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Four experts say faster is often better. But they also have concerns.
The rise of high-frequency-trading firms, which use statistics and algorithms to drive electronic-trading strategies, is transforming financial markets around the world. By some measures, such firms account for 5 of every 10 stock trades in the U.S. each day.
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Research has shown that algorithmic trading broadly makes prices less volatile and reduces the overall cost of trading. But the capacity of the high-frequency-trading firms to buy and sell large amounts of securities in fractions of a second has raised fears that ordinary investors are being left in the dust.
The Wall Street Journal gathered four academics who have studied financial markets for a panel discussion: James Angel, associate professor at McDonough School of Business, Georgetown University, and board member at Direct Edge, an electronic stock exchange; Albert Menkveld, associate professor of finance, VU University Amsterdam; Daniel Weaver, professor of finance and associate director for Whitcomb Center for Research in Financial Services, Rutgers Business School, Rutgers University; and Chester Spatt, chaired professor of finance and director of the Center for Financial Markets, Carnegie Mellon Tepper School of Business, and a former chief economist of the Securities and Exchange Commission.
These people are all optimistic that electronically driven high-frequency trading can be a benefit to markets and investors around the world, despite some concerns. One worry: that some of the human limitations the superfast trading systems are designed to overcome have in the past acted as safeguards.
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Faster, Cheaper
WSJ: What does high-frequency trading mean? What are these firms doing, and to what extent have they replicated the role of floor traders?
MR. ANGEL: For the most part they're doing the same old same old—just better, faster and cheaper. The reason they have to be so fast is that most strategies are actually pretty low-tech. If you think about a strategy like market making—buy at the bid, sell at the offer, and don't get run over by a truck when the market moves—that's a business where you need to be very fast to update your quotes, otherwise somebody who's faster than you will pick you off.
MR. MENKVELD: One important aspect of electronic markets is the search for counterparties to your trade. Once we started to trade electronically, this search became much easier because machines can parse quickly the different securities markets globally.
MR. WEAVER: The average high-frequency trader's profit is 10 cents on 100 shares traded. When you have a machine, it becomes scalable and very profitable to make very small profits per trade.
MR. SPATT: A lot of the practices that high-frequency-trading firms are being criticized about are not new practices. In a traditional trading floor, there often was hidden liquidity: Traders often had orders that they weren't directly showing as they were looking for opportunities to provide liquidity to the marketplace.
WSJ: How does it affect individual investors?
MR. SPATT: You have a faster speed of execution. You can have executions in an instant. And the market has greater fragmentation. Even in the situation of retail orders now, a trade can be fragmented across multiple platforms. Interestingly, I also think the spreads in the markets have continued to become tighter.
MR. WEAVER: Whether or not there is more volatility in the marketplace is the issue. It's not clear whether more volatility is being caused by high-frequency traders. Certainly there are tighter spreads, more liquidity. But there's more price impact, and there may be more volatility in the market as well.
MR. ANGEL: The issues with volatility are always really hard to determine. How much volatility is attributable to high-frequency trading, how much is fundamental volatility, and how much is just natural noise in the trading system?
MR. MENKVELD: For fun I am a retail investor myself. One thing I noticed is that it's hard for me to earn a spread. As soon as I put in an order, I notice that the guy I tried to undercut, the moment I refresh my screen, the guy's right underneath me. I pull my quote and he's back to where he was before. That's the negative for retail investors. The positive is, with these high-frequency traders, the spreads retail investors are paying are smaller than they were before.
Human Limitations
WSJ: Should retail investors be concerned?
MR. WEAVER: They should stay away from short-term trading strategies. They are going to go up against computers and lose. But put it in perspective. IBM shares traded at about $80 on Feb. 28, 2006. If you ended up paying an extra 25 cents a share due to volatility, then you paid an extra 25 cents per share. Over the next five years IBM doubled, which impacts returns much more than the 25 cents. Investors should worry about the long-term price appreciation of stocks, not small volatilities.
MR. MENKVELD: All this uncertainty about the current environment and emphasis on the bad things creates a bad impression to people we want to participate in our markets. The way to address this is to be proactive about going into the markets and for the regulators to conduct a proper economic analysis of what happened in events like the flash crash [of May 2010]. We're far behind in that respect. We don't have the regulatory oversight these new markets need, and the adjustment of regulators to these new markets to bring some balance to peoples' views.
MR. ANGEL: When you trace the wires on all these computerized platforms, sooner or later you find a person. But people respond differently than computers. While we have most of the safeguards in place, we don't have all the safeguards that we would have in a human market. In the bad old days, when the market was overwhelmed by a wave of activity, human limitations would naturally slow the market down, because humans could only process so many orders at a time. In the current environment, if our technology gets overwhelmed, the market can fail in unpredictable ways. We saw this in the flash crash.
Automate Regulators
WSJ: How should regulators respond?
MR. MENKVELD: I would advocate that as participants have automated their approach to the market and trading strategy, regulators need to become electronic themselves. They need to think through regulations that we already have in place. All these regulations about how one shouldn't manipulate prices and all those things still apply, but honestly I don't think our regulators are equipped now to process all the electronic message traffic, to check randomly what particular participants are doing. That's something that would be of huge service.
MR. ANGEL: We're not paying regulators enough to do high-level work—but we ought to. We need to give our regulators the resources they need to hire enough good people to really understand the markets.
WSJ: Do high-frequency traders need additional requirements to trade in volatile conditions?
MR. SPATT: How do we structure a set of incentives so as to obligate trading firms to provide liquidity when it's strongly not in their interest? That's very challenging. Regulators used to provide special treatment for these firms, like the special treatment the former NYSE specialists used to receive. But we saw that when the chips were down, even with the special benefits provided, these just were not sufficient for the specialists to provide liquidity. It seems to me what's important is to allow competition and allow investors to adjust.
Would it be in the interest of market participants to pay for such special treatment, or would that be counter to interests of market participants? I would come down on the side that it would be counter to interests of investors to pay for that special treatment and would be doubtful that it would be provided.
WSJ: What about the impact high-frequency trading has on exchanges' trading networks?
MR. WEAVER: We have to worry about stresses on the system. The Tokyo Stock Exchange had to shut down twice in the past six years because their systems could not handle the volume of traffic. As high-frequency traders scale up, we're going to need more improvements to the structure of exchange backbones. If we don't have that, we could have a crash precipitated just because the exchanges couldn't handle the message traffic.
WSJ: Electronic traders are often portrayed as secretive and predatory. What can they do to improve their public image?
MR. WEAVER: If they have nothing to hide, then show us the data. It'll have to be coded so that we can't identify any individual firm and replicate their trading activities. But there are ways, which Nasdaq has done, to release the data without the high-frequency-trading firms fearing that their trading strategies can be discerned by looking at the data.
MR. ANGEL: They can take a page from the NYSE playbook. Prior to the 1980s, the NYSE was a very secretive place. But in the 1980s, they started inviting people to the floor. They started sharing data and putting on conferences. They understood that it was in the NYSE's best interest for people to have a better understanding of their marketplace. Promoting understanding is step one.
Mr. Bunge is a reporter for The Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones Newswires in Chicago. He can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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CHARLES ROTBLUT: The big challenge with initial public offerings is popularity. The greater the appeal of an IPO company, the harder it will be to participate in the offering, especially for smaller companies. It's very likely an individual investor will not either be able to participate or will be allocated a fairly small number of shares. Even if an investor does get allocated shares, he will not know how many or what the final cost is until the evening before the IPO is set to be completed.
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I am getting too old for this stuff........
Like the guys jumping from the bull. And that is just one of the little 600 pound play bulls in the bullring after the run. Note the guys hanging on to the backs of some of the guys clinging to the wall.... or the feet of the guy who has plunged head first over the wall....
Six years ago you could not convince me that I would have run with the bulls in Pamplona. Since then I have gone four times, in 2002, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2008 and again in 2011 iand will most likely do it again. I have tried to provide some insight from getting there, to eating, drinking, sleeping and partying. Hope to see you there as I am going again.
I have flown into Madrid a couple of days before the one hour flight to Pamplona as well as simply made a connection flight, but that makes for a long day from California. A few days in Madrid are necessary to aclimate one to fiestas at night and siestas in the afternoon. You can take the high speed train, but it is not much cheaper and takes four hours. You can also drive. It's about a five hour drive.
I stayed at the Hotel Leyre, near the Bull Ring and close to the action, but far away so that the reveling extremus was not within earshot and several times at the Hotel Albret, a 10 minute bus ride to the festivities.
You have to get up early to run or watch the running. If you want to run, get to the staging area at Plaza del Ayuntamiento no later than 7 am. The only thing you are allowed to run with are your clothes. So don't bring your backpack, camera, etc. Just before the 8 am start time, they let loose the runners to take their respective positions on the 900 yard course.
A rocket goes off at 8 am announcing they have let loose the six bulls and six steers. Another rocket announces that last of the beasts have left the holding pen and the third when the last bull makes it into the bullring.
After the first rocket there will be a surge of runners several hundred yards in front of the bulls. These runners have no huevos. You must wait until you see the whites of de bulls eyes, then you join in. Hopefully, the first herd will avoid you and you can run on their heels and follow them into the bullring.
While you are running, there are not rules. It is every man or woman for himself. Bear in mind the bulls are designed for kicking human ass. So while you are running as fast as you can, other runners are down on the groung and you are jumping them, while you are looking behind you for the bulls while you are knocking down slow pokes in front of you, while other runners are knocking you down because they think you are a slow poke. There are piles of runners littering the run. You have to go around or over them. Got the picture? If you get knocked down and Senor. Ole is bearing down on you, stay down.
It is over in 2-3 minutes, unless you are fortunate in getting into the bullring. After the fighting bulls are herded through the ring, they let out the 800 pound play bulls for half an hour. The picture above is just when they released one of the playbulls.
After the run is over, then you have to prepare yourself for 22 hours of partying.
There are many music programs going on almost non-stop. Pick up traditional Spanish for an hour in one square, then walk a few blocks for some pop at another. A blocks further will be a rock and roll group. Then there is jazz and even local Basque songs. Plus out of every bar there is music blaring and dancing and swaying.
The whole reason for running the bulls is to get them from the outskirts of the old town and into the bullring so that they can suffer an ignominious fate of being shafted for human entertainment later that evening.
There are two ways to see the bullfight. One, in the regular sections of the stands and two, "under the sun". I am an "under the sun" kind of guy.
Your expectations may be a bit confused when those sitting around you are doned in hospital whites or plastic ponchos over their festival attire and carrying a bucket of sangria. Reasons for this are soon made evident. Social protocol whilst "under the sun" is to dip your cup into your bucket of sangria, drink 2/3's of your cup, and then pitch the rest on those below you. Who in turn, dip their cup into their bucket of sangria, drink 1/2, then pitch theirs upwards. For the most part, all done with great fun and jest. And to be bonked with a wayward slice of orange or apple is cause for celebration.
And someplace along the line six bulls have been dispatched and it is time to head back to the old town and party some more.
Have camera, make new friends. These "mucho guapas senoritas" insisted on being in my photograph para mi amigos. Please pardon my Spanish. They demonstrate the acceptable method of laying out their port-a-bar in The Plaza de Castellano one evening.
For more information on the running, go to www.sanfermin.com.
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Karl, you have had great experiences in Pamplona....Thanks for your amazing story!...
Karl, interesting and very comprehensive page about Pamplona here We will be in the area at the beginning of May and Pamplona might be on our list. Luckily the Festival won't be on at that time. :-)
I like "I am getting too old for this stuff........" and the fact that you dared appreciate Rejones.
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i cannot BELIEVE that you do this. i would drop the 25 Eu and watch from safety and comfort. Meanwhile, great page - good images, excellent reading. n.
Hi Karl. Thanks for the wishes. You'll definitely be missed in Paris. Well, if you fancy a trip to the Far East (from where you are, it'll be heading west. lol), there's gonna be 2 VT meets planned for Malaysia and the Philippines in Dec/Jan
Glad to see Cezur Minor mentioned, I stayed at a pilgrim's place there on first day of my Camino! There was a huge lawn filled with wild flowers. Love Pamplona, will be back to read more. Cheers!
was in Pmaplona, seeing the Bull RIng, Bronze life size art peices and with Hemmingway's bust , was wondering . . . ;-))) ;-)))
I guess running around the town keeps you in shape for all those ski jaunts you take. This is a nice presentation of the event and sites.
Very interesting tips, particularly the food market. Am in Pamploma in August.
Great page, although I think you are nuts! (Deliberately getting in the way of large animals with horns isn't my idea of fun.)
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- 2 pounds beef round steak, cut 1/4 inch thick
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We introduce a mechanism for constructing and training a hybrid architecture of projection-based units and radial basis functions. In particular, we introduce an optimisation scheme which includes several steps and assures a convergence to a useful solution. During network architecture construction and training, it is determined whether a unit should be removed or replaced. The resulting architecture often has a smaller number of units compared with competing architectures. A specific overfitting resulting from shrinkage of the RBF radii is addressed by introducing a penalty on small radii. Classification and regression results are demonstrated on various benchmark data sets and compared with several variants of RBF networks [1,2]. A striking performance improvement is achieved on the vowel data set [3].
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HOUMA — South Lafourche Levee Director Windell Curole was appointed to Louisiana's Bicentennial Commission this week.
The Louisiana Bicentennial Commission will plan and develop activities to celebrate the upcoming bicentennial of Louisiana statehood, including ceremonies and educational programs about state history.
Louisiana achieved statehood in 1812, and will celebrate its 200th anniversary in 2012.
"With the help of my partners in government, we have created a robust list of Louisiana representatives who will focus on all that our great state has offered the past 200 years as well as what we continue to offer in the present," Angelle said.
Curole also serves on the state's Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority Board, and is a lifelong resident of south Lafourche.
Lt. Governor Scott Angelle announced Curole's appointment along with 11 others, including Patricia P. Brister, Mandeville; Gaspar "Buddy" Stall, Metairie; Rhyn L. Duplechain, Opelousas; retired Lt. Gen. Russel L. Honoré, Baton Rouge; Rosemary Patterson, Bossier City; state Sen. Karen Carter Peterson, New Orleans; state Sen. Dan Claitor, Baton Rouge; Michael Wynne, Alexandria; Randy K. Haynie, Lafayette; Sheila McCant, Greenwell Springs; and Ed O. Cailleteau, Baton Rouge
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"The members of this commission know there is a lot to celebrate in Louisiana's past and present," Angelle said. "I look forward to the monumental work they will do to commemorate this milestone for Louisiana."
The Louisiana Bicentennial Commission held their first meeting Thursday in Baton Rouge.
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The extreme budget cuts proposed to critical programs that save the lives, dignity, and future of poor and vulnerable people have crossed the line.
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Macaulay Culkin was also a fine young star at 10 when he helped make Home Alone a monster hit, though his Edvard Munchian open-mouth pose unfortunately made him fall prey to Michael Jackson's friendship advances. (Kidding. Mac has nothing bad to say about Jackson. Or nothing much to say about it at all.)
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Why is the dispute over Iran's nuclear programme reaching a critical stage?
Iran started enriching uranium last January. This can produce the material essential to building a nuclear bomb. By taking this step, Iran broke a deal signed with Britain, France and Germany. The UN passed two Resolutions last year calling for Iran to stop developing its nuclear programme. So far, Iran has ignored these calls.
Why is Iran suspected of seeking nuclear weapons?
Iran says that its nuclear programme is peaceful and designed to generate electricity for its growing population of 70 million. Western governments don't believe this for two reasons. First, Iran has failed to declare all of its nuclear facilities and deliberately obstructed UN inspectors. The plant at Natanz was only revealed by exiles from the National Council of Resistance of Iran in 2002. Second, highly enriched uranium only has military purposes. Samples have been found on Iran's centrifuges.
How far away might Iran be from having a nuclear bomb?
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Western governments, including America, have offered Iran trade concessions, economic help and investment in return for Teheran curbing its nuclear ambitions. They have also offered technical help for a civilian programme.
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Iran has its own security concerns. Pakistan is a nuclear power, Russia is a near neighbour and America has troops on its borders, in Iraq and Afghanistan. Iran may judge that having a nuclear weapon will guarantee its own security and allow it to become the leading power in the Middle East. Israel believes it would be the prime target for any Iranian bomb. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has pledged to wipe Israel off the map.
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A Rescue Ploy Now Haunts a Hedge Fund That Had It All
By GRETCHEN MORGENSON and GERALDINE FABRIKANT
Published: January 19, 2003
THEY had a glittering client list, dazzling reputations and smarts galore, but as 2002 drew to a close, William A. Ackman and David P. Berkowitz, hedge fund managers at Gotham Partners, were desperate. They had received a mountain of requests from investors asking for their money back and had suffered a devastating setback in one of their biggest investments. The men, who just a few years earlier had been at the top of the hedge fund world, were facing a run on the bank.
But Gotham had little in the way of liquid assets. What had begun in 1993 as a hedge fund specializing in undervalued stocks had morphed into a portfolio of private companies and thinly traded public ones, all exceedingly hard to sell. As 2003 dawned, Mr. Ackman and Mr. Berkowitz delivered the bad news to investors: their portfolios were being wound down and the assets would have to be sold at possibly depressed prices.
It is all a startling comedown for Mr. Ackman and Mr. Berkowitz, both hard-driving Harvard Business School graduates, who set up Gotham Partners in 1993 with just $3 million in assets that, at their peak in 2000, ballooned to $568 million.
As last fall became winter, and their situation grew increasingly dire, they turned to a strategy that had worked for them before but that one investor surmises only compounded their problems this time: they published research on their Web site in support of their large positions in two companies, MBIA and Pre-Paid Legal Services.
That decision to publicly promote two of their biggest holdings -- known in Wall Street parlance as talking one's book -- is highly unusual among secretive hedge funds, which are lightly regulated and managed for wealthy individuals. Even worse, Gotham's publication of upbeat research about one company, even as the fund was quietly selling its shares, looked very much like a classic pump-and-dump scheme.
While Gotham's moves may have been intended to help it meet redemptions, they have instead brought unwelcome scrutiny. Eliot Spitzer, the New York State attorney general, has begun investigating Gotham, its principals and their activities -- a move signaling that Mr. Spitzer, the force behind the nearly $1 billion settlement with top brokerage firms over stock research, has zeroed in on the murky hedge-fund world.
And in a letter sent to investors on Thursday night, Gotham said it had received a letter from the Securities and Exchange Commission as part of an informal inquiry, as well as subpoenas from Mr. Spitzer's office requesting information about MBIA, Pre-Paid, its holding in Farmer Mac (which it also promoted) and its proposed merger of First Union Real Estate and Gotham Golf.
Although Mr. Spitzer's spokeswoman declined to comment on the inquiry, a person briefed on it said investigators were assessing whether Gotham's published research was an attempt to manipulate the market for its own benefit. Farmer Mac, for example, on which the fund had made a negative bet, fell significantly after Gotham's report on it was made public last spring.
WHEN Gotham was publishing its two reports this fall, few outsiders knew how strained its circumstances were. As Mr. Ackman and Mr. Berkowitz scrambled to meet redemption notices from investors, they had another worry. They were encountering resistance to their plan to salvage their investment in Gotham Golf -- a money-losing golf course company they had built that dominated the fund's portfolio. Their plan was to merge it with First Union Real Estate Equity and Mortgage Investments, a profitable real estate investment trust that Mr. Ackman took over in 1998. A lawsuit brought last April by a holder of the First Union REIT's preferred stock threatened to block the deal, risking a loss of $20.3 million that the hedge fund had loaned to Gotham Golf.
Mr. Ackman and Mr. Berkowitz were unaccustomed to failure. They had attracted money from some of the wealthiest and most experienced investors in New York, including the Ziff family, scions of the media empire founded by William Ziff; Martin Peretz, owner of The New Republic; and Michael E. Porter, a Harvard Business School professor.
''They were the money managers' money manager,'' said an investor in New York who knows the Gotham principals well. ''They had a client roster like you wouldn't believe.''
Neither Mr. Ackman, 36, nor Mr. Berkowitz, 40, would comment for this article. Their lawyers also declined to comment.
The crisis began for real on Nov. 15, the last day that Gotham's investors could notify the managers that they wanted to take their money out this year. Five days later, on its Web site, Gotham published ''A Recommendation for Pre-Paid Legal Services,'' a lengthy report on Pre-Paid, a legal services provider in which the fund said it held one million shares. In the report, Gotham estimated that Pre-Paid's business was worth up to $67 a share. The stock closed that day at $24.75, down a few cents.
This tactic had worked for Gotham before. Last May, it published its first report on the Web: an extensive and negative piece on Farmer Mac, a government-sponsored enterprise that makes farm loans. The analysis was picked up by the news media, including The New York Times, which printed several articles about Farmer Mac.
Initially, investors seemed to agree with the hedge fund's findings: Farmer Mac's stock declined 49 percent from May to July. (It has since rebounded, by 65 percent, to $33.15 a share.)
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The changing face of local egovernment in New Zealand
Fielden, Kay; Malcolm, Pam
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Citation:Fielden, K., & Malcolm, P. (2010, December). The changing face of local egovernment in New Zealand. Paper presented at the Pre-ICIS Workshop: Taking Stock of eGovernment Research, St Louis.
Permanent link to Research Bank record:http://hdl.handle.net/10652/1618
In New Zealand, there is a national digital strategy with targets for 2010 in place set by the State Services Commission. In this paper, the extent to which e-participation targets have been met by local governments in New Zealand is explored, particularly with respect to social networking facilities made available on local government websites. A two-level theoretical framework based on core systems thinking principles is presented that provides a means of evaluating 2010 targets for local governments and citizens. The impact of structural change particularly on meeting 2010 participation targets for local government are explored from both local government web developers and the public view via an analysis of participation facilities offered on local government websites.
Keywords:local government change, egovernment, digital divide, cluster analysis
ANZSRC Field of Research:160503 Communications and Media Policy
Copyright Holder:Kay Fielden and Pam Malcoslm
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Your right. Why build the pipeline when we know its heading to China or some other country other than the USA! Why give oil companies more MONEY! What does the US get in return? NOTHING long lasting!! Show me one job which is long lasting? Most are here today gone tomorrow and you cannot raise a family in which I guess is good because of over world population!! All the oil companies have received so much "CORPARATE WELFARE MONEY" lets diversify now before its too late! We used up half of the oil supply in 2007 and the price is just going to keep getting higher. Oil companies are not our friends and what is the harm in diversifying our energy needs? Lets quit being the oil companys bitch!!That's a bargain and a path to SANITY, energy independence!
Last year alone We the People gave BIG OIL $24 BILLION in CORPORATE WELFARE and BIG OIL is making RECORD PROFITS EXPORTING OUR AMERICAN OIL and charging We the People RECORD HIGH PRICES AT THE PUMP.
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#108 Mar 27, 2012
Your right. Why build the pipeline when we know its heading to China or some other country other than the USA! Why give oil companies more MONEY! What does the US get in return? NOTHING long lasting!! Show me one job which is long lasting? Most are here today gone tomorrow and you cannot raise a family in which I guess is good because of over world population!! All the oil companies have received so much "CORPARATE WELFARE MONEY" lets diversify now before its too late! We used up half of the oil supply in 2007 and the price is just going to keep getting higher. Oil companies are not our friends and what is the harm in diversifying our energy needs? Lets quit being the oil companys bitch!!
"Leonardo Di Vinci died here"
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#109 Mar 27, 2012
try Cuba......you are ment for each other.
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#110 Mar 27, 2012
MSO4, "When Bush was in office and gas was high, we also had a 5% unemployment rate." By the time Barack Obama was inaugurated in 2009, the US economy was hemorrhaging over 300,000 jobs ! G W Bush barely slowed the freefall with government bailouts to some of the largest Wall Street banks and government loans to GM and Chrysler ,but without any rational plan to get Wall Street to reform , pay back the government loans or any workable way for GM and Chrysler to actually get back to manufacturing affordable US cars that people would actually want to buy---until Obama was elected and succeeded at returning order to our banking system, and reopening once shuttered US auto plants, and encouraging US companies like GE to start insourcing--opening plants in America and bringing American jobs back home like he brought our American servicemen back home with the end of war in Iraq and winding down of Afghanistan
#111 Mar 31, 2012
Yep, as with our roads, school, post office, railroads and now healthcare are funded by us taxpayers, once the government comes into run them then all hell breaks loose. Our railroad systems are going bankrupt, our post office is going bankrupt, our schools are failing because our teachers hands are tied with bureaucracy and union red tape, chevy had to build the volt which is a failure, our welfare/entitlement programs are out of control and now healthcare. I don't mind paying taxes but we are becoming a society of entitlements. The oil companies are given tax benefits for one because of the amount of people they employ. What happens when they no longer receive these tax breaks, more unemployment. Open up keystone so more people can go back to work. Continue working on alternative means of energy but stop focusing solely on that and making us tax payers pay for failed alternative resources and forcing us to buy light bulbs that cost more than an average lamp. Open up your eyes to the failures on both sides but this administration is putting us further into debt and we are becoming dependent on foreign countries, who don't even like us, to borrow money from. Wake up America we are going to be a society of well-to-dos and the very poor no middle class.
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#112 Mar 31, 2012
Glad to know Obama has NO control over that $4 a gallon gas. Matter of fact, according to some, nothing is ever Obama's fault, as it is always easier to blame Bush who by the way has been out of office for almost 3 1/2 years. Yet Obama is never to blame.
"Leonardo Di Vinci died here"
Since: Nov 08
#113 Apr 1, 2012
Last Friday, Mr. Obama wandered into the killing of Trayvon Martin. Aided by his ignorance of the situation, knee-jerk prejudices and tendency toward racial profiling, Mr. Obama played a heavy hand in elevating a tragic situation in which a teenager was killed into a full-blown hot race fight.
Americans, he admonished, need to do some soul-searching. And then, utterly inexplicably, he veered off into this bizarre tangent about how he and the poor dead kid look so much alike they could be father and son. It was election-year race-pandering gone horribly wrong.
By the start of this week, Mr. Obama had fled town and was racing to the other side of the planet just as the Supreme Court was taking up the potentially-embarrassing matter of Obamacare. While in South Korea he was caught on a hidden mic negotiating with the president of our longest-standing rival on how to sell America and her allies down the river once he gets past the next election.
Meanwhile, back at home, the Supreme Court took up the single most important achievement of Mr. Obamas presidency and, boy, was it embarrassing. The great constitutional law professor, it turns out, may not quite be the wizard he told us he was.
By most accounts, Mr. Obama and his stuttering lawyers were all but laughed out of the courthouse. They were even stumbling over softball questions lobbed by Mr. Obamas own hand-picked justices.
Mr. Obama closed his week pulling off a nearly unimaginable feat: He managed to totally and completely unify the nastily-fighting Democrats and Republicans in Congress. Late Wednesday night, they unanimously voted 414 to zip to reject the budget Mr. Obama had presented, leaving him not even a thin lilys blade to hide behind.
So, in one week, Mr. Obama got caught whispering promises to our enemy, incited a race war, raised serious questions about his understanding of the Constitution, and then got smacked down over his proposed budget that was so wildly reckless that even Democrats in Congress could not support it.
Hurt: Washington Times.
"Unions are still scum "
Since: Dec 07
#114 Apr 1, 2012
All in a days work for our Loser in Chief, but someone here will say the it was Bush's fault.
United States
#116 Apr 1, 2012
It was...
"Unions are still scum "
Since: Dec 07
#117 Apr 1, 2012
See how simple that was?
#118 Apr 1, 2012
Want to confuse a liberal? Use logic and facts.
#120 Apr 1, 2012
Yep....they seem to make them up as they go.
#121 Apr 2, 2012
Wow, just like a liberal, gotta change facts to fit your own agendas. You altered my quote to fit yourself, shows how totally low you all we stoop. You just proved that you make up your own rules.
#122 Apr 3, 2012
So happens most Americans do believe our problems with the economy were caused by former president Bush. Well how bout that ??
"Leonardo Di Vinci died here"
Since: Nov 08
#123 Apr 3, 2012
That changed about two years ago.......that title is now in the Obama colum.
#124 Apr 3, 2012
'Although Obama has been president for more than three years, 56% of Americans continue to blame former President George W. Bush and the Republicans for the countrys current economic problems, with only 29% blaming Obama and the Democrats.'
jelimbo's white-washing of facts hasn't worked.
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Since: Feb 06
New Rochelle
#125 Apr 3, 2012
What is scary is that the 20% has grown from 13%.
That is a nearly doubling of the profoundly stupid in our great nation.
"Leonardo Di Vinci died here"
Since: Nov 08
#126 Apr 3, 2012
Obama campaign targets Romney ties to oil...
FLASHBACK: Obama biggest recipient of BP cash...
REPORT: U.S. Blaming Israel for Rising Fuel Prices...are you jews in Florida and California paying attention.
"Leonardo Di Vinci died here"
Since: Nov 08
#127 Apr 3, 2012
In U.S., Slight Majority Now Blame Obama for U.S. Economy
In U.S., Slight Majority Now Blame Obama for U.S. Economy Independents lean toward Republicans ... Economy; Government; Politics; The Presidency; Americas; Northern America
www.gallup.com/poll/149600/Slight-Majority-Bl... : Economic pessimism deepens, and more blame Obama
Sep 20, 2011 · Poll: Economic pessimism deepens, and more blame Obama ... Even more ominous: Six in 10 predict the economy a year from now will be the
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#128 Apr 3, 2012
You had to use the wayback machine to find that, huh? My response was only 4 days old. Once again, dunce, you've been proven ineffective and outdated.
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One Exciting Night
|One Exciting Night
1922 lobby poster
|Directed by
|D. W. Griffith
|Produced by
|D. W. Griffith
|Written by
|D. W. Griffith
(as Irene Sinclair)
|Carol Dempster
Henry Hull
Morgan Wallace
Margaret Dale
Porter Strong
|Irving B. Ruby
Hendrik Sartov
|Distributed by
|United Artists
Release dates
Running time
|128 minutes
|United States
|Silent film
English intertitles
One Exciting Night is a 1922 American Gothic silent Mystery film directed by D. W. Griffith.[1]
The plot revolves around the murder of a bootlegger and the attempts of the cast to uncover the true murderer. The film, inspired by the Mary Roberts Rinehart and Avery Hopwood play The Bat (1920), led to the production of similar "murder mystery/old dark house" films such as The Ghost Breaker (1922), previously filmed by C. B. DeMille in 1914, The Bat (1926) based on the play, Midnight Faces (1926), The Cat and the Canary (1927), The Old Dark House (1932) and even the fabled London After Midnight (1927) with Lon Chaney.[2]
At the time of this film, Henry Hull was starring on Broadway in the stage version of John Willard's The Cat and the Canary.
- Carol Dempster as Agnes Harrington
- Henry Hull as John Fairfax
- Morgan Wallace as J. Wilson Rockmaine
- Margaret Dale as Mrs. Harrington
- Charles Emmett Mack as A Guest
- Charles Croker-King as The Neighbor
- Porter Strong as Romeo Washington
- Frank Sheridan as Detective
- Frank Wunderlee as Samuel Jones
- Grace Griswold as Auntie Fairfax
- Irma Harrison as The Maid
- Herbert Sutch as Clary Johnson
- Percy Carr as The Butler
Home media[edit]
This film received a brief release on VHS in the 1990s.[3] In March 2014 the film was released on all-region DVD by Alpha Video.[4]
- ^ The AFI Catalog of Feature Films:One Exciting Night
- ^ The American Film Institute Catalog of Feature Films: 1921-30 c.1971 by The American Film Institute
- ^ One Exciting Night at silentera.com database
- ^ The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog:One Exciting Night
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Can't find any information about NVCS texture format, but from Pix i see it's used in games and guess for getting depth buffer. How to use the same and how it works? Here is the log after most of scene rendering, but before drawing transparent objects which require depth texture (it's nvcs, but proper screen size, no textures or render targets were created of that format at startup):
<0x0A483ED8> IDirect3DDevice9::CreateTexture(16, 1, 1, 0x00000200, Unknown format, D3DPOOL_DEFAULT, 0x0012F768 --> 0x348FD540, NULL)
CreateObject(D3D9 Texture, 0x348FD540)
CreateObject(D3D9 Surface, 0x348A1818)
<0x0A483ED8> IDirect3DDevice9::GetRenderState(D3DRS_POINTSIZE, 0x0012F754)
<0x0A483ED8> IDirect3DDevice9::SetRenderState(D3DRS_POINTSIZE, 13108852736.000f)
<0x0A483ED8> IDirect3DDevice9::SetPixelShaderConstantI(0, 0x0012F6EC, 6)
<0x0A483ED8> IDirect3DDevice9::SetRenderState(D3DRS_POINTSIZE, 0.000f)
<0x348FD540> IDirect3DTexture9::Release()
DestroyObject(D3D9 Texture, 0x348FD540)
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Posted 10 February 2012 - 04:46 PM
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Posted 10 February 2012 - 05:48 PM
Guess it's some kind of new and unknown to public, as it used in TES Skyrim.
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Posted 10 February 2012 - 07:13 PM
It's not that new - Google found a two year old mention of it at http://aras-p.info/blog/2009/11/20/direct3d-gpu-hacks/ but I couldn't find any documentation for it.
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Posted 24 September 2014 - 01:35 AM
I understand that this is an old topic, but while searching for "NVCS" I always ended up here, and other than one other thread (also by dummynull, in Russian) there is almost no information available. Eventually I figured things out, and it became clear that so did many others - but I just wanted to put some useful links here, for other wonderers who (like me) have trouble figuring it out...
So, "NVCS" is an internal NVida format, but it is not precisely a "vendor hack", on the contrary - it is a pretty civil API - and this is why there isn't really a lot of information about the "NVCS" format (btw, it can easily change to some other identifier in future versions of NVidia drivers). This API is available through nvapi.dll (obviously for NVidia GPUs only), and the culprit function is called NvAPI_D3D9_StretchRectEx().
You can get (almost) everything you need to know about this here: https://developer.nvidia.com/nvapi
In case you DO NOT want to "hard link" with nvapi.dll (i.e. if you DO NOT want your game to only work on NVidia-equipped systems), then here are some additional useful links:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13291783/how-to-get-the-id-memory-address-of-dll-function --> This is the most interesting one... ;)
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A major theme at the Freedom Federation's Awakening conference last weekend was the need for more effective outreach to Hispanic Christians. Religious Right leaders who are trying to bring more Latinos into the conservative political movement know they are swimming upstream against the anti-immigrant rhetoric of the GOP primaries and the Tea Party, the impact of anti-immigration laws in Arizona and Alabama, and the hostility of GOP elected officials to the DREAM Act. They fear that the well-earned antipathy of Latino voters toward the GOP could prevent them from defeating Barack Obama... MORE >
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Richard Land and Barrett Duke of the Southern Baptist Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission are claiming credit for having played in "instrumental" role in thwarting President Obama goals in 2009 and as they lay out the Southern Baptists' legislative agenda for 2010 which focuses heavily on fighting against reproductive choice and gay rights: Whenever the voters have been given the opportunity to decide the question of same-sex marriage in their states, they have opted to support traditional marriage. Nevertheless, the battle to protect marriage is far from over. Right now, the... MORE >
, Tuesday 05/20/2008, 12:21pm
Not surprisingly, the Right's reaction to last week's ruling by the California Supreme Court in favor of equal marriage rights for gays and lesbians was swift and negative. Former Rep. Ernest Istook, now of the Heritage Foundation, evoked Nazi metaphors to blame those who supported civil unions as a compromise: "By trying to appease homosexual rights activists, those who have refused to stand up for traditional marriage helped to create this court ruling. They are the Neville Chamberlains of the cultural wars." Barrett Duke of the Southern... MORE >
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