Navitas Lease Corp. Announces the Closing of the Second Tranche
Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla., November 28, 2012 ? Navitas Lease Corp. continues expansion of its capital base to support growth in the small ticket financing marketplace.
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Navitas successfully closed the second tranche of its Series B Preferred Stock investment led by BlueMountain Capital Management, LLC on behalf of funds it manages.? This additional capital validates the strength of the Navitas business strategy and enables the company to continue to build upon its successes.? The company?s existing Series A investors, Noro-Moseley Partners, Croft and Bender LLC, and Lunsford Capital LLC also participated in the Series B investment.
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Concurrent with the closing, Navitas also completed a second expansion of its revolving, Senior Secured Credit facility with Wells Fargo Capital Finance, part of Wells Fargo & Company (NYSE: WFC). This additional $25 million added to its current line of $50 million provides the company with a total credit line of $75 million. This latest expansion of this facility will allow the company to meet its growth plans in 2013 and beyond.??? Gary Shivers, the company?s CEO says, ?The on-going commitment and support that Wells Fargo Capital Finance continues to provide Navitas is extremely rewarding and has given us the necessary capital to meet the key business objectives of the organization.?
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?We are pleased to have been able to build on our relationship with Navitas through this increase in our credit facility,? said Andrea Petro, division manager of the Lender Finance division of Wells Fargo Capital Finance. ?We look forward to supporting the company?s management team and its plans for long-term success.?
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About Navitas Lease Corp.:? Navitas is an equipment finance company headquartered in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, with offices in Cherry Hill, NJ and Columbia, SC. The company provides equipment financing to small and medium sized businesses nationally, through developing referral programs with equipment vendors and through lease brokers in its RLC Funding Division. For more information about Navitas please visit our website at www.navitaslease.com or call 877-NAVITAS (628-4827).
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About Wells Fargo Capital Finance:? Wells Fargo Capital Finance is the trade name for certain asset-based lending, accounts receivable and purchase order finance services of Wells Fargo & Company and its subsidiaries, and provides traditional asset-based lending, specialized senior and junior secured financing, accounts receivable financing, purchase order financing and channel finance to companies across the United States and internationally. Dedicated teams within Wells Fargo Capital Finance provide financing solutions for companies in specific industries such as retail, software publishing and high-technology, commercial finance, staffing, government contracting and others. For more information, visit wellsfargocapitalfinance.com.
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About BlueMountain Capital, LLC:? BlueMountain Capital Management is a leading investment manager focused on the credit markets managing $12.1 billion of assets, with $9.8 billion in hedge fund and opportunistic credit vehicles, as well as $2.3 billion in CLO assets. Founded in 2003, BlueMountain looks for relative value opportunities and maintains minimal directional exposure to credit markets. The Firm?s investment strategies include fundamental credit (long/short, capital structure), structured credit (corporate, ABS) and arbitrage and technical (index arbitrage, bond basis). Its 147 person team of professionals in New York and London are supported by its institutionalized and proprietary infrastructure, including world-class operations and risk management technology.
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If you would like to know more about Navitas Lease Corp. or to schedule an interview please contact Gary Shivers at 904.543.2575 ext. 102 or email garyshivers@navitaslease.com
So... it's that crazy shopping time of the year!? Did any of you head out to do any Black Friday shopping?? This is actually the first time in five years I have stayed home.? I needed absolutely nothing and there are no good craft stores nearby, so I decided to get some much needed sleep.
I am, however, taking advantage of the awesome deals online.? I bought some PDF sewing patterns as well as a few extra gifts for my daughter.? Plus, I am pretty certain my husband might have used that discount code I shared with him to purchase a fun crafty machine for me... we'll see!
Today, I have been browsing over at ConsumerCrafts.com because it's the last day of their Doorbuster Deals.? Plus, the ENTIRE site is 30% off!? I can always use more craft supplies {can't we all?} and I have my eye on several of their deals:
Yes... I have a Cricut, but I have been wanting one of these Silhouette Cameo machines for quite a while.? They don't require cartridges at all. Instead, simply connect the Silhouette Cameo to your computer and choose your designs.? You only purchase and download the specific designs you want {plus, I've seen some nice free ones floating around}.? The possibilities are limitless, really.? Ever since I used Angela's Cuttlebug, I have been smitten.? This handy little machine easily embosses paper, adding texture to scrapbook pages, cards, and other paper projects.? It's fun and easy to use {though a bit heavy}.? I know we could come up with all sorts of creative ways to use this! Raileigh loves dressing up more than just about anything else.? Well... besides reading.? But, then again, she will often read while dressed up!? So, many of her Christmas gifts revolve around those two things!? I was blown away when I saw these fairy wings.? They are less than $2!? I don't know is you've shopped for fairy wings before, but that is a steal! For the past several years, we have had the same Christmas mantle-- an assortment of snow globes we've collected over the years.? However, a lot of those snow globes are now over 10 years old.? And, just in case you didn't know-- snow globes don't age well.? They now contain snow globs instead of snow flakes and the pieces inside many have shifted.? This year, I plan on laying some fresh garland, and I think this 5-piece votive set would look lovely sitting amongst the garland. Raileigh enjoys puppets.? She'll crouch beside the chair while I work and put on puppet shows for me.? This darling kit would be a fun seasonal craft for us, and it would be one she'd enjoy playing with afterwards as well!? I highly suspect that Rudolph and Bumble might be part of puppet shows year round at my house!
I also want to share a few other special sales and exciting announcements you might be interested in.
Currently, there is a Silhouette Cameo GIVEAWAY going on at Crafts Unleashed {the Consumer Crafts blog}.? It ends in a few days, so enter now!
Canson Art Pads are Buy One Get One FREE through today.
The Cricut Expression Version 1 {the one I currently own} is available in a bundle with FOUR cartridges for just $199.97
I encourage you to head on over to Consumer Crafts and see all of the amazing deals they have on craft supplies.? Remember-- the doorbuster deals end today.? Plus, since it's Cyber Monday, the ENTIRE site is 30% off!? What are you waiting for?? Go load up that online shopping cart and start crafting!
Are you going to take advantage of a Cyber Monday sale to get your holiday crafting started? Tell me about what YOU'RE going to make!
Stay in touch with Consumer Crafts so you never miss out on any great sales like these!
Disclosure: I wrote this post as part of a paid campaign with Consumer Crafts and Blueprint Social. The opinions in this post are my own.
??If you kick-start your day with a glass of grapefruit juice, be careful. Canadian scientists say the number of common prescription drugs that can interact badly with the tart citrus is climbing, with the potential for dangerous, even deadly, results.
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Saturday Highlights: More on Apple and Google's talks of patent arbitration from All Things D and Cult of Android; Forbes seems confused over the meaning of thermonuclear litigation rather than arbitration in the case, however; Patently Apple reports on a new patent infringement case against Apple concerning iCloud; Seeking Alpha posits a rational explanation of irrational stock action; at Macworld, Michael Gartenberg considers Steve Jobs and the 1927 Yankees; iSource reviews TuneUp, an iTunes utility; Computer Shopper reviews the late 2012 Mac Mini; The Macalope this week attacks the dubious behavior of investor Doug Kass and the bizarre punditry of Dave Winer.
Friday Highlights: Samsung allowed by US judge to add iPhone 5 to their lawsuit, while Apple granted addition of Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1; possibility that iPad mini may be added; legal storm brewing?more details in our Apple/Macintosh section; iPad shipments to China seen having doubled, now at 2.07 million units; Foss Patents reports of disagreement between Apple, Google over "key parameters of potential FRAND arbitration"; Bob Evans of Oracle, writing at Forbes, says his company believes Steve Jobs' "vision of richly integrated software and hardware, engineered and optimized to work together from the ground up, will reshape the future of enterprise computing"; is the Mac universe about to see an influx of Windows users fleeing Microsoft's ecosystem?; Adobe Edge Animate 1.0, Camtasia 2, Audiofile Engineering Triumph 2 reviews in our OS X section where you'll also find Kirk McElhearn's Friday "Ask the iTunes Guy" column where he examines library splitting, among other topics; Ken Segall lends a little clarity to the skeuomorphism debate; Apple scores a patent win, obtaining over 1000 patents from Nortel's auction; Nintendo games on your iDevice? We may be one step closer; Google prepping release of own maps app for iDevices?more in our General Interest section; a short note at DigiTimes says Foxconn investing more in Brazil with new land purchase; Sprint and AT&T now offering iPad mini with cellular; VentureBeat calls the new iPad mini "the best iPad experience yet"; and hands-on impressions of the new iPad mini + LTE from ZDNet, and Terry White; want to get more out of your Apple TV? Macworld has some suggestions; Henry Blodget sees a "very worrisome" trend for Apple; rumors of Apple's television service rise again, but will it pop or fizz out?; is iPad mini on a course to become Apple's main iPad seller?
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"Google Maps Coming to the iPhone [Report]?Mashable?11/16
"Google 'tests new iPhone maps app'"?Telegraph?11/16
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"11.6-inch becomes niche-market size for notebooks, say Taiwan makers"?DigiTimes?11/16
"AT&T's LTE service expands to 103 cities, ahead of schedule"?Computerworld?11/16
"Scientists print out 'walking' biological machines"?TG Daily?11/16
"Misfit Shine: A Fitness Gadget Backed by Former Apple CEO Aims to be Different"?ABCNews?11/16
"Google Turns Vacuum Cleaner Into Book Scanner"?Wired Magazine?11/16
"Google Reveals Mysterious Niantic Project: Get ready for Ingress, a multiplayer, augmented reality game from Google's Niantic Labs."?InformationWeek?11/16
"Wordpress to accept Bitcoin without confirmations"?The Register?11/16
"Behold the $30,000 high-tech Scrabble board"?CNET News?11/16
"'Call of Duty' Game Rings Up $500 Million in Retail Sales"?Bloomberg?11/16
"Audio: Fugitive John McAfee on His Fifth Day in Hiding"?Wired?11/16
"Girls, guns and yoga: John McAfee's odd life in 'pirate haven'"?Reuters?11/16
"Twitter Adds Ability to Email Tweets From the Web"?PC Magazine?11/16
"Wii U to ship incomplete, missing Nintendo TVii service and more"?CNET Reviews?11/16
"Nintendo Faces Wii U Shortage After Debut in U.S. This Weekend"?Bloomberg?11/16
"Nintendo launches Wii U in uncertain market: Analysts expect strong initial sales, but more skeptical long term"?MarketWatch?11/16
"Sony to take aim at iPhone, Galaxy S3 in upcoming 'flagship' handset"?CNET News?11/16
"Sony Mobile Chief Acknowledges Its Smartphones Suck, Promises An iPhone, Galaxy S III Competitor Soon"?TechCrunch?11/16
Publications/Podcasts
"Origin Stories: Tekserve"?TUAW?11/16
"Gene Steinberg meets AppleInsider's Daniel Eran Dilger, Mac|Life's Adrian Hoppel, and Micromat's Jeff Baudin this week on The Tech Night Owl LIVE!"?The Tech Night Owl LIVE?11/16
"The Opinion Cast: PCs are Losing and Android is Winning?"?Tech.pinions?11/16
"LTE iPad Mini on sale in carrier stores tomorrow: Sprint says that it will begin selling the LTE version of Apple's smaller tablet online and in stores."?CNET News?11/16
"Sprint Says It Will Have LTE-Equipped iPad Minis, 4th-Gen iPads in Stores on Friday"?AllThingsD?11/16
"Sprint to begin selling Apple's LTE iPad mini and iPad from retail stores on Friday"?The Next Web?11/16
"Apple's iPad Mini With LTE Hits Sprint And At&T Retail Today, And Likely Other Stores, Too"?TechCrunch?11/16
"Sprint, AT&T selling iPad mini with fast LTE cellular service"?Los Angeles Times [Paid Membership Required]?11/16
"LTE-equipped iPad Mini, fourth-gen iPad now in stores"?CNET News?11/16
"Brits kept waiting as iPad Mini LTE arrives Stateside"?The Register?11/16
"Apple Now Owns the Page Turn"?New York Times [Free/Paid Registration Required]?11/16
"Maximize Mac Performance, Fusion Drive Hack, New iMac Delay?, and More Mac News"?Low End Mac?11/16
"MacBook Air Tops Ultrabooks, SSD in MacBook Pro, Firmware Updates, and More 'Book News"?Low End Mac?11/16
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Price Trackers/Deals
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"Tiny Racing For iPhone and iPad Is Temporarily Available For Free (Normally $0.99)"?Apple Sliced?11/16
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"Zepi HD For iPad Is Free Today (Was $0.99)"?Apple Sliced?11/16
"15" MacBook Pro Prices & Sales"?MacPrices?11/16
"13" MacBook Pro Prices & Sales"?MacPrices?11/16
"MacBook Air Prices & Sales"?MacPrices?11/16
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"Apple MacBook Air Buyer's Guide -Prices $688 To $1,599 -Prices, Reviews And Information"?MacReviewZone?11/16
"Top Black Friday apps for iOS: Get the best deals on Black Friday with this collection of iOS apps that are perfect for braving the biggest shopping day of the year."?CNET Reviews?11/16
"Stormfront celebrates the opening of its 20th store by offering 10% off Macs"?Macworld UK?11/16
"Stop. Don't buy an Apple product until next Friday's Black Friday sale"?Macworld UK?11/16
"These Are The Deals You Can Expect From Apple Next Black Friday [Buying Guide]?Cult of Mac?11/16
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"Adobe Black Friday: Save on Photoshop Elements, Acrobat, Lightroom"?FairerPlatform?11/16
"Black Friday iPad: Get an iPad 2 + $75 gift card"?FairerPlatform?11/16
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"Why Apple Can't Deny Google Maps On iPhone: When Google submits its rewritten Google Maps app for iOS, Apple can't block it."?InformationWeek?11/16
"Samsung requests Apple and HTC settlement details"?SlashGear?11/16
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"Apple, Microsoft Executive Shakeups Show They Don't Want Another Steve Jobs"?DailyTech?11/16
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"What happened to Apple?"?Examiner?11/16
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"iPads in the classroom reinvigorate teachers"?TUAW?11/16
"Judge Limits Android Jelly Bean in Apple, Samsung Patent Case"?The Mac Observer?11/16
"The Future Looks Bright For IOS Passbook"?MacNews?11/16
"Sony confesses: we can't beat iPhone... yet"?The Register?11/16
"My iOS 7 wishlist"?ZDNet?11/16
"Apple Discussing TV Plans With Cable Operators"?Apple'n'Apps?11/16
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"Apple Indeed Talking with Cable Operators About New TV Product, But Launch Not Imminent"?MacRumors?11/16
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"An Apple Television Is Not Coming Soon"?AppleBitch?11/16
"Apple has talked with cable companies about 'new TV product,' but launch not imminent"?AppleInsider?11/16
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"Office for IOS and Android: Microsoft Makes the Right Move"?The Motley Fool?11/16
"Apple's Changing Colors: How Will Cupertino's Changing Of The Guard Change Apple In The Future?"?Mac 360?11/16
"Ascending And Descending: The Shape Of Apple And Microsoft In The 21st Century"?PixoBebo?11/16
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"Here's How Spotify Scales Up And Stays Agile: It Runs 'Squads' Like Lean Startups"?TechCrunch?4:17 PM
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"'Fingersense' Touchscreen Tech Could Revolutionize Smartphones"?BGR?11/16
"15 awesome office gadgets and must-haves!"?ZDNet?11/16
"Dell's PC strategy: Damned if it does, damned if it doesn't"?ZDNet?11/16
"A year in cybersecurity and cybercrime: 2012 review"?ZDNet?11/16
"Russian Roulette ? An Excerpt From the Wired E-Book John McAfee's Last Stand"?Wired?11/16
"Nintendo Wii U: 15 Points to Consider Before Buying One"?Techland?11/16
"Thought you'd escaped Twitter? Think again as Twits get email button"?The Register?11/16
"Living with the Dell/Current Motor's SuperScooter: What would the world be like if PC companies designed and manufactured vehicles?"?TG Daily?11/16
"What Google Should Do With the Nexus Q (Hint: Give It Google TV)"?Wired?11/16
"Dear Google And Nokia: To Build An Accessory Ecosystem, You Have To Ship"?TechCrunch?11/16
"Meet the PengPod, a 'true Linux' tablet starting at $120"?PCWorld?11/16
"Gadget-shoppers: Pick your gadget path carefully"?Washington Post [Free Registration Required]?11/16
"Tip: Best gadgets to buy on Black Friday"?USA Today?11/16
"20 Great Pre-Black Friday Deals for 2012"?PC Magazine?11/16
"Motorola DROID RAZR MAXX HD Review"?HotHardware?11/16
"The top concerns with cloud storage services"?ZDNet?11/16
"Defining the elusive cloud architect"?InfoWorld?11/16
"The Silver Lining To Google Maps Being Kicked Off The iPhone - Money"?Forbes?11/16
"Why BB10 Could Save RIM, But It Won't"?Forbes?11/16
"It's a Rough Fall for the Playstation Vita"?Forbes?11/16
"First hands-on impressions of the Verizon HTC Droid DNA"?ZDNet?11/16
"Dazzling Screen In Supersized HTC Droid DNA"?BYTE?11/16
"Top laptops: 20 best laptops in the world/The best laptops you can get for less than a fully-stacked iPad"?TechRadar UK?11/16
"Windows Phone 8 review: Microsoft lays a foundation for success/But is there room for another mobile OS in a world ruled by Android and iOS?"?Ars Technica?11/16
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Humor/Cartoons
"Apple Specialist Sam Sung"?The Loop?8:12 PM
"Free Rockstar Dress Up Game hits Apple App Store"?prMac?9:43 AM
"Slash the Deficit now available on Apple App Store"?prMac?8:00 AM
"Letterpress 1.1 released with new 'Rematch!' feature, bug fixes"?9 to 5 Mac?6:43 AM
"Vicinno's Little Farm Preschool game 1.3 update makes learning more fun"?Mac Megasite?6:55 AM
"This iPhone App Rewards You for Photos of Your Favorite Brands"?Mashable?11/16
"The Cartoon Fun Of ToonCamera Comes To The iPad"?App Advice?11/16
"Build Terrifying Rides For Thrill Seekers In Coaster Crazy"?App Advice?11/16
"Flayvr for iOS brings organization to your Camera Roll"?CNET Reviews?11/16
"Get Tumblin' On Your iPhone With Bloggn"?App Advice?11/16
"SwitchEasy announces cases for iPod touch, nano"?Electronista?11/16
"WaterField Designs Releases Indy Mini: New Leather iPad mini Bag"?MacPrices?11/16
"Facebook iOS, Android apps now let you share stories with one tap"?CNET News?11/16
"'Tailored tweets' make their debut on iOS, Android apps"?CNET News?11/16
"Warner Bros. launches 'Day After US' iOS app for next-day streaming of TV shows"?9 to 5 Mac?11/16
"New Dutch and Japanese Translators Wanted!"?TidBITS?11/16
"Lytro Light Field Camera Gets Filters, Perspective Shift"?PC Magazine?11/16
"Facebook iOS, Android apps now let you share stories with one tap"?CNET News?11/16
"iViu Technologies Launches Customer Experience App For WSS"?PRNewswire?11/16
"Flint Redefines Easy iPhone Payments for On-The-Go Businesses"?PRNewswire?11/16
"iGear Launches Custom iPad Cases for Schools and K-12 Education Market"?PRWeb?11/16
"Build-A-Zombie? Mobile Game Now in the App Store"?PRWeb?11/16
"Wallaby's iPhone App Tells You Which Credit Card To Use To Maximize Your Rewards"?TechCrunch?11/16
"DriveSavers Equipped to Recover New Apple Fusion Drive"?Business Wire?11/16
"Koubachi Wi-Fi Plant Sensor hits Apple Retail Stores in Europe"?PRNewswire?11/16
"Apple rolls 'Big Games, Great Prices' MAS promo"?FairerPlatform?11/16
"The Week in iPhone Cases: November edition"?Macworld?11/16
"AccordFolio PU leather carrying case with multiple pockets (Black)"?USBfever?11/16
"Two-sided snaps: DuoCam for iOS takes front and rear-facing camera shots simultaneously"?The Next Web?11/16
"Tactilize raises $1 million+ for its self-publishing iPad app, from all over the globe"?The Next Web?11/16
"Twitter updates its IOS and Android app"?The Inquirer?11/16
"ArtStudio for iPhone - New Interface, New Engine, Lots of New Features"?prMac?11/16
"Cause & Effect 1.0 for iPad - Adventure game that plays out like a movie"?prMac?11/16
"Lost in Rome? These apps could get you back on the road"?prMac?11/16
"Focus Point enhances photo browsing experience on iPads"?prMac?11/16
"Death Row Drawings in the AppStore"?prMac?11/16
"Can You Guess the Apps in the Big App Quiz for iPhone and iPad?"?prMac?11/16
"Brand New PowerSketch 2.0 Goes Free For A Limited Time"?prMac?11/16
"Award-Winning ReturnGuru puts Receipt Management at Users' Fingertips"?prMac?11/16
"Marvel Apps release Tapestry Twist 1.0 for iOS - New Word Sudoku Game"?prMac?11/16
"Amazing Nature Flashcards App from Kodee's Canoe"?prMac?11/16
"Ski Tracker Hits the Slopes Just In Time"?prMac?11/16
"Tiny Ore - An awesome puzzle game worth having a try"?prMac?11/16
"Dell bolsters enterprise cloud ambitions with Gale Technologies buy"?ZDNet?11/16
"Dell Buys Infrastructure Automation Company Gale Technologies"?TechCrunch?11/16
"Dell buying Gale Technologies, forming enterprise unit"?Reuters?11/16
"Weak results send Dell to almost 4-year low"w"?MarketWatch?11/16
"Dell Drops to Three-Year Low as Forecast Misses Estimates"?Bloomberg?11/16
"Dell's Death Not Greatly Exaggerated"?TheStreet?11/16
"Dell's PC strategy leaves it stranded"?CNET News?11/16
"Dell Shifts Executives Around To Hurry Up And Fix Itself"?Business Insider?11/16
"Dell and pals mash parts together, squeeze out first 16Gb FC stack: Dell's Compellent unit has worked with Brocade, Emulex and QLogic to offer the first end-to-end 16Gbit/s Fibre Channel storage networking setup, speeding access to SAN data."?The Register?11/16
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ScienceDaily (Nov. 8, 2012) ? Decades of extreme weather crippled, and ultimately decimated, first the political culture and later the human population of the ancient Maya, according to a new study by an interdisciplinary team of researchers that includes two University of California, Davis, scientists.
The collapse of the Maya is one of the world's most enduring mysteries. Now, for the first time, researchers have combined a precise climatic record of the Maya environment with a precise record of Maya political history to provide a better understanding of the role weather had in the civilization's downfall.
Their findings are published in the Nov. 9, 2012 issue of the journal Science.
"Here you had an amazing state-level society that had created calendars, magnificent architecture, works of art, and was engaged in trade throughout Central America," said UC Davis anthropology professor and co-author Bruce Winterhalder. "They were incredible craftspersons, proficient in agriculture, statesmanship and warfare -- and within about 80 years, it fell completely apart."
To determine what was happening in the sociopolitical realm during each of those years, the study tapped the extensive Maya Hieroglyphic Database Project, run by UC Davis Native American Language Center director and linguist Martha Macri, a specialist in Mayan hieroglyphs who has been tracking the culture's stone monuments for nearly 30 years.
"Every one of these Maya monuments is political history," said Macri.
Inscribed on each monument is the date it was erected and dates of significant events, such as a ruler's birthday or accession to power, as well as dates of some deaths, burials and major battles. The researchers noted that the number of monuments carved decreased in the years leading to the collapse.
But the monuments made no mention of ecological events, such as storms, drought or references to crop successes or failures.
For that information, the research team collected a stalagmite from a cave in Belize, less than 1 mile from the Maya site of Uxbenka and about 18 miles from three other important centers. Using oxygen isotope dating in 0.1 millimeter increments along the length of the stalagmite, the scientists uncovered a physical record of rainfall over the past 2,000 years.
Combined, the stalagmite and hieroglyphs allowed the researchers to link precipitation to politics. Periods of high and increasing rainfall coincided with a rise in population and political centers between 300 and 660 AD. A climate reversal and drying trend between 660 and 1000 AD triggered political competition, increased warfare, overall sociopolitical instability, and finally, political collapse. This was followed by an extended drought between 1020 and 1100 AD that likely corresponded with crop failures, death, famine, migration and, ultimately, the collapse of the Maya population.
"It has long been suspected that weather events can cause a lot of political unrest and subject societies to disease and invasion," Macri said. "But now it's clear. There is physical evidence that correlates right along with it. We are dependent on climatological events that are beyond our control."
Said Winterhalder: "It's a cautionary tale about how fragile our political structure might be. Are we in danger the same way the Classic Maya were in danger? I don't know. But I suspect that just before their rapid descent and disappearance, Maya political elites were quite confident about their achievements."
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D. J. Kennett, S. F. M. Breitenbach, V. V. Aquino, Y. Asmerom, J. Awe, J. U. L. Baldini, P. Bartlein, B. J. Culleton, C. Ebert, C. Jazwa, M. J. Macri, N. Marwan, V. Polyak, K. M. Prufer, H. E. Ridley, H. Sodemann, B. Winterhalder, G. H. Haug. Development and Disintegration of Maya Political Systems in Response to Climate Change. Science, 2012; 338 (6108): 788 DOI: 10.1126/science.1226299
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BALTIMORE (WJZ) ? In Maryland, several key ballot issues drew voters to the polls in high numbers. One of the most hotly contested was expanded gambling, which pulled out a victory early Wednesday morning.
Jessica Kartalija has the latest on the battle over expanded gambling here in Maryland.
Fifty-two percent of voters are in favor of expanded gambling and 48 percent are against. Supporters say expanded gambling will keep more money in our state, create jobs and give money to education.
At National Harbor, those in support of Question 7 gathered to see the results of the election. That?s also where they want to see a new casino built.
As Marylanders went to the polls, politicians worked to sway those still up in the air on Question 7.
?For us, Question 7 is making sure we keep revenue in the state of Maryland,? said Prince George?s County Executive Rushern Baker.
With multi-million dollar ad campaigns on both sides, politicians hit polling places in the 11th hour.
?I just think it?s critically important for Maryland to step up to keep Maryland money here in Maryland and not in West Virginia, to support our neighbors in Prince George?s County but really for all over the state,? said Howard County Executive Ken Ulman.
?They just say this one thing over and over again that there are going to be more money for schools and you?re going to believe it, but I think most people know by now that?s not the case,? said Marta Mossburg, Public Policy Institute.
Question 7 allows for additional slot machines, adds table games in addition to those slots and allows a sixth casino to be built at National Harbor in Prince George?s County.
That casino at National Harbor would be similar to what you?d see at Atlantic City or Las Vegas.
After an ambush that injured US CIA operatives, the Mexican government has indicated they are close to charging police officers, who they say may be corrupt.?
By Lizbeth Diaz,?Reuters / October 31, 2012
A yellow police line reading "PGR (Attorney General's Office) Criminalistics" delimits the area where US officials and Mexican investigators work at the scene where two CIA officers were shot on a road near Tres Marias, outside Mexico City September 10. Two CIA agents operating in Mexico were shot and wounded by Mexican federal police just south of the capital.
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Mexico?said on Wednesday it was close to charging police officers with deliberately targeting two US agents in an August attack that caused serious embarrassment to the?Mexican government.
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Security officials identified the men as CIA agents, and Mexican investigators have said the attack may have been carried out by corrupt police working with drug gangs.
The incident, which police first blamed on a case of mistaken identity, was the worst attack against US officials in?Mexico?since drug gang hit men killed a US immigration agent and wounded his colleague in a highway attack in early 2011.
Mexico's attorney general said police were likely to be prosecuted for the ambush of the two agents as they traveled in a vehicle with diplomatic plates on a road south of?Mexico City.
"At the moment everything points to the fact that there will be people to charge," said attorney general?Maries Morales. "We're now carefully analyzing the conduct of each officer to ascertain what exactly they can be charged with."
The CIA has declined to comment on the incident. Mexican authorities have detained 14 people in connection with the case.
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