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Definitions of Majors, Minors, and Areas of Specialization
The following definitions are to be considered University norms for evaluation and approval of master's, baccalaureate, and associate degree programs. The definitions and the limitations that accompany them are based upon the University's policy of emphasizing breadth of study in the basic disciplines with emphasis on the humanities in fulfillment of Kentucky State University's liberal studies role and mission. Course content shall be appropriate for University-level courses. Departures from these norms must be justified by the nature of the program and must have the recommendation of the Faculty Senate and approval of the Board of Regents.
Master's Degree Program
A master's degree program is a planned and approved program of study leading to graduation with a master's degree. Each master's degree program requires at least 30 graduate semester credit hours and no more than 45 graduate semester credit hours. The master's degree program must be completed within six years of initial enrollment as a degree seeking graduate student. Some programs require degree completion within fewer years of initial enrollment. Please consult the program descriptions in the graduate program sections.
Baccalaureate Degree Programs
A baccalaureate degree program is a planned and approved program of study leading to graduation with a baccalaureate degree. It should be possible to complete a baccalaureate degree program in eight semesters of normal full-time study. The minimum semester credit hour requirement shall be 120, and no program should require more than 144 semester credit hours. A student may elect to exceed this maximum in meeting personal education objectives. Each baccalaureate degree program shall include the Liberal Studies Requirements of the University (unless specific courses have been officially substituted or waived) and a major. Minors, areas of specialization, pre-major, prerequisites, and support courses may be required. Individual students may elect to take a minor or a second major to meet personal education objectives. Unless otherwise specified, any course taken to satisfy a requirement (including electives) for one program may be used to satisfy a requirement for another program. A minimum of 42 semester credit hours in upper-level courses is required for graduation.
Associate Degree Programs
An associate degree program is a planned and approved program of study leading to graduation with an associate degree. It is possible to complete an associate degree program in four semesters of normal full-time study. The minimum semester credit hour requirement shall be 60, and no program should require more than 76 semester credit hours. A student may elect to exceed this maximum in meeting personal education objectives.
Each associate degree program, except the Associate of Arts in Liberal Studies, shall include required major courses, support courses, and at least 15 semester credit hours of the Liberal Studies Requirements of the University. The liberal studies component shall include courses designed to develop skills in oral and written communication and in computational skills. The liberal studies component shall also include courses drawn from each of the following areas: humanities/fine arts, social/behavioral sciences, and natural sciences/ mathematics.
The Major
A major consists of a planned sequence of courses usually within a single discipline; however, a major may consist of a planned group of courses from more than one discipline. At least 18 semester credit hours in the major must be upper-level courses. A student who has not declared a major after completing 60 credit hours will not be permitted to register for classes.
The Minor
A minor consists of a planned sequence of courses. The minor shall consist of a minimum of 18 semester credit hours and shall not exceed 21 semester credit hours. A minimum of 12 semester credit hours in the minor shall be above the 100 level.
The Area of Specialization
Some major programs consist of a core program of study within the academic unit as well as required additional study in one or more areas of specialization selected from options within or related to the discipline. The area of specialization shall consist of a minimum of 12 upper-level semester credit hours.
Pre-majors, Prerequisites, and Support Courses
A degree program may identify and require courses as are justified for proper completion of the major. Courses may be from within the discipline (premajors or prerequisites) or from other disciplines (prerequisites or support courses). Such credits thus required are not included in the limitations stated for the major, the minor and the specialization as stated previously, but are included in the limitations for the total number of semester credit hours for an associate or baccalaureate degree.
Liberal Studies Requirements
The Liberal Studies Requirements are described elsewhere in this Bulletin. These courses, whether unique requirements or optional requirements, may also serve as pre-majors, prerequisites, or support courses, but may not be included in requirements for a major, a minor, or an area of specialization. A student may not take a Liberal Studies Requirement on a pass-fail basis.
Free Electives
Free electives may be selected by the student from any courses not required in the particular degree program, excluding remedial and non-credit course offerings. They may also be used to meet hourly requirements for graduation not specified in those sections of The Bulletin pertaining to the General Education/Liberal Studies Core or the student's major or minor.
The limitations in the definitions may be modified to meet accreditation, licensing, and/or certification requirements.


text: Sijun Forums :: View topic - The Drawing Thread (II) Log in to check your private messages Goto page Previous 1, 2, 3, 4 ... 22, 23, 24 Next Sijun Forums Forum Index >> Gallery/Finished Work View previous topic :: View next topic Author Topic : "The Drawing Thread (II)" GodOfWarjunior memberMember #Joined: 20 Jan 2002Posts: 24Location: Israel Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2005 4:26 am No ref -GoW- Back to top seth1memberMember #Joined: 06 Jun 2004Posts: 534 Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2005 8:13 pm GodOfWar: Very nice, love your rendering. IDrawGirls: Cool stuff man... Some quick studys from ref Back to top XIAmemberMember #Joined: 01 Sep 2003Posts: 535Location: Nowhere Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2005 10:22 am Bah! Back to top seth1memberMember #Joined: 06 Jun 2004Posts: 534 Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2005 4:35 pm XIA: Love them, very niuce... Ref studys... Back to top seth1memberMember #Joined: 06 Jun 2004Posts: 534 Posted: Wed Mar 09, 2005 4:35 pm Ref study Back to top IDrawGirlsmemberMember #Joined: 02 Jul 2002Posts: 88Location: Germany Posted: Fri Mar 11, 2005 5:04 am Too much good stuff. Thanks seth1. Love your stuff. How do you get smooth lines like that? Maybe just try to capture the proportions a little more accurately. Done without reference ... _________________http://idrawgirls.deviantart.com Back to top GodOfWarjunior memberMember #Joined: 20 Jan 2002Posts: 24Location: Israel Posted: Fri Mar 11, 2005 6:48 am seth1, thanks mate. A sketchbook page from yesterday, no ref -GoW- Back to top RasselTasselmemberMember #Joined: 15 Jul 2004Posts: 94Location: Montreal, Canada Posted: Fri Mar 11, 2005 10:00 am seth1, godofwar, idrawgirls::: madposters! =) keep this shit running !yho slick page xia ..dudes about to die/fear of dying _________________If u build it, he will come Back to top buzzz3dmemberMember #Joined: 10 Mar 2004Posts: 134 Posted: Fri Mar 11, 2005 10:18 am Wow, this thread is on fire! Great stuff Rassel: Good update. Thanks for the solid advice on the previous page, I will try to use less ref, but sometimes you need it to improve. The middle one in your last update is my fav. Great painting by the way, hope it get's into Expose. Seth1: Keep it up, try to follow the direction of the surface with your shading. GodOfWar: Yeah! IdrawGirls: The more girls, the better Xia: Yeah, always like your delicate way of drawing the female form. Sorry for the bad quality of the pictures, I can't use my scanner and my digital camera has a lot of distortion. Back to top OddsmemberMember #Joined: 17 Sep 2004Posts: 374 Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2005 9:49 pm /crap Back to top GodOfWarjunior memberMember #Joined: 20 Jan 2002Posts: 24Location: Israel Posted: Wed Mar 16, 2005 11:27 am RasselTassel: Those three are awsome. buzzz3d: Great pages. The elephant on the first is wicked :] Excuse my unimaginative, boring work from yesterday. No ref. -GoW- Back to top IDrawGirlsmemberMember #Joined: 02 Jul 2002Posts: 88Location: Germany Posted: Wed Mar 16, 2005 2:17 pm I drew lots of figures and faces that are way to bad to be posted here. Does anybody have any tips about how to get better at drawing without reference? Everybody here is so annoyingly good at it. For some reason I don't know how to build a library and how to draw from it. Something from reference: _________________http://idrawgirls.deviantart.com Back to top Nyqvistjunior memberMember #Joined: 25 Jan 2002Posts: 37Location: Stockholm, Sweden Posted: Thu Mar 17, 2005 12:25 am buzzz3d > Hey I really like your faces and their expressions. Inspiring stuff. I wanna go draw right away. Keep em´coming!_________________Online portfolio: http://www.nyqvist.cjb.net Back to top RasselTasselmemberMember #Joined: 15 Jul 2004Posts: 94Location: Montreal, Canada Posted: Sat Mar 19, 2005 4:48 am : ) lots of sketches posted in the SP-thread.. i dont mind it at all.. its the "cool place to be" ; ) ..and i noticed that this thread actually is named the _daily_ drawing routine...never thought about it before.. thats a huge commitment.. "will you marry me!?"... maybe would get in more peeps if we changed it to something more casual... how about "stfu and draw"? awell aint that big of a deal iguess.. IDG: good question, i would recommend training your visual memory... sounds fancy eeh? ;P ..nah but if i would put that question into perspective and answer it out from my own experiences i would say u really dont need using photoreferences at all.. i think im okay recreating life out of memory and i dont use refs (yet).. ive simply trained up my visual memory pretty good without even realising it by just looking, wondering.. and then drawing what i've seen...(excuse the me-me-me) it helps of course having a feeling for perspective and proprtions etc to begin with.. but watch, study and draw... be bold when u draw.. understand what ure drawing... this will probably set of a chain reaction if u think its funny and ull draw and remember all sorts of stuff... i cant however say that u should stop using photorefs entirely and only go from visual memory from here on, we're all different.. what works for one guy might not work for another guy.. depending on the persons age, situation, training plan etc... the downfall with using photorefs is that the user probably feels forced to reach a certain result to match the market (most of which is on refs already) and produce a better final image than skill is capable of.. this is cool and all.. im not bashing refusers.. ull probably see me there in the future aswell.. im already messing with overlay-layers when painting etc.. but the most important thing is that its pretty unessesary starting with photorefs that early in your training.. sure it helps your work look good but that is the least thing u want things to do when ure in training.. when u do shit bad u progress =)... this is probably one of the reasons why artists starting out young turn out pretty good.. they dont know the shorcuts and they simply dont care if their stuff looks like "shit"... its not supposed to look good right?... young dumb and all.. the kids that learn the shortcuts too early usually end up having a hard time later on... there is however a nice amount of sjuneers here that are bold enough to skip the shortcuts.. and if we give em time enough they'll blow our minds eventually.. Final tip then would be.. more brain on the visual memory... find things that interest u and just go at it... something simple as a cowboy for example can teach u everything about anatomy, proportions, colors, perspective.. and so on.. the secret is wanting to know more of the subject.. are u for ex. able to rotate something ure drawing in front of u in 180 degrees in your head and draw that?.. cowboys taught me anatomy and cars taught me perspective. haha.. stfu and draw already! -___- _________________If u build it, he will come Back to top buzzz3dmemberMember #Joined: 10 Mar 2004Posts: 134 Posted: Sun Mar 20, 2005 2:24 pm GodofWar: You can draw without ref very good, good job on the cloth-wrinkles. Rassel: Always inspiring. I agree about the thread title. Stuff and draw sounds fine to me Wouldn't mind some color use either but maybe other people think different about this and want to keep it strictly drawing only. Nyqvist: Thanks man, best compliment anyone can give. Checked out your website, looks very good. Hope you join us soon! IdrawGirls: I have the same problem, I guess to keep drawing is the best way. Look back on some drawings now and then, (not too often ), look for bad points and study ref for those problemareas. Odds: Good job on the hands. Paints: http://home.12move.nl/erik3d/sketchbook/091_acrylics.jpg http://home.12move.nl/erik3d/sketchbook/092_gouache.jpg Back to top ceendamemberMember #Joined: 27 Jun 2000Posts: 2030 Posted: Sun Mar 20, 2005 2:58 pm Back to top seth1memberMember #Joined: 06 Jun 2004Posts: 534 Posted: Sun Mar 20, 2005 10:45 pm Quick 5 min sketches from ref. Back to top MatthewmemberMember #Joined: 05 Oct 2002Posts: 3784Location: I am out of here for good Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2005 7:22 am RasselTassel, yes that was the plan with the Daily drawing Routine and it was named that because I when I made that first thread wanted a committment from everyone to participate on a daily basis, no one joined though and I decided to leave the thread. Too bad it didn't work cause I tried with posting every day back then but as all previous threads I was the only one committed and it cannot work that way. ok nonsense rambling from me. keep up the good work Rassel. Matthew Back to top durgldeepmemberMember #Joined: 14 Sep 2001Posts: 859 Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2005 11:51 am oh: *daily*! - I thought it said...uh... okay, can't think of anything that rhymes with daily... no ref: Back to top MatthewmemberMember #Joined: 05 Oct 2002Posts: 3784Location: I am out of here for good Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2005 1:11 pm This one is for you buzz3d and u Idrawgirls since you gave me that pm buzz3d and also for you Idrawgirls since u asked for me a couple of pages back. keep drawing everyone. . Back to top durgldeepmemberMember #Joined: 14 Sep 2001Posts: 859 Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2005 1:24 pm buzzz3d: "Didn't even know it was possible to draw in Word. Word will now do (for 'free') close to what illustrator/micrografx designer/coreldraw would do years ago...though still helps to know what you're doing, which is not the case below ("bezier" points - been seen here already): "Like your continous lines." have only tried that a couple times (see "guts"), the ones above are with a mouse = extra wild...this one is after a mag ad (on paper)... re your latest, what can I say? Back to top XepptizZjunior memberMember #Joined: 11 Jan 2005Posts: 4 Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2005 2:32 pm Oh............My................Goh Those awesome concepts! Those great shadings! Man I feel like a noob here. Srry I can only give my pics as links, but I found it useless to put them on the intaweb twice. http://forums.unrealplayground.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=26245&stc=1[url] http://forums.unrealplayground.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=25900&stc=1[/url] http://forums.unrealplayground.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=25880&stc=1[/url]_________________GreetZ XepptizZLast edited by XepptizZ on Mon Mar 21, 2005 3:58 pm; edited 1 time in total Back to top durgldeepmemberMember #Joined: 14 Sep 2001Posts: 859 Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2005 3:31 pm Sorry about the posting screwup, folks; the post [mine] above belongs on the previous page, where I noticed it had been replaced (because of a glitch or something) by a string of code; in sorting that, the original post 'jumped' to this page - dunno how, but there it is. Back to top bobthedinosaurjunior memberMember #Joined: 04 Feb 2005Posts: 49Location: Orlando, Florida Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2005 5:47 pm portrait i did a while back. a tad over-worked on bad paperLast edited by bobthedinosaur on Wed Mar 23, 2005 9:18 am; edited 3 times in total Back to top LevijuicememberMember #Joined: 20 Feb 2002Posts: 52Location: Prague, Czech Republic Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2005 3:35 pm Hi Guys! I love the idea As I have some free time I decided to learn drawing the Capcom way . Now that I finaly decided not to become profesional artist I dont have to hone my drawing skills and can draw just for fun Will draw one Capcom character per day. Today menu: Donovan from Darkstalkers. _________________Cheers www.3d.sk www.fineart.sk Back to top LevijuicememberMember #Joined: 20 Feb 2002Posts: 52Location: Prague, Czech Republic Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2005 2:12 pm Talbain from Darkstalkers I was suprised how time consuimg the coloring was Please upload your works I fell lonely around here .... _________________Cheers www.3d.sk www.fineart.sk Back to top MaxmemberMember #Joined: 12 Aug 2002Posts: 3210Location: MIND Posted: Thu Mar 24, 2005 7:19 am Matthew: you last one's impressive. don't know what it is but I like it. Maybe I'll join too. Ah let's see if I can come up with some girls, can't promise though Back to top MatthewmemberMember #Joined: 05 Oct 2002Posts: 3784Location: I am out of here for good Posted: Thu Mar 24, 2005 12:13 pm Max, hearing that from you really makes me glad cause I know you put a lot of weight into composition thinking aswell. That one above was a work-sample for a school application and I have no idea what they will think but I know I like experimenting. I am still trying to understand the rendering part with pencil which is the most difficult I believe cause it doesn't have to be perfect to make a good drawing, oh well I need more experimenting. thanks again Max I really appreciate it and keep up the good work u too, me really likes that latest speedy from you in the speedy. ok keep up guys, this one's for you Max. . Back to top LevijuicememberMember #Joined: 20 Feb 2002Posts: 52Location: Prague, Czech Republic Posted: Thu Mar 24, 2005 1:50 pm Hello Matthew I really like your work. Its possible to look at it for a long time. Today : Guile from Street Fighter. I had some problems with proportions, but there is a lot of days in front of me _________________Cheers www.3d.sk www.fineart.sk Back to top buzzz3dmemberMember #Joined: 10 Mar 2004Posts: 134 Posted: Fri Mar 25, 2005 4:33 am Thanks Matthew, I like those last 2 a lot. not much time this week, so did a few ballpoint-sketches. 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(CNN) -- Tensions are high in Kenya after the recent general elections saw front-runner, Prime Minister Raila Odinga, contest the Electoral commission's decision to declare Uhuru Kenyatta the winner. And nowhere is the tension more palpable than on social network platforms such as Facebook and Twitter.
Online, supporters of Uhuru Kenyatta and Raila Odinga often engage in a war of words that reveal deep tribal animosity. But the common ground that both groups seem to stand on is confidence that the Supreme Court -- set up under the new constitution -- will give the case a fair hearing.
"I would say that the constitution of Kenya that was put in place in 2010 has considered the scenario we are currently facing," said Charles Kanjama, a partner at Kenyan law firm Muma and Kanjama advocates.
"The reason why the different political parties are confident and have recourse to the court is because they're very clear that the court can deal with this."
At the center of the court case is the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission of Kenya (IEBC) which Raila Odinga accuses of failing to ensure a free and fair election and thus subverting the outcome of the presidential election. Electoral officials deny any voter manipulation, and the IEBS says it is confident that the final result was credible.
The Supreme Court, meanwhile, has ordered a partial recount to determine whether the number of votes was higher than the number of registered voters.
Kenyatta narrowly won the presidential poll, clinching 50.07% of the vote, just breaking past the halfway mark needed for the victory.
Raila Odinga has called for a new election. He and many of his supporters say that the court case is a test of Kenya's democracy.
"This is a crisis in the very workings of the faith that Kenyans have placed in their institutions to respect their democratic rights and the rule of law. It is democracy that is on trial," Odinga said.
For Kenya's Supreme Court, the stakes are incredibly high -- there is the question of ensuring the country's confidence in its institutions after the disputed 2007 election when some 1,000 people were killed after Odinga also lost that vote, claiming the election had been rigged. He later became prime minister in a power-sharing agreement.
With this election, it has been relatively peaceful -- and it is hoped that things will remain that way as the country waits for the court ruling.
The law gives the Supreme Court timelines within which it needs to arrive at a verdict. In this case, the court has until the Saturday of the Easter holiday to make a ruling.
Analysts in the Kenyan media are saying that if Kenyans across the political sphere can abide by their decision, no matter how it goes, then it will truly be evidence that the country has moved on.


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Tasty Waves serves up treats on Main Street in New Milford
NEW MILFORD >> Tasty Waves, a new business on Main Street, is serving up cool treats, with a twist.
"It's a frozen yogurt café," said Michael Terry, pointing out that the word "café" spells out the difference.
Tasty Waves offers not only 12 flavors of ice cream and more than 40 toppings, which present a myriad of ways for customers to "customize" their treat, but also desserts from the American Pie Company in Sherman and selections of coffee, tea and hot chocolate that one might expect to find at a café.
Mr. Terry, whose business --Premier Asset Finance Group, Inc.--is located on the second floor of 7 Main St., over the Tasty Waves shop, said that his "primary role" was finding a good location for Tasty Waves.
"We were looking around," he said, and when the Gregory James Gallery moved out, "I didn't think we'd find a better spot.
"Location, location, location," Mr. Terry said of the shop, which faces the Green and is adjacent to Tivoli Restaurant, "and besides, I have worked with the landlord for years."
However, "the family-owned and operated business," he said, "is actually my wife's [Patricia] and her family's."
Mrs. Terry was not available for comment. Her husband noted, however, that she had attended YoCream University in New York, referring to an intensive conference about starting and operating a frozen yogurt business.
Frozen yogurt shops are "not all alike," Mr. Terry said. "Ours is very creamy, like softer ice cream."
The shop offers sorbets and fruit smoothies as well.
The six machines serve up standard flavors and some special flavors that are rotated every few weeks.
"In addition to the toppings, fresh whipped cream is available to top them off," Mr. Terry said.
Tasty Waves endeavors to offer "a good cup of coffee," he said, acknowledging that what constitutes "good" is a matter of personal taste. Its supplier is Simpson & Vail in Brookfield, which will custom blend for the shop, "and we can continue to refine what we offer," Mr. Terry said.
Tasty Waves is open Sunday through Thursday from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m., with later openings, until 11 p.m., Friday and Saturday. The shop can seat about 30 people inside.
For more information, call 860-799-6363 or visit online at www.tastywavescafe.com.


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We are pleased to announce a detail opportunity for Federal employees to work in Open Government at OPM. Please note that this is a non-reimbursable position:
Position: Program Analyst
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On December 8, 2009, the White House issued a memorandum, the Open Government Directive, requiring federal agencies to take immediate, specific steps to achieve key milestones in transparency, participation, and collaboration.
OPM's Open Government Web site is called OpenOPM. On April 7, OPM posted its Open Government Plan on OpenOPM, and both employees and the public are invited to comment on the Plan. Besides data sources, OpenOPM provides links to Open Government news at the Agency and contact information for the Agency Open Government champions, Chief Information Officer Matthew Perry and Associate Chief Financial Officer Rochelle Bayard.
The Flagship Initiative for OPM is the creation of a Knowledge Management system, and its purpose is to provide the infrastructure and tools for OPM to increase transparency, widen participation, and foster collaboration both internally and externally. We also recognize the need for changes within our own organizational behavior to create a more open culture and to centralize the existing Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) in each outward-facing mission function of the agency.
The selectee will lead an Action Learning Team designed to provide research and outline a plan for identifying and re-engineering existing business processes to support a more open culture at OPM that will remove internal and external barriers to collaboration, transparency, and communication. Duties will include but not be limited to the following:
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For Obama, Iraq Move Is a Policy Reversal
President Was Early Opponent of Iraq War and Made a Campaign Pledge to End It
WASHINGTON—President Barack Obama stepped in front of the cameras on Thursday to utter words he hoped he would never say as commander in chief.
"I've therefore authorized targeted airstrikes if necessary to help forces in Iraq," Mr. Obama said in a statement from the White House. "Today America is coming to help."
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The contains? function, given a collection which is not an associative (Map, Set, String, array), returns false instead of throwing an exception.
This is a subject of confusion when people call contains? on sequential collections like lists, and on associative collections which do not implement the Associative interface.
Other predicates, such as even?, throw an exception when passed arguments of an invalid type.
This seems to be working properly, but what about vectors?
The doc string for contains? covers the vector and Java array case explicitly. I'm not saying that this behavior shouldn't change, but at least it is well documented what it currently does in these cases.
Agreed. I just want to make sure that we are still ok with this functionality given that things are changing. Are there others (Stuart) that want to chime in here and make the intentions clear? If this is good then I would consider this screened and ready.
Vector is Associative, so supporting contains? is valid even if it does not do what people might expect:
All I'm trying to change here is have contains? throw an exception if the argument is not Associative. The current behavior (returning false) was hiding a bug in my code.
I do not consider this a breaking change. I believe the docstring of contains? leaves room for this interpretation, but Rich will have the final say.
Perfect. I just wanted to make sure that this was intended.


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Moshe Milevsky is a household name to financial advisors. Indeed, the York University finance professor and author of several well received books and innumerable articles, academic and popular, has become a rock star on the advisor lecture circuit. Why?
It is Milevsky's unique approach that has made him, in many advisors' opinion, one of the most important educators on retirement finance today.
There are other experts whose level of knowledge may equal Milevsky's, yet they can't seem to explain retirement income without bashing the people—financial advisors, that is—who help ordinary Americans achieve their retirement plans.
Milevsky speaks to advisors without condescension and with a rare facility for taking abstract mathematical concepts and making them comprehensible to practitioners. In other words, he makes you smarter and more capable as a professional.
And that is why financial advisors will particularly benefit from reading and thoroughly digesting his book to be released in June, which Research and AdvisorOne have previewed on a heavily excerpted basis since January.
Called "The 7 Most Important Equations for Your Retirement," the book inculcates key principles of retirement finance—a subject that is not intuitive in the way that accumulation-based investing is—while readers think they are being entertained. Milevsky (left) knows how to put just enough sugar into the mix to mask the pain of mathematics for the math-averse. For those who are quantitatively oriented, the virtuoso treatment of the geniuses who have achieved equation immortality is a connoisseur's delight.
The first of these immortals is Fibonacci, who 800 years ago introduced the methodology for solving complicated questions involving interest rates known as present value analysis.
Milevsky shows how, by bringing all cash flows to a common point in time, Fibonacci was able to eliminate the messy time dimension involved in compound interest calculations. Through this technique, financial advisors can now mathematically evaluate the question of how long their clients' savings will last in retirement.
Besides determining how long a certain sum of money will last, retirement planners will also find it useful to assess how long a client's money should last. For that Milevsky turns to Benjamin Gompertz' Law of Mortality.
This equation brings sophistication and discipline to a process that is all too often ad hoc. "I have observed that when financial advisors discuss retirement income planning with their clients, they start by asking questions about how long they would like to plan for," Milevsky writes.
But, he adds, "life is random, and you know it." Thus, the scientific approach to retirement income planning requires a knowledge of the odds of living to various ages, and a realistic plan that considers how to adjust spending in the event the client lives to a very old age.
By tinkering with mortality tables, Gompertz discovered that the difference in the natural logarithm of death rates was constant with age. While the date of your client's death is unknown, Milevsky shows that thanks to Gompertz we can determine the probability your client will survive to any given age and plan accordingly. An understanding of life probabilities is one key component to helping clients evaluate a simple but common question: Should your retiring client take a lump sum or keep an annual pension? For that question, Milevsky turns to Edmond Halley, best known as the astronomer for whom an important comet that visits our atmosphere now and then is named.
Milevsky discusses in fascinating detail how the astronomer's pivotal contribution to retirement finance may have something to do with the mystery of how his aristocratic father was likely murdered and found dead and completely naked except for his shoes, floating in the river in England in 1684. That is a typical example of how Milevsky manages to keep a book on retirement finance riveting.
But for our purposes, Halley's sudden interest in mortality rates led to an equation that calculates what a pension annuity is worth. And that can help advisors quickly determine if their client is better off taking their money out of a retirement plan and buying their own annuity. A simple calculation—based on current market interest rates—shows you whether the pension is a good deal or not.
Once your clients have their retirement stash, a critical question is how much they can spend, and for that Milevsky walks the reader through Irving Fisher's optimal retirement plan. Financial planners ought to be more familiar with the early 20th century economist's work, since he utterly refuted the almost bedrock idea among financial planners of the "4% rule," i.e., that your client can safely withdraw 4% of their portfolio a year.
Fisher's equation tells you how to consume in retirement based on how much of a chance the client is willing to take on living longer than expected. This is based on the client's subjective personal preferences and attitude toward risk. Fisher taught that there is no shame in spending more early in retirement (as was then thought to be the case), to which Milevsky comments: "Personally, I suggest that if you are worried about living to 100 with no money, wandering the streets panhandling and in search of soup kitchens, get yourself a pension annuity!"
Another critical question retirement advisors face is how much of a client's funds should be invested in risky stocks versus safe cash. And for that Milevsky turns to the late 20th century economist Paul Samuelson, who took an axe to the "stocks for the long run" argument that Wall Street loudly promotes.
Samuelson showed how the idea that risk dissolves over longer stretches of time was based on poor math that made the stock market look like a casino that actually heavily favors the gamblers. He demonstrated that the optimal amount of stocks versus safe cash was "time-invariant"—that a declining probability of shortfall was offset (exactly, mathematically) by the enormous disutility of a loss. While time is not a factor in Samuelson's equation, it is implicitly a factor in retirement decisions because of the time-based diminution of human capital, an idea that actually lies at the heart of Solomon Huebner's equation. Huebner, the father of insurance economics, brought human capital valuation into a field that had previously lacked discipline. Decisions about how much insurance should be owned were typically ad hoc and arbitrary.
Huebner's equation answered the difficult question of how you derive a present value for the money the insured's beneficiaries will receive at some random time in the future.
He also explained the importance of policyholders' converting their insurance into life annuities around the age of retirement. Writes Milevsky: "I venture to guess that if Profefssor Huebner were alive today, he would be on the road with annuity wholesalers giving seminars to financial advisors and their clients, extolling the virtues of longevity insurance and life annuities."
The seventh and final equation in Milevsky's book was that of the Soviet-era Russian mathematician Andrey Nikolaevich Kolmogorov. Milevsky writes of the winner of the 1941 Stalin Prize: "It is…a supreme irony that financial advisors…owe Professor Kolmogorov an incalculable debt of gratitude. You see, his work on probability theory…created the foundations upon which all retirement income planning software is now based.
"Every time an Armani-wearing stock broker runs a 'Monte Carlo simulation' to help a client achieve their very non-socialist goal of retiring rich, they must thank Andrey Nikolaevich."
This review gives just a little taste of what advisors can learn by reading Milevsky's book. The key idea advisors should take away is that true understanding of retirement planning is enhanced by understanding not only how things work, but why they do. Milevsky's book will deepen your knowledge and explanatory power. That is why it is one of the most important books that a retirement advisor must read.
Read excerpts from The 7 Most Important Equations for Your Retirement on AdvisorOne:
How Much in Risky Stocks vs. Safe Cash?
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Born in Cairo in 1916 to Greek Orthodox, Syrian parents, he was educated at Victoria College, Alexandria, and Magdalen College, Oxford, where he read philosophy, politics and economics and specialized in economics. His public career began with his appointment to the Egyptian Ministry of Finance (1937-1938) and he later became chief of research at the National Bank of Egypt (1938-1943). He also served briefly at the Arab Office in Washington and then joined the United Nations' secretariat in the Middle East Unit of the Department of Economic Affairs (1948-1955).
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So I proudly updated my Linux distro for the first time and thereafter got a problem. I'm running Ubuntu Unity 2D (usually) 12.04 (since today) on a 64 bit computer.
Indeed, the first upgrade -- I made the upgrade through the Update Manager -- was okay (even if I was surprised by the amount of i386 packages that had to be installed).
Then, I re-enabled the repositories that had been disabled because of the upgrade and updated my system. I was told to perform a 'Partial Upgrade', that I did, but was once again surprised by the amount of i386 packages installed and also by the fact that LMMS (https://launchpad.net/lmms) was being removed; Wine, among others, was also being updated and that's probably the reason because LMMS depends on certain versions of Wine (I just know this, for the rest I'm a total noob). Anyway, this leaded me to the broken dependencies
gstreamer0.10-plugins-good:i386 and
libasound2-plugins:i386. Synaptic also constantly tries to install
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I don't know if all this is Wine or LMMS related, but it maybe can help...
I was told to perform: '
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Unpacking libjack-jackd2-0:i386 (from .../libjack-jackd2-0_1.9.8~dfsg.2-1precise1_i386.deb) ...
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Assembly of Canonical Orthodox Bishops of the United States of America
The Episcopal Assembly of North and Central America, founded in 2010, consists of all the active Orthodox bishops of North and Central America, representing multiple jurisdictions. It is the successor to SCOBA, though it is not, properly speaking, a synod.
At the first meeting of the Assembly, the SCOBA members present voted to dissolve the organization and permit the Assembly to supersede it and assume all its functions, agencies and ministries. It differs from SCOBA in two significant respects: it includes all the Orthodox bishops in the region (not just the primates), and it was officially mandated by the hierachies of the mother churches (rather than being of purely local provenance).
At the first meeting of the Assembly, May 26-28, 2010, officers were elected and committees formed to work together on numerous issues of common concern to the Orthodox in the region. It was also decided to request of the mother churches that Canada be given its own Episcopal Assembly and that the bishops of Central America be allowed to join the Episcopal Assembly of South America.
- Archbishop Demetrios (Trakatellis), Chairman
- Metropolitan Philip (Saliba), First Vice Chairman
- Archbishop Justinian of Naro-Fominsk, Second Vice Chairman
- Bishop Basil (Essey) of Wichita, Secretary
- Archbishop Antony of Hierapolis, Treasurer
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- Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America
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As the race for President seems to have entered a perpetual state of boredom that is filled with a bumper sticker mentality of shallow stump speeches that offer little insight and a whole lot of repetitive pot shots and one liners, concerned voters find themselves left with but one last intriguing question —- who will Mitt Romney pick for Vice President?
Aside from the actual election results, the question of who Romney will pick for Vice President is perhaps the only moment of suspense remaining in the campaign. And as such, who he picks could actually make more of a difference than it has in most of the presidential elections in our recent past. In fact, according to a CBS News/New York Times poll released last Wednesday, 74 percent of registered voters said that a candidate's running mate matters "a lot" or "somewhat" to their vote,(26 percent said that it matters a lot, while 48 percent said that it matters somewhat). At the same time, 25 percent said that it doesn't matter at all. However; that sentiment is often expressed at this point in every presidential election, but by the time Election Day rolls around, it is a sentiment that is usually proven wrong. Yet in the case of Mitt Romney and this extraordinarily polarized electorate, who he picks could make the difference between winning and losing.With swing states like Ohio, Florida, and Wisconsin at stake, Rob Portman, Marco Rubio, or Paul Ryan could add the percentage or two to the election result in their respective states that is responsible for putting Republicans over the top in the Electoral College.But with figures like former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice or New Mexico's Susana Martinez also on the list of possible contenders, the combination of their being women and being representative of different minority groups, has the potential to erode an important part of President Obama's base vote just enough to make a small difference in a multitude of states that Romney is currently considered less competitive in.
What Romney is thinking is anyone's guess though and anyone who tells you otherwise is lying. The only thing we know for certain right now is that some names are less likely to be selected than others. Take Mitch Daniels for example. He's a highly successful and popular two term, conservative Governor of Indiana who I originally hoped would be our presidential nominee. With his command of matters of the budget and fiscal conservatism in general, he would be a perfect running mate for Romney in a campaign that will be based on fiscal responsibility. Daniels also has crossover appeal and would be a perfect balance for Mitt. Unfortunately though, Mitch has agreed to become the President of Perdue University at the end of his term in January. So he's out. Unless of course that decision was thrown out to throw us off the track?
The there's Chris Christie, or at least there was. He has supposedly been given the honor of delivering the highly coveted keynote address at the Republican National Convention. That essentially means he won't be delivering an acceptance speech at the convention. Unless of course the rumors about his being the keynoter were intentionally thrown out for public consumption to throw us off the track?Another very striking contender was Virginia's popular conservative Governor, Bob McDonnell. With his national star rising from Virginia, another key battleground state in this election, his presence on the ticket could deliver a state that is practically a must win for Republicans. But McDonnell has been named chairman of the Republican platform committee, a job that brings with it the type of contentious floor fights and baggage that automatically scratches him off of any V.P. short list.So those are is at least one name you can take out of contention and two which you can stop taking bets on. Maybe.
But that still leaves us with a mix of both likely and unlikely contenders who can potentially be nominated to join Romney on the G.O.P. ticket. They range from names such Senator Kelly Ayote of New Hampshire, to Washington State Congresswoman Cathy McMorris Rodgers, and from Louisiana's Bobby Jindal, to Tennessee's former U.S. Senator, Fred Thompson and a host of names in between such as Florida's Allen West and Jeb Bush, or South Dakota's John Thune and Minnesota's Tim Pawlenty. In one scenario, even a Blue Dog Democrat, North Carolina's Heath Shuler has been floated as a game changing decision for Romney. Polls about who most Republicans want Romney to pick vary based on the audiences that frequent those platforms offering such polls. For instance, the conservative site Town Hall is probably seeing it's far right readers choose dark horse contender Allen West, while other more libertarian geared sites might find that Rand Paul is the choice that it's audience most wants to see selected by Romney.But when it comes to less partisan entities that happen to do professional polling and are therefore far more accurate at polling than those who conduct online opinion surveys , there is one name that keeps emerging as the favorite among voters —– Condoleezza Rice.
A Rasmussen Reports poll that was conducted between July 15-16, found that 65% of likely U.S. voters share at least a somewhat favorable view of former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, while just 24% view her unfavorably. Those results included 29% who have a Very Favorable opinion of Condi Rice and 6% who had a Very Unfavorable opinion of her. Twelve 12% were undecided in the poll. (To see survey question wording, click here). Other professional polling surveys have had similar results and for good reason.Condoleezza Rice is regarded as a very respectable, likeable, admirable leader. She is also viewed by most voters as someone who is guided more by personal conviction and ideology than Party and partisan politics. Such a persona could do nothing but help the G.O.P. and hurt Democrats. This is especially the case when you consider the fact that as both an African-American and a woman, Condi Rice does have the potential to make significant inroads into a base vote that President Obama needs to keep in his column and that Mitt Romney desperately needs to peel off and bring his way. Furthermore; Condoleezza Rice can help Romney with the all important independent vote that will essentially determine who wins in November.Whether Romney agrees with that assessment or not is anyone's guess but I will state this. If he doesn't agree with that opinion, he's a dope.
While I like many of the potential candidates for Vice President, I believe that Condoleezza Rice is the one person who can bring everything that Romney needs to the ticket. And I mean everything. Not only does she cover the electoral aesthetics of being a women and being African-American, her presence on the ticket adds a degree of historic value that can benefit Republicans much the same way it benefitted Democrats in 2012. Add Rice's ability to articulate conservatism and the traditional American values of independence, freedom, personal responsibility better than practically anyone else other than Allen West and what you have is a running mate who is an electoral goldmine.But it's not just the electoral politics that makes Rice such a good choice for Romney. It is her ability to be a great President that makes her not just a good choice, but also a potentially good President. And afterall, is that not what a Vice President is suppose to be? Few politicians have the experience and knowhow that Condoleezza Rice has and few Vice Presidents would be more immediately prepared to assume the office of President at a moments notice as she.Still, there are three things that stand in the way of a Romney-Rice ticket.
One is the fact that Rice herself has not seen fit to show any interest in the job. Yet despite the lack of interest, her recent penning of an inspiring editorial in the Financial Times raises some question as to exactly how disinterested the former Secretary of State is in getting her country back on track. Problem number two is Rice's stance on abortion. Rice does not support banning abortion. She does however strongly support placing many restrictions on how its practice. While that position may be tolerated by some on the right, it will not be acceptable by others, especially those who are already doubtful about Mitt Romney's own committment to the right-to-life cause.
Lastly is the political fear factor that Romney and his consultants may have regarding Condoleezza Rice's ties to the Bush Administration. They may fear that teaming Rice with Romney will provide Team Obama with an unintended campaign theme that links Romney to the not so popular former President. While such political fears are worthy of considering, political reality should lead Romney to realize that Condoleezza Rice brings far more positives to the ticket than negatives. And Team Romney should also realize that if the Obama campaign wants to revisit Condoleezza Rice's record, they will be entering in to a very dangerous zone. Rice will be able to defend her record and the Bush record better than anyone else and she will also be able to remind the American electorate that it is President Obama who essentially carried out her policies in Iraq and Afghanistan even though he and his Vice President ran against those policies in 2008.
All things considered, I believe Condoleezza Rice would be the best choice for Romney and while I would certainly be gleeful over the selection of someone like Marco Rubio or even the man whom I believe Romney will ultimately choose, South Dakota Senator John Thune, I can't help but believe that only Condoleezza Rice can provide the momentum, gravitas, and appeal that Romney will really need if he wants to win the independents, and undecideds who will decide who the next President is.
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Eschew the rise of the post-"Ozzie and Harriet" mentality all you want, but family life has changed dramatically over the past few generations.
Stay-at-home motherhood is no longer an option for many households. A temperamental middle-class existence all but mandates both parents work. For the rising number of single-parent households, there is no alternative.
That makes child care a critical element of family life.
Although some help is available through programs such as Illinois Child Care Assistance, the loss of such programs as Child Care and Development Block Grants has placed more of the financial burden on already strained pocketbooks.
That — and costs that have grown eight times faster than income — have put the average yearly child-care tab at $13,000. That is about 50 percent of an average single mother's income and a sixth of the average family's income, according to a report by Child Care Aware.
That puts Illinois seventh from the bottom of affordable child care among all states.
What happens as a result is that parents who cannot turn to a family member for help must choose child care based not on such things as social development and learning potential but solely on cost.
Experts believe that is likely to create a situation in which the child falls behind the developmental level of other children, and that gap can be hard to close.
"The story should be about finding ways to fairly compensate the highly-skilled work force that we need to support our youngest learners and to find policy solutions and programmatic solutions for parents so that they can have access to the quality care that every child needs," according to Christine Robinson, director of public policy and advocacy at Illinois Action for Children.
Child care is an opportunity. It is a chance to form a life-long interest in personal and educational development that will reap benefits for not only the children and families but also for the social well-being of communities.
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After eight years, illustrator Hyung-Tae Kim is leaving NCsoft. Earlier today, Kim confirmed the departure on his blog.
Known for his work on the Magna Carta series (and more recently, Blade & Soul), Kim is perhaps the most well-known Korean game illustrator in the West.
Korean fans might have felt something was up when Kim's name didn't appear as Art Director in the latest Blade & Soul trailer, which was released yesterday. Instead, Jeung Young Chea is credited.
On Kim's blog (via tipster Sang), he writes, "I don't know which path I'll take in the future but I want to find a way to go back to my roots and reach you guys through my illustrations again. Please give me your attention and support regardless of what I decide in the future."
Kim included the illustration below:
If you are not familiar with Kim's work, have a look at the images below (courtesy of his unofficial fan site):
We wish Kim luck in whatever he does next.
Team Bloodlust와 모든 블소 유저분들께 깊이 감사드립니다! [Kim HyungTae's Blog]
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Boy, five, badly hurt in car fire
A five-year-old boy suffered life-threatening injuries after a fire engulfed the car he was in - also injuring a six-year-old girl and a 37-year-old woman.
Hampshire police have launched an investigation into the blaze involving the Ford Fiesta car in Merdon Castle Lane, Hursley, which happened at 8pm yesterday.
A police spokesman said: "Hampshire Constabulary is investigating the cause of a fire in Hursley which has left three people with serious injuries.
Firefighters tackled a car blaze which left a five-year-old boy badly injured
"Emergency services responded to a call from a member of the public just after 8pm on Monday, August 11 who reported a car fire on Merdon Castle Lane.
"A 37-year-old woman, a six-year-old girl and a five-year-old boy, all from Southampton, were rescued from the fire and transported to hospital.
"The woman and girl are described as being in a serious condition. The boy is described as having suffered life threatening injuries.
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So Shelly is in town and we're having a blast. She is one of our favorite Young Women from San Francisco and we love having her here.
While she's here, we're teaching her valuable life lessons like how to braise chicken and make homemade ice cream. She's trying to teach us how to be more Asian. For example: did you know chopsticks can be used to remove waffles from the waffle maker? (I had no idea!) AND, (and I believe I've mentioned this before) Soy Sauce does NOT need to be refrigerate no matter what it says on the bottle!
Not only does she know all sorts of clever uses for chopsticks, but she also makes the boys very happy. She's been helping me out a lot and helping to keep them entertained. What a gal! Oh, AND she let Doug and I go on a date the other night. SWEET!!! (I almost said "SCORE!" but it wasn't that kind of date.)
She's made us all Face Book accounts (so we can be cool) and she and Doug sit around in the evenings customizing their accounts, watching funny videos on YouTube and being generally geeky.
We love Shelly.
Now for the Max update. When Doug finally made it home at a reasonable hour, (it took a few days) we sat Max down together to have a talk about the car incident. We told him he'd have to give it back and use his own money to buy one more to give to the school as well. He took it like a man and there were hugs all around.
I know it may seem as if I over-reacted, and I did, but I was mostly just shocked that he hid if from me for so long. BUT, after careful reflection and contemplation, I've decided he's NOT destined to be a sociopathic Kleptomaniac so I'm over it. He just better not do it again. He IS after all, an extremely sweet kid and a GREAT older brother.
As for the rest of the fam, Sammers is still an adorable bi-polar punk but we're hoping the "bi-polar" part will evaporate on his third birthday on Tuesday. (Just make his birthday checks payable to me.) He loves to play Cars, trains, and swords. He can go from ecstatic to devastated and back again in 2.5 seconds. Obviously, a very talented kid.
Gabriel, of course, is still an angel. An angel who spit-up three quarts of fluid all over me and every pillow on my bed the other morning...but an angel nonetheless. To redeem himself, he slept for 10 hours that night...in a row....without waking once. (All praise goes to "Babywise" so knock it all you want, but don't forget the 10 hours part.)
He's basically a perfect baby. (I can brag all I want. I've done my time with uncooperative tyrants.)
As for myself, I'm on a strict daily ice-cream diet. To keep my milk supply up, of course. It seems to be working just fine. Strangly though, it hasn't help with my weight loss. hmmm.
And Doug? He's still a hottie.
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When the original "web" was created, it was designed to be a publishing platform for predominantly static content. As demand for content on the web grew, as did the number of consumers on the internet for web content, the demand for using the web as an application platform also grew. Since the web is inherently good at delivering a simultaneous experience to many consumers from a single location, it makes it an ideal environment for building dynamically driven, multi-user, and more commonly today, social systems.
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The wedding's off but the honeymoon is on...Promise Harbor Wedding, Book 1Devon can do this. She can show up at her ex-boyfriend Josh's wedding, even though he's marrying her ex-best-friend. She can show everyone she's happy with her fabulous life in Boston, her great career, her amazing shoes — and she can show everyone she's over him. Truth is, her life isn't so fabulous. She's just been downsized out of her job, her Jimmy Choos won't pay her mortgage, and...she's still heartbroken that Josh chose family over her. The real reason she's enduring this wedding is that her next stop is nearby Greenbush Island, her last hope of finding a new job. Josh knows marrying long-time friend Allie will make everyone happy after the rough time their families have been through, and since the woman he really wanted to marry chose her career and big city life over him—why not? But the perfect wedding turns into a perfect disaster when Allie leaves him at the altar for another man. He never saw that coming! But hey, Devon's there, offering to help him look for Allie on Greenbush Island, where he'd planned their honeymoon. Only, all they find there are their old feelings for each other and a temptation to risk their hearts one more time...Warning: This book contains a firefighter hot enough to ignite flames, a woman who doesn't want to get burned again, a honeymoon suite but no honeymoon, and sex not on the beach (sorry).
Devon hasn't been having the best month. She's just lost her job, she's got an apartment in Boston filled with designer shoes that she can't afford, and her former best friend is marrying the love of her life. Devon has no desire to return to her hometown for Allie and Josh's wedding, but doing so will enable her to put on a good front before she heads to nearby Greenbush Island to follow a lead on a job. But her short stop in Promise Harbor takes an unexpected turn when Josh is left at the altar and he turns to Devon for help.
For the past year, Josh has put his loved ones' happiness in front of his own, which is how he winds up at the altar, all set to marry his longtime friend, Allie. Only instead of being married to a woman he cares about, Josh finds himself jilted. He may not be heartbroken, but he is concerned about Allie, and he's determined to look for her on Greenbush Island, where they were supposed to have their honeymoon. When he asks Devon to help him search for Allie, Josh knows he's playing with fire. Devon broke his heart once, but he's still not over her. Could Josh's disaster of a non-wedding actually be what leads him to happiness?
Kelly Jamieson kicks off the multi-author Promise Harbor Wedding quartet with the fast-paced Jilted. I really liked the premise of the story, but I felt like the book ultimately fell short of the mark, thanks in large part to Josh being overly perfect, Devon's character never fully coming alive for me, and the overuse of the distracting phrase "Jeebus Crust" (though I do recognize that the last element may not pull other readers out of the story like it did me).
What I really liked about Jilted was the dynamic between Devon and Josh for the first half of the book. Ms. Jamieson did a great job of showing how natural the two of them are as a couple, while adding a healthy dose of realism in the awkwardness of two exes thrown together in an unusual situation. Since much of their relationship is based on their shared history, I do wish we'd seen a bit more of said history to get a better sense of them as a couple before the sexual tension between them caused them to hit the sheets, thereby throwing the romance plotline into high gear. I never got the feeling I understood why they were in love, other than being told they always were.
Jilted isn't a bad book, but I've read other stories by Ms. Jamieson that I've liked a lot more. That being said, even though Jilted wasn't for me, I'm still looking forward to reading the rest of the Promise Harbor Wedding series.


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Organisers: B. Birch (Oxford), D. Blasius (UCLA), S. Bloch (Chicago), J. Coates (Cambridge), J.-M. Fontaine (Orsay), R. Heath-Brown (Oxford), K. Kato (Tokyo)
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Over the last thirty years, number theorists have come to realise that the mysterious connexions between arithmetic problems and the properties of zeta and L-functions, initially discovered in the first half of the nineteenth century, are far more extensive than had been imagined earlier. A vast web of overlapping conjectures has now been formulated, stretching from the Riemann hypothesis and Fermat's last theorem to the Tamagawa numbers of motives. The programme will bring together mathematicians from arithmetical algebraic geometry, automorphic forms, and classical analytic number theory, to work on several of these conjectures.
There will be a regular seminar programme throughout the period, held at 16.15 on Tuesdays and 11.15 on Thursdays. In addition the following periods of concentration have been planned:
- 15-27 February. Instructional course on Langlands. This will be a course strictly for non-experts. It will consist of 40 lectures spread over 10 days, broken up into 8 courses. The lectures will be given by J.Coates, M.Harrison, J-P.Labesse, P.Schneider, A.Scholl, M.Taylor and R.Taylor.
- 5-10 April. Workshop on Motives attached to Automorphic Forms, organised by R.Taylor and D.Blasius.
- 12-17 April. Workshop on L-functions and Classical Problems, organised by B.Birch and R. Heath-Brown.
- 28 May. London Mathematical Society `Spitalfields Day' on L-functions and Arithmetic.
- 21-26 June. Workshop on p-adic representations, Iwasawa theory, and the Tamagawa numbers of motives organised by S.Bloch, J.Coates, J-M.Fontaine.
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A different New York artisan every week.
Meghan Daly of Daly Pie attributes the popularity of her pie crust to two things: she uses all butter, no shortening or lard, and she does everything by hand, with no help from a food processor or mixer. That way, she says, it's easier to make sure there are different size bits of butter in the dough, which is what makes the crust extra flaky. "It really has that handmade quality," she adds.
She has twenty or so recipes that she rotates, depending on what's in season or what she feels like making, but her personal favorite is still the first recipe she learned how to make: her mom's apple pie. "It's good hot, it's good cold, it's good with cheese, it's good with ice cream," she says. "It's just good, period." She draws on her background working in an apple orchard to help select the perfect fruit to use. (For the record, she prefers Empire, Rome, or Cortland.)
She will forego her famous crust when the pie calls for it though, as with the cookie-crumb-crusted gingerbread marshallow meringue or insanely decadent peppermint patty pies she was serving at the Brooklyn Night Bazaar recently. It was a flavor that occurred to her while she was rolling out dough for something else and worked out pretty much the way she wanted it to as soon as she had a chance to try it.
In addition to the Night Bazaar, Daly will be at a number of holiday markets around the city. She also frequently sets up shop at comedy shows and other events, including a recent Pat Kiernan-hosted trivia night at the Bell House. "It's a fun way to meet new people," she says of these events, "especially when people aren't expecting [pie], they get really excited."
Her delivery service has the same effect. "Giving the gift of pie is also really exciting," she says. "When someone opens their door to find you there with a pie they didn't know was coming, they're so happy." She adds, "I get hugs."
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