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I didn't care much about Freddie Gibbs until Piñata came out. It's no wonder why, really, because his previous releases, well produced and delivered as they are, are as bland and generic as gangsta hip-hop can get. The vaguely-experimental neo-gangsta revival trend (I made that up), Freddie included, got really old really fast for me. Then there was his mellow, monotone delivery just didn't do justice to the raw, loud beats he was rapping over. The man tried to experiment and mix things around, don't get me wrong, but if I were to engage myself into the O.G. lifestyle, I'd much rather prefer listening to the likes of Jay Rock or ASAP Rocky, who're known for putting out more straightforward stuff.
Since Madlib has a history of transforming every generic rapper into a fucking prodigy, it shouldn't surprise anybody that his collaborative project with Freddie gave birth to one of the best albums of the year. Freddie's days as a ''so-so rapper that could be so much more if he were more focused'' are over, because Grandpa Madlib came for a surprise visit during the holidays and is ready to slap some old skool discipline into these meddling rappers.
Piñata is not a major lyrical departure from his previous releases - the stone cold drug-dealing gangsta from Gary, Indiana is still here, the only difference being that now he's matured enough to confront his past and reflect on his life (this brilliant scene from The Wire captures the feeling of the album). He's willing to show you what he's done, what he's proud of and where he fucked up, all while boasting of a sense a pride, because he hasn't chosen the easy way in life (or, more precisely, life hasn't chosen an easy way for him). Freddie knows that he's been a bad boy, but he is also aware of the fact that feeling even the slightest sense of remorse will make him look weak. It's the story of a talented man crawling his way out of the streets that made him cold and ruthless, but at the same time hardened him enough to face the legit world that's filled with backstabbers and dishonest people. This thing has been done a thousand times now and modern hip-hop has pretty much moved away from this trope, but Freddie's story telling abilities and cold, yet humorous and deliciously sarcastic remarks about this particular life style make up for it. There are some songs that focus more on what he is now than what made him the way he is, like Lakers and Knicks, but the introspective parts is where he really shines - Broken, where he talks about being broke and coming from a broken home, and Deeper, a song about this girl he was in love with that matured beyond him and decided she wanted to date a more ''square guy'', as he bitterly puts it.
Madlib's genius production provides Freddie with the perfect platform to spit his grim rhymes. The jazzy beats and funky rhythms give Freddie's introspective rhymes weight and turns what would have potentially been a generic gangsta album into an obligatory listen for every wrinkled stone-cold gangsta that is tired of hustiln' and gang bangin' his way into the grave. Piñata is probably the closest hip-hop has gotten to recreating a noire, almost cinematic aesthetic, and having Freddie, a man that has lived most of his life on the streets, as its protagonist makes it both powerful and absorbing.
I really hope this becomes a thing and more rappers will try to experiment with this style, because it would make for an awesome sub-genre of hip-hop. If it doesn't, well, we'll still have the best damn hip-hop album in recent memory.


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Key Internal Security Challenges from Communication networks and media
Mainstream as well as social media may create internal security problem in the form of terrorism by instilling fear and an uncertain future. Mass media can also propagate the ideas of the threatening bodies to internal security in many cases. At the same time, due to the convenience, affordability and broad reach of social media platforms like YouTube, Facebook and Twitter, terrorist groups have increasingly used social media to further their goals and spread their message. None of them are security threats by themselves but the users of these services can pose the threats by their anti-social endeavours.
All anti-government forces use at least one form of presence on the Internet and most of them are using all formats of up-to-date online platforms: e-mail, chat rooms, e-groups, forums, virtual message boards, and resources like You-Tube, Facebook, Twitter, and Google Earth.
Internet and Chat Rooms
Internet has become a platform for coordination of plans of attack, communication with cells, or propaganda and information and spread of hate campaign or messages that can hurt the sentiments of people. Key motivations for using internet for such uses are as follows:
- The audience is enormous, much larger than for most regular media. It is easy to access and to stay anonymous.
- It is incredibly fast and inexpensive, and it offers a multimedia environment, which means that text, graphics, video, songs, books, and presentations can all be combined.
- In addition, regular media now often report on or even copy Internet content, which means that both old and new media can be influenced by using the Internet.
- These groups now have their own websites where they can convey their propaganda and, for most of them, they advise their readers and followers not to trust the media which are seen as the enemy.
- The second goal is achieved more easily as the terrorist groups can form their agenda and give their own messages.
- Chat rooms and electronic forums enable the insurgent and extremists groups to communicate with members and supporters all over the world, to recruit new followers and to share information at little risk of identification by authorities.
- The chat service like Skype, which includes voice and video capabilities, has become particularly popular with terrorist cells.
Twitter and Social Networking
- Twitter has become an effective coordination tool for stirring riots and trying to launch the negative propaganda.
- Despite the utility of Twitter forum, members continued to be wary of networking sites such as Facebook.
- Popular social networking websites are another means of attracting potential members and followers.
- These types of virtual communities are growing increasingly popular all over the world, especially among younger demographics. Youths are especially targeted for propaganda, incitement and recruitment purposes by terrorist groups.
You-tube and other Video-sharing sites
- Terrorist groups have realized the potential of this easily accessed platform the uploading, downloading and viewing video tapes for the dissemination of their propaganda and radicalization videos.
- YouTube is argued to be an alternative to television and a medium that allows reaching massive, global audiences.
- The viral videos and false updates of communal clashes, riots and terrorists attack have created a massive impact in the life of public.
Encryption methods
- Encryption is the process of process of encoding messages or information in such a way that eavesdroppers cannot read it, but the intended recipient can.
- Use of BlackBerry phones/whats app to send and receive messages, concerns the government because the communications sent via such devices and applications are encrypted and could not be monitored and consequently hinders the country's efforts to fight terrorism and crime.
- The power of media and the process of public opinion formation in a free society had undergone radical change due to Internet and faster means of communications like SMS, whats app, viber and simplified mobile internet.
- The chain of events beginning with the clashes in our north-east and which caused very serious and mass exodus of north-east population from several Indian cities has revealed the fragility of our national cohesion.
- Serious law and order problems had started occurring well beyond the control of regulatory authorities when instant adverse opinion was formed.
Major Complicating Factors to secure the networks and Media
- Much of the hardware and software that make up the communications ecosystem is sourced externally.
- The task of securing the networks is also complicated by the fact that much of the infrastructure is in the hands of private companies who see measures such as security auditing and other regulations and frameworks as adding to their costs.
- Making local certification is not made mandatory.
- Source of Origin is difficult to find out.
Why Media and Advanced technologies Attract terrorists?
Media is used for moral justification, arousal of sympathy and intimidation of the public. The best way to persuade individuals to support one's cause is to create an emotional, psychological or intellectual bond with the victim.There are four general objectives for using the information technology when the extremists group strike or threaten to commit violence.
Gaining Attention and Awareness; Spreading Fear
- The first is to gain attention and awareness of the audience, and thus to condition the target population. Gaining attention is strongly linked to agenda setting.
- Terrorists are trying to be in the media as often and as long as possible, in order to become well known to the public.
Organisational Motives
- The second goal is recognition of the organization's motives. They want people to think about why they are carrying out attacks.
- The second objective is related both to agenda setting and framing. Not only do terrorists want to be known to the audience, they also want to try to get their message across through the media.
- Sometimes this can be achieved merely by carrying out attacks: the audience may ask itself why people would do such things, especially, for example, if suicide bombers are involved.
Gaining Respect
- The third objective is to gain the respect and sympathy of those in whose name they claim to attack. They want to show potential supporters that they can "deliver".
- When people who are perhaps mildly interested in the activities or ideas of a particular group see that that organization is actually able to have an impact on the legitimate political establishment.
- The people may become more respectful or sympathetic toward the terrorist cause or organization.
Gain status
- The last objective is to gain a quasi-legitimate status and a media treatment similar to that of legitimate political actors.
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The unfinished saga(still hoping for a release somehow of Act III). I know i touched on this before but Light Bearer(and Alex CF) is such a huge influence for me and my art. Not only in the visual aspect, even although they really are completely different styles. But the music and the album´s concept is something that really has gotten to me. Its the ultimate underdog story with so much depth.
When looking holding and looking at art like this i get so inspired to keep making art of my own. At the last picture you can see the sad 'adjutment' the postal service contributed to.
Morrow – Covenant Of Teeth Limited(200) Pre-order edition
As always when Alex CF is involved you get a fantastic atmosphere and depth and im not only talking ábout the music here. When you open this package its like a another world and it almost feels a bit magical when you listen to the album and looking through the included booklet. Damn i love the feeling of the paper the booklet was made of(wondering that type it is). This is a release where the LP truly adds the the experience of the music it self.


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13th St. Garden, "The Farm"
"The Farm" is a neighborhood garden which resulted from a union of landlust, interest in community gardening, and luck. For some years we had our eye on a thin strip of land along the railroad that was largely neglected except for a small vegetable and flower garden on one end. We managed to acquire the property in January of 2010 when the owner moved out of state and set to work creating a highly visible vegetable garden. We call it a neighborhood garden rather than a community garden because we own the land, but share some of the beds with others in our neighborhood. Our fellow Farm-ers help with general maintenance of the garden in return for their space, which makes the whole garden more manageable for us. We also all share produce among the gardeners, permitting people to specialize in one or more crops and to enable crop rotation. Five households, plus friends and colleagues enjoy the produce from just this one .15 acre plot. More vacant lots and large yards should be used this way!
The garden is fully occupied for 2015, but feel free to stop by for a tour if you see someone out working.
Garden Managers: Ethy and Steven Cannon
Garden address: Northeast corner of 13th and Ridgewood, Ames, IA


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The scent starts off with solar flowers. Freesia and frangipani blend into an enveloping white veil with milky vanilla. A sunny, modern facet from hesperidic notes combines with the salty notes of a sea breeze. A touch of iris at the heart gives the scent an ultrafeminine and refined feel that is completely Armani. The unique vibrancy of wood, together with ambrox, leaves a trail with an assertive personality.


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Bail set at $1 million for accused serial Riverbend bank robber
ALTON — A man charged last week with aggravated robbery and financial institution robbery in the Nov. 29 holdup of the U.S. Bank branch at 1520 Washington Ave. in Alton was charged Tuesday with four additional robberies and possession of a stolen motor vehicle.
Dandre R. Brown, 29, who lists addresses Godfrey and Granite City, was charged with robberies of Reliance Bank, 2810 Godfrey Road, Godfrey; Regions Bank, 347 W. Main St., East Alton; U.S. Bank, 1301 E. Edwardsville Road, Wood River; and First MidAmerica Credit Union, 1701 Troy Road, Edwardsville.
Brown is also charged with possession of a stolen 2005 Chrysler 300. Circuit Judge Kyle Napp set bail at $1 million.
Officers from Alton, the FBI and the U.S. Marshal's Office arrested Brown last week in Atlanta. Authorities at the time said Brown was a suspect in a total of five robberies.
Two Alton detectives flew to Atlanta to interview Brown about the Alton robbery, and they had case information with them on the four other holdups for questioning, Alton Police Chief Jason "Jake" Simmons said.
"These new charges filed today, in addition to the two filed last week, represent a whole lot of long hours, late nights and intrepid detective work by an outstanding, multi-jurisdictional team of dedicated professionals who would not rest until they apprehended the suspect and got him behind bars," Madison County State's Attorney Tom Gibbons said in a news release.
Gibbons said that, because of the number of cases, Brown could be sentenced to up to 100 years in prison, if convicted.
Reach reporter Sanford Schmidt at 618-208-6449.


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Good For Nothing
It seems that some individuals* chief goal in life is to be good for nothing. And they have succeeded, especially those who rejected Jesus. Even some believers seem to have that goal. Before we received Jesus and begin serving Him, in God*s eyes we were good for nothing. Goodness is twice named as the fruit of the Spirit. There is no spiritual goodness that comes from any other source but the Holy Spirit.
Galatians 5:22: But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,
Ephesians 5:9: (For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth;)
When we receive Jesus, the Holy Spirit comes into us and brings with Him goodness. It is goodness that worldlings cannot receive, cannot see and do not have.
John 14:17: Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.
Romans 8:9: But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.
When individuals receive Christ in my presence, they often exhibit perceivable goodness that was not there before. Before they received Jesus they were troubled and afterwards they were at peace. Before they were joyless and afterwards they were joyful. Before they received Jesus they didn*t love me and afterwards they did.
If there are individuals in your life that don*t love you, (that seem to be good for nothing) try sharing the gospel with them. They obviously need it. Before I received Jesus, I had a sense that I was good for nothing, even to myself. No wonder I was so often unhappy. If you sense that you are good for nothing, you are probably right. Receive Jesus and He will make you good for something. As a believer, when I sense that I am good for nothing, if I do something for the Lord I am good for something. It might be something very simple and easy like reading the Bible, praying or just remembering the Lord. If you are a believer who has a sense that you are good for nothing, you are probably right. Do something for the Lord and you will be good for something and you will know that you are.
Jeremiah 13:10: This evil people, which refuse to hear my words, which walk in the imagination of their heart, and walk after other gods, to serve them, and to worship them, shall even be as this girdle, which is good for nothing.
The Lord instructed Jeremiah to hide a girdle in a rock for many days after which the girdle was good for nothing.
Matthew 5:13: Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men.
Good-for-nothing salt is a description of believers who are not filled with the Spirit and who are walking in the flesh.
Care to discuss Good For Nothing with Ron?


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good day, other question, related this time to report. i'm trying to execute the "Survey Details" from Report Browser in Datawarehouse, selecting the survey, enabling the vague date and final to download select but i get this error:
general_errors.There was an SQL error: ERROR: cannot update view "cache_occurrences" DETAIL: Views that do not select from a single table or view are not automatically updatable. HINT: To enable updating the view, provide an INSTEAD OF UPDATE trigger or an unconditional ON UPDATE DO INSTEAD rule. - UPDATE "cache_occurrences" SET "downloaded_flag" = 'F' WHERE ("id" IN ('5169','5121','5122','5170','5123','5171','5124','5172','5125','5173','5126','5174','5127','5128','5129','5130','5131','5133','5134','5135','5136')) AND "downloaded_flag" = 'I'
is there anything i could fix on my own or any clues to make it work?
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The Dominica Economic Citizenship program offers citizenship to both families and individuals for an investment. This program was enacted in 1993 by law and can only be processed through agents that have been approved by the government.
The main reason it was implemented was to help the country's economy. It is part of Dominica's development plan, and the revenue that this program brings is used to channel local projects and struggling or stagnant programs.
Why choose Dominica?
This beautiful island is located between Guadeloupe and Martinique, which are both French territories. It is known as the Caribbean's Nature Island for a reason. Boasting the largest boiling lake in the world, waterfalls galore, National Parks, and 365 rivers, this island is an incomparable beauty. This is the perfect place for any international business, as Dominica has perfect weather 365 days of the year. Also, for those that apply for the Economic citizenship successfully, legitimate and fast passports and citizenship are granted by Dominica.
4 ways through which you can become a Dominica citizen
- Through your ancestry: If both or any one of your parents was born in Dominica, you will automatically be granted a citizenship.
- Your birthplace: If you're born in Dominica, you automatically become a citizen.
- By registering: If you've married a citizen of Dominica and have lived in the country for 5 years, or if you've been living in Dominica for more than 7 years, then you can apply for citizenship by registering for it.
- Through naturalization: This refers to getting a citizenship through other ways besides the ones already mentioned, the Economic Citizenship program and investing in real estate being examples of that.
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Advantages of having a Dominica Passport and citizenship
- You invest your money after the application has been approved.
- You're allowed to legally change your name.
- You won't have to denounce your other citizenship, as dual citizenship in Dominica is allowed.
- You won't need to reside in the country in order to become a citizen.
- You can travel freely; if you have a Dominica passport, you will not be persecuted because of your nationality, as Dominica is an island nation which is both economically and politically stable, as well as uncontroversial.
- Those that become naturalized citizens have the same rights as other citizens in Dominica.
- Having Dominica as your second citizenship would mean that any revenue that you may generate outside of the country would be free of taxes, meaning that it will neither be subjected to inheritance nor capital gains tax, making this a great legal way to decrease your taxes.
- The citizenship program is affordable.
- You will have a better choice of places to settle in.
- With a Dominica passport, you will be able to travel to more than 100 countries, visa free, and for the countries where visas are necessary, they can be easily obtained within only a day. The countries that you can visit without a visa include Hong Kong, Great Britain, Ireland, Switzerland, South Korea, and Liechtenstein.
- The citizenship application process is confidential.
- As a Dominica citizen, it becomes easier to obtain a residential permits in countries such as Switzerland, Monaco, United Kingdom, Andorra, Cayman Islands, other Caribbean countries, Bahamas, and Bermuda, because of the relationships that Dominica has with these countries.
- Once you become a citizen, the citizenship is for life.
- You will feel a sense of security with a Dominica passport, as having a dual citizenship means that you can easily flee the country during economic or political unrests without needing permission.
- You have the luxury to live in over 15 beautiful Caribbean Islands, all of which are part of the states of CARICOM.
Investment options for Economic Citizenship
- Single applicant (married or single): $100,000
- Family application 1 (applicant + spouse): $175,000
- Family application 2 (applicant + spouse + 2 children under the age of 18): $200,000; for every additional family member, an extra $50,000 is required
If, however, you do have a dependent above the age of 18, excluding your spouse, then you will have to pay $50,000 for that dependent.
The amount that the applicant paid is refunded in the scenario that the application is either rejected or withdrawn. However, those applications that are rejected in terms of fraudulent information or false declarations, are forfeited and are not refunded.
Investment through real estate
As of January 2014, another way of obtaining a Dominica citizenship is introduced, which is by investing in real estate. This is an opportunity for investors who are interested in purchasing real estate in Dominica to become its citizen through investment. In that way, not only do you obtain financial returns by investing in a business, but you also get to obtain a second citizenship at the same time.
However, the real estate that you purchase must be government-approved, and this property must also be held for at least 3 years. That stated, if the property was previously owned by someone who was also under the citizenship Program, then it will be eligible to be resold after 5 years.
- Minimum investment: $200,000
- Government fees: The main applicant will has to pay $50,000, while his/her spouse will have to pay $25,000. Also, $20,000 needs to be paid for every dependent below the age of 18. If the dependent is above the age of 18, however, then $50,000 will be required.
Other costs
There are also other costs that one will have to pay other than the investment fee. And these include:
- Processing fee: A non-refundable cost, it costs $3000 for every applicant.
- Due diligence: This will cost the main applicant $7500. The applicant's spouse will have to pay an additional $7500, and if they have any dependents aged 16 and above, an additional $4000 will be required per dependent.
These fees are applicable for both the Economic Citizenship program as well as the real estate program.
Applying for the citizenship
Before you begin applying, there are a few requirements that need to be met, such as having a clean personal record. This means that you will need to show a certificate that proves that you have no criminal records, etc. Also, you will need to show a thorough CV, flawless references, and business background information. These are required of every applicant without exceptions.
- Find an authorized agent, as these applications cannot be submitted directly and need handled by an agent instead.
- Your agent should assist you in preparing your documents. You need to submit all the necessary documentations in English. These documents include the official forms and documents of your medical examination.
- The agent then submits the application to the Dominica CBIU. Although there is no requirement for a mandatory interview, it may still be necessary at the government's discretion.
- Your application will be thoroughly looked into and verified. Your agent will then give you your letter, which will tell you whether or not your application has been successful.
- Only when your application is a success will CBIU instruct you to make the payment for the investment. CBIU will then need a proof of this investment, after which, they will issue a registration certificate.
- Your agent will use this certificate and apply for your Dominica passport.
Once the payment has been made, it is non-refundable. The application's processing time can take as less as 5 months, or as much as 14 months.
The necessary documentations
- A letter addressed to the Dominica Prime Minister stating your interest and desire in applying for citizenship. 2 completed copies of the application form (notarized) per person.
- Certified birth certificate copies for all family members.
- Certified passport copies.
- Police records from your country of residence and birth (if they are different) for every applicant that is 16 years of age or older. These records should include fingerprints.
- Wherever applicable, your certificate of marriage or of the dissolution of marriage will be necessary.
- 2 personal references.
- 1 professional reference.
- Letter of employment. But if you own a business, then you need a financial statement that is audited.
- A recommendation from the applicant's banker.
- For children between the ages of 16 and 18, you will need to ask your child's head of university/ school for a letter of recommendation.
- Recent returns from income tax.
- Detailed business background resume/ reports.
- Each applicant requires 8 passport sized photos.
- Notarized copies of college/university diplomas.
- Statutory declaration.
- Declaration of your main source of income.
- Medical reports.
- Notarized disclosure form.


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Disaster Rediness
The MCA has worked with Wellington Region Emergency Management Office to develop the Maungaraki Community Emergency Hub Guide.
This plan is to ensure that we can respond in the first 72 hours of a large emergency with little or no assistance from emergency services. For the plan to be successful we need as many people as possible to be familiar with it so please download it, read it and pop it into your emergency kit.
To get prepared for an Earthquake read the Earthquake Planning Guide.
For news and updates in an emergency check Wellington Region Emergency Management Office's Facebook Page.
Wellington Region Emergency Management have compiled a Community Resilience Strategy to help communities prepare for emergencies.
Neighbourhood Watch
Our close knit community does a good job of looking out for each other. If you hear of any burglaries or crime in the neighbourhood, please let the police know and notify the MCA so we can keep our community updated, help prevent and solve any crime. Let's keep Maungaraki safe for everyone.
Our nearest Police Station is located in Petone at 274 Jackson Street (04) 494 8400. Lower Hutt Police Station is located at 19 Kings Cresent, Lower Hutt (04) 560 2600.
Nearest AED
The nearest AED (Automated External Defibrillator) to Maungaraki is located at Z Hutt Road 24/7, 453 Hutt Road, Alicetown, Lower Hutt. Click for more AED locations. The MCA continues to work towards having an AED located in Maungaraki permanently.


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Nobel Prize Lecture of Eric Maskin
Followed by talk of blockchains and mechanism design by Jeff Coleman
Followed by talk of blockchains and mechanism design by Jeff Coleman
AlphaBots is any SSR process that is open to validation on the AlphaBlock. The process can be alpha agents like prediction markets or data scientists, or simply machines open to competing on the AlphaBlock. Competition is important for the accountability of an SSR process. Without the validation accountability any alpha process is simply a subjective claim of alpha without an objective proof.
The verifier's dilemma, which remains an open problem is another example of gaps in the current blockchain architecture and the consensus mechanism. There are of course workarounds with Ethereum's smart contract while bitcoin suffers and continues to fork. However, the problem here is bigger and not just about Turing-complete scripts, increased DoS attacks and fiddling with gas limits. The bigger problem is still the unidirectional computation focus, disconnection of a transaction value from the miner's fee and the currency which works more as an asset and will continue to oscillate in periods of up and down value. Though probabilistic thinking and approximate verifiability are steps in the right direction they don't address the bigger problems mentioned above. The odd coincidence is the need of non-transparency. Writing blocks in a sequence which involves non-transparency is a circuitous way of reaching the same goal which AlphaBlock's predictive transaction offers. We understand that the change can't happen overnight, but non-transparency and smart contract application are heartening steps.
Seminal paper on 'Verifier's dilemma'
Modern finance is built on linear regression. Hence Asness's textbook use of linear regression is brilliant because simplicity is powerful. He uses Aristotelian logic to elegantly bring out the information content buried in hedge fund performance.
Fred Ehrsam, I would frame the problem differently. The need is not just for creating most powerful artificial intelligences, it is about redesigning the marketplace that can nurture such an ecosystem. The marketplace cannot be taken for granted. A poorly designed marketplace means poor AI, even if we assume that the state of AI today is structurally stable.
As intelligence moves from arbitrary and erratic patterns of human discretionary knowledge-building toward a more systematic and organic AI, there is a need for a new market mechanism to validate, distribute, and reward intelligent processes. Such an intelligent market is built on a systematic, scientific, replicable (SSR) process that is objective, accountable and can be validated and used by the community. This general intelligence or "alpha" should be content-agnostic and context-focused - an alpha process reconfiguring the block of the blockchain into 'AlphaBlock', an intelligent market mechanism. Alpha prediction has conventionally been associated with domain-specific content and is known to be predictive systems that are non-replicable and are mostly non-scientific. The author defines a General AI predictive process that can be fused into the blockchain block, transforming the blockchain into a multi-purpose predictive tool which self-builds, self-protects, and self-validates. AlphaBlock becomes the essence of everything linked with data predictability, evolving into an intelligence layer on the blockchain and the web. It is a predictive ecosystem which blurs the distinction between financial and non-financial data - ultimately removing barriers between financial and services markets. The blockchain can achieve this evolved state and become an intelligent market state if it crosses three key hurdles: First, it securitizes blockchain assets and creates new alternative assets and asset classes. Second, it resolves the incapability of conventional finance to understand risk effectively and enhances return per unit of risk (outperform the market) using a General AI process. Third, it must offer a better mechanism to address currency risk than what is offered by the existing fiat currencies and cryptocurrencies.
While the world seems to have a solution for every problem, an app for everything, one simple problem about Bubbles and Crisis bother no one. How to make bubbles less bubbly and crisis less severe. We are so busy counting our crypto wealth, it does not bother us whether the wealth is here tomorrow and gone tomorrow. We write stories about how Google sentiment drives bitcoin prices or vice versa, unaware of the fact that a few decades ago we were wondering whether the sunspots used to lead the economic cycle or vice versa. The fragmented nature of our research and markets and focus on causality is the reason we are happy betting on alpha as alphabets rule the world and not focus on alphabots that allow disruption for the general good.
The recent paper "Why Indexing works" [1] gives a probabilistic explanation of the futility of the Active process and why Passive Indexing is hard to beat. For every 1000 people who read the Wall Street Journal, maybe 10 read the Bloomberg Markets (BM) magazine and for every 10 who read the last month's issue of BM maybe 1 read this research paper cited in the article [2]. And you don't need a geologist to tell you that the chances to dig and find are small. This is why making a mathematical case against the underperformance of the USD 16 trillion plus active market using hypothetical probabilities is not easy.
AI is excited about jumping cats, How come AI can not solve the US 100 trillion investment management which can not beat the benchmark? The answers I got. The cat is important not the benchmark. AI needs to take small steps. Solving Cancer more important than beating the benchmark. Driverless cars more important focus. We don't have another financial crisis to ask that question.
Finance is a key milestone for AI. Imagine coming back from vacation and talking to your virtual assistant about your investment portfolio and wondering how she does it, quarter after quarter, year after year. Managing money is the real test for human AI. It has to talk, it has to think, it has to have intuition and it has to make money. Despite the AI Game successes, there is no AI player with such capability today and it's unclear whether brain emulation under Strong AI is the preferred direction for achieving human AI. This paper uses a historical context to explain why it maybe time to denounce social systems, embrace system thinking, and explore simple ideas like computational linguistics to explore technologies that can teach computers to talk, think, assimilate knowledge and hence also manage money. Such technologies should set up the foundation for Web 4.0.
Finance does not understand the physics of preferential attachment. According to Taleb, the intuitively appealing preferential attachment is incomplete. This is a tragedy for his 'Black Swan' because preferential attachment is the other name for 'Rich Get Richer'. Taleb bases his philosophy of randomness on the non-normal power law behavior which is also another way of looking at 'Rich Get Richer' mathematics.
The two Nobel Prizes awarded in Economics in 1990 [1] and 2013 [2] define the boundaries of Modern Portfolio Theory (MPT). Size is the pillar for both the models. The 1990 winners assumed market to be driven by Market Capitalization (MCAP) [3] size, while the 2013 winner explained that factors like 'Small Size' [4] can explain portfolio performance better than 'Big Size' [5]. This conflict between the two ideas has bifurcated the industry into benchmark investing (MCAP) [6] and everything else not MCAP (Smart Beta) [7]. The fact that benchmark investing and smart beta is expected to be 50% of the USD 100 trillion investment management industry in 2020 [8] makes it imperative to seek a coherent argument and a conflict resolution.
When you make a big claim, you have to be careful. This is the lesson hardest to learn. I am still learning it. My stock market education helped me a lot. The one thing it always taught me was to be ready for a surprise. It happened again today, as markets got Trumped. The idea of frequent outliers is hard to grasp because humans herd. It gives us comfort to herd but that's the only way the society can function. It has to form clusters and then burst them. The only way for life to continue is by surprises. The role of uncertainty is so critical when it comes to system functioning. This is why sticking your neck out is a dangerous way to live. Nobody can tell you this better than stock market forecasters. The pundit to disrepute journey is very uplifting and humbling. Anyway, a failed forecast is good for system building as it forces us to go back to the drawing board and look into our systems. Hence there is a positive flip side to every surprise.
Standing against the establishment, having a voice and speaking up needs courage. This is what you did. You spoke up against the industry which started the first Mutual Fund in 1775. Bloomberg calls it a revolution, you call it a revolution, Wall Street Journal is calling it differently, but that does not matter. Mutual Funds are in a descent. Stock Pickers might still continue to follow Graham and Dodd approach, but the facts are overwhelming. If an institution can't beat the index then it is wasting resources.
Though 'Size' is the most important factor explaining stock market returns, the possibility of size being a proxy was first mentioned in Banz (1978). Even after forty years of factor investing the industry is still looking for answers. This paper chronologically lists the research on 'Size' and why the question regarding 'The Size Proxy' has never been so relevant.
Before we talk about Blockchain disruption, let us talk about the implosion happening on Wall Street. The Realization that stock picking is dead [1] after decades of Active underperformance [2] has made beating the market an adventure sport, where only a few succeed. There was only one Peter Lynch [3], the active management is set to become 65% of the overall market [4], the high fees are gone [5] and if this was all not enough we have the 'Do Nothing Strategy' from Nevada's Pension Fund Manager, Steve Edmundson who slashed the fee for external managers by nearly a 10th from an average USD 120 million to USD 18 million [6]. All this leaves little for the yachts and barely little for the golf club. Above all this, the technology is killing the incentive to make markets. It is the rise of the 'Buy Side' [7] and Virtu's of the world, which never lose [8]. Basically, the party is over.
If you can explain your money management innovation (rule-based portfolios) to your mom, it is golden. My mom gets it. Succeeding in selling and marketing a new financial innovation just like any other innovation will be about design. If it is not intuitive, no overselling, branding and marketing money is going to stop the jumping from the ship.
Investment management which is worth USD 70 trillion can be seen like a fruit basket. The job of the fund manager was to select the fruits from the market and sell it to the investor. Global pensions are a part of this pool. Despite the important role fund managers play, there is a lot of confusion regarding financial theories and lack of standardization between investment management practices. Investment solutions are primarily for a rising market. There are limited solutions for a falling market. The investment solutions are primarily equity focussed. There are no standardized metrics to look at all asset classes together i.e. equities, commodities, bonds, currencies, alternatives. Academic thinking is also very equity focussed. 'Size' the most important factor explaining stock market returns is not understood well. The lack of standardization, solutions for an up trended market, equity skew is the 'Fruit Basket Paradox', a term that explains the fragmented nature of financial theories and the circular argument that rots the investment management business today.
The rich do not always get richer. Explaining this probabilistically resolves a 100-year-old puzzle, opening up opportunities for smart beta portfolios, an architecture of complexity and eventually an architecture of data that could become Web 4.0.
Ok! advisors might be inefficient but is it enough reason for the media wave against them. Agreed that evolution has to happen, and after the industry restructured broking, sized up researchers, and the equity sales, maybe it's time to disrupt advising. One may argue that somebody has to take the responsibility for underperformance netted for a fee, so maybe it's time for retribution for advisors. But before we choose the robots over the advisors, and see passive investing as a solution for all investing, maybe we need another perspective.


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Just so you're aware, Sifu... I tried to give your dad some money at the airport, what would have amounted to about half of what he spent this weekend on our event. He would not accept it, and acted insulted that I even offered. I totally understand this. This kind of generosity is very familiar to me. It reminds me of Blackfoot culture here at home. The challenge is for all of us to find ways to demonstrate our own sacrifices out of caring for one another's development. There are many ways this kind of commitment can be expressedReplyDelete
I'm still trying to understand the thought process myself. I don't know if it is ego based or what. When I think about people who are rich, they may feel a sense of superiority over others who are poor and it gives them an ego trip when they feel that many people are dependent on them financially for happiness.
As for the case of my father, he is just a very giving person, but as stated, the money is not just his, it is my mothers as well, so it is not just his decision. So the best solution is for in future events where this happens again, people pay for their part towards me & I will give the money to my mother and have her take part in the decision, if she does not accept, I will use that money towards the benefit of the kwoon as a whole.
The money can be used to host future events but I also see that it should be distributed towards those who have put extra efforts to help better the kwoon. Those who have brought others in or helped market the kwoon like how Todai Ai had written that article, to those who are very active on the blog, to those who help teach, to those like Todai Daoming who had organized the Fan Dancing event, to those who have placed a greater part of their heart into this kwoon. Not everybody should be paid for, I see that extra effort has to be placed in order to receive that benefit.
I spoke with Sigung Sunday Morning as he asked me if I enjoyed e meal, and ofcourse I told him we all did. I expressed to him that he did not have to pay the bill, but like Ryan said he genuinely was just so grateful that he has us to motivate him, and that we're here to support Sifu.
I did tell him that we (or myself) will pay him back some way, and I didn't say in means of cash, because I know he would not accept it. He wasn't offended by it, he just kept telling me not to worry. I thanked Grandma Lee right away on Saturday too
ofcourse, and until then I'll be thinking of some way to return the favor.
Overall, great weekend though! Performing in public spaces sounds like a great trend to contiue when the weather gets warmer. The article has helped me gage interest in few my sisters *cross fingers* a few showed interest in fan dancing
event on April. I'm rarely on fb, but when I do it's usually to promote for FMK.
The event was amazing and I definitely plan on conducting our training outdoors in high traffic areas when the whether gets better in order to market and promote while we exercise. I am looking forward to the weather getting nicer. All your marketing efforts for FMK is highly appreciated. Thanks to you, Zhen and Kiew are here with us! And your thank you speech was very heartfelt.
Sifu, I agree that the bill should be split in the future. If I can chip in, I would be more than happy to :)
Jenny, Thank you so much for the kind words!! It really does encourage me to hear that I am not only building myself internally but also affecting the kwoon and my fellow todais. That's what makes FMK so different than any other school I've been to. You all have been so welcoming to me and so willing to train with me.. It makes me want to try harder. I see the standard that is upheld and I want to strive to achieve it like everyone else I train with. The way I see it is this, everyone in life is given their own set of challenges. The purpose of their life then becomes overcoming those challenges for the greater good and in order to effect the world around them. My challenge is quite obvious, yet in FMK, I am treated as an equal. There are no words for how that makes me feel inside and how much harder I want to work to better the kwoon as a whole in result. Thank you for teaching me.


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The internet is a tool of communication – of information and ideas. It is also brimming with conflicting opinions and seemingly useless (yet nonetheless entertaining) videos. With one wrong step you can be met by trolls, another can lead you down a dark, and seemingly endless video hole. I succumb daily to video after video of kittens, trick shots, and food porn. It is an internal conflict – but one that I gave up trying to fight some time ago. The Internet is the battleground of debate, not simply as the medium through which the debate takes place, but also as the subject of debate. It is – and will continue to be – a subject of discussion within anthropology; from Chikako Ozawa-de Silva's ethnography of online suicide forums in Japan; to blogs like this on the role of the internet and fieldwork. In a discipline where it takes substantial time (fieldwork, transcription, analysis, write-up) to publish, the Internet is utilised as a medium through which many anthropologists are able to publish more frequently. The precedence this sets however, is not without opposition. But this is not what I wish to speak about. This blog is about the role of the Internet in my recent fieldwork. More specifically, about the Internet as a tool for recruiting participants. A gatekeeper to the gatekeeper so to speak.
The Internet has been extremely important for my current research, which focuses on suicide prevention in New Zealand. Suicide, understandably, can be tough to speak about. Talking to friends and family about my research often receives the same reaction – one that I have seen time and time again. First comes the look of surprise, an uncomfortable joke, and then an acknowledgement that it must be difficult to listen to people's stories again and again. Don't get me wrong, it is difficult. And because of this, I presumed it would be difficult to enter a field filled with stories of despair, anger, and confusion.
In preparation for my research, I created a website and Facebook page, The Existential Elephant. It was intended as a place to share and perhaps help shape my ideas, but when I began my fieldwork four months ago, little did I know my field had already been created – I had unknowingly stepped into my participants' world. My task was to realise it.
Near the beginning of my fieldwork I took a weekend trip up the coast, thinking I would be able to come back on Monday with fresh eyes and fresh ideas. The day I left on my trip, however, I received Facebook messages from three mothers, whose sons had all died by suicide. This startled me, both because I was hoping to keep my research in a dark, isolated corner of my mind, but also because I was pleased that I had already found three participants from a group that I thought would be largely inaccessible. The following day I was contacted by three more who also have experience with suicide; the next day, another two. In less than a week I had been contacted by, or put in contact with, 12 participants, all willing and wanting to speak to me about their experiences with suicide. These people are from all over the country – Auckland, Hamilton, the Hawke's Bay; down to Dunedin. I was a little confused as to how my name was getting around – and at such a rate of knots. It was down to the Internet.
My name and the details of my research were making their way through online communities and networks of those bereaved by suicide. These 'suicide bereaved networks' were used to make therapeutic connections with others who had lost loved ones to suicide. They were run via Facebook, with titles espousing both hope and loss. On these sites people trade their stories, sharing empathetic and compassionate words, and voicing their dissatisfaction with the system that had been charged with the care of their son, mother, or husband.
The role of the Internet in facilitating these online communities is profoundly significant. It has allowed those bereaved to create communities based on a topic that more often than not hides behind a veil of secrecy – the suicide taboo. Something that through the course of my fieldwork my participants have since portrayed to me as something they feel very keenly, particularly in smaller communities where news travels fast. The isolation felt by those bereaved by suicide can be transcended by online communication. After coming across these networks, of which there are many, it became obvious as to why I had been contacted by people not restricted by any geographical locale. These networks truly functioned at a national level. For my participants, the Internet has thus been an extremely powerful actor in their lives, and in their healing.
For the ethnographer, the Internet as a fieldsite must be treated as any other geographically-defined, temporally-defined, or institutionally-defined site. The communities that are created online do not limit themselves to online communication, they too visit one another if space and time permits, they call one another, and they at times congregate in social or political gatherings. Therefore, rather than treating the Internet and online communities with skepticism or allowing them to be dropped down the hierarchy of 'true' fieldsites, we must acknowledge the salience and pertinence of the Internet as a socio-politico-cultural space where people hold a position.
Tom Loffhagen is an MA student in Cultural Anthropology at VUW. His research focuses on preventative care of suicidality in New Zealand, examining the tensions and contradictions visible at the intersections between professional and intimate care.


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Ashington FC manager Steve Harmison praised his players, despite being on the wrong end of a 2-1 defeat by defending league champions Marske United at Woodhorn Lane on Thursday night.
Harmison said: "The work rate, effort, desire and will to work for each other was excellent.
"That is the best the team have started for a long, long time, and they played some lovely football.
"I was excited to see the side I put out and was over the moon at the end with the way they played, bearing in mind I couldn't call upon Andrew Johnson, Michael Dixon, Andrew Bulford, Ryan Bell, Ben Harmison and Paul Dunn – and apart from Bell who has just recently joined us, that is a big chunk of people who have played a lot of games for us this season."
After James Harmison had opened the scoring, the Colliers were pegged back when Connor Hood equalised.
Nathan Mulligan netted the winner from the penalty spot in an incident which saw home keeper Conor Grant sent off.
"We had three or four good chances in the first half, but things didn't go our way with good blocks by Marske," he added.
"I thought it was an end to end good game of football and I really enjoyed it, but it got a bit feisty by the penalty decision.
"Whether it was a mistake or not, Matty Grieve is standing behind Conor Grant and Conor is adamant that it wasn't a red card.
"I looked at players' reaction and at the time they tell me it wasn't a red card either.
"Then at the end when the ball clearly hit the Marske player's hand in the penalty area, again instinct reaction from players tells you what they believe the decision should be."
He continued: "The last few weeks we have been a very tough team to play against, and in the last couple of minutes, Marske, the reigning champions who are still fighting for the league, were keeping the ball in the corner when we have got ten men and a centre forward in goal. That tells you how hard and how well Ashington worked."


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The game takes place in the country of Mythgard, where the protagonist, The Jewel Master must traverse the harsh lands ranging from scorching deserts to rugged mountains and through long forgotten ruins to collect the 12 elemental rings and save Mythgard from the clutches of the Demon King, Jardine the Mad.
The game is a side-scrolling action-adventure. It introduces the ability to constantly customize your attacks and movement styles through various equippable rings. Using the "A" and "B" buttons as his left and right hands, you can then equip two rings to the corresponding hand. The "C" button is used for jumping.
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The company needs to choose perfect virtual assistants and track its time and its productivity. The variety of services by a virtual assistant is unexplored. The responsibility of this includes response your call, updating your sites, producing official files and social networking websites, organizing and arranging conferences and meetings, managing SEO and SEM projects and an endless list.
The advantages of Virtual Assistant Services make it even more popular. There are merits and demerits in everything and so with a virtual assistant however the benefits of these services represent only cons which you cannot get any physical conference with the individual working for you. So, it called like virtual employees. In virtual professional you don't need to provide insurance and health benefits of its. The source of contact is Pone, email, fax or other communications.
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Gant, Norman L.Visitation:Date: May 5, 2012 Time: 6:00 to 7:00 PM Visitation Location:Sheldon Funeral Home, El Dorado SpringsService: Date: May 6, 2012 Time: 2:00 PM Service Location:First Baptist Church, El Dorado SpringsInterment:El Dorado Springs City Cemetery
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Norman proudly served in the US Army during the Korean Conflict from January 25, 1955 to January 24, 1958.
At the age of ten, Norman was baptized at a First Baptist Church in Oklahoma. He attended the First Baptist Church in El Dorado Springs and was a team member for worship services at the nursing home on Sunday mornings. He found great comfort knowing where he was going when he passed away.
Norman raised five children while living in Oklahoma and Colorado but found his true hometown in El Dorado Springs, Missouri, where he never met a stranger. He started his plumbing business there and made countless friends over the years. He loved living on the farm and sitting on his deck overlooking his pond.
Norman was preceded in death by his parents, Cleo and Edna Gant, brothers, Gene and Wayne Allen Gant and first wife of 52 years, Sandra Gant.
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Well, I found a blog that's challenge was exactly that: Christmas In June. I have a few boxes stuffed with Christmas supplies, so I decided to join in & create something for the holiday.
This is different than my normal creations as I made the base 4"x4", or what is known as a "fat page."
It has lots of warm gold colors with plenty of shine & sparkle, which is my favorite - I am a magpie after all!
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The influence of media in learning has provided basis for researchers and practitioners to a quest towards certain targeted media where learning experience is determined by the active interaction between media and the learners. It is still a quest because research about media and instructional technology which related to media studies has yet providing consistent findings about the effect of media to learning. Several research present findings that support positive effect from media while several others did otherwise: the absence of effect to learning or even the presence of the negative effect to learning.
Surrounding the inconsistent notion from previous and current research as such will give us a flashback to a sharp debate between Richard Clark and Robert. B. Kozma. What is interesting in this debate is how Clark through his published first article Reconsidering Research on Learning from Media in 1983 started his hypothesis that media does not influence learning. Eight years later in 1991, Kozma responded to Clark's claims through his article entitled Learning with Media where he summarized research related to "media attributes working in conjunction with learning methods to influence the way learner's information processing (Clark 2001, p. 137 – 138). From here, Kozma elaborated his key ideas that media has evolved in such away where it gives a whole new paradigm to learning where he further expands Clark's previous claim into a more context-based question "in what ways can we use the capabilities of media to influence learning for particular students, tasks, and situation? (Clark 2001, p. 195)"
Along with the development of technology and its variety of application in learning combined with how the new paradigm of learning has been evolving as new generation termed as digital natives have contributed to how teaching and learning in the 21st century is being practiced, I personally believe that the influence of media is no longer a "vehicle" as what Clark aforementioned, in fact, it has become an active formula that has vastly infused as a complementary instrument towards learning. According to Jonassen, et al (1999) and Hede (2002) asserts that if a channel serves a function as a complementary instrument towards the delivered information, it indicates to the learning improvement. Adding to that, Kozma emphasizes on learning as the active process that enables media to interact with learners in compliance with the instructional strategy/method to construct knowledge. In advance, Kozma points out to the ability of learners in actively managing their learning process by extracting information stored in long term memory and integrating new information with it to construct knowledge (Clark, 2001).
Redefining the media effect to learning, we need to, as well, redefine the way this issue is perceived. The way the media is perceived as to having effect and influence in learning is by having a notion from Kozma's view that "various aspects of the learning process are influenced by the cognitively relevant characteristics of media: their technologies, symbol systems, and processing capabilities" (Clark, 2001, p. 170). Concurrently, these media characteristics are assistive elements in which they describe and distinguish it from variety of media where media users associate and interact to help them constructing a mental model for each of the information existing in their knowledge as what Kozma (1991) has formulated in his study:
"Learning with media [is] a complementary process within which representations are constructed and procedures performed, sometimes by the learner and sometimes by the medium." Media embody certain characteristics that "interact with learner and task characteristics to influence the . . . structure, formation, and modification of mental models." (p. 179).
Following this framework, particular media formats (e.g., books and magazines, video media, computer software, and multimedia) possess particular characteristics that make them both more and less suitable for the accomplishment of certain kinds of learning tasks. It is through these characteristics that learning has not just been influenced but also transforming the capabilities of a particular medium to create variety of learning experience that can interact and facilitate with variety of learner's characteristics. Therefore, Kozma contends that learner processes information in different ways and the characteristics of a medium can facilitate that process depending on the medium, task, and learner's preferences.
As to illustrate the interaction between media and learners/users, there are three prominent medium used nowadays to assist learners in learning – book, television, and computer & multimedia. Each of these medium has unique characteristics from which technology, symbol system, and processing capabilities reside. Therefore, these determinants will create a form of interaction that proves its active capability to interact with learners in learning.
A book as a medium of learning is primarily characterized by stability (as technology); printed text, pictures, and graphics (as symbol systems); and reading (as the specific processing capability). Constructed by these features as a medium, book is able to provide a form of interaction where learners assimilate new information by reading through printed text, pictures, and graphics in a stable manner. This stability has significant implication to the way learners who have little prior knowledge of the topic, process the information – giving aids in constructing meaning and elaborating mental model (Bazerman, 1985). Likewise, according to Pressley (1979), the stability of the medium allows the kind of serial, sequential, back-and forth processing between specific information in the text and components of the pictures that facilitates the construction and elaboration of mental models.
Compared to a book, television enables learners to give various and unpredictable ways of responding through attention pacing. Several researches indicate that visual attention increases from very low levels during infancy to a maximum in the late elementary school years and that the nature of this attention is influenced by several factors (Anderson, 1986). As equally important, learners are able to interact with processing capabilities that television has: audio and visual cues (audio and sound effects – auditory changes; visual effect – pan, zoom, colors; etc). As an example, man's voices heard from a television may be perceived as having an adult-oriented content and therefore less interesting and meaningful to children compared to funny audio sound or childlike voices (Huston & Wright, 1983).
Conversely, television has another case when it comes to its effect on learning. As a medium, television has certain characteristics that prominently provide another genre of interaction procession with learners that may affect their cognitive structures and processes: the symbol system and its transient nature in which it gives different effect to way learners creating their mental representation. In this way, Greeno (1986) explains the effect of transient nature of television with mental modeling of learners:
Mental models are themselves dynamic, since they include mechanisms for moving from one representation of information to another. Because of this dynamism, the moving, transient nature of video presentations may help learners build the dynamic properties of their mental models.
Different from the previous two mediums, computer has wider range of features where it can interact with learners in a higher level – the ability to process symbol and symbol system.
Dickson further describes how computer "proceduralizes" information:
A computer can operate on symbols according to specified rules: for example, it can rotate a graphic object on the screen according to the laws of physics. Through both functions, a computer can help students construct links between symbolic domains—like graphs and equations—and the real-world phenomena they represent. So it is the processing capabilities of the computer, rather than its symbol systems per se, that enable this medium to make its primary contribution to students' construction of their mental models (1985).
In other words, computer is a medium whose characteristics are able to help learners making connection with real-world situation. What is more, as what Larkin has reported in the field of Physics, computer's characteristics as a medium happens to assist novice learners to build and refine mental models to be more like those of experts (1980). Thus, the processing capabilities of the computer can influence the mental representations and cognitive processes of learners. Their transformation capabilities can connect symbolic expressions (such as graphs) to the actual world. Their proceduralizing capabilities can allow students to manipulate dynamic, symbolic representations of abstract, formal constructs that are frequently missing from their mental models in order to construct more accurate and complete mental representations of complex phenomena.
Observing today's media mainstream, multimedia is more prevalent in use and practices for learning and educational purposes as "summarizing" the media effect in learning presented by its predecessors such as book, television, or computer. To put it another way, multimedia has become a new form of media where variety of media are used, collaborated, and combined as a response to the ubiquitous information in digital era as it is now. In specific, Spiro & Jehng (1990) describe the distinctive characteristics of multimedia that is capable of interacting with learners:
Hypermedia shares the technology and symbol systems of interactive video environments but embodies processing capabilities that suggest an important difference for learning. The nonlinearity of hypermedia—that is, the capability of this technology to allow learners to create associational links within and across text, images, and other symbol systems—facilitates cognitive flexibility to allow a topic to be explored in multiple ways using a number of different concepts and themes.
The exploration of using multimedia/hypermedia as an assistive medium to facilitate learners is expected to result in the development of integrated and flexible knowledge structures. In fact, Richard E. Mayer's cognitive theory of multimedia learning suggests that the process of selecting, organizing, and integrating as basic kinds of cognitive process will result in meaningful learning because learners seek to make sense of the material presented by building coherent mental representation in which multimedia enables them to use various cognitive coding system to represent knowledge, such as verbal and pictorial knowledge representation (1996, 1997, 2001).
Across the bridge of this media debate, there are two claims provided by Wilbur Schramm (1977) and Howard Levie (1973) in which both agree that media have differential economic benefits but no learning benefits and that learning is influenced more by the content and instructional strategy in a medium than by the type of the medium. Referring to this viewpoint, it seems to me that Clark and other supporters in no-media effect have positioned themselves in a way that instructional methods are different from instructional media. Whereas Kozma and his followers in media-has-effects have juxtaposed instructional methods and media as a complimentary unit that is interconnected and interact to one and another in a way that it affects learning.
Other than viewing media as a vehicle or medical action, I would rather perceive instructional method and media as a painting or sculpture. In a painting, the choice of medium is significant to meet the desired look of the painting – canvas, papers, wood, cloth, etc. This choice of medium will then determine what attributes used to create a picture/pattern – acrylic, dry pastel, ink, oil, spray, water color-based paint, etc. Certainly that every attribute will response differently towards the medium as well as the medium does. Therefore, to create the desired form of painting that meet the need of say, a client, an artist should realize that the result of his/her painting will be determined by the type of medium, the attributes of apparatus (paint, color), and the painting itself (nature, self-portrait, abstract, etc). The same fashion goes the same with sculpture: the medium affects the way the sculpture is treated within the level of enjoyment (outdoor, indoor, placed on the shelf, on a table, etc).
This way of viewing media effect where the type of media do influence learning goes along Kozma (1991), Bazerman (1985), Pressley (1979), Huston & Wright (1983), Greeno (1986), Spiro & Jehng (1990), Larkin (1980), Anderson (1986), Dickson (1985) and Mayer (1996, 1997, 2001) in which all of them agree upon the notion that media type interact with learners in a way that it serves as a medium to create mental model/representation that in turns helping learners to construct knowledge and comprehension towards particular information.
In brief, media is beneficial to the way learners transform their abstract ideas into concrete and meaningful information and knowledge.
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Wall of Honor & Bronzes
The moment you approach the museum, you are greeted by the beautiful, larger-than-life bronze statues of history-making American Quarter Horses. Spend time reflecting outside at the Wall of Honor Plaza, honoring and memorializing the horses and people who've paved the way for the American Quarter Horse. The Wall of Honor welcomes visitors to the Hall of Fame from two unique perspectives. From the east, a light sculpture displays a herd of running American Quarter Horses; from the west, granite bricks preserve and pay tribute to the people and horses meaningful to generous donors.
The Grand Hall
The Grand Hall houses the legends of American Quarter Horse history: the people and horses inducted into the American Quarter Horse Hall of Fame who have paved the way for the future. Designed to showcase these horses and humans, the majestic space, features soaring rock columns and intricately etched bloodlines in the floor. The front of the room welcomes you with an impressive emblem depicting the American Quarter Horse and adds to the breathtaking setting.
Joni Hegel Education Gallery
The joys of owning a horse can be experienced by kids of all ages through hands-on learning in the education gallery. Watch and listen to the colorful banter between "Doc" the veterinarian and "Two Bits" the horse as Two Bits makes a visit to Doc's office. Here, visitors can touch real tack and all the tools needed to keep a horse healthy. Want to know what makes an American Quarter Horse's physique unique? Try out the moving x-ray exhibit!
Ken & Laina Banks Theater
Watch the history of the American Quarter Horse unfold in a 10 minute film in the Ken & Laina Banks Theater. In this film, visitors learn more about the breed and his many roles in today's world, from a work partner on the ranch to an athlete on the racetrack or in the show arena. The theater also displays a collection of Orren Mixer paintings. Mixer was once commissioned to paint the ideal American Quarter Horse and went on to paint portraits of many of the American Quarter Horses who now live on in the Hall of Fame.
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Journey through a timeline of the history of the American Quarter Horse and discover the role each inductee played in the preservation and promotion of the breed. Get an intimate look at each of these legends by viewing personal items from inductees such as Joe Kirk Fulton, the first mounted mascot for Texas Tech University, or Rugged Lark who served as an equine event ambassador to the 1996 Olympics.
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Located at the threshold of the Hall of Fame Timeline Exhibit is the Champions' Gallery. This state-of-the-art multimedia area lets you relive the American Quarter Horse World Championship Shows and American Quarter Horse racing action that made champions.
Reading Room
Designed to share the rich history of our horses and the people who made them great, the Reading Room is a tranquil place and is made available to museum visitors upon request. Here an individual or small group can sit and read comfortably in an elegant, western atmosphere.
Thanks to the generosity of Margaret Haines, Morrison, Illinois, the American Quarter Horse Hall of Fame & Museum provides hundreds of collected books for your enjoyment and learning. These books, some of which are rare, span subjects such as the settlement of the western frontier, stories of the cowboys and Indians and the horses they rode. The Reading Room provides a full collection of American Quarter Horse Stud Books and bound copies of The American Quarter Horse Journal, The American Quarter Horse Racing Journal and America's Horse.
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How Tough Are You?
Sure we make ourselves "tougher" physically by putting ourselves through a few workouts each week, but that stuff is all surficial. I'm not saying it's not a great end goal to want to shape your physical attributes and make yourself healthier doing it, but the longer I workout the more I realize the value of challenging myself mentally.
It should come as no surprise that one's mind will give up far quicker than one's body. I've been there many times. My sneaky mind starts to tell me things like, "why are you doing this? You're already fit enough aren't you?" or "you don't HAVE to do all those reps, no one is counting them and no one will know."
We love to push you as coaches, but sometimes we hold back when we see you suffering through a tough workout. Why? Because we want you to learn how to challenge yourself too. I argue that's what will make you truly "tough". Train your mind like you train your body and not only will you improve in the gym, but when life has something harsh to throw at you (and believe me, it will from time to time) you'll face it head on instead of dodging it.
I anticipate my trickster mind. I know that when I start to fatigue and breath hard he's going to start telling me things to get me to quit pushing myself. I anticipate so that I can counter attack my mind and talk a little smack back. When I start thinking, "god wall balls again…..I did plenty of those last week, I'm good" I know it's time to utter something like "is that the best you've got guy?" to myself.
Laugh, if you must, that I have these conversations with myself, but they work. Try it out, and see how much farther past the point your mind says you can go you are able to push yourself.
About a year ago, this article inspired me to give this a try. I look forward one day to being as mentally tough as this articles' author.
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Heritage varieties abound in Workhouse garden
The Workhouse vegetable garden has always played an important role in the lives of inmates, be it labouring in the garden, spreading night soil or harvesting produce. Today, visitors can sample the plentiful supply of vegetables and admire the heritage varieties grown while reflecting on their visit to The Workhouse.
Gardeners' delight
The team of volunteer gardeners at The Workhouse labour long and hard to re-create the vegetable garden that would have served the needs of the staff and inmates in Victorian times. Only heritage varieties are grown and delight in such wonderful names as Kerrs Pink potato, Long white icicle radish and Bull's Blood beetroot.
Dreary diet
The garden you can see today was recreated in 2004 on the site of the original vegetable garden which provided food for the inmates, with any surplus being sold off to generate income. The vegetables would have added some interest to the monotonous diet of bread and watery gruel which was the mainstay of the pauper diet. Although fruit trees were planted there is no evidence of the produce being included in the pauper diet and it was probably solely for consumption by the Master and his household.
The Bramley apple trees are over 100 years old and have a special connection with the local area, as Southwell is the home of the Bramley apple. The original seedling was planted by a local girl over 200 years ago and the town still hosts an annual celebratory festival in October.
Pauper pickings
On every Saturday during August, the volunteer gardeners don pauper costumes to tend the gardens (not that easy in heavy skirts and clogs) and help visitors pick vegetables for themselves to take home. Tasty salads made with 'fat lazy blond' lettuce or 'tall telegraph' beans make a great supper dish and recipes can be found on the vegetable barrow.
Seasonal offerings
The vegetable garden has something to offer all season from Victoria and Albert rhubarb in early spring to marrows and squashes which add a splash of colour in the autumn.


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