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(CNN) -- The 2022 World Cup in Qatar has an unlikely backer -- Zahir Belounis.
Despite being stuck in Qatar for two years in an ordeal that he says left him contemplating a hunger strike and suicide, the freed footballer insists the Middle Eastern nation deserves to stage arguably the world's top sporting event.
World governing body FIFA's decision to award the 2022 contest to Qatar three years ago has generated controversy both over what time of the year it will be held and the way migrant workers, largely responsible for the tournament's infrastructure, are treated.
"They deserve it," the French-Algerian told CNN on Friday. The "people are working very hard for it. A lot of Qatari friends were sad at my situation.
"I enjoyed my time there. The people who tried to destroy my life, I will not forgive them, but I will forever cherish the people who helped me. My life in Qatar was great, but the last two years were a disaster."
A relieved and exhausted Belounis, who was embroiled in a pay dispute with club El Jaish, returned home to Paris on Thursday with his wife and two daughters after the 33-year-old was finally granted an exit visa.
But instead of saying Qatar should be stripped of holding the World Cup because of its controversial employment laws -- especially the kafala system, which effectively means foreign employees can't leave the country without their employer's permission -- Belounis indeed backed the emirate's right to host the competition.
An Amnesty International report released last week claimed the abuse of migrant workers in Qatar was an issue and even Sepp Blatter has described working conditions there as "unacceptable" -- although the FIFA president is adamant the World Cup in nine years won't be moved to another country.
"World Cup organizers were sad" about his predicament, said Belounis. "I can't say bad things against Qataris or Qatar, just against the club," he added in reference to his dispute with El Jaish.
As well as endorsing Qatar as World Cup host, Belounis said there was little wrong with the employment laws in place -- as long as they were correctly followed.
"There are rules ... if people respect them, everything will be fine," he said. "I believe Qatar will grow up in a very good way. I don't think I helped them to grow. Now we know that there are a lot of people that are abused.
"It's not the state of Qatar or the government. There is a company that brings the workers. The company has to respect the rules. I'm sad to see the workers abused, but it's not the organizers or the government."
Belounis, a striker, credited his wife for being "stronger" than him during his nightmare when he admitted to crying "every day, like a baby."
As Belounis' fight to leave Qatar is over, so it also seems, is his playing career.
"I think it's finished for me," he said. "I think a team, as a symbolic thing, they (might) want me to train for them. My psychology is very bad right now.
"I didn't take any medication but I will see if I have the power to train. The fight was so intense."
The last few months might have made Belounis a cause celebre, but he believes he won't be headline news for very much longer.
"In one or two weeks, everyone will forget about me," he said. "I have to focus on my life, have a normal life, find a job, to restart my life and enjoy my family."
The Qatari Foreign Ministry and Qatari Football Association (QFA) didn't reply to CNN's queries earlier this week seeking comment.
But in October, the QFA told CNN that "as in any other football association in the world, there will unfortunately always be contractual disputes between clubs and players/coaches."
It added: "It is also relevant to emphasize that up to now the player has not taken any action in front of the competent judicial bodies of FIFA."
The QFA said further that Belounis received full compensation in relation to a claim he made for compensation from another club, Al Markhiya.
"However, in the alleged case of El Jaish Club, Zahir Belounis did not contact QFA, although he had experienced the efficiency of doing so when his request was legitimate," it said.
Read: Stranded footballer back home
Read: Amnesty International says Qatar rife with migrant worker abuse before World Cup


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School suspensions have risen by more than a third over the past six years but do little to improve the behaviour of children, research has found.
The study, conducted by Uniting Care, has led to calls on the NSW government to review its education policy and allow for more in-school suspensions.
Analysis of NSW Department of Education figures shows the number of long-term suspensions - lasting five to 20 days - has increased by 36 per cent in six years. Suspensions increased from 12,326 in 2006 to 16,814 last year.
A quarter of students were placed on long suspensions more than once last year.
Physical violence was the reason for 40 per cent of long suspensions and 47 per cent were for persistent misbehaviour.
Karen Bevan, from Uniting Care, who oversaw the research, said she found no evidence that suspension improved children's behaviour.
The research, to be presented next week at the Joint Australian Association for Research in Education Conference, found disadvantaged children in particular fell behind in their school work after taking as much as five weeks off school in one year after repeated suspensions.
''Suspension doesn't work because it doesn't teach you anything,'' Ms Bevan said.
''Some students were suspended for more than 2½ weeks out of a 40-week school year. If you get more than one long suspension, you are looking at five weeks a year. That's a long time to be off school.''
Ms Bevan said the figures showed that Aboriginal children made up 23 per cent of those suspended for long periods.
''What does work is where you run the suspension in school,'' she said. ''There is evidence internationally that is a more effective way of keeping kids connected with education.''
A NSW Department of Education spokesman said the department operated 22 suspension centres attached to schools.
He said suspension centres aimed to provide skill development opportunities and support for students to help them re-engage at school. He added that schools were required to give students on long suspension a school work plan and the students were expected to complete that work.
Raising the school leaving age to 17 in 2010 has contributed to an increase in disruptive behaviour, according to a report by the NSW Auditor-General, Peter Achterstraat. This month Mr Achterstraat said that since the leaving age was increased, some year 11 students who may otherwise have left school were disruptive, wasting teachers' time or truanting.
Ms Bevan said her organisation was concerned about the 27 per cent of students who were re-suspended on long suspensions.
''Our research tells us that group of students are of serious concern and likely to be the students who most benefit from engagement in education,'' she said.
The NSW Department of Education spokesman said schools had a duty of care to protect students, teachers and other staff from violent students and those involved in criminal activity.
''Suspension is not intended as a punishment,'' the spokesman said. ''Suspension is only one strategy to manage inappropriate student behaviour within a school's student welfare and discipline policies.''
Ms Bevan said the former Labor government toughened school suspension policies over the period their use increased.
''A real concern for us now is that the cuts to education announced by the O'Farrell government may reduce support services further and we could see an increase in suspensions again,'' she said.
Anna Patty is a Senior Writer for The Sydney Morning Herald with a focus on higher education. She is a former Workplace Editor, Education Editor, State Political Reporter and Health Reporter.


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The Passions of Bernard Berenson
Bernard Berenson: A Life in the Picture Trade
Why do I wriggle and toss at the idea of being biographied? It makes me uncomfortable and unhappy. Is it only because there are so many big and little episodes I wish forgotten? Of course, I have much behind me that I hate to recall…. Every kind of lâcheté, meanness, pettiness, cowardice, equivocal business conduct (due more to ignorance and the ethics of art dealers than to my own nature), humiliations, furtiveness, ostrichism, etc….
How passionately one wants to forget! No—not these only or chiefly. I dread having my life written as the "success story," as it is bound to be, seeing that economically and socially I had to make my way from nothing at all. Yes, economically and socially, but I never from the earliest dawn of consciousness felt proletarian or inferior to the highest class anywhere. I never felt that I was climbing, being promoted from an inferior to a higher standard of life, to a higher social class. I felt only that I was coming into my own, what I had always regarded as belonging to me, of which, for no fault of my own, I had been deprived.1
This revelatory passage was written by Bernard Berenson in his diary in 1954, toward the end of his eighty-ninth year, long after his achievements as a scholar and connoisseur of Italian Renaissance painting had made him famous. With the appearance of Rachel Cohen's new biography, it's worth recalling his distaste for being written about. Like most of us, he was adept at self-deception, yet he also possessed uncommonly objective perceptions about himself, which he candidly reported. For his entire life, beginning in early childhood, he seems to have been remarkably self-obsessed, yet he cannot be described as solipsistic, because he was as intrigued by other people as he was by himself.
The striking thing about this diary entry is what he insists at the end—that he was never a parvenu and dreads being described as such. Yet his well-known preference for intellectuals and for the rich, famous, and titled, his creation of a coterie comprised of what he termed Unsereiner (people like us), and the formal elegance of his daily existence all have left him open to charges of snobbery and arrivism. On a superficial level, those charges were certainly justified, yet on a deeper, more intimate level, I believe he honestly did feel he had always belonged to a rarefied world of people of intelligence and achievement, elegance and aestheticism, worldly experience and sophisticated ambiente. He felt a special affinity with intellectual or artistic Jews like Solomon Reinach, Lewis Namier, Walter Lippmann, Isaiah Berlin, and Yehudi Menuhin, and with wealthy ones like the Sassoons and Rothschilds.
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(Pocket-lint) - Acer's Timeline small business laptops mix both business and pleasure; you get a good quality, if a little basic, machine for not much cash. The latest 15-inch model adds good looks to the mix, along with a Sandy Bridge Core i3 processor and plenty of memory.
Unless you're forking out for a custom colour, laptops are usually black, silver, or if you're really lucky, white. So it's nice to see Acer taking a different approach to the look-and-feel with the Timeline X.
Our sample machine was a tasteful metallic blue, with a metal surround around the recessed keyboard and the large speaker grille. There's a black bezel around the glossy screen, and a dark blue metallic lid. Underneath, the body is a dark black plastic with plenty of ventilation grilles.
Keyboard and trackpad
Acer uses the same isloated keyboard in the Timeline X as in many of its recent laptops. That means you get a comfortable typing surface, with good travel and responsive keys. On the downside, Acer's unusual and frankly unwelcome compressed combinations of shift and and # and enter are here too. The arrow keys are separate though - handy as they double as volume and brightness controls – and are located under the right shift key, making them easy to reach for gaming. If you need larger directional keys, you can reach for the numeric keypad.
As usual, the function keys double as system controls, for Wi-Fi, sleep and with basic play/pause media controls. Press the tiny P button by the speaker grille to open Acer's launch manager and configure an application or web site to associate with the button in future.
There are very few indicator lights. The biggest is the blue LED behind the power button, and there are three small LEDs on the front of the Timeline X for power, Wi-Fi and disk activity.
Like many other laptops, the Timeline X has a Synaptics multi-touch trackpad. The style of this is well-integrated with the blue case, with a wide screen aspect ratio that simplifies moving around the large screen. While it's wide, it's not very tall - and it's really a little too small - so you'll need to invest in a mouse for when you want more precision. You get the usual two finger scrolling and pinch zoom plus a two finger flick for browser or image navigation, but no three finger gestures - which would have been difficult to use in the restricted space of the trackpad anyway.
The glossy 15.6-inch screen has a standard WXGA 1366x768 resolution, ideal for 720p video. And while the display is clear and crisp there's a lot of reflection from the glossy glass - so this is definitely an indoor laptop - although the viewing angle is wide enough that you can usually avoid reflections. Picture quality was good, with a 1080p YouTube video showing good detail and downscaling with no artefacts, and a 720p video streaming cleanly from a local network source.
We'd have preferred a higher resolution screen, as icons and text seem a little too large on this size panel, but this is a budget system. Audio quality is good, with Dolby sound processing and a large speaker under a metal grille behind the keyboard.
The selection of ports is decent for the price, but there are none of the more unusual connectors of business notebooks. Sandy Bridge means that's there's a single USB 3.0 port on the left (along with HDMI, VGA, and gigabit Ethernet). On the right you'll find three USB 2.0 ports, one of which can be used to charge devices even when your laptop is turned off, and a DVD-RW optical disk burner. On the front is a multi-format card reader and if you've bought a 3G version, the SIM card port is on the back, just behind where the screen drops down below the body.
A slight lack of power
A Core i3 processor means that there's enough power for everyday tasks, and you'll get good performance when working with the Web, or using Office. Don't expect the same performance when you're playing games though, as there's only the built-in Intel HD graphics.
With 6GB of RAM you've got more than enough memory for everyday use, and with the 640GB hard disk, there's plenty of storage to go along.
Battery life
Battery life is excellent. Using a balanced power profile, and with Wi-fi and using the Timeline X for basic browsing, with minimal streaming of video and audio, we got just under 5 and a half hours of usage. You should expect to get most, if not all, of a working day with Wi-Fi off when on the road.
One thing to note about the Timeline X: the battery isn't removable. There's a pinhole on the bottom which hides a button that simulates disconnecting and reconnecting the battery, in case you need to reset the system without using the power button.
Usual annoyance of pre-installed software
Acer bundles a lot of software with the Timeline X. Most of it isn't much use, but you'll find the usual Office 2010 Starter and Windows Live Essentials to get you started, along with security and entertainment software. There's also the useful Clear.fi media sharing software, which makes the Timeline part of a home entertainment system wherever it is in the house.
We were pleased to see that most of the bundled software was in installer form only, and isn't installed until you're ready to use it, so there are fewer startup tasks slowing things down.
The latest model of Acer's small business laptop is a good looking machine, with much of the power you need - and at a very reasonable price for its specification.
We liked its looks, and were surprised to find just how light it was. The integrated battery could be an issue, but with more than five hours of battery life, it's not something that should be much of a problem.


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It was four months ago that Sarasota County Sheriff Tom Knight sounded the alarm, and lost his cool.
His emphatic warning at a County Commission budget meeting had it that Sarasota Police were so ineptly mishandling a dangerous new problem that it was fast becoming a crisis: Late-night, weekend crowds including gang members and other thugs were spilling out of Manatee County nightclubs at closing time and driving south, to Newtown, where rowdy street crowds formed and caused 2 a.m. mayhem that was prone to become deadly.
Knight painted it as if his deputies had been saving the day by regularly arriving to bail out the overwhelmed city police officers dealing with those crowds.
It was a pack of half truths, hyped so much that many people concluded Knight was starting a takeover attempt campaign to consolidate the city police department into the Sheriff's Office.
Those rowdy late-night crowds were real, and the Manatee influx was sometimes making them bigger and badder. And yes, a plan was needed, before it got worse. But I still don't now where Knight got the idea to claim he and his troops were the only ones who new how to handle it, or why he sounded an unexpected public alarm that blindsided Sarasota Police Chief Bernadette DiPino when he could have just set up a meeting with her to work out a strategy.
DiPino handled Knight's public slam of her agency with mature professionalism. She requested a private meeting, they got together, and they exited with smiles and announcements about teamwork and a renewed multi-agency effort.
The details have never been all that clear, to me, except for this: Late on weekend nights, or whenever there was a tip about a southbound crowd of thuggish partiers, Knight would line southbound incoming roads with as many deputies as he could manage. They would look for reasons to do traffic stops and otherwise make their presence obvious.
Meanwhile, Sarasota officers would beef up their presence in Newtown in places crowds form, and otherwise make it clear that North Sarasota was not a place where anything goes, not even at 2 a.m. on Saturday. Sarasota Police say they also now bring probation officers along, to spot juvenile offenders violating curfew rules.
So, four months later, how's it going? Does Knight think the crisis he announced so emphatically has been averted, at least to the point that the sky is not falling?
So it seems.
Late-night migrations from Manatee nightspots down to Newtown still happen sometimes, but they are smaller and less frequent now, and they have caused fewer problems of late, Knight told me Wednesday.
The two agencies — rank and file as well as watch commanders from both — are working well together, he said. They have been making good use of tips, and his contribution has included lots of traffic stops by deputies.
An example, he said, was when word came from Manatee County that Oct. 9 would be one of those nights when crowds would come south. Deputies, some working overtime, patrolled U.S. 301 that night as if an invasion was expected.
They issued 35 citations for speeding and other offenses, he said.
They also wrote 56 warnings, did 24 field interviews, and made two arrests.
That and other shows of late-night law enforcement presence and focus sent a clear message, he said.
There's a similar tip for this weekend, by the way. And so, Knight says his deputies will be there again, to make sure the message stays clear: People who won't go home when the bars close and instead want to party in the streets of North Sarasota had better be on their best behavior.
Will the 2 a.m. street-party fad pass or at least be monitored and managed to the point that it will go totally off of Knight's radar?
"It remains to be seen," but so far, so good, Knight said.
Lyons: After sheriff slammed police, how are things going?
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A continuation of the previous posting shows the happy Brodd Family. What would a family vacation be without a picture for the Christmas card?
Sylvia reading her new beach book from Grandma
The goofiest sunglasses I have ever seen!
More fun times in the pool.
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Utah in 2012 saw its first significant annual decline in bankruptcy filings in more than six years as the state's improving economy appeared to be helping more people stay out of financial trouble.
Despite the lower numbers, though, many Utahns' hold on solvency is tenuous at best.
U.S. Bankruptcy Court for Utah Clerk David Sime reported that Utahns filed 16,263 bankruptcies last year, a 12 percent decline from 2011, and first drop since shortly after Congress revamped the nation's bankruptcy law in late 2005 to make it tougher for individuals to get relief from their debts.
"We started noticing bankruptcy filings beginning to go down in the final quarter of 2011," Sime said, noting the downward trend continued throughout 2012.
Despite the decline, Utah's numbers remain comparatively high nationally, with the state claiming the fifth-highest filings per capita during the year 5.76 filings for every 1,000 residents, according to the American Bankruptcy Institute. Nationally, there were an average 3.86 bankruptcy filings for every 1,000 people.
Utah's declining numbers, though, tracked what happened nationally in 2012.
Total bankruptcy filings in the U.S. totaled 1.19 million for 2012, a 14 percent decrease from the 1.38 million during the previous year.
"The 2012 filings represent the lowest total since the financial crisis in 2008," said Samuel J. Gerdano, executive director of the American Bankruptcy Institute, a nonprofit, Virginia-based research organization that tracks insolvency filings and related issues.
Gerdano said he anticipates that bankruptcy filings will continue their downward trend in Utah and across the country in the year ahead. "With low interest rates and consumers reducing their spending and continuing to deleverage, bankruptcy filings likely will continue their decline in 2013," he said.
Bankruptcy court trustee Kevin Anderson, who administers many of the Chapter 13 bankruptcy filings in the state, attributes Utah's better showing at least partly to the state's relatively strong economy, which has produced one of the lowest rates of unemployment in the country.
"There is some correlation between the number of bankruptcy filings and the unemployment rate," Anderson said, noting that if Utah's economy continues to perform well the state could see bankruptcy filings level off. "But if gas prices go back up or the stock market goes down, we could see" the opposite.
The tenuous nature of many Utahns' financial lives is evident every day at the Utah Food Bank, said spokeswoman Ginette Bott.
"Things are a little different from our perspective. We distributed more food in 2012 than we did in the previous year."
Although she knows that more Utahns have gone back to work, she thinks that many have found jobs that pay far less than their previous employment.
"We see a lot of people whose standard of living has gone down drastically, and many who are only one step away from [financial] trouble. All it might take is a transmission going out on their car or maybe a kid breaks a leg and they don't have insurance."
Of the 16,263 bankruptcy petitions filed in Utah last year, Sime reported that 32 percent sought Chapter 13 a type of bankruptcy that allows financially troubled consumers to formulate a plan to repay all, or at least part, of what they owe over a period of time, typically three to five years.
The remaining 68 percent, or 11,003 petitions, were for Chapter 7, which involves a trust liquidating a debtor's assets and distributing the proceeds to creditors. Any remaining debts are wiped out, and a debtor receives a fresh financial start.
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Gems are the real cash currency of the game Dragon City . This guide will go over everything that you need to know about getting free gems, and the best way to use your Dragon City gems.
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How to get Free Gems in Dragon City
Below will list out all of the ways that you will be able to earn free gems throughout the game from normal game play. Take advantage on all of these methods to make extra gems to improve your game play
Level Up
Leveling up in Dragon City will net your one free gem for every level up.
Dragon City Goal Quest
Some quest goals in Dragon City will grant you gems as rewards. You will usually receive gems as goal rewards for breeding hybrid dragons in the game.
Combat and Battle Rewards
You will receive gem rewards when you complete the Stadium and Combat world leagues combat. By battling your way through the opponents in Dragon City and win, you will receive gems as rewards for winning.
Book of Dragon Gem Rewards
When you complete the different dragon collections in the Book of Dragons, you will earn various amount of gems based on the type of collections. You can earn up to 5 gems for the completed collection of Legendary dragon collections.
Dragon City Monday Rewards
Every Monday in Dragon City , you have chances of winning up to 5 gems in a draw. This is a nice incentive for you to play every Monday.
Daily Log in Rewards
Every day that you log in in the game of Dragon City you can earn some log in rewards. The rewards gets bigger as you log in more days consecutively. You can receive gems as one of the log in rewards at the end of the daily login streak.
Special Events and Promotions
Once in a while, Social Point will offer special events and promotions that reward you gems inDragon City . Take advantage of these events to earn extra gems for your own personal use.
Quasi Free Gems – Offers
You can earn gems through completing the offers inside the game. The reason I do not label it as free gems because you typically have to sign up for some sort of offer or program in order to receive the gems.
Purchase Gems – With Money
Lastly, you can always purchase Dragon City gems through real money trading. This is the fastest way to acquire the needed gems if you are rich enough to be able to spend the money.
The Best Way to Spend Gems
After getting gems, you need to spend gems on where it will make an impact for your game play.In general, avoid using gems on speed ups because "time" is free. Unless you have the spare cash to burn, avoid spending your gems on getting speed ups. You should also avoid spend gems on Dragon City Gold or Food stacks because you can earn them naturally.
Upgrade Hatchery
Hatchery can increase the amount of eggs that you can hatch in the game. This is especially important later on in the game when you are going after more rare dragons. Because Dragon City Breeding does not guarantee 100% breeding chance of getting rare dragons. Thus you will have more eggs that will be queued for hatching.
Ultra Breeding Tree
Dragon City Ultra Breeding Tree is another good investment because it reportedly can increase your chance at breeding more rare and legendary dragons. However, this claim has not been thoroughly tested yet. But it is better to be safe to spend your Dragon City gems at places where it can truly make a difference. Having higher chance at breeding legendary dragon can lead you to your goals faster. In addition, it is good to have multiple breeding grounds as well so you can double the chances at getting your Dragons.


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Celebs who are having a difficult time selling their swanky abodes might want to ask advice from hip hop artist, Drake who just sold not one, but two downtown-Miami condo units after less than two months on the open market, reports The Wall Street Journal.
In January, The Real Deal reported that the rapper who got his start by playing Jimmy Brooks on the TV series "Degrassi: The Next Generation" listed the combined units for $2.5 million. Fans will recognize the larger of the two units, a 3,800 square foot three bedroom crib, as the spot where Drake shot his music video for "I'm on One." The smaller of the units is a 1,675 square foot pad, which features one bedroom. While Drake combined the units, he listed them separately in case interested buyers didn't want both pads. Both apartments boast living rooms with two-story ceilings, marble staircases and glass walls with ocean views.
Drake not only impressively sold both units in what seems like record time, but he also unloaded his homes for close to asking price: $2.4 million. He originally purchased the units in January 2011 for about $1.9 million, which means the hip hop star made a sweet profit on the sale. Do we smell a second career in real estate for the Grammy-nominated artist?


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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – People who have waited months to get into subsidized housing lined up Thursday morning at Metropolitan Park to get their names entered in a lottery for Section 8 units when they become available.
The Jacksonville Housing Authority has not had space available in its public housing for years. The city is accepting applications, and 8,000 of those applying will be added to the city's waiting list for rental assistance.
It could take up to three years for a subsidized unit to become available.
For Lenord Simmons, this chance would be a new start.
"It's important for me because of my situation as far as not being able to get a job," Simmons said. "I have two kids and it's hard to take care of them, and this program right here helps pay the rent and take care of yourself, I guess."
The lines were long but organized. Those in charge were determined to avoid what happened in 2011 in Dallas, where a near-riot broke out when voucher space was available. In Jacksonville, police were on hand and the wait to sign up moved quickly.
"We are going to establish about an 8,000-applicant waiting list, so the computerized system is going to randomly select 8,000 people to establish that waiting list," said Larry Gonzalez, of the Housing Authority.
It will take several months before applicants find out if they made the list, and then there is no guarantee of assistance. It could take two to four years to get help.
For Kerrie Heidt and her 1-year-old son, that seems like an eternity because she needs help now but knows this is her only choice.
"It's actually very important," she said. "We are getting evicted and we are going to live with my parents, so there is not really enough room for me and him there."


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To say that active management has fallen out of favor in academic finance is like saying that leeches have fallen out of favor in medicine. An author who dares to suggest that active mutual fund managers provide value generally causes journal reviewers to reach for their pitchforks.
Two recent articles by Antti Petajisto, former NYU assistant professor and now vice president for BlackRock's multi-asset strategies group, buck this trend. Petajisto finds that a lot of active managers don't do much. Since they charge higher fees than passive funds, it's natural that they will underperform. Other active managers try to do something. And that's where things get interesting.
Petajisto's 2009 article, co-authored with Yale Professor Martijn Cremers and published in the Review of Financial Studies, found that the percentage of mutual fund assets that were managed passively increased steadily through the 1990s and 2000s. The problem is that not all of these passively managed funds were index funds. Some called themselves actively managed funds, charging management fees that suggested they did something other than play golf and enjoy three-martini lunches. These are the so-called closet indexers. They don't do well.
The percentage of passively managed fund assets has risen from about 10% in the mid 1990s to about 50% now. But only about 20% of these fund assets are held in pure index funds—the other 30% are held in actively managed funds that essentially hug the benchmark. The other half of mutual fund assets are invested in funds whose asset holdings deviate substantively from their benchmark. These are, presumably, the ones who identify stocks or sectors they believe are undervalued. In other words, they try to do something.
As it turns out, the ones who did something were able to achieve a positive risk-adjusted return net of management fees (see nearby table).
In their research, Cremers and Petajisto introduce a new measure called "active share," which describes the extent to which managers deviate from the allocation to stocks within their benchmark. So if a mid-cap growth manager decides that Tesla has become overvalued and underweights the stock and decides to overweight Yahoo!, this will create a deviation from the benchmark. More deviation means more active share. Active share seems much more closely related to the ability to generate alpha than tracking error.
Cremers and Petajisto show that the more the fund deviates from the benchmark, the better it performs. And the relationship appears surprisingly linear and consistent. The more work they do, the higher the alpha net of fees. The gold standard of fund performance is persistence. Are yesterday's high active-share funds going to outperform tomorrow? Funds with high active share today are significantly more likely to have high active share in five years and to outperform other active funds.
Money for Nothing
The flip side of the exciting research in active share is that it identifies a large segment of the mutual fund universe that appears to be inactive. In a paper titled "Money for Nothing," American College assistant professor David Nanigian and I investigated whether managers who did more work charged higher fees. It turns out that they do. Closet indexers charge less, but they still charge a lot more than the expense ratio on pure index funds. This leads to two questions. Why would anyone invest in an active fund that does nothing? And why aren't more fund managers trying to do something?
Closet indexing may be related to fund marketing. Studies have found that excess performance attracts a lot of new investor cash. But once in the fund, investors tend to be less sensitive to returns unless a fund crashes. So the optimal strategy is to work to attract new investor funds, and then sit back and track the index to avoid the possibility that you'll do significantly worse than the benchmark. If existing investors are happy with average returns, then there's no reason to rock the boat.
Nanigian thinks that the risk of deviating from an index can help explain why so many actively managed funds have a low active share. "When a fund manager chooses to deviate from her benchmark she is taking a risk that she will underperform the benchmark."
Indeed, a 2012 report on active share by Vanguard finds that excess performance, positive or negative, rises with active share. Since a manager's compensation and continued employment may be threatened by underperforming the benchmark, Nanigian believes that hewing close to the benchmark is a safer bet. "Acting in self-interest, it makes sense for them to engage in closet indexing."
In Petajisto's newest paper to be published in the Financial Analysts Journal this year, he identifies 180 closet indexing funds. The 180 most active funds (he calls them the "stock pickers") hold $480 million in assets while the 180 closet indexers hold over $2 trillion. The expense ratio of the stock pickers is 1.41% on average while the closet indexers charge 1.05%. The net alpha of the stock pickers, however, is 1.89% annually versus -1.07% for the closet indexers between 1990 and 2009.
Unfortunately, those closet indexing active fund owners hold what is essentially a really expensive index fund. Although expense ratios are lower for the closet indexers, their expenses will always equal their underperformance.
Is Active Share Valuable?
A recent research report by Vanguard questions whether the hype over active share might be overblown. Using a more recent time period, 2001-2011, there is little evidence that funds with greater active share performed better. And there appeared to be little persistence in 2006-2011 performance among more active fund managers who performed well between 2001 and 2005. Petajisto's most recent study, however, shows that stock pickers (measured through active share) outperformed during the full 1990 through 2009 time period, and that they also outperformed during the financial crisis of 2008 and 2009.
John Ameriks, the new head of active equity at Vanguard, explains that the report should be taken as "a criticism not so much of active share but maybe a criticism of the idea of a magic metric that you can use to beat the market. Any single metric really isn't going to give you all the information you need to make a good choice about an active manager, so be careful."
Morningstar head of retirement research David Blanchett agrees that the value of active share is primarily to identify who is not providing value rather than identifying managers with exceptional skill. "I think it does a better job focusing investors on getting what they are paying for. If you buy an actively managed mutual fund with an expense ratio of 1.20% that has a 50% overlap with its benchmark index, which could be purchased for say 20 basis points, in reality you're paying about 2.4% for the actively managed portion. This makes it very difficult for the active fund to outperform, given the high fee for the active portion."
Petajisto provides an example using the Fidelity Magellan fund between 1980 and 2009. In 1980, manager Peter Lynch had an active share in the fund of over 95%. Each year after 1980, the active share declined until Lynch left the fund. Jeffrey Vinik later increased active share back up to 75%. After the departure of Vinik, manager Robert Stansky reduced active share to just over 30% by the early 2000s. In essence, Fidelity Magellan turned from an active fund to a closet indexing fund over the course of 20 years.
The Magellan fund eventually increased its active share in the mid-2000s under new manager Harry Lange. So big mutual funds don't have to slide toward closet indexing. During Lange's tenure, active share rose to 80% in 2008. In contrast, the American Fund's Growth Fund of America reduced active share from over 95% in 1981 to about 40% in 2009 as its asset base expanded.
What active share perhaps does best is help an advisor evaluate an active fund that is doing little to provide the alpha needed to justify a higher expense ratio. There's simply no way that a closet indexing manager is ever going to beat an index fund.
Selecting the Right Fund
One explanation for the value of more active management is that it allows informed stock pickers to exploit inefficiencies in markets where investors may not spot a bargain. Active share is highest in fund categories where these inefficiencies are most likely to exist. Small cap styles average about 90% active share while large cap styles average closer to 70%.
Ameriks notes that "there continues to be a conviction that active management somehow is a more attractive proposition within less efficient parts of the market, and I think it's absolutely true that you need to have some market inefficiency in order to create an environment for an active manager to provide value."
But markets are a zero-sum game. Simple mathematics implies that some managers will outperform while others will underperform the market. Add on higher fees and the percentage of outperformers relative to index funds falls below 50% (and well below in categories with higher average expense ratios). "The issue" says Ameriks "is on which side of that line you'll be."
An increasing percentage of asset trades within a market are made without any thought given to fair valuation (see nearby table). The share of passively managed mutual fund and ETF assets rose from 2% in 1993 to 26% today. There is a danger that this relentless, blind flow of investment assets leads to overvaluation among equities in the most popular indexes. The price impact of being added to or deleted from the S&P 500 has jumped over the last 15 years. Does merely being added to the S&P 500 really mean that a company's intrinsic value is 10% higher?
The other danger is that the traditional governance role provided by institutional investors like pension funds and some active managers is abandoned by passive fund managers. This may be particularly true for companies in the S&P with the largest passive ownership. Who wouldn't want to be the CEO of a company where the majority of shareholders don't care about policing the board?
A paper by Professors Sanford Grossman and Joseph Stiglitz lays out a model where funds flow to passive as markets become more efficient through the efforts of active managers. But the lack of valuation-motivated trades creates inefficiencies, leading to flows of investor dollars back to active managers to take advantage of these opportunities. Nanigian notes that "the proportion of fund assets that are passively managed is at an all-time high, which leads me to believe that the market is ripe with great opportunities for active managers."
The use of quantitative, data-driven methods to select securities can best be applied on a large scale through lower-cost fund investments. This may explain the increasing interest in active ETFs. Although Ameriks notes that ETFs and mutual funds are very similar ("the F in ETFs stands for funds"), the primary difference from the manager's perspective is continuous disclosure of holdings.
This makes ETFs not so appealing to managers whose skill or semi-private information allows them to earn excess returns. That would allow anyone to replicate their trading at a much lower cost. Active ETFs may be most appropriate as a tool for executing more technical strategies at a cost that doesn't tempt copycat investors.
Actively managed mutual funds still dominate passively managed funds in terms of managed assets, and mutual funds continue to dominate ETFs despite their increasing popularity. This will mean that identifying opportunities to provide value among active managers will continue to be a challenge. For an advisor, it makes sense to identify which active managers have the best shot at earning their keep.


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I need to add a record to a store and then [mostly] automatically update my pk based on the one generated by the server.
It seems to me that this is what onCreateRecord is for but I haven't seen it documented anywhere so I'm not entirely certain what I'm doing wrong here. I'm not calling it directly as it is called automatically when I save the changes to the store. Here's the code:
This part works fine and does send what I need to the server, which in turn does create the new record in the DB and assigns it an ID. Now I then output the following as the response (note: I have no idea what it is expecting so this was my best guess):Code:var usersStore = new Ext.data.Store({ url: 'users', reader: new Ext.data.JsonReader({ root: 'users', successProperty: 'success', id: 'key', fields: [ {name: 'key'}, {name: 'nickname'} ] }), writer: new Ext.data.JsonWriter({writeAllFields:true}), sortInfo:{field:'nickname', direction:'ASC'}, batchSave: true, remoteSort: false }); var userRecord = Ext.data.Record.create(['key','nickname']); var nRec = new userRecord({ nickname: 'test' }); usersStore.add(nRec); usersStore.save(nRec);
And this is what firebug gives me:Code:{"data": {"key": "somestring"}, "success": true}
Any help will be appreciated thanksCode:this.reader.meta.idProperty is undefined DomHelper()(Object phantom=true id=ext-record-1 data=Object, undefined)ext-all.js (line 1) DomHelper()(undefined, Object data=Object success=true, true)ext-all.js (line 1) DomHelper()(Object params=Object request=Object reader=Object, true, Object tId=3 status=200 statusText=OK)ext-all.js (line 1) b(Object tId=3 status=200 statusText=OK)ext-all.js (line 1) handleTransactionResponse()ext-base.js (line 104) handleReadyState()()ext-base.js (line 112) [Break on this error] Ext.DomHelper=function(){var w=null,l=/^...(Ext.History,new Ext.util.Observable());


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Every now and then, a film comes along that perfectly taps into the zeitgeist. "We blew it," in the 60s with Easy Rider, "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good," in the 80s with Wall Street, and today "I'm CEO, bitch" in David Fincher's latest masterpiece, The Social Network.
When I first heard Fincher – the brilliant director behind some of my favorite films of all time (Fight Club, Zodiac) – was going to tackle the founding of Facebook, I was shocked. At the time, I wasn't aware how Facebook started, and figured the company was the result of many people and huge venture capital investments.
While that is partly true, what really went on behind the scenes is a mesmerizing tale of backstabbing, self-indulgence, and good old-fashioned greed. It's also one of the best films I've seen in 2010. More after the jump:
As most of you know, I record video blog's with Peter from Slashfilm all the time. While we usually record them after participating on a set visit or when answering reader questions, because we both got to see The Social Network at the same time, we decided to record a relatively spoiler-free reaction after we got home. If you'd like to hear what we both thought (we both loved it), here's the audio and the video is below.
However, because many of you might also like to read what I thought, here's a few things that I think really stand out in The Social Network.
Jesse Eisenberg
Eisenberg's performance in The Social Network is on another level. He literally becomes Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. While some actors might hesitate to portray someone that's an asshole most of the time, Eisenberg seems to relish the opportunity. Also, he's able to show that when Zuckerberg wasn't pissing off all his friends, he was just a kid looking for love and getting rejected. Eisenberg has a few great, quiet moments that really tap into who Zuckerberg was in the midst of the craziness. Keep in mind…Zuckerberg is so smart he literally designed one of the biggest websites on the planet from his Harvard dorm room.
While Eisenberg's mostly known as "that guy from Zombieland," he delivers one of the best performances of the year and his turn as Zuckerberg will propel him to the next level.
Justin Timberlake/Andrew Garfield
The Social Network proves two things: Justin Timberlake is great at whatever he does, and Andrew Garfield might turn out to be a pretty awesome Peter Parker.
While neither actor has the type of amazing lines of dialogue enjoyed by Eisenberg, they each have moments to shine and, overall, both are better than you might expect.
The Editing
While I don't want to spoil the movie, I'll reveal The Social Network moves back and forth in time to tell its story. However, the editing ensures that the time-line is never confusing and that you'll always know where you are in terms of narrative time and place. While some filmmakers might struggle to tell a story filled with lawyers, students, lawsuits and love…this is a David Fincher film, and everything production-wise is top notch across the board. While I haven't seen every film released this year, so far the best editing has to go to Edgar Wright's Scott Pilgrim vs. The World with The Social Network not far behind.
Aaron Sorkin's Script
Holy shit it's great. The opening scene alone is worth the price of admission, but, after the fact, you get two more hours of some of the best dialogue of the year. I think the script is some of the best work Sorkin has ever done and it's definitely getting nominated at the end of the year.
What's really exceptional about the script is that it never dumbs down the story. An example is a scene where Jesse Eisenberg is hacking into some of the Harvard Fraternity houses to download everyone's pictures for a new website he's starting in his dorm room (before Facebook). While some films might have a secondary character to explain how he's taking the pictures and what exactly is going on, The Social Network casually mentions hacking terms and lingo like it's the way everyone speaks. It demands the audience's attention and it rewards you with an incredible story featuring dialogue only Sorkin could write.
Did I mention the script is amazing?
David Fincher's Direction
Brilliant. Amazing. Perfect. I don't know how else to say Fincher's work on The Social Network proves he's one of the best in the business. But as the director of some of my favorite films of all time, I'm clearly biased.
What I really love about the way Fincher tells the story is the balancing act between the present and the past. We constantly switch between Zuckerberg sitting in his dorm room and the backstory of how "The Facebook" started and the lawsuits that were filed years later. While some filmmakers have a tough time stringing together a series of interesting scenes, Fincher delivers a captivating film that had me engrossed from beginning to end.
Final Thoughts
If you read the previous few paragraphs, you may have noticed the lack of specifics and spoilers. There is a reason for that. When I walked into the theater to see The Social Network, I had zero idea what to expect. I didn't know the backstory. And I had no knowledge of the players involved. I always think the best way to experience a movie is to not watch any footage and to not read reviews. That line of thinking definitely applies to this film.
Finally, even if you're not one of the millions that spends hours-on-end checking your Facebook wall, I think you'll love watching how the site got put together. It's a fascinating story and one that will be remembered later this year during Awards season.


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A father who said he saw a man molesting his 4-year-old daughter behind a barn in apparently beat the man to death Saturday afternoon, according to the Houston Chronicle.
The death occurred about 3:45 p.m. at a horse barn near Shiner, Texas, about 127 miles west of Houston, said Lavaca County Sheriff Micah Harmon.
Harmon said the victim, a 47-year-old Gonzales man, died at the scene. His name has not been released because his next of kin has not yet been notified of the death.
No arrests have been made in the case. Harmon said a grand jury will probably to determine what, if any charges, will be filed.
Harmon said the father and daughter were at their barn with several other people to groom and care for horses there. The victim came with some of the other people, but was not well-known, if all, to the father and child.
The group later heard the girl screaming behind the barn, Harmon said. Her father ran to see what was wrong and said he saw the man allegedly sexually assaulting the child. While pulling the man away from the girl, he hit the man several times in the head, Harmon said.
The girl was taken to the hospital to be evaluated and to have tests done to determine if a sexual assault occurred. She was released later.
An autopsy will be performed on the victim to determine what caused his death.
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Are there different lists of the Ten Commandments?
So much is debated about the Bible that you'd hope when it comes to the Ten Commandments, at least, you're on solid ground. There are 10, right? And they're chiseled in stone—quite literally—so we know exactly what they are, number by number. Or do we?
Unfortunately it's not that simple. A lot of issues attend the numbering of the commandments, not the least of which is that they appear twice in the Bible (in Exodus 20 and Deuteronomy 5), with small variations between the two, particularly regarding Sabbath observance. The second issue is that Moses doesn't offer a numbering system when he pronounces this oracle in Exodus to the people at Sinai, nor when he reiterates it later in Deuteronomy when they are on the verge of entering the promised land. (If Moses had just prefaced each one with a Roman numeral or bullet-point, he could have saved us a lot of trouble!)
As it is, like other elements of scripture, the Decalogue numbering is more or less in the eye of the beholder. Where do you naturally put the line-breaks, and how do you distill long commentary surrounding the earlier commandments into a succinct phrase such as, "No false gods"?
According to The Jewish Study Bible, the "Ten" Commandments (the guide's editors use quotes around the number to signify the ambiguity) have three standard listings. In the Catholic/Lutheran version, the verses are distributed from the passage in Deuteronomy to compose each prohibition or requirement: 1. Other Gods/images (5:6-10); 2. False oath (v. 11); 3. Sabbath (vs. 12-15); 4. Parents (v. 16); 5. Murder (v. 17); 6. Adultery (v. 17); 7. Theft (v. 17); 8. False witness (v. 17); 9. Coveting wife (v. 18); 10. Coveting property (v. 18).
Our own ancient bishops and early Jewish communities outside of the Holy Land begged to differ, however. Both groups chose to separate the prohibition against other gods (No. 1) from the one against image-making (therefore No. 2). That displaced the rest of the list by one number, down to the last commandment, which incorporated both forms of coveting. Most Protestant and Orthodox denominations continue to prefer this numbering, emphasizing "no image-making" as a stand-alone second commandment. Some fundamentalists polemically direct this commandment against the Catholic use of statues, icons, and stained-glass portraiture, accusing the Catholic Church of "removing" that commandment.
Rabbinic Judaism today, for its part, agrees with the church fathers on the numbering of No. 3 through No. 10. It defines the second commandment as contemporary Catholics and Protestants define their first, "Other Gods/images." Rabbinic Jews hold a unique first commandment, from Deuteronomy 5:6, which describes the self-identification of God ("I am the Lord your God") as its own command requiring human acknowledgment.
All three of these divisions and numbering were proposed in ancient Judaism, so none is technically wrong.
This article appeared in the April 2011 issue of U.S. Catholic magazine (Vol. 76, No. 4, pages 44-46).
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Producers are hoping a reality show featuring the descendent's of gangster Al Capone will be a hit.
Ten episodes of "The Capones" will air on ReelzChannel in fall 2013, according to a news release.
The show follows the "drama-filled, lasagna-loving dysfunctional family" as they run the family business -- Capone's Restaurant and Pizzeria in the Chicago suburb of Lombard.
The show features the great-nephew of the infamous mobster, Dominic Capone, who co-owns the restaurant with his "meddling" mother, Dawn, along with additional characters with nicknames like "Madness Cherry Lips," "Sausage" and an eccentric uncle referred to as "Toupee Lou."
Dominic Capone also works as an actor, portraying Al Capone in a 2001 movie called "The Real Untouchables," and also appearing in R. Kelly's Trapped in the Closet video series.
But The Italian American Human Relations Foundation of Chicago is not a fan of the new show.
"It's unfortunate that this many years after Mr. Capone's death they would try to cash in on his death," the organization's president, Lou Rago, told Chicago's NBC 5. "These shows throw functional illiterates in front of a television and celebrate things we shouldn't be celebrating. There's not another ethnic group that they would allow this to go on TV, and I'm sure this will resurrect some nuances about Italian culture that are so stereotypical that it's beyond laughable anymore."
ReelzChannel's PR manager Aaron Martinez says the series focuses on the characters' business and family life, and the fact that they're Italian is incidental.
"They just happen to be a really intense cast of characters. There's lots of tension between the mom and girlfriend and we're just focusing on the family," Martinez said. "They run an Italian restaurant and they're an Italian family with Italian heritage, but that's not what the show is about."
It's not the first time in recent memory a TV show has delved into Chicago's colorful mob history.
"Mob Wives Chicago" aired on VH1 last year, but was canceled after one season.
Capone Descendants Sign on For Reality Show
Lombard-based "The Capones" to debut this fall on ReelzChannel
Producers are hoping a reality show featuring the descendent's of gangster Al Capone will be a hit.


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My apologies for the delay in getting you the latest news from the Peruvian Amazon but as you will soon discover 2014 has not been the kindest to us over the last few weeks. However before I talk about the freakish storms and torrential rain I would like to start on a great high and a fantastic way to start the New Year….
Animal Rescue Centre
In the first week of January we became proud parents once again as our female tapir (Tapirus terrestris) gave birth to a beautiful young calf. The baby male was born strong and healthy and as the mother was no longer a novice the youngster was soon suckling fresh milk. His growth has been steady and after just six weeks he is becoming more and more independent.
Elsewhere at the centre we had several new arrivals this month including another Peruvian spider monkey (Ateles chamek) and a baby ocelot (Leopardus pardalis). The former will be kept in quarantine until we can be certain that it does not have any diseases contracted from being near domestic animals in Puerto Maldonado. Once given a clean bill of health it will join one of our captive groups in preparation for release. Our oldest group, referring to the age of the animals not time with us in the centre, is scheduled for release later this year and the troop already numbers six individuals which is great as survival chances improve the larger the release group becomes.
As for the ocelot, release is a long way off as the cub must have been just a few weeks old when we got it. It is so young that we cannot yet sex it as cats are hard to gender until at least 3 months old. Either way this cub was orphaned as the result of a hunting incident. The mother could have been shot by mistake as the hunter was looking for food or she was shot for being near a farm with poultry. Regardless of the reason the outcome is sadly often the same with the death of the young babies without a mother. Fortunately, in this case the cub was given to us almost straightaway and a diet of milk and blended boiled chicken has kept the youngster alive in the critical first few days and its progress is encouraging. A few more weeks in the nursery and we can consider putting it in its own cage outside so that it gets plenty of stimuli from the jungle which will become its home when it is old enough to survive on its own.
Before the rains hit in devastating fashion we had been working hard to complete the carnivore enclosures. Unfortunately, we were unable to finish the task before Mother Nature gave us a mighty surprise and an ecological catastrophe….
When you live and work in tropical rainforests the storms and seasonal downpours are part of everyday life but every once in while nature reminds you of just how unpredictable climates can be. Over ten years ago we suffered some flooding in Taricaya but the month of February has seen flooding the likes of which have not been recorded since 1961 in Madre de Dios. The heavens opened for close to two weeks without respite and the fact that this was happening all over the region meant that the river systems did not have to cope with just local rainstorms but the run-off from all the mountains and tributaries that feed the two rivers, Tambopata and Madre de Dios!
Over the space of three days the river slowly started to burst its banks and we began to worry about the safety of the camp. All our buildings are constructed on stilts to allow for occasional flash flooding and the floor levels are situated at least 50 cm above the seasonal high water mark. We must bear in mind that this is nearly a metre above the banks of the river! So when water started to leak into the rooms we knew that we were in trouble. The volume of water that flowed down from the mountains is incalculable as once the river floods its banks the whole flood plain drops under water. These flood plains can extend several kilometres back from the banks of the river and for water levels to keep rising with the river effectively 10km wide- the amount of water was staggering.
Naturally we had to evacuate and with bold staff members left to look after the camp we loaded everybody into the boats and headed to Puerto Maldonado. It was a traumatic time for all of us and I must thank all our volunteers for their patience during those couple of weeks. We did not just sit back on our heels however as we quickly got to work in town but more on that in minute….
Ecological Disaster
Apart from the inconveniences caused by such serious flooding the long term effects on the ecosystem are devastating. The flood plains of the jungle were effectively underwater for 20 days and this has caused a huge shift in the balance of the ecosystem. Over 70% of the plants found in the secondary forest along rivers will have died during the floods. Members of the Piperacea family were the first to die off followed by many members of the Heliconia family. These plants provide food for a whole range of fauna from insects and arthropods to humming birds and bats. The whole food chain is damaged and even when the water levels dropped, vast quantities of sediment have been left on top of the forest floor. Whilst eventually this sediment will be beneficial for the regeneration of the flora the thick layer prevents seeds from pushing through and delays the recovery process.
Whilst the effects on the forest's flora are tough the jungle's fauna suffered even more. Not only were important foodstuffs no longer available but many animals drowned in the floods. With an area of 10km suddenly underwater with no high ground many of the jungle's ground dwellers perished. We were able to rescue some baby agoutis (Dasyprocta variegata) and pacas (Agouit paca) we found floating on driftwood. These terrestrial rodents were the worst hit and we even fed our own colony of them which had sought safety on a pile of unused scrap wood. In short the jungle and its finely balanced ecosystem has taken a big hit and we must really consider this when thinking about the minor inconveniences we suffered having to move out for a few weeks!
Working in town
Needless to say we kept busy during our enforced absence and we went to work in the local "zoo". Over the years we have often helped out there and thanks to our help the animals are in much better health. We have given the animals veterinary treatment and helped build new enclosures in the past. This time around we set to painting all the cages and building a new cage for the resident pair of channel-billed toucans (Ramphostos vitrellinus). Everybody worked hard, often in heavy rain, and the owners were very grateful for the help we gave them.
The future
Ecological Disaster
Finally the rains eased and the water levels dropped and it was time to head back to the lodge and assess the damage. We had managed to save all the animals in the rescue centre with the exception of the white-lipped peccaries (Tayassu pecari) and tapirs. These animals were able to swim out of their cages and so we had little choice. The peccaries were due for release anyway and so we took them by boat to the back of the reserve and released them on higher ground. The tapirs are much bigger and excellent swimmers and so we let them go near camp. We put a radio collar on the female and by keeping the baby in camp we hope she will return. The two males were also released and we have been able to recapture one of them and the other has been sighted near camp. However our hopes remain on recapturing the female to continue our captive breeding program.
Elsewhere thanks to a lot of hard work we were able to save all the animals in our custody and the babies we rescued were released as soon as the water receded.
The camp itself had suffered some superficial damage but we are quickly fixing that and our volunteers have been faultless in their energy in helping get us back on track. I hope to report on happier news next time as we continue to evaluate the reserve and hope that the water left behind in the swamps and trails starts to drop…
Either way, we have lots to look forward to and plenty of work lined up…
Stuart Timson
Conservation Director
Projects Abroad
12th March, 2014


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Colbie Caillat's Laid-Back Christmas
See how the singer-songwriter celebrates sunshine, family, and home, and then get in the spirit by watching her music video.
Grammy-winning singer-songwriter Colbie Caillat may have just released her brand new fourth album, but it's last year's irresistibly catchy song Christmas in the Sand (Watch the music video below!) has become an anthem for celebrating sunny holidays by the sea.
"Spending Christmas in Southern California, I enjoy being able to look outside and see a clear blue sky and be in comfortable clothes, not frozen and bundled up," says Caillat, who lives in Los Angeles's Westlake Village. "And every Christmas song is about snow. I wanted to write a song about how people in warm places spend their holidays."
Raised in Southern California, Caillat has plenty of experience celebrating under balmy skies: Her parents and sister live only about 10 minutes away, and they get together nearly every weekend during December when she's not on tour, taking turns hosting at each other's homes. Since moving into her own place a few years ago, she's come to treasure decorating in her own style:
"I like cute, beachy Christmas decor—not just red and green, but adding some beachy color tones to the Christmas spirit," says the laid-back singer, who collects ornaments for her tree ranging from the "old-school" ones her grandparents gifted her as a kid (always with the year recorded on the back) to a wicker lobster she picked up at Target, the kind of thing she likes to keep out all year long.
Watch Caillat's Christmas in the Sand music video!


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