Conferences can be a great way to implement new ideas into your farm. But…..they can get expensive! We are opening our checkbook to bring you a line up of first class farm business speakers for you to learn from without having to travel.
Join us on Wednesday, January 24th as we invite speakers from across the country to share their best farm management practices with you.
Once again, all without requiring you to travel!
See below for speaker information.
Bio: Kristjan Hebert, the managing partner of Hebert Grain Ventures, is a much sought-after speaker on a variety of farming and agri-business topics. Kristjan's background includes successfully operating an 11,000 acre farm, mastering the latest technological and business practices, and many years spent as a Chartered Accountant with MNP carefully scrutinizing the business practices of hundreds of farms.
Drawing on this experience Kristjan provides a wide-ranging perspective on issues vital to today's farmer or agriculture industry insider. He frequently speaks on the 5% Rule, which holds that improving many things just a little (5%) will have a bigger payoff that trying to make radical changes to just one or two aspect of your operation. Kristjan is a passionate advocate on all aspects of the world of agriculture and his talks inspire as much as they inform.
Bio: Ed is a Grain Marketing Specialist for the University of Minnesota and Center for Farm Financial Management, and the coordinator of the Minnesota Master Marketer Program, a series of intensive training programs designed to improve the marketing skills of grain producers.
Working with colleagues at the Center for Farm Financial Management and in Extension, Ed has helped develop the award winning "Winning the Game" series of workshops.
Bio: Mike Pearson, host of Public Television's Market to Market takes an in-depth look at the way agriculture will be changing in the next 20 years. The past century has been one of non-stop progress in efficiency, technology and yield and Mike pulls together his wide ranging reports on the industry to analyze the four biggest trends driving agriculture forward.
Bio: Matt Roberts is founder of The Kernmantle Group, an economics research and training consultancy. Dr. Roberts is a nationally-renowned expert and speaker on the grain and energy markets. He has been quoted in the Wall Street Journal, the Chicago Tribune, Associated Press, and Forbes, and has been interviewed on CNBC. Roberts received a B.A. in Economics from William Jewell College in Liberty, Missouri, and a Ph.D. in Economics from North Carolina State University. Prior to graduate school Roberts worked as a commodity and energy derivatives broker in Vienna, Austria and as a market research consultant to the pharmaceutical industry in North Carolina. From 2001 through 2016, Roberts was and Assistant and Associate Professor in the Department of Agricultural Economics at The Ohio State University. He is an active speaker, appearing approximately 50 times per year around the nation on grain, petroleum, and biofuels markets, and is also an active consultant to the commodity industry.
The years 2006-2012 will always be remembered by those in the commodity markets. Strong demand for all commodities drove prices to never before seen heights. Those high prices and the resulting profitability drove investment decisions and policy choices long enough to create real obstacles to readjusting when the inevitable crash came. Dr. Roberts starts by explaining why commodities - all commodities, whether corn, soybeans, milk, beef, oil or copper - will always have booms and busts, what it will take to end the current bust, and what producers and/or end-users need to do right now to make it through, as well as what they need to remember the next time around. This talk inevitably combines strategy and finance with the market conditions and near and intermediate-term outlook for the industry at hand.
Bio: As a nationally recognized speaker on economic issues and forecasting techniques, Dr. Edmond Seifried provides a unique, simplified approach that will help your farm navigate through the maze of economic indicators and financial news releases. Dr. Seifried is a Professor of Economics and Business. He acts as a consultant to the banking industry and is an author of both academic and popular articles and books. Edmond has traveled extensively in the former Soviet Bloc countries where he served as an advisor and consultant to the newly privatized commercial banks.
He will discuss economic growth and its impact on farm revenue. He will also touch on the unwinding of the Fed's balance sheet and its impact on Ag land values and commodity prices. In addition, he will dig into the likely course of interest rates and its impact on the interest expense line on the Ag producer's profit/loss statement.
Finally, "Dr. Ed" will walk through a couple tools to make your farming operation more professional.
Bio: Jack Uldrich is a well-recognized global futurist, speaker, and author of eleven books, including award-winning best sellers. He is a frequent speaker on technology, change management and leadership and has addressed hundreds of corporations, associations and not-for-profit organizations on five continents.
AHA is an acronym for Jack's three-step approach: Awareness, Humility, and Action.
Jack's speech begins with the twelve upcoming and current trends specific to farmers that they must be aware of and then he shares how these twelve trends will transform everything from how people will do their work, to how they will provide their services to customers, clients and collaborators, to how new business will be secured. Each change will require humility. And then he shares specific strategies for enhancing humility as individuals and in teams.
Jack's perspective is that "the best way to predict the future is to create it yourself." As you can imagine, this level of creation requires action. And Jack concludes his presentation with concrete actions industry leaders can take today to create a successful tomorrow.
Bio: Freddie Barnard is a Professor Emeritus of Agricultural Economics at Purdue University. His interests include agricultural finance and farm management. He has had extensive experience in agricultural lending. Professor Barnard's responsibilities include serving as director of the Midwest Agricultural Banking School. The school is cosponsored by the Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, and Ohio Bankers Associations and is held at Purdue University. In addition, he is the coordinator for the Indiana Bankers' Agricultural Clinic. He also serves as the Secretary/Treasurer for the Indiana Chapter of the American Society of Farm Managers and Rural Appraisers.
Freddie is an expert on farm accounting. He will be discussing the shortfall's of today's widely used cash-basis farm accounting and what producers can do to implement a method that allow's farms to better evaluate their financial performance. Specifically, he'll discuss accrual-adjusted net farm income and it's benefits to today's business-focused farmer.
Bio: Grant is the CEO of Global Ag Risk Solutions. They provide gross margin insurance based on a farm's actual income and expenses (no county-based yields or futures price averages!). Grant will be discussing his company's innovative insurance product as well as a bunch of interesting profitability studies they've done to complement their insurance underwriting.
He brings a no-BS view on the ingredients of a profitable farm and his company puts their "money where their mouth is".
Bio: Nick is the founder of Harvest Profit and a consultant with Market Wise Ag Services. He previously worked on the investment team of successful Minneapolis-based private equity fund, ShoreView Industries.
Nick is passionate about business and farm management. He's reviewed the financials of 100's farms over the last 8 years and sees commonalities among financially successful operations. While you can't change the weather or predict markets, you can implement best practices into your operation this winter.


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Barracuda Partners With Microsoft to Protect Windows Azure Applications
By Mike Lennon on February 25, 2013
Barracuda Networks has teamed up with Microsoft to bring additional levels of protection to web applications and data hosted in Microsoft's Windows Azure cloud.
Announced at the RSA Conference taking place this week in San Francisco, Barracuda said that Windows Azure developers will now be able to leverage its Web Application Firewall (WAF) to protect new and existing applications in the cloud against application layer risks, including SQL injection, cross-site scripting, and session tampering.
"With this strategic relationship between Barracuda Networks and Microsoft, Windows Azure developers will be able to secure their cloud applications with the same high levels of protection used in the most security conscious on-premises data centers," the company explained in a statement.
Available as physical or virtual appliance, Barracuda's Web Application Firewall helps block attacks targeting web-based applications, and is continually updated to defend against attacks such as SQL injections, cross-site scripting (XSS), session spoofing, XML-based attacks, brute-force attacks, malware uploads, and more. Additionally, the solution helps prevent data loss through outbound inspection and authentication capabilities, while also boosting the performance of web applications.
"We are excited about this relationship with Barracuda," said Scott Guthrie, vice president, Windows Azure at Microsoft. "Application developers who take advantage of the global, scalable, and reliable Windows Azure cloud will soon be able to use the Barracuda Web Application Firewall to provide additional security for their applications and data."
More information on the Barracuda Web Application Firewall available for Windows Azure is available here.
For more than 10 years, Mike Lennon has been closely monitoring the threat landscape and analyzing trends in the National Security and enterprise cybersecurity space. In his role at SecurityWeek, he oversees the editorial direction of the publication and is the Director of several leading security industry conferences around the world.
Previous Columns by Mike Lennon:
Swimlane Raises $40 Million to Expand SOAR Business
IoT Security Firm Vdoo Expands Series B Funding to $57 Million
PE Firm Completes Acquisition of Forcepoint
F5 to Acquire Volterra in Deal Valued at $500 Million
Dragos Hires Former PepsiCo Deputy CISO Steve Applegate

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History of Vinton
THE EARLY YEARS OF THE TOWN
by Mark Hare
If one were to stand at the heart of Vinton and look back in time to 1886, the view would have been unrecognizable. It was still frontier country, uninhabited and untamed. That sense of being on the edge could be seen clearest if one traveled from the Sabine River to the east, following what was called the Old Spanish Trail, which was neither entirely old nor entirely Spanish but rather an Indian game trail adapted by the Spanish wandering north and south of what is now U.S. Hwy 90. The chief means of travel in the area relied on riverboats plying the Sabine and Calcasieu Rivers. Without bridges or roads capable of heavy traffic, much of the marsh land and bayous remained impassable. River travel made Lake Charles and settlement of the Parish possible, just as mining for sulfur led to the founding of Sulphur.
Various factors explain why Southwest Louisiana remained undeveloped until late in the 19th century. Geography was the first obvious hurdle. Much of southern Louisiana is delta marshland and bayou, prone to flooding, and the rich alluvial soil was too soft for stable roads in the age before asphalt and concrete. The remainder of the parish is prairie, which locals at the time thought useless for anything except grazing and generally avoided. For the same reason, settlement began in the east, where the alluvial soil attracted cotton and sugar cane farmers, and spread west. Compounding matters, no permanent bridge across the southern end of the Sabine existed until after the Civil War. Roads fared little better. There had been attempts to improve transportation, with little result. Confederate soldiers in 1863 cut a road extending from Niblett's Bluff on the Sabine River to Alexandria, but it never developed into a major artery. A stagecoach route was established in 1869 from Niblett's Bluff to New Iberia with an overnight stop in Lake Charles, an effort to improve mail service, but schooners continued to dominate the delivery of mail and heavy goods in Southwest Louisiana for decades.
Illustrative of the point is the pivotal Civil War battle at Niblett's Bluff on the Sabine River just west of modern Vinton. Niblett's Bluff was an important river port with a ferry and boat landing overlooking the only usable ford for miles. Union forces attempted to seize Niblett's Bluff, first in 1863 through a failed river boat assault at Sabine Pass repulsed by Confederate artillery batteries and again in 1864 in a land assault from the north ending in retreat. The inability to capture Niblett's Bluff prevented Union attempts to invade Southwest Louisiana and Texas throughout the war.
Politics also played a role in the lack of development in the region. From the beginning, the Spanish and French disputed the western boundary of Louisiana. Both sides monitored settlers in the region to make sure they possessed the proper grants from Spain or France, evicting those who did not belong. When America bought the territory, they inherited the dispute. In 1806, when border negotiations bogged down, the governments agreed to create a neutral strip or buffer zone where neither side would claim the land in question, referred to as the Rio Hondo Territory. Starting in 1810, both governments removed settlers in the Rio Hondo Territory, which included a sizable portion of modern Calcasieu Parish. Enforcement was largely haphazard and continued after Louisiana became a state in 1812. The area developed a legendary reputation as a lawless no man's land, which persisted until the Adams-Onis Treaty, signed in 1819 and ratified in 1821, established a border. However, because of the Sabine River's propensity to shift, the border remained the subject of lawsuits and disputes until well after the Civil War.
Despite the lack of development, pioneers had long been in the Vinton area. Jean Baptise Granger settled on acreage between what is now Vinton and Big Woods around 1827. Cattle, cotton, rice, fishing, and lumber formed the basis of economic life. A small but important trade in tobacco and indigo crops continued until sometime after the Civil War. Settlement on the western side of Calcasieu Parish did not begin in earnest until the 1880s.
The parish—and Vinton itself—might have remained a backwater if not for a confluence of events. The first event, which had the greatest material impact, was the decision by J. Pierpont Morgan's Louisiana & Texas Railroad Company to construct a railroad from New Orleans to Beaumont, Texas. This line would become the present day Southern Pacific Railroad.
While it made great commercial sense to link major seacoast ports like Houston, Galveston, Beaumont, and New Orleans, the project flew against tradition, geography, and the existing road networks. While the Old Spanish Trail had been in intermittent use for more than a century – in Texas it becomes the Aisocita Road which ends in Goliad, with a branch turning north to San Antonio de Bexar – it was not the main road for commerce between Louisiana and Texas.
Until the 1880s, the most traveled—and oldest—route in use crossing the Sabine River was Domingo Ramón's road, opened in 1716 with the intent to found new missions and presidios in East Texas. It ran from San Antonio to Nachitoches as part of the Camino Real network of trails, barely wide enough for a single oxcart, marked only by shallow ruts and rain-washed gullies, and notoriously hard to follow. Ramon's road was a response to a French incursion in 1714, led by Louis Antoine Juchereau de St. Denis, to open a parallel road from Natchitoches, a city he helped to found, to San Antonio. More colorfully, when St. Denis reached the Rio Grande, his attempts to open trade between Louisiana and Mexico failed and resulted in his arrest, although he managed to fall in love with Manuela Sanchez, the daughter of a captain, and married her in 1715. St. Denis went on to serve as the guide for Ramon on his expedition, which founded six missions and a presidio on the new road. The expedition was hazardous, contending with Indians and the elements. Records show 82 horses died in crossing the Medina River alone. While some trade followed the Old Spanish trail in a route running from Galveston through southwest Louisiana to Opelousas and eventually New Orleans, most trade and travel tended to favor the northern route. It was not accidental that many of the early major cities in Texas and Louisiana appeared either along those northern routes or on the coast.
Timber changed everything. The part of Louisiana that included Calcasieu Parish was also home to the finest longleaf pine (pinus palustris) in the world. When combined with the stands of cypress and other hardwood lumber, logging was attractive and lucrative. The question was how to get to it. The numerous waterways throughout southwestern Louisiana made logging possible. While easy access to the lumber was one thing, hauling it by mule or ox teams proved a handicap because of the lack of roads and bridges. Logging was limited to within several hundred feet of the streams or rivers. By the mid-1880s, the depletion of the timber close to the waterways became a major concern. The solution was the introduction of narrow-gauge railroads for logging and transporting timber. Without railroads, the development of the area would have been impossible.
Growth accelerated as the railroads linked Louisiana to its neighbors. The railroad gave life to Lake Charles, Sulphur, and Vinton because it allowed the easy transportation of lumber, goods, and people to Beaumont, Galveston, and New Orleans, opening markets previously closed due to a lack of adequate roads. While shipping goods by sea remained cheaper than the railroads until the 20th century, railroads became a vital economic artery.
The logging industry held the status it did by 1886 because of one man, Daniel J. Goos, a former schooner captain who came to Lake Charles in 1855. There is some understandable confusion on his nationality. The Centennial History of Lake Charles incorrectly calls him a German immigrant from Schleswig-Holstein. During the 1850s, Schleswig-Holstein, much to the mutual irritation of the Germans and the Danes, was an independent duchy. The Danes annexed the duchy in 1863. In response, the Prussians won the province after a brutal little war in 1866. However, Goos may have been Dutch: he came from the Frisian Islands, a chain of barrier islands that extend along the northern coast of Holland to Denmark.
While Goos established one of the first sawmills west of New Orleans that was not his only contribution. In a pattern to be repeated thirty years later in Vinton, he brought with him a significant number of settlers from his native land. Hundreds, perhaps thousands came from Holland to Lake Charles in the decades after 1855, the majority of them from the island of Föhr, the home of Daniel Goos. German occupation, a lack of eligible bachelors on the islands, and economic reasons forced the move. There were enough Frisian settlers in Lake Charles to establish their own Lutheran Church in 1888. The influx of settlers solved another major problem hindering development: lack of manpower.
One important spur for the rapid changes during the 1880s was economic. The year 1886 saw the United States emerging from the third longest depression on record. Between 1883 and 1885 the financial and commercial markets suffered a severe downturn that peaked in the Panic of 1884. Thousands of people were out of work and many businesses and banks failed, driving people to seek better lives elsewhere. In response to the upheaval, the late 1880s and early 1890s saw the last great push for expansion to the west and south. Not until the Great Depression and dust bowl era would so many Americans pack up and move seeking new lives and fortunes elsewhere. Louisiana, like other states with virgin land for development, benefited.
Louisiana became attractive to settlers not just because of the land. The influx of Midwesterners, who recognized the value of the prairie areas for grazing, brought with them the cattle industry. Rice farming went from nonexistent to a major business starting around the time Vinton was founded. Sugar cane, previously lagging because of low prices, became viable during the 1890s.
A glance at population statistics shows how population ramped up: in the 1810 census Louisiana had 76,556 people and most of them lived along the Mississippi. By 1860 population rose to 708,002, still concentrated in the north and east. The population density jumped from 4 persons per square mile in 1850 to 21.5 in 1890 with the total population crossing a million. The statistics are also reflected in the many small towns appearing throughout Louisiana during the last quarter of the 19th century.
Among those small towns was Vinton. The settlement began with a switching track along the new railroad line. Although there would be a depot later, Vinton grew up around a whistle-stop called Blair. The source of the name is unknown. Some have speculated that the railroad siding took its name from a local family. However, no family named Blair was in residence in the area at that time. Another theory holds it was named after a railroad official, but no evidence exists to support the notion. At least one source holds the town was briefly called Morganstown after the J.P. Morgan railroad.
Dr. Seaman A. Knapp has a sizable if controversial place in the history of founding Vinton. Precisely what brought Dr. Knapp to Louisiana is unclear. Formerly the president of the Iowa Agricultural College in Ames, Dr. Knapp arrived in Lake Charles in 1884 and went to work running an agricultural business for land developer Jabez B. Watkins, the land magnate responsible for much of the growth of the area. Watkins was a native of Lawrence, Kansas who came to Lake Charles in 1883. Using English capital, Watkins bought 500,000 acres of prairie and marshland in Southwest Louisiana. To bring in settlers, he advertised in newspapers across the nation and attracted a heavy influx of people, especially to the Lake Charles area.
In 1887, Dr. Knapp quit his job with Watkins and opened his own land company. Some sources claim Dr. Knapp started his company in 1885, but the evidence is inconclusive. One possible reason Knapp started his own company lay in his lifelong campaign to modernize farming, the reason some believe he came to Louisiana. Local farmers resisted his innovations so Knapp began providing incentives for farmers to settle in townships under the condition they use his methods. Out of state settlers would be more likely to agree to such provisos, explaining Knapp's interest in buying land and importing emigrants. Early accounts and secondary sources assumed Dr. Knapp was one of the settlers responding to the ads by Watkins and that Dr. Knapp was the leading force behind the first settlers in what would become the township of Vinton. This belief is reflected in recollections from the oldest Vinton residents and some newspaper accounts, which largely credit Dr. Knapp.
However, his true role in the development of Vinton remains uncertain due to contradictory evidence. The first purchases of land in the Vinton area began with someone else. On October 17, 1887 Robert F. Evans, an Iowa native, purchased 640 acres. More purchases followed under the names of Frank H. Banker and William Kirkman. The sources are unclear if the acreage was then sold to Dr. Knapp or Mr. George Horridge, who also bought large tracts of land across the parish starting in 1890. Records show that the Southern Real Estate and Guaranty Company bought all remaining land tracts within the future township by April 1889. The bulk of the land purchases date from 1890. The land was divided into lots and sold at prices ranging between 10 to 25 dollars each. In time, thirty blocks extended the original twelve-block plot of land. Records show Dr. Knapp and his partner purchased from the U.S. Government a combined 160-acre tract of land near Vinton in 1890. According to the survey plat, the three sections, number 17, 21, & 22, stretched west of Vinton parallel to modern I-10 and US 90. The land would later become farms, fitting in with Knapp's original vision when he formed his real estate company. At the time, he paid $2.50 an acre. But that was land bought directly from the government; land bought from the Southern Real Estate Company for resell is another matter deserving further investigation.
The influx of settlers from Vinton, Iowa, formed the nucleus of the town. How many came because of Dr. Knapp is unknown. The Stevenson, Eddie, Ferguson, Stockwell, Morgan, Nelson, Fairchild, Banker, Hall, and Haskill families were Iowa transplants. Some streets bear the name of those families. When the post office was registered with the U.S. Postmaster General, Vinton was chosen as the name of the settlement.
Main Street of Vinton circa 1900-1910
Many assumed the name came from Dr. Knapp's Iowa hometown, one reason he was credited with helping found the town. However, research by Alexander Colvin has shown a group of Vinton, Ohio natives sometimes wintered in the Lake Charles area dating back to the 1860s, calling themselves the Vinton Colony, adding further confusion to the picture. George Horridge was one of its members and was president of the colony. He eventually bought some 2,500 acres, including the bulk of what would become Horridge Street north of Hwy 90 in Vinton. It is possible George Horridge brought with him members of the Vinton Colony when he purchased land in the town, suggesting an alternative source for the town name.
The town grew rapidly. Right after the construction of the first homes came a sawmill, followed by the first public school. In 1890, Mrs. Mabel K. Kelly became the first teacher in Vinton. A larger school replaced the older structure in 1901. Senator Harrison C. Drew reorganized the Vinton Mill in 1893.
Vinton Downtown – 1920s
Churches always follow hard upon the founding of settlements. There is strong evidence the Methodist church in Vinton started at the same time as the town itself and may have offered the first organized services. However, much of the evidence is second-hand. No original sources remain. The committee that wrote the original history of the Vinton church in 1958 commented how the early years "was rich in legend and tradition" but steadfastly refused to give any details.
It is possible the settlers from Vinton, Iowa brought the church with them. There could have been a lay minister among the settlers, although the papers of the late R.M. Davis indicate that around 1888-1889 when Dr. John R. Miller, President Elder, came to Vinton he did not find an organized church. He noted Brother Gibson of Lake Arthur, who accompanied Dr. Miller, took charge of the Vinton church. At the same time, in a letter to Mrs. W.A. Sutton dated 31 July 1928, Reverend R.H. Wynn claimed that Brother R.P. Howell came to the area in May 1886 from Indian Bayou and preached in Vinton as part of his new pastorate, giving the first Methodist sermon in the community when he served as the pastor of the Sulphur Mines and Edgerly charge.
Church lore claims the congregation initially held their services in a local store and construction on a church building did not start until 1889. The church history noted young men without families served as stewards and other capacities in what was considered a mission station until 1900. Of the many lay persons and ministers to serve in Vinton, only the name of W. Schule has survived; no records remain of the others. Other churches would follow soon after, starting with the Catholic church.
At the same time Vinton was founded, a terrible hurricane struck near the mouth of the Sabine River on October 12, 1886, killing between 136 and 260 people. It would be the most destructive hurricane to hit the area until Audrey in 1957. Records suggest the storm was every bit as powerful as Audrey. Yet the event did little to stop the increasing influx of settlers.
Not even the extraordinary weather of 1895 made much impact. On February 14-15, 1895, the edge of the worst blizzard in American history touched southwestern Louisiana. The blizzard stretched from the Gulf Coast to New York, layering vast swathes of the country under snow drifts. Louisiana was not spared. A record 22 inches of snow fell on Lake Charles. Some areas reported snowfall between 18-24 inches. In Vinton, the cold crippled the new sheep industry and the farmers salvaged what they could by shaving wool from the dead flocks.
The final great spur to development in Southwest Louisiana made its appearance at the same time Vinton was founded and went unremarked upon. Although locals had recorded the location of petroleum springs along the Calcasieu River since 1839, no one thought of oil while drilling for sulfur in the early spring of 1886. No records tell of the reaction of the drilling crew when one mine struck oil instead of sulfur. The records do show that on March 25, 1886 at a depth of four hundred feet, a crew struck a pocket of oil, which yielded twenty-five barrels a day until the May 1887. When the well ran dry, the owners capped the site and everyone forgot about it until Spindletop ignited a new oil boom in 1901.
Oil changed the economic and demographic complexion of Texas and Louisiana when Captain Anthony Lucas struck oil at Spindletop on January 10, 1901. The results were astonishing. Beaumont grew from nine to fifty thousand people within a few weeks. When oil was found in Ged, not far from Vinton, it had a similar if lesser effect. The Vinton dome, some four miles to the southwest of the town, one of thirty-six such domes recorded before 1911, was discovered in 1901 but did not produce oil until 1910. At its height, some 1200 oil wells were drilled into the field.
Census data shows the town grew rapidly once incorporated, perhaps stimulated by the growing rice, sugar cane, cattle, and oil industries. In 1900, the population in Vinton numbered sixty-two people. The 1920 census listed a population of 1,441. By 1930 the number reached 1,989. The Great Depression led to a population drop by 1940 and Vinton did not recover until the 1950s when it saw another growth spurt in the post-World War 2 boom era.
Vinton Feed Store circa 1920s
During the early years, the town grew in other ways. The Vinton Literary Club founded the Vinton Library Club, the first free public library in Vinton, in 1919 through the efforts of Mrs. W.E. (Lina) Lundy and other women. The library originally hosted some 35 volumes in the back of a local store owned by Miss M. Carter and later moved to a larger room that formerly held the Delure Studio.
Calcasieu Parish lacked an organized library system until Sallie Farrell, a field worker for the State Library Commission, organized a parish-wide service at the Lake Charles courthouse on January 22, 1944. A branch library opened in Sulphur in April of that year on the site of the old LeBlanc café on W. Napoleon. Dixie Traver was the first librarian. At this same time, the Vinton Library Club sold its collection to the Parish and the new Vinton Branch of the Calcasieu Parish Library System opened on April 18, 1944. In 1961, the library moved to its present location next to the City Park and renamed in honor of Jimmy Lee Fontenot, a former member of the Police Jury from 1948 to 1962.
In February 1915, Gustave "Gus" Courrege opened the Vinton Blacksmith Shop and Rice Mill on Hampton Street, which remained open until his death. The structure was demolished in 2000. Gustave Couregge was more than a blacksmith. He joined the Vinton Bucket Brigade in 1911 at the age of 17 and became the Vinton Fire Chief in 1916, a position he would hold until named Town Fire Marshall in 1962. Before the Town bought its first mechanical pumper truck in the 1928, Gus towed the fire tank to fires using his own horse and buggy. He was on hand for one of the worst fires in Vinton history, when the entire 1200 block of main street went up in flames, resulting in the total loss of all businesses and homes.
First Vinton Fire Truck
Until 1910, Vinton was officially a village. After a special election, Governor Jared Y. Sanders appointed Alexander Perry as the first Mayor and incorporated the Town of Vinton by proclamation on October 10, 1910. Mr. Perry served as Mayor until July 1, 1911. Walter Perry also served as the first official town marshal. That same year, a new mayor and council of aldermen were chosen in another election.


With only 15 words allowed during an auction and just 13 cards in each suit, bridge players have invented dozens of special bids, called conventions, to describe their strength and hand patterns. These descriptions are from the ACBL Bridge Bulletin series called the Bidding Toolkit. The ACBL textbooks Commonly Used Conventions and More Commonly Used Conventions contain detailed chapters on the use of many of today's popular treatments.
In addition, there are many websites that summarize bridge conventions. For example, type bridge+flannery in a search engine such as Google and and see what pops up!


The markets of Sapa are a gathering place for the various ethnicities of the region and the their intricately woven textiles make perfect souvenirs. There is a good selection of reasonably priced boutique hotels and resorts in Sapa town, but for a truly memorable experience we recommend the Topas Ecolodge. Located on a hilltop in the beautiful Hoang Lien National Park, this luxury lodge provides spectacular views from their incredible infinity pool overlooking the surrounding mountains and seemingly endless rice fields.


Expanding your business creates a whole range of challenges for any small business owner, so how can you be sure that you are optimising every opportunity to generate good leads? With the SME landscape continuously evolving, how can you be sure you are keeping up?
Here are our 5 lead generation tips for small business growth to ensure that you are at the top of your game!


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Boca Raton: Deputy chief promoted to interim police chief
Posted by The Coastal Star on December 4, 2019 at 12:10
By Mary Hladky
Veteran officer Michele Miuccio has been named interim police chief, taking over for Dan Alexander, who retired Nov. 30.
Miuccio, who joined the Boca Raton department in 1989, has served as deputy chief of police for the past four years.
Since her hiring as a patrol officer, Miuccio has risen through the ranks, becoming a captain in 2002 and assistant chief in 2005. She has served in the property, crimes against persons, vice, intelligence and narcotics units.
"I'm humbled by the opportunity to serve in this position and work alongside the dedicated men and women who keep Boca Raton safe and protect our residents," Miuccio said in a Nov. 22 city statement announcing her elevation. "Together, we can make one of the finest police agencies even better."
Alexander, who led the department for 13 years, was hired by the Palm Beach County school district in October to fill the newly created position of director of school police. He is now second in command at the department, reporting to School Police Chief Frank Kitzerow.
The school Police Department is growing rapidly, largely to meet the requirements of a state law that was enacted after the 2018 massacre of 17 students and staff at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland. The law requires armed school safety officers to be assigned to every school.
City Council members thanked Alexander at the Nov. 26 council meeting.
"Thank you to Chief Alexander," said council member Monica Mayotte. "I want to thank him for his service to the city all these years."
Deputy Mayor Jeremy Rodgers praised Alexander for keeping residents safe.
"The good news is he is now working on the safety of our students," he said. "A loss in one area and a gain in another area."
The city's Police Department has 216 officers and 107 civilian employees. Police officer starting salaries were recently increased to $70,198.
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Manufacturing is very much alive and kicking! Max S. Hayes High School students found that out on Friday, October 2nd, when they attended the local Rockwell Automation National Manufacturing Day event in Twinsburg, Ohio.
October is Manufacturing Month in the State of Ohio. This is a month-long celebration of the manufacturing industry, its importance to our state economy, and the men and women working in our state's manufacturing sector.


Explore and be surprised in the Doramas Rural Park, Gran Canaria.
The Doramas Rural Park has an extension of nearly 3.590 hectare occupying the municipalities of Moya, Firgas, Valleseco, Santa María de Guia, Teror and Arucas del norte on the island of Gran Canaria.
This rural park has an exceptional beauty landscape where many natural sectors are present, wide cultural interest places and agricole areas. In this Park there are many important ravines and other geomorphological interest structures.
This rural park has an important role in the recharge of the aquifers in Gran Canaria, specially on the highest peaks usually affected by snow.
Inside this Rural Park you might find the Natural Reserves of Barranco Oscuro, los Tiles de Moya and Azuaje which have an important interest value and are a good laurel nuclei.


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The Shoe Designer Who Built Her Brand From The Sole Up
Joresa Blount
Aug 5, 2018, 09:10pm EDT |
Designer and founder of Alejandra G. Shoes
Alejandra G.
What woman doesn't love a great pair of shoes? When you can't find what you are looking for it would be great if you could just make your own. Shoe designer and entrepreneur Alejandra G. had been creating a mark for herself with her out of the box style. Since her first collection launched in 2012, the company hasn't stopped growing. Her shoes have been worn by Kylie Jenner, Tyra Banks, Giuliana Rancic, Adrienne Bailon, Christina Milian and many more. With comfort and style being of equal importance in her designs, women love them.
Joresa Blount: When did you first get inspired to create a shoe line?
Alejandra: I've always been in love with fashion. I have a picture of me when I was about three years old, holding a special designer fashion kit. My mom said I always loved drawing, and coloring in coloring books. It would always be really creative with the colors.
I didn't always know that it would be shoes. I've told this story before, and it's the absolute truth. I was working for a television production company at the time. I was making really good money, and I was saving up. I knew I wanted to start something. One of my friends had started a clothing line. She would take me downtown to all the manufacturers, but I noticed that there were no shoe manufacturers. So, I was playing with the idea of first starting a clothing line.
One night I was having a dream. It was a very vivid, vivid, vivid dream of shoes. They were all candied shoes. One looked like Skittles. They were candy inspired shoes. The next day I went to sketch out what was in my dream. It was so powerful. The dream would not leave me. I felt like it was my calling. I went and told my friend and family. They were like, what are you talking about? I didn't know a single person in the fashion business.
Joresa: How can someone who doesn't have a traditional background in fashion launch a business?
Alejandra: I always recommend going to some type of school to understand what you are getting into. With fashion specifically, it's only 20% designing and the rest is knowing how to run a company. When I met my mentor who referred me to go to school in Milan, I just jumped in when I came back [to Los Angeles]. Before you decide to jump into running any company, especially fashion, make sure you get some form of education. Do as much research on how much it is going to cost to start a company, how much it will to take to run. The more you educate yourself in business 101, the less money you will lose and mistakes you will make.
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Joresa: Did you have a good support system when you decided to quit your job and go after your dream?
Alejandra: Most people said, "what are you doing?" I didn't know anyone. It was like, okay, you have a great job. How are you going to support yourself? How are you going to do this or that? Why go backwards if you are already moving forward in the television production career? They supported me, but they were surprised. No one said don't do it. It was more shock. Then I literally packed up to go to Italy.
Joresa: Did you have moments of doubt?
Alejandra: Before I was leaving [for Italy], I had a couple of those moments of doubt. I had a boyfriend at the time. I had best friends I would see on the regular, and I was just putting my whole life on hold to go chase a dream. I was excited, but I was scared. I felt like it was a complete new chapter in my life. When I got there, it was a whole lot more difficult than I thought. Not just the school, but it was difficult being away.
Joresa: You started school in your late 20s. What would you say to someone who is changing careers later in life?
Alejandra: People say, oh my God. I should have it figured out. I'm twenty-five [years old]. You have to play in so many different careers. I was a teacher's assistant, then I got my real estate license, then I got signed to J Records when I was in a rap group, then I was a television producer. I dabbled in a lot of different things. This is the longest I've done something, and I don't see myself doing anything else. I always tell people it's never too late to start any of their dreams. You can start in your 40s if you want to. People become successful at all different ages.
Alejandra G. sporting her recognizable shoe line.
Joresa: How did you gain visibility with your brand?
Alejandra: My mentor referred me to a shoe rep. I didn't even know I needed a shoe rep. My mentor asked me how I was going to get into stores. I didn't know. I got these key accounts very quickly like Shopbop. My designs took off. I found out later I need public relations, but I didn't have the money at the time. Everyone I brought on board were independent contractors. I brought on a PR person, who had been in the business awhile. She fell in love with my brand. She took me to do desk sides with editors, because she's from New York. So, I met up with all these editors at big magazines, and they fell in love with my brand. We started to get a lot of press in magazines. Then we started to push that I was latina, and Latina Magazine and Cosmo For Latinas gave me press. They were very supportive.
Because I have lived in L.A. all my life, I have a lot of celebrity friends. I was constantly contacting people to get my shoes on people. A lot of celebrities who tag me are my personal contacts. It's all about who you know too.
Joresa: What defining setback have you experienced on your entrepreneurial journey?
Alejandra: Spending too much money in the wrong places. I would think do I have to stop for a minute, and get an investor. It's always been the money. It takes money to make money. If I had an investor right now, I would be further ahead.
Joresa: What advice would you give to someone who feels stuck or not progressing in their business?
Alejandra: They say most startup companies fail within two to three years. If you can get pass those two to three years, then you are in good shape. It's the same thing that my dad always tells me. If you have a car and it keeps breaking down, you have to get a new car. You got to figure out how to do something different. It doesn't mean to stop doing your dream, but it means revamp. I've had revamping moments. If I don't see a lot of sales coming in then I need to revamp the collection I just did. I need to come with a new idea. When you don't see something moving, you can't keep doing the same thing. It doesn't mean to switch into another career. It means you have to take another route on how to get it done. A lot of people want to keep pushing forward on product or even music. If it's not working you have to figure out a different way to do it. There's a reason why things are not working.
This article was originally published in Millionairematch.


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Catecholamines: types and functions of these neurotransmitters
Dopamine, adrenaline and norepinephrine, the three main catecholamines, Are some of the most relevant neurotransmitters for our nervous system. In this article, we will analyze the chemical properties and functions performed by each of these catecholamines, as well as the common characteristics between the three neurotransmitters.
What are catecholamines?
The 3 main catecholamines
1. Dopamine
2. Adrenaline
3. Noradrenaline
Catecholamines are a group of neurotransmitters from the class of monoamines, To which also belong tryptamines (serotonin and melatonin), histamine or phenethylamines. Dopamine, adrenaline and norepinephrine are the three main catecholamines.
At the chemical level, these neurotransmitters are characterized by the presence of a catechol (an organic compound containing a benzene ring and two hydroxyl groups) and an amine in the side chain. They are derived from the amino acid tyrosine, which we get from foods high in protein such as dairy products, bananas, avocados, or nuts.
The main site of catecholamine synthesis is the chromaffin cells of the adrenal medulla, as well as the postganglionic fibers of the sympathetic nervous system. We will describe in more detail the characteristics of the synthesis of these neurotransmitters in the following sections.
The role of these neurotransmitters is crucial in processes such as cognition, emotion, memory and learning, Motor control and regulation of the endocrine system. Norepinephrine and adrenaline play a key role in the stress response.
Increased catecholamine levels are associated with increased heart rate and glucose levels and activation of the parasympathetic nervous system. Catecholaminergic dysfunctions can cause alterations in the nervous system and consequently neuropsychiatric disorders such as psychosis or Parkinson's disease.
Dopamine, epinephrine, and norepinephrine are chemically very similar, but each has distinctive features that require detailed description in order to understand the functions of each of these catecholamines.
Our body turns tyrosine into another amino acid, levodopa or L-DOPA, which in turn becomes dopamine. In turn, dopamine is the most basic catecholamine, and adrenaline and norepinephrine are both made from this neurotransmitter.
When found in the brain, dopamine acts as a neurotransmitter; this means that it is involved in sending electrochemical signals between neurons. Instead, in the blood, it acts as a chemical messenger and helps vasodilate and inhibit the activity of the digestive system, immune system, and pancreas.
The brain pathways in which dopamine is involved, mainly the black band and the mesolimbic, they relate to behavior motivated by reinforcement: Your levels increase when you get rewards. Thus, dopamine is important for processes such as learning, motor control and addiction to psychoactive substances.
Alterations in these two neural pathways cause psychotic symptoms. Positive symptoms such as hallucinations have been linked to dysfunctions of the black streak pathway (which connects black substance to the striatum, a structure of the basal ganglia), and negative symptoms, such as emotional deficits, to dysfunctions of the brain. mesocortical.
Destruction of dopaminergic neurons in the substantia nigra of the midbrain is the cause of Parkinson's disease. This degenerative neurological disorder is characterized mainly by the presence of motor deficits and alterations, in particular tremors at rest.
Adrenaline is generated by the oxidation and methylation of dopamine, Mainly in the locus coeruleus, located in the brainstem. The synthesis of this neurotransmitter is stimulated by the release of corticotropin in the sympathetic nervous system.
Both adrenaline and norepinephrine, which we will talk about below, are considered stress hormones because when they act outside the nervous system, they don't act like neurotransmitters but like hormones. They are linked to cardiac and respiratory regulation and to consumption of bodily resources to meet environmental challenges.
Epinephrine and norepinephrine are essential for responding to multiple types of stressors and other activating processes in the body, such as exercise, exposure to heat, and lowered blood levels. oxygen or glucose.
The oxidation of adrenaline gives rise to norepinephrine, in the same way that dopamine converts it to adrenaline and tyrosine to dopamine. Like adrenaline, it acts as a neurotransmitter in the nervous system and a hormone in the rest of the body.
Among the functions of noradrenaline we can highlight the cerebral alert, maintaining the waking state, the center of attention, The formation of memories and the appearance of feelings of anxiety, as well as the increase in blood pressure and the release of glucose stores.
Reduced levels of norepinephrine are associated with impairments in different types of learning, particularly the consolidation of long-term memory and latent learning. This function is probably due to the control of neuronal activity by norepinephrine in brain regions involved in learning, such as the amygdala.
At the psychopathological level, this neurotransmitter is involved in stress and anxiety disorders, In major depression, Parkinson's disease and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder.
Kobayashi, K. (2001). Role of catecholamine signaling in brain and nervous system functions: new knowledge from the molecular genetic study of mice. Journal of Investigative Dermatology Symposium Proceedings, 6 (1): 115-21.
Zouhal, H., Jacob, C., Delamarche, P. and Gratas-Delamarche, A. (2008). Catecholamines and the effects of exercise, training and sex. Sports Medicine, 38 (5): 401-23.
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Students from the Institute of Technical Education will be offered greater flexibility in terms of choosing their areas of study from next year, as related courses will be grouped into clusters.
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This new framework was announced by Senior Minister of State for Education and Law, Ms Indranee Rajah, at the Institute's graduation ceremony on Tuesday afternoon. This year, some 12,447 students will graduate from ITE programmes.


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Gösta Toll J:son Hultquist, född 12 mars 1910 i Hedvig Eleonora församling, Stockholm, död 14 december 1993 i Helga Trefaldighets församling, Uppsala, var en svensk läkare och forskare.

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Gösta Hultquists föräldrar var byggmästaren Gustaf Alfred Johansson och Lisen Hultquist (1871–1949). Han växte upp på Östermalm i Stockholm tillsammans med sin syster Ingrid Lisen. År 1943 gifte Gösta Hultquist sig med läkaren Ingrid Fogstrand (1907–2003). De fick tre barn: Gunnar, Birgitta och Sten. Gösta Hultquist studerade vid Karolinska Institutet, där han blev medicine licentiat 1936. Åren 1937–1939 var han underläkare vid Sankt Eriks sjukhus patologavdelning och därefter obducent vid Karolinska sjukhusets barnklinik. Han disputerade 1942 på avhandlingen Über Thrombose und Embolie der Arteria carotis und hierbei vorkommende Gehirnveränderungen, baserad på ett omfattande obduktionsmaterial från Sankt Eriks sjukhus, och kreerades 1993 till jubeldoktor vid medicinska fakulteten på Karolinska institutet. År 1948 blev han prosektor vid institutionen för patologisk anatomi vid Karolinska sjukhuset. År 1951 utnämndes han till professor i allmän patologi vid Göteborgs medicinska högskola, efter att sedan 1949 varit överläkare vid Sahlgrenska sjukhusets patologavdelning. Där stannade han till 1955 då han tillträdde professuren i patologi vid Uppsala universitet.

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East Bay Times editorial: Avoiding CSU teacher…
East Bay Times editorial: Avoiding CSU teacher strike beneficial to all
By East Bay Times |
PUBLISHED: April 11, 2016 at 9:58 pm | UPDATED: May 17, 2018 at 7:12 am
It was a relief when cooler heads fashioned an eleventh-hour deal to avert what would have been a disastrous five-day strike by California State University faculty, but the devil remains in the details as to how planned raises will be funded.
The CSU system and the students it is supposed to serve are beleaguered enough, they did not need a strike. The nation's largest group of universities, which under current theory is supposed to serve the top 12 percent of high school graduates in the state, only serves the top 9 percent these days.
Furthermore, the CSU system still struggles with operational problems. Anyone with experience knows that at many campuses, it's almost impossible to complete an undergraduate degree in four years in the most popular majors.
On many campuses, the CSU dropout rate is staggering. Often students, many of them poorer and of color, don't have navigational know-how and become frustrated by a dearth of counselors available.
That's a waste of human and fiscal resources, and a lousy comment on the state's spending priorities.
Nothing is more important to the future of California's social and economic well-being than providing the great public education that used to be available to every qualified student through the CSU and the University of California systems.
When the CSU faculty originally threatened to strike, demanding an immediate 5 percent pay hike instead of the administration's offered 2 percent, these pages deplored such brinkmanship.
A student body of 460,000 without its professors for five days as finals week approached? What a sorry scenario for the adults in the classroom to propose.
We understand the professors' concerns that their love of teaching is being exploited and that inequities exist in their rate of pay since the state has recovered from recession. They've seen both community college and K-12 teachers, for instance, get bigger raises than they have. But a strike was not the answer.
The practical question now is: Where will the money come from for the raises? State budget allocations are set. That leaves tuition increases, which the CSUsystem has said it doesn't want to do, and continued exclusion of qualified students. Neither is a good option. It will be interesting to see the source of the raises.
But, for now, the compromise leaves everyone breathing more easily.
The deal, pending union and CSU board approvals, gives raises of 10.5 percent over three years — but will also double how long it takes newly hired instructors to be eligible for retirement benefits.
Let's get back to the core problem voiced by CSU Chancellor Timothy White: "Our universities are underfunded relative to the state's need for an educated populace."
He's right about that, and it needs to change.
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This Terminally Ill Woman's Horse Surprised Her With the Most Heartwarming Farewell
"If you give your heart to an animal, they'll give you theirs right back."
By Rebecca Shinners
The bond that can form between pets and their owners is undeniable. And thanks to the video above, we're getting an intimate peek into the connection between one animal lover and the horse she rescued 16 years ago.
Doctors recently told 49-year-old horse lover Lisa Beech, who has been battling cancer since she was a teenager, that she doesn't have much longer to live. Several weeks ago, she was placed in hospice care in Lexington, Kentucky, according to The DoDo.
While family and friends have been saying their goodbyes, Lisa's daughter Amanda Sturgill knew there was someone else who would want to see Lisa one more time—her beloved horse Jake. Working with the McConathy Farm Rescue team, Amanda arranged the surprise visit with her mother's caretakers. Jake was shuttled to the hospital, where he met Lisa out front for a farewell that will absolutely break your heart.
"We had told her there was a big surprise for her,"Amanda told The DoDo. "When we walked across the street with Jake and she saw what was going on, her face just lit up."
Of course, Lisa wasn't the only one happy to see a familiar face! When Jake saw his owner, he marched right up to her as if he knew it was the last moment they'd share together.
"That's the happiest I've seen her in a very long time," Amanda told The DoDo. "This really shows that if you give your heart to an animal, they'll give you theirs right back."
Amanda plans to continue caring for Jake, so we know the strong bond he has with this family will only continue to grow.
(h/t The DoDo)
Rebecca Shinners Social Media Editor Rebecca is the social media editor at CountryLiving.com and WomansDay.com.
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The Truth About Unusual Options Trading Activity!
I've got some good news and some bad.
You see, there are a lot of investors out there that feel that stock market is rigged…and that the little guy has no chance of succeeding.
What I'm about to share with you might be disturbing…and possibly strengthen those beliefs.
However, I encourage to you read all the way through…you'll be shocked and delighted you did.
Now, there are literally tens of millions of equity options traded daily. The majority of them are conducted by large institutional traders.
My focus tends to be on option orders that stick out like a sore thumb…on a good day I can find five or more …on other days, they are few and far between.
One of the exciting parts of following unusual options activity is that you're eventually bound to come across something so unbelievable…so suspicious…that someone should be going to jail for cheating.
Now, I'm not implying that shady went down here…more like baffled….how did they know?
On March 11, 2014, the stock was trading around $129 a share. Within the first half hour of the trading day, someone came in and bought 1,000 July 140 calls for $5.84…in addition, they sold 1,000 July 115 puts for $3.84. All together this trade was done for a debit of $2.
About an hour later, the trader came back…but this time they sold 1,000 July $160 calls for $1.92 and bought 1,000 July 105 puts for $2.17. This was done for a debit of $0.25.
The July $140 calls bought were against open interest of 114 contracts. This means that this was a new or opening position. The same could be said for the July $115 puts that were sold (they were against 552 contracts of open interest.
The trader is buying some time for their idea to play out.
At the time AGN on average traded 2,516 option contracts a day…on this date, nearly 8,000 contracts were traded. That's 300% increase in options volume.
To be honest, although this is unusual options activity in the name, it's not that crazy of an order. For example, there will be days we might see 10x or greater usual options volume in some stocks.
However, it's something worth noting or putting on a watch list.
Technically, AGN is starting to break-down. On April 8th 2014, the stock was trading at $116 and below its 50 day moving average. What follows next is really interesting.
On April 11, 2014, call buyers were coming out in full force. This time, it was a little weird …over 8,000 calls traded vs. 1,000 puts. Again, this was about 3x usual options volume.
With the stock trading near $121 per share, there were over 2,300 April $130 calls traded…most of those were bought on the offer (the ask side), in fact…95%.
These options were initially bought for .30 in the morning…and with less than 10 minutes to go until the close….hundreds of them were getting scooped up for $0.50 and $0.55 (with only six days till expiration!).
Keep in mind, this was on a Friday…typically, this type of activity near the close, heading towards the weekend… indicates that something might be announced on Monday.
Oh yeah, want to hear what else that was pretty crazy. Remember, those July $160 calls that were sold for $1.92 in March…well, it appears that they were bought back (closing the short). Over 1,000 of the July $160s were bought for $0.55.
On April 17th, those April $130 calls were trading above $3.85…as the stock closed at $133.92. That aggressive call buy from the previous Friday paid out handsomely. At this point in time, the stock moved up nearly 15% on the week.
You see, it's ok to sit back and gather information before making a move. A lot of unusual option trades don't pan out. That's why it's important to be selective.
However, these traders involved with AGN….have proven to be informed.
On April 21st, 11,506 contracts of AGN were traded….over 3,000 puts and 8,300 calls traded. Again, this was 3x usual option volume.
One interesting trade that went off in the morning was a trader bought over 550 May 150 calls for $1.55 and sold over 550 $125 puts for $1.10.
All together was done for a net debit of $0.45. A $24,750 "bet" that turned into over $850,000 in less than 24 hours.
You see, after the close that day, the stock popped to $165 per share on news that Bill Ackman and Valeant were eying a takeover on AGN.
Were they lucky or were they flat out cheating?
My answer: It doesn't matter. I'll leave that for the regulators to handle. The truth is…every option that is traded on the exchange…must be reported.
Whether they traded off insider information or not…we have the privilege of seeing their trades once they are reported. With that said, we have an opportunity to "legally steal" their ideas once it becomes public information.
Some of you might think that these traders were crooked. But you have to look at the bright side of things…these opportunities exist for us as well.
And that is one of the beauties of following unusual options activity. You get a front row seat of what the big boys and girls are doing.
On May 12, AGN's board unanimously rejected Valeant's proposal. Rumors are circulating that a larger bid from Valeant or someone else will soon follow.
On May 16, 2014, I noticed a pretty decent sized trade. One trader came in and bought 1,400 September $170 calls for $5.50 and simultaneously sold 1,400 September $140 puts for a credit of $3.50. The trade combined was done for a net debit of $2.00.
Only time will tell if the trade above will work. From what I've seen thus far, I wouldn't bet against them being wrong.
Now, if you'd like a more detailed analysis on what to look out for when unusual option activity trades are made public.
You should check out our free report. It's a step-by-step process that I've created… over the years…that attempts to spot the next big stock mover…and I think it's pretty darn good.


This paper presents a new ground moving target imaging (GMTIm) algorithm for airborne synthetic aperture radar (SAR) based on a novel time-frequency representation (TFR), Lv's distribution (LVD). We first analyze generic moving target signatures for a multichannel SAR and then derive the analytical spectrum of a point target moving at a constant velocity by a polar format algorithm for SAR image formation. SAR motion deviation from a predetermined flight track is considered to facilitate airborne SAR applications. LVD, as a recently developed TFR for the analysis of multicomponent linear-frequency-modulated signal, is adopted to represent the target kinematic spectrum in the Doppler centroid frequency and chirp rate domain. As a result, the proposed SAR-GMTIm algorithm is capable of imaging multiple moving targets even when they are located at the same range resolution cell. Some practical issues such as imaging maneuvering targets and small/weak targets are discussed to enhance the applicability of the proposed algorithm. Simulation results with isotropic point moving targets are presented to validate the effectiveness and superiority of the proposed algorithm. Raw data collected by an airborne multichannel SAR are also used to verify the performance improvement made by the proposed algorithm.
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Kenny Dorham
Gil Mellé
Dave Amram
Frank Foster
Cecil Payne
Cedar Walton
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McKinley Howard (Kenny) Dorham was an American jazz trumpeter, singer and composer. Dorham's talent is frequently lauded by critics and other musicians, but he never received the kind of attention from the jazz establishment that many of his peers did. For this reason, his name has become (in the words of writer Gary Giddins) "virtually synonymous with underrated." He also composed the jazz standard "Blue Bossa," which first appeared on Joe Henderson's album Page One.
Kenny Dorham-Hank Mobley Quintet 05/18/1965 Slugs' NYC New York USA
Kenny Dorham Quartet 08/20/1965 Slugs' NYC New York USA
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Jennifer Holt is Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies and a Fellow with the Center for Democracy & Technology in Washington, D.C. Her courses at UCSB include Media Criticism, Media Historiography, Television History, Media Industries, and The Future of Media. She is the author of Empires of Entertainment and the co-editor of Distribution Revolution; Connected Viewing: Selling, Streaming & Sharing Media in the Digital Age; and Media Industries: History, Theory, Method. Her work has appeared in journals and anthologies including Cinema Journal, Journal of Information Policy, Moving Data, and Signal Traffic: Critical Studies of Media Infrastructures. She is also a co-founder of the Media Industries journal. Her current book project, Cloud Policy: Regulating Digital Freedom is a legal and cultural history of infrastructure policies related to digital media distribution, storage, and access.


One lesson I take from climate change is the admonition to search out and act at the root causes of complex problems.
In the political maneuvering leading up to the release of the most recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report, the Bush administration was lobbying for the report to include an endorsement of the concept of building giant reflective mirrors up in space, to lessen the amount of solar radiation reaching the planet.
Giant floating mirrors do seem like just the sort of engineering challenge that some of the largest defense and aerospace corporations, who supported Bush's two campaigns for President, could bid for and profit from. And, if such a project could compensate for the accumulation of CO2 in the atmosphere by shading the planet, we could keep on digging fossil carbon from the Earth's crust and using it to power our society. By virtue of our engineering skill and technology we could take a limit of the Earth, push it off a ways, and not have to deal with it.
You might feel some skepticism that we have the skill and understanding to pull off such a project and do it just right. Certainly there's plenty to worry about in meddling with solar radiation, the basic force that enlivens the planet. But even putting those doubts aside, there's another important issue.
Our excessive CO2 pollution isn't only warming the planet, it is also acidifying the oceans, with potentially huge consequences for the base of the ocean food chain, and thus for fisheries, and for all the atmospheric processes that the ocean regulates.
A giant sun-shield up in space wouldn't do anything to lessen the impact of CO2 on ocean chemistry. Setting – and enforcing – limits on the amount of CO2 coming out of industries, homes, and tail-pipes, on the other hand, would help ameliorate both the warming of the planet and the acidification of the oceans.
Acting closer to the heart of the problem recognizes the interconnection of problems and increases the odds that the effort applied solves multiple problems simultaneously.
Excessive CO2 production may be closer to the heart of things, but it's not THE heart, of course. There are deeper reasons, the reasons that cause us to produce so much greenhouse gas pollution in the first place.
If moving one step closer to the heart of things – moving from the symptom of rising temperature to its cause, CO2 pollution – produces the ability to solve multiple problems with a single solution, then what might be the power of reaching even deeper – into consumerism, into our sense that the Earth is ours to dominate, into the assumptions of the of the industrial growth society?
Go deep enough, find ways to act that are deep enough, and we might find ourselves solving not just warming and ocean acidification, but also mercury pollution and toxics build-up and topsoil loss. We might find choices that could begin to heal both the wounds of the Earth and the wounds we impose on each other – wounds like poverty, oppression, violence, and despair.
Getting to such depths, acknowledging what we find there, and figuring out what to do about what we find won't be easy. But I believe that this is the direction that climate change and all the other tangled challenges of this moment in time are pointing us towards.
There are already pioneers, showing us the way, offering living examples of what is possible when the threads of social justice, worldview, and ecology are gathered up together, and addressed as a whole.
A few of them I'm lucky enough to know personally, like my friends Nonette Royo and Chip Fay in Indonesia, and Amalia Souza in Brazil who all work on village based resource management, knowing that indigenous rights, transparent self-government, and economic solutions are not separate from ecological practices. All fit together and reinforce each other.
And in the US there are projects aimed at simultaneously addressing the ecological and social symptoms that are created by a system that grinds away not only at nature but also at whole communities of people. One example is the Oakland Apollo Alliance, which is creating jobs for low income people and people of color in the emerging fields of clean energy and sustainability, making sure that more people are able to participate in and benefit from the work of healing the Earth.
Creative, inspired projects like these help us begin to imagine what it might look like to meet the challenge of climate change by acting at its roots.


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Dallas Cowboys former tight end Jay Novacek before an NFL football game against the Philadelphia Eagles Sunday, Dec. 12, 2010, in Arlington, Texas. (
Dallas Cowboys legend Jay Novacek first celebrity announced for 2018 McAllen Holiday Parade
Daniel A. Flores
McALLEN — Dallas Cowboy legend and five-time Pro Bowl tight end Jay Novacek will attend the 2018 McAllen Holiday Parade.
The city announced the first celebrity guest at a news conference Friday at the Tres Lagos Community Center in McAllen.
"We know this is Dallas Cowboys country," said city spokesperson Xochitl Mora, who added that parade route is lined with the fans' blue and silver. He called Novacek the "first of our Dallas stars."
Previous Cowboys in attendance included Tony Dorsett, DeMarcus Lawrence, Cole Beasley and Tony Hill. Current Dallas running back Ezekiel Elliott was scheduled as one of three grand marshals in 2016, but canceled last minute.
Former NFL player Jay Novacek arrives at the 4th annual NFL Honors at the Phoenix Convention Center Symphony Hall on Saturday, Jan. 1, 2015.
Telemundo host Ana Maria Polo will also return this year.
"She was thrilled to be able to come back and be a part of this," Mora said.
Assistant City Manager Joe Vera said citizens should expect up to six more celebrities announced before the Dec. 1 parade he called "the largest single-day event in South Texas."
Officials said because the event attracts nearly 250,000 people, they encourage attendees to use the expanded Polar Express, a free park-and-ride service.
Buses will pick, and return, attendees from South Texas College to Christmas in the Park at McAllen Municipal Park.
"Unfortunately, our people are still accustomed to getting there close to the hour of the event and expecting to park close," Vera said. "That is not possible with the parade."
McAllen also announced price points for stadium seating for the illuminated parade, which are on sale next Monday through Ticketmaster and the McAllen Convention Center.
Sales for chairs along the route are offered to nonprofits for fundraising, Mora said, and referred those interested to McAllen Parks and Recreation.
The U.S. Air Force Honor Guard was previously announced to lead the procession. This year's theme is "Christmas Around the World." The parade begins at the McAllen Veterans Memorial Stadium at 2001 N. Bicentennial Boulevard and will proceed through the 1.5 mile parade route on Bicentennial toward U.S. Business 83.
The event was recently named the best parade in the world at the 63rd Annual International Festivals and Events Conference.
Daniel Flores is a staff writer for The Monitor. He can be reached at [email protected]