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Ninety per cent of skin cancers occur above the neck, with up to 10 per cent on our eyelids. It makes scary reading, but the preventative measures are pleasingly simple.
Since the 1990s, UV radiation in Australia has increased between two and six per cent. With summer on the horizon, now's the time to establish some good habits for healthy eyes.
Wear sunglasses
Almost a quarter of body+soul readers rarely wear sunglasses, according to a recent OPSM survey. However, it's important to don your sunnies even in the shade because UV rays reflect off surfaces such as water, sand and snow. Choose sunglasses with EPF 9 or 10.
Pack a hat
Sun exposure causes most melanomas and the neck and ears are especially vulnerable. A hat is one of the best forms of protection, however the OPSM survey found that almost a quarter of Australians rarely wear one. Choose a hat with a wide brim made from a tightly-woven fabric.
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Alex Smith
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Red-zone problems:
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A busy SIA got underway Thursday in Denver and despite the disappointing snowfall this season, the mood wasn't total doom and gloom.
I heard mixed information about how the slow snow year is impacting people. Those retailers that made it out of the recession tend to be some of the stronger operators, who plan conservatively and know how much Mother Nature plays a part in snow sales.
Manufacturers have scaled back production and don't have as much excess inventory they need to dump. And, so far there does not seem to be mass discounting going on, though many believe that may hit fairly soon. The line I heard over and over is "nobody is panicking - yet."
I did hear from several manufacturers that orders for the season they are showing at the show may be impacted by the slow season this year. Some brands had credit managers on hand to deal with customers struggling to pay the bills this season. Also, negotiations are reportedly underway with larger retailers about what to do with their excess inventory, several people told me, and markdown dollars are a hot topic.
However, some people painted a grimmer picture, and expect there to be some retail and manufacturer casualties after this season.
Given the lack of snowfall – snow cover in the U.S. was 50% lower in December 2011 than December 2010 - SIA reported some relatively good news yesterday. Sales through December reached $2.2 billion, 2% below last season's record sales but above August - December sales in the 2008/2009 and 2009/2010 seasons.
Tough categories included goggles, wax and gloves, while apparel and equipment sales fared a bit better.
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Not that he doesn't want to start still even though he called Foles "an incredible talent."
"I'm always going to want to start," Sanchez said during his introductory press conference in Philadelphia. "It doesn't matter where you are, you want to play. There's nothing wrong with having that drive. I'll keep that fire going and try to help this team the best I can."
Sanchez said he chose the Eagles because of coach Chip Kelly's "cutting edge" approach to offense.
"I think it's the best fit," Sanchez said. "Offensively, it's the best fit, with the kind of leaders they have on this team. This is one of the most explosive teams you see around the league."
Sanchez said his surgically repaired shoulder is roughly 80 percent. He anticipates being ready by training camp.
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I recall that there was an item on Look North (probably North-West Tonight by then) in the early 1980s. This would have featured Dr Keith Robinson as superintendent of the observatory. So, Keith, not Ian. He appears to be at Salford now, although possibly not full-time. Now, I remember Keith mentioning Professor Barocas, who was the director of the observatory for many years. Professor Barocas gave evidence at a murder trial. There is a meteorological station at the observatory (the white box outside the building). The accused claimed that his mac was wet with rain not blood. Professor Barocas had to testify that it had rained on that day and the accused was acquitted, although Keith implied that it was generally considered that the accused had done it.
Now, I recall that Keith said Professor Barocas was Portuguese. What we might wonder was he doing in Preston. And where did he get his chair from? Although perhaps he only got that after the polytechnic was founded. Professor Barocas was, I learn, director for thirty years from 1949 to 1979. Both dates are a long time ago now. But it turns out that Professor Barocas is still alive and still living in Preston! He was 100 in August. And looking pretty good on it. He would appear Professor Barocas is, in fact, Italian. He fled the fascists in 1939 after obtaining his doctorate from the University of Florence and after being interned for a while was able to work at the Royal Greenwich Observatory from 1941 to 1949 before coming to Preston. (A 1978 New Scientist article backs up Professor Barocas being Italian as does the fact that he was interned as an enemy alien.) His primary research area at Preston were observations of the Sun. Well, yes. The Portuguese bit was just my memory playing tricks.
It was a different world in the 1950s being a municipal astronomer. But Professor Barocas has lead a remarkable life. Here's to the next 100. There's probably a novel in there somewhere what with being interned and the murder trial and the longevity. I should write it.
My A-level physics teacher had a book, Physics for the Enquiring Mind by Eric M. Rogers, that I greatly admired. He wouldn't let me borrow it. I suppose he feared he wouldn't get it back. I could have bought a copy on Abebooks or Amazon at some point over the last few years, but the other day I came across a scan on archive.org. So now I have the PDF on my Kindle Fire.
Now, the curious thing is that the scanned copy is from the Jeremiah Horrocks Observatory, Moor Park, Preston. Yes, Preston had its own municipal observatory. Why? What did it do? I suppose the kind of things that could be done with fair-size (1860s?) optical telescopes in built-up areas. The observatory is still there and is now owned by the University of Central Lancashire. Preston Polytechnic, of course, was run by the county council (perhaps even, originally, the county borough). I think the Preston and District Astronomical Society might use it. Did other councils have their own observatories? The observatory was opened for the 1927 total eclipse, but replaced an earlier observatory. Indeed, a second observatory was later built outside Preston in the country at Alston.
I have never been in the building although I did go to one P&DAS meeting in the early 1980s (a road not taken) and I remember a chap, Ian(?), long, straggly hair, who was something to do with both P&DAS and the observatory saying that the Moon was almost too bright to look at through the telescope.
Interestingly, the scan of Physics for the Enquiring Mind is of the Jeremiah Horrocks Observatory copy. Was (is?) the library in the observatory building itself? Is the book itself still there and it just happens there is a keen scanner working there or was the copy disposed of by the university and thus came into someone's possession? There's quite a bit of astronomy in the book, so it might have been useful for undergraduate teaching. I wonder whether astronomy was taught at Harris College? But what I wouldn't have given to have had access to the observatory library in my teens (had it been there, of course).
...eventually. I hope. Day 5.5 of the diet. I don't feel hungry, but I do feel tired and a light-headed. We'll see how long I can keep up the full version of the diet. I have no scales currently, so no idea how much I might have lost, although unlikely to be that much.
There is some other stuff I need to focus. Which is irksome, but necessary. The novel will still be there. The point of doing this is to be able focus properly on the writing. We'll see... eventually. But there will be a Plan.
There are 67 known satellites of Jupiter. After the big Galileans, they are mostly rather or very small and many of them captured asteroids in long (multi-year for some) and often retrograde. So, what to make of, say Carpo? Why would you ever go there? What would you do if you did? There must be an idea for a story in there. Someone could, of course, have left something. But why choose there? Perhaps there might come a time when all real estate in Jupiter space is worth something. And Carpo might, thanks to the Kozai effect become rather a good weapon at some point in the future. We can see a story emerging, I think.
The Late and Never Early Railway is not a sobriquet that could be applied to South West Trains this evening. At Kew Bridge, a bloke berated the guard for closing the doors before he had got on, which was fair enough given that the train was supposed to leave at 21:05 and it was only about 21:40:10. The train pulled out at about 21:04:40, which, I thought going up the stairs, would be galling if you wanted to get that train. And, indeed, as I reached the top, a woman in sports kit did go past me and down on to the platform. She seemed nonplussed to discover that the train had already gone. And probably even more so to discover that the next train was cancelled. It would be a half an hour wait for a train, although as it was a Hounslow train, perhaps she could get the bus and not have to walk so far. So it is not always a good thing to be early.
Apparently another name for Birmingham is Brummagem. It was "Bermingeham" in the Domesday Book, but Brummagem was in use by the C17th and possibly in non-affected dialect use until much later and possibly today. In 1731, "Birmingham, Bromicham, or Bremicham" were attested. It's fascinating to think that somewhere as seemingly permanent as Birmingham might have ended up being called something rather different. They again perhaps not given Domesday. Are there any other large cities in the UK the names of which could have ended up being something rather different to that which we know today until comparatively recently? I seem to recall that the village of Benson in Oxfordshire only settled on that name in the early C19th.
From the Department of Strange But True: the Yutong City Master. Yes, it's a bus built by the Chinese, taking
styling cues from the Routemaster, for Skopje. I have no idea why the want Routemaster-style buses in the capital of Macedonia, but they do. This is possibly the possibly the most post- (or even hyper-) modern I think I have ever come across. I am almost tempted to give up everything and move to Skopje just that I can write a novel about a man who spends his days travelling around Skopje on a City Master, where he can up at the front on the lower deck so that when the bus is moving at a reasonable pace, it feels like he is flying. (And people wonder why I am depressed.). I'd call it City Master.
Why don't London buses have electronic destination indicators? Could TfL have saved a lot of money by buying buses from off the shelf from Yutong? Although I have sen a "new Routemaster" at the depot in Chiswick, will the 65, 237, 267, 391 or, now, H91 ever be served by the bus?
(Thanks to Robert on Wikimedia Commons for the picture.)
Back from Totleigh Barton and the sf writing course with the estimable Simon Ings and Liz Jensen. This was the best of the six Arvons I've been on by a significant margin. Pity the post-course bubble for me lasted about ten minutes after I got to Exeter and had the connectivity to see my work emails. Humh... No internet at TB. Not even any newspapers, although I could text from my room. TB is not a long private road, so they might struggle with ADSL to Sheepwash. The problems of rural broadband. No fibre here. Next time I should take a satellite phone.
In terms of productivity, this wasn't an untutored retreat, but unlike in 2004 with Christopher Priest and Alistair Reynolds, we didn't all have to read ~20,000 words each day of other people's stuff to critique in workshops. We were taught things and did fun and educational exercises. And there was late night carousing. Wonderful stuff and I look forward to next year, probably a retreat as the sf courses tend to run every 2-3 years. There were eleven of us as opposed to the full 16, so I wonder if the course make a surplus as that's probably £3k down on what it might be. Hope to see my fellow students from the course virtually and physically. I wonder who'll be the first to breakthrough. Certainly plenty of useful tips for me and no doubt everyone else from Liz and Simon.
The interesting thing is that without the internet, there was almost nothing that happened on the course that couldn't have happened in 2004. I don't think TB has changed much since my last visit. I was in the old house then, but perhaps the Pig Sties had been converted and it was just that it would have meant going out of the building for a shower. In 1994, some people might have had laptops, but very few in 1984 and none in 1974. I understand that originally (until the early 1990s at least), there were dormitories. In 1964, the centre wasn't there. But save for laptops, single rooms, showers and some changes in the kinds of food people eat, I imagine the overall experience hasn't changed much since the centre opened in 1968 (I think). Long may it stay the same. It's a living example in its way of the Extended Now and of Generic Time. Totleigh Barton is a polder in the Encyclopedia of Fantasy sense. There's a story in there somewhere.
The food was good and I have now begin my diet. We'll see. I just need to ado something about the stress. Just got to keep at it now and get the first draft of the novel finished by the end of the year.
Off to Arvon tomorrow for the science fiction writing course at Totleigh Barton in Devon with tutors Simon Ings and Liz Jensen and guest M. John Harrison, so we shall see how that goes compared to the sf course there in 2004 with Christopher Priest and Al Reynolds (Molly Brown guest) and the other Arvon tutored and untutored courses I have been on over the past ten years (it seems longer). I'd probably have been better doing a untutored retreat in terms of getting on with the novel. But perhaps this will more inspiring and I will be energised to get the thing finished finally. I am hoping to get the short stories in the Book of Two Halves (Nicholas Royle, referee) signed. All three writer-participants have stories in it. Not, I assume, a coincidence. The whole thing will, at least, make a change.
I bought Avalon Hill's Baseball Strategy from, I think, the Virgin Megastore in Oxford in 1988. It wasn't my first AH sports strategy game. We played Football Strategy in the sixth form and was actually better at it than my friend, Fowlie. Boxing Strategy with my RPG chums was a disappointment as there appeared to be no skill element. I;ve never played Baseball Strategy, but I'd still like to, but I think it helps to understand the rules of the game much better than I do to actually be able to play it.
Thanks to Mo for this one: the game was Logacta or, possibly, LOGacta). I wasn't just dreaming it. I remember this advert. And so evocative of the era.
Thanks to the Football Attic for the picture. £7.95 was a lot of money in 1976. The game is not quite as I had imagined, You simulated a division of just sixteen teams and cup competitions began in later rounds But there was a World Cup and a European Championship. And the game did use a system that took into account relative positions in determining the results of the game and recent form, so that a bottom of the division team would have the chance of having a late run of form to avoid relegation. I'd have loved this when I was 8. By 9, I'd moved onto cricket and never really looked back. Whether I'd have had the patience or the accuracy to be complete the game when I was pre-teenager I don't know, but at 15, in my RPG years, I would have even if I didn't like football.
Talking of the 1970s, I recall from adverts in Tiger and Scorcher and, possibly, Roy of the Rovers some football simulation that allowed you, as I remember, to replicate a season. I wonder what it was called and how it worked. As I remember, it reproduced the whole of the campaign including the European compeitions. Now, computer games have been doing this kind of thing since the early 1990s and I remember how frustrating Football Manager was on my 386 in 1992, but the mid-1970s was a different country so I wonder how sophisticated the game was. I can imagine that you got a booklet with all of the fixtures for each week and that you rolled a die or dice for each team and looked the result of the match on a matrix. You then filled in an updated divisional table based on the results. For cup games, the initial round might be fixed, but after that you carried out a draw. Of course, if you just a pencil or drew up your own league tables, you could play multiple seasons. I wonder if you got to simulate all four English divisions or just the first.
Of course, the game might have been nothing like I am imaging it to have been. I suppose it's the kind of thing that is sold on EBay. In my mind's eye, I can see the box - so you must have got charts, not just a booklet. But what was it called?
What can we say about UKIP once you strip away the anti-East European racism and unfocussed anti-Establishmentarianism? It's the usual banal mix of libertarianism, nostalgic fantasy and saloon bar prejudice. Which is precisely what we don't need. Worse of the same. But given that the left is offering us is what we are likely to end up with. Of course in Scotland, you might join choose the SNP. But what have they got to offer that actually much different to UKIP other than EU membership?
John Lydon is quite right that we must vote even if it is only for the least worst option. But surely we can do better than that. We must do better than that if the future is to be anything more than the slough of despond I fear it is likely to be. But it's too late for 2015. Is there any hope for an outcome other than, at best, a Con/LD coalition?
But a small swing to Labour on the grounds that no-one much likes Cameron and the coalition? The collapse of the LD vote. "Vote LD, get the Tories." Won't get fooled again. Tories bleeding more votes to UKIP than Labour? Could that be enough for Labour to capture enough Tory and LD seats to at least be the largest party? But, of course, if the SNP makes gains in Scotland, we could have case where the SNP ends up, accidentally, putting Cameron back in Number 10 possibly with UKIP offering Confidence and Supply. I fear it is going to be a grim months and, frankly, I don't know if I can take it.
I need to lose 20 kg. Which is quite a lot. And it's not as though I can handily go to the gym for two and a half hours five days a week these days like I could in 1998. By coincidence, there's a weight loss competition at work. Which is a good thing. But something drastic needs to change. Portion control is the issue and supposedly I need to cut down on carbs. Cut out the sauce? They're dead calories. But I like drinking. Indeed. But a month off when I get back from Arvon would help with the initial stage of the weight loss. I can cut out bread in the evening and reduce the carbs. But I need to something more. I'm looking into liquid diets. But which is the best or at least a reasonable one to try for six weeks? I don't want one that involves having to talk to a "consultant" about the scheme. I don't want to go to meetings or have support or pay commissions to middle people. What to do? Just whatever is at Boot's? Or is there something I've missed so far?
As I recall the Physics syllabus at Oxford when I was there contained very litte classical mechanics. I don't know where my book containing all the syllabuses for all the courses is (what is the book called?), but there certainly was some stuff on one of the Mods papers, but it was the one that I did not do, if I recall correctly, as I did the astronomy paper. But I think the paper only had one or two questions on classical mechanics and more on quantum mechanics and special relativity. I don't recall being taught classical mechanics in tutorials. I remember being suprised that we did so little CM given that it is a core topic in physics and one taught at most universities. So what were we being taught instead. Was CM perceived as being too trivial and little more than an extension of A-level mechanics/physics? I think that the third year theoretical physics paper did contain some CM, but, of course, I wasn't clever enough to do that. The theoretical paper was the graveyard of many a first, not that I would have been on for a first.
But it would seem that first-year undergraduates do now do substantial amounts of CM. Now, some of this might be revision of A-level material or simply filling in of basic material no longer taught at A-level. But a lot of it is clearly not just that. So why is the material there now? Is it that with a four-year course for most (many?) students there is more room in the syllabus? Has something been taken out? Or are students nowadays simply expected to learn more? What ever way, I cannot deny that I feel depressed that I never got to learn more of this stuff.
The apartment was the best of the four we have in the current run of holidays since 2011. As the Weasel said, the EU money for Ortigia went into people's pockets rather than improving the built environment. It's a very lived in place. I suppose parts of it look much as they did 300 years ago. You could use the street plan for an RPG campaign. I wonder if we discovered all the main streets, certainly after nearly a week we were still coming across them. The food was first class, but al that pasta is not helping with a fundamental problem. There was enough to do for a week if you are happy to chillax most of the time. Having a car would have been great, but I am not really up to driving on the wrong side of the road. I could imagine living there, but heaven knows what I would do (there are no obvious bits of universities needing consultancy managers) and it would probably be too hot for me, although you would probably get used to the scooters. I would though, I think, be better off in France. But I do not want to be a TEFL teacher.
Further to the Weasel's comment, Traveller was always more my game than AD&D. I owned a lot of Traveller stuff, but no AD&D stuff, although I did have random stuff for other games. But Traveller was the first one for me. And it was and is in many ways a thing of wonder. There were no many wonderful things about it. The character generation system, especially in the expanded version, the planet generation system, which would instantly give you scenario ideas, the rules for designing ships, the rules for designing animals (based on ecological niche), the endlessly fascinating setting of the Imperium and its rival empires, gender blindness, the aliens, even rules for generating names in Vilani and other languages.
There were, of course things that didn't quite work. I loved the colour map of the Spinward Marches, but I did worry that a lot of the game's flavour arose from the two-dimensionality of the sector. I suppose you are supposed to imagine the third dimensions, but then the maps don't really work. They could have got round that (cubic subsectors), although I can see why they didn't. The rules for computers didn't really work (I had a friend who argued that they had been reinvented after the Long Night along very different principles than our machines. Of course, we are pre-nanotech and pre-Singularity, so you have the old sf problem often encountered, for instance in Doctor Who, that FTL starships, planetary colonisation and gravitics are easy, but mobile phones, CCTV and world brains are hard. GURPS Transhuman Space is an attempt to do Traveller "properly" in the Solar System of ~2100 (there was, of course, a GURPS Traveller - which used Imperial units!) and Orion's Arm, which is used by some people as an RPG setting. I have not seen Firefly, although it has been called Traveller on TV. There is an article to be written on the Proverbial Good SF TV Series, but the Traveller universe would be perfect for a Games of Thrones in Space.
And, yes, Traveller must feature heavily in Ulysses on the Ribble.
There are something like four hundred billion stars in our galaxy. That would be a good name for a novel. If most stars have planets and there are tens of interesting bodies, as there are in thre Solar System, around each star, there are trillions of interesting bodies in our galaxy. And people wonder why I am depressed, We can imagine them all explored in a few millions years, a fraction of the age of our galaxy and a smaller fraction of the lifetime of the galaxy even if it were to get ripped apart by the expansion of the universe.
One of the many good things about Traveller is that it gave a simple system for generating the variety of the main planet of a system (and in Scouts the others as well). There are many interesting places in the Solar System. But why set a story in any given place? But, of course, once people are living there for the sake of living there, there will be a reason to go there and an awful lot of other places.
We know that the Solar System is not necessarily typical of planetary systems. Many systems have gas giants of various kinds in the inner system. For M-class stars, it might be that ideal heating would rule out Earth-like satellites close in and further out they might not have a stable orbit. But Saturn and Neptune both have large satellites too. Would Titan at 1 AU around a G2 star be able to retain its atmosphere given its mass and the temperature at that distance? And would it be possible to somehow make satellites of gas giants that are much more metal-rich than Titan and Triton and had Earth-like atmosphere. Venus is hotter and smaller than Earth, but has a thick atmosphere, so there are a lot of factors than can affect the possible outcomes. Could a more metal-rich protoplanetary disc give blue-green satellites. It seems that the Solar System's disc was dispersed before the gas giants could move into the inner systems, but surely they are metal-rich systems were they did. Could such worlds be common?
Bishops resigning for unspecified reasons. Ministers resigning for unspecified reasons. I suppose we will learn more about both of those from the gutter press tomorrow morning. Second Tory MP defecting to UKIP. And still no explanation for Eck's flounce. What is going on in our body politic? And people wonder why I am depressed.
I had heard of Ello until this morning. Now I am feed up with it. It is just me or is the hype cycle getting even quicker? As far as I can tell, Ello seems to be more like Tumblr than something that might actually be useful like LiveJournal. Do you remember the days when we dreamt of Typepad/LiveJournal integration. I'm not the only one to be fed up with Ello. This geezer, who I think might live in Brighton, thinks it's bad because it's VC-funded. I suppose it's a point of view. But if Ello isn't going to take ads, how does it make money? Subscriptions? Selling user data to advertisers to be used in some kind of indirect marketing? Hardly ad-free in any meaningful sense then. Ello's free-for-all model pretty much guarantees what the end result of the site will be. It's not the anonymity. It's the scope for trolling and other unplesant activities without, it seems, much in the way of a system for resolving arising issues between users. Isn't this just a version 4chan?
In more positive news, there were a couple of interesting developments I came across today in medtech, one related to stopping aging in cells and another, from Imperial, related to cancer metabolism and potential ways to block the growth of cancer cells. More of this kind of thing, please.
It was the Faber Academy Writing a Novel reading for agents on Wednesday. The final event of the course. So that's that now. I don't know how many agents there were there. Or how many might interested in my science fiction novel. But we did get to be in the anthology, which looks like a real Faber book. It even has the ff on the side even if it doesn't have an ISBN. But it something to see one's work on the pages of a printed book. Still a long way to go before the real thing, of course.
To the LRB Bookshop with the Weasel to see Douglas Coupland in conversation with Alain de Botton about Dougie's new book, Kitten Clone, a photo-essay about Alactel-Lucent. The interesting thing is that Dougie couldn't imagine that anyone in the audience could have work for Alcatel-Lucent. I didn't, but I did work for Ericsson, Siemens and Analysys. I could have worked for Alcatel-Lucent (hypothetically, in a different timeline). At least, I got to have a chat with Dougie and disabuse him of the notion that the kinds of people who work at Alcatel-Lucent aren't the kind of people who might read his books.
A stomach is an organ for digesting food. A brain is a organ for processing information. Or if you don't like that, thinking. Or "thinking". So, we can simulate the physico-chemical processes going on in a stomach at various levels. That might be useful if we are interested in the physiology of that organ. But we won't be able to digest an actual lunch.
And if we simulate the physico-chemical processes going on in a brain? Well, let's think of the input and outputs of the stomach. These are chemicals in, different chemicals and heat out. For the brain, it's some kind of electrical (or, if you insist, electrochemical) input in and, well, yes, and electrical output out. So, a brain is in fact, as an organ, quite different from the stomach in what it inputs and outputs. Thus a simulation of a stomach and of a
brain are, in fact, quite different things. OK, the brain is an organ in which biochemical processes occur in its cells. And the stomach can also produce electrical outputs. But from a cybernetic perspective, the brain and the computer are systems interacting in the world (which might be a simulation). A mind is a description that be applied to such a system depending on the complexity of its responses to external stimuli.
Another way of looking at this is to imagine that we simulate a hurricane in a computer. We won't get wet. But we can study hurricanes by making minature ones (or bits of ones) in the lab. We might not get wet, but there is something real there now. The brain is an electrical system processing signals. The simulated brain is an electrical system processing signals. In this case, the system and its simulation are the same kind of thing. If we don't want to be behaviourists, we can cut open out systems and see what is going on inside them. And it's exactly the same kinds of things happening in our neurons and our neuromorphic chips. If we acribe a mind to the animal, why do we not ascribe a mind to the robot. Yes, Microsoft Word or IBM Watson have no volition or consciousness, but why would we think that a robot has any less than a animal with a comparably sophisticated central nervous system except one is created and the other evolved?
It's the UK general election in a few months' time. I expect a Tory victory, but anything's possible. We don't know what will happen to the LD vote or indeed the Labour one in Scotland. Even a small swing to Labour in England could make them the largest party. It's not that though that a want to talk about.
I sometimes get these surveys. What should Ed Miliband talk about in his conference speech? Jobs? The NHS? Europe? Housing? Energy? Well, energy, yes. But not in the sense of energy bills are too high and we will get Ofgem to cap. Energy as a placeholder for the existential crisis that humanity faces. Forget constitutional reform and wondering whether the UK will exist in 10 or 20 or 30 years. Will technological civilisation? That's what I care about. And people wonder why I am depressed.
S.J. Watson is the poster child of the Faber Academy novel writing course. I have the book of Before I Go to Sleep, but I haven't read it and am unlikely to ever bother now after seeing the film this evening in Richmond. It was tosh and very unpleasantly violent tosh too. I can't say too much for reasons of spoilers, but there are a number of points that spring to mind. Does any form of real-life amnesia work anything like that? OK, amnesia might in books. But keeping a diary is an obvious thing for an amnesiac to do. Didn't Gene Wolfe do something along these lines? There are lots of plot holes. I suppose in the novel many of these are plugged or explored. Why does she have no relatives and only one friend? How does the neuropsychiatrist know about her in the first place? But for me, as a writer, the really frustrating thing is that there is a much more interesting story in there waiting to be told. It'd be very different from what Watson. But it would be a lot more interesting.
What a day! The nation is saved! The nation, our land, the contiguous mass of land on which we roam freely and call home. That matters. Forget about politics and the constitution.There is the matter of earth. Now, we might wonder what saved it for the union. Turnout in the few Yes areas was lower than the No ones. Which suggests that potential Yes voters might have not been able to bring themselves to go to the polls. Or it might be that people changed their minds in the polling booth. Certainly, it might be that being No was unfashionable in certain circles, which might have lead to an echo effect and reluctance to identify as No.
But even six weeks ago when was writing about the foverendum, I thought that 57-43 would be a disappointingly close result. And here are congratulating ourselves 55-45. Circumstances change. So why Eck did flounce? He must have known from his internal polling that he wasn't going to win and thus 55-45 was better than he would have expected in August. With the likelihood of a Tory government next year, if Eck could retain his majority in 2015 (possibly a big if), there'd be a chance of a second go in 2017. I wonder if focus groups presented with this scenario had suggested that people would react negatively to a second referendum. Three years is too soon. And a decade from now, constitutional niceties might be forgotten in coping with climate change, energy and food shortages, and pandemics. Perhaps he just couldn't face losing twice. Or perhaps he hopes that he can still make a triumphant Churchillian return from the wilderness to lead Scotland to independence. After lining his pockets for a few years with lucrative directorships and consultancies. But resigning today does seem an insult to Yes voters. But who knows what the febrile internal politics of the SNP might be.
As for the West Lothian question, I had thought that nobody cared about that except Tam Dalyell. Having saved the union, is Cameron know going to destroy it? Last night was a good night for Britain. It reaffirmed the commitment of our nation to a shared identity. But our political system is profoundly broken. And I do not know how or if it can be mended.
But, if we can, can we agree to never do this again. I don't think I could stand it.
I am going to have a very small whisky and then go to bed and try and sleep. Nothing is likely to happen for several hours. There is a feeling which way it might go, but, frankly, we don't know. We shall see. Fingers crossed.
A selection of very different reasons to vote No from very different people
Jenny Colgan: http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/sep/13/jenny-colgan-no-scotland-fewer-walls-barriers
Denise Mina: http://www.heraldscotland.com/politics/referendum-news/denise-mina-im-voting-noindy-is-a-conceptual-mistake.1410948755
Flyingrodent: http://flyingrodent.blogspot.co.uk/2014/09/fuck-it.html
Glen Newey: http://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2014/09/16/glen-newey/a-grisly-future/
Alan Massie: http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/coffeehouse/2014/09/why-i-am-voting-no/
Ken MacLeod: http://kenmacleod.blogspot.co.uk/2014/09/a-shout-for-labourno.html
The cases for No are overwhelming. A Yes vote would be a disaster for Britain and a catastrophe for Scotland. Even if Austerity Max were somehow avoided, the economic, political and organisational chaos of the endless transitional period would sap any utopian spirit that might exist. And even if the risk of Austerity Max were only 20%, could one take the risk? A Yes vote is a vote for more Tories as it is the bankers who will be running Scotland, whether it has the merk or the euro or tries sterlingisation.
So for those of us who do have a vote tomorrow, please use it wisely. Do not lightly put aside what Britain has been for three centuries. Do not lightly put at risk everything that has been created together. Utopianism might be an antidote to cynicism, but sincerity cuts both ways. Do not be lead astray by fantasy. The head and the heart should join together. We are better together. Please vote No to keep united and we work together as we lived in the Early Days of a Better Nation.
Nearly finished "The Bone Clocks". The final section is set in rural Cork after the partial collapse of technological civilisation. I have thought about moving to rural Cork as a redoubt in case of the collapse of technological civilisation. That's not why Mitchell sets it there as far as I know. He lives there, but perhaps he chose to live there for that reason. The question is, how worried should we be about the energy issue? Is it the case that we are basically stuffed by peak oil? Or is it the case, as I have seen it suggested, that this is not an issue because in fact there's plenty of oil, gas and coal left - and we have practical ways of converting coal into liquid fuel. Of course, we should be decarbonising the global energy system. Could it simply be a matter of solar farms in the
desert and perhaps some nuclear fusion? Is there any point moving to the country and becoming, essentially, a survivalist? Is it better just to resign ourselves. I can't help thinking about the fact that large regions of the world are already in the grip of the kind of anarchy I fear. Why can't it happen here? This kind of thinking is not
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The market's calmer waters In this still-young year offer a welcome refuge from 2011's nerve-racking sea of volatility, but the bad memories linger. Just look at the poor average results in the semi-annual Barron's-Zacks ranking of Wall Street brokers' stock-focus lists.
For the second consecutive ranking, the average return of the recommendation lists trailed the stock market—this time badly.
With dividends included, the S&P 500 index, which frequently saw daily swings of 1% or more in the half, lost 3.7% in the half. In that same period, the brokers' focus lists—which contain what the firms consider their best stock ideas—did significantly worse, down 6% on average. Ouch! They underperformed for the year, too.
In the four periods covered, Wedbush surfed to three gold medals, McAdams Wright to one. Gary Hovland for Barron's
The results are broadly consistent with previous rankings. Over the years, the Barron's-Zacks survey has shown that the average focus-list return tends to exceed the market's during bull runs, as was the case in 2009 and 2010. However, the mean return typically trails the S&P 500 in bear cycles or in herky-jerky markets, as was the case for much of 2011, when the market actually finished little changed. Unfortunately, that's just when investors need good ideas the most.
Every six months, Barron's and Zacks rank the stock picks of a number of America's brokers—some of them big-name banks like Morgan Stanley ms -0.509915014164306% Morgan Stanley U.S.: NYSE USD35.12 -0.18 -0.509915014164306% /Date(1417039281162-0600)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 6059784 AFTER HOURS USD35.1 -0.019999999999996 -0.05694760820045558% Volume (Delayed 15m) : 79057 P/E Ratio 13.71875 Market Cap 68743989657.315 Dividend Yield 1.1389521640091116% Rev. per Employee 755619 More quote details and news » (ticker: MS), but others little-known nationally, like McAdams Wright Ragen. (For a more detailed description of how we evaluate the results, see "Behind the Lists" at the end of this article.)
What did in the brokers as a group—though some did much better than others—was the market's singular concern last year with macroeconomic factors, such as the U.S. economy and the European debt crisis. It was tough for many brokerage firms to show their stock-picking skills when equity correlations were so high that most stocks moved in unison up and down, according to whether the "risk off" or "risk on" trade was dominant. For the market, company fundamentals took a back seat in the second half, and it shows.
Nevertheless, as always, there were winners and losers in the four periods our evaluation covers. This contest marks the arrival of the West Coast crew, if you will, dominated as it was by two regional brokers far away from Wall Street.
Los Angeles-based Wedbush Securities surfed to top honors by wide margins over the six, 12 and 36 months ended Dec. 31, 2011.
McAdams Wright, based in Seattle, won the five-year contest, doubling up the second-place finisher. A strong five-year performance is notable because that means a broker has done well over a lengthy period. In this case, the significance is amplified because the period included both 2008's terrible bear market and the strong 2009-2010 bull market. McAdams Wright, a small regional broker with a relatively narrow base of analysts—should take a deep bow. Indeed, this broker has consistently punched above its weight over the past three years.
Besides our winners, good performances were also turned in by Morgan Keegan, another regional broker and one that has often been at or near the top of this survey for many years. The Memphis-based firm, which is being sold to Raymond James Financial rjf -0.03541703559412077% Raymond James Financial Inc. U.S.: NYSE USD56.45 -0.02 -0.03541703559412077% /Date(1417039322634-0600)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 275555 AFTER HOURS USD56.456 0.00600000000000023 0.010628875110717449% Volume (Delayed 15m) : 1734 P/E Ratio 16.55425219941349 Market Cap 7990610618.24951 Dividend Yield 1.2754650132860939% Rev. per Employee 488666 More quote details and news » (RJF) by Regions Financial (RF), finished second in the six- and 60-month challenges.
Honorable mention also goes to St. Louis-based Edward Jones, a consistent proponent of a conservative buy-and-hold strategy involving large-cap, dividend-paying, quality stocks. Unsurprisingly, whenever the "risk off" trade made itself felt last year—which was often—that helped Edward Jones, which took third in the six-month contest and was second for all of 2011.
Showing that fortunes can reverse quickly, discount broker Charles Schwab schw -0.24673951357067325% Charles Schwab Corp. U.S.: NYSE USD28.3 -0.07 -0.24673951357067325% /Date(1417039349948-0600)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 3509736 AFTER HOURS USD28.306 0.00600000000000023 0.02120141342756184% Volume (Delayed 15m) : 85585 P/E Ratio 30.106382978723403 Market Cap 36953262919.7929 Dividend Yield 0.8480565371024735% Rev. per Employee 434638 More quote details and news » (SCHW) brought up the rear in the six-month contest. Schwab's performance represents a first-to-worst fall—a drastic shift that in recent contests has become less uncommon. Wedbush, for example, has had similar position changes (more on that below). In our previous contest, Schwab had scored a double victory, being first over both six and 12 months.
The other cellar-dwellers this time around were New Constructs for 12 months, Morgan Stanley Smith Barney for 36 months and Schwab again for 60.
The impact on the brokers' lists of last year's high correlation among stocks is confirmed in Zacks' analysis. Says Zacks equity strategist Tracey Ryniec, almost apologetically: "Usually, there is something that distinguishes the winners and losers by stock sectors. This time, there isn't. There's nothing sector-specific."
That said, any focus list with a large overweighting in financial stocks at just about any time in the past five years was likely penalized. The S&P 500 financials sector slid by two-thirds in the 60 months ended 2011. But financials have been among the top performers in 2012.
Wedbush's head of equities, Sheri Kaiserman, says that the key to success last year for its "Best Ideas" list was an aggressive addition of stocks in the teeth of the August-September downdraft. The brokerage added HealthSpring (HS), which subsequently rose 46%, thanks to a takeover offer by Cigna ci 0.10794896957801767% Cigna Corp. U.S.: NYSE USD102.01 0.11 0.10794896957801767% /Date(1417039232562-0600)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 1028129 AFTER HOURS USD102.01 % Volume (Delayed 15m) : 17572 P/E Ratio 13.63770053475936 Market Cap 26683675369.8892 Dividend Yield 0.039211841976276834% Rev. per Employee 935534 More quote details and news » (CI); and Clean Harbors clh -0.5017057997190447% Clean Harbors Inc. U.S.: NYSE USD49.58 -0.25 -0.5017057997190447% /Date(1417039411957-0600)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 372198 AFTER HOURS USD49.58 % Volume (Delayed 15m) : 1959 P/E Ratio N/A Market Cap 2972222042.06482 Dividend Yield N/A Rev. per Employee 264311 More quote details and news » (CLH), up nearly 40% and benefiting from increased environmental remediation needs, thanks to increased energy drilling in North America. The addition of retailer The Children's Place Retail Stores plce -0.3998545983278808% Children's Place Inc. U.S.: Nasdaq USD54.8 -0.22 -0.3998545983278808% /Date(1417039200184-0600)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 249963 AFTER HOURS USD54.8 % Volume (Delayed 15m) : 2988 P/E Ratio 21.6600790513834 Market Cap 1181816782.71027 Dividend Yield 0.9671532846715328% Rev. per Employee 106035 More quote details and news » (PLCE) and software company Intuit intu -0.453270019425858% Intuit Inc. U.S.: Nasdaq USD92.24 -0.42 -0.453270019425858% /Date(1417039200170-0600)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 1364777 AFTER HOURS USD92.2511 0.011099999999999 0.012033824804856895% Volume (Delayed 15m) : 46992 P/E Ratio 31.326201392426558 Market Cap 26334150632.7905 Dividend Yield 1.0841283607979184% Rev. per Employee 569500 More quote details and news » (INTU) helped. Only Clean Harbors remains on Wedbush's list.
In the three-year contest, Wedbush was helped by a general absence of those ugly financial stocks. Effectively, it was addition by subtraction.
To some extent, Wedbush also benefits from having a smaller list, typically, just 12 to 15 names. This means that just one or two big scores can significantly push up returns. But those who live by the sword can also die by the sword, and only a couple of bad picks can sink a short list. Regular readers of this survey might remember that, over the years, Wedbush has often been at the top or the bottom of the rankings, and rarely in the middle.
At McAdams Wright Ragen, acting research director Sid Parakh says it won the five-year gold medal by nimbly moving in and out of tech and consumer stocks. Well-timed buys and sells of Starbucks sbux -0.635830943772597% Starbucks Corp. U.S.: Nasdaq USD79.7 -0.51 -0.635830943772597% /Date(1417039200205-0600)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 2983121 AFTER HOURS USD79.71 0.0099999999999909 0.012547051442910916% Volume (Delayed 15m) : 115255 P/E Ratio 28.8768115942029 Market Cap 59639506743.4693 Dividend Yield 1.6060225846925973% Rev. per Employee 86114.1 More quote details and news » (SBUX), Nordstrom jwn -0.19851773425092642% Nordstrom Inc. U.S.: NYSE USD75.41 -0.15 -0.19851773425092642% /Date(1417039396932-0600)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 980054 AFTER HOURS USD75.5384 0.128399999999999 0.17026919506696725% Volume (Delayed 15m) : 10872 P/E Ratio 19.638020833333332 Market Cap 14335442156.4331 Dividend Yield 1.7504309773239624% Rev. per Employee 210784 More quote details and news » (JWN), Whole Foods wfm 0.37359900373599003% Whole Foods Market Inc. U.S.: Nasdaq USD48.36 0.18 0.37359900373599003% /Date(1417039200124-0600)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 2318538 AFTER HOURS USD48.5 0.140000000000001 0.2894954507857734% Volume (Delayed 15m) : 47575 P/E Ratio 31 Market Cap 17397365588.2245 Dividend Yield 1.075268817204301% Rev. per Employee 162775 More quote details and news » (WFM), Intel intc 1.5969162995594715% Intel Corp. U.S.: Nasdaq USD36.9 0.58 1.5969162995594715% /Date(1417039200582-0600)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 23387612 AFTER HOURS USD36.86 -0.0399999999999992 -0.10840108401084012% Volume (Delayed 15m) : 674413 P/E Ratio 17.083333333333332 Market Cap 178411507377.625 Dividend Yield 2.4390243902439024% Rev. per Employee 510994 More quote details and news » (INTC), 3M mmm 0.15816778438567633% 3M Co. U.S.: NYSE USD158.31 0.25 0.15816778438567633% /Date(1417039249198-0600)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 1782740 AFTER HOURS USD158.31 % Volume (Delayed 15m) : 40484 P/E Ratio 21.278225806451612 Market Cap 101448049532.913 Dividend Yield 2.160318362706083% Rev. per Employee 357190 More quote details and news » (MMM), Kimberly-Clark kmb 0.28109627547434995% Kimberly-Clark Corp. U.S.: NYSE USD114.16 0.32 0.28109627547434995% /Date(1417039375486-0600)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 1076973 AFTER HOURS USD113.7069 -0.453099999999992 -0.39689908899789766% Volume (Delayed 15m) : 222519 P/E Ratio 20.063268892794376 Market Cap 42519462631.0607 Dividend Yield 2.9432375613174493% Rev. per Employee 374877 More quote details and news » (KMB) and Medtronic mdt 0.9479324082978431% Medtronic Inc. U.S.: NYSE USD73.48 0.69 0.9479324082978431% /Date(1417039212995-0600)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 4750804 AFTER HOURS USD73.98 0.5 0.6804572672836146% Volume (Delayed 15m) : 311927 P/E Ratio 25.07849829351536 Market Cap 72327617684.1697 Dividend Yield 1.6603157321720197% Rev. per Employee 354429 More quote details and news » (MDT), among others, propelled the focus list. The firm also benefited by having little exposure to financials and telecoms.
McAdams also finished second over three years, but has stumbled a bit lately. In the six months ended Dec. 31, 2011, it finished fifth and underperformed the market. Picks like Corning glw 0.23786869647954328% Corning Inc. U.S.: NYSE USD21.07 0.05 0.23786869647954328% /Date(1417039400621-0600)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 3764445 AFTER HOURS USD21.07 % Volume (Delayed 15m) : 305567 P/E Ratio 15.158273381294965 Market Cap 27008537442.063 Dividend Yield 1.8984337921214998% Rev. per Employee 304803 More quote details and news » (GLW), and Federated Investors fii 0.0946073793755913% Federated Investors Inc. U.S.: NYSE USD31.74 0.03 0.0946073793755913% /Date(1417039531198-0600)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 314795 AFTER HOURS USD31.71 -0.0299999999999976 -0.0945179584120983% Volume (Delayed 15m) : 1195 P/E Ratio 22.041666666666668 Market Cap 3362535457.80295 Dividend Yield 3.15059861373661% Rev. per Employee 606008 More quote details and news » (FII), both down significantly, hurt returns, although both are still on the list. McAdams, like Wedbush, has a small list, typically just 20 names.
Elkan Scheidt, chairman of Morgan Keegan's focus-list committee, ascribes the firm's strong showing over three and five years to its multicap approach and a low level of financial stocks.
Edward Jones has a 40-to-60-name focus list that goes for high-quality companies with good and regularly increasing dividends. Last year "was our sweet spot," says Dave Powers, the St. Louis firm's director of equity research, because such stocks were often in favor.
In contrast, Charles Schwab had a tough time in 2011's last six months, finishing last. Its 100-name list looks for cheap stocks with improving fundamentals and market momentum, but when the "risk off" trade hit, its picks were hurt, says its director of equity ratings, Greg Forsythe. Particularly damaging was the third quarter, during which stocks were moving almost in unison on macro factors. "Where we saw value, the market saw market-exposed and economically sensitive stocks," Forsythe laments.
A spokeswoman for Morgan Stanley Smith Barney, which finished last in the three-year ranking, says it looks for high-quality, defensive names, which were not in demand in 2009-2010.
As for New Constructs, the worst performer in the second half of 2011, a spokesman says, "It was very much a momentum-investor's market," and the momentum for some of its picks went in the wrong direction.
Behind the Lists
Chicago-based Zacks Investment Research compiles the data and then scores the brokers by keeping a running tally of each focus list for various periods over the past five years. In tracking brokers' best ideas, Zacks puts a stock in a theoretical portfolio when the broker adds it to its focus list, and takes it out when the broker removes it. While similar in intent, these lists differ in significant ways. For example, some are updated at regular intervals, but others can be changed at any time.
The sizes of most lists are flexible. Many include 20 to 40 names, but some, like Charles Schwab's, can run to 100. The smaller the list, the more exposed it is to one or two stellar or disastrous picks. With big lists, individual picks matter less, but it's tougher to beat the index because each stock is a smaller percentage of the portfolio. Some of our participants focus on large caps and others small- and mid-cap stocks, which over long periods tend to outperform big-caps.
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SNOW, SNOW, SNOW!Submitted by warrenklug on Mon, 12/13/2010 - 12:10
Last weekend brought another 10 inches of fresh snow to the top of Aspen and Snowmass, and conditions are just the best for fun skiing and snowboarding. Last weekend also, Highlands and Buttermilk opened for the season so now all the four mountains of Aspen are open, in great shape and providing fun times for visitors and locals alike! Aspen is getting all dressed up for the holidays and Christmas, and it is a magical time to be here. Remember we still have special rates until just before Christmas. We still have a few availabilities for the week between Christmas and New Years.
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Air service into Aspen's local airport is excellent again this year with more seats and more destinations available. Frontier Airlines continues to serve Aspen with four daily flights to Denver all winter long, connecting to their over 50 major market cities nation wide. United Airlines continues to bring more service to Aspen, and new this winter is Aspen to Houston service starting January 4. Daily directs from Aspen on United include four to Chicago, three to Los Angeles and two to San Francisco. Service from Asepn to Denver continues as well. Need more options?
More snow, more great skiingSubmitted by warrenklug on Sat, 12/11/2010 - 08:30
And snowboarding, too of course. The weekend has brought LOTS of new snow, along with Saturday night's SUMMIT FOR LIFE charity "up hill" race. Over 350 racers and participants will hike, ski or trudge up the front of Aspen Mountain all in support of organ donor awareness and the Chris
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text: The following represents disclosure information provided by authors of this abstract. The Genitourinary Cancers Symposium Program Committee has reviewed all presenting author disclosure reports, identified potential conflicts of interest, and implemented strategies to manage those areas of conflict, where appropriate. All relationships are considered self-held and compensated unless otherwise noted. Employment/Leadership relationships are considered compensated employment unless otherwise noted. L = Leadership, U = Uncompensated, I = Immediate Family Member, B = Both Myself and Immediate Family Member, Inst = My InstitutionThe influence of regional radiation oncologist and urologist capacities on treatment choice for prostate cancer management.James B. YuNo relevant relationships to discloseSanjay AnejaNo relevant relationships to discloseDanil V. MakarovNo relevant relationships to discloseKenneth B RobertsNo relevant relationships to discloseCary P. GrossNo relevant relationships to disclose