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Gov. Mike Pence has no intention of freezing accountability for teachers and schools next year because a new statewide standardized test for K-12 students is required for Indiana to maintain a waiver from some federal education requirements, according to a letter Pence sent Friday to U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan.

But Pence also said the state has the ability to determine what scores will be considered acceptable, a possible way to minimize the initial effects of the new test on performance measures of teachers and schools.

Glenda Ritz, Indiana superintendent of public instruction, had asked the State Board of Education last week to suspend for a year the state's school rating system and the use of test scores in teacher evaluations, because student test scores are expected to plummet since the new test is dramatically different from the current exam.

Ritz, however, did not make that same argument in an opinion piece published Monday in The Indianapolis Star. Instead, she talked more generally about looking at "ways we can minimize the effect of a likely expected drop in performance."

Ritz spokesman Daniel Altman said that op-ed is Ritz's position, but did not say whether or why her position has changed.

Altman also did not say whether Ritz backs the step Pence outlined in his letter to Duncan. Pence told Duncan the state has authority to "set cut scores, which establish the expected performance level for any state test."

"It is our full intent to plot a measured and thoughtful course as we transition to a new state test with new expected performance levels, while at the same time ensuring the results meaningfully reflect mastery of the standards," Pence wrote.

State law requires student test scores be used in teacher evaluations and A-F school ratings.

Ritz had planned for Indiana students in Grades 3-8 to take a new test in 2015-16 after a year of practice field tests. But the federal Education Department has said the state must start administering a new test next year that matches updated standards if Indiana wants to keep its waiver.

The exam has to reflect new math and English standards adopted by the state this year to replace the national Common Core standards that some conservatives saw as an intrusion into state affairs. It will also have to shift from the familiar, multiple choice-style ISTEP exam. Instead, students will be asked to write out their answers.

Pence spoke with Duncan on Thursday about the state's responsibilities in maintaining its waiver from the No Child Left Behind requirements that spell out the use of some federal funding and benchmarks for student pass rates. Last month, the federal government made Indiana's waiver conditional on correcting problems found during a visit last year.

The state Department of Education has until June 30 to submit fixes.

Without the waiver, Indiana schools would lose flexibility in how to spend some of the $200 million a year in federal education funding they receive.

In the letter sent from Pence to Duncan on Friday, the governor says his administration is fully committed to retaining this waiver.

"Together with top Indiana House and Senate leaders, our state is dedicated to preserving strong accountability in our state. We do not support a pause in accountability as it relates to delivering A-F grades to schools, determining intervention strategies in under-performing schools, or teacher evaluations that reflect classroom performance," Pence wrote in the letter.

"We believe that these policies are essential to ensuring that every child has access to a quality school, that our excellent teachers are rewarded for the quality outcomes they produce every day for our students, and that we can identify our lower performing teachers and provide the support they need to achieve more in their classrooms."

Call Star reporter Eric Weddle at (317) 444-6222. Follow him on Twitter: @ericweddle.

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Lubricant's role in keeping joints limber comes into sharper focus

Using a method that allows precise measurement of the biomechanical properties of the hip joints in mice, researchers at Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering have found new evidence that an ingredient of joint fluid called lubricin plays a significant role in keeping joints limber.

The researchers say the finding offers the strongest evidence yet that treatments designed to increase levels of lubricin in humans may help stall the deterioration of arthritic joints.

The team found that the arthritic joints of mice lacking the gene that controls the production of lubricin show greater friction than do joints in normal animals. When observed at the molecular level, the surface of the mutant animals' joint cartilage also appears rougher and less stiff -- a finding that the researchers said suggests a loss of the cartilage's mechanical integrity without lubricin.

"Lubricin has been considered important, but the experiments had not been done," said Stefan Zauscher, a professor of mechanical engineering and materials science at the Pratt School. "This is the first look at the effects on biomechanics of lubricin's presence or absence."

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Team member Jeffrey Coles, a Ph.D. student working in Zauscher's laboratory, presented the findings on Monday, Feb. 12, at the annual meeting of the Orthopaedic Research Society, in San Diego. The work was supported by the National Institutes of Health.

While lubricin had been suspected to play a role in reducing joint friction, earlier studies had focused on another constituent of joint fluid called hyaluronic acid. Injections of this material are frequently used as a treatment for osteoarthritis, the most common form of arthritis. However, the treatment seems to work primarily as an anti-inflammatory agent, Zauscher noted, doing little to prevent further joint damage.

Last year, Zauscher's group reported evidence that lubricin acts as a repellant boundary layer between joint surfaces, reducing friction by preventing contacts altogether rather than simply "greasing the wheels"

Those results stemmed from the first examination of the changing molecular forces between a model joint and glass slide as the amount of lubricin in the solution between them increased.

Now, the researchers have applied a similar technique to the molecular-level study of mouse joints, comparing normal mice to those lacking the gene for lubricin. They used an atomic force microscope (AFM) to examine the cartilage found on the surface of the ball at the top of the thigh bone that fits into the hip socket of the mice.

AFM microscopes have a sharp tip that scans the surfaces of structures at the level of individual atoms and measures the force of molecular-level interactions. In this case, the team chemically modified the tip to imitate the chemical properties of joint cartilage.

The researchers used the modified tips to probe the surface of normal and lubricin-deficient joints, gaining measurements of the amount of friction between the two surfaces. They also obtained measurements of the roughness and stiffness of the cartilage surface.

When compared with mice that have normal joint cartilage, mice lacking lubricin showed two to three times the amount of friction and their joint surfaces were more than twice as rough. The stiffness of the joint cartilage in mutant mice also was reduced by a factor of five, the researchers found. They noted that these findings are consistent with the significant tissue degeneration in early osteoarthritis.

"It's clear from our findings that lubricin is important for protecting the structural integrity of joints," Coles said.

The researchers next will examine the effects of replacing lubricin on the joint surfaces of mutant mice. They are seeking a better understanding of how lubricin carries out its role as a boundary lubricant, leading perhaps to an improved treatment option for osteoarthritis. Preliminary evidence suggests that lubricin injections may prevent, or at least slow, further deterioration of joint cartilage in the arthritic mice.

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‘Borderlands 2’ Hack Can Sabotage Character Saves

If you play Borderlands 2 on the Xbox 360, you may want to think twice before hopping into a public co-op game with people that you don’t know.

Earlier today, developer Gearbox Software made users aware of a very nasty hack that could result in the total deletion of your save, and your character along with it. The hack, which involves the use of third-party programs, only impacts Xbox 360 users.

Gearbox has submitted a patch that address the hack to Microsoft, but there’s currently no word on when that will be released.

“After extensive internal testing, an update to prevent this disruption has been submitted to Microsoft and will be released as soon as possible,” Gearbox wrote on their forums. “Until then, concerned Xbox 360 players of Borderlands 2 should consider playing online with trusted individuals in non-public sessions. This does not affect players on PC or PlayStation 3.”

If you do find yourself in a public game for some reason or another, Gearbox released a few tips that may help you keep your save intact. No guarantees, though.

“We also advise that before ceasing play, users always select “Save and Quit” from within the pause menu while their character is alive,” Gearbox explained. “If after the death of their character players find themselves at the main menu of Borderlands 2 instead of respawning in-game, be sure to immediately select “Continue” to resume playing as that character.”

If you spot any suspicious behavior while playing Borderlands 2, Gearbox recommends that you drop a line to spotted@gearboxsoftware.com. Be sure to include as much detail and documentation as possible.


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Wow. This "bug" has been out since the iPhone's release. Old News? Nah, not really. Just good to know that it still works in 1.1.1 :)

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I was thinking about giving up trying to get my 3945abg working and started browsing around ebay for a new wireless card. Then I noticed, none of the cards look anything like mine. So I worked it out, unlike most of the cards advertised, mine uses the PCI Express Mini interface while the older intel cards and most others use Mini PCI. I have no idea how apple handles PCI Express in relation to PCI but it could be the root of some of the driver problems.

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I do not mean to minimize what you guys are doing here, but I have been waiting patiently on this for months since I installed OSx86. I gave up. I'm sorry :(

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A university not only transforms individuals, but also the community it’s in, Dr. Max Blouw told more than 120 members of the Milton Chamber of Commerce.

Blouw, president of Wilfrid Laurier University, said that while students are on their quest to fulfill their potential and discover what they’re passionate about, communities are growing and flourishing alongside them.

 “Universities open up communities to other experiences and other thoughts,” he said. “Clearly all of that leads to prosperity and it’s not just economic prosperity, it’s cultural, social prosperity, getting along better and understanding one another.”

Blouw was invited to the Best Western Plus Milton Inn last Thursday to speak at the Milton Chamber of Commerce breakfast about Laurier University’s vision for a satellite campus in the Milton Education Village and how it’s working to make it become a reality.

“Our campus is a little bit like this room,” he said, describing the Waterloo and Brantford campuses as well as what the university hopes to create at the 150-acre site for the Milton satellite campus.

“You’re shoulder to shoulder, it’s high intensity, people are all bumping into one another, there’s a sense of community, there’s an awful lot of interaction and it’s just about impossible for students to hide in a corner and not interact with people.”

He went on to describe the campus being at the heart of the education village that won’t only be home to a velodrome, but will also have residency for students, retail shops and other amenities.

Students will study a range of academic disciplines, complementary to programs offered at other post-secondary education institutions in the GTA.

“High intensity education learning is a contact sport,” he said. “The more people bump into one another the more learning that goes on.”

But in terms of moving ahead, Blouw said plans that have been developing over the past few years have been met with some obstacles along the way.

Having put forward what he believes is a strong case to have a satellite campus in Milton, Blouw said the university and the Town are now at a standstill while they wait for the Province to release its satellite campus policy sometime later this month or in the new year. It will outline what exactly a satellite campus is and the process communities and universities have to follow in order to make a bid to be one of three satellite campuses that have been committed to Ontario.

He said the single biggest question facing the university right now is whether or not plans for the satellite campus can move ahead.

Blouw said a timely resolution must be made by the provincial government as the university makes its future plans.

For more information about the satellite campus and Milton Education Village, visit www.milton.ca/en/townhall/miltoneducationvillage.asp.

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Environment Artists, like Level Designers, are the divine creators of the gaming world. Without them, Mario and Luigi would have neither castles to conquer nor a princess to save. That’s because it’s your job as an Environment Artist to make them.

To do so, you’ll borrow skills from the real world — from fine art, graphic design, architecture and interior design — to build 3D objects in the digital world. Take a racing game, for instance. Your job isn’t designing the race itself, but rather the designs on the racecars, the texture of the asphalt, the sheen on the spilled oil, the racers’ hairstyles and the scenery that surrounds the track. Because you decide how everything in a video game looks — from the characters and their props to everything about the physical world around them, including its topography, landscaping and lighting — your job, in a manner of speaking, is playing God.

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Five p.m. is golden hour here, like nothing I’ve ever seen. Maybe it’s the rickshaw exhaust bending the light. Or maybe light is refracted by the vortex that’s moored over Laksmipuram like a fifth-dimensional blimp, but if so we can’t talk about that.

Golden hour comes on fast. The sun drops out of the haze like it’s setting on Luke Skywalker’s home planet. It appears flat and unfamiliar, like an alien star. The smog puts a soft filter on the hills, and then patches of glow start to move across the landscape.

Now. Get outside and let your senses do the rest. Naturally your mind will slow or stop, and some of your falling-in-love circuits may kick in to gear.

Listen, I understand transformation can take the piss out of you. And it is totally okay to spend the hours of 2:30-5:00 pottering around some darkened apartment like a ghost, absently chanting shantimantras. Even if you’re home by 10am and you need to spend the day splattered on the marble floor, while you work on a bowl of kitcheree like an insect who needs all day to ingest a leaf, that is okay. But go out at five. Push the edges of the Mysore bubble.

The gold light will bring up details in an environment that has seemed opaque.

Go to the field on Gokulam hill, where the kid in a polo shirt walks his superclean Shiba Inu while violently texting. When he gets to the top of the hill, there will be the moment when the bony woman in a dull blue or green sari – the woman who milks the cows – sees the dog. Her face will open like it might if snow started falling. You can watch closely because she’ll be transfixed, and the kid will be glued to the phone. The Shiba will be watching you.

Wander into a neighborhood at least a mile from Gokulam and take out a camera. May as well be an ice cream truck. The children will tell you to photograph them and then rush in to see the capture. They don’t want country coins so much this year; they want to send tiny images of themselves back to America in your phone.

Drive to the central city. Watch kittens play in the vegetables at the market – one place alpha-dogs won’t eat them. Wander the campus of Mysore University, and sit under the banyan tree that shades the student canteen. Find the 101 abandoned shivalingams in the broken down temple next to the stone masonry. Careful as you circumambulate them: the place looks deserted but for the clothes drying on a line across a broken promenade, but you are being watched.

Note the means and modes of transportation: three boys and a puppy on a bicycle; goat on a mo-ped – lashed to the luggage rack; old man on a custom 3-wheeled scooter; motorcycle tossed in a rickshaw like a dead fish in a basket; mound of laundry 3 feet high on the head of a woman with a beautiful spine; haul of firewood on the back of an ox; golf clubs riding side-saddle on a new Scooty.

See how many Xerox signs you see nailed to a tree, or how many rats will be out at this hour in plain view. Look for babies. Sheep, goats, calves, water buffalo, humans, puppies, chickens. Baby elephants and other wonders can be found at dusk, if you can indeed find the place, at Sri Sutta Math.

Count how many men mark golden hour with a golden shower. Around here the lingams are bathed in ghee, and the retaining walls in, well, pee. Just before dusk, see how the alien pod water towers – bright orange saucers mounted three stories high – hover above the landscape, on hill after hill after hill.

When it becomes evening, approach temples. Maybe one of them will have some gravity. It’s ok to go inside. Know the rules and leave an offering. Or if you prefer ritualized sports for contacting those feelings, a cricket game will present itself. If you don’t want to get soulful in front of others, find the 400-year-old Banyan tree out beyond Chamundi – there’s a temple inside it to no one in particular.

If you have a bike, get almost lost. Navigate by landmarks and the setting sun. No map. Push the envelope every night. Learn the main roads, then the enclaves, then the three or four alternate routes to get everywhere. If you are very abstract/analytical (I am), navigating by intuition may be hard: the curved main roads and random roundabouts do not mesh with western mental infrastructure. But if you stay in your head, you won’t learn gut-reckoning.

Memorizing the Google map is tempting, but maybe you agree that this is a little like learning the next pose from a book – not organic, not relational. Traveling Latin America with the Editor in our 20s, I used to memorize every new city’s map before we stepped off the bus. The man who has not lost his cool again since got good and angry: “Slow down and just be with me; be with this place.” We were reading maybe too much Martin Buber and post-colonial theory at the time. Still, I changed my way.

Plans (of a city, of an enlightment path) can be distractions sometimes. When consciousness has a map, it will ping-pong between immediate experience and the abstract model. On the other hand, consciousness can go very sharp and very receptive when you have to open to an experience from the ground up. James Bond memorizes the map and the sniper nests; Joe Mysore leaves a trail in the dirt with his cricket bat while chasing a ball down the road. Maybe Jane ashtangi wanders a little wide-eyed, GPS in her jeans pocket in case she gets lost in the dark.

I’m driving home from the city, turning left off a side street onto a main east-west drag. It’s Valentine’s Day. Looking right, I see two monkeys like an old couple, waiting to cross the street. But this isn’t monkey territory. There are no parks or tall trees, only rickshaws and road noise and little electronics shops. I stare at the pair and notice worm-shaped lesions on their sides, distended bellies, and a humanoid hypervigilance. They’re scared.

A hundred children stream in front of me there on my bike. They are a wave of high voices. They wear blue ties and checked blue or green shirts and they create their own stream of traffic. I stare more at the monkeys and realize the skin lesions are teeny paws and the bellies are tiny backs. Each one is carrying a baby.

My nervous system explodes. Consciousness begins to implode along with it, but I still have time to note the signs of a peak experience rising. All the self-generating drugs spiritual practice has evolved to harness (DMT, dopamine, serotonin, and god-knows-what nectars we will never define) flood the system as I am falling in love with this particular experience.

Time slows down to car-wreck speed, and the light goes golden. The second part is weird – that I can track the golden light appearing in my perception. It’s similar to the way that certain types meditators can watch (the perception of?) time slow down when love and death approach.

There is the sheen of the monkeys’ grey brown hair, and the way they look each other in the eyes. Luminous, cool blue eyes. The children are going in front of me and I see lines starched into their clothes and hear so many different notes in their many voices.

There’s a break in traffic – the next thing coming is a rickshaw 8 seconds or miles down the street – and now the mothers cross together. They take slow-mo strides on all fours, dragging clenched knuckles over the pitted, shining pavement. Now in front of me and across the street, they climb a gate in a solid stone wall. They perch on top of the wall.

Standing up there, the mothers go bipedal. One baby, hanging from a breast, somersaults and unwinds legs until they touch the stone. He tries to stand. I’m about ready to die. The baby is six inches high, skinny and bald. He has the face of my grandfather. His knees wobble. He takes a dry leaf in his paw hand, pops his eyes, stretches his jaw and brings the leaf to his face.

Okay, existence. You can finish me off. The light I seem to be seeing comes over the wall and catches the back of the baby monkey’s left ear. The skin goes translucent and I disappear. There is no more paying attention, no more taking interest in experience or energy rising in the chest. Just the gold and the vortex.

Then the scooter has shut off and a few children are walking away down the street, where the rickshaw used to be. I’m besotted. The fluid in my knees feels carbonated. There is so much upwelling in my chest that I want to shout and maybe without realizing it I do. While driving and possibly shouting, I can’t sharpen my eyes, but it works to rest them on the horizon and navigate from peripheral vision. I feel transparently uncool.

You know you are in love when seeking stops. The beloved is all there is.

Falling in love with Mysore has been a years-long process, but the last two weeks felt different. I wonder if maybe god has slipped a gold instagram filter over my optic nerve. There’s more care, and more indifference. Care shows up as silence and a desire to perceive each moment clearly. Indifference is wanting nothing in return – a city does not quite love back. It doesn’t matter if the object of love shrinks down to the moment of pressing a jasmine garland to my face – or expands to all cities, and all garden gates, and all wide eyes, and all knuckles dragged across pavement. It feels like a version of heartbreak that does not leave a mark.

It’s a little tempting to get precious about the monkeys. But peak experiences are a dime a dozen. If past experience is any predictor, this one will decompose in days or weeks. But each time this happens, it hollows out more space for awe. When it again becomes necessary to use some discipline to generate concentration, there’s a little more power to do that – to cover experience with perception; to accept it radically; to leave the heart open.

Mysore light gets me through the day, but “Mysore magic” is a poultice action. At its very best, this place is a salve that draws out toxins not just in the body but in the personality.

It doesn’t always work like that. But, potentially, this place is a good platform for direct contact with hell. For me, intense silent retreats (especially when I don’t want to take them), and difficult times with family, have been the best places to shore up negative samskaras. But extended time here with the intention of self-study is also plenty effective. I suspect it’s the combination of very intense practice, and boredom lying just under the surface of the party.

There’s also an instant karma thing going on here, because the yoga social network is tiny, and because Indians are often VERY clear about cause-and-effect in chains of social interactions. So when I make external mischief in words and deeds, the consequences come back fast and loud. It’s possible look at the effects of my own ethical faults, if and when I have the courage to do that.

The patterns depend on the person. I get impatient for decent wireless, because… there’s a pattern of impatience. I ache for fresh air, because feeling any limitation in my breath reminds me of death. I get irritated with anything that smells like high school, because I went through a trauma in high school that (I realize when I’m triggered) is not fully healed. Others say they experience profound revulsion with bodies and personalities. Or a weird rising of OCD behaviors, especially around food. Desire for different friends. Of a wanting to get something – attention or recognition especially. Friends have talked about an anxiety to buy a lot of stuff, realizing it comes from a wish to hold on to this experience.

Or sometimes, there is a Manichean dividing up of the world into yoga and not-yoga, because the transformative practice gets mistaken for measurable stuff like rituals and beliefs (theologians describe this one as the rub between esoteric and exoteric practices – an interesting topic). Maybe most obviously, the enormous amounts of free time can bring about a hungry-ghost sort of need to keep the social schedule full, with new people to flirt with, parties, new day trips.

There are shared patterns that might become visible when we catch ourselves reproducing them. For example, in Guru cultures, insider status becomes the main form of capital (Ram Dass says hilarious things about this, as does Jack Kornfield… it’s always the same). Insider conversations might come to revolve around the assessment of how well others deserve to be insiders, and energy can get diverted into fine-tuned maintenance of social boundaries. For me, the shared shadow I see most clearly this trip is that of the glass ceiling that SKPJ did his part, very heroically, to smash. But that old idea that you needed a cock and a Brahmin string to experience yoga can show up in decomposed form, in my supposedly private mind, as an assumption that even dedicated practitioners just don’t get it on a spiritual level. Right now I am sitting with that, and resisting the temptation to finger-point elitism in others.

It is possible to waste away here – people have described to me the realization that they were here because it was a good place to run away from their real lives. What inspires me, though, is the person who decides to to stay a little longer just when she get uncomfortable with this experience. Right there is the magic – in the recognition that an edge has come up. In a willingness to study the exact mind that wants to run away from, or dis-possess, a negative experience. Ashtangis in these parts can go from zero to bliss in an average of 9 vinyasas. But that ain’t always the practice.

Incidentally, it’s easy to find two or four hours every day to sit on the floor. Just to sit there and not run off. People totally do it: no drama, no recognition, nothing special. That’s like another side of the tenderness that comes on retreat here. There’s this possible intimacy and curiosity for the place. And also there is curiosity for understanding and at times going past the ego-personality that perceives and distorts its surroundings.

The moment of wanting out – of a boring afternoon or a supposedly bad trip – is a chance to double down. A choice to do self-study is what really turns on the lights. Things start to shimmer.

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    oh god i love this. LOVE this. Thank you.

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    Wonderful. Thank you.

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    This light at dusk that makes even Mysore mud sing with colour is called the Purkinje Effect. I renamed it The Punjab Shift. Because I didn’t and still don’t know how to pronounce Purkinje which is a nerve cell found in the cortex of the cerebellum.
    You describe it so essentially, so locked in to my own experience there… all I could do was stand in the city and laugh out loud at the sheer gloriousness of it all. Vital. It’s all so vital. That’s all I ever came up with.
    Thanks for the reminder that other words exist. {*}

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    The Purkinje Effect. Nice.

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Charlie Munger‘s wife, Nancy Munger, passed away early last year. She donated most of her stock holdings to a trust of which she and Charlie were the co-trustees. In accordance with Nancy Munger’s will, Charlie disposed of 6,000 Berkshire Cl A shares (BRK.A) at the beginning of November.

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It’s out of the question: Why the Ravine will never see football

There’s a brick wall in right field at Wrigley Field waiting for a Northwestern wideout to run right smack into it this afternoon. It might as well be advertised as an outdoor Arena Football game.

Later today, there’ll be a bunch of Notre Dame football players fighting over Derek Jeter’s locker at Yankee Stadium. Then they’ll hike over to the monuments to see if Babe Ruth approves of this whole spectacle.

Laying a gridiron over a ball diamond can be a dicey, pricey proposition. But also, if done right, very cool.

So when do we start a campaign to push for a USC-UCLA college football game at Dodger Stadium?

In November, 1982, USC president James Zumberge asked Dodgers owner Peter O’Malley if the Trojans would be welcome to toss the pigskin around in his ballyard for the ’83 season. USC had a dispute with the Coliseum Commission over control of luxury boxes planned for the Coliseum (which were never built).

O’Malley tackled that request quickly: “It doesn’t make any sense to play football in Dodger Stadium. … We have the finest baseball stadium in the United States.”

Back at the old Ebbets Field in the late ’40s, the Brooklyn Dodgers football team, as part of the All-American Football League, elbowed its way into that tiny facility. That was a couple of years before O’Malley’s dad, Walter, took control of Dodgers baseball. No more of that.

The baseball-friendly stadium that the O’Malleys built in Chavez Ravine for the Dodgers in the early ’60s – after they were laughed at for carving out a baseball diamond in the Coliseum – once had part of a football field lined in the outfield. But that was just for a TV commercial shoot, says Dodgers team historian Mark Langill.

That’s as close as it’s ever gotten. And probably ever will.

The original Dodger Stadium configuration may have had more foul ground, but sources tell us, they tried to see if a football field would lay over the grounds, and it barely fit as it was. Now, with all the newer permanent box seats pushing things out, would there even be anything close to room for a gridiron?

“It could work, but it might be awkward,” Langill said. “I just know that I’ve never seen a proposal for a field, as far as someone laying out a blueprint.”

Football, ironically, was the last straw to O’Malley owning the Dodgers. In the late ’90s, he entertained ideas of building a football stadium in the Dodger Stadium parking lot, to lure an NFL team back to L.A. But mayor Dick Riordan told him the city would be better focused on fixing up the Coliseum. O’Malley took his baseball and went home.

Dodger Stadium has hosted a Papal Mass and a boxing match, a basketball game with the Harlem Globetrotters, and concerts by the Beatles, Rolling Stones, Elton John, Bruce Springsteen, Madonna, U2 and the Three Tenors. They once set up a ski-jump ramp over the right-field stands, but the snow machine didn’t work.

In January, the Dodger Stadium grounds will be covered in tons of dirt so that (egads) a motocross can happen for the first time.

But football?

Punt that idea right now.

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WASHINGTON D.C.--The American Society of Interior Designers announces the launch of ASID Accelerate Studio, a new national program created to help members expand their design knowledge and learn new strategies for their businesses. Hosted by Axor Hansgrohe, the first event in New York City on Nov. 13, and the second in Miami on Nov. 18, will examine interior environments that support healthy lifestyles and tools to assist designers in their practice.

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Did You Give Thanks this Weekend for the Fed’s Easy Money Policy?

By for Investment Contrarians | Aug 6, 2014

021213_IC_leongStock Market Crash August 2014.

Reflecting on this past Thanksgiving weekend, there was a lot to be thankful for, especially if you have been long in the stock market for the past four years. Now is a time for reflection.

The advance in the stock market has been stellar following the bottom in March 2009. The S&P 500 is up 171% since March 6, 2009 for a four-year annualized gain of about 38%.

In Japan, the Nikkei 225 is at a six-year high and over in Germany, the benchmark DAX is also at a record high.

However, the records in the stock markets are falling, not just in good old America, but worldwide. Of course, there are the exceptions, such as China, which I still consider to be undervalued and worth a look for investors searching for growth in foreign stock markets. In China, you can play almost anything due to the country’s insatiable appetite for goods and services. Some of the top areas for growth in China are the technology, health care, travel, and financial services sectors.

Yet while all of the stock market records are being set, I wonder if this is simply the new reality for stocks, or are we just setting ourselves up for a massive hangover when stocks fall? stock market crash 2014.

The Russell 2000, for instance, is a play on the economy. The idea is that small companies tend to fare better when the economy recovers, as these companies tend to be more flexible. The index is up over 35% this year and more than 40% year-to-date. That’s a great advance, but the … Read More

Why What’s Happening in the Bond Market Now Is So Important to Stock Investors

By for Investment Contrarians | Dec 10, 2013

Stock InvestorsTaper or no taper? When? How much? These are the worries that are currently driving tensions in the stock market on a daily basis. As I wrote in a previous article, no one seems to care that corporate revenue growth is muted and consumers aren’t spending.

Last week, we saw jobs market data that helps support the Federal Reserve’s reasons to begin tapering its bond buying program.

The non-farm payrolls reported the generation of 203,000 new jobs—better than the consensus estimate of 180,000 for the month of November. This represented the second straight month that more than 200,000 jobs were created, and while the jobs market has a long way to go, this is positive news. Jobs numbers were revised upwards in September and October.

Now it may be true that the quality of jobs created could be improved upon, as much of the increase in the jobs market continues to be driven by the service sector and other lower-skilled jobs. However, the results do suggest some action may be taken by the Federal Reserve.

The unemployment rate fell to a five-year low of seven percent, much better than the consensus 7.2% and October’s 7.3%. The rate appears positive on the surface.

The Federal Reserve had said it wants to see the unemployment rate fall to around 6.5% before it considers raising interest rates, but with a seven percent rate, you have to wonder if the Federal Reserve is thinking hard about when to rein in its monthly bond buying and reduce the stock market’s dependency on cheap money.

Yet I don’t think the Federal Reserve will begin tapering until … Read More

Best Investment Strategies to Battle Coming Inflation

By for Investment Contrarians | Dec 9, 2013

Best and Worst Investment StrategiesThe S&P 500 may be entering bubble-like territory: that’s what I’ve been writing for the past few months.

Now, it appears as though I’m not the only one who’s worried about asset classes beginning to form bubbles from the excess money printing. 2013 Nobel Prize-winner Robert Shiller also recently stated that he is concerned that prices have risen far too quickly across many asset classes, from real estate to stocks.

As I’ve written several times over the past couple of months, investing in stocks at these elevated levels is quite risky. My belief is that much of the upward move in the S&P 500 has been primarily based on the liquidity (money printing) being pumped by the Federal Reserve.

Investing in stocks with this premise can only work for the very short-term trader who’s quick enough to get out when the tide begins to turn.

Because people are not investing in stocks based on actual fundamentals right now, one can’t expect the value in the S&P 500 to remain elevated once there’s a change in monetary policy, since much of the move has been artificially supported.

Let’s take a look at how the S&P 500 has been affected by monetary policy over the past few years, and how investing in stocks at the current level is becoming increasingly risky.

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The first quantitative easing program by the Federal Reserve lasted from December 2008 until March 2010. This period is not shown on the chart above, as one could argue that the S&P 500 became extremely oversold and that investing in stocks for the long-term made sense at … Read More

Fear Index Hits Multiyear Low; A Bad Omen for Stock Investors?

By for Investment Contrarians | Dec 9, 2013

Investors Too ComfortableLet me begin by first stating this: I’m not going to talk about the Federal Reserve in any detail, or about the holiday shopping season and how it’s so important to the retail sector and the economy because these don’t seem to be of any great concern to the markets.

The reality is that both traders and investors appear to be really comfortable at this moment with the record-high levels in the stock market. Take a look at the multiple records recently set by the S&P 500 and Dow Jones Industrial Average; you won’t see any sign of a pullback. Yet no one seems to care—even though this is all incredibly dangerous for the stock market.

This is simply not a normal trading environment for the stock market, since the Federal Reserve has largely been responsible for the record advances, as I previously discussed in this column on Friday.

A look at the CBOE Volatility Index (VIX), or the “fear index,” reveals the current multiyear low in the VIX, which we haven’t seen since 2007, prior to the subprime mortgage-driven stock market correction in 2008, The current low level of the VIX suggests that the stock market is relaxed and is not expecting any strong moves in either direction on the horizon. Looks like the market could be in for a surprise in the New Year.

Are traders simply too relaxed? The chart of the VIX below shows the big gaps between the VIX readings and the S&P 500.

In 2007, the VIX reading was below 10, but the S&P 500 didn’t begin to sell off until the VIX increased … Read More

Can’t Afford a Picasso? Try Investing in This Stock Instead

By for Investment Contrarians | Dec 6, 2013

Investing in This StockThere’s one point that I cannot stress enough in this column, and longtime readers are sure to know it: consumer confidence is extremely important for economic growth here in America.

It’s simple logic. Because so much of our economy is built on domestic spending, without an increase in consumer confidence, consumer spending will languish and we won’t have higher levels of economic growth.

Recently, new information from the Conference Board was quite disappointing. The Consumer Confidence Index dropped to a seven-month low in November to 70.4, following a decline in October as well. (Source: “Consumer Confidence Declines Again in November,” The Conference Board web site, November 26, 2013.)

Over the short term, consumer confidence declined due to people stating their concerns regarding a weakening of economic conditions. What’s more concerning is that the expectations for the next six months worsened, as people stated they were increasingly worried about their job prospects and earnings, which isn’t a surprise considering the data hasn’t been all that positive lately, especially when it comes to wage growth.

If consumer confidence is turning pessimistic over the stability of jobs or paychecks, how can we really expect the average American to increase their spending or businesses to feel more confident in expanding?

This type of uncertainty leads to slower economic growth. If you are unsure of your financial health over the next few months, chances are you won’t increase your spending, and a lower level of consumer confidence leads to muted economic growth.

Clearly, one market sector I am worried about is that of companies catering to the average American.

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Eastern promise to be outlined at Asia export boot camp

Jan 26, 2012

Ulster Bank, Invest Northern Ireland and UKTI link up to back NI exporters. Encouraging Northern Ireland companies to explore the potential to do business in Asia are Ian Jordan, head of business and commercial banking, Northern Ireland, at Ulster Bank and Vicki Kell, Invest NI’s Trade Director.

Northern Ireland companies with the potential to export to Asia will hear from some of the world’s leading experts on trading with the continent’s key markets during an Ulster Bank-backed event in Belfast next month.

Experts from Invest NI and Ulster Bank’s global parent company RBS will be on hand at Riddel Hall on 10th February for the event, which is part of a series of events taking place across the UK to highlight the support available for companies interested in expanding their business to new markets.

The event, which is free to attend, will feature a series of clinics on China, India, Malaysia and Singapore delivered by local businesses who are successfully trading in Asian markets alongside market experts who will discuss the on-the-ground economic, political and business environment in the market.

Dr Vicky Kell, Invest NI’s Trade Director, said: “Asia has long been recognised by Invest NI as an important marketplace for the very broad range of products and services provided by our companies. This is demonstrated by the presence of Invest NI in-market advisors in a number of these markets, as well as our office in Dubai from which Northern Ireland companies can focus on the surrounding markets. By working in partnership with Ulster Bank and UKTI at this event we can help Northern Ireland companies to take advantage of the export opportunities.”

Ian Jordan, Head of Business and Commercial Banking at Ulster Bank, said: “The Asia Pacific region is home to almost half the world’s population and its economies are predicted to continue experiencing strong growth, offering great opportunities for Northern Ireland businesses.”

“Advances in technology and the growth of the internet now enable businesses to communicate 24/7 with customers and suppliers at a relatively low cost, which has opened a world of export accessibility for companies seeking to do business outside of their home market. Ulster Bank is delighted to support this event which will give an invaluable insight into doing business in Asia,” he added.

Further information and registration details for the event are available at: www.businessinasia.co.uk/events/doing-business-in-asia-spotlight-on-china-india-malaysia-and-singapore-belfast-10-february-2012

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AutoNation (AN) Up on Stronger New Auto Sales

Shares of AutoNation Inc. (AN: Charts, News) rose on Tuesday after the company reported significantly stronger than expected sales of new cares in March. AutoNation stock closed at $34.85 per share, up +0.07 or 0.20%, after having traded as high as $35.85 earlier in the session.

AutoNation has been steadily selling more cars as the economy begins to pick up and as all three major U.S. car manufacturers begin selling more cars.

Also, the company has been aggressively buying back its own shares in the open market, reducing its amount of shares outstanding.

Tuesday, the company reported its retail unit sales in March had increased by 15 percent, compared to its sales in March of 2011. AutoNation said it had sold a total of 25,489 new vehicle units in the month. For the first quarter of 2012, the company's new unit vehicle sales increased by 13% overall from the same period a year ago.

Sales for the first quarter increased by +17 percent for Domestic cars, +12 percent for Imports and +12 percent for Premium Luxury cars, all increases were in comparison to the first quarter of 2011.

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AutoNation prides itself in being a transforming force in the retail automotive industry, delivering a customer focused sales experience through its 260 new vehicle franchises. The company, which owns and operates its franchises, sells 32 brands of automobiles in 15 states.

Being the largest automotive retailer in the nation, AutoNation uses state of the art technology for its operations and is particularly well suited to benefit clients through leveraging economies of scale, passing down savings from its operations to customers.

The 25,489 new vehicle units sold by AutoNation in March break down as follows:

In addition to increased sales in the first quarter, the company has been actively involved in buying back its own shares. Last week, the firm announced it had authorized the repurchase of up to another $250 million of the company's common stock.

The company had already maxed out and used all of the amounts previously approved under its share repurchase program before the new authorization. In 2011, AutoNation repurchased 17.1 million of its own shares, or $583 million, at an average price of $34.14 per share.

In the period between January 1st and January 25 of 2012, the company repurchased another 3.5 million shares, or $122 million at an average price of $34.74 per share. As of March 23rd, 2012, the company had approximately 124.6 million shares outstanding.

Earnings for the company have also been improving, with 2011 fourth quarter earnings, which were out on January 26th, showed the company had earned $0.51 per share, compared to $0.45 for the same period a year ago. Revenue for the fourth quarter was also impressive, totaling $3.7 billion, versus $3.2 billion a year ago.

With improving earnings and increased sales of automobiles reported by all the major car manufacturers, AutoNation stock might be ready to make a move on the upside. In addition, the fact that the company is buying back as many of its shares as it possibly can, is generally a good indication that the company has a high level of confidence in its own future.

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Pietermaritzburg - The State has to release almost R2.4 million, which it restrained from the multimillionaire building contractor, Rajkapoor “Teddy” Lakraj, who is charged with fraud and corruption, so he can pay for his legal fees.

Three vehicles – a 2008 Mercedes Benz R320 (valued at R230 000), a 2006 Toyota Dyna (valued at R82 500) and a 2011 VW Amarok (valued at R276 000) – and which were also restrained, have to be released to him for his “reasonable use”.

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Lightning at Old Maltings Court in Melton this afternoon - captured by reader Sean Turner.

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