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Klaussner, based in Asheboro, N.C., offers products ranging from American-made upholstered sofas and chairs to leather and reclining furniture. With more than 500 fabric options and 75 leather options, Klaussner's line of upholstered products gives shoppers the option of customizing their furniture with the fabric or leather of their choice.
"We are very excited to have such a large (display) of our North Carolina-made products in Create-A-Room in the Ohio Valley market," said Len Burke, vice president of marketing for Klaussner's. "The collaboration between Klaussner and Create-A-Room helps to sustain jobs within the USA, and we are proud to have them as a valued retail partner."
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SHOWCASE — Create-A-Room, 110 Main St., Wintersville, now offers customers the convenience of shopping at a Klaussner Solutions Studio, a high-tech option for choosing fabrics and finishes. In addition to a wide array of American-made merchandise on display in store, there's also an exclusive Solutions Center kiosk that allows customers to drape their favorite furniture item in a specific fabric or leather finish. It also allows customers to check availability as well as price while they're still on the retail floor. Klaussner home furnishings are crafted in North Carolina. Helping celebrate the opening of the new studio were, from left, sales associates Lorie Grandy and Tommy Petrella; Klaussner sales representative Mac McCarrell; Create-A-Room General Manager Mike Postelthwaite; Klaussner Regional Vice President of Sales Chuck Welch; and Create-A-Room owners Lisa and Derek Ferguson. -- Linda Harris
Create-A-Room, founded in 2005, is located at 110 Main St.
The new Klaussner studio also offers an exclusive Solutions Center kiosk, which gives customers the ability to drape the sofa of their choice and see a digital rendering of how the product will look prior to receiving their products. The technology also offers customers the ability to check stock availability as well as price from the retail floor, technology available only at Create-A-Room.
"The grand opening of the new Klaussner Solutions Studio in Create-A-Room gives (us) the ability to showcase many of our company's products," Burke said. "This store-within-a-store concept is a great way to segment our products while allowing shoppers the ability to customize our upholstered furniture with the fabric or leather of their choice."


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Louise Kelly
Personal Information
Alliant School of Management
Business Administration
San Diego Campus
Alliant International University San Diego
10455 Pomerado Road
San Diego CA 92131
Courses, Research Interests, Publications
Strategic and business management; leadership; sustainable leadership; family business; entrepreneurship; environmental entrepreneurship; entrepreneurship in developing countries - Kenya, Mexico, Vietnam, Guatemala and others; women entrepreneurs;
Kelly, L. (2013 forthcoming) Women Entrepreneurs: New Management and Leadership Models Volume 1. Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger.
Kelly, L. (2013 forthcoming) Women Entrepreneurs: New Management and Leadership Models Volume 11. Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger.
Wankel, C, Kelly, L. et al. (2012- forthcoming) Management through Collaboration: Teaming in a Networked World. Palgrave Macmillan.
Kelly, L et al. (2011). Educating Managers About Integrity: Sensitizing Learners to Universal Value and Cultural Variation. Academy of Management. San Antonio. August 2011.
Finkelman, J.M., Kelly, L. (2011).The psychology of rule-breaking behavior in organizations. In A. Stachowicz-Stanusch & C. Wankel (Eds). Handbook of Research in Teaching Ethics in Business and Management Education. Hershey, PA: IGI Global.
Kelly, L., Chung, W. (2011). Leadership across Multicultural and International Contexts: Imperatives for the Global Manager. What Every Professional Needs to Know to be Multiculturally and Internationally Competent in R. Lowman (Ed).
Kelly, & L. Pedro, S. (2002). "San Diego Tijuana Resource Guide" International Sister Cities Corporation.
Kelly, L. (1998). "Intrapreneurship in Hi-Tech Firms." In A. B. Ibrahim and W. Ellis. Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management: Text, Readings and Cases 3/E. Iowa: Kendall- Hunt.
Kelly, L. Executive Pay and Performance, chpt. in J. Kelly, Facts and Fictions of Executive Behavior: A Critical Analysis of What Managers Do. Westport, Conneticut: Quorum Books. 1993.
Kelly, L & Finkelman, J. (2012) The Psychologist Manager: Success Models for Psychologists in Executive Positions. Gottingen, Germany: Hogrefe.
Kelly, L & C. Booth (2004) "A Dictionary of Strategy: Strategic Management A-Z". Sage.
Kelly, L. & J. Kelly (1998). "An Existential Systems Approach to Managing Organizations." Westport: Greenwood Publishing Group
Journal Articles
Kelly, L., Finkelman, J. (2011). The Psychologist Manager: Uniquely Qualified to Address 21st century Leadership Challenges? The Psychologist Manager Journal.
Kelly, L., Athanassiou, N., and Crittenden, W. "Founder Centrality & Strategy in the Family Owned Firm". Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, Jan. 2001
Kelly, L. "Founder Centrality Effects on the Mexican Family Firm"s Top ManagementGroup:Firm Culture, Strategic Vision and Goals, and Firm Performance" Journal of World Business, August 2001.
"Founder Centrality, Vision, Culture, and Performance in Mexican Family Businesses" Academy of International Business, Phoenix, November 2000.
" The Role of the Founder in Setting Strategy in Mexican Family Businesses." Second International Symposium of the International Network for Collaboration in the Behavioral Sciences. Rosarito, Baja California, Mexico. October 2000.
Mexico: Political Economy and Free Markets. Fifth International Conference, El Paso, November 2000.
"Panel Discussion: Cultural Issues in Post NAFTA Mexico-US Alignments" Second International Symposium of the International Network for Collaboration in the Behavioral Sciences. Rosarito, Baja California, Mexico. October 2000.
"Founder Centrality" Academy of Management: San Diego, August 1998.
"Emotional Conflicts of the Family Business," Sloan-Wellsely International Conference on work and family, April 1997.
"Inferring Strategy Using Annual Reports." Eastern Academy of Management. Arlington, VA, May 1996.
"Working Abroad," Eastern Academy of Management, Arlington, VA, May 1996.
"Quebec's Entrepreneurialism," SCOS 14, Los Angeles, CA, July 1996.
"A Narrative Model: Interpreting Strategy Through Annual Reports, ASAC Conference Proceedings,Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. June 1994.
"Mexican Family Businesses and Founder Centrality" Academy of Management, Washington, DC.
Executive training in Leon, Mexico with Tecnos Consulting. Topic: top management team development in family firms., 2002
Executive Training in Mexico City in conjunction with Alliant Mexico City campus. Topic: Leadership skills for Mexican managers., 2002
Founder Centrality in top management teams, focusing on Mexican, U.S. and Canadian firms.
Wal-Mart Mexico:15th largest company in the world, worked with Director of Sustainabilty in Mexico City. The Project was to establish sustainability standards for a cluster of 120 firms in Mexico.
Currently collecting data on Kenyan top managers.
Somali Family Services leadership: strategy planning, balanced scorecard, staff and management leadership development, women leadership, youth leadership, media training. Established an ongoing relationship to provide these types of training.
Breick Construction: reorganization of top management team (TMT), ownership agreement for a family business, training and assessment of TMT for strategic approach
Dana Gunn Financial Services: consulting for orientation of the company for the Hispanic market in San Diego - overseeing translation of website, hiring of bilingual personnel, design of seminars for Latino realtors, design and implementation of marketing plan for Hispanic market.
Bombardier: recycling program analysis for Bombardier plant in Queretaro, Mexico reporting to Director of Corporate Responsibility.
Koppert: organic farming project with a goal of reducing waste in artificial beehives for customers in Queretaro, Mexico.
GlobalMind Center for Strategic Consulting
Interested in cross-cultural studies of top management teams and the strategy process.
ACE Grant: At Home in the World: Educating for Global Connections and Local Commitments. American Council on Education (ACE) project funded by the Henry Luce Foundation, entitled At Home in the World: Educating for Global Connections and Local Commitments,-promoting collaboration between international and multicultural initiatives in colleges and universities. Provost Newman, Dr, Kumea Shorter-Gooden. Dr. Wedding, and Dr. Kelly developed the winning proposal., 2011
2005CONAHEC Cross Border Grant of $15,000 to train Mexican businesses in database and strategic management skills, 2005
2004CONAHEC Cross Border Grant of $15,000 to train Mexican businesses in database and strategic management skills, 2004
Grant of $3,000 from Target to run an international/multicultural program. The program is "Multicultural and International Literacy Experience" (MILE) for young children and their families and will be run by Pacific Southwest Community Development Corporation (PSCDC) and Alliant International University. Dr. Kelly is the project leader for Alliant and administered the project through GlobalMind's Center for Strategic Consulting.
Academic History and Background
PhD, Strategic Management - Concordia University (Montreal, Canada)
Secretary for the San Diego Tijuana Sister City Board, 2000
Professional Practice and Community Service
Presenter for Integrating Best Practices session held for Northeastern faculty. Topic: Using Meeting Web to Integrate Experience into the Classroom., 1998
Running focus group for Northeastern faculty for Cooperative Education. Topic: Student Reflections on the Learning Achieved Through Participation in Coop Education and How That Learning Might Be Enhanced., 1998
Judge for John Diffenbach Prize, 1996, 1997, and 1998. MBA students presented strategic case analysis of their coop experience., 1996
Advisor to Boston Business School Beanpot Case Competition, 1997, 1998 and 1999. Winning Team, 1999, 1997. Runner-up team, 1998.
Strategic management consulting: Catholic Charities, DARE Family Services, Thoreau Language Institute, Internet Capital Group, New England Coffee, Red Lion Inn, Wilkinson Heating, Chenubee, STM Technology, Pressure Source, Abbot Labs
Reviewer for Academy of Management, Entrepreneurship Division
Reviewer for Business Research
Reviewer for European Management Journal, special issue on management in Russia and Eastern Europe
Reviewer for Eastern Academy of Management Conference, the Strategy, Policy and Decision Making Track.
* Mexico
* Meditation
* Yoga
* Spanish
* Don Quixote
* Running
* Learning
* Reading
Bio and Links
Dr. Kelly is a Professor of Strategy and Leadership and Program Coordinator of the Doctorate in Business Administration (DBA) at the School of Management at Alliant International University in San Diego, California. She was born in Glasgow, Scotland and grew up in Montreal, Quebec, Canada and is fluent in Spanish and French. She has a PhD in Strategic Management from Concordia University, Montreal and specializes in international strategic leadership research- looking at top management team leadership from a social networks and diversity perspective. Dr. Kelly started her business career in the book publishing business, working with Prentice Hall in Canada.
After five years in the industry, she figured out she preferred writing books, and following in a family tradition, she is currently finishing her fourth and fifth book. Her books include "An Existential Systems Approach to Managing Organizations" (Quorum Press 1998), " A Dictionary of Strategy: Strategic Management A-Z" (Sage 2004) and her latest book is "ThePsychologist Manager: Success Models for Psychologists in Executive Positions" (2012, Hogrefe) as well as an edited two volume set entitled, "Entrepreneurial Women: New Leadership and Management Models" (Praeger) forthcoming August 2014.
Dr. Kelly has consulted for firms in Canada, US, Mexico, Kenya, Guatemala and Vietnam. She has taught in Canada, US, Germany, Vietnam, Mexico, Guatemala, and El Salvador. She has been designated an Outstanding Scholar by the US government based on her international scholarship and publications. In 2013 she was voted Outstanding Professor at Alliant School of Management and was invited on to the National Executive Board of the Academy of Management's Sigma Iota Epsilon which is dedicated to excellence and ethics in management. Under her faculty leadership, Alliant's Sigma chapter won 'chapter of the year' three years in a row, taking first place twice and coming in third once out of 71 national chapters. Dr. Kelly currently resides with her husband and their dog in the Hollywood Hills, California.

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5 Insane Ways Words Can Control Your Mind
#2. It Skews Your Perception of Time
Picture, in your head, a timeline of your life. Your birth at one end, your death at the other, today somewhere in the middle.
The night you burnt that clown's body, buried safely behind you.
We're going to take a wild guess and say that you imagined that line running horizontally, your birth on your left, your death on your right. Most English speakers imagine time that way, and then when we talk about events we picture ourselves moving along it like we were walking down a path. We talk about how we've put that terrible relationship "behind us," about that miserable physics exam we have "coming up" and how in few years "down the road" no one will care that we failed that exam just because a hasty drawing of a swinging dick does not, as it turns out, qualify as an answer to all 20 multiple choice gravitational rotation problems.
It might be enough to get you through freshman philosophy though.
Mandarin speakers, on the other hand, imagine time in a vertical sense. They'll sometimes talk about whether an event was "up" (already happened) or "down" (coming up in the future). The difference appears to relate back to how their text runs -- English reads from left to right, but Chinese text used to read vertically from top to bottom (and still does in some parts of the world). So it became second nature in the language to picture events unfolding in the same direction as in a story they were reading.
Now here's where it gets weird: They did an experiment at Stanford where they'd try to trip up this process by taking Mandarin speakers and having them arrange objects horizontally in a certain order, then asked them a series of time-based questions ("Does April come before or after March?").
The act of getting them thinking horizontally with the object puzzle made it harder for them to answer the time-based questions. Take an English speaker and make them do a puzzle where they have to stack objects vertically, and they'll then find it harder to answer the same questions having to do with chronology. In other words: Make them think in the wrong physical direction, and they find it harder to think about time.
Perhaps weirder than that, Indonesian people often don't use terms to explain the passage of time at all. That is, in English if you're reporting a crime, you're either going to say, "Mel Gibson shot my dad," "Mel Gibson is shooting my dad" or "Mel Gibson is about to shoot my dad." There's no way to relay that information without giving away where in the shooting process we currently are chronologically. But in Indonesia they have a way to just convey that without any tense at all, and they often do it.
They also often do this, whatever it is.
In experiments they were told to describe three photos of a guy approaching a soccer ball, kicking it and then watching it sail away. The Indonesians would often use exactly the same terms to describe all three, something like "man ball kick." Quiz them later on what was different about the three photos and they often can't tell you. Because their language doesn't require them to state the time sequence, they tend to not notice it. The language drives their thinking.
How does this affect everyday life in Indonesia? Science is just beginning to understand (one researcher joked that Indonesians always seem to be running late).
"Late again, Sue? How Indonesian of you."
#1. It Warps How We View Objects
Quick psychological test: If this ladybug could talk, what would her voice sound like? Would she be sultry and sexy? Motherly and nurturing? Bitchy? What's she thinking about -- her eggs? Getting food for her larvae?
Whoa, what's this?
Holy shit! She totally has a dick! It's almost like there are ... male ladybugs.
Of course, on some level you knew this (the angry dude ladybug was a running joke in A Bug's Life, after all) but the point is there are a few things in life you instinctively think of as being male or female, even when it makes no sense. Some of you are always surprised when you find out a poodle is male, for instance. Sailors think of their ships as female.
Despite the obvious wang-like shape.
Some languages do this with everything, however. Spanish and German assigns gender to every word. In Spanish, la cocina (kitchen) is female. You can tell because of the "a" sound at the end. Burrito is male. The "o" marks it as such (when they're talking about people, they always mark the sex -- in English you can say "my neighbor stopped by" but in Spanish you need to say "vecino" or "vecina," depending on whether the neighbor had a dong).
Just as the ladybug arbitrarily wound up with a name that makes you assign feminine qualities to it, inanimate objects in these languages suffer the same fate. And it is arbitrary -- in Spanish, their word for bridge is masculine. In German, it's feminine. Just like with the ladybug, on some level you know it makes no sense for them to all be women, and Germans know their bridges don't have vaginas. But experiments show they instinctively assign feminine qualities to them -- show a German speaker a picture of a bridge and they're more likely to describe it as "elegant" or "slender." The Spanish lean more toward "strong" or possibly "hung."
"What a slutty bridge."
In a different experiment, they sat a fork on a table and told the subject to imagine it could talk, the same as we did with the ladybug earlier. Like if they decided to do a really boring Pixar movie starring forks. French speakers (who refer to the object by the very feminine and delicate "fourchette") immediately assigned it a woman's voice. Spanish speakers (for whom this utensil is the very manly "EL TENEDOR!") cast it as a man, probably voiced by Chris Rock.
The same fork. Once their language started referring to the object as "he" or "she", they couldn't help but think of it that way.
Wait ... does this somehow explain the rubber testicles people put on their pickup trucks?
Ah, probably not.
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In the spring of 2003, my wife and I were wrestling with whether to move to a larger house. My wife has a large family, and our small house wasn't really up to hosting the epic family holiday events that usually feature 20-30 people at a minimum. At the same time, we were considering Catholic school for the kids--more for religious reasons than academic ones--and we weren't sure we could afford both a new home and Catholic school tuition.We knew a neighborhood where we might be interested in living. We had several friends from the parish that lived there. With California home prices rising so fast, though, it seemed out of reach for us. We talked to the realtor who helped us buy our first home, who encouraged us to meet with a banker. The four of us sat down at the realtor's office and talked options.The banker was very optimistic that we could obtain a loan that would allow us to move into the neighborhood we wanted. "We have all kinds of new products," he told us and proceeded to explain various types of adjustable rate mortgages, "interest only" loans, and other options that I could only vaguely understand. By the end of the meeting, my head was swimming, but I began to feel optimistic that maybe we could afford the "home of our dreams" as the saying goes.In the end, though, we decided that we simply couldn't afford a higher mortgage and Catholic school tuition. A faith-based education for our children was more important to us than a larger home. Six years later, we're still in the same house.In light of recent events, I've taken to wondering what would have happened if Catholic school tuition had not been a consideration. Would we have been tempted to take out a larger loan than we could handle? It could have happened very easily. Looking back over two decades, almost nothing seemed to have stopped the inexorable rise of California real estate values. Betting on rising values seemed like a reasonable risk back then. After all, if the banker lending you the money thinks you can handle it, you should trust him, right? He's the one bearing the risk, right? Back in those days, I had little understanding that most home loans were quickly packaged into securities and sold.I tell this story because I'm getting a bit tired of hearing that the root of the current financial crisis is irresponsible families who borrowed more than they could afford. The truth is that it became very difficult in the early part of this decade to figure out exactly what the "responsible" decision was with respect to a home loan. My wife and I are reasonably well educated and we still had a difficult time running the numbers. What of those families who-rightly or wrongly-placed their faith in what the lender and the realtor were telling them? Expert advice is, after all, why one hires professionals in the first place.I'm not suggesting that there weren't buyers in the market who were driven by speculative greed. There certainly were. I suspect that most of us, though, shared very common American dreams: a first home or a home "just a bit bigger" than the one we had. There may be some sin in that, but I'm not inclined to be lectured about it by newspaper columnists living in Greenwich and Chevy Chase.If there is anything good to come out of this current crisis, I wonder if it might be a re-assessment of the extent to which families are now expected to be experts in financial risk management. From our retirement portfolios to our college savings accounts to our mortgages, families are now expected to perform very sophisticated calculations regarding the likelihood and cost of future events. I suspect I don't speak only for myself when I say that I'm finding the burden of doing this increasingly overwhelming.
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You are right to feel overwhelmed. The current system of financial services has a number of flaws that all can be traced back to an almost religious belief that markets can solve all problems and that government regulation only undermines the efficiency of markets. The proponents of this view have consistently favored deregulation. Classical economics' assumptions regarding the efficiency of markets do not hold in many circumstances. When these assumptions do not hold, markets are not efficient. Economists label these circumstances "market failures" and will support government intervention in the form of regulation to correct such market failures. One of the assumptions of classical economics is that all market participants have perfect information. This assumption is frequently not the case, particularly when sophisticated and complex financial products are involved. Proponents of deregulation have tried to find alternatives to government regulation. In the case of information asymmetries, they have argued that the problem can be corrected purely by requiring full disclosure and educating consumers on financial matters.Lauren Willis has an article entitled "Against Financial Literacy Education" which debunks the ability of financial literacy education to correct the problems of information asymmetries. Here is the abstract for the paper:"The dominant model of regulation in the United States for consumer credit, insurance, and investment products is disclosure and unfettered choice. As these products have become increasingly complex, consumers' inability to understand them has become increasingly apparent, and the consequences of this inability more dire. In response, policymakers have embraced financial literacy education as a necessary corollary to the disclosure model of regulation. This education is widely believed to turn consumers into "responsible" and "empowered" market players, motivated and competent to make financial decisions that increase their own welfare. The vision is of educated consumers handling their own credit, insurance, and retirement planning matters by confidently navigating the bountiful unrestricted marketplace. Although the vision is seductive, promising both a free market and increased consumer welfare, the predicate belief in the effectiveness of financial literacy education lacks empirical support. Moreover, the belief is implausible, given the velocity of change in the financial marketplace, the gulf between current consumer skills and those needed to understand today's complex non-standardized financial products, the persistence of biases in financial decisionmaking, and the disparity between educators and financial services firms in resources with which to reach consumers. Harboring this belief may be innocent, but it is not harmless; the pursuit of financial literacy poses costs that almost certainly swamp any benefits. For some consumers, financial education appears to increase confidence without improving ability, leading to worse decisions. When consumers find themselves in dire financial straits, the regulation through education model blames them for their plight, shaming them and deflecting calls for effective market regulation. Consumers generally do not serve as their own doctors and lawyers and for reasons of efficient division of labor alone, generally should not serve as their own financial experts. The search for effective financial literacy education should be replaced by a search for policies more conducive to good consumer financial outcomes."The paper can be accessed at: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1105384
I might add that the general belief in certain circles that this kind of financial information is readily available to consumers allows people to say that if someone makes a bad or ill informed decision it can only be their own fault.
Been there; done that. Excellent post, Mr. Nixon. Thanks for sharing your story and yes, it is the same story for many of us. I use a trusted friend who is a financial advisor with Edward Jones but have to say that the performance this year is pathetic and it is difficult to take a wait and see attitude.In terms of house decisions and private Catholic education, relied upon my father who is an excellent retired engineer who plays the market. His advice has been simple, clear, and almost always right. My sister decided to move to a suburb with first rate public schools when they needed a bigger house (5 kids). But after years of catholic education, etc. it was a difficult decision.
1. The mortgage/banking industry was bailed out in the 80s.2. Chrysler was bailed out many years ago.3. This time it is unequaled since the depression.4. Bankers and Wall Street knew that risks were extremely inordinate. Greed again. 5. It was not rocket science that there was no equity in the homes. The projection was that the 100% increases would continue, thereby creating equity. Like the 80's. 6. So yes homeowners knew the risk but were avalanched by the greed and boom mortgage, banking and investment industry.Perhaps the most important point is that as long as those regulated keep bankrolling political campaigns, true fiscal prudence will never happen. It is not the rules that are the problem. It is the enforcement. The appraisal industry which was reformed as a result of the 80's boondoggle, just rationalized the increases. The principle was that five or six people were willing to pay a million for a $600,000 dollar house then the house was worth a million. Very easy deception which made refinancing go crazy also. Forget the fact that there was no food on the table. The next increase would solve everything.
Peter,Not to disturb you. But the Spring of 2003 was probably a good time to buy. That is when everything began to escalate. 2005 and later were the disastrous buys.
Peter,It is pretty clear that you are not the only one overwhelmed intimidated by "very sophisticated calculations regarding the likelihood and cost of future events." The CEOs of investment banks obviously were, even though they were the ones designing and selling mortgages, derivatives, etc. George Bailey probably gave the best explanation when he kept his S&L afloat; and his uncle Billy gave the best caution when he carelessly hid his money in a newspaper and then handed it to Old Man Potter. The money is in my house, and yours, and can be catastrophically lost in the blink of an eye if those reponsible make mistakes, get greedy, or just get overwhelmed to the point where they do something 'irrational'. We need to keep an eye out for another, which I suppose is another word for regulation.
But hasn't the "American Dream" changed as a result of our unfettered consumer culture? Just look at the meteoric rise in average square feet of homes over the last several decades or the use of credit card debt to finance the purchase of consumer goods or our insatiable appetite for pills. I am hoping that the good that comes out of this crisis includes an increase in our national savings rate.
Are the critiques (in some ways more like condemnations) of capitalism made by John Paul II and Benedict XVI relevant here?
MAT, I agree with you generally, but how in heaven's name do you expect Americans to increase their savings when the country's in debt, and there's a war and $1.5 trillion in completed or proposed bailouts to pay for?And what's going to be safe to invest IN? What's going to make matters worse is a growing elderly population that either didn't save or had their savings gutted, and will have to rely on SSI, at a time when legislators will be more tempted than ever to borrow against the fund and further chip away at (if not gut) Medicare.You could write a dystopian novel about a world in the not-too-distant future in which the aging boomers are all issued non-removable bracelets that read, "Do not resuscitate; over 50."It'll be mercy killing for the aged. Without the mercy.
I think it best to leave such financial decisions to women. They have a good sense of money and are generally sceptical of over-spending.
Jean Raber: I agree with you - we are in a pickle right now and have some hard choices coming down the road which everyone wants to ignore and pretend don't exist. I was just trying to be optimistic: Spe salvi facti sumus.
Great post, Peter. The decision tree you and your family faced is one that I can definitely relate to.Regarding understanding financial services: I suppose we can educate consumers (and I struggle with the consumer financial products as well), but education is only half the battle. Wisdom and prudence have to come into play. Peter, I thought you showed great wisdom in choosing Catholic education over a larger home. I'm sure there are many Catholic families who make the opposite choice, and I'm not saying they're wrong in all cases (although I'm sure the financial state of Catholic education would be far healthier if they'd settle for more modest dwellings). I believe a lot of economists would say that if more consumers settled for smaller dwellings and deeper savings accounts, we would experience a recession in the short term, but in the long run the economy would be far healthier for it. But savings are another bit of wisdom that seems to have fallen away.
There is an ethical dimension to this. It is not right to gamble with someone else's money when they have no idea that this is what is happening. I quite agree with the views in the first comment by Elizabeth Brown. The Free Market model assumes that all participants have full information. But in real life even with the best intentions this is hardly possible. And when you add to that by creating quite complicated derivatives which effectively masks the nature and quantum of the risk, I think that is unethical behaviour. But by the rules of the financial market it is quite proper. So one wonders, is there a place for ethics in any of this?World financial crisis is a consequence of idolatry of money, Peruvian cardinal says( http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=13875 ).........In this sense, he pointed out that the financial crisis in the Unites States is not because of bad loans but because of corruption by those who were supposed to oversee mortgages, those who were supposed to handle lending, those who were supposed to be in charge of financial oversight and who were part of a great network of corruption.
I am going to be a bit of a wet blanket. One of the things that makes the mortgage crisis so confounding is that there is enough ethical fault and greed to go around and then go around again. Peter made a prudent decision that speaks well to his character. But surely, there are two pieces of information that were available to any reasonably educated buyer including Peter and his wife, and that is: a "comparable" that shows the cost of the mortgage at the best fixed rate the buyer could obtain, and a chart showing that, as of 2003, long-term insterest rates were close to a historical low point, and any "adjustable" mortgage was much more likely to become more expensive over time even without teaser and other nasty provisions. In other words, if you couldn't afford the house at a fixed rate, the vagaries of chance were not in your favor that an adjustable rate would make it more affordable in the long run.This isn't to say that homeowners deserve no relief, it's to say that we really need to examine why we have become so spellbound over the idea of a bigger and nicer house that we would become blinded about what it could mean for our ability to pursue other goals (travel, education, etc.).
Speaking of homeowners and relief: I understand that in the ongoing negotiations for the rescue package, (I'm following the prez's lead in eschewing the word "bailout" :-)), Rep. Frank is pushing the idea that bankruptcy judges be empowered to unilaterally adjust mortgage T's & C's to keep families who can't afford their payments in their home rather than evicting them. The social justice side of me *loves* this concept. I would like to know, Barbara and other dotcom legal eagles, if there is anything legally problematic about this. e.g., not that I know anything about law, but are bankruptcy judges even Federal judges? Can the Federal government give county judges this kind of authority, without the state's approval?
Barbara:With respect, I disagree. Let me try to explain why.First of all, comparing fixed rate and ARM mortgages isn't quite that simple--at least it wasn't simple for me. Interest rates will fluctuate over the life of a 30 year fixed rate loan. If interest rates are, on average, lower than what you locked in as your fixed rate, you will pay more in interest than you could have. Part of the value of an ARM was that you weren't leaving as much money on the table. Once we made the decision not to move, my wife and I did a refi with a "good" ARM (rate is tied to Prime + 1, with a max 1% increase per year) and we've held onto it. I'm not sure it's always irrational to prefer an ARM to a 30 year fixed even if interest rates are low, particularly if you are not sure you will hold the house for a long time. Families are much more mobile than they used to be. Lower interest rates means you accumulate equity in the house more quickly. This is a legitimate consideration.What makes this more complicated is making this decision in the face of rapidly rising real estate prices. It's very easy to say what goes up must come down, but looking historically, this had rarely happened in Northern California. Prices might flatten for awhile, but they didn't decline a lot. If you are convinced that buying a home is a good long term investment, but your income is not rising as fast as home prices, you face a real fear of being "frozen out," i.e. the longer you wait the more unaffordable buying a home becomes. So the pressure was to get into something now before you are frozen out.If you are a young family--as we were--it's safe to assume that your income is going to rise over time. A home that is slightly a stretch for you now will ultimately become more affordable. So it's not crazy to take a risk on an ARM at a low teaser to get you into the house with the assumption that you can refi in a few years before the balloon hits when your income is higher. The fact that everyone in the process--realtor, bankers, friends--is telling you this is the way to go makes it harder to get outside the bubble and think more critically about it.A lot of this comes down to whether it was irrational to bet that home prices would keep rising. I'll admit that by 2005-06 it was pretty clear that real estate was overvalued, but this wasn't so clear before then. Northern California is a very desirable place to live with a limited amount of land for development. There is a structural supply-demand imbalance that has afflicted the place for years.I'm sure you can argue with these points. But if you were a real estate consumer in California in the early/mid part of the decade, you were overwhelmed with information related to all the points I've raised. It absolutely was not an easy call to figure this all out.God bless,Peter
Peter, I think your long answer affirmed my point: Adjustable rate mortgages are affordable based on optimistic assumptions that put a great deal of risk in the lap of a buyer who could not qualify for a fixed mortgage on the same asset. The fact that those risks haven't materialized in previous cycles doesn't really change that. I also found this statement "If you are a young familyas we wereits safe to assume that your income is going to rise over time" to be astounding. Incomes, on average, have not risen for people outside of the top 5 or 1% of earners for going on 8 years, and yet, you make this assumption -- based on what?But I want to focus on another aspect of this crisis that I think is usually unremarked on. Sellers almost always view a real estate transaction in terms of the sales price. Buyers, however, have gotten into the habit of looking at affordability based solely on the amount of their monthly payment. BUT. The amount of the mortgage is based on the seller's view of the transaction -- and if the buyer must sell, it's the amount of the mortgage, not the monthly payment, that determines whether he will win or lose in the deal. In other words, the real estate market has become an exercise in overemphasizing financing at the expense of underlying value. This focus on financing is what has allowed values to balloon so precipitously. In the long run, values were unsustainable because the increase in the price of housing was significantly outstripping increases in income. If, indeed, everyone had to at least qualify for a fixed mortgage in order to consider an adjustable vehicle, your dilemma might not have been nearly as acute because values would not have risen so high, so quickly. In 2003, it might not have been a big risk but it was completely unpredictable when the top would arrive.


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I'm working with a colleague who uses LyX (I use LaTeX), and we have a hard time exchanging documents because of conversion issues. Is there any easy way to convert LyX to LaTeX and vice versa?
Exporting Lyx to Latex is easy, although it is quite possible to have documents that look fine in Lyx, but which correspond to Latex code that doesn't compile. This happens if you have odd Latex code in the preamble or in Tex code boxes, but these are obvious enough to the Lyx user, because you can't produce dvi/pdf from the document. — Addendum: Another possible problem: inclusion of local files; then the document might compile locally for the author, but not for the coauthor. But this can also be a problem for one user editing a Lyx file they receive from another user.
The other way is more likely to be problematic:
I'd say the course of least resistance is to use Lyx yourself. You have a fair bit of freedom to mess about with Lyx's appearance using the preamble and Tex code boxes, and Lyx is pretty intuitive to a Latex user.
I'm using the export feature a lot nowadays. I actually always build PDFs with a script calling pdfLaTeX and don't use the PDF export feature of LyX. You don't have to use the GUI to export from LyX to LaTeX. This does the same on the commandline (replace pdflatex with latex if you're not using pdfLaTeX):
There is also a commandline version for importing, but since your colleague is using LyX anyway the GUI is probably good enough.
LyX has LaTeX import/export functions accessible in its menu. I don't have it installed right now, but from what I remember, you can't miss 'em.


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I've upgraded 8 computers to 11.04 from 10.10 through the standard update version process. Two are giving me problems with the UDB optical mouse being frozen upon boot, to either a login prompt, or to the desktop.
Both computers are running AMD processors. Both are 32 bit systems. One has nVidia graphics and one has ATI graphics, which seems to rule out graphics. I tried changing the drivers on the nVidia system and that didn't make any difference. Doing a complete power down of the system was the only way I found try to get it working until I discovered that if I unplug the mouse mouse and plug it back in, it will work fine from then on. Doing a restart when it is frozen never results in a functioning mouse. Other than unplugging the mouse, a complete power down is required.
Both systems were using the same make/model of mouse, Logitech. To rule out it being the mouse, I've been using one of them on my laptop with 32 bit Ubuntu 11.04, and it has worked perfectly, so it most likely isn't a mouse issue, although using an Acer mouse on the one system seemed to alleviate the problem.
If I plug the Logitech mouse into the front mouse USB ports instead of using the rear USB ports on each computer, the number of times the mouse is frozen on boot has significantly been reduced. It still happens occasionally, but not nearly as frequently. Both computers are using PS2 keyboards, so I don't know the situation would be if they were USB.
The computer with the ATI graphics card is my wifes. I have the exact same computer at home with nVidia graphics at home. Mine has worked perfectly. But the other computer with problems has nVidia graphics, so, as I said before, I doubt it is a graphics problem.
I'm guessing it is a kernel issue.
One suggestion I found on line was modifying the grub file line
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash"
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash pcie_aspm=off"
but that didn't make any difference. Both machines worked fine in 10.10, 10.04, 9.10, and 9.04.
It has now been two weeks since the last update here. My co-worker purchased a new Logitech wireless mouse. There have not been any freezes on boot with the wireless sending unit on either a front or rear USB port. On my wife's computer about 20% of the time her mouse is frozen on boot, but unplugging it and replugging it makes it work without issue.


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6 Real Murderers Who Put Horror Movie Villains to Shame
We feel safe watching horror movies because we know that Jason Voorhees can't just leap out of the screen and knife us. But, just in case you were considering sleeping easy this Halloween, or ever again, we're pleased to let you know that there are plenty of killers out there who would be right at home in anything John Carpenter could pull out of his ass.
#6. Robert Hansen Hunted Victims for Sport
When two men hunting in the Alaskan Knik River valley in 1982 came across a boot sticking out of the ground they may have been pleasantly surprised at their good fortune (free boot!), at least until they discovered there was a human foot still inside, belonging to a missing stripper.
Before long, more bodies started turning up in the area, all of them Anchorage women. The authorities didn't have much in the way of leads until one of the potential victims escaped and flagged down a passing truck, just like what happens at the end of 90 percent of all the slasher movies ever produced.
"9-1-1, what's your emergency? Uh huh. Ok, What you're describing is a cliche."
The terrified woman revealed that she was a prostitute who had been picked up by a red-haired man earlier in the evening, but her alarms started to go off when he drove her to an airport and told her he was going to fly her out to his cabin in the woods. She managed to escape while he was loading the plane, and later identified the plane to police, who found it was registered to one Robert Hansen, a local champion hunter. After they found a whole bunch of jewellery in his house that belonged to missing women, Hansen was forced to admit that he'd been hunting more than just elk.
"Can you believe none of those prostitutes were down for a horn-job?"
Hansen explained to investigators how he would abduct women at gunpoint, fly them out to his remote cabin in the woods, strip them and sometimes blindfold them before sending them off running into the woods. After giving them a head start, Hansen would then stalk and hunt them down like an animal in the kind of twisted human safari that you probably thought only existed in the dozen or so movies that have featured twisted human safaris.
"My real dream was to hunt Van Damme."
And yes, in case you were wondering, he had in fact been doing it a while. Authorities had expected to charge Hansen with four murders, so it came as a surprise to them when he admitted to around 21 (but really, you can't be totally sure of the number when you're keeping track of something as mundane as how many people you've hunted down and shot). His hobby got him sentenced to 461 years plus life in the big house. And in case you thought we were joking about all the movies that get made about this type of thing, the movie about this case comes out next month, in which Hansen gets thwarted by Nicolas Cage.
#5. Murderous Doctor Kills Hundreds Before Anyone Notices
Let's say there was a psychotic doctor practicing out there somewhere -- friendly and reliable on the outside, a lust for murdering strangers on the inside. He sits you up on the exam table, tells you to relax and that you might feel a little pinch of the needle, and you never wake up again. One unsuspecting victim after another, for no reason at all other than that he just likes doing it. Now ask yourself: How many people do you think he could get away with killing before somebody caught on? A dozen? Fifty? A hundred?
Keep going.
Dr. Harold Shipman was that friendly neighborhood doctor, who always had a lot of trouble with patients dying under his care.
"The ones I'd let go probably wished they were dead after they saw my rates."
Nobody knows whether Shipman started murdering people in Yorkshire, but after he started work at Donneybrook Medical Center in Hyde, he was well on his way to becoming the most prolific serial killer in British history. Colleagues probably thought he was taking it awfully well when a disturbingly high number of patients kept suddenly and unexpectedly dropping off on his watch, but a lack of evidence or any perceived motive kept the authorities from linking him to his crimes and probably just thought he was just a really shitty doctor.
"I'm telling you people die from athlete's foot all the time."
The only reason he got caught is because he got greedy; when a wealthy former mayor wound up on Shipman's slab, he stupidly forged her will to make it look like she left her fortune to him. Unfortunately for him, he wasn't as good at forgery as he was at injecting old people with poison. When Grundy's relatives became suspicious about why she had inexplicably left everything to the family doctor, an investigation began to unravel Shipman's crimes. Upon exhuming his patients, they found that a terrifyingly large number of them had died of morphine overdose. How many? They were able to pin 15 deaths on him officially, but further investigations revealed he may have killed up to 250 fucking people.
After being given 15 life sentences, Shipman apparently went into murder withdrawal and managed to find one more victim: He killed himself in his cell.
#4. The Texas Eyeball Killer
Charles Albright was a pretty swell guy. He knew several languages and was a former science teacher. He was well spoken, charming and lived happily in a committed relationship. He was a football coach, helped with Cub Scouts and was always willing to lend a helping hand to a friend in need. He was kind to children. Oh, and he also killed prostitutes and cut out their eyeballs.
"Please, like you people don't have any quirks."
As he's never admitted guilt, we may never know for sure exactly why Albright had this particular compulsion, but looking at his past we can make a few guesses. As a kid Charles was adopted into a stable (if not overly affectionate) home, where he took up an interest in hunting. He would skin and stuff the animal carcasses he brought home, but his parents were too stingy to allow him to spend their hard earned money on something as frivolous as realistic glass eyeballs, and so he had to make do with buttons. Well ... that's a little weird, but not serial killer-weird, right?
"This is more 'kidnapper-weird'; come back to me when he starts fucking around with zippers."
But then when he was in college, Charles had a friend who had recently broken up with his girlfriend and had thrown all the photographs he had of her in the trash. Charles retrieved the photos, cut out all the eyes, then pasted them all over his friend's room. At this point, shrewd detectives might come to suspect that he had a thing for eyeballs.
Fast forward to 1990, when a prostitute was found dead in Dallas. When the coroner lifted back the deceased woman's eyelids to check the eye color, they discovered that that there were no longer any eyeballs to check, which surely had to make a normally disconcerting workday even worse.
Two more victims soon turned up eyeless, earning the killer the unimaginative press nickname "The Dallas Ripper." But, after rushing his third murder and leaving behind some damning forensic evidence, police soon arrested and charged Charles Albright. Since then, he's spent his days in prison, using his time productively. Just kidding, of course he's drawing eyeballs.


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Michael Haneke takes screenwriting honors and Emmanuelle Riva wins acting prize for best picture "Amour." Joaquin Phoenix best actor, Ang Lee tops directors
Michael Haneke's "Amour" claimed the top prize at the annual London Critics' Circle Film Awards on Sunday.
The unflinching look at old age earned the top screenwriting honor for Haneke and the film's female star, Emmanuelle Riva, took top actress honors.
Also read: Will the Oscar Audience Sing 'Happy Birthday' to Emmanuelle Riva?
"Amour" won the Palme D'Or in Cannes in May last year, and picked up a Golden Globe award last week. It has been nominated for five Oscars, including best picture and foreign language film.
Ang Lee was named best director for "Life of Pi."
Best actor went to Joaquin Phoenix for "The Master." Philip Seymour Hoffman's turn in the same film won him supporting actor honors and Anne Hathaway was named best supporting actress for "Les Miserables."


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RIP Craigos. A true CW legend. You will be missed.
FTR I would like this thread stickied and then a responsible mod, so I'm thinking vic_orthdox, James, Rich2001, four_or_six, Somerset, Fusion, nightprowler10, Neil Pickup, Matt79 or Teja, to delete any posts by posters who have infraction points. If a poster receives an infraction after posting in the thread, that's fine provided they don't do so in future. This is an important thread.
I just realised PEWS booked me for avoiding the filter months ago. WAC.
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Will say this once and then nothing else. Defamation laws quite clear in Aus.be careful.
Wait, GIMH hasn't got any infraction points?
The news is just coming out that Hell has frozen over.
Well isn't somebody going to delete Spikey's post?
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R.I.P Craigos, you were a champion bloke. One of the best
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Is there something vBulletin can do to stop undesirables from posting in this thread? I'd feel safer
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I'm trying to delete the files of extension ".htm" in the temporary internet files (TIF) folder using powershell. But couldn't get far on this.
Below is the script I have. I noticed that the cache name in the TIF folder is different from the display full name. (I tried to write a C# program to do this, but that doesn't work either)
get-childitem "c:\Documents and Settings\sanjeev-nithyanandam\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\*" -include *.htm -recurse -force | foreach ($_) {remove-item $_.fullname -force}
I learned from this post "Temporary Internet Files" folder on Windows that TIF folder behave differently than the other folders.
Is there a work around to modify the PS script and delete the files?
Any help is appreciated.
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While arXiv is great, it covers only topics in physics, mathematics and computer science.
Are there any good preprint storage places for other scientific disciplines?
While arXiv is great, it covers only topics in physics, mathematics and computer science.
Are there any good preprint storage places for other scientific disciplines?
Two major ones in addition to the arXiv are
Ones more aimed at social sciences (that I am aware of) are;
SSRN is dominated by economic and legal research (and NBER is obviously focused on economics).
Another I recently became aware of is Academia.edu, although this appears to me more like a personal website that has the option to upload working papers than an organized repository like SSRN or arXiv (here is an example profile page on Academia.edu).
Figshare is a rather new service (compared to ArXiv) that is just starting to gain momentum. I haven't used it personally, but they have partnered up with some other Open Access players, most notably and recently with PLoS (Figshare will host supplemental data for all PLoS journals). As far as I know, there is no restriction regarding the fields the submissions must be in.
It is a repository, the service is free (unlimited public posts, 1GB private posts). No review or moderation; the submissions will be posted immediately under CC-BY. Each submission is given a DOI. I cannot find info about how many submissions they have received and posted.
NOTE: Just checked with Figshare through twitter, and after one year they have 200,000 files shared by users (could be papers, figures, charts, data, etc)
Edit: just realized I should also mention the following:
PeerJ was just launched very recently (like in the last month or two I think). It's a journal but has its own pre-print system. You can submit unlimited number of public pre-prints in their preprint server PeerJ Preprints, which has its own ISSN number. You will be able to submit your pre-prints subsequently to their peer-reviewed journal. The journal is gold OA and charges what I believe is a one-time membership fee. The journal has limited scope (does not publish in the Physical Sciences, the Mathematical Sciences, the Social Sciences, or the Humanities ), not sure what the pre-print service will look like yet and it is worth checking out later on.
There is cogprints, which, to quote the site, is:
HaL ("hyper archive en ligne") is a French open archive repository that covers all fields. As far as I know it is open for submission beyond people working in French departments. It can automatically deposit on arXiv for papers whose topic is covered.
I'm not sure why this hasn't come up on this thread yet:
There are some more specialized ones for math:
Linear Algebraic Groups and Related Structures
To complement the other answers,
in mathematical physics there is mp-arc in addition to arXiv,
and in biology one has biorXiv which is apparently modelled after arXiv.
F1000Posters (http://f1000.com/posters) is an open access repository that hosts posters and oral presentation slides in biology and medicine, and can also be considered a pre-print server. It allows researchers to extend the visibility of their work outside of the conference hall, maximising the return on the time, effort and money invested in creating each presentation. Many of the posters are submitted with their subsequent research article added to them when it is eventually published. It also completely free to submit.
In economics, there is also MPRA.


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An electron gains speed in the Stanford Linear Accelerator (SLA) across 3000 meters, reaching a final velocity of 0.95c due to a constant force pushing on the electron. Given the mass of the electron and the constant force pushing on the electron, what is the function for velocity in terms of time?
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Should I let the chili mature on the plant, cut it open and take the seeds, dry them and store in a cold, dark and dry place? Or is there more to it than that.
You've pretty much got the idea; some details to add:
Seeds are ready when the fruit is mature. Make sure they're ripe and fully colored. Dry away from sunlight -- and make sure they're fully dry. Test dryness by bending a seed: if it snaps in half, it's ready. If it bends, it's not dry enough. Store in a cool, dark, dry place. Use within 2-3 years.
Cross-pollination is an issue: isolate from other varieties by 500' or cage plants to ensure pure strains.
For long-term success (i.e. good results over multiple generations), you'll want to save seed from at least 20 plants. If you don't do this, the gene pool doesn't have enough variety and you'll end up with poor plants after several generations. If you only want to save seed for a generation or two, this probably won't be so much of an issue. (If you save seed from a couple of chilis in generation 1, you will probably have enough seeds for 2-3 years at which point you can buy professionally grown seed again to refresh the gene pool.)
(Source for details above: "Seed to Seed" by Suzanne Ashworth.)


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Oblivia is the region in which Pokémon Ranger: Guardian Signs takes place. It is a region filled with islands and different ruins for the player to discover. Unlike the other Pokémon Ranger regions, Fiore and Almia, it has only one Pokémon Ranger watching over the entire region.
Oblivia is an archipelago consisting of three main islands and several smaller ones.
Places of Interest
- Dolce Island
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- Mitonga Island
- Faldera Island
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- Tilikule Island
- Coral Sea
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- Eastern Sea
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- Rand's House
- Latolato Trail
- Mt. Latolato
- Wireless Tower
- Hinder Cape
- Mitonga Road
- Noir Forest
- Dangerous Cliff
- Sophian Road
- Mt. Sorbet
- Rainbow Dais
- Rasp Cavern
- Old Mansion
- Daybreak Ruins
- Submarine
- Silver Falls
- Oblivia Ruins
- Sky Fortress
- The Union
- Forest Temple
- Fire Temple
- Ice Temple
- Thunder Temple
- Dark Temple
- Light Temple
- Odd Temple
The names of the islands come from the seven solfège syllables of music notation, do, re, mi, fa, so, la, and ti.
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Local music aficionados came to praise local soundsters in a range of genres and listen as group after talented group hit the stage to perform their toe-tapping tunes—all part of the 13th OC Music Awards at The Grove of Anaheim. Honors were doled out in 26 categories, with iconic punk rockers The Offspring landing the Impact Award and O.C. native David "Kid" Ramos taking home the Lifetime Achievement Award for his valuable contribution to blues-rock. Among the other notables were Jeremiah Red (Best Blues), The Ultimate Bearhug (Best Folk) and Kiev (Album of the Year). And, speaking of that band, its members put on an unforgettable performance, as did Breach the Summit, David & Olivia and other acts—sounds like a good time, indeed. –Photos courtesy of OC Music Awards