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(The following article previously appeared in Veterinary Economics Magazine)
Even though I had wanted to be a veterinarian since I was 7-years old, after 12 years in practice, I found myself at the point I didn't know if I could stand another day in the office. I was frustrated, tired and worn out by the constant stresses of practice that included staffing headaches, client turnover, and financial strains. On top of it all, the stresses at work were having a profoundly negative influence on my personal life.
I felt disjointed and disconnected from those I most cared about. My life was out of balance and nearly out of control. The pain of burnout became so bad that I started abusing alcohol and drugs in an effort to numb myself so I could make it through another day. I even contemplated suicide before I finally woke up and realized the practice of veterinary medicine didn't have to be so hard and unrewarding.
In fact, life itself didn't need to be such a struggle. It was at that point I finally sought help, and with that help I turned, not only my practice around, but also my life.
Burnout – The Sinister Epidemic
Professional burn out is a growing concern in the business world. There's no question that running a business or being employed by one offers many challenges that can leave the most dedicated professional as burned out as an overcooked French fry. National statistics suggest that healthcare professionals are just one group being adversely affected by the stresses of their jobs.
According to data collected by the Gallup Organization in 2001, less than 30 percent of American workers are fully engaged at work, and 55 percent are 'not engaged,' while another 19 percent are 'actively disengaged,' meaning not just that they are unhappy at work, but they are regularly sharing those feelings with their colleagues.
These statistics suggest to me that at least 1 out of every 5 people at work is in some advanced stage of burnout.
The 4 Facets of Burn Out
Burnout is a physical, mental, emotional and spiritual shut down and exhaustion usually as a result of prolonged stress or frustration. It's like trying to run a car with a dead battery, with no water or oil in the engine, and no fuel in the tank. Let's look closer at the four inter-related facets of burnout which are: physical, mental, emotional and spiritual facets.
In a state of burnout you are often physically exhausted and frequently overwhelmed by work and life in general, which complicates matters because it increases the chances of stress-related illnesses. Mentally, you may experience confusion, a lack of clarity and often an overall negative attitude. Emotionally, you may become depressed, frustrated, resigned, fearful and angry, while spiritually you feel disconnected, empty, wondering if this is all there is to life.
You can think of each of these four facets of burnout as a different colored string, with the four strands wound together in a tangled gnarl. The question is where do you start to un-raffle the knot of professional burnout. Here are a few strategies that others have found to be effective.
S. T. O. P. is an acronym for a powerful strategy that can be used in stressful situations, and that can help you prevent or recover from burnout. The steps are:
S – Step Back
T – Think (which is often quite distinct from the flurry of thoughts that run through a burned out mind. Often, the best thinking in with burnout is more of a meditative, or prayerful form of contemplation.)
O – Organize your thoughts (i.e. The insights that may start to surface from the above step)
P – Proceed
Taking such STOPS on a regular basis gives you the opportunity to recover from the stresses that build up at work. Unfortunately, as Jim Loehr and Tony Schwartz point out in their book, The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy Not Time, Is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal, (Free Press, 2003), most of us approach our work and lives like a marathon runner rather than a sprinter, so it's small wonder that so many of us burnout before we reach the finish line.
Short STOPs of 10-15 minutes sprinkled every couple of hours throughout the day are a good place to start. Then, add in longer periodic STOPs such as regular organizational meetings to look at the larger picture of where everyone is. Consider also the occasional company picnic or other ways for the entire team to recharge and be rejuvenated. One of the most important types of STOPs often missing in a busy professional's schedule is vacation time that is truly time away from work for rest and rejuvenation.
(Next week, we'll examine additional ways to avoid and/or recover from burnout.) In the meantime, why not practice a few STOPs this week and see what happens with your overall experience of life?


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New keys for old
The battle between hackers and the minds behind the security technology built into the Blu-ray Disc and HD DVD next-gen optical disc formats has begun in earnest. A trick used to tease out disc encryption keys has been blocked.
The Advanced Access Content System (AACS) Licensing Administrator, the company that maintains the AACS copy-protection mechanism, said last week a new version of InterVideo's WinDVD, the PC-based application used by hackers to grab disc encryption keys, would incorporate new keys and technology to mask their exposure.
Users who don't upgrade their copy of WinDVD will no longer be able to play protected HD DVD and BD content, InterVideo owner Corel said. They are advised to contact their drive's manufacturer for the update.
The update marks the first public test of AACS' claimed ability to adapt to hacks to ensure content remains protected. The AACS LA said future movie discs would contain instructions that tell the hardware to retire the old encryption keys held within the drives themselves.
The upshot will be that the exposed keys will no longer unlock content, a move that sends the ball back into the hackers' side of the court to see if they can come up with something to send it back.


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I never really expected that my first day at a new agency would give me some time to look into case law–but going through the induction documents (which are a requirement for all government agencies staff to read and understand) I came accross a number of case citations that I thought worth jotting down on some note paper and then researching further when Im back into study mode.
Im trying to write these from my own notes so expect errors in the citations, at a later date I will amend these to be correct–or close enough to it
- A v K Limited & Z [2008] VCAT
- Dee v Commissioner of Police et al. [2004] NSWADT 168
- Fatialofa V Coles Group [2008] AIR 1127
- Perera v Commissioner CC [2007] NSWADT
- Walsh v St Vincent De Paul (No. 2) [2008]QADT 32
- Virgin Blue v Hooper [2007] QSC 075
I will add some abstract on each case, when I get the chance, it seems Im living 3 lives at the moment… and one of those lives just finished his first semester of law and wants to par-tee; even tho I have not had a beer since last Friday's shinannigans…
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A key Chicago City Council committee today sent Mayor Richard Daley's property-tax relief plan back for revisions after aldermen questioned how much it would really help cash-strapped homeowners.
Daley was hoping for quick approval of the plan before the council votes next month on his $6 billion budget proposal. It would use $35 million in proceeds from the city's long-term parking meter lease to send checks to as many as 400,000 homeowners whose property-tax bills spiked this year.
The taxable grants would range from $25 to $200, and the average would be $150 under the plan. A family earning less than $25,000 whose property taxes rose by $350 would get $200, while one earning less than $200,000 facing the same increase would get $100.


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The 21 Day Fix program was released about three years ago, which is about the same amount of time most fad diets and workout programs begin to fade away.
But when it comes to the 21 Day Fix, I don't see the 21 Day Fix portion control diet going anywhere anytime soon. This is why I have decided to create a new category on this blog dedicated entirely to 21 Day Fix-approved recipes.
The goal is to bring you one new recipe each week. I see a weblogs that call their recipes as 21 Day Fix allowed, but then they use ingredients that are not Fix-approved. The recipes I post here will only use 21 Day Fix-approved foods.
The recipes I will be posting will:
- Use 21 Day Fix-approved ingredients only.
- Be adaptable to your own tastes and needs.
- Be quick and easy to make.
- Not contain huge lists of ingredients.
The first recipe in this series is going to be a simple 21 Day Fix approved pot roast. This can either be slow cooked in the crock pot (my personal favorite) or baked in the oven.
Below is how I made this meal. But, you can always add more veggies or remove some. Balsamic vinaigrette can also be used in place of the beef broth or water to add a little more flavor to this meal.
21 Day Fix Approved Pot Roast
- 1 3-4 lb Roast Preferably Grass Fed, Antibiotic Free
- 1 Onion sliced
- 3 Carrots chopped
- 3 Stalks Celery chopped
- 1 cup Water or Beef Broth
- 5 Potatoes cubed
- Salt & Pepper to Taste
Brown the roast on each side by pan frying for a minute or two.
Add onion to bottom of the slow cooker.
Add water, beef broth, or balsamic vinaigrette to slow cooker.
Place roast on top of onion, season with salt & pepper to taste.
Add the rest of the veggies and potatoes to the slow cooker.
Cook on low for 8 hours or until meat is cooked to your liking and veggies are tender.
Recipe Notes
Alternatively you could bake the roast at 350 degrees for 2 hours or until cooked through, flip roast after 1 hour.
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Delete some files in the Downloads folder
My Downloads folder is always out of control. There are always a ton of pdf files that I opened once in a browser but don't need to save. It's a pain to open a GUI file navigator, like Nautilus, and double click on each pdf file to view it and see if it should be tossed. However with Emacs, trimming my Downloads directory of old files is quick and easy.
Viewing Pdfs in Emacs
If you see a pdf with an uninformative name like 2010-09.pdf just hit <enter> when the cursor is on the file name, (when the file name is at point). Emacs will open the pdf in a new buffer. Once you have viewed the pdf and have decided its face you can quickly kill the pdf buffer with 'k' and you'll be returned to the directory. Now, if the pdf is unimportant, queue it to be deleted with 'd'. If you want to keep the file, but give it a better name, type 'R' to rename it. To unqueue a file for deletion, use 'u'. And finally to delete all the files currently queued for deletion, type 'x'.
Delete old Emacs backup files
If you have a lot of backup files that emacs created with ~ appended to the file name, you can quickly queue them all for deletion by typing '~'.
Here's the List of Directory Organizing Commands
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Edit Zip'd or Tar-gz'd archives in place
If you need to edit a file inside a zip or tar archive, simply open the archive by hitting <enter> on the name in Dired mode, then click on the file. Edit the file and save it with 'C-x C-s', and then do another C-x C-s inside the zip buffer to save the archive with the file changes. The archive will be compressed again with your changes.
OMG!: Change File Owner, Group, Mode
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Use ':e' to encrypt the file at point. Emacs will ask who you want to encrypt the file for (ie whose public key to use to encrypt the file.) You can also encrypt the file symmetrically with a password. Once the file is encrypted, there will be two files in the directory: the original file and the encrypted file with '.gpg' added to the file name.
To open the symmetrically encrypted file, click on its name and you will be prompted for a password. You can also type ':d' when the filename is at point.
EasyPG Assistant Docs
The program that is used to encrypt the file's is EasyPG Assistant. EasyPG Assistant Manual
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Type 'C-hm' (describe mode) while in dired-mode, to pop open a help buffer, with a description of dired mode and a list of commands.
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Korea Night at Dodger Stadium features rock group YB and 2NE1's CL
Baseball fans who attended the annual Korea Night at Dodger Stadium in L.A. were in for a treat last night as they were joined by two of Korea's most well-known musical entities, Korean veteran rock band YB and the "baddest female," CL from K-pop supergroup 2NE1! On the field, YB stood for a photo-op session and met with the likes of Paula Abdul and Hyun-Jin Ryu, pitcher for the Dodgers (who is currently sidelined after shoulder surgery...get well soon!). CL appeared for a brief pre-game interview on the field, where she was able to show fans her excitement at throwing the first pitch!
As fans were getting ready to watch the game, YB announced that there would be a special stage where they would play a couple of their songs pre-game. As soon as YB was announced, the crowd went wild, and fans got to their feet as they sang along to YB's hits! After the live performance, Yoon Do-Hyun, lead vocalist for YB, stepped out to sing the national anthem, gaining thunderous applause from the audience as he finished the song, impressing with his strong vocals!
Now, it was time for the first pitch! Both CL and Yoon Do-Hyun went out to the pitchers mound and threw their pitches to signify the start of the game. After they left the field, fans were once again pleasantly surprised with the opportunity to get autographs from both CL and YB. It was quite the spectacle! YB is currently joining the Smashing Pumpkins for their "In Plainsong" US tour, and CL is promoting her single "Dr.Pepper".
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This is me.
Highly pixellated b/c it's an avatar picture and I can't handle taking another one. I'm a square on Saturday at Rhinebeck and I think I'll wear the Noro scarf above for indentification purposes. My hair will likely be in my face too. It's often there. I'm also going to have a Blogger Bingo T shirt on and my teardrop bag has lots of buttons including a Ravelry ribbon and a Blogger Bingo button. I'll be there with other squares/players if that helps....I was going to be wearing Kerry but Kerry is in a time out in my knitting bag as I could NOT finish the never ending sleeves in time. Full disclosure-I really started the sleeves about a week ago. I'll bring the sleeves with me though! Maybe I'll finish it in NY.
Ok! Who else is going? I know a couple of you are...but let me know for sure! Saturday, 12 noon, Ravelry meetup. I'll be there~ and will be at the Ravelry party and likely the Morehouse Merino party. See some of you then!


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I remember visiting my brother in the US when I was sixteen, and going to an American mall for the first time in my life. Obviously, being the special snowflake teenager I was at the time, I was especially excited at visiting Hot Topic. I actually think I remember most of what I bought there: a Happy Bunny baby tee, hair chopsticks and two eyeshadow mono's: one matte black, and one matte burgundy.
Yeah, I was a total badass.
Anyhow, recently I was thinking "hey, what ever happened to red eye make up?" since I used to be super into the look. It looks kind of subversive, doesn't it? Like the reverse of black lipstick. That probably doesn't make any sense, but let me explain: red is supposed to go on the lips and black is supposed to go on the eyes, so if you swap the two it's a total mindfuck! Okey not really, but it's not a look you see everyday.
Now, I didn't go for black lips today, but I really love how this first try at doing red eye make up came together. I did a makeshift job at it because I actually haven't bought red eyeshadow in AGES, so what you see here on my eyes is a mix of pink powders, burgundy lipgloss, kohl pencil and a glittery highlighter. Let me convince you that red eyeshadow can look mighty fine!
I think the colours are very flattering against my fair skin and dark hair, and the whole look has a sort of vampire-like glamour that really brings out the green in my eyes. Let's go in for a closer look so you can try this for yourself.
What I did: dark red lipgloss all over the eyelid (also functioning as a primer to make the colour more intense), medium pink in the inner corners, some of the leftover burgundy eyeshadow from Hot Topic (seriously!) in the outer corners, highlighter all over the eyelid and kohl in the outer corners, blended upwards into the crease. On the lips, I'm wearing Wet n Wild Cherry Bomb.
Let me know what you think of the look, and have a lovely weekend!


text: |Ahmed R Ahmed An Artificial Generation of Regular and Irregular Sea Wave: New Design Simulator and Experimental performance In recent years, an amplified global awareness has led to a reawakening of interest in renewable energy technology. In an effort to reduce the worldwide dependence on fossil fuels, cleaner power generation methods are being sought in the field of solar, biomass, wind and wave energy. The importance of wave energy is increased in particular in some countries like UK, Portugal, Spain and Japan. A considerable progress has already been achieved in this field but the available technical designs are not adequate to develop reliable wave energy converters. Wave energy is the most available energy associated in water seas and oceans. Simultaneously, the wave energy has consisted of two types of energies: potential and kinetic energy. Therefore, many attempts have been applied to capture these energies. In the present work, a wave generator device has been designed and manufactured to simulate and generate the heaving motion of sea waves with different specification. A PC based electro-pneumatic control system was designed and implemented to individually control wave height, these heights are 3, 8, 16, 18 and 20 cm and different frequencies to generate these regular and irregular waves.


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Oak Park's history is worth learning
Opinion: Columns
By Dan Haley
Looking at the crowd the past two Saturdays at the main library one would have to conclude that Oak Park's jaw-dropping, unparalleled efforts 45 years ago to stop the rapid racial change that had gripped and unhinged Austin — and instead somehow fostered actual racial integration — was nothing more than a lesson in nostalgia.
Old, white and mainly people who had actively crafted and contributed to Oak Park's bold efforts, first at the village government and then the elementary school levels, this was the aging choir of believers and doers who made history. And it is no exaggeration that Oak Park's success in the 1970s was anything short of historic.
So while it was affirming to gather with this group of heroes, the question was finally asked, near the close of the session on how District 97 tackled racial balance issues in the early 1970s, were there any current school board members in the room? Current administrators or principals? Teachers? Parents of today's students?
There was talk on Saturday about Dr. Elsie Harley, D97's first African-American principal, and the role she played over decades. Might be instructive when two of the last three principals to wash out in D97 have been people of color.
It was pointed out Saturday that, 40 years after the junior highs were created and the geographic boundaries of the eight remaining K-6 schools were redrawn to achieve racial diversity, seven of those eight schools — with some very minor boundary tweaks — have perpetually boasted enrollments that racially match up with the entirety of the village. The outlier, as always, is Mann which is less diverse than the village overall owing to higher-priced homes and the small number of apartments in that district.
My point is not to draw correlations between the lack of diversity at Mann and the resignations of the past two principals. I have no notion if there is any correlation.
But I am absolutely clear that while Oak Park's brave initiatives on race were launched in the 1970s, this is not a subject for the history books. This matter of racial integration is a live thing, evolving and morphing in interesting and complex ways. Sure we have a lot to learn from sessions such as Saturday's where three people who were on the absolute front line of decision-making in a very hot moment in this town, came back and shared their perspectives.
But who is taking what we learned — both the successes and the failures — and applying the lessons to this moment? Then as now we have a pronounced gap in achievement between black and white students. The discipline numbers reported last week at OPRF High School show the stubborn disproportion of bad behavior among black students and questions raised about whether the discipline is entirely fair. White, middle-class parents are still more likely to be active advocates for their white, middle-class kids than lower-income, black parents.
We've got work to do. We've made progress. The Collaboration for Early Childhood initiative is every bit as audacious as any taxpayer funded program invented in the 1970s. The two school districts and village government get major credit for this.
But there is a lot to learn from our remarkable history, too. One lesson is to rediscover just how contentious those years were. Large, angry meetings. A good measure of white flight. Inspired leadership from people who, it seems to a degree, surprised themselves at their strength of purpose.
It was a missed opportunity, Saturday, for our current education community leadership.
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Dennis Bushkofsky from Oak Park
Posted: April 4th, 2014 6:36 PM
As a relative newcomer to Oak Park, I had really wanted to attend the two recent events regarding the history of racial integration here, but was unable to do so because I was attending to needs of children in my own home. If presentations such as these could be provided in another media, perhaps something online, I'm sure that many Oak Parkers would be interested.
Matt Baron from Oak Park, Illinois Facebook Verified
Posted: April 3rd, 2014 11:43 AM
Very good reminder of the need for the next wave(s) of leaders to step up, and for more of us to grow as leaders. What can we learn from our past to forge a better future? Complacency is an ever-present temptation, and enemy.
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"It starts with the kids" – Bon Appetit Sous Chef Gibson Price on sustainable food and how it can transform the future
Our recent interview with Carleton Bon Appetit Executive Chef Michael Delcambre was such a success that we sat down with Bon Appetit's Sous Chef Gibson Price to continue the conversation about local sustainable food and how it can change our communities for the better. (Interview by Bridge Guiza). Read the Delcambre interview here.
What is your background?
My name is Gibson Price and I'm a Sous Chef with Bon Appetit.
Here at Carleton College, we make sustainable and fresh foods on a daily basis. One of the benefits is working with local farmers and Main Street Project is pretty cool because it gives other people opportunities of growing farms and having more local and sustainable products.
I've been with Bon Appetit for three years now. My first experience with sustainable and all-natural food was at the Corner Table in Minneapolis, with a local and sustainable chef, Scott B. I was just getting out of culinary school; I went to Minneapolis Community Technical College for Culinary school. Scott opened my eyes up to menuing locally.
How do you share Bon Appetit's vision for sustainable food?
Here at Bon Appetit we do a lot of educating. We talk about the pros of organic and the pros of all-natural. We pose the question: "What is organic?" and continue asking, "how is this organic?" There are variables that apply to that. Is it really sustained organics? Then you have to think about the shipping of the products, and about whether organic and conventional products are shipped together.
When it comes to the consumer, it's about educating them about both, especially when doing their grocery shopping. What's safe and what is not? It is about educating the customer and engaging them in the dialogue of what 'organic' and 'all-natural' mean to them. Is it important to you? Is it important to your kids? Is it important to the future? For example, natural products with no growth hormones are very important to someone like me.
How can we further consumer engagement?
There has been lot of research about certain substances in our food. Do they contribute to autism, and do they give you cancer? It's similar with food allergies. If you look at it statistically, a lot of food allergies didn't start until the 70s. If you look at large groups of people, basically in the 70s the processed food boom happened, that's when everything became processed. Personally, that's where I think a lot of these allergies came from. But you can also argue that in the modern day everything is recorded. So who's to say that it didn't happen before, for example like 300 years ago? It just wasn't necessarily recorded.
More or less, it's about educating your customers about what's organic, what's all-natural, and what the difference is. When you are on a tight budget you may not be able to purchase organic and sustainable products. It's all about people's wants and needs and what they can do. I wouldn't mind being all-natural all the time at home, but I don't necessarily have the funds for that. When you have a food service group like this and you have student bodies that share the consensus and concerns, you can provide them with better options.
What does all-natural mean to you and what can consumers do to eat all-natural?
Being all-natural to me doesn't necessarily mean it's organic. To me, it is naturally grown, with no growth hormones, and no antibiotics. People need to rethink how they shop and how they eat. A lot of people will go to the grocery store once every two weeks and they buy $300 worth of stuff. Half the time, we are wasting about 40% of food. I go to the grocery store every two days and I go to markets and buy what I need for the next couple of days. I think that helps me be all-natural instead of going to the store and spending so much money on processed food.
Yes, it's going to keep, it's going to have a longer shelf life. In the modern day we don't necessarily need shelf life, because food is everywhere. That's more or less what I like to do. Being a chef, we need to see this through from start to finish, especially with Bon Appetit, since we are a sustainable company. Other conventional restaurants order things where they don't necessarily know who picked it, who processed it, who trucked it in, and if they are getting fair wages.
Yes, you can get a conventional product; you know people always want cheap, cheap, cheap, more, more, more. What about the workers? How does it affect the economy? How does it affect everyone? If you want to pay your workers a decent wage, you are going to have to pay more for your product. The customer wants that because then they have a clean conscience that they are buying sustainable all-natural products and that everyone in the process from the farmers, to the transport, to the chefs feel good about it. That's more or less where I come from.
There are farms where people barely get paid any money. For the big corporate giants, they get to sell all of the products for cheap but how does that affect the little people?
If you're on a budget you can still buy organic, but perhaps not as much. With the purchasing of sustainable and all natural products, if we get more people to purchase that way, it can slowly fix the food system. You have to start somewhere.
What do you like best about working as a Chef with Bon Appetit at Carleton?
Working here at Carleton gave me the opportunity to identify the future, which are the students of colleges. I think that's where a lot of this starts. Colleges are giant think tanks with a lot of students exploring what they want to do and make it possible to push social change. They see problems and want to fix them.
I think if Main Street Project moved in to more college campuses nationwide, it would give young people the opportunity to spread their roots. Once they are off on their careers, they will always go back to what they have learned. Also, to me it's about being an honest and decent human being. A lot of kids learn that in college. Students push their ideas to create change. In the future, the cycle gets carried on. That's my philosophy of fixing the food system. It all starts with the people. You can't necessarily stop a giant corporation. There have to be a lot more people behind it. I think with Main Street Project, it starts at the local community level. It's about educating. It can also be about trends: organic, all-natural, fresh. We used to eat like that not so long ago. That's just the way it was. We can go back to that. It starts with the kids.


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[a friend who wishes to remain anonymous asked me to post this - Doug] Happy Sixty-Fifth Birthday; Now Get Back to Work by Stanley Morgan The Brooklyn Rail One of the most important far-left ideas floating around in the 1980s was the critique of modern wage-slavery, as articulated by the Zerowork group and a host of anarchist essayists, most notably Bob Black, author of "The Abolition of Work." The argument went like this: While ultra-rationalized production, technological progress, and general abundance were supposed to have created a society of leisure and plenitude, the vast majority of people in the West are in fact still forced to spend half their waking hours chained to a desk, with their every movement monitored by managers and computers, and only short measured breaks for lunch, until they're finally set free at age sixty-five. Well, all that's changed now--but unfortunately, it's not the wage-slavery part, it's the age sixty-five part. We now face something that the most hardened Reagan-era anarch couldn't have imagined: the abolition of _retirement_. Anyone paying attention to the government's continued attacks on Social Security, the slow death of the corporate pension, and the recent million-fold increases in the cost of medical insurance has to wonder: How in the world will anyone but the very rich ever be able to stop working? The answer is simple enough: They won't. Though this trend may not play out for another decade or two, there are clear signs that it's already in motion. In a recent speech, Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan suggested that, due to increasing demands on the system, government programs like Social Security and Medicare, as well as corporate retirement plans, need to be "recalibrated"--that is, scaled back. He also recommended that "policies promoting longer working lives," due to increased lifespans and better health. Increased lifespans? Better health? Maybe. But one way or the other, the decision to continue working past the current retirement age probably won't be a freely made one. The newspapers are full of stories of seventy-five-year-olds coming out of retirement to become greeters at Wal-Mart stores--not something a retiree does for the fun of it. And the number of bankruptcies among the elderly, a group not especially prone to bankruptcy in the past, has suddenly skyrocketed in the past few years. In addition, mortgage and credit card debt have been soaring among retirees. *** The most common reason given for the downturn in the fortunes of the elderly is the ever-rising cost of health care. Fair enough: With the price of drugs climbing faster than shares of Pets.com stock in 1999, elderly people are obviously going to be particularly hard hit. But there are other explanations. One is that, with the dismal employment situation of the past few years, many retirees are suddenly having to support their grown children who have lost their jobs--not a small burden for someone living on a modest, fixed income. And the elderly have plenty of first-hand problems to worry about. One particularly horrifying example is the recent phenomenon of companies reducing retirement benefits _for people who are already retired_--that is, reneging on deals that in many cases were cut decades ago, for people who have long since left the payroll. This is a step being taken not only by companies that have gone bankrupt (though, even in these cases, executives haven't had to give up a dime of _their_ bonuses), but, more brazenly, by companies that are perfectly solvent. Not surprisingly, this has become much easier to do recently thanks to legislation introduced with little fanfare by the Bush administration (in exchange for some judiciously placed corporate donations). So what about the next generation of retirees? A recent article in the Wall Street Journal ("More Firms Look at Two-Tier Plans for Compensation," Sep. 1, 2004) sheds some light on their possible fate: Where it may be too difficult or impolitic to pull the rug out from people who have already been hired, "companies, looking to cut labor costs without direct layoffs, increasingly are adopting a second compensation system for new workers to give them lower pay and benefits." Among the executives quoted in the article is a spokesman for Caterpillar, Inc., who says the new pay structure "will allow us to better align with the market--still paying people very fair, very competitive wages, but wages that are more in line with what it takes to remain competitive." Again, this isn't a desperate measure being taken by companies that are hanging on for dear life. According to a researcher at the Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations quoted in the same article, "It's important to emphasize that this isn't necessarily a function of profits getting squeezed, but of corporate management taking advantage of a relatively weak situation that labor finds itself in." In other words--with a rabidly business-friendly group running the country, and workers in constant terror of losing their jobs--corporations are slashing or eliminating benefits for future retirees simply because they can. *** As for the modest government-provided benefits that American workers could always count on, regardless of the company pensions they may or may not have coming, they're looking like less of a sure thing all the time. The attacks on Social Security that have been underway for years now have become far more ferocious under the Bush administration. Thanks in part to the massive tax cuts, primarily for the very rich, that have been pushed through since 2001, proponents of "privatization" have finally been able to provoke the funding crisis that they had been pretending existed all along. The result will undoubtedly be the "recalibration" of Social Security that Alan Greenspan longs for, as well as a move toward privately managed accounts; these will provide a windfall for Wall Street money managers while making non-market-savvy accountholders dangerously vulnerable to the kinds of scams that ran rampant in the late nineties. (Think of the many current retirees that have already lost their nest eggs in the crash of the over-hyped nineties bull market.) There's also the non-trivial problem of finding the money to pay the people who will be retiring in the next few years, a dilemma that everyone involved seems to be ignoring. In short, team up a "soft labor market" with an administration dedicated to wringing every penny out of the middle and lower classes for redistribution to the corporate elite, and the result is the most worker-hostile environment seen in this country in many, many years. Suddenly, the idea of even a moderately well-paid worker building up enough of a cushion to take it easy for twenty years seems as implausible as a Horatio Alger fairy tale. Would replacing Bush with a Democrat change this? Not much, especially with each Democratic politician desperate to prove that he's more business-friendly than the next. (And remember that many of the corporation-hugging policies being pursued by the Bush administration were first floated during the Clinton years, if somewhat less rapaciously.) Could it be that what we're seeing now is temporary, just the trough in the normal fluctuation of the business cycle? Well, if it was at first it isn't any longer, as the super-rich cleverly scurry to get grossly unfair policies codified as law in ways that could take a half-century or more to undo. A popular rebellion against the semi-competent CEOs making five hundred times as much as the average worker may or may not be coming soon, but a complete restructuring of Social Security and the repeal of the estate tax will be a lot harder to roll back. As for the quasi-paternalistic corporate benefits packages that became standard fifty years ago, there are few laws safeguarding those. Times change, and generous corporate pensions' time seems to have passed. It could take ages to regain that lost ground, and the next generation--growing up without benefits--may not even think to complain about it. How many people today remember that employer-funded medical insurance once meant insurance that was actually free? Lower wages, subsidies for the very rich from everyone else, drastically scaled-back Social Security and Medicare, the end of corporate pensions, untrammelled (and unprosecuted) executive greed and corruption, stratospheric medical costs, and massive debt incurred to pay for it all--put it together and what do you get: more work, if not from the cradle, then most certainly to the grave. Stanley Morgan is a writer based on Wall Street. # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: majordomo {AT} bbs.thing.net and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime {AT} bbs.thing.net


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Hi everyone and Happy Holidays,
In 2012, I will enter this challenge an try the level 4 and to read 48 or more mangas or graphic novels. I'm not a big fan of video games, so I will focus on mangas.
Challenge Details
- This challenge will run from January 1, 2012 to December 31, 2012. You can sign up at any time.
- You do NOT need a blog to participate as long as you have a Goodreads page or somewhere that you can review the books that you have read. Nor do you have to live in the United States.
- You do NOT have to read an ARC, or books published in 2012. And all book formats are acceptable, print, digital/ebooks, etc.
- Any book counts as long as it fits into one of the 3 chosen categories: Manga (all types of comic books are acceptable), Graphic Novels, Video Game Based Novels (Such as books based off of Warhammer, World of Warcraft, HALO, Mass Effect, Dungeons and Dragons, etc).
- If you are participating in more than one challenge, books are allowed to cross over into this challenge.
- Every month in 2012, I will make a post for the Manga/Graphic Novel/Video Game Novels Reading Challenge 2012 (M/G/V for short) on the last day of the month so you can link your reviews. Based on participation, monthly link ups may be combined.
Manga/Graphic Novel/Video Game Novel Challenge 2012


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In assessing his team's chances of beating Kentucky in the Final Four, Louisville Coach Rick Pitino referenced one of the greatest upsets in NCAA Tournament history.
"We understand we have to play the type of game that Villanova played against Georgetown," he said on a teleconference Monday. "We can't make a whole lot of mistakes to beat a Kentucky, and that's what we're hoping to do."
Villanova made 78.6 percent of its shots in beating heavily favored — and defending national champion — Georgetown 66-64 in the 1985 finals.
The Kentucky-Louisville national semifinal game Saturday in New Orleans also evoked thoughts of the NCAA Tournament's most famous near-upset: UK's 104-103 overtime loss to Duke (the so-called Christian Laettner game) in the 1992 East Regional finals.
"Duke was, in everybody's mind, an unbeatable team at the time," said Pitino, who acknowledged that he had not thought of the connection to Duke, 1992, until hearing a reporter's question. "Nobody gave us much of a shot (against Laettner, Bobby Hurley, etc, etc.).
"I'm sure that's pretty much the case now. That nobody's giving us much of a shot. But we believe we can win. Every team should believe they can win."
During his turn on the teleconference, UK Coach John Calipari downplayed the widely held notion that his team possesses more talent than the other three participants in this tradition-rich Final Four: Louisville, Kansas and Ohio State.
"You can throw talent out the window," he said of any advantage Kentucky might hold. "Everybody is talented now. Yes, we've got good players. So does everyone else."
Without mentioning Louisville by name, Calipari added, "You think they just have a system? That's why they're winning? Everyone has good players. It's going to be a war on that basketball court. Who wants it more? Who's going to compete? Who's going to execute? Who's going to be efficient on offense and defense?"
When asked about the role coaching plays in helping talent, Calipari noted Kentucky's high national ranking in various statistical categories: No. 1 in field-goal defense (37.5 percent) and blocks (8.6 per game), and top 10 in shooting (48.8 percent) and rebound margin (plus 7.1).
"So it's not just, 'They're talented,' " he said of the Cats. "They're a good team. They play together."
Calipari again voiced the hope that Kentucky does not feel obligated to win.
"Let's have more fun than any team here," he said of the objective. "Let's play our best, and we'll take the results from there."
Pitino, who guided a sixth team to a Final Four, noted that the NCAA Tournament format, known as survive-and-advance, makes talent less a factor than, say, the NBA's best-of-seven playoff series.
"One game, anything can happen," he said. "Talent is not always the reason you win or lose on the way to the Final Four. ...
"There have been games I lost with more talent and games we won with less talent."
A hot shooter, a lucky bounce or some unforeseen factor can make the critical difference, Pitino said. For instance, he noted how Florida was "much the superior team" against Louisville in the West Regional finals Saturday. But U of L rallied in the final eight minutes to win.
When a reporter pointed out that U of L will have a week to prepare for Kentucky, Pitino said, "Well, to prepare for Kentucky, I wish I had three weeks. But that being said, when you play them, it's not just a matter of preparing your defense. You have to prepare your offense because they're equally as good defensively."
Three-point threat?
Calipari suggested Louisville will shoot 20 to 25 three-pointers. "If they make them, you're going to have a long night," he said.
Coincidentally or not, Calipari again pointed out that a raised floor in the Mercedes-Benz Superdome might adversely affect shooting.
Pitino said he was not aware of the raised floor. He lamented that the NCAA does not give teams more than 90 minutes to shoot in public practices the day before national semifinals.
As for the threat U of L presents from beyond the arc, Pitino said, "We're not a big three-point-shooting team. ... That's not our forte, so to speak."
Louisville's average of making 5.9 three-pointers a game ranks No. 192 in the nation. That's barely more prolific than UK's average of 5.7 threes.
Matta not envious
Ohio State Coach Thad Matta said he was happy the Buckeyes don't have to face an archrival in the national semifinals. OSU plays Kansas.
"I know what a toll rivalry games take on coaches," he said. "So I don't envy Coach Pitino or Coach Calipari, in that regard."


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One of the Saddest and Most Disappointing Facts of life is how Powerful Women are yet they don't know it.
If women knew how powerful and influential they are and if they used their great power and influence, this world would be a better place.
My sisters just imagine; a man will cross oceans, climb mountains, cross Boarders, Walk Miles, Fight Battles, Work for Decade, Spend every Penny, Brave the Night and Risk his Life and Everything to be with a woman.
The Devil's target was the fall of Adam. But the Devil attacked Eve first not because she was weaker, but because the Devil knew that Eve had the strongest influence on Adam. Ladies the influence you have on yours Marriage and Husband is Enormous.
But the Devil wants you to live as Hopeless, Defeated and Powerless Victims. But God wants you to know that you have the Power to Build your Men and Bless your Marriages.
Be the kind of woman that sends tremors of fear in the Devil's camp every morning you wake up. No Devil in hell can stand against a praying virtuous Woman. Remember my Sisters; prayer moves the hands that move the world.
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Madonna Introduces Pussy Riot Members at the Amnesty International Concert!
Madonna hits the stage to give a speech at the Amnesty International Concert presented by the CBGB Festival held at Barclays Center on Wednesday (February 5) in Brooklyn, New York.
The 55-year-old entertainer was joined onstage by Russian protest punk band Pussy Riot members, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Maria Alyokhina, as they spoke onstage about human rights issues.
"The right to be free, to speak our minds, to have an opinion, to love who we want to love, to be who we are – do we have to fight for that?," Madonna expressed (via The Washington Post). "I've always considered myself a freedom fighter since the early '80s when I realized I had a voice and I could sing more than songs about being a material girl or feeling like a virgin. And I have definitely paid for and have been punished for speaking my mind and for sticking my neck out for this kind of discrimination. But that's OK."
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Join Dennis Daniel as he dives into the worlds of animé, professional wrestling, and pop culture to bring you the best of all three worlds in one action-packed radio program. If that's not enough for you, then "The Dennis Daniel Show" is also up your alley. Join Dennis & John as they sit down with some of your favorite guests and talk about their careers and answer some of your listener requests. Our newest show, Canterlot Radio, offers fans of the popular "My Little Pony" universe the most creative and exciting content created by the Brony community. Join DJ Mic Check as he brings you the lastest news, music, and contests, and makes BlogTalkRadio 20% Cooler! Remember, in the worlds of the All Taste Explosion, anything can and WILL happen!Read more »


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Amazon.com Inc. said on Thursday it plans to acquire the book recommendation website, Goodreads.
In buying Goodreads, Amazon gets a community of bibliophiles primed to buy and recommend books -- one of its key areas of business.
"Goodreads has helped change how we discover and discuss books and, with Kindle, Amazon has helped expand reading around the world," Russ Grandinetti, Amazon vice president, Kindle Content, said in a release.


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This is my blog, A Green and Rosie Life, which is all about helping you live life that bit greener without having to build an off-grid log cabin in the woods or knit your own nettle fibre undies! It's about helping you make simple changes that together will make a big difference to our beautiful world and make it a better place for our children. If you have arrived here expecting Eco-Gites of Lenault please scroll down and click on the gite picture in the sidebar.
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I'm with you on the raindrops on those leaves - it's almost, just almost worth a bit of rain. Not a lot, just a bit :) #hdyggReplyDelete
Oh I would love views like that from my garden! Your lucky lucky mum. I always think that raindrops on leaves look like teeny tiny diamonds sparkling (if only ey?)ReplyDelete
Hope you are enjoying your time away Rosie - and thanks for managing to join in, 10/10 for a stirling effort x
I haven't seen nearly enough fuchsias this yearReplyDelete
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We all have our share of frustrations every day. How we deal with it is very personal. Sometimes we learn by "trial and error," we talk to someone, we get some advice, other times we "sleep on it" in order to avoid making mistakes, we can go out partying to forget our worries for a short while. We adopt a variety of strategies to try to be okay despite the events that life brings us. Human interaction can bring much pleasure and satisfaction but it can also be a major source of conflicts. For various reasons, when life is not going well, people adopt ways of dealing with it that are not always positive in the long run. I am not talking about behaviors that are used from time to time, but mechanisms that are used consistently, every time we find ourselves in a frustrating, unpleasant or uncomfortable situation.
Rare are those who have never been in a situation where all you want is to forget what happened. The action taken then was more to avoid the unpleasant feeling than solving the problem so one went for: shopping, partying, watching TV, spending hours in front of the computer, over-eating, etc. That's not bad in itself, what could become a problem is when the avoidance strategies would be the main way the person would act upon displeasure.
For example: I fight with my wife *, I let myself be overwhelmed by her demands, I don't argue, I am frustrated but I do not say anything…. I stay quiet, but in my mind, I know that later on I could either: 1. Go for a ride and search for a sex worker. 2. Connect to the Net and masturbate for hours, etc. 3. Grumble all week making it clear (telepathically) that I am frustrated to my partner by having an attitude.
In sex therapy, when you look at the events prior to episodes of hypersexuality, you can often find stressful situations, unpleasant circumstances, conflicts with the partner, etc. Another thing that we can observe when one analyses further the previous events is the lack of assertiveness of the individual when dealing with the spouse. Sometimes, the person has adopted a secret sexuality as a mean to cope with unpleasant feelings.
At first, the secret activity helps maintain a certain psychological balance. Even if the situation is not satisfying, one knows he can always go back to that secret activity. Somehow along the way, all the secret surrounding the illegal activity may become a perverse incentive in itself reinforcing the benefits of the secret activity and the lack of assertiveness in the communication skills.
Not being able to set your limits in a relationship can be frustrating. In the present situation, the lack of assertiveness causes a lot of issues that could be avoid. Issues related to the lack of assertiveness are legion, but the benefits associated with assertiveness and good communication allow both partners to grow and evolve within the relationship.
Learning to be assertive and to set limits can be scary in the beginning: «If I say who I am, if I say no, if I do not agree, maybe the other will reject me? » Maybe yes, maybe no, but you have to try and give yourself a chance to grow. In the area of romantic relationships, bad habits can appear very quickly in the beginning of the relationship. Beware of extremes. As they say, we must learn to "Be neither an hedgehog nor a doormat." (its cuter in french, sorry)
Some tips
• Choose an appropriate time together to address a sensitive topic;
• Say what one has to say and avoid opening up on too many thorny issues at the same time;
• Avoid insults (you are stupid, you always-you never, lazy, etc.).
• Do not to speak for too long before you let the other one talk;
• Make a step towards each other, think better for the 2 of you, not the best for only you.
If you want to learn more about communication skills, you could check under «assertiveness» on the web.
Have a good week and feel free to leave me a comment or to give me some suggestions.
* The term wife is use here but the dynamic can be present with any other significant relationship: parents, family, friends, etc.


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May 23, 2014
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The Tyholt Tower is the second biggest tourist attraction in Trondheim behind Nidaros Cathedral. It is a telecommunications tower and stands 120 metres high overlooking Trondheim city. There is a sight seeing level on the lower floor. On the upper floor is an Egon Restaurant (the Norwegian version of a T.G.I. Fridays). The floor revolves giving a birds-eye view of the fjord and city below. A full turn takes one hour and so by the end of your meal you will have travelled at least one round. The best time to visit the tower is for sunset so you can watch the panoramic view change colour. If you have been touring the city all day you will be able to track your journey through the cityscape and pick out the landmarks you visited. For Tourists The tower is about a 30min walk through the burbs from the city. You will certainly need a map. There are also local buses that go past and you can ask the Tourist Information centre (off the market square - torget) for more details. You don't have to have a meal when visiting but it is a nice end to the day to sit, eat, relax and watch the view go by. You can visit the Egon Restaurant website but most of the information is in Norwegian. To see what's on the menu in your language click on the "languages" link.
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What Is Latency In Trading? How Does It Impact Your Trading?
Ever since electronic trading came to be, time is of the essence. When using automated trading platforms, this becomes even more important since a trading bot such as Fincrowd App will be able to carry out your trades only if it has the right information, especially about time.
Understanding latency
In the vast and complex world of the financial markets, latency is defined as the delay in time that occurs between a request and response. This is going by the dictionary definition of the word itself. When it comes to the markets, latency is defined as the time it takes for a trader to interact with the market.
When information is received and a trader acts on it in a timely and efficient manner, the latency factor comes into play. This is purely because when trading during the day, timely action on a signal will impact the amount of money you stand to make. This can be managed by an automated trading app such as Fincrowd App.
Since online trading has grown exponentially, trading apps and bots will give traders a huge advantage over others. In order for a trader to gain the maximum from this, a trader has to be able to quantify latency so that he has high odds of success.
How To manage latency in today's markets
These days the exchange of information is instant. It is imperative that for the markets to function with the same speed that information is passed out, the one thing that has to be managed is latency. Any surplus latency has to be managed so that every trading operation is running at its optimum capacity.
Latency in market information shows up in the following areas:
- Servers of brokerage firms
- Internet speeds
- Software and hardware of clients and customers
- The servers of exchanges
Since information transmission is measured in milliseconds, and this information is passed on to a trader via a trading platform, latency in the markets and trading occurs from the time the information is relayed to the time it is received.
A lot of the factors that create latency are out of a traders control. It is impossible to go to a central exchange and upgrade their servers so that information comes out quicker. However, it is possible to reduce latency from a trader's end by acting on the information as quickly as possible. The faster one responds to information the more profitable one's trades will be.
Enter the world of trading and meet the buy and hold traders
This won't be an article about short-term trading or any market that focuses on that. This time, we will skip over binary options, binary options robot and other things that help the short-term traders. No, this time, we will talk about long-term trading. When we say long-term, we are talking about people that buy shares and hold them for years. What advantages this kind of trading has and who are the people that do this are the subjects of this blog.
Benefits of this type of the investment
A deal like this is more of an investment than a trade as the trader keeps the stocks for years before they even consider the possibility of a sale. This passive form of the investment focuses on stocks from major companies. A trader of this type will not invest in a new company as its stocks don't have their true value at that moment.
There are only several trades per year for a buy and hold trader. That means the amount of the commission is very small. But this type of trading also has a positive impact on portfolio management and the risk of compulsive trading. People who enter these long-term deals spend the majority of their time on research and the analysis of the stocks. They don't rush into the deals as their investments get locked as stocks for a long period in which they gain very little to nothing.
Other parties on the market spend a lot of time on the daily price movements. A party that invests in these deals doesn't need that info. The stocks they buy will be in their possession for a year or longer, and daily changes in the price mean nothing. Even in the research and analysis phase the info from that kind of price movement observation is insignificant.
Additional benefits of the long-term trading
The owner of the shares gets the opportunity to earn money through dividends. If the shares they bought give them the right then they will gain predetermined payouts that correspond with the growth of the dividends. Other buy shares that provide them with payouts according to the number of shares they hold. The difference between these two income sources is in the extent of rights they provide to the investors.
Some parties, mainly big companies, use the stock market as another way to evade tax. This isn't anything illegal, as they invest the money as any other actor on the market. With the investment in the stocks, they avoid capital gains taxes. All along the way, their shares generate a small income. If we combine that with the money they save through evasion of those taxes, we can see the real extent of their profit.
The good thing about this "buy and hold" strategy is that it works. If you perform the research right then, the chances of a loss go to a minimum. You will profit from this trade, the only thing you require is the starting capital and a lot of patience.
Day and pattern day traders
Working through all of the types of traders you can find on a market would be impossible. Every type has its distinct investment plan, and they keep to it at every moment. Then there are slight variations within each of those types, creating additional subgroups. You might think that this is overcomplicating the simple things, but on the contrary, this is a simplification of a complicated trading structure.
A trader that doesn't belong to a type is a trader who doesn't have a long-term plan. But, some would argue, even various experienced traders use short-term trades in their investment plans. Well, those trades do belong to a long-term strategy, and we will explain one or two of those.
Breakdown of the day traders
A trader that both buys and sells an option within a day falls in this group. Those that perform all of their trades within 24 hours are the people we call day traders. Turning the option over before the end of the day keeps them away from market gap downs which might have a negative influence on longer expiry dates. People that make this group are the speculators. We can discern two subtypes:
– Retail traders use their own and the funds of other people in their deals. They come in the form of financial managers and advisors, and then some experienced traders form groups that funnel the money to them. In any case, these traders use extended funds to generate profit for themselves and their benefactors.
– Institutional day traders are the employees of various financial institutions. They don't have their capital, but they have access to enormous capital and various tools from their employer. A trader like this has a large team that works behind him. People do their research; other analyze the data those people collected and at the end the institutional trader picks the favorable trade and invest the capital in it. All of these advantages give the edge to a trader, and it also reduced the risk of a loss.
Pattern day traders – What do they do?
This type of the party keeps their trade limited to one asset. They invest in that asset over four times a day, and they keep that going for days. A person who does this takes on a huge risk, as the asset doesn't have enough time to move.
To reduce the risk, the individuals that use this strategy utilize the margin and the leverage to increase their return. Increasing the return margin through the leverage increases the risk as well as potential profit from a deal. Clever investors use software to increase the chances of a win. Software like Online Wealth Markets gives the crucial info to the investor and it reduces the risk with which the trader enters the deal.
The primary skill a pattern day trader needs is the patience. This is a game in which a large number of small returns beats the high risk-big return trades. If you aren't able to be patient and satisfied with small wins, then you won't be able to trade in this style.
Why is the options market so popular?
Indeed, why? Some attribute that to various advantages over stock exchange, and others love the fixed risk and return. But the vast majority of the parties work in this market due to the variety of tools it provides. Indeed, the number of different tools that can alter the investments is high, and that creates a chance of a high return. Some tools help the player to make a profit in a highly volatile market. Other tools assist in the trading on a market that has no volatility. The variety of choices the trader has is great, and that is one of the things that attract both speculators and hedgers.
Some basic benefits of the Options market
An options trader is always aware of the potential loss, the risk percentage and the amount they might lose. And they are also fully aware of the profit, the return percentage and the risk versus reward chances. A standard trader will limit the amount they risk with basic investments. An experienced trader that hunts big profit will use leverage to increase their return. They will increase the amount they might lose for the potential gain that will be exponentially bigger.
A stock whose price doesn't move in any direction can bring the profit to a trader on the options market. An investor has the choice to invest in options with underlying assets that stay at the same price level or even in the assets whose prices go down.
Hedging is the most common investment in the options market. The companies, corporations, and banks invest money in options to offset the possible losses on the stock exchange. Contrary to the popular belief, the majority of the money (total cash invested) in this market comes from hedging and not from speculators. Only about a 5 percent of all cash invested in the options belong to the speculators; everything else comes from many different companies.
Some other benefits of the Options market
Fees and other commissions are present on all markets, but they are the lowest on this one. High level of competition between numerous brokerages created an environment filled with discounts and very low trading fees. Instead of paying high commissions for every possible action, an options trader pays a fee only when his trade ends in plus. Even at that point, the fee is very low (going up to 20 percent in the most extreme cases).
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Reducing a loss or even making a profit through the re-sale of the trade is an option as well. The trader has to buy the option and then wait for the change of the chances. Once that happens the win amount of the option shifts and a trader can sell that option to another individual, and retreat from the deal with a difference in prices also known as the premium. Some people specialize in this kind of exchange and only a small portion of them succeed in it.
Options and their advantages over other exchanges
Every market has some advantages that attract people to that form of the exchange. Various traders join different markets because the advantages of that market correspond with their type of investment plan. Some of those pros are on the level of the different type of buying and selling. Other joins different markets for some smaller reasons. Options trading exchange has its pros that attract both individuals and companies alike.
Options market and its benefits
A stock market trader has to buy a stock and hold to it until the price goes in a favorable way. This doesn't guarantee the profit as the amount of movement determines the amount of the return. When a buyer buys an options stock, they do not buy the actual asset. They buy the right to trade it which will be executed at the predetermined point in the future.
The state of the market doesn't matter on this market. A smart trader will generate profit in any market, whether it is up, or down, or sideways. This isn't possible in normal stock exchange.
The potential for the profit is high, and the amount of profit is easily manipulated. Several different tools increase the potential profit for the possibility of the greater loss. Other tools limit the potential loss to more manageable numbers.
An options trader can increase the amount of profit through the employment of different strategies at the same time. This kind of trading uses the funds with high volatility, which they trade on broad market indexes. Highly competent traders use this kind of trading as the primary source of income.
Some assets are in a state of a stalemate – their price doesn't jump outside of the certain range. This kind of an asset is atrocious for the stock market. People that purchase the stock can't turn it into the profit as price never goes up. The trader that has this kind of asset lives in constant fear of the loss aka price going down. Careful resource and strategy management are the skills that an option trader needs to earn money in a market like that.
Some other benefits of the Options market
Some of the advantages of options exchange aren't highly significant to some people, but experienced traders earn they share due to them. The ability to take advantage of a high volatility that follows an event is one of those Pros. The direction in which the price will rush is irrelevant, as the options trader can generate profit in both cases.
Making money through two assets from the same industry and using two contrary options is only available on this market. Buying the option for the security that outperforms and selling it for the stock that underperforms, and earning money in both cases. Even if one of those trades fails, the other is there to negate the loss.
The amount of the software on the internet for options trading is high. Top 10 Binary Demo website is a good example that is available for every person that is interested in online trading.
Insight into options trading
You have all heard about binary options from numerous adverts. But did you know that there are other forms of options and other markets where traders can use this type of security? Many of you were probably unaware of this due to the low level of marketing they get. But yes, there are other options, and you can find them on different markets, including the stock market. Due to that many traders mix options with stock trading. But these two types of exchanges are different on so many levels.
Trading stocks are rather simple, as you become the owner of the asset you purchase. The asset may be a commodity or a stock aka a small ownership of the company, but in the end, you own something. Options trading is a bit more complicated.
Options trading in a nutshell
Once again we have to say that people mix two types of exchanges that involve options. On one hand, we have binary options that give the trader two options for a trade. Trading these is very simple, you either lose your investment, or you earn a fixed profit. The market for this exchange is pretty wild, and it spawned many scammers. It also led to the creation of a plethora of trading software, but most of those are scams as well. If you are interested in one of those programs, then try http://top10binaryapps.com/. It's one of few legitimate tools that can enhance the trading experience and boost the return percentage.
"Normal" options give more choices to the traders. Rather than having only two choices, they provide multiple options that a trader can use and combine. A lot of parties, both individual and corporative, use this form of exchange. Some do it for the profit aka risking an investment and the possible loss to earn a return.
Parties that do this are the individuals, or as some call them – speculators. Corporate parties use this exchange for hedging – buying an option to hedge against the possible loss of an investment.
Big corporations, other companies, and even banks use options to reduce the risk of the loss or to reduce the possible losses to more manageable levels.
Strategies and other crucial aspects of the options exchange
The luck plays a small role in trading. There are no old and lucky rich men; there are only those that found an excellent way to make a profit. Entering a market without a sound strategy will bring you nothing but a depletion of your resources. A good strategy is hard to make, but once you do make one, you generate a constant influx of money.
Options are all about the choices you make, the underlying aspect, and volatility of the market as well as the length of the expiry time of the trade. Finding assets, which you can turn into profit, with different expiry dates is not an easy thing to do. Lengthy research and good data collection are just some of the tasks that a trader needs to finish. This knowledge helps him to decide when in the future will the price of an asset change and in which direction it will go.