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Tom Zeller Jr.
Natural Gas Pipeline Plan Creates Rift in Massachusetts
Property owners are caught between the need to cooperate with increasing the energy supply and the desire to protect their land.
July 11, 2014, Friday
Nuclear Agency Is Criticized as Too Close to Its Industry
Critics have long painted the Nuclear Regulatory Commission as well-intentioned but weak.
May 8, 2011, Sunday
Opportunity Beckons Up North
Left unemployed by the drilling moratorium, Rusty Brown tried his luck commuting to the natural gas fields of Pennsylvania.
April 20, 2011, Wednesday
Cornell Gas Study Stirs Heated Debate
In suggesting that unconventional natural gas production might be worse for the climate than previously thought, critics say, the authors measured the warming potential of leaked methane over an overly short 20-year time frame.
April 18, 2011, Monday
Methane Losses Stir Debate on Natural Gas
A new study suggesting that unconventional natural gas development is worse than coal for the climate brought a quick response from the gas industry.
April 12, 2011, Tuesday
Studies Say Natural Gas Has Its Own Environmental Problems
Researchers have found that methane from natural gas is leaking in higher quantities than previously thought.
April 12, 2011, Tuesday
To Cut Smog, Navistar Blazes Risky Path of Its Own
If Navistar's engine design works, it could be the simplest, most elegant way to reduce smog from truck exhaust.
April 5, 2011, Tuesday
Coal, Jobs and America's Energy Future
A new study suggests that only about half the jobs projected by proposed large coal plant projects are actually created. Meanwhile, President Obama barely mentioned coal in his energy speech on Wednesday, annoying the industry.
March 31, 2011, Thursday
Trading Pumps for Plugs: We Aren't There Yet
The promise of an electric car revolution in the United States has come once again. How it will unfold is an open question.
March 31, 2011, Thursday
G.E. to Buy Tech Company From France for $3.2 Billion
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March 30, 2011, Wednesday
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19 April 2013. A new, family-based study identifies many of the same genetic sites already implicated in schizophrenia by other methods, lending support to their status as targets for more intensive study. Published online April 9 in JAMA Psychiatry and led by Edwin van den Oord of Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, the study probed over 8,000 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in 3,286 people with schizophrenia and 3,012 related controls. The SNPs found to be significantly associated with schizophrenia had the usual small effects on risk, but these were in the right direction: 89 percent had the same influence on risk (i.e., increase or decrease) as that found for the same SNPs in a meta-analysis of 18 previous genomewide association studies (GWAS).
In a second paper in JAMA Psychiatry, published online April 3, a much smaller study of five families turns up protein-altering mutations in genes linked to glutamate signaling. Both studies attest to the usefulness of family-based samples, which have faded from the limelight in recent years as large case-control studies held center stage.
The replication results, reported earlier at a meeting in 2011 (see SRF related conference story), suggest that the quest to discover the genes involved in schizophrenia is on the right track. Although confirming a genetic signal in a completely different sample is something that has often eluded schizophrenia geneticists, the new study, as well as one published last year, suggests that replications are forthcoming for the field (see SRF related news story). Still, as the first, tepid findings from GWAS are being replaced with significant ones from larger sample sizes (see SRF related news story and SRF conference story), a concern has lingered that population stratification could explain these results. This means that, for example, an overrepresentation of a certain allele in a schizophrenia group compared to a control group may not be related to the disorder at all, but instead to something else, such as undetected differences in ethnic background between the two groups. A family-based study sidesteps this complication because cases and controls come from the same families; thus, variety in the genetic background in one group should be matched in the other.
The family study reinforces the notion that shared risk for schizophrenia within families mainly reflects shared genetics, rather than shared environment, writes John Hardy of University College London, U.K., in an accompanying editorial. He concludes, "…after this study, we can be confident that we are on a road that will lead to dissection of some of the pathogenesis of this major disorder."
Select SNPs
To choose which SNPs were worth trying to replicate, first authors Karolina Åberg and Youfang Liu weighed several kinds of evidence. These included the significant hits in a meta-analysis they conducted of 18 GWAS, which considered over one million SNPs in 21,953 people; candidate gene studies from the SZGene database (Allen et al., 2008); a meta-analysis of 32 linkage studies (Ng et al., 2009); a meta-analysis of gene expression studies done in postmortem brain (Higgs et al., 2006); the Online Mendelian Inheritance of Man database; human versions of mouse genes implicated in neuropsychiatric-like behaviors (Konneker et al., 2008); and SNPs associated with transcript levels in the cortex, as tracked by a University of Chicago database. Using a special algorithm to evaluate the likelihood that each SNP would be related to schizophrenia, the researchers came up with a list of 9,380 SNPs. Of these, 8,107 were successfully genotyped in their family samples, which, importantly, did not overlap with samples used in the previous studies.
Many SNPs were associated with schizophrenia in this sample, and the number of small P values was greater than expected by chance. Of those with P <0.01, 89 percent had the same direction of effect on risk as found in the GWAS meta-analysis—something extremely unlikely to occur by chance (P = 2.20 x 10-16). Taking into account multiple kinds of data when initially selecting their SNPs worked in the researchers' favor: SNPs that weren't top hits in their GWAS meta-analysis, but which were implicated by other types of data, were among the replicated SNPs.
Defining a replication as an SNP with a significant association with schizophrenia at the P <0.005 level and with the same direction of effect as the GWAS meta-analysis, Åberg and Liu and colleagues replicated 23 SNPs, some of which tagged familiar schizophrenia suspects such as TCF4 and NOTCH4, as well as newer genes such as AS3MT (see SRF related news story), CNNM2, and NT5C2 (see SRF related news story and SRF news story), which have recently surfaced in GWAS. Schizophrenia-related SNPs tagging the major histocompatibility region also were replicated in the European subset of the sample, but not in African or Asian subsets, which jibes with ethnic differentiation in this region.
Paths leading to NMDA receptors?
In the second study, a much smaller collection of families points to rare variants of large effect at work in schizophrenia. A team led by Debby Tsuang of the Veterans Affairs Puget Sound Health Care System in Seattle, Washington, sequenced the exomes of five families with multiple cases of schizophrenia. In each family, the researchers detected rare, protein-changing mutations that seemed to connect to the N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor, which is thought to be underactive in schizophrenia (see SRF Hypothesis). One variant was found in GRM5, which encodes a metabotropic glutamate receptor (mGluR5) that influences signals through NMDA receptors; another was found in PPEF2, which encodes a phosphatase that the researchers show regulates mGluR5 levels. The remaining three families had different variants in a gene—LRP1B—which encodes a lipoprotein receptor that binds to the postsynaptic density complex that contains NMDA receptors. Though tenuous, the link to NMDA receptors suggests that a subset of people who may have schizophrenia because of glutamate-altering mutations might benefit most from glutamate therapeutics.—Michele Solis.
Åberg KA, Liu Y, Bukszár J, McClay JL, Khachane AN, Andreassen OA, Blackwood D, Corvin A, Djurovic S, Gurling H, Ophoff R, Pato CN, Pato MT, Riley B, Webb T, Kendler K, O'Donovan M, Craddock N, Kirov G, Owen M, Rujescu D, St Clair D, Werge T, Hultman CM, Delisi LE, Sullivan P, van den Oord EJ. A comprehensive family-based replication study of schizophrenia genes. JAMA Psychiatry. 2013 Feb 1;70(2):1-9. Abstract
Timms AE, Dorschner MO, Wechsler J, Choi KY, Kirkwood R, Girirajan S, Baker C, Eichler EE, Korvatska O, Roche KW, Horwitz MS, Tsuang DW. Support for the N -Methyl-D-Aspartate Receptor Hypofunction Hypothesis of Schizophrenia From Exome Sequencing in Multiplex Families. JAMA Psychiatry. 2013 Apr 3:1-9. Abstract
PRIMARY PAPERSA comprehensive family-based replication study of schizophrenia genes.Support for the N -Methyl-D-Aspartate Receptor Hypofunction Hypothesis of Schizophrenia From Exome Sequencing in Multiplex Families.
RELATED NEWSWCPG 2011—Looking at Schizophrenia Genes From Every AngleGWAS Hits Gain Traction With ReplicationGWAS Goes Bigger: Large Sample Sizes Uncover New Risk Loci, Additional Overlap in Schizophrenia and Bipolar DisorderWCPG 2012—Schizophrenia GWAS Make WavesLandmark GWAS Links Different Disorders To Same SNPs

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I'm planning on travelling out of the country and will bring my iPhone along. There will be WiFi access at my destination and I only intend on planning on using my iPhone for that. Is there anyway to sever all communications (data and voice) with the cell tower and keep WiFi connectivity?
Put your iPhone in airplane mode then switch wifi on.
Three methods will work:
These are listed in the most true to your initial intent of not having the antenna operating. I like the middle one as a good tradeoff between not talking with cell towers but maintaining GPS capabilities to tag pictures and use the map with tiles present from WiFi. The battery drain on the second two are more than the first, but still pretty usable in general on the later iOS versions.
Clearly, you can't pull a SIM if you have a phone without one, but the other options work with all iPhone models.
The best way to do so is to turn on Airplane mode. This will turn off all cellular and data sercices, but you can then turn Wi-Fi back on.
You will have Wi-Fi and your phone will not connect to the cellular network until you turn off Airplane mode again


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Hancock County Sheriff
Tiffany Marie Volino, 26, Chester, probation revocation; Monday.
Joshua G. Meeder, 36, East Liverpool, driving under the influence; Saturday.
Michael M. Young, 43, Chester, domestic battery; Friday.
Michael A. Young Jr., 18, East Liverpool, domestic battery; Friday.
Jason B. Stroud, 26, Chester, forgery (seven counts), petit larceny; Friday.
Melissa Jo Stander, 38, Weirton, capias-failure to appear (fraudulent schemes); Friday.
Debbie Lynne Hall, 53, Newell, driving under the influence, driving on a suspended license; Thursday.
Brandon Lee Speece, 19, Newell: child neglect creating a risk of injury; Thursday.
Virginia Ann Showalter, 40, New Cumberland, battery; Aug. 7.
Carl Cason Jr., 21, Steubenville, fugitive from justice; Aug. 5.
John R. Spears, 39, Colliers, capias (failure to appear); Aug. 5.
Zachariah C. Sedore, 18, Chester, domestic battery; Aug. 4.
Tyrone M. Davis, 40, Wellsville, driving under the influence, driving on a suspended license (DUI), driving on a suspended license (administrative, third offense), capias (three counts); Aug. 3.
Zachary Shingler, 27, Georgetown, Pa., petit larceny, grand larceny; Aug. 2.
Alissa M. Sheets, 23, New Cumberland, domestic battery; Aug. 2.
Arrested: Sean Fletcher, 43, 908 Oakland Way, Steubenville, threatening and contempt of court, Wednesday.
Arrested: Doren T. Thomas, 22, Bloomingdale, expired license and petit theft, Tuesday.
Cited: Tekia Mae-Lee McIntyre, 315 Orchard Place, Wintersville, stop sign violation; and Heather Ann Rice, Wellsville, failure to signal.
Vandalized: Vehicle keyed while parked in 1300 block of Ridge Avenue, Tuesday.
Damaged: Left rear bumper of vehicle damaged while parked in 200 block of South Fourth Street, Tuesday.
Assault: A man in the 700 block of Kendall Avenue told police someone threw a brick at home, striking him in the upper hip.
Jefferson County
Arrested: Jaytez Johnson, 18, 1222 1/2 Oak Grove, felonious assault and aggravated rioting, Tuesday.
Arrested: Daniel Carter, 29, Barberton, possession of drug abuse instruments, hypodermic needles and broken spoons with a brown residue, today. Carter also faces warrants for failure to appear in Summit County for felony possession of heroin and possession of drug abuse instruments.
Theft: A John Deere gator valued at about $7,000 was stolen from a worksite on county Road 22A across from Belevedere, Tuesday.
Entered: A resident of Commercial Avenue, Mingo Junction, told deputies an unknown male entered his house Tuesday but left when he was confronted.
Theft: Maplewood Drive residents told police Tuesday someone took a safe containing documents and about $1,500 in jewelry from their home.
Brooke County Sheriff
Arrested: Eric D. Tressler, 33, 199 Ninth St., Wellsburg, domestic battery, Monday.
Vehicle vandalism: The passenger side window of a vehicle was broken out while it was parked at a residence on Oriole Drive in McKinleyville between 9 p.m. Monday and 8 a.m. Tuesday. Nothing appeared to be missing.


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Hammerfight, while being a great game, is also excellent at annihilating your wrist, as controlling the game is done by performing circular motions with the mouse almost constantly.
When I first got the game, I looked for a way to translate gamepad input to mouse input so that I could play the game without inflicting physical harm on myself. The results I came up with were far from satisfactory, however (I found some way to turn my PS3's controller input into mouse input, but it was very sluggish and simply wouldn't do at all).
This site didn't exist back then, so I ask you, has anyone managed to set up a gamepad to work with this game in a way that doesn't feel like you are sacrificing control for convenience?


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used for "delicious" by young Africans who live in Paris
an "akuna matata" girl, an akuna matata meal, etc.
by 'tyah August 22, 2003
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An incorrect spelling of the phrase hakuna matata, and because of that, is most likely an offensive phrase in Swahili.
Random fool in Kenya: Akuna matata!
Passer-by: WHAT WAS THAT?!
Passer-by: WHAT WAS THAT?!
by Syckls March 09, 2004
It means no worries, for the rest of your daaaaaaays. It's our problem free.. philosophy! AKUNA MATATA!
I lovs teh lIon king!!!1
by Simba October 26, 2003
Has the same meaning as Hakuna Matata. The only difference is one is in Sotho( Lesotho) and the other one is in Swahili.
Mphe tjelete Me ( Please give me money mom)
Akinatjele ( I dont have any money)
Okay, akuna matata.(Okay, akuna matata)
Akinatjele ( I dont have any money)
Okay, akuna matata.(Okay, akuna matata)
by TSP001 May 23, 2008
Dont worry, be happy
Swahili, Kenyan
Swahili, Kenyan
It's an exlamation, use it as is
by Chicken George April 24, 2003
word for a girl's vagina
My mom taught me never to let strangers touch my akunamatata.
by gemini April 19, 2005
strange female who lives in the south, believes she is a gem.
by Kimberley October 21, 2003


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Firstly, a big welcome to theme-week!! We aim to have a new fun theme starting every other week for you guys to participate in. At the end of every theme there will be winner announced, and you will get a FRONT PAGE FEATURE!
We are always looking for new theme suggestions, so please leave any suggestions in a comment at the bottom of the page!
How theme-week Works
Every other Monday a theme will start, you then have until the second Friday to submit your entries. After the time is up, I shall select the best ten entries and create a poll for you guys to vote on a winner! The winner will be announced on the following Monday. The new theme will also be announced on that same monday.
There aren't many rules, but please have a quick read through.
You're entries MUST fit in with the current theme, if it does not, it will be declined. If you think it is unclear to others as to why it fits the theme, please explain your reasons in the artist comments.
The submission limit is TWO entries per theme. Please do not submit anymore, otherwise all you entries will be removed.
If you have submitted two entries, don't expect them both to make the final 10. I will choose the best one, unless there is only ten or less entries, in which case all the submitted entries will make the poll.
Entries do not have to be new, you can submit your existing works. This is subject to change in future.
The Archived folder = theme-week.deviantart.com/gall… will eventually be deleted as it is all work sumbitted before I took over, and doesn't seem to have any particular themes going on. If you have work in this folder that you would like moving to a current theme (if it fits), just leave me a comment and I'll happily move it for you.
Nudity IS allowed. Providing it conforms with DA's rules and regulations, it's fine with us.
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Today I received a comment on my previous post asking if Tudumo should support Remember The Milk (RTM) - partly as a solution to multi-instance syncing. I thought I'd answer it here so you're more aware of my roadmap.
On the face of it, it could help the business case for Tudumo and be pretty useful for the many people who already use RTM. RTM is one of the most successful web task applications, so it wouldn't be a bad choice, if I were supporting only one app.
However, I get similar queries every so often - for Remember The Milk, BaseCamp, Google Calendar, even a project management system that a user sells! For the record, there are also calls for Palm support, Windows Mobile support, Outlook, Mac, iPhone, Lotus Notes - you get the idea. Even if I were only supporting one app it would mean differences in data between Tudumo and the target website and likely some limitation in what the API will let me do. All of that doesn't feel right to me.
<vapourware alert>
I'd prefer to have a default Tudumo online service that has a focus on syncing between Tudumo instances and which can be a gateway to all the online service providers. This reduces the amount of code I need to shove into Tudumo to maintain every possible sync target. It also increases the quality of the sync between Tudumo instances because the peg and the hole are both round.
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Google App Engine excites me because it should be able to handle high-load sync with ease and should never cost me very much to keep running. That ties in nicely with my wish of providing the sync service for free and having run as well as possible. While my current server could likely handle it fine, with Google I don't have to think about "what happens if".
I could add other reasons but the vapour level is really getting to my head...


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Dashboard Rebuild - The Dash CaperWritten by on August 1, 2001 An Affordable Alternative To Dashboard Devastation
Whether you're restoring or just fixing-up, bringing an older Mopar back to life has always involved balancing personal time, the necessary effort, and cold, hard cash. Got the bankroll? With enough dough, virtually no obstacle stands in the way of putting together anything you can dream up, any way you want it. For the rest of us, building that 440 in the garage, or lying on the cold concrete bolting-in the front suspension, saves us the nickels which makes the project possible. Some repairs, however, just smack of looming expenditure. No matter how you slice it, you just know getting it fixed is going to soak serious cash. For E-Body fans, the padded dash has always been on this list. So, your 'Cuda dash looks like a relief map of the Mariana Trench. Whatcha gonna do? Don't expect to saunter over to the local wreckers carrying spare pocket change, and pull one on a lazy Saturday afternoon.
The heavily-sculptured dash pads used on the E-Body cars were no more prone to cracking than any other dash of the era. Thirty years later, any survivors have passed an amazing endurance test. The fact is, there really aren't that many original E-Body dashes which have endured the decades. Those NOS, or used-original pieces, which remain are highly sought after by serious restorers and hobbyists alike, and carry a hefty tariff. An alternative to shopping original is to spring for a pro-rebuild on your existing dash. We know of only one company--Just Dashes--that can properly do the thermal vacuum forming for a stock appearance. Another option is to shop the Year One catalog for their reproduction, which is built on original steel backings--an excellent piece. Choose any of the following three approaches for a clean-looking dash: shop NOS, get a thermal vacuum-formed re-skin, or buy the reproduction. Just don't expect much change back from $600.
Aware of the high cost involved in remedying a cracked E-Body dash, we were intrigued to find a molded, semi-rigid dash cover designed to repair these dashes on display at a local Mopar show. We found that the Dashcap(TM) was manufactured by Accuform Plastics, a company known to Mopar Muscle readers for their recently-released reproduction E-Body door panels. Priced at a little over a $100, the product instantly appealed to our penny-pinching nature, while the molded form of the Dashcap promised a do-it-yourself installation. Compared to the cost of the alternatives, the Dashcap seemed to be a bargain, so we decided to give one a try. The Dashcap is pre-molded in plastic to the exact shape of the original dash. It's designed to glue over the existing cracked dash, effectively giving it a new skin. Since the thermal-molded Dashcap is semi-rigid, it is made to hold its shape, even when the surface beneath is less-than-perfect. Information from Accuform suggests that the cover can be bonded over the original cracked dash, with the only prep required being to trim back any raised areas. We were advised that the dash need not even be removed from the vehicle for installation. In our installation, partly because our original dash was so bad, we felt some additional prep would be an advantage, and our dash was removed for the rework.
With huge gaping cracks, holes, and plenty of the inner foam core showing, our dash was seriously trashed. We figured if we could bring this nightmare back to life, in our own garage, for less than $150, then the Dashcap would have proven its worth. We just wouldn't have felt right about tossing the cover over our unstable mess of a dash, so we purchased a couple tubes of SEM Flexible Welding Compound. The SEM Weld is a bonding and filling product used in the autobody industry for repairing flexible rubber bumpers and other plastics on modern cars. The dash was reworked and bonded with the weld compound to fill the holes and bond the patchwork that remained of the factory skin. We finished by sanding the repairs level to the original shape. The repaired dash looked ugly after the rework, but it was actually level and well-bonded together. Slipping on the Accuform Dashcap was just the icing on the cake, providing our dash with a tailor-made new skin. With careful installation and attention to detail, our results with the Dashcap were nothing less than amazing.
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If your 'Cuda's dash looks anything like this one, you know that, barring some miracle find, you're in for some serious expense to put things right.Our subject dash is a 1971-74 'Cuda A/C piece (1970 units use a differently-shaped emblem), which will replace the non-A/C unit in our 1971 'Cuda. The dash is incredibly rough. The first step is to remove the VIN tag. Then the emblem is carefully pried off.The A/C vents unscrew from the inside of the dash. The bezels on our vents are fine, but, as is commonly the case, the vent louvers are broken and missing.Before any other work is done the pad is thoroughly cleaned--first with a damp sponge to remove dust and dirt, and then with lacquer thinner to dry out any oils and silicones from the surface. This assures a good bond for the repairs and the Dashcap.Heavily-raised areas, which commonly occur around large cracks, need to be trimmed back to avoid hanging up the new cover. Cutting the brittle old material is a challenge, even with new razors.Smaller cracks are sanded back with a D/A sander locked off to grinding mode. The heat from sanding actually softens the material around the cracks, allowing the broken skin to resettle closer to level than when we started.The repair putty we use is SEM Weld flexible repair compound, used by bodyshops to fix flexible bumpers and other soft plastic parts on modern cars. It is distributed by autobody supply houses which carry the SEM line. Equal parts of the resin and hardener are mixed to catalyze the product.Regular autobody filler plastic spreaders are used with the SEM Weld. Apply the compound slightly higher than level with the surface, and feather the repair well passed the actual crack.The SEM weld is incredibly sticky, and cures well enough to sand in about half an hour. We use a D/A sander with No. 80 grit, again set to grind, to shape the fill material level with the dash's contour. There's no need to get a razor sharp feather edge, or a glass smooth surface, since the Dashcap is very forgiving.
Next, our Dashcap is slipped on for a trial fit. We notice a slight discrepancy between the window for the VIN and the recess in the stock dash. An outline of where the two line up is marked on the dash to fix the situation. The Dashcap goes on easily, but requires some finesse to remove without distorting. Actually, the fit is so good and snug, it will barely move even without being bonded.The original dash is built of a thermoplastic material, which, although brittle, becomes soft and formable with heat. We also use the exhaust port from a gas soldering iron to heat (don't burn it; a heat gun will also work) the material in the VIN tag area, and then coax the softened plastic to match the recess with the window in the Dashcap.Now for the bonding. The Dashcap is bonded with silicone, a tube of which is provided in the kit. We bought a tube of black silicone at the hardware store to fit a caulking gun, which makes the application easier. Silicone is applied around all of the corners, edges, and openings, but not over the large flat areas.Next, the Dashcap is slipped over the whole frightening-looking mess. Don't waste any time, since the silicone will hang up the Dashcap if it begins to set, ruining the installation.The Dashcap pops right into position, and is tightly secured at the edges with duct tape, bungie cords, sticks, and even a pair of vice grips (jaws covered). Work quickly to press the edges tightly together before the silicone dries.While the silicone is drying, we turn our attention to those broken A/C vents. Here's the type of tip you'll only find in Mopar Muscle. Do we scour the countryside looking for E-Body A/C vents? No. We just go to our local wrecker, and pull the A/C vents from a common 1971-74 B-Body. The vent louvers can be removed by pulling the pins on the outside pivots, then sliding the center pivot to the right and then left to remove them. The vents are a drop-in interchange. Take care not to lose the spring clips, which keep the vents from flopping down.The vents are cleaned up, detailed with new accent paint, and installed in the E-Body bezels. Installation requires finesse, not brute force. A small nail is handy to align the holes in the bezel, spring clip, and vent for installing the retaining pin.Because of the slight added thickness of our dash's new skin, our center bezel requires a slight filing at both ends (about 1/32-inch) for a clean installation. The single vent requires no filing in our case. A small spacer is added between the vents and the dash at each mounting screw, to adjust the depth of the vents slightly.
Finally, the emblem is replaced. We drill three small holes in the dash's emblem recess for the emblem's mounting pegs. Then the emblem is pushed on using a dab of weatherstrip adhesive at each peg. If your emblem's mounting pegs are broken, just glue the emblem on.


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That's the thing that baffles me. People sit and parrot that Fox News/NRA bullshit, "People are evil! Government is useless! You are helpless! You can't get rid of guns! You can't stop gun deaths!" that enables the gun manufacturers keep piling up money, but all you have to do is spend a minute or two on some research to see how full of shit that all is. If you're not a country of idiots, you can reduce firearm deaths through proactive measures. Honestly guys, when was Fox News right about anything? Why are we cosigning their garbage right now?
Why the fuck is our objective to reduce shootings? Way to set the bar.
Doesn't matter how "educated" the populace is, or how conscientious society is about gun safety and regulation. Guns were made for the sole purpose of shooting other things/people. So long as there's guns, there's shootings. But hey, I guess a reduction in 8 year old's being shot by their classmates is as good a goal as any at this point.
What a psychotic black-and-white worldview. "Either no one has guns, or everyone has guns--nothing in between!" "If guns exist, then they can only exist for murder!" If it's not one extreme, then it's the other. Where are the shades of grey here? The world is not this simplistic.
(just gonna quote like half of this, sorry to divert from the zeitgeist)
With a shrinking share of total income and wealth, the middle class and poor simply don't have the purchasing power to get the economy back on solid footing. (The wealthy don't spend enough of their income or assets to make up for this shortfall, and they invest their savings wherever around the world they can get the highest return.)
As a result, consumer spending — fully 70 percent of economic activity — isn't up to the task of keeping the economy going. This puts greater pressure on government to be purchaser of last resort.
The dilemma isn't just economic. It's also political. As money concentrates at the top, so does power. That concentrated power generates even more entrenched wealth at the top, and less for the middle class and the poor.
A case in point is what's now happening in Michigan. In the state where the American labor movement was born – and where, because of labor unions, the American middle class once had the bargaining power to gain a significant portion of the nation's total income – Republicans and big money are striking back.
Legislators in the Michigan state House, followed almost immediately by Republicans who dominate the state Senate, voted Thursday afternoon to eliminate basic union organizing and workplace protections for both public and private-sector workers. Michigan Republican Governor Rick Snyder says he'll sign the measure.
This anti-labor blitzkreig was launched and coordinated by "Americans for Prosperity" – a group developed and funded by the right-wing industrialists and billionaire campaign donors Charles and David Koch, to "pave the way for right to work in states across our nation."
The Koch brothers are the same ones, not incidentally, who several years ago backed a group called "Citizen's United," on its way to the Supreme Court for an opinion by the Court's Republican majority that opened the floodgates to big money corrupting our federal and state governments. (The brothers Koch have also entertained Justices Scalia and Thomas at strategy meetings they've organized of Republican donors.)
Connect the dots: As unions have withered, the middle class's share of total income and wealth has dropped. The decline of the median wage in America over the last three decades correlates exactly with the declining percentage of American workers who are unionized.
And as the super-rich have grown even wealthier, they've been able to extend their power through the Supreme Court and the Republican Party – advancing a war on the middle class.
This is all a slight tangent, but it's definitely a deliberate attempt to break the backs of the Democratic fundraising machine as well. Break the unions, break their funding.
By the same token, I really think we need to question just how effective money is in political races (in an even bigger tangent). We have candidates spending millions of dollars on their campaigns and losing considerably despite their deep pockets. The effect of outside money in political races may be grossly exaggerated.
I honestly don't have an opinion on unions as a whole. It's one of the few issues that I'm undecided on. In fact, it's probably the only one.
That's looking at realistically Rev. Shades of grey, what fucking shades of grey are there with guns? If only certain people should be allowed to have guns (read, no possible chance that they would EVER use them for nefarious purposes), who, and how do you pick? Screenings? Psychological evaluations? Insert other "foolproof" method?
Name one other use for a firearm that isn't shooting someone/something. Name one. Normally, I would agree that there are always shades of grey, that things aren't always so simply black and white, but with guns, that's the reality. There is no shade of grey. There is absolutely fuck all that can be done with a gun aside from shooting something. It is the sole purpose for their existence.
Not all shootings are created equally. Self-defense isn't the same as murder, as I'm sure you'd agree. The loss of a life is tragic regardless of the reason, but some deaths are justified while others are not. A shooting in and of itself (a favorite phrase of mine today) is not inherently evil--the reasons behind it are what make that determination. If you shoot somebody who has pulled a weapon on you or a loved one, then that surely isn't the same as a man executing 20 elementary students. Guns can exist both for murder and self-defense, or even reasons beyond those such as for hunting. Hell, shooting firearms at a range just helps me relax. It's harmless fun and a good stress reliever when done in the company of responsible adults.
Furthermore, there will be no getting rid of firearms entirely, as we all seem to agree. We're talking about a technology that dates back 500 years--that genie is out of the bottle for good. So the proposition that either nobody has guns or we all have guns means that every psychopath who draws air will be entitled to have one. I don't think that many people would find that to be an ideal situation.
The only alternative is that we try to make sure that weapons are not getting into the wrong hands. Will it be perfect? No. Will these events still happen? Probably. But it goes back to getting 50% of what you want as opposed to 0%. I'd rather save some lives as opposed to giving up because it won't be perfect, even if it means that I have to be inconvenienced a little in the process.
I never proposed getting rid of guns entirely, I don't chase dragons. I merely pointed out that to be rid of shootings, the only possible solution is to be rid of guns.
Yes, I'm well aware there is a difference between the slaughter of children and self defense, but this goes right back to what I first said; guns exist for self defense because there are guns, because other people have guns. It's an unfortunate self-perpetuating cycle with no reasonable end in sight. Obviously they can be a good source of entertainment or stress relief when in like-minded company with other responsible people, again, not advocating the entire removal of firearms (As a reasonable solution to any problem). Just bear in mind there is no invisible force preventing any one of those responsible people from just deciding to go out shooting with no regard for who they're shooting at. It's not likely your buddy of 20+ years is going to just wake up one day and decide to shoot into a crowd, but it's not an impossibility. Anyone is capable at anytime of using a gun for just this type of travesty.
As far as hunting goes, being a Michigander my entire life, I'm a big fan of venison, and have no real problem with hunting (done to a reasonable degree), but at this day and age we don't need to hunt to survive, it's done for sport or for the luxury meat (aka, something you can't just buy in the store, or plain don't want to because of quality), and honestly, if you can't take down a deer with a bow, you don't really deserve to be killing it. Call it a personal preference of mine if you will, but I still believe in hunting as being something that should require skill on the part of the hunter, not something any 8 year old can do.
We can instate all the screening processes we like, and maybe we will reduce shootings like these, and in general. I just don't like the prospect of living in a society where reducing innocent deaths is the best we can do, but like I said in my initial tirade, it doesn't matter how much back and forth we do here, we're both just a couple assholes on the internet who will ultimately never change anything. It was an interesting time killer though.
Also, this shooting is just terrible. I don't pay much attention to the gun issue in America but it doesn't sound like an easy issue to tackle because whatever happens there's still a lot of guns in America. The logistics of actually cutting down on people who have guns would be pretty hard. I imagine the black market would prosper from that too with people not even getting the checks they have now before they have a gun in their hands. People compare the situation to how we dealt with guns here in the UK. I don't think we ever had the same culture or anywhere near the same amount of guns to people though.
Connecticut mayor talking truth in the video up top.
http://www.theonion.com/articles/fuc...reports,30743/Americans reported feelings of overwhelming disgust with whatever abhorrent bastard did this and with the world at large for ever allowing it to happen, as well as with politicians, with the NRA, and above all with their own pathetic goddamn selves, sitting in front of a fucking computer instead of doing fucking anything to help anyone—Christ, as if that were even fucking possible, as if anyone could change what happened, as if the same fucking bullshit isn't going to keep happening again and again and fucking again before people finally decide it's time to change the way we live, so what's the point? What the hell is the goddamned point?
This is the onion here.
the onion
Pretty much nailed it, like always.
Onion news is realest news.
I just got home, turned on MSNBC, and within five seconds noped that shit out for the rest of the week. I wish them best of luck in their business endeavors, because business is all it is. Mothafuckas have no heart.
In other breaking news there's an awesome X-men cartoon on G4
And, it turns out the shooter may have had Asperger's.
Edit - It's not even an news report. i just kind of skimmed through it without putting too much consideration towards the context of this particular thread when i posted earlier. But yeah, anybody wants to call bullshit on it, feel free to do so.
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At this point, it's all just going to be a bullshit speculation and blame game show, nobody will ever know the truth about why the guy did this. He took that one with him.
Wonder if it's true though. Maybe that guy had some kind of Rain Man episode. I don't really know that much about autism. Of course in presenting the possibility I'm doing the exact thing the article says not to do, but...y'know. I question everything. We're adults here. We can handle it.
It's not necessarily a bad thing to do, I'm a fan of questioning just about everything myself. This is just one of those situations where the best we could ever do is speculate, there's just never going to be a definitive answer. Did the guy have any mental deficiencies? Hard to say when his brain's in that many pieces. I personally put my money on he was bullied as a kid in that school.
But fuck, maybe he just really believed in the apocalypse being a week away and decided he'd make the news and go out with a bang.
Probably not subtle enough on that last part but fuck it, you probably knew where I was going with it anyway. For me Presidential elections are all about who I'm voting against.
Hey, who knows, maybe South Park was right and mormonism was the right choice.


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NES Retro Classic Controller USB: Video Games for $9.50
I saw the USB NES controller on Think Geek and wanted to get one for my wife for her Zelda fix. amazon had it for less then 10 and with prime I couldn't pass it up.
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Decent deal, I guess, although you could do it yourself for the cost of a length of USB cable + solder. If you're just emulating, which is obviously all this would be good for, I'd rather have a Logitech gamepad or a usb converter for a PS2 controller or something. Two-button games are easy to set up.
gonna use this on blackops.
@stryker4526: I think you're missing the point.
@kamikazeken: Time to call in my dogs, oh wait, which button is it? LOL
@gerrware: What, that people will pay ridiculous prices for "retro" gear?
No, that point isn't lost on me at all. Just sayin', there are more versatile options out there to emulate with.
@stryker4526: Don't be a spaz.
The reviews on this make me wary. But I've been waiting to see this for a decent price.
@vinithehat: Double posting is way more spaz-like, just FYI.
And yeah, the reviews are going to be mixed because these are made by opening an old NES controller, desoldering/removing the old connector, and soldering in a new, USB connector. Since they're handmade and generally don't have much in the way of QC you're kind of taking a chance on it.
Also off-brand, about half the price:
Unsure about the quality though.
@stryker4526: I think the point you missed was the reliving your childhood factor rather than the price people will pay. If I played NES games on my PC I'd totally buy one of these. But when I wanna play Faxanadu or Contra, I just turn on my NES.
@bridelton: They're all "off-brand." Nintendo never made a USB NES controller.
This is most likely a stupid question - can this be used for the Wii? I don't think it is, but I figured I'd ask. Thanks!
@stryker4526: You are incorrect. At a glace, you can see that this is not an original NES controller, it is a new manufactured product, which is probably MORE of a cause of the QC issues than if it had been an original.
However, if one has never actually seen or held one...
@stryker4526: stop being a spaz
These are newly manufactured, BUT you can make one like @stryker4526 describes, and howto can be found online.
I have had one (manufactured, like this one) for several years, and when the fancy strikes me to emulate in 8-bit style, it's awesome. I've never had issues.
This one has only gotten five stars on Amazon, mostly recent. And it's cheaper--$7 and change.
up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, B, A, Start
@trifevt: What you probably want is this.
This is what i've been looking at but haven't purchased yet.
@druknmonkey: Wow, that looks interesting. Me and a friend love playing oldschool nintendo games on the Wii, but the offical Nintendo controller options suck. We've tried gamecube controllers, the offical classic controller, and the large controller from the New Marios Brother Game for the Wii, and they each stink horribly in one form or another. I'll take a closer look at your link later tonight - thanks abunch!
you can make these pretty easy yourself i found a youtube vid about it and i made one for much cheaper than what they are asking just get an old nes controller cut off the end of the wire and then apply/solder a usb onto it not that hard.
The bad reviews made me afraid of the quality. This looks better though since you can use an actual NES controller.
@dupedyetagain: It's cheaper until you take the $7.99 shipping into account.
If free is more your kind of price and you have a Wii controller, you can use it as a bluetooth input device along with GlovePIE to make a classic controller. It works real well for NES games, on account of the controller being simple. SNES is a lot harder to map out logically, although if you have an N64 controller and a USB adapter, it works out a LOT nicer there (and the D-PAD is laid out very conveniently on that controller for NES too).
@stryker4526: so I just pop out the old wire harness, and solder in the new usb cable? then the proper drivers just magically appear on my computer? it takes more than a usb cable and solder. don't mislead people...k, thanks
@homerjs: no no no! you'll never get 30 lives like that! It's up up down down left right left right b a b a SELECT start
@jthomas67: now we're just being hard on the guy. while it's not necessarily as easy ast @stryker4526 might suggest, the drivers actually should magically appear because it will look to windows like any standard joystick.
see http://www.joystiq.com/2004/09/07/how-to-make-a-nintendo-controller-into-a-pc-joystick/ for one how-to article (though I'm sure there exist more).
@homerjs: man I played the crap outta Contra
if you really want the retro feel in the controller, you're better off buying real nintendo nes controllers from ebay for about 5 bucks a piece and get retrousb adapters. original ones really feel much better than these
Or just buy an NES off ebay B)
@jthomas67: You've never heard of generic HID drivers?
And you're accusing ME of misleading people?
@trifevt: Google. I know there's a fellow who made both a Genesis and a NES controller (wireless, even!) that you can plug into the Wii. Does require some extra crap and some decent electronic mapping skills, though.
@stryker4526: If I really wanted this that badly, I would get it mainly due to the fact that I wouldn't want to ruin my old NES controllers.
@tcosupreme: Actually, the U,U,D,D,L,R,L,R,B,A,Start is legit for single player. You only need the select for two player games.
@memnoch565: trippin!! Original Konami NES code (Contra, Life Force, etc) is:
U U D D L R L R A B B A Select Start
P.S. LOOOOVE this post =)


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Tuesday, May 13, 2008
Eternal Truths About Trading Success
* Self-Reliance - "A man must think for himself, must follow his own convictions...Self-trust is the foundation of successful effort."
* Judgment - "...equipoise, that nice adjustment of the faculties one to the other...is an essential to the speculator."
* Courage - "...confidence to act on the decisions of the mind...be bold, still be bold; always be bold."
* Prudence - "The power of measuring the danger, together with a certain alertness and watchfulness, is very important."
* Pliability - "The ability to change an opinion, the power of revision."
I especially like Watts' formulation: "There should be a balance of the two, Prudence and Courage; Prudence in contemplation, Courage in execution."
This very much fits patterns of success I detect among the most profitable traders. They are prudent in contemplating their ideas--they wait for the odds to be in their favor and conserve their capital when the edge is not there--but they are courageous in executing those ideas.
Equally important, they can be courageous without getting their egos tied to their ideas. If markets are not confirming their views, Pliability ensures that they can revise those views and not hang on to losing trades.
"The qualifications named are necessary to the makeup of the speculator," Watts explains, "but they must be in well-balanced combination. A deficiency or an overplus of one quality will destroy the effectiveness of all" (p. 9).
Too much courageousness and too little prudence leads to impulsive risk-taking. Too much pliability and too little self-reliance leads traders to get chopped up, reacting frantically to the last market movements.
Some trading truths never go out of date.
Four Overlooked Qualities of Successful Traders
Resilience and the Courage of Your Convictions
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- SSK said...
Hello Brett, excellent article. Those points expressed in a pithy manner drive the point home. Thank you as always. BTW, the article on "Trading like a sniper" has helped me to be more patient, helping to find the balance that this article speaks about. I broke out to new highs after a losing streak, taking a few days off to contemplate, and I believe that I am trading better than ever. Much of my succsess has come from learning how to learn. Thank you agian. Best, Steve
- Pete Nordsted said...
Dr Steenbarger,
I have been reading your blog and indeed your material now for around a year. I still trade on the financial markets but have now been studying the sporting markets and specifically the Betfair (Betting exchange) markets. The similarities are amazing and I have found your posts and books to be of great assistance. Over the past year I have studied in depth the price movements in events such as Tennis, NBA, NFL and Soccer looking for any trends which may occur and have now collected enough data to find an edge on the tennis markets and I am now currently working on the NBA markets.
The great thing about these markets is that if you are laying (buying) at a low price say 1.10 your loss is automatically minimised as it can only move ten ticks against you and yet the potential gain far outweighs any loss and also the beauty of these markets is the games are over within a couple of hours and your money can be put back into the markets. Indeed anyone who trades should seriously give these markets some attention.
Once again many thanks your books and articles have certainly improved my expertise in these areas and I always recommend your work to all of my clients.
Pete Nordsted
- itrade4real said...
Hi Brett,
Great post today, but especially interesting was the link to another post called "Four Overlooked Qualities of Successful Traders". I visit frequently, and I can say you uncover the truth about trading. That is, it's psychological more than anything else!
- VB said...
Today's action on the markets, was another 11AM (ET), timing deal: If you want to make money, you just have to wait until 11AM and then buy,buy...
- Nix said...
I just got a copy of your book "Enhancing Trader Performance" and I definitely like it. I must say that I've improved as a trader by reading your posts in this blog. I'm just a small fish trading HK markets but I know I couldn't do 30% on a single trading day from an account of -4% to 7.5% without all your work. I just want to express all my appreciation for this blog.
I really really am thankful and I agree with your line...
"when u find ur niche, you won't want to be doing anything else."
this is just a thank you to you.
You act as my invisible virtual mentor.
-Nix (from the Philippines)
- Ana said...
While I find there is eternal truth from the book "Speculation as a Fine Art and Thoughts on Life", I would not like to be a Speculator.
I would rather be an Investor or a true Trader, be it intraday, swing or position,as the word 'speculation' has a connotation of 'gambling'.
'Speculator' has been defined as one who engages in a venture or transaction of risky nature offering an unusual high return as distinct from an Investor or Trader.
- Globetrader said...
Speculator' has been defined as one who engages in a venture or transaction of risky nature offering an unusual high return as distinct from an Investor or Trader.
Ana, I actually know no other business where you can set yourself a daily goal to increase your anccountsize by 3% to 5% and have a reasonable probability to do just that.
Trading futures, stocks or other financial instruments you can do just that, but that potential return involves taking higher than usual risks. Being a true Trader involves taking high risks and I think the description "Speculator" fits.
If you have a problem to apply this term to yourself, you might want to find out why and solve it for you, as otherwise you might unwillingly damage your trading results or limit your returns as unconsciously you might think you are not worthy taking these returns out of the market.
Best regards,
- Ana said...
With due respect to any interpretation of the word 'speculator', my interpretation rests on this premise.
I feel the definition would just as well fit "gambler".
It is within this context that I would not consider myself a speculator
A return of 3% per day ROI on a possible 200 trading days would give me a 600% ROI pa. To me this is only possible if one adopts a gambling mentality.
The good traders look for 25%-45% ROI pa. and this is because they trade within a high probability of success and with good money and risk management.
In this context to me, a speculator does not fit a good trader or investor.
Again, it is a question of semantics.
- The Financial Philosopher said...
Success, if defined correctly, in any personal endeavor can only be found in self-awareness. In the context of this post, all of the "qualities" mentioned could be summarized into one key ingredient of self-awareness -- emotional intelligence.
While it is notable that the book mentioned was "written well over a century ago," this wisdom goes back more than two millenniums...
"At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want." ~ Lau-tzu
"Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance." ~ Confucius
"The unexamined life is not worth living." ~ Socrates
- SSK said...
ana, those high ROI figures, at least in my case come from trading 1 contract per 10K, as the leverage grows so does the ROI, and you can still be as discerning as your mental mindset allows. I checked out your site, nice work. Good trading to you. Steve
- SSK said...
itrade4real, I like the way you update your positions. I do the same thing with my daytradingsnippets link. It used to be done by video, but I think it is more usefull to traders when I type it, because I can post the reasons behind the trade more quickly, and it doesnt slow the box down. Good job on your site, Good trading to you. Steve
- SSK said...
the financial philosopher, wow, what an interesting archive of wisdom, Great work! I will enjoy your content over the next weeks. Good trading to you! Steve
- SSK said...
GLOBETRADER, a while back i posted an email address for you if you were interested in a copy of our trading analyzer, here is a different address that I will be putting on our site soon, the other one i wont be using. Here is the new one, firstname.lastname@example.com If anyone else is interested in a free copy of the analyzer, just drop me a line. Steve
- Marc said...
We're all gamblers here...don't fool yourself by saying you're an "investor" as if it means there's no risk.
You are placing a bet, perhaps a well-informed bet, but unless you are buying a T-bill, you have a bet with risk. This is called gambling. I'm not afraid to say it. For instance, sports betting is called gambling and yet there is much research and analysis done in those ventures. So what's the difference?
That being said, there's nothing wrong with gambling. The higher the risk, the bigger the payoff usually. It's up to you.
If you can absolutely guarantee me 25-40% pa. with no risk, I will write you a check today.
Cheers (or should I say "good luck")
- Ana said...
The interpretation of 'speculator' is a question of semantics as I stated earlier.
Having said this, here is what Ayn Rand said:
As Rand said, 'words are capable of precise meanings' and 'when rational men disagree, check their assumptions'.
* Marc seems to define as 'gambling' as any activity that involves risk.
* Steve defines 'speculator' as activity involving risk with abnormal rates of return - rates that I view as involving a high probability of risk of ruin.
* I define 'speculation' as a return involving high risk of ruin and 'trading' as activity providing a return above that produced by 'safe' interest rate products and where risk of ruin is minimised.
In trading science, we are taught that we analyse our markets in a scientific way to reach a statistically set of methodologies that will give us a high probability of success.
However, sad to say, only those who persevere and adhere strictly to such methodologies are in the lower 10% going by the statistics that this percentile makes the most highly successful traders.
In this context, I maintain 'speculator' does not fit a good trader or investor.
- Marc said...
Ana wrote: "However, sad to say, only those who persevere and adhere strictly to such methodologies are in the lower 10% going by the statistics that this percentile makes the most highly successful traders."
This is why we read Brett's fabulous articles. The market and it's participants are made up of people who are emotional, irrational and illogical at times. Investigation into psychology adds clarity to market moves. I too think gambling psychology is pervasive in the stock market. Failing to take this into account is why some people are always scratching their heads because the market isn't behaving according to their analysis.
I'm sure Dr. Brett could say it better.
- Ziad said...
I think you are quite mistaken in your notions of risk of ruin, and also what is truly possible in trading- especially DAY trading of futures and currencies.
In reality, in these types of day trading, returns of several hundred percent are quite possible without any danger of risk of ruin. And the reason for this, is due to what Steve alluded to, namely the leverage that is available.
Let me give you an example to illustrate the point. Say a skilled professional day trader risks 1% of his equity per trade. The risk of ruin in this case if he is disciplined and keeps all of his stops, is virtually zero, as he would need to lose 100 times in a row to be wiped out. If you do the math, even assuming low trading accuracy, the odds are actually much much less than one in a trillion, i.e. a virtual impossibility of ruin. But what kinds of returns can he make risking this much? Well, let us assume that he takes 4 trades a day and that his overall expectancy per trade is 0.25. At this rate, He would make 1% a day (4*0.25*1%). In turn, averaging 1% a day, and compounding it daily as the account grows, his yearly return would be 1.01 to the power of 250 = 12.03. That is he would multiply his capital by 12 times, or make a 1200% return.
Now are such returns outrageous and impossible? Not at all. The caveat here is that the *percentage* returns will naturally diminish as the account grows. A $50,000 account in the hands of a very skilled trader could grow to $600,000 in one year, but after it reaches larger balances, the % returns possible decrease rapidly because intraday trading is not very scalable due to lack of liquidity and slippage associated with trading huge size, and thus effectively the leverage available that produced the huge returns when the account was small can now no longer be used at the same rate.
Eventually, when the account reaches the millions, then the 25%-45% ROI that you alluded is all that can be targeted. And that is why you hear that the pros target this. It's because we are usually referring to the large portfolio managers who are managing huge money and who cannot take advantage of large leverage.
In the end, the mistaken notion is that large leverage = risk of ruin. That is simply not true. Like I've shown in my example, a trader can use large intraday leverage while having virtually no risk of ruin if they use strict stops and only risk a small % per trade. In fact, this isn't just theory, as I have personally made much more than the yearly ROI you alluded to, and have done so in less than half a year. Was I gambling irresponsibly? Absolutely not. My largest loss never exceeded 1.5% of my equity. I would hardly call that gambling.
So I just thought I would clarify all of this in case someone read the comments and got a mistaken conclusion.
- Ana said...
Brett, first: your Eternal Truths is getting eternal comments, I see....a good moot!
Now to Ziad:
First off, I base my premise on Assumptions as spelt out for myself and any commentator/s on their comments.
Risk of Ruin is a big factor in why so many especially newbies fall on the way as they trade, believing it is very easy to make money , due mainly to hype in the ads that it is very easy to make hundreds of percentage on one's equity margin.
If Risk of Ruin were a myth, then every one would give up their full time jobs and be a full time trader since it is a given that this is not true and making money can be so easy.
Hence, whatever statements we make must be based on ASSUMPTIONS to be valid and to avoid giving wrong impressions of how easy it is to trade and make money , big money especially.
With due respect to you, Ziad, you may be an exceptional good day-trader as you have been making big percentage returns on your equity , but I would not encourage the man in the street to trade without learning the ropes ie with good money and risk management techniques , which takes years or trading experience to succeed as witness statistics of the low 10 percentile of traders , and they are the top pros who aspire to 25 - 45 % pa returns on their trading.
What more for newbies who join the 90% of traders who usually blow up their accounts or can barely keep their bottom line in black.
Again, theoretically 1,200% pa is possible and easy but
• You assume that trading a 1% loss (not risk but actual loss taken) will always be possible.
• But as Taleb has shown, Black Swans are more prevalent that most give credit for. When you are aiming for a hit win rate, low return, such events cause devastation to the bottom line. As Tom Baldwin (famed pit Bond trader) once remarked: I give back 25% of what I earn in a month when a trend day happens. Tom was one of the largest and best pit traders around.
• Most importantly, you assume that a 25% expectancy is a realistic return in this sort of environment. We would have to see a large sample of returns to accept this.
• Finally even assuming your calculations are right, only exceptional traders maintain the discipline necessary to maintain the high win rate necessary to produce the returns you speak of, allowing some exceptional traders who may achieve triple digit returns.
• But that sort of return is not available to us mere mortals - the fact that so few traders achieve ie 1,200% is proof of this statement.
Please learn the ropes of good trading with good money and risk management and with discipline you and I will be happy to achieve ROI close to what the Pros do ie 40% or more.
- Ziad said...
I don't want to keep these comments going forever (although they are interesting) but I'll just quickly comment and say that:
1) It certainly is not easy and I've been working my ass off studying every aspect of the market and myself for the last 2 years. Newbies should never think it's easy. I was addressing what was possible for professionals who have already put in the time to learn the ropes.
2) I don't have a high win rate at all. In fact it is less than 50% as I am an intraday Trend trader primarily. I really dont care about accuracy and it has nothing to do with it. I care about large reward to risk ratios by identifying trades where I can enter with a tight stop and hold for a big move. As such, Taleb's black swan doesn't really apply as I am not trading in the style of the LTCM arbitragers and thereby assuming some mathematical model will hold and thus leveraging myself to the teeth with no stops. I'm in an out usually in a matter of minutes when I'm wrong as my tight stops get hit. The only possibly disaster would be if the exchange went down, but for that I can quickly hedge with the DAX.
3) I never implied risk of ruin is a myth. It is definitely real. But to assume that it is tied to leverage only is wrong. It is actually tied to position size AT RISK. i.e. the contract size you trade plus the size of your stops. As such, you can indeed remove risk of ruin with some discipline and good risk management.
4) An expectancy of 0.25 is actually on the low side. I know day traders with an expectancy of 0.80. Of course their frequency of trading is lower so in the end the overall returns are about the same.
In the end my intention is certainly not to argue with you. But we create results based on our beliefs. If you believe that such high returns are equal to gambling, you artificially limit yourself subconsciously in what you will be able to achieve. And it's really not about having some incredibly special talent. If you train your skills relentlessly, you can achieve a decent expectancy, and then you leverage that intraday and you get great results. But only after relentless hard work.
- Brett Steenbarger, Ph.D. said...
Thanks for the excellent comments and perspectives. The term "speculator" was more common and popular earlier in stock market history and had a positive connotation, as someone willing to risk money on a venture with favorable odds of success. I wholeheartedly agree that controlling position size and amount risked per trade and per day is key to avoiding risk of ruin.


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5 Giant City-Wide Parties You Won't Believe Are Real
OK, the people of Talkeetna, Alaska, don't call it the Moose Shit Festival. They go for the more polite but grossly misleading Moose Dropping Celebration. It's hard to imagine how many thousands of eager tourists show up ever year expecting to see moose chucked out of planes to be hilariously splattered on the rocks below, only to realize the "dropping" celebration is a festival honoring dung.
We guess that's not that much less disturbing. You'll be walking around the poop-themed decorations, when suddenly, someone yells, "Its time!" and you notice people running toward a roped-off area. And then you witness something you never thought you'd see: people betting on painted moose droppings dropped from a helicopter. People designate their piece of crap ahead of time and can win up to $1,500 if their painted and numbered turd is closest to the target.
There's more to the celebration than just the "What if helicopters could poop?" event (why have a Moose Dropping Celebration if all you're going to do is drop some shellacked shit out of the sky?). They have a Moose Dropping Toss and sell various moose-poop novelties like, um ...moose-pellet-shaped candies:
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Eat shit, tourists!
And moose-shit earrings:
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See, there's this old saying about polishing turds ...
Sadly, if this article has managed to convince you to mosey on up to Talkeetna, we're going to have to disappoint you again. The Moose Dropping Celebration has not been held since 2009, and it doesn't look like it's going to be held again anytime soon. During the weekend of the 2009 festival, there was more partying than you would expect from a small Alaskan town celebrating moose feces. The celebration went overboard, drunken crowds got out of control and, uh, one person died.
At the moose-shit festival.
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Rapas das Bestas is not, as every single one of you is thinking, Spanish for "beast rape." The potential for brutal beast-related injury seems just as great, however.
The name loosely translates to "shearing of the beasts," and it is a Spanish tradition that has been going on for the last 400 years and attracts thousands of people. Wild horses from the nearby mountains are captured and herded into a corral. Once the confused and frightened animals are penned in, that's when the men get down to business: They choose a horse and dive in after it (as you see above).
Also known as the Festival of Bad Choices
Once the man wades through the mass of wild, bucking horses (sometimes they even jump from horse to horse) to the one he has selected, he attempts to wrestle it to the ground with his bare hands and shear its mane and tail.
This is even harder than it sounds.
On one hand, this absolutely does seem cruel to the horses, since they're not only forcefully herded into the tiny space, but then are roughly wrestled and shaved for no apparent reason. On the other hand, the horses seem to deliver more punishment than they take. Watch a single horse throw around three full-grown dumbasses like it's nothing:
The chaos ends whenever the horses are sheared and tagged (and presumably half of the human participants have been trampled). Then the horses are released back into the wild with one hell of a story to tell.
"THEN I made the one human strangle the other one."
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I have loads of RAM and I use very little. I also do record some screencasts with
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I have loads of RAM and I use very little. I also do record some screencasts with
I think you answered your own question. A lot of programs use
For example Brasero defaults to that directory to store a CD/DVD's image file, which can be 4.7 GB of size. It's not worth risking a serious slowdown (or a system lockup) in an out of memory situation if your RAM and swap get full.
For advanced users it's no problem to change some applications' defaults and mount
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Monday, April 2, 2012
Double Vision
It's beautiful outside today, but I've got zilch in the way of energy so I'm parked indoors working on ideas for The Lake House and relying way too heavily on interweb toddler shopping as a form of pregnancy distraction. Did you know that you can find teeny tiny versions of virtually anything online? Seriously, anything you can think of!
It. is. ADDICTIVE.
So far Aston and I are getting matching Toms and Ray Bans and easels for the studio. And if I keep this up long enough there may be a Satchel size horse in the mix.
Posted by KellyMellyBoBellyBananaFanna at 7:10 AM
6 comments:
- NotesFromAbroad said...
Why a Satchel sized horse when you have the Real thing ?
My sweet Pup was host to many a tiny person, climbing over him, lying on him, falling asleep .. he never moved a muscle .. except that one eye .. the one that would eventually say ... Mom, get him off me !
Enjoy the slothfulness of the last days .. conserve that energy :)
- April 2, 2012 at 11:20 AM
- craftosaurus said...
Everything's cuter in miniature!
- April 2, 2012 at 1:07 PM
- Laura said...
I would like to hear Andrew's reaction to the Tiny Horse idea.
- April 2, 2012 at 5:49 PM
- Laura said...
I would like to hear Andrew's reaction to the mini horse idea.
- April 2, 2012 at 5:49 PM
- Bliss said...
Think that will be the title of my new book.... Interweb Toddler Shopping... For Pregnancy Distraction in the New Millennium.
- April 3, 2012 at 5:54 AM
- Melissa said...
got some mini toms for my daughter. absolutely love them!
- April 5, 2012 at 8:24 PM
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23 Nov 2011 5:25 PM #11
You said declaring the "models array" doesn't work in app.js, so yes it would be useless code.
You said it does work when you declare the "models array" in the controller so that should be sufficient; even if it did work in app.js because as you say it would become extra code for no reason.
Yes I am aware that the Viewport should be created as a view rather than explicitly created in the Launch function of app.js. It seems easier to have the application's "main" panel be created in app.js, and then add the other views from there.
According to the API the viewport is "a specialized container representing the viewable application area (the browser viewport)." And since there can only be 1 viewport per page, I assume it is declared in the launch() function. (as done by some of the Extjs examples) And since the layout (border, fit etc) is declared inside the Ext.create of the viewport, I believe you can't move it out of the Launch() function ?
23 Nov 2011 5:27 PM #12
24 Nov 2011 1:11 AM #13
Spent some time refactoring my code. It seems "proper" now. Also customized the viewport and added "reset" and "refresh" button functionalities. Note that the Navigation panel and Test Form is for cosmetic purposes.
Oh and i apologize about the innaccuracy of my previous post... i declared the controllers, models and stores array in app.js and it didn't throw errors now. Strange...
24 Nov 2011 2:05 PM #14
I say this because in app.js you wrap everything in an "Ext.onReady" which is a version 3 approach.
If you remove it and wrap everything in the "Ext.application" which is the version 4 approach then your problems reappear and we are back to the comment in my original post that "direct does not play nicely with version 4 MVC" and that is why we have to struggle so hard with the store.
5 Dec 2011 8:53 PM #15
I am trying to implement something similar with JAVA backend.
What backend have you used?If possible please upload the code,for reference.
The problem I am facing is listed below.
I get the right json format from database using java.
Its like this.
But,now how can I pass it to the store?
The problem I think is in the proxy and reader section(I have highlighted it).Can I pass the URL of the class file of the compiled servlet ??If not any how to pass the json to the store?
Firebug still shows me the same error of invalid json.
<script type="text/javascript"> Ext.onReady(function() { Ext.define('Company', { extend: 'Ext.data.Model', fields: [ {name:'uname',type: 'string'}, {name:'fname',type: 'string'}, {name:'lname',type: 'string'}, {name:'emailid',type: 'string'}, {name:'statename',type: 'string'}, {name:'cityname',type: 'string'}, {name:'country',type: 'string'}] }); var store_company = new Ext.data.Store({ model: 'Company', proxy: { type: 'ajax', url: 'register.class', reader: { type: 'json', root:'device' }, } }); var grid_company = Ext.create('Ext.grid.Panel', { store: store_company, columns:[ { text : 'User Name', width : 120, sortable : true, dataIndex: 'uname' }, { text : 'Firstname', width : 120, sortable : true, dataIndex: 'fname' }, { text : 'Lastname', width : 110, sortable : true, dataIndex: 'lname' }, { text : 'Email', width : 150, sortable : true, dataIndex: 'emailid' }, { text : 'State', width : 100, sortable : true, dataIndex: 'statename' }, { text : 'City', width : 150, sortable : true, dataIndex: 'cityname' }, { text : 'Country', width : 150, sortable : true, dataIndex: 'countryname' } ], bbar: Ext.create('Ext.PagingToolbar', { store: store_company, displayInfo: true, displayMsg: 'Displaying topics {0} - {1} of {2}', emptyMsg: "No topics to display" }), height: 210, width: 902, title: 'Company List', renderTo: 'grid-company', viewConfig: { stripeRows: true } }); store_company.load(); }); </script>
6 Dec 2011 10:00 AM #16
My original post was only to provide an updated version of existing code given in the documentation.
I am only a beginner and I do not have the knowledge you seek.
I can only point you to:
There is also the sample code in the download of the framework.
Hope this helps.
6 Dec 2011 11:42 AM #17
Thank you for the references.Will go through them.
I found the solution at http://www.sencha.com/forum/showthre...nd-Mysql/page2
19 Jun 2012 1:45 PM #18
The update functionality doesn't work? Add neither, given it uses the update functionality...
Error message "Cannot call method save of undefind"
Any ideas why?
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"Terrified. Please don't tell my staff." Meet Caroline Redmond, site manager of County Antrim's Carrick-a-Rede rope bridge
The above quote is her honest answer to how Caroline felt the first time she crossed the bridge to Carrick ('rock' in the Irish language), the island that gives the bridge its name. In fairness to her, she was seven at the time.
But she steadied her nerves and crossed the famous bridge that swings 30m above the rocky North Antrim coast.
And it does swing. It shakes a little, too. But don't worry, it's all perfectly safe. "Working daily on the bridge soon stops fear," says Caroline. "It's VERY well made."
Crossing Carrick-a-rede might seem like a minor jaunt. After all, it's only 20m wide. But ask anyone who's done it what they think and it quickly becomes clear that this is an experience to remember.
"I was fine if I didn't look down," says UK visitor to the Causeway Coast, Emily Alexander, who crossed the bridge in 2012. "Once you're out on it, it feels incredible, but it can be daunting taking the first few steps. Brilliant fun, though, and I'd definitely do it again."
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According to Kimberley Wanzer on Discover Ireland's Facebook page, it's an event that is best described with more than a few exclamation marks: "Just went across last week! WHAT AN EXPERIENCE!!!!!! LOVED IT and in my life I've never seen such beauty."
Kimberley is right: the bridge, the cliffs, the sea, the island take your breath away. But what on earth is a tiny rope bridge doing there in the first place?
"For over 250 years fishermen have kept a bridge here," Caroline explains. "It allowed them to get to the best places to catch the migrating salmon. After a year or more in the deep oceans of the north, salmon swim home to the rivers of their birth on the north coast. Carrick-a-Rede is on their westward migration route."
The year 2002 saw the end of fishermen working here when the salmon changed their migration route. Today, their legacy is an isolated, whitewashed cottage sitting on Carrick across in a location that is the very definition of precarious.
"That's the fishery," Caroline explains. "A new project will restore it to how it was when the last fisherman left in 2002. It's a collection of photos, memories, and artefacts from local people. Basically an amazing set of information about the bridge over its long history."
With 250,000 visitors in 2011, that long history looks like getting longer. And richer. The bridge has adorned stamps, welcomed the Olympic Torch in 2012, and featured as a finalist in National Geographic photo competitions.
In a lone comment under the image, the photographer, Vinay Almani, adds to the intrigue with mention of Greek sea deities: "If you listen carefully, you can hear the Sirens."
One bridge, 250 years, an Olympic torch and maybe even some mythological sea Sirens – worth a few nerves, surely?
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