text: Testimony of Theresa D. Becks On Behalf of the Managed Funds Association Before the General Farm Commodities and Risk Management Subcommittee of the House Committee on Agriculture United States House of Representatives September 26, 2007 Chairman Etheridge and Members of this Subcommittee, thank you for inviting me to testify today. My name is Terri Becks. I am appearing today in my capacity as a Member of the Managed Funds Association (the "MFA"), for which I recently served on the Board of Directors. I am involved in MFA through my role as President and CEO of Campbell & Company, Inc. -- one of the oldest and largest futures trading advisors in the world. About MFA MFA is the primary trade association representing professionals who specialize in the management of alternative investments, including hedge funds, funds of funds and managed futures funds. MFA has over 1,400 members, including the vast majority of the largest hedge fund groups in the world who manage a substantial portion of the over $1.67 trillion invested in absolute return strategies. Many MFA members are registered with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (the "CFTC") as commodity trading advisors ("CTAs") and commodity pool operators ("CPOs"). MFA has been a vocal advocate for sound and sensible public policy in this important sector of the financial world--a sector that provides many benefits to the global marketplace. Funds sponsored by MFA members offer investors the ability to diversify their portfolios in a meaningful way by providing investment products that perform in a manner that is not generally correlated to the performance of traditional stock and bond investments. Increased interest in and use of alternative investments is a direct result of the growing demand from institutional and other sophisticated investors for investment vehicles that deliver true diversification. These investments also help them meet their future funding obligations and other investment objectives. MFA members' funds perform a number of important roles in the global marketplace, including contributing to a decrease in overall market volatility, acting as "shock absorbers" and liquidity providers by standing ready to take positions in volatile markets when other investors remain on the sidelines. Fund trading activity also provides markets with price information, which translates into pricing efficiencies, and assists in identifying pricing inefficiencies or trouble spots in markets. Moreover, these funds utilize state-of-the-art trading and risk management techniques that foster financial innovation and risk sophistication among market participants. As major customers of futures exchanges and futures commission merchants ("FCMs") as well as purchasers of other futures industry services, many of MFA's members directly benefit from the provisions of the Commodity Exchange Act (the "CEA" or the "Act") and in particular, the reforms brought about by the Commodity Futures Modernization Act of 2000 (the "CFMA"). The CFTC's oversight of the U.S. futures markets has an important impact on CPOs, CTAs and their clients. Furthermore, many aspects of MFA members' business operations (such as sales, promotional, registration and operational activities) are also subject to regulation by the National Futures Association (the "NFA") -- the industry's self-regulatory organization. The CFTC and the NFA oversee the business activities of CPOs and CTAs through registration, disclosure, anti-fraud, recordkeeping and reporting requirements, and periodic audits. Each of the futures exchanges also monitors trading activities of MFA members in their respective markets. Many of MFA's members are subject to regulation under other federal statutes in addition to the CEA. The public offer and sale of interests in commodity funds are subject to the Securities Act of 1933 (the "1933 Act"), which requires registration of these interests and mandates certain disclosure obligations. Commodity funds are also subject to the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, which requires the filing of certain publicly-available reports as well as to the individual securities laws of each of the 50 states. Many of MFA's members are also subject to the anti-money laundering requirements of the USA PATRIOT Act of 2001. Unlike investment companies, many MFA members are also subject to all of the records maintenance requirements of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 ("SOX"). MFA has a strong interest in the issues you are discussing today. MFA members trade on exchange and off exchange. We are neutral in any competitive battles that pit traditional exchanges against new trading platforms, or multi-lateral systems against bi-lateral dealer operations. Our members simply want access to efficient, transparent, fair and financially secure markets. In that sense, the interests of MFA members have been well served by the excellent work the CFTC and its staff have performed for many years. MFA members' interests have also been well served by the CFMA, landmark legislation that was authored in this Subcommittee. In that statute, Congress adopted a cascading regulatory approach with different levels of oversight assigned to trading in different categories of commodities, market participants and order execution facilities. The CFTC has been masterful in applying these new statutory provisions to allow new market forces to compete with traditional exchanges in a host of areas, especially in energy. MFA members have benefited from these CFMA-inspired innovations. Since the CFMA was passed, MFA has worked together with the CFTC on a number of important rulemaking projects. We believe the CFTC's efforts at reducing unnecessarily burdensome regulations, also a direct result of the CFMA, will continue to encourage greater use of futures products in the financial marketplace. Accordingly, we are delighted to be here today to discuss the importance of the CFTC to our industry 2 and the statutory framework under which it operates. MFA strongly supports reauthorizing the CFTC. Importance of the CFTC and the CFMA In order to continue effectively fulfilling the CFTC's unique role and important responsibilities, the CFTC must have sufficient funding to support a full, competent staff. Accordingly, MFA supports the CFTC's requests for additional resources. MFA does not see a need for major changes to the CFMA. No case has been made to turn back the clock by re-regulating new trading platforms, known as Exempt Commercial Markets ("ECMs"), that have served an incubator function for derivatives trading innovation. MFA understands that the CFTC's web-site has listed 19 ECMs that have been created since the CFMA was passed. Those markets operate as principals only, electronic trading venues for sophisticated well-capitalized market participants. MFA believes it is both appropriate and important to cultivate those innovative enterprises. Exclusive Jurisdiction and the Avoidance of Duplicative Regulation When the CFTC was created in 1974, Congress entrusted it with exclusive jurisdiction over futures markets to ensure that no other agency -- whether it be the SEC, USDA or the Bureau of Mines -- would look over its shoulder and second-guess its regulatory judgments. Congress wanted an agency expert in futures markets to determine whether a threat of manipulation existed or some other major market disturbance caused futures market prices not to reflect accurately the forces of supply and demand. In short, Congress wanted the CFTC to be able to take appropriate action if it sniffed the possibility of manipulation in the air. Congress vested extraordinary emergency powers in the CFTC to address any such threat, powers the CFTC once called the linchpin of the Act. The CFTC has correctly used those powers very sparingly, but their existence serves a very important purpose. Exchanges and market participants alike know that the CFTC alone is ready to act when in its informed, expert judgment, action is warranted. That power can not work if it is shared with other regulatory bodies, either at the federal level or the state level; nor can more than one agency police price manipulation in futures markets themselves. Otherwise exchanges, intermediaries, advisors, funds and other market participants will find themselves facing at worst conflicting, and at best, duplicative, government regulation, the very ills Congress sought to cure with exclusive jurisdiction. Multiple regulators sharing concurrent jurisdiction will not strengthen regulation. They will just water down regulation at a considerable cost to market participants. 3 MFA encourages the CFTC to assert vigorously its exclusive jurisdiction as Congress intended and the courts have interpreted. Public Offerings of Commodity Pools One of the best examples of how multiple sources of regulation squelch innovation is the public commodity pool business. Public commodity pools are the best vehicle through which retail investors can access the futures markets because these funds are offered through a full risk disclosure regime and provide an affordable futures-based product with a limited liability structure. Public commodity funds are one of the only alternative investment products available to public investors to diversify a traditional stock and bond portfolio. Public commodity pools are managed professionally and typically offer liquidity monthly-- much more frequently than many other forms of alternative investments. The CFTC, of course, exercises regulatory jurisdiction over commodity pools. But its jurisdiction is far from exclusive. Commodity pools are also regulated by the SEC, NFA, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority1 (the "FINRA") as well as state blue sky regulators. MFA believes that multiple sources of regulation have contributed directly to severe contraction of the public commodity pool offering market. Why? Regulation and over-regulation bear at least some of the responsibility. For example, unlike investment companies, commodity pools are subject to the same records maintenance and SOX reporting requirements as Fortune 500 companies. It is worth noting that public commodity pools have been subject to substantively similar oaths, recordkeeping and reporting requirements for more than two decades prior to the enactment of SOX. Unlike these requirements which were tailored specifically for public commodity pools, SOX applies broadly to operating companies. The unnecessarily complicated and duplicative requirements of SOX impose real costs to those that may want to offer new public commodity pools as variations exist between the SOX requirements and those requirements tailored for public commodity pools. MFA supports and encourages the treatment of publicly offered commodity pools like investment companies for purposes of SOX, providing exemptive relief that would promote competition. Moreover, public commodity pools are subject to both registration with and regulation by each of the 50 states which are often referred to as Blue Sky laws. Blue Sky registration and regulation impose a great cost that is often not warranted by a cost- benefit analysis. Blue Sky laws from one state sometimes contradict those from 1 The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority is a self-regulatory organization created in July 2007 through the consolidation of the National Association of Securities Dealers and the member regulation, enforcement and arbitration functions of the New York Stock Exchange. 4 another state. Certain Blue Sky laws even conflict with federal regulation. Blue Sky compliance therefore is an extra cost imposed on commodity pool offerings. FINRA RULE 2810 (also commonly referred to as "Direct Participation Programs" or "DPP Rule") is another example. It requires that, prior to the public offering of commodity pool securities, information must be filed with FINRA's Corporate Financing Department, who must then provide a "no objections" opinion. Before issuing this opinion, FINRA takes into account the proposed terms and arrangements of the DPP offering, including the level of underwriting compensation which may not exceed 10 percent of the gross proceeds of the offering. Prior to October 12, 2004, FINRA staff excluded the payment of trail commissions for commodity pool direct participation programs from the underwriting compensation limits of the DPP Rule if: (a) the member was registered as a FCM with the CFTC; (b) the associated person receiving the trail commissions passed one of two exams (the National Commodity Futures Examination ("Series 3") or Futures Managed Funds Examination ("Series 31")); and (c) the associated person receiving the trail commissions provided ongoing investor relations services to its investors. Trail commissions for public commodity pools were not included within the underwriting compensation because this money was seen as a service fee the investor paid to a qualified associated person in exchange for ongoing advice. This policy of excluding public commodity pools from the DPP Rule was based on the continuing and regular service the associated person would provide to keep the investor informed about the status of the investment due to the esoteric and complex nature of commodity pools and markets. In addition to encouraging associated persons to obtain Series 3 or Series 31 certification, this treatment provided an incentive for associated persons to recommend public commodity pools to investors where appropriate as the trail commissions compensated him or her for the additional servicing required due in part to the nature of regular and frequent redemption opportunities. The trail commission is the portion of futures brokerage fee or commission charged by the FCM to the pool which is allocated to the associated person. FINRA lacks jurisdiction over the level of futures brokerage commissions and cannot regulate either the brokerage fee as a whole or its internal allocation within the brokerage firm. In any event, from the perspective of many public investors, trail commissions would not increase their cost. If trail commissions are unavailable, the FCM will simply charge the same brokerage commission to the pool, without allocating any portion of it to the associated person who sold the investment. In July 2004, FINRA acted on its belief that notwithstanding the limitation of including trail commissions as underwriting compensation, firms and registered representatives would continue to offer and recommend commodity pool DPPs. FINRA believed revocation of the trail commission exemption would benefit investors in commodity pool DPPs by limiting compensation to the same amounts that already applied to all other DPP investments. Thus, effective October 12, 2004, FINRA began 5 including trail commissions in calculating whether the level of underwriting compensation exceeds the 10% limitation in the DPP Rule. Since FINRA began including trail commissions for commodity pools as underwriting compensation, fewer new public commodity pools have been offered. It seems clear that--contrary to FINRA's belief-- firms and registered representatives have drastically reduced offering public commodity pools and have fewer public commodity pools to recommend where such products meet investors' financial status and investment objectives. As a practical matter, FINRA's actions have forced new commodity pools that would have been public offerings to become private offerings or not be offered at all. Because commodity pools are not available to many public investors when offered privately, many public investors are denied access to an attractive diversification investment alternative. In contrast to more sophisticated investors, the best diversification alternative available to these public investors is to invest directly in the futures market -- a far riskier undertaking than public commodity pools. Ironically, public customers also pay full brokerage commissions to FCMs for such direct participation in a futures trading account, not the lower rates often charged commodity funds. MFA makes these observations both as a reminder of the perils of over- regulation through multiple regulation and to request the Subcommittee's consideration of appropriate measures that could be taken to revive the public commodity pool business. Again, thank you for this opportunity to appear today. I would be happy to answer any questions you may have. 6


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They will not. They have to address this somehow. Remember when we all complained Taric wasn't getting any skin love? that one guy made a mega topic? and then all kinds of Taric skin threads popped up? That got us Bloodstone Taric, and I'm willing to bet it was earlier than they would have otherwise released it.
I'll do my duty too. *salute*
Doesn't even look like the poll is serious. I don't believe there's a 66/33 split in the community on this issue. Looks like people are making/using alt accounts to troll the poll.
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Its sad that a group of people might of essentially ruined the updating process and potential cool ideas that they would of done with updating Legacy / 'Limited' skins of older champions. I was fortunate to play with Goth Annie on the PBE and the work done on such a fraction community owned skin is amazing, I commend the hard work of the Relaunch team and I honestly believe that hard work should be enjoyed by the community. People whom owned a skin longer and might be upset others get to own it is just a bit silly. Those previous owners got to enjoy owning it as a premium for a time and that is rewarding in itself to know yourself that you were an original owner. To those who over payed, become a smarter consumer...buyers remorse is just a life lesson.
The true losers in all this is everyone if it means that they do the bare minimum or shelf ideas in future updates because others will feel negative in some form and it fracture the community. Keep up the good work RiotAmes and everyone else in the creative department and whom keeps the creative gears moving, sorry this week was a rainy / snowy one.
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Todays catch of the day includes the Clerc Hydroscaph GMT, a tastyReactor Poseidon 1000m Dive Watch, a little something from Jaeger-LeCoultre and all the banter you can eat.
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Todays catch of the day includes the Clerc Hydroscaph GMT, a tastyReactor Poseidon 1000m Dive Watch, a little something from Jaeger-LeCoultre and all the banter you can eat.
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Candence, watches made famous for their unique "4-bit" numerals, has just announced a chrono version of their well-known 4-bit watch. The 42mm watch has a Miyota quartz movement, UTC display (basically a second time-zone), and a chronograph movement.
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A lot of watchmaking is aspirational. Since the 1700s, watchmakers have wanted to create simulacrum of the items that explorers, engineers, and soldiers carried into their daily scrum for dandies on the boulevard who ascribed a sense of romance – correctly or not – to their professions. That's why watch collectors love war watches. They basically allow folks who may have never been to war to feel like they own something that could exist in the thick of things or, more valuable still, items that actually saw fighting.
So when Butch went back to get his father's war watch, it was because that cold hunk of metal meant something to him. It meant his father had fought for his freedom and then Christopher Walken did that thing that he did with the watch and then gave Butch his birthright, it was the passing of a physical object that signified something far more valuable than a case and some gears. It's the way things have been for centuries.
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Casio is perfectly content to rest on their laurels. Their G-Shock line is inexplicably popular, the ladies love them some Baby-G, and every year a new cohort of customers graduates into some of their nicer models. That's why I'm pleased to see this cleverly designed and relatively cheap Baby-G. It costs $160 and will be available this June in time for "water sports" season, according to Shigenori Itoh, CEO of Casio America.
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Amongst outdoorsmen, Tritium watches are fairly popular. Given the fact that you don't have to worry about charging the lume in the daylight, or how long that lume will last, a watch using Tritium is extremely convenient when you need something that will light up all the time. Add in a watch that's durable and keeps good time, and you've got a winning combination. Now admittedly, Smith & Wesson may not be a name you think of when you are talking about watches, but the Mumbai Lamplighter is a quality timepiece.
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On todays 'hot plate' we discuss Débaufré Swiss Watches, the Movado Bold and Azimuth watches.
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In honor of our fighting men and women watchmaker Blancier has created an affordable and fairly handsome quartz chrono called the Desert Wold. At $395 it's a rugged and well-priced piece and it features a matte steel body, double-sided anti-reflective crystal, and Super-LumiNova pips and hands.
I have one here in my hot little hands so I'll be reviewing it over the next few days but until then take a gander and see if it's right for the solider(s) in your life.


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Arizona came into Saturday night's tilt against California knowing they could very well lose for the first time all year. What they weren't prepared for was to lose sophomore forward Brandon Ashley to a broken foot.
Just a few minutes after tipoff, Ashley went for a rebound in the lane. He stepped on David Kravish's foot and immediately fell to the ground. He was unable to put any kind of weight on it and mouthed to the trainer, "I can't move it."
At first there was hope that it was just a sprained ankle, but he later returned with his foot wrapped in ice. He left the arena on crutches and a protective boot. Sean Miller said after the game that the foot was likely broken, though Ashley would undergo X-rays once the team returned to Tucson to determine the severity.
Ashley, a former five-star recruit, had really found his groove during his second season in Tucson. A 6'9 forward capable of stepping out and knocking down a jumper, he was averaging 11.5 points and 5.8 rebounds this year while logging about 28 minutes a night. He also helped form arguably the best frontcourt in college basketball alongside freshman phenom Aaron Gordon and seven-footer Kaleb Tarczewski.
So where does Arizona go from here?
Rondae Hollis-Jefferson will likely replace Ashley in the starting lineup. Miller could also elect to start sharpshooter Gabe York and keep Hollis-Jefferson coming off the bench, but that would force the Wildcats to play small. Their biggest advantage all year has been their size, and Miller is unlikely to just change everything overnight.
Hollis-Jefferson is more than capable of assuming a larger role. A McDonald's All-American just a year ago, RHJ oozes with potential. He has an NBA-ready body at 6'7 and 220 pounds, possessing long arms and terrific athleticism. He averages better than eight points and five rebounds a night, and he may be the best defender on a team that ranks as the best defensive team in the country.
Some have compared him to Andre Iguodala, who came up through the college ranks at Arizona a decade ago. Here was Hollis-Jefferson doing his best Iguodala impression against New Mexico State earlier this season.
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The difference between Ashley and Hollis-Jefferson in a vacuum is considerable, but not astounding. That's not to say the Wildcats won't really miss him, but it's not a situation similar to if Duke were to lose Jabari Parker or if Creighton lost Doug McDermott.
Where the injury really hurts Arizona is in the depth department. Ashley was part of a tight rotation with seven players averaging 18+ minutes a game. Other than reserve guards Elliott Pitts and Jordin Mayes, who have seldom played since Pac-12 play began a month ago, no one really sees the floor regularly outside of the seven-man rotation.
It would seem Pitts will likely garner a couple of minutes moving forward, as will junior forward Matt Korcheck given his size.
All of these alternatives pale in comparison to Ashley, though. His absence is the difference between Arizona heading into March as the favorites to cut down the nets, and Arizona heading into March with a goal of reaching the Elite 8. Anything can happen in the Big Dance, but the Wildcats just don't have the depth to win six in a row and cut down the nets in Dallas.
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Jubilee is the name used locally for a natural phenomenon that occurs sporadically on the shores of Mobile Bay, a large body of water on Alabama's Gulf Coast. During a jubilee many species of crab and shrimp, as well as flounder, eels, and other demersal fish will leave deeper waters and swarm—in large numbers and very high density—in a specific, shallower coastal area of the bay. A jubilee is a celebrated event in Mobile Bay, and it attracts large crowds, many drawn by the promise of abundant and easy-to-catch seafood.
Although similar events have been reported in other bodies of water, Mobile Bay is the only place where the regular appearance of this phenomenon has been documented.The Mobile Bay jubilee typically takes place at least annually, and sometimes several times per year; years without a jubilee have been recorded, but they are exceedingly rare. Many accounts of the jubilee exist, the oldest dating back to the 1860s.
The size, scope, and duration of the jubilee can vary greatly. Sometimes a 15-mile (24 km) stretch of coast representing most of the eastern shore can be affected, and at other times the extent can be limited to as little as 500 feet (150 m) of coastline.Most jubilees happen in the pre-dawn hours.
The large volume of crustacean and fish that a jubilee can produce is hard to overstate; author Archie Carr comments, "At a good jubilee you can quickly fill a washtub with shrimp. You can gig a hundred flounders and fill the back of your pickup truck a foot deep in crabs. In addition to the sheer mass of the animals present, harvesting them is made considerably easier by the effect that the oxygen deprivation has on the animals. Their behavior has been described as "depressed and moribund",or "unnatural";crabs are observed "climbing tree stumps to escape the water" and flounder "slither up the banks.
It was not until 1960 that the phenomenon was explored in-depth by marine biologist Harold Loesch for the journal Ecology. Locals and laymen had based some earlier attempts to explain the animals' strange behaviors on the interaction of sea- and fresh water during the incoming tide. After researching the oral histories and journalistic records of past jubilees, measuring physical and meteorologic conditions, and taking biological and chemical measurements, Loesch concluded that accumulated organic material on the bay floor could, under a certain set of conditions, result in a rapid depletion of oxygen (hypoxia) in parts of the bay, driving fish to the surface seeking oxygenated water.
Another, more comprehensive study by Edwin B. May in 1973, as well as smaller studies by the Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources and the NOAA confirmed many of Loesch's hypotheses. If wind direction, surface temperature, salinity, and tidal variation interact in ways that allow or promote a jubilee, the situation can develop rather quickly. May sums up the mechanism of action thus:
" Except during jubilees the water inside the 2 meter contour along the eastern shore is well oxygenated. This shallow water extends several hundred meters offshore. During jubilees fishes present there are trapped between the shore and an advancing water mass low in dissolved oxygen; the water at the surface and very close to shore usually has enough oxygen to support them for the short duration of most jubilees.


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Petition to have the University of Calgary Board of Governors Attend a Townhall Meeting Addressing the $8.1 million Executive Office Renovations
It has recently been revealed that the University of Calgary Board of Governors had approved an $8.1 million renovation of executive offices in the administration building on campus. Of the $8.1 million, $3.5 million was used to bring the building up to current standard codes, the other $4.6 million was to create new executive offices. The offices include a $150,000 staircase, a more than 400 sq/ft office space for Elizabeth Cannon and a 12.8-meter-long wood veneer table. The undersigned is a request that the Board of Governors attend an open town hall meeting after December 6 to explain to the University of Calgary student body why the aforementioned expenditures were necessary and answer all unexplained questions in an open and non-confrontational manner.
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I think it the money should be used towards studenst and loans.
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This is a waste of money. This should have been spent on renovating the near decrepit Science A labs. Bringing the building up to code is one thing, getting a steam shower is another. The University would like the students to keep our "Eyes high," more likely that would prefer if we had our "eyes closed"
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Good concert is more than music to your ears
What makes a concert special for you? Is it the choice of music -- perhaps a favourite piece or something you've never heard before and are thrilled to discover?
Some people select concerts based on the soloist. They want an opportunity to witness in person an artist they've heard in recordings or on the radio.
But once you take your seat at a concert venue, what is it about the performance that makes you really enjoy the experience?
As a concert reviewer, I have my own set of criteria -- and I'll admit to being pretty particular. It comes with the territory, but in this case, it's also a personality trait.
It begins with the concert itself starting on time. Notwithstanding unforeseen circumstances, if the ticket says the show starts at 8 p.m., it should start at 8 p.m. This takes into account that shows often begin with introductory remarks, pushing the actual start time later.
Speaking of opening remarks, everyone appreciates if these are kept brief. Some organizations have committed to acknowledging sponsors at the start of their concerts -- understandably necessary, but for subscribers or regular attendees, repeated messages about subscriptions, donations and details about upcoming performances, raffles and fundraisers can be tiresome.
Much preferred are interesting facts about the music about to be played. David Moroz of the Winnipeg Chamber Music Society is a master at delivering succinct and engaging commentary on the repertoire the ensemble is playing, providing a little history and some things for which to listen. It adds to the enjoyment of the concert without being overwhelming. His pleasant manner sets the mood and fills the audience with anticipation.
Once the concert begins, the demeanour of the musicians plays a part in our overall satisfaction. It's exciting to see an artist who is involved, showing total immersion in performing. There are some musicians who always look 100 per cent engrossed in the music, while others look bored -- not just by their facial expressions, but in their body language. Granted, it's a job. For all we know, they've had a bad day, are exhausted, have something on their minds -- any number of things that affect us all in our daily lives. But they are onstage, and their attitude communicates to the audience, influencing the concert experience.
It's a rare occasion when we see a soloist behave lackadaisically on stage. It's often the opposite, as many have mastered bravado that wows crowds. Exuding confidence and flair, these artists regularly garner standing ovations, great performance or not. They play the part and many people love it.
Winnipeggers are fortunate to have a range of quality soloists brought in by various groups. Topping them all has to be the Manitoba Chamber Orchestra, whose seasons are packed with top-notch guest artists. Following recent performances by Marc-André Hamelin, Janina Fialkowska and Isabel Bayrakdarian, the MCO still has countertenor Daniel Taylor and soprano Suzie Leblanc, cellist Colin Carr and Winnipeg soprano Tracy Dahl on the roster. Virtuosi Concerts finds artists we may not know so well, but who are often terrific up-and-comers we're glad to discover.
Then there are the conductors. It can be fascinating to watch different conductors -- the flow and clarity of their movements, their energy and their approach to the ensemble. Sometimes you can read how musicians feel about a visiting conductor by their expressions as the maestro first turns to face them. It is the conductor's interpretative vision that shapes the entire performance of a work, making all the difference in whether it touches you as a listener.
Of course, you have to like the actual pieces of music being played. Most musical organizations rely on programming committees to make the selections for the season; then it's up to us to choose what appeals most to our taste. It is essential, though, for all musical groups to select repertoire with their audiences in mind. While an ensemble may have always wanted to mount a production of Olivier Messiaen's Quartet for the End of Time, for example, it may be a bit heavy for an afternoon out.
The Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra offers traditional classics and a series of Pops concerts, many of which have a spectacle aspect to them, featuring dancers, acrobats, Broadway hits or rock tributes. Their annual week-long New Music Festival showcases the latest compositions from around the world. New music aficionados can also attend GroundSwell's annual series.
Manitoba boasts a rich vocal/choral tradition, with a number of excellent choirs, Manitoba Opera and the Gilbert and Sullivan Society, all providing attractive options for choral lovers.
But what makes a good concert experience for you? Do you prefer large-scale works in big venues or intimate concerts in smaller ones? Have you attended an unforgettable performance? What made it special? Let me know by emailing to the address below.
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Roy Fisher, 89 - August 21, 2013Roy Burton Fisher, 89, of Curtis died Wednesday, Aug. 21, 2013, at Cozad.
Services took place at the First United Methodist Church on Sunday, Aug. 25, with the Rev. Bonnie Forney officiating. Interment was at the Moorefield Cemetery.
Fisher was born Dec. 10, 1923, at Moorefield, the son of Burton and Leafy L.(Clark) Fisher. He grew up in the Moorefield area and graduated from Moorefield High School.
He served his country with the U.S. Navy as a Seabee from 1944 to 1946, stationed at Guam.
On June 8, 1947, he married Katherine L. Andersen at the Andersen homestead. To this union three children were born. The couple resided in the Moorefield area most of their marriage, until they retired and moved to Curtis.
Fisher was a life-long farmer and rancher, farming and ranching east and northeast of Moorefield.
He was a past member of the Nebraska Farm Bureau, the Moorefield Elevator Board and both Moorefield and Medicine Valley School Boards. He also served as chairman of the Moorefield Cemetery Board.
Fisher was preceded in death by: his wife, Katherine L. Fisher; father, Burton Fisher; mother, Leafy L. Fisher; a brother, Loren Fisher; sister, Arlene Yeutter; son-in-law, Ralph Shuler.
Survivors include: his daughter, Carol Jean McKennon of Curtis; two sons—Marvin R. Fisher and Darrell (Linda) Fisher, all of Moorefield; two grandsons—Steven Fisher and Kevin Fisher, both of Farnam; two granddaughters—Christine (Bryan) Eicher of Commerce City, CO, and Marie Fisher of Kearney; numerous extended family members.
Memorials are suggested to the Moorefield Cemetery and the Curtis Senior Center.
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The New York Times just ran a really bad article about Delta's move to a revenue-based frequent flyer program in 2015.
I'm going to delve into the Times article since many MileValue readers discovered the blog from a New York Times article ("How to Get a Seat Out of Your Award Miles") in which I was quoted extensively. Bill was also quoted extensively in a recent New York Times article about frequent flyer miles: "Elite Status on Airlines Loses Some of Its Appeal."
It seems when the Times doesn't quote us, they get the story about frequent-flier miles wrong in some really obvious ways.
The central premise of the guilty article is its headline: Now May Be a Good Time to Bail on Frequent-Flier Programs.
Let me refute that in four sentences:
- Frequent-flier programs are a way to earn miles, which are a rebate good toward future flights.
- Delta slashed how many miles people will earn on almost all flights, but not to zero.
- You still will earn at least a 6% rebate toward future flights.
- Ditching a small rebate like 6% toward future travel is just burning money, and there's no reason to do it.
Why is now not a good time to bail on frequent-flier programs? Why else does the article get dead wrong? How does this all affect what rewards card to use?
Now May Be a Good Time to Bail on Frequent-Flier Programs starts with a rundown of the changes to the SkyMiles program coming in 2015. As a reminder, there are some changes to redemptions that all sound good (but we don't get full details until late 2014.)
The changes to earnings are very bad. Instead of earning 1 mile per mile flown plus status and cabin bonuses, earnings will be based on the ticket price.
- no status: 5 miles per dollar
- Silver: 7 miles per dollar
- Gold: 8 miles per dollar
- Platinum: 9 miles per dollar
- Diamond: 11 miles per dollar
The article's explanation of how earning miles from flights will work is totally correct. And the article then discusses how redemptions will change and the fact that Delta is NOT going to revenue-based redemptions with a very interesting take on Delta's reasoning:
Why might an airline not want to make this move? Well, this is part of the game, and it's a mind game through and through. As long as the possibility exists that someone can take 150,000 miles or so [Scott: He links to the American Airlines chart, which charges a maximum of 135k miles for a Saver roundtrip in First Class to Asia.] and fly in business or first class to Asia in a seat that might otherwise have cost $10,000, plenty of people are going to keep playing. The fact that many people never earn that many miles and end up dumping what they do have on flights that aren't ideal hasn't dissuaded many mile collectors.
"Airline miles have been surprisingly durable in terms of people continuing to ascribe major value to a product that really has had less and less value over time," said Rob Rosenblatt, who helped develop the Delta co-branded card during his time at American Express and also ran the rewards card business at Chase.
Why You Should Not Bail on Frequent Flyer Programs
But then the article goes completely off the rails:
For those who want out, now's not a bad time to bail. After all, many airline perks, like getting to use a shorter security line and board the plane early enough to get your wheelie in the overhead, are now for sale on an à la carte basis at a fairly reasonable price.
Did you catch that? Now is not a bad time to bail from airline programs because you can just buy the perks of status.
Let's compare bailing versus not bailing from Delta's program starting in January 2015.
- Earn zero miles on flights.
- Have no possibility of earning status.
Don't Bail:
- Earn 5 – 11 miles per dollar on flights. I value Delta miles at about 1.2 cents each, so this represents a 6% to 13% rebate on your Delta flights. On a $400 transcon, that is $24 to $52. Hardly earth shattering, but why turn it down?
- Earn status if you fly enough (and at the same rates as in 2014. MQM calculations are not changing.)
The benefits of flying as a Delta SkyMiles member are going down, but they are not going below zero. There is literally no reason to quit the Delta SkyMiles program just because the benefits are getting worse.
Now I am not saying you shouldn't ditch Delta for American or United. That could make a lot of sense for you, but ditching Delta SkyMiles membership for no loyalty program when you still plan to fly Delta makes zero sense.
Now I just made the most obvious argument ever: some is better than none. So how did the New York Times miss this argument, and how much damage will they do to readers miles balances who unquestionably accept the premise and drop out of mileage programs?
What Credit Card You Should Use
The fact that this article even goes on to discuss credit cards, which is totally unrelated to Delta's decision to go revenue-based on flight earnings shows how muddled the thinking is in the article.
Nonetheless, the author is basically right on his first card suggestion:
I'm among the legion of card geeks and travel nuts who are still devoted to the Starwood Preferred Guest program (which includes Westin, Sheraton, W and other hotel brands) and its American Express credit card. I regularly get 3 cents a point in value when exchanging my points for hotel nights in high season at certain properties; airline miles are rarely worth more than a penny or two each unless you use them for upgrades on certain flights or get lucky redeeming them for those premium seats to Asia.
I agree that if you are a casual travel fan and want to put all your purchases on only one card, the Starwood Preferred Guest® Credit Card from American Express is one of the Three Best Credit Cards to put that spending on.
He is right that that Starpoints deliver top value of about 2.5 cents each, and I agree that consistently getting more than 2 cents of value from airline miles is tough.
If you are going to get more than 2 cents per value from miles, you need to book mainly business and first class awards. His comment about booking upgrades with miles shows how little he understands miles because upgrades are almost always a terrible use of miles these days, requiring huge miles and huge co-pays when upgrading the cheapest economy fares.
His next card suggestion is totally wrong for travelers though:
If it's straight cash back you seek, Fidelity's Investment Rewards American Express card yields 2 percent cash back into a Fidelity brokerage account, far better than most competitors.
If you travel, get the Barclaycard Arrival(TM) World MasterCard® – Earn 2x on All Purchases instead. The card offers 2.28% back toward travel on all purchases.
The travel categories are so broad:
- any flight
- the taxes on any airline award
- any hotel, B&B, hostel, guesthouse, etc
- cruises
- car rentals
Anyone who spends more than 2.28% of their spending on travel annually–probably everyone who is the target audience for that article and this blog–is better offer getting 2.28% back toward travel than 2% cash back.
Next the article compares cash back to a straw man:
If the [Fidelity] card continues in its current form, a regular user with a child born today could pay for a year of a college at a state university with the cash rewards. My guess is that an increasing number of people will choose to do that, rather than entering an airline lottery with unknown odds that may or may not land them a few family trips to Hawaii.
This is a head scratcher on so many levels:
- He doesn't tell us how much a "regular user" spends or what he means by "pay for a year of college" (tuition? full cost?). More importantly, money is completely fungible, so the simplest way to explain the Fidelity card is 2% cash back, not what you can buy with that cash. Anyway, say that you wanted to spend your rewards on college education. Get the Arrival card, use your rewards to eliminate your travel bills, and set aside the money saved from eliminating travel bills in college fund. You'll have 14% more than in the Fidelity college fund.
- He totally straw mans the redemption side of frequent flyer miles. Miles can be used for a lot more than "family trips to Hawaii." They can be used for international business and first class at a reasonable rate. Cash back can not be used to get into international premium cabins at a reasonable rate.
- Your credit card choice is totally independent of Delta's latest moves. Delta's moves negatively affect the miles you earn from flying. The miles you should earn from credit cards are related to which miles are the best to redeem for the trip you want.
I can't remember the last time I wrote such a negative post, but this Times article is poorly thought out and could cause a lot of people to get a lot less free travel from loyalty programs. It deserves to be ripped to shreds.
Not only does the article recommend ditching airline programs even though they still provide positive value, but it also gets the credit card advice–which really has nothing to do with the main purpose of the article–dead wrong.
There is a very real story about Delta's changes for 2015. Most people will earn far fewer miles from flying. And even though the redemption changes sound positive, we can't be sure yet.
A further real story is how United and American will respond. And will anyone go revenue-based on redemptions, which would completely destroy most of the outsized value we get from our miles?
It's a shame that the Times missed so badly on the story it tried to tell. If the author read MileValue, he wouldn't have made those mistakes.
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Dear Breakup Girl,
I know that second guessing is futile, so I do hope that your advice might end my own obsessive practice.
The Story:
Last fall one of the professors in my department began making overtures: inviting me to lunch, inviting me to dinner, writing me constant e-mails, giving me small gifts. Perhaps I am a more naive graduate student than most, but I remained uncertain of his professor's intentions, questioning why someone so accomplished (and sixteen years older) would be interested in me, so not accomplished (and sixteen years younger). Well, of course, he was 'Rebound Man,' going through a divorce with his equally accomplished wife of fifteen years, who is, rather unfortunately, in the same field as I (at another university, thankfully).
Our 'relationship' continued until the end of the semester, when it was apparent that I was not going to end my relationship with my long-distance boyfriend of five years (it's true, I behaved horribly, I know), nor was I going to have children. Two things that were obviously important to this professor.
Since the 'breakup' was amicable, I thought we might at least be 'friends' of sorts. But the professor's contact with me during the next semester mostly involved him mentioning how busy he was (i.e., too busy to see me) when we inadvertently met in the department's halls.
Typical enough, no? But over the summer the professor eloped to an exotic foreign destination as such a decision dictates, mere weeks after finalizing his divorce and mere months after ending our own 'relationship.' After reading Catherine Texier's 'Breakup,' I know I am hardly in a position to feel sorry for myself, but could you please explain what I meant to this professor, if anything. Because before his great pursuit of me I had absolutely no interest in him whatsoever other than as a rather friendly faculty member, so the entire situation is more than a little painful for me, even though I know I deserve no sympathy. It is terribly confusing because barely weeks into our 'relationship' this man was professing his love to me (which, of course, was ridiculous and I told him so), telling me that he wanted to live with me, etc., etc. But once it was clear that things would not work out, it was very much like 'ciao, catch you later.' Indeed, he acted as if HE had ended the relationship, which is patently untrue.
True to form, the professor has not personally informed me that he re-married over the summer, although everyone else is talking of it. Wouldn't it be polite for him to have contacted me, however discreetly, regarding his new marriage considering our past 'relationship'?
Was I really, really, really the prototypical Just Good For Now Girl?
Thank you for any advice you might be able to provide.
– Another Not-So-Bright Graduate Student
Dear Grad,
Yes, it would have been polite. So would having apologized to your family in a national TV broadcast, if you get my drift. It was an affair, Grad. Courtesies not included. And yes — hate to say this — you were the Good For Now Girl. But you won't be next time. Right?
Breakup Girl
This advice originally published September 14, 1998.