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No. 14 UW Men End Regular Season at Arizona
March 3, 2006
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(#14) Washington at Arizona, 3:00 p.m. PST / 4:00 MST (FSN TV)
McKale Center (14,545) / Tucson, Ariz.
Husky Sports Radio Network / KJR (AM 950) in the Puget Sound area
(#14) Washington at Pac-10 Tournament, TBA (FSN TV)
Staples Center (18,964) / Los Angeles, Calif.
Husky Sports Radio Network / KJR (AM 950) in the Puget Sound area
The 14th-ranked and second-place Washington Huskies (23-5, 12-5) continue the pursuit of their first Pac-10 regular-season championship in 21 years when they complete their schedule, Saturday, Mar. 4 at third-place Arizona (18-10, 11-6). Tip-off is 3 p.m. Pacific Time (4 p.m. Mountain) at McKale Center where UW won just once in its last 21 visits.
Title Contender
Washington (12-5) is in second place, one game behind UCLA (13-4) in the standings. The Huskies can still claim a Pac-10 co-championship with a win at Arizona and a UCLA loss at Stanford. UW is vying for its first conference championship since tying for back-to-back Pac-10 titles in 1984 (Oregon State) and 1985 (USC). In the event of a tie atop the standings, the Huskies would receive the No. 1 seed into the Pac-10 Tournament by virtue of their season sweep of UCLA.
Three-Year Run
Washington is seeking a third consecutive NCAA Tournament berth for only the second time in school history (1984-86). The Huskies had a 19-12 record in 2004, 29-6 in 2005 and 23-5 this season. The 71 combined wins are the highest three-year total since a 77-win run from 1951-53 that marks the best three-year stretch in school history.
TV Tidbits
Saturday's Washington-Arizona regular-season finalé airs live at 3 p.m. Pacific Time on FSN. Barry Tompkins describes the action alongside analyst Dan Belluomini.
Radio Coverage
Saturday's UW game at Arizona will be broadcast on the Husky Radio Network and airs on flagship station KJR (AM 950) throughout the Puget Sound area. Bob Rondeau calls the play-by-play with commentary from Jason Hamilton.
'Washington's Brandon Roy is an All-American. First team. Period. Roy is the most complete player in college basketball.'
-Gregg Doyel, CBS SportsLine.com
Versatile Veteran
You would be hard-pressed to make a case that any player does more for his team than Washington's Brandon Roy. In the weekly Pac-10 statistics that include all games, Roy is ranked among the league leaders in 10 of the 13 categories listed. That is three more than any other Pac-10 player (ASU's Kevin Kruger ranks in seven categories). Roy ranks among the league leaders in scoring (2nd-19.7), assist/turnover ratio (2nd-1.77), assists (4th-4.1), field goal percent (4th-50.9%), free throw percentage (6th-81.3%), steals (7th-1.4), blocked shots (10th-0.9), 3-point percentage (10th-39.0%), offensive rebounds (10th-2.2) and total rebounds (11th-5.6). UW's 6-foot-6 guard does all that in less playing time than other marquee players as he is not ranked among league leaders in minutes played.
Pac-10 Honors
Senior guard Brandon Roy is in contention to become Washington's first Pac-10 Player of the Year since Chris Welp in 1986 ... Roy ranks second among Pac-10 scorers at 19.68 points per game that is just behind the 19.86 clip of California's Leon Powe ... Washington is the only member school to never have a Pac-10 scoring champion. The last Husky to lead the conference in scoring was Louie Nelson whose 21.9-point average led the Pac-8 in 1973 ... Forward Jon Brockman should be in line for freshman honors as he leads all Pac-10 players in field goal percentage (53.0%), ranks No. 4 in rebounding (6.9 rpg) and is No. 3 among freshman scorers (9.0) ... Another freshman honors candidate is guard Justin Dentmon who leads all Pac-10 freshmen in assists (3.9) and free throw percentage (83.0%).
Player of the Week
Brandon Roy was named the Pac-10 player Jan. 27, tying the record with his third consecutive award. He joins Arizona State's Eddie House (2000) as the only individuals to receive three consecutive Pac-10 Player of the Week awards. This is the fourth overall Player of the Week award for Roy who previously was recognized Feb. 13 and Feb. 20 of this year and as a sophomore on Feb. 28, 2004. He has received the Pac-10's weekly accolade more than any other Husky, eclipsing three-time honorees Chris Welp (1986-87) and Todd MacCulloch (1998-99). Roy averaged 25.0 points, 5.5 rebounds and 4.5 assists last week. He shot 62 percent (16-of-26) from the field.
The Huskies, who won their last three road games, have not won four straight conference road games since Jan. 16-Feb. 21, 1959 ... UW had double-digit 3-pointers in each of its last four games, a feat accomplished just twice in the first 24 games. UW shot 43-of-87 (49%) on treys in the last four games ... Justin Dentmon broke the UW freshman assist record Thursday. His total of 109 assists eclipsed the previous mark of 103 ... Washington has a 16-0 record in games when four or more players register double-figure points ... The Huskies' record is 13-0 when they shoot 50-percent of better from the field ... UW has a 14-1 mark when scoring 80 or more points ... Brandon Roy (115) and Justin Dentmon (109) are the sixth pair of Huskies to reach the 100-assist mark in the same season ... Roy had two streaks snapped Thursday at Arizona State. He tallied 13 points, halting a streak of nine consecutive 20-point performances ... Roy missed his first free throw Thursday, stopping a string of 32 straight successful charity shots. He fell one shy of the school-record of 33 consecutive free throws established in 1989 by Eldridge Recasner.
The Arizona Series
> Arizona has a 38-20 lead in the all-time series that began in 1965.
> Washington won five of the last seven meetings as the teams met three times in the 2004 and 2005 seasons. Those five wins equal the total of UW wins over Arizona in the previous 12 years combined.
> The Wildcats won this season's first meeting in double overtime, a 96-95 decision on Dec. 31 in Seattle.
> UW won 81-72 on Mar. 12 in the 2005 Pac-10 Tournament championship game.
> The Wildcats own a 22-5 record against UW in Tucson, including a 91-82 win last season in which they hit 38-of-40 free throws and had 38-15 scoring advantage at the line.
> Arizona won eight of the last nine and 19 of the last 21 meetings at McKale Center. The only Husky wins in the last 21 years came in 1996 and 2004.
> 23rd-year Arizona Coach Lute Olson has a 32-16 all-time record against UW.
> Fourth-year Washington coach Lorenzo Romar has a 5-4 record against Arizona.
The Last Meeting
Arizona 96, #7 UW 95, 2ot (Dec. 31, 2005; Seattle)
Arizona rallied from a 13-point halftime deficit to post a 96-95 double-overtime win over Washington despite the second straight 35-point effort of Brandon Roy. The loss ended a school-record 32-game homecourt winning streak for the Huskies (11-1, 1-1). Trailing 64-54 midway through the second half, Arizona (9-3, 2-0) staged a 23-6 run to go ahead 77-70 with 1:47 left in regulation. UW went on an 11-4 run, capped by a Roy 3-pointer with 6.4 seconds left to force overtime. He caused the second overtime with a step-under trey at the buzzer. By the time Kirk Walters sank the decisive free throw with five seconds left in the second overtime, four UW starters had fouled out while the Wildcats were at full strength. Ryan Appleby, who hit four first-half treys, missed the potential winning 3-pointer as time expired. Arizona, which shot only 1-of-15 on first-half 3-pointers, hit 8-of-14 treys after halftime. Hassan Adams scored 32 points to pace the Wildcats and Mustafa Shakur added 23. Jamaal Williams scored 22 points for the Huskies. Roy shot 4-of-6 from 3-point range and had a double-double, leading all rebounders with 11.
Poll Patter
The Huskies climbed three spots to No. 14 in this week's (Feb. 27) Associated Press poll. They were 7th in the Dec. 26 poll, their highest ranking in 21 years. The highest ranking ever achieved by a Washington team was a No. 2 listing on Mar. 10, 1953, the same season UW made its only Final Four appearance. The Huskies were unranked in this year's preseason AP poll before breaking into the first regular-season poll at the No. 25 spot on Nov. 21. Washington holds down the No. 16 position in this week's ESPN/USA Today coaches poll. After being ranked from wire-to-wire last season, the Huskies were not listed in the preseason rankings. UW capped the 2005 season ranked No. 8 in the final AP poll and No. 9 by ESPN/USA Today.
Early Risers
The Huskies have jumped on opponents early, outscoring them by a combined 262 points (1142-880) in the first half. The average halftime advantage is 41-31 for Washington, which built a double-digit lead in 22 games. In the second half, the Huskies are outscoring foes by a significantly smaller 145-point margin (1169-1024). UW has scored 27 more combined points in the second half of games compared to the first half, but has allowed 144 more points after halftime than before. UW trailed just four times at halftime, including Thursday at Arizona State (38-40).
Board Meeting
Rebounding has been the key for the Huskies who have a 20-1 record when outrebounding their opponents this season. Washington is outrebounding foes by an average of over eight rebounds (38.1-29.7) in wins while being outboarded (36.6-36.8) in losses. The Huskies lead the Pac-10 in rebound average (37.8) and rebounding margin (+6.9).
How Do You Like Them Apples?
Sophomore sharpshooter Ryan Appleby has 61 of UW's 185 treys, 31 more than any other Husky. He has a 3-pointer in all, but five games this season. Appleby hit six treys against Loyola Marymount (Nov. 25) and five at California (Jan. 26) and Oregon State (Feb. 18). Appleby netted 61 of his 74 field goals from beyond the arc. The Stanwood (Wash.) High School product is in his first year playing with the Huskies. He red-shirted last season after transferring from Florida.
Prolific Scoring
Washington is the Pac-10 leader and ranks No. 5 nationally in team scoring at 83.2 points per game. The Huskies averaged a school-record 86.5 points per game last season, leading the Pac-10 and ranking No. 2 nationally behind North Carolina.
Hot Shooting Huskies
Three players are shooting better than 50 percent for Washington, which is converting field goals at a rate of 47.6 percent that ranks No. 1 in the Pac-10. Freshman Jon Brockman leads all Pac-10 players with a field goal percentage of 53.0. Two other Huskies are listed among the top-10 Pac-10 players: Brandon Roy (50.9%) at No. 4 and Jamaal Williams (49.7%) at No. 6. Forward Artem Wallace (57.7%) does not have enough field goals (three made per game) to qualify for the conference stats. UW's shooting percentage was at-or-above the 50-percent plateau in 13 games. UW returned three of the most accurate shooters in the Pac-10. Roy shot 56.5% in 2005, trailing only Arizona State's Ike Diogu. Williams was No. 3 in the conference (56.1%) and Jones was No. 10 (51.0%).
For Starters
The Huskies have won seven straight games since senior Mike Jensen was inserted into the starting lineup Feb. 9 at USC. Jensen was a primary starter the last three years with 95 career starts to his credit. The lineup of Jensen, Bobby Jones, Jon Brockman, Brandon Roy and Justin Dentmon started six of those seven games. The lone exception was Feb. 26 when Brockman yielded his spot to senior Jamaal Williams for the final home game. Jones and Roy have started every game this season. Last year, the Huskies implemented five different lineups and Nate Robinson was the only player to start every game.
1,000-Point Club
Washington welcomed new members to the 1,000-point club in consecutive games earlier this season, the 30th and 31st Huskies to accomplish that feat. Senior Bobby Jones scored his 1,000th point Dec. 23 against Lehigh. Another senior, Brandon Roy, amassed a career-high 35 points against Arizona State on Dec. 29 to surpass the 1,000-point plateau. Roy currently ranks 12th among all-time UW scorers with 1,362 points and Jones is No. 20 with 1,180.
Turning Point
The Huskies have a 66-15 record in the last 81 games, beginning with their dramatic 103-99 overtime win at Oregon State on Jan. 17, 2004. That was the first Pac-10 win for UW, which lost if first five 2004 conference contests. Washington trailed 70-54 with 6:13 left in regulation before closing with a 29-13 run, including Nate Robinson's 13 points. Robinson hit a 3-pointer at the buzzer to force overtime. The Huskies won 14 of their final 18 games in 2004 and posted a 29-6 record in 2005.
Wonderful Williams
Senior forward Jamaal Williams paid immediate dividends last year in his first season as a Husky. He red-shirted in 2003-04 after transferring from New Mexico. Williams ranked fifth among Huskies with a 9.6-point scoring average last season. He ranked third among all Pac-10 players by converting 56.5 percent of his shots from the field, including a 9-for-10 effort against USC (Feb. 3, 2005). This season, the 6-foot-6 Williams has 22 double-figure scoring games, including a career-high 26 points against Eastern Washington (Dec. 16). He ranks No. 6 among Pac-10 field goal shooters (49.7%) and No. 14 in scoring (13.3 ppg).
Did You Know?
The Huskies posted the 23rd 20-win season in school history. They have back-to-back 20-win seasons for the first time since 1984-1985 and only the second time since 1953.
To the Point
Freshman Justin Dentmon has done a brilliant job filling the point guard vacancy created by the departure of Nate Robinson and school assist-leader Will Conroy. Dentmon ranks eighth among Pac-10 playmakers with 3.89 assists per game, the top mark for a freshman. He has a school freshman record 109 assists, surpassing the previous mark of 103 established by Eldridge Recasner in 1987. Dentmon's 1.42 assist/turnover ratio (109/77) ranks seventh in the Pac-10. He is No. 3 among Pac-10 free throw shooters (83.0%) and converted 20 consecutive charity shots from Nov. 25 to Dec. 29.
Fabulous Frosh
One of the most highly acclaimed recruits in school history lived up to his billing as he was named the MVP of the BCA Classic on Nov. 15. Freshman Jon Brockman (Snohomish, Wash.) registered a double-double against Morgan State (Nov. 13) in his collegiate debut with 17 points and 10 rebounds. He has four double-doubles, more than any Husky had all of last season. Brockman ranks fourth among Huskies with 9.0 points per game. He leads the team and ranks fourth in the Pac-10 with an average of 6.9 rebounds, 1.3 more per game than any other Husky. Brockman is the leading field goal shooter in the Pac-10 at 53.0 percent. He has seven double-figure rebound games, surpassing the total of the entire Husky team last season. Brockman was a 2005 McDonald's All-American and the top Best in the West vote-getter who turned down Duke to sign with UW.
Jensen Returns
The Huskies won their last seven games since Mike Jensen was inserted into the starting lineup Feb. 9 at USC. The 6-foot-8 senior forward started in place of Jamaal Williams. A three-year starter, Jensen returned to action Dec. 23 against Lehigh. He played the last 18 games after missing the season's first nine games while rehabilitating a dislocated left shoulder that required surgery in late September. A superb athlete, Jensen provides the Huskies with a veteran defender and a solid shooter. He made 39 percent of his career 3-pointers (75-191). Jensen hit six treys against Stanford (Feb. 23) in a career-high 18-point performance. He shot 4-of-5 from 3-point range in Thursday's win at Arizona State.
Brilliant Bobby
Senior forward Bobby Jones enters his fourth season as a primary starter for the Huskies and of the finest defenders in the Pac-10. He was named the Pac-10 Player of the Week on Jan. 16 after leading UW to their first sweep in Los Angeles since 1987. During the summer, Jones played with the 12-man U.S. National Team that won the gold medal in August at the 2005 World University Games in Izmir, Turkey. He hit all three of his 3-point attempts during the 2005 NCAA Tournament, including two in a 19-point, second-round performance against Pacific (Mar. 19). Jones dramatically improved his 3-point shooting last season. He has six career double-doubles, including an 11-point, 12-rebound performance at USC on Jan. 14, 2006.
The Last Game
#14 UW 91, Arizona State 66 (Mar. 2, 2006; Tempe, Ariz.)
Mike Jensen led five double-figure scorers with 14 points, including 4-of-5 shooting on 3-pointers to lead 14th-ranked Washington to a 91-66 victory at Wells Fargo Arena and its seventh straight win over Arizona State. Kevin Kruger scored 19 of his 23 points in the first half, including a jumper at the buzzer that lifted the Sun Devils (10-16, 4-13) to a 40-38 halftime edge. The Huskies (22-5, 12-5) scored the first 11 points after halftime, taking the lead for good at 49-40 with 16:18 left to play. The margin grew to as many as 27 points for UW, which outscored ASU 53-26 after halftime. The Huskies hit 6-of-12 treys after halftime and 11-of-25 for the game. Jon Brockman, Brandon Roy, Ryan Appleby and Jamaal Williams each had 13 points for UW. Roy had two streaks stopped. He missed his first free throw, finishing one shy of the UW record of 33 straight. His streak of consecutive 20-point games ended at nine. ASU's Jeff Pendergraph posted his third straight double-double with 15 points and 11 rebounds. It was almost a repeat of the season's first meeting when UW led 40-38 at halftime before running away in the second half for a 91-67 victory on Dec. 29.
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Karen Schulte had problems with her weight since first grade. But two years ago at the age of 40 and with weight of 217 pounds, she decided she had to do something about her weight. Now she is down to 154 pounds and is aiming to bring her weight down to 150 pounds.
How Karen was able to lose these pounds? She started her exercise program with a personal fitness trainer at Fitness Etcetera in West Roxbury, Mass. As Karen started losing weight, her trainer kept her motivated to go for a healthy diet. She just followed her physical trainer advices and started maintaining a food diary.
After losing a lot of pounds, she applied to Weight Watchers to be one of the inspiring stories of 2007. She did not get success in it but she was able to won a gift card of $100 that she had to spend on her clothes. Karen dropped from size 22 to size 10. She was even able to drop her shoes size from 91/2 to 81/2.
"It literally changed my life, my whole lifestyle. It's not about how much you eat or what you eat, it's about how your life and approach to food impacts your life," said Schulte, who works as a registered nurse at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.

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RTC Vice Chairwoman to challenge Fox in 146th
STAMFORD -- Republican Town Committee Vice Chairwoman Eva Maldonado will challenge Democratic incumbent Gerald Fox III for his seat representing District 146 in the state House of Representatives.
District 146 covers Shippan, the South End and parts of downtown. There are 8,526 voters in the district including 3,611 registered Democrats, 3,106 unaffiliated voters and 1,677 Republicans. Independent and other third-party voters total 132, according to numbers provided by the Democratic Registrar of Voters.
Maldonado, a longtime Stamford police officer, said she is running because she wants to shake up the Democratic-dominated General Assembly. Employment, retirement and small business development would be her main focuses, she said.
"I'll be a voice for this community and I'll be representing this community so we can eventually have our state back and create a place where our grandchildren can be able to live here," Maldonado said. "As it stands, you can't even retire in Connecticut anymore. It's not even business friendly."
Fox, an attorney, has represented District 146 since 2005. He is a member of the General Assembly's Government Administration & Election and Transportation committees and serves as chairman of the Judiciary Committee.
"I enjoy serving," Fox said. "I think my position has given me an opportunity to help people and I hope to continue to do so."
If re-elected, Fox said he would focus on improving Stamford's Transportation Center. The state Department of Transportation is looking to rebuild the train station's parking garage, which has long been the subject of complaints due to structural problems and inadequate parking space availability.
"I think the Transportation Center is going to be a very important project going forward," Fox said. "There's a lot of commuters. It's the biggest station between New York and Boston, in terms of service. So that's something that I think is important."
Fox said he is proud of the legislation he has overseen as a chairman of the General Assembly's Judiciary Committee during the 2011 and 2012 legislative sessions. Bills passed under his watch include a law requiring ignition interlock devices to test the sobriety of convicted drunken drivers and Caylee's Law, which made it a crime to fail to report a missing child in Connecticut.
Fox also worked on task forces aimed at strengthening eyewitness identification procedures and recertifying the state's crime laboratory. He collaborated with the Stamford Police Department to write a bill strengthening the penalties for driving without a license, he said.
In response to concerns voiced by his constituents who live near the sewage treatment plant, Fox lobbied for a bill requiring Water Pollution Control Authorities and state environmental officials to report all sewage bypasses. The Department of Energy and Environmental Protection will maintain an online map illustrating the scope and effect of anticipated sewage overflows and notify the public when unexpected spills occur.
"It's important, and it goes beyond just Stamford," Fox said of the state's oversight of wastewater treatment plants. "It's certainly something that I want to provide them the support that they need and make sure they are managed properly and operated properly."
Democratic City Committee Chairman John Mallozzi said Fox stood out as an effective elected official during his time in Stamford government prior to his election as state representative.
"If you had observed Gerry Fox operate on the Board of Representatives and (Board of) Finance, you would know that his quiet style would take him far in Hartford," Mallozzi said. "His rise in the legislature is an asset to our community."
Republican Town Committee Chairman Dennis Mahoney, however, said Fox has been "AWOL" on job creation and taxes during his tenure in Hartford.
"Eva Maldonado is much more representative of the interest of constituents in her district," Mahoney said in an email. "Eva understands that in order to get people working again, we need to create an environment where private companies find it beneficial to locate and expand in Connecticut. Gerry focuses on all these silly liberal issues as the head of the Judiciary Committee in Hartford to the detriment of job creation. He has never seen a tax hike that he does not support."
Fox said he did not wish to respond to Mahoney's comments.
Maldonado has never held elected office, and ran unsuccessfully for a seat representing District 9 on the Board of Representatives in 2010. She is the founder and former president of the Greater Stamford Hispanic Chamber of Commerce and a past board member of the Yerwood Center, Volunteer Center and Stamford Public Education Foundation. She is a current member of Stamford Neighbors Link.
"I believe in our community," Maldonado said. "We have a wealth of educated young people here. But a young person cannot really come back to Connecticut and live because there are no jobs. We are educating them and somebody else is reaping this wealth. We have to change that."
Maldonado, who immigrated to the United States from Puerto Rico at age 6, said she would work to encourage economic growth by advocating for reduced restrictions on small businesses. Paperwork and regulation compliance have become burdensome for many small businesses, especially ones owned by minorities, she said.
"You go through school and they tell you, `You can be anything you want to be,' " Maldonado said. "You don't achieve that by entitlements and waiting for the government to help you. You actually have to accomplish that by really working for yourself and empowering yourself."
Maldonado acknowledged she faces a tough election in November because Democrats far outnumber registered Republicans in the 146th. But the district has almost as many unaffiliated voters as Democrats, and Maldonado said she will campaign with a message that appeals to all voters.
"I think I know the community," she said. "I know their needs and they're not so much different from my needs. When I go to sleep I don't put that aside. I breathe it, I taste it and I work it."
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Once again last week, reputed investor Anthony Bolton was in the press defending the poor performance to date of Fidelity's China Special Situations, the publicly-listed fund he came out of retirement to launch. The fund's NAV is down 21% since its April 2010 launch, versus 18.5% for the MSCI China Index. Bolton has attributed the losses to market turbulence, the fund's gearing and exposure to volatile small- and mid-cap stocks. That got us, Dave especially, to reading more about Bolton's approach (discussed below), and of course, mulling over the extent to which it might be replicated using a Anthony Bolton quantitative screen via Stockopedia PRO (to be discussed in a subsequent piece).
For those that are interested, there are a number of useful primary sources of information on Bolton's investing. The first is the book, quot; Investing with Anthony Boltonquot;, a very helpful summary of the performance and track record of the UK Special Situations fund co-written by Bolton and Jonathan Davis, the investment columnist of the Independent. Anthony Bolton has also written Investing against the Tide, in which he discusses his strategy, approach to stock-picking, the need to identify good managers, and how to run a portfolio. You can also read a series of articles by Bolton on the Fidelity website.
Anthony Bolton Investing In Brief
Anthony Bolton is widely regarded as one of the UK's best fund managers, delivering an outstanding investment record over a 25-year period at the Fidelity Special Situations Fund until his retirement in 2007. He studied engineering at Cambridge University and joined Fidelity in 1979, aged 29, as one of its first London-based investment managers. During his time at the helm of Fidelity Special Situations, which he ran until the end of 2007, he delivered average annual returns of 20% (vs. 14% for the market). That would have turned £1000 into £147,000 over 28 years.
Bolton's approach is a contrarian one focused on buying recovery or turnaround stocks on attractive valuations. It is a fundamentals-based approach based on buying unfashionable and cheap companies with something to recapture investor attention. Interestingly, though, for a value investor, he blends in technical analysis as a warning signal against value traps. Bolton has traditionally invested in smaller and mid cap companies (broadly in the £50 - £500 million range). As the following summary suggests, inherent in his approach is an approach with limited regard for market weightings (on the basis that, to beat the market, a portfolio must be different from the market!) which tends to produce lumpier returns, perhaps some explanation of his recent experiences in China....
Investment Philiosophy
In broad terms, Anthony Bolton takes a value/contrarian approach to investing, which involves seeing the swings in the market as opportunities, and not being afraid to buy what's unpopular or businesses that have been doing poorly, perhaps for some time. He warns at all cost against buying shares on impulses or tips.
quot;A good investment manager is an independent thinker not over-influenced by, and often willing to challenge, conventional wisdomquot;.
He cites his main influences as being Buffett, Lynch and Slater. From Buffett, a key lesson was to look for good business franchises with good free cash flow (he prefers good businesses run by an average management rather than the contrary), while he follows Peter Lynch in visiting companies and looking for managers who are consistent.
Making Contrarian Bets
At the heart of his approach is the idea of buying unfashionable and cheap companies with something to recapture investor attention. In his experience, many investors don't like to be associated with businesses that are not doing well and can therefore miss when a change for the better occurs. However, Bolton notes that you must not confuse a recovery situation in an underperforming but otherwise satisfactory business with a company with a poor business franchise, as the latter may never recover. He also notes that you need to buy a recovery stock before you have all the information - as a result, making the purchase isn't always comfortable. However, by the time the recovery is established, an investor will have missed some of the most rewarding times to own the shares. Having said that, it's also very easy to be too early in recovery stocks - the first profit warning is rarely the last, so a recovery buyer must be patient in timing the main entry point.
Understanding the Business amp; the Management
Bolton starts when looking at a share by assessing how good a business the business is and how sustainable is its franchise. Is it in control of its own destiny or is it heavily subject to currency fluctuations, interest rates, or tax changes?
quot;Often I ask myself: how likely is this business to be around in 10 years' time and to be more valuable than today?" It's surprising how many businesses fail this testquot;.
Another important characteristic for him is whether the business generates cash over the medium term - this has generally given him a bias towards service businesses and against manufacturing.
He always insists on meeting management and seeks to assess their competence, how the management team works and most importantly how they are rewarded and what their incentives are. The managements that normally impress him are those that have a detailed knowledge of the business - strategically, operationally and financially. He looks for management who are candid and avoid hyperbole, who do not over-promise but consistently deliver a bit more than they indicated. He avoids 'dodgy' management at all cost.
Catalysts amp; Special Situations
He looks for whether there are any possible factors to excite interest. Some of the things he looks for are:
- Companies with recovery potential (an example might be the retailer Next(LON:NXT) which was restructured and revitalised in the 1990s) or strong growth potential;
- Companies with unrecognised asset value or a special product that has a particular market niche and therefore good earnings potential;
- Companies with takeover potential, such as the independent television companies in the 1990s
- Companies subject to restructuring and/or changes in management or which are under-researched by brokers- He gives the examples like the cable TV companies, Marconi and Eurotunnel which quot;tend to be completely off most equity institutional investor's radar screensquot;.
The Importance of Ownership
He stresses the importance of checking director deals, significant shareholdings, and whether insiders have control. Bolton looks for companies where managers have a decent shareholding in the company and where the objectives of management and shareholders are aligned.
Sometimes, when I meet a large company where senior managers own only a few shares, I have the impression that their main incentive is the prestige of running a large company and shareholder returns are lower on the list.
Share‐dealing by insiders can be a very useful lead indicator to a business improving or deteriorating. He considers the size of the deal; whether it is a one‐off or there have been several deals including other insiders. Does the individual have a track record of buying shares opportunistically? Is it the chief executive or finance director?
He also looks for whether institutions over- or under-own, and the degree of analyst coverage.
quot;A great sign often comes when analysts give up on a company and there are few people making forecasts on the business.
How Anthony Bolton Values Stocks
Bolton apparently examines the company's valuation history in depth (over as long as possible but at least one business cycle), noting that, during the bull phase, valuation methods move from the conservative to the speculative.For most companies, and particularly non-financial ones, he looks at five main types of ratios (he has less time for the PEG ratio or for DCF models, arguing that the latter is too dependent on assumptions many years into the future):
- Price/earnings ratio in the current year and up to two following years (on both an absolute and relative basis)
- Enterprise value to prospective gross cash flow, or EV to EBITDA
- Forecast free cash flow per share divided by the share price
- Price to sales (or, even better, EV to sales)
- Cash flow return on investment (CFROI)
In essence, he seems to be looking for stocks that, within the next 2 years, will be on single digit PEs or with a Free Cash Flow Yield above prevailing interest rates.
Z-Scores: How to cut through the Balance Sheet
Bolton emphasises the importance of understudying a company's debt position, including include all forms of debt including pension fund deficits and convertible preference shares that will not be converted. He notes that balance sheets are the most common cause of grief for investors. quot;When I've analysed the biggest mistakes I've made over the years they have nearly always been in companies with poor balance sheetsquot;. This is not to say an investor should never buy companies with weak balance sheets but that an investor should do so with their eyes open to the risks involved and pay special attention to their progress. If something starts to go wrong, he suggests that these are the holdings that should be sold early even at a loss. Highly geared companies are particularly exposed if business conditions change for the worse. As a shorthand to assess a company's financial strength, he advises use of the "Z" score (he uses a proprietary system called the H-Score which is a variant of the Altman Z-score). He keeps a special eye on the companies in the weakest quartile of scores in their particular industry are the ones on which to keep a special eye, especially if the score is in the lowest decile.
Why Bolton Rates Technical Analysis
Unlike many value investors, Bolton regards technical analysis as a useful tool in the investor's armoury (particularly for larger stocks). He looks at the company's chart over three, five and ten years to see how it's been performing. He uses technical analysis (espectially momentum/relative strength) as a framework into which he puts his fundamental bets on individual stocks. If the technical analysis confirms his fundamental views, he may take a bigger position than when they conflict. Charting also guides his view on whether a growth story has run too far. He particularly dislikes "pass the parcel" stocks — those where the valuation is very high and investors hope there is a bit more to go and they can sell them to someone else before the music stops.
"I like to put today's price in the context of the stock's recent price history. I will look at a stock completely differently if I know it's already performed well for several years as compared to one that hasn't".
Further Reading
- Wikipedia on Anthony Bolton
- Investing with Anthony Bolton
- Investing against the Tide
- Learn to expect the unexpected
- Anthony Bolton's Secret Weapon
- My favourite type of share
- Book Review: Investing Against the Tide
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For five consecutive Sundays this past month, protesters in Hanoi have gathered close to the Chinese embassy to protest China's recent actions in the South China Sea (known as the East Sea in Vietnam).
The meetings have drawn perhaps just a few hundred people, and some weeks even less than that. Still, in a country where public protests are rare – and where if they do occur, they generally focus on issues that directly affect people's day-to-day lives, such as land grabs or factory conditions – these gatherings have felt particularly unusual.
So far, the protests have started close to the Chinese embassy, although the block on Hoang Dieu street where the embassy actually sits has generally been cordoned off by police. As a result, demonstrators have spent time in Ba Dinh Square (home to a well-known statue of Lenin) before moving around the city centre and Hanoi's central lake, Hoan Kiem.Enjoying this article? Click here to subscribe for full access. Just $5 a month.
The police, for their part, have seemed concerned with little more than ensuring traffic was still flowing properly.
Many protesters I've spoken with say they've found out about the demonstration through internet sources such as Facebook. The social networking site is popular in Vietnam, though the authorities have blocked it since the end of 2009, when activists began to organize online, mostly around the contentious issue of Chinese-run bauxite mines in Vietnam's Central Highlands.
Back then, the bauxite issue united disparate groups, from dissident Catholics to environmental activists and political protesters worried over China's growing influence in the country. One of the worries now, therefore, is that the current displays of nationalism could provide a platform for other grievances to be aired.
'Although protesters have been allowed to demonstrate, the police keep a watchful eye for any attempts to turn the message against the government,' says Jennifer Richmond, China director of intelligence analysis group Stratfor. 'In other words, rocky domestic politics are adding further complication to these states' attempts to manage their territorial disputes in the South China Sea.'
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ECM gravitates north: to Norway for jazz, to Estonia for classical music. The label's New Series was defined by Arvo Part's sparse minimalism back in the 1980s and Tonu Korvits is the latest Estonian composer to join the fold, with photos of wintry Tallinn and cold-looking lakes lining the CD booklet as if to ensure the association. The music is likewise chilly and stark but not substantial enough to clinch the slow splendour it aims at. Conductor Tonu Kaljuste and his Tallinn players are well versed in evoking picturesque, moody expanses and in Labyrinths the pale strings circle and shift in and out of focus, all very icy and at times quite pretty. The misty chant of Plainland Song and the whispering choir of Seven Dreams of Seven Birds are less easy to stomach; the best thing about this album is Anja Lechner's deft cello playing in the brief and tender final piece, Laul.


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Kansas racial-profiling task force's spending under investigation
TOPEKA — State officials whose job was to fight racial profiling spent tens of thousands of taxpayer dollars on banquets, travel, concert tickets and no-bid contracts for a website that never went online, The Eagle has learned.
Both the Kansas and federal bureaus of investigation are looking into whether the spending was misuse of public funds.
At issue are expenses of the Governor's Task Force on Racial Profiling and two sister committees, the Kansas African American Affairs Commission and the Kansas Hispanic and Latino American Affairs Commission.
Records are fragmentary and it is possible the public may never know exactly where the money went.
But an Eagle review of thousands of invoices and receipts obtained through the Kansas Open Records Act found numerous questionable expenses, including:
* A $10,000 town hall meeting featuring $1,400 worth of steak dinners, $3,200 in refreshments and a four-piece band.
* More than $36,000 paid to two unincorporated companies for work on a website that never went online and speaking fees of as much as $750 an hour to address small groups.
* A $7,000, three-person trip to a Washington political conference, including about $1,000 to attend a gala dinner with President and Mrs. Obama and $400 for VIP tickets to a rap-music party.
Most of the money came from a $643,000 federal transportation grant given in 2007 to reduce racial profiling, the practice of subjecting minorities to excessive police scrutiny because of their skin color or ethnic background.
In response to an Eagle inquiry, Gov. Mark Parkinson confirmed that the spending is under investigation for possible misuse of public funds.
"We became aware of some possible spending problems that are very similar to what you've just outlined and once we became aware of those, we did an internal investigation to verify that there was a problem," Parkinson said. "We convinced ourselves that there was sufficient likelihood of a problem, that it was serious.
"We turned everything that we had on the matter over to the Kansas Bureau of Investigation and it is my understanding that it is under investigation right now."
Records show that almost all the expenditures were arranged and/or approved by three former state employees: Michael Waters, the administrative specialist to the task force; Steve Cisneros, who was executive director of the Hispanic commission; and Joshanna Stone, an attorney and special assistant to the African-American commission.
Waters and Cisneros have apparently moved and could not be reached for comment. Stone did not return phone messages to her home seeking comment.
State payments for unused website work and speaker fees went to two vendors, Anthony Morris of Morris Media and Web Design, and Anthony Pollock of Polar Media.
Morris did not respond to phone messages and a card left at his door seeking comment. Pollock is deployed on military duty in Kuwait and could not be reached.
The questionable spending occurred mostly in 2009.
Parkinson said he thinks it was an isolated incident.
"I don't think it's as widespread as the public might feel, but when it happens, it's such an egregious use of power, it's so disappointing, that it tends to taint the other 20,000 (state) employees," Parkinson said. "And the public gets upset, frustrated, fed up and I totally understand that. But I think it's a small minority."
Whistleblower fired?
Shala Perez of Wichita, who followed Cisneros as executive director of the Hispanic commission, said she noticed the spending shortly after she joined the office on Aug. 31, 2009.
Perez, a former Wichita State University police officer, said she reported it to the KBI after getting stonewalled by officials in the governor's office, who urged her to sign off on what she felt were fraudulent audit reports. That, she said, led to her being threatened and then dismissed from her job.
Perez said she was called out of a meeting with KBI agents to meet with three executives in the governor's office, who forced her to agree to mediation with another official whose expenses she was questioning.
Last month, she said, she was ushered out of her office by an attorney on the governor's staff, within minutes of meeting with FBI agents looking into possible misuse of the federal grant funds. She said she was called to the governor's office and presented a resignation letter — that was being typed as she arrived — and ordered to sign it.
She said officials would not explain why she was being terminated, other than the governor had "lost confidence" in her.
Her resignation became final Saturday.
Parkinson denies that his office, which appointed her to the job, fired her because she blew the whistle on questionable spending.
"I'll just say two things," he said. "The first thing is that I don't comment on personnel matters. It's not fair for me to publicly do that.
"But the second thing I will say is if there's any implication that she's being terminated because of this other fund situation, that's completely untrue."
A $10,000 meeting
Records show that the state paid various vendors $10,738 to put on a 3 1/2-hour town hall meeting on Aug. 20, 2009, at the Ramada Convention Center in Topeka.
A report in the Topeka Capital Journal estimated that about 70 people attended. Organizers estimated about 112.
Among the meeting's expenses:
* 45 KC strip steak dinners, at $23.95 each; a total of $1,413, with gratuities.
* Cheese, fruit, vegetable trays, pinwheels, sweets, iced tea and coffee, $3,195.
* A $1,300 speaking fee to the keynote speaker, former Kansas City Council member Alvin Brooks. Brooks did not return a phone message seeking comment.
* A $1,300 speaking fee to Pollock. There is no record that Pollock actually spoke at the meeting. His name does not appear on a list of speakers published by the community group that hosted the event and he was not among speakers shown in a photo book commissioned by the state.
* A $400 payment to the moderator, former Topeka mayor James McClinton. McClinton said he was invited because he is familiar with the issue but far enough out of local government to be seen as a neutral party. He said the payment barely covered his gas and meals to drive in from Texas, where he now is a consultant.
* Payments of $900 to a wedding planner who helped arrange the event.
* An $800 charge to record the meeting on video.
* Charges of $270 for a photographer to take pictures and prepare a hardbound photo book commemorating the evening.
State records show it wasn't the first time Pollock got a substantial check from the state for public speaking.
Pollock and Morris were paid a total of $13,150 to speak at 10 grassroots meetings for small groups.
Fliers indicate the meetings ran about two hours and spending records show Morris and Pollock were paid $1,250 to $1,500 each per meeting in speaking fees.
It is unclear what qualifications they had in the area of racial profiling.
Neither company has a website of its own and no resumes or statements of qualifications were found among state documents obtained by The Eagle. In a Nov. 18, 2009, letter to Waters, Morris wrote that he was working on a project in California and that he was writing on both his behalf and Pollock's because Pollock was on his way to the Middle East.
He defended the series of meetings they held.
"Working with Realizing Justice for All People and other groups, such as the NAACP and local church groups we have been able to tackle the sensitive issues of race and how racial profiling destroys relationships between minority communities and law enforcement," Morris wrote.
"As media companies, we have been skilled to produce campaigns that, in effect, change or influence the perception of our intended audience," the letter continued. "In these training and Town Hall meetings, we tried to do the same thing but with empathy and fairness to all parties."
State paid for trips
Records from the three agencies showed that their small staffs traveled frequently, around the country and around the state.
The full extent of their travels could not immediately be compiled from available information.
However, in one example, The Eagle was able to build a nearly full spending record of a trip to Washington last year for the annual conference of the Congressional Black Caucus.
Three officials attended the event: Waters, Stone and Curtis Whitten of Wichita, a member of the African-American commission and owner of a business providing security services for state and federal installations.
Registration forms show that Stone and Waters could have attended all the business sessions at the conference for a $75 standard registration fee.
Instead, records show they paid $625 each for the "Ultimate" package, which included tickets to a prayer breakfast and the gala awards dinner headlined by Obama.
In addition, Stone and Waters both tapped state funds for tickets to the "Black Party Xperience 1.0," a show featuring New York disc jockey and hip-hop pioneer DJ Red Alert.
General admission was $60. Stone and Waters billed the state $200 each for VIP tickets.
The program description said the show featured "DJ battles, break dancers, air brush artists and a film projected in the backdrop," to "harness the styles and sounds of Brooklyn and Philadelphia, reminiscent of the roots and conscience of hip-hop culture."
The Department of Administration was unable to find any record of registration fees for Whitten.
Whitten said the state paid the standard rate for him, that he did not attend the Black Party Xperience, and that he was given a ticket to the gala dinner by a third party.
The state also paid $1,288 to fly the three officials to Washington for the four-day conference. Their four days at the conference hotel, the Grand Hyatt Washington, cost $3,558.
The overall cost of the trip came to at least $7,061.
Whitten said the African-American commission sends its leader every year; he was chairman at the time.
"If you're familiar with the Congressional Black Caucus ... they throw, host a seminar ... which covers various particular topics and essentially I was there for that particular work, that particular reason," he said.
Whitten declined to comment on Stone's or Waters' attendance, saying that he was not a member of the profiling task force at the time.
Bidding bypassed
The largest amount of suspect spending was on Web-design fees that were set in motion without competitive bidding.
Morris's and Pollock's companies, and a third sole-proprietor firm called CodeSoft Solutions, billed $100 to $110 an hour for Web work — about double what the state's own Division of Information Systems and Communications charges.
Of the three, only CodeSoft had a contract with the state.
CodeSoft was a one-person shop run by Shelby Frias out of her home in southeast Wichita.
Records indicate that between August 2008 and August 2009, Frias was paid about $3,000 each by the Hispanic and African-American commissions to upgrade and maintain their pre-existing Web sites.
She also got $6,000 to create a 10- to 30-page interactive website for the profiling task force and maintain it for a year.
Frias did create a basic website for the task force, which Perez said contained about three pages of information. Frias said she initially created a more elaborate site, but Waters directed her to remove much of the content.
"According to him, that wasn't the kind of product they wanted," Frias said.
No trace of the original site remains other than a single "splash page" with a picture of the Capitol and a disclaimer reading: "Thanks for visiting GTFORP.org. We are currently revising our content. Our site will be back up very soon."
Frias said Waters directed her to put up that splash page and later told her to completely remove all the other content from the Internet.
"I've never been paid for any work I did not do," she said. "I never billed for any work I did not do."
CodeSoft's contract was "sole source," meaning it bypassed the regular bidding process. The explanation came in a notation on state records by Cisneros: "The vendor is minority owned company. That will help us in a predominantly minority constituency."
One section of the contract form requires the approver to "describe the research that has been completed to insure that no other competition exists, nature of work to be completed, names of vendors contacted who are unable to perform service, etc."
Cisneros wrote, "Have not found any other DMBE (disadvantaged minority business enterprises) in this field."
Unfinished business
Records show that the state also paid $15,660 in Web-related invoices to Polar Media, Pollock's company.
Morris Media received $4,000 on Web invoices.
Frias said she was "flabbergasted" to see what the task force paid them.
After reading a list of their charges, including line items such as "Web optimization" "Web maintenance" and "transfering Web site data from CodeSoft Solutions," Frias said they never did a minute's work on any of her websites.
"They couldn't have touched that," she said. "They had no access.
"How could they hire all these people to say they were doing all this stuff?" Frias added."... I don't understand how they got paid."
There was no record of how Morris and Pollock landed their work — either as Web designers or expert speakers — other than two e-mails from a state accountant asking that they be added to the vendor-payment system.
Perez said she discovered that both Pollock's and Morris' companies had used fake federal tax identification numbers, which are required for government payments to vendors — and that Waters was hand-delivering their checks.
An Eagle search of tax-ID databases did not find valid entries matching the numbers that Pollock and Morris used.
Shelley King, a lawyer with the Department of Administration, said a new accounting system implemented July 1 now requires vendors to file actual federal tax forms verifying their ID number.
Shawnee County District Court records show multiple bad-debt judgments against Waters and Morris.
Wage garnishment documents indicate they both worked for Radio Shack before Waters became a state administrative specialist and Morris started getting money from the state for Web design and speaking fees.
Passing the blame
In his November 2009 letter to Waters, Morris blamed the lack of substantial progress on the website on changes at the state agencies and a lack of communication by Frias.
According to the letter, the two companies were supposed to "help develop a back end that would encompass training curriculums, pod casts, transmittal complaint forms and manuals that could be used to help learn about the causes of racial profiling and hopefull (sic) help prevent it.
"As you know, my company, Morris Media and Polar Media were commissioned by you and your administrators to build a Web presence for the Governor's Task Force," the letter said. "We were to work with Shelby Frias at CodeSoft Solutions who would be handling the design and framework for this venture.
"There were numerous changes in the direction of this site. Most of these changes were prompted by Administrator Swopes (Danielle Dempsey-Swopes, executive director of the African-American commission at the time) which caused serious delays and at one point a halt of productivity until a meeting was held in Wichita in late May.
"In late August, the prodject (sic) was paused due to the moving of Ms. Swopes and a virtual lack of communication with Ms. Frias," the letter continued.
Frias said that neither Morris nor Pollock ever tried to contact her.
"I have no and none relationship to any of those people," she said.
Frias said she never heard of Pollock or Polar Media and her only knowledge of Morris and his company was through Waters.
She said near the end of her contract, Waters told her that Morris would be taking over the Web operation and that she would get her final payment from his company.
When the check didn't come, she contacted Waters and he got her paid through the regular state system, she said.
She said she was angry that Morris tried to blame her for his and Pollock's lack of progress — and that Waters repeated that justification in a memo to Perez, which read, "both companies finished their respective parts of the Web site and were waiting for CodeSoft Solutions to finish the front end."
She said Waters had "grandiose" plans for the site, but as far as she knew, it never went beyond the talking stage.
"I cannot fix the fact that they (Morris and Pollock) got paid for a lot of work they didn't do," she said. "They can't say they're waiting on me to do something if I'm not commissioned to do it."
The state's Division of Information Systems and Communications has since taken over the Web responsibilities for all three agencies and created a new site for the profiling task force at www.gtforp.ks.gov.
Some progress made
The task force did make progress on racial profiling, said Mike Watson, a former Wichita police chief who now co-chairs the group with Whitten.
Among the task force's accomplishments, Watson cited a 2005 statute that prohibits police from using race or ethnicity as the sole reason to stop an individual for investigation. The law also requires departments to establish policies and training to prevent profiling and guarantees citizens the right to file complaints or sue if they believe they've been profiled.
Watson said members of the task force also held a number of meetings around the state to hear public complaints and has worked closely with law-enforcement agencies to implement anti-profiling policies and training programs.
The task force also commissioned Wichita State University to research profiling in Kansas and work with law enforcement. The Eagle found no irregularities in billings related to the university's work.
Watson said the task force is putting finishing touches on its final recommendations, which will be presented after the Legislature reconvenes in January. The task force is scheduled to sunset in June.
Watson said he did not attend the $10,000 town hall meeting and wasn't aware it had happened until later.
"That was during the time that the task force, it had ... come to an end, it was before it was reappointed," Watson said. "There were people who were working in the name of the task force in between that, as I understand it."
Records indicate that most of the questionable spending took place at a time when the actual task force was not meeting because of divisions and resignations on the board and the agency was primarily under Waters' day-to-day control.
In January, the governor's office tightened financial control of its minority affairs commissions.
The new policies require they keep a purchasing log and get prior approval for travel, events, hospitality and cell phones, records show.
Parkinson said he was disappointed by the suspect spending because the task force was engaged in important work.
"When you have 20,000 employees, from time to time, a few of them will disappoint you," the governor said. "When they disappoint you, the right course of action is to assemble the facts, establish what's happened. If termination is justified, you terminate. If a criminal investigation is justified, you turn over what you found to the criminal agencies. And that's exactly what we did in this case."
"I'm hopeful and confident that the KBI will investigate it thoroughly and if money has been misappropriated and crimes have been committed, we will certainly encourage the attorney general to prosecute them," Parkinson said.


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One of my best friends was diagnosed with malignant melanoma a couple years ago, and attended Camp Ooch for a few years. She always returned so happy from camp and wanted to tell me all about how wonderful it was. I loved being able to support her and kids like her with The Inside Ride. Thanks!
This is by far the most our school has ever been involved in anything.
I have never seen the students come together like this, and the amount of team sprit shown is just amazing.
The feedback I am getting is awesome. It is being regarded as the best team building event ever organized in our company. Everyone has wonderful incredibly positive things to say.
On behalf of all of us, we'd like to thank you for coming and helping us run what has been said by many experienced staff member's as the best thing they've seen at Earl of March in a long long time. It was a great success and I'm sure will want to be run every year or more after yesterday.
Thanks again for such a great day. It was really a special thing for our school community…in my seven years here I've never seen anything like it!
Once again, on behalf of our administration team, I would like to personally thank you and your team on a very successful Inside Ride here at St. Mary's last week! We are still talking about how great of a day it was! This was largely due to the fact as to how organized, effective, efficient, and enthusiastic your team was! From the time we started on this journey, you and your co-workers were so very supportive and helpful and from a school perspective made our work much easier! I have been involved with many organizations over the years and as wonderful each was to work with, the Coast to Coast Cancer Foundation was by far the best to date in terms of providing school support!
We are so happy to know our donations will make a difference!
Thank you and I hope we get to work together again!"
Best fundraiser I've ever seen! Great staff, superb organization and all round fantastic job!
Thanks again to the entire Inside Ride team for making the event such a success. It was both a pleasure and an honour to work with you. We look forward to building upon this year's event for future success.
The Inside Ride is an excellent event for the workplace. As well as promoting a sense of the team working together, it reinforces the importance of exercise and healthy living.
The Inside Ride has brought a sense of unity and collectiveness to our school which is something we haven't experienced in a long time.


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Appeti players also competed in The Bromley Spring Tournament this week.
After weeks of training and practice back at the centre it was great to see our players putting everything into their matches and fighting g hard for every point, game and match.
Everyone showed great attitudes and positivity and it was great to watch some edge of the seat matches.
<a href="https://flic.kr/s/aHsk8uZaSN"target="_blank">Click here to see photos from the tournament.


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The Year is Ending, What Would You Like to See in 2013?
2012 is nearly over. We had a presidential election and an anticlimactic apocalypse. Now we look ahead towards 2013. What would you most like to see in the new year? What are you most looking forward to? Here's our list, so far. You're invited to add to it by leaving a message in the comments section below.
1. A cooler summer
It was so hot last summer. Most of us are OK with a little bit of hot weather, but day after day after day of extreme temperatures is exhausting. We're hoping the summer of 2013 won't be as intense.
2. St. Louis Blues hockey
The NHL lockout has to end sometime, right? It remains to be seen how much of a season, if any, there will be for 2012-2013, but if we're lucky, everything will be back to normal at this time next year.
3. New restaurants
Texas Roadhouse will be opening soon in Quincy. It's next to GameMasters and Bed Bath & Beyond. We're also anticipating the re-opening of the new Sprouts Inn, following the fire that destroyed the longtime Quincy business in June.
4. Comedy
The LMAO Comedy Series is coming to Quincy. This new comedy series will kick off on Friday, January 18 at the State Room. Tickets are $10 for general admission, and $20 for VIP seats. Advanced tickets are available at Second String Music, Bailey's Coffee House & Fudge Shop, and Java Jive.
5. Theater
Quincy Community Theatre's 2013 lineup is looking pretty good. Highlights include a Family/Student Theater production of 'Peter Pan' in June, '9 to 5' in July, 'The War of the Worlds' in October, and 'The Wizard of Oz' next November.
6. Annual events
We are pretty lucky to have a ton of fun annual events all around the area. National Tom Sawyer Days, county fairs, the Dogwood Festival, the Pike County Fall Color Drive, Midsummer Arts Faire, the Autumn Historic Folklife Festival, the Early Tin Dusters Fall Color Run, 50 Miles of Art, the K of C BBQ and Taste of Palmyra are just a few that come to mind.


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At Fleet Feet Runner's Spot it is our hope to be more than just another retail running and walking store, and more than one that helps you find the perfect shoes for your feet. We also want to cover the needs of the whole runner. Our staff will create an innovative ambiance by promoting an active and healthy lifestyle and introduce and teach all things related to running. It is a place where the Fayetteville's running/walking community and our Military Veterans can connect to build lasting and meaningful relationships by participating in our community runs, walks, clinics and races.
Fleet Feet Runner's Spot is collecting your old running shoes and race shirts for donations to Fayetteville Urban Ministries and True Vine Ministries, which are local charities within the Fayetteville community. Please remember to cold wash and air dry your shoes and wash your shirts before making your donation.
The Wounded Warrior Project is a cause near and dear to the hearts of all of us here at Fleet Feet Runner's Spot. We have partnered with the local organization to show our patriotic pride and most important, support to our Heroes!
From leading group runs to sponsoring races we try and do our part to support our local chapters of Team Red White and Blue as they support our veterans.
Fayetteville Running Club is promoting a healthy lifestyle in our Fayetteville and Fort Bragg communities, and of course we're on board with that as we lead group runs and collaborate with them on special events.
The Fayetteville/Fort Bragg community has given us the opportunity to partner up with awesome organizations who share the same vision we do in developing leaders and motivating people to take on a healthy and active lifestyle. To find out ways that you can get involved or even have your organization collaborate with us, feel free to contact us.
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The problem of the most isolated villages.
We consider n villages (n > 1), numbered from 0 through n–1; for 0 ≤ i < n and 0 ≤ j < n, a computable function f(i, j) is given, satisfying for some given positive constant M:
for i ≠ j : 0 < f(i, j) < M
for i = j : f(i, j) = M .
For the i-th village, its isolation degree "id(i)" is given by
|id(i) =
|f(i, j) =
|f(i, j)
|j ≠ i
(Here f(i, j) can be interpreted as the distance from i to j; the rule f(i, j) = M has been added for the purpose of the above simplification.)
We are requested to determine the set of maximally isolated villages, i.e. the set of all values of k such that
(∀ h: 0 ≤ h < n: id(h) ≤ id(k)) .
The program is expected to deliver this set of values as
miv(miv.lob), ... , miv(miv.hib)
Note that eventually all values 1 ≤ miv.dom ≤ n are possible.
A very simple and straightforward program computes the n isolation degrees in succession and keeps track of their maximum value found thus far. On account of the bounds for f(i, j) we can take as the minimum of an empty set the value M and as the maximum of an empty set 0.
begin glocon n, M; virvar miv; privar max, i;
miv vir int array := (0); max vir int, i vir int := 0, 0;
do i ≠ n →
begin glocon n, M; glovar miv, max, i; privar min, j;
min vir int, j vir int := M, 0;
do j ≠ n →
do f(i, j) < min → min:= f(i, j) od;
j:= j + 1
od {min = id(i)};
if max > min → skip
▯ max = min → miv:hiext(i)
▯ max < min → miv:= (0, i); max:= min
i:= i + 1
The above is a very unsophisticated program: in the innermost loop the value of min is monotonically non-increasing in time, and the following alternative construct will react equivalently to any value of min satisfying min < max. Combining these two observations we conclude that there is only a point in continuing the innermost repetition as long as min ≥ max. We can replace the line "do j ≠ n →" therefore by
"do j ≠ n and min ≥ max →"
and the assertion after the corresponding od by
{ id(i) ≤ min < max or id(i) = min ≥ max } .
Let us call the above modification "Optimization 1".
A very different optimization is possible if it is given that
f(i, j) = f(j, i)
and —because the computation of f is assumed to be time-consuming— it is requested never to compute f(i, j) for such values of the argument that f(j, i) has already been computed. Starting from our original program we can achieve that for each unordered argument pair the corresponding f-value will only be computed once by initializing j each time with i+1 instead of with 0 —only scanning the upper triangle of the symmetric distance matrix, so to speak—. The program is then only guaranteed to compute min correctly provided that we initialize min instead of with M with
|f(i, h)
|0 ≤ h < i
This can be catered for by introducing an array, b say, such that for k satisfying i ≤ k < n:
|for i = 0 : b(k) =
|for i > 0 : b(k) =
|f(k, h)
|0 ≤ h < i
(In words: b(k) is the minimum distance connecting village k that has been computed thus far.)
The result of Optimization 2 is also fairly straightforward.
begin glocon n, M; virvar miv; privar max, i, b;
miv vir int array := (0); max vir int, i vir int := 0, 0;
b vir int array := (0); do b.dom ≠ n → b:hiext(M) od;
end {all virgin variables at outer level are initialized};
do i ≠ n →
begin glocon n; glovar miv, max, i, b; privar min, j;
min vir int, b:lopop; j vir int := i + 1;
do j ≠ n →
begin glocon i; glovar min, j, b; privar ff;
ff vir int := f(i, j);
do ff < min → min:= ff od;
do ff < b(j) → b(j)= ff od;
j:= j + 1
od {min = id(i)};
if max > min → skip
▯ max = min → miv:hiext(i)
▯ max < min → miv:= (0, i); max:= min
i:= i + 1
To try to combine these two optimizations presents a problem: in Optimization 1 the scanning of a row of the distance matrix is aborted if min has become small enough, in Optimization 2, however, the scanning of the row is also the scanning of a column and that is done to keep the values of b(k) up to date. Let us apply Optimization 1 and replace the line "do j ≠ n →" by
"do j ≠ n and min ≥ max →" .
The innermost loop can now terminate with j < n; the values b(k) with j ≤ k < n, for which updating is still of possible interest are now the ones with b(k) ≥ max, the other ones are already small enough. The following insertion will do the job:
do j ≠ n →
if b(j) < max → j:= j + 1
▯ b(j) ≥ max →
begin glocon i; glovar j, b; privar ff;
ff vir int := f(i, j);
do ff < b(j) → b(j)= ff od
j:= j + 1
The best place for this insertion is immediately preceding "i:= i + 1", but after the adjustment of max: the higher max, the larger the probability that a b(k) does not need any more adjustments.
* * *
The two optimizations that we have combined are of a vastly different nature: Optimization 2 is just "avoiding redoing work known to have been done", and its effectiveness is known a priori. Optimization 1, however, is a strategy whose effectiveness depends on the unknown values of f: it is just one of the many possible strategies in the same vein.
We are looking for those rows of the distance matrix whose minimum element value S exceeds the minimum elements of the remaining rows and the idea of Optimization 1 is that for that purpose we do not need to compute for the remaining rows the actual minimum if we can find for each row an upper bound Bi for its minimum, such that Bi < S. In an intermediate stage of computation, for some row(s) the minimum S is known because all its/their elements have been captured; for other rows we only know an upper bound Bi. And now the strategic freedom is quite clear: do we first compute the smallest number of additional matrix elements still needed to determine a new minimum, in the hope that it will be larger than the minimum we had and, therefore, may exceed a few more B's? Or do we first compute unknown elements in rows with a high B in the hope of cheaply decreasing that upper bound? Or any mixture?
My original version combining the two strategies postponed the "updating of the remaining b(k)" somewhat longer, in the hope that in the mean time max would have grown still further, but whether it was a more efficient program than the one published in this chapter is subject to doubt: it was certainly more complicated, needing yet another array for storing a sequence of village numbers. The published version was only discovered when writing this chapter.
In retrospect I consider my ingenuity spent on my original program as wasted: if it was "more efficient" it could only be so "on the average". But on what average? Such an average is only defined provided that we postulate —quite arbitrarily!— a probability distribution for the distance matrix f(i, j). On the other hand, it was not my intention to tailor the algorithm to a specific subclass of distance matrices!
The moral of the story is that, in making a general program, we should hesitate to yield to the temptation to incorporate the smart strategy that would improve the performance in cases that might never occur, if such incorporation complicates the program notably: simplicity of the program is a less ambiguous target. (The problem is that we are often so proud of our smart strategies that it hurts to abandon them.)
Remark. Our final program combines two ideas and we have found it by first considering —as "stepping stones", so to speak— two programs, each incorporating one of them, but not the other. In many instances I found such stepping stones most helpful. (End of remark.)


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Achieving finance services miles above the rest
Higher rewards for client and customers
This global airline company operates an exclusive rewards club for its flyers, who accumulate air miles towards a variety of rewards, such as free travel, seat upgrades and premium gifts. Issues which arose with the air miles program were an increased balance sheet liability due to unredeemed air miles and difficulty for members finding suitable redemptions for their accumulated miles. The challenges included attracting new customers to the loyalty programme, promoting the airline brand and giving members a unique product offering superior to the airlines competitors. The airline wanted to ensure an enhanced shopping experience for those customers not only on board the aircraft, but before and after they chose to fly. As the air miles program is aimed at a predominantly well-off segment, any solution would have to meet their exacting requirements..
A further challenge was the time to implement a solution. There was an increased focus on promotions and sponsorship to generate higher brand awareness in the marketplace. To support these major marketing investments, project delivery deadlines were extremely tight.
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The decisions was taken to source services from the Arvato group and use the expertise of Arvato finance to ensure that all financial elements were optimized and managed expertly globally Arvato, which had managed the main client relationship since 2006, put together a complete, customised solution from a single source.
An exclusive shopping experience was designed and rolled out globally for the airline. The solution consisted of a paper based and online catalogue, which allowed customers to browse and choose from a vast array of products. Orders could be placed via a call centre or directly via the web-shop and customers had the option to select various payment methods, from air miles to credit cards or a combination of both. Arvato finance has handled the trade spend and debt management processes for the client's paper-based and online catalogue since its inception in 2007.


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A clean PKGBUILD: http://paste.ubuntu.com/11812782/
Search Criteria
Package Details: vim-perl-support 5.3.2-2
|Git Clone URL:
|https://aur.archlinux.org/vim-perl-support.git (read-only)
|Package Base:
|Perl-IDE offers easiest way to do all of the above, saving lot of time and keystrokes.
|Upstream URL:
|Last Packager:
|First Submitted:
|2010-06-11 11:25
|Last Updated:
|2015-06-14 14:16
Dependencies (9)
- perl (perl-git)
- vim-runtime (vim-light, vim-qt-git, vim-qt-qt5-git, neovim-drop-in, vim-runtime-git, gvim-gtk2)
- vim-vim-support
- perl-critic (optional) – Critique Perl source code for best-practices
- perl-devel-fastprof (optional) – to run "fast" perl per-line profiler
- perl-devel-nytprof (optional) – Powerful fast feature-rich perl source code profiler
- perl-devel-smallprof (optional) – to run per-line Perl profiler
- perl-perl-tags (optional) – to generate Ctags style tags for Perl sourcecode
- perl-tidy (optional) – Parses and beautifies perl source
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Archer777 commented on 2015-07-02 22:43
Archer777 commented on 2015-07-02 22:42
A cleaner PKGBUILD: http://paste.ubuntu.com/11812782
dracorp commented on 2014-11-24 19:21
@humhumhum: This is probably my mistake. Yesterday I upgraded package.
humhumhum commented on 2014-11-24 12:31
the md5sum is not anymore correct. The md5sum of <http://www.vim.org/scripts/download_script.php?src_id=22459> is now 'fe0ace1d5214a86f16a72a5ab99b80c6'.
Does some one know how to validate this md5sum, or should I trust http://www.vim.org?
dracorp commented on 2014-06-01 16:14
@tweezerhead: it's depends from vim-vim-support.
walkingrobot commented on 2014-05-26 15:20
Hi, I got errors about *SetMap*. I had to comment out the rm of template.vim, core.vim and templatesupport.vim. It works now.??
walkingrobot commented on 2014-05-26 15:16
3ED_0 commented on 2014-04-26 20:04
1. Please, Update version to 5.3.1
2. "url" from PKGBUILD not working for me. There is working:
dracorp commented on 2012-10-06 16:37
Why? I have installed vim-{c,bash,perl,vim}-support (but I use only bash and perl support) and is OK.
Of course, can do common package with conflicting files i.e. vim-common-support.
rickeyski commented on 2012-10-05 04:06
Hey, I might be missing something in the docs, but I think we will have to add vim-c and vim-vim-support as conflicts instead of depends. I haven't been able to make them play nice with each other with the new templating system. Let me know what you think.


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Architecture is the science and art concerning the design, technical, economical, ecological and social planning of buildings. This involves identifying and coordinating many complex requirements. These include everything from the historical and social environment to functionality, design and economics, to the suitability of the means and materials used. The quality of architecture, including interior architecture and urban planning, is measured by the comprehensive consideration of and provision for all of these requirements.
A general education makes way for a flexible career after graduating. Jobs in the field of architecture and construction range from architectural artists and design architects, who concentrate on architectural theory and visual arts, to engineers, who technically design buildings or furniture, to construction site foremen.
The University of Applied Sciences is situated in the centre of Stuttgart, the "City of Architects", and is a university with a nationwide reputation that unifies all multidisciplinary skills of construction in one location. The bachelor/master system offers challenging courses in architecture, interior architecture, urban planning and project management, where students will be imparted solid knowledge on design, technology and organization.
Focus is on a strongly practical approach to planning and construction, as well as other, integrative teaching methods. Students work intensively on campus, in the studio and in small groups. All of this is with direct supervision from professors and visiting lecturers from the departments of architecture, interior architecture, urban planning and project management, as well as the neighbouring specialized departments of building physics, civil engineering and surveying.
"And if you think of Brick, for instance, and you say to Brick,
'What do you want Brick?' And Brick says to you: 'I like an
Arch.' And if you say to Brick 'Look, arches are
expensive, and I can use a concrete lentil over you. What do you
think of that?' 'Brick?' Brick says: '... I like an
Louis I. Kahn, 1972 (from: "Die Architektur und die Stille", Basel, 1993)
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Two men sit in an isolated cabin exchanging stories about their past. Their past is our future, a post-Google Glass world where mobile technology is implanted directly into the optic nerve so, for example, it becomes possible to "block" other people, preventing communication in real life as well as online. Black Mirror is back for this one-off Christmas spec-fi drama.
For the unitiated, Channel 4's Black Mirror is a series of speculative fiction TV dramas created by Charlie Brooker, a twenty-first century Twilight Zone with stand-alone dramas inspired by the rise of digital media tech. Brooker has always been the ultimate hatchet-wielding reviewer - for this episode, satirical targets include friend-blocking, online pick-up gurus, and personal assistants such as Siri or Cortana.
As with previous mini-series, the acting in this episode is super: great performances particularly from a creepy Jon Hamm. The combination of the three subplots is OK but personally I think the ideas would have been better suited for three full episodes.
However all the sci-fi concepts and subplots are a diversionary tactic. Brooker has used this episode to declare war on one primary target, and by the end of the episode you will hate it as much as he does. It is of course the soundtrack - Wizzard's "I Wish It Could Be Christmas Every Day."
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Hi All
Well another trout season draws to a close, and what a great season 2014 was for the river dodder anglers. The river fished well around Patricks weekend, then slowed. We had good rain in April, this freshened the river and the sport came back, mainly to small olives. May arrived and there was a good hatch of Mayfly, in early May, which seems to have been country wide, in fact Lough Derg and Lough Sheelin fished extremely well in the first two weeks of May, the Pearl Mayfly did all the damage.
Summer was excellent for the beach, but as the river levels dropped the fishing became very difficult, the only way to temp these now wise trout, was with small black flies, like the knotted midge.
In July the Salmon and Sea Trout arrived into the lower stretches, with the floods back in June, with a few good fish being caught and returned (Remember All Salmon and Sea Trout are catch and release for 2014 and a state Salmon licence is required)
We wish to send out a big THANK YOU to all those hard working river dodder anglers, who grafted hard on the work parties, to make the River Dodder such a fantastic amenity for the whole of Dublin, Where else would you get such a facility within a capital. WELL DONE !!
And so on to the winter, we only have the stock lakes like Tinnehinch, Annamoe, and Brittas, and for those dark winter evenings, there is always the fly tying.
We will have the new 2015 the River Dodder Anglers membership cards back into the store around the 10th March 2015, so until then, stay safe, and enjoy the winter.


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Hibs chairman Rod Petrie has urged a group of dissenting supporters to drop their "aggressive guerilla tactics" against he and owner Sir Tom Farmer.
He also dismissed claims in the wake of Wednesday's Annual General Meeting that the club had been reluctant to discuss the merits of the share plan, which is due to launch on Monday with the aim of allowing supporters to seize a 51 per cent shareholding in the club.
Pressure group Hands on Hibs have been particularly vocal in their criticism of Petrie and Farmer and have called for Monday's share launch to be postponed to allow for further dialogue with supporters.
In a statement, Petrie said: "It has to be hoped that the call for talks from Hands on Hibs, a group which directors have met on more than one occasion, will be matched by a cessation of their aggressive guerrilla tactics which has included making false and defamatory accusations against key figures involved with the club and deriding other groups of supporters. Now is a time for unity amongst everyone.
"It is disingenuous to suggest that discussion of this issue has been restricted to a few minutes at the AGM. We have at all times welcomed those who have wanted to speak with us and engage with us. Some have chosen to do so, and others have not. But to suggest there has been no opportunity to engage in constructive conversation, to learn more about the plans, and to be reassured on any aspect of them, is simply not true."


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