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Ernest Hemingway took great pride in using an economy of carefully measured words and tightly wrought phrases in his writing. Nominated for Grammy, this recording of The Old Man and Sea is perfect example of Hemingway's precision and is read here in its entirety by Oscar-winning actor Charlton Heston.
A novella, The Old Man and Sea tells the story of an old fisherman, Santiago, and his long lusty struggle isn't so much over one fish, but the act of living--living fully, actively, robustly. Charlton Heston is marvelous in this recording with his voice adding a quality and texture to Hemingway's words that will engage listeners completely.
About the Author
Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) was one of the twentieth century's most important novelists, as well as a brilliant short story writer and foreign correspondent. His body of work includes the novels A Farewell to Arms, For Whom the Bell Tolls, and The Sun Also Rises. He won the Pulitzer Prize for his novella The Old Man and the Sea, and in 1954 was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.


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TOPEKA, Kan. (November 15, 2012)—Members of the Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, Kan., plan to picket before the start of the Baylor-Kansas State football game Saturday night in Waco.
Church members often picket military funerals, carrying signs that proclaim that the deaths of U.S. troops are God's punishment for the country's tolerance of homosexuality.
The church's focus has apparently expanded, however.
"American puts more value in their sports team than they do in God!" the group said in a posting on its website announcing plans to picket the game.
"(K-State) fans can spout more statistics and facts about the team than they could even begin to tell you about the Bible," the church said, and "Baylor is no more Baptist and no more Christian than their bear mascots."
"God hates K-State & God hates Baylor and we'll be there to remind you of it," the church said.
The group also plans to picket the Bruce Springsteen Concert Saturday at the Sprint Center in Kansas City and the U.S. Grand Prix at the Circuit of the Americas Sunday in Austin "to remind this nation that God hates the wicked people of this land of vain idolaters and that they shell be turned into Hell."
Church members picketed against soldiers on Armed Forces Day in May in Killeen.
Members holding signs with such messages as "pray for more dead soldiers" gathered outside the gates of Fort Hood while local residents organized a rally in support of the troops in the same area during which funds were being raised for the Wounded Warrior Project.
About 100 area residents took part in the counter demonstration.
About 35 Killeen police officers stood by during the protest, but there were no reports of any major incidents.
In March 2011, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled the First Amendment protects members of the fundamentalist church who stage anti-gay protests outside military funerals, picketing with signs displaying such inflammatory messages as "Thank God for dead soldiers."
The court voted 8-1 in favor of the church, upholding an appeals court ruling that threw out a $5 million judgment awarded to Albert Snyder, the father of a fallen Marine who sued church members after they picketed his son's funeral.
Chief Justice John Roberts wrote that even "hurtful speech" on public issues must be protected, so that debate isn't suppressed, but the court's lone dissenter, Justice Samuel Alito, said the commitment to free speech doesn't mean the nation has to tolerate what he calls a "vicious verbal assault."
The Marine's family had the support of 48 states, 42 U.S. senators and veterans groups, who said the church protests amounted to "psychological terrorism."
The church's pickets at military funerals led to the creation of the Patriot Guard Riders in 2005, to shield families and other mourners from the protesters and to drown out their chants by singing or revving the engines of their motorcycles.
The members of the group attend funerals of fallen troops, firefighters and police officers at the invitation of families.


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I have just started my first run of Legends of Grimrock. I have in my party an insectoid mage with 3 points in Ice Magic. The tooltip shows me that, at level 3, it should have a spell, marked with 3 question marks (???). How can I know which spell it is and how to cast it?
There's a few things at play here.
First of all, you need to discover the rune combination for a certain spell to cast it. In-game, you do this by finding scrolls, but you can also discover combinations via experimentation (or searching the Internet). For instance, I discovered the rune for Fireburst through experimentation before I ever found the scroll. Likewise, I experimented and found that the first earth spell just uses a single earth symbol. I imagine ice and wind do the same thing, but haven't had the skill to try them yet.
However, even if you know the correct rune combination for a spell, you still need to have a high enough skill level in the relevant magic type to cast the spell. That's where the ??? comes in when you're looking at your magic skill levels. Once you've successfully entered the correct rune combo for that spell, the ??? on your skill description will change to the name of the spell.
Regardless of how or when you discover the rune combo for a spell, you can still only cast spells that your skill is high enough to have "unlocked", and your skill text won't tell you what spell it lets you cast until after you've already cast it. It's a bit frustrating, since I took earth magic hoping it would have some a low level healing spell, as many games seem to tie "healing" to "earth". Instead, I discovered through play that the first Earth spells is actually "poison cloud".
So, via in-game means, you'll just have to discover it as you go. If you want to be able to plan ahead where to put your magic points so you can get to certain spells sooner (and for that matter, even know what spells exist), you'll have to look to an external source such as this one.
For reference, here are the available spells:
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5 Facts That Will Change How You Picture Famous Places
You don't need a degree in foreignology to know a few things about the world, just a grounding in good old-fashioned stereotypes: The U.S. is a hotbed of technical ignorance, India is a hotbed for tech jobs, Japan has a hot, sentient bed that gives "tech jobs" to all interested parties ...
But just like all those after-school specials tried to warn you, stereotyping isn't always the best practice, and some of our most common conceptions of famous places are due for a serious tweak.
#5. India's Engineers Have to Be Outsourced
When they were handing out national stereotypes, India lucked out and got "good with technology," while other countries had to settle for "raging drunks" or "most polite." Every other Indian on TV is some kind of scientist: Raj on The Big Bang Theory, Mohinder on Heroes ... even Apu from The Simpsons, a convenience store clerk, has a doctorate in computer science.
The numbers back it up, too, with India producing twice as many engineers, scientists, and IT specialists as America every year. That's all true: We're not disputing those facts. But the hidden implication is that India's science programs are unrivaled genius mills, and that may have ... slightly less basis in reality. An Indian firm called Aspiring Minds recently stepped up to test the veracity of the Super-Science Indian myth, and according to their results, a third of the tested engineers lacked the most basic mathematical skills needed in everyday life. An incredible 42 percent couldn't multiply or divide simple decimal numbers.
"6.2 can go into 31 as many times as it wants. This is a free country."
The study concluded that only 4.2 percent of the engineering graduates were fit to work at a software company, with 17.8 percent having some chance to be picked up by a general IT services firm. The low quality of India's specialists and their additional lack of English-comprehension skills have reportedly gotten so bad that some large Indian tech firms are hiring liberal arts majors and training them from scratch. That's right: The engineers' knowledge is so tainted that it's better to start with a blank slate, which is probably the nicest thing a tech company will ever call a liberal arts major. Even more ironically, other Indian tech companies have to outsource jobs abroad because they can't find qualified employees at home. When the Indian call center firm 24/7 Customer Pvt. Ltd. needed to hire 3,000 new IT employees in 2011, they were so desperate for qualified candidates that they had to expand their search to the Philippines and Nicaragua.
So that woman in Bangalore pretending to be in Wisconsin might really be a woman
from Nicaragua pretending to be a woman in Bangalore pretending to be in Wisconsin.
So who's to blame for this situation? The rest of the world, for foisting our unrealistic stereotypes on an entire country? Or those stupid Indians, for being so stupid? Neither! The Indian tech boom was a totally legitimate swing toward science, and there still are a lot of incredibly talented and brilliant scientists coming from Indian universities. It's just that, as India becomes increasingly known for its skilled engineers, the demand is outpacing the supply, and schools are growing desperate enough to start fudging the numbers. Low teacher salaries, out-of-date programs, and rampant cheating are all fairly common, resulting in poorer education standards overall. And all this in order to keep pumping out cheap nerds for the rest of the world to abuse over the telephone.
So we guess the lesson here is never succeed at anything, because people will expect waaay too much of you down the line. That's a credo we at Cracked have been living by for years.
#4. Japan Doesn't Like Sex Enough
Japan is, to put it simply, a sexually complicated nation. We know that Japan likes to censor all of its porn, but on the other hand, holy damn, have you seen Japan's porn? So even though the country might not exactly be ground zero for God's Insanity Bomb like everyone (especially us!) makes it out to be, we can at least say for sure that they do like having sex ...
In real life, though? Not so much.
Tragically, scenes like this are forever condemned to the realm of fantasy.
In a recent study, nearly 40 percent of the polled Japanese singles and about 35 percent of married couples aged 16 to 49 admitted to not having sex for over a month, with many expected to continue their dry spell for up to a year. That's roughly 31 million sexually unsatisfied people residing in the country we know best for its used-panty vending machines.
But that's just one study. Globally speaking, Japan probably likes to get its tentacled cartoon freak on as much as any other place, right? Not according to Durex, whose 2005 global sex survey put Japan dead last on a list of countries sorted by the frequency of their yearly boner interactions, with an average score of 45 sexings annually.
"Six more days of this, and we'll be finished with the foreplay."
If 45 times a year seems like a lot -- that's, like, 46 times more than we average (yes, apparently you can have a negative score) -- you should know that the next country up in Durex's survey, Singapore, scored 73 junk-slam sessions annually. (Greece came out on top with 138 yearly kebabings, and the U.S. placed 11th, with 113).
It'd be easy to blame this entire problem on the hectic Japanese work life, and that surely plays some part, but it might also be down to a lot of Japanese simply not giving a fuck -- literally. In a 2008 Chicago study, roughly 17 percent of Japanese men and 10 percent of Japanese women reported experiencing sexual satisfaction in bed. Few considered sex to be important to their lives at all. This has put Japan behind such renowned sex-crazed porn empires as China, Algeria, and Egypt. And because we know you're curious: Australia placed highest, with about 65 percent satisfaction. (G'day, mates! Doing anything later?).
"Sex feels even better when you've dodged poisonous animal death a dozen times before dinner."
#3. The United States Has Too Many Scientists
We own as many bald eagles as the next guy, but even we have to admit: America is firmly holding down last place in the Great Science Race. Bill Gates said as much in 2008 when he testified in front of Congress about "a critical shortfall of skilled scientists" in the West. It sounds true, so it must be true, right?
This man wouldn't lie to us about anything but the stability of a Windows release.
Nope! Gates probably pulled those figures from Bing, because it turns out that America produces so many high-quality scientists each year, we don't know what to do with most of them.
About 18,000 American citizens graduate with a science-related Ph.D. each year, which, it turns out, is more than we can actually use. As in any other country, there's a limited number of research facilities available to the top American eggheads, allowing only 25 percent of them an opportunity to continue their academic research. Furthermore, less than 15 percent will end up doing any significant scientific work -- the rest will probably end up studying the tensile strength of Japanese boners.
"Dear Lord, 4.5 Holmses."
So no, there's no shortage of keen scientific minds in America. We just can't build enough scientist playpens to hold them all, even though the U.S. still has more research institutes than anywhere else in the world. But it's not just colleges. Everyone's favorite whipping boy, the American education system, is also doing way better than you might think. Based on the K-12 Trends in International Math and Science Study tests, the U.S. has more high-scoring kids than any other country, rivaling Japan and Korea in math, of all subjects. So the U.S. has a whole closet full of smarty pants, thank you. It's just that we have a lot of dumb people, too, and our dumb people are really, really loud.
"You may have a Ph.D., but I have a job."


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I'm not quite sure about how to define a good measure of the quality of a communication channel with fading and interference. Let us assume the simplest case, where a node in a network receives the following quantity:
$$ y = s + w $$
where $s$ is the amplitude (positive real) of the signal and $w$ the noise (gaussian with zero mean and variance $\sigma^2$). A simple measure of the channel quality is simply given by ${\rm SNR} = s^2 / \sigma^2$, i.e., the ratio of the power of the signal vs the power of the noise.
Now, suppose the received signal is $$ y = h_s s + w$$
where $h_s$ and $w$ are complex gaussian with zero mean and unitary variance. A measure of the SNR that makes sense could be derived by looking at the power of the received signal $$ |y|^2 = y y' = |h_s|^2 s^2 + 2{\rm Re}(h_ss~w') + |w|^2$$
now, since for practical applications the noise process is much faster than the fading (represented by $h_s$) what people normally do is to average over $w$, obtaining
$$ E[|y|^2]_w = |h_s|^2 s^2 + \sigma^2 $$
hence, a measure of the signal strength that makes sense would be $ {\rm SNR} = |h_s|^2 s^2 / \sigma^2$.
What I am interested about is the case with interference. Suppose there is an extra term that takes into account for interfering signals
$$ y = h_s s + h_{\rm I} s_{\rm I} + w $$
where $h_I$ is complex with zero mean and unitary variance. How could I possibly define the SNR in this case? By taking $|y|^2$ there are cross terms, i.e., products of $h_s$ and $h_{\rm I}$ that do not disappear even if I average over the noise $w$. So it seems not obvious to me how to decouple $|y|^2$ into two different pieces, one for the signal and the other for the noise. The final goal would be determining a good measure of the SNR in order to be able to compute probabilities like
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A federal judge in Los Angeles has stopped Tribune Co from reclaiming the television and movie rights to comic-strip detective Dick Tracy from Warren Beatty. U.S. District Judge Dean Pregerson granted summary judgment in the producer/director/actor's favor yesterday, ruling that the fact Beatty had begun work on a half-hour TV special, which had Warren dressed as the Dick Tracy character answering questions from film critic Leonard Maltin, satisfied a use-it-or-lose-it clause in an agreement with Tribune to produce a Dick Tracy movie or TV show or lose the rights to the character. Now, what Warren wants to do with the Dick Tracy character whose rights he acquired from Tribune Media Services in 1985 going forward I can't imagine.
The expensive 1990 movie he produced, directed and starred in for Disney's Touchstone pictures was no blockbuster despite a stellar cast that included Al Pacino, Dustin Hoffman and even a well-hyped romance between Madonna and himself. But it did collect seven Academy Award nominations, winning Oscars for Best Original Song, Best Makeup, and Best Art Direction. As for that TV special which featured Beatty discussing how Dick Tracy has been portrayed on film over the years, it only ran on Turner Classic Movies in July 2009. Beatty only made it to keep his rights intact. It's hard to imagine today's younger audiences caring about the detective, yet Tribune Co has said in bankruptcy filings that unfettered rights to Dick Tracy are potentially worth millions" to the company and its creditors.
So, at the very least, we're one step closer to (rather than a step away from) seeing Beatty's director's cut of "Dick Tracy" getting home video exposure.


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What is a good way to get instant relaxation at work? At home, I can just sleep or play video games. At work, that looks like slacking off, even though I can't concentrate productively while stressed out.
So, what's a good way to power relax from work. Any tricks that don't involve closing eyes?


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In an English essay, I wrote:
What am I looking at? People enjoying themselves?
I lost points for using a sentence fragment. Is it truly incorrect to use a sentence fragment this way?
In an English essay, I wrote:
I lost points for using a sentence fragment. Is it truly incorrect to use a sentence fragment this way?
There's nothing at all wrong with OP's two sentences as written, but that doesn't necessarily mean the teacher was ignorant. I don't know what other factors might be involved, but in general teachers should be respected (not a morality issue - you just won't learn so well if you don't).
There is no 'rule' saying exactly what constitutes a valid utterance. Much depends on context. In this case the first sentence is more than enough context to make the second one valid.
Personally I think it reads very fluently.
Replace the first question mark with a comma. Bam! [I] Just blew your mind, eh? But seriously, "What am I looking at, people enjoying themselves?" would be much more, uhh, 'liked' by teachers and professors (and the public in general). Well, at least I so assume.
(p.s. I dislike how this site will not allow two spaces after a period. It looks werid having only one.)


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The 7 Greatest Pieces of Trash Talk in the History of War
Some one-liners uttered by historical figures during the heat of battle are so awesome that they seem taken right out of a particularly bombastic Hollywood war movie. But we've already gone over those. The following quotes aren't like that: These are the real-life wartime quotes no one would ever put in a film, because they're simply too badass to believe.
The Situation:
In 1690, Quebec was about to come under attack by superior English forces from Massachusetts. The English, confident they could easily wipe the floor with the French poofters they found waiting there, sent a messenger to deliver their official ultimatum to Count Louis de Buade de Frontenac, the Governor-General of Quebec. After reading the ultimatum, the English messenger added that the Governor had exactly one hour to reply, and whipped out a watch for dramatic effect.
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It would have been an incredibly tense moment if everyone wasn't dressed like a little girl.
After a couple moments of silence, the English messenger impatiently asked if the Governor would be providing a written response to the ultimatum. That's when Governator Frontenac looked at the Englishman and uttered the line up there in the header image, simultaneously inventing the genre of gangsta rap 300 years too early while debunking that whole "the pen is mightier" bullshit in one sentence.
This historical re-enactment really captures his badass-with-a-touch-of-crazy side.
The envoy presumably let them keep his watch and hurried back to the ship for a change of ridiculous pants.
The Aftermath:
If anyone in Quebec questioned the wisdom of Frontenac's decision to piss off the huge army stationed right in front of their city, those doubts dissipated when unexpected reinforcements dropped in from Montreal, giving the French the numerical advantage. Frontenac crushed the English forces and sent them packing back to Massachusetts while suffering only 19 casualties.
And 10 of those were from trying to make the muskets talk.
The Situation:
We've previously pointed out how some of the most badass one-liners in the film 300, as Hollywoodesque as they sound, were actually real. However, the single most famous line in the entire movie ("THIS! IS! SPARTA!") was completely fabricated ... because it turns out that the truth is even more awesome.
Including the possibility that Leonidas was completely naked when he kicked that dude.
You don't need to have seen the movie to know the scene we're talking about -- it was in every single ad and trailer. The army of evil Persian King Xerxes is on their way to invade. King X sends a messenger ahead to Sparta to demand surrender. When Leonidas refuses, the messenger says, "This is madness," and Leonidas replies by power kicking the messenger into a well while shouting ...
This hangs next to the "Warning: Frequent Slow Motion" signs in Sparta.
That scene actually happened, in the sense that the Spartan and a Persian messenger had a meeting by a well. Of course, the real messenger was not there to set Leonidas up for a killer one liner. He was there on business, and got down to brass tacks by specifying that Xerxes wanted Sparta to "give us your earth and water." Having to think on his feet in the face of the messenger's weirdly specific demand, the real Spartan invited the Persians to "dig it out for themselves" while ... well, power kicking him into the well. They got that part right. So not only was the real line just as badass, it used verbal Judo to make it look like the messenger had asked permission to be kicked into the well. It was the ancient equivalent of the old bully standby -- "Want a Hertz Donut?" PUNCH "Hurts, don't it?" -- a tactic which we'd imagine is twice as demoralizing when it's being used to kick you to your death.
The Aftermath:
The historian Herodotus speculated that the horrible war that followed under Xerxes was a consequence of what the Greeks did to his father's heralds, but we're sure the Spartans would agree that it was totally worth it (especially because it inspired so many more zingers).
"Madness? This is ... well, yes, this is a little messed up, I'll admit."
The Situation:
In 1918, the last year of "the war to end all wars" (i.e., the first of two freaking world wars), a bunch of U.S. Marines were dug in at a location near Paris called Belleau Wood in preparation for a massive German invasion. During the first few days of the fight, the Marines encountered remnants of battle-weary French forces retreating from the relentless German attack.
Not to mention posing for these endless Call of Duty ads.
The French (who had made it this far into the war and were clearly no pansies themselves) advised the Marines to turn back: A French major reportedly ordered Capt. Lloyd W. Williams of the 2nd Battalion, 5th Marines to retreat, to which Capt. Williams shouted the above line, making it clear that he was only starting to have fun.
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Lloyd Williams: A man's man's man. A double-man.
The Aftermath:
Even after heavy losses (including Capt. Williams himself), the Marines repelled wave after wave of German assaults, eventually taking the woods for the Allied side and preventing an invasion of Paris. Even the enemy was impressed: An official German report described the Marines as "remarkable" and "waaaay more scary than the French." [citation needed]
"Also there's one coming here right AGGGGHHH!"
Even today, the words "Retreat Hell" are still on the shield of the 2nd Battalion, 5th Marines (personally, we would have gone with "We Just Got Here!").
We suppose you could also interpret this as a threat to the devil.
The Situation:
Pointe du Hoc is a huge cliff that overlooks Omaha Beach, which is pretty cool if you're there on vacation and not so cool if you're there because you're an Allied soldier and it's D-Day. At a treacherously steep 100 feet of height, it was so pants-shittingly scary that one preacher with the U.S. 2nd Ranger Battalion literally "dropped his pants and took a crap" immediately after climbing it.
"Holy shit!"
In a mission that would send any Call of Duty fan running for a cheat code, the Rangers were tasked with not just climbing the cliff while German soldiers shot at them from above, but also overpowering said soldiers and locating a stash of guns. The stash, however, was not where their intel said it'd be.
"Are you sure about this?"
As they looked for the guns, a Lt. Jacob Hill spotted a German machine gun unloading on his Rangers. According to one witness, "Hill studied the position for a few moments, then stood up and shouted" the above stream of obscenity-spiced folksy goodness.
While it's unlikely that the Germans were familiar with this particular idiom, apparently they got the general idea because they were turning the machine gun around to shut him up. And that's when Hill invented the manliest punctuation mark of all time, throwing a grenade at the guys he'd just verbally owned, and wiping them all out.
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Like a boss.
The Aftermath:
A few minutes later, some men from Easy Company came down the same road, so Hill's insult may have saved their lives. The Rangers eventually found the guns they were looking for and blew them up with thermal detonators. So, yeah, never underestimate the power of some good trash talk.
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"Your mama's so ugly we put her on our propaganda posters to dehumanize the German people!"


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Sicilian Baked Ziti
Categories: Vegetarian
Type: Main Dishes
Type: Main Dishes
A hearty one-dish meal, this pasta dish features eggplant, mushrooms, and roasted red pepper, along with lots of cheese!
Serves: 8 servings
- 12 ounces ziti pasta (about 4 1/2 cups)
- 1/4 cup plus 2 tablespoons grated nonfat or regular Parmesan cheese
- 2 cups shredded nonfat or reduced-fat mozzarella cheese
- 1 can (28 ounces) crushed tomatoes
- 2 cups diced peeled eggplant (about 1 medium-small)
- 2 cups sliced fresh mushrooms
- 1 medium onion, chopped
- 1 1/2 teaspoons crushed fresh garlic
- 2 teaspoons dried Italian seasoning
- 1/2 teaspoon crushed red pepper
- 1 jar (12 ounces) roasted red peppers, drained and coarsely chopped
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- To make the sauce, place all of the sauce ingredients except for the roasted peppers in a 3-quart pot, and bring to a boil over medium-high heat. Reduce the heat to low, cover, and simmer for 25 minutes, or until the vegetables are tender. Add the peppers, and simmer for 5 additional minutes. Remove the pot from the heat, and set 1 1/2 cups of the sauce aside in a medium-sized bowl.
- Cook the ziti al dente according to package directions. Drain the pasta, and return it to the pot. Add the sauce (except for the reserved sauce) and the Parmesan, and toss to mix.
- Coat a 9-x-13-inch baking pan with cooking spray, and spread the ziti mixture evenly in the pan. Top first with the reserved sauce, and then with the mozzarella.
- Cover the pan with aluminum foil, and bake at 350°F for 25 minutes. Remove the foil, and bake uncovered for 15 additional minutes, or until the cheese is bubbly and lightly browned. Serve hot.
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It depends what you call web development and how you do want to work.
For instance running Photoshop natively is impossible (sure with some VM or "emulation" there are ways to do that or you can simply use GIMP.)
If you're planning to do pure coding - it depends on what you love during development.
On the other hand:
So thats 3 points for both sides. All in all - Linux is just an OS. Tools makes it good and the person it uses makes it fast/slow. I had problems when i needed older versions of php, but overall I use Linux every day not because its better for development, but because it's way better OS, although it has a steep learning curve. I must say that i don't have huge experience developing in php under Linux so i might be missing some points.
Talking about other web languages:
I don't really know about Ruby, but i heard that its better than on windows due to some(?) services and system tools that downloads gems easily.
Finally I just can recommend to try it, not because it may bring some speed to your development, but because it is Linux and it is awesome.
One advantage it might give you is that it is more likely to match the deployment environment, although with Windows improved support of PHP that's not necessarily the case. I've found it more of an advantage to use Linux when developing in Ruby on Rails more than with PHP as you can run into a lot of little annoyances like database drivers. But Microsoft has done a lot of work to better support PHP, including the Web Platform Installer and the new Webmatrix IDE.
I believe there's a lot of benefits to doing this on Linux.
First, you will be dealing with a far simpler operating system environment, one that's reasonably well documented, and one for which source is available. You can have confidence that when you find a bug, you can figure it out. You won't do that weird, pull-out-your-hair having to decide if Windows is at fault, or your code is at fault, and if the former, how to work around it.
Second, Linux performs better than Windows on the same hardware. Despite all the flack in the trade press, this is indisputable. You can easily get away with older or slower or less up-to-date hardware.
Third, Linux and the X11 windowing system are far more customizable than Windows. Try to do focus-follows-mouse or worse yet, lazy focus follows mouse on Windows. You can set up your windowing experience as you like it, not as Microsoft Deems Best for you.
Fourth, Linux filesystems make a lot more sense than NTFS. "Case preserving" filenames? Saints Preserve Us! Alternate Data Streams? What's wrong with directories? Why make every file into a directory? Magic file names like "CONS", "AUX", "LP"? I hope the inventor of those things got punished. Linux filesystems have a single root, and individual disks aren't even easily visible, so you don't have piles of special cases to deal with "C:" vs "C:\something".
Fifth, trying things out is monetarily cheaper. Indisputable.
Best choice for your dev environment would be the one you can be most productive with. It all comes down to personal preference. That being said, lot of web sites and apps (especially ones written in php) are deployed on linux servers. If you're planning to work on other than .NET-technologies in the future, not knowing your way around is likely to bite you in the ass somewhere along the road. So, at least in some point you should familiarize yourself with basic linux usage. Whether you should do it with this project or sometime later is hard to say. Your productivity might suffer while you learn, but after you get to know the way things work in linux environment, it could yield improvements to your productivity.
Short answer:
Yes, but you will need to spend more time setting things up to get the benefit and there is a much steeper learning curve.


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Wilson: Ansonia has it easy in Class S quarters
Your biggest problem come state playoff time shouldn't be how to avoid the state's 50-point rule (in the first half, by the way). But that was about the only challenge Ansonia High's football team could find at a frigid Jarvis Field on Thursday night.
The No. 1-seeded Chargers scored early and often in slugging No. 8 Prince Tech, 53-16, to raise their record to 12-0 and advance to the Class S semifinals Sunday at a time and site to be announced.
A good thing? After all, Ansonia got to rest its starters for the second half. After not having practice Tuesday, this was a nice little tune-up. Or was it? There was not a lot of competition as the Chargers scored at will and defended with ease. Good preparation?
Even Chargers coach Tom Brockett didn't know. But he didn't really seem to care, either.
"You just move on to Sunday; it doesn't have to be pretty," said Brockett after watching his team post its 26th straight win. "There are pros and cons either way."
If you're the glass-is-half-full guy, go with the up side. The Chargers were primed. Arkeel Newsome had a flat-out pedestrian night for him, with 81 yards on 13 carries. Heck, Arkeel usually has that before the band has warmed up its tubas.
Now consider this. Arkeel scored five touchdowns, one coming on a 56-yard interception. Arkeel did not play in the second half. Forget the totals. Arkeel did what he needed to do and then got to watch.
Prince Tech (8-3) was making its first appearance in the playoffs. The Falcons will revel in being there. They will not revel in the result. And it may not make them feel any better to know that with the win the Chargers became the winningest high school football program in Connecticut history with 743 wins, one more than New Britain.
The Falcons won the toss and chose to defer, giving Ansonia the ball. It was all downhill from there. Like sliding down Mount Everest.
A failed on-side kick attempt gave Ansonia the ball at the Prince Tech 48-yard line. Five plays and just over a minute later, Newsome scored TD No. 1 with a 6-yard run. On its next possession, the Chargers went 46 yards in four plays with Newsome scoring from 10 yards out.
Ansonia threw a little diversity into the game when quarterback Jai'Quan McKnight found Andrew Matos all alone in the middle of the field. The cars on nearby Route 8 were closer to him than any defender as he grabbed a 67-yard TD pass.
And so it went. Newsome picked off a pass and bolted down the right side and to the middle for another score, and by the time halftime loomed it was 45-0.
The biggest drama of the half came when McNight picked off a pass and returned it 61 yards with a clear lane to the end zone only to deliberately down the ball on the Prince Tech 13 to avoid any issues with the dreaded CIAC 50-point sportsmanship rule, which raises the threat of suspension of you beat a team by more than 50 points.
"He did that on his own," said Brockett with a wry smile.
Was it all as easy as it looked?
"After a while, it was easy," admitted Newsome. "I thought we had to play good and we did play hard. It feels great to know that you can sit out a whole half and put the JV team in. I can't wait for the semis."
The Chargers did an awesome job of eating up the clock in the second half with its second unit in. Two drives ate up 20 minutes on the clock and the Falcons only got the ball twice in the half.
Freshman Tyler Bailey put on an impressive display with 93 yards on 19 carries, including one stretch where he toted the ball 11 straight times.
Prince Tech featured hard-running back Rahkeem Jordan (28-171), who scored two second-half touchdowns, but most of Jordan's damage came in the second half, when he totaled 100 yards.
Ansonia got his attention.
"I hope they go all the way," Jordan said of the Chargers. "They gave us what they got. They deserve it. My team did what it can do. We played hard to the last whistle."
The Chargers move on. Again. One more win for the state's all-time wins leader.
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Walking Tour of Cape Town audio-guide app – review
If you've ever been on a City Sightseeing Bus in Cape Town, you'll know about the audio commentary that plays as you approach various attractions around the city. You simply sit back, plug in your earphones, and enjoy listening to interesting and informative tour guides as they talk you through the history, significance and little-known facts of the Mother City.
Well, imagine that same concept, but applied to a much smaller scale – a walk around Cape Town's City Bowl and surrounds. Tourism Radio, the South African start-up founded in Cape Town in 2005, has developed location-based audio guides for cities around the world. The guides can be downloaded as standalone applications for Android and iPhone, or accessed through Tourism Radio's travel application, Hummba – listed by Forbes magazine as one of the Top 20 Start-ups in Africa last year.
Cape Town Tourism worked with Tourism Radio to develop the Walking Tour of Central Cape Town app. With an hour's worth of audio commentary and 40 points of interest in the city, it provides a great way to get off the beaten track of an organised group tour and do some exploring of your own. While that can be a daunting endeavour for the uninitiated, having the Walking Tour app makes exploring on your own safe and fun.
How it works
It works like this: First of all, download the app from Google Play (for a bargain R8.53) or Apple iTunes ($0.99c). Remember to take note of your cellphone's data charges if you are not using Wi-Fi. Next, switch on your phone's GPS. For iPhones, this is done by going to Settings > Location Services, and making sure the switch is set to "On" for the Walking Tour app. Android models vary, but for most, you can switch on the GPS in Settings > Location & security. Next, open the app and download the Cape Town guide (it's about 10MB). Press the green arrow to open up the map, and hey presto, you are ready to explore.
The first thing you'll notice is a little yellow man in the centre of the map. That indicates your current position. The app will track your movements as you stroll through the city, and the map will update in real-time. You'll also notice a number of different-coloured squares containing various symbols. These represent different points of interest. You can press the squares scattered around the map to learn more about each one. All the squares are also listed in a row above the map. Press there to filter which ones are displayed. This is particularly useful if you want to customise your adventure – museums and galleries only, for example.
If you prefer to see all the points of interest in a list, press List in the top-right corner. Then, press on any of them to see where they are on the map. Some attractions come with an audio guide, which will start playing as soon as you select them. You can also press the green arrow to read more about each attraction.
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But there's a much more fun way of doing all of this. See where you are on the map, decide which attraction you'd like to head for, plug in your earphones and put your phone away. As soon as you are close to each attraction, the audio commentary will automatically play. It's always a pleasant surprise when it kicks in, preceded with a melodic little jingle that signals you are near an attraction. The commentary lasts anywhere between 30 seconds to a minute or so, and allows you to benefit from local knowledge and insight while still exploring on your own.
I journeyed from Greenmarket Square in the middle of the City Bowl towards the Company's Garden. With my phone safely tucked in my pocket, I was ready for the Walking Tour app to surprise me. It picked out the Metropolitan Methodist Church, The Old Town House and the Square itself as I approached each one, providing an interesting historical context to the buildings that appear so unassuming in our modern world.
I made my way up Government Avenue, and learned about St George's Cathedral, the Houses of Parliament, Die Tuynhuys, and the Iziko Museums. For some attractions, like St George's Cathedral, the audio commentary actually urges you to go inside, and describes what you see in the interior. This was particularly impressive, as the kind of information shared by the app is not always on display at each venue, and you can't help but feel as if you are privy to some special knowledge that others around you (who can't hear the commentary) don't know.
As much as it's great to just wander around, keep an eye on the map to make sure you don't get lost! If you want to head towards a particular attraction, select it from the list, press the green arrow to read more, and then select Go There. The app will then launch a different app (typically Google Maps or Apple Maps) to do this, automatically creating directions to that chosen attraction, and displaying the best route to take. You can follow those directions while keeping the audio commentary running so as not to miss anything on the way.
Things to remember:
- Make sure you have a full battery when you start; using location services generally uses more battery power
- The little yellow man on your map symbolises where you are. When checking on your location, wait a few seconds to ensure that there is no lag time on the GPS
- Don't get lost! It's great to wander around Cape Town, but do keep an eye on the map
- Be aware of your surroundings; don't wander off the main pedestrian routes
- Look ahead! Walking and looking down at your phone's screen may cause you to bump into people or things.
Overall, the Walking Tour app is a great way to augment your travels through the city. If you're the kind of traveller who likes to have their nose in a guidebook wherever they go, you'll love the freedom that an audio guide gives you.
For the adventurous among you, this app will allow you to make your own way through the city without ever feeling completely lost, or that you are missing the good stuff. You'll be able to find the things that interest you, and discover some you may have never known about. It gives you the flexibility to see the sights in your own time, and to linger somewhere or get chatting to the locals if that takes your fancy. And at less than R10 for the app, you're getting professional tour-guide insight for an absolute steal.
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NEW YORK—Global financial markets were roiled Monday after conflicting comments from a senior European financial official sparked worry that the deal to rescue Cyprus could set a precedent for future bailouts.
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The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 64.28 points, or 0.4%, to close at 14447.75. The blue chips changed course after climbing as much as 52 points shortly after the opening bell, their biggest reversal in a month. The S&P 500, meanwhile, came within a point during intraday trade of its all-time closing high of 1565.15, hit in October 2007, before slipping into the red.
In Europe, Italy's FTSE Mib tumbled 2.5% and Spain's IBEX 35 slid 2.3%, reflecting investors' fears about the potential for contagion.
Initially, investors were concerned that the measures to impose losses on bondholders and some depositors in Cyprus could be repeated in larger European countries. Early Monday, Eurogroup head Jeroen Dijsselbloem said the bailout could serve as a template for dealing with future problems with the region's banks, according to some media reports.
Later, though, Mr. Dijsselbloem backed away from these comments. "Cyprus is a specific case with exceptional challenges," he said in an official statement distributed on Twitter. "Macroeconomic adjustment programs are tailor-made to the situation of the country concerned and no models or templates are used."
U.S. stocks pared losses after the statement was released. At one point, the Dow was down as much as 117 points on the day.
Investors were focused on whether the Cyprus bailout might serve as a blueprint for future aid packages. The deal provides 10 billion euros ($13 billion) in financing for Cyprus, and imposes losses on bank deposits of more than EUR100,000 in the country's largest banks.
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As well, holders of the banks' senior bonds, which many investors have assumed would be safe from losses, may also lose money. While those losses are relatively small – Cypriot banks have only about 200 million euros in senior bonds outstanding- investors worry that such a scenario could be repeated should Italy or Spain run into trouble.
"Today's back and forth in the market has do with whether this sets a precedent for other bailouts, or is a one-off," said Wasif Latif, vice president of equity investments at USAA Investments in San Antonio. His firm manages $54 billion.
In Europe, shares of banks, particularly those based in the region's weaker countries, were among the hardest hit. U.S. bank stocks held up relatively better.
The iShares MSCI Europe Financial Sector Index exchange-traded fund, which tracks a basket of bank stocks in the region, slumped 2.6%, its third-biggest daily drop this year.
Cyprus' struggle to secure international assistance in rescuing its financial sector has brought the euro area's debt saga back to center stage. The country secured an aid package early Monday, but at a steep cost, breaking a taboo by agreeing to tax depositors' holdings and hit another group that has generally been spared financial-crisis pain: senior bank bondholders.
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"If this is a new template for dealing with banking problems in the E.U.," Mr. Morris said. Such an outcome potentially makes European banks "a less-attractive and riskier investment," Mr. Morris said.
U.S. stocks also traded lower, reversing the Standard & Poor's 500-stock index's morning climb toward an all-time closing high. But American financial shares were spared the heavy selling seen in parts of Europe. The S&P 500 declined 0.3%, and financial shares in the index dropped in line with the broader group.
"This particular risk is primarily European," said Mr. Morris. He said he sees the selloff tied to the latest drama in Cyprus as an "overreaction" and has been counseling clients not to see it as indicating a major change in the market's direction.
The selling comes as steep gains so far this year have left many investors wondering if the market is due for a pullback.
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When should the word "God" be capitalized?
I thought god is a common noun, but many people capitalize it when it is not the first letter of a sentence or a title.
I thought god is a common noun, but many people capitalize it when it is not the first letter of a sentence or a title.
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When you are referring to the creator of the universe of some religions, you write God; when you are referring to a superhuman being (or a deity) of some other religions, you write god.
The difference is that in monotheistic religions there is only one god, and God often becomes (as in Christianity) a proper noun; in non monotheistic religions (e.g. Hinduism), there isn't a single god, and God is not the name of one of the gods (it is god Vishnu, not God Vishnu).
This is similar to what happen with Moon, used when referring to the natural satellite of planet Earth, and moon, used to refer to the natural satellite of any planet (e.g., Jupiter moons); the same happens with Sun, which is the star around which planet Earth orbits, and sun, which is used to refer any star similar to the Sun (with or without planets).
It (and some pronouns), when referring to the creator of the universe, is a proper noun and is capitalized (just like "Bob" or "Joe" would be).
When being used as a common noun, it is referring to the concept of a god (or god as a "type," if you will) and is not capitalized (just like "human" or "dog" would be)
The following are all correct:
It depends on whether you subscribe to a monotheistic universe (where you use a capital letter, since there is only one God), or a polytheistic universe (where you use a lower case letter since there are many gods), or an atheistic universe (where you probably use a lower case letter, but don't believe that 'god' exists and avoid the term whenever possible).
Only religious writings and publications, and material written by the devout, would capitalize pronouns and possessives when in reference to the Christian god. Secular writing is not enjoined to follow the practice. Capitalization of "God" generally serves as a marker for the Judeo-Christian-Islamic deity. Secular writers will usually capitalize "God" out of convention, but not necessarily respect for said deity or the adherents of same.


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Nathaniel James Williams was born April 24, 1979 in Oakland, Calif. He passed away on September 30, 2012. Nate was the second of two children from the union of his father, Roy Lee Williams and his mother Leona Kay (Taylor) Williams. He was preceded in death by both of his parents, his beloved sister Yvonne N. Williams, and his loving grandmother, Laura Mae Taylor.
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More than 300 troops from the 101st Airborne Air Assault Division made a tearful homecoming to Ft. Campbell on Friday morning. The advance team is made up of personnel trained to lay the groundwork and prepare the details for the return of the full division in February.
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Oct. 1, 2012 -- School lunches are getting an extreme makeover.
Gone are fried tater tots, chicken nuggets, and pepperoni pizza. In their place are heaps of whole grains, veggies, fruits, and low-fat dairy products, along with baked versions of formerly fried favorites such as chicken nuggets or fish sticks.
Students will also be seeing less salt and trans fats thanks to the Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010. There are also calorie caps on the lunches: 650 for elementary school students, 700 for middle schoolers, and 850 for high school students.
First Lady Michelle Obama and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack rolled out the new school lunch menus at the start of the 2012-2013 school year for the 32 million students who take part in the National School Lunch and obesity programs. Previous school meal standards were developed 15 years ago and did not reflect current nutritional guidelines.
The menus are intended to help stamp out childhood and teen obesity in the U.S. As it stands, one in three kids in America is overweight or obese. And diseases linked to obesity that were once seen only in adults are now increasingly being diagnosed in kids. These include high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and diabetes.
Not Everyone's on Board
The change has fueled some controversy. The Hunger-Free Kids Act may actually be leaving some students ... hungry.
A YouTube video that parodies the song "We Are Young" by Fun went viral. In it, Kansas teens sing "We Are Hungry" in protest of the lunch menu changes. There have also been brown bag campaigns and boycotts across the map, and a new bill before Congress that seeks to repeal the calorie caps.
"There's no question that schools should encourage healthy eating," says Jeff Stier. He is a senior fellow at the National Center for Public Policy Research, a conservative think tank based in Washington, D.C. But "the USDA is ... leaving active children so hungry that they tend to leave the school lunchroom to buy less nutritious and more calorie-dense foods. Ironically, the Hunger-Free Kids Act is leaving kids hungry."
But it's a start, others say.
"We have some real problems with obesity and this didn't start yesterday," says Janey Thornton, PhD. She is the USDA Deputy Under Secretary for Food, Nutrition and Consumer Services. "School lunches are not the total solution, but hopefully a small part of it that can help children ... take responsibility for what they eat and portion sizes."


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I use Macs, Ubuntu, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and Fedora for different purposes. I'm fairly busy and trying out a new distro takes a lot of time, but I hear lots of good things about Arch Linux from people I admire. I do mostly scientific computing (and some web development), and use Linux as both a desktop and a server. Does Arch offer anything I'm not already getting from one of my current installs? I'm particularly interested in the differences between Arch and Debian
I myself have migrated to Arch some months ago, and form my experience I could give you some advices:
But you have to have a lot of time to put in it, reading configuration files, official documents, wiki and so on (although most of this is just at the installation phase).
To sum it up, I think that it isn't the distro that you want to work on day to day, but for a personal use and for hobbie it is Great & Fun.
Is there any merit in trying Arch? Of course there is.
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Whether or not there are advantages to you depends entirely on your needs and inclinations. Arch means having the the newest packages, but that comes at a cost in terms of attentiveness to your system.
There is no particular "magic" to Arch (and no inherent "coolness" either); it's a distro like any other that scratches an itch...
I have been running Slackware releases for some years. I made my development machine into an Arch box a couple of years ago. I think that Arch holds your hand a bit more than Slackware, in that pacman can detect missing packages, where installpkg doesn't. To me, it also seemed easier to have a custom kernel on Slackware than on Arch: I gave up on custom kernels and just went with the Arch rolling release kernel.
I don't think Arch takes that much extra time, I would gladly have an Arch desktop (as long as I get to run
For experimenting, I've tried Arch. It's where a lot of people these days are ending-up after having tried LFS or Gentoo long ago. Frankly, it's a bit raw as intended and reminds me of Slack. That said, I :heart: GNU/Linux.
I've found FreeBSD has numerous practical advantages:
The freebsd source ports are pretty current, and easy as any Ubuntu LTS/Debian or Arch. I'm probably biased as I'm a sysadmin that started in the early Slackware days.
There isn't much I can find wrong with FreeBSD other than it's not quite as new and shiny as Arch. kFreeBSD and the Nexenta desktop variants would also be interesting.


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We are all products of our experience and Mr. Nixon is no
exception. After twenty-five years of fighting communism, real
and imaginary, at home and abroad, Mr. Nixon has shown himself
at the crucial moment unwilling to settle for a "reasonable
chance" in the contest with Vietnamese communism. He still
wants the victory and the submission of the enemy that have
eluded two presidents for seven years. His prejudices, and
perhaps the background in which those were formed, seem to
have incapacitated this President for making a compromise peace.
The President's incapacity has mm thrust the responsibility
upon the shoulders of a Congress which has long struggled to
escape it. But the responsibility is now inescapable. It is
up to Congress, through its appropriations power, to bring
about a peace in which both sides in South Vietnam will have
a chance for power. That is the kind of peace Kissinger
almost attained, end it must be recognized that an essential
element to such an agreement is that it might result eventually
in a Communist South Vietnam. If the Thieu regime is capable
of marshaling its superior resources and inspiring the loyalty
of its people, it will prevail without further American
participation. But if it cannot, the Vietcong will prevail. That is
the meaning -- the only possible meaning -- of a "reasonable
Power end responsibility go together. If Congress legislates
an end to the war leaving Mr. Thieu no more than a "reasonable
chance" for survival, Congress, and not the President, will be
accountable for the consequences of such a settlement. If
South Vietnam then went Communist, it would not be Mr. Nixon's
Fault; it would not be his "defeat and humiliation." But if,
as I believe, America should find itself freer, stronger and
happier in peace than It has been In a decade, regardless of the
final result in Vietnam, that too would go on Congress's account
and not on the account of an incapacitated President.
For several decades American Presidents have made war as
they saw fit because Congress seemed incapable of asserting
its constitutional war power. Now, in an ironic twist of
events, the President seem incapable of making peace and it is
up to Congress to fill the void. It is a considerable
responsibility, but it cannot be avoided. If Congress does not now
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Small investors have been shaken by a recent spate of brokerage mishaps, leaving some people worrying if their own assets are safe.
Brokerage firm Rochdale Securities, which is based in Stamford, Conn., has been struggling to stay afloat after an errant trade in October depleted the firm's capital, while this month, Hudson Valley Capital Management, a New York firm, was expelled from the securities industry after its chief executive allegedly used customer assets to cover up losses he sustained while day trading.
Rochdale declined to comment, as did former Hudson Valley CEO Mark Gillis.
Those two incidents followed other high-profile ones: MF Global Holdings, a brokerage that allegedly misappropriated $1.6 billion in customer funds as it tried to stay alive last year, and Peregrine Financial Group, an Iowa firm that declared bankruptcy after its founder admitted to a nearly 20-year fraud perpetrated against clients.
There's a big difference between doing business with a national or regional brokerage firm and a smaller one, says Mark Maddox, an Indianapolis-based lawyer who has represented investors in arbitrations against both small and large brokerage firms. Large brokerages such as UBS or Morgan Stanley Wealth Management, or online firms such as Fidelity Investments and Charles Schwab, SCHW -1.01 % are often thought of as more secure and less likely to fail, experts say.
But some investors might prefer the homegrown touch of a smaller brokerage firm to its bigger brethren. To ensure their money stays safe if a firm collapses—or to guard against it in the first place—investors should consider the following steps.
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When setting up your account, you might be given the choice between a "cash account" and a "margin account." Choosing a cash account is safer, says Owen Murray, director of investments at Horizon Advisors, a fee-only registered investment adviser based in Houston.
Margin accounts, which allow clients to borrow money to buy additional securities, are risky because the property in your portfolio is considered part of the firm's balance sheet. If there's a capital shortfall, says Mr. Murray, your assets are treated as assets of the firm and can act as collateral of the firm.
If you want to trade on margin, he recommends investing with a well-known firm and spreading your assets around.
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"If a firm is thinly capitalized, you want to stay away from it," Mr. Maddox says. Hudson Valley Capital Management, for example, had only about $80,000 in assets as of Sept. 30, 2011, the most recent period for which data were available, according to SEC filings.
Next, look up a brokerage firm on the website of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (www.finra.org), the independent regulator for all securities firms operating in the U.S. The site's BrokerCheck feature shows the history of regulatory actions or civil proceedings against a firm.
You will also need to identify the clearing firm—the one that will actually clear your trades. The brokerage firm will often execute your trades, while the clearing firm will actually be in charge of your assets, says Marc Menchel, former general counsel for policy at Finra and a principal at Menchel Consulting, a Fairfax, Va., firm that offers regulatory and compliance consulting services to brokerages.
To determine the quality of the clearing firm, he suggests looking at how solvent or liquid it is and its excess net capital on the SEC's Edgar site or on the company's site. A bigger capital cushion should put investors more at ease.
You also should consider the other activities the brokerage firm engages in. If it trades its own capital, for example, it might have a need for money if it accumulates losses, potentially putting your assets at risk, says Mr. Menchel.
Finally, ask whether the brokerage firm has professional liability insurance, says Mr. Maddox, the lawyer. If it does, and it commits malpractice that costs clients money, they will be able to recover what is owed to them. He recommends asking for a copy of the declaration page of the policy that summarizes the firm's coverage.
Spread your assets around.
To reduce the risk of losses, divide your assets among a few different firms. "If you have $1 million to invest, and you lose it at one firm, you'd be bankrupt," says Mr. Murray of Horizon Advisors. "Split among five different firms, you'd take a hit but it wouldn't be catastrophic."
Specific guidelines for how many firms to use and how much to park at each will depend on the investor, but a general rule of thumb is to give each firm only the amount you can afford to lose, says Mr. Murray.
Document suspicious trades.
If the brokerage firm misappropriates customer funds and can't pay them back, the federal Securities Investor Protection Corporation will cover up to $500,000 worth of securities, of which $250,000 can be in cash, says SIPC President Stephen Harbeck. Investors will also receive a pro rata share of the existing assets of the entity in the event of a liquidation.
One caveat: SIPC doesn't cover futures trades, unless the customer has an account holding both futures and securities.
Mr. Harbeck suggests reading your confirmation slips and monthly statements very carefully and reviewing all the transactions. If there's a problem—say, a trade you didn't authorize—you should make your complaint known by documenting it in writing so there's a paper trail to back you up.
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When pointing out to my friends one day that I should have used a different word in a previous conversation, I mentioned that I was being pedantic. They, ironically, corrected me saying I was being semantic. When I pointed out that their distinction was being pedantic, they again disagreed, saying that was semantic. Though I looked up both definitions and that they seem to have a lot of overlap,
pedantic seems to be the adjective to use for people though is far more general. Which one is more correct in these situations, or are they both correct? If they are both correct, which one is more "proper?"
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When pointing out to my friends one day that I should have used a different word in a previous conversation, I mentioned that I was being pedantic. They, ironically, corrected me saying I was being semantic. When I pointed out that their distinction was being pedantic, they again disagreed, saying that was semantic. Though I looked up both definitions and that they seem to have a lot of overlap,
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On the face of it, the answer to the question in the title cannot be anything other than "mu": these two words are almost completely orthogonal. But given your explanation, I can see where you're coming from.
I would say your friends are wrong, by virtue of the fact that "being" and "semantic" don't go together in my mind. An argument can be semantic; a person can't. (nGram that agrees with me)
That said, Ronan Murphy is correct in that semantic nitpicking is a specific type of pedantry. You can be pedantic about a lot of things, but when you're pedantic about the meanings of words, then you're engaging in semantic pedantry.
Note that pedantry isn't really the same thing as nitpicking. As a button I own says, "I'm not anal, I'm a pedant. There's a difference. Let me explain...". :)
They are two completely separate concepts.
Pedantic means being overly scrupulous in your assessment. In other words, sticking too closely to strict definitions at the cost of the overall meaning.
Semantic means pertaining to meaning in language.
They are not interchangeable, though they are frequently used that way.
The expression that's just semantics really means you are not arguing the premise, just what to call it. (Note that this argument is actually backwards since semantics implies the meaning of the words rather than the choice of words.)
The expression you are being pedantic means that you are nitpicking over unimportant details in the argument. In other words, if you are discussing George Washington's horsemanship: trying to discredit your opponents point of view because his horse was white not brown. That would be pedantic.
It is absolutely possible to have pedantic semantic argument, but it doesn't make them equivalent.
And, before it gets said in comments my post is both pedantic and semantic!
Your friend was attempting to be witty, but I guess they didn't quite get their point across there.
Compare with the following hypothetical conversation...
Customer: Hi, I ordered a rugby ball from your website, but you sent me a soccer ball.
Shop-keeper: Sounds like a clerical error.
Customer: I think you mean spherical error.
Hint - you were being both pedantic and semantic, although it's true that "being semantic" isn't common usage.
The dictionary definitions actually give a decent hint (from Merriam-Webster online):
Those definitions don't leave much up for debate; the words are very different. From them, it is fairly easy to see the differences. In particular:
So you can be pedantic, or your argument can be semantic, or you can be pedantic about semantic things, or pedantic about semantics. You'd never really be semantic. (Note, by the way, that the noun "semantics" is related to the adjective "semantic" but, of course, is not the "plural" of it; there is no noun "semantic".)
Your friends could have said something more along the lines of "You are concentrating too much on semantics", or "You are getting caught up with semantic details", but definitely not "You are being semantic".
Semantic is specifically related to words and their use, so you could be semantic about using "a different word in a previous conversation". You could also be pedantic about this, but because pedantic is a more general term, you could be pedantic about how you like your shelves organised, but you wouldn't be semantic about it.
They're different words. Semantics refers to the meaning of words: for example, I could talk about the word "ball" in terms of its semantics; in that case, I would say that it means a spherical object, typically able to be thrown, and can sometimes be bounced. Pedantry (adjective pedantic) is when someone is being nit-picky, criticising apparently minor errors or flaws in something.
Lately, people seem to use the phrase "That's just a matter of semantics" to imply that someone is being pedantic. At the moment, this is a misuse of the word. The idea behind the phrase is to suggest that the other person is getting too deeply involved in the meaning of the words, where the distinction doesn't really matter. The phrase suggests someone is being pedantic. Over time that's probably become shortened to "semantics", and I imagine this is why your friends equate the two. But right now, they're definitely different words. That may well change.


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