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For men, the 60's brought the mod look with Italian slim fitting suits and skinny ties. These were the looks that defined the era, for many are still popular today, and still influence British fashion and style.
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As people age, the market changes.
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Food for thought, for all "traditional"..antique dealers!
ollecA self-appointed guardian of the neighborhood's vanishing history turns his home into a museum.
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What collector doesn't want to do this!
Is it wrong that back to school time reminds me of The Graduate? I guess it's the idea of watching what I want, when I want… (Yes, the LP is for sale.)
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About the first American fashion designer to be on the cover of Time magazine.
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Postcard collecting is an enjoyable and affordable hobby, but you must know how to date them and understand their values. This guide will get you on the right track!
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by Lise LaSalle Having enjoyed Tim Burton's movies through the years, my curiosity went on high alert when I read about his new biopic Big Eyes set to be released this Christmas in a theater near you and me. Adam Parfrey who runs Feral House Books, a little house of darkness promoting 'pure information and…
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Monday's snowfall left icy roads in its wake for Tuesday morning, so schools in Anne Arundel, Carroll and Howard counties closed forcing more postponements in the girls basketball playoffs.
All girls sectional semifinals were scheduled for Tuesday and most teams in Baltimore City, Baltimore County and Harford County wilil play their games as scheduled unless their opponents were from a county where schools were closed Tuesday. Postponed games will be made up on Wednesday with section finals to follow on Thursday.
There have also been some time changes to accomodate double headers with boys sectional semifinal games which were postponed from Monday.
- Some playoff games are on as Baltimore City, Baltimore County, Harford schools open
- Snow scrambles girls basketball playoffs just little
- UCBAC ADs vote to end championship games
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Notable postponements include games in Class 3A East where The Baltimore Sun's No. 2 girls team, Poly, will now host Centennial on Wednesday at 6 p.m. No. 7 City will host No. 13 Mount Hebron Wednesday at 6 p.m.
In 4A North, No. 11 Howard's home game against Blake has been moved to Wednesday at 7 p.m. In Class 4A East, No. 14 South River hosts Annapolis and No. 15 Old Mill hosts Meade, both Wednesday 6 p.m.
Several other ranked teams will play Tuesday as scheduled: No. 4 Milford Mill hosts Woodlawn at 5 p.m. and No. 9 Catonsville hosts Western at 6 p.m.
Following is the girls sectional semifinal schedule for teams in the Baltimore metro area. Go to the MPSSAA web site for the complete brackets.
Class 4A North
Section I
Western at Catonsville, Tuesday, 6
Dulaney at Perry Hall, Tuesday, 6
Section II
Blake at Howard, Wednesday, 7
Springbrook at Paint Branch, Wednesday, 6
Class 4A East
Section I
Meade at Old Mill, Wednesday, 6
Arundel at Glen Burnie, Wednesday, 6
Section II
Annapolis at South River, Wednesday, 6

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Homeowners Association Lawyers in the USA
Homeowners Association Lawyers in the USA ► Other Countries
Homeowners Association Lawyers USA - Recent Legal Articles
- Absurd Animal Cases in Homeowners Associations
In my former legal practice, I found that few cases were more prone to absurd happenings, bizarre government policies, or overly expensive litigation than pet cases.
- Dealing with Nuisance Neighbors
We have all had the situation at some point: a neighbor that cares for nobody but themselves. Stereo blasting late at night, dogs barking or attacking others, construction that causes damage to our property...the list goes on. So what do you do in those instances when reasoning with the neighbor just is not working?
- What Owners Should Know About Homeowner Association Collections
If you live in a homeowners association, condominium, co-op, or other community association, you are probably already familiar with the concept of paying assessments, dues, service fees, or whatever your association may call them. But what happens if you get behind in paying your assessments? Can you stop paying these fees if you think your association is not treating you fairly?
- What are Fiduciary Duties?
We often hear that someone owes us a fiduciary duty, whether in a business setting, certain transactions, or even a condo/co-op or homeowners association. But what is a fiduciary duty, how does a fiduciary relationship arise, and what are its implications?
- Before You Buy or Sell, Check Indoor Air Quality
Mold, Radon and other contributing factors to indoor air quality can significantly alter the value of a property and how well it sells. It can even constitute a claim or lawsuit.
- Use of Easements
An easement is a grant of permission by the owner of land (known as the subservient estate) in favor of the owner of a different parcel of land (known as the dominant estate) to cross over and/or use a portion of the subservient estate.
- Forced Flood Insurance
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Over the last several years, a number of large banks have been forcing homeowners to purchase excessive and in some cases unnecessary flood insurance policies at overpriced premiums. If you have been forced or pressured into buying one of these costly policies you may be able to recover your losses.
- Dual Tracking is Expected in Ohio
Plaintiffs in Foreclosure litigation will continue to proceed with the foreclosure litigation despite having a loan modification application pending. I recently read a post regarding the California Act that will prohibit Banks from "dual tracking" foreclosure cases. This term of art that is developing describes the situation in which the Bank continues to work with the Homeowner to modify the mortgage while also proceeding with the foreclosure action.
- Legal Obligations and Liabilities of Condominium Homeowners' Associations for the Common Areas in California Law
Legal obligations and liabilities of condominium homeowners' associations under the Davis-Stirling Act under California law for the maintenance, repair and replacement of the common areas of the condominium property.
- Private Restrictions on Property
Restrictions imposed by a Developer on subdivided/platted land are generally entitled Covenants, Conditions, Restrictions and Easements ("Covenants").


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It wasn't too long ago when the Cedar River flowed out of its banks in downtown Cedar Rapids.
Now the city is dealing with the opposite problem. The drought has forced the city to be creative in terms of its water supply.
"This is all pretty new, and we're learning as we go," said Megan Murphy, Cedar Rapids Utilities Communication Coordinator.
The land near the city of Cedar Rapids' large collector well is dry, and so the city is intervening.
"We just haven't had the rain to provide water to that area," Murphy said.
City officials have taken matters into their own hands, bringing the Cedar River to the low lying area.
Friday, a construction crew completed the installation of three culverts, giving the water a channel to flow toward the high-capacity well.
A fix, at least for now.
"It just gives us a little security in what we do have, in not losing any more ground as we head into the summer, " Murphy said.
But with the warmer weather comes a need for greater production. Currently, the wells are running at 30 percent less capacity than normal.
"We see a significant spike, and that's where we're going to have to look at things very carefully," Murphy said.
The only real solution can come from mother nature.
"A long wet spring would be great," Murphy said.
The city of Robins, just to the north, stands to be affected by the shortage as well, receiving its water from Cedar Rapids.
"It's good that they're thinking about it now instead of waiting until this summer when it becomes a real serious problem," said Roger Overbeck, Robins City Council member.
Planning for the worst, and hoping the weather cooperates.
City officials are hoping for a lot of rain this spring otherwise it's likely many water restrictions will be enacted for all Cedar Rapids water customers.
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Hire me and I will make your wildest dreams come true.
Short skit by Napoleon Dynamite. Resume at corydonrogers.com
Hire me and I will make your wildest dreams come true.
Short skit by Napoleon Dynamite. Resume at corydonrogers.com
I was recently digging through and cleaning out some old boxes that I had packed after graduating college. As I was making keep, sell and trash piles, I discovered that I had accumulated four alarm clocks whilst in college. First thought, why did I need this many alarm clocks, second thought, when is the last time I actually used an alarm clock?
My wife and I have an alarm clock in our bedroom, but it sits on my dresser, is turned facing the wall, and last I checked it was flashing 12:00. I occasionally think about setting it, but then I pull out iPhone and check the time and move on.
Seeing this (which I believe the % to be low) status: 65 percent of adults sleep with their cell phone next to their bed in my Twitter feed got me to thinking that the alarm clock in a casualty of smart phones. I use my iPhone for my clock and alarm. It's usually in my pocket or at minimum within reach, it also got me to thinking what other items are intentional or unintentional casualties of the smart phone.
Leave a comment with the items that once were seen as necessities or important to have that, due to smart phones, are something that are (or soon to be) long and forgotten.
I recently was pointed to GeekTool by a good friend. I really didn't get the hype but decided I would dive in and see what all it could do.
If you aren't familiar with GeekTool, it basically is a MAC OSX app that allows for simple command line scripts to place items on your desktop. Some of the more intricate scripts can show your your HDD capacity and available RAM. Combined with a little graphic styling, you can really turn your desktop into something you might see out of a sci-fi movie.
I am a bit more simplistic when it comes to my desktop. I abhor cluttered desktops. Not only is your desktop not a folder to store every file you've worked on in the past 2 years, it just doesn't make sense not to organize you workspace. Ok, so maybe I get a tad bit OCD when it comes to my GUI.
You (as I did) can start off with GeekTools by downloading "Geeklets" and adding them through GeekTools interface. There are literally hundreds if not thousands of Geeklets, so chances are anything you think would be cool to have on your desktop, it's probably already been done. Visit the Geeklet repository here.
Once you've become a little more comfortable with using GeekTools and adding Geeklets, you imagination is really the limit on what you can do to your desktop.
As I mentioned, I prefer a clutter-free workspace, so after learning a bit more about GeekTools and Geeklets I went for the minified version of things. And, honestly I usually have a window open so for me I didn't need all the bells and whistles that were just going to be hidden by a window anyway.
My current desktop
As you can see I've started with a simple calendar and clock as the focus of my desktop. This is actually three different Geeklets just sitting on top of each other. The dateline, day and time all update just the same as the clock on my taskbar would/does. The only other thing I really wanted was the ability to look up in the midst of a long web design/development session and see what track was playing on Spotify. I tend to listen to a lot of random playlists so there is frequently a new song/artist that I like and want to remember. Before if I missed the Growl notification I would have to open Spotify to discover this info. This usually led to me being distracted. Now all I have to do is look up and bam there is my "now playing." Once again this is actually 3 Geeklets all sitting on top on one another.
Like my desktop or just want to use some of the geeklets for your own custom desktop? Grab them from my Github.
The original iPhone was a game changer when it came to smartphones. At the time the first iPhone came out, Blackberry (which I was using) was the king of the smartphones. Now that I think about it, maybe the term "smartphone" isn't the best term to describe the original smartphones– maybe "sophisticated phone" is a more accurate term… but I digress.
Anyway, back to the original iPhone. When it came out it changed the perception of what a phone could be and do. Up until the iPhone; touch screen tech was something largely relegated to the sci-fi world or on really expensive and poor resolution point-of-sale systems, browsing (even on the most expensive of smartphones) the internet was an awful experience, music and games (in a portable sense) were dedicated to a different device like an MP3 player/iPod or Nintendo DS/PSP, and video was solely a desktop/laptop luxury.
Now notice I didn't say anything about the phone function itself. Apple realized that phone technology wasn't the selling point for the iPhone. Rather being able to make a call from the same device that you use to browse the internet, watch a video, play a game or listen to music was a benefit. Apple understood that, in large part, the technology of the "phone" was limited to the provider and any cell phone on the market could make a phone call the same as the iPhone.
June 29, 2013 will mark the six year anniversary of the original release date for the iPhone. Looking back on the iPhone then versus the newest release, iPhone 5, one might even be inclined to lump the original iPhone into that sophisticated category I proposed earlier. As the popular Loretta Lynn song says, "we've come a long way baby."
While the iPhone was a game changer it was only natural that others were going to attempt to capitalize on the success. Not long after the iPhone hit the streets, other manufactures were pumping out their answer to the iPhone. None really matched up, even the Android OS based phones were seen as flops at first… we won't even talk about the Windows Mobile based smartphones.
The thing that Apple did really well was to make the iPhone really simple to use. Yes, for your 80 year old grandmother it might have been difficult, but overall the iPhone was a turn it on and use it device. This is mainly due to the proprietary and restrictive nature that Apple (sans jailbreaking) has maintained on the iOS platform. Apple saw how miserable it was to get an add-on or app that actually worked for the Blackberry, and they also knew Flash was buggy, full of security loopholes, and most importantly a dying format. Keeping in mind that Apple has always been about usability, they were a bit communistic with their approach, but knew people would be more apt to live with restrictions if the product was solid.
Tthere was harmony for a short while and people lived with the native apps and used those hacky webapps when they wanted to add something more. Remember Steve Jobs never intended for their to be an App Store. His push was for developers to build apps in Ajax that could be run in the Safari mobile browser. While it was never intended, thanks to some cranky developers and people jailbreaking their phones, Apple change the game again with the introduction of the App Store.
They, unlike other mobile OS developers, decided to have strict control over apps that got added. Some look at this as Apple being over reaching, but I see it more as a quality control issue. Yes, from time to time there are some apps that get approved that are pieces of crap, but the "crapps" are far fewer than the good ones.
With the introduction of the App Store, Apple had not only changed the smartphone game, they had also changed the game for so many other things. Things like online marketing, branding, shopping, social media, you name it… there's an app for that.
However, since the App Store, Apple hasn't really done much to change the game. They've had a few bright innovations (notification center / social integration) here and there with each iOS release, but most the things that Apple saw being "game changers" were complete fails (Apple Maps) or at minimum overhyped additions (Siri).
From the original iPhone to the iPhone 5 not much has changed at a 50,000 foot view. The look of the phone is pretty much the same, the screen has gotten larger and higher resolution, but still isn't edge to edge, and the iOS platform (unless you jailbreak) is still restrictive. Some (I am one) might argue that the iPhone 5 is just the original iPhone with a supercharger and some body work.
Now don't get me wrong, I like my iPhone. I switched to an Android phone for one day between the original iPhone and the 3Gs. It only took me that one day to realize how much better the iPhone was.
Even though I still believe the iPhone to be the best of the best when it comes to smartphones, I think if Apple wants to maintain that reputation it needs another game change innovation.
I don't have a billion dollar brain or the intimate working knowledge of the R&D process like those up in Cupertino, so I won't pretend to know what the game changer is or needs to be. Maybe it isn't just one thing. Maybe it is a consortium of things like removing the home button from the screen and putting it on the right edge so you can have edge-to-edge screen display, or a redesign to allow for larger keypad input, or making all the buttons touch vs push. But even with all those changes it still doesn't fuel my desire for a total paradigm shift that we saw with the original iPhone.
As I said, I'm not sure what the game changer is, but Apple better hurry it up, Android is in the race and catching up fast.
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#9: 700 tweets, 1 follower, following 10K
#8. Users of Auto DM after a follow
#7: people who have 0 original tweets
#6. People who RT 50 times in 5 mins
#5: People who never RT
#4: People send the same tweet & change the ID
#3. "Just joined twitter. Not sure how to use it."
#2: racists, biggots, hate mongers, etc..
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If you were to read the latest stats on banner ads you might be tempted to just pull that plug and let your banner ads die a quick death.
Don't believe me? Check this out 15 Alarming Stats About Banner Ads.
Ok, so banner ads are everywhere.
Yes banner blindness is real.
Yes CTRs on banner ads are traditionally low.
Even though there are some high negatives to banner ads, that doesn't make them a bad form of online advertising. If done properly and with leveled expectations banners can actually be a cost-friendly and effective form of advertising online.
Here are few suggestions when it comes to banner ads that I have implemented that seem to be making a difference.
1. Focus on the "branding" of the banner vs. the potential conversion of the banner.
Spread the gospel of branding throughout your management/ownership team. It's not the easiest task to convince numbers people that branding is a wise investment. After all, branding and banner advertising is not a zero sum game. Not every impression is going to correlate into a lead/conversion/sale.
If you can level the field of expectations and convince people that branding still matters then a large portion of your battle is won.
2. Design your banners with "click intent" in mind.
Far too often I see banners where the entire banner is clickable, even the first several frames before the viewer even knows what this banner is for or who it is about. Why in the world would you want someone to click on your banner before they even are aware of a need to click?
Beyond that, depending on the location (relative to the top of the page or other actionable item on the page) of your banner, you could be suffering from accidental clicks. While you really don't pay for those clicks because most banner ads are CPM vs CPC, you still are effecting other items. SEO anyone? Bounce rates, time on site, pages visited all suffer from accidental or premature clicks.
In Flash and HTML5 ads, most online advertising sources allow for specific elements or a CTA button to be the only clickable item. Refine your ad design and set those clickTAGs to be button/element based. Even better don't even offer a clickable option until the static frame.
3. Be diligent about segmenting and knowing where your ads are being run.
Sans a remarketing campaign, you should really know the sites your ads are appearing on. For example, if you are selling tennis shoes, the chances of someone being on a site about cooking being interested in your product isn't very likely. Dig deep in the data and start taking granular control over the networks and site placements for your ads.
Yes, it is tedious, but it is worth it.
4. Speak to your audience!
Seems like common sense, but there are far more ads that are targeted to the general masses vs. targeted ads. If you can come to a point where you put down the ego and realize that your product/service is going to be for everyone then you're doing better than 75% of the other marketers out there.
Once you get passed trying to craft a desing/message for the masses and can just focus on your target audience then your ads become much more meaningful and powerful. In other words, focus on crafting your ads for the .01% rather than the 99.9%. If you can create a message that sticks with that .01% then you're ads will produce much better results.
5. Trial and error & A/B testing.
I've seen several companies get to the end of their first banner ad campaign and look at the numbers and dollars spent and just throw their hands up in disgust. That is really an unfair way to look at things and it's a huge disservice to your company.
Rarely does someone get it right on the first try. The best hitters and baseball take 1000's of practice swings just to hit .250 in a season. An author doesn't sit down and knock out a best-seller without some major rewrites and edits. So unless you just luck out, you need to have some patience and try different things out. You'll eventually hit a home run but not without some strikeouts along the way.
Don't just create one ad with one message. Change the look, change the message, change the timing, change the last frame. Test, test, test!
Of course not everyone has the luxury of having an in-house team to build ads. So before you contract someone to build your ads have a game plan. Know in advance that you are going to try 3 or 4 different ads.
Side note: Be sure to make at least one of your ads static.
In the end, only you can be the judge over how successful banner ads are for your company. No survey or article online should sway your decision. Banner ads aren't going to be for everyone or every company, but you won't know unless you actually try it.
As a non New Yorker, the thought of riding the subway is enough to make me never want to ride the subway.
The NYPD's new crime app might make you afraid to ride the subway ever again.
I will admit I am guilty of texting while driving. I haven't done it in it a long time, but still that is no excuse for past bad behaviors.
I agree that it is a problem, and something needs to be done to curtail and eliminate texting while operating a vehicle.
That said, I don't believe passing a law that makes it illegal is of any value. Speeding is illegal, not wearing a seatbelt is a law, being drunk an driving is illegal, but people break those laws all the time. It's obvious that a law, while a preventive measure, doesn't eliminate the illegal activity.
Beyond that, the law has to be enforced, and really aren't there more important things we want our police to be focused on?
Not only is it an issue on the illegal and enforcement front, studies have shown that in places where texting while driving has been made illegal that the accident rate (attributed to texting) has gone up. Why? Because people hide the phone below the line-of-sight and thus slowing reaction time even more than already reduced by normal texting and driving.
I've been doing some thinking about an easy and effective way to eliminate texting while driving. My answer is to install some type of jamming device that turns on when the car is put into gear. Make it so if it was bypassed or disabled that the engine wouldn't start.
This could be a market device and also installed after-market on most any car that dates post 1990 that is heavily dependent on electronics to operate the vehicle.
I am not attempting to say this is a flawless solution, but it seems much more effective than making it illegal to be intexticated.
What are your thoughts?
As we enter the final hour (CST) of 2012 and the first hours of 2013, I am reflecting on the year.
Personally it has been one of struggle and strife, ups and downs, good and bad; truly the definition of yin & yang. From losing my job to being rehired 11 months later to finding out about the new addition to our family and then going through the struggles of finding out he isn't growing like he should.
As a believer I have the ability to cling to the hope that tomorrow will be better than today, and that ultimately GOD is in control over everything.
As we enter 2013 I pray that you are blessed and that you prosper. I pray that our new boy is born healthy. I pray that the struggles of 2012 remain in 2012.
Happy New Year!
I must have been good this year. Christmas gifts: Keurig coffee maker, loads of K- cups, Nashville CD, Notre Dame blanket & boggin, cash, snow, and time with my family.
I am blessed!


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Commodities Roundtable Forum,
No. 1 heavy melt,
No. 1 dealer bundles,
shredded scrap,
Michelle Applebaum,
John Keyes,
Steel Market Intelligence
Fred Hauptstueck
The uncertain state of global economies continues to keep various scrap market factors in play, a number of analysts and players said at the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries Commodities Roundtable Forum in Chicago.
From ferrous to aluminum to stainless, scrap markets are expected to see fluctuations in demand, price and availability, a somewhat surprising development following a relatively stable 2011--a year that seemed to point toward a more even and smooth economic recovery, several forum moderators and panelists said during the September forum.
For example, average ferrous scrap prices--a composite of No. 1 heavy melt, No. 1 dealer bundles and shredded delivered to consumers in Chicago, Philadelphia and PittsburghÑstood at about $462 per gross ton in January 2011, the highest level since just before the financial crisis and one of the highest levels in history. Since then, scrap prices have fallen 30 percent to around $323 in October.
Many spoke at the ferrous roundtable of a changing environment in scrap markets. Michelle Applebaum, managing partner of Chicago-based Steel Market Intelligence, said that volatility is here to stay in scrap pricing, reflecting an overall imbalance in nearly all aspects of the steel industry. Others voiced concerns about scraps wild ride.
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Sponsorship of the first Olympic Games in Great Britain for 64 years was an obvious option for the nation's flag-bearing carrier. British Airways had already served as an official partner of the London 2012 bid and had flown Team GB and Paralympics GB out to Beijing in 2008.
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Frank Van der Post, managing director of brands and customer experience, says: "Clearly the Olympics has been a fantastic platform for us. Would I invest in the next Olympics [as a Tier One sponsor]? Probably not because they're in Rio. Would I have the same amount of money to spend next year on a single event? No I wouldn't. But there are different opportunities for us now to really build on the platform of the Olympics."
The results from BA's Olympics campaign are impressive. An analysis of press coverage by agency Precise found that BA had the highest volume of coverage of all of the sponsors with a total number of 3,387 articles. The airline also reports that 86,000 people engaged with its HomeAdvantage hashtag on Twitter. Between October 2011 and August 2012, its Olympic sponsorship awareness rose by 19 percentage points to 54 per cent, according to Millward Brown data, placing it above other sponsors like Adidas and Visa.
Experiential projects like BA's Park Live event and its Great Britons pop-up in Shoreditch, London also helped the airline reach a broader audience during the Olympics. "The interesting thing with the pop-up was that the people there were a different public to the kind you'd typically see at a BA event," notes Van der Post.
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Yes, but how many more bookings did they get as a result from the investment? That's the only number that matters. 86,000 tweets doesn't mean a damn thing if not a single person booked a holiday because of it.
It's great that BA is being turned round but how can he claim this is due to the To Fly. To serve campaign and the Olympics effect? The former was indeed a good 'stake in the ground' campaign after the strike debacle as it reminded people of BA's heritage. But I question whether it resonates with customers. Airlines are not flying to serve us, they are flying to make money. Whilst the 'world's favourite airline' strapline had to go I think resorting to the heritage one is not the solution. easyjet had a field day too with their 'To fly. To save' riposte.
The Olympics was surely a vanity exercise and whilst Mr van der Post might have sold it to an unconvinced Board, the public were just as baffled too. Some of the posters on the underground were creatively dreadful. It's been strongly suggested in the marketing press that the Olympics effect fizzled out soon after the event - did BA really get its money worth? If they'd spent it in other ways could they not have had the same or better effect on sales (which is what it is all about)?
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Feb7-10, 12:15 PM
Hi All, (Especially Bankers reading this forum!)
I first want to thank twofish-quant for giving very great and sound advice throughout the forums - I have learned so much from this helpful person. I hope they can comment here as well!
I'm a PhD high energy experimental student, going to graduate anywhere between 1-2 years. I'm working on the LHC, and I know it's the last step of physics research for me.
I want to go into investment banking, and become a quant. Can you please give some advice on what I can start doing? Would it be a good idea to do an internship this summer?
What ideal things should I do so that I can have a greater edge to break into the finance industry?
I read a little about the different fields, but the things I'm looking for are interesting, challenging, and hectic work. (and lucrative pay, though I know this is something that shouldn't be admitted). I would love to work directly on Wall St.
I offer good communication skills due to working on such a large collaboration (institutes from all over the world convene for a single experiment), and C++ everyday I've been a grad student.
So, please, if you can, offer me some advice based on your own experience to get me that edge! (I know it's tough to get in, but I'll do what it takes!)
Also, do you like your job? Is it stressful, long, etc? Cons, Pros? (psst: for you, twofish-quant!)
Feb7-10, 04:31 PM
But you have to keep the money in prespective. Salaries for Ph.D.'s all Wall Street are good, but don't expect anything totally insane. NYC is a *very* expensive city, and the money you get from Wall Street is going to be only somewhat higher than you can get at high end coding positions in other places. Typical salary for a starting Ph.D. is ($90K base + $40 bonus) whereas you can probably get a job as a C++ coder in Texas for $90K. After a few years of experience, the total salary ends up in the $200K range.
The other thing is that you are likely to feel poor, even though you are not. The weird thing is that *because* there are vast amounts of money that flow on Wall Street, you end up feeling poor. I've had bizarre conversations with people that are convinced that they are desperately poor because they make $150K, and the reason people feel that way is that they have social contact with people that make $500K+. If you live in Grand Rapids, Michigan, you aren't ever going to bump into someone that makes $1M/year, whereas in NYC there are 50 billionaires, and they make their presence known. If you go down 5th Avenue, you end up hitting entire stores that are devoted to selling things to people that make way, way, way more money than you ever well.
It's important to realize that it isn't *that* tough to get in, because you will be dealing with headhunters that will make it seem that your life will be over if you don't take the job they have. If you realize that you do have some choices, then you can say no. Something that I'm very firm on is that I will not work people that I do not trust, and I will not do jobs which I don't believe to be socially useful.
Feb7-10, 04:45 PM
Do you find that you have time for a social (read: love, family) life? And, should I expect to work on Wall St (move to NYC) for better chances at landing a job?
If I do end up working on Wall St., is it possible to put in a few years work and then will it be easier move to a more desirable location?
I'm under the impression that there is sorta inflexibility of location.
Does prestige of your PhD University matter? (I know it can definitely help, but can it hurt to come from the lower end?)
Feb7-10, 07:20 PM
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I don't know of any Ph.D.'s that work killer hours. There are a lot of MBA's analysts that work killer hours, but this is a supply-demand thing.
It turns out they were right for not hiring me, because I would have left.
One other irony is that there is almost no finance being done on Wall Street itself. Wall Street is where the stock exchange is, and everyone has moved to electronic trading so there is no need to be physically there, and NYSE is becoming a ghost town. Also 9/11 changed things, when banks realized that it was a bad idea to put all their operations in one place, and so banks have changed their operations so that their eggs are scattered.
Most of the big banks are in mid-town, and the hedge funds are scattered in various places with a lot of them on Long Island or Connecticut. Much of the back end operations work is happening in Jersey City.
The only thing left on Wall Street itself are high end condos.
1) You aren't competing with people with the really high prestige Ph.D.'s and very deep social networks. People that have Harvard and MIT physics Ph.D.'s and tons of recommendations and publications, aren't looking for jobs on Wall Street, they are looking for academic positions. I've never met a physics Ph.D. for which working on Wall Street was first choice of careers. If some university offered me a job as tenured astrophysics faculty with a 30% cut in salary, I'd be gone, gone, gone.
2) The interviewers and the hiring managers are also Ph.D.'s. If you say that your research is on lattice gauge theory, your interviewers and hiring managers are going to know what that means, and they are also likely going to know the reputations of the people in the field.
School branding works on people that don't know what you've actually done. If you have two people one that says that they are working on Hodge theory and the other says that they are doing Shockman-Teller Q analysis, then I know that the second guy is talking total gibberish (since I made that up), but your average HR person will not know this, so he needs to know that one guy went to Princeton. Someone who knows mathematical physics knows when someone is talking total gibberish so it's less important that they went to Princeton.
Also this is different from MBA hiring. For MBA hiring, branding is everything since business schools are putting out MBA's by the truckload. Something to realize is that the US puts out about 1000 physics Ph.D.'s each year, while Harvard alone puts out about 900 MBA's each year.
It turns out that on Wall Street there are really few jobs for physics Ph.D.'s, but there are even fewer physics Ph.D.'s
Feb7-10, 10:20 PM
Feb8-10, 03:45 AM
If you look at Hull's book is looks like an nice intro textbook, that introduces finance in the same way that Halliday and Resnick introduces classical mechanics. The trouble with Hull's book is that about half of it is wrong or irrelevant. There are serious problems with all of the bond models for example. So you should read Hull not so much as you would an intro physics text, but rather as a review paper for an area that you are interested in. You can get the jargon and the basic concepts, but just realize that much of the book is wrong.
Now you might ask if Hull is wrong, where you can find a better textbook, and the answer is that you probably can't, because a better book hasn't been written, and Hull is probably busy himself trying to fix up the next edition. So if the equations and techniques in Hull are wrong or irrelevant, where are the right equations and techniques written down? The answer is for the most part they aren't. People are still trying to figure out lots of stuff. OK then, if there are no good texts, and no one really knows what is going on, what are you supposed to do...... Hmmmmm..... Sounds like a dissertation....
The thing about physics Ph.D.'s is that if they put you in a front of a computer, with instructions that are vague, confusing, and possibly wrong with textbooks and papers that may also be either irrelevant or wrong, you'll figure out what to do, because you did something similar before on your dissertation. If you put a MBA in the same position, they may or may not be to cope, because they are waiting for someone to tell them what to do, and it make be that no one knows.
Also one thing that you'll find that's cool is that a lot of the important information are things that people, or someone just knows, and hasn't been written down anywhere. You may find that yourself writing a program and the suddenly how you code an algortihm depends critically on the dates of Brazilian holidays or exchange rate restrictions on the Thai Baht, and so you have to start e-mailing people to figure out who the expert on Brazilian holidays is. You may find that that person left the company six months ago, and so you are going to have to become the local expert on Brazilian holidays.
The book I'd recommend is Fusai and Roncoroni "Implementing Models in Quantitative Finance: Methods and Cases" since thaty book gives the best example of the "flavor" of the types of problems you see in finance. Also Kuznetsov's "The Complete Guide to Capital Markets for Quantitative Professionals" is good with the standard caveat that a lot of what he has written is probably someone outdated.
Feb8-10, 04:22 AM
For good measure, are there any C++ books you like?
Feb8-10, 07:47 AM
This is some good stuff written here. Thanks a mill twofish-quant.
Feb8-10, 08:05 AM
Feb8-10, 03:16 PM
Twofish-quant, can you tell me a little bit about the future finance career options of a PhD physicist quant who started out on Wall St.? I'm looking at some job postings at QauntFinanceJobs.com, and there are some hedge funds in New York looking to hire Quants with a salary of $450k. Is that plausible?
Here's the link to the job posting:
Is that not the same "quant" we're talking about? What's the deal?
What's the career ladder like, basically?
Feb8-10, 04:31 PM
While we're on the subject of quantitative finance and other related jobs, can I get into that field with a PhD in computer science? MS in computer science?
EDIT: I do know that masters programs in computational finance exist (Carnegie Mellon), but how is that different than entering the field with an advanced computer science degree or a physics PhD?
Feb9-10, 09:42 AM
Part of the reason I'm doing what I'm doing is that I figure that I have maybe a 1 in 50 chance of making $1 million/year sometime in my life. Now 1 in 50 isn't great odds, but I can't think of anything else that I could be doing that realistically gives me 1 in 50 of making $1 million/year.
Something that does happen is the window case effect. A recruiter is going to put their best job in the showroom window so that you walk in the store. You probably can't get the diamond necklace that they show out in front, but they might have something else for you. One thing that you have to be very, very careful about is to realize that getting rich is largely a matter of "dumb luck." If you think to yourself, I'm smart so I'll be number one and get that $450K, well it doesn't work that way.
For example, this year people doing bond products made a ton of money because you had a sharp interest rate yield curve. Next year, someone else will get the jackpot. Even if the market totally self-destructs, someone will win big. So whether you get the really big money is luck not skill.
I think Paul Krugman is pretty smart, he might be right, but ultimately I have to make my decisions based on what I think is going on. This matters, because I look around me and figure out that with the salaries that people are making, this is sustainable. If everyone were making $2 million/year then it wouldn't be since we are just not creating that much wealth, and so everything is going to blow apart.
Also part of the reason I'm careful not to get scammed by Wall Street is that I got scammed by academia before.
Feb9-10, 12:57 PM
Skiena's The Algorithm Design Manual are also good.
Two things that you need to have basic knowledge on are STL, and some template programming.
One other thing is that the more important knowledge in writing C++ is what not to do.
Feb9-10, 01:02 PM
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I'd be less annoyed at these sorts of lies if they weren't still telling them.....
Or if they had always been telling them.
Or that they hadn't always been telling them. If you look back to the 1960's, there has always been this mythic shortage of scientists.
What really gets me upset is
*** But Education Secretary Arne Duncan says a surplus of STEM graduates is a problem he'd like to have. ***
Feb9-10, 04:24 PM
Personally, I think it's a great thing if people study science and engineering, and I do think that in the long run having more people study science and engineering will help the economy. But please *DO NOT LIE TO ME*. And especially *DO NOT LIE TO ME TO FOR YOU OWN PERSONAL BENEFIT*. The weird thing about all of these studies is that they always end with some stirring call for more funding for universities.
What's basically happening is the moral equivalent of a Ponzi scam or Nigerian advance fee scam. Actually it's worse than a Ponzi scam. When someone sends you a Nigerian spam e-mail or sell you a bad used car, they don't claim to care about you. This ain't some guy in the alley lying to you, it's the damn National Science Foundation and the damn National Academy of Sciences.
There is this wonderful quote by Michael Nesmith.
"It's like finding your grandmother stealing your stereo. You're happy to get your stereo back, but it's sad to find out your grandmother is a thief."
Feb9-10, 04:47 PM
Also the fact that I've been lied to makes me very careful about saying anything that would turn into a lie to other people.
For example, physics Ph.D.'s on Wall Street make decent money right now, but if tomorrow I found out that there were tens of thousands of people getting their physics Ph.D. in the hopes of making tons of money on Wall Street, I'd cash out and find something else to do. So I'm *not* encouraging people to get their physics Ph.D. to make big money, and in fact if that's the reason you are getting your Ph.D. you are in the game for the wrong reasons, and you probably won't make big money either, since you have tons of people trying to "get rich quick" you've formed a market bubble that is going to pop.
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