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How disgusting and inhuman is this.....
Are these humans? Ain't a man and a woman supposed to be the creation of the same God? Who gives these inhuman humans authority to write what god never intended?
A 70 year old woman of all people??
I am thoroughly, completely disgusted.

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yes gauri ,ppl there shud voice their concern themselves . if anyone else does it can be misconstrued as usual . *sigh*  I wonder how long they can cont to tolerate such atrocities . How can they cont to turn a blind eye to such senselessness  & cruelties incident after incident !  Have their minds & feelings  becum so numbed!
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Its quite disturbing and horrifying to see such acts in the world. Its shocking to see what these people do under the name of religion. Even faith requires morality, first and foremost. I am left speechless and feel absolutely helpless.

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this is disgusting ,horrible....what the can some people pretend something else when something like this  is happening.Even dog is treated well in civilized society............
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when u say Islamic law...u have to show proof in Quran and prophetic teachings.
its no where written that 75-yr old shud be lashed in such way
bcuz there's hardly any sexual desire @ this age.
the world media is so much against religions...that they always look for such oppurtunities to blast off esp. the sharia.
unfortunately, muslims are giving them these opportunities.

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This is very common in Saudi Arabia women cannot go out of the house without a male member escorting her. Women cannot drive...... cos then they would have secret affairs. You have to cover yourself, no matter what religion you belong to. If you don't follow these rules you get lashed and then you are deported back to your country Disapprove

There are no churches or temples in Saudi Arabia. You cannot even bring a rosary, bible or holy water through the airport. Even sacred pictures of Hindu Gods are not allowed. In general you cannot practise any other religion.
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hEY GUYS SO todays manvi dialogues wer just awesome she went against her di for virat...the way she explained her friendship was beautiful her character was justified at the end again she showed her love for her di by goin against virat...virat was true to his heart he confessed the truth to manvi abt virika cold war...

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yes ur right, Tht,s wht  I really want manvi to use her own brain and think instead of following jeevika blindly, Love the way she ask her does she has any valid reason to hate viraat? and also say tht she dosent accept her decision, I admire the characetrs which r realistic and practical. tht is wht I love abt manvi now. Hope cv,s keep her like tht. BUt now jeevika impulsive act will ruin everything again.
   I seriously want to see jeevika bold and practically supporting virmaan and fighting with tht snoby lady swamini, instead of geeting scared of her and hiding manvi frm everyone.

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Q. The film looked one of the most physically arduous films I’ve seen of late. When you were planning the movie, did you have to prepare the actors for how much of a tough time they were in for?
Kevin Macdonald: Channing, I think, is from Florida, so he wasn’t quite expecting the rigours of Scotland in the winter! But Jamie knew what to expect. A lot of it involved shooting in remote locations, particularly in the small villages up in the north west of Scotland. We had to walk quite a long way to get to the location. Just putting up the sets and building all those huts and things was incredibly difficult for the construction and art department because it was so windy. We had a particularly terrible patch of weather just before we started shooting. And because the guys were only wearing period costumes most of the time, such as capes, it wasn’t exactly warm.

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Duncan Kenworthy: Well, one of the things that Kevin and I both agreed on was that we wanted it to seem as authentic as possible. Somehow, between Gladiator, which I loved personally and thought reinforced the need for a film like this, whereas Troy and Alexander which – whatever you think of them – are full of CGI.

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Q. What kind of experience or knowledge did you have of the Rosemary Sutcliff novel upon which this is based?
Kevin Macdonald: I’d read the books when I was 11 or 12 I think and they made a big impact on me. It was something about the idea of Romans in Scotland… I grew up in Scotland and I couldn’t imagine there being Romans there. So, it captured my imagination. Then I heard 30 years later or so that Duncan had the rights to the book and was also passionate about it, so that’s how we got together.

Q. Have you discussed the idea of sequels? Or filming another in the series of Rosemary’s books?
Kevin Macdonald: We haven’t discussed that to be honest. The books are very interesting – the two books that come after it are not really sequels, they’re in more of a sequence. They’re following the bloodline of Marcus Aquila and following the ring, so the next book is not Marcus – it’s his descendent. And likewise with the book that follows after that. So, it’s kind of a very intriguing notion.

Q. Duncan, would you be interested in developing more of the books?
Duncan Kenworthy: We have an option on the next two in the sequence, and I think The Lantern Bearers would make a fantastic movie but as Kevin says, they’re not sequels to this. We’ve been accused, or maybe praised, for setting up a possible sequel in the last scene between the two main characters. You know: “What next?” “You decide!” So, it would be quite interesting to see what they end up doing. So, why not?

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Martha Stewart has a mock draft. The Somali pirates have a mock draft. Miss California updates her Twitter account with her latest mock drafts. Everybody does a mock draft, which is Reason No. 1,658 why the NFL matters in ways that the other sports leagues can only imagine.

Me? I mock mock drafts.

And then, to complete the process, I often mock the draft itself, in large part because I've seen Evander "Ziggy" Hood play exactly once in my life and generally couldn't pick him out of a lineup if you placed him with a bunch of garden gnomes.

That said, I know this about the Indianapolis Colts and this weekend's NFL draft:

Bill Polian will get it right.

He won't bat 1.000 or even .750 -- nobody does, not even Bill Belichick -- but the Colts' grumpster-in-chief will hit pay dirt more than just about any personnel man in this weekend's draft. Then he'll add to the booty and grab a couple of undrafted free agents out of schools like Southwest Bemidji Tech, who will go on to start for the Colts for the next five years at an average salary of $7.25 an hour.

"If you bat slightly better than .500 in the draft, and that means the entire seven rounds plus collegiate free agency, the likelihood is that you're going to the playoffs," Polian said.

In past years, Polian has taken wide receivers when he didn't need wide receivers. Voila! Reggie Wayne.

He has taken tight ends when he has had a half-dozen tight ends already on the roster. Voila! Dallas Clark.

Heaven knows he's an acerbic pain in the derriere -- although, you know, he's absolutely right in defending the Colts' position relative to the CIB -- but is there anybody else you'd rather have pulling the trigger this weekend?

With the exception of the third round. Turns out, the Colts have a third-round curse. Maybe the team should let me make their third-round selection. Your third-rounders since 1999: Brandon Burlsworth (who tragically passed away), David Macklin, Cory Bird, Joseph Jefferson, Donald Strickland, Ben Hartsock, Gilbert Gardner, Vincent Burns, Freddy Keiaho, Daymeion Hughes and Quinn Pitcock.

In fact, the last time the Colts had a good third-round selection, it was 1998 and it went to Carolina in exchange for -- drum roll -- Polian.

I may mock mock drafts, and I may mock the real draft, but I'm smart enough to know not to mock Polian's drafts.

So why are the Colts so good at this drafting thing? Mostly, it's experience at the top, and a whole lot of institutional continuity.

There's a philosophy Polian learned from his avatar, Marv Levy, when the pair worked in the Canadian Football League with the Montreal Alouettes.

"(Levy) had a very firm idea of how he wanted to build with young players and with players who had minimal NFL exposure, not older veterans and not necessarily signing marquee players out of the United States,'' Polian said Friday.

"Paul Brown said the two most important people are quarterbacks and pass receivers. Without those, you really can't win consistently. Secondly, Marv Levy used to say you want players who are 'Super Bowl' players, not necessarily 'Pro Bowl' players, players who contribute to the team and play at a high level week after week. Hype is not an issue. It's a question of how you play."

Now, if you're asking me who I'd like to see them pick -- and I'm expecting Bill's phone call any moment now -- I'll say "the best defensive tackle available."

Because I'm a newspaper mock drafter. I'm drafting for need. And the Colts' biggest need, in my humble view, is that big run-stuffer in the middle. If Mississippi's Peria Jerry is still on the board, pick him. (And no, I don't think he'll still be around that late, at least if the last 456 mock drafts are to be believed.)

If Jerry is gone, go after Hood, the 300-pounder from Missouri.

Second priority? A wide receiver to replace Marvin Harrison. Third? Some depth at running back, where the Colts need to replace the departed Dominic Rhodes.

Naturally, Polian wasn't showing any of his cards during a pre-draft news conference Friday, but he did say something interesting -- revealing, really -- when asked if he'd consider a player who has tested positive for marijuana at the NFL Scouting Combine.

"Because a player tested positive does not necessarily remove him from consideration," Polian said. Then the Colts president referenced a recent Joe Klein column in Time that made the case for marijuana decriminalization.

"The pendulum is beginning to swing a little bit toward the fact that this kind of stuff (recreational drug use) in some quarters, if not culturally acceptable, at least is not as dramatically unacceptable as it used to be."

Did the door just open to Percy Harvin?

The draft begins today. In Bill we trust.

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Last January, five-month-old Conor Tilson was put down for a nap in Stacey Cox's home day care in Carmel. He never woke up.

He had been left in a broken, sunken-in play pen with a large blanket, in a room with no adults and no baby monitor. He was lying on his stomach. Authorities later said an "unsafe sleep environment" contributed to his death.

State inspectors had been alerted to problems at the day care four months earlier. But, under state law, there wasn't much they could have done to correct them.

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"We regulate fishing in our state better than child care," child care advocate Carole Stein said in a 2005 report on Indiana's day care industry. "In Indiana, you can't fish without a license… but anyone can take care of children in their home without a license."

One only need examine the conditions described in state inspection reports of licensed day cares to see the potential dangers in poorly run operations.

Child after child: Locked in a closet, beaten with a belt, put in high chairs for misbehaving. Left on a bus, left locked outside, left behind during a field trip.

Infants sleeping on their stomachs, which is considered unsafe. Children sleeping in broken cribs, and on gym mats on the ground.

Employees with felonies, and with histories of child abuse. On-duty caregivers drinking alcohol, smoking cigarettes, found with drugs. Rodents and insects. Facilities with soiled carpets, or reeking of urine.

'Totally off the radar'

The regulatory gaps have existed for decades. At a time when other states have bolstered oversight, countless reform efforts and proposed bills have failed in the Indiana Statehouse.

A Star investigation from 1991 noted that Indiana was one of 22 states that exempted homes with five or fewer children.

Today, only 11 states remain that way, according to Child Care Aware of America. The prominent advocacy group recommends all homes with two or more unrelated children be licensed. Ten states license all day cares that serve more than one child unrelated to the operator.

Child care is a huge driver of the economy, since it not only employs workers, but also frees parents to seek employment out of the home. That's why the federal government provides $172 million in vouchers to needy Hoosier families each year. And some studies show that when it's done right, preschool education can have a positive impact on a young person's life.

But first things first, child advocates say.

"We are not ensuring that all children are in a healthy and safe facility, and we're not even close to ensuring that all children are in educational settings," said Ted Maple, former director of education at United Way of Central Indiana, and now CEO of the Day Nursery Association in Indianapolis.

Child advocates say Indiana did make some progress this year. Now unlicensed day cares that receive federal dollars must have written discipline policies, must ensure that toilets flush properly, and that employees wash their hands, and that primary caregivers are at least 18 years old.

Lawmakers also passed a second law requiring that all licensed day cares, and unlicensed ones that receive federal dollars, conduct national criminal background checks on all employees and volunteers every three years.

To Michelle McCready, senior policy advisor at Child Care Aware of America, the fact that Indiana passed two laws in one year is a sign of progress. "Most states don't see that typically happen," she said.

But Indiana's day care system still receives a score of "zero" from Child Care Aware of America in one area: those small unlicensed day care homes that don't receive federal dollars. Homes like the one where Conor Tilson died.

"They," Maple said, "are totally off the radar."

No guarantee of safety

It is not enough to rely on the good faith and sound judgment of care givers, experts say.

Melanie Brizzi runs the state's Bureau of Child Care at the Family and Social Services Administration, and sees a rule of thirds: One-third of day care providers are good people doing the right thing. Another third are good people trying to do the right thing, but they need some help. The rest are in it for the wrong reasons.

Bad day care operations are often tempted to scrimp on safety and take on more children than they can handle. And there's no guarantee of safety even at places that don't take shortcuts. Since 2009, the state has received more than 2,100 reports of injuries at licensed day cares.

"There's an interpretation that it's easy," Brizzi said. "Some people don't see it as a profession. They see it as babysitting, something people choose because they can't do anything else. That's not true."

Fatal consequences

State officials didn't even know Dana Shell's day care in Warsaw existed until 18-month-old Payton Brettell was found unconscious in a car seat inside her home, his eyelids and lips purple, foam coming from his mouth.

Shell had put him down for a nap in the car seat. That by itself is against the state's safe-sleep rules for licensed day cares. A home in Plymouth got in trouble with the state in June after an inspector "found an infant sleeping in a car seat in a bedroom," among other issues.

But Shell also didn't strap Payton in all the way, according to court documents.

She tightened the shoulder straps and locked the chest buckle. But she did not secure the part between his legs. Then she left the room, later telling police that with the other children distracting her, she did not hear anything from Payton's room.

Payton fought his nap, and slid down the seat, his legs extending past its edge, police records say. His neck fell to the chest buckle, strangling him.

Shell unbuckled Payton, realizing something was very wrong. But she then "left the room, closed the door behind her, and went back into the living room with the other kids, acting as if nothing was wrong," according to court documents.

Indiana Day Cares: The Payton Brettell Story

Payton's condition was only discovered when another person, Kyle Sexton, entered the room, despite Shell telling him to stay away from it. Payton wasn't breathing.

Nova Brettell, Payton's mother, got the call as she was about to head into work. Her friend sped her down Ind. 15 to the hospital in Warsaw.

But she could tell by the expressions on the faces of the emergency technicians at the hospital that the news would not be good.

"I already knew what was going on," she said. "I knew my son was gone."

She and her husband buried their son in the children's section of Oakwood Cemetery. He was big for his age, so they had to bend his legs to fit him in the small casket. They had his tombstone engraved with Mater, the tow-truck character in Payton's favorite movie, "Cars."

And now they're left wondering what they could have done differently.

Brettell understood that Shell wasn't licensed, but she chose her because she knew and trusted her, and she only charged $20 a day.

Shell seemed to have things generally under control whenever Brettell saw her. Usually when she dropped off her son, Brettell had seen maybe five other children, "at the most."

But Brettell said she didn't realize at the time that Shell had temporarily taken on an additional 10 or so children.

It's a common problem, McCready of Child Care Aware of America said. Twelve of the 21 known deaths since 2009 have occurred at day cares deemed "illegal," meaning they should have been licensed.

Because no one inspects unlicensed homes, it becomes very difficult to find out if someone has too many children and is operating illegally, McCready said. "So it's left to chance," she said.

In states where the requirement is a license for anyone caring for two or more children, it's more obvious when a place is not operating above board. And without regular inspections, there's no way to know when it happens. "That is when tragedy can occur," she said.

Shell was charged with felony neglect of a dependent, and pleaded guilty to reckless homicide, a lower-grade felony. She is due to stay in custody until at least April 2014. Department of Correction officials told The Star they are still choosing a facility for her, and could not set up an interview.

Whether her day care had issues prior to Brettell's death is not known. The state's child care bureau had never had any contact with her.

An unknown toll

State records are often vague, but they make one thing clear. Thorny domestic situations can easily seep into a day care run out of someone's home, even when they're licensed. Since 2009, at least 18 homes have had their licenses revoked because a caregiver — often the owner — was confirmed to have committed abuse or neglect.

At the end of 2011, a home day care owner lost his license because of an employee's abusive behavior — throwing a plastic bottle at a child, spanking children with a slipper, a sandal, a hand and a belt.

The state's citation included a note: "Employee is also a household member."

A Salem home day care owner's license was revoked after a state inspector received a copy of a protective order that suggested "a member of your household/employee" should not be around "the children in care." Yet another, in South Bend, allowed someone to move back into her home despite that person's "3 prior substantiations for abuse."

Unlicensed homes that receive no federal money are exempt from checks on whether staffers have criminal histories, or are on the state's Sex Offender Registry.Same goes for a history of child abuse or neglect.

And because the state does not track them, there's no way of knowing how often abuse or neglect might happen in the homes. That leaves McCready with a simple question: "How many else are out there?"

And it provokes another unsettling question: If a home loses its license because of abuse, what's to stop it from continuing as an unlicensed home, as long as it has fewer than six unrelated children?

The answer, according to Brizzi, the woman in charge of regulating child care in Indiana: "Nothing."

'Safety concerns'

Conor Tilson's parents felt comfortable with Stacey Cox. Tilson's mother Britney Killea had known Cox since childhood, and they were cousins by marriage. But they had no idea that Cox had been the subject of a recent investigation.

In September 2012, a parent had complained to the Department of Child Services that an 8-month-old infant had come home with bite marks "on her face, neck and left arm." The complaint also alleged that Cox and her daughter Kirsten Phillips lacked sufficient training, and were looking after "too many children."

A state inspector, responding to the complaint, arrived at the Main Street home, near Carmel's Arts & Design District, on Oct. 1, 2012, and found six unsupervised children asleep in the basement, court documents say. The inspector noted "safety concerns regarding the sleeping arrangements."

When their son was enrolled, Conor's parents were unaware of the concerns. Some states, including Maryland, notify day care parents of safety violations at licensed day cares. And Cox's operation would have required a license in Maryland. Either way, Indiana does not notify parents directly of violations.

As it was, the inspector gave Cox a letter explaining that under Indiana law, she had to either look after five or fewer children, or become licensed. When the inspector returned 10 days later, Cox still had too many children.

About two weeks later, on Oct. 24, the state issued a letter threatening civil and criminal action against Cox. But on that same day, an inspector showed up and saw only five unrelated children at the home.

That meant Cox was complying with the law — regardless of whether she had addressed the safe-sleep issue. Five days later, the inspector came by once more, and again Cox was in compliance.

That's when the inspections stopped.

A few weeks after that, Conor Tilson and his 2-year-old sister, Lilli, were enrolled. Tilson and Killea said Cox told them she was licensed. And because they knew her, they didn't do as much research as they had with a previous provider.

Court documents and police reports suggest Cox, 44, projected the image of a professional care giver. She is reported to have told police and parents at different times that she was a certified medical assistant, a former nurse, and someone certified in CPR. She was not.

Phillips and Cox declined to comment through their lawyers.

The state has an online CareFinder site that lists inspection violations, and substantiated complaints from parents. Tilson and Killea say they didn't know the website existed.

Yet, it's doubtful it would have helped. Because Cox was unlicensed, the database contains no record of Cox's two citations for operating an illegal day care, let alone the inspector finding children sleeping unattended in the basement. No record of Cox at all.

'Conor is no longer with us'

On Jan. 24, 2013, Conor's parents were in Evansville helping some friends move. Their phone rang. "Your son is in the hospital," the caller said. "You need to get here."

As they drove north in shock, they received a call from a law enforcement official. Tilson said the official told him, "Conor is no longer with us."

Earlier that day, sometime after 1 p.m., Conor had been placed in a 22-inch wide, collapsible play-pen made of plastic and mesh.

Part of the particle-board bottom was broken, creating a sunken pocket. Several items — including a 42-square-foot blue blanket, quilt, container of baby wipes, and a few clean diapers — were in the pen with Conor.

That violates the "safe sleep" guidelines in which all licensed providers must be trained. Cox had started some of the training, but "did not complete Safe Sleep Habits training," according to court documents.

Cox told police Conor was purple and not breathing when she found him at around 3 p.m.

At 3:13 p.m. she called 911, records show. Despite the fact that she claimed to be a nurse, she panicked and the dispatcher had to walk her through CPR, a skill that's mandatory for licensed day care providers.

A mouth swab taken that day later indicated Cox and her daughter had THC, the active ingredient in marijuana, in their systems.

When police arrived at Cox's home, they found eight children — more than allowed.

When Conor's parents arrived at St. Vincent Hospital North, John Tilson was in a rage. "I did not want anyone to touch me," he said. "If they did, I got mad. I didn't know how else to handle it. I was mad, upset and frustrated. Any possible emotion you could think of, I was experiencing it at the time."

Killea was hugging family members, and wasn't sure what to think or feel. They waited at a door separating them from Conor until the coroner let them in. "It seemed like forever," she said, "but it was probably a minute or two."

Now the couple stood before their dead child.

Conor's colorless cheeks caused Killea to pause. Tilson picked up the boy and held him and cried.

"I just kept apologizing to him, that I should have been there. How sorry I was. I didn't know what to say to him," Tilson told The Star. "I feel like I failed. That is just a parent's thing, you are to be there for your kids. I feel like I failed for him. I know it wasn't my fault but I feel like if I was there, I could have done something to prevent it."

Tilson and Killea now believe all day cares should be licensed, no matter the number of children. "You should be certified in everything just so you know what to do," he said.

Had Cox been licensed, the state would have been required to inspect her home at least once a year — and perhaps could have corrected problems, said FSSA spokeswoman Marni Lemons. "We would've noticed earlier," Lemons said, "and cited them numerous times for unsafe situations."

Three more weeks in business

Eventually, the state won an injunction to shut down Cox's day care. In June, she and Phillips were arrested and charged with felony neglect of a dependant, reckless homicide and involuntary manslaughter, among other things. Cox, who is being held in Hamilton County jail, was also charged with deception and unlicensed practice of nursing. Trials are set for Oct. 22 for Cox, and Dec. 10 for Phillips.

But for weeks after Conor's death, Cox stayed in business.

Ten days after the incident, an undercover Carmel police officer posing as a parent of an infant arrived on Cox's doorstep.

There were five children there, including "two male children unattended in high chairs," according to court documents. A gallon-sized jug of bleach lay on the floor near the kitchen fridge. A space heater hummed in the living room.

Cox told the officer she planned to become licensed, and move to a new location.

The officer asked if she had any openings. Cox said she did.

Timeline of Stacey Cox Child Care
Stacey Cox and her daughter, Kirsten Phillips, operated Stacey Cox Child Care in Carmel for four years without notice by state regulators because it was an unlicensed day care, subject to only one regulation. It could not enroll more than five children not related to the operators. Here is a timeline of the day care's interactions with authorities.

  • Sept. 18: Parent files a complaint with Department of Child Services alleging that a child came home from the day care with severe bites on the face, neck and arm; Cox did not have sufficient training; and there were too many children in the home.
  • Oct. 1: A Family and Social Services Administration investigator visits the home and finds six unrelated children, a violation of state law. The inspector also observes safety hazards, including unsafe sleeping arrangements and lack of supervision.
  • Oct. 11: Investigator returns, finds six children, again a violation of state law.
  • Oct. 24: FSSA issues a cease-and-desist notice to Cox, threatening to shut her down. On the same day, the investigator visits, observing five children in the home, in apparent compliance with state law.
  • Oct: 29: Investigator returns, again finding five unrelated children in the home.
  • November: Britney Killea's and John Tilson's infant son, Conor Tilson, and their 2-year-old daughter, Lilli, were enrolled in the day care. The parents say they were not aware of the complaint.

  • Jan 24: Conor is found unresponsive in a broken playpen. Soon after he dies. DCS investigators observe at least eight children in the home, in violation of state law.
  • Feb 1: FSSA inspector visits again; no one answers the door.
  • Feb. 4: An undercover Carmel police officer poses as a parent seeking child care at the home. She reports unsafe conditions and that the home has too many children.
  • Feb 5: FSSA inspector visits the day care; no one answers.
  • Feb. 11: FSSA inspector visits and sees five children in the home.
  • Feb 12: Stacey Cox Child Care website continues to claim it is able to accept 12 children. Under state law, it is not.
  • Feb. 14: Injunction filed in Hamilton County Circuit Court ashuts down the day care.
  • April 26: Autopsy report lists "unsafe sleep environment on broken Pack 'n Play" as a contributing factor in Conor's death.
  • June 17: Cox and Phillips sign settlement with FSSA agreeing to never provide care to an unrelated child for the rest of their lives. They admit to operating an illegal day care and are fined $12,000.
  • June 28: Cox and Phillips arrested on felony charges in Conor Tilson's death.

How to choose a safe daycare

  • Ask whether the day care is licensed, registered or unlicensed. That will determine what type of inspection there is, if any.
  • Then check state regulations to see what type of health and safety practices are required.
  • Ask for a copy of the license.
  • Check if the day care is in the Paths to Quality program — the state's voluntary quality rating and evaluation system that ranks day cares on a scale of 1 to 4.
  • Make sure you feel comfortable. Visit more than once and stay as long as you can.
  • Check with parents who have used the day care.
  • Use the state's Carefinder website at https://secure.in.gov/apps/fssa/carefinder/index.html to review inspection, complaint and enforcement records for each licensed or registered day care. Indiana Association for Child Care Resource and Referral can help parents can help parents find a day care facility. The number is (800) 299-1627.

Sources: Indiana Association of Child Care Resource and Referral and Child Care Answers

Problems cited at state's day care operations
In Indiana, an untold number of day cares are not inspected by state regulators. Hundreds of others still face inspections, but are exempt from many of the rules.
Records show that even at licensed day cares — where the state can step in and enforce all the rules — surprising problems emerge. Here are some examples taken from the records:

  • Day care center in Franklin: "A staff person in the school-age room inflicted physical discomfort and injury to a child, thereby using a harsh and frightening method of discipline."
  • Day care home in Indianapolis: "Smoking in child care home with children present."
  • Day care center in Jeffersonville: "Toddler unsupervised outside building."
  • Day care home in Gary: "[T]ransporting a 10 month old infant down the street without a car seat ... [inspector] did a follow-up visit to the home. She found two eleven year olds alone with the provider's ten year old son. There were no adults in the home."
  • Day care center in Noblesville: "Staff person bit the child after child bit."
  • Day care home in Evansville: "[P]olice found illegal drugs in the child care home."
  • Day care center in Greenwood: "A child was left alone unsupervised on a bus."
  • Day care home in Lafayette: "[E]mployee admitted she had hit a child, threw a plastic bottle at the child, and called the child names ... (On subsequent inspection) The employee admitted to spanking a child with her house slipper. In an interview with other state staff, employee admitted that she had used a black sandal to spank a child, used her hand to spank children, and used a belt to spank 2 siblings... Employee is also a household member."
  • Day care center in Hammond: "Play equipment is unsanitary with garbage on top of it ... Multiple garbage bags throughout the center. Unsanitary conditions throughout the center. Uncovered trash cans throughout the center ... every surface has food particles, old dried food, sandwiches that appear to have mold on them, what appears to be mold grown on the refrigerator doors ... Ceiling stained and one (1) ceiling panel appears to be falling directly above child care area ... Kitchen has a strong odor of what appears to be spoiled milk."
  • Day care home in Marion: "[Person in the home] is a convicted felon ... [Inspector] found 6 children alone with [the felon]."
  • Day care center in Indianapolis: "Child was not changed after a bowel movement."
  • Day care home in Richmond: "The gate in the outdoor play area was not shut and a child left the area and was found in the street in front of the child care by a passerby."

Types of day care

  • Licensed day-care home: A provider who looks after between six and 16 children at a residential home. Subject to state regulations governing health and safety standards, and staff training. There are about 2,800 of these homes in Indiana; each faces yearly inspections from the state's Family and Social Services Administration.
  • Licensed day-care center: A provider who looks after at least one child in a non-residential building. Also subject to state regulations and yearly inspections. There are nearly 600 of these statewide.
  • Unlicensed registered ministry: A provider who looks after children with the backing of a religious organization. Subject to twice-yearly inspections from the state, but exempt from many of the rules that govern licensed day cares, including requirements that all children be directly supervised. There are more than 650 of these in Indiana.
  • Unlicensed day-care home: A provider who looks after fewer than six unrelated children at a residential home. Subject to no rules whatsoever. The state never inspects them, and never tracks them. Conditions that are considered unacceptable in licensed settings, such as lack of supervision, are acceptable in these settings. The state does not know how many of these exist.
  • Child Care Development Fund provider: A day care that receives money from the federal government in the form of "vouchers" provided to low-income parents. Unlicensed ministries and homes are allowed to receive the funds, but in doing so they face additional scrutiny. A ministry that takes in children under the voucher program must directly supervise children, for example, and an unlicensed home must submit to state inspections. However, it still faces fewer rules than licensed homes and centers. There is no sanction, for example, for being overcrowded, or for not having enough adults to properly look after children. More than 440 of the state's ministries take federal funding, and nearly 350 of its unlicensed homes do so.

Source: Indiana Family and Social Service Administration

Star reporters Mark Nichols, Robert King, Tim Evans and Scott Elliott contributed to this report. Star photographer Kelly Wilkinson also contributed. Follow Star reporter Alex Campbell on twitter at twitter.com/alex_g_campbell. Call him at (317) 444-6311.

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DIES, Martin, Jr., (son of Martin Dies), a Representative from Texas; born in Colorado, Mitchell County, Tex., November 5, 1900; moved with his parents to Beaumont, Tex., in 1902; attended the public schools, Wesley College, Greenville, Tex., and Cluster Springs Academy, Cluster Springs, Va.; was graduated from the law department of National University, Washington, D.C. (now George Washington University), LL.B., 1920; was admitted to the bar in 1920 and commenced practice in Marshall, Tex.; moved to Orange, Tex., in 1922 and continued the practice of law; also interested in ranching and agricultural pursuits at Jasper, Tex.; member of the faculty of East Texas Law School, Beaumont, Tex., in 1930; district judge; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-second and to the six succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1931-January 3, 1945); chairman, Special Committee to Investigate Un-American Activities (Seventy-fifth through Seventy-eighth Congresses); did not seek renomination in 1944 to the Seventy-ninth Congress; elected to the Eighty-third and to the two succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1953-January 3, 1959); did not seek renomination in 1958 to the Eighty-sixth Congress; while a Member of Congress in 1941 and 1957 was defeated for the nomination to fill a vacancy in the United States Senate; resumed the practice of law; died November 14, 1972, in Lufkin, Tex.; entombment in Garden of Memories Mausoleum.

McDaniel, Dennis Kay. ‘’Martin Dies of Un-American Activities: His Life and Times.” Ph.D. dissertation, University of Houston, 1988; Dies, Martin. Martin Dies’ Story. New York: Bookmailer, 1963.

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Assassin / Actor

Born: 10 May 1838
Died: 26 April 1865 (shot to death)
Birthplace: Bel Air, Maryland
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The man who shot Abraham Lincoln

John Wilkes Booth shot and killed President Abraham Lincoln on 14 April 1865. During a performance of Our American Cousin at Ford's Theater in Washington, D.C., Booth snuck into the presidential box and shot Lincoln behind the left ear. Booth leapt down to the stage (breaking the fibula bone in his left leg as he landed) and shouted "Sic semper tyrannis!" (In Latin, "Thus ever to tyrants.") He escaped with an accomplice and eluded pursuers for 12 days before being cornered in a tobacco shed in Virginia. The shed was set on fire, and in the ensuing confusion, John Wilkes Booth was shot by a Union soldier, Sgt. Boston Corbett. Booth was dragged from the shed alive, but died a few hours later.

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John Wilkes Booth was part of a conspiracy; while he shot Lincoln, others were supposed to attack vice-president Andrew Johnson and Secretary of War William Seward. Seward was stabbed but survived; Johnson was never attacked, and became president upon Lincoln's death. Four of Booth's co-conspirators were hung on 7 July 1865... Booth was a well-known actor and had appeared on the Ford's Theater stage many times; Lincoln had actually seen him there in an 1863 performance of The Marble Heart... Booth's father, Junius Brutus Booth, Sr., was an even more famous actor... Booth shot Lincoln five days after the Civil War ended with the surrender of Confederate general Robert E. Lee to the Union's Ulysses Grant at Appomatox on 9 April 1865.

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Fessenden, Thomas Green (fĕsˈəndən) [key], 1771–1837, American journalist and satirical poet, b. Walpole, N.H. Throughout his life he practiced law and edited various newspapers. Under the pseudonym Christopher Caustic he wrote satirical poems, of which "Democracy Unveiled" (1805), a scurrilous attack on Jefferson and other Democratic leaders, was the most famous. In 1822 he established in Boston the New England Farmer, which he edited until his death. He also wrote various agricultural handbooks including the widely used Complete Farmer and Rural Economist (1834). In 1836 he was elected to the Massachusetts General Court.

See study by P. G. Perrin (1925).

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Iraqi official, was captured near Tikrit in June. He was Saddam Hussein's personal secretary and No. 4 on the list of most-wanted Iraqi leaders. U.S. troops intensified their search for Hussein after Mahmoud told U.S. officials that Hussein and his sons, Uday and Qusay, survived attacks in March and April. Following the detention of Mahmoud, U.S. troops also attacked an Iraqi convoy near the Syrian border. Officials said they thought Hussein may have been in the convoy.

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Microsoft has announced a set of new features for the upcoming Windows Phone 8: same code base with Windows 8, multicore support, secure boot, device encryption, remote managing and others.

While Steven Sinofsky, President of the Windows Division at Microsoft, declared in early 2011 that there will be no crossover between Windows 8 and Windows Phone, later there were hints that Microsoft will unify their OSes into one that spans all consumer-oriented devices, having a separate breed for servers. Later, there were information leaks that the next Windows Phone will be based on WinRT rather than Windows CE, the old operating system for embedded devices. And the rumors were at least partially true.

Yesterday, during a Windows Phone Summit, Joe Belfiore, a Microsoft Corporate VP and Director of Windows Phone Program Management, announced some of the new features coming in Windows Phone 8. The first one: WP8 will share a common core with Windows 8 including the kernel, graphics, media, networking, file system, input, sensors, and others. He did not specify if this core will include the new Windows Runtime (WinRT), some considering that it will be added to a future version of Windows Phone, to WP9. With or without WinRT, WP8 will represent a major step towards the unification of the Windows operating system across devices, making it available to a large number of hardware solutions and applications.

Belfiore announced several other new features for WP8, keeping some to be disclosed later:

  • Multicore support – there will be dual-core support firstly but WP8 already runs on 4, 8, and it could run on 64 cores
  • Multiple screen resolutions - WVGA, WXGA, and 720p
  • MicroSD support
  • NFC – all WP8 devices will have this functionality
  • The default browser will be IE10

Besides a facelift applied to the home screen – now tiles can be resized and color-customized – WP8 will come with enterprise features, some of the most important being secure boot and device encryption based on a technology derived from BitLocker. WP8 will have management capabilities allowing administrators to install, configure, and remotely delete apps, or set password/PIN policies. Businesses will be able to install applications through a private hub which provides access to company-wide applications, links, information, alerts, etc. WP8 will offer speech and VOIP API, but it will not provide VPN. Instead the security solution will be SSL.

Microsoft intends to see WP8 devices available sometime this fall. Current WP7 devices won’t be upgraded to WP8, but to a in-between variant called WP 7.8 which has some of the new UI enhancements. Older devices, including Lumia 900, do not provide the necessary hardware to run WP8.

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Posted on June 01, 2012 By Sean Kerner

The Gluster open source distributed filesystem is out with version 3.3 after a long development cycle. Gluster 3.3 unifies file and object storage and provide a Hadoop HDFS compatible API for Big Data Storage.

GlusterFS 3.3 was originally expected to be released by the end of 2011. John Mark Walker, Community Leader for explained to that Gluster 3.3 was an unusually long release, for several reasons, including the fact that the scope of the release was fairly large.

"Between HDFS compatibility, Unified File and Object storage, self-healing improvements, granular healing, quorum enforcement and other improvements, a lot went into this release," Walker said. "We also retooled our community for open governance and transparency and were able to put more resources into QA and release management."

Walker added that all those changes have improved the project in significant ways, but that may have delayed things for this particular release. Among the significant changes are unified File and Object storage. Walker explained that both object storage and file storage have their pros and cons.

"The file Interface -- a low-level rich API, a la POSIX, allows the developer to do many things, but for some operations it is overkill," Walker said. "Object storage does not give developers nearly the same level of functionality because it is, by design, a simplified data access interface."

On the other hand, object storage allows you to access data via remote, high-latency environments, where a chatty, low-level file interface would perform poorly. In his view, the modern enterprise needs both file and object storage, which is what Gluster 3.3 now delivers. Having both also enables an easier migration to the cloud for enterprise applications.

"Enterprise developers and admins don't want to rewrite their entire storage layer just to create cloud and mobile apps," Walker said. "We want to allow them continue to use the file interface and let remote devices and web applications access the same data via the object interface."

Gluster 3.3 also provides improvements that make the system more resilient and scalable. Among those improvements are a series of self-healing additions including something known as granular healing. Walker explained that with granular healing, the self-heal process goes block by block on each file to be healed to determine which parts of the file to heal.

"Before this release, you risked service outages while your large, multi-GB VM image recovered from a failure," Walker said. "In those bad old days, the entire VM would be locked while a self-heal took place. No more."

The Gluster 3.3 release also has server-side and proactive healing. Walker explained that in proactive self-healing, when a file is modified, each server remembers the list of pending files for a recovered node. The recovered node queries other servers for what must be healed, and then copies over good files.

"Proactive self-heal is implemented by remembering pending operations via use of symlinks to the to-be-healed files. In a synchronous replication volume, each replicated server keeps a list of symlinks in case one or more nodes goes down. The healing process, once the recovered nodes establishes what needs to be healed, is actually quite interesting. The healing process is performed with what is effectively a ghost client, operating on the server, accessing the N+1 synchronously replicated server nodes.

"Previously, for self-heal of replicated volumes to work, there needed to be an actual GlusterFS client mounting the filesystem and kicking off the self-heal process," Walker commented. "In order to achieve smarter, proactive self-healing, we created server-side self-healing that mimics the use of a GlusterFS client."

Next Steps for Gluster

Now that Gluster 3.3 is generally available, the Gluster community is looking at a six-month release cycle. The release cycle will be accompanied by community developer/design events, with the first developer summit the week of July 9 in the Bay Area.

Over the course of the Gluster 3.3 development period, Red Hat acquired Gluster for $136 million. GlusterFS is now the cornerstone of the Red Hat Storage solution. Red Hat Storage 2.0 was last updated in April of this year.

As part Red Hat, Gluster as a community has also gone from an open core approach to an open source one.

While Red Hat Storage is based on the core open source Gluster project, it's not entirely clear when the final Gluster 3.3 release will be reflected in a generally available product from Red Hat.

"We made a decision that Gluster would aim to be the Linux of distributed storage and become the standard for unstructured data," Walker said. "To do that, we must always take into account the best interests of the community at

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For months now, the ARM industry has been anxiously awaiting the final rule from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau defining the Larger Participants in the Consumer Debt Collection Market.  The rule, released October 24, 2012 and taking effect January 3, 2013, will determine the companies that will be subject to the supervision and examination authority of the CFPB.

There has been a great deal of prognostication on this site and others as to what impact this will have for the ARM industry, and moreover, how far the tentacles of the CFPB will reach out to touch various participants in this marketplace as a result of the definition of a larger market participant. One thing that hasn’t been covered is the impact on service providers to the larger market participants.

The CFPB’s real goal in publishing the rule was to define and identify the larger participants of the collection market in order to establish a process to audit and supervise a significant segment of the market activity.  Just because a company may not meet the CFPB’s definition as stated in the Larger Market Participants rule, one should not assume they are immune from the regulatory oversight of the CFPB or operate outside of its enforcement authority.

Additional Requirements of Larger Market Participants

While the effort by the CFPB through this rule was to capture a significant portion of the overall collection market activity though regulating the industry’s larger participants, the CFPB has issued a number of bulletins further defining obligations of all market participants designed to widen the net of audit and supervision authority cast by the CFPB.  On (Friday) April 13, 2012, the CFPB released a little known and seldom discussed bulletin entitled simply Bulletin 2012-03 with the subject line Service Providers.  This bulletin outlines the Bureau’s expectations of banks and non banks under their supervision and enforcement authority to be able to among other things:

verify that the service provider understands and is capable of complying with Federal consumer financial law;”

The preamble of the bulletin states the following:

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (“CFPB”) expects supervised banks and nonbanks to oversee their business relationships with service providers in a manner that ensures compliance with Federal consumer financial law, which is designed to protect the interests of consumers and avoid consumer harm. The CFPB’s exercise of its supervisory and enforcement authority will closely reflect this orientation and emphasis.

The CFPB expects supervised banks and nonbanks to have an effective process for managing the risks of service provider relationships. The CFPB will apply these expectations consistently, regardless of whether it is a supervised bank or nonbank that has the relationship with a service provider.

To limit the potential for statutory or regulatory violations and related consumer harm, supervised banks and nonbanks should take steps to ensure that their business arrangements with service providers do not present unwarranted risks to consumers.

By issuing this bulletin, the CFPB has placed a new requirement on all collections market participants to establish a policy and set of procedures to audit and continually monitor the compliance of their service providers.  Furthermore, under Title X of Dodd Frank, the CFPB is granted supervision authority over supervised service providers, including its authority to examine for compliance as outlined in the bulletin below.

B. The CFPB’s Supervisory Authority Over Service Providers

Title X authorizes the CFPB to examine and obtain reports from supervised banks and nonbanks for compliance with Federal consumer financial law and for other related purposes and also to exercise its enforcement authority when violations of the law are identified. Title X also grants the CFPB supervisory and enforcement authority over supervised service providers, which includes the authority to examine the operations of service providers on site.  The CFPB will exercise the full extent of its supervision authority over supervised service providers, including its authority to examine for compliance with Title X’s prohibition on unfair, deceptive, or abusive acts or practices. The CFPB will also exercise its enforcement authority against supervised service providers as appropriate.

What Defines a Service Provider Relationship?

Over the last six months I have discussed this topic with a number of the industry’s most respected attorneys, operations managers, thought leaders and trade association leaders to get their feedback and opinion about this topic.  Many of them, without the benefit of reading the bulletin first, incorrectly assumed they would not be held accountable for the actions of their service providers, or felt certain third party service providers with which they interacted would not be held to the definition outlined by the CFPB in this bulletin.  It is worth noting that when defining a service provider relationship, the CFPB deliberately avoided such criteria as “financial consideration” or “substantial assistance” and yet settled on a broader definition of “material service”.  Furthermore, it is interesting that the CFPB also noted that a service provider may not be affiliated with the person to which it provides a service.

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MLL: Dixon Leads Bayhawks to Season-Opening Win Vs. Rattlers in Florida

St. Petersburg, FL - Veteran midfielder Kyle Dixon piled up seven points and tied a Major League Lacrosse record with three 2-point goals as the Chesapeake Bayhawks opened the 2013 season by beating the Rochester Rattlers 17-14 in a wild shootout in front of 3,940 fans at Al Lang Stadium in St. Petersburg, Fla.

“It was a typical first game. We didn’t play great, but fortunately we got the win and that’s all that matters,” Chesapeake head coach Dave Cottle said.

Dixon, in his eighth MLL season, had his cannon crank shot on target and increased his MLL career record for 2-pointers to 50. The perennial All-Star also dished off an assist as Chesapeake began defense of its MLL championship with a thrilling victory.

“I guess you could say I was feeling it tonight,” said Dixon, who was named Bud Light Player of the Game. “Teams just continue to back off and give me space beyond the arc. Coach Cottle has given me the green light to shoot whenever I’m open out there and tonight I was fortunate to connect on a few.”

Midfielder Ben Hunt fired in a pair of 2-pointers of his own in totaling six points for the Bayhawks, who won without seven players who are still involved in the National Lacrosse League playoffs. Among that group were two returning starting attackmen in Drew Westervelt and John Grant, Jr.

Matt Mackrides, a second-year pro out of Penn State, started on attack and came up big with three goals and four ground balls. Mackrides scored two extra man goals in the fourth quarter to give the Bayhawks breathing room.

“I can’t say we’re pleased with the way we played offensively. That was a really ugly offensive effort in a lot of ways,” Dixon said. “You take away the twos by me and Ben and we only had two other goals in the first half. We need to get some things cleaned up before next weekend.”

Nicky Polanco was all over the field and played like a man possessed in anchoring a defense that rose to the occasion and shut out Rochester in the fourth quarter. Polanco provided great man-to-man coverage on Rochester attackman Mark Millon, caused several turnovers and gobbled up three ground balls.

“I thought Nicky was tremendous tonight. He was extremely active, very aggressive and really owned Mark Millon,” Cottle said.

Attackman Ben Rubeor contributed a goal and an assist while midfielder Steven Brooks dished off two assists for Chesapeake, which outshot Rochester 58-36. The Bayhawks put a whopping 38 of those shots on goal and might have won easily had Ratters keeper Jason LaShomb not made 27 saves.

Rookie Tyler Fiorito started between the pipes for Chesapeake, but was replaced in the second quarter by second-year man T.C. DiBartolo, who finished with nine saves.

Dixon blasted in two of his 2-pointers during the first quarter as Chesapeake raced to a 7-3 lead. Hunt also had a 2-pointer in the opening period. Rochester responded by opening the second quarter on a 6-0 run that featured a pair of 2-pointers from 10th-year midfielder Matt Striebel.

Suddenly trailing 9-7 with 4:10 elapsed in the second stanza, Chesapeake closed the first half with a 5-0 run that was highlighted by 2-pointers from Dixon and Hunt. Rubeor fed Hunt for another goal as the Bayhawks took a 12-9 lead into intermission.

Hunt added another goal and long stick defensive midfielder Michael Simon scored in transition and Rubeor tallied unassisted as Chesapeake opened the second half with a 3-1 run to take a 15-10 lead. Rochester refused to fold, closing the third period on a 4-0 run to get within one at 15-14.

DiBartolo made two saves to anchor a suffocating defense while Mackrides found openings in the defense for the two power play goals that provided the necessary cushion.

“We could have very easily scored 20 goals, but we missed some easy opportunities,” Cottle said. “I don’t think we did all the little things on offense. We weren’t always in the right spots, our stick-work wasn’t great and we made some bad decisions. We have plenty of things to work on during practice this coming week.”

Bayhawks face-off specialist Adam Rand won his faceoff battle with John Ortolani, 15-13, while Cottle felt defensive midfielders Barney Ehrmann (long stick) and Danny Burns (short stick) both played very well.

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Goldman Sachs Group Inc (GS), Apple Inc. (AAPL), Verizon Communications Inc. (VZ): Is That ‘Cheap’ Stock Worth It? Use This Tool To Find Out

Fundamental analysts generally focus on a company’s financial statement. They use tools like the price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio and dividend yields to find value. Many investors like to buy when these indicators are low.

There are studies showing that this approach works in the long term. However, most of those studies could never be implemented by individual investors.

When studying P/E ratios or other fundamental measures of value, researchers generally divide the market into 10 groups. Each stock is assigned to one of those groups. Researchers then measure the performance of the group and usually find that the group with the lowest P/E ratio or the lowest dividend yield provides the best returns.

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There are at least 6,500 stocks being traded on U.S. exchanges. To duplicate a value strategy that is likely to outperform the market, you might need to buy 650 stocks. You could just select the stocks with the lowest ratios in the S&P 500 and perhaps buy only 100 stocks. As you can see, the problem an individual investor faces is that their account isn’t large enough to buy so many stocks.

To help narrow the list, individual investors can apply a tool of technical analysis to fundamental data that will help them identify the stocks that deliver the best value.

Bollinger bands are used in technical analysis to spot when prices are too high or too low. This indicator adds and subtracts two standard deviations from a moving average of the price. It can easily be added to any chart using many popular websites.

Bands are designed to include about 95% of the price action, so when prices move above or below the bands, it is unusual and a signal that something significant is happening in the market. When prices break above the upper band, they often reverse lower or at least consolidate the recent gains. Prices crossing the lower band often signal a low-risk buying point.

Bollinger bands can actually be applied to any indicator, including P/E ratios and dividend yields. When P/E ratios are very high and above the upper band, the stock price is overvalued and could be ready to fall. Stocks with P/E ratios below the lower band could be the best value stocks in the market.

For example, Goldman Sachs Group Inc (NYSE:GS) has a P/E ratio below 12, a level generally associated with an undervalued stock. However, the P/E ratio is actually at the upper Bollinger band and is high relative to its normal value. Rather than being undervalued, Goldman Sachs Group Inc (NYSE:GS) is more likely to be overvalued when the P/E ratio is placed in context.

Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) is also relatively overvalued despite an unusually low P/E ratio around 10.

On the other hand, Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE:VZ), with a P/E ratio of about 130, could be a buy with a P/E ratio near the lower Bollinger band.

Value investing is appealing to many individual investors because it seems logical. The idea is to buy stocks with low P/E ratios and avoid those with high P/E ratios. Unfortunately, the absolute level of a P/E ratio tells us very little about whether an individual stock is a value stock or not. Adding Bollinger bands to the P/E ratio could help investors find unusually cheap stocks and could help them to avoid stocks that are overvalued on a relative basis.

Action to Take –> When selecting value stocks, consider the P/E ratio within context and decide whether it is high or low based on the history of the P/E ratio for the stock you are looking at.

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All projects need a thorough business plan to entice the lender to provide financing. The self-storage industry, however, has one unique difference that may impede obtaining financing. Some financial institutions shy away from lending on a single-purpose facility, such as self-storage, due to limitations on the property use and obvious limitations to financial recovery if the entrepreneur fails.

In this article, we’ll examine the requirements of a good business plan, and the steps you’ll need to obtain financing for a self-storage facility.

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Lenders expect a financing request package to have all information presented in a well-developed manner. A resume of the principals should include their business experience, net worth statements and past profit on other projects. This should also show their ability to provide an investment of 30 percent to 35 percent of the project cost. The entrepreneur needs to provide the project-cost projections and any licensing and permit requirements. Expect to show financial projections, a balance sheet, a projected profit-and-loss statement and a projected cash-flow forecast.

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Damien (11-9-3) at Palmdale (16-7-2)
Diamond Bar (12-8-3) at Arlington (16-3-7)
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Rowland (10-11-4) at Jurupa Valley (14-4-7)
South Hills (12-4-3) at Santa Maria (19-5-1)
Redlands (15-4-8) at West Covina (14-4-3)
Division IV
Diamond Ranch (14-5-3) at University (8-6-2)
La Puente (12-5-5) at Bishop Amat (15-5-3)
Wilson (16-5-2) at Inglewood (10-9-4)
Mayfair (9-14-1) at Los Altos (11-4-3)
Laguna Hills (7-11-2) at Sierra Vista (18-1-2)
Division V
Pioneer Valley (13-10-1) at Baldwin Park (21-1)
Division VI
Tahquitz (12-8-3) at Mountain View (16-4-4)
Beaumont (DNR) at Rosemead (13-4-4)
Arroyo (4-11-4) at Dunn (10-5-2)
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Desert Christian (8-7-4) at La Verne Lutheran (10-2-1)
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Ha Ha. I live in Perth Western Australia.

NUTS & BOLTS is a local production.
Great to see an Aussie clip here on Instructables. !!

Thanks for sharing this, Storyteller !
KnexFreek5 years ago
 Wonderful videos!!! im gunna watch them all!!!