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- Posted by bromaloonie (My Page) on Tue, Feb 17, 09 at 19:45
I have seen some superb xerographicas growing out in the rain here in the wet tropics . One mounted on the side of an enormous granite boulder . |
Often it's not the amount of moisture the plant receives, it's the direction in which it is mounted. When grown where there's ample moisture a sideways mount is usually best. This causes excess water to drain from the leaf bases more quickly rather than if pointed straight up like a turkey in the rain. |
- Posted by bromaloonie (My Page) on Wed, Feb 18, 09 at 17:24
Ohhhhh ok. The way it was in that huge log had bits of that coir and rock in a hollow but the hollow had drain holes so it was never sitting in puddles but i can see how the bases of the leaves can catch too much moisture by sitting upright. So its next new home will have to be sitting on a sideways angle for proper drainage Thanks so much guys for your added imput into my Xeros well being...lol |
Plant is stunning HDD, just stunning. So is the photo. |
- Posted by hotdiggetydam (My Page) on Thu, Feb 19, 09 at 10:23
Thank you Paul. I will photo some more Tillys today to post. I don't grow many of these to many Neo's and dyckia's taking up the space. |
Solution: get rid of the Neo's and Dyckias. Simple! ;-) |
- Posted by hotdiggetydam (My Page) on Thu, Feb 19, 09 at 20:05
- Posted by splinter1804 (My Page) on Fri, Feb 20, 09 at 4:58
Oh no Gonzer! You should never put all your eggs in the one (Tillandsia) basket. All the best, Nev. |
- Posted by bromaloonie (My Page) on Fri, Feb 20, 09 at 5:31
wash ya mouth out Gonzer....HaHahahaaaaaaa |
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Over the past 12 months, Pieter Willems has been bubbling within the burgeoning Dutch underground. Murmurs materialized when the producer recording as Presk emerged from the depths of the hyperactive music industry with his debut And Cut / Mold on Ramp Recordings offshoot Fourth Wave. Following a string of acclaimed releases on Audio Culture and Doc Daneeka's Ten Thousand Yen, the enigmatic producer returns to his initial imprint for his first output of 2012.
Dwelling on the A-side, "Hesitate" is an itching and frenetic number. Bumping and bulbous bass lines flirt over playful keys while over-energetic kicks wander over vocal samples of the rave past. Refined strictly to 122BPM, "Hesitate" is perhaps Presk's most punctual and inscrutable work to date. "Kook" stampedes from the B-side in a frenzy of crunchy synths, prancing drum snaps, and vicious undertows — however, it finds itself muddled within the employment of doubled samples from "The Breakfast Club," and is perhaps a poorer example of the exponentially growing trend of sexualization within UK funky and garage. A juxtaposition of his production prowess and adolescence, Hesitate shows an artist still grappling with his formative years.


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Reneau also enthused about Panzano and its owners, the Kimpton Group, a "shining example of an employer and a restaurant committed to achieving excellence," she said, then added, "admittedly, there are still problems. What do you expect, the restaurant is only nine months old and still fine-tuning. It's a toddler in the ranks of The Palm, Strings and Ellyngton's, to name a few. Speaking of which, when was the last time Kyle reviewed one of these restaurants? Just because they have been around for years does not mean they have the corner on cuisine and service in the metro area."
Whoa. First of all, nine months is plenty of time to work out any major kinks; at any quality restaurant, the fine-tuning never ends. And second, I reviewed Strings two years ago ("To Serve and Perfect," May 22, 1997); Ellyngton's three and a half years ago ("The Royal Treatment," December 20, 1995) and The Palm on several occasions in Mouthing Off, most recently in the May 27 edition. With thousands of restaurants waiting to be reviewed, none of those three ranks high on my list for another official visit. In particular, I've never been a big fan of the Palm---but at least they don't have fake bread in their windows, as Panzano does.
If you want to get past the window-dressing and all the way into the kitchen, however, Panzano is offering some interesting new deals. Executive chef Ben Davis now hosts a "Chef's Table," limited to two parties a night (at $45 a head, plus $20 each for wines), where he'll prepare a personalized, northern Italian feast; on July 20, the restaurant welcomes husband-and-wife winemakers Raimondo Lombardi and Antonella Tacci for a winemaker's dinner featuring wines from Martilde Winery (that evening's tab is $80 per person--but wines are included). Call 303-296-3525 for more information and reservations. And still the fine-tuning continues: Last week Panzano's introduced weekday happy hours, with half-price food and drink specials from 4 to 6 p.m. and 10 p.m. to midnight. And Friday afternoons come complete with complimentary pizza tasters for commuters.
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One last bite of Best of: Another caller took me to task for my choice of emily's gourmet to-go (1543 Champa Street) for Best Soups. "You guys said emily's had the best soup, and I went there and ate it, and it tasted like crap," the anonymous dude said. "The Soup Kitchen has way better chowder than them people. I'm just wondering why you guys don't check every restaurant. And that's about it. Thanks. Bye-bye."
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ACLU should back off on crackdown in Hidden Valley
The misinformed American Civil Liberties Union has come to the aid of the Hidden Valley Kings gang, claiming a police crackdown on the gang singles out minorities.
So, in the ACLUs eyes its OK for the gang to continue its sordid crimes because theyre in the minority group so theyre being picked on? What planet are the ACLU leaders from?
The ACLU is sorely in need of reorganization, post haste.
And why was it necessary for a judge to give the OK to go after these thugs?
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A prominent Republican, Colin Powell, argues against the recent voting changes in North Carolina with brilliant simplicity: You can say what you like, but there is no voter fraud. How can it be rampant and undetected?
Fraud is a straw-man argument meant for the exclusive purpose of suppressing votes and voters wishes.
When a party or candidate isnt confident of the merits of their position, they seek to reduce participation in democracy. Its sad for our state and sad for democracy.
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Thank you Gov. Pat McCrory and the Republican legislature for returning sanity to the voting process with the new voter ID law. Youve joined 30 states in making sure this great privilege is not fraudulent.
I especially like the portion whereby any citizen can get a photo ID for free at their DMV office and you have until 2016 to do so. There is no reasonable justification for anyone to object to this.
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This protester is no freeloader, but a concerned N.C. citizen
My wife and I, along with two friends from Ashe County, attended last Mondays Moral Monday protest.
We are not and never have been freeloaders. We did not see anyone there who could be identified as a freeloader.
We did see 2,000 or more people who like us realize the real harm to real people that the N.C. legislature and the governor have done to the majority of the people of North Carolina.
It is unfortunate that some refuse to see and recognize that harm. It appears they would never bother to let fact or truth get in the way of their own narrow-minded opinions.
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In response to Moral Monday rails against the Mecklenburg trio (Aug. 20) and related articles:
Democrats brought on the very changes theyre protesting
At last Mondays protest Sen. Malcolm Graham was quoted as saying: If the people will lead, the leaders will follow.
I wonder if this was his philosophy during the years and years we endured Democratic control in Raleigh, when cronyism, corruption and scandals reigned?
Their economic model of robbing Peter to pay Paul is the basis for all the good and bad but needed changes were currently going through.
Since President Obama and Washington Democrats continue to blame Bush for everything wrong with our country five years later, McCrory and the Raleigh Republicans certainly have the privilege to blame N.C. governors Jim Hunt, Mike Easley and Bev. Perdue as a starting point eight months later.
Floyd Prophet
In response to What Moral Monday crowd seeks will lead to bankruptcy (Aug. 22 Forum):
Protesters seek to balance the scales, not bankrupt the state
Fact is, North Carolina takes taxes from the people and uses them for the people and the common good.
Is some wasted? Sure, but Id bet its a small percentage.
Meanwhile, as the city and state spend less and less on the common good, more redistribution goes to the wealthy and corporations, and wealth inequality grows.
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Obstructionists in Congress are holding this country back
While in California recently, I read the following opening sentence in an article:
Did pigs just fly? Big corporations, labor unions, public policy organizations, Democrats and Republicans all held hands and cheered for the Governors Economic Development Initiative, signed into law by Gov. Jerry Brown last week.
It was like a breath of fresh air to read those words.
It is unfortunate that a small minority of hardliners in Washington is unwilling to consider even the most reasonable compromises and accommodations to make possible a national version of this landmark California initiative. These obstructionists are holding our country back.
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A more accessible and less heavy-handed movie than Ang Lee's 2003 HulkLouis Leterrier's The Incredible Hulk is a purely popcorn love affair with Marvel's raging, green superhero, as well as the old television series starring Bill Bixby as Dr. David Banner and Lou Ferrigno as the beast within him. Edward Norton takes up where Eric Bana left off in Lee's version, playing Bruce (that's the character's original name) Banner, a haunted scientist always on the move. Trying to eliminate the effects of a military experiment that turns him into the Hulk whenever his emotions get the better of him, Banner is hiding out in Brazil at the film's beginning. Working in a bottling plant and communicating via email with an unidentified professor who thinks he can help, Banner goes postal when General Thaddeus "Thunderbolt" Ross and a small army turn up to grab him. Intent on developing whatever causes Banner's metamorphoses into a weapon, Ross brings along a quietly der! anged soldier named Emil Blonsky (Tim Roth), who wants Ross to turn him into a supersoldier who can take on the Hulk. The adventure spreads to the U.S., where Banner hooks up with his old lover (and Ross' daughter), Betty (Liv Tyler), and where the Hulk takes on several armed assaults, including one in a pretty unusual location: a college campus. The film's action is impressive, though the computer-generated creature is disappointingly cartoonish, and a second monster turning up late in the movie looks even cheesier. Norton is largely wasted in the film--he's essentially a bridge between sequences where he disappears and the Hulk rampages around. As good an actor as he is, Norton doesn't have the charisma here to carry those scenes in which one waits impatiently for the real show to begin. --Tom Keogh
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1. Have your students stand and form a large circle. Read the soliloquy around the circle, stopping and changing readers at every punctuation mark. Discuss: What do you notice about the pattern of the lines?
2. Have students read around the circle again, but this time, tell them to read it line by line, forcing the iambic pentameter rhythm. Example: "oh PARdon ME thou BLEEDing PIECE of EARTH." (For more information on working through meter with your students, you might want to refer to the archived lesson plan, "It's Elementary: Stomping and Romping with Shakespeare.") Discuss: Where was the meter off? (The second line is an immediate example, as "BUTCHers" ends the line with an extra unstressed foot.) Repeat those lines. Is anything different, important, or unusual about those lines? Is Shakespeare telling us to pay attention?
3. Play "Rock 'em, Sock 'em Shakespeare": have the students spread out around the room and tell them to read the lines aloud while moving in a straight line, changing directions with an abrupt, full-body turn at every punctuation mark. (Remind them not to bump into each other or the furniture.) Discuss: How does the soliloquy "move"? Is there a pattern emerging?
4. Line the students up in two equal lines, facing each other. Alternate speaking the lines as two groups, switching sides each time the students come to a punctuation mark. Discuss: Does the soliloquy work as a dialogue? How does this exercise make you feel?
5. Have the students repeat step four, but this time, start out by speaking the lines very softly, gradually increasing the volume until they are almost shouting the last line. Discuss: Now, how do you feel? Does volume affect emotional impact? Sum up everything the class has discovered about the soliloquy at this point.
6. Break the class up into small discussion groups of five and have them identify any imagery that they can find. Remind them to look beyond visual imagery and identify images that appeal to the five senses. Look especially for synaesthesia, images that appeal to more than one sense at a time—e.g., "with carrion men, groaning for burial" (smell, sight, hearing). This should take about 10 minutes. Discuss as a class: What imagery patterns did you find? What meaning can you derive from them? How do they work in the soliloquy?
7. Continuing small-group work, ask your students to cut the soliloquy in half, or by a third, rehearse and then perform the cut versions for the entire class. Discuss differences and similarities.
Discuss: Why did you cut what you cut? Why did you keep what you kept? Were some lines cut in every version? Were some lines retained in every version? Why? Did cutting and performing the cut versions of the soliloquy bring any new insights about how the soliloquy works?
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Our composite score on the End-of-Grade tests was an impressive 96.8 percent. We have been given the designation of Honor School of Excellence and also made Adequate Yearly Progress, the standard set for schools by the No Child Left Behind Act, by meeting all of our targets.
The Hawk Ridge faculty is dedicated to our students and works to do whatever it takes to ensure individual student success. Every day, our teachers depend on pre-assessment and formative assessment data to determine tiers of instruction within each objective. Our instructional assistants work throughout the building teaching small groups to support both the learners who are in need and students needing enrichment. We currently have 49 certified staff, including administrative personnel. Of those, 42 percent are National Board-certified, 46 percent have master's degrees and all are highly qualified professional educators.
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With the dust mostly settled on this offseason's player movement — and there was a whole lot of it this year — it's time to take stock of all the fascinating new faces in new places, as well as the more compelling stories of players who will face new challenges while sticking around. Over the course of the next few weeks, Andrew Unterberger will do a team-by-team look at the most interesting players going into next season — one new to the team, and one returning — as we all try to pass the dog days of NBA-less summer, dreaming of hoops-filled months to come. The series continues today with the teams in the Pacific Division: the Warriors, Lakers, Clippers, Suns and Kings.
Most Interesting New Player: Jermaine O'Neal
JO might be kind of a tough sell for most interesting on a team that made a much more obvious big-budget acquisition this offseason, but I feel like I know what Andre Iguodala is going to give the Warriors this season — not an inconsiderable contribution, mind you, but I'd be surprised if he greatly deviated from my expectations in any way. O'Neal, however, could play more of a swing role on this team than people realize. He'll go into the season with a decent shot at the Dubs' backup center role, unless Festus Ezeli's shoulder heals and he actually learns how to catch the ball or put it in the basket in the offseason, and he was sneaky good in that role last year for Phoenix, averaging 16 and 10 per 36 minutes (though he only played about half that on a nightly basis) and posting his best PER, by far, since he was on the pre-LeBron Heat.
More importantly, he might end up doing a whole lot more than playing backup if — and based on recent history, more like when — Andrew Bogut goes down with injury. Bogie's missed double-digit games each of the last five seasons, and over half his games each of the last two, so it's a relatively safe bet that there'll be stretches where O'Neal, assuming he stays healthy himself (no easy assumption given he's missed nearly as many games as Bogut over the last six years), gets pressed into far more than locker-room-leadership duty. Is it too late for Jermaine O'Neal to play a key-ish role on a championship contender? Or will GSW be forced to say "to hell with rim protection," stick David Lee at center and go bombs away with the rest of their lineup? Maybe the latter is the likelier bet, but I haven't given up on JO just yet.
Most Interesting Returning Player: Harrison Barnes
Barnesy recently ranked at No. 40 on SB Nation's projected list of the Top 40 NBA Players of 2017, higher than both young studs like Larry Sanders and Damian Lillard and current superstars like Dwyane Wade and Tony Parker, basically entirely off the strength of his playoff run, in which he averaged 16 and six with decent shooting numbers and a number of big buckets. But it's worth remembering that in the regular season last year, Barnes was basically a no-show, averaging less than 10 a game and posting a PER that barely cracked double digits, and that next season, he might not even be starting, with the acquisition of Andre Iguodala and the continued presence of David Lee (and the big contracts of both) possibly blocking him in the first five.
To get to be a Top 40 player four years from now, Barnes is gonna have to build on his playoff success — and as much as that run seemed like a breakout for Barnes, he still basically averaged his same shooting percentages from the regular season, with a fairly mediocre 13.8 PER — and prove that his 3-and-D skills are too integral to the Warriors' run-and-gun attack for him not to get big minutes. And if not, expect for Barnes' name to replace Eric Bledsoe's as the go-to Intriguing Trade Chip in every blockbuster mega-deal rumor you hear from now until the end of his rookie deal.


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This week Jessica Bowman wrote another great article for Search Engine Land about Why You Need to Know SEO Basics, Even If You Outsource. When outsourcing you need to make sure your account is being handled properly with your companies best interests in mind. This is why Jessica stresses the importance and value of being able to effectively communicate and question the results and actions taken by the person handling your search marketing. By gaining a strong grasp of SEO basics it will help you to not only communicate with the agency you are working with, but also be able to translate what they are saying to the members of your company. Jessica suggest a number of options for building your SEO foundation including, bringing in an SEO consultant for training, going through courses at the SEMPO Institute, and reading books on SEO.
In the article Demand Revs Up for Search Marketers, the Dallas Morning News reports on the continuing growth of the search marketing industry. In Dallas, the Dallas/Fort Worth Search Engine Marketing Association has doubled since October, and it's president, Rob Garner, reports "the search engine marketing field is experiencing strong growth in employment opportunities." The article also looked to Onward's VP of Staffing, Josh Gampel, who explained that many search engine marketers prefer to work on project based assignments as consultants because, "They're getting money, cool assignments, they want to have the challenge of getting something going and then move on."
Marketing Pilgrim's SEM Scholarship Contest produced two articles I want to mention.
The first, The State of the SEO Industry Address, by Taylor Pratt, is a good summary of where the industry is and how it is being viewed. Taylor uses his post to remind readers of what the industry stands for, adapting to the ever changing search engine algorithms in order to improve usability and increase conversions. With all the posts about the death of SEO, Taylor calls for an end to the unnecessary attacks on each other to gain links and a move towards more discussions and debates. He ends his piece with a call for more unity within the industry, and for the focus to return to understanding and dominating the search engines.
The second piece, by Melissa Fach, SEO, SEM, SMO – There Are Now All Essentially One Job and We Have More Responsibilities, is a good look at how these three separate legs of search marketing need to be combined to achieve the best results. In addition to combining SEO, SEM, and SMO, Melissa makes a point of making ethics #1. Ethics is the key to maintaining a good relationship with your clients, and in the long run will be the reason why they have a successful campaign.
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I hope CLG learned their lesson.
Absolutely ZERO practice, Doublelift playing street fighter all day
Hotshot playing Borderlands and Duoing with Behkuh all day Chauster playing Threes with Wings and Aphro all day Jiji practicing but still sucked Voyboy... dat feel bro. Honestly, they didn't even DESERVE to win. They just BARELY won against SK and got STOMPED the other two games lmao. GG CLG EU on the other hand, God tier inc. |
time to move out from dat mansion.
The problem was they're just bad.
The only good was Voyboy GG CLG
CLG does this every tournament.
No they didn't learn their lesson. No they will never learn their lesson. |
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"lets form 2 more teams to scrim in-house" never scrim |
"I had the same problem with CLG in Korea. They didn't want to do **** but play Street Fighter. You realize Hotshot only played around 20 ranked games while we were in Korea and we lost that tournament? That was a 200,000 dollar tournament. Hotshot didn't want to do the groundwork and the research. Do I have to tell him to do that? I shouldn't have to tell him to do that." -SV
Not sure what all the fuss about CLG.na is, they haven't won ANYTHING during the last year.
Actually I only know that they won WCG 2 fcking years ago. Not sure how the reputation carried over from that day until today. |
CLG went downstream when Hotshott GG transformed from best toplaner to a jungler who is mediocre in his best games.
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There's always been a tinge of jealousy in the back of my mind when I see pictures like the ones from Justin's post on Wednesday about backyard rinks. I was raised in a land where winter was more of a myth than a seasonal reality. (I would be considered a "green" boy if George R.R. Martin took the time to attach adjectives to my self.)
No, the city I grew up in is the same one where I would pass by golfers and runners in short shorts on my way to Winter Olympic events. Vancouver actually had to cart in snow to the local mountains for freestyle skiing and snowboarding events. In the neighborhood I grew up, it was a rare occurence to see a snowman rather than a rink.
Seeing people on ponds across the country, I just itch to get out there. It's analogous to hearing strange sounds from the room next to yours in a hotel.
Hockey was a summer sport in Vancouver, partly because of the weather, and partly because it was the only season of the year that the Canucks weren't losing games. A few years ago when I moved away for university, situated in a town that had a noticeable difference in seasons.
Not until a couple of years ago did a few friends of mine start trekking to a pond in one of the hills and start playing shinny. It isn't quite Windy Arm, Yukon, nor is it the lake that the lone kid was skating on in the beginning of those obnoxious "I Believe" videos that played endlessly on CTV in February of 2010.
We have to deal with bumpy ice and clearing snow, ranging skill levels and one asshole who just doesn't backcheck. But we're spending a lot of time up there lately, playing shinny until our legs can't move, a mix of men and women in our early 20s doing things we wish we had done sooner in our lives.
That really is the purest form of hockey. You don't have to worry about referees, concussions, the score, or Pierre McGuire. And, importantly, I don't have to feel like I missed out on anything when I see rinks from across Canada and Northern parts of the United States in backyards, and kids skating on those rinks. We get to play now, whenever we want, at our own pace, and we get to bring beer.
And, yes mother, if you're reading this, we made sure the ice was thick enough before we got to playing on it.
At some point, for whatever reason on Wednesday also, Justin and I got into it on Twitter over the oft-mentioned "regression to the mean" that statgeeks frequently cite when a player who started hot slowly cools off. This is the part where I will note that Tyler Seguin, owner of 23 points in his first 20 games this season, has cooled to just 3 in his last 8 since I wrote a post about his elevated percentages.
"Just seems like every time someone is doing better than usual, stats predict that'll stop happening" Justin tweeted at me. And he's somewhat right. It sort of sucks that all the best stories that pop up around the midseason of a hockey season tend to wash away as the cherries blossom, and the playoffs come, and we have a whole new set of stories and heroes.
The more things happen that we expect, the less interested we are in a game, and it's fine to write about the early season or mid-season stars that have seemingly broken out, but simple statistics allow us to keep these stories in context.
Consider, for instance, the leader in 5-on-5 goal scoring rate. It isn't Milan Michalek, Steven Stamkos or Phil Kessel—It's Eric Nystrom (before Thursday's games), who has scored just over 2 goals per 60 minutes of play at even strength this season. It's a cool story, but the mistake writers make when constructing narratives playing with loose factual data is that they may end up writing something like E.J. Hradek did for NHL.com:
The 28-year-old former University of Michigan star has found a nice chemistry working with linemates Vernon Fiddler and Radek Dvorak. While there's no way to predict if he can keep up his goal-scoring pace, I think it's safe to say Nystrom has found a new NHL home in Dallas.
There is a way to predict if Nystrom can keep up his goal-scoring pace. All we must do is check and see that his shooting percentage is 24.4%. To put that in context, only six players since the lockout have posted shooting percentages of higher than 20% in a full season taking at least 130 shots, and it hasn't happened since Loui Eriksson did it in 2009.
High shooting percentages are, in the short-term, highly dependent on luck. Supposing a player takes three shots a game. In the first two games his team plays in December, he scores a goal. In the next two, he doesn't. In the fifth game of the month, a shot that goes through the goalie's five hole is just cleared out on the line by the defenseman and doesn't count. Now, this player, a first liner, hasn't scored in three games, and that's a cause for concern.
However, had the defenseman not reacted, or the puck had just eluded the defender's blade, our player has scored three times in five games, which is a very respectable pace. It's the difference between shooting 13.3% and shooting 20%; the first is a career norm, the second is an elevated pace. It takes a bounce every five games. It doesn't have to be a defender's stick, but it can involve narrowly avoiding a goal post or sneaking the puck under the goaltender's pad.
I sometimes feel that analysts and studio hosts who talk up a player who has gone on an extended hot streak are priming themselves for disappointment. Returning to my example from Monday about Tim Tebow, I saw a video on Wimp.com that autotuned analysis about Tebow mainly featuring some ESPN personality I will feel sorry for when the Denver Broncos quarterback, who "all he does is win" hits an inevitable regression to the mean.
This is an effect that can work in reverse as well, using an example from John Steigerwald, who infamously called out Alexander Ovechkin for being on steroids simply because Ovechkin's goal total dipped from 50 to 30. Steigerwald looked only at the surface numbers and failed to see that Ovechkin saw less ice-time on both the powerplay and even strength, as well as shoot fewer pucks per game, and all those performance factors were coupled in tandem with a sharp drop in percentages. Eventually Ovechkin will get it back, and Steigerwald won't have a leg to stand on.
We can't handicap ourselves in that way. Looking at the statistics is an easy way, over the course of a few games, to adequately gauge player performance. Once analysis raises itself up to an extent where there is comprehension across the board of how percentages in hockey work, the storytellers with access to players, coaches and trainers can begin the legwork onto why guys like Eric Nystrom are performing better, whether it's psychology, chemistry, or just a plain old run of good luck.


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Are you hoping to teach your students about the Canadian labor movement's history? If so, you may want to schedule student tours to Canada's historic sites in the near future. Here's a quick look at a few highlights of the country's labor movement history and where you may want to take your students:
As you may very well be aware, the Canadian labor movement's roots go back to the late 1800s. It was marked by the activities of several groups, including those made up of printers, miners, fishermen and shoemakers. One of them, the printers, was immortalized in a poem by Alec H. Wingfield. It is titled The Nine Hour Pioneers. Men associated with the movement at the time were James Black, John Hewitt and James Ryan. They were partially responsible for one significant event that took place at that time, the Trade Unions Act of 1872. It made unions legal and later helped to spur the formation of the national Labour Day holiday in July 1894. The prime minister connected to the act's passing was Sir. John A. Macdonald.
Because of those facts, you may want to arrange for student tours of the Canada Science and Technology Museum. It contains exhibits that focus on printing and other industries. It isn't the only facility that features such exhibits either. You can also find labor related exhibits at the Crystal City Community Printing Museum, Upper Canada Village and the Britannia Mine Museum.
We should also note that the 1800s marked the start of the Canadian Labour Union, which later became the Canadian Labour Congress in the 1900s. Speaking of the early 1900s, it was a period of great union activity and more than 400 strikes. A few of the strikes worth mentioning are the Winnipeg General Strike, the Oshawa Strike and the Fort William Freight Handlers Strike. If you are particularly interested in teaching your class about the Winnipeg General Strike, we'd suggest booking a student tour to the Manitoba Museum or the Canadian Museum of Human Rights. Both have recently been working together to assemble exhibits about the historic event.
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All I knew about Winnipeg before my high school band tour could be summed up in two words: prairie flatlands. The capital of Manitoba is so much more, as I quickly learned during our student tour to the city.
It's a big, bustling city of 762,000 people with great shopping, tasty food, tons of festivals and lots of friendly people. I definitely want to come back for the Winnipeg Folk Festival and Fringe Festival –locals say Winnipeg is a great city for festivals.
I was really impressed with our group trip and how it came off without a hitch.
Our public band performance attracted a big crowd at The Forks.
That afternoon we played in the open air under the canopy at The Forks. The public market, shopping and dining area is located at the intersection of Winnipeg's two main rivers the Assiniboine and the Red Rivers. For the last 6,000 years, the site has been a meeting place for aboriginals and then, much later, for fur traders. We also explored nearby Oodena circle, a massive stone circle carved in the ground at the Forks. It is aligned to the annual summer and winter solstices and spring and fall equinoxes—our trip was also an educational tour too.
Afterwards, we all went inside to eat lunch from one of dozens of restaurant kiosks. I tried a Ukranian delicacy called perogies, doughy pockets filled with cheese and potatoes at Yudyta's. My friend had a chickpea roti from Bindy's Caribbean Delights. There was every kind of food from what felt like every country inside the market's diverse food court.
The next morning our group went to meet the conductor of the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra for a morning matinee performance at Winnipeg's Centennial Concert Hall. It was incredible to meet the musicians and hear them play. Before they played, conductor Alexander Mickelthwate talked a little bit about the composer and the story behind the music. He really opened my ears and taught me a lot about the music. Afterwards, he answered more questions.
In the afternoon, we got a backstage tour of the Centennial Concert Hall and saw the stage hands preparing for the evening concert. We also met the first violinist who told us about life as a professional musician. Then we listened to the entire rehearsal.
On a free day, we all went to Assiniboine Park to relax in the city park and walk around the duck pond. A few of us walked to the English Garden and then through the Leo Mol Sculpture Garden. It was so beautiful; it felt like we were wandering in the garden of an English manor.
That night, we saw a musical theatre show at Celebrations Dinner Theatre. The actors sang throughout dinner and pulled some of my friends into the show. We couldn't stop laughing.
We had such a cool time in Winnipeg. Group travel has never been more fun. I can't wait to visit this great prairie city again. Our band also wants to go back and Tourism Winnipeg can help plan any kind of trip for any kind of school or professional group. Their website also has great information about shopping, dining and recreational activities in the city.


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Osiris, Tutankhamun and his ka; Nut greeting Tutankhamun; Tutankhamen as Osiris from Opening of the Mouth ritual; outer coffin in quartzite sarcophagus.
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King Tutankhamun's Burial Chamber
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Book of the Dead, spell 1: funeral procession
Tutankhamun is lying on a deathbed. The sledge is towed by 12 persons of which nine probably are representing the 'The nine friends of the king'. Following are the two viziers of the South and North. All persons pulling the sledge wear a wig and a white headband. White headbands are still used by relatives at funerals in nowadays Egypt. They all wear white sandals in a shape identical with the two pair found in Tutankhamun's tomb.
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Tutankhamun flanked by god Anubis and goddess Hathor
Behind the king is Anubis with the jackal head is standing, the god of mummification. He opened the roads to the netherworld. Anubis also brought the dead before the judges of the netherworld, for whom he weighted the heart being the dwelling place of the conscience. The judges would determine if the pharaoh didn't committed any sins during his life. When found innocent, Tutankhamun would live for eternity. Anubis has placed his left hand on the shoulder of Tutankhamun, as if he led Tutankhamun before Hathor. In his right hand he is wearing the Ankh-sign.
Right from Tutankhamun the goddess Hathor stands besides him. She was the Goddess of the West, and protector of the Theban Necropolis. She used to greet the dead when the arrived in the Netherworld. On the wall she gives life through the nostrils of Tutankhamun by holding the 'Ankh'-sign towards his nose. In her left hand she is holding a second 'Ankh'-sign. In her white headband the symbol of the West (where the sun goes down) is inserted.
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Osiris, Tutankhamun and his ka
The god Osiris was the central deity in ancient Egyptian mortuary rituals. In Egyptian mythology he is ruler of the Underworld and associated with resurrection. He is depicted as a man wrapped in white mummy bandages.
The "ka" is what we would call a spirit or a soul. The "ka" was created at the same time as the physical body. A persons "ka" would live on after their body had died. The Egyptians left offerings of food, drink, and worldly possessions in tombs for the "ka" to use.
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PSALM 87The Glories of the City of God A Psalm of the sons of Korah. A Song. 1 His foundation is in the holy mountains. 2 The Lord loves the gates of ZionMore than all the dwellings of Jacob. 3 Glorious things are spoken of you,O city of God!Selah 4 "I will make mention of Rahab and Babylon to those who know Me;Behold, O Philistia and Tyre, with Ethiopia:'This one was born there.'|" 5 And of Zion it will be said,"This one and that one were born in her;And the Most High Himself shall establish her." 6 The Lord will record,When He registers the peoples:"This one was born there."Selah 7 Both the singers and the players on instruments say,"All my springs are in you." Could not Open the LogFileName: '../../bible/logs/2015_01_jan_log.txt'cannot find, try: Psalms 84:7 ( NKJV Notes ) Could not Open the LogFileName: '../../bible/logs/2015_01_jan_log.txt' NKJV Copyright


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AMERICAN ACCOUNTING ASSOCIATION www.aaahq.org CONTACT: Ben Haimowitz (212-233-6170)
Audit fee this year is tip-off to financial performance of client company next year and beyond, study finds
Not long after Enron's stock sank from $90 a share to a few pennies, a journalist noticed something curious: for auditing services covering the year before the stock's steepest fall,the company had paid a whopping $25 million, or almost three timesthe average paid by the blue chips in the Dow Jones Industrial Average.
Unfortunately, the journalistic suggestion that such a high fee was a red flag came too late for thousands of shareholders who saw their investments virtually wiped out by the company's collapse. A warning sign it almost certainly was, however, suggests a new study in the current issue of Auditing: A Journal of Practice & Theory, published by the American Accounting Association.
Indeed, the new research finds auditing fees charged to companies to be significantly related to the their financial performance for as long as five years into the future: the higher the fees this year, the lower firms' performance next year and beyond.
In the words of the journal report by Jonathan D. Stanley of Auburn University, "Primary results indicate a significant inverse relation between audit fees and the one-year ahead change in clients' operating performance... Further analysis reveals that the primary results extend to changes in operating performance observed up to five years after the fee is disclosed; are more pronounced for future negative versus positive chances; and [are] applicable to future changes in earnings unaccounted for by analysts' forecasts."
Asked if these findings are likely to be of value to average investors, Prof. Stanley answers in one word: "Definitely."
He explains that, "since 2001, the SEC has required companies to disclose in their proxy statements fees paid to their external auditors, so that these amounts are not hard to find. If a company's auditing costs are substantially higher than those of competitors of roughly the same size, that should be a reason for investor caution. In my view, checking auditing fees should be a basic investment activity, like checking short interest and analysts' earnings forecasts."
Why should auditor fees foreshadow future firm performance? To a considerable extent because of the risks accountants perceive when they undertake an audit, perceptions based on access to company inside information that doing audits affords
Comments Prof. Stanley: "A client firm may pose risks because it lacks the resources to prepare reliable reports or because its executives feel pressure to distort or obfuscate in order to conceal declining performance. Heightened risk of misstatements will require the auditor to expend more time and effort than would otherwise be necessary, as well as to charge a premium based on increased litigation risk or reputational risk.
"In short," he adds, "factors that drive up auditing costs can also easily have a negative impact on a company's future."
The new study's findings are based on an analysis of data from about 5,000 U.S.-based companies during the nine-year period 2000 through 2008. The firms studied had median assets of about $240 million and paid a mean of $1.15 million yearly for outside auditing services. Financial performance was defined as company return on assets, as determined by both earnings and cash flow. Analysis controlled for a variety of factors likely to affect auditing-fee charges, including amount of company assets, number of business segments, amount of leverage, and size of inventory and accounts receivables.
Prof. Stanley found auditing fees to be significantly related to improvements or declines in firms' financial performance during the following year and, to a lesser extent, during the subsequent four years as well. In the study's words, results "reveal a significant [but] fading relationship between audit fees and future changes in operating performance that extends up to five years ahead." He finds, too, that in raising or lowering a company's fees based on signs of improving or declining performance, auditors prove more sensitive to the latter than the former. As the paper puts it, "Expected deterioration in the client's operating performance will be reflected by auditing fees in a timelier manner than improvement in the client's state."
The professor also probes for evidence that auditors benefit from access to inside information, so that "the fee potentially reflects a business risk assessment that is more informed than the assessment of at least some other market participants." Comparing professional stock analysts' earnings forecasts to actual company earnings, he finds a significant negative correlation between unexpected earnings and audit fees. Earnings above what analysts expected are associated with relatively lower audit fees and those below what the analysts expected with relatively higher audit fees.
In other words, "the audit fee is likely to reflect the client's future earnings unanticipated by analysts at the time of the audit.
The study is one of several recent papers that focus on auditor fees as harbingers of company performance. One still unpublished working paper by professors at the University of Iowa and the University of Texas at Dallas provides evidence linking the amount of audit fees to the subsequent revelation of client firms' financial misstatements and fraud as well as the future receipt of SEC comment letters. Still another unpublished paper from Vanderbilt and George Mason universities finds increases in audit fees to be significantly associated with subsequent severe price declines in a company's stock as well as credit rating downgrades and the filing of class action security lawsuits. So valuable is the information contained in the audit fee, the authors argue, that it should be made public at the time the fee is negotiated rather than a year later when the audit is published in a proxy statement.
Comments Prof. Stanley in conclusion: "While it has long been suspected that auditing fees are predictive of company performance, my study and others have taken this issue out of the realm of conjecture. This is a relationship that investors can have confidence in, which is why some scholars are arguing for more timely public disclosure of audit fees than occurs today."
His study, entitled "Is the Audit Fee Disclosure a Leading Indicator of Clients' Business Risk?" is in the August/October issue of Auditing: A Journal of Practice & Theory, published four times a year by the American Accounting Association, a worldwide organization devoted to excellence in accounting education, research, and practice. Other journals published by the AAA and its specialty sections include The Accounting Review, Accounting Horizons, Issues in Accounting Education, Behavioral Research in Accounting, Journal of Management Accounting Research, and The Journal of the American Taxation Association.


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European markets welcomed news of this weekend's nuclear deal with Iran as global oil prices dropped and European shares rose in early trading Monday, NBC News reported. The agreement would partially lift sanctions on Tehran in exchange for a temporary freeze on its nuclear program, buying time for world leaders to draft a longer-term deal. The potential of a future deal that would allow Iran to restore full production will keep oil prices lower in the short-term, analysts believe. The accord also raises the possibility that a long-term agreement would eventually allow Iran to restore oil production to pre-sanction levels.
Oil Prices Fall After Iran Nuke Deal
A passer-by watches the electronic stock indicator of a securities firm in Tokyo, Monday, Sept. 30, 2013. Japan's Nikkei 225 stock average, the region's heavyweight, closed 2.1 percent lower at 14,455.80 as financial markets were rocked Monday by fears that the U.S. government was heading for a shutdown and renewed political instability in Italy. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi)
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