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Both the school and university police chief Zeke Aull argued in court documents that they are immune from being sued under state law in the October death of freshman Gil Collar, 18, of Wetumpka.
His parentsfiled the suit over the killing last month. They are seeking an unspecified amount of money and a court order requiring the school to arm its officers with stun guns.
Aside from arguing he can't be held liable for Collar's death, Aull also asked a judge to refuse the demand to arm all school officers with the weapons, which are used to shock suspects into submission.
Aull argued such an order is both outside the power of a court and would affect state budgets since the weapons can cost more than $1,000 apiece and the arming cartridges costs hundreds of dollars each.
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Collar's parents also sued the officer identified by the university as firing the fatal shot, Trevis Austin, but he has not filed a response.
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Collar, who was nude and believed to be on some sort of drug, acted aggressively toward the officer and stood in a fighting stance before he was shot. Mobile County investigators said Collar never touched the officer or got any closer to him than a few feet.
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- Thank you RWSmith, unexpected and really cool. My only worry is that now they will expect something out of me! :) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jzweiac (talk • contribs) February 26, 2010. (Please, sign and date your posts on talk pages.)
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- Thank you, I started it and then got distracted and was going to work some on it. I appreciate it and it looks alot better!! Jzweiac 00:13, March 29, 2011 (EDT)
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Why not, I would be honored Jzweiac 19:22, February 29, 2012 (EST)
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Thanks. I didn't know what I was getting myself into. So many requirements, and to try to put them in some kind of cogent order....! Jay 16:04, July 21, 2012 (EDT)
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Message Board Quilt Retreat: June 15 - 20, 2009
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Checkout Sat, June 20 11 am
Location: Henderson House Bed and Breakfast, Stafford, Kansas
Total expense to you for all lodging, food, activities, and supplies for 5 days and nights:
$350 payable as follows
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*let me know if you are bringing hubby/friend and we will discuss a reduced rate for his/her room and board if they are not participating in the classes and activities
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*Sunbonnet Sue, history based on research by Betty Hagerman
2 evening Quilt Trunk shows
*Antique quilts from my collection bring yours if you have room
*Fund raising quilts from my collection bring yours if you have room
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Lots of free time to visit, sew, quilt, run about
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*Needleturn Applique, beginning intermediate
*Layering and basting your quilt you can bring one to baste if you have one ready and we will get it done in class
*Double fold binding you can bring your quilt that is ready for binding and we will help you get it done while you are here
*Precision or difficult piecing,, ie, Y seams, what is a ¼ inch seams, * send me your questions and I will prepare a presentation for you or arrange for someone that can
*Hand piecing if there is interest
*Hoopless hand quilting
*T-shirt quilts, maybe, let me know if you have some you want to work on while at the retreat
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The intent of this retreat is to get together and meet in person the people you have been chatting with online and learn from each other. As such, I have not hired high profile, expensive quilt professionals as you may have encountered at other retreats. I am an experienced quilter and teacher and I feel that I can provide you help in the areas I have mentioned.
If any of you are interested in teaching other techniques that I have not included, please contact me by PM and lets get it on the list.. I am not an expert in Paper Piecing, Machine quilting and many other techniques that you may want to learn so your participation is required in the planning to help you get all you want from this experience.
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In "Jakob von Gunten," the 1909 novel by the German-speaking Swiss writer Robert Walser, the hero adopts the motto "To be small and to stay small." The words apply just as well to Walser himself, whose life and work played out as a relentless diminuendo. The up-and-coming young novelist of the period before the First World War, capable of producing three novels in as many years, turned to shorter forms, and saw his audience and his income dwindle gradually through the war years and the nineteen-twenties. Once a fixture of smart Berlin society, Walser exchanged the world of salons for a series of tiny furnished rooms and, finally, in 1929, a mental institution. Even his handwriting diminished; he was able to squeeze a last novel—a short one, but still—onto just twenty-four sides of octavo-size paper. For years, some scholars believed that the script in which Walser composed this novel, "The Robber," and many other later works was an uncrackable private code, and not until 1972, fifteen years after his death, did transcriptions from the so-called Bleistiftgebiet, or "pencil area," begin to appear. The publication, starting in the eighties, of six volumes of painstakingly transcribed texts brought to light some of Walser's most beautiful and haunting writing, and reinforced his posthumous reputation in German. The incredible shrinking writer is a major twentieth-century prose artist who, for all that the modern world seems to have passed him by, fulfills the modern criterion: he sounds like nobody else.
In Walser's case, this means that he achieved a remarkable tone, in which perfect assurance and perfect ambiguity combine. His narrators are all ostensibly humble, courteous, and cheerful; the puzzle lies in deciding where they are speaking in earnest and where ironically. Three of Walser's four surviving novels are now available in English, along with several collections of stories quarried by various translators—most notably Christopher Middleton and Susan Bernofsky—from the ten volumes of short prose that Walser published during his lifetime, and the deep trove of deciphered microscripts. The most recently translated novel, "The Assistant" (New Directions; translated by Bernofsky; $16.95), abounds in declarations like "How tasty the coffee was again today." No irony there—and you can read a lot of Walser without finding a single mention of food, drink, weather, clothing, architecture, or cigars that is not entirely appreciative. Joseph, the assistant, also enjoys swimming on his days off: "What swimming person, provided he is not about to drown, can help being in excellent spirits?" The proviso about drowning introduces a dark flutter of ambiguity, but, generally speaking, Walser's narrators claim to be in excellent spirits even when they are drowning: "Of course, I like sorrow very much as well, it's very valuable, very." Sometimes Walser seems a sort of saint of cosmic compliance. At other times, in his good-natured acceptance of all things, he appears to be mocking the very possibility of such an attitude: "I only know that all the poor people work in the factory, perhaps as a punishment for being so poor." Indeed, the Walser tone, hovering between beatific quietism and a burlesque of conventionality, is detectable in the immortal reply he gave a man who visited him at an asylum and asked about his writing: "I am not here to write, but to be mad."
The seventh of eight children, Robert Walser was born in Biel, Switzerland, on April 15, 1878. On his mother's side were peasants and artisans, and, on his father's, pastors, including, in his grandfather, a frankly utopian social reformer whose activism cost him his clerical collar and inspired reactionaries to fire shots at his windows. The grandfather kept the bullets as souvenirs, and may also have passed on some of his politics to his grandson; Walser several times sketches a utopia of freedom and equality which seems to have arrived not by revolution but, in very Swiss fashion, through a sort of universal politeness and consideration.
Walser's father was a struggling bookbinder, though it is his mother, Elisa, who seems to have loomed larger. According to Catherine Sauvat, Walser's French biographer (there is also a German biography, by Robert Mächler), Elisa Walser's periods of depressive withdrawal were often followed by bouts of rage in which she reproached her children either for tormenting her or for ignoring her. Despite a household climate of financial insecurity and mental illness, the Walser siblings were a lively and talented brood who took great pleasure in one another's company; by far Robert's closest friends in life were his brother Karl and his sister Lisa. Still, given that not one of six boys and two girls became a parent, it's hard not to suspect the enduring presence of some shared childhood unhappiness. The eldest brother died at fifteen; the other siblings became teachers (one of whom preceded Walser to the Waldau mental institution, and another of whom committed suicide), an artist, a banker, the wife of a matchstick-company manager, and—in Robert himself—a writer who can seem a reductio ad absurdum of the good child: cheerful and polite in all circumstances and ready to see the justice of any punishment he receives.
The family could not afford to send Robert to school past the age of fourteen, and before devoting himself to writing he worked as a clerk at a bank, in an elastics factory, and for a luckless inventor. He also attended an academy for servants and was briefly a butler in a Silesian castle. Walser put all of this to use in his writing, and, as a novelist, he can be placed in that comic tradition of European clerking fiction that runs from Gogol through Kafka and down to José Saramago. However, unlike Kafka—who admired "Jakob von Gunten" and whose own first book was hailed by Robert Musil as "a special case of the Walser type"—Walser did not find it possible to hold down a job and write at the same time. His frustration with clerkly existence is evident in the deadpan story "Job Application":
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I am a poor, young, unemployed person in the business field, my name is Wenzel, I am seeking a suitable position, and I take the liberty of asking you, nicely and politely, if perhaps in your airy, bright, amiable rooms such a position might be free. . . . Large and difficult tasks I cannot perform, and obligations of a far-reaching sort are too strenuous for my mind. I am not particularly clever, and first and foremost I do not like to strain my intelligence overmuch. . . . Assuredly there exists in your extensive institution, which I imagine to be overflowing with main and subsidiary functions and offices, work of the kind that one can do as in a dream?—I am, to put it frankly, a Chinese; that is to say, a person who deems everything small and modest to be beautiful and pleasing, and to whom all that is big and exacting is fearsome and horrid.
The passage shows the tightness of Walser's switchbacks from sweetness to sarcasm and back to sweetness again. It also offhandedly announces his credo—everything small and modest is beautiful and pleasing—and establishes the depth of his affinity with Kafka. After all, Kafka in one of his letters makes the same curious declaration—"Indeed I am a Chinese"—and cherished the idea of smallness in a similar way: "Two possibilities: making oneself infinitely small, or being so." For both writers, smallness implied a drastic aversion to power, the exercise of it as well as submission to it. And Walser's notion of smallness came to enfold the entire world. In a late sketch, he is still dreaming of China:
Nobody there is so foolish as to believe himself better than his fellow beings. I think of the Chinese as people polite and happy in equal measure, as friendly as they are helpful. There, modesty is the crowning glory of sentiment. . . . China is teeming with people, but nobody vexes anyone. . . . The human traffic is like an ocean.
In 1904, when Walser was twenty-six, he saw his first book published, a collection of essays on everything and nothing by the fictional naïf Fritz Kocher. Among Kocher's observations are that leaves fall to the ground in autumn, that country fairs are useful and pleasant, and that "more people perish than want to." Walser had assembled the essays over several years, while working intermittently in and around Zurich and Bern, and once they had appeared between two covers he felt emboldened to move to Berlin and seek his fortune there.
In Berlin, he moved in with his brother Karl (a notable illustrator and stage-set designer) and attempted to live by his pen. He didn't do badly at first, and his literary success, along with his brother's connections, secured him a place in German artistic circles, where he was sometimes governed by an imp of the perverse. As adolescents, he and Karl had apparently perfected the art of perching in a high window and throwing their hats onto the heads of passersby, and their mischief persisted in adulthood. One evening at a party, they challenged the famous playwright Frank Wedekind to a bout of Hosenlupf (literally, "trouser-hoist"), a Swiss wrestling variant that makes inventive use of an opponent's waistband. When Wedekind, discomfited, fled to a café, his tormentors pursued him, hailing him with friendly, if cryptic, cries of "Muttonhead!" and causing him to get caught up in a revolving door. On another occasion, in a literary salon, Walser interrupted the high-flown talk by seizing a young Englishwoman's leg and praising her small feet.
This sort of behavior made Walser stand out in Berlin, as did his Swiss-German dialect and his lack of formal education. And his acquaintances—he had few friends and, it seems, in the course of his life, not a single lover of either sex—were thereby confronted with the same question as his readers: where did innocence and joy end and playacting begin? In later years, stung by his failure to be taken seriously as a writer, Walser claimed that the ingenuousness was just an act: "My vocation, my mission, consists mainly in making every effort to keep my audience believing that I am truly simple. I give them the illusion that unspoiledness and naïveté still exist." But it can be hard to tell. When Walser met Lenin in Zurich, during the war, all he had to say was "So you, too, like fruitcake?"
"The Assistant," which was written in Berlin a hundred years ago, in a six-week sprint, and appeared in 1908, is only Walser's second published novel, and here his innocence seems more truly innocent than is sometimes the case. Told from the point of view of Joseph, an impoverished young clerk who joins the employ and the household of a precariously solvent inventor named Tobler, the story might be defined in terms of the intersection of two motions: the daily up and down of Joseph's moods, and the relentless decline of his master's fortunes. Joseph, "a passionate smoker," puffs on Herr Tobler's cheroots and consumes Tobler's food with the relish of a man who has known hunger. He also likes taking walks in the woods and chatting up Tobler's mercurial wife. Joseph's more anxious moods arrive when he fears that he will lose access to these pleasures, either because Tobler goes broke or because his own tendency to do "stupid things"—he sometimes has the cheek to address his betters as their equal—gets him fired:
"Could it be possible for me to live without doing stupid things? And in this household I do them so splendidly. . . . And how can I think of existing without drinking Herr Tobler's coffee? . . . And in whose neatly covered and turned-down beds do I intend to go to sleep afterwards? No doubt beneath the arches of some cozy bridge!"
"The Assistant" is full of such pell-mell soliloquies, and it's no wonder that Walser soon abandoned third-person narration for the more congenial mode of the monologue. The aspect of his style already perfected here is the beautiful abstractness of his descriptions: "Autumn was arriving, everything appeared to be sitting down, somewhere something was coming to a standstill, nature seemed at times to be rubbing its eyes." When Herr Tobler flies into drunken hysterics, we are told, "Masculine and human rationality was now bawling and jeering and babbling."
Walser's clerks and layabouts are perhaps the nicest, most considerate people you can meet in modernist fiction, but they can also be cuttingly ironic in the way of only the very polite: that "cozy" bridge to sleep under, that "masculine and human" rationality. Susan Bernofsky reproduces this effect and others with impressive fluency and naturalness, and she must also have enjoyed dusting off words like "swillpot" and "thunderation." It's only too bad that, for want of such a translation, Virginia Woolf never learned that the desire she expressed in her 1919 essay "Modern Fiction" for a more impressionistic and less narrowly empirical modern novel, a novel of floating sensibility rather than fixed characters, had been, to such a remarkable degree, anticipated a dozen years earlier by a Swiss writer living in Berlin.
Something else Woolf wrote in her essay seems to apply to Walser: "If a writer were a free man and not a slave, if he could write what he chose, not what he must, if he could base his work on his own feeling and not upon convention, there would be no plot, no comedy, no tragedy, no love interest or catastrophe in the accepted style." To this Walser adds a certain specification of what it would mean to be a free man. After all, for Herr Tobler and his wife, there is a love interest (their marriage) and a catastrophe (their bankruptcy); for their assistant Joseph there is neither. And Joseph doesn't need the disciplined temperament of a successful entrepreneur, since he isn't trying to be one. He can simply decline to be yelled at anymore and, as he does on the last page of the book, walk off down the hill: no paycheck, but no debts, either. If Joseph seems remarkably unconcerned about where his future wages will come from, this may be because "The Assistant" describes the last serious job that Walser held before moving to Berlin. The book is a covert Künstlerroman, its hero on his way to becoming an artist.
"Jakob von Gunten" is Walser's next Berlin novel—and a masterpiece, not least of ambiguity. Jakob has enrolled in a school for servants in order to learn humility, an effort that seems, at first, to be imposed by necessity, since, despite his aristocratic surname, Jakob is almost penniless and needs to make a living somehow: "As an old man I shall have to serve young and confident and badly educated ruffians, or I shall be a beggar, or I shall perish." Later, his attitude is more complicated:
If I were rich, I wouldn't travel around the world. To be sure, that would not be so bad. But I can see nothing wildly exciting about getting a fugitive acquaintance with foreign places. In general I would decline to educate myself, as they say, any further. I would be attracted by deep things and by the soul, rather than by distances and things far off. . . . And I wouldn't buy anything either. I would make no acquisitions. . . . I would walk about on foot, just as usual, with the consciously secret intention of not letting people notice very much how regally rich I am. . . . It would never occur to me to take a cab. Only people who are in a hurry or want to put on noble airs do that. But I wouldn't want to put on noble airs, and I would be in no hurry whatever.
You can read this passage several times without figuring out whether it constitutes a declaration of the sublimest contentment, given that Jakob's fantasy of wealth is identical to the reality of his poverty, or whether Walser is saying something else—that only a rich man could enjoy the simple life, since only then would simplicity be his free choice. So it is reading Walser: you catch a glimpse of real spiritual nobility, and then wonder whether the very idea of such a thing—spiritual nobility, in a world of rich and poor—isn't meant as a sarcastic joke.
What's beyond doubt is that Walser spent a good deal of his life on foot and in no hurry. Homesickness and poverty compelled him back to Switzerland in 1913, and, in the next decade and a half, he seems to have been out walking whenever he was not at his desk or asleep in bed. From now on, Walser concentrated on short prose, and it is tempting to suppose that his prodigious rambling contributed to the style of his later stories. "Stories," in fact, is not the word for these feuilletonistic flights of prose; they are squibs, sketches, anecdotes, essays, fantasies, or an unstable compound of all those. It's remarkable to see what variety and richness, what easiness and charm, what winsome inanities and philosophical depths he could pack into half a page of one late sketch alone, as in "Boat Trip":
Odd similarities between things at rest and things flowing occurred to me during the trip that I, too, participated in, and I would have been delighted to have been as fascinating a storyteller as one person there, who was asked to invent a tale so that the outing not become boring. . . . Here and there fish, driven it seemed by an uncontrollable curiosity, bobbed upward from the depths to visibility, as though wishing to help the listeners be satisfied with the tale. On fish one finds no arms. Is that why they have such huge eyes and expressive mouths? Is it because they have no legs that they make the best swimmers?. . . A girl sitting with us in the boat compared traveling over the water to the imperceptible gliding and progress of growth, that of fruit for example, which perhaps would have little desire to ripen if it knew to what end.
In his "Essay on Freedom," Walser seems to be describing at once his own nature and the mode of his later prose: "Freedom wants both to be understood and to be almost continuously not understood; it wants to be seen and then again to be as if it were not there." Tempting as it is to wring one's hands over the philistine reading public that was not eager to sponsor Walser in the growing freedom of his writing, really it's remarkable that the editors of ordinary newspapers—one of whom received threats of cancelled subscriptions unless the "nonsense" stopped—published any of this work at all. In the end, not surprisingly, they were unwilling to run much more of it. Walser could afford to rent only the meanest of furnished rooms, one of which a visitor inventoried thus: "There was only a bed, a table, and a chair. A cheap map of Europe was tacked to the wall." As his public grew smaller, Walser began to compose much of his work, in his almost indecipherably tiny and abbreviated script, without any expectation of publication; but we should not conclude from this that he didn't care about recognition. In being understood and almost continually not understood, both parts were important, and one of the threads holding together "The Robber," written in 1925, is the Walser figure's concern with his reception as a writer and as a person: "Local men of the world call me a simpleton because novels don't tumble out of my pockets." "The Robber" itself, more an assemblage of passages than a novel in any ordinary sense, did not tumble into the world until 1972—a fitting date for a beautiful, unsummarizable work every bit as self-reflexive as anything produced by the metafictionists of the sixties and seventies.
In 1929, Walser was brought by his sister Lisa to the Waldau mental institution, in Bern (where their brother Ernst, given a diagnosis of schizophrenia, had lived for eighteen years, until his death, in 1916). To be sure, Walser was not quite normal psychologically, and his later work can sometimes be reminiscent of the alternately friendly and menacing private universes elaborated by other institutionalized "outsider artists." But he seems to have suffered more from unhappiness, isolation, and poverty than from anything else. Neither the admitting doctor's report nor the testimony of those who met and spoke with Walser during his last decades render his diagnosis of schizophrenia very persuasive. Walser's brothers Karl and Oscar believed that he simply preferred life at Waldau to life outside (and for that reason ultimately refused to contribute to his keep). They were probably right: Walser could now devote himself to writing without having to worry about earning a living, while the presence of others relieved him of some portion of his solitude. Rather than take his own room, Walser chose to sleep, barracks style, among the other inmates, though his taste for company did not extend to conversation. One of his last prose pieces describes a pretty girl who steadfastly rebuffs all offers of dinner, gondola rides, and flowers; she prefers to sit alone in the sun, "luxuriating in the simplicity of her wants."
Walter Benjamin, in an essay from 1929, made the ingenious suggestion that Walser's cheerful people must all be convalescents; only recovered health could explain the intense pleasure they take in absolutely everything. More recently, the Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben offered a gloss on the flatness, the thus-ness, of Walser's frequently very matter-of-fact prose: this, he says, is how the world of left-behind objects and people will look after the Messiah has come and gone, abandoned in what Agamben calls the Irreparable. That works, too, for much of Walser's writing, though it doesn't cover the ironic moments. In these, it truly seems as if Walser has been laid under a curse: permitted only to speak well of the world, he is forced to express any sorrow or rage he feels in terms of the most unequivocal praise. The resulting sense of torment, endlessness, and absurdity puts one in mind of Kafka again.
In 1933, Waldau came under new management and Walser was moved to another asylum. He did not protest this plan at first, but when the day came he refused to get out of bed and had to be taken away by force. In the new asylum, in Herisau, in his native canton of Appenzell, Walser received visits from a man of letters named Carl Seelig, who oversaw the reissue of some of Walser's work and made a record of his conversations with the writer. It was Seelig to whom Walser said that his role was no longer to write but to be mad, and he also gave Seelig what might be taken as an explanation for his abandonment of writing following his forcible transfer: "The only ground on which a writer can produce is that of freedom." For several years, Seelig petitioned for Walser's release, but without success, and Walser remained an inmate of the Herisau asylum until he died, out on one of his long walks, on Christmas Day, 1956. Someone had the sang-froid to snap a photograph: footprints in the snow lead to a tall man lying with one arm thrown behind his head, for all the world as if his last gesture had been to toss off the hat that lies a few feet away. ♦


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Maxwell leads Tech contingent
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Two rounds are in the books at the Samford Intercollegiate, and Tennessee Tech has plenty of ground to make up, sitting in 16th place.
Lee Maxwell led the Golden Eagles through the first two rounds of the 2012 spring season, shooting a first-round 79 on Monday and following it up with a 77 in the second round, which began Monday but was not completed until Tuesday morning.
As a team, Tech shot 317 in the first round and 316 in the second to post a team score of 633.
Samford, the host squad, leads the tournament going into Tuesday's final round with a 579. The Bulldogs' Casey O'Toole is the event's individual leader, posting a combined 139 on the heels of a second-round 66.
Behind Maxwell, Travis Ramsey was Tech's next-lowest scorer, finishing with an 80-78=158. Greg Kitts came in at 80-79=159 while Tyler Cassetty shot 78-82=160 and Mason Griffin rounded out the Golden Eagle field at 81-87=168.
Samford holds an eight-stroke advantage over second-place Davidson (587) and an 11-stroke lead over third-place Sam Houston State (590). Belmont (596) and Austin Peay (599) round out the top five.
The rest of the field consists of Winthrop (603), Western Carolina (606), Houston Baptist (606), Evansville (606), Murray State (610), Eastern Kentucky (613), SIU Edwardsville (620), Air Force (621), Southern Illinois (623), Tennessee-Martin (625), Tennessee Tech (633), Nicholls State (633) and Illinois State (635).
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Most experts would agree investing in the stock market is not for those of a nervous disposition, but one bank has identified the six key errors investors regularly make, and crucially, how to avoid them.
Strategist Peter Bezak at Switzerland's Bank Sarasin highlighted the six psychological traps or "biases" that trip investors up, in a portfolio strategy note this month. These mistakes include:
Availability bias: With rolling 24-hour news, information overload is always a risk. On the other hand, investors may rely solely on recommendations and tips with which they are familiar, and give greater weight to information that is readily available.
Selection bias: An investment decision can be influenced by how data is represented,for instance, over one year or several.
Overconfidence bias: Overrating one's ability is a common mistake, according to Bezak, and occurs when investors forget their poor investment decisions quicker than their good ones.
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Assessment bias: Another common error is booking profits early, but waiting too long to realize losses.
Confirmation bias: Investors may selectively gather information to confirm their point of view, while avoiding contradictory information. A case of burying your head in the sand, maybe?
And finally, reference point bias occurs when investors are influenced by a factor that should not play any part in the investment decision, such as the purchase price.
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But even if you know which pitfalls to avoid, what should you actually be doing? Bezak said a few simple steps can be taken to safeguard the decision-making process.
Firstly, investors should avoid focusing on specific shares, and diversify their investments. Bezak suggested opting for a portfolio with a combination of cash,bonds, equities and alternative assets to reduce risk but still generate a"respectable" return.
In addition, investors need to determine their risk level – how much risk are they willing to tolerate? And once they've decided they need to stick to it, "in order to profit from a positive trend", said Bezak.
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KABUL, Afghanistan — The Taliban struck a government compound in eastern Afghanistan on Thursday in a dawn attack that included two suicide truck bombings and left at least 12 people dead, including eight off duty policemen asleep in their quarters nearby.
The assault followed a stark message from the Taliban to world leaders gathered at a NATO summit in Wales, which will also discuss the drawdown of the alliance's mission in Afghanistan.
The exit of all foreign combat troops at the end of the year is proof that "no nation is able to subdue a free nation, especially a nation proud and free such as Afghanistan," the Taliban note said.
Thursday's attack started at sunrise, with the Taliban setting off two massive suicide truck bombs outside the government compound in the provincial capital of Ghazni, followed by an assault by nearly a dozen gunmen.
The assault triggered a gunbattle with policemen and security forces at the compound and officials said all 13 assailants were subsequently killed, including the two suicide bombers. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack in a text message sent to media.
The bombs blew out many windows across the city, and left about 200 people injured, mostly from flying glass, said Ghazni Gov. Musa Khan Akbarzada. He said one truck carved a 10-meter (yard) hole into the ground.
Sadly, the bombings also destroyed Ghazni's city library and two museums, the governor said.
The attack comes as Afghanistan is embroiled in a political crisis with the country's April presidential election still without a clear winner. Two candidates vying to succeed President Hamid Karzai pulled their observers out of a ballot audit meant to determine the winner of a June runoff. The audit's final results are expected sometime next week.
Even though NATO forces are to leave Afghanistan, a small number of U.S. and international troops may stay on after 2014 to advise and assist the Afghans. But that is likely contingent on Afghanistan signing a security arrangement with the United States, something Karzai has so far refused to do. And despite the exit of most foreign forces, violence between the Taliban and the Afghan government is expected to continue.
Both presidential candidates — Abdullah Abdullah, a former foreign minister, and former Finance Minister Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai — have pledged to sign the security deal. Had the vote been resolved, it was expected that Karzai's successor would have attended the summit in Wales.
The Taliban needled the alliance ahead of the summit.
"Their 13-year-old occupation is now seen as a historical shame," said their statement, released late Wednesday. "It was planned that Afghanistan's next leader would participate in the Wales Summit. Now their plans have come to naught."
The election impasse has also hurt Afghanistan's economy, as customers worrying about the outbreak of civil war hold onto their money and investors put the brakes on new projects as they wait to see how the crisis unfolds.
The target of the Ghazni attack was apparently the local office of domestic intelligence, which is part of the compound, according to Asadullha Ensafi, the deputy police chief.
One of the truck bombs killed eight off-duty police officers who were asleep in their housing unit near the site, said Khan Pacha Shirzad, a police commander. Three security forces and one civilian were also killed, said Zia Gul Esfandi, the director of the public health department.
The Taliban regularly stage brazen attacks against Afghan forces and government institutions. In July, a suicide bomber blew up a car near a busy mosque and a market in the eastern province of Paktika, killing at least 89 people.
In other developments, the U.S.-led international military coalition said one of its service members was killed in an attack Thursday in eastern Afghanistan.
NATO spokesman Maj. Paul Greenberg said he could not specify where the service member died but he said he did not believe there were any coalition troops at the Ghazni government compound during the Taliban assault.


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Silicone Stages a Comeback
Silicone has come back from being banned and is now being used again for elective cosmetic surgery. Andrea Petersen reports.
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American teacher slain in Benghazi called himself 'Libya's best friend'
A popular American teacher who described himself on Twitter as "Libya's best friend" was gunned down in Benghazi on Thursday while jogging, raising fears that foreigners are among those being targeted in the surge of assassinations in that restive city.
Ronnie Smith, 33, who described himself online as a Texas native, was a chemistry teacher at Benghazi's International School and had lived in the city for 18 months. He died not far from the U.S. Special Mission site and CIA compound, where attackers killed the U.S. ambassador to Libya, Christopher Stevens, and three other Americans on Sept. 11, 2012.
Since then, foreigners have been scarce in Benghazi, Libya's second largest city, as militias that helped bring down the late leader Moammar Gadhafi have battled government forces for control. Militias dominate the city, and they've said that Westerners, whom they accuse of threatening their Islamist vision for Libya, are among their top targets. In addition to the United States, Great Britain and Italy have closed their diplomatic missions in Benghazi.
But it isn't clear that the militias have the backing of Benghazi residents. Smith seemed to be particularly popular not only with students but also with liberal groups, who said they knew him personally.
On Twitter, his students created two hashtags, #ThankYouSmith and #MrSmithMemories to remember their teacher.
"#ThankYouSmith for everything, for risking your life everyday by being here. your presence in school will be missed," wrote one student, @yzentani.
"You taught me to think like the electron and be the electron," said another, who identified himself as Rahman Bader.
"He once told me he would stay in Libya even if he had no job. He was here for the experience. There is no better man," posted @criminimed.
Smith "was doing his morning exercise when gunmen just shot him. I don't know why. He was so sweet with everyone," Adel al Mansouri, the director at the school, told the Reuters news service. The school confirmed Smith's death.
The Libya Herald website quoted Mansouri as saying that Smith's wife had returned to the United States recently and that her husband had been expected to join her over the holidays.
Pictures circulated on a Facebook page of a group called Libya Today that purported to show Smith after he'd been shot, lying facedown in the street. He was wearing navy blue jogging shorts, a gray sweatshirt and headphones. It was unclear who'd taken the photo.
The U.S. government confirmed that an American had been killed but didn't release Smith's name and offered no information about the circumstances of the death. "We offer our condolences to the victim's loved one," State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf said.
No organization claimed responsibility for the shooting. The U.S. Embassy in Tripoli, Libya's capital, had no comment.
Since Stevens' death last year, militias and insurgent groups, led by the extremist group Ansar al Shariah, have increased their hold on Benghazi, assassinating police officers, government officials and those thought to support Libya's nascent government.
An Ansar al Shariah spokesman, Mohammed al Baraasy, told Libyan television last month that civilians weren't being targeted in the assassination campaign. But in October, Islamists called for the kidnapping of American citizens after U.S. special forces snatched a suspected al Qaida member, Abu Anas al Libi, in front of his house in Tripoli. He was later taken to New York to stand trial on charges stemming from the 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.
In recent weeks, the Libyan government increased its forces in Benghazi after insurgents killed seven troops and two civilians in a street battle last month. While the government boasted then that the militias had fled, residents recently told McClatchy that they were simply lying low until they'd strike again. Despite that increased presence, three Libyan soldiers were assassinated Thursday alone.
Smith apparently was aware of the risk he might face as an American living in Benghazi, but he seemed to take the threat lightly in a tweet he posted Nov. 5: "I understand I teach at a school of rich kids, so if (and when) I'm kidnapped by Ansar Al-Sharia, who's gonna pay the ransom?"
According to his Twitter account, Smith was married with a toddler son. A fan of Steve Jobs, American movies and interacting with Libyans, he posted frequently about being homesick, his students and living in Benghazi. On Nov. 30, he posted, "It's official: I miss my wife." On Nov. 16, he posted a photo from his wedding, saying: "16 years with my besty."


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In addition to being a mother of two, I recently graduated from a professional pastry program in San Francisco. For my final project I created a "Boutique Bakery" specializing in simple, but elegant pastries with an emphasis on the product packaging/image/logo. I am creating a bakery catering business that will deliver fresh baked breads, croissants, scones, cookies as well as homemade granola, yogurt and jams to your home or office. Most items will be delivered in glassware with the logo etched into the glass. I am looking for a classic design for an upscale client.
The name Pancakes & Peonies describes two of my favorite things. The imagery in the name pretty much sums up the look and feel I would like for the logo - implies breakfast but also the image of a beautiful, light and airy flower. I briefly (understatement) started a blog with this title 4 years ago. I have always liked the name, and since I already own the url, I am going to use it for my company. After the logo design, there will absolutely be a web design competition forthcoming!
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Also, Dean & Deluca has an appeal to me.
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Aspen, CO Colorado
GLENWOOD SPRINGS – Teenagers playing with fireworks reportedly set off a blaze that rapidly advanced up a hillside above the Roaring Fork River and threatened several Glenwood Park homes Wednesday evening.
Quick work by firefighters from Glenwood Springs and two neighboring fire districts brought the blaze under control, and disaster was averted as the fire was contained to about two acres of dry, shrubby hillside.
There were no injuries or significant property loss. Firefighters were planning to remain on scene overnight to make sure the fire did not re-ignite.
The incident points up the extreme fire danger locally, as several wildfires continue to burn across the state and after several hundred homes have burned on the Front Range.
It will also likely serve as a harsh lesson for the youngsters who allegedly started the fire.
Glenwood Springs Police Chief Terry Wilson, who happens to live in the Valley View Road neighborhood where the fire started, said police have already spoken to two 17-year-old boys, one of whom allegedly had the fireworks.
"They found out first hand exactly how fast the dry grass catches on fire, and how hard it is to put a fire out in these dry conditions," said Wilson, who was home when the fire began around 6 p.m. Wednesday.
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"They had no chance," Wilson said of the boys' futile efforts to douse the fire. "It burned up the hill behind those homes in two minutes or less."
Wilson said the juveniles could face felony fourth degree arson charges.
Any use of fireworks is strictly prohibited under the current state fire ban and Garfield County's Stage 2 fire restrictions.
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If someone actually starts a fire due to activities prohibited under the fire ban, the penalty moves into the felony category, Wilson said.
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Had it been as windy as it was earlier in the week, it could have been a very different story, Tillotson said.
"Right now, we just really want to work with all the agencies to get the message out that, if you have fireworks, put them away until a better time and don't use your charcoal grills," Tillotson added. "We're not fun haters, we just want people to be extra cautious."
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In the late 1990s and early 2000s, high performance CCD image sensors were not very common. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory had design, packaging, and test expertise, but was looking for a wafer foundry to build a custom CCD image sensor that would fit the application.
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Raiders guard Robert Gallery said he's had conversations with Al Davis and that they have mutually decided it was time for him to continue his career elsewhere, according to an ESPN report.
"With the end of the league year coming today, and the few conversations I've had with the Raiders and Mr. Davis, we've come to a mutual agreement that it's time for me to move on with my career," Gallery said. " I appreciate the start that they and Mr. Davis gave me and I truly have enjoyed my time wearing the silver and black. I wish them well, I thank the fans and I take away great memories of my time in Oakland."
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Gallery was a vocal supporter of Cable in his final days as Oakland's coach. Cable is now the assistant head coach and line coach of the Seattle Seahawks.
Although Cooper Carlisle is under contract, his position would appear to be tenuous with the team transitioning away from zone blocking and with Al Davis wanting to get at Bruce Campbell, a fourth-round draft pick a year ago who was a right guard as a rookie but failed to see the field.
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Houston Texans tight end Owen Daniels signed a four-year contract worth $22 million that reportedly will pay him $14 million over the first two seasons.
A five-year veteran, Daniels' has a similar skill set to that of Miller. Very good receiver, good hands, knows how to get open. Adequate blocker. Injuries have limited Daniels to 19 games over the past two seasons. He caught 38 passes in 11 games this season, finishing strong after a hamstring injury, and 40 passes last season in eight games.
Daniels has 245 catches for 2,972 yards, a 12.1 average and 17 touchdowns. Miller has 226 receptions, 2,712 yards, a 12.0 average and 12 touchdowns in one less season.
The difference is that Miller, as a four-year free agent, has more of a chance to be tied to his team in a new collective bargaining agreement than Daniels, who has played five.
In a world with a collective bargaining agreement, free agency would have started Friday. There are rumblings on Twitter posts from media-types at the scene suggesting an extension of talks is possible past today's deadline of 11:59, eastern time.
The only deal announced by the Raiders since re-signing Stanford Routt and Rock Cartwright and the franchise tag on Kamerion Wimbley is signing safety Jerome Boyd. Boyd played in one game with the Raiders in 2009 and has spent time on the practice squad.
A reported deal with defensive tackle John Henderson (I've seen at two years, $4 million and two years, $8 million) has not been announced by the club.
The fastest 40-yard dash time ended up belonging to DeMarcus Van Dyke of Miami, and not Buster Skrine of UT-Chattanooga.
Van Dyke clocked a 4.28 according to NFL.com. Skrine, originally reported as having run a 4.29, wasn't even listed in their top 10.
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The NFL Network's said Van Dyke's time was the fastest since Routt's 4.27 in 2005 and didn't mention Washington.
Until the combine starts to put up electronic times and posting them like a track meet, no one can be completely sure what kind of times athletes are putting up.
And here's the most important thing _ teams keep their own times and use those above anything else.
Talked with someone involved with Raiders scouting and told him about the NFP Post regarding the four Raiders who posted sub-4.3 times at the combine and was told actually there were only two by their count _ Washington in 2005 and Jacoby Ford last year.


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