We Might Have Found a School Worse Than UPenn, Harvard, and MIT on the Antisemitism Issue, George Washington University medical school

The University of Pennsylvania acted swiftly to clean house amid the backlash their president, Liz Magill, brought upon the school, delivering a heinous response on antisemitism in front of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce last week. When asked by Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) if calling for Jewish genocide constituted harassment and bullying, Magill offered a detached and cold response that didn’t answer the question. In short, she wouldn’t give a clear answer, merely saying that such incidents should be viewed in context. 

The academic route blew up in her face, where she made it seem as if UPenn enabled the views that support genocide against Jews. Harvard President Claudine Gay and MIT head Sally Kornbluth gave similar answers. UPenn’s board of trustees met immediately following this disastrous hearing and recommended Magill's resignation. She submitted it formally on Saturday, but we might have found a school that’s just as bad, if not worse, than UPenn on this issue. Meet the faculty panel at George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, who might as well be staffers for the al-Shifa medical facility in Gaza, the nerve center of Hamas’ operations in the region. They said Hamas terrorists have the right to resistance (via NY Post): 

George Washington University’s medical school hosted a faculty panel last week that declared Hamas terrorists have a “right of resistance” against Israel, according to video footage exclusively obtained by The Post.  The Dec. 4 discussion was titled “Understanding the Conflict in Israel and Palestine” and was sponsored by the School of Medicine and Health Sciences’ Anti-Racism Coalition and the Institute for Middle East Studies.  Panelists referred to the Jewish state’s military operation in the Gaza Strip as “ethnic cleansing” and “genocide,” while failing to discuss atrocities Hamas committed in its Oct. 7 attack against southern Israel, its designation as a foreign terrorist organization or that it is still holding more than 100 Israeli and US civilians hostage.  “Israel rightly can claim self-defense, but I also want to note here that Hamas and the Palestinians also have a right of resistance,” Michael Barnett, a professor of international affairs and political science, said during the panel.  “All of us have been shaken by the events of Oct. 7,” added Shira Robinson, a professor of history and international affairs. “But we all recognize that those events have a history.”  […]  Several concerned students and faculty tried to ask questions about the panel’s presentation but were ignored — with some also berated by anonymous users in the chat box during the Zoom meeting.  Jewish students at the medical school were particularly appalled by the panel discussion and told The Post that it had only contributed to the spread of antisemitism on campus that has exploded in the wake of Hamas’ terror attack.  Diversity and Inclusion Dean Yolanda Haywood apologized to the medical school community after the panel, but her statement on the fallout from the discussion neither mentioned Jewish students nor denounced antisemitism.  […]  Jewish students who spoke with The Post stressed that the statement was part of a pattern of “generic corporate apologies” by administrators who have not “taken any actionable steps to make their Jewish students feel safe on campus.”  “Being a medical student at GW now has made me feel alone and scared for the future of health care,” one said. “I am astonished how a medical school and its students, who dedicate their careers to preserving life, have been silent since Oct. 7.” 

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Hamas’ October 7 attack on Israel did expose how American antisemitic, pro-terrorist acolytes have infested academia, college campuses, and newsrooms. It’s not a total shock. We’ve seen former editors and reporters, namely Bari Weiss, formerly of The New York Times, flee their jobs due to the virulent antisemitism that percolated the halls. Antisemitism has always been around, but this has been a Mt. St. Helens-like explosion over the past few weeks. It’s not just students, but as you can tell from above, medical professionals, therapists, lawyers, and other professionals openly supporting Hamas on social media. Colleges are factories that are creating more antisemites—we’re seeing the fruits of that labor right now.

At least UPenn forced its Jewish genocide-enabling president to resign, which, tragically, might be the only time where one of these academic clowns are held accountable for their terrible positions on the subject. 

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Bronwyn Scott-McCharen was born and raised in Jackson, Mississippi and graduated from Hendrix College in 2014 with a degree in Sociology and Anthropology. She then lived in Buenos Aires, Argentina for three years, where she immersed herself in the country's vibrant political culture under the guise of academic research. Her interests outside of writing fiction include travel, photography, international politics and history (especially Cold War history). She is currently hard at work on two novels in distinct stages of development--one completed manuscript in need of polish and another in the earliest phase of drafting and intensive research. She speaks Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese and hopes to soon add Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian to her budding repertoire of languages.

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Mohammed Jahama often introduces himself as Mo. He likes to write about those kinds of borderland identities and to talk about words. And is excited and grateful for the opportunity to do such things at UNLV.

Sylvia Fox has too many interests and a wandering soul, which is why she writes fiction. Most recently, she spent the last two years in Baltimore, MD, surrounded and inspired by artists. So many aspects of her identity have led her to believe in the subversive power of showing up, taking up space, and creating space for others. She looks forward to continuing to explore this in writing and in community with others.

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Nick Barnette, an Alabama native, attended Texas Christian University where he received a BA in English and BS in Film-Television-and-Digital Media. Upon graduation, Nick received a Fulbright Fellowship to Greece where he taught ESL in an elementary school in Athens.

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Alyse Burnside: I am a writer and educator currently living in Minneapolis, Minnesota. I received by B.A in English and Gender Studies from the University of Iowa. While I consider myself primarily an essayist, I am interested in working between the confines of genre, combining poetry, narrative, and speculative nonfiction. I am currently working on a collage project of interviews with spiritualists, metaphysical myth, and the neuroscience behind how one creates their own reality. When I’m not writing or working, I am reading, traveling, or watching reality T.V. I am thrilled to be attending UNLV in the fall and am excited to meet the desert for the very first time.

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John Harvey McCracken (December 9, 1934 – April 8, 2011)was a minimalist artist. He lived and worked in Los Angeles, Santa Fe, New Mexico, and New York.Internationally recognized John McCracken commenced developing his earliest sculptural work while in grad school at California College of Arts and Crafts along with Minimalists John Slorp and Peter Schnore, and painters Tom Nuzum, Vincent Perez, and Terry StJohn, 1964, 1965. Equally well known Dennis Oppenheim, enrolled in the M.F.A. program at nearby Stanford, was a frequent visitor to this more vibrant graduate program. While experimenting with increasingly three-dimensional canvases, McCracken began to produce art objects made with industrial techniques and materials, plywood, sprayed lacquer, pigmented resin, creating the ever more minimalistic works featuring highly-reflective, smooth surfaces. He applied techniques akin to those used in surfboard construction—popular in Southern California. Later McCracken was part of the Light and Space movement that includes James Turrell, Peter Alexander, Larry Bell, Robert Irwin and others. In interviews, however, he usually cited his greatest influences as the hard edge works of the Abstract Expressionist Barnett Newman and Minimalists like Donald Judd, Dan Flavin and Carl Andre.Early objects created by John McCracken were derived from company logos such as the Chevron corporation logo. His sculptures deal with the interrelationships existing between the material world and design .....

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Qualcomm has sturdy argument to win reversal of U.S. antitrust ruling: authorized consultants

http://tinyurl.com/y3h9tjfd (Reuters) – A uncommon public name by a U.S. Federal Commerce Fee (FTC) official for one of many company’s courtroom victories to be reversed, in a case of anticompetitive enterprise practices by chipmaker Qualcomm Inc, charts a powerful course for a choose’s ruling to be overturned on attraction, some authorized consultants mentioned. FILE PHOTO: An indication on the Qualcomm campus is seen, as chip maker Broadcom Ltd introduced an unsolicited bid to purchase peer Qualcomm Inc for $103 billion, in San Diego, California, U.S. November 6, 2017. REUTERS/Mike Blake/File Picture FTC Commissioner Christine Wilson, an appointee of Republican President Donald Trump, wrote within the Wall Avenue Journal on Tuesday that the Could 22 ruling in opposition to Qualcomm “radically expanded an organization’s authorized obligation to assist its opponents” and was primarily based on a strained interpretation of a 1985 determination by the U.S. Supreme Courtroom. U.S. District Choose Lucy Koh in San Jose, California mentioned that Qualcomm’s licensing practices had strangled competitors in elements of the pc chip market, harming rivals, smartphone makers, and customers. She ordered the San Diego-based firm to renegotiate licensing agreements at cheap costs, with out threatening to chop off provides, and ordered that it’s monitored for seven years to make sure its compliance. The Qualcomm case has been controversial because it started within the last days of Democratic President Barack Obama’s administration, with the lone Republican FTC commissioner on the time saying it shouldn’t be introduced. The op-ed by Wilson, one in every of 5 FTC commissioners, won’t have any authorized weight as Qualcomm appeals Koh’s determination however foreshadows sturdy arguments the corporate has to win on attraction, Geoffrey Manne, director of the Worldwide Middle for Regulation and Economics, and several other different antitrust legal professionals mentioned. Different consultants, nevertheless, mentioned the choice was effectively reasoned and relied on detailed factual findings and determinations of witness credibility that appeals courts can be reluctant to second-guess. FTC spokesman Peter Kaplan mentioned the company declined to remark. The choose has not but dominated on Qualcomm’s request to place her determination on maintain because it plans an attraction. The ruling despatched Qualcomm shares tumbling and shaved $10 billion off the corporate’s worth. Beneath U.S. antitrust legislation, corporations typically can resolve who they need to do enterprise with. Even monopolists shouldn’t have a so-called “responsibility to deal” with opponents. ‘ASPEN SKIING’ U.S. SUPREME COURT CASE     However the Supreme Courtroom created an exception to this rule within the 1985 case, referred to as “Aspen Snowboarding,” holding that exiting a worthwhile, time-tested enterprise association might be an violation of competitors legislation.     As Koh’s ruling factors out, Qualcomm as soon as licensed its patents on industry-standard expertise to rival chip makers, although the ruling doesn’t clarify how intensive the follow was. Qualcomm deserted the follow solely within the early 2000s and commenced solely licensing these patents to corporations that make client gadgets comparable to smartphones, which comprise chips.     Koh mentioned Qualcomm’s about-face was “motivated by anticompetitive malice” and was the type of conduct prohibited by Aspen Snowboarding. In Aspen Snowboarding, a ski resort operator backed out of a worthwhile, long-standing settlement with a rival to collectively promote a mix elevate ticket package deal. The Supreme Courtroom mentioned the corporate gave the impression to be sacrificing fast earnings in hopes of stomping out a competitor in the long term. Qualcomm argued at trial that it by no means granted so-called “exhaustive” full licenses to different chip suppliers. Requiring it to grant them now, as Koh has ordered, would drive it into a brand new enterprise association, quite than require a return to a earlier one, the corporate argued. The FTC’s Wilson wrote that Koh had misapplied the Supreme Courtroom case. Beneath the choose’s logic, “Aspen Snowboarding now signifies that if an organization ever sells any product to any competitor, it then may have a perpetual antitrust obligation to promote each product to each competitor,” Wilson mentioned. Jonathan Barnett, a legislation professor on the College of Southern California, agreed that Koh’s determination was at risk of being overturned by an appeals courtroom.     The exception created by Aspen Snowboarding was alleged to be “very slim,” Barnett mentioned. In a 2004 case involving Verizon Communications Inc, the excessive courtroom solid doubt on Aspen Snowboarding, saying it was “at or close to the outer boundary” of antitrust legal responsibility. Manne mentioned Koh erred in evaluating Qualcomm’s change in licensing practices to the conduct in Aspen Snowboarding.     The shift to device-level licensing “hardly originated with Qualcomm” and made a substantial amount of enterprise sense as a result of it was rather more profitable, Manne mentioned. However some authorized consultants mentioned that Koh’s heavy reliance on factual determinations, notably findings that Qualcomm executives lacked credibility on the witness stand, made her ruling tougher to problem. Appeals courts won’t put aside a trial choose’s factual findings except there may be “clear error” – a excessive normal that’s troublesome to fulfill. Koh, for instance, mentioned in her determination that “many Qualcomm executives’ trial testimony was contradicted by these witnesses’ personal contemporaneous emails, handwritten notes, and recorded statements to the Inner Income Service.” One Qualcomm in-house lawyer “pretended to not recall” particulars of a 2012 assembly till the FTC’s legal professionals performed a recording from it, Koh mentioned. And Qualcomm executives usually responded with “quick and practiced narratives” when questioned by their very own legal professionals, Koh mentioned. “It was embarrassing and possibly actually damaging on attraction that Koh fastidiously documented the Qualcomm executives fairly clear lies in testimony,” mentioned Christopher Sagers, a professor of antitrust legislation at Cleveland State College. Qualcomm mentioned in a press release that it believes “a radical examination of the proof and the right interpretation of the legislation will end in a reversal by the ninth Circuit Courtroom of Appeals.” Manne mentioned that even below the deferential method taken by appeals courts, Koh’s determination was on skinny ice. “I undoubtedly suppose she is inaccurate on the legislation with respect to the responsibility to deal and Aspen Snowboarding, and she or he’s susceptible to reversal on attraction,” Manne mentioned. Reporting by Jan Wolfe and Diane Bartz in Washington; extra reporting by Stephen Nellis in San Francisco Modifying by Noeleen Walder and Grant McCool Our Requirements:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles. Source link

Haida Gwaii

Now is when we take the first dive into Pacific Northwest Indigenous peoples creation stories; and compare and contrast them to the Bering Strait Theory. For our first creation story, I will be focusing on the Haida Nation. The Haida Nation calls Graham Island off the West coast of British Columbia home. The Haida Nation is rich in its culture, and have been calling the islands off the west coast of British Columbia home since the beginning of human settlement in the Americas. After the contact of colonialism, Haida populations plummeted to only 600 people due to the spread of disease (Council of the Haida Nation, 2018). Recent global Haida populations are near 2000, and on the island Haida people make up approximately 1700 out of 5000 people on Graham Island. There are two primary populations of Haida on Graham Island; one group in the North called Gaw Old Massett and one in the South called HIGaagilda Skidegate in the South (Council of the Haida Nation, 2018).

Due to the damage colonialism has caused on indigenous cultures, many tribes and Native Nations hold their culture and religion tightly to their chests; not wanting to have anything else taken from them. In indigenous cultures, oral storytelling is an incredibly important part of their cultures - the Haida Nation is no different. As a result, finding records of the Haida creation stories was extremely difficult. However, in 1990, the Haida Nations agreed to create a documentary with BBC to share their culture with the world. The introduction to the documentary was an oral rendition of Raven and the First Men, the creation story that’s told in the Haida Nation. (Link Below)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJ1khnqqhVM

Before reading ahead, I encourage my readers to listen to the above link. Listening to Raven and the First Men will provide you with a greater insight to the following broken down comparison to the Bering Strait Theory.

After listening to Raven and the First Men, a few similarities between this creation story and the Bering Strait Theory became quite clear to me. The waters that were receding and resulted in newly formed lands - could this not also be sea levels changing and the emergence of the Beringia land bridge? As well as islands along the PNW coast? What about the different animals emerging on the beaches of what’s now called British Columbia - how did those animals get there? Archaeological remains of the now extinct North American cave lion, which evolved from the Eurasian species, have been found along the West Coast of North America (Barnett et al, 2009). These lions must have come from somewhere, as they were not native to the Americas. The description of forests carpeting the land, as well as providing food and shelter; we know from analyzing stratigraphy and pollen deposits in the area that there was a significant amount of shrubbery and forests that could have provided shelter and food (Alley, 1979). All of these things have archaeological evidence of existing at the same time that Homo sapiens would have been crossing the land bridge into what is now Haida territory. It’s important to note that the Haida are a religious people, so there are naturally some aspects of this creation story that can’t be scientifically explained; primarily that of supernatural animals.

There was one more thing that I thought could symbolize something - and that was how the first humans arrived on the shore for Raven to find them, they arrived in a clam. Did the clam wash up on shore? How did the clam arrive? I can only assume that the clam holding the humans came in from the water - could this potentially represent humans coming onto land via boat? We discussed previously that one of the theories for the population of the Americas was our early human ancestors going around the ice sheets via the water channels on a boat.

It’s important to note in no way am I an expert on Haida creation stories. I’m simply looking and listening from an outsider perspective and trying to find similarities to connect culture and religion with science. The geographic similarities that are described in the story itself are quite inexplicably similar to the state the land was in at the time of Homo sapien crossing to the Americas, and these geographic descriptions are not isolated to Raven and the First Men. We will next be analyzing the Northwest Coast First Nations adawx creation stories, this includes the Tsimshian, Gitksan, and Nisga’a Nations.

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Barnett, R., Shapiro, B., Barnes, I., Ho, S., Burger, J., Yamaguchi, N., . . . Cooper, A. (2009). Phylogeography of lions (Panthera leo ssp.) reveals three distinct taxa and a late Pleistocene reduction in genetic diversity. Molecular Ecology, 18(8), 1668-1677. Retrieved from https://www.researchgate.net/publication/24216045_Phylogeography_of_lions_Panthera_leo_ssp_reveals_three_distinct_taxa_and_a_late_Pleistocene_reduction_in_genetic_diversity.

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Hyman Charles D Decreased Wells Fargo Co New (WFC) Holding By $410,135; 1St Source Bank Has Decreased Cvs Health (CVS) Holding

Hyman Charles D decreased Wells Fargo Co New (WFC) stake by 3.71% reported in 2017Q2 SEC filing. Hyman Charles D sold 7,457 shares as Wells Fargo Co New (WFC)’s stock declined 8.66%. The Hyman Charles D holds 193,535 shares with $10.72M value, down from 200,992 last quarter. Wells Fargo Co New now has $284.03 billion valuation. The stock increased 2.63% or $1.48 during the last trading session, reaching $57.68. About 8.80M shares traded. Wells Fargo & Company (NYSE:WFC) has risen 9.67% since December 4, 2016 and is uptrending. It has underperformed by 7.03% the S&P500.

1St Source Bank decreased Cvs Health Corp (CVS) stake by 14.09% reported in 2017Q2 SEC filing. 1St Source Bank sold 6,505 shares as Cvs Health Corp (CVS)’s stock declined 4.23%. The 1St Source Bank holds 39,677 shares with $3.19M value, down from 46,182 last quarter. Cvs Health Corp now has $72.81B valuation. The stock decreased 4.31% or $3.24 during the last trading session, reaching $71.88. About 17.24M shares traded or 118.45% up from the average. CVS Health Corporation (NYSE:CVS) has declined 24.40% since December 4, 2016 and is downtrending. It has underperformed by 41.10% the S&P500.

Hyman Charles D increased Intel Corp (NASDAQ:INTC) stake by 78,141 shares to 411,642 valued at $13.89 million in 2017Q2. It also upped Heico Corp New (NYSE:HEI) stake by 9,415 shares and now owns 37,271 shares. Southern Co (NYSE:SO) was raised too.

Analysts await Wells Fargo & Company (NYSE:WFC) to report earnings on January, 12. They expect $1.04 EPS, up 0.97% or $0.01 from last year’s $1.03 per share. WFC’s profit will be $5.12 billion for 13.87 P/E if the $1.04 EPS becomes a reality. After $1.04 actual EPS reported by Wells Fargo & Company for the previous quarter, Wall Street now forecasts 0.00% EPS growth.

Among 32 analysts covering Wells Fargo & Company (NYSE:WFC), 13 have Buy rating, 5 Sell and 14 Hold. Therefore 41% are positive. Wells Fargo & Company had 103 analyst reports since July 29, 2015 according to SRatingsIntel. As per Friday, October 13, the company rating was maintained by BMO Capital Markets. The stock of Wells Fargo & Company (NYSE:WFC) earned “Buy” rating by Argus Research on Tuesday, January 19. The firm earned “Neutral” rating on Thursday, December 1 by Susquehanna. Rafferty downgraded the stock to “Sell” rating in Wednesday, April 12 report. The company was upgraded on Monday, October 10 by UBS. BMO Capital Markets maintained the stock with “Sell” rating in Wednesday, May 31 report. The stock has “Neutral” rating by UBS on Monday, October 16. The company was upgraded on Wednesday, April 5 by Keefe Bruyette & Woods. As per Sunday, July 30, the company rating was maintained by BMO Capital Markets. Guggenheim upgraded the shares of WFC in report on Wednesday, April 26 to “Neutral” rating.

Investors sentiment increased to 0.88 in Q2 2017. Its up 0.12, from 0.76 in 2017Q1. It is positive, as 85 investors sold WFC shares while 685 reduced holdings. 110 funds opened positions while 566 raised stakes. 3.66 billion shares or 1.73% less from 3.73 billion shares in 2017Q1 were reported. Hbk Invs Lp holds 0.11% of its portfolio in Wells Fargo & Company (NYSE:WFC) for 219,469 shares. Edgepoint Invest Grp Inc holds 0.01% or 10.14 million shares. Duff Phelps Invest Management accumulated 31,890 shares. Pictet Asset Ltd invested in 2.74 million shares. Mufg Americas reported 702,877 shares stake. Wade G W Inc invested in 1.42% or 202,102 shares. Santa Barbara Asset Mngmt Ltd Liability Corp has invested 3.12% of its portfolio in Wells Fargo & Company (NYSE:WFC). Israel-based Psagot Inv House has invested 0.14% in Wells Fargo & Company (NYSE:WFC). At Bancorporation invested in 0.05% or 7,523 shares. Franklin Street Advsr Nc holds 24,551 shares or 0.23% of its portfolio. Hutchinson Cap Mgmt Ca owns 5.85% invested in Wells Fargo & Company (NYSE:WFC) for 372,615 shares. Virtu Fincl Lc stated it has 24,226 shares or 0.19% of all its holdings. Argent Trust stated it has 39,713 shares or 0.91% of all its holdings. Butensky Cohen Financial Security holds 1.95% or 39,015 shares in its portfolio. Horan Mngmt, Maryland-based fund reported 310,402 shares.

Since June 8, 2017, it had 0 insider buys, and 2 insider sales for $3.39 million activity. On Monday, June 12 Pelos Petros G sold $1.34 million worth of Wells Fargo & Company (NYSE:WFC) or 24,708 shares. Mack Mary T also sold $2.05M worth of Wells Fargo & Company (NYSE:WFC) shares.

Since June 12, 2017, it had 0 insider buys, and 1 insider sale for $18.44 million activity. 230,510 shares were sold by Denton David M, worth $18.44 million.

Investors sentiment decreased to 0.92 in 2017 Q2. Its down 0.17, from 1.09 in 2017Q1. It is negative, as 84 investors sold CVS shares while 559 reduced holdings. 108 funds opened positions while 483 raised stakes. 803.96 million shares or 0.96% less from 811.73 million shares in 2017Q1 were reported. Stratos Wealth reported 85,891 shares. Barnett & Company has invested 2.84% of its portfolio in CVS Health Corporation (NYSE:CVS). Bancshares Hapoalim Bm holds 0.35% of its portfolio in CVS Health Corporation (NYSE:CVS) for 18,460 shares. Brookstone Capital Management has invested 0.02% of its portfolio in CVS Health Corporation (NYSE:CVS). First Long Island Invsts Lc has 2.8% invested in CVS Health Corporation (NYSE:CVS). Bartlett Limited Liability Co accumulated 468,889 shares. The Kentucky-based Hl Lc has invested 2.67% in CVS Health Corporation (NYSE:CVS). Renaissance Inv Grp Llc, a Massachusetts-based fund reported 34,482 shares. Putnam Invests Ltd Liability Company has invested 0.09% in CVS Health Corporation (NYSE:CVS). Federated Investors Pa invested in 0.09% or 396,896 shares. Ontario – Canada-based Toronto Dominion Natl Bank has invested 0.11% in CVS Health Corporation (NYSE:CVS). Michigan-based Portfolio Solutions Ltd Liability Company has invested 0% in CVS Health Corporation (NYSE:CVS). Nelson Van Denburg And Campbell Wealth Mgmt Gp Limited Liability, Nebraska-based fund reported 293 shares. Jones Financial Lllp holds 38,140 shares or 0.01% of its portfolio. Lord Abbett And Lc holds 0.16% or 650,214 shares in its portfolio.

1St Source Bank increased Vanguard Msci Emerging Markets (VWO) stake by 50,636 shares to 467,872 valued at $19.10M in 2017Q2. It also upped Ishares Russell 1000 Value Etf (IWD) stake by 19,129 shares and now owns 626,233 shares. Ishares Russell 1000 Growth Et (IWF) was raised too.

Analysts await CVS Health Corporation (NYSE:CVS) to report earnings on February, 8. They expect $1.90 EPS, up 11.11% or $0.19 from last year’s $1.71 per share. CVS’s profit will be $1.92B for 9.46 P/E if the $1.90 EPS becomes a reality. After $1.50 actual EPS reported by CVS Health Corporation for the previous quarter, Wall Street now forecasts 26.67% EPS growth.

Among 24 analysts covering CVS Health (NYSE:CVS), 15 have Buy rating, 0 Sell and 9 Hold. Therefore 63% are positive. CVS Health had 53 analyst reports since July 22, 2015 according to SRatingsIntel. Jefferies maintained it with “Hold” rating and $86.0 target in Wednesday, October 18 report. The stock of CVS Health Corporation (NYSE:CVS) has “Neutral” rating given on Friday, November 3 by Citigroup. The stock of CVS Health Corporation (NYSE:CVS) earned “Buy” rating by Needham on Friday, November 10. The stock has “Outperform” rating by Oppenheimer on Friday, August 28. As per Monday, November 2, the company rating was maintained by Oppenheimer. Citigroup maintained CVS Health Corporation (NYSE:CVS) on Thursday, August 17 with “Neutral” rating. The firm earned “Neutral” rating on Monday, May 9 by Citigroup. The firm has “Hold” rating given on Friday, September 8 by Needham. The stock of CVS Health Corporation (NYSE:CVS) has “Equal-Weight” rating given on Monday, June 20 by Morgan Stanley. The rating was maintained by Jefferies with “Hold” on Wednesday, August 16.

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Small College Basketball Hall of Fame

It’s early morning on Wednesday morning, and I’m sitting in a hotel in Evansville, IN, as we’re preparing to induct the Class of 2017 into the Small College Basketball Hall of Fame tomorrow night (Thursday, November 2).  Additionally, 8 of the top NCAA Division II teams in the country are about to arrive for the Small College Basketball Hall of Fame Classic, which will be played at the Ford Center.

I’m flashing back to the years leading up to the creation of the Hall of Fame and Hall of Fame Classic.  It’s amazing to think of the dreaming, planning, details, phone calls, e-mails, documents, etc. that went into these events.....I spoke with multiple Sports Commissions and Convention and Visitors Associations, and yet Jon Mark Hall (AD and Southern Indiana) and Jason Sands (former Executive Director of the Evansville Sports Corporation) were proactive and very engaged in this process......and thus we created an agreement to bring the Small College Basketball Hall of Fame Induction and Small College Basketball Hall of Fame Classic to Evansville.  

Last year, 2016, the dream became a reality, as we inducted 15 members into the Hall of Fame in our Inaugural Class.  (9 were living; 6 were deceased; 7 of the 9 living members were here in person: Jerry Sloan, Dick Barnett, Earl Monroe, Travis Grant, Lucious Jackson, John Rinka and John Ebeling, plus members of the Naismith Family, the Gaines Family and the Hopkins Family). Tomorrow night, we will induct 12 members into our Class of 2017.   Of those, 12, 8 are living, and 4 are deceased.  Of the eight, 6 will be here in person:  Jim Spivey, Jack Sikma, Bob Love, George Tinsley, Rico Swanson and Coach Dave Robbins.

In regards to the Hall of Fame Classic, we had six original participants:  Kentucky Wesleyan, Southern Indiana, Lincoln Memorial, Alabama-Huntsville, Florida Southern and Bellarmine.  This year, in 2017, the Conference Commissioners Association and the NCAA gave our event an exemption, and we’ve expanded to eight teams:  St. Thomas Aquinas (STAC), Ferris State, Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP), Montevallo, Findlay, Augustana, Southern Indiana and Kentucky Wesleyan.

......and so, today they arrive.  The players, coaches, inductees, supporters.  They will come from all over America to be here in Evansville, IN......for an idea that I had in my mind years ago.  Pretty wild to me.  What a thrill it is to have an idea, work like crazy, and bring it to life.  What a thrill!  

Thank you to all that have believed and have supported the dream.  It is now a reality.

Top 13 hiking trails in NC

This weeks article is in praise of 13 amazing hiking trails in NC! This was hard to narrow down with the amount of amazing outdoor activities to do within NC, but rest assured, a trip to any of these spots will definitely melt the stress away!

1. Craggy Gardens

The Craggy Gardens Trail can be accessed from the south end of the visitor center parking area or from the north end of the picnic area. From the parking area, the trail begins as a self guided nature trail with a moderate uphill climb for .3 mile to a large trail shelter. The self-guiding portion ends at the trail shelter, and a short spur trail to the left crosses the rhododendron bald to an unobstructed view of the town of Montreat and the lofty Black Mountain Range.

The main trail descends gradually from the shelter to enter a mixed-hardwood forest and in another .5 mile reaches the picnic area. Half-way from the shelter to the Picnic area a narrow loop path to the right leads to a small gazebo nestled in the forest and overlooking the valley below. Many wildflowers embellish the Craggy Gardens Trail from spring through fall, and blueberries on the bald offer an excellent late-summer treat.

2. DuPont Waterfalls Tour

The DuPont State Recreational Forest is located in the Blue Ridge Mountains between Hendersonville and Brevard, North Carolina. Its 10,400 acres of forest feature four major waterfalls on the Little River and several on the Grassy Creek.

The original 7600 acre forest was established in 1996 through a generous bargain sale from the DuPont Corporation. In 2000, the Forest was expanded by two property additions, including the spectacular 2200 acre tract in the center of the Forest containing High Falls, Triple Falls, and Bridal Veil Falls.

3. Camp Alice Trail

This strenuous trail intersects the Old Mitchell Trail ¼ mile from the summit and descends the south side of Mount Mitchell to an area called Camp Alice, an old logging camp for the early 1900’s. The railroad serving Camp Alice was torn up in the early 1920’s and a road opened for vehicles.

Between the 20’s and 40’s tourists drove to Camp Alice and then hiked the remaining mile to Mount Mitchell’s summit. Today, nothing remains of Camp Alice and in spite of it’s name, camping is not permitted here. ALERT : Hikers should wear appropriate clothing and carry proper gear as the high altitude makes the climate of Mount Mitchell chilly, even in summer. Beware of ICE on trails.

4. Hickory Nut Gorge and Falls

The popular Hickory Nut Falls trail takes you out to a platform at the bottom of our 404-foot waterfall, the second highest of its kind east of the Mississippi River and a backdrop for several scenes in the movie The Last of the Mohicans. It’s a cool, refreshing stop and a “must see” during your visit to Chimney Rock.

This 3/4-mile trail offers a leisurely walk that’s chock-full of wonder. Hardwood forests of oak, hickory, maple, beech, poplar, locust and basswood harbor abundant plant life, which includes rare and endangered wildflowers as well as old favorites like Jack-in-the-pulpit and Solomon’s-seal.

Listen and look for the resident and migrant birds that take cover high above in the forest canopy. Up a few small hills and you’re near the grand finale: Hickory Nut Falls, all 404 feet of it! Dainty white blossoms of Lady Rue thrive in the waterfall’s mist during the spring and early summer.

Look for fronds of Deerhair Bulrush a grass-like plant with small knobs at the end of shiny, wiry leaves, growing out of the cracks along the rock and cliff wall of the Falls.

5. Craggy Pinnacle Overlook

The Blue Ridge Parkway meanders along a towering ridge crest, offering some pretty exceptional roadside views from this historic and iconic American drive. Given the Parkway’s lofty elevations, many hikes off the Parkway don’t need to trek far to score some fantastic panoramic views or explore unique, high-elevation forests.

The Pinnacle Trail at Craggy Gardens is a prime example: it’s a short trail, spanning less than a mile round trip, but the trail’s pinnacle views are simply stunning, offering sweeping summit vistas from a pair of high-elevation overlooks.

6. Linville Falls

Linville Falls is the most popular waterfall in the Blue Ridge Mountains because of its accessibility to the Blue Ridge Parkway. It is a spectacular three-tiered waterfall plunging into Linville Gorge, the “Grand Canyon of the Southern Appalachians.”

The Falls Trail distance is 1.6 miles round trip and easy. The Gorge Trail distance is 1.4 miles round trip and strenuous. The Plunge Basin Trail is 1 mile round trip and moderate. Pets are welcome but must be on a leash.

7. Flat Laurel Creek-Sam's Knob Trail

Flat Laurel Creek flows near Sam Knob in Haywood County, close to the Graveyard Fields, Black Balsam Knob, and Tennent Mountain areas off of the Blue Ridge Parkway. There are several cascades along Flat Laurel Creek. A couple of them are fairly easy to access with some rock hopping. Seeing all of them requires some extreme rock scrambling skills and is only recommended for skilled creek waders.

This is a very popular hiking and primitive camping area and the parking areas become very overcrowded during the summer months. Get here early and you shouldn't have any problem finding a parking spot. You'll need the Pisgah Forest trail map to fully explore all of the hiking possibilities in this area. Several hikes offer some of the best high elevation and view hikes in western North Carolina.

8. Pink Beds Loop

Pink Beds Loop has only minor elevation changes, so it is popular for family hikes. The trail passes through a portion of the Pink Beds Valley, named by the settlers who first cleared the area when the abundant blooms of local plants were visible from the surrounding mountainsides; now that the area has been reforested, the name is more historical than descriptive. The trail is well marked, but it is still important to follow the orange blazes.

The north side, somewhat higher and drier than the south side, follows an old road much of the way and has a series of wildlife fields at its near (western) end. These wildlife fields afford views of the nearby mountain ridges if one hikes the trail in a clockwise direction. Camping is not permitted in the wildlife fields. *The north side is closed to bikes from April 16 through October 14. At the far (eastern) end of the loop, a spur trail of 0.8 miles goes to the Wolf Ford gaging station, which is on the South Fork of the Mills River near the end of FS 476 (Wolf Ford Road). The south side of the loop, open to foot traffic only, crosses the South Fork of the Mills River several times, and all crossings have foot bridges. Low areas have bog bridges, though your feet may still get wet during rainy periods. An intersecting trail, Barnett Branch (#618), crosses this trail near its middle, and offers additional loop hike opportunities. (See map on reverse side.) Bikes are not allowed on Barnett Branch Trail

9. Whiteside Mountain

The sparkling white cliffs of Whiteside Mountain, in the  Nantahala National Forest  near Highlands, North Carolina, have long been a landmark along the eastern continental divide. The 750 feet tall cliffs are the highest shear cliffs in the eastern United States.

Geologists estimate the mountain to be more than four hundred million years old. Traces of ancient hunting camps have been found in the area. According to Cherokee legend, the monster Spearfinger made her home here, and the exposed cliffs were created when a large rock bridge to her dwelling place sheared off.

Hikers can enjoy the moderate two-mile loop trail that leads around Whiteside Mountain to its summit at 4,930 feet. The high ridgetop above the steep south-facing cliffs offers spectacular views of other mountains in the area. An old-growth forest of northern red oaks, with trunks twisted by strong winds and ice storms, is found at the summit.

10. Green Knob Trail

Green Knob/Sims Creek is another loop trail in Julian Price Memorial Park, however it is not connected to the main Boone Fork/Price Lake hike. The Green Knob Trail is a short 2.3-mi loop that can be hiked from the Sims Pond Overlook or Sims Creek Overlook.

From the Price Lake Overlook, Sims Pond Overlook is 0.8-mi north on the Blue Ridge Parkway. It is suggested to begin the loop at Sims Pond and head northeast along Sims Creek. This hike is not especially scenic, the highlights are walking under Sims Creek Viaduct, and one view from a meadow of Grandfather Mountain (morning is best for this view).

11. Looking Glass Rock

The Looking Glass Rock Trail climbs about 1700ft in just over three miles.  The many switchbacks along the way help make for a long, but only moderately difficult climb.Looking Glass Rock from high above on the Blue Ridge Parkway  The views from the top are well worth the effort!  The trail is well blazed and easy to follow all the way. The trail starts off following a stream with some small cascades along the way, before beginning a series of switchbacks up the mountain.  Much of the trail takes you through tunnels of rhododendron and mountain laurel.

12. Harper Creek Falls

A wilderness experience awaits along Harper Creek. This is not your typical, easy hike to Harper Creek Falls. However, this is a relatively gentle encounter with wilderness due to its short length, moderate grade, and sparse (but useful) trail blazes.

From intimate creekside scenes, to long-distance views, to close-up encounters with two major waterfalls, excellent scenery awaits along this hike. You'll follow a major, free-flowing stream for several miles and cross it a total of 12 times, getting you wet up to your knees. Not recommended in winter or during high water.

13. Grandfather Mountain

Ascending a bout 1,775 feet over 3.1 miles, this trail begins at the Profile parking area on Highway 105 and ends at the Grandfather Trail at Calloway Gap. Beginning as a scenic, rolling pathway through seasonal wildflowers, this trail crosses the Watauga River and travels under a hardwood canopy for much of its length. Upper sections, beginning around Foscoe View, get steeper.

Shanty Spring, at 2.7 miles, marks a transition into a strenuous pathway of tumble-down rock that joins the Grandfather Trail after a climb of 0.4 miles. It makes the transition out of the hardwoods and into the Canadian fir zone of the crest area. T he upper section is steep and rocky and calls for careful footwork. The upper portion of this trail is not recommended for pets. The first mile is a Track Trail ( www.kidsinparks.gov). Use extreme caution on stream crossings - do not attempt in high water.

When you finish with your hike, what better way to cap the day then to nestle down at your house with your loved ones while grilling wonderful food on your new Big Green Egg? Learn more by visiting our Big Green Egg Page Here.

Do you know of some hiking spots that are gems that we missed? If so, feel free to post them below! We are always looking for a new adventure!

Hyperallergic: Hints of Queer Desire in Erased Pornographic Images

Stephen Irwin Untitled, 2009 Altered vintage pornography 11 x 8.5 in (all images Courtesy of Invisible-Exports)

The word “erasure” sounds like a threat because it is one. Violence underpins its promise of oblivion; it is a word that leaves only palimpsests in its wake, undecipherable traces of whatever came before. Kentucky native Stephen Irwin faced the threat of erasure every day of his life. Queer and chronically ill (he suffered from heart disease), Irwin was anathema to a conservative American Southern society that prized strong, straight men above all else. Nevertheless, he thrived in Louisville until his untimely death in 2010.

Stephen Irwin Untitled, 2009 Altered vintage pornography 11.5 x 8.5 in

On view at Invisible-Exports, Check to see if still dead inside retraces the artist’s late work as a gesture toward the sublime and erotic intimacy Irwin rarely achieved because of his physical condition. In altered images of gay pornography magazines, figures previously engaged in sex acts are now alone, or barely present themselves. Fragile and faded, the artist’s works on paper depict loneliness as a driving force of desire, and erasure as the faintest of signposts toward the erotic, queer bliss Irwin so deeply prized.

Ripping out the glossy pages of vintage gay pornography magazines, Irwin defaces his orgasmic subjects with a process resulting in what he euphemistically described as “rub-outs.” While the exact method is ambiguous, the product is contrastingly tactile and phantasmal. Irwin strips the pornography magazine of its bodies, wearing out its pages that fuzz and rip. Destroying everything save a few specks of ink, Irwin summons wraithlike shadows to occupy these spaces of former visual delight. Subsequent details are scant, often coming in the form of throwbacks to art history — pursed lips edited into a series of constructivist circles, a glimpse of naked flesh seen through one of Barnett Newman’s “zips.” These fragmented images could come across as commonplace fetishism, but they avoid that trap. Irwin imbues his source material with meaning, recasting queer bliss as some distant utopia, where desire is unchained by social mores or corporeality.

Stephen Irwin Untitled, 2010 Altered vintage pornography 11.5 x 8.5 in

At the center of the exhibition is a selection of nine objects resembling death masks that unsettle as much as they intrigue. Through a combination of pastel, graphite, and melted plastics, Irwin warps portraiture into uncanny pieces of trash. It’s tempting to see Irwin’s masks as a comment on the pain his chronic illness and queerness caused him; however, the work feels too gentle and loving for that. Rather, the artist wants us to catch ourselves in the reflection of his distorted masks. He is asking us to empathize with people who struggle internally with illness but may otherwise not show it.

Is the artist reflecting on the fleeting nature of love? Is he complicating our relationship to sex through the mitigating forces of violence? Or perhaps Irwin finds pleasure in erasure. Today, we prize queer visibility as a normalizing tool of equality. And within the queer community, the decision to not be visible is met with disbelief and anger. Presence is power, sure, but there is something to be said for Irwin’s intimate quietude, his soulful determination to hold tightly to his identity. The erasure in Irwin’s work is not about anonymity, shame, or disappearance, but the bliss that comes with fading into one’s erotic fantasies.

Installation view of Stephen Irwin’s Check to see if still dead inside at Invisible-Exports

Stephen Irwin: Check to see if still dead inside continues at Invisible-Exports (89 Eldridge St, Lower East Side, Manhattan) through May 14. 

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Exposition Art Blog Minimalism Art John Harvey McCracken

John Harvey McCracken (December 9, 1934 – April 8, 2011)was a minimalist artist. He lived and worked in Los Angeles, Santa Fe, New Mexico, and New York.Internationally recognized John McCracken commenced developing his earliest sculptural work while in grad school at California College of Arts and Crafts along with Minimalists John Slorp and Peter Schnore, and painters Tom Nuzum, Vincent Perez, and Terry StJohn, 1964, 1965. Equally well known Dennis Oppenheim, enrolled in the M.F.A. program at nearby Stanford, was a frequent visitor to this more vibrant graduate program. While experimenting with increasingly three-dimensional canvases, McCracken began to produce art objects made with industrial techniques and materials, plywood, sprayed lacquer, pigmented resin, creating the ever more minimalistic works featuring highly-reflective, smooth surfaces. He applied techniques akin to those used in surfboard construction—popular in Southern California. Later McCracken was part of the Light and Space movement that includes James Turrell, Peter Alexander, Larry Bell, Robert Irwin and others. In interviews, however, he usually cited his greatest influences as the hard edge works of the Abstract Expressionist Barnett Newman and Minimalists like Donald Judd, Dan Flavin and Carl Andre.Early objects created by John McCracken were derived from company logos such as the Chevron corporation logo. His sculptures deal with the interrelationships existing between the material world and design .....

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Exposition Art Blog Minimalism Art John Harvey McCracken

John Harvey McCracken (December 9, 1934 – April 8, 2011)was a minimalist artist. He lived and worked in Los Angeles, Santa Fe, New Mexico, and New York.Internationally recognized John McCracken commenced developing his earliest sculptural work while in grad school at California College of Arts and Crafts along with Minimalists John Slorp and Peter Schnore, and painters Tom Nuzum, Vincent Perez, and Terry StJohn, 1964, 1965. Equally well known Dennis Oppenheim, enrolled in the M.F.A. program at nearby Stanford, was a frequent visitor to this more vibrant graduate program. While experimenting with increasingly three-dimensional canvases, McCracken began to produce art objects made with industrial techniques and materials, plywood, sprayed lacquer, pigmented resin, creating the ever more minimalistic works featuring highly-reflective, smooth surfaces. He applied techniques akin to those used in surfboard construction—popular in Southern California. Later McCracken was part of the Light and Space movement that includes James Turrell, Peter Alexander, Larry Bell, Robert Irwin and others. In interviews, however, he usually cited his greatest influences as the hard edge works of the Abstract Expressionist Barnett Newman and Minimalists like Donald Judd, Dan Flavin and Carl Andre.Early objects created by John McCracken were derived from company logos such as the Chevron corporation logo. His sculptures deal with the interrelationships existing between the material world and design .....

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Exposition Art Blog Minimalism Art John Harvey McCracken

John Harvey McCracken (December 9, 1934 – April 8, 2011)was a minimalist artist. He lived and worked in Los Angeles, Santa Fe, New Mexico, and New York.Internationally recognized John McCracken commenced developing his earliest sculptural work while in grad school at California College of Arts and Crafts along with Minimalists John Slorp and Peter Schnore, and painters Tom Nuzum, Vincent Perez, and Terry StJohn, 1964, 1965. Equally well known Dennis Oppenheim, enrolled in the M.F.A. program at nearby Stanford, was a frequent visitor to this more vibrant graduate program. While experimenting with increasingly three-dimensional canvases, McCracken began to produce art objects made with industrial techniques and materials, plywood, sprayed lacquer, pigmented resin, creating the ever more minimalistic works featuring highly-reflective, smooth surfaces. He applied techniques akin to those used in surfboard construction—popular in Southern California. Later McCracken was part of the Light and Space movement that includes James Turrell, Peter Alexander, Larry Bell, Robert Irwin and others. In interviews, however, he usually cited his greatest influences as the hard edge works of the Abstract Expressionist Barnett Newman and Minimalists like Donald Judd, Dan Flavin and Carl Andre.Early objects created by John McCracken were derived from company logos such as the Chevron corporation logo. His sculptures deal with the interrelationships existing between the material world and design .....

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