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generates a version of expr with controls added to allow interactive manipulation of the value of u.
allows the value of u to vary between umin and umax in steps du.
takes the initial value of u to be uinit.
labels the controls for u with ulbl.
allows u to take on discrete values u1,u2,….
provides controls to manipulate each of the u,v,….
links the controls to the specified controllers on an external device.
Details and Options
- The expression expr can be any graphic or other expression. If it is None, only the controls are displayed.
- The following forms by default yield particular forms of controls:
{u,umin,umax} manipulator (slider, animator, etc.) {u,umin,umax,du} discrete manipulator with step du {u,{xmin,ymin},{xmax,ymax}} 2D slider {u,Locator} a locator in a graphic {u,{u1,u2,…}} setter bar for few elements; popup menu for more {u,{u1->lbl1,u2->lbl2,…}} setter bar or popup menu with labels for elements {u,{True, False}} checkbox {u,color} color slider {u} blank input field {u,FormObject[…]} form with specified fields {u,func} create an arbitrary control from a function {{u,uinit},…} control with initial value uinit {{u,uinit,ulbl},…} control with label ulbl {{u,…},…,opts} control with particular options Control[…] general control object Delimiter horizontal delimiter string, view, cell expression, etc. explicit text, view, cell, etc. annotations
- Possible annotations given in place of controls include expressions with heads String, Style, Row, Item, Text, ExpressionCell, TextCell as well as views and layout constructs such as TabView, Grid, and Multicolumn.
- Inside annotations, controls can be specified using Control.
- The label ulbl for a control can be any expression.
- The option setting ControlType->type attempts to use controls of the specified type.
- Possible control types include: Animator, Checkbox, CheckboxBar, ColorSetter, ColorSlider, FormControl, InputField, IntervalSlider, Manipulator, PopupMenu, RadioButton or RadioButtonBar, Setter or SetterBar, Slider, Slider2D, TogglerBar, Trigger, and VerticalSlider. None can also be used.
- ControlType options can be given separately for each variable. Options for the controls can also be given within the specification for the variables.
- ControlType->Trigger specifies that a particular variable should be controlled by a trigger.
- The control specification {u,umin,umax,…,Appearance->"Labeled"} yields a slider with the value displayed as a label.
- In the form {u,func}, Dynamic[u] is given as the first argument to func.
- The form {u,umin,umax,func} can also be used; what is evaluated is then func[Dynamic[u],{umin,umax}].
- The form {u} is equivalent to {u, InputField}. {u, ColorSlider} gives a default color slider as a control.
- In the form {u,Locator}, the value of u is a list giving x and y coordinates. The coordinates refer either to the first graphic in expr, or range from 0 to 1 in each direction across expr.
- The form {{u,{{x1,y1},{x2,y2},…}},Locator} sets up a locator for each of the {xi,yi}, and makes the value of u be the list of all {xi,yi}.
- The form {{u,uinit},{xmin,ymin},{xmax,ymax},Locator} specifies a range for the locators.
- The option setting LocatorAutoCreate->All specifies that new locators should be added for clicks that do not hit existing locators. Click deletes locators.
- {{u,{}},Locator,LocatorAutoCreate->All} starts with no locators, but allows locators to be created.
- If a variable u is used more than once, linked controls for it are given.
- The option setting ControlPlacement->pos specifies that controls should be placed at position pos relative to expr. Possible settings for pos are Bottom, Left, Right, and Top.
- The placement of an annotation can be specified by enclosing it in an Item that has a ControlPlacement option.
- The following overall options can be given:
Alignment Automatic how to align the output in the display area AppearanceElements Automatic overall control elements to include in the displayed output AutoAction False whether to change controls automatically when the mouse is over them AutorunSequencing Automatic how autorun should use the controls BaselinePosition Automatic alignment relative to surrounding text BaseStyle {} base style specifications for the Manipulate Bookmarks {} bookmark settings ContentSize Automatic the absolute size for the content area ContinuousAction Automatic whether to update continuously when controls are changed ControllerLinking Automatic when to activate links to external controllers ControllerMethod Automatic how external controllers should operate ControllerPath Automatic what external controllers to try to use ControlPlacement Automatic placement of controls ControlType Automatic type of controls to use Deinitialization None an expression to be evaluated if the output from the Manipulate is deleted Deployed False whether to make the displayed output deployed Evaluator Automatic the kernel to use for evaluations FrameLabel None labels for the outer frame FrameMargins Automatic margins inside the overall frame ImageMargins 0 margins around the whole Manipulate Initialization None an expression to be evaluated when output is first displayed InterpolationOrder Automatic interpolation order for animating transitions between bookmarks LabelStyle {} style specifications for the controls area LocalizeVariables True whether to localize the variables Paneled True whether to put the displayed output in a panel PreserveImageOptions True whether to preserve image size and other options when regenerating graphics RotateLabel False whether to rotate y labels on the frame SaveDefinitions False whether to save all definitions associated with expr ShrinkingDelay 0 how long to delay before shrinking if the displayed object gets smaller SynchronousInitialization True whether to perform initialization synchronously SynchronousUpdating Automatic whether to update synchronously TouchscreenAutoZoom False whether to zoom to fullscreen when activated on a touchscreen TouchscreenControlPlacement Automatic placement of controls on a touchscreen TrackedSymbols Full symbols whose changes trigger updates in the output UndoTrackedVariables None variables that, when changed, should be tracked by the front end's undo mechanism UnsavedVariables None variables whose values should not be saved
- The options ControlPlacement and ControlType can be given separately for each variable, in the form {u,spec,opts}.
- Manipulate is a scoping construct that implements lexical scoping.
- Manipulate generates a DynamicModule object, with the variables u, v, etc. specified as local.
- With the default setting UnsavedVariables->{}, values of the variables u, v, etc. are automatically saved in notebooks, and restored when the notebooks are reopened.
- With a setting Initialization:>expr, the expression expr is evaluated when Manipulate is executed, or when the result is first displayed in a particular session.
- The setting for AppearanceElements can be a list in any order of the following: "ContentResizeArea", "HideControlsButton", "ManipulateMenu", "SnapshotButton". By default, only "ManipulateMenu" is included.
- Clicking the snapshot button creates a cell directly below the Manipulate output, containing input of the form With[{u=uval,…},expr] specifying current values of all variables.
- With the setting ContinuousAction->None, an explicit Update button is displayed, and expr is not reevaluated until this is clicked.
- With the default setting TrackedSymbols->Automatic, only symbols that appear explicitly in expr are tracked.
- TrackedSymbols->True tracks symbols that appear in the controls of Manipulate.
- With TrackedSymbols->All, the output is updated whenever any symbol encountered in its evaluation is changed.
- With the default setting ControllerLinking->Automatic, controls in a Manipulate respond to specified controllers on an external device whenever the Manipulate is part of the current selection.
- Controllers on an external device such as a gamepad can include joysticks, buttons, etc.
- Typical external controller specifications include:
"X" or "X1" x primary x value "Y" or "Y1" y primary y value "Z" or "Z1" z primary z value "XY" or "XY1" {x,y} primary 2-axis controller value "XYZ" or "XYZ1" {x,y,z} primary 3-axis controller value "X2", "Y2", "XY2", etc. x, y, {x,y}, etc. values from a secondary controller "XCyclic", etc. x, etc. values taken to be cyclic "XAbsolute", etc. x, etc. values from absolute control positions "B1", "B2", etc. b1, b2, etc. toggling button states "B1Absolute", "B2Absolute", etc. b1, b2, etc. instantaneous button states
- Raw external controller specification names for devices active in a particular Wolfram System session can typically be found using ControllerInformation.
- With the default setting ControllerMethod->Automatic, a controller specification such as "X" means that the displacement of a control such as a joystick by default determines the rate of change of the corresponding variable x. If an alternate state is selected, for example by depressing the joystick, then the absolute position of the control directly determines the value of x.
- With a controller specification such as "XAbsolute", the absolute position of a control such as a joystick determines the value of the corresponding variable x.
- With a controller specification such as "XCyclic", the value of the corresponding variable x is typically taken to wrap around cyclically when the control reaches the end of its range.
- A controller specification such as "XYZ" may be associated with multiple controls on an external device, such as axes on two distinct joysticks on a single controller.
- On a gamepad or other device with two joysticks, "XY1" typically refers to the left joystick, and "XY2" to the right one. If a gamepad has a "hat" control, this is typically referred to as "XY3".
- Button controller specifications such as "B1" toggle between True and False whenever the corresponding button is pressed.
- Absolute specifications such as "B1Absolute" yield True while the button is being pressed, and False otherwise.
- The settings for BaseStyle and LabelStyle are appended to the default styles typically given by the "Manipulate" and "ManipulateLabel" styles in the current stylesheet.
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L.A.-based designer Jeremy Scott has been appointed creative director of Italian fashion brand Moschino, it was announced Monday.
He will make his debut with the fall/winter 2014-15 collection during Milan Fashion Week in February.
It's a great marriage of two rabble-rousers that should bring a new, young, hip audience to the Moschino brand.
Franco Moschino founded his label in 1983, gaining fame for his irreverent, at times anti-fashion fashion statements (a matador jacket emblazoned with the phrase "Bull Chic," for example). Since Moschino's death in 1994, his protege Rosella Jardini has been designing the collection, winning over fans like Miley Cyrus and Kourtney Kardashian with her clothing, which has been on-trend, though lacking the bite of Franco's originals.
The Kansas City–born Scott moved to Los Angeles in 2002 after attending Pratt Institute in New York and living in Paris for six years. He was a fixture on the L.A. runways until he started showing his runway collection in New York.
His work, including a past collection that featured dresses designed to look like Coca-Cola bottles with the slogan, "Enjoy God," is provocative like Franco's, as well as having deep roots in street wear and the pop music scene. His work regularly appears in music videos and on stage, worn by such artists as Madonna, Katy Perry, Lady Gaga and Rihanna. The Jonas Brothers and Nicki Minaj attended his most recent runway show in New York in September.
In addition to his own namesake runway label, he has the Jeremy Scott for Adidas Originals collection, which runs the gamut from high-top sneakers bedecked with plush teddy-bear heads to velour track suits with beaded matador jackets. Sold at Adidas stores and specialty boutiques, the line counts Kanye West, M.I.A., and recent Adidas sneaker collaborator A$AP Rocky among its cultish following. (Scott has also done brand collaborations with Swatch, Longchamp and Smart Car.)
"This appointment respects the DNA of the brand as Jeremy Scott represents not only an eclectic and contemporary communicator but most of all a designer capable of re-interpreting the identity and the essence of Moschino," according to a statement on the Moschino website.
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Speaker of the House John Boehner made a prediction Monday about Barack Obama's re-election bid. "If gas prices are $5 or $6, he certainly isn't going to win,"said Boehner in an interview on ABC News.
It might be the least disputable thing a politician has ever said. Well, yes: If people have to keep paying more and more to fill their cars up, the president could lose re-election—even to one of the current batch of Republicans. There's evidence, circumstantial but graphically compelling, that the president's current poll numbers are a function of the price of gas.
So: What can the president do about it? The standard answer is, "Not much." The political answer is, "Glom on to a policy that my party and/or industry wants him to support." The actual answer is somewhere between these two. There is no shortage of ideas. The issue will be which party or politician is skillful enough at using the politics of the moment—and oil companies will report their new, sure-to-be-massive profits over the coming days—to put any of these ideas into practice.
Here's the bad news. In times of great panic over gas prices, Republicans and Democrats—and, more subtly, paid-for experts—resurrect some of their favorite energy plans. Democrats want to end tax subsidies for oil companies, and they've gotten a lift from Boehner's ad hoc agreement with them in that ABC News interview. Republicans—again, led by Boehner—say that Obama isn't taking "all of the above" energy plans seriously. ("All of the above" is a way to mention unpopular energy policies without actually mentioning them.)
"I think the fact that he won't allow exploration in the Gulf, doesn't allow exploration in the inter-mountain west, won't allow us to drill in Alaska, this is not helping the situation," said Boehner. "And then when you look at what the EPA is doing in terms of the number of rules and regulations comin' down the pike, those were his responsibility."
It would be awfully convenient if new drilling licenses in the Gulf and relaxed EPA regulations could drive the price of oil down. They wouldn't.
"If someone tries to dupe you into thinking we don't have enough refining capacity, that's bullshit," says Tom Kloza, the co-founder and chief oil analyst of the Oil Price Information Service. "It's a good soundbite, but if anything, companies have probably added too much capacity, and if they add more they have to focus on managing margins."
It's a good enough soundbite that a lot of Republicans use it to argue that the White House's dithering on Gulf Coast drilling, in the wake of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster, is responsible for rising prices. Oil companies, in this telling, are stuck in a sort of "permitorium." But the Deepwater disaster didn't have much of an effect on prices. When the rig blew on April 20, 2010, crude was trading around $84 per barrel. When the well was capped on July 15 the price had fallen to $76.
A barrel of brent crude oil costs roughly $50 more today than it did back then. We have some idea why. The critical factor has been the unrest in the Middle East. According to industry analysts, prices have gone up because of worries both about what's already happening and what could happen. The civil war in Libya, a country that usually produces 1.6 million barrels of light, sweet crude every day, has added something like $20 to the price of a barrel of oil—a combination of decreased availability and speculative panic. Worries about what could happen in other OPEC nations are driving the price even higher.
"At any moment, people wonder if you'll see firebombs in the streets of Riyadh," says Kloza. "The Saudis have to cut more checks so people don't demonstrate against them. That's not something they're used to budgeting for."
This is where we get to the roles the president and Congress could play in controlling gas prices. The "Arab Spring" is blooming (and burning) mostly out of our control. The major role the United States is playing is as the military linchpin of the Libya intervention. It's an unpredictable, unhappy situation, but no one factor has more bearing on the price of oil. (We can count this as one of the few things Donald Trump is right about.)
So what else can we control? We got a hint of it last week, when Standard & Poor's announced that it had changed its outlook for the United States to "negative" because our politicians didn't look likely to reach a conclusion on the debt. The price of oil dropped, albeit only briefly. Why? Because the prospect of an economic contraction meant less demand.
"If there were some kind of a grand budget deal that were to cut spending substantially, that could be viewed as somewhat contractionary in terms of fiscal policy," says Bruce Bullock, who directs the Maguire Energy Institute at Southern Methodist University's business school. "That could slow growth down."
According to Bullock, American policymakers could drive prices down if they were willing to settle for less growth. It was less growth, after all, that was largely responsible for the falling gas prices of 2009. No one's calling for an increase in interest rates, but that could also drive down the international price of oil.
None of this would be particularly easy for American politicians. Is there anything they could do? Why, yes. The president—or members of Congress!—could skip the coming, predictable assault on oil company subsidies, and take on speculators instead. Wars and economic distress are not new to the oil market. But the market for oil futures has never been as big as it is now. It's basically quadrupled since the start of the financial crisis, as investors and funds have sought out safe, reliable commodities to invest in.
That's the political opening. The only question is whether anyone's actually able to go through it. Theoretically, the president of the United States could talk about this aspect of the gas price problem and elevate it. Unfortunately, the president is Barack Obama, whose every economic move is labeled "socialism" by the opposition, and who has already alienated some of the hedge fund managers in the center of this. A move against the commodities trade from Obama would be less Nixon goes to China than Johnson goes to Vietnam.
But this is the plan Kloza is recommending to Obama, free of charge. "He will piss off Wall Street, no question," says the oil price analyst. "He will piss off Morgan Stanley. He will piss off Goldman Sachs. He will alienate people, but people will know he's ready to spank the speculators."


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Remember that street-legal Jaguar D-Type from yesterday's post about Steve McQueen's XKSS? It wasn't the only road racer slogging through the French mud at the 24 Hours two years ago.
Yes, that's a TVR Sagaris in tow, proof that the Brits really are a bit mad and will happily risk a long drive, a near-certain breakdown and a total mudfest to arrive at racing's Mecca the proper way.
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Benfica have issued a statement denying reports that midfielder Axel Witsel is on the brink of leaving the club.
Witsel, 23, left Standard Liege for Benfica last summer on a five-year deal and, after an impressive debut season, has been linked with a move away. Reports have suggested Real Madrid and AC Milan are leading the race for his services, though Manchester City, Chelsea and Paris Saint-Germain are also said to be interested.
Benfica manager Jorge Jesus has already said it will be very difficult to keep Witsel in Lisbon, and Portuguese newspaper Record claims the Belgium international has already said goodbye to his team-mates, but his club have now moved to play down the speculation.
In a statement on the club's official website, Benfica said: "In light of the stories published today in several newspapers, Sport Lisboa e Benfica want to clarify that we have not received any proposals up to this point for Witsel and that the player has a release clause stipulated in his contract."
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HOW the First World War changed society is being explored at the Imperial War Museum North.
A new photographic display outside the Manchester museum which shows women working in industry during the conflict is one of many events and displays being held to commemorate the First World War centenary.
Six images by official First World War photographer George Parham Lewis were unveiled in huge five-metre high frames on Saturday.
Graham Boxer, director of IWM North, said: "The war was a major turning point that shaped the world we live in today, including the role of women in society.
"These six powerful images depict women at work during an extraordinary time. It is a fitting start towards a major programme of exhibitions, displays and events marking the centenary at IWM North.
"Later this year we will open the largest exhibition ever created exploring the role of the North West of England during the First World War.' The images in the free display document women's vital contribution to the war effort in factories across the North West of England almost 100 years ago.
Visitors are invited to contact IWM North if they recognise family members in any of GP Lewis' photographs on display.
The museum's exhibition From Street To Trench: A War that Shaped a Region will open on April 5. For more information, visit www.iwm.org.uk.


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Yesterday marked the 59th anniversary of Henrietta Lacks' death. This past Saturday, October 2, the Johns Hopkins Institute for Clinical and Translational Research sponsored the First Annual Henrietta Lacks Memorial Lecture, which featured Rebecca Skloot as the speaker, and members of the Lacks family as honored guests. Writer and JHU nursing student Meg Adams offers some insightful observations about the event in this blog post:
More than anything else, the story of the Lacks family and their drawn-out ordeal is illustrative of the necessity for better communication between the general public and the scientific community. There is a huge need for "science translators," advocates to bridge the gap between research, and everyone else—the public that research is intended to benefit. In Baltimore, white researchers need to be taught why their patients are wary and mistrustful of them. "I have been having patients refuse to be in studies for years, because they thought we would inject them with AIDS," one researcher said. "I thought it was this crazy conspiracy theory thing. Now, [after reading Skloot's book], I understand [why there is mistrust]." …
As part of this morning's lecture, Mr. James Potter gave a presentation on the human cell. His projected slides zoomed in on the human body, magnitude by magnitude, until we could see the tiny building blocks we are made of, cells. Walking out of the lecture hours later, though, I couldn't help but think that the most important lesson that day was not to zoom in, but to zoom out. Sixty years ago, Hopkins failed to sit down and explain the HeLa cells, or their significance, to the Lacks family. But what Rebecca Skloot did with her book was equally important: she sat the scientific community down and had them zoom out, magnitude by magnitude, until the microscopic HeLa cells that have made up so many scientists' worlds for so long were shown for what they really were—a person, Mrs. Henrietta Lacks.
It is clear that wider exploration of the story of Henrietta Lacks and her family has led to a great deal 0f reflection and soul-searching at Johns Hopkins — the kind of reflection that would be beneficial for more of us to engage in. In two recent pieces, key thinkers at Johns Hopkins discuss the lessons of HeLa and the Lacks Family's ordeal:
- "Immortal Cells, Moral Issues" was an Op-Ed piece published in the Baltimore Sun in February 2010 by Ruth Faden, director of Johns Hopkins' bioethics center.
- "Immortal Cells, Enduring Issues", an extensive reflection on the HeLa history, appeared in the Summer 2010 issue of Johns Hopkins Magazine.
For some additional context on the history of Johns Hopkins' relationship with the Baltimore community, see Chapter 21 ("Night Doctors") in The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. If you were on the faculty or administration of JHU, how would you want the institution to address this chapter in its history? Does that have any implications for your work and research at your own institution?
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Staff Report TRENTON - An Edison man who allegedly used threats of violence to enslave women in a high-priced prostitution ring was arrested in Texas, the NJ Attorney General's office said.
The alleged pimp, 35-year-old Percival R. Williams, of Edison who is also known as Tayvann Dunston was arrested on on charges including human trafficking as a result of an investigation by the New Jersey Division of Criminal Justice and the Edison Police Department.
Williams is also charged in conspiring with his girlfriend, 23-year-old Chanell 'Asha' Vaughn, to bring an estimated $500,00 worth of stolen diamonds into New Jersey. Vaughn allegedly stole the uncut diamonds from a man's room at the Cosmopolitan Hotel in Manhattan, where she solicited him as a client for prostitution on April 17, 2012. She was arrested at Williams home on Thursday. The pair were both charged in the Manhattan diamond heist.
Williams was charged with first-degree human trafficking, third-degree promoting prostitution, second-degree theft (receiving stolen property), and third-degree conspiracy. Williams was arrested on Tuesday in Dallas, Texas, by the U.S. Marshals Service on a warrant obtained by the Human Trafficking Unit of the Division of Criminal Justice Gangs & Organized Crime Bureau. He is being held in Texas pending extradition to New Jersey.
Vaughn was charged by complaint by the Division of Criminal Justice with second-degree theft and third-degree conspiracy. She will be lodged in the Middlesex County Jail with bail set at $50,000.
It is alleged that Williams, who uses the street names 'Knowledge' and 'Don Cholo,' is a pimp who found young women in various locations, including the Cleveland, Ohio area. William allegedly brought he women to New Jersey, either against their will or by enticing them with promises of a relationship or better life, in order to enslave them in prostitution. Williams also owns high-performance cars, including two Maseratis and a Porsche, and sometimes poses as a music producer. The NJ Attorney's office said that Williams allegedly forced women to prostitute themselves by acts of violence or threats of violence.
According to the NJ Attorney General's Office, Williams allegedly kept the women at his house or nearby hotels and would solicit clients by placing sexally suggestive ads on a website called Backpage.com. Williams also allegedly escorted or sent the women to various hotels to solicit clients, including hotels in Manhattan, Atlantic City and Las Vegas. It was alleged that he demanded women charge high hourly rates for sex acts from $500 to $1,000 and turn over the proceeds to him. It was alleged that the women complied because they believed Williams would hurt them or their families if they didn't.
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In the first part of this two-part series, I discussed the problems inherent in the CFP Board's "three buckets" approach to advisor compensation. That approach leads to the situation where fee-only firms are apparently not permitted to call themselves "fee only" because an "unrelated" party is associated with commissions.
So what's the resolution to fix the CFP Board's problematic rule? The key is to recognize that the fundamental purpose of compensation disclosure is to disclose how advisors are compensated by their clients, which means the starting point should always be what clients actually pay to various parties.
Accordingly, advisors should really only ever have to disclose compensation associated with buckets No. 1 and No. 2, which cover what the advisor is paid, and what is paid to the advisor's related parties. In fact, arguably the original purpose of bucket No. 3—how the advisor himself generates income from his employment and ownership interests—was simply to recognize that in order to determine whether an outside party is related or not, it must be determined if the advisor is receiving any direct or indirect compensation from that party.
For example, if an advisor refers a client out to TermInsurance.com for insurance needs, the client will technically pay a commission (as it's part of the cost of term insurance), but the commission will be paid directly to the website, and none of that compensation will flow back to the advisor. In that scenario, since bucket No. 2 will be filled with respect to the transaction, but bucket No. 3 will not, the party is not actually a related party and therefore the advisor would not be required to disclose commission-and-fee compensation (which makes sense, as the advisor isn't actually receiving any commissions, directly or indirectly, and is referring the business out!).
Alternatively, if the advisor referred the client to do term insurance with an insurance agency the advisor owns—which means the advisor would receive indirect compensation for the commissions paid in the form of dividend distributions from the insurance agency—then it would be necessary to disclose commissions, because the advisor is actually receiving a benefit from the commissions that the client paid. (Notably, this appears to be the exact circumstances at hand in the Camarda case, where the advisors claimed to be fee-only but routed clients to do commission business with an entity owned by that advisor.)
What this means is that the real purpose of bucket No. 3 in the three-bucket rule is to determine whether the CFP certificant is receiving a direct or indirect benefit of a commission (or fee) paid to an outside party. In other words, in a world where the term "related party" is actually not defined by the CFP Board, the third bucket essentially creates that definition: a related party is one that provides a non-trivial direct or indirect economic benefit is paid to the advisor, whether through an employment relationship or an ownership relationship.
Nonetheless, the existence of a third bucket is not proof that the advisor receives commissions, because it fails to establish whether any client ever actually pays any commissions to that party in the first place! It simply creates the potential that an advisor could receive such compensation if there is an intention or actual situation where clients can/will do business with that commission-based entity to begin with.
Three Buckets Really Should Be Two
As a result, the CFP Board needs to recognize that its three-bucket strategy is really a two-bucket strategy: either the client pays the advisor, or the client pays an outside party that is related. The only purpose of the third bucket (which might be better renamed "Bucket 2b") is to determine if an outside party that received a commission is a related party or not.
To view outside relationships in the absence of what the client actually pays simply leads to nonsensical outcomes; scenarios where no client actually pays a commission to anyone in any way at any time, yet the advisor must disclose that he/she is receiving a commission that doesn't exist in the first place!
The CFP Board can fix this definition at any time, because the three-bucket strategy is not part of the official Practice Standards, and is merely an internal self-created administrative framework used to interpret (or perhaps now misinterpret!) those rules. Such a fix would help greatly to resolve a number of problematic situations the CFP Board is now facing. Those situations include advisors who maintain an insurance license (e.g., for advisory purposes) that means they could earn a commission but have no intention to do so, to advisors whose clients pay only and entirely fees but happen to have an ownership interest in an outside "unrelated" commissionable entity that no clients do business with (from a family insurance business to owning stock in a bank or broker-dealer to having a portion of a large firm owned by a financial services holding company), to advisors who happen to work for a broker-dealer or bank but no clients ever actually pay a commission to anyone.
In fact, given the CFP Board's rules, there are also thousands of "commission-only" advisors who are also in violation of the compensation disclosure rules. As I pointed out months ago, it's virtually impossible to find a financial services firm that isn't at least capable of charging a fee. That being the case, any advisor working for such a firm—which would be all advisors!—cannot be commission-only and in fact should be required to disclose that they are commission-and-fee as well! In other words, the CFP Board's problematic rule not only casts a large number of fee-only advisors as "commission and fee" by ignoring what clients actually pay; it also leaves virtually every "commission-only" advisor equally in violation of the rules as well for the same reason!
Again, the common theme to all of these problem situations is that the CFP Board is basing compensation on what "could" happen and the nature of the firms advisors work for, are affiliated with, or simply own as a part of their portfolio, while failing to recognize and remember that the whole purpose of compensation disclosure is to disclose based on what clients actually pay.
If no clients ever pay commissions to anyone in the first place, a mere ownership or employment relationship should not "taint" the characterization of the advisor as being "fee only" (any more than working at a firm that could earn a fee should taint an advisor's disclosure of "commission-only" if the truth is that they really are solely compensated from client by commissions.).
Instead, a requirement to disclose "commission and fee" should only pertain to situations where the clients actually pay a commission and a fee in the first place, and it can be shown that the commission and fee were each paid to the advisor and/or a related party.
At that point, we'll finally have a logical compensation disclosure rule: where advisors must disclose how they're compensated based on what clients actually pay, the determination of a related party is based on whether the advisor receives a direct or indirect non-trivial economic benefit, and advisors are not required to disclose commissions (or fees) that don't actually exist in the first place.
Put more simply, in the context of the CFP Board's fundamental definition of compensation—"any non-trivial economic benefit, whether monetary or non-monetary, that a certificant or related party receives or is entitled to receive for providing professional activities"—perhaps it's time to realize that an advisor can't be "entitled to" receive a form of compensation that no client ever actually pays!
After all, just think of it from the client's perspective. Are we really helping to bring clarity to consumers, which is the whole point of compensation disclosure in the first place, by requiring advisors to disclose types of compensation that don't actually exist and their clients won't pay in the first place. Wouldn't it be a clearer and stronger consumer protection to require advisors to disclose how they're actually being compensated by their clients? Why is that so hard for the CFP Board to implement?


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George Shultz was US secretary of state under President Ronald Reagan. He spoke with Global Viewpoint Network editor Nathan Gardels on Tuesday at Stanford University.
Nathan Gardels: You sat in the room in Reykjavik back in 1986 when Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev discussed for the first time the abolition of nuclear weapons. And, well before Barack Obama became president in 2007, you joined with Henry Kissinger, former US Defense Secretary William Perry, and former Senator Sam Nunn to call for a nuclear-free world.
What prompted you in 2007 to make that statement at that time?
George Shultz: President Reagan was a long-time advocate of abolishing nuclear weapons. He thought their use was immoral and that building a global security system based on mutually assured destruction was wrong.
And I supported that. At Reykjavik, he actually engaged the Soviets on it seriously. It was without doubt a watershed in the cold war.
When I returned from Reykjavik to Washington, I was virtually summoned to the British Embassy where Margaret Thatcher handbagged me.
"How could you sit there and allow the president to propose a world without nuclear weapons?" she scolded" "But Margaret," I said, "he is the president." "I know. But you are supposed to be the one with his feet on the ground," she continued. "But I agree with him!" I responded.
In general, there was a very hostile reaction to President Reagan's proposal at the time.
At a conference at Stanford in 2006 that I organized with the nuclear physicist Sidney Drell, we looked backed on Reykjavik on the 20th anniversary of those talks. Kissinger, Perry and Nunn were there. We decided that if the time had not been right before the end of the cold war, now that it was long over the idea might gain more traction. And it has – not only because we had a vision of a nuclear-free world, but also because we identified the steps that needed to be taken to get there.
Among other things, those steps called for the substantial reductions of the size of nuclear forces in all states that possess them; providing the highest possible security standards for all stock of weapons, weapons-usable plutonium, and highly enriched uranium everywhere in the world; halting the production of fissile material for weapons globally; and getting control of the uranium-enrichment process – combined with a guarantee that what was needed for nuclear reactors could be obtained at a reasonable price.
The reaction this time was altogether different. This time two-thirds of the former living secretaries of State endorsed the idea. In the presidential election campaign, both Obama and McCain supported the idea. After the election, President Obama has been doing a terrific job of pushing for it. And Senator McCain has spoken eloquently on the Senate floor in support.
Gardels: It is a nonpartisan issue at this point?
Shultz: That is the way we are trying to keep it.
Gardels: With the new START Treaty, the new "nuclear posture" statement, and the just-concluded security conference with heads of state, how do Obama's policies stack up with your proposals?
Shultz: He is doing an excellent job. He has put the vision out there and keeps it out there. The nuclear posture review shows he is being careful about American national security at every step. The conference of world leaders on securing fissile material is the right thing to do. Who is going to disagree with that? So you get the whole world working on something and solving a problem. That is always a good step.
Gardels: Some American politicians (such as Sarah Palin) have criticized Obama's actions for making America more vulnerable...
Shultz: ...I don't see how he is making us more vulnerable. I just don't see that at all.
But let me make a related point. One of the things in the nuclear posture review that has gotten zero attention – but deserves some attention – is the common sense notion that deterrence involves more than just nuclear weapons. There are all sorts of ways historically that you can deter an enemy. If you are an Al Qaeda fighter in the hills of Pakistan, you are much more worried about a drone than a nuclear missile.
We need to broaden our concept that deterrence is not just nuclear. That is part of the thinking that must go along with steep reductions in nuclear weapons.
Gardels: At Reykjavik, the stumbling block with Gorbachev was the proposed US missile defense. The Soviets regarded that as a first-strike weapon. This time around, the US-proposed missile defense based in Europe is also a stumbling block. The Russians worry it might be to their disadvantage in any conflict with the West. American critics of the treaty claim that the Russians can opt out of their commitments if we don't come to terms on missile defense.
Shultz: That is what they say....
Gardels: What should be the approach here?
Shultz: It is a subject we should discuss with the Russians. If we are worried about a missile attack from Iran that could be detected from a radar station based in Russia, we should go and ask them, "how can we go about that?" We should work on this collaboratively.
President Reagan proposed to Gorbachev that we share missile defense technology with the Soviets. Gorbachev, of course, didn't believe that he would.
But the fact today is that everybody would br better off if we can learn how to defend ourselves, particularly against rogue states that don't have a huge arsenal. That can be done.
Gardels: In Reykjavik, the Soviet concern was that a space-linked missile defense on the part of the US would be equivalent to a first-strike weapon since it could block their missiles while ours got through.
This missile defense system in this case is very limited and aimed at Iran. It would seem the Russians would be more open to that, and find sharing technology more believable.
Shultz: You would think so. After all, they have rebellious provinces in the northern Caucasus that was demonstrated tragically in the Moscow subway recently. Maybe Iran would slip them something, who knows? For that reason a common missile defense system would seem to make sense.
Gardels: What are the next steps down the disarmament path?
Shultz: President Obama is taking the next step by trying to broaden the dialogue beyond just the US and Russia. He is trying to engage the whole global community. Certainly the preponderance of weapons is still in the hands of these two states, but issues such as securing fissile material and uranium enrichment are global issues.
And, as we were just discussing, dialogue with Russia is key to prevent substantial arms reductions from being derailed for one reason or another.
We have come a long way since Reykjavik. When this new START treaty goes into effect, there will only be one-quarter the number of nuclear weapons in the world that there were at the time of the Reykjavik summit in 1986. That shows that the path toward disarmament is not utopian. It is possible.
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So I found out my problem when I would use the curl method on my linux Ubunutu 12.10 Server at home while logged in from my laptop (Mac OSX Lion). Nothing was happening when I would use the curl method so I thought I would try to ping a website where I know its up and running and I would get this:
ping: unknown host facebook.com
So Im guessing there is something blocking something here. I tried other sites with no success. Just the same error. I researched elsewhere but I couldn't really find a solution.
I typed this in terminal:
sudo iptables -L
...and I got this response
Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT)
target prot opt source destination
Chain FORWARD (policy ACCEPT)
target prot opt source destination
Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT)
target prot opt source destination
Does that look fine to anybody or should there be more information in there?
I should also add that I am pretty new to hosting my own server and I have a Dynamic IP at the moment and not a static one. I have learned a lot over the past short while but just want to give the heads up that I may not know a whole lot about it.
That being said everyone seems to think its a DNS issue. So I checked the etc/resolv.conf file and there wasn't anything in there except a commented message.
# Dynamic resolv.conf(5) file for glibc resolver(3) generated by resolvconf(8)
Did I forget a step when setting up my server? Also would this fix the curl issues I was having. I was just trying to install RVM by curl according to the tutorial but nothing happened. No message that it failed or succeeded.
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So I did some research and it looks like a known bug with Ubuntu 12.10 upgrade, which I had just did before using these commands.
DNS resolution fails after 12.10 upgrade
I thought the above was causing the problem but it wasn't in my case
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# The loopback network interface
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Jan and Charles "Charlie" Macaluso's grand 7,400-square-foot plantation-style home in River Ridge was once the site of a farm. Where there used to be the concrete backyard slab of a former chicken coup, there's now a large swimming pool with adjoining Jacuzzi. "We have always lived in River Ridge," says Jan, a CPA. "We love the area and when we decided to build a new house, we searched our neighborhood for the ideal large lot that would accommodate our dream home." Fortunately, they found the ideal lot and tore down the existing old two-story house.
The couple discovered their contractor Stephen Fleishman (of Titan Construction) when they visited a nearby house under construction. "We talked to a subcontractor working there and he spoke very highly of Stephen. When we met with him we instantly liked him. He treated our house as if he were building it for himself. He was a real perfectionist."
It was Fleishman who recommended New Orleans architect Michael Bell, AIA, to work on the project. "I had lots of ideas from searching the Internet for house plans and exterior views," Jan says. "We selected what we liked from various pictures, including the window shapes and styles, the front door, the front columns and the exact look of the front of the house. Michael did a great job giving us everything we both love."
Enter the imposing mansion flanked by four 20-foot-tall columns with Corinthian-style caps, and you'll be surprised at the modern open floor plan that greets you. There's a dramatic winding stairway, but it doesn't lead to the expected long upstairs hallway that opens into several rooms. Instead there's a balcony, with the same handsome custom ironwork that graces the stairway, overlooking the massive great room with 22-foot-high ceilings.
Once you're on the balcony you'll discover an exciting bit of whimsy with the unique trompe l'oeil painting on the wall of a grand piano sitting inside an imaginary room that overlooks the great room from another pretend balcony.
"I always wanted a grand piano, but it wasn't practical to purchase one since none of us play," Jan says with a smile. "Artist Nick Burrell came up with the perfect idea of painting a grand piano in a balcony scene. It has turned out to be a great conversation piece."
Both Jan and Charlie agree that the great room is their favorite space in their house. "We love every inch of the room," she says. "We especially like the wall of windows in the great room that overlooks the pool and back garden," says Charlie, an account manager for an air conditioning distribution company. "Even though it's furnished in a traditional style, we feel it's very cozy," adds Jan. The couple praised their team of interior designers from Interior Motives, lead by Betty Eastin. "We worked together for 18 months," Jan says. "Betty was great to work with because she quickly learned what we liked and helped us put it all together step by step."
Today the Macalusos share their home with their son Nicholas, who graduated from Tulane University in May with a master's degree in accounting. Christopher, their older son, and his wife, Jaime, visit often to enjoy the swimming pool and Charlie's backyard cookouts.
"Building this house was a joy," Jan says.
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It's by far the dullest space in the newspaper: Every day in El Universo, Ecuador's leading daily, readers can find eight small photos and news blurbs summing up the activities of the eight presidential candidates. The articles are the same size and blocked together in a layout that resembles a tic-tac-toe game, minus the ninth square.
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• Part 2: Breakfast bulletin
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This drab coverage is one result of reforms to the electoral law that took effect in February 2012, which prohibit biased reporting on electoral campaigns and allows candidates to sue reporters and news outlets who allegedly violate the law. To avoid lawsuits, El Universo's editors have set aside an inside page of the newspaper devoting equal space to everyone from the frontrunner--President Rafael Correa, who is seeking a third term--to fringe candidates.
That may sound like fair and balanced reporting, but it's also shallow. Journalists and press analysts told CPJ that the electoral law has made it far more difficult to pursue aggressive, investigative reporting ahead of the February 17 presidential and legislative elections.
"The media have been covering electoral events without providing much analysis, debate, or discussion," César Ricaurte, director of the Quito-based press freedom group Fundamedios, told CPJ. "It's very different from the press coverage of past elections."
A recent Fundamedios survey of the country's top 10 newspapers during the first three weeks of January 2013 found that 93 percent of their election stories were short, descriptive articles with very little analysis or opinion. The report stated that "many reporters and editorial writers have opted for self-censorship."
They would appear to have good reason for caution. Last year, the newsmagazine Vistazo was fined $80,000 for expressing an opinion about a national referendum. The magazine's May 6, 2011, editorial urged voters to reject parts of a May 7 ballot that included measures giving the government greater control over media content and ownership. An Ecuadoran court ruled that the editorial constituted political propaganda and violated a provision of the electoral law that prohibits "disseminating political or electoral propaganda" in the days leading up to an election.
There are fears of similar reprisals if news outlets take a strong stance in an editorial or publish a hard-hitting story about a candidate. One editor, who did not want to be identified, described writing and rewriting stories and columns up to four times to avoid any hint of controversy and the possibility of a fine.
This editor referred to recent allegations in the media that Jorge Glas, who is President Correa's vice presidential running mate, may have plagiarized part of his engineering school thesis in the 1990s. Glas has denied the allegations.
This editor's publication has not touched the story out of fear that it could be interpreted by the National Electoral Council--the government institution responsible for monitoring press coverage of the elections--as political propaganda designed to damage the Correa-Glas ticket.
There's a similar dilemma when it comes to the hundreds of candidates running for seats in the National Assembly. Many are former government officials. However, delving into allegations that some of them may have been inept or corrupt during their time in public office could be construed as electoral propaganda, said Janet Hinostroza, a news show host for the private television station Teleamazonas.
"We don't dare investigate them. Nobody does out of fear of being sanctioned under the electoral law," Hinostroza told CPJ. "It's absurd but that's the reality." Christian Zurita, a reporter for El Universo who was sued by Correa for his reporting on official corruption, told CPJ that most of the newspaper's investigations are on hold until after the election.
At least one news outlet has pulled the plug on an investigative report of alleged wrongdoing by government officials for fear of reprisal, journalists at that news outlet told CPJ. To disseminate the information, they passed it around to other media to see if there were any takers. Once published by another news outlet, the reporters who did the original investigation returned to the issue and produced stories based on the government's reaction.
As the private media hold back, some editors and reporters claim that news outlets controlled by the government are serving as propaganda machines for Correa, who is heavily favored to win another four-year term.
Speaking at a journalism conference in Quito in November, José Hernández, an assistant editor at the daily Hoy newspaper, noted that TC and Gama TV, two television stations that were confiscated by the government, provided wall-to-wall coverage when Correa registered his candidacy, while ignoring similar events by rival candidates.
TC and Gama TV also broadcast a satirical video linking opposition presidential candidate and banker Guillermo Lasso to the country's banking crisis in the late 1990s, which led to a deeply unpopular government bailout of financial institutions.
The elaborate video, which includes about a dozen cast members and is loosely based on the Italian opera "La Traviata," centers on a Lasso-like character who appears at a sumptuous feast, then breaks into a song about how his victory will guarantee the return of Ecuador's upper class to power. Although the TV stations were not sanctioned, broadcasting the video would appear to violate the electoral law, and Lasso denounced it as part of what he called a "dirty war" against his campaign.
Patricio Barriga, the government's acting communications secretary, insisted that the private media are waging an even dirtier smear campaign against Correa and have provided an open microphone to his critics. He dismissed claims that journalists were being forced to scale back their electoral coverage and said an abundance of critical reports stand as clear evidence of broad press freedom in Ecuador. The private media "is being irresponsible," Barriga told CPJ. "Rather than inform, they want to play role of opposition to the government and that is even worse."
Orlando Pérez, editor of the state-controlled newspaper El Telégrafo, said the new measures governing electoral press coverage are forcing the media to be more careful and professional, which he says is a good thing.
With election day approaching, many reporters and editors are scratching their heads over how they'll cover the event, especially in the wake of the fine levied against Vistazo.
The electoral law calls for "electoral silence" from the media starting 48 hours before the voting begins and lasting until the polls close. It prohibits the publication or broadcast of advertising, opinions, or images related to the elections. That would seem to rule out news photos and even many stories about the candidates and the elections, said Monica Almeida, an editor at El Universo. "I don't know what we're going to do on election day," she said.


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Zack Wolfenzon and the Crimson are 1-0 at home this fall (Gil Talbot).
The Game:
Harvard returns home to host Rhode Island in the first of two games scheduled to be played at Ohiri Field this fall.
The Crimson stands at 1-1 on the year, while the Rams carry a 1-4 overall mark into the game.
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The Matchup:
The Crimson and Rams have met 14 times since 1972 and the URI leads the series, 8-5-1. The Rams have taken four of the last five between the two schools, including a 1-0 overtime win in the last meeting during the 2008 season.
About Harvard:
The Crimson is looking to bounce back after falling at No. 25 St. John's, 1-0, Friday evening.
Brian Rogers, who tallied the game-winner against Northeastern Sept. 4, paces the Crimson with a goal, while Tim Linden has one assist on the year. Jamie Rees leads Harvard with four shots, while Baba Omosegbon has a team-high two shots on target.
In net, Austin Harms has played all 180 minutes this season and is 1-1 with a 1.00 goals-against average. Harms has made eight saves and boasts a .800 save percentage.
Opponents have outscored Harvard, 2-1, through two games and are outshooting the Crimson, 23-15. Harvard has earned four corner kicks, but opponents have the edge with 15 corners to their credit.
About Rhode Island:
After defeating Bryant, 1-0, Sept. 2, the Rams have dropped two straight, falling at home to Providence in overtime, 1-0, Sept. 5, and losing at Florida Gulf Coast, 4-0, Sept. 8.
Joey Haught and Franco Lo Presti have each scored goals for URI this fall. Haught tallied the game-winner in the victory over Bryant.
Goalkeeper Peyton Warwick has started all five games and is 1-4 with one clean sheet. He also boasts a 1.43 goals-against average and has made 28 saves, to go along with a .800 save percentage.
The Rams have been outscored, 8-2, overall, but have yet to allow or score a goal in the first half of games this season. Opponents are outshooting URI, 76-64, but the Rams have a strong edge in corner kicks, 29-19.
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With 17 shutouts in his career, Austin Harms is just two clean sheet away from tying Chris Johnson '06 (19) for the Harvard program record. Harms has one shutout this fall, having shut down Northeastern, 1-0, in the season opener.
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Harvard is 1-0 at home this fall, having downed Northeastern, 1-0, in the season opener at the Soldiers Field Soccer Stadium Sept. 4.
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Your bedding is more than just a set of sheets and a blanket. Building your bed has morphed into an art form. This overview is dedicated to helping you understand what you need, how everything is used, where to place it, and most importantly, how to create your own personal style in your bedroom. So, come on out from under the bed and discover how to display your top of bed personality.
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Available in a variety of warmth weights to suit your climate and sleeping preferences, the comforter is often inserted inside of a Duvet Cover(2) to protect it against dirt. A high-quality down comforter is filled with goose feathers while an alternative to down is filled with synthetic or natural materials. Make your selection based on year-round comfort, quality, and construction. For more in-depth info see the Down Comforter Buying Guide.
A must for your Down Comforter(1), this piece will make your bed beautiful and become the focal point of your space. Easy to wash and store, duvet covers can be swapped out seasonally, and used for years to come. They can feature a button, zipper, or envelope closure. For more in-depth info see the Duvet Cover Buying Guide.
Comforters (sometimes sold as bedding sets) cover the bed to set the style of your space. Sized to fit neatly on top of the bed and available in a wide range of style options from solid colors to elaborate decorative prints, fabrics, and textures.
Lightweight, usually quilted or woven. Typically coverlets are more contemporary while quilts are more traditional in style. This decorative layer can be used over or under a comforter or duvet cover, but can also be a standalone covering for warmer months. For more in-depth info see the Quilts & Coverlets Buying Guide.
TIP: Choose a contrasting color that coordinates back to the bedding to showcase the Quilt/Coverlet for a dramatic effect and create a luxuriously layered look.
Lightweight and decorative, unlike a Coverlet(4), the bedspread covers the entire bed, including the mattress, box spring and pillows, down to the floor. Can be used over or under a Duvet Cover as a sleeping blanket.
Add color, texture, and casual coziness to your bedroom when this piece is tossed beautifully across the bed. Available in a variety of fabrics such as cotton, fleece, wool and acrylic, Throw Blankets are easy to change from season to season.
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Bed linens come in an array of fabrics, patterns, and colors to complete your bedding ensemble. For more in-depth info see the Sheets Buying Guide.
Available in Standard/Queen, King or European sizes, the Standard/Queen/King generally match the bedding pattern, while European shams offer a beautiful accent. Setting the backdrop for the bed, the European Sham is a 26" x 26" square that is both decorative and practical, adding depth and height to your bed.
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- First Layer: Add a Comforter(1 or 3**) with a Duvet Cover(2) over your Sheets(7).
- Second Layer: You can then add a Quilt/Coverlet(4) or Bedspread(5) folded over for another layer of style. (Some prefer to place this layer under the comforter for extra warmth.)
- Third Layer: A Blanket or Throw Blanket(6) should be folded across the bottom of the bed to provide greater warmth when needed and to add more style to your bed's look.
- Fourth Layer: Top off your bed with a selection of Pillow Shams(8) and Decorative Throw Pillows(9) to give your bed the finishing touches. Complete the bed with a Bed Skirt(10) for a more tailored look.
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Choosing a design style that reflects your personality can transform your space from drab to fab, and make it your favorite room in the house.
The Traditional bedding style comes from historical references: Classic tonal damasks and classical patterns. Layering percale, sateen, matelassé, cashmere, silk, and layers of luxury, quality textiles and furs creates a luxurious, regal appearance.
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The Transitional customer appreciates having a blend of contemporary and traditional elements in their home environment in equal parts. This style blends classic silhouettes with unexpectedly contemporary elements.
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The Contemporary customer likes the clean lines of Mid Century Modern, but wants a little more fashion edge and the ability to evolve their style. Usually contemporary decor has mid-century roots, but have been modified with personal fashion touches such as global, boho, and mash-ups of many styles carefully orchestrated.
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Exquisitely crafted high-end bedding, similar to what is found in luxury 5-star hotels, adds an elegant, refined look to your bedroom décor. When complete, its layered pieces offer a plush, opulent look. Luxury bedding brings a rich style to your space. Complete the look with coordinating window curtain panels and valance for your master bedroom. Explore our Fine Linens section for more information.
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CHICAGO -- Once Mike Napoli returned to the Boston Red Sox, A.J. Pierzynski understood his familiar jersey No. 12 was not going to be a possibility with his new team. So Pierzynski decided to honor White Sox play-by-play television announcer Ken "Hawk" Harrelson, who Pierzynski has known since his high school days in Florida and who wore No. 40 during his days in Boston.
"I was kind of half joking with [Paul] Konerko and [White Sox director of media relations Bob] Beghtol and a couple of other guys over here, they were like, 'You can do what your dad did and be his number,'" Pierzynski said. "And I thought, 'You know that's not a bad idea.' So I texted Hawk and asked him what number he was, and he said 40. So I just went with it."
Pierzynski received a nice tribute from the White Sox upon his return to U.S. Cellular Field with the Rangers last season, after serving as the team's catcher from 2005-12 and winning a World Series in his first season. The team has changed for Pierzynski on this visit, but the memories remain just as vivid.
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King Wood Mallesons (KWM) were looking to create an innovative workplace. They tasked Geyer to design spaces that would attract and retain the best talent, but also embody a dynamic approach to innovation, knowledge transfer, partner structure, reward and recognition.
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Using a behaviour-centred design ethos, Melbournes Flagship Discovery Store places customers, staff and communities at its heart, supporting Telstra's brand to 'Create a Brilliant Connected Future' and bridging the physical and online divide for their retail store design.
The building faces Melbourne's Bourke Street Mall and has previously failed as a 2-level retail space. A new retail environment alone would not achieve the level of difference required for success. The new store design must challenge and change ways of thinking and doing. The interior design needed to change staff assumptions and behaviours. It had to change the function and responsibility of a 'retail store'. The new fitout must offer ways of integrating digital, physical and human touchpoints. A successful store refurbishment would create 'signature' experiences to educate and add value to customers visits, so they leave 'better off'.
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Creating a modern, flexible and collaborative study space to the improve student experience. The University of Newcastle sought to refurbish a lounge area of the Auchmuty Library, located on the Callaghan Campus University of Newcastle. This formed a further stage of the incremental modernising of the Library.
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Qantas makes sure that every airport doesn't 'look the same'. They want to exceed the expectations of their premium business travellers with a unique luxury experience in every airport. Qantas approached Geyer to create a world class hospitality design within brand guide lines, but would also reflect the flavours of the region.
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Owned by Singapore-based SilverNeedle Hospitality Group (SNH), Chifley Hotel at Lennons was an underperforming asset. They trusted Geyer to transform the 40 year old shell into the worlds first 4.5 star NEXT Hotel. The new hotel design encompassed the refurbishment of existing guest rooms and lobby, 150 new rooms and significant upgrades to building infrastructure. Completey new hospitality environments were added new pool, restaurants, bars, and retail environments.
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While potentially dangerous to the maintenance crew, the time-consuming process did real damage to the company's bottom line - the plant lost 400 tonnes of production for every hour the crusher was down.
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