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Today's guest blog post is by Jessica Cunningham. Ms. Cunningham is a Social Anthropology undergraduate student from Queen's University Belfast, Ireland. This past summer she has done field research, based in Austin, Texas, on American gun-owners and their attachment to their guns.
A few years ago, I set off with two others on a coast-to-coast road trip across North America. Like all such trips, we were exposed to countless new experiences, yet for me one particular experience stands out. A fairly casual afternoon spent shooting tin cans with some friends in Santa Fe had a surprising effect on me which I can only describe now as visceral. Aware of the widespread use of guns in America, (although growing up my cultural exposure to guns was limited to gangsters and cowboys as seen on TV), my unexpected reaction to using a gun for the first time, left me wondering just what it is about the gun that holds such sway for so many.
Since then this interest has continued and grown, as has the media coverage surrounding the issue. Now as a social anthropology undergraduate, going into my final year at Queen's University Belfast with the opportunity to undertake my first fieldwork project as part of my dissertation, it seemed the obvious subject for my research.
Accordingly, this summer I spent two months in Austin, Texas. As an undergraduate this was a completely new challenge for me, particularly since it is also a largely uncharted area within anthropology, so I went in blind so to speak. I wanted to explore and measure the social value of firearms. By using a universally understood value reference, namely money, I asked each participant 'If I gave you $1 million, would you in return give up your gun rights?' In almost every case the answer was 'No'. To what then do these rights equate?
Not having the knowledge to be overly selective, I talked to anyone and everyone in the area connected in any way with guns; including ammunition dealers, skeet, trap and IDPA shooters (International Defensive Pistol Association), instructors and concealed handgun licensing (CHL) teachers, ranchers, hunters, students and the police, not to mention your average Joe and Josephine doing it for fun. I was completely dependent on people's good will and openness which I can say I found in abundance. I believe that one factor which played a significant role throughout my research was my apparent 'otherness' to the context that I found myself in. I feel that being a relatively young girl from the UK, placed me outside of the lived experience of the gun debate. I was able to present myself as impartial, but willing to learn.
However, I soon realized that not only was I completely ignorant of the 'gun language', the technical terminology and even basic types and uses of firearms, but I had also not fully grasped the complex and multifaceted nature of the 'culture of guns', namely who uses them and why. Because of this and my obvious time limits, my stay in Texas felt far more akin to a 'reccy'-style, preliminary research as opposed to a more conclusive academic piece of work.
However, one forcible aspect did emerge from my research, that is the way in which gun ownership is often regarded as being a right as unalienable as free speech or religious freedom. Although I approached the subject under the assumption that gun attachment held deeper implications than is commonly realized, I was surprised by the degree to which some really did hold guns in almost sacred esteem and feel sure that this warrants further attention and research.


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PHOENIX -- The A's are soon likely to set their roster without Hideki Okajima's name on it, but the veteran reliever says he's fine with continuing his career in the Minors while waiting for a chance to pitch in Oakland.
"I'm completely fine with it," Okajima said Sunday. "I signed a Minor League contract, and I'm just happy to be pitching in America again, no matter where it is."
For three straight days Okajima appeared on the A's pitching list, but never got into a game. Finally, on Sunday, he was brought in for the seventh inning, and he stranded two on base, his ERA lowered to 5.19 by day's end.
Okajima has been spotty this spring, and he essentially needed to be perfect to have any chance of grabbing hold of a roster spot. He's one of 13 relievers vying for seven bullpen openings, three of which are already guaranteed to Grant Balfour, Ryan Cook and Sean Doolittle. The others are likely to go to the four relievers out of options: Jerry Blevins, Chris Resop, Pat Neshek and Travis Blackley.
This marks Okajima's first spring in Arizona, and it's presented quite the learning curve for the veteran.
"It's been tough," he said through a translator. "Compared to Florida, it's so dry, and the ball flies a lot farther here. I'm quite surprised at the difference. It's a good place to gain experience.
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Setting the Scene... After compiling a 7-16-1 record in the regular season Sacred Heart has been selected as the #3 seed in the ECAC Open Tournament in Worcester this weekend. The tournament opens with the host, Holy Cross, taking on Saint Michael's at noon Saturday, followed by the Pioneers vs. Saint Anselm at 4:00 pm. The winners will play in the title game at 4:00 pm Sunday, preceeded by the consolation game at noon.
On the Air... Video of Saturday's games will be streaming live online at www.fasthockey.com
About Sacred Heart... Junior forward Lauren Fontaine leads the team in scoring with 31 points, 19 goals and 12 assists. Classmate Brittany Hartman has scored 12 goals and collected 14 assists, with a team-high four power play goals. Senior Kate Dunlop ranks third in scoring with eight goals and 14 assists. Sophomore Nicole Palazzo holds the team lead in assists with 17. In between the pipes for the Pioneers, sophomore Raelene Sydor has stopped 261 shots in 10 starts.
Scouting the Hawks... Saint Anselm concluded the 2009-'10 season with a 14-10-1 record, led by freshman forward Rosemarie Giarrusso who scored 14 goals and notched 14 assists. Junior Sarah Ellins is second on the team in scoring with 11 goals and 13 assists, followed by senior Maria Dougherty who has nine scores and 12 helpers. Sophomore Amy Zappen has accumulated the majority of minutes in the cage and stopped 420 shots, while owning a 1.87 goals against average.
SHU vs. SAC... In last year's ECAC Open Tournament the Pioneers upended the Hawks 6-3 in the semi-final round. SHU's Gina Arnone led the way with a hat trick, while Hartman contributed three assists. Zappen made 23 saves in net for Saint Anselm.
Last Time Out... Sacred Heart split a weekend exhibition series with Rhode Island a week ago. The Pioneers fell in game one, 9-5, but rebounded to take the second game 7-1. In game two, Hartman netted a hat trick, while Fontaine added three assists and a score of her own. Palazzo lit the lamp twice in each game.
Scouting St. Mike's... Senior Desiree Biron leads the 3-19-1 Purple Knights with 11 goals and six assists. Fellow senior, Crystal Sarna has tallied eight goals and three assists on the season. Junior Alysia Goldman has saved 491 shots in goal and has a 4.04 GAA.
SHU vs. SMC... The two teams have not met since December 2007. The Pioneers won, at home, 6-0. Hankins, Hartman, and Jackie Galvin each notched a goal for Sacred Heart.
Scouting Holy Cross... The Crusaders hold the number one seed in the tournament with an 18-4-2 record. Sophomore Stacey Hotchkins has recorded a team-high 41 points, including a team-leading 23 goals and 18 assists. Junior Jocelyn Kratchmer is second in points with 16 goals and 17 assists, totaling 33 points. Senior Lisa Wilson has dished out a team-high 19 assists to go with seven scores. Junior Monique Gallant and sophomore Carly Dominick-Sobol have split time in net with a combined .917 save percentage and 1.61 GAA.
SHU vs. HC... The Pioneers jumped out to a 3-1 lead against the Crusaders in their opener this season, before ultimately falling 5-3. Sophomore Nicole Garat scored twice for Holy Cross. Last season the Crusaders defeated SHU, 4-2, in the ECAC Open Final. Fontaine netted both goals for the Pioneers.


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While the RT-10's video capabilities are surely matched by many stand-alone, high-end DVD players, I felt fortunate to have this good performance to accompany its outstanding audio capabilities. To say the very least, hooked up to my 50-inch plasma and Faroudja NRS-DVI, both of which are my reference standards in their respective categories, the RT-10 was not out of place one bit. In fact, it was a welcome addition to my theater.
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The RT-10's downsides are clear, most notably not including HDCD or DCDi technology, a disappointing LED display, a lack of an RS-232 port and remote interference with my Proceed AVP2 (which thankfully I was able to correct). Furthermore, I would have like to see Lexicon provide a proprietary output to their MC-8 and MC-12 processors for high-resolution music.
In the world of high-end electronics, there probably can never be a perfect, please-all product and that is true here, where Lexicon has taken a remarkable and ambitious risk, creating what likely is the current king of hybrid high-resolution disc players on the market today. It is their first source component and Harman Specialty Group's only high-resolution and hybrid player.
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The air was stifling. It was thick with dust and hung in clouds through the sweltering corridors. I was 7,000 feet deep in a Transvaal gold mine.
Worse than the heat was the noise. I had to yell to my guide, the chief economist for JCI Mines.
I cupped my hands to make a horn, and over the roar of tractor engines and jackhammer drills I yelled: "What do you see for gold next year?"
My Afrikaner escort shouted over the din: "You tell me what the dollar does and I will tell you what gold does!"
It just so happened that the year was 1990 and the U.S. greenback was about to make one of its biggest bull runs ever. The result was a bear market in bullion that took the price of gold all the way down to $252 per ounce.
Today, with the price of gold about $900 higher than it was then, the same question regarding gold in 2010 cuts to the wick: What is the dollar going to do?
An Avalanche of Money
One thing is certain. This is not your father's Federal Reserve.
The Fed that existed 30 years ago was chaired by Paul Volcker. Volcker was brought in to curb soaring inflation. To do that he decided his first priority was to protect the dollar, recession be damned. At the same time Ronald Reagan was coming into office. He was trying to curb government spending.
As the chart below shows, Volcker jacked the Fed funds rate up to almost 20 percent. In the process the United States endured a great rolling recession that devastated the commodity markets and farmers. Yet for the next two decades the dollar would be the world's kingpin currency.
With the exception of The Crash of 1987 the U.S. economy was on firm ground, and prosperity was growing.
Then came a speculative stock bubble, 9/11 and runaway deficits.
In the wake of all this are President Obama and Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke who are not squeezing a single thing! Instead they are creating a tsunami of money. It amounts to throwing gasoline on a fire.
In just over a year the Fed has increased our monetary base by a whopping 120 percent! That is more than double the previous highest annual increase over the past 50 years. The Fed has made huge loans to private lenders and bought more than $1 trillion of mortgage securities and hundreds of billions of dollars of long-term Treasury bonds. It has succeeded in lowering the federal funds rate below 1 percent—and even, for most of the time, to less than half that.
Washington is trying to jump-start the economy with unprecedented amounts of money. Yet the old economist adage holds, "It's like pushing on a string."
Unless there is demand for money by willing lenders and borrowers the economy is not going to improve. What is going to happen is a train-wreck for the dollar.
The dollar is more than 14 percent off its March peak, and some worry that additional losses could prompt foreign investors to start selling dollar-denominated assets.
But while a sluggish U.S. recovery and low interest rates mean the dollar may have further to fall in the year ahead, very low inflation means a crisis is far from imminent, said Henry Kaufman, president of Henry Kaufman & Company, Inc.
"There has been no dollar crisis," Kaufman said. "The retreat of the dollar has been gradual, it has been orderly and it has not had an impact on the securities market."
Perhaps so, but as this U.S. Dollar Index chart shows, the greenback is still fading fast in a bear market that began eight years ago. If the dollar continues its slide in 2010, as I think it will, it will break below its 2008 lows of 71.5. When that happens the dollar will be in uncharted territory. Just how far it could slump from here is anybody's guess, but with offshore investors holding trillions in dollar assets, the dollar's direction is of critical importance to everyone.
Of course if you want to you can buy a 30-year T-bond today that will pay you a 4.7 percent annual return. Given that the real rate of inflation is at more than five percent, that is a losing proposition.
Now the only reason that Washington has been able to get away with selling such risk for such a miserable return is two-fold:
Meanwhile the U.S. continues to be a beggar of last resort. To pay for all of President Obama's plans the government has to auction off hundreds of billions of dollars in U.S. Treasuries this year.
In 2006 the U.S. bond market was worth an estimated $44 trillion. If interest rates rise, as I think they will, trillions of dollars in wealth could disappear. That is not just wealth held by foreigners but by all Americans.
Furthermore, the biggest danger will be the U.S. will have to finance its deficits with additional Treasury debt. To get those loans, interest rates will certainly climb.
Forecast for 2010
Dollar: Look for an even weaker dollar in 2010. The U.S. Dollar Index is close to breaking down and losing all technical support. That could throw traders into frenzy.
Bonds: Expect a smash-up in the bond market as investors are now holding bonds that pay a pittance. To sell off its Treasury debt the Fed is going to be forced to raise interest rates which will throw bond prices into a tailspin. Higher rates will also be a stake in the heart of the…
Stock Market: The Dow Industrials are flirting with 11,000. My expectation is that the Dow may touch upon this level before higher rates drive stock prices lower. Look for the Dow to be under 7,500 by the end of the year. I expect an even worse year for the tech-packed NASDAQ. This year will be a tough year for investors unless they are in real assets, especially…
Precious Metals: Gold continues to shine, although expected profit taking will happen along the way. Washington and other governments would love to keep a cap on the price of bullion, but right now they have much bigger fish to fry. My expectation is that the Midas metal will top $1,500 per ounce before year's end and silver will rise from the $17 range to $25 per ounce. That leaves us with one other key sector…
Energy: It is going to be a mixed bag for energy this year. In fact, oil could easily fall back toward the $60 per barrel range if interest rates increase enough to choke off the recovery. Still, world demand for oil continues to grow. I think that over the long-term oil prices are headed back toward $150 per barrel. That may not happen, however, until we are closer to 2012.
Well, there you have it… my forecast for 2010. But keep in mind something that the Yankee great, Yogi Berra, said, "Prediction is very hard, especially about the future."
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I lightened the photo up some trying to see the 2 gentlemen a little better.
You can't imagine how excited I was when I first saw them coming down the road. This reminded me of our ancestors coming across the plains in those Prairie Schooners. There is a story about Grandpa Harvey Puckett and Grandma Alice and Indians and camping overnight! That story reminds me, too, of these two gentlemen. You can find that story in Chapters 1 and 2 of Irene Gailey Stone's Memories – "Grandma in Her Bonnet."


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MH17: World leaders call for immediate ceasefire in eastern Ukraine and demand speedy access for international investigators to the crash site
World leaders have called for an immediate ceasefire in eastern Ukraine as they demanded speedy access for international investigators to the crash site of the Malaysia Airlines jetliner shot down over the country's battlefields.
The strong words came amid contrasting images of emergency workers and off-duty coal miners fanning out across picturesque sunflower fields searching for charred pieces of wreckage from the Boeing 777.
The missile attack on the civilian plane killed 298 people from nearly a dozen nations - including holidaymakers, students and a large contingent of scientists heading to an Aids conference in Australia.
US President Barack Obama called for an immediate ceasefire between Ukrainian government forces and pro-Russia separatists. He also called for a credible investigation.
"The eyes of the world are on eastern Ukraine, and we are going to make sure that the truth is out," he said at the White House.
US intelligence authorities said a surface-to-air missile brought down Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 as it travelled from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur. US Ambassador Samantha Power told the UN Security Council in New York the missile was likely fired from a rebel-held area near the Russian border.
The Ukrainian government in Kiev, the separatist pro-Russia rebels they are fighting and the Russia government that Ukraine accuses of supporting the rebels all denied shooting the plane down. Moscow also denies backing the rebels.
After holding an emergency session, the UN Security Council called for "a full, thorough and independent international investigation" into the downing of the plane.
Russian President Vladimir Putin said both sides in the Ukrainian conflict should put down their weapons and hold peace talks. He has blamed Ukraine for the crash, saying Kiev was responsible for the unrest in its Russian-speaking eastern regions. But he did not accuse Ukraine of shooting the plane down and did not address the key question of whether Russia gave the rebels such a powerful missile.
The Ukrainian Interior Ministry released a video purporting to show a truck carrying the Buk missile launcher it said was used to fire on the plane with one of its four missiles apparently missing. The ministry said the footage was filmed by a police surveillance squad at dawn today as the truck was heading to the city of Krasnodon toward the Russian border.
Ukraine's state aviation service has now closed the airspace over two border regions gripped by separatist fighting - Donetsk and Luhansk - and Russian airlines suspended all flights over Ukraine.
Access to the sprawling crash site remained difficult and dangerous. The road into it from Donetsk, the largest city in the region, was marked by five rebel checkpoints, with document checks at each.
A commission of around 30 people, mostly officials representing the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe, travelled to the crash site this afternoon - the first such visit there by an international delegation.
"No black boxes have been found ... we hope that experts will track them down and create a picture of what has happened," Donetsk separatist leader Aleksandr Borodai said.
The crash site was spread out over fields between two villages in eastern Ukraine - Rozsypne and Hrabove.
In the sunflower fields around Rozsypne, 40 kilometres (25 miles) from the Russian border, lines of men disappeared into thick, tall growth that reached over their heads looking for bodies.
About 70 off-duty coal miners also joined the search.
In Hrabove, several miles away, large numbers of sticks, some made from tree branches, were affixed with red or white rags to mark spots where body parts were found.
Andrei Purgin, a leader of the pro-Russian separatists, said the bodies will be taken to the government-controlled Black Sea city of Mariupol.
The area has seen heavy fighting between government troops and pro-Russia separatists, and rebels had bragged about shooting down two Ukrainian military jets on Wednesday in the region.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov dismissed Kiev's accusations that Moscow could be behind the attack.
"Regarding those claims from Kiev that we allegedly did it ourselves: I have not heard a truthful statement from Kiev for months," he told the Rossiya 24 television channel.
He also said Russia has no intention of getting its hands on the plane's black boxes and added they should be given to international aviation organisations.
Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk described the attack as an "international crime" whose perpetrators should be punished in an international tribunal.
Malaysian Transport Minister Liow Tiong Lay insisted again that the airline's path was an internationally approved route and denied accusations the airline was trying to save fuel and money by taking a more direct flight path across Ukraine.
Aviation authorities in several countries, including the FAA in the United States, had issued previous warnings not to fly over parts of Ukraine after Russia annexed the Crimean Peninsula in March. Within hours of the crash, several airlines announced they were avoiding parts of Ukrainian airspace.
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This Teen Prostitute May Be the Trashiest Reality Star Ever
Meet Chloe Victoria. She's a 19-year-old prostitute who has been arrested 140 times. She has a two-year-old daughter and is a star of British reality show The X Factor. Her stated goals: "Get famous" and "$$$$$$$$$."
Simon Cowell has created the ultimate reality TV monster. Thank God he unleashed it in England instead of here.
Chloe's born name is Chloe Heald. She calls herself "Chloe Mafia" and "Chloe Victoria." As "Candy" she advertises herself as "100 percent English Yorkshire dirty slut" on a British escort website. Her most recent sex ad was posted a few days before she appeared on The X Factor, and an undercover reporter for The Sun outed her.
Before going on The X Factor Chloe's asking price was $250/hour or $1600/night. Now, according to News of the World, she charges $400/hour or $2400/night. "I'm living the high life and it is an easy way of earning cash. In a good week, I clear ten grand," she told a second undercover reporter. (Chloe maintains that both stories are false: She is merely a private dancer.) Deadline reports that tabloids are negotiating five-figure interviews with Chloe, and that she has been arrested some 140 times.
The most surprising part of the story—at least, to my impossibly naive American eyes—is that The X Factor stands proudly behind Chloe's "alleged career choice." Simon Cowell says his TV show has no ban on prostitutes: "If a person applies to The X Factor it's obvious they want to do something better with their life." Like doubling the amount of money you can make in an hour! So, hooray for Chloe. She's stimulating the economy and making her dreams come true. Chloe Victoria's tarantula-lashed stardom sets an exciting new precedent: Real whoring is the new famewhoring.


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A new research paper by quant hedge fund manager Clifford Asness and colleagues at his AQR Capital Management seeks to lend intellectual respectability to oft-derided momentum investing, which is often seen as a high-risk trader's game rather than a legitimate portfolio strategy.
The University of Chicago's Tobias Moskowitz joined Asness and his AQR colleagues Andrea Frazzini and Ronen Israel in authoring the paper titled "Fact, Fiction and Momentum Investing."
Momentum investors seeking to purchase securities that have performed well relative to peers and shun (or short) relative underperformers. The authors aim to refute 10 myths questioning the efficacy of this approach. Here is a "Cliff's Notes" version of the 26-page paper.
Myth #1: Momentum returns are too "small and sporadic."
The authors note that momentum's return premium is evident over 212 years of U.S. market data and can be seen in studies covering 40 other countries and more than a dozen other asset classes (e.g., bonds, currencies, commodities).
Over the 86 years between 1927 and 2013, for example, the spread of recent winners over recent losers averaged 8.3% a year.
They show there are many ways to slice and dice momentum, but they conclude:
"It's undeniable that far from being 'small,' momentum returns are large, large after basic risk adjustment (Sharpe ratio), and larger than other major factors, even those occasionally being promoted by the exact same crowd calling momentum 'small and sporadic.'"
Myth #2: Momentum cannot be captured by long-only investors as "momentum can only be exploited on the short side."
Using Kenneth French's data, the authors show that almost half of momentum's premium comes from the long side. Under a particular momentum investing approach, the authors find that the long side even contributed most of the returns. They cite one comprehensive study finding that both long and short sides of momentum investing were equally profitable over 86 years in the U.S., 40 years of international data covering equities and five other asset classes.
Myth #3: Momentum is much stronger among small-cap stocks than large-caps.
The paper's authors find that momentum investing's premium is significant among large-cap stocks — an effect only slightly less in magnitude than found in small-cap stocks.
Given that this charge is often lobbed by value investors, the authors find it ironic that it is in the realm of value investing that the value premium disappears among large-cap stocks.
Myth #4: Momentum does not survive, or is seriously limited by, trading costs.
While one might intuitively think momentum, because of its higher turnover, is costlier to implement, the authors, citing a study using a unique AQR Capital data set containing more than $1 trillion of live trades from 1998 to 2013, say this is not so. The reason stems from the fact that careful institutional traders know how to reduce trading costs, whereas some academic papers reference the cost estimates bearing on average investors, which are 10 times larger.
Myth #5: Momentum does not work for a taxable investor.
Similarly, the idea that higher turnover translates to greater tax effects makes some initial intuitive sense. Yet they find the tax burden to be similar—even potentially lower—than that of value.
One reason for this is that momentum, by holding onto winners and selling losers, is "biased to be tax advantageous" since it favors long-term capital gains, avoids short-term capital gains and realizes short-term capital losses.
In contrast, value strategies have high exposure to tax-inefficient dividend income.
"Since the premium for momentum is quite a bit higher than for value, yet they face similar tax rates, the after-tax returns to momentum are also higher than for value," the authors write.
Myth #6: Momentum is best used with screens rather than as a direct factor.
Some critics of momentum, who demean the approach as a "hot potato," nevertheless want to first select securities based on value criteria, and only then allow momentum as a secondary screen. The authors call this "an attempt to have your cake but denounce it too!"
The paper argues that such an approach is a backhanded, but suboptimal, way to acknowledge the validity of long-term data establishing the success of momentum investing.
Myth #7: One should be particularly worried about momentum's returns disappearing.
Any strategy has its seasons of relative success and failure; 1999-2000 was a tough time for value investing. That critics would therefore challenge only "momentum is odd to say the least, especially given the strength and stability of momentum's historical record"—across time, geography, security type and given the strategy's large return premium.
Myth #8: Momentum is too volatile to rely on.
Again, every strategy has its "dark times," and the paper's authors note the late 1990s were tough for value investors. So too was 2009 (when a plunging market suddenly reversed itself) difficult for momentum investors (especially those who relied solely on momentum in contrast to the authors' oft-stated preference for combining momentum and value factors).
The authors analyze Sharpe ratios to show that momentum is a superior strategy specifically on a risk-return basis. They also note the imperative of investing for the long term in a diversified portfolio as a means of getting through the dark periods.
They write: "Of course, any decent researcher knows far better than to point to one bad period for a factor with long-term success (success that, again, includes that bad period) and impugn it while letting other factors have a free pass regarding events in their own histories."
Myth #9: Different measures of momentum can give different results over a given period.
The authors raise the by now familiar objection that the different-measures charge can be used with any strategy. One can measure value through earnings-to-price, cash-flow-to-price or book-to-market value.
Myth #10: There is no theory behind momentum.
The paper's authors again note that a multiplicity of theories — usually falling under the risk-based or behavioral categories — is debated with respect to size and value premiums as well.
While the theories are debatable, the data is undeniable. "We discovered the world wasn't flat before we understood and agreed why," the authors quip.
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Word of the talks came at a status hearing Monday for Joseph Moreno and former Alderman Ambrosio Medrano.
Moreno and Medrano were arrested in June in the corruption case involving the sale of bandages to hospitals. They allegedly hatched the scheme in 2010 to accept bribes for exerting their influence to get hospitals to purchase particular bandages.
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"Sharknado 3: Oh Hell No!" aired Wednesday night, delivering the same ridiculous plot-lines and cameos as the first two.
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Tara Reid's character April accompanied her husband, Fin (Ian Ziering) into outer space to attempt to eradicate all sharknados, was then swallowed by a shark in space, delivered her own baby inside said shark while falling to earth before escaping with the help of her chainsaw hand, and then was possibly crushed/sliced in half by a falling piece of space shuttle.
MORE: Our Sharknado 3 drinking game might not be survivable
Now, the key word there is "possibly." As it was revealed during the end credits, April's fate is entirely up to us, and will be revealed in "Sharknado 4."
So it appears the toothy onslaught may not be over yet, even though it seemed like David Hasselhoff made pretty good use of those lasers to get rid of all the sharks at the end of "Sharknado 3." There are probably still plenty of sharks to populate those tornados for at least one more movie.
April's journey was not the only magnificent revelation from "Sharknado 3." In fact, the movie was filled with scenes that we thought to deem the number one moment, until we actually finished it, such as:
—That time Fin revealed that he can now sense the sharknados, like some kind of sharknado whisperer.
—Frankie Muniz's heroic death in which all of his limbs were eaten off by sharks, but he still managed to set off a bomb, exploding both him and some sharks.
—That one shark's happy little ride down the water slide, only to find that no one wanted to swim with him once he got to the bottom.
—That time Claudia's new friend finally kissed her, and then was promptly eaten by a shark.
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—That glorious moment in which George R.R. Martin was beheaded by a shark.
—That second when we realized the plan to get rid of the sharknados involved non-astronauts Ian Ziering and David Hasselhoff taking a space shuttle into outer space.
—That moment when all the "Today" anchors held hands and braced themselves for the shark-pocalypse, right before four sharks descended upon them from the ceiling.
—When David Hasselhoff sacrificed himself in outer space for the good of the entire eastern seaboard.
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Lupita Nyong'o is the latest celebrity to address the lack of diversity being represented at the 2016 Oscars. Echoing statements made by George Clooney, Idris Elba, Whoopi Goldberg, Spike Lee, David Oyelowo, Jada Pinkett Smith, the "12 Years a Slave star"—who won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in 2013—took to Instagram Tuesday to discuss this year's all-white nominees.
"I am disappointed by the lack of inclusion in this year's Academy Awards nominations. It has me thinking about unconscious prejudice and what merits prestige in our culture. The Awards should not dictate the terms of art in our modern society, but rather be a diverse reflection of the best of what our art has to offer today," she wrote. "I stand with my peers who are calling for change in expanding the stories that are told and recognition of the people who tell them."
Nyong'o, 32, also shared a quote from novelist James Baldwin: "Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced."
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The actress, who most recently played Maz Kanata in Star Wars: The Force Awakens and next voices Raksha in The Jungle Book, has often addressed the industry's diversity problem. At Essence's 7th Annual Black Women in Hollywood event, for example, she discussed why representation matters. Seeing women who looked like her making a splash in the media, like supermodel Alek Wek, helped Nyong'o learn to embrace her dark skin. "When I saw Alek I inadvertently saw a reflection of myself that I could not deny. Now, I had a spring in my step because I felt more seen, more appreciated by the far away gatekeepers of beauty," she said at the February 2014 luncheon. Nyong'o concluded her speech by telling the audience she hopes her "presence on your screens and in the magazines may lead you, young girl, on a similar journey. That you will feel the validation of your external beauty but also get to the deeper business of being beautiful inside."
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This is the second consecutive year that actors of color have been ignored by the Academy; Lee and Pinkett Smith are refusing to attend this year's ceremony.
Even Academy president Cheryl Boone Isaacs addressed the organization's diversity issue late Monday. "I'd like to acknowledge the wonderful work of this year's nominees," she said in a statement. "While we celebrate their extraordinary achievements, I am both heartbroken and frustrated about the lack of inclusion. This is a difficult but important conversation, and it's time for big changes."
"The Academy is taking dramatic steps to alter the makeup of our membership," Boone Isaacs said. "In the coming days and weeks we will conduct a review of our membership recruitment in order to bring about much-needed diversity in our 2016 class and beyond. "As many of you know, we have implemented changes to diversify our membership in the last four years. But the change is not coming as fast as we would like. We need to do more, and better and more quickly."
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Everyone keeps saying thank you. Perhaps it's the brevity that Twitter enforces, perhaps it's the sheer enormity of what those words must convey, but no one's really tried to sum up what they really mean. As I stare at my Mac, and imagine endlessly his personal influence in everything from the gradient of the menu bar down to the radius of the trackpad, here is my attempt.
Thank you, Steve.
Not for being a tireless champion of the user experience.
Not for believing that no detail is too small.
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Not for showing us how business and vision are not enemies, but together a powerful force.
Not for making us believe that technology can be greater than the sum of its parts.
Not for pushing an entire generation of engineers, designers, and users to accept nothing less than the very best.
All of these things, yes. And all of these things in spades. Each of these things would be enough on their own. But they are mere artifacts, evidence of what he truly means to me, and so many others.
Thank you, Steve, for showing us that all of these things matter.


text: Hydraulic fracturing uses water laced with sand and poisonous chemicals that blast a well into the shale up to a mile below ground - which eventually resurfaces, along with radioactive elements and carcinogens [GALLO/GETTY] Boston, MA - This is a story about water, the land surrounding it, and the lives it sustains. Clean water should be a right: There is no life without it. New York is what you might call a "water state". Its rivers and their tributaries only start with the St Lawrence, the Hudson, the Delaware, and the Susquehanna. The best known of its lakes are Great Lakes Erie and Ontario, Lake George, and the Finger Lakes. Its brooks, creeks, and trout streams are fishermen's lore. Far below this rippling wealth there's a vast, rocky netherworld named the Marcellus Shale. Stretching through southern New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and West Virginia, the shale contains bubbles of methane, the remains of life that died 400 million years ago. Gas corporations have lusted for the methane in the Marcellus since at least 1967, when one of them plotted with the Atomic Energy Agency to explode a nuclear bomb to unleash it. That idea died, but it's been reborn in the form of a technology exploited by energy giants such as Halliburton Corporation: High-volume horizontal hydraulic fracturing - "fracking" for short. Fracking uses prodigious amounts of water laced with sand and a startling menu of poisonous chemicals to blast the methane out of the shale. At hyperbaric bomb-like pressures, this technology propels five to seven million gallons of sand-and-chemical-laced water a mile or so down a well bore into the shale. Up comes the methane - along with about a million gallons of wastewater containing the original fracking chemicals and other substances that were also in the shale, among them radioactive elements and carcinogens. There are 400,000 such wells in the United States. Surrounded by rumbling machinery, serviced by tens of thousands of diesel trucks, this nightmare technology for energy release has turned rural areas in 34 US states into toxic industrial zones. Shale gas isn't the conventional kind that lit your grandmother's stove. It's one of those "extreme energy" forms so difficult to produce that merely accessing them poses unprecedented dangers to the planet. In every fracking state but New York, where a moratorium against the process has been in effect since 2010, the gas industry has contaminated ground water, sickened people, poisoned livestock, and killed wildlife. Fears that 'fracking' causes Ohio earthquakes At a time when the International Energy Agency reports that we have five more years of fossil-fuel use at current levels before the planet goes into irreversible climate change, fracking has a greenhouse gas footprint larger than that of coal. And with the greatest water crisis in human history underway, fracking injects mind-numbing quantities of purposely poisoned fresh water into the Earth. As for the trillions (repeat: trillions) of gallons of wastewater generated by the industry, getting rid of it is its own story. Fracking has also been linked to earthquakes: Eleven in Ohio alone (normally not an earthquake zone) over the past year. But for once, this story isn't about tragedy. It's about a resistance movement that has arisen to challenge some of the most powerful corporations in history. Here you will find no handsomely funded national environmental organisations: Some of them in fact have had a cozy relationship with the gas industry, embracing the industry's line that natural gas is a "bridge" to future alternative energies. (In fact, shale gas suppresses the development of renewable energies.) New York's 'little revolution' While most anti-fracking activists have been responding to harms already done, New York State's resistance has been waging a battle to keep harm at bay. Jack Ossont, a former helicopter pilot, has been active all his life in the state's environmental and social battles. He calls fracking "the tsunami issue of New York. It washes across the entire landscape". Sandra Steingraber, a biologist and scholar-in-residence at Ithaca College, terms the movement "the biggest since abolition and women's rights in New York". This past November, when the Heinz Foundation awarded Steingraber $100,000 for her environmental activism, she gave it to the anti-fracking community. Arriving in the state last October, I discovered a sprawl of loosely connected, grassroots groups whose names announce their counties and their long-term vision: Sustainable Otsego, Committee to Preserve the Finger Lakes, Chenango Community Action for Renewable Energy, Gas-Free Seneca, Catskill Citizens for Safe Energy, Catskill Mountainkeeper. Of these few (there are many more), only the last has a paid staff. All the others are run by volunteers. "There are so many people working quietly behind the scenes. They're not in the news, they're not doing it to get their names in the paper. It's just the right thing to do." - Kelly Branigan "There are so many people working quietly behind the scenes. They're not in the news, they're not doing it to get their names in the paper. It's just the right thing to do," says Kelly Branigan, co-founder of the group Middlefield Neighbors. Her organisation helped spearhead one of the movement's central campaigns: using local zoning ordinances to ban fracking. "In Middlefield, we're nothing special. We're just regular people who got together and learned, and reached in our pockets to go to work on this. It's inspiring, it's awesome, and it's America - its own little revolution." Consider this, then, an environmental Occupy Wall Street. It knows no divisions of social class or political affiliation. Everyone, after all, needs clean water. Farmers and professors, journalists and teachers, engineers, doctors, biologists, accountants, librarians, innkeepers, brewery owners. Actors and Catskill residents Mark Ruffalo and Debra Winger have joined the movement. Josh Fox, also of the Catskills, has brought the fracking industry and its victims to international audiences through his award-winning documentary film Gasland. "Fracking is a pretty scary prospect," says Wes Gillingham, planning director for Catskill Mountainkeeper. "It's created a community of people that wouldn't have existed before." Around four years ago, sheltered by Patterson's stay against fracking, little discussion groups began in people's kitchens, living rooms, and home basements. At that time, only a few activists were advocating outright bans on fracking: The rest of the fledgling movement was more cautiously advocating temporary moratoria. Since then a veritable ban cascade has washed across the state. And in local elections last November, scores of anti-fracking candidates, many of whom had never before run for office, displaced pro-gas incumbents in positions as town councillors, town supervisors, and county legislators. As the movement has grown in strength and influence, gas corporations such as ExxonMobil and Conoco Philips - and Marcellus Shale corporations such as Chesapeake Energy - have spent millions of dollars on advertising, lobbying, and political campaign contributions to counter it. Shale shock Autumn Stoscheck, a young organic apple farmer from the village of Van Etten just south of New York's Finger Lakes, had none of this in mind in 2008 when she invited a group of neighbours to her living room to talk about fracking. She'd simply heard enough about the process to be terrified. Like other informal fracking meetings that were being launched that year, this was a "listening group". Its ground rules: Listen, talk, but don't criticise. "There was a combination of landowners, farmers like us, and young anarchist-activists with experience in other movements," she told me. Stoscheck's neighbours knew nothing about fracking, but "they were really mistrustful of the government and large gas corporations and felt they were in collusion". New York debates merits of fracking Out of such neighbourhood groups came the first grassroots anti-fracking organisations. Stoscheck and her colleagues called theirs Shaleshock. One of its first achievements was a PowerPoint presentation, "Drilling 101", which introduces viewers to the Marcellus Shale and what hydraulic fracturing does to it. When Helen Slottje, a 44-year-old lawyer, saw "Drilling 101" at a Shaleshock forum in 2009, she was "horrified". She and her husband David had abandoned their corporate law careers to move to Ithaca in 2000. "We traded corporate law practice in Boston for New York State and less stressful work - or so we thought. New York's beauty seemed worth it." When news reports about fracking started appearing, the Slottjes thought about leaving. "I kept saying, 'What'll happen if fracking comes to New York? We'll have to move'." "Drilling 101" made her reconsider. Then she visited Dimock, Pennsylvania, 70 miles southeast of Ithaca and that sealed the deal. By 2009, Dimock, a picturesque rural village, had become synonymous with fracking hell. Houston-based Cabot Oil & Energy had started drilling there the year before. Shortly after, people started to notice that their drinking water had darkened. Some began experiencing bouts of dizziness and headaches; others developed sores after bathing in their once-pure water. For a while, Cabot trucked water to Dimock's residents, but stopped in November when a judge declined to order the company to continue deliveries. The Environmental Protection Agency was going to start water service to Dimock in the first week of January, but withdrew the offer, claiming further water tests were needed. Outraged New Yorkers organised water caravans to help their besieged neighbours. "When I went to Dimock," says Slottje, "I saw well drilling, huge trucks, muddy crisscrossing pipeline paths cutting through the woods, disposal pits, sites of diesel spills, dusty coatings on plants, noisy compressor stations - you name it. So I decided to put my legal background to work to prevent the same thing from happening where I lived. We'd been corporate lawyers before. We know the sort of resources the energy corporations have. The grassroots people have nothing. And they have this behemoth coming at them." In May 2009, the Slottjes became full-time pro bono lawyers for the movement. One of their first services was to reinterpret New York's constitutional home rule provision, which had allowed local ordinances to trump state laws until 1981. In that year, the state's Department of Environmental Conservation Division of Mineral Resources exempted gas corporations from local restrictions. "I spent thousands of hours on the research," says Slottje. "And then last August we were brave enough to go public and say the emperor has no clothes." The Slottjes' reinterpretation of the provision was simple enough: The state regulates the gas industry; towns and villages can't regulate it, but what they can do is keep its operations off their land through the use of zoning ordinances. "I spent thousands of hours on the research. And then last August we were brave enough to go public and say the emperor has no clothes." - Helen Slottje Zoning out fracking The town of Ulysses is nestled in the heart of the state's burgeoning wine country in the Finger Lakes region. In 2010, a grassroots group, Concerned Citizens of Ulysses (CCU), asked the Slottjes to speak with members of the town board, which controls Ulysses's planning and its zoning laws. The board members opposed fracking, but couldn't see how to prevent it. While the board talked with the Slottjes, CCU activists drafted a petition. If enough registered Ulysses voters signed on, the board would have the popular backing it needed for declaring a ban. Ann Furman, a retired schoolteacher who helped found CCU and write the document, recalls: "The petition was pretty specific: 'We the undersigned want to ban hydrofracking in the town of Ulysses'." A six-month-long door-to-door campaign followed. "There was a lot of education going on in Ulysses at the town board and at forums, as we were going house to house. Even people who would sign the petition would say: 'Tell me a little bit more about it.' And in that next 15 to 20 minutes you would do a whole lot more education." In the end, 1,500 out of 3,000 registered voters signed. This past summer the Ulysses town board voted to ban fracking. Middlefield, 119 miles east of Ulysses and home of the grassroots group Middlefield Neighbors, enacted a similar ban. So did Dryden, 22 miles east of Ulysses. An out-of-state gas corporation that leased land for drilling in Dryden is suing to get the zoning ban declared illegal. A Middlefield landowner is suing that town on the same basis. The cases are pending. Meanwhile bans proliferate. Six upstate New York counties have zoned out fracking, including Binghamton, which declared a ban in December. An organic brewery in Cooperstown, the Ommegang, mobilised 300 other businesses, including Cooperstown's Chamber of Commerce, to support more bans in the region. "If local communities can seize control over their destinies, a giant step will have been taken toward a sustainable future." - Adrian Kuzminsky Chefs for the Marcellus, a group headed by Food Network star Mario Batali, has urged Governor Andrew Cuomo to ban fracking at the state level. "Call it home-rule democracy," says Adrian Kuzminsky, chair of the Cooperstown-based organisation Sustainable Otsego. "If local communities can seize control over their destinies, a giant step will have been taken toward a sustainable future." This past October, activists were preparing to take on the state's Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC). That agency finds itself caught in a perpetual conflict of interest: On the one hand, protecting the environment; on the other, regulating the industries that exploit it. In fact, the 1981 legislation exempting gas corporations from New York's home rule had been written by Greg Sovas, then head of DEC's Division of Mineral Resources. Guidelines for the hydraulic fracturing industry were first issued by the department in late 2009 and rejected in 2010 under withering public criticism. Then-Governor David Paterson declared a moratorium on fracking in the state pending DEC revisions. Revised guidelines appeared this past September in the form of 1,537 mind-numbing pages bearing the title, "Supplemental Generic Environmental Impact Statement", aka the "SGEIS". A world of water Anti-fracking activists urge New York Governor Cuomo to reject the new SGEIS guidelines [GALLO/GETTY] In study groups and online tutorials, activists prepared to write letters of commentary and protest to the Department of Environmental Conservation and Governor Cuomo, and to speak out in public hearings the department was organising around the state. Thousands attended these. Pro-gas speakers predictably stuck to the twin themes of the jobs fracking would produce and the economic renewal it would bring about. Opponents included an impressive line up of scientists (among them Robert Howarth, co-author of last year's landmark Cornell University study, which established the staggering greenhouse-gas footprint of fracking), engineers, lawyers, and other professionals. A letter sent to Cuomo by 250 New York State physicians and medical professionals deplored the DEC's failure to attend to the public health impacts of fracking. Part-time Cooperstown resident James "Chip" Northrup, a retired manager for Atlantic Richfield (ARCO, America's seventh largest oil corporation), in one public agency hearing called the performances of pro-gas speakers "disgraceful" and the SGEIS "junk science". Citing an industry study that showed 25 per cent of frack wells leak after five years and 40 per cent after eight, he said, "Everybody in the industry knows that gas drilling pollutes groundwater ... It's not ... whether they leak. It's how much." As 2012 began, the movement was demanding that the department withdraw the SGEIS. In mid-January, DEC spokesperson Lisa King said that once all the comments were tallied, "We expect the total to be more than 40,000". Earlier, agency officials had told the New York Times they didn't know of any other issue that had received even 1,000 comments. (Ten thousand letters were mailed from the Catskills' Sullivan County alone on January 11, just before the commentary deadline.) Gannett's Albany Bureau has reported that anti-drilling submissions outnumber those of drilling supporters by at least ten to one. Sustainable Otsego's website lists 52 serious and fatal flaws in the document. A letter posted at the website of Toxics Targeting, an environmental database service in Ithaca, elaborately details 17 major SGEIS flaws. By January 10, when the Toxics Targeting letter was sent to the DEC and the governor, it had more than 22,000 signatures representing government officials, professional and civic organisations, and individuals. (The DEC counts this letter with its signatures as only one of the 40,000 comments.) At a November 17 rally in Trenton, New Jersey, to celebrate the postponement of a vote on allowing fracking in the Delaware River Basin, Pennsylvania and New York activists pledged future civil disobedience. "The broad coalition of anti-frackers has been operating on multi-levels all at once," says Sustainable Otsego's chair, Adrian Kuzminsky. If the governor approves the SGEIS "there will be massive disillusionment with the state government and Cuomo, and from what I'm hearing there will be 'direct action' and civil disobedience in some quarters". At the moment, in fact, the anti-fracking movement in the state only seems to be ramping up. Should the government approve the SGEIS in its current form, lawsuits are planned against the Department of Environmental Conservation. And a brief "Occupy DEC" event that took place in the state capital, Albany, on January 12 may have set the tone for the future. Meanwhile some activists, turning their backs on established channels, are already working on legislation that would criminalise fracking. Ellen Cantarow's work on Israel/Palestine has been widely published for over 30 years. Her long-time concern with climate change has led her to explore the global depredations of oil and gas corporations. Many thanks to Robert Boyle, sometimes called "the father of environmentalism on the Hudson", for sharing his expertise for this article. A version of this article first appeared in TomDispatch.com. The views expressed in this article are the author's own and do not necessarily reflect Al Jazeera's editorial policy. SOURCE: TomDispatch ABOUT THE AUTHOR Ellen CantarowEllen Cantarow is a Boston-based journalist who examines the effects of oil and gas corporations. Environment US & Canada Israel Palestine United States


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Hello once again fellow artist and welcome back to another awesome lesson here on DragoArt.com. Today I will start with a tutorial that is fun, beautiful, and full of sadness. So right now I will show you how to draw a thorned heart step by step. Now I placed this lesson under the tattoo category because it is a common design seen on the backs, arms, shoulders, and legs of many women who love body art. A heart wrapped with a thorn from the vine of a red rose is a very beautiful thing. It reminds me of a heart full of love that is being pierced by hurt and pain. Drawing tattoo art is a fun way to design your very own creations using just your imagination and knowledge of pop culture. I know that this is going to be a popular lesson that many of you artist will enjoy because not only are you going to learn how to draw a heart, you will also learn how or draw a rose and it's thorned stem which wraps around the heart leaving it to bleed. This lesson will show you how to draw a thorned heart step by step. Now all the instructions are easy to read and the steps are simple to follow. I will be back with more drawing fun so stay tuned gang; there is more on the way.
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text: C3C0 1,434 Report post Posted January 12, 2012 (edited) Hi! This is my custom ROM for ZTE Skate/Orange Monte Carlo: SKatie It is based on generic ZTE Skate 2.3.5 ROM and is dedicated to conservative users who would like to have ROM that is very close to stock but has some improvements like: root, overclocking, more space in internal memory for applications, notification power widget, extended power-of menu (reboot, recovery, screenshot), custom compiled kernels, online update kitchen and more... This is the final and stable release suitable for daily use. Main Features - version 1.1 - automatic repartition to 150MB system, 35MB cache and 255MB data - overclockable kernel Elitemovil Z3 (thanx to Elitemovil) - overclocking up to 998 MHz - rooted - ClockworkModGUI Recovery 184.108.40.206 (thanx to photom) - deodexed - zipaligned - notification power widget (based on KonstaT's port so big thanks to him) - extended power-off menu: reboot, reboot to recovery, screenshot - battery circle mod with 1% decrements - latest version of google apps - Gmail 2.3.5 fix to allow 3rd party applications to read/write gmail - no-frills CPU control - link2sd - LauncherPro - ES File Manager - DSP Manager - SD Speed Increase - latest Superuser.apk - K-9 Mail - Data Counter Widget - Optional RTL support (via flashing ADDON - see second post) Some screenshots http://ceco.sk.eu.or.../v1.1/notif.jpg http://ceco.sk.eu.or...er_off_menu.jpg http://ceco.sk.eu.or.../homescreen.jpg http://ceco.sk.eu.or..._vs_tweaked.jpg Option 1 This is TPT version that brings the easy installation and no troubles with partition layouts because the installation process will do the repartitioning automatically. There is no need for any pre-steps to be taken before installation. No root nor ClockworkMod is needed. You can install this rom directly to phone containing all stock (original) parts. Flashing will erase all data in phone except data on SD card. Before installing be sure you have enough battery left. I TAKE NO RESPOSIBILITY FOR ANY HARMS LIKE BRICKED PHONE, ETC. In case you would like to revert to original partition layout, flash one of the stock TPTs you will find in this forum or use TPT Helper app from Play store Download: http://tinyw.in/00Yx ( MIRROR1, MIRROR2 ) MD5 Checksum for ZIP: 592c95dc60a4177baf22b57ff4dd0e7b MD5 Checksum for image.bin: 2169f65124c9e6a35ddded25a93ed282 (check this after you extract ZIP just to be sure) Installation steps 1) Download ZIP and extract it into the root of SD Card. After that you will find directory "image" with one file in it "image.bin" in the root of SD Card 2) Power off your phone 3) Press simultaneously [VOL+] [Menu] and power on the phone while keeping the buttons pressed 4) Flashing progress bar will appear - do not interrupt the process 5) After flashing is finished phone reboots automatically 6) Visit Update Kitchen at http://skatie.ceco.sk.eu.org to update to the latest version and for additional customizations according to your preferences. 7) Optional: Read info in Settings / About Phone / Legal information / Support author ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Option 2 This is the version installable using ClockworkMod recovery - install zip from SD card. Your current partition layout will be maintained. It is recommended to make a backup of your existing ROM to be able to revert back if desired. Download: http://tinyw.in/fmJa ( MIRROR1, MIRROR2 ) MD5 Checksum: fe0f793e397772872a6db14f6a99c188 Installation steps 1) Download ZIP to your SD Card 2) Reboot to ClockworkMod recovery 3) (Optional) Make backup of your current ROM 4) Perform: Wipe data / factory reset, wipe cache, advanced / wipe dalvik cache 5) Perform: install zip from sd card / choose zip from sd card, choose ZTESkate_CustomROM_SKatie_v1.1-cwm.zip and confirm 6) Reboot after installation is finished 7) Visit Update Kitchen at http://skatie.ceco.sk.eu.org to update to the latest version and for additional customizations according to your preferences. 8) Optional: Read info in Settings / About Phone / Legal information / Support author ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the second post for info on updates! If you like this ROM you can donate to my PayPal account. Donation button can be found at http://ceco.sk.eu.org Thank You! Credits go to: Elitemovil, KonstaT, Photom, tilal6991, Tillaz - for their work being such a great inspiration! Edited August 12, 2012 by C3C0 13 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


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Here are links to five articles I've found to be interesting and helpful.
Ancient people, diet, food & the Roman Empire: Ancient Romans Ate Meals Most Americans Would Recognize [plug this info into your head as you read some of the NT texts that deal with meals such as 1 Cor. 8-11, etc.]
"… before and during the Roman Empire. Both the poor and the rich ate pig as the meat of choice, although the rich, like Piso, got better cuts, ate meat more often and likely in larger quantities. They had pork chops and a form of bacon. They even served sausages and prosciutto …
"Status in the upper class was declared with the presentation of the meal, the rare spices, the dinnerware … The wealthier you are the more you want to invest in display and advertising to your guests. Flash was perhaps more important than substance … Whole animals showed great wealth."
Crusades, ISIS, medieval history, Obama, torture: Thank You Obama for Denouncing "Christian" Violence: It is Actually Far Worse Than ISIS
"… for followers of Jesus, the violence perpetrated by 'Christians' throughout history ought to be considered far worse than the violence perpetrated by ISIS or any other religious group throughout history, precisely because this violence was done in the name of Jesus."
Faith, firearms, guns & self-defense: Should Christians Carry Guns?
"The Christians I know who consider Scripture and still make the argument for owning a gun typically lean on a notion of using a firearm as a means to resist wickedness, to protect innocent persons, and to maintain order in the face of evil and chaos. While these may be worthy ideals, I don't see a lot of (any?) scriptural evidence for the use of violence, especially lethal violence, by those who strive to participate in God's kingdom.
"My concern is that we too often equate God's agenda with our own agenda and then we make decisions like owning a gun based on our personal values instead of a keen Christian ethic. If my value is to stay alive and protect what and whom I love, it's not too difficult to project that value onto God and make weapon ownership a God-given right, if not command. The only problem is that these are not God's values, at least not as I read Scripture."
Information, priorities, relationships, stewardship & technology: If Jesus Had a Smartphone
"More than one-third of all adults (35%) and almost half of those under 40 (47%) admit their personal electronics sometimes separate them from other people. Still, three in 10 Millennials (30%) say they love their phone. … Every revolution offers promises. Every revolution makes demands. How does the hyperlinked life jibe with the abundant life Jesus promised?
"All revolutions are meant to change the world, and the knowledge revolution has done that. Now we must work hard to live faithfully in this new world. We must begin by enlarging our definition of stewardship. We talk about stewarding time, treasure, and talent. Let's add technology to that list."
Situational awareness: How to Develop the Situational Awareness of Jason Bourne
"Hone your observation skills by playing the A-Game. Mike plays a game with his kids called the 'A-Game,' or Awareness Game, to help them (and himself) strengthen their observational skills. To play, when you go into a business, make note of a few things about your environment: the number of workers behind the counter, the clothing and gender of the person sitting next to you, how many entry/exits there are, etc. When you leave and get into the car to head home, ask your kids questions like 'How many workers were behind the counter?' 'Was the person sitting next to us a man or a woman?' 'What color was his/her shirt?' 'How many exits were there?' It's fun to play, but more importantly it's training your kids (and you) to be more mindful of their surroundings."


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