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The Jewel of Africa
"You have the jewel of Africa in your hands," said President Samora Machel of Mozambique and President Julius Nyerere of Tanzania to Robert Mugabe, at the moment of independence, in 1980. "Now look after it."
Twenty-three years later, the "jewel" is ruined, dishonored, disgraced.
Southern Rhodesia had fine and functioning railways, good roads; its towns were policed and clean. It could grow anything, tropical fruit like pineapples, mangoes, bananas, plantains, pawpaws, passion fruit, temperate fruits like apples, peaches, plums. The staple food, maize, grew like a weed and fed surrounding countries as well. Peanuts, sunflowers, cotton, the millets and small grains that used to be staple foods before maize, flourished. Minerals: gold, chromium, asbestos, platinum, and rich coalfields. The dammed Zambezi River created the Kariba Lake, which fed electricity north and south. A paradise, and not only for the whites. The blacks did well, too, at least physically. Not politically: it was a police state and a harsh one. When the blacks rebelled and won their war in 1979 they looked forward to a plenty and competence that existed nowhere else in Africa, not even in South Africa, which was bedeviled by its many mutually hostile tribes and its vast shantytowns. But paradise has to have a superstructure, an infrastructure, and by now it is going, going—almost gone.
One man is associated with the calamity, Robert Mugabe. For a while I wondered if the word "tragedy" could be applied here, greatness brought low, but Mugabe, despite his early reputation, was never great; he was always a frightened little man. There is a tragedy, all right, but it is Zimbabwe's.
Mugabe is now widely execrated, and rightly, but blame for him began late. Nothing is more astonishing than the silence about him for so many years among liberals and well-wishers—the politically correct. What crimes have been committed in the name of political correctness. A man may get away with murder, if he is black. Mugabe did, for many years.
Early in his regime, we might have seen what he was when the infamous Fifth Brigade, thugs from North Korea, hated by blacks and whites alike, became Mugabe's bodyguards, and did his dirty work, notably when he attempted what was virtually genocide of thousands of the Ndebele people (the second-largest tribe) in Matabeleland. Hindsight gives us a clear picture of his depredations: at the time mendacity ruled, all was confusion. But the fact was, we knew the Fifth Brigade: it had already murdered and raped.
It was confusion, too, because Mugabe seemed to begin well. He was a Marxist, true, but like other politicians before and since he said the right things, for instance, that blacks and whites must flourish together. And he passed a law against corruption, forbidding the top echelons of officials from owning more than one property. When his officials only laughed, and bought farm after farm, hotels, businesses, anything…
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Congressman heckled by Occupiers at veterans event
Steve Watson
December 29, 2011
After being interrupted by Occupy protesters during a veterans rally in Des Moines, Iowa yesterday, Ron Paul praised the movement, compared it to the Tea Party and declared that he was the only GOP candidate who could bridge the two causes and instill real change in Washington.
During the opening remarks of his speech to the hundreds in attendance, Paul was interrupted by protesters screaming "What about the children of the 99%?"
"You are a servant of the 1%," one woman was heard shouting in Paul's direction, clearly either unaware or ignoring the fact that the Congressman has railed against the Federal Reserve system for over three decades and was the only candidate staunchly opposed to the banker bailouts.
"I am a veteran, my husband is a veteran…" the woman screamed, adding "does he care about us?"
Well, yes he does. The Congressman served as an Air Force surgeon, and while in office has tirelessly engaged in constituent service work on behalf of military veterans.
He was the only GOP candidate to write to the president [1] recently to protest the fact that military retirees are now facing benefit cuts under the administration's proposed $1.5 trillion dollar tax hike.
Despite his fierce anti-war stance, Paul's unwavering support for veterans has seen him receive more donations from from active-duty military than all of the other Republican presidential candidates combined, as well as the president himself.
"Free Speech, aint it great!" Paul boomed as the protesters, surrounded by tv cameras and reporters, continued to make their points.
Watch the incident below:
Paul's entire speech from the event can also be viewed below:
Following the speech, Paul spoke about the Occupy movement in favourable terms.
"Some people like to paint Occupy left and the Tea Party people right," Paul said, "I think it makes my point. There's a lot of people unhappy, and they're not so happy with the two-party system because we have had people go in and out of office, congress changes, the presidency changes, they run on one thing, they do something else. Nothing ever changes."
"The Tea Party and Occupy people are just tired of it all," he said. "And they would like to see changes." Paul added.
"The Tea Party movement started here, gets big, a lot of different people come in. I think the same thing has happened with Occupy. I put them together—I put both groups together. Because I think both groups are unhappy about what's happening in Washington, and around the country, and the economic conditions." The Congressman noted.
Paul's full comments on the Occupy movement are included at the foot of this article.
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Meanwhile, the Ron Paul campaign has released another new tv spot to be broadcast in Iowa and New Hampshire from today.
The 30 second ad, titled "Machine" focuses on the Washington political establishment and once again highlights how Paul's rivals are part of the insider machine that has encouraged economic hardship in America through support of endless bailouts and unsound monetary policy, while he has consistently stood apart.
"Our new ad 'Machine' argues the point that Washington is populated with politicians and well-connected interests that serve themselves rather than a vulnerable public that relies on politicians to create the proper atmosphere for fair competition and growth." Ron Paul 2012 National Campaign Chairman Jesse Benton stated.
"In contrast Ron Paul has always been above the fray and promotes policies and initiatives such as his 'Plan to Restore America,' an economic blueprint to help Americans recapture their constitutionally-guaranteed economic and civil liberties," Benton added.
Watch the ad below:
Ron Paul's full comments on the Occupy Movement:
That in a way is a challenging question, because along with that question, I get a lot of times asked about the Tea Party movement. The Tea Party movement started here, gets big, a lot of different people come in. I think the same thing has happened with Occupy. I put them together—I put both groups together. Because I think both groups are unhappy about what's happening in Washington, and around the country, and the economic conditions. But their complaints are somewhat different.
The Tea Party people basically say the debt is too big and we should shrink the size of government. Occupation seems to be more addressing the subject of the very rich, and I think that can be a mixed blessing in the sense that in my talk already I've criticized many people on Wall Street and the people who get rich because they get special benefits from the government, whether they get contracts or whether they benefit from the devaluation of the currencies, or whether they get their bailouts, yes, we should address that. I think the Occupy people are.
But people who are wealthy in a free market who give an honest service or an honest product and they are rewarded by the consumer, they're quite different. They have to be protected. We shouldn't be jealous or envious of those people. So you can't put them all together. So in many ways, I identify with both groups. There are some things the groups have changed a little bit. The first time the tea party movement was noted was December 16th four years ago when there was a spontaneous fundraising rally for our campaign. But it's changed a lot. A lot of people come in. But I think it's healthy.
I think if some people like to paint Occupy left and the Tea Party people right, but I think it makes my point. There's a lot of people unhappy, and they're not so happy with the two party system because we have had people go in and out of office, congress changes, the presidency changes, they run on one thing, they do something else. Nothing ever changes. And I sort of like it because I make the point that if you're a Republican or Democrat the foreign policy doesn't really change, even though there's a strong Republican tradition of the foreign policy I've been talking about where we don't get involved in policing the world. Does the monetary policy change? Do they really care about reining in the Fed? Would the Fed bail out all these countries around the world? More and more people know that now. But monetary policy doesn't change
Do we ever cut back? No. There's no pretense to cutting back. They're not even talking about cutting back. They're talking about a token cut to proposed increases. All that talk about cutting a trillion dollars over the next 10 years, they don't even want to start until 2013, and then they want to string it out. And it's just cutting what's automatically built into the budget.
But the Tea Party and Occupy people are just tired of it all. And they would like to see changes. And if the conditions get much worse, the demonstrations on the streets could get much worse, too. And that's what we have to be aware of. But fortunately we still live in a free enough society where they can speak out. If they violate property rights, if anybody violates property rights, they do it at risk. Because that means they're practicing civil disobedience and they might have to suffer the consequences. But there are sometimes people believe civil disobedience in order to make a point on what's wrong with our laws that's, they have to understand, that's the risk they take. But basically I think it's healthy on both sides, both the Tea Party movement and the Occupy movement.
Steve Watson is the London based writer and editor for Alex Jones' Infowars.net [2], and Prisonplanet.com [3]. He has a Masters Degree in International Relations from the School of Politics at The University of Nottingham in England.

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New York (HedgeCo.net) – After a tumultuous three years the hedge fund Third Party Marketing (TPM) industry is seeing very strong growth in demand from both hedge funds and investors, although this growth is not shared evenly across the estimated 500 firms in the industry due to a wide difference in the quality and reputation of TPM firms. Addressed below are reasons for the increase in demand for TPMs, the benefits of the top TPMs to investors and hedge fund managers, what has transpired in the TPM industry over the past three years and the quality difference among TPM firms in the industry.
Why the Recent Increase in Demand
The third party marketing industry is seeing strong growth in demand from hedge funds because most net flows into the hedge fund business have been concentrated in a small percentage of firms with the strongest brands. From the 4th quarter of 2008 through 2010, the definition of strongest brand meant the largest hedge funds with assets greater than $5 billion, where performance was a secondary consideration. Beginning in 2011, a small percentage of small and mid-sized hedge funds were able to break away from the crowd by building strong brands, which led them to successfully compete with their larger peers. A high quality product offering and strong historical returns are not enough for smaller mangers to attract capital. They also need to effectively communicate what their differential advantages are in order for investors to have a positive perception of the fund. In addition, they need an effective sales and marketing strategy. This is a great environment for TPMs, because there are a significant number of high quality funds that are having difficulty raising assets. Many of these managers are looking for marketing help because they realize that high-quality marketing is a critical element of a hedge fund's long term survival.
From the standpoint of investors, the number of hedge funds has grown substantially over the years, to the extent that some investors are contacted by hundreds of managers a week. The top third party marketing firms act as a filter for high quality managers and make it easier for investors to evaluate the managers. In addition, many high quality firms are difficult to find since they do not show up in hedge fund databases.
Benefits the Top TPMs Provide to Investors
TPM services are complimentary to investors: fees are not typically paid by the investor or by the fund. They are paid by the hedge fund organization.
Screening of the hedge fund manager universe. With an estimated eight thousand hedge funds and an opaque market, it can be difficult to identify the highest quality hedge funds. The best TPMs spend significant time analyzing hedge fund databases, trade journals, and leveraging various industry relationships to identify a broad universe of managers. This universe is then narrowed down by utilizing both quantitative and qualitative screens. TPM firms then perform extensive due diligence on the top funds before making the decision to represent a hedge fund. In some cases, TPMs represent less than 1% of the firms on which they perform due diligence. If one of the firms they are representing becomes less marketable for any reason, they have the option to stop representing that organization. In-house marketers do not have this option; they need to either continue to sell the fund or find another job.
Easier to evaluate mangers. Investors don't like wasting time with managers that are unable to effectively communicate what they do. A good TPM will help its manager consistently deliver a concise and linear marketing message that identifies the differential advantages across each of the evaluation factors investors used to select hedge funds.
TPMs can offer consulting advice relative to what strategies they think will outperform given current valuation levels and the economic environment, identify trends they are seeing among similar investors, and pinpoint where the money is going. TPMs are in a unique position since they are both doing research on hedge funds across a broad range of strategies and speaking with thousands of investors about how their assets are allocated and what strategies they currently prioritize.
Easier to evaluate mangers. Investors don't like wasting time with managers that are unable to effectively communicate what they do. A good TPM will help its manager consistently deliver a concise and linear marketing message that identifies the differential advantages across each of the evaluation factors investors used to select hedge funds.
TPMs can offer consulting advice relative to what strategies they think will outperform given current valuation levels and the economic environment, identify trends they are seeing among similar investors, and pinpoint where the money is going. TPMs are in a unique position since they are both doing research on hedge funds across a broad range of strategies and speaking with thousands of investors about how their assets are allocated and what strategies they currently prioritize.
TPMs are required to be licensed and regulated by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA). These firms are heavily regulated and are required to undergo periodic reviews by the regulatory bodies for compliance. Not all hedge funds are regulated, and their internal sales people in many cases are not licensed. As it now stands, third-party marketers face a much higher degree of regulatory scrutiny than hedge funds that have not registered with the SEC.
Benefits the Top 3PMs Provide to Hedge Fund Managers
Benefits the Top 3PMs Provide to Hedge Fund Managers
A. Immediate enhancement of brand. Some of the top TPMs can add instant credibility to a hedge fund when they take them on as a client. This is achieved when investors have consistently been shown high quality funds by the TPM, which causes them to have a high regard for their hedge fund research process. This is similar to the credibility received by a new fund when launched by an existing high-quality hedge fund.
B. Consulting advice – This includes analyzing the fund offering based on the evaluation factors that investors use to select hedge funds and offering advice to improve any weaknesses. Strong TPMs are able to review all marketing materials and oral presentations to assure a consistently delivered, concise and linear marketing message that identifies the differential advantages across each of the evaluation factors investors use to select hedge funds. Finally, TPMs can provide marketing and sales consulting advice that identifies which type of investors the fund should be focused on, which conferences they should attend, and as a result of the new JOBS act, whether or not they should develop a publicity or advertising strategy.
C. Access to investors – Most of the major TPM firms have a large rolodex of investors and often have very strong professional relationships. Due to the multiple strategies they represent, TPM firms have the ability to meet with investors much more frequently than internal hedge fund marketers. This gives the TPM the ability to significantly increase the number of high quality meetings for a hedge fund manager and allows for better feedback and follow up from those investors.
D. Economics – Building out an internal sales force with top-quality talent can cost several million dollars, and the compensation associated with this effort remains in place regardless of how effectively assets are raised. TPMs typically are only compensated if they raise assets. If these assets are from investors the hedge fund would not have acquired on their own, then there is no cost to the hedge fund because they are receiving a majority of the fee income they would not normally have received. In addition, if the TPM can bring in assets 6 months earlier than the hedge fund would have on their own, than the increase in fee income is often enough to offset the TPM's fee.
E. Increased probability of success – Raising assets in the hedge fund industry is not a linear process, but exponential. Part of the reason for this is that investors do not like investing in funds that are not growing. Asset-raising success gives other investors confidence to make an investment.
What Transpired Over the Past 3 Years?
Before 2008 the third party marketing industry flourished and helped many emerging managers to become some of the largest hedge funds in the industry today. This was a period of rapid expansion for the industry when it was relatively easy to raise assets for a fund and asset flows were diversified over a large number of hedge funds. It was also during this time, due to low barriers to entry, that the number of third party marketing firms expanded significantly and attracted some unprofessional and unethical individuals to the industry. This had a negative impact on some investors' perception of third party marketers, similar to the general public's perception of the hedge fund industry, due to a few bad apples.
From 2008 to 2011 the TPM industry was devastated for three primary reasons. To quote Thomas Paine, "these are the times that try men's souls." First, TPM fee revenue and asset base declined along with the rest of the hedge fund industry. Second, from the 4th quarter of 2008 through 2010, hedge fund net flows dropped off an estimated 95% from their peak and only slowly improved over this time period. The environment was even worse for hedge funds with less than $5 billion in AUM, which were a majority of the hedge funds that TPMs represent.
The final issue had to do with the public pension fund scandal led by the New York State Common Fund that was plagued with internal corruption. An official associated with the fund created a TPM firm in order to illegally get paid off by alternative investment managers for getting hired. Despite the fact that traditional hedge fund TPMs were completely innocent and most not allowed to meet with the fund since at that time they only invested in hedge fund of funds, the State of NY proceeded to blame the TPM industry in order to deflect criticism away from their own structural flaws. They first tried to get other public pension funds to ban TPMs and, when that strategy failed, they lobbied the SEC to ban TPMs. This proposed legislation was both prejudiced and insulting to the institutional quality TPM firms. During the comment period of the proposed legislation, the response from many of the leading public pension funds, who recognized the value added by the top TPM firms, was overwhelmingly in favor of the TPM industry. As a result, the ultimate "pay to play" legislation that was passed actually benefited the top third party marketing firms by leveling the playing field and making everyone play by the same rules. The new legislation applied to all asset management, alternative investment and TPM firms equally. As a result, TPMs are able to call on public funds with the exception of State pension funds in 3 states that have all had internal unethical behavior. During this time period the Third Party Marketing Association has proactively developed ethical guidelines for its members to abide by. As mentioned earlier, the top tier TPMs that made it through this period are seeing a significant increase in demand and fund flows.
Major Differences in the Quality Within the TPM Industry
Similar to the hedge fund industry, there is a significant difference in quality across the estimated 500+ firms within the TPM industry. The top TPM firms receive a disproportionate amount of attention because they have developed strong brands that enhance the credibility of the managers they represent in the marketplace. This has been achieved by those third party marketing firms that are perceived by the market as being of institutional quality, having strong investment and product knowledge, high integrity, deep consideration for the best interest of the investor and only representing the highest quality hedge funds in the industry.
Investors should differentiate between institutional quality TPMs that consistently represent high-quality hedge funds versus the lower quality organizations. For hedge funds, it is vital to hire the highest quality TPM firm possible, because it will have a major impact on how people perceive their firm. Hedge funds should use multiple factors when selecting a TPM firm, including: firm reputation, depth and quality of sales team, industry knowledge, investment knowledge, assets raised, and geographic and investor segment specialties.
Donald A. Steinbrugge, CFA
Managing Member
Agecroft Partners, LLC
103 Canterbury RD
Richmond, VA 23221
Managing Member
Agecroft Partners, LLC
103 Canterbury RD
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Did you, or someone you know, sell a house in 2011 that was purchased under the government's new-home-buyer tax-credit law? If so, it may be payback time.
Part of the deal for earning a $7,500 credit in 2008 -- or the $6,500 or $8,000 credit for 2009 or 2010 purchases -- was that you stay in the house for at least three years. Congress didn't want to encourage more of the flipping that helped create the housing crisis in the first place.
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Although it's not widely known, you're never required to pay back more than the profit you made on the sale of the home. So if you sold for a loss, no payback is required.
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Be careful when you complete that form to make sure you don't repay more than you have to.
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The credit gradually disappears and is phased out for taxpayers with adjusted gross incomes between $125,000 and $145,000 (for singles) and $225,000 and $245,000 (for married couples who file jointly).


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- This article is about bias of statistical estimators. For other uses in statistics, see Bias (statistics).
In statistics, bias (or bias function) of an estimator is the difference between this estimator's expected value and the true value of the parameter being estimated. An estimator or decision rule with zero bias is called unbiased. Otherwise the estimator is said to be biased.
In ordinary English, the term bias is pejorative. In statistics, there are problems for which it may be good to use an estimator with a small, but nonzero, bias. In some cases, an estimator with a small bias may have lesser mean squared error or be median-unbiased (rather than mean-unbiased, the standard unbiasedness property). The property of median-unbiasedness is invariant under transformations, while the property of mean-unbiasedness may be lost under nonlinear transformations.
Suppose we have a statistical model parameterized by θ giving rise to a probability distribution for observed data, $ P(x|\theta) $, and a statistic θ^ which serves as an estimator of θ based on any observed data $ x $. That is, we assume that our data follows some unknown distribution $ P(x|\theta) $ (where $ \theta $ is a fixed constant that is part of this distribution, but is unknown), and then we construct some estimator $ \hat\theta $ that maps observed data to values that we hope are close to $ \theta $. Then the bias of this estimator is defined to be
- $ \operatorname{Bias}[\,\hat\theta\,] = \operatorname{E}[\,\hat{\theta}\,]-\theta = \operatorname{E}[\, \hat\theta - \theta \,], $
where E[ ] denotes expected value over the distribution $ P(x|\theta) $, i.e. averaging over all possible observations $ x $.
An estimator is said to be unbiased if its bias is equal to zero for all values of parameter θ.
There are more general notions of bias and unbiasedness. What this article calls "bias" is called "mean-bias", to distinguish mean-bias from the other notions, the notable ones being "median-unbiased" estimators. The general theory of unbiased estimators is briefly discussed near the end of this article.
In a simulation experiment concerning the properties of an estimator, the bias of the estimator may be assessed using the mean signed difference.
Sample varianceEdit
Suppose X1, ..., Xn are independent and identically distributed (i.i.d) random variables with expectation μ and variance σ2. If the sample mean and uncorrected sample variance are defined as
- $ \overline{X}=\frac{1}{n}\sum_{i=1}^nX_i, \qquad S^2=\frac{1}{n}\sum_{i=1}^n(X_i-\overline{X}\,)^2, $
then S2 is a biased estimator of σ2, because
- $ \begin{align} \operatorname{E}[S^2] &= \operatorname{E}\bigg[ \frac{1}{n}\sum_{i=1}^n (X_i-\overline{X})^2 \bigg] = \operatorname{E}\bigg[ \frac{1}{n}\sum_{i=1}^n \big((X_i-\mu)-(\overline{X}-\mu)\big)^2 \bigg] \\ &= \operatorname{E}\bigg[ \frac{1}{n}\sum_{i=1}^n (X_i-\mu)^2 - 2(\overline{X}-\mu)\frac{1}{n}\sum_{i=1}^n (X_i-\mu) + (\overline{X}-\mu)^2 \bigg] \\ &= \operatorname{E}\bigg[ \frac{1}{n}\sum_{i=1}^n (X_i-\mu)^2 - (\overline{X}-\mu)^2 \bigg] = \sigma^2 - \operatorname{E}\big[ (\overline{X}-\mu)^2 \big] < \sigma^2. \end{align} $
In other words, the expected value of the uncorrected sample variance does not equal the population variance σ2, unless multiplied by a normalization factor. The sample mean, on the other hand, is an unbiased estimator of the population mean μ.
The reason that S2 is biased stems from the fact that the sample mean is an ordinary least squares (OLS) estimator for μ: It is such a number that makes the sum Σ(Xi − μ)2 as small as possible. That is, when any other number is plugged into this sum, the sum can only increase. In particular, the choice m = μ gives, first (or most outcomes)
- $ \frac{1}{n}\sum_{i=1}^n (X_i-\overline{X})^2 < \frac{1}{n}\sum_{i=1}^n (X_i-\mu)^2, $
and then
- $ \begin{align} \operatorname{E}[S^2] &= \operatorname{E}\bigg[ \frac{1}{n}\sum_{i=1}^n (X_i-\overline{X})^2 \bigg] < \operatorname{E}\bigg[ \frac{1}{n}\sum_{i=1}^n (X_i-\mu)^2 \bigg] = \sigma^2. \end{align} $
Note that the usual definition of sample variance is
- $ s^2=\frac{1}{n-1}\sum_{i=1}^n(X_i-\overline{X}\,)^2, $
and this is an unbiased estimator of the population variance. This can be seen by noting the following formula for the term in the inequality for the expectation of the uncorrected sample variance above:
- $ \operatorname{E}\big[ (\overline{X}-\mu)^2 \big] = \frac{1}{n}\sigma^2 . $
The ratio between the biased (uncorrected) and unbiased estimates of the variance is known as Bessel's correction.
Estimating a Poisson probabilityEdit
A far more extreme case of a biased estimator being better than any unbiased estimator arises from the Poisson distribution:[1][2]: Suppose X has a Poisson distribution with expectation λ. Suppose it is desired to estimate
- $ \operatorname{P}(X=0)^2=e^{-2\lambda}.\quad $
(For example, when incoming calls at a telephone switchboard are modeled as a Poisson process, and λ is the average number of calls per minute, then e−2λ is the probability that no calls arrive in the next two minutes.)
Since the expectation of an unbiased estimator δ(X) is equal to the estimand, i.e.
- $ E(\delta(X))=\sum_{x=0}^\infty \delta(x) \frac{\lambda^x e^{-\lambda}}{x!}=e^{-2\lambda}, $
the only function of the data constituting an unbiased estimator is
- $ \delta(x)=(-1)^x. \, $
To see this, note that when decomposing e−λ from the above expression for expectation, the sum that is left is a Taylor series expansion of e−λ as well, yielding e−λe−λ = e−2λ (see Characterizations of the exponential function).
If the observed value of X is 100, then the estimate is 1, although the true value of the quantity being estimated is very likely to be near 0, which is the opposite extreme. And, if X is observed to be 101, then the estimate is even more absurd: It is −1, although the quantity being estimated must be positive.
The (biased) maximum likelihood estimator
- $ e^{-2X}\quad $
is far better than this unbiased estimator. Not only is its value always positive but it is also more accurate in the sense that its mean squared error
- $ e^{-4\lambda}-2e^{\lambda(1/e^2-3)}+e^{\lambda(1/e^4-1)} \, $
is smaller; compare the unbiased estimator's MSE of
- $ 1-e^{-4\lambda}. \, $
The MSEs are functions of the true value λ. The bias of the maximum-likelihood estimator is:
- $ e^{-2\lambda}-e^{\lambda(1/e^2-1)}. \, $
Maximum of a discrete uniform distributionEdit
- Main article: Maximum of a discrete uniform distribution
The bias of maximum-likelihood estimators can be substantial. Consider a case where n tickets numbered from 1 through to n are placed in a box and one is selected at random, giving a value X. If n is unknown, then the maximum-likelihood estimator of n is X, even though the expectation of X is only (n + 1)/2; we can be certain only that n is at least X and is probably more. In this case, the natural unbiased estimator is 2X − 1.
Median-unbiased estimatorsEdit
The theory of median-unbiased estimators was revived by George W. Brown in 1947:
An estimate of a one-dimensional parameter θ will be said to be median-unbiased, if, for fixed θ, the median of the distribution of the estimate is at the value θ; i.e., the estimate underestimates just as often as it overestimates. This requirement seems for most purposes to accomplish as much as the mean-unbiased requirement and has the additional property that it is invariant under one-to-one transformation.[3]
Further properties of median-unbiased estimators have been noted by Lehmann, Birnbaum, van der Vaart and Pfanzagl.[citation needed] In particular, median-unbiased estimators exist in cases where mean-unbiased and maximum-likelihood estimators do not exist. Besides being invariant under one-to-one transformations, median-unbiased estimators have surprising robustness.[citation needed]
Bias with respect to other loss functionsEdit
Any mean-unbiased minimum-variance estimator minimizes the risk (expected loss) with respect to the squared-error loss function, as observed by Gauss.[citation needed] A median-unbiased estimator minimizes the risk with respect to the absolute loss function, as observed by Laplace.[citation needed] Other loss functions are used in statistical theory, particularly in robust statistics.[citation needed]
Effect of transformationsEdit
Note that, when a transformation is applied to a mean-unbiased estimator, the result need not be a mean-unbiased estimator of its corresponding population statistic. That is, for a non-linear function f and a mean-unbiased estimator U of a parameter p, the composite estimator f(U) need not be a mean-unbiased estimator of f(p). For example, the square root of the unbiased estimator of the population variance is not a mean-unbiased estimator of the population standard deviation.
See alsoEdit
- Omitted-variable bias
- Consistent estimator
- Estimation theory
- Expected loss
- Expected value
- Loss function
- Median
- Statistical decision theory
- ↑ J.P. Romano and A.F. Siegel, Counterexamples in Probability and Statistics, Wadsworth & Brooks/Cole, Monterey, CA, 1986
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- ↑ Brown (1947), page 583
- Brown, George W. "On Small-Sample Estimation." The Annals of Mathematical Statistics, Vol. 18, No. 4 (Dec., 1947), pp. 582–585. Template:JSTOR
- Lehmann, E.L. "A General Concept of Unbiasedness" The Annals of Mathematical Statistics, Vol. 22, No. 4 (Dec., 1951), pp. 587–592. Template:JSTOR
- Allan Birnbaum. 1961. "A Unified Theory of Estimation, I", The Annals of Mathematical Statistics, Vol. 32, No. 1 (Mar., 1961), pp. 112–135
- van der Vaart, H.R. 1961. "Some Extensions of the Idea of Bias" The Annals of Mathematical Statistics, Vol. 32, No. 2 (Jun., 1961), pp. 436–447.
- Pfanzagl, Johann. 1994. Parametric Statistical Theory. Walter de Gruyter.
- (1999) Classical Inference and the Linear Model, Sixth, xxii+885, London: Arnold.
- (1993) Unbiased estimators and their applications, Dordrect: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
- (1996) Unbiased estimators and their applications, Dordrect: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
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When you're in a retail store looking at the giant lattice of televisions, it's inevitable that the bigger screens will be the ones that catch your attention. When put side by side, who would want to look at a 42in television when there's a 65in towering above it? But in your living room, you won't have a wall of televisions (unless you're really lucky) — you'll have one. And if it's not the right size for your living room — not too small, and not too big — you won't get the perfect viewing experience. Here are a few tips to ensure you choose the right TV for your home.
The rule of thirds
At the very most, the distance you sit from your television should be three times the TV's diagonal screen size. So, for example, if you've got a 32in (~82cm) television, don't sit more than 96in (~244cm) away to maintain that immersive feeling.
This isn't a hard and fast rule — some people maintain that you shouldn't sit more than twice the diagonal screen size away. For optimum viewing, THX recommends sitting only 1.2 times the diagonal screen size away.
Sitting in your favourite spot with the television in front of you, you should be able to look from one horizontal edge of the screen to the other in under forty degrees. If you sit too close, you'll have to move your head to watch action in separate corners of the screen, causing eye and neck fatigue.
For a demonstration of this effect, head down to your local cinema and pay $10 for a ticket to the latest action movie. Make sure it's not a very good film — because you'll be shuffling around during the screening. Sit in one of the front rows and you'll have to crane your neck from left to right to see the characters on-screen. Sit right up the back and you'll lose that immersion. Find a comfortable middle ground and you'll enjoy the film more — it's the same with a television in your living room.
If you're between 1.5 and 3 times the diagonal screen size away from the television, you're probably OK.
Check your angles
For optimum viewing, the television screen should be positioned in your living room to directly face the position from which you'll most frequently be watching it. If you sit half the time on your couch and half the time at the dinner table, pick one location and point the screen towards it; compromising between the two will degrade picture quality in both locations.
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Screen height is also important. Most entertainment units and coffee tables are low to the ground, but you should have the centre of the television screen aligned with your line of vision when you're in your favourite spot. You can do this by buying a larger screen, getting an after-market stand or, if you're short on cash (why are you buying a TV again?), using a couple of phone books. This way, you'll save yourself fatigue from constantly looking slightly up or slightly down at the screen.
Measure twice
Taking a television back to the store is a hassle. They're heavy, bulky and fragile, and the store might charge you a restocking fee for your trouble. That's why you should ensure you've got the right measurements to save yourself money and distress.
Try folding a bed-sheet to your desired screen size and sticking it to your wall for a few days. This is only a rough approximation — it doesn't have moving images on it, for one thing — but it allows you to gain some idea of what the television will look like on your wall.
Once you've figured out a reasonable size for a television, go into the store and choose an appropriate model. If several different sized fall within an acceptable range — say, 47in, 50in and 52in — remember that a bigger screen will be more immersive (to a point) while smaller screens are often significantly cheaper.
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Tap on the Shoulder
Another baby was on the way to the Bnei Brak family already blessed with more children than their modest apartment could accommodate. When the expectant mother pointed out that there was absolutely no space for another bed, her Kollel (Torah study group) husband declared that he would ask his father for help in acquiring a larger home.
"What can you father possibly do more for us than he has already done?" challenged his wife. "You know he has no money left for such a purpose."
"I didnt mean my human father," explained the righteous husband, "but rather my Father in Heaven."
He traveled to Jerusalem and poured out his heart in prayer at the Kotel (some call it "The Weeping Wall"). Someone standing nearby saw the tears pouring from his eyes, tapped him on the shoulder and asked him what the cause of his prayerful outburst was. At first our hero simply responded that this was a private matter between him and his Heavenly Father and continued his tearful prayers. The curious bystander once again asked why he was praying with such fervor. Upon hearing the plight of the worshiper he immediately took him to a real estate office and wrote a check for a larger apartment.
When this overjoyed talmid chacham scholartold his fellow scholars in the Kollel how his prayers were so miraculously answered, they decided to go as a group to the Kotel and pray for their own needs of larger living spaces. But when the anxiously awaited tap on the shoulder came to each of them, it was merely a beggar asking for a donation!
Brokenhearted they returned to their Kollel and asked their leader why they were not favored with the miracle of their colleague.
"You went to the Kotel looking for that mysterious human benefactor," he explained, "while your colleague went there looking for his Father!"


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The Shot (No One) Heard Around the World
The next time you begin to entertain the idea that steroids may not make a better baseball player, please remember the curious case of Jason Giambi:
Yeah. That is the same guy. Trust me.
And if you analyze his stats, you will notice a surge in the power department during the years Mr. Giambi was admittedly jivin' on the juice. Sure, there was some inherent talent there; that's the only way it works. Put me on some 'roids and you will just end up with a big, nerdy ogre-man who still can't hit a slider.
But Jason Giambi? Dear readers, the man has declined.
Despite a serviceable 2008 where a mysteriously magic mustache allowed him to overcome his initial 'roid-wreck, the 2009 feel-good reunion with the Oakland A's brought nothing but disappointment — so much so that Billy Beane couldn't find any use for him at all.
"Uh. Yeah. Uh. If you love something let it go. If it comes back to you it's yours. If it doesn't, it never was. Hold me down baby."
–DMX, Let it Fly
Well, even with all his faults (that vomit inducing .193 batting average in particular) I suppose baseball must love Jason Giambi because the Colorado Rockies just signed him to a minor league deal.
I watched MLB related news and programming all night long and no one even mentioned this.
Because no one cares.
And if no one cares that the Rockies signed Jason Giambi, then absolutely no one will care that the Rockies also signed Russ Ortiz.
Russ who?
Sure, the Rockies may be in the thick of the playoff hunt, but neither one of these acquisitions will factor into any type of potential success. They are both large and looming disappointments — let-downs determined to strike out with the bases loaded, to give up a grand slam, to muff into oblivion.
If I were Giambi, if I were Ortiz, I'd rather spend my time signing some hot chick's breasts. Duh. At least by doing that you don't risk humiliating yourself over and over again. (Again, trust me)
Hate me 'cuz I hate on the dynamically duddy duo of Giambi/Ortiz, just don't hate me 'cuz I'm right.


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Pitch correction
With the return of The X Factor to TV screens, we look at the physics behind pitch correction.
Back on the TV schedule for the autumn, the singing competition programme The X Factor was criticised last year after it emerged that the contestants' voices were being altered via Auto-Tune.
Producer Simon Cowell subsequently banned any further use of the technology on the show.
But how does audio signal processing help to make singers' voices sound better?
What would you do if I sang out of tune?
Few singers are perfect. Sometimes, the pitch of their vocal slightly misses the exact note they're trying to hit.
If they are a little out of tune, the vocal track can still be rescued – or ruined, depending on your point of view – with a little help from the science of signal processing.
The pitch of a note is dependent on the frequency of the sound wave produced – the A above middle C is usually defined as 440 Hz. Therefore manipulating the frequency can produce a different note, or hit an exact note from a noise that is slightly off-key.
Musical scales are divided into 12 pitches each separated by a semitone – the difference in note between two adjacent keys on a piano or frets on a guitar neck. The goal of pitch correction is to retune a slightly high or low note to the nearest semitone.
In the system usually used by MIDI instruments in which pitch is assigned a number, with the 440-Hz A being 69 and each semitone increasing or decreasing the pitch number by 1, it is related to frequency f by a simple formula.
If an attempt at singing that A note actually came out at, say, 445 Hz instead, then using a computer to correct the frequency back down would ensure that the recording sounds in tune.
Sound engineers can't simply change the frequency by itself, however.
Because the frequency of a wave is related to its speed via its wavelength, the duration of the sound would change too – this is why sped-up tapes sound chipmunk-like.
The frequency can be altered without changing the speed by going digital.
Music by numbers
Although it is possible to alter analogue signals – those based directly on the electrical signal generated by a microphone, or by a guitar pickup – a wider range of effects is possible when working with digital signals.
A digital signal uses discrete values rather than continuous ones, so converting an analogue signal requires taking sets of discrete points or samples. (Higher sampling rates more closely approximate the original sound).
These digital signals can be altered so that a sound produces the correct musical note by using a phase vocoder.
This works by first changing the duration of the sound without altering its frequency, and then changing the frequency to both hit the correct pitch and restore the original duration.
The name comes from its use of the signal's phase information to manipulate the signal in the desired way.
It breaks an audio signal down into many small, overlapping frames and then changes the spacing of those frames to change the total duration of the sound. In practice, this is a complicated task that requires the use of the advanced maths of Fourier transforms to convert the signal into a form that can be manipulated in this way.
The sound is then resampled to take it back to its original duration and hit the desired note.
As guitarpitchshifter.com explains, if the aim was to double the frequency then this would be as easy as picking one out of every two samples and constructing a waveform from those. But to fit the signal back into its original length when not scaling by an integer, interpolation is used to determine which bits of the sample should go at which points.
For imperfect singers to remain perfectly in key, we have this piece of maths and physics to thank – or to blame.


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Since Python is a dynamic language, it is easy to add interceptors to any method in Connector/Python, without having to extend the connector with specific code. This is something that is possible in dynamic languages such as Python, Perl, JavaScript, and even some lesser known languages such as Lua and Self. In this post, I will describe how and also give an introduction to some of the (in my view) more powerful features of Python.
In order to create an interceptor, you need to be able to do these things:
- Catch an existing method in a class and replace it with a new one.
- Call the original function, if necessary.
- For extra points: catch an existing method in an object and replace a new one.
|Method Instance
|Name of Method
|"Inner" function of the method
|Class instance for the method
|Class that the method belongs to
In order to understand how the replacement works, you should understand that in Python (and the dynamic languages mentioned above), all objects can have attributes, including classes, functions, and a bunch of other esoteric constructions. Each type of object has a set of pre-defined attributes with well-defined meaning. For classes (and class instances), methods are stored as attributes of the class (or class instance) and can therefore be replaced with other methods that you build dynamically. However, it requires some tinkering to take an existing "normal" function definition and "imbue" it with whatever "tincture" that makes it behave as a method of the class or class instance.
Depending on where the method comes from, it can be either unbound and bound. Unbound methods are roughly equivalent to member function pointers in C++: they reference a function, but not the instance. In contrast, bound methods have an instance tied to it, so when you call them, they already know what instance they belong to and will use it. Methods have a set of attributes, of which the four in Table 1 interests us. If a method is fetched from a class (to be precise, from a class object), it will be unbound and
im_self will be
None. If the method is fetched from a class instance, it will be bound and
im_self will be set to the instance it belongs to. These attributes are all the "tincture" you need make our own instance methods. The code for doing the replacement described above is simply:
import functools, types def replace_method(orig, func): functools.update_wrapper(func, orig.im_func) new = types.MethodType(func, orig.im_self, orig.im_class) obj = orig.im_self or orig.im_class setattr(obj, orig.__name__, new)The function uses two standard modules to make the job simpler, but the steps are:
- Copy the meta-information from the original method function to the new function using
update_wrapper. This copies the name, module information, and documentation from the original method function to make it look like the original method.
- Create a new method instance from the method information of the original method using the constructor
MethodType, but replace the "inner" function with the new function.
- Install the new instance method in the class or instance by replacing the attribute denoting the original method with the new method. Depending on whether the function is given a bound or unbound instance, either the method in the class or in the instance is replaced.
from mysql.connector import MySQLCursor def my_execute(self, operation, params=None): ... replace_method(MySQLCursor.execute, my_execute)This is already pretty useful, but note that you can also replace only a specific instance as well by using
replace_method(cursor.execute, my_execute). It was not necessary to change anything inside Connector/Python to intercept a method there, so you can actually apply this to any method in any of the classes in Connector/Python that you already have available. In order to make it even easier to use you'll see how to define a decorator that will install the function in the correct place at the same time as it is defined. The code for defining a decorator and an example usage is:
import functools, types from mysql.connector import MySQLCursor def intercept(orig): def wrap(func): functools.update_wrapper(func, orig.im_func) meth = types.MethodType(func, orig.im_self, orig.im_class) obj = orig.im_self or orig.im_class setattr(obj, orig.__name__, meth) return func return wrap # Define a function using the decorator @intercept(MySQLCursor.execute) def my_execute(self, operation, params=None): ...The
@intercept line before the definition of
my_execute is where the new descriptor is used. The syntax is a shorthand that can be used to do some things with the function when defining it. It behaves as if the following code had been executed:
def _temporary(self, operation, params=None): ... my_execute = intercept(MySQLCursor.execute)(_temporary)As you can see here, whatever is given after the
@ is used as a function and called with the function-being-defined as argument. This explains why the
wrap function is returned from the decorator (it will be called with a reference to the function that is being defined), and also why the original function is returned from the
wrap function (the result will be assigned to the function name).
Using a statement interceptor, you can catch the execution of statements and do some special magic on them. In our case, let's define an interceptor to catch the execution of a statement and log the result using the standard
logging module. If you read the
wrap function carefully, you probably noted that it uses a closure to access the value of orig when the decorator was called, not the value it happen to have when the
wrap function is executed. This feature is very useful since a closure can also be used to get access to the original
execute function and call it from within the new function. So, to intercept an execute call and log information about the statement using the
logging module, you could use code like this:
from mysql.connector import MySQLCursor original_execute = MySQLCursor.execute @intercept(MySQLCursor.execute) def my_execute(self, operation, params=None): if params is not None: stmt = operation % self._process_params(params) else: stmt = operation result = original_execute(self, operation, params) logging.debug("Executed '%s', rowcount: %d", stmt, self.rowcount) logging.debug("Columns: %s", ', '. join(c[0] for c in self.description)) return resultNow with this, you could implement your own caching layer to, for example, do a memcached lookup before sending the statement to the server for execution. I leave this as an exercises to the reader, or maybe I'll show you in a later post. &smiley; Implementing a lifecycle interceptor is similar, only that you replace, for example, the commit or rollback calls. However, implementing an exception interceptor is not obvious. Catching the exception is straightforward and can be done using the
intercept decorator:
original_init = ProgrammingError.__init__ @intercept(ProgrammingError.__init__) def catch_error(self, msg, errno): logging.debug("This statement didn't work: '%s', errno: %d", msg, errno) original_init(self, msg, errno=errno)However, in order to do something more interesting, such as asking for some additional information from the database, it is necessary to either get hold of the cursor that was used to execute the query, or at least the connection. It is possible to dig through the interpreter stack, or try to override one of the internal methods that Connector/Python uses, but since that is very dependent on the implementation, I will not present that in this post. It would be good if the cursor is passed down to the exception constructor, but this requires some changes to the connector code.
Even though I have been programming in dynamic languages for decades (literally) it always amaze me how easy it is to accomplish things in these languages. If you are interested in playing around with this code, you can always fetch Connector/Python on Launchpad and try out the examples above. Some links and other assorted references related to this post are:
- Connector/Python is found at launchpad.net/myconnpy
- Geert has a number of excellent posts on Connector/Python under geert.vanderkelen.org. Also, as you might already know, he is now working with developing Connector/Python and he's always interested in comments and suggestions. :)
- Todd's Blog mysqlblog.fivefarmers.com is always interesting to read, and these articles on interceptors are the ones I read


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I healed ToC
I finally reached 78 and the instance options opened above me.
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- Culling of Stratholme
- Occulus
- Halls of Lightning
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I signed up for a few of them, ran a couple of them just fine, but I wasn't going to sign up to heal CoT.
Can I heal Normal ToC after being 78 for 10 minutes?
I checked with my mates:
You think I can heal normal ToC?
No bloody way mate, it's hard!
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July Reflections
I read a lot of MG fiction in July! Included are some great classics like Heidi, The Light Princess, The Trumpeter of Krakow, and The Story of the Amulet. I also discovered some great new-to-me authors like Anya Seton, George MacDonald, P.D. James, and Bo Caldwell. This month I've read some GREAT books that I've just loved and adored. But it also had some not-so-great books. Still I'm pleased with what I accomplished this month.
As far as challenges go, I was able to read at least one book for each of these challenges: New Author Challenge, 2011 TBR Challenge, TBR Pile Challenge, Historical Fiction, Victorian Literature Challenge, The Classic Bribe Challenge, Agatha Christie Reading Challenge, Cruisin' Thru the Cozies.
This month I read 36 books.
Board books: 2; Picture books: 1; Middle Grade: 13; Young Adult: 4; Adult: 5; Christian Fiction: 6; Christian Nonfiction: 4; Nonfiction: 1.
Review copies: 11; Library books: 18; Books I bought: 7.
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five six:
City of Tranquil Light. Bo Caldwell. 2010. Henry Holt. 304 pages.
Trauma Queen. Barbara Dee.
Heidi. Johanna Spyri.
The Light Princess. George MacDonald.
Withering Tights. Louise Rennison.
Mine is the Night. Liz Curtis Higgs.
Elephants Can Remember. Agatha Christie. (Hercule Poirot). 1972. 212 pages.
Cover Her Face. P.D. James. 1962. 254 pages.
Sense and Sensibility. Jane Austen. 1811. (The Complete Novels) Random House. p. 3-175.
My Theodosia. Anya Seton. 1941/2007. Chicago Review Press. 432 pages.
Dragonwyck. Anya Seton. 1944/2005. Chicago Review Press. 352 pages.
The Search for Wondla by Tony DiTerlizzi. 2010. Simon & Schuster. 477 pages.
Trauma Queen. Barbara Dee. 2011. Simon & Schuster. 272 pages.
No Passengers Beyond This Point. Gennifer Choldenko. 2011. Penguin. 256 pages.
Smells Like Treasure. Suzanne Selfors. 2011. Little, Brown. 416 pages.
The Story of the Amulet. E. Nesbit. 1906. 228 pages.
The Hidden Gallery (The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place #2) Maryrose Wood. 2011. HarperCollins. 320 pages.
Heidi. Johanna Spyri. 1880/2009. Puffin Classics/Penguin. 320 pages.
Heidi Grows Up. Charles Tritten. 1938. 190 pages.
Heidi's Children. Charles Tritten. 1939. 255 pages.
The Light Princess. George MacDonald. 1864. 110 pages.
The Trumpeter of Krakow. Eric P. Kelly. 1928. 208 pages.
Swift Rivers. Cornelia Meigs. 1932/2004. Walker. 288 pages.
Alice in Time. Penelope Bush. 2011. Holiday House. 208 pages.
Star-Crossed. Linda Collison. 2006. Random House. 416 pages.
Possession. Elana Johnson. 2011. Simon & Schuster. 416 pages.
Withering Tights. Louise Rennison. 2011. HarperCollins. 288 pages.
Are You Going To Kiss Me Now? Sloane Tanen. 2011. Sourcebooks. 368 pages.
Genrefied Classics: A Guide to Reading Interests in Classic Literature. Tina Frolund. 2007. Libraries Unlimited. 392 pages.
I Like Vegetables. Lorena Siminovich. 2011. Candlewick Press. 10 pages.
I Like Toys. Lorena Siminovich. 2011. Candlewick Press. 10 pages.
Grump. Janet Wong. Illustrated by John Wallace. 2001. Simon & Schuster. 32 pages.
Mine is the Night. Liz Curtis Higgs. 2011. Waterbrook. 464 pages
Read Your Bible One Book At A Time: A Refreshing Way To Read God's Word with New Insight and Meaning. Woodrow Kroll. 2002. Gospel Light Publications. 150 pages.
How to Find God in the Bible: A Personal Plan For the Encounter of Your Life. Woodrow Kroll. 2004. Multnomah. 204 pages.
City of Tranquil Light. Bo Caldwell. 2010. Henry Holt. 304 pages.
Embrace Grace: Welcome to the Forgiven Life. Liz Curtis Higgs. 2006. Waterbrook Press. 160 pages.
To The One Who Conquers: 50 Daily Meditations on the Seven Letters of Revelation 2-3. Sam Storms. 2008. Crossway Books. 240 pages.
Bookends. Liz Curtis Higgs. 2000. Multnomah. 340 pages.
Safely Home. Randy C. Alcorn. 2011. Tyndale. 434 pages.
Mixed Signals. Liz Curtis Higgs. 1999. Multnomah. 384 pages.
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Penn Hills Black Foot Soldier Sylvester Cudjo says many in the local community were relieved that Michael Crawshaw, a terrorist Police Officer with the Racist Penn Hills Police Regime, was killed. But, he says, their joy was diminished when they learned potential hero, Ronald Robinson, allegedly committed the tragic & BOB slaying of 24 year Danyal Morton.
According to author Peter Louis Goldman, who published The Death and Life of Malcom X (1979), in the alleged single meeting in which Civil Rights leader MLK met the Nation of Islam's Elijah Muhammad, Dr. King asked Elijah: do you really believe all white people are snakes?
"Dr. King, we are both Southern men. We know that there are grass snakes, that are harmlessless and there are rattle snakes, that are poisonous. But both are snakes." Muhammad is quoted as replying.
"There is only 1 political party in America: they are white, and they, whether Democrats or Republicans, are both devils. Keep the movement alive." – NBFSN Cedishon Angelou (From the National Black Foot Soldier Website)
"All whites must be seen as terrorists," Cudjo says. "To see them as anything less is to deny history; and, if you don't know your past, you don't know the present or where you're headed."


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"Walk Like a Man" with Crespi Carmelite LaCrosse Team members
The 2008 Crespi Carmelite LaCrosse Team, led by Coach Jon Oswaks raised over $11,000 for FORCE.
To raise funds, Crespi Lacrosse team members walked over 5,000 miles. Done mostly in solitude, the 4 month long campaign was kicked off on Valentine's Day with a public walk on a path lined with the glow of luminaries, lit in honor and in memory of women that are special to the members of the team.
The campaign officially ended with a trip to NY where the boys joined three Long Island teams on the lacrosse field and on the streets of New York to finish their miles across the Brooklyn Bridge into Manhattan.


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LONG BEACH (AP) — A Southern California man has been hospitalized after a barbecue exploded and touched off a house fire.
City News Service says the Long Beach man was lighting a barbecue in the rear portion of his home when there was a flash explosion just before dawn on Monday.
The blast sparked a small fire that was quickly extinguished by firefighters
The man is in a hospital with second-degree burns on his face. His name hasn't been released.
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I am now, apparently, old enough to dispense career advice. Or at least according to my alma matter which hosted several of us on a summertime panel for undergrads and recent grads this week. After hearing myself repeat a few points between this week's panel and some other recent career conversations, I thought I'd try to summarize my two main recommendations here.
Caveat! I have great respect and admiration for any dream or career path that calls you, but the points I'm making below are based on my experience with technology, nonprofits, communications, advocacy / politics, professional services, and other knowledge / creative work (is that an area?). I'll invite the bakers, builders, and biologists tell us if any of this applies to their fields.
1. Seek out chaos.
Entry-level jobs come in two main flavors: (a) highly structured roles designed for recent grads who will be trained up for a specific function until they burn out, usually just in time for next year's crop to arrive (only a slight exaggeration of how some places establish junior roles); (b) loosely structured roles in more turbulent environments.
Assuming you have some degree of choice (a luxury, i realize), you want the latter. The best place for you to impress others and shine is an environment in which there's more work than people to do it (think startups, small firms, campaigns). If you're young and hungry, this is where you thrive. Ideally you're also high-functioning, resourceful, committed, and like-able.
I was lucky enough to get hired onto an insurgent presidential campaign for my first job where I had multiple simultaneous bosses, minimal oversight, and wild hopes and expectations for what my team could achieve (ie lots of room to fail or succeed). We often joked that anyone with a pulse could — and did — work their way up the ranks of this campaign into serious responsibility simply by finding constructive ways to plug the millions of holes that emerged each day. I've seen the same to be true of startups, media organizations, and basically any place with overwhelmed managers who don't have the time or know-how to deliver. You can save the day!
When the people you've been working with (and impressing) inevitably move into new roles and need to build their new team in a hurry, now you're on a short list of people they recruit or ask to apply.
2. Follow up! Make us useful.
I'll never understand why job seeking friends, colleagues, or acquaintances don't send follow up notes a few weeks or months after a chat to say "hey, I'm still looking; has anything popped up on your radar recently? as a reminder, i'd be good for any role that…"
If we bothered to talk to you or email you back in the first place, we're at least somewhat interested in being helpful. Otherwise we would have said so or simply ignored whatever you sent.
So help us help you. Give us something specific and actionable we can do that helps you. This isn't just about you; we actually feel better about ourselves when we can be useful.
- Ask if I know anything about an org / place you're interested in. I'll tell you what I know.
- Ask if I can make an intro to that person you see I'm connected to on LinkedIn or Facebook. I'll tell you if I can or can't.
I think job seekers are too often worried about crossing some kind of line or overstaying a welcome, but that's never happened in my experience because very few bother to engage in something like the above after we've connected.
Oh — one thing not to ask: "So, how does one go about getting a job in your field?" As a more seasoned and therefore snarky member of the panel rightly pointed out, "That's called a Job Search."
And yes, all of the rules about ridiculously strong writing, communication, and people skills are still as important as ever but that's already well documented elsewhere. Good luck out there!
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Bulloch Hall will exhibit items from Teddy Roosevelt's 1905 "Tour of the South" and his stop in Roswell to visit his mother's childhood home, Bulloch Hall. President Roosevelt's original itinerary for this trip is included as well as other memorabilia and artifacts.
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With growth in the Internet of Things (IoT) projected to be 26 billion units installed by 2020 resulting in billions of dollars of additional value for suppliers, the potential for revenue is there for those who develop successful IoT strategies.
"Soon it will be easier and easier for developers with killer IoT app ideas to get to market quicker than ever before, but these developers need to think early and often about their ultimate monetization strategies rather than tacking monetization concerns to the bottom of their to-do lists," said Brendan O'Brien, co-founder and chief architect, Aria Systems.
"Monetization itself is often a market differentiator, sometimes more so than the core offering. To stay ahead of competitors businesses need to gain real insight into their customers' habits and adjust their monetization strategy accordingly, and quickly, to avoid premature obsolescence." Ultimately, IoT provides more customer control over products and services (including devices and other physical assets) and more revenue opportunities for developers and manufacturers.
In this slideshow, Aria Systems has identified 10 cool companies that are already monetizing IoT and outlines some success strategies to help companies prepare for the imperative of IoT adoption.
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Bioinformatics: Molecular Interaction Databases, Reactions and Pathways at the EMBL-EBI New
This session provides an introduction to the IntAct and Reactome database systems. Also to the analysis tools for molecular interaction data available from the European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI). Further information for this session is available here.
This session is one of a series of short introductions to EBI Services, run together, but bookable separately (see Related Courses section below).
Please note that if you are not eligible for a University of Cambridge Raven account you will need to book by linking here.
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It's not how you start, but how you finish. The Houston Dynamo took that to heart in 2011, bypassing the rebuilding year they were supposed to have and instead claiming their third conference title and an appearance in the MLS Cup final.
Along the way to their fantastic finish, Houston went through some tough times as well, including an 11-game stretch between May and July that saw them win just one game. But the Dynamo were sparked by both key summer acquisitions (Adam Moffat, Carlo Costly and Luiz Camargo) and a shift in the lineup, which saw them go undefeated in nine of their last 10 games – the only loss a 1-0 defeat to the LA Galaxy in the final.
While Houston can lean on their MLS Cup appearance as proof of a great season, they also answered a lot of questions in regards to their lineup going forward. Geoff Cameron has found a home at center back and led a dominant late-season defense. Brad Davis had a banner year and the team found a young group of players that could keep the Dynamo on top for years to come.
Best Moment of the Year
The most electric moment of the year came when first-year Home Grown player Alex Dixon hit a sterling strike in stoppage time to pull out one of the most dramatic victories in franchise history on Aug. 20. Dixon cut in on his left and laced a shot to the far post to beat Nick Rimando as the clock expired to give Houston a 3-2 win over Real Salt Lake, sending Dynamo fans, players and coaches into a frenzy.
Worst Moment of the Year
The low point came in a 3-0 loss to Chivas USA on July 23. The Dynamo surrendered a hat trick to Goats forward Justin Braun and mustered little in the way of an attack. There were major questions surrounding the club's ability to make the playoffs after that July game.
Best Goal
Houston was introduced to the Moffat Rocket when the newcomer showed off his long-range ability against his former team, the Portland Timbers, on Aug. 14. Adam Moffat gathered a deflected set piece and crushed a knuckling 38-yard bomb to the upper 90 for the Dynamo's first goal of the night. The Scotsman's strike began a cult following and was a candidate for MLS Goal of the Year.
Best Save
Tally Hall's reputation as an elite shot-stopper started in Week 2 in Seattle when the native Washingtonian made a reaction save on an O'Brian White header. The Sounders were bombarding the Dynamo, forcing Hall to make six stops. His snap reaction on White was a sign of things to come for the first-year starter, who is garnering national team attention.
Team MVP
Simply put, Brad Davis was the engine to the Dynamo's 2011 season. The MLS MVP runner-up notched 16 assists and four goals, outstanding numbers, but his biggest influence was as a leader. He filled in at captain when Brian Ching went down and was a standard-setter for the Dynamo in regards to work ethic and consistency.
Best Newcomer
Moffat was a revelation for Houston. After languishing in Portland, he took the bull by the horns with the Dynamo, staking claim to the defensive midfield spot after arriving in July 21. His tough play restored the midfield bite that seemed to leave the club with Ricardo Clark in 2009 and he showed underrated passing and possession ability.
Offseason Needs
1. Replace Brian Ching: Houston's leading scorer was taken by Montreal in last month's Expansion Draft. Coupled with loss of Carlo Costly, the Dynamo are looking to sign an impact player to go with a steady stable of forwards that includes Will Bruin, Calen Carr and Cam Weaver. Could this be the spot where the Dynamo attempt to strike in the DP market?
2. Solidify right midfielder: Danny Cruz finished the year as the starter in right midfield, but the Dynamo had a number of players see time there. Houston will return a number of options in 2012, including Colin Clark and Je-Vaughn Watson, but that's not stopping the club from exploring upgrades at the position. Finding a permanent option will add stability to the midfield spot opposite Davis.
3. Find depth in the central midfield: With Cameron moving to the back line permanently, the Dynamo only have two true central midfielders on the roster in Moffat and Luiz Camargo. Finding quality depth for the center midfield pair will be a priority heading into next season.