Pink Fire Pointer March 2013

Love Wallpaper


One of the easiest ways to remove yourself from stress and breathe easy is to surround yourself with love. Love wallpapers for your computer can be downloaded for free so that you get a great looking background for your computer without paying a dime. Every time you open your computer or minimize your windows, you get a great, warm feeling around you.

Love wallpapers don't have to be downloaded just around Valentine's Day, though they are great to help you remember that holiday, too. You can pretend it's Valentine's Day every day, without the conversation hearts. Having someone by your side and feeling the emotion of love is always possible when you have love images surrounding you on your computer.

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Being at work can feel like you're in a hostile working environment. It can be a stressful situation and you may even be getting yelled at. If you can make it over to your computer, it may be enough to take a deep breath and relax. The love wallpapers can help you escape from work for just a moment to remind you that there is something past those four walls of doom and gloom.

Getting love wallpaper on your computer can really perk up every day. There are numerous photos related to love which might be certain to allow you to laugh. So many people are knowledgeable about one's heart as well as the ribbon and bow and arrow while indicating enjoy toward the other person that getting these because your background may remind you of a special someone, any moment involving evening. Love wallpaper for the desktop could also game a new caring communication or even estimate and also caring images. These types of words might have highly effective connotations or maybe just say 'I love you' but one thing is perfect for certain, every single information leaves an individual feeling hot as well as content on the inside. Hearts can be a quite functional graphic, numerous individuals will like to have these kinds of as their wallpaper without it being particularly concerning love. They may be employed while general images making a refreshing along with trendy picture.

There isn't any question the idea; people want to create their particular computer background a lot more lovely. While using the selection of incredible art and also designs obtainable, you can provide your current desktop alive. You can share the love by sending your current much-loved wallpapers on your close friends or maybe your spouse and children to enable them to have a wallpapers to be able to point out to all of them person. You can probably find far more love backgrounds offered as compared to any other group, consequently don't be concerned you will never get bored, as well as you are able to switch and change your love backgrounds when you need to. You may also like to add individual images to your love wallpaper, entwining your own impression your of a beautiful picturesque look at or even a funky vibrant as well as modern design and style. Customising the wallpapers on your desktop indicates it will likely be exclusive; no one can have precisely the same background when you carry out. Love wallpaper is usually going to make you really feel satisfied each time you turn on your computer, so get looking and discover your special enjoy backgrounds.

Love Match

So it's very preferably to understand each other and then get into a relation which many have started practicing now. While choosing a partner we have to take in considerations a lot of factors because once decided wrongly it is we who are going to suffer. Despite the physical beauty and appearances the character and nature of a person is important as appearances are always deceptive and beauty in external fades away with time. Once you decide up your partner check out the compatibility between you both. Make a simple love match test and find out your both love matches.

This can be done by adopting very simple techniques which might include the sharing of thoughts among you both, knowing whether your partner too has similar kinds of thoughts not necessarily similar but he/she , must have the strong thoughts of respecting you, loving you not only now but always. Your life partner is the one who is going to support you and be with you for the rest of your life so think twice or thrice before coming to conclusions.

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Ask a few questions which you think are very much worth knowing from your partner and if you feel the answers are quite satisfactory and also make u comfortable go on with the idea. Checking out your love match is very important when it comes to today's atmosphere. Not necessary you must be superstitious to believe these. But we must understand that all these are just to make our relationship strong and thereby preventing unhealthy relations. One more important thing to be noted is that your partner need not to be exactly like what you wish and what u are. It is in fact not encouraged to choose such a partner. Choose the one who can read your mind, understands your actions, and who can complement and hide your weakness.

Also a prime factor is he/she should be able to give you mental and happiness from heart than physical happiness. Physical happiness is a part of living but it can be achieved only when two souls come together rather than being two physical bodies. All these love matching tests help us to be strong in our love relations and we have to keep in mind that maintaining a relation is all the more difficult than creating one. Thus finding out your match and understanding the basic similarities and differences of your partner would make you lead a happy and successful life!!!

Natioanals Saturday Schedule

All teams play Saturday from 8:30 am- 4:00 pm in 32 Gyms -
**see the last blog entry for NOAH team times

Championship Saturday Schedule, March 23, 2013 – Hammons Student Center at Missouri State University

11:15 AM Varsity Girls Small School Gold Ball National Championship Game
12:35 PM Varsity Boys Small School Gold Ball National Championship Game
1:55 PM Boys 16u Gold Ball Showdown
3:15 PM  Varsity Girls Gold Ball Showdown
4:30 PM  Varsity Girls 1st Team All Region Games
5:10 PM  Varsity Boys Gold Ball Showdown
6:30 PM Varsity Boys 1st Team All Region Games
7:10 PM  Varsity Boys & Girls All American Games
7:45 PM  Award Ceremony for ALL Age Groups (10u, 12u, 14u, 16u, & 18u)

NOAH Devo and pizza party

All-NOAH FREE pizza party at 5:30 today followed by worship and devo. Come share a special time of food and fellowship together. Pizza, salad, and dessert will be in the student center of the Baptist Bible College. Turn south off Kearney onto Summit. Student center is in SW corner of first building on right. You can park in first parking lot on left, walk across Summit, go between two buildings, student center door faces west. Afterwards, we'll worship and have devo and then cheer on the varsity boys.



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Friday varsity girl time change

NOAH Varsity girls will play at gym 9 at 12:50 tomorrow. Varsity boys will still play at 8:45pm.

Go jags!



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Friday Games—GO JAGS!

**Look for information on the pizza party and NOAH devotions from your coach tomorrow!
**Varsity Boys game time pending the outcome of tonight's game.

9:30am
NOAH 12U Girls vs. Springfield RUSH
Where: Gym #2-The Courts - 4136 E. Kearney St.

9:35am
NOAH 12U Boys Blue (Lloyd) vs. Tulsa CHEF Arrows
Where: Gym #10-Central Bible College - 3000 N. Grant Ave.

NOAH 16U Boys (JV Boys) vs. Dallas HSAA South
Where: Gym #11 Doling Community Center 301 E. Talmage St.

10:40am
NOAH 12U Boys White (Wilson) vs. MHEA Eagles (TN)
Where: Gym #4 Republic Community Center - 711 E. Miller Rd., Republic, MO

11:45am
NOAH 10U Boys vs. HCYA Warriors
Where: Gym #3-The Courts - 4136 E. Kearney St.

NOAH Varsity Blue vs. Monroe County
Where: Gym #5 Republic Community Center - 711 E. Miller Rd., Republic, MO

12:50pm
NOAH 14U Girls vs. Team USA Red
Where: Gym #15-Drury University - 900 N. Benton Ave.

3pm
NOAH 14U Boys-1 (Beasler) vs. Eastside Golden Eagles
Where: Gym #7 - Baptist Bible College - 628 E. Kearney St.

NOAH 14U-2 Boys (Coppinger/Waller) vs. CHANT Chargers
Where: Gym #5 Republic Community Center - 711 E. Miller Rd., Republic, MO

8:45pm
NOAH Varsity Girls vs. Illinois Crusaders (IL)
Where: Gym #21- Hillcrest High School - 3319 N. Grant Ave.
Congrats to Varsity Girls and Boys for their great play and wins tonight! 
Go Jags! 

Thursday schedule for Varsity:

NOAH Varsity Girls vs. Memphis FCA Nighthawks (TN) at 3pm
Where: Gym #9-Central Bible College - 3000 N. Grant Ave.

NOAH Varsity Boys vs. GAIS Eagles (GA) at 8:45pm,
Where: Gym #9-Central Bible College - 3000 N. Grant Ave.

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NOAH Thursday Games


NOAH Varsity Girls TBD
NOAH Varsity BoysTBD

8:30am
NOAH 12U Boys Blue (Lloyd) vs. Team USA White
Where: Gym #10-Central Bible College - 3000 N. Grant Ave.

9:35am
NOAH 16U Boys (JV Boys) vs. Dallas HSAA South
Where: Gym #11 Doling Community Center 301 E. Talmage St.

10:30am
NOAH 12U Girls vs. Memphis FCA Nighthawks
Where: Gym #1-The Courts - 4136 E. Kearney St.

10:40am
NOAH 12U Boys White (Wilson) vs. Illinois Crusaders
Where: Gym #4 Republic Community Center - 711 E. Miller Rd., Republic, MO

11:45am
NOAH 10U Boys vs. NCC Warriors
Where: Gym #10 Central Bible College- 3000 N. Grant Ave..

12:50pm
NOAH Varsity Blue vs. Team USA Gold
Where: Gym #4 Republic Community Center - 711 E. Miller Rd., Republic, MO

NOAH 14U Girls vs. RCHA Pride (TX)
Where: Gym #15-Drury University - 900 N. Benton Ave.

1:55pm
NOAH 14U Boys-1 (Beasler) vs. Indy NW Warriors (IN)
Where: Gym #11 Doling Community Center 301 E. Talmage St.

NOAH 14U-2 Boys (Coppinger/Waller) vs. Wright County Warriors
Where: Gym #4 Republic Community Center - 711 E. Miller Rd., Republic, MO

The Woodlands



View The Woodlands in a larger map

Visit our Tour Destination: Pennsylvania page to see the entire tour of the state’s Save America’s Treasures sites.

The Woodlands mansion, home of William Hamilton (1745-1813).
Photo courtesy of The Woodlands Trust for Historic Preservation.

The Woodlands
4000 Woodland Avenue
Philadelphia, PA

Website:  The Woodlands

The Treasure:  Once the centerpiece of a large 18th century Philadelphia estate, The Woodlands mansion is a classic example of early Federal architecture.

Accessibility:  The grounds of The Woodlands are open from dawn to dusk. Check the website for information on events and tours.

Historic photo of The Woodlands mansion, circa 1900.
Photo courtesy of The Woodlands Trust
for Historic Preservation.
Background:  The west side of the Schuylkill River still reflects some of the botanical glory of its heyday in the late 18th century. Pioneering botanists John and William Bartram lived and worked along the banks here. And just around the river bend north of the Bartram estate was The Woodlands, a magnificent property developed by William Hamilton (1745-1813) as a base for his botanical pursuits.

Hamiltonbased his property design on English picturesque landscapes. Among the admirers of Hamilton's work was Thomas Jefferson who claimed it was the only American landscape that could compete with the best of Europe: “(T)he only rival which I have known in Americato what may be seen in England.” In his greenhouses, Hamiltoncultivated both imported plants and American native plants, notably including some seeds brought from the Lewis and Clark expeditions.

Hamiltonwas equally ambitious with his architectural choices. When he inherited the land in his early 20s, he built a classical villa and ornamented it with what may have been the first monumental portico in Philadelphia. Twenty years later, Hamilton rebuilt the house in the new style of British architects Robert and James Adam—converting his Woodlands mansion into one of the first American examples of the newly emerging Federal style.

During restoration, the original 18th century
wooden posts were exposed for the first
time in more than two centuries.
Photo courtesy of the Woodlands Trust
for Historic Preservation.
You can stroll through The Woodlands today and feel the draw of the past. In truth the landscape of The Woodlands is now more reflective of the Victorian rural cemetery tradition (the Woodlands Cemetery Company has flourished here since 1840), but much of the spirit of Hamilton remains. The Woodlands mansion remains a stunning reminder of Philadelphia’s tradition of grand estates. Save America’s Treasures funding contributed to historical research and restoration focused upon the portico, preserving a record of its original configuration and subsequent modifications in 1786, 1789, and the early 19th century, as well as roof restoration on the historic main carriage house.

Notes from the Editor:  My friend and co-worker Edith Mulhern wrote an eloquent love letter to the Woodland Cemetery:

Dear Woodlands Cemetery:

I’m so glad I found you. I spent years wandering in less lovely spots, and you were just lurking behind those gates across from the trolley portal…

Enjoy the rest of her tribute at Philly Love Notes!

In addition to the work on the mansion's portico, Save America's Treasures
funding was used to replace the deteriorated roofing and downspouts on the
historic main carriage house.
Photo courtesy of The Woodlands Trust for Historic Preservation.

Historic print of the entrance to The Woodlands Cemetery.
Image courtesy of The Woodlands Trust for Historic Preservation.

Other Recommended Sites:  For more botanical glory along the Schuylkill River, visit nearby Historic Bartram’s Garden, the oldest surviving botanic garden in the country and the home of the Bartram family (father John and sons John Jr. and William), friends and neighbors of William Hamilton.

A view of The Woodlands Cemetery.
Photo courtesy of The Woodlands Trust for Historic Preservation.

Tour America's Treasures Itinerary
Taking a short sabbatical:  Will return for more Pennsylvania destinations in mid-April 2013.

© 2013 Lee Price


Wednesday's games

9:30AM 12G gym #3



9:35AM 12B1 gym #12



10:40AM 12B2 gym #10



10:40AM JVB gym #17 (Ozark)



11:30AM 10B gym #3



11:45AM NOAH BLUE gym #6 (Republic) vs SCCHA BLAZERS



11:45am 14G gym #15



3pm 14B2 gym #4 (Republic)



3PM 14B1 gym #8



6:15 Varsity girls (sweet 16) gym #7 vs. Missouri Mavericks



8:45 Varsity boys gym #9 vs. St. John's Warriors from Michigan



Go Jags!!!

NOAH Wednesday Games

9:30am NOAH 12U Girls vs SCCHEA Warriors
      Where: Gym #3-The Courts - 4136 E. Kearney St.

 
9:35am NOAH 12U Boys White (Wilson) vs. HCYA Warriors
     Where: Gym #12-Teft-O’Reilly Center - 1408 E. Pythian St.


10:40am NOAH 12U Boys Blue (Lloyd) vs. SCCHA Blazers
     Where: Gym #10-Central Bible College - 3000 N. Grant Ave.
 

10:40am NOAH JVB vs THESA
     Where: Gym #17--Ozark Community Center - 1530 W. Jackson St., Ozark, MO
 

11:30am NOAH 10U Boys vs NCC Warriors
     Where: Gym #3-The Courts - 4136 E. Kearney St.
 

11:45am NOAH Blue vs Valley Crusaders (Wasilla, AK)
     Where: Gym #6
Republic Community Center - 711 E. Miller Rd., Republic, MO
 

11:45am NOAH JH Girls vs. RUSH (Springield)
     Where: Gym #15-Drury University - 900 N. Benton Ave.
 

3pm NOAH 14U-2Boys (Coppinger/Waller) vs Dallas Thunder
     Where: Gym #4 Republic Community Center - 711 E. Miller Rd., Republic, MO
 

3pm NOAH JH Boys-1 (Beasler) vs. NWA Hornets (AR)
     Where: Gym #8-First Baptist Gym - 525 South Ave
 

6:15pm NOAH Varsity Girls vs Missouri Mavericks
     "Sweet Sixteen Showcase"
     Where: Gym #7-Baptist Bible College - 628 E. Kearney St.

 8:45pm NOAH Varsity Boys vs. St. Johns Warriors (MI)
     Where: Gym #9--Central Bible College - 3000 N. Grant Ave.
74-42 varsity boys win



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Tuesday Games

Player and Coach Registration  (t-shirt pick up) at Oasis Convention Center (Monday and Tuesday)
Link to map for Ramada Oasis Convention Center
Address: 2546 N. Glenstone Ave., Springfield, MO


Here are the Tuesday games for NOAH.  Please roll out in your Blue gear and ready to yell.
NOAH GAMES FOR TUESDAY  
(We hope to keep the calendars posted on the blog at the left updated daily--but please depend on your own coach/team for your game schedule)


Boys Varsity - Gym #8     10:50AM
  • When we WIN!!! - Gym #8 8:50PM (still Tues)
  • If lose - Gym #13, 7:40 PM

JH2 Boys - Gym #1     11:55AM

JH1 Boys -  Gym #7     1:00 PM

Girls Varsity - Gym #3     2:10 PM

Girls JH - Gym #8    3:20PM *note time change

Boys Varsity Blue - Gym #16     6:30 PM

GO Jags!

Nationals Resturant Information

Clark Bickers found a few deals to help ease the cost of next week at Nationals.  Even if you’re staying in the dorm, you still have to cover lunch, so any discount will be a help!  J

Hotel

First off, for a good deal on a hotel room, check out this special on Groupon.com:  $59/night and includes a hot breakfast!

Dining Out

Qdoba:  There will be a coupon for a BOGO in your registration packet which is good for up to an entire team, so if you work it right (and you really like Mexican food), you can get a great half-off deal for your entire family or team more than once during the week

Tubby’s Diner:  This looks like a great place!  With 3rd-pound Angus burgers, beer-battered fish, hand-dipped milk shakes…mmm…check out their menu here http://www.tubbysdiner.com/menu.html.
Use the following Groupon deal to get $25 worth of food for $11.

Honey Heaven & The Bee-stro Café:  A delicious, healthy alternative.  Check out their menu at http://www.honeyheaven.com/bee_stro_cafe_menu.  Also, check out their mission statement http://www.honeyheaven.com/home.
Use the following Groupon deal to get $15 worth of food for $7.

More Deals:  See the attached spreadsheet for more restaurant deals!

Hope these help your dollars go a bit further this next week!
God bless you!
Clark

The JP Morgan ‘hedging’ fiasco


Ina Drew - Senate Hearing (Source: CNNMoney)

“The strategy was flawed, complex, poorly executed, and poorly monitored.” – Jamie Dimon on the scheme that cost the firm over $6.2 billion last year.

Right before a series of hearings related to the failed hedging portfolio, the Senate released a 300-page report two days ago that revisited significant missteps in the risk-management process at JP Morgan that led to catastrophic losses in the first half of last year, as well as casting a dark shadow over former Chief Investment Officer Ina Drew. The heavy losses sustained by JP Morgan where from a complex derivatives portfolio that was build to hedge against credit risk in the Firm’s Chief Investment Office (CIO) and “in its capacity as a lender.”[1] The Senate report claims that JP Morgan failed miserably in heeding repeated warnings from its internal risk controls (more than 330 of them throughout the first four months of 2012), misled investors in a conference call in April 13 of that year, and withheld information from regulators. It also criticized authorities at the Comptroller of the Currency, which were tasked with guarding against such excessive risk-taking, for not pursuing the incoming red flags.[2] In January of this year, JP Morgan also released a document that highlighted some of the mistakes that were mentioned in the Senate report and widely acknowledged that senior management should have done better at handling the complexity, size, and riskiness of the portfolio.[3]The firm’s report directly placed the blame for the debacle on the traders that executed the flawed strategy, the “London whale” among them, while harshly admonishing their superiors for allowing the trades to ever materialize.

However, it remains unclear whether management actively sought to mislead investors, or was simply unaware of the true nature of the losses. Democratic Senator Carl Levin, who led the Senate probe into the trades, is convinced that the former is in fact the case. After the report was released, he stated that the bank’s communications and securities filings “misinformed investors, regulators, and the public.” Yet by the time Jamie Dimon characterized the losses as a “tempest in a teapot”, the portfolio had reportedly lost $719 million[4], a fraction of the final amount. Given the difficulty of estimating losses in such a complex derivatives portfolio, it seems exaggerated to assume that both Douglas Braunstein, the CFO at the time, and Dimon were knowingly issuing false statements and thus breaking the law. Furthermore, on May 10, 2012, the bank’s Controller completed a special assessment that concluded that the CIO had “accurately reported the value of its derivative holdings” in line with best industry practices, while conceding that the firm had aggressively priced the derivatives in the portfolio to minimize their regulatory capital.[5]

It is also surprising that the Senate subcommittee decided to try and galvanize public opinion by characterizing the losses as a clear violation of the Volcker Rule, contradicting a previous statement by the CIO[6], and by dismissing the scheme as a “make believe voodoo magic ‘composite hedge’”[7], even when such a rule has not been finalized and does not represent law under which the Securities and Exchange Commission currently operates.

Though the media will focus on the obvious errors that occurred throughout this episode, and the particularly egregious decision to tweak the firm’s value-at-risk (VaR) metric to allow for the trades[8], it is only responsible to properly take into account the specific circumstances surrounding the bank’s errors and disclosures. It must also be said that JP Morgan, despite the trades and tarnished image, reported record profits and higher revenues for the year.[9] Still, the Senate findings will ensure that the pressure remains on Dimon to never let similar mistakes happen again. Expect the authorities to speed up the implementation of the Volcker rule, and to continue to paint the financial sector as a ‘runaway train’ that needs stiff regulations to function, let alone thrive – regardless of the validity of such claims.

-- Andrés Muñoz



[1] JP Morgan Chase & Co. Management Task Force, Regarding 2012 CIO Losses, CIO Reports, http://files.shareholder.com/downloads/ONE/2369390770x0x628656/4cb574a0-0bf5-4728-9582-625e4519b5ab/Task_Force_Report.pdf, p. 2
[2] Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, JP Morgan Whale Trades: A Case History of Derivatives Risk and Abuses, United States Senate, March 15, 2013, p. 3
[3] Regarding 2012 CIO Losses, p. 8-9
[4] JP Morgan Whale Trades, p. 4
[5] JP Morgan Whale Trades, p. 6
[6] JP Morgan Whale Trades, p. 236
[7] JP Morgan Whale Trades, p. 36
[8] Jessica Silver Greenberg, JP Morgan Faulted on Controls and Disclosure in Trading Loss, Dealbook, http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2013/03/14/jpmorgan-faulted-on-controls-and-disclosure-in-trading-loss/
[9] JP Morgan, Form 8-K, CIO Reports, http://files.shareholder.com/downloads/ONE/2369390770x0x628654/23d47648-fb16-4f84-b9f2-47c60d158be0/4Q12_CIO_Report_-_Form_8K.pdf