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Download The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Study Guide
What is a literary classic and why are these classic works important to the world?
A literary classic is a work of the highest excellence that has something important to say about life and/or the human condition and says it with great artistry. A classic, through its enduring presence, has withstood the test of time and is not bound by time, place, or customs. It speaks to us today as forcefully as it spoke to people one hundred or more years ago, and as forcefully as it will speak to people of future generations. For this reason, a classic is said to have universality.
Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens) was born in Missouri in 1835. He was raised in Hannibal, Missouri, on the banks of the Mississippi River, which is the setting for The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
The major influence on Twain as an adolescent was the activity on the river, having worked as a riverboat pilot. The invention of the steamboat had transformed the Mississippi into a major thoroughfare for commerce, travel, and, excitement. Twain supposedly took his pseudonym from the way a river's depth was measured: a piece of line was dropped into the river, and when it hit the bottom, the depth was called out to the pilot. Therefore, "Mark Twain" or "two fathoms" literally means "twelve feet."
When the Civil War began, Twain headed west. Avoiding the War, he found work as a newspaperman, where his skill as a writer and satirist soon led him to pursue a literary career. The success of his early books, including Tom Sawyer, won him fame and fortune, and when the war ended, he went east to enjoy and enlarge his new fame. Other books popular books include: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Prince and the Pauper, and A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court.
Twain spent much of his time traveling. A trip with his family around the world inspired his book The Innocents Abroad. He also made and lost several fortunes, mostly due to bad investments. In his later years Twain became a very popular lecturer, often drawing crowds to hear him read his own works.
Family tragedy, including the death of his favorite daughter, left him bitter and depressed in his old age. Mark Twain died in 1910; his death, like his birth, coincided with the appearance of Halley's Comet.

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One of the most important questions for investors and advisors is identifying a set of asset classes that will be considered for inclusion in a portfolio. Some people will decide that all they need or want is one broad stock market index fund and one bond fund. Others will choose to include Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) and commodities. There are well-thought-out arguments that inflation-protected government bonds (TIPS) are a major core asset class. It is also quite common for investors or advisors to break stocks out into value vs. growth and small cap vs. large cap.
I approach this problem by trying to identify asset classes that provide unique sources of risk exposure. The primary source of risk for stocks is simply market risk. U.S. stocks, international developed-market stocks, and emerging market stocks largely move together because of changes in the stock market as a whole. Treasury bonds provide fairly pure exposure to interest rate risk. Commodities provide exposure to inflation risk. REITs also provide exposure to inflation risk. I identify which asset classes provide value in building a portfolio by testing how correlated asset classes are to one another. If two asset classes have extremely high correlation, they do not provide unique value. For an introduction to this approach, see the following article.
In this article, I will provide my list of what I believe to be the core asset classes that investors will consider as part of a well-diversified portfolio, as well as providing examples of relevant funds. This discussion is informal, providing a starting point for thinking through which asset classes are worth looking at, based on my experience with portfolio analysis and stress testing. In this discussion, I am focusing on portfolios designed for total return rather than portfolios designed for income. A total return strategy assumes that investors are indifferent as to the fraction of returns that come from price appreciation vs. dividends, bond yield, or other distributions.
You can choose to get all of your bond exposure in a single fund, using a broad bond index such as AGG or BND. These funds include government bonds and corporate bonds with a range of durations.
If you want to go beyond a single bond fund, the following asset classes can add value in the process of building a diversified portfolio:
- Short-, intermediate-, and long-term Treasury bonds (SHY, IEF, TLT, respectively)
- Investment-grade corporate bonds (LQD)
- Inflation-protected bonds (TIP)
- Municipal bond (MUB, PZA)
- Emerging market bonds (EMB)
As far as the bond (aka fixed income) portion of your portfolio is concerned, there is no reason to have more bond classes than these. If you want to make this list even shorter, you can make do without IEF. If you have short-term and long-term Treasury bonds, intermediate-term bonds and emerging market bonds are not crucial. If you really wanted to limit the number of asset classes, emerging market bonds are not crucial. Emerging market bonds have risk exposure from a number of different factors, including currency risk, but much of the return from emerging market bonds is highly correlated to investment-grade corporate bond indexes and broad bond indexes. Simply put, I don't find much incremental value from adding emerging market bonds to a diversified portfolio.
The simplest way to get exposure to the stock market as a whole is with a total market stock fund such as VTI. For those investors who are willing to hold a number of funds in order to have exposure to stocks, the following is a list of what I have found are valuable core holdings:
- Total stock market index (VTI)
- Small cap stocks (VB, IWM)
- Emerging market stocks (EEM, VWO)
- Equity energy (VDE, IGE)
- Utility stocks (IDU, IPU)
- Real Estate Investment Trusts (VNQ, RWR)
The most unusual features of this list are that there is no specific index that focuses on developed international stocks, such as the EAFE index. In research over the years, I have found that the EAFE index simply provides no net diversification benefit when we already have exposure to a total market index. The returns from the EAFE index are highly correlated to the returns from the S&P 500, so there is minimal value to be had by combining these two asset classes.
The stocks of energy firms (think Exxon and Conoco) have consistently shown up as valuable portfolio elements in my portfolio analysis studies. These types of stocks, represented by funds such as IGE and VDE), add to expected return and/or reduce portfolio risk, even though this sector is itself quite volatile.
Utilities are a special asset class for a number of reasons, although they look less attractive from the perspective of portfolio theory as of the end of 2012.
Other Asset Classes
The most important additional asset class for total return investors is commodities. There are a variety of ways to obtain exposure to commodities. Two funds that use what is called a fully collateralized futures strategy are DBC and DJP.
Commodities are a complex asset class from the perspective of financial theory, but a broad commodities index should effectively track inflation. In addition, commodities funds such as DBC and DJP invest in a basket of futures contracts and there is compelling research that suggests that this approach has historically provided risk-adjusted returns comparable to stocks.
Gold has gotten considerable attention in recent years and GLD provides exposure to this commodity. Beyond tracking inflation, it is unclear why gold is desirable. That said, gold has seen a massive rally in recent years and there are investment theories—notably Harry Brown's Permanent Portfolio—that suggest that gold deserves inclusion in a long-term asset allocation.
How Many Holdings do You Need?
The real question that most people want to understand is how many of these core asset classes they need to hold. It is perfectly natural to try to minimize the amount of work needed to maintain a portfolio and fewer holdings are, in general, easier to manage. When we designed the Target Date Folios, we had no particular goal of minimizing the number of asset classes included, but these portfolios typically hold ten or fewer ETFs.
David Swensen, the highly successful manager of Yale's endowment, recommends a portfolio for individual investors that holds only six funds. The funds included are a total stock market index, an international developed markets index, an emerging markets stocks index, a REIT index, a long-term Treasury bond index, and a TIPS fund.
Diversification is not about how many funds you hold, but rather how the funds in a portfolio work together. In general—and this is just a rule-of-thumb—it should be possible to build a well-diversified portfolio with ten or fewer funds. Keeping a portfolio of as many as ten funds rebalanced appropriately to your target allocations can take some work, which is precisely why Folio Investing developed tools to allow investors to efficiently rebalance back to target weights with a single operation.
Final Thoughts
The list of core asset classes in this article is just my selection, and other research may lead to other selections. The specific inclusion of energy stocks (VDE) and utility stocks (IDU), along with the exclusion of a broad developed-market international stock fund (such as one that tracks the EAFE index) are the most unconventional features of this list.
While a fully-diversified portfolio may contain ten or fewer funds, the specific choices of funds can, and probably will, evolve through time. Back when the Target Date Folios were introduced in 2007, for example, there was a substantial allocation to TIPS and there was no municipal bond exposure. Today, many of the Folios contain little or no allocation to TIPS and a substantial allocation to municipal bond funds.
Even for those people who agree on this list of portfolio building blocks, there remain many decisions to make as to how exactly to choose allocations, but narrowing down the universe of asset classes which merit consideration is an important first step.
The views set forth in this blog are the opinions of the author alone and may not represent the views of any firm or entity with whom he is affiliated. The data, information, and content on this blog are for information, education, and non-commercial purposes only. The information on this blog does not involve the rendering of personalized investment advice and is limited to the dissemination of opinions on investing. No reader should construe these opinions as an offer of advisory services.


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4 Oakland teens die in highway crash
Four teenagers heading home to Oakland Monday after watching a rugby tournament in Las Vegas died when their SUV smashed into a highway center divider and rolled several times.
A fifth person was injured and flown to a nearby hospital.
The four were killed instantly, said Kern County Deputy Coroner Jeff Cameron.
"The driver apparently lost control of the vehicle, and no other cars were involved," Cameron said. He said routine toxicology tests will be done to determine whether drugs or alcohol were involved.
George Moa, 19, was driving the 2004 GMC Yukon. He was heading west on Highway 58 going past California City, a town about 50 miles southeast of Bakersfield, when the car flipped.
Also killed were Malia Moa, 17, David Moa, 19 and Rachel Fisiiahi, the coroner's office reported. The name of the survivor was not released.
The four were cousins who enjoyed playing rugby, said Fisiiahi's father, Suli Fisiiahi of Oakland.
"They really liked sports, and they all went to watch that tournament in Las Vegas because they loved that sport so much," he said. "Rachel was so special to me in my life, very close to me. This is a terrible thing."
Fisiiahi said his daughter was studying forensics at San Francisco State University and was planning to work at a coroner's office after graduation. But before taking up her career she intended to do missionary work for the Mormon church.


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Laignes-en-Belin, Le Mans Area France
Dear Em.
Received your letter of Jan 10 this day and was very much pleased to know that you are taking little stock in what the papers say in regards to our return home soon. We have no idea as yet when we leave here nor where we will go when we do leave so keep right on writing for its getting to be a tiresome grind now believe me.
Your letter says that the papers state we will sail sometime in March. Im in earnest when I say that we will get a surprise if this proves to be the case. We've got a drill schedule now that takes care of the rest of this month and this I beleive is only a starter. True, this is the embarkation centre for troops on the homeward-bound list, but orders can be changed very quickly and as much as I dislike to think of it Russia is a big job on our hands just now and things there are getting worse. The boys of this division will not put it by them to shoot us up there if things get rough.
So here we are Em, for some reason or other still in France and just as some year and a half ago we were willing to meet whatever they had for us to meet, so is the 26th ready to meet whatever they now have in store for us. We won't go home until after Peace has been signed anyway and as none of the divisions that took part in any of the fighting have as yet left for home, there must be some thing unforeseen by us in the wind. The brave heroes such as the 76th ("who saw some of the hardest fighting") (ha-ha and a couple of hee-hees) have returned it is true but then ("They didn't want to do it you know they made them do it.") Say Em where does the papers get that stuff?
Well, I guess Im getting too sarcastic now so Ill switch off and tell you what we are doing in our spare time. We have been here six days. We've already been inspected twice and reviewed once which means more work than one outside of this game can realize. For instance a review and we had one today. Hike out to a large field surly five miles away with pack, stand at atention for at least an hour then parade and hike back. We started out this morning at half past eight with said pack on our backs said pack consisting of two blankets, shelter-half, rain coat, gass mask slung around one shoulder, rifle over same, and of coarse all the junk that goes with it such as field belt, bayonet, aid packet, canteen and helmet. All this on for a review. We returned to our humble billets at twelve oclock, the pack not having once been shifted and every thing wet. Cold and rainy, but out again this afternoon, every thing wet to complete the day. All this might be well if we were a bunch of recruits, but after going through and doing what we have it gets our goats. Our equipment gets so dirty and this so quick that really the most of our spare time is spent scrubing up for inspection which as Ive said we had two and we haven't been here a week yet.
When they are not reviewing us and parading us and inspecting us they are drilling us. Six oclock roll out, seven grab your eats, wash up, police quarters, better shave if you're the least bit in doubt, leave your billet as spick and span as an experienced house wife and fall in for drill at eight. Drill (and say Em it is sure some drill for us) until eleven thirty, grab your kit and get to the chow line, for scoff for the sooner you get yours the sooner you will be ready for the afternoon degree, after having a smoke, cleaning some of the mud off your shoes, and reading a few lines in the daily paper that gets in about this time. Get back from this at three, and until four oclock our time is our own after cleaning our rifles, bayonets, shoes and a general dressing up for retreat. Dont worry though we just have about time to buckle on our belt, shouldering our toys and fall in again. Then its chow time again after which it is dark, no place to go but to the Y.M.C.A. which is so small that Ive never been lucky enough to crowd in to any performance yet.
Its the same thing and will be now day after day except Sunday and then its time to take a bath which is done by setting a dish of water up next to an open fire and with a few shivers do your duty. Cloths have to be washed, equipment cleaned and striaghtened out, buttons sewed on, well there is plenty to do. Don't you think they are keeping us from being lazy, and trying to keep our minds off home going. (Im using the back of one of the other sheets)
Im feeling great and glad to know that you are all in the same class. More speed to Pa at 66. At the present rate Ill be older than him at 40. Id like to have a piece of that fudge tonight. Dont forget to give my regards to Henry and Leonard.
Well Em as all I feel like doing tonight is kick I think Ill lay off, put this in an envelope and join the boys in their every evening discusion. They have all got through writing and are bunched up around the small fire talking of why when and if we are going to cross the pond before Summer sets in. I dont want you to think I want to leave this just to horn in with them but don't you think Ive said plenty?
Best wishes to all and love to you
Samuel E. Avery #69762, Hdq Co. 103rd Inf.
P.S. Notice I got the sheets all mixed up so watch out!
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Robert Harris "Bob" DeZonia
Madison – Robert Harris "Bob" DeZonia, born May 22, 1930 in Fulton, KY, died peacefully on November 17, 2012 at Agrace Hospice following complications from hip-fracture surgery that led to a stroke.
Bob was at the forefront of higher education for the State of WI throughout his distinguished career, receiving legislative awards and commendations for his exemplary contributions. He was pivotal in establishing college tuition reciprocity in WI and MN, and ended his career as a consumer affairs administrator for the State of WI insurance commission.
Raised in Memphis TN and a graduate of Memphis State University, Bob began his migration north following completion of his English Journalism degree. Always on the educational frontier, he was one of the nation's first to receive a PhD in Higher Educational Administration from the University of Illinois and it resulted in his move to Madison, the place that became the most beloved home base of his life.
After leading the State Coordinating Committee on Higher Education and serving as Chief Academic Affairs Officer and as a Deputy Director for the Wisconsin State University Board of Regents, Bob moved into the private sector, serving as a key aide for then-Governor Knowles' Commission on Education and as Executive Director of the Wisconsin Association of Independent Colleges and Universities. His educational devotion resulted in his volunteer role as Madison School Board member and President for two terms. He then moved to South Dakota for four years, where he served as Commissioner of Higher Education and completed a year-long acting Presidency of University of SD. Bob was also a natural-born teacher, serving as a visiting lecturer throughout his career at UW-Madison, Marquette University, Northern Illinois University and University of SD.
Unable to get Madison out of his heart, Bob returned and completed his career serving the State of WI. His focus became his ever-growing family in Madison and Minnesota, alongside several other passionate loves of his life: bowling, military history, politics, Badger football and basketball, and the Green Bay Packers.
Bob's prolific bowling career saw him attain a 200 average for more than ten years, a perfect 300 game, Presidency of the Madison Bowling Association and eventual induction into the Madison Bowling Association Hall of Fame. He was a bowling columnist for the Capital Times newspaper for years.
Married to his college sweetheart, Katherine "Tish" DeZonia, their marriage resulted in seven children. Bob is preceded in death by his eldest son, Robert F. "Bobby" DeZonia, and survived and adored as "Paw" by children Kathe Hocum, Anne-Marie Cookson, Suzanne (Tim) Mullen, Liz (Creighton) Hinkes, Jeanne (Mitch Snyder) Corcoran, and Barry DeZonia. Known as Grandpa / Grandpa Bob / Grandaddy / and Gramps, he is dearly loved and will be deeply missed by 19 grandchildren and their 7 spouses, 8 great-grandchildren, and one more on the way.
We have been blessed by the warm love and support of this big man with the silver hair and smiling brown eyes, and we will forever drink chocolate milk and eat peanut M&M's in his honor.
Bob was extremely proud to serve our country in the Air Force during the Korean War. He will be laid to rest with full military honors at St. Andrew's Cemetery in Verona following his funeral service.
A Mass of Christian Burial will be held at St. Christopher Catholic Parish at the St. Andrew Catholic Church, 301 N. Main Street. Verona, WI, on Monday, November 26, 2012, at 10:30 a.m. with Father William Vernon and Msgr. Delbert Schmelzer presiding. Interment will follow at St. Andrews Cemetery. A visitation will be held at CRESS FUNERAL HOME, 3610 Speedway Road, Madison, on Sunday, November 25, 2012 from 2:00 – 5:00 p.m. and at church on Monday from 9:30 a.m. until time of the mass.
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Foley clocked at 80 mph, ticketed for speeding
Republican Tom Foley was pulled over by State Police and accused of traveling 80 mph on Route 9 in Haddam on Monday night, drawing scrutiny once again of the driving record of the GOP favorite for governor.
The posted speed limit on that part of the two-lane highway, which runs from Farmington to Old Saybrook, is 65 mph.
"He was given an infraction ticket," state police spokesman Lt. J. Paul Vance told Hearst Connecticut Media on Tuesday.
Vance characterized Foley, who came within 6,500 votes of becoming governor in 2010, as cooperative.
"He was treated like everyone else," Vance said. "He was polite. The trooper issued the summons."
Foley was returning to Greenwich from a fundraiser for state Sen. Art Linares in Haddam when he was stopped around 8:30 p.m., according to his campaign spokesman, Chris Cooper, who said Foley does not plan to contest the ticket.
"He got a ticket for violating the limit," Cooper told Hearst Connecticut Media. "There's not a lot more to it than that."
A full incident report was not immediately available from state police, who did not have information on how much Foley would be fined. The fine for traveling between 76 to 80 mph on a highway is $259, according Connecticut traffic law.
Foley, a private equities manager and former ambassador, owns multiple cars, but is known to drive to political events in an Audi A4 with a bumper sticker that says: "Don't blame me, I voted for Tom Foley."
More InformationThe candidate's record
2014: Foley gets stopped by Connecticut State Police for going 80 mph in a 65 mph zone on Route 9
2008: Foley is cited in Essex County, Va., for going 71 mph in a 60 mph zone
1993: Foley's ex-wife accuses him of trying to run her off the road in Greenwich; breach of peace charge dropped
1981: Foley allegedly rams his sport-utility vehicle into the back of a sedan carrying five people on Montauk Highway in Southampton, N.Y. Charge of first-degree attempted assault dropped against Foley, who characterizes the incident as a minor fender bender
His conduct behind the wheel has been scrutinized on multiple occasions during his two consecutive runs for governor.
In 1981, Foley was arrested on a charge of first-degree attempted assault in Southampton, N.Y. The charge, which was eventually dropped, stemmed from a motor vehicle accident that Foley described as a minor fender bender. Foley's account of the incident conflicted with a police report, which stated that Foley rammed his Toyota Land Cruiser into the back of a Mercury sedan carrying five people on Montauk Highway after attending a party.
In 1993, Foley and his first wife were both charged with breach of peace following a child custody dispute in which he pursued his estranged spouse by car in Greenwich. The charges in that case were also dropped. No records of the incident, one in which Foley previously denied he tried to run his wife off the road, were found in response to a request for them by the newspaper.
In 2008, Foley was cited for speeding in Essex County, Va., according to motor vehicle records, which said he was traveling 71 mph in a 60 mph zone.
A motor vehicle records check did not show any moving violations against the other leading candidates for governor.
Mayor Mark Boughton, who is vying for the GOP endorsement for governor and was Foley's running mate in 2010, said of speeding infraction, "It speaks for itself." He declined to comment further.
A campaign spokesman for Democratic Gov. Dannel P. Malloy had no comment.
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How many of us, as parents, try to buy every item on our kid's wish list
(to the best of our ability or within financial reason)? I know I am guilty of it.
My girls live a very comfortable suburban existence. They have closets full of clothes, shoes that fit on their feet, food in their tummies, bookshelves full of books and a play room that is stocked with toys, games, and puzzles. Christmas and the winter holidays seem to have shifted, especially in
our consumer driven American culture, into a feeding frenzy for stores telling us (and our kids) that more is more and we should buy every last toy on our children's wish lists no matter the financial or emotional cost.
I read a great article on The Power of No over at the Mom's Homeroom website. It's a great reminder that you are NOT a bad parent if you don't buy everything your child asks for.
In fact, you really shouldn't. What kind of life lesson are we teaching our children if they always get EVERYthing they want? Do you, as an adult, always get everything YOU want? No, of course not.
Isn't it more fun to have some things you still wish or dream for?
Isn't it more fun for everyone if mom and dad aren't drowning in credit card debt because they blew their budget buying a bunch of plastic toys that kid's didn't even knew they wanted two months ago before the holiday commercial bombardment started?
I'd like to suggest some other ideas this year.
1. Keep it Simple = Less is More.
How about, picking 2 or 3 things you know your child REALLY wants and will get a lot of pleasure from and leave the rest of their wish list for another time. Perhaps to carry over to a birthday or other special event? Are they still going to want it then? If so, great. If not, they probably didn't really need or want it.
2. How about the gift of time?
Time with you. Time with grandma and grandpa.That's what they really want. One-on-one time.
Your complete attention - no computers, no cell phones -- just you.
Take a nature walk, visit a museum together, snuggle on the couch with a stack of books,play a game with your kid(s). Make some art or crafts together. Need some ideas? Check out my blog! (shameless plug) Play in the kitchen - cook something together or make play dough together, or do kitchen "science" experiments together. All of these activities are mostly free and they will build memories.
Your child will remember the afternoon you spent doing a puzzle together, painting watercolors together, or blowing up baking soda with vinegar and food coloring in the kitchen more than that piece of flashing plastic! I promise.
3. Homemade Gifts
My girls love stuff I've made or picked up at a craft show or Etsy 10 times MORE than anything I buy at the toy store. Here's a link to my Homemade Christmas Gifts Ideas Pinterest Board - all kinds of fun kid-friendly gift ideas on here. Not crafty? That's okay, write a short story. Make a "mix tape" CD. Record your voice reading a book out loud onto a CD and make your own "read aloud" book kit. Put together a science experiments kit - checkout pinterest for all kinds of fun ideas!
Wishing you all a LESS stressful December
filled with MORE quality time and memories for your family!


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The Z8 allows pluggable applets to be added to the standby screen: profiles, make a call, view calendar, music player. This is now a standard feature of Nokia's S60, but was pioneered on the Sendo X - itself designed by the same team that created the Z8; Motorola acquired the team two years ago. It's much easier to configure than on S60, however, and can be set from the left soft-menu key with a couple of clicks: there's no need to drill down several layers.
The phone has improved immeasurably over recent firmware updates - and unusually for a modern mobile, the manufacturer appears to care about the user experience and is keen to improve to it. Motorola incorporated feedback throughout the development cycle, with some important enhancements. Unlike Nokia, which very humbly solicits feedback through its bloggers, then very arrogantly throws their replies in the bin.
But there's still some room for polish.
We found there's a delay that's just a fraction of a second too long when the slider is opened: it should be instant. The icons need some work, too: they're infuriatingly indistinct, and too many look alike. We were obliged to view the applications deck and control panel in List view. Here's an example:
Motorola's bundled "Guess the icon?" game.
The Z8 isn't a flip phone, Moto...
The task switcher, invoked by holding down the Home key, bobs disconcertingly usually once, but sometimes twice.
That said, it's evident that the Motorola team has worked hard to remove UIQ annoyances where it could. For example, the default UIQ address book is notorious for making look-ups difficult. You can either search by first name or last name, and to change between them you need to change the display order: a quite asinine decision. The Z8, however, finds contacts regardless of whether the search string is a first name or surname.
In other areas, alas, Motorola had to deal with the new, verbose UIQ. This really needs a brutal redesign: too many functions take too many clicks to accomplish. Some user interface controls require manual confirmation - you have to explicitly confirm the change using the left soft-menu key. Others don't, you simply go back to the previous screen knowing the change has been made. It's inconsistent and infuriating.
For text input, this phone uses Motorola's preferred iTAP - which takes a couple of days to get used to if T9 is embedded into your motor movements. It's actually a bit faster once you're familiar with it - recognising phrases as well as words - although it demands a little more concentration.
As for compatibility, UIQ 3.0 themes work without any trouble. Some applications may need to be tweaked to take into account the subtly different input. We tried the Salling Clicker 3.0 client designed for the W950 phone, and discovered it installed and ran. High-profile Java apps such as Google Maps and Yahoo! Go 2.0, naturally work very well.
From its styling, the Z8 appears to have been designed to appeal to blokes who talk very loudly in the gym. This, with the BSkyB bundle, is probably very astute marketing. The real bellweather technology adopters aren't phone nerds but the guy in Brentwood with a decent disposable income. The BSkyB remote control is a very handy feature if you're a subscriber, in which case everything else is gravy.
For the rest of us, the Z8 shows great promise - we particularly liked the balance and comfort. We look forward to seeing the user interface annoyances ironed out, and seeing the Z8 appear in different colour schemes and with more of a music focus. It has the potential to give Sony Ericsson a run for its money, and at once provides a complacent Nokia with some long overdue competition at the top end of the handset market.


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As smoking is no longer allowed in any public building, on public transport or in enclosed workplaces business must display 'no smoking' signage reminding people of this law.
Here you will find a selection of 'No smoking', 'Do not smoke' 'Thank you for not smoking', 'Designated smoking area', 'strictly no smoking signs' and 'No smoking beyond this point or on the premises' signs available in various materials and various sizes.
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It seems that Microsoft will not improve the slow SCD component that is part of SSIS (at least, this is what I understand from this Microsoft Connect answer). This means that TableDifference has a long life because it will be useful even in SQL Server 2008.
The versione 1.2 beta of TableDifference still needs some test because there is a latent bug on blob fields processing (in some multithreading scenarios).
What is MS doing to improve SSIS?
Here's my rejected Connect entry:
... I want to be able to split up packages into multiple files so that they're reusable and maintainable. Apparently reuse and maintainability are not high on MS's list of "features" for SSIS :(
I'd like to know what other new features they are going to put into SSIS.
I'm happy they've worked on back-pressure (http://blogs.msdn.com/michen/archive/2007/06/12/ssis-backpressure-mechanism.aspx).
I know they also improved lookup, even if I still didn't understand how the "persistent lookup" in Katmai differs from the current Lookup in SSIS 2005.
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I do think that Kerry's choice in VP will make or break his chances if he uses a little bit of imagination.
Kerry seems to be good at playing both sides of the ball. Did anuyone see his interview on "Meet the Press"? Wow... This guy is imploding fast.
I had thought originally that someone from the midwest who could bring ohio and MS like maybe gephardt would be able to pull it off for him. but maybe a more nationally appealing figure like Edwards or even Wesley Clark could do the trick.
I think you might see Hillary jump - she has to remain a strong contender for 2008. If Kerry were to win, she MUST be the VP or risk fading into the shadows.


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The Poe Museum celebrated its second Unhappy Hour of the season by putting the spotlight on "Berenice", Poe's 1835 tale of love, obsession and dentistry.
The evenings festivities centered around a dramatic performance of the tale produced in cooperation with Haunts of Richmond and we were honored that Jeff Jerome of the Baltimore Poe House & Museum came down to see us and even graced each performance of the story with an informative introduction.
Richmond's own Ethio-Jazz and World Groove powerhouse, Rattlemouth provided the evening's musical accompaniment and their performance was much enjoyed by our guests.
Museum docent, Jessy Mullins educated and horrified guests with a brief presentation about 19th century dental practices and folks enjoyed wandering through our exhibits and taking in the ambience of the Enchanted Garden throughout the evening (despite there being a bit of rain).
It was a splendid evening full of bite and was enjoyed by all!
As always, you can see more photos from the event (or share some of your own) by paying a visit to the Poe Museum's flickr group.
Videos will be appearing on the museum's Youtube channel soon as well, so keep an eye out!
Thanks to all who helped to make our May Unhappy Hour such a success!
Don't forget to mark your calendars for our NEXT Unhappy Hour, which is coming up on June 28th, 2012 and will be themed around "The Oval Portrait". This 1842 tale by Poe inspired Oscar Wilde to write The Picture of Dorian Gray and the event should make an indelible impression on all who attend.


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I'm going to keep posting on the Fortune Innovation Forum for a while, because I came away with 11+ pages packed with notes, plus the scraps jotted on business cards, the margins of the program, etc. In other words, lots to digest and share. It's likely that the topics will be in no partcular order and probably will overlap some.
Proving the point, the last session of the Forum "Lessons from the Innovator's Studio" gathered the creative talents from the four ongoing workshops exploring the innovation value of play, painting and sculpture, story-telling, and music. The session was capped by blues band perfomances from Face the Music (listen to samples here) and two groups of Forum attendees who had created original blues songs around the innovation experiences at their companies during the workshops.
Before the music ended the show, we heard a summary of the experiences in each workshop from Sophie Marsham, who ran the painting and sculpture workshop (you can see a couple of her paintings hanging behind the band on the main stage), Lea Thau, from the story-telling workshop provided by The Moth (listen to some stories here), Paul Kwiecinski, managing partner from Face the Music Blues (I describe him by his title simply to remind you that these folks are serious business people with much to teach about creativity and innovation as essential business processes), and Andy Stefanovich of Play, mentioned in my initial "live" post from the Forum.
Just a couple of quick takes from my notes:
Lea Thau talked about how framing a business presentation on some new project as a story can help, noting "when you're talking about the future, most people haven't been there [!], so it helps if you can find a way to take them there" -- which stories can do better than bullet lists and S-curve graphs.
Paul Kwiecinski noted that writing and singing "blues songs are not about whining and complaining (that's country!), but about expressing the truth of a situation." He asked, "How true do you want it?" I'm hoping Fortune can find a way to get at least the audio files from the songs performed at the forum posted on their Business Innovation Insider blog.
As I sat listening to their stimulating discussion a startling thought came: the four people sitting on the stage represented sports (play), drama/literature (story-telling), art, and music.
At last year's Forum, Yvonne heard a number of speakers sound the alarm for improving the education system in the U.S. to keep us innovative and competitive. But when most people thank and talk about improving education, they focus on math and science. Often in the same breath they're proposing cuts in spending for "extracurricular" activities.
The deeper lesson from the workshops at this year's Forum might well be that sports, drama/lit, art, and music art not "extracurricular" -- participation in them provides essential tools for business people who aim to lead innovative organizations of any kind.


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Congrats Ash and Morgan! Can't wait to see more pictures and hear all about the big day!
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January 30, 2013
Editor's note: After posting the story below, we discovered that Cabela's has explained the excise tax addition to receipts as a "glitch" and it does not reflect an effort by the sporting goods store to highlight the expense to business of funding Obamacare. We at Infowars.com, however, believe it serves as a good catalyst to demonstrate how Obamacare is in fact a massive tax scheme designed to further bankrupt the American people.
An Infowars reader sent along an image of a sales receipt from Cabela's, a popular sporting goods store.
The receipt (pictured at left) spells out what Obama and the feds want to keep secret – the middle class is being heavily taxed despite all the fatuous rhetoric of Democrats who invariably play the class warfare card to sell their confiscatory taxation policies.
"The 2.3% Medical Excise Tax that began on January 1st is supposed to be 'hidden' from the consumer, but it's been brought to the public's attention by hunting and fishing store Cabela's who have refused to hide it and are showing it as a separate line item tax on their receipts," the email states.
CNN, MSNBC, the New York Times and other apologists for government theft naturally don't expose the heavy dose of taxes hidden in Obamacare.
One especially egregious tax as of January 1 is levied on people who use things like corrective lenses or hearing aids. Democrats need these kind of taxes to pay for their "free" healthcare scam. If you wear glasses, get ready to pay an additional 2.3 percent.
"Obamacare is very, very expensive," writes Peter Roff. "More expensive than advertised in fact. To put it simply, Congress needed the money they expected the tax to generate to pay for the program. Which just goes to show there's no such thing as 'free' healthcare."
In 2013, the "rich" – read: well-off people not well-off enough to be able to hide money offshore or in "philanthropic" foundations – will get reamed. In addition to capital gains tax rates rising (from 15% to 18.8%), there "will be an additional 0.9% tax on earned income in excess of $250,000 for families and $200,000 for individuals to help pay for Medicare Part A, which covers hospital stays, nursing facilities, and hospice care," Alex Rogers writes for Time.
"Taxpayers are reminded that the president's healthcare law is one of the largest tax increases in American history," Newsmax reported last June. "Obamacare contains 20 new or higher taxes on American families and small businesses."
Many of the taxes buried in the massive bill include excise taxes on charitable hospitals, taxes on innovator drug companies, new taxes on Blue Cross/Blue Shield, and other taxes that will of course be passed on to beleaguered consumers. Many of the taxes in the bill have nothing to do with healthcare. For instance, taxes on bio-fuel and tanning services.
In 2014, anyone not buying "qualifying" health insurance – that is to say, not buying insurance from mega-corporations who cut a deal with the feds to fleece the average American – must pay an income surtax.
Employers with more than 50 employees who do not conform to the Obamacare mandate will be obliged at gunpoint to pay an additional non-deductible tax of $2,000 for each full-time employee. If employees participate in so-called insurance exchanges run by the government, the penalty for the employer jumps to $3,000 per employee.
Also in 2014, those of us who have "Cadillac" health insurance plans – plans that cost more than $27,500 per family – will face a withering 40 percent excise tax.
Obama's plan – crafted by insurance corporations – promises to subsidize around 30 million uninsured Americans, a bill that will amount to a staggering $1.8 trillion, much of it hidden beneath the surface or sold as the government forcing greedy rich people to pay "their fair share."
Cabela's is doing us a service by adding a medical excise tax line on its retail receipts. More retailers and service companies need to get on the bandwagon and do this. It will remind Americans that they are being screwed – not by rapacious fat cat corporations, but the federal government.
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Recently, I've learned that David Weprin has announced his intention to run for the vacant Assembly seat in the 24h Assembly District. More power to him.
David has been my City Council member for the past eight years. As the president of a cooperative, I have called upon him dozens of times to assist in problems dealing with individual shareholders ranging from senior citizen issues and education matters to issues dealing with veterans and delivery of municipal services. H
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What happens when the Legion of Doom's supervillains decide to assassinate members of the almighty Justice League, one by one? Super Friends morphs into The Godfather, that's what.
That mature evolution is at the dark heart of Justice League: Doom, out Tuesday on DVD, download and demand as the latest job title on DC Animated Universe's mostly stellar feature-film resume.
Written by the late, great Dwayne McDuffie, Justice League: Doom is loosely based on writer Mark Waid's JLA: Tower of Babel comics, which explored Batman's paranoia and foresight. As the caped crusader rationalizes in Doom, only a fool would fail to compile contingency plans for neutralizing the likes of Superman, Wonder Woman, Martian Manhunter, Flash and Green Lantern in case the heroes should decide to go rogue.
What happens when those plans are hacked out of the Bat-computer by Legion of Doom architect Vandal Savage and put into action by his minions Bane, Metallo and Ma'alefa'ak?
Everyone, fools and otherwise, ends up feeling pretty foolish. That is, if they live.
As the axis on which both Doom (and, more importantly, Christopher Nolan's final Batman movie, The Dark Knight Rises) rests, Bruce Wayne is irresistibly human. Check out the humorous Doom clip above, where Wayne's battered but haughty frame and shame is put in its place by his butler, doctor and father figure, Alfred.
As for Nolan, Wayne's misfired assassination in Justice League: Doom — which one would hope is too gruesome for today's kids — arrives courtesy of The Dark Knight Rises' chosen supervillain, Bane, rather than Waid's bad guy, Ra's al Ghul.
Doom shows off other cross-media retcons as well, most notably in the presence of Cyborg, who was added to the rebooted Justice League roster as part of its New 52 makeover. ("You belong with us now," Wonder Woman tells him during a meeting he's trying to leave, although she's really talking to us.)
Actor Bumper Robinson's Cyborg is a welcome addition to this animated reunion, which features the iconic voices that DC Animated Universe fans have been latching onto ever since executive producer Bruce Timm jumpstarted Batman: The Animated Series back in the early '90s.
Led by Kevin Conroy's deathless Batman, they add fandom firepower to what is an otherwise uneven cartoon feature that oscillates between arresting horror and cynical corn. (Check out the trailer below for a helping of that.)
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The Knapsack Problem- Generating Functions
The Knapsack Problem is a combinatorial optimization problem, to determine if a quantity can be produced given a set of base values. Diophantine equations and the change problem are two common forms of the Knapsack Problem. This tutorial will explore the Knapsack Tutorial through the use of generating functions.
As a caveat, generating functions are very abstract. As part of this tutorial, a refresher on geometric series will be included. If you do not have a strong background with series manipulations as it is, you may struggle with generating functions.
Refresher on Geometric Series
A Geometric Series grows based on a ratio raised to an exponent. It is convergent if the ratio is less than one. Some examples of geometric series are as follows:
The general form:
An example of a convergent series is below. Notice how that the ratio is less than 1, so as it is exponentiated repeatedly, it goes to 0, which is why the series converges.
Inversely, this geometric series diverges, as the ratio is not less than 1.
For the purpose of working with generating functions, it is assumed that the series either converges or a portion of the series is being examined. For those cases, we have the following identities:
Important Identities
Before moving onto using generating functions to solve problems, there are two important identities left:
Generating Functions
Generating functions take a specific form of a geometric series as follows:
Generating functions are not meant to be evaluated at specific values of x. Instead, there are two components of interest: the exponent of x and the coefficient of said term.
The exponent r in the term xr is important as it represents the inventory, or quantity to fill in the knapsack. The coefficient of xr describes the number of ways to fulfill the knapsack quantity.
The approach when solving them is as follows:
-Set up the individual terms, to represent the available choices. Remember that a power of x represents the inventory. So if a value of 2 is an option, then x2 should be in the series. If 50 2's are an option, then multiply x2 by 50. If a value of 0 is an option, simply include a 1.
-Next, multiply the terms together. Then try and apply geometric series and binomial identities. Use the binomial identities to solve for the given coefficient.
The approach is definitely abstract, so let's work through a few examples.
Consider the following example:
1) Find the generating function for the Diophantine equation w + x + y + z = 25.
Let's start by examining a single variable. There have been no restrictions on the values it can take on, so the geometric series goes to infinity:
Since there are four variables with the same choices, raise the series to the fourth. By the Geometric Series identity presented in the last section, we know that f(x) = 1/(1-x)4. The coefficient of interest is that associated with x25, as the Knapsack quantity is 25.
Based on the second binomial identity, the coefficient of x25 is C(25 + 4 - 1, 25).
2) Now let's add constraints on the above problem: Let each variable be at least 2. So that changes the geometric series for a single term in the following way. There are no x0 or x1 terms as no variable can take on the value of 0 or 1.
We still exponentiate it to the fourth, as there are four terms.
Now let's simplify the series. To start, we can factor out an x2 from a given term, which amounts to x8. The generating function is now easier to simplify leaving us with:
f(x) = x8 * 1/(1-x)4.
As x8 has been factored out, the coefficient of interest is now x17 instead of x25. Looking at the original Diophantine equation:
w + x + y + z = 25, with each variable >= 2.
Now shift each variable to be >= 0, so subtract 8 from the Knapsack quantity of 25 to get:
w + x + y + z = 17
Since there is no top term, again refer back to the second binomial identity to find the coefficient of x17.
The number of solutions = C(17 + 4 - 1, 17).
3) Let's consider one final example:
Given 8 six-sided dice, how many ways are there to roll a 26.
Since the dice each have values 1-6, the geometric series cannot go to infinity. So for a given term, the generating function is (x + x2 + x3 + x4 + x5 + x6). Exponentiate this to the 8th, since there are 8 dice.
This leaves the function as follows, with x26 as the coefficient of interest:
f(x) = (x + x2 + x3 + x4 + x5 + x6)8.
To simplify the generating function, we can factor out x from each individual term. This leaves:
f(x) = x8 * (1 + x + x2 + x3 + x4 + x5)8
Applying the geometric series identities, the generating function can be rewritten as:
f(x) = x8 * [(1-x6) / (1-x)]8
Expanding out (1-x6)8, we get:
a(x) = 1 - C(8, 1) * x6 + C(8, 2) * x12 - C(8, 3) * x18
This series could be expanded further, but the coefficient of interest is x18, as x8 has been factored out.
Next, expand out the term 1/(1-x))8:
b(x) = 1 + C(1 + 8 - 1, 1) * x + C(2 + 8 - 1, 2) * x2 + ...
As f(x) = a(x) * b(x), it is easy to get intimidated with a massive polynomial expansion. This is rather unnecessary. Instead, it is only necessary to cross-multiply so that the power of x is 18.
This leaves us with our answer:
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"Often like you rightly put it, we excavate some of the larger buildings because when people come to visit sites, those are the things that they want to see. So, we focus on them first. In the past, we decided that there were sections of Cahal Pech that we should perhaps spend some time looking at. And this area that we are in is on of those. About a year ago, we were excavating just opposite from where you're looking at, and in fact you see all these stones, we found them covering this large tomb. you have to understand, you don't find tombs in these small little places. You find tombs in the big pyramids. So we couldn't believe when we came across that this tomb was lying out here."
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The greatness of the civilization continues to be written through each sift and shift of sand. Reported for News Five by Jose Sanchez.


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