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Ocean Beach, the five mile long stretch of shoreline south of the Cliff House, has been a destination for San Franciscans and visitors since the 1850s. Ocean Beach became even more popular with the advent of public transportation and new roads provided an easy way from downtown over the vast sand dunes that once covered the Richmond and Sunset districts.
The Great Highway, now a standard four-lane city street, runs the length of Ocean Beach. Over the years, various establishments lined the Great Highway, providing food, entertainment, lodging, and public safety for visitors to Ocean Beach. Many of these famous enterprises, including Chutes at the Beach, Playland at the Beach, the Seal Rock House, Ocean Beach Pavilion, Cycler's Rest, and Topsy's Roost, were removed and replaced by large residential complexes.
Although the built landscape has changed over the years, Ocean Beach still offers the same surfing, swimming, bicycling, and spectacular ocean views that have attracted visitors for nearly two centuries.
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Using Excel CUBE Functions with PowerPivot - PowerPivotPro. Arriving Here from a Search Engine or via Excel Help? This article below by Dick Moffat, as well as the one by Dany Hoter, is an excellent, detailed example of how to use cube functions with *any* OLAP data source, and NOT just PowerPivot. Cube functions work the same with PowerPivot as they do with other OLAP sources like Analysis Services. I highly recommend reading both for examples and ideas.
But if you want to use cube functions with just plain tables of regular data, you can do that with Excel 2010! And now, on to Dick's excellent article… Using Excel Cube Functions with PowerPivotBy Dick Moffat Personal Logic Associates Inc. Today I am going to give you a quick and dirty example of what I think is one of the key features of PowerPivot that will give it a much broader initial and on-going impact for experienced power spreadsheet developers. Excel CUBE Functions A few weeks ago my friend Dany Hoter wrote a piece here about the use of the CUBE functions in Excel with PowerPivot data. Five Must Knows About Index Options. In the options trading world, there are many, many products that can be traded. There are options on individual equities, equity indexes, currencies, commodities, bonds and more. Equity options are very popular — for good reason — but the focus of this article is on basics that all traders must know when trading index options.
Some of the most popular index options are the S&P 500 Index Options (CBOE:SPX), CBOE Volatility Index (CBOE:VIX), Russell 2000 Index Options, the Nasdaq-100 Index (NASDAQ:NDX) and the S&P 100 Index Options (CBOE:OEX). Here five things you must understand if you want to successfully trade index options: #1: Options of the large, active indexes trade under what's called the European style. Failure to understand the differences, can, and almost certainly will, result in a monetary loss at some point in the future. The major differences are that European options: #2: Index options offer a diversified portfolio of stocks to trade. This is a trap for the unwary investor. Consistent income trading options: Comparing widths of SPX ICs.
In our quest to understand trading options for income, we often consider further OTM (out of the money) ICs (iron condors) in the SPX. Would moving the short strikes further OTM to improve POP (probability of profit), while increasing the width of the spreads, improve our P&L? This article attempts to answer that question. A vertical spread is comprised of two options within the same option chain (Weekly or Monthly) which are bought and sold concurrently.
To form a credit spread (which brings money into your account), you sell one option with a strike that is closer to ATM while buying an option with a strike that is further OTM. To determine if a further OTM short IC is a viable strategy when the width of each spread is increased, Tasty Trade recently ran a test on the SPX over a 5-year period. To put this in terms of SD (standard deviation), a 60% POP is approximately 0.77 SD; a 80% POP is 1.15 SD. Consistent income trading options: Theta efficiency. In our quest to understand trading options for income, we often consider improving the efficient use of capital. While ROC (return on capital) is a common metric, another metric being discussed is Theta Efficiency. Theta efficiency is defined as: Theta / Buying Power Reduction (or margin requirement). It is expressed as a percentage. Employing theta efficiency with the SPX, we can compare the results for Weekly short Puts vs.
Weekly bull Put spreads, and Monthly short Puts vs. Weekly bull Put spreads. We have focused on these two comparisons to determine the validity of statements made by others that the Monthly short Put, with close to 45 DTE (days till expiration), is the ideal approach for the SPX. We performed two tests using the SPX. For the Monthly vs. The results: when comparing theta efficiency, we found the bull Put spread was more efficient by a factor of two (at 2 SD) to four (at 1 SD). Articles on Options and Markets. In Part 1, we will cover the Option Contract, Assignment and Exercise, and American and European style options.
In Part 2 we will discuss the components that comprise an option's price and the Greeks. In Part 3 we will be discussing Intrinsic and Extrinsic value: two components that comprise and option's overall value. In Part 4 we will be discussing the important topic of Volatility; specifically the differences between Historical and Implied volatilities. I had a recent discussion with another trader who expressed his surprise over the market reaction (the S&P500) to the announcement of tapering on December 18th. With a strong positive move. In this article, we will be looking at how you can trade the volatility expansion prior to the announcement and the expected collapse of volatility after the announcement; typically described as a binary event. Debit and Credit spreads are called Vertical Spreads.
Complex strategies when trading options. in excess of 90%. Called POT (probability of touch). Credit spread. James Bittman - Trading Options. 4 Must Know Options Expiration Day Traps To Avoid | Option Alpha. It's options expiration day and time to decide what to do with your current positions right? If you sell options, it's probably an anticipated event. When you buy options, it's something usually something to dread. Either way, there are things you must know, and steps you should take, to avoid any unpleasant surprises on the third Friday of each month. Here are our Top 4 MUST-KNOW traps to avoid during this volatile time and some pointers for handling any crazy positions… #1 Don't Exercise Your Long Option You really shouldn't consider exercising options at expiration – it's just not worth it unless you are a big "fan" of the stock and company. Unless you bought a call or put so that you could take a longer term position in the stock you are generally better off closing the option trade than purchasing the shares.
In addition, exercising options come with additional broker commission fees that you don't want or need to pay. #2 European Options Are Different (Watch Out) pTheta Naked Options Trend Following System Overview and Trade Analysis - Theta Trend. Overview: The video below is intended to help explain the pTheta system. the pTheta system is a longer term short options trend following system that sells naked options in the direction of the trend. Trade Analysis: In the video I take a look at a potential trade in the Russell 2000 ($IWM). I currently have an open $IWM trade and I'm not planning to take the trade, but the risk/reward is favorable.
Backtesting suggests the trades have a greater than 50% probability of success so the 1:1 risk/reward for the sample trade creates a positive expectancy. Risk graph of the $IWM naked put trade evaluated in the video below. The Video: I apologize if I sounded a little distracted during the video. A Plan For Trading In The Bathroom With A Day Job - Theta Trend. Last week I mentioned that I recently started a full time job. Let me assure that working full time is far from my favorite thing in the world, but, at least for now, it's what I need to do. While I was out on one of my 4 a.m. caffeine loaded, cold, dark jogs, I realized that it also presented an opportunity. Specifically, working a demanding day job (like being a Tax Accountant during Tax Season) gives you the (dis)ability to not watch the market. It's extremely frustrating when trades go against you and you want to make an adjustment but you can't because you're at work, traveling, or whatever. The ability to react is critical in trading.
How can you trade without looking at the markets? I sure we all agree that working and not having access to the market is less than ideal, but what if you could structure your day around your trading? Essentially what we'd be doing is looking for a way to trade in a "hands off" way. Is there any hope for people who can't watch the markets? What's next? Option Pricing Calculators by Peter Hoadley. Calculate Probability of Profit | Monte Carlo Simulation | Black Scholes Option Model.
Probability of Profit We use a Monte Carlo method to determine probability. This involves modeling price using a lognormal distribution and then determining option price, at that modeled stock price, using a Black-Scholes option model. Here is the formula for modeling lognormal price distribution. Price(t+1) = Price(t)*exp(r-v²/2+v*d) where r = risk free interest rate v = volatility d = random deviate Following are the steps to determine probability: Your test criteria could be a percent profit, retained credit, or whatever.
This is the basic procedure we use each night to evaluate positions for tomorrow. Our calculations are a little more complex because we also model change in volatility. If you have tried out the Monte Carlo Simulation Probability Calculator, you have seen this basic procedure in action. Option Pricing - Invest Excel. Calculate Historical Volatility in Excel. This spreadsheet calculates the historical volatility of a stock. It uses returns data automatically downloaded from Yahoo. Historical volatility is the standard deviation of an asset's historical returns. The standard deviation is calculated over a moving time window. The historical volatility of a stock is distinct from implied volatility of an option.
The former represents past movements in price. By comparing the historical volatility of the underlying to the implied volatility of the option, investors can judge if the option is cheap or expensive. How to Calculate Historical Volatility Calculate the natural log of the current stock price to yesterday's stock price. Calculate Historical Volatility in Excel The spreadsheet automates the steps described above, and is simple to use. The end date is set to NOW() by default, which gives the current date. After clicking the button, the spreadsheet downloads returns data from Yahoo using VBA. Black Scholes Option Calculator. Download the zipped version Option Trading Workbook (63 KB) Download the Excel file Option Trading Workbook.xls (314 KB) The above option pricing spreadsheet will allow you to price European call and put options. You can also enter up to ten different option/stock leg combinations to view the expected payoff at expiration.
If you have trouble with the formulas, check out the support page. Alternatively, you can visit the online version of these calculations at Option-Price.com Just to note that much of what I have learnt that made this spreadsheet possible was taken from the highly acclaimed book on financial modeling by Simon Benninga - Financial Modeling - 3rd Edition If you're an Excel junkie, you'll love this book - Simon's a freak. Our Learning Center | Monthly Cash Thru Options. Click here to go to the Members Only Learning Center Figure 1 below shows a risk/reward graph for a Bear Call Credit Spread on the Russell 2000 index (RUT). In order to create this Bear Call Credit Spread we would open the following two "legs" shown below: Buy to open, RUT 10 contracts, 750 strike, January 2006 Call Sell to open, RUT 10 contracts, 740 strike, January 2006 Call Or alternatively: Buy 10, RUT 750 Jan 06 Call Sell 10, RUT 740 Jan 06 Call Or Alternatively: 10 RUT Jan 740/750 Bear Call Spread Options Risk/Reward Graph courtesy of Optionetics Platinum Figure 1 Dissecting the name "bear call credit spread", "Bear" denotes that we want the underlying RUT index to remain below 740, our short Call that we are selling, or writing.
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Impact Investing for Social Enterprises: The solution for poverty alleviation?
Can Impact Investors together with Social Entrepreneurs provide meaning-and impactful solutions to improve health, to ensure access to basic services, and to deal with the depletion of our natural resources all over the world?
During the conference "Disruptive thinkers: shaping solutions for poverty alleviation. A case of Impact Investing for Social Enterprises" on the 28th January at the Cariplo Foundation Congress Centre in Milan, social entrepreneurs and representatives from the Impact Investing Industry, from all over the world, talked about their experiences of creating innovative and long-lasting solutions to poverty and about the creation of successful business models, which benefit the poor by engaging them as costumers and suppliers.
New business models for market based solutions and their financing problems
Different social entrepreneurs spoke about their experience of creating new business models with the aim to provide long-lasting solutions to poverty.
Harvey Koh, Associate partner at Monitor group, Monitor Inclusive Markets (MIM), who presented a few of their market based solutions (affordable housing initiatives by building a scalable low income housing company, which constructs smaller units but perfectly adequate for families; save drinking water for slums with a price of 5 euro cents per 20 l; husk power systems generating electricity, channels for its distribution and simplified pay per use system;), explained also the difficulties which those solutions (social enterprises) encounter and focused especially on the pioneer gap. The pioneer gap is as a critical gap ,which describes the early stages of a pioneer firm, characterised by difficulties in obtaining financial resources. This results not only from the lack of financial return but also from the risk profiles of these companies, which are pioneering a new business model in the BoP environment (BoP is the Base of the Pyramid which is considered as the population earning less than $2 per day, per person, per household). Firms, which are working in this environment, will need to be prepared to face challenging situations. They will need to try out, refine and change their new business models to meet the poor people's needs and they will have to accept that they will also suffer from set backs and failure. Furthermore, they need to educate costumers and stimulate new demand for 'push solutions' (Push solutions are products or services, for which there is no demand, because the costumers do not know them. These products need to be pushed to the costumer by training and informing them) and train suppliers.
These tough challenges call for a strong support. A support that understands the so called pioneer firms' needs and that accompanies the firms over the course of their journey from start-up to eventual scale. Unfortunately there are only a few impact investors who seem prepared to provide financial resources and technical assistance for these pioneer companies in their earlier stages which are: the blueprint stage during which more sophisticated capabilities are needed for business innovation, the validation stage during which firms need up front investment to be able to realise market trials and tests and to refine their core business, and the preparation stage during which heavy investment is often needed. Harvey Koh pointed out that this pioneer gap needs to be addressed, otherwise much impact capital will continue to sit on the sidelines. He sustains that philanthropic funding can play a critical role in closing the pioneer gab. Grants can support pioneer firms to develop, validate and establish new business models. They are considered as the ultimate "risk capital" because they are not based on the likelihood of financial return. They can also tolerate uncertainty around commercial viability and support the creation of public goods. This means that philanthropy can support the establishment of business models into which return seeking capital can be invested, not only to get financial return but also to help them scale and obtain social and environmental impact.
During the debate "Creating successful business models: from blueprint to scale" The following social entrepreneurs underlined the challenges mentioned by Harvey Koh: Sundeep Kapila co-founder of Swasth India Services Private Limited, a social business working towards improving the health of low-income segments in urban and rural India; Abubaker Musuuza, co-founder and Director of Village Energy, a company which empowers communities in Uganda economically and socially by assembling solar products; and Dr. H. Harish Hande, Managing Director of Selco which empowers the lives of underserved population throughout the world by selling, servicing and financing products that continuously improve their quality of life. They also talked about the importance of promoting the creation of assets by poor people which need to be characterised by longterm financial, social and economic sustainability.
With these challenges in mind, some Italian private foundations incubated, a donor fund aimed at fulfilling the ambitious undertaking of closing the pioneer gap affecting the early stages of social enterprises. This fund, called Opes Impact fund which was presented during the conference, wants to support social enterprises during their stage of pioneering of business models who engaged in breaking the conventional solutions to poverty. Its funders and administrators are currently planning to establish two offices, one in East Africa and one in India. They are mainly working with very young social enterprises and believe in the importance of co-investment as leverage to improve accountability and capacity.
Hybrid financing strategies: the solution for social entrepreneurships
After the morning session, during which mainly social entrepreneurs talked about their experiences followed a debate about hybrid mechanisms as possibilities of providing financial resources to social enterprises. Different representatives from the impact investing industry from the Netherlands, North America, Switzerland and the United Kingdom took part in this debate, during which not only hybrid mechanisms were discussed but also the meaning of impact investing, the difference between philanthropy and impact investing and benchmarking problems in relations to social and environmental impact .
Dr. Maximilian Martin the Founder and President of the Impact Pledge foundation and Founder and Global managing Director of Impact Economy SA and its affiliates explained that impact investing has a broader meaning and does not just focus on market based solutions within the BoP environment. Impact investing can generally be defined as investment that creates social or environmental benefits by also providing a financial return. With regards to the difference between impact investing and philanthropy he pointed out that philanthropy is fantastic and powerful but also very costly and does not resolve all the problems which is also the case of impact investment.
Hence, Dr. Martin promotes hybrid financing strategies for social entrepreneurships which may include grants, equity, debt and mezzanine and explains that the types of instruments which are applicable in practice depend on the social enterprise's legal form, business model and state of maturity.
Don Mohanlal, President and CEO of The Nand&Jeet Khemka Foundation, the philanthropic foundation of the Khemka family strongly believes that a sustainable ecosystem needs to be created which supports initiatives of social entrepreneurs. A system which focuses neither only on philanthropy nor only on impact investing. This ecosystem should provide a platform were philanthropist, impact investors but also governmental agencies and corporates, who aim at engaging in social responsibility, can work together in order to find the best solutions to help social enterprises scale and to support them in becoming sustainable. For the realisation of these platforms it is important that social enterprises, philanthropists, impact investors and corporates understand each other and create a common language.
William E. Burckart Managing Director of Impact Economy LLC who also guides special initiatives for the John Hopkins Centre for Civili Society Studies including the New Philanthropy, Philanthropication through Privatisation and Non profit Value Proposition projects explained the problems that the impact investing industry encounters in relation to social enterprises. These are mainly benchmarking problems, and problems caused by the different measuring systems of social and environmental impact, which are not taking the different contexts into account.
World Toilet Organisation: From a Problem to a Business, an example of best practice.
Jack Sim, the Founder of the World Toilet Organisation completed this interesting conference by presenting the business model of the World Toilet Organisation. Jack Sim realized that the lack of adequate sanitation facilities account for much of the world's social and health problems. WTO's vision is to attain clean, safe, affordable, ecologically sound and sustainable sanitation for everyone by creating the social franchise model "Sanishop", whereby WTO provides a quality brand free of charge to entrepreneurial thinking people on the ground. Social Entrepreneurs of the BoP environment are trained to produce and sell toilets while costumers are made aware of the importance of adequate and clean sanitation. Mr. Sim's current project at WTO is to establish a BoP Hup in Singapore. The Hub acts as a trade centre for the poor in developing countries to formulate, cooperate and merge business solution to transform emerging markets into vibrant market places.
The conference was concluded with an appeal by Elena Casolari: The impact investing industry needs to remember to keep in mind their social mission. She also believes strongly that not everything that can be measured counts and that everything that counts cannot be measured.
Some considerations for the future: Social enterprises formed once the base of Italian's historical society. How can we re-establish the importance of social enterprises in Italy for the satisfaction of people's needs and for the reduction of poverty? Is it possible to consider impact investing and hybrid financial instruments for Social Enterprises in Italy?
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KKR vs RR as it happened: Russell, Karthik help Kolkata beat Rajasthan by six wickets
In their previous encounter this season in Jaipur, Kolkata restricted the hosts to 160/8 and then chased down the target to win by seven wickets.
That is all folks. Thank you so much for tuning in. Hope to see you guys tomorrow as well.
"It was a pressure time for me. I was just thinking about taking a wicket, Jos Buttler is a set player, he is playing tremendously but I really wanted his wicket. You have to motivate yourself, you have to think about your strengths, stick to your basics. I knew Buttler would reverse sweep, so I bowled a quicker one. You have to plan for every batsman."— KKR spinner, Kuldeep Yadav.
"When we got a chance in the game, we didn't let go. We have team bonding sessions, keep our smiles, keeping going on in the tournament. Kuldeep is an international quality player. He's one of the best left-arm chinaman bowlers right now. And all I have to do is make sure he is turned on."— said Kolkata captain Dinesh Karthik
"The only way we would've let Rajasthan back in the game was by losing wickets so I wanted to bat through and make sure that didn't happen. I wanted to be there at the end, I didn't want to leave it to anyone in the end. Wanted to win it quickly as well for the run-rate, which I think will matter in a week's time. My strength is against quicker bowlers. Good to get some momentum back, it's the business end of the tournament and we're playing exciting cricket."— Chris Lynn, Kolkata Knight Riders batsman
"It was important to pick wickets, our bowlers did very well. Unfortunately we got only 142 on the board - we needed 170 or 180. We still have a chance to make the playoffs. So now it's all about learning and moving forward. We will miss Jos and Stokes, we all know how dangerous they are. But at the same time, I feel really happy for Jos that he's picked for the England Test squad,"— says Rajasthan captain Ajinkya Rahane
"I think the intent was positive, but when you get a start like, the way Tripathi and Buttler batted, when I went in, I wanted to carry the momentum forward. Jos was batting very well. But it wasn't up to him all the time. The way Jaydev batted with the tail, he showed it was possible. We lost because of our batting."— says Rajasthan captain Ajinkya Rahane
Karthik smashes Archer for a six as KKR win by six wickets. Russell made sure that Kolkata didn't lose more wickets as his captain completed the job. These are massive two points for Kolkata Knight Riders.
After 17 overs, KKR 129/4
Kolkata now need 14 of 18 balls. Rajasthan need to get wickets here. Karthik and Russell have taken the game away from the Royals.
Lynn falls. Stokes strikes in the last over. Brilliant catch by Anureet Singh at deep point. Yet again the Australian fails to see his side through in a run chase. Kolkata are 117/4 in 15.2 overs.
Lynn b Stokes c Anureet 45 (42b)
After 14 overs, KKR 109/3
10 runs are scored of Archer's over. Lynn smashes him for two boundaries as Kolkata close in on victory. They need 34 of 36 balls.
After 12 overs, KKR 89/3
Last 24 balls have seen Kolkata score 21 runs with the loss of one wicket. They still need 54 runs in 48 balls. Lynn and Karthik steady the ship for Kolkata.
After 10 overs, KKR 80/3
At the halfway mark, Kolkata need 63 runs in the next 60 balls. Karthik and Lynn are out there in the middle. Rajasthan need a couple of quick wickets here. Still game on at Eden Gardens.
Rana falls. Ish Sodhi gets his first wicket of the match as Nitish Rana makes the long walk back to the pavilion. Huge appeal for lbw which was denied. However, a review shows the ball crashing into the stumps.
Rana lbw Sodhi 21 (17b)
After 8 overs, KKR 68/2
11 runs come off Gowtham's second over, which includes a towering six hit by Rana. Kolkata need 76 runs in 72 balls.
Lynn 21*
Rana 21*
After 6 overs, KKR 51/2
The power play ends as five runs come off Stokes third over. Clever batting this by Lynn and Rana as they just play the English player out.
After 5 overs, KKR 46/2
Six runs come off Archer's second over. Kolkata need 97 runs from 90 balls. Rajasthan have to bowl them out here if they are to win. Lynn and Rana have to stitch a partnership here for Kolkata. Game on at Eden Gardens folks.
Uthappa falls. Stokes strikes again. Uthappa smashes one to deep square leg with Tripathi taking an easy catch. Not the start Kolkata wanted. Stokes taking both the wickets.
Uthappa b Stokes c Tripathi 4 (6b)
After 3 overs, KKR 32/1
Lynn smashes Archer for a six and four in his first over. The Australian will look to take Kolkata home tonight. He has had starts but has failed to convert them. Tonight is the night for Lynn to show his class.
Narine falls. Stokes strikes in his first over itself. The West Indies all-rounder lofts one in the air with Gowtham taking a splendid catch.
Narine b Stokes c Gowtham 21 (7b)
After 1 over, KKR 21/0
Sunil Narine tears into Gowtham in the first over itself as he is smashed for 21 runs. Kolkata are off to a flying start as well 6, 4, 6, 4, 1, 0.
Unadkat is bowled as Rajasthan lose their final wicket. Brilliant slower delivery by Prasidh to bag his second wicket of the night. The batsman loses his middle stump as Rajasthan fold up for 142.
Unadkat b Prasidh 26 (18b)
Jofra Archer also falls. Russell gets his second wicket of the night with Shubman Gill taking an easy catch. Rajasthan are 135/9 after 17.3 overs.
Archer b Russell c Gill 6 (5b)
Sodhi walks back to the pavilion now. Sodhi inside edges the yorker onto his back boot, which bounces off his back pad and settles in Karthik's hands. Prasidh gets his first wicket of the match as well.
Sodhi b Prasidh c Karthik 1 (6b)
After 15 overs, RR 118/7
11 runs come off Mavi's final over as Rajasthan reach 118/7. Unadkat and Sodhi out in the middle for Rajasthan. They need to get to a target of 160 at least.
After 13.5 Overs, RR 104/7
Gowtham falls to Mavi off a bouncer and a few deliveries later, Stokes, the last recognised batsman, chips it straight back to Kuldeep, who dives low to take a smart low catch.
B Stokes c & b Kuldeep Yadav 11 (13)
K Gowtham c Karthik b Mavi 3 (5)
After 11.2 Overs, RR 96/5
Make that five! Kuldeep's magic arm continues to flummox the Rajasthan batsman. Stuart Binny goes for a big drive and is beaten in flight and turn. DK takes the bails off in a flash. This is what pressure does to you. Kuldeep is on fire.
S Binny st Karthik b Kuldeep Yadav 1 (4)
After 10.3 Overs, RR 95/4
Another one goes! Terrific review by Kolkata. The wickets keep on tumbling for Rajasthan and Samson is trapped leg-before by Narine. Outstanding stuff from Kolkata. Their bowlers have brought them back in the match by hunting down the batsmen like a pack of wolves
S Samson lbw b Narine 12 (10)
After 9.2 Overs, RR 86/3
No sixth straight fifty for Buttler as his reverse sweep off Kuldeep lands straight to Searles's hands at short third-man. The fielder makes no mistake and Kolkata are on top. The left-armer beat him with a quicker delivery and the reverse was simply not on. The home side are now dominating proceedings.
After 9 overs, RR 85/2
It's been a fine comeback by Kolkata. They have conceded only 26 runs from the last six overs and have taken two wickets after being taken to the cleaners in the powerplay overs. Even Buttler has gone quiet after seeing two of his partners depart in quick succession.
Rahane falls! Kuldeep Yadav strikes in his very first over as he dismisses the Rajasthan skipper. Rahane tries to reverse sweep Yadav but ends up losing his stumps. What a wicket for Kolkata.
Rahane b Yadav 11 (12b)
After 6 overs, RR 68/1
The power play ends as Rajasthan make the most of it. Narine balls a tidy second over as 5 runs come off it. Another couple of wickets here and Kolkata can pull things back on their home turf.
Russell strikes in his first over. Exactly what the doctor ordered for Kolkata. Tripathi goes for 27 as Dinesh Karthik takes an easy catch.
Tripathi b Russell c Karthik 27 (15b)
After 4 overs, RR 59/0
Narine is introduced into the attack as he is whacked for 10 runs. Wickets is what Kolkata need otherwise it is all but over for them.
After 3 overs, KKR 49/0
Buttler gets into the act now as he smashes Mavi for 28 runs. Buttler is on top of his game. Mavi's second over reads 4, 6, 4, 4, 6, 4. In his first over he conceded only 2 runs.
Buttler 30 (11b)
Tripathi 19 (7b)
After 2 overs, RR 21/0
Tripathi finally gets the middle of the bat as he smashes Prasidh Krishna for a six. He follows it up with a hat-trick of boundaries as 19 runs comes of the over. Rajasthan are up and running now folks.
After 1 over, RR 2/0
Rahul Tripathi dropped of the first ball. He gets an extra life as Nitish Rana drops a catch at slip. A brilliant over by Mavi though as only two runs come off it.
Out come Jos Buttler and Rahul Tripathi for Rajasthan Royals with Shivam Mavi opening the bowling for Kolkata. He has played eight matches for Kolkata this season and has taken three wickets.
D'Arcy Short, Shreyas Gopal and Dhawal Kulkarni are going to miss out tonight.
Rajasthan Royals playing XI: Jos Buttler, Ajinkya Rahane, Sanju Samson, Ben Stokes, Rahul Tripathi, Stuart Binny, Jofra Archer, Krishnappa Gowtham, Ish Sodhi, Jaydev Unadkat, Anureet Singh
Kolkata Knight Riders playing XI: Chris Lynn, Sunil Narine, Robin Uthappa (wk), Nitish Rana, Dinesh Karthik, Shubman Gill, Andre Russell, Javon Searles, Shivam Mavi, Kuldeep Yadav, Prasidh Krishna.
Kolkata Knight Riders win the toss and opt to bowl first at Eden Gardens.
One change for Kolkata as Shivam Mavi comes in for Piyush Chawla
Three changes for Rajasthan as Ish Sodhi, Anureet Singh and Rahul Tripathi will play tonight.
Matches: 16
Kolkata Knight Riders won: 7
Rajasthan Royals won: 9
At the Eden Gardens
Matches: 5
Kolkata Knight Riders won: 4
Rajasthan Royals won: 1
07:10 pm: Pitch report: A beautiful batting surface at one end with a layer of grass with the other end of the pitch much more drier, which will assist spinners. Conditions are great for a game of cricket. The due factor won't come into play.
"Win the toss, it doesn't matter whether you bat or bowl," says Michael Clarke.
07:00 pm: Good evening folks. Tonight Kolkata Knight Riders face Rajasthan Royals at Eden Gardens.Both teams have six wins from 12 matches, and whoever wins tonight, will strengthen their chances of finishing in the top-four. Momentum is with Rajasthan Royals who have notched up a hat-trick of wins. Kolkata on the other hand have bounced backed after their 102-run defeat to Mumbai Indians. They beat Punjab by 31 runs in their previous match.


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Uber has also branched out into delivering food via its 'Uber Eats' app, as well as investing heavily in driverless technology. Of course, when technology disrupts it can offer an excellent investment opportunity. However, investors still need to be cautious; you only need to go back to the dot-com bubble to see there is a certain danger when you are investing in an idea or story rather than the fundamentals of a business.
This was brought into sharp focus last week when Uber listed on the New York Stock Exchange, widely expected to be the largest Initial Public Offering (IPO) this year. On its debut last Friday, the share price fell from $45 (its IPO price) down to $41.56 – a fall of 7.62%. Hardly the debut that anyone expected, but one we're afraid that is not entirely surprising. According to filings submitted to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission ahead of its stock market debut Uber has never made a profit. Furthermore, in the prospectus issued by Uber it admitted that it may not ever achieve profitability. This is a staggering admission for a company to make to investors ahead of a stock market debut.
In the UK, depending on how long the driver has been with Uber, the company can expect to collect 20% to 25% of every fare (Source: Uber). This is a staggering margin and so it's not a surprise that we saw protests from Uber drivers ahead of its IPO about their working conditions and pay. However, things are unlikely to change anytime soon, especially as Uber announced a $3.3 billion loss on revenues of over $11 billion.
When Uber announced it was going to list on the stock exchange some envisaged that the valuation should sit around the $120 billion mark.
Thankfully, this was revised down to $82.4 billion on its IPO. Had it not, the fall upon listing could have been more significant than it was. Some were concerned after looking at Lyft, another ride hailing app that had listed earlier this year, as its share price has fallen significantly around $75 dollars to $51 dollars.
It is easy to see why they call these tech companies Unicorns. The original meaning of this phrase was to describe any tech start-up company that reaches a $1 billion-dollar market value. This isn't specific to Uber, but perhaps it would be more apt as a term for any tech start-up where profits are as mythical as a unicorn!
The problem Uber has is that it is burning a considerable amount of money on new markets and investing in driverless technology. In an ideal world they would like to keep 100% of each fare, rather than give the majority of each fare to the drivers. This could be significant given that gross bookings for rides was over $50 billion (Source: Uber). While Uber might be the first mover in the ride hailing industry, it certainly isn't the first mover in driverless technology. Tesla are investing heavily as well as most of the major car manufacturers.
So, essentially the question that needs answering is whether Uber is going to be the dominant force in driverless technology? Can it be more dominant than perhaps Tesla, BMW, Ford, Toyota, Mercedes, Volkswagen to name a few. We have heard people speculate that nobody will own cars in the future and babies born today won't need a driving licence, so it's hard to imagine many of the major car manufactures sinking into the abyss. Although car manufactures are not currently Uber's competitors it is inevitable that the two industries will slowly merge over time. It is hard to imagine that Uber is going to be as dominant in the driverless technology arena as it is in the ride hailing industry. Thereinto lies the risk of investing in companies like Uber, you are buying the future and hoping that the company you invest in becomes the dominant force. This could well be the case with Uber and any investment made today could well reap rewards for investors in the future.
However, investors need to be cautious of the fact that Uber is taking a bet on the future, not the present. If Uber simply focused on ride hailing, in our opinion it would be profitable business. However, its cash burn might be a risk too far for some. After all, revenue is vanity, profit is sanity, but fundamentally cash is king. Uber might have deep pockets after raising money from other investors such as PayPal, Softbank, and the sovereign wealth fund of Saudi Arabia, but unless Uber do become the dominant force it could well be a bumpy ride for investors.
Equities suffer as Trump hikes tariffs
Most major equity indices trended lower over the course of the week as the Trump administration increased tariffs on $200bn worth of Chinese goods after trade talks broke down once again. The US S&P 500 index fell -2.2% over the course of the week, whilst Asian markets made bigger losses with the Shanghai Composite closing -4.5% lower and the Hang Seng was down -5.1%.
Chinese officials reportedly stepped back from a number of expected concessions in negotiations toward a comprehensive trade agreement with the United States. Such was the reversal in China's negotiating stance, President Trump reacted with an increase levy from 10% to 25% on $200bn of goods imported from China and threatened to impose the same 25% tariff on an additional $325bn. China have in-turn said they will prepare appropriate countermeasures. Clearly, this dents hopes for a trade agreement in the near term, however talks are ongoing.
Meanwhile, strong inventory build helped UK Gross Domestic Product (GDP) pick up in the first quarter according to figures announced last week. The economy strengthened with growth of 0.5% in the first three months of the year, helped by apparent stockpiling by manufacturers ahead of a looming no-deal Brexit at the end of March. Most sectors slowed considerably during March in comparison to January and February. The UK's FTSE 100 meanwhile ended the week with a -2.4% loss.
Economic growth in Germany meanwhile, Europe's largest economy, is forecast to grow just 0.5% in 2019 following a downgrade from the European Union's earlier estimate of 1.1%. The German government on Wednesday announced it expected significantly lower economic growth for 2019 than previously announced. Germany's DAX 30 index slipped to a weekly loss of -2.8%.
The price of oil closed the week broadly flat after a somewhat volatile week of news as tensions between the US and Iran intensified. Iran had also threatened to rebuild nuclear facilities unless Europe, China and Russia agreed to facilitate Iranian oil sales within 60 days. European leaders were quick to reject the ultimatum. Brent Crude oil ended the week at $70.82 per barrel and the West Texas Intermediate closed at $61.75.
The week ahead
UK employment data, due on Wednesday, will top the list of domestic data releases this week. The unemployment rate is forecast to hold at just 3.9% whilst the Average Earnings Index is anticipated to show wage growth at 3.4%.
In the US, Retail Sales figures will give an indication as to the strength of American consumer spending on Wednesday. Sales in March were very strong, posting its best reading since September 2017, so estimates for April are modest. Elsewhere, European GDP data is due from a number of member states this week and Friday will see updated core and headline inflation rates according to the Consumer Price Index (CPI) on Friday.
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I've been procrastinating and lagging for almost a month with my updates but better late than never, right? Haha sorry guys been really busy with my final sem, sigh. 2 weeks down, 10 more to go #thinhkpositive
I! Can! Do! It!!!!
Anyway to make up to the lack of updates, i'm gonna share with you this (even though i'm guessing most people already heard about this) — Jetstar is now having their 7th birthday sales!
Uh........ SO??!
So, that means you can get to bring a friend along for free when you travel! How awesome is that?? Imagine your air ticket to BKK costs about $300 and since your friend gets to go for free because of this promotion, you split the cost with them! That means each of you only have to fork out $175!!!!!
Good deal right! I'm so gonna check out the tickets when i get home later. Need to plan my graduation trip muahahaha
"Celebrate Jetstar's 7th Birthday! For every full paying passenger who books one of these special sale fares, one passenger flies free! Sale on now until midnight (23:59) Friday 9 December 2011, unless sold out prior. Sale may be extended"
Click here to be directed! The only link you can click to enjoy these sales fares :)
Ok but before you click that link, please visit Pearlavish first! Pearlyn, the owner from PL gifted me with this basic black dress with side pockets (as in above) and surprisingly the material is really good! Not sheer, doesn't ride up when you walk and doesn't stretch out and lose it's shape after washing!
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Happy weekends y'all! : )


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Red Nose Day is a UK fundraising event set up by Comic Relief. To celebrate red nose day, everybody is encouraged to do something fun or silly to raise money, celebrities included.
Red Nose Day unites the entire country by trying to make a difference to the lives of others both in the UK and Africa, who are living in desperate poverty. This year Red Nose Day was celebrated nationally on 15th March 2019. This year at Russell Hill Road Day Nursery we held a few events ourselves in order to raise money for this worthy cause. We held a bake sale, and the children dressed as superheroes/ prince and princess day. We all had great fun dressing up. There were some lovely dresses, t-shirts/ costumes, everyone got into the spirit of it, especially the staff. On the day we also held our bake sale. We would like to take this opportunity to thank all the parents for their endeavours and contribution to the bake sale. In addition we also had giant cookies that melted in your mouth, and cupcakes galore. In The spirit of participation, some staff tried to do their bit by baking at home, and in some cases committing the cardinal sin of being seen at the local supermarket buying cakes for subsequent purchase (shock horror!!! – they thought we could not tell the difference). The children also made some lovely delectable contributions on the day in the form cupcakes, biscuits which shone with their own edible glitter. At 16:30 we set up a stall in the main unit playroom and tried to entice the parents to purchase our goodies. The children loved serving the parents, and In total we managed to raise approximately £200 for charity. We would like to say a big thank you to all of you for getting involved and I am sure the comic relief foundation would like to say a big thank you too! We look forward to the next fundraising event with eager anticipation. Once again I'd like to thank everyone who participated in this endeavour.


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SPRINGFIELD, Mo Missouri gun owners are concerned about a pre-filed bill… that allows police to take away guns.. based solely on accusations by a family member.
For example if someone at your household or a family member like your mom, dad, sister, brother, or spouse thought that you were in a bad place and shouldn't be in possession of a gun… they could call the police and law enforcement would come take your guns away from you.
Then you would have 14 days to go before a judge and explain that you are fine and not a harm to anyone, to try and get your guns back.
Democrat state Senator Jill Schupp, from Creve Coeur, pre-filed the legislation.
Schupp and other democratic lawmakers believe this is a step to preventing suicide and domestic violence.
"This bill is to be able to raise our hand and say that I think my brother, my sister might be a harm to themselves or others. And we would like for a short time period to be able to remove their guns." said Democrat state representative Deb Lavender, District 90 in Kirkwood.
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My NGO: SNEHA – The Society for the Nutrition, Education and Health Action http://www.snehamumbai.org/about-us/sneha-mumbai-ngo-approach-to-public-health.aspx
"A secular, Mumbai – based non – profit organisation, SNEHA believes that investing in women's health is essential to building viable urban communities. SNEHA targets four large public health areas – Maternal and Newborn Health, Child Health and Nutrition, Sexual and Reproductive Health and Prevention of Violence against Women and Children".
SNEHA's story
Founded by five passionate neonatologists working in the slums in 1999 including the inspirational and celebrated founder trustee Dr. Armida Fernandez, SNEHA has blossomed into a 400+ strong organisation with many consultants guided by a stellar trustee board.
SNEHA was born from their deep frustration at repeatedly seeing infants they had worked tirelessly to save, to only return to their uninformed impoverished homes. Some were also victims of abuse. This spurred a strong desire to find some solution to break this vicious cycle through the empowerment of women with information and tools to have healthier lives and families. Starting in the slums of Dharavi they focused on nutrition and anti-natal care, breast feeding and immunizations and it soon became apparent the women in the communities were hungry for this information too and the SNEHA movement gained momentum. http://www.snehamumbai.org/about-us/sneha-mumbai-ngo-story.aspx
My Assignment: HR Policy and Practice – My aim is to enhance engagement and reduce attrition
SNEHA has grown so rapidly, winning NGO awards along the way including a recent "Change Maker" Award from the Hindustan Times, so there is a need to adapt and evolve approaches as they grow in size and dynamics change.
I conducted a 1:1 motivation survey with over 50 employees across all levels in the organisation across our four sites (more than half required me to be accompanied by a translator as my Hindi is just at a "rickshaw" level!) and being involved in the Great Places to Work (India), to really listen to the "voice of the customer" and also GEMBA by shadowing community worker's home visits etc.
The pride and passion at SNEHA for their work and seeing the impact it has on communities and individual's lives, often including their own as most come from the communities themselves, really shines through and it never fails to touch or inspire me. http://www.snehamumbai.org/about-us/video-gallery.aspx
From what I observed and heard, I have made numerous recommendations to the Leadership team. In this spirit of Appreciative Inquiry and with their endorsement, I have created and hosted a series of workshops and formed project teams. Obviously cost is the major consideration in all initiatives at a NGO.
For example I recommended and initiated the launch of the intranet to bring more efficiency and keep a sense of "one SNEHA" as we grow in size, "Moving Online" sessions to use the technology we have as well as WOW sessions ("Ways of Working") to help problem solving and build trust so the GSK ADP tool-kit has been delved into regularly!
So far, 70% of the workforce have attended my various workshops (90% of programme organisers and above) and I have presented at the annual conference. Most presentations have been delivered with a translator which creates complexities in itself! (Another great learning experience!). I feel proud whenever I see or hear the ADP language or other tools being used and even more so when told what a positive difference it has made.
While I am not a medical professional, counselor or front line field worker and I am mostly in the "ivory towers" of the head office (still in a community settlement directly under the flight path with a cattle shed) my hope is that my small contribution will give these very passionate and hard working teams more time and energy to do more do more, feel better, live longer!
What I have learnt?
- Appreciate Inquiry – while a GSK ADP tool, it has always been SNEHA's guiding principal to build community relationships. They are the AI experts!
- Communication – keep it simple – especially where there is a language challenge
- Patience – different pace and standards – learn to stress less and keep things in perspective
- Problem solving – find alternatives – keep asking questions and remind yourself it ok to ask for help (let go of being stubbornly independent!)
- Flexibility – Working with doctors and those with PHDs at the same time as those who struggle to read and write (it is the first time, I have encountered those who sign documents with thumbprints as unable to sign an "X").
- Agility – Don't ever assume – be it that you have internet or electricity or people you expect – so have a plan BUT plan to be flexible and adapt
- Assertiveness –still keeping it friendly, I have had to really dial up my assertiveness to adapt to a new culture and society
SNEHA have been so very welcoming and friendly and I am very grateful to them all for making me feel part of the team. I feel privileged and proud to have spent time with people across a variety of roles across the organisation from the CEO to the community workers, and I feel sad at the prospect of leaving. But we have committed to stay in touch and I look forward to following their stories and future successes which undoubtedly there will be.


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Typhoon Mangkhut barreled into the island of Luzon in the Northern Philippines early Saturday as a Category 5 hurricane with 165 mph winds, killing at least 16 people. Mangkhut brought extreme rains to the Philippines, with western Luzon picking up more than 26 inches of rain on Saturday. Mangkhut is the Thai word for mangosteen fruit, is known as Ompong in the Philippines. Mangkhut was initially a a Category 5 storm with 180 mph winds, making it Earth's strongest storm so far in 2018.
While Hurricane Florence brought deadly floods to the Carolina's, the combination of cool ocean temperatures in the eastern Atlantic, our CLIMATECH research, months ago, and the active Typhoon season near Hawaii, the Philippines and south China, all portend to us that the Atlantic hurricane season will tame down in the week's ahead.
You can see a Press Release here we did last June on why we thought the 1963 analog might be a good fit for this season's hurricane activity. That particular year had several Atlantic hurricanes and some close to the east coast of the United States, but nothing major for Florida or the Gulf coast.
More Information about Typhoon Mangkhut
A video of Typhoon Mangkhut
The effects of Typhoon Mangkut in Hong Kong & China
Shares in China's major sugar producers jumped on Monday as investors worried supplies of the sweetener could be affected by the super typhoon. However, according to several sources, the impact was not that severe to sugar crops. Sugar growing areas in China are located in Zhanjiang, which is a major sugar producer in Guangdong province.
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FRANKFURT — Chancellor Angela Merkel says Germany's auto industry and the country as a whole face a "Herculean task" meeting the goals set for combating climate change.
Speaking Thursday at the official opening of the Frankfurt Motor Show, Merkel noted that unlike other areas of the economy emissions of greenhouse gases from Germany's transport sector have remained unchanged since 1990 despite increasingly efficient vehicles.
Experts say more and bigger cars, along with more journeys overall, are to blame.
Merkel insisted that some form of carbon pricing will be needed if Germany is to cut its emissions by 40% by 2030 compared to 1990 levels.
Bernhard Mattes, head of Germany's automaker lobby group VDA, said industry favours capping the amount of CO2 released into the atmosphere via a national or European emissions trading system.
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Inflation falls to a record low
Originally published by UK Liberal Democrats
Figures released by the Office for National Statistics show that in January inflation fell to a record low of 0.3 per cent.
Commenting on the news, Liberal Democrat Chief Secretary to the Treasury Danny Alexander said:
"With Liberal Democrats anchoring economic policy in the centre ground, and with record employment, strong growth, rising wages and low inflation Britain has a golden opportunity to enjoy a long and sustained recovery.
"The biggest threats to that opportunity are either a Labour or Conservative majority government both of which would lurch Britain away from the centre ground. Britain is on the right track - only the Lib Dems can keep us there."


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Hi all,
I would like to convert a CSV file containing the following data to Little_r_format (I want to use PM-10 and PM-2.5 data).
These are the column names..In total there are 10 columns and there are 9000 data
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Living the High Life in Chinatown/CityCenter
555 Massachusetts Ave NW #905
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1 Bedroom, 1 Bathroom
710 Square Ft.
Low condo fee of $434.34/month (Includes garage parking, onsite, gym, rooftop deck with grills and pool, party room, 24-hour gym and concierge!)
Just three blocks away from the Gallery Place/Chinatown Metro, this beautiful high-rise condo is spacious, convenient, and situated perfectly for anyone who lives and breathes downtown city life.
Residents of the building have access to the party room, gym, and a rooftop patio with grills and a pool!
The kitchen has plenty of cabinets for storage and counter space for cooking your favorite meals.
The breakfast bar offers even more counter space and an easy way you to entertain guests while you whip up something amazing for dinner.
Then walking through into the open living space you'll immediately notice the light from these huge windows making the space inviting and friendly.
There are beautiful hardwood floors throughout the entire open floor plan, giving the rooms a spacious feel.
Look at that view out the dining room windows – that's downtown DC!
Enjoy rest and relaxation in the spacious bedroom with room to add functional furniture pieces.
And again – that view!
The bathroom features an over-sized counter top, perfect for getting ready for work in the morning or for a night out on the town!
No more going to the laundromat! There's a washer/dryer right here!
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With an onsite gym, you won't need a membership, but you're only one block from Soul Cycle, Orange Theory and Vida Fitness!
This huge gym makes it easy to stick to your workout routine, with a great variety of equipment to choose from.
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Relax after a long day at work in your rooftop pool…
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Our Lady Queen of Peace of Medjugorje's November 2, 2012
Apparition and Message Given to Mirjana on the Day for Nonbelievers
Apparition and Message Given to Mirjana on the Day for Nonbelievers
Wrapped in ponchos, hats and gloves, pilgrims braved the rain and cold to spend the night in prayer before Our Lady's arrival at the Blue Cross. Rosaries and singing began as early as 6:30 P.M. November 1st, and continued throughout the night, as thousands gathered to greet Our Lady this morning. The joy throughout the crowd was visible as Mirjana arrived and knelt at the Blue Cross. Our Lady appeared around 8:39 A.M., coming in the middle of the Rosary. Our Lady stayed for 6 minutes. Following is Our Lady's message given today, November 2, 2012 on the day of prayer for nonbelievers:


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Date: Sunday, September 18
Time: 10 am
Location: Great Hall
In early summer, the Seattle Times launched a video project called, "Under Our Skin." It features 18 people from Western Washington, including Bishop Greg Rickel, explaining what terms like "racism," "microaggression," and "white privilege" mean to them. The project aims to deepen public discussion and understanding of race, a subject that recently has dominated headlines in coverage of police shootings, campus protests and the presidential race. Join members of your Epiphany community in this important conversation. To preview the project's videos, go here.


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We first heard about it all the way back in 2010, but the Individual Mandate − or Minimum Essential Coverage − did not go into effect until this year. Along with this controversial new health care stipulation comes the penalty for those who do not comply and the tax credit for those who qualify for it. For many taxpayers, Obamacare will not become a reality until they file their 2014 tax returns. Here are a few things you should know to avoid surprises at tax time:
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Animal Species v1.0
Instead of looking for having 10 000 animals per husbandry, this mod will satisfy you!
This mod will replace your basic animal livestock!
You can still buy animal who eat & produce for 1 but others allow you to produce a lot more milk/pallets , OR manure & liquid Manure ! But they will eat as much as they produce ! You are warned!
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A Used Volvo from Paul Moak Volvo Cars = Savings + Possibilities
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From a very natural woodland setting you are twice confronted with a stiff climb onto a higher and more open plateau. The tight par-4 3rd starts the climb the first time, and the dramatic drop at the par-4 7th starts you down again. Then its back up at the 11th and down again after the 16th.
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With the Weisman Art Museum's exciting "Incubator Project," Twin Cities artists and researchers from the University of Minnesota cross-pollinate their respective disciplines for results that are unexpected and often radical. The latest collaboration pairs kinesiology professor Thomas Stoffregen, an expert on motion sickness, and choreographer Pramila Vasudevan, of Aniccha Arts. With "1 of 30," they are working with three movers, a dramaturg and a sculptor to use performance as a method of scientific and creative inquiry. Can this team use dance as a way of preventing getting seasick or carsick? Is art an untapped tool that can take science to the next level? Stop by the Weisman to find out.
When: 2 p.m. Sunday, March 31
Where: Weisman Art Museum, 333 E. River Pkwy
Cost: Free
Info: wam.umn.edu
MAEP Opening: Sieng Lee
Hmong artist Sieng Lee collaborated with renowned shaman Wa Leng Lee for his latest installation on view at the Minneapolis Institute of Art's MAEP Gallery, which showcases local artists. Titled "Sieng Lee: Siv Yis and his Wooden Horses," the work offers a modern-day retelling of the first Hmong shaman, Siv Yiv, and investigates themes of assimilation.
When: 6 p.m. Thursday, March 21
Where: Minneapolis Institute of Art, 2400 3rd Ave. S.
Cost: Free
Info: artsmia.org
Story Club Minneapolis
Got a story you've been itching to share with the world? Throw your name into the hat at "Story Club Minneapolis," the live monthly storytelling show run by the talented and funny Amy Salloway. Each month, audience members are picked to share their stories, so long as their stories are true and happened to them personally. There are two featured storytellers as well, including Klark Eversman and the mistress of morbid whimsy, Heidi Arneson.
When: 7 p.m. Thursday, March 21
Where: Bryant-Lake Bowl & Theater, 810 W. Lake St.
Cost: $15 to $18
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Puppet Lab 2019: Week Two
The second week of In the Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theatre's "Puppet Lab," features two new works—"The Alluvial," by Andrew Young, and "Not here, Not there: An Adoptee's Journey to Home," by Kallie Melvin. Both works explore themes of identity, memory, migration, and family. It will be a night of live music, shadow puppetry, storytelling and more.
When: March 22 to 24 (7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday; 2:30 p.m. Sunday)
Where: In the Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theatre, 1500 E. Lake St.
Cost: $15
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Excitement has been generating around Twin Cities' galleries for "Claytopia," the annual conference hosted by the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts, taking place this year at the Minneapolis Convention Center. There are many exhibitions being held in conjunction with the conference, highlighting contemporary ways artists are working with clay. Here are a few places in town you can visit to see what's happening at the forefront of ceramic art.
'Little Red Quartet'
Artists Stephanie DeArmond, Erin Paradis, Jasmine Peck and Ginny Sims investigate ways that ceramic objects and ideas intersect as they re-imagine the White Page's gallery space.
When: Opening reception 5 p.m. Thursday, March 28; exhibition runs March 27 to 31
Where: The White Page, 3400 Cedar Ave. S.
Cost: Free
Info: the-white-page.org
Aaron Becker: 'Mental Spaces'
Aaron Becker re-imagines how we choose objects to fill interior space with his wheel-thrown objects at this show that takes place in a porch window in Minneapolis.
When: Opening reception 7 p.m. Thursday, March 28; exhibition runs March 27 to 30
Where: The Porch Gallery, 3306 Park Ave. S.
Cost: Free
Info: theporchgallery.com
'The Form Will Find Its Way: Contemporary Ceramic Sculptural Abstraction'
Minneapolis-based independent curator Elizabeth Carpenter, formerly a curator at the Walker Art Center, has put together this large-scale exhibition featuring invited international artists and artists chosen from an international open call, all responding to the notion espoused by artist Peter Voulkos that painting, sculpture and pottery need not be separate and siloed art forms, but rather can co-mingle for excellent results.
When: 5 p.m. Thursday, March 28; exhibition runs through March 30
Where: Katherine E. Nash Gallery, 405 21st Ave. S.
Cost: Free
Info: cla.umn.edu
Highpoint Presents: 'Crossing Dimensions'
Five clay artists — Heather Delisle, Edward S. Eberle, Ron Meyers, JJ Peet and Patti Warashina — blur boundaries of disciplines for this exhibition that dabbles in ceramics and works on paper, all connected to the Japanese folk art tradition of Mingei.
When: Opening reception 6:30 p.m. Thursday, March 28; exhibition runs through March 31
Where: Highpoint Center for Printmaking, 912 W. Lake St.
Cost: Free
Info: highpointprintmaking.org
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The sweet ornament given to me in memory of our first Heaven baby. My first miscarriage was two years ago, just before Christmas. My sister-in-law and lifelong friend has excitedly announced to us over Thanksgiving that she was also pregnant. We were due within days of each other and thrilled to be able to carry our second babies together. … [Read more...]
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And, breathe…
Five days. Five days without one meltdown. Five days without our son on the floor pleading with us to stay home. Five days without having things thrown, without anything broken. Five days of this slight loosening of the grip on our chests. Five days so far at his new school, and we are starting as a family to come up for air.
We know these are early days. We expect to hit bumps on the road. The week has not been easy for our guy, we see that on his face where he has been biting his lips which are sore and raw. He has had so much to take in, so much to absorb.
And yet, there is a peace about him, a contentment that was not there a week ago. He has come home each day tired but calm. He doesn't have much to say, this process is being internalized. When we ask him, he says his new school is good and his lips are sore because of the cold outside. We see he needs not to be peppered with one hundred questions. We sit close. We rub his feet. And we wait for a meltdown that just doesn't come. We breathe in. And we breathe out, a little more relaxed.
There are surprises. Already the education is breaking through. The first day he tells us they watched a movie, "The Tempest" by William Shakespeare. He corrects my pronunciation of one of the German composers. He pulls out a keyboard that hasn't been used in ages. He has been painting, bringing out games he has not played in ages. He records a TV documentary about WWII and lays on the couch and watches it two afternoons in a row. Plopping on the couch and watching TV may seem mundane to some, or even your parental nightmare, but in our house, this has never happened. He has not previously chosen an educational program, and just watched it for an hour. This is the sort of quiet that has descended that we are not sure if we can trust yet. Perhaps, once it all stops being so new at school then he won't be so tired and we may yet again see the after school ramped up behaviors. Or perhaps not. But for now, we have space to breathe deeper, lungs starting to expand. We know enough to hang onto such moments.
Perhaps being around teachers who understand him, who listen as he sings, and who spot his growing distress due to the noise in the wood shop and who take him out to a quiet space matters. Perhaps being in a place where he can pop into the sensory room at lunchtime and play with Orbeez matters. Perhaps being allowed to wear hairclips in whatever way he wants to keep his growing hair out of his eyes matters. Perhaps petting the school dogs and feeding the guinea pigs matters. Perhaps not having to wear a tie or an uncomfortable blazer matters. Perhaps not hearing loud bells ringing every hour and not having to face a huge scrum in the hallways several times a day matters. Perhaps, and we hadn't anticipated this, focusing on Candy Crush during the 30-minute drive in the car to get to and from this school matters as it is providing him transition time that he lacked before between home and school.
He is going to sleep on his own again, he doesn't need me by his side to unwind at night. He is not as oppositional, not so easily discouraged. OK, he is learning some new vocabulary and occasionally using it. A couple of the other kids who have less social boundaries bewilder him – he is not used to kids wandering during lessons, using curse words and not being sent out of the classroom. But if something confuses him or throws him off, he recovers more quickly now. Not everything is sending him into orbit. I feel the hypervigilance we had been living under is slowly beginning to melt away.
Our relatives are rejoicing. They tell us they have not seen us look like this in ages. They see a glimmer in our eyes that has been missing for some time. We are still a bit stunned. Not yet fully relaxed.
People are asking if we wish we had done this switch sooner. The answer to that is that we needed the past year so he could benefit from the expertise of a seasoned and experienced SENCO, deeper insights from teachers and the teaching assistants who worked so closely with him, and the pile of reports done by others they brought into in the secondary school to give us the missing in-depth specialist assessments – detailed pieces of the puzzle that we lacked previously. These evaluations enable us to understand his educational profile better than those that we had in hand from the primary school. They also provided the convincing body of evidence needed to enable the powers that be to make a quick decision to move him to special provision. So his time in the mainstream school was useful to him and to us, even as it was hard. But we are very, very happy to have found a place that seems to be better meeting his needs.
We are not sure what to expect this weekend. I am guessing there will be a release of tension at some point. Things may yet sail across the room. We will do our best to get him some physical activity, to keep things positive, to keep pressures at bay. I hope we can see him laugh.
But five days…I will hold onto that. Who knew five consecutive days could be had without that heart-wrenching dysregulation that had become commonplace in our home?
I, for one, had not realized that we had forgotten how peaceful it can be to simply breathe without waiting for a crash or a bang or other signs of a small, pressured soul poised ready to explode.
I hope, I hope, I hope that we are breaking free of those times. But I am sure we must be vigilant and protect these hopes from disappointment. I am sure we are not out of the woods. FASD is a hard, brutal taskmaster – throwing many hurdles in the way time and time again. But five days…they mean something too, and we have to celebrate when we can the successes that come our way.


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Update: It's fake arghhh. Apparently it's just an expected announcements list.
This time it seems pretty real folks, as T3 have spotted a Half-Life 3 listing on GamesCom product list. The list shows a bunch of games that is going to be showcased at the event this year starting from Capcom's presentation today.
You can check out the listing here and it seems totally legit this time. There are plenty of games and it doesn't look like a typo considering no one would be stupid enough to put that unless it's true. This is an official document.
Half-Life 2 was released in 2004 followed by a bunch of episodes, and that elusive sequel to one of the most anticipated games of all time is yet to be revealed, but gamers don't have to wait too long it seems. Will GamesCom be the event where this mammoth game is finally announced? Only time will tell.
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Any gesture—a cool greeting, an appreciative laugh, the apology for an outburst—is measured against a prior sense of what is reasonably owed another, given the sort of bond involved. Against this background measure, some gestures will seem more than ample, others less. The exchange of gestures has in turn two aspects. It is an exchange of display acts—of surface acting—and an exchange of emotion work—of deep acting. In either case, rules (display rules or feeling rules), once agreed upon, establish the worth of a gesture and are thus used in social exchange to measure the worth of emotional gestures. Feeling rules thus establish the basis of worth to be ascribed to a range of gestures, including emotion work. Emotion work is a gesture in a social exchange; it has a function there and is not to be understood merely as a facet of personality.25
There seem to be two ways in which feeling rules come into play in social exchange. In the first, the individual takes the "owed" feeling to heart, takes
it seriously. For example, a young woman on the eve of her college graduation felt anxious and depressed but thought that she "ought to feel happy," and that she "owed this happiness" to her parents for making her graduation possible.
To my parents and friends, graduation was a really big deal, especially for my parents, since I'm the oldest in the family. For some reason, however, I couldn't get excited about it. I had had a good time at college and all, but I was ready to get out and 1 knew it. Also, we had practiced the ceremony so many times that it had lost its meaning to me. I put on an act, though, and tried to act real emotional and hug my friends and cry, but I knew inside I didn't really feel it.2h
The young graduate "paid" her parents, we might say, in surface acting dissociated from her "real" definition of the situation. Going one step further, she could pay them with a gesture of deep acting—of trying to feel. A most generous gesture o:f all is the act of successful self-persuasion, of genuine feeling and frame change, a deep acting that jells, that works, that becomes what the emotion is, though it is nonetheless not a "natural" gift. The best gift, the gift the parents wish for, is, of course, their daughter's real joy.
The second way feeling rules come into play in exchange is shown when the individual does not take the affective convention seriously but instead plays with it. For example, an airport observation: There are two airline ticket agents, one experienced, one new on the job. The new agent is l aced with the task of rewriting a complex ticket 1 involving change of date, lower fare, and credit of the difference between the previous and present fare to be made toward an air travel card, etc.). The new ticket agent looks for the "old hand," who is gone, while the customers in line shift postures and stare intendy at the new agent. The old hand finally reappears after ten minutes, and the following conversation takes place: "I was looking for you. You're supposed to be my instructor." Old hand: "Gee," with an ironic smile, "I am really sorry, I feel so bad I wasn't here to help out" (they bodi laugh). The inappropriate feeling (lack of guilt, or sympathy) can be played upon in a way that says, "Don't take my nonpayment in emotion work or display work personally. I don't want to work here. You can understand that." The laughter at an ironic distance from the affective convention suggests also an intimacy: we do not need these conventions to hold us together. We share our defiance of them.


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|Address1179 S Second St Milan, TN
|School Websitearnoldsbeautyschool.com
|School TypePrivate for-profit, less-than 2-year
|StatusPrivate for-profit
|Level of StudyUndergraduate
Arnolds Beauty School is a private for-profit, less-than 2-year college based in Milan, Tennessee that offers undergraduate programs to its students. The highest level of offerings is at least 1, but less than 2 academic yrs.
In the 2019 academic year, the in-state tuition for enrolling in Arnolds Beauty School was $NaN. This number excludes room and board. The school does provide on-campus housing, which you may want to factor into your cost analysis when planning to attend Arnolds Beauty School.
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Out-of-state residents can expect to pay more. While the costs for room, board, and other expenses are the same, out-of-state tuition is significantly higher. Out-of-state students must pay $NaN in tuition.
Students at Arnolds Beauty School are eligible for federal financial aid. The average federal aid awarded to students at Arnolds Beauty School was $3,911 last year. with 84% of students were awarded federal aid. This shows that if you apply for federal aid, you have a good chance of receiving it.
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Student composition is an important deciding factor for most students applying to Arnolds Beauty School.
Arnolds Beauty School has a good gender split, with 97% of undergraduates being female and 3% of undergraduates being male.
At the school, most students are Tennessee residents; in fact, 75% of all students reside in Tennessee. You'll have the opportunity to immerse in the local community and interact with fellow students primarily based in Tennessee
The student to faculty ratio at Arnolds Beauty School is 7:1. This means that you should have no trouble getting the academic support you need from Arnolds Beauty School to thrive in your studies.


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