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Note: what I'm writing is not intended to be a eulogy or memorial for anyone. These are my thoughts inspired by the passing of a peripheral friend. My friend Melissa Kaercher wrote a terrific memorial. I suggest you read it.
Over the weekend, news came that a peripheral friend was severely ill and would soon pass away. Within 24 hours, we learned that she was gone.
I'm not going to pretend that I knew Holly very well. Sadly, I didn't know her very well at all.
I'm a performer so it could be assumed that I'm an extrovert. And sometimes I am.
When I find myself in large group situations, however, I tend to gravitate towards people I know well. It takes me a long time to open up to new people. That isn't their fault. It's mine.
I knew Holly because she attended Butt-Numb-a-Thon – a gigantic, weird film festival I also attend every year. I talked to her for a few minutes here and there. But I didn't really know her. She was one of dozens of people with whom I have a glancing relationship for one weekend every year.
She's gone now and what I see online is an outpouring of love on her Facebook wall. Yet that wall isn't her. It is a digital shadow of her.
I don't believe in an afterlife so I don't believe she will ever see any of the kind words that were written about her. They are there, perhaps, for her family or loved ones but more, I think, for the person who left the post.
I don't believe there is anything wrong with that. We all have to process grief in the way that feels right for us. Grief is not for the dead, it is for the living.
I'm more amazed at how there is a shadow Holly out there on the internet who will be there for some indeterminate length of time and who acts as a surrogate for the person who is no longer there. The posts will cease after a while but she will still be there in some strange sense.
There's an idea for a horror movie in there…
Looking at the outpouring of love for someone who is no longer with us, I have made a decision.
Kind words spoken to a ghost in the machine aren't enough for me. I think I need to say kind words to those who are still alive.
So yesterday, I decided to honor the memory of Holly (and so many other friends who have passed) by telling people I appreciate them while they are still around to read it.
If you get a personal message from me tomorrow or next week or next year, that's why. One message a day. Give or take.
Life is short. You never know when someone will exit your life forever. I'd like everyone to know how important they are to me while they are still around to appreciate it.
Shit That Pissed me Off – 10/10
Judge Forces Mom Change Her Son's Name Because She Was Incapable of Making a Rational Decision
An appeals court had to overturn this idiotic ruling so I guess sometimes the judicial system works. Eventually.
If we are to believe this "irrational" mother's story, she chose to give her child her own last name after the father abused her during the pregnancy. The judge in the case felt that she just wasn't in the right mind to make that sort of decision and, I guess, thought it would case harm to the child if the child didn't have his father's last name.
An appeals court saw it differently and apparently felt the judge in the case was far more irrational than the mother.
This last name thing is problematic to begin with. I like my last name so when I got married, I kept it. That's totally fine because I'm a dude and nobody questions when a man wants to keep his name.
Nobody questions when parents given their child the father's last name.
But if a woman wants to keep her last name or give her last name to a child, well then it is time to take the case to court, I guess.
It's a double standard. And a stupid one.
Shit that Pissed me off – 10/3
All this Hatred of the Common Core
The particular article I linked to calls it "Obama's Common Core" even though the President had nothing to do with it. However, if you are conservative and don't like something in government, you need to blame it on Obama.
Common core mathematics actually tries to teach kids how to do math the same way we already do it in our heads. As has been explained every time someone new complains about Common Core.
Suddenly, the whole thing has become a liberal vs. conservative thing. Look at how these liberals are messing up education with their weird math stuff!
Common core is a tool kids can use to learn math. Any good teacher will tell you that it is not the only tool and the more tools we give kids, the better the odds will be that they can learn.
Common core isn't turning your kids into Democrats! Obama doesn't want your kids to be bad at math.
He just wants them to commit voter fraud! They don't teach that in Math class.
Shit that Pissed me off – 9/26
Emma Watson Gives a Speech About Feminism so
4Chan Threatens to Release Nude Photos of Her A Marketing Company Tries to Shut Down 4Chan By Threatening to Release Nude Pictures
Worst marketing campaign ever.
Does anyone get the idea that pretending you are going to release nude pictures of someone is only slightly better than saying you are going to do it for real? Even If you follow your threat up with "ha-ha, we were just kidding! Those 4chan people are pretty awful, aren't they?"
Well yeah. Some of them are.
You just defined yourself as more awful because you are pretending to be awful to show how awful you believe others to be. Which is just dumb.
In the meantime, you make Emma Watson, who had some really important things to say, feel vulnerable. Maybe you contacted her publicist to tell her that she shouldn't worry and you didn't really have nude pictures of Emma and even if you did, you weren't going to post them because you were just sticking it to 4chan ha ha!
What did Rantic Marketing manage to do? They managed to make 4chan look really good. Talk about a complete failure.
PS: Do you really think that shutting down one bunch of assholes on the internet will get rid of assholes on the internet? How long have you been here????
Shit that Pissed me off – 9/19
Almost Everything About the Adrian Peterson Story
First, I'm upset that this entire story is turning into a question of what parents are "allowed" to do to discipline their child.
Look, it doesn't matter. Peterson hit a four year old with a switch until the kid bled. That is beyond discipline.
Also, the kid is four. Cognitively he doesn't have the ability to fully connect the beating with the behavior that caused it. He may understand that he is being punished for something but he doesn't know what caused the punishment. So he wasn't "disciplined," he was just "punished." And in his mind the punishment was basically for the simple act of existing.
Then you have people like this guy writing articles about how spanking their kid is A-OK and, in fact, common sense (it isn't). This is not a case of simple spanking. I don't agree with him in any case (and my friend Levi Weinhagen makes good arguments as to why) but it isn't the same thing so why even write the article?
Peterson's mom says that the discipline used on Peterson must have been OK because look how he turned out.
Yeah, he turned out to be a great running back. Who has fathered several children by several different mothers and allegedly beat the crap out of (at least) one of those kids. If you think your discipline choices didn't have a negative impact on your son, lady, you might need a better idea of what "negative impact" means.
And of course you have the NFL and the Vikings, who only suspended Peterson when he became more of a PR liability than he had previously been a benefit.
They shouldn't be waiting to see how the public will react. They should be anticipating that reaction. In the wake of the Ray Rice video, it shouldn't have been too difficult to figure out what was going to happen.
Shit that Pissed me off – 9/12
Ray Rice and the NFL
Even if you don't follow sports, you probably know about the video that shows Ray Rice hitting his then fiancée and knocking her unconscious. Lots of people have offered their opinion, including Keith Olbermann, John Stewart, and Peter King.
What is messed up is the idea that the NFL, which is one of the most powerful corporate entities in the world, somehow didn't get a copy of the video first. I don't even understand how that is possible. Admitting such a thing means they are either lying or they didn't really give a shit about what was on the video.
If they gave a shit about what happened to Janay Rice, they wouldn't have interviewed her about the incident while she was sitting next to the man who had hit her.
If they understood anything about the mental state of an abuse victim, they would have recognized the behavior of someone who has probably been struck more than once. They would have interviewed her on her own, hopefully with a counselor present. Not only didn't they understand, they didn't care.
That's the crux of all of this. They don't give a shit about the abuse. They give a shit about their image. So long as we didn't have video showing the actual punch that knocked Janay Rice out, the NFL thought they could get away with a two game penalty because the public would be too focused on the game to think about domestic violence
The failure here was caused by a bunch of people who cared more about their business than anything else. Keep that in mind as this situation continues to unfold. Any decision they make will not be governed by what is best for Janay Rice. Or even Ray Rice.
It will be governed by what is best for the NFL.
Shit that Pissed me off – 9/5
The Whole Jennifer Lawrence Nude Photo Thing
The problem is that there is a dialogue focused on whether or not Lawrence (and other celebrities) are to blame for the theft of their personal pictures.
Well let's stop and think about this for a mom…NO!
I am writing this blog post on a laptop computer that is valuable. Now you, the reader, know I have a laptop computer you could sell for money. If you came over to my house, broke in and stole my computer would it be my fault because I made you aware that I owned it?
NO! That's what we call theft! There are all sorts of laws about that shit.
It is not my fault for owning a computer any more that it is Lawrence's fault that she owned nude photographs of herself (if indeed those are photographs of her – which she denies).
Theft is a crime. Owning things people want to steal is not.


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Margaret Shelton presided over the West Point Civitan Luncheon Club during its bi-monthly meeting in the absence of President Alvin Quinn.
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Conversion rate measures the number of visitors who took the action you wanted on your site divided by the total number of visitors. Every end-goal conversion (Macro-conversion), like a purchase, is composed of Micro-conversion points, like the click-through path in a shopping cart. In order to achieve the Macro-conversion a series of decisions has to be taken by the visitor, these clicks are measurable evidence of those decisions.
Only when you define and plan for Macro-conversions vs. Micro-conversions then you can understand why conversion rate is truly a measure of your ability to persuade visitors to take the action(s) you want them to take. It's a reflection of your effectiveness in planning for every decision and the customer's satisfaction with your plan's implementation. Since every click represents a person making a decision then for you to achieve your goals, visitors must first achieve theirs first.
Hi Jeffery,
My question is that since we are a software company, and offer a free demo dowload of our product; pc tattletale, we've been basing our conversion metrics on the number of downloads that convert to sales rather then the number of visitors that convert to sales. Is this not the best way for us to mesure?
Thanks for your comments.
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Fortunately you don't have to choose between measuring one or the other — instead just measure both. I think your question should be reframed in that light.
example, suppose for the sake of argument that your metrics show that 90% of people who download your software convert to sales. It's just such a wonderful program that they can't help themselves.
In this case, your upside on improving conversion is fairly limited, so your real attention will be on the front line and driving traffic to that download page. Suppose there your conversion rate is the measy industry-average of 3%. Clearly, you'd be able to say that if you could convert more on the front-line leading up to downloading then you'd register a major plus to your bottom line.
Now flip the numbers, and suppose you had 90% of visitors downloading, but only 10% of those purchasing. Now you know that your focus has got to be first on improving the factors that go into the decision to buy the software.
Of course, your numbers are not going to be so stark, and the point here is that if you only measure the one number of the download-to-purchase conversion then that's insufficient to determine where else there may be holes. In fact, the most likely place for holes, generally speaking, is the place one is NOT looking.
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Facial Weaponization Suite protests against biometric facial recognition–and the inequalities these technologies propagate–by making "collective masks" in community-based workshops that are modeled from the aggregated facial data of participants, resulting in amorphous masks that cannot be detected as human faces by biometric facial recognition technologies. The masks are used for public interventions and performances. One mask, the Fag Face Mask, generated from the biometric facial data of many queer men's faces, is a response to scientific studies that link determining sexual orientation through rapid facial recognition techniques. Another mask explores a tripartite conception of blackness, divided between biometric racism (the inability of biometric technologies to detect dark skin), the favoring of black in militant aesthetics, and black as that which informatically obfuscates. A third mask engages feminism's relations to concealment and imperceptibility, taking recent veil legislation in France as a troubling site that turns visibility into an oppressive logic of control. A fourth mask takes up biometrics' deployment as a border security technology at the Mexico-US border and the resulting violence and nationalism it instigates. These masks intersect with social movements' use of masking as an opaque tool of collective transformation that refuses dominant forms of political representation.
Theory of Colour, Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo (MUAC), curated by Helena Chávez, Alejandra Labastida, and Cuauhtémoc Medina, Mexico City, Mexico
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Overflow, transmediale reSource 006, curated by Tatiana Bazzichelli, Kunstraum Kreuzberg / Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
frame[o]out: FACELESS 2, curated by Bogomir Doringer, MuseumsQuartier Wien, Vienna, Austria
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Trans Technology: Circuits of Culture, Self, Belonging, curated by Christian Dunbar-Hester and Bryce J. Renninger, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey
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Risky Business, The HTMlles 10: Feminist Festival of Media Arts + Digital Culture, Studio XX, Montreal, Canada
Move In, curated by ONE Archives Gallery & Museum, Honor Fraser, Los Angeles, CA
Queer Video UPLOAD / UNLOAD, curated by David Frantz, INSTALL:WeHo, West Hollywood, CA
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Facial Weaponization Suite: A Mask-Making Workshop, Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City, Mexico
"Facial Weaponization Suite: A Mask-Making Workshop," Eyebeam, New York, NY
"Facial Weaponization Suite: Fag Face Scan Station," reclaim:pride, ONE Archives, Christopher Street West Pride Festival, West Hollywood, CA
"Facial Weaponization Suite: A Mask-Making Workshop," b.a.n.g. lab and Performative Nanorobotics Lab, University of California San Diego
"Facial Weaponization Suite: A Mask-Making Workshop," REVERIE, Reed Arts Week, Reed College, Portland, Oregon
"Faces, Biometrics, and the Aesthetics and Politics of Recognition: A Mask-Making Workshop," Risky Business, The HTMlles 10: Feminist Festival of Media Arts + Digital Culture, OBORO, Montreal, Canada
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Ben Valentine, "Weaponizing Our Faces: An Interview with Zach Blas," Vice
Dan Weiskopf, "Picturing the Self in the Age Of Data," Art Papers July/August
Marie Lechner, "Le nouvel âge du camouflage," Libération
Benoît Lamy de La Chapelle, "De l'art 'post-Internet,'" Zéro Deux Number 70, Summer
Magda Szcześniak, "Blending in and Standing Out – Camouflage and Masking as Queer Tactics of Negotiating Visibility," View: Theories and Practices of Visual Culture
Hannah Lea, "New Death: Spotlight on Zach Blas," FACT
Jason Johnson, "We are living in a terrifying sci-fi universe, say new museum exhibit," Kill Screen, 2014
Kyle Chayka, "Biometric Surveillance Means Someone Is Always Watching," Newsweek, 2014
Emily K. Holmes, "Locating Technology: Against Recognition," Art Practical, 2014
Rebecca Hiscott, "'Fag Face' Mask Protests Sex Discrimination in Facial-Scanning Tech," Mashable, 2014
Hito Steyerl, "FutureGreats 2014: Zach Blas," Art Review March 2014
Kareem Estefan, "A Cute Idea," The New Inquiry, 2014
Johnny Magdaleno, "Is Facial Recognition Technology Racist?" The Creators Project, 2014
Kyle Chayka, "Facial Weaponization Suite," POSTmatter, 2014
"Beginnings + Ends," Frieze Issue 159 November-December 2013 (accompanying video)
Sandra Wilson and Lilia Gomez Flores, "The Premediation of Identity Management in Art and Design: New Model Cyborgs – Organic & Digital," Leonardo Electronic Almanac Volume 19 Issue 4, 2013
Andrea Heinz, "Wer schön sein will, hat schon verloren," Der Standard, 2013
Andrea Heinz, "Zeige nichts von dir," Zeit Online, 2013
"Faceless Part 2 at Museumquartier Wien," Inhale Mag, 2013
Alicia Eler, "The Facelessness of Tomorrow Begins Today," Hyperallergic, 2013
Alexis Lothian and Amanda Phillips, "Can Digital Humanities Mean Transformative Critique?" e-Media Studies Volume 3 Issue 1, 2013
Reverie: Reed Arts Week, exhibition catalogue, Reed College, 2013
Trans Technology: Circuits of Culture, Self, Belonging, exhibition catalogue, Institute for Women and Art, Rutgers University, 2013
Daniel Villarreal, "Gay Bombs & Penis Plants: 3 Subversive Queer Artists That'll Eff Your World," gay.net, 2013
Jean Paul Thomin, "Zach Blas et la lutte contre la reconnaissance faciale," Lien Multimedia, 2012
Lauren Cornell, "Invisibility, or you can't disappear in America," Mousse Magazine 35, 2012
Liesbet van Zoonen, Pam Briggs, Aletta Norval, Sandra Wilson, Lilia Gomez Flores, Jasmine Harvey, Elpida Prasopoulo, Lisa Thomas, and Sharon Walker, "Scenarios of Identity Management in the Future," IMPRINTS: Public Responses to Identity Management Practices & Technologies, 2012
"Informatic Opacity," The Journal of Aesthetics and Protest Issue 9, 2014
"Contra-Internet Aesthetics," You Are Here: Art After the Internet, 2014
"Escaping the Face," FACELESS II exhibition reader, quartier21 / MuseumsQuartier Wien, 2013
"Queer & Informatic Opacities / Curated Library: Zach Blas," Eyebeam Storefont
"Escaping the Face: Biometric Facial Recognition and the Facial Weaponization Suite," Media-N, CAA Conference Edition, 2013
"Fag Face," Reclaim:Pride issue, RECAPS Magazine, 2013
"Queer Darkness," Depletion Design: A Glossary of Network Ecologies / Theory on Demand 8, Institute for Network Cultures, 2012
"Weapons for Queer Escape," Risky Business, The HTMlles 10: Feminist Festival of Media Arts + Digital Culture, Festival Reader, 2012
"Five Videos: Zach Blas/Queer Technologies' Escape," Rhizome / Foundation for Art and Creative Technology (FACT) / Liverpool Biennial, 2012
"Imperceptibly Dirty," No More Potlucks Issue 23: Dirt, 2012
"Fag Face," Version, 2011
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The Lensbury to host South African & New Zealand Rugby World Cup teams
By Teddington People | Tuesday, August 26, 2014, 09:41
It was confirmed this morning that the South African and New Zealand rugby teams will be based at St Mary's University and the Lensbury in Teddington during the Rugby World Cup, taking place in England and in Cardiff between September 18 and October 31 next year.
Team bases, chosen using an open tender process, will consist of an outdoor pitch, indoor training facility, a swimming pool, gym and hotel and will be used by the competing teams in the lead up to and during the six week event. The facilities needed to meet stringent requirements as well as being within easy reach of match venues.
The Lensbury and St Mary's, which made a final list of 41 official venues and chosen from 90 bids, worked closely with England Rugby 2015 in the run up to confirmation of their combined status as an official Team Base for Rugby World Cup 2015.
The Lensbury General Manager, Ivor Turner said: "We are so pleased with our partners St Mary's and to be able to work together again as we did in the Olympics, where we hosted the Irish team. The Lensbury has historical links with rugby, hosting top international teams for over 36 years and we are proud that we can bring elite teams to Teddington and Twickenham so the local community can benefit from this major event.
"We have been the base for the RFU Sevens for many years and are proud to be associated with them. This is a dream come true for the team at The Lensbury to have the honour of hosting the teams, showcase our great elite sports facilities and work once again with our neighbours, St Mary's University."
St Mary's Director for Sport Andrew Reid-Smith said, "St Mary's University, working with our partners the Lensbury, are excited to be the Team Base for New Zealand and South Africa during the Rugby World Cup 2015 and to have been selected to host teams during the knock out phase.
"International rugby squads have previously used our world-class sports facilities and we were a Pre-Games Training Camp for London 2012. St Mary's has the best endurance running programme in the country and our experience of training camps and understanding of elite athletes will help us provide the environment that each team will require.
"With our campus located in Twickenham, it is particularly special to be involved in the Rugby World Cup 2015 and to be supporting New Zealand and South Africa is fantastic. I'm sure this will make our students, staff and local community feel even more involved in what will be an incredible tournament of rugby."
New Zealand manager Darren Shand said, "The All Blacks are looking forward to coming to England and Wales next year for Rugby World Cup 2015. We will be based in London, Cardiff and County Durham at the Tournament and, while preparing for our Test matches will be key, we are also looking forward to experiencing the local culture in each of the areas."


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Boy, that 2011 was a doozy, no? Earthquakes, tsunamis and floods; Arab Spring uprisings; Occupy protests, or as the highly respected yet entirely fictional Dr. Peter Venkman once said, "Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together... mass hysteria!"
This year has indeed been one to remember for the world at large, and the auto industry was anything but immune to what was happening to the world's populace.
Kelley Blue Book has put together a nifty color-coded infographic to take us back through 2011. It quickly reminds us how much of an upswing the industry as a whole was in for before the devastating earthquakes and tsunamis hit Japan in February. After that, the entire playing field shifted, largely in favor of the already surging U.S. domestic automakers, the Korean brands and Nissan, which had the good fortune of not having nearly as much of its production interrupted as Toyota and Honda.
As 2011 closes, it would seem that the auto industry is once again approaching equilibrium, where all manufacturers are competing on just the merit of their wares, though as this past year has taught us, nature can change that in an instant.
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Paula Patton joins Mariska Hargitay as the new ADA on "Law & Order: SVU"
Say what you will about the Law & Order franchise, but it has impeccable taste in ADAs. And now we can add Paula Patton to that most illustrious and lustrous (seriously — so much shiny hair) list.
The Precious star will join Law & Order: Speacial Victims Unit in a multi-episode arc. Her character, Mikka Von, will debut in the fifth episode of the new season after its premieres this September. Her character is called "charming and savvy." Yep, sounds about right.
It was Paula's performance as lesbian teacher Ms. Rain in Precious that caught Law & Order: SVU executive producer Neal Baer's eye.
When I saw Paula Patton give that terrific performance in the multi-Oscar nominated Precious, I knew she'd be perfect for SVU's new Assistant District Attorney — she's funny, warm and witty with a penchant for justice. And it happened. She's starting in episode five. How cool is that?
Also cool? Paula will be the first African-American actress, or minority of any kind, to fill the role on the long-running show which is about to enter its 11th season. So, what do you think. Is Paula a worthy successor to Stephanie March's beloved Alexandra Cabot.
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Today is December 22, the winter solstice, the shortest day of the year. Here in Minneapolis it is short indeed, at 8 hours and 46 minutes. The sun rises at nearly 8AM, sets at 4:30PM, and never reaches higher than 21.6º above the horizon. This is the price we pay for gloriously long summer days with lingering sunsets and dusky twilights that cling to the western horizon 'till nearly midnight.
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Dear Jen,
Today I did a thing, something I don't ever do because it hurts too damn bad. I went into the folder of my email with your name on it and read every single one.
There aren't more and I think there should be. I wonder to myself why. I am a serial deleter, though. Wish I'd saved more.
I read them for a long time while my little Monkey slept in my lap. My heart was beating so fast and I was filled with so much sadness.
There are so many days when I wish I could turn to you; every single day I have the thought of needing to talk to you. You are always the first person I think about reaching toward and my mind goes blank when I realize you are gone. Who else do I reach for? I turn back to myself. There are so many things I want to share with you and you are gone. Sharing them with others doesn't feel the same. Sometimes I feel like I'm on the edge of a black hole. It is just me, no one else, empty and alone. My thoughts are my own, they stay with me; without you, they remain a whisper on my lips.
I wonder if you are watching me. When you are watching me. Do you see my good moments? Are you with me in my bad ones? I want to be strong for you and show you that I can try and do this, that I can live without you, that my front is strong enough for everyone to see, my pain and sadness far enough away from the surface that they can't. If I let it up, I will surely crack. This year will be six years, six tiny ripples in the rest of my life. I have never missed anyone so much before, never wanted anything so badly as to have you back, here with me. I haven't wondered WHY lately but right at this moment, I do. WHY. Why you, my sweet, beautiful sister, keeper of my memories.
I read the emails and could hear your voice.
I love you and miss you each and every day, always and forever.
Love, me.


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The preliminary hearing for Michael Stinchfield wrapped up Wednesday morning and a judge is sending the case to trial.
Judge Clifford Anderson says there was enough evidence to support allegations that crimes were committed.
Stinchfield is the Santa Barbara business man charged with holding two women hostage and beating them with a baseball bat in November.
He has pleaded not guilty to the 13 felony charges.
Stinchfield will be back in court on April 12 for an arraignment on the information and a hearing on a possible bail reduction.
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Few bartenders know how to make a decent mint julep and few people order the bourbon cocktail. There must be a connection.But which came first? It's a perfect cooler for blazing summer days (which seem unlikely to arrive anytime soon)--icy fresh, with a wicked punch--and one closely tied to the Amer ... More >>
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In the classic disaster flick The Towering Inferno, partygoers ignored a fire in a storage room because they assumed it had been contained. Are U.S. investors making the same mistake with China?
Consider: The Standard & Poor's 500-stock index hit new highs last week, as it responded to Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke's comments to Congress suggesting that scaling back the Fed's bond buying is no sure thing. In doing so, the benchmark index ignored the fact that China -- once considered the world's growth engine but now acting like it needs a tune-up just to keep it from stalling -- reported last Monday that its economy had grown at a 7.5% clip, well below its 15-year average of 9%.
Rather than being jarred by the news, however, U.S. investors shrugged. The S&P 500 edged up 0.1% last Monday and by the end of the week the benchmark index had gained 0.7% to close at 1692.09, a new all-time high. That's a far cry from the reaction just three months ago, when China reported a 7.7% rise, and the S&P 500 fell 2.3%.
Why the change of heart? Unlike three months ago, when investors were placing big bets that China's policy makers would pump cash into the economy to spur growth, the market seems to have accepted the fact that sluggish growth for the world's second-largest economy is its new normal. Indeed, the People's Bank of China has been forecasting that growth would moderate to 7.5% for some time.
But that 7.5% target may prove optimistic. China's leaders are forcing the economy to undergo a radical transformation. Gone are the days of booming exports and debt-funded infrastructure spending. Instead, China wants to see consumers spend more of their hard-earned cash and its businesses reduce their reliance on easy money. Success could mean growth well below target.
That should worry investors. The S&P 500's big gains this year have been driven by rising price/earnings ratios, not rising earnings, says Deutsche Bank strategist David Bianco. The index now trades at 15 times 2013 earnings, up from 13 times one year ago.
But there's a limit to how much investors will pay for stocks, which means the S&P 500 could need an earnings boost if it's to head much higher. That will be tough if China continues to disappoint. The Asian giant accounts directly for some 5% of S&P 500 earnings, Bianco says. And while that might not seem like a lot, it's a bigger chunk than the 2% that comes from housing. Throw in China's massive influence on commodity prices, and the effect of a slower China could really be felt.
Some stocks already reflect China's pain. Since April 1, the most China-sensitive consumer-staples companies, including Mead Johnson Nutrition MJN 0.70859167404783% Mead Johnson Nutrition Co. U.S.: NYSE USD102.33 0.72 0.70859167404783% /Date(1416607359346-0600)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 755372 AFTER HOURS USD103 0.67 0.6547444542167498% Volume (Delayed 15m) : 10185 P/E Ratio 28.906779661016948 Market Cap 20673730145.0134 Dividend Yield 1.4658457930225741% Rev. per Employee 607750 More quote details and news » (ticker: MJN) and Wal-Mart Stores WMT 0.0827618822416647% Wal-Mart Stores Inc. U.S.: NYSE USD84.65 0.07 0.0827618822416647% /Date(1416607465745-0600)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 6276348 AFTER HOURS USD84.65 % Volume (Delayed 15m) : 373282 P/E Ratio 17.275510204081634 Market Cap 272785725241.872 Dividend Yield 2.268163024217366% Rev. per Employee 219905 More quote details and news » (WMT), have returned about nine percentage points less than the ones more focused on the U.S. health-care stocks with high China exposure, like PerkinElmer PKI 3.022727272727273% PerkinElmer Inc. U.S.: NYSE USD45.33 1.33 3.022727272727273% /Date(1416607487239-0600)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 1268842 AFTER HOURS USD45.0454 -0.2846 -0.6278402823737039% Volume (Delayed 15m) : 3779 P/E Ratio 15.963515988167348 Market Cap 5120612880.63903 Dividend Yield 0.6176924773880432% Rev. per Employee 292553 More quote details and news » (PKI), are up 12 points less than those with the least.
That might only be the beginning. According to Scott Minerd, Guggenheim Partners global chief investment officer, it's the sectors of the market that haven't made the distinction between the two that investors should worry about. They include materials, industrials, and information technology. "By the end of the year, we'll see the same effect in these sectors that we see in the others," Minerd says. Stocks in those sectors that get a large portion of sales from China include Dow Chemical DOW 2.641802641802642% Dow Chemical Co. U.S.: NYSE USD52.84 1.36 2.641802641802642% /Date(1416607312579-0600)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 13439019 AFTER HOURS USD52.84 % Volume (Delayed 15m) : 749292 P/E Ratio 17.26797385620915 Market Cap 62275165277.4904 Dividend Yield 3.1794095382286147% Rev. per Employee 1098870 More quote details and news » (DOW), Altera ALTR 1.3392857142857142% Altera Corp. U.S.: Nasdaq USD36.32 0.48 1.3392857142857142% /Date(1416607204884-0600)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 2274893 AFTER HOURS USD36.25 -0.07 -0.19273127753303965% Volume (Delayed 15m) : 8326 P/E Ratio 24.707482993197278 Market Cap 11070952841.5476 Dividend Yield 1.9823788546255507% Rev. per Employee 616219 More quote details and news » (ALTR), Expeditors International EXPD 1.205093224192815% Expeditors International of Washington Inc. U.S.: Nasdaq USD44.51 0.53 1.205093224192815% /Date(1416607200103-0600)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 1824156 AFTER HOURS USD44.5153 0.0053 0.011907436531116602% Volume (Delayed 15m) : 107125 P/E Ratio 24.456043956043956 Market Cap 8591809746.80465 Dividend Yield 1.4378791282857786% Rev. per Employee 462266 More quote details and news » (EXPD), and General Electric GE 0.521415270018622% General Electric Co. U.S.: NYSE USD26.99 0.14 0.521415270018622% /Date(1416607225263-0600)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 35268834 AFTER HOURS USD26.99 % Volume (Delayed 15m) : 912664 P/E Ratio 18.432015297411734 Market Cap 271038717398.791 Dividend Yield 3.260466839570211% Rev. per Employee 474919 More quote details and news » (GE).
IN SOME CASES, INVESTORS HAVE punished China-focused companies more than they deserve, at least relative to their more U.S.-centric competitors. Take Las Vegas Sands LVS 1.8852851893273685% Las Vegas Sands Corp. U.S.: NYSE USD63.77 1.18 1.8852851893273685% /Date(1416607378997-0600)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 5720152 AFTER HOURS USD63.77 % Volume (Delayed 15m) : 39477 P/E Ratio 19.15015015015015 Market Cap 51143411924.1324 Dividend Yield 3.1362709738121373% Rev. per Employee 305640 More quote details and news » (LVS). Its Macau casinos account for about 60% of revenue, compared with about 30% for MGM Resorts International MGM 2.388463271744029% MGM Resorts International U.S.: NYSE USD22.72 0.53 2.388463271744029% /Date(1416607722525-0600)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 9333798 AFTER HOURS USD22.72 % Volume (Delayed 15m) : 39822 P/E Ratio 71 Market Cap 11158245951.8372 Dividend Yield N/A Rev. per Employee 165472 More quote details and news » (MGM).
That used to be considered an advantage. During the first three months of the year, Las Vegas Sands gained 22%, while MGM rose just 13%. In the second quarter, however, it was a liability. Las Vegas Sands lost 6% during that period, while MGM gained 12%.
Yet gamblers keep hitting the tables in record numbers in Macau. Gross gaming revenue hit a record $10.8 billion during the second quarter, and sales grew at a 15% clip. No one expects it to continue at such a rabid pace, but there's no reason it can't keep growing at, say, close to 11% during the rest of the year, says RBC Capital Market's John Kempf, even if China slows further.
That's in part because Macau is still in its infancy compared with gambling meccas like Las Vegas. Just 1.3% of mainland Chinese have visited the casinos. As more make the trip, that could offset economic weakness in China.
Meanwhile, Las Vegas Sands is set to report earnings on July 24, and it could very well beat analyst forecasts. Its shares might be worth the gamble.
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