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Mutual funds look obsolete
On the face of it, mutual funds are a huge global success story.
Assets in collective investment schemes have grown seven-fold in two decades and now top $30 trillion.
Growth in global mutual fund assets
Source: Investment Company Institute
Yet the mutual fund structure contains weaknesses.
First, funds need to apportion correctly the costs associated with investors entering and departing the fund, a tricky job. So-called dilution levies (also called entry fees or front-end loads) and exit fees are there to make sure that the costs of any purchases (or sales) of securities incurred on behalf of an entering (exiting) investor are borne by that investor, rather than by the rest of the fund holders.
Unfortunately, many fund managers have historically set entry/exit fees too high and used them as a disguised source of revenue.
A more important drawback of funds is that they may carry liquidity risk.
If a fund invests in less liquid assets but promises immediate liquidity to its investors, the fund manager may cope with a sudden withdrawal of investors' funds by selling the most liquid of the underlying assets. This would disadvantage those remaining in the fund by leaving them with a rump of less liquid securities. As a result, investors are incentivised to "run" from a fund in stressed market conditions.
Given the increasingly large size of many mutual funds (including ETFs) and the potential liquidity problems in certain asset classes (like corporate debt) it's not surprising that regulators have been focusing on fund liquidity as a potential source of broader, systemic risk.
In most jurisdictions, the managers of mutual funds have the little-advertised ability to "gate" (ration) redemptions—a right that, if invoked, could contribute to a panic.
Mutual funds have historically been expensive, too. ETFs are a welcome recent exception to the trend of overcharging, but fund fees pay for hefty salaries at asset management firms, as well as for the services of a whole range of middlemen: lawyers, accountants, custodians and transfer agents.
The world's largest investors don't use mutual funds: they insist on their own, flexible managed accounts. What if smaller investors could follow suit?
It turns out that they now can.
Firms like US-based Motif Investing allow you to buy a diversified, thematic portfolio of stocks in one transaction. Motif charges $9.95 for a trade in up to 30 stocks, much cheaper than online brokers' rates for buying or selling 30 individual securities. You can customise your own portfolio (called a motif) or copy someone else's.
You end up with an investment that's very similar to an index fund, but with significant advantages: no annual fees, no administrative overheads, no worries about how costs are mutualised and no concerns over gating. Unlike some funds, a stock basket doesn't lend shares, use derivatives or incur collateral risks.
Under this model you own the stocks in your motif, with full entitlement to dividends. You retain voting rights, rather than delegating them to an anonymous fund manager, who may not even use them (except, potentially, if the small size of your basket means you own fractional, rather than whole units of shares).
Mutual funds first came into being as a way of spreading risk. Reducing company-specific exposure via a shared portfolio seemed an attractive prospect for European investors recently scarred by Tulipmania and the South Sea Bubble.
But that technological advance came nearly three centuries ago. Now we can see the prospects for another significant shift in the savings market. The emergence of cheap, tradeable thematic baskets of stocks threatens to render funds obsolete.

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As some of you know I only use one goalie, and stream when necessary. This strategy gets me an additional skater to play for 3-4 games a week, and prevents me from fretting about ratios and wins- I can focus on getting offensive categories and can roll the dice on my ratios (sv% and GAA). I drafted Braden Holtby for this role, but his last few starts have been absolutely terrible: 5, 4, 6, and 4 goals allowed in his last four starts. His GAA on the season is 2.95, nearly a full goal greater than last year and a full half goal above his career average.
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MiR-146 and miR-125 in the regulation of innate immunity and inflammation
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BMB Reports
Volume 49, Issue 6,
2016, pp.311-318
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MiR-146 and miR-125 in the regulation of innate immunity and inflammation
Lee, Hye-Mi; Kim, Tae Sung; Jo, Eun-Kyeong;
Innate immune responses are primary, relatively limited, and specific responses to numerous pathogens and toxic molecules. Protein expression involved in these innate responses must be tightly regulated at both transcriptional level and post-transcriptional level to avoid the development of excessive inflammation that can be potentially harmful to the host. MicroRNAs are small noncoding RNAs (∼22 nucleotides [nts]) that participate in the regulation of numerous physiological responses by targeting specific messenger RNAs to suppress their translation. Recent work has shown that several negative regulators of transcription including microRNAs play important roles in inhibiting the exacerbation of inflammatory responses and in the maintenance of immunological homeostasis. This emerging research area will provide new insights on how microRNAs regulate innate immune signaling. It might show that dysregulation of microRNA synthesis is associated with the pathogenesis of inflammatory and infectious diseases. In this review, we focused on miR-146 and miR-125 and described the roles these miRNAs in modulating innate immune signaling. These microRNAs can control inflammatory responses and the outcomes of pathogenic infections.
Inflammation;Innate immune;MicroRNA;miR-125;miR-146;
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Does The Playstation 3 Have Its Own Red Ring Of Death??
It really hurts me to have to write this article, but you know I always call them how I see them here at ZKG. So anyway that reads this blog knows that while I love the PS3, I respect other people's preferences. I just want to make sure that folks who read this understand that I am NO XBOX 360 Fanboy!! The PS3 console is the only one I own and thus writing this article doesn't help my argument but it has to be said.
In my previous article I spoke about what happened to me recently, I was playing Call of Duty: World at War online and kicking some major butt I might add. Then the game closes out and I am waiting for it load back up and it never does. I hard cancel the game since my XMB was still alive and after a few seconds I got the error noise and the home screen loaded back up but this time the game disc wasn't there. I tried to take it out and put it back in, that didn't work. I tried powering down and powering back up but that didn't work. Finally, I got on the message boards and started to look around and see if anyone else had experienced this and this was the beginning of the story.
In fact, a lot of people had. Most of the post ended with the people sending it back to Sony to be fixed for free if it was still in warrantee or paying $150 US if the warranty period had expired. I found that this problem has happened with old and new systems alike. Here is a note, keep your receipt in a safe place.
I read this trick about putting a DVD in and that would restore the compound elements or something. I did that and by golly it worked..or at least I thought it worked. At first it worked to the point of allowing it to read the blu ray disc again but it went from bad to worse after that. I was able to load COD again but then after finishing a game online, it froze once again and this I had to hard quit. I tried other games and no dice. Eventually, I got some error "could not complete start operation" and that was it. My PS3 was now a glorified DVD player and a very expensive one at that. Since I am a PS3 junkie, I went out and bought another one but now I wonder what to do with the one I have here. I could pay the $150 and send it back and then try to sell it for a little more, I could sell it at Gamestop for like $100 credit, I don't know that's not the point of this post.
The point of this post is that Sony appears to have a problem. XBOX has the RROD and now Sony seems to have a problem with the disc lens either failing or becoming in some way compromised but it all ends with the PS3 not being able to read the Blu Ray disc. I had my PS3 a little over a year and never move it. There is nothing that should have occurred to cause this. I understand things fail and anything with this many moving pieces is bound to have issues but this seems to be a little more than a few issues. Bottom line if this happens to you, know that you are not alone and it has happened to a lot of other people, just go to google and type "ps3 can't read disc" and you will see how many. I don't know exactly how big this problem is but it is bigger than I thought. Be aware.


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"The accusations against the Chinese government are groundless," Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said. "It is unreasonable for the U.S. to question the Hong Kong government's handling of affairs in accordance with the law."
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In the early 1970s, Bill Wittliff visited a ranch in northern Mexico where the vaqueros still worked cattle in traditional ways. Wittliff photographed the vaqueros as they went about daily chores that had changed little since the first Mexican cowherders learned to work cattle from a horse's back. Wittliff captured a way of life that now exists only in memory and in the photographs included in this exhibition. This Humanities Texas traveling exhibition features photographs with bilingual narrative text that reveal the muscle, sweat, and drama that went into roping a calf in thick brush or breaking a wild horse in the saddle.
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As the 2009 cricket season bestows itself upon us, we can feel the excitement all around. In a few days the parks will be filled with noise, players, supporters and hopefully not a lot of spring coats.
Come this weekend New York Softball Cricket League will start their season with its twenty-five overs competition sponsored by PK Realty. Much is anticipated in this competition since players from the hard-ball leagues, will be on display and challenging the softball fanatics and stars.
The likes of Vijai Seunarine Prashad Mahadeo, Kumar Nandalall, Khaleem Bux, Andrew Gonsalves, Telston Johnson, Ravin Ivan and others will come against softball stars such as Bobby Pahalad, Bhola Pahalad, Chris Shobai, Eon Ellis, Brian Maniram, the Mattai brothers, Sunil Panday, and many talented softball cricketers. We will have to wait and see the outcome of such challenges.
But much more would be expected from the hard-ball leagues since cricket is on the rise in New York City with the introduction of the Public School Athletic League (PSAL) cricket competition, and the New York Police Department's NYPD United Cricket Twenty/20 tournament.
The parks were filled last year with the different tournaments and organized matches such as the New York Premier League, Mayor's Cup, Indo-Caribbean games and the many other matches held to help develop cricket in New York and the USA. It should be encouraging to do the same, and even staging more of these games.
Over 600 students would have taken part in the PSAL competition and from all indications that number should increase dramatically with the inclusion of a few more schools this year.
The future of the game is in the hands of the youths, so the adults should encourage them to stay with the game and help in whatever way they could.
Despite the current financial situation affecting the world and us in New York, the game should still be encouraged, your support in any form will definitely help to broaden and spread the cricket culture.
But more importantly, the results and hype of the games should be publicized. The administrators should ensure local media outlets are invited on a weekly basis so the game can be reported and published. We have seen PSAL, NYPD Twenty/20 and the Mayor's Cup games were covered in some detail by the daily and weekly newspapers, as well as some television coverage. It is widely believed that the publicity helped the game.
The need for a cricket media outlet would be more than welcome at this time, but help from local businesses would have to play a larger supporting role, so it can be sustained.
Newyorkcricket.com is trying it utmost best to help the game, and as such the leagues and clubs are asked to send in their reports from week to week to help promote the game. It is the desire of newyorkcricket.com to continue with live score updates on it site for the 2010 season.
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You may have heard of the BTRFS file system. BTRFS is an advanced, next-generation file system which was jointly developed by Oracle, RedHat and other companies.
When I came across BTRFS the first time, I dismissed it as yet another file system like EXT4 and NTFS. There are so many file systems available these days that most people don't care about what they are using. And there really is nothing to care about. The difference between file system formats like EXT3 and EXT4 are of interest only to advanced users. Sure, EXT4 provides journaling and better reliability than EXT3, but for the average user, there is nothing about EXT4 that changes the way they interact with their system on a daily basis.
BTRFS is different. It's such a big improvement over previous generation file systems that it will change the way you use your hard disks.
Consider the following:
Dynamic Partition Resizing - You can resize partitions dynamically while they are being used. There is no need to unmount and no need to reboot to a live CD. You can even resize the root partition while the system is running.
Disk Pooling - You can combine all your hard disks into one big volume which will act like a single partition even though they are on separate devices. You can add more devices to this pool and remove existing devices without having to unmount.
RAID Arrays - You can combine separate partitions on different hard disks to create a software RAID setup. For example, if you have two 1TB hard disks you can create a single BTRFS volume of 2TB capacity which uses the disks in a RAID-0 setup. Any file that you write to the volume will be written to both disks simultaneously, giving you almost twice the read and write speeds that you would get from a single disk.
Atomic COW Snapshots - You can create a snapshot of your system without copying a single file. The snapshot simply replicates file system metadata without duplicating files. The snapshot will take zero disk space when it is created initially since a single copy of each file is stored on disk. Files are duplicated when they get modified and common data blocks are shared. So you can create a hundred snapshots of your system without wasting disk space and restore the snapshots to undo system changes. The snapshots are also atomic. So if you take a snapshot at 10 seconds past 4:00 pm on 3rd October 2014, the snapshot will contain every single byte of data that existed on your system at 10 seconds past 4:00 pm on 3rd October 2014. Restoring a snapshot will give you the exact system that was snapshotted, down to the last byte.
Data Compression - BTRFS can automatically compress and decompress data that gets written to the BTRFS volume. This saves a lot of disk space and is similar to the NTFS compression available on Windows. Different compression algorithms can be selected (ZLIB,LZO,etc) to get the desired balance between better compression and faster performance. Un-compressible files like videos and music are automatically stored without compression.
Data Block Sharing - Let's say you have a 100GB file that you need to modify 10 times to create 10 different versions. On a normal file system like EXT4 the 10 files will occupy 1000GB space. On a BTRFS file system the different versions of the files can share common data blocks. The total disk space used by all 10 files will be the size of one file plus the modified blocks in each file.
These are just some of the things that you can do with BTRFS. More information is available at the following links:
Bitrot and atomic COWs: Inside "next-gen" filesystems
Using BTRFS
The simplest way is to install your system on a BTRFS partition when you install Ubuntu or Linux Mint. In some distributions like Linux Mint, BTRFS is not available by default. You will get the option in GParted only after installing the 'btrfs-tools' package with the following command:
sudo apt-get install btrfs-tools
Install the above package, use GParted to format the partition to BTRFS, then select the partition while installing Ubuntu or Linux Mint. By default it will create 2 subvolumes @ and @home which will be mounted to root (/) and home (/home) directories.
Note: You don't need to specify a separate partition for home while installing Ubuntu since the installer will automatically create a separate subvolume (@home) in the BTRFS partition.


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Dr Panagopoulos holds a Ptychion in Mathematics from the University of Athens, and a PhD in Statistics from the University of St. Andrews, Scotland, UK. His research interests focus mostly on data analysis with concentration in regression analysis and correlation. He joined the ACG faculty in September 1984 as a part-time instructor and became full-time faculty in September 1985. He served as Department Head, and on various appointed and elected College committees. He teaches courses in Mathematics and Statistics across the curriculum and has contributed to the development, revision and implementation of many departmental courses.


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Understanding by Design
The highly anticipated second edition of Understanding by Design poses the core, essential questions of understanding and design, and provides readers with practical solutions for the teacher-designer. The book opens by analyzing the logic of backward design as an alternative to coverage and activity-oriented plans. Though backward from habit, this approach brings more focus and coherence to instruction. The book proposes a multifaceted approach, with the six "facets" of understanding. The facets combine with backward design to provide a powerful, expanded array of practical tools and strategies for designing curriculum, instruction, and assessments that lead students at all grade levels to genuine understanding.
The School and Society
Originally published in 1899, The School and Society began as a series of lectures given to parents, professionals, and others at the University Elementary School. In this short volume, Dewey discusses the way in which education is fundamentally tied to a thriving democracy. The problem, according to the author, with the old education model was that elementary schools did not encourage exploration and curiosity in their students. In a country that requires the thoughtful pursuit of ideas by the populace in order to arrive at reasonable governance, this repressive form of education encouraged rote following and closed minds. Anyone interested in philosophy, education, and the general betterment of society will find Dewey's thoughts and early childhood learning progressive and intriguing. American educator and philosopher JOHN DEWEY (1859-1952) helped found the American Association of University Professors.
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Gov. Chris Christie has vetoed a bill that would have eliminated the three-day waiting period for marriage licenses.
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How I Planned a Vacation to Napa Valley for $500
I travel for work on a weekly basis but given it is the holiday season I have an obscene amount of time off, so I decided I needed to go on a vacation! Most people would not think that having three weeks off in a row would be a problem but me being the crazy person that I am I can not stay in one place for 25 days in a row. Instead I picked up a shift at work for the weekend before Christmas and I planned an amazing trip up to Napa Valley for New Year's Eve. Why would I rest up at home when I can be sipping wine, cuddled up by a roaring fire in Napa. Seems like a pretty obvious choice to me.
I have been to Napa a couple times before on business. I have planned a couple weddings up there and have driven through but I have never stayed and done the whole Napa Valley wine tasting experience. This past month I have worked up in San Francisco and Oakland and both trips I complained the whole time that I was so close but I could not find enough time in those trips to fit it in. I guess all of my complaining paid off because a coworker and I decided to go up and spend some time relaxing and enjoying the beautiful country air for New Year's Eve. Since we will be driving we also decided to stop in Santa Barbara on the way back down to see one of our friends that lives there.
What is on the Agenda?
We will be driving from San Diego to Napa Valley. When planning out our route I wanted to make sure that at least one of the ways we took the scenic route. AKA the longer route but I know that stopping in Big Sur for lunch and Half Moon Bay to see the whales will be so worth the extra 80 miles it ends up putting on the whole trip. Plus you get to look out at the ocean when you drive instead of cow fields. Not that there is anything wrong with cow fields. I actually love driving in the country and seeing all the animals.
After getting some suggestions from my coworker Greg who has done this drive many times I heard it would be best to do Big Sur on the way back down to Santa Barbara so we have more time to enjoy it. (These are some of my coworker's photos that he took when he drove back down the coast after we worked our event in San Francisco.)
On the way up to Napa I know we will be excited to get there and have our first wine tasting so we are going to go the shortest route, which is up the middle of California next to all cow fields. (Happy cows come from California) We are going to drive up from San Diego super early on the morning of December 30th. I am anticipating we should leave San Diego around 4:30AM so we can get on the road and hit Los Angeles around 6:30AM and make it through just as the morning traffic is starting. If we were to leave around 6AM it would put us in LA at rush hour and that would ultimately tack on another hour and a half to the trip, so leaving super early really is the best option, even though I am sure I will be super tired. If we are on schedule that will mean that we hit Bakersfield around 9AM. This is a great pit-stop town: bathroom, fuel and quick bite to eat. After that we are pretty much smooth sailing all the way up the great state of California. We can stop for lunch along the way but I also have ideas for a packed cooler lunch. This will put us into Napa at the latest 2:30 PM. That is perfect timing to rest up, go the grocery store, check out downtown and go to dinner.
Once we get up to Napa we will be staying three nights. During our stay there we will spend one full day doing a bus wine tour tasting at several of the valley's best local vineyards and one day relaxing getting a massage, going on a hike, sight seeing and shopping.
On the 31st we will be doing the wine tour. I have done a wine tour before in Santa Barbara wine country and it was amazing! You have a local driver that takes you around to four different wineries. It is very educational and informative. They provide lunch at one of the wineries and have plenty of water to keep you hydrated in between tastings. It is great to have the local knowledge going into the wineries and you don't have to worry about how many tastings you have since you have your own personal driver. (I was with a large group when I did it in Santa Barbara and we had our own private shuttle. I recommend this for larger groups.)
Since it will just be the two of us, a join-in wine tour is going to be the best, most affordable and most fun option. This is a tour with mixed groups that range usually from 6-18 people. The great part is you get a chance to know other wine-lovers on the drive too and from wineries but also have the chance to go off and do your own thing once you reach your destination. After researching many tour companies in the area I have narrowed it down to these two options:
1. Provides daily tours and they meet in a very central location of downtown Napa. They rotate their wineries every other day so that you could return a second day and go to different wineries. I like how this company has premium join-in options for more exclusive tours to higher end wineries. (Only the basic tour is offered on the 31st).
2. Provides daily tours and they pick you up at your hotel as well as drop you back off. This company has no set schedule of which wineries you go too each day. You and your driver pick it out that morning based on the group's preferences. This gamble could really work out in your favor or it could end up being a flop if you had specific wineries you wanted to visit. This option ensures that you have a unique tour.
Both tours are on trolley type vehicles, which in it of itself is an experience. There are plenty of tour companies that use sprinter vans but they are a tab bit more expensive. Both companies have daily tours that run for $99 a person. The pick up or meet-up time is around 10AM and the drop-off time is between 5 and 5:30PM. So it is a full day of tasting and enjoying.
Please please note: When doing my research I found in the very small print that tastings at each individual winery was not included in this price. I found that surprising since they were included when I was in Santa Barbara. Napa Valley does everything a la carte. Napa winery tastings range from $10-$20. So what this means that at the most expensive it would be an additional $80. However when I was talking to the tour operator companies they said because of their great relationships with the wineries they usually discount tastings depending on the size of the group. Also if a bottle of your favorite wine is purchased or a wine-club is joined then tasting fees are waived. I also found out that most of the hotels have relationships with various wineries and usually have discount cards. This would be difficult to match up with the exact wineries you will be attending unless you go with Option 1 where you know which wineries you will go too that day. I found a few Groupons for discounted wine tastings, so with a little bit of extra effort and planning you could get a great deal. Also keep in mind it is customary to tip your driver at the end of the day if you feel they provided exceptional service to you.
Note: Saturdays are popular in Napa all year round even in the off-season. High season is March to October. If you are planning a trip during these months and want to do a wine tour on a Saturday make sure to book far in advance for the company you would like. For off-season the tour companies said I would be fine booking about 5 days in advance.
Also keep in mind if you are planning a trip up to Napa for New Year's Eve like we are you will find it more difficult to find companies who actually run tours on these days. Since it is a very slow time of year a lot of the companies take the opportunity to take a few days off. I also found out that most of the wineries are closed on New Year's Day January 1st so that is why our only option for a tour was the 31st. I also saw some deals on Groupon for discounted wine tours for about $65 dollars per person but that company was not running tours during our stay.
I have been running into the same problem with booking massages on New Year's Day but I have confidence that we will be able to find them. I budgeted $70 for a Groupon massage. I plan on us taking it easy on New Year's Day and just enjoy exploring around the town of Napa or venturing out to Sonoma or Petaluma for lunch or dinner.
On New Year's Eve there is plenty to do in Napa to ring in the New Year. I have found several parties at some of the wineries and hotels. They even have a party that is hosted on a train. Most of these parties are very formal affairs. Tickets should be purchased in advance and usually include dinner, open bar, live music and dancing all bundled into the ticket price. However since we will have been doing a wine tour all day I think the open bar might go to waste if we attended one of these parties. Our plan right now is to go to one of the local downtown bars and ring in the New Year in a more casual manor. Champagne I am sure will still be enjoyed.
So now for the good part. How did I plan such an amazing trip for only $500?
The key word here is leverage. Since I travel a lot and even if you don't you want to make sure that you are always maximizing your opportunity for future travel. This goes without saying but every time you travel you want to make sure you are apart of every single rewards program that you run into: Airlines, Rental Cars, Hotels, Restaurants, EVERYTHING! Because you will accumulate points and those points can be used for future vacations; for example Napa Valley trip.
So how did I really get up and back to one of the most expense places in California for my screaming deal of $510 dollars? This includes gas money, hotel accommodations, activities (wine tasting and massage), food and alcohol. I even made my food budget on the high side so that if I had left over money I could use it for shopping or bringing a bottle of my favorite tastings home with me.
So lets break it down. Accommodations are usually the most expensive part of any travel. The cheapest hotel I could find in Napa was right around the $200 dollar per night mark. Of course we would have been staying in a darling little bed and breakfast but since we are in our mid-twenties we don't have that kind of budget yet. You get what you pay for most of the time, unless you know how to leverage.
Since I am traveling with a coworker, he also travels for a living so we were able to leverage some of his hotel points as well as mine. I found a Hilton Garden Inn that was 2 miles from the heart of downtown Napa. Since we have my car it wasn't a problem that we are staying just slightly off the main drag. We ended up using a total of 90,000 points and spending $170 for 3 nights. The cherry on top of all of this is because we have status with Hilton not only will we stay for practically nothing we will be upgraded to a suite the whole time. (The forth night we will be staying at our friend's house in Santa Barbara so that doesn't cost us anything.)
As mentioned we chose to drive which was more affordable than flying into San Francisco and getting a rental car. (Event though we could have used points and gotten that for free also, the road trip sounded like more of an adventure.) Total budgeted gas money for there and back is $120. (Perks of driving a Camry with good gas mileage.) Total miles will be close to 1200.
For the food budget I thought $50 a day would be more than sufficient. We are going to go to the grocery store when we first get there and pick up snacks. Breakfast is included with our stay since we have status with Hilton, and for dinner I already have some Groupons in my basket for really nice restaurants we can eat at for a fraction of the price.
Accommodations: $170
Transportation: $120
Food/Alcohol: $400
Activities: $330
Total: Divided by 2= $510 a person
I hope this information was helpful for you if you are trying to plan a trip up to Napa Valley on the more affordable side. Stay tuned for the blog that goes over what we actually did and spent compared to how I planned it out. I did a lot more research about where to stay and what to do so please feel free to reach out to me with any questions or comments.


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Populations are increasing, resources are being depleted, uncertainty in food production is escalating, and food security – access to enough – is a global issue. New Zealand could have a role to play. This won't be in feeding the world directly, but might be in assisting other countries to achieve sustainable, efficient food production systems, and in the process improve systems in New Zealand.
Food security encompasses affordability, availability and quality. The food riots of 2008 and 2011 in more than two dozen countries were a reaction to huge price swings in staple crops. New Zealanders didn't riot, but have been vocal about food price increases for some time. Although food as a proportion of income has decreased year-on-year and the global population overall is better fed than 50 years ago, people have forgotten.
That's probably because for developed countries, food security has not been a concern since the 1960s, when massive gains in yield and on-going technological developments based on scientific research meant that food became more plentiful and cheaper. That situation is looking less and less assured as population growth strains resources.
The potential to meet food demand by increasing the amount of land in production is limited. This is due to the investment costs involved, a lack of the right kind of land, and –where there is land – competition for its use from urban and industrial expansion.
Increasing productivity from existing agricultural land is the key to maintaining the world's food supply.
This was the focus of the OECD's FAO Agricultural Outlook 2012, released in July. The authors suggest bridging the yield gap, i.e., bringing developing countries up to yield potential, is part of the answer – but that pushing the frontiers of production with new technologies should be the main goal.
New Zealand can assist in closing that yield gap.
Current agricultural production systems in New Zealand are more productive, and more efficient in terms of environmental impact, than in most countries. Outlook 2012 indicates that New Zealand's nutrient surpluses (a surplus equating to a potential loss to the environment) are the lowest in the world. Overseas research (confirmed by that in New Zealand) shows that we are also in the lowest greenhouse gas production per kilogram of product category (for non-housed animals). Of further interest is that precision agriculture, including irrigation, is advanced. We also have considerable experience with technology transfer and knowledge extension systems through levy bodies, researchers and private consultants. This means we can transfer great information effectively.
All of these factors make New Zealand an obvious port-of-call – and not just for developing countries.
This thinking is supported by 'A Call to Arms: a contribution to a New Zealand Agri-food strategy' released at the end of July. Lead author Dr Kevin Marshall suggests that as a world leader in agricultural production systems and processing, New Zealand can and should help other countries improve their agribusinesses. At the same time we should be able to leverage intellectual capital offshore to bring benefits for New Zealand and other countries.
Pushing the frontiers of productivity could be more of a problem. Agricultural Outlook 2012 highlighted the potential of biotechnology to assist in achieving gains. Biotech crops are now grown in 29 countries because of the benefits of efficient water use, reduction in use of chemicals (pesticides) and fuel, plus decreased soil erosion. They aren't grown in New Zealand, but in conjunction with our efficient production systems, could, with research, lead to major advances.
There is so much more we could do not only to bolster our own food security and supply but also take a leading global role in the issue…but we simply don't spend enough on agricultural research. This is one of the reasons why New Zealand languishes in 11th place on the Global Food Security Index 2012, produced by the Economist Intelligence Unit. In fact, the parlous state of global funding on agricultural R&D in the 1980s and 90s is part of the reason the world finds its food security under peril.
New Zealand's role in feeding the world lies in working with other countries in achieving sustainable agricultural production systems and developing new ideas and resource-efficient thinking for making a difference. The R&D and technology transfer that we have already recognised as being fundamental to improving agricultural productivity have been highlighted as being vital for the world.
Agricultural Outlook 2012 suggests that governments should be setting policy to encourage improved agronomic practices, create the right commercial, technical and regulatory environment and strengthen the agriculture innovation system through research, education and extension. Adoption of technologies will be vital and biotechnologies could assist in protecting the environment while ensuring that high quality food is still affordable and available. New Zealand could show the way.
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I know that those of you with little girls have a blast sewing cute little frilly dresses and bags and fun things for them. And I know that those of you with boys probably struggle to find great tutorials for things to sew for your little guys. I have 4 little boys. I've got you covered. Here's a few favorites from my own blog and others. (See also 25 Things to Sew, 25 Things to do with Fabric Scraps and 25 Things to do with Fat Quarters)
25 Things to Sew for Boys:
1. I know your little boys love superheros. So here's a reversible mask from Crazy Little Projects:
2. And a matching personalized superhero cape also from Crazy Little Projects:
3. I know my boys would love these felt monsters by It's Always Autumn:
4. Got a little football fan? He'll love this fleece football hat by Make it and Love it:
5. Cute pair of shortalls for baby or toddler by Crazy Little Projects:
6. OK, this one's not sewing, but it involves fabric and that counts. Appliqued onesies by Simply This and That:
7. A cute toddler backpack that's fun in any fabric from Crazy Little Projects:
8. Baby shorts made from sleeves (and don't you just kind of want to squeeze that baby!) from Naptime Crafters:
9. Love this-a stuffed animal sleeping bag from It's Always Autumn (she also had matching stuffed animal jammies!):
10. These monsters are in my little boy's room by Crazy Little Projects:
11. Do your boys love Ninjago? They'll love this pillowcase by Crazy Little Projects:
12. Fort kit-perfect for boys! By Meg and Andy:
13. How about a crayon and coloring book carrier? By Crazy Little Projects :
14. I've made a bunch of these little man ties. They're great! From Very Homemade:
15. How about some little man pajamas? Also from It's Always Autumn:
16. For carrying their cars around town, here's a simple Car Carrier by Crazy Little Projects:
17 . Here's boyish looking quilt by Crafty Blossom:
18. Oh you've gotta love this tool belt! Another by Make it and Love it:
19: How about a very simple cowboy costume? Also from Crazy Little Projects:
20. Robot zipper mouthed pencil case by Make it and Love it:
21. Aarrrghh! They'll love this pirate hat by Simple Simon and Co:
22. My boys used to have some of these-dino hoodies by DIYing to be Domestic:
23. How about an Angry Birds blanket by Obsessively Stitching:
24. My boys LOVE these Angry Birds Hooded Towels that I made them by Crazy Little Projects:
25. Or any of the hooded towels. How about this monster by Crazy Little Projects:
One more for good measure:
Kids Sleeping Bag by Crazy Little Projects:
Oh many guys! This post has me so excited! There are SO many great things to sew for boys! Get sewing!


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Hitting theaters Friday is the Guillermo Del Toro produced remake of Don't Be Afraid Of The Dark, which I personally didn't care much for but has been receiving strong word of mouth, and of all the millions of Del Toro projects announced in the past couple years, this is one of the few to actually make it all the way to theaters, so hurrah! Check below for our exclusive chats with Del Toro as well as stars Katie Holmes and Bailee Madison. The film opens nationwide on Friday, August 26th.
"The pic follows Sally (Bailee Madison), a young girl who moves to Rhode Island to live with her father (Guy Pearce) and his new girlfriend (Katie Holmes) in the 19th-century mansion they are restoring. Having stumbled upon the mansion's hidden basement, Sally starts hearing voices calling out from the bolted ash pit, imploring her to open it. Sally obliges and unwittingly unleashes something so terrible, so unthinkable, that everyone's life – hers most of all – is placed in immediate and grave danger."


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Jeff Kurosaki and Tara Pelletier are a collaborative duo based between Brooklyn and the Hudson Valley, New York. We build multi-layered narrative projects using sculpture, video, music and performance. Our work explores the tension between the fundamental rhythms of life and the ordered systems that humans design to make sense of these rhythms.
We met in graduate school at Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan and have been working together since 2006. We have recently exhibited and performed at Real Art Ways, CT, BRIC Arts Media, NY, Vox Populi, PA; Space Gallery, ME, Wave Hill Gardens, NY; Abrons Arts Center, NY; Flux Factory, NY; Dumbo Arts Festival, NY; a 2010 European and Scandic performance tour; among others. We have held residencies through the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council; Painting Space 122; and Sculpture Space.
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Curriculm Vitae
This is a collaborative resume with individual accomplishments denoted with initials.
Master of Fine Arts, Sculpture, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Ceramics, Bachelor of Arts, French, Univ. of Hawaii, Manoa, HI (jk)
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Fiber, Maryland Institute, College of Art, Baltimore, MD (tp)
Hot Temper Performances (some, not all):
-Gold Sounds, Brooklyn, NY
-Spit House, Syracuse, NY
Nature Loves Courage, Peeler Art Center, Depauw University, Greencastle, IN
Beat, Bronx Art Space (curated by Stephanie Linquist), Bronx, NY
Real Things Performances (some, not all):
-Present Company, Brooklyn, NY
-Palisades, Brooklyn, NY
-BSP, Kingston, NY
-Cake Shop, New York, NY
-SUNY New Paltz, NY
-Spit House, Syracuse, NY
Nature Loves Courage, University of Western Michigan, Kalamazoo, MI
You Are My Rock, performance, The Poetry Project, New York, NY
Alternative Art Fair with Present Company, Baltimore, MD
Seeing the Sky, Wassaic Project, Wassaic NY
Art Into Music, BRIC Arts Media, Brooklyn, NY
Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT
Practice! (curated by Present Company & Maria Chavez), Public Assembly, Brooklyn, NY
R/D Gallery, performance, Honolulu, HI
Moon Moves (So Slowly), Solo exhibition, Space Gallery, Portland, ME
Through This to That, performance, Present Company, Brooklyn, NY
Tropiclipse, Solo exhibition, Vox Populi, Philadelphia, PA
First Light Last Light, For-Site Foundation, Nevada City, CA
Dumbo Arts Festival, Brooklyn, NY
Model, Art in Odd Places, New York, NY
New Fiction (curated by Brookes Britcher/Adaptation), New Wilmington Art Association, DE
"First Light Last Light", Intercambio, New Haven, CT
Bätterkinden Art Awards, a project by Dan Levenson, Triangle Artists Project Space, Brooklyn, NY
"First Light Last Light", Studio A.I.R., Brooklyn, NY
Moving Picture, PS122 Gallery, New York, NY
ME, WE, Abrons Arts Center with Dia Art Foundation, New York
Pacific Non Standard Time, FAR at Autonomie, Los Angeles, CA
"Song to Plants" solo show, Sunroom Project Space, Wave Hill, Bronx, NY
"Oh, river" video screening with performance, Ecology Building, Wave Hill, Bronx, NY
Rethinking Memorial: Interactive Sites for Remembering 9/11, Brooklyn Arts Council, Brooklyn, NY
Faraway Neighbor (curated by Las Hermanas Iglesias), Flux Factory, Long Island City, NY
"Oh, river", The Observatory, Brooklyn, NY
Site Fest '11, Bushwick Starr, Brooklyn, NY
The Cactus Duet Performance Tour:
-Overgaden, Copenhagen, Denmark
-Fold Gallery, London, England
-Concert au 5, Nice, France
-Crossing Border Festival, The Hague, The Netherlands
-Project Space 1646, The Hague, The Netherlands
-Delicatessan Zeeburg, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
-TIK Theatre im Kino (Nord), Berlin, Germany
-FIT, freie internationale tankstelle , Berlin, Germany
-MMX, Berlin, Germany
-Kunsthallen Brandts, Odense, Denmark
Floating World, LMCC Art Center, Building 110, Governor's Island, NY
I Know What You Did Last Summer, St Cecilia's Convent, Brooklyn, NY
Youth Art Month, Artjail, New York, NY
Site Fest '10, 3rd Ward, Brooklyn, NY
Social Structures, RPS Collective, Oakland, CA
Highlights, Artjail, New York, NY
Emergence, Creative Pioneers in Uncharted Territory, Governor's Island, New York, NY
Ides of March, ABC No Rio, New York, NY
Degree Show, Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI
Blog Theatre, St. Dunstan's Theatre, Bloomfield Hills, MI
Xchange, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI
Your Face is as Sweet as a ... Sugary Donut, Berkley Front, Berkley, MI
LMCC Workspace
Wassaic Residency, NY
Sculpture Space residency, Utica, NY
Short Term Studio Residency, Painting Space 122, New York, NY
Smack Mellon, "Hot Picks", Brooklyn, NY
Winter Workspace Program, Wave Hill Public Garden and Cultural Center, Bronx, NY
Visiting Artist, Funen Academy of Fine Arts, Odense, Denmark
Artist-in-Residence, Governor's Island, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, New York, NY
Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME (tp)
Toby Devon Lewis Grant
Visting artists and lecturers, Parsons, New York, NY
Visiting artists and lecturers, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
Workshop, Abrons Arts Center with Dia Foundation, New York, NY
Family Art Project, Wave Hill Public Garden and Cultural Center, Bronx, NY
Workshop, Funen Academy of Fine Arts, Odense, Denmark
Workshop, Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City, NY
Visiting artist and lecturer, University of Hartford, CT (tp)
Visiting artist and lecturer, University of Hawaii, Honolulu (jk)
"Here, Now vs There, Then", Catalogue, For-Site Foundation, 2013
Portland Press Herald, Art Review, Portland's Arts Scene Has Special 'Space', March 2013
Honolulu Weekly, Art Birds, March 2013
Brooklyn Independent Television, Caught in the Act, Art in Brooklyn, September 2012
attackebisu.com, Friendly Falcons, First Light Last Light, September 2012
Time Out NY, Bushwick Open Studios 2012, June 2012
Arts in Bushwick, Into the Wave, June 2012
hyperallergic.com, Wandering Through Bushwick Open Studios, June 2011
Brooklyn Based, Walking Tribute, September 2011
whitewallmag.com, Floating World, September 2010
New York Times, Exotic Isle for Artists, Right in the City, June 2010
Hello Craft, Interview, March 2011
Emergence, exhibition catalog, July 2008
Ides of March, exhibition catalog, April 2008


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Paul released two solo EP's last year one from which Friends Make The Worst Enemies was and Some Things Are Better Left Unsaid are taken from. Absolutely gutted that his handful of shows sold out so quickly (not for him of course) so it looks like my days of seeing him live post Mansun are still waiting in the wings. If you listen to the videos keep in mind these are very early preview demo style versions of possible album songs.
Hopefully the proposed full debut solo album he's been promising ever since Mansun first split isn't too far off now.
edit: Paul's first solo album 'Spooky Action' is out in August. Hell yes. Pre-ordered through Amazon.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Spooky-Action- ... B071WV3KWX
Also I have to post this...
These demos and half-written songs for Spooky Action were archived on DVD-R's and dumped in a stack of boxes after I abandoned the album all together back in the mid-2000s, I never expected to return to these songs ever again and I all but forgot about them. However, having promised the organisers of last year's convention I'd give them one of these old songs to play, I had the daunting task of finding them and knocking them into shape. When I came to dig them out, for some reason I couldn't find them anywhere in my studio.
It later transpired my studio assistant Ben had thought they were blank DVDs as I hadn't labelled them up, and took them home to record Match Of The Day on. Thankfully the songs weren't archived onto rewritable DVDs, otherwise my album would be a football commentary along the lines of, "hhhmmm he's in a wide open space…" (now there's an idea!) After a few unsuccessful attempts by Ben to record over the only existing version of my 'lost' album he gave up and managed to misplace it somewhere. After months of hunting, we finally found the album in his mum's loft.


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