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Drew Hansen, Contributor
I write about innovation, entrepreneurship, and leadership
In a blog post earlier this year, Chris Dixon stated that "predicting the future of the Internet is easy: anything it hasn't yet dramatically transformed, it will." Companies continue to rank recruiting talent as a high priority, but their methods have hardly evolved. At least not yet.
Sure, the internet has fostered some change. Candidates submit applications online, retained search firms update their databases with tidbits from email exchanges, and non-local candidates interview using Skype. But the process remains tied to a transactional tradition, relying heavily on a few brief interactions to judge a candidate's skills, background, and fit with company culture.
Experts believe that the rise of social media will accelerate the rate of change. Social media enables employers and job candidates to interact on an ongoing basis, presenting an opportunity to replace humdrum transactional hiring with novel relationship-based approaches. The next phase in recruiting, which some call Recruitment 3.0, rests on a single idea:
A company either waits for the moment that someone presses the button and turns themselves into a candidate and then jumps on them, or makes a proposition that is attractive and tempts them into candidacy. Hence at the core of Recruitment 3.0 is that everyone is a candidate. And it is up to us to create candidates not wait.
LinkedIn is the obvious example. A professional social network with 120 million members, it's made reaching passive candidates much easier. But even this change is more incremental than disruptive. It delivers efficiency to conventional methods but fails to spawn new ways to attract human capital, the lifeblood of organizations.
HR professionals, especially those focused on talent acquisition, should ask themselves the question: what's possible now that wasn't possible before?
Meghan M. Biro is not shy about saying that we need to humanize the recruiting process. Emphasizing the need to "see people in 3D," she explains that a company needs to assess whether a candidate's personality matches its culture. Yet, HR and hiring managers will continue to struggle on this dimension unless they're able to increase the frequency and duration of interactions with prospective employees. Biro champions virtual talent communities as one facet of a possible solution, and she's not alone. Lou Adler, founder and CEO of The Adler Group, describes it this way:
Let me start with the basics of networking and the idea of developing a preliminary list of prospects. Most would agree that a pre-qualified referred candidate from a highly qualified co-worker is the standard of perfection…Of course, you still need to engage with and recruit the person…This concept forms the foundation of the virtual talent community and future of passive candidate sourcing. Automating and scaling represent the hidden ingredients.
I have two concerns about the viability of virtual talent communities. First, I fear that companies will try to engineer them into existence when their value lies in their authenticity. As these communities develop organically, savvy companies – having tossed out the marketing façade – will reveal their culture and establish relationships, on an equal footing, with potential hires.
Second, an environment shapes the type and quality of interactions that take place there. Social media is no different. To truly foster a forum for connection and sharing, internet architects will need to design talent communities with these goals in mind. Jonathan Harris says:
It is often called the social web, but "garrulous web" might be more appropriate. Yes, there is more social communication now than at any other time in the history of the world, but much of that communication is chatter…there needs to be a place for deeper, longer-lasting communication too…we need to take responsibility for the types of behavior those spaces are likely to encourage.
Neither of these concerns is insurmountable. Transformation is certainly possible.
What won't change, however, is that talent acquisition – hiring skilled employees who are motivated to contribute to the company's mission – starts with emotionally intelligent leaders who connect with employees as people, care about culture, and endeavor to build a community.
The future of social media, unlike that of the internet, isn't guaranteed. It may not live up to its hype, but under the right conditions, it just might.
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"… we need to humanize the recruiting process." Interesting article, not sure that I agree with the conclusions.
I think that it is corporations, not social media, that is in need of humanizing.
One of the areas which didn't got changes in past few years is Recruitment and the way it is done. This is where http://careerfruits.com – the social job engine comes into picture. It is not only aiming at changing how the jobs are posted and tracked but also putting candidate assessment online which can be shared amongst other members of your team. It not only validates whom you are dealing with but also saves a lot of time while filtering a candidate list for a JOB. There are many other features coming into this and currently they are accepting early signups.
Social Media is not in its infancy, some companies use of it maybe, for many multinationals it has become a significant source for Talent Acquisition.
Look at Pepsicolas success! or Googles or Oracles or Well the list is very very long..
I found the article to be very out of touch.
A lot of new generation companies are actually looking at the social media profiles of prospective employees and using these as a filter along with resume. Companies are especially interested in the recommendations and endorsements that candidates have on social media accounts like LinkedIn.
A fair amount of recruitment today takes place through recruitment consultants, who are mostly staffed by Gen Y operatives who are extremely savvy about social media, and therefore use them extensively to filter candidate profiles.
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Too bad such filters are quantitative and not qualitative. They'll get the same bland, corporate culture fitting results as everyone else. Which means more 1b visas as such extensive filters are not applied to foreign applicants.
LinkedIn's special interest groups provide a way to understand an individual's communication and technical aptitude – as we debate industry or technical issues, character and quality of thinking process become obvious. This is a slow process, and wouldn't provide the quick screen a recruiter might like. In fact, some of these discussion groups are closed to recruiters. But, participants would be able to identify likely candidates to an internal corporate
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"Flags fly forever." That's the phrase our friends at Baseball Prospectus use to argue in favor of teams making bold moves to maximize their chances of winning championships, even if they come with long-term costs. That's the kind of opportunity the Los Angeles Clippers may have in front of them if Kevin Garnett is willing to accept a trade to L.A. The chance of putting a Clippers banner in the rafters of the Staples Center to go with the many banners the Lakers have hung there is precisely why the Clippers should do so, if possible.
The Sporting News reported that the Clippers approached the Boston Celtics about a deal for Garnett before the two teams played Sunday in Boston. While sources told our Chris Broussard that the teams have not talked, they may begin discussions before the Feb. 21 trade deadline.
Pelton: Would deal boost title bid?
Any package for Garnett would surely be built around promising third-year guard Eric Bledsoe and small forward Caron Butler, whose presence is necessary to make the salaries match. The teams could also throw in Leandro Barbosa and Ryan Hollins, playing on identical one-year contracts, to balance out each other's rosters. (View this trade in ESPN's Trade Machine.)
The Risk
In the short term, the Clippers would have to replace two members of their rotation and revamp their stellar second unit. Though Butler is a starter, he would be easier to replace because the Clippers have tremendous depth at small forward. Matt Barnes has turned in the best season of his career and is actually playing more minutes off the bench than Butler is as a starter, while Grant Hill is back in the lineup and capable of ramping up his minutes if the Clippers trade Butler.
Replacing Bledsoe would be trickier. For one, he's starting at point guard while Chris Paul deals with a bruised right kneecap. No timetable has been set for Paul's return. The Clippers also don't know when they'll have Chauncey Billups back in the lineup or what kind of play they can expect from the veteran, who has suffered from peroneal tendonitis since returning from a ruptured Achilles. That leaves Bledsoe as the lone healthy point guard on the roster. Jamal Crawford has filled in for Bledsoe with the second unit, but Crawford is a natural scorer whose game suffers when he's asked to also serve as a playmaker.
In the long term, the Clippers would hate to give up Bledsoe, their most promising prospect and someone we recently picked for Insider's list of the Top 25 NBA players under age 25. Bledsoe represents their insurance in case Paul unexpectedly leaves as an unrestricted free agent next summer or experiences long-term problems from the torn meniscus he suffered in 2010. (The bone bruise that currently has Paul on the sidelines affects the same knee.)
The Upside
Garnett would be a perfect fit next to Blake Griffin in the Clippers' frontcourt. Coach Vinny Del Negro has gotten improved production from center DeAndre Jordan this season, and Lamar Odom and Ronny Turiaf are a solid pair of backup big men. However, none of the three is a reliable counterpart for Griffin down the stretch. Jordan is vulnerable to the Hack-a-Shaq strategy and poses little threat on offense, so Del Negro has tended to finish games with Odom and Griffin together. That duo lacks shot-blocking skill and relies on defenses continuing to respect Odom's jumper even though he's 6-of-50 from 3-point range this season.
Imagine replacing Odom in that finishing lineup with Garnett. Suddenly, the Clippers have one of the league's best defenders anchoring the paint and making opponents think twice about driving. At the other end, Garnett's well-honed midrange game would complement Griffin in the post. He also would give Del Negro another option in the pick-and-roll game with Paul.
How much might that upgrade be worth? My SCHOENE projection system says a little better than three wins over the course of a full season. That might understate the case, since Garnett's defensive impact can't be quantified from box-score stats. Adjusted plus/minus shows Garnett, 36, as one of the league's best big men -- 3 points per 100 possessions better than Jordan, 4 better than Odom and 5 better than Turiaf.
Sealing the Deal?
The Clippers may not have to make the tough choice on a Garnett trade. Not only must the veteran approve any deal because of his rare no-trade clause, but the Celtics' win over the Clippers on Sunday was their fourth in a row. Even without Rajon Rondo and Jared Sullinger, president of basketball operations Danny Ainge might be inclined to keep his veterans rather than sell them off before the deadline.
If everything else falls into place, I think the Clippers must take the risk on Garnett. For one, they're going to have to make a decision on Bledsoe at some point. He is eligible for an extension this summer and would be a restricted free agent in 2014. If the Clippers re-sign Paul, it seems unlikely they would keep Bledsoe around as a backup, especially since another team will surely offer him starter's money.
More than that, I think the opportunity is too unique for a franchise that has never so much as reached the conference finals. Already, the Clippers have shown a win-now mentality by signing veteran free agents like Crawford and Hill last summer -- moves endorsed by Paul, who's in a hurry to contend. Adding Garnett could be enough to elevate the Clippers to the position of co-favorites in the Western Conference, helping them on a path to the NBA Finals that figures to go through both Oklahoma City and San Antonio. Against teams of equal talent, the difference between Garnett and the other options next to Griffin would be magnified.
Even the conservative assessment of a three-win difference shows that adding Garnett would increase the chances of a Clippers championship by 50 percent in simulations (from 6.5 percent of the time to 9.4 percent). Realistically, the difference might be even greater. And while organizations can't hang partial banners, improving the chances of flying the real thing makes trading for Garnett worth it for the Clippers.
Other Destinations?
It's hard to find teams in the Eastern Conference that have the right combination of need, assets and the opportunity to win for a Garnett trade to make sense. The Chicago Bulls could be the exception, if they were willing to trade second-year wing Jimmy Butler, but their timetable is more long-term since Derrick Rose won't be 100 percent this season. Besides the Clippers, there are a couple of other possibilities in the West. The Oklahoma City Thunder are the most intriguing destination. Upgrading from Kendrick Perkins in the middle would make the Thunder the overwhelming favorite to win the title, and Oklahoma City has enough young assets (including rookies Perry Jones III and Jeremy Lamb and the rights to Toronto's protected first-round pick) to make a deal like this without overhauling its rotation. The Houston Rockets also have prospects to spare and an appetite for stars, though they are probably too far away from contending to make a Garnett trade work in their favor, as the Clippers can.
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The Clippers trading for Kevin Garnett equates to the same stupidity the Lakers did when they traded away their future for an old steve nash. Pass on Garnett
Only trade if we keep Bledsoe and trade butler and odom/any other big on our team excluding BG
bledsoe isnt staying after this year and caron is inconsistent. trading dj for garnett, that's mortgaging the future. but caron and bledsoe are most likely a gonner after this season
I like the idea of getting barbosa and giving up Hollins in the deal. That would really help balance our roster. Also, celtics like Hollins a lot and need a big so I could see that happening.
only way id give up ebled+butler+hollins or odom for kg is if they throw in lee and barbosa
Lee + Barbosa or Bradley + Barbosa. I'm sure it would be one of the two options. They have too many guards too so it would be to help balance their roster as well.
bradley would be perfect
idk i think lee would be more perfect. hes a better shooter, defense is solid, and hes 6'5, which can help us guard legit 2's. i mean either one would be great, but id go with lee.
This and I raise you a this
Are you kidding me? That's a joke, right?
So you're perfectly willing to trust DJ, Turiaf, and Hollins in the playoffs? Because I'm not.
82-0, shut up already, its not like the front office gives a f*** about who u trust, or what we think. pagec4 makes a good point. you are giving up too much in butler + bledsoe to get an aging garnett. we will keep getting older, without any assurances that we win a title by adding garnett. i think a butler+ first rd pick this season is more than fair for kg, considering we would be taking his big contract on for the next 2 years
I don't trust DJ in the playoffs. And I don't trust a front court of Odom and Griffin in the playoffs when it gets to the 3rd/4th quarter either.
I wouldn't MIND Garnett on the team, but I think we can get someone a little bit younger who doesn't have a giant salary for Bledsoe.
Realistically though, we need to really think about moving Bledsoe because with his taste of being a starter a lot over the last couple months and all the attention he's been getting, I really think he leaves for nothing in the summer.
I really think we can get something really nice for Bledsoe. I wonder if Milwaukee would be willing to move Dalembert to us. Problem is he makes 6.7 million dollars and Bledsoe makes like 1/5th of that, maybe.
We should really be in the market to either get a replacement for DJ or to get someone who can fill in for 20-25 MPG when DJ sits 20-25MPG so we don't have to rely on Turiaf, Hollins and Odom as much at the 5 spot. I'd also be willing to look at ZaZa Pachulia to play 20 MPG for us at the 5 spot. He can score, grab a steal a night and rebound and he isn't a massive liability nor would he cost us an arm and a leg.
And if Atlanta moves Josh Smith for say Kris Humphries and MArshon Brooks, Zaza can be moved without much hesitation.
Im really getting tired of people hating on DJ, the guy is awesome, he is one of the hardest working players on the team and is only getting better...his low post game is improving and is really the only player on our team who can play with his back to the basket. Im pretty sure Garnett has publicly said he wants to end his career in boston, and the guy is like 65, so why are we even pursuing him anymore. Bled should probably be moved just because he has a high value right now with a lot of teams, probably more than he is really worth (he wasn't a great starter for us, far too many turnovers and not the best vision or bball IQ). We should focus on moving LO, as the guy is absolute garbage. Seriously id rather have 4 players on the court than have odom out there, send the guy to the d-league and put him out of his misery.
We all love DJ, the problem is he's not moving along as quickly as he should be. He's been in the league for what, 4-5 years now and he should be better than where he is at currently. This is his 3rd season as a full time starter.
DJ has logged in over 200 games as a starting C in the NBA and there is a reason why he doesn't play more than 20-25 MPG. That reason is he's a big liability on defense, has no offense, can't hit free throws and doesn't play good man defense.
Last year we all saw DJ take a good step forward but he's regressing this season. The reason as to why the Clippers want Garnett, outside of wanting to win a title this year is plain and simple. DJ isn't good enough to start for this team and for us to ride him as a starting center in the playoffs.
If DJ can't prove he's worthy of playing 30+ minutes a night, give us good to great man defense then I think it's time we upgrade our big men on the bench, or we find an upgrade for him. If anyone thinks were overpaying him they are nuts because we are, and it's sad.
Ill admit he isn't as good as he should be, but neither is blake really...with his athleticism there's no reason he should only be pulling down 8.5 boards a night and less than a block a game, but thats besides the point. Locker room morale is a really underrated factor in the NBA, there's a reason why teams have such a record discrepancy at home verses away, its because these players are very dependant on their mindsets, and DJ unites the team. I think that alone is worthy of him starting on this team.
Blakes per 36 avg is 20+ points, 9.5 boards and 4 dimes. His rebounding is down a little bit this year, but he's only playing 32 minutes a game, and were kicking butt so there's no need to overwork Blake. I will admit that Blake does need to board a bit more, but Vinny has him taking jump shots and he's been guarding people who play further away from the basket at times.
The entire team isn't rebounding like it should but the fact is that DJ isn't a guy whom you can put on the floor for 30+ minutes a night because he has gaping flaws in his game that make him a giant risk. If we were a horrible team I could see them playing him a lot just because.
Blake will pick it up a bit more as the season goes on, DJ needs to really focus on playing defense and most importantly boxing out and rebounding.
^ Look at DJ's PER 36 mins and advanced numbers, he's doing just fine except for his FT's.

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By Tommy Cobb
Phoenix Correspondent
WAGONER – Wagoner coach Dale Condict couldn't help but crack a smile when talking about how much bigger Oologah's line was than his. That's because his had the speed and in the second half, that won out.
Wagoner wore down Oologah in the second half and Lawrence Evitt rushed for 131 yards in the second half as the second ranked Bulldogs defeated Oologah, 42-28, Thursday night at W. L. Odom Stadium.
"People get tired later in the game," Condict said. "We have several players that can break big plays and we felt that was going to happen in the second half."
Wagoner (7-0, 4-0 in District 4A-3) was held to just 42 yards rushing in the first half as the Bulldogs fell behind 14-7. But a 31-yard punt return by Hadyn Ford set up Roman Rodriguez' 23-yard fourth down run to tie the game 14-14 with 2:05 left in the first half.
"I thought we really hurt them with our punt returns," Condict said. "We had the drive right before the half that I thought really gave us some momentum. Our goal every game is to come out in the third quarter and hold our opponent to a three and out."
That's exactly what Wagoner's defense did. Oologah (4-3, 3-1) was forced to punt after three plays and Ford gave Wagoner excellent field position again with a 34-yard punt return to the Mustang 38.
Wagoner held the ball for six minutes on the drive which lasted 12 plays. Rodriguez converted on a fourth and one and Evitt ran for 21 yards on third and 15 before finally scoring from one yard out to give Wagoner the lead at 21-14.
"We had several crazy third down and fourth down conversions," Condict said. "We didn't want them to have the ball. Their quarterback is a good athlete and we wanted to take the ball out of his hands."
Oologah ran only three offensive plays in the third quarter. However, the Mustangs were able to tie the game 21-21 on a 75-yard kickoff return.
Wagoner responded with a drive full of big plays after being backed up to its own 12. Evitt got loose for a 44-yard run. Three plays later, Evitt, who scored on a 67-yard pass reception on the first play of the game, made an even more spectacular catch as he tipped a pass up and then came down with it for 15 yards on third and long to keep the drive alive. Rodriguez, who finished with 75 yards rushing, then scored three plays later on an 11-yard run to give Wagoner a 28-21 lead.
Rodriguez' defensive play stopped the Mustangs ensuing drive as he sacked quarterback Payton Craig for a 10-yard loss on third down.
The Bulldogs' A.J. Freeth showed his big play ability as he took an end around and outran the Mustang defense for a 21-yard scoring run as Wagoner distanced itself 35-21 with 8:48 remaining.
Oologah was not going to go quietly. The Mustangs put together a 84-yard scoring drive highlighted by a first down conversion on third and 24 to cut the lead to 35-28. However the drive took 11 plays and ran over four minutes off the clock.
Wagoner took over at its own 20 with 4:39 remaining. Evitt, who finished with 137 yards rushing and 82 yards receiving, rushed 46 yards to the Oologah 34. The Bulldogs then ground it out and sealed the win on a 2-yard run by Devin Hawkins.
Oologah 7 7 7 7–28
Wagoner 7 7 14 14–42
Scoring summary
First quarter
WHS – Lawrence Evitt 67 pass from Jake Woodson (Tanner Rolen kick) 11:40
OHS – Jimmy McKinney 5 run (Mark Franklin kick) 3:02
Second quarter
OHS – Breyden DeSpain 29 pass from Payton Craig (Franklin kick) 10:34
WHS – Roman Rodriguez 23 run (Rolen kick) 2:05
Third quarter
WHS – Evitt 1 run (Rolen kick) 4:45
OHS – Chance Keim 75 kickoff return (Franklin kick) 4:25
WHS – Rodriguez 11 run (Rolen kick) 0:49
Fourth quarter
WHS – A. J. Freeth 21 run (Rolen kick) 8:48
OHS – McKinney 9 run (Franklin kick) 4:39
WHS – Devin Hawkins 2 run (Rolen kick) 1:41
First Downs 13 17
Rushes-Yards 35-118 42-269
Passing yards 136 95
Passes (C-A-I) 9-13-0 4-8-1
Fumbles-lost 0-0 3-0
Punts-average 4-31 2-30
Penalties-yards 5-49 4-38
Individual stats
Rushing – OHS, Jimmy McKinney 19-85; WHS, Lawrence Evitt 21-137.
Passing – OHS, Payton Craig 9-13-0 136; WHS, Jake Woodson 4-7-1 95.
Receiving – OHS, Breyden DeSpain 5-90; WHS, Evitt 2-82.


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I usually don't post my vidlets on here but I especially like this one ;)
With or Without You
I'd take the fall for you
stay with me.
i will find a way.
start over again.
somebody to die for.
if these wings could fly.
you left me in the dark.
only you can save me.
to be torn.
i am too close to love you.
you make me sick.
i don't know.
the arms of the ocean...
you're not alone.
like ships in the night.
we're staring at it.
turn me inside out.
take me as i am.
feel me in the corner.
i know everything is all right.
i'll go wherever you will go.
don't give up (you are loved)
surrounded by your embrace.
this is who i really am.
heart & shoulder.
never let you go.
i want to be close to you.
without my wings...
as if you have a choice.
you'll be mine again.
it feels like jealousy.
you run away from me.
you're my wonderwall.
white blank page.
who will drive my soul?
somebody i used to know.
into the night.
No Light
edge of glory
set fire to the rain.
save me
all that's missing...
make me wanna die
no happy ending
Love the Way You Lie
Comparisons to a Star
I'll Wait for You Always
Small Crime
Nothing Stays the Same
Closer to the Edge
Losing your memory
Just the Way You Are
Beside You
You Can't Fight this Love
and I've lost who I am
If I Could Be Where You Are
Lies I Have Created
Smash Into You
Only For You
How much is true love worth?
The Silence
All I Know
The Soul that Time Forgot
The Only Truth
For Worse or For Better
All or Nothing
holding onto what I haven't got
give me everything tonight
Poison and Wine
a lesson in romance
May I Hold You
Fill My Heart
My Endless Love
One More Try
I Owe You One
This Is Who I Really Am
Poker Face
I Know What Love Is
Stand by Your Side
Solo Por Ti
Taboo Epilogue Ender
Turn my head...
white rabbit
Gravity of Love
Rolling in the Deep
Raise Your Glass
Go Your Own Way
...and I'm home
we're not supposed to be ᴅᴇʀᴀɪʟᴇᴅ.
Funnies (Pt 1)
I am a DiMera (EJ DiMera Promo)
Daniel & Jennifer - Meteor Shower
EJ & Taylor - See You Again
Hope Brady - Hell Hath No Fury
Santo & Colleen // Cosmic Love
Sexy EJ (vidlet) Rafe Hernandez Promo
Chad & Will - as if you have a choice
Chad & Will - more than friends
Chad & Will - Use Somebody
Chad & Will - Everything
Chad & Will - Bloodstream
Chad & Will - maybe someday love
Melanie & Dario - I can't breathe
Melanie & Dario - Steal Your Heart
Melanie & Dario...everything
Melanie & Dario - goodbye tribute
Brady & Nicole - Bad Romance
Brady & Nicole - Hearts in Collide
Brady & Nicole - Breathe Me
Brady & Nicole - All I Know
Nathan & Melanie - Good to You
Nathan & Melanie - Colorblind
The Miz - Forces of Destiny
The Miz - I Will Not Break
The Miz - Skyscraper
The Miz - taking back what's mine
The Miz - let me get what i want.
WWE - Illuminated
WWE - Won't Back Down
WWE - they'd call me spitfire
AJ & Kane - why'd it have to be me?
louder than ever.
breath of life.
Rhodes Scholars: walk beside me.
we found love in a whole new place.
as you go
Only One
I'm Alive
and afterall, you're my wonderwall
Search and Destroy
I feel you...
Apologize (collab with Tina)
it's about C H E M I S T R Y
Someone Like You
Rattlesnake Smile
Latika's Theme
Movie Couples
New Channel / New Fandoms
Kurt & Karofsky - What do you want from me?
Kurt & Karofsky - dare you to move
Richard & Kahlan - Catch Me
LotS - Beautiful Thieves
LotS - Season One Trailer
LotS - Love Lost
LotS - Frozen
Caleb and Hanna - Crossfire
waiting for love to intervene
Tarzan - Pieces
Tarzan - John & Jane
Tarzan - out of the wilderness
Jonathan & Tammy - The Only One
Jonathan & Tammy - Sex on Fire
Jonathan & Tammy - Goodbye My Lover
Cate & Baze - With or Without You
the best part of me. (QAF)
i was broken. (Thomas & Francisco)
it's what my heart says. (Thomas & Francisco)
MI2 - a real hero.
E/E/K - It Doesn't Matter
Leverage // run this town
*we played scotch_rifles
Charlie St. Cloud - After the Storm
Damon & Elena - Fear
Simon & Alisha (un)invited
Keith | Sweet Disposition
North & South - Winter in my heart
Brian & Marjorie - I See You
Jack & Christian (hug)
Simon and Violet - Please don't go
Kurt & Karofsky - Only Human
Richard & Kahlan - Deliver Me
Jonathan & Tammy - Please Forgive Me
Edmund & Fanny - The river flows in you
Deja Vu (one sentence contest)
Multifandom - Knock You Down
Nicole's Lament
EJ & Sami - Let's Bring It Back
EJ & Sami - Her Diamonds
EJ & Sami - Not a Dry Eye in the House


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MW3 Multiplayer is Broken (see Video)pjnyc87 Feb 6, 2012 7:17 PM
Modern Warfare 3 Multiplayer is Broken (see Video)
I'm a long time gamer with over 71 retail 360 games (& 15 xbox live arcade games) spread over many different genres and I'm sorry to say, MW3 multiplayer is terrible. I've come to this conclusion for the following reasons:
1. The spawns are an enormous problem. No matter how small a map is, there is no reason an enemy should spawn 10 feet behind you. Especially when it's the same enemy you just killed. I'm tired of watching killcame's were i kill someone and they instantly spawn up behind me and kill me, all in one killcame.
2. Lag compensation is the worst idea in the history of gaming ideas. For example, if the opposing team puts up an EMP (which makes your screen fuzzy & disables the mini map when not wearing Assassin) and I'm running Hardline with Assassin as the first unlock for my Specialist Killstreak's, before i die or even know I'm being shot at, my screen will go fuzzy (aka reverting back to no Assassin & EMP taking effect). This is the biggest example of lag compensation I've seen and its terrible. The 18mbps FIOS internet i pay for (LAN or wireless w/ port forwarding) is useless when i go up against someone who's stealing weak internet from there neighbor because lag comp favors the week.
3. Maps either favor campers with an insane amount of grass & boxes or they favor shotguns & FMG akimbo with tight quarters. Very few maps are assault rifle friendly.
4. Shotguns have never been more overpowered. The only thing that can take out a shotgun head on is the even more overpowered FMG akimbo. These guns were given an unfair amount of range, and that's before you put the range proficiency on shotguns. These guns push good players to camp because they cannot be beaten head on with assault rifles.
5. You took something as terrible as quick-scoping and gave it the Quick Draw perk which made things infinitely worse. Black Ops got things right when they gave Slight of Hand Pro the ability to aim down sights faster EXCEPT SNIPER RIFLES. Let me say it again, EXCEPT SNIPER RIFLES.
6. Deathstreak's have never been more overpowered. Dead Mans Hand has a range that feels as big as a predator missile and annihilates anything in its path. Final Stand drops you to the floor were you take just as many bullets to kill as when you were standing. To make matters worse, you give someone in Final Stand full access to there primary gun, secondary gun, lethals (semtex), and tacticals (flash grenades). The creators of black ops apologized to the community for creating Last Stand which only gives you access to a pistol and you can be killed with something as simple as a flash grenade or a single bullet. If they apologized to the community for that, what made Infinity Ward think Final Stand was good? P.S. The kill should go to the person who put the enemy in final stand not the teamate who kills the guy on the floor. Black ops fixed that with a patch as well.
7. Assassin is incredibly overpowered with very little reason to pick other perks. Assassin makes you undetectable to UAV, Advanced UAV, Counter UAV, EMP, Motion Sensors, Heartbeat Monitors, and the Marksman perk. The only thing that can detect someone with Assassin is killstreak's (not including the killstreak's mentioned above of course). At the very least Assassin should be detectable by Advanced UAV (especially since it can be shot down anyway), Counter UAV, and EMP. Assassin's benefits definitely need to be distributed to other perks.
8. Theatre mode is terrible compared to Black Ops. You cannot view other players in first person. Only the person who uploaded the video can be viewed in first person. You also cannot watch movies as a party with your friends and cannot see the score of the game your watching. The benefits of elite also make no sense. Elite members get access to 16 vault slots in addition to the 8 slots you have as a regular player. But other players can only view your first 8 slots of videos. So i'm given 24 total slots for vids and pics but other people can only see my first 8. What's the point of that? And uploading a video to youtube or elite is very complex and broken. Your FAQ on how to upload a video is not the least bit helpfull. There's also no way to see community videos or highest rated videos which sucks.
9. Baracks/leaderboards are terrible. You have to press so many buttons to see the lobbys K/D, you don't have enough time to do anything else in between matches. Black ops also got this right. Black ops has an easy to use Combat Record for every player were i can see your stats by pushing 2 buttons. MW3 gives you half the information 10 buttons away with 3 more buttons for each additional piece of information. The other half of the info you want to look up requires Elite which means i have to leave the game & open the Elite app just to get information that Black Ops Combat Record gave me with the click of 2 buttons.
10. Elite is an attempt to get dlc money upfront and we all know it. The clans are a cool feature but thers no current way to rank up your clan because there are no clan challenges. The only way to rank up a clan is a scam people are running were they invite you to there clan, get your one time only clan xp for being an paid Elite member, then kick you out of the clan with no way to get your one time only Elite clan xp back. Does Infinity Ward even know about this scam? Elite videos is a waste of time and effort. Do you think that your community would want to watch firefighters play multiplayer against police officers when neither side is remotely good at the game. If i want to see people play a terrible game of Call of Duty with no skill involved, i'll look for it on Youtube. Elite tv is a waste of resources, resources that could be used to make this bad multiplayer experience better. So i payed $50 for videos that suck, stats that should be available in game, and clans that currently have no benefit unless i scam people. I almost forgot, I really payed $50 for awesome DLC maps. One map (Piazza) is shotgun/FMG paradise with short range engagements and so many lines of sight, you get dizzy trying to figure out were your getting shot from. The other map (Liberation) is a wide open map thats loaded with boxes and grass everywhere you look. It takes a miracle to figure out were someone is hiding right before they snipe your head off. P.S. this should be called MW3 Elite because it has zero support for Black ops except generic stats. God forbid you support Elite stats for Call of Duty Zombies, that must be asking way too much.
This game is a slap in the face to the people you made it for. Elite is a paid yearly subcription to that slap in the face. I think i gave MW3 multiplayer a fair shot since i have over 8 days played (194 hours). I consider myself an average player but just so you don't think i'm a crappy bitter player with terrible first person shooter skills, here are my stats:
Kill Death ratio 2.06
Win Loss ratio 2.63
Weekly Kill Death 4.00
Highest Gun Streak 30
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Emerson S. Colopy, of Gasport, NY, passed away on Saturday, January 12, 2013 in Absolut of Gasport. Born on April 25, 1917, in Lockport, NY, he was the son of Roy and Cora Strauss Colopy. He retired after 40 years as a Tool Designer from Harrison Radiator. Mr. Colopy was a longtime member of First English Lutheran Church, Lockport Camera Club and enjoyed gardening, fishing and working around his home.
Predeceased by his wife, Ruth L. Colopy, in 2004, he is survived by three sons, Robert (Gretta) Colopy of MO, Gerald (Lourdes "Odie") Colopy of Kentucky, and Donald (Rosita) Colopy of Gasport; five grandchildren, nine great-grandchildren, two great-great-grandchildren and several nieces and nephews.
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Welcome to the Portland Regency Hotel & Spa. Our luxurious, boutique hotel is located in the heart of the historic Old Port district on Portland, Maine's restored waterfront.
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ARCADIA, Ca. -- Jeremiah Englehardt, local trainer from Finger Lakes Race Track in Farmington, N.Y. was the winning trainer in the first Breeders' Cup race of the day the $2 million Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies. His winning filly, Ria Antonia was placed first when She's A Tiger was disqualifed for bumping.
The 32-1 longshot finished second with Javier Castellano in the irons but was placed first by the stewards based on a majority ruling. When asked about his background he told the media corps that his roots are deep at the little track off of Interstate 90. "Obviously my mom and dad are both trainers at Finger Lakes. My mom's name doesn't get put out there, but she's the blood, sweat and tears behind my dad's operation," said the winning trainer.
He's the first Finger Lakes conditioner to saddle a Breeders' Cup winner. He has been training since 2003 and has a total of nine stakes wins including three in graded events. His father, Chris is the top trainer at Finger Lakes and his brother Jeffrey began training horses this year.
I reached Englehardt by text message this afternoon at the Great Race Place and asked him what the race meant to him and Finger Lakes. He responded via text, "Means I'll be there Monday morning to watch my horses, I have 36 to see."
It's just your basic, ordinary $1.2 million victory, I guess. Business as usual at the Finger on Monday.
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In finance, return is a profit on an investment.[1] It comprises any change in value, and interest or dividends from the investment.
Ambiguously, return is also used to refer to a profit on an investment, expressed as a proportion of the amount invested.
A loss instead of a profit is described as a negative return.
Rate of return is a profit on an investment over a period of time, expressed as a proportion of the original investment.[2] The time period is typically a year, in which case the rate of return is referred to as annual return.
Return, in the second sense, and rate of return, are commonly presented as a percentage.
ROI is an abbreviation of return on investment, i.e. return per dollar invested. It is a measure of investment performance, as opposed to size (c.f. return on equity, return on assets, return on capital employed).
The return, or rate of return, can be calculated over a single period, or where there is more than one time period, the return and rate of return over the overall period can be calculated, based upon the return within each sub-period.
The return over a single period is:
For example, if you hold 100 shares, with starting price is 10 USD, then the starting value is 100 x 10 USD = 1,000 USD. If you then collect 0.50 USD per share in cash dividends, and the ending share price is 9.80 USD, then at the end you have 100 x 0.50 USD = 50 USD in cash, plus 100 x 9.80 USD = 980 USD in shares, totalling a final value of 1,030 USD. The change in value is 1,030 USD - 1,000 USD = 30 USD, so the return is 30 / 1,000 = 3%.
Without any reinvestment, a return over a period of length is equivalent to a rate of return:
For example, 20,000 USD returned on an initial investment of 100,000 USD is a return of 20%. If the 20,000 USD is paid in 5 annual installments of 4,000 USD per year, with no reinvestment, the rate of return is 4,000 / 100,000 = 20% / 5 = 4% per year.
Assuming returns are reinvested however, due to the effect of compounding, the relationship between a rate of return , and a return over a period of length is:
which can be used to convert the return to a rate of return :
For example, a 33.1% return over 3 months is equivalent to a rate of:
per month with reinvestment.
Annualisation is the process of converting a return to an annual rate of return , where the length of the period is measured in years and the rate of return is per year.
The logarithmic return or continuously compounded return, also known as force of interest, is:
and the logarithmic rate of return is:
or equivalently it is the solution to the equation:
For example, if a stock is priced at 3.570 USD per share at the close on one day, and at 3.575 USD per share at the close the next day, then the logarithmic return is: ln(3.575/3.57) = 0.0014, or 0.14%.
Under an assumption of reinvestment, the relationship between a logarithmic return and a logarithmic rate of return over a period of time of length is:
so trivially is the annualised logarithmic rate of return for a return .
For example, if the logarithmic return of a security per trading day is 0.14%, assuming 250 trading days in a year, then the annualised logarithmic rate of return is 0.14%/(1/250) = 0.14% x 250 = 35%
When returns are calculated over more than one time period, they are based on the investment value at the beginning of each period.
If the returns over successive time sub-periods are , then the cumulative return or overall return over the overall time period is:
If the returns are logarithmic returns however, the logarithmic return over the overall time period is:
The arithmetic average rate of return over time periods of equal length is defined as:
If you have a sequence of logarithmic rates of return over equal successive periods, the appropriate method of finding their average is the arithmetic average rate of return.
For ordinary returns, if there is no reinvestment, and losses are made good by topping up the capital invested, so that the value is brought back to its starting-point at the end of each period, use the arithmetic average return.
With reinvestment of all gains and losses however, the appropriate average rate of return is the geometric average rate of return over n periods, which is:
Note that the geometric average return is equivalent to the cumulative return over the whole n periods, converted into a rate of return per period.
In the case where the periods are each a year long, and there is no reinvestment of returns, the annualized cumulative return is the arithmetic average return. Where the individual sub-periods are each a year, and there is reinvestment of returns, the annualized cumulative return is the geometric average rate of return.
For example, the cumulative return for annual returns: 50%, -20%, 30% and -40% is:
and the geometric average is:
which is equal to the annualized cumulative return:
In the presence of external flows, such as cash or securities moving into or out of the portfolio, the return should be calculated by compensating for these movements. This is achieved using methods such as the True Time-Weighted Rate of Return. Time-weighted returns compensate for the impact of cash flows. This is useful to assess the performance of a money manager on behalf of his/her clients, where typically the clients control these cash flows.[3]
Like the time-weighted return, the money-weighted rate of return (MWRR) or dollar-weighted rate of return also take cash flows into consideration. They are useful evaluating and comparing cases where the money manager controls cash flows, for example private equity. (Contrast with the true time-weighted rate of return, which is most applicable to measure the performance of a money manager who does not have control over external flows.)
The internal rate of return (IRR), a variety of money-weighted rate of return, is the rate of return which makes the net present value of cash flows zero. It is a solution satisfying the following equation:
NPV = net present value
= cashflow at time
When the IRR rate is greater than the cost of capital, the investment adds value, i.e., NPV > 0. Otherwise, the investment does not add value.
The value of an investment is doubled if the return = +100%, that is, if = ln($200 / $100) = ln(2) = 69.3%. The value falls to zero when = -100%, that is, if = -∞.
Ordinary returns and logarithmic returns are not equal, but they are approximately equal when they are small. The difference between them is large only when percent changes are high. For example, an arithmetic return of +50% is equivalent to a logarithmic return of 40.55%, while an arithmetic return of -50% is equivalent to a logarithmic return of -69.31%.
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Logarithmic returns are useful for mathematical finance. One of the advantages is that the logarithmic returns are symmetric, while ordinary returns are not: positive and negative percent ordinary returns of equal magnitude do not cancel each other out and result in no net change, but logarithmic returns of equal magnitude but opposite signs will cancel each other out. This means that an investment of $100 that yields an arithmetic return of 50% followed by an arithmetic return of -50% will result in $75, while an investment of $100 that yields a logarithmic return of 50% followed by a logarithmic return of -50% will come back to $100.
The geometric average rate of return is in general less than the arithmetic average return. The two averages are equal if (and only if) all the sub-period returns are equal. This is a consequence of the AM–GM inequality. The difference between the annualized return and average annual return increases with the variance of the returns – the more volatile the performance, the greater the difference.[note 1]
For example, a return of +10%, followed by −10%, gives an arithmetic average return of 0%, but the overall result over the 2 sub-periods is 110% x 90% = 99% for an overall return of −1%. The order in which the loss and gain occurs does not affect the result.
For a return of +20%, followed by −20%, this again has an average return of 0%, but an overall return of −4%.
A return of +100%, followed by −100%, has an average return of 0%, but an overall return of −100%, as the final value is 0.
In cases of leveraged investments, even more extreme results are possible: a return of +200%, followed by −200%, has an average return of 0%, but an overall return of −300%.
This pattern is not followed in the case of logarithmic returns, due to their symmetry, as noted above. A logarithmic return of +10%, followed by −10%, gives an overall return of 10% - 10% = 0%, and an average rate of return of zero also.
Investment returns are often published as "average returns". in order to translate average returns into overall returns, compound the average returns over the number of periods.
|Year 1
|Year 2
|Year 3
|Year 4
|Rate of Return
|Geometric Average at End of Year
|Capital at End of Year
|Dollar Profit/(Loss)
The geometric average rate of return was 5%. Over 4 years, this translates into an overall return of:
|Year 1
|Year 2
|Year 3
|Year 4
|Rate of Return
|Geometric Average at End of Year
|Capital at End of Year
|Dollar Profit/(Loss)
The geometric average return over the 4 year period was -1.64%. Over 4 years, this translates into an overall return of:
|Year 1
|Year 2
|Year 3
|Year 4
|Rate of Return
|Geometric Average at End of Year
|Capital at End of Year
|Dollar Profit/(Loss)
The geometric average return over the 4 year period was -42.74%. Over 4 years, this translates back into an overall return of:
Care must be taken not to confuse annual with annualized returns. An annual rate of return is a return over a period of one year, such as January 1 through December 31, or June 3, 2006 through June 2, 2007, whereas an annualized rate of return is a rate of return per year, measured over a period either longer or shorter than one year,such as a month, or two years, annualised for comparison with a one-year return.
The appropriate method of annualization depends on whether returns are reinvested or not.
For example, a return over one month of 1% converts to an annualized rate of return of 12.7% = ((1+0.01)12 - 1). This means if reinvested, the return over 12 months would compound to give a return of 12.7%.
As another example, a two-year return of 10% converts to an annualized rate of return of 4.88% = ((1+0.1)(12/24) - 1), assuming reinvestment at the end of the first year. In other words, the geometric average return per year is 4.88%.
In the cash flow example below, the dollar returns for the four years add up to $265. Assuming no reinvestment, the annualized rate of return for the four years is: $265 ÷ ($1,000 x 4 years) = 6.625%.
|Year 1
|Year 2
|Year 3
|Year 4
|Dollar Return
Investments generate cash flow to the investor to compensate the investor for the time value of money.
Except for rare periods of significant deflation where the opposite may be true, a dollar in cash is worth less today than it was yesterday, and worth more today than it will be worth tomorrow. The main factors that are used by investors to determine the rate of return at which they are willing to invest money include:
The time value of money is reflected in the interest rates that banks offer for deposits, and also in the interest rates that banks charge for loans such as home mortgages. The "risk-free" rate on US dollar investments is the rate on U.S. Treasury bills, because this is the highest rate available without risking capital.
The rate of return which an investor expects from an investment is called the discount rate. Each investment has a different discount rate, based on the cash flow expected in future from the investment. The higher the risk, the higher the discount rate (rate of return) the investor will demand from the investment.
The annualized return or annual percentage yield of an investment depends on whether or not the return, including interest and dividends, from one period is reinvested in the next period. If the return is reinvested, it contributes to the starting value of capital invested for the next period. Compounding reflects the effect of the return in the next period on the return from the previous period.
For example, if an investor puts $1,000 in a 1-year certificate of deposit (CD) that pays an annual interest rate of 4%, paid quarterly, the CD would earn 1% interest per quarter on the account balance. The account uses compound interest, meaning the account balance is cumulative, including interest previously reinvested and credited to the account. Unless the interest is withdrawn at the end of each quarter, it will earn more interest in the next quarter.
|1st Quarter
|2nd Quarter
|3rd Quarter
|4th Quarter
|Capital at the beginning of the period
|Dollar return for the period
|Account Balance at end of the period
|Quarterly return
At the beginning of the second quarter, the account balance is $1,010.00, which then earns $10.10 interest altogether during the second quarter. The extra dime was interest on the additional $10 investment from the previous interest accumulated in the account. The annualized return (annual percentage yield, compound interest) is higher than for simple interest, because the interest is reinvested as capital and then itself earns interest. The yield or annualized return on the above investment is .
Investments carry varying amounts of risk that the investor will lose some or all of the invested capital. For example, investments in company stock shares put capital at risk. Unlike capital invested in a savings account, the share price, which is the market value of a stock share at a certain point in time, depends on what someone is willing to pay for it, and the price of a stock share tends to change constantly when the market for that share is open. If the price is relatively stable, the stock is said to have "low volatility." If the price often changes a great deal, the stock has "high volatility."
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|1st Quarter
|2nd Quarter
|3rd Quarter
|4th Quarter
|Stock Price
|Shares Purchased
|Total Shares Held
|Investment Value
|Quarterly ROI
To the right is an example of a stock investment of one share purchased at the beginning of the year for $100.
To calculate the capital gain for US income tax purposes, include the reinvested dividends in the cost basis. The investor received a total of $4.06 in dividends over the year, all of which were reinvested, so the cost basis increased by $4.06.
For U.S. income tax purposes therefore, dividends were $4.06, the cost basis of the investment was $104.06 and if the shares were sold at the end of the year, the sale value would be $103.02, and the capital loss would be $1.04.
Mutual funds, exchange-traded funds (ETFs), and other equitized investments (such as unit investment trusts or UITs, insurance separate accounts and related variable products such as variable universal life insurance policies and variable annuity contracts, and bank-sponsored commingled funds, collective benefit funds or common trust funds) are essentially portfolios of various investment securities such as stocks, bonds and money market instruments which are equitized by selling shares or units to investors. Investors and other parties are interested to know how the investment has performed over various periods of time.
Performance is usually quantified by a fund's total return. In the 1990s, many different fund companies were advertising various total returns—some cumulative, some averaged, some with or without deduction of sales loads or commissions, etc. To level the playing field and help investors compare performance returns of one fund to another, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) began requiring funds to compute and report total returns based upon a standardized formula—so called "SEC Standardized total return" which is the average annual total return assuming reinvestment of dividends and distributions and deduction of sales loads or charges. Funds may compute and advertise returns on other bases (so-called "non-standardized" returns), so long as they also publish no less prominently the "standardized" return data.
Subsequent to this, apparently investors who'd sold their fund shares after a large increase in the share price in the late 1990s and early 2000s were ignorant of how significant the impact of income/capital gain taxes was on their fund "gross" returns. That is, they had little idea how significant the difference could be between "gross" returns (returns before federal taxes) and "net" returns (after-tax returns). In reaction to this apparent investor ignorance, and perhaps for other reasons, the SEC made further rule-making to require mutual funds to publish in their annual prospectus, among other things, total returns before and after the impact of U.S federal individual income taxes. And further, the after-tax returns would include 1) returns on a hypothetical taxable account after deducting taxes on dividends and capital gain distributions received during the illustrated periods and 2) the impacts of the items in #1) as well as assuming the entire investment shares were sold at the end of the period (realizing capital gain/loss on liquidation of the shares). These after-tax returns would apply of course only to taxable accounts and not to tax-deferred or retirement accounts such as IRAs.
Lastly, in more recent years, "personalized" brokerage account statements have been demanded by investors. In other words, the investors are saying more or less that the fund returns may not be what their actual account returns are, based upon the actual investment account transaction history. This is because investments may have been made on various dates and additional purchases and withdrawals may have occurred which vary in amount and date and thus are unique to the particular account. More and more funds and brokerage firms are now providing personalized account returns on investor's account statements in response to this need.
With that out of the way, here's how basic earnings and gains/losses work on a mutual fund. The fund records income for dividends and interest earned which typically increases the value of the mutual fund shares, while expenses set aside have an offsetting impact to share value. When the fund's investments increase in market value, so too does the value of the fund shares (or units) owned by the investors. When investments increase (decrease) in market value, so too the fund shares value increases (or decreases). When the fund sells investments at a profit, it turns or reclassifies that paper profit or unrealized gain into an actual or realized gain. The sale has no effect on the value of fund shares but it has reclassified a component of its value from one bucket to another on the fund books—which will have future impact to investors. At least annually, a fund usually pays dividends from its net income (income less expenses) and net capital gains realized out to shareholders as an IRS requirement. This way, the fund pays no taxes but rather all the investors in taxable accounts do. Mutual fund share prices are typically valued each day the stock or bond markets are open and typically the value of a share is the net asset value of the fund shares investors own.
This section addresses only total returns without the impact of U.S. federal individual income and capital gains taxes.
Mutual funds report total returns assuming reinvestment of dividend and capital gain distributions. That is, the dollar amounts distributed are used to purchase additional shares of the funds as of the reinvestment/ex-dividend date. Reinvestment rates or factors are based on total distributions (dividends plus capital gains) during each period.
US mutual funds are to compute average annual total return as prescribed by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in instructions to form N-1A (the fund prospectus) as the average annual compounded rates of return for 1-year, 5-year and 10-year periods (or inception of the fund if shorter) as the "average annual total return" for each fund. The following formula is used:[6]
P = a hypothetical initial payment of $1,000.
T = average annual total return.
n = number of years.
ERV = ending redeemable value of a hypothetical $1,000 payment made at the beginning of the 1-, 5-, or 10-year periods at the end of the 1-, 5-, or 10-year periods (or fractional portion).
Solving for T gives
Mutual funds include capital gains as well as dividends in their return calculations. Since the market price of a mutual fund share is based on net asset value, a capital gain distribution is offset by an equal decrease in mutual fund share value/price. From the shareholder's perspective, a capital gain distribution is not a net gain in assets, but it is a realized capital gain.
|Year 1
|Year 2
|Year 3
|Year 4
|Year 5
|Dividend per share
|Capital gain distribution per share
|Total distribution per share
|Share price at end of year
|Shares owned before distribution
|Total distribution (distribution per share x shares owned)
|Share price at distribution
|Shares purchased (total distribution / price)
|Shares owned after distribution