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Bond expert Jeffrey Gundlach held a webcast on Tuesday, his first of the year.
The DoubleLine Capital founder and chief executive offered comments on treasurys, bitcoins and gold among other topics in a talk titled: \"Let the Race Begin! 2014 Markets: Year of the Horse\". (The horse refers to the Chinese year, as did his previous annual outlook webcast, the year of the snake.)
Here\'s a recap of MarketWatch\'s live blog of the event.
DoubleLine offers a chance to review the comments here as well.
– Ben Eisen and Myra P. Saefong
Follow Ben on Twitter @BenEisen
Follow The Tell blog @thetellblog
More from The Tell:
How hedge funds got left in the dust.
Deutsche Bank jumps on the gold bear-wagon.
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Waiting for the start of DoubleLine CEO Jeffrey Gundlach's first webcast of the year. As we wait, you can see our archived blog from his Dec. 10, 2013 webcast titled "Something for Nothing."
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DoubleLine's CEO Jeffrey Gundlach is on. He's ready to share his market outlook for 2014.
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- Fast-moving year
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They say things are fast-moving in the year of the horse and that's likely how it'll be in 2014, said Gundlach.
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I believe that one of the reasons for the bad jobs number is growing uncertainty and dislike of Obamacare, he says.
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A big winner last year: S&P 500. I didn't expect anything close to a 34.2% return.
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Bonds did what people thought they would at the concensus level in 2013.
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Gundlach continues to wrap up various asset performances for 2013.
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Big winner this year to date are convertible bonds, up 1.5%.
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So far, contrary to the consensus opinio,n the best place to be has been in triple-A rated bonds.
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- Fed taper
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Viewpoint following start of Fed taper: you'll probably be looking at $10 billion cutting of bond buying so that the Fed will be out of the program by the end of the year.
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- Yield curves
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The difference between the 2-year and 5-year is quite large.
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For those who believe that bond-buying has fueled the stock market: a bar chart of Dow Composite market cap and Fed balance sheet size look similar.
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- Sentiment
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Market sentiment is extremely bullish. Bearish sentiment at an all-time low.
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- Commodity index
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Gundlach is talking about the CRB Commodity Index.
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Commodities had peaked in 2011 and went lower from there. He says his chart or CRB Index looks "weirdly" stable.
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- S&P 500 Total Return
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Across the board, there was strength in the equity market in 2013. Only three years in the previous 43 years have experienced a lower peak-to-trough drawdown than 2013.
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In 2013, the S&P 500 never broke its 200-day moving average or even go close, said Gundlach.
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DJUBS Commodity Index, on the other hand, broke its 200-day moving average in Jan.-Feb. of last year and stayed below it all year.
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Gold broke its 200-day moving average early on in the year. I am not negative on gold. He sees around a 10% gain for gold.
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- Gold miners
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I like the gold miners. I think you can make money on the asset class. Gold's looking good technically. Sentiment is black as night on gold so I'm actually long on some gold miners.
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- More on commodites and gold
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Commodities are going to have to have a move this year. Not convinced on what direction. I see gold going up to $1,350 sooner rather than later. I'd be on the long side of the gold miners.
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Commodities broke the "risk-on, risk-off' behavior of the U.S. equity market.
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- Bitcoins!
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Gundlach talks about bitcoin's performance. Probably bitcoin is going to go lower. It's certainly not ready for "prime time" as a currency. Bitcoins are a bit of a "mirage."
- 4:43 pm
- Mutual funds
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My guess is that the mutual fund flows in 2013 will flow out in 2014. Facinating how badly the mutual fund world has timed the markets.
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- Portfolio rebalancing
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With equity profits in 2013, many pension plans will need to rebalance their portfolios into bonds in 2014 to maintain a 60/40 mix of bonds to equity.
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- Jobs
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It will take to Dec. 2018 to return to pre-recession employment levels.
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- Public opinion
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Gundlach has a public opinion poll slide on. The economy, unemployment and budget deficit were the hottest among the public's top priorities in 2013. In 2008 and 2004, the top two were the economy and terrorism.
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For 2014: 83% say protecting the U.S. from terrorist attacks should be a top policy priority. 81% say protecting American jobs is a top priority.
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- 10-year Treasury yields
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10-year Treasury yield: everyone thinks its going higher. I'm not so sure. This yield rise looks fairly complete. May drop down toward 2.50% in the 10-year.
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- Junk Treasurys
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Last year and this year, now people are "anti-Treasurys." But if we get some more economic weakness, there could be a major "pain trade" in store. There may be a potential for a short squeeze.
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- Pension plan demand for bonds
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If equities stay strong and bond yields rise, there will be a substantial increase in pension plans demand for bonds.
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- High-yield bonds
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Don't be fooled by the fact that high-yield bonds never went positive in 2013. That sucked all of the cushion out of the high-yield bond market. High-yield bond market positively have interest-rate risk.
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- Mortgages
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Mortgages have started out the year reasonably strong.
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- Treasurys
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Treasurys look kind of cheap vs. munis and vs. high-yield bonds. Treasurys are "tremendously" under-owned.
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- Europe
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The non-Greek bond yields have made it all the way back to where they were in 2010. Parliamentary elections coming up in Europe may shake things up in May. Many are opposed to the types of bailout programs that have been used.
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- U.S. and Germany
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Interesting how the U.S. and Germany stock markets show similar levels of return. Inflation rates make it look it they're exactly the same country.
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- Emerging markets
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Emerging markets: all of the froth of 2012 inflows to EMs are gone. Value proposition for EMs is much better than people want to give them credit for.
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S&P 500 outperformed emerging-market equities in 2013. Year to date, we've seen more weakness in emerging markets.
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Gundlach is taking a look at the performance of some emerging-market currencies.
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- More on emerging markets
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Emerging markets tend to act as something of a leading indicator. They're more volatile. Emerging-market currencies had a bad year.
- 5:11 pm
- The dollar
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"I still like dollar." I do think the dollar is a "pretty decent currency to own in 2014." I think it's going to be "nonhelpful" to diversify from the dollar.
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- China
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I'm not seeing any green lights for the Shanghai index.
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- More on the dollar
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The dollar hasn't really done much in the past year. I'm comfortable with the viewpoint that the dollar will probably head higher in 2014.
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- Housing market
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I think the housing market is softer than people think.
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I'm not a big fan of subprime.
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6% of the subprime loans are being liquidated out on an annual basis.
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Non-agency residential mortgage-backed securities loss severity for subprime was above 75% by the end of Nov. 2013.
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Gundlach ends his slideshow and starts looking at submitted questions.
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Gundlach's answering a question on eminent domain and offering some potential scenarios.
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As housing market pays down, as these loans cure — all of these things reduce the scope of eminent-domain seizure.
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Closed-end bond funds: I think they're a good buy. There's a short-term buying opportunity.
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Gundlach does not expect the dollar this year to test its lows.
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3-D printing can't be a fad. I've got to believe that 3-D has "real legs" on it for the future.
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Silver: it'll see more volatility than gold. Gold is worth owning at least to $1,350.
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Gundlach thinks the yen will stay "weakish." He also said he thinks he's less bearish on the yen than others.
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Good luck in 2014! Gundlach ends his webcast.


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Roy Hunter wrote:Them Crooked Vultures.
Very much Queens of the Stone Age, I was thinking, and is that Dave Grohl, John Paul Jones and Josh Homme?. Then I looked them up...Thanks for introducing me to them. My new favourite thing.
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Roy Hunter wrote:Them Crooked Vultures.
Roy Hunter wrote:My iPod decided to play me Trout Mask Replica by Captain Beefheart. It must be 15 years since I listened to it. As well as having a meatsack with an octofish, I am now fast and bulbous, me and my girl named Bimbo, Limbo, Spam...
I didn't half listen to some shite when I was smoking weed...
daftbeaker wrote:Lostprophets - Better Off Dead and Bring Em Down. New album looks promising for exercise music
daftbeaker wrote:See the little goblin,
See his little feet.
See his little nosey-wose,
Isn't the goblin sweet?
[all shout] YES!
Was that the one you were thinking of Bart?
Arkaeon wrote:Been listening most to Saami folk music, like this gem about a Swan at Dawnlight:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46WW3D5a ... re=related
This plays the same song, but with tundra scenery and cool time-lapse shots of arctic days:
Hearing the traditional noaidi-drum sound tolling serenely in the background really gets me, especially here at the beginning of spring with a long seek-walk coming up this morning.
The Hunter family motto. I have it tattooed on my arm.Arkaeon wrote:"Cursum Perficio"
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I'm thinking of switching over from DrJava to sublime text but the problem is that I don't know how to compile and run code in sublime text. How would I go about compiling and running my code in sublime text?
By default, Sublime Text can compile your Java code when you press Tools > Build. However, to build and compile Java, you'll need to create a new build system. This post should help depending on what OS you are using: https://forum.sublimetext.com/t/how-to-run-java-code-after-compiling/1295/1
You should also check out my Display Functions (Java) plugin Available here: https://github.com/BoundInCode/Display-Functionsor through Package Control
So i've put the bat file in C:\Program Files\Java\jdk*\bin\
cd %~dp1
javac %~nx1
java %~n1
and named it javacexec.bat
then I edited JavaC.sublime-build so that it says
"cmd": "javacexec.bat", "$file"],
"file_regex": "^(...*?):([0-9]*):?([0-9]*)",
"selector": "source.java"
but when press F7 or build i just get console at the bottom of the window that says
Error 2] The system cannot find the file specified
I've tried putting the file I was trying to compile and run in the root of my hard drive and running sublime text as administrator but nothing seems to work. I'm running Win7 btw.
I was having the same error trying to compile my code with 'Ctrl+b', which I though was odd since I have been able to compile on OSX without any issues and then run the created class with terminal.
Turns out that my environment variables we not set when installing Java. (forgive me if you have already done this)Steps I took to remedy this
;C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.7.0_03\bin\
Not sure if this is a trivial thing or not, no doubt you are meant to do this when you install the SDK but I didn't read the instructions as per usual As for running, I just use the CMD line at the moment.Hope it helps!
This worked for me, coupled with the exec bat method. Thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hey thanks for this!
I want to share with you the following .bat source code because is working like a charm!When you press Ctrl + B sublime text will compile the .java and then will run it automatically by opening a new CMD window.
cd %~dp1
ECHO Compiling %~nx1...
IF EXIST %~n1.class (
DEL %~n1.class
javac -Xlint:unchecked %~nx1
IF EXIST %~n1.class (
ECHO Running %~n1...
start cmd /k java -ea %~n1
Hi. If you want easier way to compile and create jars for Java projects, try my Package:https://github.com/psychowico/SublimeJavaCompiler.It's working with ST2 and ST3. I'll be glad if I get any feedback from you - and help with create better README file.
this is fantastic! Also like the fact that you also mentioned how to configure the keyboard short cuts.Thanks
This http://web.archive.org/web/20130509004854/http://www.compilr.org/compile-and-run-java-programs/solution worked for me.
excellent, thanks
+1 for the last posted link - should be updated for ST3


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NFL Draft moves to May
New York, NY – The NFL has moved its draft back to the month of May, starting next year.
The 2014 draft will be held from May 8-10 at Radio City Music Hall in New York.
According to the league, no decision regarding future dates has been made, but there has been speculation that the draft will remain in the month of May. It had been held in April.
The last change in the draft came in 2010 when the process was lengthened from two days to three days, with the first round taking place in prime time.
Despite the later draft, the NFL said there would be no major changes to the dates of other offseason events next year.
Indianapolis will again be the site for the NFL Combine from Feb. 18-25, while the new league year will begin with the free-agent period starting March 11.
Dates and the length of offseason programs, including rookie reporting, will not be affected. Teams will also have the same number of offseason practice days they currently have.


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Francis Hwang needed a new web page design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 51 designs submitted by 11 freelance designers.
Web 2.0 meets young, savvy up and comers in the financial world, and crafted from the Formula group at the boutique firm dedicated to innovation, Robots&Empire; on ONE simple mission: Induce change among destitute nations through strategic investments into the entrepreneurial working poor.
microSocial.org is a custom search engine that focuses on advancing semantic search, and simplifying peoples' access to all aspects of their online social indentity (Facebook, MySpace, iTunes, DIgg, Wordpress, Blogger, Flickr, etc.), powered by Google, and built by us, a quirky innovation firm that wants to do away with the red-tape and politics of aiding people in need. We also have a network of really bad-ass philanthropists that contribute $1 for every user that uses our custom search engine. Here are some characteristics of the brand that you should keep i mind for your designs:
- We believe that charities are inefficient. Not that they don't mean well, but they have one critical flaw, they require a never-ending supply of money in order to remain effective.
- Likewise we feel even less inspired by governments' inability to help people that are in need. We do not work with NGOs, we ONLY work directly with the people in need.
- Think SOHO meets a new generation of young-hip philanthropists (not to sound tacky...and definitely not to look tacky)
I have a Flickr set open to the contestants of this project (Please note that I have notes on these images, please use them) These images represent the pages that need to be created. Keep in mind that although I am not a designer, I have tried to portray the personality of our team in the design.
Please feel free to comment on the main page of this contest if you have general design direction questions, I would like to keep those conversations public.
Notes to keep in mind:
- We love negative space (think of the main bar as a user who will be opening web pages below it, it needs to NOT be intrusive, yet portray top-class design so that having it up actually "looks good")
- We love risk, so feel free to play around with imagery in the icons
- feel free to see our parked page now to read more about who we are: http://www.microSocial.org
- perhaps this will help as far as images that "pop" to us, as well as use of clean lines, negative space, color, etc. Each have their strengths.
http://www.apple.com/ (This is the best possible example of clean lines I can give you)
- Techie futuristic designs
- Cheesy bright colors
- Bubbly cheery
- Dollar signs, Wall St. Signs, Finance symbols
- Stogy look and feel
- Cluttered
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NORTHEAST GLENDALE — A key pinch hit and a pair of long home runs got the Glendale Angelenos back on track following a tough road trip.
Back at Stengel Field after losing two games in a row for the first time this season, Glendale received a clutch pinch-hit double from John Schwer and a pair of homers from Sako Chapjian to earn a 10-5 victory against the Gold Coast Braves in an Independent Collegiate Summer League contest.
Schwer, a former Glendale Community College standout, broke a 4-4 deadlock with a two-run double to right to give the Angelenos a 6-4 lead with one out in the sixth inning.
Schwer, a Burroughs High graduate, said he needed to be ready in case he was called on by Glendale Coach Tony Riviera.
"Tony told me to be ready to pinch hit the inning before and he likes to roll the dice," said Schwer, who has recorded three pinch hits this season for the Angelenos. "It's a mind set that you have to have because you are coming up in a specific spot with a good opportunity to get something done.
"I'm glad I could come through in that situation."
Riviera said he was confident Schwer could produce a quality at-bat.
"Him being three for three in pinch-hitting tells you a lot," said Riviera, whose team finished with 11 hits. "He gave us a professional at-bat and that set the tone for the rest of the game."
The Angelenos (17-5) took a 1-0 lead in the second inning. With one out, Pedro Aldape walked and reached second on a wild pitch. After Hector Gomez flied to shallow left for the second out, Ruben Padilla, who attended Glendale college, doubled over third base to drive in Aldape.
Chapjian, who graduated from Hoover and attended Glendale college, made it 3-0 with a two-run home run to left-center field in the third.
After squandering three golden scoring in each of the first three innings against Glendale starting pitcher Kyle McDorman, the Braves tied the game at 3 when Steve Motush hit a bases-loaded double to left-center field against reliever Sean Adler with two outs in the fifth.
Tyler Hawkins gave Gold Coast (4-8) its first lead with a run-scoring single to right with two outs to make it 4-3 in the sixth.
In the bottom of the sixth, Glendale tied it at 4 on an error by the third baseman. Schwer then doubled off reliever Danny Hawes to make it 6-4.
Pinch-hitter Edgar Montes of Glendale college doubled to right to extend the lead to 7-4.
Gold Coast closed to within 7-5 on a sacrifice fly to center by Jared Patterson. Montes gave the Angelenos an 8-5 lead in the eighth on a ground out that scored former Vaquero Danny Casey from third and Chapjian hit his second home run of the game — sixth of the season — with two outs to make it 10-5.
Glendale will next meet the Diamond Valley Sabers at 6:30 p.m. today at Stengel field.


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Meta Neuberger
Daily Forecast for March 23rd 2019
Meta Neuberger is a female celebrity.
She was born on Thursday February 29th 1912, in New York, NY, USA,.
March 23rd 2019 is a good day for Meta Neuberger for finances, but not good for negotiations.
Practical family matters need Meta's attention, matters that test her commitment, responsibility, and sense of duty. A young person needs Neuberger's guidance, the type of guidance that is delivered with a strong hand.
While romance becomes serious today, Meta Neuberger might find her honor being challenged.
While studying the color and flavor of the day, it is a good practice to keep in mind the greater meaning of March and the master plan of 2019 in Meta's life.
You and Meta
About Meta's Numerological Forecast & Personal Day Cycle
Just as Meta Neuberger evolves through a nine-year cycle and experiences the nine-month cycle, she is also subjected to nine-day cycles, even though their impact is subtle compared to the Personal Year and even Personal Month cycles. The Personal Day cycles proceed according to the same pattern - 1 through 9 - that the Personal Year and Personal Month cycles do. The numbers within the daily cycles have a similar impact on Meta to the yearly and monthly cycles - though less pronounced.
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- Subsampling
As a first step we reduce a bit the dataset in order to have amore manageable dataset. Many different options here. Having a nicely spaced subsampling is a good way to make some computation in a faster way. The Sampling->Poisson Disk Sampling filter is a good option. While it was designed to create Poisson disk samples over a mesh, it is able to also compute Poisson disk subsampling of a given point cloud (remember to check the 'subsampling' boolean flag). For the curious ones, it uses an algorithm very similar to the dart throwing paper presented at EGSR2009 (except that we have released code for such an algorith long before the publication of this article :) ). In the invisible side figure a Poisson disk subsampling of just 66k vertices.
- Normal Reconstruction
Currently inside MeshLab the construction of normals for a point cloud is not particularly optimized (I would not apply it over 9M point cloud) so starting from smaller mesh can give better, faster results. You can use this small point cloud to issue a fast surface reconstruction (using Remeshing->Poisson surface reconstruction) and then transfer the normals of this small rough surface to the original point cloud. Obviously in this way the full point cloud will have a normal field that is by far smoother than necessary, but this is not an issue for most surface reconstruction algorithms (but it is an issue if you want to use these normals for shading!).
- Surface reconstruction
Once rough normals are available Poisson surface reconstruction is a good choice. Using the original point cloud with the computed normals we build a surface at the highest resolution (recursion level 11). Roughly clean it removing large faces filter, and eventually simplify it a bit (remove 30% of the faces) using classical Remeshing->Quadric edge collapse simplification filter (many implicit surface filters rely on marching cube like algorithms and leave useless tiny triangles).
- Recovering original color
Here we have two options, recovering color as a texture or recovering color as per-vertex color. Here we go for the latter, leaving the former to a next post where we will go in more details on the new automatic parametrization stuff that we are adding in MeshLab. Obviously if you store color onto vertexes you need to have a very dense mesh, more or less of the same magnitudo of the original point cloud, so probably refining large faces a bit could be useful. After refining the mesh you simply transfer the color attribute from the original point cloud to the reconstructed surface using the vertex attribute transfer filter.
- Cleaning up and assessing
The vertex attribute transfer filter uses a simple closest point heuristic to match the points between the two meshes. As a side product it can store (in the all-purpose per-vertex scalar quality) the distance of the matching points. Now just selecting the faces having vertices whose distance is larger than a given threshold we can easily remove the redundant faces created by the Poisson Surface Reconstruction.
Monday, September 7, 2009
Meshing Point Clouds
36 comments:
- Alexwarrior said...
Cool thanks for the tips, I ended up playing for a quite a while after reading this
- September 7, 2009 at 7:05 PM
- Matt said...
I have 2 3D cubes. Unlike your datasets, the 3-D cubes are filled with points, instead of just a sufrace.
The MeshLab program crashed...any suggestions? Thanks MAtt
- September 27, 2009 at 10:16 AM
- insane said...
you lost me in the 2nd step , a video or slide would be great.
Anyway thanks!!
- January 15, 2010 at 1:16 AM
- Herr Keim said...
I am very interested in using Meshlab in combination with surface scanners. But why didn't you state the menu names in your tutorial? I have to search the menu for things such as normal reconstruction.
Which data format stores color with the point cloud? How can I display xyzuv data?
- February 25, 2010 at 5:14 AM
- The Viking said...
Hi, your blog is very helpful thank you for posting so much information. I was trying to follow your tutorial but got stuck on the subsampling step. I tried to perform Poisson disk samples but Meshlab gave me an error that it could not perform this action on a point set. Any suggestions?
- March 9, 2010 at 11:26 AM
- ALoopingIcon said...
@Herr Keim:
You are right, I have added it now.
PLY save colored point clouds.
@The Viking:
When using the Poisson sampling filter
you have to check the boolean option "base mesh subsampling". Ok it is not a very helpful name :) I will change it in the next beta....
- March 12, 2010 at 3:32 PM
- Mona said...
Hi all, I have been trying to follow the instructions for about 2 working days. This is my simplified instruction oriented on the Menu.
But I could simply not find the "vertex attribute transfer filter", where should that be in the menu?
Also I don't see the colour information from my xyzrgb ascii file (arius scan).
1. Import Ascii file (xyzrgb in my case)
2. Open Layer view (next to little img symbol)
3. SUBSAMPLING: Filters > Sampling > Poisson-disk Sampling: Enter Number of Samples as the resulting vertex number / number of points. Good to start with about the same number as your vertex to maintain resolution.
4. COMPUTE NORMALS: Filters > Normals/Curvatures and Orientation > compute Normals for Point Set [neighbours = 20]
5. TRIANGULATION : Filters > Point set
a. Poisson, set octree to 11 [you should now see a new layer in the Layer Dialog to the right] but really strange border!
b. Marching cubes. Default > no result. Grid resolution to 1000 > detailed mesh. [500K vertices > 1mio faces. Very good.
6. Fill holes by Filters > Cleaning and Repairing > Fill Holes, picks out number automatically
7. SAVE MESH save as obj file as backup, program crashes often
then how do I do the recoloration?
- March 15, 2010 at 8:38 AM
- mgb said...
If you have data from a laser scanner isn't the normal the direction back to the laser? Surely that's the 'normal' between the beam and the surface at that point
- March 27, 2010 at 12:08 PM
- ALoopingIcon said...
Thanks for your detailed instructions!
About the recoloration, you can find some instructions on how to transfer attributes (like color) from a point cloud either to per-vertex color or to a texture in the last post about hausdorff distance computation:
No, the direction between a sampled point and the laser emitter/receiver is not the surface normal (except in the rare case that you are in the middle of a sphere and you are sampling it from inside :) ). On the other hand this direction is an important one and can be used by surface reconstruction algorithms as a carving> constraint to disambiguate complex configurations.
In other words if the surface is not perfectly perpendicular to you r viewing direction, the line-of-sight of a TOF scanner is not coincident with the surface normal.
- March 28, 2010 at 10:57 PM
- jamesrobertrye said...
I have no problems to make a mesh from a point cloud. But I am having trouble colouring the mesh using the point cloud.
My input is X,Y,Z,I,R,G,B
I have tried removing the intensity value.
I import the data as .asc format
Please can anyone help?
- April 29, 2010 at 6:54 AM
- Thomas said...
The Vertex Attribute Transfer Function everyone was looking for can be found under Filter->Sampling
- June 9, 2010 at 1:26 AM
- Esfahlan said...
I have a 1600x3 matrix of poin clouds. I pasted into .txt file and changed the file extension to .asc.
The poit set is quite well as I have done by Ansys. But Meshlab can not construct a meshing! Your instruction didnot worked. I am mechanical engineer and I dont understand different type of algorithem in this field. Meshlab seems easy to use but didnot worked for me. Can I sent my file to you for processing?
Thanks alot.
- June 13, 2010 at 10:38 AM
- marco said...
After performing "Vertex transfer attribute", my textured mesh has many gaps in grey because my points cloud is not very dense. How can fill these "gray gaps"?
- August 20, 2010 at 3:29 AM
- beelzebeau said...
you say here that you are processing a medium sized mesh of 9 mil polys. I am working with a 12 mil mesh and it crashes when I try to do anything. What am I missing?
- September 24, 2010 at 1:17 PM
- jazzros said...
Good work.
Another project is: reconstruct a surfaces by surface-mesh.
If it interesting, please go at: http://jazzros.blogspot.com/2011/02/hi-all.html
This is a Surface Reconstruction tool.
- February 3, 2011 at 6:56 AM
- PraaPi said...
In general, to model general indoor objects (like shoes, say) what is a good number of points in the point cloud? I have come across some sites which give around 10000 points from multiple images of the object like my3dscanner.com and photosynth...
- March 30, 2011 at 8:04 AM
- Chip Moore said...
I am using the 64 bit windows version of meshlab 1.3.0 on a windows 7 machine and trying to create a mesh for from a PLY file based on the laurana500.ply file in the Meshlab samples directory. (This is a learning exercise.) I removed the faces from the original PLY file and added color information for the vertices. The resulting PLY file looks like this:
format ascii 1.0
comment VCGLIB generated
comment TextureFile laurana500.png
element vertex 7
property float x
property float y
property float z
property uchar red
property uchar green
property uchar blue
0.780933 -45.9836 -2.47675 91 88 235
4.75189 -38.1508 -4.34072 236 33 33
7.16471 -35.9699 -3.60734 254 49 135
9.12254 -46.1688 -8.60547 56 31 203
15.4418 -46.1823 -9.14635 73 211 0
2.83145 -52.2864 -7.27532 37 13 207
0.160988 -53.076 -5.00516 7 153 155
Meshlab successfully imports and displays the PLY file. Following the steps described by Mona, I successfully execute
1. Import Ascii file (xyzrgb in my case)
2. Open Layer view (next to little img symbol)
3. SUBSAMPLING: Filters > Sampling > Poisson-disk Sampling: Enter Number of Samples as the resulting vertex number / number of points. Good to start with about the same number as your vertex to maintain resolution.
but step 4
4. COMPUTE NORMALS: Filters > Normals/Curvatures and Orientation > compute Normals for Point Set [neighbours = 20]
reliably crashes. I have no idea what is causing a problem. Suggestions.
- May 13, 2011 at 2:56 PM
- yko said...
I'm also trying to convert pointclouds into meshes. Well, I managed to get a nice mesh (thank you Mona) with marching cubes and Poisson. But I can't find how to colorize my mesh using the original point cloud. The chapter 5 doesn't give a detailed procedure. If someone could help me...
- August 17, 2011 at 2:58 AM
- akuhero said...
tqvm for the information
- December 14, 2011 at 6:34 PM
- Twigs said...
When following this Meshlab consistently crashes when I get up to the surface reconstruction: poisson, citing an assertion error. What could be the cause of this I get it a fair bit with this program.
- January 12, 2012 at 4:08 PM
- Narcolessico said...
It is a great software, but I'm experiencing stability problems too. It is a bit annoying that most of times no explicit error is given. Shell output:
meshlab: mlssurface.tpp:126: void GaelMls::MlsSurface::computeVertexRaddi(int) [with MeshType = CMeshO]: asserzione "mPoints.size()>=2" non riuscita.
- February 4, 2012 at 11:23 AM
- Mike Knoop said...
I found this solution to stability issues on another blog, but mostly you just need to vary the parameters to the filters. For example, the Poisson filter, set the first value to 10 or 11. When calculating normal faces, use first value > 50 or > 100. It's annoying but I got my models to not crash simply by not using default values for the filters.
- February 27, 2012 at 10:56 PM
- Sergi said...
"Now just selecting the faces having vertices whose distance is larger than a given threshold we can easily remove the redundant faces created by the Poisson Surface Reconstruction."
I don't understand this point.
How I remove the redundant faces created by the Poisson Surface?
Thank you
- April 25, 2012 at 3:02 AM
- David said...
Hi everybody,
I have a point cloud .txt extension with 6 columns x y z R G B so...I have a colorized point cloud...nevertheless, when I try to open it qith meshlab a warning raise up saying that it's impossible to open the file...so I decided to chage the format to .asc extension BUT it's a triplet point ascii so the RGB (colour)is not considered...Can anyone tell how could I open my colorized point cloud?? THANKK YOU VERY MUCH :)
- May 17, 2012 at 11:09 AM
- Immi Immens said...
@David: You can change your txt into ply manually. just insert the header for ply file:
format ascii 1.0
comment VCGLIB generated
element vertex 12345
property float x
property float y
property float z
property uchar red
property uchar green
property uchar blue
element face 0
property list uchar int vertex_indices
12345 is the number of points in your file.
I hope its not too late
- July 26, 2012 at 2:16 AM
- Jacek Kustra said...
Is the point normal calculation based on a published algorithm? if so, can you provide the reference?
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- May 12, 2013 at 10:57 PM
- Quinno said...
Looks very useful but I'm stuck at step 2: "then transfer the normals of this small rough surface to the original point cloud."
How do I do this? Can anyone help?
- February 27, 2014 at 3:38 AM
- Sarah said...
When I export my point cloud coordinates I get them in 6 columns. What are the columns? I only need x,y and z.
- August 7, 2014 at 1:58 PM
- tkel said...
I have the same question. How are you able to only select the faces of the created mesh that are closest to the points that were used to create the mesh?
There is a huge bubble around my mesh (I believe that it's shown above in light red) that I want to remove.
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|2012-07-30, 23:56
|Link #2501
Osana-Najimi Shipper
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Mt. Ordeals
Unless you have previous moba (ex. dota) or mmo pvp experience, then I'd just recommend normals for now. I personally started ranked when sub lvl 30s were still allowed (and I was one of them), and averaged around 1200 elo only because I played Tides of Blood before. So my advice is build up more experience with champs, and build up your rune pages until 300 or so normal wins, then try ranked. Ranked is simply too harsh and stressful, especially fresh 30s like yourself.
Then again, a friend who I helped start with who now has 700 normal wins still isn't that much better when he was a fresh 30. :shrug:
|2012-07-31, 00:31
|Link #2502
Senior Guest
Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Athens (GMT+2)
Age: 30
I had started ranked games at 230 wins or so, had a decent W:L even in the beginning, but in some cases I was just lucky to have good teammates giving me advice. Then I tried playing all roles:
- practice 60~80 cs @ 10mins for solo top/mid
- take jungle times and learn to roam/gank
- learn how/when to initiate teamfights as tank
- L2ward and help your lane partner farm as a support
If you get a grasp on that, all that's left is teamplay...unfortunately, it can't be learned since it takes more than 1 person to make a team
|2012-07-31, 01:18
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Don't Call Me Bro
I started doing draft mode a few days ago. I'm getting used to counter-picking and picking to fit the team's accumulating lineup. Certainly inspires becoming more than a one-lane person. Still get a fair amount of trolls/idiots but the overall experience is better than blind pick.
|2012-07-31, 01:47
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Senior Guest
Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Athens (GMT+2)
Age: 30
There's every kind of people in ranked, from the kind that demand bans to the kind that wonders why people jungle. Usually though, it's mostly bitching about who gets to play the carry as a lot of people (unsurprisingly) grow attached to such champions.
|2012-07-31, 02:57
|Link #2505
Don't Call Me Bro
I'm kind of open to any role lately as long as it's not jungler. I tried Nocturne jungling for a couple of days with some success but not enough to warrant me unlocking it. I'm hoping Diana will be a character that I can regularly jungle with.
|2012-07-31, 04:43
|Link #2506
Senior Member
Join Date: May 2011
Location: Derping in League of Legends
Age: 25
i'm fine with every roll, but my least favourite is the jungler and after that the AD carry i have too say.
I don't really know how to explain it but, when ever i play a AD / jungler i feel extremely nervous
(even if its a normal)
for some reason i find getting cs in the mid lane easier then the bot lane.
I'm trying to get used to jungle in the vs.ai matches as a lee sin.
(he was on sale and his muay thai skin came out, it was instant buy for me. a bad habit of mine )
I dont know what too do, even when i get a Leash(?) i almost die, or i even die. so i have to go B.
Before i get back i'm like 2-3 lvl's behind.
|2012-07-31, 05:14
|Link #2507
Don't Call Me Bro
To do Lee Sin jungle, you need to keep his passive up for as long as possible, which is activated by using any ability. So what you do is use one ability, wait for the passive to expire then hit ability 2, then when it expires again hit ability 3. That way the passive stays up max time and allows you to be more sustainable. As for items, read a guide on SoloMid or Mobafire.
|2012-07-31, 06:17
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Tasty Ninja Weapon
Join Date: Jul 2011
Location: The edge of reality...
Age: 25
Also I'm with everyone on hating jungling, I dunno why, it's just my least favourite role right next to adc.
Every time I have to jungle I'll just pick Fiddlesticks because I usually play mid, and Fiddle has a playstyle I'm used to.
|2012-07-31, 06:23
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Don't Call Me Bro
I hate it more for the reason that when I leash for a jungler, I stay with them until their first buff target is near dead so they have smite for the 2nd. Whereas other ppl just do 1 hit and leave and I'm without smite and low health after 1st buff. It makes a big difference but most players don't even bother beyond 1 hit.
|2012-07-31, 06:39
|Link #2510
Senior Member
Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Connecticut
I think it's fine to start playing ranked right after you hit 30, it really helps you out. When i started playing ranked i only played a select few and when i did bad their criticism actually helped me. I mean, if you look past the insults most of the time they accuse you of being bad for a pretty good reason. Usually builds and plays.
But, if you can't play more than 3 champs per role i don't think people should play ranked. I mean, if you're bad at a role call it out in chat, "Hey, i'm pretty good at xxxx but i'm really bad at xxxx. So it'd be better as a team if i played xxxx"
Anyways, don't be too worried about ranked.
and i love jungling, favorite role. You can kinda control the game sometimes and i like being the play maker most of the time. What i don't like is the blaming your jungle because you didn't ward or their jungler is camping a lane D:.
|2012-07-31, 07:26
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Yuri µ'serator
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Location: FL, USA
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Though I've been starting to run into ranked players in sometimes normals since about april-may-ish...(bronze-gold ranking ones). So I'd like to think I've improved at least .
|2012-07-31, 07:40
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Senior Member
Join Date: May 2011
Location: Derping in League of Legends
Age: 25
I don't really mind if if the jungler doesn't ward so much (it will help though)
Since i'm mostly playing support (Sona,Lulu,Soraka,Janna,Taric) So i mostly buy wards to get map awareness.
Though, i have to be sure if my lane partner is doing well enough so i can ward some places
Speaking about warding, i had a ap mid that wanted to report me because i wasted gold for wards.
While my wards prevented ganks against our lanes
We eventually won. i was a support lulu with 3-2-41
|2012-07-31, 07:41
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Senior Guest
Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Athens (GMT+2)
Age: 30
Spoiler for jungle routes, in case someone wants to know:
My favourite role is definitely tank top solo. Usually top lanes come to the understanding that cs>harassment so the aggression's nothing like bot lane. A well-farmed tank or offtank (Nasus/Shen/Galio being good examples) can totally shift the mid-game balance to your favour just by surviving the initial burst and having a good presence in the zone.
|2012-07-31, 07:50
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Don't Call Me Bro
|2012-07-31, 08:02
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Senior Member
Join Date: May 2011
Location: Derping in League of Legends
Age: 25
I think my most favourite solo top(when we have a jungler) is Maplhite.
Not sure if he's a tank or not.
But i mostly build him pretty tanky and he still does quite a lot of damage. And has a pretty good team fight initiate.
About Lee Sin jungle, i just can't get his combo down.
or has his passive stay long enough.
Maybe because i only played with this champion about 1-2 matches.
Uhm my question is,
Which champion the easiest to jungle with and which champion is quite difficult.
Skill(shot) and ability wise.
(Sorry for bothering you guys with these kind of questions)
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|2012-07-31, 10:01
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A Proud Lolicon
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Not as easy, but actually threatening from the top of my head, are Shyvana, Lee Sin, Malphite and Nocture. I've seen some very effecient junglers using those champions in tournament, so it's worth checking out those guys.
|2012-07-31, 11:06
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Champions with a lot of cc are usually really good at jungling.
I'd say the hardest person to jungle with is lee sin, landing his q is sometimes hard when ganking early. Just takes a while to get used to, hes like my most played champion.
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text: Korean Job Discussion Forums :: View topic - If I try so hard why am I still boring Speak Korean Now! Korean Job Discussion Forums"The Internet's Meeting Place for ESL/EFL Teachers from Around the World!" FAQ Search Memberlist Usergroups Register Profile Log in to check your private messages Log in If I try so hard why am I still boring Goto page 1, 2 Next Korean Job Discussion Forums Forum Index -> FAQ View previous topic :: View next topic Author Message KeepongoingJoined: 13 Feb 2003Location: Korea Posted: Sat Mar 15, 2003 7:21 pm Post subject: If I try so hard why am I still boring How can I teach so as not to be boring to Korean businessmenLast edited by Keepongoing on Thu Apr 03, 2003 2:40 am; edited 2 times in total Back to top The DenJoined: 26 Jan 2003 Posted: Sat Mar 15, 2003 7:50 pm Post subject: Are the students kids? You did not sign on to be a comedian or entertainer. I realize that teaching requires you to keep your students somewhat focused and that may include being entertaining at times but it should not be the central focus. Anyway I know this is not really helpful but I would tell the director to come in and observe some of your classes for himself. When he does so, present him with a detailed lesson plan including objectives and evaluation. Your lesson should have an intro and conclusion. Afterward if your director still complains that you are boring tell him that you are not a F**in clown. Back to top The LemonJoined: 11 Jan 2003 Posted: Sat Mar 15, 2003 7:50 pm Post subject: Telling you that students are complaining is a standard hogwon director tactic. They think the lie keeps you on your toes. Then again, you could be boring, but you probably aren't. Back to top gypsyfishJoined: 17 Jan 2003Location: Seoul Posted: Sat Mar 15, 2003 7:53 pm Post subject: Ask your director to observe your class and offer suggestions. Ask your director to teach one of your classes and observe him/her. Observe one of the "fun" teachers' classes. Good luck. Back to top KeepongoingJoined: 13 Feb 2003Location: Korea Posted: Sat Mar 15, 2003 9:33 pm Post subject: hi I am teaching adult businesspersons and university students Back to top canukteacherJoined: 21 Jan 2003Location: Seoul, Korea Posted: Sat Mar 15, 2003 10:18 pm Post subject: Koreans love to criticize. Grow a thick skin, and challenge him. Tell him to come in and observe your classes. Tell him you want to know EXACTLY what the students are saying. Invite him to a class, and tell him you want to discuss what he tells you directly with the students. He will not like this direct approach, and good chance it will stop him in his tracks. Secondly, ask your students outright what they like and don't like. Try to incorporate some of the things they want into your lessons. The higher the level the easier this is to do. From personal experience I have found that business people generally want discussion (if there level is high enough). I often use a book called Express Yourself 1..............it's all dicussion topics with questions.....works really well. Good luck!..................and don't let him get you down! CT Back to top princessJoined: 16 Jan 2003Location: soul of Asia Posted: Sat Mar 15, 2003 10:45 pm Post subject: My advice is like the previous poster's advice. Develop a very thick skin in Korea. I have taught in Korea for two years and at every school I have gotten complaints. Whether they are real or not,just do your best. You would have to be extremely awful to get canned. I have been at a new school for only two weeks and I have already been told that 2 or 3 kids' parents called and complianed that I am not active enough,that I sit down too much. Well,I observed other teachers at my school and they sat down while teaching for most of the class. I used to get upset and cry,but Friday I just blew it off,said I am a good teacher and that was it. If they see it bugs you,they will forever pick on you. Stand up for yourself and don't take their crap. They need you more than you need them. Especially my school. They only have four teachers besides me. One guy has gotten MANy complaints in seven months and he is still there. Never let them pick on you. Get hateful right back!!! Back to top Tiger BeerJoined: 07 Feb 2003 Posted: Sat Mar 15, 2003 11:37 pm Post subject: Remember some lessons that you bring to one class and it goes all hour easily.. same lesson to another class and 'teacher its boring' within five minutes? hmm.. is it your fault? some classes are so boring.. and there is nothing you can do to make it exciting... mmmm.. 'teacher its boring' phenomenem.. sometimes some students just don't want to learn either.. they just want to sit and play games.. or sometimes just sit.. how do you make them enjoy a lesson if they don't want to enjoy it? So in conclusion.. students saying you are boring.. ask your director which class they are in. Tell your director.. 'oh that class!' yeah, they are pretty boring themselves. Give him your opinon of that class. Tell why its boring.. most likely its not entirely on you.. its a two-way street as well.. anyhow, that doesn't always go over so well with the director.. but.. not much you can really do.. ------------- I teach alot of adults. Once I had this PERFECT class! It was conversational advanced adults. I'd bring in a few topics, but people would just go off on stuff... really interesting stuff! I mean I was having a great time in there! Anyhow, loved that class.. but ONE GIRL! Two days in a row she stopped me after class.. teacher, teacher!! 'yes' i said.. 'can we have more worksheets to do? i have advanced classes for a long time, and i want worksheets to do in class.' Basically, I ignored her requests. I told her I thought conversational english students want to have conversation and not do worksheets. Anyhow, she brought it up again. Grrrrrr.... but she was not happy with me! Anyhow, I could go on and on.. but the main point is SOME STUDENTS will always always NOT like your class!! I mean, I know which classes are GOOD and which ones are BAD! Even really bad classes that are obviously bad, some students in there thinks you are teaching great.. then you have this awesome kick-ass great class.. and there are always some students who don't like the way you are teaching the class.. Back to top KeepongoingJoined: 13 Feb 2003Location: Korea Posted: Sun Mar 16, 2003 1:07 am Post subject: Te My visa expires soonLast edited by Keepongoing on Fri Jan 23, 2004 3:38 pm; edited 1 time in total Back to top The LemonJoined: 11 Jan 2003 Posted: Sun Mar 16, 2003 1:11 am Post subject: Quote: I have a graduate degree in education and have lived in Asia over 10 years. You can certainly do better than hogwons, I think. You're beyond that nonsense. Back to top Tiger BeerJoined: 07 Feb 2003 Posted: Sun Mar 16, 2003 1:19 am Post subject: Re: Termination MASH4077 wrote: My visa expires soon and I think the school does not plan on offering me another contract. I definetely wouldn't worry about this. There are TONS of other contracts and jobs in Korea. You will probably find a better one step up anyhow. Generally, I've had pretty good experiences with co-workers.. but.. hmm.. sometimes.. Well, my last school.. there was some weird politics.. I met my director and a few very long-standing employee teachers there.. there was a core of about 3 of them.. and they were the 'head' guys more or less.. and when i first met them and the people at the school.. well these 3 just said horrible horrible things about everyone else.. even about each other! (maybe 9-10 foreigners there total).. man.. I knew I wasn't going to be hanging with them at all.. I hate saying bad stuff about my co-teachers and such.. plus i knew if they knew anything about me.. they'd start bad-mouthing me just like they bad-mouth each other.. Anyhow.. to move the story along.. after about 4 months being there.. i heard one of the 'group of 3' saying bad stuff about me too.. Well, anyhow.. in conclusion.. *beep* people who say bad things about you.. why would you even want to work with them anyhow? I certainly would NOT!.. I am so glad not to be working at that school.. sheesh.. besides.. tons of jobs in Korea.. get another one.. i'm sure it'll be a step up.. Back to top Captain Obvious 2.0Joined: 09 Jan 2003 Posted: Sun Mar 16, 2003 2:10 am Post subject: Re: Termination Tiger Beer wrote: I definetely wouldn't worry about this. There are TONS of other contracts and jobs in Korea. You will probably find a better one step up anyhow. You missed the next part where he said he was in his early 50s. That makes it harder to line up a job. On top of that, if a school does think about hiring him they may check out his experience at the previous school. If they hear he was a boring teacher in their opinion, his options for employment are heavily limited. Back to top Tiger BeerJoined: 07 Feb 2003 Posted: Sun Mar 16, 2003 2:23 am Post subject: Re: Termination Captain Obvious 2.0 wrote: Tiger Beer wrote: I definetely wouldn't worry about this. There are TONS of other contracts and jobs in Korea. You will probably find a better one step up anyhow. You missed the next part where he said he was in his early 50s. That makes it harder to line up a job. On top of that, if a school does think about hiring him they may check out his experience at the previous school. If they hear he was a boring teacher in their opinion, his options for employment are heavily limited. early 50s isn't that big of a deal? particularly with 10 years of experience.. tons of people come here of all ages.. and never taught before.. they all get jobs.. every single one of them.. i've never met anyone come to korea and completely unable to find a job. also, as far as checking his experience at his old school.. they won't.. and if they do.. and he completed a year.. they will never say 'don't hire him he's boring'.. never! they will probably say nothing but good things knowing he worked hard for a year. Many many people don't complete their contracts or even get fired for really legit reasons.. but then one week later they have a better job elsewhere because of it.. even though they get fired for really legit reasons.. Back to top stalinsdadJoined: 25 Jan 2003Location: Jeonju Posted: Sun Mar 16, 2003 2:57 am Post subject: If the kids think your boring, well that is the best indicator that your doing your job correctly! Hehe I suppose I was kinda boring, they had their routine and they stuck to it. Sure change things but as the 2nd post said, your not a kids entertainer. Look around for a real job, directors are poop heads anyhow. Most wouldn't last a week as a teacher. Back to top marsha marsha marshaJoined: 07 Feb 2003Location: At the base of a very big pyramid Posted: Sun Mar 16, 2003 1:05 pm Post subject: Hmmm a. they say you are boring cause you aren't young and hip and like to talk about the boring things they enjoy...drinking, sex, dancing, etc... b. you do like that but the school thinks you are too old and want you out. Seems you are at a ELS or Pagoda type school. They are known for liking teachers that look good but don't necessarily teach well. 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Not surprisingly cake continues to be a integral part in pretty much every wedding. Even with all the interest, and competition, last year in alternative desserts, the cake still survives, and transforms. But where did this tradition come from you ask....well, let's take a look.
Way back when all these traditions were set in place, usually around the time of Ancient Greece, after the wedding ceremony a loaf of bread was used to celebrate the union. The Groom would gnaw off a bit of the bread for good luck and prosperity, and then the remainder of the loaf was then broken over the Brides head. As the crumbs fell to the ground, guests and well-wishers would scramble to scoop up the priceless morsels in hopes of gaining a wee bit of their own prosperity. Ewwww!
Later the tradition moved from bread to cake (thank goodness) and instead of having it broken over the lovely Bride's head, the cake was cut into teeny tiny slices so the Bride could slip each slice through her wedding ring, thus blessing them, before handing to each waiting guest. Needless to say, this very time consuming tradition has evolved into cake being cut and handed out to guests on plates...oh happy day!
So now you know!
Each year the trends affect cakes as well. According to an article by Maggie Austin for HuffPost Weddings, these are the hottest trends you'll see in Wedding Cakes. By the way, you can read her entire article by clicking on the link above. I'm just going to paraphrase....and add my 'two cents worth', of course...
The 'Yum' Factor...
No more stale boring, white cakes...'no siree Bob'. According to Austin, "Moist cake with decadent fillings and feather-light buttercream is the new standard." And we couldn't be happier. Look for cake designers to bring forth new complex combinations to 'wow' your guests. No cake left behind...that is the new motto!
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Sugar Rush...
This year you will not see as many florist adding their special touches to the Wedding Cakes, instead Sugar Flowers will be the guest of honor on these lovely creations. Why? Well according to Austin, "These beautiful blooms will not fade or wilt, they're not sprayed with poisonous pesticides, and they can be completely customized. Whether it's a pop-art magnolia or a feathery peony edged in silver, couples are looking to cake designers to give them the flowers that Mother Nature can't." Can't argue with that!
No More Freezer Burn!...
Personally I cannot think of anything less appealing than to defrost your wedding cake on your one year anniversary, so I am happy to see this tradition come to an end. Today, many cake designers are offering couples an Anniversary Cake in place of the once obligatory frozen top layer for them to celebrate. And doesn't that sound much more appealing than dragging out a year old frozen cake...absolutely!
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Frills....Frills...and More Frills...
Austin tells us, "The wedding dress has long been a source of inspiration for cake design, so it makes sense that the trends follow each other closely. Frills that are so thin they're translucent, intricate lace overlays across a smooth canvas, and layered appliques with subtle texture all reflect the hottest haute couture gowns." So Brides, take note...gone is the heavy fondant draping, or swags, on cakes. This year it's being replaced by softer, more delicate designs to mimic ones gown.
(Photo from www.WeddingsByLilly.com)
Fondant is King...
I will admit, I am not a big fan of fondant. I tend to lean on the side of the most rustic look to cakes, even going so far as being a fan of the unfrosted designs. However, having be given the daunting task of cutting a wedding cake, no easy feat I might add, I have changed my opinion of this confection. This year, Austin says, "Whether you're in love with the austere lines of an English country manor awash in climbing blossoms or the humble and minimalist charm of wildflowers, fondant (with the buttercream tucked safely inside) is the perfect canvas for a design that's uniquely yours." With a word of caution thrown in...."But whatever you choose, keep that cake out of the sun!" Wise words. I cannot begin to tell you the number of cakes we have had to reconstruct at the last minute because someone placed the cake in the sun...
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No More Whimsy...Thank You Very Much!
We've all seen them and marveled at their ability to stand upright. Those crazy cakes that defy gravity and look as though at any moment could topple over onto themselves. Well rest assured my lovelies, these cakes are a thing of the past...well, at least for weddings that is. Austin reports, "Today's skilled cake designers are flexing their artistic muscles in a much more restrained way, focusing their energy on beautifully-executed details rather than structural engineering." And that my friend is music to my ears!
Loosen Up...
No longer will you see the rigid floral displays on cakes. Things are loosening up quite a bit. According to Maggie Austin, cake designer extraordinaire, "These days, things are getting a bit more... natural. Cake designers are opting for an organic feel for the arrangements and creating sugar flowers that pile or tumble or cascade in a way that is both realistic and fanciful."
Pedestal Cake Stands Please...
Even though they have become a staple in the industry, look for the ornate, and sometimes gaudy, cake stands, or cake drums as they are also called, to disappear from Cake Tables across the nation. According to Austin, these heavy duty holders of wedding cakes are taking a back seat to the more delicate and lovely pedestal cake stand..."A pedestal cake stand. A slender pedestal elevates the cake off the table and gives the design height and presence."
(Photo from www.Bride.net)
So, there you have it...what's trending in cake design for this year. As I mentioned earlier, for the complete article by Maggie Austin, click this link: Maggie Austin. She can also be found offering classes and advise on Craftsy.com! Pretty awesome.
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The folks at Frictional Games, the wonderful sickos behind Amnesia: The Dark Descent, are going to be bringing a new survival horror called SOMA to the PlayStation 4.
In an update on the PlayStation Blog, Thomas Grip, Creative Director at Frictional Games, provides us with new information on SOMA, which is projected for release in 2015.
Frictional Games is apparently a week away from the alpha phase of the game, with about five hours of SOMA currently built. The final game is supposed to clock in at around eight hours to complete.
Grip listed five of the goals that Frictional Games has for SOMA which are: giving it the feeling of playing a narrative, making a coherently crafted world, crafting gameplay with plenty of variation, giving players deep, disturbing themes that make them think and instilling a pervasive sense of horror.
There's still a year left in the development process, so we'll have to wait a good while to get our hands on it. Grip also promised that there's a big secret about SOMA that will be revealed very soon, so we'll keep you updated as more information is revealed.


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RAWALPINDI, Pakistan, Jan 20 (Reuters) - A Taliban suicide bomber killed 13 people in a crowded market near the Pakistani army headquarters on Monday, a day after the Taliban killed 20 soldiers near the largely lawless, tribal region of North Waziristan, police said.
The market, a short walk from the army headquarters in Rawalpindi, near the capital, Islamabad, was in one of the most secure areas of the city. The area was cordoned off by the military immediately after the blast.
Two college students wearing blue uniforms were among the dead, their bodies lying near wreckage of a bicycle and pools of blood. Rescue workers struggled to help the wounded. Windows were shattered several hundred metres away.
The attacks come after a couple of months of relative calm as the Taliban regrouped following the death of leader Hakimullah Mehsud in a drone strike in November. A drone had killed his deputy earlier in the year.
After protracted negotiations, Mehsud was replaced by Mullah Fazlullah, a ruthless commander who has made large-scale attacks on Pakistani security forces his trademark.
Police Superintendent Muhammad Maqbool said five of the 13 killed on Monday were soldiers. Fourteen were wounded, he said.
Taliban spokesman Shahidullah Shahid claimed responsibility for the blast on behalf of the Islamist insurgents.
"We will continue attacks on the government and its armed forces as the government has neither announced a ceasefire nor peace talks with us," he said.
Monday's attack came a day after a bomb planted by the Taliban ripped through a vehicle carrying Pakistani troops on Sunday, killing 20. Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif cancelled his trip to the World Economic Forum in the Swiss resort of Davos this week to address the violence.
The government is keen to pursue peace talks with the Taliban to end the insurgency but there has been an upsurge in attacks since Sharif won elections in May 2013.
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Kim Kardashian should get the best baby shower gift ever in May, a couple of months before her little Kimye is due. Set your Tivo for May 6, everyone, as that's the date that the divorce trial of Kim Kardashian and Kris Humphries will finally get started. Well, it probably won't be televised -- though it certainly should be. The divorce trial will take only a few days to hash out (can you believe?!) and should be completely settled by the time Kim gives birth. That should be a big load off Kim's shoulders. Provided too much crazy stuff about her and her family isn't revealed during the trial. But you know it will be.
Kris's lawyer will have an incredibly tough job -- not because he'll he'll have to try and prove that Kim only married Humps for TV ratings -- but because he'll actually have to watch 13,000 hours of Kardashian TV footage so he present his findings to the court. Can you imagine??!! He'll have to retire after that, because surely his brain cells will dimish to the point where he'll no longer be able to perform his lawyerly duties.
Anyway, my guess is that Kris isn't as concerned about an annullment as he is getting his fair share of the money the Kardashians pocket during their marriage -- and Kim just hasn't coughed up enough yet. Since he apparently already turned down a $10 million settlement, he's not messing around. He's counting on Kim not wanting more dirty laundry aired during the divorce trial to get her settle before this whole thing hits the tabloids. But he's dealing with the wrong person because when has anyone in the Kardashian clan been worried about bad publicity?
Since Kim and Kanye West's baby is due in July, he may also be counting on her wanting to settle things at the last minute so that she can marry her baby daddy before the birth. But I wouldn't count on Kim wanting a marriage license in order to give birth.
Something tells me the winner here is going to be Kim.
Why do you think Kris is holding up the divorce?
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The Star Tribune, which fancies itself the newspaper of the Twin Cities, recently published a column by one Ahmed Tharwat in which Tharwat instructed readers to "Stop fearing the Muslim Brotherhood." Why? Because Tharwat is tired of responding to questions about it, and because they are his brothers. Alluding to the classic Blue Öyster Cult song that is generally understood to be an invitation to suicide, I wrote briefly about Tharwat's column in "Fear the reaper."
Tharwat's column is an ignorant mashup of hatred and bigotry lacking in syntax and fact. Other than that, it was terrific. I would say that it is impossible to learn anything from Tharwat's column. Strictly speaking, however, this is not true. We can learn what bigotry and hatred are practiced by Tharwat and indulged by the Star Tribune.
My friend Steve Hunegs is executive director of the Jewish Community Relations Council of Minnesota and the Dakotas. Late last week the Star Tribune published Steve's column "There's reason to fear the Muslim Brotherhood" responding to Tharwat. Steve takes note of the hatred that suffuses Tharwat's column and a few uncomfortable facts about the MB. By contrast, Tharwat's column was notably fact-free when not simply false. For readers interested in actually learning something about the Muslim Brotherhood I suggest Andrew McCarthy's NRO column "Fear the Muslim Brotherhood." It makes a good companion to Steve's column.


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These gorgeous photographs were taken over a year ago at what turned out to be the last Meadowbrook concours d'elegance before the move to a new location.
Luigi Chinetti, who took the photographs, can be seen reflected in the custom paint job (for which I never cease to thank the experts of AkzoNobel).
This shot (below...not the one of me!) captures something I consider special about a concours d'elegance, not often seen by the public. The show is over, the crowds have gone, the golf course is almost back to being a golf course.
The spectacular old bangers are driven sedately away by their supremely considerate owners who have waited for those in faster cars and a greater hurry to leave. Others wait for their trailers... or to be staged for display for some exclusive "afterglow" party.
This would have been more of a favorite if it didn't look as if I was talking (on the iPhone Touch, donated by Apple) while driving... not an approved behavior, even when driving on the fairway of a golf course.
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Henry Miller's work commandments are helping me stay on task today. And almost want to make me write my own work commandments in my little agenda (which might read something like... "Work first and always. Twitter comes afterwards"). Care to share any tips that help you stay on task?
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LONDON (AP) — Most world stock markets rose Thursday after the Federal Reserve signaled U.S. interest rates would remain at record lows. Wall Street, however, declined after making broad gains the day before.
Equity investors had been awaiting the Fed's economic updates and statements by Chair Janet Yellen, who made clear that although the world's largest economy was seeing a steadily improving job market and modest inflation, there was no need to raise short-term rates from record lows anytime soon.
In Europe, France's CAC 40 rose 0.7 percent to close at 4,563.04, while Germany's DAX gained the same rate to 10,004.00. The FTSE 100 index of leading British stocks added 0.4 percent to 6,808.11.
U.S. stocks failed to hold on to an early rise, after notching gains on Wednesday. The Dow edged down 0.2 percent to 16,876.82 and the broader S&P 500 shed 0.1 percent to 1,955.84.
"The Fed managed to navigate through what some had expected to be a potentially tricky announcement by providing further fuel for both equity and Treasury market bulls," strategists at Rabobank said in a report.
Stan Shamu, market strategist at IG Markets in Melbourne, said, "With inflation picking up and unemployment falling, many investors out there were beginning to feel perhaps the Fed might be looking to raise rates sooner."
Earlier, in Asia, Japan's benchmark Nikkei 225 jumped 1.6 percent to end at 15,361.16 as the dollar slipped to 101.81 yen from 101.91 Wednesday. Australia's S&P/ASX 200 also gained strongly, adding 1.6 percent to 5,468.20.
Hong Kong's Hang Seng was little changed at 23,167.73 while South Korea's Kospi edged up 0.1 percent to 1,992.03.
In mainland China, the Shanghai Composite Index lost 1.5 percent to 2,023.73.
In energy trading, benchmark crude oil for July delivery rose 1 cent to $105.98 in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The contract fell 39 cents on Wednesday.
The euro strengthened to $1.3620 from $1.3587 in late trading Wednesday.
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Recently referred to as "the apple of her dad's eye," by longtime nanny Grace Rwaramba, 14-year-old Paris Jackson has shared with Glamour magazine that she doesn't think the title of "Michael Jackson's Daughter" is a good fit.
Paris has been in the news a lot lately; the whole public odyssey surrounding her excessive tweets and followers, the supposed slap that was felt around the world between her and her auntie Janet, her Oprah interview; and now, an interview in the October issue of Glamour magazine.
It makes us wonder, what would Michael do?
It seems the very thing he worked so hard to prevent has come to fruition; at least with one of his kids.
His little girl is growing up fast, and unabashedly sharing her opinions.
"I love my dad, and I'm proud to be his daughter. I just don't think the title 'M.J.'s daughter' fits me. A lot of people think he's the only reason I'm making it, but I want to show that I do have talent and that I can make it if I try. I want to be my own person,"she tells Glamour.
Set to star in the motion picture, "Lundon's Bridge and the Three Keys,"Paris tells Glamour not everyone is happy about her choice to become an actress.
"A lot of people don't want me to do it , but Aunt La Toya believes in me," she tells Glamour. "She heard me play a little guitar and sing, and she started clapping, 'Oh my God, oh my God.' She really does encourage me; it's just awesome of her, she adds."
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Windows Phone, iOS Outpace Android
Jun 4, 2013 11:39 AM PT
Google's Android operating system leads the smartphone market with a majority 51.7 percent share in the United States, but competitors are gaining ground, according to a report released Monday by Kantar Worldpanel ComTech.
Apple's iOS and Microsoft's Windows Phone platforms are now actually surpassing Android in terms of growth rates.
Although smartphone sales have remained relatively stable this year, iOS gained 2.3 percentage points in market share, and Windows Phone rose 1.8 percentage points, while Android grew only 1.4 percentage points year on year, the report found.
For the three-month period ending April 2013, iOS remained in second place, but its share grew to 41.4 percent of smartphone sales, while Windows' share of smartphone sales grew to 5.6 percent.
Kantar's data comes from its USA consumer mobile phone panel, which conducts more than 240,000 interviews per year in the United States.
Tiered Pricing Strategy
"Android's strategy has been formed around the idea of having availability across device brands and price bands, which has enabled consumers of various budgets and preferences to purchase an Android-powered device," Mary-Ann Parlato, global insight director at Kantar WorldPanel ComTech, told the E-Commerce Times.
"With Apple rolling out further models, their predecessor models' prices are lowered, and ultimately this means the brand now has a tiered pricing strategy across the model set, allowing greater availability across the market. This greater availability for iOS is impacting on Android," she pointed out.
"We can see this via the top devices sold per price point. iPhone devices have begun capturing the majority of the top spots across the majority of price points."
The Lower-End Spectrum
As for Windows, it has begun to capture consumers from across the competitor set. Forty-two percent of those who purchased a Windows device in the last year came from a feature phone device, 25 percent came from another Windows device, and 23 percent from Android, Kantar reported.
Only 31 percent of new iOS users came from a feature phone, by contrast, highlighting the relative strength of Microsoft's OS in attracting this segment.
"They too are able to promote their devices at various price points, particularly in the lower-end spectrum, where they're attracting feature phone users who may have previously thought to upgrade to an Android," Parlato said.
A Younger Audience
Windows devices are beginning to attract younger consumers.
"In April 2012, the majority of those changing to a Windows device were those around ages 55-plus," she explained. "Now, in April 2013, the people moving towards the brand are younger."
Nokia's Lumia devices were the key drivers behind Windows' success over the three months ending April 2013, Kantar noted.
'Very Early Innings'
Still, "don't be fooled into thinking this is a long-term and sustainable lead," industry analyst Jeff Kagan told the E-Commerce Times. "We are still in the very early innings of a long smartphone game.
"Early leaders are not guaranteed to hang onto the lead," he added. "It's all about innovation and growth in riding the marketing wave up."
Kantar's study also examined growth across carriers. Leader Verizon, for instance, exhibited a 1.8 percent increase over the past year to 36.3 percent of smartphones sold. Second-place AT&T held steady at 26.3 percent, while Sprint Nextel increased 1.4 percentage points to 13.1 percent and T-Mobile declined to 11.3 percent.
'Crashing and Burning'
"T-Mobile has been crashing and burning over the last several years," Kagan noted. "However, the T-Mobile of today looks very different."
Does that mean the company can enjoy an upward path once again?
"It's possible," Kagan said.
"They have a new CEO. They have just acquired MetroPCS. They are now selling the Apple iPhone. They are reinventing the way they charge for services -- and that is all just during the last year," he pointed out.
"What else can we expect?" Kagan wondered. "Plenty, based on this performance to date."


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Edegrass necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 63 diseños de 21 diseñadores freelance.
Dirigo Solutions LLC
I'm an energetic young professional starting a new IT consulting company called Dirigo Solutions LLC. Dirigo is the state motto of Maine and also latin for "I Lead". Taking this literal translation to heart, I hope to lead my clients towards IT solutions that provide great overall success in bettering the organization as a whole.
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Inspired by Small Steps from designer Jo Morton
Quilt tester: Laura Boehnke
9x22" piece (fat eighth) red batik (block A)
1/8 yard black batik (block centers)
4—9x22" pieces (fat eighths) assorted light batiks (block A)
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