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Create a custom PHP application
Many users run a Bitnami stack as a development environment for their own PHP projects (as opposed to running third-party applications such as Joomla! or WordPress). To deploy your PHP application in this environment, you have two options:
To make a single PHP application accessible at the root URL of the Web server (for example, http://localhost), simply copy the PHP files into the /opt/bitnami/apache2/htdocs folder. For an example, take a look at the phpinfo example.
To have several applications running, create the same structure used by Bitnami when installing Bitnami PHP applications. Recent versions of Bitnami stacks ship a demo application with this structure to help you get started. To use this, follow the steps below:
Copy the /opt/bitnami/docs/demo folder into the /opt/bitnami/apps directory.
$ sudo cp -r /opt/bitnami/docs/demo /opt/bitnami/apps
Add the following line to the end of the /opt/bitnami/apache2/conf/bitnami/bitnami-apps-prefix.conf file:
Include "/opt/bitnami/apps/demo/conf/httpd-prefix.conf"
Restart the Apache server using the command-line tool.
$ sudo /opt/bitnami/ctlscript.sh restart apache
You should now be able to access the demo application at http://SERVER-IP/demo. You should see a "Hello world" message in your browser.
If your stack does not include a demo application, or if you prefer to create a custom PHP application from scratch, follow the steps below. These steps assume that your application will live in the /opt/bitnami/apps/myapp/ directory:
Run the following commands to create the directories and assign the necessary permissions:
$ sudo mkdir /opt/bitnami/apps/myapp $ sudo mkdir /opt/bitnami/apps/myapp/htdocs/ $ sudo mkdir /opt/bitnami/apps/myapp/conf $ sudo chown -R bitnami:daemon /opt/bitnami/apps/myapp/htdocs/ $ sudo chmod -R g+w /opt/bitnami/apps/myapp/htdocs/
Create and edit the /opt/bitnami/apps/myapp/conf/httpd-prefix.conf file and add the line below to it:
Alias /myapp/ "/opt/bitnami/apps/myapp/htdocs/" Alias /myapp "/opt/bitnami/apps/myapp/htdocs/" Include "/opt/bitnami/apps/myapp/conf/httpd-app.conf"
Create and edit the /opt/bitnami/apps/myapp/conf/httpd-app.conf file and add the content below to it. This is the main configuration file for your application, so modify it further depending on your application's requirements.
<Directory /opt/bitnami/apps/myapp/htdocs/> Options +FollowSymLinks AllowOverride None <IfVersion < 2.3 > Order allow,deny Allow from all </IfVersion> <IfVersion >= 2.3> Require all granted </IfVersion> </Directory>
NOTE: If your application uses .htaccess files, you should change the AllowOverride None option to AllowOverride All. Find out how to move the .htaccess file content to the main server configuration file.
Once you have created the files and directories above, add the following line to the end of the main Apache configuration file at /opt/bitnami/apache2/conf/bitnami/bitnami-apps-prefix.conf, as shown below:
Include "/opt/bitnami/apps/myapp/conf/httpd-prefix.conf"
Restart the Apache server:
$ sudo /opt/bitnami/ctlscript.sh restart apache
You should now be able to access the application at http://SERVER-IP/myapp.
If you prefer to have the application available at the server root, perform these additional steps:
Edit the /opt/bitnami/apps/myapp/conf/httpd-prefix.conf file and modify it so that it looks like this:
DocumentRoot "/opt/bitnami/apps/myapp/htdocs/" Include "/opt/bitnami/apps/myapp/conf/httpd-app.conf"
Restart the Apache server:
$ sudo /opt/bitnami/ctlscript.sh restart apache
You should now be able to access the application at http://SERVER-IP/.
Once you have created and deployed your custom PHP application, you can also proceed to create and integrate a MySQL/MariaDB database with your application.
Check out the following tutorial if you want to learn more about configuring a custom PHP application.


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In this post, the third in our series of blogs on what advisors need to know about variable annuities, we will examine the mechanics of the Guaranteed Lifetime Income Benefit (GLIB) — where it works and where it fits into the variable annuity (VA) landscape.
A variable annuity with GLIB provides the ability to convert an account value to a guaranteed income stream for life through converting the account value into a fixed annuity. The account value typically has a high-water feature and the annuitized value is based on this amount regardless of the actual account value. With a GLIB the underlying account grows each year based on the performance of the underlying investment portfolio. Many times there is a guaranteed roll-up rate applied to the initial investment for a given period. This functions to set a minimum high-water mark value where growth is set as the greater of the guaranteed rate or the actual performance. The highest account value attained through this roll-up phase is saved as the high-water mark and income benefits are ultimately calculated based on this amount.
Withdrawals can begin two ways. One is by annuitizing the account based on the high-water mark at the annuitization rate specified in the VA contract. These fixed payments are made for life in nominal dollars. The second way is to take "dollar-for-dollar" withdrawals. This approach allows the investor to withdraw an amount each year up to the guaranteed growth rate without triggering annuitization. Both options are discussed below.
Most providers who pay a guaranteed roll-up rate for a period prior to annuitization typically use an annuity factor to calculate the payments based on the rate for an age that is lower than the investor's current age. For example, some policies may state the interest rate assumption used (typically low) and some age offset (if the investor is 72 then the annuity price for an investor 10 years younger is used). The payment is much less than could be achieved in buying a similar fixed annuity in the open market with the same dollars. For example, the current difference between the payouts for single premium immediate annuities is $6.10 per $100 invested for a 70-year-old and $5.20 per $100 invested for a 60-year-old.
Depending on the size of the gap between the actual account value and the high-water mark, the income payments may not be any higher in the policy than what could be achieved by using the actual account value to buy a fixed annuity policy at current market rates.
Aside from annuitizing the contract, another way to extract value is by using dollar-for-dollar withdrawals. With this method the policyholder can make withdrawals from the account, and as was explained regarding a GLWB in the second post in our series, the investor is paying himself from his own principal. The withdrawals typically can't be larger than the guarantee without triggering other events like lowering the guaranteed high-water mark.
Using this method preserves access to the account value but the guaranteed high water almost never increases. Remember, there are two values: the "shadow value," which is the account's high-water mark, and there's the actual account value. While the investor gets withdrawals without triggering annuitization, the actual account value continues to diminish. Once the investor has exhausted the account value, specific triggers kick in and the annuitization of the high-water mark starts automatically.
To access the high-water mark on a policy with a GLIB one or the other of the two methods described will have to be used to begin taking withdrawals. Which to choose depends on the size of actual account value relative to the high-water mark, the maximum dollar-for-dollar withdrawal allowed in the contract, the annuity factor used to convert the high-water mark to an annuity and the age, health and liquidity needs of the investor.
I hope that has helped you arrive at a better understanding of how your clients can extract the most value from their variable annuity contracts. In the next installment in this series, we'll take a look at variable annuities in the real world and how they fit in the markets we've experienced over the last few years.
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text: Monday, December 17, 2012 Podcast Addresses Collaboration Among Rehab Professionals in Telehealth "[F]or telehealth to become a reality, rehab professionals and patients/clients must demand more of their personal and overall health care delivery systems," says Alan Lee, PT, DPT, PhD, CWS, GCS, in a new APTA podcast titled Telehealth: Recent Trends, the Importance to Physical Therapy and its Future. Christopher Peterson, PT, DPT, hosts the podcast, the third in a series on telehealth, which also features Bambang Parmanto, PhD, and Tammy Richmond, OT, FAOTA. Lee, Parmanto, and Richmond describe how telehealth practice may develop over the next 10-15 years and discuss the opportunities for collaboration between rehabilitation professionals. Specifically, Parmanto notes the development of common telepractice among rehab professionals "to help toward sharing technologies and sharing outcome data from the service being provided." The group also addresses key areas that need to be addressed for telehealth opportunities to become a reality, such as payment and licensure. APTA podcasts are prerecorded discussions and interviews, not live events. Members can listen to podcasts at their convenience by clicking on the links provided in News Now articles, visiting www.apta.org/podcasts/, or subscribing to APTA podcasts on iTunes.


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I would like to look at this idea of anatta negating kamma. First let's look at this old thread: Note that Nina van Gorkom is a long time friend of Sujin's and still regularly comes to bangkok (where I live) to discuss Dhamma with Sujin. Nina is also the main translator of Sujin's writings and talks.As per standard abhidammic theory, she teaches "wholes" do not exist; they are concepts (pannatti) and anatta. Likewise, the paramattha dhammas of citta, cetasika, rupa, and nibbana are also said to be anatta as their impermanence overrides the fact that they exist for a fleeting moment. However, from this the conclusion is drawn that since "I" am only the pancakkhanda and these are selfless ultimate realities, then I cannot will or choose to do anything. Cetana as a cetasika is said to only arise, as with all paramattha dhamma, due to "conditions and accumulations", a person as anatta cannot will another anatta constituent into being. Kamma as traditionally understood in the Sutta literature is thus negated.
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text: Monday, October 22, 2012 Jewell Appointed to NQF Ad-hoc Planned Readmissions Committee APTA Board of Director member Dianne Jewell, PT, DPT, PhD, CCS, recently was appointed to the National Quality Forum's (NQF) Ad-hoc Planned Readmissions Committee. NQF readmissions panels have primarily been staffed with physicians, which makes Jewell's appointment particularly significant for the physical therapy profession. An ad hoc review may be conducted on an endorsed measure at any time if 1 or more of the following criteria are met: the evidence supporting the measure has changed implementation of the measure results in unintended consequences, and/or material changes have been made to the measure. Ad hoc reviews can be requested at any time by any party, as long as there is adequate evidence to justify the review. NQF will conduct an ad hoc review requested by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services for the endorsed measures: 1551, hospital-level 30-day all-cause risk-standardized readmission rate following elective primary total hip arthroplasty and total knee arthroplasty; 0330, hospital 30-day all-cause risk-standardized readmission rate following heart failure hospitalization for patients 18 and older; and 0505, hospital 30-day all-cause risk-standardized readmission rate following acute myocardial infarction hospitalization. This review is being completed due to material changes to a currently endorsed measure (eg, expansion of a measure to a different population or setting). This is intended as a focused review of the planned readmission algorithms that have been incorporated into each of the condition/procedure specific readmission measures. Comments Dionne is an incredibly gifted member of the APTA and she will do a great job. Posted by Bob Worden on 10/26/2012 6:46 PM Thank you Dianne! Improving quality is important, and having physical therapy at the table is valuable. Posted by Jim Smith on 10/26/2012 7:52 PM Can't think of a better person for this appointment, both to represent our profession and as a "team player". Thank you, Dianne! Posted by Janet Peterson on 10/27/2012 12:16 AM Excellent choice for this appointment. Posted by Susan Butler McNamara on 10/29/2012 9:18 AM Dianne, That is great news! You are perfect for this role! Posted by Katherine Baucom on 10/29/2012 12:00 PM


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This is part 2. Read part 1 first if you haven't: http://johnkstuff.blogspot.com/2007/03/writing-for-cartoons-1.html
Skills you need to have to be a good cartoon writer:
Skills you need to have to be a good cartoon writer:
Here's the most important one:
Be a cartoonistThis is so self-evident, it seems crazy that it needs to be explained to anybody, but here goes...
You don't have to be the greatest cartoonist, but you should have some experience animating, or at least inbetweening so you know how cartoons work. That way you won't ask animators to do things that don't work in animation.
You shouldn't write for any medium that you don't understand, because the people who have to actually make the medium will think you're an idiot and will waste their abilities trying make your awkward "ideas" seem smooth by patching them together with bandaids. That's the basic system the studios use today.
Johnny Mercer wasn't as good a singer as Frank Sinatra, but he played instruments, read music and sang. He knew enough about singing to know what could be sung well by better singers. He knew the language he was writing for. He could carry a tune.
Would you trust a songwriter to write tunes if he had no way of playing you the tune-or even singing it to you?
"Trust me, the tune in my head is really good. I just don't have any musical ability to show it to you. Let me describe the tune. There are some really fast low notes, then they speed up and go higher. Then there's a short fat note that wiggles for a couple beats. I think I mean beats... uh...what's a beat again?"
I'm sure that's how this was "written": http://melaman2.com/cartoons/singles/mp3/tiny-toons.mp3
That's what cartoon writers who don't draw are asking you to believe-that they have good visual ideas but no direct way to express them. That is exactly how their idiotic scripts read to us and we shake our heads in disgust. It's why the scriptwriters are laughed at by artists. I don't know how these "writers" can walk down the same halls as the artists who know they've had their medium stolen from them and know what charlatans they are.
The language of animation is pictures- and simple pictures too, because you have to draw lots and lots of pictures just to make something move. The more complicated the pictures are, the less an animator can do per week and the lousier the motion looks.
Having experience animating teaches you this fast and cures you of wanting to write crowd scenes and complicated costumes and difficult camera angles.
Animation is also potential magic and you need to be able to draw and animate somewhat so that you can take advantage of what kind of magic animation can actually do well. An experienced animation artist's understanding of what cartoon magic is is much different than a non-visual person's is.
Here's what Jeffrey Scott and most animation "writers" think is the magic part of animation, "In live-action you have to write a lot of real-life stuff, like people's problems and crime. But in animation for kids I can make up wild stories, write sci-fi or fantasy, and dream about worlds and see them appear on screen. This would be too expensive in live-action, but in animation it only takes an artist to draw some pictures and there it is!"
In other words, the magic is that you can slough off all the responsibility of having to know what you are doing on an artist. You don't have to do the hard part. You can write a bad live-action style epic with huge elaborate sets and a cast of thousands, and magically some poor artist (or hundreds of them) is stuck with making it happen - at 12 drawings a second.
Here's a news bulletin for all cartoon writers: ANIMATION IS NOT CHEAPER THAN LIVE-ACTION. GET THAT CRAZY IDEA OUT OF YOUR HEAD. WE HAVE TO DRAW A PICTURE FOR EVERY 12TH OF A SECOND, SO MULTIPLY YOUR CROWD SCENES BY 12 AND THEN AGAIN BY HOW MANY SECONDS OF SCREEN TIME THE CARTOON IS ON FOR.
Obviously, drawing a storyboard gives you a much better idea if a scene or cartoon will work than writing it in words. You can just look at the storyboard in continuity and see it. Even artists who try to write scripts realize this quickly.
I learned by having to draw scenes I first "wrote" in words that some things I thought would work didn't. Then when I sat down and drew the ideas I invented many scenes, character bits and gags that I would never have thought of just by typing the ideas floating in my head and wasting time trying to verbalize them. Somehow, much magic comes out of your pencil without you consciously dreaming it up.
Someone who can't draw will try to argue that he thinks visually, but unfortunately for him, he can never prove his point. In order for a blind writer to prove that he thinks visually, he has to get an artist to prove it by drawing the pictures for him. He can't get his wonderful pictures out of his head without the aid of someone who can draw. If the writer doesn't like the artist's interpretation he has no way of explaining how to do it right.
On the other hand, artists who also have story ability can prove it by just doing it. As they did for the first 4 decades of animation history. In the 90s Spumco proved it again and for a while because of the huge success of bringing back real cartoons even executives went along with it,
http://www.animationarchive.org/2006/09/media-ren-stimpy-big-house-blues-seq.html until they started meddling again, and so much now that the business has reverted to the 80s system of hiring non-creative "writers" who can neither draw nor write, but are happy to steal the money while taking advantage of the ever gullible execs.
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text: Friday, February 08, 2013 Deadline Extended to Register for Innovation Summit Due to popular demand, the deadline for the Innovation Summit: Collaborative Care Models has been extended to March 6. Don't miss out on the opportunity to participate in this groundbreaking virtual event that will bring together physical therapists, physicians, large health systems, and policy makers to discuss the current and future role of physical therapy in integrated models of care. Check out the programming, including the speakers and panelists who will provide you with the information needed to get involved in accountable care organizations, patient-centered medical homes, bundled payment models, and private payer and employer-sponsored initiatives. Interested in attending a viewing party in your area? APTA will soon list viewing parties and their locations at www.apta.org/InnovationSummit/ViewingParties/.


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WASHINGTON, D.C. — House and Senate agriculture leaders Monday were wrapping up a deal on a massive farm bill that has been more than two years in the making.
The bill will cost more than $900 billion over 10 years for farm programs and food stamps. The House plans to vote on the bill Wednesday morning, with the Senate to follow.
Among the provisions included in the legislation are:
• A plan that will raise target prices for grains with payments made on base acres.
• A new dairy program without a supply management provision.
• No changes to country-of-origin labeling for red meat or to the Grain Inspection Packers and Stockyards Act.
House Agriculture Committee Chairman Frank Lucas, R-Okla., and Senate Agriculture Committee Chairman Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., planned to release the bill later today.
Before a floor vote can take place, a majority of conferees in the House and Senate have to sign it. The leaders decided not to hold a final public meeting to deal with contentious issues.
The commodity title provisions are basically those in the House-passed version of the bill, except that payments will be made on 86 percent of base acres rather than acres in current production. That means a combination of the Average Crop Revenue program known as ARC favored by the Senate and the Price Loss Coverage favored by the House, with the higher target prices in the House bill.
The nutrition title will cut about $8 billion over 10 years from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, better known as SNAP or food stamps. The bill will also forbid food stamps for lottery winners and restrict food stamps for college students, issues championed by Stabenow. A work requirement pilot project is also included, providing states about $200 million to start these programs.
The bill also increases funding for food banks by $205 million.
The dairy issue has been resolved, with the House position on the dairy title prevailing "with some changes," a congressional aide said.
House Agriculture Committee ranking member Collin Peterson, D-Minn., and dairy farmers have warned the bill would make the new insurance program unpopular without a provision to discourage overproduction that would continue to trigger payments when prices are low.
"Supply management won't be in it," said a GOP aide in reference to the objections of House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, to the Senate version of the dairy title.
A key lobbyist told Capital Press that Boehner appears ready to whip the bill so it is certain to pass the House. The lobbyist said that the defeat of the first House bill on the floor had been a wake-up call for the Republicans because so many rural Republicans were disgusted that a bill that meant so much to them and their constituents had failed due to a lack of Republican votes.
Meanwhile, major meat groups said today they will oppose the bill because they are disappointed it does not contain provisions to alter the country-of-origin labeling for red meat rules or to restrict implementation of a provision in the 2008 farm bill to alter the Agriculture Department's implementation of the Packers and Stockyards Act.
The groups — the American Meat Institute, the National Cattlemen's Beef Association, the National Chicken Council, the National Pork Producers Council, the National Turkey Federation and the North American Meat Association — added that they "will actively oppose final passage of the farm bill, if these issues are not addressed."
A congressional source close to the negotiations signaled that members of Congress would not be sympathetic to the meat industry's position.
"It would be astounding if these lobbyists opposed the bill, given that the final provides substantial, permanent disaster relief for livestock producers," the source said.
The final bill contains nearly $5 billion in livestock disaster relief, with a permanent baseline for the first time, with the aid going back to 2011, the source said, adding, "There's no other stakeholder group that went from zero to $5 billion with permanent baseline in a bill that cuts billions of dollars."
The source also noted that the bill contains a 60 percent "carve out" amounting to $1.6 billion for the livestock industry annually in the Environmental Quality Incentives Program.
Neither the House bill nor the Senate bill contained a measure to repeal COOL, the source added, and the Senate has accepted a House provision for a COOL study.
Jess Peterson, a lobbyist for the U.S. Cattlemen's Association, which opposed changes to both COOL and GIPSA, said that although he has been unable to confirm details, that his members "greatly appreciate" the work of the lead negotiators "to pass a clean farm bill without various divisive amendments."
Peterson urged passage of the bill.
"Farmers and ranchers need a five-year bill that implements key programs," Peterson said. "This has been a long and difficult process. Producing the bill in this fashion ensures passage and implementation."
The National Farmers Union accused the meat industry of trying to hold the farm bill hostage even though it provides a lot of benefit to that industry and producers.
"NFU strongly disagrees with this letter and supports the livestock provisions in the emerging farm bill, which are beneficial to family farmers and ranchers," National Farmers Union President Roger Johnson said in a news release. "The groups that signed the letter do not represent farmers and ranchers. They represent the vertically integrated packers, and they clearly do not have the interests of family farmers and ranchers in mind."
Meanwhile, the National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition expressed disappointment over the apparent deal on payment limitations.
In a statement late Sunday, NSAC, which represents small, environmentally oriented farmers, said that it is the group's
understanding that "instead of a $50,000 annual limit on the primary payments (or double that for married couples), the lead negotiators have decided instead on a $125,000 limit (again, doubled for married couples)."
"In other words, they have increased the House and Senate-passed bipartisan agreement by 150 percent, an egregious increase showing profound disrespect for the democratic process and the normal rules of Congress that make identical provisions passed by both bodies not open to change in a House-Senate conference."


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NOTE: WebSphere is software for SOA environments using dynamic interconnected processes. It is designed to deliver application infrastructures for all business situations.
The firm held a series of keynote presentations this week as well as break out press sessions focused on mobile application development hosted by Kristen Lauria, vice president of MobileFirst and WebSphere Marketing at IBM. Speaking to the assembled group, Ford Motor Company's Judy Asher, who is manager for research and technology, highlighted the changing nature of mobile apps and the fact that so-called "disposable apps" are now emerging and making the need for much faster development.
NOTE: Disposable apps are intended to exist only as temporary pieces of software devoted to (for example) a four-day IT show such as IBM Impact, a new car launch, or some other short term special event.
IBM says its MobileFirst platform is the first in the industry to speed the process of building apps by enabling companies to integrate analytics and capture the complete on-device experience of how customers are using apps, including insight into gestures, dwell time, and navigation.
The IBM MobileFirst platform now includes geo-location services for developers. CTO of mobile research for IBM John Ponzo said that customers are using mobile as a channel and, crucially, that business transformation needs to start internally on the back-end and then extend to the mobile experience.
Now, geo-location triggers can extend applications to take contextual action based on a user's location to provide personalized service. Featuring a new toolkit, developers can monitor battery and network bandwidth. Additionally, newly integrated mobile app testing capabilities have been provided here to enable developers to improve app quality while reducing the effort needed to test across different mobile platforms.


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James McClean is out of the Republic of Ireland's opening Euro 2016 qualifier in Georgia.
The 25-year-old Wigan midfielder has not regained full match-fitness after recovering from an ankle injury and manager Martin O'Neill has reluctantly ruled him out of Sunday's game in Tbilisi.
O'Neill had hoped to play McClean in Wednesday night's 2-0 friendly victory over Oman at the Aviva Stadium, but he did not even make the bench and has now been withdrawn from the squad.
The manager said: "James McClean, unfortunately, has not come through. It's not that he has picked up any fresh injury or anything like that. James is disappointed, in a sense. He thinks he is further on.
"My concern with James really is while the injury has healed up, he hasn't played that much contact football. We put him in yesterday, he didn't do too badly at all, but I thought everything was just maybe too much for him.
"Wigan weren't really that keen about him playing either, and I understand that from a club viewpoint.
"If he did maybe pull a hamstring or a calf muscle in an attempt to strive for full fitness, then he might miss the games next month. At least now he has got that chance to get to get ready.
"He is not in the squad for Sunday."
McClean's absence will be a blow with O'Neill having used him extensively in his previous games in charge, but the 62-year-old was at least able to take positives from a win over admittedly modest opposition.
After a tepid start, Kevin Doyle headed the Republic into a 20th-minute lead from Robbie Brady's corner, his 14th senior international goal.
However, despite creating a series of chances - Alex Pearce and substitute Aiden McGeady both had efforts cleared off the line and David Meyler and McGeady also hit the woodwork - they were unable to kill the game off until Pearce stabbed home nine minutes from time.
It was his second goal for Ireland with the first also coming against Oman on his debut two years ago.
O'Neill said: "I thought beforehand that we would need the game, and I think it was proved.
"We had a chance to look at Darron Gibson and Robbie Brady, (who) I hadn't seen play for us, anyway - I obviously haven't seen much of Darron Gibson at all in the last couple of years, so I thought the game was needed.
"It's nice to win - there's plenty of improvement [needed], obviously, with Tbilisi on Sunday, but it was just nice to win the game and for things to work out."
Gibson got 70 minutes under his belt before being replaced by Glenn Whelan moments after picking up a booking for an agricultural challenge on Eid Al Farsi, and there was a 126th senior cap for keeper Shay Given more than two years after he announced his retirement from international football.
Whether either man is involved in Tbilisi remains to be seen with O'Neill having kept most of his key players in reserve.
However, the wait to play the first competitive game since he was appointed as Giovanni Trapattoni's successor in November last year is almost over, and he admits he cannot wait to get started.
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Election Day Harassment and All-American Apple Sauce
Unlike the battleground states of Pennsylvania, Ohio, or Florida, California was pretty much a lock for Mr. Obama from the outset. I didn't get a single phone call to try to win my vote. Even when I went to vote last Tuesday, I wasn't harassed for being a liberal or a conservative; I was, however, harassed because I don't like stickers.
After I voted, an impossibly-perky, election worker armed with a roll of stickers stopped me on my way out:
Perky young election worker: Wait! Wait! You forgot your "I Voted" sticker.
Me: Oh, no thank you.
Perky young election worker: You don't want a sticker?
Me: No, thanks.
Perky young election worker: But how will people know you voted?
Me: Well, as long as I know I voted, right?
Perky young election worker: Well, at least take a sticker for your husband. (Jabbing the stickers towards me.)
Me: No thanks. He won't want a sticker either.
Perky young election worker: (Now drawing attention to us from Democrats, Republicans, and Independents) But how do you know he doesn't want a sticker?
Me: OK. I'll take his sticker.
Perky young election worker: Are you sure you don't want your own sticker?
Me: (fearing for my safety) OK, sure. I'll take a sticker.
I felt like I was in the Seinfeld episode when Kramer refuses to wear the AIDS ribbon during an AIDS walk:
Feeling patriotic (and now safely away from intense polling girl), I decided to go home and make an all-American apple pie. Then I remembered that I really don't like making pie crusts that much, so I made all-American apple sauce instead.
This Cranberry, Raisin, and Walnut Apple Sauce is a variation on my basic homemade apple sauce. It gets a kick of flavor from tart cranberries and sweet raisins. Enjoy it as is or serve it warm with a scoop of creamy vanilla bean ice cream. After all, ice cream always gets bi-partisan support.
Homemade Cranberry, Raisin, and Walnut Apple Sauce
Yields 5 cups, cooked
Print recipe only here.
8 McIntosh, Rome Beauty or other sweet apples (about 8 cups), peeled and chopped**
1 cup fresh cranberries
2 teaspoons fresh lemon juice
1/4 teaspoon lemon zest
3 cups water
1/4 cup light brown sugar
2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
1/2 cup raisins
1/2 cup chopped toasted walnuts
Place all ingredients from apples through nutmeg in a deep pot. Bring to a boil for 10 minutes, or until the apples begin to break down. Lower to a simmer and cook 15-20 minutes, or until the apples are completely soft. Stir well with a spoon until a thick sauce forms.
Leave a few lumps and bumps in it or puree it in a blender for a smooth finish. Just make sure to let it cool first before pouring it the blender! Stir in the raisins and walnuts. Let the sauce cool before serving.
**Like Jeff's mom, Dorothy, of Dorothy's Broccoli Pasta and Italian Almond Biscotti, I leave the skin on one or two apples to impart a warm reddish color to the sauce. If you don't like the texture of the skin, you can puree the sauce until it dissolves.
You might also like these recipes featuring apples:
Crunchy Veg Salad with Lemon-Tahini Dressing
Apple, Fennel, and Celery Salad
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39 comments:
- Jersey Girl Cooks said...
Great applesauce. Maybe she thought you needed a sticker so you could get your free starbucks coffee for voting:) Those darn sticker pushers.
- November 9, 2008 at 6:27 PM
- Heather said...
yum!! sounds great :) those are some shockingly aggressive sticker pushers!
- November 9, 2008 at 6:30 PM
- Stacey Snacks said...
I am so tired of talking politics and having "friends" scream at me for voting for the "wrong" candidate! I don't stickers or signs on my lawn and no more tv ads please!
Let's just talk PIE.
Thank you.
- November 9, 2008 at 6:32 PM
- Peter G | Souvlaki For The Soul said...
When I get approached on polling day I just talk in Greek! They avoid me that way!...LOL. Great sauce and I love the line about ice cream needing "bi partisan support". How true!
- November 9, 2008 at 6:35 PM
- Susan @ SGCC said...
Don't you just hate those obnoxious perky people! I probably would have told her to take that sticker and stick it you know where!
That applesauce looks great, though. Such a lovely color! Who needs pie crust? ;)
- November 9, 2008 at 6:40 PM
I'm a bit of an applesauce purist: apples, cinnamon, nutmeg, period. I always make it with the skins on the apples, to get that wonderful pink color.
- November 9, 2008 at 7:01 PM
After all of the voting problems 4 and 8 years ago, it is a relief to hear that a sticker was the biggest issue of the day.
Beautiful applesauce! While I'm not a big fan of eating applesauce, I have certainly been known to make some in the slow cooker just for the aroma that fills the house. mmmm!
- November 9, 2008 at 7:24 PM
- MyKitchenInHalfCups said...
That vanilla bean ice cream and this apple sauce - that sure gets my votes!
No sticker should be just as fine as taking a sticker in my book.
- November 9, 2008 at 7:32 PM
- Manggy said...
Hm, I guess Louise is right. I would take the stickers and dump them in the nearest trash can. WHO?! WHO DOESN'T WANT TO WEAR THE STICKER!? Ha ha ha.
I will have mine with some caramel ice cream please! Yum!
- November 9, 2008 at 7:51 PM
- Rachel said...
Loved reading the dialogue...
love the colour of your sauce..Do the cranberries lend that colour to the sauce?
I get a paler pink when I leave the apple skins on..
- November 9, 2008 at 8:39 PM
- Peter M said...
Love the spices in the sauce...suped up it is!
I think you should make Food Blogga stickers to promote the blog! lol
I will wear one.
- November 9, 2008 at 9:06 PM
- Rosa's Yummy Yums said...
A really tasty apple sauce! Delightful!
- November 9, 2008 at 10:34 PM
- Vijitha said...
I loved the colour of the sauce. Lovly pink shade. The sauce sounds gr8....gonna make it for sure.
- November 9, 2008 at 10:43 PM
- TS of eatingclub vancouver said...
I don't even need the video reminder. ;)
- November 9, 2008 at 10:52 PM
You actually 'have' to wear a sticker after you vote??? Let me just say there are a lot of differences between Europe and the USA ;) I would definitely say no too.
Love that Seinfeld episode, and love the pink apple sauce!
- November 10, 2008 at 1:12 AM
So funny! Your applesauce is unique! Love it!
- November 10, 2008 at 2:12 AM
- Farmgirl Susan said...
You should come vote out in the country - they didn't even offer us stickers. ; )
Gorgeous applesauce!
- November 10, 2008 at 6:13 AM
- Dani Spies said...
How could you not want your own sticker;)!?
I love the color of this applesauce... gorgeous!
- November 10, 2008 at 6:35 AM
- FOODalogue said...
Susan - Your election bit was pretty funny. When you get tired of cooking, you could do stand up! Luscious looking apple sauce too.
- November 10, 2008 at 9:25 AM
- T.W. Barritt at Culinary Types said...
Sounds like a perfect, and delicious remedy to Election "sticker shock!"
- November 10, 2008 at 9:26 AM
- Cookie baker Lynn said...
I love the beautiful homemade look of your applesauce. It just captures the taste of fall!
- November 10, 2008 at 9:28 AM
I love the way this apple sauce sounds. I bet it's good on some pork chops.
I had the opposite experience last Tuesday BTW. Since I voted by mail, I misplaced my sticker that was enclosed with the ballot. Everyone was asking me if I voted & I was a little annoyed by ALL the questions so I dropped by the polling booth at my kid's school to ask for a sticker.... They gave me a look of mistrust before reluctantly giving me a sticker. Geez!
I can't wait to try this recipe! Mmmm... You're right, I bet it's divine atop ice cream.
xoxox Amy
- November 10, 2008 at 9:56 AM
- Le Flâneur Novice said...
I thought that such things would just happen here lol You really made my night Susan! :)))
- November 10, 2008 at 10:52 AM
- Maris said...
DELISH! I think your harrassment was the worth the applesauce that it inspired :)
- November 10, 2008 at 12:23 PM
- Kim U said...
I was one of those perky election workers pushing the stickers. I'm pretty sure there were a few people who didn't want the sticker; I still made them take it. I don't know... I just have really strong feelings about the stickers - if it helps motivate someone to come vote (and it does, I know that), I view it as a really cheap good thing. It's like getting a gold star when you're a kid in school - maybe it didn't mean anything to some people, but it did mean a lot to others.
- November 10, 2008 at 1:24 PM
- Le Flâneur Novice said...
Btw something is waiting you here Susan!
- November 10, 2008 at 1:52 PM
- Darius T. Williams said...
Absolutely hilarious story - really! Good thing you made applesauce tho - right?
- November 10, 2008 at 2:45 PM
- Scribbit said...
Oh this was funny--Andrew was proudly sporting his sticker on election day and I kind of laid into him about it (they're stupid and self righteous) :)
Long debate about those stickers and I would have liked to see you take her down!
- November 10, 2008 at 3:25 PM
- Le Flâneur Novice said...
Guess I failed while adding the link. Just check the post "E for What?!" post dear.
- November 10, 2008 at 3:50 PM
- Elinoire said...
Are you really finding McIntoshes and Rome Beauties at San Diego farmers markets?! If so, are you willing to share your secret and tell us which ones? All I can find right now are Fujis, Granny Smiths, and few Pink Ladies.*
(This comment reads way more risque than it actually is, huh?)
*Pink Ladies are pretty fab, though. They are my second favorites, after macs. ;-)
- November 10, 2008 at 10:44 PM
- Debbie said...
Great look applesauce. I should give it a try. I still have lots of apples!
- November 11, 2008 at 5:19 AM
- The Italian Dish said...
Loved the Seinfeld clip. Hadn't seen that in a while and I had a good laugh. Thanks!
- November 11, 2008 at 6:14 AM
- Susan from Food Blogga said...
lisa- Whaaaat? I want my sticker!! I was robbed out of a free coffee!
heather-No kidding.
stacey-PIE sounds good right about now.
peterg-That is too funny.
susan-Pie crust is overrated. ;)
lydia-Well, I like to change things up now and again.
louise-Seriously. ;) Isn't that aroma positively enticing?
tanna-Mine too!
mark-Caramel ice cream? Where's mine? :)
rachel-The cranberries and the skins actually since the skins were pretty red.
peterm-You're so sweet.:)
rosa-Thank you!
VIJ-Yay! Great to hear it.
ts-:) :) :)
linda-Maybe I should vote in Europe next time. ;)
maryann-Thanks a bunch!
susan-Now that's just un-American. ;)
dani-Thanks! :)
foodalogue-You are too kind. :)
tw-It was!
lynn-Oh, thank you kindly.
amy-That is funny. Seriously funny.
bal-Oh, I'm so happy to hear it.
maris-Yum! Thank you!
kimu-Good point. I'm sure you're right.
bal-I'll be right over! :)
darius-Thank you!
michelle-Honestly, the smart money would have been on her. ;)
bal-Got it!
elinoire-No, I found them at Henry's Marketplace. I love Pink Ladies!
debbie-Please do! :)
elaine-Oh, good. I still laugh every time I see it. :)
- November 11, 2008 at 6:39 AM
I just recently made a batch of apple-cranberry sauce; it's such a pretty color, isn't it??? Love the addition of nuts.
- November 11, 2008 at 7:35 AM
- Nicole said...
Oh your sticker story is hilarious! I gave mine to the kids.
- November 11, 2008 at 4:11 PM
- Sig said...
LOL, I remember that Seinfeld scene very clearly :) Susan, I missed your cookbook giveaway deadline, it's not like I'd have won anyway! but that persimmon date cake looked amazing... I have to look out for that cookbook...
- November 11, 2008 at 6:03 PM
- Goody said...
This time of year I find myself tossing a handful of cranberries into everything from applesauce to chutney to mincemeat. Ever notice how there's always a handful left sitting in the fridge after making a recipe that calls for 2 2/3 cups or some odd amount? Yours looks prettier than mine ever does-Like, "elegant and stuff".
I didn't have the sticker problem as my three year old started shouting as soon as we walked in "Where's my sticker?!" Which sort of charmed the (very) elderly poll workers in our town of a few hundred people.
- November 11, 2008 at 7:29 PM
- Jeanne said...
Wow - talk about not taking no for an answer!! She should be in telesales...!
Love the sauce - apples with cranberries is inspired, and what a glorious colour :)
- November 12, 2008 at 6:40 AM
I love making applesauce when apples are in their peak during the season! I love the photos and your blog in general. Nice to find another foodie!
-Bon Apetit!
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"We beseeched the patient to stop using heroin, yet still she scorns our advice."
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A Blog detailing the insanity of my medical practice and the stupidity of everyday life.
That is awesome.
That is awesome. Don't tell me people resent the levity.
LOVE it. You know we're going to need more from time to time. This is awesome.
What a great sense of humor! Sounds like a fun guy!
If he starts talking about wibbly wobbly timey wimey stuff, run the other way.
Awesome! I want someone like that at my hospital.
Doth the man write with S's that look like f's, thus sending the handwriting recognition software into tempests?
Indeed, methinks some dating up of the soft ware that guideth speech is in order.
I wonder if he's a member of the SCA...Society For Creative Anachronism. Sounds like he might be...I know many people who are very active with that group and they all seem to talk and write like that.
Compared to the norms of modern discourse consisting mostly o grunts, farts and giggles, this is a delightful upturn.
Was this on shakespeares birthday (national speak like the bard day) which was one day in the last week?
No, this is pretty typical for this guy, going back a few months.
Don't be ridiculous, HistoryDoc. All instances of Handwriting recognition software has hung and resorted to the blue screen of death when confronted by any medical doctor's indecipherable personal scribblings.
I suppose he might be an out of work Thespian who's forced to moonlight. Well, he'll do better financially as an MD rather than a culinarian at the local slop shop. I'm betting on the renaissance faire, though. Something about costume, language and romance while happily forgetting such luxuries as modern plumbing, disinfectant and Novocaine, to say nothing of penicillin.
i think it's neat!
Soft delight is the voice that criticizes least.
We have a local barrister, or is he a solicitor, who dresses as if he were Sherlock Holmes. He is on 3rd wife I always wondered if something was afoot.
great! thanks for making me laugh.
In what apparel, I pray, does this lovable soul robe his body? Does he look the part?
Good laugh this morning...thanks for sharing. Sounds like a fun dude.
Godspeed Dr. Grumpy, Godspeed!
Oh, he's fun fun fun!!!
Oh how fun! This could be a fabulous new trend.
Does he prescribe leeches and bleeding?
We suspect that he is merely attempting to add some humour into an otherwise dull work environment.
(And by "We", I mean "I and my stuffed teddy, 'Mofeen Bear'.")
Maybe he's a Cullen.
*Surely someone here has a 12 year old girl and will get that reference.
at least it is entertaining!!!
So, after you beseech the patient to stop using illegal drugs, do you beseech the cops to come get them? or not required to?
This will come to a stop when he gets sued and someone looks at his documentation.
Carlisle didn't talk like that, though.
Have you met him or only had the pleasure of reading his notes?
Is he pompous in person?
Awesome! Purely awesome!
Yep, we definitely need to see more from this chap ~ L'dMAO!!
LOL LOL! Methinks this is a doc with a sense of humor. Or should that be Humor?
As long as he or she practices good medicine and does not discuss the four Humors, for Galen, I think Grumpy has found a kindred spirit.
We think that we need more of this at the hospital.
Heere folweth thy Phisiciens Tale:
Thus semeth me that Nature wolde saye, this hopytalist pens quite welle ev'r day.
Under the moone, that may wane and waxe, his werk rightly is no thyng axed.
For it bathed every veyne in swich licour, of which vertu engendred is the flowr.
Whan "we" eek with "we" sweete breeth, inspired hath in every Mary and Annie.
'Tis no small thyng, for Ed and Pissy now maken smale melodye.
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Pray good sir, does this gentleman writeth a blog?
I agree with Kim (from 7:37 AM), "I wonder if he's a member of the SCA...Society For Creative Anachronism. Sounds like he might be."
I also immediately thought mi-lord, to be a Duke (has been King more than once), a Count (has been King once), or at least a Baron (either a Court Baron, or the head of a Barony); though mayhap it be that mi-lord holdeth the office of Chirugeon.
When I joined the SCA there were only 4 Kingdoms in the Knowne World, now there be over 20.
Grumpy, you're such a snob! I can't believe it! Self promoting, snobby, jumpy creature.
I only like you because you happen to be one of the kindest people in the world.
Others share my opinion you lucky bastard.
But your snobbery and spin is too much. I'm gonna fight with you.
You'd do anything for a compliment, I swear. Anything. You'd prescribe heroin, although you obviously can't do it at all and everybody knows it.
Charles wins the interwebz.
That is AWESOME, Charles!!!
That's funny because I always like to use the Royal "we" to make a point. It has more emphasis.
This guy's notes would be the only ones I would look forward to reading in a chart!
I also presume he uses the æ and œ symbols for effect?
Does he actually speak like this, too? Hilarious!
*shan't :) but that's awesome i like them already >.< ... i teach music and my poor students sometimes get a phrase or two that's a little ancient. the look on their faces; priceless.
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Also: referencing a really good webcomic, namely Kate Beaton's Hark: A Vagrant (known to all as simply "Kate Beaton" or "Kate Beaton's History Comics") doesn't make you seem any more cool. Ms. Beaton, for her part, made this twitter in response to the mention, she sounds
Oh and fun fact randall, I know you said your joke is innaccurate but I would remiss if I did not point out that indeed its premise is also inaccurate; the Lincoln-Douglas debates were held in 1858 and were for Illinois's Senate election, an election which Douglas won, not lost. JUST SAYIN.
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text: Wednesday, April 24, 2013 2013 House of Delegates Motions (Packet I) Posted In preparation for the 2013 House of Delegates (House), today APTA posted this year's House motions to the APTA website and the House of Delegates Community. Although motions have always been available to members, this is first time motions have been accessible to nonmembers, too. Also new this year, individual comment pages have been established to enable public discussion of the motions. In a video address posted at the 2013 House of Delegates page, where motions are listed, Speaker of the House Shawne E. Soper, PT, DPT, MBA, encouraged members to use the comment areas, as well as Twitter, but not as a substitute for contacting their delegate directly to provide feedback. Delegates are welcome to engage in these public forums but should continue using the House of Delegates Community (open to all APTA members), for delegate discussion. "Packet I," a compilation of all main motions to this year's House of Delegates, can be accessed on the House of Delegates Community. The House of Delegates Handbook will be posted to the House of Delegates Community on Friday, April 26, and background papers for the House motions will be posted on Friday, May 10. As in previous years, delegates and members can continue to access the discussion boards in the House of Delegates Community: The Packet I discussion board is for conceptual discussion surrounding this year's motions, and the Motion Cosponsors discussion board is for delegations to pledge cosponsorship for a motion. However, only the chief, section, and assembly delegates, or their designees, may post messages on the House discussion forum on behalf of their delegations. Please contact Kristen Hecht with any questions. Comments Thank you for the updates. Posted by Heidi Harris on 4/27/2013 5:38 PM


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The traumatic nature of disclosure of infidelity intensifies when the threat continues, through the continuation of the marital affair or lack of proof of its discontinuation...This can't be overstated. The insanity we feel when we suspect an affair increases exponentially when we confront the cheater, expect that he'll end the affair only to be left without any proof that it really is over.
And though the research paper focuses exclusively on wives of sex addicts, this holds true for all wives who've discovered their husband's secret life.
It's the reason that any husband remotely interested in saving his marriage must immediately establish no contact with his affair partner. It's the reason that there needs to be total transparency – with you having access to his computer passwords, cell phone, all records and whatever else makes you feel that he some measure of accountability. It's the reason that he must always be available to take your calls any time you need to check on him. It's the reason that he must always be where he says he is, with whom he says he's with and for how long.
It's not about you becoming police and watchdog, it's about you being able to slowly feel safe again. Post-trauma can even follow you into a new relationship, or impact friendships. We become suspicious. We don't trust our own judgement.
Trauma following betrayal isn't the exception, it's the rule. Sure there are some women who recover more quickly but the rest of us are generally shell-shocked and paralyzed for a year, or two, or three. Post-trauma leaves us frightened and anxious, feeling isolated and unable to determine our next step. It's not something we can force ourselves to move past or will ourselves into stopping. Self-help books can't make it go away, though they can help us recognize that we're experiencing it.
I spent the first half year wondering why I wasn't feeling any better and was, in fact, feeling worse. More hopeless. Though my husband was in counselling for sex addiction and attending a 12-step group, though he was doing what he could to support me, I felt fearful and anxious. I also found myself highly mistrustful of just about everyone. I questioned their motives, wondered who they "really" were. I felt constantly off-balance. Waiting for the other shoe to drop.
When a friend, who worked at a support centre for sexual abuse survivors, suggested that what I was experiencing was post-trauma, I dismissed it. As I've written here before, I thought post-trauma was what rape victims or veterans dealt with. I thought what I'd experienced didn't "qualify" me for post-trauma. It seemed too dramatic a label for something so, sadly, common.
But what my friend had said at least made me open my mind to the possibility. Now it seems I'm reading everywhere that being cheated on leads to post-traumatic response.
It's not just semantics. Be recognizing the depth of your trauma, you can better heal from it. By truly acknowledging that what happened isn't just about your husband being an ass, you can recognize that your responses/reactions to a wide variety of things – from a friend cancelling a lunch date to the death of your pet – are through the lens of post-trauma.
Betrayal is traumatic. But continued betrayal or inability to determine if betrayal is continuing is worse still.


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Worries about the Federal Reserve retreating from monetary stimulus make little sense as a cause of the market's recent slide, suggesting other factors are at play, according to John Hussman in his current comment to Hussman Funds shareholders.
Rather, the portfolio manager and former finance manager suggests that sentiment has shifted from risk seeking to risk aversion and reiterates his long-held view that current market conditions match those that have preceded panics and crashes of the past.
Hussman (left) ridicules the view that a hawkish Fed is the cause of the market's doldrums, saying the Fed actually confirmed its dovishness and that investors "just got a handwritten, perfumed note from Bernanke to keeping buying."
All the Fed chairman actually said was that, despite a balance sheet that is leveraged nearly 60 to 1 against its capital, "the Fed might possibly reduce the rate at which it expands that position…There was no talk of risks. Not a whisper about diminishing benefits….While QEternity will become QEventualTaper, the Bernanke Fed does not actually contemplate stopping until the unemployment rate comes down."
Consequently, Hussman argues that other factors—such as credit strains in China or expectations of disappointing earnings—may be spooking investors. "But whatever the reason, investors appear to be shifting from risk seeking to risk aversion," he says.
And that new mood is consonant with Hussman's longstanding warning that market history is not on the side of stock market buyers today.
Besides today, Hussman sees just four other times—1929, 1987, 2000 and 2007, none joyous for investors—marked by a combination of deterioration in interest-rate securities, "overvalued, overbought, overbullish conditions" and a broad deterioration in market internals.
Indeed, the former finance professor and fund manager's reputation got a boost from just such a warning in his July 30, 2007, market comment.
"To believe that the present instance is a good time to accept significant market risk, one has to rely on the premise that this time is different," Hussman says in his current note, adding that valuations today are "near or above every historic bull market peak except 1929, 2000 and 2007."
A difference between those crashes and today, however, is that the Fed was tightening whereas today it merely hints of tapering.
Hussman is unimpressed with this distinction:
"The Fed is unlikely to raise its policy rates (Fed funds, discount rate) for years, but it seems unlikely that this will be sufficient to forestall the course of normal bull-bear market cycles. Ask Japan."
Despite the vulnerability he sees for stocks, the portfolio manager actually put in a good word for bonds, saying their recent sell-off may make them a reasonable investment, "particularly if yields rise further."
Check out 4 Ways to Hedge Against a Stock Market Correction on AdvisorOne.


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This application is most probably going to be of interest to people working in the education field, as I am, but not only.
I discovered scenari when one of the developers came for a 3 days workshop at my university.
I create resources and teach online and have been so far doing very poorly regarding online multimedia documents. Mainly out of ignorance and poor taste for multimedia techy stuff, I have given .pdf online and that was about it..
scenari is making it easy, understand take care of most of the tech stuff and I can concentrate on the course content, the outline, the exercises or tests I wish student to perform etc. On the teaching method and pedagogy, basically.
I've been testing and using only a small portion of what scenari has to offer. Additionally, scenari can help you write resume, reports, create a web site or web radio, a slide show or training modules.
So, why a special post about this application ?
Ubuntu Lucid install procedure
scenari comes under different licences, including gpl, and is supported on Linux, Mac OS X and Windows. Their linux install page is not translated in English, yet, (in French here) so here is what I've done to get it to run on Ubuntu Lucid:
sun-java6-jrefrom the Canonical Partner repository
Get their pgp repository key
wget -O- http://scenari-platform.org/deb/scenari.asc | sudo apt-key add -
- Add their repository to the
/etc/apt/sources.list, by either editing the file itself or adding the repo in synaptic for example.
deb http://scenari-platform.org/deb lucid main
Note: to use the latest and most bleeding edge version (currently scenarichain3.7), add
nightlyad the end of the line for it to look like
deb http://scenari-platform.org/deb lucid main nightly
- Reload the
sources.list, install
- Once
scenarichainis installed, you first need to install a model (a
wsppack). You can find some here : http://scenari-platform.org/projects/opale/files/latestTesting/wsppack/. I installed
opalesupwhich is better suited for university work. You can tweak and make your own wsppack, provided you know css and other things, which I do not. Some knowledgeable people at my univ do and will skin scenari to match our visual identity.
scenarichain is a whole suite of applications, opalesup being one of them. The models can be edited and adapted to your own web environment or corporate styling. Opalesup is also distributed as a standalone application, working out of the box without the need to install scenarichain or scenaribuilder. Searching for "scenari" with any package manager will allow you to browse all the applications the suite offers.
One of scenari very interesting features is the export of your work into a variety of formats, including web to browse the class in a web browser with all the interactions working (quiz etc.), SCORM (compatible with moodle. Other LMS are also supported), paper (.odp) and slide presentation (still experimental).
The extremely positive point is scenari is a TIME SAVER. The work is done in one place, and then a click away from all sorts of presentations.
Create a two hours class, including extra exercises if you wish, package it for moodle and make it a SCORM activity on the online univ teaching site, hand out a simplified paper version to the students once you get into the room, teach with a video presentation.
I'm sold. I'm really sold.


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World Baseball Classic pools finalized
Twelve All-Stars confirm early to represent their country
Pool A, which will be played at the Fukuoka Yahoo! Japan Dome from Saturday, March 2, to Wednesday, March 6, will include the countries of Brazil, China, Cuba and Japan. The opening game at the venue on March 2 will feature two-time defending champion Japan against newcomer and qualifier round victor Brazil at 7 p.m. (all times local).
Pool B will feature the countries of Australia, Chinese Taipei, Korea and the Netherlands at Intercontinental Baseball Stadium in Taichung, Taiwan, from Saturday, March 2, to Tuesday, March 5. The opening game on March 2 will be played at 12:30 p.m. between 2009 finalist Korea and the Netherlands.
Hiram Bithorn Stadium in San Juan, Puerto Rico, will host the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Spain and Venezuela for Pool C contests from Thursday, March 7, to Sunday, March 10. Venezuela and the Dominican Republic will square off in the first game in San Juan on March 7 at 7:30 p.m.
Chase Field and Salt River Fields at Talking Stick will host games in Pool D, featuring Canada, Italy, Mexico and the United States from Thursday, March 7, to Sunday, March 10. Salt River Fields will host the opening game on March 7 at 1 p.m. between Mexico and Italy.
The first round will return to a round-robin format with the top two teams at each venue advancing to one of two second-round pools. The second round, which will be a modified double-elimination format, will be played at the Tokyo Dome in Tokyo and Marlins Park in Miami. Pool 1 at the Tokyo Dome, from Friday, March 8, to Tuesday, March 12, will feature the winners and runners-up from Pools A and B, and Pool 2 at Marlins Park, from Tuesday, March 12, to Saturday, March 16, will host the winners and runners-up from Pools C and D. The winners and runners-up from each of the second-round pools will advance to the championship round at AT&T Park in San Francisco from Sunday, March 17, to Tuesday, March 19.
Twelve Major League All-Stars are among the initial 32 players confirming early to represent their country in March. The players include 2012 American League MVP and Triple Crown winner Miguel Cabrera of the Detroit Tigers and 2012 World Series MVP presented by Chevrolet Pablo Sandoval of the San Francisco Giants (Venezuela); second baseman Robinson Cano of the New York Yankees and 2011 NL batting champion Jose Reyes of the Toronto Blue Jays (Dominican Republic); third baseman David Wright of the New York Mets and 2009 AL MVP Joe Mauer of the Minnesota Twins (United States); St. Louis Cardinals teammates Carlos Beltran and Yadier Molina (Puerto Rico); first baseman Adrian Gonzalez of the Los Angeles Dodgers (Mexico); 2006 AL MVP Justin Morneau of the Minnesota Twins (Canada); free-agent outfielder Andruw Jones (Netherlands); and free agent left-handed pitcher Hong-Chih Kuo (Chinese Taipei).
"Baseball is a passion in Venezuela, and I look forward to playing for my country against the rest of the world," said Cabrera.
"It'll be great to put on a Team USA jersey again," said Wright. "I'm honored to play for Team USA and take another crack at winning what is clearly the most difficult baseball tournament in the world."
"It was such an amazing experience to win another World Series," added Sandoval. "I'd love to win another championship, only this time with my fellow countrymen in the World Baseball Classic."
"The popularity of baseball is growing in Canada, and I'm looking forward to playing in the World Baseball Classic again," said Morneau. "There's something special about representing everyone back home, and proving that Canadian baseball is among the world's best."
Each federation's provisional 28-man roster will be announced in mid-January.
Ticket strips, which include tickets for all games at a particular venue, are available for all tournament venues at www.worldbaseballclassic.com. MLB Network will exclusively air all 39 games of the 2013 World Baseball Classic in the United States.


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Financial advisors, independents particularly, are often reluctant to even talk about sales, feeling the subject undermines their professional ethos as investment experts.
But to business development consultant Beverly Flaxington, such feelings betray a lack of confidence.
"If an advisor believes in what they do, they should want to find anyone out there who might be a good fit for them," she told ThinkAdvisor in an interview.
The principal of The Collaborative, a consulting firm focused exclusively on financial advisors, frames the sensitive topic of sales as follows:
"The objective is to get the message into the marketplace to the right people for you to be working with and that you are able to serve effectively. It's not pushing something down someone's throat who doesn't want it. But if you don't make people aware of what you do, they don't have a chance to say 'Yes, I'd like to work with you,' or 'No, I don't.'"
Advisors need to know and can feel good about the fact that, as Flaxington puts it, "Not everyone is a fit; you should qualify the prospect just as they're qualifying you."
So, what gets in the way of advisors' sales success? Four factors, Flaxington says.
"First of all, advisors often don't have a plan for selling. They'll do a financial plan for a client who invests assets, but they don't have a plan for how are they going to sell, how are they going to measure it.
"Second, there can be an inherent resistance because advisors may think of selling as distasteful.
"Third, it can absolutely be a time-management issue. After all, they're serving clients, running a business, working with partners and employees, watching the market. They might ask: 'When am I going to add in sales activities?'
"Fourth, they don't have confidence that they know the right words to say, where to put the focus," she says.
A commonly adopted solution to this hesitation about sales is to bring in a sales professional to focus exclusively on finding opportunity for the advisor, says Flaxington, who has been consulting for nearly 20 years after building her career in institutional and retail sales for John Hancock.
"But this business isn't sold that way," she says. "Push selling really doesn't work. You're never going to see someone reading the script on the landing page and then push the buy button," she jokes.
Rather, the financial advisory business is a classic relationship-type business that is built on trust and on feelings of comfort on the part of the prospect.
And that is what advisors can and must learn, she says. It takes active listening to understand the behavioral style of the prospect.
An advisor shouldn't insist on going page by page through a lengthy investment proposal when sitting across from a hard-driving entrepreneur more interested in getting to the point and getting out of the meeting. Some relish that analytical approach, others want to think things through till a subsequent meeting and still others won't feel comfortable until they first talk about their kids and family, Flaxington says.
Yet advisors sometimes miss these behavioral cues.
"It's as if your spouse said, 'What kind of restaurant do you want to go tonight?' and I say "I want something ethnic; it could be Mexican or Indian—surprise me.' And then he takes me to the hamburger joint down the street.
"You're asking me, so don't give me the pat answer you had in your back pocket!"
Navigating the correct emotional path to a sale requires emotional intelligence combined with a genuine interest in helping prospects make the right decision for them.
"That's where we get off track," Flaxington says. "Sales is not about getting everybody to say yes to me. It's about talking with enough people about what I do and learning enough about them to allow them to make a good decision about hiring me or not hiring me."
For advisors who get that part right, the final critical difficulty they encounter is closing the sale.
Doing that is simply a matter of taking charge of the relationship by setting expectations.
"You say, 'Here's how the process usually works. Let me tell you what most clients have needed in the decision-making process.' You're laying out a road map," she says.
But advisors frequently get stuck in trying to move the prospect to the next stage by failing to outline at the beginning what the process looks like.
"Some wealthy people have never hired an advisor before, so they don't know what to expect," Flaxington says. "Even professionals fall into the trap of letting the prospect tell them how it's going to go."
That, she says, can lead to a situation where the prospect is constantly asking the advisor to jump, and the advisor then says, 'how high?' but the process never advances.
Rather, the advisor should constantly relate his answers to client queries to the decision-making process: "Is that the information you're looking for?"
"So you're confirming each step of the way. You're covering what the person needs to make a decision," she says.
The good news is that all advisors can improve their sales by following this approach. They don't need to be born with a sales personality, Flaxington says.
"In this business in particular, I have seen advisors with so many different styles be very successful at selling so I'm not going to not say you need to have XYZ profile.
"And yet the advisors who are most genuinely interested in people, who accept the fact that the only way they're going to grow is to put an emphasis on this and who do have that ability to shift that approach and style depending on what the client or prospect needs of them are often going to be most successful," she says.
Flaxington explicitly adds that she has seen analytical advisors — those who are not "people people" — excel as notably as more gregarious advisors.
"Most advisors have the capability to do this," she says.
Check out What's the Real Driver of Sales Success? (Hint: It's Not Personality) on ThinkAdvisor.


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