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An important consideration as to whether or not an expert advisor can be used profitably in forex trading comes down to the money management it uses. Even if the most advanced logic is build into an expert advisor and backtests show amazing results over a long period – it will ultimately fail live if its money management inputs are not sound.
The problem is that most traders haven't the slightest idea what money management really is or how it can be used to one's advantage in automated forex trading.
In essence, money management applies to the strategic manipulation of position sizes on different trades to ensure a positive outcome. With an intelligent money management system, losing trades are reigned in and losing streaks are accounted for, and position sizes grow steadily and modestly along with equity growth.
Every expert advisor is going to have losing streaks. When they come and how long they last – no one knows. There will also be profitable winning streaks, but it is losing streaks that can wipe your account and thus need to worry about. Hence, before you even set the inputs of your EA's money management, you must know in advance the potential degree of your losing streak.
The Expectancy of Max Draw Down and Consecutive Loss
Money management or position sizing depends mostly on your trading system's expectancy for the worst case scenario – that is, the potential max consecutive losing trades and max draw down.
Assuming we are dealing with a 10 year backtest with accurate historical data, there is at least 2 different ways of determining your potential losing streak. The easiest way is to look at your max historical draw down and consecutive losing trade number.
As you can see, the
Maximal drawdown
is $1800, and it carries more weight than the percentage number beside it. The percentage number of 9.7% is the high to low equity drawdown, which is interesting, but to further handicap the system, you should imagine that the system started at the beginning of the drawdown and suffered $1800, which would make the percentage drawdown 18%. The other number to look at is the
Maximum consecutive losses (losses in money),
which is 12 (totaling $676) -- and this gives us the size of a losing streak. Obviously, because the maximal drawdown of $1800 is much larger than the $676 losing streak, there must have been a few back to back losing streaks to get the maximal drawdown figure. Because the maximal drawdown of $1800 (18%) is the larger number, it becomes the baseline for the worst case scenario.
An alternative method to calculate the potential max consecutive losing trades (and maxmimal drawdown) is to look at
Loss trades (percentage of total)
to calculate the probabilities of consecutive losing streaks. For instance, if we take the performance of our 10-70 SMACross (Method2) on 0.1 lots, we have 70% losing trades. In two trades, there is a 0.70 * 0.70 = 0.49 or 49% chance of two losses and a 0.30 * 0.30 = 0.09 or 9% of two gains, while the rest is 100 – (49 +9) = 42% change of 1 gain and 1 loss. This is important because it shows how easy it is to have 2 consecutive losses while it is unlikely (but still possible) to have 2 consecutive gains. In order for a possibility to be significant it has to have at least a 5% chance of happening. If you multiple 0.7 by 0.7 seven times, it gives us 0.57 or a 5.7% chance of happening, meaning it is realistic to expect 7 consecutive losses. To further handicap our system, we have to imagine double that, or 14 consecutive losses, in a real trading scenario. Interestingly enough, this is close to the 12 consecutive losses we experienced in the 10 year backtest, which means we are on the right track in our calculations.
Once you know your max losing streak, you can then multiply it with either the average loss per trade or the stop loss of your trade to determine the max draw down of your system. If you multiplied 14 X average losing trade of 93 pips, you would have 1300 pip DD, and if you multiplied 14 X stop loss of 200 pips, you would have 2800 pips. The historical max draw down is somewhere in the middle at $1800 (or 1800 pips), and that is probably the best compromise between the two.
Max Risk Preference: No more than 25% DD
The objective of money management is to limit losses such that when the unfortunate event of experiencing that high number of consecutive losses we would still have enough equity to still trade and experience the gains.
Note: if we lose 20%, the remaining 80% would need to gain 25% to recover (the 20% loss is equal to 25% of our remaining 80% equity). If however we lost 50%, the remaining 50% in equity would need to have 100% gains to recover, which is difficult to do. This is where risk preference comes into the picture. Let's say we're only comfortable with losing 25%, the remaining 75% would need 33% gain to recover to the original equity, which is a more achievable objective.
Another way of looking at this max risk preference is to see it as the
or the amount of draw down that provokes a loss of confidence in either the investors or the fund management. If either the investors or the managers become demoralized and withdraw from the enterprise, then the fund or strategy dies. Generally the uncle point is 25% draw down, to issue a loss of confidence in the strategy and discontinuation of trading it.
So now we can bring in our calculated expectancy of 14 max consecutive losing trades of 128 pips each into the picture. We don't want our 14 max consecutive losing trades of 100 pips each to exceed our 25% max risk preference.
What then do we make as a percentage to risk on each trade?
If each losing trade incurs approximately 100 pips, we would need those 14 losses to take 25% of our equity, 25 / 14 = 1.78. So each time we trade we would only put 1.78% of equity to ensure that at worse we would only have a 25% loss in equity.
Thus, you can only expect to have 0.18 lot size at most on a 10K account size in order to have less than 25% DD (1.8 X 100 X 14 = 2520). Our 1.78% for each trade would give us less gain than when placing say 5% in each trade; however, we would also have significantly less chance of blowing up.
The KEY Is that when and exactly where the expert advisor takes a hit from the market, it must insulate your equity and hit back harder each time bringing your account back on track as quickly as possible. It must manage position sizing to ensure that in the long run your account remains on track to a respectable return.
Note: there is an indicator that you can place that works with your stoploss size (or substitute your average loss for your stoploss) and account equity to determine your lot size.
EA Built in Money Management Code: Percentage Risk per Trade.
There are many ways to determine the money management of an EA, but I am going to point out one that has gained some popularity in recent months. It is a money management mechanism adopted by Funyoo in his template – used in my MACross EA --that auto-calculates the lot sizes based on your account size and your pre-selected risk percentage and stop loss amount.
The external parameters look like this:
You can turn on the money management feature by setting
. If
, then lots = 0.1 or whatever you set for this field. The risk you set is the percentage of the account, and you also indicate the minlot and maxlot minimal and maximal lots allowed by your broker.
The code of the money management looks like this:
double lotsoptimized(){
double lot;
else lot=NormalizeDouble((AccountBalance()/lotsize)
Funyoo's adoption of the money management mechanism is basically the % per trade risk rule in effect. It is calculated by taking the difference between your entry price and initial stop-loss exit and multiplying it with your trade size. This will give you the dollar loss if you are stopped out.
2% Per Trade Risk Formula
Account size x 2% = Risk Amount
If you had a $10,000 account balance and 200 pip stop and selected 2% risk per trade, you would be able to trade only 0.1 lots because 0.1 lots stopped out at the 200 pips stop loss would be $200 or 2%. If indeed the 10-70 MACross stopped out at 200 pips each, I would not want the risk percentage to be 2%, because it would not be able to handle more than 14 losing trades of 2% each and still be less than 25% max draw down. However, since the average losing trade is closer to $100 per trade, I can increase the risk percentage just a little, making it closer 2.5% in order to be less than 25% max draw down with 14 losing trades.
Let us see what the performance of the system would be with a 2.5% risk:
The system has near doubled in return, achieving $12500 while staying below the 25% maximum DD risk tolerance level. We achieved our goal of trying to get the most out each trade with a comfortable risk level. If we added any more percentage risk we would increasing our return at the expense of a greater, more uncomfortable draw down. It is always a fine balance between the two, and you should always err on the side of caution, that is, on the side that leads to less draw down. The drawdown of the future can always be much more than our backtest and calculations, and we should always expect and prepare for the worst.
Funyoo's money management code automates the lot sizing for us – making the money management seem very simple. You just need to select the risk percentage – 2 or 3%-- and the EA handles the rest. It is indeed very simple, so long as you are modest and fully aware of the worst case scenario. It is just as simple to increase this risk percentage to 10 or more, and consequently jeopardize the account. Money management is thus one of those powerful tools that can lead to more profits if controlled or more losses if not.
Profits and losses do not likely alternate with smooth regularity but instead appear as winning and losing streaks. When you realize that this is natural, it are more likely to stay the course during drawdowns, and also to stay appropriately modest during winning streaks.
In general, good risk management combines several elements. There must be a calculation and clarification of the potential max consecutive loss and drawdown of the system determined through backtesting and extrapolation. There must also be a clarification of the max risk preference of the system going forward, such as no more than 25% draw down. Once you have an idea of your system's historical (and potential) max drawdown, you can begin to add a money management system (such as the offered by Funyoo) that auto-adjusts the lots only to the degree that each trade will not exceed its selected %risk (in relation to account size and stop loss) and that a accumulation of such losing trades in the form of a losing streak will not exceed your predetermined max risk tolerance.
Generally, in order for your system to be around for the long run, it should never exceed a 2% risk (of trading account size) on any given trade, but exceptions can be made if the average losing trade is much less than the stop loss. This smaller percent risk is an acknowledgment that 10+ losing streaks can and do happen, and you have to be able to comfortably survive them. If you are trading with concurrent systems, it is also important to never exceed an overall 6% risk (of your trading account size) at any given time. You can have three strategies with 2% risk each or 6 strategies with 1% risk each, but having more than 10% combined risk is asking for trouble –no matter how non-correlated you think the systems or currencies are to each other.
In sum, then, money management is all about taming the dragon – once you know that you can survive its claws (approaching gingerly with tight stop losses) and fire (stealing yourself against a losing streak), you may profitably mount and ride the beast upwards (steadily rise in equity). If you approach her with humility and respect, setting your risk inputs modestly, you can shield yourself from danger and come out the winner. If instead you approach her with greed and set your risk inputs for maximal gain, sooner or later your EA will turn against you and consume your account.
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This week's edition of Cooking With Fighters is a special one that comes from UFC commentator extraordinaire, Joe Rogan. It takes us all the way through the cooking process with photos, starting from when the wild boar was harvested from the land by Joe, to the end, when it's all plated up, ready to be eaten.
*All photos courtesy of Joe Rogan*
Rogan has been hunting his own meat for some time now, and has a freezer full of venison and wild boar. He raises his own chickens for the eggs, and he gets his fruits and veggies from organic local sources. An avid hunter, he says he eats everything he kills. This is his recipe for wild smoked ham.
1 gallon water
1 ½ cups kosher salt
2 cups brown sugar
1 wild boar ham (bone in)
You marinate the ham, in fact, you're actually brining it. Submerge it in the brine for 5 days. Take it out and smoke it at 200 degrees until it hits 155-160 degrees internal temperature. That's at least 8 hours of smoking time, most likely more. It's unbelievably delicious when it's done and completely worth all the effort.
It's a huge pain in the ass while it's going on because you have to continually add wood to the smoker and you have to check on it frequently to make sure the smoke is still coming up and that the temperature is good. You also need to keep checking the internal temperature of the ham.
Wild ham is so much different than domestic ham. It's a much healthier, darker meat. The animal is healthier because they're eating fresh roots and shrubs and whatever they can get hold of. Pigs are omnivores, so they eat just about anything. In fact, one of the reasons they need to eradicate them from certain areas is because the ground nesting birds are having their nests destroyed and their eggs and chicks are being eaten. Pigs are fucking ruthless, but they're super delicious.
Remember those TV ad campaigns, 'Pork, the other white meat'? Well, pork is not supposed to be white. That's a sick animal. It's a sick, malnourished animal that's basically been kept from exercise. They're just not healthy. That's why they're so pale. When you eat a wild pig, it's a much darker animal.
I eat it with some seeded mustard. I don't eat anything on the side, I just eat it by itself. I must have eaten a pound and a half of it in one sitting. It was a giant ham. The pig was about 200 pounds or so when I shot it. I washed it down with a beer.
I used a Weston propane smoker, but I don't think I'm going to use that in the future. I'm going to get a Klose smoker from Texas. They're like the gold standard for BBQ smokers and grills. I don't have to tell you because you live there, but Texas has the best BBQ on the planet. They've got it down to a science and they know how to make a goddamned smoker.
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Today's tidbits cover college baseball, the exciting world of NCAA rules, and a certain actuarial nightmare.
The Big 12 looks likely to get at least six bids, and Missouri is in good position to earn the sixth, thanks to the most favorable closing schedule of any Big 12 team. The Tigers are already 11-10 in conference and seem likely to finish with 15 or 16 conference wins, which should be enough to get a bid despite an unimpressive overall record. Oklahoma State and Kansas, then, are competing for a seventh bid from the Big 12. The Cowboys are stronger in the RPI, but Kansas has a 3 1/2-game cushion over OSU in the conference standings, and that will be hard to make up considering both teams have challenging schedules over the final three weeks. OSU is more talented and is certainly capable of making a run, but the Cowboys have won only one of their first six conference series. It's tough to dig out of that kind of hole.BaseballAmerica.com: College: On Campus: Projecting The Field - Baseball America's Aaron Fitt talking about NCAA Tourney Bids
Kansas Baseball Notes: Game tonight at Creighton, Faunce and Smyth injury updates, national media attention and Shaeffer Hall on his development this season.
Big 12 rundown of Baseball America's projection of the 2009 NCAA tourney.
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What you can expect from the Archos 7 and 8 Home Tablets
We learned that Archos was coming out with the Archos 7 Internet Tablet, a larger version of their popular Archos 5IT, back in January, but now news is that Archos is releasing the Archos 8 model in addition to a whole family of alphanumeric devices.
To briefly recap, the Archos 7 (or "Archos 7 Home Tablet") runs off a 600MHz ARM 9 processor, has a 7-inch resistive touchscreen, uses Android and comes in 2GB and 8GB memory versions. Much like the A5, it's meant to be a MID device that plays all kinds of video, audio and image files in addition to surfing the internet and running a variety of Android applications. The battery life is said to last between 7 hours (for video) and 44 hours (for audio only). The A7 will launch in April for €149 (selling for $179 in the U.S.) for the 2GB model and €179 (we're guessing between $200-$229 U.S.) for the 8GB version. Watch an exclusive hands-on video by Charbax.
The Archos 8 Home Tablet is a slightly different animal. While sharing the same processor, price (4GB is €149) and thickness (12mm or 0.47-inches), it takes design suggestions from other digital frame tablets. With an increased bezel and square design, it speaks to those who wish to use it as an in home device and prop it up for media consumption. It also may be a substitute or even worthy contender to the Sony Dash. Both will fill the same need and cost about the same, but we expect the Archos 8 to have a built-in battery for portability while the Dash will have many more applications available for it. The A8 will begin selling in May.
But wait, there's more! Archos won't be leaving the other numbers out of the mix for long. They plan on releasing an entire family lineup of tablets this Summer. These new tablets will features ARM processors up to 1GHz and screen sizes from three to ten inches. So expect to possibly see the A3, A4, A6 and A10 rounding out the Archos line soon.
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Once your rise to fame becomes vertical, crisis- when it arrives – it seems unnatural. In MS Dhoni's case, the statement is strictly true, and it's time the Indian skipper washes his inglorious recent Test record with a blast from the celebrated past – against Australia.
Count this: ICC World Twenty20, ICC Test mace, ODI World Cup, Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna, part of an ICC World ODI XI for four straight years, ICC ODI Player of Year in 2008 and 2009 – all this and much more in a matter of 8 years since bursting on the international scene in 2004 with henna-coloured hair.
From his chic hairstyles since then to moves that took the wind out of India's opponents, everything Dhoni did became an instant hit. But what brewed on the backburner during that period was served hot in the English summer of 2011 – and the blisters haven't healed since. Read more
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When you are drafting a player from the college ranks, you typically want to select according to the needs on the current roster. UNLESS, a once in a life time player comes along (see vikings 2006 NFL 1st round Draft pick) . If the coaches and players were convinced that Ponder, or Webb was the answer for us to compete within our division for the next decade, Frasier would have never made the comment; we will review the QB position in the offseason a little closer and Harvin would have never made the comments he made in reference to Webb being the better option for sparking the offense....so before you begin tossing your tomatoes, hear me out after the jump!
Griffin graduated from high school a semester early and began attending Baylor in the spring 2008 semester at 17 years old. He joined the track team, and finished first place in the 400-meter hurdles at both the Big 12 Conference Championship and the NCAA Midwest Regional Championship meets; he also broke the NCAA Midwest Regional 400-meter hurdles record. He placed third in the NCAA meet and also participated in the U.S. Olympic Trials, in which he advanced to the semifinals.He graduated with a 3.67 GPA in political science and is currently studying for a Masters in Communication.
2008 season
Griffin started 11 of 12 games his freshman season. In the upset 41–21 victory over the Texas A&M Aggies, he recorded 13-of-23 passes for 241 yards, two touchdowns, no interceptions, and no sacks!
Griffin earned Big 12 Freshman of the Year honors from the league's coaches
Baylor finished the season with a 4–8 record (2–6 Big 12).
2009 season
Griffin sat out for the remainder of the 2009 season after sustaining an isolated tear to his ACL in the first half of the third game and his third start of his sophomore year. The Bears picked up a 68-13 victory over Northwestern State.[
Season record was 4–8 (1–7 Big 12).
2010 season
Following the ACL injury Mr. Griffin entered the 2010 season as a redshirt sophomore. His stats for his third year in the system are listed below
Baylor finished the season 7–6 (4–4 Big 12).
2011 season
Coming into the 2011 season, the Baylor Bears were not expected to do well. The Bears opened the season with 15th ranked TCU. The Bears took a 47-23 lead into the 4th quarter, and were able to fight off a comeback after TCU gained the lead 48-47 briefly, only for Baylor to kick the game winning field goal and win 50-48. They pulled off the upset in large part to Griffin's performance, who passed for 359 yards, 5 touchdowns and a 77.8% completion percentage. Following the win, Griffin was considered to be a Heisman Trophy candidate. Against Stephen F. Austin State University Griffin went 20 of 22 (90.9%) for 247 yards and 3 touchdowns and ran for 78 yards. Against Rice University Griffin completed 29 of 33 passes (87.9%) for 338 yards with 51 yards rushing and a touchdown. Against Kansas St. Griffin completed 23 out of 31 (74.2%) for 346 yards, five touchdowns, and one interception. Against Iowa St. Griffin completed 22 out of 30 (73.3%) for 212 yards, one touchdown, and zero interceptions. Aganist Texas Griffin completed 15 out of 22 (Over 72%) for 321 yards, two touchdowns and one interception. Griifin followed up this incredible season with taking home the most prestigious hardware in college football.....I wanted the viking faithful to see this kids progression from year to year. His growth is off the carts!
The reason i submitted this information was so you could see how commited this kid is to growth year in, and year out. Popular wisdom tells me that Luck will go #1and Kalil will go #2 . Now i really believe that RG3 brings the intangibles to the table that you don't see in the "black quarter back" (see his military upbringing, and his educational accomplishments year to date)! Match that with his natural abilties, you have a can miss guy in Mr Griffin. And might i add, the Vick, Young and Newton comparisons are all unfair to Mr Griffin. Griffin is the complete package, from being able to be a excellent rep for the vikings organization through the media, to being a joe webb type of spark to the team, minus the awkward goofy-ness. I believe that if we don't except the fact that we reached for ponder, and count last years first round a loss, we will regret it for years to come. Frazier even said it his self ; for the vikings to compete in this division we are going to have to grab a QBOF....who better to fit that description other that the 1 and only RGIII...


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Nashville Dancin', presented by Dollar General, is making it easy for Nashvillians and tourists to enjoy the outdoor summer concert series, open to all ages, with free admission, free parking at LP Field (thank you, Tennessee Titans!), and free shuttle service, courtesy of Grand Avenue. Patrons are encouraged to use the Pedestrian Bridge. With the current attention that the media and nation have placed on Nashville along with the new downtown Convention Center, there is no better time to bring this event to downtown Nashville. Aside from a hit ABC series based on the city's music industry (congrats on getting picked up, Nashville!), Nashville holds a place on Forbes' list of the '10 Best Places for Business,' was named "Best Music Scene" in Rolling Stone magazine, and was highlighted in GQ Magazine.
Produced by TomKats Inc. and Kaleidoscope Media, LLC, the return of the longest-running, free weekly summer concert series represents a collaborative effort by Dollar General, the office of Mayor Karl Dean, Nashville Convention and Visitors Bureau and sponsors including State Water Heaters, Bud Light, Ole Smoky Moonshine, Twice Daily, Town and Country Ford of Nashville, Grand Avenue, REAL Water, Metro Parks, Green Village Recycling, Horton Group, Holiday Inn Express, Nashville Scene, Xfinity, 102.5 The Game, 102.9 The Buzz, Now Playing Nashville and Yelp.
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10:00am Monday 20th January 2014 in Sport By John Boyman, Sports Reporter
WET weather and waterlogged pitches resulted in many north Hampshire football clubs seeing their games postponed on Saturday.
Hartley Wintney's trip to Croydon in the Combined Counties League Premier Division, Whitchurch United's game at Brockenhurst in the Wessex League Premier Division and Overton United's home game against Headley in the Hampshire Premier League were all cancelled.
In addition, the entire Basingstoke and District Saturday League programme was postponed, while just two matches survived in the Sunday League yesterday morning.
Whitchurch and Hartley Wintney will hoping that the weather holds out to enable them to play tomorrow night.
Hartley are due to host bottom-of-the-table Bedfont Sports, while Whitchurch take on Basingstoke Town in the quarter-finals of the Hampshire Senior Cup.
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Litigation funder Burford ramps up UK team with Freeth Cartwright hire
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I can't say it's shock, the industry is growing every year and this is only the tip of the iceberg so to speak. People realize the potential gains in personal and society with litigation funding and are acting accordingly. The U.K. has been on the litigation funding bandwagon for years it only makes sense other countries where its still nascent would try their hand in the market.


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Margaritas rule Cinco de Mayo celebrations.
Cinco de Mayo is the commemoration of Mexico's unlikely victory over France in 1862. In America, it has evolved into a salute to Mexican history and tradition. Tequila is also a tradition from Mexico. This blue agave-based spirit is most famously produced in the area surrounding the city of Tequila, Mexico.
These on-the-rocks margarita recipes will shake up your Cinco de Mayo fiesta. Start with a margarita base mix and go from there. You can leave out the tequila and triple sec for those who love the taste of a margarita but not the alcohol.
Margarita Base Mix
You can buy margarita mix at the store, but why settle for "one taste suits all?" This recipe is a great starter for any margarita you can dream up and you can adjust it to suit your taste.
Ingredients: 1 equal part (usually an ounce) of all the following: lemon juice, lime juice, Triple Sec and simple syrup (see recipe below). For example, if you plan on making six drinks, use six ounces of each ingredient.
Preparation: Combine and stir. If you don't use this immediately, it can be stored in the refrigerator for more than a month.
Simple syrup: Boil equal parts of water and sugar for five minutes. Once cool, refrigerate. When I make simple syrup, I use one pint each of sugar and water, yielding a quart of syrup to use in iced teas, lemonades and other cold drinks. To give my simple syrup a unique flavor, I add a vanilla bean (cut in half length-wise and scraped to release the flavor) to the boiling sugar water. You could also use one teaspoon of vanilla extract.
Traditional Margarita
Before I commit to measurements, remember that drink mixes should be adjusted to fit individual preferences. When I mix a traditional margarita for guests, I add three parts margarita base mix with one part tequila into a shaker with crushed ice. Shake and serve.
Blood Orange Margarita
Combine one part margarita base, two parts blood orange juice and one part tequila in a shaker with crushed ice. Shake and serve.
Note that blood orange juice can be found in specialty markets. For an extra citrus and alcohol kick, add one part Grand Marnier.
Blackberry Basil Margarita
1 pound frozen blackberries
1 cup water
1 vanilla bean, split and scraped
1 cup sugar
¾-ounce fresh basil
In a saucepan, combine all ingredients except basil and boil over medium heat for approximately five minutes. Remove basil leaves from stems and add to the boiling mixture. Turn off the heat and stir, allowing leaves to steep, uncovered, for five minutes. Strain mixture into a bowl.
Combine two parts blackberry basil mix with one part margarita base mix and one part tequila in a shaker with crushed ice. Shake and serve.
A lime wedge is the traditional garnish for margaritas, while margarita glasses are often rimmed with salt or sugar crystals. Traditional margaritas are rimmed with salt, while some of the designer margaritas could be rimmed with sugar or colored sugar crystals as we did. Happy Cinco de Mayo and enjoy!
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He was welcomed with a cooler of water dumped over his head in celebration after winning the season opener in June, the toast of the town north of the border.
Last week, the Montreal Alouettes gave Dan Hawkins a swift kick to the backside in showing him the door.
It was a stunning end for Hawkins, who began his coaching career at his alma mater, UC Davis. He lasted five games in the Canadian Football League, where there is a steep learning curve in three-down football and little margin for error.
Hawkins went 2-3, winning the opener 33-26 over Hamilton and the finale 33-27 against Edmonton. In between, Alouettes players grumbled about Hawkins' playbook and a sputtering offense.
He was replaced by general manager Jim Popp, who stepped in on an interim basis for the third time in his 18 years in the front office. Team owner Bob Wetenhall told reporters: "Jim is the person most responsible for the success we have had all these years."
Hawkins surprised his coaching friends and mentors when he left the college game and headed to the CFL. His résumé includes a 53-11 record at Boise State before a rocky run in Colorado, where he went 19-39. And he's still beloved at Christian Brothers High School as the last coach to lead the Falcons to a playoff victory. That was in 1986, when he looked about as young as his teenage quarterbacks.
Hawkins hasn't spoken publicly about his termination, but Canadian media reports and Montreal players suggest that the differences between the CFL game and American football sunk Hawkins. He apparently struggled to adjust to the wider field and one fewer down. He resisted front-office advice and never stood a chance amid the expectations that come with a franchise steeped in tradition. Montreal has reached Grey Cup championship games seven times since 2000, winning titles in 2009 and 2010.
When the Alouettes blew a 24-0 first-quarter lead in a 38-27 loss to Calgary on July 20, the experiment started to crumble. It was the largest blown first-quarter lead in CFL history.
Most CFL coaches have had experience in the league, though Hawkins' predecessor did not. Marc Trestman, hired by Montreal in 2008, hoisted the Grey Cup in his second and third seasons. In Hawkins, the Alouettes wanted a clone of Trestman, now the Chicago Bears' head coach.
Where Hawkins lands is uncertain. Before heading north, he had feelers from schools such as UTEP. He looked into the San Jose State job last winter, but the interest was not mutual.
Jackson suspended again
Asa Jackson, a second-year Baltimore Ravens cornerback out of CBS and Cal Poly, was suspended for the second time for violating the NFL's performance-enhancing drugs policy.
He served a four-game suspension last season as a rookie and now will sit for eight games, losing $225,882 of his $480,000 base salary. The suspensions are for unauthorized use of Adderall, commonly used to treat attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder.
Jackson could not be reached for comment, though he did release a statement: "I was diagnosed with a condition that can be treated with a medication allowed under the NFL/NFLPA policy after a player obtains a therapeutic-use exemption. I now have the required approval, but the positive test occurred before it was approved. The policy is very strict, so I have chosen to be immediately accountable. I sincerely apologize to my teammates, coaches and Ravens fans."
Said Ravens coach John Harbaugh to team media: "Reaction to that is you got to follow the rules. You don't follow the rules, you get suspended."
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If you're in the climbing game for spectacular position, good pro, and interesting climbing, then this climb is a winner. Add in the lack of crowds (or people at all), beautifully colored rock, and an abundance of good climbing near-by and this climb should be on your "someday" list. The draw backs? Seasonal wildlife closures for half the year (February 1 - July 31st typically), and an arduous approach (like 1 hour and a half with a full pack, that is if you know where to find this climb. Expect a longer approach if this is your first time). There are no "trails" to this area - just social/wildlife paths once you leave the Fern Canyon trail.
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The Pack / Barefoot / Piers Stockwell
Q&A with Merrell Pack Leader Piers Stockwell
What sparked your interest in barefoot running?
I first became interested in barefoot running to improve my efficiency for long distance events. I looked at efficiency in terms of biomechanics and realised that we run most biomechanically efficiently when we are bare foot. This is the way our bodies are designed to be as our bodies haven't changed much since caveman days! For a long distance event, the more efficient you are, the more energy you will have at the end of the race where it matters most.
What are the benefits associated with barefoot running?
There are many! First of all it allows me to be more efficient so that I can travel further, faster. By encouraging our bodies to behave in the way we were designed, it helps to minimise injury. Modern living affects our posture detrimentally and bare foot running can help improve it.
How did you prepare your feet for barefoot running?
I was very careful how I increased my mileage to start with and ran on grass to get used to being barefoot. I then moved to pavements since grass allows you to get away with poor foot placement as it is a forgiving surface. By wearing minimalist shoes (Merrell Trail Gloves) in everyday life, I strengthened my feet to withstand the stresses of being barefoot.
Tell us about the Natural Running School and what it's like to educate others about barefoot running.
It's very interesting to see so many different types of runner from ultra distance athletes to beginner runners running their first 5K race and their motivations to improve their running. I particularly enjoy the 'light bulb moments' when my clients understand the movement pattern they are being taught and why it is relevant to them. Often the motivations are due to recurring injury which physiotherapists 'can't seem to sort out'. Almost always these problems are due to the way they are running and, by improving their running gait, it allows them to pursue the sport they love, injury free.
You also regularly compete in ultra-distance running events. Have you participated in any races lately and do you have any favourites?
I particularly enjoyed the Might Contain Nuts Welsh Mountain Ultra Series for spectacular courses and well run events in the Welsh mountains. I was lucky to have won the series last year and I'm looking forward to this year's events starting in March. There are a few very tough contenders this year which will certainly make it interesting.
How do running long distance events with minimalist footwear aid your performance?
By being more efficient in my running stride, it allows me to run further, faster as well as not having to take on board as much food and water through lower exertion levels. I tend to race in shoes with a little more cushioning on the heel as it allows me to run down hill faster though training is always in minimalist shoes.
Did you have to change your training in preparation for long distance events?
Long distance events are about time and patience. The difficulty is finding the time to get out for 5 Hr+ runs. In long distance events, the most important factor is maintaining a good average speed and running at a fairly moderate exertion level. If you push too hard, you will suffer later in the race. This being said, patience is needed to run for extended periods at this level of exertion as it can become taxing on the mind. I manage this by doing project runs where I will map out a route to run that I have not run before such as sections of the Cotswold Way (or all of it!). Project runs allow me to see new routes and keep it interesting. An iPod helps too!
Where / how do you train and what's your favourite terrain to run on?
My favourite terrain is as mountainous as possible. Having lived in the mountains in various regions of the world, topography is important to me. Living in Bristol, I find myself in Wales regularly, particularly Brecon Beacons and the Quantocks in Somerset. For day to day running, loops of Leigh Woods up and down the Avon Gorge are great for training. The Cotswold Way and Mendip Way are also particular favourites. Further afield, the Lake District is fantastic!
What are your plans for the rest of 2013?
The rest of 2013 will involve pushing the distance and fitness boundaries and entering as many races as possible! I'm very active in the adventure racing circuit as well and am looking forward to putting together a fast (Merrell) team for 2013.


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First up is "Splendore a Venizia — Art and Music from the Renaissance to Baroque in the Serenissima," a sumptuous array of artifacts that explores the relationships between art and music in the Venetian republic. In all, some 120 paintings, drawings, musical manuscripts and historical instruments are displayed.
The exhibit explores themes that include "Art and Music in the Public Square," where the fanfare of ancient ceremonies and processions drew a Venetian crowd; "Art and Music in the Private Realm," which highlights the musician, the concert setting and street scenes as a popular subjects in paintings; and "Art, Music and Mythology," which spotlights allegorical and mythical figures as well as the advent of the opera.
Above all, classical music fills the air throughout the exhibit. Of note are a variety of antique historical instruments — many that date to the mid 16th and 17th centuries — including kettledrums; finger cymbals; and an intricate theorbo, a lute-like stringed instrument that would make any modern guitar player blush with envy. The exhibit even manages to squeeze in the most iconic symbol of Venice — a full size gondola.
"Splendore a Venizia" continues through Jan. 19.
From the extravagant to the clever, the Museum of Fine Arts also displays "Comics at the Museum — 15 Artists from La Pasteque Reinterpret the Collection," a witty artistic reinvention to celebrate the 15th anniversary of the Montreal-based comic publishing house Le Pasteque.
Here, 15 guest artists got to choose an object from the museum's permanent collection to comically convey a work of art through colorful story panels.
For example, illustrator Michel Rabagliati's "Sardines" tells the story of a blue-collar guy next door whose job it is to painstakingly place a multi-paneled advertisement for sardines on the side of a building. To the worker's dismay, a fierce windstorm blows down all of the panels except for one — which happens to be the exact replica of Joan Miro's abstract oil painting "Head."


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Recipe: New Age Kim Chi Pastiche
Living as I do in Northern climes, I have a fondness for pickled things. And cabbages. But while I'm partial to the odd bit of sauerkraut, what I tend to make at home is kim chi, which is a Northern Chinese and Korean variant on picked cabbage. I do this because I can, it's quick and cheap, and also spicy hot.
There are endless recipes for this dish, some recording how the writer's great-grandmother made it and others suggesting variants using multiple exotic ingredients. Mine is more characteristic of me – quick and dirty, with a spritz of twisted dark humour.
Meanwhile, I used to have – possibly still do have, somewhere – a New Age style recipe book that expected one to go to great spiritual lengths in order to prepare any kind of food.
Oh, and I'm in the latter stages of finishing a zombie story.
So with these three things in mind, here's a recipe for kim chi.
The zombie thing is true, by the way, but it's a red herring: no zombies are included in the recipe and none were harmed during the production of this feature.
Take your ingredients:
- A cabbage – preferably Chinese Leaf, but any will do or you can mix-and-match depending on what's in the fridge.
- Garlic – I use three cloves for a litre of kinchi
- Ginger – a lump about the size of a sugar cube
- Chili – I use three fresh chilis for a litre (four was a bit much last year). Red or green, take your pick.
- Pepper – one whole pepper if you like it, or anything else that takes your fancy, really – a quarter of a cucumber, even a carrot will do.
- One 750ml bottle of rice vinegar.
Arrange the ingredients artistically on a work surface. Contemplate the simplicity and beauty of their forms, and the complex natural processes that created them.
Meditate on the ecological marvel of the nitrogen cycle, the transfer of nitrogen through different forms, which means that while today the cabbage will become your food, at some time in the future you may well be food for a cabbage – or perhaps for a primrose, daffodil, beech tree, and so forth.
If you live in a country where vinegar is required to be pasteurised (the US for example) you can omit this next step. Otherwise, greet the vinegar eels that will be swimming in the vinegar bottle, microscopic Turbatrix aceti nematodes that are harmless and nonparasitic. They too will become part of your food.
When you have achieved a state of harmonious balance, take a sharp knife and rapidly but carefully chop all the vegetable ingredients, using no more violence than is strictly necessary, and having first washed them thoroughly and removed any skin, for example from the ginger, that you don't want in the mixture. Aim for very thin strips of Chinese leaf/cabbage, and small chunks of everything else. Place them in a bowl and mix together with your hands until the qi flows from your fingers or the chili and ginger make your hands itch, whichever occurs first.
Lastly, put the vegetables into an airtight glass jar (I use a Kilner jar but screw-top is fine, a washed-out coffee jar works just as well). Fill the jar with the rice vinegar. Place at the back of a cupboard and leave in the dark for a while. Some recipes say you can leave it for 6-8 weeks before eating, but I've never had the nerve, or the patience. I usually take it out and start eating it after 4-5 days, with boiled rice or, if I'm feeling particularly slobbish, on toast. A litre jar won't usually last me more than a couple of weeks… As you eat, take pleasure in the fact that what you are eating was made with your own fair hands, and remember that you are also consuming your own qi stored in the kim chi (you might also want to bear in mind the nitrogen cycle thing – eating this kim chi, indeed eating pretty much anything at all, is but one part of the great cycle in which you in turn will become a cabbage. You mean you didn't believe in reincarnation?).
Nest week: Rave'n'Grave, fried red herrings in piquant zombie sauce…
Creative networks and redundancy
This is just a thought that came out of a late night conversation.
The cuts are coming: the pain will be felt everywhere, and that includes the arts. Initial reaction seems to be that the impact is going to be felt hardest at among smaller, more specialist, and regional groups for whom the withdrawal of relatively small amounts of funding – for a part-time administrator, say – will be the difference between the group functioning and not functioning.
It's not as though many of the individuals receive funding directly, because they don't – I'm thinking here of the archetypical starving artist in his/her garret, the musician whose interest is circuit-bending old electronic toys to make different sounds, the writer who's trying to find some new literary voice or style. But they all benefit indirectly from public money supporting events and social networks in ways that are often hidden, such as subsidising conferences, seminars, guest speakers/performers at events, finding the odd couple of hundred quid for a group to be able to publish something, and so on.
If that kind of 'seed money' and organisational capacity is going to be reduced in future, we'll need to find alternative ways of operating. Creatives are good at that. Maybe we'll end up reinventing 19th century styles of socialising, with private soirees and informal groups in people's front rooms. Maybe we'll see more of something that already happens to a certain extent, with workshops tacked on to commercial events. But the lifeblood of creative endeavour is networking: the ability to stay in contact with like-minded people, or find others with the same interests in order to share skills, opportunities and so forth.
One way to ensure the capacity for this to happen is, in informational terms, building in redundancy. In practical terms this means that for any one individual, connections to others can come through multiple channels so that if some of those channels disappear, others will remain. Even in these days of Facebook, MySpace, LiveJournal, Google and WordPress it's often harder than you might think to connect to actual real people who share your interests and live close enough together that they can meet face to face occasionally.
So while the opportunity is still here, I personally am going to start cultivating networks and building my personal ability to stay in contact with those who are doing things that keep my creative juices flowing. And we probably all need to be doing this far more intensively now than we have done in the past.
Thinking about art and money
I've been looking at the headline details of arts funding in the government's Spending Review. Unsurprisingly, government spending on arts generally is to drop 24% in current spending terms and 32% in capital spending. Currently, the Department of Culture, Media and Sport has an annual budget of £2 billion – just about the smallest ministerial budget, though interesting it's not a whole lot less than, say, the Foreign Office (£2.2 billion). And unlike the monster departments like Work and Pensions, Defence, Health or Education they're not in the position of having to fund major capital expenditure or meet benefit entitlements.
Mainly what's being cut is the CMS core administration budget, though funding to the BBC is being rejigged – the BBC will take over funding for the World Service, which as an independent source of news worldwide is probably where the funding should come from anyway. A bunch of other cuts are being made as well – to the school arts creative partnership programme, support for the British Film Institute, etc. Funding for Arts Council England is cut by almost 30%.
The impact is likely to be felt most in areas such as opera and theatre, classical music and museums which often cannot function – and certainly not take risks on new, innovative work – without some level of subsidy. In terms of the BBC, it may have unfortunate effects in terms of reductions for programming – though one hopes the BBC will continue to do what it does best, news, documentary, cultural programmes and cutting-edge drama, without feeling the need to start competing against the chat shows and reality programmes that grace most of the other channels. However, the Arts Council cuts will probably impact mainly on smaller regional and minority arts organisations, which will be a pity for reasons I'll explain below.
So the cuts are coming. And I have five 'first thoughts' on them.
Firstly, as an author in relatively uneconomic genres, you might think none of this affects me. I write, I sell stuff (sometimes) to magazines that are commercial operations (sort of) and receive no state funding anyway, and make most of my income from writing educational materials. But the cuts do concern me.
They concern me because in the wider scheme of things, I'm a member of a network of small ventures that do receive Arts Council funding – events for reading fiction, websites for regional writers and so forth – and to the extent that they have to scale back or close, I will lose my connections to certain ways of publicising myself. As a white, middle-aged hetero male I'm not going to be directly affected by cuts that involve loss of support for minority groups but those groups are there for a reason and however small a niche they serve, they have a wider social and community importance. Even if I'm not involved in any of them directly their loss is, to a small extent, my loss because they are part of an interlocking network of creative people that I interact with. And I wouldn't want to minimise their importance – literally in some cases the lifeline they offer – to some creative people from a range of minority populations.
My other thoughts are perhaps more optimistic.
Secondly, one of the things that creatives are good at is treating problems as opportunities. If need be, a literature group can function out of the upstairs room of a bar, got for free because the bar wants the bodies in there and the bar takings. That won't pay for an organiser or publicity, sure, but there will be ways around that.
Thirdly, a huge amount happens in a purely commercial environment. Magazines, publishers, science fiction conventions and music festivals don't get public funding anyway. There are plenty of examples of how to do 'unpopular', 'minority' or 'niche' arts that don't rely on funding. For the kinds of things I'm involved in, the cuts will be a major inconvenience but not, I hope, a disaster.
Fourthly and finally, there's a certain irony that hard times themselves often furnish the material for art. In the long view, that was true of the Thatcher years of the 1980s, when cuts of all sorts generated an explosion of art, music and writing that took the hard times – of the artists and of people generally – as their subject matter.
Fifthly and finally, the cuts are likely to mean some regional theatres closing, orchestras downsized, and so forth. And this is regrettable. But it may have some interesting implications, as those who have previously had some level of comfort from state funding are pushed towards 'marginal' or 'niche' ways of doing things and perhaps into collaboration with those of us who have had – apart from the small amount of money facilitating our social networking – no slice of the budget to start with.
Culture and the arts are and will remain important. They define who we are and reflect on aspects of our human existence and identity. They won't stop being important, and despite the cuts creative work will continue to be done. In different ways, no doubt, and for many, less comfortable ways. But there's one thing about creative people – they don't ever stop being creative about their art and how they get it out to the public.
Conversation, earlier this evening
We had the TV on in the background and there's an old pop music programme playing Don MacLean, American Pie.
V: 'I always preferred Vincent.'
Me: 'I never liked that one, I thought it was a dirge.'
V: 'How can you say that? It was a sensitive song about a great artist!'
Me: 'It was a sensitive song about a great artist but it was also a morbid dirge.'
V: 'But think about the goth music you listen to, that's morbid and dirgelike!'
Me: 'Yes, but I only like morbid dirges when they're ironic and postmodern.'
[Both collapse laughing.]
Got another blog
I've finally decided I need a separate blog for 'professional' – mainly criminology – material as well as this one, which tends to collect stuff related to fiction, literature, publishing and random happenings.
So I've set up another one at http://criminological.wordpress.com/.
Just the one post on there so far.
Results of experiment, and discussion of findings!
Follow-up on my previous post: the results were, they tussled. One tried to eat the other but was only partly successful.
I should really have marked the duvet covers 'A' and 'B' so I knew which was which. Ideally, more research is needed.
Statistically, now, I should probably try for a small sample – usually 30 results is a good rule of thumb for a worthwhile analysis, at least for most basic descriptive statistics.
I'm not enthused enough about this to actually do it, though.
There's one remaining thing that puzzles me. The likely outcomes are (1) the two duvet covers remain separate (2) A consumes B (3) B consumes A. But technically, there should be a fourth possible outcome – each duvet cover is inside the other at the end of the wash. What would that actually look like? Each one contains half of the other, a variant on the Ouroboros symbol (see the Wikipedia entry on this)?
Symbolically this could represent self-referentiality, cyclicality, or in contemporary terms, mutual assured destruction… Or, mathematically, I suppose, it might be completely achievable, each duvet cover completely inside the other, in more than three dimensions – so finding such a result would say interesting things about the nature of space-time in a washing machine drum. Unless of course because it happens in four or more dimensions, but we only see it in three, we can't recognise the essential truth of the duvet-consuming effect…
Hmm… this way could lie madness or genius. I think I'll take the former as more likely and stop now, while I'm ahead.
Or else take the idea from the realm of idle speculation into the basis for a horror story…
I am doing an experiment.
You know how, when you put a duvet cover in a washing machine with shirts and socks and things, everything ends up inside the duvet cover?
My plan is to put two duvet covers in the machine, and nothing else.
We'll see what happens.
Painting the ceiling
That's what I've been doing today. Since I'm trying to redecorate an old Artexed ceiling, I've opted for some PolyGloop thick paint that's supposed to fill the crevices (or crevasses) and self-level on the underside to create a flat ceiling surface.
It might actually work, by the fourth coat (I'm currently on the third).
But it reminded me of an old science fiction story – probably 40 or 50 years old – in which an alien arrives on a farm in the Midwest of America, lands his flying causer and threatens the farmer with the instant destruction of Earth unless he can come up with some reason that would make the planet worth saving. Actually that might be me misremembering it, but anyway he wants to know what Earth has that's worth having. The farmer is repainting the side of his barn, and suggests paint. He describes it as a thin film that can be easily applied with a brush, roller or spray gun to any surface, useful to protect materials from hazards such as rain, heat, cold and other hazards, and capable of being used in a range of colours for needs such as camouflage, military identification, or even decoration. At the end of the story I think he becomes, initially unwillingly, a wholesale supplier of paint for the intergalactic market.
There's an enormous range of paints: crack-filling paint obviously, and for more specialist applications, paints that conduct electricity, paints that act as insulators, anti-vandal paint, heat-resisting paint, underwater paint, paint for spacecraft and so forth. But while applying gloop to the ceiling I thought of some others that would be cool, though I haven't seen them for sale yet:
- Self-patterning paint (though with stripes it would probably matter which direction you painted in).
- Anti-gravity paint (it might be difficult to hang a picture on a wall painted with this, but painting a floor with it could be interesting).
- Structural paint (just paint onto thin air and it becomes a rigid structure, gives a whole new meaning to the idea of 'painting your house').
- Emotipaint (changes colour depending on the emotions of people in a room; you might have a diagnostic version that just reflects the emotions and an 'active' version that seeks to cheer people up or calm then down depending on what it detects). A more expensive variant might be precognitive or predictive paint…
Any other suggestions?
I'm off to finish the third coat of gloop now.
Jazz cow?
I was sitting in a cafe the other day, ostensibly reading a book. And there were two young women, probably in their late teens/early twenties, on another table. I carried on reading – well to be accurate, I had half an ear open as I usually do in public places – until a phrase caught my attention.
The essence of their conversation was that one fancied some young man, but was complaining about another woman who was constantly at his flat, on the phone, at the same parties as him and so on. The second woman was reassuring the first that this man really did like her and wanted a relationship with her, and her description of the 'other woman' was along the following lines:
'She's the one who's always around him because he's patient and he listens to her troubles and problems, and half the time she just invents them so she can have his sympathy. She's the jazz cow in this situation.'
Which gave me me a nice little phase I might pick up on at some point in some future writing.
Turns out it's in Urban Dictionary, that wonderful repository of people's colloquial inventions – but lots of stuff in UD is virtually private language, only ever shared by about three people. The definition given is:
A name given to someone who is really annoying but you don't wish them to know so.
Which, given the context, only loosely fitted what the intended meaning seemed to be. Has anyone else ever heard this term actually used in conversation?


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Texas Tech students will be paying more to go to school this Fall. On Friday, the Board of Regents approved another tuition hike. It's the universities second tuition hike in less than a year, so why is it happening again?
It's simple. State budget cuts and a growing student population at Texas Tech. The University was forced to find a balance, unfortunately, they're targeting students and parents to pay for the state's shortfall.
Increasing Texas Tech's tuition was the last thing Tech officials wanted to do, but they said it had to be done. "If we had not grown 3,000 students in the last three years or so, we may not need to be in a position to ask for $20 per credit hour increase in tuition. But we have the extra 3,000 students that are not funded because the state cut funding," said Texas Tech President Dr. Jon Whitmore.
Tech's current designated tuition is $56 per credit hour. It will jump another $20 in the Fall to $76 per credit hour. "For the next Fall semester, for students to pay $520 more than what they paid last Fall semester, that's really going to hit home with a lot of our parents," said Jeremy Brown, Student Government Association President.
Brown says Whitmore originally offered a $21 increase, but came down on the price. Brown says it's because Dr. Whitmore recognized the cost burden to students. However, Brown says students just aren't in favor of any tuition increase. "This tuition increase, I believe, is going to hit home with our students than any of the other universities because of our demographics," said Brown.
The tuition hike is supposed to generate nearly $15 million for the university for scholarships, student services, equipment, 30 more professors and pay raises.
President Whitmore says he will be publishing the faces of those 30 new professors in the University Daily and marking new equipment. It will have labels stating, "this was bought with your tuition money." Tuition is scheduled to increase the Fall semester.
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Scrupio took another weekend win and increased his lead, winning with a score of 11(1). silverace99 took second with a 9(1), and Adnan Ilyas took third with a 8(0). Overall, no places changed in the standings.
We have a weird week coming up, because three matches have been postponed for the FA Cup, which are West Ham United/Manchester United, Manchester City/Wigan Athletic, and Fulham/Chelsea. There have been no rescheduled dates for those games yet, but I'll be keeping an eye out to see if they get posted for some time next week, in which I'll re-add them back to this schedule, so it's your duty to keep an eye out for those yourself as well. If they aren't rescheduled for next week, then don't worry about it, they'll just get added in a different IKTS week.
Week 26 Podium:
1st: Scrupio - 11(1) 2nd: silverace99 - 9(1) 3rd: Adnan Ilyas - 8(0)
Season Top Three:
1st: Scrupio - 235(39) 2nd: silverace99 - 215(32) 3rd: SteakBaller - 206(32)
Clever Picks of the Week:
- Scrupio and silverace99 posted the only correct picks this week, on Tottenham 2-1 Arsenal (silverace99) and Aston Villa 0-1 Man. City (Scrupio)
Crisis Picks of the Week:
- Adnan Ilyas was the only one not to score on Man. United 4-0 Norwich City
I Know The Score - Week 26 Results:
1.) Scrupio - 11(1)
2.) silverace99 - 9(1)
3.) Adnan Ilyas - 8(0)
4.) bmasson11 - 7(0)
T-5.) HoodRiverDuck - 6(0)
T-5.) SteakBaller - 6(0)
7.) hansdampf - 5(0)
I Know The Score - Season Standings:
1.) Scrupio - 235(39)
2.) silverace99 - 215(32)
3.) SteakBaller - 206(32)
4.) HoodRiverDuck - 204(26)
5.) bmasson11 - 155(18)
6.) Adnan Ilyas - 155(16)
7.) hansdampf - 151(15)
I Know The Score - Week 27 Fixtures:
Champions League fixtures for Wednesday, March 13th, 2013:
Bayern Munich vs. Arsenal
English Premier League fixtures for Saturday, March 9th, 2013:
Norwich City vs. Southampton (Carrow Road) - 10:00 a.m. ET
Queen's Park Rangers vs. Sunderland (Loftus Road) - 10:00 a.m. ET
Reading vs. Aston Villa (Madejski Stadium) - 10:00 a.m. ET
West Bromwich Albion vs. Swansea City (The Hawthorns) - 10:00 a.m. ET
English Premier League fixtures for Sunday, March 10th, 2013:
Newcastle United vs. Stoke City (St. James Park) - 11: 00 a.m. ET
Liverpool vs. Tottenham Hotspur (Anfield) - 12:00 p.m. ET
Cut/Paste Format:
Norwich City Southampton
Queens Park Rangers Sunderland
Reading Aston Villa
West Bromwich Albion Swansea City
Newcastle United Stoke City
Liverpool Tottenham Hotspur
Bayern Munich Arsenal


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The College of Physicians of Philadelphia Events
The College of Physicians of Philadelphia Events
"A Vast Field of Suffering and Misery:" Florence Nightingale at Scutari
The mid-19th century popular press enabled the Crimean War to become the first conflict in which news from the field of battle was reported back swiftly to a waiting British population. The lack of care for soldiers and the conditions of the base hospitals so appalled the general public that action had to be taken. The true conditions of the infamous barracks hospital at Scutari will be examined, not just through the eyes of Nightingale herself, but from the point of view of her team of nurses, the findings of a Sanitary Commission, and the writings of the Reverend Sydney Godolphin Osbourne.
Speaker: Natasha McEnroe, Director, the Florence Nightingale Museum
This event is FREE, but registration is required.
Sponsored by the Mütter Museum of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia
The College of Physicians of Philadelphia Events
Event Category: Classes / Courses
When: April 2, 2013
Time: 6:30am - 8:00am
More Info: http://www.collegeofphysicians.org/
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/collegeofphysicians
Twitter: https://twitter.com/muttermuseum
Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/themuttermuseum


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Search: ghetto-ass ghettofied fourfour
Why: "America's Next Top Model" offers an arcane glimpse into the psyche of the 18-24 yr. old American gal.
Answer: It is right here! Read along:
I don't want, like, people to think that, y'know, I'm just this ghetto-ass ghettofied, you know, no-class bitch who don't care.Tearfully performed by this angelic creature, aptly named Angelea:
Source: fourfour
The More You Know: Cycle 13 starts September 9th. Set your DVR!!