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The nerve centre of Ford's World Rally operation is Dovenby Hall, a former hospital that enjoys an idyllic setting in the heart of the Cumbrian countryside. The site has been extensively renovated and the old manor house now sits next to a state-of-the-art workshop.
The extensive site contains everything the team needs to function, with the vast majority of components produced in-house. The rally cars have the whole world as their stage, but everything really happens in a quiet corner of Cumbria.
New Standards in Rallying
M-Sport's premises at Dovenby Hall set a benchmark in rallying. Few teams can boast a home set in 115 acres of lush parkland, the modern technology and engineering facilities found in the new workshops contrasting with the beautiful Cumbria countryside and the restored splendour of Dovenby Hall itself, a listed building of special historic interest.
Search for a New Home
The team moved to Dovenby in May 2000. However, the story began many months earlier when Managing Director Malcolm Wilson recognised that the requirements of Ford's rally programme meant his homely, but cramped facilities on the opposite side of Cockermouth were no longer suited to the demands created by a sport moving forwards in leaps and bounds. Keeping the team base in northern England was important and finding the right location wasn't easy. 38 properties on both sides of the country were viewed before the search ended at Dovenby Estate.
Turning History into a Modern Rally Base
There was much to do. The premises had been empty and considerable restoration was required. Wilson sought support from the local council and business support agencies, both eager to lend experience and finance in return for the prestige of having a World Rally Championship team on their doorstep. Wilson and Carlisle-based Northern Developments focused their efforts on retaining the original features of the estate buildings. Designers concentrated on blending the ultra-modern workshop requirements into the site.
The result is a state-of-the-art facility that boasts amazing attention to detail. The hall was transformed into an office area, offering modern accommodation for the company's key support staff in a manner sympathetic to the history and style of the building. Inside, the interior has been stripped to reveal the original twelfth-century stonework and the walls are adorned with the names of legendary rally drivers who have won in Ford cars. As well as being home to the team, Dovenby Hall also offers serviced office accommodation for external companies.
The Workshop
The former walled garden was converted into a 5,575m2workshop or final assembly area, linked to the hall by a glazed walkway. It is in this football pitch-sized area, larger than the workshops of many Formula One teams, in which the very heart of the team lies. Inside is a vast array of equipment and technology, which, allied to the expertise of some of the sport's finest brains, keeps the Ford team at the forefront of the sport.
The most recent addition to the site was a £1 million research and development facility from which Technical Director Christian Loriaux leads his team. Engineering and design staff work closely with the technical teams building the Focus RS WRC cars, the close proximity encouraging creative thinking and innovative responses to the team's challenges. Engineering staff also work closely with their Ford Motor Company colleagues, both sides benefiting from a computer set-up linked to Ford's global engineering network.
The Future
While Dovenby Hall is fully operational, this is far from the end of the development at the site. There is ample space for enlargement in the future and work is continuing on several other aspects. As well as the home to Ford's global attack on the FIA World Rally Championship, Dovenby Hall Estate quickly developed as one of West Cumbria's premier business sites.
The diversity offered by the estate's accommodation has been a major part of its appeal as a business environment. It caters for all requirements, from single serviced offices in the main hall itself, through to offices in the surrounding 'houses' - four stand-alone buildings that have been refurbished to offer up-to-date accommodation for some of the UK's leading companies.
There is 24-hour security with CCTV surveillance and controlled access and a number of features including a woodland walk, lecture theatre and restaurant facilities, all of which are accessible to occupants of the Estate.


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Archive for July, 2016
Literary Game Design 2: Designing Conflict
Posted by Oakleaf Games in Game Design, Games on July 28, 2016
Sometimes, you can be working on the same idea from two different angles, and it takes you a while to realize it. The previous article, Games as Stories, was one angle. I'm also starting a new game design, and was getting a bit overwhelmed with everything that I was trying to do at once. I started looking at some of the basic ways I was trying to make the game interesting. And I noticed the parallels between the classes of conflict and the ways to make decisions interesting. But I called them by slightly different names. Player versus player conflict is competition. Player versus randomness conflict is just another way of saying luck. Player versus rules sets boundaries. Internal conflict of player versus self is what I call struggle. Finally, player versus feedback is difficult to name, but I think challenge is a good term for it.
Some definitions of what makes a game focus on the idea that a game is characterized by creating artificial obstacles. These forms of conflict are the obstacles. Players get frustrated by obstacles that are too hard to pass and get annoyed by obstacles that have too little resistance. So by considering these forms of conflict individually, we can be better at deciding how to use them.
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Literary Game Design 1: Games as Stories
Posted by Oakleaf Games in Game Design on July 19, 2016
I've always wanted to talk about the relationship between games and literature, an idea that will probably make all but the geekiest of game design nerds roll their eyes. But for those of you who haven't left yet, literature provides a great lens through which to examine game design. Each game played is like its own story, that the designer and players craft together. And if I learned anything from high school English class, there are five basic elements of any story: character, setting, conflict, plot, and theme. And if a game tells a story, these elements must be present as well. But there are sometimes two different levels of story. The first is the story being told within the game. And the second is the story being told about the game. This second level is the one I'm interested in examining. Read the rest of this entry »
Lessons from Designing a Solo Variant
Posted by Oakleaf Games in Game Design, New Bedford on July 7, 2016
This article has been a long time coming. Way back before the first New Bedford Kickstarter in 2014, I was starting to wrap up the expansions for New Bedford (now collected in Rising Tides). I had noticed a real uptick in the number of "solo variants" for games I followed on BGG, so I started to think that people were going to want a solo variant for New Bedford. But it would be another year of work before I actually got a solo mode I was happy with. In the roughly two years since I started working on the solo mode, a lot of new resources have appeared to assist designers of solo games, and I think it's helpful to talk about how the Lonely Ocean mode was developed with regard to some of these resources. Read the rest of this entry »


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Why Italy Must Turn to Torino Striker Ciro Immobile for World CupMarch 26, 2014
This is all a journey for Ciro Immobile. Brazil is next up.
Immobile had scored lots of goals before. He was the top scorer in Serie B while playing with Pescara, the free-flowing side that racked up 90 goals during the 2011-12 season. Immobile had 28 of them in 37 appearances, but never a hat-trick.
After going four games without a win or a goal—he was even benched for a home game against Napoli—he promised his coach Giampiero Ventura, according to La Reppublica, that he would get a goal and end the drought. He got three.
He earned his first hat-trick against Livorno on Saturday and took home the match ball, saying it was a symbol of his sacrifice, per Goal.com.
Immobile said, per La Stampa, that he wants to prove his worth on the pitch. The 24-year-old is soft-spoken and takes advantage of his opportunities. He is not outrageous or experienced like his contemporaries. This is the first time he has had any success at this level.
He has done his apprenticeship. He played for Italy in the UEFA European Under-21 Championship this past summer, and he scored in the final. He was a substitute for Alessandro Del Piero when he made his debut in 2009, and he went on loan to teams in Serie B.
He still seems younger than he actually is. He is even a few months older than Mario Balotelli. Immobile is only starting his career in earnest, but he is not new to the scene.
Cesare Prandelli was watching the game at Stadio Olimpico on Tuesday between Torino and Roma. Immobile scored again. The strike was so Dutch. A teammate launched the ball from midfield, and Immobile hit it on the volley, looking a lot like Marco van Basten or Robin van Persie. It was his 17th goal.
Immobile now leads Serie A ahead of accomplished players like Gonzalo Higuain and Carlos Tevez.
But Immobile does not do it alone. Rarely does he score by himself, unassisted. Torino play through him. His partner Alessio Cerci sets him up.
Cerci is 26 as well, and he makes up the other half of the best partnership in Serie A. He and Immobile have created 35 of the 43 goals scored by Torino. That's 81 percent.
Cerci was frustrated when he came off the field on the day Immobile scored that first hat-trick because he wanted a goal himself, but Immobile isn't trying to steal all the glory. He often repays the favour.
Once, he forced a penalty, a handball in the box, and Cerci took it instead. Immobile doesn't do penalties. All 17 of his goals came from open play. There is a certain purity to that.
Balotelli scores a good chunk of his goals from set-pieces, and he doesn't get the credit. Immobile is more inventive. He can score inside the box and out, on the run and off his head. But he almost always needs the service.
He is versatile in the way he scores. No one goal is the same. He is also deadly, and he doesn't take a chance for granted. He converts 22.6 percent of shots, a great percentage and one of the best in the league. He pounces on every loose play, and he is swift on the counter. When a defender from Catania bungled the ball, Immobile was right there, chasing it down and running to score.
The chance to play for Italy in the World Cup is very real.
"Prandelli knows me," Immobile said, per FourFourTwo, "he knows how hard I work."
The problem is that he plays best with a support system, and he doesn't do well as a substitute. Giuseppe Rossi, should he recover in time, is still a last-minute decision, according to Football Italia. Balotelli and Alberto Gilardino played the games in qualifying; Immobile only played his first game for the Azzurri this month.
Immobile says it doesn't matter if Prandelli does not call him up for this World Cup.
"Last year I wasn't even in the top 50 players," he told Tuttosport, per Football Italia. "I am developing little by little and that is what matters."
Despite his humble attitude, it is impossible to ignore the numbers: just two assists, but a goal every 124 minutes, according to Sport Mediaset. The Azzurri have played a more attacking brand of football, and they need the threat up front.
Balotelli is not a pure striker. Rossi is more of a seconda punta. Immobile is truly a prima punta—the strong, traditional forward. Immobile is exactly what Italy do not have. He is not yet a world-class player, but he could do for Italy what Pippo Inzaghi and Luca Toni did when they won the World Cup in 2006.
So.. Destro, Immobile, or Florenzi?? Either way the future looks bright.. #Azzurri— Stereo Serie A Radio (@StereoSerieA) March 25, 2014
Now there are eight games left. Immobile doesn't do much talking. He doesn't say much of consequence, but he is always grateful. So when he scored that hat-trick, per FourFourTwo, he thought of his team and his family.
Brazil is not the first thing on his mind. But he should be on Prandelli's.


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I think it will come down to four things: Who buys the phone; whether IT thinks its secure enough; whether it will integrate well enough; and whether IT trusts and has relationships with the vendor (s).
The Phone Buyer
This is the one area that I think favors Apple initially. Right now employees actually make the decision to buy the phone and their company simply reimburses them for some or all of the charges.
This is different in RIM accounts, but as well penetrated as RIM is in the enterprise they are far from the dominant phone supplier. So they dont really get that much of a vote.
Apples primary and overriding focus is on the buyer and cool technology that pulls those buyers in like bees to honey. Folks lust after iPhones and, at least for the moment, no other phone creates the unbridled lust that this device creates.
Recently I was on a panel at the Information Week 500 conference and the CIO that shared the panel with me indicated he would like to give all his employees iPhones and this was a Fortune 500 insurance company and Microsoft shop.
Unless the Google G1 phone can close this lust gap or change this one dynamic, the iPhone has a significant advantage here.
The iPhone has had a number of security problems and the G1 is mostly untested with regard to security.
Both these phones are likely to be viewed as relatively unsecure, though the G1 largely uses online resources. This suggests the security problem it probably has is largely mitigated because the phone doesnt actually contain much confidential information (if deployed properly).
The G1, deployed properly, is basically a terminal to enterprise applications through the browser and as long as proper access security is used it should be competitively secure. On the other hand the iPhone is not only a more traditional phone, it is connected to MobileMe which pulls enterprise mail into an Apple service which hasnt been working that well.
Even the idea of another company getting mail from an internal source, particularly an executive, is likely to make some security folks catatonic. MobileMe potentially requires, in a secure environment, a security audit, This is because its a repository for confidential information and if it isnt secure could provide sensitive information about anyone, both personal- and job-related, to the world.
This means that while there doesnt appear to be a differentiating advantage between the two devices both are relatively unsecured the MobileMe service would likely fail the iPhone in secure environments.
Apple simply doesnt play well with others and that is likely one of the reasons MobileMe isnt working out very well.
However to integrate into IT systems you have to be able to work closely and honorably with people you might otherwise view as competitors. Google is vastly better at this, given that their tools cross a wide variety of vendors who preload them on PCs today.
Because they have to generally run on Microsoft platforms they seem to know how to develop products that function there and have more than a passing familiarity with UNIX and Linux. While not as good at integrating as Microsoft currently is, they are vastly better than Apple is. That gives them the lead in this category as well.
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How to Modify a Nitrous Hood to Monitor CO2
It may sound complicated; however it's actually quite simple. The same nitrous hood you use everyday can be adapted to monitor CO2. We'll show you how.
You will need only three items:
1. Nitrous Hood
2. 1/8″ Hole Punch Pliers (commonly used for crafts)
3. Nitrous Hood Adapter
First, use the hole punch or other cylindrical object to make a rounded hole in the nitrous hood near the top. If you are using a hood with a liner, then you will need to puncture through both the liner and the hood, as shown here.
You are now ready to attach your CO2 sampling line. Attach the male luer lock end to the nasal hood adapter and the opposite end to the monitor.
Yep, it's just that simple.
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How is the tubing and connector cleaned? is the tubing disposable? can it just be wiped down? can the adapter be sterilized? Does it have to be removed fron the hood and liner after each case, if so, wont the holes become worn very quickly?
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The three grants chosen to receive our $500 Satch Grant this quarter were:
*Counseling and Education Associates for supplies for tobacco use prevention and cessation programs offered to individuals, groups, elementary and middle schools and classes in substance abuse treatment centers.
*Operation Catnip in order to pay for sugeries for as many as 10 - 15 animals which will prevent the birth of up to 30 litters of kittens and/or puppies or potentially 2-300 additional animals over a years time.
*Joseph Williams Elementary to take their regular education third graders to see A Christmas Carol at the Hippodrome.
If you've been awarded a grant, checks will be mailed next week. Please follow up by providing us with pictures of your progress towards your goal so that I can post them to this blog.
We were very pleased with all grant proposals and wish we could help more. If you didn't receive a grant, please consider resubmitting for the next round of grants due on December 31, 2011. And please stay in touch and let us know if we can help you achieve your goals in any other way.


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[LOCAL ELECTIONS 2005] Sanader's Zagreb Trouble
As expected, Sanader's government has called local and regional elections for May 15th 2005.
First, no government has ever called those elections in such bad shape as Sanader's government did. Unfulfilled election promises, corruption and other scandals, razor-thin Sabor majority and two major fiascos – disastrous presidential bid by Jadranka Kosor and even more disastrous handling of Gotovina affair – made Sanader's government look very weak. Although late polls show slight surge of support for HDZ, numbers are still very worrisome for Sanader – it is very likely that his party will at least a third of voters who had brought him to office in 2003. The elections will also be an indicator of a long-term future prospects for some of major players on Croatian political scenes. For example, almost everyone expects HSP, far right and mildly Eurosceptic party, to knock left-centre HNS from the third place.
The elections are also going to provide answer to another important question – whether Croatian people are serious about their new-found Euroscepticism. Immediately after E-Day fiasco on March 17th, many media commentators became very anxious about local and regional elections, because the campaign, despite of their nominally local nature, is going to be a fertile ground for populist and, therefore, Eurosceptic rhetoric. Some even called for Račan (Racan) and Sanader to prevent that by formalising their tacit alliance and forming joint ticket for the elections.
This scheme might look attractive on paper, but Sanader is all too aware that it won't sit well within his party rank-and-file. Branimir Glavaš (Branimir Glavas), Slavonian HDZ boss and one of Sanader's top party allies, has already strayed from the official "EU At Any Cost" line by blaming EU, and not Gotovina, for March 17th fiasco. Electorate, especially on local levels - where HDZ traditionally fared worse than on national level – is going to be even less forgiving. Sanader can expect to have some success at elections – or, to be precise, avoid disaster – only by tolerating at least some Euroscepticism and hard-line nationalism in his party. Some commentators attribute the modest HDZ surge in polls to that.
It seems that Sanader took those commentators seriously, at least in case of Zagreb City Council elections. Control over Croatian capital – where the GDP is four times national average – is the most precious and most coveted electoral prize. Unfortunately for Sanader,
Furthermore, at this point Zagreb City Council elections look very much like presidential contest looked before January 2005 – more of a coronation than competition. Just as Stipe Mesić (Stipe Mesic) was expected to cruise comfortably into second term, Milan Bandić (Milan Bandic), SDP überboss and deputy mayor, is widely expected to return to mayoral office which he had to leave following drunk driving incident three years ago. His ticket, based on the solid support of blue-collar Zagreb suburbs and huge network of backers in Zagreb business community, has attracted many of his former enemies – namely conservative HSS, humiliated by him in 2001 elections – and is now expected to get more than 40 %, which could all but guarantee comfortable majority in City Council.
Croatian media – partly in order to push pro-EU line, partly in order to have some excitement in the race – created some sort of archrival for Bandić in the form of HNS leader Vesna Pusić (Vesna Pusic), whose party is nominal coalition partner of SDP in current city government. Pusić, a typical Limousine Liberal intellectual, tried very hard to match Bandić's populist skills, but most people see double digit numbers as the only thing HNS could expect to call success after these elections.
More interesting challenge to Bandić comes from the Right. And this is where Sanader tried to do something by floating the name of Andrija Hebrang, former health minister and unofficial leader of Tudjmanist hard-right within HDZ, as his party's mayoral candidate. Hebrang, who was forced to leave his post due to deteriorating health, publicly declined the offer. And with good reason, since HDZ can expect nothing but defeat in
This leaves Sanader with few options. Of course, HDZ will have its ticket, just for the sake of prestige, and by attracting some minor players like HSLS or DC, it could expect to jump above 20 %, but nothing can prevent opposition to keep
And, there is always very real prospect of HDZ losing its
On the other hand, if he is as shrewd politician as media often portray him to be, Sanader can transform calamity into opportunity. HDZ will get beaten badly in Zagreb and Mikšić can emerge as another right-wing icon in Croatia, but his ascendancy might be a good argument for Sanader to get at least some bones from EU diplomats in Brussels. Sanader can argue that EU has a choice between dealing with proper pro-European like him now or with dangerous Eurosceptic populist like Mikšić in near future.


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U.K. thesp Paddy Considine will make his directorial feature debut with "Tyrannosaur," which begins shooting in Leeds April 12.
The pic, budgeted under $3 million, is produced by Warp Films' low-budget division Warp X and Inflammable Films.
Aussie production company Madman holds Australian rights while Optimum Releasing and Nonstop Entertainment take U.K. and Scandinavian rights respectively. The three companies are also financiers for the pic.
The drama stars Peter Mullan ("My Name Is Joe," "Trainspotting"), Olivia Colman ("Hot Fuzz") and Eddie Marsan ("Happy Go Lucky") and follows Joseph, a self-destructive man whose life is spiralling into despair before he meets Hannah, a Christian charity shop worker. It is produced by Diarmid Scrimshaw.
Considine has long been a collaborator with Warp. His acting credits include "Dead Man's Shoes" (which he also co-wrote), "The Bourne Ultimatum," "A Room for Romeo Brass" and "Le Donk and Scor-zay-zee," the latter two for Warp.
He wrote and directed "Tyrannosaur" prequel short "Dog Altogether" for Warp Films, which won the BAFTA for short film and a Venice Silver Lion in 2007.
Warp X was set up in 2006 by the U.K. Film Council's New Cinema Fund and Film4 with partners EM Media, Screen Yorkshire and Optimum Releasing to offer filmmakers development support, production finance and theatrical distribution in the U.K.


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Tired of confusing and ever-changing mutual fund star ratings? Would you like to rate and rank a mutual fund with respect to its benchmark for investment durations ranging from 1-8 years on your own?
Here is a risk and return analyzer for equity mutual funds with which you can
- Determine SIP and lump sum returns
- Evaluate performance taking into account the risk taken for the return achieved
- Compare
- Fund versus benchmark (31 indices from BSE and NSE)
- Fund and benchmark performance wrt a risk–free rate that you choose for each investment duration
- Fund and benchmark performance wrt a minimum acceptable rate that you choose for each investment duration
- A percentage score is assigned to the fund for each investment duration based on 12 different risk/return metrics (a total of risk and return 16 benchmarks)
This analyzer can be used by ALL retail investors. NO knowledge of risk and return analysis is required to use the sheet and understand the results!
Obviously a basic understanding of the metrics used (see below) will help.
Credits: The risk/return metrics calculations were possible, thanks to the excellent tutorials available at investexcel.net
This sheet is an adaptation of the Multi-Index Mutual Fund SIP/Lump Sum Returns Analyzer
The following Indices are available for comparison:
NSE: CNX Nifty, CNX Mid Cap, CNX 500, CNX 100
The NSE server is not Excel friendly. So data for these indices from April 2006 to Oct 2013 is stored in the file. Data from Oct. 2013 to-date is obtained from Yahoo Finance.
BSE: All 27 indices!
For each investment duration (1Y … 8Y), the funds performance with its benchmark is evaluated with a post-tax risk free return (fixed deposit interest rate for example) and a minimum acceptable return.
The performance is graded as a percentage for easy understanding.
A score of 100% is of course the highest and represents the best performance with minimal risk.
The focus here is on risk adjusted performance when compared with its benchmark. The idea is to point out that even funds that are supposedly 'poor' performers are actually decent ones when evaluated in isolation against its benchmark
Here are some examples of this score plotted against the investment duration for some popular mutual funds.
The risk-return score appears to be reasonably good in spotting a drop in performance. I will write more about this as I understand it better.
Please have a look and share in the comment section your impressions.
If you need some help in understanding these results, you can always write to me or seek advice in a good forum, like facebook group, Asan Ideas for Wealth.
The advantage of using this tool is that it evaluates risk/return performance for eight different durations. The user can input a post-tax risk-free rate like a fixed deposit rate instead of using the coupon rate of an obscure 90-day treasury bill.
Since the sheet is 'open-source' the user understands what is happening and modify or add more metrics as per convenience. For someone wanting to learn more about risk/return performance metrics this is a one-stop shop.
Risk/Return metrics used
Here is a list of the risk and return metrics used with a simple explanation of what they refer to
1. Beta is a volatility measure and tell us how much the fund changes for a given change in the index. A beta of 1 implies the fund movement is identical to the index movement. A beta of 0.9 implies the fund is 10% less volatile than the index.
Lower the beta, lower the volatility
The analyser awards 1 point to the fund for beta <1
2. Standard deviation is a volatility measure and tell us, for a given set of returns (daily returns in this case), how much do individual returns deviate from the average. This is calculated for both the fund and the benchmark.
Lower the standard deviation, lower the volatility
The analyzer awards 1 point to the fund if its standard deviation is lower than the benchmark
3. Alpha is a risk adjusted performance measure. It takes into account, the average return of the fund and its benchmark, a risk-free rate defined by the user and how the fund responds to swing in the benchmark (Beta)
Higher the alpha, higher the outperformance of the fund.
The analyzer awards 1 point if alpha >0
4. Sharpe ratio is a risk adjusted performance measure. We calculate the excess returns of the fund wrt a risk-free rate. The ratio is the average of the excess return and the standard deviation of the excess return. This is calculated for both the fund and the benchmark.
Higher the Sharpe ratio, better is the performance (higher returns + low deviation from average return)
The analyzer awards 1 point to the fund if its Sharpe ratio is greater than its benchmark
5. Sortino Ratio is a risk adjusted performance measure. The Sharpe ratio considers both positive and negative excess returns (wrt risk free rate). The Sortino ratio considers only the negative excess returns while calculating the standard deviation. There should be enough negative excess return data points to justify the use of the Sortino ratio. To take care of this, daily returns are used (instead of monthly returns as done by AMCs/fund portals).
Higher the Sortino ratio, better is the performance (higher returns + low negative deviation from average return)
The analyzer awards 1 point to the fund if its Sortino ratio is greater than its benchmark
Two types of Sortino ratios are calculated:
- Using risk-free rate
- Using minimum expected return (set this to zero to find out how efficient is the fund/benchmark is wrt losing money)
6. Treynor Ratio is known as the reward to volatility ratio. While the Sharpe ratio is the excess return (wrt risk free rate) divided by standard deviation, Treynor ratio is the excess return divided by beta. This is calculated for both the fund and the benchmark for which beta is assumed to be 1.
Higher the Treynor ratio, better is the performance (higher returns + low volatility wrt benchmark)
The analyser awards 1 point to the fund if its Treynor ratio is greater than its benchmark
7. Information Ratio This take the average excess return obtained compared to a benchmark and divides it by the standard deviation of excess returns.
Higher the information ratio, higher the consistency in beating benchmark
Accoding to Samir (who runs investexcel),
The Information Ratio is often used to distinguish between several funds with the same management style. For funds with similar values of alpha, a higher Information Ratio indicates a better managed fund with superior stock picking. However, this is only valid if the fund and its benchmark are strongly correlated. Negative Information Ratios can be misleading and should not be used to rank investments.
Can this be used to compare funds like HDFC Equity and HDFC Top 200? Got to try this out to understand better.
Since the information ratio is slightly more complex to interpret, the analyzer awards 1 point to the fund only if the ratio greater than zero, SIP and lump returns are both greater than the benchmark
8. Omega Ratio To calculate this, you determine all returns that are above a certain minimum acceptable return (input by user and different from risk-free rate). Then you determine all return below this return. Divide the former by the latter.
When the omega ratio is greater than 1, more returns are greater than the minimum return. This is calculated for both the fund and then benchmark.
The analyzer awards 1 point to the fund if its omega is greater than the benchmarks.
9. Downside deviation This can be thought of as a measure of 'bad' risk. It is the standard deviation of negative excess returns (wrt both the risk-free rate and minimum acceptable return)
If the fund has a lower downside deviation than its index, the analyzer awards the fund 1 point.
10. Upside potential This can be thought of as the opposite of downside deviation – a measure of 'good' risk. That is returns obtained above a reference return (both risk-free return and minimum acceptable return).
If the fund has higher upside potential than its index, the analyzer awards 1 point to the fund.
11. R-squared This is a measure of how correlated the funds NAV movement is with its index. A value of 1 represents perfect correlation. Investors should not have multiple funds with a strong correlation with the same index.
This measure is not part of the grading system.
12. SIP returns If the funds SIP return is above the index return, 1 point is awarded.
13. Lump sum returns If the funds lump sum return is above the index return, 1 point is awarded.
Mutual-Fund-SIP-returns-risk-analyzer-Apr-2015 Removed the dependence on BSE servers. More details here
Mutual-Fund-SIP-returns-risk-analyzer-Jan-2015 Calculates lump sum investment value. Suggested by Sundarajan
Download the mutual fund risk and return analyzer (June 12 2014)
Updated with the Ulcer Index
Download the Mutual Fund Risk and Return Analyzer (June 4th 2014)
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Udyr Build
Ability Sequence
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The masteries shown here are not yet updated for the current season, the guide author needs to set up the new masteries. As such, they will be different than the masteries you see in-game.
WARNINGjungling with udyr is very masteries and runes depantant if you don't have runes and/or masteries it is very hard and complicated you must have following masteries and runes.
-Protective shield
-No ranged CC
-No ranged spells/attacks
-Vunrable to CC
-Doesn't have an ultimate
Damage 52.91 (+3.2 / per level)
Health 427 (+99 / per level)
Mana 220 (+30 / per level)
Move Speed 320
Armor 14.75 (+4 / per level)
Magic resist 30 (+1.25 / per level)
Health Regen 1.49 (+0.15 / per level)
Mana Regen 0.78 (+0.05 / per level)
I follow masteries 1/21/8.I will need to easily jungle without wasting plenty of health. With defensive masteries i can kill golem elder with only sapphire crystal and potions. Udyr has alot of Damage per second without very good items so he will need to be a little defensive. Note that you must be at least summoner level 21 but level 22+ is strongly recomanded because of 21 masteries in defense and 1 at ghost.Level 23 summoner is even more recomanded as it will be added in ghost masterie.When you take level 30 add like i did.
Tiger Stance - Tiger Stance: Activation - Udyr's next attack will deal a high amount of damage over 2 seconds (based on his attack damage). Persistent Effect - Udyr's attack speed is passively increased. In addition, Udyr splits his attacks into 3 lightning fast hits.
Persistent Effect: Udyr's attack speed is increased by 30/40/50/60/70%. In addition, Udyr splits his attacks into 3 lightning fast hits. On hit effects only trigger off the first hit.
Activation: On his next attack, Udyr swipes at his target, dealing 1.8/2.1/2.4/2.7/3 times his attack damage over 2 seconds as magic damage.
Cost 75/65/55/45/35 Mana
Range 600
Turtle Stance - Turtle Stance: Activation - Udyr gains a temporary shield that absorbs damage. Persistent Effect - Udyr's attacks cannot crit, but he restores his health and mana equivalent to a percentage of his damage dealt.
Persistent Effect: Udyr's attacks cannot crit, but he restores 12/14/16/18/20% of his damage as health and 9/10.5/12/13.5/15% of his damage as mana.
Activation: Udyr gains a temporary shield that absorbs 60/100/140/180/220 (+0.5) damage.
Cost 75/65/55/45/35 Mana
Range 600
Bear Stance - Bear Stance: Activation - Udyr gains a large movement speed increase for a short duration. Persistent Effect - Udyr's attacks stun his target for 1 second. This effect cannot occur on the same target for several seconds.
Persistent Effect: Udyr mauls his target with such force that they are stunned for 1 second. This effect cannot occur on the same target for 6 seconds.
Activation: Udyr gains 15/18/21/24/27% increased movement speed for 2/2.5/3/3.5/4 seconds.
Cost 75/65/55/45/35 Mana
Range 600
Phoenix Stance - Phoenix Stance: Activation - Udyr sends out pulsing waves of fire dealing damage to nearby foes for 5 seconds and has increased ability power and damage. Persistent Effect - Every fourth attack, Udyr engulfs enemies in front of him in flame.
Persistent Effect: Every fourth attack, Udyr engulfs enemies in front of him in flame, dealing 40/80/120/160/200(+0.25) magic damage.
Activation: Udyr sends out pulsing waves of fire dealing 15/25/35 (+0.25) magic damage each second to nearby enemies for 5 seconds. In addition, Udyr's ability power is increased by 16/24/32/40/48 and his attack damage is increased by half of that amount.
Cost 75/65/55/45/35 Mana
Range 600
Monkey's Agility - Entering a stance grants Udyr 10% attack speed and 3% dodge for 5 seconds. This effect can stack.
How to play!
-There is a thing that i don't agree with DEWO he says if you have an speed spell you don't need ghost.But i think you need because it will increase more movement speed that should increase i mean its like this bird why would she run slowly when she can run faster so wolf won't be able to catch herMeep Meep!
-With this build you are a real jungler start jungling at way I will show bottom of the description.
-You are a very good ganker you have much speed so ussualy start gank from level 5.
-Switch stance more oftenly as they give 10% attack speed and 3% dodge at each switch it
stacks 3 times.
-Hit them with bear stance,switch to phoenix stance for 4 hits than use turtle stance for shield and when tiger stance is ready use it and attack him, with golems buff you can switch stances more often.
-Regenerate mana and hp with turtle stance!
Early game!
-Keep jungling until you reach level 5 than you can start ganking you have no ulti so you dont need to wait for level 6.
-If your lane needs help and they say it go and help for example they got wounded/died and other or ask them if they need and wait for answer unless you are sure they need help.
-As soon as you have gold for Locket and Boots of swiftness or only for boots click b and wait to buy it :).
Mid game!
-Now you should be level 10 and have Locket,Boots of Swiftness and finishing malady with might be very useful for udyr as it give attack speed and lifesteal.
-Here is the time when you jungle and gank always when you have chance! You will be insanly fast remember bear stance-phoenix stance(2 hits)-turtle stance-Tiger stance...
-Don't be afraid at 1 vs 1 only shaco,olaf,yi and even tryndamere and some other champs can cause you trouble unless they suck and you are feeded :D
Late game!
-The late game is the best time for udyr. You will he hardly eradicated and you will eradicate alot.
-Your stun means 3 hits now so you will have alot of damage alot of hp they wont stand a chance you are a monster this is the time when you can be happy and agresive. But don't think that you are akali that can do a triple kill+ alone xD
-If you see someone alone wandering just kill him alone don't wait for your teammates unless you suck and he is feed.
I only know things about sumoners rift not about twisted treeline.Here are some informations gather 1850gold into first run to get normal boots,catalyst the protector,and mana manapulator and if it is going well gather 850 more gold for locket than teleport back.Next is when you gather gold for boots of swiftness and vampiric scepter with is 1100gold teleport back and get those items. Be sure to usualy have golem and lizard buffs activated.Next is when you have gold for stark's fervor with is 2100gold as i can remember.Now continue jungling and ganking until 1735gold for sheen and health crystal.
When you have low hp and/or mana go to jungle and kill few creeps often wolves using only turtle stance especially buffing monster.Now lets make use of their pelts :D.Next get gold for trinity force or only finish phage and start zeal.Than continue the rest :P
Buy this itemsand 2xand this is how i do it.I pick phoenix stance first and go to golem elder.Sink a potion when you take first damage than use smite on golem elder and use phoenix stance every time it is ready and after killing him and your later potion fades use another potion. Than you should after killing him level up to level 2!
When you reach level 2 pick the spell named Turtle stance and go to wolf camp.Kill them by
activating turtle stance first and than use once phoenix stance for at least 4 hits and finish them with only turtle stance casts.
As i can remember now you need to kill wraith's.Activate Turtle stance and when Phoenix Stance is ready to cast use it and after it turtle but focus on blue one it has sick lifesteal and damage(with phoenix stance you must hit 4 times)!
After wraith's you should be level 3 upgrade phoenix stance.Smite should be ready or needs 10-20 secs to be ready!Go and kill lizard.Activate turtle for 2-3 hits than use phoenix 4 hits and turtle 2-3 hits and continue switching by hiting 4 times with phoenixx.When you start attacking him use smite first!After that you are level 4 or 3 still.Go and kill golems at their camp. Always when the encounter starts at a/- netural monster/s use turtle stance than phoenix exept when you are level 1 and you don't have turtle.Later on when you have Locket you can jungle and gank without losing mana or hp without any netural monster buff I mean you will lose some hp at gank but if you survive you can retrive it at monsters just by switching stances and hiting with turtle stance. The more easy way you can kill netural monsters at level 6+ by switching to tiger stance too include it not only turtle and phoenix but always hit 4 times with phoenix.If you fight agianst some stealther for example Twitch,evelyn buy oracle after locket and boots. If you are fighting agianst another jungler for example warwick(ww) try to steal his golem on start by finishing it with smite.Wait for 2:05 elapsed time and than go there don't do anything else if you are doing this. This is very risky but if you don't fail ww will totaly fail at jungling :). Support your team on teamfights after you get lizard buff from you're side if there isn't support them and after that get lizard buff on their site. After you get locket spam bear stance when moving to some place it will increase your movement speed and it will cost mana but you will regenerate it in seconds. If you are jungling like udyr never use only once phoenix stance on start you will fail awesomly use it always when it is ready!!!!!! You must use it always when it is ready in order to succed at killing golem elder. Inlitate a combat with bear stance! After golem buff fades go to their side and kill him to regain it that goes for lizard buff too. Never try to kill lizard on start instead of golem. You will so easily lose mana without regaining it. I hope you like it ;) I will add another jungle build for level 11+ if you are not level 21+.
Core items
Why what item
-Boots of Swiftness-It gives many movement speed and it is quite useful for udyr.Udyr is a great chaser with this item he is even better chaser!
-Innervating Locket-This is a brilliant item for udyr because every udyr skill is a buff up skill.When you get it you can spam bear stance to move faster from a location to a location.
-Stark's fervor-Stark's fervor gives attack speed and life steal.Udyr just needs at least 1 attack speed item that gives 40%+ attack speed to be incredible.Take this item with a warning on start for your teammates that you will take it so they will not take it!
-Trinity Force-Best item for udyr ever!Switching stances will not even increase attack speed and dodge and change the way of pawning it will increase your damage by 130% when you have this baby!Don't change this item with any other it gives everything needful for udyr. Buy it after Malady.
-Youmuus Ghostblade-Attack speed and movement speed are very useful for udyr it also gives coldown reduction damage and critical.Only critical isnt positive alot but its good.With this baby enemies can only run away if they are veigar or have an teleport or stealth even for stealthers its hard to disapear on time.
-The Black Cleaver-This item finishes the requipments for udyr.When you have this item i dunno who can kill you.Only some champs with more than 15 stacks of stacking item.You should get this item in like 50 mins of game if you are playing how you should.When you get it its GG :D.
Summoner spells
Without this spell you cant jungle proprely without it you will level up slowly will have chance to die and other take it best jungle skill ever.You must not change it for any other skill! unless you wont jungle.
This can be a right skill for udyr.It will give more movement speed as his items/spells give movement speed and it will increase more than it increases to other champs that have 390 ms very good spell for ganking :) i had 560 movement speed with it + ghostblade(activated) + bearstance :)
Other skills
I sometimes change this with ghost when i wan't to do more damage so they will hardly run away.But i don't use it to much ghost ftw! if you use it change 1 Archmage's savvy to Cripple.
I hope you like it i spend 1 hour and 30 minutes to explain all this :) If you like it vote and comment it :) add something new if you don't agree at somethings say how was your score on what game (normal,practice,ranked).
EDIT: Changed the way of hard way of jungling.Changed when to buy what item.
Adding new jungle way soon for levels 11-21.


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A lively spa break by the Lee (by hotels.com)
My best friend and I are looking for somewhere to take a mini-break to celebrate both our birthdays. We are hoping to relax and pamper ourselves with a few spa treatments. We don't plan to stay indoors the whole time though and would like to go somewhere with a bit of buzz one of the nights. What would you suggest?
I think Cork City would be the perfect place for your birthday break. There are plenty of gorgeous spa hotels to choose from located in the heart of the city so you will definitely find an escape for rest and relaxation whilst having this lively city on your doorstep.
Cork City is situated on the River Lee and has a lively town centre. You will find all your favorite high street shops on Patrick Street and on Opera Lane. Scattered around are some really great bars and restaurants which cater to all different tastes and preferences.
Generations of Cork citizens and visitors have enjoyed the tranquil atmosphere of Fitzgerald Park and you will also. Located beside the River Lee and UCC sports grounds, the gardens play host to the Cork Museum, Riverview Café, a water-lily pond and fountain, a variety of sculptures and even a children's playground skate park. It is a perfect oasis for an afternoon stroll.
The English Market is a must-see. Recently visited by the Queen, this busy covered market has been trading since 1788 and is one of the oldest municipal markets of its kind in the world. Selling everything from authentic local produce to exotic spices, there is plenty of browsing and shopping to be done or you can choose to sit down and eat some of the delicious food upstairs.
If you have a car at your disposal, I would recommend taking a short spin to Blarney Castle, where you can visit the beautiful gardens, browse the shops or even kiss the Blarney stone. If you are more drawn to the sea, Kinsale is a lovely town to explore for a day or Inchydoney beach outside Clonakilty offers a long stretch of flat sand for a walk to blow away the cobwebs.
Where to stay
Hayfield Manor (*****)
Prices from €169 per room per night on Hotels.com
*Prices are subject to availability at the time of booking Just a short walk from the centre of the city, the five-star Hayfield Manor Hotel features a full-service health spa, beauty treatments and a steam room. This luxury Edwardian-style hotel also offers an outdoor spa tub and an indoor pool which is perfect place to relax and unwind. The hotel has a bar, a bistro, and a restaurant and offers 24-hour room service and afternoon tea.
The Maryborough Hotel and Spa
Prices from €140 per room per night on Hotels.com
*Prices are subject to availability at the time of booking Situated in Douglas, the Maryborough Hotel and Spa has a full service spa, health club and indoor pool. Just a step from the heart of Cork City, this four-star hotel and spa is a welcoming haven of tranquillity and well-being and the ultimate in spa luxury. Additional amenities include a rooftop terrace and a spa tub.
The River Lee Hotel (****)
Prices from €108 per room per night on Hotels.com
*Prices are subject to availability at the time of booking
The River Lee Hotel is within walking distance of the English Market and a great location should you decide to visit Blarney Castle or the Fota Wildlife Park. The leisure centre features a 20 metre indoor pool and The Urban Escape Spa offers a wide array of treatments. The Weir Bistro and Bar Restaurant faces the River Lee and offers seasonal terrace dining.
Imperial Hotel (****)
Prices from €109 per room per night on Hotels.com
*Prices are subject to availability at the time of booking The four-star Imperial Hotel has a full-service spa, a health club and a sauna. This spa hotel offers a restaurant, café and a bar. The 125 guestrooms at Imperial Hotel include complimentary newspapers and coffee/tea makers and complimentary wireless high-speed Internet access is also provided.
For more information and travel tips on planning your holiday visit www.hotels.com or call 1800 55 3338 to wake up happy on your holiday!


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CC&E is so excited to be part of a fun, new trend in weddings…the Carnival Themed Wedding. This was not a market we were expecting or sought out, but we are happy that the great imaginations of our customers have led us to offer some of the following fun ideas for their special days – beautiful Glowing Cotton Candy, lovely Balloon Twisting Clowns, a Ringmaster Stilt Walker, fun Midway Games with game booths.
If you are planning a party for younger children (ages 2 – 9), view our Young Child Inflatables here. Our most popular inflatables rented for at-home parties are our standard (18′ x 18′) moonwalks which rent for $200 for 4 hours use (6 hours on Sundays!)
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The Tony Award-winning Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis is celebrating its 50th season with work by acclaimed playwright Christopher Hampton, a production of a Eugene O'Neill classic and a Pulitzer Prize-winning drama.
Guthrie Director Joe Dowling says that rather than dwelling in a nostalgic haze, "we're looking at contemporary work and moving the artistic life of the theater forward."
The 11 main-stage productions announced Monday include O'Neill's "Long Day's Journey Into Night" and Bruce Norris' 2011 Pulitzer winner "Clybourne Park."
Hampton, a British playwright and director, is writing a new play for the Guthrie, "Appomattox," which ranges from the Civil War's end to the 1960s civil rights era. His "Tales From Hollywood" also will be staged.
The Guthrie was founded in 1963 by the late Irish stage director Sir Tyrone Guthrie.


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TTU Pre-Law Academy
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Academy Structure
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When Geena Davis and Susan Sarandon's characters drove off a cliff at the end of Thelma & Louise, it's pretty safe to assume they died. However, in real life scenario that played out almost like a video game, a California man swerved off a cliff but lived to tell the tale. The bonus? He caught the whole event on camera.
"I found myself accelerating through this nice long and dark pair of tunnels," he wrote in the description for the video uploaded to YouTube. "I had done this many times before in other tunnels." His story continued:
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Just when many women thought their days of driving minivans and carting kids around were over, their own adult child shares the good news that there will be an addition to the family! Thrilled with the news at first, the realization soon strikes that changes are coming--they will be a grandmother. In A Car Seat in My Convertible? author Sharon Hoffman, a godly grandmother herself, along with her network of lively grandmother friends, helps readers find the excitement about this life stage transition. More importantly, she helps readers recognize and take advantage of their special spiritual role in the lives of their grandkids. Packed with practical tips on how to play and teach grandkids, being a great long-distance grandma, holiday celebration ideas, A Car Seat in My Convertible? also includes a whole lot of wisdom on everything from communicating God's love unconditionally, relating to other in-laws, etc. Using humor, readers will laugh as they read the first-person letters from veteran grandmothers who share advice on very specific qgrandmotherlyq topics but also provide answers to some of those unasked grandmother questions. While the book is lively, it also provides grandmothers with short, memorable quotes. Included is also a suggested prayer calendar highlighting godly virtues for grandmothers, children, and grandchildren. Knowing the power of the spoken word, readers will also find help in identifying encouraging phrases they can use to encourage their children and grandchildren.You should have heard them squeal! Of course, the more they screamed, the more Grandpa Rob played. I was thoroughly delighted to find out that a cardboard box still has the power to serve a vital function even in this twenty-first- centuryanbsp;...
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MOUNT KISCO, N.Y. -- New York Giants quarterback Eli Manning visited the Mount Kisco Country Club on Monday in connection with Guiding Eyes for the Blind's Annual Golf Classic.
Manning, who has been involved with the Yorktown Heights-based group for several years, first got involved through blind golfer Patrick Browne, Jr., whose son knew Manning growing up.
The tournament is now in its 37th year. The country club also hosted the Corcoran Cup, according to Thomas Panek, Guiding Eyes chief executive officer. That tournament, held Sunday, has been described as the blind golfers' equivalent of the Masters.
Talking with several reporters at a press conference, Manning addressed his participation, saying it's "great to be back" and noted it's something he looks forward to every year. He also noted the the work that Guiding Eyes does, which includes support for children with autism and helping families.
Manning also took questions from the press about the Giants' off-season practices, addressing issues ranging from trying to eliminate bad plays to a new offense. He also discussed the condition of his ankle, which he had surgically repaired in the off-season.
"Ankle feels great," he said.
The quarterback was also asked questions about the New York Rangers' appearance in the National Hockey League's Stanley Cup Finals. Manning, who is hoping that the Rangers can turn it around, watched Game 2 on Saturday, which ended with the team losing in double overtime to the Los Angeles Kings.
Joined by reporters, Manning then followed his press conference with two blindfolded putting attempts on a nearby green.
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Top Melbourne jockey Craig Newitt is giving his mount Vanbrugh a good lightweight chance in the Group 1 $1m Epsom (1600m) at Randwick on Saturday.
Vanbrugh will only have to carry 51kg in the Epsom and is dropping back to Handicap conditions after two Spring Carnival runs at weight for age for a fifth in the Group 2 $250,000 Warwick Stakes (1400m) at Randwick on August 20 followed by a fourth in the Group 1 $500,000 Colgate Optic White Stakes (George Main Stakes) (1600m) at Randwick on September 17 both behind high profile stablemate Winx.
The Chris Waller trained four year old is marked as one of the outsiders of the field at $20 with Ladbrokes.com.au but Newitt can see him getting a good run from barrier seven in the thirteen horse field.
"He's obviously been racing at weight-for-age this preparation, and only been getting beat four, 4.5 lengths behind the good mare," Newitt told racing.com.
"He drops to 51kg, and he's a horse that's drawn out a little bit so he should get a bit of room to wind up.
"He's a 2000m winner, a Group 1 winner, so he should be strong late."
Vanbrugh claimed his Group 1 winning trophy with his victory in the $500,000 Moet & Chandon Spring Champion Stakes (2000m) at Randwick almost twelve months ago but hasn't won a race since.
The Encosta De Lago Entire had four runs during the Sydney and Melbourne Autumn Carnivals with his best effort being a fourth to Tarzino in the Group 1 $600,000 Sky Racing Rosehill Guineas (2000m) at Rosehill.
Vanbrugh is one of four runners Waller will saddle up in the Epsom and will join last start Theo Marks Stakes winner Mackintosh and Kingston Town Stakes winner McCreery as well as the promising Torgersen.
The in-form Hauraki heads the market order at $5 and is coming off a last start second to Winx in the George Main Stakes which followed a first up win over Epsom rival Le Romain in the Group 2 $175,000 Tattersalls Club Tramway Stakes (1400m) at Randwick on September 3.
McCreery has firmed up slightly to be on the second line of betting at $5.50 just ahead of the Darren Weir trained Makybe Diva Stakes winner Palentino at $6.
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That is what I have asked myself about 55 times since being home from Honduras. Why am I having such issues writing my Honduras post? It's not because it wasn't one of the most incredible weeks of my life, it definitely was. But I am dreading trying to find the words to potray what it was like. I'm procrastinating, plain and simple.
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Dispatches from Strettaland, vol. 176
Hey Strettites!
It was yet another weekend of debauchery, hedonism,
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found our heroes playing the Bunganut Pig in
Murfreesboro, TN. The highlight of the evening was
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Questions over Google's new privacy policy continue despite their best efforts to quell fears. In a lengthy response to EU regulators who had asked Google to hold off on implementing the new policy, they make clear the policy will take effect March 1, as planned.
In the letter to Article 29 Working Party chairman Jacob Kohnstamm, Google's Global Privacy Counsel Peter Fleischer notes they have not changed their approach to privacy and that they "met with many of your counterparts in other countries in the weeks before we announced the change."
Should Google Bow to EU Pressure to Pause the New Privacy Policy Launch?
"As you will know, we had extensively pre-briefed data protection authorities across the EU prior to the launch of our notification to users on 24 January 2012," Fleischer wrote further on in the letter. "At no stage did any EU regulator suggest that any sort of pause would be appropriate."
Fair enough, no? The problem we seem to see over and over with privacy and other Internet-related concerns (which we also witnessed throughout the SOPA protest) is that it takes the scrutiny and evaluation of proposed legislation or policy by the public themselves to surface many of these concerns.
Should a period of public consultation be a requirement for changes of a certain nature when made by a public company, or when those changes affect issues like privacy? Are lawmakers and regulators just not asking the right questions? It's impossible to tell from the sidelines, but it is clear that lately, there seems to be another proposed act, law, or policy causing grief in the news almost every week.
U.S. Congress Still Has Concerns After Closed-Door Meeting
One concern in particular, data deletion and the lack of clarity surrounding just how and when purging happens, has members of U.S. Congress demanding a better explanation.
On January 30, Google responded to a letter from eight members of Congress. One of the issues addressed in their response was whether users can opt out of the new privacy policy. Let's be completely realistic, people; where else do you get to simply opt out of a privacy policy? It doesn't happen.
As somewhat of a privacy advocate, even I think it's unreasonable to expect any company to operate on two separate sets of rules to accommodate users. Google did confirm that opting out is not going to be a possibility for people who want to use their services.
Google points out that users can use many services, such as Search, Maps, and YouTube, without signing in. Privacy controls include turning off search history, switching Gmail chat to "off the record," using Incognito mode in Chrome, etc.
Yesterday, Google's deputy general counsel Mike Yang and public policy director Pablo Chavez attended a closed-door meeting with ten U.S. representatives. Rep. Mary Bono Mack, R- Calif., arranged the briefing, telling USA Today that Google's March 1 launch date for the new policy doesn't leave time for a full public hearing.
One of Bono Mack's chief complaints is a somewhat convoluted theory that cross-profile data tracking is a violation of HIPPA because someone might search for "cervical cancer" and forget to sign out afterward – an argument that just doesn't seem to have legs.
The Data Retention Question is Bigger Than Google
Rep. Joe Barton, R-Tex., told USA Today, "I asked specifically about Google's deletion policy and got some disturbing answers. I may hit delete, but that doesn't mean the material goes away immediately. It was obvious to me, as I left the room, that this company has established this policy so instead of the consumer being the master of the Internet, Google is the master of the consumer. I think that is just wrong."
Data retention is an internationally volatile issue. In the U.S., two mandatory data retention bills were shot down in 2009, while the controversial H.R. 1981 has made its way back onto the calendar.
If you cancel your Facebook account and log in again a year later, your profile will reactivate. Congress are asking important questions of Google, but I have one for Congress: what would you like Google to do as far as data retention and purging and why aren't they required to take that specific action by law?
If there is a mandatory data purging timeline companies like Google and Facebook should adhere to, I bet you they would… because they would have to. Seems to me that if lawmakers had been as busy putting guidelines in place to protect users as they were trying to protect MPAA and RIAA profits with SOPA, Google would have clear cut data retention and purging guidelines to follow.
So is it fair now for lawmakers to ask that Google "pause" rolling out a feature that has already been announced when the questions underlying concerns aren't exactly new, have in fact been around for a while, and have gone largely unaddressed by lawmakers?
Your guess is as good as mine. It doesn't seem unreasonable, though, that if Congress has something specific in mind, they simply ask Google to do it, whether that is a a complete purge of all data after six months, twelve months, eighteen months, etc. If they refuse, put a law in place requiring it.
Of course, if Congress truly feels this way about data retention and the duty to purge for the sake of the user, they may need to stop entertaining bills that promote keeping data even longer, like H.R. 1981. Can't have it both ways.
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'I was an animal in the bedroom', says Tony BlairSeptember 2nd, 2010 - 5:55 pm ICT by ANI
London, Sept 2 (ANI): Former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair has revealed in his book that he was an animal in the bedroom.
When John Smith died on May 12, 1994, triggering the Labour leadership battle with Gordon Brown, it was clearly an emotional time for Blair and his wife.
"That night she cradled me in her arms and soothed me; told me what I needed to be told; strengthened me; made me feel that what I was about to do was right… On that night of the 12th May, 1994, I needed that love Cherie gave me, selfishly," The Sun quoted him as writing in his memoirs.
"I devoured it to give me strength, I was an animal following my instinct, knowing I would need every of emotional power and resilience to cope with what lay ahead. I was exhilarated, afraid and determined in roughly equal quantities," he added.
Blair revealed another bizarre obsession - with toilets.
The former PM writes that he likes to have "time and comfort in the loo".
Wife Cherie revealed Tony proposed after she cleaned a toilet on holiday in Tuscany in 1979.
"I was cleaning the bathroom. I'd cleaned the toilet and he announced, while I was on my knees, that we should get married. It was terribly romantic," she said.
Blair writes candidly about illicit affairs of the politicians, showing unusual insight for a man with a spotless reputation on that front.
"Politicians live with pressure. They have to be immensely controlled to get anywhere… And your free-bird instincts want to spring you from that prison of self-control. Then there is that moment of encounter, so exciting, so naughty, so lacking in self-control," he wrote. (ANI)
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text: Jon Tenney has been cast alongside Ryan Reynolds to play his father in Warner Bros.' "Green Lantern," currently shooting with Donald De Line producing and Martin Campbell directing."Green Lantern," based on the Marvel comic book character, has been set for release June 17. Angela Bassett, Peter Sarsgaard and Mark Strong co-star. Greg Berlanti is also producing and wrote the script with Marc Guggenheim and Michael Green. Tenney's in his sixth season of "The Closer" and will next be seen in Fox Searchlight's "Rabbit Hole" with Aaron Eckhart and Nicole Kidman. Tenney's repped by Gersh and Kritzer, Levine, Wilkins Entertainment.


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The audit regulator hit back at last month's proposals from the Competition Commission that sought to shake up an industry, dominated by the big four accountants – Deloitte, PricewaterhouseCoopers, KPMG and Ernst & Young. They audit all but one Britain's top 100 companies, the exception being gold miner Randgold Resources, which uses BDO.
In a proposal many believed did not go far enough, the competition regulator said it had reached a provisional decision to force FTSE350 companies to put their audit "out to tender at least every five years" – a less draconian outcome than earlier calls for a mandatory change.
Almost a third of FTSE100 companies have had the same auditor for more than 20 years.
While the FRC said it welcomed the withdrawal of "mandatory rotation of audit firms", it urged the Commission not to meddle with guidelines the audit regulator itself introduced last year requiring 10-year tendering.
Arguing the Commission's proposals would drive up company and audit firm costs, so undermining its "goal of promoting competition", the FRC said it was "concerned by the risk that tendering at five yearly intervals will not be taken seriously by companies or firms and may result in a sham process".
Forcing such a change on companies also undermined "the successful comply or explain approach at the heart of the UK's corporate governance philosophy", the FRC said.
A modest market shake-up is already underway, with HSBC this year moving its £54m a year contract to PwC, ending a 22-year relationship with KPMG, and Unilever saying it would replace PwC after 26 years.
The FRC has the backing of the industry's biggest players. This weekend, the head of Deloitte, David Sproul, told The Daily Telegraph: "We don't see that five-year tendering adds anything to the competitive landscape, and we think it runs the risk of detracting from quality."
However, critics argue that the Big Four are chiefly concerned about maintaining their dominant position.
The FRC also balked at the Commission's proposal that the audit regulator "should review every audit engatement in the FTSE 350 on average every five years" and scrutinise all "firms auditing 10 or more public interest entities" on an annual basis.
That would encompass nine firms: the big four, BDO, Grant Thornton, Baker Tilly, CCW and Mazars.
The FRC said the proposals "could undermine the FRC's current risk-based approach to the selection of audits for inspection", while it would also need to consider "the additional funding needed for a larger investigation remit".