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- The first thing you do is buy your beef. Look in the meat section and choose the meat which is the cheapest per pound. The shape of the meat doesn't matter because you will be cutting it up when you get home. If you find stew meat then you can use it too. It will be cut into smaller chunks than if you did it at home, but that won't matter much.
- At home, cut the meat into large cubes. I try to cut 12 cubes, so each person can have two cubes per serving. You can cut them however you like though, smaller or bigger as you see fit. Cut off the fat while you're at it, to make a tastier dish. When the meat is in cubes or chunks, set it aside. In a bowl, combine the flour, salt and pepper. Place the meat in the bowl and toss it in the flour, coating it on all sides. Meanwhile, heat up the fat in a large skillet over medium heat. Place the coated chunks of beef into the hot fat. Brown them on all sides. This will take about 10 minutes of cooking. Save the leftover flour in the bowl. You will use it later for the gravy. After the meat is well browned, add the tap water. Bring the meat to a boil. Reduce the heat so the water barely simmers. Cover the pan with a lid or a pizza pan. Allow it to simmer for 2 hours. If the water simmers away, add more as you see fit. After two hours, the meat should be tender. In a pint size canning jar, or other container with a good lid, combine the remaining flour and the milk. Screw the lid to the jar on tightly and shake it until the flour is completely dissolved in the milk. Then pour this into the skillet on the stove, to thicken the gravy. Stir it up and bring it to a boil, continue cooking for a full minute. If the gravy is too thick, add a water until it is the consistency you like. Serve over mashed potatoes or cooked rice. I've even served this over thinly cut french fries. Yum!
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I had a cool moment of Zen yesterday. I was at a local park playing in our weekly doubles league (-7 for those that care) and I sat down on a bench that perhaps I've sat on 200-300 times before over the years and I saw something I hadn't noticed before.
I don't want the world. I just want your half.
It reminded me of the NC State expression tunnel (is that still around?) where it was OK to creatively graffiti. There would always be some place where someone had written 'Frodo Lives'.
The quote above comes from probably one of the best They Might Be Giants songs ever written 'Ana Ng'.


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Milly designer Michelle Smith is no stranger to a tough workout, so we brought the latest fitness craze, trampoLEAN, to her house in Water Mill. Naturally, she jumped right in. Here's what she had to say in the Daily Summer.
Are you having fun?
Yes! I love this, because it was really fun and challenging, and I feel like a little kid again. There's a certain joy to this exercise, with the jumping and the carefree abandon.
You and Ralph Rucci are the only sweat-drenched designers we've interviewed. Ralph is a pretty great boxer…
Ha! I love to exercise, so I don't mind.
Did you expect this workout to be so hard?
No, because it looks like you're just having fun, but you're actually pressing down into the trampoline, and it's more about the down movement than the up movement. It was a big challenge to control myself, stay on the trampoline, and land in the right place.
Do you exercise daily?
No, but I go to SoulCycle three times a week, and I like Pilates, too. I used to be a runner, but it started to bother my knees and my back, so spinning and trampoline work for me.
Love your shirt—is it part of your collaboration with [SoulCycle instructor] Stacey Griffith?
Yes! A lot of the T-shirts are "Stacey-isms"—the motivational sayings that she uses in class. For the tank tops, we collaborated on some funny and irreverent phrases.
Such as…
"Bad, bad, bad." Another says "Psycho"—I wore that on vacation. I actually forget that I'm wearing them. I dropped off my child at camp wearing one that says "Bend over once a day," because in Stacey's class, she asks everyone to bend over the handlebars to work the butt. These shirts are always conversation starters!
How did you and Stacey initially meet?
I was trying to lose the last 10 pounds of baby weight after my son was born, and it was a struggle. A friend told me about her class, and I was immediately hooked. We got to know each other through mutual friends. We share the same sense of humor and a love of pop culture.
What else is new?
This is the third season I've had my own store in East Hampton, and it's fantastic. I feel like people really know about us now. Business is great.
Do you encounter many Milly fanatics on Main Street?
I do! I don't know if they would want to be mentioned, but it feels great to have die-hard Milly fans. What I do is a labor of love, and to see people enjoy it is the greatest thing.
Think you'll return to the trampoline again?
Definitely. I could see myself becoming addicted!
With trampoLEAN's Louis Coraggio
What are the benefits of the trampoline?
It gets your heart rate going, increases oxygen, burns calories, helps you lose weight, and gives you a nice, lean body. Every time you bounce on the trampoline, you activate your ab muscles. It also has similar benefits as swimming, so you're burning off a large amount of calories and working all your muscles at the same time. It's one of the best detoxifying exercises because of the vertical acceleration and deceleration of bouncing.
How can people do this with you?
I have a studio in New York City where I have classes going on seven days a week. Then I have a pop-up location in East Hampton at the Neighborhood House. I also teach private classes at people's homes.
Is this the next big craze?
Absolutely. People want to have fun again with their fitness routine. The trampoline used to be quite popular in the '80s, and now it's having a resurgence. I use a premium fitness trampoline that has bungee cords.
How would you rate Michelle Smith as a student?
Once she got on the trampoline, she just fell in love with it. She was jumping and bouncing and doing all these athletic movements with a big smile.
You have a lot of fashion clients.
I train Valentino when he's in town. Right now he's yachting around the Mediterranean somewhere, but when he gets back to New York, I'll see him.
Have you gotten him on the trampoline?
Not yet.
Call 516-768-0889 to jump in!
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Last year, I wrote a story about a story about a DVD produced by Churchill High's PTA that outlined the dangers of teen drinking.
The project came about after six Churchill High School students died in alcohol-related accidents between 2002 and 2004 and a group of moms decided they couldn't sit by and watch that number climb any higher.
"Every time we talked about it, the conversation would come around to the situation where some parents feel it's safer to go ahead and provide alcohol in their home," said Anne Tiller, a PTA member. "They feel if they know where their child is and what they're doing, they'll be safer."
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After the story ran in the Express-News, the PTA group began hearing from schools from across the country interested in purchasing the DVD.
They also had requests for a Spanish version of the program from districts in the Rio Grande Valley. Tiller said: "The North East District media department generously recorded and created the Spanish version for us over the summer. We are excited about being able to touch a broader audience."
To view a clip of the DVD and get information on how to order the program, go to Churchill High PTA's Web site.
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I caught a knee in the chest at judo the other evening. That kind of hurts today. Why on earth do I keep doing something where catching a knee in the chest is not just possible, but permissible? Then I go to jodo where my partner gets to hammer on my gut with a big stick from time to time. Am I nuts? Don't bother answering that, we already know the answer.
Martial arts hurt sometimes. That goes hand in glove with what martial arts are. Martial arts are combative disciplines. One part of that is getting banged up from time to time. I go to judo and get thrown around the room and bounced off the floor. Some nights I'll take upwards of 100 falls. Somewhat surprisingly, the difficult part is not taking the falls, but getting up afterwards. It's more work than you think.
If it's just me being uke for someone who is practicing their throws, it doesn't hurt. If we're doing randori (grappling sparring), the falls aren't always completely controlled, and sometimes I land badly. That can hurt. The strange thing is that I remember bad throws hurting a lot more when I was young and first started training than they do now. There is a big lesson in budo practice about how to handle and evaluate pain, and it's fundamental to everything going on in the dojo.
People commonly think that the person who can cause the most pain and damage is the toughest. My thought is that the person who can absorb the most is the toughest. Part of budo training is learning to handle what other people do to you. This lesson is a basic one not only in the modern arts like judo and kendo, but it's fundamental in classical systems of jujutsu, kenjutsu and other weapons.
Falling down hurts sometimes. So does getting hit with sticks and hands and feet. If you're learning a combative art, it's not just about what you can do to someone else. It's also about what they might be doing to you. If you're not learning how to deal with the discomfort of being thrown or taking a hit, you're not learning budo.
I have to admit, there isn't much out there that matches judo for the regular level of discomfort experienced when training. Judoka get banged around to the point that bumps and bruises aren't even noticed. I come home from keiko, take a shower and discover a new batch of bruises that I don't remember getting. How can that be?
Any good budo develops and demands a high level of focus. Judo certainly does this. Particularly during randori, I don't have any mental space to spare on worrying about a little bump or bruise. I'm so focused on what I'm doing that sort of discomfort doesn't even register.
What surprises me is just how much that is true in budo that don't specialize in picking people up and throwing them at the ground. Most arts don't demand that sort of pounding, but all good budo do require that we learn to handle discomfort. Kenjutsu has bangs and accidents where wrists and knuckles get whacked. Jodo in particular emphasizes absorbing tsuki and the occasional bang on the wrist. Aikido bends and attacks joints is ways that can be uniquely torturous. Other arts have their moments of vigorous contact as well.
Is there a good reason for this, or is it just an excuse for people to hurt each other? There is a good reason behind a certain level of a bumping, banging and bruising. There's no other way to get used to this sort of discomfort, and if you're really learning a martial art, you need to be able to handle basic levels of discomfort and even a bit a pain now and then. It's part of the learning process.
If at time any you need the literal skills of martial arts, you're certainly going to have to be able to focus through some pain and discomfort, maybe a lot of it. If you can't do that, you'll fold the first time things start to hurt. Pain hurts, but it doesn't have to distract. One key is learning that there is a difference between discomfort, pain, and harm. Discomfort and pain can be endured, but harm is to be avoided.
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Not everyone approaches this part of practice wisely. The most foolish way learning to handle and absorb pain and discomfort is to be like the people who try to prove they are better than everyone else by taking more pain and still getting on the floor to train. These people do a great deal of damage, most of it to themselves. They push past enduring discomfort and pain right into inflicting harm on their own bodies.
For the rest of us the question then becomes, what level of discomfort is learning, and what is abuse? It's good to learn to to handle discomfort, but how hard to push is always a good question. We've all met people who push themselves too hard and too far. For me the key is that if someone is getting themselves injured, they are pushing to far.
There is a dark side to this lesson to watch out for as well. There are people who use the need to learn to be tough as an excuse to abuse the people they teach and train with. I've seen bullies and sadists purposely inflict unnecessary pain and even harm on their training partners in order to "help them toughen up" and similar excuses. Anyone who complains about the treatment is excoriated for being soft and weak.
Putting up with this sort of abuse is not a sign of strength. If you find yourself dealing with people who abuse their partners, don't stick around and put up with it. One aspect of budo is standing up for yourself. Let people know this isn't acceptable. If they won't listen, leave. Don't let yourself be injured or abused.
Learning to deal with discomfort and pain is an important lesson. Equal to learning how to deal with it though, is learning when not to endure it. Discomfort and pain can be a sign of stress and pushing ourselves, but they are also signs that we are pushing too far and getting close to harming ourselves. Knowing which and respecting the differences are just as important as being able to put up with the discomfort of training.
I love training, even though it hurts sometimes. The joy and rush of randori or sparring is like very little else. For me, this makes it easy to ignore the odd bump or bruise. The occasional ache and post training stiffness is a small price to pay for all that I get out of martial arts practice.
The truth is, to quote Jimmy Buffett, that "the pleasure is worth all the pain."


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The Food Bank of Northwest Louisiana is gearing up for its annual Empty Bowls fundraiser by hosting the Empty Bowls Kick-Off Bowl Painting Party.
The Bossier City Kick-off will take place on Thursday, March 24, 2010 from 5:00 – 7:00 p.m. in the old Chico's location (behind Banana Republic) at the Louisiana Boardwalk in Bossier City.
For a $5 donation, guests of all ages can hand paint a ceramic bowl which will be used by patrons of the Empty Bowls event set for June 9th at El Dorado Casino and Hotel. Tickets for the event will also be available for purchase.
The annual Empty Bowls event is a Hunger Awareness Fundraising Event and is the food bank's main fundraiser of the year. The bowls serve to remind attendees of all the empty bowls in our community that do not get filled.


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24 October 2009
Miss Singapore: Hot Bod, Posh Name, Great Smile, Decent Face, Terrible English
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EDUCATED Singaporeans who consider their spoken English as world-ranking have been jolted by a controversy over a beauty queen's interview.
The centre of the storm was 19-year-old Miss Singapore World 2009 Ris Low, who shocked Singaporeans by speaking in dismal English, with poor diction as well as mispronunciations.
More controversy: Low has now sparked a debate about the state of English in Singapore. Ironically, it coincided with the government's annual Speak Good English campaign that began nine years ago.
Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew believes that Singaporeans need to speak standard grammatical English to allow them to plug into the global economy.
In her interview, Low spoke in a mix of local pidgin English that was splattered with slurred or mispronounced words.
She would say "preens" instead of prints, "rad" (for red), "pis" (piece) and "begini" (bikini), and used a distorted word "boomz" to describe a glamorous outfit.
Critics also say her answers were contradictory and of low quality, leading to calls to stop her representing Singapore in a televised international event.
(Low, however, will not compete for world glory in South Africa, where she would have to face tough questions in a live worldwide broadcast. She withdrew after her conviction for credit card fraud became public.)
"Her English is atrocious. She can't even speak a proper sentence," said one of the 100,000 viewers who watched the recorded interview online.
"It will disgrace our country. The world will think that all Singaporean girls speak like that," said another critic.
The angry discussions soon took on a national dimension. A reporter wrote: "(It) triggered a storm of online debate, complete with hand-wringing over Singapore's education system (and) the state of intelligence of today's youth ...".
Some writers rallied to her defence, saying the criticism was overblown.
Low, they say, is no more than a product of Singapore's education system; she talks the way many educated Singaporeans do, including graduates.
She has a very Singaporean background. She hails from a Mandarin-speaking family, grew up in the heartland and attended a neighbourhood school. Now, her mangled English and poor communication skill have became a national issue.
Goh Eck Kheng, chairman of the Speak Good English Movement, told the Straits Times that Singaporeans should be the last people to be mocking her.
"How many people are you laughing at, if you laugh at Ms Low?" he asked.
Another official, Jennifer Yin, reportedly said: "Lots of Singaporeans speak this way. She is not unusual."
So, if many of the nation's youths, even graduates, speak like Low, why single her out?
Singaporeans were last week like a community looking at itself in the mirror and seeing one problem: deteriorating language skills in a place that is renowned for its education standards.
"Most of us are competent in neither English nor Mandarin," said a community representative. "We have become a nation of half buckets, as the Chinese saying goes."
"We only have to open our ears in food centres, shopping malls and school canteens, and we get a constant aural assault of sub-standard English and Mandarin," one letter stated.
While the republic's secondary schools rank top three in the world in Science and Maths, its level of English is below par. Many teachers and students speak a casual, sub-standard language. Misspellings are widespread.
"I often hear train station employees, TV presenters and newscasters stumbling over their sentences and digging themselves into holes of garbled grammar," a newspaper reader observed.
This has been aggravated by two factors.
First, the extensive use of short handphone messages or email that routinely ignore capital letters, drop verbs and shorten words — a virtual sub-language.
Second, the massive, rapid inflow of foreigners from different countries who bring with them their own languages (and dialects) has diluted Singapore's own.
The demographic changes are causing a dent not only on Singapore's English-speaking skills but also on the national language policy itself.
This calls for the use of English as the common lingua among the races as well as for business and work, but the various mother tongues — Malay, Mandarin or Tamil — are encouraged to be used at home.
Many Singaporeans speak a local patois of ungrammatical English with a sprinkling of Hokkien and Malay words that foreigners cannot comprehend.
Many people are against eradicating Singlish because it is a part of Singapore's identity but concede that it should not be used when dealing with foreigners or in business.
"I need Singlish to express a Singaporean feeling," said Catherine Lim, a prominent novelist who switches easily from one level of English to another.
For the broad majority like Low, however, who lack the basic grounding, switching is almost impossible and they are stuck with a half-baked language.
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God has been very generous to Asian girls. He gives them both beauty and brains. It's not an exaggeration to say that the average Asian girl today looks just like the student above.
Jealous and frustrated barbarians have, in recent months, killed Annie Le of Yale University and attempted to kill an un-named Asian female student at Young Hall at UCLA. Our beautiful and smart Asian girls are under attack. Yet, authorities stand idly by.


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That community is made up predominantly of ordinary Irish people who wish to earn attractive returns lending to creditworthy local businesses.
The agreement will further boost liquidity on the P2P platform, which has already provided more than 1,400 loans to Irish SMEs.
The company has demonstrated an impressive growth trajectory since its establishment in 2013, lending over €59m to date while recording its strongest quarter in Q1 2018.
"Banco BNI Europa's decision to deploy capital on the Linked Finance platform is great news for Irish SMEs," said Niall Dorrian, CEO of Linked Finance.
"It is yet more evidence of how the world is changing and through technology Linked Finance is making it easier for SMEs to borrow money. This arrangement with Banco BNI Europa will allow us to immediately increase lending to local businesses.
"It complements the funding available from our existing users – ordinary members of the Irish public – who will continue to play a crucial role in helping us to fulfil our mission of providing fast and affordable finance for Ireland's SME sector."
Banco BNI Europa is a digital bank and alternative lending investor that has partnered with alternative lending platforms across Europe since 2016.
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2 tablespoons lemon juice.
1 cup frozen or fresh blueberries (this time of year, most likely frozen)
2/3 cup chopped walnuts
1/3 cup natural sugar
3 tablespoons whole wheat flour
1 teaspoon cinnamon
Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Cut parchment paper into 8 5-inch squares.
Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Cut parchment paper into 8 5-inch squares.
Roll each pie crust into a 12-inch square. Cut each pie crust into quarters, about 6-inch squares. Place one piece of pie crust onto a piece of parchment paper. Press into a cup in a cupcake pan, molding pie crust onto the side, but keeping parchment paper from folding into dough. Repeat until all eight cups are molded.
In a medium bowl, toss apple pieces with lemon juice. Combine remaining ingredients and toss lightly to coat. Divide apple mixture into each cup. Fold dough down over apple mixture and sprinkle lightly with a pinch of natural sugar.
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Leaving politics for now
Two months after immersing himself in Texas politics, Victor Morales has returned to his classroom at Poteet High School near Dallas where he teaches U.S. government.
"I'm returning to a job I love," said Mr. Morales, whose stage for a low-budget campaign to unseat Republican U.S. Sen. Phil Gramm was a pickup truck. "I'm starting to return to my old self and loosen up."
Mr. Morales, who is married and has three children, does not miss the relentless grind of campaigning and fund raising that defined his life during a yearlong leave from the school. ("Viva Victor," Oct. 9, 1996.)
But the experience offers his students a rare firsthand entree into politics. And the media exposure has led to speaking invitations that pay Mr. Morales up to $2,000 an appearance.
Despite losing the election, Mr. Morales boasts that he spent just $900,000 while drawing 2.5 million votes. Mr. Gramm spent $9 million and received 3 million votes.
"I said I was a fiscal conservative, and I meant it," he quipped.
Mr. Morales, a Democrat, may return to the political scene.
"This time, I won't be afraid to ask for money," said Mr. Morales, who spent about $36,000 of his own funds in the race while rejecting contributions from special-interest groups.
Penney Sanders, Kentucky's top school-reform watchdog, is retiring in May after seeing the state's landmark law through its implementation.
Ms. Sanders, a former school principal, hired the staff and guided the legislature's fledgling Office of Education Accountability to a reputation as an independent-minded and plain-spoken monitor of the 1990 Kentucky Education Reform Act.
The agency led the scrutiny of the state's new tests that critics still call unreliable and too subjective. The accountability office has also been a formidable investigative agency, following up on reports of misconduct in districts throughout the state.
Before announcing her plans to spend more time at her sheep farm, Ms. Sanders was a finalist for the state schools chief's jobs in Alabama and Vermont. Like Mr. Morales, she hasn't entirely ruled out a return to public office.
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After broaching the possibility of a Noah Hanifin trade, it became abundantly clear that the ends likely wouldn't justify the means for the Canucks. Put simply, Hanifin's a good player — one that fits a need for this team, but the cost of prying him from the Hurricanes likely exceeds the value he'd provide.
But what if I told you there was another young defenceman that shared an eerily similar statistical and underlying profile as Hanifin — one that could likely be had for a fraction of the cost?
Enter 23-year-old, Columbus Blue Jackets defenceman Markus Nutivaara.
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Both Hanifin and Nutivaara were effective at driving possession and offence from the backend in sheltered roles.
Nutivaara's 23 points might not jump out at you, but it's made all the more impressive when you contextualize the results. For starters, he scored those points in just 61 games. That scoring pace, if prorated over the 79 games Hanifin played, would leave Nutivaara with 30 points — just two shy of Hanifin's total.
While it's true that both players registered most of their points at even-strength, it's Hanifin that got meaningful power-play time — upwards of 100 additional minutes compared to Nutivaara to be precise. The deployment discrepancy resulted in seven power-play points for Hanifin compared to just two for Nutivaara.
In fact, isolating even-strength production shines the Finnish defender in a brighter light than even Hanifin.
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Nutivaara's scoring efficiency is highlighted when looking at five-on-five points per hour. Here, his production rate is good enough to slot into the top 10 among all NHL defencemen(minimum 600 minutes TOI).
What may surprise you in all this is that Nutivaara's offensive game was relatively unheralded coming into this season. His traditional calling card has been as a reliable, stay-at-home defenceman that can move the puck up the ice, but this year he became more active as he got comfortable with John Tortorella's system.
In this system, the Blue Jackets rely on their defenders to push the pace of the group's offence by playing an active north-south game. As such, Nutivaara was given the green light to expand his game and become a more dynamic threat on the rush — whether it be joining the play as a late trailer or leading transition plays himself.
Affording the smooth-skating Finn that freedom was necessary for him to expand his offensive arsenal because he doesn't have the greatest shot or the most creative skill set to capitalize on sustained offensive zone pressure.
Instead, Nutivaara's game is predicated on using his vision and awareness to take calculated risks once he's identified the opposing teams' coverage deficiencies. He couples those smarts with exquisite passing accuracy and above average mobility to allow him to exploit those coverage holes and lapses. Usually, that means taking advantage of transition plays where the opposing team hasn't established itself positionally.
In this clip, Nutivaara keeps his head up to look for the best entry option. He realizes that Nugent-Hopkins is late to take away his time and space, and so he takes advantage by gaining the zone and then cutting inside with the aid of his quick hands. Nutivaara knows exactly where his teammates are so he slips a backhand feed to Oliver Bjorkstrand, who finds the back of the net.
Most impressive about this play is that Nutivaara didn't even need to hit full stride to complete the rush — it was all about using vision to identify the open seam to carry the puck.
Nutivaara's penchant for capitalizing on open lanes lends itself as an asset on puck retrievals as well.
The pinpoint stretch pass is what likely stands out to most in the preceding clip, but pay attention to Nutivaara's approach to the retrieval. He knows that the Bruins are going to change once they've dumped the puck in, and so he looks to take advantage of this by urgently orchestrating a swift counter-attack. The key to this play is how Nutivaara looks over his shoulder multiple times to survey the developing play before he collects the puck.
He then threads a beautiful saucer pass right onto Tyler Motte's stick to spring him on a breakaway.
Plays similar to the clips above couple with impressive microdata to illustrate Nutivaara's year over year improvement when it comes to both leading zone exits and offensive zone entries.
While he lacks the dynamic offensive traits to consistently crest 40 points, Nutivaara does boast a sound defensive package to go along with his puck moving abilities.
Defensively, Nutivaara is most effective in the neutral zone, where he uses his smarts to anticipate the opposition breakout as well as his mobility to maintain a tight gap. Those strengths led the 23-year-old to own the second-best percentage among Blue Jackets' defencemen for preventing controlled offensive zone entries this season.
Regarding own zone play, Nutivaara is pretty reliable positionally, though he lacks the size and strength (only 178 pounds at 6'1″) to win battles along the boards consistently. It's not for a lack of effort though — his competitiveness is particularly evident when you watch him box out and tie up forwards down low and near the goal mouth.
All this sounds fine and dandy, but the issue with sheltered players like Hanifin and Nutivaara is projecting how they may perform higher in the lineup. In Nutivaara's case, his acclaimed defensive acumen attenuates that concern to a degree, but so too does the copiously favourable effect he had on his various partners' ability to control shot attempts.
Each of the defenders that spent at least 100 minutes with Nutivaara on the ice saw their possession numbers plummet away from the former 7th round pick. Jack Johnson and David Savard were especially hit hard away from Nutivaara — indicating that it was indeed the Finnish defenceman who drove the success for his pairings.
Despite this solvent two-way performance, Nutivaara found himself buried on the depth chart, averaging just over 16 minutes a game on Columbus' bottom pairing. It's unclear whether he'll receive additional opportunities next season when considering the possibility that either Jack Johnson or Ian Cole could return to the Blue Jackets.
Would Columbus Be Open To A Nutivaara Trade?
Columbus was quick to ink Nutivaara to an extension following his breakout year — locking him up for four years at an AAV of 2.7 million dollars. While it shows how much the Blue Jackets value the sophomore defenceman, they boast enough defensive depth to supplant Nutivaara's loss, but more importantly, they have a need the Canucks can fill.
As it pertains to the former, Columbus has a slew of players that could fill a potential void left by Nutivaara in both the short and long-term. One option is the possibility of re-signing pending UFA Ian Cole, whom they acquired to solidify their top-4 at the trade deadline. Should they not have a desire to commit to Cole, they could also shift Ryan Murray to the left side given his alike handedness.
The Blue Jackets would also finally have the opportunity to give one of Gabriel Carlsson or Dean Kukan a look on the bottom pairing. 2015 1st round pick Carlsson, in particular, hopes to be a long-term fixture on the left side of the defence group.
Clearing the logjam on defence would certainly make things easier for the Blue Jackets, but it doesn't make sense unless the Canucks are able to provide serious value for them. It just so happens to be that they have an expendable piece in Sven Baertschi that could be of interest to Columbus.
Baertschi would provide valuable scoring depth in the top-9 for a Blue Jackets' squad that had just four forwards score more than 35 points. Out of that group, Artemi Panarin stood out as the only left-winger of the bunch.
It'd likely take additional pieces to convince the Jackets into making such a move, but it'd be well worth it to acquire a responsible, puck-moving defenceman of Nutivaara's calibre. A trade for the 23-year-old Finn certainly wouldn't be the flashy acquisition with Noah Hanifin still on the market, though there's no shortage of evidence to support its merits as the more prudent deal in the long-term.


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The Mindfulness of Fiction
The following piece was written by Brianna Goodman, copy and features editor for MindBodyBrew. Brianna teaches yoga with The Perri Institute for Mind and Body in New York City. She recently graduated from Fordham University, where she studied English and creative writing.
The Harry Potter series was my first.
Not the first books I read, not the first books I loved, but the first books that made me leave the world of the present to join the world of their characters. Wand fights absorbed my dreams. Time was measured in the increments between the release of one book and the release of its sequel. Talk of the series dominated conversations with friends. The days after I finished the latest installment were spent wondering what would happen next, or—in the case of Book Five—wondering if there was any way the death of a beloved character could be a ruse, explained away in the sequel as a mere illusion. Harry Potter was my first, but there have been many works of fiction that have trapped me in their worlds.
A few months ago over tea, a fellow yoga instructor and I discussed this phenomenon that occurs while reading fiction—an almost out-of-body experience in which one becomes so absorbed in the life and world of the characters that it can be a struggle to reacquaint oneself with reality post-novel. She told me that, because of this, she sticks predominately to nonfiction work. I can see why, and yet I am resistant to that conclusion. Reading a truly absorbing work of fiction is one of my greatest pleasures—when I find a work that is both absorbing and beautifully written, I am thrilled. I spend hours at a time lost in that world, pausing only for a brief stretch, or to refill a water glass. To give that up is not something that I am prepared to do. And yet, coming back from these fictional worlds and into my own can be hard, and sometimes—dare I say it?—even a let-down, as fiction so rarely depicts the banal moments spent waiting for the stalled subway, or standing in line at a crowded supermarket, or sitting at the computer mindlessly deleting e-newsletters you can't seem to keep away.
These moments, moments when I'm so absorbed in the happenings of a novel that I must consciously reorient myself to my daily life, are moments when my passion for fiction seems to come directly in conflict with my work as a yoga instructor, and as someone who places extreme emphasis on the present moment. Isn't fiction, in a way, a sort of escapism? When I binge-read a work of fiction I'm deeply entrenched in, have I checked out of my body? Am I being unmindful? Am I checking out of my life?
Or, is it possible to read fiction mindfully?
The classic image of a bookworm, for me, will always be Belle in that first town scene in Beauty and the Beast, walking through the streets with—as the townspeople describe it—"her nose stuck in a book." Oblivious to the noise and action surrounding her, she is entirely absorbed in the words on the page. On the one hand, this is the definition of someone who is not present—she is easily in danger of getting hit by a carriage, of stepping in something unpleasant, of crashing into the people around her. On the other hand, this is the definition of someone who is one hundred percent present—she is so present with the task at hand, reading, that the gossip and movement threatening to distract her are no match for her unwavering focus. Reading does, after all, require a certain degree of presence—otherwise, one might find oneself entirely checked out from the experience of reading. I'm sure we all now this feeling: re-reading the same sentence fifty times but still not understanding it because we're too busy making grocery lists in our heads or trying to figure out exactly what our neighbor just yelled at the person across the hallway. Really investing in the process of reading requires similar steps to the ones mindfulness practices encourage in our daily lives: listening with all of our senses, focusing our minds on the experience at hand, staying present with our own thoughts as they arise. That last one is huge—one of the best parts of reading is realizing our own reactions to certain circumstances, or recognizing ourselves or our loved ones in the characters on the page. In this way, reading seems like an act of self-study, svadhyaya; every observation we make or line that captivates us tells us a bit more about who we are and where we come from.
In addition to teaching us something about ourselves, reading fiction can also teach us something about others. Reading fiction places us in someone else's world; it requires us to shed our own biases and understandings in order to see this world through a narrator or character whose voice and thoughts are not our own. To me, this is one of the most convincing arguments for why one "should" read fiction—particularly literary fiction. It requires us to put ourselves "in someone else's shoes," a compassionate act—and exercising compassion is a crucial part of the yoga practice and philosophy. Maybe our eyes are glued to the page, but our minds are developing a tool: a tool that allows us to be mindful of others. Beyond fostering compassion, the act of freeing ourselves from preconceived notions in order to enjoy a fictional work mimics the act of seeking a beginner's mindset that the yoga practice often requires. To allow ourselves to dive into a new novel, we must, in a way, become an empty cup. In the same manner in which we return to the mat each day with a willingness to learn and to grow, we begin each novel with an open mind, receptive to a new story.
More than simply identifying parallels between reading fiction and practicing mindfulness, we can actually look to the tradition of meditation to find that incorporating fiction into mindfulness practices is not unprecedented. There is, in fact, a historical practice of visualization in meditation work. Whether it be a loving-kindness meditation that asks the meditator to envision a loved one or a stranger sitting before the practitioner, or a meditation that involves envisioning, or even embodying, some sort of hero or exalted figure, there are established tools for using one's imagination in tandem with mindfulness work. So perhaps it isn't unfounded to suggest that placing oneself in a time or place that does not resemble the present moment—by reading, say, a Tolstoy novel set in a harsh Russian winter while sitting on a park bench in the sweltering heat of a New York City summer—is a different, but fruitful, exercise for training and expanding the mind.
There are valid practical concerns with the image of Belle strolling obliviously through a crowded street, and I would argue that there is a way to be both focused on reading and also aware of your surroundings (much in the same way that we can focus on our breath in meditation while maintaining a broader awareness of the sounds and space around us). But maybe the image of Belle reading as life—literally, in the form of animals and people—passes her by is not an altogether frightening one. Many would have her toss her books aside in favor of the "real world"—but aren't similar critiques made about meditation? I don't have time to sit around and focus on my breath when there's so much out there that needs doing! Isn't sitting around and doing nothing a waste of time? Yet we know that meditation is a helpful practice for training ourselves to be more fully present in those activities we postpone in order to meditate. It seems to me that reading has a similar power. Maybe reading a book means we're not present with every single breath cycle, but we are paying attention to a present-moment act. We're learning about ourselves. We're learning about others. And in this way, spending time in these "imagined worlds" might just make us all the more mindful when we return to our roles as "real world" inhabitants.
–Brianna Goodman
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I'm on the fence when it comes to the "robo-advisory" craze. Clearly, given the gush of venture money and subsequent marketing buzz behind automated trading and investing methods for the masses, lots of very smart folks think that "robots" managing your money (on an highly automated or assisted basis) are here to stay. Note that in 2016 Betterment and Personal Capital bagged rounds of $100 million and $75 million, respectively.
Here's the first shoe: Quantitative methods for retail investors were always inevitable once a sufficient level of maturity in the underlying mechanisms had been achieved. In an earlier generation of quantitative trading strategy development (ie – late 1990's), we used say, "You can either fish or sell bait." Meaning, simply, that you can either use your trading signals on a proprietary basis or sell your modeling output for a fee. For those who were good at it, the profitability in the beginning was – or at least could be – far too juicy to sell for a fixed fee. And, frankly, these methods were in a far too formative stage back then to be applicable to mom and pop investors, for legal and/or moral reasons.
Now, here we are. Welcome to the bandwagon. Exhibit 1 from investorjunkie.com (Dec 2016) lists 21 robo-advisory offerings, both stand-alone and as a component of broader wealth management services. And though this list is fairly comprehensive, it is still not complete. A Goldman Sachs-backed team, Kensho Technologies is the most notable that comes to mind (even though they don't specifically promote themselves as robo-advisors).
Why now? A convergence of interconnected drivers have spawned an explosion of automated wealth advisory services (and other financial solutions based on "artificial intelligence" or "machine learning"): 1) Born in the late 1980's by the most adventuresome quantitative pioneers, automated strategies today are (by my measure) in their 4th generation and therefore are perceived to be sufficiently stable and mature to be reconfigured for mass adoption; 2) Successfully deploying highly automated trading strategies on a proprietary basis – aka HFT, et al – has become increasingly competitive and expensive relative to its current theoretical capacity (IOW – expected scale of opportunity and level of profitability); 3) An increasing quant and data science talent pool needs new outlets (beyond the limited and exclusive proprietary trading arena), 4) Net performance of more traditional, full-service advisory offerings relative to their fees have motivated investors to pursue lower-fee DIY (do-it-yourself) solutions, much like the boom in ETFs or the attractiveness of discount brokers of years past; and, finally 5) There is exponentially more clean and streaming data than ever before – a gross understatement.
With these combined drivers set to be persistent, increasing automation of workflows will persist as well. This is a common theme in FinTech circles as well as the overarching digital revolution. As a result, robo-advisory services should be expected to levitate along with the broader rising tide of process automation for more sophisticated corners of financial services.
Now, here's the other shoe: In the post-GFC market regime, central bank interventionism – led by the Fed – has poisoned market data, the amniotic fluid of nascent robo-advisory services (and other quantitative investment methods). So, the logic is that if the Fed changes its behavior – such as, becoming less interventionist or less manipulative of markets – then automated investment methods, like robo-advisors, would experience a sort of "blindness" because their models are not tuned to data from any period outside the post-GFC period when central banks have been so active. The impact of this blindness would show up in the results fairly quickly, and the list of players (above) would consolidate to those with the most adaptive models.
Truth be told, I've been saying this for the past 5 or 6 years – so take this cautionary tale with a grain of salt. If the Fed never changes it's behavior, this point could be moot. But, just sayin'…
And, here's some of the (excerpted) details and back story from September 2012 (Tabbforum):
"Central bank intervention is poisoning the data. From direct impacts on just about all market-related datasets to indirect impacts on economic and other fundamental datasets, the Age of Intervention will serve to confuse and disorient a broad spectrum of automated trading methods today and for years to come.
Now, this topic is ripe for a good old-fashioned expletive-laced rant which I will try to water down for the younger members of our audience. For starters, and as a prime example of the heights of duplicity we have here, an unprecedented transformation fueled by regulatory onslaught is currently underway in the global OTC derivative markets precisely for the purpose of fostering greater transparency. One pillar of these transparency goals includes pre-trade price discovery for certain markets and trade structures, like interest rate swaps and credit derivatives, that have been privately-negotiated (or bilateral) since they were first conceived in the early 1980's and which as of the end of 2011 represent over $700 trillion of notional outstanding exposures (before trade compression activities). As the logic goes, new multi-lateral market mechanisms – modeled largely after those found in equity and listed derivatives – will yield better, truer prices for swaps.
Funny, this. Since when is there true price discovery in US Treasury markets, equity markets, real estate markets – just about any market anymore – when the Ultimate Omniscient Insiders are using infinite money-creation capabilities and unrestrained access to private information to influence asset prices all over the world? At any moment in time, one could argue that there simply cannot be true price discovery in any market where intervention occurs – which is most of them.
Moreover, with hints of such activity now becoming downright conspicuous, market demographics are being tragically altered. Though obfuscated under the guises of Euro-instability, impending fiscal cliffs, and all other manner of global economic abnormalities, ongoing central bank intervention is the actual underlying force that spooks traditional segments to the sidelines (i.e. – cash or the "mattress fund") or into non-traditional investments, like precious metals, or crowds them into perceived safe havens, like bond funds. Increasingly, the demographics that remain include only those that are stuck there by internal mandate, like an indexed fund, or by limitation of design, like an automated market-making or latency arbitrage program. As a result of this exodus, the machinations of central banks are becoming a proportionately greater force in capital markets.
This is where the quant angle and disorientation come back into the picture: Consider that algorithmic trading is little more than pattern recognition. Patterns are simply manifestations of consistent behaviors. The behaviors of market actors left behind in the data – like so many clues – represent the patterns that automated methods are designed to home in on. Furthermore, overlaying logic or intuition – if not, actual confirming evidence – about the nature of investment, trading or execution strategies improves the efficiency of algo development by minimizing the prevalence of false positives (or positive identification of patterns that don't actually exist); a major drawback of pattern recognition studies.
We know tons of behaviors today. We know, in advance, how a VWAP, TWAP or Iceberg algo works – and so, faster algos can pick these off. We know that mutual funds and others perform window dressing at the end of each quarter. We know that certain economic releases and corporate earnings have a high probability to elevate volatility. We know that biasing an order book with excessive quotes can cause other, slower, and less-sophisticated algos to flinch with regularity. We know that order handling rules in one liquidity pool versus those in another can cause temporary price discrepancies. We know that resting stops left behind by unsuspecting day traders are like sitting ducks to be goaded into wrong-way, momentum-inducing reactions. We know that most futures markets on Sunday nights and during holiday lulls are deliciously easy to push around – the after effects of which can last for days or weeks or months. And on and on and on. Literally, hundreds of persistent patterns that can be harvested, given a lot of speed and a little intelligence – or sometimes with little more than a tiny sliver of a gargantuan balance sheet in a burst of shock and awe. Converting theoretical, yet (hopefully) persistent, patterns (or "theoretical alpha") into harvested or actual alpha is the name of the game.
What we don't know (yet) is the behavior patterns of central banks – other than the fact that they seem to refuse to allow markets to fall very far or very fast (since 2008 and with few exceptions), enter and exit markets asymmetrically, and have no logical or intuitive mandate other than the aforementioned hypotheses. We don't know how forceful (or desperate) they will behave going forward, nor how coordinated their efforts globally, nor which markets they will seek to influence at any given time, nor when they will stop. However, one thing's for sure, the record of their activities is preserved in the data; increasingly, their fingerprints are on more and more of the data.
Of course, it is an occupational hazard of quantitative researchers to figure out new patterns; a skill that is a requirement for longevity. Perhaps, there are persistent patterns to be detected that can be pinned confidently on interventionist activities, thereby forging an acceptable level of predictability and sustainable profits. And, also, the impacts vary by strategy. Though the highest turnover strategies are typically simpatico with volatility (some of which being caused by intervention), the indirect impacts of the current receding tide of liquidity is playing havoc with the speedier players; tales about which seem to indicate that some type of disorientation has plagued their profit-making abilities for months.
As for the slower or more traditional strategies, all I can say is good luck. We are in uncharted territory in terms of market demographics and global interconnectedness. While I have been an advocate for applying automated methods to lower turnover strategies – and still am – it is clear that the signals embedded in the data – both market and economic data – are potentially polluted by these alien influences. What's worse, when we use data from this period in history to provide guidance for the future, these alien influences will still be there. They are inextricably intertwined in the record for all of eternity.
Going forward, keen awareness of changing demographics, methods of strategy deployment, and cross-market forces are among the skill requirements for ongoing success with automated methods. And, above all, never forget that the Fed uses algos too."


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August 18, 2008
Professor George Gould, who retired from the McGeorge faculty three months ago, was honored in July at the 54 th Annual Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Institute in Aspen, Colorado.
Gould received the Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation's Distinguished Teaching Award for his contributions to students and academia in a legal education career that spanned more than three decades.
A noted expert on water law, Gould was associate dean at the University of Wyoming Law School before coming to McGeorge in 1984. A casebook he co-wrote, Cases and Materials in Water Law, now in its seventh edition, is used by many law schools throughout the country. Gould taught Property, Water Law, and Land Finance to thousands of McGeorge graduates.
The Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation is an educational organization dedicated to providing scholarly research of the laws and issues affecting domestic and international mineral and water resources. Gould is a past president of the foundation and a long-time editor of its water law newsletter.
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