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5 Clothing Innovations That Will be Annoying You Soon
#2. Aroma Therapy Clothing
Scentimental Space is a unique line of clothing designed by Jenny Tillotson, who possesses a Ph.D. in Printed Textiles, which sounds about as legit as a Ph.D. in cookies.
Still, incorporating aroma therapy into everyday clothing has apparently been her life's work. Her Scentimental Space series of inventions utilize "senso-cells" via a "scentreface" which, based on the wearer's changes in mood, become "scentimental" and release various types of smells, or "scentsations," to restore balance and health to the wearer. It seems Jenny not only has a Ph.D. in Printed Textiles but holds a Ph.D. in the field of Annoying Aroma Puns, which is a good way to get punched in the "scent"er of your face (get it?!).
So far, the smelly clothes line includes the "less stress dress," which is specifically designed to emit odors that slow blood pressure and reduce fear levels. There's the "scent to sleep slip" that dispenses lavender to help insomniacs. Other fashions are designed to treat various mental afflictions such as depression and bipolar disorder all via the power of smell.
Wait, why are people throwing away all their cash on medication and years of intensive therapy? Some scented oils will take care of all of that shit!
The Problem Is...
Besides the fact Tillotson's overabundance of ridiculous puns make her sound like an aroma-obsessed Batman villain, there's the fatal flaw that comes with any scent-based product: you're not the only one who can smell it. While you're ejecting pungent clouds of lilac to supposedly reduce your anxiety, you're significantly raising the stress levels of everyone within a six-cubicle radius.
Ordinarily stress-free.
Imagine the last time some old woman or Russian mafioso stepped into an elevator with you, slapping you in the face with their overpowering perfume or musk. Now imagine if the entire world smelled like old women and Russian mobsters. Well, that's the world Scentimental Space promises. What's worse, once smelly clothes go mainstream the spectrum of aromas offered would expand to suit every taste. It's gonna be pretty hard to whiff your calming lilac with the guy in the fried bacon suit standing next to you.
By wearing clothes that release certain scents based on your mood, you're also telegraphing to the world what you're thinking. Say your dress releases vanilla to calm your homicidal rage. Kind of awkward on a date. "Hey, do I smell baking cookies or are you gonna straight up murder my ass?"
#1. Philips Lumalive Textiles
Philips is the electronics super company that unleashed the CD-I, and thus Zelda: The Wand of Gamelon, onto an unsuspecting world. They charged you $700 to play the most soul crushingly awful video game in history and called it "the future." Clearly these people know what they're doing. Why not trust them with the very materials that grace our delicate bits?
Philips' newest claim to revolutionize the future is lumalive textiles. These unique fabrics marry dynamic LED and software technology with clothing to create bright, eye-catching, and completely customizable messages and designs right on our shirts and pants.
The major achievement in this technology is Philips stuffed a bunch of lights, wires, circuit boards and batteries into fabric while maintaining the softness and flexibility of regular fabric. Thank God technology companies are forwarding mankind with light-up clothes and not wasting time and money on bullshit like a limitless, sustainable power source or a gun that shoots orgasms.
The Problem Is...
These LED clothes reek of a vision of the future conceived in the 80s. Where's the application outside of an ecstasy-fueled night at the rave? The only acceptable place to wear flashing, eye-straining fashion like this is in a club. Hey, go ahead and try to wear your new blinky clothes at the movie theater or bank. We're sure your scrotum has been begging to provide its services as a speed bag.
"Down in front!"
Then there's lumalive's capability for displaying text. Yes, think of all the inane chatter that floods your Facebook page and text message inbox. Now imagine all that crap leaping into the real world, transforming every person into a flashing human billboard. Thanks, Philips, for giving us a future that makes Blade Runner look like a sappy, hopelessly optimistic fantasyland.
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Competitive Problem Solving and the Optimal Prize Schemes
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Optimal prize scheme
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Agents compete to solve a problem. Each agent knows own computational capacity as private information and simultaneously chooses either a risky or a safe problem solving method. This paper analyzes the optimal prize schemes from the perspective of the prize designer who wishes to …nd a solution as quick as possible. It is shown that (i) the winner-take-all scheme can induce excessive risk taking and make problem solving slower (ii) prize schemes with milder competitive pressure induce the optimal risk taking and quicker problem solving.
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I'm trying to follow a step in a proof, which involves finding $n\in\mathbb{Z}$ such that $\frac{(n^2+3)(n^2-5)}{16n}\in\mathbb{Z}$.
The proof then states that
$\text{hcf}(n,n^2+3)$ divides 3, and
$\text{hcf}(n,n^2-5)$ divides 5.
Hence n divides 15.
I can see 1. and 2. hold, as $\text{hcf}(b,a+mb)=\text{hcf}(a,b)$ But I'm not exactly sure what argument to use to deduce 3.
Any hints would be appreciated. Thanks :)


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Is the comma after the word and in this sentence correct?
Social networks made having friends obsolete and, frankly pathetic.
Is the comma after the word and in this sentence correct?
A single comma after "and" does not make sense by any grammar rule I know of.
Without the word "frankly", you would most naturally write the sentence with no commas: "Social networks made having friends obsolete and pathetic."
You could insert "frankly" with no commas -- "Social networks made having friends obsolete and frankly pathetic." But that's probably not quite what the writer means. He doesn't mean that the pathos is frank. He means that he will state frankly what having friends is: it is pathetic. In this case we commonly offset a word like "frankly", i.e. we write, "... made having friends obsolete and, frankly, pathetic", to indicate that "frankly" is not modifying "pathetic", indeed it is not modifying any word that explicitly occurs in the sentence. Rather, it is modifying an unstated "I say". The writer is trying to convey the idea that he is writing this frankly, not that anything actually mentioned in the sentence is doing anything frankly.
I've heard teachers and grammarians criticize such phrasing as ungrammatical. I recall one lecturer complain in a similar context that the word "hopefully" is often used to mean "I hope". He offered the example, "Hopefully, he will be depressed." Who is being hopeful here, he asked? The person who is depressed? How can you be depressed hopefully? Of course what the speaker surely means is, "I hope he will be depressed."
So I suppose a case could be made that the sentence with or without the commas is just bad grammar. That you should say, "I would like to frankly say that social networks made having friends pathetic." But if you put commas around "frankly", we all know what you mean, so in my humble opinion it's a perfectly good sentence. As long as you include both commas.
The word frankly is an discourse marker which, in a parenthetical way, makes a self-referential comment about the sentence itself. The writer is telling us that he or she thinks something is pathetic, oh, and that he or she is being frank in telling us that.
As such, in polished writing, this word should be bracketed by two commas: ... and, frankly, pathetic. These commas separate it from the surrounding material, similarly to parentheses. One is not enough. If you omit the commas, it is sloppy: and frankly pathetic. This looks like the adverb frankly is modifying pathetic, giving rise to the question what it means to be frankly pathetic.
Worst to best:
The question to ask isn't so much which is correct, but in what kind of writing are these various forms acceptable. 1 and 2 do not belong in formal writing. They are fine in informal e-mails, SMS texts and such. In an instant message, it might even be even appropriate to spell it frkly, by which point commas have probably gone out the window.
3 is acceptable in formal writing, but 4 is more polished.
In some kinds of writing, there is no place for a discourse marker such as frankly at all. For instance, it would not be appropriate in a Wikipedia page, except in a direct quote of someone's speech or literary excerpt, because it introduces a first person commentary which is inappropriate for presenting the bare facts.
If you were writing an opinion column for a respected newspaper with a wide circulation, you'd probably want to have both commas: and, frankly, dear readers ... In a municipal rag you could squeak by with and frankly, dear readers ...
Try writing it this way:
I think the em dash makes it all much better, and much clearer besides.
I suppose some folks might still want to not have a comma after frankly, though.


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A Study in Scandal (Mass Market Paperback)
Who are the Ladies' Amateur Sleuth Society: Four unconventional beauties banding together to unravel real-life mysteries?
Four best friends past the age of twenty with no marital prospects and nothing better to occupy their time?
Lady Amelia Watersfield's lighthearted detecting club becomes more than simply an intriguing diversion when her father's priceless Egyptian artifact is stolen under his very nose. Now the game is afoot in earnest -- and Amelia nearly swoons to discover the detective assigned to "assist" her is a handsome, brilliant, and breathtaking investigator who might as well be a young Sherlock Holmes himself!
Inspector Colin Brindley has no interest in encouraging a meddling beauty who imagines herself Watson to his Holmes. But Amelia is as sharp-witted and brave as she is lovely -- and in their wild hunt for an elusive thief, Colin's heart may end up being the precious object that's gotten truly purloined.
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Purchase an Xbox 360 & Get Mass Effect 3 Free
It looks like you simply add any Xbox 360 bundle and Mass Effect 3 to your cart. I don't see any promo code needed.
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I guess a mod changed the title, but it should read, Purchase an Xbox 360 and get Mass Effect 3 free. I have tattled, so hopefully it can be corrected.
It only seems to work with the "Microsoft Xbox 360 Kinect Bundle 4 GB Black Item #: N82E16868105044". Tried the Modern Warfare 3 and Gears of War 3 X-Box to no avail.
@wnyx585am: lol I was wondering what that was all about.. thought you were slipping.
From time I clicked it to the time the page loaded it was changed though.
I've been keeping an eye on 360s lately - I think mine's about lived it's life.
What's the MOST I should pay if I end up getting one? The cheapest I've seen recently was like $180 + $25 GC I think..
@drchops: The deal you mentioned is about as good as it gets right now (unless you want a refurb/used). Unless mine was broken, i'd probably wait for a deal where the net price (after gift cards, discounts, etc.) was around:
Xbox 360 4GB - $150
Xbox 360 250GB - $250
Xbox 360 4GB with Kinect - $250
Xbox 360 250GB with Kinect - $350
If you really watch for it, you might find it slightly less than this, but not by much. For example, there was an anomaly when Secondipity.com had the 250GB with Kinect (new) for $268 several weeks ago, but I never figured out if it was misclassified as "new" since they offered a used one for the same price a few weeks later.
I've had my refurb'd for 2 years now (120GB); no problems what so ever.
Paid 99$ for it via Gamestop.com
@vermi: I would be comfortable with a used one considering the price difference - especially if it was a used 360 S.
@vermi: Yeah, I have my heart set on one of those fancy new "slims" though :D.. on top of all the features, I think it'd be really nice to have a console that didn't sound like it was about the break the sound barrier :)
(My xbox is crazy loud).
@wnyx585am: Cool, that's about the same conclusion I came to too.. pretty much all I need is the console, and I have a 250gb I'm gonna poach from my old 360 :). I'm glad they've came down so much, hopefully by the time this one dies I can find one for like $99 heh
@drchops: Acknowledge it!
@drchops: Depends on what you want as another wooter mentioned. If you watch, some places still have the "holiday bundle" from this past black Friday (Xbox 360S 250GB w/ Halo: Reach and Fable plus one wireless controller and headset + 3mos of Live gold) new for about $260. That seemed like a good enough deal when I bought.
@drchops: I think it was somewhat possible to get a 4GB 360 S during the holiday shopping season for $99, so it might not be unreasonable for it to return to that price soon enough...
@wnyx585am: That's what I was wondering.. I thought I remembered seeing a couple deals for like $149 + $50 GC (or somethin' around there) sometime in the later half of last year, but I couldn't remember for sure. If they dip that low again I think I may have to scoop it regardless of how healthy my little buddy is.
Plus, I think we're about due for some kind of Xbox 720 announcement here pretty soon :)
@mortar235: Acknowledge what?
@ki4rxm: Like I mentioned up there ^, I'm just after a console. If a super-great deal comes along for not much more or comes with something I could use I'm always open to possibilities :).. that bundle seems a little pricey. Is that extra $100 just for the bonus games and 250gb HDD? Is there a Kinect bundled too? Because that wouldn't be too bad.
@drchops: The "heh"....
i have been away from Xbox360 for a long time. i am a senior student. i once was addicted to this game and spent a lot of time on it. And it affected my study so much. i tried hard to get away from it and i did it. so cool!
@drchops: Larger HDD, built-in wireless N, games, and gold membership, yeah. Basically an upgraded starter pack in a box.
@drchops: I got the 4GB slim and used the drive from my 250GB original. Just gotta remove the drive from the old caddy and slide it into the new system. I built a kind of brace with cardboard (otherwise, the drive flops around a little, and that's unacceptable for the obvious reasons).
@ki4rxm: Where can you find the 'holiday' pack for $260? I read your post and all the ones I found were $300-$399...or did you mean that when they were on sale?
@khellendros1984: Yeah, that's the route I'm going if/when my 360 kicks it.
Check this out.. More than worth the $2 and change:
(It's a HDD case)
eBay is littered with em.. they have ones that are a little cheaper and ones that are from US sellers, just gotta check around. US will probably be a little more expensive, but ship a lot faster.
@drchops: I didn't really look into it before, thanks! I'd assumed they'd be more expensive. I think the full-size 360 HDD cases that I found a few years ago were $15-20 apiece. I'm willing to pay $3 for the sake of being "correct" (and possible putting less tension on the console's plastic), but if it had been over $10, well...it's not like you can see the cardboard, haha


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Team: Lansing softball
Last year's record: 12-9
Coach: Valerie Chapple
Coach's record: 26-17
Key returnees:
* Nicole Armstrong, catcher/infielder; 13 runs scored and seven RBIs in 2012
* Mikayla Zielinski, infielder/outfielder; 20 RBIs and 18 runs scored last season
* McKenzie Hersh, pitcher/infielder/outfielder; 1.88 ERA and five wins last year
Team Outlook: STRENGTHS — With this year's current wave of seniors, the Lady Lions enjoy a wealth of leadership and chemistry, which the club hopes pays off in the win column.
"I see some great leadership skills in the players this year," Chapple said. "The team this year is hardworking and willing to keep getting better."
WEAKNESSES — Though this season's upperclass crop is large, Lansing did lose several all-league contributors from 2012's squad.
Big games: At Aquinas April 4; Versus Basehor April 23; Versus Mill Valley April 30
Coach says: "We have almost a whole new team for our varsity squad this year.
"These girls have been waiting to get a shot at varsity and the waiting has really made them hungry.
"We also have a great nucleus of girls that have been playing ball with each other for many years. I believe we have some great leadership to guide the team."
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I'm tring to send customized news to my users via Facebook.
I've tried posting private posts to their walls, so they show up on their news feed, but people got upset by the new posts on their wall (even though noone else can see them) Is there a way to do this?
I considered building a page per user and suggest to the user to follow it - can this be done via API? Can a user follow updates on just any page (non fan page) that he Liked, or that has a FB comments box?
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Applications available for Success
for Survivors Scholarship
The General Federation of Women's Clubs is accepting applications for its Success for Survivors Scholarship, which is available to those who have been abused by intimate partners and are seeking full-time higher education to advance their careers, train for a new career or re-enter the job market.
The group, which includes several local woman's clubs and many throughout the state, introduced the scholarships last year, awarding $1,000 to each of six recipients.
This year the amount of the scholarships has been increased to $2,500. They are funded by donations from GFWC members and other supporters of the group's Domestic Violence Awareness and Prevention Fund.
The deadline for applications is Feb. 1. For information, contact Jo-Ellen Wright, GFWC-WV Northern District president, or Helen Moren, president of the Bethany Woman's Club at (304) 829-4706.
Moren said, "According to studies, a higher education can help survivors obtain careers and provide a brighter future. We are grateful for our generous donors who positively impact individuals' pursuit of education and independence."
GFWC International President Mary Ellen Laister said, "GFWC has a 122-year history of enhancing the lives of others through community improvement and volunteer service. The GFWC Success for Survivors Scholarship makes a difference in the lives of intimate partner abuse survivors around the country by helping them pursue their education and career dreams."
Capito to be key speaker at W.Va. GOP Lincoln Day Dinner
CHARLESTON - U.S. Rep. Shelley Moore Capito, R-Charleston, will be the key speaker for the West Virginia Republican Party's Lincoln Day Dinner Feb. 8 at the Charleston Marriott.
Party Chairman Conrad Lucas said Patrick Morrisey, the state's new attorney general, also will be a special guest, along with state Del. Tim Armstead, R-Kanawha, and state Sen. Mike Hall, R-Hurricane, who will lead a legislative roundtable discussion.
Tickets can be purchased through the website at www.eventbrite.com/event/5247836420#.
Dinner-theater show Feb. 9 to
benefit Brooke County 4-H
WELLSBURG - A dinner-theater show featuring Mystery Theatre Unlimited and benefiting Brooke County 4-H will be held Feb. 9 at Staffileno's on the River.
Known for comic whodunnits inspired by pop culture, the group will present "Mission Unpossible." Set in December 1969, the play involves a dastardly villain determined to set off a dangerous device that will end the free-love spirit of the 1960s and set into motion a cultural disaster: the 1970s! Will the spymasters of the Unpossible Mission Force be able to stop him?
Doors will open at 6:30 p.m., and tickets are $30 each. Adults 18 and older only will be admitted.
Reservations should be made by calling Liz Gatts at the West Virginia University Extension office at (304) 737-3666 weekdays before 4 p.m.
W.Va. Official State Travel Guide
for 2013 is available for free
CHARLESTON - Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin and West Virginia Division of Tourism Commissioner Betty Carver have announced the 2013 West Virginia Official State Travel Guide is available free at Welcome Center locations statewide or by request.
"Travelers from near and far can learn, research, and plan great adventures in West Virginia with the new guide or a click on their smartphone," Tomblin said.
Whether it's shopping and dining, outdoor recreation and lodging or culture and history events and entertainment, the guide is arranged by easy to identify state travel regions, they said.
This year's cover photo features a fireworks display above the State Capitol in observance of the state's 150th birthday.
The guide also includes a sesquicentennial theme featuring 150 opportunities to experience the mountain state, 150 reasons to love West Virginia state parks, and a Scout's guide to family fun welcoming the Boy Scouts of America and their families to the Summit Bechtel Family National Scout Reserve for the National Scout Jamboree later next year.
The compact guide is easy to carry. Smartphone users may access its information online via QR codes on select ads. It also can be found at the state Division of Tourism's website at www.wvtourism.com/travelguide or obtained by calling (800) 225-5982.
Carver said, "It is always exciting to prepare and distribute the state travel guide each year. This year we are particularly pleased that the guide has content that includes the 150th birthday of West Virginia as well as the Scout's Guide. Families can read through our user-friendly guide to plan any number of different visits and itineraries. We look forward to welcoming new guests and returning friends."
Entries being sought for 'When
I Grow Up' essay contest
CHARLESTON - The "When I Grow Up" contest allows students to submit, in 100 words or less, an essay that answers what they want to be when they grow up and why.
Entries will be judged on originality, creativity and the importance of post-secondary education.
Held by the office of State Treasurer John Perdue and Hartford Life, last year's contest garnered 3,250 entries. The top winner received a $5,000 SMART529 College Savings Plan, a qualified tuition program issued by the West Virginia Prepaid College Tuition and Savings Program Board of Trustees and administered by Hartford Life.
Three age group winners (grades kindergarten-1, 2-3 and 4-5) will be judged in each of five regions, making for a total of 15 winners. Each will be awarded a $500 college savings account and their schools will receive a $500 cash award.
Entry forms are available at www.SMART529.com and at local elementary schools in the near future.
The deadline for entry forms and essay submissions is Feb. 22.


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Cracking the 'priesthood' of people who speak money
Today's New York Times story on Argentina's apparent financial default isn't likely to make anyone more fond of hedge fund firms, except maybe those who, like the fund's manager, tend to valorize the "rights of creditors." The lead:
The hedge fund firm of billionaire Paul E. Singer has about 300 employees, yet it has managed to force Argentina, a nation of 41 million people, into a position where it now has to contemplate a humbling surrender.
Presented that way, the development seems an example of what Pope Francis had in mind when he used the term "savage capitalism" during a visit to a soup kitchen last year, and in fact, it's exactly how Jubilee USA president Eric LeCompte characterizes it: "When Pope Francis has used the term savage capitalism he refers to a group of extreme actors who profit from exploitation of the poor. I can't think of a more appropriate example than the actions of the vulture hedge funds and Argentina."
Imagery and metaphor are inevitable in accounts of crises like these, precisely because they can be useful in beginning to understand details that can otherwise be confounding. More from the Times story:
The campaign against Argentina shows how driven and deep-pocketed hedge funds can sometimes wield influence outside of the markets they bet in … While Mr. Singer's firm has yet to collect any money from Argentina, some debt market experts say that the battle may already have shifted the balance of power toward creditors in the enormous debt markets that countries regularly tap to fund their deficits. Countries in crisis may now find it harder to gain relief from creditors after defaulting on their debt, they assert.
"We've had a lot of bombs being thrown around the world, and this is America throwing a bomb into the global economic system," said Joseph E. Stiglitz, the economist and professor at Columbia University. "We don't know how big the explosion will be — and it's not just about Argentina."
Battles, bombs, and explosions. That Elliott, a small New York firm generally unknown outside financial circles, can wield such power over a distant sovereign nation says much about its arsenal: It manages more than $25 billion in assets, an amount accrued through returns of 14% a year since 1977. By that measure, Elliott easily meets, if not embodies, the definition of a successful fund. And why might it be so successful? Perhaps because a hedge fund isn't a "hedge" in the way that term might suggest—and in fact once was used, even in finance.
Today's hedge fund, as explained by John Lanchester in the current New Yorker, is
a lightly regulated pool of private capital, one that is almost always doing something exotic—because if it weren't exotic the investors could benefit from the investment strategy much more cheaply somewhere else. There will be a "secret sauce" of some sort, usually a complicated set of mathematical algorithms meant to insure better returns than the market in general delivers.
Hedge funds defend the fact that they're so lightly regulated on the ground that access to them is restricted to people who know what they're doing and can afford to lose their money.
It's a concise and helpful explanation of the current function and "purpose" of hedge funds, and as such it helps moves us past the "beginning" of understanding such things. But that's exaclty Lanchester's larger and more important aim: the current world of finance has spawned a language of its own, so complex and specific, that he wants more people to learn it. The language's chief characteristic is what Lanchester calls "reversification." Thus are "securities" anything but secure, "austerity" not a way of living simply but a mechanism for cutting services, and "credit" debt:
These are all examples of how the process of innovation, experimentation, and progress in the techniques of finance has been brought to bear on language, so that words no longer mean what they once did. It is not a process intended to deceive, but … it confines knowledge to a priesthood—the priesthood of people who can speak money.
Helpfully running through Lanchester's piece is a reasonableness that makes his prescription go down much more easily. No villains or vultures, but a general manner of appealing to common sense: "A shared language doesn't imply a shared viewpoint," he writes, yet that doesn't undermine the urgency of his case:
Low tax rates, a smaller state, a business-friendly climate, free markets in international trade, rising levels of inequality and an ever-bigger gap between the rich, especially the super-rich, and the rest—supposedly, these are just the facts of economic life if you want your economy to grow and your society to become richer. Many people are eager to tell us that there is no alternative to the existing economic order, that we have to accept things as they are. That isn't true.
If you don't agree with the priesthood of money-talkers on regulatory and economic policy, you should nonetheless have the ability to converse with them in the first place. After all, Lanchester reminds us, "incomprehension is a form of consent":
If we allow ourselves not to understand this language, we are signing off on the way the world works today—in particular, we are signing off on the prospect of an ever-widening gap between the rich and everyone else....
The entire thing deserves reading.
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Remind me not to borrow from a hedge fund! Following the links in Dominic's post, we learn that holders of Argentine sovereign debt have tried to impound an Argentine naval vessel and seize Argentina's version of Air Force One:
In their drive to extract full compensation from the Argentine government, a hard-nosed bunch of distressed debt investors have gone to impressive lengths. They've pursued the country's assets around the globe, attempting to seize the presidential plane and menacing the Argentine booth at the Frankfurt Book Fair.
Now they have a big and bizarre fish on the hook: an Argentine naval vessel. NML Capital, a subsidiary of U.S. billionaire Paul Singer's Elliott Capital, this week won an injunction in Ghanaian superior court to hold the ARA Libertad in the port city of Tema, on the outskirts of the African nation's capital.
Those poor booth workers at the book fair - I am sure that is not what they signed up for. :-).
The situation does sound more than a bit like the neighborhood loan shark driving away with my Corvette because I lost my shirt on the bowl games last New Year's Day.
Still, I suspect I'm more sympathetic to Tea Party government-debt principles than most readers of dotCom, and I'm not ready to lump the sovereign government of a nation as large and developed as Argentina's into the same victim category as a recent college graduate with a social work degree who took out $100K in loans and is now working at McDonald's. Borrowing is risky - to both sides. A lot of lenders have taken a haircut lending to Argentina.
I concede that there may be an opportunity here to come up with a rational policy that would be more win-win than this current grudge match of Dirtbag Government vs Hedge Fund Vulture has yielded so far.
Thanks for informing about that marvelous essay by Lancester, Ironically it is a pithy, understandable article in a magazine who lives on windy, interminable articles. I heard another fund manager explain how debt mortgages your future. I have been careful about credit cards ever since. Debit cards, which can be used as credit cards are really the only way to go. Payday loans are scandalous. But someone has to educate those who seek them.
There are, of course, unethical hedgefunds and ethical ones. As Lancester points out most of them don't make it. So one does not have to be a tea party enthusiast to see that they could have good use. After all we can all choose to hedge our bets. Especially after being educated by Lancester. The federal government is active in fining hedge funds for breaking the rules. The government must raise the fines so that crime will not pay. As with the Cohen guy whose hedgefund, now with only his funds, is doing quite well.
As far as Argentina is concerned the story is more complex than some allow. The NY Times article was quite balanced in that it showed that for Argentina paying the debt is not as easy as one , even it has the funds, might think. Further, Argentina is certainly at fault for not employing smart financial managers. It is necessary that countries who incur debt should be compelled to pay them back.
There are examples of Wall Street Banks going to countries and persuading them to take loans that those countries may not be able to pay back. But it is the leaders who are at fault. They should learn to live withing their means.
The best example came from Lancester's father who said that the men he knew who were convicted of fraud in the banking field were those who invariably wanted to live beyond their means.
Hey, this is America: business is business.
The Hedge Funds represent less than 1% of the total creditors. Argentina is paying the other bondholders who restructured approximately 93% of the debt. But the payment is frozen due to the twisted logic of the Federal Judge: everyone gets paid or no one gets paid. As always, it is and will continue to be the average Argentinian who will suffer most.
Re Vulture Capitalist Singer, amazing how you can build nothing, create nothing, invent nothing make nothing and yet become so rich with mere financial and legalistic machinations. Shows how phantasmagorical that the financial system can become. Shouldn't wealth somehow be related to creation of order, reversal of entropy.
Stanley - I agree that it is head-scratching that financial activity can be so far removed from what most of us would commonly perceive as the creation of value (e.g. generating new jobs, building new plants)*. I've long thought that it would be a matter of common sense to make a distinction, for purposes of tax and fiscal policy, between value-creating financial activity and market-liquidity/speculation activity. Surely whatever profits Singer derives from activity like this are income and should be taxed at roughly the same levels my wages from my employer are taxed.
* The case under discussion is not particularly exotic: Elliott seems to have swooped in and purchased some bad debt from bondholders of shaky loans to Argentina. Arguably, Elliott provided a useful and even necessary service; the willingness of investors to take risks on junk debts means that businesses and governments that otherwise wouldn't qualify for loans are able to get the infusions of capital they need to continue operating. In the world of hedge fund investments, I'd think that this particular venture is relatively simple and straightforward.
I will tell you one thing, if I were president of a soverign nation and someone tried to take one of my naval vessels , I would order it to sea with orders to open fire if necessary to protect my sovernity. My understnding of this is limited, but if I have it correct, this fund didn't actually loan any money. it purchased bonds that had already been defaulted on in effect at pennies on the dollar and is now trying to collect. Soverign nations have special rights and I would also simply condemn his interest in Argentine courts under Argentine law.
Jim D - from what I can glean from the Forbes story to which I linked, that Argentine vessel was in port in Ghana or at least in Ghanaian territorial waters, and the hedge fund went to a Ghanaian court to try to seize the asset. In effect, if the Argentinian navy did what you advise (and I had been thinking similar thoughts) it would have been engaging in what amounts to an act of war against Ghana.
I guess I shouldn't be as amazed as I am at how multinational - or maybe "anational" would be a better term - the hedge fund is. Whatever national sovereignties and jurisdictions happen to come into play, it leverages for its financial advantage. If a war ignites between a South American and an African nation in the pursuit of it's profits - so be it, apparently. It's quite a world.
There was a wonderful article in the Jan 18th issue of the New York Times "For The Love of Money". It totally explains the mentality of hedge fund mangers and there uselessness. They are perfectly described in the phrase "savage capitalist. If I were Argentina, I would do what I felt is the best for the country. I might ignore the hedge fund pay off the bond holders and let the chips fall where they may. I have no use for hedge funds or there managers. I know this is not up to the usual rational explanations on this site, but some things are just wrong and hedge funds are among them.
In the Old Testament, there is the concept of jubilee, a periodic wiping clean of the balances that have built up. It recognizes that after a point, continuing to demand repayment is contrary to justice. Both the lender and the borrower are responsible for determining whether the loan is a good thing. A lender who knows getting repaid will require the impoverishment of the borrower is just as wrong if not more so than a borrower who borrows when they do not know how they will repay.
Jim P,
I don't know that it would be an act of war. Nations cannot allow their military vessels to be taken by another nation under color of law. Vessels, including military ones, are sometimes taken for violating territorial water and so forth, but that too is considered an act of war...I seem to recall more than a few incidents of that type, one involving North Korea and an American ship, another with maybe China. An aircraft too. the Mayaguez incident resulted in a US attack on Cambodia to rescue the ship and crew. regardless of what a court orders, no sovereign nation could allow its military to be taken to pay a debt. I'm not sympathetic to people who buy high risk bonds, which they know to be high risk at the time, and then lose the bet. And frankly regardless of the cost, Argentina can't really give in on this. It makes it impossible to borrow perhaps, but ultimately that will be resolved by somebody, becasue you can't allow the world's 27th largest economy to fail entirely. And nations, even those in debt, cannot surrender spending and policy-making decisions to a private entity, especially an outside entity. Nor can it bow to pressure from other courts. national soveignity is meaningless if a US federal court , or a Ghanian court for that matter, can demand Argentine surrender on this point . Can you imagine if an Argentine court ordered the US to do anything? And apparently everyone is in agreement on a debt restructuring but this fund has refused to participate. I think if Argentina gives in, it ceases to be a nation.
This is just a contract dispute. Just because Argentina is a sovereign should not mean it can unilaterally abrogate a contract it freely and with full knowledge entered into. Argentina agreed, as a condition of selling its bonds (ie receiving a loan) that any disputes would be resolved according to NY law. Thats why the issue is being adjucated by a NY court. Choice of law clauses of this type are ubiquitious in bond/loan agreements.
According to this Reuters article from a bit earlier today, the financial world is now formally taking the position that Argentina has defaulted. It also notes that the two sides have been ordered by the NY court to work with a mediator to try to strike a deal.
I would think it could be a difficult negotiation: the hedge fund we're discussing here seems to have purchased the junk debt for pennies on the dollar from whoever was the previous holder. From its point of view, the deal would seem to have relatively little downside and potentially a huge payoff.
The amount in question seems to be about $1 billion, which isn't a ruinous amount for the Argentine government. Apparently, the financial markets are betting that a deal gets worked out.
"Dirtbag Government vs Hedge Fund Vulture"
Haha. Accurate. Succinct.
Lanchester's article in the New Yorker is a little masterpiece. But pay attention also to the same magazine's James Surowiecki, very good about explaining arcane economic concepts such as why paying people too little is an unhealthy sign in an economy supposedly based (to some extent at least) on consumerism.
And while we're on the subjects of demystifying economics (to say nothing of other social "sciences," a word of praise also to Charles Morris, a frequent contributor to this magazine.
Or, if you prefer the word, Kudos, as long as you don't treat it as a plural as is now so often the case (Jim gets two kudoes, but Margy gets three, etc. etc.)
Re: Lanchester's piece: technical terminology and jargon are found in all walks of life. To take a trivial but irritating example: consider baseball. For generations, statistical categories like batting average, fielding average, RBIs, ERA and pitcher's won-lost record were well-understood, not only by the players, management and scouts and the media who covered them, but also by millions of fans. The stats appeared in newspaper agate and on the backs of baseball cards. And for the most part, baseball executives used them to rate their players and determine their compensation.
There is now a new generation of baseball metrics, developed by the so-called sabermetricians, that I find opaque. A statistic known as OPS began showing up in sports page articles about 10-15 years ago. OPS (if I'm not mistaken) is a sort of a compound acronym, combining On Base Percentage (OBP) Plus Slugging Percentage (SP). Both OBP and SP in turn have definitions which I more or less understand (although I wouldn't want a million-dollar game show prize to depend on my defining them precisely). But I'm sure I wasn't the only baseball fan scratching my head when the term first started to move into the mainstream media, and no doubt there are fans today that still are puzzled by it.
Nowadays there is a sabermetric known as WAR (Wins Above Replacement) that seems to be the gold standard for assessing a baseball player's value. A couple of months ago, I googled it to see what it consisted of. It turns out that the calculation of WAR is a combination of a variety of other sabermetrics that in turn depend on yet other sabermetrics, virtually none of which I had ever heard of before. An entire edifice of arcane measures has been built by statisticians, which determine millions upon millions of dollars of compensation for these young men from Caifornia, Santo Domingo, Cuba and Japan, almost none of whom, I'm willing to wager, can explain the mathematical basis for WAR. It wouldn't surprise me in the least to learn that university statistics departments are now offering undergraduate courses in sabermetrics, because the field seems ot be amenable to that level of intellectual engagement.
We visited Argentina in 2000 when the Argentine Peso and American Dollar traded at par with each other. When their economy went sideways a year later, the IMF and western European and American banks all withdrew support for their Peso and hastened its demise. Then their own government, in a self-defense effort, prohibited peole from converting their Pesos to Dollars or exporting dollars from the country. The ultimate stable currency then became 8 Argentine Pesos to one U.S. Dollar. Mr. Bush and his colleagues stood by doing nothing. Obviously, someone, holding dollars, made a fortune.
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MARKOVICH, Mary (Walta) Bugay, 92, of St. Clairsville, OH, formerly of Blaine, OH, passed away peacefully on Monday September 3, 2012.
Mary was born February 8, 1920 in Pennsylvania, the daughter of the late Stanley and Anna (Gadomski) Bugay of Belmont, OH.
Mary and her late husband, Ted, had lived most of their lives and raised their family in Blaine and had been members of All Saints Catholic Church. After Ted's passing, Mary had lived with her son, Virgil, and his wife, Charleen, and had attended St. Mary's Catholic Church in St. Clairsville. Mary loved to cook and she and her husband, Ted, enjoyed getting the family together for her fantastic meals.
Mary was preceded in death by her loving and devoted husband, Ted, sister, Stella Gaidos of Morristown, OH and brothers, Walter of Belmont, Stanley of Cambridge, OH and John of Flushing, OH.
Mary is survived by two sons; Ted Jr. (Joyce) residing in Columbus, OH and Virgil (Charleen) of St. Clairsville, a daughter, Martha Scott, of Reynoldsburg, OH, a sister, Helen Gavlenski of Bedford, OH. Mary has nine grandchildren; Diane, T.J., William, Cammie, Chad, Chip, Robert, Jennifer and Lori, eight great grandchildren; Brittany, Ashley, Samantha, Katie, Justin, Nathan, Bodie and Gus, one great great-grandchild, Mason, and many nieces and nephews.
Friends will be received on Thursday from 2-4 and 6-8 p.m. at Beck-Altmeyer Funeral Home & Crematory, 204 West Main St., St. Clairsville. Funeral liturgy with mass will be celebrated on Friday at 10 a.m. at St. Mary Catholic Church with Fr. Michael Gossett as celebrant. Burial follows in Belmont County Memorial Park Cemetery, St. Clairsville. A vigil service will be held Thursday at 3:45 p.m. in the funeral home.
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Special thank you to the Staff/Caregivers at Forest Hill Retirement Community who gave their love and care of Mary in her final years.
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I love when people send me things because they know I will be thankful and, more than likely, understand where the message is coming from.
I received such a note the other day and decided to share it because it was too good not to have others, hopefully, be moved by the message.
Through a local parent, I received something from from Glen Schneiders, who is the lead pastor at Crossroads Christian Church in Lexington, Ky.
Heading: A Monday Morning Service to the Business Community.
The title: Nightmare Sports Parents
It read:
Two longtime coaches, Bruce E. Brown and Rob Miller, are devoted to helping adults avoid become nightmare sports parents. They have spoken at colleges, high schools and youth leagues to more than a million athletes, coaches and parents in the last 12 years.
So they asked hundreds of college athletes over three decades, "What was your worst memory from playing youth and high school sports?"
Want to guess the overwhelming response?
"The ride home from games with my parents."
The same student-athletes were asked what their parents said that made them feel great after a ballgame.
Again the vast majority stated, "I love to watch you play."
I remember a telling conversation I had with one of my daughters on the ride home after a ball game. She was very quiet and non-responsive. I finally pulled it from her. She didn't want my postgame analysis.
We agreed in the future to only talk about the game if she brought it up. Much to my disappointment, she never brought it up and missed out on all my "coaching wisdom." But our rides home were much better and we like each other today.
The authors of the report note that most parents are well intentioned, but that children want to distance themselves from the game. They wish to make the transition from athlete back to child and want parents to move from spectator/coach back to parent.
Brown notes that "Overall, grandparents are more content than parents to simply enjoy watching the child participate. Kids recognize that."
So what is the takeaway for parents?
"Sports is one of few places in a child's life where a parent can say, 'This is your thing,'" Miller says. "Athletics is one of the best ways for young people to take risks and deal with failure because the consequences aren't fatal, they aren't permanent. We're talking about a game. So they usually don't want or need a parent to rescue them when something goes wrong.
"Once you as a parent are assured the team is a safe environment, release your child to the coach and to the game. That way all successes are theirs, all failures are theirs."
As I read that report I was reminded of Ephesians 6:4 (The Message). "Fathers, don't exasperate your children by coming down hard on them. Take them by the hand and lead."
The King James version is "And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord."
As I have said before in this column, I know a coach who made sure there was nothing but encouraging, positive words after a contest because the coach knew that on the car ride home, the athletes would hear nothing but negativity from either, or both, parents.
That's not a fun car ride.
All I want out of the girls I coach is their best.
I want their best in a game, in practice, in school and at home.
Sometimes their best is not very good. But, as long as it's their best, there is nothing more I can ask of them.
Brown and Miller are partners in Proactive Coaching and there are 11 other speakers.
What they talk about is pretty solid.
During my tour of their Web Site, I came across this:
What do your parents do at games that really make you feel great and proud to have them present?
Cheer for everyone on the team, not just certain players.
Just having them there tells me that it was worth my time.
Support us win or lose.
Not getting on the refs, players or coaches.
Support me even when I am not playing much.
Cheering and encouraging at appropriate times in a civilized manner.
Cheer for us, but not too much.
Remember that we choose to play for fun and everybody is trying their best.
Don't be too hard on your kid - give them some room to grow, but stay by their side to help them grow up.
What do your parents or other parents do at games that make you feel embarrassed or uncomfortable?
Argue with the ref - it is annoying for everyone.
Try to coach the coach.
Discouraging comments to players.
Yell at you when you are trying to concentrate.
Criticizing athletes or coaches, calling them by name.
Yelling advice makes me play worse.
Cheering if the other team makes a mistake.
When parents boo.
Telling me what I need to do better when they don't know how to play the game.
I feel sorry for my teammates whose parents yell at them. When I play, my job is to listen to the coach, not my parents.
When they don't agree with a call, they yell, "come on" or "what was that?" etc.
Let me be who I am, let me enjoy myself out on the court and don't try to improve my game with your negativity.
What does commitment look like whether it's in practice, during a game, in the weight room, in the classroom or by yourself?
Even the worst of criminals are allowed their side of the story.
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By mprove on Mar 13, 2012
The bad thing about being a UX designer is that you recognize poor design all over the place. The good thing is that you take the issues as design challenges, and come up with better solutions.
Several times a week, I visit the Roller home page of blogs.oracle.com. Without summarizing all my usability and design findings, let me simply present my modifications in a way that does not bother me anymore.
Some of the benefits:
- less wasted space in the head section – more space for latest blog articles and popular blogs.
- delicious' and flickr-like design for the tag cloud
- improved skimming for recent blog articles
- numbering for popular blogs. This might not be of big interest for the visitor, but it is a very simple and effective way to provide feedback to the blog authors.
The update just involves changes to a cascading style sheet. Firefox / Chrome / Opera users can install the Stylish extension to apply my CSS patch as well.
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Ductal Carcinoma In-situ of the Breast
John Han-Chih Chang, MD and Kenneth Blank, MD
Last Modified: November 1, 2001
Dear OncoLink,
My mother has a diagnosis of ductal carcinoma in-situ and has been given an option for a mastectomy or lumpectomy followed by XRT. She is leaning towards mastectomy, but is still unsure. Can you help us weigh the options?
John Han-Chih Chang, MD and Kenneth Blank, MD, OncoLink Editorial Assistants, respond:
Dear DT,
Thank you for your interest and question.
The major issue in the management of ductal carcinoma in-situ (DCIS) is the risk for progression to invasive cancer. Recurrences after lumpectomy (removal of the tumor + margin of soft tissue) alone have demonstrated a 25 - 30% risk of recurrence. Half of those will be invasive cancer not DCIS when they come back. So lumpectomy alone is an option, but it may not be the best one.
The Data:
Lumpectomy alone was compared to Lumpectomy + Radiation Therapy (XRT) in a randomized trial (NSABP 17 study) of 818 patients. There was a statistically significant improvement (reduction) in overall local failures (recurrent cancer in the same breast) from 27% to 12% at 10 years. Survival was not different, because those that had a local failure went on to a second chance at cure (mastectomy) which usually is very successfulover 95% cancer specific survival. Here at the University of Pennsylvania, we have published our 15-yr. data on patients treated with XRT after lumpectomy. Our cancer specific survival was 96%. Our 15-yr. local failure rate was 19%. Those that failed went on to a mastectomy. The cure rate with mastectomy at the outset is over 95% in DCIS.
If you have DCIS alone, there is no need for an axillary (under arm) lymph node dissection (surgery). The risk of DCIS going to lymph nodes is less than 1%many studies in the past of patients that had their lymph nodes removed have demonstrated this (Dr Silverstein of Van Nuys Cancer Center reported on 189 consecutive axillary dissections done on DCISno positive lymph nodes). Axillary lymph node dissections have a high complication rate of lymphedema.
The Bottom Line:
How important is it to your mother that she save the breast? If she wants a chance at sparing the breast, then lumpectomy and XRT will give you a 80 - 85% chance at sparing the breast and being curedknowing that the final cure rate is greater than 95% (should it come back, you would most likely get mastectomy). If for your own peace of mind, you want the breast removed so there is a less than 5% chance of it coming back (it still can come back in the chest wall after mastectomy), you would have a greater than 95% chance of being cured. As far as cosmetic result, reconstruction could be discussed with your surgeona plastic surgeon should perform this NOT a general surgeon. Reconstruction can be done at the time of mastectomy or afterwards.
One other thing to factor into the situation is the amount of time for the radiation therapy. The typical time scheme is for the lumpectomy to happen and the radiation to start 2 - 4 weeks after. The radiation is done to whole breast initially and then to the tumor bed. These are daily treatments lasting approximately 5-15 minutes per day Monday - Friday for approximately 5-7 weeks. The first session is a mapping session, which can last 1/2 to 1 hour, but daily sessions are quick. Most people are able to continue working during treatment and go on with their daily lives as normal. Breast radiation acute side effects mainly have to do with skin irritation, which is usually minimal. It is usually very well tolerated.
Mastectomy is a very good choice. There is a high likelihood your mother will never hear from this cancer again. She will need to continue yearly mammograms and monthly self-exams on the other breast. Please have her discuss all of these options with her physicians.
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Implementing an Incense Aromatherapy Meditation to Assist With PressureJun
Aromatherapy is applied as a therapeutic approach of advertising a state of perfectly-becoming and can also be put to use to improve certain overall health troubles. Though the jury does would seem to even now be out on the effectiveness of it for improving upon many overall health difficulties.
So what is an aromatherapy meditation? Properly, an aromatherapy meditation is a sort of meditation where by one uses crucial oils or incense in conjunction with meditation to enable produce all those desired states of nicely-getting and raising consciousness.
Herbal Incense and Incense Burners
Incense has turn into a way of life for countless persons. Regardless of whether it is put to use to create an environment for meditation or basically to make your home smell amazing. There is an incense burner out there that will enable to give you what you are looking for. With out getting to make a fuss through more than basically lights the incense and carrying on with meditation or daily life.
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Prayer and Meditation – Incense
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"From what did the plant attain its capability to generate in the a single that of lemon, in an additional orange, in one other lavender, in an additional violet? From its parent stock which was given, not by gentleman but by the Resourceful Forces. Still, guy has the ability to acquire and make that which will become as an essence that responds to or sets in vibration the olfactory influences in the mucous membranes of the system of a individual. There is the ability to make odors that will respond to specific individuals and groups and numerous hundreds are responding to odors that deliver the impact within their systems for pursuits in which the Imaginative Forces or God may manifest in the individual! For odor is fuel, and not of the denser make any difference that helps make the degrading elements."
An Insight on Burning of Incense
The aromatic impact of incense offers harmony to the senses and mentioned to have a number of other medicinal effects too. Lots of former civilizations used incense as herbal remedy for treating wellness disorders. Incense is also regarded to be just one of the primary factors of meditation and is considered to dissipate bad vitality. Burning of incense aids the mind to correlate the distinctive odor with an optimistic and composed head.
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Manicotti Florentine
Categories: Low-fat, Vegetarian
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Your children will love to help you carefully stuff the manicotti.
Serves: 7 servings
- 14 manicotti tubes (about 8 ounces)
- 1 recipe Chunky Garden Marinara Sauce, or 3 1/2 cups bottled marinara sauce
- 1 cup shredded nonfat or reduced-fat mozzarella cheese
- 3 1/2 cups nonfat or low-fat ricotta cheese
- 1 package (10 ounces) frozen chopped spinach, thawed and squeezed dry
- 1/4 cup fat-free egg substitute
- 1/2 cup grated nonfat or regular Parmesan cheese
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- Cook the manicotti al dente according to package directions. Drain well, and set aside.
- To make the filling, place all of the filling ingredients in a large bowl, and stir to mix well.
- Coat a 9-x-13-inch baking pan with nonstick cooking spray, and spoon a thin layer of sauce over the bottom of the pan. Using a small spoon, stuff about 1/3 cup of the filling mixture into each of the tubes, and arrange the filled tubes in the pan. Pour the remaining sauce evenly over the manicotti.
- Bake uncovered at 350°F for about 30 minutes, or until heated through. Sprinkle the mozzarella over the top, and bake for 5 additional minutes, or just until the cheese is melted.
- Remove the dish from the oven, and let sit for 10 minutes before serving.
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Case-hardened 13 tooth steel sprocket. Fits F650GS (single) / G650GS and Dakar, G650X, Funduro and Pegaso. The F650GS is originally supplied with 16T. This 13T reduces the ratio by 19%, making the bike easier to ride in off-road situations.One of the easiest performance adjustments you can do - just exchange the sprocket, re-adjust the chain tension and ride!
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- Jena Economic Resea...
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- Tue May 5 2009
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Product diversity
product relatedness
technological diversity
technological relatedness
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This paper deals with the topic of related R&D and innovation strategies of large firms. We ask what determines the diversity of a firm's product portfolio. More specifically, we try to explain large firms' expansion into new product markets driven by the characteristics of their technological knowledge. Empirically, we study firms in the pharmaceutical and biotech industries, using relevant data on product development and technological knowledge. We find a positive relationship between the diversity of a firm's future product portfolio and the diversity of its stock of technological knowledge. This relationship becomes weaker when the breadth of technological knowledge increases.
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Grandchildren, God's way . . .
S.L. Frisbie
"If I had known how much fun grandchildren were, I would have had them first."
"Grandchildren are your reward for not killing your children."
"God couldn't be everywhere at once, so he invented grandmothers."
"Grandchildren: like children, only with return privileges."
"For God so loved the world that He gave us grandchildren."
"Grandma's kitchen. Children welcome. Cookies and kisses free."
"Babies are God's way of reminding us that He still loves us."
The first six are legends often found at craft festivals or gift shops, inscribed on plaques or wall banners.
The last was something Dad told me shortly after the birth of our first child. It is the only one that doesn't refer specifically to grandchildren, but he was my father, and it deserves to be in this brief anthology.
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Mary and I are blessed with five grandchildren, ranging in age from 10 months to 10 years. The joy increases with each new one.Two are Lakeland-Americans, one is a Gainesville-American, and two
are Ethiopian-Americans.
I have written about them from time to time, as I did about our own children. Kids reach an age when they do not wish to be written about any longer, and I am sure they will tell me when the time arrives.
And this disclaimer, which I often included when writing about our children so many years ago: yours are just as special to you as mine are to me. I am merely your surrogate when it comes to writing about kids.
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More than four years ago, Addisu joined the family, adopted from an Ethiopian orphanage in Addis Ababa. He was not quite 2, and the eight or 10 words of Amharic that I learned so I could speak to him in his native language served me well until he learned English.
In the interim, his brother, Asher, was born to Julie and Loyal Frisbie-Knudsen in Gainesville, and Addisu dotes on him as only a 6-year-old can dote on an infant.
In the meantime, Loyal and Julie were pursuing adoption of an Ethiopian little girl. The process is not like the movie stars do it: driving down a dusty road, seeing a bunch of cute youngsters, and saying, "I'll take that one, and that one, and that one. Have them delivered to my nanny at the airport tomorrow morning."
A foreign adoption takes longer than a pregnancy, and there is good reason for caution.
Early in the year, Loyal and Julie received photos of Meron, then not yet one year old. In May, Loyal flew to Ethiopia for the court hearing, and by wonderful coincidence, was able to spend Meron's first birthday with her at the orphanage.
It took from May to early October for the adoption to work its way from the court system through the diplomatic process, but at long last Loyal was able to return to Addis Ababa and bring Meron home.
It was a joyous day for the greater Frisbie/Knudsen/Frisbie-Knudsen family.
After waiting a week for Meron to become acclimated to her new family, I went up to Gainesville to become a part of her life.
Julie was holding her when I walked into the room, and Meron waved at me. It was the first time she had waved at anyone. It was a good omen.
It took a few hours before she would agree to leave the security of her mother's or father's arms and come to Ahyat, the Amharic work for grandfather. But by the next day, we were fast friends. And we waved at each other often.
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A grandparent's chief job, and chief joy, is spoiling grandchildren. Mary and I have had four grandsons to practice on.
They have trained us well.
Meron will benefit from that preparation.
And oh, Dad was right.
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(S. L. Frisbie is retired. Retired, but hardly idle. Retirement gives him more time for the really important things in life. Like grandchildren.)


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Kentucky farmers are desperate for rain.
Just two months ago, Roger Hobbs planted his corn between rainstorms that soaked his Carlisle County fields.
Now he's watching the ground bake and his corn twist, a sign of stress from too much heat and too little moisture.
Other farmers got some relief Tuesday as thunderstorms rumbled across Kentucky.
Rainfall amounts varied widely. Tompkinsville in Monroe County received 1.58 inches and Lewisport in Hancock County got 1.42 inches.
Other areas received a half-inch or less. But the rain bypassed some areas completely. The latest Palmer Drought Severity Index indicates that eastern Kentucky is in a mild drought, and that central Kentucky is in the earliest stage of a drought. In the western Kentucky grain belt, the moisture status is near normal because of heavy spring rains, but the recent dry spell has worsened conditions for crops.


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My laptop has 1GB of RAM and an Intel Pentium processor. Which distribution would be best for it?
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My laptop has 1GB of RAM and an Intel Pentium processor. Which distribution would be best for it?
Specs are here.
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Welcome in Ubuntu Community :) Because your laptop can have only up to 1 GB memory I suggest you to go with Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Long Time Support) 32 bit or 12.10 32 bit. Is should work out of the box. You can download it here: http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop.
It's important that you will install 32 bit version. You can find some discussion about 32 and 64 bit architecture here.
With just 1Gb of Ram I would go with Lubuntu or maybe Xubuntu.
However it seems you have a display driver problem. Try a liveDVD or liveUSB to make sure everything works before installing.


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I find it hard to believe how well balanced the Pokémon games are. Not just within the games, where you'll find amazing balance from the very beginning to the very end, but, surprisingly, even when things get more competitive. If you have ever played the simulators that are available, you'll know what I'm talking about www.smogon.com. There are thousands of unique Pokémon characters, moves, traits and items. Yet, if you try to find a single broken strategy, You can't. And if you do find something obscure that could give you a good advantage, you'll realize it's impossible. The emerging competitive scenario is one of the most amazing strategy games I've ever seem, and it's not even a feature of the Pokémon games!
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I highly recommend you to check this AltDevBlog article on the very same topic. It basically says that the balancing process can be automatized to some point in a mathematical way.
Any game requiring strategy requires many iterations to get right. Having worked on multiple games that required balancing, I've learned that you start extremely early during production on the creation of different rules and abilities and immediately start balancing them.
There is no "silver bullet" that will guarantee a well-balanced game. Each time a new ability is created you must weigh it against your existing set to make sure there will be little to no chance of exploiting with it.
The Pokémon card game, specifically, is a relatively simple strategy game in terms of what the abilities do compared to a card game like Magic: The Gathering. Many of the Pokémon abilities do damage only, others just apply poison, or some other simple thing related to damage. You can only have two cards in the "active" position for combat. Compare this to magic where you can have a whole field of cards that can attack, many cards respond to events that occur, cards in hand can interrupt other actions. Long story short, some games are much easier to balance than others based on the range of abilities a player has at their disposal, and for most strategy game there's no way to cover every possible case without plenty of testing and iteration, reworking things until they feel fair and still fun.
Actually, I'm going to go against the crowd here.
Pokemon is horribly broken.
What? Why is that? Well, let me explain...
Pokemon has had a lot of things that have been built up over time and a lot of modifications to make it more suitable. There's a lot of Pokemon that are just useless, weak or otherwise not useful. In fact, due to this fact many Pokemon have to be classified for many tournaments that are hosted. Note: Nintendo does not ban any Pokemon in official matches.
These are community vetted because Nintendo has failed to fix THESE exploits. Thus, it is important to note and study why these occur. You make the claim that these simulators are well balanced, and that's because they are... with constraints. These simulations are iterated over and occasionally someone DOES find a broken team combination. When this happens, the community blacklists and creates rules around it. This happens frequently.
So, how many Pokemon are in each tier and what? Well, this diagram provided by Smogon (typically respected and used frequently) shows, as of today:
Smogon says,
To summarize, the higher tier Pokemon are stronger than those used below. Thus, when playing in a "Little Cup" match, it is respected that Pokemon in above tiers will not be used. This is because Pokemon in above tiers are usually considered broken in comparison. Especially those in the uber tier.
Bans and Clauses
Then, we have the banlist and Pokemon clause lists. These are certain rules that are enforced during community battle because they been deemed to be broken by the community. You can read about most of them here, but I'll highlight some of them that are very broken.
Sleep Clause. Basically, this states two Pokemon cannot be put to sleep at once. If you're familar with the game, this becomes obvious why.
OHKO Clause. This one is a bit easier to understand without game knowledge. Essentially, these are moves that can kill any opponent in a single turn, based on luck. These are banned because they take the skill out and can let any unskilled opponent win a match with fairly good odds.
There are many more reason Pokemon is broken, but in conclusion Pokemon is not balanced in the slightest.
While I've been out of the competitive pokemon scene for a while, when I left it was anything but balanced; if you didn't run legends, there was no point in even trying. And bugs? get out of town.
Looking over smogon, it seems things have changes (sycther good? wut?). So it seems balance was achieved the good old fashioned way; lots of iteration. Introduction of new systems, and insuring nothing got to out of hand.
it is way too expensive wat u mean by balanced game. the pokemon and star wars wiki are designed in such a way that the database of complete storyline occurs as many pages in the site. look at the details in serebii.net website the bulbapedia also provides such drastic explanation.The only reason why this might be true that a balance of moves and types of pokemon are made an instance in the game rather than individual pokemon. looking at the design code every pokemon is managed by its type and the type of its attack so what so ever is its type a tm move advantage will also occur. so the perfect answer to your question is that pokemon games include diversity classification based on group methods rather than individual intances belonging to various groups.This is the reason why theese become so balanced


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Perhaps the answer is common folklore among probabilits and stochasticians(!)? But I would like a good lower estimate for the probability that a particle undergoing brownian motion in 1 dimensions stays in a given interval (say around 0 when the initial value of $x$ coordinate is 0) throughout a given time interval [0,$\tau$].
This probability satisfies the heat equation on your interval with zero boundary condition and initial condition being identical 1. Solve it using Fourier series and separation of variables and you will obtain that the probability decays exponentially with exponent being the leading eigenvalue of the problem.
Also, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doob's_martingale_inequality#Application:_Brownian_motion


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I have find this article Turning Your Code Inside Out and I want to know how this approach described in article is for OO programmers/languages.
Is this style of design used in OO programmers/languages? What's downsides and goodsides of this approach in a OO language?
OO objects have state and behavior, the design explained in article is stateless. Is not only Single Responsability Principle.
(If I'm talking shit, please explain to me instead of only downside/close votes)


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Louis "Skip" Eiserman, 68, of East Hampstead, N.H., died on March 17, 2013 at his home. Skip was born on Jan. 31, 1945 in Falls City to the late Louis and Irene (Kluba) Eiserman. He was raised in Nebraska City and taught school in Racine, Wis. He held degrees from the University of Nebraska, the University of Wisconsin and Boston University. He was a resident of East Hampstead since 1976.
He dearly loved teaching social studies in the junior high and high school in the Andover, Mass., school system and retired after 30 years. He was also a former delegate for the Massachusetts Teachers Association.
Skip was an avid fisherman, hunter, and gardener. As an active member of the Hampstead Civic Club, he enjoyed coaching basketball and baseball.
He is survived by two sons, Matthew L. Eiserman of Hooksett, N.H., and Scott J. Eiserman of Nashua, N.H.; granddaughter Samantha J. Eiserman of Hooksett; former wife, Susan J. Eiserman of Exeter, N.H.; sisters Ann Waller of Minneapolis, Minn., and Mary Logan of Mt. Vernon, Iowa; brother Robert Eiserman of Crestone, Colo.; and many nieces and nephews.
He was predeceased by siblings Ronald Eiserman and Celeste Kriefels.
Following cremation, memorial calling hours will be held from 1 – 4 p.m. on Saturday, March 23, in the Peabody Funeral Homes and Crematorium, Derry, N.H. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to the Hampstead Civic Club, Hampstead, N.H.
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Ages 9-12: Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
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text: Okay, okay so I lied about saying I wasn't going to be submitting any more chibi Pokémon characters. I just had to make a lesson on "how to draw chibi Latias", step by step because it is the female version of Latios. Both Latias and Latios are Pokémon that resembles two creatures, birds and dragons. I thought it would be nice to give you guys the opportunity to draw the pair because after all they are both male and female. I like Latias because she has a brighter color with her red tones. Even though they are the same Pokémon species, Latias is a bit smaller then her male counterpart. Anyways, this is going to be a lesson that is just as easy as drawing chibi Latios. Approach the tutorial the very same way you did with Latios, and when you're done you can add the two together to make them a pair. I do hope you enjoy this submission even though no one has asked for it as of yet. I'm confident that someone would have made the request; I just made the lesson beforehand. That's it, one more tutorial to go. Adios people, and good day!


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The computer is a MSI Wind U100+ Netbook with Ralink RT2700E. There was a similar issue I was able to correct in 10.04 by adding some blacklist drivers in /etc/modprob.d but the issue then only meant I could not connect to internet after waking. Now it causes everything to slow to unusable as it tries to connect even if I turn off wifi and I am forced to hard reboot the machine. As I am running Conky I can see the process eating up the CPU - it is something like kirqsofd or some such thing. I apologize I do not remember the exact name of the process but I'm sure that is close.
I do not believe installing WICD is a solution as that also did not completely work in 10.04. It is something to do with the drivers I am certain.
In 10.04 This is to fix wifi on the MSI Wind with the Ralink RT2700E.
blacklist rt2800pci blacklist rt2800lib blacklist rt2x00pci blacklist rt2x00lib
saved as /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-rt2800.conf
But adding this in 12.04 means no wireless at all. :(


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The Bartlesville Marketing and Communication Association will meet from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Thursday in the Creek Room at Tri County Technology Center in Bartlesville.
Lee GrothOlson, general manager of the Bartlesville Symphony Orchestra, will be discussing "Marketing in the Non-Profit World."
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The Georgia Department of Natural Resources' Wildlife Resources Division will hold eight public meetings across the state in order to accept public input on the recently completed "Report of the Land Management Steering Committee." Certain recommendations of the committee can be enacted only through regulations. Public input is key to developing these regulations.
The Georgia Department of Natural Resources has encountered dramatic challenges in recent years, including consecutive years of budget cuts (42% since FY2008) in combination with providing for a population that is growing rapidly and diversifying. These challenges call for innovative approaches and reassessing the way business is done.
The Department identified a steering committee to explore potential changes. The 28-person Land Management Steering Committee (LMSC) was composed of representatives from a diverse range of stakeholders and users including other governmental agencies, non-profit organizations, and corporations.
The Commissioner charged the group with specific marketing objectives and the committee began work on the task of to assessing the marketing implications of the wide range of names for DNR lands and assessing the potential of WRD-managed lands to recover costs associated with providing recreational services. The LMSC convened several times to address these issues and produce recommendations which were presented to the public for comment through a series of four public meetings in mid-2010. This report summarizes this effort and shares committee recommendations.
Those interested in this report and wishing to provide public input should make plans to attend the scheduled public meetings. All meetings will begin at 7 p.m. on the following dates and at these locations:
January 3, 2011
· Albany Technical College-Kirkland Conference Center (1704 S. Slappey Blvd., Albany, GA)
· Little Ocmulgee State Park (80 Live Oak Trail, Helena, GA); Conference Room
January 4, 2011
· Augusta Technical College Auditorium (388 Tech Drive, NW, Thomson, GA)
· The Colonnade Center (264 Catoosa Circle, Ringgold, GA)
January 5, 2011
· College of Coastal Georgia Auditorium (3700 Altama Ave., Brunswick, GA)
· Georgia Forestry Commission (5645 Riggins Mill Rd., Dry Branch, GA)
January 6, 2011
· Franklin Springs City Hall (2135 East Main Street, Franklin Springs, GA)
· Smyrna Community Center – Banquet Hall (200 Village Green Circle, Smyrna, GA)
Any participant at a meeting may present data, make a statement or comment, or offer a viewpoint or argument, either orally or in writing. Statements should be concise to permit everyone an opportunity to speak. Participants must register upon arrival and notify the registering official of their intent to give a statement. Those unable to attend a meeting may submit written statements by January 14, 2011. Statements should be mailed to:
Georgia Department of Natural Resources
Wildlife Resources Division
Game Management Section
Attn: John Bowers
2070 U.S. Highway 278, SE
Social Circle, Georgia 30025
These meeting sites are accessible to people with physical disabilities. Requests for sign language interpretation or other auxiliary aids should be directed to Brandon Anderson at (770) 761-3045 no later than Dec. 27, 2010.
For more information on the scheduled public meetings, visit the Wildlife Resources Division Website at www.gohuntgeorgia.com .


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Reviewed By: A customer from Neenah, WI on 9/4/09
I bought this set of 10 maps to plan our cross country trip for the year of 2010. We crossed the US in 1999 and again in 2008. 99 we used the Northern route maps (we mapped WI MI and Ontario ourselves because Adventure Cycling did not have those included yet. Their routes are much better than what I planned.) We had a person from our home town act as our sag for that crossing. The 08 Southern crossing was self contained. Maps were great. Route was excellent. We did a detour in LA, and MS to go to the coast to see the reconstruction effort. We plan to cross the third time to celebrate my 70 birthday. We may do it over three years to get the best riding time of the year for each section. We will probably go West to East self contained but will stay in motels and eat in diners. We wouldn't think of doing this without "the maps" Camping and lodging information is great and having the emergency information at your finger tips is a real comfort. The material the maps are made of is fantastic. It stands up to folding, crushing, rain and are almost new when you finish the ride. We use the elevation guide along with mileage to determine the length of each day. Temperature and rainfall averages are also helpful. We are looking forward to this next ride.


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WACO (December 25, 2012)—A whipping north wind hampered Waco firefighters Tuesday afternoon as a roaring fire raced through a North Waco home.
Four people who were inside the house were able to escape the flames but firefighters could not save the house.
Firefighters were sent at after 3 p.m. to a single-story, wood frame house at 1123 N. 11th where the first units on the scene reported smoke and flames coming from the house.
A woman, her son and two grandchildren had escaped the blaze before firefighters arrived.
A stiff north wind fanned the flames and hampered firefighters in their effort and within a few minutes the roof collapsed.
Crews worked to contain the fire to the single structure and prevent it from spreading to adjacent homes.
Police were called to cordon off 11th Street while firefighters battled the blaze.
A fire marshal was called to the scene to investigate the cause of the fire.
The local chapter of the American Red Cross was called to assist the family with shelter and other needs.


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First time posting here, so I give the motivation for the question.
Early on in Descriptive Set Theory Sierpinski proved every ${\Sigma}^1_2$ set (PCA set in the older nomenclature) is the union of ${\aleph}_1$ Borel sets. Trivial if we assume the Continuum Hypothesis (use singletons!), in a not-CH context it is essentially a result about "How bad can they be?"
An easy corollary is that such sets can only have cardinality that is countable, ${\aleph}_1$, or that of the continuum.
Around 1970, Solovay sharpened the corollary result to show that if a measurable cardinal exists, such sets enjoy the continuum hypothesis (indeed they have the standard "regularity" properties). Note that Sierpinski's original result stands unimpeached by this.
Then about 1975, D. A. Martin showed every ${\Sigma}^1_3$ set is the union of ${\aleph}_2$ Borel sets, again assuming a measurable cardinal.
Yet lately I have been reading that Hugh Woodin has changed has opinion about the truth of the CH (now believing it is true), AND is working toward an "Ultimate L" model which admits large cardinals. Would not such a position undercut Martin's result, or am I missing something?