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6 Mesi : Da Nov 2018 a Mag 2019
By Chris Matthews and Barbara Kollmeyer, MarketWatch
Optimism remains over potential for China-U.S. trade deal
U.S. stocks saw firm gains Tuesday morning, after lawmakers reached a deal to prevent a government shutdown and optimism grew over a potential trade deal between the U.S. and China.
How are major indexes faring?
The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 244 points, or 1%, to 25,297, while S&P 500 added 23 points, or 0.9%, to 2,733. The Nasdaq Composite Index jumped 72 points, or 1%, to 7,379.
Read: Morgan Stanley warns of a looming earnings recession (http://www.marketwatch.com/story/stock-market-may-be-in-for-a-rude-awakening-as-profits-dry-up-warns-strategist-2019-02-11)
What's driving the market?
Democratic and Republican lawmakers said late Monday that a deal has been reached (http://www.marketwatch.com/story/lawmakers-reach-border-security-deal-that-would-avert-shutdown-2019-02-11) to avert another damaging government shutdown. Committed to avoiding the repeat of such a scenario, GOP negotiators agreed to a border-security deal that will involve far less money for an extension of the southern U.S. border wall than President Donald Trump has been demanding.
The tentative deal, which involves 55 miles of new border fencing, still requires approval from Trump, who told a rally in El Paso, Texas that "progress is being made with this committee." He added: "Just so you know, we're building the wall anyway."
Trade negotiations entered a second day Tuesday in Beijing, with Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer due to arrive Thursday for more high-level discussions. A 12:01 a.m. Eastern time March 2 deadline is looming for an agreement to be struck between the two countries.
Meanwhile, investors digested a new batch of earnings releases Tuesday, as fourth-quarter earnings season enters its final stretch.
Which stocks are worth watching?
Coty Inc. (COTY) shares are in focus Tuesday, after JAB holdings announced its plans to commence a tender offer to acquire 150 million shares of the company at a price of $11.65 per share, versus Monday's closing price of $9.66 per share. The stock is up 16.4%, early Tuesday.
Shares of Molson Coors Brewing Co. (TAP) are down 6.5% Tuesday morning, after the beer provider reported higher-than-expected, fourth-quarter earnings Tuesday morning (http://www.marketwatch.com/story/molson-coors-stock-drops-after-profit-beats-but-sales-miss-as-us-volume-fell-2019-02-12), while missing Wall Street revenue forecasts.
The company also disclosed Tuesday that it will restate its financial performance for the years ended in December 2016 and December 2017 (http://www.marketwatch.com/story/molson-coors-to-restate-results-discloses-material-weakness-in-financial-reporting-controls-2019-02-12), as those annual reports can no longer be relied on due to errors in accounting for income taxes related to deferred tax liabilities for its partnership with MillerCoors LLC
Ellie Mae Inc. stock is in focus after the company said it agreed to be acquired by private-equity firm Thoma Bravo in a deal worth $3.7 billion. The stock is up 21.2% Tuesday.
Under Armour Inc. (UAA) stock is down 2.6%, even after the company beat earnings and revenue estimates (http://www.marketwatch.com/story/under-armour-shares-climb-premarket-after-earnings-beat-2019-02-12) for the fourth quarter.
Shares of Gilead Sciences Inc. (GILD) are falling 4.7% early Tuesday, after the pharmaceutical company announced Monday evening that a late-stage, placebo-controlled study designed to evaluate a type of chronic liver disease drug, Selonsertib, didn't meet its desired outcome (http://www.marketwatch.com/story/gilead-stock-down-nearly-4-as-drug-trial-fizzles-2019-02-11) without worsening the patients' condition.
US Foods Holding Corp. (USFD) shares are down 4.9% Tuesday, after the company reported fourth-quarter earnings that fell short of Wall Street forecasts, though it surpassed revenue expectations.
Shares of Electronic Arts. Inc. (EA) are up 6.5% Tuesday, after the videogame publisher announced that its new game (http://www.marketwatch.com/story/electronics-art-stock-pops-after-detailing-early-apex-legends-popularity-2019-02-11), "Apex Legends," had attracted 25 million new players in its first week of availability.
Anticipated reports from TripAdvisor Inc. (TRIP) and Activision Blizzard Inc. (ATVI) are due after the market closes.
What are the analysts saying?
"U.S. Futures are defying all the technicians calling for a pullback, as [news reports] that a deal may be reached in shutdown talks, coupled with Optimism over the week's China talks," has S&P 500 futures on the rise, "led to the upside by tech stocks," wrote Dave Lutz, head of ETFs at JonesTrading, in a Tuesday note to clients.
What data and Fed speakers are in focus?
The National Federation of Independent Businesses small business index fell 3.2 points to 101.2 (https://www.nfib.com/surveys/small-business-economic-trends/), the lowest level since the weeks leading up to the 2016 presidential election, though above its historical average of 86.
At 10 a.m. Eastern Time, the Labor Department will release its report on job openings and labor market turnover for the month of December.
The Federal Reserve will issue a report on household credit growth at 11 a.m.
At 12:45 p.m. Fed Chairman Jerome Powell will give a speech on rural economic policy at Mississippi Valley State University.
At 6:30 p.m. Cleveland Fed President Loretta Mester, an alternate voting member of the central bank's interest-rate setting committee, will give a speech on the economic outlook and monetary policy at Xavier University at 6:30 p.m.
Kansas City Fed President Esther George, a voting member, will give a speech on 'charting U.S. economic course' in Kansas City at 7:30 p.m.
How did the major benchmarks fare yesterday?
On Monday (http://www.marketwatch.com/story/us-stock-futures-set-for-higher-start-as-trade-talks-kick-off-china-equities-rise-2019-02-11), the Dow fell 53.22 points, or 0.2%, to 25,053.11, while the S&P 500 rose 1.92 points to 2,709.8, and the Nasdaq Composite Index gained 0.1% to 7,307.90.
How are other markets trading?
In Asia (http://www.marketwatch.com/story/asian-markets-gain-as-investors-pin-hopes-on-us-china-trade-talks-2019-02-11), the Nikkei 225 index returned from a holiday to jump 2.6%, while the Shanghai Composite rose 0.6%, and most other indexes rose. The Stoxx Europe 600 was also in positive territory, while the U.K.'s FTSE 100 edged lower (http://www.marketwatch.com/story/london-lifted-as-us-shutdown-threat-eases-tui-under-pressure-2019-02-12).
Crude oil was up, while gold is higher and the U.S. dollar is falling slightly, relative to its peers.
(END) Dow Jones Newswires
February 12, 2019 09:47 ET (14:47 GMT)
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Not much to say about today, basically quiet and the same old stuff.
MLO did have a blast running around me in circles waiting for me to grab her. A game we play where I sit indian style on the ground and she runs in circles around me. Every now and then I reach out and grab her, tickle her until she squeels and then release her. She then runs around again.
We play this game for at least an hour whenever mommy is up to it. She can't get enough and even when she is so dizzy she can't keep her circle, she can't stop laughing and trying to run.
Other than that, work is getting a little tedious and I need to liven it up somehow. Since I am a consultant and not employed by any one company, this is possible for me to do. So, will have to work out something on this.
Hope everyone is having an okay week and keeping productive if nothing else :)
Quiet Day
Not much to say about today, basically quiet and the same old stuff.
Labels: child
MLO and dinner time
Dinners have gotten more and more interesting:
We went through the feed me only stage.
Then we went through the I want to do it myself stage. She loved to eat with her fork and her plate. Occasionally wanting to use her fork to get something off of mommy's or daddy's plate. We have been practicing stabbing things and getting it into her mouth (once I help stab, she can do the rest).
Last night, she sat in her high chair and I put her plate in front of her with her fork. She didn't want anything from her plate. No matter if she saw me take it off my plate and put it on hers. She also didn't want to use her own fork.
No, she wanted to sit on my lap and use my fork and my plate. Nothing else would do and I mean nothing else.
Don't get me wrong, MLO is a total angel. She stopped throwing tantrums (that only lasted about a week or two) but just keeps saying "no" over and over. Not yelling, just "no, no, no, no, no, no, no" and arms out reaching.
I could probably out-last her if I really tried. But who wants to try.
So last nights dinner was in my lap, the plate far enough away that her little arms couldn't reach it, and us taking turns using the fork.
Checking out schools
Because my hubby and I are doing okay financially, I plan on putting MLO in a private school. I have lost faith in the public schools and if I can see she gets a good education than I want to.
Went to one possible school that was having an open house for prospective future families (ones too small to start now). It was interesting and fun, big campus (2 acres) with music, painting, sculpture, science, computer and library. They have a well ranked soccer team and the basketball team has a player getting scholarship offers. The school is small and they like it that way, only about 15-20 in a class. The student to teacher ratio is one teacher for every 10 students and this a rule for the school.
Overall - sounds great. Cost less than what I am currently paying my nanny so that is good :)
Then we got information on pre-schools and there is one near me (haven't seen yet) that is run by the local Catholic church and sounds fabulous. Plan on giving them a call and stopping by soon. MLO is ready for playing with other kids and not just me and the nanny.
It is hard to imagine her big enough to go to school though - I almost want her to be my little one forever.
Labels: education
Driving with my sleeping babies
Yesterday we all went out to do errands after work.
MLO still regularly falls asleep in the car seat to the rhythm of the car. What was even funnier when hubby fell asleep right next to her.
The picture of my two sleeping babies was totally precious.
When we arrived to our destination I gently woke up hubby first. He looked over at MLO and laughed, knowing what a precious picture it must have been.
When I opened the door next to MLO's car seat and woke her she also smiled.
She had a fun time at the errands, grocery shopping with me handing her the items and she puts them in the cart (this is only way she will stay seated for long enough to complete the shopping).
When we got home she then helps empty the bags. Taking one item out at a time and handing it to whoever is in front of the fridge.
She is so helpful it is unbelievable.
Daddy is back
Quick note:
We executed my plan and MLO at first was shy and quiet and then started playing. Soon it was all back to normal with him even taking her off to bed and rocking her to sleep.
It was great to see it all restored and back to normal.
Daddy and MLO
I think MLO is punishing daddy for not being around.
Last week there were a few days in a row (Tue-Thur) that he worked late out and wasn't around. This meant that MLO didn't get her daddy play time. Most of the weekend he was busy in the office or something and she didn't get to see him much.
So now, she is ignoring him when he walks in the room. He will ask for a hug and she says "no" and turns away. He is still laughing about it, but it hurts me a little.
I told him he needs to stay home and play in her room with her (whether he was invited or not) and the three of us should do something together. Once she is playing with him, I plan to try and sneek out (to the living room) and let them play.
Hopefully this will restore the bond and get her running to him like she used to.
Fun weekend
Well I had a fun weekend.
Hubby and I pulled out his old bicycle and we put a baby seat on it. Then MLO and I went bike riding. She hates the helmet, but when we go fast and see a lot of things flashing by she forgets she has it on.
She loved it when I chased the birds and made them fly everywhere.
We got the kind of seat that is in the middle of the bike like this:
The bike is really steady and she can see so much more.
We then cleaned out several rooms of the house of all that stuff that accumulates over holidays and so on. While it may not sound fun - it is fun to be able to walk in rooms that we couldn't walk in before.
Then on Sunday, MLO grandma came and took her for a bunch of hours and I got some time for myself. I went shopping (hit some great sales) and saw "The Holiday" which was a cute movie and good for me at that exact moment.
So a fun weekend!!
BTW - No one is paying me any money for this stuff. Thought I would say that with all this silly controversy about bloggers being paid to say good stuff. Honestly everything is going to be abused by some people, but not everyone. I know people who do get paid but only take the money when they honestly liked the product. They didn't write good stuff just to write good stuff, they were honest. So everyone should just pipe down for goodness sakes.
Labels: health
MLO and bath time
MLO loves taking a bath, as long as:
a) someone is playing with her at all times
b) all (and I mean all) of her bath toys are in the bath tub
c) the water is very warm (almost hot)
d) the water is high enough so she can almost swim in it
e) you don't try to wash her hair
Of course, "e" gets done everytime and I have still (after 16 months of doing this) not figured out how to get through this time without her screaming at the top of her lungs.
That was, until last night. I bought a Shampoo Rinsing Cup thinking that I was just dreaming that it would make it better.
You know what - it did. She almost didn't stop playing with her toys while I rinsed her head (she did stop, but no screaming and went straight back to the toys).
I really thought about how I was going to use it before I started, planning it out in my head to somehow make it not too dramatic. And it worked!!!
Believe me, this makes bath time so much easier to confront each night.
Labels: child
Malibu and Beverly Hills had snow last night.
Where I am we had ice on the grass and this crazy wind that could pick me up and blow me down several city blocks.
I am loving every minute of it! I am not native to this area so love winter weather and think it is great.
It is a little strange though and makes you worry about the whole global warming thing. Though this cooling - it is still strange.
Hope everyone is fairing well in whatever weather they are having!
TV is back in my life
So all the shows are starting back up with new episodes.
You know, I actually liked it when they weren't around. I only turned on the TV occasionally, when there was nothing else to do or I wanted some background noise. If there wasn't anything good on, I would put in on one of those music stations or play a movie I own.
It was relaxing.
Having to work at remember which show is on when. Not to miss anything. Make sure the baby didn't want to play during those times.
When did watching TV become so stressful!!!
Labels: entertainment, silly stuff
Sushi night
Last night we went over to some friends house who know how to do sushi at home. They taught us and we got to make and eat our own sushi - it was delicious.
There is this thing called a battleship. Which starts as a "ball" of rice in the shape of a quarter. You then wrap seaweed around the quarter and make this empty cylinder. It can be as tall as you want, but the whole thing goes in your mouth at once, so don't make it too tall!
You wet the edge of the seaweed so it will stay together. You then stuff the cylinder with whatever you want. You pick up the whole thing, let it sit in soy sauce for a few seconds and then tilt your head back and drop it in.
Your mouth is very full, but it is really yummy because you put exactly what you want in it.
MLO loves fish and especially sushi. I would say it is currently her favorite food (a little strange for a 16 month old - but she is related to us). She ate as much sushi as I did, and I was no slouch last night because it was so good.
This of course, meant that last night, MLO sleeped through the night. Her little tommy was so full, which is a nice thing to have happen.
She regularly sleeps about six hours straight, but wakes up once still and cries until I get her. But if we stuff her full (which she only does if it is food she really likes), then she sleeps eight to ten hours straight. Mommy definitely likes those nights :)
Labels: food
More of MLO as daddy's little girl
We all got a touch of the flu this last week. I probably with the worse case and hubby with the mildest.
Yesterday, hubby let lose a sneeze (note: hubby's sneezes make the planet slightly change it's orbit and MLO has always been a little worried about hubby when he sneezes).
So after yesterday's sneeze which was a nice and loud one, MLO gets a worried look on her face. I tell her that it was just daddy sneezing and he is okay. She looks at him and he smiles and waves. She runs over to him with her arms up (the classic pick me up move) and gets scooped into his arms.
She then proceeds to pat him on the back as if saying "it's okay".
We died laughing.
MLO is daddy's little girl
Quick note, but it was so cute.
MLO likes to play with daddy when he is home and not working. She will grab him by the finger and drag him off to her room. She would happily play with him for hours just sitting on her floor and bringing him different toys.
Yesterday night daddy finally came home. All she wanted was hugs. It was the cutest thing in the world, she wouldn't let him put her down. She had her arms around him in a strangle hold. He was even trying to unload his car and had to do it all one handed because she just would not let go.
When I got too close she squeezed even tighter and gave me the evil eye.
It was too precious :)
Picking a theme
I feel like I should pick a more specific theme for this blog. Anyone out there (yes my "many" readers) have an idea on an area that isn't already in overkill on blogging?
There are many great parenting blogs out there (so my blogroll). I work in the SEO industry and don't even want to compete there. I have found a few movie review places also. I don't read enough with MLO around to be able to do a book review type thing.
I could do a magazine issue review thing (get a few different ones currently) - do you know if there is one already out there?
I would still put in my usual rant, but with a theme, I wouldn't feel so lost :)
A pseudo-secret writer
Okay - I am secretly a writer, wait not so secretly since that is the thing you do when you blog :). I have been thinking of sending the below to a magazine or something - have several more like it. If any of my two readers feel like saying anything about it - I would be interested:
Allison wasn't sure if she really wanted to go. So, her parents were wrong. They usually were having no idea what she meant, but did that mean going to Chicago would change anything? Face it, she tried to tell herself, you are running away, plain and simple. Those stupid words "running away," so childish.
She looked at Matt standing next to her, so supportive. He said he would help her do what she needed to do, even offered to come along.
"So, when is the train?" she asked as he studied the timetables.
"In half an hour, just over there." He pointed towards a collection of benches.
"Great." She picked up her bags, walked over to the bench, and silently waited for the train. It seemed simple enough: find her real parents, the ones who left her 15 years ago as a baby at the doorstep of the orphanage, and tell them... what?
The train pulled in, and as people got off she turned to Matt. "Thank you, really." She gave him a hug, a peck on the cheek and ran to the train before she could change her mind.
As she got seated she decided to relax and not build up what was coming. However, her mind refused to obey. She knew very little; it seemed so strange for a married couple to bring a child into the world and then abandon her. They weren't young, and didn't then leave Chicago. In fact they had been born and raised in Chicago, got married in Chicago and lived there together since. She had spent all the money she had made over the summer to have someone find this much out.
As the train started she knew she didn't have any choice now; she was going to meet them and see what they would say. Despite her best efforts, she fell asleep on the way there, and someone had to wake her up when they arrived.
Shouldering her backpack, she hailed a can and gave him the address.
After pulling up to the house, she sat in the cab for awhile staring at the small mansion. These people definitely were well off, so why leave her? The cabby made a disgruntled noise so she paid him and got out.
She stood on the curb looking at the house. She pictured all the happy moments she would have had in the house, piles of presents at Christmas and trips around the world every summer. She was disturbed from her day dreaming as a car pulled into the driveway. An cranky looking man stared at her suspiciously as the garage door opened. She wondered what he thought as it closed behind him.
Fear grabbed her and she waited and then slowly walked to the front door. She didn't let herself think about it as she rang the doorbell. She heard the footsteps and then he opened the door. "Yes?" a good-looking middle aged man asked.
"Hello, about fifteen years ago you and your wife had a baby that you left at the orphanage. Well, that was me," she said in a rush so no one could interrupt her, not even herself.
He just stared at her. "Um... come in," he finally managed. She followed him into a sitting room and sat in the chair he pointed at. He didn't say anything as he walked out the door.
A few minutes later she heard a woman stomping in her direction and yelling, "What does she want? Does she think she can get some money from us?" She swung into the room and glared at Allison. Allison was sure these were the right people -- she was a spitting image of the woman standing in front of her, about 30 years younger.
"Darling, shouldn't we at least..." Allison's biological father tried to interject.
"We shouldn't anything. You wouldn't let me abort her and now look. So what do you want, money?"
"N-n-no, I just wanted to meet you," Allison said. At least she knew why they had abandoned her. This woman was no mother.
"Well, you have met us, now leave!"
"Darling, we should at least get to know her. What is your name?" Allison's father asked.
"Good, now we know. Now leave!" the woman yelled.
Allison stood up "Well, at least now I know I didn't miss anything, you are a witch!" At which Allison proudly strutted out of the house.
After clearing their yard though she ran. Ran until she found a cab, cried all the way to the train station, cried all the way back. When she called her mother she could barely get out the words. Her mother came running into the train station so soon after, Allison thought she must have flown. As she stood sobbing in her mother's arms she knew nothing else mattered.
She was home.
They grow so fast
I was working on the photo album for MLO last night and oh my goodness. She was so small when she first came to the world - all of 6 pounds 4 ounces and fit in the crook of your arm.
Having now almost reached almost 5 times that weight I am amazed.
You are told kids grow fast and to enjoy the time you have when they are little, but no one told me it was this fast.
She is so big (can reach the doorknobs now - world look out) and runs so fast. I am only 15-16 months into this and I already miss when she was smaller. How does one deal with 17 more years of this (and then the next 50 after that)?!
Well, just keep putting together those memories so she can see the change to, and I will always have my little baby (man, I sound like an old women now).
Labels: child
The year so far
Okay 2007 has been crazy so far.
Unfortunately MLO (my little one) got sick on the 2nd. She is doing better now, but nose still runs and she sneezes and coughs. Makes for sleepless nights for mommy and daddy.
It was daddy's birthday yesterday and I got my mom to come watch MLO and we went out to dinner. Had a nice evening - but we were both really tired we were almost piteful.
We went to a fancy shabu shabu restaurant (the Japanese kind were you sit in front of boiling water and you cook your own food). Kind of strange to be going out to eat and cook your own food. But it was good and this was a place hubby had wanted to go to for some time.
Then we both came home and MLO was still sniffling and I got to stay up another night with her (fits and starts of sleep).
So today is an interesting day. Work seems to be eluding me and I can't concentrate (sorry if their are typos - too tired to worry about it).
So, this is 2007 so far, not as promising as I had hoped.
Labels: family
My superhero and supervillian
I am the Green Lantern per the Superhero survey.
It says I am: Hot-headed. I have strong will power and a good imagination.
Click here to take the "Which Superhero am I?" quiz...
I am Poison Ivy per the Supervillian survey.
It says I would: go to almost any length for the protection of the environment including manipulation and elimination.
Click here to take the "Which Super Villain are you?" quiz...
Happy New Year
Well 2007 has started.
Will post more later, but I wanted to wish everyone the best year and the year all those resolutions come true!!
Labels: holidays


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CPSD to implement new electronic flyer process
Clover Park School District will launch a new electronic flyer communication system called Peachjar on Friday, Jan. 26. This system modifies the district's Request to Distribute Materials process.
After being approved by community relations staff, district-approved digital flyers will be emailed directly to families through this system beginning in February. These e-flyers can also be viewed by clicking on the Peachjar button located on each school's website.
This change helps the district to better use technology, is environmentally friendly and removes a significant administrative burden from teachers, office staff and volunteers.
No action is required on the part of families. At the end of January, families will receive a welcome email from Peachjar that includes a username and password. Families can manage their account and flyer delivery preferences. No login is required to receive or view e-flyers.
To ensure smooth delivery of this communication, families should add "firstname.lastname@example.com" to their email contacts.
Peachjar is used exclusively for distribution of district and school-approved flyers. Email addresses will not be shared or used for any other purpose.
If you have questions, please call the district's community relations office at 253-583-5040.


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I was riding the struggle bus this morning hardcore. Last night I looked up the class schedule at the gym today, and really wanted to go to the 10:15 yoga class. So my tired, delusional self decided I would get up early, swim for at least an hour, then shower and go to yoga. Fail. I reset my alarm like 100 times this morning because I was so tired. Never went to yoga.
This is something I really struggle with. I wish I could be someone who could get up early in the morning and get my workout done. But I just can't. One of my goals is to start getting up early twice per week so that I can take a spinning class before week on the mornings they are offered early. I know that once I am able to get back into running, I'm going to need to get my runs done earlier in the day due to the heat. But I so terribly struggle with getting up early and getting my butt moving. Le sigh. Any tips?
The Workout
75 minutes of swimming. Approximately 6200 meters. I think I kept my count pretty good, so that may actually be exact. I was wiped out after all that boring swimming, so I plopped my booty in the sauna for a few minutes and then heading home.
I'm praying and keeping my fingers crossed that all this swimming will help keep my cardio endurance up so that when I'm back running I'm not dying and gasping for air. Hopefully.
The Eats
I know you probably don't give a crap what I eat from meal to meal, but I'm gonna tell you anyways. Maybe it will help hold me accountable and make me eat healthy throughout the whole month. We'll see.
Breakfast: Protein pancakes
Pre-Workout Snack: A handful of chocolate Cheerios and a handful of peanut butter Cheerios.
Side Note-have you tried the PB Cheerios. They are oh-my-gosh-so-delicious. They are my new favorite snack. Not kidding.
Lunch: Fruit Salad, consisting of watermelon, pineapple, and strawberries
I'm heading to 1, 2, or 3 graduation parties today and then out to the bars for the evening, so I have no idea what dinner plans will be. I plan on keeping the boozing to a minimum (remember...I'm crutching around), and hopefully stick to eating healthy. Maybe I can grab a drive-thru salad somewhere between the parties.
I really want to start adding pictures to my posts. Goal for tomorrow.
Hope you have a wonderful Saturday!!


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Long drive to San Pablo, Laguna with my dear bf. Took us 2 hrs from Makati to San Pablo! Whew! For me to see where he has been for past few weeks (work!) We had brunch at Cafe Lago. The place is facing Sampaloc Lake, with nice view of Mt Banahaw..something great to see for the first time in the morning in a weekend. #imaspecialchild
At around few minutes past 10am, there are diners already. Its a small rustic cafe, with small courtyard inside, with lush foliage all over the place..Spell "ambiance" Menu has breakfast meals, lunch& dinner meals. By the way, their binagoongan is the best seller, but didn't get to try it since I wanted a breakfast meal.
Initially, we tried their Fern Salad (Paco), wow! I just loved it. It has tomatoes, onions, salted egg & fern! Lots of fern. That is so good!!! It has this sweet tasting vinegar that makes it extra yummy.
I had Daing Na Bangus (120) crispy fried milkfish, a cup of garlic rice, sunny side up egg and atchara on the side. Serving is okay(not bitin). This is one of my favorite breakfast meal. And it passed my standard: Fish is crispy fried
Adobo Omellete, this is our shared meal ( ayan may disclaimer pa..my companion has his Lucban longganisa meal, and we saw this yummy meal ordered by another customer.. So we ordered it also) This one is good! It has fries rice cooked in adobo and wrapped in a scrambled egg. its quite a heavy meal
Brewed coffee, hmmm its ok. It was so hot when it was served. Also, was able to taste their Apple smoothie.. And its good!
All in all, its a good place to visit. The food I had is not something that blown me away, (as its the usual.. But its good🏼), the alfresco dining facing the nice scenery is something to highlight in this visit.
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Our home by the lake  Cafe Lago has been our usual stopover whenever we visit Sampaloc Lake. Visiting the lake this time with Kandyce Kulit, we made sure this baby will eat her brunch well.
Espie and I got our usual longganisang lucban with garlic rice. Kandyce shared the rice and longganisa with her mom. We were so happy that Kandyce loved the longganisa and garlic rice (with lots of garlic by the way) - just the way mommy Espie cooks it at home. We also got a chicken sandwich just in case little Kandyce didn't like the longganisa. To our surprise, Kandyce also loved the sandwich (hungry kid!)
To end our brunch before we go walking (and eating) by the Sampaloc Lake, we also ordered their usual brew which never fails to amaze (and made us fully awake despite the cool drizzle). I do wish they'd offer more coffee concoctions.
The owner even took time to be with us while eating and before we left the place. It really feels great to be back to this place we call home by the Sampaloc Lake.
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First stop on a recent San Pablo trip. Right on the lakefront of Lake Sampolac, this is a quaint and simple Filipino cafe with your usual offerings.
The food is decent. We tried the binagoongan, their best seller. For you fellow foreigners out there, that's lechon kawali (pork with skin) and bagoong (shrimp paste). The lechon part was quite good by itself, but paired with the bagoong it got too salty for my tastes. I'm not the biggest fan of bagoong anyway, so that could be why.
The interior however, the atmosphere, is really quite nice. It's alfresco, but with being so near the lake there's a nice constant breeze to keep everything chill. Having an afternoon coffee here after a day at the lake would certainly be worth the visit. There's even a hammock here should you need w siesta or a fun little photo op.
Service is also quite nice, going the extra mile with kindness.
So while the food may not blow your socks off, the service and atmosphere of this place make up for it, making this place a nice relaxing spot when you're spending a day at the lake.
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Let's run two sets of compound interest tables, over a 45 year period from age 22 to age 67. The first, which is the retail worker, takes his $54,000 and puts it away earning 8% annually. He doesn't add a nickel to the investment. Here's what he ends up with.
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It's not even close. The retail worker ended up with a huge advantage over time because he accumulated his nest egg early.
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MOVE MERCHANTS are the hip-hop duo of Manchild and DJ Sean P. They've made two great albums together.
In their latest endeavor, Manchild and Sean P worked together for years and had no secrets except for one: Sean P kept a shoe box in the trunk of his Trans Am that he forbade Manchild from ever opening. But when Sean P was on his last record scratch—and with his blessing—Manchild opened the box and found an unfinished crocheted karate belt and $10,000 in cash.
"My friend dUSt, not from Mars ILL, told me that the secret to a happy working relationship was to never argue," Sean P explained. "Instead, I should keep quiet and crochet a karate belt."
Manchild was touched. Only one unfinished belt was in the box—that meant Sean had rarely been angry with him in many years. "But what about all this cash money?" Manchild asked.
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Meet the man. The Manchild. Fathering emcees every time he picks up the microphone. He had a plan. A plan to hit the man right where it hurts. He did it for the people, but paid the ultimate price.
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Kernel density estimation of CSD distributions - an application to knowledge based molecular optimisation
- Patrick McCabe1Email author,
- Oliver Korb1,
- Jason Cole1 and
- Robin Taylor2
© McCabe et al; licensee Chemistry Central Ltd. 2014
- Published: 11 March 2014
- Kernel Function
- Kernel Density Estimation
- Cambridge Structural Database
- Kernel Density Estimator
- Smooth Kernel
The Cambridge Structural Database ( CSD ) contains a large amount of molecular structure data ( bond length, bong angle and torsion angle data.) Much of this data has previously been extracted in histogram form and provided in the Mogul program. Histograms however have several disadvantages e.g. they are not smooth, they depend on bin widths and bin end points.
Kernel density estimators do not bin data and have no end points but centre a kernel function at each data point and smooth kernel functions will generate smooth density estimates [1]. A difficulty of the approach though is how wide to make the kernel functions.
In this work kernel density estimation is used to generate probability density functions ( pdfs ) for bond length, bond angle and torsion angle histograms derived from the CSD. Gaussian kernels are used for bond length and bond angle data and a von Mises kernel is used for the torsion angle data [2]. The resulting pdfs are smooth and are suitable for application to molecular geometry optimisation.
Authors' Affiliations
- Silverman BW: Density Estimation for Statistics and Data Analysis. Chapman & Hall/CRC Monographs on Statistics & Applied Probability. 1986, Chapman and Hall/CRCGoogle Scholar
- Evans M, Hastings NAJ & Peacock: Statistical distributions. 2000, WileyGoogle Scholar
This article is published under license to BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.


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The Triarchic Mind: A New Theory of Human Intelligence
By Robert J. Sternberg
Viking, 40 West 23rd St., New York, N.Y. 10010;
54 pp., $19.95 cloth.
Even though we all suspect that iq tests do not really measure intelligence and that the idea of intelligence itself is a slippery concept, we often succumb to the lure of numbers and the mystique of the test makers.
We call children "overachievers" when their grades are high and their iq scores are average; we might just as well call them "undertesters." When young children appear bright, we say that they "ought to be tested," as if such testing would reveal something new. We reject applicants for graduate school on the basis of their scores on "aptitude tests" (really just intelligence tests under a different name), even when they have earned A's in their courses and produced creative scholarly work--the capacity for which is precisely what the tests, at best, are supposed to predict.
Robert J. Sternberg, professor of psychology at Yale University, wants to weaken the role of traditional iq tests in education and culture. In The Triarchic Mind, he not only criticizes existing programs but also outlines several new approaches to understanding and measuring intelligence.
In the broad theoretical framework to which the title of his book alludes, Mr. Sternberg postulates three "arches" of intelligence: the ''internal world"--or actual mental processes--of the individual, the influence of the individual's experience on his thinking, and the "context" of intelligence--its relationship to the demands of the external world.
While Mr. Sternberg outlined this theory in his more scholarly volume Beyond iq, he here summarizes new findings--from both his own research and that of others--and reviews recent literature on the subject, with particular attention to anthropology.
Mr. Sternberg's recommendations are sensible, and his research is well conducted and interesting. But his framework itself is arbitrary, and it is all-encompassing only because it is loose.
In the "internal world" subtheory, Mr. Sternberg analyzes the components of thinking. Citing his extensive laboratory study of such functions as "encoding" and "inferring" in solving problems, he suggests that the same components are present in all mental tasks--inside and outside the laboratory.
Indeed, he seems to suppose that two processes called by the same name must themselves be the same. But this assumption appears farfetched when, for example, he applies the term "inference" both to discovering the relation between two terms in an analogy problem and--more traditionally--to drawing a conclusion in a logic problem. What isn't inference?
Mr. Sternberg says that these mental processes can be improved through practice. And as he did in his earlier book, Intelligence Applied, he provides many exercises--from geometric analogies to clever brain-teasers--on which readers can practice.
All the evidence I know, however, implies that practice by itself affects performance only with the kinds of problems on which it is given--even when the processes in question really are the same. If we aim at extending performance, we must not simply provide practice but teach students to apply new ways of thinking in a variety of situations. Mr. Sternberg has not provided any data that contradict this view.
A danger here is that teachers will seize on Mr. Sternberg's assertions to justify exercises with meaningless materials on "basic mental processes" such as finding similarities and differences, classifying, or identifying relationships. Such training is a waste of time. The improvements it sometimes seems to cause would occur anyway.
Also included in the "internal world" subcategory are the "metacomponents" of intelligence--those processes involved in the intentional monitoring and control of thinking.
Mr. Sternberg in this section makes a number of wide-ranging recommendations intended to help us manage our mental life. Much of this advice follows common sense: "Be receptive rather than resistant to adverse feedback"; "consider alternative steps to a solution before choosing any one set of them."
But other suggestions simply restate a goal without telling us how to achieve it: "Choose steps that are the right size for the problem, neither too small nor too large"; select the information that is relevant and ignore what is irrelevant.
And some of Mr. Sternberg's advice subtly supports errors in judgment. For example, his recommendation to "consider whether the goal toward which you are striving is really the one you want to reach" reinforces the widespread error of single-mindedness--making decisions on the basis of a single goal and ignoring tradeoffs.
The problem is that these suggestions for self-improvement, while not bad as such maxims go, are not justified by a sound theory of rationality or good thinking; they have come off the top of Mr. Sternberg's head. His "theory" is mostly a classification scheme, an outline. And his experiments--clever though they are--have little bearing on the advice that he gives.
In evaluating experience as an aspect of intelligence, Mr.Sternberg asserts that "two aspects of an individual's experience with tasks are particularly relevant to understanding intelligence: performing a task when it is relatively novel and rendering that performance automatic."
Reasonable enough. But why are these two aspects chosen for emphasis rather than others that might have been selected: the relative importance for intelligence of visual versus verbal experiences, for example, or productive versus critical experiences?
The contextual aspect of intelligence in Mr. Sternberg's theory rests on his broad definition of intelligence as "purposive adaptation to, selection of, and shaping of real-world environments relevant to one's life and abilities." To show how such adaptation can be measured, Mr. Sternberg has designed new tests of the "tacit knowledge" of academics, business managers, and salespeople.
He argues--reasonably--that success and failure have at least as much to do with knowledge of specific techniques of self-management as with iq For example, he suggests, successful middle-level managers see willingness to take extraordinary risks without hesitation as more important than critical-thinking ability in determining their reputation. Likewise, successful academics take the trouble to find out what kind of publications will be most helpful in advancing their careers.
Tests of such knowledge may be helpful in predicting whether managers will please their colleagues and whether academics will win tenure easily. But I wonder how well they predict whether managers will contribute to the production of useful goods and services, or whether academics will advance knowledge and educate their students. "Success" itself is an elusive concept.
Since culture and socialization affect intelligence and iq tests measure adaptation to a particular cultural environment, Mr. Sternberg contends, these tests are unfair.
But before making judgments about "fairness," we must determine the purpose of such testing. I.q tests are useful for selecting students who can learn more quickly in slower classes than in classes that proceed at the normal pace, for selecting children who will benefit from acceleration, and for selecting people who will perform well in certain jobs. (I know of no justification, however, for using iq tests to select children for enrichment, as distinct from acceleration.)
Perhaps the real problem is that we want our concept of intelligence--and the tests that measure it--to serve contradictory purposes. On the one hand, we think of intelligence as innate potential. Because this kind of intelligence should not be affected by education, we should be able to use it as a benchmark to judge the educational achievement of each child. I.q tests are unfair as measures of innate potential because they are affected by culture.
On the other hand, we also think of intelligence as a goal of education--a standard toward which we should strive. In this spirit, we use aptitude tests as indices of educational effectiveness. If they in fact measured innate potential, we would decry the fact that test scores are rising while grades--the true measure of academic achievement?--stay the same.
But we applaud the rise in test scores because we think they reflect educational effectiveness. Of course, aptitude tests were not designed for this purpose at all.
We cannot discover the nature of intelligence as a goal of education by looking at the determinants of outward success in academia, business, or other fields, any more than we can find it by looking at aptitude tests. To base our concept on outward success is to accept the standards of those who define success--to give the status quo the standing of scientific theory.
Instead, we should concern ourselves directly with the standards of thinking that will help individuals achieve their own goals, whatever they may be.
While many of these standards--particularly open-mindedness and thoroughness--are embodied in Mr. Sternberg's "metacomponents," he does not explain their justification.
We need to separate theories of intelligence focused on potential from those focused on standards. Mr. Sternberg has made a move in this direction, but others have already gone farther.
Jonathan Baron, professor of psychology at the University of Pennsylvania, is the author of Rationality and Intelligence and Thinking and Deciding.
Vol. 08, Issue 07
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Summit County Fire Warden Bryce Boyer will appear at Wednesday's Summit County Council meeting to recommend a private fireworks ban in all of Summit County after Utah State Forester Brian Cottam stated he supported a ban for the county.
The ban, if approved by the council, would likely go into effect at 12:01 a.m. Thursday and last until Oct. 31, Boyer said.
The ban would not include ammunition or professional pyrotechnic displays overseen by fire department officials.
Boyer said the ban is being recommended because of the dry weather conditions and that numerous fireworks-caused fires over the Fourth of July weekend stretched fire crews thin. "Resources are really short right now," he said.
North Summit Fire District Chief Ken Smith said he would "most definitely" support a fireworks ban after a holiday weekend in which his crews were kept busy. "It's gotten really dry and hot the last three to four days," he said. "I have a saying about cheatgrass. If you stare at it too long, it will bust into flames."
The council has the ultimate authority to approve or deny a ban, but Boyer said the council "looks to us for our expertise" and that he feels "we can justify it."
Council Chairman Chris Robinson said that he too supports a fireworks ban. "It's hard not to support recommendations from our fire professionals," he said. "In the big scheme of things, [fireworks when it is hot and dry] aren't worth the risk."
Fireworks have already been banned in Park City this season.
In 2013, the private use of all fireworks was banned in late June by former Utah State Forester Dick Buehler.
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A former Summit County victim advocate who was facing a felony count of misusing public money pleaded guilty Tuesday to a lesser charge in a deal with prosecutors.