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Personalities matter
At Cal, I wasn't sophisticated enough to understand that I was being taught the Marxist version of history. All I knew is that my love for history was predicated on the power of personalities, while the history they taught at Cal ignored individuals and focused on mass movements that were described in terms of a Marxist economic narrative.
Would England have had a schism from the Catholic Church without Henry VIII's lust for Anne Boleyn and his belief that she would give him a son? I doubt it. Anne Boleyn's personality played a part in it too. Things would have turned out differently if she'd just yielded, as her sister had, and become his mistress.
And how about Elizabeth I's refusal to marry? Whether she just didn't want to share power or had a deeper psychological fear of marriage (death by beheading or childbirth), the fact remains that her single status made for an interesting balance of power during her reign — and handed the monarchy over to the Stuart line. The Stuart line, of course, led to a stubborn Charles I who refused to yield on his royal prerogatives, triggering a revolution — which could be said to have paved the way for our own Revolution.
My examples are from the era of absolute monarchs. Modern times are no different, though. Germany was not a totalitarian dictatorship when Hitler entered politics. His personality and beliefs transformed it into one, and his paranoia and sheer evil made it one of the worst places on earth.
Speaking of paranoia and evil, would a tyrant other than Stalin have murdered 20 million of his own people? Do mass movements and Marxist economics create killers (Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot), or is there a horrible alchemy that brings such individuals to the fore? I don't know. But I do know that different tyrants would have resulted in different tyrannies, with different targets, and different MOs.
I mention all of this because of the Petraeus affair. Up until six weeks ago, most of the nation, Left and Right, viewed him as a military visionary and a strong, noble hand at the helm of the CIA. Now, it turns out that his personal failings, his libido and his arrogance, may have contributed to a web of deceit, as well as systemic corruption and antagonism. Had he been less egotistical, events before, during, and after the Benghazi affair might have played out quite differently. That is, if he hadn't had a Sword of Damocles hanging over his head — one he placed there himself through his unethical conduct — and if he'd had better relations with his own people, he might have had more flexibility in dealing with Benghazi, and more incentive to be honest.


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By Don Berwick, Administrator, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
With the start of this year's Medicare Open Enrollment less than two weeks away, I can't stress one point enough: Medicare is stronger than ever. Consumers have more and better Medicare options than ever before.
Seniors this year can expect more choices, more benefits, and lower overall costs.
Because it's a fact: 99% of you have at least one Medicare Advantage plan in your area. And everyone with Medicare can get a host of preventive tests and screenings —more than ever before — at absolutely no cost to you. Medicare also continues to cover an Annual Wellness Visit – a great chance to talk with your doctor or other health provider about treating small problems and concerns before they become big ones.
Here's the best part: even with these improved benefits, people won't be feeling it in their pocketbooks. Average premiums for Part D drug coverage are holding steady in 2012, and premiums for Medicare Advantage plans are actually dropping an average of 4%. And people who reach the Part D coverage gap will get a 50% discount on brand name drugs.
This is all great news for the 47 million American seniors and people with disabilities who rely on Medicare.
We know that more choices can make decisions challenging, but we've expanded the Medicare safety net to make sure folks can get the help they need to sift through their options. You can even get an early start — we've already made sure the Medicare Plan Finder is fully updated with all new 2012 cost and benefit information for health and drug plans. If you're the kind of person who likes to get online yourself and sort through the details, you can use this online tool right now. Start by entering your drugs and checking on the doctors and pharmacies you want to use. A few steps will get you to a personalized list of your plan choices and help you compare.
If you'd rather get a personal hand walking through your choices, we've got help for you, too. You can call or visit one of the thousands of wonderful volunteers staffing the State Health Insurance Assistance Programs across the country.
One more way we're going to help – every week during Open Enrollment, we're going to have some of our top health care experts adding tips and advice to this blog, to give you some important things to consider as you weigh your choices. When Medicare Open Enrollment ends on December 7, we want every single American with Medicare to have health and drug coverage that meets their needs.
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Types of Intellectual Property
A copyright prevents people from reprinting and selling someone else's already-published book or other written or recorded material. Essentially, copyrights protect written ideas and thoughts. Examples of this type of intellectual property include books, manuscripts, song lyrics, and poems.
A patent prevents someone else from using a design process, formula or invention that belongs to another. Patents tend to focus on how a product is developed or the function of the invention. For example, car makers are beginning to install buttons to start engines, rather than having the engine activated by the turning of a key. This new technology or process would be protected by a patent.
Trademarks protect the symbols or logos used to represent a company or a product; these are the marks or designs that consumers use to identify with and distinguish between products. Examples include the Nike check symbol, the Harley Davidson logo, or the Covergirl Cosmetics reversed "C" and "G" emblem. These organizations protect their trademarks so that others cannot taint the use of their products' good name.
It is important to understand the type of intellectual property your work falls under before filing for protection, this is because laws vary for each sub-group of property.
Protecting Your Intellectual Property Rights
Intellectual property laws are designed to protect ideas and provide legal remedies for a creator in the event of a violation. However, a creator will only have recourse after taking the proper steps to secure ownership interests. In some instances, multiple avenues of protection may be necessary. For example, several years ago, Xerox required both patent protection for their ideas and processes, as well as trademark protection for their brand name. Failure to properly file for protection could result in an inventor's ideas being stolen or used with no recourse.
In addition to general IP protections, an inventor or company may wish to establish contractual provisions concerning their trade secrets before allowing another individual or group to view their information. Trade secret protections can offer legal assurance that the viewing party cannot exploit any information revealed during negotiations.
Intellectual Property Violations and Infringements
Infringement is merely a fancy term for violation. Intellectual property violations and infringements occur when another person or company steals intellectual property that is legally protected in one of the ways discussed above (i.e. through a copyright, patent, or trademark). Continuing with the Xerox example, if someone decided they liked the name "Xerox" and wanted to use the name and logo for a new line of athletic gear, the Xerox Corporation could sue for damages and obtain a restraining order to prevent the new company from using their hard-earned name. What damages may be available to the inventor or creator depend on how their property was stolen, how it was used, and the financial impact sustained from the use.
Regardless of the type of remedy sought in an infringement claim, most related laws require a federal lawsuit. This tends to throw people off because they see agencies as the keepers of intellectual property. Although inventors do file for protection with the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), this agency is not generally required to file an enforcement action on an inventor's or creator's behalf when an infringement occurs. A creator can represent him or herself in a lawsuit but will be required to conform to the federal rules of procedure just as any other plaintiff.
If the violating company or person lives in, or uses the intellectual property in, another country, a lawsuit will likely need to be filed in that country. International laws and procedures can be very complex. An IP attorney with experience in international law will be best suited to assist with a binational infringement lawsuit.
Only a person or entity that has filed for protection or has purchased the rights to the property can file a claim for infringements. One of the most famous examples is the estate of Michael Jackson. Although he has passed on, his estate maintains intellectual property rights to music by The Beatles. While he was still alive, Michael Jackson purchased the rights to that property. Should someone attempt to illegally use this music, the estate of Michael Jackson would have the right to file an infringement lawsuit.
Know the Laws for Your Situation
Keep in mind that not all intellectual property is protected forever. Patents, for example, are only good for 20 years. Other types of IP protections require an inventor to update their application annually. Failure to properly update the necessary information can result in loss of protection and remedies for the inventor or creator.
If you have a great idea or concept, take the steps to understanding how intellectual property laws work and how they can protect and preserve your rights to that idea. To learn more about intellectual property laws, refer to the links to articles, interviews and videos above.


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Categories: Civil Litigation and Dispute Resolution
Instructor(s) Weston, Cheryl Rosen
Civil Procedure II covers topics associated with the placement of a lawsuit: Subject Matter and Personal Jurisdiction, Venue; Transfer, Forum Non Conveniens as well as the Erie Doctrine (the application or non –application of state law in Federal diversity actions); Joinder and Preclusion. Civil Procedure is concerned with more than technical mastery rules of selected rules and statutes. Civ Pro II addresses the wealth of opportunities for litigators to exercise choice in planning and responding to litigation; we will focus on using the tools of procedure to make good tactical choices on behalf of our clients. Civ Pro II counts towards the Jurisdiction of Courts requirement. Class assignments include case analysis, but also daily problems intended to provide feedback on whether you are able to apply the law we are studying in the context of specific facts.
Learning Outcomes: By the end of the semester I expect that you should be able to:
1) demonstrate a thorough knowledge of the Rules of Law that govern each of the Course Topics: Subject Matter Jurisdiction, Personal Jurisdiction, Venue, Transfer, Forum Non Conviens, the Erie Doctrine, Joinder and Preclusion;
2) demonstrate that you can apply legal principles and policies, whether found in case law, statute or rule, taking into account the facts presented; and that you can articulate a rationale for the choice of which device you would use, or court you would select;
3) demonstrate via in-class performance that you can identify the procedural issues presented in a case; that you know how the case was resolved, and can articulate the court's reasoning as well as your own agreement or disagreement with the outcome;
4) demonstrate an understanding that procedure is not simply the application of rules, but provides an opportunity to make choices that will enhance your ability to serve your clients while demonstrating competent and ethical representation to the Court.


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Awash in the Toxic Sea of Celebrity
An examination of society's obsession with celebrity reveals hidden opportunities to further the Church's timeless Gospel of Life
Every culture must choose its cult. As nature abhors a vacuum, so too a culture will not tolerate emptiness at its core. Cult, taken from the Latin cultus, means a system of worship, often religious, or the honoring of persons or institutions. Every culture has at its center a cult that animates its arts, education, entertainment, journalism, and even its philosophy.
Christians take culture seriously. "All human activity takes places within a culture and interacts with culture," writes Pope John Paul II. "At the heart of every culture lies the attitude man takes to the greatest mystery: the mystery of God" (Centesimus Annus 51,24).
Christians have an obligation to evangelize every culture, to reaffirm in it what is good and to root out what is not. The task of fulfilling the divine mandate of preaching the gospel to all nations—i.e., all cultures—requires Christians to know what the reigning cults of a particular culture are, and how those cults reflect the answer those peoples have given to the mystery of God. The task of re-evangelizing the culture in North America requires that diagnosis to begin at home.
Our Celebrity Culture
This task is particularly difficult today as one particular cult has taken hold of our public life. The cult of celebrity is not the only cult in our culture, but it is a powerful one that makes the gospel more difficult to hear. Our celebrity culture is the enemy of serious thought and enduring truths. It reduces to objects the people it celebrates, and exalts glamour and image over substance. In its promotion of a consumer mentality, it is not unrelated to the culture of death.
A recent story, superficially about religion, reflects that our contemporary popular culture prefers to worship at the altar of celebrity. Brad Pitt stars in the current film Seven Years in Tibet. He did not spend even seven months there, and he is not an expert on Tibetan politics or history. Yet he is often asked to comment upon the China-Tibet issue. "Why ask me? I am just an actor," he responds.
Brad Pitt's common sense notwithstanding, Time magazine—not always a reliable source of news but an unerring barometer of the fashions of the day—devoted a cover story to the movie, Tibet, and the "rise" of Buddhism in America. Time reports that Buddhism counts among its American converts Tina Turner (a pop singer), Steven Seagal (an actor), Richard Gere (another actor), and Phil Jackson (coach of the Chicago Bulls basketball team).
Were these four chosen because of their philosophical or theological insights, which might shed light on the truths found in Buddhism? Of course not. Time was quite straightforward about why these were found worthy of note: they are celebrities. When religious news is presented according to the standards of celebrity, it is an indication that the celebrity cult is harming our critical judgment.
Time is only a junior player in the celebrity industry; its sister publication, People magazine, sells millions of copies covering celebrities always, everywhere, and exhaustively. The parade of celebrities on television talk shows begins at sunrise and does not end until well after sunset. The desire for celebrities—to see them, to hear them, to touch them—drives a vast news and entertainment culture of which the supermarket tabloids are only a small part. Celebrity biographies and autobiographies about even the most inconsequential figures fill the bookstores. An ever-increasing number of television "news" programs are devoted to the kind of gossip about the rich and famous formerly reserved to pool halls and beauty parlors.
The cult of celebrity treats its celebrated ones not as true heroes but as objects. Heroes are proposed for admiration and emulation. Celebrities are objects offered for our consumption. Respectable magazines would just as soon put Madonna on the cover as the Blessed Virgin Mary. It matters not whether the subject is worthy or unworthy; it is required only that she be famous.
Indeed, it is not a human subject that is being portrayed at all, but an object to be used. It is an injustice to them, but it also damages us, whether as passive participants or even as willing consumers. The cult of celebrity makes us complicit in the reducing of real men and women to objects of amusement. It is very difficult to look upon the celebrities splashed across the checkout-stand news-racks and not think of them as just another thing to be tossed into the shopping cart. Christians who know that it is wrong to treat a person as a mere object—which gives rise to lust in sexual matters and exploitation in economics—face a constant source of temptation in the cultural air we breathe. The culture of celebrity is hostile to Christian virtue.
The late Diana, Princess of Wales, was the queen of the celebrity culture because she was the prettiest object of them all. She was hailed for bringing glamour into a royal family more often thought of as dowdy, stuffy, and rigid. Yet glamour does not coexist easily with the virtues that undergird a monarchy, or any long-standing social institution: stability, discretion, loyalty, and farsightedness. The designs of Providence are inscrutable, but there was a lesson in the image of the 97-year-old Queen Mother coming to mourn the princess 60 years her junior. The celebrity culture still produces posters of James Dean, but it was Jimmy Stewart who lived more than his three score and 10.
Enduring Truth vs. Novelty
Glamour is evanescent and so the appetite for it is insatiable. The resulting hunger is hostile to enduring institutions and truths. The purpose of a family and a Church is not to tantalize with something new, but to reassure with what is always valid. By definition, what families and the Church do cannot be glamorous. A teenager may learn how to dress or speak from his celebrity idols, but the glamorous set will not teach him to be home before curfew or to get up early to go to Mass. The celebrity culture can create an image, but it cannot build character.
Education in enduring truth cannot compete in a culture where the standard of evaluation is novelty. General Motors ran an advertising campaign aimed at young people a few years back with the tag line, "This is not your father's Oldsmobile." Fair enough; our fathers' cars are inconsequential. The faith of our fathers is not.
In a culture where there is nothing worse than being yesterday's news, Christianity is hard-pressed to compete with the newest idea. To paraphrase Chesterton, most new ideas are just old errors tarted up. Costumes are always alluring, and the frivolity, superficiality, and constant distractions of the celebrity culture ensure that we do not look too closely at the error's new clothes.
The triumph of image over substance in our culture suffocates serious thought and shortens our collective attention span. The license the celebrity culture gives any famous person to hold forth on any topic whatsoever requires of us a willingness to suspend our critical judgment. Elizabeth Taylor, the poster girl for polyandry, becomes a spokeswoman for AIDS, a disease almost wholly preventable by monogamous sexual behavior. To live with such grotesquerie requires us to suspend our reason and to refrain from speaking the truth.
The surest sign that the cult of celebrity prefers to avoid reality is its near total neglect of God. He who is most real is neglected in the pursuit of objects and images that are only pale reflections and imitations. The celebrity culture wallows in every kind of sin, scandal, and crime, but is oblivious to any concept of right and wrong. The ability of so many of our cultural grandees to speak continuously of suffering, tragedy, grief, and death, with nary a mention of God, indicates a culture in full flight from reality.
Celebrity and Death
There is a strange symbiosis between the cult of celebrity and the culture of death. To treat a person as an object for use or consumption is a hallmark of the culture of death. The cult of celebrity consumes its own, and yet it cannot bear death. The death of one its standard-bearers sends it into a frenzy of confusion and denial as it is deprived of its objects of worship.
The celebrity culture fancies itself as celebrating vitality, so it can only deal with death by transforming it into something that it is not, i.e., a celebration of life. And so we hear about "legacies" and "living on" and "lessons to be learned." Many a contemporary funeral is indistinguishable from a testimonial dinner, except that the recipient of the lifetime achievement award arrives in a box. The culture of celebrity can deliver a fine eulogy, but is inclined to forget the death.
Our culture fools itself about death because death is the great leveler that lays waste to celebrity and tabloid-reader alike, exposing the folly of living vicariously through the exalted. It is high irony that so many want to live through those who so often die young. Elton John sang a song about one beautiful young blonde who lived in the fast lane and met a violent death, and was able to re-use it for another before his copyright expired. Tragic death becomes a hit song, and the cult forgets the former and revels in the latter.
But a culture that cannot face the reality of death is unable to understand the purpose of life. It is salutary for Christians to remind the celebrity culture—and ourselves, who are not immune to its seduction—that neither riches nor fame nor beauty nor youth can delay the most important moment in life: the day of judgment. Sic transit gloria mundi.
The Gospel of Life's Appeal
The great orgy of coverage occasioned by celebrity deaths is perhaps an opportunity for evangelism. Faced with the great mystery of death, it is opportune for Christians to speak of the mystery of God. There can be no better time to proclaim the gospel of life than to the grieving who require reassurance that the loss of life is worth grieving over. The cult of celebrity has nothing to say about death, so it ignores it. At the heart of the Christian story is defeat of death and the triumph of life, and that has not only been known, but lived by Christians for two millennia.
Against the cults of our day, the Church proposes to Christians the cult of the saints. The liturgy never ceases to point to the "celebrities" of the Christian world: patriarchs, prophets, apostles, martyrs, confessors, virgins, holy men and women of all kinds. In the early period of Christianity evangelists often appealed to ancestor-worshipping pagans to channel this aspiration into proper veneration of the saints. It was a powerful example of faith illuminating culture, replacing the old corrupt cult with the new. Saints are famous to be sure, but the saints point beyond themselves to what is true and real and permanent. Celebrities obscure all that by standing in front of it all, and pointing to nothing other than themselves.
The Church finds in every culture the semina Verbi, the seeds of the Word. The celebrity culture is so toxic that those seeds find little room to grow, and yet there remains the fundamentally good desire to celebrate those who are worthy of being celebrated. It is a noble Christian service to point out those who are truly worthy, and those who are not.
Raymond de Souza is a seminarian for the Archdiocese of Kingston, Ontario.
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Another star from The Hills will soon be walking down the aisle!
Holly Montag, the older sister of Heidi Montag, got engaged to her boyfriend Richie, according to Heidi's tweet on Monday.
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Holly, who also appeared on The Hills and replaced Heidi and Spencer Pratt on I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here, also shared her elation on Twitter. "Happiest girl in the universe!" Holly tweeted on Monday.
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'Marina and Vase' is from a suite of original studio drawings completed over approximately a decade at Cassab's Studio. Charlie and Judy were very good friends and Marina was their muse bi-monthly for their drawing sessions in the late 1990's and early 2000's. Over the years Marina, Charlie and Judy developed a wonderful bond.
Marina and Vase
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Today I wanted to share this gorgeous Holiday card from my teammate.
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JULIE – "For the last 16 years I have been documenting the life of an AIDs-afflicted woman, Julie Baird. Julie has been on her own since her sexually abusive stepfather threw her through a glass window when she was 14 years old. She ran away from home, lived on the street, used drugs, contracted HIV, and had five children. When I first met Julie in February 1993 in the lobby of a SRO hotel in San Francisco's Tenderloin, she was 18 years old and had just given birth to her first child, Rachel. Julie and Jack Fyffe, the 19 year-old father were both HIV positive. Rachel, they said, was their main reason for living.
Throughout the years I have photographed Julie's complex story of AIDS, abusive relationships, drug use, multiple homes and poverty. A victim of child abuse, Julie often neglected her own children. A high school dropout, she depends on welfare to feed her family. HIV-positive, she fights to stay off drugs.
Julie's is a story of a survivor. The telling of it enriches the understanding of the poorest and most desperate among us. I am continuing to document Julie's life and it is my fervent hope that Julie's story inspires a greater awareness of the plight of people like her."
Darcy Padilla's unflinching portrayal of Julie Baird is one of the most in-depth, visceral, and captivating documentaries in recent memory.
Her work has received numerous grants and awards including an Alexia Foundation for World Peace & Understanding Award, Open Society Institute Individual Fellowship, and a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship.
The latest iteration of this paramount work will be on display at Fifty Crows Gallery, beginning with our May 20th opening. Doors will be open from 4 PM to 7:30 PM. Fifty Crows would like to welcome everyone to join us in this momentous event. We hope to see you there.


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The Fed Speaksagain
Good Morning Traders,
As of this writing 5:15 AM EST, heres what we see:
US Dollar: March USD is Down at 98.795.
Energies: March'20 Crude Down at 50.79.
Financials: The Mar'20 30 year bond is Up 31 ticks and trading at 162.21.
Indices: The March S&P 500 emini ES contract is 102 ticks Lower and trading at 3355.00.
Gold: The April '20 Gold contract is trading Up at 1579.00. Gold is 74 ticks Higher than its close.
Initial Conclusion
This is not a correlated market. The dollar is Down- and Crude is Down- which is not normal but the 30 year Bond is trading Higher. The Financials should always correlate with the US dollar such that if the dollar is lower then bonds should follow and vice-versa. The S&P is Lower and Crude is trading Lower which is not correlated. Gold is trading Higher which is correlated with the US dollar trading Down. I tend to believe that Gold has an inverse relationship with the US Dollar as when the US Dollar is down, Gold tends to rise in value and vice-versa. Think of it as a seesaw, when one is up the other should be down. I point this out to you to make you aware that when we don't have a correlated market, it means something is wrong. As traders you need to be aware of this and proceed with your eyes wide open.
At this time all of Asia is trading Lower. Currently all of Europe is trading Lower as well.
Possible Challenges To Traders Today:
- CPI is out at 8:30 AM EST. This is Major.
- Core CPI is out at 8:30 AM EST. This is Major.
- Unemployment Claims are out at 8:30 AM EST. This is Major.
- Natural Gas Storage is out at 10:30 AM EST. This is Major.
- 30-y Bond Auction starts at 1 PM EST. This is Major.
We've elected to switch gears a bit and show correlation between the 30 year bond (ZB) and The S&P futures contract. The S&P contract is the Standard and Poor's and the purpose is to show reverse correlation between the two instruments. Remember it's liken to a seesaw, when up goes up the other should go down and vice versa.
Yesterday the ZB made a move at around 8 AM EST. The ZB hit a High at around that time and the S&P moved Higher. If you look at the charts below ZB gave a signal at around 8 AM and the S&P moved Higher at the same time. Look at the charts below and you'll see a pattern for both assets. ZB hit a High at around 8 AM EST and the S&P was moving Higher shortly thereafter. These charts represent the newest version of MultiCharts and I've changed the timeframe to a 15 minute chart to display better. This represented a Shorting opportunity on the 30 year bond, as a trader you could have netted about 10 ticks per contract on this trade. Each tick is worth $31.25. Please note: the front month for the ZB is now March '20. The S&P contract is also March '20. I've changed the format to Renko bars such that it may be more apparent and visible.
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|ZB - March, 2020 - 2/12/20
|S&P March 2020 - 2/12/20
Yesterday we gave the markets a Neutral bias as we saw no clear trend or direction. The Dow closed 275 points Higher and the other indices gained ground as well. Today we aren't dealing with a correlated market and our bias is to the Downside.
Could this change? Of Course. Remember anything can happen in a volatile market.
So yesterday was Day Two for Fed Chief Powell to testify before Congress and it seems as though the markets are being driven by any comments or reports on the coronavirus from China. Yesterday it was reported that there have been less cases of the coronavirus and as such the markets took off. The Dow gained 275 points and the other indices gained ground as well. Today the economic news takes center stage as CPI, Core CPI and Unemployment Claims are on the docket for the US markets.
On Thursday, April 5th (2018) we had the honor and privilege to be interviewed by David Lincoln on his You Tube channel. David is a floor trader for the options markets. If you listen to this interview, you will enjoy it. To view the interview go to:
Just so you understand, Market Correlation is Market Direction. It attempts to determine the market direction for that day and it does so by using a unique set of tools. In fact TradersLog published an article on this subject that can be viewed at: http://www.traderslog.com/market-correlation-is-market-direction/
As readers are probably aware I don't trade equities. While we're on this discussion, let's define what is meant by a good earnings report. A company must exceed their prior quarter's earnings per share and must provide excellent forward guidance. Any falloff between earning per share or forward guidance will not bode well for the company's shares. This is one of the reasons I don't trade equities but prefer futures. There is no earnings reports with futures and we don't have to be concerned about lawsuits, scandals, malfeasance, etc. Anytime the market isn't correlated it's giving you a clue that something isn't right and you should proceed with caution. Today our bias is to the Downside. Could this change? Of course. In a volatile market anything can happen. We'll have to monitor and see.
As I write this the crude markets are Lower and the S&P is Lower. This is not normal. Crude and the markets are now reverse correlated such that when the markets are rising, crude drops and vice-versa. Yesterday March crude dropped to a low of $50.99. It would appear at the present time that crude has support at $51.00 a barrel and resistance at $53.00. Remember that crude is the only commodity that is reflected immediately at the gas pump. Please note that the front month for crude is now March. Both Russia and Saudi Arabia have agreed to keep production cuts in place for the next 6 - 9 months. This will artificially increase the price of crude at the pump by keeping supply low.
If trading crude today consider doing so after 10 AM EST when the markets give us better direction.
Crude Oil Is Trading Lower
Crude oil is trading Lower and the S&P is Lower. This is not normal. Crude typically makes 3 major moves (long or short) during the course of any trading day: around 9 AM EST, 11 AM EST and 2 PM EST when the crude market closes. If crude makes major moves around those time frames, then this would suggest normal trending, if not it would suggest that something is not quite right. As always watch and monitor your order flow as anything can happen in this market. This is why monitoring order flow in today's market is crucial. We as traders are faced with numerous challenges that we didn't have a few short years ago. High Frequency Trading is one of them. I'm not an advocate of scalping however in a market as volatile as this scalping is an alternative to trend trading. Remember that without knowledge of order flow we as traders are risking our hard earned capital and the Smart Money will have no issue taking it from us. Regardless of whatever platform you use for trading purposes you need to make sure it's monitoring order flow. To fully capitalize on this newsletter it is important that the reader understand how the various markets correlate. More on this in subsequent edition
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# CmdArgs: Easy Command Line Processing [![Hackage version](https://img.shields.io/hackage/v/cmdargs.svg?style=flat)](http://hackage.haskell.org/package/cmdargs) [![Build Status](http://img.shields.io/travis/ndmitchell/cmdargs.svg?style=flat)](https://travis-ci.org/ndmitchell/cmdargs)
CmdArgs is a Haskell library for defining command line parsers. The two features that make it a better choice than the standard getopt library are:
A very simple example of a command line processor is:
data Sample = Sample {hello :: String} deriving (Show, Data, Typeable) sample = Sample{hello = def &= help "World argument" &= opt "world"} &= summary "Sample v1" main = print =<< cmdArgs sample
Despite being very concise, this processor is already fairly well featured:
$ runhaskell Sample.hs --hello=world Sample {hello = "world"} $ runhaskell Sample.hs --help Sample v1, (C) Neil Mitchell 2009 sample [FLAG] -? --help[=FORMAT] Show usage information (optional format) -V --version Show version information -v --verbose Higher verbosity -q --quiet Lower verbosity -h --hello=VALUE World argument (default=world)
The rest of this document explains how to write the "hello world" of command line processors, then how to extend it with features into a complex command line processor. Finally this document gives three samples, which the cmdargs program can run. The three samples are:
For each example you are encouraged to look at it's source (see the darcs repo, or the bottom of this document) and run it (try cmdargs hlint --help). The HLint program is fairly standard in terms of it's argument processing, and previously used the System.Console.GetOpt library. Using GetOpt required 90 lines and a reasonable amount of duplication. Using CmdArgs the code requires 30 lines, and the logic is much simpler.
Thanks to Kevin Quick for substantial patches, and additional code contributions from Sebastian Fischer and Daniel Schoepe.
The following code defines a complete command line argument processor:{-# LANGUAGE DeriveDataTypeable #-} module Sample where import System.Console.CmdArgs data Sample = Sample {hello :: String} deriving (Show, Data, Typeable) sample = Sample{hello = def} main = print =<< cmdArgs sample
To use the CmdArgs library there are three steps:
Now we have a reasonably functional command line argument processor. Some sample interactions are:
$ runhaskell Sample.hs --hello=world Sample {hello = "world"} $ runhaskell Sample.hs --version The sample program $ runhaskell Sample.hs --help The sample program sample [OPTIONS] -? --help Display help message -V --version Print version information -h --hello=ITEM
CmdArgs uses defaults to automatically infer a command line parser for a value, and provides annotations to override any of the the defaults. CmdArgs automatically supports --help and --version flags, and optionally supports verbosity flags.
In order to control the behaviour we can add attributes. For example to add an attribute specifying the help text for the --hello argument we can write:
sample = Sample{hello = def &= help "Who to say hello to"}
We can add additional attributes, for example to specify the type of the value expected by hello:
sample = Sample {hello = def &= help "Who to say hello to" &= typ "WORLD"}
Now when running --help the final line is:
-h --hello=WORLD Who to say hello to
There are many more attributes, detailed in the Haddock documentation.
To specify a program with multiple modes, similar to darcs, we can supply a data type with multiple constructors, for example:data Sample = Hello {whom :: String} | Goodbye deriving (Show, Data, Typeable) hello = Hello{whom = def} goodbye = Goodbye main = print =<< cmdArgs (modes [hello,goodbye])
Compared to the first example, we now have multiple constructors, and a sample value for each constructor is passed to cmdArgs. Some sample interactions with this command line are:
$ runhaskell Sample.hs hello --whom=world Hello {whom = "world"} $ runhaskell Sample.hs goodbye Goodbye $ runhaskell Sample.hs --help The sample program sample [OPTIONS] Common flags -? --help Display help message -V --version Print version information sample hello [OPTIONS] -w --whom=ITEM sample goodbye [OPTIONS]
As before, the behaviour can be customised using attributes.
For each of the following examples we first explain the purpose of the program, then give the source code, and finally the output of --help=HTML. The programs are intended to show sample uses of CmdArgs, and are available to experiment with through cmdargs progname.
The HLint program analyses a list of files, using various options to control the analysis. The command line processing is simple, but a few interesting points are:
{-# LANGUAGE DeriveDataTypeable #-} module HLint where import System.Console.CmdArgs data HLint = HLint {report :: [FilePath] ,hint :: [FilePath] ,color :: Bool ,ignore_ :: [String] ,show_ :: Bool ,extension :: [String] ,language :: [String] ,utf8 :: Bool ,encoding :: String ,find :: [FilePath] ,test_ :: Bool ,datadir :: [FilePath] ,cpp_define :: [String] ,cpp_include :: [FilePath] ,files :: [FilePath] } deriving (Data,Typeable,Show,Eq) hlint = HLint {report = def &= opt "report.html" &= typFile &= help "Generate a report in HTML" ,hint = def &= typFile &= help "Hint/ignore file to use" ,color = def &= name "c" &= name "colour" &= help "Color the output (requires ANSI terminal)" ,ignore_ = def &= typ "MESSAGE" &= help "Ignore a particular hint" ,show_ = def &= help "Show all ignored ideas" ,extension = def &= typ "EXT" &= help "File extensions to search (defaults to hs and lhs)" ,language = def &= name "X" &= typ "LANG" &= help "Language extension (Arrows, NoCPP)" ,utf8 = def &= help "Use UTF-8 text encoding" ,encoding = def &= typ "ENC" &= help "Choose the text encoding" ,find = def &= typFile &= help "Find hints in a Haskell file" ,test_ = def &= help "Run in test mode" ,datadir = def &= typDir &= help "Override the data directory" ,cpp_define = def &= typ "NAME[=VALUE]" &= help "CPP #define" ,cpp_include = def &= typDir &= help "CPP include path" ,files = def &= args &= typ "FILES/DIRS" } &= verbosity &= help "Suggest improvements to Haskell source code" &= summary "HLint v0.0.0, (C) Neil Mitchell" &= details ["Hlint gives hints on how to improve Haskell code","" ,"To check all Haskell files in 'src' and generate a report type:"," hlint src --report"] mode = cmdArgsMode hlintHLint v0.0.0, (C) Neil Mitchell hlint [OPTIONS] [FILES/DIRS] Suggest improvements to Haskell source code Common flags: -r --report[=FILE] Generate a report in HTML -h --hint=FILE Hint/ignore file to use -c --colour --color Color the output (requires ANSI terminal) -i --ignore=MESSAGE Ignore a particular hint -s --show Show all ignored ideas --extension=EXT File extensions to search (defaults to hs and lhs) -X --language=LANG Language extension (Arrows, NoCPP) -u --utf8 Use UTF-8 text encoding --encoding=ENC Choose the text encoding -f --find=FILE Find hints in a Haskell file -t --test Run in test mode -d --datadir=DIR Override the data directory --cpp-define=NAME[=VALUE] CPP #define --cpp-include=DIR CPP include path -? --help Display help message -V --version Print version information -v --verbose Loud verbosity -q --quiet Quiet verbosity Hlint gives hints on how to improve Haskell code To check all Haskell files in 'src' and generate a report type: hlint src --report
The Diffy sample is a based on the idea of creating directory listings and comparing them. The tool can operate in two separate modes, create or diff. This sample is fictional, but the ideas are drawn from a real program. A few notable features:
{-# LANGUAGE DeriveDataTypeable #-} module Diffy where import System.Console.CmdArgs data Diffy = Create {src :: Maybe FilePath, out :: FilePath} | Diff {old :: FilePath, new :: FilePath, out :: FilePath} deriving (Data,Typeable,Show,Eq) outFlags x = x &= help "Output file" &= typFile create = Create {src = def &= help "Source directory" &= typDir ,out = outFlags "ls.txt" } &= help "Create a fingerprint" diff = Diff {old = def &= typ "OLDFILE" &= argPos 0 ,new = def &= typ "NEWFILE" &= argPos 1 ,out = outFlags "diff.txt" } &= help "Perform a diff" mode = cmdArgsMode $ modes [create,diff] &= help "Create and compare differences" &= program "diffy" &= summary "Diffy v1.0"Diffy v1.0 diffy [COMMAND] ... [OPTIONS] Create and compare differences Common flags: -o --out=FILE Output file -? --help Display help message -V --version Print version information diffy create [OPTIONS] Create a fingerprint -s --src=DIR Source directory diffy diff [OPTIONS] OLDFILE NEWFILE Perform a diff
The Maker sample is based around a build system, where we can either build a project, clean the temporary files, or run a test. Some interesting features are:
{-# LANGUAGE DeriveDataTypeable #-} module Maker where import System.Console.CmdArgs data Method = Debug | Release | Profile deriving (Data,Typeable,Show,Eq) data Maker = Wipe | Test {threads :: Int, extra :: [String]} | Build {threads :: Int, method :: Method, files :: [FilePath]} deriving (Data,Typeable,Show,Eq) threadsMsg x = x &= help "Number of threads to use" &= name "j" &= typ "NUM" wipe = Wipe &= help "Clean all build objects" test_ = Test {threads = threadsMsg def ,extra = def &= typ "ANY" &= args } &= help "Run the test suite" build = Build {threads = threadsMsg def ,method = enum [Release &= help "Release build" ,Debug &= help "Debug build" ,Profile &= help "Profile build"] ,files = def &= args } &= help "Build the project" &= auto mode = cmdArgsMode $ modes [build,wipe,test_] &= help "Build helper program" &= program "maker" &= summary "Maker v1.0\nMake it"Maker v1.0 Make it maker [COMMAND] ... [OPTIONS] Build helper program Common flags: -? --help Display help message -V --version Print version information maker [build] [OPTIONS] [ITEM] Build the project -j --threads=NUM Number of threads to use -r --release Release build -d --debug Debug build -p --profile Profile build maker wipe [OPTIONS] Clean all build objects maker test [OPTIONS] [ANY] Run the test suite -j --threads=NUM Number of threads to use


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2013 WCSU to stage 'Chicago'
DANBURY, CONN. — Get ready to spend a rollicking afternoon or evening doing the "Cell Block Tango" with the inmates at the Cook County Jail when "Chicago the Musical" is staged at Western Connecticut State University this fall.
"Chicago" performances will be at 7 p.m. on Wednesday and Thursday, Oct. 30 and 31, 2013; 8 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 1; 2 and 8 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 2; 2 p.m. on Sunday, Nov. 3; 8 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 8; 2 and 8 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 9; and 2 p.m. on Sunday, Nov. 10, in the Berkshire Theatre in Berkshire Hall on the WCSU Midtown campus, 181 White St. in Danbury. Tickets are $25 for adults, $15 for seniors and students, plus ticketing fees, and are available at www.wcsu.edu/tickets or by calling (203) 837-TIXX.
"WestConn's production of Kander and Ebb's 'Chicago the Musical' is all Roaring '20s, razzle-dazzle and jazz," said Julio Agustin Matos Jr., assistant professor of theatre arts and director of the show. Broadway Fosse dancers Matos and WCSU theatre instructor Elizabeth Parkinson have collaborated to choreograph the Western production.
"This production incorporates all of the wit, humor and unique sensuality that is quintessential Fosse," Matos said. "Simultaneously entertaining and thought-provoking, it will prove to be a fun time out."
The WCSU cast will include Anna Morse, of Cheshire, as Roxie Hart; Rachel Fournier, of Shelton, as Velma Kelly; Corinne Marshall, of Prospect, as Matron Mama Morton; Matthew Grasso, of Bethel, as Billy Flynn; Zachary Baron, of Ridgefield, as Amos Hart; Mick Gloss, of Stratford, as Mary Sunshine; Carly Neil, of Westbrook, as Liz; Audrey Twitchell, of Milford, as Annie; Theresa Curran, of Shelton, as June; Alexa Haynes, of Little Hocking, Ohio, as Hunyak; and Lauren Bell, of Southbury, as Go-to-Hell Kitty.
The production team includes: producers Sal Trapani and Pam McDaniel, director/co-choreographer Julio Matos, co-choreographer Elizabeth Parkinson, musical director Howard Kilik, conductor Tom Cuffari, set designer Elizabeth Popeil, production supervisor Frank Herbert, technical supervisor Kevin Sosbe, costume designer Kristina Sneshkoff, costume supervisor Joni Johns Lerner, lighting designer Scott Cally, sound engineer Paul Dente and stage manager Matthew Terzigni.
Theatre-goers who want to enjoy dinner before their theatre experience on Friday, Nov. 1, can buy a combination dinner-theatre ticket for $55. The Alumni Dinner-Theatre will begin at 5:30 p.m. in Warner Hall on the university's Midtown campus. A limited number of tickets are available for the dinner theatre. To make a reservation, call the Office of Alumni relations at (203) 837-8298.
For tickets or information, call the Box Office at (203) 837-TIXX or go to www.wcsu.edu/tickets.
Western Connecticut State University offers outstanding faculty in a range of quality academic programs. Our diverse university community provides students an enriching and supportive environment that takes advantage of the unique cultural offerings of Western Connecticut and New York. Our vision: To be an affordable public university with the characteristics of New England's best small private universities.


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From Legacy Moment (05/11/2012).
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Dear Mom,
You've taught me so much; how can I ever thank you? As a child you encouraged me to always do my best. You taught me that life isn't about what you get, it's about what you give. You taught me values, reminding me to stand up for what I believe in. And you showed me that personal connections—family, friends and colleagues—are more important than material possessions.
Though the words may vary, the language of motherhood is based on caring, kindness and love. In the following paragraphs, read what some real farm moms have to say about life, family and leaving a legacy. Learn more about these moms on "Leave a Legacy TV." Happy Mother's Day.
On encouraging the next generation to pursue a career in farming, Mary Dye says, "If you have that mentoring mindset…encouraging them [her three daughters] to develop their skills and abilities and then leaving that option open, they'll be successful in other pursuits if this doesn't work out the way we planned."
Referring to the bonds of family, Deborah Rovey states, "The key is family. I think family first. And, you know, those ties run deep. And so that way you can get through the adversities that come along, because you are family and you're gonna stay family forever."
Mary Mooney on what she values: "The land. Never give up the land. Land is wealth. That's why we still have that ranch today. If any one of my family members comes to me and says, 'I need to make money,' like my son, I say, 'You know what, there's a ranch, there's olives and there's farmers markets. Have at it.'"
Farming's not a simple life, but for Lauren Kerr, "It's fun." She says, "I like to stay connected to it. And I think it's important to show our kids it's not just dads that work on a farm—everybody can."
We're all going to leave a legacy. Mary Rickert says without hesitation, "My legacy? Well, I'd like to leave wherever I've lived a better place—that I've touched people and been a good influence. And hopefully inspired them a little bit to be a better person, and to be a kinder, gentler person—whether to each other or to the earth or to the cattle."
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Just after dark one night in June 2009, a small crowd gathered in Lane Cove, on Sydney's north shore, for a special screening of the award-winning documentary Kanyini. Hosted by Lane Cove Residents for Reconciliation, the film by a Sydney director, told the story of the Mutitjulu indigenous community near Uluru, in central Australia, through the eyes of traditional owner and elder Uncle Bob Randall.
Randall wasn't at the screening, but the film director's partner, another Aboriginal man by the name of Wadari "Wadi" Wiriyanjara, was. A slim 37-year-old, Wadi wore dark trousers and an open-necked shirt; he had short dark hair and light skin.
"He was the kind of person who could have blended in anywhere," says Lorraine McGee-Sippel, an author and member of the stolen generations, who was in the audience.
After the film, Wadi took to the stage, having been introduced as a Pintjantjatjara man from Mutitjulu. He addressed the audience, answering questions about his culture before singing a song "in language", a performance that brought some in the audience to the verge of tears.
"We were incredibly moved," McGee-Sippel says. "Not just by hearing language spoken, but by how powerfully he sang the song. It was so strong, like he was really proud."
To the audience, the director and Wadi seemed perfectly happy, the very embodiment of reconciliation.
"It was just a lovely night," McGee-Sippel says.
And yet Wadi and the director, who does not want to be named, were guarding an extraordinary secret. Soon after they had started a relationship in July 2007, Wadi said he was a member of the SAS. He had seen active service, been tortured overseas, and now suffered crippling post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Indeed, he often awoke from terrible nightmares, screaming "Enemy attack!" and "Get down!", even issuing what sounded like battlefield commands. At one point, a woman claiming to be an army nurse rang the director, confirming his condition.
Wadi was a complex person. Apart from the PTSD, he had suffered brain damage - a result, he said, of special drugs the army had given him in an attempt to turn him into a "super soldier". What he longed for now was a discharge, but he "knew too much" about a drug syndicate he had uncovered operating inside the army. The top brass wanted him dead, and continued to send him, against his will, on missions to Afghanistan, from where he would text the director, telling her when he was about to go into combat. The director suggested they tell her father, but Wadi said no, adding: "You want your father to be killed?"
According to Wadi, the only way out of the army was to bribe them. He needed $2.5 million, which he would raise by conducting a rescue mission to Nigeria, where a British woman and her daughter were being held hostage. But to put the mission together he needed $30,000, which the director volunteered.
When he returned, in March 2008, however, Wadi was furious. He accused the director of having "talked"; her indiscretion had not only cost lives on the Nigerian job, but now the US military were also after him. To escape them, he would need to travel to Thailand, again at the director's expense.
Throughout 2008, Wadi's stories became increasingly outlandish, his demands for money more urgent: there were helicopters to be hired, bribes to be paid, reconnaissance missions to be undertaken, all of it on the director's tab. At one stage, the director paid for Wadi to travel overseas to locate a sympathetic ex-CIA operative, code-named "G", who, as it happened, promptly turned against him.
In June 2008, after a series of threatening texts, "G" demanded the director pay him $175,000. A month later, she paid a further $125,000, this time supposedly to the Russian mafia, which had also become involved. Whenever she suggested they go to the police, Wadi refused, insisting she and her family would die.
By the time of the Lane Cove screening, the director was broke. She had burnt through most of her savings from her previous career in corporate finance; she had even sold shares worth $30,000. Wadi then suggested she get a loan for $45,000 against her Surry Hills home. When this ran out, he convinced her to sell the property, with $300,000 again going to the "Russian mafia". By June 2010, the director had, according to police, paid $997,490 to Wadi, who by this time was largely absent, leaving her alone.
On the last day of July 2010, the director walked into Sydney's City Central police station. "She was upset, and very emotional," Detective Sergeant Warwick Brown, of the City Fraud Unit, says. "She said, 'I think this bloke has taken all my money.' "
In August this year, Wadi appeared in Sydney's Downing Centre District Court, charged with 30 counts of fraud. Only this time, Wadi wasn't Wadi, son of an "Aboriginal magic man" from Uluru; he was Dallas Gwilliam from Neutral Bay in Sydney.
As soon became apparent, Gwilliam, who is 40, was not Aboriginal and had never served in the military. As part of the case against him, DPP lawyer Steve Higgins accused Gwilliam of having constructed "an elaborate web of lies", a statement which, though true, seems dismally inadequate.
Gwilliam's con was ever-evolving and wildly improvisatory, a 20-year jazz solo of A-grade bullshit in which he had posed not only as Aboriginal royalty and a special forces veteran, but as a Shaolin monk, seeded tennis player, telco millionaire, martial arts expert, UN peacekeeper and Chinese racing-car driver.
Newspapers described Gwilliam as a "Casanova conman", since his victims were often women. Yet he wasn't conventionally attractive: he has pitted skin, and is slightly built, almost boyish.
"It felt like I was in bed with a teenager," one woman told me. Yet he had a powerful presence and colossal personality.
"He was funny," says Lisa Rochelle, who met Gwilliam in 2004. "His jokes would have whole tables of people rolling in laughter; he could have made a brilliant stand-up comic." Within days of their meeting, says Rochelle, "I was in awe of him, and totally in love."
In matters of money, however, Gwilliam was a moral vacuum, accumulating a small mountain of debt in his mother's and brother's names (both were subsequently bankrupted).
"Dallas will tell you anything to get money out of you," says his younger sister. "Once, when I was in high school, I'd saved up $500, which he 'borrowed' and never gave back."
In hindsight, Gwilliam's claims appear ludicrous, even laughable; at one point he described himself as a hired assassin whose hands had been registered as "lethal weapons". But he was also a gifted illusionist, carefully propping up his fictions with lots of tiny truths. He often wore army uniforms, complete with medals; Rochelle says she once saw a pistol in the back of his car. He also used accomplices, none of whom has been caught, and spoke both Mandarin and Pintjantjatjara.
"He had an incredible way of explaining away inconsistencies," Rochelle says. "Whenever I would say, 'I'm so confused', Wadi would say 'That's brilliant, because if they ever capture you, you won't be able to tell them anything. You're meant to be confused,' he'd say. 'I want you to be confused.' "
Dallas Gwilliam was born in Sydney, in 1972, to Dennis Gwilliam and an unemployed 23-year-old named Lynne Rootsey. Rootsey's mother had died when she was 10; she had never completed high school. At the time she met Gwilliam, Rootsey was living in a boarding house in Summer Hill. After the birth, the pair lived on the streets, pushing Dallas around Kings Cross in an old cane pram. They eventually found a place in a boarding house in Paddington, but by then the relationship, such as it was, had fallen apart. "Dennis drank," Rootsey says. They split, and Rootsey and Dallas moved to Brisbane.
Over the next 15 years, Rootsey would have four more children by three men. The family moved around a lot: by the age of 15, Dallas had moved house at least eight times. He also had a testy relationship with one of his stepfathers, who "would hit him," according to Rootsey, "but only when he deserved it."
Dallas left school at the end of year 10 and went to live with his uncle on the Gold Coast. Now and then he'd drop in on Rootsey, boasting of having been adopted by a rich Chinese family, the Chans, who lived in Brisbane. "They were giving him lots of money," she says. "He stayed with them for a while, but then he said the father had cut him off because he was spending the money stupidly."
It was at about this time that Gwilliam, who had changed his surname to Chan, began to go, as Rootsey puts it, "right off the rails". One night when he was 18, he got caught speeding in an unregistered car. Soon he was passing valueless cheques and doing break and enters.
By 1994, however, Gwilliam was in Sydney, working for a telemarketing company in Leichhardt, where he met a woman called Penny Fischer. Fischer was almost 20 years older than Gwilliam, but the two became friends (platonic, according to Fischer). Within a year, he had moved into Fischer's home in Woollahra. "Dallas said he'd grown up with the head monk of a Shaolin temple in the west of China, who was like a grandfather to him," she says.
He also seemed very "in" with Sydney's Buddhist community. One weekend, he took Fischer to visit a temple in the western suburbs, where they had a meal and chatted to the monks. Gwilliam's time in China had clearly been well spent: he not only knew Qigong, the ancient Chinese meditative practice, but was a martial arts expert. "He showed me some moves, which were convincing enough," Fischer says.
As a result of injuries sustained in training, however, he required special Chinese medicines, which Fischer gave him money for. Then one day Gwilliam received some terrible news: the senior monk in the monastery had died, and he needed to travel to China for the burial. "I actually had to sell something to pay for that," Fischer says. Gwilliam was gone for a week. "When he got back he had a little burning ceremony in the backyard for the spirit of his grandfather. He also gave me a coin which was part of it, which I've still got."
Despite being what Fischer describes as "bone lazy", Gwilliam had big dreams, one of which was to be an air force pilot. Another was to be a racing-car driver. Fischer wouldn't be part of this, and made it plain that no more money would be forthcoming. Not only that, she wanted what she'd given Gwilliam to be paid back. He agreed to do so. The next night, however, he went to Chinatown to meet some friends and never came back.
"I met Dallas in 1997, through a friend," says lawyer Stuart Austin, who lives on Sydney's northern beaches. "My involvement with him was brief and not very pleasant."
Back then, Austin ran a sponsorship research company. "Dallas hired me to help raise money, about $1 million, which he needed for his team, which he called Dallas Chan Racing."
Gwilliam claimed to have a rich uncle in Hong Kong, Leung Chan, who would eventually fund the operation. In the meantime, Austin and his friend would have to foot the bill. "We wanted validation that he was a racing driver," Austin says. "So he took us to race circuits and introduced us to people like [veteran driver training instructor] Ian Luff and his son Warren, both of whom seemed to know Dallas and took him seriously." (Warren Luff says he met Gwilliam when he completed some driving courses with his father.)
Gwilliam then proceeded to dazzle Austin with his driving skills, which he demonstrated at Amaroo Park Raceway. "To this day, I genuinely believe Dallas is or was a racing driver, because he definitely knew what he was doing on that track." After six months and $25,000, however, it became apparent to Austin that "Uncle Leung was never going to come through", and he pulled the plug.
These days, Austin is out of the racing game, but still keeps an ear to the ground. "You know what I heard?" he tells me, sotto voce. "That Dallas isn't Chinese at all - he's actually Aboriginal."
Writer Dave Eggers once remarked that the stories you tell about yourself are no more than "snake skins" that cease to be you as soon as they are shed. Gwilliam, however, never fully shed his skins, always retaining bits and pieces he could rearrange for future use.
"When I met Dallas, he was incredibly caring," says 41-year-old Brisbane woman Amanda Elphick. "He wasn't my type - he had terrible teeth, for a start. But he latched onto me, always making sure I was okay, always getting me anything I needed."
It was 2003, and Elphick, recovering from a brief drug addiction, was staying at a girlfriend's house in Adelaide, where Gwilliam was also living. The adopted daughter of strict parents, Elphick had spent the early 2000s in Sydney, where she had become involved in an abusive relationship with an underworld figure. She had moved back to Adelaide to start afresh when her brother, Craig, died unexpectedly. "Craig had left me $75,000," says Elphick, a vivacious woman with olive skin and sea-green eyes. "The money hadn't come through yet, but Dallas got wind that it was on the way."
Gwilliam was extremely thin and had some unusual scars on his body, particularly one on his ankle, which he said was a spear wound - "payback from the elders". He didn't drink alcohol or do illegal drugs but lived on coffee and cigarettes, and could get by with very little sleep. His personal habits were unsavoury: Elphick calls him a "bit of a grot". And yet he gave off an air of authority, "like he was going to take care of me".
Slowly but surely, Gwilliam won Elphick over. He said they were "soulmates". He would massage her legs, which ached from detox, for hours at a time. He also told her he belonged to a secret special forces unit, and that his teeth had been damaged in Somalia, where he'd taken part in the "Black Hawk Down" incident. Late one night, a man in a Commodore pulled up to the house to deliver some paperwork which Gwilliam, with a show of reluctance, allowed Elphick to read: they were instructions, stamped TOP SECRET: AUSTRALIAN DEFENCE FORCE, on how to detonate a bomb. Gwilliam also claimed to be very spiritual, on account of his Aboriginality: one windy night, he even used his ancestors to "contact" Craig.
A couple of weeks later, Gwilliam mentioned that he had found out his father was "a direct descendant of Uluru", and that he was entitled to royalties, back payment of which ran into the millions. Until the money came through, he and Elphick decided to go travelling, driving a car she had bought with her inheritance to Alice Springs, where Gwilliam could visit his Aboriginal family. In Alice Springs, however, one of the first things he did was visit the casino, gambling with money borrowed from Elphick. "I remember he ran out of money and asked me for more. I said no, and he became furious. He said it was really his money and not mine because he was paying me back."
This would become a familiar refrain. As the couple moved around, always staying in nice hotels, it was Elphick who paid the bills. At the beginning, this seemed reasonable: they were a couple, after all. Gwilliam talked of buying a house together in Tasmania, near Elphick's birth mother. One day, while staying in the Blue Mountains, he even proposed - using a ring he'd had Elphick buy, for $2500.
"Dallas wasn't great sex, he wasn't even great looking," she says. "But maybe because I was adopted, I've just never felt that unconditional love, and Dallas seemed to give me that."
He also happened to "know things", mainly about Elphick's ex-boyfriend. One day, while driving near Launceston, Gwilliam took a call on his mobile. It was from his "Uncle Bernie", whom Gwilliam described as "head of National Security". When Gwilliam got off the phone, he looked worried. "He said Bernie had found out that my ex, in Sydney, had discovered I was going out with Dallas and had put a $250,000 contract out on my life," Elphick says. Elphick now believes there was no such threat; at the time however, she was terrified.
Gwilliam immediately turned Elphick's phone off: from now on, she was to contact no one. (His phone was left on, as it was a "secure line".) Elphick was due to attend a girlfriend's wedding in Adelaide in a few days' time, but Gwilliam ruled that out: "Uncle Bernie will call your friend and explain everything," he said.
By this time, Elphick's $75,000 inheritance was long gone, and so, at Gwilliam's urging, she began pawning possessions: a gold-and-diamond ring worth $5700, two watches ($4500), and, of course, her engagement ring. They also sold her car for $14,000. ("It'd cost me $30,000 four months before.") According to Gwilliam, the money went to Uncle Bernie for protection. "I never met Uncle Bernie," Elphick says. "But I did talk on the phone to someone who said they were Uncle Bernie."
Apparently, Bernie had urged Gwilliam to leave Elphick - "to cut her loose" - but he refused. And so Bernie came up with a plan: he would get Gwilliam a job with the United Nations, in London, where Elphick could join him. Not only that, but Bernie had organised for the UN to repay Gwilliam's debt to Elphick.
"Dallas even said that because I'd been so good about it all, that when the money came through he'd give me an extra $100,000 on top of what he owed me. All we had to do was wait till London."
Alas, the United Nations job was held up. In the meantime, Uncle Bernie found Gwilliam some detective work in Cairns. Using money from the sale of Elphick's car, the two flew north, where they booked into the Floriana, an art deco guest house on the Esplanade. A week later, however, he received bad news: Elphick's ex had tracked her to Cairns. "It's your card!" he said. "They're tracking you through your key card!"
According to Elphick, Gwilliam then took the card, claiming he would pass it onto Bernie, who would install an anti-tracking device on it. "When I got it back, every cent I had in it, $5500, was gone."
Elphick was furious, and let Gwilliam know it. But she was in no shape for a fight: she was hardly eating and had lost weight; she spent most of her time in the motel room, feeling trapped and terrified. (She ultimately made two suicide attempts while in Cairns.) To help her "cope with the stress", Gwilliam began giving Elphick morphine tablets. "I've no idea where he got them," she says. "He'd give me enough to give me a slight addiction, then leave me hanging and sick while he took off, sometimes for hours, sometimes days."
She considered going to the authorities, but Gwilliam had warned her against that. "The people I work for, they can make people disappear," he would say. "And besides, the cops would never believe you. You're just a drug addict."
Lynne Rootsey isn't the wordiest of women. Mention her son, however, and she produces a veritable thesaurus of insults. Dallas, she says, is "evil", "crazy", "a liar" and "lazy"; a "crim", "crook" and a "con artist". He is also, she concedes, "very clever, especially in the way he talks. He will tell people what he thinks he can get them to believe. Sometimes I think he really believes it, too, and that's how he convinces other people."
In the early 2000s, prior to meeting Elphick, and for reasons that are unclear, Gwilliam turned up in the campground at Yulara, 15 kilometres from Uluru. With its mystical connotations and sacred heritage, Uluru is known for attracting misfits and drifters; many of Yulara's 880 residents are either from overseas or interstate. Yet no sooner had Gwilliam arrived than he was "family".
"I don't know when he first turned up," says Uncle Bob Randall, the star of Kanyini. "But by the time I met him, about four years ago, he was already saying he was anungu - one of us."
Dallas, or Wadi as he now called himself, spent much of his time looking after a local elder, Daisy Walkabout. "It was an aunty-nephew relationship," Randall explains. "Wadi would stay with her, buy her groceries, give her money when she needed it. He picked up lots of language that way. So we just accepted him, and looked after him the same way as family."
Wadi's time in the desert would come in handy when he started knocking out "Aboriginal artworks" for European backpackers in Cairns, and holding $475 a person "Aboriginal healing" workshops on Sydney's northern beaches. It particularly helped when he met Lisa Rochelle, a single mother, artist and massage therapist in Mullumbimby in northern NSW, in late 2004. By this time he had left Elphick, virtually destitute, in Brisbane, on the understanding that he was going to a "safe house" to monitor her ex-boyfriend. In fact, he was enjoying a whirlwind romance with Rochelle. At first, Wadi seemed a true renaissance man, a gifted piano player (a legacy, he claimed, from his wealthy mother, who had been a concert pianist), and a seeded tennis player. "I've certainly never seen anyone run as fast as he could," Rochelle says. "He would just bound through the air. He said it was because he'd grown up chasing kangaroos."
He was also an Aboriginal kudaitji, or wise man, and a fully initiated Pintjantjatjara, who, according to Rochelle, had even undergone the traditional circumcision. Soon after they met, Wadi bestowed upon Rochelle a sacred chant that she claims had the power to induce out-of-body experiences. "Time and time again he would show me amazing things. At one stage my spirit was flying around Uluru with the eagles."
He also reprised the fantasy of his military service, with slight variations: he was a genetically engineered super soldier, but he was dying because the experiment had failed and his DNA was breaking down. When Rochelle fell pregnant to Wadi, in early 2006, she too became "part of the experiment", along with their unborn baby.
For 3½ years, the pair were almost constantly on the run or in hiding, ostensibly from the Australian Army. Rochelle was kept isolated from friends and family, and threatened with "a bullet in the head" if she talked. In fact, they were in hiding from Wadi's other victims, principally a man named Byron Smith, who Wadi had met in Brunswick Heads in April 2006. When they met, Smith had recently turned 18 and inherited $100,000 from his mother, who had died when he was five. Unfortunately, he had also just had his car stolen. He mentioned this to Wadi, who told Smith he could use his UN contacts to get the car back. First, however, he needed money for tracking equipment, and a car, and laptop computers. Within three months, Smith, described by police as an "unsophisticated young man", had handed over $76,000 and a plasma TV and stereo system, which Wadi promptly pawned.
It's thought a lot of this money went into gambling, but it also paid for the Pocket Rainforest Retreat, a boutique resort in the Byron Bay hinterland where Wadi and Rochelle lived for six months at a cost of $1400 a week. ("When I asked where the money was coming from," she says, "Wadi told me he'd had a communications company in Geelong, and sold part of it for $4 million.")
But when Smith found out where Wadi was, they were forced to flee. "As I drove out of town, Wadi hid in the back of my car," Rochelle says. "He said it was so the CIA didn't see him. But later I found out he was terrified of Byron."
These days, Rochelle makes lino prints that reference her time with Wadi, who ended up taking $75,000 from her. She is also writing a book about it. "I know it sounds silly, but at the time I really thought I was saving his life," she says. "Then hearing in court that he was not Aboriginal, for me that was the final twist."
Gwilliam pleaded not guilty to all the charges, claiming the plaintiffs, including the director and Rochelle, had, in essence, made it all up. The jury didn't buy it. Particularly damning was evidence showing that at the same time he was texting the director asking for $10,000 to pay a guide to take him through the Burmese jungle, he was actually staying at Bangkok's five-star Grand Millennium Hotel. "Most of the money went on high living," says Detective Sergeant Brown. "He also bought motor bikes, two speedboats. There was a multi-thousand-dollar bill for staying at [Sydney's] Star casino. It goes quickly when they spend on anything and everything."
In August this year, Gwilliam was convicted of 27 counts of obtaining money by deception. Sentencing is scheduled for February. When Good Weekend told his mother this, she laughed. "I hope he goes away for a long time."
Gwilliam faces five years in prison. He hasn't lost his touch, however. Last year, he got married to an Indian-Australian woman named Carol Sequiera. In March, while awaiting trial, his lawyer applied to have Dallas Gwilliam's passport returned, so that he could accompany Sequiera to meet her family in India. The request was denied.
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Jeff Burton has long been considered a voice of reason in NASCAR's garage, a respected driver destined for the TV booth or even politics.
Jeff Burton has long been considered a voice of reason in NASCAR's garage, a respected driver destined for the TV booth or even politics.
Some of those future plans might get a look a bit earlier than expected.
Without committed sponsorship in place, and a desire to scale back his schedule in two years, Burton and team owner Richard Childress made the decision to cut ties following this season.
Caterpillar will continue to sponsor the No. 31 Chevrolet.
The 46-year-old Burton, winless since 2008, faces an uncertain future after ending a relationship with RCR that dates to the 2005 season.
"It's not necessarily the best thing for me in the world," Burton said Wednesday, "but I figured it out."
RCR said a driver for the No. 31 Chevrolet will be announced at a later date. Brickyard winner Ryan Newman, out of a job at Stewart-Haas Racing, could land in the No. 31 Chevrolet if a sponsorship deal comes through.
RCR also fields teams for Paul Menard and Kevin Harvick, who is leaving after this season to join SHR. Austin Dillon, Childress' grandson, is lined up to replace Harvick.
Burton told Childress that he wanted to step back after 2014 and race a part-time schedule, not unlike fellow veteran Mark Martin. But with Newman suddenly available and Burton unable to secure major corporate dollars for the 36-race reason, it seemed to be the right time to accelerate RCR's makeover.
"They can put the funding in place with a really good driver that can go out and be successful," said Burton, who added that he has not talked to any teams and has no plans for 2014.
Burton said the No. 31 is on the verge of breaking through into Victory Lane, even though the results haven't really showed that's likely. He's buried in 22nd in the standings and well out of the Chase picture. He has two top-five finishes this year, hasn't made the Chase since 2010 and is far removed from his days as a regular threat to contend for championships driving for Jack Roush. He finished 20th (2011) and 19th the last two seasons.
Burton has only four of his 21 career Cup victories with RCR.
Childress thanked Burton for his integral role in the organization.
"Jeff has been nothing but a professional driver, an asset to RCR and a great person for our organization since coming on board in 2005," he said. "We intend to finish out 2013 in a strong way and I look forward to the possibility of Jeff still being part of RCR in the near future, just not driving the No. 31 car. I have been watching his son, Harrison, and the success he's having. Hopefully, we can have another Burton in one of our cars someday."
At Roush Racing in the late 1990s, Burton established himself as one of NASCAR's elite drivers. He won six times in 1999 and had four more wins in 2000. But he never really recaptured the early magic, and failed to find it when the company man bolted Roush.
Burton clearly was one of the drivers most affected by Dale Earnhardt's death in 2001. Burton was a champion of improved safety measures long before Earnhardt's fatal accident, and there's always been speculation that he lost a little bit of his nerve after the crash.
Earnhardt's death forced a lot of drivers to face their own mortality, and as the father of young children, Burton was probably one of the many suddenly weighing the risks versus the rewards.
"There is a place for me in this sport," Burton said. "I want to be part of it and contributing to this sport means a great deal to me. I'd like to believe that me being here has made it better from a safety standpoint, and I'd like to think I've done some things on the track and off the track that have made the sport better, and I want to continue to do that."
But Burton's failures may also have been the product of a stale environment within his team at Roush. So he packed up and headed to RCR.
While Burton foundered, Harvick emerged as the dominant face of RCR and a legitimate championship contender. He's in third place this season, and has set the standard at RCR that Burton has failed to match.
"What's been difficult for me is why is it that the 29 can run the way they run and we haven't been able to keep step?" Burton said. "That's been difficult for not only me but the whole RCR company. Because over the last two years they've been the only team that's made the Chase. They've been the team that's been the cornerstone of our company, and that's been frustrating, because, why? Why?"
It's not his problem anymore. With Harvick and Burton out, RCR gets a fresh start in 2014, still pining for the championship driver it hasn't had since Earnhardt.
Burton gets one, too, whether he likes it or not.
"It's an interesting time for me. It's not all good," he said. "It's not all good at RCR."
Burton could make the transition to the broadcast booth, calling the action instead of becoming part of it.
"I know everybody has me appointed as the next TV guy or whatever, but I don't know if that opportunity is going to present itself," he said.
He'll find out what's out there soon enough.


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7 foods destroying your good mood
A delightfully toasted sesame seed bagel. Crispy, crunchy potato chips. An effervescent fountain of sweet soda. These all sound like comforting foods that can wrap you in a sensation of coziness. However, while they may taste so good, these foods are not always so good for you or your mood.
If a bad day at the office has you ripping open a bag of potato chips and plopping on the couch with an ice cold soda, you may want to rethink that strategy. These seven foods can destroy your mood, taking you from good to bad or even bad to worse.
Potato chips
Potato chips are a household staple in America. They are the side to every sandwich and the perfect chip to dip for football parties and barbeques. However, this party food can take your happiness quotient down a notch or two.
Potato chips are potatoes fried in oils rich in omega-6 fatty acids that can block mood-enhancing omega-3 fatty acids. If you really want that crunch, try substituting almonds, which have been shown to deliver a calming sensation.
Its no secret that soda is bad for you, but if you run to this beverage for comfort, you may experience a little less than happiness. The initial sugar rush will give you a quick high, but soon after, your mood will plummet as your blood sugar levels come crashing down.
If you crave that soda sensation, try flavored carbonated water or add a squeeze of your favorite citrus fruit to a glass of club soda.
Margarine Margarines are made of inflammation-promoting, industrial fats that are harmful. Much like fried potato chips, the high levels of omega-6 fatty acids could tamper with your mood and healthy insulin levels.
Natural is always a better choice than fake when it comes to healthy eating. If you must use butter, use the real thing, but in very moderate portions. Choosing healthy oils, like olive or coconut oil, are even better. Not only are they natural, you get a healthy dose of monounsaturated fatty acids and omega-3s.
Agave nectar In recent years there has been a lot of hype surrounding agave nectar as a better choice for sweetening coffee, teas and generally replacing alternative sweeteners and sugar because it is all-natural. Unfortunately, just like honey, it is loaded with concentrated levels of fructose. It may be all-natural, but too much can lead to insulin resistance, excess weight gain and mood instability. Excess sugar consumption, in all its forms, can cause peaks and valleys in blood sugar levels, which directly affect your mood.
For a brief era, bagels gained a reputation for being a healthy food. Many people still believe this misconception and start their morning with a plump bagel smothered in cream cheese or butter. With or without the spreads, bagels are not a healthy choice and will virtually guarantee an energy crash long before lunch time.
Bagels are a stealthy source of refined carbohydrates, and even the average 4-ounce whole wheat bagel racks up nearly 400 calories without butter or cream cheese. For a powerful, mood-boosting breakfast, choose half a whole-wheat English muffin with egg, which will deliver fiber, B vitamins and zinc.
Packaged, salted peanuts commonly served in bars, at parties and during baseball games are high in sodium and contain processed food additives, including monosodium glutamate (MSG) an artificial flavoring linked to migraines, weakness, burning sensations, wheezing and difficulty breathing in some individuals. Symptoms like these can definitely cost you a good mood. Instead of peanuts, make a mix of nuts that are rich in antioxidants, nutritious minerals and omega-3s, such as walnuts, almonds and Brazil nuts.
Sweet potato casserole
Much like bagels, sweet potatoes have earned that health food reputation. A plain baked sweet potato in appropriate portions is a better choice than a white russet potato. However, the sweet potatos role in marshmallow casseroles and candied homemade dishes is very, very bad for your health and your mood. All that sugary sweetness can make your blood sugar levels soar, raise your blood pressure and increase your risk of depression and Alzheimers disease.
A better choice for stable blood sugar levels is vegetables, like carrots, radishes and cucumbers complex carbohydrates with fiber and rich in a wide variety of vitamins and minerals.
There is a running theme among the foods that wreck your mood unstable blood sugar levels and the build-up of toxins in your body. To keep your health and your mood in check, choose all-natural, whole foods rich in fiber and with little or no sugar content and remember, portion size matters too.
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