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Deception in the Financial Service Industry
There is an equal amount of deception in the financial service industry. Whether you are watching CNBC, reading Forbes Magazine, or listening to a local salesperson promote his financial product, it is hard to believe we are ever getting the complete story from an unbiased perspective regarding any personal finance issue.
Deception is frequently used to strengthen one's agenda. An agenda can be supported by drawing attention to specific facts, or reinforced by drawing attention away from less desirable facts.
Hiding Good News in Deceit
The reality is there are always some parties that don't want us to know the good news happening around us. For example, financial television mediums are dependent on constant viewers in order for their business plan to succeed. Frankly, they can't go on the air and tell viewers that there is nothing to worry about and that their time would be better spent outside on a bike or with friends and family. Instead, they must consistently remind viewers of all possible downsides to insert a fear that at any moment something could happen that would restrict our ability to meet our financial goals. This is an example of utilizing deceit to take attention away from the good news that is more reflective of our environment.
Another example of using excessive information to conceal good news is the emergence of ultra-responsive investment strategies. Study after study has concluded that the best way to make money investing in the market is to buy and hold long-term positions. That is great news because it is fairly simple and can potentially be accomplished by anyone (at least in principle). However, this great news is frequently concealed by investment institutions who offer a responsive solution to every possible market scenario. Even though research suggests that an investor is better off not reacting to variables impacting the daily market, some financial institutions still promote such a strategy so they can charge higher fees due to a more frequent level of involvement.
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In some situations, some parties may hide the bad news within their agenda amongst an abundance of less relevant information. As you might have noticed, most annuities are overly complex and not easily understood. The contracts accompanying these products are commonly the size of a book and written in such a manner that even the most experienced financial planners have a hard time comprehending. Meanwhile, the excessive fees and outlandish surrender periods of these products are something that are frequently not discussed by the advisor promoting the product. This is an example of using BS to make something overly complicated to conceal their negative features.
A second example of burying bad news in deceit is the way non-publicly traded REITs (real estate investment trusts) are sold. As millions of investors have learned over the last 20 years, non-publicly traded REITs are not a liquid investment, and if an investor wants to quickly sell their holding they frequently need to do so at a steep discount (commonly less than 50% of the purchase price). Clearly, this is bad news. However, the financial salespeople offering these investments claim that not listing the product on a public exchange enables the product to endure less volatility because investors can never get online and see their investment's value go down. Of course, just because investors can't see the daily fluctuations in their investment's value doesn't mean that the price of the investment will be stable when the investor wants to sell, and most owners of non-publicly traded REITs ultimately eat their shirts.
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In all aspects of life, it is useful to question one's agenda and examine the use of deception to achieve that agenda. This is as true in the financial service industry as it is anywhere else. Simply looking for scenarios where the use of excessive or non-relevant information might be used to conceal facts that are either good or bad for you is likely to sharpen your decision making skills.
Further, I'd suggest that working with a fee-only financial advisor is likely to minimize situations where someone else's agenda might conflict with what is in your best interest. Fee-only financial planners are restricted from recommending financial products that reward them for doing so. Further, fee-only financial planners are held to a fiduciary standard, which means they are required by law to make recommendations that are in your best interest. These two factors are likely to limit the amount of deceit you'll need to sort through.
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Windows Update Fails with Error Code 80071A91
All Windows automatic updates have been failing since 2015-11-12. The last successful update was the Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool x64 - November 2015 (KB890830) on 11/12/2015 03:17. The first failed update since then was Security Update for Windows 7 for x64-based Systems (KB3100213) on 11/13/2015 20:25.
Manual installation of the pending updates does not work. Reboot does not install the pending updates either. Another symptom was that Windows was no longer detecting my third party Anti-Virus software. I removed and reinstalled the software thinking it might be related and Windows started detecting the Anti-Virus software again but I can no longer access the computers from other computers on my home network. For now let's focus on the Windows problem which may be hardware failure induced--hardware crash/power cycle without a Shutdown.
System details are as follows:
I'd like to get this software issue resolved so I can replace the hard drives in the array. With a RAID 1 mirrored array, Intel Rapid Store Technology with allow me to replace the hard drives one-by-one and rebuild the volume without having to reinstall my software or restore from backup. I also have some ham radio hobby related programs installed that aren't the easiest to reinstall.
I've run the System Update Readiness Tool and SFC /SCANNOW. My CBS.LOG file is attached as Part 1 and Part 2 (it exceeded the 8 MB limited so I split it in two). I only included the log file. Zipped, the CBS folder in still over 100 MB in size. Which is a bit worrisome.
Any help would be appreciated.
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|18 Nov 2015
Hi markinzeroland & welcome to sevenforums.
What drive is your win7 on C:\?
Please post CheckSUR.log located at: C:\Windows\Logs\CBS
If it's not there, run surt again, CheckSUR.log is temporary.
|My System Specs
|19 Nov 2015
Thanks for the response. I have attached CheckSUR.log but it says no errors detected. I am considering just restoring my hard drive from a backup before the problems started and individual important files since. If it looks like solving this problem might take us down a rabbit hole, I have that other option but I'd sure like to know what caused this.
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|19 Nov 2015
The error code 0x80071A91 translates to " Transaction support within the specified file system resource manager is not started or was shutdown due to an error."
Like to look at your WindowsUpdate.log located at: C:\Windows
Have batch file you can run to reset the File System Resource Manager, but lets look at wu log first.
HDD issue could be source of your problem.
|My System Specs
|19 Nov 2015
Attached please find my WindowsUpdate.log. It's chock full of 0x80071A91 fatal errors going back to 11/11.
|My System Specs
|20 Nov 2015
Yep, your correct.
We could try many fixes, probably won't correct the issue.
Suggest Repair Install
You will need Win7x64 DVD & 25 character Windows product key
Attached will find product key on computer displayed in popup. Download, extract to desktop, run. You can click on it press CTRL + c then paste to text file. I print it to prevent typos & transposition.
Check your PM (private message)
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|20 Nov 2015
Fortunately, bought the full retail version of Windows 7 and have the product key.
Looking at the instructions for the Repair Install, I'm thinking a restore of an older backup might be easier--if it works. Checking my update history, it looks like updates were working fine up until October 15. Either way, it's late so I'll try tomorrow night. What else does one have to do on a Friday night besides work on his computer?
Once I have Windows working again, I'll be swapping out the hard drive before it fails again and causes another crash.
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|20 Nov 2015
If you use system restore & you have installed a program subsequent to that restore point, the program will be removed. Many times this is advantageous, being that, if you recently installed a program & issues then appear, restore to point before the issue, if the restore is successful, no more problem.
I recently had both my laptop and desktop crash with installation of a recent update. I posted info on sevenforums. Microsoft is notorious for failed system restores. Tried 16 point on laptop, 10 on desktop, all failed. Haven't trusted it for years, for this very reason, if you need it, it doesn't work. I use AOMEI backupper to do regular System Images, incremental or differential backups. Yes, I had to use System Image restore on both machines, from 2 days prior. AOMEI is FREE & has easy to use interface. Great for the novice or less experienced user.
Repair install takes a few hours 3-4 usually. Reinstalling the updates takes about the same. If you have 8gb RAM choose the first 100. If you try to install all of them you will receive out of memory error at about 165. WU uses RAM to store all the downloaded updates & verify each one for integrity before it installs them. You will have failures guaranteed, because WU randomly installs the updates. Some are perquisites, SP1 for example, which is already on disk. There are currently 200+, & about 13 optional, that appear on first check for updates after fresh or repair install. If you go the repair install, it may take hours to start downloading and installing updates. Usually 6 or less, but sometimes 24+. Microsoft recently provided a patch supposedly to rectify high CPU usage, & slow WU update procedure. You could download & install that KB manually. There is no prerequisite KB's that need installation prior.
If you do try repair install & it fails, I'm pretty sure I can help you easily correct the error. Solution to repair install was very, very difficult to locate.
With all the FATAL errors you have in your WU log, it it were me, I'd do repair install. Restore to earlier time, may still have errors that will facilitates problems down the road.
External HDDs are cheap. You can Google it. Western Digital has a My Passport 1 terabyte portable for $49. I have 2 Seagate Backup Plus 3tb & purchased on sale for about $200
|My System Specs
|23 Nov 2015
I ended up restoring from a backup about a month before the problems started--I use Acronis True Image. I know you recommended I do a repair install but the problems started at the same time one of the hard drives in my RAID 1 failed and the system BSOD'ed without a Windows shutdown so I suspect that induced the problems. After the restore, I still had the issue with Windows not detecting that McAfee was installed so I removed and re-installed it and the Action Center was happy after that.
Is there anything you want to try or logs to inspect to see if there may be another pre-existing condition that could lead to Windows Update or performance problems down the road?
Otherwise, I think I'm ready to recover the few critical files I saved to another computer on my network, do a full backup, and then install the two new hard drives.
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|26 Dec 2015
The restore from backup seems to have corrected this occurrence of the 80071A91 error code. Thanks to all that took the time to help.
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Whatever the title your seeking whether it's a CEO, boss, employer, or business owner, the below list are just a few recommendations and qualities that are usually noticed by employees or peers. They are characteristics of good leaders and good employers. We are always meeting employers, bosses, CEO's, or other types of leadership, but sometimes one person stands out from the rest. Not just because they may be more successful, but their qualities shine through and it creates a "presence" they possess, it's respected and inspires the people around them.
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Give Credit, Don't Take it
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This is an admiral and very important characteristic of a good leader. It is to think, consider, ponder, observe, probe and listen. Stop and observe. Good leaders will stop before saying anything wrong. They stop before making a snap decision and they watch and listen some more. They feel the need to think things through. Some of our greatest leaders including presidents carry this trait.
Be polite with everyone
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Always return phone calls
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Arrive early and leave late
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Always remember your subordinates' spouses
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Steve Bellamy has been named to Kodak's newly-created position of president of motion picture and entertainment, underscoring the film manufacturer's push to maintain and grow its entertainment industry business.
Bellamy founded The Tennis Channel, The Ski Channel, The Surf Channel and The Skate Channel television networks. He's also a writer/director, songwriter and recording artist. At Kodak, Bellamy will be based in Los Angeles and work with Andrew Evenski, president and general manager of entertainment and commercial film. Both will report to Steven Overman, president of the consumer and Film Division.
Said J.J. Abrams in a statement: "I'm thrilled and relieved that Kodak remains committed to keeping film alive and well. It only feels right that film remain an available option in the world of filmmaking. And Steve Bellamy is an ideal talent to help realize this priority."
Earlier this year and urged by filmmakers such as Abrams, studios Disney, Fox, Paramount, Sony, NBC Universal and Warner Bros. all reached agreements with Kodak to purchase undisclosed amounts of film over "a few" years, enough to extend Kodak's film manufacturing business.
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Sourcingmag.com recently interviewed Linda Cohen, VP and chief of research for IT services and outsourcing for Gartner. Here are eight tips she gave to ensure that you receive the quality and focus of service you want and desire from your service providers.
Tip #1. Set up realistic expectations for the outcome between both parties.
Historically, outsourcing has been taken to be synonymous with cutting costs. However, that is not an enduring goal for outsourcing year over year over year. "Sooner or later you're gonna make some investment gain," Cohen notes.
Because of that, both the buyer and service provider need to disclose their true expectations of benefits every year because things change. For example, let's say a buyer thinks it'll reap a 10% costs savings and the seller will reap revenue. At the end of that year, Cohen says, both parties need to look and see if they got what they expected. If not, they need to determine why not. And then looking forward, they need to decide what their next set of expectations is.
Tip #2. Realign expectations at least annually.
Taking the previous example a step further, let's say the buyer needs new technology and the seller needs to make a better profit. The outsourcing deal needs to "realign their expectations of what they want to get out of it in a given year," Cohen says. "Realigning expectations at least annuallyÉand setting a reasonable outcome is really critical."
"Once we outsource, we have to measure the performance — the outcome we expect from the service provider, but not how they make the magic," Cohen explains. The client team has to focus on the outcome.
To ensure that this happens as it should, it's imperative to put the right people in place to do the measuring — not the people who manage that internally. In data management, for instance, it's important to plug in people who understand data in the right way so they can adequately evaluate where cost savings are possible.
The operations managers don't help by continually saying, "We wouldn't do it that way," or "We didn't do it that way." You have to profile the right types of people with the right types of skills to manage this effectively, Cohen says.
Tip #4. Get a consensus of opinion from the senior executives about what they're after.
Different executives may have different goals in mind, such as cost reduction, new technology, access to a whole new revenue string, etc. "Executives have to get on the same page about what they expect from this outsourcing deal," Cohen says. "Goals have to be clearly articulated in terms of outcomes." And there has to be a consensus in order for the outsourcing deal to be successful.
Getting at the "why" of outsourcing is a challenge for most organizations. But without a definitive answer on that, launching into action is a mistake. Without knowing desired outcomes, you can't measure success. Without consensus on why the business is changing its delivery model, senior executives won't be able to communicate clearly what the goals are for outsourcing. In one Gartner report, Cohen and co-author Allie Young write, "This lack of executive consensus is one of the main reasons why outsourcing deals fail."
Tip #5. Getting ready for outsourcing is critical to being successful.
By this, Cohen is referring to understanding the total cost of operation. "It is not enough to say the IT budget for desktop services is $2 million a year so that's what we should expect to outsource," she says. There are all kinds of hidden costs that are not reflected in budget terms.
Getting ready for outsourcing also includes setting the right service levels and expectations with users before solidifying the outsourcing deal — on both a user and business level. This, in turn, sets the bars in the right place for service metrics.
Yet another aspect of getting ready for outsourcing is making sure that everyone involved understands where service is going to be increased or decreased as a result of outsourcing, so they don't later blame problems on the vendor. "If you're not willing to spend money to increase the level of service, that needs to be known before outsourcing," Cohen points out. "Too often," she says, "we outsource the state of the market," meaning where things are today. "What we need to do is outsource to what's needed — not above the service levels we need but not below either. Set the bars in the right places before we outsource."
Tip #6. Don't view outsourcing as a resolution to a problem.
Outsourcing is not the answer to the problems of high service costs or difficult-to-deliver applications or even a lack of skill sets. "Take outsourcing more strategically, less tactically," Cohen advises. It needs to have a long-term, enduring business value to be successful.
"You can outsource year over year cost improvement or year over year operational improvement or year over year performance improvement, but you've got to set the goals. Stop the cycle of outsourcing to solve today's problem," she notes.
When considering outsourcing, a company should be asking how outsourcing will help over the long haul. "Organizations that outsource tactically to solve problems and have outsourced for a few years have realized that's not the way to go," Cohen says. "We need to clean up our act and create the most efficient IT possible and then consider what outsourcing can do for us."
Unfortunately, many organizations don't have the luxuries of time or money to get their houses in order before being coerced into some form of outsourcing. To avoid that or putting energy into what you know will become a non-working outsourcing relationship in two to three years, "create a sourcing strategy that enables the business strategy," Cohen says. "Whatever our business goals are, we're going to focus on making the right outsourcing decision to meet those goals."
Tip #7. Outsourcing contracts need to be flexible.
Historically, outsourcing contracts have been inflexible, cookie-cutter deals that are typically wholly focused on cost cutting. But once that's achieved, companies frequently start looking for more. Long-term agreements must be structured to anticipate the change that's inevitable in business and technology.
If the real goal of an outsourcing deal is operational improvement, for example, then service level agreements, metrics, measurement schemes, terms and conditions all have to be written to that outcome.
Along the same lines, "The way that a service receiver or buyer of service treats the relationship needs to change," Cohen notes. "You have to respect that services provided in these outsourcing deals really are strategic to the business," she says. As a result, these organizations become dependent on their service providers.
If a contract has been written from the efficiency perspective, it probably doesn't take into account potential enhancements or transformative initiatives that a company might want to implement. This organization will be stuck until it succeeds in renegotiating the terms of its agreement.
Tip #8. Relationship management is critical to the success of outsourcing deals on both sides.
Respect on both parts is vital. "A mutual benefit between both parties is critical," Cohen says, "and has to be sustained throughout the life of the relationship."
The service provider isn't the "enemy," out to gouge unsuspecting clients. Most actually relish the notion that buyers will get into these deals knowing exactly what they want.
Unfortunately, the opposite has been a problem for service providers for quite some time. Clients tend to sign up for certain things at the beginning of an agreement and then shortly into it, they want to change things. The service provider, however, is staffed according to the original agreement and can't suddenly change its delivery model simply because the client wants something different. The provider needs more clues in a timely manner.
Useful Links
Multisourcing: Moving Beyond Outsourcing to Achieve Growth And Agility by Linda Cohen and Allie Young


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Wellesley Babson College - Behn Basketball Camp- Girls Only Wellesley, Massachusetts
Behn is back in Wellesley! One of our best weeks of the summer. Due to Babson's plans for a new athletic department we are scheduled for a four day camp, Thursday thru Sunday starting July 5th. We should be back for a five day Monday thru Friday camp in 2019. We really love Wellesley, and hope to see you back at Behn camp in 2018!
The largest and most successful basketball camp in New England, Behn Basketball has grown throughout Eastern Massachusetts for the past 24 years with a reputation of excellent teaching focused on fundamentals. Our experienced coaches create an intense yet comfortable atmosphere that encourages learning and development. The goal is for each player to leave camp with improved skills, increased confidence, and acquired knowledge on how to practice and succeed. And of course we have fun too!
Highlights Include
- Emphasis on fundamentals
- Focus on proper shooting technique
- Learning team play on both offense and defense
- Appreciation of competition and good sportsmanship
- Official Behn Camp Nike T-shirt
- Making friends and having fun
The Webster Center at Babson College houses the indoor athletic facilities at Babson. These include the 650-seat Staake Gymnasium, Morse Swimming Center, PepsiCo Pavilion, Lunder Fitness Center, Chandor Dance Studio, an indoor track, four squash courts, a racquetball court, varsity weight room, and athletic administration offices.Meet your coaching staff
Malcolm Wynn
Malcolm Wynn is the former Head Men's Basketball Coach at Curry College.
His 2012-2013 team went 21-8 overall and 15-3 in the Commonwealth Coast Conference (CCC). Curry won both the regular-season and conference tournament titles. The 21 overall wins and 15 CCC wins were both school records. It also marked the second time that Wynn led his squad to a league title and an NCAA Tournament appearance.Read Full Bio
Wynn's coaching resume stretches all the way back to 1984, when he began a 13-year stint as varsity assistant and junior varsity head coach at Brookline (Mass.) High School. In 1994, Wynn also took on the head coaching duties at Roxbury Community College (RCC), and quickly brought himself and the Tigers to national prominence in the National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA).
Over the course of seven seasons, he compiled a stellar 142-42 (.771) record. Wynn led RCC to the 2000 NJCAA Division III National Championship and was subsequently named as NJCAA National Coach of the Year. One year later, he guided the Tigers to a 31-1 record and third-place finish in the NJCAA National Tournament. Starting in 1996, his teams won four NJCAA State Championships and five NJCAA Region XXI Championships. Wynn was also a four-time recipient of both NJCAA Region XXI and District 8 Coach of the Year honors.
Currently a resident of Cambridge, Mass., he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Communications from Illinois State University in 1978.
Check-in: Thursday morning 8:30 AM - 9:00 AM. Any outstanding medical forms are due at this time.
Hours: Full-day camp runs from 9:00 A.M. - 3:00 PM, Thursday through Sunday. There is a brief awards ceremony on Sunday at 2:30.
Camp Store: We sell beverages and snacks. We also sell Behn Camp clothing.
What to Bring: Campers should wear comfortable clothing (shorts & a T-shirt), socks, and sneakers. A water bottle, is advised, although drinks will be available for purchase.
Gender: Girls only.
Pricing and Ages:
Full Day (4 days) $264 (lunch included - ages 8 -16) - Lunch at Babson College dining hall.
Sample Daily Schedule:
- 9:00-9:10 Roll Call
- 9:10-9:25 Agility Stations
- 9:25-9:50 Hot Shot
- 9:50-10:20 Drill Stations
- 10:30-11:20 Team Practice
- 11:20-12:00 Games
- 12:00-1:00 Lunch/Staff Camper Game
- 1:00-1:30 Lecture
- 1:30-1:45 Free Throws
- 1:45-2:00 1 on 1
- 2:00-2:20 Full Court Drills
- 2:20-2:50 Games
- 3:00 Dismissal
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Series 6. Promotional Material
PG 460, Colt's Patent Fire Arms Manufacturing Company Collection
Finding aid prepared by Connecticut State Library staff.
Copyright � 2007 by the Connecticut State Library
Historical Note
Samuel Colt (1814-1862) received U.S. Patent No. 138 in 1836 for the first revolving cylinder pistol and along with other investors founded the Patent Arms Manufacturing Company of Paterson, New Jersey. Due to small sales that business closed in September of 1842. Still, Colt guns proved popular during the Mexican War and with the Texas Rangers. General Zachary Taylor, who was commanding troops in Texas in 1846, wanted 1000 Colt revolvers. Samuel Colt made an agreement with Eli Whitney, Jr., the Connecticut contractor for Army muskets, to manufacture the guns. In 1847 Colt borrowed money from his banker cousin Elisha Colt and other Hartford businessmen to lease a factory on Pearl Street in Hartford, where he adapted the system of interchangeable parts to the mass production of guns. In 1851 Colt's exhibited guns at London's Crystal Palace Exposition and two years later opened a branch there that operated until 1857. The Colt's factory in Hartford manufactured 3,000 Dragoon pistols by the end of 1850, first at the Pearl Street location and then on Grove Lane.
In 1851 Samuel Colt bought property in Hartford's South Meadows where he built the Colt's Armory that was completed in August of 1855. The Armory was topped with an onion-shaped blue dome on which stood a rampant colt cast from bronze. Samuel Colt died unexpectedly in January of 1862. A fire in February of 1864 destroyed one half of the Armory and the office. Some suspected that Confederates started the fire. The armory had been running at full capacity to supply the Union army with guns, its total wartime production totaling 378,000 revolvers and 114,000 muskets. Samuel Colt's widow Elizabeth ordered the Armory rebuilt exactly as it was. Construction was completed in 1867. In 1901 Mrs. Colt sold the company to Armstrong & Schirmer, a New York financial house. A holding company was formed in New York State although the Armory was still known as Colt's Patent Firearms Manufacturing Company.
Colt's produced the first machine gun, the Gatling, in 1867. Dr. R.J. Gatling invented the gun first fired at Confederate troops in 1862. Gatling later moved to Hartford after improving the desgin. Colt's entered into association with John Moses and Matt Browning in 1891 to manufacture their machine gun. In 1895 John Browning test fired his first automatic pistol for Colt's. The Brownings reached a settlement with Colt in 1903 that gave the company all the benefits of the automatic pistol and automatic machine gun patents. The company also obtained rights to the English Vickers-Maxim automatic machine gun, giving it control over all machine gun production in the world. In 1911 Colt's gave Fabrique Nationale of Liege an exclusive license to sell Browning's automatic pistol in Europe, outside of England. Soon after the United States entered World War I, John Moses Browning returned to Colt's and developed more powerful machine guns than his earlier inventions. In addition to machine guns, pistols were also in demand. The Army had adopted the Colt .45 as its standard sidearm in 1911. During the war Colt's produced 425,000 automatic pistols, 151,700 revolvers, 13,000 Maxim-Vickers machine guns and 10,000 new Brownings.
After the war Colt's diversified into manufacturing other products and established divisions for dishwashers, electrical, and plastics. Colt's production dropped during the early years of the Depression but improved starting in 1933. However, on March 13, 1935 over a thousand workers walked off the job to begin a strike that lasted thirteen weeks. The company experienced further catastrophe when the Flood of 1936 and Hurricane of 1938 damaged the armory. Despite increasing output at the start of World War II and winning the Army-Navy "E" award for outstanding production in 1942, Colt's began to experience financial losses starting in July of 1943 due in part to its failure to adopt modern manufacturing techniques, resulting in layoffs. Control of the company changed hands a few times and eventually became a subsidiary of Penn-Texas. That holding company collapsed in 1958 and what remained became the holding company Fairbanks Whitney. By 1960 manufacturing operations moved from Hartford to West Hartford.
Presidents of Colt's through 1969:
Samuel Colt, 1855-1862
Source: Ellsworth S. Grant, The Colt Armory: A History of Colt's Manufacturing Company, Inc., (Lincoln, R.I.: Mowbray Publishing, 1982).
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Scope and Content
The collection consistes primarily of photographs depicting company administrators and employees, the Colt armory in Hartford and other Colt-related properties, events, promotional material, and firearms.
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Series 1. Portraits includes administrators, employees, other individuals, employee groups, other groups, visitors, and celebrity visitors.
Series 2. Factory Views includes office and museum, shop area, factory exterior, fire of 1864, and floods of 1936 and 1938.
Series 3. Exterior Views includes Armory House, Armsmear, Colt Park, Charter Oak Park, Old Grove Street Office, Paterson Factory, London Armory, construction of a restaurant and storehouse, and a monument at Main Street Cemetery.
Series 4. Interior Views include trade showrooms.
Series 5. Events include the Army-Navy E banner presentation, audograph presentation, bridge dedication parade, hobby show, defense rally, GAR convention, gun shows, Philadelphia Exhibition of 1926, various shooting matches and tournaments, and the strike of 1935.
Series 6. Promotional Material include advertisements, photographs of celebrities, movie promotional material and stills, paintings and prints, and television memorabilia.
Series 7. Firearms include gatling guns, machine guns, pistols and revolvers, rifles, powder flasks, design drawings, Arms Division developments, proving station, and firearm collections.
Series 8. Miscellaneous include mostly subject matter unrelated to Colt firearms.
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Restrictions on Access
See the Rules and Procedures for Researchers Using Archival Records and Secured Collections policy.
Restrictions on Use
See the Reproduction and Publications of State Library Collections policy.
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Related Material
PG400 Hartford collection. See "HARTFORD - INDUSTRIES - COLT'S".
PG440 Collins photograph collection. Album 3 consists entirely of views of the factory during and after the the 1936 and 1938 floods.
RG103 Colt's Patent Fire Arms Manufacturing Co. records.
Also see the Research Guide to Materials about Colt's Patent Firearms Manufacturing Company.
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Index Terms
Bland, Chester
Browning, John M.
Coles, Charles H.
Colt, Mary Goodwin
Colt, Samuel Caldwell
Colt, Samuel, 1814-1862
Connor, Franklin B.
Connor, Franklin B.
Contral, George
Courtney, Robert
Dimick, Stephen B.
Ehbets, Carl
Fitzgerald, Edward
Fitzgerald, J.H.
Franklin, W.B.
Grover, Lewis G.
Jarvis, R.W.H.
Mason, William
Messler, Albert
Moore, Frederick T.
Nichols, Frank C.
Philips, Dwight G.
Porter, George R.
Robinson, Charles L.
Roff, Fred A., Jr.
Root, Elisha King
Skinner, William C.
Stevens, Edwin W.
Stone, Samuel M.
Ulrich, Arthur L.
Williams, Edwin H.
Colt firearms
Colt revolver
Colt's Patent Fire Arms Manufacturing Co.
Gatling guns
Shooting contests
Hartford (Conn.)
Document Types:
Design drawings
Negatives (photographic)
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Administrative Information
Acquisition Information
The collection was included in the Colt's Patent Fire Arms Manufacturing Company business archives and museum presented to the Connecticut State Library in 1957. The collection grew over the years through the donations of a number of people associated with Colt's.
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Other Finding Aid
A detail listing of items in this collection is available in History and Genealogy Reference.
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- Page 1 iPhone 4S
- Page 2 Screen and Interface
- Page 3 Calling, Contacts and Messaging
- Page 4 Siri and Internet
- Page 5 Multimedia and Camera
- Page 6 iCloud, Apps and Battery Life
- Page 7 Verdict
There's been little change to the management of contacts and the way you call people in iOS 5. It's all fairly familiar and easy to use but it definitely lacks a few features compared to the competition.
For a start, while contacts can have basics like pictures added to their contact information, they don't link to social networking handles or even show a message conversation. This makes the interface simple but it can be a bind if you just quickly want to check what the last thing was that you said to someone, whether it be on Facebook, Twitter or text message – on the iPhone you'll have to check all three separately.
Also missing is smart dialling. This makes matching contacts appear as you start typing a number, making it quicker to get to the person you want, and it's simply not present here. Otherwise, the calling process is a cinch and call quality is excellent with a clear, relatively loud earpiece, good noise cancelling and a very good loudspeaker.
There's also the matter of signal strength, which the iPhone 4 rather suffered thanks to its external antennae. It was all blown out or proportion but thankfully, the new two-antennae design finally puts the issue to bed by providing much more consistent signal strength.
When it comes to messaging, the iPhone 4S has a new trick up its sleeve in the form of iMessage. This is a BlackBerry Messenger-style service for all iOS devices that uses a data signal (including Wi-Fi and instead of texts) to send real time messages back and forth. It provides read receipts and shows if the other person is typing but, most intriguing of all, it isn't a separate app. It integrates with the main messaging app, kicking in whenever it detects the recipient is also an iOS user. It's an interesting addition for the phone but it's most useful for iPad users as, assuming a decent number of their contacts also use iOS devices, they can keep in touch without putting their iPad down.
One small new feature of iOS 5 is that when you scroll through messages, the keyboard will move out the way, allowing you to see more messages. There isn't, however, a way to close the text box to re-read previous messages when you've written so much already that the text box fills the screen – a little bugbear of ours.
As for email, the iPhone has long had an excellent email interface in terms of ease of use with most email accounts being very easy to setup and the presentation of the messages themselves being very intuitive and simple. The ease with which you can view HTML emails also puts Android to shame, with the latter not offering a zoom function.
However, there are a few more power user features it still lacks, and one in particular really annoys; you can't attach anything to emails. You can send an individual photo from the pictures app, and do likewise for various other file types in various other apps, but if you just want to send a document along with a couple of pictures taken with your camera, there's no way to do it with one email.
When typing out messages, the onscreen keyboard is still class leading, with superb word and grammar prediction, easy text editing features and an intuitive, clean keyboard layout.
There's a new addition, too, in the shape of Siri. We'll talk more about Siri's other abilities later but one use for the voice recognition service is it can dictate messages. Just tap the microphone shaped button and speak away. The success rate is good but not amazing with clear diction and a steady speaking pace required – colloquialisms are a no no. It coped well with noisy environments, though, so dictating a text message while in the car shouldn't cause it too many problems.


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By: Subhash K. Jha, IndiaFM
Monday, July 02, 2007
They all hug each other quite often. The men hug up-front, unabashedly. The ladies creep up on the men from behind them and hold them close to their heart.
In Apne heart and craft come together to create an amazing graph. Apne is a very warm film. It exudes the comforting; heady scent of lives lived in a ruptured repose manifested in scenes that are written with the lavish and meticulous exactitude of emotions invested prudently in long-term action plans.
Yes, the narration is lengthy, sometimes tedious. What, for example, was the need for that ridiculous 'rock' song with one of Bobby Deol's hands in his pocket? The length is understandable in a film that puts forward Dharmendra, playing a Punjabi Stallone who has been disgraced in the boxing championship, and his troubled relationship with an elder son (Sunny) who won't box, and his younger son (Bobby) who can't.
Caught between the 'can't' and the 'won't' of lives that share tears and chuckles as destiny reigns hard blows on the knuckles, this portrait of bonafide emotions is free of naqal. Full marks to Neeraj Pathak's screenplay for creating a near-perfect vehicle for the trio of Punjab da Puttars who excel in shedding tears, together and apart. Papa Dharam and his two sons share another common ground. They seem to suffer a perpetual bad- hair days.
Let not the awkward toupees and hairstyles come in the way of appreciating the deep-focused melodrama's undulating motions of light and shade. Cinematographer Kabir Lal paints the frames in colours several shades deeper than life. And that's the way it is meant to be.
Though the ladies are engagingly portrayed (Shilpa Shetty as the introverted Sunny's exuberant wife reminds you of Kajol in Karan Johar's Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham). This is a patriarchal story, populated with men who fight for self, family, country and morality on territory as far-ranging as the terrace of a Punjabi village, the boxing ring in New York and most importantly, the human heartland where most of life's most ironic games are played by God and man.
Other recent films like Rahul Rawail's Jo Bole So Nihaal, Gurinder Chadha's Bride&Prejudice and Vipul Shah's Namaste London have gone to Punjab and then onwards on a journey to the West to take stock of the moral waste-land.
Anil Sharma gets it right, in almost every frame. The stretched-out plot takes the Deols and their elegant women and surprisingly-restrained adversaries through several continents and time zones. Proving himself a master storyteller, Sharma never loses the threads of the plot as the characters scatter across the continents trying to restore family honour in hostile circumstances.
Yes, the narration gets excessively dramatic towards the end. But the magic of the real-life family being alchemized on screen is preserved until the very end. Let's stand and applaud Anil Sharma for attempting a theme so vast and dramatic showcasing two generations of Deol plunged into the vortex of a battle that takes them through several levels of emotions and revelations to arrive to a kind of liberating denouement that comes our way in the movies once in a while.
Indeed this Anil Sharma's Gadar of the boxing ring takes hungering leaps into the hemisphere of the Deols' most precious family ties. Sharma picks up threads of lingering sorrow and abiding ties to weave a tale that's as sweet tender strong and resonant as any grandma's tale about the simple god-fearing family which didn't buckle under pressure. It's not the content as much the tightly-clenched treatment that gives the film a feeling of uncompromised ardour.
Swarming with characters and over-sentimental songs about family ties, Apne manages to hold its head high above the intrinsically treacly situation that Anil Sharma creates for the Deols.
The performances are fine as long as you aren't looking for Brandos and Azmis in the cast. The immensely-gifted Victor Banerjee as the Deols' sounding board is the odd one our specially when he materializes with prayer beads on screen to pray for Bobby's quick recovery.
Good God!
This could have been one more mawkish attempt to bring together a family that suffers and celebrates together. Instead Apne is our own Rocky. In fact, better. Not only are the boxing sequences first-rate, the emotions that the macho men invest into each other's lives makes them look like giants who think big and act for the camera fearlessly.


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Bubba Watson joined an exclusive club Sunday, becoming the 17th player with multiple Masters titles.
He's in even more rarefied air in the Official World Golf Ranking.
With his second green jacket in the past three years, Watson ascended from No. 12 to No. 4 in the latest rankings, released Monday. That's the position that he rose to in 2012, when he defeated Louis Oosthuizen in a stirring playoff.
He has never been ranked higher than No. 4.
The Masters win capped the best run of Watson's career. In his past four stroke-play events that he has completed, Watson has gone T2-1-T2-1. That stretch – which began when he was ranked 30th in the world – also includes a tie for ninth at the WGC-Match Play.
As for one of the runners-up, Jordan Spieth, he continued his meteoric rise by cracking the OWGR top 10 for the first time in his career. He is now No. 9 – sandwiched between No. 8 Phil Mickelson and No. 10 Rory McIlroy. Just a reminder that 16 months ago, Spieth, 20, had no status on any major tour and was ranked 810th in the world.
Jonas Blixt, who also tied for second at Augusta in his first Masters appearance, moved from No. 56 to No. 33.
Three players entered the Masters with a chance to dethrone Tiger Woods at world No. 1, but Adam Scott (T-14), Henrik Stenson (T-14) and Jason Day (T-21) were unable to make a move.
Here's how the top 10 in the world looks heading into the RBC Heritage: Woods, Scott, Stenson, Watson, Day, Matt Kuchar, Sergio Garcia, Mickelson, Spieth and McIlroy.


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