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Currently, the web is ablaze with story after story about the ongoing and pending military operation on US Soil called Jade Helm I5 and its many related off-shoot operations.
The general public seem content to dismiss these reports by saying "Oh, we have Posse Comitatus that prevent the government from using the military on US soil"; "They would not violate the Constitution", by most by claiming the ever so popular "conspiracy theory" from the "tin foil hat crowd". They shrug off anything not seen or said in mainstream media as non-existent and then proceeding to stick your head in the sand and reverting back to one's safety shell of sports and reality TV shows, which are anything but reality. Generally, without lifting a finger to check out and separate fact from fiction for themselves. No, they take their clues from 5 or 8 second sound bites on the evening news.
So, let's break that concept down. The word THEORY is defined as (1) a coherent group of tested general propositions, commonly regarded as correct, that can be used as principles of explanation and prediction for a class of phenomena: (2) a proposed explanation whose status is still conjectural and subject to experimentation, in contrast to well-established propositions that are regarded as reporting matters of actual fact.
Now let's look at the definition of CONSPIRACY, a Conspiracy is (1) an evil, unlawful, treacherous, or surreptitious plan formulated in secret by two or more persons. Therefore, Conspiracy is a word that correctly describes this current administration to a tee when one accounts for the dealings involved with the Affordable Care Act and the likes and words of Jonathan Gruber and Nancy Pelosi "we must pass it first before knowing what's in it", Benghazi and the deaths of 4 Brave Americans, Lois Lerner and the IRS Scandal, Extortion 17, Fast and Furious, the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) another we must pass it first garbage that seeks to dissolve our Sovereignty and Ownership of anything, secret dealings in the ongoing negotiation with Iran, Hillary's secret email server, secret domestic black torture sites, the FCC takeover of the internet and secret ERA regulations, to name just a few. Where does it all end? All of these examples and the many more are all proof of the secret agenda or CONSPIRACY that IS being carried out against America.
One more word to examine is CABAL. A Cabal is defined as (1) a small group of intriguers, especially one formed for political purposes, (2) a secret plot, especially a political one; to conspiracy; and (3) a secret or exclusive set of people. Well, looking at the current state and posture of our government it is clear that there exists a group of people, some whose identity is known to most and others who are hidden or shielded from public records and knowledge. All of whom have an agenda that does not represent the basic Values and Beliefs of most Americans and that of this country. As such, this group does fit the acknowledged definition of a Cabal.
Using the definitions stated prior, it has become clear that there is a criminal cabal that has usurped Our government and is conducting asymmetrical warfare upon We The People. For those unaware of the term, Asymmetrical Warfare is the use of unconventional strategies and tactics adopted by a force when the military capabilities of belligerent powers are not simply unequal but are so significantly different that they cannot make the same sorts of attacks on each other.
A more detailed look at it can be found in The Institute of Land Warfare Papers dated September 2006.
This criminal Cabal, which encompasses many others from outside of the administration, is driven by an ideology that is alien to the America psyche and values, is rapidly moving ahead on its goals and in a preemptive posture against what they foresee as their true mortal enemy…..The American People and especially those that would Stand Up in her Support, The American Patriots!!
Today, we live in an age that even though we grow up in it, it has become so foreign to us. We have known sociopaths and repetitive liars in powerful positions of all branches of government and military telling Us what we can and cannot say, what we can and cannot read, what we can and cannot believe, how we can and cannot behave, where we can and cannot shop, what we can and cannot own, where we can and cannot tread, telling us what we must put into our bodies, telling Us that right is wrong and wrong is right. They attempt to deny the facts of everyday life that We clearly see before our eyes and hear with our ears. They employ the mainstream media, empowered by official lies, distributed against it own populous meant to cover their tracks to suppress and subdue any discussion that may run contrary to the official narrative, even when the contrary discussion is based in hard facts and stone cold truths. All of it meant to convince us that we are the delusional ones, who are incapable of handling our daily lives.
Why are they doing this? Their aim is to create a Consent, as false as it may be, to justify their actions and amass as much power and control of us as possible. Understand they create it, manipulate it and use it against us to reach their goals. Left to their own, they will not stop because to them, the ends justify the means.
All who care deeply for our Nation and Rule of Law are demonized on a daily basis, for they know American's are awakening to their lying and deceitful acts. Their illegal acts cannot and will not be tolerated much longer. As is Our Right to do so, as set forth in the Declaration of Independence,
Declaration of Independence,
" –That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men,
deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, –That
whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends,
it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new
Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its
powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to affect their
Safety and Happiness."
This Criminal Cabal has set forth the parameter of the fight looming before us, they have built a domestic army of equal or greater strengths than our military.
They have turned our internal governmental agencies against us, they have squelched our Voice and stolen our Consent. They are forcing us to submit to unjust and unfairly applied laws, they are writing new highly restrictive regulations that seek only to shut down all industries that are vital for our assured survival. They have torn down our sovereign borders while at the same time go about flooding our Land with illegal aliens of unknown backgrounds and unknown allegiances, who come here not to assimilate to our culture but to destroy it. We have absolutely no guarantees that the so called Syrian refugees are nothing more than islamic terrorist that have been trained to over throw legitimate countries, by the same government that seeks to import them here to our country. Yet, should we object to any of their actions that threaten our existence and way of life, WE are called racist, right wing zealots, bitter clingers, deniers and traitors. Being accused of doing exactly, what in reality, is being perpetrated against Us, in a bizarre twist of Reality.
Whether we care to acknowledge these facts or not, the repugnant fact is that a war has been declared upon those who do not conform to the Cabal ideology but rather strive to uphold the Rights and Laws given to us by our Constitution and Bill of Rights. This asymmetrical war has many faces, from the illegal immigration to the threat of radical fundamental islam, the manifestation of terror, funded, trained and supplied by the criminal Cabal in order to steal away our Rights and tear asunder our Constitution to institute their tyranny, stealing our natural resources and National Treasure. This is who runs our government. Their goal is to enslave us all in their quest for a Police State, where those in power own and control everything and every action, every facet of what it means to be Human, including Life itself!
As history has shown us, in order to defeat an enemy one must acknowledge and know the enemy or enemies are, their thinking, their ideology, their goals and their tactics of asymmetric warfare that are been feverishly waged on the Hearts, Minds and Soul of America.
It is time Americans of all race, color, background regardless of our differences to come together, putting down our petty difference many created by the cabal to purposely divide us and rally around the one thing We all share in common….The Right to Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness, The Rule of Law and Our Constitution.
John F Kennedy, April 27, 1961…..
"The very word "secrecy" is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths and to secret proceedings. We decided long ago that the dangers of excessive and unwarranted concealment of pertinent facts far outweighed the dangers which are cited to justify it. Even today, there is little value in opposing the threat of a closed society by imitating its arbitrary restrictions. Even today, there is little value in insuring the survival of our nation if our traditions do not survive with it.
And there is very grave danger that an announced need for increased security will be seized upon by those anxious to expand its meaning to the very limits of official censorship and concealment.

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Tacitus, Annals
Gold and silver were hit early on today, and knocked lower on high volume in relatively quiet trade, while the stock market was being pumped higher.
The Fed would like to set the stage for their FOMC meeting next week, and rather badly so. They are afraid to do it with these unstable equity and bond markets, because if they raise and the market breaks, they will be blamed for it. You can see that the IMF and the World Bank have already covered their posteriors by warning. And Larry Summers has also chimed in.
It is not a 25 basis point increase that will break these markets. They are already broken, an accident waiting to happen. The trail of policy errors goes back to the Greenspan chairmanship of the FOMC.
The Comex continues to bleed out, with additional gold and silver leaving their warehouses yesterday.
Registered (deliverable) gold has fallen to 185,314 troy ounces, a low we have not seen since before the year 2000. On a quick calculation pending the final numbers early tomorrow, I would think that the ratio of paper claim to actual deliverable gold at price is now at an unprecedented level of 226:1.
Say what you will, this is not 'normal.'
Unless something changes, you can stick a fork in the NY version of 'price discovery', it is done.
Who is going to keep honoring a price set by a bunch of jokers playing liar's poker with a stack of paper claims?
The largest gold bullion exchange in the world outside of Asia, the LBMA in London, is scraping the bottom of the barrel trying to find enough bullion to keep satisfying delivery requests for Asia at these prices.
The indications are that the costs to borrow physical for immediate delivery, which means refining into kilobars and shipment to Asia never to return, are soaring. That is worth watching closely, although the clubby London exchange has always been light on disclosure.
There are increasing signs of desperation. Once again they look to India to cut imports and start 'utilizing' the gold held privately in that country. That means to hypothecate those long term gold holdings as collateral for other peoples' obligations, and into the bullion float, never to return.
From what I have been reading, it seems as though JPM introduced quite the scheme to do just that with unallocated gold, ETFs, and a number of private sources around 2011 in London. And that kettle seems to have reached a full boil.
I suppose that the mining companies, having been obliterated by forward hedging in the first leg of this bull market, the best example being Barrick, have failed to rise to the occasion. So they must keep looking elsewhere for bullion. And the CEOs of the big firms always seem to want to go along to get along, even to the disadvantage of their shareholders.
The gold pool in London and NY shows every indication of a late stage Ponzi scheme. If it was not operating under the 'thin cover' of some unwitting, bureaucratic boobs, it would probably have toppled over already. The regulators have failed in their sworn duties, and wantonly so.
Wall Street and the City have skated through so many lawsuits and criminal cases that they have fallen into a recidivistic spiral of white collar crime. They think that they are teflon dons.
Listen to what Peter Hambro has to say in the first half of this recent interview, here. He is making his Bloomberg interviewers very uneasy it appears.
Ok, Jesse, but the price just went lower, and I'm confused, angry, and depressed (head hits table, clunk).
When the going gets tough, these jokers keep doubling down, almost every time, with a false bravura. But they are breaking the cardinal rule of never adding new money, even when you are winning, to a proposition that is steadily becoming mathematically unsustainable. That is how almost every major secular financial failure, from LTCM to MFGlobal to the London Whale, went wrong.
This gold manipulation pool, durable as it might seem, is no different from any of the others, such as the infamous London Gold Pool. And the countdown to its end is underway.
Money, except during the relatively short life of a totalitarian state, is a function of market acceptance and global valuation.
Private individuals and governments have always intervened in the valuation of many markets including money.
I watched the ruble burn in the 1990's. I watched the currencies of the former Soviet bloc pass from an Orwellian fixed value system to free exchange. No currency has ever been held its value against the market forces outside their own borders, and inside, never for longer than the power of the State to control nearly everything, every facet and thought of peoples' lives.
Given time, the markets have always won. Always.
I am concerned that if these folks do not wise up soon, we will not see an orderly rise in the price of the underlying commodity, but a series of dislocations and breaks sharply high as Jim Rickards appears to now think. That will not be constructive. They forget that it is never the act, but always the extended coverup, that brings even the most powerful down to disrepute and failure.
Storm warnings are out. Time to get our own houses in order.
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OPÉRA DES MARGRAVESAbout this photograph
Bernhard Hartmann has photographed theatres and operas for several years in various regions of Germany. He provides a novel view by photographing an auditorium empty of spectators from the stage. In Bayreuth, in Franconia, Hartmann could not fail to integrate the Margrave Opera House into his series. Built between 1744 and 1748 by Joseph Saint-Pierre, the building was commissioned by Margravine Wilhelmine, the sister of King Frederick II of Prussia. It was modelled on Italian style theatres, the audience sitting facing the stage and decor, the interior entirely constructed in wood is the work of Giuseppe Bibiena. The Margrave Opera House is one of the most beautiful rococo style opera houses in the world. Attracted by this venue, Wagner settled in Bayreuth in 1872.Read more Read less
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Born in Frankfurt in 1955, Bernhard Hartmann began his artistic career at the age of 18 as a press photographer for a German newspaper. Self-taught, he studied art and became a landscape photographer after discovering this medium with the aid of his parents? Polaroid. He creates dramatic and cinemascopic images that are often compared to the Romantic paintings of Caspar David Friedrich, but also to the dramatic natural scenes by English painter William Turner. He prefers to photograph places where the arts are practised and expressed and thus presents series on operas, theatres, or European manors. A lawyer in Munich, Bernard Hartmann now lives near Lake Starnberg in the Bavarian Alps. His works belong to numerous private collections and have been shown in the United States, Spain, Italy, and Germany. He was elected ?Photographer of the Year? by a Swiss magazine and won the ?American Black-and-White Photo Awards? as well as the ?Panoramic Epson Award?.


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Newsworthy romance
When Dion Lim's boyfriend Evan Panesis proposed to her in 2009, she can't really say she was surprised. "I had already found the ring a few weeks earlier and took it out for a test spin to see how it felt!" Lim confesses. The WCNC NewsChannel 36 anchor was thrilled, said yes immediately, and the couple tied the knot in June of last year. Test-driving the ring before the proposal may be the most routine part of the SouthPark couple's relationship so far! 'He started yelling at me like a stalker' Were it not for a news story about neighborhood crime and skipping class, the two may never have met. After graduating from Emerson College in Boston, Lim got her start in television as a reporter in Springfield, Mass. Panesis, a student at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, was skipping class one day to play online poker when he spied Lim snooping through backyards in his neighborhood. She was putting together a story about crime in the area. "He started yelling at me like a stalker to see if I could interview him for the story," says Lim. "I ignored him until my photographer suggested I speak to him, and he actually gave me a great sound bite." Panesis read the crime story online and contacted Lim through her work email address. "After giving it some thought, I figured I had nothing to lose, so I asked him out on a date," replies Lim. The two hit it off right away. Careers put the couple on the moveLim's career took her to Overland, Kan., where she became morning anchor for KMBC in Kansas City. Panesis followed, having decided to pursue his interest in professional poker, a job that fits well with the travels that accompany Lim's job in television. When it comes to professional poker, Lim describes her husband as nothing less than "brilliant." Panesis is one of the top online cash players in the world."After graduation he was unsure if going pro made sense," says Lim. "I told him to go for it, and so far it's worked out very well. Having moved around a lot, it's great he can work online and travel to do his job." 'Technically Georgie proposed to me' The couple dated for almost three years before Panesis popped the question. Interestingly enough, annoyance was Lim's initial reaction. Morning news anchors aren't known for being night owls, explaining why she was asleep one evening at 7:30 p.m. "(Evan) put some bacon on the bed and Georgie, our Yorkie pup, hopped up on the bed and began eating the bacon," says Lim. "I wasn't happy about this – I was trying to sleep!" She noticed the pup sporting a cute shirt, from which a small black box holding an engagement ring fell out. "Georgie presented the ring, so technically he proposed to me!" Lim says. The couple was engaged for two years and planned a wedding in Boston for close friends and family to attend. Running of the news anchor bride Lim's search for her wedding gown led her to Boston's Filene's Basement Running of the Brides, a yearly event that sends brides into a frenzy, shopping the department store for designer gowns at bargain prices. "We camped out for 12 hours to attend the event," says Lim. "There's actually a video of my experience on YouTube, and the news station in Kansas City videoed it. It was total madness but totally worth it!" Lim snagged a $9,000 Reem Acra gown for $699. But once back in Kansas, on a whim, she also purchased a reception dress that was perfect for the fun party she was planning. "This dress was fun and gorgeous with rosettes and a slightly asymmetrical hem," she explains. "I loved it!" A great Segway from engaged to newlywedOn a beautiful June Saturday in Boston, Lim and Panesis said, "I do," in front of 150 friends and family. The ceremony and reception were held at the New England Aquarium, and it was an experience that both the couple and their guests won't soon forget. "The only way to describe the day is to say it was unreal," says Lim. "People in shark and turtle costumes greeted our guests, and a penguin attended the reception. There was a martini ice luge and a diver in the shark tank holding a congratulations sign!" And what better way to start this festive party than by making a grand entrance? Lim and Panesis arrived as husband and wife on Segways. "We took friends on a Segway tour of Boston the day before and asked the tour leader if we could borrow them for our wedding," says Lim. Married life is the same – and it's greatAfter the wedding, the newlyweds spent a week in Savannah, but the real honeymoon came last December with a trip to Hawaii. Now they've settled back into their Charlotte routine, which includes playing tennis and frequent visits to The Cowfish Sushi Burger Bar (where Dion has a namesake sushi roll, the Neon Dion!). They're enjoying life as a happily married couple – which turns out isn't much different. "(Evan) and I just hit it off right away, and we keep getting stronger as a couple," says Lim. "When people ask how it feels to be married, I say 'It just feels the same! It's great!'"


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News: 03/09/2009Hello and welcome to The World Wasn't Meant! This is a webcomic based on a true story about me and my friends. This first week, we're in a state of 'semi-launch' so these first six comics will have to hold you for now. Starting on Monday, March 23rd, we will update every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.
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It has come to pass, then, that German football sees its first Arab investor with last week's announcement that Hasan Ismaik bought a 49% ownership stake in 1860 Munich. The thirty-four year old Jordanian reportedly signed away €18 million in order for the Bavarian club to avoid a calamitous descent from the 2.Bundesliga down into the amateur leagues had it not been able to secure new investment and meet the financial obligations to secure a playing license for next season. Again, the purchase figure for Ismaik is a "reported" sum as neither he nor the club revealed the actual amount, but it comes close to approximating what the Lions' debts were with around €4 million to spare for future expenses as the 2011/12 season begins. The simple fact that 1860 Munich have future expenses to look forward to might be a welcome blessing for most supporters, who might have had a true fear that if Ismaik's involvement had not come to pass, there would not have been an approaching season with impending debts to incur.
Well, at least for 1860 Munich there might not have been another season; it seems there would have been one for an amateur phoenix side perhaps styled 2011 Munich if the old club had indeed gone under, such is the passion of those tangled up in blue in Bavaria.
At this point in the narrative, we typically comb through the associations and track the transactions to ascertain whether there is something more to the story. For someone to have plunked down that much money on a club that has been in financial difficulty for years in a business (football) that is, on the whole, a losing endeavour, it makes does indeed tingle the Spideysenses. For instance, why would an Arab real estate tycoon take an interest in a failing second division club in Germany? What more do we know about the third party intermediary, a friend of Ismaik's whose current occupation finds him as an accountant in the hinterlands of Iraq? Considering that Bundesliga's rules on ownership prohibit any one individual from owning more than 49% of any club, what benefit is there to Ismaik? How long does the club survive if its new minority owner ever decides 1860 Munich is not the play-thing he envisioned it being and pulls his investment? Would the DFL be complicit in setting up a Portsmouth-esque scenario to sully the polished name of Bundesliga when it comes to football governance should Ismaik not be able to splash the cash as he has promised?
Some of these questions were raised in a previous post, and currently there is nothing to suggest something more nefarious is at work here. Although it is certainly odd that Ismaik has taken the plunge into Germany, as illustrated by the fact that he is the first from the Middle East to do so, the move could truly be more rationally motivated and possibly beneficial to the club than anything else. Munich comes second behind only Frankfurt as a financial hub of the German state, is largely recognized as an international city on the European continent, and sport to an outsider like Ismaik might serve as a soft opening to expand his real estate connections within the continent. Further, his initial discussions of the club's future hint at keeping 1860 Munich in the Allianz Arena to groundshare with rival Bayern Munich, which might already be causing some irritation with Lions supporters whom might only wish to see the Allianz again when traveling there for an away fixture against Bayern with 1860 having gained promotion to 1.Bundesliga.
Further, if Ismaik settles 1860 Munich's accounts and makes a move to buy back the club's previous 50% ownership in the stadium, it might be construed as a shrewd business move by a realtor looking at a prime piece of property in the heart of Bavarian capital. The Allianz still retains a bit of that new stadium smell (having opened in 2005) and there is a 30 year naming rights deal on the stadium from a relatively stable financial services firm which would otherwise be doing much better in the first quarter of this year had the midwestern United States suffered fewer natural disasters. While the club will already be missing out on any possible revenue when the 2012 UEFA Champions League Final is played there because it has already sold its stake to Bayern, that will certainly not be the last sporting spectacle for the stadium to host, and Ismaik could see a return to 1860's ownership in the Allianz as a gift to receive into the future.
Rather than attempt to extract some ulterior motive to Ismaik's new association with 1860 Munich–as this tends to be the default position whenever this sort of thing happens in English football because of recent history–let's instead ponder what this might portend for the future support of Bundesliga's 50+1 rule. While Dietmar Hopp of 1899 Hoffenheim might have recently chosen to curtail his beneficient spending in favor of the Sinsheim club becoming more self-sufficient, Ismaik might instead provide Martin Kind of Hannover 96 the test case upon which to mount another challenge to the DFL's provision that no one individual can own a majority share of any club within the top two leagues of German football. For despite the last attempt by Kind to have the rule removed at the 2009 DFL general meeting being soundly defeated, each season that passes without a 1.Bundesliga side winning the Champions League builds more weight to his argument that German clubs cannot succeed in the top European competitions without the ability to attract the level of investment in player wages as the elite of England and Spain enjoy.
Uli Hoeness of Bayern Munich has already expressed such sympathies in favor of Kind's argument since and it would be somewhat fitting if the new minority owner of 1860 Munich would join his club's natural rival should the Rothosen decide to throw their considerable influence behind a redoubled effort to continue Kind's revocation of the rule. Hopp never quite fit the mold to whom Kind's rationale is targeted , as the founder of SAP has essentially created something out of nothing by investing in his boyhood village club. His tale with 1899 is more about a wealthy fan of the local side returning home a conquering hero rather than a prominent investor looking to make his name in the game. Ismaik, on the other hand, is an outside investor buying into one of Germany's most well-known clubs, one that historically occupies a position in the national sporting consciousness but has in recent times fallen a bit moribund. Should 1860 Munich benefit from the Jordanian's involvement and recover a bit of its former glory in the 1.Bundesliga but finds larger ambitions blocked either by current financial rules or locked over what the majority club owners/fans prefer in opposition to the minority one with all the cash, expect the 50+ 1 debate to be reawakened.
And Martin Kind will likely be there too, cheering on his new Arab friend with a fresh lawsuit against the DFL in hand for him to sign.
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A Good Stretch
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That was a mighty good stretch, Lucy. And it is the perfect time for a good nap. You all have a great day.ReplyDelete
Stretching and napping. What a purrfect way to spend the day, Lucy!ReplyDelete
We could almost feel how good of a stretch that was, Lucy.ReplyDelete
Awww...you look so cute. Great stretch.ReplyDelete
There's nothing like a good stretch! You look so cute and comfy in your beautiful pictures, Lucy:)ReplyDelete
ohhhh I am squeeing!! catchatwithcarenandcodyReplyDelete
Lucy, you are so cute in these photos. Those look like great toys, and you appear to be having a really fun time. Hope you had a great nap afterwards. XOCK, Lily Olivia, Mauricio, Misty May, Giulietta, Angel Fiona, Astrid, Lisbeth and Calista JoReplyDelete
That's right. You have had plenty to do. You must rest.ReplyDelete
lucy...fotoz two iz total lee awesum....we bet tees thinks sew two !!! ☺☺☺♥♥♥ waves ta hannah... ~~~~~~~ReplyDelete
Lucy, you look so cute surrounded by your toys!ReplyDelete
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Adaptive statistical tests, developed over the last 30 years, are often more powerful than traditional tests of significance, but have not been widely used. To date, discussions of adaptive statistical methods have been scattered across the literature and generally do not include the computer programs necessary to make these adaptive methods a practical alternative to traditional statistical methods. Until recently, there has also not been a general approach to tests of significance and confidence intervals that could easily be applied in practice.
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Adaptive tests can be used for testing the slope in a simple regression, testing several slopes in a multiple linear regression, and for the analysis of covariance. The increased power is achieved without compromising the validity of the test, by using adaptive methods of weighting observations and by using permutation techniques. An adaptive approach can also be taken to construct confidence intervals and to estimate the parameters in a linear model. Adaptive confidence intervals are often narrower than those obtained from traditional methods and maintain the same coverage probabilities.
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Bubba's: Burgers, yes, and much more
Since we recently moved to Kapaa, the go-to place has become Bubba Burgers. It's ironic, really, because I was never that big of a fan before. But now that we live nearby, and we've tried it several times, I love it.
Here's why.
Good vibes
It's just a nice, friendly place. They greet you with a smile, scribble your order on paper, the old-school method, and shout your name when it's ready. No wait staff here. Stand in line to order and pick it up yourself. The employees are not always the most talkative in the world, but that's generally because they're slammed and a line of customers is waiting out the door. It's casual and relaxed, a good spot to take your time, talk story, do some people-watching from the front porch and enjoy life. The ocean is within sight, as is a short walk on Ke Ala Hele Makalae to work off some of the calories you just added.
Good sense of humor
"Bubba refuses to serve any burger costing less than a can of dog food," says a message posted above the grill. And the golden M with a slash through it is impossible to miss. A challenge to the big guy.
Their logo includes the words, "We Relish Your Buns," and "We Cheat Tourist Drunk & Attorneys." Ask them to explain.
Good food
The basics begin with the Bubba Burger. For $4, it's fine. Can't go wrong. A solid burger. But for a little more, you can do better.
The Kauai Burger is everything you need a burger to be. The Double Bubba, $6, will fill you up. The Teriyaki Burger for $4.35 is already a favorite of ours. If you're really hungry, go with the Double Slopper. It's described as an "Open faced double patty burger, smothered with Bubba's Famous 'Coors Tavern' Chili."
Their burgers are not greasy, just as billed.
Now, you'll be needing some sides. Go with the fries, always hot, crispy and fresh. The Caesar salad, at $4.25, is a good deal. The banana shake was excellent. Soda refills are 50 cents.
All told, for two of us, our bill was about $20. That includes a Kauai Burger, a Teriyaki Burger, fries, shake and salad. Not too many places you'll find that, with an ocean view to boot.
One caution: It's easy to eat too many Bubba Burgers.
Good decor
Bubba's has an old-time appeal, with bar stools so you can cozy up and watch the cook in action. They'll chat with you if they're not overseeing 15 burgers on the grill and a line of orders waiting behind them. Soak in the vibes of this place. It's a bit iconic.
Take a look around when you're inside and out. There are some cool old signs and pictures. Good energy.
Good merchandise
Shirts, shorts, visors and hats are available near the door. There's even a sale rack. And, to make the deal sweeter, they offer a free soda if you're wearing one of their outfits on your visits.
There is more than one Bubba Burgers on Kauai. Another opened in 2009 at Kukuiula Village. It, too, has that same sense of fun, bright and light to match its fine fare. Not quite as a good a view, though, as Bubba's in Kapaa.
Bottom line, eat at Bubba's. Tell them The Garden Island sent you.
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All these years and I've never been, now I will. With our sadness about about the flooding overriding everything, it was good to read a happy hamburger story. Pray for sun.
Sorry, disagree here. Went once in the 12 years I lived there. I don't think 10 dollars for a snack that tastes mediocre at best is a deal.
Can you give any more details? Seems like your expectations were too high and you set yourself up to be dissapointed. What was this 10 dollar SNACK you mention? Must have been more than a snack since the burgers cost less than that.
Details? I was being nice leaving them out.
The burger was tiny, plain, tasted like cardboard. The order of fries was small, soggy and tasted like grease. The drink was normal. All for 10$ including tax and tip. For 10$ I expect to at least not be looking for a place to eat after I get my order, yes, a snack.
For a place that specializes in hamburgers it is a total fail.
When I find a restaurant that has good food I always go back, again and again. Price is not the main issue, but quality and consistency is.
Sorry, call em and I see eat em.
Don't do it Paulot – too many other places to eat good burgers…….or tacos if you're in El Kapaa
I would have to disagree. First tried it about 10 or 11 years ago because I thought, 'How can you go wrong with a burger for under $4.00?' Well, I was very disappointed. The burger was very plain, no seasoning and had a strange taste. I've had grass fed before so I knew what to expect. We had visitors about 6 years ago that wanted to try Bubba's, so we went. Nobody was impressed and once again, the burger didn't taste very good. About a year ago I decided to give them another chance since I was in Kapa'a. Unfortunately got the same result.
I give them credit for making an inexpensive burger, but they aren't that good and definitely do not live up to the hype. Sorry Bubba.
We go every year when we are there. It is a good place to go on way home from beaches… The Burger and onion rings are great. Definitely recommend


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Guillaume Long is to call on the UN general assembly to create a global regulator to stamp out tax havens and expose the corrupt elite
At the UN general assembly session, Ecuador will propose the creation of a global tax regulator. The IMF estimates that tax dodging costs developing countries more than $200bn (£152bn) a year – much more than the total global aid budget. The proposed UN body would be made up of member states and be empowered to clamp down on tax-evading multinationals, shut down tax havens and expose the corrupt elite who are squirrelling their money away to avoid paying tax.


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This triangular Piazza will have you mesmerized with the most decadent of restaurants and Jacaranda trees. With a big screen in the middle to entertain you on a Saturday you will be most at ease knowing you don't need to plan your weekends anymore because Central Square will have something unique to offer on a regular basis. The Piazza will be overlooked by 4200m² Virgin Active Classic as well as the 4* Central Square Business Hotel. If you want the Piazza as your office view from Monday to Friday, you are in luck thanks to our West Tower offices with access right into Central Square
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By definition Wayward is the way of the traveler; the one that's in it for the adventure. Destination is a relative space and in this particular story it's a bifocal path made for riders. Motorcycle riders that is. Wayward is a menswear collection developed by Los Angeles designer and motorist, Sam Adegoke. It's a collection made from a sharp style influenced by a lineage of West African tailors, the edge of a well traveled gentleman, and the consciousness of a rider. In other words, it's a premium line of denim and leather designed to keep our dapper riders safe. Not mad at that. My vote is on enhancing the safety and lifespan of well-dressed men.
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In July 1983 the average high temperature in Blythe, CA was 108.9°F, and this was 0.0°F warmer than the average of 108.9°F. The hottest day in July 1983 was 14 July when the temperature reached 117.0°F. Overnight the average temperature in July is 81.1°F and in 1983 the average overnight temperature was 1.4°F cooler at 79.7°F.


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Well I finally got around to trying out Waverly's Chalk paint that Walmart is carrying. I didn't get Waverly's brand of waxes though. I have Annie Sloan Wax clear and dark, so I just used those. No sense spending more money right?! :)
Today I thought I would try it on a wood chair. I've had this chair forever and when we moved I didn't get rid of it. It was in definite need of renovating, so it was the perfect candidate.
First I sanded down all the paint splatters so I had a smooth surface. I didn't go all crazy sandy, just enough to knock off the high spots and a little of the varnish. Then wiped it down really well with a damp cloth. Then applied one coat of Waverly's Chalk Paint in Truffle. It only took a little less than half the bottle to cover the whole chair (even underneath the seat). It has the consistency of chocolate putting and went on nicely. I wanted a brown color for this chair to be an extra chair for the Farmhouse Table I made. (You can find that post here.) The paint had more of a grayish brown color when dried.
|It was a little more grayish/brown than
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On a side note: My intention wasn't to have a distressed look on this chair. I wanted it to be a solid brown. Wellllll....thanks to my drill motor bumping some of the sides and scraping off some of the paint, it became an accidental victim of distressing. Oops! LOL!! So it had a few more accidents (intentional bumps) and made it look symmetrical (sort of). I think it still looks great. :)
Here is the finished product...
|The Annie Sloan Dark wax really browned
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Leo... the Rhymer without reason. Leo hardly needs any introduction to bloggers particularly to my readers. Any attempt to introduce him would be akin to carrying coal to Newcastle. He is a well known and popular figure in my circle of bloggers and surely beyond and held in high esteem for his poetic ability. I strongly feel that the title of his blog I Rhyme Without Reason is a misnomer for he writes each time with reason and with profound common sense. His poems are invariably works of art and great charm serving as benchmark for me and many budding poets to emulate and reach. He is himself a prolific writer in various platforms besides encouraging various bloggers through his succinct comments. I know he has been a mentor to many promising poets who approach him, guiding them into the nuances of various forms of poetry and prose. I have personally benefited by my association with him in the field of writing and blogging. I would proudly share with you the secret that my beautiful template is his creation.
He hosts a handful of memes from Thursday Tales, to Haiku Heights, to Lots of Laughter and lately the Z-A Challenge in 26 Days for the month of November, which will be ending tomorrow and which I had actively participated that made me a prolific writer for this month as a blogger. Do we need a proof to show that he is a versatile writer and blogger very well known in the blogging community around the world . Name a meme, and he's there with his splendid poems, e.g Monday Poetry Potluck, Thursday Poets' Rally, Writers Island, Sensational Wednesday Haiku and many more.
Lest I give more *talks* with his guesting here than he would do...let me now give the floor to the Rhymer ................. opppsss... he opted this time for a long prosaic lullaby for me but it still rhymes, hiding the poet in him na... :P
Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome, the Amateur Poet who Rhymes Without Reason..:D
I frankly don't know what I'm doing here :P Wasn't I here just a year back? I'm sure I said a lot and most of what I know about this Filipino auntie Amity ;) What more could I add on to that, I wonder! I said she puts a lot of effort into her blogging and she still does. I said she had a talent in Acrostics, she still does, and she's even got a bucketload of award badges from Amias at Acrostic Only to prove her talent was recognized by one of the best writers of Acrostic poetry I know! I said she's a passionate friend, and she is. What more do I add on about Amity? Awwww shucks, no wonder I "nearly" backed out of this guest post agreement. See Amity, I'm finding it so difficult to write about you. :PI'll give it a try nevertheless. In the past one year, Amity has taken a serious commitment to writing. The fact that she has won two Blog-A-Tonic badges in successive months itself shows she's putting more effort to fine-tune her writing. Kudos to her for that. She's also got better and better at writing Haikus and is a regular at my haiku meme, Haiku Heights. She's now past 200 followers at her blogspace, which should be a milestone too. Not that it would end there, a thousand looks on the cards soon for this extremely sensitive blogger, who tells she'll take "breaks" when she gets irritated. Good thing her plans don't take shape though, I'm sure many would miss her words. She doesn't like her other blog All Acrostics that much, and even after its creation, she's continued to write her acrostics at Dreams are my Reality itself. She's going to heights in blogging, so I think on her anniversary, I'll gift her a nice jacket, so she doesn't feel the chill up there... maybe I can join her there sometime soon! :)I think that's all I've to add on, since I already mentioned that Madhu mentioned she's stealing hearts in my previous guest post here last year! Hope to see her writing a lot of different forms, win more and more awards and appreciation from her peers, and maybe get to meet her sometime.
Signing off,
"Dreams are like the paints of a great artist. Your dreams are your paints, the world is your canvas. Believing, is the brush that converts your dreams into a masterpiece of reality."
Monday, November 29, 2010
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Hi Leo,ReplyDelete
Sorry for the late posting of your guest post...It's too hard to introduce a versatile and popular blogger like you...and yes, I was waiting for you to tell me what title of your guest post would i place but could not wait further...so here i just put "Amity...Who???' Yayyy.....what a title to your guest post...never mind, the essence is in the contest of your guest post itself! :P
Thanks for the kind guest post son...;-) I hope to meet you soon as promised and don't forget that jacket....oh, could you make it a fur coat na so I can also use it when I will meet Anya in The Netherlands...he he he...thanks once again... :-))) Looking forward to meeting you soon...:P
"content" not 'contest"....sorry... :PReplyDelete
Applause Leo!! That's another description and an account of an old friend of your's Amity!! What a mystery you create around yourself Leo, that she finds it hard to introduce you, despite all your multitude of talent, and now she has managed to put it so well :) Bravo!! to her and Kudos!! to you!!ReplyDelete
Aaaww shucks Amity!! Leo has done a nice prosaic lullaby which is still melting with Rhymes second time around and who else could have done this better :) than your long standing blogger pal :)
I will see that you get that fur coat Amity :) though it could be synthetic as you well know animal furs are a taboo for environmentalists and Green social activists, and awareness freaks like you me and Leo :D
Leo I do hope you are counting yourself in too in this peer group !! We have a party to attend when she's here!!
hahah now i don't for whom to comment....on leo's description of amity or on amity description of leo...because both are in for an applause...ReplyDelete
amity i second you for this, I myself have benefited from leo's...my only teacher and friend :)
as for what to say for you amity.....this is one place that makes me wanna come back and read again and again.... :) god bless you both...
- Someone Is SpecialMonday, November 29, 2010 3:06:00 PM
Amity, congrats once again..ReplyDelete
Leo, as usual he is the best in helping people and guest posting.. You are a gem found in this blogosphere. Yet another great guest post by you..
--Someone is Special--
Leo its a wonderful description about Amity and her AMAZING blog
You are also a great poet :))))
My compliments also for you :-)
Yeahhhhh..... Amity
everybody loves your blog (and you...)
what do you want more ;-)
You have sooooooooooo many friends
and you deserve it all......
Congrats with your blog
its now 2 years and one day old ......................... lols
(I hope you are feeling better now ??
the flu is also in my home :(
Suzanne my youngest daughter
is in bed now with the flu
but I will take care for her :-)
Hugs Love
I do not wear real fur AmityReplyDelete
I am an animal lover
you know that !!!!!!!!!!!
There are plenty of other nice coats :-)
@Leo....Looks like you have done and finished your duty here. Why is it so difficult to write about poor Amity?? :( Especially when she has had a glorious year...and the past two months specifically have been fabulous for her writing!! She seems to be surging ahead from strength to strength and we have only you to thank for introducing Amity to us. :) She is a wonderful friend for the long run indeed. :) I think everyone echoes Amity when she says you've been a great mentor coz we've all been there and you've done that :) Can't thank you enough for that... :) Cheers and Peace!! :D ;) :)ReplyDelete
@Amity....Yay!! Another fun day here at DAMR!! :D The title of your guest post frightened me in the dashboard because I knew it was Leo's day today and I was surprised by the title itself. Thank gawd it was you talking to yourself up there ;) You've written a lovely introduction to your long standing friend...and what is with this AUNTIE business?? :O Never seen it before....I thought we were all FUN LOVING TEENS here!!! :D ;) Having a BLAST together!!! and wicked LOL's too!! :D
Have a great day Amity!!! :D
PS: Haven't been online much lately so will catch up with your posts at your other blog asap!! :)
Cheers!! :)
WOw :) :) :) :) Congratulations Amity :) :) Love you so much :)ReplyDelete
yes, yes, pls that fur coat, never mind if synthetic, thing is, I have something to keep me warm... :-)))ReplyDelete
leo??? where are you boy???
Hi Miya,ReplyDelete
Wow...thank you so much...you're here...:-))) LOve you too...:-) how's your blog? Stopped writing na???
Auntie? yeah, he likes me to call Auntie Amity or when I am feelin' so blue...he'd naughtily call me 'Hi Mrs. B'... 'wicked grin'... :DReplyDelete
Ha ha ha, I wish Nanka and I am as young as you are all guys...but no...we're almost there...'you know what'... :D ;D
Thanks my dear Rumz...Cheers to your presence here... :-)))
Then Leo can give me that jacket na...let's go environmentalist na this time... he he he.. :DReplyDelete
I am feelin' better now, after almost three days with the bug...yayyy...I missed you guys with all the fun you're giving over my place... :-)))ReplyDelete
Thanks dear Anya for being around Leo's gp... :-)))
Thanks SiS...and I couldn't thank Leo more for being my mentor for quite a time now...:-) I tip my hats off to him!!!ReplyDelete
True Tweety...Leo is one of the best mentor over here at blogville!!!ReplyDelete
Kudos to him too!!!
Thank you for your sweet words... :-)))


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Escapism gets a bad rap in comics. Are they adolescent escapist fantasies? Well, yeah. Of course many of them are. There are exceptions, sure, but who doesn't want to imagine themselves as the super-strong dude who flies around and saves the day, or the guy who dresses up as a bat with the slick car and the grappling hook? What I don't get is why people who raise this criticism often see this as a bad thing.
After all, comic books aren't the only things trafficking in escapism. Movies, novels, games and the Internet provide people with elaborate fantasies to escape the mundane realities of everyday life. Maybe you're a world-traveling super-spy with a briefcase full of gadgets. Or perhaps you're a ordinary, everyday girl being fought over by a hunky werewolf or a vampire with immaculate cheekbones. The ability to inhabit a more adventurous second persona only gets stronger when you're on a computer. A graphics engine can fully render the world and its people, and your character is not hampered by a fixed storyline.
Amy T. Falcone gained some fame as a contestant on Penny Arcade's Strip Search, but she'd already been doing the webcomics thing with a humor strip called Citation Needed. I felt this webcomic was a bit of a dud: The wacky humor was a little undercooked, and characters, who were meant to be quirky, were more annoying than anything. The comic was put on "indefinite hiatus," however, as Falcone moved onto her new project Clique Refresh, which explores the positive benefits of escapism.
Clique Refresh allows Falcone to really cut loose with her style. Hanging around with other webcomic creators during Strip Search must've taught her a thing or too. It's bouncier and less restrictive. It also feels like something that hews close to the Mike Krahulik/Scott Kurtz school of art, which is emerging as one of the dominant styles for webcomics. Her only solace comes from reengaging with a virtual community brought together by an online role-playing game.
The main character Ellie has just recently relocated to Seattle; she's detached from everyone she knows. Apart from her ferret (who goes on his own adventures), she's alone in her empty apartment. She hasn't befriended any locals, quite possibly due to the Seattle Freeze. In the real world, she's a clumsy young woman who can't figure out groceries. Online, she's a powerful sorceress with the clearly defined goal of getting her guild to the top. Sometimes the life of escapism is more rewarding ... which is why it's so frustrating for Ellie when the Internet becomes briefly inaccessible.
It's a fairly lightweight comic thus far, and it's likely to be baffling to anyone who can't see the point of coming together and engaging in an utterly futile activity. I will say this, though: Ellie's alienation got to me. There's a great scene where Ellie pauses and wonders why she ever thought it was a good idea to relocate to a city of utter loneliness. Then she notices the Seattle skyline, which reminds her why she came here -- to make her own dreams come true.
More than a decade ago, that was me. I was clear across the country, with zero acquaintances in the Emerald City and my only friends being the unseen ones in a diverse smattering of Internet message boards. It's a case where the escapist life in the virtual world was more fulfilling than the frustrating desperation of reality.


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This will be an extremely brief post because 1) I'm ill, tired and busy but 2) I do really wish to share a not so brief (but extremely useful) video. Writers are people and all people have gone through some sort of crisis. Some crises are huge and daunting, some are not so much. Some are temporary and some... we just don't know. For those of you who are going through a crisis and are looking how to get through it, I leave you The Power of Choice. Very powerful indeed, Father Dragon's word.
I also have a question for you. Does anybody know of a good book on how to write screenplays? I would really appreciate some recommendations.
Dragon Hugs!
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|Scoped In
Reduced pain wobble while scoped in
$9,000 (Competitive) $20,000 (Cooperative)
Required level
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Booster slot
Scoped In is a booster in the Uncharted 3 Multiplayer . It is one of the many boosters that appears in both competitive and cooperative modes of the game. In both modes, the effect of the booster is to decrease the amount of wobble when you get hit while aiming.
Level 1Edit
The amount of pain scope wobble is reduced. In practice, the effects of level 1 are barely noticeable. To upgrade to level 2, in Competitive, you need to earn 8 The Long Ranger medals, and in Cooperative, you need to earn 8 Dead Eye medals.
Level 2Edit
The amount of pain scope wobble is reduced further. The effects of level 2 help substantially at short- to mid-range, but long range shots can still prove problematic. To upgrade to level 3, in Competitive, you need to earn 24 The Long Ranger medals, and in Cooperative, you need to earn 24 Dead Eye medals.
Level 3Edit
There is no pain scope wobble. In practice, there is still some wobble simply due to the character animation when the player gets shot, but this is entirely minimal.
Tips and StrategiesEdit
- Upgrading the Competitive booster can be quite a hassle, as you need to know where to position yourself with a sniper rifle in order to get enough distance. A common strategy is to hideout in the corners of maps with long stretches of open space such as Airstrip. This is easier with the T-Bolt Sniper because it only takes one hit, regardless of where you hit them.
- It is technically possible to upgrade the competitive booster without using a sniper rifle (or a gun, for that matter). Grenade kills from far enough away can sometimes be easier, especially in maps where people commonly camp in one spot such as the upper tower of Syria . Three Hail Mary medals equals a The Long Ranger medal.
- In reality, players who shoot from long-range using snipers or the G-MAL will only benefit from level three. At long-range, even the reduced wobble from level two can still make the shots miss. Levels one and two are mostly good for mid-range shooters with semi-automatic rifles or pistols who want accuracy in order to kill their enemies as fast as possible.
- Upgrading the Cooperative booster is not as difficult, but can still be tricky. If possible, avoid using the T-Bolt Sniper . The reload time after each shot makes it difficult to get the kills fast enough, though expert players can still do it consistently.
- Armored enemies are an obvious obstacle to getting Dead Eye medals. While trying to get the medals, you should only kill armored enemies to start the chain of three or if you have double damage from the Army of Three kickback.
- The easiest way to make sure you can get the kills fast enough is to have good knowledge of where the enemies spawn. As soon as you see a group of at least two unarmored enemies, fire away. If there were only two, you can usually quickly find a third to still get the medal.
- It is not suggested to play Co-op Shade Survival mode to upgrade the co-op booster. While it is possible to get Dead Eye medals by using sniper rifles on minor enemies, you will likely only get one, if any medals per game. In Co-op Arena, experienced players can typically get at least 3 Dead Eye medals per game.
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Sharon Art Studio is San Francisco's largest public art studio with classes and workshops for all ages in drawing, painting, ceramics, jewelry, glass, folk art and more at the beautiful Sharon Building in Golden Gate Park. You could help us to continue to build a world of creativity where people of all ages and artistic background can explore the visual arts in a wide array of media. To make a donation or volunteer today, please click here.
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Special report: Emerging markets
Managers seeing signs of big interest with China's A shares
Investors prepare for push into China market
There are hints of growing interest among U.S. institutional investors in China's $8.4 trillion A-shares market, ahead of its gaining an initial toehold in MSCI's benchmark indexes in May.
While there's still more talk than action, a handful or two of sizable A-shares searches by U.S. defined benefit plans in the past year should prove to be the start of a bigger trend, narrowing the gap between China's 16% share of the global economy and its less than 3% share of global market capitalization, money management executives said.
Prior to a year ago, A shares were seen as a "niche" allocation for investors willing to take "outsized risks," but interest in the market is broadening considerably, said Asha Mehta, a senior vice president and lead portfolio manager, frontier markets, with Boston-based quantitative boutique Acadian Asset Management LLC.
With reforms lowering operational hurdles, bringing forward the day when A shares will account for 10 to 20 percentage points of a global emerging markets portfolio, the number of clients "receptive" to pursuing opportunities in "the second largest market in the world" is growing, said Ms. Mehta.
After three years of study, Acadian will launch a commingled A-shares strategy for institutional clients before the end of January, she said.
The number of searches, while small, has clearly picked up over the past year, said Paul Price, Morgan Stanley (MS) Investment Management's London-based global head of sales.
Early adopters led the push into emerging markets, followed by a wave. For A shares now "we're on the way to a wave," Mr. Price predicted.
Early adopter
Stichting Pensioenfonds ABP, the €403 billion ($484.7 billion), Heerlen, Netherlands-based pension fund for government and education employees, became the latest early adopter in September when it tapped Guangzhou-based E Fund Management Co. to invest €250 million in A shares.
Shanghai and Shenzhen had been tough markets to invest in, but reforms in China have opened up opportunities for institutional investors there now, said Rene van der Zeeuw, the head of emerging markets equities at ABP's Amsterdam-based investment manager, APG Asset Management.
The beta opportunity in China's fast-growing economy is the main attraction but a big market dominated by retail investors should offer opportunities for institutional investors to add alpha as well, said Mr. van der Zeeuw.
Still, A shares is "not a market that should be entered" without adequate preparation, said Mr. van der Zeeuw, adding that after "long consideration," APG opted to tap E Fund's local expertise to avoid any "pitfalls."
A number of managers said U.S. investors have been even more cautious about adding A shares than their counterparts in Europe and Asia but that gap could be narrowing.
Philip Li, senior fund manager and director, investment operations, with Hong Kong-based Value Partners Ltd., said prospective clients he met with on his latest trip to the U.S. in December were more positive about A shares than at any time during his seven years with the firm.
Fears U.S. investors expressed in previous years about the potential dangers of high property prices or excessive credit growth in China appear to have receded, said Mr. Li.
Interest in the A-shares market is coming back "at last," with a number of U.S. institutional investors, including pension funds, becoming more receptive in recent months, agreed Wong Kok Hoi, the founder and chief investment officer of Singapore-based APS Asset Management.
Messrs. Wong, Li and Price all declined to name the investors they've met with recently.
The inefficiency of the A-shares market, where local retail investors account for well over 80% of trading, is another factor that could attract inflows of institutional funds at a moment when valuations globally are stretched, money managers said.
China is a market where active managers can add "significant value" making concentrated, thematic investments in an e-commerce sector "like no country in the world," or health care, education or pharmaceuticals, said MSIM's Mr. Price. "We think there'll be a bountiful harvest out there for alpha hunters," he said.
That contention extends to quant managers, which look to exploit "behavioral errors" by investors to secure alpha, said Acadian's Ms. Mehta.
With 85% of A-shares trading accounted for by retail investors, that market is "rife with behavioral errors," and returns that can be harvested from specific factors such as "growth signals" are as much as "three times what we see in emerging markets more broadly," she said.
It's a market where active management "makes a lot of sense," agreed Rene Buehlmann, Hong Kong-based head, Asia Pacific, of UBS Asset Management. For investors who remain on the sidelines, it will become a question of "how much alpha you could have generated" had you invested, he said.
Concerns remain
It's hardly the case that widespread concerns among U.S. investors and analysts about China's debt-fueled economic model and evolving corporate governance standards have evaporated.
David Morton, chief market strategist with Norwalk, Conn.-based investment consultant Rocaton Investment Advisors LLC, said with China's relatively free market economy tied to a relatively "unfree" political system, generating consistent, "monolithic" levels of growth, it's tough for Rocaton executives to be confident enough in China's growth story to urge clients to add separate A-shares accounts.
"I don't see how we would get comfortable enough" with the fact that they haven't blown up yet to conclude they won't do so going forward, he added.
Analysts who believe China's policymakers have the wherewithal to guide the country's fast-growing economy to safe harbors believe such lingering doubts could offerU.S. investors opportunities to begin building long-term positions in China at reasonable valuations.
Kevin Anderson, a senior managing director and Hong Kong-based head of investments, Asia Pacific, with State Street Global Advisors, said his team — which has never been in the "hard landing" camp when it comes to China — believes investors should consider building exposure now to local banks and insurers trading at attractive valuations due to overly pessimistic fears of a credit crisis.
And institutional investors appear more willing to look at the market, said Mr. Anderson, with signs of "some thawing of the perma-bears in China."
If interest in China is growing, the complicated evolution of the country's listed equity markets — with global investors much more familiar with the trillions of dollars of Hong Kong-listed H shares as well as Chinese technology companies listed in New York — ensures A shares won't be the sole beneficiary.
The argument that A shares — listed in Shanghai and Shenzhen — represent the new, entrepreneurial China to which overseas investors want exposure is overstated, noted Aaron Costello, a Beijing-based managing director with investment consulting firm Cambridge Associates LLC.
For example, the record of profitability the Shanghai and Shenzhen bourses required to list there have prompted the information technology giants serving China's 700 million online shoppers to list elsewhere — most prominently Tencent Holdings Ltd. in Hong Kong and Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. in New York.
With Tencent's stock more than doubling in 2017 and Alibaba's up roughly 90%, investors in MSCI's China index, covering H shares and American depository receipts, would have logged a gain of 55% last year, more than double the 20% gain, in dollar terms, by the MSCI China A index, noted Mr. Costello.
Better prospects?
Whether A shares, from a valuation perspective, are offering better prospects now than the shares of those information technology heavyweights is something a money manager should determine, said Mr. Costello. That's why Cambridge Associates is urging clients to consider "all China" mandates, which allow the manager to invest in A shares, H shares or ADRs, depending on where that manager spies value at any given time, he said.
Tan Eng Teck, Singapore-based senior portfolio manager at Nikko Asset Management Co., said increasingly clients are asking the firm to make no distinction between Chinese firms listed on the mainland and those listed offshore. Nikko Asset Management last year seeded an "all China" strategy to serve that anticipated demand.
APS Asset Management's Mr. Wong said his firm is seeing the same trend, and will launch a long-only, all-China fund "soon." Three quarters of APS' $3.2 billion in assets under management is currently in A-shares strategies but that proportion is likely to decline, he said. n


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Possible Death Penalty In Flint "Howard Boys" Case [Video]
This could be a first in the city of Flint. A possible Death Penalty could be applied in at least, some of the federal charges.
ABC 12 reports nearly all of the 22 men charged in the massive, multi-year Flint "Howard Boys" investigation, announced last week, are in custody.
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Can Fraternities Change? October 28, 2010Posted by Jarrah H in Can-Con, feminism, LGBT, racism.
Tags: frat culture, fraternities, racism, rape culture, sexism, sexual assault
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Fraternities have been in the news a lot recently, publicized for promoting sexist chants and racist parties. College and University campuses should be safe places for students, regardless of gender, race, or sexual orientation, but some people feel frats inherently compromise campus safety. University of Victoria students recently upheld their campus ban on fraternities and sororities, with 63% of over 500 students voting against frats. Arguing against frats, organizer Jaraad Marani said they're "counter productive to the university's mandate and the University of Victoria Student Society's mandate on creating inclusive and safe spaces."
I went to school at UBC, which has fraternities and sororities. When a student club I belonged to wanted to hold an event in a frat house, I objected, arguing frat houses don't constitute safe spaces for women. Historian Nicholas L. Syrett estimates that as many as 70 to 90 percent of reported campus rapes are committed by fraternity members. My argument didn't get a lot of support in the club and I ended up sitting out the event, but the more I read the more I believe it's no coincidence we've seen the following reports associated with frats (not even close to an exhaustive list):
1. In 1988 an 18-year-old freshman at Florida State University was gang-raped by three frat members who scrawled fraternity symbols on her thighs and left her unconscious in a hallway.
2. In 2001, an edition of Dartmouth's Zeta Psi newsletter promised: "Next week: [Brother X's] patented date raping techniques!"
3. In 2007 a Texas State University frat's MLK party on Martin Luther King Jr. Day devolved into a celebration of racist stereotypes with "some fraternity members and others eating fried chicken, drinking malt liquor from bottles wrapped in brown paper bags and dressed in faux gang apparel."
4. This September, two women reported being date raped in two weeks at a University of Minnesota frat house, with one 20-year-old woman being trapped in a bathroom by a male frat member. The following weekend a 19-year-old also reported being raped at a different U of M frat party.
5. Earlier this month Yale's Delta Kappa Epsilon frat became infamous as videos went viral of frat members marching while chanting, "No Means Yes! Yes Means Anal!"
6. Two weeks ago a Harvard Sigma Chi "Conquistabros and Navajos" party drew criticism for romanticizing genocide of North American Aboriginal peoples, forcing an apology from the frat.
7. In March 2010 a 19-year-old University of Kentucky student was charged after wrapping a frat pledge in toilet paper and lighting him on fire.
8. The University of Alberta suspended one fraternity chapter this week after hazing allegations surfaced, with frat members accused of forcing pledges to eat their own vomit and confining them to plywood boxes.
9. This month the University of Kansas suspended a fraternity's rights after allegations of hazing, including forcing pledges to wear women's costumes such as "Fairy Godmother" in order to embarass them.
Fraternities have been plagued with these types of news stories because they tend to promote a vision of elitist hypermasculinity that has to be constantly proven through rituals that reinforce the exclusion of "others", usually women, gay and trans men, and non-whites. Even though these are extreme cases, they're just magnifications of the types of things that go on every day on North American campuses. I remember at UBC being told that one of the big Greek fundraisers for the year was a musical revue put on by the sororities and judged by the fraternities. "So we basically just fight to see who can come up with the sluttiest number," a friend in one of the sororities told me.
At the University of Michigan, student groups complained about fraternity shirts picturing sperm racing toward an egg with the slogan "Only the Strong Survive" and banners with Playboy bunny logos on them. Syrett's research also found homophobia ubiquitous in fraternity culture, despite a seemingly contradictory level of homoeroticism in many frat rituals.
But some people think fraternities can change to become safe and inclusive spaces. If society gains greater acceptance for racial, gender, and LGBT equality, will frats begin to mirror that acceptance? Amanda Hess has reported on frat boys at George Washington University taking steps to eliminate rituals associated with aggressive masculinity and eject members who spread homophobia and sexism.
I'm sure there are other fraternities attempting to take similar steps and I applaud them, but I'm skeptical about the possibility of meaningful change. Fraternities are, by nature, gender-segregated. To some extent, you can't maintain that segregation without policing the masculinity of participants. Historically, fraternities have also been white organizations, and the continuing examples of racist frat parties shows fraternities are still having trouble shaking their legacy of racial exclusion. Why would they have any more luck with their gender issues?
Non-Violent Sexual Assaults? September 2, 2010Posted by Jarrah H in Can-Con, feminism, Politics.
Tags: feminism, groping, rape culture, sexual assault, vancouver crime, vancouver police
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I'm pleased to bring you this guest post from blogger Kaitlin. Kaitlin is a queer feminist from Burnaby, BC. She holds a degree in Political Science, and blogs about anti-oppression, politics, and social justice. She can normally be found at Equality Kitten, but is honoured to be contributing this guest post today to one of her favourite blogs.
According to recently released statistics, overall crime in Vancouver is down 7.5 percent. Rates are down in all categories except sexual assault, which is up a staggering 21%. According to Vancouver Police Chief Jim Chu, aggravated sexual assaults are up 600%, from a single reported case last year to seven this year. Overall, 303 sexual assaults have been reported in Vancouver so far this year, up from 246 in the same period last year.
At a press conference with Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson, Jim Chu explained that many of the reported sexual assaults were gropings, or "non-violent sexual assaults." This is what caught my eye – since when is groping not considered a form of violence? Unless consensual, groping is an attack on a person's bodily integrity. As with other forms of sexual assault, groping can cause emotional and psychological harm to the victim. The possible impacts of non-consensual groping can be life-long, and should never be minimized.
It concerns me greatly that the magnitude of groping is being downplayed by the media. Sexual assault is never okay. Implying that groping is somehow less bad than rape contributes to the all too widespread impression that it is not a serious crime, that people who commit this form of sexual assault are somehow less culpable, or that victims aren't seriously wounded by the experience. These kinds of sentiments just contribute to rape culture, and it horrifies me that the fact that gropings are so common in Vancouver is somehow being used to temper the announcement about sexual assault statistics.
Now, admittedly, it is possible that these sobering statistics do illustrate possible progress: there is a chance that reporting rates have increased. This would certainly be very good news, as it's known that many women feel too ashamed to report sexual assaults to the police. However, I fear that reports like this, casting groping as non-violent, could serve to counteract any progress of this sort.
Jim Chu attributes the rise in sexual assaults partly to the growing popularity of Granville Street. However, he also admitted that incidents of groping were up across the city. While alcohol can, and does, contribute to sexual assaults, the true culprit is a culture that downplays sexual assault, as is happening right now. If we accept Chief Chu's assertion that the majority of sexual assaults in Vancouver last year were non-violent, then we risk making groping okay. So, I'm going to call him out: there is no such thing as a non-violent sexual assault.


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South West Edible Estates is a charity established to work with residents of council estates in the south west of Edinburgh. We seek to use greenspace as a resource that increases health and wellbeing of individuals, and the cohesion of communities.
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Our focus for the coming year will be to work with residents in Murrayburn & Hailesland to establish a Community Park. The park will use 'natural play' ideas to improve the Greenway as a place for play and recreation. We will build a Neighbourhood Garden in the middle of the park which will provide growing spaces for up to fifty residents.
In 2016/17, we worked with residents in Murrayburn & Hailesland to look at ways in which local greenspace can provide; better play opportunities for younger children, create community gardening spaces for adults, and improve the appearance and biodiversity of the local area. This resulted in the set up of Murrayburn & Hailesland Community Park Association.
We now have planning permission for the neighbourhood garden and the support of the Council to use the site. We are currently submitting funding applications to meet the cost of the project.
If you live in Murrayburn or Hailesland, would like to find out more please get in touch with Steve Pike, firstname.lastname@example.com.
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