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The best ice-cream in London
The scoop on the capital's best places for ice creams, sorbets and gelati
Check out our sticky-fingered guide to the best cold stuff in the capital. We've put together a list of top-notch ice-cream parlours serving unforgettable frozen dishes, cones and scoops. Think we've missed a great London ice-cream parlour? Do you agree with our choices? Use the comments box below or tweet your suggestions.
The best ice-cream in central London
What's postwar Soho best known for? Italian cafès. You'd think Old Compton Street would have more than just a sprinkling of gelato shops, but Amorino is one of only two parlours on Soho's main thoroughfare. It looks traditionally and typically Italian, with jars of biscotti on display and wooden furniture adding to the warmth of the interior. Among the highlights are pistachio, hazelnut, salted caramel and tiramisu while monthly specials might include lime and basil sorbet. On a warm evening you'll need to queue – and seats will be at a premium.Read more
A five-minute walk from Piccadilly Circus, Freggo is the UK branch of Argentina's best-known posh ice-cream chain, Freddo. Its Argentinian heritage comes across strongly in flavours such as dulce de leche and malbec and berries. There are also milkshakes, a small selection of savoury dishes including empanadas, and coffee.Read more
This is the offshoot of the well-respected Soho Italian joint Bocca di Lupo. Gelupo makes simply outstanding ice cream. Regularly changing innovative flavours might include rhubarb crumble, ricotta and sour cherry straciatella, and bitter chocolate sorbet. They also sell pastries Italian cakes and desserts, and there is a deli attached. While the ices are all fabulous and the servings consistently generous, we can never get a seat here; the back room, vacant apart from a few shelf displays, is wasted space. Hey Gelupo, how about a few more tables and chairs out the back?Read more
La Gelatiera
Imaginative – rather than outlandish – flavours give La Gelatiera an edge in an increasingly crowded market (Covent Garden market, that is). The offering changes daily, and might feature such unusual flavours as Cornish blue and walnuts, honey, rosemary and orange zests, and chilli chocolate. Ices are made from carefully sourced seasonal ingredients, with no additives. Through a glass floor, you can see into the basement 'laboratory' where the magic happens. And there are also pastries, hot and cold drinks, and gelato cakes by special order.Read more
At Covent Garden's Gelatorino, the machines churning the ices take pride of place. Be sure to try the 'breakfast in Turin' – a milky coffee flavour with fine fragments of dark chocolate. It is an iced play on a popular Turin speciality, bicerin, which is a hot chocolate espresso drink topped with cream. Other highlights include nut gelatos and a 'tap' pouring melted gianduja (chocolate and hazelnut). Staff are happy to offer tasting spoonfuls.Read more
Morelli's Gelato
There can be few easier ways to make money in London than running an ice-cream takeaway on Covent Garden Piazza, yet Morelli's is no slouch, producing high-quality, smooth and crystal-free gelati for the queues of tourists. There are a few sought-after tables outside on the terrace, usually occupied by footsore visitors. The bright flavours might resuscitate them: Alfonso mango, Italian hazelnut, or a flavour of the month, such as banana, honey and cream cheese (a combo that was better than it sounds).Read more
We've always found it a shame that this excellent Covent Garden gelateria doesn't feature outdoor seating to complete the Italian picture. Still, the Covent Garden piazza and Seven Dials are only a short walk away, so purchase a cone and enjoy it while perched on hot cobblestones. Matteo Pantani's sheer enthusiasm for his product is contagious – and justified. Many of the ingredients for his frequently changing palette of gelati are imported from esteemed suppliers in Italy. The pistachio is a perennial favourite, distinctively flavoured by nuts from Bronte, a Sicilian village known for its pistachios. There's also an outlet on Soho's Brewer Street, and a third one in South Kensington.Read more
William Curley
William Curley may be better known for his chocolates and patisserie, but his ice-cream collection is not to be overlooked. Around a dozen flavours are available in the café-shop at any one time, and might include salted caramel, tropical (mixed fruits), and rhubarb and custard. More oddball options such as jasmine tea and beetroot sorbet or caramelised white chocolate with miso might tempt, too. If you have time, eat at the dessert bar where more elaborate creations are served.Read more
The best ice-cream in north London
Chin Chin Laboratorists
Lab coats, liquid nitrogen and lots of 'mist' – not what you'd usually see in an ice cream parlour, but they like to do things a bit differently at this Camden venue. Pick your flavour and watch the theatricals as the staff freeze it to order with the liquefied gas. The four or five flavours on offer change regularly and might include the likes of peach, blue cheese and nuts, or scones, jam and tea. If you're not feeling adventurous, there's also more conventional fare on offer, such as Pondicherry vanilla or Valrhona chocolate.Read more
Anima e Cuore
From the outside, Anima e Cuore appears to be a gelateria and café. But the tiny restaurant at the back (22 covers only) serves – at very low prices – Italian food that can stand comparison with the best in the capital. If you're not up for a meal, however, the own-made ice creams and sorbets are of exceptional quality. The list changes regularly in both size and makeup; if they're there, try the chocolate or banana sorbet and the hazelnut, vanilla or pistachio ice cream. But really, anything here is likely to be outstanding.Read more
Bull & Last
Since 2010, this gastropub has been selling takeaway ice creams and sorbets as a sideline, which has proved popular with strollers from nearby Parliament Hill. There are typically around ten flavours to choose from, which change daily. Some of their more unusual offerings include Ferrero Rocher, popcorn, Marathon and Malteser. Nab a few to take on your stroll through the greenery.Read more
Cremeria Vienna
Blackstock Road, the stretch between Finsbury Park and Highbury, is best known for its Turkish grocery stores and cafés. This Italian ice cream parlour has thrown some gelato into the mix with its daily-changing selection of ice creams and sorbets. Cremeria Vienna also has a branch in High Barnet.Read more
Paul A Young Fine Chocolates
Some of the best ice creams seem to be made by those who dabble in the cacao (see ChocStar and William Curley). Paul A Young, the acclaimed chocolatier, is dedicated to all that is delicious – so it's only natural that ice creams would be part of his repertoire. Made each morning (with proper double cream and the highest quality chocolate, of course), Young rolls out two flavours regularly: his signature sea-salted caramel and a lower-calorie dark chocolate sorbet. There are also special flavours from time to time. As if the ice creams weren't decadent enough, you can also add crunchy cocoa nibs and Valrhona chocolate syrup. The Soho flagship is not currently making ice creams, but both the Islington shop and City branch are. Other branch: 20 Royal Exchange, Threadneedle Street, EC3V 3LP.
Ruby Violet
Wanting to connect more with her community, Tufnell Park local Julie Fisher jacked in her desk job and ploughed her savings into this funky ice cream parlour, named after her granny. It was worth the risk. She makes more than 100 terrific ice creams – with around 20 available on rotation. There are unusual flavours such as lime and star anise, and basics such as vanilla and chocolate are excellent, but the people's choice (and ours) is the salted caramel with almond nut brittle.Read more
It's summer all year at this dinky Islington ice cream parlour, owned and run by a husband-and-wife team. Popular flavours include chocolate and peanut butter and dark chocolate sorbet with sea salt. They also run a competition for customers to come up with the 'flavour of the month' – previous gold medallists have included strawberry and basil (still popular), rhubarb and fig, and chocolate and pretzel.Read more
The best ice-cream in south London
Black Vanilla
There's nothing quite like an ice cream at the seaside. Sand between your toes, cone in hand and the sounds of the lapping waves in your ears. You won't find that in Greenwich, but it does have water, boats and good ice cream. Black Vanilla's second branch, offering 36 flavours of ice cream, is perfectly located at the centre of Greenwich's tourist hotspots: the Cutty Sark, the Old Royal Naval College and the indoor market. This is where they make ice cream for the other branch as well. The core range is fairly traditional stuff, but they invite suggestions for additional flavours from the public.Read more
Gelateria 3bis
Tucked between Neal's Yard Cheeses and Monmouth Coffee, 3bis is definitely another feather in Borough Market's culinary cap. Classics sit next to experimental flavours (peanut butter, eton mess etc), with around 16 usually on offer. Fruit-heavy sorbets are a speciality, and cakes, pastries and crêpes are also on sale. If you're lucky you can try one of 3bis's rich blends just-frozen from the constantly churning line-up of gelato machines.Read more
Gelateria Danieli
For superior sorbets and ice creams on Richmond Green, head to this dinky gelateria. In high summer the interior can feel as packed as a generously filled ice cream cone, with queues stretching out of the door. Choose from classic flavours like milk chocolate, hazelnut or tiramisu, or opt for something a little more leftfield like Bakewell Tart or lime, ginger and lemongrass. There is also a selection of frozen yoghurts and a much larger one of sorbets, in flavours including chocolate and cardamom and pineapple and maraschino. There are other branches in Battersea, Kingston and the West End.Read more
La Grotta Ices
Kitty Travers's tiny van is a rather unassuming vehicle for such a range of unusual ice creams with flavours that defy convention. She can usually be found pitching up at Bermondsey's Maltby Street on Saturday mornings (in different locations), and the 'menu' frequently changes depending on what ingredients Travers has sourced direct from farmers, from contacts or from foraging herself during the week. Elderflower, cucumber and sour cream, blackcurrant custard and peach leaf ice creams have all featured at some point, while a lemon verbena, gariguette strawberry and mandaquat offering is one of her newer creations.Read more
Just when we thought life for the mummies of Nappy Valley couldn't get any yummier, this old-school gelateria of the highest quality opened a fourth branch on the Northcote Road. Much like its other outposts, the counter takes centre stage, brimming as it is with freshly-made gelato, from ever-popular chocolate, pistachio, or cookies and cream to more unusual seasonal flavours. And there are now six branches of this justly popular chain. Coffee is by Illy, and there's hot chocolate as well from their own recipe.Read more
This small, simply decorated ice-cream parlour is handily located on the northern perimeter of Clapham Common. It's a low-key, traditionally Italian affair, with a score or so of the more traditional flavours made by Lorenzo Nardulli and his small team. The ice creams here are smooth-textured and clean-flavoured – just like a proper Italian gelato should be.Read more
Greedy Goat
Many people believe that they are lactose-intolerant and that goats' milk is better for them because it contains somewhat less lactose than cows' milk. The Greedy Goat was set up with these people in mind. Four chums got together to make rich, creamy goats' milk ice cream in delicious flavours including raspberry and chilli, or lemon cheesecake with raspberry ripple. There's even one called Billy Vanilli. Try it at the Borough Market stall from Thursday to Saturday.
The best ice-cream in east London
Pâtisserie Valerie
East London is curiously bereft of good ice cream parlours, but this branch of the chain is handily located for the passing trade going into Old Spitalfields Market. If you're eating out, the gelateria counter faces a large square with wooden bench seating and a sail-like sun canopy. There are also milkshakes and sundaes on offer. The original Gelateria Valerie near Sloane Square has an even more extensive selection of ices, freshly made every day.Read more
The best ice-cream in west London
Gelato Mio
Despite having spawned a handful of younger, shinier offshoots across London, this original branch remains popular as ever, with queues often stretching down Holland Park Avenue. Cheery staff in bright orange T-shirts dish up generous portions of gelato in a score of traditional flavours (think pistachio made from nuts dried in the Sicilian sunshine), along with sorbets, sundaes and shakes. On our visit, we sampled a terrific amareno (delicately creamy fior di latte with chunks of marinated dark cherries); classic stracciatella (the same subtle base, but this time swirled with shards of chocolate), and an intensely dark and cocoa-spiked cioccolato. Other branches include: Haverstock Hill, Muswell Hill, Notting Hill, St John's Wood and Fulham.Read more
Snowflake Gelato
Snowflake aims to 'serve happiness' through the means of Italian gelato and sorbetto. Whatever you choose, the quality is high. Flavours are relatively restrained compared with some of the more out-there experiments of some of today's ice-cream producers, but that's not to say they're boring of unimaginative: crème brulée, date and honey, and strawberry cheesecake all appear on the list. The bare, space-age decor will either attract or repel, depending on your preferences, but the ice-cream has universal appeal.Read more
Dri Dri Gelato
Dri Dri occupies a beach hut-style venue at Chelsea Farmers Market, though you won't spot many wellie wearers among the well-heeled patrons. Gelato is kept carefully covered in metal cylinders sunk deep into the counter, which help retain the texture of the ices. The room is candy-floss cute, all pastel shades and too-small tables; better to take your tub a little farther down Sydney Street and relax on the grass in the neighbouring park.Read more
With its bright blue and white colour scheme and its selection of Italian treats and drinks on the counter, this branch of Oddono's certainly has the look and feel of a true gelateria. The chatter in French and Italian that fills the room also helps give the place a continental feel.Read more
Gelateria Valerie
Duke of York Square, near Sloane Square, is prime territory for people-watching. Pull up a chair outside the glass building where Chelsea Gelateria Valerie sits, and savour creamy gelato in flavours such as Irish cream, after-dinner mint, tiramisu or blueberry under the shade of the big, bright-blue umbrellas. Handmade on site each day and with more than two dozen flavours on show at any one time, the selection should sate even the pickiest of gelati connoisseurs. If you're eating in, the coolly decked-out interior offers swivel stool seating all along the glass frontage. In addition to the gelati, they have a range of ice-cream sundaes, like the 'Picasso' (£6.70), which combines seeded vanilla and wild strawberry ice cream with fresh strawberries, whipped cream and raspberry sauce.Read more
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Love the places on this list! I also wrote about my favourite places in London for an organic ice-cream, find them out: http://blog.openplanliving.net/hospitality-design-summerdairy-free-ice-creams-london/.
Oddono's in Chiswick is to die for; as is Bertotti on Hammersmith Grove W6 (another one on Goldhawk Rd W12opened recently).
Amorino SHOULD NOT be on any 'good icecream' list
Have you never tried Creams in Ealing? Its the best ice cream parlour ive ever been to.
Why is Cremeria Vienna on Blackstock Road, Finsbury Park not on this list? Surely THE best ice-cream in London. Although, every time I share that knowledge the queue gets longer, so maybe I should keep quiet.
@Trip Out Hi. It is on the list, but in the North London section.
Black Vanilla in Greenwich is awesome. Also sells coffee and alcohol... they promote champagne and ice cream!
I'm in the 2014 Eating and Drinking guide in the Ice Cream Parlour section, so can I be added here please. My ice cream comes from the amazing Marine Ices!
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If Gelup and Amorino are among the best ice cream parlours in London...
Can't fault La Gelatiera's listing, but you missed out the amazing Lab G in Brixton and Marine Ices in Chalk Farm - two of the best places in London and neither of them part of chains, unlike others on this list.
I actually read this review on Thursday afternoon, and Friday evening after work, thought I'd give your #1 a go, Amorino...If I'm honest, it was nothing special whatsoever, Yes their presentation is nice, but as far as flavour goes, I didn't find it anything special. It's a shame. The wife and I still do prefer Harrod's ice cream Parlour, and also Odonno's (Selfridges Brankch).
You did miss the best Gelato so far in London (and we did try a few). Tesoro on Goodge Street close to the Goodge Street Metro. Displayed in typical Italian Possetti the texture and flavour is outstanding! No surprises but true to the original Italian flavours. Addictive and highly recommended!
Comboco on D'Arblay Street in soho is the best! Awesome flavours with specials every week - the best thing is the smashing toppings concept - just check it out!
Marine Ices perhaps? Probably one of the oldest and best ice-cream parlours in London.
Only 1 place on the east list!!! Try Gelato Royale - Fieldgate Street, next door to Tayyabs. Home made and made good.
Hands down BEST gelato in the world is at Snowflake Gelato on Westbourne Grove. I urge you to review it!
A new gelato shop has just opened in Hammersmith, it's called Zooba and it's on Shepherd's Bush Road..... The milk belgian chocolate flavour is mind-blowing!
ZAZA@ MELODIA DEL GELATO in Canary Wharf! the only place in London where you find ice cream patisserie....great small "finger food" version of ice cream for dinner parties or kids parties....tredy and elegant ...definately not the usual ice cream place.... have you ever tried campari-orange ice cream? or afrodisiac chocolate and orange???? ...or coffe with fresh cream......? the best ice cream ever......
I adore the mini cones and other patisserie gelato tha zaza' in canary wharf does. I bought lots of different shapes and flavours for my kids bdays and they loved it as well as the parents! Also, their chocolate, pistacchio and hazelnut are deliciussss, not to mention the typical napolitan "pastiera" flavour, they all have that creamy and velvety texture that only real italian gelato has!
honestly is good place to visit is alittle nice shop in golders green road a proper gelATO TO EAT TO SHOP NAME IS BELLA DEL GELATO GOOD PLACE TO VISIT FOR ICE CREAM AND PANCAKES I HAD A SCOOP OF FERERO ROCHER GELATO WAS FANTASTIC
I recently the Dairy Cafe in East Sheen. The ice cream tasted fantastic, apparently all made in the shop. Flavours taste really natural, the strawberry seemed to be full of fruit, vanilla tastes fantastic. Prices seem good value, £1.50 for a generous scoop. They also have home made cakes and good soups etc.
wow wow is a good litle place in golders green road ,a proper italian gelato , the display very presented just top quality i had a belgian waffle with ice cream for 3quid honestly is worth it good crepes and waffles at reasonable price the place is bella del gelato
bella del gelato golders green , a warm a nice little traditional italian ice cream parlour with authentic italian flavours ,any time i go there i am just confuse to see what dlavour shall i pick honestly is a good gelateria to vist
Just recently opened shop, called BELLA DEL GELATO, it is near to golders green station, it is very cute shop, all interior are so cool, and the ice cream are so wonderful i have never seen such a gorgeous display and presentation. it is home made ice cream and also taste is wonderful and always i find new unique flavour like green tea, chestnut, chill chocolate etc.. you must taste it !!
theres a reasonably new business near bethnal green tube station i pass on the way to work most days, called the Flava Lounge! Prices are good and the decor is really fun, more your retro american diner experience then a swanky outlet in selfridges, but great for a relaxed family treat i'd say!
there is a funny little shop around the corner from queensway station opposite kensington gardens i dont even know the name of it but it has the best ice cream ive ever tasted, i had pistachio but my girlfriend had the ferrero rocher flavour and it was unbelievable, we crossed the park again to buy another one. the one in holland park is also really good 'mio gelato' but a bit pricey.
there's a new sweet tooth in town...ZAZA' italian gelato ice cream in Canary Wharf Cabot Place. original flavours and Patisserie to go: take away mini ice cream in fancy packaging. a must for gelato lovers!
that was a 100%italian gelato is in queens way ice skating i had a visit on the 10march2009,with some freind to do ice skating , but i just feel like i go there to eat gelato ,it does remember me when i go with my parents to sicily to enjoy our summer holiday and grab a scoop of gelato , well done queens ice skating gelato team
Gelato Mio in Holland Park is my favourite. Authentic Italian ice cream and great atmosphere. Worth checking it out (and now open till 11pm every night!)
On your advice we made it to F&M's Parlour. We had a knickerboker glory and a dusty road sundae. Both were very good indeed and of course at £10+ each they need to be. It was the combination of ingredients that made them, the ice cream itself, which turns out to be Minghella from the Isle of Wight, was a good English example, but not a patch on Danielli (see below). The service at the Parlour was also very English, 12.5% and nothing to show for it.
On a recent trip to Rome we visited the ice cream parlour recommended by TOut, as 'best in Rome' near the Trevi fountain. The product was magnificent, (Ok, we really did go back for seconds and sampled 4 flavours!) but it was very rich. Back in London, We just tried 5 flavours in a Sundae at Gelateria Danieli at Bentalls in Kingston. This was heaven and much more paletable and lower fat. Lots of nuts in the nut flavours. We are both ice cream fans and Danieli is seriously good in store, a contender for No1. I've never understood the fuss about Marine Ices, media hype over substance in my view.
scoop is my favourite, i met one of the owners, a truly insired genuine italian, that's what makes gelato icecream unbeatable!


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Strider demo out this week, PS4 sample already up on Japanese PlayStation StoreWritten by: / / No Comments
If you want to get a taste of Double Helix's Strider reboot before purchasing it then you'll be pleased to know that a demo will be available later this week when the PlayStation Store updates in North America and Europe. So far the demo has only been confirmed for PS3 and PS4 but it's very likely to be released on PC, Xbox 360 and Xbox One as well.
The demo weighs in at 2.7GB on PS4 and is already available from the Japanese PlayStation Store in English. The sample features the first fifteen minutes or so of the game and includes two boss battles along with two character upgrades.
Strider will launch for PS3 and PS4 tomorrow, February 18th, and for Xbox One, Xbox 360 and PC this Wednesday. Head over here for El33tonline's previous coverage of this series reboot developed by Double Helix Games and Capcom's Osaka studio.
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Give an example of a 4x4 matrix where $A \neq I$, $A^2 \neq I$, and $A^3 = I$.
I found a 2x2 matrix where $A \neq I$ and $A^2 = I$, but this problem is more complex and has me completely stumped.
Give an example of a 4x4 matrix where $A \neq I$, $A^2 \neq I$, and $A^3 = I$.
I found a 2x2 matrix where $A \neq I$ and $A^2 = I$, but this problem is more complex and has me completely stumped.
Here is a $2\times2$ example $$ \begin{bmatrix} -\frac12&\frac{\sqrt{3}}{2}\\ -\frac{\sqrt{3}}{2}&-\frac12 \end{bmatrix}\tag{1} $$ This works because it is a matrix representation of $e^{2\pi i/3}=-\frac12+i\frac{\sqrt{3}}{2}$; that is, a rotation by $\frac{2\pi}{3}$. Thus, squaring it gives another $2\times2$ example $$ \begin{bmatrix} -\frac12&-\frac{\sqrt{3}}{2}\\ \frac{\sqrt{3}}{2}&-\frac12 \end{bmatrix}\tag{2} $$ $(1)$ and $(2)$ can easily be extended to $4\times4$ examples in many ways. Here is one using $(1)$: $$ \begin{bmatrix} -\frac12&\frac{\sqrt{3}}{2}&0&0\\ -\frac{\sqrt{3}}{2}&-\frac12&0&0\\ 0&0&\hspace{7pt}1\hspace{7pt}\vphantom{-\frac12}&0\\ 0&0&0&\hspace{5pt}1\hspace{5pt}\vphantom{-\frac12} \end{bmatrix}\tag{3} $$
Yet another $2\times2$ matrix:
As Hagen von Eitzen points out, we can consider the unit vectors $u,v,w$, which are separated by $\frac{2\pi}{3}$
and note that $u+v+w=0$ to get that $w=-u-v$. Let $\begin{bmatrix}a\\b\end{bmatrix}$ be a coordinate vector using the basis vectors $\{u,v\}$. Then rotation by $\frac{2\pi}{3}$ has the following action: $$ \begin{bmatrix}u&v\end{bmatrix}\begin{bmatrix}a\\b\end{bmatrix}\mapsto\begin{bmatrix}v&w\end{bmatrix}\begin{bmatrix}a\\b\end{bmatrix}=\begin{bmatrix}u&v\end{bmatrix}\begin{bmatrix}0&-1\\1&-1\end{bmatrix}\begin{bmatrix}a\\b\end{bmatrix}\tag{4} $$ Thus, the matrix for rotating by $\frac{2\pi}{3}$ under the basis $\{u,v\}$ is $$ \begin{bmatrix}0&-1\\1&-1\end{bmatrix}\tag{5} $$ which, as Gerry Myerson points out, is the companion matrix for $x^2+x+1$. A companion matrix is annihilated by its polynomial, so $(5)$ is annihilated by $x^3-1=(x-1)(x^2+x+1)$.
The square of $(5)$ also satisfies the specified conditions: $$ \begin{bmatrix}-1&1\\-1&0\end{bmatrix}\tag{6} $$ The answer given by Marc van Leeuwen uses $(6)$.
Here's a $3\times3$: $$\pmatrix{0&1&0\cr0&0&1\cr1&0&0\cr}$$ You should be able to get a $4\times4$ out of this.
Since powers of diagonal matrices just raise the elements to those powers individually, we can simply pick a diagonal matrix such that all the diagonal elements are cube roots of $1$. If you're allowed complex matrices, the solution is easy.
Let $b_1,b_2,b_3,b_4$ be a basis. Define $A$ such that $$Ab_1=b_2, Ab_2=b_3, Ab_3=b_1$$ and $Ab_4=b_4$ and extend $A$ linearly. Then for scalars $\alpha_k$, $k=1,2,3,4$ $$A(\alpha_1b_1+\alpha_2b_2+\alpha_3b_3+\alpha_4b_4)=\alpha_1b_2+\alpha_2b_3+\alpha_3b_1+\alpha_4b_4 \ne\alpha_1b_1+\alpha_2b_2+\alpha_3b_3+\alpha_4b_4$$ and $$A^2(\alpha_1b_1+\alpha_2b_2+\alpha_3b_3+\alpha_4b_4)=\alpha_1b_3+\alpha_2b_1+\alpha_3b_2+\alpha_4b_4 \ne\alpha_1b_1+\alpha_2b_2+\alpha_3b_3+\alpha_4b_4$$ while $$A^3(\alpha_1b_1+\alpha_2b_2+\alpha_3b_3+\alpha_4b_4)=\alpha_1b_1+\alpha_2b_2+\alpha_3b_3+\alpha_4b_4.$$
Nobody has really highlighted the geometric interpretation yet, so I will. You're looking for a linear mapping (in 4 dimensions) that will take a vector $x$ to itself if applied three times in a row, yet will yield distinct intermediate vectors $Ax$, $A^2x$.
Let's start with the 2-dimensional case. There, it's easy to see that the mapping you want is a rotation. If $A$ represents the rotation by an $n$-th of a full circle (i.e, $360/n$ degree, or $2\pi/n$ red), then $A^n$ rotates by a full circle or equivalently not at all.
The rotation by $\varphi$ rad is given by $\begin{pmatrix} \cos\varphi & \sin\varphi \\ -\sin\varphi & \cos \varphi\end{pmatrix}$. Thus, $$A = \begin{pmatrix} \cos\frac{2\pi}{n} & \sin\frac{2\pi}{n} \\ -\sin\frac{2\pi}{n} & \cos\frac{2\pi}{n}\end{pmatrix}$$ is a mapping with $A^0 \ldots A^{n-1} \neq I$ and $A^n = I$.
To extend this to more than two dimensions, you can simply use the identity mapping for the other dimensions. Or, in the 4-dimensional case, you could also combine two rotation matrixes. The resulting matrix then has block-diagonal form with two $2x2$ blocks.


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A couple of weeks ago while searching for information on an unrelated issue, I came across an article, titled "Herding Porcupines in the MRM," linking the Men's Right Movement to Quakerism on the site, A Voice for Men. Please be aware that the above link is to a site identified by the SPLC as having at least some of the characteristics of a hate group. While I don't care to evaluate the site in its entirety and don't know all of the nuance of identifying what is and is not a hate group, at the time of this writing the site seems to feature an "enemies list" with names, dossiers and photographs, an advertisement (for an affiliated site) depicting blood dripping from a knife, as well as imagery and text which seem to serve no function other than to dehumanize activists from other communities.
If you've never encountered the men's rights movement before, it can puzzling to newcomers. Most people are correctly under the impression that men have rights, and many MRM groups know how to artfully incorporate legitimate concerns alongside their reactionary politics in a way that can confound outsiders. That said, I find the movement as it is actually, widely practiced to be a manifestation of modern misogyny belonging in the same category as white supremacist and other hate-based movements.
For whatever reason the author of this particular article has chosen to identify as both a quaker, a woman, and a men's rights activist.
That women sometimes choose to associate with the men's rights movement is unsettling but not surprising — sexism is unique among all forms of prejudice in that it can never rely on people's unfamiliarity with each other to perpetuate it's vicious misconceptions. Men and women who are exposed to misogynistic media and lack the insight to resist its influence are likely be indoctrinated with very similar ideas regardless of their gender.
I do identify as a quaker. Although I am not a member of my meeting, I attend frequently and share many of their values. These values, as I understand them, include taking time to listen and form consensus with every stakeholder as part of the decision-making process, opposition to all forms of violence regardless of the context in which the violence may take place, the will to defy injustice wherever it occurs, and the frequent practice of silent worship without defining the object of that worship. I understand these values to be entirely in opposition to the values I see espoused in the men's rights movement.
In spite of those values, it does not surprise me that a quaker somewhere in the world would identify with the men's rights movement. Quakers are a diverse group. I've been told that some quaker meetings are almost indistinguishable from a modern conservative christian church, while others more closely resemble Occupy Wall Street organizing committees filled with youngsters eager to get themselves arrested. The meeting I attend tends to be reserved, having taken some modest actions to contribute aid for the homeless and to agitate in favor of gay marriage.
The article itself contains little that I find objectionable because it amounts to little more than a dry review of quaker organizational structures. I have no rebuttal to its content, but I feel that if I remain silent about this article, reasonable people might take away the idea that there exists some widespread sympathies between quakerism and the men's rights movement. I find this possibility utterly horrifying. A Voice for Men and sites like it do not speak for me or my meeting. I have no doubt that the ideas advocated by the men's rights movement would be greeted by strenuous protest among the overwhelming majority of friends at my meeting, several of whom are feminists.
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Had stumbled upon the ranger cabins that Algonquin Park rents out during the season, but after doing some research, found that they're booked solid for the summer (and from what I'm told you have to book the day that they're available they're that popular). So was wondering if anyone knew of anything similar in the area that existed at all? The only options i found through the parks are at least a few hours (if not more) drive from Algonquin, which had a lot of the items that we wanted to check out.
Camping is always an option and is easy enough, but it may not be what you consider "similar" to roofed accommodation.
Other than the ranger cabins your other option appears to be one of the three lodges in the park:
All three are inside the park, just off Highway 60.
Other than that, Tripadvisor has a number of external accommodation options within 20 or so miles of the park boundaries.
I own Red Deer Log Cabins, in Madawaska. The location is about a 20 minute drive from the east gate on highway 60. On a quiet sideroad, and a beautiful west facing waterfront with a sand beach, my place is often used as an affordable base camp for those wanting to spend time in Algonquin Park. Please check my site. You can find reviews on TripAdvisor.
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WHEELING — Upper Ohio Valley coal mine operators prepared for the worst Tuesday while listening to President Barack Obama speak about carbon emissions from the campus of Georgetown University in......
I am listening for Cecil Rogers and Rich Trumpka!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Or do you Prefer to attend white house dinners with your cuff links and 300 dollar shirts !!!!!!!Mr. Rogers and Mr. Trumpka where are your voices ??????????????
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I agree John McCain (was) but in order to get the nomination he had to pander to the right wing wackos and pick Carabu Barbie. Mitt Romney did the same, he had to campaign against his signature issue as goveronor of MA Romneycare to get the nomination. The he makes his 47 % remark. The fact is 47 % that doesn't pay income tax don't make enough money but they into SS, sales taxes etc. What is really ironic he got 47 % of the vote and the states he carried have the most takers.
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OhioDem: I'm not sure what you're even talking about! Over 4 years ago, the Republican candidate for President was far from what you call a "bigot" and is still very forward thinking with a very strong moral base. Our current US President's plan will ruin the coal industry and, I reiterate, 44.6% of us in Belmont County voted for him.
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nobama What does working 80 hours a week do? It puts another person out of a job. If you can't figure that out you are just plain stupid.
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Ignorance of some never ceases to amaze me....bashing the Company that provides jobs and tax revenue is what idiots do. Ohiodem you couldn't handle a job in a mine..probably a job any where cause your type is still living in Mom's basement. What does Murray's work schedule have to do with you?
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OhioDem is a racist. Substitute "black" for "white" and see how it sounds.
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I know a few people who have recently quit the mine. The complaint is they have no life at all. 10 to 12 hrs a day and forced Saturdays. Murray will never go to a 40 hr or even a 50 hr week because he would rather work those guys to death than hire more people and have to give them benefits. of course some of those guys like it and that's fine. if your young and smart you can pile up a lot of cash in about 10 years time. Unfortunately most go out buy an expensive home, forty grand pick up that ***** gas, new motorcycle and a boat plus all the old ladies desires.
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Purple, you guys run a candidate that isn't a bigot with his mind in the 1900s you may win someday. There just aren't enough bigited white people to win a Presidential election anymore. Get used to Democrats.
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I get tired of the whining from Murray. With an abundance of clean and cheap natural gas, why use coal.The gas industry is happy, you can't please everyone. Where are all these new hires working? How about coal going to a 40 hour week, that would make lots of coal jobs. We got people working a 80 hour week blaming someone else for the lack of coal jobs. Think about it!
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Do Cecil Rogers And Rich Trumpka stand with the President or the rank and file of th e UMWA?????? Mr. Rogers and Mr. Trumpka, where are your voices ?????????????????????????????????
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This is no surprise - yet 44.6% of Belmont County votes contributed to putting this guy back into the presidential office - very sad.
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I said in my comments LAST yr. that the back stabbin, lying Obummer was AGAINST the coal industry..And i believe also his BUDDY,Lou Gentile.. Lou speaks with forked tongue when it comes to our coal industry. To our face, Lou is all in favor of our coal industry,, BUT....... You can fill in the rest...
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According to Mayo Clinic about 60% - 75% of the calories burned are non-exercise related. It seems each person's metabolism adjusts to ensure proper support of the body with the focus on efficient energy burn and seems to be geared towards burning less (back to our ancestors surviving on minimal food) as opposed to burning more. So, my question, how do we get our metabolism boosted and keep it elevated for those people looking to loose weight?
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Basal Metabolic Rate (BMR), and it's sibling, Resting Metabolic Rate (RMR) refer to the amount of Calories your body will burn without any work done. They are similar, and for convenience sake most people are referring to RMR when they talk about daily Calorie requirements. Several things do affect those values, such as:
So, the take-away from this is:
Now, I have had training sessions where I burn up to 1400 Calories in the 90 minutes of training. Compared to my RMR of about 2400 Calories, that's 25% of the day's energy expenditure (2400 + 1400 - 150 [the 150 is correcting for the Calories I would have burned anyway] for the day). That fits in quite well with the Mayo clinic's report.
Also there are some advocates of intermittent fasting, such as Lean Gains, that put forth the body does a more efficient job burning Calories when you have a smaller number of larger meals. For example, if I ate 2400 Calories in 3 meals, each about 800 Calories, I would be more full and have a nice long time between the last meal of the day and the first meal of the next day.
One way is build more muscle. At rest, muscle burns more calories than fat.
When doing exercise, try and stay in the 60%-80% of max HR range. This is a fat burning range, and when you get beyond that you move into glycogen metabolism.
If you can get a higher Basal Metabolic Rate (BMR) by building more muscle, then sleeping burns more calories than before.
So lots of aerobic activity, at reasonable intensity should help.
Without a heart rate monitor there are two easy tricks to find 60% and 80%.
60% is easily identifiable as when you notice the sound of your breathing. Try, its pretty neat. Go for a jog, and at some point you start to hear your breathing, that is a good indicator you are at or over 60%.
80% is the point at which you will have a hard time talking to someone next to you.
Stay in that range, it builds muscles, builds aerobic fitness, and should help increase BMR.


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Friday, March 21, 2008
Denial as a Trading Motivation
Denial is a powerful human motivation. We have a drive to know the world around us; less commonly appreciated is our capacity to sustain ignorance. Many times, we just don't want to know the truth, whether it's what happens in a military prison or what keeps our spouse out so late.
One particularly uncomfortable truth for traders is that their lack of profits is simply due to trading randomness. It's not a lack of discipline, a lack of trade planning, or a lack of tweaking the right indicators that create losses--all of those are relatively easy to address. No, losses are caused by trading strategies that simply do not work, and that's not so easily remedied.
It's pretty threatening to think that what you're devoting time and money to has no grounding in reality. It's much easier to simply not think about it. Like the spouse who manufactures one excuse after another in the face of a partner's erratic behavior, we construct all sorts of explanations for our shortcomings.
Or we just put the blinders on. When I started working with traders some years back, I asked them to indicate their profitability over the past year. I was shocked that most could not give me (or would not give me) a response other than a hesitant, "I'm coming close to break even." Many had simply stopped looking at their account statements. The idea of actually drilling down into their trade data and extracting information about what they were doing right and wrong was quite threatening for them.
Sadly, there are plenty of willing accomplices in this denial. Coaches eagerly assure you that "psychology" is the difference between winning and losing in markets; gurus promise you hidden market secrets that will enable you to unlock your potential; publishers crank out books on how you can succeed at trading. But no one solicits trading magazine articles, workshop presentations, or books on the topic of *lack* of edge. No one wants to hear all the first-hand stories I can tell about lives and relationships harmed and even destroyed by false hopes and promises.
That's too uncomfortable. No one can make money from it. So we don't look at it; we choose to not know. But I'm telling you truthfully: I've seen just as many lives hurt or ruined by trading as enhanced.
A while back, I was asked to submit a proposal for a workshop hosted by one of the major financial exchanges. I thought a real public service would be to present research and first-hand observations pertaining to addictive patterns among day traders: how to recognize trading addiction, and what to do about it.
The idea was shot down immediately. As it turns out, it wasn't the conference coordinator that pulled the plug, but the corporate sponsor of the event. Sponsors don't make money when people don't trade or when they trade in a more controlled fashion. People, after all, come to hear about trading as a dream, not as a nightmare.
A little while back a trader begged me to talk with him over the phone and help him with his "self-defeating" emotional patterns. In an unguarded moment, I agreed. He told me about his anger and frustration during trading and how those had led him to violate his risk management rules.
I asked the trader to give me examples of what was going on during these periods of frustration. Many of the occasions boiled down to times when he was profitable on trades, but then saw those profits reverse. I drilled down further to get examples of those trades and discovered that, even though he called himself a daytrader, many of his reversals occurred on positions held overnight. Indeed, he proudly told me his rule that limited his overnight exposure to only his most profitable daytrades.
A bit skeptical, I asked him what he based the rule on. How did he know that profitable positions intraday would become further profitable if held into the next day?
He seemed stunned that I asked. I guess we're all supposed to know that "the trend is your friend" and that you should always trade with the trend.
I quickly got on the computer, downloaded daily open-high-low-close data for the S&P 500 Index (SPY) going back a little over a year (to the start of 2007) and threw together a spreadsheet that looked at returns following up days and down days. There was no programming or advanced Excel techniques to what I did; it took all of a few minutes.
To recreate what I found: When SPY was up on the day (N = 159 trading days), the next day's open averaged a loss of -.02% (79 up, 80 down). Similarly, when SPY was up on the day, the next full trading day averaged a loss of -.13% (75 up, 84 down).
When SPY was down on the day (N = 146), the next day's open averaged a gain of .03% (86 up, 60 down). When SPY was down for the day, the next trading session as a whole averaged a gain of .11% (85 up, 61 down).
So, in other words, the trader's rule had absolutely no grounding in reality. If anything, he would have been better off fading the prior day's direction. He was becoming frustrated and angry because he was losing his profits. He was losing his profits because he was trading a setup that had no validity. Frustration wasn't causing his trading problems; his bad trading was generating (understandable) frustration.
But, for me, the eye-opener was that he had never thought to check out his rule. Even if he didn't want to crack an Excel primer and learn how to find answers for himself, he could have simply kept records of his overnight trades vs. his intraday trades and seen what was working and what wasn't.
But he didn't do that.
That's when it hit me: He didn't *want* to know.
My caller was not happy with my analysis and did not seek me out further. I didn't deliver what he wanted. He wanted a self-help psychological technique to keep him disciplined, so that his rules would make him money. He didn't want someone pointing out that his rules were invalid and that following invalid rules with discipline will simply lead to ruthless consistency in drawdowns.
As our conversation wound down, he defensively explained that he had plenty of other patterns that he traded that were valid. One of his favorites were opening gaps. Long story short, I examined the spreadsheet and told him that this, too, was coming up blank. To recapitulate, upside opening gaps led to 83 wins and 82 losses for the coming trading day; downside gaps led to 71 wins and 69 losses. There were no significant differences in the sizes of winners and losers. There was no edge there at all.
"But that's for the S&P," he said. "The gaps work for the stocks."
"Which stock would you like me to run the data on?", I asked. He said no thanks; he didn't need the data.
But the analysis wasn't the point. The point was that he was trading a belief in an edge, not an edge that he had independently validated. His entire trading strategy rested on (blind) trust in these patterns. He didn't *want* to know if the patterns were good, because that--like the spouse's actual discovery of an affair--would necessitate facing unpleasant realities and making difficult changes.
I recently started work with a trader who wrote to me in elaborate detail of recent trading losses. He immediately offered to share his account statements with me so that I could help him change what he was doing. No denial. No defensiveness. No willing blindness. Just an open kimono. I confidently predict that this trader will be successful. He's doing the hard work right now: he's facing shortcomings with eyes wide open. By owning what's worst with his trading, he'll discover the best within him.
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- HPT said...
Excellent post Dr. Steenbarger.
- Bryan said...
Great post Doc. Thank you.
- Moonfrog said...
Dr. Brett, you hit right into the black dot with your writing.
As a big fan of your blog as well as your website, I often pass on the links to your sites but to my great surprise I cannot but note that not many people (traders) are very interested in the topic Psychology in combination with trading, especially not when I mention blogs where mistakes and losses are pointed out. Where I and other few people (not surprisingly many women among those) learn from your writings, most of the others react even somewhat irritated, like, please don't bother me with that stuff.
I suspect that they are afraid to lose their confidence in themselves, a confidence which is nothing more than a rollplaying scenario most of the time, as you're certainly aware of.
They are really unable to see the obvious.
Amazing. Sometimes blindness has nothing to do with eyes.
- Markus said...
The right follow-up to this post might be:
Evidence-Based Technical Analysis: Applying the Scientific Method and Statistical Inference to Trading Signals by David R Aronson
- Nathanael said...
I think the perspective you bring as a member of a helping profession is in some ways is at odds with the reality of speculative trading.
The structure of the industry is that spec traders will mostly fail. In the grand scheme of things, what difference does it make if some schmo is to lazy to do what is required to succeed. That should be expected. If the majority redoubles their efforts, the game would just shift and get harder, and the majority would still have no chance.
It will never change. It can't. It sometimes seems you want to be "above" all of this by only catering your services to the few who are serious. That may be a good business model and fit your interest, however focusing on the top of the pyramid does not make the broad base disappear.
It is critical that new players be continually brought into the zero sum + cost game we call the futures markets. The promotional efforts you often seem to turn your nose up at are not some ethically shady fluke, but actually realistic and required efforts if speculative markets are to maintain liquidity and fulfill any productive purpose in society. Speculators do play a role, but It is not critical, or likely not even possible, that on net they earn a profit.
Those that fight for every last mm of advantage are a tangent and an aberration. In my opinion it is in such a person's interest to fairly promote the industry, not scare people away with doom and gloom.
- Brett Steenbarger, Ph.D. said...
Thanks to all for the comments on the post.
Nathanael, I'm sorry if I gave the perception that I turn my nose up at promotional efforts to bring inexperienced traders into markets. It's not that I just turn my nose up at them. Rather, I'm actively disgusted by them, refuse to do business with them, and recognize them for the lying trash that they are.
Small traders long ago stopped being significant liquidity providers for major financial markets; there is no need to have small, untrained accounts engaging in daytrading--particularly in such leveraged arenas as spot forex and futures.
But I appreciate your point that focusing on the top of the pyramid doesn't change the abysmal failure rates at the bottom. I cannot prevent people from throwing their money away on fantasies; all I can do is refuse to participate and sound cautionary notes for those willing and able to listen.
- Nathanael said...
Do you think the situation is different with the big institutions or "sophisticated" investors? institutional accounts listen to slick sales pitches as well, with buzzwords that cater to their more sophisticated pallets. The industry very much relies on salesmanship, and in a zero sum game, not everyone can win. It does not matter if they are the little guy you want to protect, or barrings bank, or the sophisticated investors in slick XYZ CTA/Hedge funds that just blew up.
I have never been to one of these promotional conferences that you are angered by, so I am missing that perspective that you have.
- MidKnight said...
Post of the year I think Brett - many thanks.
With kind regards,
- Monique said...
Hi Dr. Brett,
Thanks again for your insightful comments. Can you point me in the right direction where to learn how to use Excel to analyze the data such as you do?
- Brett Steenbarger, Ph.D. said...
Hi Nathanael,
Yes, of course the traders at funds get the sales calls all the time. That's different than, say, banks who call on small municipalities to sell them "safe" investments that turn out to not be safe or mortgage brokers who sell funky adjustable mortgages to relatively uneducated and unsophisticated homeowners who can't hope to pay those mortgages off once the teaser rates reset.
When funds get the slick sales calls, everyone just kinda rolls their eyes. It's like doctors getting pitches from pharmaceutical reps. Whatevs. But it's when the slick sales folks promise things to relatively unsophisticated consumers that my blood boils. The forex firms that actively encourage insane leverage are among the worst in that respect. Churn and burn brokers rank up there as well.
- Brett Steenbarger, Ph.D. said...
Hi Monique,
I'm afraid I don't know of texts specific to using Excel for analysis of historical market data. I taught myself with one of the "how to" Excel books at the bookstore and by experimenting with the "sort" and "filter" database functions.
- Firebird said...
Dr. Steenbarger,
I've yet to meet somebody else that simply tells it like it is. Yes, it is true that many "educators" and "coaches" as well as brokers will tell you that only a minority will succeed and that most traders lose money, but this is always stated in a perverse way to lead people to believe that they will be among the chosen few (thanks, of course to their seminar, indicator, advisory service or whatever... of which no audited track record is provided indeed).
Thank you for your blog, keep up the fantastic work.
- ivanhoff said...
you realize that back-testing is not 100% reliable and it could often lead to false expectations. One edge provides totally different returns in different market environment. Following a strategy that gave a profit of 100R in 2005, doesn't mean that you will achieve the same results in 2008. When one edge is overly exploited it tends to alter the market environment and its own success becomes a reason for its death.
Unfortunately the past is all we have to work with. We have to use what we know in order to understand and find out what we don't know. What software do you use for backtesting?
- Seemingly Useless said...
This post resonates very strongly with my own trading experiences. I have always experienced consistent success ever since I first began trading but in the past year my strategy completely stopped working due to the implementation of the hybrid system on the NYSE. I would lose money and blame it on "market conditions" or "stupid algos" but it did not occur to me to evaluate my own trading strategy. I was ashamed of my trading records and discussing the situation. Finally after hitting one of my worst months, I came to realize by trading strategy was no longer sound and decided to completely overhaul my trading style and focus more on developing a good strategy and less on results and my losses. So far I've been making some good progress albeit slow. No one likes to fail and I believe the only remedy for denial is acceptance of "failure", which is sometimes needed for growth. I have always enjoyed your books and articles because they provide such an unique angle towards trading and the stock market.
- BirdMan said...
Spot on. Keep ponding away and hopefully it will sink in and we will be better traders!
"There was no programming or advanced Excel techniques to what I did; it took all of a few minutes."
I believe this topic is on your list of things that you might do and I know some of us would find it useful...
Thanks again.
- The Stock Speculator said...
I've been trading for nearly a decade. I only started to really study and analyze my equity curve 2 years ago. I was amazed at what it told me and, quite frankly, I hated the narrative. The truth was I was bleeding money and was an emotional trader.
I now monitor my P&L daily, M-O-M, YTD & Year over Year. It has helped me become very profitable (up 65% this year) and a more stable , confident trader.
You have to know how bad you are before you can get to work fixing the problems.
Great post and I just picked up your latest work TDTC. It looks like another winner!
- JimRI said...
I am of the opinion that one of the major challenges in our modern world is that of people making decisions and taking action based purely on beliefs and memorized rules without questioning the their validity the consequences of following them.


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The V-chip allows parents or other caregivers to block programming on their televisions that they don't want children to watch. Most television programs are now assigned a rating according to a system established by the television industry. The rating is encoded with the program before it airs. Parents can use the remote control to program the V-chip to block the display of programs that carry certain ratings. Rating systems currently in use are summarized below. The V-chip also can block programs based on any future rating system.
Since January 1, 2000, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has required all new television sets 13 inches or larger to contain a V-chip. You can usually tell whether your television has a V-chip by looking at the packaging. If you no longer have the packaging, V-chip-equipped televisions will have the V-chip option displayed on the menu.
Digital-to-analog converter boxes used to watch over-the-air television on an older, analog television using an antenna also must have V-chips. If you have an older television without a V-chip and subscribe to a pay television service, your provider can supply a set-top box with a V-chip. Your provider may charge a fee for the set-top box. In addition, personal computers that include a television receiver and have a monitor of 13 inches or more must include a V-chip.
FCC Actions:
- Child Safe Viewing Act: In 2008, Congress passed the Child Safe Viewing Act (www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/PLAW-110publ452/pdf/PLAW-110publ452.pdf) that directed the FCC to study the existence and availability of advanced blocking technologies parents can use to protect children from indecent or objectionable video or audio programming. The FCC conducted a proceeding to examine current blocking technologies and ratings systems used in connection with a variety of electronic media, including television, cable and satellite, wireless devices and the Internet. The FCC also considered methods of encouraging the development, deployment and use of such technology.
In 2009, the FCC issued a report to Congress summarizing its findings. The report discussed the kinds of advanced blocking technologies and other parental control tools that are available for each kind of media. While the FCC noted that parental tools and ratings systems exist for all types of media, it also noted there is no single parental control technology available today that works across all media platforms. In addition, the technologies available within each kind of media platform vary greatly with respect to cost, level of consumer awareness, adoption rate and other criteria. The FCC also noted that many commenters discussed the need for greater education and media literacy for parents and more effective ways to provide information about the tools available to them.
- Notice of Inquiry: Empowering Parents and Protecting Children in an Evolving Media Landscape.
To follow up on the CSVA Report, the FCC issued a Notice of Inquiry in October of 2009 in MB Docket No. 09-194, titled Empowering Parents and Protecting Children in an Evolving Media Landscape. The NOI sought comment on how to help parents and children take advantage of the opportunities made possible by electronic media while protecting children from the risks these media can pose.
Television Program Ratings
In 1996, Congress asked the television industry to establish a voluntary rating system for TV programs. In response, the National Association of Broadcasters, the National Cable Television Association, and the Motion Picture Association of America created the rating system known as "TV Parental Guidelines."
Ratings appear in the upper left corner of your television screen during the first 15 seconds of each program and often after commercial breaks. The ratings also are included in many magazines and newspapers that provide TV listings. Ratings are given to most television programming except news, sports and unedited movies on premium cable channels. The ratings are:
- TV-Y – (Directed to All Children) found only in children's shows, means that the show is designed specifically for a very young audience, including children from ages 2-6.
- TV-Y7 – (Directed to Older Children) found only in children's shows, means that the show is most appropriate for children age 7 and up.
- TV-Y7-FV – (Directed to Older Children-Fantasy Violence) means that fantasy violence may be more intense or more combative than other programming in the TV-Y7 category.
- TV-G – (General Audiences) means that the show is suitable for all ages but is not necessarily a children's show.
- TV-PG – (Parental Guidance Suggested) means that parental guidance is recommended and that the program may be unsuitable for younger children. This rating may also include a V for violence, S for sexual situations, L for language, or D for suggestive dialogue.
- TV-14 – (Parents Strongly Cautioned) means that the show may be unsuitable for children under 14. V, S, L or D may accompany a rating of TV-14.
- TV-MA – (Mature Audience Only) means that the program is intended to be viewed by adults and may be unsuitable for children under 17. The program also contains one or more of the following: V, S, L or D.
The TV Parental Guidelines Monitoring Board reviews the ratings guidelines and their application to television programming. The Monitoring Board has a Chairman and six members each from the broadcast television industry, the cable industry and the program production community. The Chairman of the FCC also selects five non-industry members from public interest groups, for a total of 24 members.
If you have a complaint about a television program's rating, you can contact the Monitoring Board at P.O. Box 14097, Washington, DC 20004, or you can call (202) 879-9364. In addition, you can visit the Monitoring Board's website.
Movie Ratings
Movie ratings are assigned based on a voluntary system created by the Motion Picture Association of America and the National Association of Theater Owners. A board of parents known as the Classification and Rating Administration assigns ratings after viewing, discussing, and voting on films. These movie ratings also are programmed into V-chips so that parents can use the V-chip to block movies shown on TV based on the movie ratings. The ratings are:
- G – (General Audiences) means material is appropriate for all ages.
- PG – (Parental Guidance Suggested) means that parental guidance is recommended and some material may be unsuitable for children.
- PG-13 – (Parents Strongly Cautioned) means some material may be inappropriate for children under 13.
- R – (Restricted) means some material may be inappropriate for children under 17, and, if shown in a movie theater, requires accompanying parent or adult guardian.
- NC-17 – (No One 17 and Under Admitted) means movie contains material that most parents would consider patently inappropriate for children 17 and under, and, if shown in a movie theater, no one 17 and under would be admitted.
For more information on movie ratings, visit www.mpaa.org.
How to Program the V-Chip
You can generally program the V-chip in your television, digital-to-analog converter box, or set-top box by using the remote control that came with the equipment. While different manufacturers may use different terms in their equipment set up and programming menus, the procedure is similar. Consult the equipment manual for specific instructions. If you have misplaced your manual, you may be able to view it by going to the following website: tv.manualsonline.com/manuals/device/tv_converter_box.html. To set the parental controls for your V-chip, follow these steps:
- Using the menu key on the remote control, locate the "main" or "setup" menu, then find an option that may be called "locks," "block," "parental controls" or "V-chip." You should then get a prompt to enter a password.
- Enter a password that will enable you to lock TV channels and programming you decide are not appropriate for children. You can also use the password to override or unlock channels you want to watch but don't want children to watch.
- Select the channels you want blocked, as prompted, generally using the "menu," "select," "number" and "arrow" keys.
- Select specific ratings assigned to TV programs and movies you want blocked, using keys indicated in the on-screen instructions.
- Save your settings by pressing the appropriate key, as prompted.
Again, these steps will vary depending on the equipment you are using.
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Getting the Message Out There
Through the social media such as Facebook and Twitter, one can gain a little insight into the mindset of elected officials at all levels of government. As a New Jerseyan, I follow Governor Chris Christie through his Twitter feed, and frequently share my feelings about his actions, agree or disagree. Another one who interests me, or did once upon a time, is Arizona Governor Jan Brewer, whom I follow via her Facebook page.
The first thing that got me interested was Governor Brewer's rhetoric regarding the federal government's handling of illegal immigration. My interested doubled when SB1070 was signed into law. The federal government was (and still is) doing little to nothing about our porous borders, and the costs were (and still are) passed down to state and local governments. Arizona, being a border state, is one of those especially affected. Echoes of the grievance in the Declaration of Independence, "He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection," seem to rise throughout Phoenix, Tucson and other cities throughout the state.
The federal government's response was to sue the state of Arizona, essentially saying, "You can't enforce the laws we have on the books!" Why isn't that applied to the NDAA or drug laws? The Obama Administration and the State Department even reported Arizona to the United Nations! While appalling, this should not be surprising from a President who seeks UN and NATO approval for military action, but not from Congress.Details


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I've seen these terms a couple times here already. Also, is there a good place to ask these questions? I feel "what are some good exercise terms and their meanings" would get closed.
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Box Jumping is one type of Plyometrics exercise that is based off high impact jumping routines. Plank is a type of AB workout that focus on holding a position with your back skyward, elbows on the floor supporting the body while keeping your back straight maintaining a straight line from your shoulders, to the hips, to the knee while tip toeing. While you are at the Plank make sure to keep breathing. In fact, keep a consistant breathing pattern while doing any exercise. Keep your stomach, butt, and leg muscles tight during the exercise.
Planks are an excellent way to build up your "six-pack", as well as numerous other muscle groups. Follow the link to see an image of what it looks like. It's ridiculously easy to do, and can be done anywhere, at any time. I do it both as part of my workout routine and as a short pick-me-up while in the office.
Two points to remember about the plank:
Once you have it down, try holding the position for longer and longer. There are also many variants that you can find by searching online; ways to make it easier (rest on knees), ways to make it harder (put toes on a balance ball or against the wall), and other stuff as well.


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6 Terrifying Things Nobody Tells You About Newborns
#3. A Newborn's Soft Spot Pulses and Bulges
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Even if you've never seen a real, live baby in person, you probably know enough to not thump it on its soft spot. In fact, the phrase "soft spot" is like a repellent for the childless. Not that you can blame them. The reason babies have a soft spot in the first place is because our skulls aren't fully fused at birth, so our heads need to be extra bendy when we're getting squeezed out of our mama's private parts. Which is great for human brain size, not great for having a complete piece of bone covering the most vulnerable and important part of your body.
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They have a weak spot. We can win this war.
Hey! Did you know that the technical name for a baby's soft spot is "fontanelle"? Funny how that word kind of sounds like "fountain," huh? Yeah, that's not a coincidence. In the same way that a bubbling fountain pulses and gurgles with the constant pumping of water, a baby's fucking brain pulses through its paper-thin head.
Really! Put your hand on a baby's soft spot and you can feel its life force throbbing. Or don't -- just sit back and watch a baby from afar. You can see it pulsate and bulge, like a little Martian from old movies, if Martians from old movies required suckling to stay alive.
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But we all know that Martians survive on a diet of pure "5-Second Films."
Here's the good news. Even without the skull, the infant's brain is protected by a membrane and the fontanelle will gradually close over the next seven to 19 months; in the meantime, may we suggest a helmet?
#2. Boys Have Swollen Scrotums and Get Erections
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Before you even have a chance to change your little man's first diaper, you'll probably notice something unusual about his groin area. Specifically, his balls are huge. Unless the nursing staff are as horrified as you are about your son's cojones, calm down, because they see gigantic baby balls all the time. Little girls are going through the same thing, by the way, only less dramatically.
Newborns are still holding on to a little extra fluid and hormone surges from their birthday. Unfortunately, some of those fluids choose to chill out in your son's scrotum or daughter's labia, because why not? It's not an ideal situation, but at least we're talking about body fluid, not your neighbor or pubic lice. Most of the time the swelling will go away on its own in no time. Every now and then, however, when a boy's testicles descend from the abdomen, the tube they travel through doesn't quite close up all the way. So extra water goes along for the journey and gets caught in the scrotum. Surprise! Your boy has a hydrocele, and it apparently looks like a water balloon. Again, the extra-ballness will go down on its own, but in the meantime, if you shine a flashlight on it, the whole scrotum will light up. Not that we recommend shining lights on your baby's genitals when you're bored or anything. If only we could make this conversation less awkward ...
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Nope, this picture was not enough.
Oh, we know! Baby boners!
They are perfectly normal. Much like a grown male's morning wood, your newborn's erection is his body's way of tuning up his nervous system. Oh, and little stiffies tend to happen right before the baby needs to pee, so if you take off his diaper and see one, you might want to cover that sucker up again right quick. Or duck.
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#1. Girls Have Periods and All Babies Lactate
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Did some of you read that last entry and say, "I sure am glad we have a girl"? Yep, no surprises in the diaper for you! Except ... wait, is that blood? You check frantically, and she doesn't seem to be injured so ... Oh. Oh, no fucking way.
Yes, way. What you're looking at is a real period coming from a baby's vagina. Not a leftover ingestion of mom's insides or a particularly awful diaper rash. It's a period, hopefully a tiny one, but still a period. When babies are in the womb, they take in everything, as anti-tobacco posters featuring smoking fetuses have no doubt shown you. If mom smokes, the baby smokes; if mom drinks, the baby drinks. If mom watches trashy reality television, the baby is born uses phrases like "I didn't come here to make friends" and giving eye rolls without discretion.
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This kid's mom had an unquenchable thirst for overalls.
So a mother's hormones naturally cross over the placenta into babyworld. Day in and day out, the child takes in the same chemicals that make mom cry over a particularly powerful episode of How I Met Your Mother or rage at the fact that Freaks and Geeks was canceled 12 years ago. Once the baby is born, those hormones are cut off, except whatever they're getting through breast milk. Mom pops the kid out and that sweet, sweet estrogen disappears, the uterine lining sheds, and bam! Mini-period.
Fetal boys aren't exempt from the estrogen flow, either. They may not have a little uterus lining to shed, but they do have boobs, thanks to mom's weird-ass hormones. While mom's breasts are prepping for feeding, the pre-born baby is soaking up the same hormones. When the child is born, it still has that estrogen in its system, which means it's got a little bit of breast milk hanging out in its ta-tas -- even the boys.
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Oh, we know, little buddy. We know.
And did we mention they're leaking? And that there might be blood in the mix? In the old days, the baby's breast milk was called "witch's milk" because crazy old-timey people thought witches fed their cats with it, or something. Today we call it "Gross, DON'T TALK ABOUT THAT," because technology hasn't given us a mind-wipe yet and self-administered roofies aren't appropriate during the work day.
Tracy V is somehow surviving her kids and has a Tumblr here.
For more truths you probably aren't ready to hear, check out 5 Things Nobody Tells You About Adopting a Dog and 6 Terrifying Things They Don't Tell You About Childbirth.


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I am not a father and society gets a lot of fine insight into what it means to be a mother but I'm curious about those profound realisations fathers have at any stage of raising a child.
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Everything you previously thought was important, is not.
The taste of beer is a distant memory.
You've never really experienced love until you see your own child.
Managing the first month of a new baby is the hardest thing you will ever do. Much harder than those survival courses. But this one you will survive, and it will come oh so naturally.


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I recently created a makefile to use with my TeX documents and am quite happy with the discovery. When I create Beamer slides to use in class, I create both a set of slides and a handout to go along with them. I'd like to have a makefile that creates the slides, then changes one or two lines of the header of my TeX file (by uncommenting and commenting perhaps) to create a set of handouts (possibly by generating a new, intermediate TeX file). I'm guessing that a make file can't edit my TeX file, but that would be cool. Is it possible? Thanks!
This is the same sort of problem as asked the Passing parameters to a document question; what follows is adapted from my answer there.
Have the target in your Makefile clobber a file that is
For example, let the Makefile have:
HEADERNAME = My Header handout: echo "\def\hdrparam{$(HEADERNAME)}">params.tex; latex manuscript
The way I would accomplish this would be to place the core content in one LaTeX file (say
Another way to do this is to use a macro to contain the information you wish to pass, and do something like
in your
My answer to the question passing parameters to a document wasn't great because I didn't give any code. So I'll take this opportunity to put the code in!
In short, my method for this is to have symlinks to the main file with the name of the symlink containing parameters. It is, perhaps, not as flexible as passing options to the file but it does mean that the resulting compiled file will have the right name and neither it nor any of the auxiliary files will get clobbered by making different versions.
The core bit of the code is as follows:
It's probably not the cleanest code - I could probably condense half the
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It seems pretty time-consuming to have to check dozens of asteroid fields to find the type of ore I want. Is it possible to see what types of ore are available in asteroid fields without actually visiting them?
Yes, it's not just possible but also very easy.
Well, assuming some macrominer hasn't stripped the belt on you already. 8 )
If you practice with your ship scanner, I believe you can scan for asteroids. Also, it's important to note that you can usually tell what kind of ore you will find in the system based on security status and the ruling faction (which type of pirates or which empire). Look at the information on Grismar's wiki to help pick which system(s) you want to mine.
My mining strategy was to find a system or group of out-of-the-way systems where I liked to mine, keep a Covert Ops ship there along with my Hulk and a hauler, and then find a good belt with the Covert Ops. Or better yet, have a buddy come along to cover you when you're mining, as it's a dangerous business with all the pirates out there.
For general mining information, look no further than Halada's mining guide, as it's the premier mining guide for EVE. He's done all the math for you and tells you basic mining strategies.


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We made it all the way through Rushfit advanced calendar. Now where do we go? We would like to stay with the same workouts that are on the calendar.
Should we start over at the last 2 months, 1 month? Create a whole new calendar based on the last month?
What have all of you done after completing it? We just want to stay at the same or a little higher intensity that the calendar gave us, and stay in shape.


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I have a library (that has a description by default), and it has folders (which do not have a description by default).
So I added a custom field (creating a custom folder type) to house a description for each folder in the library.
As the user navigates through the folders of the library, I want a webpart (will appear above the folder/library contents) to show the description of the current folder (or the description of the library, if the user is viewing the top level of the library). (The description is actually rich text providing instructions and background info for the folder and its contents, which is why I want to show it at the top of the screen.)
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Consider an arcade game where you shoot falling objects and the goal is to beat the high-score.
What are some methods you can apply to such games to make the player feel it is fun and wants to play it again and again?
Consider an arcade game where you shoot falling objects and the goal is to beat the high-score.
What are some methods you can apply to such games to make the player feel it is fun and wants to play it again and again?
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I'll try to answer this question in a way that it can be helpful for other games. Your game has a lot in common with arcade highscore games , so maybe you can grab some ideas from them:
Combos: Combos are a good way to keep the adrenaline of the player going up. Combos must increase the score proportionally to its difficulty. It is nice if they trigger rare special game mechanics and visual/sound effects to keep the player interested in what happens if he can do the next difficulty level combo. Street fighter and fruit ninja (blitz) are good examples. This could be done in your game by hitting multiple hearts with the same arrow or in a small amount of time.
Increasing difficulty: In your game it seems possible that if a player has enough skill, he can keep playing forever. You can increase the hearts/arrow bags speed in your game as the score goes up (this has already been mentioned). Good examples of this mechanic are tetris and puzzle bubble.
Random good/bad luck prizes: In fruit ninja arcade, there are bananas and bombs. In puzzle bubble there are special bubbles. In your game there could be special hearts that would award the player with a good or bad bonus of some kind.
More specific ones:
The general advice is to be creative and keep in mind that in these kind of games you can use the player curiosity, adrenaline and persistence to keep him playing the game.
Try adding various game modes.
Bird Hunting: A bird (or multiple birds/any target you want) fly horizontally across the screen at different heights.
Target: A standard circular target bounces around the screen. Points are based on proximity to center. To keep it from just registering a hit at the bottom of the target, you could have a thin hitbox laid over the center. The target could move faster as the score goes up. This mode would typically have a finite number of shots.
Time Attack: Any game mode you feel like implementing, but with infinite ammo in a limited time. Possibly add a time penalty for missing (timer loses a few seconds, or can't shoot for a short time).
Point Multipliers: Consecutive hits gain more points than normal, while missing resets back to standard scoring.


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an abandoned building you break into
when you and your friends break into a new hangout. call it a "warehouse".
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To store not-yet-drunk beer or other alcohol on the side during a drinking game, as opposed to actually drinking it. An extremely bitch move, if not illegal by state and/or federal legislation.
After Grilled Cheese won the beirut tournament, his trophy was taken away when Bobby pointed out that he had warehoused enough beer to feed a family of four for a week.
by Nick D October 24, 2004
awesome, cool, phat, huge
tear up, destroy, dominate
tear up, destroy, dominate
"Man, that candy apple paint job is warehouse!"
"I'm gonna warehouse all over that team!"
"I'm gonna warehouse all over that team!"
by undercover7 September 06, 2007
A mental institution. The term was inspired by the sad state of the mental health "industry" in the United states.
The lawyer closed his briefcase, and sighed. "90 days in the warehouse for Billy, and then back onto the streets he goes, with a month's worth of thorazine and $100, courtesy of the state."
by Rod Brock July 27, 2006
Warehouse meaning very large penis and balls. Can also mean dirty, hairy balls/penis.
"I'll show you the warehouse."
"The warehouse needs some cleaning."
"The warehouse needs some cleaning."
by Lightening thief poopy pants July 19, 2013
(n) - Derogatory word used to describe a woman that one thinks can, and does, store many non-conventional items in her vagina and/or anal cavity for the purposes of sexual pleasure, monetary gain, or both.
Me:Dayum, that bitch can hold all that dick.
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