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A grumpy elf made a special appearance at the Bennett’s Mill Middle School band concert last week. Principal Jason Byars, playing out of character with a high-pitched voice, got some laughs as the band delighted the crowd with a performance of “The Grumpy Elf” among other holiday favorites. Photo/John Munford.
via The Citizen http://www.thecitizen.com/articles/12-25-2013/grumpy-elf-principal-performance
DA: problems with suspect ID, witness statements led to deal
A Peachtree City man was sentenced Dec. 12 to five years in prison for robbing three local convenience stores this summer by pretending to wield a weapon underneath his clothes.
District Attorney Scott Ballard acknowledged that the negotiated plea deal for Clayton Wallace Thomas, 26, of Valley View Drive is lighter than customarily handed down in Fayette County for such a major felony.
via The Citizen http://www.thecitizen.com/articles/12-25-2013/local-robber-gets-%E2%80%98lighter%E2%80%99-usual-prison-term
The sign for the new Fayetteville Elementary School went up recently and a group of students were joined by administrators in showing it off. The school was renamed when Fayetteville Intermediate School and Hood Avenue Primary were combined at the beginning of the school year. Pictured, from left, are Principal Kim Herron, McKenzie Floyd, Samantha Williams, George Williams, Jacob Hartley, Zelia Houston, Alex Houston, Michael Sattinger and Assistant Principal Lisa Howe. Photo/Ben Nelms.
via The Citizen http://www.thecitizen.com/articles/12-24-2013/%E2%80%98new%E2%80%99-school-gets-new-sign
Since Carl Icahn is offline (one can’t tweet the market or AAPL higher when it’s closed), here is Bill Gross with some twitter Christmas non-cheer.
Gross: HoHoHo! Who cant like a ~25% gain in 2013? Only a Grinch who worries abt record profit margins, corp buybacks &Fed checkwriting. Moi?
— PIMCO (@PIMCO) December 25, 2013
Of course, the 25% return in 2013 was for Bernanke’s favorite asset class: stocks. Bonds… not so much.
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Since Carl Icahn is offline (one can’t tweet the market or AAPL higher when it’s closed), here is Bill Gross with some twitter Christmas non-cheer.
Gross: HoHoHo! Who cant like a ~25% gain in 2013? Only a Grinch who worries abt record profit margins, corp buybacks &Fed checkwriting. Moi?
— PIMCO (@PIMCO) December 25, 2013
Of course, the 25% return in 2013 was for Bernanke’s favorite asset class: stocks. Bonds… not so much.
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While millisecond by millisecond we spend our lives focused on the machinations of the “markets”, a lot of ‘other stuff’ happened in 2013. The following incredible image from Beutler Ink’s Mario Zucca packs in an entire year’s worth of 2013’s major events.
And Mario has been kind enough to provide a ‘cheat sheet’…
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Recognize the distorted text to
your right? That’s a knock-off of CAPTCHA, the ingenious online
system for verifying that you are a human user of a website and not
some crawling bot. Ahn’s reCAPTCHA, now owned by Google, uses the
CAPTCHA interface to break up digitizing projects into two-word
chunks of old scanned texts. Users-an estimated 10 percent of the
world’s population-are unknowingly helping to digitize around 100
million words a day, the equivalent of about 2.5 million books a
year. William Eggers highlights this and other ways public,
private, and nonprofit organizations can use lightweight,
distributed approaches to solve societal problems faster and
cheaper than the existing sclerotic models.
from Hit & Run http://reason.com/blog/2013/12/25/william-d-eggers-on-crowdsourcing-social
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The only thing missing from the cartoon below is there is a minimum net worth requirement for “free money” eligibility.
h/t @bondskew
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@theisaacblakemore: I have a costume full of them… does my Rudolph nose or sequined Santa hat interest you? 😉
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