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Editors: Natalie Swanepoel, Amanda Esterhuysen, Philip Bonner
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About: Five Hundred Years Rediscovered. Southern African Precedents and Prospects
In the age of the African Renaissance, southern Africa has needed to reinterpret the past in fresh and more appropriate ways. The last 500 years represent a strikingly unexplored and misrepresented period which remains disfigured by colonial/apartheid assumptions, most notably in the way that African societies are seen as fixed, passive, isolated, unenterprising and unenlightened. This period is one of the most formative in relation to southern Africa's past while remaining, in many ways, the least known. Key cultural contours took shape, while in a jagged and uneven fashion some of the features of modern identities emerged. Enormous internal economic innovation and political experimentation was taking place at the same time as expanding European mercantile forces started to press upon southern African shores and its hinterlands. This suggests that interaction, flux and mixing were a strong feature of the period, rather than the homogeneity and fixity proposed in standard historical and archaeological writings. "Five Hundred Years Rediscovered: Southern African Precedents and Prospects" represents the first step, by a group of archaeologists and historians, to collectively reframe, revitalise and re-examine the last 500 years. By integrating research and developing trans-frontier research networks, the group hopes to challenge thinking about the region's expanding internal and colonial frontiers, and to extend current perceptions about southern Africa's colonial past. Natalie Swanepoel is an archaeologist at the University of South Africa, Pretoria. Amanda Esterhuysen is an archaeologist, and Philip Bonner an historian, both at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.
Content: Five Hundred Years Rediscovered. Southern African Precedents and Prospects
Introduction (P. Bonner, A. B. Esterhuysen, M. H. Schoeman, N. J. Swanepoel and J. B. Wright)
Section 1 Disciplinary Identities: Methodological Considerations
Historical archaeologies of southern Africa: precedents and prospects (Behrens and N. Swanepoel)
South Africa in Africa more than five hundred years ago: some questions (N. Parsons)
Towards an outline of the oral geography, historical identity and political economy of the Late Precolonial Tswana in the Rustenburg region (S. Hall, M. Anderson, J. Boeyens and F. Coetzee)
Metals beyond frontiers: exploring the production, distribution and use of metals in the Free State grasslands, South Africa (S. Chirikure, S. Hall and T. Maggs)
deTuin, a 19th-century mission station in the Northern Cape (A.G. Morris)
Reinterpreting the origins of Dzata: archaeology and legends (E. Hanisch)
Section 2 Material Identities
Revisiting Bokoni: populating the stone ruins of the Mpumalanga Escarpment (P. Delius and M.H. Schoeman)
The Mpumalanga Escarpment settlements: some answers, many questions (T. Maggs)
Post-European contact glass beads from the southern African interior: a tentative look at trade, consumption and identities (M. Wood)
Ceramic alliances: pottery and the history of the Kekana Ndebele in the old Transvaal (A.B. Esterhuysen)
Section 3 'Troubled Times': Warfare, State Formation and Migration in the Interior
Rediscovering the Ndwandwe kingdom (J.B. Wright)
Swazi oral tradition and Northern Nguni historical archaeology (P. Bonner)
Mfecane mutation in Central Africa: a comparison of the Makololo and the Ngoni in Zambia, 1830s-1898 (A. Kanduza)
List of contributors
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The Art of Venus
chamber opera for 5 singers and 4 instrumentalists, 35 minutes
first performance at RADA Studio Theatre, London, 10 August 2017
as part of the Tête à Tête Opera Festival
The global search has begun for the first humans to set foot on Mars and make it their home. In 2032, as the spacecraft hurtles through space, humanity holds its breath… can the planet be colonised? But will Venus take it lying down? A short, post-baroque opera about the power of the gods - and a myth waiting to happen.
Contains adult themes
Mars - lyric bariitone
Venus - mezzo-soprano (coloratura)
3 Earthling Astronauts - Soprano, Tenor, Bass
Violin, Cello, Marimba, Accordion
Original cast
Venus Kate Symonds-Joy (mezzo-soprano)
Mars Dominic Bowe (baritone)
Soprano Earthling Helen Bailey
Tenor Earthling Daniel Joy
Bass Earthling Christopher Foster
Music Edward Lambert
Text Max Waller
Conductor Olivia Clarke
Director Rebecca Meltzer
Accordion Bartosz Glowacki
Violin Maria Fiore Mazzarini
Cello Tom Isaac
Mars & Venus
Mars, the all-powerful Roman warrior-god, lover of Venus, the embodiment of love and sexuality: what's happening to these celebs in the 21st century?
Art as pornography?
In 1914, a prominent suffragette took a meat cleaver to the painting in the National Gallery known as the Rokeby Venus and repeatedly slashed it. Contemporary reports describe the "cruel" wounds inflicted on it. Was this a feminist act?
The Pale Blue Dot
Carl Sagan pointed out that on that dot "every human being who ever lived, lived out their lives". The Overview Effect is a cognitive shift experienced by astronauts upon understanding the Earth to be a tiny, fragile ball of life, "hanging in the void". But feelings of euphoria can also lead to errors of judgment...
Human Settlement on Mars
"Mars One aims to establish a permanent human settlement on Mars. Several unmanned missions will be completed, establishing a habitable settlement before carefully selected and trained crews will depart to Mars. Mars One is a global initiative whose goal is to make this everyone's mission to Mars, including yours. If we all work together, we can do this. We're going to Mars. Come along!" mars-one.com
What on Earth is it about?
We are introduced to 3 Earthlings as they embark on the first one-way mission to Mars (Mars-One.com planned for 2032). To what extent would leaving Earth for good feel like dying? Can we seriously live in a different environment from the one that has nurtured us? One of the hazards of space travel is a psychological freaking-out known as the Overview Effect and our volunteer astronauts find much to sing about when gazing back at the Pale Blue Dot - to which they will never return. In parallel to this adventure, there's Mars, the Roman god, abandoned for two millennia but with an intuition that humans will return to him one day. And then comes Venus: beautiful still, but much wiser now, and militant. Her character was inspired by the story of Mary Richardson, the suffragette, who in 1914 slashed the Rokeby Venus in the National Gallery with a meat cleaver. She revealed that she hated the way nude paintings were "gloated over by men" (and she later joined the Fascist party). Certainly, the character of Venus became an excuse for artists to portray the female form in an ever more revealing and sexualised manner and her private parts are now on display in almost every art gallery in the world. So as the spacecraft approaches Mars, Venus seizes the moment to thwart the invaders - and also the aspirations of all mankind. Thus, the interactions between humans, gods and their habitats become the subject of a bizarre allegory whose musical style deliberately evokes the bel canto of baroque opera.
In a moment of blistering stagecraft, Venus angrily slashes her Velázquez portrait, which immediately oozes blood: the goddess smears this blood all over her sharp white suit, using it as war paint on her face and Mars' as she exhorts him to resist the advances of humans and their intellectually reductive, pathetic, cheapening assessment of the divine. The clever use of three small, bright torches often wielded in darkness by the Earthlings achieves star-like flashings, dramatic spotlighting, and even a vision of the preciousness of the Earth as they catch torchlight carefully in cupped hands. This is a work full of strange juxtapositions: space travel and classical gods, Edward Lambert's rich Baroque-inspired score and Max Waller's direct and simple libretto, shot through with extreme feminism. Meltzer's clear, minimalist concept allows the narrative to build coherently, while celebrating the surreal tension created by all these competing elements. (Charlotte Valori)


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Oculus - Fall 2012 - (Page 40)
in print Raves + Reviews The Future of Architecture Since 1889 By Jean-Louis Cohen REVIEWS BY S TA N LEY S TA RK , FA IA This substantial and comprehensive volume is a thematically organized historic and critical narrative of 20th- and early 21st-century architecture and planning. It is supplemented by explorations of the byways and back roads of design that have eluded critical attention, such as the drive to memorialize the fallen of World War I, and the emergence of Modern architecture as a global phenomenon between the wars and after World War II. Just as no one voice can define the future, no singular viewpoint can explain the past. Cohen, an art historian, architect, and professor at NYU's Institute of Fine Arts, casts his net wide. He delves into architecture, art, planning, engineering, theory, social dynamics, and popular culture to explain how Modern design grew, what it grew into, and how it was disseminated. While acknowledging the "Great Men" view of Modern architecture history organized around masters like Gropius, Mies, Corbusier, and Wright, Cohen recognizes that Modern design has a more fragmented and richer history. The book spans from 1889 (the date of the Paris International Exposition and a convenient marker for the emergence of Modernism) to the first decade of the 21st century. It is rich, vital, and worthy of standing beside Gideon and Frampton on your shelf. Aalto and America Edited by Stanford Anderson, Gail Fenske, and David Fixler London: Phaidon Press, 2012, 528 pp. $75 Fair in New York. The book then examines his other important projects, notably Baker House at MIT, and how his influence on post-war American designers grew. The essayists also address the reciprocal effect that America had on Aalto. As editors and authors, Anderson, Fenske, and Fixler have done an excellent job of organizing the broad spectrum of viewpoints and insights represented in this collection. Together they present a coherent picture of Aalto and how his work continues to inspire us. Noted but Not Reviewed The Mythic Modern: Architectural Expeditions into the Spirit of Place By Travis Price New Haven: Yale University Press, 2012, 340 pp. $75 Price's record of projects conducted with his students from Catholic University over a period of 20 years in settings around the globe, alien to Postmodern cosmopolitan cities and suburbs. Minimal in scale and artisanal and elegant in design, the projects attempt to connect to or highlight something about the nature of the place in which they are built. Schlepping Through Ambivalence: Essays on an American Architectural Condition By Stanley Tigerman, ed. by Emmanuel Petit New York: W.W. Norton/ Library of Congress, 2012, 336 pp. $75 Essays by the iconoclastic architect, teacher, theorist, and critic on Chicago, the state of design, his contemporaries, and the profession. The Harlem Edge | Cultivating Connections 2012 Biennial Ideas Competition Edited by AIANY Emerging New York Architects Committee This collection of essays reflects the appreciation that a new generation of critics and historians has for Alvar Aalto's work and influence in America. While Aalto is an acknowledged master of 20thcentury architecture, he occupies an anomalous position. He bridged styles and ideologies, yet continued to display influential, revolutionary work that united the rigor of functionalism; sensitivity to the particularities of place, context, and materials; and a deep understanding of human social and psychological needs. Essay contributors illuminate the relationships Aalto was able to foster that enabled him to perform significant work in America. He first achieved considerable public recognition for the design of the Finnish Pavilion at the 1939 World's 40 Oculus Fall 2012 The competition catalogue highlights 24 entries, including the winning designs [see pg. 39]. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2011, 192 pp. $45 Stanley Stark, FAIA, is director of strategic planning at Vanguard Construction and Development Co., Inc. He served as chair of the Oculus Committee from 2005 to 2007. New York: AIANY Emerging New York Architects Committee, 2012, 77 pp. $15 Learning Curve
Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of Oculus - Fall 2012
Letter from the President: The Future: Here and Now
Of Ladybugs and Learning
Center Highlights
Manhattanville Shuffl e: A no-real-community-here might just become one
Opener: The New Learning Landscape
Oh, the Places We'll Go!
One Firm, Two Schools of Thought
Schools Made to Order
Expanding Architecture Beyond Form and Function
New Kids on the Boards
Real Solutions at Harlem's Edge
The Future of Architecture Since 1889
Aalto and America
The Mythic Modern: Architectural Expeditions into the Spirit of Place
Schlepping Through Ambivalence: Essays on an American Architectural Condition
The Harlem Edge | Cultivating Connections 2012 Biennial Ideas Competition
A pioneering example of Modernism in New York is the 1931 New School for Social Research building by Joseph Urban
The Young and the Edgeless
Alphabetical and Categorical Index
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June 3, 2019
Weekend Sweep for Yoshimura Suzuki at Road America
GSX-R1000's Dominate as Elias Wins Saturday and Herrin Earns Victory on Sunday
Yoshimura Suzuki's Josh Herrin (#2) leads teammate Toni Elias (#24) on his way to an eventual win in Sunday's MotoAmerica Superbike action at Road America, Elkhart Lake Wisconsin.
Brea, CA (June 3, 2019) - It was a weekend of winning for Yoshimura Suzuki Factory Racing in MotoAmerica Superbike action at the scenic Road America in Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin. Toni Elias overcame a tough last-lap battle to take victory in Saturday's race one. Then it was Josh Herrin's turn on Sunday, racing to the checkered flag for his second victory of the season, giving Yoshimura Suzuki a sweep of both Road America rounds.
Unfortunately for Elias, the weekend ended with a crash on the final lap of Sunday's race while battling for the lead. The good news for the 2017 MotoAmerica Superbike Champion, is that he had a big enough lead in the standings, that in spite of the tumble, he still leaves Wisconsin with a nine point series lead 151-142 over rival Cameron Beaubier after four of 10 doubleheader weekends.
Herrin's win put him in a much better position in the championship. The 2013 AMA Superbike Champion is now fifth in the standings, but only eight points out of third.
The Yoshimura Team celebrates Toni Elias' (#24) victory in Saturday's Superbike race number one. Elias topped Superpole to establish himself as the favorite to win the race and expand his championship points lead.
Saturday Elias came out on top of a battle that featured as many as seven riders at times and whittled down to four riders by the end. The race was run in tricky conditions with occasional light rain. At the finish line, Elias was .253 of a second ahead of his championship rival Beaubier. For Elias it marked his 28th-career MotoAmerica/AMA Superbike victory. That moved him into a tie with former Yoshimura Suzuki champion Ben Spies for fifth on the all-time MotoAmerica/AMA Superbike wins list.
Afterwards Elias said, of the Road America weekend, "We are doing a great job, but everybody is so fast. It's so competitive, so close, anything can happen. We had a great win on Saturday and then I had the crash today because I flinched in the final turn when Cameron came in. I could not finish because the handlebar broke off."
Elias also used the speed of his Yoshimura Suzuki GSX-R1000 to win Superpole at Road America, his second pole of the season.
"I congratulate Josh for his win. He has worked hard and is very deserving of this. I am sorry to my team for my mistake, but we will come back and fight again to build back our lead."
Herrin was ultra-competitive in both races. He was fighting for the lead on the final lap of Saturday's race before he and Elias nearly came together in turn five and Herrin was forced to run wide, costing him a podium. He finished fourth. In Sunday's race it was another showdown between the Yoshimura Suzuki teammates up front and this time Herrin emerged the victor.
"I wanted to pass Toni on the last lap in a place where he didn't expect it," Herrin explained. "The carousel seemed like a good spot. It was a little scary, but luckily I was able to make it work. I'm super pumped to get this win today. We've found that comfortable spot with the bike and it's a missile. I'm happy and ready to tackle the rest of the season."
Herrin now has eight-career MotoAmerica/AMA Superbike victories.
The championship next travels west to Utah Motorsports Campus just west of Salt Lake City on June 15-16. The races are televised nationally on Fox Sports 2.
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Friday, October 06, 2006
Patricia Dunn's "In"credible Testimony
Here's the YouTube video clip of a part of HP's former Chairwoman, Patty Dunn's, testimony before Congress a few weeks ago.
I love how incredulous Greg Walden, the Rep. from Oregon, is, when Dunn asserts that she thought anyone can just call up the local phone company, request, and receive, anybody else's detailed message unit call information.
It is truly hard to believe that someone who could qualify as the Chairwoman of a major US company would be this gullible or naive.
The Wall Street Journal ran a piece yesterday discussing how Dunn's testimony has already "boxed her in," regarding her recent felony indictment over this case, in California. With this video available, what judge or jury is going to believe Dunn wasn't either lying under Congressional oath, or is lying in court if she testifies and reaffirms her belief about the availability of such private, detailed phone records?
Let's not even get into what happens if she changes her sworn testimony in subsequent legal proceedings.
It's just a very sad commentary on the caliber of senior leadership in large US companies, that Patty Dunn is either without scruples, and lying to cover up her knowledge of the use of questionable tactics by HP to find the board-level leaks, or she is truly so naive as to think your and my detailed phone records can be had for the price of a local call to our landline phone service provider.
Thursday, October 05, 2006
Apple's iPod & iTunes Overhauls: Schumpeter Would Be Proud
Even if I did not own Apple's stock in my strategy's portfolio, I would appreciate the company's very aggressive product/market management.
Given the quickly-shifting sands of competition in this arena, Joseph Schumpeter would be very proud to see how Apple has rapidly cannibalized its own product line, in order to meet new competitive threats.
For instance, they have redesigned the low-end Shuffle, and pared the number of now mid-range offerings of the original iPod, and eliminated the iPod Mini altogether. Through a combination of pricing and product repositioning, the company has made room for new, higher-functionality entries in its iPod line.
It has also upgraded iTunes, the online entertainment content management system which is the companion to its iPod line, in time for the entry of the two new competitors' products.
The vagaries of consumer tastes may result in the loss of significant market share for Apple's products. Or it may result in the firm's continued dominance of the product/market. Either way, Apple won't lose share and growth because it stood still, became complacent, or milked the business.
It's a pleasure to see a leading company, like Apple, do such an admirable job in a key business, such as digital entertainment content, of moving ahead to change the competitive environment while it still can significantly effect that environment, rather than rest, and let new competitors control the terms on which competition will play out over the next few years.
New Pension Liability Effects: Bracing for Negative Shareholders Equity
To read more about the changes, you can go here. To quote from that site's article,
"That means huge liabilities could suddenly drop like a bomb onto balance sheets, putting any deficits squarely in the public view and possibly throwing some lending agreements into question because it may lead to sharp drops in corporate net worth.
Figuring out if any maneuvering is going on won't be an easy task. Investors will have to closely watch companies' assumptions for such things as health care and wage inflation that are used to determine the costs of defined benefit plans, which promise retirees a monthly check and often medical coverage.
For years, companies have gotten off easy by agreeing to such benefits without having to immediately set aside ample assets to cover them. Standard & Poor's estimates that the companies in its benchmark index offering such benefits held assets worth only $1.409 trillion in 2005 to cover $1.870 trillion in pension and other retiree-benefit obligations, resulting in a record deficit of $461 billion."
A Reuters article further noted,
"Investors may see some of the biggest changes in the balance sheets of companies like General Motors Corp., Ford Motor Co., Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. and Exxon Mobil Corp., which maintain some of the largest U.S. pension and other post-retirement benefit plans.
Automakers, airlines, steelmakers and other manufacturing companies are likely to face the biggest obligations because of histories with unions and legacy costs, according to accounting analysts at Bear Stearns."
Let me note that all of this harks back to one of my earliest posts, from last September, about the long-lasting effects of the mutually-flawed bargains struck beginning 50+ years ago between American corporate and labor union leaders.
If the companies in question see their stock prices change materially from this FASB decision, then it suggests that the analyst corps was never doing an adequate job of understanding the true financial positions of these companies. If, on the other hand, the stock prices do not change materially, then it suggests that the existing measures weren't really all that useful to begin with, because they were in error, yet still in cited.
Analysts can't have it both ways, can they?
Late last week on CNBC, in an interview with an equity analyst, the first effect mentioned was that of screwing up traditional stock evaluation measures.
My own early work on valuation taught me about the inadequacy of measures such as Price/Earnings and Market/Book ratios, and other point-in-time balance sheet or income statement measures.
Now, it appears that those measures will have a permanently disjointed history that cannot be smoothed or calculated away. Furthermore, their future behaviors may now result in calculation-inhibiting values. This was always the case with using earnings, which can dip below zero, making growth calculations effectively insoluble. Now, even some balance sheet staples like basic Shareholder Equity will be unusable.
This is why I use simpler scalers with a time dimension in my analysis of companies' performances. Specifically, revenue growth and total return. No ratios.
I learned years ago, grappling with the more conventional ratios and snapshot measures, that they are subject to incomprehensible results, and, sometimes, literally incalculable ones.
By focusing on the quantitative expressions of a company's ability to consistently acquire and retain customers, at appropriate prices for the products and services they sell, i.e., revenue growth, and matching these values with investors' judgments on the adequacy of the resulting financial results, i.e., consistently superior total returns, my methods free me from the risk of accounting distortions.
Rick Santelli of CNBC Gets Even Smarter: The Impact of Derivatives On Spreads
Joining the debate were Joe Kernan, Steve Leisman, the show's under-educated 'senior economic reporter,' and a guest host.
Kernan is always a level-headed, sensible, and smart commentator. Leisman is typically self-impressed, and blind to his own lack of basic economic education.
Santelli, the network's Chicago-based reporter from the options pits at the CBOT, is among the most intelligent, informed, educated, and plain-spoken bond market reporters that I have ever seen on television. Bar none.
This morning, Rick gave the most lucid example I've ever heard of how the existence of credit derivatives affects, and has permanently affected, bond market spreads. He explained how, when one can buy protection for the drop in value of a bond, it necessarily puts upward pressure on the price, because the lowest value it can now attain is much higher than it otherwise would be.
He then went on to note that many people have missed this important development in the bond markets. And that even Fed officials might be misinterpreting the meaning of the now-closer spread relationships, versus their historic wider margins.
Leisman asked, to paraphrase,
"can it now be that, and I don't really understand this, that the bond markets are existing on one plane, setting rates, and the Fed is on another plane, or level, with its rate setting views?"
Santelli responded that, yes, the two might not agree contemporaneously, but in time, would gravitate to the bond market's view. Kernan laughed, and Leisman sort of looked puzzled, which was to be expected. But Santelli clearly meant that, over time, the closer spreads for yields between various debt instruments are here to stay, and the Fed will have to adjust to this. The money markets will overwhelm the Fed's interest rate manipulations every time, until the Fed takes the market's judgments into account.
What really impressed me is Santelli's matter-of-fact command of bond market reality, and its impact on economic theories that others believe are governing that reality.
He is one CNBC correspondent who I could watch all day, and probably never feel I'd learned everything I could by listening to him.
Wednesday, October 04, 2006
Monday on CNBC: The Conflicted Trader
First, Art Cashen, the florid-looking mossback from UBS, said that interest rates and Bernanke govern the market now. Period. Nothing else mattered.
Then a trader for another large broker was similarly questioned. He waffled on every question, giving no solid opinions whatsoever, except to say 'it all comes down to earnings'
So, there you have it. It's all about interest rates. Well, except when it's all about earnings.
Gee- thanks guys. I didn't think about either of these.
Once again, this anecdote of the conflicted floor traders shows how inane talking to brokers is. For the most part, they trade for clients- insitutional managers, other houses, and large private accounts. For the most part, all the brokers really 'know' is instantaneous order behavior.
Of course, they like to personify the 'market' because it adds presumed value and glamor to a business going totally electronic. Seriously, how can "the market" really know or care about the level of a single composit index, and truly behave differently as that level's old, nominally-valued maximum is exceeded?
One thing the piece did demonstrate- it takes different views to make a market, and even interviewing only two brokers already did that.
Tuesday, October 03, 2006
Professional Fund Manager's Erratic Behaviors
The article states, in part,
"Mr. Brorson's worries served him in May. Then, he shifted toward "defensive" companies whose sales tend to hold up in all kinds of economies, such as drug makers, food producers and electric utilities. His May move was gutsy -- and right. The Dow got to within 81 points of its record and then fell 8% into July.....Now, as it rises, he's fighting the trend again. .... His travails over the past two months show just how hard it is even for dedicated pros to call the turns. It's especially hard at times like these when investors are debating whether a shifting economy will change stocks' direction."
I see in this echoes of 'the broad market has it wrong' attitude, as he holds and waits. In fact, I can identify with the sentiment.
However, I also note how Brorson makes snap calls on fuzzy, unclear economic information. In effect, betting on the come. Then people judge his guess for the month.
If this is really the stock in trade of the average fund manager, I wonder how any of them develop consistent track records.
Wait! They don't, for the most part! The number of public fund managers who consistently beat the S&P is incredibly small. Forget doing it every year- even most years, it's unattainable on a consistent basis. Maybe this monthly micro-managing suggests why that is the case?
I would imagine that the kind of guesswork, based upon shifting, often wrong economic insights and confusing data, cannot be sustained for more than, say, a year. That is, if it is just a string of lucky guesses.
For instance, recently, many investors seemed to be worried that softening home prices will drag the economy into recession. However, just a few days ago, the Wall Street Journal carried an article by one of its reporters, Greg Ip, which noted the following,
"The overwhelming majority of mortgage debt and home-equity loans are held by Americans in the upper half of the income range. Households in the top 10% of income hold 42% of the value of home-equity lines of credit."
Thus, much of the risk of real-estate-related bad debt is overstated. This is the type of economic information that seems to go unnoticed or misinterpreted.
It's one of the reasons I don't buy and sell portfolio positions every month. Even supposedly firm economic data can mislead, e.g., the infamous, but nonexistent, spring 2005 "softening." Now, it is the 'recession,' or imminent 'soft landing,' in the face of continued economic data suggesting continued healthy growth.
Jon Brorson's concerns are ones I share. But I just don't see how changing one's strategy and spontaneously attempting to take advantage of a short-term economic will o'the wisp can lead to consistently superior total return performance over the long term.
Monday, October 02, 2006
The Rush By "Old Media" To Offer Online Video
Then, last week, the Wall Street Journal ran an article in the back pages of the second section discussing the rush by all sorts of companies to offer online digital video now. The piece was entitled, "As Internet TV Gains Popularity, Cable Firms Bulk Up Offerings."
A nice idea, but a little late, as indicated by this line in the article,
"Video Web sites now draw users in numbers that rival those of cable or satellite companies. YouTube, the country's No. 1 online-video site, had more than 34 million unique visitors in August, according to Nielsen/NetRatings. MySpace was second with 17.9 million unique visitors. In comparison, Comcast, the country's largest cable company, has 24 million subscribers, and DirectTV, the largest satellite-TV provider that is owned by News Corp., has 15.5 million U.S. subscribers."
So the hi-speed access that came along with cable-TV has now grown to undercut the latter by allowing free, independent production and distribution of video content which is growing to rival the paid content on the original cable pay-TV systems.
If this situation doesn't demonstrate Schumpeter's visions of creative destruction at the extreme, where a firm's own success creates the undercurrent that hollows out its competitive position's strength, what does?
In this case, though, I think cable companies are myopic. Consider this closing quote from the WSJ article. The source of the quote, Steve Burke, CEO of Comcast, said, in reference to his own idea of
"creating an extensive viewing guide that would aggregate Comcast's TV schedule with online clips and video-on-demand options, giving people a mega portal for one-stop viewing shopping,"
"We're not alone in our aspiration to be that one place."
Now, I think that's the problem with old media's viewpoint.
There is, in my opinion, no "one place."
YouTube is 'one place,' alright, but hardly the "one place." It may not even be king of the hill in another year. That, of course, is the risk a potential acquirer will have to take.
The essential concept of internet-based, free video content sites almost guarantees no single site will be "the" site. Wherever a critical mass of video content may be gathered and offered, a viable site may be created. The company that has really missed the boat on this is, of course, Amazon.
Amazon, with its broad array of storefronts for independent book sellers/shippers, could easily have offered the same type of home to indie video producers, becoming the internet's video 'general store.'
Not anymore. That opportunity is gone, and, with it, Amazon's ability to capture anything beyond "me too" traffic and revenues.
It's simply incomprehensible to me how, having seen the future, a la YouTube, the CEO of Comcast still doesn't "get it," and is throwing money at an attempt to create, much further down the road, an omnibus, ostensibly partially-paid video site, to challenge a free one. Between Comcast and TimeWarner, one wonders if any old media companies will be worth more than a fraction of their current market values in a few year's time.
Kerkorian's Bold GM Gambit
Friday's Wall Street Journal details his bid to buy an additional six million shares of GM, and plans to perhaps buy another six million. These stakes, if purchased, according to the Journal article, would make Kerkorian the second-largest GM shareholder, with a 12% position.
Although it looked like a losing position this summer, Kerkorian's original investment has now gained about 14%, thanks to GM's recent stock price rebound, on the basis of cutting deals with its unions over buyouts and layoffs.
The Journal piece characterizes the GM situation as becoming a sort of show down between CEO Rick Wagoner, who wants to slowly rebuild the company, if there's time, and Kerkorian, who wants a much faster, thorough restructuring, including a three-way alliance between GM, Renault and Nissan.
My recent thoughts on the GM situation can be found here. Suffice to say, I don't think GM is a viable performer, in terms of consistently superior total returns, without some sort of outside help or alliance.
Kerkorian is certainly playing a bold game, though. He could take his winnings off the table at this point, and have outperformed the S&P for the period. However, he chose instead to double-up, indicating he's after a much bigger gain, and prepared to invest the time and effort to secure it.
By moving to take a larger position, the betting is that, in the language of his SEC filing, "there should be strong GM board involvement" in assessing potential alliances. Meaning Kerkorian wants to outmaneuver Wagoner's internal attempts to scuttle the alliance, and get it approved by the board, out of Wagoner's direct reach and control.
It's hard to guess what the outcome will be in this case. There are so many options for Kerkorian, and the rest of the GM board. However, I don't recall Kerkorian leaving a situation like this with a loss. If he's prepared to add to his GM stake, then he must feel very confident that he can force the alliance, and reap the gains he expects from a resultant higher GM stock price.
In a sense, he can't lose, in the long term. If Wagoner's alleged "turnaround" really is more than short-term cost cutting, then the shares will rise, and Kerkorian makes more money. If Wagoner is wrong, Kerkorian, as the second-largest shareholder, through his employee, Jerry York, can probably force Wagoner's departure, and proceed with an alliance for GM. The only question at that point is whether or not Ghosn's Nissan is still open to the alliance, or has already tied up with Ford.
Could it be that Ghosn, watching from outside, could now hold off from a Ford alliance, and simply wait Wagoner out, knowing that Kerkorian will eagerly come calling, with less onerous terms than Wagoner has demanded?
It continues to be a phenomenonally interesting end-game for GM and Kerkorian, as the time to demonstrate a believable, lasting reversal of GM's fortunes grows shorter.


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For my avid blogger friends, clearly I have majorly slacked. It's been a little over a year. HOLY COW. A lot has happened in the last year. Let me recap a few highlights.
1) I got a new niece on Matt's side (Little Miss Daylin Rose)
Matt got accepted into NKU and started Law School (not sure how excited I am about this)
2) I got engaged (whooo-hooo)
3) I attempted to plan a wedding (that was
4) I got a new foster niece and nephew on my side (which will soon be adopted!)
5) Matt had finals
6) I got married (yay)
7) Matt had more finals (poor timing/planning on our part...like seriously who accidentally plans their wedding in the middle of LAW SCHOOL FINALS WEEK?! We do. Not highly recommended.)
8) I moved in with a male (overall an interesting experience)
9) I got my 14lb dress dry cleaned (about 7lbs of it was mud)
10) I got a sinus infection
11) I got sick with strep throat and a puss infection on my left tonsil
12) I got an ear infection
13) I got three UTIs in two months
14) I got bronchitis and an inflamed lung
(all of these illnesses happened back to back, starting at day 2 of marriage and carried over until last week.)
15) We had a second reception in Indiana ('twas lovely!)
16) I began unpacking my garbage bags of clothing into an actual closet
17) Matt is currently going through finals and will soon be done with his FIRST year of Law School (they say that time flys when you're having fun but it feels like it's been five years not one...so clearly we are having a blast.)
Hopefully I'll have more time, motivation and be a little more diligent about actually blogging. I've said that a lot, but this time I truly mean it! I have so many topics I want to blog about! The proposal! Wedding Planning! Law School! House Decorating! Married Life! Ahhhh so many things to blog about!! Probably none of them are relevant to you, or that you even care about, but hey, this is my blog. I do what i want.
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UC federation primer: Merging UC tools for unfettered communications
This UC federation primer explores the definition and 'flavors' of UC federation, and what vendors and service providers offer federation services.
Unified communications tools, despite the name, are not inherently interoperable. UC federation services bridge the gaps across vendors and enterprise domains.
In a perfect world, IT departments could easily merge their disparate communication platforms to achieve a unified communications (UC) and collaboration experience for their users. But vendor support of different standards -- such as SIP, SIMPLE and XMPP – varies, and UC vendors still struggle with enabling inter-enterprise communication and collaboration. UC federation products and services can help diminish, or even eliminate, these problems.
UC federation options: Federating between third-party UC products and with external users
The definition of UC federation can vary across providers, and there are multiple "flavors" of federation. Federation services are available for instant messaging (IM) and presence by third-party providers, but voice and video federation options are not as widely available. There are some providers who are able to offer limited federation between voice and video platforms, but it can be more challenging due to the differences in standards, as well as the technical obstacles that come along with call routing and voice and video security for open federation.
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When will federation unify communications?
NextPlane federates between Google, enterprise UC apps
Will Skype, Lync integration kick-start UC federation?
Two enterprises that use the same UC platforms might need UC federation to enable intercompany communication. UC federation can also connect two UC vendors deployed within the same enterprise. Due to a merger for example, a company might have one population of employees using Jabber and another using Lync. "If the same company is using two different UC vendors, they have to deal with technology differences, like how SIP might be implemented for certain features," said Rob Arnold, senior industry analyst at Mountain View, Calif.-based Frost & Sullivan Inc.
Even though intercompany federation can be more challenging -- and can potentially carry security concerns associated with opening up an enterprise environment to communicate externally -- federation between separate companies using the same UC platform is becoming a simpler process. Some enterprise UC tools -- such as Microsoft Lync -- do not require middleware to help companies using the same platform federate and communicate.
Who offers UC federation?
UC federation providers -- such as NextPlane, Esna Technologies Inc. (EsnaTech) and IntelePeer -- have emerged to offer services that remove the complexity associated with UC federation, Arnold said. "IT organizations can outsource federation to third-party providers whose core competency is to make sure all these connections are secure and reliable."
NextPlane's cloud-based UC Exchange platform offers instant messaging and presence, as well as some voice and video federation services among different enterprise-grade UC platforms -- such as Microsoft, Cisco and IBM -- and federation between UC tools and social media platforms. The Sunnyvale, Calif.-based provider also hosts an online UC Exchange Directory, allowing its users to easily search for "federation-ready" companies, partners and clients.
EsnaTech provides integration between cloud, mobile and social communications tools within enterprise business applications -- like Salesforce. The Ontario- based company allows disparate end users of different UC products to communicate together as if they are on the same presence engine. EsnaTech's federation application is embedded across all Web applications or desktops.
IntelePeer, a San Mateo, Calif.-based cloud-based communications and SIP trunking service provider, is also providing voice and video federation between businesses and their partners using the cloud as the integration layer, via its Fluent Federation as a Service offering.
The future of UC federation
Federation between IM and presence tools has helped solve the most immediate communication need, but federation between voice and video platforms will be the next step for businesses requiring enterprise-grade video conferencing, and not tools like Skype.
In the meantime, UC federation meets the pressing need of sharing presence and availability across different network domains and UC platforms. "If a company works with an external partner every day, they are going to want to be on an IM and presence platform together -- UC federation is about cutting down the latencies between communication sessions and making sure people who work together closely can easily do that using the most appropriate form of communication," Arnold said.
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Thanks David Yes I tested both Word files saved as html via Office 97 and as web pages from Office 2000, and also a simple spreadsheet saved as a web page from Excel 2000 using Lynx with Windows Eyes and all of these files were fine both viewed on screen and with spoken output. However they were not overly sophisticated files so would need to test for robustness using a wider range of Office formatting options and functionality. Also, I neglected to ask Julian in my email if he is embedding the files as application specific resources because he wants the interactivity. If that is the case then no, you can't (well in my experience any way) achieve that in a non-browser specific way. Embedded interactivity requires IE 4 or higher. Denise Dr Denise L Wood Lecturer: Professional Development (online teaching and learning) University of South Australia CE Campus, North Terrace, Adelaide SA 5000 Ph: (61 8) 8302 2172 / (61 8) 8302 4472 (Tuesdays & Thursdays) Fax: (61 8) 8302 2363 / (61 8) 8302 4390 Mob: (0413 648 260) Email: email@example.com WWW: http://www.unisanet.unisa.edu.au/staff/homepage.asp?Name=Denise.Wood -----Original Message----- From: David Poehlman [mailto:email@example.com] Sent: Tuesday, 23 October 2001 2:08 AM To: Denise Wood; 'Scarlett Julian (ED)'; email@example.com Subject: Re: MS Office and Accessibility have you tried them out with screen readers? I often find that there are no alt tags and that many of the links are marked up poorly. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Denise Wood" <firstname.lastname@example.com> To: "'Scarlett Julian (ED)'" <email@example.com>; <email@example.com> Sent: Monday, October 22, 2001 12:33 PM Subject: RE: MS Office and Accessibility Julian Can't you save the documents as html documents (if office 97) or web pages (if office 2000). I have views a few different files saved via Word and Excel in IE 5, NS 4 and Lynx and they all open OK. Denise Dr Denise L Wood Lecturer: Professional Development (online teaching and learning) University of South Australia CE Campus, North Terrace, Adelaide SA 5000 Ph: (61 8) 8302 2172 / (61 8) 8302 4472 (Tuesdays & Thursdays) Fax: (61 8) 8302 2363 / (61 8) 8302 4390 Mob: (0413 648 260) Email: email@example.com WWW: http://www.unisanet.unisa.edu.au/staff/homepage.asp?Name=Denise.Wood -----Original Message----- From: Scarlett Julian (ED) [mailto:email@example.com] Sent: Tuesday, 23 October 2001 1:02 AM To: 'email@example.com' Subject: re: MS Office and Accessibility Firstly, apologies for the "Hi all" greeting and the corporate disclaimer that my employer tags onto the end of all my emails for me. I have no choice but to post to public lists from work so you'll have to just pretend you didn't see it ;-) Secondly, my badly phrased original post has thrown up some interesting answers. I accept the points about access of proprietary file formats causing problems but what I was really after was whether or not the presence of a .doc or .xls or .ppt file opening within a browser ( I chose IE because I don't think NS automatically tries to open them) would cause problems for screen readers. Sorry, I should have been more specific in my original query. The users for this portion of the site are schools that all have a common desktop installation (MS Office 97, NT4, IE5+) and hence the specificity of my question. Ideally I would get all infomation presented in html but to do this I have to get the info owners in our organisation to agree. They are under the illusion that because their client group all have Office that it is ok to serve up Office files rather than html pages. I need a solid argument why they can't do this . Julian Scarlett Web Design & Document Management System Officer PPU Education Directorate Sheffield City Council 0114 2735721 mob 07904914976 email@example.com The information in this email is confidential. The contents may not be disclosed or used by anyone other than the addressee. If you are not the addressee, please tell us by using the reply facility in your email software as soon as possible. Sheffield City Council cannot accept any responsibility for the accuracy or completeness of this message as it has been transmitted over a public network. If you suspect that the message may have been intercepted or amended please tell us as soon as possible.Received on Monday, 22 October 2001 13:04:00 UTC
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Stoke have confirmed winger Matthew Etherington's departure from the club on their official website.
- Whittaker: End of season review
The 32-year-old, who has been with the Potters for five-and-a-half seasons, is coming to the end of his contract and has not been offered a new deal.
However, Mark Hughes' side have offered a one-year contract extension to 37-year-old goalkeeper Thomas Sorensen.
Defender Andy Wilkinson, whose contract was also set to expire at the end of June, has agreed a new one-year deal with the option of a further 12 months.
Hughes is set to make Hannover's Senegal striker Mame Biram Diouf his second signing of the summer, according to PA Sport, while Stoke have also announced the signing of defender Phil Bardsley on a three-year deal.
The Potters have offered new deals to youngsters James Alabi, Dale Eve, Alex Grant, Jack Nardiello, Ryan O'Reilly, Adam Thomas, Mason Watkins-Clark and Elliot Wheeler.


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Rockbox mail archiveSubject: Hardware survey
From: Linus Nielsen Feltzing (linus_at_haxx.se)
Date: 2002-10-10
Ok, guys, here's your big chance to help!
We're doing a survey on all the different hardware versions out
1) Download the latest bleeding edge build, or a daily build 20021010
2) Go to Menu->Debug (keep out)->View HW Info
3) Recorder: write down the info on the screen
4) Check what ROM version is reported when you boot the jukebox
5) Send the info to this list, or to me: linus at haxx.se
Thanks a lot!
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Situated in the Borrowdale valley, in the pretty village of Grange, Tan holiday cottage offers comfortable accommodation for two people.
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From being a puerile and bubbly childhood country star to becoming a more vulgar persona in early 2014, Miley Cyrus has proved to be dynamic. Her eclectic poppy undertones and electric vocals have changed, but Cyrus's musical origins have always resided in country.
In her new album "Younger Now," Cyrus grips hard onto her Tennessee roots while incorporating her famous poppy upbeats. In some songs like Week Without You and Miss You So Much Cyrus shows off her strong vocals along with raw acoustic melodies to create a beautiful contrast in her works.
The album is simply refreshing- pulling on listener's heart strings as her true persona is revealed. Her album is fueled by her relationship with longtime lover, Liam Hemsworth as she expresses her hopes, fears throughout the heartbreaking experience. Cyrus also delves deep into her sexuality, addressing her pansexuality in the ballad "She's Not Him" and spits meaningful lyrics laced with fiery passion as she explains how she has learned more about herself throughout the relationship's ups and downs.
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The album is laced with doleful yet meaningful lyrics that reveal the hidden purities of Cyrus' life, tearing down the promiscuous facade she has worn for so many years. "Younger Now" was a creative approach that led to ultimate lyrical bliss. Experiencing Cyrus' humble country-pop roots for the first time in 10 years is reassuring that her behind her spunky persona lies a lyrical genius that deserves nothing but praise.


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The Historic New Orleans Collection (THNOC) is a museum, research center, and publisher dedicated to preserving the history and culture of New Orleans and the Gulf South. Its holdings comprise more than one million items from more than three centuries, documenting moments both major and minor. Its four exhibition spaces–the Williams Gallery, the Louisiana History Galleries, the Boyd Cruise Gallery, and the Laura Simon Nelson Galleries for Louisiana Art–faithfully depict the multicultural stories of the region, from permanent displays exploring the evolution of Louisiana to rotating exhibitions showcasing history and fine art.
The Southern Food and Beverage Museum is a nonprofit living history organization dedicated to the discovery, understanding and celebration of the food, drink and the related culture of the South. While based in New Orleans, the Museum examines and celebrates all the cultures that have come together through the centuries to create the South's unique culinary heritage. The Museum is also home to the collections of the Museum of the American Cocktail, the Galerie d'Absinthe, and a demonstration kitchen.
The Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities is a non-profit organization dedicated to providing educational opportunities to all Louisianans.
The Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities' mission is to provide all Louisianans with access to and an appreciation of their own rich, shared and diverse historical, literary and cultural heritage through grant-supported outreach programs, family literacy and adult reading initiatives, teacher professional development institutes, publications, film and radio documentaries, museum exhibitions, cultural tourism, public lectures, library projects, and other public humanities programming.


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Amniotic Band Syndrome (ABS)
Definition - What does Amniotic Band Syndrome (ABS) mean?
Amniotic band syndrome (ABS) is a variety of congenital abnormalities that develop from the entrapment of pieces of amnion around fetal body parts. Consequences range from malformation of body parts to complete amputation in utero. Treatment involves the postpartum corrective surgical release of bands at 24 weeks. In instances where vital parts are entrapped, in utero correction has been attempted.
Amniotic band syndrome is also known as amniotic band sequence.
FertilitySmarts explains Amniotic Band Syndrome (ABS)
The amniotic sac is a two layer bag made up of the amnion (innermost) layer and the chorion (outermost) layer. These two layers add to the strength of the amniotic sac and in most situations stay intact until labor starts. In ABS, there is a rupture of the amnion that leaves the chorion and thus the sac itself intact. The torn amnion creates thick fibrous bands that become entangled around the fetal body parts. As the fetus grows, the bands become tighter, cutting off blood supply and in some situations, amputating the fetal part.
The exact cause of ABS is unknown but the two leading theories hypothesize that the amnion might rupture from poor blood supply from the placenta, while another theory is that the because there are other co-existing malformations in the fetus besides the bands, for example, cleft lip/palate or club feet, there may be an overall vascular problem with the fetus and the bands are just one of the symptoms.
ABS can be diagnosed in utero via ultrasound with classic symptoms of swelling of the entrapped limbs and as long as there is still detected blood flow in the limb with movement, any surgical corrective treatment is delayed till after birth. With advancements in technology, there have been attempts to cut bands in utero but if the compression is incompatible with life, the mother is given the option to terminate the pregnancy.


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Plenty to do with dad, friends and family this weekend: breakfast (or brunch), shopping in downtown Oakville and Burlington, Burlington's Sound of Music Festival, Springridge Farm's Food Truck Festival, farmer's markets, outdoor fitness classes and more!
Now until October: Burlington Mall Farmer's Market, 777 Guelph Line, Burlington
Every Saturday until October: Dorval Crossing Farmers Market, 200-240 North Service Road West, Oakville
Every Sunday until August 24: Fit in the Core! Free workout classes in downtown Burlington
Every Sunday, until October: Centro Garden Farmer's Market, 437 Brant Street, Burlington
Every Thursday until August 28: Yoga in the Park, 7200 Appleby Line, Milton
All weekend: Burlington Sound of Music Festival, 1400 Lakeshore Rd, Burlington
Now until June 15: Itabashi Art & Armor Exhibit at AGB, 1333 Lakeshore Rd, Burlington
June 14: Oakville Place Mall Farmer's Market, Oaville
June 14: 4th Annual Veterans' Salmon Derby, Oakville
All weekend: Skyfest 9280 Airport Road Mount Hope
June 14 – 15: Father's Day Food Truck Festival 7256 Bell School Line, Milton
June 14: Carousel of Nations Multicultural Festival Oakville
June 15: Shells & Sails Try-It Day Burlington, 841 Lasalle Park, Burlington
June 15: Michael Mcguire at RBG 680 Plains Rd W, Burlington
June 15: Symphony on the Bay: A Summer Serenade 125 Plains Road East, Burlington
Every Sunday & Wednesday until August 17: Concerts in the Park – Burlington


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I installed rvm according to the instructions from the official website. Then I installed two ruby versions While rvm was visible to bash, ruby was not.
I was browsing the web for a solution and I found the following command:
After this, bash was able to see ruby. I can't understand how did this happen. From my perspective, the command was absolutely useless as I just installed the latest rvm version.


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GREEN CITY by Allan Drummond is an informational picture book exploring how one community survived a tornado and rebuilt their community.
Based on a real event, this inspiring picture book tells the story of the small town of Greensburg Kansas was struck by a tornado. When the community began planning for reconstruction, they decided to build in an environmentally sustainable way including reclaimed lumber, wind-resistant buildings, and green energy sources.
Sidebars throughout the book highlight key elements of green construction and sustainable building practices. The book concludes with an author's note, tips for going green, and source notes.
Librarians will find this book to be an excellent introduction to the idea of sustainable communities. Use this book as a springboard for inquiry-based learning. Ask youth to explore an aspect of green construction of interest. Provide access to books focusing on specific practices such as alternative energy sources to jumpstart their investigations.
To learn more about the author, go to http://allandrummond.com/
Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, an imprint of Macmillan on March 15, 2016. ARC courtesy of the publisher.


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Best of this Week Summary 19 July - 25 July 2010
- A short introduction to using the open source project Jericho to parse HTML. Jericho includes text extraction from HTML markup, rendering, formatting and compacting HTML.
- A nice list of both strategic and technical factors you should consider when making decisions about integration in the blogpost EAI: when tools can help.
- The BBC used interesting semantic technologies on their soccer Worldcup 2010 website. See the architecture below:
- Pretty basic article on using DateFormat in a multi-threading environment. Tricky because they are not synchronized. You should definitely also consider Joda Time and the new Date and Time APIs for Java 7 (JSR-310).
- An explanation of how Sonar feedback metrics can be integrated into the code/test/commit/build cycle for a quality feedback loop.


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There are many people in New Hampshire who contemplate or get divorced each year. Each divorce has its own set of unique elements that need to be taken into consideration. Some divorces may be pretty straight-forward especially if both parties are aware of financial accounts, agree on parenting issues and therefore can take a short time to finalize. Others may take some additional time due to numerous assets that need to be divided, disputes over child custody, alimony, or other relevant factors.
Some individuals may go into the divorce process thinking they can do everything by themselves. There are plenty of do-it-yourself programs out there and some people are even creating phone apps that may help you through the process. While these programs may seem enticing due to their low cost and potential ease, it's important to remember that these types of programs cannot offer the experienced advice that an experienced divorce attorney can provide which can save time, money and frustration in the long run.
An online program may not ask you all the right questions in order to make sure that all assets are included in the divorce process or include language needed to ensure protection from financial responsibility, accurate language to award or divide retirement accounts, or to provide insurance coverage after divorce. Even those individuals who have few assets or no children may forget to consider that they actually have quite a few assets or debts for division. Those assets may include investments, real estate, retirement funds, life insurance, and the like. They may also forget that there is potential to split debts such as personal loans, credit card debt, and student loans.
If you are considering a divorce, it doesn't hurt to sit down with a divorce attorney to discuss the unique details of your case. Those details may be a lot more important to your post-divorce future than you realize.


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Barry, My Liege ;
There appears to be a possibility that the Democratic Party will capture your office as well as both Houses of Congress.
Regardless of the degree of probability of that outcome, you have the immediate responsibility to write a series of laws and regulatory changes before your inauguration which will restore the United States of America to a democratic country and reduce the power of our moneyed elites.
My Liege, as I have said before, if that fortunate circumstance should arise it will be our last chance to keep our country great and honorable.
But, My Liege, seizing that opportunity will REQUIRE that you and your second term administration IMMEDIATELY after inauguration pass the series of laws that you are preparing now.
You will have a very small window of opportunity to accomplish this task.
We pray you administer that work diligently.
As a start I offer below my list of 13 specific areas that require changes. These suggestions have been published before and I beseech you to take each seriously.
1. STRENGTHEN UNIONS - Union organizing and negotiating rights are created by Federal labor laws. When unions can organize and press for higher wages, the country benefits from higher incomes going to the middle class. It is true that unions can be messy organizations, but overall they succeed in raising middle class incomes when they can function freely. This will increase middle class purchasing power and help restore Aggregate Demand.
An inevitable result of raising wages through union activity will be that businesses have to raise prices to survive - that will require some adjustments to our trade policies as discussed below.
2. ENHANCE LABOR LAW ENFORCEMENT - Some business owners think they have an economic incentive to interfere with union actions ; they will have to pay higher wages if unions are successful. In our history, blood has been shed in labor disputes.
Henry Ford knew that true national prosperity lies with workers receiving wages high enough to buy the cars he made, but many business owners are not so enlightened.
When there is little labor law enforcement or penalties for labor law violations, then labor law has little effect.
The United States should enforce labor laws vigorously.
3. ESTABLISH ANTI-MONOPOLY LAWS - Monopolies are bad for the country, per se. Such firms have economic incentives to charge higher prices and sell fewer products than firms in competition. Their actions create a deadweight loss from economic activity not undertaken and further transfer some consumer surplus to monopoly profit. This results in less economic welfare for the country and thereby damages our National Security.
The United States should strengthen existing anti-monopoly laws, increase enforcement activity and write additional anti-monopoly laws.
The concept that monopoly is a reward for efficient firms is a false concept which serves to undermine National Security.
4. CANCEL FREE TRADE AGREEMENTS - United States trade policy does not work. We adhere to a low tariff concept that undermines our National Security. It does so by transferring jobs to foreign countries and by facilitating huge trade imbalances which serve to transfer wealth created in the United States to our trade partners.
It is time to change trade policies so that we import only as much as we export.
Our trade partners do not reciprocate our trade encouraging practices and in fact use their trade laws and national customs to protect their domestic industries. It is time to recognize reality in trade.
5. TAX AWAY GREAT FORTUNES AND GREAT INCOMES - Huge concentrations of wealth and annual income harm our economy by diverting money away from risky investments in economic growth and into safety seeking investments.
It is well known that the primary criterion of investing is safety of principal. People with large amounts of money are risk averse and do NOT wish to risk that money in new ventures, preferring to find safer investments.
Our economy will grow faster and we will be more secure when we do not have extraordinarily large income and wealth concentrations. Then will capital have greater incentives to take risks and create growth.
6. CREATE NATIONAL INDUSTRIAL POLICY - The United States should create a blueprint for our future economic growth. We should establish industries in which we wish to participate and then establish policies which encourage and protect companies in those industries.
Industries should be chosen on the basis of the likelihood that they will create good jobs in the future.
Critics argue that the government is unable to make sound predictions in this area since even private companies have difficulty doing so.
While that may be, there are countries which use this practice with great success and many more countries which are beginning to establish this process. The government of South Korea established this practice in the 1950's and was able to convert a nation of rice farmers and fishermen into an industrial powerhouse.
7. EXPAND PUBLIC UTILITY INDUSTRY DESIGNATIONS AND REGULATE EACH DESIGNATED INDUSTRY WITH AN ELECTED COMMISSION - There are some businesses which require a government protected monopoly for some reason ; for example, some industries like electricity generation and distribution require such huge capital investments that investors will not make that investment unless assured of freedom from future competition.
In these cases it makes economic and national security sense to regulate the prices charged to the public so that the company earns a normal profit, which allows a return to investors sufficient to ensure survival and uninterrupted service provision, but does not allow for monopoly profits.
Any industry whose products or services are regularly used by more than one third of the population and in which there are few suppliers is a candidate for public utility designation.
8. ENSURE FINANCIAL SYSTEM STABILITY BY RESTORING GLASS-STEAGALL - Stability in our financial system is required for our national security.
We know absolutely that the financial system cannot regulate itself without great harm to our economy.
Under Glass-Steagall we had stability for 50 years.
Restore it.
It is the only choice.
9. KEEP SOCIAL SECURITY AND MEDICARE - Not only do these programs provide dignity to people who have worked all their lives, they provide significant income to help support Aggregate Demand.
There are pressures to reduce or destroy these programs. The stated reason is the budget deficit, but the real reason is simple greed from the financial system.
Countries which have chosen to reduce pensions and healthcare because of a fiscal deficit problem are now experiencing recessions and high unemployment.
No country in history has been able to cut its way to prosperity. Many countries have found prosperity by borrowing in bad times to sustain employment.
10. INSTALL SINGLE PAYER HEALTH CARE - Regardless of the outcome of the Supreme Court's decision, there is no place for profit in the healthcare system. If we can eliminate insurance company profits, we can pay for our healthcare with current expenditures.
11. MANAGE DEBT TO BORROW IN BAD TIMES, PAY BACK IN GOOD TIMES - With a properly functioning national government, we can use fiscal policy wisely to keep full employment and growth achievable.
The Federal Budget is the flywheel of the economy - it prevents stalls when the engine's speed declines.
12. REDUCE MONEY REQUIRED FOR NATIONAL ELECTIONS BY REQUIRING BROADCASTERS TO PROVIDE FREE POLITICAL ADS - One of the reasons for our corrupt political system is that elections are very expensive.
But, most of the money goes to running political ads on broadcast media. Since broadcast media receives a license from the FCC to use their frequencies, we can require them to run free ads as a condition of their licenses.
This would reduce the cost of running for office and, consequently reduce the opportunities for political corruption.
Other election financing reforms should be pursued as well.
13. RESPECT BUT DO NOT FEAR OCCUPY PROTESTORS - Occupy protestors are about 20% of our people who have been harmed by market failures in our system. They are exercising their Constitutional rights to seek redress of their grievances.
Creating a rigid, militaristic response to a peaceful protest is the opposite of our founding principles.
If they follow our past history of peaceful protest, they may well be the force that helps correct our imbalances.
In conclusion Barry, My Liege, we pray that you will remember these issues after you finish discussing any limited election issues such as gay marriage and student loan costs.
Your faithful servant,
Saturday, September 22, 2012
Tuesday, September 18, 2012
Feudalism Redux : Romney's Economic Plan
Barry, My Liege :
Your opponent has taken the trouble to tell us exactly what he would do if elected.
Even though he is not worthy of our trust, let us take him at his word for the nonce.
According to FORTUNE Magazine in its September 3 issue, his plan is presented as a 5 point plan with each point numbered below.
My Liege, how anyone can imagine that the economic travail we experience today can be solved by five overly simplistic mantras is insulting to any thinking person.
Putting that aside, here then are the essential points of the Romney plan, with my comments below.
(1) "Aggressively promote domestic energy development, especially fossil fuels."
Even if we disregard the obvious corruption evidenced in this idea, it is clearly a disastrous public policy for the economy and the environment. Economically, our appetite for foreign oil funds many of our sworn enemies and destroys our economy by inflating our foreign trade deficit.
Our future lies with alternative and renewable energy.
(2) "Expand the market for U.S. goods overseas by negotiating new trade agreements and standing up to China on intellectual-property and currency issues."
It is a good idea to manage trade more effectively. We can give him that.
However, the problem is that our current policies create incentives to offshore and outsource jobs created by American companies. We should focus our policy changes in that area.
We will experience higher demand for our exports when, and only when, the domestic economies of our trading partners become stronger.
(3) "Improve workforce skills by transferring job-training programs to the states and going after teachers' unions, which, he says, stand in the way of school choice and better instruction."
This abomination ties together two disparate canards; each has to be considered separately.
Nearly all job training programs do not result in measurable job gains. The single effective remedy for job loss is to stimulate domestic aggregate demand by raising middle class incomes.
Our current policies do the exact opposite: our policies reduce middle class incomes and transfer incomes and wealth to the super rich monopolists.
The best way to raise middle class incomes is to reverse the trend toward weakening unions. With stronger unions, workers will have an opportunity for a middle class life.
Teachers' unions are not hurting public education; lower tax revenues are hurting public education. The only way to get better public education is to raise tax revenues by raising tax rates or growing the economy.
(4) "Attack the deficit through budget cuts, not tax increases."
Here is the centerpiece in the Romney/Kock plan to return the United States of America to feudal times. The plan is astoundingly simple : loot all funds devoted to middle class and poor people and transfer them to the 'private markets'. Then, lower taxes on rich people and raise them on poor people.
That will solidify our present kleptocratic, oligarchic social structure and reduce the possibility that we may someday return to a Democracy.
Tax cuts do NOT create jobs says the Congressional Research Service [http://www.sfgate.com/opinion/editorials/article/Low-tax-rates-may-not-boost-economy-3872573.php].
(5) "Reshape the regulatory climate to 'encourage and promote small business' rather than swamp it."
That last item, says Fortune, "covers his most consistent and passionate campaign pledge, the repeal of the Affordable Care Act."
I will simply misquote James Carville here : 'The only reason Republicans don't like regulation is the same reason that crooks don't like cops - they can't steal as much.' Apologies to Mr. Carville.
As an additional comment, and as a student of economic thought since 1960, it is my humble opinion that the 'economists' who write this drivel should be forced to disclose both their financial interests and the theoretical foundations of their incoherent rants.
Your faithful servant,
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Columbia Neighborhood Fights Rezoning of Land
COLUMBIA - A residential neighborhood is battling to keep a local coin-operated game business out of the area.
Residents of the Greenbriar Trailridge neighborhood in south Columbia do not want to allow the rezoning of a piece of land for commercial use. The land is located at 301 W. Green Meadows Road next to Rock Bridge Christian Church.
Nicholas and Brooke Parks own The Pinball Co. The business deals in selling games like pinball machines and pool tables. The co-owners want to move into the new space in the Greenbriar Trailridge neighborhood where they plan to build a showroom, parking and office space.
The city's Planning and Zoning Commission is holding a public forum for both sides to speak on the issue at 7 p.m. at the Daniel Boone City Building.
The co-owners currently operate out of a storefront on East Green Meadows Road. Nicholas Parks said he figured out selling the machines in store did not work as an effective business model, so the company sells most of its merchandise online nationwide. The company has the storefront to give potential customers a chance to view the gaming machines and it also provides a base of operations.
"This business means everything to me and my wife because she joined the company a year after we started it and it's our livelihood and everything we do. We practically live here," Nic Parks said.
Traci Wilson-Kleekamp is the president of the Greenbriar Trailridge Neighborhood association. She said the city's Metro 2020 Plan outlines different parts of Columbia for commercial use and others strictly for neighborhood use. She feels that once a commercial business is let into her neighborhood, then other commercial businesses will work into the neighborhood as well.
"The reason that's important is that those areas are put together so that they can accommodate deliveries and commercial-type traffic. That's not appropriate in a neighborhood area," Wilson Kleekamp said.
Also, Rudy Mendez, a resident of the neighborhood, said that the streets are not made for large transporting trucks. He said normal mail service trucks cannot transport pinball machines and the large trucks necessary to do so will not be able to maneuver on the narrow community streets.


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Event Details
Event date:
02 October 2017
Event time:
Venue Address:
The Priory Tavern (250 Belsize Road, NW6 4BT)
Our own ICMP Events Open Mic night is open to ICMP Students and anyone else who fancies getting up to entertain - acoustic soloist, duos, trios.
Try out new original material or play your favourite covers.
- Free Entry, 18+
- Three songs per set
- Free Drink per performer
- House Guitar and Keys available
More details to follow!


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Sunday, May 20, 2012
Garden 2012: Blueberries, Peas and Leafy Greens
The blueberries were the first to go in, a selection that included Duke, Blueray, Earliblue and a mature Bluecrop bush from a friend who was removing a few of hers. I'm hoping to baby the young bushes through the summer, though it'll be a year or two before they start to bear fruit. But we should be in for a haul assuming they all survive.
This year I'm dedicating the raised beds to salad greens and carrots, planting rows of individual varieties rather than combining the seeds from the packets and sowing them in large patches. As usual, I got a little overzealous in my selection, ending up with mixed mesclun, arugula, two types of oak leaf lettuce, red velvet lettuce, romaine and a fascinating sounding Australian Yellowleaf. Who could resist?
Coming soon will be tomatoes and kale, though they may have to wait till after the beginning of June to go in. At least the soil will be warm enough by then…I hope!
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Surprising no-one (considering its low subscriber rate), Star Trek: Online has gone "freemium". It's the now-common deal: you can pay the $15 a month (or a $200 once-off lifetime fee) and be unrestricted, or pay nothing and have a slightly smaller inventory, limited mailbox, lower priority in the login queues, and so on. You can find the full feature matrix here.
What is surprising, Star Trek: Online isn't bad at all. In fact, depending on how much you like the space battle system, you might find it rather good. Every player gets their own ship, which can be customized and upgraded, and a handful of bridge officers that unlock various abilities during space combat and who accompany you down to planets during away missions. You can feel the creaky Champions Online engine under the hood, but it's been sufficiently upgraded to give it some extra zip and visual quality. Some ships, species and nice-to-haves require real money to get, but the base experience you get for free is double what you can expect from most other MMOs that have gone freemium.
The client is a 4GB download, with an additional 400MB of patches at the time of writing. You can get the client from the official website.


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The City of Sydney regulates businesses in the sex and adult entertainment industries, including brothels, swingers clubs, strip venues, adult bookshops and adult cinemas.
Brothels and massage premises
All premises that provide a sexual service are defined in City policy as brothels. This includes premises that provide 'full service' sexual intercourse and premises that may not provide sexual intercourse but provide other sexual services including 'relief' and erotic massage.
Adult entertainment and sex industry premises are only permissible in some areas, depending on land zoning. Information about the zoning can be obtained by contacting a City duty planner (see contacts below).
The building owner's written consent for the venue to be used as sex service or adult entertainment premises must be obtained for a development application.
Adult entertainment and sex industry premises must not be:
- located in areas zoned residential
- within buildings that are also used as residences
- immediately adjacent to or directly opposite land developed for residential purposes
- next to or directly opposite sensitive land uses such as churches, daycare or child-minding centres, primary and secondary schools, parks, playgrounds or other places children frequent.
New sex industry and adult entertainment premises must not be located within a radius of 75m from an existing, approved adult entertainment or sex industry premises.
Lodging a development application
Applications can be collected from and lodged at any of our customer service centres.
Development application forms are also available online.
Home occupation sex service premises
City policy for home occupation sex service premises varies according to premises. For information concerning policy, contact the duty planner at the City (see contacts below).
Complaints concerning unauthorised or non-complying adult entertainment and sex industry premises can be made to the City.
Health information
Additional information and resources for the operators of sex industry premises are available from the following sexual health centres:
Royal Prince Alfred Sexual Health Clinic
02 9515 1200
Sydney Sexual Health Centre
02 9382 7440
Kirketon Road Centre
02 9360 2766
Related agencies
02 9206 2000acon.org.au
Department of Immigration and Citizenship
131 881immi.gov.au
NSW Health02 9391 9000health.nsw.gov.au
NSW Sexual Health Infoline
1800 451 624
NSW WorkCover
Health and Safety Guidelines for Brothels1300 799 003workcover.nsw.gov.au
Sex Workers Outreach Project (SWOP)
02 9206 2166swop.org.au
If you would prefer to discuss your proposal, you can contact the City and make an appointment to speak to a planner about your proposed development.
Last updated: Wednesday, 28 November 2018