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What is EFC and how is it determined?
EFC is an acronym for Expected Family Contribution, and is the calculation that is used to determine how much Federal student aid a student will be eligible for. The data points that are used to determine a student's EFC is taken from a student's FAFSA (Free Application for Federal Student Aid).
Tables Used to Calculated EFC for 2017-2018 Award Year
Students who applied for federal student aid from during the previous year may reapply online using a FAFSA renewal. Applying for federal student aid is free, but applying for non-federal institutional aid directly from schools may require additional forms to be completed and which also may require application fees.
Over 80% of colleges and universities only use the federal student aid calculation to determine the amount of financial aid a student is in need of. As mentioned above, some schools may require additional forms to determine their own calculation of financial aid. Many of these use the CSS Profile methodology to determine need based aid. CSS Profile School List
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Once the EFC is determined, it is subtracted from a student's Cost of Attendance (COA) to determine their need for federal student financial assistance — which is offered by the U.S. Department of Education in the form of grants or loans such as: Federal Pell Grants, subsidized Stafford Loans, Federal Supplemental Education Opportunity Grants, Federal Perkins Loans, or Federal Work Study.
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FIVE people escaped serious injury after the car they were in flipped over in a dramatic road smash in the Midlands.
The car was travelling along Bromsgrove Highway, near Redditch, Worcestershire, when it hit a central reservation and rolled over.
Two ambulances and two rapid response cars were dispatched to the scene, close to the Foxlydiate pub following a flurry of 999 calls at 3.15pm on Sunday.
Three men and two women, all in their late teens or early 20s, were in the car at the time of the crash.
Paramedics said one of the women may have been thrown from the Renault Clio as it rolled over.
West Midlands Ambulance Service senior manager Doug Holloway said: "Her condition was not serious but she was complaining of neck pain.
"We took no chances and immobilised the girl concerned using a neck collar and spinal board."
One of the lads had a right shoulder injury and two others and a woman suffered minor injuries.
All were taken to the Alexandra Hospital in Redditch.
Mr Holloway added: "Considering the damage to the car, it is extremely lucky that we were not dealing with serious injuries."


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Sometimes you need a visual image to get the point across.
I enjoyed this image from The Sacred Page:
Sometimes you need a visual image to get the point across.
I enjoyed this image from The Sacred Page:
Awesome. Absolutely hilarious.
I think the image is inaccurate, the Catholic Church belongs in the ball with "Jesus, Apostles and Early Church Fathers" not as a string outside of the Early Church.
Although, the Reformation mess is appropriate.
And I believe that mess was used to make this:
Tim, LOL. Thanks, I needed that, really.
Tim-Oh 'mein Gawd'. That is so funny….and soooo uugglly!
But I love the 'yarn allegory', Father Z-I bet a cat was just waiting to pounce on that pile and play with that ball! Cute…
Ha! It gives a whole new definition to "spinning a yarn"!
Gad, that woman must be colorblind.
Hello Tim,
No, that "miter" looks like some kind of acrylic. *This* is more likely what the yarn was used to create: http://www.standfirminfaith.com/images/technicolor_yawn.jpg
All of which admittedly is probably not fair to conservative Protestants who still actually take their creeds, such as they are, seriously.
The mess looks like my yarn when I have been crocheting from the neat ball and then discover I made a serious mistake in the pattern. I quickly undo all the stitches I made after the mistake, resulting in a worse mess than that in the picture.
However, I undo the mistake and re-crochet the rest, ending with a lovely garment!
We have too many ripped out messes that are just left messy.
I loved this, being a knitter and all. Now I will smile everytime I look at my yarn. You've now covered all my favorite topics – cooking, good Catholic commentary, and knitting. Great job, Fr.!
I needed that. And we got some bonus laughs off of hideous vestments!
Did a cat do that? If so, can we name him Luther or Calvin?
You'd think that women, more typically knowing how to sew, could come up with something a bit nicer than those pictures.
Love the visual representation though.
Unscrambling the Reformation looks like it is going to take a while. We are not the Roman Catholic Church. We are the Catholic Church.
Another possible name for the cat is Ulrich Zwingli, Henry and Thomas Crammer
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Trout Fishing at Fernworthy
Fernworthy Reservoir, Newton Abbot, Devon TQ13 8EA
Set on one of the highest points of Dartmoor, this picturesque reservoir offers traditional fly fishing for wild and stocked brown trout. We stock fish up to 4lbs with the average size being 10-12 inches. Fishing is from the bank only. Traditional dark fly patterns (Black Gnats, Bibios, Beetles, and Hoppers) as well as sedge patterns (Invicta) work well. Fish the margins and walk the banks to cover as much water as possible. 'Catch and release' option available (barbless hooks to be used), otherwise up to 4 fish over 7" may be taken in a day.
Best Flies: Black Gnat/Invicta/G & H Sedge/Dry flies July onwards.
Why not try our special 'Castabout' season permit which covers all our Brown Trout waters (Fernworthy/Roadford/Colliford and Wistlandpound).
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On January 30, 2020, the Maryland General Assembly overrode Gov. Larry Hogan's 2019 veto of a bill to create a consensus-bsed process to recommend a new fishery management plan for oysters. The legislation has the potential to increase the state's oyster population long-term.
Since colonial times, the Chesapeake (meaning "great shellfish Bay" in Algonquin) has lost more than 98 percent of its oysters. Gone are the days when oyster reefs posed navigational hazards to Chesapeake Bay explorers or watermen pulled 17 million bushels of oysters each year. Now, Maryland and Virginia watermen and the seafood industry have lost $4 billion in income in the past 30 years alone. But all is not lost.
A two-month Maryland Department of Natural Resources survey conducted in 2011 revealed higher levels of oyster reproduction and a lower mortality rate. In fact, Chesapeake Bay oysters seem to be growing heartier and more robust.
Given that each adult oyster filters and cleans up to 50 gallons of water per day—gobbling up algae, and removing dirt and nitrogen pollution—that's good news for the health of the Chesapeake Bay and for us.
On Maryland's Eastern Shore, for example, restored oyster reefs in Harris Creek are estimated to remove an amount of nitrogen equivalent to 20,000 bags of fertilizer annually and can filter the entire volume of the creek in less than 10 days during the summer. And because reefs provide important habitat for crabs and fish, researchers estimated mature, restored reefs in the Choptank River will increase total commercial fish and shellfish harvests by 80 percent.
After a devastating bout with disease in the late 1980s combined with decades of overharvesting, habitat destruction, and water pollution, the oyster was hanging on by a thread. "That was a turning point really," says CBF Fisheries Director Bill Goldsborough, "because up until that point, for the previous 100 years, oysters had supported the most valuable fishery in the Chesapeake Bay."
Now, thanks to increased awareness, extensive restoration efforts such as CBF's citizen oyster-gardening program and reef ball production, resisting the introduction of a non-native oyster species, and favorable weather conditions, there is hope for the mighty oyster yet. Find out more about the state of today's oyster fishery.
Learn more about CBF's oyster restoration efforts.
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SPREAD the word to your neighbors and friends about how important oysters are to the health of the waters and wildlife of the Bay.
SHARE your support for oyster recovery—and especially the unique value of vertical reefs—by writing a letter in your local paper or to state officials responsible for oyster restoration.
VOLUNTEER with CBF's active oyster restoration program by building reef balls, cleaning shells, or becoming an oyster gardener. Visit cbf.org/oysters
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MAKE A DONATION to support our oyster restoration program by giving the gift of oysters from our online Giving Catalog at cbf.org/catalog.
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What are all the cool cats doing these days? They're oyster gardening!
Oyster Farming in the Bay24 Jun 2020 00:00:59
Oyster farming—the practice of cultivating oysters for food—is a growing part of Maryland and Virginia's economy.
Farming Oysters with an Adjustable Longline19 Jun 2020 00:01:53
Alex Lambert of Lambert Shellfish demonstrates the adjustable longline technique used in oyster aquaculture.
The Value of Oyster Aquaculture in Maryland01 Apr 2020 00:02:02
Oyster aquaculture is not only helping the economy throughout the Bay region, it's also helping save the Bay. Learn how Maryland's oyster aquaculture industry has grown and its impact on the Bay and the economy from CBF's Maryland Fisheries Scientist, Allison Colden.
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Why is an oyster hard to shuck? How do young oysters choose their homes? What happens when an oyster filters water? CBF's Maryland Fisheries Scientist Allison Colden gets up close and personal with the Bay's famous bivalve.
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The Valley Preferred Cycling Center, known as "T-Town," is the Bicycle Racing Capital of the World, serving everyone from recreational cyclists to Olympians.
The Velodrome itself sits at the center of the 103-acre Bob Rodale Cycling and Fitness Park. It is a 333.3m outdoor track with a concrete surface. Over the years many UCI World Cups and National Championships have been hosted here.
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- Home to the World Series of Bicycling
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With only three episodes left in the third season of AMC's The Walking Dead, we've unfortunately gotten to the point where everything is set up for a big showdown and now we're just stalling for time. Last week's episode was a great example of how a well-written show can use that to its advantage and work in some exemplary character development. This week's episode? Not so much.
Starring Andrew Lincoln, David Morrissey, Chandler Riggs, Melissa McBride, Laurie Holden, Danai Gurira, Michael Rooker, Norman Reedus, Steven Yeun, Lauren Cohan, Scott Wilson, Dallas Roberts, Emily Kinney, Chad Coleman and Lew Temple, AMC's The Walking Dead airs Sunday nights at 9. Hit the jump for my review of "Arrow on the Doorpost."
[Spoiler Alert: All reviews and recaps come with a general spoiler warning from this point onward.]
First of all, I'd just like to thank last week's hitchhiker on behalf of the cast since apparently his pack provided Hershel, Rick and Daryl with shiny new duds. I'm sure the ladies will find some way to update their post-apocalyptic style soon as well (zombie fashion show?). Anyway, the bulk of this episode centered on a meet-and-greet between Rick and the Governor in order to discuss terms and see if both sides could get along. Doesn't look like that will be happening. A side-plot was the continued butting of heads between Glenn and Merle that developed a bit of tension and then fizzled out. At least Glenn and Maggie got to patch things up in a sexy fashion.
About this meeting between Rick and the Governor…it's tough to maintain the tension in a scene like that when you stretch it out for 45 minutes of a television episode broken up by commercials. It didn't work for me. Though the writers tried to shoehorn in some intrigue with the Gov's hidden (literally Chekhov's) gun, it apparently went unnoticed by Andrea and was unused by the Gov himself. Unless it becomes a plot point in their eventual reunion, this was a wasted effort.
However, the conversation between the two leaders did reveal quite a bit more character from the Gov. He's very adept at mind games and is charismatic to a tee. He used Rick's weak spot for families to trick him into drinking some whiskey and reminiscing about the good ol' days. It turns out that the Gov doesn't want to kill everybody or even take over the prison (so he says), he just wants Michonne. And Rick, unfortunately, is debating whether or not to use their new recruit as a bargaining chip.
While the head honchos were hemming and hawing, Milton and Caesar were sizing up Hershel and Daryl with Andrea stuck in No Woman's Land. Her arc has been an unfortunate one this season and it's looking like it's not going to get any better. Milton just came off as a complete creep in this episode, but I really loved the contentious relationship forged between Caesar and Daryl; they were like two foot-soldiers on opposite sides just passing the time before the coming battle. Seriously though, is there ever a time where you don't like Daryl in a scene? I thought not.
Back at the prison, Merle gets the surprisingly tactically-superior idea to storm the meeting and take out the Governor before he has a chance to form up and come at them in force. He's stymied by Glenn, Maggie and Beth before being abandoned by Michonne. At that point, Merle gives up on the idea and apparently settles in to be part of the team…at least for now.
Overall, this was a subpar episode of the season, especially compared to last week. Neither the plot nor the characters advanced much at all and it was a wasted bit of effort to set up tension that's expected to be maintained over the next three episodes. Unfortunately, I expect more of the same next week.
Rating: 6/10
Zombie Kills: 7
Casualties: 0
Human/Enemy Deaths: 0
Best Kill: Has to go to the rapid-fire kill competition between Caesar and Daryl – the brutal bat, the double crossbow bolt kill and the throwing knife.
Best Effect: The Governor's missing eye.
- I love the nearly-silent opening sequences. It's nice to just be drawn into a show and hear all of the fantastic ambient sounds, which becomes more intense as you know there could be a Walker or other danger around every corner.
- The Governor to Rick: "We have a lot to talk about."
- Daryl: "Who the hell are you?" Milton: "I'm Milton Mamet." Daryl: "Great, he brought his butler."
- Daryl to Caesar: "You better watch your mouth, sunshine."
- The Gov: "I thought you were a cop, not a lawyer." Rick: "I don't go around pretending to be a Governor."
- Hershel: "That makes sense." <- Is this not Hershel's signature phrase at this point? Add it to the drinking game!
- Milton apparently has a stump fetish…
- Hershel to Milton: "I'm not showing you my leg! I just met you…at least buy me a drink first."
- Merle to Michonne: "I musta been seduced by your sterling personality."
- Merle to Michonne: "You shogun the Governor's ass."
- Glenn to Maggie, while they're trying to be all sexy in front of the creepy Walkers: "I can't do this."
- Rick to the group: "So I met this Governor…"
- Rick: "We're going to war."
- Hershel to Rick after he reveals the Gov's true intentions: "Why didn't you tell them?" Rick: "They need to be scared." Hershel: "They are." Rick: "Good. Cuz that's the only way they'll accept it."
- Hershel: "Why are you tellin' me?" Rick: "Because…I'm hopin' you can talk me out of it."
Be sure to tune in next week for our continuing recaps of AMC's The Walking Dead. And if you missed our recap of the Paleyfest Walking Dead red carpet, click here. We got some new info on season 3 and 4.


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Paul McCartney Could Headline Final Candlestick Concert
Just moments before taking the stage at Outside Lands in Golden Gate Park this year, Paul McCartney proposed a fanciful idea to San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee: schedule one final concert at Candlestick Park before it gets demolished next year.
According to SFGate.com, they ideas was introduced during a brief conversation between McCartney and Lee before his headlining set Friday night when the former Beatle said, "Well, if you are going to tear down the stadium next year, we should think about us doing the last concert there."
The Beatles' last show ever was at the stadium Aug. 29, 1966, and momentum is already heading in the right direction with a city plan to gather photos and film footage to honor the concert.
Obviously, a lot will need to be worked out before the plan can come to fruition but it seems like a fitting end for Candlestick before it's turned into a pile of rubble and dust after the 49ers 2013-14 season.
McCartney has experience with these type of extravagant proposals. He did this once before at New York's Shea Stadium just before the venue was dismantled in 2009 and he performed with Billy Joel at the first concert at the New York Mets replacement stadium, Citi Field.


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EVENT: Teen Health Summit, hosted by Palmetto Health's Office of Community Health, is an annual event for students in grades six through 12. The summit will cover a variety of topics including healthy relationships, bullying and college life.
WHEN: Friday, June 8, 8:30 a.m.-3 p.m.
WHERE: Dreher High School, 3319 Millwood Ave., Columbia
FACTS: Since its inception in 2004, more than 5,200 students have attended the Teen Health Summit. The free event will address issues that teens battle during the school year and throughout the summer.
"We want students who attend this event to walk away feeling more empowered about their health, outlook and overall well-being," said Talarria Jackson, director, Palmetto Health Office of Community Health. "We believe that the students value the event and what they learn since some of the same students come back each year and leave empowered about making healthy life decisions."


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Great hotel and wonderful restaurant
My husband and I stayed at Maison Talbooth in the middle of the week in November and were so pleased with the room, service and especially the quality of the restaurant that I felt it important to let them know how much we appreciated it.
It isn't easy to keep high standards when there are only four diners during mid week; but that is exactly what the chef at the Maison Talbooth restaurant accomplished.
We had two wonderful fish dishes including the special Dover Sole and were really impressed with both the quality of the locally sourced ingredients and the excellent preparation.
We finished our meal with a wonderful assortment of French cheeses which were at their peak of freshness and quality.
The service at the restaurant was both friendly and professional.
The hotel staff were also very friendly and helpful and the quality of the food at breakfast was again excellent with wonderful farm fresh eggs, fresh squeezed orange and apple juice and a great selection of breads, fruit, and cereals.
We would return to this hotel and recommend it unconditionally.


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After Moses asks God to appoint a leader to succeed him and lead the people, God tells Moses to give the Israelites a spiritual inheritance in the form of the Temple service. The first in a long list of sacrifices and offerings is the ' Korban Tamid ' the continual daily offering that was brought twice a day , morning and afternoon , on every day of the year without exception.
The biblical text, in a strange way interrupts the description of the laws pertaining to the Daily offering , and tells us that this offering was identical to the one that offered in the wilderness of Sinai during the inauguration of the tabernacle.
This Tuesday ,is the fast of the 17th of the month of Tamuz .
On this day 5 tragedies took place. Moses broke the 2 tablets on which the 10 commandments were written, The Continual daily offering – the Korban Tamid -was stopped and annulled, the walls of Jerusalem were breached , Opastamus burned the Torah scroll and placed an idol in the temple.
It would appear that stopping the bringing of the daily sacrifice seems the most minor of the tragedies especially that today we seem get along without a temple and its sacrifices. Also the daily sacrifices are not considered the high lights of the year, like those of the Festivals or special occasions like Yom Kippur when the people used to come to visit the temple , so why is the stopping of the Daily sacrifice so significant.?
The continual daily sacrifice takes priority over all other sacrifices – it is the first sacrifice to be brought and if one has to choose between a more holier sacrifice like the additional sacrifice brought on the Sabbath and the daily sacrifice , the daily sacrifice is brought.
The answer is that the daily continual offering is symbolic of consistency and routine. What defines a person is his 'daily routine ' and how he lives his life on a day to day basis. It is his continual daily connection with his creator , with learning, and with his physical body = a healthy life style – exercise, healthy eating , spiritual food etc . It is about consistency and process, loving what you do, rather than focusing on loving what you achieve .
Consistency, good habits, routine, and structure are very important for people to flourish and succeed. But routine and consistency have a major pitfall. It so easy that our actions become stale, automatic, robotic with no thought . They become rote –' mitzvat anashim me'lumada '
The Bible interrupts the description of the laws pertaining to the Daily sacrifice , and tells us that this sacrifice was identical to the one that offered in the wilderness of Sinai during the inauguration of the tabernacle. This is also to remind ourselves that the daily sacrifice should be brought with the same feelings of excitement, newness and enthusiasm that accompanied the first daily offering .
In fact our actions should be like musicians whose performance has the richness of a thousand performances and the excitement of a first performance.
King David in Psalms 27:4 says - "I asked one thing from G-d, that is my request; to dwell in the House of G-d all the days of my life, and to visit His Palace."
King David wants to dwell in God's house all the days of his life , yet wants still to experience the newness and the excitement that a visitor experiences in the house of G-d.
As parents , educators and people who are interested in self growth and empowerment how do we help ourselves and our children to be consistent with our daily routines and yet maintain the newness and the excitement of a first time performance and avoid the pit fall of consistency - automated action.?
With kids we confuse the need to give 'structure and routine' with control and compliance. 'Reasonable structures should be imposed only when necessary , in a flexible manner , without undue restrictiveness, and when possible , with the participation of the child.' –AK Healthy structures can be defined as the provision of healthy guidelines and information that children need to be ' self –determining . ' -Grolick
The ' imposed ' routine or structure is usually enforced by using rewards and punishment and not by ' teaching and refection.' This further impairs any internalization and commitment to the values underlying the actions , and makes for 'rote ' behavior.
The motivation driving a routine or structure is usually extrinsic so for example, learning is driven by grades and tests or making the honor's roll instead of the love of learning expressed by a continuous learning on a daily basis.
Dieting and exercise is driven by the goals of losing weight and good results on blood tests rather than trying to adopt a healthy life style which you enjoy and believe in .
We forget the lesson of the daily offering that it is the everyday activities and not the highlights of life that are important and define us. We focus primarily on 'achievement and not on the 'process'.
We make the mistake by overrating and calling for more ' self discipline , grit and resilience ' in order to achieve the goals of consistency and hard work. Proverbs 5:19 in the context of learning says – be'ahavata tisgeh tamid – by the love for her ( torah learning ) you will be captivated for- ever , always and continuously. It is the love for what we do that makes for self discipline, grit and resilience possible in healthy ways.
The way we can promote the love of what we do is try to support the autonomy of kids, that they feel self directed as we should as well when we pursue our goals , we all should feel a sense of purpose , relevance and connection, be competent, feel a sense of belonging, support and relatedness to the people around us.


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The Hall of Fame vote is supposed to be all about the past, but its perfect for right now. Its another thing to fill the 247 news cycle. All the crossfire arguments are there for Twitter and talk radio. You have to have a take.
Barry Larkin will share the stage with Ron Santos family. Each player was identified by, and loyal to, one team. Theyll have a place in Cooperstown, N.Y., forever. Consider that non-controversy the calm before the storm.
Mondays election results showed overwhelming support for Larkin, who received 86.4 percent of the vote from the Baseball Writers Association of America. The longtime Cincinnati Reds shortstop will be inducted on July 22, the same day the Cubs will be celebrating Santos life.
The volume will be turned up for the class of 2013, which includes Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens, Sammy Sosa, Mike Piazza, Curt Schilling and Craig Biggio. By 2014, Frank Thomas, Greg Maddux and Tom Glavine will be eligible for the first time.
This will be an endless debate, and it will be interesting to see what information comes out between now and then. Look for more voting explanations based on rumors and innuendo, plus more people begging for clarification on the character clause.
Bonds has a legal team appealing his obstruction of justice conviction. Voters wont forget how Clemens starred in the Mitchell Report, or Sosas performance in front of Congress. Schilling and Thomas were two of the most outspoken critics from the steroid era.
Everyone on the ballot is under suspicion on some level because of the period in which they played. This round was another clear rejection of Mark McGwire (19.5 percent) and Rafael Palmeiro (12.6 percent).
Combined those two players linked to performance-enhancing drugs have been on the ballot eight times and have never received more than 24 percent of the vote, nowhere near the 75 percent needed for induction.
Momentum seems to be building for big-game pitcher Jack Morris, who got 66.7 percent of the 573 votes cast (nine were left blank) and still has his 14th and 15th chances left to get into the Hall. The same goes for Jeff Bagwell, who rose from 41.7 percent to 56 percent during his second year on the ballot.
If you have an opinion, its so much easier now to find a platform and shout it out. The explosion of information on the Internet and the growing awareness and understanding of sabermetrics has shifted the way people look at the game.
Perceptions changed about Larkin. In his third year of eligibility, he finished with a vote total that represented a 24.3-percent gain from the 2011 ballot, the largest jump in one year to gain election in more than 60 years.
Larkin, 47, grew up in Cincinnati and was drafted twice by the Reds. In between he played at the University of Michigan where legendary coach Bo Schembechler wanted him on the football team and in the 1984 Olympics.
Larkin lasted 19 seasons with the Reds, helping Lou Piniella and The Nasty Boys win a World Series title in 1990. His resume includes 12 All-Star selections, nine Silver Sluggers, three Gold Gloves and the 1995 National League MVP award.
This summers Hall of Fame ceremony will also honor two media award winners television analyst Tim McCarver and Toronto Sun writer Bob Elliott along with Santo.
Santo was voted in by a veterans committee last month and his legacy will be front and center at this weekends Cubs Convention. WGN Radios Pat Hughes will host a panel expected to include Santos widow Vicki, son Ron Jr. and former teammates Glenn Beckert, Randy Hundley and Billy Williams.
The family didnt want to use the word bittersweet, even though Santos Hall of Fame call came one year after his death. Thats because future generations will be able to go and see the plaque and remember the man.
Larkin was asked the other day what it would mean, but couldnt quite answer the question. Theyre about to find out.
Baseball immortality, Larkin said on the MLB Network. To be recognized as one of the best of all-time (made me think about my) young kids. Theyre out there doing their thing. But 20, 30, 40, 100 years from now, when theyre old and gone, their grandkids (and kids will) always be able to say, Yeah, that guy right there (was) one of the best in the game.


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Many people love Poodles, of all varieties, but they are put off by their fancy grooming styles. Poodle grooming styles are varied and the style you choose for your dog will depend on whether you intend to show your dog or simply enjoy him as a pet. Your lifestyle and how much time you want to spend grooming your dog will also determine which style you should choose.
No matter what variety of Poodle you have (Toy, Miniature, or Standard), you can choose one of several pet clips for your dog. If you will be showing your dog, then your choices are more limited.
Poodle Show Trims: The Lion Trim
Only one clip is officially allowed if you are showing your dog. However, it comes in four versions:
Puppy Clip for Show
The Puppy Clip for Show can be used for Poodles who are under a year of age. It is approved by the AKC and UKC. In this clip the dog's face, paws, and base of tail are shaved closely. The body coat is left long and shaped to compliment the dog's form. this is shaped at the neck and the dog's top knot. The top knot (at the top of the dog's head) remains long and it is pulled into a pony tail.
Continental Clip
This clip is popular in the show ring and is approved by the AKC and UKC. The dog's face, front legs between the poms and the elbows, and the hindquarters to the pom area (with the exception of the hip rosettes), the paws, and the base of the tail are all shaved very closely. The pack area between the body and the head is left very long and scissored into shape. The top knot is also left long and scissored into a round ball. The poms on the legs start just above the dog's wrists and hock joints and end just above the paws. The poms are scissored to be round. The hip rosettes are placed right over the hip joints. They are only 1/2 to 1 inch apart from each other, depending on the Poodle variety. They are also scissored to be round. The dog's pack ends 1/2 to 1 inch behind the last rib. there is only half an inch between the end of the pack and the beginning of the hip rosettes.
Modified Continental Clip
This clip is also approved by the AKC/UKC for conformation shows. The difference between this clip and the Continental Clip is that there are no hip rosettes.
English Saddle Clip
In the English Saddle Clip the dog's face, front legs between the pom and the pack, a crescent on the flank, the base of the tail, and separations between poms on the rear legs and the rear paws are all closely shaved. The dog's pack is left very full and is scissored into shape. The top knot is also left long and pulled into a pony tail. the poms on the front legs are left long and they begin just above the dog's wrist joint and end just above the paws. The area over the dog's hips and flanks are scissored shorter into a smooth blanket. The pom on the tail is also left long and shaped round. the poms on the dog's back legs are shaped round and spaced evenly. the bottom starts just above the hock and ends above the back paws. the other starts at the knee area and ends just 1 to 1/2 inch above the bottom pom, depending on the size of the Poodle.
Pet Clips
There are also a variety of pet clips for Poodles. These styles are shorter and make it easier to care for your Poodle's coat. Some of the styles include the Kennel or Utility Clip, the Lamb Clip, the Summer, Miami or Bikini Clip, and the Town and Country Clip. All of these pet clips feature a short trim over the body, though some have small poms around the wrists or a pom on the tail.
Many pet owners prefer to take their Poodle to a professional pet groomer and simply have their dog clipped the same length all over, including the legs and tail. This usually needs to be done about every 6 to 8 weeks.
There are many Poodle grooming styles. You should choose one that you are comfortable with for your dog, both in looks and for your lifestyle.


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MONTREAL - The federal government says Canadians have donated $70 million to help fight the drought in Africa and that it will keep its promise to match that amount.
International Co-operation Minister Bev Oda said Wednesday the contribution will boost government spending on drought relief to $142 million.
Oda hailed the contribution of Canadians.
"In every major crisis, Canada has, through various channels, helped provide food and needed vitamins and supplements to the victims in need," she told a Montreal conference on food security.
"Once again, it looks like Canadians have demonstrated their compassion and generosity."
The Canadian donations to registered charities were made between early July and mid-September. The dollar figure is only a preliminary estimate, with the final amount still being tabulated.
Oda said she was inspired by the stories she heard during a recent trip to Africa.
"During my visit to the Dadaab camp in Kenya, from what I saw and from the stories I heard from mothers and young girls, I knew that their perseverance and courage must be matched by our willingness to help," she said.


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There's a dreadful ailment that afflict superhero movies: the villain overload. Movies about costumed crime-fighters seem to attract surplus villains, like barnacles. Is it because the merchandising people want more toys to market? Or because they just want to pad out the cast with a few more names? It's hard to say.
But the "too many villains" problem is still afflicting superhero films, as Green Lantern proved. And some people are worried the same blight will affect The Avengers and The Dark Knight Rises, two of next summer's most anticipated films. The good news is, a movie can overcome the problem of excess villainy. Here are some ways that superhero movies can escape from the death trap of having one or two villains too many.
Minor spoilers/rumors for upcoming films below...
The truth is, there's no strict formula where the quality decreases as the number of villains goes up. Christopher Nolan managed to prove, in both of his first two Batman films, that you can have more than one villain in a film and still make it work. So even if The Dark Knight Rises has every villain it's rumored to have, including Bane and Catwoman but also Talia, Ra's Al-Ghul, Hugo Strange and Scarecrow, it could still be a great film. Likewise, we still have a lot of trust that Joss Whedon can make whatever arrangement of "Loki plus other villians" The Avengers has into a successful mixture.
But still, it's hard to dispute that many of the crappiest superhero movies have followed the "supervillain team-up" formula. Having more than one villain in a superhero film takes the focus away from the hero(es), and then either you need two or three climaxes in which the hero fights the different villains, or you need some kind of tag-team deal, like Spider-Man 3 had. Having two supervillains often means that you need to have two supervillain origin stories, which is often dreary.
But also, scenes were supervillains talk to each other are often really dull — you have two or three marquee actors wearing insane dayglo costumes, standing around on a soundstage full of dry ice and declaiming to each other. The idea of a "supervillain team-up" is something that DC and Marvel have done some great stories about, in their comics — but it's hard to make it work in the big screen.
Most of all, when you have a giant cloud of fear energy plus a mutated scientist in the same movie, it's hard not to have the feeling of an overstuffed goose. You get the feeling that some studio exec someplace was piling up action figures on his plush office carpet, and insisting that if one villain was good, five had to be better. Let's pull out all the stops — it works for Michael Bay!
So here are some ideas about how superhero movies can avoid the "supervillain flash mob" nightmare:
Pick just one villain. Seriously. This is the easiest, best fix for the problem. Iron Man 2 would have been a better film with just one villain. So would Green Lantern and Spider-Man 3. It wouldn't have fixed everything that was wrong with those films, but it would have gone a long way.
It's not the number of villains, it's the number of stories. There's a limit to how many subplots your average movie can contain, especially subplots which are about the villains of the movie. In the end, the antagonists of the movie have to tie into the main storyline, and there has to be one of those. So if there's more than one villain, the villains still have to work together as part of the central story, thematically and from a plot standpoint. The Dark Knight does this brilliantly, by making the Joker's effect on Harvey Dent a central part of the film's arc.
It's the hero's story. Actually, The Dark Knight pushes this principle almost to its limit, because it's as much about the Joker and Harvey Dent as it is about Batman. But it's still very much a movie about Bruce Wayne's journey and how these other two men affect him, and his view of his role as savior of Gotham. In general, in most superhero movies, the antagonists are there to force the hero to make choices, and rise to their challenges — and multiple villains still have to work as part of the hero's main story.
Supervillains don't talk like supervillains to each other. Okay, seriously. Dialogue between supervillains should probably be kept to a minimum in the first place — but to the extent that the supervillains put on a crazy persona to intimidate their opponents, they probably act somewhat differently among their own kind. (A lot of my favorite comics of the past decade have shown this brilliantly.) Supervillains, when they're alone together, talk more like regular people and less like caricatures.
Avoid the villain anticlimax If you're determined to have two separate villains, with two separate but intersecting storylines, don't give one of them the weak send-off at the end of the film. If a movie can't find a way to give both, or all, of its villains a decent climax, then that's a surefire sign that one of those villains is a waste of space. (I'm looking at you, Hector Hammond and Justin Hammer.)
Each villain is a different lesson. This is another way to go — it's a bit of a cliche to say your enemies are your best teachers, but it's still definitely true. And if you're going to go having more than one villain in a film, then each villain ought to be teaching a different lesson — or at least, a different version of the main lesson. Maybe there are different weaknesses that each villain plays on — or different wrong-headed ideas on the hero's part that each villain represents.
We'd love to see more villain cameos. On the other hand, there's something great about showing that the superhero exists in a world where there are tons of villains all over the place, and he/she is constantly getting into random fights on the way downtown. This is something that comics do, which the movies have never really tried — it would be kind of cool if a superhero film featured a random fight with a supervillain, in the opening sequence, or during a random lull in the action, and then that supervillain was never seen again in the movie. Just another day at the office.
Make the relationship between the villains interesting. If one of them is just a henchman, then fair enough, I guess. If they have some kind of dysfunctional relationship, along the lines of Gail Simone's Secret Six comics, then so much the better. Rather than just having two villains who are introduced separately and then decide to team up in time for the third act, or just randomly come together, having a more interesting dynamic between them will go a long way towards making them work as characters.
Each villain should want something. Just like every hero should. And it shouldn't just be "to wear a cool costume and be ebil." Ideally, at least someone in the movie should want something more interesting than "vengeance on the hero for some hand-wavy reason."


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Long Shot (2019)
So you're telling me there's a chance? A successful presidential term is only as successful as the people of who the man in charge surrounds himself with. For bumbling President Chambers (Bob Odenkirk), one of those people is Secretary of State Charlotte Field (Charlize Theron), a woman of immense poise, intellect, and beauty. Wanting to […]Read More Long Shot (2019)


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Few would underestimate the value of the sun in our lives. It's rays provide our bodies with natural Vitamin D and nourish the plants that provide food and generate oxygen. Also, exposure to sunlight actually makes us happier and decreases the incidence of Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD).
However, many underestimate the down side to the sun's powerful UV rays: it's damaging effects on our skin. From our discussions in previous blogs, you now know that in fact, over exposure to the sun's ultraviolet (UVB) rays, which seems to becoming stronger every year, can often result in burns and even lead to serious skin cancers such as melanoma. Furthermore, over 90% of the fine lines, wrinkles and brown spots that appear over time and make us look older than we feel, are caused by the sun's UVA rays. So, protecting yourself from these rays by wearing a sunscreen of SPF 30 or higher every day is a must.
But, what can you do to eliminate the sun damage that you already have?
Well, a lot. As a cosmetic physician, I've devoted my career to exploring and training in non-surgical options to "turn back the clock". And since skin aging and sun damage are so closely related, reversing the adverse effects of the sun's rays has become a large focus of my practice. From more basic to advanced, here are a few of the options available in my Ottawa clinic:
- Exfoliate: Removing the dead, outermost layer of skin cells is one of the quickest ways to diminish fine lines, wrinkles and brown spots. There are a number of options in varying degrees of intensity. The simplest is to start using a skin care product such as SkinMedica's 15% AHA/BHA cream, SkinMedica Lyrica or Retinol. If your sun damage is more severe, I may recommend a series of chemical peels.
- Erase Brown Spots with IPL: As you age, particularly if your skin is fair, you're going to see brown spots anywhere that your skin has been exposed to the sun. A very effective way to eliminate these is with an Intense Pulse Light (IPL) treatment. We also refer to this treatment as Foto-Facial. Depending on your individual needs, I may suggest that you combine your IPL treatment with microdermabrasion as the latter can improve the light's ability to penetrate the skin and improve the overall efficacy of the IPL treatment by 40%.
- Laser Resurfacing for Deep Lines and Wrinkles: If you have deeper lines, wrinkles and age spots from years of accumulated sun damage, don't despair. The Fraxel 1927/1550 laser is a game changer, able to combat both small and large brown lesions while also significantly reducing deep wrinkles, lines, large pores and scars with little down time. In only a few sessions, Fraxel can rejuvenate your skin, removing age spots from your face, neck, chest and hands.
Dr. Caroline Tosoni pursued her Medical Degree at McMaster University and completed her post-graduate medical residency in Family Medicine through the University of Ottawa in 1998. Fluently bilingual in French and English, she opened her medical practice in Ottawa in July of 1998. Since 2000, Dr. Tosoni has focused her medical practice on Cosmetic Dermatology and has received extensive training and obtained multiple certifications in various medical cosmetic enhancement procedures such as Phlebology, Botox® Cosmetic, Dermal Fillers, SoftLift,™ BeautiPhication,™ Belkyra injections, CoolSculpting,™ Cosmetic Dermatology and Aesthetic Laser Medicine. Dr. Caroline Tosoni is also proficient in the treatment of Hyperhidrosis (excessive sweating) and Migraine Headaches with Botox® Therapeutic. In 2015, Dr. Tosoni's practice officially received a Focused Practice in Dermatology designation by the Ministry of Health and Long Term Care and the Ontario Medical Association.


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September 6, 2017
Lori and Adam's wedding reception at The Marq Southlake was an absolute blast! I was also very glad to sneak out for a few more bride and groom portraits at golden hour. Their first dance was choreographed to mimic one of their favorite dances from Dancing With the Stars! They even had their favorite ice cream cake shop serve their cake (and it was absolutely delicious). I loved their vibrant pink and orange flowers in the bridal bouquets and in the reception centerpieces. Absolutely stunning! Be sure to scroll down to see one epic dance party and the list of wonderful vendors who made Lori and Adam's wedding day vision happen.
Oh, and be sure to check out the first part of their wedding day at White's Chapel UMC!
Vendor List:
Band: Jazz Monsters
Cakes: The Ice Cream Place
Caterer: Food Glorious Food
Coordinator: Event Elements
DJ: Don Cox
Florist: Emma Chappell


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November 29, 2012
First introduced at ICAST 2012, the Damiki Anchovy Shad has generated significant buzz ever since. This 4-inch, soft-plastic swimbait was made with schooling baitfish in mind and is an obvious choice for anglers utilizing the umbrella rig. Designed to mimic smaller baitfish that travel in groups, the Anchovy Shad is a great combination of faint contours in body line with an extra large rounded paddle tail that creates that struggling bait-fish movement that bass can't resist. This little bait can be fished by itself in various applications but looks absolutely killer on an umbrella rig.
The Anchovy Shad is a small profile swimbait that incorporates a slim 4-inch tapering body that leads to its most visible feature, the tail. With its large paddle-tail design, you can just tell that this is well suited for movement under water. The thin tapering body cuts through the water while the tail gives this bait its thumping action. This pairing, somewhat surprisingly, is able to generate tremendous water movement. A hook slit was incorporated on both the top and bottom sides to make this a versatile bait to rig in any fashion the angler sees fit - included weedless when needed. The 3-D eye along with the scale-pattern body also adds to the subtle details that set this bait apart from other small profile swimbaits on the market.
The Anchovy Shad will be available in six baitfish colors that include Pro Blue(105), Pro Green(106), Green Pumpkin Black(203), White Silver Flake(204), Baby Bass(309), and Smoke Black Silver(501).
More information about the Anchovy Shad and other new baits can be found at their website and new updates will be posted on the Damiki Facebook page.


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Your Last Chance to Guess Our Guest's Identity
On Thursday evening, we drew your attention to the fact that we are planning to announce our convention's 2016 guest of honor on Monday, January 11th. The news will be released here and on our social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter. We also mentioned that we're planning to offer a wide array of programming at PulpFest 2016, including salutes to the 150th anniversary of the birth of H. G. Wells — author of "The Time Machine," "War of the Worlds," and other classic science-fiction novels — and the 90th anniversary of the first science-fiction pulp, AMAZING STORIES.
As we mentioned in our post concerning THE ARGOSY — the first American periodical specifically designed for the common man — pulp magazines were named for the cheap paper on which they were printed. Nearly two decades after Frank A. Munsey pioneered the format in late 1896, the rough-paper periodicals began to specialize with the introduction of DETECTIVE STORY MAGAZINE by Street & Smith. During the 1920s more magazines geared toward specific genres were introduced: LOVE STORY, SEA STORIES, SPORT STORY MAGAZINE, GHOST STORIES, WAR STORIES, and others. The movement would culminate in single-character magazines such as THE SHADOW or DOC SAVAGE MAGAZINE.
It was hard to miss the inaugural issue of AMAZING STORIES — the first magazine to be geared toward the science-fiction reader. Larger than the typical pulp magazine with three-dimensional block letters trailing across its masthead, with a bright yellow backdrop that framed an alien landscape, a ringed planet and small moon, the magazine certainly stood out on the sales rack.
The names on the front cover of the early issues of AMAZING STORIES were also major selling points for the magazine: Edgar Rice Burroughs, A. Merritt, Edgar Allan Poe, Garrett P. Serviss, Jules Verne, H. G. Wells, and others. Using stories drawn from the Munsey magazines, BLUE BOOK, THE STRAND, and other sources, Gernsback offered reprints of science-fiction classics, eventually coupling these with new stories generated through contests. It was just as Gernsback wrote in his editorial for the pulp's first issue: "By 'scientifiction' I mean the Jules Verne, H. G. Wells, and Edgar Allan Poe type story — a charming romance intermingled with scientific fact and prophetic vision."
It would be difficult to deny the importance of Herbert George Wells to the development of both science fiction and AMAZING STORIES. During his three years as editor and publisher of the first science-fiction magazine, Gernsback turned to Wells' fictional output for nearly thirty stories, reprinting such tales as "The Country of the Blind," "The Crystal Egg," "The Empire of the Ants," "The First Men in the Moon," "The Invisible Man," "The Island of Dr. Moreau," "The Man Who Could Work Miracles," "A Story of the Days to Come," "The Time Machine," "The Valley of the Spiders," "The War of the Worlds," and "When the Sleeper Wakes" in his magazine and its companion titles.
PulpFest 2016 will be celebrating both H. G. Wells and AMAZING STORIES at its convention in July. Please join us at "the pop culture center of the universe" for "Summer's AMAZING Pulp Con," from July 21st through July 24th in the Columbus, Ohio Arena district at the Hyatt Regency hotel and the city's spacious convention center.
Here's our final clue to the identity of our PulpFest 2016 guest of honor: in 1926, Hugo Gernsback introduced the reading public to the first science-fiction magazine, AMAZING STORIES. Since then, Gernsback's magazine has inspired countless imitators. During our 2016 guest of honor's career, he or she has also been associated with the science-fiction genre. Here's your last chance to leave your guess to our special guest's identity on our Facebook page. If you haven't done so already, be sure to "like" us. We'll provide a free membership to PulpFest 2016 to the first person who guesses the identity of this year's honored guest. And remember to visit www.pulpfest.com on Monday, January 11th when we will reveal the identity of the PulpFest 2016 Guest of Honor.
(Frank R. Paul, the "grandfather of science-fiction art," painted the covers to both the inaugural issue of AMAZING STORIES — dated April 1926 — and the August 1927 number of the magazine. The latter issue of the rough-paper periodical featured the first half of the classic H. G. Wells novel, "The War of the Worlds," serialized by the magazine in two parts. Wells' story of an alien invasion of planet Earth — originally published in PEARSON'S MAGAZINE in 1897 — is still enjoyed to this very day.)


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School Curriculum Aims
Our school curriculum aims are based on our vision and values. Our curriculum aims are as follows:
Half Term Projects
From September 2019, our teachers are planning a 'project' for their year group each half term. These projects are designed to draw on all areas of the national curriculum and will refer to our whole school half-termly themes. These projects centre on our curriculum aims and are integral to the delivery of our curriculum.
Each year group will showcase the work they have done at the end of every term and family members will be invited into school to have a look at the work the children have been doing.
The details of each project will be publicised on each of the year group blogs which can be found here. The year group blog will be updated regularly.
Here are the projects for this half term:
If you would like to find out more about what your child is learning in class, please do not hesitate to speak to your child's class teacher.
Early Years
Nursery and Reception
We follow the Statutory Framework for the Early Years Foundation Stage which sets out the standards for learning, development and care for children from birth to five years. You can find information for parents on the Foundation Years website. We use Development Matters to help plan, assess and observe children in order to support their development. At the end of the Reception year we carry out a statutory assessment of all children using the Early Years Foundation Stage Profile. The results of this assessment are reported to parents and carers at the end of the year.
We teach phonics using a combination of 'Letters and Sounds' and 'Jolly Phonics'.
We plan around topics in Reception and Nursery, and we follow the children's interests and develop learning themes from them. We also join in with the whole school focus areas each term using age-appropriate activities.
The Nursery and Reception staff are always happy to talk to you about your child's learning, so if you have any questions please ask. Children earn merits if their reading diary is regularly updated by their parent or carer.
The Nursery and Reception staff keep detailed profiles of each child which are available for parents and carers to look at during termly Parents Evenings.
Curriculum Progression
Here is an outline of how the curriculum is organised by year group. This will give you an idea of what your child will be learning over the year.
We follow Croydon's Agreed Syllabus to teach Religious Education Croydon Agreed Syllabus for Religious Education 2018
Whole School Themes
Each half term the whole school focuses on a different theme to help us deliver our Spiritual, Moral, Social and Cultural (SMSC) education programme. In 2019/20 our whole school focus topics are:
- Autumn 1: Black History
- Autumn 2: Disability Awareness
- Spring 1: Mindfulness
- Spring 2: Women's History
- Summer 1: The Environment
- Summer 2: LGBTQ+ History.
These themes will be threaded through the projects taught in each year group and will be taught through cross curricular lessons.
Statutory Assessments
Reception: Teachers complete the EYFS profiles for each child and submit their final assessments in June 2020.
Year One Phonics Test: Takes place in the week beginning 8th June 2019
Year Two Phonics Test: This is for children who did not pass the Phonics Test in Year One. It takes place in the week beginning 8th June 2019
Key Stage 1 Tests: Will be administered during May 2020.
Year Four Multiplication and Times Tables Test: This is being introduced for the first time this year and will take place during June 2020.
Key Stage 2 Tests: Week beginning 11th May 2020
The results of these tests and/or assessments will be reported to parents and carers during the end of the year parents evening.


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What is right to be done cannot be done too soon.
captivating quotations from movies, television, literature and people - curated by actual geeks.
Surprizes are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable.
Respect for right conduct is felt by every body.
Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of being kindly spoken of.
Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief.
One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.


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Rock Climbing Photos : Topo : Field of Dreams 5.10c, III, 450'
Field of Dreams 5.10c, III, 450'
We started walking @ 0840 and got to the top at 1500. It's a 2 hr approach up Siphon Gulley to the base then up 5 pitches to the top. It's easier to walk down than rap. Just walk north to the hiker's trail and then the climber's trail follows the base of the Flatiron back to the prow.
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1. Introduction
The goal of our project is to understand the impact of social media posts on the future prices of individual stocks. We examined the impact of posts in the social media platform reddit.com within investment focused subreddits/forums using textual analysis techniques.
In today's society people are engaging in their social activities online using services like Twitter, Reddit, and other similar social media platforms. It has been shown that investing is largely a social activity and that conversations may lead to investment behavior (Shiller et al.). We focused on reddit.com as it has experienced a large amount of growth over the years and there exists several investment focused subreddits on the platform. 50.3% of the value of U.S stock is owned by households and Reddit content is generated solely by individual household users (Rosenthal, Austin). To our knowledge, there has not been a study performed that uses reddit.com as a source of information to predict stock movement. The rapid growth of Reddit's user base is shown below in Figure 1.
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2. Survey
There have been many attempts to utilize social media content to predict stock returns. Our study is closely related to those utilizing sources such as Twitter and traditional news outlets.
Others have found statistically significant results in predicting future stock returns using their social media data sources of choice (Chen,et al; Bollen et al; Wijaya, et al; Zhang. et al; Makrehchi, et al; Godbole, et al; Nikfarjam, et al; Gidofalvi et al; Nguyen et al).
One paper stated that sentiment analysis could be done today by a lexicon approach of tweets against the Indonesian language (Wijaya, et al.) Another approach to sentiment analysis was using NLP on news headlines (Velay, et al). Yet another approach used the sentiment from seeking alpha blog posts and the corresponding comments (Chen, et al.). Twitter analysis has also shown to be able to predict price movement of other assets such as cryptocurrencies (Abraham, et al.). We found that stock prices fluctuate largely on various events. These events can be announcements about the company or information shared. Often times these events will be talked about online which further supports that textual analysis can be effective (Kaushik, et al.).
A unique aspect of reddit posts is that they are typically short snippets of text of a users thoughts or opinions, not unlike twitter. However Reddit also gives an opportunity to write substantially more if the user desires. Unique approaches to analyzing this type of text is required (Kiritchenko, et al). We expanded upon this to use frequency and sentiment.
3. Method of Analysis
This section will explain the data gathering and variables of interest. Our study used data collection from reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets as well as stock market data collection from various financial APIs. The period we sampled is January 2018 through September 2018. In addition we implemented a web application that leverages our findings on past data for real time insights.
3.1 Data
The subreddit wallstreetbets is a place where reddit users discuss day trading, stocks, options, futures, and any other market related discussion. "WallStreetBets is lively, engaged and growing. It was in the top 1% of Reddit's more than 824,000 subreddits in new-subscriber growth over the past 90 days, according to RedditMetrics.com, and its more than 2 million monthly page views represent more traffic than all of the other stock-related subreddits combined." (French, Sally, and Shawn Langlois) An average of 236 topic posts are made to this subreddit daily, and each topic post may contain user comments. On average each topic post will gather 21 comments and sometimes reaching into the thousands depending on the popularity of each post. Each post comment contains an average of 342 words.
As we used reddit comments to try and predict the direction of stock prices, we also obtained daily stock data from the same period. This data was obtained using quantmod.
Stock data obtained from the quantmod was collected for all stock tickers that are mentioned in wallstreetbets posts. The end of day value was used for the stock price. We created additional features using this data. For example we created percent change features that show the percent change 1 day in the future, 2 days, to 90 days in the future. We used the percent change features as dependent variables in our modeling.
3.2 Entity Extraction
One of the challenges of extracting useful information from our comment/post dataset was determining what stock ticker or company comment/post is talking about. To do this we identified all posts which mention a specific company or stock ticker in the title. We gathered all stock post titles then cleaned and tokenized each. We then joined a stock ticker list to find all stock tickers and tagged each post with the tickers found. We made the decision to only analyze posts that contain a single stock ticker in the title as it is beyond the scope of our analysis to try and determine which ticker the corresponding posts are referring to in the discussion. Another challenge we faced when tagging posts was that many stock tickers are also commonly used english words. Examples of this include "play", "post", "beat", "win".
There are 531 unique stock tickers mentioned in posts during the time frame we examined. We also found that wallstreetbets frequently talked about a small subset of stocks, typically tech related stocks. Because wallstreetbets tends to talk most about these stocks we decided to focus our analysis on them as they give us sufficient volume to derive insights. This also resolves the issue of stock tickers also being common english words.
Stock tickers that we focused on are as follows: mu, amd, tsla, snap, nvda, fb, amzn, baba, aapl, ge, msft, and nflx. We chose these because they show up consistently throughout the time period we are analyzing and represent 36% of the post content. Also the tickers share a common industry, tech, with the exception of ge.
3.3 Measuring Sentiment
The subreddits on reddit.com are a collection of posts with many comments. Each comment is of varying quality. Sometimes a post will gather very relevant and thoughtful stock discussion while others will be conversations of non stock relevant banter. We decided to use two sentiment lexicons that would be most appropriate for this style of commentary.
We have considered the following lexicons: Vader (Gilbert, CJ Hutto Eric) and Loughran (Loughran, Tim, and Bill McDonald). The Vader sentiment lexicon was tuned specifically for microblog social media posts and performs exceptionally well at this task. Our post data closely resembles the style Vader was designed for. We also wanted to incorporate a more domain specific lexicon, called Loughran. This lexicon is tuned specifically for financial text.
The Vader lexicon was run against each comment, the output of which was the following: positive, negative, and compound. Compound being the normalized weighted composite score. Similarly, the Loughran lexicon produced an output of six distinct financial scores: constraining, litigious, positive, negative, superfluous, and uncertainty.
Once the sentiment scores were obtained we summed the total sentiment type for each comment to the post level. For example a post with 100 comments, each with an individual score for the 9 distinct lexicon metrics was summed to one row of data consisting of the post title, stock ticker, and sentiment metrics.
Fig. 2
3.4 Analysis
We wanted to understand the relationship between the comment sentiment and future stock movement. To do this we will be regressing future returns on the sentiment and stock ticker-post volume. The model will be roughly as follows:
Where is the return of stock ticker for the next day . is the sum of a sentiment measure from comments across all posts with company on day . We add an indicator variable, which will denote if there were any posts and comments discussing company on day . Finally we add which is the volume of ticker on day .
3.5 Experiments and Evaluation
We evaluated the effectiveness of our models in the following ways. We examined the assumptions of the regression model, which include a linear relationship between the predictor and response variables, little or no multicollinearity in predictors, the residual error between predicted and observed responses follows a normal distribution, and homoscedasticity. The impact of the social sentiment variables were measured with methods such as variable selection, p-values, confidence intervals, and estimated values for the coefficients. The regression model was evaluated using statistical techniques such as finding the adjusted R-squared value and the root mean squared error. Our assumption was the following: if the model satisfies the assumptions of multiple linear regression, has acceptable adjusted R-squared and root mean squared error values, and the coefficients related to the social sentiment are found to be statistically significant, then the impact of the social sentiment variables can be measured by the value of the related estimated regression coefficients.
Multiple linear regression models were explored using the stock price as a response variable. The regression coefficients, R-squared values, and assumptions of multiple linear regression were evaluated for each model. The models were constructed with the stock tickers we as binary dummy variables. The predicting variables included sentiment and volume from the Vader analysis, sentiment from the Loughran analysis, and historical stock price data. Initially a model was created using all variables in the dataset. The results from the initial model showed none of the sentiment predictors were statistically significant within a 95% confidence interval, however several of the historical stock price predictors had very small p-values. Stepwise model selection using AIC with backward selection was used for variable selection from the full model.
The initial variable selection chose mostly the historical stock data but also included the sentiment variables of positive sentiment and uncertainty from the Loughran analysis. The reduced model showed the positive sentiment variable as statistically significant, but the R-squared value was suspiciously high and seemed to be dominated by the historical stock predictors instead of the sentiment variables. The model also violated the regression assumptions of linearity, constant variance, normality, and no multicollinearity. The historical stock predicting variables were then removed and another model was compiled using the positive sentiment and uncertainty variables only, with results indicating the sentiment variables might have some predictive power.
Finally, a model was created using all predicting variables from the Loughran and Vader sentiment analysis. Stepwise model selection using AIC with backward selection was used again for variable selection. The variable selection returned several variables from both the Vader and Loughran sentiment analysis. A new model was compiled using the selected sentiment variables. The positive sentiment from the Loughran analysis and the compound sentiment from the returned very low p-values in. The positive sentiment variable from the Vader analysis was statistically significant within a 90% confidence interval. The negative sentiment variables for both Loughran and Vader showed p-values within an 85% confidence interval. Again, the R-squared values for this model were suspiciously high and the linear regression assumptions were not met. These evaluations indicate the sentiment variables may have some promise in predicting stock prices, but the results of the models might be misleading or inaccurate.
In addition to using stock price as a response variable we also explored the use of percent returns. We created features for next day percent return through percent return 90 days in the future. As part of our analysis we wanted to determine how current post sentiment might affect prices in differing future time periods. A series of experiments were constructed for each percent return feature. We again utilized AIC with backward selection as well as all features from the Loughrain and Vader sentiment analysis. A problem we noted when regressing on percent returns greater than 3 days in the future, is the general upward trend the stock market experienced during our period of analysis. We believe the models picked up on this and incorrectly associated the independent variables to this effect. As a result we decided upon a model using percent return 2 days in the future from current day.
4. Interactive Implementation
Using Reddit textual analysis to understand the impact on stock prices is an innovation we want to make available as a web UI. This is where we will combine our innovations of textual analysis, and interactive tools.
4.1 Database Architecture (MongoDB database)
Part of designing the data included collecting historic and real time reddit posts from subreddits such as "/r/wallstreetbets". A raw format of the posts and comments was stored on the MongoDB collections. The extract, transform and load (ETL) phase enabled us to collect meaningful data to achieve better predictions. The data was enclosed into 3 MongoDB collections.
- submissions_collections : contains all the posts made under "wallstreetbets" subreddit since 1/1/18 till date. The title and selftext keys are "text" indexed in mongodb, so that the stock ticker symbols can be searched anywhere in those fields.
- Comments_collection: contains the comments made under each post. The body key of the comments is indexed by "text".
- Sentiments_collection: This collection aggregates the stock price information, with sentiment features and final prediction to buy/sell the stock.
4.2 Real-time Daily Data extraction (Reddit and stock pricing)
To enable real-time stock prediction analysis based on reddit post sentiment, we performed the following.
4.2.1 Reddit Data
Praw is a python library which provides ways to set up streams to extract posts made under a subreddit realtime. Using this, we setup a python script to continuously extract posts made under "wallstreetbets" and load it into our MongoDB submissions_collection.
4.2.2 Stock Market Data
For the proposed models we required "end of day" stock closing prices for the list of stocks we were using for this project. This data was extracted from "http://alphavantage.co".
4.3 Apply prediction on the extracted Real-Time data
Based on the research and experiments we performed, we used the ideal sentiment analysis technique to the calculate the sentiment score as a nightly job. This was applied on all the posts and comments made under 'wallstreetbets' on that day. Also, we used the sentiment score and the stock price as inputs to our linear regression model to calculate the predicted percentage change in 2 days.
4.4 Web UI
To effectively visualize impact of sentiment data over the stock price, we created a series of visualizations which helps understand the realistic impact of social media posts on a stock. To create this, we used reactjs, recharts (D3 charts implemented in react framework) and python web framework.
UI is accessible at http://liztd.com
4.4.1 Web Server
A python based web server is hosted to create an API for stock sentiment and posts data available in MongoDB. This API takes the ticker symbol as input and generates the output necessary for painting the graphs and posts on the UI.
4.4.2 User Interface
The UI majorly highlights the following sections:
1. Historical Stock Price – Price vs Date
2. Sentiment Score – Compound Sentiment Score vs Date
3. Number of Posts – Post Count vs Date
4. Prediction vs Actual – Predicted Percentage Change for 2 Days in Future vs Actual
1. A drop down menu to select the stock ticker of interest
2. Today's pricing information
3. Historical stock price in a tabular format
4. Posts made on the ticker which are color coded based on the sentiment they reflect
6. Conclusions and Discussion
We hoped to extract a usable signal from the social media posts on WallStreetBets. However our models did not produce statistically significant results that would be appropriate to make investing decisions. We ultimately suspect that the posts made to the WallStreetBets forum were not of sufficient quantity or quality.
We believe that there is still some potential signal to be found within Reddit social media posts, but it will require examining other investment related sub forums in an attempt to increase content and perhaps find a sub forum with higher quality discussion. In addition it may be worthwhile to explore a combination of sentiment metrics from other financial social media outlets in addition to our findings. We hope to expand upon our web application in the future and discover a more robust model that is both statistically significant and economically viable.
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Tuesday, July 01, 2008
Contemporary composer's Dutch courage
The Dutch composer Lex van Delden died on July 1, 1988. I first came across his music in 1972 when it was used in the title sequence of a BBC Television programme about the Concertgebouw Orchestra, and my photo montage above shows van Delden against a background of stills from the programme.
Born Alexander Zwaap in 1919, as a Jew van Delden played a courageous role in the Dutch resistance against the Nazis, but suffered the loss of almost his entire family in the Holocaust. After the war he found work through his wartime contacts as the resident composer and music director of the first post-war Dutch ballet group, "Op Vrije Voeten" ("On Liberated Feet") and from 1947 as the music editor of the daily, originally underground, newspaper "Het Parool".
Most of his pre-war compositions were destroyed during the accidental bombing of Nijmegen in 1944 by the U.S. Air Force and the first of his works to attract wide attention was Rubáiyát (nine quatrains by Omar Khayyám in an English translation) for chorus with soprano and tenor solos, 2 pianos and percussion which won the prestigious Music Prize of the City of Amsterdam in 1948. He also achieved recognition in North America when he won two awards from the Northern California Harpists' Association, for his Harp Concerto (1951/'52), in 1953, and Impromptu (1955; for harp solo), in 1956.
Van Delden's music addressed subjects of social concern including his In Memoriam (1953; for orchestra), which was written in the aftermath of the great flood disaster of 1953 in the Low Countries and England, the oratorio The Bird of Freedom (1955), which is an emotional cry against slavery, the radiophonic oratorio Icarus (1962), which questions the usefulness of space travel, and Canto della Guerra (after Erasmus, 1967; for chorus and orchestra), which is a strong condemnation of war. Although his music was tonal in the widest sense, van Delden worked energetically on behalf of contemporary composers and sat on the Board of the International Society for Contemporary Music (I.S.C.M.).
Despite early recognition and a large body of published compositions which reaches Opus 114 van Delden's music is little known outside Holland. But high profile musicians have championed his work including Bernard Haitink, Eugum Jochum and George Szell, all of who are represented on an excellent Etcetra CD devoted to his music. The four works on the disc, all live concert recordings with the Concertgebouw Orchestra, are the Tippett indebted 1961 Concerto per Due Orchestre D'Archi, the spiky Stravinsky flavoured 1960 Piccolo Concerto scored for twelve winds, timpani, percussion and piano (both under the baton of Jochum), the single movement 1967 Musica Sinfonica (with Haitink) which needs no justification and is surely the composer's masterpiece, and the intense fourteen minute 1955 Sinfonia No. 3 'Facets' (with Szell).
Some great and demanding conductors programmed van Delden's compositions with one of the world's leading orchestras. Let us hope the twentieth anniversary of the composer's death finally brings the international attention his music deserves. The Lex van Delden Foundation website includes a biography, catalogue of works and discography, and his publisher , Edition Peters, can be found here.
Now read how contemporary music goes Dutch.
Photo montage (c) On An Overgrown Path 2008, Lex van Delden photo credit Edition Peters. Any copyrighted material on these pages is included as "fair use", for the purpose of study, review or critical analysis only, and will be removed at the request of copyright owner(s). Report broken links, missing images and errors to - overgrownpath at hotmail dot co dot uk
4 comments:
- Otterhouse said...
Lex van Delden was, besides a composer, a music critic, who had no affiliation with most post-war developments in "serious music".
Add that to the fact that his music regularly was performed by the concertgebouw orchestra, and you have a nice
cocktail for being the new Beckmesser.... In his opera "Labyrinth" (1964), composer Peter Schat is letting Lex van Delden
slowly been strangled to death in a film interlude... When in the 1970's people like Louis Andriessen, Peter Schat and Jan van Vlijmen
"controlled" the contemporary music scene, Lex van Delden's music was banned from the concert halls.
To be honest, I've listned a lot (I've traded my car stereo for 52 Donemus Lp's...:) to Lex van Delden's music, but I find
it hard to get through it. Muddy, clouded and sticky....
His son (also named Lex van Delden, and not Lex Zwaap!) is a famous actor in the Netherlands.
Rolf den Otter
My hobby classical lp blog.
- 8:23 am
- Pliable said...
Rolph, thanks for the additional information, I had wondered if there was a link between the composer and the actor.
Hindsight is wonderful, and your email would have provided a better headline for my article - 'A contemporary Beckmesser'.
To explain to other readers Donemus is Music Centre the Netherlands who publish Dutch contemporary composers, release CDs and broadcast web radio. Lots of good things on their website -
- 8:36 am
- JMW said...
Thanks for this, It was completely new to me and I'm intrigued.
- 3:02 pm
- Iskander said...
Perhaps Rolf den Otter ought to have his ears cleaned out: one only needs to listen to Dabringhaus und Grimm's superb releases of Lex van Delden's chamber music, performed by members of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, and of his complete string quartets, played by the Utrecht String Quartet, (or indeed to the Etcetera disc devoted to four of his orchestral works) to realise that he is a major composer, whose life-affirming music fully deserves international attention, as "On An Overgrown Path"'s Editor has argued so eloquently!
- 5:36 pm


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低電圧スイッチギア市場の予測 (産業分析・地域展望・価格動向・競合市場シェア)
Low Voltage Switchgear Market Size By Protection, Product, Rated Current, Voltage Rating, Installation, Current Application, Industry Analysis, Regional Outlook, Application Development, Price Trend, Competitive Market Share & Forecast, 2019-2025
|低電圧スイッチギア市場の予測 (産業分析・地域展望・価格動向・競合市場シェア)
出版日: 2019年02月11日
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Low Voltage Switchgear Market Size By Protection (Circuit Breakers {ACB, MCCB, MCB, MSP, MPCB}, Fuse {Fuse-Switch Disconnector, Switch Disconnector with Fuse, Others}), By Product (Fixed Mounting, Plug-in, Withdrawable Unit), By Rated Current (≤ 1000 Ampere, 1001 to 5000 Ampere, > 5000 Ampere), By Voltage Rating (≤ 250 Volts, 251 to 750 Volts, > 750 Volts), By Installation (Indoor, Outdoor), By Current (AC, DC) By Application (Substation, Distribution, Power Factor Correction, Sub Distribution, Motor Control) Industry Analysis Report, Regional Outlook, Application Development Potential, Price Trend, Competitive Market Share & Forecast, 2019 - 2025.
Low Voltage Switchgear Market in 2018 surpassed an annual installation of 30?000 thousand units and is predicted to exceed USD 80?000 million by 2025. Increasing rural energy demand coupled with ongoing amendments incorporating with security & safety of supply will foster the industry landscape. Furthermore, the reinstallation of power distribution infrastructure in warfare prone Middle East nations will further stimulate the product demand.
Circuit breaker infused low voltage switchgear market is expected to grow at a rate of over 6% by 2025. Operational safety along with ability to reset, pose immense expansion potential across grids having persistent current faults and outages. In addition, these products on account of their wide application across industrial and utility-based installations will further positively influence the industry landscape.
In 2018, fixed mounted units accounted for over 40% of the global LV switchgear market share. The incorporation of limited adjoining parts coupled with low breakdown rate have inviolably influenced the unit installation across the industry.
By 2025, the - 1000 Ampere Low Voltage switchgear market is anticipated to exceed USD 18 billion. The products on account of wide application across process industries, infrastructure and power sectors in line with expanding decentralized energy networks will observe substantial development across the forecast timeline.
Rising demand for effective fault clearance facility supported by enhanced product efficiencies will fuel the demand for Direct Current (DC) LV switchgear market. The versatile operational support for Alternating Current (AC) circuits interconnection favored by lesser operational losses will further propel the product adoption.
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The U.S. low voltage switchgear market is anticipated to grow at a rate of over 5% by 2025. Initiations by government toward the upgradation and replacement of conventional distribution networks in line with rising demand for cost efficient products will fuel the business outlook. In 2017, the U.S. regulators, announced an investment over USD 600 million in compliance with their Electrification Project hovering across the Peninsula Corridor.
Indoor LV switchgear market is expected to grow on account of growth in the real estate sector across developing countries. Significant growth in infrastructure investment from private funding institutions backed by regulatory reforms and initiatives have infused a competitive business outlook.
Leading LV switchgear market players include GE, Siemens, Schneider, ABB, Mitsubishi, Eaton, Hyundai Electric, Hyosung, E+I Engineering, Norelco START, L&T, Fuji, Skema, Hubbell, Hitachi, Al Hassan Engineering, Powell and Lucy Electric.


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