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Large Brass "Two-faced" Cab from the Lou Zeldis Studios
Large 21mm diameter (7mm thick) dark solid brass "two-faced" cab; one side with the eyes open and the other with them closed. The late Lou used these as components in some of his ring and pendant jewelry, and now we have the last reaming stock from this studio. There is no hole in this cabochon. Priced to sell individually, not as a pair. Lou was fascinated with ancient charms and symbols. This bronze/brass coin was used in a particular ring that featured sun and moon faces on the flip sides this reversible cab/coin (see photo of an official finished ring by Lou Zeldis -- which we do not sell).


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Yes - it is here - March 18, 2009. My 31st birthday. As I reflect upon the journey my life has taken thus far, I am left quite speechless at the hundreds of surprises I have seen along the way. Some beautifully enchanting while others painfully sore. But as I start this new chapter in my life, I cannot help but beam with enthusiasm as the months ahead promise a lot of happiness, joy and peace. So here is a special tribute to that thought of satisfaction. And here is to note - that it took me 3 decades to finally find the 1 birthday where it all comes together. :)
The song clip you hear in this poem is a piece I have recently come to like immensely. Hence I thought of adding it as part of this minor celebration. Of course, I can never forget you, my audience, who visit and/or respond to my posts ever so often. Looking forward to another wonderful year of such blissful companionship. Thank you, reader. And enjoy!

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These pages were designed and created by Bruce (BullldogBM)
Miline, Reno Nevada.
Thank you Bruce for being a friend, and adding your assistance to my Web Site.
I am a Disabled Veteran Due to Agent Orange & Herbicidal spraying in RVN
I have Acute Peripheral Neuropathy, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD),
and High Levels of Arsenic in my blood and urine (believed to be from Agent Blue sprayed in III Corp).
However the Veterans Administration will not confirm "AO" (Agent Orange) and
will only compensate me for PTSD. Even with confirmation from my civilian doctor! OK, so I have to DIE first! DA!
So what else is new?
I fought one WAR, why not another one?
This time with the Veterans Administration and their decision makers!
The doctors at the VA can't even believe that they, the "Decision Makers of the VA", don't brake loose with more disability for all of us with Agent Orange poisoning!
The Horror stories are all over on the Web sites of Vietnam Veterans.
Just browse a few and see!
It is a shame the way that Veterans are treated
We, as Vietnam Veterans just went to do a job, just like our forefathers did
We DID NOT run to Canada or to some obscure land to hide from the draft or
the duty before us.
We served with Honor and Pride for our country!
We do not respect those who did turn and run, those who burned their draft
cards and our flag, those who protested against us, and those who cursed and
spat upon us when we returned, Dead or Alive!
If you are one of these you are NOT welcome at this site.
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I met Cam about 6 or so years ago, which is hard to believe! I knew we'd instantly be friends! He is truly one of the MOST talented people I know. Plus his passion for life, art, HIS DOG, and Gwen Stefani, inspires me! Anyone who loves Gwen as much as me, we are destined to be friends. Continue reading


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K&L Spirits Podcast #17 - The Davids Talk Barrel Buying - Part 2
Join us for part 2 of our in depth conversation about our exclusive single malt casks. This second part can be downloaded by clicking on the link here, or by visiting our iTunes page. You can also download previous episodes by clicking on the Podcast Archive link on the right hand margin of this page. You can also listen via our embedded Flash player below.
UPDATE 8:08 AM - First edition contained a large gap at around the 2:45 mark. This is now fixed.


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Mike Mussina surrendered one Eutaw Street home run during nine seasons pitching at Camden Yards. The lone batter to reach the famed walkway against him was a player with whom he would become very familiar: Jim Thome.
Only four pitchers faced Thome more often than the 59 times Mussina did so. One of the most memorable match-ups came during a July 26, 1996 game in Baltimore.
With speedy Indians lead-off man Kenny Lofton on second base and one down in the first inning, Thome clubbed a Mussina offering 440 feet for the 10th Eutaw Street home run in Camden Yards history.
Thome finished the day 3-for-5 with two runs and two RBI. His Eutaw Street blast was the 20th of what would briefly be a career-high 38 home runs. (Thome stroked 40 home runs in 1997 and 52 in 2002.)
The young third baseman hit 25 home runs and 73 RBI the previous year; his stock continued to rise in 1996 as he barreled toward his only Silver Slugger award at the position. Thome moved to first base following Cleveland's acquisition of Matt Williams.
The Indians defeated the Orioles 14-9 to pin the Birds with a five-game losing streak and send the team below .500, at 50-51, for the first time in 1996. The O's fell 11 games behind the Yankees and struggled to stay afloat amid a rising tide of trade rumors.
"Our pitchers are just not holding up their end," said Manager Davey Johnson.
Mussina took the loss – his eighth – after surrendering 11 hits and eight earned runs in 3.2 innings pitched. It was the first time in his career that he lost three straight decisions. He allowed a career-high 31 home runs on the season, seventh most in the American League behind teammate David Wells.
The fledgling ace won 19 games in 1995, but a repeat performance seemed unlikely as he had an 11-8 record following the loss to the Indians.
"I always felt, from the beginning, we had the players here to win, but we haven't put it together, and it's hard to understand why we haven't" said Rafael Palmeiro. "This is the low point in the season right now."
Things soon changed.
Mussina followed up his brief losing streak with an 8-1 record to finish fifth in the Cy Young voting. The Orioles went 38-23 down the stretch and earned the A.L. Wild Card. The discouraging four-game set in Baltimore had therefore served as an unlikely preview of the American League Division Series. Sort of.
Having lost three of four against the Indians in July, the Orioles turned the tables in October and won the ALDS in four games. Meanwhile, Thome faced Mussina three times: he walked, struck out, and grounded out.


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"Oops!" is an all-too familiar word uttered by moms all day long. The Wipebox by ÜberMom helps fix these "oops" moments while stylishly traveling with you in your purse, car console, stroller, gym bag, and your little one's backpack. The slim design allows ease of storage and it will hold all sizes and brands of wipes. My husband is picky about his wipes brand so I keep the cute baseball box stocked for him. But my favorite is the girly bow. There's several whimsical designs to choose from, so make sure to check them out. (SRP $6.99, BUY IT NOW)You'll definitely want to hop on the Wipebox trend-wagon and register for this giveaway below. Just use the Rafflecopter Form below for your chance to win. There's five winners – open to US only – and the winner chooses their style. And then on your weekly run to Buy Buy Baby, Toys R Us or Babies R Us, pick up your own Wipebox and simplify your "oops" moments!
Megan's Must-Have is presented by new mom Meghan King Edmonds of The Real Housewives of Orange County.


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Storytellers: Jeph Loeb & Tim Sale | Colors: Matt Hollingsworth
Lettering & Design: Richard Starkings & Comicraft's John Roshell
Managing Editor: Nanci Dakesian | Associate Managing Editor: Kelly Lamy
Editor-in-Chief: Joe Quesada | President Bill Jemas
Dedicated to Stan Lee & Jack Kirby, the original Jade Giants!
The tale is narrated by Bruce Banner and Dr. Leonard Samson, set up via a framing sequence. Banner is on the lam as usual, but wants someone to talk to. Enter Samson, his psychiatrist pal. Together they delve into the first day or so after the Hulk's creation in order to better understand the triangle relationship between the Hulk, Betty Ross, and her father, the Hulk's arch-antagonist, General "Thunderbolt" Ross.
Even though it was published last in the set of "color" series, I've chosen to cover GRAY first because it's my least favorite of the group and I want to go in ascending order of preference rather than publication order. I suppose part of the reason this series does so little for me is simply that I've never been much of a fan of the Hulk as a solo character. I like him as an antagonist in other characters' series, and I enjoy him solo when he's intelligent -- but reading about the big dumb Hulk is about as appealing to me as reading about the adventures of a brick.
Unfortunately I have a hard time buying Ross as this mustache twirling cartoon villain. Late in the story, Banner and Samson more or less agree that Ross was, at the time, a psychopath, which does not fit with any version of the character I've ever seen. Granted, I've not read the original Stan Lee Hulk stories, but anytime I've seen Ross pop up anywhere, he's not unlike the Hulk's version of J. Jonah Jameson -- a blustery, angry man with misplaced hatred toward the Hulk, but nothing more than that. The Ross seen here, however, is an inhuman monster, willing to sacrifice Betty to stop the Hulk, and happy to beat a teenager in custody (Rick Jones) as he seeks information about the rampaging monster. I've never before seen him played so outright evil.
On the story front, I was pleased to see Loeb and Sale explicitly go with the long-established idea that the Hulk had never, in any of his numerous battles and rampages, killed so much as a single innocent civilian. Sure it makes no sense, but he's a comic book superhero -- you can't have him mindlessly slaughtering bystanders, even indirectly, or he becomes as much a villain as the foes he fights, and you wind up rooting for the likes of Ross and the Hulkbusters to defeat him. Though I have to note that the scene in which the Hulk becomes Lennie from OF MICE AND MEN, and accidentally kills a poor little bunny rabbit he's petting, did not please me. I'd almost rather see him offing all those innocent people than killing a cute little rabbit!
The other high point for me is the lettering by Comicraft. These guys lettered the majority of Marvel's comics in the late nineties. Their effort here, comprising letters and design work, is absolutely gorgeous and fits the "retro-timeless" feel of the series to a tee. Comicraft provided letters for WOLVERINE & GAMBIT too, turning in beautiful work there as well, and they will (or already did, publication history-wise) letter DAREDEVIL: YELLOW and SPIDER-MAN: BLUE, too. I get the impression that Jeph Loeb must be a fan of Comicraft too, because they've even lettered his more recent Marvel work, long after Marvel had dumped them for far less impressive letterers across most of their books. I won't be mentioning Comicraft in the next couple reviews, but just know that I'm as impressed with their work on YELLOW and BLUE as I am with it here. When it comes to computer lettering, no one is better than Comicraft.
And since I just devoted a very long paragraph to the series' letters, I think we can safely determine there's nothing more to say about HULK: GRAY. It ended the "color" books on a low note -- but fortunately we have the benefit of reading them in whichever order we choose, so the quality will go up quite a bit as we tackle DAREDEVIL: YELLOW next week.


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Planned I-25 interchanges to be topics at next Mesa Springs, OWN meetings
Representatives of the I-25 widening (COSMIX) project will talk on different aspects of the planned work at two upcoming
neighborhood meetings.
At the Tuesday, May 10 meeting of the Mesa Springs Community Association, there will be a presentation on the replacement interchange that has been designed (but not yet funded) for Fillmore Street and I-25. The meeting will begin at 7 p.m. in the library at Pike Elementary, 2510 N. Chestnut St.
For more information, call 260-6687.
Another COSMIX discussion will be at a town meeting of the Organization of Westside Neighbors (OWN) Thursday, May 12 at the West Intergenerational Center, 25 N. 20th St.
Starting at 7 p.m., the presentation will focus on the Westside traffic impacts anticipated from the replacement of the Bijou Street bridge over I-25. Contractor plans call for work to start there in summer 2006, with the access closed from January to October 2007 while a new interchange is put in.
For more information, call 329-0793 or 575-9897.
Both neighborhood meetings are open to the public.
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"Cast yourself into the arms of God and be very sure that if he wants anything of you, He will fit you for the work and give you strength." (St. Philip Neri)
Holding tight to the comfort of these words tonight, with a heavy heart. If you can, please say a prayer for some very dear friends of ours as they go through a heartbreaking situation.
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I hope everything gets here A.S.A.P! I miss gaming :(
Friday, July 6, 2012
Now you don't know but my laptop is kind of a p.o.s. Well it is and it isn't. It's great when it runs properly but it just doesn't always run properly. In an attempt to make my laptop more usable until I can afford a super awesome desktop I have gotten some computer accessories to let us say go around what may be the problem. I'm going to set up my laptop like a desktop and once all the items get here I'm going to game SO HARD, SO EXCITED. Anyway here's what I got:
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Monday, September 5, 2011
Asteroid Monk
I know it's riffing off a well-known zen story, but I thought that adding the whole gravity, movement, relativity thing was interesting. The background stars are done with a simple gradient dissolve in photoshop. . . which is sort of a hack. Maybe one day I'll make my own star field in my own style. One problem with throwing a gradient behind the drawing is I lose some of the detail of smaller objects. In this one, I really liked the ringed planet. It's spitting out random chunks of rocks or energy or just emoting in some weird way, but you can't see it with the backdrop.
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As visual storytellers, our mission is to empower brands to make the emotional connections that strengthen the loyalty, conviction, and advocacy of their community.
We consider ourselves privileged to work with a fine group of passionate clients who trust us to build and nurture their brands.
We take this trust to heart - it's the reason we never stop pushing for innovative solutions that will propel your business forward. Because at the end of the day, your success is our success.
We are a branding and design agency that inspires creativity, where insight and imagination come together to craft visual stories, generate sensorial brand experiences, and deliver innovative solutions.
Our experienced, multi-disciplinary teams in New York, London, Atlanta and Los Angeles work together seamlessly to bring bigger, broader thinking to your brand.
We are an agency of innovators led by a seasoned team who have worked at the most respected agencies in the world, solving brand challenges across disciplines, markets, categories, and channels.
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Prior to Stag&Hare, Andrew was a founding partner of Anomaly as well as the Creative Director for G2 Worldwide. He has developed successful solutions for many leading global brands, including the Coca-Cola Company, Pernod Ricard, Virgin Group, InterContinental Hotels Group, and Yum! Brands. He has also launched many successful start-up brands, for both himself and his clients.
When he's not busy building brands, you'll often find Andrew traveling the world looking for inspiration and fueling his passion for photography. Follow along at akibble.com.
With over 20 years of global advertising and design experience, Chris has held senior creative and leadership positions at Anomaly and G2 Worldwide in New York, The Brand Union in London, and TBWA\Chiat\Day and The Jupiter Drawing Room in South Africa. He now leads the Los Angeles office of Stag&Hare.
An award-winning designer, Chris has led teams and collaborated on a broad range of disciplines including brand and corporate identity, packaging, product design, retail environments, print collateral, and digital communications for brands including The New York Times, Samsung, Virgin America, BMW, ABSOLUT Vodka, Williams-Sonoma and InterContinental Hotels Group.
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Prior to joining Stag&Hare, Dominic gained extensive experience leading local and global multi-disciplinary projects in senior creative positions at pi Global, Blue Marlin and FutureBrand. Always working hard to create relevant experiences and lasting positive connections between brands and their audiences, he has had the opportunity to collaborate with clients such as Carlsberg, Mars, Britvic, and Virgin Atlantic, among many others.
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Victoria's Delights - Oxford Location
In-House Shower Menu - $16.95 per person
On Premise Only - Call for off site pricing
Meal Includes: Choice on one Entrée, bread basket, Ice tea, lemonade, and coffee. Choice of dessert.
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- Chicken and Asparagus Crepes
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- Ravioli Florentine
- Chicken Cordon Bleu with long grain rice and steamed vegetables – add $2
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In one of my application, I want to check from PHP script which webserver it is running on. Basically it will be a wordpress plugin which will help Bloggers tweak some configure.
I have created separate process for Apache & Nginx and was also thinking about releasing code as 2 different wordpress plugins.
Then I just got curious to know if there is a FULLPROOF way in PHP to detect webservers flawlessly.
Please consider all cases :: Apache, Nginx, Apache + Nginx, PHP as Apache module, PHP using fastcgi, php-fpm, lighttpd, IIS, etc.
Also its critical for my application to detect combos and proxies presence.


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Donation Central
St. Jude does an excellent job achieving its purpose of finding cures for cancer and other deadly diseases and treating children with these illnesses, making St. Jude a world leader in pediatric cancer care. However, St. Jude differentiates itself from other pediatric cancer centers by being the only pediatric cancer research and treatment center that does not charge families for treatment that their insurance does not cover. This places a huge financial burden on St. Jude. For the fiscal year ended June 30, 2008, St. Jude's total program expenses equaled a little more than $528 million, and its current operating costs total $1.6 million per day. Since St. Jude does not receive money from its patients, it heavily relies on public contributions to pay for its expenses.
It might seem that people would have to donate large amounts of money in order to pay for these extremely large expenses, but this is surprisingly not the case. St. Jude makes donating affordable because it employs a strategy where many people donate a small amount of money instead of fewer people donating a larger amount of money. This strategy can be seen in St. Jude's main donation programs for the general public.
St. Jude receives a large number of donations through its main donation program called "Partner In Hope." St. Jude asks people to join this program when it has fund-raising telethons on TV. Participants of the "Partner In Hope" program pledge to donate $19 per month, approximately 63 cents a day, to St. Jude. Therefore, since St. Jude asks for such a small amount of money, almost everyone is financially able to donate to the hospital since most people could make small lifestyle changes that would enable them to save 63 cents per day. Also, participants of the "Partner In Hope" program receive benefits from St. Jude such as monthly stories and photos of St. Jude patients, a quarterly newsletter emphasizing stories about current patients and research being conducted, and many other benefits.
St. Jude also receives donations during the holiday shopping season months of November and December through its "Thanks and Giving" program. St. Jude tries to persuade people to take part in this program when the hospital airs its commercials during the holiday shopping season, as seen in the commercial below:
St. Jude has numerous reputable corporate partners, and during the holiday shopping season, these corporate partners ask their customers to make small donations to St. Jude when they pay for their merchandise. Some companies also have special merchandise where St. Jude receives a small portion of the sale price. This program provides people with another inexpensive way to help St. Jude, but these small donations can collectively make a huge difference in the lives of sick children.
In addition to the two donation programs mentioned above, there is yet another way that people can help St. Jude pay for its expenses, even if they are financially unable to make small donations to the hospital. Many companies hold contests where people vote for their favorite nonprofit organization, and the companies give money to the organizations that receive the most votes. These contests benefit both the companies and the organizations because the companies gain added publicity and the organizations acquire extra money. For instance, the Target Corporation held a Facebook contest in 2009 called "Bullseye Gives," in which ten charities competed for the most votes from Facebook users. St. Jude received the most votes and won $797,123. Thus, although people might not be able to contribute financially, they can vote for St. Jude in contests like this one and still contribute to the hospital's work.
Most people would agree that St. Jude should receive public contributions so that it can pay for its vast expenses. However, most people are not aware that almost everyone is financially able to donate to St. Jude. Also, since St. Jude is a nonprofit organization, people can deduct the money that they donate from their taxes. As one can see from these donation methods, St. Jude offers many simple, inexpensive ways that people can donate money to the hospital, and the donations that people give to St. Jude enable it to accomplish its mission of finding cures and saving the lives of children with cancers and other deadly diseases.


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YOUR MAMAS NOTES: It is not usually that Your Mama gets to discuss celebrity owned actual property in the historic and architecturally tumescent South Carolina city of Charleston. My mum threw a little bit household tea occasion later within the afternoon and all of us gathered collectively for cake, including Molly, who stole a whole slice right off the eating room desk. If I were you I would write to the Council (write, not phone) and level out to themm that there is three' of water below the floor and that it will result in structural issues in the home. Latest investment in city regeneration has led to a lot improvement in poorer areas in and around the city, but the property costs remain among the UK's lowest. A civilized space" round the house included a garden extending roughly twenty feet around the home and a perennial backyard that continued the thrust of the south-facing porch.
Hi. I reside in a small house which actually lacks ventilation, given it's so cold exterior it is not very viable to easily have the home windows open and as my Landlord (I lease this condominium privately) refuses to pay the costs of operating a dehumidifier (I simply cannot afford to do this, and would slightly not anyway since I would hear it continually) I'm not sure what I can do.
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Hello there and happy Monday! Did you have a good weekend? I've been sharing my layouts from the new issue of the Turtle Soup Creative Magazine. This is the third and last I made for this issue. You can see the whole magazine here (link) from the blog and see the video showing all the beautiful projects.
This layout is following most the "white plus one" color scheme the magazine had this time. Even it is more "neutrals plus one" as I used grey instead of just white. Blue is incorporated into the page with mists, inks and embellishments.
The topic is a summer holiday a couple of years back when we visited Finnish city Tampere. I used Finnish in the title this time instead of English, but the reason is honestly the lack of certain letters in the sticker alpha I wanted to use.
Have a great week!
Materials: 7 Dots Studio, Prima Marketing, Fancy Pants Designs, A Flair for Buttons, Teippitarha, Doodlebug Designs, Crafter's Workshop, Ranger, Sakura


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In this series of posts; am going to talk about my experience in handling data snooping bias (Also known as curve fitting bias, and data mining bias). In hope that we system developers learn more about this subject; and as a result benefit our trading career. I welcome posters to discuss their opinions and share thei rexperience.
The Problem
You have developed a new trading system, backtested it on recent data, and you were impressed with the 45% equity curve. what is the next step? certainly not trade it live until you proved you have an edge.
One of the biggest challenges of building mechanical systems; is whether the system you built has an edge; or simply is curve fitted.
Here are some tools you can use:
1- test it on out of sample data
2- forward test it on unseen data
3- robust statistical tests on the backtest performance to identify the robustness of the system
On part 1; i am going to talk about method (1) and method (2); and in the next post i will talk about the rather delicate topic; of robust statistics.
The Experiment
In this post; i am going to show a trading system that I developed; and walk you through the steps; to identify if the system is worthy of trading or not. In other words; if the system is curve fitted; or has a real edge.
The strategy is trend following on EUR/USD currency pair.
Backtest Result
The following is a backtest results are for two years (Jan 2010 till Nov 2011).
The total return was 177% with annual return of 98% and max drawdown of 12%. A sharpe ratio of 2.5.
at first glance; who wouldn't trade this system? the 45% degree angle of the equity curve is certainly appealing.
Out of Sample Test (OOS)
In reality OOS is not OOS. it is In-Sample (IS) testing; unless you are extremely disciplined and organized. why? because of hindsight.
Once you have tested your strategy in IS; then in OOS; and it failed in the latter. You went ahead and changed the rules; then tested again in IS then OOS until the OOS got good results.
Here is an example of this process:
1. You have in sample data set A, and out of sample data set B
2. Find a trading system that fits data set A, test it on data set B, it doesn't work
3. Find or tweak the system to data set A, test it on data set B, it doesn't work
4. Repeat step 3 for N times; and stop when you found the system that works on both data sets; A and B.
5. Et voila; you beleived you have found a system that tested well on OOS.
This process is essentially curve fitting. In practice; data set B is not OOS anymore. it is just an extension to data set A. You fooled yourself into beleiving your best strategy works in OOS.
You can only test your strategy one time only on OOS. Otherwise it became IS. You have now a hindsight; and hence you cannot claim later that your strategy worked in OOS.
as long as you only use OOS once; and only once for a particular strategy; then you have to go through forward testing before putting any money in it.
It is difficult psychologically to stick to the rules of IS / OOS. Here are some ways to get over this problem:
1. divide your data onto 3 parts, data set A, B and C.
2. develop your strategies using data set A. After you have found a 60 degrees equity curve,
3. test the strategy on data set B, if you still get a 60 degrees equity curve; or 30 degrees or what ever, prepare yourself for live trading the next day
4. do a dress rehearsal and do a final test on data set C, as a preparation for go live. If you get a 0 degree or less curve; back to step (1) above.
Forward Test
Forward testing is the mother of all tests. It is robust and guaranteed to work. Moreover; it addreses all sort of biases:
- curve fitting bias
- data mining bias
- look ahead bias
- survivalship bias
- software bugs
Experience suggest that forward testing of 2 months; or ~300 trades; is a must; in order to address the the biases (beside the curve fitting bias).
This robustness comes at a cost; both in time and efforts. If you were to test every strategy you develop in forward testing for a couple of months; it will take years and years before you find one profitbale strategy.
Also; it is easy to get carried out by other tasks and ignores the forward test system. You need to pay attention to it as close as to real life trading.
Back to our example above. Here is a 3 months forward test result of the above strategy:
The strategy went sideways for a couple of months; and then slide in the last 4 month.
In the next part of this post; i will discuss robust statistical tests; that saves you the hassle of forward testing.
If you have any thoughts on tackling this issue; please share them with us.


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Viewpoint: Mourning the death of Billy Graham, evangelist
By Clay Oglesbee, Red Wing
Billy Graham died on Wednesday, Feb. 21. He lived to be 99 years old—to such an age that many persons no longer recognize, if they ever knew, the significance and scope of his evangelistic ministries all over the world during the last half of the 20th century.
The opening words of his Wikipedia entry capture the little bit the general public knows about him: "William (Billy) Franklin Graham Jr. (November 7, 1918 — February 21, 2018) was an American evangelical and an ordained Southern Baptist minister who became well known internationally ..."
There was much more to Reverend Graham than that.
Here in Minnesota, he expanded Northwestern College and began to conduct revivals at that time. He launched KTIS and based the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association in Minneapolis until 2003.
His revivals evangelized over 200 million people in about 185 countries; he brought millions of people to some degree of faith-renewal, or conversion, to Jesus Christ. He was an evangelistic innovator who used revivals and mass rallies, as well as radio and television technologies, to reach a wider and wider public, one that ultimately became global.
His evangelistic work made him a sought-after counselor and companion to national and international leaders. He became a confidante to American presidents from Truman to Obama. He was also a personal friend and frequent supporter to the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., in part because Graham often conducted integrated revivals in southern states during a time of adamant segregation.
Graham's politics were largely conservative, yet he moderated his views at times by willingness to open himself to the implications of the gospel, and by conversation and prayer with a wide array of persons and leaders. While he adopted many "conservative" opinions, for example, on the equality and rights of women, or full inclusion of LGBTQ persons, he also took risks more typically described as "liberal" for causes like racial integration and limiting the nuclear arms race.
Graham was an independent evangelical, made so by his understanding of the full impact of the gospel. He refused to join Jerry Falwell's Moral Majority, saying, "I'm for morality, but morality goes beyond sex to human freedom and social justice."
Called at one time, "the Patriarch of American Protestant Pastors," he said of public and personal Christian witness, "Our greatest contribution to world peace is to live with Christ every day."
Graham was also a person who grew in his understanding of Christian evangelism. While he had his limits with regard to social ministry, and though his courage sometimes failed him when it came to racial justice, he stood with other evangelicals at Lausanne, Switzerland in 1974 when they wrote: Because men and women are made in the image of God, every person, regardless of race, religion, colour, culture, class, sex or age, has an intrinsic dignity because of which he or she should be respected and served, not exploited. Here too we express penitence both for our neglect and for having sometimes regarded evangelism and social concern as mutually exclusive.
You might be wondering what Billy Graham's evangelistic and social outreach ministries would have been like had he been a young evangelist today, during these early years of the extremisms of our globally-aware 21st century. There are some clues.
First, of course, he was always about offering salvation or redemption for every human soul. He knew that God always loved every person and showed no partiality.
Second, we know Graham was about global evangelism, reaching out to all ethnicities and races—African, Asian, Middle-Eastern and Latin American people in his revival campaigns. He left no one out.
Third, he was also concerned with social justice and peace among all God's people. He spoke against injustice, poverty, violence and warfare. From the earliest days of his revivals, he ordinarily advocated equality, justice and opportunity for all. He opposed violence and racial hatred. It's true, he wasn't always as clear and strong on this as he might have been, but he was not silent.
Fourth, we know that he was respectful of other religions. He often defended persons of Jewish faith, and after 9/11, out of care for Muslims, he stopped calling his revivals "crusades." He did not wish to offend nor to diminish the possibilities of outreach across faiths.
Using a Christian advice column for many years, he once wrote, "God did not create the strife between races, nor did He intend for it to be that way ... . When one group or one race claims it is superior to another, pride has taken control — and pride is a sin. Instead, God wants us to learn to accept each other and love each other — and this becomes possible, as we turn our lives over to Christ and allow Him to change us."
Let each of us pray to God for the fulfillment of the resurrection hope for the Rev. Graham. May those closest to him be comforted now. "Lord, now you are letting your servant depart in peace, according to your word." (Luke 2:29, NRSV).


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I bought a copy of A Commentary on the Prefaces and the Eucharistic Prayers of the Roman Missal recently and started reading it yesterday. It's part of my research for my second book on the Mass, Praying the Mass: The Prayers of the Priest. It's out of print, but I bought a copy through Eighth Day Books. The book is by Msgr. Louis Soubigou, translated by Rev. John A. Otto in 1971 for The Liturgical Press. The content seems quite orthodox, and many of the comments in the text present a decent picture of the liturgical and reform-related turmoil of the late 60's and early 70's:
"Constant recourse to the official Latin text [of the Prefaces] is particular necessary in this commentary because it is a translation from the French. The author develops his observations from the official Latin readings and the French version, which normally remains very faithful to the original. After comparing the American ICEL version of the Preface of the Holy Trinity (page 144) with the original Latin text, one may decide for himself the degree of its fidelity." (Introduction, p. 4)
"P.S. This Preface [for the Sacred Heart] (and for that matter the feast as a whole) has its gainsayers among the 'litniks.' For them an aura of uncongeniality seems to haunt its thought and expression, particularly the effort 'to offer homage of reparation to the disdained and disregarded love of Christ.' It may be difficult to see how this motif fits into traditional liturgy — but why make this appeal to tradition when traditional liturgy as such is likewise being discredited and discarded?" (Preface of the Sacred Heart, p. 125)
I'm skimming the Prefaces; I'll be reading in detail the second part, on the Eucharistic Prayers. I recommend this book to anyone interested in learning about the doctrinal and spiritual content of the Prefaces and Eucharistic Prayers.


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Orbit's landmark regeneration scheme, Erith Park, has been shortlisted for Best Regeneration Project in the prestigious National Housing Awards.
Erith Park is the largest regeneration scheme undertaken by 39,000-home Orbit, the UK's second largest developing housing association, building over 1,700 new homes a year.
The former Larner Road ex-council tower block estate, which was blighted by social problems, is being transformed into a new mixed tenure development of 587 homes. The comprehensive redevelopment has created a positive, safe, affordable and family-friendly environment.
Erith Park is being delivered by Orbit, in partnership with Wates Living Space, London Borough of Bexley and the local community. Orbit has invested over £90m along with £28m affordable housing funding from the Greater London Authority (GLA).
Maggie McCann, Orbit's development director, said: "Being shortlisted for a National Housing Award is a fantastic achievement for Orbit and our partners.
"Erith Park is a landmark regeneration project which continues to make a real difference to the lives of local people. It is a scheme Orbit is very proud of and I am delighted to see it recognised through this prestigious award."
The second and final phase of Erith Park will be completed in 2018. Reservations for the remaining homes will be taken from autumn 2016.
The winners of the National Housing Awards will be announced at an awards ceremony on Thursday 8 September at the Lancaster Hotel in London.
Erith Park has recently won London Regeneration Project of the year at the London Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors Awards (RICS).
For more information visit www.erithpark.co.uk


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What an A-plus idea. Make every child a "voucher" student. Instead of kids being forced to attend a school based on geography, parents would receive a tax-funded "voucher" that could be used at any school – public, charter, private or parochial. Let competition reign.
That's what could happen in Arizona. State Rep. Justin Olson, R-Mesa, has proposed HB2482. The Arizona Senate passed identical legislation last month. According to the Associated Press, the bill "adds all public students over three years while maintaining existing enrollment caps. But that cap goes away in 2020, allowing all 1.1 million public school students to get a voucher."
HB2482 is stuck in the Arizona House. "Olson is now offering to make significant changes to round up votes," reported Capitol Media Services, including keeping "at least until 2025, a cap that limits how many youngsters are eligible to take tax dollars for a private education."
Great reforms seldom happen in one swoop.
"This is terrific to hear," Timothy C. Draper told us; the Silicon Valley venture capitalist spearheaded Proposition 38 in 2000, California's most-recent attempt to pass school vouchers. Although leading in early polls, massive spending by the teachers' unions sent it to defeat. He said, "There is no question in my mind that school vouchers, because they allow the parent to choose the school that is best for their child and the money follows that choice, are the single best solution for education. Arizona, like California, is ranked near the bottom of the 50 states in education. Something has to be changed."
The California Teachers Association has attacked vouchers as elitist because some schools maintain "exclusive admissions policies and charge tuition and fees far above the amount provided by the voucher." But Mr. Draper said, "For the poorest children, school vouchers offer a real choice and a chance at the American Dream rather than the current system that traps them in bad schools and stacks the odds against them. When you are already failing your children, why would you continue to cling to a system that is failing? What do you have to lose?"
What about California? In addition to Mr. Draper's 2000 attempt, a 1993 voucher initiative, Prop. 174, was defeated after a teachers union ad blitz. "Alas, nothing is happening in California with vouchers," he lamented, because the unions are "keeping a lid on it." But we can hope – and look to the Grand Canyon State.


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Wes Edwin
Wes Edwin Design was inspired in 2011, in the heart of the Edwin household.
Wes and Diana needed a kitchen renovation- a solution that was both efficient and aesthetically pleasing. Using his love of cabinet making, Wes applied his skill and passion to the design and creation of the cabinets and furniture that would sustain his own home in North Kansas City, MO.
While perfecting his craft within the confines of their 1500 square foot home, Wes developed a keen eye for maximizing function and creating more efficient space. His products not only sustained function of everyday life, but also enriched the family's lifestyle through the tactile pleasure of handmade pieces crafted from natural wood elements.
Today, Wes Edwin Design enhanced homes of all sizes and shapes by applying the Edwin's practical approach and passion for beauty. Each piece is designed to meet the unique needs of your family, and created with the same care and attention that is applied to the Edwin's own home.
Over the last fifteen years Wes and Diana Edwin have grown together, encouraging one another to pursue passion and excellence. They are a team in all aspects of life.


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Project Overview
When individuals in today's society are dying, they often feel forced to decide between life-prolonging medical care and hospice support for themselves and their families. Under the direction of Michael W. Rabow, M.D., assistant clinical professor in medicine, researchers at the University of California-San Francisco's Collaborative Innovation in Primary Care Program and Hospice by the Bay collaborated to address this all-too-common problem in today's American health care system.
Researchers conducted a controlled trial to evaluate a Comprehensive Care Team program in which palliation of symptoms and reasonable curative attempts were pursued simultaneously. This program's interdisciplinary team of physicians, nurses and social workers provided comprehensive care and family caregiver support for seriously ill outpatients who were near the end of their lives. Using a case management model, the program drew heavily on local volunteer support services, faith communities and social agencies.
The Comprehensive Care Team project used a sophisticated randomized study to assess the feasibility, impact and cost-effectiveness of removing the dichotomy between life-prolonging care and hospice-type services. Under the Comprehensive Care Team program, patients received state-of-the-art medical care and at the same time, hospice, or palliative care.
The project assessed the team's impact on patient quality of life, level of symptom control, psychosocial and spiritual well-being, advance care planning and health care utilization. The program provided regional and national health care planners with valuable data concerning the costs of merging medical care with palliative or hospice care.
After the Grant
The institutions sustained some portions of the original project, and the GYN-oncology outpatient practice at the University of California – San Francisco Comprehensive Cancer Center adapted the program to its services.
Contact Information
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Promoting Excellence in End-of-Life Care was a national program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation dedicated to long-term changes in health care institutions to substantially improve care for dying people and their families.


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From Magonia 28, January 1988
If Neil Kinnock can knock out an American Democratic presidential candidate thousands of miles away without so much as lifting a finger [1], perhaps it's not too far afield for an American ufologist to comment on Timothy Good's 'Above Top Secret'.
In drama, the fatal flaw of a character is often the essential ingredient around which the whole tragic recipe revolves. In the documentary or non-fiction world, however, it is just as often the slam of the oven door that causes the whole soufflé to collapse. The latter seems to be the case with ATS, a prodigious project ultimately marred by reliance on US government 'UF0′ documents of a considerably dubious nature.
The appearance here of the controversial Majestic Twelve, or MJ-12, material relating to a reputed super secret government UFO agency charged with unlocking the secrets of crashed and retrieved UFOs, along with their alien occupants, is doubly disappointing because it will inevitably detract from what in many regards is an otherwise impressive performance by Mr Good. If the MJ-12 documents in particular turn out to be a complete fabrication, as seems increasingly likely, the farrago will provide sceptics and professional debunkers alike with a new round of potent ammunition, aimed squarely at the 'best' that UFO proponents supposedly have to offer. What's more, they will not even have to pull the trigger; that and the smoking gun will have been provided them by Good in England and Moore and company in America.
Battle lines in the USA have already been drawn. Oddly enough, the sceptics, e.g. Philip Klass, seem as content as the believers to dispute the validity of the material according to whether all the t's have been crossed and i's dotted. The result is similar to a recent mock trial held here in which a tribunal of Supreme Court judges argued over the authorship of Shakespeare's plays. In both instances the disputed documents exist. The question is whether they establish the existence of Shakespeare in one case, and UFOs in the possession of the American government in the other. The answers may be forever lost because of our inability in both instances to discover the process whereby the said documents were made public. In other words, where and from whom did the MJ-12 material originate?
Alas, none of our living sources are proving very helpful in the matter, which is not the same as saying they could be. Still, the mystery of how the MJ-12 papers came to be is getting largely overlooked in the race to establish secondary matters, whether they fulfil the form and content of similar documents from the same individuals and 'agencies of the era in question, and so on. My purpose is to see if we can't point scrutiny where it belongs, namely at the original source of the documents themselves.
But first, a brief background of 'MJ-12′. The documents released by Good and William L. Moore (in association with Jamie Shandera, a Los Angeles TV producer, and ETH proponent Stanton Friedman), purport to be a briefing paper prepared by Admiral Roscoe H. Hillenkoetter (MJ-1) for president-elect Dwight D. Eisenhower, who was succeeding Harry Truman in office. The cover page, dated '18 November, 1952′ and headed 'National Security Information' was stamped 'Top Secret/ Majic' and 'Eyes Only'. Page 2 characterized Operation Majestic-12 (Majic-12) as 'a TOP SECRET Research and Development/ Intelligence operation responsible directly and only to the President of the United States'. Majic-12 had been established 'by special classified executive order of President Truman on 24 September, 1947, upon recommendation by Dr Vannevar Bush and Secretary James Forrestal'.
A list of all-male membership of Majic-12 followed, led off by Hillenkoetter, consisting of a veritable military and scientific Who's Who of the day, including noted UFO debunker and Harvard astronomer Donald H. Menzel (shades of Cedric Allingham),
Generals Hoyt S. Vandenberg and Nathan F. Twining, Drs Detlev Bronk, Lloyd V. Berkner, Jerome Hunsaker and five others. On 22 May 1949, Secretary of Defense James V. Forrestal ('MJ-3′) had committed suicide while in hospital (more fodder for paranoids), and had subsequently been replaced by General Walter B. Smith. Space prohibits a consideration of all their credentials (see Good, pages 250-252), but those of HiIlenkoetter, presumably the author of the MJ-12 documents, are particularly worth recounting. After a distinguished World War II career in Naval Intelligence, Truman appointed him Director of the new Central Intelligence Group, soon the CIA, on 1 May 1947, a post he held until 1950. More offices and awards followed. Hillenkoetter retired from the Navy in June 1957. In the same year he joined the Board of Governors of NICAP, the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena, which flourished during the 1950s as the largest civilian UFO group ever (membership at one point, 5000). The fact that the first director in CIA history would later help front a popular UFO group has been considered odd to say the least, and fuelled many a midnight conspiracy theory. A better 'mole' could hardly be imagined.
Admiral Hillenkotter: a better 'mole' could hardly be imagined
The Majic 'briefing' itself seemingly substantiates the Roswell- incident reported in the book of the same name by WiIIiam L. Moore and 'co-author' Charles Berlitz:
'On 07 July, 1947, a secret operation was begun to assure recovery of the wreckage of this object for scientific study. During the course of this operation, aerial reconnaissance discovered that four small human-like beings had apparently ejected from the craft at some point before it exploded. These had fallen to earth about two miles east of the wreckage site. All four were dead and badly decomposed due to action by predators and exposure to the elements during the approximately one week time period which had elapsed before their discovery.'
The paper also says that:
'On 06 December, 1950, a second object, probably of similar origin, impacted the earth at high speed in the El Indio-Guerrero area of the Texas-Mexican border after following a long trajectory through the atmosphere. By the time a search team arrived, what remained of the object had been almost totally incinerated.'
The final page of the briefing was a table of contents listing eight attachments, 'A' to 'H', composed of Truman's original executive order establishing Majic-12, three status reports, a Preliminary Analytical Report', 'Blue Team Report #5′, 'Contingency, Plan MJ 1949-04P/78: 31 JAN 49′, and 'Maps and Photographic Folio (Extractions)'. Of the eight attachments referred to, only 'A', Truman's executive order addressed to the late Secretary of Defense, was included with the MJ-12 documents released to the public.
And that is Majic in a nutshell, more than enough to establish the validity of flying saucers from space, alien occupants, crash/retrievals, government cover-up and all the other UFO accoutrements of the last four decades, enough in fact to put ufology out of business forever. All that remained was to convince America's investigative journalists of the reality of the MJ-12 briefing papers; they in turn would alert the general public and responsible politicians, if such creatures there be, and before Philip Klass could say 'Bah! Humbug!' the truth with a capital T would be out, finally!
As events have evolved, however, none of us is out of a job, save Steuart Campbell, who's already provided his own solution to the UFO phenomenon anyway. The question remains: Whence the documents? As you might have guessed by now, none of the above-mentioned papers have surfaced in the Truman or Eisenhower Presidential Libraries, or the National Archives in Washington. Klass's counter-arguments have centred on misplaced commas, anachronistic terminology and similar printed peccadilloes as proof of falsification. Moore et al. have retorted by resorting to negative proofs, since they can't prove the authenticity of the papers themselves. This involves mainly turning up similar gaffes in other papers of the times. What objective evidence has surfaced is itself suspect, which we will get to in a moment.
Again, whence the documents? After devoting over 400 pages of text to a secondary matter (if, after all, Majic is real), Mr Good is strangely reticent on the MJ-12 papers themselves, which appear to have been added to ATS at the last moment. On pace 250 MJ-12 itself is referred to only – as 'information acquired from an intelligence source in 1985…' His description of the subsequently surfacing MJ-12 papers is apparently in error here, as he refers to 'a nine-page document dated 18 September 1947… signed by Truman'. As we have seen, the briefing paper itself was dated November 1952; only the executive order supposedly signed by Truman ('Attachment A') dated from September and even then Good has his dates mixed up; the actual copy reproduced in ATS (page 547) carries a date of September 24.
Two pages later Good notes: 'My enquiries into the authenticity of the Majestic 12 document during a research trip to the United States in 1986 have led me to believe that the group did indeed exist, and the document seems authentic enough. Unfortunately, all the members are now deceased, and my questions addressed to a former director of the CIA, as well as two ex-Presidents, remain unanswered', which is hardly surprising. Elsewhere, MJ-12 is routinely referenced as an established bona fide fact by Good, with nary a glance over his shoulder. Back on page 250 and again on page 540, Good says copies of the actual documents were only made available to him in 1987. Then how did he enquire into the authenticity of the 'Majestic 12 document' during his 1986 research trip to the United States? The only answer is that he was enquiring into a chimera of MJ-12 initially, i.e. word of the agency's existence from an unnamed source.
William Moore, who first released the same MJ-12 documents to the press in the States, has more to say about their origins, but not much. In his own press release, dated 29 May 1987, Moore writes that 'the accompanying document arrived in the mail in a plain brown wrapper at the residence of Jaime Shandera in December, 1984′. ('Plain brown wrapper' in this country is a standard, stand-up comic reference to X-rated, or adult, material. Does this make MJ-12 the first confirmed example of UFO pornography?) Good gives us no clue as to the form in which he first received his MJ-12 material; Moore tells us it came to Shandera as a roll of undeveloped film, a surprising medium that (cleverly?) leaves a lot to be desired in terms of effectively establishing the authenticity of its contents.
Shandera. it should be pointed out, was hardly a household name in American ufology until Moore's press release and his subsequent visibility at the MUFON symposium held at the American University in Washington. DC. in June 1987. Moore's turgid press announcement says only that in 1982, after he 'had worked more than a year and a half on his own, the three (Moore. Shandera and Friedman) teamed up on a research project that would take them further into the strange world of government involvement with Unidentified Flying Objects than anyone in the civilian field is known to have ever gone before'.
Moore and Friedman are both well-known UFO investigators, frequently before the public at large. It remains a minor mystery. then, why the unexposed roll of film with the MJ-12 document and Attachment A. – apparently exactly the same material that Good received (in person?) an ocean away – was mailed to Shandera. Issues and origins were further complicated when Moore et al, presumably truing to flush out information by a sort of time-release capsule approach, mailed out various copies of the MJ-12 paper with their own simulated blackouts! Did Good receive one of these 'censored' copies via Moore or an intermediary? Since our UFO sleuths have fouled the well from which we all drink we may never be able to straighten this one out unless the document is confirmed by a wholly independent third source. At this point it is almost superfluous to compare Good's version with Moore's, unless the principals are willing to provide a more accurate and detailed chronology of Majic events.
As if things were not complicated enough as it is, in printed comments on Above Top Secret (ATS) Jenny Randles refers (Northern UFO News No.126. July-August 1987, page 3) cryptically to having been approached 'by someone offering similar (but actually more extensive) files', while she was compiling the recent exclamation mark-filled 'The UFO Conspiracy but 'concerned.., that it might be a "set up" [she] kept it out of the book, however dramatic it was'.
Meanwhile the 'objective' evidence mentioned earlier floated to the surface, from no less an authoritative source than America's own office of National Archives. Moore had learned that the NA was scheduling a periodic release of files to the public from the period in question and asked to be notified when a date was confirmed. Reportedly, he and Shandera were there on 'opening day'. After searching through file folders containing more than 1800 documents, nature called. While Moore was in the loo (presumably they took shifts), Shandera found a single page of paper, admittedly unrelated to anything else in the folder, that has since become known as 'the Cutler memorandum', after its 'author', Robert Cutler, Special Assistant to the President (Eisenhower).
Dated 14 July 1954, it is addressed to General Nathan Twining ('MJ-4′) and headed 'TOP SECRET RESTRICTED/SECURITY INFORMATION' and 'SUBJECT: NSC/MJ-12 Special Studies Project'. NSC refers to National Security Council, the selfsame group of inner-circle presidential advisers that would later embarrass Ronald Reagan. The text of the one-paragraph letter says essentially that 'the President has decide that the MJ-12 SSP briefing should take place during the already scheduled White House meeting of July 16, rather than following it as previously intended'. The memorandum is seemingly authenticated by an official NA stamp in the lower left corner. Even if the Cutler memorandum is real as found, it still does not establish the indisputable validity of Majic as a top secret UFO committee, only that a Special Studies Project MJ-12 did indeed exist. From the memorandum itself. MJ-12 could just as easily have concerned the H-bomb or any other 'mundane' subject.
As with the preceding papers, however, arguments as to its validity have focused primarily on wording, watermarks, type-style, print colour and similar minutiae of holographic science. Klass found that Cutler was on a tour of European military bases during the disputed time period when he was supposed to have signed the memorandum. Moore counters that his assistants were left in charge, per normal operating procedure, with orders to clear his 'out' basket; signing Cutler's name to the document in question in no way invalidates its authenticity, and so on, one side scoring a minor point, the other retaliating with an equally minor victory.
As a result of ongoing publicity, so many Freedom of Information Act requests regarding MJ-12 have poured into the Archives that the agency felt compelled to issue an unprecedented report on the subject, denying, of course, any knowledge of same, or the possession of any additional documents.
Meanwhile. the origins of the MJ-12 material slip slowly into the obscurity of history. While the hounds give hunt in one direction, the fox is back in the manor, tumbling the master's mistress in his own bed. Let the holographic chase proceed apace. But in parallel let's have a detailed and chronological account of the documents' origins from the principals involved in making them public.
At the moment the audience is concentrating on the performance itself. But behind every Majic act of note lies a master magician.
[1] From Wikipedia: "In September 1987, the [Presiential] campaign ran into trouble when he was accused of plagiarising a speech by Neil Kinnock, then-leader of the British Labour Party Kinnock's speech included the lines: "Why am I the first Kinnock in a thousand generations to be able to get to university? [Then pointing to his wife in the audience] Why is Glenys the first woman in her family in a thousand generations to be able to get to university? Was it because all our predecessors were thick?"
While Biden's speech included the lines: "I started thinking as I was coming over here, why is it that Joe Biden is the first in his family ever to go to a university? [Then pointing to his wife in the audience] Why is it that my wife who is sitting out there in the audience is the first in her family to ever go to college? Is it because our fathers and mothers were not bright? Is it because I'm the first Biden in a thousand generations to get a college and a graduate degree that I was smarter than the rest?"


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Last Minute Decisions
on February 1, 2010 at 6:01 pm
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I've done my last-minute research and I'm ready to vote tomorrow. This is a pretty important primary so be sure to get out there and vote, particularly for the judges. I'm not a fan of voting for judges, but they have a lot of power in Illinois and it's important that we elect only the best.
Not sure how to evaluate judges? Check out Vote for Judges for more Information about Cook County judges.
Want to see who else is on your ballot? If you live in Cook County, you'll find the election website is a handy tool.


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I have been out of town for about a week and a half for a friends wedding, and then a little bit of camping fun, so it has been fun, fun, fun to get back into some crafty goodness!!! I have a card today that I made using this weeks sketch from Tuesday Morning Sketches. This card was super simple to put together, and I really like how it turned out!
Cardstock: Rustic Cream, Kraft, Ocean Tides (PTI)
Patterned Paper: 2009 Bitty Box Basics (Pure Poppy), Library Ledger (PTI)
Stamps: It's Official, School Time (PTI)
Buttons and Twine (PTI)
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Include a forum where residents can share their stories of dealing with telcos.
The frustration of dealing with telcos needs to be documented publicly -- and where possible, summaries of common themes encountered by the public need to be noted and acted upon.
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Monday, November 4, 2013
Are Privacy Issues Online an Issue?
Now those same kids are grown up parents of darling little kids, and they are online posting photos, names and ages of their children. Everyone is doing it, and yet it was really not so long ago that we were all worried about privacy issues. What happened that made these concerns go away?
And can we really trust Facebook, or Google (ha!) or any other online site with their spotty guarantees and frequently changing policies to guard our privacy for us? Of course not. Mainly since they're all in the business of collecting and sharing and selling information about their major product, which is us. Us and our kids.
I have to admit, I've not previously been concerned about privacy. My job was to get information out about my books, and to do that you've got to share a lot about yourself, not just as an author but as a person. Blogging itself opens numerous doors to one's personal world. Maybe at first one is careful but as time goes by, and online seems like such a nice safe and cozy little world, the guard comes down. More information is shared. Pretty much anything anyone wants to find out about a person is there.
What do you think? Should we be concerned? More careful about what we post and share? And if you've got any stories to tell about this topic one way or the other, please let us know. Because there's a little voice in the back of my head right now that's warning me to just watch it.
Here's an example and something that bothers me on so many levels:
My address is posted on the "white pages" or various other directories when you Google WiDo. I've never given out my home address as WiDo's business address, yet every PO box my husband or I have rented for any purpose (some even before we were involved with WiDo) shows up as WiDo's "address" on Google. When we moved houses our new address showed up as WiDo's "address."
The information is not only wrong-- WiDo's address is clearly posted on its website and has never changed in six years-- yet if my husband and I move or rent a PO Box, these addresses are what random online directories post for WiDo Publishing. I'd not only like to get the correct information out there, I'd like to know how to keep our private lives private!
What do you think? How can we blog and be involved on social media, oftentimes as part of our business marketing plans, and still maintain our personal privacy? Is it even possible? I don't think it is, but if anyone knows otherwise please share!
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There's a large part of my personal life that I keep private. I only post what I think is appropriate.ReplyDelete
And while I don't have children, I think people are playing with fire discussing their children and posting their pictures. There are too many creeps in the ether--and some of them could even be writers.
I use all the privacy options to the max on social media sites! But then I'm not marketing anything but I guess if one is, one really has to be totally on the ball and in control and not be complacent.ReplyDelete
I find it quite bizarre the need to share most intimate details of one's lives - I still cringe when someone screams out their bank/card details over their mobile phones when in a crowded train carriage!
Take care
I agree with Maria - I never post anything personal that I would not want broadcast. Facebook is worst of all, having recently changed all privacy rules - they are always changing the rules and not notifying people. Then there is our wonderful governments that have everything possible about each and every citizen on the planet on the internet -"Paid Searches", you can pay for - Credit companies, Banks, you name it, it is there.ReplyDelete
I find it really sad and stupid that Families post their homes and children photos where it is open for the whole world to see. As Maria said, there are more creeps than one could ever imagine. The golden rule, is "If you don't want someone else to eventually see your life, then don't put it out there" I cannot understand Mothers posting their little kids photos online - as my Mom would say - "Were they born yesterday"??? DUH - I think basically, most people do not read what they accept when joining anything - so take the time to read before you accept or decline, no matter how long or boring it is - most people don't.
I think we need to be really careful - like you, I have books to market, so need an online presence.ReplyDelete
But that doesn't mean I have the right to post pictures about my daughters and grandchildren - occasionally I write about them, but the children are never named, and daughters only when they have agreed what I write.
I have an online persona - and that's fine. My private life is still very private. And that's fine too.
I honestly don't think it's possible anymore. Though, I do wish it was!ReplyDelete
I'm with Jess, it's probably not possible. And it's quite a bit scary.ReplyDelete
That is scary that the information is available online. Some of those sites you can ask to have it removed.ReplyDeleteReplies
Scary true! What is the answer? I have no idea - because I don't understand how we can stop it. Good to talk about it I guess.ReplyDelete
I knew going into this writing thing that I couldn't/wouldn't do it under my own name, so I chose a pen name. Two actually. Just to make double sure that if the first one leaked, the second one would be there as back-up. And that, so far, has worked for me. I don't post anything about Monster's real name other than Monster. And the book I wrote for the school, the secretary knows that I am Anne Gallagher if anyone should ask.ReplyDelete
I don't think in this day and age we can escape from the lack of privacy.Replies
Anne, If I were starting over, I'd seriously consider a pen name.Delete
- AnonymousNovember 4, 2013 at 10:57 AM
I know this is an issue, and something to think about. I personally like to see my grandchildren's pictures via Facebook. In all my years on the computer, I've never had any problems...until some stranger called and pretended to be my oldest granddaughter. Now, I don't post my grandchildren's pictures anymore on my blog, but that's all I've toned down on. I'm cautious, but I''m not paranoid. The world, both micro and macro, is a dangerous place. I just try to stay away from those places (I never open any unidentified email e.g.). We basically, I think, just have to be alert.ReplyDeleteReplies
Ann, Wise words and counsel.Delete
I think anyone can find my address online, because I still get stuff from my college and high school even though I never gave them my new address. Privacy is an issue for me too, since I'm still anonymous online. I do worry that someone from school will find my blog. I don't think I've written anything that could get me in trouble, but I don't want my students or my fellow grad students reading my posts, especially the ones about online dating.ReplyDeleteReplies
Neurotic, If you wanted to write professionally you'd be the prime candidate for a pseudonym. You could then change your neurotic workaholic blog to your author name and no one would be the wiser.Delete
Guess it's a two-edged sword. Writers and artists need to be known, yet we all want our privacy. Perhaps it's impossible to do both. Thanks for the reminder.ReplyDelete
Mary Montague Sikes
I try to keep my private stuff off line but it doesn't work. It's still all there.ReplyDelete
Google must be finding out things from other places, such as public records, because googling myself, I found our property here listed with a value attached. At my age, I really don't care, but if I were younger and expected to live a long time in this weird new world, I would be greatly concerned.ReplyDelete
We've managed to remove ourselves from the online Bell South directory. We are unlisted and it made me mad to see us listed online. After so many years in this industry, I'm so careful not to reveal my address or city. I don't want the weirdos showing up on my doorstep. I don't even have the right city listed with Facebook.ReplyDelete
I think we should be concerned, Karen . . . . . . regrettably!ReplyDelete
I say this because a very good friend of mine 2 years ago was attacked by internet trolls. Her blog was taken over by some very vindictive individuals and they forced her out of blogging - for good. Blogger could do nothing about it, neither could any recognized internet authority. Further they hunted her down on Facebook and forced her out of that too. She loved her writing and was highly popular in Blogland. She was so nervous so was frightened to email her friends, including me and it is only now they have left her alone and presumably moved on to terrorize someone else. It is for this reason I use an alias name in BlogLand.
What a shame these things are allowed to occur.
I think in general people are far too free and easy with the information they disclose about themselves on Facebook in particular.
Best wishes, as always ~ EddieReplies
Eddie, Trolls are another species altogether and I can't imagine being stalked by one. That is cyber-bullying, and it's such a shame it happened to your friend. Especially that no one could stop it and her only recourse was to disappear from the Internet.Delete
This is a great subject Karen. It really doesn't matter what you put out there, because all that information is easily available for a small price anyway. Most of it is considered public information and some of it always has been. Before people would have to the county, city, etc. To get information. Now they can get it very cheaply. Either by a single person for a small fee, or by subscribing to various internet services. For instance, anyone can go onto a county tax assessor web site and find out what property you own in that county, how much your taxes are and whether or not you've paid those taxes. There are some ways to make your information invisible, but I understand it's a very laborious and time consuming process. Even after all that, its a maybe.ReplyDeleteReplies
Pat, Thank you for this response. I figured the address situation wasn't related to Internet and Facebook. I do love to post and view photos of my family on FB, although I really think people should use caution when posting and referring to children online, especially regarding their names and birthdays.Delete
It's a hard thing to do. Keeping private these days is next to impossible. As far as your address goes, I do know that if you own a domain name, you must pay the extra to keep your personal info private. Perhaps that is what has happened. You always have to read the fine print - which is sometimes hard to find - and make sure to update privacy settings. It can be very time consuming.ReplyDelete
Hi Karen .. I'm glad (well no I'm not .. but you'll get it!) I don't have kids and don't have to worry re FB et al .. but the address scenario - frankly is time wasting and time consuming .. it could be a real pain. I hope it won't be for you ...ReplyDelete
I keep a fairly low profile and try to do the same with my personal life ...
Well at least you've got a football team or two batting for you?! But a very worthwhile post and interesting to read other's comments .. cheers Hilary
Oh, Karen, I agree with you wholeheartedly. I worry about this every day. I know I need an online presence in order to get published, but I'm a private person and don't like sharing personal info with people I don't know. I would never display photos young children telling "friends" who they are and where the children are and what they like to do. I agree. It is too scary. Thanks for the post. http://victoriamarielees.blogspot.comReplyDelete
A few years back, I recall seeing an interview with Bill Gates where he refereed to the Internet and personal computers as giving the illusion of security. But he stressed it is an illusion, and this registered with me.ReplyDelete
I think we have a false illusion that we have privacy, also. We just don't.
Even living "clean" lives is not a protection (except with the almighty...) because, just like WiDo's address, I have found outright false information about myself on some of the info-aggregating sites. I found my age, for example, to be correct on most. But they got my husband's age as mine on two of the largest ones. Not a biggy, really. But I'm in no rush to be fifteen years older, darling.
Before I got a Facebook account, my first Internet presence, I had the illusion that I was under the greed, and liked it that way, but I already wasn't.
I have decided to treat this as something I can't beat, so I joined.Replies
Mirka, If we buy a home, mail a letter, put in an address change at the post office, sign up for utilities, pay taxes, start a business-- none of which requires the Internet-- we have put our information out there. So yeah, it seems kind of silly to get paranoid about blogging and Facebook.Delete
But I also wanted to add, the quote by Bill Gates is absolutely brilliant-- by one who knows. It's like getting too comfortable in our own homes and neighborhoods and not realizing there are those who would break in. I often think of the Elizabeth Smart case, and how the man who kidnapped her had been hired by her dad to do work on their home. How do you completely stay safe in this world? It's impossible, even without the Internet, so we do the best we can and try to keep our wits about us.Delete
These are awesome comments, and as I consider all of your ideas and points, I think I've come to terms with my concerns and how best to address them. Also, I want to include this link to a new post by agent Rachelle Gardner about privacy and the writer: http://www.booksandsuch.biz/blog/is-privacy-a-thing-of-the-past/ReplyDelete
I don't know that there's ever been such thing as personal privacy. It's easier to find out things now with the internet, but even without it's hard to hide from those who are insistent in prying into our business. I don't worry about it all that much. I'm more concerned about all the time I spend on the internet.ReplyDelete
Special report today on the "Story Sprouts" book launch in L.A.
Lot's of pictures in this one!
Tossing It Out
This kind of stuff always scares me. Last year, I signed up for an email mailing list for a local radio station, and I used an email address that wasn't linked to my actual name in ANY way... and when I won concert tickets from them, they addressed me by my actual name. I thought that was freaky. Even the name that popped up in the To/From section of my email was a fake name, and they still knew it was me?ReplyDelete
I'm careful with what I share online, but I don't trust any site anymore.Replies
Shelley, Very creepy! That's the kind of thing that kind of freaks me out.Delete
Privacy is a concern and I think we all need to be careful about how much we put out there. I often give a false date of birth if I can't see any good reason for a site needing to know but it's still a 'required field'. As far as addresses go - I think everyone ends up in the same boat. My way of rationalising is to think that the same sort of information ends up in our paper recycling every week. I'd never put my bank details 'out there' or use a debit card unless there was no choice and I was as sure as I could be that the site was reputable (e.g. airline). We just have to be vigilant. It's the way of the new world. And criminals will get you in ways you never thought of anyway. It's really just a case of damage limitation! Really interesting post :-) and thanks for reassuring your comment on my blog!ReplyDelete
Yeah, I keep things like addresses/phone numbers unavailable on my blog. BUT one time a parenting journal ran an article of mine and at the end it had my contact info--phone number, email address, and address (which is a PO Box since I live in a tiny town). I emailed them repeatedly to take it down and never got a response. To this day, I've gotten emails from people about that article--nothing obnoxious, just people wanting advice, but it's enough to make me very glad that I'm not a celebrity.ReplyDelete
I guess I just figured those who want to know will be able to find out anything they want about me. Since I can't do anything about it, I try not to worry about it. Though...recently I've started putting out resumes for a new day job, and I know the thing is to Google applicants, so I'm a little curious about what they might dig up...and whether or not it can hurt my chances at a job. I feel like I've always been pretty responsible with my online presence, but you never know.ReplyDelete


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