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Time Management
When Rodney asked me to consider an article on time management, my first reaction was, "What the heck do I know about time management?" I had visions of real experts, consultants, people we pay $2,500 per day who had Power Point presentations and knew all the latest management techniques.
But as usual I have a big enough ego that I quickly snapped out of it and said to myself, "Why not me, I can do that!" After all, I enjoy a challenge as much as the next person, and I have a super-secret weapon working in my favor, "The Colonel."
The Colonel's Rules
In a previous article I mentioned being raised an Army brat, recruit second-class (middle child), to the distinguished Lt Col. Felix Bessler. The Colonel could really bring it when it came to time management, and he expected all of his recruits (kids) to understand the importance of time. He often used terms with us like, "Fall In," "Stand at Attention," "At Ease," "Assume the Front Leaning Rest Position" (commonly known as the pushup position), and his often-used favorite was, "I want you to be home by 2202 hours (10:02 p.m.), not one minute before, not one minute after."
At the time it sounded okay--the Colonel liked structure and we were used to it. We never bothered to try to figure out the logic, we were more focused on the exactness of it, like all good recruits should do. As we got older, the Colonel explained that when he was one of President Kennedy's and President Johnson's helicopter pilots, Johnson used to sit up front sometimes and tell them, "I want to land at the White House at a specific time, like 0722, not one minute before, not one minute after." To oblige, they would have to fly Army 1 around and then swoop in at the exact minute.
As we got on in years and the Colonel, now a gentleman farmer settled into retirement and starting to soften, changed his strategy and the "standing orders" for us. His revised philosophy was, "Stay out as long as you like but know the later you come in, the earlier you're getting up." So anything after midnight, (2400 hours), usually had us up around 0600 with the Colonel's barking order, "Drop your ____ and grab your socks, it's time to get up." That meant farm work and that, my friends, really is, in my opinion, the character-building tradition this great land of ours was built on. I really like saying that because in some ways, we are a version of the modern-day farmer, growing turf, urban forests and open space.
Time Management Challenges
I know all of this is funny, but I think it drives home the point that our entire lives are about time management in some form or another. As a parent I am constantly struggling with time management--especially with my kids. In the summer, my teenage daughter Hannah thinks every night is Friday night and that my wife Mary and I can wait up till midnight seven days a week (we can't). Ten-year-old Sawyer believes that when he's told to do something, "in a minute" is a reasonable response. I'm pretty sure he doesn't have a full understanding of what a minute really is. And then there's my personal favorite, the old "Peace Out!" which means see you later, much later.
My hypothesis is that, at a very early age, we either learn the value of the exact, irreversible and limiting nature of time, or we think of time as more of a suggestion to react to at our own pace. This is fine when we're children, but then we grow up and discover that few things in the working world are really a suggestion; projects, processes, products, commitments and deadlines are all around us, and they all carry the associated stresses of the exactness of time.
How do we get out in front of it all?
There are as many answers as there are questions, and I believe there is no right way. The first place most people look is to technology. As we all know, this is a tricky proposition. Technology alone is outpacing our desire to change personal habits. For example, if it takes 30 consecutive days to form a new habit, but new "time saving" technology comes out just as fast, what are we to do?
It's becoming increasingly obvious this technology is crushing us under the invisible weight of its sheer volume. It is a BEAST! The days of the pink phone message note we pressed onto the spikey thing on the desk are long gone. Phone mail and e-mail are typically abused and over-used, and consume vast amounts of time, hard drive and our living, inner drive. We have to figure out boundaries with that stuff and try to impress upon our sometimes over-zealous but committed staffs how to recognize the invisible line of what we do need and don't need to know. My oldest son Dylan has figured it out; he calls it "Strategic Release of Information." Clearly, it's an art, not a science.
My Philosophy
I suggest you develop a system that works for you, and then stick to it. Any system will work if the underlying value associated with it is that you need to be accountable for delivering your product in an efficient way and that you honor and respect the time of those with whom you interact. If you place those simple values into your schedule, meetings will start on time, they won't last an hour when they only need 30 minutes, and there will be a strange, accompanying satisfaction of real progress. By the way, I challenge you to schedule meetings in 30-minute blocks instead of the customary one-hour ones and see what happens. If going to 30 minutes is too cold turkey, try 45 and ease the pain. Here are a few more tips that may help:
Delegate and empower subordinates
Establish short-term, mid-term and long-term priorities.
Don't waste other people's time; you're just wasting yours
Ensure all meetings include only needed people
Do not commit yourself to unimportant activities, no matter how far away they are
Keep things simple
Manage your important decision-making processes
Throw unneeded things away
Read Stephen Covey's Big Rocks, Pickle Jar Theory; it's a one pager, not a book
Most importantly, set boundaries for yourself. You have to be able to come to work with energy and enthusiasm. I used to be able to do three night meetings in a week. I just can't do that anymore; two is my limit. It took too much out of me, destroyed my enthusiasm reserves and left my life way out of balance. I also book one day a week that I won't schedule any formal meetings so I can play catch up. I call it, "Thursday, the new Friday"!
Figure out if you're a person who needs structure or you can keep it loose, but above all, do a check-in with your values and develop a system that is in alignment. Hopefully, your values are in agreement with your organization.
Donald Bessler is the Director of Parks, Open Space & Public Facilities for Longmont, Colo. He can be reached via e-mail at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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On July 22, 2015, the Sustainable Development Solutions Network and the Pontifical Academy of Sciences bring together mayors from some of the world's major urban centers – including New York, Vancouver, Istanbul, New Orleans, Rome, Seoul, Bogota, San Francisco, Rio de Janeiro, Accra, Stockholm, Sao Paulo, Kingston, Johannesburg, Algiers – to discuss the UN's new Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This event follows the July 21 Vatican workshop on "Modern Slavery and Climate Change: The Commitment of the Cities", convened by Pope Francis and the Pontifical Academy of Sciences.
At the July 22 Vatican-hosted symposium, city leaders will consider clear, quantifiable commitments to demonstrate their dedication to a fairer, more sustainable world. Additionally, local governments and urban development practitioners will discuss how cities can drive the implementation of the new sustainable development agenda. At the conclusion of the symposium, the mayors will sign a "sustainable development" declaration.
Taking place just two months before heads of state and government gather in New York to approve the SDGs and four months before the climate negotiations in Paris, mayors are convening to tackle the challenges of social inclusion, economic development and environmental sustainability (including cities' carbon commitments). They will also discuss the importance of governance and finance for implementing the SDGs.
July 22 event documents:
Translations of the agenda are available on the Pontifical Academy of Sciences website.
The symposium will be livestreamed on YouTube beginning 9AM CET. Join the conversation online by following #MayorsCare.
Please direct all inquiries, including media inquires, to Jessica Espey.

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Connected Show Podcast: Who's Exception is it?
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In this episode guest Milan Negovan talks about health monitoring in ASP.NET and what to do when things go wrong! (Starts at 24:47). Also Peter and Dmitry talk about Eclipse support for Windows 7, the Azure Content Deliver Network and other news stories. (This episode was recorded live from the Fairfield / Westchester Code Camp)
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Made these super easy and delicious egg white muffins. Wanted to do something different for breakfast and they last a couple of days in the fridge so you can prep for a few days as well.
Low carbs and high in protein.
So easy and quick to make and you can enjoy them at home or even on the go.
I based mine on just egg whites to restrict my fats, but you can have whole eggs as well.
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Follow these simple steps to make these delicious egg muffins
150g eggwhite
Vegetables of your choice
I had broccoli, sugar snap and baby sweetcorn.
Cayenne pepper
Garlic powder
Italian herbs
Do like this
Turn oven to 180 degrees.
Mix egg whites and spices together. Chop the vegetables up into smaller pieces and place them in small silicon muffin cases. If you don't have any silicon cases, use a muffin tray and spray some olive oil so it doesn't stick. It will be a nightmare otherwise!
Poor the egg white mixture over the cases, don't fill right up to the top as they will rise a bit!
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This is what Star Wars would be like if it was performed by your favorite cartoon characters:
The clip is from the Emerald City Comic Con where some of the greatest, well-known voice actors came together to deliver a reading of scenes from the original Star Wars as reenacted by their famous cartoon character alter egos.
The powers of Billy West, Tara Strong, Maurice LaMarche, John DiMaggio, Kevin Conroy, Jess Harnell and of course the legendary Rob Paulsen combine to create one of the most entertaining performances of Star Wars you'll ever see (or hear, rather). They also do hilarious impressions of Christopher Walken, Ozzy, William Shatner and others.
Just a tiny fraction of the awesomeness you'll hear:
- Rob Paulsen as Raphael doing Obi Wan Kenobi
- Tara Strong as Bubbles doing Darth Vader & C3PO as Raven from Teen Titans
- Billy West as Stimpy
- Kevin Conroy as Batman narrating
- Pinky & The Brain swearing (again!)
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On Saturday, September 22, stop by our booth at the Riley Park Farmer's Market and leave a donation. All proceeds will go to participants in Little Mountain Neighbourhood House programming.
A partnership between the Riley Park Community Garden and Vancouver Farmers Markets, these contributions help feed our community.
When: 10:00 am - 2:00 pm
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Let's be honest—every once in a while, I have a week when I come up a little shorter than expected.
Maybe there was a car repair that needed to be done, or a trip to the doctor (complete with that co-pay) that went over the budget. It happens to the best of us, and despite my best efforts, I am not immune to it.
It happens a lot less often now that I use the cash envelope system, but it does happen from time to time.
My priority on weeks like this is to avoid using credit for living expenses. It is so important to me—and should be to you, too! So instead of pulling out the plastic, I work with what I have on hand when I go to the grocery store.
It takes a very careful meal planning system to make it all work when you are on the tightest budget imaginable, but it can be done!
I have developed a system to make my meal planning as cheap as possible WITHOUT being boring. I pull it out on tighter-than-expected weeks. Lately, I have started doing this every week (with a few treats thrown in) so that I can put extra money into savings. And my husband is never bored with the meals—in fact, he gets as excited as I do when our total at the register is less than $30!
Meal planning on a very tight budget is not a secret I want to keep to myself! So I created a short eBook to explain the process—and I am giving it away for FREE if you subscribe to my newsletter!
The examples and sample meal plan in this guide feature the sales and excellent prices at Aldi, but you can apply it to any grocery store that has weekly sales!
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Monday round-up
Court-watchers are still analyzing and tracking reactions to last week's decision in Citizens United v. FEC.
Commentators paid particular attention to both Justice Kennedy's majority opinion and to the concurring opinion of Chief Justice John Roberts. The Washington Post reports that Justice Kennedy "was [the] key to conservatives' win"; moreover, his preference shaped the conclusion not only in this case, but also in the outcome in other recent cases in which the Court has shifted its jurisprudence. Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite, writing online for the Washington Post, recalls the concerns she expressed at the confirmation hearings of Chief Justice Roberts. Her view in 2005 "that Roberts plans to pursue an activist, conservative agenda" remains the same today.
Rick Hasen of Election Law Blog scrutinizes the Chief Justice's choice to write a concurrence. Hasen proposes that it could have been either to defend himself from charges of judicial activism, to distance himself from an opinion which overturned a major precedent, or both. The LA Times chronicles the relationship between Justice Kennedy and the Chief Justice, reporting that "to pursue a conservative shift, Roberts must win Kennedy's vote," while Adam Liptak of the New York Times analyzes the exchanges between the majority and dissenting opinions. The Religion Dispatches, the WSJ Law Blog and the New Yorker also report.
Parties with a stake in the case also commented. The Washington Post appraises Senator John McCain's pejorative reaction. A co-author of the Bipartisan Campaign Finance Reform Act, McCain doubts that anything can be done to counter the Court's decision. President Barack Obama decried the decision, saying "[t]his ruling opens the floodgates for an unlimited amount of special interest money into our democracy," reports the Christian Science Monitor. Brian Stelter of the New York Times reports that local television stations, many of whom anticipate a spike in advertising because of the decision, also followed the case closely. And SCOTUSblog's Lyle Denniston and Harvard Law School Professor Laurence H. Tribe weighed the potential legislative and Congressional responses to the decision.
The NRA, CATO, and the ACLU all supported Citizens United as amicus curiae in the case, but the organizations have had differing reactions to the decision. While the NRA "praised" the Court for removing unconstitutional restrictions on free speech, and Roger Pilon of Cato supports the decision, the ACLU may respond by re-considering its stance on campaign restrictions, the New York Sun reports. The decision is becoming a test of principle at the ACLU or, as one internal memo describes it, a "Skokie moment" "" referring to the 1978 case in which the ACLU defended an American Nazi group's efforts to march through the Chicago suburb.
Many analysts weighed in on the rights of corporations as interpreted by the Court. At The American Prospect, Heather Gerken posits that this opinion was the result of a string of recently decided, little-noticed cases. David Von Drehle of Time concludes that, as a result of the Court's decision, "more Americans [will] have more access to more streams of political communication than ever before." Writing for Conglomerate Blog, Usha Rodrigues quotes from the Court's opinion while exploring the history and legal status of corporations. David Kairys, writing for Slate, claims that the argument for allowing corporations to enjoy the same rights as ordinary citizens is a "controversial innovation of the conservative justices over the last few decades." Politico takes a different angle, reporting that the impact of the decision may not be "as dramatic" as some have speculated.
The New York Times has a profile of James Bopp Jr., who has long represented Citizens United, and whom Richard Hasen describes as "a litigation machine." Hasen observes that Bopp "has manufactured these cases to present certain questions to the Supreme Court in a certain order and achieve a certain result." Offering a historical view of the advocates in the case at Law.com, Tony Mauro reports that Citizens United may have shifted from the question of the legality of "Hillary: The Movie," to the constitutionality of major precedents and statutes when Citizens United replaced Bopp with Ted Olson. Olson, for his part, suggests that the turning point in the case occurred when Deputy Solicitor General Malcom Stewart claimed that books sponsored by corporations could be banned.
- UPI reports on the Supreme Court's right to privacy rulings as they relate to airport security screenings and full-body scanners.
- The Washington Post reports on Friday's March For Life, an annual march marking the anniversary of the Roe v. Wade decision.
- Eugene Volokh offers counsel on search terms to use when researching old cases. For example, to locate references to the right to trial by jury in civil cases, search for "Ninth Amendment" and "Seventh Amendment." To find out why, visit the Volokh Conspiracy here.
- The WSJ Law Blog reports on a recently formed all-white basketball league. Anti-trust laws could apply to the league, just as they may soon apply to the NFL, depending on how American Needle v. NFL is decided, the Journal reports.


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Steve Schirripa as Anthony Abetemarco and Bridget Moynahan as Erin Reagan-Boyle
When a homicide case ends in a hung jury, Erin is forced to take over the case from her colleague, ADA Kelly Blake (Diane Neal), and with the help of DA investigator Anthony Abetemarco (Steve Schirripa), find a missing witness. Also, Jamie and Eddie go undercover as an elderly couple to catch a gang that is terrorizing a neighborhood.
"Hold Outs" (Season 6, Episode 9)
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Brent Seabrook scored a goal to break a tie early in the third period, and Chicago defeated Detroit last night.
TOP GAMEBlackhawks 3, Red Wings 2 Chicago edges Detroit on Seabrook goal in third
Brent Seabrook scored a goal to break a tie early in the third period, and Chicago defeated Detroit last night.
Seabrook scored the winner 1:52 into the third period when he fired from the blue line and overpowered Detroit goaltender Jimmy Howard with a rising shot that sailed over his glove.
Marian Hossa scored and Jonathan Toews made a penalty shot for Chicago.
Justin Abdelkader and Todd Bertuzzi had goals for the Red Wings.
The win helped first-place Chicago open a five-point lead on second-place Detroit in the Central Division.
• Capitals 3, Sabres 1: Alex Ovechkin scored twice, and Tomas Vokoun made 25 saves to lead Washington over Buffalo.
Ovechkin scored in the first and third periods.
Nicklas Backstrom also scored his 13th of the season - his 100th career NHL goal - for the Capitals. Alexander Semin had two assists.
• Rangers 4, Panthers 1: Carl Hagelin had a goal and an assist, Henrik Lundqvist stopped 27 shots, and New York defeated Florida.
Brad Richards, Michael Del Zotto and Brandon Dubinsky also scored for the Rangers, who have won six of seven.
• Senators 4, Flames 3, OT: Daniel Alfredsson scored his 400th career goal at 3:31 of overtime to give Ottawa a come-from-behind win over Calgary.
Alfredsson drove a slap shot from the left point past Leland Irving on a power play after Calgary was left short-handed when Rene Bourque was called for holding 2:20 into the extra period.
• Predators 2, Blues 1, SO: Martin Erat scored in the fifth round of the shootout to give Nashville a victory over St. Louis.
Erat sent a shot high over the glove hand of Jaroslav Halak, and Pekka Rinne kept the Blues scoreless on all five attempts to win for the second game in a row in a shootout.
• The NHL's old-timers will get a later start in the first major event of the Winter Classic.
The alumni game between former members of the Philadelphia Flyers and New York Rangers has been pushed back two hours to a 3 p.m. start today at Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia.
The game was changed because of a forecast that calls for temperatures in the 50s and sunny skies. The unseasonably warm weather yesterday softened the ice.
The league will use today's game as a test run for the Winter Classic on Monday between the Flyers and Rangers.
• The Rangers placed veteran forward Sean Avery on waivers.
The Rangers could assign him to their American Hockey League affiliate, Connecticut, if he goes unclaimed by noon today. Avery, who hasn't played in nine straight games, would become a free agent if he clears waivers.
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Pass a new gun control law, watch gun sales explode until the law takes effect.
That pattern has played out several times over the years in California, but never so much as in 2016, related largely to a spike in sales as buyers rushed to beat a ban on certain rifles, new figures from the state Department of Justice show.
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Swordsman Skills – Class D Melee Mercenary Skills
Perhaps nothing defines an individual mercenary class in Atlantica Online more than the skills which are available to them. The Swordsman is unique as a class D melee mercenary in that there are five skills in his arsenal, while the other two class D melee mercs, Spearmen and Vikings, have four.
The Swordsman has 3 skills which are common among each of the three class D melee mercenaries. These skills are as follows:
- Guard Dispel – This spell can be cast on a single row of the opponent's formation. It essentially cancels out the spell Holy Guard which is on any of your opponent's units in that row. This allows your other mercs to use magical attacks on those mercs which previously had Holy Guard on them.
- Deadly Strike – This spell can only be used when your mercenary is on the verge of death. It is a very highly damaging attack, targeted to a single enemy unit. Using this ability will tax your mercenary's action power both on the round in which it is used, and on the following round. It really is a last ditch sort of ability, but it deals out significant damage.
- Break Down – This is an area-of-effect spell, targeting every unit in the enemy formation. It is one of the weaker AoE spells in the game. However, if it is used on a formation which has the ranged skill Chaos Wind in effect upon them, the spell Destructive Wind will activate. Destructive Wind is a high-damage area-of-effect, damage-over-time spell.
Unique Swordsman Skills
In addition to these 3 basic class D melee mercenary skills, the Swordsman has 2 skills which are unique to the class. These skills are:
- Flame Sword – The bread & butter Swordsman skill, Flame Sword is much more likely to successfully hit your opponent than a regular attack, and deals out pretty good damage. A useful skill to use when an opponent's front-line unit is near the brink of death, and you want to ensure that your attack kills off the unit.
- Dark Seed – A single-target damage-over-time spell, this spell can be cast on any unit in the enemy's formation. If Hex of Darkness is cast upon a unit which is effected by Dark Seed, then the damage-over-time spell Hell Flame is activated on the unit. This spell does significant damage to a single enemy unit.
Our next article in this series asks the question, "How should you train your Swordsman's skills?", while keeping in mind which mercenaries are worth pairing with the Swordsman. We will also go into the long-term viability of the Swordsman class, further on in this article series.
This post is part of the series: Atlantica Online Swordsman Class Guide
- Atlantica Online – Swordsman – Class Overview
- Atlantica Online – Swordsman Stats & Equipment
- Atlantica Online – Training Swordsman Stats
- Atlantica Online – Swordsman Class Skills/Abilities
- Atlantica Online – Training Swordsman Skills
- Atlantica Online – The Swordsman's Value in the Mercenary Formation


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We have been absolutely inundated by tonnes (TONNES) of you tweeting, posting letters, phoning, emailing us to write our annual 'Strictly Speculation' post. Oh wait, no, I may have exaggerated a wee bit: Frankie messaged me on Facebook saying we probably should do it. So here it is.
The nagging has already begun...now bring on the speculation spangles! Get Google up, it's time to start looking at how tall everyone is. Vincent needs a pixie, Natalie needs a giant, everyone else is just guesswork, but that never stopped us.
Other than the news that SCD is deserting Blackpool, (Personally I'd rather dessert Blackpool - custard pies, anyone?) most of the news surrounding the new series of #SCD (Twitter habit) revolves around members of the magnificent Team GB. According to contactmusic.com, they are 'eyeing' Bradley Wiggins. Excellent. Lancashire lad. Might trip over his own sideburns mid quickstep. Another mentionee is Beth Tweddle. Again, excellent. I can't remember a world without Beth Tweddle. If she were to sink into a vast abyss of obscurity I don't know if I could cope. And Victoria Pendleton. No objections as long as they don't let her cycle on set. Oh fiddlesticks, I forgot about props.
Team GB are a dream for SCD and any pro will love them. Can I just point out that we also tipped Rebecca Adlington for the show at least two years ago in our Dream Line-up? We are so ahead of the curve we might meet each other coming the other way, like in a velodrome in fact! My favourite for the show is Victoria Pendleton, after the Pantene ad we have incontestable proof she likes nice dresses. As for the men, wouldn't Ben Ainslie look a-ma-zing in a tux? Although I think I'd most like to see one of those gymnastics boys going for a spin on the dancefloor, if only so they can rise above that 'One Direction of Team GB' thing, they are so much better than that. Plus one of them is ginger.
Now, Dannii Minogue? Get real. If this turns out to be true, I will eat a wombat. This is hardly the 'ultimate revenge' for Simon Cowell that the media seem to think it is. I say she'd much better boil his balls in vinegar and feed them to a shih tzu. Or Sharon Osbourne.
Or Pudsey the dog, surely? Remember when Sharon Osbourne herself was a rumour? Reality TV is so incestuous...
Westlife member is a whole other story however and could be quite probable. Doesn't matter which one. One with floppy hair. Wait... Of course he'll have dancing experience having been in a boyband. Apart from the fact he was in the boyband that had nothing choreographically more challenging ever thrown at them than standing up and walking forward on a key change.
I don't know the names of anyone in Westlife, so it could get awkward after I've been calling them 'thingy' for weeks. And I want proper 90s retro pop fodder, H from Steps, Jon from S Club 7, Brian from East 17 if he can handle not running himself over anymore.
Naturally, there will be Eastenders folks. Frankly, I don't really give a darned banana. Unless it's Sid Owen and they show a clip of his uber-lol 'pop career.' However, one rumour I'm really quite liking is Fern Britton. If I'm honest, though, I've no idea why. She's just, well, wholesome. Like lentil soup. And I'd be pleased to see Chris Evans, not because I like Chris Evans but because ginger people are sorely under-represented on the show. Esther Rantzen DOES NOT COUNT.
Yeah, Sid Owen will do, but for Eastenders I really want Charlie Brooks. Who is also conveniently taking some time off the show very soon...fingers crossed. Plus when they announce it everyone will think Charlie Brooker is doing the show, cue *much* hilarity. In fact, if Fern Britton comes along too we might as well just reunite the cast of the Christmas special. Simon Webbe can't be up to much between now and Christmas, can he?
So there we are. That's all I've heard bubbling around the wicked cauldron of the media so far. But be not afeared: the launch show is being filmed on 11th Sept. And everyone knows it's hopeless trying to keep things quiet after that.
Here we go again...


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sponsored by the HDSID downtown district, lots of food and drinks,
Start your art crawl here or chill for a while to catch the contagious energy with the
lounge and music, friends and new discoveries.
From 3 - 5 pm we present the
Preschool of Rock, Michael Napolitano bringing rock tunes to the young listeners, teaching kids about jam sessions, celebrating American music!
The super independent handmade and art market is a milestone in the local scene, year round a staple on the Grove street PATH plaza.
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ATHENS (Reuters) - A fire ripped through a 600-year-old Ottoman mosque in northern Greece on Wednesday, causing extensive damage, authorities said.
The overnight blaze burned through the wooden roof of the Celebi Sultan Mehmed Mosque, also known as Bayezid Mosque, in the town of Didymoticho close to the Greek-Turkish border.
The cause was unclear, though the fire had occurred in the midst of renovation work on the building, completed in 1420. It was a cultural monument rather than a functioning mosque.
"Plumes of smoke are still coming from the building...We should have an idea tomorrow about the cause of the fire," a fire brigade spokeswoman said.
The fire service had been called in on Tuesday because renovation workers smelled smoke, but no fire was detected when the brigade arrived, she added.
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SCOOP 2012 at PokerStarsFriday, April 27th, 2012
The Pokerstars Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP) all stakes is back for 2012 this coming May 6th to 20th, so not long to wait. There is an enormous total guaranteed prize pool of $30,000,000 - that's $5m more than in 2011! With 40 events in SCOOP 2012 to look forward to, each with three levels of buy in representing low, medium and highs stakes - Spring just got a load better for online poker players. There are guaranteed prize pools at each level so no one misses out on the chance to be in the money. Billed as the event that everyone can play in, this promotion genuinely presents something for everyone, whatever the size of their bankroll.


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Writers, Books & Screenplays
Before they were films, many of the best noirs were books. Although I am addicted to film, there is a special thrill in reading the books on which past films were based, and on which future films may still be made. For a treat start with Woolrich's I married a dead man (1949) (which seems to have been borrowed--uncredited--for the Sandra Bullock vehicle While You Were Sleeping, or with Jim Thompson's The Killer Inside Me (1952) which has not yet been successfully brought to screen.
Here is a partial list of the most well known classic Roman Noir writers
|Jim Thompson
Steven Fisher
David Goodis
Dashiell Hammett


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Small businesses can born and die at any moment. Depending to their leader, it will be how the company will transform over time. While they have to strain to grow, at some point they will have to decide on which changes in small business will come.
Decisions to expand, sell or close the business will appear due to various circumstances that surround the company. Starting a business is not easy, keep it even less. That's why entrepreneurs must recognize what is the best decision, although it seems the hardest.
Changes in the small business
To expand a business is important to recognize when it is time. Here are some situations.
- When competitors begin to grow.
- When you have the resources to do so.
- When expansion helps accomplish the vision.
- You have the possibility to delegate some power.
The time to sell a business is also very hard and difficult moment.
- The buyer offers more than what the company will generate in subsequent years
- When you're ready for retirement.
- You do not want to invest in growth.
- You are tired.
Perhaps, the most difficult time is deciding to close a business.
- When debt is 50% more than the value of assets
- When losses are growing, rather than decreasing.
- When inventory turnover decreases.
- When the renewal of a loan is rejected.
It is difficult to reach those moments. In the case of expansion, it would certainly be one of the most positive, since the ownership of the company is maintained and it will keep growth over time. The sale of the small business can go beyond a monetary transaction, also the time spent in business is a value that will definitely be much more than the economic value. Finally, a decision may have to be taken if it is in red numbers. Closing a business also cause a great impact on the entrepreneur.


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Public goods games:
Well-mixed populations
by Christoph Hauert, Version 2.1, January 2005.
- Location:
- VirtualLabs
- » Public Goods games
- » Well-mixed populations
In an evolutionary setting of public goods interactions the dynamics of cooperators and defectors in large populations is considered. Evolutionary game theory relates payoffs and reproductive fitness such that the spreading of either strategy is determined by its average performance in game theoretical inteactions as compared to the competing strategy. In well-mixed populations the groups that engage in public goods interactions form randomly. The public goods game is characterized by the fact that, irrespective of the group composition, it is always better to defect and withhold the investment (just as in the pairwise prisoner's dilemma). The evolutionary fate of the population, i.e. the perdition of cooperators, is determined by the replicator equation (for further details see the tutorial on cooperation in structured populations for pure strategies as well as on 2×2 games).
Sample scenarios
Time evolution of the frequency of cooperators in well-mixed populations where individuals engage in different kinds of interactions.
Pairwise interactions
For pairwise encounters the public goods game reduces to the prisoner's dilemma and cooperation doomed in absence of supporting mechanisms. This holds regardless of the initial configuration. In particular, it also holds for populations with very high initial frequencies of cooperators as depicted on the left and illustrated by the corresponding simulation.
Group interactions
In public goods interactions in larger groups, the fate of cooperators is the same as in pairwise interactions (previous example) - with the only difference that the end comes quicker.
By-product mutualism
The definition of the public goods game requires that the multiplication factor r is less than the group size N (r < N) because otherwise cooperative investments have a net positive return. Nevertheless, the case r > N bears also some interest because in any mixed group defectors are still better off than cooperators - however, defectors could further increase their payoff by switching to cooperation. This represents a completely relaxed form of a social dilemma. The character of the interaction has changed - now selfish individuals choose to invest and benefits to the fellow members of the group merely occur as by-products. In that case cooperation becomes dominant and defectors vanish.
Public goods versus prisoner's dilemma games
In well-mixed populations it can be easily shown that one public goods interaction among N individuals is equivalent to N - 1 pairwise prisoner's dilemma interactions. Recall that in the prisoner's dilemma mutual cooperation pays the reward R, mutual defection yields the punishment P and a cooperator facing a defector gets the sucker's payoff S whereas the defector gets away with the temptation to defect T (for further details see the tutorials on 2×2 games and on cooperation in structured populations). Because T > R > P > S holds, defection is always the better choice, irrespective of the other player's decision. Thus, rational players will end up with the punishment P instead of the preferred reward R for mutual cooperation - hence the dilemma.
In a biological context it is convenient to express the different payoffs in terms of costs d and benefits b of cooperation. This yields R = b - d, P = 0, T = b, S = -d. If, in a group of size N with nc cooperators, every player engages with every other player in a prisoner's dilemma (N - 1 interactions) then the total payoffs for cooperators and defectors are
PD = nc T + (N - nc - 1) P = nc b.
Comparing these formulas with the original ones for the public goods interaction, the following transformation is obtained:
d = (N - r) c / (N (N - 1)).
The fact that cooperation becomes increasingly challenging in larger groups follows from the above equivalence stating that interactions in larger groups correspond to a larger number of single prisoner's dilemma interactions, which then implies that defectors can exploit cooperators more efficiently.
The applet below illustrates the different components. Along the bottom there are several buttons to control the execution and the speed of the simulations. Of particular importance are the Param button and the data views pop-up list on top. The former opens a panel that allows to set and change various parameters concerning the game as well as the population structure, while the latter displays the simulation data in different ways.
|Color code:
|New cooperator
|New defector
|Payoff code:
Note: The yellow and green colors are very useful to get an intuition of the activitiy in the system. The shades of grey of the payoff scale are augmented by blueish and reddish shades, which indicate the payoffs for mutual cooperation and defection, respectively.
|Pop up panel to set various parameters.
|Pop up list of different data presentations.
|Reset simulation
|Start/resume simulation
|Next generation
|Interrupt simulation
|Idle time between updates. On the right your CPU clock determines the update speed while on the left updates are made roughly once per second.
|Mouse clicks on the graphics panels generally start, resume or stop the simulations.
|Data views
|Structure - Strategy
|Snapshot of the spatial arrangement of strategies. Mouse clicks cyclically change the strategy of the respective site for the preparation of custom initial configurations.
|Structure - Fitness
|Snapshot of the spatial distribution of payoffs.
|Mean frequency
|Time evolution of the strategy frequencies.
|Mean Fitness
|Time evolution of the mean payoff of each strategy together with the average population payoff.
|Histogram - Fitness
|Histogram of payoffs for each strategy.
Game parameters
The list below describes only the few parameters related to the public goods game. Follow the link for a complete list and descriptions of all other parameters e.g. referring to update mechanisms of players and the population.
- Interest:
- multiplication factor r of public good.
- Cost:
- cost of cooperation c (investment into common pool).
- Init Coop, init defect:
- initial fractions of cooperators and defectors. If they do not add up to 100%, the values will be scaled accordingly. Setting the fraction of cooperators to 100% (and the fraction of defectors to 0%), then the lattice is initialized with a symmetrical configuration suitable for observing evolutionary kaleidoscopes.


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Zoe Kravitz is seeking to promote natural beauty with her latest campaign initiative.
The actress and singer, daughter of rocker Lenny Kravitz and actress Lisa Bonet, has teamed up with YSL Beauty, becoming the brand's first beauty muse.
For her new role, Zoe has shot online tutorials on how to recreate some of her looks, and calls the partnership an honor and an "interesting collaboration".
On the subject of beauty, Zoe admits that it doesn't matter how much make-up you apply, real beauty starts inside.
"I believe beauty definitely starts from within, I think it starts with who you are on the inside," she said in a video for YSL. "I think it's really hard for someone who isn't kind to be beautiful, and if they are I don't think it last very long. And I think once you have that there are ways to elevate your beauty on an exterior level, and make-up is a really beautiful way to do that. "
Lolawolf frontwoman Zoe is also part of YSL's Before the Light campaign, which focuses on the time before people present themselves to others.
Calling make-up her war paint, 27-year-old shares that she savors that time when she can zone in on herself and decide how she wants to be seen.
"We've found this fun, quirky way to show the process and the transition from going to everyday casual self, to the person you want to show to people.
"For me, being on tour, there's always a lot of people around and people in the room and distractions, and then the reality always sets in that I'm about to go on stage, and it's a very vulnerable thing to do and I always get nervous how many times I do it. And I'm usually the only girl on the road too, so when I'm doing my make-up it's my private time."


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Diamond Deli & Catering in Colonie will close after business on Friday (4/20). Owner Lisa Vollor, who in 2015 bought what had been known as Diamond Mill Deli, tells me she's closing the location for a variety of personal reasons but intends to maintain a cafe she runs at the CDTA headquarters in Albany. She also hopes to reopen a deli in the future, she says, but does not have a timetable.
For its final day, Diamond Deli will be open regular hours, 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Call 518-869-3354.


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My good friends in Pairdown--now a four-piece band--released their new full-length record, Reach to Ring. This is undoubtedly their most advanced and most beautiful work yet. I wrote a bit about the record here.
But check out the record here. I also contribute an electric guitar solo, a photograph, and some additional engineering work.


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Kitchen Gadgets That Don't Look Like 'Gadgets'
When it comes to tech-y gear compared with more traditionally functional equipment, there is usually a gap separating the two, as if the new-and-improved needs to look like it belongs in someone's image of a sci-fi future world. The thing is, in a different kind of future world, such as the one depicted in Spike Jonze's recent Her, the landscape doesn't look much different from the one we know; it's just, you know, further in the future. What this means is objects are still objects, but perhaps with an added level of functionality that manages to feel natural, organic.
The kitchen gadgets produced by Italian design studio THINGK are built in the same mold of seamless integration. There's the CLOGK, which functions as both a digital clock and timer while looking like a wooden paperweight, and the GKILO, a wood cutting board that blinks to life as either a clock or a kitchen scale; digital and analog, in perfect harmony.
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It's ok to not________.
by nomeatbarefeet
So I just read a nice little post by Eric over at roctherun and two things popped into mind.
The second half of the post talked about his recent trip to Lake Placid for a "snowshoeing" trip. I put "snowshoeing" in quotes because the lack of snow made it rather difficult to use said shoes. What was interesting was that this trip to Lake Placid precipitated the writing of the first half of the post, which is about motivation.
Many of us find ourselves beholden to a workout schedule, and should we be unable to do the intended workout we can easily get down on ourselves. Now, there is nothing wrong with setting high standards—goals cannot be achieved through staying within our comfort zones and failing to push ourselves beyond what we thought we were capable of. But, as Eric succinctly puts it, despite losing a workout "it did not really matter." Why? Because "Sometimes you need to mess up your plans to remember it's ok… you are still going to be awesome, you are still going to succeed, and yes, you still have goals and plans."
But what does Lake Placid have to do with any of this, you may ask? Well, I feel that Lake Placid was the turning point for our initial running endeavors. I have talked before about how Katie and I tried to run the Lake Placid Marathon, but injuries forced us to settle for the Half. We failed to understand that its ok to mess up our plans, to fail, to slow down, to feel/hear what our bodies were telling us to do.
Failing in Lake Placid allowed us to find motivation and success later on. Often it feels like setbacks and failings leave you stranded in an oasis of uncertainly and self doubt. But fear not! Trust that the immediate now failure may result in a later success. It's hard; I know. Running, like life, does not come easy and there are many, perhaps lots, of hardships and complications.
So try, try, try, whatever you do–you cannot move anywhere (forward or backward) if you don't try.
Realize that progress can be slow, or it can come in a rush of realization–it's often a surprise!
Long term success can often come from listening to your body–here, right now, at this very moment–and deviating or even scrapping the plan you began with.
But what do you really think? Should you always follow the plan? If you start a workout program or a running schedule should you try, at all cost, to follow it? I know what has worked for me, but I would love to hear thoughts that other people have.


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The 2014/2015 Snowboarding Playlist is available!
Or check out the following older playlists:
2013/2014 Snowboarding Playlist
2012/2013 Snowboarding Playlist
If there are two things we're passionate about it's snowboarding and music. So it's only natural that we combine these two interests together for the ultimate experience. It's not like this is a new idea either, music and snowboarding have always gone together like peanut butter and sweet, sweet jelly.
If you think about it, what would snowboarding be without music.., it would lack some of the passion behind the sport. From the drive to the mountain, to the ride down the trail and even the videos we watch, music plays a big role in this industry. Sure, it's not necessary, and I enjoy the quietness of the glades as much as next guy, but there's no doubt in my mind that a good song can really get me pumped for some riding.
We wanted a way to broaden your music playlist (and ours) by offering some suggestions of music that we like to incorporate into our snowboarding trips as well as hear some suggestions from you too. So that is where the idea for the WhoaSnow music page came from, but since we can't legally have a musical selection here to listen to, we can still guide you in the right direction. On this page you will find our pick of albums, their genres, suggestions on when to listen to them, and some suggested tracks to get you started. So without further ado. Welcome to Whoasnow music!
WhoaSnow Latest Album Picks
Foster the People
Album: Torches
Naked and Famous
Album: Passive Me, Aggressive You
Pretty Lights
Album: All of them
The Glitch Mob
Album: Drink the Sea
The Killers
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Help reduce exercise-induced inflammation!
We have all heard or said the phrase a million times in our lives.
We all know that produce is good for us, but many people don't always know "WHY"
I do a lot of research when I am highlighting my favorite foods, and come across many articles that give the information so much better than I could write it. The following is a portion of one such article written by Trevor Thieme C.S.C.S. A link to Full article below.
… Odds are you, [like many people, have ignored advice to "eat your veggies" at some point or] for even your entire life. Your mom nagged you about eating your broccoli and Brussels sprouts. Your doctor advises you to "eat the rainbow." And you likely have at least one vegan friend who wants to convert you — or at the very least replace some of the meat in your largely carnivorous diet with plants. Even Michelle Obama has got in on the act, imploring you and every other American to eat more fruits and veggies. And like Murphy (and most other Americans), odds are you don't listen: Only 1 in 10 people in the United States eat the recommended five servings of fruits and vegetables a day, according to a report from the CDC.
That's a problem. "If you're not eating at least two servings of fruits and three servings of vegetables per day, you're not building 'foundational health,' which is key for preventing disease and supporting athletic performance," says Susan Kleiner, PhD, R.D., author of The Powerfood Nutrition Plan. If she had her way, you'd eat eight servings.
While nutritionists have long known about the athletic advantages of increasing protein intake, they're only just beginning to comprehend the fitness benefits of eating more phytonutrients — bioactive (i.e., body-boosting) compounds found in fruits, vegetables, grains, and other "phyto" (plant) foods. …
"One of the most exciting benefits of phytonutrients is their strong antioxidant potential, disarming free radicals that wreak havoc in the body," says Kleiner. "But it's also bigger than that—scientists are learning that some phytonutrients seem go deep into the genetic matrix, turning on and off genes that protect us from disease development."
That potential of phytonutrients to bolster the immune system is hugely important for athletes, who often run themselves down through overtraining. "One of the biggest things that holds athletes back is getting sick, and research shows that some phytonutrients can act as prebiotics, stimulating the growth of bacteria in your gut, thus helping to boost immunity," says Kleiner.
Polyphenols — found in abundance in green tea — are among them, according to Japanese researchers. …
But perhaps the greatest benefit of phytonutrients — especially as far as athletes are concerned — is their ability to fight exercise-induced inflammation. "The nature of training is to tear the body down, and the body is extraordinary in its ability to repair and rebuild its tissues to become stronger," says Kleiner. "But part of that process involves an inflammatory response — inflammatory cells rush to the damaged tissue, heat it up, and begin repairing it."
If you've ever felt sore a couple of days after a tough workout (a phenomenon known as delayed onset muscle soreness, or DOMS), you've felt the inflammatory process at work. A little inflammation is a good thing — it helps your muscles adapt to the demands of training (and you to become more powerful). "But if you don't have enough anti-inflammatory factors in your body, the inflammation process can proceed unchecked, which can delay recovery," says Kleiner.
Fortunately, you don't have to eat every single plant to reap the benefits; you just have to eat a variety of them, according to Kleiner. "And by variety, I mean not only among food groups, but also within food groups," she says. In other words, while you might love bananas, Amaranth, and Swiss chard, don't just eat bananas, Amaranth, and Swiss chard. Becoming stuck in a dietary routine is just as detrimental as getting stuck in training rut.
Click for suggestions on what to eat to stay out of a food rut
In short, your mom, doctor, and vegan friend were right — you should eat a greater number and variety of colorful fruits and vegetables. "And whenever possible, skip pills for whole foods," says Kleiner. "There's a lot we have yet to discover about phytonutrients, but one thing we do know is that they're more potent when they work synergistically with other nutrients in foods than when they're taken [and working] alone."
Click Here for the full article by Trevor Theime C.S.C.S
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One day I went to drive away from home and found a mysterious red light around my charge port. I wasn't too alarmed and figured something happened during the charging session.
On the instrument cluster, the car had the following message that it was unable to charge and requested a multi stepped procedure:
- Exit the car and remove the cable (implicit)
- Close the Charge Port Door
- Re-enter the car and press the brake pedal
- Open the charge port door on the touch screen (implicit)
- Exit the car and put the cable back in the charge port (implicit)
- Try charging the car again
I went through this procedure myself two times. The first time using my HPWC (High Powered Wall Connector). I suspected that perhaps this problem could be due to the HPWC, so I tried the same procedure with a 110 Volt outlet to no avail.
I called the Tesla roadside number and repeated the procedure a 3rd time with the Tesla person on the other line to no success. Tesla pulled the car logs and found a fault in the master charging system. This car simply was unable to add any charge (or any miles to the battery), so I had to take it in for a service visit.
Service Center Excursion
I have a local service center but do not normally have my car worked on there for a few reasons unrelated to this blog post. I do love the valet service. But because my battery was quite drained, the only viable choice was to drive the car to the local service center that same day. I was taken home not by a Tesla valet but by an Uber. The Uber car was driven by a limo driver who works during the day for a hotel. This level of Uber service is basically a more traditional business service car.
A variety of genuine concerns exist using services like Uber. I personally all drivers should be fingerprinted. I don't care about how fancy the car is, but riding in a vehicle with an anonymous person safety is enough of a concern to warrant fingerprinting. One of my volunteer positions requires us to be fingerprinted and the procedure is easy, quick and painless.
In places where taxi drivers have to pay an exorbitant fee to be licensed, those municipalities have unfairly burned taxi cabs, and are giving these smartphone enabled services a way to avoid these regulations. In New York City, taxi licenses have been limited to less than twelve thousand, and no new licenses have been issued for over half a century. The open market for these medallions peaked around $1 million.
In my area, taxis are almost non-existent and Uber is a reasonable alternative to a Tesla employee driving owners home from a service center.
New Master Charger
The master charging system is the mechanism between the outlet and the battery that directs the car to charge. The system includes an electromagnetic relay using a low electric current to tell the battery to begin charging. Unfortunately when the system breaks down, you cannot charge the car at all, and need to take your car immediately to a service center.
Several days later I got my car back with a new master charger installed. I am so glad my car is under warranty as that part would have cost me about $2,000! So far, I have accumulated close to $7,000 in extended warranty charges.
The service advisor did explain that since my VIN number is on the low side, my master charger was an out dated design. I don't think this problem is particularly common.


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This is the card I am entering in the Pink Cat Studio "Jodi's Geometry Challenge"
The challenge is to make a card that is rectangular in shape with 2 different patterned papers, one cut in the shape of a circle and the other in the shape of a square.
Paper: SU Good Morning Sunshine DSP & So Saffron, Gina K white
Ink: Memento Ink, So Saffron, Copics
Acc: Cord. Button, Kiwi Kiss Ribbon


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The rat-like capybaras enjoy some R&R at their very own traditional hot spa near Tokyo
Ahhh … That's the sound these capybaras (above) are probably making as they step into the new traditional Japanese hot spa that the Saitama Children's Zoo set up for them. Ahhh! That's the sound we made when we found out these furry critters are the largest living rodents in the world!
Zookeepers came up with the idea of pampering these semi-aquatic creatures with a traditional hot bath that warms up to a sweltering 104 degrees – not only are the animals enjoying a little rub-a-dub-dub, but the spa spectacle has become pretty entertaining for visitors, too. On its Web site, the zoo, which is outside Tokyo, encourages people to reach out and touch them from behind a fence!
The zoo's family of capybaras, who live near water in nature and tend to hang out in groups, waddle together into the bath filled with Japanese rocks and water from a bamboo faucet, according to MSNBC. The trouble with a bath that's this soothing? One capybara had a hard time staying awake!
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Online course of the day, investing department
Would you like to take a free online university course which teaches you the basics of quantitative analysis and also helps you manage your money so that you get high returns with low risk? Of course you would. Let me introduce you to Computational Investing, Part I, taught by Tucker Balch, Ph.D., on the Coursera website.
Under "Recommended Background" we're told that "the primary prerequisite is an excitement about the stock market". And there are two recommendations under "Suggested Readings", including All About Hedge Funds : The Easy Way to Get Started, by Robert Jaeger. (Apparently it "explains how any investor can take advantage of the high-potential returns of hedge funds while incorporating safeguards to limit their volatility and risk".)
This is a genuine university course: it's the same one that Balch teaches at Georgia Tech. And so you'd expect a few disclaimers, at least, along the lines of "this is an introductory course, it'll help you understand a few concepts, and maybe be the first step on the road to becoming a quantitative analyst yourself one day, but please, kids, don't try this at home".
You might expect such a thing, but you'd be disappointed. Instead, you get the exact opposite. Check out Week 4 (you might have to register; it's easy and free) and then "Lecture Video 1.2: Response to Questions from Students". According to Balch, the "number one most popular question" he gets asked is "Do I use these techniques to manage my own funds?". He responds as forthrightly as he can:
The answer is yes.
Balch continues:
I have a number of different investments that I use these approaches for. With regard to my company, Lucena Research, we manage a few small funds as a way to test our techniques and validate them. One of them in particular I'll show you in just a moment.
It's far from clear how a student who has merely taken an online course might ever hope to replicate the returns that Balch manages to generate at Lucena ("Hedge Fund Technology for the Strategic Investor"). But in any case Balch does share with us a Lucena portfolio which "was developed specifically to be low risk". It looks like this:
I look at this and I immediately get suspicious: there's something quite Madoff-like about the way in which Balch's returns go steadily up and to the right regardless of what the stock market is doing. Here's how Balch explains what's going on in there:
This approach was developed specifically to be low risk. It includes a basket of less than 20 equities that are traded about every 2 weeks. It's 2X leveraged, meaning that half of the money is borrowed investment.
So this approach is a 2X levered fund with less than 20 stocks? Sounds very risky to me. But Balch shows us the numbers to prove that it isn't:
The first thing to note here is that although Balch told us he was going to show us one of the "small funds" that he uses "to test our techniques and validate them", this does not look like a real-money fund. There's no indication, for starters, of what the borrowing costs are: if the fund is indeed 2X leveraged, how much does it cost to borrow $10 million on an ongoing basis?
Maybe those numbers are somehow incorporated into the returns — but then there's the very odd section on "Transaction Costs". The commissions bit makes sense: if you trade 10 times a week on average for 20 months, then that's about 860 trades in all, and the commissions add up to about $20 per trade.
But then there's the "slippage", which doesn't make sense. Commissions are real costs: they're the amount of money you have to pay your broker to execute your trades. Slippage, on the other hand, is not a real cost, but rather a theoretical cost: it's the difference between the official market price of a security, and the price you actually end up paying. It's a way of taking a theoretical portfolio, which always trades at the market price, and adjusting the returns to make them more realistic. If you have a real portfolio, as Balch suggests that he does, then there's no "slippage": the slippage is built in to your actual returns.
So it seems that Balch, after promising to show us the returns that one of his "small funds" has generated, ends up doing no such thing. (And also, I don't think that a $20 million fund would count as "small" for a college professor who tells us that most of his money is in his TIAA-CREF retirement account.) Still, he says:
This is a conservative approach which nets about 15%-20% per year. You can absolutely follow more risky approaches that'll provide higher returns. This is the kind of approach I follow.
In other words, if you take what Balch is saying at face value, he's managed to come up with a conservative investment strategy, which is levered 2-to-1, which generates returns of more than 15% per year, which he follows himself. And he encourages his students to try to do the exact same thing.
There are lots of courses on Coursera, and most of them aren't as sketchy as this. But I do think that what we're seeing here is the beginning of a serious problem with online universities like Coursera: you can never be sure about their quality control. And in general, if you're taking a college course where the professor encourages you to lever up a small number of stock-market investments in the hope of getting low-volatility 20% returns, I'd advise thinking twice about that professor, and that course. Because it just doesn't pass the smell test.


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Politicians' Promises and What They're Worth
By Dennis Loo (7/18/16)
The GOP Convention started today and the Democrats are going to have their's next week. Watching some of the GOP convention footage is so laughable and so awful it's like watching a car accident involving numerous vehicles happen in slow motion with clowns in a circus ring.
In light of the deluge of promises that both Trump and Clinton have made and will make, I thought it might be useful to cite just a few of the outright lies told by our incumbent, who has made a fetish of promises and breaking them, while rhetorically claiming to keep his promises. Unlike Clinton and Trump who both have record high unfavorability ratings, making it the first time in US history that both candidates are more unpopular than they are popular, Obama came into office and got re-elected with higher approval ratings than disapproval. Yet consider what he has actually done compared to the empty promises that "we are going to win so big" (Trump) and that we will "do it together" (Clinton).
Obama's Memo Bypasses Whistleblower Rights
By Dennis Loo (5/28/13)
In a New York Times' OpEd piece by Eyal Press, published 5/27/13, Press reveals a barely noticed White House memo issued on January 25, 2013 that sabotages whisteblowers' ability to protect themselves against retaliatory firings by the Federal Government. As Press notes:
the memo instructs the director of national intelligence and the Office of Personnel Management to establish standards that would give federal agencies the power to fire employees, without appeal, deemed ineligible to hold "noncritical sensitive" jobs. It means giving them immense power to bypass civil service law, which is the foundation for all whistle-blower rights.
In other words, someone who blows the whistle on corruption, crimes, egregious and consequential incompetence, and so on, can, under this memo, be fired by the agency they work for simply by having their job be newly designated as "noncritical sensitive." By labeling their job as such, the agency can claim that it was not firing someone for their whistleblowing, but merely because their job was now "noncritical sensitive." The odd terminology here appears to be designed so as to say that while your job is "sensitive," it is no longer "critical," and therefore we are terminating you. What's sensitive here, of course, is your access to sensitive information.
Civil service law protects whistleblowers because it permits those who are being fired or otherwise persecuted for their revelations of wrongdoing by allowing them to sue for monetary damages and/or to keep their jobs. The grounds for this is that they have been unfairly and unreasonably targetted for retaliation. This memo would undo that protection, thus exposing whistleblowers to persecution without recourse for the whistleblowers to seek judicial protection. In short, this memo in effect declares that the Obama Administration believes in transparency and the importance of whistleblowers as long as whistleblowers don't actually do any whistleblowing. If they do, then they can expect that they will be fired forthwith and have no grounds to sue for that. As such, this little noticed memo reveals the modus operandi of the Obama Administration: say that you are on the side of the angels while covertly doing the work of the devil.
What the Climate March Did and Didn't Do
By Dennis Loo (9/24/14)
As reported by The Guardian on September 4, 2013 in "Barack Obama should practice what he preaches about climate change:"
When President Barack Obama gave his long-awaited climate change speech in June, many US environmentalists bought the notion that a green giant was awakening in the White House.
"Sticking your head in the sand might make you feel safer, but it's not going to protect you from the coming storm," Obama warned climate laggards then.
Here's a problem though. One environmental foot-dragger President Obama could have addressed this comment to is ... President Obama.
On Wednesday, the Council of the International Civil Aviation Organisation (Icao) is expected to approve a US-backed text that would restrict Europe's efforts to make airlines pay for their emissions under its carbon trading scheme, and stall global efforts to charge airlines for their pollution until 2016 or later.
In recent years, Europe has tried to make aviation pay under its emissions trading system (ETS), and with good reason.
Airlines are the fastest growing source of global greenhouse gas output. Already responsible for 5% of the world's annual global warming, by 2030 their emissions are projected to double from 2005 levels.
Yet last November [2012], Obama signed a Congressional act authorising the US transport secretary to prevent US airlines from participating in the ETS. (Emphasis added)
Obama's speeches about the importance of addressing global warming parallels his speeches about how Guantanamo, torture, and indefinite detention are not consistent with "American values." That is, he makes speeches pretending that he is decrying his very own policies. This is his particular variant of having your cake and eating it too: articulately pose as being on the side of the angels while doing the work of the devil. No wonder Wall Street gave him at least $20 million more for his 2008 campaign for the presidency than it gave to his opponent John McCain. They knew that when Obama spoke publicly about clamping down on Wall Street that he was merely doing PR.
I want to return to the question now of whether or not the growing climate catastrophe can be solved on the grassroots level, as some people think seeing the outpouring of public demand for this in the past few days.
What should be clear – and isn't remotely yet clear enough – is that it doesn't matter to those who hold power and it doesn't matter to this system of capitalism-imperialism how many people are in the streets if the people in the streets remain within the confines of politics as usual. You cannot defeat the enemy to our planet with a "million cuts" and by not recognizing what you are really up against and what it is going to take to end this drive to extinction that the powers that be are hell bent on taking the whole planet into.
The actions in the last few days by hundreds of thousands of people around the world, representing the wishes of billions of people on the planet, are wonderful. But they are not anywhere nearly enough.
As revolutionaries in China said during the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution: "Cast Away Illusions. Prepare for Struggle."
Guantanamo: What I Knew was Scant and False
By Leslie Becerra (2/18/14)
Editor's Note: This is one of many student papers written in response to the Close Guantanamo Now! National Tour's Last Stop at Cal Poly Pomona on January 17, 2014. Reprinted by author's permission.
I want to speak on the first point made by the talk, Obama and his real intentions. From the beginning of his campaign Obama sold himself as a president of the people and for the people. He stated that if made president he would seek to close Guantanamo Bay and free those detained there but a year into his second term Guantanamo Bay remains open. Why? Well, according to the President of the United States, we are to blame Congress. Despite the many requests for the complete closure of Guantanamo Bay Congress has decided to keep it open. Although Congress may have an interest in keeping Guantanamo Bay open we can easily place the blame on Obama. Again, why?
As commander in chief Obama, our president, has the power to order the closure of Guantanamo Bay with or without the approval of Congress. So the real reason behind Guantanamo Bay keeping its doors open over 10 years later is because Obama does not want to shut it down. He has the power to free the detainees yet has chosen not to use it and instead closed down the office responsible for transmitting the releases. This is one of the most important points made during the talk, if not the most important, because it is an example of how our government no longer has the people's interest in mind but rather its own personal gain.
We live in a country whose people are taught that the government governs with our best interest at hand but how often is that true? In whose interests is it to maintain Guantanamo Bay open? Because it is not in any human's interests to allow any government to do what our government has been doing to these people. We are all human beings therefore our lives are all equally valuable. If we continue to allow our government to act as they please and ignore our requests we will have no guarantee that they won't do the same to us. Obama's failure to close Guantanamo Bay shows how the people who run our government are no longer the common day civilian but rather those few with power and money. Capitalism has allowed for money and corporations to have a say in what our government does thus the people's best interest gets ignored. It is because of such reason that we must take responsibility to get Guantanamo Bay closed.
Who is Barack Obama Really? An Examination of Obama's Domestic Policies
One of Obama's 2008 campaign promises was to bring transparency to governmental decision-making processes. In his platform he promised with respect to international agreements: "We will not negotiate bilateral trade agreements that stop the government from protecting the environment, food safety, or the health of its citizens; [or] give greater rights to foreign investors than to U.S. investors."
In June 2012 Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch posted online a section of the leaked draft of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) between the U.S. and eight Pacific nations. In it the U.S. negotiator, appointed by Obama, was and is negotiating an agreement in which a parallel international court to that of national government's courts and governments would be created, the members of which would be selected by the corporations themselves, which could overrule any national or local rules regarding labor practices or resource management (such as pollution and renewable energy practices) and award monetary damages to the corporations from national treasuries should corporate profits be adversely impacted by those rules.
As described by Lori Wallach, Director of Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch,
"Ron Wyden, who is the chairman of the trade committee in the Senate, the committee with jurisdiction over the TPP, has been denied access to the text, as has his staff, who has security clearance, to a point where this man who has supported agreements like this in the past has filed legislation demanding he have the right to see the agreement that he's supposed to be having oversight with. He's on the Intelligence Committee, and he has security clearance, so he can see our nuclear secrets. He just can't see this corporate bill of rights that is trying to be slipped into effect in the name of being a trade agreement. It's a very elegant Trojan horse strategy. You brand it one thing, and then you put an agenda that could not survive sunshine into this agreement."
In this same interview, Amy Goodman of Democracy Now! asked Wallach to comment on the Obama Administration's statement about its transparency regarding the TPP:
AMY GOODMAN: I want to read part of the comment we got from the U.S. trade representative's office when we invited them on today's show. They wrote, quote, "The Obama Administration has infused unprecedented transparency into the TPP negotiations. We have worked with Members of Congress ... [and] invited stakeholders to every round of negotiations where they have given presentations and met with individual negotiating teams. ... We are always looking for ways to enhance provisions on transparency and public participation." Lori Wallach, your comment?
LORI WALLACH: Well, to start with, the idea of transparency of the current negotiators is a one-way mirror. We can basically talk to them and do presentations. But as this leak shows, nothing that the public interest organizations—and it's a huge array of organizations, from faith groups to consumer groups, environmental, labor—nothing that we have said is now reflected in the U.S. position in this negotiation, which I'm sad to say is the most extreme. I mean, the U.S. is even opposing proposals in this agreement to try and make sure countries have the ability to use financial regulation to ensure financial stability. The U.S. positions don't reflect what we've been saying, but we can talk at them.


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"I don't mean to suggest that there isn't work to be done of course, but we've hit a point where the lie espoused by the industry gatekeepers, that 'there isn't an audience for kids comics' or 'there isn't an audience for girls or womens comics' has finally been put to rest. Oh, the gatekeepers hung onto it as long as they could, 'webcomics aren't comic books' or 'manga aren't comics' or whatever nonsense they dug up. They're still espousing it to some degree or another–I particularly liked this article by Heidi MacDonald on why superhero publishers will never 'get' women–but it's demonstrably false. Comics for kids sell now, the Lego Ninjago comic has a 425,000 copy first printing, a number that dwarfs most others in comics… and DC had that license at one point btw. Comics for girls (and boys) like Smile continue to sell very well. Despite the gleeful hand rubbing over the demise of manga, it still sells quite well, thanks. And the internet…? The internet is home to a fantastically diverse array of cartoonists either making their living or a significant chunk of it from the online serialization of their work–and they're coming for print too. They are COMING FOR PRINT."
--Comics retailer and blogger Chris Butcher, reacting to the news that Smile by Raina Telgemeier took the No. 1 spot on The New York Times' bestselling graphic novels list, but also providing follow-up commentary on the essay by Heidi MacDonald that Brigid quoted earlier this week. It's a great piece by Butcher; go read the whole thing.


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I've gotten a couple of questions on the SQL Server Central Management System (http://sqlcms.codeplex.com) that I blogged about yesterday. It's simply a methodology you can use to manage and monitor your SQL Servers using the tools you already have in SQL Server 2008, such as Policy Based Management, Central Management Server Registrations, PowerShell, the Management Data Warehouse and so on.
"Does this replace System Center Operations Manager / HP Openview / Our Current Monitoring System?" No. If you have one of those, you should definitely continue to use them - you're already satisfying the need of a central way to find, monitor and report on your systems. Those are also far simpler to set up and use - they come ready to work. The SQLCMS is something you build by hand.
You could, however, use some of the concepts from the SQLCMS in your environment. For instance, with a list of servers from SCOM or OpenView (I know, OpenView has a new name, but I just can't get used to it!), you could fill the SQL Server 2008 Central Management Servers feature to register them there. I show you how to do that in my example code in the project.
So the SQLCMS concept is just another tool in your toolbox. If you have a solution now or are looking at one, by all means use those. But if for budget reasons or simply because you like to build your own system, check out the SQLCMS project - use the comments there as well so that others can learn from your processes.


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"Demand for iPhone 5 has been incredible and we are working hard to get an iPhone 5 into the hands of every customer who wants one as quickly as possible," said Tim Cook, Apple's CEO. "While we have sold out of our initial supply, stores continue to receive iPhone 5 shipments regularly and customers can continue to order online and receive an estimated delivery date. We appreciate everyone's patience and are working hard to build enough iPhone 5s for everyone."
Apple re-confirmed that the iPhone 5 will be available in 22 countries by the 28th of September. The countries will be Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland.
[Source: Apple Press]


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