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THE MYTH THAT “MINORITIES” GET MORE SCHOLARSHIPS DEBUNKED SINCE 5EVER

This is something that comes up time and time again like clockwork.Here’s a”just the facts” post.

Racists LOVE this tired old saw. The problem is that it’s complete and utter bullshit, it always HAS been, and IT IS THE OPPOSITE OF REALITY.

Caucasian students receive more than three-quarters (76%) of all institutional merit-based scholarship and grant funding, even though they represent less than two-thirds (62%) of the student population. Caucasian students are 40% more likely to win private scholarships than minority students. These statistics demonstrate that, as a whole, private sector scholarship programs tend to perpetuate historical inequities in the distribution of scholarships according to race.

-The Distribution of Grants and Scholarships by Race

BUT WHAT ABOUT FINANCIAL NEED BASED SCHOLARSHIPS????

OH HEY IS THERE ANOTHER SOURCE FOR THIS?

It debunks the race myth, which claims that minority students receive more than their fair share of scholarships. The reality is that minority students are less likely to win private scholarships or receive merit-based institutional grants than Caucasian students. Among undergraduate students enrolled full-time/full-year in Bachelor’s degree programs at four-year colleges and universities, minority students represent about a third of applicants but slightly more than a quarter of private scholarship recipients. Caucasian students receive more than three-quarters (76%) of all institutional merit-based scholarship and grant funding, even though they represent less than two-thirds (62%) of the student population. Caucasian students are 40% more likely to win private scholarships than minority students.

STOP PARROTING RACIST MYTHS INSTEAD OF ACTUALLY FACT CHECKING

Scholarships Go Disproportionately To White Students

White Students More Likely To Win Scholarships

White students get Minority Scholarships

Texas State Offers Scholarship EXCLUSIVELY FOR WHITE PEOPLE

One Million dollars’ Worth of White “Ethnic” Scholarships Don’t Trouble Student Group Protesting “Minority Scholarships

B-b-but what about the “Evils” Of Affirmative Action in Higher Education??? Oh yeah, WHITE WOMEN ARE THE #1 BENEFICIARIES OF AFFIRMATIVE ACTION.

So stop saying this shit. you’re just plain fucking WRONG. Also, racist.

Chipotle Mexican Grill, Inc. (NYSE:CMG) has recently run into an epic trend line that signals a longer term top in the stock. This trend line stretche…

Chipotle Mexican Grill, Inc. (NYSE:CMG) has recently run into an epic trend line that signals a longer term top in the stock. This trend line stretches back to 2007, 2012 and now 2013. Each time this level has been reached, the stock has pull back significantly. A pull back over the next 6 months could yield an easy target of $450.00. Gareth Soloway InTheMoneyStocks.com

KKR's continued asian adventure, this time India.

We have been following KKR's on going investment crusade in Asia. As part of their $6 billion dollar asian fund, the New York based firm has been investing all over the region. There is speculation that much of KKR's foreign investments are guided by its Global Institute. 

Some of the countries they have so far invested in this year include Indonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam, China and Japan. 

Now the firm is likely to announce in the coming weeks a major investment into India's Gland Pharmaceuticals. This deal would be worth around $150 million and would be the second sizable India investment in six months. In April KKR bought a controlling stake in India's Alliance Tire Group from Warburg Pincus LLC for what sources estimate to be around $500 million. 

Gland Pharma was started in 1978 and makes active pharmaceutical ingredients and formulations for a number of different injections. 

Investments have been falling in India. Compared to this time last year the amount of private equity investments has dropped 67%. 

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European Credit Manager Avoca Sells

The Europe's Avoca Capital Holdings is an employee owned investment management firm. They have recently announced that they will be selling to the American private equity firm KKR.

Avoca Capital Logo This sale should be a good deal for both companies, which should complement each other well. Fitch ratings claims that the transaction should not affect Avoca Capitals highest standard's asset manager rating. Fitch also claims there will be good synergy between the two companies. The combined assets of both firms is approximately $28 billion, of which $8 billion is under management by Avoca Capital. There may be some conflicts of interests between assets of the two firms but this should not create any major problems. Fitch believes that Avoca will grow supported by KKR's brand and distribution capability. In addition KKR will assist Avoca to meet new European risk retention regulations. These rules make operations more expensive for smaller firms who are unable to handle the burden. The operational transaction risk for the two companies is relatively low. Moving forward all Avoca staff will become KKR employees, however there will be no change in reporting lines or processes, systems or locations. Short term measures have been taken to retain senior Avoca staff through incentives. operational risk associated with transaction will be low. avoca staff will become kkr employees, but there will be no change in reporting lines processes, systems or locations on the short term. measures have been taken to incentivise the retention of senior staff.

How to build value in the drug business: This is a great video from Forbes, This year's two biggest pharma takeouts were Onyx Pharmaceuticals, purchased by Amgen for $10 BIllion, and Bausch + Lomb, a turnaround story sold to Valeant for $8.7 billion. The CEOs from both companies talk about how to revitalize a pharmaceutical firm. The discussion is moderated by Lazard's Kenneth Jacobs. 

Petraeus Op-ed on Iraq is the latest in his elaborate comeback

By Brian Jones, October 30th from Business Insider

America loves a comeback kid, and Former CIA Director and retired Army Gen. David Petraeus is on a comeback tour. 

After resigning in disgrace as Director of the CIA last year because of an extra-martial affair, Petraeus has worked hard at getting back to a good place in the eyes of the American people.  

The first step was a philanthropic tour as a professor at New York City's public university, for which he was paid just $1. 

It didn't go as well as planned, as students affiliated virulently protested his presence there. Six were eventually arrested. 

But why is Petraeus so invested in rehabilitating his image? Perhaps he is mulling a run for political office. Maybe he is just trying to protect a once virtually spotless legacy.

The keystone of that legacy is the belief that Petraeus won the war in Iraq. He commanded the war during President George W. Bush's "surge" and is widely heralded as the architect of the Counterinsurgency strategy that surge forces worked to implement. 

Yesterday, Petraeus took the next step toward that end with an exhaustive, nearly 8,000 word op-ed in Foreign Policy called "How We Won In Iraq."

The timing is odd. Right now, Iraq is on fire. More than 7,000 civilians have been killed this year, a pretty clear indication that whatever perceived security gains were made prior to the 2011 withdrawal of U.S. combat forces were not sustainable. And so it's strange for Petraeus to take this moment to remind everyone about his greatest "success" in Iraq.

And yet he does, in dense fashion. Using the word "surge" 74 times. 

"I recognized early on that I had become the face of the surge," he writes. "I had not asked for this role, but whether I liked it or not, I had to fill it."

He breaks his editorial down into sections:

The Surge of Forces and the Surge of Ideas

The Sunni Awakening and Reconciliation

Targeted Special Operations

The Development of Iraqi Security Forces

The Civilian Components

Detainee Operations and Rule-of-Law Initiatives

The Iraqi Political Component and Strategic Communications

The Magnitude of the Difficulty

Commanding MNF-I

The Road Ahead

Petraeus shows off his Ivy League doctorate in political science and years of first-hand experience in the region. And regardless of the motives, it's a remarkable account  from the perspective of the general who ran the war — a rare historical insight.

He also addresses some of the more questionable and ambiguous history of U.S. operations in Iraq, including whether the surge precipitated the Anbar Awakening.

He concedes that the Anbar Awakening started before the surge, and before he arrived in the region, but he claims his strategies made it spread throughout Iraq.

"The spread of the Awakening was not serendipity; it was the result of a deliberate decision I took soon after taking command," he says. 

But embracing the Awakening often meant forming alliances with the same people who had previously been fighting American forces for years. Petraeus acknowledged it was a tough sell to other military leaders.

"Many correctly pointed out that the leaders and members of the groups that wanted to reconcile with us groups that might be willing to embrace the Awakening ... had American blood on their hands." 

Simultaneous to the surge, Petraeus, working with the then commander of the Joint Special Operations Command, a lieutenant general named Stanley McChrystal, expanded a program to capture or kill high-level operatives. 

"Although I publicly acknowledged from the outset that we would not be able to kill or capture our way to victory (hence the need to support the Awakening)," Petraeus writes, "killing or capturing the most important of the 'irreconcilables' was an inescapable and hugely important element of our strategy."

He concluded by saying that Iraq has slipped back into chaos because the surge tactics stopped:

What mattered most was the surge of ideas -- concepts that embraced security of the people by "living with them," initiatives to promote reconciliation with elements of the population that felt they had no incentive to support the new Iraq, ramping up of precise operations that targeted the key "irreconcilables," the embrace of an enhanced comprehensive civil-military approach, increased attention to various aspects of the rule of law, improvements to infrastructure and basic services, and support for various political actions that helped bridge ethno-sectarian divides.

But Petraeus' account of the history of the war was immediately met with some criticism:

Chase Winter, an international development officer at the American University of Iraq, tweeted that Petraeus outlined "what we did to win, [without] defining winning."

"For Petraeus to write this while Iraq burns takes enormous balls," tweeted Joshua Foust, a former intelligence analyst and freelance journalist.

The claim that the surge worked in Iraq is a bit of a point of contention. An Army lieutenant colonel named Daniel Davis gained notoriety last year by publishing a blistering account of the war and said that any gains made were pure luck. Davis was deployed to Iraq from 2008-2009.