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At the Department of Neurosurgery, we offer the entire spectrum of micro-neurosurgical operations for diseases of the central and peripheral nervous system. Our dedication to medical research leads us to participate in clinical studies on the development of new therapies.
Our emphasis is on
- brain tumors and tumors of the skull base and spinal cord,
- vascular malformations (aneurysms, angiomas, cavernomas) in the spinal cord and brain,
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In four operating theaters with state-of-the-art equipment, we perform more than 3.000 operations annually. Our specialized, experienced operating team and cutting-edge technical equipment guarantee maximum safety and efficiency, even for the most difficult operations. We use the most up-to-date procedures such as computer-guided neuronavigation, stereotactic surgery, intraoperative magnetic resonance tomography, intra-operative computer tomography, intra-operative ultrasound, fluorescent tumor marking, and electrophysiological monitoring.
One of our technical features, which only a few neurosurgical hospitals can offer, is intra-operative magnetic resonance therapy. The images taken are integrated directly into operation planning by our advanced neuronavigation system, which allows us to check for the presence of residual tumor during the operation and simultaneously to guide neuronavigation precisely in order to ensure the greatest possible success of the treatment.
All of these methods ensure maximally effective, minimally invasive neurosurgery while sparing important brain and nerve functions.
Diagnostics and therapy are continually optimized and adapted to the latest medical standards in close interdisciplinary collaboration within the university hospital. We make treatment recommendations for patients with brain tumors in the interdisciplinary tumor conference of the National Center for Tumor Diseases (NCT) in Heidelberg as part of a team of neurosurgeons, neuro-oncologists, neuroradiologists, radio-oncologists, neuropathologists, and oncologists.
We treat about 9,000 patients per year on an outpatient basis and more than 3,200 patients in hospital, with an average stay of seven days.
Our department has 56 general care beds, 6 beds on an intermediate care unit (IMC), as well as 10 beds on the neurosurgical intensive care ward, which is also equipped with a modern multimodal cerebral monitoring system. The regular wards consist of patient-friendly double rooms with bath, radio, phone, and if desired, TV and Internet access.
We hope you have a good stay and get well soon!
Professor Dr. Andreas Unterberg
Managing Director of the Department of Neurosurgery at Heidelberg University Hospital


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Egypt isn't what it appears to be in the media...but that's no real surprise, since not much is. I moved here in the late 80's from Toronto, Canada, with my Canadian/Egyptian husband, my son and my daughter. The children adapted quickly and we decided that this country was a good place to live. Now I wouldn't change my home for anything.
Thursday, October 20, 2011
Both Spinning in Space and Standing Still
Where has our Egypt gone? In some ways it is still the same place and in others it has changed almost beyond recognition. Before the revolution the standard line of the government was that they were the only dike between stability and the chaos of Islamic tides. Governments believed this and so did many people. What we've found since the uprising in Jan/Feb has been that the Muslim Brothers, the Salafis, the Sufis, and many other Islamic groups have more than enough internal disputes that no one group is likely to be taking over from the previous government. What we've realized is that this entire propaganda campaign was a diversion from the reality that since the early 1950's Egypt has been a military dictatorship and that this, in fact, hasn't changed. There are many, myself among them, who have a strongly nagging suspicion that the protesters of winter did the military here a huge favour by insisting on the removal of Mubarak and, more importantly, his sons from the picture. There was a lot of debate about the question of whether the very powerful Egyptian army would accept Gamal Mubarak, who never even served in the armed forces, as a successor to his father, and I believe that we have a resounding "No!" as our answer. The military were delighted not to have to force a confrontation and to appear to do the will of the people. They didn't exactly come down that hard on the Mubaraks, allowing Gamal the freedom to come to Cairo from Sharm el Sheikh for months, and allowing Hosny's chief of staff access to the Presidential palace and all its shredding machines for months. After all, maybe the Mubaraks had the wherewithal to perform a resurgence. It's only been in the past few months when it's obvious that the Mubaraks are truly history that the Supreme Council, a ruling group of generals, have taken even half-hearted steps against the previous regime.
Instead, they have adopted the old ways of creating dissonance among Egyptians by ambushing Christian protesters and then claiming in the government controlled media that they were being attacked. This story has only worked among those who only read, listen to or watch only the government controlled media as everyone else has been broadcasting videos and eyewitness accounts of the reality of the situation. Unfortunately one of the aspects of the old Egypt that hasn't changed is the large number of people who do rely on the state media for information, an unsettling thought to say the least. The "government's" inability to handle the issues of seeing Egypt through this period have been publicly on show and privately indicated. The prime minister has attempted to resign many times and has been told, probably very forcefully, that his resignation will, on no account, be accepted. This is likely because the military know that it is the only facade that gives them the slightest shred of legitimacy and they can't afford to lose this. But it seems pretty clear to everyone that the main concern of the military council is the maintenance of their freedom of action without the inconvenience of civilian oversight. They get about $1 billion in military aid yearly from the US and one of their primary concerns is not threatening this lucrative source of income. There has been significantly less concern with reassuring the world that Egypt is still a safe tourism destination (which it is, by the way, unless you are unlucky enough to find yourself in front of a tank...which is an occurrence of very low probability), to look to the reorganization of our schools (which have basically been holding pens for the young and have utterly failed at education), to provide a reasonable standard of living for employees of the state like teachers and doctors (they could share out some of that military largesse?), or to provide any security for the citizens of Egypt who have been living since last January without any traffic or parking police for the most part. It's okay, we can live without the Central Security Forces, who unfortunately seem to have no problem working...usually NOT for us.
One of the things that has changed is the willingness to discuss our situation among people in general, and this is definitely a Good Thing. You hear discussions and arguments over current events in Egypt everywhere now, whereas before January they were generally carried out in low voices in closed rooms among close friends. As an Arabic speaking foreigner, I can hardly buy a coffee without discussing something. People are now willing to talk about, and go on strike for, things that they have long been vexed by. While the strikes are truly inconvenient for most of us (though we saw a nice decrease in traffic during the transit strike...no buses and fewer minibuses) it's totally understandable. Everyone was gagged for so many years with repression and the inability to speak out. The Maspero incident in which the army attacked the the Christian AND Muslim protesters left real scars and worried Christians here in Egypt. Rumours abounded immediately afterwards about army checkpoints that were stopping cars and rounding up Copts. I've found no confirmation of them, but the damage that they do to the national psyche is obvious. Out here in the villages, religion is still not an issue and we have Copts and Muslims living and working side by side. The idea of conflict over this is still considered ludicrous.
The list of things that haven't changed, however, is staggering. Whatever is passing for an Egyptian government is still almost utterly disengaged from the concerns and needs of the people. Election dates are postponed and changed at random, procedures for elections are totally unclear and are changed at random. This is enormously confusing and is leading to a real sense that nothing really has happened to change the essence of the Egyptian government. The schools have been a cause for serious concern for years, with crowded classrooms taught by untrained teachers who rely on rote learning turning out citizens with only rudimentary skills at the basics and virtually no ability to analyze a situation and make an informed decision. Essentially, they've been factories for an ignorant and compliant populace.
An additional serious problem that I have only really become aware of in the past 6 months is the issue of the education of families in maternal, prenatal, and postnatal nutrition. My housekeeper had a baby and returned to work after two weeks bringing the baby with her. While this may seem way too early, it's worth noting that she probably works much less in my home than in her own, she has a number of adults available to help with care for her son, and she has decent food here. I've had meals with farm families and noticed that the men generally eat first, with the children next and the women last. These means that women who are pregnant and nursing don't necessarily get the nutrition they need. Magda has had more children that she needs (let's not even open the topic of her husband who doesn't help to support the family and stands in the way of birth control in a really secure fashion.) Now she's on pills having tried a number of other unsuccessful forms of birth control but she has always been too tired and improperly fed to be able to nurse her babies properly. When this last son was born, I began buying the formula to supplement as one can is about 40 LE. To feed this child properly would take over half her monthly income...and she has more kids at home to feed. So basically we have taken on the job of feeding this baby, who is now beginning to eat and gets homemade baby food while he is here almost every day. I've begun noticing the other infants around me and most of them are small, thin, rather unresponsive, the victims of postnatal malnutrition. Their mothers are often exhausted working hard around the house...housework in the villages is no joke. Food is prepared absolutely from scratch, keeping a house clean next to the desert is a full time job, and there is little time to put one's feet up. Additionally there is almost no knowledge of proper nutrition or even the need of a nursing mother to drink sufficient fluids. We find ourselves raising children here who due to improper nutrition have a bad start in life and then compound it with the schools. While I'm definitely not an advocate of cradle to grave imposition of lifestyle, it is absolutely the role of government to provide education to its population whether children or adults. The government here really hasn't tried much.
One of the senses that many of us have these days is the sense of there being simply so much to do to put Egypt to rights. How is this going to be done? Will we get a government that responds to the needs of the people? Will we just get another one that milks the country for wealth? Every question is still in the air.
copyright 2011 Maryanne Stroud Gabbani
11 comments:
- Explore said...
This is unfortunately unsurprising - it was always going to be this way after the revolution. How has daily life there changed? I haven't been back since before the revolution and I'm afraid it won't be the same. Is it still the Cairo I know and love?
I feel bad for your housekeeper but it's great that you're doing what you can.
- Maryanne Stroud Gabbani said...
In many respects it's the same old Cairo, crazy, chaotic and vibrant. The traffic is worse, if that's possible. No curfews these days so there is the Cairo nightlife, but there is an edge. People are warier and watch things more closely. No one knows what tomorrow will bring unlike the past years when everyone knew what would happen (ie, nothing).
- Gina House said...
I hope that very soon Egypt will turn into a very calm and democratic country and everybody will feel safe there, because it is a lovely place and all Egyptian people I know are so kind and good-natured that they deserve living freely and in peace!
- Maryanne Stroud Gabbani said...
I think that most of us want the same thing. Those who don't are a small, nasty minority.
- الصحيفة الصادقة said...
thank you
- Deepshikha said...
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- Deepshikha said...
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- Cross Channel MOJO said...
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- مجموعة رمضون العالمية لتحلية المياه . said...
Thank you
سبحان الله وبحمده سبحان الله العظيم


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Multi-Robot Task Allocation
Important theoretical aspects of mechanisms for multi-robot task allocation have, to date, been largely ignored. In this project, we are trying to address part of this negligence by formally studying the problem within an organizational framework developed in the Operations Research community. In particular, we are currently exploring multi-robot task allocation as an instance of the well-known Optimal Assignment Problem. In this light, we have recently analyzed and compared the algorithmic characteristics of several existing approaches to the problem.
Since the early 1990s, the problem of task allocation in multi-robot systems has received significant and increasing interest in the research community. As researchers design, build, and use cooperative multi-robot systems, they invariably encounter the question: "which robot should execute which task?" This question must be answered, even for relatively simple multi-robot systems, and the importance of task allocation grows with the complexity, in size and capability, of the system under study. Even in the simplest case of homogeneous robots with fixed, identical roles, intelligent allocation of tasks is required for good system performance, if only to minimize physical interference.
Of course, task allocation need not be explicit; it may instead emerge from the interactions of the robots (physical and otherwise), as is the case with coordination methods put forward by proponents of swarm robotics. Such an emergent system, when constructed skillfully, can be extremely effective and may provide the simplest and most elegant solution to a problem. However, it is a solution to a {\em specific} problem, and if robots are to be generally useful, we believe that they must be capable of solving a variety of problems.
Over the years, a significant body of work has been done on explicit multi-robot task allocation (MRTA), generally involving task-oriented inter-robot communication. A variety of such architectures have been proposed; while they are sometimes evaluated experimentally, they are rarely subject to formal analysis. It is coordination architectures of this type on which we are currently focusing our analysis. Our aim is to address two key shortcomings of the MRTA work to date:
Problem Statement
We claim that multi-robot task allocation can be reduced to an instance of the Optimal Assignment Problem (OAP), a well-known problem from Operations Research. A recurring special case of particular interest in several fields of study, this problem can be formulated in many ways. Given our application domain, it is fitting to describe the problem in terms of jobs and workers. There are n workers, each looking for one job, and m available jobs, each requiring one worker. The jobs can be of different priorities, meaning that it is more important to fill some jobs than others. Each worker has a nonnegative skill rating estimating his/her performance for each potential job (if a worker is incapable of undertaking a job, then the worker is assigned a rating of zero for that job). The problem is to assign workers to jobs in order to maximize the overall expected performance, taking into account the priorities of the jobs and the skill ratings of the workers.
Our multi-robot task allocation problem can be posed as an assignment problem in the following way: given n robots, m prioritized (i.e., weighted) single-robot tasks, and estimates of how well each robot can be expected to perform each task, assign robots to tasks so as maximize overall expected performance. However, because the problem of task allocation is a dynamic decision problem that varies in time with phenomena including environmental changes, we cannot be content with this static assignment problem. Thus we complete our reduction by iteratively solving the static assignment problem over time.
Of course, the cost of running the assignment algorithm must be taken into account. At one extreme, a costless algorithm can be executed arbitrarily fast, ensuring an optimal assignment over time. At the other extreme, an expensive algorithm that can only be executed once will produce a static assignment that is only initially optimal and will degrade over time. Finally there is the question of how many tasks are considered for (re)assignment at each iteration. In order to create and maintain an optimal allocation, the assignment algorithm must consider (and potentially reassign) every task in the system. Such an inclusive approach can be computationally expensive and, indeed, some implemented approaches to MRTA use heuristics to determine a subset of tasks that will be considered in a particular iteration.
Together, the cost of the static algorithm, the frequency with which it is executed, and the manner in which tasks are considered for (re)assignment will determine the overall computational and communication overhead of the system, as well as the solution quality. Thus it is these characteristics of MRTA architectures in which we are interested and that we are currently analyzing.
Utility is a unifying, if sometimes implicit, concept in economics, game theory, and operations research, as well as multi-robot coordination. The idea is that each individual can somehow internally estimate the value (or the cost) of executing an action. It is variously called fitness, valuation, and cost. Since the exact formulation varies from system to system, we now give an instructive and generic, yet practical, definition of utility for multi-robot systems.
We assume that each robot is capable of estimating its fitness for every task of which it is capable. This estimation includes two factors, both task- and robot-dependent:
The robots' utility estimates will be inexact for a number of reasons, including sensor noise, general uncertainty, and environmental change. These unavoidable characteristics of the multi-robot domain will necessarily limit the efficiency with which coordination can be achieved. We treat this limit as exogenous, on the assumption that lower-level robot control has already been made as reliable, robust, and precise as possible and thus that we are incapable of improving it. When we later discuss "optimal" allocation solutions; we mean "optimal" in the sense that, given the union of all information available in the system (with the concomitant noise, uncertainty, and inaccuracy), it is impossible to construct a solution with higher overall utility.
Note that although we have not discussed planning or learning, our definition of utility permits their introduction. The addition of a predictive model, for example, will (presumably) improve the accuracy of utility estimates by considering expected future events. To achieve the best system performance, such techniques should be used whenever possible.
Having given a formal statement of the MRTA problem, we are now in a position to analyze some of the key task allocation architectures from the literature. We have recently analyzed six approaches to MRTA, focusing on three characteristics:
In part because of trends in the research community that stress the importance of experimental validation with physical robots, such theoretical aspects of multi-robot coordination mechanisms have been largely ignored. However, they are vitally important to the study, comparison, and objective evaluation of the mechanisms. The large-scale and long-term behavior of the system will be strongly determined by the fundamental characteristics of the underlying algorithm(s). Thus we endeavor to derive and explicate those characteristics here. Before we continue, however, it will be necessary to explain the methodology that we use in our analysis.
MethodologyAs we stated earlier, the key to effective task allocation for multi-robot systems is to iterate the assignment, in order to deal with changes in the tasks, the robots, and the environment. The architectures under study achieve this iteration in different ways, along two dimensions. First, while some approaches allow assignment and reassignment of all tasks at each iteration, some never reassign tasks (or at least only reassign them because of robot failure). Second, some approaches periodically consider all tasks simultaneously, while others consider single tasks sequentially as they are offered for (re)assignment. Thus, when we discuss complexities, we state them in terms of iterations, though the details of an "iteration" may vary across architectures. We determine computation requirements, or running time, in the usual way, as the number of times that some dominant operation is repeated. For our domain that operation is usually either a calculation or comparison of utility, and running time is stated as a function of n and m, the numbers of robots and tasks, respectively. Since modern robots have significant processing capabilities on-board and can easily work in parallel, we assume that the computational load is evenly distributed over the robots, and state the running time as it is for each robot. For example, if we need to find for each robot the task with the highest utility, then the running time is O(m), because each robot performs m comparisons, in parallel. We determine communication requirements as the total number of inter-robot messages sent over the network. We do not consider message sizes, on the assumption that they are generally small (e.g., single scalar utility values) and approximately the same for different algorithms. We also assume that a perfect shared broadcast communication medium is in use and that messages are always broadcast, rather than unicast. So if, for example, each robot must tell every other robot its own highest utility value then the overhead is O(n), because each robot makes a single broadcast.
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We're not quite ready to declare an Alderaan-like fat for Star Wars: The Old Republic, but you can certainly hear the opening bars of the Imperial Death March starting to play. In its financial report on the close of the latest fiscal year, publisher EA sheepishly admits the force of the game has grown weaker to the tune of 400,000 players.
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Looking like a rolling California sunset, this chopped peach Riviera is a delight from nose to tail. Owned and built by Sal Vega in San Jose, California, this Buick is the summation of his wish to build a great Sixties kustom.
Sal has been into kustoms since his high school days when Fifties customs were the cool tools. In fact, his last custom was a chopped 1953 Buick that he sold at the Paso Robles Cruise In to a Japanese collector. The Buick was a beauty, show quality but street driven.
Sal told me, "I've never believed in trailer cars, so when I sold the Buick I was without a car. My brother Jim was down at Paso' with his car so I hopped a ride with him. By the time we were back home we had already figured out what to do to the Riviera I had."
Like the 1956-57 Buick Riviera Hardtops, the 1963-64 Rivieras also make great customs with their crisp, flamboyant lines. According to Sal, "I believe in building customs which look together, rather than just adding parts from other cars to get a style change."
Sal knew that a custom must have the right stance to look the part. A dropped suspension came first. Henry Bayne at Henry's Cars in San Jose, California, worked up a three-inch drop for the Riviera, adding Monroe air shocks and rebuilding the finned aluminum drum brakes. Now the car had the right height to roll on 15 X 7-inch American Chrome Smoothie wheels capped with Remington G78X15 white walls.
Having the car sit as he wanted was a great help for the next major step. With the aid of Butch Hurley in Salinas, California, the Buick was chopped two inches. Surprisingly, the Riviera is a difficult car to chop and needed a lot of massaging to get the proportions just right. The stock hood peak was replaced with a Camaro hood peak and the front fenders were stretched 1-1/2-inches. A custom stainless steel grille was created and the headlights were replaced with units from a 1968 Chrysler.
At the rear, the factory taillights were shaved and new hand-made flush lenses installed in the bumper. All the body trim was removed and the door handles were shaved, with virtually all of this work was done by Butch Hurley, with Sal helping out.
Next the Riviera went to Jim Vega who took the car back to bare metal and blocked it out to a perfect finish. Jim then shot on a perfect coat of White Pearl base before Sal transported the car up to Bill Reasoner at Classic AutoBody in Walnut Creek, California. Here Bill applied the stunning blended fade-away Candy Tangerine using one of his secret mixes of House of Kolors paints. Both body and paint turned out just gorgeous and is a credit to all those involved.
For the interior, Sal knew that he wanted the car to have its own special look there as well. He talked with Steve Cleveland at T&T Autotrim in San Jose and decided to have the stock seating redone in Naugahyde Pearl White with two-inch pleating and bright orange piping. He also created a pleated dash cover in matching colors to sit atop the fogged orange dashboard, and finished off the floors with finely trimmed orange wool carpet.
The center console was blended in body colors, with a full Kenwood 10-disc sound system hidden inside. A nice finishing touch to the interior is the wood-rimmed custom steering wheel to add a little European flair to the car.
Under the hood resides a 1964 Buick Wildcat 425 cubic inch monster that Sal had rebuilt by Rich's Automotive in San Jose. The engine is redecorated with a few highlights, including Offenhauser finned valve covers and a chromed stock air cleaner. The factory Twin Turbine automatic transmission whips the horses' to the rear wheels.
Don't confuse this car with a trailer queen. Sal builds his cars for cruising, even though they're showpieces, too. This kustom is way kool in both kategories.


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If it takes 11 or 12 inches of snow to make an inch of water, most Marion County wheat fields are in the process of soaking up just over an inch or two of the coveted moisture.
"I don't think we can say we've broken the drought, but this moisture has eased the situation," said K-State research and extension agent Rickey Roberts on Tuesday. "We have the top soil moisture we need and there is enough for wheat to break dormancy and start growing, but we still need more moisture to replenish the subsoil losses we've had over the past several years."
Rural Marion farmer Don Suderman, who has out 650 to 700 acres of wheat along with his son, Kevin Suderman, said the recent snowfall was very helpful to the current wheat crop.
"There are a lot of factors that figure into if it will be a successful wheat crop or not," Suderman said. "But the moisture from the melting snow is definitely going to very helpful at this point in time."
Roberts and Suderman said that while moisture was an important consideration for wheat farmers, just as important for filling heads was the temperatures in the fields.
"Wheat needs cool weather to grow," Suderman said. "It is a pretty tough crop and can make it on a little bit of water, but our success will depend on how long we can keep it cool before those hot winds start blowing."
Roberts said Marion County was a good place to grow wheat for many reasons, including amount of moisture and average temperatures.
"We are not like England, where in the cooler climates they can grow 80 to 90 bushel per acre wheat," he said. "But we have enough moisture here, if we can just hold off the heat and stay under 100 degrees until mid- May or so — then we will have a very good wheat crop."
Roberts said the recent snowfall and resulting moisture was good for area wheat fields, but temperature in the following weeks would be more critical for growth.
"Wheat does not like wet feet,' Roberts said. "The sooner this melts and soaks in, the better it will be. The slow melt has been a good thing, but we will need more rain at critical times in the days to come."


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BALTIMORE (Stockpickr) -- Stocks are playing hard to get as we edge closer to the end of another week of January trading. So far this year, stocks have moved a whopping 0.21% lower. The "January Effect" this ain't.
>>Invest Like a Venture Capitalist With These 5 Stocks
But make no mistake, just because stocks are taking a breather doesn't mean that this bull market is over. Far from it. From a technical standpoint, we're due for a healthy correction in the big indices right now, and the stats favor a double-digit performance in 2014 after the rip-roaring rally that stocks gave us last year. So now it's just a matter of picking the right stocks.
To do that, we're taking a technical look at five of the biggest names on Wall Street this week.
If you're new to technical analysis, here's the executive summary.
>>5 Rocket Stocks to Buy for Repeat Gains in 2014
Technicals are a study of the market itself. Since the market is ultimately the only mechanism that determines a stock's price, technical analysis is a valuable tool even in the roughest of trading conditions. Technical charts are used every day by proprietary trading floors, Wall Street's biggest financial firms, and individual investors to get an edge on the market. And research shows that skilled technical traders can bank gains as much as 90% of the time.
Every week, I take an in-depth look at big names that are telling important technical stories. Here's this week's look at five high-volume stocks to trade this week.
After a slow start last year, Bunge (BG - Get Report) kicked it into high gear in the last six months, catching up with the S&P's performance by year-end. But if you missed the upside in this $12 billion agribusiness, never fear. The technicals indicate that Bunge has greener pastures ahead.
>>5 Toxic Stocks to Sell in 2014
That's because Bunge is currently forming an ascending triangle pattern, a bullish setup formed by horizontal resistance to the upside at $83 and uptrending support below shares. Basically, as Bunge bounces in between those two technical levels, it's getting squeezed closer and closer to a breakout above resistance. When that breakout above $83 happens, we've got our buy signal.
The 50-day moving average has been acting as a solid proxy for support all the way up Bunge's rally. That makes it a logical level to keep a protective stop if you decide to be a buyer.
China Mobile
We're seeing the exact opposite setup in shares of Chinese cellular carrier China Mobile (CHL) -- and after a major breakdown late last week, CHL looks primed for more downside ahead. China Mobile is currently forming a descending triangle, the bearish opposite to the bullish setup in Bunge.
>>5 Ways You Can Trade Like a Hedge Fund in 2014
Support just below $52 acted as a price floor for shares all the way back since August, but the breakdown last week took out any buying pressure at that level, triggering a sell signal for shares. $47 is the next-lowest support zone to watch in the next few weeks.
Momentum adds some extra downside evidence for CHL: 14-day RSI has been trending lower since this pattern started forming. That's an indication that prices are falling at an increasing rate in China Mobile right now.
For a quick short trade, CHL looks like a good option this week.
Back on the bullish side is Target (TGT - Get Report). This $39 billion retailer got hit hard in the latter half of 2013, but it looks like it's turning the corner thanks to a "double bottom" pattern that's been forming in shares. The buy signal comes on a move through $67.
>>5 Stocks Insiders Love Right Now
Whenever you're looking at any technical price pattern, it's critical to think in terms of buyers and sellers. Triangles, double bottoms, and other pattern names are a good quick way to explain what's going on in a stock, but they're not the reason it's tradable. Instead, it all comes down to supply and demand for shares.
That $67 resistance level is a price where there has been an excess of supply of shares; in other words, it's a place where sellers have been more eager to step in and take gains than buyers have been to buy. That's what makes a breakout above it so significant; the move means that buyers are finally strong enough to absorb all of the excess supply above that price level.
A positive divergence in RSI adds some extra evidence for an upside move from here. That said, wait for $67 to get taken out before jumping into shares.
Berkshire Hathaway
Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.B) is another turnaround name worth watching right now. Berkshire has spent the last few months looking "toppy," but the sell signal never actually triggered. So after looking bearish for a long time, this conglomerate is finally starting to resolve higher -- and you don't need to be an expert technical analyst to see why.
>>5 Stocks Set to Soar on Bullish Earnings
Berkshire has started forming an uptrending channel, a bullish setup that's formed by a pair of parallel trendlines. When it comes to price channels, up is good and down is bad; it's as simple as that. Shares have bounced higher on each of the last six tests of trendline support, and so, as shares come down to test support for a seventh time, buyers are getting a chance to get into this trade. The time to buy comes on a bounce off of trendline support, not before one.
Relative strength still looks anemic in Berkshire Hathaway right now, and that's a big problem. Look for a change in the relative strength downtrend when BRK.B bounces off of support.
Last up is health insurance company Aetna (AET). In the last year, Aetna has rallied more than 52%, blowing the broad market's impressive performance right out of the water. But despite those huge gains, AET looks primed for even more upside thanks to one of the most classic technical patterns in our toolbox.
>>5 High-Yield Stocks Ready to Pay You More in 2014
Aetna is currently forming an inverse head and shoulders, a setup that indicates exhaustion among sellers. The pattern is formed by two swing lows that bottom out around the same level (the shoulders), separated by a deeper low (the head). The buy signal comes on a move through the neckline, which is right at $69. AET's pattern isn't exactly textbook, but the trading implications are exactly the same.
Lest you think that the head and shoulders is too well known to be worth trading, the research suggests otherwise: a recent academic study conducted by the Federal Reserve Board of New York found that the results of 10,000 computer-simulated head-and-shoulders trades resulted in "profits [that] would have been both statistically and economically significant." That's good reason to keep an eye on Aetna as shares creep closer to $69.
To see this week's trades in action, check out this week's Must-See Charts portfolio on Stockpickr.
-- Written by Jonas Elmerraji in Baltimore.


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Christmas underpins profitability for the whole year for most stores. When it comes to preparing for the Christmas season online, "the early bird catches the worm" as they say. Before you know it, the rush to service orders has replaced any consideration on how to optimise sales. Here are some seasonal tips from SellerDeck and some e-store owners to help you get ready.
Prepare marketing ideas early
Whatever your Christmas marketing plans, run some small-scale tests soon. Establish what works, and refine it. If search engines matter to you, optimise in plenty of time.
Keith Milsom at http://www.AnythingLeft-handed.co.uk advises, "We plan ahead for promo emails to various customer groups as they take a while to prepare. We also boost PR with a press release in September."
Can you handle the extra traffic?
If there is anything worse than having no orders, it's having more than you can handle. This just produces dissatisfied customers.
The average etailer gets 30% more orders in November/December. Make sure you can cope with the increase. This includes web hosting, and extra staff for packing.
Bill Stevenson of www.spicesofindia.co.uk advises ordering extra stock and advertising for temporary staff in September. "Last December visitors fell, but conversion rates tripled. We ran out of many Christmas gift sets and could not get new stock. This year we will order a lot more."
Sort your logistics
Make sure your logistics supplier can cope. To avoid missed deliveries, let customers select delivery to their work address.
Robert Johnston of www.gentlemans-shop.com adds, "We email customers their parcel tracking details and confirmation of delivery date. This dramatically reduces calls about deliveries."
Seasonal promotions
"Don't be a bah-humbug! Decorate your site and get into the Christmas spirit," says James Auckland at www.lunaspas.com.
Find creative ways to mark the season. Put gift ideas on your home page, and stock Christmas-themed items. Remember to change the pages on Boxing Day.
Last minute shoppers
Cite a final ordering date for Christmas delivery on every page - highlight when the deadline has passed. You'll need different dates for home and overseas orders.
Drop customers a reminder email, e.g. must order by end of tomorrow for delivery outside Europe.
Customers in a rush
Most online shoppers are in a hurry, particularly at Christmas. Help them out with a search capability that can match by category and price. Text-based searching is no help when you want a gift for less than £10 for your eight-year-old niece.
Another aid for rushed buyers is a gift-wrapping service. It can also increase your margin.
Upsell to maximise the opportunity
Where gifts need additional items such as batteries, ensure they can be ordered together. Suggest similar gifts, and incentivise extra purchases with offers like 'buy two and get one free'.
Thank regulars
James Auckland again: "Thank your suppliers, as well as your regular customers." Good supplier relationships can help resolve problems. Consider offering discount during January to suppliers and good customers.
Keep a sense of humour!
Robert Johnston once had an irate customer repeatedly phoning on Christmas Eve, "about the delivery of his father's missing present. He accused me of 'ruining his Christmas'. Just as we closed, he called to apologise. His sister had signed for the parcel, and dad's present was already wrapped and under the tree."
Advertise January sales
Plan your January sale early. It gives 'value shoppers' a chance to clear all that dead stock for you.
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In the days leading up to the Thanksgiving break, I noticed my students were falling off in following the routines of the classroom. Ours is a tiny room so it's important that certain procedures are followed so no one gets hurt. Their refusal – or is it forgetfulness – caused me quite a bit of angst.
Students have been sliding across the floor on their knees to get to the meeting area. They are lining up willy-nilly. When packing, they traverse the room haphazardly, making multiple trips to the corner behind the door to retrieve items. There is too much chaos and too much potential for harm.
No doubt, much of the blame lies with me. Either we didn't practice enough or I let things get out of hand before realizing we had to step back and start over.
So today when we return to school, I'm going to start reviewing our classroom routines and have the kids practice them. I'll present it in a positive way so they're excited to practice. It will be a good refresher for us all.
It's a point I've made before thanks to the ideas of others: routines need to be practiced at the beginning of the school year and throughout.
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So borrowing an idea from the NCO Creed, I thought I do one for software developers: Discipline will be my watchword, the software I create will never be perfect, but I will perform my job to the best of my abilities and remember that every letter I type should have purpose.
Ego is the enemy of good code, I will remember that "I am not my code" and never fail to admit mistakes and fix in in a humble manner.
Value is provided not through MORE code, but less. My software will be succinct.
Energy overshadows ability, I will bring my "A" game and not give up because it's "too hard".
Love for my users is always in my heart, they will break my code, I will fix it
Openness wins over closedness, I will share my tips and secrets and together we'll all make the world a better place.
Patience is paramount, sometimes the answer isn't the first, second, or fiftieth idea.
Empathy for the newbie and the uninformed wins, you never know when that intern's stupid idea will bear fruit, don't be an asshat when it's suggested.
Respect the matrix, the network effect is a power for GOOD and BAD, know how to wield it responsibly.


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This is the wholesale vs. retail price story that I wrote for the The Budget Fashionista's excellent series called: Being Broke Ain't Cute. Public thanks to BF for including me in the mix.
Don't Overpay for Luxuries
Eating out is a pleasure and I enjoy being served. But I have trouble ordering
pasta in restaurants.
I don't suffer from wheat allergies and I'm not pasta phobic. I just know
better. You see, as a young professional in New York, I worked in a few
Manhattan restaurants and I know the cost of a pasta dish. Dressed up in
sauce, cheese and Portobello mushrooms, noodle entrees cost less than 50
cents to make, but were sold to diners for $8 to $12 a serving. (My boss
loved to brag about his pasta profits!)
Armed with that knowledge, I am a cautious diner and I eat for value. What's
more, I try to apply that same logic to my clothing budget. If pasta sells
for hundreds and hundreds of percentage points higher than costs, what's the
real deal with clothes?
For answers, I checked into an employee complaint blog of a major discount
retailer. The inside story: Most clothes on a rack are sold at markups of
at least 100 percent over the wholesale price, according to the cyber-chat
of two retail employees. What's more, they estimated that the retail markup
at high-end stores was as much as 500 percent to 1000 percent. Ouch!
Suddenly, I have a new view of end-of-season clearance sales. Bottom line:
Even with sharp discounts (60 percent off), most stores pull in tidy
While window-shopping through wholesale catalogues, I found trendy tops for
$5 and $6.50 each and hot, hot jeans for as low as $10 a pair. Of course,
you have to buy in huge bulks, with credit checks and shipping charges for
wholesale buyers.
And that's on a wholesale level. How much does it actually cost to make
shirts, purses and other body trinkets? Not surprisingly, most of those
items are produced in low-wage labor markets in developing countries,
according to textile industry reports.
Production costs were recently analyzed in an economic study from the
University of Massachusetts-Amherst and University of Cape Town. Those
findings and other industry data were featured in a labor report from the
Workers Right Consortium, a labor group:
Casual Shirt (for men) made in Mexico
Labor costs: 50 cents;
Overall factory costs: $4.45
U.S. retail price: $32
Knit Shirt made in the Philippines
Labor costs: 69 cents,
Overall production costs: $8.00
Wholesale price: $20
Retail price: $44
Embroidered Sweatshirt made in the Dominican Republic
Labor costs: 45 cents,
Overall production costs: $6.34
Wholesale price: $15.78
Retail price: $35
Now consider prices from TheCost of Living Extremely Well Index from Forbes. How much does luxury cost? Here are a few answers:
$190,000 for fur coat: "Natural Russian sable, Maximilian at
$1,875 silk dress from Bill Blass
$410 Gucci loafers
The production costs for many high-end items are often within the same range
as lower-priced goods -albeit with significantly higher marketing and
advertising costs and budgets.
As for my budget, overpaying for luxury is like eating noodles in
restaurants or sipping a steady diet of gourmet coffee. Why spend $4 every
day for a latte that would cost you less than 50 cents to make at home? I
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Bulldogs' Sophomore Shortstop Extends On-Base Streak to 27 Games
WEST HAVEN, Conn. — The Yale University baseball team played inspired baseball against two quality Ivy League opponents this weekend only to see it spoiled by late-inning heroics in three of the four games, and the two losses to Cornell on Sunday at Yale Field were the most heartbreaking of the weekend.
Chris Cruz belted a three-run home run in the top of the seventh inning to lead Cornell to a come-from-behind 5-3 win in Game 1. In Game 2, Yale rallied from a 4-2 deficit to tie the game with a run in the bottom of the seventh and another in the bottom of the eighth, but Cornell staged a four-run rally of its own in the top of the ninth inning to escape with an 8-6 win.
Yale dropped to 6-22-1 overall and 0-8 in Ivy League play. Cornell improved to 21-6-1, 7-1 in Ivy League play.
Yale also dropped a pair of tough losses in the doubleheader sweep by Princeton on Saturday that included a 6-3 loss in seven innings after a four-run seventh inning by Princeton broke a 2-2 tie. That gives Yale three losses in the four games over the weekend that saw the opposing team win the game with a rally in the final inning of the game.
Despite the four losses over the weekend and the two heartbreakers on Sunday, Yale head coach John Stuper said he was pleased with the efforts that the Bulldogs displayed all weekend.
"People may be surprised to hear this, but I am proud of the way my team is playing," Stuper said. "They play hard for the entire game. They never quit. They have played hard all year, and I believe they deserve better than they've gotten. That being said, this can be a cruel game and you have to make your own breaks. Trust me, we're going to keep battling. We're very young at most positions and we are still learning."
On Sunday, Yale trailed 2-0 after the second inning of Game 1 and rallied with a run in the fourth inning and two more in the sixth to take a 3-2 lead heading into the final inning. That's where the score remained until Cruz belted his three-run homer with two outs in the top of the seventh to lift Cornell to the come-from-behind victory.
After back-to-back RBI singles in the second inning by J.D. Whetsel and Brenton Peters gave Cornell the early 2-0 lead, Yale sophomore shortstop Cale Hanson singled in the bottom of the fourth inning to extend his on-base streak to 26 straight games and scored on an RBI double by Kevin Fortunato to cut the deficit to 2-1.
In the sixth inning, Hanson walked and scored the tying run on an RBI single by Charlie Neil. Jacob Hunter singled with two outs to drive in Neil with the go-ahead run.
After Yale starter Pat Ludwig retired the two of the first three batters he faced in the top of the seventh, Fortunato was called upon to replace him and close out the game. He walked the first batter he faced to put two men on for Cruz. The sophomore right fielder pummeled the 0-1 pitch from Fortunato high and far over the right-field fence to give Cornell the 5-3 lead and the victory.
Ludwig suffered another hard-luck outing. He was stellar, striking out eight batters, seven of them looking, in 6⅔ innings. He scattered six hits and allowed three runs, all earned, in the no-decision.
Game 2 saw Cornell score a run in the third inning on an RBI double by Marshall Yanzick before Yale took a 2-1 lead with a pair of fourth-inning runs on an RBI single by Joe Lubanski and an RBI double by Ryan Brenner. The Big Red tied the game on Brian Billigen's solo homer in the sixth and then took a 4-2 lead on a two-run triple by Billigen in the seventh inning.
Yale rallied with a run in the bottom of the seventh inning on a squeeze bunt by David Toups that scored Chris Piwinski and one more in the bottom of the eighth when Cam Squires scored from third on a wild pitch to tie the game at 4-4.
In the top of the ninth, Cornell scored four unearned runs to pull ahead 8-4 on RBI singles by Yanzick and Cruz and a two-run single by Tom D'Alessandro.
Yale had a chance to tie the game in the bottom of the inning, scoring a pair of runs on a run-scoring single by Hanson and an RBI sacrifice fly out by Squires to pull within 8-6 and bringing the tying run to the plate, but the rally fell just short.
Yale saw seven players collect multiple hits against Cornell. Brenner and Hunter both went 3-for-6 with a double, an RBI and a run scored. Hanson went 3-for-7 with two runs scored and an RBI. Lubanski, Fortunato, Piwinski and Neil each had two hits.
Yale will host in-state rival Fairfield on Wednesday for a doubleheader that begins at 3:30 p.m. before returning to Ivy League play with a pair of doubleheaders against Rolfe Division rival Harvard on Saturday and Sunday.
Report filed by Jon Erickson Jr., Yale Sports Publicity


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With the convention pomp and pageantry over, another production now begins on Capitol Hill — this one featuring meaningless show votes and theatrical hearings.
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Lamar Smith (R-Texas) will hold an oversight hearing this week titled: The Obama Administration's Abuse of Power. House GOP leaders will try to pass a bill to roll back automatic defense cuts — a bid to undo a law many of them supported in the first place.
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And Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) will continue to push a central plank of the Romney-Ryan campaign: a vote to repeal President Barack Obama's health care law. Democrats will engage in the game, too, putting up jobs bills that have no Republican support and little chance of passing.
To add more fuel to the "do-nothing Congress" label, at least one chamber — the Democratic-led Senate — could adjourn as early as Sept. 21 for another seven-week recess, coming on the heels of the five-week August recess. Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) will be playing "prevent defense" through the Nov. 6 election, GOP aides said.
"Taking their cues from a president who recently said the single greatest regret of [his] tenure was that he didn't tell the American people enough stories," McConnell wrote in an email to POLITICO, "Democrats appear ready to ride out the rest of the year spinning tall tales that the economy is doing fine while doing virtually nothing about the problems we face as a nation."
Don't blame us, Democrats say. The show votes are an "example of Republicans wasting time that should be spent on finding solutions to the country's problems," Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) told POLITICO. "We're up to zero votes on Obama's jobs bills and more than 30 votes to repeal Obamacare."
California Rep. Mike Honda, a Democratic National Committee vice chairman, said not even returning to Washington could dampen his mood after last week's celebration in Charlotte, N.C.
"It's like coming from a summit or church retreat. I come back home reinvigorated and ready for the next 60 days," Honda said in a phone interview. Republicans "will try to distract us from our main mission," but Democrats will not be "deterred, disappointed or discouraged."
"Bring it on," he said.
Even the votes that sound well intended have a political twist.
For example, Reid will hold a procedural vote Tuesday — the 11th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks — on a bill to help put veterans to work. The legislation, part of Obama's "to-do list" for Congress, would specifically help vets returning from Afghanistan and Iraq leverage their military skills and find work as cops, firefighters and other public-sector positions.


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APOPKA, Fla. — It took six years of running for president, but Mitt Romney has realized one month before the 2012 election that he cannot depend on family and surrogates to humanize him.
He must do it himself.
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The Republican is using a three-day Florida swing to make a direct emotional appeal to voters. He is for the first time speaking more candidly to voters about his good deeds on behalf of others, a trait he has stubbornly shied away from during the majority of this campaign even as Democrats have painted him as an unfeeling corporate raider.
Starting on Friday night, Romney devoted nearly one-third of his stump speech to telling three revealing and personal stories that have been related before by other Romney allies — his wife, his friends — but never by himself.
It's a dramatic, and seemingly intentional shift for the Republican, who until now had avoided such personal sharing in favor of portraying himself as a competent economic manager.
The GOP nominee is looking to build momentum from Wednesday's first presidential debate by trying to do the one thing he hasn't succeeded at for the entire campaign — convincing voters he is a regular guy to whom they can relate. But impressions of him as heartless have cemented in the minds of many voters — who want a president who feels at least a little of their pain — so it may be too little too late.
One of the stories references Romney's religion in a prominent way, something he has generally avoided. He spoke of ministering to 14-year-old leukemia patient David Oparowski as "Brother Romney"when David questioned him about the afterlife (although the "Brother Romney" reference was dropped in the second telling).
The campaign has also been playing the biographical video from the Republican National Convention in Tampa that features home video from the Romneys' private life.
"If you really want to know how a person will operate, look at how they've lived their life," Ann Romney says in the video. "I trust Mitt. I trust him with my life."
The campaign realized that it had made a mistake playing the video before prime-time during the convention so that they could show Clint Eastwood's monologue to an empty chair. They've begun playing it on big Jumbotrons set up at some Romney rallies, including here on Saturday night.
At this rally outside Orlando, Romney auditioned to be healer in chief.
He recalled seeing a friend from graduate school, Billy Hulse, at an event in Atlanta a few weeks ago. After an accident paralyzed him, Hulse devoted himself to supporting medical research. The governor said that when he saw Hulse, he leaned into his friend's wheelchair, put his arm on Hulse's shoulder and whispered into his ear.
"I said, 'Billy, I love ya and God bless ya'," Romney said.


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28-year-old Odessa Man Dies in Crash
The Odessa Police Department says a 28-year-old man died early Monday morning after his car struck a sign post and then a utility pole.
It all happened around 1:30AM in the 600 block of E. 42nd Street. Police say Ruben Pablo Galindo was heading westbound at a high rate of speed when he lost control and hit the sign. The crash spun his 2006 Lincoln LS into a utility pole and then spun it through a parking lot where it hit an unoccupied SUV.
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The year 2013 marks two historic milestones in American history, the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation and the anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington. The National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) and the National Archives are recognizing these events.
Changing America: The Emancipation Proclamation, 1863 and the March on Washington, 1963, opens December 14, 2012 at NMAAHC's temporary gallery on level two at American History. The exhibition, features historic photographs, paintings, new film footage and objects, that explores the historical context of these two crucial events, their accomplishments and limitations, and their impact on the generations that followed. The exhibit runs through September 2013.
The National Archives will celebrate the 150th Anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation with a free special display of the original document from December 30, 2012 through January 1, 2013. The Emancipation Proclamation is displayed only for a limited time each year because of its fragility, which can be made worse by exposure to light, and the need to preserve it for future generations. Other special programs marking the 150th anniversary will be held throughout the year.


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When a writer unleashes the second-person singular, watch out.
"You are not the kind of guy who would be at a place like this at this time of the morning," begins Jay McInerney's landmark 1984 novel "Bright Lights, Big City."
With one simple "you," McInerey forces his readers to identify with an unnamed protagonist who's been up all night snorting cocaine at sketchy clubs in Manhattan.
Scott Brown memoir details childhood abuse and an early life of hardship
Those readers could be Franciscan nuns, members of U2, or Idahoan tea partyers sporting Sarah Palin bumper stickers on their Ford 150s. It doesn't matter. With the second person, McInerney smuggles his art into his audience's subconscious.
This is a powerful move – heavy artillery in any author's arsenal. But deploying the second person in a memoir, as Mark Richard does in the entrancing House of Prayer No. 2: A Writer's Journey Home, is like dropping an atomic bomb. Richard's prose is gorgeous – and hits with a force that sometimes stuns.
"Say you are a special child," Richard writes. Born in the 1950s to Gulf Coast Cajun parents struggling to adapt to life in Virginia's tobacco country, Richard's breathless description of his chronic hip problems is worth quoting at length: "Say one reason you are special is because there is something wrong with your legs. You cannot run. Your legs will not move fast enough. When you try to run, your hips click and pop. When you have to run a race ... you pretend to trip and fall and not finish the race. You avoid footraces; you avoid running at all. When something bad happens and everyone else runs away, rocks thrown through greenhouse glass, loose spikes thrown at passing caboose windows, fishing boats untethered along a riverbank, you know you will have to face whoever is coming in their anger. You learn you must never get caught."
Never getting caught, however, does not come easily to this unlikely writer. In and out of hospitals, Richard spends as much time under or recovering from the knife as he does rambling around the small Southern town that ill suited his alcoholic father and homesick mother.
When able-bodied, he's usually in trouble. "The first time you are arrested it is for assaulting a police officer," Richard writes. (As a teenager, he shot a cop in the face with a water pistol.)
A promising job working as a DJ at a local radio station and an early affinity for William Faulkner devolve into a failed stint at Washington and Lee College. Richard rambles – a few pages chronicle either a day or a decade – but his propulsive prose makes "House of Prayer No. 2" a surprising page turner. Somehow, even his Charles Bukowski-style drinking binges become as poignant on the page as... well, as Bukowski's own storied melancholy.
When luck strikes, it's a swift and sudden bolt from the blue. "You are working digging irrigation ditches, and one day you go into a convenience store to buy some beer and check out the magazines," Richard writes. "There's an Atlantic Monthly in the rack, and you are surprised to see that you are a finalist in their American short story contest."
In fits and starts, Richard's career unfolds. He contributes to The New Yorker and Esquire. He interviews Tom Waits. He writes a novel. He writes for TV. He writes the movie "Stop-Loss."
If "House of Prayer No. 2" loses steam, it's when Richard succeeds. "You get a book contract for ten thousand dollars" doesn't pack as much punch as "Your wife says you must go see your dying father, and she is right." It's always more interesting to read about struggling artists than sought-after ones.
If Richard's memoir must be rescued from publishing-biz navel-gazing, Christianity – another surprise – does the job. "It's a Sunday afternoon in late winter on the Tennessee mountaintop where there is that fifty-foot cross, and you're alone deep in the woods when you get the call to ministry," he writes.
In a literary sense, Richard's conversion is a bit of a bummer. Nobody but the church choir likes it when a rabble-rouser gets too preachy. Still, trying to reconcile with his sick father and start his own family, Richard embraces a friendly, no-frills faith. "There is no hymnal," he writes of the titular House of Prayer No. 2 in Camptown, Va., a church he helped rebuild. "Sometimes during the singing you sing, sometimes you sit and pray, and sometimes you are just sitting there looking at your watch."
For a born-again Christian, this is rare, welcome humility. But it's typical of Richard. Where other memoirists – evangelical and/or literary – just bluff and brag, he makes art.
Justin Moyer is a freelance writer in Washington, D.C.
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When I get curious, I read a lot. Last week I got very curious about a form of ineffective behavior that seems all too common these days.
The behavior in question relates to ineffective listening habits, especially in situations fraught with stress or other forms of heightened emotions. So, I plowed through four books on the topic last week. Thank goodness for that Evelyn Wood speed-reading course I took 24 years ago.
The good news – you don't need to read the four books to learn the secret of effectively dealing with high stress situations or, to perhaps be more realistic, getting better at dealing with them. The common theme among all the books was "deal with the stress before the mess." Easier said than done without a pre-planned strategy and plenty of practice.
It's human nature to get hijacked by your amygdala and attempt to go "straight for the jugular" when dealing with high-stress situations. That's what you and your autonomic nervous system typically feel most like doing. By contrast, it feels totally counterintuitive to put root cause aside temporarily and address the touchy-feely side of a stressful situation first. However, here are a few reasons why this is exactly what you should consider.
In stressful situations, people with opposing viewpoints usually default to what most of the books refer to as "listening for response" rather than "listening for understanding." You see, most people ratchet the dialogue up a notch or two when they want to make sure they get through to another person. They become argumentative and defensive and in the process create counterparty resistance, rather than counterparty understanding.
As I was thinking of this last week, I got one of those did-you-love-our-service follow-up calls. You know, one of those calls where if you answer all the questions in a way that makes the service provider look excellent or outstanding, the call flows smoothly and, as in fairy tales, everybody lives happily ever after. Kiss, kiss, bye, bye, love-you-darlings all around.
However, if you make even the slightest critical comment on the service, the surveying person acts as if you have somehow pumped anthrax through the phone lines and scrambles to get off the phone as soon as possible, if not sooner. Basically, this leads to the second reason one should listen for understanding. In stressful situations, the first thing most people want is simply to be heard.
And the cool thing about listening for understanding is that you do not have to agree with the other person. You just need to understand their thinking. I can tell you from much experience, that when you finally get to the bottom of what we referred to in my Alabama childhood hometown as "squirrely behavior," people always have a good reason for their behavior – in their mind and at the time.
There are many good ways to deal with the stress before the mess, but most of them begin with listening for understanding rather than listening for responding.
Chris Crouch is CEO of DME Training and Consulting and author of several books on improving productivity. Contact him through www.dmetraining.com.
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HANG TIME, Texas — The last time James White and Gerald Green were in a slam dunk contest together, they practically blew the roof off with a 2010 Russian Cup performance that's become a YouTube cult classic.
So perhaps it is fitting that they will be comrades along with Terrence Ross, representing the Eastern Conference in the 2013 Sprite Slam Dunk Contest, as State Farm All-Star Saturday Night includes an overall team format for the first time.
White, Green and Ross will square off against the Western Conference threesome of Jeremy Evans, Eric Bledsoe and Kenneth Faried.
Evans, the 6-foot-9 forward from the Jazz, will be looking to defend the individual title that he won a year ago at Orlando.
The Pacers' 6-foot-8 Green won the event in 2007 at Las Vegas when he leaped over a table to dunk in the final round to beat out Dwight Howard and finished runner-up to Howard in 2008 despite a crowd-pleasing first-round dunk where he blew out the candle on a cupcake that was sitting on the back of the rim.
State Farm All-Star Saturday Night, an all-inclusive skills showcase, will take place on Feb. 16 at the Toyota Center in Houston and will be televised live by TNT at 8 p.m. ET.
Two of the league's long-range shooters — Stephen Curry of the Warriors and Steve Novak of the Knicks — will lead opposing teams in the Foot Locker Three-Point Contest. Curry's West teammates will be Ryan Anderson of the Hornets and Matt Bonner of the Spurs. Joining Novak on the East team will be Kyrie Irving of the Cavaliers and Paul George of the Pacers.
It's worth noting that Novak will be returning to the Toyota Center court where he broke into the NBA with the Rockets in 2006, while the league's top 3-point percentage shooter — Kyle Korver of the Hawks — will not take part. But Anderson has the most 3-pointers this season.
The Taco Bell Skills Challenge will have Texans Tony Parker of the Spurs and Jeremy Lin of the Rockets joining forces with Trail Blazers rookie Damian Lillard for the West against the Hawks' Jeff Teague, the Sixers' Jrue Holiday and the Bucks Brandon Jennings.
The Sears Shooting Stars Competition, which features NBA players, WNBA players and NBA legends, will have James Harden, Russell Westbrook, Tina Thompson, Maya Moore, Robert Horry and Sam Cassell of the West taking on an East team of Brook Lopez, Chris Bosh, Swin Cash, Tamika Catchings, Dominique Wilkins and Muggsy Bogues.
As part of the new format, points earned by each conference throughout the four All-Star Skills Competitions will determine the conference that earns the title of 2013 State Farm All-Star Saturday Night champion. Dwyane Wade of the Heat will serve as the East team captain and the Clippers' Chris Paul will lead the West.
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On a Mac, services are controlled by launchd, which is configured using launchctl. This example uses launchctl to set up a service that starts as soon as it's configured, starts up automatically at system startup, and gets restarted every time the job dies.
1) Create a configuration (plist) file for it. Name the file like: com.yourorganization.whateverpackage.jobtitle.plist. In the example, mine is org.elasticsearch.test.plist
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN"
<plist version="1.0">
Some important bits explained:
org.elasticsearch.test - the Label is the job's name. After the job is loaded into launchctl, this is how you can refer to it for start, stop, list.
/Volumes/Projects/elasticsearch/bin/elasticsearch - the ProgramArguments contains the name of the program you want to run, and then any arguments to pass to it. (there's an alternative to put the program or script name in a separate place, but this is easy. It keeps it right next to its arguments.)
-f - this argument is specific to elasticsearch, but the meaning of it is important. Your program or script should not fork and then exit. This means it should run everything in the foreground and never exit. launchd has a job to keep your script running, so your script needs to keep running.
/Volumes/Projects/elasticsearch - launchd will cd to the WorkingDirectory before running your program. Your script should not cd.
2) load your plist configuration:
- copy your plist file to /Library/LaunchDaemons
- Load it: launchctl load /Library/LaunchDaemons/org.elasticsearch.test.plist (your plist filename)
- note that whatever user you are when you run this launchctl load will, by default, be thu user the job runs as. If you don't like that, you can configure the UserName in your plist (man launchd.plist for more info). If you sudo launchctl load, your job will run as root.
- Check it: launchctl list org.elasticsearch.test (your job label)
- if you just do launchctl list, it'll list all the jobs set up by your user. sudo launchctl list to see everything. Grep for yours.
- listing the specific job gives you some status information. Look for a PID - that means your script is running.
- if you see no PID and a LastExitStatus of 256, then your job might be forking and exiting. Don't do that.
- Now ps -ef | grep for your program, and see that it's running.
- Kill it. See whether it gets started again with no action on your part. It should.
- Check your program's logs.
- If you need your program to NOT run constantly, you'll need to unload it.
- launchctl unload /Library/LaunchDaemons/org.elasticsearch.test.plist
Great! That's the whole thing. For way more options, check the man pages. Also, here's a poorly organized but nonetheless useful reference page.
* there is a service wrapper for elasticsearch, but it didn't work for us. It doesn't set the job up to run continually.