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Hello ENTJs. I am an INTJ and I have a rather long, complex question. It has two parts so if you dont want to read through the second long part then please just answer the first question.
1. What do you think about INTJs as a potential partner?
2. So I am pretty inexperienced as far as sex goes. I know I'm attractive and have a great body because people tell me so. My second time was with an ENTJ (we were mutual friends through a really good guy friend of mine--ENFP). Most of our interactions are with the ENFP smoking weed and just chilling, talking about whatever. I know he likes me at least as a friend because we can talk/get along and the conversation flows. I get him because of the NTJ thing. He also said (in the company of the ENFP) that he thinks I'm a cool girl, but most girls are too emotional/clingy which he does not understand/like. He knows that I know that he has a reputation for hooking up with a lot of girls, but I don't mention it or bother him about it. Its really not my business as we're not dating, and I don't particularly care.
Anyway, the first time we hooked up there was no penetration that time because it was still painful for me. I was willing, but he said "I feel like I'm hurting you" so we just fooled around with oral sex and fell asleep afterwards. We cuddled a bit cause he said he was a cuddler (lol). That was in may. Fast forward to this semester during the first week of school. I hit him up to smoke and we get into it. I was reluctant because of what happened last time and I didn't know if there would still be pain, but he insisted. Anyway, it was great...while it lasted. It was kind of awkward during...he was ehem... eating me out, for example, and avoiding eye contact. He also orgasmed pretty quickly and I didn't realize. It was like this
"Oh I just came"
"Yea thanks for noticing"
I felt bad because I was having fun but I think I may have hurt him/insulted him but I didn't mean to. Just a bad choice of words really. Didn't help that I was high as fuck and we just sat there afterwards and I kept staring at him. He kept like looking at me weirdly at the corner of his eye saying
"What? Why do you keep staring at me?"
"Shit sorry I'm just high as fuck"
"You really like looking at me don't you"
Anyway after about 10 minutes of just sitting there we got dressed and he started playing some music, surfing the internet. At one point he saw this music video of some big booty girls and was like
"Sorry I have to watch this"
"Yea ok I don't care"
"Its just...I mean damn they are thick as fuck. I'm a guy I like this shit"
"Yea I mean if I saw something with a hot guy I would watch it too"
"Yea exactly"
Then we chilled for a bit and he walked me out of his place, gave me a hug and I was on my way. I am currently studying abroad with the ENFP friend, so I have had zero contact with him since that night.
SO my question is, is there potential for a relationship here? I don't have feeling for him but I think they could possibly develop if/when we start hooking up again when I return last semester. He's hot, we get along, we have a lot of shared interests, I know he thinks I'm sexy. Should I bother? Would he be interested? Or should I just enjoy the sex?


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Two of London's largest banks are facing punishments totalling almost $2.5 billion (£1.55bn) from US regulators over charges of money laundering and sanctions busting.
HSBC, Europe's largest bank, is set to pay a $1.8 billion fine to settle its case with US law enforcers according to reports from New York overnight.
Standard Chartered, the emerging markets bank headquartered in London, today said it was "very close" to concluding negotiations with US regulators and set aside another $330 million on top of the $340 million penalty it has already paid to the New York Department of Financial Services.
If HSBC settles with the 11 different US regulators for the reported $1.8 billion, that would be more than the $1.5 billion the bank said it had set aside last month but considerably less than some analysts had feared. Chief executive Stuart Gulliver warned then that any fine could be "considerably higher" and that the bank could still face criminal charges.
HSBC today declined to comment on the reports and a spokesman said: We are co-operating with authorities in ongoing investigations. The nature of the discussions is confidential."
In July, HSBC was heavily criticised by the US Senate committee on homeland security which found it had been "pervasively polluted for a long time".
The charges largely cover lapses in money-laundering controls in Mexico but could include Iran, the Cayman Islands, Saudi Arabia and Syria.
HSBC is also being investigated over its role in Libor-rigging.
Standard Chartered's charges cover sanctions busting over Iran, Burma, Libya and Sudan.
Finance director Richard Meddings said: "We are now very close to finalising the settlement and today we are confirming the amount we have set aside. I hope it will be very soon — before the end of the year."
Analysts said the final settlement totalling $670 million was less than most had expected.
Espírito Santo Investment Bank said: "We believe this is at the low end of market expectations and should allay fears of further litigation."
US regulators are also examining claims that Deutsche Bank hid as much as $12 billion of losses during the financial crisis to avoid a government bailout. The bank said the allegations were "wholly unfounded."
Bank's levy just got $60m bigger
Standard Chartered said it could have to pay up to $330 million (£205 million) under a British bank levy next year, $60 million more than it had expected, after Chancellor George Osborne hiked the charge yesterday. Standard Chartered paid $165 million under the bank levy in 2011 and expected that to rise to $210 million this year.
It had predicted it would pay between $260 million and $270 million in 2013, but now expects the charge to hit $320 million to $330 million, finance director Richard Meddings said. The Treasury said it planned to raise an extra £500 million a year from the increase which saw the bank levy rise from 0.105% to 0.13%.
Standard Chartered said it still expected to report mid-single-digit profit growth for the year which would be its 10th consecutive year of growth. Meddings said he expected the bank to add more than 2000 jobs this year mainly in the Far East and Latin America. Standard Chartered shares gained 26p to 1515p — their highest since August.
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Mississauga Mayor Hazel McCallion and one of her newly elected council allies are pushing back against a rebel councillor's attempts to investigate the finances of the annual mayor's charity gala.
In separate internal emails obtained by the National Post, both the Mayor and Councillor Ron Starr — who displaced McCallion foe Carolyn Parrish in Ward 6 three months ago — have questioned the amount of city resources being devoted to the gala probe.
"I would appreciate you keeping track of the amount of staff time that has been spent during the last several weeks putting together information regarding this matter," Ms. McCallion wrote in a memo sent to city staff and council late last week.
Mr. Starr asked for an accounting of anticipated costs "up front" before staff devote further time to the gala research, and questioned why Councillor Sue McFadden — who submitted a list of written inquiries during last Wednesday's council meeting — wanted information about past gala attendees.
"Now that I have seen the questions and direction, I am concerned that much of the info requested is the Gala Committee's responsibility and why are we spending City staff time researching and providing input for an 'outside' function," Mr. Starr wrote, referencing the volunteer committee that organizes the annual gala, which raises money for the Community Foundation of Mississauga.
Exactly how much money the gala raises for charity, however, has become a bone of contention, with Ms. McFadden suggesting the affair is a cleverly disguised "party for Hazel and the well-to-do."
In November, Ms. McFadden requested a full report on revenues and expenses for recent mayors' galas, along with information on gala board members, sponsors, auction items and ticket purchasers. The questions came as Brampton Mayor Susan Fennell faced criticism for a perceived lack of transparency surrounding her own charity gala.
Ms. McFadden's research has shown that of nearly $6-million raised from Ms. McCallion's annual galas between 1997 and 2007, just over $1.2-million ended up in charity coffers. Sample budgets show vast sums of money spent on food, drinks and entertainment for the lavish galas, which cater to hundreds of attendees. In the latest figures from 2007, the "entertainment" line rings in at $436,283.98.
In council last week, Ms. McFadden submitted 26 follow-up questions, asking for additional details about the gala and cost breakdowns. Ms. McCallion expressed no concerns publicly, saying staff and the gala committee "would be happy to answer all your questions," but followed up via email shortly thereafter to question the use of staff time.
"I have every right to have the answers," Ms. McFadden said, noting the emails from the Mayor and Mr. Starr have further piqued her curiosity. "I would think they would want the answers."
Ms. McFadden suggested minimal staff time would be required to deal with her follow-up questions. She pointed out that a Freedom of Information request on this topic, which any resident could file, would use the same resources.
Neither Ms. McCallion nor Mr. Starr responded to inquiries from the Post.
In an interview Monday, gala committee member Jim Murray acknowledged the event's high costs.
"We could raise a lot more if we ran it totally differently," he said, but noted the gala is designed "to be the social highlight of the community," with big-name entertainment and high-end liqueurs.
Mr. Murray dismissed Ms. McFadden's questions as the product of council infighting.
"It's a political fight between two groups, and the fodder in the cannon is this function," he suggested.
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The family of two sisters killed on Easter Sunday in Melbourne's north-east has released a statement expressing their devastation about their loss.
They also released photos of the smiling sisters, Savannah, 4, and Indianna, 3, holding hands and playing with their mother.
"We are utterly devastated at the loss of Savannah and Indianna," the family's statement said.
"The girls will be forever missed, loved and never forgotten."
They also asked for privacy while they grieve.
The 35-year-old father of the two girls has been charged with their murder.
The girls were found dead at a house in Watsonia. Police arrested a man at the scene on Sunday afternoon.
The girls were at their grandmother's Longmuir Road house at the time.
Police issued a statement early on Monday saying Charles Mihayo, of Watsonia, had been charged with the murder of both girls and remanded in custody to appear at the Melbourne Magistrates Court on Tuesday.
Police have yet to reveal how the children died or give details of any injuries.
A number of family members were at the home at the time the incident unfolded.
The two little sisters had been seen around the neighbourhood during regular visits with their father, who lived in a flat behind his former mother-in-law's house.
Assistant Commissioner Andrew Crisp said the tragedy had touched many.
He said what was supposed to have been a long weekend filled with family get-togethers had ended in tragedy.
''It's a time for families to get together and enjoy each other's company, and this will have a significant impact on friends, on family,'' he said.
''A number of our police members have been in tears. This is a tragic set of circumstances.
"There were a number of family members here at the time," Assistant Commissioner Crisp said at the scene.
"It's naturally impacted on friends, neighbours and also on members of the fire brigade, the ambulance services and members of Victoria Police who have attended the scene."
A friend of the girls' mother said he is in shock about what's happened.
''I just can't believe it,'' he said. ''She's always talking about her kids. She's always dotting on them. They were like the apple of her eye.''
He said their mother was working full-time so the two children had to be put in childcare every day since they weren't old enough for school, but still remained a regular topic of conversation.
''It was every day things. A lot of her conversations were about the kids, what happened at playschool, at home, just every day things,'' he said. ''It's a terrible thing that's happened. She's such a nice girl. I can't get it out of my mind.''
He said he never met her ex-husband, who is now charged with two counts of murder.
''By the time I met her, about two years ago, they had already split up.''
Police were called to the home about 2.40pm. Paramedics arrived soon after and treated the girls for some time.
As shocked neighbours looked at the house behind crime scene tape, friends of the family, who knew the girls' mother, began gathering at the scene.
Some of them embraced each other while others cried.
One man in the group, who gave his name only as Mark, said he had been the best man at the wedding of the children's parents, but the couple had split more than a year ago.
He hadn't been able to speak with the girls' mother since the girls died and hadn't spoken to the girls' father in a while either.
A neighbour said the incident was hard to comprehend.
"[I feel] sick to the stomach," he said.
"It's really hard to believe this could happen in a quiet little suburban street."
One neighbour recalled hearing screams in the early afternoon.
''There were a couple of screams, a woman, that's all I heard. And then the police were there,'' said the neighbour, who declined to be named.
''This is just terrible,'' said David, who didn't want to give his last name, as he arrived to see the street flooded with police and paramedics.
David and his wife said they knew the elderly woman who lived in the home and were holding out hope it wasn't her grandchildren who had been killed.
''It's really sad if that's the case,'' said David's wife, who did not want to be named. ''She's a lovely lady.''
Ben Cameron, who lives five doors down from the home, said he often saw the two girls playing in the area.
''I'm a bit scared, to be honest. I just don't know how I feel about it,'' he said.
''I've seen those kids before. I know the family. I've just seen them around. It's pretty frightening and scary.''
The girls' deaths have shocked the neighbourhood, which Rachel Fish, a resident who lives a few doors away from the house, said had ''always been a quiet area for families''.
''The wildest thing that's happened around here is the occasional teenage party.''
Helen Temple, of Watsonia, arrived early on Monday morning to pay tribute to the slain children.
Ms Temple, who is also a mother, said through tears that she wanted to leave a flower for the "poor things".
"I heard it on the news, and just thought to put a flower for the girls," she said.
"I have daughters too, and it's so sad.
"Hope they rest in peace, poor things."
The simple white flower, wedged between the bars of the metal white fence, was the only sign that anything was amiss in the otherwise idyllic street.
Two more locals came to pay their respects late on Monday morning.
A small girl and an older man walked up to the white fence, and placed vibrant pink flowers just outside the house before walking quietly away.
A woman walking a small dog and a young boy riding a bike dropped off a small bouquet of white and orange flowers.
Like many others, the woman declined to comment.
Police arrived just before 9am to continue their investigation.
Three people dressed in grey-and-blue hooded tops arrived at the home just before 9.30am in a blue four-wheel-drive. What appeared to be two men and a woman were then ushered into the house by police.
One later returned to the 4WD to retrieve a maroon duffel bag.
A neighbour left the house about 9.35am, carrying a box filled with what appeared to be blue towels.
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- Question from Retha Ann: I've recently been diagnosed with infiltrating ductal carcinoma. My question is, how successful is lumpectomy with sentinel lymph node dissection in terms of ensuring a clean bill of health?
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Lumpectomy and sentinel lymph node biopsy is a very accepted and effective way to begin the treatment of early stage breast cancer. Long-term prognosis depends on the pathology report from that procedure.
There are other features that will play a role in determining the prognosis, such as the estrogen and progesterone receptors, HER2 status, lymphatic and vascular invasion, size of the tumor, and whether or not the sentinel lymph node—or other nodes—are involved with cancer cells. In addition, we'll be touching on other factors as we move through tonight's program.
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91% of executives say customer experiences are critical or very important to their businesses, nearly 5,000 consumers prefer better customers experiences over lower prices and better customer experiences drive higher revenue and profits,—according to Forrester Research .
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The Pittsburgh Pirates have announced that center fielder Andrew McCutchen has been named the National League Player of the Week for the week ending June 15th.
During the week, McCutchen led the Majors with four homers, 13 RBIs, 30 total bases and a 1.034 OPS. Among NL players, he led with a .483 average and .559 on base percentage. He had at least one hit in every game last week and currently has an 11 game hit streak.
This is the third time in his career he has won the NL Player of the Week, accomplishing it in back-to-back weeks during the 2012 season....
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By Brian Nelson, CFA
After earning my MBA at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and training hundreds of stock and credit analysts from large organizations over the past 10 years, I have heard just about every question (though I admit I am still surprised by many things and remain a very humble student of the markets). I've also spent years perfecting the discounted cash flow process for large research organizations and studied under one of the most famed aggressive growth investors of all time. So, my knowledge runs the gamut from value through momentum investing. Yet, I continue to be surprised at how easily individual investors are deceived in this day and age. Sometimes I wonder if all of the readily-available (and free) information out there is actually a bad thing.
Hopefully, the 12 steps below, which should be read in order, will help investors understand what the stock market and stock investing is all about.
The Stock Market Is a Market. Let's start with the obvious. The stock market is made up of people. People make mistakes. People have biases. Some people are greedy; some people are fearful. The stock market is not a precise mechanism. If earnings of a company go up 10% in a year, for example, it is almost equally plausible that the same company's stock price may have gone down 10% or up 10% or stayed flat for that same year. Think Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL), most recently. Heck, even if earnings have gone up over a 10-year period, the stock price could still go lower. Think Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) as probably the best example for this one. The stock market is a market filled with individuals making decisions about what to buy or sell. And these buy and sell decisions move the stock price. If there is one experience every investor should have it is to watch a small/micro-cap company's share price move after a large order is filled. Or see a company break out as technical investors pile into the stock. Most sell-side analysts have never seen this; most buy-side analysts have never seen this. And certainly, most individual investors have never seen this. Only through these experiences can the investor tear off the shackles of deception that so many investors want so desperately to believe. We as individuals try to make rational what is not. We try to find complex answers for things even though at times they are so simple. In this case, the stock market is a market. And it doesn't get more simpler than that. Takeaway: The stock market is neither rational nor precise, and it is driven by the buy and sell decisions of participants (including your doctor, lawyer, shoe-shiner, and yes, even your taxi cab driver-or should I say, limo driver).
There is No Long Term. The financial industry loves long-term investors. And rightfully so for them: there is lower flight risk of your assets if you are a long-term investor. It just sounds so good, too: "investing for the long term." And so innocent! Yet, it is one of the market's biggest fallacies. At any point in time, the stock price of a company is based on the expectations of future earnings and cash flow. In 10 years, the stock price of the company will still be based on expectations of future earnings and cash flow at that time. We will never reach the long term. In fact, there is no long term. And please, please understand that this concept is much different than the saying that "in the long-term, we are all dead." What I'm saying here is that stock prices will always be based on current expectations of earnings and cash flow (at any point in time in the future). There is no magic switch 10 years from now that will change the market from a discount mechanism of future earnings and cash flow to a precise mechanism that translates earnings one-to-one from the company to the shareholder. Trust me, it will not happen. If it does, the stock market will no longer be a market (it will be some pass-through entity). Long-term investing is based on analyzing the long-term dynamics of a business and making a stand that at some point other investors will drive the stock toward your intrinsic value estimate (over the long haul). It does not mean that all of a sudden the company will be valued differently because we're now 10 years into the future. Or that the stock price will be higher 10 years from now because earnings have expanded. If you're willing to hold a stock for 10 years, it is very simple: you could have a Microsoft or an Apple (or something in between). The difference is expectations of future earnings of these companies 10 years in the future. Don't fall into the trap of looking at historical earnings and stock price performance and think it will continue. Many gurus that are better at marketing than picking stocks will try to convince you that past performance can be extrapolated in the future through some fancy best-fit regression line. Don't buy it! It simply is not true. If it were, then anyone that knew how to do regression analysis would be a gazillionaire! Takeaway: The core of stock investing will always be based on expectations of future earnings and cash flow at any point in time in the future. There is no long term.
Stocks Do Not Magically Converge to Intrinsic Value or to a Target Price. Often, investors hear that a stock is undervalued or overvalued, and this informs their investment decision as if some magic wand will cause the stock to magically converge to intrinsic value. Stocks can stay overvalued for decades, and stay undervalued for decades, or stay fairly valued for decades. Only when there is buying or selling in the stock based on its undervalued or overvalued state does a stock actually converge to intrinsic value. In other words, it doesn't matter if you think a stock is undervalued or overvalued. It matters if others (after you) think a stock is undervalued or overvalued, and then buy or sell that stock driving it higher or lower--only then will it converge to intrinsic value. The market is not magic - other people have to eventually agree with you for your ideas to work out. As an investor, you are highly dependent on what other people think. You must hope that they eventually come around to what you believe. Or else your stock will never converge to intrinsic value. Don't get me started on Buffett here. The only reason why he wants a stock to decline is so he can buy the WHOLE company on the cheap. For us stock-market investors, we want the stock to eventually go higher. Key takeaway: Stocks do not have to converge to intrinsic value. Only buyers and sellers can drive a stock to intrinsic value.
Everything in the Stock Market Is a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy. I hope you're still with me because this will blow your mind. I cannot tell you how many times I have heard that technical analysis is a self-fulfilling prophecy, and then those same individuals claim that value investing or growth investing is not a self-fulfilling prophecy. Once I hear that, I know that most value investors haven't read Step I above. If you have, you're already smarter than them. Hear me out: technical analysis works sometimes because people buy and sell based on technical analysis, driving a stock higher or lower respectively. Value investing works sometimes because people buy and sell based on value principles, driving a stock higher or lower respectively. Neither technical analysis nor value investing works all of the time. Remember Step II, there is no long term, and stock prices are based on the future expectations of earnings and cash flow at any point in time. Each investor will have a different understanding of what those future expectations are. Stock prices converge to intrinsic value because investors collectively think the stock is worth intrinsic value and vote with their capital to drive the stock price to its intrinsic value. If nobody thought a stock was worth its intrinsic value, it would never reach its intrinsic value. If everybody thought a stock was worth its intrinsic value, it would trade precisely at its intrinsic value. If you think a stock is worth intrinsic value, but nobody else does or ever will then I'm sorry you have an underperformer on your hands. It is this self-fulfilling mechanism that makes the stock market what it is. Takeaway: The stock market is and always will be a self-fulfilling mechanism. If all investors think one thing, it will be true in the stock market.
The Stronger the Competitive Advantage the Lower the Stock Return. This can't be! No way! You refuse to admit it! Everybody can't be wrong! But what about Buffett? Well, you don't have to take my word for it. Ask one of the most well-known shops out there that does Warren Buffett's economic moat analysis. You know what firm I am talking about. Click here (you may need to sign up for a free subscription to view; this data corrects the widely-distributed error found here). All else equal, they concluded that companies with wide economic moats underperform stocks with narrow economic moats, and that stocks with no economic moats had the best returns (over the time period studied). If you're looking for underperformance, it is very likely you will find it by identifying the stock with the strongest competitive advantages. The fact of the matter is that the stocks with the strongest competitive advantages are already discovered - they have already been found. They have already been bid up to levels where excess returns may be difficult to come by. Go back to Step II. Stock prices are driven by expectations of future earnings and cash flow. If investors are buying based on competitive advantage analysis, they are missing the point. Takeaway: Competitive advantage analysis alone will not lead you to the best-performing stocks. It actually has been shown that it will lead you to underperformance.
Earnings Surprises Are Analyst Misses Not the Company's. Okay this is where it gets tricky. The company is not doing better or worse just because an analyst or a group of analysts (consensus) fails to accurately predict quarterly results. Companies beat or miss earnings expectations because analysts are wrong with their forecasts. Nothing against analysts, as it's nearly impossible to accurately predict quarterly earnings all of the time, but this is an important point. Let's ask ourselves these two questions: What if a company continues to miss earnings expectations every quarter into infinity? Will its stock price keep going down forever until it reaches 0? The answer simply is no. Stock prices are determined by expectations of future earnings and cash flow. A company will still have value even if it continues to miss earnings. Consensus estimates and even whisper numbers move around often. And I've even heard of some speculation that some analysts actually raise their target prices and lower earnings estimates (at the same time for the same company), so that specific company can beat estimates (and hopefully traders drive the stock price higher to their target price, so they look smart). This can't be true, right? Well-seasoned market participants may know about this potential conflict and what I am talking about. Still, it is the future that matters. Once a company reports numbers in a quarter, the quarter is over (and is history). The only thing investors care about is the future. Stock prices are determined by expectations of future earnings and cash flow. Takeaway: Earnings beats and misses offer very little value to the investor. Stock prices are determined by future expectations of earnings and cash flow.
The Recent Trend Toward Dividend Investing May Be Good (and Bad) for the Individual Investor. On one hand, individual investors that are interested in dividend-growth investing find strong, stable, dividend-paying companies such as Johnson & Johnson (NYSE:JNJ) or Procter & Gamble (NYSE:PG), and this is great. It prevents them from getting involved in speculative, high-risk companies (remember the dot-com craze), which in many cases is the last thing a retiree is interested in doing. But on the other hand, dividend-paying companies have in many cases been transforming into speculative companies. Many MLPs and mortgage/residential REITs remain overly-dependent on the healthy functioning of capital markets, necessitating global credit health for survival. And many investors are stretching for those 10%+ yielding entities that may not survive for long. Remember SuperValu (NYSE:SVU), Roundy's (NYSE:RNDY), etc. This is not at all a good thing. And while many dividend-growth addicts will fail to admit it, dividends are just a component of cash flow distributed to shareholders, and a company's intrinsic value is based on its entire future free cash flow stream. Plus, a company's stock price is reduced by the amount of its dividend payment (once it goes ex dividend). We won't get into this (as many level-headed authors have tried without success to convince the dividend growth crowd of this). But trust me, it is the truth. Anyone that speaks to the contrary is not doing investors justice. Key takeaway: Dividends are just a component of cash flow, and a company's intrinsic value is based on its entire free cash flow stream.
The P/E Ratio Is a Short-Cut and Used Incorrectly. Unfortunately, many investors are not mathematically-oriented. Remember all of your friends that hated math! Well, the fact of the matter is that the stock market is highly mathematical. It combines math, accounting, finance, psychology, economics, and pretty much every discipline out there. However, many investors don't like the math part and think the P/E ratio is a substitute for actually calculating an intrinsic value or using a research firm that applies intrinsic-value analysis. The fact of the matter is that a P/E ratio is a short-cut discounted cash-flow model. But instead of thinking about the assumptions in a discounted cash-flow model to arrive at an intrinsic value assessment, investors simply assign a P/E multiple to an earnings number. You should be shaking in disbelief right now. Investors don't do this, do they? Yes, they absolutely do. Sometimes they use a company's own historical P/E ratio average or that of comparable companies to assign to a company's earnings. You now know just how wrong this is. A company's P/E ratio should be based on its future free cash flow stream, as the value of a firm is based on the future (not an assessment of its past or a comparable company). Investors won't stop using the P/E ratio because they read this. But you should be aware of the pitfalls of using this metric. Key takeaway: The P/E ratio is a short-cut discounted cash-flow model and investors continue to use the P/E ratio incorrectly.
You Will Be Wrong. Individual investors sometimes think that every idea should work out and immediately at that. Wrong. If you are a good investor, your winners will outperform your losers and you will make money. If you're an excellent investor, you'll still have a lot of losers, but you'll end up beating the market. The fact of the matter is that you will be wrong at times. You will make mistakes. Some of your investments will lose money. I remember one time I received an email from one of our members. He proceeded to tell me that he was so happy that we picked 8 winners, but he was extremely disappointed that 1 of our ideas did not work out. For some reason, he didn't understand that an 8 to 1 ratio is not only good, but unbelievably fantastic! I think it is partly because of this email that I have included 'You Will Be Wrong' in the top 12. Key takeaway: I don't care who you are. You will be wrong at times
Growth is a Component of Value. Unfortunately, the mutual fund industry has confused just about everyone with respect to this concept. There are really not growth stocks and value stocks. There are either undervalued stocks, fairly valued stocks, or overvalued stocks. Growth is a component of value. For example, Google (NASDAQ:GOOG), which is growing fast, can be undervalued, while a company with a single-digit P/E like Apple can be overvalued (at least according to some). Every analyst and investor should build a complete discounted cash flow model at least once in their life to see how growth fits into a value assessment. There is probably no better way to learn this important concept that Buffett has been known to utter a time or two. Key takeaway: There are really not growth stocks and value stocks. There are either undervalued stocks, fairly valued stocks, or overvalued stocks.
Value and Momentum Outperform Everywhere. Momentum is the biggest embarrassment to efficient markets (according to Fama), academic research continues to conclude that 'Value and Momentum' combined outperform in every market across every asset class, and we continue to demonstrate empirical evidence of the superiority of a combined value-momentum process in the portfolio of our Best Ideas Newsletter. Probably one of the biggest mistakes I made when starting our firm Valuentum was that I used the word momentum (at all). Even some of my closest friends dismissed the strategy of Valuentum, saying it wasn't for them, even when I was doing what they were doing with respect to value analysis plus the technical/momentum work. They just never looked at it. They saw that I was using some form of technical and momentum analysis and said "it's just not for me." I understand them. When I was a youngster, I remember reading about how technical and momentum analysis was voodoo and just not worth the time. I get it. People have been conditioned to not like it…fair or not. But by definition, Valuentum investing encapsulates everyone's strategy (from value through momentum). It is not only value, not only growth, not only GARP, and not only momentum. It's Valuentum. It embraces your investment strategy in the vein of Keynes' below. It's my personal mission to spread the work about the combined benefits of this strategy. Investors simply aren't aware of it or are afraid to accept it. Key Takeaway: Value and momentum combined outperform in every market across every asset class.
Keynes Was Right. I remember reading Keynes' work years ago, and it never really resonated with me. But then, let's say, I wised up. After reading just about everything I could get my hands on, spending years and years in school, and training hundreds of analysts in both equity and credit research, I have concluded that Keynes was brilliant. This isn't about his economic policies that you've read about in economic textbooks, but it's about how he thought about the stock market. I have saved this last for a reason. It embodies everything that you have learned above. Keynes compared the stock market to a beauty contest. He said that to pick winning stocks, investors need to pick the contestant (stock) that they think other judges (money managers) like, not the contestant that they like. This is absolutely brilliant, not only because it is true but because he put this into text decades ago! So, the secret to successful stock selection is to have a complete understanding of all investment disciplines in order to find the best stocks at the best time to buy (Valuentum investing). After all, we need deep-pocketed money managers to eventually agree with us for our stock calls to work out. This doesn't mean we're trying to front-run others -- it means we do extensive DCF analysis, an extensive relative value assessment, and a technical momentum assessment to help identify future winners. And just a bonus for all of you Oscar watchers this weekend to really hit this point home. To win an Oscar pool, don't pick the movies (stocks) you want to win - pick what you think Hollywood insiders (money managers) would vote for (buy and drive higher). This is the key to Oscar predicting (successful stock-selection), in my view. Key Takeaway: The best stocks are those that are undervalued and are just starting to exhibit strong momentum qualities, revealing the greatest likelihood of price to fair value convergence.
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The American horseshoe crab, Limulus polyphemus, is arguably the most convenient source for large quantities of blood of any invertebrate. The blood is simple in composition, with only one cell-type in the general circulation, the granular amebocyte, and only three abundant proteins in the plasma, hemocyanin, the C-reactive proteins, and α2-macroglobulin. Blood is collected from the heart and the blood cells and plasma are separated by centrifugation.
Date Published: 10/13/2008, Issue 20; doi: 10.3791/958
Keywords: Immunology, Issue 20, Horseshoe crab, Limulus polyphemus, Limulus amebocyte, Limulus blood plasma, Blood collection
Armstrong, P., Conrad, M. Blood Collection from the American Horseshoe Crab, Limulus Polyphemus. J. Vis. Exp. (20), e958, doi:10.3791/958 (2008).
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Anatomical features of the horseshoe crab relevant to bleeding (Fig. 1)
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General considerations, sterility and protection from exposure to lipopolysaccharide (endotoxin)
Supplies and reagents for bleeding the horseshoe crab: collection of large volumes of blood
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There are four species of horseshoe crab, Limulus polyphemus from the east coast of North America and three species that range from Japan to the Bay of Bengal. The animal is identified as a "living fossil" because anatomically similar forms have been found as fossils from 445 million years ago 27. The horseshoe crab represents a long-lived animal, requiring 10 - 13 years to reach maturity and living at least 20 years 28. Although it has been subjected to extensive harvesting as bait for the eel and conch fisheries29, the American horseshoe crab is still reasonably plentiful and allows the non-destructive collection of 50 mL of blood from a small adult and as much as 400 mL from a large female. Collection of even this much blood can be completed in less than 10 minutes. I know of no other readily available invertebrate that affords so much blood with so little effort.
The importance of the LAL test for endotoxin, an indicator for the presence of Gram-negative bacteria, has stimulated interest in the immune system of the horseshoe crab13. The LAL test depends on the activation of the initiating protease of the blood clotting system by LPS14, with a read-out of clot formation or of a colorimetric assay for protease activity. The two elements of immunity that have received the greatest attention have been the proteins of the plasma and the several proteins and peptides of the secretory granules of the blood cells. The result has been the elevation of the horseshoe crab to the status of having the best-described immune system for any long-lived invertebrate11
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Posted 19 April 2008 - 04:38 AM ( #5 )
I heard the oceangotchis are really hard to take care of, which is kinda bad luck since I'm getting one. Here is a bit of research I did:
List of Tamagotchi Releases
This is a list of every Tamagotchi virtual pet ever released, in chronological order.
1 The Tamagotchi Generation One
2 The Tamagotchi Generation Two
3 Tenshitchi no Tamagotchi (Tamagotchi Angel or Angelgotchi)
4 Mesutchi and Osutchi
5 Mori no Tamagotch (Tamagotchi Forest)
6 Umi no Tamagotch (Tamagotchi Ocean)
7 TamaOtch
8 Debirutchi no Tamagotchi (Tamagotchi Devil or Devilgotchi)
9 Yasashii Tamagotchi
10 Santaclautch
11 Genjintchi
12 Mothra Tamagotchi
13 Arukotch
14 Mezamatch
15 Mechagotch
16 Tamagotchi Plus
17 Tamagotchi Connexion
18 Tamagotchi Connection
19 Keitai Kaitsuu Tamagotchi Plus (K-Plus)
20 Deka Tamagotchi
21 Hanerutchi
22 Chibi Tamagotchi (Tamagotchi Mini)
23 Tamagotchi Connection Version 2
24 Tamagotchi Plus Akai
25 Ouchi no Deka Tamagotchi (Home Huge Tamagotchi)
26 Chou Jinsei Enjoi Tamagotchi Plus (Entama)
27 TamaStation
28 TamaStation 2
29 Tamagotchi Connection Version 3
30 Tamagotchi Kakeibo
31 Ura Jinsei Enjoy Tamagotchi Plus (UraTama)
32 Tamagotchi "MusicFever"
33 Tamagotchi School
34 Tamagotchi Connection Version 4
35 TamagoChu
36 Odenkun Tamagotchi
37 Furefure Tamagotchi
38 Tamagotchi Connection Version 4.5
39 Tamagotchi Restaurant
40 Family Iro Iro! Tamagotchi Plus
41 Tamagotchi Connection Version 5 (Familitchi)
42 Royal Iro Iro! Tamagotchi Plus
43 Tamagotchi V5.5/ Familitchi Plus+
The Tenshitchi no Tamagotchi was released in Japan in August 1997 with three different designs. An English version, the Tamagotchi Angel, was released in America and Europe with four designs. Both versions are often referred to as the Angelgotchi.
The option to discipline in case of misbehavior which was in the original Tamagotchi was replaced by the option to praise for doing good deeds in the Angelgotchi. The caretaker could not make it do good deeds, however. The discipline meter was replaced by a good deeds meter accordingly.
The Angelgotchi features a sound sensor. Occasionally, when the Angelgotchi was eating candy, a bat would appear and try to take the candy away. The caretaker would then have to either make a loud noise or tap the Angelgotchi unit (which would make a noise which the sound sensor would pick up) to scare the bat away. If the bat successfully took the candy, the Angelgotchi's good deeds meter would go down.
The Mori no Tamagotch was released in February 1998 with four different designs. It was scheduled for release in America as "Tamagotchi Garden" but has'nt been realeased yet This Tamagotchi introduced the "predator" function also used in the later Umi no Tamagotch (Tamagotchi Ocean). Occasionally a predator attacks, and the care taker has to use the sound-sensitive functions introduced in the Angelgotchi by shouting or tapping at the screen to frighten away the attacker. If the attack is a success, the Tamagotchi may become seriously injured or even die.
Another notable function of the Mori no Tamagotchi is the teenager phase: It is replaced by a cocoon, which remains for 24 hours, during which time the care taker controls a temperature dial. If the environment is mostly humid, the Tamagotchi will change into the "warmer" creature for that quality of care, and vice versa for cold weather.
There are two types of eggs that can be selected to hatch in this Tamagotchi. The white egg is more like a traditional Tamagotchi, where it changes based on how it is cared for. The spotted egg always changes into "Kabutchi", the stag beetle, where the goal is to make your pet as large as possible (a "length" meter is displayed to track this).
The Umi no Tamagotch (a.k.a. Tamagotchi ocean) was released in March of 1998 in Japan in four different colors. It was also released in the United States in 1998 in four colors (though they were different from the Japan colors) as "Tamagotchi Ocean". This is known as one of the most difficult Tamagotchi to raise, needing near-constant attention. This Tamagotchi includes the "predator" function also used in the Mori no Tamagotch. Occasionally, a polar bear will attack while the Tamagotchi rests. Therefore, the caretaker has to use the sound-sensitive functions by tapping on the unit or shouting to scare away the predator. Like in Mori no Tamagotch, if the attack is successful, the Tamagotchi may become very ill and may even die. The Tamagotchi includes a "water quality" meter in the status screen. Flushing the screen makes the screen "cleaner," but if all four skulls on the meter are filled, the water becomes "murky" and it has to be flushed in order to view the Tamagotchi again. This is a secondary use for the cleaning function is not used in any other Tamagotchi made recently.
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U.S. researchers have found a silver lining in the massive ash clouds that have covered much of northern Europe in recent days.
The eruption of a volcano on Iceland shut down commercial air traffic in much of Europe for nearly a week, but it has given the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration a chance to test an advanced computer model for predicting volcanic ash dispersion, writes GCN's Bill Jackson.
The science of volcanic ash dispersion is limited by a lack of detailed information about the composition of the clouds of ash spewed by erupting volcanoes, which can threaten aircraft and change the Earth's weather, said Gary Hufford, a physical scientist at NOAA's National Weather Service.
"We can advance the science so we can do a better job of detecting the ash," Hufford said April 20 during a NOAA briefing on the eruption of Eyjafjallajokull volcano.
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The ash cloud also got mixed up in European Union politics, reports Mikael Ricknas of the IDG News Service.
The E.U. telecommunications ministers, grounded by the ash-filled skies, opted to discuss Europe's future digital agenda via videoconferencing rather than meeting in Granada as originally planned. Sounds simple enough, but not so, Ricknas reports.
"Since the switch to videoconferencing wasn't planned, some participants will use it as an argument to reject the basis for the discussions, Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet, French secretary of state for strategic analysis and the development of the digital economy, wrote in a Twitter message," Ricknas said.
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This is, hands down, the best cologne for men! 2-3 sprays will have people turning around and asking you what you have on. For those of you who don't know, once mixed in with your natural scent and oils, the smell can change. But so far anyone of my friends who have used it before an interview or a hot date come running back and begging if they can use some more! It is a bit expensive, but every penny is worth it. If you spray it on a jacket, the smell will stay for days. If you don't believe me, go to a high end department store and see if they have samples. Spray it on your neck, and on your clothes and head out for the day! ENJOY! And you can clearly smell the difference.
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It's really hard to find authentic Creed fragrances online. I assume that the vendor that is being used is providing authentic Creed merchandise. The scent seems to be authentic Creed Aventus, however, normally when you purchase the product, it is shrink wrapped. These boxes are not shrink wrapped and sometimes come scuffed up. But otherwise, this seems like it is authentic and the bottle was full. Vendor is excellent with speedy and prompt shipping. I will definitely purchase this again, if it is still offered again when I need to repurchase it in.
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I read rickomatic's pot and realised the old posting date. Yeah!!!!! What's the scoop on this? ANy experiments. ANyone die from inhaling the smoker fumes?
Brian,Are you going to just put the leaf on top of the frames in your top box?
Well, my Rhubarb is blooming....
. Has anyone ever tried putting pieces of rhubarb leaves in the hive to control varroa? Or does the oxalic have to be distributed more evenly throughout the hive?-- Kris


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RITA FEFOLT: Watering down the truth
I love words. One of my simple pleasures is solving the daily crossword puzzle in the Gazette.
Recently it seemed that even the authors of the crossword puzzle are watering down truth. The clue was "preachy," the answer "didactic." The meaning of "didactic" in Webster's 1828 Dictionary is "perceptive," giving precepts of moral conduct, as the preceptive parts of the Scripture.
Is this the reason why most of our pulpits are not proclaiming the Word of God, which is didactic, i.e.: "Thus saith the Lord …" "Thou shalt not …" "Thou shalt … ." Are they afraid of being called "preachy"?
The Authorized Version of the Bible is rejected by most churches as the plumb line of truth. Antinomianism reigns, both inside and outside the church, thus chaos is rampant, both inside and outside the church.
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UPDATE 1-Colombia oil output to fall a fifth by 2018, producers say
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BOGOTA Jan 20 (Reuters) - Colombia's oil output is expected to fall by more than a fifth by 2018 as companies cut back spending on exploration and production after the recent plunge in crude prices, the ACP association of oil producers said on Tuesday.
Average daily oil output will rise by 3 percent in 2015 to 1.02 million barrels, ACP chief Jose Lloreda told reporters. But it will then fall in 2016 by 100,000 barrels per day, or about 10 percent, from the current average of 1 million bpd, he added.
Production will slide to around 785,000 bpd on average by 2018, about a fifth less than now, Lloreda said, adding the drop may be less severe if crude prices rise and if the government adopts measures to assist the sector.
Brent crude oil was trading at $48.75 on Tuesday. It has fallen by more than half since June, when it was $116 a barrel, prompting producers to cut spending.
"This year it is feasible to maintain production above 1 million barrels. From 2016, what we forecast is a continual drop in crude production in the country," Lloreda said.
Falling prices for Colombia's most valuable export are bad news for the Andean country on several fronts: denting public finances and throwing up a new obstacle in its struggle to raise worryingly low oil reserves.
More than half of Colombia's crude oil is produced by state-run Ecopetrol, whose shares fell about 45 percent last year as output fell. Colombia-focused Pacific Rubiales , listed in Toronto, is the largest private-sector producer. Continued...


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Will post a pic of my order to show what I'm talking about!
Ships in 2 weeks
Delivers: oct 9
Will post a pic of my order to show what I'm talking about!
Ships in 2 weeks
Delivers: oct 9
So I did the pre-order for mine last friday. The only thing is, I made a mistake on the billing address which I just changed with an apple rep. My question here is will this affect the shipping time for my phone? I had my order complete by 1215 and was quotted a deliv of next friday. Just curious to see if any of you guys experienced this same problem.
I ordered a 32gb black from apple 2 hrs after pre-orders started, i didnt get a confirmation email until a few hours later "
I ordered at 4am ET and check yesterday and says to be delivered on Oct 5 on the app store app on the phone. We'll see i guess!
my email was instant when I preordered mine, but already said 2wks. Same for my brother who ordered a 16gig white 30mins after me.
I just dont understand how they are basing their priority on orders? some order before others and get a later arrival date and other order earlier with a later shipping date? makes no sense
Ordered mine at 4:50 am est and got a confirmation email at 5:06.
It was saying 2weeks but apple store says deliver on oct 5th. 😡
Don't get it either I ordered from the vzw at 3am est. still no email but vzw says it went through and my date is the 21st. It's pushed back to like the 2nd or 3rd week in oct. now for the vzw iPhone on the site. Well all in all I still have my iPhone 4s jail broken. Hopefully a jail break will pop up soon.
I called the dummies at apple and asked what the deal with this was and as usual they had no answer. I could care less when it comes it's just point at this point. As jay-z said in his "cry song" an iPhone without a jailbreak is useless to me. Lol. 4s untethered till something drops.
I had ordered my iphone 5 at 5:00am EST and received the email after 5 mins and then i saw this
Is this some kind of joke are they serious
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The day of pre order or just now?
Yes, song cry. Lol
I used the iphone apple store ap at 12:008 am on the 14th pst ordered 2 phone was done by 12:15 am. got confirmation email by 12:17 am
Pre-ordered my i5 32GB/black at 3am EST. 10 min. later got an email. Shipping date: Sept.21. Next day got an email;. Shipping date changed to October 2nd....


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- Updated user interface - visual improvements and animation effects.
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- Issue #12811 (and probably others): Fix issue with Google/Picasa login failing for people who have Google Apps accounts
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Interviewed by: Renata Margaretić Urlić, Split Talks 2010.
The National Maritime Museum, the Psychiatric Hospital in Helsingør, along with the Wings Residences in Copenhagen, are three current projects which DAVID ZAHLE is heading for BIG, i.e. the Bjarke Ingels group, as a partner and chief executive designer of numerous award-winning projects of the world-renowned studio. Among other things, he influenced the "invisibility" concept of the Danish Maritime Museum in Helsingør ("Hamlet's Castle), whose exhibition premises were organized around the outer walls of the evacuated dock where only floating little linkage bridges were set. David Zahle, who was completely swept away with the city-palace that is Split, presented us with, in addition to his ample experience in housing projects, several recent projects of the studio, which was established by Bjarke Ingels under the initials of his own personage. We talked to Zahle about completely different approaches and projects which they are applying and working on in their office, from the housing complex "Mountain" to the incredible "Zira Island" in Azerbaijan, but we firstly took this opportunity to receive a few compliments for Diocletian's unique structure.
Q: Are you enraptured by the city-palace because of the usual reasons which for the most part everyone is fascinated with, such as the coexistence of various historic layers, traces of the past and the continued usage of the palace from the Roman period until today?
A: Yes, those are indeed completely sufficient reasons for being swept away, but I'm firstly fascinated with the way of the historical heritage utilization which completely differs from the way we utilize ours in Denmark. Here in Split everything is vibrant and light and entirely blends in with the history you've inherited. It's entirely opposite in Denmark, a palpable tendency towards idealizing everything old, deeming it fantastic, and on the other hand a fear of all things new. In Split history is all around us, the whole time, so you have to adapt to it, work with it if you want to produce something contemporary. Of course, there are pros and cons, but to me, it all seems very inspiring.
Q: Precisely because of that different approach to historical monuments in Denmark your National Maritime Museum project is particularly interesting. How did you manage to find a solution to, that is, positively resolve two contrary requests for construction, bearing in mind the location next to the Kronborg "Hamlet's Castle" in an area under UNESCO's protection and the investor's desire to develop their own architectural icon?
A: The Maritime Museum is located on a UNESCO protected site visited by over 700 00 tourists annually. It is the largest tourist attraction in Denmark thanks to the Kronborg Castle. When the Maritime Museum had to move out of the castle and find another place to develop its own structure, its management got scared that it would become invisible to the visitors, i.e., that nobody will want to come and visit it, while they wanted to not only keep it but increase the number of visitors to boot. That's why they imagined the construction of something spectacular! However, they didn't plan on moving away from the harbor and their old address, which is when things started getting complicated. In the 500-meter radius of the Kronborg Castle any and all new developments are forbidden, even a centimeter above the ground, so as not to screen that cultural monument from view. Thus, two conditions were supposed to be reconciled: the desire for an interesting structure which at the same time won't "protrude" above the ground was possible to achieve solely inside the harbor's old dock which is situated below ground level. In lieu of completely "filling up" the old one with museum paraphernalia and thus hiding or sinking it with new contents, we proposed to leave it untouched and situate the museum along its edges. That way the dock could become a new urban plateau or an illuminated yard in the middle, thus bringing out light into the center of the museum. At the same time the most important part of the museum's exhibit becomes visible, as it's framed by the museum's contents.
Q: Can we dub this museum with the term "invisible architecture" considering the other, more iconic projects created in your office?
A: That project had its specific focus and guiding idea, although we actually do design highly "visible", i.e. spectacular projects. It can thus be said that "invisibility" was the main concept of this particular project, that is, the creation of an "invisible" icon. But you can also say that one of the most important architectural discussions on developing new museums is actually dependent on what wants to be built: that which we call white boxes, symbolic buildings which serve as art frames or does one want to create something spectacular along the lines of the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao. This museum of ours should be able to bridge that gap between these two diametrically opposite approaches: to create a relatively expressive exterior, but also a symbolic, albeit expressive interior.
Q: Can you explain how BIG treats the relationship between the private and public within the general development of modern living in Denmark on the example of your residential building "Mountain"?
A: The majority of housing projects which we realized in Denmark are focused precisely on the relationship between the private and public. From the first projects where we completely glassed the facades, so people live like they're in a store window. That's actually a very interesting example which points to the ambivalence regarding this particular topic. People who live there aren't under the impression that people from the street are looking in, on the contrary, they're the ones who have an overview of the whole world. Actually, as a human being you always have the ability to experience the world from your own perspective, and not think about how people view you!
It seems to me that the project "Mountain" is unique regarding residential development in Denmark, especially within the context of the private and public relationship. The house is actually "sandwiched" between public spaces on both sides. On one side there's a parking lot as a public place where anyone can park their car, and on the other side urban houses with yards whose residents, if they want to go outside on their terrace, can achieve visual contact with their neighbors. However, although it's very important for us to open up as many places for the experience of the public, the thing we always aim to accomplish is to enclose private spaces as much as is possible. We take particular care of that in all of our projects, working on new lines of coverage, especially bedrooms as the most private areas.
Q: And last but not least, something totally different considering the fact that the Zira Island project was a particular surprise at your presentation, especially from the perspective of our discussions on tourist developments. I'm interested to know what is the geographical and historical, even the economic context of this particular venture?
A: That is an exceptionally interesting project in the tourist domain, and it's important to us as we designed it from the very foundations of reprogramming the whole Island. Zira is located near Baku, Azerbaijan's capital, and is still virtually a desert as it's been used as an army fort for defense purposes. Our approach towards changes on the island into a new urban landscape is based, by all means, on the investor's idea and they were thrilled with our mountain houses, which we want to develop in our lowland Denmark. They were afraid that the urbanization of the island would come down to the usual arrangement of blocks and skyscrapers, what would ruin the view of the beautiful bay from the capital. That's why they commissioned us to create the urban development in the shape of a mountain, which we took to heart and did exactly that, interpreting the seven most famous mountains in Azerbaijan.
Each of them consist of either high and low rises or emerge together from the higher structures. You are of course free to say that Azerbaijan doesn't have any ties to tourism, either historically or geographically, as is the case with all other "oil" countries. However, within the course of the last twenty years the major oil world powers attempted to bridge that gap so as to make up for their lack of other industries. Thus, in addition to the oil industry, other branches such as tourism have been quick in starting to develop.
Renata Margaretić Urlić


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1. Is there an ability to sync paragraph/character styles between documents, like in a "book" entity in Indesign? Say, if I have one psd with main page and another psds with some inner pages, can I sync updated styles quickly? 2. Is there a way to adjust radius of a corner in a rounded rectangle (or any other shape)?
Videos of the New Features in Photoshop CS6 – click
What happened to the $99.00 Upgrades?
The economy tanks and the prices just keep going up!
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It`s a bit out of topic but on Lynda they put something like that. It looks really awesome http://www.lynda.com/Photoshop-tutorials/Photoshop-CS6-Beta-Preview/97406-2.html?utm_medium=email&utm_source=ldcemail&utm_campaign=adobeCS6beta-non-A
I've been watching the Lynda.com Photoshop CS6 tutorials and they're great. They're also free—which is always a good thing.
I'm really loving CS6 – I'm impressed with the new automatic color adjustments feature. It allows you to use the auto-correct feature with curves, levels and brightness. The auto-correction is much better than what is available in CS5 . I also really love the non-destructive crop tool. It's going to make it much easier to crop photos and make adjustments along the way. Haven't played with the new text features yet—that's next.
On Topic: No the Beta doesn't have this function. Again Adobe isn't ready perhaps to even include it in the full version..perhaps in CS6 .5 they might make it…or wait until CS7 …you never know.


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Party General Secretary Madhusudan Mistry claimed that Modi would announce his Lok Sabha seat at the last minute as the Prime Ministerial candidate of BJP is afraid of internal sabotage.
Mistry, a known detractor of the Gujarat Chief Minister, said that if Modi contests from two seats one in Gujarat and another in Uttar Pradesh, it would mean that he is unsure of his success.
"It will be like Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan contesting from two Assembly seats recently as he felt he could be a victim of internal sabotage if he filed papers from only one seat," Mistry said. The talk in Congress is that Modi could be contesting from Baroda in Gujarat.
Mistry, who is in charge of party affairs in Uttar Pradesh, said that the Pradesh Election Committee for the state will be meeting on January 22 while that in Gujarat on January 24 to recommend names of possible candidates for finalisation by the Central Election Committee.