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From a purely mathematical point of view, the "stocks are safer over long periods of time" argument — before Paul Samuelson took an axe to it — went as follows. Historically, there was a 35% chance that a diversified portfolio of stocks would underperform safe cash during any one-year period. Moreover, the stock market's behavior from year-to-year exhibited the same independence as consecutive coin tosses. The coin has no memory of its past behavior, and neither, so it was believed, did the stock market.
Put these two assumptions together and you get the following: Over a two-year period there is a (0.35)(0.35) = 12.25% Probability of Shortfall. Over a three-year period there is a (0.35)(0.35)(0.35) = 4.3% probability of shortfall, etc. Continuing this logic, by year 10, there was a 1 in 40,000 chance you would regret investing in a portfolio of stocks versus safe cash. This mathematically contrived justification was labeled time diversification, and became another rallying cry of the "buy, hold and prosper" crowd. A longer time period diversified away risk. The stock market was a casino in which the odds were heavily in the gamblers' favor.
Enter Paul Samuelson who argued that if an investment was risky over one year, time didn't make it any safer. The only safe asset for the long run was a risk-free inflation-adjusted government bond. Anything else carried risk, and that risk didn't disappear in the long run, or even the very long run. It therefore didn't matter how old or young you were. The fact that the probability of shortfall declined quite rapidly with time didn't imply that you should skew your portfolio more heavily towards stocks when you were young vs. when you were old.
In many scholarly articles he argued that that very small shortfall probability was offset by the enormous pain and disutility of a loss. His great flash of genius was to demonstrate that these two effects exactly balanced themselves out. Ergo, the optimal amount of stocks vs. safe cash was time-invariant.
So — you might wonder — why is the financial industry encouraging people who are saving for retirement to invest more in the stock market and take on more risk? Is there any justification for this advice?
Human Capital
Despite Paul Samuelson's warning about the riskiness of stocks, which I have taken to heart, I personally remain heavily invested in them, for better or for worse. The reason I have made this seemingly risky decision is because I am many years away from retirement. In fact, I have a very long time horizon before I plan to stop working at (planned) age 70, and start collecting my pension income from the university.
Now, if you have been paying any attention at all, your first reaction might be: "Didn't he read anything he just wrote above? Professor Samuelson proved that time shouldn't matter."
But the fact is that I actually agree 100% with Professor Samuelson, and my behavior is perfectly consistent with his recommendations. The key to reconciling the above-stated 'Samuelsonian' time invariance and the investment advice doled out by industry — and my own behavior — is the concept of human capital.
There are two types of assets that a person might possess on their personal balance sheet. The first is financial capital, which is quite visible and market-based. Think of money in the bank, bonds in a retirement account or stocks in a portfolio. You can sell them anytime and immediately consume the proceeds. This is your financial capital.
But you also own another asset, and that is your income-earning ability. This asset is called your human capital value. Researchers such as Professor Gary Becker have computed how much an extra year of education can impact your earnings profile over your life. Evidently, the rate of return from investing in education is between 8% and 15% depending on your field and major. For now the important takeaway is as follows: If you define your wealth broadly enough to include both human and financial capital — and your human capital is relatively safe — then even Paul Samuelson will agree that it makes sense to have some money in the stock market even if you are very risk-averse. The question is how much.
The Equation Explained
Here are the six factors or variables that should determine how much money you should risk and invest in the stock market:
1. The amount of financial capital (i.e. money in the bank) that you have accumulated already, which is denoted by the letters FC. This is measured in dollars.
2. The value of your human capital, which is measured in dollars and denoted by the letters HC. Make a conservative estimate of what you think you will earn between now and retirement — net of any income taxes and required expenditures — and then compute its present economic value. For young college graduates, this number could be in the millions.
3. Your expectation of the rate at which you (or the experts) think stocks will grow over time, denoted by the letter mu (μ). Historically this number has been around 7% for stocks, once inflation is accounted for, although it might be as low as 5% in today's economic environment.
4. Your expectation for the volatility of stocks, denoted by sigma (σ), which has been around 20% for a well-diversified portfolio of stocks. This is a purely objective number, best determined by a statistician. Some argue that it might be as high as 25% or even 30%.
5. The risk-free rate (r), which has been between 1% to 4%, and probably closer to the low-end of the range today. It represents the alternative to stocks.
6. Your risk aversion, denoted by (γ), is a purely personal value that only you can determine.
Notice that this equation says nothing (explicitly) about age, time horizon, mortality rates, or even if stocks have been doing well recently. Whether you are 20, 50 or 80, Samuelson's asset allocation equation tells you to consider your attitude towards risk, your total wealth and the long-term view of the market — but not the time horizon. It is nowhere to be found explicitly in the equation.
When you think about it though, time is really embedded inside of Samuelson's equation, because the human capital value gets smaller, and eventually hits zero, as you age. Once you reach retirement — defined as the date when you stop working, permanently — and you have no more human capital, and all your wealth is tied-up in financial capital, then perhaps stocks really are too risky for you. This is your call.
Samuelson's Life and Impact
Paul Samuelson was born on May 15, 1915 in Gary, Indiana, and died on Dec. 13, 2009. He eventually enrolled at the University of Chicago, home of Milton Friedman and other conservative economic theorists. Although he was turned off by the Chicago school's blind defense of free and efficient markets, his friendship and intellectual rivalry with Milton Friedman continued for the rest of his life.
In 1935 he earned his B.A. degree and headed east to Harvard University, where he earned his Master's degree in 1936 and his Ph.D. in 1941. During his time at Harvard he fell under the spell of the Keynesian approach to economics, which argues that governments should get involved in financial markets and not leave economic affairs to Adam Smith's invisible hand. Samuelson often called himself and used the term "cafeteria Keynesian," claiming to pick and choose only what he liked from the theory. In fact, in 1960 he advised newly elected John F. Kennedy — as the U.S. was heading into a recession — to reduce taxes. Kennedy the Democrat was shocked at the advice, but was convinced of the merits by Samuelson.
Paul Samuelson was recognized as an economics prodigy from very early on in his career. In 1947, the American Economics Association awarded him the (inaugural) John Bates Clark medal, which is bestowed to economists under the age of 40 and considered to be the second most prestigious award in the field. The first most prestigious award is the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, which he was awarded in 1970.
Remarkably, it was only in his 50s that Paul Samuelson turned his research attention to matters of finance, the stock market and asset allocation. In articles published in the late 1960s he laid the foundations upon which Robert Merton and Myron Scholes built their famous option pricing equation, which garnered their own Nobel prizes. Indeed, if anybody deserved a second Nobel award, it would have been Paul Samuelson.
Reprinted by permission of the publisher, John Wiley & Sons Canada, Ltd., from The 7 Most Important Equations for Your Retirement, by Moshe A. Milevsky. Copyright © 2012 by Moshe A. Milevsky.


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As bells tolled, two Swiss Guards standing at attention at the papal palace in Castel Gandolfo shut the thick wooden doors shortly after 8pm local time, symbolically closing out a papacy whose legacy will be most marked by the way it ended - a resignation instead of a death.
Benedict, who will spend his first two months of retirement inside the palace walls, leaves behind an eight-year term shaped by struggles to move the church beyond clerical sex abuse scandals and to reawaken Christianity in an indifferent world - efforts his successor will now have to take up.
For the time being, the governance of the Catholic Church shifts to Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, the camerlengo, or chamberlain, who along with the College of Cardinals will guide the church and make plans for the conclave to elect the 266th leader of the world's 1.2 billion Catholics.
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Benedict's decision to live at the Vatican in retirement, be called "emeritus pope" and "Your Holiness" rather than revert back to "Joseph Ratzinger" and wear the white cassock associated with the papacy has deepened concerns about the shadow he might cast over the next papacy.
Benedict has tried to address those worries over the past two weeks, saying that once retired he would be "hidden from the world" and living a life of prayer.
On Thursday he took a step further with his own public pledge to place himself entirely under the authority of the new pope.
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Behold the "Telephone That Registers Calls in One's Absence." It sounds like something from the Onion, but it's an actual invention from the pages of Scientific American in 1919. The brainchild of a nameless "California inventor" (so much for his fifteen minutes of fame), the device was a recording telegraph made to be installed in "the base of the telephone instrument." It sounds ingenious, but there were two major drawbacks.
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Geysers of the World
Geysers of Yellowstone
Lion Geyser
Feature Type: Geyser
Geyser/Spring Type: Cone geyser
Upper Geyser Basin
Geyser Hill
Lion is a fairly large geyser. It was named because it emits a steam puff that sounds like a roar. Some roars are very loud and can be startling. Using one's imagination the overhanging geyserite on its cone also somewhat resembles a shaggy lion's mane. It can reach 50 to 90 feet and last over seven minutes. Lion erupts in a series of from 1 to 30 eruptions, although in 2011 the longest series have had 17 eruptions.
The initial eruption of the series is the tallest and lasts the longest. Unlike the other eruptions of the series, the initial eruption begins with splashing overflowing the cone and ends with a steam phase which can include the roar.
Eruptions other than the initial fall into two categories, majors and minors. Major eruptions last about 4 minutes and minors last about one minute. Both categories can reach about 50 feet in height. Roars can also occur just before or just after an eruption within the series.
Series to series intervals depend greatly upon the duration of the previous series. Recently, they have been as little as 6 hours to over 50 hours. In a series, the interval from the initial eruption to the second in the series, assuming that there is a second, is often between 1 and 1.5 hours. the interval between other eruptions in the series is often about one hour but can rarely be as short as 15 minutes or as long as three hours.
Lion sits on a platform with four other geysers. This is the main part of the Lion Geyser Complex. Lion sits to the northern end of the platform, farthest right on the platform as you look at it from the nearest boardwalk. It has the largest cone of the geysers on the platform. To the left of Lion is Big Cub which has not had a major eruption lately. It usually only splashes, sometimes heavily, prior to a Lion initial. Lioness Geyser sits to the left of Big Cub and also has not had a major eruption in recent times. Lioness spits horizontally within its crater periodically. The last geyser, at the far left of the platform and by far the most active of the Lion Group, is Little Cub Geyser. The frequent splashing eruptions of Little Cub give the geyserite of its cone a pearly looking texture and color.
What to look for:
Prior to an initial eruption, there is little to indicate anything is imminent. Lion will splash periodically and sometimes heavily. Usually Big Cub will also splash and steam periodically. A small bubbler downhill and between Lion and Little Cub noisily erupts to about 6 inches. This activity can go on for many hours with little or no apparent changes before the initial eruption begins. The last splashes from Lion just before an initial are heavier than the others but since judging this intensity is relative it is quite difficult to discern when Lion about to start.
Between eruptions in a series, Lion is quiet until just before the next eruption. Usually, eruptions in the series are preceded by one roar but sometimes can be preceded by a number of roars. The volume of the roar can vary from almost nonexistent to quite loud. Usually as the series progresses, the roars get louder. Sometimes, the series ends with a number of roars spaced a few minutes apart. These roars, sometimes called "terminal roars", do not necessarily mean that the series is over but if the roars continue for a long period and steadily get weaker, the series has probably ended.
Electronic Monitor Files
Lion eruptions for 1998.txt
Lion eruptions for 1999.txt
Lion eruptions for 2000.txt
Lion eruptions for 2001.txt
Lion eruptions for 2002.txt
Lion eruptions for 2003.txt
Lion eruptions for 2004.txt
Lion eruptions for 2005.txt
Lion eruptions for 2006.txt
Lion eruptions for 2007.txt
Lion eruptions for 2008.txt
Lion eruptions for 2009.txt
Lion eruptions for 2010.txt
Lion eruptions for 2011.txt
Some of the temperature data used to derive the eruption times and durations used in this section were collected by Ralph Taylor under a National Park Service research permit, and the remainder was collected by personnel working for the Geology Department of the Yellowstone Center for Resources (including Ralph Taylor). The loggers are a combination of loggers owned by the NPS and Ralph Taylor. Analysis of the raw temperature data to extract the eruption data was performed by Ralph Taylor. The eruption time files on this website may be used provided that Yellowstone National Park is credited for the temperature data and Ralph Taylor is credited for the eruption times.
Activity Recorded by Data Logger - by Ralph Taylor
Lion Geyser has been monitored electronically since 1998. Data from 1998 to mid-2002 covers only the summer months, generally from late June to early October, but since the mid-2002 we have attempted to monitor Lion all year. There are five large gaps in the record, 30 Dec 2002 to 2 Feb 2003, 21 Feb 2003 to 22 June 2003, 17 Nov to 16 Dec 1003, 7 Apr 2005 to 2 Jul 2005, and 23 to 29 June 2011. These gaps were the result of either logger failure or our inability to download the data resulting in the logger memory filling.
In 2008 a short gap from 1849 on 24 May to 0955 on 27 May resulted from the logger memory filling. The Lion logger failed once again after the November 2008 download, and was replaced on 20 March 2009. The data is continuous for the remainder of 2009 and 2010.
The 2011 data is interrupted by a gap from 23 to 29 June.
Lion Geyser is difficult to monitor. The stream from the eruption is thrown clear of the formation for the most part, and the sensor picks up primarily the big surge of water that initiates the eruption. This surge of hot water also has destroyed several loggers despite our best efforts to protect the devices. In the wintertime ice often diverts water from the sensor and causes some eruptions to leave no indication on the temperature trace.
Lion erupts in series. The initial eruption typically lasts six to eight minutes, and is followed by a series of zero or more in-series eruptions, typically two to four minutes in length. A series typically ends in a series of weak 'roars' that may or may not produce a small amount of splashing. After a series ends, Lion is quiet for several hours.
A complicating factor is the occurrence of minor eruptions within a series. For Lion Geyser, a minor eruption is a short duration (usually less than one minute) eruption that is usually followed in ten to twenty minutes by a full-length eruption. A second complication that makes automatic detection of eruptions from the temperature trace more challenging is the occasional large pre-play splash that produces a temperature signature almost like an initial eruption. These large preplay surges can delay an initial eruption by over an hour.
My analysis program does not distinguish between minor and major eruptions when producing the series length. The eruption files available here give the eruption number in the series as well as the time and interval. For the initial eruption (labeled 'Series Start' in the data files) the interval is the series interval, that is, the time since the start of the initial eruption of the previous series. For subsequent minor and major eruptions within a series (labeled 'Eruption #2' et. seq. in the file) the interval is the time since the previous eruption. In-series intervals of under an hour generally indicate that the preceding eruption was a minor eruption.
In October 2009 Lion Geyser began having very long series, with as many as 20 eruptions in a series. Corresponding series intervals were around two days. The long series continued for the remainder of 2009 and all of 2010, with gradually decreasing series lengths and series intervals. In 2011 the series continue to be longer than pre-2009 series, but the average and maximum length of the series is declining.
Activity in 2011
The overall statistics for 2011 are shown at
Lion Geyser 2011 Statistics.
The series interval graph shows all of the series intervals to date for 2011. The graphs for the current year are updated about every six weeks from October to June and weekly from June to the end of September. The yellow triangles show the eruption start times for Little Squirt Geyser. The Little Squirt eruption times are used as a surrogate for the so-called SMax (South [Geyser Hill] water level MAXimum), which is thought to represent a cyclic change in the hydrothermal energy on Geyser Hill. This hypothesis is described in an article in GOSA Transactions Volume IV titled Cyclic Hot Spring Activity on Geyser Hill, Upper Geyser Basin, Yellowstone National Park—Graphical and Interpretive Descriptions of the Geyser Hill Wave, Diurnal Effects, Seasonal Disturbances, Random (Chaotic?) Events, and Earthquakes by T. Scott Bryan. The orange diamonds show the first eruption of each recorded Dome Geyser series. Activity in Dome geyser is also known to affect some other features on Geyser Hill.
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The next graph shows the series intervals for the past few months at an expanded time scale.
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The next graph shows the series intervals for the past month.
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The next graph is a histogram of the distribution of series intervals. Note that in this and the other histograms displayed here the labels shown on the X-axis represent the upper boundary of the class, not the midpoint. Geyser times are traditionally truncated. The graph at the right has class widths of 4 hours. The bar appearing above the label "24:00," for example, contains intervals from 20h01m through 24h00m. The shape of the distribution is generally that of a normal distribution.
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The final series interval graph is the monthly maximum, mean, median, and minimum series intervals.
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The next three graphs show the number of eruptions in a series, the first for the calendar year, the second for the most recent months, and the last as a histogram of the series length.
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Activity since 1998
Lion's activity was been monitored only in the summer months from 1998 to 2002, so the full cycle is not shown on the graphs. The first graph shows all of the intervals recorded since 1998.
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The series intervals have been slightly longer since 2003 than was the case in 1998-2002. This can be seen a bit more clearly in the moving 1-day median graph. Since the last quarter of 2005 the weekly median intervals rose until the last quarter of 2006, then dipped toward the end of the year before rising sharply in 2007 and 2008.
In October of 2009 Lion began having very long series of eruptions, with 20 or more eruptions in some series. The series intervals increased to two to three days since the series were so long. This graph along with the previous graph show the jump in series intervals clearly, and also show a slow decrease in series intervals since the jump. The shape of the decrease appears exponential, suggesting that whatever the nature of the change the system is relaxing to the previous state.
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The final graph shows the monthly minimum, mean, median, and maximum series intervals for all of the data available. This gives another view of the changes over the past decade. Both the average (mean and median) series interval and the maximum series interval are increasing slowly over the years and that the range (shortest to longest interval in a given month) is gradually increasing. The minimum series interval has remained consistent for the whole time covered by the electronic monitoring began.
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The graph to the right shows the number of eruptions (including minor eruptions) per series for the past several years. The October 2009 increase in series length shows very clearly in this view.
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SACRAMENTO—State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson and State Treasurer Bill Lockyer today issued the following letter to local educational agencies regarding capital appreciation bonds:
Dear County and District Superintendents:
Capital Appreciation Bonds
We understand many districts face a critical need to build or modernize facilities for their children, and we recognize that falling property tax assessments, revenue losses, and statutory debt service limits have all combined to reduce districts' debt financing options. As a result, some districts have turned to capital appreciation bonds (CABs), which have forced taxpayers to pay more than 10 times the principal to retire the bonds.
Thus, we urge you and your Board of Education not to issue CABs until the Legislature and the Governor have completed their consideration of this year's proposals to reform the CAB issuance process by improving transparency and protecting taxpayers against exorbitant debt service payments. Through this process, we welcome and encourage your input to ensure that the needs of districts are still being met.
In too many cases, CAB deals have forced taxpayers to pay more than 10 times the principal to retire the bonds. Also, the transactions have been structured with 40-year terms that delay interest and principal payments for decades, resulting in huge balloon payments and burdens on future taxpayers that cannot be justified. Too frequently, board members and the public have not been fully informed about the costs and risks associated with CABs. In some cases, board members have reported they were not even aware they approved the sale of CABs.
It is important to note that CABs with terms exceeding 25 years place the repayment obligation on future taxpayers who likely will not benefit from the capital improvements financed by the CABs. At the same time, the CABs payments will reduce those taxpayers' capacity to finance construction and modernization projects their own children will need.
We are convinced that remedial legislation is needed to prevent abuses and ensure that both school board members and the public obtain timely, accurate, complete, and clear information about the costs of CABs, and alternatives, before CABs are issued. The Governor has told us he wants reforms. Key lawmakers and legislative leaders have made clear they agree statutory changes are needed.
For all these reasons, we believe your district and every other district in the state should impose a moratorium on issuing CABs. The moratorium should remain in effect until the Governor and Legislature decide on reforms in the current legislative session. If reforms are enacted, subsequent CABs deals can be conducted in compliance with the new statutory requirements.
Thank you for your consideration. Should you have any questions or concerns, please contact
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Tom Torlakson
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That's interesting! I hadn't thought of that. I have another possible reason:BlueOrchid wrote:... I realized if the situation had been anything but life or death, Edward would always feel guilty for "killing" Bella.
Stephenie has kept on reminding us throughout the first three books that being a vampire is a huge sacrifice. The Cullens certainly make us like vampires more, and Bella can think of nothing else but joining Edward as a vampire, perhaps the reader sometimes forgets what she might be risking. I think Stephenie had to write a mildly horrific scene to hammer home the full meaning of what Bella has done by giving up her human life. Is she playing with her soul? In any case, it makes us think twice about her decision.


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FIREWORKS VIDEO MAGAZINE #55, JUNE, 2006. Kellner's Fireworks Demo Weekend; Highlights from the NFA Expo & WWB 17: Interviews & Demos; News Update; Lynch Imports Demo; Interview with Jamie Deye of Pyromaster, LLC; Consumer Fireworks Item Dissection; new items; and of course a fantastic fireworks display at the end; and much more!
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Nick Lantz BA '03, who won the 2010 Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry for this collection, explores the transformative power of the tragic and the miraculous in these poems. He plunges headfirst into worlds that are both eccentric and familiar, alarming and hopeful.
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The Bible seems to condone slavery and accept wives as their husband's property. But these are generally acknowledged to be immoral in modern civilization.
Yet, there are other modern societal perspectives which differ from their Biblical perspectives that many (if not most) Christians deem to still be ungraceful in God's eyes, like homosexuality.
I'm familiar with arguments that the Bible was written for its own time and pertained only to the era. But, if some values can be progressive and Christian despite what is in the Bible while others cannot, how can one know which ones God is okay with?
Also, is it possible he just doesn't care about stuff like slavery?


text: George Gissing (1857-1903) was an English novelist, who wrote twenty-three novels between 1880 and 1903. Although his early works are naturalistic, he developed into one of the the most accomplished realists of the late-Victorian era. Born in Wakefield, Yorkshire, to lower-middle class parents, Gissing went on to win a scholarship to Owens College, the present day University of Manchester. A brilliant student, he excelled at university, winning many coveted prizes, including the Shakespeare prize in 1875. Between 1891 and 1897 (his so-called middle period) he produced his best works, which include New Grub Street, Born in Exile, The Odd Women, In the Year of Jubilee, and The Whirlpool. The middle years of the decade saw his reputation reach new heights: by some critics he is counted alongside George Meredith and Thomas Hardy as one of the best three novelists of his day. He also enjoyed new friendships with fellow writers such as Henry James, and H. G. Wells, and came into contact with many other up and coming writers such as Joseph Conrad and Stephen Crane.


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- National Institute of Mental Health: 20% of U.S. children suffer from a mental disorder
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Think of five children you know. One of them may suffer from a serious debilitating mental illness. If this child is your own, finding answers to the question "How can I help my child?" can be daunting and overwhelming.
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The National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) provides a Peer-to-Peer Recovery Educational program geared toward healthy living strategies and skill-building resources for adults. The course is free, confidential and led by trained individuals in recovery from mental illness. They also facilitate a discussion group called Teen Consumers, which provides a healthy environment for teens to discuss their diagnoses and treatments. NAMI has a support group for parents of teens with mental illness, as well. The nonprofit's website also provides a state-by-state directory of local support groups. NAMI offers an information hotline for general information, referrals and support: 1-800-950-6264. Hours of operation are 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. ET on weekdays.
The Autism Society's approach is to focus on each individual child's needs. They preach a message that no method is the right method for all children diagnosed with autism. Their goal is to provide parents with many options and different avenues of advice and support. The Autism Society created Autism Source, a comprehensive database of local professional services. Visitors to the website can explore a wide range of resources, including housing needs, medical professionals and educational services.
The Treatment Advocacy Center is a nonprofit that works to promote policies that support people with severe mental illness. The website features a link that connects these families and individuals to treatment options, legal resources and crisis response strategies.
The Arc is a national community-based organization that serves people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, including autism, Down syndrome and fetal alcohol syndrome. In their mission statement, the team from the Arc promotes a people-first approach and "believes that all people with intellectual and developmental disabilities are defined by their own strengths, abilities and inherent value, not by their disability." The strive to make those affected and their families' lives better through policy, support systems and education.


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The Way We Live Now and "Fra Lippo Lippi" entertain similar ideas about the role of art and the artist in society. Both refuse to idealize human existence by avoiding harsh truths. In addition, Browning's painter believes that the artist can enable us to find beauty and deep meaning in ordinary things:
For don't you mark? we're made so that we love
First when we see them painted, things we have passed
Perhaps a hundred times nor cared to see;
And so they are better, painted — better to us,
Which is the same thing. Art was given for that;
God uses us to help each other so,
Lending our minds out. (ll. 300-307)
Lippo has lived a hard life in a harsh world, honing his senses and exploring his interpretations of the world. He considers expressing his true experience of reality to be a matter of simply honesty: "You tell too many lies and hurt yourself" (l. 260). Unlike the so-called "true painters, great and old," he does not choose to idealize and embellish all that he paints, nor does he restrict himself to religious subject matter. Lippo deems searching for coherence and visual pleasure in the world his duty and his passion: "This world's no blot for us,/Nor blank; it means intensely, and means good:/To find its meaning is my meat and drink" (ll. 313-315). Is it not for Trollope?
Browning's poem combines its serious ideas about art and society with humor and sarcasm. Like Trollope's novel, "Fra Lippo Lippi" mixes poignancy with satire in its attempts to deal with Realism. Both works comment upon the blasphemy and corruption of human society, suggesting that artists might detect and denounce it better than anyone else. Lippi speaks of religious hypocrisy, while Trollope characterizes his Bishop Elmham with "a simplicity that was singularly minded with his religious cunning" (58). The two works exhibit a remarkable number of parallels.
Trollope, like Lippi, writes with precision and detail about society. He represents characters and situations absolutely, if not bluntly. His novel depends, in fact, on his ability to describe and characterize acutely. He translates that which he sees, with a considerable degree of cynicism, onto paper. He makes us believe that we might actually encounter one of his so well-developed characters walking down the street, that is, if we lived in Victorian England. His verbal illustrations remain convincingly thorough and evocative; perhaps those of his most despicable characters best reveal his knack for conveying feeling, personality, and scathing satire in literary realism. Consider his comments on Melmotte the candidate:
There was one man who thoroughly believed that the thing at the present moment most essentially necessary to England's glory was the return of Mr. Melmotte for Westminster. This man was undoubtedly a very ignorant man. He knew nothing of any one political question which had vexed England for the last half century, nothing whatever of the political history which had made England what it was at the beginning of that half century....He had probably never read a book in his life. He knew nothing of the working of parliament, nothing of nationality, had no preference whatever for one form of government over another, never having given his mind a moment's trouble on the subject...But yet he was fully confident that England did demand and ought to demand that Mr. Melmotte should be returned for Westminster. This man was Mr. Melmotte himself. (II, 34)
These ideas about art, realism, and interpretation call to mind the original Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood of 1849 and its belief in "truth to nature." Started by William Holman Hunt, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and John Everett Millais, the PRB studied art and poetry informally, valuing most highly a "realistic style with elaborate symbolism." The PRB attempted to "transform hard-edged realism by combining it with typological symbolism." They encouraged a "precise almost photographic representation of even humble object." This accuracy of description, or mimesis, relates directly to the literary and artistic ventures of Trollope and Lippo.
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A $1 billion shortfall in K-12 funding, a pending courtroom showdown over public school finance and a controversial proposal to reduce in-state college tuition for Colorado's undocumented students – yes, Summit County's former school superintendent and current state representative has her work cut out for her.
As the newly appointed chairwoman of the House Education Committee, Millie Hamner (D-Dillon) will face unprecedented challenges when the 69th Colorado General Assembly convenes on Jan. 9 in Denver.
Like last year, lawmakers must once again balance a budget while grappling with the sharp fall in K-12 funding that has led to teacher layoffs and program cuts for some of the state's 178 public school districts.
Rep. Dickey Lee Hullinghorst, the House majority leader from Gunbarrell, visited Summit County along with Hamner on Wednesday as part of a multi-day tour of Colorado's High Country. Hullinghorst said that while tax revenue will be up this year, the increase won't be enough to put a dent in the $1 billion shortfall in school funding.
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In 1978, Hamner started her career in public education as a teacher in the Eagle County School District, where she taught for 23 years. In 2001, she was recruited to the Summit School District, where she started as assistant superintendent. She was promoted to superintendent three years later and remained in the role for another six years until she was appointed to the state Legislature in 2010.
Hamner won her first election this year, keeping her seat out of the hands of four challengers including Democrat-turned-independent Kathleen Curry, a four-term veteran of the state House.
Caddie Nath contributed to this report.
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Which is best to use in source code - tabs or spaces?
And the WORD was made flesh, and dwelt among us. (John 1:14)
Some time ago, I read that some apps do things differently when using tabs vs spaces. YAML, a file layout method, counts indent spaces which are significant. So some people, me included, always have tabs converted into spaces.
Spaces! Yeesh! Ever opened source in different editors?
Then, try to debug code if as tab character was used for a regexp:
tr " " "\
" <infile >outfile
Unless I have to import data in spreadsheets or databases, in which case I prefer tabs.
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Some editors/IDEs like geany has an option to convert tabs to spaces every time you save a file, I also generally always use spaces instead of tabs, this way you are sure that code will be formatted the way you wanted to
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I use tab to spaces as well.
I have one ide I use for python that even though it looks like when you hit TAB you get the same indentation. When at the column number in the status bar, one column will read as 15 and the column on the line below will read as 17. So when you open it in another editor its all screwed up.
"The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words." -Philip K. Dick
Wow, How is tabs losing? a single tab indentation takes "1" byte compared to the alternative of 4/8 space characters.
It also helps make files look uniform in text editors... if any of you looked at BSD source, you would see they whole heartedly agree.
Tabs for code ... always, it just works a lot better across different editors, people can set their own tabwidth, it's easier to move the cursor.
I never understood why some people use spaces for code ....
For text/config files that other people need to use I use spaces for obvious reasons.
UNIX was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that would also stop you from doing clever things.
i imagine people who have voted for spaces have configured their editor to enter a set number of spaces in the file when a tab key is pressed. But whats the advantage to that?
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i use a combination of tabs and spaces.
mod8/mod4 tabs for indentation and spaces for alignment
Spaces help code to look more uniform from platform to platform. It's hard to keep the tabs/space convention when you are working with a few developers working on different platforms/editors too.
I guess what is more important than choosing between tabs or spaces is sticking to it and making sure everyone follows the convention!
"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction."
Well, this is something I am only mildly opinionated on believe it or not !!!
When it comes to things like tabs or spaces, where to put the brace, etc of coding style. I don't really care what _other_ people do as long as they _do_ it consistently.
I'm accustomed to writing code in a manor that I could write rule-sets based on my formating style to modify things if necessary, and where possible in a style that can hold up to my changing tastes.
When it comes to tabs or spaces for indentation, I use both but in different ways.
I prefer tabs when individual indentation levels are 'thick', for example I typically use an 8-space tabstop setting for C or C++ code. For that I find tabs easier to work with then spaces.
But when the indents are smaller (e.g. 2-4 spaces) I'll normally use spaces, if it's a moderate level (4sp) I'll pick either tabs or spaces for a given language and stick with it.
For example, I use a 4 space tabstop for Perl but 4 spaces for Python.
The thing that makes me some what different, is when I use tabs for indents -- I use spaces for whitespacing.
void foo_funct() { char *src, *dst; int reallylong; long int arglist; size_t size; ... while ((var = bar_func(src, dst, size, tab | spaces reallylong, arglist)) != whatever) { if (var == something) { do_whatever(var); } } }
That way I can change the tabstop from being 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, whatever is desired and the code will still be 'logically' aligned rather then out of order.
The way I write changes from time over the years, I do however take sometime when using a language a lot. To sit down and play with formating and find "what works for me". Some of my idiosyncrasies in style are connected to my ways of thinking but most have a solid reason behind it, that I feel is worth while if ones going to do it consistently.
where logically aligned is defined as how I feel it is logical to align it.
I also have an 80-90x25-35 cols by lines editor to use most times and I limit lines to < 70-80char by nature.
Generally I do find spaces easier to work with when using most editors 'autoindent' capabilities.
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Thou shalt check the array bounds of all strings (indeed, all arrays), for surely where thou typest ``foo'' someone someday shall type ``supercalifragilisticexpialidocious''.
well, being that I'm coding more in python and tal/dtml these days, I knee-jerked spaces.. because the levels of indentation make tabs unfeasible and python source tends to cause fits when tabbed and not spaced. That being said, this question is highly subjective.
perl -e "eval pack(q{H*}, join q{},qw{7072696e74207061636b28717b482a7d2c717b34393 23036333631366532303666366536633739323036313733373 33735366436353230373936663735323036353738373036353 63337343635363432303734363836393733323037343666323 03632363532303631323036633639373437343663363532303 66436663732363532303635366537343635373237343631363 93665363936653637326530617d293b})"
In vim, you can convert tabs to spaces - that is when you press tab it inserts x number of spaces (x based on other settings) - with:
set expandtab or
set et
Does anyone know how to do this in (n)vi?
And the WORD was made flesh, and dwelt among us. (John 1:14)
:set shiftwidth=4
And indent lines with ^T or >> instead of 'tab' -- autoindent will respect this in OpenBSDs nvi *if* the indent is equal to sw but not ts, it will however use tabs to fill it up (e.g. two 'shiftwidths' gets a tab).
I don't think nvi will let you remap the tab key but one could always modify their terminal/console so pressing tab sends the same thing as control+t I guess.
if you leave tabstop set to default 8 while using shiftwidth spaces to indent, you will be able to tell when unwanted tabs creep into your file.
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The seats in Calgary Centre, Victoria and central Ontario's Durham were all vacated by resigning MPs — and polls indicate they'll send parliamentarians wearing the same partisan sweaters back to Ottawa.
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