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Lill-Karin Skaret, a 67-year-old grandmother from Namsos, Norway, was traveling to a lakeside vacation villa near Indias port city of Kochi in March 2010 when her car collided with a truck. She was rushed to the Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, her right leg broken and her artificial hip so damaged that replacing it required 12 hours of surgery.
Three weeks later and walking with the aid of crutches, Skaret was relieved to be home. Then her doctor gave her upsetting news. Mutant germs that most antibiotics cant kill had entered her bladder, probably from a contaminated hospital catheter in India. She risked a life-threatening infection if the bacteria invaded her bloodstream -- a waiting game over which she had limited control, Bloomberg Markets magazine reports in its June issue.
I got a call from my doctor who told me they found this bug in me and I had to take precautions, Skaret remembers. I was very afraid.
Skaret was lucky. Eventually, her body rid itself of the bacteria, and she escaped harm from a new type of superbug that scientists warn is spreading faster, further and in more alarming ways than any theyve encountered. Researchers say the epicenter is India, where drugs created to fight disease have taken a perverse turn by making many ailments harder to treat.
Indias $12.4 billion pharmaceutical industry manufactures almost a third of the worlds antibiotics, and people use them so liberally that relatively benign and beneficial bacteria are becoming drug immune in a pool of resistance that thwarts even high-powered antibiotics, the so-called remedies of last resort.
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Church of Sinai
it was my understanding that the Church of Sinai was fairly universally recognised as being an autonomous church. is this the case, and who is it/is it not recognised by? Pistevo 23:46, 14 Jul 2005 (EDT)
- I'm not sure of the details, but in the Fitzgerald book listed in the Sources, Sinai isn't included in his list. (Fr. Thomas is a priest of the GOA and a professor at Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology. —Dcn. Andrew talk random contribs 08:03, 15 Jul 2005 (EDT)
Archbishopric of Ohrid
There is also autonomous Archibishopric of Ohrid. Church of Serbia garanted Autonomy to them 2004.--Ddpbf 06:29, April 19, 2007 (PDT)
- Archdiocese is the usual English term. I've added this to the "expanded" order. —Fr. Andrew talk contribs 14:01, April 19, 2007 (PDT)
Prior to making changes I want to ask: what is the point of the "expanded" order? Why is it stated that the autonomy of the Archbishopric of Ohrid is recognized only by Serbia?!? First of all, Serbia is a country, a political entity, and it is not up to a political entity to recognize or not recognize a church. Second - the Patriarchate of Pec granted autonomy to the Archbishopric of Ohrid and notified all other churches of this. There is no need that the other churches recognize or not recognize this autonomy, as it is an internal matter of the Patriarchate of Pec. The Archbishopric of Ohrid is in communion with all orthodox churches. What other form of recognition by the other churches is needed? K.panteleimon 20:32, June 1, 2009 (UTC)
- To answer your two questions:
- 1. The "expanded order" is explained in the article. It is "is recognized by some churches, most notably the Church of Russia and its dependencies and historical daughter churches." That is, it represents an order which some of the Orthodox world agrees on.
- 2. Autonomy and autocephaly are not simply a matter of who locally gets to do what. Rather, there is (at least theoretically) a seat at the table in inter-Orthodox gatherings for separate representations of autonomous and autocephalous churches. The reason why that universal recognition matters is precisely for the purposes of such inter-Orthodox meetings. (Moscow's representatives, for instance, walked out of a meeting when a delegation showed up from the EP's autonomous Estonian church.)
- —Fr. Andrew talk contribs (THINK!) 22:10, June 1, 2009 (UTC)
- Father Andrew, thanks for your answers. From what you say one may conclude that the "seat at the table in an inter-Orthodox gathering" is the measure of autonomy (and autocephaly). That would not be true. But, let's say that is correct. In that case, can you please name the last gathering where, for example, the Church of China was given an autonomous seat? If this criteria, however, proves to be true, we should write that in the "autonomy" page in this Wiki.
- You mention a meeting from which the representatives of the Moscow Patriarchate walked away. If you are referring to the meeting in Ravenna in October 2007, allow me to point out that first of all that was not an Inter-Orthodox meeting. What is more important is the fact that the Estonian delegation was part of the Ecumenical Patriarchate delegation, they were not invited as an autonomous church and reserved an autonomous seat.
- But, since autonomy (unlike autocephaly) is an internal matter of each Church, the Ecumenical Patriarchate chose to include a representative from its Estonian Church in its delegation.
- At last, please have in mind that the problem in Estonia is due to the fact that two canonical orthodox Partriarchates claim juristiction over that territory, i.e. there are two canonical juristictions there. That is not the case with the autonomous Archbishopric of Ohrid which is the only canonical Church on the territory of R. Macedonia.
- K.panteleimon 09:39, June 2, 2009 (UTC)
- Furthermore, here is a denial of the statement "recognized only by Serbia", and an explanation how autonomy is percieved in the orthodox world by Metropolitan Kiril of Varna, (canonical) Orthodox Church of Bulgaria: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLNsNcGH5nY who, asked about the autonomy of the Archbishopric of Ohrid and how the Church of Bulgaria sees this matter, says that "when one a canonical orthodox Church reaches a decision, we accept that without disputes. For us it is vaild." and later "it is not correct that I comment on the decisions of another Church, it is their internal matter". He gives nice explanations on, please take your time to hear his statements.
- K.panteleimon 18:29, June 2, 2009 (UTC)
ROCOR's autonomy
Please do not keep adding the ROCOR to this list. It is not an autonomous church in the sense that these other churches are autonomous, but is indeed regarded by both itself and the MP as being corporately part of the Church of Russia. —Fr. Andrew talk contribs 19:21, May 29, 2007 (PDT)
The Church of Cyprus
Why was my entry here removed? It makes a legitimate note that the Russians place the order of the hierarchy differently, and it just so happens that the Greeks and the Arabs do the same regarding the position of the Church of Cyprus. As I explained, the ancient Patriarchates, the Church of Greece, and the Church of Cyprus, regard Cyprus as featuring immediately before Moscow. The Archbishop has certain three privileges, namely being able to wear red beneath the rason, carrying a stick with a double-headed snake, and signing his name in red. The Church was founded by Paul, Barnabas, and Lazaros, and it is the location of the tomb of Barnabas with his copy of Matthew that led ultimately to irrefutable independence from the Patriarchate of Antioch. Eugene 13:34, January 23, 2009 (UTC)
- The edit was reverted because it's simply not factually true. There is no Orthodox church that ranks Cyprus higher than Moscow. In fact, all of them rank all the patriarchal-rank churches before Cyprus.
- Here's an example from a recent event presided over by the Ecumenical Patriarch: http://www.ec-patr.org/docdisplay.php?lang=en&id=995&tla=en Look at the list of signatures at the bottom of this official document. Note how all the patriarchal churches are listed before Cyprus.
- As for the list of Cypriot privileges, of course no one denies those. But that kind of detail is appropriate for the Church of Cyprus article. (Indeed, it's already there.) —Fr. Andrew talk contribs (THINK!) 22:49, January 23, 2009 (UTC)
OK point taken. I am mistaken. You're right, in the hierarchy Cyprus is where it is, and above Greece because of her ancient autocephaly, but not above Patriarchates. Eugene 23:52, January 23, 2009 (UTC)
- PS finally found a reference that says she was placed above the other Patriarchates, immediately AFTER Moscow. http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Rotunda/2209/Cyprus.html Eugene 00:28, January 26, 2009 (UTC)
- Interesting, but dated. The patriarchal rank of Serbia, Romania, Bulgaria and Georgia were all either established or restored after 1754. In any event, I wouldn't take that (whatever it is) as a reliable source on how the Orthodox churches are actually ranked by the Orthodox churches. —Fr. Andrew talk contribs (THINK!) 00:49, January 26, 2009 (UTC)


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Robert Huston starts his session on grains marketing with the question, "What single factor do you think affects the corn market the most: weather/yield potential, crude oil, the dollar, gold, index funds, ethanol, or the economy?"
And using tiny electronic devices, each audience member can punch in a number for the answer he/she favors, with results tabulated on the auditorium screen.
As Huston, who is general manager of the Bloomington, Ill., advisory service, AgriVisor, predicts, none of the answers gets a runaway majority.
"Wherever I do this presentation, in the Corn Belt or elsewhere," he said at the Mississippi Farm Bureau Federation's Winter Commodity Conference at Jackson, Miss., "the results are usually the same — a broad range of answers.
"No single answer is the right one," he says. "All these factors affect the market.
"That said, however, I would choose the dollar, which is having a huge impact on our exports. With a lower value dollar, our exports are more attractive to other currencies with greater buying power. A lower dollar will enable us to have strong exports and will be good for the market.
"My overall bias for grains is bearish," Huston says. "While there are reasons to be bullish long term, I'm more concerned right now about the potential for downside risk than I am optimistic about the upside potential.
"Because of the large corn crop, the higher prices we had prior to the January USDA report, and the way the dollar's been acting, the numbers for corn aren't that impressive, especially if we want to see higher prices for corn.
"A lot of analysts are looking at $4.53 as a strong resistance level for corn on the upside, with support around $3 on the downside, and that's pretty much my bias. I'm more concerned about protecting downside risk than I am optimistic about prices going to $4.50.
"In many cases, $3 is not a profitable level for corn, so if you get an opportunity to lock in $4 to $4.50, it's our opinion that you should do so."
There's a lot of corn in the Midwest, which is reflected in the USDA's 2009 production estimate of 13.15 billion bushels, with ending stocks of 1.76 billion bushels — not a record by any means, but a pretty significant number. The 165.2-bushel average yield was a record and higher than what the trade was expecting.
"Total usage was 13 billion bushels, an impressive number. Of that, 4.3 billion went to ethanol and 2 billion to exports.
"Going forward, I expect we're going to see continued volatility, a lot of ups and downs, but within trading ranges.
"Fertilizer prices have come down quite a bit, but farmers are still doing a lot of number crunching going into the new season."
AgriVisor analysts are projecting more corn acreage this year, Huston says, "and even with a 13 billion-bushel crop, keeping exports stable at 2 billion and raising ethanol use to 4.6 billion bushels, we're still looking at a 1.6 billion-bushel carryout.
"It's going to be interesting to see, between now and planting season — especially with the price of soybeans and the price of fertilizer — if we get a higher planted acreage, given the hit corn prices have taken following the January report."
Adverse weather was a factor for much of the country last year, regardless of the crop, Huston notes. The Corn Belt has had weather problems the last two years and October was one of the wettest on record over much of the Mid-South and other corn-growing areas.
"This could affect the market in terms of basis, and also when that corn comes to market. A lot of high moisture corn went into bins, and many farmers are worrying about quality, so there's likely to be quite a bit of corn coming into the market over the next couple of months as a result of these quality concerns."
Is the corn market going higher or lower, Huston asked the audience, and 60 percent of the electronic responses were for lower prices, 40 percent higher.
"My own personal bias is that it will trend lower between now and spring because of all the corn that's going to come to market," he says. "Even though there has been index fund buying of corn, I don't think there's going to be enough to offset the selling pressures.
"December seasonal corn charts indicate what most of us know, that the best time to be forward marketing corn is between February and June."
It's interesting, he says, that index funds have been adding to their long positions in corn, even after the January USDA report.
"I think some of this is that they're looking at corn as an asset class to offset some of the risk in the stock market. They've also added to their long positions in soybeans since the January report."
From 1992 through 2009, volatility in the corn and wheat markets has continued to increase, Huston says, with higher highs and lower lows, and "I expect this volatility is going to become greater in the future."
Producers need to take steps to protect themselves against the risk in volatile markets, he says.
"Risk is any uncertainty that can affect the achievement of your objectives, including those that can help your business and those that can hurt it.
"You've got to protect your basic risks first, using tools that have been around for a long time — whether it be crop insurance, futures, or cash sales. Then, you might be able to accept some risk above and beyond that to try and enhance your bottom line.
"What I've found in working with farmers is that the best way to market grains is to be diverse, to use different tools, and to not try and hit the high by selling all your grain at one time. If you sell in small increments and vary the ways you market your grain, you're going to be a lot more satisfied long term."
A key to successful marketing, Huston says, is diversification.
"If you've done things one way in the past, consider breaking that up a bit and trying some new things. With the volatility in the markets, it's going to be increasingly difficult to sell successfully. Diversify the way you manage price risk, and if you're not familiar with basis or options and other methods, seek professional marketing service to assist you.
"A lot of producers don't like to use options, and five, seven, 10 years ago when corn traded in range of $2.20 to $2.50, you didn't need options. They were too expensive and there wasn't enough opportunity to justify the bother. But when you have the price of corn go from $8 to $3 in one year, or from $4.50 to $3, there's a lot more reason to use options now than in the past.
"I urge you to become familiar with them — find a trusted advisor who can explain them to you and help you come up with a way to diversify your risk."
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Patrick Nagatani exposes NM's "Nuclear Enchantment" in far-away Ohio. I bet the Department of Tourism is psyched.
When is reading an 80s nostalgia flashback not like reading about paint drying? When Levi Eleven writes it.
Here comes the new boss, same as the old boss.
LANL management in action: Step 1, conduct employee survey. Step 2, sit on the results.
Belen's Oñate Theatre becomes on of those restaurants with "a whole lot of crazy crap on the walls." Better than being torn down.


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Joint NERSC/OLCF/NICS Cray XT5 Workshop
February 1-3, 2010
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The Joint Cray XT5 Workshop is designed to provide an in-depth introduction to using the world's newest and largest Cray XT5 systems. Representatives and staff from the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center, the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility, the National Institute for Computational Science, Cray, and AMD will explain how to use XT5 systems productively.
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Go on, admit it — you thought the international break for a load of pointless friendlies would be about as much fun as watching beige paint evaporate, didn't you? Well, to be honest, so did The Spoiler.
Okay, so it wasn't heart-stopping stuff, but the England game was alright, Scotland were impressive against Northern Ireland and Wesley Sneijder scored this bloody lovely goal.
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Oct. 18, 2004
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GORHAM, MAINE - The women's cross country team travelled to Cumberland, Maine, on Saturday for the University of Southern Maine Invitational, placing fifth in a12-team field. The Engineers scored 158 points behind Tufts University's winning total of 42 points. Leading the squad was co-captain Julia Espel in 11th place, who covered the 6000 meter course in 23:47.
Espelwas followed by freshman Kristen Burrall in 24th and sophomore Alisha Schor in 42nd. Completing the scoringseven were co-captain Jen Gaugler (47th), Liz Walker (53rd), Victoria Hsu (59th) and Angelique Moscicki (60th). Twenty one athletes competed for MIT.
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Schaumburg police arrest five for burglary after chase
Schaumburg police said Friday they have charged five men with residential burglary after a chase after two of them entered the home of two senior citizens under false pretenses on Tuesday. As the men fled, their vehicle caused one minor injury in a collision, investigators said.
Charged with one count each of residential burglary were Corky Miller, 40, of the 2400 block of North Clybourn in Chicago; Michael Miller, 40, of the 8200 block of North Milwaukee in Niles; Lawrence Miller, 18, of the 1800 block of Palm in Prospect Heights; Alan Ely, 23, of the 1800 block of White Chapel in Mount Prospect; and Rocky Reed, 23, of the 500 block of Ida Court in Mount Prospect.
Miller also was charged with one felony count of fleeing and eluding.
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On Tuesday afternoon, a Schaumburg police detective was conducting burglary surveillance on the east side of the village when he observed a vehicle on Spring Creek Circle that matched a description of one belonging to burglary suspects from another community.
The detective observed two men run from a home and enter the vehicle in which three other men already were.
As the detective began following the vehicle, the vehicle began taking evasive action and eventually was involved in two separate, minor traffic collisions -- one with a civilian vehicle and another with a Schaumburg squad car at the intersection of Woodfield Road and Mall Drive.
Police arrested all five occupants of the vehicle at that point. The driver of the civilian vehicle suffered a minor injury in the collision.
Police said two of the men had approached two elderly residents at their home claiming to be construction workers who had struck something while working down the street and needed to check for lighting problems in the home. They fled after being alerted of a possible police presence by their partners in the car.
During a bond hearing Thursday at the Cook County courthouse in Rolling Meadows, Corky Miller received a $50,000 bond and Reed, Ely and Lawrence Miller received $20,000 bonds. Michael Miller was remanded to the custody of the Cook County Sheriff's Department and is being held without bond for a probation violation.


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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - The MIT men's fencing team finished in third place at the New England Championship on Saturday. Brandeis University and Boston College tied for the top spot as they posted nine more wins than the Engineers.
Igor Kopylov collected his second consecutive sabre title as he edged out Malcom Conley (Boston College) by scoring two more touches en route to a 9-2 mark. Namit Setia placed fifth in the "B" pool with a 6-5 total while Raymond Wu finished third at 8-2 in the "C" pool. As a team, the sabre squad placed second with a ledger of 23-9.
Sebastian Castro's tally of 10-1 in the "C" pool lifted the foil team to a third-place finish and a 26-7 total. Spencer Sugimoto and Jason Chen both recorded marks of 8-3, with Sugimoto placing fourth in the top tier and Chen capturing fifth in the "B" pool.
The epee team placed fourth with an overall record of 20-12. Trevor Chang finished fourth (6-5), as Gabriel Chan took third place in the "B" pool with an 8-3 total. Matt Gethers rounded out the squad with a 6-4 record, good for a third-place ranking.


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WWE officially announced Monday that WrestleMania XXX will take place April 6, 2014 at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome in New Orleans.
The Superdome, site of the 2013 Super Bowl and home of the National Football League's New Orleans Saints, will host the "Granddaddy of 'em all" for the first time.
"WrestleMania is a celebration, it's what we do," WWE chairman Vince McMahon said. People from all over the world will come to New Orleans. ... There's nothing like it."
WrestleMania is no stranger to the south, with the event being held in places like Miami, Atlanta and Houston in the past, but this will be the first time down in the Bayou.
"We've been keeping this secret for quite sometime now and I couldn't be happier to be bringing WrestleMania to this great city," New Orleans Saints vice chairman Rita Benson LeBlanc said.
The Superdome, which opened in 1975, has a listed capacity of around 73,000 for football games. It has hosted the Sugar Bowl since 1975 and has also been home to seven Super Bowls. The Superdome also has hosted five NCAA men's basketball Final Fours and will host the NCAA women's basketball Final Four this year.
"The week they come to us, we can expect it to be like a Super Bowl or a Final Four coming in," New Orleans mayor Mitch Landrieu said.


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I'm getting tired of having to spoonfeed this to some of you people individually. As it turns out though, thankfully, I can edit the OP so at least read this. I am not arguing against love, relationships or commitment, or anything the like. Quite the opposite, I'm saying they're good enough on their own without the need for the legal paperwork, money-waste and label of marriage. I welcome any opinion whether I like it or not, but not when you're missing all of the actual points like a little boy splashing the rim and substitute your own. No one's forcing you to read the whole thread, but at least read the damn OP of the thread next time or don't bother. It's getting frustrating having to read through your condescending tones just to find out you just didn't pay attention.
Hey. I'm not sure if I made a thread before but I'd like to put some of my thoughts on marriage here and see what all of you guys think. I see many of you as much smarter than me, and I think I can learn some. This got a little long, and I don't know if I should post it as a blog instead, but since my objective is to get some sort of exchange/discussion going a thread is more fitting. This is my opinion only. I'm not going to talk about gay-marriage or things like that, we all already know enough about that. I want to talk about marriage itself.
My stance on marriage is not that everybody should be allowed to have one, including gays. My stance is that nobody should get married, including straight people. And I'm often confused as to why atheists, secular intelligent people, would want to engage in this antiquated, forcefully contrived and often religious social construct.
I've said this in one form or another before. People like to think about marriage as this magical bond between two people in love, but for the bigger part of its history marriage wasn't about love at all. We know that in the past ages marriage was only used as a form of sales-contract, a political relationship building tool between two parties, and a way for the rulers to keep tabs on their subjects, while making sure they don't run amok fucking and raping each other aimlessly. It was an easy social structure to introduce into a primitive society that would otherwise kill each other over women to rape (which they did, and still do regardless). As a religious construct, it has been solely used for the above mentioned purposes, plus turn women into property. We need only look at some religious men and their harem of wives, to see that in that marriage women have become nothing more than a commodity. In marriage, even today, women are often nothing more than merchandise. Why do you think religious men always emphasize the importance of staying pure and staying away from sex until marriage? Because some men have very small penises. And some men with small penises are willing to pay high prices for a certain commodity: virginity. They want sex with virgins, because the small-dicked man knows the virgin doesn't know any better, so he has a confidence boost. Same reason they marry old geezers to little children, under the ruse of "our prophet did it." It's all about keeping the business running. Tell girls not to fuck. Slut-shame them should they dare to have sex outside of marriage. Call them whores, sluts, whatever. Put peer-pressure on them. Because if they do, the market will run dry.
There are a some popular arguments for/about marriage that I'd like to take on.
- It's a public declaration of loyalty. / It shows commitment.
This is a common error. Marriage doesn't make someone any more loyal then s/he would've been anyway, and if it does it's either because of peer-pressure (look up countries with the lowest divorce rates) or simple disingenuity. If you are in a relationship (which is not open), then you should be able to stay loyal and make it clear you're committed all by yourself, without a ring on your finger to vouch for you. Saying marriage ads to the commitment and shows loyalty is really no different than, for example, saying the bible gives us strength and hope. We should be able to have those things by ourselves, and those who cling to it show only a lack of those traits in themselves; just as someone who can not be as loyal without marriage shows a lack of confidence in their loyalty to begin with.
Now there also many people who say that they want a marriage to make sure their partner is committed. To me, a person who says they cannot expect loyalty and commitment unless their partner agrees to marry them is a person who displays a severe lack of trust, confidence and faith in their partner. A crucial flaw which wouldn't work out too well for a relationship to begin with.
I'm quoting the next point from a post from another member, MikeLong, here. I originally wanted to answer you in that thread, but the lack of a reply button was getting on my nerves, sorry.
- If shit goes south, marriage makes us try harder to preserve the relationship, rather than simply cast it aside as just another failed relationship.
Again, I think this should go without having to be married. If the relationship is worth it you should put all effort in, but not because you think "Oh well, we're married now. And it's kinda too much work to get divorced anyway." If marriage is your only incentive to keep a relationship alive, it's not a relationship of love as it is a cold iron chain locking you together.
More importantly though, just because a relationship is over doesn't mean it's failed. We fall in love, and then often we get jaded, and it's over. But that doesn't mean it wasn't worthwhile, that it was a waste of time, or that it failed. We experience something nice, and then it's time to move on. What marriage does is hold you trapped, after you've had enough. And I believe that the idea of an ended relationship being a "failed" relationship is something, more often than not, pushed into our culture by clergy. They are mostly the ones we hear bitching about divorce rates in secular countries and how it's somehow directly related to the moral decline in that country. That's bullshit. The only thing a divorce means is that two people no longer want to be together. What does the reason matter? Clergy often pretend like it's because people turn gay and the men divorce their wives because they want to go to a gay bar and have wild gay sex out of wedlock (ironically the solution would be to allow same-sex marriage, but I digress). But even if it were so, so what? How would it make those two people any more happy if they were continuously trapped in a marriage? Even when, at first, only one of the two partners wants a divorce, to me it would be much more horrible to force the other person to stay married. I certainly wouldn't want to be in a relationship with someone who doesn't want me anymore. Platonic love doesn't end well for either party.
So what I'm rambling on about it that ending a relationship is not always a bad thing. Call me a cynic, but I believe that it's a good time even most of the time. Something sucks, you work at it. But at some point you have to stop and accept that it might just not be worth it to try and pick up all the pieces off of the floor so you can glue them together and hope it sticks for just a little while longer. At some point you just have to leave the pieces lie and move the fuck on.
- marriage is the sacred bond between a man and a woman
Obviously, this is an argument that comes from the theist camp. Now I'm not going to argue about how retarded it is to suggest that gays have any less of a right to a marriage, we already know that, but instead tell you why I think religion loves pairing different genders so much. It's because man + woman = baby. Baby = another unit in the army. That's it. Nothing profound to it. Sacred bond my ass. It's about growing numbers like a virus. Rulers in all ages understood that if you want to build a powerful nation, what you need are people. Many many people. As many as possible. Living conditions, quality of life - doesn't matter. If he can hold a weapon and become cannon-fodder he's good enough. Same reason religion values men more than women. They're physically stronger. Same reason clergy are against abortion, it kills potential units and dwindles their numbers. (It also kills off all the pussy in the age range they like.)
- We do it for the civil / legal / financial rights.
I actually don't know enough about this to be able to fairly comment, so I'd love some input. Obviously I still don't like it. I know people who have been together for years but have no intentions of getting married for any benefits, my own sister included, and they seem to lead happy lives. But are the benefits worth compromising your integrity?Is there no other way to achieve those rights? Would it be at all possible for us to change this? I'm aware that gays fight for marriage because they want the rights that come with it. Now I remember Strega saying in a different thread that if they made some other civil construct which would allow her, as a gay person, to have all the benefits of a usual marriage provides, she'd do it right away. Even if it wasn't called a marriage. Do you agree with this, or do you think that, if anything, both straight people and gays should get the exact same thing? In which case it cannot be a religious union, because all major religions are homophobic. And so...I'm tired.
That's it for now. I actually have much more to say, but I kinda already wrote more than usual and I'm getting bored and I'm sure I've bored most of you by now too. I might add some later. Cut me some slack!
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I think this is the second or third time that I've had to point out that personal anecdotes don't refute statistics. Real statistics are not generally 100%-0%. I can tell an anecdote. A guy jumped out of the 16th floor window and survived. Things like that happen sometimes. So 16th floor jumping survival statistics are probably something like 99% die and 1% survive. If you know the guy who survived, nice for you but it doesn't prove the statistic wrong, and the fact that he survived doesn't mean the next person will survive, too.
Now, getting back to your case, things turned out well, which is good. However, there are things we can't know, which is how much better off you might be under better circumstances. Or how much worse. Statistics are about things that actually happened, and they tend to be fairly good predictors, but of course not in every single case. Given that there's no way to know if one's own case will deviate from the statistical norms in a positive way, the wise thing to do, generally, is to go with the statistical flow.
I'll give you that because right after I finished my post, I realized I should have made it clear that my situation could be an exception. But I got too lazy to type lol
Marriage is pretty much an announcement stating "we are a couple, and we are not available". nothing more nothing less.
The one thing marriage would be good for is spending money. Most girls push for marriage, and I suspect that they like the money spending aspect of it.
Ugh. Do I need to send out an mra alert?
im sorry what is an mra alert?
We need to promote and cultivate marriage for one reason: it really does benefit children.
Let me quote from something very rare: a magazine article that has become a classic. Namely, The Atlantic's, Dan Quayle Was Right by Barbara Dafoe Whitehead. She set out to prove that alternatives to the traditional two-party marriage (assumed to be male-female for purposes of her article) didn't really provide a significantly better context for childrearing than alternatives, but then somewhere along the way, she says she found it becoming clear that the opposite was true:
According to a growing body of social-scientific evidence, children in families disrupted by divorce and out-of-wedlock birth do worse than children in intact families on several measures of well-being. Children in single-parent families are six times as likely to be poor. They are also likely to stay poor longer. Twenty-two percent of children in one-parent families will experience poverty during childhood for seven years or more, as compared with only two percent of children in two parent families. A 1988 survey by the National Center for Health Statistics found that children in single-parent families are two to three times as likely as children in two-parent families to have emotional and behavioral problems. They are also more likely to drop out of high school, to get pregnant as teenagers, to abuse drugs, and to be in trouble with the law. Compared with children in intact families, children from disrupted families are at a much higher risk for physical or sexual abuse.
I know this isn't what we would hope for. We'd like to think that breaking up an unhappy marriage benefits the children, that a woman who decides to have a baby without a husband, that children raised communally, and that same sex marriages are just as good, but perhaps the science doesn't bear it out.
Now, as to same sex marriages, the article predates the current high acceptance of gay marriage and gay childrearing and may be a bit dated in that regard, but I don't think its other conclusions are so easy to refute.
Interesting, I'll have to read that. Does the article specifically talk about the importance of marriage though, or just the standard relationship between one man and one woman, even if they're not married, but live as if they were? I don't see how a legal-contract, namely marriage, would change any statistics.
According to a growing body of social-scientific evidence, children in families disrupted by divorce and out-of-wedlock birth do worse than children in intact families on several measures of well-being. Children in single-parent families are six times as likely to be poor. They are also likely to stay poor longer. Twenty-two percent of children in one-parent families will experience poverty during childhood for seven years or more, as compared with only two percent of children in two parent families.
Doesn't this have to do more with society than a single marriage or a single parent? Obviously financially a man-wife couple are going to be better off than a single mom, but that doesn't speak for marriage as much as it speaks against how little is done to help single parents. And I don't see how that would speak for marriage at all. The opposite of single-parenthood is not marriage, but a simple relationship with another person, minus the label. You have to sign a legal contract, otherwise the planets will misalign and your child will end up fucked up? Is this due to marriage being a magical thing, or rather because those parents weren't able to give their relationship and children enough care without that specific label?
I think it would be time to update the statistics though, 20 years is a long time.
You really should read the article through because it does go into the fact that intact two-parent families are better for children because of more financial stability even if no other advantages applied.
Now, I think I can safely predict that a lot of people want to come forward with anecdotes about someone they know who's doing just fine. The article isn't about someone you know, it's about scientific facts about the outcomes that TEND to happen.
I think anyone wanting to take their child away from a two-parent situation or wanting to raise a child as a single parent from the get-go should look at the facts and ask themselves the ethical question, is it right to bet their child that single-parenting is better than the two-parent situation.
intact two-parent families
I was asking whether "intact two-parent family," in the context of this article, refers to a married couple or ANY couple. Being an intact family obviously is not exclusive to married people.
My point about marriage wasn't that people shouldn't have any relationships and raise children alone, it was that we don't need the word and the legal hoopla that goes with it.
Of course two people will be able to raise children more easily than alone, who ever denied that?
It's been quite a few years since I read the article, but I'm pretty sure that she's arguing that a marriage involves not just a personal commitment but a legal one and thus provides more protection for children than a looser purely personal one that can simply be walked away from. And that would seem to make sense even if the difference is rather small. After all, if two people have a child while living together, the state will hold both parties responsible for at least the financial support of the child, though I'm pretty sure that in most cases the financial support would be better in an intact family.
she's arguing that a marriage involves not just a personal commitment but a legal one and thus provides more protection for children than a looser purely personal one that can simply be walked away from
That would circle back to the second point I made in my OP then. If the legal obligations are the only thing that keep you from walking away and not caring for your kids, you're a horrible parent to begin with and the verdict is not that you should be married, but that you shouldn't have children. At what point then, if marriage is so useful for forcing people to give more effort, do we take the extra step of enforcing marriage?
I've yet to read it, but from what you and Thomas said it seems like this study either wasn't aware of, ignored, or lumped too many things together. There are too many variables, especially since some more popped up in the last 20 years. That and the conservative tone of it calling some things deviant casts a huge shadow on it's credibility and comes off as though the writer was a sandy soccer-mom who thinks drinking alcohol means you're an alcoholic, and doing pot will lead to heroin, jazz music, and interracial sex.
As for gay couples, even if they have a statistically lower chance of raising perfect little children, does it justify banning it or making it less than straight marriage? In that case we should also ban single-parenthood and force single mothers to marry or have their kids taken away from them.
I've yet to read it, but from what you and Thomas said it seems like this study either wasn't aware of, ignored, or lumped too many things together. There are too many variables, especially since some more popped up in the last 20 years. That and the conservative tone of it calling some things deviant casts a huge shadow on it's credibility and comes off as though the writer was a sandy soccer-mom who thinks drinking alcohol means you're an alcoholic, and doing pot will lead to heroin, jazz music, and interracial sex.
Well, she does provide statistics, so after you've read it through, let us know if this is still your impression.
And are you saying that "If it be conservative, it nay be good?"


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If you thought Hewlett-Packard's long-running WebOS saga couldn't get any weirder, you were wrong.
HP said it is spinning off what remains of its WebOS Global Business Unit into a separate company called Gram. No, you read that right: Gram.
Included in the spin-off are the WebOS software and cloud services team, and Enyo, the WebOS application framework for developers, according to a leaked internal memo. Gram, which carries the tagline "Potent. Light. Nimble. At the core of all things big and small," will focus entirely on software and solutions, according to the memo, which offered no other insight into the company's raison d'etre.


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Girls soccer, the first of East Hampton High's teams to play in the postseason this week, thrilled its fans here Monday, defeating Westhampton Beach 4-3, thus coming out on top in the decade-old program's first-ever playoff appearance.
Tiffany Lamprecht, the varsity assistant coach, who played on East Hampton's first girls soccer team in 2000, said afterward that "we were playing today for Mike [Vitulli, East Hampton's head coach, whose mother died this past weekend]. The girls dedicated this win to him."
She told her charges in the postgame huddle that Vitulli, who was to have attended wakes that day and evening, would be "so proud of them."
Lamprecht was proud too, though she admitted later that she'd also been a little nervous, especially when, following a stellar start, Bonac's defense let the Hurricanes get back into the Class A outbracket game.
East Hampton's junior forward, Raffi Franey, who seems to score just about every time she shoots, had a hat trick Monday. She scored the first time East Hampton went downfield, depositing a hard shot from the right side into the left corner of the visitors' nets.
Soon after, in the 12th minute, Franey figured prominently again, bringing the ball down the right side before crossing it onto the feet of Amanda Seekamp, who, from about five yards out, tapped it by Westhampton's beaten keeper.
And, with the first half barely at the midway point, Franey, whose shots match up well with those of the boys, blasted a high one from 10 yards out that hit the underside of the crossbar and bounced down over the goal line for 3-0.
It looked then that a rout was under way, but Westhampton, a team that East Hampton had twice defeated during the regular season, and which also went into the game with a 6-6 league record, was to wind up giving Bonac's girls all they could handle, lending credence to the saying that it's hard to defeat a team three times in a row.
Before the half ended, the visitors, presented with an angled free kick from about the 20 after a defender, Rebecca Friedes, had taken down a Westhampton attacker, got on the scoreboard, the kick into the goal mouth, which drew Bonac's goalie, Kathryn Hess, out to the right, having been chested past her.
Still, at that point, with 8:23 left until the halftime break, it didn't seem as if Westhampton would be capable of inflicting much more damage.
Franey contributed further to that ho-hum feeling when, in the first minute of the second period, she just missed, banging a well-aimed 20-yard shot off the crossbar.
Then Westhampton, which had some quick forwards, reasserted itself in surprising fashion, scoring goals in the 43rd and 45th minutes that tied the game — and wiped the satisfied smiles off the faces of Bonac's fans — at 3-3.
Hess, who's rangy and aggressive, couldn't be blamed for either of them. A rebound from a great sliding save she'd made in thwarting a one-on-one breakaway accounted for the first, and the next, which tied the game, resulted from another defensive lapse that allowed a Westhampton forward to break in on the goal unhindered.
With the visitors emboldened now, the remaining half-hour of play proved to be tense indeed. In the 62nd minute, Hess had a close call as the ball zipped in front of her one way and then zipped back the other, without, luckily, a Westhampton foot having been applied to it.
Meanwhile, Lamprecht and Joe Vas, East Hampton's athletic director, who has coached state-championship teams in boys and girls soccer in his career, were urging East Hampton's attackers, some of whom were getting rid of the ball too soon, not to panic.
In the 73rd minute, East Hampton was awarded a corner kick. Seekamp took it, from the right side, and lofted the ball into the goal mouth where Franey, one of a number of attackers and defenders in contention, won out, heading in what was to be the game-winner as her teammates, those on the field and those on the bench, and Bonac's fans leapt up.
"We knew it wouldn't be easy — we knew we'd be in a fight," Lamprecht said afterward as East Hampton's players, who had reached the outbracket playoff game as the result of defeating Amityville 3-1 on Friday night, celebrated.
The Bonackers were to have played at top-seeded Sayville Tuesday. The Golden Flashes shut East Hampton out 4-0 here last week, though the latter half of the second half, during which two of Sayville's goals were scored, was played in the gloaming — in the dark really in the final minutes.
Seekamp, Franey, and Gabriella Penati scored Bonac's goals Friday. "We must have had 20 shots in the first half, but it ended scoreless," said Lamprecht. "In the second, Amityville scored first, but then we picked it up."
Lamprecht reported as well that Franey has been named to the all-county team, that Hess, who's a senior, and Seekamp, who's a sophomore, have been named to the all-conference team, and that Saoirse McKeon, the senior sweeper, has been named to the all-league team.
Having made the playoffs was all the more notable, she agreed, given that during the season a number of players, including Tiffany Gutierrez, Tenae Walker, Bonnie Spink-O'Brien, and (until recently) McKeon, had been sidelined with injuries.


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Instant ChargeNgoâ"¢ is a portable rechargeable lithium battery charger with multiple interchangeable adapters to fit most mobile phones, PDAs, digital cameras, MP3/MP4 players, Bluetooth Headsets, Ipodâ"¢, Sonyâ"¢ PSP and Gameboys.
Has this ever happened to you?
You're getting ready for work in the morning and you go to get your cell phone which you always plug into the charger every night. Only this time you forgot and after a day of talking, sending text messages, and reading emails, your phone has one bar left. You know it won't last through the day and there's no time to recharge the usual way, so what do you do?
To help the massive amount of busy people who depend on their cell phones, PDAs and other gadgets, Ike Udeokoro has come up with Instant ChargeNgo™ a portable electronic charger which he says can prolong the life of a cell phone for up to 50 hours of use or up to 1600 shots for a digital camera. This is good news for users who know too well how their portable electronics can run out of energy at the most inconvenient times.
Instant ChargeNgo™ is a portable rechargeable lithium battery charger with multiple interchangeable adapters to fit most mobile phones, PDAs, digital cameras, MP3/MP4 players, Bluetooth Headsets, Ipod™, Sony™ PSP and Gameboys.
Udeokoro, who has degrees in polymer engineering and computer engineering and design says he came up with the idea to create this device after his business partner, Olisa Nzekwu, called him up one day complaining about his portable charger. This charger used alkaline batters and only prolonged the life of his phone for a few minutes. After this conversation Udeokoro decided he would design something much more powerful.
Together Udeokoro and Nzekwu created U.N.O LLC a Consumer Electronics and Battery Company based in Fairfield County, Connecticut. The goal of the company is to feed the demand for portable power supplies which is spurred by the tremendous growth in the portable electronic device and mobile industry.
"There was a need for this product," Udeokoro told Black Star News and went on to say that other portable chargers that use alkaline batteries provide only a low flow of energy. According to Udeokoro because of how much we use them, most portable gadgets tend to suffer from the same limitation: a voracious hunger for power.
The key to ChargeNgo™ is the use of cutting edge Li-ion technology, which makes it possible to hold more power in a small lightweight device. The charger is small enough to fit in the palm of your hand. And you can use your cell phone while it is being charged.
Udeokoro says that not long after customers began to use ChargeNgo™ for their phones, they wanted to know if he had something similar for laptop computers. For example your fully charged laptop will only last about four hours. So if you're taking a cross country flight this isn't enough. To meet this new customer demand Udeokoro just finished with the prototype for a universal laptop charger. This pocket sized charger will add eight to 10 hours of additional use.
For his new product, Udeokoro has a very aggressive distribution plan worked out which includes a number of well-known outlets.
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2011-12 (Sophomore):
Won individual title at Ivy League Championships (77-73-75-225) ... Named to All-Ivy League first team ... Earned Harvard's Biff Jeeks Harvard Golf Award ... Tabbed COOP Athlete of the Week April 30 ... Was second on the Crimson, shooting 81-81-76-238 at NCAA Central Regional ... Finished 5th overall at the Yale Intercollegiate ... Placed eighth at the Princeton Women's Invitational... Finished 10-over par at the Penn State Invitational ... Led the Crimson with a second place finish in the final fall tournament at the Harvard Invitational ... Shot a 78 in Harvard's win over Nova Southeastern ... Finished third among the Crimson with a score of 230 (74-76-80) at the Rebel Intercollegiate ... Helped Harvard win Roar-EE Invitational crown, finishing tied for 16th (74-83-157).
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OpenXava 4.2.2 released
OpenXava 4.5 released
July 18, 2012
OpenXava 4.5 has some new interesting features such as:
- Support for all strategies of JPA inheritance mapping.
- Data for list and collections is obtained via JPA, before JDBC was used.
- Automated Business Logic (ABL) library added.
- All new layout architecture (the code that paints the UI). It still in BETA but can be activated with layout.painter in xava.properties.
And many other useful new features and bug fixes.
Support for all strategies of JPA inheritance mapping
This feature has been demanded for long time by the community. Until now only single table per class hierarchy mapping strategy was supported, that is the case where all classes hierarchy is stored in the same table. Since OpenXava 4.5 you can also use joined and table per class mapping strategies.
That is, you can write some classes in this way:
@Entity @Inheritance(strategy=InheritanceType.JOINED) class Computer extends Identifiable { String name } @Entity class Tablet extends Computer { int screenSize }
In this case, you have a table for Computer with ID and NAME columns and a table for Tablet with ID and SCREENSIZE columns. JPA will do a JOIN of the two table when needed.
Also you can write:
@Entity @Inheritance(strategy=InheritanceType.TABLE_PER_CLASS) class Shop extends Identifiable { String name } @Entity class InternetShop extends Shop { String url }
In this case, you have a table for Shop with ID and NAME column and another for InternetShop with ID, NAME and URL columns.
From now on OpenXava will generate a correct user interface for the above classes.
Data for list and collections is obtained via JPA
Until now OpenXava has used JDBC to get the data for list and collections. It was in this way for historical reasons, specially because the very first version of OpenXava used EJB 1.0 CMP entities for persistence and EJB CMP is too slow and rigid to implement the OpenXava list behavior, so we used JDBC. But now, JPA is rapid and flexible enough to be used for obtaining the list data, so we have written a new JPATabProvider to read the data of the list, and it is the one used by default. This allows us to support all the inheritance JPA types, but also opens many interesting posibilities for the future, such as using DataNucleus instead of Hibernate as JPA engine to access to non-relational databases.
Automated Business Logic (ABL) library added
The folk from the California startup Automated Business Logic have been working hard to integrate their library, ABL, in OpenXava. ABL allows you to define business logic declaratively using annotations. The wiki explains how to use ABL from OpenXava.
All new layout architecture (the code that paints the UI)
The people from SicFlex, a Dominican company that has developed a complete ERP with OpenXava, have developed a new render engine for OpenXava. This is the more important and complicated part of OpenXava. This new render engine will generate even more complex and beautiful user interfaces for OpenXava applications. It is still in beta and it's disabled by default, but you can activate it with the next entries in xava.properties:
# Layout parser calculate and prepare properties to be renderer. # This is optional, by default OX uses org.openxava.render.DefaultLayoutParser layout.parser=org.openxava.web.layout.DefaultLayoutParser # Layout painter, render all properties in cell forms # If a valid painter is defined here, view rendering is performed by it. layout.painter=org.openxava.web.layout.DefaultLayoutPainter
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See changelog for the complete list of new features and fixes.
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Amherst man accused of selling counterfeit sports caps
TOWN OF NIAGARA – An Amherst man was arrested by Niagara County sheriff's deputies Wednesday for selling alleged counterfeit sports caps like those made by New Era and other manufacturers at the Fashion Outlets of Niagara Falls, Sheriff James R. Voutour said
Weiliang Chen, 31, originally from White Plains, was taken into custody at the outlet mall, 1900 Military Road, in this township about 1 p.m. He is charged with a felony count of trademark counterfeiting in the second-degree, which carries a possible prison term of up to four years.
The sheriff said his agencies and the Town of Niagara Police Department conducted a joint investigation and seized more than 200 counterfeit caps with a retail value of more than $6,000 as Chen was arrested. He faces further proceedings in the Town of Niagara Court, where he was arraigned Wednesday afternoon.


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There are some celebrities who we expect to constantly carry great bags. Victoria Beckham, for example, who is always styled to the nines and has her own incredibly chic line of accessories, is never without a great handbag. Or the Olsen Twins, who have largely left Hollywood behind to focus on being tried-and-true fashion professionals (with the zany wardrobe to match). And then there are those celebrities who have great bags, but in an entirely predictable way. Jessica Alba has an enviable collection if you really love tan, specifically tan Chloe. If you prefer Louis Vuitton, Kimora Lee Simmons is your girl. Birkins? Look no further than Kim Kardashian or Petra Ecclestone.
But what if you, like most of us, regard yourself as a normal, casual girl who loves bags. Bags of all kinds, shapes, sizes, whatever! If your idea of a perfect outfit is jeans, a sweater and something truly fabulous hanging from your arm at all times, then your style role model should be Alanis Morissette. Yep, you heard me correctly. And I've got the photos to prove it.
In the process of writing posts for our sister site BagThatStyle, I was surprised to find so many pictures of Alanis looking great. Not that I ever thought that there was anything wrong with her - to the contrary, I've been a fan for a long time - but Morissette's image has never been that of someone who pays close attention to fashion. Indeed, paparazzi photos reveal her as someone who prefers a more comfortable and casual look, but she's got it down to a science and generally looks great - happy, confident, and on the harm of her adorable husband.
And then there's the bags, everything from The Row to Balenciaga to Hermes. From the looks of it, Alanis doesn't have a favorite designer - she merely loves any bag that's fabulous, and her taste in arm candy is impeccable. Below are some of the highlights, which read like an instruction manual on how to mix your awesome bags with your favorite jeans. I think I have a new girl crush.
The Yves Saint Laurent Easy Bag is as good a place to start as any. $1190 via Nordstrom.
And what about a little more YSL? The Yves Saint Laurent Caba ChYc is a recent favorite. $2150 via Net-a-Porter.
When you're carrying The Row Leather Backpack, it's a foregone conclusion that your bag will be chicer than your husband's. $3900 via Net-a-Porter.
In this photo, Alanis is quite pregnant and carrying a quite petite Chanel Classic Flap Bag in bright red. Contact Chanel for pricing information.
Now this might be something really special. From this photo, it appears as though Alanis is the owner of one of the incredibly coveted, decade-old Balenciaga Flat Brass First Bags. Could it be that she really IS one of us? Current edition Balenciaga Firsts go for $1245 via Neiman Marcus.
This bag is out of season, but I think we have get another Yves Saint Laurent Tote on our hands.
The webbing on this Gucci Boston Satchel adds a touch of color. $1350 via Neiman Marcus.
Prefer your Gucci completely neutral? Alanis has that covered with the Gucci 1973 Top Handle. $2090 via Neiman Marcus.
Alanis seems to like her bags neutral, but when she goes for color, she goes all in. Take this cobalt blue Givenchy Antigona Satchel, for instance. $2410 via Bergdorf Goodman.
Generally, though, it seems as though Alanis prefers neutrals like this black Chanel Classic Flap. Contact Chanel for price and purchase information.
It was this Proenza Schouler PS1 Tote that made me realize Alanis is really a girl after my own heart. $1995 via Bergdorf Goodman.
Of course, any collection's crowning glory is always Hermes. The casual look of the Hermes Evelyne Crossbody fits well with Alanis' personal style. Contact Hermes for price and purchase information.
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Buying an OEX put is one of the simplest and most popular bearish strategies used by investors employing OEX index options. It allows an investor the opportunity to profit from a downward move in the level of the OEX, while committing less capital compared to the potentially significant margin requirements needed for a short sale of numerous component issues. In addition, a long put holder is not subject to either the unlimited upside risk or margin calls with increasing OEX levels as an investor with short stock positions would be.
Buying an OEX index put gives the owner the right, but not the obligation, to sell the value of the underlying index at the stated exercise (strike) price upon exercise. If the contract is exercised, the put owner will receive its cash settlement amount: the difference between the put's strike price and the OEX exercise settlement value, times the $100 contract multiplier. Although American-style OEX index options may generally be exercised at any time prior to the expiration date. Any long OEX option (call or put) may be sold in the marketplace on or before its last trading day if it has market value.
This is a bearish strategy because the value of the put tends to increase as the level of the OEX index declines, and this gain in option value will increasingly reflect a decline in the level of the OEX when its level moves below the option's strike price.
The profit potential for a long OEX put is significant as the level of the OEX index continues to decline, and is limited only by a potential decrease in that level to no less than zero. The financial risk is limited to the total premium paid for the option, no matter how high the OEX increases. Many investors find this limited risk more attractive than the unlimited upside risk incurred from a short sale of component stocks. In addition, a short seller of shares must pay any dividends distributed to shareholders while the short position is held; a put holder does not. The break-even point is an OEX index level equal to the put's strike price minus the premium paid for the contract. As with any long option, an increase in volatility has a positive financial effect on the long OEX put strategy while decreasing volatility has a negative effect. Time decay has a negative effect.
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Unlike piano players, ear training is essential for wind band performers. But how many band directors bother to give their bands suitable exercises?
While tuning is simple act of adjusting a length of tubing on a wind instrument (often by reference to a single note), intonation is an ongoing process in which a player strives to match the pitch of others in the ensemble during performance.
A common misconception among wind players is to believe that the air moves through the instrument in order to produce the sound. This is simply not true.
The best way for a conductor to improve is in front of a live ensemble. The unfortunate reality, however, is that this is not always possible. Aspiring conductors therefore have little choice but to find other ways of honing their skills.
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The "hipsters" that call Brooklyn home may be onto something.
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Barbara Corcoran, founder of the Corcoran Group, Manhattan's largest privately-owned real estate firm, says that while Manhattan still has its appeal for buyers and renters alike, Brooklyn is hotter than ever.
"Brooklyn is hotter than Manhattan," the real estate mogul says. "Manhattan pales in comparison to what is going on in Brooklyn—it's the new Manhattan. If you want to be cool, you can say you're living in Manhattan, but if you want to be cooler, you say 'Yea, I am living in Brooklyn.'"
Corcoran says the "developers of tomorrow are scooping up dilapidated homes in non-historic areas of the borough, including Bushwick, and putting up six-story condominiums. While these developers may be young, she says they're getting funding and selling out quickly.
"They are going to make a ton of money," she says.
Bushwick is experiencing a major influx of members of both the gay and creative communities, Corcoran says. And following the creative crowd is a surefire way to cash in down the road.
"If you want to find out where the next big deal is, you always follow the creative community--they are always there first. They turn the neighborhood around—and you can always buy now and make money in two years," she says. "There are so many good areas in Brooklyn, but you can't get close to that Brooklyn Bridge anymore."
And on the other side of that bridge in the Big Apple, Corcoran says it's a sellers' market and will be for some time.
"That switch was thrown about six months ago," she says. "Six months ago you could have gotten anything in New York for roughly 15% cheaper than you are going to pay now. This market has turned around, and it's like a train coming down a track that's fueled with cheap money and tremendous demand. There is no way it's going to be a buyer's market for a long time coming."
But if you are looking to buy, and are worried about being priced out, the No.2 real estate agent in Manhattan says there are still deals, just be prepared to commute.
"The best deals are still in Manhattan, if you are willing to go as far as Washington Heights and very Upper Harlem," she says. "Prices are going up so quickly, and yet people somehow haven't remembered that those areas are there. They are being discovered and you can get the best deals in town and be guaranteed you are going to make money by living there."