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Since 2009, Anita Reyes' wages have been as frozen as Lake Minnetonka in January.
While the U.S. economy was recovering from the Great Recession, Reyes, 52, a casino dealer from Minneapolis, was dining on $1.67 cans of soup and searching for a way to keep her house, which was foreclosed on last October.
"I went backwards," Reyes said. "Two years ago, three years ago, I didn't know I'd be looking at being homeless."
Stephen Hemsley's salary has been frozen too. His income hasn't.
The chief executive of Minnetonka-based health insurer UnitedHealth Group Inc. earned $1.3 million in salary every year since 2007. Still, as the economic recovery took hold from 2009 to 2011, Hemsley, 60, exercised stock options worth more than $170 million and made at least $51 million from share sales, making him the object of an "Occupy Lake Minnetonka" protest on the ice outside his lakeside home each winter.
The divergent fortunes of Reyes and Hemsley show two sides of the U.S. recovery. The 1.2 million households whose incomes put them in the top 1 percent of the U.S. saw their earnings increase 5.5 percent last year, according to estimates released last month by the Census Bureau. Earnings fell 1.7 percent for the 96 million households in the bottom 80 percent -- those that made less than $101,583.
The recovery that officially began in mid-2009 hasn't arrived in most Americans' paychecks. In 2010, the top 1 percent of U.S. families captured as much as 93 percent of the nation's income growth, according to a March paper by Emmanuel Saez, a University of California, Berkeley, economist who studied Internal Revenue Service data.
The earnings gap between rich and poor Americans was the widest in more than four decades in 2011, census data show. The notion that each generation does better than the last -- one aspect of the American Dream -- has been challenged by evidence that average family incomes fell last decade for the first time since World War II.
In this recovery it's proved better to own stock than a house. For stockholders like Hemsley, the value of all outstanding shares has soared $6 trillion to $17 trillion since June 2009, the recession's end. Even after a recent rebound, the value of owner-occupied housing, the chief asset of most middle-income families, has dropped $41 billion in the same period, part of a $5.8 trillion loss in home values since 2006.
"Income inequality of the scale we have today is destroying our democracy," retired American Airlines CEO Bob Crandall said in an interview. Crandall, 76, says he became so frustrated at what he sees as selfishness among his peers that he started writing a blog on his Lenovo laptop.
From 1979 to 2007, about $1.1 trillion in annual income shifted to the top 1 percent of Americans -- more than the entire earnings of the bottom 40 percent, according to Alan Krueger, chairman of President Obama's Council of Economic Advisers. If income were distributed as it was in 1979, there might be $440 billion in additional spending each year -- a 5 percent boost to consumption, he said in January.
Frozen pay, cold protest
"Health Care, Not Wealth Care," read a banner that 20 protesters unfurled next to a temporary shack on frozen Lake Minnetonka in January. The group has hiked across the lake each winter since 2009 to get within shouting distance of Stephen Hemsley's 7,800 square-foot home, which is assessed at $7.9 million.
"It's another example of a two-tiered society," said organizer Joel Albers.
Hemsley owed his options to grants made from 1999 to 2002, when he was president of UnitedHealth, which is the largest U.S. health insurer. He has retained a "significant portion" of the shares he acquired through options exercises and holds stock equal to 118 times his base salary, which "fosters a long-term outlook" and aligns his interests with shareholders', said UnitedHealth spokesman Tyler Mason.
Falling behind
Wage-earner Reyes, the youngest of eight siblings of Ojibwe descent, bought her 700-square-foot Craftsman house not far from Minnehaha Falls in 1995 for $52,900. "It's only as big as a checkerboard square, but I like it," she said.
After two decades of dealing blackjack, Mississippi stud and Ultimate Texas Hold 'em, Reyes, 52, makes $14 to $17 an hour, mostly from tips.
Last year, after her hours were cut, Reyes fell behind on her mortgage and the bank foreclosed. Several neighbors put up "Stop Foreclosures" yard signs.
"We're all one payment away from losing our house," said neighbor Julie Johnson.
On a sunny August day in Wayzata 20 miles away, BMWs and other luxury cars prowled for parking on the main street as speedboats tied up on the lake. The CEO of Target Corp., heirs of the Dayton's department store chain and McGuire, who's bought several plots, all live around the lake.
Reyes, who rejected an offer from the bank to lease the home she used to own for $600 a month, got an eviction notice in the mail last week.
She jumps when a car door slams, she said, fearing it's a sheriff.
Bloomberg News reporters Frank Bass, Bob Ivry and Sharon L. Lynch contributed to this report.


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I have an OLPC XO laptop. I'm quite happy with the machine and even Sugar, but I think this machine could do well with a more conventional GUI for some purposes.
I installed Xfce yesterday. It started up fine, but has a few rough edges. The first one is the display resolution. I can't put much time into the others (keyboard, brightness, wireless, etc.) until I can get the display working properly.
Resolution: 1200 (H) × 900 (V) resolution (200 DPI)
Has anyone found a way to get Xfce to run at this resolution? I have not seen anything encouraging. I'll be happy to try about anything.
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We have been withdrawing cash from the bank after we get paid (I got the idea from a Kidspot article I read) and have to live off that until our next pay. Our bills are all scheduled to come out of our bank account, so the cash just has to cover groceries, train fares, lunch orders, the cleaner, sushi and donuts when we go to the local market to top up our veggies
We have been doing this for three pay cycles now and what started out as being extremely restrictive has become surprisingly liberating. It was so hard to begin with; we almost ran out of money after my first grocery shop the first week! But we have gotten better at it.
I have been planning menus and creating shopping lists. Although I have always tried to do this, there are times when I just don't have time and race out to the grocery (and overspend!). I have also been more analytical about the contents of meals and have been trying to make seasonal meals from the same group of ingredients to reduce wastage.
I have been making more vegetarian meals again too. Before I had kids I was a semi-vegetarian for many years (I enjoyed bacon and chicken occasionally) so I have been pulling out a few of the old recipes to reduce our meat intake (good for the earth, good for your health, and good for your budget so a triple star win!). I am going for Meatless Monday (last night it was leek frittata) and another meat-free day too. Our kids have grown up eating legumes as a staple so they are coping well.
I have been paying cash at the register too so if I don't have enough money, I have to make decisions about which items go back. It happened twice in the first week (and was extremely embarrassing) but I have adapted quickly to adding up the bill as I go and have come in on budget at each subsequent shop.
The liberating part has been the fact that we already have a small stockpile of cash in the bank account. We went out for dinner with friends on Saturday night and didn't even have to think about how much it might cost. We just went and had a ball!
And paying our bills is so much easier. We have removed the stress of shuffling money around our accounts in the eternal search to make ends meet. With three kids in daycare two days a week and a couple of afternoons at OOSH for the other, you can imagine how much our monthly childcare bills are?
I can happily say that this six week stint will become the norm for us.
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Scott County Sheriff's Office Launches New Website Features
The Scott County Sheriff's Office launched a website on August 30, 2012 and we are pleased to announce that we have now added our Warrants and Inmate Roster to the site. We invite the community to visit our site at www.ScottCountySheriff.org to view the new Warrants section and the Inmate Roster.
Having the warrants online will allow the public to view warrant details for individuals. Our goal is to be able to serve more arrest warrants and bring the alleged offenders before the Courts and provide a better service to the victims.
Having the jail roster online will allow the public to view photos and booking details for individuals in the detention center as well as those released within the last 48 hours. You can also sign up to receive alerts via text or email each morning showing who has been booked in or released within the past 24 hours. This jail roster feature is also a great tool to discuss with your family and friends as there is no hiding anyone incarcerated here on a criminal violation. If the fear of being featured on the website prevents anyone from making bad choices and violating the law; then everyone wins.
The jail roster, warrants and most wanted features of our website is an excellent tool in helping to identify persons responsible for other crimes, bring those fugitives before the Courts, and to reduce overall criminal activity within our community.
Our Website www.ScottCountySheriff.org provides details on all aspects of the Sheriff's Office. One of our goals when developing the new Website was to provide a centralized location for current information such as press release information, locations area sex offenders are living, and help provide answers to the many questions we are asked weekly.
For more information about the Website please contact the Sheriff's Office at 812-752-8400 or visit www.ScottCountySheriff.org. We welcome all tips on locations or ways to contact wanted persons. Simply call our office or email from the website, and your information will be followed up on. For urgent information please call our office at 812-752-8400 or dial 911 for an emergency.
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2011 Jeep Liberty Reviews and Ratings
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The Jeep Liberty is a practical SUV that doesn't hesitate to step off the pavement. True to Jeep's legendary 4x4 heritage, the Liberty offers two Jeep Trail Rated four-wheel-drive systems, giving it terrific off-road prowess. It's tall and angular, with bold, upright styling reminiscent of the rugged 1990s Jeep Cherokee. Unlike the old Cherokee, however, the Liberty rides nice and smooth. Yet it maintains the ruggedness that made Jeep famous.
The new 2011 Jeep Liberty Jet brings a unique upscale appearance to the line. The 2011 Jeep Renegade, introduced midway through the 2010 model year, is equipped with features that position it between Sport and Limited with an emphasis on off-road equipment. Renegade boasts a premium, rugged appearance and comes with skid plates, unique color fender flares, fascia and headlamps.
New for 2011, all Liberty models feature a new steering wheel with redundant controls for radio. Three new Media Centers are available on 2011 Liberty models, also.
The Jeep Liberty is powered by a 3.7-liter V6 that makes 210 horsepower. A 4-speed automatic is standard. In these days of 6-speed automatics, the 4-speed is somewhat antiquated, and we don't think it gets the most out of the V6, which could use a little help. When it comes to fuel economy, the Liberty's weight and powertrain provide numbers that are on the lower end of the class: The federal Environmental Protection Agency rates Jeep Liberty 4WD 15/21 mpg City/Highway.
The two four-wheel-drive systems, Command-Trac II and Selec-Trac II, make the Jeep Liberty highly capable off road, and they are further aided by Hill Start Assist and Hill Descent Control.
The Liberty rides firmly, but irons out most bumps quite well and is stable on the highway. The Liberty sacrifices on-road handling for off-road prowess. The Liberty leans in turns and has a floppy feeling in quick changes of direction. Still, it's rugged and capable off road; if we were heading up a rough logging road, we'd be pleased to be in a Liberty.
Inside, the Liberty has plenty of room for five. However, we view it as not quite up to expectations in terms of materials quality and fit and finish, with a lot of hard-plastic surfaces. Still, it's not an unpleasant cockpit. Cargo room is a plus. The Liberty's second-row seats fold flat, as does the front passenger seat, to provide plenty of room for hauling boxes, bikes and life's other accessories.
With a maximum towing capacity of 5,000 pounds, rugged off-road capability and plenty of cargo space, the Jeep Liberty is a good choice for small families or couples that tow boats or go camping. If your travels don't often take you off-road, other small SUVs will deliver better fuel economy and better handling, but few will match the Liberty's capabilities.
The Jeep Liberty is offered in three trim levels. The Sport 2WD ($23,250), Sport 4WD ($24,865), Limited ($26,650), and Limited 4WD ($28,250) are available with two-wheel drive or four-wheel drive. The Renegade ($27,250) is available only with four-wheel drive. The only engine is a 210-horsepower 3.7-liter V6, mated to a 4-speed automatic transmission.
The base four-wheel-drive system is Jeep's Command Trac, a part-time system designed for off-road use. Also offered is Selec-Trac II ($445), a full-time system that allows use of all-wheel drive on dry pavement. Both systems have low-range gearing.
Liberty Sport features include cloth upholstery, air conditioning, tilt steering wheel, 65/35 split folding rear seats, heated power mirrors, power locks, power windows, remote keyless entry, AM/FM/CD/MP3 stereo and auxiliary input jack, vehicle information center, and P225/75R16 all-season tires on aluminum wheels. Floor mats come standard. Sport options include a Sky Slider canvas sunroof ($1,200); a regular sunroof ($850); Class III towing package with trailer sway control ($545); 235/70R16 all-terrain tires; skid plates ($225). The Popular Equipment Group ($995) includes cargo compartment cover, fog lamps, roof rails, cruise control, external temperature display and compass, and deep-tinted glass.
Liberty Renegade includes skid plates for the transmission, transfer case, front suspension, and engine; transmission oil cooler; tow hooks; and fender flares. It is fitted for the more rugged off-roading experience. Options are similar to those of the Sport.
Liberty Limited comes with a 368-watt Infinity sound system with eight speakers, cruise control, leather-wrapped steering wheel with redundant audio and vehicle information center controls, auto-dimming rearview mirror, roof rails, six-way power driver's seat, fold-flat front passenger seat, universal garage door opener, anti-theft alarm, fog lamps, and 235/65R17 all-season tires on aluminum wheels. Navigation systems include an AM/FM/CD/DVD system with HDD navigation, and Uconnect and a similar system with Garmin navigation. The Comfort and Convenience Group includes automatic climate control, rear park assist, and remote start ($595). The Premium Wheel Group features P235/60R18 all-season tires on 18-inch chrome clad alloy wheels ($1,125). Most of the options available for the Sport are also available for the Limited, where applicable.
Liberty Jet is an appearance package available on Sport ($995) and Limited ($1,495) models. Exterior features on the new Liberty Jet include 20-inch polished aluminum wheels fitted with P245/50R20 all-season tires; chrome lower fascia opening, body side moldings, license plate brow, roof rails and mirror caps; blacked-out headlamps; and unique Jet badging. Inside, the Jeep Liberty Jet edition boasts a 9-speaker premium audio system; a standard security system that includes supplemental side-curtain air bags and Park Sense rear park assist; available Dark Slate Gray leather seating with accent stitching; heated front seats, available with six-way power function for the driver and two-way for the passenger; leather-wrapped steering wheel with audio controls; and one-touch up/down power windows.
(All New Car Test Drive prices are Manufacturer's Suggested Retail Prices, which do not include destination charge and may change at any time without notice.)
Safety features on all Liberty models include dual front airbags, plus head-protecting side-curtain airbags with rollover sensors, front side airbags for torso protection, and active front-seat head restraints. Active safety features include anti-lock brakes with brake assist, hill start assist, traction control, and electronic stability control with rollover mitigation. The antilock brakes have rough road detection; when rough conditions are detected, the system holds the brake pulses longer to better slow the vehicle. Hill descent control is standard on 4x4 models. Optional safety features include trailer sway control and rear obstacle detection.
The Liberty is a true Jeep, with off-road prowess and bold, upright styling. Its tall, upright, angular styling fits with the current Jeep design idiom while also recalling the 1990s Cherokee. The look is intended to attract an even split of male and female buyers. The most noticeable aspect of the front end is Jeep's characteristic seven-slot grille. The grille is body color on the Sport and chrome on the Limited. The front fascia is body color on all, and the front air dam is removable to provide more ground clearance for off-roading.
From the side, the Liberty has tall windows in a squared off greenhouse. The Limited's chrome theme extends to the side with chrome side trim and roof rails. These components are black on the Sport. In an attempt to give the Liberty the open feel of a Wrangler, Jeep offers the Sky Slider sunroof. Jeep says this canvas power sunroof is four times the size of an average sunroof.
A notable feature of the rear is the lack of an exterior spare tire. The spare is mounted inside and the rear is accessed with a liftgate with a separate opening rear glass.
The interior of the Jeep Liberty is functional, not luxurious. Most drivers will like the high seating position. Head room in the front seat is plentiful, but the tallest drivers will want more available front leg room. The side mirrors are large and the cabin has a lot of glass, making for fine rear visibility.
2011 Liberty models feature a new steering wheel with redundant controls for the radio. The gauges are easy to spot and the controls are simple to use. The climate functions are controlled by three simple knobs and the radio and other vehicle controls are straightforward. There is a useful cubby on the center of the dash top, and a sizable grab handle is located just above the smallish glove box. The center console is deep and has a removable tray on top. There is also a small tray next to the shift handle. In 4WD models, a small electronic switch replaces the previous generation's transfer case lever.
The dash is all plastic with no soft-touch surfaces. The same goes for the tops of the doors, where passengers might rest their arms. The only padded surfaces to be found here are the door armrests. The center console also has a little give to its surface, but it's not padded, either.
That said, the Limited interior includes a leather-wrapped shift knob with a chrome cap; and leather accent stitching on the console and door armrests, grab handle, and parking brake boot.
The Sky Slider sunroof is much larger than a standard sunroof. It is made of canvas and creates an open air feeling, especially for rear seat passengers. However, it also creates wind noise at highway speed when closed. That's an important point because without the Sky Slider the cabin is impressively quiet.
The second row offers lots of head room. Leg room is decent, even with the front seats all the way back. Toe space is plentiful under the seats, but there is an annoying hump on each side next to the transmission tunnel. The second-row seats aren't the most comfortable, however; they're flat and short with little thigh or shoulder support and they lack a fold-down center armrest. Getting in the second row is an easy step in, but the opening is a bit small, so it requires some ankle twisting.
Cargo space is about average for the class. The second-row seats fold flat in an easy one-step process to yield 60.9 cubic feet of cargo space. With the seats up there is 25.2 cubic feet of cargo room, which is plenty of room for hauling groceries with the kids in the vehicle. The available fold-flat front-passenger seat allows for loading long items. In back, Jeep provides a shallow under-floor storage area with a reversible cover that is carpeted on one side and formed into a plastic tray on the other. This is a useful feature for stowing muddy boots. Cargo tie-down hooks are also provided to secure loose items. The load floor is fairly low, making it easy to load heavy cargo. The rear glass panel opens separately, so groceries can be set inside without opening the tailgate.
The Jeep Liberty offers a pleasant driving experience. The ride is generally firm, but the Liberty smoothes over most bumps and is never punishing, even with the available 18-inch wheels.
When it comes to handling, the Liberty is relatively tall and heavy, so it is not as nimble as most of its compact SUV competitors. It leans more than most in turns and struggles to regain composure in quick changes of direction. Its solid axle rear suspension is designed for the more rugged chores of towing and off-road capability.
In off-road conditions, however, the Liberty is quite good. With generous approach and departure angles and low-range gearing for 4x4 models, it can crawl over large rocks and logs. Four-wheel-drive models have Hill Descent Control, which pulses the brakes through the ABS to limit the vehicle's speed when driving down steep grades. Hill Start Assist is also standard. It holds the brakes on hills when the driver releases the pedal to prevent the vehicle from sliding backward. We drove the Liberty on a technically challenging off-road trail where it performed well.
Wind noise and tire noise are well checked in the Liberty, and the engine is only noticeable under hard acceleration.
With the available towing package, the Liberty is capable of pulling a load up to 5,000 pounds. This towing capability combined with the Liberty's off-road prowess make it a good choice for families that like to camp, ski, or vacation at locations off the beaten path.
The 3.7-liter V6 is only adequate in this vehicle. It has decent pickup from a stop, but doesn't provide the willing punch to make passing easy. The 4-speed automatic transmission kicks down readily to provide what passing power there is.
With EPA fuel economy ratings of 16 mpg City and 22 Highway with 2WD and 15/21 mpg with 4WD, the Liberty is harder on fuel than most of its competitors.
The Jeep Liberty has better off-road capability and more towing capacity than most of its competitors. It offers generous cargo space and a high seating position. But it's heavy for a compact SUV, and it lacks the handling and fuel economy of most of its rivals. If off-road capability is important, the Liberty is a good choice; otherwise several rivals will handle better and go easier on gas.
NewCarTestDrive.com correspondent Kirk Bell filed this report from Indianapolis.


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Regent Adds Fine Italian Diningby Janice Wald Henderson | 03.14.12
Regent Seven Seas will now feature full service Italian dining nightly across the fleet.
"Talk Italian to me...."
Regent Seven Seas Cruises is launching a new restaurant on its three, all-inclusive luxury ships. Well, sort of. The restaurant is actually La Veranda, a popular breakfast and lunch buffet venue, which will be transformed into Sette Mari (meaning Seven Seas in Italian; very clever) at La Veranda at night.
"After a full day ashore, guests can select appetizers and the house-made pasta on their own and be finished in as little as 45 minutes, or enjoy a leisurely evening ordering specialties from the menu," says Mark Conroy, the line�s president.
Expect an extensive menu of antipasti and Italian specialty dishes, paired with select Italian wines. Regent Seven Seas is promising that each hand-crafted dish will be cooked to order.
An antipasti sampler is presented to all guests, featuring aged Parmesan cheese, marinated olives and bruschetta, as well veal meatballs and savory pastry stuffed with tomatoes and mozzarella. Should that not do it, an elaborate antipasti bar has further options.
A typical first course may be the special pasta of the day, prepared by a chef at a pasta station. Or guests may order their favorite from the menu. Think lasagna, spaghetti alla carbonara (with eggs, cream and bacon or pancetta) and penne with Bolognese (meat-based) sauce.
Entrees include cioppino, the popular seafood stew with lobster, shrimp and mussels in a garlic-white white tomato broth. Veal and lamb chops and Mediterranean sea bass also make menu appearances.
And yes, that ever-popular Italian dessert, tiramisu (means "pick-me-up," with espresso-brushed ladyfingers and rich mascarpone), will be served here.
Sette Mari at La Veranda debuts on Seven Seas Navigator (May 30), followed by Seven Seas Voyager (July 2) and then Seven Seas Mariner (July 13). Reservations are not required. Guests can also dine al fresco under the stars, which should be a wildly popular option. (RSSC.com; 800-285-1835)


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SAN JOSE — Firefighters battled two fires in South San Jose on Thursday, the first destroyed a family home and the second a storage unit.
A family of four was displaced in the first fire that was reported at about 1:55 p.m. at Broken Lance Court, near Chynoweth Avenue and Monterey Road, said fire Capt. Cleo Doss. Firefighters arrived to find the lone occupant, a male adult, outside, and saw flames and smoke coming from both the back and front of the home.
Fire crews brought the blaze under control within about half an hour, but not before it inflicted heavy damage on the home.
No injuries were reported. Four people lived at the home, and the American Red Cross was summoned to help them find housing.
The fire is believed to have started in the center of the home, and was likely accidental, Doss said. An exact cause is under investigation.
The second fire started in a tree just before 6 p.m. Thursday and quickly spread to the pine-needle covered roof of a storage unit in a commercial storage facility on Snell Avenue near Capitol Expressway, according to fire dispatcher Tracy Deitschman.
No injuries were reported in the two-alarm fire that firefighters controlled within a half an hour.


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As another World Environment (5th June) has come and gone what can you do? Give nature a voice!
This week we have seen some great events celebrating another World Environment Day (WED). We had things happening at my school and as I see the week draw to a close I realised that we need to think about the world's environment everyday not just for one day or week.
I tried to find the right words to write to encourage individuals to help the environment but I think if you watch the WED message from David de Rothschild while the Plastiki Expedition is in Samoa I hope you will be inspired to make a few changes in your life to move towards sustainability and help protect our planets natural capitol.


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Some students don't like Grand Valley State University's decision to remove a swinging sculpture that students had been using as a popular, makeshift swing since the release of Miley Cyrus' "Wrecking Ball" video.
GVSU said Tuesday that it had taken down the sculpture, called a bifilar pendulum, sitting outside the Padnos Hall of Science and placed it in storage due to concerns about student safety.
After the removal yesterday, workers discovered that the cable was fraying.
In the video, Cyrus appears without clothes on a swinging wrecking ball. Photos and video of people doing the same on the sculpture recently surfaced online.
GVSU said it had been considering what to do with the piece before the recent parodies, which drew attention on social media websites and elsewhere.
"The examination of the structural integrity of the installation showed cable decay," said GVSU Associate Vice President for Facilities Services Tim Thimmesch. "We'll have a structural engineer review the installation and provide an assessment of the load on the beam — particularly when there is added weight. Safety is our main concern. We hope the pendulum can be re-installed at that location or at another suitable location on campus."
There's no timeline for finding a new location.
On Tuesday night, students gathered outside the Padnos Hall of Science to protest the decision to remove the large ball and cable that had hung there for roughly 18 years.
Students held mobile phones in the air and sang "Wrecking Ball."
The sculpture was created by artist Dale Eldred in 1973.
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DOWNINGTOWN - A natural gas leak in the borough shut down the main business district and led to the evacuation of more than a dozen residents and several businesses Thursday night.
According to Downingtown Mayor Josh Maxwell, eight businesses had to be evacuated as well as about 15 residents who live in apartments above them in the downtown area.
Shortly before 5:30 p.m. police and fire crews were dispatched to the first block of East Lancaster Avenue for a gas leak. They immediately shut down the roads in the area and began evacuations, a release from the Downingtown Police Department said.
According to Maxwell, PECO gas crews had been working on gas lines in that area for about 36 hours when they struck a 4-inch, high-pressure main, causing a large amount of gas to escape. Maxwell said high winds were very helpful in dispersing the gas from the area during the leak.
Maxwell said at one point a 15-foot flame erupted from the leaking pipe. PECO crews were able to use a powder retardant to extinguish the flames within 20 seconds.
The leaking main was secured when PECO applied a bypass valve in front of the leak and added a temporary gas line around it. The scene was declared under control just before 10 p.m.
Residents and business owners who were in the area of the leak were evacuated to two shelters in the borough: the Minquas Fire Company and Borough Hall. Those who were evacuated were allowed to return to their homes and businesses late Thursday night, accompanied by fire personnel who checked the areas for pockets of natural gas as a precaution.
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In addition to my job here at Kotaku, I work very hard on a best-selling, fictional series of video game novelisations. Last year, I published a gripping, lusty novel based on The Witcher 2. This year, I've been hard at work putting the finishing touches on my next novel based on Max Payne 3, tentatively titled Max Payne 3: The Flesh of Fallen Angels: The Novel of the Game.
Would you like to read an excerpt? You would? OK! Here you go, an excerpt from chapter 9 of the book, in which one New Jersey mob boss hatches an insanely ambitious plan to kill Max. I hope you enjoy it.
"They killed my son! They killed my boy!"
Boss Anthony DeMarco was furious, inconsolable. His son Tony was dead at the hands of some ex-cop deadbeat named Payne. In one instant, the DeMarco family line had been snuffed out, and Anthony had lost a son. Payback was going to be a bitch.
"We are gonna get this guy, this... Payne," DeMarco fumed. "We are going to make him pay, Tommy!"
Tommy Marcotti looked his boss. In his fifteen years serving as the DeMarco's top lieutenant, he'd never seen the old man like this. Boss DeMarco was so furious he was drooling on himself, so mad his hands were shaking.
"Okay, boss," Marcotti said. "We'll put all our boys on it. Let's come up with a battle plan. We've got some intelligence that Payne is visiting his dead wife's grave at a graveyard in Jersey." Marcotti pulled out a overhead map of the vast Jersey graveyard that the DeMarcos kept on hand.
"There may be another guy with him, some guy named Passos. So, two of them. We'll send out Bobby and those two boneheads he hangs out with to take Payne out at his wife's grave."
"What about if he gets past them?" DeMarco asked, his voice still edging into a scream. "Then what?"
"Take it easy, boss," Marcotti said. "We've got all kinds of contingency plans." He pointed to a spot on the map. "We'll have five guys backing up Bobby's three guys, so there'll be eight guys at the first part of the cemetery. Then we'll have five more guys backing them up, and Tony B. will be on triple-backup in a car, in case they get through those first guys."
"Okay," DeMarco said, "but what if they get by all of those guys?"
"Past the grave is a rotunda," Marcotti explained, tapping a circular shape on the graveyard map. "So, we'll stack up Benny and his boys near stairs leading up to it. Benny's got a huge grenade launcher, and he's got six guys with him with four more for backup. So in addition to the fourteen guys we first sent after Payne, we'll have eleven guys with Benny at the rotunda."
"Twenty-five guys.," DeMarco said, his shoulders loosening a bit. "Keep going."
"We'll have 10 more guys pull up behind the rotunda and fan out from there, with five more guys behind them."
"So, a total of 40 guys so far?"
"Yeah, give or take."
"I don't want you to underestimate this fucker," said DeMarco, standing up. "He's pretty dangerous."
"We ain't gonna underestimate him," said Marcotti, reassuringly.
"I do have one question," said DeMarco, who seemed reassured. "What's to stop Payne from just running out of the graveyard in a different direction?"
"That won't happen," said Marcotti.
"Okay," said DeMarco, lost in thought. "You've convinced me. Go on."
"There's another rotunda after the first one," Marcotti explained, "So we'll send Junior and his boys there. He's got eight guys, all armed to the teeth, so between the nine of them they can probably hold the rotunda. We'll have a backup team of five in place, though, in case something goes wrong."
"After that," he continued, pointing to a building on the map, "there's an approach to a mausoleum. I'm gonna plant Frankie up top with a high-powered sniper rifle, so he can take Payne out if he gets past the fourteen guys at the second rotunda. But just in case, we'll put eight of his boys down in the building below."
"But what if Payne gets past them?" asked DeMarco.
"Well, we'll have three more guys hiding inside the building in case Payne and his friend go inside. Which brings me to the next part of the plan. We'll catch 'em at the Mausoleum and bring them to you, just like you wanted. Piece of cake."
"Good," said DeMarco, his eyes widening. "This is the good part. I wanna watch those fuckers beg."
"So," continued Marcotti, "while all our guys were fighting at the grave, and the first rotunda, and the parking lot, and the second rotunda, and the mausoleum, you and me set up the gravesite like you wanted. It'll be real dramatic. Once the boys at the mausoleum capture them, they'll bring them to us there, and you can make them dig their own graves."
Marcotti laughed. "It's gonna be some poetic justice, boss." DeMarco looked pleased.
"Just in case you leave them alone and they somehow escape," Marcotti continued, "we've got another contingency plan." He drew his finger down the map towards the southern end. "We'll have five guys stationed in the parking lot outside of the main building, which is where they'll come if they escape the gravesite. Then, we'll plant some guys in the Morgue beneath the main graveyard building. Seems fittin', no?"
"What seems fittin'?" asked DeMarco.
"The morgue. It's fittin' because if they go to the morgue, they'll die there. Geddit?"
"Wait," said DeMarco. "Why would they go into the morgue? Why wouldn't they just run for it?"
"Stop overthinking this, boss," said Marcotti.
"Once they're in the morgue," Marcotti said, "we'll have three guys try to head them off in the operating room. If they make it past those three, they'll probably head into the chapel to make a phone call. That's when we hit 'em with the big guns — we'll send in about fifteen to 20 more guys to take them out."
"So, ninety-four wiseguys to take down these arseholes, then," concluded DeMarco, counting on his fingers.
"Yeah, boss," said Marcotti. "It seems like a solid plan to me."
"Maybe," said DeMarco, standing up. "Maybe. Don't forget: This is Max Payne we're talkin' about. He's one tough sonovabitch."
"We pull this off," Marcotti said, allowing a smile onto his face, "and there'll be nothing standing between us and the Punchinellos."
"Easy now," said DeMarco. "We're just one family. We ain't the goddam National Guard."
Will the DeMarcos emerge victorious? Will Max and Passos somehow survive the attack and live to fight (and fight, and fight) another day? Will Max Payne's enemies ever run out of dudes for him to shoot? Find out in the next chapter of Max Payne 3: The Flesh of Fallen Angels: The Novel of the Game. Maybe. Or maybe not.


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Women's Cross Country Runner of the Week - No. 7
By Alan Grosbach, Manager of Communications and Sports Information
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Hannah Helker of Oklahoma Baptist has been named the NAIA National Women's Cross Country Runner of the Week, the national office announced Wednesday. Helker was selected based on her performance from Oct. 15 - 21 and was chosen out of a pool of conference/independent runner of the week selections.
Helker, a sophomore from Edmond, Okla., captures her second national weekly award of the season. At the NAIA Mid-States Classic hosted by Southwestern (Kan.) on Oct. 20, she defeated her next closest competitor by 1:20 to take first place overall. She ran the 5K course in 17:03. Her win was the fourth-straight No. 1 finish. Helker helped lead the Bison to a first-place team finish out of 15 programs.
For complete results of the NAIA Mid-States Classic, click here.
This is the final 2012 announcement of the NAIA National Women's Cross Country Runner of the Week.
Nominees: Julie Oosterhouse, Cornerstone (Mich.); Annie Hills, Loyola (La.); Jessica Davis, Texas Wesleyan; Lauren Jaqua, Baker (Kan.); Ellie Staker, Embry-Riddle (Fla.); Kortney Ellingboe, Olivet Nazarene (Ill.); Emily Dolan, Spring Hill (Ala.); Brielle Lund, Tabor (Kan.); Benodine Kosom, Wiley (Texas); Darcy Mascotti, Cumberlands (Ky.); Talisa Budder, Haskell (Kan.); Rachel Renken , Friends (Kan.); Aleona Reyes, Jamestown (N.D.); Meagan Governor, Northwest (Wash.); Zahri Jackson, Xavier (La.); Cherie Gaines, Indiana Tech; Kelsee VanderBaan, Davenport (Mich.); Alexandra Rudd, Southern Oregon; Julia Montgomery, Columbia (Mo.); Kelsey Carbajo, Grand View (Iowa); Bianca Kubicki, Madonna (Mich.); Sharon Ronoh, Lindsey Wilson (Ky.); Karlee Coffey, Eastern Oregon; Valinn McReynolds, William Penn (Iowa); Liz Mosbach, Mount Mercy (Iowa); Melissa Carder, South Carolina Beaufort; Hannah Lieberman, SCAD Savannah (Ga.); Lindsey McDonald, Park (Mo.); Tina Eden, St. Ambrose (Iowa); Abby Baker, William Woods (Mo.); No Nomination, St. Thomas (Fla.); Kasey Hosier, Shawnee State (Ohio); Kristen Garwood, Hannibal-LaGrange (Mo.); Kristen Garwood, Hannibal-LaGrange (Mo.); Monika Kalicinska, St. Gregory's (Okla.); Angel Gaesser, Indiana Wesleyan; Rachael Bruce, Southeastern (Fla.); Brittany Aikens, Brenau (Ga.); Trisha Nelson, Bethel (Ind.); Anna Bos, Trinity Christian (Ill.); Rachel Gonzalez, Missouri Valley; Jessica Childers, Lee (Tenn.); Dana Miller, Waldorf (Iowa); Hilary Halford, St. Francis (Ill.); Brittany Young, Dickinson State (N.D.); Lauren Nygren, Webber International (Fla.); Sarah LeCroy, Mobile (Ala.); Ashley Mast, Mount Vernon Nazarene (Ohio); Meagan Wright, Milligan (Tenn.); Katrina Nolan, Oklahoma City; Brittany Suleski, Cardinal Stritch (Wis.); Emily Weber, Saint Mary (Neb.); Lauren Kelly, Montreat (N.C.); Sarah Kortze, Concordia (Neb.); Hannah Kellerman, The Master's (Calif.); Robbiccaa Williams, Tennessee Wesleyan.
2012 NAIA Women's Cross Country Runners of the Week
Week 1 (Sept. 12): Hannah Helker, Oklahoma Baptist
Week 2 (Sept. 19): Sarah Kortze, Concordia (Neb.)
Week 3 (Sept. 25): Hillary Holt, College of Idaho
Week 4 (Oct. 3): Karlee Coffey, Eastern Oregon
Week 5 (Oct. 10): Bianca Kubicki, Madonna (Mich.)
Week 6 (Oct. 17): Sharon Ronoh, Lindsey Wilson (Ky.)
Week 7 (Oct. 24): Hannah Helker, Oklahoma Baptist


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I've heard the total energy is zero, but I've also heard it cannot be said to be zero since there's so much unknown stuff in the universe. Is that true?
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Conservation of energy doesn't actually apply in any straightforward way to cosmology. The modern understanding of energy conservation is that it is a consequence of Noether's theorem and time translation invariance. In other words, the laws of physics are the same as they were yesterday and they will be tomorrow. This gives rise to the conservation of energy. When the expansion of the universe is important you are doing physics on an expanding background. This breaks the time translation invariance and hence the conservation of energy.
It can be argued that the gravitational field has energy and when this energy is included you get zero total energy for the universe. The problem with this is that there isn't an unambiguous definition for the gravitational energy of an expanding universe (this is somewhat controversial).
I think it can be safely stated that no one really knows the answer to this, because like you've said, there's so much unknown stuff in the Universe. There's that dark matter and dark energy stuff that's pretty mysterious as of today.
Here's a Wikipedia article on the zero-energy-universe, btw.
I think it would make sense for the total energy to be zero. Because, really, if its not, then how can that be? Where did the energy come from? Its pretty safe to say that the conservation of Energy is something that's widely accepted and held to a pretty high degree. The reason why it would be zero is because all of the positive energy equals the amount of negative energy the Universe has.
I hope someone else can answer this better than I can.


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A Nederland woman is dead after being struck by a pickup truck while walking in the 10,000 block of Memorial Blvd in Port Arthur Monday, Dec. 23.
According to a Port Arthur Police Department press release, around 9 p.m., Tiffany Nicole Wagner, 24, was walking north on the Memorial Boulevard northbound access road when a Chevrolet pickup truck also traveling north struck her.
PAPD responded to the scene where they interviewed witnesses who said the victim was walking in the roadway when struck and a PAPD press release states that she was wearing dark clothing.
The victim was transported by EMS to the Medical Center of Southeast Texas where she was pronounced dead.
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The March Virtual Tasting tonight is Magnificent Wine Co.'s House Wine 2006. Magnificent Wine Company is a venture of Charles Smith of K Vintners and Charles Smith Winery. The 2006 House Wine is a blend of 54% Cabernet, 30% Merlot, 11% Syrah, 3% Malbec, and 2% Cab Franc.
In a variation this month, will be updating this post with running notes as I taste the wine rather than posting a single summary at the end. I encourage you to post your comments along the way as well.
Look for the first update about 7pm.
Also, make sure to vote on the April Virtual Tasting.
7:25 Update: Okay folks the bottle is open. Composite cork with no signs of leakage, medium color on the bottom. The bottle is at 65 degrees. I hung the bottle from a cloth Safeway bag out the third floor window of the apartment to bring it to a proper temperature. Sometimes I throw bottles in the fridge for 15-20 minutes if the bottle is warm to get the wine to the proper temperature. However, I prefer more moderate temperature transitions when possible. More to follow.
7:40 Update: Reasonably light in color. Some oak notes that seem to reduce quickly after pouring. The nose seems initially dominated by syrah aromas, including some smoky aromas and black currant. This seems to fade a bit after a few minutes.
Interestingly, the varietal listing on the website does not correspond to what is on the back of the bottle. Composition is: 73% Cabernet; 10% Merlot; 8% Syrah; 5% Sangiovese; 2% Malbec; 2% Cab Franc. It was the sangiovese that had originally got me interested in trying the wine when I saw it in the store. The wine is 13.9% alcohol.
8:10 Update: Fairly voluptuous mouthfeel. The taste has a lot of fruit but thins out a bit about two thirds of the way through. The syrah stands out on the taste as well which seems surprising given that it only makes up 8% of the wine.
On second pour, the syrah aromas show up again. After a time, black olive and dust also briefly show up. Overall I think this is an enjoyable wine for the money. I would give it a + in my rating system.
8:25 Update: Interesting note. My friend and I have different stemware that we are drinking out of. I am drinking out of a Schott Zwisel Forte Tritan glass and she is drinking out of a Riedel Ouverture glass. The aromas coming off these two glasses are about as different as I have seen.
Here is what Wine Spectator had to say about this wine. Note the lazy "others" by HS.
86 points. $10. Fresh, open-textured and distinctive for its peppery raspberry flavors that linger gently. Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Syrah and others. Drink now. 65,000 cases made. –HS
8:35 Update: On third pour, some interesting new things have come out. A fair amount of white pepper coming through now as well as anise. The white pepper I had gotten hints of before but the anise is a bit new. BTW, I purchase this wine from Pete's for $8.
8:45 Update: I have to say that this wine lives up to its name. It is the consummate house wine. While it retails at $10, it can frequently be found for about $8. Add in a six bottle or case discount and you are talking about a great everyday drinking wine.
In terms of food, didn't do much in terms of pairing. Busted out some carrots and hummus that I had around the house. The hummus definitely did bring out some fun spicy components.
Okay, turning my attention to other endeavors for the moment. Final notes a bit later.
9:20 Update: One thing I didn't note about this wine earlier is that, while the color was light, it did seem to have a very slightly aged look to it. Still magenta but with brown hints.
10:00 Update: Final thoughts for the night on the House Wine. I chucked this in the fridge for a bit to keep it cool and it dropped down to 61 degrees. At a cooler temperature, the wine seems even more syrah-influenced with lots of smoky aromas and even a gaminess that I haven't noticed before on this wine. The mouthfeel is almost creamy at this temperature. There is a sweet aspect to the nose too.
Bottom line is that temperature and stemware have a HUGE impact on wine. What does this mean to you? Number one, if you don't own some decent wine glasses, buy some. This is the single biggest thing you can do to improve your wine drinking experience. If you are looking for recommendations look here. In terms of temperature, I use a device from VinTemp. You don't need to run out and buy a wine temperature gauge unless you are crazily obsessed with wine that is. But if you have a thermometer in your house/apartment, pay attention to what the temperature is and, assuming its above 65 degrees, chuck the wine in the fridge for 15-20 minutes before drinking it. Alternately, if it is in the winter time, put it outside for a while. I usually store wine outside while I am drinking it to keep it cool.
March Virtual Tasting - Magnificent Wine Company House Wine 2006
The March Virtual Tasting tonight is Magnificent Wine Co.'s House Wine 2006. Magnificent Wine Company is a venture of Charles Smith of K Vintners and Charles Smith Winery. The 2006 House Wine is a blend of 54% Cabernet, 30% Merlot, 11% Syrah, 3% Malbec, and 2% Cab Franc.
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Beginning off...initial nose is a bit light but interesting. White pepper for sure with some hints of dust. Fruit is black currant and blackberry. Taste is quite full on the mid-palate and stays on the tongue for a long time. At one point it becomes a bit thin, but overall I'm liking it and thinking it's a steal. We'll just see how it lasts as the night goes on...
After 1 hr +...Eureka, I've found the Sangio! Interesting earthy stuff on the nose. Hints of anise. Creamy on first half of palate. Good but strange as well. Overall opinion on the SPS scale, I'm giving it a + Recommended. For $8 - 10% off, good. For a more expensive price, still good, but doesn't knock my socks off.
I agree on the dust and the white pepper. The sangiovese definitely emerges a bit a while in. Considering the cabernet is the main component, it doesn't seem to dominate as much as I would think it would.
Liked it didn't love it. Would serve it at my wedding to people I liked, but didn't love or knew weren't obsessed with wine. + in my book. - KS#1
First question, why would you have people you don't love at your wedding? People who aren't obsessed with wine is marginally acceptable but...
Bottom line. Family obligations. They're in Michigan, and I fear, if I invite them, they might actually come. :( Sad, I know... -KS#1
Thought I'd grab a bottle an participate tonight.
Stemware: Eisch Breathable
Nose: Blackberry/rassberry reduction with peatmoss and, yes, the white pepper as mentioned above. Tiny hints of orange zest and dust and leather. A pretty great nose for the $8 paid.
Pal: Pretty vapid up front, nearly non-descript on the attack. Mid-pal kicks in with good spice and (what's this?) fair structure, led by the acid. After the MP party, the entire experience falls away quickly, as you might expect from an every-day drinker.
Last I checked, I liked the Steak Wine better than the House Wine. Just sayin'.
Thanks for joining in. Gotta try those Eisch glasses at some point. How do you like them? Just tried one of the Venturi aerators recently. Liked the idea and the pleasing sound it makes as you pour the bottle. Need to do an actual side by side but have talked to a couple people who have and they have said it makes a difference. I'll check out the Steak Wine.
alpine yeti Says:
On first opening, detected rasberry, light jammy, blueberry, and clove
felt this wine had a nice balance, light on the texture, but not thin. also detected a slight white pepper on the finish.
all in all this is a great wine for the price, when combined with a nice pasta dinner, it was very enjoyable. would definitely drink again!


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Thursday, November 03, 2011
Blinken: First KDE App on the Nokia Store?
I started coding Blinken (back then known by the ksimon name) in February 2005 and a few months later it joined the KDE Education project.
The last few months I've been playing with the N950 that the nice people at Nokia lent me and soon I realized that thanks to the Document Viewer (based in Calligra) it has some sort of kdelibs on the device (by the name of libkok) so porting KDE applications to it became a bit easier.
With the aim of having Blinken on my phone I started to work and after a few ifdefs for the mouse hover handling and a bit of QML for bits of the UI I ended up with this commit that makes Blinken available for another platform and to my knowledge makes it the first KDE application in the Nokia Store.
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- Keith Z-G said...
How possible do you think it would be to port other KDE games to Harmattan? I don't mean that I'm pressuring you to do so, I'm just wondering from your experience then how easy or complicated you think it'd be for someone to port stuff like KNetWalk or Konquest; I don't have $850 to spare on an N9 myself, but if it's within the reach of a modest-but-determined hacker I'd definitely start saving up for one, heh.
- Thursday, November 03, 2011 9:25:00 PM
- Albert Astals Cid said...
KNetwalk should be pretty easy for the main gaming part, thought obviously you need to redo the menus/highscore dialogs/etc since that do not work at all in a small touch oriented screen
- Thursday, November 03, 2011 10:03:00 PM
libkok is a trimmed down kdelibs. See http://markmail.org/message/uuqq4plj7si5oxqy#query:+page:1+mid:k55227nazmdojum2+state:results for the related background. It's the fast workaround that is supposed to go away once kde-frameworks is in place :)
- Friday, November 04, 2011 7:32:00 AM
- Albert Astals Cid said...
@sebsauer: I know, that's what i said "some sort of kdelibs" and not "kdelibs".
- Friday, November 04, 2011 12:42:00 PM
Okeli. Well, maybe others don't know so hopefully the comment is still of valiue somehow :)
- Monday, November 07, 2011 5:14:00 AM


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John Keats once famously noted, "Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced."
Modern finance theory usually assumes that people are fully rational, incorporating all available information instantaneously into their expectations. Yet researchers have discovered that our personal experiences disproportionately impact our expectations about the future and risk taking behavior. In other words, we often overweight our own personal experiences at the expense of broader and often more objective and accurate information.
Below, I examine the evidence behind, and implications of, this bad investing behavior, and what investors can do to try to overcome it.
Q: What is the evidence on how personal experiences affect our investment decisions?
A: Researchers have found that our experiences have a disproportionate impact on how much we save for retirement, our willingness to repurchase a given stock, our propensity to participate in initial public offerings and our portfolio diversification decisions.
Based on data from a large benefits recording firm, investors who have experienced high average returns or low volatility in their 401(k) accounts tend to save more. Meanwhile, as evidenced by trades during the 1990s at a large U.S. discount brokerage and a large retail brokerage, investors shun stocks that they previously sold for a loss and stocks that have risen in price after being sold. This is presumably because investors are trying to distance themselves from the associated negative feelings of regret and disappointment.
Our personal observations about the macroeconomic environment also impact our return and volatility expectations, risk taking and financing decisions. For instance, based on data from the Michigan Survey of Consumer Attitudes, individuals expect higher stock market returns and lower volatility in times of economic expansion than during recessions. In addition, corporate managers who experienced the Great Depression subsequently shied away from external financing and chose a more conservative capital structure with less leverage.
Finally, based on 1960 to 2007 data from the Survey of Consumer Finances, individuals who have experienced low stock market returns during their lifetimes tend to be more pessimistic about future returns, more risk averse, less likely to participate in the stock market and generally invest a lower fraction of their liquid wealth in stocks. The same is true for bond investors who have experienced low returns.
Q: What are the portfolio implications of this bad investing behavior?
A: By simply repeating investing behaviors that resulted in good outcomes for us in the past, and avoiding those that resulted in poor outcomes, we're potentially eliminating important information that could help future investment performance. This is the primary issue with relying on our personal observations and experiences to form return and risk expectations and building portfolios.
For example, an individual who has only experienced poor stock market returns may cut down his retirement contributions to the point that he ultimately falls short of his retirement goals. Today's younger generations, who over the past 15 years have seen two big stock market crashes, may be especially susceptible to underinvestment in risky assets if they base their investing decisions solely on their own personal investment experience.
Q: What steps can investors take to mitigate the potential adverse impact of this bias on their portfolio positioning and performance?
A: Key here is broadening one's horizons, starting with an awareness of our tendency toward the personal experiences bias. More specifically, individual investors and advisors would want to consider deliberately lengthening the time period on which they are basing their return and risk assessments to include different macroeconomic and market scenarios.
In addition, given the dangers of spot estimates, portfolios should be scenario and stress tested for different kinds of environments, and the data sources used to make assessments should incorporate a broad array of information, ranging from macroeconomic to company specific data.
I also advocate using a rules-based or systematic investment methodology, whether simple quantitative screens or full investment models built to predict fair values, to help construct a portfolio. This approach can potentially draw attention to, and help weed out, behavioral investment biases.
Sources: Studies linked to throughout the post.
Nelli Oster, PhD, is a Director and Investment Strategist in BlackRock's Multi-Asset Strategies Group. She holds a BSc (Hons) in Management Sciences from the London School of Economics and a PhD in Finance from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, where her dissertation focused on behavioral finance.


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For this past year I have been researching what motivates and influences mothers to choose a free-birth or 'high-risk' homebirth as part of my PhD thesis 'birthing outside the system'. It has become dramatically obvious that women who make choices that are seemingly against the system have a very different perception of risk than our medically minded counterparts.
The concept of risk is just that, a concept, one that can be perceived and understood differently by everyone based on their previous experiences, research and influences throughout life. Obstetrics argues that their definition or perception of risk is 'right' and authoritative (Murphy-Lawless 1998 p.22) and touts their management and intervention as the best and most sure way of reducing the risk of childbirth. Medicalised management of birth is a hallmark of mainstream birth services; these services perceive their management of birth to be the only 'right', 'best' and 'safe' way to birth, dismissing all other options as 'dangerous', 'irresponsible', 'risky' and 'wrong', but, what if medical management of birth is 'wrong'? What if they unequivocally have it wrong? This is certainly the question asked by the highly intelligent, critical and knowledgeable women who have shared their stories for my research.
For mothers who choose to birth at home, medical interventions and interruptions in the birth process are seen as 'dangerous' and 'risky'. They feel that the risk of something going wrong at their birth proliferates the more they part-take in or make themselves vulnerable to the medical management of birth. One woman explains, 'I look at interference a bit like risk, every time someone new comes across you or does something, that's a risk that something goes wrong, every time you get a medication there is a risk it's the wrong one, every time they do something there's a risk that flows onto something else, so if no-one is doing anything to you or performing any unnecessary tests, then there is no risk there'- (homebirth mother). This is in dramatic conflict with the medical message that interventions are designed and employed in order to reduce risk.
The medical use of risk language alongside birthing generates fear around the process of labour and birth and if birth is marketed as risky, then it will be perceived as scary. By the use of risk language, obstetrics has perpetuated the myth that childbirth is to be feared and thus throughout history convinced mothers to conform to their birth management in order to avoid something going wrong (Murphy-Lawless 1998, p.18). The medicalisation of birth has allowed obstetrics to redefine what is considered 'normal' and 'abnormal'. By developing a conceptual difference between abnormal and normal the medical profession have secured a large and growing market for their services in perpetuity by the creation of false needs and then catering to these newly perceived needs (Ballard & Elston, 2005, p.230). By the social process of medicalising birth, modern obstetrics can justify managing labour and birth by intervening to make each individual labour and birth conform to the obstetric definition of normal. By defining what is constituted as normal birth, obstetricians have monopolised control over events which occur outside the norm under the guise of 'risk management'.
Women who remain unconvinced by the obstetric definition of 'risk' see no reason in accepting medical interventions and therefore see no reason to enter hospitals. The very place they are most at risk of being subjected to interruption and intervention while they are trying to give birth is at hospital. Home birthing women see intervention as risky and thus will not be convinced to accept them as a way of avoiding adverse outcomes; in fact, they believe that the risk of adverse outcomes at birth is increased by unnecessary intervention. One mother comments, 'I don't see induction now as the safe way out, actually having an induction now is the risk to me, that is tempting fate, not carrying a well baby to full term and comfortably to post-dates, that's not the risk, it's the unnecessary induction' (homebirth mother). Another mother also comments, 'they interfere so that's why things happen, they end up with forceps or vacuum or caesarean because they put up drips (to speed labour) and they just stuff women up' (homebirth mother).
The question must be asked, how can it be that modern medicine believes they can make birth safer by interfering, to avoid complications and minimise risk when a home birth mother believes interventions make her birth more dangerous, will cause complications and increase her risk? Is it possible that both are right? if not- who is wrong? The answer lies in what women have described to me as 'medically indicated intervention' and 'necessary intervention'. The women who have contributed to my study saw the absolute necessary place of obstetrics in emergency care for birth complications; we can all agree that when a caesarean is legitimately needed we want a skilled obstetrician (not a midwife) to perform the surgery, but where the bone of contention exists is- who defines necessary?
Just like modern obstetrics and home birthing women have different perceptions of 'risk' they also have different definitions of necessary. Women who birth their babies at home see 'necessary intervention' as one that is 'medically indicated' and a response to a real threat to the mother and baby, one that is truly required because the mother and baby are at risk of death or damage. One mother was asked during her interview if she think thought there was a right place for intervention, she replied, 'yeah, if there is a problem, if there is a risk, there's something possible that's going to affect the mother or the baby and that's their only way of getting out a healthy baby then yeah, that's the advantage of living in today's society' (home birth mother).
You might ask, why else would an intervention be performed if not for the safety of the mother and baby? The answer not only lies in the findings from my study but also my personal experience working in the hospital system. Deviating from the medically defined norm of time in pregnancy will find you shafted into an induction, not because you and your baby are at risk, but because the hospital policy says so. Not dilating at the medically defined speed will see you augmented with medication, which will see you strapped to the medically defined 'best' way of monitoring your baby, which will see you in much greater pain then if you had free movement, which would increase the 'risk' of you needing pain medication, which would increase the 'risk' that your baby will need to be pulled out with forceps and need intervention to breathe, which will increase the 'risk' of breastfeeding being unsuccessful. Digressing from medical definitions of normal and hospital policy will see you managed with intervention, not to decrease your risk, but to increase your conformity to the medically defined boundaries of normal- which may or may not be right.
Risk is in the eye of the beholder, every day we make decisions about the risks we are willing to take. You take a risk getting in your car, buying sushi, having sex, taking a panadol, going for a jog, drinking hot coffee and gardening on a hot day, I took the risk today of aggravating my repetitive strain injury while typing, but it was a risk I was willing to take. The medical system and home birthing women perceive risk differently and are willing to take different risks based on different motives, but while each ones perception is different, it is not less or wrong, just different. What is 'right' and 'best' can only be determined by each individual and where the conflict lies is in who defines what is 'best' and which risks are 'right' to take.
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My Outdoor Calendar is a full service booking system that allows outdoor businesses to build a virtual calendar to stay organized and share it with their customers.
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Readers of the German press did not profit much from the thematic focus of the 2004 Frankfurt Book Fair 'Arab Worlds'. What little media attention the few Arab authors received came mainly from critics in exile. While Die Zeit published a supplement on Arabic literature, essays from Arab intellectuals on Islam and the West were notably absent. Yet maybe a volume of verse by Syrian poet Adonis will generate more interest in the Arab world than clever political commentary. And perhaps a book on Arab cuisine with recipes for mouth-watering titbits like lamb fillets crusted with cardamom and coffee beans stands a better chance than many books of turning the clash of civilizations into a garden of earthly delights. If so, the Book Fair had a lot to offer.
Arabic poetry
The most highly praised book from the Arab world was a volume of poetry by Syrian writer Adonis, "Ein Grab für New York". The FAZ calls it "songs of hubris and nemesis" and a foreshadowing of 9/11. The FR advises the Western reader not to be irritated by its "blooming metaphors" but rather to give in to its "dizzying cycle of images". Also recommended is a volume of poetry by Arab women, "Ein Buch namens Freude", collected by Annemarie Schimmel. Die Zeit was the only paper to review the verse of Palestinian poet Mahmud Darwisch, published under the title "wo du warst und wo du bist", recommending the book in urgent terms.
Arabic novels
The epic "Tor zur Sonne" by Lebanese author Elias Khoury was well received. The SZ praises it for not falling into the "trap of the heroic genre", while Die Zeit calls it a "great novel". There are, however, some voices of dissent. The taz feels that the 700 plus page tome demands a high price in "patience and endurance", while for the FR the book displays "terrifying monotony". "Die Reise des Ibn Fattuma" ("The Journey of Ibn Fattouma"), the latest book by Egyptian novelist and Nobel Prize winner Naguib Mahfouz, was well received. The NZZ calls it "consciously subtle lore" and Stefan Weidner in the FAZ argues that while its "political allegory" genre may take some getting used to, the book stands firmly in the tradition of "epic journeys towards mystic awakening".
"Die dunkle Seite der Liebe" by Rafik Schami, a Syrian take on Romeo and Juliet, got rave reviews. Fritz J. Raddatz in Die Zeit nearly burst with enthusiasm for the work of the German-based writer, calling it "Scheherazade in technicolour". Boualem Sansal's novel "Erzähl mir vom Paradies", set in contemporary Algeria, provoked shivers at the FR. "No one has written with such rage since Celine and Malaparte."
An essay, a travel book and a cookbook
In his narrative essay "Mohammedanische Versuchungen", Islam scholar Stefan Weidner has bundled his love for the Islamic culture into a combination of analysis, journal and self-reflection. Renee Zucker in the taz considers this the book of the year, forgiving Weidner for defending Samuel Huntington's thesis of the "clash of civilizations" from an Arab perspective. For the FAZ, "Mohammedanischen Versuchungen" is nothing less than the "most intelligent book written on the clash of cultures". Those interested in how the Middle East looked in the 1930s are advised by the FAZ to read the travel account "Die Reise nach Oxiana" ("The Road to Oxiana") by Lord Byron's descendant Robert Byron.
For the FAZ, the cherry on top is "Kulinarisches Arabien", which blends recipes such as "lamb fillet with a coffee bean and cardamom crust on stewed eggplant with pomegranate sauce" with regional and geographic information.
Books on Arabic literature
Where to start? Is it not a commonplace that Arabic verse is unparalleled? And let's not forget the medieval authors - as Edward Said recently wrote in Al Ahram, high Arabic has remained practically unchanged for centuries. Shall we dip into the works of 20th century writers? Or perhaps we should start with a survey of Arabic literature and its authors? Three reference books come highly recommended: Wiebke Walther's "Kleine Geschichte der arabischen Literatur" - an "important book" (Die Zeit), guides the reader through Arabic literature from pre-Islamic times to the present. The "Lexikon arabischer Autoren des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts" is a "perfect guide", according to the taz. Lastly, Islam expert Navid Kermani, writing in the FR, called "Arabische Literatur, postmodern" a highlight of the Frankfurt Book Fair.
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