later section of this tutorial. The point is that it doesn't matter which method you choose for investing your money, the goal is always to put your money to work so it earns you an additional profit. Even though this is a simple idea, it's the most important concept for you to understand.
What Investing Is Not
Investing is not gambling. Gambling is putting money at risk by betting on an uncertain outcome with the hope that you might win money. Part of the confusion between investing and gambling, however, may come from the way some people use investment vehicles. For example, it could be argued that buying a stock based on a "hot tip" you heard at the water cooler is essentially the same as placing a bet at a casino.
True investing doesn't happen without some action on your part. A "real" investor does not simply throw his or her money at any random investment; he or she performs thorough analysis and commits capital only when there is a reasonable expectation of profit. Yes, there still is risk, and there are no guarantees, but investing is more than simply hoping Lady Luck is on your side.
Why Bother Investing?
Obviously, everybody wants more money. It's pretty easy to understand that people invest because they want to increase their personal freedom, sense of security and ability to afford the things they want in life.
However, investing is becoming more of a necessity. The days when everyone worked the same job for 30 years and then retired to a nice fat pension are gone. For average people, investing is not so much a helpful tool as the only way they can retire and maintain their present lifestyle.
Whether you live in the U.S., Canada, or pretty much any other country in the industrialized Western world, governments are tightening their belts. Almost without exception, the responsibility of planning for retirement is shifting away from the state and towards the individual. There is much debate over how safe our old-age pension programs will be over the next 20, 30 and 50 years. But why leave it to chance? By planning ahead you can ensure financial stability during your retirement.
Now that you have a general idea of what investing is and why you should do it, it's time to learn about how investing lets you take advantage of one of the miracles of mathematics: compound interest.
It's good to clarify how securities are different from each other, but it's even more important to understand how their different characteristics can work together to accomplish an objective.
The Portfolio
A portfolio is a combination of different investment assets mixed and matched for the purpose of achieving an investor's goal(s). Items that are considered a part of your portfolio can include any asset you own - from real items such as art and real estate, to equities, fixed-income instruments and their cash and equivalents. For the purpose of this section, we will focus on the most liquid asset types: equities, fixed-income securities and cash and equivalents.
An easy way to think of a portfolio is to imagine a pie chart, whose portions each represent a type of vehicle to which you have allocated a certain portion of your whole investment. The asset mix you choose according to your aims and strategy will determine the risk and expected return of your portfolio.
Basic Types of Portfolios
In general, aggressive investment strategies - those that shoot for the highest possible return - are most appropriate for investors who, for the sake of this potential high return, have a high risk tolerance (can stomach wide fluctuations in value) and a longer time horizon. Aggressive portfolios generally have a higher investment in equities.
The conservative investment strategies, which put safety at a high priority, are most appropriate for investors who are risk averse and have a shorter time horizon. Conservative portfolios will generally consist mainly of cash and cash equivalents, or high-quality fixed-income instruments.
To demonstrate the types of allocations that are suitable for these strategies, we'll look at samples of both a conservative and a moderately aggressive portfolio.
Note that the terms cash and the money market refer to any short-term, fixed-income investment. Money in a savings account and a certificate of deposit (CD), which pays a bit higher interest, are examples.
The main goal of a conservative portfolio strategy is to maintain the real value of the portfolio, or to protect the value of the portfolio against inflation. The portfolio you see here would yield a high amount of current income from the bonds and would also yield long-term capital growth potential from the investment in high quality equities.
A moderately aggressive portfolio is meant for individuals with a longer time horizon and an average risk tolerance. Investors who find these types of portfolios attractive are seeking to balance the amount of risk and return contained within the fund.
The portfolio would consist of approximately 50-55% equities, 35-40% bonds, 5-10% cash and equivalents.
You can further break down the above asset classes into subclasses, which also have different risks and potential returns. For example, an investor might divide the equity portion between large companies, small companies and international firms. The bond portion might be allocated between those that are short-term and long-term, government versus corporate debt, and so forth. More advanced investors might also have some of the alternative assets such as options and futures in the mix. As you can see, the number of possible asset allocations is practically unlimited.
Why Portfolios?
It all centers around diversification. Different securities perform differently at any point in time, so with a mix of asset types, your entire portfolio does not suffer the impact of a decline of any one security. When your stocks go down, you may still have the stability of the bonds in your portfolio.
There have been all sorts of academic studies and formulas that demonstrate why diversification is important, but it's really just the simple practice of "not putting all your eggs in one basket." If you spread your investments across various types of assets and markets, you'll reduce the risk of catastrophic financial losses.
To start an investment club the first step you need to do is find a few like minded people who are interested in learning to invest. These can be relatives, co-workers, friends. Once you have potential members schedule a meeting and talk about goals, desires and willingness to commit to this venture. Many clubs operate on the 80-20 rule, which is 80% of the work is done by 20% of the members. If all agree to this endeavor the next step is to get a copy of a Partnership Agreement, read it and amend it to you fit the requirements of your Club. Next discuss an Operating Procedures Agreement that will cover duties of members, meeting times, dues, etc. This can be amended without changing the Partnership Agreement. If you have these documents signed and all are on board you need to become legal. Go to the IRS site and request form SS4, complete this and send it in. This will be your tax identification for your club.This will take four to six weeks so in the meantime schedule meetings to get ready to begin the journey. There may be problems along the way but nothing that other clubs have not overcome. Now, about setting up a brokerage account. For some brokerages you will need to submit the signed partnership agreement along with your tax ID. depending on your state or county's requirement you may also need to file a DBA, doing business as form. To read about the different brokerage accounts go to What is a Stock (3.1 in the table of contents) - Online Trading Platforms to read about requirements for each brokerage.
The current tax laws (2008) favor the investor over the trader. If you hold your investment longer than twelve months you will pay a long term capital gains tax at the rate of either 5% or 15% depending on your tax status or rates. If you hold stocks for less than the twelve month period you will pay ordinary income tax rates which may be as high as 36%. Qualified dividends are taxes at the capital gains rates mentioned above. Non qualified dividends which one would receive from a REIT do not get the favorable tax status as REITS do not pay taxes if they meet the IRS requirements for REIT status. They are more like a pass through corporation, meaning profits are passed through to shareowners who pay the tax. Your 1099-DIV should spell out which dividend is taxed at which rate. Depending on whether foreign governments have tax treaties with the US you may or may not pay additional taxes on these investments. Most foreign taxes are witheld before they are distributed so you should not need to concern yourself with any paperwork. See IRS publication 901 to read more in depth.
A stock is a security which shows ownership in a publically traded company. They are sold by the share. Each of these shares denotes a part ownership for a shareowner or shareholder of that company. Stocks are traded on exchanges all over the world with the largest being the New York Stock Exchange, NYSE. Stocks are identified by their ticker symbol. For example General Electric will be identified as GE. Individual Investors can purchase shares for themselves, at a brokerage of their choice, wherever they have an account set up. There are different types of shares, common and preferred. Most shareholders will purchase common stock. The goal is for the price per share to increase over time so the investor can have a profit that beats monies in Treasury bills or beats inflation. Over time stocks have outperformed cash and bonds; this takes into account depressions, world wars, and other world changing events.
The explosion of online trading platforms, or brokerages, has allowed the individual investor to greatly reduce commission costs over the last many years. Investors used to be encouraged to only buy "round lots", or 100 share blocks. Nowadays you can buy as little as one or up to 1000 or more for the same low price. Even banks are getting into the picture to retain or draw customers who want one source financial services.
Bank of America comes to mind as one who charges from as low as $7 for customers on their website who have $100K in assets outside the brokerage account, $10 for accounts with direct deposit and $14 for those who do not hold any accounts other than their brokerage accounts at BofA. They also provide full service brokerage accounts for those who do not wish to actively manage their accounts. Research is available to self directed as well as full service investors. Of the online brokerages TD Ameritrade , formerly Waterhouse, is a favorite among individual investors or investments clubs. TD Ameritrade's website charges a flat $9.99 for trades and provides research like the S&P reports and other resources. Scottrade is another low cost platform as they charge a flat $7 for their trades. They also have research available to investors. More information can be found at the Scottrade website. One online brokerage, Zecco Trading, offers zero-commission stock trades for investors with at least $2500 equity in their account - and includes access to S&P reports. The Zecco community, ZeccoShare, allows people with a Zecco Trading account to share their portfolio, trades, and performance with others.
If the Money markets are a concern to you ask what percent you will get when you are not fully invested. The brokerage accounts do not have fees for accounts. Check the links above, to see what minimums you will need to deposit to open an account and if applicable, to maintain an account without fees.
Closed-end companies (closed-end funds), are pools of assets, that seek the economies of scale in all areas. This little known investing type, will include professional management, diversification, transparency, as well as lower costs. No provision is made for advertising, or educating the public. Closed-end companies are not designed, or priced for dissolution.
Capital is raised from rights offerings. They are not required to buy its own shares back from investors upon request. The net asset value NAV, is not of great concern to investors. Closed-end companies are permitted to invest in unlisted securities, which may not have a liquid market.
Closed-end company's Investment advisors, do not benefit from the continuous buying and selling of the funds assets, like mutual funds. They will not wait to remove securities that do not meet the fund's objectives, like those held in indexes. Essentially all of the fund's realized income and capital gains is paid to shareholders each year. Closed-end company's charts should have all distributions, reinvested and compounded, to compare results fairly.
Examples of two funds that make maximum use of what the closed-end company type has to offer are Templeton Emerging Markets Fund EMF and Morgan Stanley Emerging Markets Fund MSF. These are diversified global, equity funds. Volatility is reduced from being large enough to be in many uncorrelated markets. Because they do not have to keep cash for redemptions, they can stay fully invested at market bottoms. Funds like these have the freedom to invest in any of the fastest growing, emerging and frontier economies.
Mutual funds are an affordable way for an unfoinrmed investor to diversify their investments to minimize risk. They are good in the respect that it allows you to probably not lose all your money if one or two companies go bad.On the other hand, they often have many charges incurred along with them for upkeep or maintenance and things like that. And often, the funds that have the highest amount of charges because they have the most active management often don't show any better performance than a fund with little charges/activity.In the end though, mutual funds often don't even beat the market performance, and returns can be harder to figure out on a daily basis. If you want to be able to see how you're doing easily and up to the minute, consider an index fund which contains weighted pieces of a number of large stocks (like a NASDAQ or DOW index fund).On the plus side though, you can get money mutual funds from which you can write checks or even make interact payments, so basically operate like a bank account with higher interest.
ETF or Exchange Traded Funds are baskets of stocks that trade as a stock does. Trading costs vary but they are a lower cost alternative to mutual funds and provide diversification for a portfolio. Some are packaged like index funds, for example an ETF might hold solar stocks, or, might hold China based stocks. Another way to describe it is a themed basket of stocks. An example is the Vanguard Energy ETF. It trades with the ticker symbol VDE. It's top two holdings are Chevron, CVX, and Exxon, XOM.
This is the philosophy of investing in a company when its share prices undervalues the company's intrinsic worth (as determined through a variety of measures). Proponents of this philosophy include Warren Buffet, Charlie Munger, BRK and the late Benjamin Graham, as well as John Templeton, and Mark Mobius EMF.
This is the philosophy of investing in companies who's share price has significant growth potential. Note that this philosophy could be either concomitant with or exclusive from value investing.
Everything there is to know about a company is already discounted in the price.
The Parabolic concept draws on the idea that time is an enemy, and unless a security can continue to generate more profits over time, it should be liquidated. [1] Wilders Parabolic may be used as a trailing stop loss based on prices tending to stay within a parabolic curve during a strong trend. [3] He found this when he reached for a straight edge to draw a trendline and grabbed a French curve instead. John Murphy recommends using a filter to complement the Parabolic system. [2]
The technique of buying a fixed dollar amount of a particular investment on a regular schedule, regardless of the share price. More shares are purchased when prices are low, and fewer shares are bought when prices are high.
Variations used with Dollar cost averaging by investors are to use variable timing and variable amounts. Simply, invest your assets whenever you get them, and make larger purchases on dips.
With this technique you borrow funds to invest, and pay off the loan with incoming cash flow, then repeat. It can be a secured or unsecured loan. In the case of purchasing securities, you reduce transaction costs by making bigger purchases at one time, and buying more on dips. It will also help getting into investments that need more up front than your short term cash-flow allows. With a little practice your total return will be more than the cost of the loans. [3] This will help build wealth out of savings, over the long term. [4] After borrowing the amount intended to be invested during the period, the saver invests the loan-proceeds. By putting the "savings," out of reach, the borrower is forced to pay off the loans out of current earnings, which completes the saving process. [5]
The 403(b) is a tax deferred retirement plan available for certain employees of public schools, employees of certain tax-exempt organizations, and certain ministers. If uncertain of your eligibility, consult your employer.
The 403(b) has often been referred to as a Tax Deferred Annuity (TDA) or a Tax Sheltered Annuity (TSA). This is a misnomer and gives the false impression that a participant must invest in annuity products. This is not true. Way back in 1974 Congress granted participants the ability to contribute directly in mutual funds when they added paragraph 7 to the code creating the 403(b)(7) custodial account. Throughout this site the term 403(b) is intended to mean all of the following: 403(b), 403(b)(7), TDA, and TSA. Ultimately, the 403(b) plan is a defined contribution plan (often called a DC plan), where the participant makes contributions and investment decisions, as opposed to a pension or defined benefit plan (often called a DB plan), where the employer makes all, or a majority of contributions and all of the investment decisions.
An IRA is a trust account to hold personal savings, that provides income tax advantages to individuals. [6]
An Roth IRA is a trust account to hold personal savings, that provides income tax advantages to individuals. [7]


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For the past year, The Purple Cow Ice Cream Cafe has been serving residents of Uptown and surrounding neighborhoods. When it closed for the season in December, local patrons nor the owner thought that it would be permanent.
On April 3, the Purple Cow owner Mark Cohen announced on the business's Facebook page that this closure was more than just seasonal, it would be permanent.
"Many of you have been wondering when The Purple Cow ice cream cafe will be open again. Due to family obligations I will not be able to reopen on Montrose. I want to thank the people of the neighborhood for being so welcoming and supportive. I will truly miss being a place where families and friends gathered. I will also miss the many friends I made along the way and the many smiles I saw from my side of the counter. This April, the Purple Cow ice cream cafe will be opening a new location at 1740 W. Division street, in Wicker Park. Please come visit our new location for the same ice cream, treats and the great service you had on Montrose, with a few new things for you to try, of course. Look for updates and grand opening information, here, soon," it read.
Cohen said Wicker Park is an area he had been interested in for some time, because of its burgeoning community.
"I finally found a great location that I could afford," said Cohen, who attributes his interest in Wicker Park to the vast amount of people out and about, a factor that will allow him to expand Purple Cow's menu beyond its dairy-based namesake.
"Having a lot more foot traffic allows us to go deeper with our offerings," he said. "We're adding a homemade caramel corn and cheese corn--a Chicago authentic--and several new lines of candy."
The Purple Cow was successful at its old Montrose location, but at the new storefront on Division Street, Cohen is moving into an area rich with ice creameries. This wealth of like-minded businesses is an attribute that Adam Burck, the Executive Director of the Wicker Park Bucktown Chamber of Commerce, feels contributes to the area's continuing growth.
"There are multiple choices in all entertainment categories. It's not cookie cutter," said Burck, "It's the accessibility and density of business that makes a great experience when you're looking for neighborhoods to go to. It's a community of destinations."
Cohen echoes this sentiment, seeing similar shops such as iCream not as competition, but as an ally.
"The vibrant nature of the neighborhood and the cross-culture over here, it's just really great. We feel really lucky to be a part of it."
The Wicker Park Purple Cow is still under construction, and Cohen admits the shop's grand opening is "a bit of a moving target," but he hopes to have the shop up and running by the end of April. Once the Purple Cow is open, patrons can expect another set of patio seating to line be lining the Division Street sidewalk.
"We're gonna have outdoor seating like everybody else does," said Cohen, begging the question, "Where else in Chicago can you go where it's just one outdoor cafe after another? And that's what makes Wicker Park so cool."


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Consensus Report
Applications of Toxicogenomic Technologies to Predictive Toxicology and Risk Assessment (2007)Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology
Each report is produced by a committee of experts selected by the Academy to address a particular statement of task and is subject to a rigorous, independent peer review; while the reports represent views of the committee, they also are endorsed by the Academy. Learn more on our expert consensus reports.
The new field of toxicogenomics presents a potentially powerful set of tools to better understand the health effects of exposures to toxicants in the environment. At the request of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, the National Research Council assembled a committee to identify the benefits of toxicogenomics, the challenges to achieving them, and potential approaches to overcoming such challenges. The report concludes that realizing the potential of toxicogenomics to improve public health decisions will require a concerted effort to generate data, make use of existing data, and study data in new ways -- an effort requiring funding, interagency coordination, and data management strategies.
Key Messages
- Because of their sensitivity, toxicogenomic technologies are expected to reveal more than previously was possible about the molecules involved in development and the critical molecular level events that can be perturbed by toxicants.
- Ethical, legal, and social issues that affect the use of toxicogenomic data and the collection of data and samples needed for toxicogenomic research should be addressed.
- Fully integrating toxicogenomic technologies into predictive toxicology will require a coordinated effort approaching the scale of the Human Genome Project.
- It is unlikely that toxicogenomic signatures will be able to decipher all interactions among complex mixtures, but it should be possible to use mechanism-of-action data to design informative toxicogenomic experiments, including screening chemicals for potential points of biologic conversion (overlap) such as shared activation and detoxification pathways, enhancing identification and exploration of potential interactions, and moving beyond empirical experiments.
- The application of toxicogenomics for defining biomarkers of exposure will require consensus on what constitutes an exposure biomarker. Standardized toxicogenomic platforms that are appropriate for identifying signatures of environmental or drug exposures in target and surrogate tissues and fluids will also be required.
- There is a need to develop education and training programs relevant to toxicogenomic applications to predictive toxicology.
- Toxicogenomic approaches should be used to test the validity of methods for the ongoing challenge of estimating potential risks associated with mixtures of environmental chemicals.
- Toxicogenomic screening methods should be integrated into relevant current and future chemical regulatory and safety programs upon validation and development of adequate databases.
- Toxicogenomic studies are improving knowledge of the molecular level events that underlie toxicity and may thus advance the consideration of mechanistic information in risk assessment and decision making. Tools and approaches should continue to be developed to advance the ability of toxicogenomics to provide useful mechanistic information.
- Toxicogenomic technologies (including the analysis of gene sequences and epigenetic modifications) offer the opportunity to use genetic information in a prospective fashion to identify susceptible subpopulations and assess the distribution of differences in susceptibility in larger populations. Toxicogenomic technologies could also reduce the uncertainty surrounding assumptions used in regulatory processes to address population variability.
- Toxicogenomic technologies clearly have strong potential to affect decision making, but they are not currently ready to replace existing required testing regimes in risk assessment and regulatory toxicology. Toxicogenomic technologies are assuming an increasing role as adjuncts to and extensions of existing technologies for predictive toxicology.
- Toxicogenomic technologies offer the potential to significantly enhance confidence in animal-to-human toxicity extrapolations that constitute the foundation of risk evaluations. Using toxicogenomics to analyze species differences in toxicity will help explain the molecular basis for the differences and improve the translation of animal observations into estimates of potential human risk.
- Toxicogenomic technologies present a set of powerful tools for transforming current observation-based approaches into predictive science, thereby enhancing risk assessment and public health decision making.
- Toxicogenomic technologies provide new and potentially useful indicators for use in toxicity screening.
- Toxicogenomic technologies should be adapted and applied for the study of exposure assessment by developing signatures of exposure to individual chemicals and perhaps to chemical mixtures.
- Toxicogenomics has the potential to improve the understanding of dose response relationships, particularly at low doses.


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Lee Spencer, of FOXSports.com, reports Richard Petty Motorsports drivers Reed Sorenson and A.J. Allmendinger will remain with their respective car numbers and sponsors. However, crew chief Mike Shiplett will now oversee the No. 44 Dodge with Allmendinger and crew chief Sammy Johns will be the crew chief for Sorenson and the No. 43 team.
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