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Posted: Wed 08 Nov 2006, 11:28
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there is no way for any distro or kernel to solve the problem ... various bios'es and hardware have various bugs which you may have to deal with ... this may require using kernel boot options like:
what could be done, is to bypass or replace the bios ... there are projects that are working on doing just that
and there is nothing that the bios does that could not be done by the kernel, or a pre-kernel ... BSD tends to mostly ignore the bios ... as long as the bios can get it started, it has it's own pre-kernel bios programs (written partly in Forth) that does most of the work of the bios ... for example:
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Posted: Wed 08 Nov 2006, 11:42
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BIOS fiddling - now your talking my language. I can do all that stuff in my sleep. Got the utilities, too, so that all parameters can be intercepted! However....
It seems that different BIOS settings will be required for different OS? Why wasn't this a problem with the 2.4 kernel? It doesn't seem to happen with other distros?
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This weekend I'm away, we celebrate 20 year highschool-day.
So here a list of what I'll try to add in the following weeks:
1.) - Gnome:
- Add Planner. (done 005)
- remove mixer-applett that causes only a error-message. (not done, can't find the entry)
- I'll remove /usr/lib/mozilla, that currently points to firefox. (done 005)
Instead, semonkey will be in the Iso again.
Reason: Some of Puppys programs or dotpups might rely on seamonkey.
This also allows to include Gnomes very fast webbrowser Epiphany.
I might choose seamonkey 1.0.5 if it provides compatible libraries.
This is optional, Firefox will stay the "defaultbrowser" (must slightly modify some scripts maybe).
2.) Add Bluefish 1.0.7 and kompoZer HTML-editors. (bluefish done 005)
3.) add german files for Gnome and other apps. (gnome done 005)
4.) Modify the Gtk-Themechooser to use other folders like the Xfce-themes from Dougal. Add those. Dougal wrote me more suggestions, must have a closer look then.
5.) Add a small wizard to configure some options for Icewm-ultra.
I think of adding subfolders to the autostart-folder for the traybuttons and the dock-wmapplets.
This would allow to switch Gnome/Xfce-taskbar on the fly in a cleaner way. It makes no sense to keep the taskbar running when using Gnome. Gnome conflicts with icewmtray.
So a Gnome-starter (Desktop-icon) would: (partially done 005)
kill xfce
start Gnome
start all traybuttons
When gnome is closed:
start again the xfce-taskbar
start again icewmtray
start again the traybuttons from autostart/traybuttons
6.) Try to add a option to create a swapfile.
I made a quickcheck on a ntfs-drive, but that puppy.swp was not recognized.
A forum/Wiki-search showed, this is a common problem.
Not shure, if it can be solved.
7.) I was asked via PM to add a Faq.
I replied, I'd prefer to add more points to the Muppy-Toolbox instead.
Not shure yet, what to add there.
8.) The cups-installer could be already extracted in the Iso.
9.) Add a small grafical wizard for my script mkkde to build KDE.
This might take a while.
10.) Use Puppy 2.12 as base. (done 005)
This requires some more slight modifications of my build-script.
When this is done, I will post it.
11.) make it easier to share a folder with Windows XP in a network (need that at work).
I was not able to do that quickly, I'm a newbee to samba or nfs.
I need a wizard to click 2-3 buttons for that.
I think Gliezl once guided me in programming such a tool, must have a look at that again
12.) add Rox 2.5 with a quick-switch to flip between 1.2 and 2.5. (done 005)
13.) remove redundant/obsolete .desktop-files (=XDG-menu-entries) and add german translations in them.
14.) add nvidia-drivers to 3DCC. Received a Gt2 as donation today. Thanks Bob!
15.) Bob offered to send SCSI-hardware.
We need a donation to cover the postage (I think 10-15 US$).
If there is interest, that I try to add drivers to Muppy, please donate the porto, see http://dotpups.de for a paypal-button (**edit** donation solved, thanks snowdog!).
I can however not guarantee success!
Not every point might be in the next iso already.
I plan the next to be released in 2-4 weeks.
The roadmap might be finished in 2 month.
Unless Puppy 2.12 is used, an uppdate for Muppy004 might be available to avoid you have to download 200 MB again.
Further suggestions are welcome.
Artie already wrote some via PM, I'll have a look again. Thanks Artie.
I prefer suggestions in the Forum in general, so that I find them again quicker, and so that others can comment them
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Posted: Wed 08 Nov 2006, 13:15
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re: >We need a donation to cover the postage (I think 10-15 US$).
Check your paypal account Mark.
I don't use scsi much myself, but I really appreciate all your efforts in other areas.
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Posted: Wed 08 Nov 2006, 13:27
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Mit dieser E-Mail wird best�tigt, dass Histocs Industries Ihnen $25,00 USD mit PayPal gesendet hat.
Great, many thanks Snowdog
This will allow Bob to send me the hardware.
I will transfer the money to his own account, this also covers his costs for the Nvidia-card. - done -
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My pleasure Mark.
If shipping wasn't so insane, I'd send you so many presents you'd still be testing hardware this time next year.
But then, you wouldn't get anything done with muppy, so it's probably a good thing I can't.
I can't say if your paypal button works or not... it does go to what looks like the right kinda page, but I couldn't understand any of it (because I don't read German), so I just sent it from our paypal account instead.
I'm working on getting Muppy downloaded, should have it done by tomorrow. I'll send reports in to you for whatever hardware I have a chance to run it on.
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Posted: Mon 13 Nov 2006, 15:00
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updated the servicepack.
Setting the font did not work in the Gtk-Themeselector.
Corrected this now.
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Posted: Sun 26 Nov 2006, 07:59
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I've uploaded Muppy-005-212.iso to http://puptrix.org/isos/
http://puptrix.org/isos/Muppy-005-212.iso (237 MB)
Servicepack for german utf8-support:
http://dotpups.de/dotpups/Muppylinux/Muppy-005-212-servicepack.pup (55 kb)
- based on Puppy 2.12
- includes GuestToos servicepack for 2.12
- taskbar of Gnome should work now, fixed and optimized the startscript.
- uses Rox 2.5 by default, because that supports german äöü.
If you prefer Rox 1.2 from Puppy 2.12, run "setrox1" in a consolewindow.
"setrox2" to use 2.5 again.
It seems there are some problems with the backgroundpicture after the first start, so a servicepack might follow in the next days. Will try to add "xrefresh" to redraw the desktop.
Also Rox 1.2 has better support for file-types, I did not adapt the mime-types yet for 2.5.
- added Gant-project (Java), Planner(Gnome), wxWeekdaynotes (wxBasic)
- added german locale for Gant-project, Planner, Rox 2.5, Gnome, Nautilus, Epiphany, bluefish
- re-added Seamonkey with mail and HTML-Editor. It is in the included addon, so by default still Firefox and sylpheed are used.
- added Gnomes webbrowser "epiphany", that uses the seamonkey libraries.
- added Bluefish 107, but forgot a startscript in /usr/local/bin/ so you'll see no menu-entry.
Will add a servicepack tomorrow.
- modified the startup-files, in 004 the "dialog" did not work on every computer.
It was run from /etc/rc.d/, now it runs from /usr/X11R7/bin/xwin.
- replaced xinit with a script, that starts "dbus" if available (addon). Required for epiphany.
- added undeb, unrpm with rpm4.2-libs
... stuff and fixes ...
You might need to start with a new pup_save.3fs, because I had to modify the startscripts.
I might fix that with a new servicepack, that overwrites the files from the servicepack for Muppy004 with the new ones.
Else the new files will be ignored, as the files installed from the dotpup get higher priority from unionfs.
Propriatary Ati-driver is not available yet (but the free ones are included). Must compile that one tomorrow.
Nvidia-drivers are planned for Muppy006, tempestous compiled them already, and I was sent a card that I have not built into my computer yet.
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Wow! That's a bit of a blockbuster, Mark? How much main memory does it need?
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Posted: Sun 26 Nov 2006, 21:57
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did not have much luck downloading with firefox
so am trying wget
. . . it may just be working
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Posted: Mon 27 Nov 2006, 02:38
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Lobster, it seems puptrix is down.
Please look here in 3 hours:
I've set up the overload-protection, details:
the bigger size has two reasons:
the included zdrv_212.sfs from Puppy 212, and some new programs.
The modules from zdrv are just extracted, if required.
The new programs are in the addon, so only used if you activate it.
The basic system, that loads to Ram, just has new: rox 25, wxbasic.
So it still should work with 256 MB.
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Yes, indeed. Everything works just fine for me. But I thought 128Mb was to remain the target?!! If you look at the Forum in detail, you can see just what HW many folks are trying to use. An install on 64Mb with swap is still a realistic minimum - like it or not!! Perhaps this is going to require even more innovation and ingenuity from the clever coders? Doublesquash?
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Posted: Mon 27 Nov 2006, 02:59
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no, for a system that fits into 128 MB, you had to use JWM with dillo.
This is not the target for muppy, that basically targets on systems 400 Mhz + 256 MB Ram. 192 MB, ok, as often 64 MB often is used for shared memory of the graficscard.
But for a smaller system I'd suggest to use Puppy or a stripped down Puplet like Murga-Puppy.
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The point I was making was that it may not be wise to limit user acceptance due to HW demands. No-one wants to tread in the footsteps of you-know-who. Notwithstanding, folks using onboard video with shared memory are asking for trouble; better to switch it off in BIOS (or with a sharp scalpel, if that isn't possible!) and fit, even an old PCI Cirrus Logic card, for example.
The danger of upping the resource requirement is that it takes your masterpiece into the hinterland between small, fast live distros and the mainline majors, possibly appealing to a smaller audience?
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Posted: Mon 27 Nov 2006, 04:52
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well, Muppy targets on people, who miss some things in Puppy, but don't want a full-blown up main-distro.
Also it targets on german users, where the mentioned specs are available for everybody, as you can buy such computers for less than 100 euro in the local newsletter.
I think this makes the charm of Puppy: you can use it to build a distro targeting a special audience.
Muppy is not intended to be "for everyone", but for the computer-user, that already has XP on his machine, and looks for something more reliable, with a set of programs that cover 80% of his needs.
The rest can be installed from dotpups, as it might be too specific depending on personal preferences. (Games or grafics or ...).
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"They're so well-pedigreed and sophisticated that they think they can just go to any broker-dealer and it won't matter. Well, guess what? It is not that easy and they're screwing up. So the commission business is here to stay. I don't think it's a question of if money is moving to the fee world; that's a given and hasn't been a question for years. What has been a question is can we do away with commission business? The answer is no."
Thus the reason for the rise of the dually registered, hybrid model.
"It used to be OK to have your brokerage business do all the compliance and all the supervision and all the books and records. Your off-platform business also did some of that stuff, time permitting. But post-2009, with all the 'know your customer' stuff, that's not good enough anymore. What you had to do in the brokerage business you now have to do with the off-platform business."
A holistic platform is needed in order to run it all, regardless of who ends up as custodian, he argued, and it's the same thing with fees and commissions.
"Whether it is a commission ticket, or a batch of trades to rebalance an account, the more you bring all that together onto one platform, the better off the advisor."
An engineer by background, Fetter has been writing code since the late 1980s. In the early 1990s, he developed order management systems for some hedge funds.
"If you do something really cool for hedge funds, they are not about to run out and tell their friends about it, especially back then," he related. "If you do something cool for a broker-dealer based out of Cheyenne and fix their problems, they will tell their friends. They'll tell someone back in New York that I helped them with those three little clients in Denver. So the retail wealth management side of the house is what took off."
While successful, it's hardly been all sunshine and roses. The period surrounding 2008 was a tough time for Fetter and the business, as Washington Mutual was a client. Fetter recovered with a heavy focus on account opening and making it as seamless as possible for advisor and client.
"We looked at the data and said for mining and strategic purposes, there's too much crap everywhere," he noted. "We looked at the account opening process and realized the same thing."
It naturally led to a consideration of straight-through processing, that perennial thorn in the side of every technology provider, but one that will prove exceedingly lucrative for the firm that figures it out.
"There is all this buzz around straight-through processing. Somehow it got defined as dropping the check and the application in the mail," he said, getting animated. "The problem isn't actually dropping the check and the application in the mail. The problem is when you get the wrong paperwork, it takes you two days to get it approved by your home office. Once you finally get it approved and send it in, then the mutual fund company kicks it back because it's the old version of the fund company paperwork. That's the freakin' problem."
If the advisor can gather all customer information, complete the correct paperwork in the correct fashion and get it approved in a timely fashion, a customer record has therefore been created, and any records requirements have also been satisfied.
"The firm has a record of that account and not just an image of a document lost in a warehouse somewhere. If all that gets done, that is the first 90% of straight-through processing. All these initiatives a year or two back left all of these BS jobs intact on the front end. When you finally got through that root canal, you didn't have to drop the check and the application in the mail. So what?"
Quadron's approach is to get the customer data first, which most likely already exists in an account on the CRM, "so it's really stupid to have to go and get it all over again."
Getting and completing the forms, ensuring they are in good order, getting them signed with either a wet signature or electronically, getting them routed for approval, then being able to manage it going forward; that is Fetter's definition of straight-through processing.
"That is what we focused on and what our platform does. We have what we think is the most efficient entry tool. We have sophisticated bundling applications so you know you have all the right paperwork. There's no retyping on the advisor's part. We integrate with a bunch of different workflow systems. We can do the wet signature, or we can do the electronic signature and nothing has to get printed. Route it for principal approval, and at that point we have the books and records. Whether it's National Financial or, hopefully soon, Pershing, the advisor goes straight to the party."


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LPL Financial (LPLA) said Tuesday that it is rolling out a new program to recognize and support top financial advisors focused on advising retirement plans for corporate clients.
The Retirement Partners Group (or RPG) is being launched with 87 advisor members, who advise 4,000 retirement plans with nearly $40 billion in assets. It will be staffed by about 65 LPL employees.
"We are really targeting the top 1%, the most elite retirement advisors," said Bill Chetney (left), executive vice president of LPL Financial Retirement Partners, in an interview with AdvisorOne.
Those in RPG will "benefit from a comprehensive branding and marketing effort to differentiate them from the majority of financial advisors," according to LPL. And group members will be able to share expertise and referrals with one another in order to strengthen their industry relationships.
"We really did this to shine a spotlight on the achievements of those in RPG," Chetney said. "They have been in the business for 10-plus years, are constant speakers at related events … and are driving changes in industry for the good. This program should help retirement plan sponsors more easily identify them and hopefully utilize their services."
This field, the executive notes, is not for everyone. Most broker-dealers don't carve out this space for special attention. "Some, you can say, almost ostracize those in it, because they do not have enough bulk or scale to justify the millions of investment that LPL has put into the space. If they [don't have the right number of reps in the retirement plan market], it doesn't make sense to pursue it."
Of LPL's 13,300 affiliated reps, about 1,400 have five or more retirement plans in their books of business. For most, this market represents about 25% or more of their total sales.
"As the marketplace and Department of Labor and ERISA rules evolve, with more stringent guidelines, more advisors are migrating away from this business," Chetney says.
This should, then, mean more business for those focusing on it. "It's going from a field with two-plan ponies to the specialists," he said.
Chetney came on board LPL when the independent broker-dealer moved to acquire National Retirement Partners, an advisor network focused on the group-retirement space, in 2010.
Earlier this month, LPL said it had set up its Worksite Financial Solutions platform to let retirement plan sponsors and advisors "better address the needs of plan participants throughout their financial lives, from the date of hire to separation and beyond." The new platform includes the Employee Transition Solution, introduced in May 2012.
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Despite being sold to a private company in 2003, the spirit of the pousadas has remained much the same over the years, with the focus being on providing peaceful and authentic regional experiences. An added bonus is the restoration of historical buildings that may otherwise be left to deteriorate.
Several pousadas are located in restored monuments, while others are in areas of outstanding natural beauty. Today there are 44 pousadas across Portugal, each with its own regional restaurant and most located away from main cities.
You won't find any pousadas in Lisbon, but if you want to spend a few days in the Portuguese capital, Heritage Hotels of Lisbon offers five character hotels in the city centre, including Solar do Castelo, located within the walls of Castelo de Sao Jorge.
Touring Portugal's historic accommodations is an excellent way to discover the country - the only drawback is that with so much history right under your nose, you might have a hard time forcing yourself to leave the hotel.
Pousada Santa Marinha
Amenities: Restaurant, bar, gardens, artificial lake and pool.
History: According to tradition, the monastery was donated in 1154 to the canons of Saint Augustin order by Queen Mafalda, wife of the first king of Portugal. The site also has evidence of a pre-Roman temple, dating back to the 4th century. Much of the building was destroyed by fire in 1951, but was restored and transformed into a pousada in the '70s. The restoration won a national prize of architecture in 1985.
Best features: The monastery itself is stunning, especially the areas that survived the fire. You can easily spend an afternoon exploring the building's church, halls, terraces, gardens and azulejo tiles - tapestries of small glazed and painted tiles. The pool is a classy, modern touch set against an ancient backdrop. Here more than any of the pousadas, we felt as though our room was steeped in history, with its peephole window, wooden shutters and veranda.
Location: Pousada Santa Marinha is on a hill above Guimaraes, a small northern Portuguese city often called the birthplace of Portugal. Guimaraes is home to a 10th-century fortress thought to be the birthplace of Portugal's first king, Afonso Henriques, and was the country's first capital. The city's entire downtown core was crowned a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2001. A walk along Rua de Santa Maria, flanked by medieval houses, leads from the castle down to the old town, where you arrive in a pair of charming squares. Fittingly, Guimaraes has been named the 2012 European Capital of Culture.
Noted for: The monastery's location offers stunning sunset vistas of historic Guimaraes and the hills beyond.
Pousada do Porto Freixo Palace Hotel
Amenities: Indoor and outdoor pools, Turkish steam bath, sauna, spa, restaurant and bar.
History: Palacio do Freixo was commissioned by the dean of the Porto Cathedral in 1742. In the mid-1800s it was sold to a wealthy Porto businessman, who built a soap factory in the palace's gardens. Later sold again to an industrialist, a 45-metre silo was built for a flour factory. In 1910, it was classified as a National Monument. By the '90s, the property had been abandoned for decades and the buildings desperately needed restoration. Pousadas of Portugal stepped in, hiring Portuguese architect Fernando Tavora to restore the buildings between 2000 and 2003.
Best features: Open for just two years, Pousada do Porto is the newest pousada and blends history with modern design.
The hotel rooms, housed in the old factory, are uber modern and have commanding views of the River Douro. The restaurant, bar and reception areas are in the palace, giving guests a chance to soak up the baroque-era mural paintings and ornate decor. The pools, spa and steam room add an extra dose of luxury.
Location: Pousada do Porto is a $7 cab ride from Porto's historic city centre, named a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1996. Portugal's second largest city, Porto is on the steep slopes of the River Douro and has been occupied for at least 3,000 years, making it one of Europe's oldest cities. Porto is a working city and a delight to explore. Across the river, Villa Nova de Gaia is home to all the major port houses, where you can sample wines made from the grapes grown only in the Douro Valley.
Noted for: This is the largest pousada with 87 rooms and the only one located in one of Portugal's two major cities.
Pousada de Obidos
Amenities: Restaurant and bar.
History: This pousada is in a castle located atop a medieval walled town of whitewashed houses. Converted into a royal palace in the 16th century and into the first historical pousada in 1950, Pousada de Obidos is one of Portugal's most famous pousadas. It has just eight rooms.
Best features: Location, location, location! You're really paying for the honour of staying in this perch amid a magical setting.
Location: The beguiling town of Obidos was traditionally given as a wedding gift by the Portuguese kings to their queens, a custom begun in 1282 and continued for 600 years. You can climb around the castle walls taking in views of the picture perfect village and Portuguese countryside. Enjoy the town at night (after the tourists have gone home) by visiting some of the medieval bars.
Noted for: The honeymoon suite, located in one of the castle's turrets.
Solar do Castelo
Amenities: Breakfast room, courtyard.
History: Formerly the Palacio das Cozinhas, the kitchens that prepared the food for the king's table, the Solar do Castelo is within the walls of Lisbon's iconic Castelo de Sao Jorge. The kitchens were built in 1256, but were completely destroyed in the 1755 earthquake that devastated much of Lisbon. Rebuilt in 1765, the property remained in the hands of various aristocratic families, gradually becoming run down.
The building was restored and transformed into a hotel 10 years ago by Heritage Hotels of Lisbon.
Best features: This hotel has 14 rooms and feels like a cosy, yet elegant, private home with all the creature comforts at hand: playing cards and board games, a small library, an honour bar and a lovely courtyard to enjoy all of the above.
Location: Solar do Castelo crowns one of Lisbon's seven hills, so be prepared for a climb back to your hotel each night. It's well worth the exercise though as you hike through Lisbon's oldest quarter, Alfama. The neighbourhood is a maze of cobbled lanes and staircases, and is home to a Roman theatre and several authentic fado houses, where Portugal's unique blues is sung each night. You're also within walking distance of Baixa, Chiado and Bairro Alto, three of Lisbon's top downtown locales.
Noted for: The hotel has a small museum in the basement (right inside the old cistern) showcasing artifacts excavated on-site during the building's restoration.
Some of the items date back to 200 BC and there's evidence of the Roman, Islamic and medieval occupations. A map shows where the artifacts were found and, as it turned out, our room was an archaeological gold mine.
If you go
- Fly direct to a major European city, such as London, and connect to Porto or Lisbon on British Airways, one of Air Canada's partners or on one of Europe's low-cost carriers, such as Ryanair or EasyJet. If you fly charter in the off-season, you can snag the whole round-trip for around $1,000.
- The most cost-effective way to visit the pousadas is to purchase a five-night passport, starting from 490 euros ($685), including breakfast. There are some restrictions, so make sure to read the fine print.
- On the Pousadas of Portugal website (pousadas.pt), there is a map of all the pousadas, recommendations for three-or five-day circuits and online reservations.
- Rates at Solar do Castelo in Lisbon start at 149 euros ($210) per night, including a full breakfast. Information and reservations are available at Heritage.pt
- Avoid visiting Portugal in August, when the Portuguese typically take the month off. Lowseason rates begin around Nov. 1.
- The downside of the pousadas' unique locations is they tend to be difficult to reach by transit and can be tricky to find. In most cases, plan to rent a car with GPS or at least print out directions before you leave home.


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Though building an investment portfolio around a base of core holdings is not new, making it happen in an uncomplicated fashion is a rather recent development.
Here are ETFs in five major asset categories that are very much worth looking at and adding to every investment portfolio for the diversity of exposure and other advantages they potentially bring to investors.
1) ASSET CLASS: U.S. Stocks
FUND: Schwab U.S. Broad Market ETF (SCHB)
This $1.3 billion fund is an excellent choice for advisors and investors that want a core domestic stock ETF. Well-known equity ETFs like the SPDR S&P 500 (SPY) and SPDR Dow Jones Industrial Average ETF (DIA) are still good, but they're limited to owning large company stocks.
In contrast, SCHB tracks the 2,500-stock Dow Jones U.S. Broad Stock Market Index. This particular benchmark automatically includes exposure to not just large cap stocks like Google and Coca-Cola, but faster growing mid- and small cap stocks too. Annual portfolio turnover is just 5% and annual expenses are a meager 0.04%. The fund carries a dividend yield of 2.02%. And here's one other benefit: Schwab brokerage customers can trade SCHB commission free.
2) ASSET CLASS: Inflation Linked Securities
iShares Global Inflation Linked Bond Fund (GTIP)
If there's one thing we've learned from Europe's financial crisis, it's that concentrated exposure to a single bond issuer is a big risk. This basic truth applies in Europe and anywhere else throughout the globe.
GTIP offers bond investors an opportunity to hedge against higher inflation while simultaneously diversifying both credit and currency risk.
The fund holds sovereign debt that is publicly issued and denominated in the issuer's own domestic market and currency.
While many ETF investors know about U.S. Treasury Inflation Protected Securities (TIPS), too few understand that diversifying both credit and currency risk away from the U.S. government is an absolute must.
The top three countries that GTIP's bonds own are the United States (34.98%), United Kingdom (20.49%), and Brazil (11.96%).
The fund tracks the BofA Merrill Lynch Diversified Inflation Linked Bond Index. GTIP charges annual expenses of 0.40%.
3) ASSET CLASS: Commodities
FUND: Greenhaven Continuous Commodity Index Fund (GCC)
Commodities are still an under-represented asset class in most investment portfolios.
To alleviate this problem, GCC offers one-stop shopping for getting exposure to a broad swath of commodities. GCC follows the Thomson Reuters Equal Weight Continuous Commodity Total Return Index (CCI-TR), which owns commodity futures contracts on agriculture, energy, metals, and softs.
Unlike its peers, which often distort commodity exposure to one or two sectors, GCC's underlying index is equally weighted across 17 different commodities plus an additional Treasury Bill yield.
The fund is rebalanced every day in order to maintain each commodity's weight as close to 1/17th of the total as possible. The fund's annual expense ratio is 0.85% plus an additional 0.20% for estimated brokerage trading costs.
4) ASSET CLASS: Global Real Estate
FUND: SPDR Dow Jones Global Real Estate ETF (RWO)
How long and how expensive would it be to build a global real estate portfolio from scratch?
You don't have to go that route because RWO owns 213 real estate equities across 17 countries.
The top three countries represented are the U.S. (54.68%), Japan (8.62%), and Australia (8.08%).
Over the past year, U.S. REITs (VNQ) have returned 15.96% whereas global real estate (RWO) has delivered an even better 20.53%. The fund also carries a dividend yield just above 3.5%. RWO's annual expense ratio is 0.50%.
5) ASSET CLASS: Emerging Market Stocks
FUND: Vanguard FTSE Emerging Markets ETF (VWO)
This ETF invests in stocks of companies located in emerging markets around the world, like China, Brazil, Taiwan, and South Africa. VWO is linked to the FTSE Emerging Transition Index.
This $61 billion fund is not just the largest emerging market stock ETF, but it's among the least expensive. VWO charges annual expenses of just 0.20%.
While the Schwab Emerging Markets Equity ETF (SCHE) charges a lower expense ratio of 0.15%, it has a higher bid/ask spread of 0.15% versus a VWO which has a spread of just 0.04%. VWO has gained 8.45% over the past year.
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Why Scientists Held Back Details On A Unique Botulinum Toxin
Scientists have discovered the first new form of botulinum toxin in over 40 years, but they're taking the unusual step of keeping key details about it secret.
That's because botulinum toxin is one of the most poisonous substances known. It causes botulism, and the newly identified form of it can't be neutralized by any available treatment.
The researchers published two reports describing their work online in The Journal of Infectious Diseases. The information in those reports is deliberately incomplete, to prevent anyone from using it as the recipe for a potent new bioweapon.
"This is not the usual process for publishing manuscripts. We thought in this case an exception was appropriate," says David Hooper, an infectious disease specialist at Massachusetts General Hospital who serves as one of the editors of the journal.
Normally, the journal would require that the scientists disclose the genetic sequences needed to make the toxin. In this case, however, the researchers didn't want to do that because of the security risk.
The journal's editors ultimately agreed that they could go ahead and publish but withhold the information until new treatments were developed. "There was enough scientific importance that we did not want to delay the publication," says Hooper.
Their decision comes as biologists have been grappling with how to handle potentially dangerous information.
Last year, for example, scientists and security experts had a huge argument over whether to publish the details of mutant forms of bird flu that could potentially cause a pandemic in humans.
Biology has long had a tradition of openness, to allow people to confirm research findings and build upon others' discoveries. But some worry that new technologies have made it easier for basic science to be exploited by people with evil intentions.
And any expert in botulinum toxin knows that its history as a possible bioweapon goes back decades. The Japanese cult Aum Shinrikyo even tried to release it in downtown Tokyo in the 1990s, but these attacks failed.
One scholarly article on the toxin noted that a single gram could potentially kill more than a million people, if it was evenly dispersed through the air and inhaled â although that would be difficult to do.
Botulinum toxin is normally made by bacteria, and it can cause a serious and life-threatening paralytic illness. In the U.S., botulism most commonly occurs in young infants, whose still-developing guts don't have the normal microbes that can inhibit the growth of the bacteria.
The new form of the toxin was discovered by Jason Barash and Stephen Arnon at the California Department of Public Health. They use fecal samples from babies to diagnose botulism and characterize the type of toxin that's producing the disease.
But in the newly reported case, they found a completely unexpected toxin—one that cannot be neutralized by any of the currently available anti-botulinum antiserums.
Barash and Arnon couldn't immediately be reached for comment.
"This toxin has unusual risks and consequences for human health," says David Relman, a microbiologist at Stanford University who was asked by the journal editors to weigh in on the decision to publish the incomplete manuscript. He says if this new type were deliberately misused, we would have no defense.
Relman agreed with the decision to withhold information. "I want to applaud the authors for acting in a way that I think was responsible and prudent," he tells Shots.
An editorial accompanying the report notes that the scientists consulted with numerous officials from government agencies such as the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
"It would seem that this process, or this consultation, was entirely an internal, within-the-government kind of consultation," says Relman.
He serves on a government advisory board called the National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity, which is supposed to provide guidance on how to handle biological information that could be misused.
But that committee, which played an important role in the recent debate whether to publish controversial research on bird flu, apparently wasn't consulted this time around. "None of us had heard of this work until I was sent it," says Relman.
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Asked if people who needed to know the information to develop counter-measures were going to be able to access it, Mass General's Hooper says, "That was our understanding, yes."
But some say that not sharing scientific work in the usual way, because of fears it could fall into the wrong hands, carries its own risks.
Ronald Atlas, a biologist and bioweapons expert at the University of Louisville in Kentucky, says he agrees with the decision in this case. "But I have real concerns about how often we would do this and what it does to the overall implication of advancement in the life sciences," he tells NPR.
He says that advancement depends on biologists being able to replicate each other's work and use that research to take the next step forward â something that's not possible if scientists and journals withhold critical details.
He notes that if this sets a precedent and biologists start withholding information that they deem too risky, that could slow down the community's ability to do things like search for new treatments. "That's the last thing you want when you're facing a public health threat," he notes.
Let's look now into the world of poison - in particular a toxin that causes botulism. It's made by bacteria. And because of its potency, this toxin is seen as the perfect ingredient for a bioweapon. Scientists recently discovered the first new form of this toxin in over 40 years. But NPR's Nell Greenfieldboyce reports they faced a difficult decision about how much of their discovery to reveal.
NELL GREENFIELDBOYCE, BYLINE: The new botulinum toxin was found by public health workers at the California Department of Public Health. They have a lab that diagnoses infant botulism, which can be treated.
DR. DAVID RELMAN: So they routinely receive many samples from all over the place from babies with suspected botulism.
GREENFIELDBOYCE: David Relman is a microbiologist at Stanford University. He says the scientists got what seemed like a routine sample.
RELMAN: That then yielded this completely unexpected strain and toxin.
GREENFIELDBOYCE: Importantly, this toxin could not be neutralized by any of the available treatments. After about a year of having consultations with government officials and others, the scientists published their findings. And they did something unusual. Their reports in the Journal of Infectious Diseases left out key details so that no one could use their work as a recipe to make a bioweapon for which there was no defense. Relman was asked to weigh in on this decision by the journal's editors. He thinks it was responsible and prudent.
RELMAN: I just think that was a good thing for them to have thought about and acted upon in this particular case.
GREENFIELDBOYCE: The episode comes as biologists have been grappling with how to handle potentially dangerous information. Last year, scientists, security experts and government officials spent months in a debate over whether to publish details of some flu research, studies that had created more contagious forms of a bird flu that can be deadly in humans. In the end, those studies were published in full. David Hooper of Massachusetts General Hospital is deputy editor of the Journal of Infectious Diseases. He says the botulinum toxin discovery was a special case, and the full details will be published once a new treatment has been developed.
DR. DAVID HOOPER: So that this is not withholding information ultimately but delaying the information until appropriate public health and national safety concerns could be addressed.
GREENFIELDBOYCE: But with your understanding that people who sort of needed to know it to develop these countermeasures would have access to it?
HOOPER: That was our understanding, yes.
GREENFIELDBOYCE: But some say that not sharing scientific work in the usual way, because of fears it could fall into the wrong hands, carries its own risk. Ronald Atlas is a biologist and a bioweapons expert at the University of Louisville in Kentucky.
RONALD ATLAS: I agree with the decision in this case but I have real concerns about how often we would do this and what it does to the overall implication of advancement in the life sciences.
GREENFIELDBOYCE: He says that advancement depends on biologists being able to repeat each other's work and build on those findings - something that's not possible if scientists and journals withhold critical details. Nell Greenfieldboyce, NPR News. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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Inside Entertainment reviews the new Ramblin' Jack Elliott CD
Still ramblin' at 75, Elliot's been around since Woody Guthrie. A onetime cowboy turned hobo, he's hung out with beatnicks and Deadheads and starred in Bob Dylan's Rolling Thunder Review roadshow. His flat-picking is vintage folk-blues and his voice, now deliciously craggy, bears the mark of many traveled miles on songs like "Arthritis Blues" and "Leaving Cheyenne." Despite the presence of fans like Lucinda Williams and Red Hot Chili Peppers' Flea, Elliot, a bona fide living legend, owns the whole spotlight.
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Jolt Awards: The Best Books, October 01, 2013 Five notable books every serious programmer should read.
Productivity Award: Taming Text
By Grant S. Ingersoll, Thomas S. Morton, and Andrew L. Farris
Perhaps once a year, I have the experience of picking up a book on a topic I'm unfamiliar with and immediately becoming absorbed by it. I started reading this volume to get a sense of the major issues and solutions in text processing and found myself devouring the book sneaking it into meetings and any other place where I could spend a few more minutes working my way through it.
Handling unstructured text (that is, text in documents, rather than databases) presents all kinds of complex problems, most of them having to do with the central role of natural language. For example, the problem of stemming (which is the process of reducing variants such as plural of nouns, verb tenses, etc. to their canonical form), searching, fuzzy searches, indexing, parsing, and categorizing.
The authors' explanations of these problems are supremely readable and the solutions are presented with code implementations. Where possible, the authors rely on open-source tools, such as Lucene, Solr, Apache Mahout, OpenNLP, and others to do the heavy lifting. In addition to algorithms, this book shows how to build text-processing clusters, manage document libraries for processing, and handle other pragmatic concerns.
The final third of the book is dedicated to the unique challenges of how to tag and classify documents automatically. Despite the wealth of techniques provided earlier, the problem of entity recognition (for example, does "Polish doorknob" refer to an item or to a task?) is presented and explained in all its gory complexity. At times, the challenges seem intractable, but as the authors demonstrate time and again, there are good, available tools and specialized algorithms that can get you most of the way through the wilderness.
At no point does the presentation become so esoteric as to lose the reader rather, the authors of Taming Text keep finding stimulating ways to lead developers into new areas that need to be mined for optimal results to ensue.