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In the first time he's spoken in his defence since being charged and acquitted of sexual assault, Sgt. Steven Desjourdy told his police disciplinary hearing Tuesday that he was in "disbelief" after a female prisoner's "explosion of violence" in 2008 and worried the woman, whom he left topless in soiled pants inside a cell for more than three hours, might be suicidal.
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OTTAWA — In the first time he's spoken in his defence since being charged and acquitted of sexual assault, Sgt. Steven Desjourdy told his police disciplinary hearing Tuesday that he was in "disbelief" after a female prisoner's "explosion of violence" in 2008 and worried the woman, whom he left topless in soiled pants inside a cell for more than three hours, might be suicidal.
Desjourdy described the behaviour of the woman at the centre of the cellblock case as a "flipped switch" — at one moment she was calm, the next she was kicking a female special constable at least two times. The woman's name is protected by a publication ban.
What became a widely viewed surveillance video of the incident, released after a Citizen legal request, showed the special constable limping away.
Desjourdy testified that he tried to call in a replacement.
"In this case, I chose to intervene because my only female officer was injured," Desjourdy said.
In the process of continuing to search the woman, Desjourdy cut the woman's shirt and bra off.
He was charged with sexual assault by the Special Investigations Unit, a civilian watchdog that oversees police, but acquitted in 2013 when a judge ruled the behaviour was not excessive or abusive. His defence did not present a case in the criminal trial and Desjourdy did not testify.
The violence he observed from the woman during her intake was "unjustified," Desjourdy testified Tuesday. He said he thought she might try to harm herself.
"Once she was in the cell, I was looking for a cooling-down period," Desjourdy said. "She's not in the state to make proper decisions. I'm worried for her safety at this point."
Desjourdy said he continued to monitor the woman on a closed-circuit television feed and saw her flushing the toilet inside the cell for no apparent reason, pacing and trying to slide out through the bars.
"It's not right," he said. "It's bizarre behaviour."
It wasn't until he was satisfied that a special constable could safely deliver a "blue suit" — a disposable, one-time-wear coverall — to the woman that he signalled for one to go over. Those suits can be ripped, braided and tied to the cells, which could aid someone intent on harming themselves.
Though three white "suicide gowns", which can't be manipulated and are much safer, were issued to the central cell in May of 2008, on Saturday, Sept. 6, when the woman was brought in, all three gowns, which are reusable but require cleaning, were either dirty or out to be cleaned.
"None were available," Desjourdy said. "Hindsight is 20-20. They have many more now. Three wasn't enough."
The disciplinary hearing largely focuses on policies, both new and old, and whether Desjourdy breached them as they stood at the time of the incident.
Police prosecutor Bob Houston asked the officer what specifically about the woman's behaviour suggested that she might be suicidal.
"Mr. Houston, you have to put yourself in my position," Desjourdy implored. "She's clearly demonstrated in a police building on video that she can very well assault a special constable."
Desjourdy, as the sergeant in charge of the cells at the time, is responsible for the more-than-three-hour delay in giving the woman clothing to cover herself. The hearing will determine whether that conduct is discreditable.
According to his testimony Tuesday, however, the policy as it existed then and the current revamped version both fail to state a time frame when the suit ought to be provided.
Desjourdy was promoted to sergeant in December of 2007. As one of six of the most junior-ranking sergeants at the time, he began a one-year stint in the cellblocks in March of 2008. He testified that prior to taking over from an out-going sergeant, he received five shifts of on-the-job training and was told to review cellblock-related policies on the police intranet.
"I had no clue what I was getting into," Desjourdy said of his thoughts before he began the training shifts.
Defence lawyer Michael Edelson asked Desjourdy to describe the working environment inside the Ottawa police central cellblock in 2008.
"Compared to today?" Desjourdy asked. "Totally different."
Among those differences is more special constables on staff during each shift. Desjourdy said he typically had three but sometimes only two. On the morning of Sept. 6, he only had two, one of whom was then injured.
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"We've been planning for this day for five years," said Thomas Stover, president of outpatient services at Akron General. "And we've been preaching health and wellness for 15 years. Now, we have the partner to help us take these concepts to another level."
Signet Development, Akron, is a developer of public and private real estate projects. It offers turn-key development services and financial strategies. Signet will handle a variety of duties for new clients, including project management services, legal structuring, creative finance strategies and all underwriting activities.
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AMD Fusion System Architecture Overview - Southern Isle GPUs and Beyond
Introducing the AMD FSA
At AMD's Fusion 11 conference, we were treated to a nice overview of AMD's next generation graphics architecture. With the recent change in their lineup going from the previous VLIW-5 setup (powered their graphics chips from the Radeon HD 2900 through the latest "Barts" chip running the HD 6800 series) to the new VLIW-4 (HD 6900), many were not expecting much from AMD in terms of new and unique designs. The upcoming "Southern Isles" were thought to be based on the current VLIW-4 architecture, and would feature more performance and a few new features due to the die shrink to 28 nm. It turns out that speculation is wrong.
In late Q4 of this year we should see the first iteration of this new architecture that was detailed today by Eric Demers. The overview detailed some features that will not make it into this upcoming product, but eventually it will all be added in over the next three years or so. Historically speaking, AMD has placed graphics first, with GPGPU/compute as the secondary functionality of their GPUs. While we have had compute abilities since the HD 1800/1900 series of products, AMD has not been as aggressive with compute as has its primary competition. From the G80 GPUs and beyond, NVIDIA has pushed compute harder and farther than AMD has. With its mature CUDA development tools and the compute heavy Fermi architecture, NVIDIA has been a driving force in this particular market. Now that AMD has released two APU based products (Llano and Brazos), they are starting to really push OpenCL, Direct Compute, and the recently announced C++ AMP.
Continue reading for all the details on AMD's Graphics Core Next!
The dream for AMD is to provide just as much compute power as graphics power, all up and down their product lineup. The idea of the onboard GPU acting as a very powerful co-processor for parallel loads would give AMD a competitive edge against its larger rival, Intel. But to achieve truly heterogeneous computing, a lot of work needs to be done at the silicon level as well as the OS support and development environment. With this latest architecture, AMD is taking the very important and large steps required to achieve truly heterogeneous computing. The future for AMD is the Fusion System Architecture.
Goodbye VLIW, Hello Vector + Scalar
When NVIDIA introduced the G80, they took a pretty radical approach to GPU design. Instead of going with previous VLIW architectures which would support operations such as Vec4+Scalar, they went with a completely scalar architecture. This allowed a combination of flexibility of operation types, ease of scheduling, and a high utilization of compute units. AMD has taken a somewhat similar, but still unique approach to their new architecture.
Instead of going with a purely scalar setup like NVIDIA, they opted for a vector + scalar solution. The new architecture revolves around the Compute Unit, which contains all of the functional units. The CU can almost be viewed as a fully independent processor. The unit features its own L1 cache, branch and MSG unit, control and decode unit, instruction fetch arbitration functionality, and the scalar and vector units.
The vector units are the primary workers in the CU when it comes to crunching numbers. Each unit contains four cores, and allows for four "wavefronts" to be processed at any one time. Because AMD stepped away from the VLIW5/4 architectures, and have gone with a vector+scalar setup, we expect to see a high utilization of each unit as compared to the old. We also expect scheduling to be much easier and efficient, which will again improve performance and efficiency. The scalar unit will actually be responsible for all of the pointer ops as well as branching code. This particular setup harkens back to the Cray supercomputers of the 1980s. The combination of scalar and vector processors was very intuitive for the workloads back then, and that follows onto the workloads of today that AMD looks to address.
The combination of these processors and the overall design of each CU gives it the properties of different types of units. It is a MIMD (multiple instructions multiple data) in that it can address four threads per cycle per vector, from different apps. It acts as a SIMD (single instruction multiple data) much like the previous generation of GPUs. Finally it has SMT (symmetric multi-threading) in that all four vector cores can be working on different instructions, and there are 40 waves active in each CU at any one time. Furthermore, as mentioned in the slide, it supports multiple asynchronous and independent command streams. Essentially the unit is able to work on all kinds of workloads at once, no matter what the source of the data or instructions are.
AMD did not detail how many CU units we would see in upcoming products, but we certainly expect the performance of these next generation parts to overshadow the current 40 nm Cayman based cards. They also did not detail how these would be arranged, how these will interact with texture units, or what we can expect from any new and interesting innovations with the ROPS.
Memory and Caches
One area that AMD did detail extensively was the changes in the internal cache, as well as their push for fully virtualized memory. Each CU has its own L1 cache divided into data, instruction, and load/store. The GPU then has shared L2 cache which is fully coherent. Each L1 cache has a 64 bit interface with the L2, and once this scales in terms of both CU count and GPU clockspeed, we can expect to see multiple terabytes per second of bandwidth between the caches. The L1 caches and texture caches are now read/write, as compared to the read only units in previous architectures. This is a big nod not only to efficiency and performance, but also the type of caches needed for some serious compute type workloads.
The next level of memory support is that of full virualization of memory with the CPU. Previous generations of products were limited to what memory and cache were onboard each video card. This posed some limitations on not just content in graphics, but were also problematic in compute type scenarios. Large data sets proved to be troublesome, and required a memory virtualization system which was separate from the CPUs virtual memory. By adopting x86-64 virtual memory support on the GPU, this gets rid of a lot of the problems in previous cards. The GPU shares the virtual memory space, which improves data handling and locality, as well as gracefully surviving unhappy things like page faults and oversubscriptions. This again is aimed at helping to improve the programming model. With virtual memory, the GPU's state is not hidden, and it should also allow for fast context switches as well as context switch pre-emption. State changes and context switches can be quite costly, so when working in an environment that features both graphics based and compute workloads, the added features described above should make things go a whole lot smoother, as well as be significantly faster, thereby limiting the amount of downtime per CU.
It also opens up some new advantages to traditional graphics. "Megatextures" which will not fit on a card's frame buffer can be stored in virtual memory. While not as fast as onboard, it is still far faster than loading up the texture from the hard drive. This should allow for more seamless worlds. I'm sure John Carmack is quite excited about this technology.
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It will be interesting to see how they organize the rest of the chip. We know from a previous presentation at Fusion 11 that primitive setup will be pretty flexible, and different chips will have a different amount of units doing this setup. Plus how many CUs will be put in a larger functional unit and how is that tied into texture units? Lots and lots that they left uncovered.
this makes a lot of sense.
What AMD has essentially done is broken down the CPU into compute units that can either act as x86+AVX scalar units or as GPU compute units.
the vector units are 16-wide, which means they can be used as SIMD units for GPU tasks or as AVX-SIMD units for the x86 scalar unit.
It is likely that we will see this first 512-bit AVX implementation (16-wide) as we would see half the units being idle if AMD stuck with a 256-bit AVX implementation (8-wide).
We can expect to see a very efficient use of silicon with this architecture as the CPU can tune the ratio of x86 vs compute units depending on the workload, potentially hundreds if not thousands of times per second.
- Tom Hammond
From the 3rd to last and last slide it seems like everything is going to be an "apu" now, even though it really isn't. Makes me wonder how confusing the future will be, but this is why AMD is a very cool company. They don't sit on laurels, they do things, they change things, they try things, which makes it all a lot more interesting to keep track of things.
I wonder how much of a boost these cards will see. I know the die shrink helps, but this whole new architecture with the cache and memory could either help or only help in things like folding where it is calculation intensive. Who knows, finger's crossed and glad as heck that I waited out the 5xxx and 6xxx series.
I agree I still have a 775 CPU from intel. If AMD came pull this off with good real world numbers I will switch over to the new hybrids. It all comes down to high gaming numbers though. I go with switch company has the best scores weather its cheaper or not. I do have a 5850 in my system at the moment and one of the best GPU's I have ever had.
I'm really curious about how it will all turn out. Does anyone have a clue yet about density, for instance? I'm not much of a chip engineer, but the main advantages of VLIW 5 and 4 to me seemed that they could cram so many ALUs into their chips. In getting rid of that, will they be able to maintain a similar performance per mm^2? Will the increased utilisation be enough?
Actually a CU *IS* VLIW 4/5
if you want to look at it that way.
IOMMU support from M$CPU/GPU virtual memory in Fermi2
AND that would then force also Intel to follow
It looks like Nvidia is missing a license for the x86
BUT at least Tegra3 ia a winner
The Future looks very exciting
and I'm waiting for the Haswell to be my future CPU
but what will my dGPU?


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And here's a video showing it in action:
What is it?
If you're not up-to-speed on the work I've been doing, my changes revolve around two major topics. First of all, I've implemented the height-based blending algorithm as described by Andrey Mishkinis, in this article: http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/AndreyMi ... atting.php
I have implemented that blending technique, using the height information available in the alpha channel of the normal-map. I only need to add it to macro textures as well.
Furthermore, I've implemented the changes explained by @ JeffR here: http://forums.torque3d.org/viewtopic.ph ... t=20#p8280
Well, except for the composite map, as PBR is not in yet. But the changes to how detail textures and the base texture works are implemented. You can now set the base texture, to be used by the whole terrain, on the terrain object as shown here:
The diffuse texture still exists, but it is only used to generate the base-texture if you don't specify a base texture directly.
I would like feedback on:
- Bugs, any bugs or things looking weird is always important to know about
- Performance, how does this build perform in your various scenes/tests?
- What do you think of this way of using the detail texture? I.e. as a up-close diffuse texture rather than a gray-scale detail texture?


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Binky found his first Letterbox yesterday!!
Actually he found two!
It really is fun! First, you buy or make your own stamp.
We found one that Binky loved at our local craft store. You also need a stamp pad,
a journal and a pen or pencil. Next, go to the websites linked above and find
letterboxes hidden in your area.
We found 3 we wanted to search for.
The first one was hidden in a cemetary!
The clue said to stop in the Chapel of the Chimes for a visit before going into the cemetary.
It is such a beautiful building!
I drive by it every day and have never been inside until yesterday.
After leaving the chapel we walked over to the cemetary and began our hunt for the letterbox.
One of the clues said to find a place where two rose bushes bloom.
We found the bushes, without blooms.
The last clue was to find a very old crypt in the side of a hill.
The Letterbox was hidden beside it under leaves and dirt.
It rained quite a bit the day before so I wasn't sure what condition it would be in.
But we found it safe and sound in a round tin.
Everything inside was dry!
This is Binky's stamp that he stamped into the journal in this Letterbox.
And the top stamp is the one from the Letterbox that he added to his journal.
The second stamp was found a few blocks away outside a library.
We couldn't find the third one.
It may have been removed due to all the rain the day before.
We had such a good time reading the clues and hunting for these Letterboxes.
It is a true treasure hunt!
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RaSults needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
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So how did Mitt Romney do tonight? I think it depends on how high the bar was. If he needed to deliver a virtuoso performance, it didn't happen (that was last night). If he needed to portray himself as a decent, highly competent guy who would make a solid president, I think cleared that bar.
I don't believe he needed a virtuoso performance.
Given Romney's solid speech, Paul Ryan's great one, and whatever other of the many good nuggets folks might have seen, the Republicans probably leave Tampa good to go. That doesn't mean they will prevail in November — more hurdles need to be cleared between now and then, most notably the debates.
But the Republicans cleared this week's hurdle with aplomb and in doing so converted it, I hope, into something of a springboard.


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AL SARRAIN, Yemen — The U.S. drone flew over a cluster of mud houses on a ridge and, according to Yemeni officials, locked onto Adnan Qadhi, a mercurial man of many guises, including radical militant, peace mediator, preacher of violence and army general.
Villagers said Qadhi climbed out of his utility vehicle the night of Nov. 7 to make a cellphone call shortly before the missile struck. His photo — broad face peering from beneath a tilted red beret, stars on his epaulets — now hangs in a small grocery store in a land where farmers work narrow fields below the villas of politicians, tribal leaders and a former president that rise like fortresses on nearby hilltops.
Some here call him a martyr, others a fanatic. But the life and death of Qadhi, a senior officer in the 1st Armored Division who preached holy war in mosques and donned government-issued fatigues, epitomizes the political instability, tribal intrigue, crisscrossing allegiances and radical Islamist passions the United States must sort out when targeting militants in Yemen. At times, Washington risks being drawn into internal conflicts and becoming increasingly despised in the Arab world's poorest nation.
Extremists here have a history of shifting tactics and circumstances. They were pressed into service by the government of former President Ali Abdullah Saleh when needed, then arrested and jailed when the political winds changed. Later they vanished from prisons by the scores, set loose across tribal lands. Yemeni security officials say that era is ending, and they're stepping up military offensives to rout extremists — fighters from Libya, Somalia and other nations, and assassins on motorcycles intent on killing intelligence officials.


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99Designs launches Swiftly: where a design change is $15 an hour
99Designs, the crowd sourced design firm is now launching Swiftly a crowd sourced design-fixer firm. Billed as a place where you can get a title changed on a business card, a tweak done to a photo, headlines changed on websites, vectorizing images and other simpler tasks (provided the original fonts & layout documents are available), the idea is already unappetizing to many designers.
Perhaps one can set this work up so that one does several little tweak-jobs within an hour thereby getting up to a regular wage. It could be something for the unpaid design intern to do at night. Bonus! Imagine all the portfolio work you can claim!
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Graphic design students win north American awards competition
Two of Cambrian College's graphic design graduates and one upper-year student have been recognized for their outstanding work by one of the largest and most respected arts awards programs in North America, said the college in a news release.
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Quadrant2Design, the Poole based design and exhibition company, has launched a new initiative to lower their clients costs. When clients choose to either purchase and self-build an exhibition stand, or select the 'free hire' option, they will be eligible to receive free graphic design.
This is in addition to the company's present policy of zero-cost 3-D exhibition design (offered free with any quotation for a modular stand project).
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Varun Nunkoo Ð Passion, dream and talent
'Responsibility finds a way and irresponsibility makes excuses.' This is the motto of 24-year old Varun Nunkoo. Whilst guys of his age are still thinking and working on a career opportunity, this zealous young man has started to achieve credible success in the graphic and photographic world.
His aim is to improvise in this domain putting forward his unique contribution and creative ideas. Sky is the limit for this young man.
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In "Charlie Foxtrot," a team of investigators uncovers the reasons behind the national spike in service member suicides. This docu-series focuses on a Military policy that kicks service members out when they attempt to take their own life, leaving them without the help they were promised when they signed up to serve.
"Charlie Foxtrot" exposes the trauma of war, taking viewers through a visceral experience as soldiers once driven to the brink of suicide open up emotionally and share videos and photos from the war zone.
Find Charlie Foxtrot in your area below:
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If you feel moved to act, tell your lawmaker to support Fairness for Vets by signing the petition below. Let your voice be heard on social media by tweeting your Senators and Representatives.
The time for action is now.
According to the Department of Veterans Affairs, 20 U.S. veterans die by suicide every day. About 70 percent of veterans who took their own lives were not regular users of VA services. Veterans with less-than-honorable discharges are the most vulnerable group. These less-than-honorable discharges are often issued to service members for minor misconduct, that experts say, can be behavior linked to PTSD, TBI or other trauma-related injuries.
Now is the time for Fairness for Veterans. Let's give them hope to help heal the invisible wounds of war. Please support this common sense, bi-partisan bill to require the military discharge review boards to consider mental health diagnoses like PTSD and TBI.
I am asking the congressional delegation from my state to commit to changing the discharge review board policy by passing the Fairness for Veterans Act.


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Stocks posted a 4.5% total return in the third quarter of 2017, following a return of 3.1% in the second quarter and 6.1% in the first quarter.
In the quarter that ended September 30, 2017, technology stocks surged. With the price of oil shooting up 10%, energy stocks returned to 6.8%. Defensive sectors driven by consumers languished as investors showed an appetite for riskier assets.
Major foreign indexes again beat the U.S. as global economic growth continued to pick up. This continues the recent trend in which world growth is catching up with the resilient U.S., which led to the global recovery after the financial crisis of 2008.
Crude oil's 10% gain following a second quarter slump stands out and non-U.S. stocks again beat U.S. stocks. Fixed-income asset classes all posted positive returns with bond yields stable in the third quarter.
Stocks posted a very impressive 14.2% gain in the first nine months ended in 2017. The year started by continuing a rally that began with the Nov. 8 election of President Trump. Even as investors abandoned expectations that tax cuts proposed by Republicans were imminent, strong economic and earnings data drove stocks to new highs, and global economic growth was additive.
In the nine months that ended September 30, 2017, a wide gap opened between the top-performing large-cap growth stocks' return of 19.3% and the 6.6% on mid-cap value companies. It was the second quarter in a row in which large-cap growth dominated stock classifications. It was the mirror image of the fourth quarter of 2016, when large-cap growth stocks were the laggards. This rotation is not uncommon but defies prediction. It's a dynamic risk methodically tempered by strategic asset allocation and rebalancing.
Technology surged as investors rotated back into the FAANG stocks - Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix and Google, after abandoning them late last year. Health care companies recovered from their fourth-quarter slump, which was attributed to Mr. Trump's campaign statements about reining in soaring prices. The energy sector lost value, as oil prices traded down on a rising U.S. oil-rig count and growing domestic production and inventories. Utilities had a surprisingly strong performance considering that investors mostly assumed that bond yields would rise in 2017 when, in fact, they did not rise through the first three quarters of the year.
In a reversal from the fourth quarter of 2016 China, Emerging Markets, Europe, and Asia Pacific outperformed U.S. indices in the nine months ended September 30, 2017. Among the U.S. indices, S&P 500 large-caps beat mid- and small-caps, another reversal from the fourth quarter of 2016. Those sharp shifts in sentiment occur regularly and are unpredictable. But they're just short a disruption to a long-term portfolio that you need to depend on for generating part of your retirement income stream.
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In the nine months that ended September 30, 2017, foreign stocks were No. 1 among the broad array of 13 asset classes shown here. In this period, Standard & Poor's global stock index, which excludes U.S. stocks, gained 22% versus 14.2% on the S&P 500. Overseas markets were catching up with the fourth quarter "Trump rally" in U.S. stocks, as the growth rate of foreign economies improved. Other notable developments include:
— Gold rallied, reversing its fourth quarter 2016 slump on U.S. dollar strength.
— Oil, MLPs and commodities all posted negative returns.
— Riskier assets were rewarded, lifting high-yield bonds and leveraged loans.
— Munis posted additional gains following their fourth-quarter 2016 rallies.
— Across the spectrum of fixed-income assets, returns were positive following a decline in value in income-producing assets in the fourth-quarter of 2016 returns, when bond yields surged and prices dropped post-election.
Stocks over the 12 months ended September 30, 2017 showed a 18.6% total return, as the growth engine of the American investor's portfolios did its job. The long economic expansion that began after the financial crisis of 2008 has shown renewed strength lately. Earnings at the S&P 500 companies recovered from a collapse in the energy and mining sectors. Enthusiasm for a Trump presidency boosted stock prices as 2017 began, and a stream of strong U.S. economic data began to flow amid evidence of global economic acceleration.
An 18.6% return in 12 months is nearly double the historical norm. Does that mean stocks must fall? No. The economy is still strong and earnings are being driven by real-wage growth and strong consumer spending growth, which drives earnings. Of course, past performance does not guarantee future results and market sentiment could send stocks down by 10% or even 15%. Strategically allocating assets based on their long-run history of returns and risk characteristics along with the expected economic environment, is the prudent choice for sensible investors. That means resisting temptation to bet more on stocks after they've risen or selling stocks after prices drop sharply. It means not regretting that you did not own more stocks and staying committed to a long-term strategic plan.
For the 12 months ended September 30, 2017, small-cap companies led the strong rally. Taking more portfolio risk by investing in more volatile types of companies was rewarded with stronger returns. Growth shares generally can be strong performers when the economy is strengthening, as it has been over the 12 months. More conservative types of stocks — like value-priced shares in blue-chips — lagged.
In this snapshot of the 10 industry sectors comprising the Standard & Poor's 500 companies in the year ended September 30, 2017, financial stocks were the biggest gainers. Financial stock prices were bid up on post-election hopes of a significant rollback of Dodd-Frank legislation regulating their activities, along with an expectation that rising interest rates would fatten profit margins at banks.
The lagging sectors during the 12 months — telecom, consumer staples and utilities — are defensive sectors, less volatile and less exciting segments among America's largest publicly-held companies. Investor thirst for risk has grown. In those12 months, energy company shares slumped, as crude oil retraced some of last year's price recovery.
Modern Portfolio Theory suggests periodic portfolio rebalancing as a way to smooth out short-term differences in returns on different types of investments in a portfolio. This chart illustrates how that works, using the 10 industry indexes that comprise the Standard and Poor's 500 companies. It shows an industry's return in the 12 months ended September 30, 2017 compared to its return in the 12 months ended September 30, 2016. For example, telecom stocks showed a flat return in the 12 months through the end of September 2017 after leading all industry sectors 12 months earlier. Telecom shares went from darlings to dogs. The last 12 months were a complete about face from the prior 12 months. Applying a quantitative discipline that expects volatility and rebalances based on these shifting preferences is a statistical approach to managing the risk inherent in sector rotation.
While U.S. stocks posted a booming 18.6% return in the 12 months ended September 30, 2017, foreign stock markets across the globe performed even better, as the economies of China, Europe and Emerging Markets gained strength. The surge of the U.S. dollar in 2014 and 2015, which pummeled the value of foreign stocks in broadly diversified portfolios, has faded from memory. For diversified portfolios, the strengthening of foreign stock returns versus U.S. shares brought a welcome shift in leadership because growth in countries making up the world economy is not a zero-sum game.
European shares were the worst performers in the 12 months ended September 30, 2016, but outperformed U.S. stocks in the following 12 months. Periodic rebalancing invests in lagging and losing segments of a broad investment universe, forcing purchases of assets depressed based on historical results and expected economic growth. So, if a hypothetical portfolio was rebalanced October 1, 2016, for instance, you would have purchased more shares in the losing European stock market than in the other types of stocks shown. In classic form, the laggards in 2016 came back in 2017. European stocks 23.6% return in 2017 was second only to China's highly-volatile stock market's return of 30.3% in the 12 months ended September 30, 2017.
In the 12 months that ended September 30, 2017, non-U.S. stocks were the top asset class. Global economic growth picked up, boosting foreign investments. Laggards during much of the recovery that followed the global economic crisis, foreign markets are playing catch up with U.S. stocks, even as U.S. stock returns astound. Stock markets everywhere have been surging on the strength of a synchronized global expansion, outperforming every other asset class by a wide margin. Oil, gold and commodities were the laggards for the period, as crude oil prices gave back some of their 2016 gains.
Over the five years that ended September 30, 2017, small-caps were No. 1 among major U.S. stock asset-class styles. More volatile companies — small-caps, which are subject to bigger swings in price than large companies — gained more than other asset-class styles.
Small-cap outperformance reflected growing confidence in the economy and greater tolerance for risk, as expectations brightened for U.S. and global economic strength through 2018.
For the five years that ended September 30, 2017, U.S. stock indexes outperformed the rest-of-world by a substantial margin, despite a surge in equities in non-U.S. markets in the last 12 months.
Also, among the U.S. indexes, note that small and mid-caps returned more than the large-cap S&P 500 index. This is, in fact, the long-term norm. Slightly better returns are expected over the long-term for tolerating slightly more volatility of returns on small and mid-caps compared to large-caps.
For the five years that ended September 30, 2017, value-oriented industry sectors lagged. Consumer staples, energy, raw materials, telecom, utilities and consumer staples where didn't give investors the appreciation or growth sectors. Companies with earnings growing fast relative to peers were bid up higher in price.
The No. 1 industry over the five years was financial services. Some large financial services companies literally collapsed in the 2008-09 global financial crisis. The return of financials to the No. 1 slot for a five-year period represents an indication that the economy's most damaged sector is fully recovered.
A massive change in the way information is consumed set big-tech aloft. Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix and Google were bid up and fully valued.
Energy and material sectors were slammed by the collapse in the price of oil and other commodities. The energy sector of the stock market is highly correlated with crude oil prices. The price of crude oil, even after almost doubling from its early-2016 bottom of $26 per barrel, as of mid-October 2017 remained priced at less than half its 2014 peak in price of $114 per barrel.
While U.S. stocks are the key growth engine in diversified portfolios, stocks are only one part of a prudent portfolio.
This chart shows the five-year returns on a broad set of indexes representing 13 asset classes, including the S&P 500.
The 68.4% loss in the S&P Goldman Sachs index tracking crude oil's price gives you a clear indication of the risk of investing too much in any one industry, asset class or style.
Real returns were strong in this five-year period, which was characterized by a remarkably low inflation rate of less than 2%.
The Standard and Poor's 500 showed a total return of 94%, double the return of major foreign stock markets.
America led the world economy out from the server recession that followed the 2008 financial crisis.
The U.S. bounced back before, and more, than any other major world economy after The Great Recession and this five-year period is replete with evidence of American exceptionalism.
It's actually pretty amazing.
At the bottom of the pack, in last place among the 13 asset classes shown, was crude oil.
The price of oil dropped globally because of a surge in U.S. supply that resulted from the shale-fracking revolution.
Some economists say oil prices won't ever recover back to $100 a barrel because U.S. oil production would increase and fuel lower prices.
Commodities and gold were losers over the five years, due to the strength of the dollar, slowing demand for most commodities and low inflation.
The five-year period is part of a bull in stocks that started in March 2009, as the economy emerged from the worst financial crisis in decades.
After rising steadily in 2012 and 2013, the Standard & Poor's 500 traded sideways from mid-2015 to mid-2016, nosediving three times along the way, share prices broke out after the November 2016 election and they've climbed steadily since then.
The expansion is now the second longest in modern U.S. economic history.
Over the last five years, the S&P 500 total return, which includes reinvestment of dividends, was 94%.
Without dividends, the average price of a share in the S&P 500 soared by 75%.
The Standard & Poor's 500 has been breaking new all-time highs for months, and stocks are trading near the high end of their historical valuation range.
Larry Fink, the CEO of the world's largest investment manager, recently issued a warning about the stock market.
As this long bull market grows older, the statistical likelihood of a bear market — a drop of at least 20% — does indeed increase.
But fundamental economic conditions that have accompanied bear markets in the past are not present at this time.
We're not seeing restrictive Fed policy. Economic growth isn't slowing. Stock investors are not acting irrationally exuberant.
A correction of 10% or 15% is always possible, just on a change in sentiment or unexpected bad news.
Yet the economy shows no signs of coming undone in the foreseeable future, and the bull market could also go on longer and head much higher.
All recessions in modern U.S. history have been caused by the Fed, usually because the Fed tightened credit too much to squelch inflation.
In the current economy, inflation has been below normal and lower than expected.
That's giving the Federal Reserve added leeway to let the economy run faster without worrying about igniting inflation.
The latest numbers from the government showed that oil prices rose in September because of the disruption from hurricanes hitting the Gulf Coast, but inflation otherwise remained benign.
While stocks are really fun to talk about in the midst of a long-term economic expansion that is accelerating, the fourth quarter of 2017 is a time to focus on year-end tax planning.
While the fourth quarter is always when you focus on year end planning, this year the stakes are higher.
The U.S. Tax Code may undergo its most significant revision since 1986.
You don't want to ignore what's proposed and risk making a costly financial mistake.
Two Congressmen, two Senators and two Trump administration officials published a framework on September 19th for a 10-year tax cut totaling $1.5 trillion.
Then, the Trump administration, on September 27th, published a nine-page outline for cutting taxes over the next decade by about $2.2 trillion.
The President's proposal eliminates the federal deduction for state and local taxes.
This single provision raises about $1 trillion of revenue over the next decade and is key to paying for the tax cut.
Places with relatively high state and local taxes — California, Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Jersey and New York — are expected to fight this change.
Since those states have Democratic Senators, this provision could pass in the Senate - assuming all Republicans vote along party lines - but its survival in the House of Representatives is less certain.
This change to the tax law would effectively raise the cost of living in a high-tax state.
As a result, residential real estate values in these high-tax urban and suburban areas would be likely to fall.
It would lower the nest egg of millions of pre-retirees and retirees in these places.
The success of this single provision will largely determine the ultimate size of the final tax cut package, and we will follow its success in the weeks ahead.
Year-end tax planning is all about timing your deductible expenses and income, and that's all the more important right now because your tax rate may be much lower next year.
Under the proposal, we go from the seven current tax brackets to just three.
This proposal would simplify taxation and crush the tax preparation business.
Most itemized deductions will be eliminated and so will the Alternative Minimum Tax — assuming the reform plan becomes law.
This proposal is really good for business owners, doctors, lawyers, and other professionals operating as an S corporation, sole proprietorship, LLC or other form of partnership - if you are in the 35% or 39.6% tax bracket, your tax rate may drop to 25%.
As the year end approaches and the size and shape of tax reform becomes clearer, you want to think about ways of shifting income to 2018 and accelerating deductions.
You may need to find a way to accelerate the purchase of a car, computers or other capital investments into this year.
If your tax bracket is going to drop as a result of the reforms, you may want to take that deduction you've been thinking about this year instead of waiting.
It's also wise to consider deferring capital gains on securities into 2018.
Roth IRA conversions will need to be carefully reviewed in the overall context of tax reform.
Anyone considering a conversion to a Roth IRA from a traditional IRA will likely want to postpone conversion until next year.
Converting next year would be a lot less costly if your tax bracket declines from 35% to 25%.
If you inherited an IRA in 2016 or 2017, you may face some unexpected tax consequences.
The income tax deduction for estate taxes may be eliminated.
While this change won't affect that many people, it's worth mentioning because of the tax savings to be gained from planning.
If the proposal to eliminate the federal deduction for state income taxes does indeed become law, creating trusts in zero-tax states will be more important than ever.
Although the estate tax may be eliminated, a trust in a zero-tax state could provide significant annual savings on income taxes.
If you inherited assets in 2016 or 2017, choosing the official date of death for tax purposes could be important.
You'll need to pay close attention to events in the weeks ahead to stay in touch.
The elimination of the estate tax is proposed, but it would only be eliminated temporarily - for 10 years.
Under the proposal, estate tax laws would revert back to current rules a decade after enactment.
It's only prudent to plan for the reforms to become effective January 1st, 2018.
This may seem defensive but it's just good planning.
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Striker Matt Tubbs hit a goal in each half to secure a comfortable third successive league win for high-riding Crawley, downing bottom of the table Plymouth 2-0.
Tubbs gave Crawley a perfect start in the fifth minute by grabbing his sixth goal of the season from close in following a low cross by Kyle McFadzean.
Plymouth came close to equalising two minutes later when defender Curtis Nelson headed a Will Atkinson cross narrowly wide.
Tubbs sealed victory on the hour with a left-foot finish into the centre of the goal after strike partner Tyrone Barnett set him up with a headed assist.
Crawley dominated for long periods and Tubbs was off target with a near-post header on 18 minutes after Andy Drury delivered a good cross from the left, McFadzean later wastefully shooting over from a good position.
Plymouth keeper Jake Cole superbly denied Barnett shortly after the break by tipping his goal-bound header over the crossbar following a cross by David Hunt.
An unproductive match for Plymouth, who have now lost five of their six away games, ended when Warren Feeney wasted his chance at a consolation goal in stoppage time by blazing wide when well placed to score.
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In certain areas of western Illinois, it appears likely that some corn replanting will be needed when field conditions improve. Losses of the initial stand will range from complete to partial, and farmers may need to implement practices to control any remaining corn plants before replanting.
Glyphosate is very effective for controlling existing stands of (sensitive) corn. No waiting interval is specified on the label before replanting, but overall control may be improved if at least 24 hours elapses. Of course, alternative herbicides would be required for any existing stands of glyphosate-resistant corn (or any glyphosate-resistant weeds that might have already emerged).
Paraquat and glufosinate are additional options for control of existing (sensitive) corn stands, although previous research with these herbicides has demonstrated that complete control is not always achieved. Performance is often enhanced when the product is applied in combination with atrazine or metribuzin.
SelectMax has a supplemental label to control an existing stand of glyphosate-resistant corn before replanting field corn. Apply 6 fluid ounces per acre for control of glyphosate-resistant field corn up to 12 inches tall. Applications should include NIS and AMS (do not use a COC or MSO in this particular use), and take care to avoid in-field overlaps or excessive injury to the replanted corn may occur. Do not replant fields treated in this way sooner than six days after application.
Poast, Poast Plus, Fusion, Fusilade, Select, and Assure II are effective for controlling volunteer corn (including volunteer glyphosate-resistant corn) in soybean, but each product label includes an interval that must elapse between application and rotation to or replanting with grass crops such as corn. These intervals range in days from 30 (Poast, Poast Plus, Select) to 60 (Fusion, Fusilade) to as many as 120 (Assure II), making these products unlikely choices for this particular use.--Aaron Hager


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Playing one after the other in a basketball twin bill last week, Springside School and Mount St. Joseph Academy each improved their standing in the Lou Cappiello Summer League.
An 11-point effort by rising sophomore guard Gen Hagedorn helped power the Mount Magic to a 40-17 victory over John W. Hallahan High School, and in the following contest, the Springside Lions had three players score in double figures as they overcame Norristown High School, 41-33.
For the Mount, it was the debut performance for several incoming freshman, and it was also the first league game in which no veteran varsity players were present. The young Mounties didn't have to jump right in at the deep end though, since their opponent, Hallahan, was only able to muster four players for the event.
This was surprising, since the league is based in Roxborough, and that neighborhood is always well-represented among Hallahan's student body. The Magic agreed to play four-on-four, but they still had the advantage of having a few substitutes available.
Emily Carpenter, an incoming freshman forward, made an immediate impression as she scored the Magic's first two field goals of the night. Junior Rachel Dapper hit a short jumper, then two lay-ups and a free throw by Hagedorn lifted the Mount to an 11-0 advantage. Hallahan finally got on the board with an eight-foot jumper with 12 minutes left in the first half.
Another new ninth-grader, guard Mary Kate Ulasewicz (eight points total), deposited two field goals later on, and single baskets by Carpenter (six points) and sophomores Jenny Geatens (seven points) and Julia Shinkle (six points) contributed to a 21-3 MSJ lead at the intermission.
After the Magic nudged their lead up to 23-3 at the beginning of the second half, Hallahan hit a three-pointer and a lay-up in succession, but the Mickey Mice didn't score back-to-back baskets again in the game, and the Mount's margin was up to 23 points at the end.
In the next game Norristown, led by 6'3" Tyshay Britten, gained a 6-4 edge in the early going, but Springside took control with three jumpers by rising sophomore Madi Sehn, two baskets in transition by junior Gianna Pownall, and a lay-up by senior Michelle Boggs. Pownall added a free throw to complete a 13-0 run that put the Lions up 17-6. Continuing to run the court, Springside was ahead 25-12 by halftime.
Norristown did a better job on both offense and defense after the break. Making frequent trips to the foul line, as well, the Eagles gradually trimmed down their deficit until the point spread dropped into single figures at 40-31.
Sehn, a Norwood Fontbonne Academy alum who had a three-pointer early in the second half, rounded out Springside's final total with a free throw. Norristown's Britten scored off a rebound, but in the waning seconds the Eagles missed their last three tosses from the free throw line.
Pownall scored all but two of her game-high 15 points in the first half, while Boggs and Sehn each wound up with a total of 10. Sanna Johnson's four points came on a pair of second-half field goals, and fellow junior Alyssa Isackman added two points from the foul line.


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Sunburn is a visible reaction of the skin's exposure to ultraviolet (UV) radiation, the invisible rays that are part of sunlight. Ultraviolet rays can also cause invisible damage to the skin. Excessive and/or multiple sunburns cause premature aging of the skin and lead to skin cancer. Skin cancer is the most common type of cancer in the US and exposure to the sun is the leading cause of skin cancer.Children often spend a good part of their day playing outdoors in the sun, especially during the summer. Children who have fair skin, moles, or freckles, or who have a family history of skin cancer, are more likely to develop skin cancer in later years.UV rays are strongest during summer months when the sun is directly overhead (normally between 10:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m.).
The following are the most common symptoms of sunburn. However, each child may experience symptoms differently. Symptoms may include:
The symptoms of sunburn may resemble other skin conditions. Always consult your child's physician for a diagnosis.
Specific treatment for sunburn will be determined by your child's physician and may depend on the severity of the sunburn. In general, call your child's physician if:
Protection from the sun should start at birth and continue throughout your child's life. It is estimated that 60 to 80 percent of total lifetime sun exposure occurs in the first 18 years of life.The best way to prevent sunburn in children over 6 months of age is to follow the A, B, Cs recommended by The American Academy of Dermatology:
Sunscreens protect the skin against sunburns and play an important role in blocking the penetration of ultraviolet (UV) radiation. However, no sunscreen blocks UV radiation 100 percent.Terms used on sunscreen labels can be confusing. The protection provided by a sunscreen is indicated by the sun protection factor (SPF) listed on the product label. A product with an SPF higher than 15 is called a sunblock.
A sunscreen protects from sunburn and minimizes suntan by absorbing UV rays. Using sunscreens correctly is important in protecting the skin. Consider the following recommendations:
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|Viñoly in the Bronx
February 10 - May 20, 2009
|Reception: Monday, March 16, 2009, 6:00-7:30 pm
Lehman College Art Gallery is pleased to present
Rafael Viñoly was born in Montevideo, Uruguay in 1944. An American citizen, he has lived in the United States for thirty years. He attended the University of Buenos Aires and by 1964, at the age of 20, he was a founding partner of Estudio de Arquitectura, which would become one of the largest design studios in Latin America. Viñoly's early work transformed the landscape of Argentina, where his practice was based. After serving as a guest lecturer at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, Viñoly settled in New York City. In 1983 he founded Rafael Viñoly Architects PC with offices in Lower Manhattan and London. The firm's work has been unusually diverse including award-winning courthouses, museums, performing art centers, convention centers, athletic facilities, banks, hotels, commercial, industrial and educational facilities, laboratories, and recreational and residential commissions.
|This exhibition is made possible with the generous support of NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, JPMorgan Chase Foundation, The Cowles Charitable Trust and The Beth M. Uffner Arts Fund / The New York Community Trust


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KennyTheKangaroo wrote:speak spanish ur in americuh.
count2infinity wrote:it'll be a boost to the American economy to add a state. Everyone will need a new flag and thus new jobs will arise.
jprolley wrote:the annexation of puerto rico > fake 23 blast with a back side george reverse
The two-part referendum asked whether the island wanted to change its 114-year relationship with the United States. Nearly 54 percent, or 922,374 people, sought to change it, while 46 percent, or 786,749 people, favored the status quo. Ninety-six percent of 1,643 precincts were reporting as of early Wednesday.
The second question asked voters to choose from three options, with statehood by far the favorite, garnering 61 percent. Sovereign free association, which would have allowed for more autonomy, received 33 percent, while independence got 5 percent.
Rylan wrote:Ugh the flag will look funny with an odd number. Combine the Dakotas!
canaan wrote:Puerto Rico voted to join the union and, pending congressional approval, will be the 51st state.
y no one care?
Congress ultimately has to approve any change in status for the island and U.S. political leaders have long said that a prerequisite would include clear demonstration of popular support for a particular status.
Resident Commissioner Pedro Pierluisi, a member of the pro-statehood party and a Democrat who serves as the island's non-voting member of Congress won reelection with just over 48 percent of the vote. He said that he would present the results of the referendum to the Obama administration with the hopes of moving forward on statehood.
"The ball is now in Congress' court and Congress will have to react to this result," Pierluisi said, according to the Associated Press. "This is a clear result that says 'no' to the current status."
mac5155 wrote:I dunno why they'd wanna join this country judging from 7/8 of my facebook feed.
TheHammer24 wrote:If this really goes to Congress, it will come down to where each party thinks those three electoral votes will go.
TheHammer24 wrote:If this really goes to Congress, it will come down to where each party thinks those three electoral votes will go.
count2infinity wrote:I hope the Dakotas can settle their difference and become just Dakota and then we add Puerto Rico as the 50th state so that we can just keep the same flag.
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One of the most difficult problems for talented people who are trying to make their mark in life is that of their rivals and competitors. On the other hand, they also make friends among other top people in their field, who help them and influence them. It was no different for Shakespeare and Shakespeare's contemporaries. It was impossible that any other playwrights who saw his plays could be anything but enormously impressed, and threatened if they had that kind of personality, so jealousy was something that he, like anyone else in that position, had to contend with. By the same token he enjoyed some friendships among his contemporaries, the flowers of English Renaissance dramatic writers. The intense rivalry among the playwrights created a 'golden age' of English drama through the Jacobean era.
Below is an overview of Shakespeare's contemporaries – those key figures who were writing at the same time as Shakespeare.
Ben Jonson
Ben Jonson became one of Shakespeare's closest friends. Try and imagine that Shakespeare had never existed: it's difficult but it could have happened. That time would still be seen as the golden age of English drama, and perhaps we would now be giving Ben Jonson the kind of attention that Shakespeare enjoys.
Shakespeare was the godfather of Ben Jonson's son and Jonson was eating and drinking with his friend in his house in Stratford a few days before Shakespeare's death. He was eight years younger than Shakespeare, and like Shakespeare, he did not have a university education. His father died, leaving the family destitute and Jonson took up the trade of bricklaying when he was old enough to work. He gave that up and went to the Netherlands and joined up as a soldier. Tired of that, he returned to England and fell into acting. He was quite a rough fellow: in 1598 he was arrested for killing a fellow actor in a duel, and in 1603, while performing at the royal court, he was kicked out for unruly behaviour.
No-one knows for sure how he came to meet Shakespeare but it's thought that he submitted a play to Shakespeare's company. We do know, though, that the two playwrights hit it off and became close friends. We also know that Shakespeare performed in one of Jonson's plays, Everyman in His Humour , but we don't know which role Shakespeare took. Ben Jonson was well travelled and well read and it seems that they talked a great deal about travel and books. Jonson recommended books and lent some to Shakespeare. Shakespeare was a great user of books while writing his plays.
Jonson died in 1637. His legacy is a body of some of the finest plays in the English language and some of the most famous, most quoted, poems. The major plays, which are regularly performed on English stages, are: Every Man in His Humour , Eastward Ho, The Alchemist and Bartholomew Fair.
Christopher Marlow
Christopher Marlowe , apart from being a major and brilliant playwright, was an interesting character. Like Shakespeare, and born in the same year, 1564, he was the son of a middle class skilled worker, in his case, a shoemaker. His parents were well off enough to send him to a public school, the King's School in Canterbury, and then to university, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. When he left university he became a spy. He achieved considerable celebrity in London after his first success, Tamburlaine (1588), and was well known for his elaborate dress and jewellery. He was a professed atheist, a dangerous thing to be at that time, and when he wrote a pamphlet about inconsistencies in the bible he came under investigation. Before he could be brought to trial, however, he was found murdered in Deptford. He was just 29. It is thought that he was assassinated by government agents.
There are still some scholars who argue that Shakespeare did not write the Shakespeare plays – that it was someone else – and Marlowe is one of the contenders. The theory is that he wasn't murdered but changed his identity and that the Shakespeare plays are his. But the plays attributed to Marlow were clearly written by someone with a university education, whereas Shakespeare's plays are homespun and filled with the imagery that could only come from someone raised in the countryside.
Marlowe's plays, like Jonson's are regularly performed in English theatres and the most well known are Doctor Faustus, The Jew of Malta , Tamburlaine and Edward II.
Robert Greene
Robert Greene would hardly be remembered were it not for the fact that something he wrote about Shakespeare is the only surviving comment by a contemporary critic about Shakespeare, and that Shakespeare based the plot of The Winter's Tale on his prose work, Pandosto . In his social allegory, Groatsworth of Wit Bought with a Million of Repentance (1592), Greene referred to the young Shakespeare as an 'upstart crow'.
Greene's best known plays are The Scottish History of James IV and Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay.
Francis Beaumont & John Fletcher
Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher are usually thought of together because of their long collaboration. They were younger than Shakespeare, Beaumont born in 1584 and Fletcher in 1579. They were both university educated and so were somewhat out of place in London's theatreland. In fact, Fletcher's father, Richard Fletcher, was the bishop of London and Beaumont's father was a judge. It is thought that Shakespeare took an interest in the young playwrights and edited some of their plays, which his company performed. Shakespeare evidently admired Fletcher because they collaborated on The Life of King Henry the Eighth , The Two Noble Kinsmen and Cardenio . The latter has been attributed to Fletcher but we now know that it was written in collaboration with Shakespeare.
Beaumont and Fletcher's legacy is impressive and includes Philsater , The Knight of the Burning Pestle , and The Maid's Tragedy among their plays . When Beaumont died in 1616 Webster went on to collaborate with Jonson and Massinger. He was involved in the writing of forty-two plays and died of the plague in 1625. He is buried in Southwark Cathedral.
Philip Massinger
Philip Massinger , born in 1584 , was generally considered by his contemporaries to be the best playwright of the time, after Shakespeare. Most of his plays have been lost, but his masterpiece, The Roman Actor , survives. His partnership with Fletcher resulted in about twenty plays. He is also buried in Southwark Cathedral, in the same grave as his friend and partner, John Fletcher.
Thomas Kyd
Thomas Kyd , born in 1558, is remembered for his wonderful, popular and influential play , The Spanish Tragedy, which towers above everything except Shakespeare's best plays. It set the standard for that popular form, the revenge tragedy. Indeed, one can see what an important influence it was on Shakespeare's great creation, Hamlet . It includes ghosts, insanity, murder, conspiracy and suicide and is a blueprint for the Jacobean plays of cruelty and violence. It is impossible to overerestimate its influence on the development of English drama. He died in poverty in 1594.
John Webster
John Webster – born in 1680 – didn't write many plays, but The White Devil and The Duchess of Malfi are considered to be the two best Jacobean plays and, in hindsight, they define Jacobean drama, with the complexity of their intrigues, their cruelty and violence, and the intelligence of their heroes, who are Iago-like villains. The poetry in those plays is second only to that in Shakespeare's and when they are performed today they come across as freshly as Shakespeare's plays do.
It was some golden age. Other high points were Thomas Middleton and William Rowley's fascinating play, The Changeling ; Cyril Tourneur 's The Revenger's Tragedy, and Thomas Dekker's The Honest Whore (with Middleton). The general literary scene was adorned by the likes of Edmund Spenser (The Fairy Queen); Francis Bacon ; Sir Thomas Elyot (The Book of the Governor (and ancestor of the American poet, T.S. Eliot); Sir Philip Sidney (poet); Thomas Barker, (Barker's Delight, or the Art of Angling) and Thomas Campion (Observations on the Art of English Poesie), among others.
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Rod Thompson says:
Hi NSS, Thanks for your informative site. I wonder if you have any reference to Shakespeare's writing of a "true" or "good friend" in any of his plays? I'm a filmmaker and actor and during college and community theater performed in several Shakespearean plays. I auditioned at the Oregon Shakespearean Festival and met that summer an unknown actor who became quite famous and infamous: Stacy Keach. We had a conversation but I didn't really get to know him and never had contact with him until years later when I was working part time at a Computerland store in LA county. He called the store to inquire about purchasing a computer for his father. So I mentioned about our first meeting when we were both younger in Ashland, OR, and we both reminisced a couple minuets. I felt he was a very good actor and to me it was sad when he had the drug problem, etc. as it really changed the direction of his acting career. Saw him in Nebraska, and he still has the chops! He could have had a really memorable and great career.
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Molly Caulfield says:
Your site is very could an complete but I would like to correct some of your mistakes:
-" When Beaumont died in 1616 ( and not 1916), Fletcher ( and not Webster ) went on to collaborate with Jonson and Massinger (and not Massenger)…..
– " John webster, born in 1580 (and not 1880)….
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