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Highlights: IDS 11.70 xC5 Free Developers Edition now available in the IIUG Member Area, Informix Roadshow 2012
Welcome to the International Informix Users Group (IIUG) Insider! Designed for IIUG members and Informix user group leaders, this publication contains timely and relevant information for the IBM Informix community.
Finally, business as usual. After our February board meeting in Orlando, the election of IIUG board and our conference in San Diego we are back to our routine. For me it is mainly searching for content. I would love to get some help from you guys. Technical articles, thoughts, requests and comments on anything you would like to see in the Insider and is not there. So business as usual does not mean we are relaxing.
Informix is doing better although not at the pace we would like to see.
Towards the bottom of the Insider there is a list of blogs. Please take a few minutes to visit them. There is lots of valuable information in them.
Looking forward to meeting you in our 2013 conference wherever it will be.
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Actually Using Smart Sensors and Other Time Sensitive Data with TimeSeries
The single largest source of information does not come from people or the Internet - it is from sensors such as GPS devices on moving vehicles (buses, trains, trucks, cars), smart meters for utilities and all kinds of remote sensing equipment. Their use and the data they produce is not an incremental increase, it is exponential. At the Consumer Electronic Show this year, Wi-Fi-on-a-chip for less than $4 became a reality. The end result is even more remote devices will be able to send their data to collection points for use and analysis. From a database perspective, that's billions of new data rows to be administered, queried and analysed. From an administrative perspective, how do you load this volume of data? How is it queried efficiently to produce timely results that have real business value? What is the cost in disk and other computing resources to store and access this type and volume of data? TimeSeries technology from IBM is the answer to these and other issues when using time sensitive data.
Join us for a free, one-day hands-on-lab experience to test-drive IBM's TimeSeries technology. There is no pre-requisite knowledge needed to be part of this one-day experience. The labs take place in the local IBM office and upon registering; you will receive the logistics for the test drive.
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Netflix states that 75% of their viewed videos are chosen based on their recommendation engine to their members. They tell us what we think we will like - and it works. Do you want to this level of foresight into your business? Challenges abound in today's business environment. From unpredictable consumer spending and increased competition to rising costs and employee attrition, organizations of all types face considerable challenges to achieving growth across traditional and new channels while trying to deliver great customer experiences. Most organizations already have most of the data they need to respond to changes but it's locked up "in the warehouse" where it takes minutes to hours to get answers back to any question. Would you like your organization to be able to access data as fast as they can think of the question! Then the next question! and the next? Would you like to ask questions any time of day or night without having to wait for rebuilds to occur? Is it important that this speed and functionality be at a price point that won't break your budget? Join us for a free, one-day hands-on-lab experience to test-drive IBM's Warehouse Accelerator that utilizes in-memory, columnar technologies. Warehouse Accelerator technology has a proven track record of providing hundreds to thousands present improvement in query performance. It produces answers in seconds or less without the penalties associated with current BI technologies. There is no pre-requisite knowledge needed to be part of this one-day experience.
The labs take place in the local IBM office and upon registering; you will receive the logistics for the test drive. Memory speed is measured in nanoseconds. Come and find out how that translates into offering performance and concurrency like never before.
2012 IIUG Conference Wrap Up
The 2012 IIUG Conference, held April 22 - 25 in San Diego, is now in the books. The conference committee would like to thank those of you who attended the Conference as well as our conference sponsors, speakers and IBM for supporting Informix. We have already begun planning for the 2013 IIUG Conference.
Thanks to those of you who completed the conference evaluations. The information obtained from the evaluations is valuable and will help with planning the 2013 IIUG Conference. We want to continue to provide the best Informix conference you can attend for the money.
Consider doing your own planning for the 2013 IIUG Conference. As with any conference, quality speakers with relevant topics using Informix are required to help make the conference a success. You may have technical or user expertise that would benefit others in the Informix community. Stay tuned for information on how to become a speaker for next year's Conference.
Please look for future announcements concerning the 2013 IIUG Conference.
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Fastest Informix DBA Contest 2012 - How did they do it?
Please join the Fastest Informix DBA Winner Andrew Ford, Lester Knutsen and Art Kagel at 2:00pm EST on Tuesday, June 19th, for a Webcast to share with other Informix users how the winners achieved their results. Learn about the tips and tricks the real Fastest Informix DBA's used to achieve their remarkable performance.
Advanced DataTools is pleased to announce our latest Fastest Informix DBA Contest that was held at the 2012 IIUG Informix Conference, April 22-25,2012 in San Diego, California.
Congratulations to Andrew Ford, the Grand Prize Winner of the new Apple iPad and the Fastest Overall Informix DBA. Andrew's results were almost three times faster than the next closest contestant's results. This year the contest was run on an Apple Mac Mini Server, using Informix Enterprise 11.70.FC4. The server is very small and inexpensive, 1.4 inches by 7.7 inches square. The CPU is an Intel Core i7 with 4 cores, and includes 8GB of RAM, and it has two disk drives, one for the application and one for the database. It is amazing to see 1,000 user sessions running on this little box and to achieve the level of throughput that Andrew accomplished. The goal of the contest is to see who can optimize an Informix database server running 1,000 OLTP users in under one hour and generate the most transactions per minute. Andrew generated over 57,000 transactions per minute. We used the Open Source BenchmarkSQL Java program to generate the transactions for this contest. The BenchmarkSQL is a JDBC benchmark that closely resembles the TPC-C standard for OLTP. It is a Java program that generates 1,000 sessions doing inserts, updates, and deletes against the Informix database server.
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Connection Level Optimization
I will reiterate few existing features in Informix which you can use for optimize the connection to database. It is always an expensive operation when establishing a connection to a database. The goal should be that applications perform as many operations as possible while connected to database. Following are some connection attributes that can be used to tune application performance by reducing the network traffic:
Create an insert cursor is a good idea to efficiently insert rows into a table in bulk. You need to set the SQL_ENABLE_INSERT_CURSOR attribute with SQLSetStmtOption(), then call SQLParamOptions() with the number of rows as a parameter. An Insert cursor creates a buffer in memory to hold a block of rows. The buffer receives data from the application program; once bugger is full data send to the database server in a block. The buffer reduces the amount of communication between the program and the database server. As a result, the insertions go faster.
In general, when an application uses a cursor, it usually sends CLOSE and FREE statements to the database server to de-allocate memory. Execution of these statements involve round trip of message requests between the application and the database server. The Automatic free feature (AUTOFREE) reduces the number of round trips by one. You can use the IFX_AUTOFREE environment variable or SQL statement SET AUTOFREE to enable this feature.
This feature allows you to minimize message transfers between the database server and application. Application can optimized message transfers by chaining messages together and even eliminating some small message packets. You can enable this feature by setting OPTMSG environment variable at application side.
Application uses DECLARE and OPEN statements to execute a cursor, each statement involves a round trip of message requests between the application and the database server. The open-fetch-close optimization (OPTOFC) reduces the number of round trips network traffic. With this feature, the OPEN statement from application does not open the cursor immediately. Instead, it saves any input value that was supplied in the USING clause of the OPEN statement. Next time along with the FETCH statement it sends this input value. The database server opens the cursor and returns the first value in this cursor. Once database server reaches the last value of an open cursor, it automatically closes the cursor after it sends the data to the client application. You can use the OPTOFC environment variable to enable this feature.
I just provided some touch point here, there are several other way to improve network and connection to database. Please check the Improve Application Performance in Informix Infocenter for details.
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From My Sci-Fi/Thriller novel, XPERIMENT
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"There isn't a more harmless group of people on Earth than my friends were," he said. "There was no reason for anyone to do this to them. Why not choose people deserving of their hatred? Why do this to innocent people? It makes no sense."
Henryk was sympathetic. "It's hard to explain to someone with a good heart how a dark mind works. Terrorism is not about people with righteous convictions trying to make the world a better place for us. It's about cowards trying to force others to live by their rules and in the ways which they choose. There aren't any good intentions in the actions of these people. It's about hate, intolerance, prejudice and a sociopathic desire to have dominion over others. They target the most vulnerable so they can more easily inspire fear. They believe being feared elevates their stature; gives them significance and the power that comes with it. They believe fear will force people to bend to their will. Make no mistake; these people are not human. They're the trolls under the bridge that lie in wait, the ogres hiding in the trees that attack the hapless traveler. They breathe in air and exhale poison."
"How do you stop them? What can we do to make them see what they're doing is wrong? That it's not right to bring innocent people into something they have nothing to do with?"
The stout man popped another beer, easing back into the thick cushion of the chair. He had that wizened look that comes with age and experience.
"I'm afraid there's no getting through to a radical. Any attempt at rational conversation with them is viewed as your concession. They have only one plan: you will do as they say or they will tyrannize and kill without remorse. My mother said this about the Nazis, but it applies to all terrorists. If someone has to trample your rights to ensure their own, you have a terrorist. They don't have to wear a uniform. They can be dressed like any scrubbed, fresh-faced politician. Or they could be your neighbor. Anyone who looks down on you and feels you deserve fewer rights than them." He took a sip of beer, wiped the foam from his mouth. "My mother, this little Polish woman who liked to dance barefoot when she cooked, said; if you see the monsters at your door, you don't back down, you don't go quietly, you don't acquiesce to their pretense of power. You fight them at the polls; fight them with how you live your life, and fight them by not stooping to their level." He leaned closer to Chris. "She said these words that I've never forgotten. No one owns you. No one controls you. No one makes your rules. Just you." He shifted his gaze to Geoff. "They'll be found. They'll be dealt with." He turned back to Chris and in a softer tone said, "In the meantime, remember your friends and how they gave you comfort and made you smile."

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Terex has sold just two crawler units in the Middle East so far this year: a CC 2400 and a CC 2800, but Joerg Mueller, senior manager for international sales at Terex Cranes, is confident that things will improve – especially in Saudi Arabia.
He notes: "The market is not as big as it was before, but we still have some enquiries, and we will have to see how it goes. In Saudi Arabia, our expectations are improving compared with last year, when everyone was pulling out or de-investing, but either wat not buying new stuff – so the situation is getting a little bit better.
I expect that it will get better by the end of 2017, and definitely by 2018. Saudi Arabia was our biggest market before, and last year was terrible – we didn't sell a single unit."
Previously, combining rough-terrain, crawlers and all-terrain cranes, Terex Cranes sold 40 cranes a year in the Saudi Arabia market alone.
Terex Cranes has also introduced a boom extension kit for its Demag CC 3800-1 lattice boom crawler crane that increases the maximum system length to 183m and increases lift capacities by up to 30%.
As Mueller notes: "It's a 650-tonne crane already, but if you want if lift something that's a bit on top of this, you can use the boom booster, which basically strengthens all of the statics. It will not extend the total capacity, but it will extend the load moment for certain lifts – which in certain applications makes sense."
Contrasting Terex's super boom system with the similar extension recently launched by Liebherr for its LR1750 he adds: "Ours in more compact: Liebherr's is over three metres in width – so it will be difficult and more expensive to transport it in the region."
In Europe, these booms extensions are especially directed towards the wind segment, where the growing size and weight of wind turbines is rapidly driving up the cost of transport and assembly.
However, the same segment represents a rising concern in the Middle East, where many regional governments have ambitious plans to roll out renewable energy, and have already set aside significant budgets for wind projects.
Indeed, it was a Liebherr LR1750 was recently used by the Dammam-based Gulf Haulage Heavy Lift Company to erect the very first commercial wind turbine in Saudi Arabia.
Questioned on the potential growth of the segment in the region, Mueller adds: "That would be great. In Jordan there have been a couple of projects. In Germany, it is a big thing, and still most of our crawler cranes in this range, CC 3800, go for wind turbine erection.
"If that kicks off then definitely it would be a big driver for the market. It's an ideal crane for that market, because in Germany you already have wind turbines that are over 170m."
One of the few potential challengers to crawler cranes in the wind segment could come from Mammoet, which is currently developing two dedicated cranes for wind turbine assembly and maintenance.
However, Mueller returns: "The way wind turbines are erected with crawler crane and the development is proven in Germany. With the CC 3800-1, we are already at around 170 sales, and it started only three years ago – so you can see that there are quite a lot of numbers.
"One of the benefits of this crane is that it is so versatile – there are so many different ways of changing the jib and other parts of the crane to different heights and applications."
In the Middle East, he adds: "A lot of customers do different jobs. The big companies that might do wind turbines – such as Sarens Nass or GHHL – also work in the oil and gas industry and construction."


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Be Well
Luke 7:1-17
A lot of modern folks find the healing stories in the Gospels troublesome. Especially in the cases where Jesus tells the person who is being healed that their faith has saved them, we wonder if those stories have anything at all to say to us today. After all, many people have both great faith and great illness; many people have faith that can move mountains while they can't move their legs; many people have incredible hope in Christ, but can't see the sunrise or their grandchildren's smiles. Where is their miracle? Thus we find the healing stories hurtful, because we're not seeing that kind of healing around us today, even among people who are committed followers of Jesus.
Some will give explanations that are frankly unsatisfactory: Those stories happened while Jesus was walking the earth in the flesh, and since he isn't here like that now, we can't expect such miracles; or that was another dispensation, and the age of miracles is now over. If either of those explanations carries the day, then there's no point in reading these stories, because they have no relevance whatsoever for our lives today.
A lot of preachers skip the healing stories altogether; but I don't think we should do that. The healing stories in the Gospels are as much about showing us who Jesus is as they are about an actual healing that took place. We saw that last week when Jesus healed a man on the Sabbath, displaying his authority as lord of the Sabbath and giving a foretaste of the wholeness that will be part of the age to come. In Luke's Gospel, healing stories carry the added duty of proclaiming "good news of great joy…for all the people," as the angel announced on the night Jesus was born.
So the question we might wish to ask as we approach the two stories in our reading for today is, "Where can we find 'good news of great joy…for all the people' in these two healing miracles?"
In the first story, we have a Roman centurion whose slave is sick. The centurion is a representative of the enemy of Jesus' people. Yet he has apparently been a friend to the Jews in that area, even financing the building of their synagogue; so Jewish leaders intervene with Jesus on his behalf. "He is worthy," they say, to have you do this for him.
But notice they're asking Jesus to do something for the centurion, not necessarily for his slave. And the language indicates that the centurion values this slave highly, not because he is a fellow human being who is suffering, but for the work that the slave does for him. So the centurion comes to Jesus with mixed motives, but Jesus sees through them and recognizes his great faith—greater than that of many of his fellow Jews, who continue to argue with him about whether he has the authority to heal, to forgive sins, to decide what may or may not be done on the Sabbath.
Where is the "good news of great joy…for all the people" here? First, Jesus recognizes the faith of a foreigner, even an enemy. And second, Jesus heals a marginalized person, a slave. We might wish that Jesus would also transform the relationship between the centurion and his slave, so they might be brothers rather than one exploiting the other. And who knows? The text doesn't say, but maybe the centurion, like so many people who are radically changed when they encounter Jesus, does begin to think differently about the people over whom he has authority.
That story is interesting, but given that we don't have slaves and are not a subject people in a country occupied by a foreign empire, it might have fewer points of contact with our life today than the second one has.
In this second story, Jesus encounters a funeral procession, headed by a widow who is having to bury her only son. In every time and place, a parent having to bury a child upsets the natural order of things; but in the time and place in which Jesus lived, this widow's plight was much worse than that. A childless widow at that time was about as vulnerable as a person could get. Women didn't really have any way to support themselves; they were dependent on a man who took care of them—their fathers, then their husbands, and then their sons.
The widow leading the funeral procession out of the town of Nain had been left utterly alone. She had nobody to depend on, nobody to provide for her, nobody who cared whether she had food to eat or a roof over her head. As she walked out of Nain following the body of her only son, she had to have felt utterly lost, and utterly hopeless.
Jesus met up with this parade of despair making its way from the city gate to the cemetery, and he had compassion.
I think we often picture Jesus as calm and serene, almost entirely untouched by what's going on around him. If he feels compassion, it's a detached sort of pity that isn't really involved with the suffering person he's encountered. That is most emphatically not what we see in the Gospels, especially not in this story.
When it says Jesus has compassion, the Greek word tells us in what part of the body he experiences that feeling. Jesus' compassion for this desolate woman is gut-wrenching. He enters into this woman's grief and despair and feels them right alongside her.
And because, as the first story in our reading reminded us, he has authority over sickness and even death, Jesus raises her son from the dead; he sits up, throws off his shroud, and starts talking. (I wonder what he said.)
What's the "good news of great joy" in this story? This time it seems obvious, at least in some ways. The good news is that Jesus has compassion—deep, gut-wrenching compassion—for people who are suffering. I think, in some cases, it's very healing and very comforting just to know someone has come alongside us in our hard times.
And you know, that's where we come in—it's where we have the opportunity to stop being mere observers and instead become part of the "good news of great joy" we have in Jesus Christ.
We are the body of Christ, you know. We are the ongoing, living presence of Jesus in the world. And as Jesus had compassion for those who were in pain, in despair, hopeless, and marginalized in his time and place, so we also have compassion in our time and place.
We may each be moved to compassion by different things. In some cases, we suffer alongside people who are going through things we have previously dealt with. In other cases, we're cut to the heart by circumstances we will never experience.
What moves you to the kind of gut-wrenching, deep compassion that Jesus had for the widow he met on the way to the Nain cemetery? Is it the suffering of abused or neglected children? Is it the loneliness of a person who has outlived all their friends? Is it the fear and uncertainty of a family who leaves their war-torn home to seek refuge among strangers? Is it the emptiness that follows a terminal diagnosis? Is it the anxiety and degradation of grinding poverty?
Whatever kind of suffering, whatever kind of need, ties your guts in a knot: that is the place where you could be called to act as Jesus' hands, feet, heart and voice alive in this world.


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I loved Coco ^^ It was the best पोस्टेड एक साल से अधिक पुराना
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I'm going to come and say straight up I प्यार Merida. She's earned a spot in my चोटी, शीर्ष three heroine's of all time, and her movie is one of my favourite पिक्सार films to date. So, moving on..
Appearance -
A lot of people think Merida is ugly, but I disagree. Sure, she's different from what we're used to seeing, but different doesn't mean ugly. Her hair is beautiful, it's a true red-head's red. It's a gorgeous copper hue that is full of life and volume. It really represents her character well. Her eyes are beautiful, such a lovely colour and shape in my opinion. I प्यार her smile,...
buzz can आप hlep my कहा some of the toys no i can not i am buing someone like now maybe later want do आप need we need some खाना at i want to eat आप light now कहा a toy no आप not going to eat my light now because i am going to killed आप all right कहा buzz no at is not all right may i eat आप right now ok कहा a toy. no आप not going to eat me because i can fly a way from आप right now if i wanted to so ok with आप if i can fly कहा buzz. no आप do not fly a way because आप are a toy कहा a toy at going to eat buzz right now come on bring it कहा buzz
पिक्सार really shocked me when they decided to give Buzz a demo mode, the normal mode, and...my personal fave aside from normal...spanish mode
the moment he started speaking spanish i laughed my butt off literally...then i instantly fell in प्यार with his voice...I am American but american accents can be abit boring...i प्यार other accents from different countries...and Spain is one of them. Anyways I प्यार Spanish Buzz and I dont see how anyone else wouldnt. Who agrees?
From the ब्रेव Buzz Lightyear from तारा, स्टार Command, To a Deluded Buzz, From that to a Good friend, From that...to...
पिक्सार has become a name synonymous with quality एनीमेशन after a winning series of hit फिल्में including Toy Story, A Bug's Life and The Incredibles. Its latest offering – Wall.E is being hailed as its best yet. We've found twenty things आप probably didn't know about the company that prides itself on working outside the Hollywood solar system.
- The name पिक्सार is derived from a fictitious Spanish word meaning "to make pictures" या "to make pixels."
- Toy Story, the 1995 animated cartoon following the exploits of Woody the Cowboy and Buzz...
I went to the opening दिखा रहा है of Toy Story 3 yesterday. I went with complete trust in पिक्सार for several reasons. One being that they have never let me down yet, and the other being the fact that I spoke with one of the art directors who reassured me that the movie was funny, epic, emotional, and a perfect ending to the story that we love.
This being कहा I just had a few thoughts on the movie. I loved it so very much. I loved everything from beginning to end, from the art to the music. Everything was beautiful and the story was flawless.
Here is a new idea for a future पिक्सार movie. I been saving this for two years and continue to do so until I am able to request this to Pixar. Take a look.
"Dundee & Congo"
The story begins 18 years पूर्व with Alexander Caldwell, one of the world's greatest treasure adventurers, as he has discovered countless of priceless artifacts, but one artifact that he couldn't find, which eventually ended his career, was known as the Aurora Stone, a mystical and rare amulet that holds अकल्पनीय powers. He promises himself that his...
I have the two disc version of दीवार E on DVD and a feature I came across was "The Story of Pixar". It told the story of John Lassater, and his प्यार for कार्टून and the history from his first job to his film Cars. One of the things that was mentioned was that the
3-D told over the 2-D world of animation.
Now a days, the only fresh 2-D content we see is on TV and unfortunatly, some just aren't as good the old ones. Not as much hard work goes into them and they don't make us laugh as much. When was the last time they made an original 2-D feature length that wasn't a tv show...
डिज़्नी and Pixar's Full Animated Line-Up Through 2012!
April 9, 2008
द्वारा Alex Billington
डिज़्नी and पिक्सार unveiled their complete animated movie line-up from 2008 to 2012 today at a press conference in New York. Featured in their announcement is a diverse and ambitious slate of 13 new animated feature films, most of which will be featured in 3D. As has been the case recently, डिज़्नी will be releasing two major animated फिल्में per साल - one पिक्सार and one Disney. Starting in 2009, however, we'll be treated to 2 पिक्सार फिल्में per year: 3D versions of Toy Story (in...
1. Toy Story (1995) Tin Toy
2. A Bug's Life (1998) Geri's Game
3. Toy Story 2 (1999) Luxo Jr.
4. Monsters, Inc. (2001) For the Birds / Mike's New Car
5. Finding Nemo (2003) Knick Knack
6. The Incredibles (2004) Boundin' / Jack-Jack Attack
7. Cars (2006) One Man Band / Mater and the Ghostlight
8. राटाटुई (2007) Lifted / Your Friend the चूहा
9. WALL-E (2008) Presto / BURN-E
10. Up (2009) Partly Cloudy / Dug's Special Mission
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If आप प्यार Mater and if आप are a प्रशंसक of Mater please शामिल होइए the Mater the tow truck club
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Welcome to Korea! Hi, I'm Hyewon but you can call me Ewon if it's easy to you 🙂 I live in Incheon near Seoul so I can introduce 2 cities. I study french in university and I was in France during 1 year in 2016. I traveled many countries of Europe but I didn't visit Asia yet. I love to make new friends and go to new place. So why do not travel Korea with me? 🙂
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Entertainment / Food
First, Bupyeong underground shopping center
Bupyeong underground shopping center is the biggest one in Korea. It's huge and complex place so sometimes we call it Dungeon in game or maze. But don't worry I'm specialist here. I Know you are already ready to shop but we should be ready also with food.
After we meet at Bupyeong subway station, we move to Bossam restaurant. As you can see in pictures it's Korean style pork and you can choose sauce between Teriyaki or garlic sauce. And they offer also Kimchi, bean paste soup, rice, vegetables and other pastes.
Now we are ready to shop. There is everything that you want in the underground shopping center. Clothes, shoes, cosmetics, colorful contact lens, accessory, and others. You can also choose a gift for your family or friends. If it's hard to choose the best thing for you, I can recommend
Second, Korean dessert café
It's time to eat Injeolmi (Rice cake) with bread. We go to Korean dessert café and have a rest with desserts. As you can see in pictures, it's not the original style of Injeolmi. It looks like a type of toast. Even if I'm Korean, I actually don't like Injeolmi but it is my favorite dessert. So I think it's delicious also to foreigners.
And our tour will end in the cafe but I will bring you to subway station.


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When I met my girlfriend she was reading this book under the auspice of "re-reading a classic she loved as a kid." If I hadn't been at the tale end of a Masters degree at the time I would have immediately picked it up and read it. I love homework. A few months later we were apart for a bit and when I asked her to recommend me some books, she picked a lot of somewhat older books with spitfire protagonist women and I dived in. This book got put by the wayside. In addition, a friend of mine whose sour-ass opinions on everything I also admire and respect also spoke admiringly about this book. Born and raised in Brooklyn by way of Puerto Rico, I took it as high praise.
So, some 3 years later I finally picked it up again.
Having seen the movie that came out in the '40s and not really understanding the different between print and film of that era, I assumed that this would be a sentimental classic full of spritely characters, maybe some precociousness, etc etc etc.
But holy crap! Gambling! Hookers! Corrupt politicians! Hoodlums! Sex! And more!
This book is awesome. So so so awesome. If you have a book group coming up and not sure what you should read and want something that feels a little dirty because it's ahead of its time. This. If you're looking for something that is funny and heartfelt and full of pathos. This. If you want something that speaks to corruption and ineptness and evil that lurks in the hearts of the American Dream and the American spirit. This.
This book has everything. And because it's told from (mostly) the perspective of a child, the innocence of the character allows for a calculated incisiveness that wouldn't otherwise happen. And because you care about that child, you really feel for the struggles she goes through.
It's nice and long too, if you're into that kind of thing.
It's a truly rewarding book that really gets at iniquity and inequity. It doesn't gloss over the issues of America. It's beautifully written and scathing all at the same time.
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Counseling (COUN)
COUN 500 Introduction to Counseling and Helping Professions 3 Credits
Educational, social, and psychological foundations of counseling services. Basic theories, principles, and techniques of counseling and related helping professions, such as coaching, and their applications to professional services. Emphasizes self-awareness as related to becoming a facilitator of helping skills. The team approach to counseling services and the contribution of the various specialties within the total counseling services program are stressed.
COUN 501 Coaching Principles and Practices 3 Credits
The course covers core coaching competencies, including coaching screening and orientation, fundamental skills, assessment, approaches for organizations, and coaching ethics. The course meets all 30-hour educational requirements for certification as a Board Certified Coach (BCC) through the Center for Credentialing and Education and is required course for the 60-hour BCC educational requirements.
COUN 503 Group Counseling 3 Credits
Analyzes the historical development of group treatment methods, theories, practices, methods for appraising outcomes of treatment, and research findings. Includes critique of recordings, demonstrations, and students' own group experiences as counseling group members.
COUN 504 Vocational/Career Development in Educational Settings 3 Credits
This course provides a comprehensive and practical approach to career counseling, coaching, and curriculum design in Kindergarten through postsecondary settings. Theories of vocational development and decision making form the foundation for designing career counseling curriculum. The problems and techniques of using college and career information, assessment tools, educational and vocational goal setting, conflict management strategies, and individual and organizational change processes are stressed. Concepts of career/life planning and the interrelationships among life roles, family, ecosystemic influences, and work in a diverse and changing society are explored.
COUN 505 Vocational/Career Development 3 Credits
Includes organizational change and vocational development theories, research, and literature in the field to inform practice with clients with vocational/career concern. The problems and techniques of using occupational and career information, assessment tools, educational and vocational goal setting, conflict management strategies, and individual and group processes are stressed. Includes concepts of career/life planning and counseling and coaching techniques, lifespan transitions, and the interrelationships among work, family, and other life roles.
COUN 508 Foundations of Clinical Mental Health Counseling 3 Credits
This course will provide the foundation of community counseling including roles, policies, history, diversity, systems, programs, interventions, fiscal issues, community resources, consultation, advocacy, and assessment that are unique to community counselors. Projects include searching for government and foundation funding, writing a grant proposal, developing a resource directory, visiting and writing reports evaluating community agencies. This course also meets Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs (CACREP) standards for Community Counseling Programs.
COUN 510 Approaches to Family Counseling 3 Credits
Presents a basic understanding of major approaches of family counseling. Family counseling approaches covered include structural, systems, Ackerman, Satir, and analytical. These approaches are presented as related to major problem centered family concerns--child-rearing concerns, alcohol, drugs, child abuse, dysfunctional marriage, divorce, etc. Emphasizes self-awareness as related to family development.
Prerequisite(s): COUN 500, CNPY 502, or permission of instructor or advisor.
COUN 515 Substance Abuse Counseling 3 Credits
Analyzes the development, intervention, and treatment of drug abuse and alcoholism. Designed to assist counselors in identifying drug abuse and alcoholism, examining the specialized approaches of counseling with these clients and reviewing the related elements; i.e., family participation, physical problems, effects on school or job, etc.
COUN 516 Strategies in Addiction Counseling 3 Credits
Analyzes the development, intervention and treatment of co-dependents. Designed to focus on the characteristics of co-dependency and how they were initiated in alcoholic families as well as other dysfunctional families. Symptoms will be discussed in terms of problems with intimacy, trust, eating disorders, assertiveness, love relationships and the differences among co-dependents. Specialized approaches to treating these areas will be discussed. (Classes will involve lecture, discussion and students will learn and experience group exercises for co-dependency treatment.)
Prerequisite(s): COUN 515 or permission of instructor.
COUN 520 Multicultural Counseling and Relationship Development 3 Credits
Introduces, examines, and critically analyzes and reflects upon major origins and dimensions of human similarities and differences. Explores and personalizes the social-psychological and behavioral implications of these similarities and differences. Examines issues of racism, reverse racism, age and handicapped discrimination, sexism, sexual orientation, etc., in the light of theories of individual and group identity development and the impact of these on, between and within group relationships. Each student is expected to utilize this knowledge for the development of healthy multicultural skills. A semester-long engagement in a multicultural interaction and a presentation of a multicultural discovery project are required.
COUN 525 Gender Issues in Counseling 3 Credits
Examines the psychological, physiological, historical, and socio-cultural factors that affect the development of women and men across the life span and discusses implications for counseling. Focuses on relevant gender issues including gender bias and equity, misdiagnosis, self-esteem, depression, violence and sexual abuse, the feminization of poverty, and the importance of relationship for women. Presents an overview of feminist psychotherapy and explores the context of the behavioral, emotional and biological problems that impact on mental health. Also discusses the emerging men's movement and trends in counseling men; introduces gay and lesbian issues, the issues of minority women, and factors in counseling the HIV/AIDS client.
COUN 530 Legal and Ethical Issues in Counseling and Psychotherapy 3 Credits
Examines and analyzes the legal, ethical, and professional parameters of counseling and psychotherapy. Discusses legal liabilities and malpractice cases arising from constitutional, tort, contract, family, privacy, and criminal laws. Examines client rights and counselor duties and responsibilities. Explores legal, ethical, and professional implications of third party payment, informed consent, medication, case documentation, client termination and abandonment. Advertisement of counseling services, crisis and case management, consultation and supervision, "duty-to-warn" and court appearances of an expert witness will be explored. Special attention will be given to child abuse reporting issues, dual relationships and to regional legal and ethical developments.
COUN 535 Holistic Wellness Counseling 3 Credits
Based on current methods and research, students will explore holistic wellness (e.g., spirituality, self-direction, work and leisure, friendship, and love) positive psychology (e.g., hope, forgiveness, etc.), and human change from personal and interpersonal perspectives.
Prerequisite(s): CNPY 502.
COUN 550 Counseling Techniques Laboratory 3 Credits
A basic laboratory pre-practicum for counseling services majors which provides opportunities for both observation of and participation in counseling activities. The purpose of this course is to provide students with their initial counseling experience under closely supervised conditions. The focus of this course is the development of basic counseling skills through an emphasis on techniques (basic and advanced listening and helping skills), strategy (the counseling process), and self development (the student as counselor) grounded in professional counseling theories.
COUN 555 Introduction to Play Therapy 3 Credits
Introduction to Play Therapy provides an overview of the fundamental principles of play therapy, including history, theories, skills, and applications. The course emphasizes developing the therapeutic relationship with children and utilizing play to facilitate children's self-expression, self-understanding, and personal growth. Observation of and supervised experiential activities in play therapy with children are an integral part of the course.
Prerequisite(s): CNPY 502 Theories of Counseling and Psychotherapy, COUN 550 Counseling Techniques Lab, EDPS 503 Human Growth and Development.
COUN 580 Elementary School Counseling Practicum 3 Credits
A 100-hour supervised experience in counseling and consultation in an elementary school setting. Students will obtain a minimum of forty (40) contact hours with clients. The course will also provide an historical overview of the school guidance and counseling function. Current practices for assessing, organizing, implementing and evaluating school counseling services will be reviewed. Students will develop knowledge and skills in the development of primary, secondary, and tertiary interventions designed to promote the academic and social development of children of elementary school age. Students apply knowledge and skills developed in pre-practicum experiences in addressing the needs of school children.
Prerequisite(s): To be taken semester prior to COUN 590.
COUN 581 Secondary School Counseling Practicum 3 Credits
A 100-hour supervised experience in counseling and consultation in a secondary school setting. Includes seminar discussions, interview analyses, videotape observations, and individual supervision with the faculty supervisor. Provides the counselor-in-training with the opportunity to develop and practice skills and techniques necessary for the effective delivery of counseling services in the secondary school setting. Reviews current practices for assessing, developing, organizing, implementing, evaluating, and reflecting on counseling services as they address the special needs of secondary school students.
Prerequisite(s): To be taken semester prior to COUN 590.
COUN 582 Coaching Practicum 3 Credits
A 30-hour supervised experience in coaching with individuals, groups, or organizations. Includes seminar discussions, obervations of recorded sessions, session analyses, and group supervision with the faculty supervisor. Provides the coach in training with the opportunity to develop and practice skills and techniques necessary for the effective delivery of coaching services. Reviews current practices for assessing, developing, organizing, implementing, evaluating, and reflecting on coaching services as they address the needs of clients. This course is designed to fulfill the practice requirements for certification as a Board Certified Coach through the Center for Credentialing and Education.
Prerequisite(s): COUN 500 or COUN 501, CNPY 502, COUN 505, and permission of instructor.
COUN 585 Clinical Mental Health Counseling Practicum 3 Credits
A supervised experience in counseling and consulting techniques in mental health facility, community counseling agency, or college setting. Includes seminar discussions, interview analyses or audiotape/videotape observations, and individual supervision with the instructor. For the experienced counselor or the advanced counselor in training who desires to review and/or strengthen individual counseling and consulting techniques. A field placement of 100 hours is required with a minimum of 40 direct contact hours with clients. Students registering for this course should contact the instructor the semester prior to the course being offered.
Prerequisite(s): To be taken semester prior to COUN 590.
COUN 586 Practicum II 1 Credits
The continuation of Practicum, this 1-credit course is required for those students who were unable to complete the 100-fieldwork hours of Practicum in the fall or spring semester. Students will continue at their Practicum fieldwork site and will be responsible for completing the remainder of their 100-hours. A grade will not be granted in Practicum until the successful completion of Practicum II. The approval and cooperation of the intern's agency or school field supervisor for continuing placement must be obtained at the conclusion of the prior semester. Prior to enrollment, students must submit documentation of supervisor, director, and professor permission and a comprehensive plan for fieldwork- hour completion to the clinical coordinator.
Prerequisite(s): COUN 580 or CNSC 580 or COUN 581 or CNSC 581 or COUN 585 and all other required course work must be completed or in progress. Program director approval with professor of record approval is required.
COUN 590 Internship in Counseling I 3 Credits
An internship that provides 300 hours of on-the-job experience, including all activities that a regularly employed staff member would be expected to perform. The internship placement is selected on the basis of the student's career goals. School and agency counselors who supervise interns determine the structure and the content of the internship in cooperation with the Rider supervisor. The approval and cooperation of the student's superintendent, principal, or other appropriate administrative personnel must be obtained the semester before the counselor candidate's internship is scheduled.
Prerequisite(s): all other required course work must be completed or in progress and permission of the Rider supervisor must be obtained; any exceptions must be approved by the instructor.
COUN 591 Internship in Counseling II 3 Credits
The continuation of an internship that provides a 300-hour field experience including all activities that a regularly employed staff member would be expected to perform (n.b., a regularly employed staff member is defined as a person occupying the professional role to which the student is aspiring). The internship placement is selected on the basis of the intern's career goals. School and agency counselors who supervise interns determine the structure and the content of the internship in cooperation with the faculty supervisor. The approval and cooperation of the intern's agency or school field supervisor must be obtained the semester prior to the actual placement.
Prerequisite(s): COUN 590 and all other required course work must be completed or in progress and permission of the faculty supervisor must be obtained; any exceptions must be approved by the faculty supervisor.
COUN 593 Intership III 1 Credits
The continuation of Internship II, this 1-credit course is required for those students who were unable to complete the 300-fieldwork hours of Internship II in the fall or spring semester. Students will continue at their Internship II fieldwork site and will be responsible for completing the remainder of their 300-hours. A grade will not be granted in Internship II until the successful completion of Internship III. The approval and cooperation of the intern's agency or school field supervisor for continuing placement must be obtained at the conclusion of the prior semester. Prior to enrollment, students must submit documentation of supervisor permission and a comprehensive plan for fieldwork- hour completion to the clinical coordinator. Clinical coordinator approval is required.
Prerequisite(s): COUN 591 and all other required course work must be completed or in progress and permission of the clinical coordinator is required.
COUN 600 Independent Study and Research in Counseling Services 1-3 Credits
Students may take two independent studies. However, under special circumstances, such as students seeking certifications (e.g., Student Assistance Coordinator), students may be approved by their advisor to take up to six COUN 600 3-credit courses for a total of 18 credits.
COUN 660 Counseling Supervision: Issues, Concepts and Methods 3 Credits
This course introduces and critically examines issues and concepts that arise in the supervision of counseling and psychotherapy practitioners and trainees. Methods and techniques of supervision are presented to enable students to become knowledgeable and skilled providers of proficient clinical supervision. Psychotherapeutic, behavioral, integrative, systems, experiential, and developmental models of supervision are studied. The unique problems encountered in group, family, and couples counseling supervision are raised as well as legal, ethical, and multicultural issues. Administrative and contemporary issues such as inter- and intra-agency supervision, inter-agency communication, record keeping, evaluation, and taping of counseling sessions are examined.
Prerequisites: COUN 590.
COUN 690 Internship in Counseling Speciality I 3-6 Credits
This internship provides on-the-job clinical experience in approved settings. Placement is selected based on students' specialty area goals and must be approved by the faculty advisor the semester prior to actual placement. Students must also submit in writing a description of clinical activities available in the field site before the placement is approved. Students will be required to attend a weekly seminar during which time each student will present and/or discuss legal, ethical, multicultural, contemporary, and clinical issues in her/his specialty area.


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What is the Good Enough Studio?
The Good Enough Studio is a blog and library for a study group on Facebook, and for all who are using a studio: artists, art educators and art therapists.
It is also the name of a book I am writing.
The studio is perceived as an extension of the artist, educator and art therapist. It is my best assistant.
Through our discussions, this container and processes it facilitates, will become our focus, and hopefully it will assist you as an art educator, artist or therapist.
We will also discuss documentation and observation, medium suggestions and art provocations based on the Reggio Emilia approach.
You are welcome to ask questions and use this space to share your experience and knowledge with others.
Nona Orbach is an artist, therapist and educator and mentors a large Hebrew speaking group on Facebook, titled Studio Visits. Now we can do it in English!
My work is based on a book that was published in Israel 1997, and now is available as an E-book in English.
The Spirit of Matter, Orbach, Galkin, 2016


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GamesRadar did some preliminary tests to discover how many names your robot chum Codsworth knows in Fallout 4, and now we have the full list. Don't read on if you'd rather keep it a surprise, but the old metal coot will call you some…interesting things if you decide to input them as your name.
Both variations of my name are included, although the name I was going to pick for my character…isn't. Boo! BUT there are lots of neat pop culture references in the 924-name-strong list. Including, but not limited to, Mulder and Scully from The X-Files, Quatermass from the classic BBC sci-fi serial, Preacher from…Preacher, 'Imperator' in honour of Furiosa from Mad Max, and oh look there's Corvo from Bethesda's Dishonored. You can also name yourself Sexy or Assface, and Codsworth will call you that throughout the game.
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One of those things is theft. The stealing started a few years ago when I was first in Boulder, and I walked out of Whole Foods with a watermelon. I didn't mean to, of course. I paid for everything else in my cart, but I just didn't manage to get the GIANT watermelon on the conveyor belt. I was leaving the store when the security dude asked "M'am, did you pay for that watermelon?" I was totally stunned and big fat tears welled up in my brown eyes. I was 7 seconds away from ugly crying and telling this guy how I didn't know anything about cultural anthropology and that I really loved dinosaurs, when he oh-so-kindly slapped a "sample" sticker on the shop-lifted melon. In the past couple of weeks, I inadvertently stole both cold medicine and a box of raisin bran.
Recently, I also:
- added cream and sugar to the garbage bin at Starbucks, rather than to my coffee. I was oh-so-confused when I went to stir.
- put toothpaste on my razor, rather than my toothbrush. Luckily, I caught this booboo before slicing my tongue in half.
-have been trying to jam my chap-stick into keyholes. Contrary to popular belief, Whole Foods' peppermint lip balm does not open either my apartment or office doors.
- booked tickets to go "home" to see Ron and Kitty at Spring Break, backwards. i.e. SAN-DEN return, which is not very helpful come Spring Break when flights are sold out and you are in DEN. Crying.
Anyhow, my poor over-worked brain is already on the mend after only a few days of rest, so hopefully I WILL NOT text my way into a fountain or get arrested for "borrowing" anything containing pseudoephedrine anytime soon. And, a little brew never hurt...
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There are no clear health benefits of replacing saturated fats with starchy foods (reducing the total amount of fat we eat).Oh my.
Clearly the people at Cochrane just don't know how to look for the "proper" evidence. After all, haven't we be told for decades that Saturated Fat is THE bogey man? What's next? That they tell us that statins don't work?


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The four UK HE funding bodies believe that the outputs of research should be as widely accessible as possible. For this reason, we have introduced a new policy for open access in relation to research assessments after the 2014 REF.
The policy states that, to be eligible for submission to the REF 2021, authors' final peer-reviewed manuscripts must have been deposited in an institutional or subject repository. Deposited material should be discoverable, and free to read and download, for anyone with an internet connection.
The requirement applies only to journal articles and conference proceedings with an International Standard Serial Number. It will not apply to monographs, book chapters, other long-form publications, working papers, creative or practice-based research outputs, or data. The policy applies to research outputs accepted for publication after 1 April 2016.
Note: From 1 April 2018 the REF 2021 Open Access policy will require outputs to be deposited as soon after the point of acceptance as possible, and no later than three months after this date.
We will introduce a deposit exception in to the policy from 1 April 2018. This exception will allow outputs unable to meet this deposit timescale, to remain compliant if they are deposited up to three months after the date of publication.
The exception reads: 'The output was not deposited within three months of acceptance date, but was deposited within three months of the earliest date of publication.' This exception will remain in place for the rest of the REF 2021 publication period.
Policy documents
The policy documents may be found at the following links:
- Policy for open access in the next Research Excellence Framework (updated November 2016) (HEFCE 2016/35)
- Decisions on staff and outputs in the next Research Excellence Framework (REF2017/04)
- Open access in the Research Excellence Framework: extension of flexibility (HEFCE Circular letter 32/2016)
- Open access in the next Research Excellence Framework: policy adjustments and qualifications (HEFCE Circular letter 20/2015)
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Mr. Friis specializes in strategy, risk management, regulatory compliance, operational improvement and restructuring. With a focus on financial institutions, he has led multiple large scale transformations, often with a multinational scope that included Americas, Europe and Asia. His financial services experience includes retail banking, institutional and retail brokerage, credit cards, mortgage banking, SME banking, corporate banking, transaction banking, investment banking as well as insurance.
Currently, Mr. Friis is helping clients navigate the opportunities and challenges arising from regulatory change, new technologies, and changing customer behaviors. Recently, he assisted clients with the implementation of several regulatory reform requirements for derivatives as well as related risk management models, data repositories and analytics.
In his career, Mr. Friis' has advised a major investment bank on a multiyear global program to meet multiple new regulatory requirements related to derivatives and SFTs, build of integrated analytics platform and modelling of replacement cost for stress and resolution scenarios. He also led the post-merger integration of customer-facing processes, product portfolios and supporting IT architecture for a major European finance company.
He executed a corporate banking growth initiative that increased cross-sell of cash management services to clients by 50 percent and led the re-engineering of a major mortgage bank in preparation for an IPO. Mr. Friis also led a global revenue enhancement program for a major financial services company that generated $600 million in new revenues within two years and served as interim CEO during the recovery of a distressed $500 million company.
Prior to A&M, Mr. Friis served as VP at ITOCHU International, overseeing strategy, M&A and business performance improvement. Other past roles include, U.S. financial services practice head for PA Consulting Group, managing director with HighQuest Partners LLC and managing director at Citigroup, including two years in a role as their global innovation head. He began his career at Accenture.
Mr. Friis earned an MBA from Anderson Graduate School of Management at UCLA (Valedictorian), a bachelor's/master's in economics and finance from the University of Copenhagen and a bachelor's degree in international business from Copenhagen Business School.
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What is a Pattern Day Trader?
In 2001, Day Trading Rules changed significantly based on how frequently a stock trader executes a day trade.
If a trader exceeds a certain number of day trades within a limited period of time, the trader's brokerage firm is required to mark the account a Pattern Day Trader (PDT). Certain restrictions apply to these type of accounts.
A Pattern Day Trader is one who makes more than 3 day trades within a rolling 5 business day period. The first time this trade limit is exceeded we permanently designates it as a Pattern Day Trading account. If a trader makes only 3 day trades or less during this 5 day period, he or she is NOT considered a Pattern Day Trader.
There are pros and cons to having a Pattern Day Trade account. Because of this, a trader may elect to be labeled as a Pattern Day Trader before exceeding the 3 day trade limit. Since the number of trades is such an important factor, it is critical for the online trader to understand precisely what kind of activity constitutes a Day Trade.
What is considered a Day Trade?
A Day Trade consists of 2 off setting transactions which occurred in the SAME security on the SAME day. The order of these transactions must be opening followed by closing. This sequence must be maintained to meet the definition of a Day Trade. The trading session in which these trades occurred is not important. Pre and post market trades are treated the same as regular session trades. With regard to time, all that is relevant is that the trades occurred on the same day and that positions are not being held overnight.
The Number of Day Trades is Important
The quantity of shares traded or number of orders can complicate the definition. The total number of day trades on a given day in a specific security is determined by the lesser number of opening or closing transactions. Here are a few examples to make this more clear. (All of these examples hold true irrespective of opening with a long or short position.)
If a trader opens a stock position with one order of 800 shares and exits the same position with two 400 share orders, these three trades are grouped together as one day trade.
If a trader opens a position with two orders of 400 shares, the trader has a position of 800 shares. If this position is liquidated with one order of 800 shares, this series of orders is also considered as one day trade.
However...let's assume the same trader again creates a position with two orders of 400 shares. Even though a similar holding of 800 shares is created, two day trades will result if the trader closes out with two oders of 400 shares. (Two transactions on each side)
If any of the orders mentioned above are filled in multiple transactions, this alone does not affect the number of day trades taken. For example a trader placing an order to close a position of 600 shares may receive confirmations on 200 and 300 shares with 100 shares still open. All 600 shares will be considered one transaction, provided the trader does not modify the remaining order balance of 100 shares. If the trader makes changes to the partially filled order, it will be classified as a brand new order. If this new order becomes executed it will create an additional day trade.
When the Number Exceeds 3 Day Trades
If a stock trader makes 4 or more day trades in a rolling 5 business day period, the account will be labeled immediately as a Pattern Day Trade account. Certain limitations will then be applied based on the account equity. (Account equity is the amount of cash that would exist if every position in the account was closed.)
The most important one is the requirement to maintain a minimum account equity of $25,000. If the trader is able to maintain this minimum, the trader may day trade as frequently as desired. However if the trader makes more than 3 day trades in this period without maintaining the minimum balance, the account will become restricted from day trading and all positions must be held overnight. There's no limit to the number of trades if you hold the positions overnight.
Pattern Day Trader - by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
FINRA rules define a "pattern day trader" as any customer who executes four or more "day trades" within five business days, provided that the number of day trades represents more than six percent of the customer's total trades in the margin account for that same five business day period. This rule represents a minimum requirement, and some broker-dealers use a slightly broader definition in determining whether a customer qualifies as a "pattern day trader." Customers should contact their brokerage firms to determine whether their trading activities will cause them to be designated as pattern day traders.
A broker-dealer may also designate a customer as a "pattern day trader" if it "knows or has a reasonable basis to believe" that a customer will engage in pattern day trading. For example, if a customer's broker-dealer provided day trading training to such customer before opening the account, the broker-dealer could designate that customer as a "pattern day trader."
Under FINRA rules, customers who are deemed "pattern day traders" must have at least $25,000 in their accounts and can only trade in margin accounts. For more information on pattern day traders and related FINRA margin rules, please read the SEC staff's investor bulletin "Margin Rules for Day Trading."
Increased Leverage: A Possible Benefit for Pattern Day Trade Accounts
If a trader can maintain the minimum balance requirement of $25,000, there are certain benefits for this type of account. Increased access to margin and therefore increased leverage can be one of them.
For non pattern day trading accounts with standard access to margin, traders may hold positions in value of up to twice the amount of cash in their account. For example if the account has $30,000 in cash, the trader can buy up to $60,000 worth of stock. The trader uses the $30,000 and the brokerage firm lends the remaining $30,000 to the trader on margin and charges interest on the loan.
Pattern Day Trade accounts will have access to approximately twice the standard amount of margin when trading stocks. This is known as Day Trading Buying Power and the amount is determined at the beginning of each trading day. When trading stock, Day Trading Buying Power is four times the cash value instead of the normal margin amount cited above. In the previous example, the trader would be able to trade up to $120,000 worth of stock.
Beware though, there is a caveat. In the first example with the standard margin account, the trader may hold the position overnight. In the second example, the positions must be reduced to standard margin levels if the positions are not closed the same day. This means the holdings valued at $120,000 must be reduced to $60,000 (or less if there are trading losses) in order for the trader to continue to hold the positions into the next day. This is because Day Trading Buying Power can only be used when Day Trading. Even if the trader intended the positions to be day trades, but the trader does not exit before the market closes, these are no longer day trades. Either the trader will need to meet the overnight margin requirement of 50% of stock value, or the brokerage firm may take action to liquidate holdings in the account in order to bring it inline with federal and/or local margin rules. The term Day Trading Buying Power sounds simple enough, but many traders have been known to somehow "forget" the capital is for Day Trading only.
Leverage is a Double-Edged Sword
Leverage and margin are trading tools that should be used wisely. Financially speaking, leverage is when a small amount of capital is able to control a much more expensive asset or group of assets.
When trading and investing, leverage has the ability to magnify the skill set of the trader. If the trader is adept and able to profit while trading, leverage (margin) may help the trader to make profits faster and/or in larger quantities. However the reverse is also true. If the trader is not proficient and racks up trading losses, he or she will do so more quickly and in larger amounts when using margin.
When you day trade with borrowed funds it is possible to lose more than your initial investment. A decline in the value of stock purchased may cause the brokerage firm to require additional capital to maintain the position. Absence of an immediate additional capital infusion may cause the broker to liquidate client positions at its discretion. Likewise, the same can happen with a short stock position. This can result in an unlimited losses. So although access to increased margin with a Pattern Day Trade account can be beneficial, there is no guarantee that the account will be profitable. In addition, a trader will be able to make more transactions due to the increased access to trading capital. Since expenses can pile up quickly, it is crucial for Day Traders to monitor and control these.
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