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The South Australian Government will use $550 million to build a battery to restore renewable energy and a gas-fired power plant to ensure energy security.
Under the six-point plan, unveiled by Premier Jay Weatherill and Energy Minister Tom Koutsantonis today, the state will build a new $360 million, 250 megawatt gas-fired power plant and Australia's largest battery.
Other elements of the strategy include legislation to give the energy minister direct power to intervene in the electricity market, and the establishment of a $150 million renewable energy fund to encourage new investment.
It will also use its bulk-buying power to encourage the construction of another, privately-owned, gas-fired power station.
"This is a plan that puts control of our energy system back in South Australian hands," Mr Koutsantonis said.
"For too long South Australian households and businesses have been at the mercy of private companies seeking to maximise their profits and a national operator that manages our grid from Melbourne and Sydney."
The strategy was developed in response to state-wide blackouts last September and significant strain on the network over summer.
Mr Koutsantonis said the plan would also create about 650 jobs, although it stopped short of guaranteeing the new gas plant would be up and running by next summer
Mr Weatherill said the plan would put downward pressure on electricity prices.
"We'll get reliable, affordable and clean power and ensure more of the state's power is sourced, generated and controlled here in South Australia," he said.
"Our state has built its reputation on a clean, green environment and this plan recognises that clean energy is our future."
SA will also offer gas incentives for exploration to unlock gas reserves.
Energy giant AGL said the plan is a "considered and comprehensive approach" to challenges in the market, and recognises the need to secure more gas to assist with a transition to renewable energy generation.
"Energy security and reliability are likely to be enhanced as a result of this package," the company said.
But Federal Environmental and Energy Minister, Josh Frydenberg, said the plan was a "warning sign" for other states against high renewable energy targets without proper preparation.
Mr Frydenberg said it will drive up power costs, not just in South Australia but in other states, too.
"Mandating that certain amounts of power is required to come from generation within SA will drive up prices, because it goes against the model that was set up by all the states with the national electricity market," he told reporters.
Last September, there were state-wide blackouts after freak storms brought down major transmission lines in the state's north.
Over summer, there was significant strain on the state's energy network when heatwave conditions frequently raised the possibility of power cuts.
On one occasion about 90,000 properties were intentionally blacked out when the Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO) ordered load shedding to deal with a lack of adequate supply.
On a number of other occasions AEMO warned of possible load shedding when demand soared.
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When Stacy Garciadealba was getting ready to graduate from high school, she traveled from her hometown of Grafton to tour colleges all along the East Coast. She left every visit feeling that "this isn't for me." She was the oldest in her family, the first child to go through the college process—"I called myself 'the trial child,'" she said—and she'd be paying her own way.
Notable Now – January 2018
Spring semester has begun, and the days are slowly but surely growing longer. We're starting out the new year with exciting reports from CCV students, faculty, and staff.
Notable Now – July 2017
Summer at CCV is in full swing! Check out some of the latest accomplishments of students, faculty, and staff from around the state, and don't forget to share your Notables at email@example.com!
Notable Now – April 2017
As promised, April is arriving with showers galore: rain, yes, along with buckets of good news too. This month, we're recognizing many members of the CCV community who are using their creativity, hard work, and leadership to usher in some sunshine.
Introducing CCV's 2017 Leadership Scholars
CCV's Student Leadership Scholarships are awarded annually to one student from each academic center. This year, CCV Now features the stories of 2017 Scholars Danielle Braverman of Brattleboro and Dagan Warner of Springfield.
Notable Now – March 2017
Happy Spring! Er, we hope? Fickle weather aside, it's certainly shaping up to be a prolific season full of great ideas, inspiring stories, and exemplary work from all corners of our CCV landscape. Happy reading, and don't forget to share your Notables at email@example.com!
Notable Now – December 2016
Snow has turned our Green Mountains white, and the fall semester is quickly coming to a close. This month we recognize several of the writers, artists, entrepreneurs, and activists who are enriching the CCV community!
Photovoice Exhibit Opens In Springfield
On Tuesday night students from CCV's Springfield academic center were on hand at the town's Great Hall for a meet the artists reception and the opening of the Photovoice exhibit.
Picture This, Springfield
Depending on your aesthetic sensibilities, a trip to Springfield, Vermont can leave you feeling emotionally numb, astounded, or a myriad of other feelings, both positive and negative. The hulking brick remains of Jones & Lamson Machine Company's lower factory greet you as you head into town from from I-91. Vacant storefronts dot Main Street. Long-abandoned factories stand watch over Black River Falls, depositing themselves brick by brick into the rushing waters.
Notable Now–March 2016
February brought in some good news for lots of members of the CCV community; projects have gotten underway, certifications were received, art shows opened and travels undertaken. Read on to learn more about what's been happening in the CCV universe lately.


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2 C wheat flour
1. Preheat your oven to 170 degrees.
2. Into a stand mixer place 2 cups wheat flour (I used freshly ground hard white winter wheat...but any wheat flour will do). Add 1 cup white flour and 1/4 cup of honey.
3. Pour yourself 3/4 cup of milk and heat it up in the microwave for 2 minutes. Add it to the mixing bowl along with 3/4 cup hot water. Your hot water should be hot to the touch, but not so hot that it burns your hand when you touch it. :)
4. Add 1 teaspoon of salt and 6 tablespoons softened butter. Turn the mixer to low-speed and allow the ingredients to blend together for about 1 minute.
5. Add 1 tablespoon of yeast (I use active dry). Mix for about 30 seconds.
6. While the machine is mixing add 1 more cup of white flour. Allow the dough to mix for another minute or so. The dough should start to pull away from the sides of the bowl. This is an indication that you have enough flour. If the dough remains stuck to the sides of the bowl then sprinkle a bit more flour (up to 1/2 a cup) into the bowl. Once you have the correct amount of flour added, turn the mixer to medium speed and let the dough mix for 5 minutes.
7. Grab a 9x13 pan and coat the bottom and sides with some butter.
8. Place the dough into the middle of the pan.
9. Using a sharp knife, cut the dough into 16 equal pieces. Then roll each piece into a ball.
10. Place the pan into your warm oven and let the rolls rise for about 15 minutes, or until doubled in size.
11. Turn your oven up to 350 degrees. Leave the rolls in the oven while the temperature rises. Allow the rolls to bake until golden brown. Mine took about 13 minutes.
12. Remove the pan from the oven and brush soft butter over the top of each roll.
13. Allow them to rest in the pan for about 5 minutes, then serve and enjoy!


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For Zac Efron, kissing Pfeiffer wasn't easy
Actor Zac Efron says kissing his "New Year's Eve" co-star Michelle Pfeiffer on screen wasn't easy.
Actor Zac Efron says kissing his "New Year's Eve" co-star Michelle Pfeiffer on screen wasn't easy.
Efron, 24, adds that locking lips with the 53-year-old actress didn't go as smoothly as he had hoped.
"Those things are best to do spontaneous. Have fun and be in the moment. I definitely thought about how it was going to go down. In my mind, the way I pictured it, it was going to be perfect, very romantic, very leading man," accesshollywood.com quoted him as saying.
"Then of course, as we went to film it, right when I went to dip her, a huge piece of confetti went straight into my mouth. I didn't want to finish the kiss like that, so I spit and went for it. That's actually in the movie," he added.
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About Don Shank:
Don Shank attended the animation program at the California Institute of the Arts. He went on to work at a variety of animation studios on many projects including "Ren & Stimpy", "Dexter's Lab" & "Samurai Jack". He has done design and art direction for feature animation including "The Incredibles", "Up", "Inside Out" & "Finding Dory" and "Bao". Don was also the Production Designer of the Pixar short film "Day & Night" as well as "The Powerpuff Girls" TV show for seasons 2 through 4. Don has earned an Annie and 2 Emmy awards for his work in animation. He is currently working at Pixar Animation Studios and lives in California with his wife, two beautiful daughters, and a funny dog.
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Our Playlist column features music curated by our faculty, students, and staff and focusing on an interesting idea or theme. For the latest column, we invited Assistant Professor of Voice J. Patrick Raftery to share some of his favourite opera performances. You can listen to the tracks below via Spotify (if you have an account) or YouTube (if you don't). The full playlist is also available here.
By J. Patrick Raftery
Motivated by the imminent arrival of spring, I have chosen the theme of love to explore in my playlist. I have always been motivated by my love of music, my love for singers, and my love of opera and song. For my playlist I've chosen some of my favourite works by friends and colleagues, as well as a few classics by my personal icons.
Over the course of my career, I've been fortunate to share the stage with some brilliant singers, including Mirella Freni, Nicolai Ghiaurov, Helen Donath, Barbara Bonney, Pilar Lorengar, Marilyn Horne, and Régine Crespin. I was lucky enough to be double cast as the Count in Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro at Covent Garden with Thomas Allen, and Beverly Sills and the great Canadian Mezzo Maureen Forester were among my friends.
Other singers I have long admired include Arleen Auger, Janet Baker, Hermann Prey, Peter Schreier, Hans Hotter, Robert Merrill, Margaret Price, Giuseppe Di Stefano!
Here, along with my full Spotify playlist, are some clips of the songs that I held up as an ideal to strive for when I was a young singer.
Hermann Prey, Sonntag
Hermann Prey's performance of Sonntag by Brahms shows this baritone at his best. It always sounds unselfconscious and as if Brahms had written this song for Mr. Prey. Looking forward to every Sunday this young man is excited to see the girl he loves.
Pilar Lorengar, Die Tote Stadt
My friend Pilar Lorengar is featured twice on my list. I had the great pleasure of having Pilar as my wife Alice Ford in San Francisco Opera's production of Verdi's Falstaff. Here, as Marietta in Korngold's opera Die Tote Stadt, Pilar is singing of her love and how she won't let death separate them in life.
Helen Donath, Fidelio
I made my German debut with the Hamburg State Opera and met the American soprano Helen Donath. A generous and engaged colleague, Helen was already an established star at that time, famous for her performanes in works by Mozart, Handel, and StraussI have included the famous quartet from Beethoven's Fidelio featuring Helen. The characters are talking about the love they feel or see in each other.
Regine Crespin, Shéhérezade
The farewell performance of French diva Regine Crespin in North America was in San Francisco Opera's Pique Dame. I was lucky enough to sing the role of Prince Yeletsky with her in these performances. Here she is in, brilliant as ever, in Ravel's Shéhérezade.
Nicolai Ghiaurov, Don Carlos
In Verdi's Don Carlos, King Philip has realized that his wife is in love with someone else and in despair he sings "Ella giammai m'amo" ("She never loved me"). It was a dream come true for me to sing my first Posa in Don Carlos for the Hamburg State Opera with Nicolai. Here is the great Bulgarian bass Nicolai Ghiaurov performing the aria. He takes us on a mournful emotional ride with his rendition of this famous aria.
Happy spring 2019! I hope you enjoy the playlist.
Banner image from Vancouver Opera Company's La Boheme, featuring J. Patrick Raftery. Tim Matheson Photography.


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At the height of the mania that surrounded outfielder Yoenis Cespedes after his trade to the Mets last season, some people talked of a $200 million contract in his future and debated whether he should be considered for the National League's Most Valuable Player Award despite having played in the league for just two months.
The talk reflected just how much Cespedes, a talented Cuban outfielder, can excite a fan base when he is at the top of his game. But in the end he settled for a 13th-place finish in the M.V.P. voting and, according to a person in baseball with knowledge of the signing, a three-year, $75 million contract to return to the Mets.
At one point, it seemed as if there was no chance the Mets would bring back Cespedes, and last week speculation ramped up that the Washington Nationals, who had a front-row seat to the Cespedes show as he helped the Mets overtake them in the National League East, had entered into something like a bidding war for Cespedes's services.
The Mets, who had already lost Daniel Murphy to their division rival, took advantage of Cespedes's rumored love of playing in New York to entice him to return while also agreeing, according to the person in baseball, to an opt-out clause after one season, which might allow him to be the top free-agent hitter available next off-season.
As fans wait for the final details of the contract to be reported, it is worth considering whether the Mets did well with the signing.
At his core, Cespedes is an above-average left fielder with a powerful right-handed bat who does not take enough walks, strikes out a great deal and goes through extreme slumps. When you combine his good and his bad, he is a player worth two to four wins above replacement per year. Unfortunately for exuberant Mets fans, thrilled to have their star return, his hot streak when he joined the team led them to believe he was something far beyond that, which could create unrealistic expectations for his future performance.
In his first 41 games for the Mets, Cespedes hit .309 with a .356 on-base percentage, a .691 slugging percentage and 17 home runs. He had a few highlight-reel throws in the outfield and some great quotations reported in the news media, creating a perfect storm of attention. The team went 30-11 during that stretch.
After that early excitement, it was easy to forget that Cespedes closed the season by going 12 for 55 with no home runs and just two R.B.I. over his last 16 games, only four of which came after a hand injury that some assumed was the root of his troubles.
Things did not get much better in the playoffs: He went 12 for 54 with two home runs as part of a Mets attack that, with the exception of Murphy, was relatively punchless. Accounting for the end of the season and the playoffs, Cespedes closed out 2015 with a .220 average and two home runs over 30 games.
Then there is the question of what position he plays. Based on his athleticism and a few eye-popping plays in the field, a belief seems to persist for the Mets that Cespedes is a center fielder, but nearly every advanced metric debunks that notion.
In 115 career games in center, Cespedes has been worth minus 17 defensive runs saved, according to Baseball Info Solutions, which translates to his being far worse than if his team had plugged in a league-average player instead. It is not any better when viewed through the defensive statistic Ultimate Zone Rating, which has him worth minus 12.6 runs over his career.
When Cespedes is compared with a player like Juan Lagares, who in one fewer season has 60 career defensive runs saved in center field and an Ultimate Zone Rating of 43.5, it is clear that Cespedes has no business replacing the young Lagares on the defensive end, provided Lagares's regression last season was a matter of health and not a reflection of his future ability.
On the other hand, advanced defensive statistics rate Cespedes as a good-to-exceptional left fielder, so the Mets are left with a choice of playing an ideal offense, with Cespedes in center and Michael Conforto in left, or an ideal defense, with Lagares in center and Cespedes in left. In either case, the team will be committing to struggle in some regard.
Still, the Mets accomplished something of a coup by getting Cespedes to return while not making all that much of a financial commitment. The website Fangraphs has a conversion tool for how much a player's production would have been worth had he been paid as a free agent. It estimates Cespedes was worth $53.9 million last season, which would cover more than half of his new deal if he could repeat the season.
Assuming that was his peak and not his new normal, a more realistic value might be closer to the $20.6 million a year he was worth on average in his first three seasons. When adjusted to factor in his age, 30, an average value just below $20 million would probably be correct. That means the team may be overpaying for his services but not in an extreme way.
The opt-out does mean that the team could be renegotiating to keep him next season, but that would also mean he had played well enough to believe he could get a better contract, which would be good news for a team that could use that kind of production.
In the end, it simply made more sense for the Mets to retain Cespedes than it did for the Nationals to swoop in and sign him for the same amount of money or more. The Mets needed an anchor for their lineup, and re-signing such an exciting player sent a positive message to a fan base that had grown to believe the team was not trying hard enough to remain competitive. For the Nationals, a team that in Bryce Harper already has the N.L.'s most dominant hitter in the middle of the lineup, Cespedes would have been an unnecessary accessory.
For Cespedes and his representatives, the deal did not match the dollar figures from contracts given to Chris Davis or Justin Upton, but it gives Cespedes a hefty raise while also leaving his options open for a far larger deal if he can demonstrate that last year was not an aberration. The contract was essentially a case of a player's betting on himself to perform and a team's hoping that showing some flexibility could entice that player to return. It seems to be a deal that both sides can be proud of, even if it will take a while to know how it turns out.


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[CGP10] Improved Matrix InterpretationConférence Internationale avec comité de lecture : SOFSEM'10, Int. Conf. on Current Trends in Theory and Practice of Computer Science, , January 2010, Vol. 5901, pp.12, Series LNCS, Spindleruv Ml{\'y}n, Czech Republic,
Résumé: We present a new technique to prove termination of Term Rewriting Systems, with full automation. A crucial task in this context is to find suitable well-founded orderings. A popular approach consists in interpreting terms into a domain equipped with an adequate well-founded ordering. In addition to the usual interpretations: natural numbers or polynomials over integer/rational numbers, the recently introduced matrix based interpretations have proved to be very efficient regarding termination of string rewriting and of term rewriting. In this spirit we propose to interpret terms as polynomials over integer matrices. Designed for term rewriting, our generalisation subsumes previous approaches allowing for more orderings without increasing the search space. Thus it performs better than the original version. Another advantage is that, interpreting terms to actual polynomials of matrices, it opens the way to matrix non linear interpretations. This result is implemented in the CiME3 rewriting toolkit.
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Giving Thanks for David Mainse
My dear friends in ANiC,
This past Monday, September 25th, 2017, the entire Christian community of Canada and far beyond was saddened by the news that David Mainse had died.
This great man of God has completed his wonderful pilgrimage in time and now he has been promoted to glory which is his real home. For him, this is all gain. "For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain." Philippians 1:21
But for us who still remain, for his amazing family, for the Crossroad ministry family and countless people including the Diocese of the Anglican Network in Canada we have all suffered loss by his passing.
David was a good and encouraging friend of biblical Anglicanism. He would do anything he could to encourage the Essentials movement in Anglicanism here in Canada and eventually the Anglican Network in Canada which came out of that movement.
In fact from 2004 on, pretty well every major conference and then our first ANiC Synod all happened at the Crossroads Centre with the enthusiastic encouragement of David.
For seven years our parish, St. George's Burlington, worshipped in the Crossroads Chapel, and our diocesan offices are still located at Crossroads.
This is all to say, we, the Diocese of ANiC, thank God for David Mainse. He encouraged us at every step along the way and in very practical ways provided us with a place to grow.
One of our rectors, the Reverend Ray David Glenn at St. George's Burlington, has just written a piece entitled "My Friend David Mainse" which has been posted in The Gospel Coalition Canada website and is a wonderful tribute to his friend. I commend this tribute to you.
Please take time to thank God for David Mainse. For those who are in the Burlington area, consider the visitations and the funeral service which is happening at Queensway Cathedral on Saturday, September 30th.
For everyone anywhere in Canada, 100 Huntley Street is remembering David all this week and Saturday the funeral service will be available live on TV and many time slots afterwards.
I thank God for David. He encouraged me every time we met. I loved his heart for the gospel and I want to grow in that heart myself.
Right now, our Diocese is preparing for our next annual Synod, one day of which will be held at the Crossroads Centre. The theme verses are 2 Timothy 2:8-10 -
"Remember Jesus Christ, risen from the dead, the offspring of David, as preached in my gospel,
for which I am suffering, bound with chains as a criminal. But the word of God is not bound!
Therefore I endure everything for the sake of the elect, that they also may obtain the salvation that is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory."
2 Timothy 2:8-10
David Mainse like the apostle Paul gave everything he could so that more and more could receive the salvation which is only in Jesus Christ. Through his witness and bold ministry I believe multitudes received that salvation with eternal glory.
With deep Thanksgiving and prayer,
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After the last tables had been cleared, the loins of lamb with mint mustard sauce devoured, the flutes of Paul Goerg premier cru brut rosé quaffed and the dinner portion of the Costume Institute gala ended, that is when things really got interesting at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
The 800 or so guests, quite of a few of whom had taken the theme of the spring exhibition, "Punk: Chaos to Couture," to heart on Monday night, tromped in ball gowns and combat boots and heavy black eyeliner and safety-pin dresses and spiked hair and shredded fishnets into the Temple of Dendur for the evening's entertainment, which included back-to-back mini-concerts by Debbie Harry and Kanye West.
Never mind that their riche-punk outfits were being viciously trashed on the blogs at that very moment. It turned out to be the best Met party in years, partly because the dress code and the usual politics had been relaxed. Someone must have gotten the message that those deep-pocketed bankers and business luminaries who actually pay for the $25,000 tickets really do want to stay out past Cinderella's usual curfew.
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So Ms. Harry was onstage in a pink and blond wig belting out "Call Me" and "Heart of Glass," and Miley Cyrus, in a slinky fishnet Marc Jacobs dress that gave the illusion of wearing nothing underneath, was rocking out next to the drum stand. Jennifer Lawrence, watching from the sidelines under her prim little Dior veil, was talking to Jimmy Fallon and gesturing toward Jennifer Lopez, who looked like an exotic jungle cat in skintight Michael Kors as she couch-danced with the designer.
In another corner, Miuccia Prada and Baz Luhrmann had settled into a graffiti-covered banquette and ate chocolate-covered strawberries, while trays of Jell-O shots were being passed by the waiters. Madonna, in a Givenchy studded tartan jacket, shredded fishnets and Uma Thurman-in-"Pulp Fiction" black hair, sat with her legs spread wide, while Solange Knowles danced in a circle with Carol Lim and Humberto Leon.
Here was Olivier Rousteing, the Balmain designer, who said, "Last year was fun, but this is so much more about my generation."
And there was Taylor Swift, who said, "I got to play around with a side of my look that I don't usually go for," which meant that she was a little less country, a little more frock and roll in her black J. Mendel with a heavy dose of sparkle effects and eye shadow.
Scene City: After the Met Ball, Punk Goes Downtown
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And who could help but follow around the adorable "Glee" set, like Darren Criss, in a tartan Richard Chai tux, who said: "What did I do to get ready for punk? Or prom? Because it feels like prom in here."
And then Matthew Morrison, his co-star, said he did not think we would be seeing a punk-themed episode of the show any time soon. But then came along Ryan Murphy, the show's creator, who said, "Absolutely, 100 percent, you can bet your bottom dollar." Can you imagine the kids singing "I Wanna Be Sedated"?
And elsewhere were Vera Wang and Kerry Washington, who pointed out the color streaks in each other's hair, but it was hard to notice anything besides Ms. Wang's nearly invisible dress.
"It's a little breezy," Ms. Wang said. "You're not wrong."
"She'll be hot in other ways," Ms. Washington said.
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Don't take this as approval, but you can tell it's a wild party when people who normally sneak away to smoke in the bathrooms are now smoking openly inside the galleries, even though Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg was there (or at least he had been earlier). And the security guards were too focused on Mr. West's performance, which began with a video montage of snarling and snapping attack dogs, to intervene.
Little puffs rose here and there above the crowd, where your faithful correspondent, getting into the spirit, had worn a punk brooch in the shape of burned ciggie made of papier-mâché, which had caught the attention, moments earlier, of Ms. Cyrus.
"I wish it was real," she said.
After midnight, once the Met turned out the lights, nearly the entire scene was recreated over several more hours at the Top of the Standard, where Lauren Santo Domingo and Riccardo Tisci were having the "after-after-party," with the addition of some non-Met guests like Leonardo DiCaprio, incognito in a plaid shirt, and Chris Brown. Madonna took off her jacket, basically down to fishnets and a bodysuit at this point, while Tiger Woods and Lindsey Vonn, the couple of the moment, evidently did think they were at a prom, slow-dancing to fast music.
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} Big investor playing big in Informix ifmx By Brenon Daly, CBS MarketWatch Last Update:
MENLO PARK, Calif. (CBS.MW) -- Every earnings season brings with it a certain amount of fear, as companies unveil their latest quarterly results.
But one big Informix option player is racked with a little bit more anxiety than other investors are.
Over the past months, he's opened up a straddle on the maker of database software (IFMX) ifmx , which is scheduled to report third-quarter earnings after the closing bell on Wednesday.
Analysts expect the company to earn 7 cents per share. But one investment professional with close ties to the company tells Thom Calandra's StockWatch that Informix will report as much as 12 cents a share in net income.
A straddle is an options position in which an investor buys or sells the calls and puts on the same stock at the same expiration. A call is a bet the underlying stock will increase, and a put is a bet the stock will decline. So a straddle is a bet the stock won't move much. Investors sell -- or "write" -- straddles in order to take in premium.
In the Informix case, the unknown investor has a huge straddle with a strike price of 5, expiring in November. The contracts for Informix are the November 5 calls (IFQ=KA) ifq%3dka and the November 5 puts (IFQ=WA) ifq%3dwa .
Jon Najarian, the specialist for Informix options at the Chicago Board Options Exchange, said the investor has November 5 call options representing 1.65 million shares and November 5 put options representing 2.7 million shares.
"This is somebody with a huge appetite for risk," said Najarian, who doesn't know the investor. "If we see an upside surprise, this guy is going to be chasing."
Informix shares -- which spiked above 10 in April and dipped below 4 in September -- added 1/2 to 5 3/8 ahead of the release Wednesday.
Further mixing up Informix's stock picture: About 10.5 million of Informix's 168 million shares are sold short as of September, the most recent data available from Nasdaq. That's down from 19 million shares in July.
Although the identity of the big option player isn't known, a "likely suspect" is Fletcher Asset Management, according to Fred Hult of the Carson Group, which tracks institutional holdings.
New York City-based Fletcher is a hedge fund that uses derivatives widely and owns Informix preferred shares that, if converted, equal about 16.6 million common shares. Several representatives at Fletcher declined to comment on their outlook or strategy on Informix.
Informix's third-quarter results come two days after rival Sybase (SYBS) SYBS, +0.00% reported better-than-expected earnings but a decline in sales. That company earned 3 cents per share, beating analysts' projection of a break-even quarter. But the third-quarter profit came largely on cost control; revenue slipped 10 percent. (See related story.)
Sales of Sybase's core databases declined 20 percent. That result compares with a 25 percent increase in core database sales in the most recent quarter by Oracle (ORCL) ORCL, -0.93% , the largest maker of database software.
All of this peripheral activity will undoubtedly give Informix's chief executive, Bob Finocchio, plenty to think about as he runs the Silicon Valley Marathon on Sunday.


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Last night while sitting in at a gig, we had to play for a dance contest. By the end, our group had to play as fast as possible for the dancers that were left. My right hand started to give out. Had earlier switched from a somewhat open hand to a closed hand to keep up. Even that wasn't working well enough.
Definitely not fun, but at least as not bad as the guitarist who was really shaking his hand after that.
So, any suggestions on what I could do to help in situations like this? Now, it could be this was a once a decade situation, but want to be better prepared for the future.


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I don't think there's a more famous band where I host more unpopular opinions ("hot takes") than Led Zeppelin: III is my second-favorite Zeppelin player. After Physical Graffiti.
Part of my love for both records stems from the fact that I had played the best songs from I and IV to death from a copy of Early Days & Latter Days: The Best of Led Zeppelin Volumes One and Two obtained from Best Buy in my middle school years; many of the best songs from III and Graffiti aren't available there ("Gallows Pole" and "Tangerine" from this one; "Custard Pie" and "Down By the Seaside" from that one).
But the other reason why I love III is actually the reason why apparently some critics were lukewarm or less (cf. Rolling Stone's Lester Bangs) to the record, which caused lower sales than their previous albums. Here's a few pull-quotes, from Robert Plant:
~"The third album was the album of albums. If anybody had labeled us a heavy metal group, that destroyed them."
~"Led Zeppelin III was not one of the best sellers in the catalogue because the audience turned round and said 'What are we supposed to do with this?'—'Where is our 'Whole Lotta Love Part 2'? They wanted something like Paranoid by Black Sabbath! But we wanted to go acoustic and a piece like "Gallows Pole" still had all the power of "Whole Lotta Love" because it allowed us to be dynamic."
When Robert Plant claims it's dynamic, it might seem like a stretch, but it's as diverse a Led Zeppelin record up to this point. The structure actually closely resembles Bob Dylan's Bringing It All Back Home: both albums begin with the artist's most primal, and there's a noticeable shift on the second half of both albums where the electric guitar takes a backseat to acoustic. (The band's defense against then-critics who didn't like the prominence of the latter instrument was that their first two records had acoustic songs. Well, yes, but not this many, nor grouped together like this.) Conceivably, one can argue that Led Zeppelin were better at hard rock songs like "Immigrant Song" than they were the folksy stuff. Me, I think they excelled at both: both "Tangerine" and "That's the Way" are warm (through Robert Plant's double-tracked harmonies on the former) and colourful (through the pedal steel guitar and mandolin shading on both).
True to the band's nature, there's a lot of emphasis on sound, whether it's the ominous intervals of the strings on "Friends"; the crunch of "Celebration Day" and how the electric guitar squirms and squiggles around on "Out on the Tiles"; how every member seems so exaggerated on "Since I've Been Loving You" (did Plant going "drag… drag… drag… drag… LAWWWWWWWWYEAH!" give birth to Prince?). Closer "Hats Off To (Roy Harper)" is essentially two sound effects (Jimmy Page on slide guitar; Robert Plant's vocals fed into a vibrato amp) in a rather non-functional song.
But the two best songs are positioned at the start of each side. "Gallows Pole" is essentially a 5-minute climax as more instruments are added into the fray, including the surprise of Jimmy Page on banjo guitar (apparently having never played it before hand) entering in tandem with Jon Bonham halfway through. The climax gets to the point that nearing the end when Robert Plant riles up the crowd, the volume of sound from the other instruments seem to answer right back. And then there's "Immigrant Song." I probably played that song some hundreds of times as I instructed it to play on loop while I did nothing else in my adolescent summers but play Starcraft. (Terran, because I had to wall up; I had no idea how to defend myself from a 6-ling rush at the time excepting by hoping that they didn't discover me by the time I was able to pop out a marine. 20 min no rush, am I right? Wrong.) The whole thing is just one great sound after another, from the vinyl sound that opens it getting louder and exploding into the staccato riff to Robert Plant's war cry. And I've always loved how Plant delivers "Hammer of the Gods…" after the opening salvo, like he had actually witnessed Thor wielding Mjolnir.


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A part of the alarm that is being raised about global warming has to do with rising water temperatures, particularly in the ocean. Scientists are contemplating warming waters all over the globe to discover the extent of the change.
The outcomes of this global warming are of great importance. One of the most negative issues of global warming is that, as the ocean water warms, it impacts tropical storms. Hurricanes that would have been category 3 storms in past years are right away category 4 or above. This is because they are stimulated when they catch the warmer ocean water.
In fact, there has been a important growth in these utmost intensity storms in the last 35 years. This could be due to global warming. In 2005, the Atlantic was bombarded with 27 tropical storms noticeable enough to have a name. 15 of them evolved into hurricanes.
Five of these storms reached the force of category 4 hurricanes. Four of them actually became worse, at category five. Hurricane Katrina produced a terrible mark on history in August of 2005. It became the most expensive hurricane in American history. It was likewise one of most deadly. Global warming has left destruction in the form of more severe hurricanes.
As global warming makes temperatures to grow in the oceans, glaciers and icecaps are fading more quickly. One particular ice shelf in Antarctica, the northern segment of the Larson B shelf, cracked in recent years. Scientists got a crude awakening when they recognised how quick the ice shelf could disintegrate.
The polar ice cap is going away at an impressive rate as well. It is melting at 9% per decade. This aspect of global warming is a definite cause for alarm. In the last 40-50 years, the thickness of ice in the Arctic has decreased by 40%. The ice that is here on earth is advantageous to keep the difficult balance of the environment.
Perennial sea ice in the Arctic has been receding as well. There was a track record low in the square miles of this sea ice in 2005. Just two years later, in 2007, the record was broken with a half of a million square miles less lasting ice than in 2005. Global warming has in truth had an impact on the sea ice of the Arctic. Some scientists foreshadow that all the sea ice will be finished by 2040.
Global warming could also induce the sea level to rise as ice disappears. When this happens, islands are gone and coastal residential areas are flooded. Various hints have been made about the grades that the water level could reach, anywhere from 10 to 23 inches by 2100.
Global warming has the potential to make the earth a very inhospitable place to live. Ascending temperatures in the oceans' waters are a clear indication that the process has begun. With the melting of ice in the glaciers, icecaps, and on the sea, it is only a matter of time before global warming has much more damaging effects. It is up to the people of the world to do what they can to make the future look brighter.


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Does anyone still care about the size of DDoS attacks? Ever since Spamhaus was on the receiving end of an infamous 300Gbps DNS reflection attack in March 2013, numbers have been the story, preferably as big as possible to justify attention.
But DDoS haven't exploded in size since then, far from it. By and large, more modest DDoS attacks have migrated to small, less protected networks as larger datacentres have bought bigger sinkholes. Cybercriminals have run through as many protocols as they can find in an effort to boost size using reflection storms.
Only days ago on 14 June, Imperva's anti-DDoS wing Incapsula recorded a maximum 470Gbps "brute of an assault" designed to bring down a Chinese gambling firm. The first and biggest wave lasted four hours but was followed by others over several days.
Superficially, this looks smaller than the New Year's eve attack on the BBC iPlayer site, claimed to have reached 600Gbps, although that number has never been confirmed and many doubt it without hard evidence. Only days that, Arbor Networks reported a more reliable attack number of 500Gbps dating back to an incident in 2015.
If that is the largest DDoS ever reported publically, the recent Imperva attack pushes it close for the crown of being the biggest and baddest. The Imperva attack also had the unusual feature that the attackers deployed nine different packet types, starting with a SYN flood before trying old-fashioned UDP and TCP.
Imperva, of course, is only telling us all this because it successfully mitigated the attack, which is probably the real story. Attackers are still occasionally trying massive attacks but mitigation is often up to the challenge. This probably merely displaces attacks elsewhere, on to softer targets for which even a small DDoS spells trouble.
Big DDoS attacks will continue to happen from time to time but it's a mistake to get too caught up in numbers. Size really isn't everything, even on the Internet. What matters now is the frequency of attacks and the costs of mitigating them. An entire industry is being built on this realisation.
It is worth reading our case study of a German payment services firm that was also recently threatened with a much smaller DDoS and decided to come clean about it before anything happened. The attackers were probably bluffing (another trend in DDoS not always commented on). This is closer to the reality of DDoS's effect on the world than the rare big-packet events.
If super-massive DDoS attacks are like a multi-car crash pile-up, most network and website owners experience unwanted traffic as an expensive body scrape.


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The Apprentice star Joanna Jarjue has criticised the way she was presented on The Apprentice last year. The 24-year-old admitted that she often 'cried' about it when the cameras stopped rolling.
Joanna narrowly missed out on a place in the final when she was fired by Lord Sugar after the interview round.
The former candidate has now hit out at the show for 'engineering' a 'narrative' to make her look a certain way.
Joanna tweeted: 'Was obvious to me what my 'character' was going to be & cried about it behind the scenes but was always scared to voice it out of fear of looking like I was playing the 'race card'.
Glad so many other people have noticed especially after it's so blatant after the final 5 ep.'
'I just feel bad for the experts & interviewers on the show who seem to have taken some the wrap for it because it's a narrative they didn't create or probably realise was being engineered.
'Onwards and upwards this is the last I'll speak of it but something does need to change because it's not right.'
Another candidate, Bushra Shaikh, responded to her comment in a now-deleted tweet which said: 'Thank you for noticing. I was too worried about representation throughout. 'Unfortunately, it is what it is. I was sent packing in week 9…why?
Joanna said: 'I disagree Bushra. I don't know what your feelings are towards racism and firings on the show but i don't think people were fired due to race.
The unfair portrayal of character for entertainment purposes is what has played up to a certain stereotype in my opinion.' Bushra said: 'I agree. Firings are nothing to with race.
Unfortunately, there is sometimes a pattern with TV, where certain people can be put into a role. I have no answer to that- just that fair representation should always be made.'
A spokesperson from The Apprentice said: 'We represent candidates in a fair and balanced light, and everything seen on screen is an accurate portrayal of events.'
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The college student's insider guide to finding rush, lottery and standing room tickets for Broadway shows
New York, NEW YORK--Did you miss the two-for-one tickets to Broadway shows during Broadway Week earlier this year? Even if you didn't take advantage, fear not: it's easier than you'd think to get tickets to shows in the city on a tight budget. In an effort to be more accessible, some of Broadway's most popular shows have some type of ticket promotion: rush tickets, lottery tickets or standing room only tickets. Rush tickets and standing-room-only tickets—yes, the tickets are to stand in the theatre for the entirety of a performance—are sold the day of the show when the box office opens, whereas lottery tickets require an entry several hours before a performance. College students in particular can benefit from the student rush tickets, which can be the best bang-for-buck deal on Broadway.
Sophomore Angela Dunford recommends that students never pay full price and utilize the rush and lottery tickets. "I don't think it's worth it," she said. "I paid $30 and got fourth row tickets for Newsies." Dunford recommends that students try for Broadway lotteries on weeknights: "I went on a Monday night, and there were [roughly] 15 people in line and we all got tickets."
The rush and standing-room-only tickets aren't the best in the house, but it's a great way to experience part of New York's culture without breaking the bank. Below are some of the policies for Broadway's most popular open-ended shows (shows with no pre-determined closing date):
Book of Mormon
Where: 230 W. 49th Street at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre
What: Book of Mormon offers limited lottery rush tickets for $32 at the theatre. Beginning two and a half hours before the performance people can enter the lottery by printing their names and number of tickets (limit two) on a card. The winners' names are drawn at random two hours before the curtain. In order to win, winners must be present and pay with a valid ID and cash or valid credit card.
Where: 215 W. 49th Street at Ambassador Theatre
What: Chicago offers a limited amount of general rush tickets at the box office for $37. Tickets are limited two per person and are not available for Saturday evening shows. The show also offers standing room tickets for $27 at the box office the day of performance, but only when a performance is sold out.
Jersey Boys
Where: 245 W. 52nd Street at August Wilson Theatre
What: Jersey Boys offers student rush tickets for $27 each at the theatre. Tickets are available at the box office the day of a performance and are limited two per person per 30-day period. A valid non-expired student ID and government issued ID (such as a driver's license) must be shown at the box office. Cash only.
Kinky Boots
Where: 302 W. 45th Street at Al Hirschfeld Theatre
What: There are a limited amount of lottery tickets available for each Kinky Boots performance for $37 at the box office. Lottery entries begin two and a half hours before performances, and winners names are drawn two hours before the curtain.
Mamma Mia!
Where: 235 W. 44th Street at Broadhurst Theatre
What: Mamma Mia! offers rush seat tickets for $32 at the box office the day of performance. Tickets are limited two per customer. Standing room tickets are also offered two hours before the curtain for $27 at the box office on the day of the performance if it is sold out.
Matilda the Musical
Where: 225 W. 44th Street at Shubert Theatre
What: Matilda offers 20 lottery tickets for $27 for each performance. Lottery entries begin two and a half hours before the curtain, and winners are drawn two hours before. Winners must be present with a valid ID in order to win. Matilda also offers standing room tickets for $27 for sold-out performances.
Where: 208 W. 41st Street at Nederlander Theatre
What: There are $30 cash-only lottery tickets available for Newsies. Entries begin two and a half hours before the performance. The lottery is available for every performance. To qualify, winners must be present, and show a valid ID. Limit two tickets per winner. Standing room only tickets are available after the lottery for sold out performances for $30 each.
Where: 242 W. 45th Street at Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre
What: Limited rush tickets are available for Once Tuesday-Thursday for $35, and Friday-Sunday for $40. Tickets are sold the day of the performance at the box office. Limit two tickets per person.
The Phantom of the Opera
Where: 245 W. 44th Street at Majestic Theatre
What: Rear Mezzanine tickets are available for $26.25 for Monday-Thursday performances. Tickets can be purchased at the box office, or through Telecharge. Phantom of the Opera also offers standing room tickets for $26.25 for sold out performances.
Where: 239 W. 45th Street at Music Box Theatre
What: Pippin offers a limited amount of rush tickets for $37 at the box office for that day's performance. Tickets are limited one per person. Cash or credit is accepted.
Where: 222 W. 51st Street at George Gershwin Theatre
What: Wicked offers front row lottery rush tickets for each performance. Lottery entries are accepted two and a half hours before each performance, and the drawing is two hours before the curtain. Entries are limited to one per person, and two tickets per winner. Winners must be present and have a valid ID. Cash only.
For more deals, also checks out the TKTS discount booths operated by the Theatre Development Fund. They are located in at the red stairs in Times Square, Brooklyn and South Street Seaport. Tickets sold day-of at the booths are for show performances up to 50 percent off.
The rush and lottery tickets vary for every Broadway show, and they may not be offered for every show. Still, it can be a good investment to see other shows. Chair of Media, Culture, and the Arts Dr. Harry Bleatter offers his recommendations:
"I think students should try to see the Carole King musical, Beautiful. Great performance by Jessie Mueller, who plays King. Woody Allen's Bullets Over Broadway should be fun, and Idina Menzel is starring in If/Then."
Discount show selections and prices are subject to change. For a comprehensive list of shows and policies for different Broadway shows, check websites such as playbill.com, or broadway.com for more information.


text: Art Quilts Around the World Challenge: Where I Dream January 31, 2019 The theme for the January reveal for my Facebook art quilt group Art Quilts around the world is "Where I Dream." I do not go to an actual place but dream in my head and I tend to fall back on the color wheel and a little help from Pinterest!! I began with a silhouette drawing of a female motif and the 12 basic colors of the color wheel using batiks. I used a black with tiny multicolored print for the background and a fun button in the middle to repeat all the colors and to show movement. I quilted the project with radiating quilting lines from the center of the quilt using 12 different thread colors to coordinate with the area I was quilting. I began the quilt doing math/geometry. I feel if my high school geometry class had featured quilt blocks I may have paid more attention!! To figure out what I needed to create I started with a circle has 360 degrees. Divide by 12 colors and each "wedge" of color would be 30 degrees which is easy to find on my 6" x 24" ruler. I drew this on foundation paper twice-6 wedges each piece of paper. I sewed the cool colors on one foundation piece and the warm colors on the other foundation piece. I did a sew. flip and press method to create the two background pieces. After removing the foundation paper I sewed the two sections together to form the background. I drew the applique image on Pellon Wonder Under marking the vertical and horizontal centers to align the applique with the center on the wedges with the center of the applique. I chose for the yellow to be in the upper right hand corner. My least favorite of the 12 colors of the color wheel is blue violet so it has the smallest amount of the applique. After fusing I used the 12 threads to quit the project. It was meant to be bold and simple and therefore only the button was my embellishment. It is cute to me and I will use it when I teach my color theory classes as an art quilt using the color wheel as it's focal point.


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Tokyo Chronos VR Visual Novel's Kickstarter Campaign Reaches Goal
posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
Sekai Project's Kickstarter campaign for MyDearest's Tokyo Chronos VR visual novel project reached its US$75,000 funding goal last Friday. The campaign launched on July 10 and ends on Tuesday.
As of press time, the campaign has raised US$88,193 from 936 backers. The funding goal of US$75,000 will cover the costs of development, as well as merchandise for backers. Backer merchandise is slated to ship in February 2019. Rewards include a digital or physical copy of the visual novel, digital soundtrack, digital artbook, mini light novel, vinyl record, signed shikishi boards, credit in the game, and a hand-drawn illustration.
Sekai Project describes the visual novel:
Tokyo Chronos is a mystery novel about 8 childhood friends separated from the reality of this world, and trapped in an empty Shibuya, barren of any other souls. As time and space seemingly comes to a halt, the eight begin to disappear, one by one. What has happened to this world? What is happening to the ones trapped inside this hollow void? Who is the culprit that set the mystery in motion in a space that stands still.
The VR project is slated for a release on Oculus and Vive via Steam and on PlayStation VR. The companies plan to release the game in Japanese, English, and Chinese.
The cast so far includes:
Yui Ishikawa as Karen Nikaido
Shoko Yuzuki as Yuria Togoku
Haruki Kashiwakura (motion director for Expelled from Paradise, 3D animator for Penguindrum, Strike Witches 2, Magi: The Labyrinth of Magic) is directing the VR project at VR content company MyDearest, and illustrator LAM is designing the characters. Novelist Kou Segawa (Konya, Kimi ni Korosareta Toshitemo) is writing the scenario. Kazuma Miki (producer for A Certain Magical Index, Sword Art Online franchises) is producing the work. Sekai Project will publish the work, and Tokyo Otaku Mode Inc. is a production partner.
Source: Tokyo Chronos' Kickstarter campaign page via Siliconera


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Although being absent from Paris couture this season, in fact, I was halfway across the world, through viewing even just a few shows online with sketchy wifi, it was immediately clear that something different was happening.
After many consecutive seasons where couture was looking less and less like couture, we saw a return to beauty and grandeur of the old-school variety. Even Maria Grazia Chiuri let go of her go-to streetwear influences and gimmicky forced-feminism. It was…pretty. And most agreed that it was the creative director's best collection for the house to date.
In one of the most standout shows this season, Clare Waight Keller's homage to house founder at Hubert de Givenchy was nothing short of hauntingly beautiful in the piercingly severe yet deeply elegant way that only the former Chloé creative director knows how to deliver.
And just when you thought it was all too good to be true, there was Pierpaolo Piccioli's Valentino. The imagery speaks for itself, but boy was beauty of the visceral-wow-factor variety and bold imagination evidently soaring in this collection. There was no mediocre look.
Which all beckons the question – why the sudden change? Many of us who had been longing for the classic elements and aesthetics of yesteryear fashion feared it may never return. We deeply missed the pretty, but had written it off as outdated perhaps. Or maybe the frou-frou was not exuding the democracy that we were fighting for in the industry. And then the obvious: could it be a response to ugly fashion?
In short, yes. But it may even go beyond an aesthetic response. Marred with issues that have come to the surface the past year – from sustainability and fashion's impact on the environment to sexual and psychological abuse, the fashion industry has become a sort-of bad guy, not allowing us to appreciate the type of beauty that may be perceived as excess. And while it's been crucial to expose these issues so we can correct them and, hopefully eventually heal, the transparency has inevitably weakened our positive associations with fashion. It's hard to dream when you think of cheap clothes in landfills and the uncomfortable ordeals models and junior workers have had to go through. While it's not the couture ending up in landfills, we also can't ignore the fact that luxury fashion ignites the motivation to keep buying new clothes, and for most, cheaper throwaway makes.
Like many that grew up as working-class kids yearningly looking through Vogues, I more than get the need for fashion to subvert codes Gvasalia-style, ironize all the exclusivity and ultimately democratize itself. But's it's worth nothing that classic beauty and democracy should not be perceived as mutually exclusive.
It's fundamental to remind ourselves that fashion still has its virtues. Let's think beyond the hackneyed phrase 'to make us dream', as what this really means is, fashion that speaks to the core of our identity makes us aspire. Not aspire to be someone else we never we will be as some misunderstand this to mean - as daydreaming for the sake of it is frankly worthless - but that in visualization we create the best version of ourselves. The person we are working on becoming. This motivates us to do the hard stuff required to get there. And that's fashion's best quality – and a powerful tool to help us with life's hardships. So inspired by the beauty of this season's couture, let's make up with it.


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Top 10 SAT Math Books Tips, Questions and Tricks
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There are so many books in the Amazon. I'm not sure which books to buy.
I don't plan on taking SAT course (its expensive). Can you suggest few top SAT Math Books?
SAT courses can be expensive and there are several Top SAT Math books to boost your SAT score.
You can see a complete list of latest SAT Test prep books for Math section.
Do you want to know which book to buy? Here is a way I usually suggest when buying SAT Test pep books.
- Take a practice test – SAT Math section
- Identify your weak areas in Math section.
- Understand what kind of book do you want
- Practice Tests
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- Tips and tricks
- Read the contents of the book to check if it has what you need.
- Buy the Best SAT Math Prep book based on your SAT test prep need.
Top SAT Math Books
Here are links to some of the Top SAT Math books for preparing for SAT Test.
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- Dr. John Chung's SAT Math (5 Star)
- PWN the SAT: Math Guide (5 star)
- A-Plus Notes for SAT Math (5)
- 320 SAT Math Problems arranged by Topic and Difficulty Level (5)
- McGraw-Hill's Top 50 Skills for a Top Score: SAT Math (5 star)
- 99 Percentile SAT Math (5 star) – 4 Books for Math
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- The PowerScore SAT * Math Bible (4.5 star)
- The New Math SAT Game Plan: The Strategic Way to Score Higher (4.5 star)
- Math SAT 800: How To Master the Toughest Problems (4 star)
- Barron's SAT Math Workbook (3 star)
- 5 SAT Math Practice Tests (4.5 star)
- McGraw-Hill's Conquering SAT Math (4.5 star)
- Kaplan SAT Math Workbook (4.5 Star)
- Private Tutor – Your Complete SAT Math Prep Course with Amy Lucas
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From the above list of SAT Math prep books pick few books based on your requirements and test prep need.
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If you are good with SAT Math strategies and want few books just for practice tests, then following 2 books would be sufficient.
- 320 SAT Math Problems arranged by Topic and Difficulty Level (5 star)
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Above 2 books contain several SAT Math practice test questions.


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FINALLY!!! I finished it Friday night. It is really pretty. Pete was very happy with it. I still need to frame it.
I also finished Love Birds by Miss Crescent's Crowne. This was really easy and stitched up very quickly. This was the first time I have stitched with Belle Soie silk. Very nice.
I have also made a bit of progress on LK ABC Lessons. Only three rows left.
Baltimore was great. I had a very good time. The conference was very helpful.
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Edgar Allan Poe National Historic Site
Chinatown Market
The place for all your odd food needs.
New Harmony
The Trocadera
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All of Philly's flavors under one roof
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Go-Go Dancers. Enough said
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What People Are Saying About Paul
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This is an excellent presentation skills course. Anyone who ever has to make a presentation of any description will gain immensely from attending. As someone who makes presentations for a living, and who has done presentation skills training courses before, I found much food for thought and discovered many areas for improvement – well done Paul and thanks."
– Grahame Hall, Director, Power Advertising For Profit
"When I first contacted Paul du Toit, it was because I wanted to be trained by the best. I can personally vouch that his training and his sage business advice has paid me back over and over again what I initially invested. Not only does Paul know his craft through and through, but he is also the master of layering in countless nuances that transcend both cultural and individual differences, with a mix of exuberance and intelligent control."
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"Paul du Toit's presentation at the NSAA Convention in Melbourne Australia was 'world class'. His content and delivery were outstanding. He imparted relevant information in a way that left me excited that I had learnt so much in such a short time. I can immediately transfer the benefits and apply to my own presentations thus improving my own performance."
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"Paul's reputation as one of South Africa's great speakers was well known to me long before we met. Since then I have been lucky enough to hear Paul speak on a number of occasions and I have always been refreshingly surprised by his in-depth knowledge on the subject matter and his highly professional delivery. His enthusiasm for his audiences always grabs your attention and you don't realise that you have been learning as he entertains you."
– Richard Mulvey – Entrepreneur, Southern Africa Hall of Fame Speaker, Facilitator
"Thanks Paul for a great presentation. You did an excellent job of adapting your message to fit into the theme of our business review. Our staff, of all ages and corporate positions, was engaged from beginning to end. We received very positive feedback after the talk and many shared their appreciation for your follow up email listing the points of relevance.
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"Paul du Toit is without question one of the top seminar and keynote talents in South Africa today. His knowledge of his subjects is comprehensive and his ability to communicate with clarity and humour, impressive. He establishes instant rapport with his audiences while at the same time maintaining total control. My experience of him is that he is flexible, creative and totally professional."
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– Nicole Ludlow, Manager, Froggie
"Many thanks for an insightful and compelling session, which in essence has galvanised my outlook for the future. I came in expecting fire and brimstone, but left with a "Landrover" equipped with life skills that are simple, resourceful, encouraging and implementable."
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