text stringlengths 9 93k |
|---|
It could also serve as tale of encouragement for those who may feel defeated in some aspect in their lives - if Clinton can learn to move forward after such a punishing defeat, you can certainly fight whatever you're going through. |
As total HECM endorsement volume trends towards a decrease from 2010, seven out of the top ten states for total units are experiencing positive year-over-year growth in 2011. |
According to the new HECM Trends report from Reverse Market Insight (RMI), endorsement volume for HECM loans trended into positive year-over-year territory in February of this year, now has crossed back over into negative ground. At 43,314 endorsed units through July, 2011 still remains 3.9% ahead of 2010, but the curr... |
Among the top ten producing states, California crossed over into positive territory with 3.7% growth (5,955 units) thus far in 2011. Texas solidified its hold on the number two position with 13% growth and 3,770 units. New York, with 10.6% growth (2,602 units) continues to challenge Florida whose decline is at -21.4%, ... |
Number 9, North Carolina and number 5, Pennsylvania continue to outpace the rest of the top ten with 38.3% and 27.0% growth respectively. North Carolina continues to be an intriguing member of the top ten especially considering some of the restrictive laws within the state. Lenders in North Carolina must have specific ... |
The only other two states in the top ten with negative growth in 2011 are Maryland (8th) at -21.9% and Illinois (10th) at -20.8%. |
The Endorsement Growth Heat Map shows some bright spots overall in the Northern middle portion of the country, as well as the east. The Western states and upper Eastern North and South extremities continue to lag behind. |
The state had earlier opined that the number of Maratha quota seats should be calculated by considering all the seats available in medical colleges, including AIQ seats. |
Maharashtra has decided to restrict reservation for socially and economically backward castes (SEBC) or Marathas, to 8% of the total intake in post graduate medical and dental courses in government-run colleges, making more seats available for general category students. Private institutes, though, will have a 16% quota... |
On Saturday, HT had reported that the state common entrance test (CET) cell planned to have a uniform 16% SEBC quota in all institutes, which would have left the general category with just 4% seats. |
However, the government, on Friday evening, conveyed to the cell that the Maratha quota needs to be halved in government colleges as 50% seats in these institutes are all-India quota (AIQ), which are filled by the Centre’s Directorate General of Health Services. |
The state had earlier opined that the number of Maratha quota seats should be calculated by considering all the seats available in medical colleges, including AIQ seats. This is because the government resolution pertaining to SEBC quota says that it should be 16% of the total intake. |
The government later decided to change its stance. “On Friday, we were told that the Maratha quota should be calculated by considering only the seats filled by the CET cell,” said Anand Rayate, commissioner, CET cell. |
The CET cell issued a provisional seat matrix on Saturday according to which, general quota students will get 233 of 1,937 (12%) seats in government-run colleges and 36 of 460 (7.8%) seats in private institutes. |
“Our problem is that we control only half the seats in government colleges. But we do have control over all the seats in private institutes,” said TP Lahane, director, Directorate of Medical Education and Research (DMER). |
Patrons at an April opening for Alaura Seidl’s multimedia exhibit “Toast” at Arts + Literature Lab. |
At the Arts + Literature Laboratory, last night’s art show swiftly becomes the backdrop for tomorrow night’s reading series and next week’s concert. |
For these reasons and more, Rita Mae Reese and Jolynne Roorda founded Arts + Literature Laboratory (ALL). The experimental, collaborative space opened in January and has since been packed to the gills with people attending multimedia exhibitions, theater and musical performances. |
The nonprofit was recently awarded two local grants to further its mission: $2,885 from the Madison Arts Commission to fund ALL’s Professional Development Series for Writers, which includes monthly craft talks and write-ins, and a $960 grant from Dane Arts to help support a series of exhibitions by emerging Dane County... |
The 1,000-square-foot gallery at 2021 Winnebago St. has an urban, industrial feel; exposed gray brick walls and aging wooden rafters are juxtaposed with matte gallery walls and track lighting. The current works on display by Connecticut artist Caryn Azoff have a mosaic effect, featuring angular shapes in turquoise, tan... |
“We were all so shocked that Madison didn’t have a place like this,” adds Reese, a UW-Madison MFA grad and poetry and fiction author who published her most recent work, The Book of Hulga, in March. As a leader in the local Watershed Reading Series, she and Roorda met through mutual friends in the arts community. The tw... |
Roorda, a graphic artist with a background in community arts administration, already had experience creating such a space. She opened Arts + Literature Laboratory with poet Dianne Bilyak and Azoff in New Haven, Conn., in 2003.. |
“Since our [Madison] opening, we’ve been flying,” says Roorda. In fact, ALL has something happening nearly every night. It facilitates events for the ArtWrite Collective, the Watershed Reading Series and Monsters of Poetry. In addition, it has hosted lectures by professional writers, workshops on food and memoir writin... |
And the gallery is willing to showcase art that might not find a home in more traditional spaces such as public galleries and coffee shops. |
UW-Madison Art Department lecturer Alaura Seidl’s exhibition “Toast” occupied the ALL space for much of April. Focused on the queer experience and Seidl’s discovery of sexuality and gender identity, the show re-created Seidl’s apartment, down to the furniture, and included video and audio clips of provocative anti-gay ... |
The space seems to be filling a need in the Madison community for an interdisciplinary space. |
“Outside of the university, there is not really a place for artists of multiple disciplines to come together and create meaningful connections,” says Max Puchalsky, a board member and sound design artist. |
With the recently acquired grant money, ALL will be able to pay speakers, increase marketing efforts and double its footprint by renting more space adjacent to the current one. There, they’ll offer a designated space for writers, an expansion of ALL’s small press library and a curated collection of prints from Wisconsi... |
“We hope that this can be a community center where writers just want to drop in and work together and be social together. Hopefully that will lead to collaborations and cross-pollination,” Roorda says. |
ALL offers memberships for artists, would-be artists and patrons of the arts. For more information, see facebook.com/ArtLitLab. |
Editor's Note: This story was corrected on July 7 to note that Arts + Literature Lab received a $2,885 grant from the Madison Arts Commission, that the current square footage of the space is 1,000 square feet and that the co-founders of ALL in New Haven also included poet Dianne Bilyak. |
WEST ALLIS, Wis. -- The Camping World Truck series race at the Milwaukee Mile has been postponed because of rain and is rescheduled for this afternoon. |
Heavy showers swept through the Milwaukee area for the second night in a row, forcing series officials to postpone the race until 1:30 p.m. The previous night's storms flooded a portion of the Milwaukee Brewers' Miller Park. |
Brian Ickler, whose team is leading the truck series owner points, will start on the pole today. The truck series is without defending series champion and Milwaukee race winner Johnny Benson, who recently lost his ride -- then was hospitalized after crashing in a non-NASCAR race. |
A grateful letter from Dr Seuss to the former college classmate who stopped The Cat in the Hat author from burning his first children’s book manuscript is set to be auctioned later this week. |
The 1957 letter to McClintock, along with two other letters and two pages of illustrations by Seuss, will be auctioned by Nate D Sanders Auctions on 31 January, for a starting price of $3,500 (£2,600). Written in the year Seuss published both The Cat in The Hat and How the Grinch Stole Christmas, the papers come from t... |
With The Cat in the Hat selling 1,000 copies a day at the time, the letters show Seuss recognising his rapidly growing fame, musing over the opportunities for merchandise from his characters. |
The auction house described the lot as revealing an “unusual and personal” view of Seuss. |
Detectives are continuing to question two people about the murder of a 53-year-old man in east Belfast. |
Mark Ponisi was discovered with head and face injuries in the living room of a property on London Road around 10am on Saturday. |
Police said he was pronounced dead a short time later. |
A 25-year-old man and a 26-year-old woman were arrested at the scene. |
DCI Peter Montgomery said his officers were keen to speak to the driver of a taxi believed to have picked up three males and one female in Belfast city centre around 2am on Saturday before dropping the fare at London Road. |
ReportsnReports.com adds The LPWA (Low Power Wide Area) Networks Ecosystem: 2015 - 2030 - Opportunities, Challenges, Strategies, Industry Verticals & Forecasts market research report to the IT and Telecommunications intelligence collection of its library. |
Complete report on LPWA market (low power wide area networks) spread across 192 pages along with review, discussion on or mention of 98 companies and organizations is now available at http://www.reportsnreports.com/reports/435673-the-lpwa-low-power-wide-area-networks-ecosystem-2015-2030-opportunities-challenges-strateg... |
Already prevalent in IoT applications such as smart metering, lighting control and parking management, LPWA networks are expected to make a significant contribution to the M2M and IoT ecosystem, with an estimated $27 Billion in service revenue by 2020. As of Q4'2015, this LPWA market research estimates the cost of a ty... |
The "LPWA (Low Power Wide Area) Networks Ecosystem: 2015 - 2030 - Opportunities, Challenges, Strategies, Industry Verticals & Forecasts" market research report presents an in-depth assessment of the LPWA networks ecosystem including LPWA technologies, key trends, market drivers, challenges, vertical market applications... |
Companies discussed, mentioned or reviewed in this LPWA network market report include 3GPP (3rd Generation Partnership Project), Accellus Communication Networks, Actility, Adeunis RF, Aerea, AMBER Wireless, Archos, Arkessa, Arqiva, AT&T, AT&T Mobility, Atim, Atmel Corporation, Augtek, AXSEM, Bouygues Telecom, BT Group,... |
Until recently, most M2M and IoT services have largely relied on licensed cellular, wireline and satellite networks for their wide area connectivity requirements. Cellular networks, in particular, have enjoyed significant success in the arena. However, for many low bandwidth IoT applications, traditional cellular netwo... |
Explore more reports on M2M, IoT market as well as overall IT and Telecommunications industry at http://www.reportsnreports.com/market-research/information-technology/ . |
MVP Chants Hailed Nikola Jokic's Historic Triple-Double, But Could He Truly Contend For The Award? |
It was a night to remember, and mostly one to celebrate at the Pepsi Center as the Denver Nuggets beat the Phoenix Suns 199-91 to win their second straight game and open the season 2-0 for the first time since 2011. |
Nikola Jokic had arguably the best game of his career, as he became the second player in NBA history to record a triple-double of 30 or more points with a perfect 100% field goal percentage. Jokic scored 35 points on 11 of 11 shooting, including 3 of 3 3-pointers and 10 of 11 free throws, to go with 12 rebounds, 11 ass... |
As Jokic made his final trip to the free throw line, the “MVP!” chants of fans singing his praises echoed through the arena, a rare and almost startling sound in a venue for a team which has long lacked a bona fide superstar. |
But earning love and appreciation from fans versus respect from the NBA media’s award voters are two entirely different animals, raising the question: Could Nikola Jokic become a dark horse contender for the league’s Most Valuable Player award, or even garner serious consideration in the conversation? |
The chart below shows the most recent MVP odds, averaged from the 16 sites which currently have data available at oddschecker.com. |
As can be seen in the chart, the odds fall naturally into three distinct clusters, with a top tier comprised of 10 players, a middle tier with three, and a third tier – the one where Jokic falls – which might aptly be called the “snowball’s chance in hell” group for all the plausibility the oddsmakers give any of its p... |
But what about Jokic’s actual production? The notion that Jokic is underrated and underappreciated by the national sports media is widely accepted in Nuggets fan circles, but that can be true without it necessarily following that Jokic is performing on an MVP-caliber level. |
And indeed, when Jokic’s production last season is held up in comparison to the average counting stat lines of the past 25 MVP winners, whether compared to the entire field of or its five MVP centers, Jokic has not yet been putting up traditionally MVP-worthy numbers. |
The above chart, compiled using data from Basketbal-Reference.com, shows that the prototypical NBA MVP winner over the last two-and-a-half decades has scored about 8 more points per game than Jokic, and netted around six more win shares over the course of the entire season while playing approximately five to seven more... |
For Jokic to even get his playing time up near the 37-minute per game mark would likely require him to significantly bolster his conditioning, something which if he has improved upon, has not been readily evident through training camp and his pre- and early-season games. And even if he could ratchet up an extra few min... |
And that is without yet getting into the fact that the last 25 MVP winners were on teams which averaged 61 wins per season. Even the most optimistic Nuggets forecasters generally do not have them winning much more than 52 or maybe 53 wins. For Denver, a 60-win season would represent a 14-game improvement over their 46 ... |
None of this is to say that what Jokic has already been accomplishing is not incredibly impressive, or even mind-boggling. In another achievement last season which had only been done twice before, and only by Wilt Chamberlain in the late sixties, Jokic became the second center in NBA history to average six or more assi... |
Jokic also bagged the fastest triple-double in NBA history last February against the Milwaukee Bucks, reaching the mark in just 14 minutes and 33 seconds with just under two minutes remaining in the first half, and finishing the game with an absurd 30 points, 15 rebounds and 17 assists. |
It is very much within the realm of possibility that Jokic could receive at least a handful of MVP votes. Victor Oladipo, who according to the data in the first chart above currently has the 18th-best odds of winning MVP, got two votes last season in what would seem like a nod of respect to a performance which far exce... |
And Jokic’s overall performance, including the counting stats that MVP voters seem to gravitate toward, should gain some significant ground this season, perhaps enough to earn him a spot on the All-Star or All-NBA team, or both. |
Nuggets fans should definitely keep up the chants, and keep pouring coal into the Jokic hype train. The Pepsi Center, notorious for being sleepy and quiet in comparison to the league’s loudest arenas (or worse, having opposing fan bases drown out the home crowds) needs an infusion of that kind of energy, and the team w... |
But if they are hoping to speak Jokic’s MVP chances into reality, they will likely have to wait until he – and the Nuggets as a team – have proven to the league that they deserve to be included among its elite ranks. |
Body-positive activist Clare has over 34,000 Instagram followers. |
In a recent post, body-positive Instagram user Clare shared side-by-side photos showing her stomach at the gym. |
In the caption, she argued that posting gym selfies can be problematic. |
She admitted that looking back at her own workout photos, they show her "performing" for validation. |
Several commenters responded, with many of them praising Clare for her honesty. |
Many people document their gym routines on social media with "workout selfies." Often, however, "fitspo" photos can have a dark side and leave social media users feeling self-conscious. |
One woman is going viral for her attempt to change the way that people think about gym selfies. |
Body-positive activist Clare posted this side-by-side photo, which we first saw on Popsugar, after a workout. The post is from July 15, but it has only recently attracted attention online. |
Clare's photo proudly shows off her stomach, but she argues that there is something problematic about sharing the picture in the first place. |
"I think the conversation around 'body positive exercise' needs to evolve beyond just diverse displays of body confidence in the gym," she wrote in the caption. |
She also wrote about how most gym selfies aren't often a reflection of reality. |
"When I stop to think critically for a second about my own gym selfies — even the ones I've posted on here — I start to question the extent to which most of them are still stuck on 'performing' the act of 'health and fitness,'" she wrote, adding that the act of "performing" on social media is a way of seeking validatio... |
Clare continued to argue that posting gym selfies is "little more than an act of begging" for the right to her own body. |
It's worth noting that photos can be a very personal thing, though, and what someone chooses to share is up to them. The activist does point out, however, that what is shared on social media affects other people as well — not just the person who shared it. She suggests that this is even true of photos that have seeming... |
She summarized this perfectly in her caption: "So yes, while lifting up my shirt and showing the world that my 'unconventional body' can still be 'active and healthy' might help disrupt the stereotype that fat bodies are 'lazy and undisciplined,' in many ways this action still REINFORCES the normative expectation that ... |
In response to her post, several Instagram users have commented with their support and approval. |
"I think about this all the time. I'm so glad you put it into words," one user said. Another person wrote, "this is such an important discussion! Thank you for posting." |
Others were simply blown away by Clare's stance on the body-positive movement in general. |
"Profound," one Instagrammer commented. Someone else said, "I always love your commentary on these [posts]. Incredibly intelligent and insightful. Keep on shining bright like you do." |
Despite the fact that social media is a crowded space flooded with opinions, it's refreshing to read different perspectives regarding such an important topic. |
"I think the conversation around 'body positive exercise' needs to evolve beyond just diverse displays of body confidence in the gym. Don't get me wrong, seeing women with bodies like mine — proud and sweaty and capable and strong — has been a profound (if not essential) component of my own journey through recovery and... |
INSIDER has contacted Clare for comment. |
CENTERVILLE, Ind. – The quarterback position in football has often been called the “most important position in all of sports." |
Dylan Benedict has played the position his entire life, but for his senior year at Centerville High School, he will be rooting for his younger teammates, Ryan Dickenson and Austin Snyder, to take over the reins while he moves to running back. |
Benedict and his coaching staff made the decision after his junior year, and the move has quickly paid off in 2018, as he caught a 40-yard touchdown pass during the Bulldogs' 35-12 win over Tri-Eastern Conference foe Lincoln last week. He had zero catches before this year. |
“We’re more of a running team, so I feel like I can benefit more from the running back position than the quarterback position running the ball,” Benedict said before the season. |
As a quarterback, Benedict used his legs much more than his arm, so the move may not be as significant as it would be at bigger schools, where teams throw the ball more. |
His speed looks to complement Chris Pritchett, who rushed for 911 yards as a junior and has gotten offers to play at the next level. |
Pritchett had 166 carries for 911 yards and 10 touchdowns last year, while Benedict had 83 carries for 240 yards and three rushing touchdowns. He completed 20 passes for 446 yards and five touchdowns. |
Because the quarterback position is often among the most coveted, Benedict understands someone else may get the glory. |
But he's completely fine with that, as long as his team wins. |
Dickenson completed 6-of-10 passes for 86 yards and two touchdowns. Benedict had two catches for 73 yards and four carries for 10 yards. Mason Peed had two catches for 9 yards and a 4-yard touchdown, and Peyton VanWinkle had two catches for four yards. |
Subsets and Splits
No community queries yet
The top public SQL queries from the community will appear here once available.