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I do enjoy a black comedy, and the demise of Alec Guinness' character in this film is the supreme example of how funny this genre can be. For me, it is a highlight of the story - the kind of development that takes you by surprise, makes you gasp and guffaw simultaneously. But if that scene is the highlight of the storyline, the historical highlights are the views of St Pancras/Kings Cross stations. Not only do we get railway scenes with freight movements; antique signalling equipment and blood and custard coloured coaches; we get street scenes with advertisements and shop fronts. The scenes show a very different district to the one there now. I have regularly walked from St Pancras to Bloomsbury and it is a different world. This is why I'm so interested in 20th Century history. It is an alternative world but it was really there, and within living memory. You can keep your sci-fi with its different planets and alternative universes, I've got one that really existed in 'The Ladykillers'.
On my most recent viewing of the film, one street scene stood out. This took place outside a hotel called the Jesmond Dene. An unusual name, I thought to myself. But then I realised, Jesmond Dene is in Newcastle, a park built for pleasure and relaxation. Whoever founded this hotel had a keen eye for marketing. Homesick people arriving from Newcastle into Kings Cross would quite likely head for somewhere with a familiar name, a name which had connotations with serenity and promised a leisurely stay. Looking at the hotel and its environs back then, I presume some residents were disappointed!
Update October 2012
Well I finally got a look and here's a photograph. My pilgrimage down Argyle Street was interesting. Some slight gentrification in places sitting alongside some the the edgyness that you might expect from King's Cross. There are a lot of guest houses and hotels, but disappointingly these have boring generic names that I can't even recall a day later. There is a Chester Hotel, but for Chester you would need to go a bit further down the road to Euston. I was quite gratified to see that across the road from The Jesmond Dene is a conference centre called Derbyshire House - you need St Pancras for Derbyshire (and it's where the ironwork comes from) and perhaps it did start out life as a hotel.


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Game On! PS4 Games Are Now Available On PlayStation Now
Way back in March, the good folks over at Sony made some big news when they announced that they would be adding PS4 games to their streaming subscription service Playstation Now. Well, today the word comes down that PS4 Games Are Now Available On PlayStation Now.
Playstation dropped off a new visual on YouTube which shows off some of the 20 PS4 games now available. A number of great titles are available including WWE 2K16, Ultra Street Fighter IV, Killzone Shadow Fall, Saints Row IV: Re-Elected, and more. This new batch of games now makes for over 500 games being offered on PlayStation Now. Sony is also planning to add more PS4 and PS3 games throughout the year. If you did not know PlayStation Now is $20 USD a month. Check out the video below for more and head over to learn more about Playstation Now immediately!

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When we visit New York, we usually get tickets to the Metropolitan Opera at Lincoln Center.
Three days ago we saw the Met's production of Rodalinda by Handel, but we saw it in Dublin, not NY.
We saw it at our local movie theatre in Rathmines, just down the road…The Met has a network which transmits the live performance from the Met onto movie screens around the world. The sound fidelity and the picture quality were both terrific. What a find!
Also, cost per ticket was ten Euro, whereas at the Met, you're talking about a hundred more.
Here is more info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolitan_Opera_Live_in_HD
Speaking of music, while emailing or surfing, I listen to music on line…a good classical station in Raleigh (NC) is WCPE. Do a search to find it. It is commercial free. It is far better than WQXR in NY which is loaded with commercials. The announcers are sympatico, too.
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Oink: Heaven's Butcher is too serious to be considered satire, but too scatter-brained to be a successful allegory. Every panel is beautifully rendered, but outside of any one panel Oink leaves the reader wanting more. Go and Google, Yahoo, or Bing (do people really use Bing?) this story and you will get a reliable crowd-sourced reaction: the art is beautiful and the story is disappointing. Somewhere in your travels, you will find a few people saying that it is the best thing they have ever read, and at least one review--and this is pretty Birdman-esque--includes a comment condemning the review for spending only a few hundred words tearing down something which must have taken hundreds of hours to create.
Questions that raises about art criticism aside, this review does not exist tell you, as people have known for years, that Oink is a disappointing story; I want to dive into why it has this effect on so many readers.
The most obvious reason is that Mueller's art is stunning. Every sequence is detailed, from his rendering of the brutal, slaughterhouse-like violence that makes up the bulk of his story, to softer watercolor renderings of a world which hardly deserves to appear so beautiful. The charm of violent moments where arrows pierce skulls or shots of the night sky bringing peace to a chaotic, dystopic future serve as sign posts for the reader's expectations. But rather than moving Oink forward, or unifying a thrilling story, these moments are narrative oases: sad reminders that Mueller is great at telling a story with a single panel, but not with a sequence of them.
And that's where we start to get to the real source of disappointment. It's not just that the art is great and the story's content is mediocre. The problem is that Mueller is a really choppy sequential artist. One of the things that is often intangible for many comic readers--one of the things which keeps them coming back to a comic but that they often can't really put their finger on--is an artist's ability to lend a particular visual narrative structure to an event or series of events. For instance, imagine the event of Kal-El getting sent to earth. Now consider the bajillion different ways that the event has been given a narrative structure, with some aspects of the event being rendered more pertinent than others in each iteration.
What often makes a good comic is, first, clever deployment of narrative structure and, second, juxtaposing that narrative on the page in an interesting way. After all, if you're going to make a memorable comic, you should probably take advantage of the space on the page, since it's something unique to comics as a storytelling medium. Oink doesn't do this, and Mueller's layouts are constantly cookie-cutter layouts. His exposition is mostly cinematic in style: he limits his panels and just focuses on big, payoff moments. But because of this, there's no suspense. The story is a constant barrage of Oink fighting, with nothing to make the fighting particularly interesting beyond its immediate aesthetic appeal.
Then, of course, there is the most obvious problem with Oink, and the one I think that will leave the most people disappointed: the story just isn't that good. Complaints about form aside, everyone has their style, and Mueller could totally get by with his meticulously brutal, fast-paced style--if he had a more compelling story. The problem with Oink is not just that the veil is far too thin on any attempt at allegory, but that the attempt itself is a failure. Comparisons to Animal Farm pop up the minute you start reading: the titular character is a talking pig, from a community of talking pigs, who are subjugated by humans. What Oink adds to the formula is that these are genetically engineered pig-people who work as slaves slaughtering other pigs, and the oppressors are explicitly some dystopic form of the Catholic Church.
But what the hell is the message here? Religion seems to be the main target of whatever Oink might have to say, but sifting through the hyperbolic charges against the Catholic Church (or religion in general) does not help us map the story onto any real life issues. A race of pig people, created by the religious in a dystopian future, lead normal pigs to slaughter, all the while being manipulated with promises of heaven. It's not an allegory about the dangers of religion: if it is, what is the danger? That we will feed our brothers to the machine? What analogous house of slaughtering our own kind are we running for religious demagogues?
Maybe Oink could be seen as integrating religion into an exploration of how we will sell out our own kind for promises of personal gain. That sounds like a pretty deep real-life question to explore with fiction, and would be in the same Orwellian vein as its main swiney theme. But this is a five-mile-high assessment of the plot in abstract and completely tosses aside how profuse the religious imagery is within this story. The city is called "Heaven," murdered pig-people are "saved," and the assassins that hunt down enemies of the state are called "Angels." Further, this story has nothing to do with the pig-people selling out their non-bipedal brethren: the story is about Oink burning the city to the ground. The story unfolds in spite of what Oink is, which is perfectly fine, but acts as yet another defeater of executing a successful, internally consistent commentary on life.
Oink is evidence that Mueller is a gifted artist and a poor storyteller. Though the reader will constantly want the story of the titular revolutionary pig-person to be compelling, and though some characters are likable enough to elicit a few satisfying emotional turns in the story, the world itself is cobbled together from several half-baked ideas, all of which would have needed to be fully baked to make this story satisfying.
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Oink: Heaven's Butcher Writer/Artist: John Mueller Publisher: Dark Horse Comics Price: $17.99 Release Date: 3/18/15 Format: Trade Paperback; Print/Digital


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Do we (The Labour Party) really need to follow the SNP down the path into patriotism? It seems as daft as trying to out-UKIP UKIP.
Aims and ValuesWhat does this word Patriotic mean in this context? I know that Murphy (who I have a lot of time for) peppers his speeches with it. Fair enough if he feels it deflects accusations from the shouty airheads. But in our Constitution????
To these ends we work for the patriotic interest of the people of Scotland:
- For the success of a permanent and powerful Scottish Parliament.
- Decisions on policy that is devolved to the Scottish Parliament will be decided by the Scottish Labour Party.
- In common purpose with all parts of the Labour Party and Labour Movement across the UK for the advancement of Scotland's interests and the benefit of all.
- etc etc etc
We're about the people! We're emphatically not about the 'country' with its imagined histories and legends, and meaningless symbols and flags, its irrational belief in the rightness of 'itself', however you think 'we' define 'ourselves'.
That word should be kicked right out. I propose an amendment : delete patriotic.
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Integrating the robots.txt on sitecore is not so difficult. In this post, I will explain how you can implement the robots.txt on Sitecore.
Month: April 2016
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I do enjoy some good, intelligent sci-fi, and this looked like the genuine article, with an interesting premise and wonderful look and good performers and lots of unsettling intimations in the trailer. And in many ways it delivers, except it has a weak third act and ultimately raises more expectations than it's prepared to fulfill. But these seem like quibbles when the majority of the movie is so good.
So this coder Caleb wins a contest to visit Martin, the president of his tech company, at his exclusive enclave in the wilderness. Martin has developed a Google-esque search engine that commands 94% of the world's search traffic, and is very much modeled on some of our current tech moguls, especially in "Dude!"-peppered speech and loose sense of morality. Before you know it, Caleb is being helicoptered to Martin's headquarters, which are somewhere that looks a lot like Norway, with glaciers and huge green mountains. Deep into the wilderness, Caleb is told that he's "been flying over Martin's estate for the past two hours." At a certain point the helicopter "can go no further," a nice touch I thought borrowed from Dracula, and the movie makes no bones about setting Martin up as a menacing figure. He is met recovering from a wicked night of drinking… but there was no party, he drank alone. Caleb arrives at the house to find a blue security light that is a color-switched clone of HAL's famous red eye.
Nathan makes Caleb sign a non-disclosure agreement that he cannot use the phone and must allow his computer to be searched, in order to see what he's told is the most important scientific advance in decades. Turns out Nathan has developed an artificially-intelligent robot, and he wants Caleb to test it: the Turing test, which states that if someone can't tell it is a robot, then it is genuinely AI. Now, he just TOLD the guy it's a robot, and now he's going to test to see if he can tell it's a robot. But let's not get bogged down with that. Caleb says "That would be the most important event not in the history of man, but the history of God," which Nathan later remembers as him saying "You're not a man, you're a God," in a good touch. Unfortunately, a lot of the great touches throughout aren't really going to amount to much in the end, but be very nice character window dressing.
So Caleb is to have a series of conversations with Ava, Martin's robot. Her design is one of the main strengths of the film, many of which are purely visual. The movie has a lot of ingenious visual touches, like how amazing a simple wall full of Post-Its looks when lit from above, and Oscar Isaac with cropped hair and a full beard. Ava has a fleshy face, but her arms and torso show mechanics covered by a body-shaped mesh, which makes her look unmistakably unnatural, even as she moves with natural grace. She is a giant CGI-creation smack in the center of numerous scenes, and she looks great every time. She is also uncannily sexual, and we are soon told that she is able to have sex. You start to wonder… what are some of Caleb's tests going to verge on here? Fascinating premise… and once again, more than the movie is prepared to deliver.
So Caleb's first conversation with her is predictably shallow, but that's to be expected. Then his next conversation is… also fine, but also not that deep or interesting. I thought he was supposed to be testing her? Then their third conversation is also kind of a bust, and by now you're realizing that he's never going to ask really probing questions, like how she feels? How she learns? What does she think about music or art? Would she like to go outside? But this is diverted from because, during a blackout—when Martin's persistent surveillance is down—she tells him not to trust Martin, that everything he says are lies.
Okay, so now we have some suspense. And Martin is seeming ever-more suspicious. He's around when you don't expect, and he's constantly drinking, and getting edgy. And what's with the mute Japanese servant that he viciously belittles? And he watches everything Caleb does at the place. Things get creepy—then creepier! Is he abusing and belittling Ava? He confesses to committing an egregious worldwide surveillance atrocity without a thought. He also tells Caleb that Ava will be destroyed and upgraded eventually. Meanwhile, Ava is coming to like Caleb, to discuss dating him, and confess her dislike of Martin. It all continues, steadily but slowly tightening, until—
Caleb gets Martin drunk and steals his key card, then goes downstairs and finds out that… his Japanese servant and other previous robot models are basically sex machines! There is a lot of effectively macabre imagery as the robots remove parts of their skin, making for some extremely gory zero-gore images. Caleb does a bit of programming, and tells Ava to plan for their escape!
Also in here is a long sequence that just fell flat for me. Caleb, after seeing the robots downstairs, goes to his room and cuts open his arm, and plays around in the blood. I guess we're supposed to feel like all this realistic robot flesh around has made him question his own humanity? But that came across only intellectually and not emotionally, and given all the other things in the film that receive short shrift, I'd rather lose this ineffective aside for more interesting content.
Now—do you want to know the ending? Because knowing it might be a bit of a disappointment, once you see how little it comes to. Last chance. Martin reveals that he knows Caleb is planning to escape with Ava—he was actually listening during the blackouts. Martin suggests that maybe Ava is just pretending to like Caleb in order to use him. Caleb reveals that he already reprogrammed the doors. Then—Ava is free! She tells Caleb to stay where he is, and she and the servant stab and kill Martin. Caleb seems to be locked in, and Ava doesn't seem too concerned with getting him out. Danged down-and-dirty double-crossin' robot woman! She leaves him entombed to die while she goes out and explores the world. I guess she didn't love him after all! The end.
So, it's one of the endings you can guess from the beginning, and I had hoped for a few more surprises. Makes sense, and follows, I guess, it's just not very exciting. Ava was never very threatening throughout—in fact, it's hard to have the sense that she really wants anything—so the thought of her getting her way doesn't bring much sense of dread. Furthermore, because it ends this way, one can't help but feel that most of the brilliantly laid-out escalating sense of fear and dread of Martin never really comes to much of anything. Ultimately, he's not that threatening, so all of that build-up was just kind of… interesting asides?
I also honestly expected the film to go in a sexual direction with Ava—I thought it likely that one of the weird tests of her humanity would be Caleb expected to have sex with her—and I'm a little bummed that none of it panned out. Could have been pretty explosive, no? Kinky and uncomfortable? But no. And while I get that she's being made out as a bit of a femme fatale, I think they should have gone further in this direction. What if she full-out seduced Caleb and induced him to murder Martin? A full-out AI robot Double Indemnity could have been a very modern, fascinating little tale. But not that, either. We get what seems like an honorable, but unexciting, little wrap-up.
And again, for as fantastic a creation as she is, we really don't get to know Ava. How fascinating it could have been—even with this ending—if we came to understand a lot more about her mind and how it works. We have a series of conversations, a structure the entire movie is built around, but none of them are very interesting, and we scarcely know her at the end any better than we do at the beginning. This movie could have kept everything else intact, but made a devastating emotional impact if only we really came to know, and feel for, Ava. Or if we had a concrete sense of how she uses her intelligence to emotionally manipulate the humans. But she remains a blank.
Still, there's so much good about it: the realization of Ava, the look of the house, the slow menace of Martin, the excellently rising tension, that it remains worth seeing, and is generally "good." But it could have used some real emotional stakes and psychological involvement with its characters to fill out that brilliant scaffolding, to end up with something really moving and special.
Yeah, it's good, I just think it could have easily been great.
Ex Machina
Barry replied on Thu, 04/30/2015 - 9:02am
I found its quiet ominousness, free of the usual clamor and frenetic editing, to be very refreshing and welcome, and all the more effective because of it. It seemed that shots were held longer. I don't know if this makes sense, but it almost seemed to me like a foreign film in that regard. I guess maybe quiet is rather foreign to our culture.
CdMScott replied on Thu, 04/30/2015 - 10:38am
Yes, that's one of the film's strengths, for sure. I was thinking how certain movies need to give you time to think about them as they're happening [the classic example being when they removed the voiceover from Blade Runner, allowing viewers time to think about it], and this one definitely does that. Quiet is definitely becoming a rare quality in Amercian movies.
Anyway, did you ever see Beyond the Black Rainbow? It's a conscious throwback to 70s sci-fi along the lines of THX-1138, and while I didn't make it to the end, I was enjoying the languid style of it. It's on Netflix streaming...
Intriguing, but ultimately tepid
Paul replied on Fri, 05/01/2015 - 5:58pm
I walked out of this movie feeling pretty good about it, but I've found that it doesn't hold up to much scrutiny. The main problem is that it doesn't hold itself together well enough to really explain the actions of the Caleb in the final act. [spoilers>] The content of the conversations between Caleb and Ava have almost no depth, so it's hard to believe that Caleb has really developed an attachment, let alone enough of a relationship to double-cross Martin for Ava's benefit. Lacking a connection to Ava, we're left with mistrust of Martin as the only explanation for Caleb's actions, and that alone doesn't cut it. The movie does a good job of building up Martin as a menacing figure, but not enough in itself to justify Caleb's hacking of the security system and release of Ava. Added to this is the fact that a lot of the structural elements don't make sense on their own and are (in retrospect, at least) clearly there only to facilitate the plot. For example, the security lockdown in event of power failure (what if there's a fire that cuts power?), and the use of a keycard for access to the main computer in Martin's room (he has a thing against passwords? Where in the world do access controlled areas not also have password-protected computers?). At the beginning of the story these are used effectively to enhance the atmosphere, but by the end it's clear that they're mere contrivances to aid the weak plot.
On top of that, at the end Ava isn't even instrumental in killing Martin - he's fatally wounded by the otherwise innocuous servant/sex robot. Why does she turn on him at the end, when she previously had no meaningful character development? Your guess is as good as mine. We're supposed to understand that the robots want freedom, but why? Apart from the general idea that freedom is desirable, and that we don't have any (which the movie has as an undertone throughout - everything that happens until Caleb's betrayal is orchestrated by Martin, who's a stand-in for insert-your-tech-company-here, and every interaction until the end is managed in some way), we don't have a compelling argument that the robots have a thirst for it.
It's not all bad, though. The overall atmosphere and the creepily entitled way Martin brings Caleb to his house and the morally bankrupt way he sexualizes his creations for his own amusement are good elements. It just doesn't add up to all that much in the end.
Took the words right out of my mouth
CdMScott replied on Sat, 05/02/2015 - 10:48pm
Agreed on all of it... glad someone else felt this way. Particularly disappointing that the character of Ava was such a bust... I saw the writer/director talking about artificial intelligence and a recent trailer tries to build suspense about the threat of AI, but the movie barely touches on that as a topic... it's just a story machination.
I certainly don't regret
Trent replied on Sun, 05/03/2015 - 4:17pm
I certainly don't regret seeing the movie, it's genuinely nice to look at (and not in a let's-blow-some-shit-up kind of way) and listen to, and not stupid, but I think people who hadn't really have contact with some serious science-fiction will be impressed much more: enthusiasthic reviews and IMDb score seems to confirm that.
As for the "foreign" feeling to the movie - it's British.
Under the Skin is another recent movie dealing with similar themes, but much more interesting. Both films portray human-shaped non-human characters exhibiting non-emotional, non-malicious indifference towards humans, but - in a way, where Ex Machina ends, Under the Skin really starts. It's also a British movie, directed by Jonathan Glazer (of Birth, which seems to be one of the oldest reviews on your site) and probably the first one I ever saw with a truly Kubrickian vibe (in a good way).
BTW I'm surprised that you didn't mention Chappie in your review: both films feature a very similar scene in which non-human character has their damaged arm easily replaced.
Similar reaction
Temmere replied on Wed, 05/20/2015 - 1:47pm
My take on it was similar to yours, but ultimately I had a lower opinion of the movie as a whole. Like you say, the ending is a bit of a letdown and Ava's character isn't really established. Honestly, for all that the movie is about the question of whether she has artificial intelligence, I'm still not convinced she did. Nathan thought the ultimate test was whether she could affect Caleb enough to convince him to help her escape, but whether this was her actual desire or merely something Nathan programmed into her is never clear. The fact that she succeeded doesn't really tell us anything. I saw an AMA with the director who claimed she had compassion, but for the other robots, not people, but I saw no evidence in the movie of that, either.
The cinematography and performances were very good, Nathan was an interesting character, and Caleb was okay as a kind of everyman. But I don't think the questions the movie asked about AI, or the answers it came up with, were nearly as insightful as the critical consensus seems to indicate.
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JRo replied on Wed, 06/24/2015 - 5:33pm
In agreement with you as usual (and with many other comments here)--apologies if some of this in overlap. I think this movie suffers from what must be an incredible challenge in film-making--attending to every aspect enough to make the whole thing quality--and so ending up with some beautiful elements (like some of the pacing, cinematography, design, etc.) and some terribly superficial ones (deeper themes, characterization, etc.). One thing that's pretty impressive about this film is that the director tried very hard to be faithful to actual scientific research in AI. He consulted several scientists and philosophers in this area (I know one of them personally) and so a lot of the things discussed in the movie are pretty accurate or are at least theorized in the scientific community--which is very cool. If only that had been taken a bit farther...but, alas. Nevertheless I do have a slightly more charitable reading on the character (however underdeveloped) of Ava. One big question in the area of AI is exactly what would prove someone is "like a human." And so we have a lot of romantic ideas about things like love, compassion, etc. that Ava seems able to fake without really "feeling," suggesting she is not really an AI on the level with humans. I confess the ending disappointed me at first. But then I thought: what if Ava is just a sociopathic robot? What if the true test of AI is that it can make any kind of AI...not necessarily something like (or improving on) a human, but which can have the same kinds of flaws as human? Being a jerk, being self-serving, etc. Maybe in the end the true test of AI is that you can get the same variations as with humans: great people and jerks and all.
CdMScott replied on Sat, 06/27/2015 - 11:21am
Hmmm, many things to address. I agree that there is an incredible amount to attend to when making a film, which is why it's disappointing that they have such a short moment of cultural relevance now... I was thinking the other day how, before video, a movie would be in theaters and discussed for months. Now they get a week in the sun if it's a blockbuster, although one could argue they can have longer "lives" on Netflix and such... anyway, it amazes me the amount of WORK that goes into one only to have it thrown in the vast cultural bin with everything else...
That said, Alex Garland has a history of movies that lose focus in the final thirds. I don't doubt that he consulted numerous scientists and philosophers... I think his movies get TOO ideological in ways that lose their flow as just a straight-up story, which was the case with The Beach and Sunshine...
I think the takeaway is that Ava has true AI because she faked attraction and used him to get out... I just wish this had been developed in a more intersting and consistent way. So she is for sure a jerk, but also a cunning one. An interesting OTHER movie would be to follow your idea, and have an AI that is SO AI that it actually goes crazy, or becomes psychotic...
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Jennifer Roeder from FAAN, sent me the below press release to share with my blog readers. That a bill like this is even on the horizon is an amazing step forward. Please take a minute to review the proposed bill and think about what it could mean for you and your child. Many thanks to Jennifer and FAAN for all they do every day for the food allergy community and for keeping us all informed about this important potential legislation!
The Food Allergy & Anaphylaxis Network Champions School Access to Emergency Epinephrine Act
Proposed Bill Aims to Treat Anaphylactic Reactions in Schools
Fairfax, VA – Legislation that would help put lifesaving medicine in the hands of school personnel and help protect millions of children in the U.S. with potentially life-threatening food allergies – as well as others with undiagnosed food allergies – will be introduced this week on Capitol Hill as the result of efforts by U.S. Senators Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Mark Kirk (R-IL) of Illinois. The Food Allergy & Anaphylaxis Network (FAAN™) has championed this legislation to lawmakers and will continue its outreach until this bill is made law.
Nearly six million children in the U.S. have food allergies. Many are at risk for anaphylaxis, a serious allergic reaction that is rapid in onset and may cause death. Earlier this year, the state of Illinois passed a law that allows schools to obtain and administer a non-student specific prescription for epinephrine, the first-line treatment for anaphylaxis.
Studies have shown that as many as 25 percent of epinephrine administrations in schools involved individuals with a previously unknown allergy. As a result, they do not possess their own prescription for epinephrine.
"This law could potentially save the life of an elementary school student whose parents didn't know he or she had any food allergies or a high schooler whose reaction was so severe that he or she required a second dose of epinephrine but only had one auto-injector at school. When someone experiences anaphylaxis, every second counts," said FAAN CEO Maria L. Acebal. "We are committed to working with lawmakers to pass this bill and we are extremely grateful for Sen. Durbin and Kirk's leadership and support."
Under the proposed federal bill to be introduced later this week, entitled the School Access to Emergency Act, states allowing schools to maintain a supply of epinephrine and administer it to a student having an anaphylactic reaction would be given a preference when federal funding is allocated for asthma education and prevention grants.
The School Access to Emergency Epinephrine Act is sponsored by Durbin (D-IL) and Kirk (R-IL) and supported not only by FAAN and other national nonprofit organizations such as the Food Allergy Initiative, but also by the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology, and the American Academy of Pediatrics.
"For young people, school is a place to learn, to make new friends, and to be exposed to new things. For a small number of these children – about 1 in every 13 – school lunchtime or a classmate's school birthday party can risk exposure to foods that can cause a severe and life threatening reaction," said Sen. Durbin. "Schools can be prepared for these situations by having epinephrine auto-injectors on hand, and trained staff to administer it in the few minutes they have to save the life of a child experiencing a severe allergic reaction."
"For the millions of children suffering from serious, potentially fatal allergies, the safe and expedient administration of epinephrine can mean the difference between life and death," said Sen. Kirk. "This bill encourages schools throughout the nation to prevent allergy-related deaths by allowing trained, qualified staff to administer epinephrine to a student suffering from a severe allergic reaction."
Durbin and Kirk attended an event at Children's Memorial Hospital in Chicago on Monday to discuss the bill. FAAN member Mary Lenahan, along with her daughter and FAAN Teen Advisory Group member Alex Simko, were on hand to show their support.
Several states have already passed laws allowing schools to stock epinephrine and to allow school personnel to administer it to any student believed to be having an anaphylactic reaction.
About FAAN
Founded in 1991, The Food Allergy & Anaphylaxis Network (FAAN) is the world leader in information, resources, and programs for food allergy, a potentially life-threatening medical condition that afflicts as many as 15 million Americans including almost 6 million children. A nonprofit organization based in Fairfax, Va., FAAN has approximately 22,000 members in the U.S., Canada, and 58 other countries. It is dedicated to increasing public awareness of food allergy and its consequences, to educating people about the condition, and to advancing research on behalf of all those affected by it. FAAN provides information and educational resources about food allergy to patients, their families, schools, health professionals, pharmaceutical companies, the food industry, and government officials. To become a member or for more information, please visit FAAN at www.foodallergy.org.


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Mobile Information Systems
Volume 10, Issue 1, Pages 1-2
University of Murcia, Murcia, Spain
Received 23 July 2013; Accepted 23 July 2013
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Motherhood was never easy. But today it is the most complicated and stressful. Why? As per a survey we are surrounded by a lot of choices. So why not use these choices to our advantage.
After racking my brain and analyzing the change in my day to day life, I have figured out 10 must haves for us and they go as under......
Trust me, a tote is a life saver with all tit bits starting with diapers, extra pair of clothes, sippers, small toys and not to forget your fav perfume, lip gloss etc. So its a must and so much in fashion. So go ahead and pick one to suit your style.
So go ahead girlies and enjoy life to the fullest. Do share your comments and feedbacks to make our blog more suitable to our day to day needs.
And do wait for more posts.
Love you all and take care
After racking my brain and analyzing the change in my day to day life, I have figured out 10 must haves for us and they go as under......
- A big TOTE BAG
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Smart phones are definetely stress relievers with so much to do piled on them. Be it capturing most precious moments of your kids, planning and organising grocery, alarm setters, apps to keep kids occupied, online banking, shopping, paying bills, social networking etc etc
I can completely understand the need for you to be on your feet 24/7 and still we neglect the most important part. Our feet. Please go for comfortable shoes as this will take you long. Its not at all necessary to compromise on style as again on the cost of repeting we have a world of choices. Select from sneakers, ballerinas, kitos, crocs etc and take your best foot forward.
A good quality stroller is definetely an investment. Gone are the days when we went shopping with children on one side and bags on other. Today many strollers are available which will surely make our lives less complicated.
Multivitamins, calcium supplements etc are very essential as they help us replenish our resources which are lost much faster as compared to our earlier years. So after a proper consultation with your gynaec/ doctor do start with the ones which suit your requirements.....
Going to parlours on a routine basis may not be possible for many of us. So what? We are modern moms with solutions to every issue. Why not try some facial kits available for home usage. The results will definetely please you......
The toys today are so different from the ones we played with. With a plethora of choices available and space constraints, toy libraries are for sure breathers to modern age moms.
The toy libraries do have a lot of choices which ranges from books, cds, musical instruments, educational toys, fun toys. Along with that there are many libraries which provide a dual combination for us and kids.
So just go ahead and pick one for yourself......
Hhhhhh. Should we be discussing this. Of course it is very important to decide on the age gap we want amonst our kids. Also to avoid getting into a not so promising situation one should consider the option with proper consultation with your doctor. I would say it to be a smart investment.
What else can pep up our dull mood in seconds.... Hence I dont think there is any need to write much on this.
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Last but for sure not the least a domestic help is our life saver. So try and outsource the job you find unrewarding and devote that precious time to you, your little darling and your family (In this order preferably)
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LOS ANGELES (MarketWatch) -- Symantec Corp. on Tuesday is expected to report its quarterly profit nudged higher and revenue surged as it reaped the benefits of its big acquisition of Veritas Software.
Wall Street analysts, on average, expect Symantec SYMC, +0.50% to report a fiscal third-quarter profit of 25 cents a share, up from 24 cents a share in the corresponding period a year earlier, according to a Thomson First Call survey.
Revenue at the Cupertino, Calif.-based security and storage software firm is expected to nearly double following Symantec's purchase of Veritas. The average estimate calls for the firm's revenue to climb to $1.27 billion for the period to Dec. 31 from $695.2 million.
Symantec, which makes the popular Norton line of antivirus and security software, finalized its near $11 billion purchase of Veritas in July. The deal was one of the software industry's biggest mergers ever and created one of the world's largest software firms.
Analyst Jonathan Ruykhaver at Raymond James & Associates expects Symantec's results to be in line with his estimates calling for earnings to meet the average expectation as revenue hits $1.26 billion.
"We believe the company saw strength in the Veritas business, which historically has a strong calendar fourth quarter," he told clients in a recent note.
He rates Symantec shares market perform.
Also on Tuesday, Fiserv Inc. FISV, +4.46% is expect to post a fourth-quarter profit of 56 cents a share, up from 50 cents a share a year ago.
Revenue at the Brookfield, Wis.-based check processor and provider of tech services to the financial industry is projected to nudge up 1.8% to $983.8 million from $966.4 million.
Among other companies reporting results next week, on Monday Israel-based security technology firm Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. CHKP, +0.84% is seen posting a fourth-quarter profit of 35 cents a share on revenue of $158.4 million -- up from 31 cents a share and $143.1 million, respectively.


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Hepatoscopy Sentence Examples
- The theory underlying hepatoscopy therefore consists of these two factors: the belief (I) that the liver is the seat of life, or, to put it more succinctly, what was currently regarded as the soul of the animal; and (2) that the liver of the sacrificial animal, by virtue of its acceptance on the part of the god, took on the same character as the soul of the god to whom it was offered.
- The inspection of the liver for purposes of divination led to the study of the anatomy of the liver, and there are indeed good reasons for believing that hepatoscopy represents the startingpoint for the study of animal anatomy in general.
- Whether the division of the lobus dexter into two divisions - (i) lobus dexter proper and (2) lobus quadratus, as in modern anatomical nomenclature - was also assumed in Babylonian hepatoscopy, is not certain, but the groove separating the right lobe into two sections - the fossa venae umbilicalis - was recognized and distinguished by the designation of "river of the liver."
- The former of these two appendixes plays an especially important part in hepatoscopy, and, according to its shape and peculiarities, furnishes a good or bad omen.
- It is well known that the Romans borrowed their methods of hepatoscopy from the Etruscans, and, apart from the direct evidence for this in Latin writings, we have, in the case of the bronze model of a liver found near Piacenza in 1877, and of Etruscan origin, the unmistakable proof that among the Etruscans the examination of the liver was the basis of animal divination.
- As for the Greeks, it is still an open question whether they perfected their method of hepatoscopy under Etruscan influence or through the Babylonians.
- 4, 10, 15, &c.) to burn the processus pyramidalis of the liver, which played a particularly significant role in hepatoscopy, calls for special mention.
- In modern times hepatoscopy still survives among primitive peoples in Borneo, Burma, Uganda, &c.


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Future of mobile CPUs, part 2: What's ahead for the major players? | Ars Technicaon February 23, 2013 at 12:35 pm
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Future of mobile CPUs, part 2: What's ahead for the major players?
Apple and Samsung face different challenges than Nvidia, Intel, and Qualcomm.
by David Kanter – Feb 22 2013, 11:50am EST
In the first part of our series, we explored the major trends that will influence the mobile system-on-a-chip (SoC ) market over the next five to ten years. This sets the backdrop for looking at the architecture for future SoCs and the specific players within this market, both critical IP players as well as the actual SoC vendors. For the most part, this focuses on mid-range to high-end devices, rather than the lowest-end smartphones and tablets. This means that some SoC vendors have been omitted, for the sake of clarity and brevity.
SoCs today
The vast majority of smartphones today are single- and dual-core SoCs. At the very high-end, there is a smattering of quad-cores. The same is mostly true of tablets, although the larger power budget means that the processors tend to skew towards higher core counts. The CPU cores are clocked at around 1GHz, and the more advanced ones feature out-of-order execution and modest superscalar issue, typically two to three RISC instructions per cycle at peak. Simpler cores for more power-constrained systems tend to be in-order and issue one to two instructions per cycle. This level of complexity is generally on-par with the CPU cores found in the early to mid 1990s.
Realistically, it is hard to see any benefits from quad-cores in mobile devices. The majority of PCs today sell with dual-core CPUs, and that is a reflection of the state of software; multithreading is hard and most applications are single threaded. Software for mobile devices is even more primitive and less amenable to threading. Comparing a quad-core to a dual-core at the same power, the dual-core should be able to reach about 25 percent higher frequencies (power scales roughly with frequency cubed). For the vast majority of workloads, a faster dual-core CPU will have better performance. Despite this fact, there appears to be some marketing value for quad-core SoCs, even if the delivered value is minimal.
One reflection of the divergence of smartphones and tablets is the graphics for these devices. Tablets have higher-performance graphics to drive the larger and higher-resolution displays and to make use of the greater power envelope. The actual GPU cores are usually the same, but with more cores and higher frequency for tablets. Looking at the iPhone 5 and iPad 4, the latter GPU has about 3X the shader throughput measured in FLOP/s (~100 vs. ~30 GFLOP/s). In terms of performance, the iPhone 5 is roughly the equivalent of a very low-end discrete DX10 GPU from 2007, while the iPad 4 resembles a mid-range model.
The other significant blocks in a mobile SoC are the wireless modem, which is often discrete for high-end phones and tablets (i.e., LTE devices), along with dedicated hardware for video encode/decode and image processing for the camera.
Power management ties together all these blocks and is particularly vital, since performance is limited by both the battery life and skin temperature (i.e., how hot the case gets). Simply put, there isn't enough power or cooling for every block to be in a high-performance mode simultaneously. For example, when running a strenuous game, the display and GPU will draw much of the power; the CPU will actually have to reduce frequency and voltage to deliver the best overall performance. This becomes even more complex if there is significant wireless traffic as well.
SoCs of the future
Looking out 5-10 years, Moore's Law means that transistors will be even cheaper. However, battery technology improves slowly and the maximum skin temperature is constant. Consequently, power will be even more of limiting factor in the future than it is today. So techniques that spend transistors (or area) to reduce power will be increasingly attractive.
While change is slow, eventually mobile developers will be able to take advantage of multiple cores. At this point, quad-cores can be more efficient by reducing frequency and voltage, as the PC industry has shown. Most workloads will still be single threaded and need high frequencies, so the SoC must be able to efficiently deliver both aggregate throughput and single-core performance. Eventually, almost all mobile SoCs will move to quad-core to handle the few cases of properly parallelized code.
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Delta: An Option Trader's Best Friend (Part 1)
12/31/2009 12:01 am EST
Focus: OPTIONS
I am not exaggerating when I say that gaining an understanding of delta changed my trading life forever. And I promise that this multi-part series will be one of the most important and influential investing lessons you've ever had.
Even if you don't trade options, you should still read this, because it can significantly reduce your risk in this market. You can learn how to replace your overpriced stock with call options—but you must know which options to buy, or else you might actually increase your risk instead.
Learning about delta and using it to make better trades is not really complex, so don't be intimidated. Just remember the two most important things:
1) If you sell your stock and buy call options to replace it, then buy "in-the-money" call options
2) Only buy one call option for every 100 shares of stock that you own (or would want to own)
In other words, if you have 100 shares of Capital One Financial (COF), and want to close the position at $21.60, you will have $2,160. To establish an option position, you should buy only one call option contract (which represents 100 shares). If you buy the COF January 15 call and pay $8 per contract (an $800 investment), then you should put the remaining $1,360 in a safe, interest-bearing security, such as a money market fund, or Treasuries.
This article series will help you understand why it's important to buy in-the-money call options in place of stock (as opposed to at-the-money or out-of-the-money options).
What Is Delta?
The "delta" of an option measures how much the option changes in price when the underlying security moves one point.
For example, let's say that XYZ stock is trading at $65 per share, and the XOM January 65 call is selling for $5. (NOTE: Because XYZ's stock price is the same as this option's strike price, this option is trading at the money.)
When XYZ rises one point (from $65 to $66), the January 65 call should then sell for $5.50. Thus, the option only increases by 50 cents when the stock rises by one full point. This at-the-money option is said to have a delta of 0.50.
Decoding the Delta
The delta of an option is a number that ranges from 0.00 to 1.00, and the delta of a put option is a number that ranges from -1.00 to 0.00. A call with a delta of 0.70 implies virtually the same thing as a put with a delta of -0.70.
You will notice that when a call option is far out of the money (for example, the XOM January 95 call is 30 points out of the money), it will move only slightly (or not move at all) when the stock rises by one point.
The delta of this far out-of-the-money call is only 0.04. So theoretically, if XOM moved up by one point, the price of the $95 calls should advance by four cents.
Now, that might seem like a lot in terms of the percentage gain since the theoretical value of this far out-of-the-money option is about 27 cents. (A four-cent gain would be a 15% gain on a 27-cent call option). But you have to consider the fact that the spread between the bid and ask price can be much larger than the four-cent gain in the option (so you can still end up with a losing position).
The rule of thumb here is the higher the delta is, the more likely it is that the option ends up profitable.
Out-of-the-money options have the lowest deltas, while in-the-money options have the highest deltas. So you'd want to avoid the out-of-the-money option that has the delta of 0.04 like the plague!
On the other hand, if the stock is trading far above the call option's strike price; or, said differently, the option is "deep in the money" (i.e., the XYZ January 45 call, which is 20 points in the money with the stock trading at $65), then the call option would likely have a delta of 0.96.
Thus, when the stock moves up one full point, the option will likely move up 96 cents. (Almost point for point, AKA trading "at parity" with the stock.)
If a call option moved up one full point due to the underlying stock moving up one full point, then the option has a delta of 1.00, and so on.
A put option would work the same way, whereas if XOM moved down one point, a put option that has a delta of -0.70 would move up by 70 cents.|pagebreak|
Two Important Notes:
1) An Option's Delta Changes as the Price of the Stock Changes
This is because the deeper in the money that an option becomes (due to the price movement of the underlying stock), the higher the delta becomes. In other words, in the ExxonMobil example, when XOM moves up five points from $65 to $70, the delta of the January 65 call would move up from 0.50 to 0.65.
Theoretically, at that point (with XOM at $70), if the stock moved up one point (from $70 to $71), then the call (which now has a delta of 0.65) would increase by 65 cents.
So don't mistakenly think that if a call option has a delta of 0.50, that the call option would only move up by five points if the stock moves up by ten. That is incorrect because, again, the call option's delta increases as the option moves further above its strike price.
The more the stock advances, the more sensitive the option's price will be to each one-point movement of the stock. In fact, if ExxonMobil traded up ten points (from $65 to $75), the January 65 call—which currently has a delta of .50—would actually advance by approximately $7 (from $5 to $12).
By the time the stock is trading at $75, the delta would move up to about 0.78.
2) An Option's Price (and the Option's Delta) Can Be Affected by Other Factors
In the first part of this series, we are only discussing delta. But the two major factors that impact an option's price and delta are time decay and a change in volatility of the underlying stock, exchange traded fund, index, etc.
Replacing Stock with Options Versus Gambling with Options
The reason that so many people shy away from options trading and think that options are so risky is because the option novice tends to be attracted to the lower-priced options, which are the options that are the most difficult to profit from.
This is similar to the situation when people say that they would rather buy a stock that trades at $2 instead of a stock that trades at $20. They make the mistake of ignoring the probability of the stock trading higher. This is a common mistake made by inexperienced investors, and it is one of the absolute worst ways to approach investing.
The two reasons investors mistakenly think cheap options are better are:
1) If the investor is successful, the win will be greater, percentage wise, and…
2) If the investor is wrong, then he or she will have only lost the small amount invested
But clearly, you can't argue both. You can't say the percentage gain is larger and then make the argument for the loss that the absolute number is "all you would lose."
Sure, the percentage gain might be higher if everything works out. But when the odds of success are low, you wouldn't feel comfortable putting any real money behind the investment.
Personally, I don't care if it's $5 or $500,000. No matter how much money you are putting at risk, the odds of success should be good. If the odds favor a loss, why invest even $1?
We must look at our investment portfolio as a business, and not a lottery ticket.|pagebreak|
Is Purchasing Out-of-the-Money Options Ever a Good Trade?
More specifically, not if you're purchasing those options by themselves. However, if you buy them as a hedge, or as part of a multi-leg option position, that's a different story.
But we are talking about stock replacement here, which just involves buying an option instead of a stock. I'm going to show you how to take less risk than the traditional stockholder.
First, you should understand that an out-of-the-money call option is an option that has a higher strike price than the current price of the stock. (With put options, it's the opposite. With puts, the out-of-the-money options are those with a strike price that is lower than the stock price. But we'll stick with call options in our examples.)
Below, you can see eight call options listed for Exxon Mobil (XOM) back in July of this year. The strike prices are circled in red. The stock is trading at $65.70. The call options that are highlighted in yellow are the out-of-the-money options. You can also see these are the cheaper options, and they get cheaper with higher strike prices.
The option that is the least likely to advance is the January 85 call (at the bottom), and the option that is the most likely to advance is the January 50 call (which is 15.7 points in the money).
Many option traders lose money trading out-of-the-money options because they are overly confident in their prediction.
For example, they may think a stock will trade from $65 to $80 in a given period of time. But most of the time, markets and stocks trade plus or minus one standard deviation from the mean.
That is why time decay tends to be a factor that new, out-of-the-money option traders learn about very quickly (and painfully).
An out-of-the-money option's delta will trend toward zero as time passes. And remember, the lower the delta is, the less the price of the option will be impacted by the movement in the stock.
Therefore, the underlying stock can trade much higher over time, but the call option with a very low delta could still trade lower, even to zero, even though the stock traded higher.
I'm sure many of the people reading this have bought an out-of-the-money call option because they thought the stock was going to advance, and they were right because the stock advanced, but were disappointed because the call options traded lower anyway. That's because they bought the wrong call option. At the same time, other call options traded higher with the stock.|pagebreak|
Trading with a Low Delta
Suppose XOM is trading at $80, and a trader is looking to buy call options because he is looking for a move of one point from $80 to $81.
If the trader were to buy the October 85 call (which is five points out of the money), the trader would pay $2.35 for the call option.
This call option has a delta of 0.37. That means that if XOM traded from $80 to 81, (all other factors being equal, such as zero time decay, we assume that the stock moved the very same day) you could assume that the October 85 call options would move approximately 37 cents higher.
The Argument for Buying Low-Delta Options
If you bought the option at $2.35 and sold it 37 cents higher (within a day or two) at $2.72, then you would realize a fast 15.74% return on our money. Not bad.
If you have $7,050, you could buy 30 call options (representing 3,000 shares) and you would make $1,110 within a day or two.
If you got lucky, and you underestimated XOM's upside move, and it happened to trade to $95 (instead of $81), then you would make a killing (more than $30,000 on your $7,050 investment)!
However, before you start mentally spending those profits…stop!
I can see the greed seeping out of your ears right now! A wise man once told me that the traders who make huge profits like that are the same ones who take a lot of big losses.
Remember, the low-delta options are the out-of-the-money options, and it's very likely that they don't end up profitable.
The Argument Against Buying Low-Delta Options
I usually don't like to buy an option with a low delta unless I am covering (hedging) myself against a significant stock movement/loss. (Such is the case when using a protective put.)
There are two main reasons why, and both reasons spell a higher risk with lower delta. The first is one that most people understand, while the second is what many people overlook.
1) The Lower the Delta, the More Extrinsic Value Your Option Contract Consists of
Extrinsic value (AKA time value) is what is left over after calculating intrinsic value. Extrinsic value is affected by time decay.
Intrinsic value is the amount by which your option is in the money. Intrinsic value is not affected by time decay.
If I own a Schering-Plough (SGP) January 20 call with the stock trading at $22.50, then my call option is $2.50 in the money.
If that SGP January 20 call is trading at $3, then $2.50 of that $3 is intrinsic value, and the remaining 50 cents is extrinsic value and is exposed to time decay. (Keep in mind that these are not recommendations. They are examples to illustrate the power of delta.)|pagebreak|
Remember: The extrinsic value (or time value) portion of an option is at the mercy of the clock. Time decay has zero effect on the intrinsic value portion of my options premium. That's why we like to trade in the money options that have minimal extrinsic value.
Notice in the table above that the percentage of the value of the option contract—that is, extrinsic value—increases as the delta decreases. So, the lower the delta, the more extrinsic value exists. And that extrinsic value is at the mercy of time decay.
For example, the extrinsic value of the January 17.50 call (with the highest delta of 0.97) only accounts for 5.7% of the entire value of the option. This means that only 5.7% of the value can be lost due to time passing. Any other loss in the option would have to do with the actual stock moving lower.
Twenty percent of the January 20 call is extrinsic value and is therefore at the mercy of time decay. The other two options have 100% extrinsic value.
Now, just about every options trader understands that time decay occurs as time passes, and most are familiar with what a time decay curve looks like.
The deterioration of the extrinsic value portion of the call option's value accelerates, especially in the last 90 days before expiration.
By purchasing an option that has a high delta, I can significantly reduce the effect that time decay has on my option's value (or premium).
2) Starting with a High Delta Reduces Your Loss When the Stock Moves in the Wrong Direction
This is what an alarming number of option traders either don't understand, or only have a slight understanding of.
Remember how I said that the delta of a stock option changes as the stock fluctuates? For example, in the table above, you see that the delta of the January 20 call (which is 2.5 points in the money) is 0.84. It has such a high delta because it is 2.5 points in the money.
But if SGP traded down to $21, the January 20 call would only be one point in the money. Thus, the delta would change from 0.84 to 0.69.
This is a good thing if you are the owner of that call option—it means that as SGP stock trades lower, the call option actually loses less in value (dollar wise) than the stock!
In other words, you stand to lose a lot less by owning the call option. This is especially true when you are talking about an option that has an expiration day farther out than 90 days. (Remember, 90 days before expiration is when the extrinsic value decay tends to speed up.)
NOTE: When you buy an option strictly for the upside (and you aren't using it for hedging purposes), you should always give yourself extra time for it to work. Try to buy it with an expiration month that is at least 90 days after the time that you wish to sell it.
Think about that for a second.
This is the part that many newer option traders tend to overlook, and it's one of the most important considerations when using beginner, intermediate, or advanced option strategies.
Buy More Delta, Lose Less if the Trade Goes South
When you buy options with a high delta (which are deep in the money) and the stock trades lower, your option loses less value than the stock does!
So, you put up less capital (and therefore, ultimately risk less capital) and the call option holder will actually lose less value when the stock trades down a few points. If SGP traded from $22.50 down three points to $19.50, the January 20 call is likely to lose only about $2.30 in value.
So, why even bother trading stock? What if the stock drops by ten points? You'd only lose a maximum of $3 that you committed to the option as opposed to the $10 that the stockholders lost!
There's more to this, and it gets even better. Part two tomorrow is where you'll learn how to turn your deltas into dollars!
By Chris Rowe, chief investment officer, Tycoon Publishing's The Trend Rider.
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leaf spot
noun Plant Pathology.
a limited, often circular, discolored, diseased area on a leaf, usually including a central region of necrosis.
any disease so characterized.
Origin of leaf spot
First recorded in 1900–05
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Mr. Durand: What is the best spray for leaf-spot and rust in strawberries?
Black walnuts suffer from leaf-spot, blight, or canker, especially in seasons when the trees have been weakened by drought.
Mosaic disease, Frog-eye or Leaf-spot are probably bacterial diseases.Tobacco Leaves
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Thus we have "shot-hole fungus," "leaf-spot" and "leaf-blight" as effects of these diseases.The Cherries of New York
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Carnations are subject to several diseases, the worst being the "rust" (Uromyces Caryophilinus), "leaf-spot" and maggot.
leaf spot
any of various plant diseases, usually caused by fungi: characterized by dark lesions on the leaves
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leaf spot
Any of various plant diseases resulting in well-defined necrotic areas on the leaves.
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On June 24, 2010, an EF-1 tornado struck the Barnum Museum. Colossal winds slammed into the historic structure compromising structural integrity of the building, contaminating the environmental and mechanical systems, shattering windows, and exposing collections to a vicious burst of glass, moisture, and debris. Hurricane Irene and Superstorm Sandy followed, causing additional damage in 2011 and 2012. The Museum has since been engaged in a full-scale conservation effort to recover and preserve thousands of artifacts, and to stabilize and restore the building to its original, majestic state.
Today, operations and public programming have been curtailed to manage the ongoing disaster mitigation and recovery. After an initial cleanup and relocation of the artifacts (with support from many colleagues in the Connecticut cultural community), hundreds of objects have been treated for damage. Once the collection was finally safe and documented, building assessment and stabilization began. To date, steel girders and columns have been installed to prevent further deflection, and reconstruction of the east wall has been accomplished. The massive, iconic Museum dome is currently undergoing stabilization.
Recovery Progress
The Barnum Museum has made incredible strides in its recovery, including:
- Conducting a full qualitative and quantitative impact study and museum assessment in 2013, with pre-concept work on the Museum's re-envisioning completed the following year
- Saving and relocation over 25,000 artifacts
- Temporarily stabilizing the historic dome
- Completing the condition assessment and forensic reports on the historic building
- Completing Phase I Stabilization construction work in 2015
- Undergoing Phase II Restoration construction work in 2017
- Securing critical operational functions
The Museum has leveraged community support amounting to more than $968,000 in direct investment in historic restoration activity with the help of State of Connecticut grant funding, including the CT Commission on Culture and Tourism, the CT Trust for Historic Preservation, Connecticut Humanities Council, and the City of Bridgeport.
The Barnum Museum has undertaken a massive restoration and re-envisioning effort to restore the Museum back to full operational capacity. It is currently developing plans to bring to life the story of P.T. Barnum and his impact on Connecticut and American history, making thousands of artifacts in the collections accessible to the public and broadening educational programming for audiences of all ages.


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A professors shocking double-life has been exposed after information got around that the dad-of-three has been a porn star for 10 years while teaching as a lecturer in a university.
Professor Nicholas Goddard
The professor teaching his student at the university
A university professor aged 61 is leading a double life as a porn star. The shock revelation also revealed that the divorced dad-of-three Nicholas Goddard has taught chemical engineering for almost 25 years.The professor has been starring as Old Nick in dozens of X-rated flicks for close to 10 years now without anyone knowing.According to the TheSun UK, The Oxford-educated prof wears just a gold watch to romp with girls more than 40 years his junior.The report went further to reveal that videos, with titles such as Teen Monique F**** Old Nick, he acted in have racked up over million hits on the world's biggest adult site, PornHub.One viewer said: "Fair play. I would not have lasted as long." Another added: "Goddamn... he must be rich."Many of his co-stars are blonde Europeans. He drives a £35,000 Audi A6 and lives in a new-build terraced home in an area popular with his University of Manchester students.A source said: "He's a very pleasant and quite nerdy scientist, at the top of his game in the professional world. But no one knew he was hooking up with scores of young women on weekends."It's not exactly a smart move to be teaching 18-year-olds by day and having sex with others at night."Some students will think he's a hero and has the dream hobby, but the university will be furious."Prof Goddard is a leading scholar who has published scores of scientific papers over his 35-year career and is lead tutor on three courses. University videos also feature him lecturing to students.When his secret was reported to The Sun, he said: "There is such hypocrisy with people watching porn then complaining about those who act in it."Why would students and staff be happy to watch it, but unhappy when they see who stars in them? Especially as I know that on evenings and weekends, 75 per cent of web traffic on the university's server is accessing porn."He said he got into the films to relieve the stress of his divorce. His family are unaware of the sideline.Prof Goddard said: "I don't get paid much, mainly travel expenses. Sometimes you do things that you regret later while under stress. But I've given it up since January, it's too much for me now. What I do in my private life is my business not the university's. I haven't told anyone there."I don't know what students or their parents would think but I for one certainly wouldn't care if my children were being taught by a porn star."The university last night said it is investigating.


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I was using v.10.5 and tried to restore to a backup image and got a error message but the thing is I checked the image right after I made it and it told me everything was fine. So I reinstalled windows 10 and tried again and this time it tells me not enough unallocated space on target disk even though I have 100 gb of unallocated space available. What a pain in the butt I need this image backup because I don't want to have to reinstall all my programs all over again. I thought everything was fine with my backup images and now this crap to put up with. I just don't know how to get this image to work.
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We were determined not to be left behind this time!
Heading down south past the windmills.
Then guess where we landed up? This is a clue.
And another clue.
Daisy! The land of moles-on-the-beach, fish biltong and swims.
While they unpacked we hotfooted it up the road to suss it out. Me looking left and the Lad right. Tails on full alert for francolins. Such a team.
Then a walk on the beach and some kelp chases,
some beachcombing too - these are sea beans from far far away.
The Alph and Foodlady were happy to see this sign telling fishermen not to leave sharks and fish on the beach to die. But I love eating fish biltong - especially pajama sharks - so I wasn't so sure I fully approved.
Our neighbour came to say hello. He is looking a bit arthritic poor old chap.
The next day we went for a walk up our usual path, past the ugly houses which were made beautiful by this scene. Rock Kestrels.
Then it started to rain, so we had a last mole hunt,
then hightailed it home again.
The birds don't seem to mind the rain. A White-fronted Plover.
Then later on the sun came out and we set out once again through the damp, honey-scented Blombos (Metalasia muricata),
rain-spattered suteras (Sutera hispida),
lots of Rooi Viooltjies (Lachenalia bulbifera),
and large bushes of the Camphor-scented Pelargonium (Pelargonium betulinum).
We found a lovely spot in the fynbos for tea and a rest.
The Food Lady found lots of these strange Chascanum cernuum plants (from the Verbena family) in flower,
some flowering Maagpynbossies (Morella quercifolia) - these are the male flowers which turn into catkins and release clouds of pollen -
and some rather rain-washed froetangs (Romulea rosea).
We eventually emerged from the bushes (mostly Port Jacksons) above the wreck of the Meisho Maru,
and made our way down through the tangles
to our cottage and some R&R.
More R&R in the morning,
and a rather gentler walk above Suiderstrand
with lots of opportunities to hunt for fairies and Hairy-footed Gerbils,
and wade in the fish traps,
and scavenge along the high tide line. Good smells drew us both to this rather prickly dead thing. The Food Lady said the Porcupine word which made Laddie all excited (since his porcupine hunt in the Greenbelt with Rupert and Paddington he has been into porcupines) but it didn't smell like a porcupine to me - more like a delicious stinky fish.
Good rolling opportunities too.
Lots of birds to distract the humans while we scavenged and rolled. These are Swift Terns.
The Alph did a few house repairs,
while the Food Lady, Lad and me contemplated the view and kept a look out for passing dogs.
Not a bad way to spend the weekend even if we are not allowed to go too deep into the bushes in search of who-knows-what-we might come upon ...


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Readers that know someone or have gone through a divorce themselves know that couples may sometimes be better off going their own ways when a marriage is no longer working. To some extent, lawmakers may also share that opinion, as no-fault divorce is now available in all 50 states.
Yet should minor children change the ease with which couples can file for divorce? In many jurisdictions, a spouse is not required to provide highly fact-specific details in support of the filing. In Massachusetts, a filer needs only cite an irretrievable breakdown of the marriage to initiate a no-fault divorce; consent from the other spouse is not required.
Critics of no-fault divorce, however, fear that such a speedy option might not be advisable in marriages with children. In fact, lawmakers in several states have already proposed modifications to their no-fault divorce laws. In Utah, counseling is made available to divorcing couples who have minor children, as well as mandatory classes about positive co-parenting skills and the divorce process.
A proposal from a lawmaker in Kansas would remove incompatibility from the state's list of permissible grounds for a no-fault divorce, essentially requiring more specific details in support of a divorce filing. Even in Massachusetts, a hearing in a no-fault divorce proceeding normally occurs no sooner than six months after the initial filing.
One thing is clear: When minor children are involved, extra issues will arise in the divorce proceeding. When negotiating matters of child custody, child or spousal support and visitation, an attorney can provide invaluable advocacy.
Source: Newsmax, "States Moving to Make Divorce Tougher to Get," Jennifer G. Hickey, May 2, 2014


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Nutrition and Mental Health
Is There A Link Between Nutrition and Mental Health? Mental health and illnesses are very difficult to understand. What works for one person, may not work for another. Lately, there has been a push to identify and treat mental illnesses and issues. One of these advancements is identifying a link … Read More»


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About The Product
Here you will find what kind of minerals Waters Brewer uses to make these simple water treatment solutions.
What's in water in relation to Brewing:
- Calcium is one of the main determinants of water hardness, the other determinant is Mg.
- Ca has good buffering qualities, enabling functions such as pH stabilization.
- Together with vitamin D, calcium provides tooth and bone growth.
- Hard water may assist in the decrease of heart conditions.
- Mg is know to help increase energy and endurance.
- It has been know to treat a plethora of diseases some including lyme disease, cystic fibrosis, kidney stones, and fight lung complications
- Yeast health is greatly dependent on magnesium.
- At medium to low levels magnesium can give a sour bitter taste to beer.
- Has a sour/salty taste that accentuates malty flavors in beer.
- Reaching above 200ppm can give your beer a more salty taste.
- Sodium is partially responsible for nerve function, muscle contractions, and fluid regulation.
Products used in Waters Brewer water treatments:
Epsom Salt:
- Chemical Formula: MgSO4 (Magnesium Sulfate)
- Epsom Salt is a naturally occurring mineral that was originally used for a melody of ailments.
- MgSO4 is a cation that imparts harsh bitterness when in access which is a big factor in yeast nutrition and helps accentuate beer flavor.
- Promotes a fuller, dry flavor in beer.
- Helps with yeast nutrition.
- AKA Calcium Sulfate (CaSO4 (H20))
- Stabilizes alpha amylase.
- Decreases extraction of tannins
- Improved hot break.
- Helps neutralize lecithin and peptone, which are yeast toxins.
- Can help haze and extraction of bittering components of hops.
- Helps yeast metabolize oxygen.
Calcium Chloride:
- Chemical formula: CaCl2 (H2o)
- CaCl2 is derived from limestone.
- Used in beer for correcting mineral deficiencies that have an effect on flavor, yeast function, and chemical reactions during the brewing process.
- Extracts the hops bittering components.
- The lack of calcium in your brewing water can cause gushing and haze.
- Helps decrease mash pH and wort color.
Baking Soda:
- AKA Sodium Bicarbonate (NaCO3)
- Goes hand and hand with accenting beer flavors in low concentration
- Helps promote more rounded malt flavor
- Increases pH stability
- Relieves excessive tannins


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Well…it's happened yet again folks! God used Teddy, my dog, to teach me a lesson.
As most of you know from some of my past blogs, Teddy's behavior leaves somewhat to be desired at times. …As does mine, I might add. I believe this is why God speaks to me through Ted's behavior; I am able to relate because I act the same way.
See…I have these flip-flops that I dearly love. They were made especially for me with chunks of turquoise beaded onto the straps. I love turquoise more than diamonds!
Anyway, last night while watching TV, I kicked them off so I could put my feet up on the couch. Teddy was under the couch, sitting by my feet. Though my feet disappeared from his sight, my shoes remained. He always wants to be close to me, and since my feet were gone, he grabbed one of my flip-flops unbeknownst to me.
I didn't realize until I turned off the TV to go to bed, that one of the flip-flops was missing. I looked under the couch, and, sure enough! There it was…minus most of the bead work. Well, needless to say, I wasn't happy! Teddy got a good scolding, and was made to sleep in his dog bed instead of on my bed next to me.
At about 4 a.m., God awakened me and asked me 'why?' I was so angry with Teddy. I explained that Teddy had destroyed my shoes…something that was created especially for me….
Then it happened. I heard God say, "You…mankind, destroys MY creation everyday! And I created ALL things for man to enjoy. However, babies are aborted, lives are destroyed by alcohol and drugs, bodies ravaged by lust and sex outside of marriage, minds fall into decay from pornography and doctrines that are not of ME…. But when you come to ME, MY arms are always open wide, waiting to receive you and forgive you. I don't hold you at arms-length, or make you wait until my anger or disappointment has subsided; I welcome you, I wait for you to come to Me! …I forgive, and forget the wrongs you have done to Me and My creation."
Well, after that poignant reminder, I did not cast Teddy away when he jumped on the bed to be close to me the rest of the night. There was nothing else I could do as I reflected on my own disobedience to my Master. It was some time before I fell asleep. I laid there and marveled at the goodness and graciousness of God and the mercy He bestows upon me everyday!


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|This is a one pound tube. Markers on the back allow for east division into 1/8 pound portions
Freshpet Vital
Lamb & Ocean Whitefish Recipe
Dog Food Advisor rating: ★★★★★
Ingredients: Lamb, ocean whitefish, lamb liver, spinach, cranberries, blueberries, carrageenan, calcium sulfate, dicalcium phosphate, potassium chloride, iron proteinate, choline chloride, zinc proteinate, tricalcium phosphate, vitamin E supplement, manganese proteinate, copper proteinate, vitamin B12 supplement, niacin, calcium pantothenate, biotin, riboflavin, thiamine mononitrate, vitamin D3 supplement, calcium iodate, pyridoxine hydrochloride, folic acid, sodium selenite, natural flavors, sunflower oil, inulin, broccoli and pomegranate
|What's inside the tube
Nutrition Facts:
Crude Protein: minimum of 9.0%
Crude Fat: minimum of 8.0%
Crude Fiber: maximum of 0.5%
Moisture: maximum of 77.0%
For the most part, the rolled/tube foods that I have seen have not excited me. The vast majority of them are full of unsavory ingredients, one of the worst offending being the Natural Balance rolls with sugar as the third ingredient. However, when I took a peek at the Vital ingredients I was pleasantly surprised. There are no filler ingredients, and it's heavy on the meat. What vegetable ingredients are included are ones rich in nutrients. This is why I picked up a roll to try out. The texture of the roll is not unlike bologna and it has a meaty smell. Though fish is the second ingredient, it doesn't overtly smell like fish. It's a nice, consistent sort of texture that is easily sliced into small portions that mostly keep their shape when handled. I used this food as a treat, and it is feasibly to use small portions as training treats as one might use hotdog. However, when the food begins to warm up it does soften.
Ebon really liked this food, both in larger and smaller chunks. I fed it to him cold, which definitely didn't dissuade his appetite one bit. I would consider giving this to him relatively frequently if it weren't for the price. A one pound tube is seven dollars. The recommended daily amount if I were to feed nothing but this food to Ebon is over a pound. This is, as I mentioned, completely impractical and also kind of insane (yearly feeding costs would be over three thousand dollars). Feeding a smaller dog could work, but I would not suggest it for an eighty-plus pound dog unless you have a lot of money to burn. Despite this, it is something I may possibly buy every once in a while as a treat.
|This is a trial size box of four individually wrapped, one ounce patties shaped like hearts
Beef Recipe
Dog Food Advisor rating: not listed
Ingredients: Beef, Beef Heart, Beef Liver, Ground Beef Bone, Broccoli, Carrots, Beef Kidney, Romaine Lettuce, Apples, Ground Flaxseed, Salmon Oil, Apple Cider Vinegar, Blueberry, Cranberry, Inulin, Dried Kelp, Potassium Chloride, Sodium Chloride, Ginger, Parsley, Garlic, Zinc Proteinate, Iron Proteinate, Vitamin E Supplement, Copper Proteinate, Manganese Proteinate, Mixed Tocopherols (as preservative), Vitamin D Supplement.
|One patty, fresh out of the freezer
Nutrition Facts:
Crude Protein: minimum of 12.0%
Crude Fat: minimum of 10.0%
Crude Fiber: maximum of 2.0%
Moisture: maximum of 72.0%
I was really surprised to find a raw food for sale at Petsmart, since raw foods are usually only found in boutiques. I've tried out some of the Stewart brand's treats before, but this was the first time I became aware of them selling anything beyond that. One nice thing about buying this food is that, since it's frozen, there isn't as much concern about it going bad. It defrosts rather quickly and, even though it's a bit grey when frozen, it pinks up as it defrosts. The patties are small, which makes portioning nice for treat-type feeding for a dog Ebon's size.
When you start to think about feeding this as a regular food, however, things can start to get a bit silly. Each patty is thirty-four calories, and the recommended feeding guidelines have a dog Ebon's size eating somewhere around twenty patties each day. However, calculating out the required amount based on Ebon's required caloric intake (between 1600 and 1700 calories), he would really need fourty-nine patties. Considering that the largest bags I would be able to get my hands on are sixty ounces, and the cheapest recipe, chicken, is normally eighteen dollars...it's a bit much (yearly feeding costs would be over five thousand dollars). This is another food that's really only practical for feeding to smaller dogs. In fact, if you did want to feed a small dog raw, this could be a nice option as raw feeding can be a bit difficult for those smaller dogs, especially if their teeth aren't very good.
Ebon did quite like the patties, even when I forgot to defrost one of them. Even though he was quite content to eat them, I prefer things that are more easily portioned out if I intend to feed it as a treat. One ounce is a bit large for something like training, as it requires a lot of chewing. Trying to break a patty down smaller is hard when it's frozen and frustrating when it's defrosted since it's basically just ground meat. I might buy another trial box for a special occasion, but other than that I don't really see myself bringing more home.


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Three of four Fauche teams made it to the semi-finals.
The older girls came in third.
The older guys and Anna's team [10-15 year olds] made it all the way.
They won all their games.
The ride home was uneventful.
Now the players will continue to play and improve together during the summer in local teams that can contain players from other school who live in our area.
So not a school team but a 'club' team.
Red ribbons first place.
Blue ribbons second place.
One of Anna's friend's metals is for basketball not volleyball.
Cory and coaches also received a metal.
Cory's I'm thinking, for supporting the team and helping to provide them with drinking water.
A picture of the metal will be coming...I took one but it was accidentally deleted off the camera.