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Christmas brought some more great Dukes of Hazzard items under my tree. Actually only one of these items are for me, but they are still awesome.
The first item is something I bought my mother. She is a master puzzle builder and loves a new challenge. Back in June, I stumbled across a new puzzle by White Mountain Puzzles called "Games We Played." I found another another version of the puzzle in a different box. I thought my mom would enjoy putting it together. I'm gonna ask her if I can add it to the collection after she is completes it.
My cousin got my mom a different puzzle for Christmas. This one is also by White Mountain Puzzles entitled "Television History." Someone at White Mountain loves them Dukes.
I don't think my cousin even noticed, but right there on the puzzle are Bo and Luke with the Gen'ral and Cousin Daisy in all her glory. It was an unexpected Dukes item! The puzzle is a collage of hundreds of TV icons. I'm really glad the Dukes are so well represented. The General Lee is right in between Captain Kangaroo and Captain Kirk, that's some some heavy military brass right there! Hopefully this puzzles will find its way in the collection too. Merry Christmas Mom!
Jeffrey (should I even link to his blog anymore cause he rarely updates it) always come through at Christmas. This year he did not disappoint with this awesome art print of the General Lee. This thing is a beauty! Jeff got it through his connections in the comic book world. It's great having a friend who is so deep into comic creation.
The background isn't just yellow. There is a collage of old Dukes of Hazzard ads and posters. The artist did his homework.
Several of these ads were featured in a blog I did in 2012. Check it out. I really like how the artist made the background. This is an awesome present. Thanks Jeff!
2015 had its ups and downs for Dukes of Hazzard fans. Let's take a look back.
The Dukes of Hazzard movie was released ten years ago. I wrote several blog posts looking back at my time on the set, at the Hollywood Premiere, and the items that were released.
Ten Years Ago Today I Was On Set Of The Dukes of Hazzard MovieTen Years Ago Today - The Dukes of Hazzard Movie Hollywood Premiere
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In April, we lost a member of the Dukes of Hazzard family. James Best is with his Little Fat Buddy in the sky. We sure do miss you Rosco.
There were some issues with the rebel flag that led to the Dukes of Hazzard being pulled from television. Here's hoping we see it again on TV in 2016.
Cooter's Place returned to where it all began in 2015. Along with Nashville and Gatlinburg, Ben and Alma opened Cooter's In the Country in good 'ol Sperryville, home of the original Cooter's Place. Needless to say, I spent a lot of time there this year. We had a great grand opening, and Daisy, Dorothy Best, Cletus, Enos, and Luke have all visited already. 2016 is going to be a huge year for Cooter's in the Country. We have a huge announcement planned!
We saw some great times released in 2015. Though a custom piece, I had to include my wonderful Lego General Lee created by Cody at C3Brix. It is such an awesome addition to the collection. May saw two releases. Auto World gave us the General Lee before it was orange with the 1/18 Happy Birthday General Lee diecast. Shortly after, we got Series 2 of Figures Toy Company's Dukes of Hazzard figures. Daisy, Uncle Jesse, Cooter, Enos, and Cletus, were all released in 8 inch and 12 inch figures. A few months later we were surprised with a Series 3 of Dukes figures. It consisted of special edition figures exclusive to Entertainment Earth that included Welcome Back Bo & Luke, Carnival of Thrills Bo, Abraham Lincoln Hogg, and two Daisys, Deputy Daisy Duke, and Bikini Daisy! They are awesome. All of the Dukes figures as well as other items can be purchased through the link on the top right of the blog that takes you to EE's website. Clicking that link supports the blog. Right in the middle of the flag controversy, we finally got the complete Dukes of Hazzard series in a DVD Box Set. It was plain old bad timing. But a great set. The price for the box set has been up and down, but I'm very happy we finally got it. I'm really hoping we get the glorious HD versions in Blu-ray someday soon. Halloween saw the release of costumes portraying Boss Hogg, Rosco P. Coltrane, and Daisy Duke. In December, our pal Tom Wopat released the Christmas album he did with John Schneider, on vinyl. I held the first ever DukesCollector contest and gave away some autographed copies. That was a lot of fun.
2015 had a few low points, but it had so many high ones. I met so many more great follow fans of the Dukes of Hazzard and had countless wonderful Dukes experiences. Here's to a great 2016 filled with orange cars, Dukes toys, cast members, and fellow fans!


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Friday, October 26, 2007
Grand Cayman
Well, Amy and I spent a week in Grand Cayman. We stayed at the Ritz Carlton and did nothing but selfish interests. We snorkeled like there was no tomorrow, swam, held, and kissed stingray, scuba dived, and even saw Hell itself. Truely. . .Hell, Grand Cayman.
The stingray pictures will be developed and added shortly. While scuba diving Amy and I did see an 8 foot nurse shark sleeping on the bottom of the reef about 10 feet from us.
We went with two couple friends in our neighborhood and were roudy, crazy, and wild until about 9pm every night when we crashed from over-eating.
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Written by Chris Dart
For most of the 20th century, Toronto had the fairly justifiable reputation as a city that wasn't very good at nightlife. An early last call meant that any evening revelry had to be wrapped up by 1 a.m., which was just around the time the party got started in places like New York and Montreal.
In the 1990s, though, that started to change. But it wasn't because of a change in the laws — it was because of raves. By the mid-'90s, Toronto had one of the biggest rave scenes on the continent. On any given Saturday night, promotion companies like Dose, Destiny, Syrous, Better Days, Pleasure Force and Atlantis were giving party animals three or four parties to choose from, ranging from underground events in warehouses and parking garages to more mainstream events in venues like the Canadian National Exhibition's Better Living Centre and the Ontario Science Centre. There were parties that focused on specific genres, like happy hardcore or drum and bass, and bigger events that had multiple rooms, each playing a different genre.
But before any of that could happen, a young Scottish immigrant named Mark Oliver had to go clubbing on a visit back to his homeland in the late '80s.
Early days (1987-90)
"When I was 18, I was back in Scotland for a while and you know what it's like when you're 18, you start hitting the bars and the clubs and stuff," Oliver says, over the phone. "[There were] some nights that were starting to play some Chicago house. It wasn't quite a full-on rave yet, but some of the music was starting to filter through."
When he returned to Toronto, Oliver started bartending at a bar called the Tazmanian Ballroom on Jarvis Street, and studying music at York University. On his nights off, he would go to the Twilight Zone, Toronto's main house music outlet.
"They would bring DJs up from New York and Chicago, and it was a pretty niche market then," he says. "It kind of stemmed from the Chicago [scene] — Frankie Knuckles and the Warehouse ... it leaned more towards a black gay scene, I guess, but everyone was welcome."
Eventually, after constantly passing records to the DJ at the Tazmanian Ballroom, Oliver was given the position himself.
"The original DJ was basically managing the club then and he didn't want to DJ anymore," says Oliver. "He asked if I could step in. I kind of just fell into the whole DJing thing. I didn't know how to mix."
In the summer of 1988, buoyed by the tale of the Second Summer of Love happening in his homeland, Oliver threw what was possibly Toronto's first rave at the Tazmanian Ballroom.
"Back then, we never called it 'rave' but it was an acid house party, which later became known as a rave," he says.
It wasn't a huge success.
"No one was really into it," he admits. "The second one I threw, there were 10 cops that showed up and I think there was 20 people total…. They obviously got a fax from Interpol warning them of the evils of ecstasy and ravers and stuff, so they came looking but there was really nothing there to find so. At that point I thought, 'Well, it's maybe not gonna happen here.' You know, it exploded in the U.K., and there was 50,000 kids raving in a field and it had taken over Britain….
"That's what I was trying to get going here but it just wasn't happening."
Success at last (1991-94)
Undeterred, Oliver kept throwing parties, slowly building an audience and waiting for things to click. In 1991, he and two other Scottish-born DJs, John Angus and Anthony Donnelly, formed a promotion company called Exodus. Exodus took over programming at 23 Hop, an all-ages, all-night venue located in a former warehouse near the corner of Richmond and Spadina. At the time, it specialized mostly in hip-hop and dancehall reggae, and was plagued by poor turnout. The owners were looking to try something different.
"I went in and started playing techno and acid house, and ... there were these kids that came in from Brampton, there were maybe 10 of them the first night, and they were going crazy," Oliver says. "They had been to the U.K. on their summer holidays and had been raving and were looking to get it going here, and there was nothing going on here.... We actually rented that space out 'cause the club was closing down, so we asked the owner if we could rent it."
Shortly after Oliver and the Exodus crew started turning unlicensed 23 Hop into the coolest club in the city, one of the club's regular attendees was about to bring a new level of showmanship to the scene.
Don Berns, in some ways, was an unlikely early rave acolyte. For one thing, he was already in his early 40s, making him roughly twice as old as the average partygoer. For another, as a DJ and eventual program director for radio station CFNY, he was already part of the music industry, something most early rave proponents had little time for. On the other hand, he was always on the lookout for new music, and was already a fan of other electronic sounds, like synth-pop and industrial.
Editor's note: (Berns died on March 1, 2015, just a few days after being interviewed for this article.)
"I liked the music," Berns says. "The people were amazing.... The whole thing really appealed to me."
In 1992, Berns took a business trip to L.A. and asked some record label contacts if there were any raves happening in the city that night. Getting to the party turned out to be an adventure in itself.
"All I had was an address," he says. "It was, it turned out to be a costume shop in West Hollywood and I couldn't hear any music and I thought there couldn't be a rave here but there's this big, burly security guard standing out front. I went inside and they found my name on the guest list, and they gave me a wristband and a slip of paper with a phone number on it... I called the number and there was a message giving me the address of what turned out to be a parking lot in downtown Los Angeles. I go down there and I show the wristband to this guy in a limousine. And he hands me further directions to drive another couple miles to the actual venue."
What he saw there blew his mind.
"By the time I got there, I thought to myself, 'Jesus this better be good after, as we Jews say, all this mishegoss trying to find this party," Berns says.
"I walked into this party and it was like so many other people who went to raves back then, it changed my life. Immediately I was hit with smiling people ... the whole atmosphere was just so up and positive and happy. Nobody looked twice at me because I was twice as old as anybody else in the room. I walk in and there's this room with just everybody just got off at once on the dance floor. The lighting was primarily lasers. On the first floor, you could get water, or information from ACT UP. On the second floor you could get water and nitrous oxide in balloons and you could go sit in these mind-machine chairs. They put these glasses on your face that strobed lights in your eyes with your eyes closed and it created all kinds of great images."
After returning from L.A., Berns was asked to DJ his first rave by a company called Nitrous, who wanted to get Toronto-area radio DJs — including Berns, Chris Sheppard and Denise Benson — to play raves. Berns's first event with Nitrous would be his debut as both a rave DJ — working under the name Dr. Trance — and a promoter: Nitrous's parties would incorporate all the lights and sound and chairs Berns had experienced in L.A. Later, he would help found two more promotions, Atlantis and Effective.
For Jason Bunsie, who would later become a drum and bass DJ under the name Capital J, the rave scene wasn't just a place to party when he was a teenager; it gave him a sense of community.
"I was orphaned at a very young age, and I was diagnosed with ADHD and other learning disabilities," Bunsie says. "I was considered a write-off, and when I went into this underground scene, it was like an underground society in the '90s. You just had that link with them, you had that bond with other people and when you got into knowing these people you find that they're going through the same struggles that you're going through, too. This music was to help you get through the days."
Raving goes mainstream (1995-98)
By the midpoint of the decade, raving was starting to cross over into the mainstream. Where once out-of-town acts wouldn't bother coming to town, playing shows in Toronto became a major springboard for DJs from overseas.
"You had [Destiny promoter] Ryan Kruger going over to England and finding DJs that nobody ever heard of over here and making them stars, like John the Dentist and John '00' Fleming," says Berns. "Then they would go back to their homes and say wow, there's a really cool scene happening in Toronto. So it was a springboard effect … [promoters and DJs] Sniper and Mystical Influence spent a lot of time working with jungle DJs from the U.K. ... the guys from Dose were cultivating DJs from all over, especially from the western U.S., people like Hipp-E and DJ Dan… We brought in Bad Boy Bill for the first time and he became a huge star here … so all of a sudden, Toronto became a haven for a lot of these DJs, who weren't known before, and made stars here by the fact that they would come in and they would headline these shows and people would love them."
For certain genres, like jungle and its sleeker cousin drum and bass, Toronto was one of the biggest destinations in the world. The city was referred to as both genres' "second home" — after London, England, the city where it was invented — and "the largest jungle scene in North America." Stephen Aaron Grey, who spent the '90s DJing under the name Freaky Flow, says that DJs would often play to stadium rock-sized crowds.
"Of all the countries and cities I was playing in back then, Toronto consistently had the largest [drum and bass] following, for sure," he says. "It wasn't uncommon to see several shows a year drawing 10,000 or more, with maybe 3,000 or 4,000 people strictly hanging out in the drum and bass area."
The venues were also changing. While Berns's Atlantis and Nitrous promotions were among the first to take raves out of disused warehouses, by 1997 parties were frequently taking place at venues like the Opera House and the Masonic Temple. The idea of venues that previously wouldn't have considered hosting a rave, now welcoming the parties, intrigued Dean Perrin.
A British expat, Perrin started raving in his mid-teens during the Second Summer of Love. At 18, he immigrated to Canada, moving in with an aunt. Seeing that the rave scene was still in its infancy in the country, he used his student loan money to buy a set of turntables and taught himself how to mix, using the name DJ Citrus. He started out playing Exodus parties before starting his own promotion company, also called Citrus.
Perrin wanted to bring raving back to the Ontario Science Centre. Berns's Atlantis party had thrown one at the centre four years earlier — they also threw a party at the CN Tower — but that was a virtual lifetime in a scene where new partygoers came in every week.
While Berns's 1993 event had been a hit with partygoers, it wasn't so great for the promoters themselves after Science Centre management put additional security demands on the promoters at the last minute.
"It ended up costing us money," says Berns. "The security director at Science Centre got paranoid and thought all these stoned kids were going to come in and ruin her building … of course she was entirely wrong. The only thing that was broken during the entire night was the glass on a billboard sign in the hallway leading in ... I think somebody fell against that or something."
For the 1997 party, Perrin was hoping officials at the Science Centre wouldn't be quite so apprehensive.
"The Science Centre was looking for a new revenue stream," says Perrin. "A lot of people had lost interest in the Science Centre ... it's regained a lot of popularity over the last decade, but at that point in time, I don't think it was really on the radar of a lot of people."
Raving may have been popular, but it still wasn't big enough that banks were going to support it, so Perrin had to find his financing elsewhere.
"I ended up getting approached by a bunch of gentlemen that owned a sound company out in Pickering," he says. "They'd provided PA systems and such for me … so I turned to these guys for investors, and they were certainly the type of people that if you didn't pay them back, you're going to be limping a bit. I joke around like I borrowed money from the mafia, but it wasn't too far off. These were people that didn't mess around, especially when they're investing hundreds of thousands of dollars with some kid with bright orange hair ... I was out of my league for sure."
Luckily, Perrin avoided being kneecapped. The event was so successful, he did two more Science Centre raves in 1998 and '99. The success of the parties ended up getting him interviewed on Entertainment Tonight.
"The first part of that show was about the movie Titanic," says Perrin. "Then the next thing was a whole expo on the Toronto rave scene, followed by a Tom Cruise movie. I was in the middle of that, which was incredible."
The decline (1999-2000)
As the '90s drew to a close, the rave scene was at its commercial apex, but it was also starting to fall victim to its own success. While the death of Ryerson student Allen Ho — which took place at a party held in an underground parking garage — is sometimes cited as the thing that ended the party, the people involved say it was actually a much more complex series of problems. Those problems included not only increased attention from law enforcement but also an escalating cost of doing business, an increasingly fractured scene and clientele that was getting both younger and higher.
According to Perrin, he could see the scene starting to lose its magic when Toronto partiers stopped being as concerned with local talent.
"I think the turning point for me, where the scene had become too big, was that people were coming out to see all these big-name DJs but not really appreciating all the local DJs, who were just as talented, if not more talented," he says. "I think there was a lot of hype associated with it. I started losing my love of the rave scene, when the local guys were sort of put on the back burner. It was sort of the precursor to EDM music coming out."
For Bunsie, he says that, as more and more promotions sprung up, the scene became more and more fractured, which made it feel less like a big love-in and more like a series of insular cliques.
"I mean it was great to have all the hardcore heads there, but you were missing the new kid factor," he says. "People that are [raving] for their first time, or people that don't go to drum and bass parties, but wandered over from the other room while you were playing and were just completely blown away … you kind of lost that vibe for a while, because all you had was all these other people that just hovered over you and tried to look at all the records you were playing … it was a lot of arms folded and things like that. It just felt kind of intimidating playing for these guys. Everybody considered themselves an expert."
Oliver says that unsafe venues and an ever-younger crowd started to drive away many of the scene's original partiers into more traditional clubs.
"It was disturbing seeing a 12- or a 13-year-old out, whether they were doing drugs or not, after midnight on a Saturday. It was like, 'Whoa, what's this kid doing without a chaperone?' You know? … And some of the spaces were not safe. [I] remember being at one in Liberty Village. There were two rooms ... but there was only a small doorway so they started kicking the wall in just to get into the next room."
For Berns, it was a mixture of all of the above factors, as well as an acknowledgement that, as the scene got more commercial, some people used the parties as an "an excuse to do drugs." He also adds one more threat: grandstanding public officials, who would often talk about clubs and illegal booze cans as "raves," tarring them all with the same brush.
"Right after he was named police chief in Toronto, Julian Fantino went on TV with this huge array of guns and knives and what have you that he said were found at raves and club," he says. "And not a single one of those weapons was found or confiscated at a rave … except for the drug angle, there were never any problems at raves. No fights, no knives, no violence. That was just completely antithetical to the rave scene."
Still, with the scene firmly in the sights of the police chief, as well as city councillors, the end was near. While an outright ban on raves was ultimately unsuccessful, new and stricter regulations made the parties even more expensive to throw, and venue owners could be held responsible for any drug use on their property — a risk few wanted to take. Eventually, parties were pushed into traditional 19-plus nightclubs, changing the face of the scene.
"The whole idea behind raves is to get out of clubs, get into other spaces that could be used," says Berns.
Still, as much as the scene's decline may have been harsh and swift, for the people involved, they still look back on it as a magical time.
"At these parties and even if you came alone you left with like 200 or 300 friends," says Bunsie. "You didn't know whether you were gonna see these people again. You'd exchange phone numbers, but there wasn't, Facebook and Twitter and all this stuff back then. Then when you went to the next party you met a whole another group of people and had the time of your lives again."
Regular ravers speak
We spoke to the movers and shakers of Toronto's rave scene for this story, but what do the regular partygoers remember? How did raving shape who they are today? We asked a few — all of whom are now totally respectable adults in their 30s — how their dayglo youth made them the people they are today.
Tobias Wang, photographer
"At my first rave, I brought my uncle's film SLR with a couple of lenses, which sat in the pockets of my baggy jeans, and a couple rolls of film so I could take some photos…. If it wasn't for raving, my life would be entirely different from the one I live today. Raving directly began my passion and career in photography. Because of it I travelled the world, collaborated with some of the world's biggest musical acts. It has influenced almost every aspect of my adult life. Most importantly, the music allowed me to keep an open mind to all walks to life."
Lyndsay Kirkham, professor of English, Humber College
"Raving as a teenager gave me a golden ticket into an awareness that suburban life hadn't afforded me. I suddenly knew that the parts of me dubbed 'weird' and 'odd' in mainstream interactions were actually a part of a magical spectrum. Through raving, I was able to embrace my personality in ways that even my parents weren't able to show me. As an adult, it's been in owning my 'weirdness' and 'off-beat' nature that has given me the confidence to tackle projects and relationships I would have otherwise eschewed."
Sunny Fong, furniture designer
"Without raving, I would not have been so internet-savvy and connected through Tribe, Toronto Jungle and some of the other rave boards. I would not have met some of my best friends and realized that I — as a gay, Asian, short, artsy, foul-mouthed little shit disturber — could belong to something in Toronto. It made me truly realize what inclusiveness meant. The rave scene honestly taught me how to hug. I was not into physical affection because I always found it awkward and insincere. Well, as a raver, you better learn to hug because you have no choice. I hug people hello and goodbye even today. Totally because of the rave scene."
Nicolle Weeks, producer, CBC Music
"I didn't fit in when I was in high school. I hung out with the kids with the green hair and listened to different music than everyone else. I went to a rave as an experiment. It was the most inclusive place I'd ever been. People walked up to me and talked to me and we had long, involved conversations. Everyone was nice. Kids I didn't know gave me hugs and bracelets. A rave was the first place I ever saw two gay people kiss where it wasn't a spectacle or a big deal, it was just a normal thing like two straight people kissing. Everyone was welcome ... the biggest phrase I can remember about that subculture was PLUR, which stands for peace, love, unity, respect. Sure, it might sound trite or idealistic, but I remember really needing something that wasn't cynical to believe in back then. Adults thought raving was about drugs and sex, but for us, it was our Woodstock, and it was about inclusiveness and positivity."
(A special thanks to The Communic8r for all the images.)


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Bridging the Gap Between New York City and Albany
The School of Business works closely with alumni in New York City. Many of the school's advisory boards meet in the city. Staff meet likely candidates for the Direct Admit program, departments hold conferences, current students visit our alumni on Wall Street, at the Big Four accounting firms and other influential organizations. And of course, the School of Business hosts annual networking events.
School of Business Dean Don Siegel said, "We hold the events in New York City because that's where our alumni are." He continued, "We do events in Albany, buts it's easier for our downstate alumni, including those who work on Wall Street and for the Big Four accounting firms to attend if the event is held in New York."
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Many of the alumni who guide the school work in New York City. The Dean's Advisory Board meets there twice a year. The advisory board of the Department of Accounting and Law meets in NYC annually, hosting duties rotating among members, as does the board of the Center of Institutional Investment Management who have met at Goldman, JP Morgan, Goldentree Asset Management, Dalton Greiner Hartman and Maher, and most recently at CIFG.
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The university and the school offer many chances for alumni to connect with their school and each other. The annual fall alumni networking reception goes off without a hitch. Usually. Scheduled to be held at a new location this fall, Stout, the event was cancelled due to Hurricane Sandy. We will be back next year.
The Women's Networking Reception, established six years ago, is held annually at Skadden Arps. The event brings together alumnae and students.
Network NYC brings alumni and students together each January at the Fashion Institute of Technology. Would you like to attend? Details are available at the end of this story.
The second annual Financial Analyst alumni event was held at Rockefeller Center this year, attended by 40 program graduates, ten students, and ten faculty and staff.
The university offers the 1844 Society reception for donors who contribute at least $1,000.
Jeff Black, Vice Chairman, Deloitte and Touche hosts an annual event for key stakeholders of the School of Business. This fall, the group met incoming University at Albany President Robert Jones and learned of the latest accomplishments of the School of Business from Dean Don Siegel. See photos of event.
The School of Business dean and university president also attend corporate alumni events at New York City firms, including Goldman Sachs, Ernst & Young and Morgan Stanley.
Hurricane Sandy not only forced cancellation of the annual fall alumni event, but also two New York City hosted conferences, one on alternative investments that was scheduled for the SUNY Global Center and a technology transfer conference scheduled for the New York Academy of Sciences located low on the isle of Manhattan at the World Trade Center.
The Technology Transfer Society Annual Conference has been rescheduled for April. The new date for "The Effects of Alternative Investments on Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Growth" will be selected shortly.
The Department of Accounting and Law will sponsor the "First Annual Special Topics in Strategic and Emerging Technologies Conference" on March 1, 2013. See details on all of these conferences below.
Business Plan Competition Extends to NYC this Year
The School of Business sponsored New York State Business Plan Competition has been expanded in 2013 to include ten regional events in advance of the final, including one in New York City. The competition offers over $500,000 in prize money, making it the fifth largest in the country.
Students Visit and Learn from the Best
Students enrolled in the Financial Analysis Honors program have an opportunity to tour the trading floors at Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan. A recent visit to Morgan Stanley featured a panel of professionals including many School of Business alumni discussing their career paths and their professional focus. These visits provide an opportunity for networking.
Business students have had the opportunity to visit Oppenheimer headquarters, the Federal Reserve Bank and the Stock Exchange.
Recruiting Business Majors
New York City firms have allowed the School of Business to further extend its reach. Deloitte and Ernst & Young have stepped up to host Direct Admit receptions providing promising high school seniors the opportunity to meet faculty, staff, alumni and current students.
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Network New York City '13
The First Annual Special Topics in Strategic and Emerging Technologies Conference
Technology Transfer Society Annual Conference
Effects of Alternative Investments on Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Growth
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This blog will do 2 things: mostly it'll be a 'test drive' of the latest and greatest that b2evolution doesn't offer yet: version 2.0. To do that I'll be live-blogging a road trip I'm about 2 weeks away from beginning. ~5600 miles in 9 days. Phoenix to New York to New Orleans to Phoenix. In my truck, with my dog.
But hey this post is going in the "blog stuff" category, so let's talk about blog stuff. I do not play with CVS. After getting burned by touching 1.7 from CVS I decided to never ever play with an un-released version again. Now I am, but it's up to Francois to keep it valid. So that's cool. Anyway Francois invited people he considers 'advanced' users to have a blog. We get to test drive the next generation, and he gets feedback about the version appropriate to his level of play in the development of the app. For those not hip to reality: Francois is The Main Developer of the app. Once upon a time he was the only developer, but I digress.
So far so good, but I just learned by previewing that the (never before seen) Excerpt field is not like a "read more" link. I'll venture a guess that it serves in feeds in some way, but I won't know until I post this. I have text in that field that is not duplicated in the post body and did not show up in the preview.
What else? The back office is different. Better is a matter of taste I guess, but less cluttered and, well, different. There is no "write" tab. That freaked me out a bit, but such is life. The Dashboard tab has a link to create a new post, and it doesn't seem to take too long to figure out what is where. I'm an existing user though so maybe I have a head start in making the right guesses?
I have my own antispam tab! I don't think I have like major powers and abilities here, so I'm guessing 2.0 allows me to decide which keywords work to protect my blog without interfering with someone else's blog.
Categories have a new field for each category: the category URL name, which must be unique. I think I can guess how that works, and time will tell.
I have a new "Visibility" option: redirect. I have no idea how I would take advantage of that, but I see it's there. Heck I don't even know what to do with the "Type" field that's been around for many versions now. It's a box I don't click on is all I know.
I am leaving comments open with no intention of moderating, so we'll see how well antispam keeps my blog free of junk.
I think I just figured out excerpts: there is an option on the Blog settings->Features tab that'll let me use that field as the RSS feed. Cool, and now I know that no one will ever see what I wrote in this post's excerpt field.
Okay there's a lot of stuff going on back here. In many cases the layout has changed, but mostly it's a lot of new stuff tucked into a new layout. More as time goes on okay? Before the road trip I'll be mostly posting in this category. When on the road posts in this cat will be more in rant mode because I'll want to do something and won't be able to figure out how. For now I just want to make ¥åßßå happy.
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Once Upon a Time....there was a little girl who loved to marvel at the colors of the sky, the loftiness of dandelions seeds swaying in the wind, the soft, powdery texture of marshmallows that melted effortlessly in her mouth. The little girl grew up, and now has children of her own. Her appreciation of all things color, texture and taste has only grown over the years....and she is me!
My world of lupine bleu began when I was only a child, but it didn't have a name until a few years ago. On a long awaited trip to the Green Mountains of Vermont, while hiking with my husband on a rural road just outside of Stowe, we came upon a field of lupines lit subtly & beautifully by the evening sun. The streaks of light transformed the blue, purple and pink flowers into ethereal, magical beings. It was as if we had stepped into another time, surrounded by the damp smell of the majestic pines, in this tiny, solemn little valley, surrounded by mountains. It was then that my love of the world around me took it's name, lupine bleu. I just didn't know it yet!
A few years later, while traveling on the North Shore of Lake Superior, in Minnesota, nearer to my home, my entire family had a remarkably similar experience. As the sun set, we drove down scenic highway 61.We noticed cars stopping at the side of the road, about every half mile. We realized that people were stopping with their cameras to capture the fields of fleeting lupine flowers in the fading evening sunlight. It was as if we all knew the same secret! I hadn't realized that years before, in Vermont, I had joined a club of Lupine Lookers. You know who you are if you are a Lupine Looker. Maybe, like me, you have trouble driving down country roads when the clouds in the summer sky are so beautiful. Or perhaps you notice the texture on someone's knitted sweater so much (from afar) that you find yourself crossing a room to meet a stranger to ask about the sweater --and see if you can touch it! I am often influenced in my creative work by the things I experience around me. I am glad to finally name my creative world in honor of the fleeting, magical blue lupine flower. It gives me hope that I will forever be a person who finds beauty in the world around me, takes it and transforms it into something beautiful for others to enjoy.
Stop back and check on what creative items I am working on in the future. You are likely to find handwoven blankets, knitted items, hand-carved stamped images on cards and jewelry. Don't be surprised if I make you hungry on occasion with a post about some lovely baked item I made for afternoon tea either! At some point I will be making items available for sale on etsy.com. I will let you know when that happens!
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Oh yes holiday time has finished, or shall I say mini holiday?
It was just great, and it just went soooo fast!!
Lisbon is a gorgeous city, just fall in love, even more, every time I go there
It is just beautiful!!
And to help, the weather was just gorgeous…
Well worth a visit if you have never been there
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They are photosynthesizing. While other grassland plants have shut down for the winter, Yucca glauca continues to crank out sugars when the sun is shining and temperatures are not too low. The tough fibrous leaves are resistant to freezing and desiccation, and their steep angles are conducive to catching rays when the sun is low in the sky.
Yucca glauca does especially well in sandy soils, probably due to less competition from other plants. It is scarce to absent in areas covered in grass. The plants are deep-rooted and rhizomatous, often forming colonies of rosettes that are connected underground.
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In Wyoming, yuccas bloom in June and July, producing large cream-to-greenish flowers that are tasty to people as well as to deer and other wildlife. But on this winter day, yucca flowers are only a dream.
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All The Pretty Ponies Model Horse Show
February 2, 2019
American Legion, Newberry, Florida
All the Pretty Ponies is officially a part of the Breyer Benefit Model program. One lucky shower will go home with Weston, a black Appaloosa in the Adios mold.
All The Pretty Ponies Model Horse Show
February 2, 2019
American Legion, 26821 W Newberry Road, Newberry, FL 32669
Contact information: Donna Arteaga (oldoakfarm[email protected])
(352) 472-2672 Home
Doors will open at 7:00 AM, judging will begin at 8:30
NAMHSA Approved
Congratulations! Your show, All The Pretty Ponies Model Horse Show, is now NAMHSA approved. You may now publicly advertise your show as being a NAN qualifier. NAMHSA approved, any equid or
eligible Fantasy equid (unicorns and pegasi, or a combination of the two, only)
that wins a first or second place in any open class will receive a NAN card
which will qualify that model for NAN 2019-2022.
** Please do not touch a model without the owner's specific permission. If you break it, you will be responsible for reimbursing the model's owner for its full value. There will be no loud music, smoking, alcoholic beverages, uncontrolled pets, uncontrolled children, bad sportsmanship, or unruly behavior allowed in the show hall during the show. Do not disturb the judges while they are judging (but you can feel free to ask questions after the class is judged or before judging begins). Children must be accompanied by a parent or responsible adult at all times. No running in the show hall. Any violations of these rules are grounds to ask an entrant to leave. BY SENDING IN AN ENTRY FEE, YOU AGREE THAT YOU AND ALL OF YOUR GUESTS WILL HOLD ALL SHOW HOLDERS AS WELL AS THE AMERICAN LEGION HARMLESS FOR ANY INJURY TO YOU, YOUR GUESTS, YOUR PROPERTY, AND YOUR GUEST'S PROPERTY, WHETHER REAL OR IMAGINED**
OF Breyer -
OF Stone - Marcy Myers
OF Stone/Breyer Mini - Taylor Joplin
Custom - Julie Harris
Artist Resin – Jill Aman
China - Jill Wright
– Sarah Hampson
Kids/Novice – Donna Arteaga
The show holder reserve the right to replace a judge in the event the judge cannot attend, as well as add a judge, if necessary to finish the show. Attendees will be notified if time allows. If a judge has a horse customized by them in a division they are judging, another judge will step in and judge that particular class.
JUDGES DECISIONS ARE FINAL! Arguing with a judge will not be tolerated
All Halter and Performance classes – (3) three models per shower per class
China – no limit
If you wish to enter more than the limit in any class, we will allow you to do for and extra fee of $1 per model. Just place $1 cash (bills or change) next to your models which are over the limit.
There will be three minutes allowed between halter classes, and seven minutes between performance classes. Classes may be split or combined at the judge's discretion. Models that are unstable may be laid flat with the understanding that the judge is allowed to pick up the model to inspect the other side.
Flats 1-6th place
Flats to each Division Champion and Reserve
Medals to Overall Champion and Reserve Champion
We will be using 3 x 5 cards instead of tags. Please see the "All About ID Cards" paragraph below for full information.
All About ID Cards
At this show, we will be using 3 x 5 cards instead of leg tags for your models. You are welcome to still tag your models for identification purposes, if desired. It is strongly recommended that you tag your OF Plastic models, as there may be several of the same model on the judging table at the same time!
The ID card system is the easiest for the judges and show holder and still be able to provide full results to the entrants.
Here are some tips for the card system.
For each model, the entrant will provide an index card with the class number and name, model's name, model's breed, and model's gender on the front, and the entrant's name on the back; this is so the judge doesn't have to write anything down - they just write the placing on the card, and collect the cards of the models that placed in the class. The show holders will then type the results from these cards.
A card is needed every time there is a potential for the model to get a placing. When each breed section has been judged in each division, the first and second place horses will be called back for Champion and Reserve Champion judge-off. At this time, your model will need another card with the model's name on the front and your name on the back.
You can hand write your cards (legibly please), but it is preferred you print your labels using a computer or typewriter (if they still exist). When doing results it is often very difficult to decipher hand writing, which could result in incorrect results. Print out labels using a computer with all of the information on the label. Then, you just need to put the label on a card, put your name on the back of the card, and you're done! Some people will also print smaller labels with their name on them for the back of the card or use an address labels. Another option is to buy a stamper (with the automatic ink pad) with just your name on the stamp, and then stamp your name on the backs of your cards.
It is not necessary that the ID cards be 3x5! You can use the a Avery label template, print the page out on regular paper, and then cut the page into 3" x 5" rectangles, no labels or cards involved. You can even have one of the above templates with just your name in each rectangle.
Print the page with the model's ID card information on one side, turn the page over, and then print the page with just your name in all of the rectangles on the other side of the page. Then, cut the page into "cards" - the model information will be on the front and your name on the back.
Or, you can also buy those perforated business card sheets and print your ID cards using those. Just so long as the ID card is big enough to be legible and not get lost, it's fine!
PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE double and triple check your cards to make sure your name is on the back! If your horse wins a first or second and I don't have an owner's name for the results, your NAN cards will be INVALID! You will be unable to use the cards for NAN entry and Merit Awards! **
The American Legion allows folks to bring in food and drinks. We will also have the use of the kitchen area, including a refrigerator (but NOT the stove). You are welcome to put food and drinks in the refrigerator, but, please be mindful of the space constraints, please label what is yours, and please do not take anything that is not yours!
**There is NO SMOKING allowed anywhere in the building. Anyone caught smoking could cause us to be asked to leave the building. **
We do have to clean the hall up once the show is over, so, please, try to be neat, put your garbage in the garbage cans, and clean up any messes you make.
We will have snacks available throughout the day. You will be responsible for your own drinks and lunch There is tap water in the kitchen. There are several restaurants near the show hall including Mexican, Chinese, pizza, and BBQ.
The American Legion has folding metal chairs for seating. Feel free to bring your own chair if you have one that is more comfortable.
NO dogs allowed in the show hall.
We will break for lunch for approximately one hour as close to noon as possible. You will be responsible for you own lunch. We will also be having an ice cream cake that is included in your entry. You are welcome to bring your own lunch, and there are numerous restaurants near the show hall.
****Important – we will not be providing coffee!
There is a Kangaroo approximately one mile from the show hall as well as
FRIDAY, February 1, 2019
We have to do our own setup and tear down at this location. I will be in the show hall on Friday, March 23, starting at approximately 1 PM for set up. Anyone who would like to come and help set up, we would greatly appreciate it!
You can also come and set up your table stands, if you like. The building will be locked overnight, but the show holders and American Legion will not be liable for any losses.
Full Table $50
Proxy Fee $25 unlimited or $3 per horse
Extra Table Fee $25
Kids Division $30
Each entrant will have an 8' x 2 ½' table. Kids Division will have a 6' x 2 1/2" table.
*If 2 people want to share a table, your combined entry fee will be the same as the full table rate.
Payment can be made by check or money order, made out to Donna Arteaga. There is a $50 fee for any check returned for insufficient funds.
Send payment to and entry to:
Donna Arteaga
5704 NW 204th Street
Alachua, FL 33615
Paypal: Please contact me first.
Choose your table ahead of time by checking the floor plans and available tables here: Floor Plan
Due to the size of the show hall, entries will be capped at 23. If there is space, entries will be accepted. We sold out last year, so please get your entries in early.
Open Division: You will receive a 100% refund if your slot can be filled.
There will be no refunds if you are asked to leave due to violation of any rules or if you are a no show. All other refunds will be at the discretion of the show holder.
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Here is a look at the new BMW 740e iPerformance – the fifth, and latest plug-in hybrid model from the German car maker. Three versions of the 7 Series plug-in hybrid vehicle (PHEV) are available, being the standard 740e, long wheelbase 740Le, and the all-wheel drive LWB 740Le xDrive.
Notably, the variant also introduces a new model designation, known as "iPerformance." BMW says that the iPerformance badging is a "visible indicator of the transfer of technology from BMW i to the BMW core brand."
All BMW PHEVs will feature iPerformance badging from July 2016, beginning with this, the 740e iPerformance. The exterior of these cars will specifically feature blue BMW i-style elements on the kidney grille and wheel hubs, an "i" logo just above the air breather, and an eDrive logo on their C-pillars.
Power-wise, the BMW 740e iPerformance models get a 2.0 litre BMW TwinPower Turbo four-cylinder engine which produces 258 hp and 400 Nm of torque. A supplementary 113 hp/250 Nm electric motor is integrated into the ZF-sourced eight-speed torque converter automatic transmission.
The electric components are similar to the BMW X5 xDrive40e, but the 7er's petrol engine is instead taken from the base BMW 7 Series, the 730i. Total system output for the 740e is rated at 326 hp and 500 Nm.
Unsurprisingly, the 740Le xDrive variant is the quickest one off the line, capable of performing the century sprint in 5.5 seconds. The 740e completes the same feat in 5.6 seconds, while the 740Le gets from zero to 100 km/h it in 5.7 seconds.
Based on the NEDC test cycle for hybrids, BMW says that the BMW 740e will return a fuel consumption figure of 2.1 litres per 100 km, emitting just 49 grammes per km of CO2 in the process. The long wheelbase versions manage 2.3 litres per 100 km and emit 53 grammes per km of CO2.
The BMW 740e features a 9.2 kWh lithium-ion battery positioned under the rear seats. The boot floor area remains level, but has been reduced to 420 litres of space from the originally available 515 litres.
The energy flow between the high-voltage battery, electric motor and charger is controlled by power electronics that were developed specifically for the brand's PHEVs. The system also regulates the supply of energy from the high-voltage battery to the 12V onboard electrical system via a voltage transformer.
To make the most out of the hybrid system, the 740e features three special drive modes that are accessible via the eDrive button. As in the X5 PHEV, AUTO eDrive mode automatically manages energy and power distribution. The mode defaults drive to pure electric under speeds of 80 km/h, but will fire up the petrol engine under heavy throttle inputs.
In MAX eDrive mode, the 7er maintains pure electric driving, offering a top speed of 140 km/h. Exceeding this speed or fully depressing the throttle pedal sees the petrol engine fire up. Drivers may choose to reserve anything between 30 to 100% of electric power with the Battery Control feature – reserving energy for later.
The BMW 740e will feature LED headlights (BMW Laserlight is optional), the BMW Display Key, the ConnectedDrive navigation package, smartphone integration with inductive charging facility for the phone battery, and an iDrive operating system expanded to include a touchscreen function for the Control Display and the globally unique BMW gesture control feature. The availability of these items may vary according to individual markets.
Customers may also look forward to auxiliary heating and air conditioning, which allow you to prepare the car's cabin temperature prior to getting in the vehicle. The heating and air conditioning system of the plug-in hybrid models is supplied with energy from the 9.2 kWh lithium-ion battery.
GALLERY: BMW 740e iPerformance
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PART1 Preprocessor Directives
- Where listed (see page number) is reference to the Proton Manual
- This listing is in a note format just giving you some direction on converting C to Basic
- This note form is trying to give you a beginners crash course in C
- Do some Google for more explanation.
- I have tried to show the simplest from of C in some examples so not to confuse.
- The notes are to encourage users to convert some C routines into equivalent Basic
C Language has 2 basic types of files:
C source code files have .c extension this has the C source code.
Header code files have .h extension these are support files for the C source.
Preprocessor Directives in C are processes carried out before compiling takes place. For example #DEFINE works the same as SYMBOL in Proton. (See Page 56)
Here is an example:
In C: #define CLOCK_FREQ (20000000)
In Basic: SYMBOL CLOCK_FREQ = 20000000
It simply replaces any mention of CLOCK_FREQ with the value of 20000000
Here is another example:
Written in C:
#define PORTA_RA4 PORTAbits.RA4
#define PORTA_RA5 PORTAbits.RA5
#define TRISA_RA2 TRISAbits.TRISA2
#define TRISA_RA5 TRISAbits.TRISA5
Written is Basic:
SYMBOL PORTA_RA4 = PortA.4
SYMBOL PORTA_RA5 = PortA.5
If you go and download some C from www.microchip.com from one of the source files you will see plenty of mention of #DEFINE. As you can see its quite easy to convert much of Cs Header files(have a .h as the extension) to Basic.
#DEFINES are also commonly listed in the C source code files (have a .c extension)
You can open the C files using any Text Editor or even Proton IDE by selecting Any File from the Extension dropdown box.
The other common Preprocessor Directive used in C is the #Include(Filename) also written as #Include stating that the file can be found in the default directory.
The C #include works the same way as INCLUDE in Proton (See page 242)
It replaces the location of the Include call with the contents of the file being requested.
Be aware that header files (.h extension) using < and > like:
are typically not found in the source code folder these are supplied by the C compiler and contain information about dealing with C syntax. So has the subroutines for dealing with strings.We dont need to worry about these types of header files (,string.) because Proton deals with this for us
.see how lucky we are?
You would probably notice the # sign in front of both of these C calls. Actually this is how C knows to process them first before compiling the source code and not confuse them for another request. So any call or directive you see with the # as a prefix means process first before compile.
Have a look through some of the C source code and youll see syntax like:
#if defined(HI_TECH_C)
#if defined(_MPC_)
#define HITECH_C18
#error "Unknown part is selected."
We know that the # means process first before compile.
#if defined(HI_TECH_C) is saying IF using HI TECH C Compiler
#if definded(_MPC_) and using MPC
#define HITECH_C18 then use HITECH_C18 calls
#else else
#error Unknown part is selected. Print warning message Unknown part is selected.
#end if complete IF statement
Most of this doesnt apply to us we only use one complier (actually Basic isnt a compiler but an Interpreter). These statements are added to allow multiple C compilers to use the same source code files but just use syntax relevant.
You should be able to see through that most of the syntax can be read like in BASIC.
If TRUE and
If TRUE then
Do something
Do something
Here is another typical line:
#if !defined (_WIN32)
It is similar to above but uses !, this means NOT
So this line is saying If NOT using _WIN32 do next line else jump line
Other Operators (see page 79) are commonly found.
Also (see page 57) are common C formatters you should be aware of
When you see - - this means decrement (see DEC page 159)
When you see+ + this means increment (see INC page 244)
Arrays are written using the same type of format:
AppConfig.MyIPAddr.v[0] = MY_DEFAULT_IP_ADDR_BYTE1;
AppConfig.MyIPAddr.v[1] = MY_DEFAULT_IP_ADDR_BYTE2;
AppConfig.MyIPAddr.v[2] = MY_DEFAULT_IP_ADDR_BYTE3;
AppConfig.MyIPAddr.v[3] = MY_DEFAULT_IP_ADDR_BYTE4;
(Quick Primer on Functions To Be further explained in Part3)
C as a language is basically made up of things called Functions (Ill refer to them as subroutines from here on as this is what we use in Basic), some are inbuilt like:
PRINTF (information, [other comments]) Like PRINT in standard BASIC
and others are written by the programmer (to perform a set task) like:
All these subroutines get called as required to perform the required task. For example
InitAppConfig ();
Is calling the subroutine InitAppConfig but passing no values (nothing in the brackets)
InitAppConfig(variable ,variable);
Is calling the subroutine InitAppConfig and passing 2 variables to it
Value = InitAppConfig(variable ,variable);
Is calling the subroutine InitAppConfig and passing 2 variables to it and wanting a returned value( shown as Value)
The subroutine that is getting called has a format like:
(return type) InitAppConfig(variable1,variable2)
Return(return type)
(return type) states what format the returned variable has e.g BYTE WORD CHAR(means character)VOID(means no returned value)
(variable1,variable2) are the values being passed to the subroutine
InitAppConfig is the name of the subroutine
These subroutines can be converted to BASIC using the GOSUB (see page 203-204) call:
GOSUB Label [variable, variable, etc], Return Variable
So our above example
Value = InitAppConfig(variable ,variable);
Can be written as:
GOSUB InitAppConfig [variable,variable] Value
With the called routine written as:
Return Value
There is more involved with this type of call namely the Stack but the basics can been seen
You will see also WHILE and FOR type loops step through them one part at a time to convert into BASIC.
Here is a quick primer:
The C syntax:
BYTE c;
while ( !USARTIsGetReady() );
c = USARTGet();
First line: is first declaring a byte variable called c
Second Line: WHILE loop checking a value of the function USARTIsGetReady() but has the ! (NOT) value in front so WHILE function USARTIsGetReady() returns a NOT value goto next line else jump out of the loop
Third Line: Call function USARTGet() but send no values(nothing in brackets) but the return value is called c (the byte declared variable in line one
(More on these next note Part2)
IF THEN types are also are easy enough to convert providing you understand the BASIC equivalent.(Also to be covered in Part2)
I hope this helps some of the Proton Users who are not familiar with C see the similar approach used.
Little PIC


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Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Release Date: June 19, 2012
Genres: Paranormal, Post Apocalyptic, YA
Pages: 323
Source: Library
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It's the end of the world.
Six students have taken cover in Cortege High but shelter is little comfort when the dead outside won't stop pounding on the doors. One bite is all it takes to kill a person and bring them back as a monstrous version of their former self. To Sloane Price, that doesn't sound so bad. Six months ago, her world collapsed and since then, she's failed to find a reason to keep going. Now seems like the perfect time to give up. As Sloane eagerly waits for the barricades to fall, she's forced to witness the apocalypse through the eyes of five people who actually want to live. But as the days crawl by, the motivations for survival change in startling ways and soon the group's fate is determined less and less by what's happening outside and more and more by the unpredictable and violent bids for life—and death—inside. When everything is gone, what do you hold on to?
Zombies! Apocalypse! Fighting for survivial! Unexpectedly, This Is Not A Test wasn't really that. It was almost the opposite.
I was rather surprised to finish this book and realise how unzombielike this novel was. In some ways, Courtney Summers threw in her contemporary ninja elements into this seemingly gruesomely terrifying book. Not to say I was disappointed with the lack of zombie-ness. I was glad of it. I am not a fan of zombies; creepy, mechanical like creatures. *shudders* Yet I understand some will be disheartened so here's my warning now: this is not a zombie book; this is a book with zombies in it. This is not a test.
"Maybe the only way our story can end is varying degrees of sad."
Sloane had it all figured out. She had it all planned out. Then tomorrow happened and she was lost again. After her mother's death and sister's escape, Sloan has been living with her abusive father, and she is absolutely fed up of the banter. She wants it to end. And she almost did if it weren't for her ending up at her school with 5 other teens, fighting for survival. But Sloane isn't. Ironically, in the zombie apocalypse, she wants to die. It's all she's ever wanted. She's waiting for the zombies to come for them. Waiting for them to kill her. However during her time, stuck with 5 children battling to live, she begins to observe how much life means to others before her eyes. And maybe, they'll make her life worth living again.
This Is Not A Test is chiefly, a character driven novel. Each character holds a place that is so significant and substantial that I don't think Courtney could've chosen any others. They all were clearly distinguished and drawn, I must say, characters like Rhys were so full of hope and motives; I could hear him booming commands in my ear. These characters will never be forgotten, they may all share the same motive (excluding Sloane), but have unique personalities that readers will grow to love.
This Is Not A Test brings out attention to how worthy our lives are and how meaningful and consequential hope and will are. And how these elements can affect others around us, and how they can save lives. Even in the worst of situations. Such as, I dunno… a zombie apocalypse? I'd just like to point out why I deducted half a star: the feeling of falling and landing on your bum feels unsettling and just odd. The ending was too abrupt for my taste- and I still had a few probing questions about many issues. But of course, some will love the ending!
All in all, I was taken aback at Courtney's skills in This Is Not A Test, her writing is still flowing strong and I don't think there'll ever be a dull moment with her books. To be honest, I don't have many compliments left for Courtney, she seems to score high in every aspect, every genre.
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When all the risk analytic servers crashed at my old bank I sent the newbie analyst out on a quixotic errand to get wads of pencils and notepads so we could get back to work. Bringing back a grin.
Pencils used to be a more serious business however.
Pencils and Super Computers
Feynman's autobiography describes how the first atom bomb was built with not much more than a pencil and paper. He also explains some of the mental shortcuts he used to solve problems blazingly fast.
Feynman finished his career working on the Connection Machine. A massively parallel supercomputer. As one of his colleagues wrote,
He always started by asking very basic questions like, "What is the simplest example?" or "How can you tell if the answer is right?" He asked questions until he reduced the problem to some essential puzzle that he thought he would be able to solve. Then he would set to work, scribbling on a pad of paper and staring at the results.
In this way he worked on problems in database searches, geophysical modeling, protein folding, analyzing images, and reading insurance forms.
Script-Ammo-Sexual Finds Love
Too often I jump into a problem all guns blazing. Firing off lines of code too freely.
Until I met my girlfriend.
We started working on Project Euler. Mathematical problems for programmers.
Surprisingly she solved them with pencil and paper which would otherwise take computers days running a naive algorithm.
I got up to speed. We'd meet up a couple of times every week and compare our ideas on the next problem. Cooking up smart shortcuts together.
Pencil-and-paper-style calculations are almost always overlooked in finance.
It sounds quaint, but there are benefits.
Firstly they are readily verifiable and understandable. Super important.
Also, simpler calculations are efficient. Not just saving CPU time, but data.
Data Conservation
Small data, i.e. using this limited resource as efficiently as possible, is something everyone should be aware of.
For example, I am interested in the 'Value at Risk' (VaR) analytic, which describes the worst losses that my fund experiences every year.
Why VaR? Every time my fund has a bad loss an investor comes closer to firing me.
A typical way of measuring VaR is to break a year of daily returns into discrete pieces.
Order them.
Take the 99th percentile. A -1.9% loss in this case.
How can we show the VaR is correct (and useful)?
By repeated prediction and checking against reality.
If we see our VaR predictions breached about 2.5 times a year (1%) we're on the right track.
We need to repeat this experiment about 500 times (5/1%) before we can be sure of our forecasting. We don't have 500 hundred years of data though!
Normally people use three years of overlapping data to generate 500 results. Any statistical test on such data is seriously compromised.
Moreover, for example in 2008 we see 10 VaR breaches in one year!! Our red VaR is too slow to react to current events.
Mo' Data Mo' Problems
Most answer these problems with more complex models; parameter fine tuning; compromising assumptions and extra patchwork tests.
A far better way is to use our data more efficiently.
The orange line shows the VaR generated by a t-distribution with 3 degrees of freedom and a sample of 31 days (an eighth of the previous sample size).
The number of breaches has halved (not great, but 2008 was wild!).
You can see how nimble the orange 'T3' line is.
More importantly, we can properly test how robust the forecasts are - we now need just over 60 years of data (31 days * 5 / 1%) not 500!
[Explore more at Varify.org]
Cloudy Computing
Before firing off fancy (if assumption rich) statistical tests in long R scripts; give a thought to how Feynman used to scribble away.
You will almost certainly come up with a more elegant solution.


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My apologies! Following on from Alison's comment I thought I ought to write a post to let you know I'm alive and well just really busy although I have decided to try and tone down how much time I spend on the computer.
This year is flying by and we've limped through silage-making, completely missed hay-making and are struggling to reach second-cut silage due to practically every machine we need throwing a wobbly. The mower has now been replaced and the foragers (yes, both the really old one and the other less-really-old one) are in pieces waiting to be … what is is Gordon calls it? Refabricated? Does that sound right? In other words, they don't make the parts for them any more so he's having to remake things from scratch. Of course, the weather has also been pretty awful in the past few months so it hasn't been suitable for haymaking anyway. We've made a bit of haylage, but have fields of grass gone to seed whilst waiting to be attended to.
Calving has been manic – count the dates: nine months since the notorious Felix incident and in the past month we've had about fifty calves including some really beautiful red ones although sadly the majority of those are bull calves. Contrary to what the popular media would have you believe we do not shoot our bull calves – I don't know any farmer who does, but they do go off to market after spending the first three/four weeks of their lives with their mothers. We find after about three weeks the mothers have lost interest and kick the calves away when they go in for a feed, not to mention the fact that by then teats are sore from the constant feeding and when they come into the parlour we apply lots of udder grease which soothes them. If the mothers really don't want to know we've been picking the calves up and feeding them with teat buckets which has the added advantage that we know how much milk they're getting. At one stage we were feeding nine as eight of them were born during a stormy night and by the time we rounded them up in the morning, I think the cows had forgotten which were theirs. In week one of our major calving we had five sets of twins, four sets of which were male/female, so not much use to us at all. The remaining set were both male. We decided this year we would sell all our calves, not just the bull calves but the heifers too as we have enough animals in the herd currently.
Gordon and I have actually had holidays this year. Firstly we went to Paris for a few days which was fantastic. Gordon had wanted to go for a while and, as you know, I never say no to the chance of going anywhere. We had breakfast on the Eiffel Tower, climbed the Arc d'Triomphe, walked along the river to the Notre Dame, took a boat along the Seine, ate lovely food and generally enjoyed the sights and each other's company as we usually go as part of a group. We saw Tom Cruise filming Mission Impossible 6 alongside the Seine which was fun. We were on a boat at the time so I don't think he saw us although Gordon tells everyone he did!
I spent a few days in Poole with the same friends that I've been away with before. I hadn't stayed in Poole or even visited recently so couldn't remember what it was like, but enjoyed it even though it was a little commercial. The best part was visiting Brownsea Island where they still have red squirrels and a variety of other difficult-to-spot wildlife. I photographed terns, spoonbills, a whole selection of seabirds and of course, red squirrels.
We spent a few nights in a shepherd's hut in Cornwall in July courtesy of my friend and fellow blogger Val Grainger who made us feel very welcome, fed us ample amounts of good food and made sure we had a good time.
Next month we have a short break booked in Jersey, another place we've never been. Gordon's 60th birthday approaches but before that we will be celebrating our 30th wedding anniversary so have decided to go somewhere we wouldn't normally have the chance to visit.


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Fine Wine Reserve Taste & Buy
On Monday, November 19 at 5:00 pm and 7:30 pm, meet Southbrook Sommelier Andrew Redelmeier, and taste the history of Niagara wine. A strong line up of Poetica wines from the early 2000's vintage will demonstrate their potential for aging. In comparison, try Southbrook's latest Poetica Red for a chance to track the 2012 vintage for decades to come.
Additionally to the sit down , have exclusive access to new and pre releases. Purchase directly from the winery for home delivery, to enjoy and gift for the holiday season and for years to come.
Both tastings will be held at the Fine Wine Reserve at 439 King St W in Toronto. Limited Seating available, email info@southbrook after purchase to reserve timeslot.
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