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He dismantled Arnold Schwarzenegger's cigar-smoking tent that was ensconced on the Capitol grounds. He took the former Hollywood star's giant "Conan the Barbarian" sword off the wall of the governor's office, and replaced the polished walnut boardroom table with a pinewood picnic table.
"I want people when they come in my office to know they're on a hard surface," he says.
He has stood on a coffee table for news conferences, lives in a former Chevy dealership, walks to work, and not only flies commercial, but coach-class on the state's least-expensive airline. And without an entourage.
What's up with all this?
Jerry Brown's California: Five big changes from 1975 to 2011
Political analysts say this is just Jerry Brown being Jerry Brown, but that his being more overt about it since taking office Jan. 3 is pure political genius during California's giant fiscal crisis.
"This is vintage Jerry Brown; he has always been cheap ... the blue Plymouth instead of the limo and sleeping on a floor mattress in his first term. But in these days of lean times, voters appreciate his thriftiness even more," says Robert Stern, president of the Center for Governmental Studies in Los Angeles. "This is good for Jerry and good for his sales pitch: Everyone needs to sacrifice a little, even him."
Even though he already won the election over billionaire Meg Whitman, Mr. Brown's challenging agenda requires that he continues to win over voters.
The new governor – he is in office for the second time after serving two terms from 1975 to 1983 – campaigned on "turning the state's fiscal problems around" and has twice already in major speeches (inaugural and state-of-the-state) called for "courage and sacrifice" and "loyalty to the community, to what is larger than our individual needs."
Now he is in a sprint to see if he can avoid the same yearly budget mess that has kept California in national headlines year after year for decades. He has broadly outlined a three-pronged plan to deal with the state's $26.4 billion deficit: legislative spending cuts followed by a special election to extend certain tax rates, and then compose a final budget for the Legislature to pass. Now he and the Legislature need to nail down the specifics.
The Legislature has just three to four weeks to pass their package – which will demand great compromise with Republicans – in order for Brown to call a special election in June.
"His appeal [in speeches] that we are all Californians is having an effect. His ethos is reassuring because this has been his approach all of his life," says Barbara O'Connor, director of the Institute for Study of Politics and Media at California State University in Sacramento. She says voters are paying attention to his style for the first time in years.
"Jerry is making frugal fashionable, finally. He tried in the '80s but was only really popular with the young and eco friendly," says Ms. O'Connor. "Now he is the icon of the post-Madoff populace. It will only help him to continue to walk the walk in addition to talk the talk. People want a politician they can trust."
Other experts say Brown's peculiar brand of folksy, populist politics is resonating strongly now at least in part because times have changed since he was first governor.
"Many of Brown's wild-eyed ideas then are mainstream now – like car pool lanes for California's clogged freeways, green energy and environmental proposals before 'green' was cool," says Sherry Bebitch Jeffe, senior fellow at the School of Policy, Planning and Development at USC. "Brown's once-eccentric philosophy of governance – 'Small is Beautiful' – reverberates loudly today as voters reject Big Government."
Ms. Jeffe and others say that Brown's "era of limits" mantra from his first term clashed with California's self-styled exceptionalism then.
"Now, Brown's insistence that 'choices have to be made and difficult decisions taken' is in line with inaugural addresses by governors across the nation."
Some analysts say that Brown's frankness is a potential liability – as when he made his handlers wince during gubernatorial debates with Meg Whitman, admitting to "closing down the bars of Sacramento" in his first term.
But his frankness seems to working for him at this crucial moment, they say.
"The new Jerry Brown is both blunter and mellower than the old version," says Jeffe. "But he retains one quality that may serve him well in addressing California's fiscal crisis: He's stingy. In his first term, Brown defended himself against liberals' condemnation of his "fiscal conservatism" by insisting, "It's not because I'm conservative. It's because I'm cheap."
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'The Darkest Hour' Concept Art Revealed
Posted on Tuesday, August 9th, 2011 by Peter Sciretta
Trolley Attack
A seeker alien attacks Olivia Thirlby & Emile Hirsch on a runaway trolley train.
Alien POV
Life forms are illuminated by the faint electrical impulses in the body's nervous system. This is a pre-vis look at how the aliens see humans.
Sergei's Faraday Cage
The group of survivors meet up with an eccentric Russian scientist, who has outfitted his apartment as a giant Faraday cage, providing protection from the aliens.
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February 5 – March 12, 2011
MINUS SPACE is delighted to announce the exhibition Kyle Jenkins: Sunken Treasure. This is the Australian artist's first solo exhibition in the United States and it will feature a new site-specific painting installation.
Working in a wide array of media, including painting, wall painting, works on paper, artist books, photography, film, and sound, Kyle has developed a distinct form of intuitive abstraction that incorporates both hard-edge and organic strategies. Informed by the geometric regularity of the urban environment, the artist's core concern has been the integration of art and architecture over the past decade.
For Sunken Treasure, Kyle will present a new wall painting, new acrylic paintings on canvas, and a suite of new paintings on paper recently produced during a residency in Denmark. The title of the exhibition stems from an ongoing series of projects planned by the artist in which the architecture of the gallery space and the art works presented within it collapse into each other. About this idea, Kyle states, "Sunken treasure is something that is there and present at the bottom of the ocean, but at the same time, it is hidden from view by its position at the bottom of the sea. The work in this exhibition will function in the same way, with no separation between the paintings, the wall painting, and the gallery space."
Kyle Jenkins (b. 1975, Dungog, New South Wales, Australia) has exhibited his work internationally for the past 15 years, including in Australia, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, New Zealand, The Netherlands, Norway, Switzerland, United Kingdom, and the United States. Kyle's work was included in our recent group exhibition MINUS SPACE, curated by Phong Bui, at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center in New York in 2008-2009. His work is included in the collections of Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery, Qantas (both Australia), and Esbjerg Museum (Denmark), as well as countless private collections worldwide.
In addition to his artistic work, Kyle is Coordinator of the Visual Art Department and Senior Lecturer in Painting & Art Theory at the University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, Australia. During his career, he has curated numerous exhibitions about contemporary reductive abstraction throughout Australia. He has also played pivotal roles in the development and leadership of countless artist-run projects in Australia, including CBD Gallery, SPHERE press, Project 11, MOP Projects, Sydney Non-Objective, Non-Objective Toowoomba, i.e. gallery, and Buttons and Zippers.
Kyle is also a member of the rock bands Bloodspots and Suicide Swans. He holds a PhD in Visual Art and Theory from the University of Sydney, Australia.
This exhibition has been supported by The University of Southern Queensland, Faculty of Arts Research Committee. MINUS SPACE's programming is made possible by the support of The Golden Rule Foundation, as well as individual donors. We thank you!


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Entourage The Movie?
Two more seasons of HBO's "Entourage" and then a movie?
That seems to be the plan, according to Mark Wahlberg, an executive producer of the Hollywood-set show.
Asked about the future of the comedy series, which recently was picked up for a sixth cycle, Wahlberg indicated that he believes there are two more seasons left in the show.
"We'll see; there could be more," he said at the premiere of Peter Jackson's "The Lovely Bones," in which he has a starring role. "But then," Wahlberg added, "a movie."
HBO seems on board with the idea. "It is not out of the realm of possibility," an HBO spokeswoman said about the prospect of an "Entourage" movie. "Right now, the creators are concentrating on the new season."
Another long-running HBO comedy, "Sex and the City," followed its successful TV run with a big-screen feature.


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Yes, I am a believer in reincarnation. And, as the blurb begins: "A magical story that changes the way we understand the world and proves the power and endurance of a love that is meant to be." And so the story begins.
Here's how the book begins:
" I have lived more than a thousand years. I have died countless times. I forget precisely how many times. My memory is an extraordinary thing, but it is not perfect. I am human.
The early lives blur a bit. The arc of your soul follows the pattern of each of your lives. It is macrocosmic. There was my childhood. There have been many childhoods. And even in the early part of my soul I reached adulthood many times. "These days, in every one of my infancies, the memory comes faster. We go through the motions. We look oddly at the world around us. We remember."
It grabbed me immediately. Unfortunately, it didn't last for long.
Lucy Broward is graduating from high school and desperately wants her high school crush, Daniel Gray, to really notice her. At the last dance of the year, Daniel does notice her, but the interaction between them leaves her confused. Why did he call her Sophia? Well, you can guess that...
Daniel has the "memory". He remembers his past lives and his one true love, Sophia. He can recognize old souls that he knew in his past. But he and Sophia have never been able to get together and experience their true love. Now he has found Sophia in Lucy and he was unable to play it cool with her at the dance, but came on too strong and scared her off.
The book explores some of Daniel's past lives and does give some good information about the beliefs/theories of reincarnation. However, I just didn't care for the way that the story was written. Because of my interest in reincarnation, I finished the book, but my heart was never really in it.
And I could have bought us dinner with the $28.
The story is primarily told through Krista Diehl, the daughter of Eddie and Lucille of Sparta, New York. A local singer/waitress, Zoe Kruller, is found killed and Krista's father is the last person to have been with her, shattering his families world as they learn of Eddie's infidelities. Eddie is a "person of interest" in the case, along with Zoe's estranged husband. Neither are listed as "suspects", just "persons of interest" and for years, that is how the case remained.
Zoe had a son, Aaron, who Krista had a crush on. Krista's brother Ben was in the same class in school as Aaron. Through high school, Aaron terrorized Ben in retaliation for what Ben's father had done with Aaron's mother.
The story covers about 20 years following the murder and does a really nice job telling the aftereffects of tragedy on the surviving family members.
Good book!
So, two books read, one book recommended. I hate that. I want to love every book I read! Is that too much to ask? (yes, I know that it really is).
On a last note: I headed to Goodwill the other day to build up my To Be Read list (I always come close to a panic without several books waiting for me in the wings) and came out of there with 8 books for under $8. Hooray! My catchs? I got the following:
Love Medicine, My Last Days as Roy Rogers, Surrender Dorothy, Blood Memory, Fault Lines, Light on Snow, I Been in Sorrow's Kitchen and Licked All the Pots, and Safe Houses.
Has anyone read any of these? Would love to hear what your thoughts are...what should I read next?


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For WDL questions, see the WDL specification and WDL docs.
For Cromwell questions, see the Cromwell docs and please post any issues on Github.
Best practices for large scatter operations
I'm using Cromwell 28.2 on Ubuntu 14.04, with Google JES as the backend, to run a scatter operation over a large array of files. When scattering over 500 files, Cromwell takes up about 5-6 GB of RAM. When scattering over ~3000 files, Cromwell takes up around ~30GB. This suggests to me that Cromwell's RAM usage will scale linearly with the number of instances.
I'd like to use Cromwell for much larger scatter operations - say 60,000 files. The above investigations suggest that this will take 600 GB of RAM.
- Are there recommendations for reducing Cromwell's RAM usage for very large jobs?
1a. If not, is splitting up a large job into smaller batches of jobs the only option?
- Is the above RAM usage inline with expectations?
Hi @jweinstk,
Talking to a couple others, for the size/scope of a workflow that you're trying to run, perhaps you can try and reduce the number of
Files cromwell tracks using file-of-file-filenames (fofn). Basically, store the list of files one wants to access in single file, and then use methods like
read_linesto build an array in WDL. Google JES will also have problems with tens of thousands of paths to localize, so often folks needing to do this will build
gsutilinto their docker image, and then localize the thousands of files inside their wdl task's command with custom calls to
gsutil cp ….
Regarding the RAM expectations, it really depends on the shape of the tasks/workflow. But, I will say we've seen a couple folks allocating tens-of-gb ram (say 20gb) to successfully track tens-of-thousands workflow calls (say 100k calls).
@kshakir , thanks for the reply! I am already reading in the file names using read_lines on a text file with all of the file paths. My scatter tasks don't need every single file available to every docker VM - the process is more to run a few tasks on each file separately, and then run a few tasks to merge and process the results.
Some follow up questions:
1. Are there different settings for the MySQL server that I can change that might reduce the Cromwell RAM usage?
2. Or perhaps different configurations for changing the way Cromwell communicates with the DB that might help?
3. Is any of the code for these large jobs (that you have seen working with tens-of-thousands of workflow calls) publicly available?
- Are there different settings for the MySQL server that I can change that might reduce the Cromwell RAM usage?
- Or perhaps different configurations for changing the way Cromwell communicates with the DB that might help?
I'm not aware of tweaks for the db that relate to reducing memory usage. Most of the tweaks I can think of involve increasing internal queue and batch sizes, where more data is held in memory. The goal of those bigger sql batches is to decrease the latency due to db client/server round trips.
- Is any of the code for these large jobs (that you have seen working with tens-of-thousands of workflow calls) publicly available?
I'm also not aware of any published WDLs that are on the scale you're mentioning. Even with the WDL, these authors have highly tweaked their compute environments, with GCE nodes with gigs of memory and hefty Cloud SQL instances to hold their cromwell databases.
the process is more to run a few tasks on each file separately
While it would be great to have a single workflow that does everything, depending on what you're trying to accomplish, it may be more efficient to run the jobs as 60K individual workflows (with call-caching turned on to help with hiccups). Then when those are done one could get the list of outputs from cromwell, and run a single workflow at the end to merge the results.
ChrisL Cambridge, MAMember, Broadie, Dev adminHey @jweinstk -
Another option here would be to pass a FoFN to every shard VM along with its index, and ask it to select the line index you want and localize only that file manually. A google search suggests
sed 'NUMq;d' testfor selecting the nth line from a file. So, eg something like:
task use_one_file {
That way, Cromwell doesn't need to store every one of 60,000 file names (which are often very long) in memory, probably several times, for the lifetime of the workflow. Hopefully that will reduce your memory usage to a more manageable level.


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here can be many reasons for wanting to replicate your data from a MS SQL Server installation to your PostgreSQL installation. For example, as a step in migration or to be able to use PostgreSQL features for data analysis while not having to touch existing clients working with MSSQL. For me in this case, I wanted to use tsearch2 to search some fulltext data, because the fulltext indexer in SQL Server really isn't very good.
It turns out that SQL Server ships with replication functionality that can solve this problem with relatively little pain (depending on your schema of course), providing full transactional replication. It's master/slave only, and SQL Server will be the master, but it's still quite useful. Here are the steps to do this for a simple example database - should work for more complex database as well of course. It expects you to set up a user named sqlrepl in the PostgreSQL database, that the replication system will use to connect with. Make sure that this user has permissions to connect from the SQL Server machine in pg_hba.conf.
Make sure you have the PostgreSQL ODBC drivers installed on the SQL Server machine (I'm using version 8.01.02).
Create the example databases:
- In SQL Server:
CREATE DATABASE origin
USE origin
CREATE TABLE tab1(
id int identity not null primary key,
t varchar(128) not null)
INSERT INTO tab1 (t) VALUES ('Test 1')
INSERT INTO tab1 (t) VALUES ('Test 2')
- Then, in PostgreSQL:
CREATE DATABASE slave OWNER sqlrepl;
\connect slave
CREATE TABLE tab1(id int not null primary key, t varchar(128) not null);
ALTER TABLE tab1 OWNER TO sqlrepl;
Create a ODBC System Datasource on the SQL Server. This is done using the odbcad32 command. Make sure that you create a system datasource, and make sure you use the PostgreSQL ANSI driver (there are some problems with the UNICODE driver in the way SQL Server uses it)
Start SQL Server Enterprise Manager. Create a new linked server. This is done by right-clicking the Linked Servers node under Security and picking New Linked Server. Enter the name of the linked server (in all uppercase, in our case PGSLAVE), and pick the driver Microsoft OLE DB Provider for ODBC Drivers. Note that you should not pick the PostgreSQL ODBC driver here. Finally, enter the name of the ODBC datasource just created. Make sure the link works by clicking the Tables node and verify that you can see the tables of you database.
Configure the subscriber:
- Right-click on the Replication node and select Configure publishing, subscribers, and distribution.
- Select the tab Subscribers
- Click New
- Select OLE DB data source
- Pick the linked server you created (PGSLAVE). Re-enter the login information.
Click OK and close all dialogs
Create the publication:
- Right-click Publication under Replication and select New publication
- Select your database, click Next
- Select Transactional publication, click Next
- Uncheck SQL Server 2000 and check Heterogeneous data sources, click Next
- Click Article Defaults
- Open the Snapshot tab
- Change name conflicts to Keep existing table unchanged. In some cases it will work with drop and recreate, but I prefer creating the tables manually to make sure there is no mixup with datatypes and such (considering MSSQL doesn't really know about PostgreSQL datatypes)
- Click OK
- Put a checkbox on the tables to replicate (tab1 in this example). Click Next
- You will get a warning about IDENTITY properties not being replicated to subscribers. This will happen if you have any IDENTITY columns in your table. In most cases, you can just ignore it. Click Next
- Possibly modify description if you want to, click Next
- Click next through the rest of the Wizard, and click Finish
- Create the subscription:
- Open properties for the publication
- Open the Subscriptions tab
- Click Push new
- Select the created subscriber (PGSLAVE)
- Click Next through the rest of the wizard, make sure to check the box for Start snapshot agent
- Now sit back and watch your MSSQL data first being bulk-loaded into PostgreSQL, and then transactionally replicated (you will see a couple of seconds delay after a commit, same as when you replicate between two SQL Servers).
If you have more advanced needs (which you often do), you can use most other features of SQL Server replication, such as row and column filtering.
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David Temwanjira grabbed a last-gasp equaliser as Shabanie Mine ended the only remaining 100 percent record in the Zimbabwe Premier Soccer League by holding log leaders Ngezi Platinum to a 1-1 draw on Sunday.
Ngezi had gone to Mandava Stadium heavily tipped to make it six wins in a row following a flying start to the new campaign, and they looked the part early on as Terrence Dzukamanja put them ahead in the 37th minute after converting a Michael Charamba cross.
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Jennifer Barringer gets my vote and sincerest hopes to come out this week's winner.
As a FL Contributor, we're under an obligation to ensure people who read what we write don't walk away dumber. Personally I take that as a moral imperative on my part to ensure when I interact with people they come away smarter for it.
Barringer fails on all accounts, and is worthy of your Friday Fail vote.


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The two most important questions that investors in common stocks want answered are: When to buy, and when to sell?
Unfortunately, we don't believe that perfect answers to either question are possible. There are sound answers, prudent answers, and intelligent answers – but no perfect answers.
On the other hand, there often exist very obvious times when a stock should be bought or sold. Thus, obvious buy and sell mistakes can be avoided by investors who understand the fundamental principles behind valuation. Prudent investors, through the application of intelligent research, can engage in a reasoned approach to finding the appropriate answers.
The main reason that perfect answers are not possible can be found in the classic Warren Buffett quote: "The fact that people will be full of greed, fear or folly is predictable. The sequence is not predictable."
Buffett is speaking to the reality that the stock market can and often does temporarily miss-appraise stocks. During times of greed, the market is quite capable of overvaluing companies, sometimes to an outlandishly high level. When fear reigns (perhaps like it does today), the market can significantly undervalue a company.
Yet for the most part the market will price stocks close to intrinsic value, and when deviations do occur, they inevitably revert to the mean or correct themselves. The insidious part of this last statement is the confusing fact that the correction process can happen very quickly, or drag on over very long periods of time. Worse yet, there is often no rhyme or reason to explain why. When people are gripped with emotion they can, and will, do crazy and irrational things. Crazy and irrational behavior cannot be quantified or predicted; there are no answers or insights to be found.
The saddest part of what has been written so far is how it has caused people to think about the stock market, or the stock price movements of individual stocks. Our observations, based on anecdotal evidence gathered from speaking to hundreds if not thousands of investors leads us to conclude that many investors today possess a general distrust and apprehension regarding stocks and value.
Many believe that the markets are rigged against them, and others believe that there is no such thing as intrinsic value. These are just a few examples of the jaundice and prejudiced views that people hold regarding the financial markets and/or the people and institutions that oversee them.
This is not just sad, it also represents a serious potential obstruction against people achieving the financial security and independence we all desire. Knowledge is power, and this first of a series of articles on how to value common stocks is offered to provide investors empowerment. With this series of articles we endeavor to provide rational answers to these important questions based on timeless principles of business, economics and accounting.
To be clear, we are not suggesting that we can tell people how to perfectly time the markets. Quite the contrary: we believe that perfect timing of individual stock price movements or markets is an undeniable impossibility. As the great investor Bernard Baruch so aptly put it: "Don't try to buy at the bottom or sell at the top. This can't be done except by liars."
On the other hand, we are suggesting that investors are capable of, and will find it reasonably achievable, to determine the True Worth™ of an operating business. As previously stated, although this cannot be done with absolute perfection, it can be done within reasonable and practical levels of accuracy. Most importantly, within this process we will endeavor to show how calculating intrinsic value can be accomplished while simultaneously providing the investor a margin of safety.
This series of articles is dedicated to what Warren Buffett has often said was the most important lesson he learned from Ben Graham, his mentor. Mr. Graham's timeless words of wisdom summarize the objectives of this series of articles and are as follows:
"Ben Graham said you should look at stocks as small pieces of the business. Look at (market) fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy – profit from folly rather than participate in it. He said the three most important words of investing: "margin of safety." I think those ideas, 100 years from now, will still be regarded as the three cornerstones of sound investing." Warren Buffett
What gives the business (stock) value?
Ultimately, any business, public or private, has its value derived from the amount of cash flow it is capable of generating for its stakeholders (stockholders). Not only will capital appreciation depend on the level of earnings, dividends are also a function of earnings. It is because of this principle that the discounted cash flow method of valuing a business is so widely accepted by scholars and professional investors. Consequently, this series of articles on how to value a business are going to be strongly based on utilizing fundamental valuations based on cash flows (earnings) as the primary method for finding True Worth™.
However, we are going to spare the reader the tedious task of evaluating or calculating long and complex mathematical formulas in order to achieve our stated goals. Instead, we will focus on presenting logical explanations and straightforward discussions of the principles behind these important valuation methods. Additionally, we will provide what we hope the reader finds as easy to understand pictures as evidence supporting our points. Anyone who is interested in a more scholarly approach can simply Google: how to value a company using the discounted cash flow method (DCF).
The commonsense thesis of business value
In this series we will attempt to illustrate what we believe to be the commonsense reality that faster growing businesses are worth more than slower growing businesses. The rationale behind this statement is logical and straightforward. The faster a business grows the larger the future income stream becomes that investors will be discounting back to the present value. Another way to look at this is that faster growth creates more earnings for markets to capitalize. The more earnings you have to be capitalized, the more valuable your business is.
Even more plainly stated, you buy a dollar's worth of earnings today that you believe will grow into two dollar's worth of earnings in future time. Once you have twice as many dollars' worth of earnings than you originally bought, you have in essence twice as many assets for the market to value. Even if future valuations (PE Ratios) are lower than when you originally purchased your first dollar's worth of earnings, odds are in your favor that valuation will be higher since you now possess so much more earnings power. The speed or velocity by which your original dollar's worth of earnings grow by is going to determine how long it takes for one dollar to grow into two dollars. This leads us into a discussion on the power of compounding.
The Rule of 72
There is an urban legend that attributes Albert Einstein with saying that compound interest is the most powerful force in the universe. Whether Albert Einstein actually said this or not is unknown. But the power of compounding is truly remarkable. Therefore, it would not surprise us that a genius like Albert Einstein might make such a statement. Personally, I was first introduced to the power of compounding by my economics professor in college.
Later, this same man became my mentor and gave me my first job in the money management industry in 1970. My professor, Alvin F. Terry, created a napkin presentation that not only had a great impact on my impressionable young mind, but also crystallized for me the magic of compounding. I would like to share it with you here as follows:
If you invest $20 a month, or $240 a year, over your average working life, which we will define as 36 years, and earn 10% a year on your money, you would accumulate approximately $80,000 (this presentation takes minor liberties with the math).
On the other hand, if you invest the same $20 a month over the exact same 36 year time frame, but instead of 10% you earn 20% per year, how much would you then accumulate? Of course, intuitively many of his students would answer $160,000, or double the $80,000. However, astute readers understand that because of the geometry of compounding, the actual answer is over $1.5 million, or more than 18 times as much money by earning 20% than you would earn at 10%.
Here is the logic behind the difference utilizing "the Rule of 72." As everyone in finance is aware, this rule of thumb works like this; divide any rate of return into the number 72 and the answer tells you how many years it takes to double your money. Therefore, 10% divided into 72 means that it takes 7.2 years to double your money.
On the other hand, 20% divided into 72 means it only takes 3.6 years, or half the time to double your money. Since our defined working life is 36 years, if you double your money every 7.2 years by earning 10% ,you will get five doubles (36/7.2=5 doubles) over 36 years.
For illustration purposes let's track our first $1.00 of investment and double it five times which looks like this; $2.00, $4.00, $8.00, $16.00 and finally $32.00. However, doubling your return does not double your money; instead it doubles your doubles. So at a 20% return you will get 10 doubles instead of five (36/3.6=10 doubles) over 36 years.
Carrying this logic out to its final conclusion, adding five doubles to your original dollar invested looks like this: $64.00, $128.00, $256.00, $512.00 and finally $1024.00. So for perspective, the first dollar you invested grew into $1024 by earning 20%, or 32 times as much as it would have earned at half the rate of 10%.
Herein lies the power of compounding, and herein lies the insight as to why a faster growing company is worth more than a slower growing company. If you had two companies where one grew 10% per year while the other grew at 20% per year, it's obvious that the 20% grower would generate a significantly larger stream of income with which to discount back to present value. In other words, its future value would be worth a whole lot more.
The following two graphs and associated performance charts provide real-life examples of two companies, one historically growing earnings at 10% (10.9% – purple circle) and one historically growing earnings at 20% (21.4% – purple circle) over 22 years, the longest period of time that our F.A.S.T. Graphs™ have available. Note how the total annualized returns for both companies closely correlate to their earnings growth rates.
Abbott Labs 10% Earnings Growth Price Correlated to Earnings Plus Performance
Stryker Corp. 20% Earnings Growth Price Correlated to Earnings Plus Performance
This first article in our series of articles on how to know when and why to buy or sell a business laid down a foundation of principles that future articles will be built upon. It's important that readers understand that our discussions are predicated on investing in businesses rather than trading stocks.
One of our primary goals is to help investors avoid obvious mistakes. We define these as erroneous decisions that can, and should be, avoided by investors. In other words, investors should be able to avoid selling a stock for significantly less than its True Worth™, or perhaps even worse, paying significantly more than the stock is truly worth.
At the end of the day, it comes down to understanding and calculating intrinsic value based on fundamentals. We're not suggesting a method for perfect market timing, which as we previously stated we believe to be an impossible objective. Instead, the methods we will be presenting are designed to help investors think their way through the research process and make sound fundamental decisions, rather than impossible perfect ones based on market timing.
Although the methods for valuing a business are based upon similar economic and mathematical principles, not all companies can be valued identically. This offers a clue to the importance of compounding and why it was discussed in this introductory piece. In future articles we will focus on how to calculate sound value for three categories of companies.
We will look at how to value low growth companies, moderate growth companies and high growth companies. Once again, although the formulas for valuing these companies are all based on cash flows (earnings), adjustments and calibrations will be applied to accommodate each category.
Utilizing our EDMP F.A.S.T. Graphs™ we will provide real-world evidence that validates the valuation methodologies applied. In other words, we will show how these valuations work with real world examples. We will also provide segments on various types of dividend paying stocks to include utilities, REITS, MLPs, etc. For clarity and simplicity we intend to offer a separate article on each class. Therefore, we hope that readers will be provided a solid framework that can assist them in researching potential investments in common stocks of various categories.
Tune in to our next series where we will cover how to value utility stocks, a category that typically has low but stable earnings growth and moderate to high dividend yield. Investors interested in dividend income should find this next article of great interest.
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It's all our Sanskrit professors' fault.
Mr. Upadhyay, the tall, lanky, perpetually unkempt language expert whose mannerisms very closely resembled the zombies from the walking dead.
Most of us were hearing the word stout for the first time when he pointed at Shakeel and then me saying "You are so skinny, and he is so stout".
He wasn't wrong, I was pretty rotund back then, but there was no need for him to give a bunch of primary School kids another word to make fun of a nice round fellow.
I usually sat next to Shakeel because he was the only one in class who could fit in the same bench as me.
Avinash thought it was the funniest word ever to have come out of a person's mouth.
That little rascal didn't even know what 'Stout' meant, but for the next 3 years he wouldn't stop calling me 'Stout Tom'. It would have gone on for years, but then one day the very same Mr. Upadhyay caught him without his homework and after giving him a sound thrashing, yes, I mean a really sound thrashing that included slamming a notebook on his flat skull repeatedly, he made Avi sit on the floor next to him using his head as a makeshift stand to balance the chalk box and duster.
That little rascal didn't even know what 'Stout' meant, but for the next 3 years he wouldn't stop calling me 'Stout Tom'. It would have gone on for years, but then one day the very same Mr. Upadhyay caught him without his homework and after giving him a sound thrashing, yes, I mean a really sound thrashing that included slamming a notebook on his flat skull repeatedly, he made Avi sit on the floor next to him using his head as a makeshift stand to balance the chalk box and duster.
After that incident we started calling him 'Chalk Avi' and all of a sudden 'Stout Thomas' wasn't that funny anymore.
Setting aside the differences in our physical dimensions, Shakeel and I were really good friends.
We were an odd couple maybe that's why we got along so well. The two of us were always on the same side, in the same team, and on the same page.
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Don't ask me the rules of the game, but to this day Shakeel and I hold the record for most runs scored in a single innings of leg cricket at our school and maybe even the world.
677 runs, (Yes Sachin and Yes Vinod Kambli I know you are not reading this, but we beat your record).
677 runs, (Yes Sachin and Yes Vinod Kambli I know you are not reading this, but we beat your record).
It hurts me to say that things fell apart 5 years later, just before I Changed Schools. The two of us had made plans to host a great party for our class but barely a week before it could happen someone broke into the class and stole all our supplies, stuff we had collected over several weeks pooling our highly limited funds.
It was my idea to keep everything inside the classroom which I thought was the safest place in the world, Shakeel never wanted that, but I figured nobody would do something like steal from a bunch of kids.
I was wrong.
Eventually, our parents and the teachers got involved and the party did happen, but after the arguments and finger pointing ended, both Shakeel and I were short of one really good friend.
This was a time when social networking and high speed internet didn't exist, after I changed schools I never saw Shakeel again.
Not for 17 years.
If you are married or in a relationship and you have had the pleasure of knowing me, you have most likely been asked the question, So how did you meet your special someone?
At first, your reaction would have been – "Dude, that's a very personal question you know"? But then you see the puppy eyes through my rimless spectacles take a deep breath and go, "Well Thomas, this is how it happened".
I love these stories, people meet each other in the craziest of ways, and its something they never forget, something they hold very dear to their hearts.
In the course of my life I have heard some truly fascinating tales, from instant connections to I couldn't stand him/her at first and one of my favorites - he begged and pleaded with me for years till I agreed to go out with him and now we have 3 kids with the fourth one on the way.
And just when I thought I had heard them all I ran into Shakeel again.
I did not recognize him at first.
In fact, I was scared to the bone when this large figure grabbed me all of a sudden, lifted me off the ground and started shaking me violently, on an unsuspecting afternoon in Bangalore.
When I realized it was him I shouted so loudly it startled the people on the street more than it did when this giant assaulted me.
It was a very emotional moment.
After I caught me breath again and we sat down to eat and drink something for the first time in nearly two decades, I unleashed on him a barrage of questions.
His longitudinal and radial expansion he attributed to genes and a timely growth spurt, as for his classy hairstyle, he gave credit to the barbershop in his neighborhood that only charged him 50 rupees and as far his 20/20 vision went, he was honest enough to admit to the fact that he wore contact lenses.
I was more interested in his explanation for the wedding ring on his finger.
He paused for a second and took a deep breath.
"We met in an elevator" he told me.
"Are you serious"? I asked him, sounding surprised.
"I went into the wrong building and got on the wrong elevator and on the 10th floor, lo and behold the most beautiful girl I have ever seen walks in".
"And then what happened"?
"I rode the elevator with her till the 32nd floor and got off with her".
"Get out of here". I said trying not to disturb the other patrons at the restaurant.
"I did".
"I asked her out".
At this point in the conversation, I got up from my chair and started walking away.
"Come back Stout Tom" He shouted without a care in the world.
I smiled awkwardly at returned to my seat trying to hide my embarrassment.
"You asked a girl out whom you saw for the first time, in an elevator, in the wrong building, after following her to the 32nd floor? That's too much for to believe, especially coming from a guy who was legitimately scared to talk to girls in school".
"It's true man".
"And then what happened"?
"We got married in the next 2 months".
"Just like that"? I asked him.
"Just like that". He said grinning, his face reminding me of my little buddy from school.
I do not believe in co-incidence.
I don't.
To think that everything is random and without purpose is something I just cannot do.
At the same time, it is also not easy looking for meaning in every little detail in every little thing that we go through, it can be very exasperating and exhausting.
Then you hear stories like that of Shakeel and his wife, and you realize how beautiful life really is.
Just think about the circumstances in which these 2 people met each other.
If one thing in their entire life had gone differently, this probably wouldn't have happened.
Tell me I'm wrong. Go ahead.
You and I both have taken several elevator rides in our lives, and we know how much of a difference a few seconds can make, but we don't think about it because if we miss one lift, another one will soon come down.
But if Shakeel or his wife had missed meeting each other that morning, who is to say that they would have ever known that the other person even existed?
Every stupid little thing that he ever did in his life for the last 28 years was bringing him to that moment.
Even if it was to stop and pick up a coin lying on the street, miss the bus that took him to school, go to sleep early, wake up 10 minutes late, turn around and head back home because he was doubtful if he turned off the lights before he walked out, every wrong turn, every happy and sad event, every delay, every fight, every insult, every traffic light, every bend, every break, every bruise, let me make this very simple, even if one seemingly minuscule detail of his life had gone differently, he would've missed out something he considers a defining moment in his existence
Come to think of it, had we both scored even one more run in that epic game of cricket at school, his life would've been very different. 677 runs, that was how it was always meant to be.
You may not agree with me but just think of the odds involved, when you consider the sheer magnitude of all that it took for them to meet, it's pretty staggering.
Coincidence? I think not, that is too simple an explanation.
We are all heading towards something beautiful.
It's going to happen.
The simplest of things you and I do are taking us there, we just don't know when or where.
It's all part of a plan, you have to trust the process.
What can you and I do in the meantime?
Let go a little, allow the author of life to take the wheel.
Sit back, enjoy the ride including the occasional bumps along the way, reminding yourself every now and then that there really aren't any wrong turns, and everything happens for a reason.
Let go a little, allow the author of life to take the wheel.
Sit back, enjoy the ride including the occasional bumps along the way, reminding yourself every now and then that there really aren't any wrong turns, and everything happens for a reason.
Until Next Time
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We're now seeing expanded press coverage and discussion about the impact of technology on workers in all types of jobs and industries. Yet I don't think there is enough awareness across the general public or within government, especially in Washington. Awareness needs to be raised and raised fast.
People continue to blame trade and China and low-wage countries for destroying well-paying jobs, but that is only the tip of the iceberg. Here in the U.S., we already see signs of a potentially enormous decrease in employment levels all across the country in hundreds of companies. Where are the former and future employees going to turn for jobs? There are always new jobs being created, but will there be enough to support our workforce? And this doesn't just affect low-wage and middle income workers. This affects everyone up and down the salary level. Here some examples:
Uber, Lyft, Apple, Google, Mercedes… to name just a few, are all working on autonomous vehicles. But that's just for cars, right? Okay, how about all those Uber and Lyft drivers? Autonomous now means your fare goes 100% to Uber. There is no driver anymore. Uber sure loves that. They get even richer. So all those drivers (and taxi drivers, mind you) are now out of a job. Mercedes. Huh? Yes, the trucking division of parent Daimler already has autonomous trucks on the road. There are approximately 3.5 million professional truck drivers in the United States. Not all will lose their jobs over time as autonomous trucks become prevalent but a huge number will. That's a great middle income job for millions.
Service jobs in stores like Safeway and Whole Foods are increasingly automated. Whole Foods is opening its first "365" store in California and a number of positions formerly held by people are now computers. Want fresh brewed tea? Punch a button. Want information on cheese or wine? Consult an app, not a person behind the counter. Think of all the possible jobs out there in retail stores like Starbucks, for example, that could be replaced by robots, artificial intelligence, or computers.
Even lawyers are being replaced. That's right. The high-paying jobs for people with 19+ years of education are being replaced by machines. Software is now doing the work that many entry-level associates did, such as screening documents in the discovery phase of lawsuits. The software does it faster, cheaper and better. If you don't need as many entry-level lawyers, where will they get their feet wet and learn the business? You see this manifest itself in the huge decline in law school applicants. There just aren't as many good jobs available for when they graduate.
Geoff Colvin, author of Powersheet by Fortune, recently queried a CEO of a major corporation about technology and how he is using it to grow and revolutionize his company. He said "we'll have fewer people, and they'll be doing different things. I don't talk about that with our labor force. It's not motivating". No kidding, you think?
So where does that leave us and what can be done to help those who lose their jobs—the youth coming out of school, your kids? It all comes down to education, re-training and technical skills. Everyone, from high school dropouts to immigrants to college graduates to the 50-year olds who lost their jobs, must have an opportunity, an affordable opportunity, to learn new skills and be trained for the jobs that are available and will be created in the future. This will require greater funding of community colleges, vocational training institutes, school districts, you name it, so those organizations can provide training and skills to all people at serious risk of losing jobs or not having the skills necessary for the jobs that are available.
And those organizations can't just sit back and teach what they've taught for the last twenty years. They need to go out, interview the local employers, find out which skills are needed, what jobs are open, where jobs will be open in the future. Then, cooperatively with those employers, create curricula that will train students to be ready to fill those jobs and then help place those students in the jobs. There is too much hands-off, teach-for-teaching's sake. Get the administrators and department heads of all those schools out on the street, talking to companies, employers, unions, you name it, to determine what is needed. What is needed in Wichita, KS is different from Iowa City, IA is different from Downey, CA is different from Irvine, CA. Twenty miles between schools is enough to require a completely different set of training programs based on the companies and employers located nearby.
It is time for everyone to wake up and realize the revolution in jobs is on our doorstep. Everyone watches these cute Google cars (Okay, I do, since I'm surrounded by them near our office and my home.) and thinks "Awww, they are so cute and if I have one, I can text to my heart's content while I drive to work!" or "It can't happen to my job. My skills require years to develop. No computer can do what I do". No, actually, a computer can do what you do and probably better and cheaper. What people don't realize is just what that means long term for our economy. There will be new jobs created to replace the lost ones, but they will require new skills and probably some we don't anticipate yet. The only solution is expanding the available education and training, which is going to require funding. Let's hope our elected officials, schools and colleges realize this and start planning for the new tomorrow.
Technology could kill 5 million jobs by 2020
Self-Driving Trucks Are Going to Hit Us Like a Human-Driven Truck
The Best Law Schools Are Attracting Fewer Students
Power Sheet – May 13, 2016
Power Sheet – May 13, 2016


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Halloween: Plat III Streets Closed, Golf Carts Not Allowed On Streets
In response to increasing complaints about the use of golf carts and other "low speed" vehicles during trick-or-treating, Village officials are reminding the community about the state laws that govern the use of such vehicles on streets and roads.
According to Ottawa Hills Police Chief John Wenzlick, golf carts are not legal for on-street use within the Village. Other low-speed vehicles that have been registered with the state and have Ohio license plates may be driven on Village streets. Operators of such vehicles - which have headlights, turn signals, a horn, and other safety equipment - must have a valid state-issued operator's license and abide by all state and local traffic laws.
Following Halloween last year, the Village received a number of complaints from residents about the number of golf carts and low-speed vehicles being used to transport young trick-or-treaters. Complaints included reports of near misses with pedestrians, contributing to traffic congestion, and the reckless driving by some youthful-looking operators.
"The safety of our children is our top priority," Chief Wenzlick said. "We want everyone who enjoys trick-or-treating in Ottawa Hills to have a safe, enjoyable evening."
To ensure the safety of Plat III residents and guests on Halloween, the Village will repeat its closure of most of the streets in the neighborhood to vehicular traffic - including low-speed vehicles - while children are trick-or-treating.
Trick-or-treating will be from 6 to 8 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 31. The street closures will start at 5:30 p.m. and end at 8 p.m. Residents and their guests should try to arrive prior to 5:30 p.m. and park in driveways while not blocking sidewalks.
Plat III is the neighborhood bounded by Secor Road to the east, Indian Road to the south, Manchester Road to the west, and the Village limits to the north. During Halloween, it is not uncommon for most Plat III residents to give out candy and other snacks to as many as 800 trick-or-treaters, often running out of supplies. In other areas of the Village, the number of trick-or-treaters ranged from just a dozen or two to about 150.
The idea for the Halloween road closures in Plat III came from the police department in 2007, strictly out of safety concerns. Village officials and residents had noticed a significant increase in pedestrian traffic over the years, with young kids running around the dark streets and dozens of cars on both sides of the streets moving around them.
This is the largest public street closure for special events in Ottawa Hills. In the past, the Village has closed one or two blocks of various streets at the request of residents to accommodate block and neighborhood parties and other community events, such as last month's Fall Festival.
Barricades with "Road Closed" signs will be placed at the end of Gallatin, Darlington, Kirkwall, Pelham, Grimsby, and Brantford roads, where the streets meet Secor Road. An additional sign directing people to park on Indian Road - where parking will be permitted on both sides - will be hung on each barricade.
Additional barricades will be placed at Orchard and Indian, Hempstead and Indian, and Darlington and Manchester roads, with these barricades staffed by volunteers who will direct motorists to park on Indian or at the elementary school or high school parking lots. Parking also will be available across from Hope Lutheran Church in the 3300 block of Indian. Residents who need to get into Plat III will still be allowed to get to their homes.


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There's never a time to sit still and enjoy the fruits of our labour. So it is for you, me and Clover Content (news,site). Officially launched at the beginning of December last year, new functionality has recently been added to the web content management system in the form of a fully enabled blog.
Extended Blogging Functionality
According to Clover Content CMS owner, Don Fitzsimmons, they have been working hard to improve the web content management system. As a result, they have evolved their news list into a full featured blog.
Clover Content Blog
The new blogging functionality can easily plug into an existing website, taking on the look and feel of that website. Additional enhancements include:
- Permalinked posts with unique title tags (for SEO friendliness)
- DISQUS comments for each post
- Configurable posts-per-page where users can configure how many posts appear on the front page
- RSS feeds for the blog with links to each post
Clover Content - Blog Comments
And That's Not All That Is New
Along with the new blogging capabilities, the Administration interface has been improved based on customer feedback. Fitzsimmons says that the goal for Clover Content is to really listen to their customers and update Clover Content often based on this feedback.
Clover Content Administration
They are also looking into how they can add Flickr and Picasa images to a website through the Clover CMS.
You can have a read through our review of Clover Content and take a run through their website to see detailed feature lists and more.


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Etienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (1772-1844)
Etienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, commonly known as Geoffroy, studied animals, their anatomy and their embryos, and teratogens at the National Museum of Natural History in Paris, France in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Geoffroy also helped develop several specialized fields in the life sciences, including experimental embryology. In his efforts to experimentally demonstrate the theory of recapitulation, Geoffroy developed techniques to intervene in the growth of embryos to see whether they would develop into different kinds of organisms.
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"Use of reproductive technology for sex selection for nonmedical reasons" (2015), by the Ethics Committee of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine
In June 2015, the Ethics Committee of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine, or ASRM, published "Use of reproductive technology for sex selection for nonmedical reasons" in Fertility and Sterility. In the report, the Committee presents arguments for and against the use of reproductive technology for sex selection for any reason besides avoiding sex-linked disorders, or genetic disorders that only affect a particular sex.
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Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin (1842-1921)
Petr Kropotkin proposed the theory of Pleistocene ice age, alternative theories of evolution based on embryology, and he advocated anarchist and communist social doctrines in Europe during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He traveled in eastern Siberia and Manchuria from 1863 until 1867, and his subsequent publications about that area's geography became authoritative until the middle of the twentieth century.
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US Food and Drug Administration's Requirements on Content and Format for Labeling for Human Prescription Drugs Rule (1979)
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Franklin William Stahl (1929– )
Franklin William Stahl studied DNA replication, bacteriophages, and genetic recombination in the US during the mid-twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. With his colleague Matthew Meselson, Stahl performed an experiment called the Meselson-Stahl experiment, which provided evidence for a process called semi-conservative DNA replication. Semi-conservative replication is a process in which each strand of a parental DNA double helix serves as a template for newly replicated daughter strands, so that one parental strand is conserved in every daughter double helix.
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Infant Mortality: Results of a Field Study in Johnstown, PA., Based on Births in One Calendar Year (1915), by Emma Duke
The book Infant Mortality: Results of a Field Study in Johnstown, PA., Based on Births in One Calendar Year (1915), written by Emma Duke, detailed one of the first infant mortality field studies conducted by the US Children's Bureau. In the study, Duke and her colleagues collected information about over one thousand infants in the city of Johnstown, Pennsylvania. They used that information, along with interviews conducted with the families of the infants, to identify factors that affected infant mortality rates in the community.
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The Guthrie Test for Early Diagnosis of Phenylketonuria
The Guthrie test, also called the PKU test, is a diagnostic tool to test infants for phenylketonuria a few days after birth. To administer the Guthrie test, doctors use Guthrie cards to collect capillary blood from an infant's heel, and the cards are saved for later testing. Robert Guthrie invented the test in 1962 in Buffalo, New York. Phenylketonuria (PKU) is a congenital birth abnormality in which toxic levels of the amino acid phenylalanine build up in the blood, a process that affects the brains in untreated infants.
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My Father, My Son (1986), by Elmo Zumwalt, Jr., Elmo Zumwalt III, and John Pekkanen
My Father, My Son is a dual autobiography by father and son Elmo Russell Zumwalt Jr. and Elmo Russell Zumwalt III published by Macmillan Publishing Company in 1986, detailing their experiences during the Vietnam War and particularly with Agent Orange, an herbicide used for defoliation and crop destruction during the war. As a commander in the Navy, Zumwalt Jr. ordered the use of Agent Orange in South Vietnam, where Zumwalt III was stationed.
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Essay: Homology
Homology is a central concept of comparative and evolutionary biology, referring to the presence of the same bodily parts (e.g., morphological structures) in different species. The existence of homologies is explained by common ancestry, and according to modern definitions of homology, two structures in different species are homologous if they are derived from the same structure in the common ancestor.
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As I've pointed out before, most weeks bring lots of interesting music from
faculty and students. Even as the campus is flooded with prospective students for audition week, there are several noteworthy musical events going on.
On Thursday, the Peabody Concert Orchestra has its make-up date for the program squashed by the recent snow. Hajime Teri Murai conducts a hefty program of Berlioz' "Le Corsaire," Joan Tower's "Made in America" and Shostakovich's Sixth at 4 p.m. (This one is free, and so is the open rehearsal at 2:30.)
There's action off-campus over the weekend (7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, 3 p.m. Sunday), when Peabody Chamber Opera offers a production of Conrad Susa's fascinating "Transformations" at the Theatre Project. The 1973 work is based on the poetry collection of the same name by
Pulitzer Prize-winner Anne Sexton, who took her own life in 1974. The provocative verses provide sometimes funny, sometimes dark retellings of several of Grimms fairy tales, which Susa treats with an imaginative mix of musical styles. The new production is staged by Jennifer Blades (familiar to local audiences for her dynamic singing in a variety of venues) and conducted by the exceptional JoAnn Kulesza, music director of Peabody's opera department. The eight-member cast includes Margaret Finnegan (pictured here, photo courtesy of the Peabody Institute) as the Anne Sexton character.
Back at the Peabody campus on Sunday (4 p.m.), the engaging organist Donald Sutherland offers
a wide-ranging program that features the Brass Roots Quintet, with works by the likes of Giovanni Gabrieli, Max Reger, Richard Strauss, Malcolm Arnold and Astor Piazzolla.
To give you a taste of Susa's "Transformations," here's a clip of the Hansel and Gretel scene from a 2007 Maryland Opera Studio production:


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I just got done with a one day seminar on design by edward tufte. The only thing more interesting than the content is the likelihood that I won't be allowed to apply any of it at work.
I just got done with a one day seminar on design by edward tufte. The only thing more interesting than the content is the likelihood that I won't be allowed to apply any of it at work.
Twice in the last three days I've seen a person walking their dog in front of me and allowing the dog to take a shit right on the concrete path! The first was on the walking path near our condo and the second was on the sidewalk in crystal city right next to a bus stop. Would it kill them to move their dogs three feet to the right onto the grass! The people cleaned the shit up both times, but still, the leftover shit is going to be baking in the sun right where people walk! (sorry for the excessive swearing, but it's not often you get to use the word 'shit' in a literal context.)
You can't cover yourself in meat, jump into the middle of a pack of wild dogs and expect not to get bit. Just sayin'.
That said, Portis probably should have avoided using the term 'packages' when talking about the situation.
Chris got it for me as a five year anniversary gift! Sweet!
"…writing is the same as wearing clothes: You do it to have some say over how you look to the world, and you wind up revealing precisely what you've hidden, and more than you will ever know."
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Update: In one of life's little coincidences, this article was posted about six hours after I posted my blog: http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/europe/09/02/hawking.god.universe/index.html?eref=mrss_igoogle_cnn
After having finished the massive tomes that are Lincoln and Jefferson Davis I decided to take a bit of a break from the Presidents before heading into the Reconstruction era, which fortunately, are largely downhill until you get to Roosevelt. I decided to shift my focus back to science-themed books, so I went to Amazon and bought a bunch of books on theoretical physics and quantum mechanics. The first one, A Hole in Texas by Herman Wouk, is a fictional story about the search for the Higgs Boson, which theoretically is an elementary particle that bestows mass upon other particles. They didn't find it but they had a jolly good time looking for it. All in all, a very enjoyable read. The second one, Absolutely Small by Michael Fayer, was a sort of dummies guide to quantum mechanics. It started off strong but then became more of a book on quantum chemistry, which is a bit more into the weeds than I cared to go, but it pulled it out near the end. The third, which I just finished, is the one I want to focus on because I thought it to be near-complete crap. It's called, A Purpose Guided Universe: Believing in Einstein, Darwin, and God by Bernard Haisch.
The purpose of the book (aside from advertising for his other book, The God Theory) is to show that you can believe in a divine entity and still buy into evolution and physics, that rather than being separate and competing ideas, they are all connected and together reveal the true nature of our existence. First, a couple points of clarification:
1. When the author says 'God' he does not mean the God of any organized religion, all of which he flat out rejects as political organizations that claim divine status to justify their actions.
2. While all organized religions are inherently flawed, there are certain aspects to them that are common and that together make up what is referred to as the 'Perennial Philosophy.'
I'm not going to go into an explanation of all the points he brings up (because there are a lot and I'm not getting paid for this review). Instead, I'll focus on the two that I thought to be the most glaring. Here are my main points of contention:
1. Reality must be observed in order to exist; therefore, there is an underlying consciousness to the universe that 'observed us into existence.'
2. The Universe must have purpose, because if the Universe has no purpose, then we have no purpose.
Before we begin, just to be clear, my stating that I think the author is nearly full of crap does not mean I don't believe in any sort of divine aspects to life, I'm simply saying I don't buy the theory he puts forth.
1. Reality must be observed in order to exist; therefore, there is an underlying consciousness to the universe that 'observed us into existence.'
As evidence of the claim that the Universe requires conscious thought in order to exist the author points to various quantum experiments, which I will very likely fail to adequately explain, as proof that consciousness is required for reality to be created. The basic gist is this: At the quantum level, particles are so small that any attempt to measure (observing counts as measuring) inherently changes the fundamental nature of that particle. This is called the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle: You can never know both the position and velocity of a particle because the act of observing one fundamentally changes the other. To steal an analogy from another book called The Elegant Universe by Brian Greene (I think, it's been awhile) imagine trying to measure the temperature of a turkey: You take the metal thermometer and stick it in the turkey, but the act of introducing the thermometer inherently changes the temperature of the turkey by absorbing some of the turkey's heat. However, because the turkey is a large object the resulting temperature change is so negligible that no one cares. Now imagine trying to 'take the temperature' of a particle: The particle is so small (How small is it? Absolutely small!) that it is impossible to get an accurate measurement without disturbing the thing you are trying to measure to the point where it completely throws off the measurement. Imagine putting a thermometer into the turkey and the result is the turkey becomes frozen again. To put this in quantum terms, the act of observing the position of a particle fundamentally changes the velocity, and the act of measuring the velocity fundamentally changes the position. As a result, you can either know the position or the velocity of a particle, but never both.
The second underlying quantum rule behind premise one is the idea of the superpositional state. A superpositional state is a purely quantum phenomena that has no correlation in the macro world. A superpositional state is where a particle exists in every possible state that it can exist in all at once. It's as if you were driving and came to a fork in the road where you could go left or right. In the macro world, you can only choose to go one direction, left or right, but in the quantum world you actually can choose to go both left and right at the exact same time. You are not becoming two different people, you are not doing one then the other, you are doing both at the exact same time. As I said, there is no macro level example of a superpositional state. Here's the kicker: A particle will exist in a superpositional state, that is, it is all possible things at once, until it is observed. Once a superpositional particle is observed, it ceases to exist in a superpositional state and now is forced into one of it's possible states. Going back to the driving analogy, if someone where to observe you approaching the fork in the road, you would have no choice but to go left or right as the act of being observed forces you out of a superpositional state and into a single one. To paraphrase Haisch, the act of observing creates reality. Strangely enough, neither the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle nor the idea of a superpositional state is challenged, as both are central tenants of quantum theory and have been demonstrated via experiments. (Google Schrödinger's Cat or the photon interference pattern) It's what Haisch infers from these experiments that forces me to throw the red flag.
Haisch uses the idea that observing a particle in a superpositional state forces that particle to choose a single existence as evidence that there is a guiding consciousness to the universe, because, without someone to observe things at the quantum level, the actions of which serve as the foundation for all events at the macro level, the entire universe would exist in a superpositional state and life as we know it would not exist. This observer is what Haisch refers to as God. To put it mildly (and with a bit of pop humor) this is a huge quantum leap. It's one thing to cite experiments demonstrating that the act of observing quantum particles forces those particles to exist, and that therefore free will exists and is a fundamental requirement for life, but it's another to claim that the whole universe started because it was 'observed' into existence, and that that observer is god. For one thing, it assumes that the observer is empirical, that is, self-evident, and is in essence the real world manifestation of Aristotle's unmoving mover: The observer has always existed and always will, otherwise one can simply ask, 'who observed the observer.' This is a very old philosophical question and Haisch tries to get around it by simply claiming that the observer has always existed and is not bound by the laws of time and space that govern our universe. The only problem? There is no evidence, and it becomes a matter of faith, which is where Haisch looses me. For a man who claims to believe in the validity of evolution and quantum theory, to simply accept that the universe was observed into being by an empirical observer is a huge leap of faith, which is ultimately his point: That one can accept the validity of science and also have faith, but only in the type of god he proposes. Without any evidence to support this view, there is no more reason to believe in Haisch's faith than any other, and in fact he becomes victim to the same logic he uses to attack other religions: That because of the competing claims and lack of evidence, no one religion is right, and therefore they are all wrong. Haisch, despite the evidence he presents through quantum experiments, has no proof to demonstrate the validity of the leap he makes from quantum theory to a conscious universe that was observed into being by an empirical observer, and therefore his faith is no more valid than those of any other religion.
2. The Universe must have purpose, because if the Universe has no purpose, then we have no purpose.
While logically this may be valid, there is no reason to accept that if the universe has no purpose that we have no purpose. Perhaps the ability to create purpose out of nothing is what makes us human and is evidence that the only divine aspects to life are the ones we create within ourselves. Perhaps the idea of caring for others despite the lack of a fundamental reason is what truly constitutes altruism. Which do you respect more: A person who helps others in hopes of divine reward or out of fear of divine punishment, or the person who helps others out of the goodness of their own heart? Perhaps accepting that the Universe is without purpose but treating others fairly nonetheless is how we, as products of a cold, purposeless, dark universe, can create our own light, and in doing so, achieve a higher state of being.
As I said, there's a lot going on in Haisch's book, most of which I take issue with not because I flat out reject any effort to explain the divine, but because there is no evidence to support the fundamental premises that underpin the rest of his theory. Perhaps the fourth book I purchased, The Language God Talks: On Science and Religion, also by Herman Wouk, will offer a more satisfying explanation of our existence. We'll find out soon enough!


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An excerpt from Neal Whitman's book-in-progress, The Babbler's Lexicon, explains how "Little Bunny Foo Foo" became the Forrest Gump of English literature.
As it happens, the variation between "foo" and "frou" in this name is exactly the same variation we get in the adjective "foo foo" or "frou frou," so it's likely that the name "Foo Foo" or "Frou Frou" originated from that. The adjective "foo foo" is a phonetic simplification of "frou frou," and here's what Merriam-Webster online has to say about "frou frou":
Nineteenth-century Europe featured a lot of sophisticated fashions—especially in Paris, a city considered by many to be the fashion capital of the world. Women's dresses were often made of drooping layers of fabric (such as satin or silk) that rustled as the women moved around, and "froufrou" was the French word coined in imitation of the sound they made. The word made its first appearance in English in 1870 as a noun meaning "rustling." It later came to mean "ostentatious decoration," and its usage expanded beyond the world of fashion to other crafts such as architecture and interior design. These days it also shows up as the adjective "frou-frou," meaning "very heavily decorated and fancy," as in "frou-frou designs."
Or, I might add, "frou frou" or "foo foo" drinks, with fruity flavors and umbrellas in them.
The Connection Between Popeye and Foo Foo
So the melody and the name "Foo Foo" or "Frou Frou" suggest an origin later than the 1880s. Unfortunately, I haven't fully pinned down when the noun or adjective "frou frou" began to turn up as "foo foo," so let's look at another clue to when "Bunny Foo Foo" was created: the word "goon," which entered the language in the twentieth century. The Oxford English Dictionary has it from 1921, meaning "a stolid, dull, or stupid person." The word really gained popularity after 1933, when E. C. Segar introduced goons as a race of creatures in his Thimble Theatre comic strip—the comic strip better known as the origin of Popeye the Sailor. The line "Hare today, goon tomorrow" even appeared in the 1938 animated cartoon "Popeye in Goonland," which I'll link to in the transcript. So if "Hare today, goon tomorrow" is part of the original skit, "Little Bunny Foo Foo" could have been created as early as the 1930s.
However, the poem seems to have been created somewhat later than that. The earliest I've that I've found someone claiming to have heard it is in the 1950s, in a discussion thread on an Internet forum. Most of the participants in that thread recall having heard "Little Bunny Foo Foo" in the 1960s; one specifically mentioned 1966, and another claimed not to have heard it until the late 1960s. In any case, the earliest attestations I've been able to find are two from 1970. One is in Beverly Cleary's novel Runaway Ralph. The talking mouse Ralph finds himself at a summer camp, and is frightened to hear a boy singing "Little Rabbit Fru-fru." The other is from an article in the January 17 issue of The New Yorker, which mentions "little Bunny Phoo Phoo" (spelled P-H-O-O) as a character in a children's story. These attestations indicate an origin earlier than 1970.


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Text lathe prototype from Adam Parrish on Vimeo.
This is a little prototype for a textual interface that I came up with last week after receiving my nanoKONTROL. (I saw Jörg Piringer use one of these in a live electronic sound poetry performance last year at E-Poetry, and I knew I had to have one.) The idea is that two knobs on the controller determine how much text is cut from either side of a text fed to the program on standard input; another knob controls how fast lines of text are read in and displayed. It's a very simple mapping, but I'm pleased with the results so far.
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Treat 'em mean, keep 'em keen: Why this won't work with your staff and what you need to do instead to engage them
Treating your staff 'mean' to get results is clearly counter-productive. Providing sandwiches for them at lunchtime is not the quick fix solution either. Here are five tips for creating a corporate culture that will engage your staff and add value to your bottom line.
1. Decide your objectives and how the change will be measured in the culture
How will things be different? By when will that have been achieved? How will you know if you have been successful?
2. Choose three or four key values to define the new culture
Be specific about the behaviours and attitudes you'd like to see. Choosing 'Trust' as a company value is meaningless, because nobody knows what is expected of them.
3. Direct the change yourself
Changing attitudes and behaviours across a business isn't easy.
The surest way to kill off a change programme is to position it as an HR issue. It sends a very different signal when the CEO takes personal accountability, and makes it clear that every functional Director or Divisional Head will report personally on progress in their area.
4. Measure everything you do against the values
Review, and redesign where necessary every process and policy to reflect the new culture. In staff appraisals, performance should be evaluated against each of the company values, as well as conventional targets and objectives. Reward systems may need to be changed. Don't expect real teamwork if bonuses are linked to individual performance!
People don't always realise that in committing to a strong, distinctive culture, they are by definition, excluding other ways of doing things. If you want to create a company focused on customer service, anyone who is regularly the subject of customer complaints has to change or leave.
5. Live and breathe your values
As soon as people hear about new company values they will want to know whether to take them seriously. If your habit of yelling at people and throwing furniture is inconsistent with your new commitment to Show Respect for People, stop shouting and throwing furniture! And when you get it wrong – and you will! – apologise.
- What are your company values?
- Does everybody behave in accordance with them – always?
If not, why not?
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Can Hangzhou reverse nimby trend?
Source:Global Times Published: 2014-5-12 0:23:03
On Saturday, a mass incident in Hangzhou, East China's Zhejiang Province, was triggered by a waste incineration power plant project. Some local residents took the liberty of blocking roads and smashing cars and other property. Even police were assaulted during the incident.
The next day, local police made an abrupt announcement, demanding perpetrators at large to give themselves up. The local government also promised that the project won't kick off without finishing all the legal procedures and getting approval from the public.
This is a new crisis, which was incurred by so-called pollution concerns raised by industrial projects. Paraxylene projects are probably the first and most widely known factor that ignited such protests around the country. Mass protests usually lead to closure of these projects, which serve as a catalyst for more similar cases.
The announcement made by Hangzhou police was the first time that local authorities maintained a tough foothold to stop the negative trend. And we are in favor of its attempt to protect the rule of law.
The power plant might be approved in a flawed process, but criticisms should never transform into blocking roads or assaulting police. China's rule of law and democracy will never be fulfilled by violence.
China has been trapped by not-in-my-backyard - nimby - syndrome. The problem, if further winked at, will probably lead to complete social disorder. Those nimby activists, if they keep provoking trouble, must face stern legal punishments. The authorities also need to offer effective measures to ease growing irrational concerns about industrial projects.
In recent years, public opinion never ceases to criticize local governments for bad public relations and incompetent communication.
But public concerns are gaining momentum, and due to the lack of government credibility, the effect of communication is greatly reduced. As for these protesters, nimby is the easiest approach to take. The requirements for these industrial projects have failed to draw enough attention from public opinion.
This conflict about the project, which at most is a local dispute between the minority and the majority, has been soon hyped up as a confrontation between the people and the local government.
This outcome can be found in almost all the places where similar crises broke out. The nimby demand of the local residents will usually draw nationwide support, which creates the illusion that the entire country can avoid industrial projects.
China has probably become the most comfortable hotbed for nimby, which means Chinese authorities have to take urgent measures to reverse this dangerous tendency.
But now communication and PR by local governments are unlikely to have an effect.
It demands authorities at a higher level vouch for the safety of these projects and improve concrete measures such as making sure relocated residents get proper compensation.
These actions require State governance as well as execution by local governments. The authorities need both prudence and boldness. We hope Hangzhou will be a turning point to stop the nimby trend.
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