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About 30 miles south, there is much to see in Newport, Rhode Island. Something to put on your list is the Redwood Library's new exhibit, In Pursuit of Natural History: An Exhibition of Works on Natural History from the Redwood Library Collections, curated by Dr. Philip Weimerskirch. Running now through November 18, it includes the first book on the natural history of the New World, an unrecorded pamphlet by a noted Philadelphia engraver, an elephant folio edition of Audubon's book on quadrupeds, and more. The Redwood Library is named for its founder, Abraham Redwood, a botanist.
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About 30 miles south, there is much to see in Newport, Rhode Island. Something to put on your list is the Redwood Library's new exhibit, In Pursuit of Natural History: An Exhibition of Works on Natural History from the Redwood Library Collections, curated by Dr. Philip Weimerskirch. Running now through November 18, it includes the first book on the natural history of the New World, an unrecorded pamphlet by a noted Philadelphia engraver, an elephant folio edition of Audubon's book on quadrupeds, and more. The Redwood Library is named for its founder, Abraham Redwood, a botanist.
The beautifully designed quarterly, with its covers printed letterpress by the local AS220 Community Print shop, is produced in an edition of 200, nearly half of which are already spoken for by subscribers. According to Rick's blog, a subscription can be had for the bargain price of $15. Pictured here is Issue #1, Spring 2010.
As some of you may already know, Rick has taken a new professional position. As of August 1, he will be the head curator & librarian of the Watkinson Library at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut. However, he will still be available at PPL once a week until a new librarian is named.
The collection had been assembled by Terry Belanger, recently retired as the founding director of Rare Book School at UVA, as a teaching tool to study various formats used over the years for a single book. I later learned of an even larger Lucile collection at the University of Iowa--almost three times as large, in fact--assembled by Sid Huttner, director there of special collections, and the subject of a dedicated web site known as the Lucile Project. I had the pleasure soon thereafter to meet with Huttner, and to see the collection.
There are some fabulous single-book collections of other titles, too, the late Jock Elliott's superb Christmas Carol editions coming immediately to mind, and a truly remarkable private collection of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland I have had the privilege of seeing on several occasions, but few collectors have the patience (and dare I say the fortitude) to see such a commitment through to these extremes. So it was with uncommon interest that I received a Google news alert yesterday (my name is mentioned parenthetically, thus the heads up) directing me to a piece that had just run in the Sacramento Bee about a collector whose library is brimming with 700 copies of Richard Henry Dana's 1840 novel, Two Years Before the Mast. Six paragraphs into the story, the reporter, Sam McManis, describes what he saw when he walked into the library of Bill Ewald, a 67-year-old retired firefighter:
At first, it's just a handsome room: nearly 700 books on oak shelves and display tables, and in cardboard boxes tucked in corners. You smell the mustiness of antiquity. Your eyes catch the glint of gilt spines, the sad fraying of aging cloth covers contrasting with shiny, happy paperbacks.
Then it hits you. These are all the same book.
A proud Californian, Ewald tells McManis he chose to concentrate on Two Years Before the Mast because it is set during the years of the great California gold rush, and because it is one of what veteran collectors know as the Zamorano 80--one of the eighty books determined to be seminal to the history and culture of the Golden State. (The book thief Stephen Blumberg was particularly keen on acquiring all eighty, incidentally, going so far as the steal the Zamorano Club's own collection of the books, which I wrote about in Chapter 13 of A Gentle Madness.)
Ewald discusses at length his unusual passion in McManis's piece, and offers some general insights on collecting. There is a sidebar there, too, for beginners looking for pointers, though I have to say I was a bit dismayed by the readers comments posted thus far. one bemusedly calling such an obsession "freaky," several others fixated on what is obviously a minor error on the part of a headline writer and not the reporter, as anyone who has ever worked for a newspaper will instantly recognize to be the case.
Anyway, give this most entertaining article a look; very nicely done indee
A Percy Shelley poem is discovered. It is an amazing find. The manuscript belongs to a bookseller. The bookseller owns the piece but do they own the contents on that piece of paper?
The Guardian weighs in...
As the dust settles after all the to-ing and fro-ing over Kafka's papers, it seems a good time to ask some questions about who, exactly, owns literature.
In most countries, property law means that people can take possession of manuscripts and, in some circumstances, a lone copy of a printed text. In these cases - where only one copy of the work exists - the owners of the manuscript also find themselves in possession of its literature. Yet the two things ought not to be conflated. We can easily envisage an owner owning a manuscript while we collectively own and know the piece of literature it contains. But in the case of the works of Kafka that are lying in those safes, we're not allowed to do that. Both the manuscripts and the literature are in the possession of the owners.
And of course, it's not the first time.
But when Hurley passed away in 1984, what folks discovered was...
- Shakespeare's Second Folio
- the 2-volume First Edition of The Life of Samuel Johnson
- the First Edition of Shelley's Queen Mab
- an inscribed First Edition of Bram Stoker's Dracula
- the First Edition of Winnie the Pooh, signed by Milne and illustrator E. H. Shephard, one of only 20 copies bound in vellum....
Because Hurley died intestate, posterity treated this wonderful collection very, very poorly. Not only was Hurley's collection scattered to the winds, but an astounding number of rare and important books were sold for a mere pittance by order of the Los Angeles County Public Administrator .
We should perhaps be grateful that Dawson's, which had learned of Hurley's death from Hurley's sisters, was able to select some 800 items for more respectful treatment. These were cataloged by Stephen Tabor in two sales that Dawson's conducted in August 1984 (catalog # 477, 206 items) and May 1985 (catalog # 479, 554 items). It is from Tabor's introduction to these catalogs that we have what little is known about Hurley. Even with this more respectful treatment of his books, the Prices Realized will make you weep.
Even in death, though, new life arises. And from the ashes of a great but now obscure book collection arose not only a new generation of book collectors...but booksellers as well. Lillian Cole, for example....
The respected Santa Monica bookseller, a well-known specialist in gemology, was just getting into the bookselling business when Michael Hurley passed away. She cites Hurley's death as one of the 3 major influences on her career as a bookseller:
[i]t was [then] that I experienced my very first auction, as well as the acquisition of hundreds of books that became my starter inventory. They were wonderful books on all subjects: travel, poetry, literature, children's and one gemological book - The Book of the Pearl by Kunz and Stevenson, published 1908. While I recognized it as a very special and unique book, I didn't have a specialty of any kind at that time, and so tucked it away very carefully for some future time.
Twenty-five years later (July 2009), Cole issued a very special anniversary catalog (depicted above left). This catalog, along with the two Dawson catalogs and Basbanes' brief mention of the collector, will likely be Hurley's only legacy. For a collection that Roger Gozdecki has estimated was likely worth several million dollars at the time of Hurley's death, this has to be accounted a major blow to bibliophilia....
Take a peek inside the new library:
Lame Duck owner John Wronoski graciously agreed to answer some questions about the shop's closure and his experience in the book business. Our Q&A follows.
RRB: Are you just closing the physical shop, or are you getting out of the business? Why?
JW: The closing of the physical shop is part of a slightly longer-term process in which I'll be assessing the future prospects of the business. I have an art gallery next door to the current bookshop and I'll probably try somehow to consolidate the two businesses for some relatively brief period of time while I decide whether it makes sense to continue on in Cambridge, or at all. Although I have no sense that it will be possible to sell the business as a going concern, I'm very much open to that as an option, and I'd do what I could to make it possible for an interested party to acquire it under congenial terms, including staying on as an unpaid adviser during an interim period. Assuming that that won't happen, I'm intent on liquidating as much of the stock as I can in the relatively near future. It's highly likely that regardless of what might happen with Lame Duck Books I'd remain active in the book trade after some fashion, whether as an agent in the sale of collections and literary archives, an appraiser or even a consultant, or for that matter a private librarian. It's too intimate a part of my life to simply abandon it, much though I've often fantasized just that.
RRB: How long have you been a book dealer?
JW: I began putting the shop together in Philadelphia in 1983, when I was 24 years old. It opened in January 1984.
RRB: Do you have a favorite piece -- book, mss., letter -- that's come through your shop?
JW: A lot of them haven't quite finished coming through it. My principal focus is literary archives and manuscripts and important association copies of literary works of art, so I've handled quite a lot of really extraordinary things. If I had to specify one that made me feel like the air had left the room and I was in the presence of eternity, it would probably be the only known manuscript version of Borges's Pierre Menard autor del Quixote -- my art gallery is named after it.
RRB: Are you a collector yourself?
JW: Only by virtue of having failed to sell some of my books. I think of myself as more akin to a birdwatcher than to a proper collector. I want to have seen it, maybe even gotten quite close, perhaps even for longer than would seem normal to a lot of people, but I don't need to possess it in the end. On the other hand, I've sold some astonishing things that I've never even touched.
To celebrate their creativity, their artistry, the words they've produced and the use of graphic design that is unparalleled, Chronicle Books is publishing Art of McSweeney's. Within its pages? Interviews with McSweeney's collaborators like Chris Ware and Michael Chabon and a plethora of insights in regards to their creative process.
Nicholas Basbanes was literary editor of the Worcester, Massachusetts Telegram & Gazette from 1978-1991, in which capacity he was able to interview hundreds of authors whose publicity tours took them through the city of Boston. In "About the Author: Inside the Creative Process", Basbanes draws upon his conversations with an immense diversity of literary greats ranging from Alfred Kazin, Arthur Miller, John Updike, and Toni Morrison, to Doris Lessing, Kurt Vonnegut, Neil Simon and Alice Walker, to explore the motivations and processes that authors experience and utilize to create their novels, poetry, histories, and other literary works. A fascinating read from beginning to end, this 246-page compendium is as informed and informative as it is insightful and inspiring. Thoughtful and thought-provoking, "About the Author: Inside the Creative Process" is highly recommended reading and a seminal work for both academic and community library Literary Studies reference collections.
Well-done, Nick! About the Author is available in both a trade edition and a signed limited edition in the FB store.
Howard also touches on some places that are doing very interesting things with bibliographic instruction: not just Rare Book School, but also Texas Tech (where bibliography is embedded in the English Department's curriculum), and Florida State, home of the three-year History of Text Technologies program.
I don't say this often, but I will for this one: read the whole thing.
The paper fashions were something I had never seen before, and I was quite taken with them. As examples, Filley's Bluebird dress and Shoe Boot are pictured here. I emailed her to ask more about it, and here is our Q&A.
RRB: How did you come up with the idea for paper dresses and shoes? I've seen paper jewelry before, but never anything like this!
LF: The dresses came about when Maureen and Serine [owners of Paper Trail] bought the forms to use for a holiday ornaments display. After the holidays they suggested weaving some paper through the forms which are made of wire. It all came so naturally to me. I have always loved fashion and wrapping gifts so the two finally met. That was 4 1/2 years ago and I have probably made about 20 dresses since. The shoes are a recent project. I made 1 each for Maureen and Serine this past holiday season and used them for the topping of their presents. Maureen then suggested I make some more and we could include them in the Spring show which was the second one Ramon and I have done at Paper Trail. The first show was called Fashion and Fiction.
RRB: How do you describe your art -- or yourself -- book art, book artist? paper designer?
LF: I guess I would describe myself as a paper artist. I have always loved to make something from nothing and make it as appealing as possible. The next best thing to making the dresses and shoes is the search for different material and to use it outside of its original intent, e.g. packaging material, odd little bits of ribbon from the store and the plastic mesh bags that onions come in.
RRB: What is your artist background?
LF: I am self-taught. I have been drawn most of my life to making visual stories out of different items whether it be window/table display for a store or just placing things picked up from a walk.
RRB: It's interesting to me that Paper Trail -- a retail paper & gift store -- is holding an art exhibition. How did this collaboration come about?
LF: Three years ago when Maureen and Serine moved Paper Trail from the back space to its current location, it gave them a new chance to expand the scope of the store beyond gifts and stationery. The room on your left when you first enter the store is a natural space for displaying art.
Paper couture, I like it. If you happen to be in the area, I highly recommend a visit to Paper Trail. You can also see images from the exhibit online.
Ephemera Studies is a rather new website, curated by Saul Zalesch of Louisiana Tech University. He posts all kinds of amazing American ephemera. Take a gander at his gallery.
Two such novels caught my eye this summer. Allegra Goodman's The Cookbook Collector (Dial Press, 2010) just went on sale last week. It's terrific. Goodman h been round the literary circuit before -- her debut was a National Book Award finalist, and her most recent a New York Times bestseller. But this book appeals to the bookish in a whole new way. The main characters are two intelligent twenty-something sisters, Jessamine and Emily. Emily is the CEO of a Silicon Valley start-up, who seems just a little too sweet and ethical for the job. The younger and less ambitious Jess works part-time at Yorick's Used and Rare Books in Berkeley when she's not out trying to save the redwoods. But Jess becomes enamored by a set of rare cookbooks that her boss acquired. With his encouragement, she begins cataloguing the books, finding erotic drawings and poems in the margins that signal the former owner's obsession with an unknown woman. One might think from this description that the novel's plot would focus on this mystery, a la Matthew Pearl, but it is but one element in a grander scheme of loves, losses, and lucidity. Bibliophiles who enjoy novels should not miss it. Where else in modern fiction are you going to read a line of dialogue like this, "You think there's something materialistic about collecting books, but really collectors are the last romantics. We're the only ones who still love books as objects."
The second novel in my proverbial beach bag is The Summer We Read Gatsby (Viking, 2010) by Danielle Ganek. Set in the Hamptons, this novel is about two half-sisters, somewhat estranged and brought together when they inherit a beach cottage called Fool's House (after the Jasper Johns painting). The recently divorced Cassie is back in the United States for one month to settle the estate of her aunt, while her eccentric sister Peck plays socialite. Their aunt, a sometime artist and art collector, told them there was something of "utmost value" to be found in the house, so between parties, dates, and shopping sprees, a secret or two percolates. Cassie thinks the valuable thing might be a Fitzgerald first edition:
"I don't know why, but I had this idea we might find a first-edition Great Gatsby hardcover with a dust jacket. Signed, maybe."
"What would that be worth?" Peck asked, scoffing. "Nothing. Maybe a few grand?"
"Signed?" I reached for the packet of letters and untied the ribbon. "Those things are worth a lot to some people." [Note: Like $180,000 at Bonhams record-breaking auction last year.]
Less intricate than Goodman's novel, Ganek's story is winsome nonetheless. Enjoy!
Pictured above: An inscribed first-edition copy of Oliver Twist. It sold, setting a world record for the most expensive Charles Dickens books.
The sale of the first portion of the Arcana Collection was held this afternoon at Christie's London, for a total take of £8,169,800. Results are listed here. Just eight of the 48 lots failed to sell, but three of the major pieces were among them.
Things got started pretty quickly, with Lot 2, an early German Bible (1477) beating estimates and selling for £169,250. While Boccaccio's De claris mulieribus (1473), estimated at £250,000-350,000, did not find a buyer, his Decameron, bound with Masuccio's Novellino, fetched £361,250 (again surpassing estimates). Jean Grolier's copy of the Hypnerotomachia Poliphilimade £313,250, and the amazing copy of Hieronymus' Epistolae (1470) fetched £937,250. A 1484 Paris edition of Ovid sold for £97,250, while Pliny's Historia naturalis (Venice, 1476) made £313,250.
The Latin Nuremberg Chronicle sold for £67,250 (beating the estimates handily), and then theGerman copy (with illuminations) made an eye-popping £541,250 (estimates had it at £120,000-160,000).
The expected big-ticket items among the illuminated manuscripts didn't do much: the Abbey Bible, a fabulously-illuminated manuscript on vellum (Bologna, 1260s) and the Elizabeth de Bohun psalter/book of hours (England, 14th century), both estimated at £2 million plus, didn't sell. Nor did the Cauchon Hours.
There was a little manuscript action, though: a manuscript of Bartholomaeus Anglicus' Le livre des propriétés des choses (Paris, c. 1390), beat expectations to become the top seller of today's sale, reaching £1,105,250. An illuminated triptych on vellum over wood panels (Bruges, c. 1540) made £241,250, as did a pair of French books of hours from around the 1460s (Lots 36 and 37). A French manuscript of Ovid's Heroides (Paris, c. 1493), with lovely miniatures, made £601,250 (within the estimate range). And the Hours of François I fetched £337,250 (on estimates of £300,000-500,000).
Overall, not bad, but not a good day for the headliners.
Book Purge 2010 began yesterday and runs through Thursday. A black-and-white HTML version of the for-sale list is available here, with descriptions at the bottom.
Image: Ellison Wonderland. Signet paperback. Art by Robert Pepper.
But don't just take my word for it, enjoy a short preview here.
And, one last thing: Kennedy's bold prints are available online. Browse his poster gallery.
What better way for bibliophiles to observe the Fourth of
July than to reflect a bit on the legendary passion the author of the
Declaration of Independence had for his books, and for the care he took not
only in selecting them, but in one amusing instance, expressing his regrets to
a hopeful bookseller trying to make a sale.
Thomas Jefferson's best known comment on the
subject--"I cannot live without books"--was confided in a letter to
John Adams in 1815, and has been celebrated on everything from coffee mugs to
T-shirts. (I used it myself fifteen years ago as one of four epigraphs for A
Gentle Madness.) But in another letter written four years
earlier Jefferson made clear that while books certainly were essential to his
sanity and well-being, he was not about to read everything that might come his
Responding to a query submitted to him by his friend Thomas
Law to subscribe his name for a translation of a French atlas of the world then
in preparation,
"I am now entered on my 69th year. The tables of
mortality tell me I have 7 years to live. My bibliomany has possessed me of
perhaps 20,000 volumes. Of these there are probably 1000 which I would read,
of choice, before I should the historical, genealogical, chronological, &
geographical Atlas of M. Le Sage. But it is also probable I shall decamp before
I get through 50. of them,.Why then add an unit to the 19,950 which I shall
never read? To encourage the work?"
The full text of Jefferson's wonderful response has been
edited and published online by The Papers of Thomas Jefferson Retirement
Series, based in
Editor of the series is J. Jefferson Looney, who my wife and I
had the good fortune to meet a few weeks ago at the Horatio Alger Society
annual meeting. Jeff kindly sent this letter along, which I saved for use
today. He advises me too that this letter is previously unpublished, so it should
be of considerable interest to admirers of
So check out the Retirement Series site, it's great fun.
In honor of our upcoming national holiday, take a moment to hear about the New York Public Library's copy of the Declaration of Independence -- the copy once owned by Jefferson. In the video, curator William Stingone explains why it's so special.
Image copyright F. Warne & Co., 2010. Courtesy of the V&A.


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I personally know of two such dead portals, empty and devoid of life. The first is in Zangarmarsh, at the appropriately named Portal Clearing, and the second is in Nagrand. Have you found any other portals in your time in Outland? If so, do you think that the locations of the portals could be a clue to what lies behind them? Going with this theory, we might postulate that the Zangarmarsh portal might lead to the Maelstrom, since that zone is riddled with naga. What do you think?
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The other day I was helping a guildie with their mage as they reached 20. Thus began the long journey to collect teleportation training from around Azeroth. Something he said along the way stuck with me though. He mentioned that he hardly sees people asking for portals to Darnassus now. I thought about it, and would have to agree. I seem to sell as many ports to Darnassus as I sell to the Exodar. The cities are so closely linked, it's fairly easy to hop on a boat and be anywhere on Kalimdor that you need to be.
Why then the great level difference in the training? The portal to Darnassus still remains a spell you can train in at level 50, while the portal to the Exodar is a level 40 spell. This goes for the teleport spells as well, since the level for Darnassus is 30, while all the others are available at level 20. So in essence, all that bouncing around the continent starts ten levels sooner. I imagine that initially the portal to Darnassus was level 50 because it represents a greater magical achievement. You are now transporting a group across the ocean. Does the Exodar require less skill to use? You are still transporting people across the Great Sea. Wouldn't it in fact require more skill, seeing as how we have had a longer history with the Night Elves than we have with the Draenei? I am thinking that the developers might want to take a look at the level requirements for the portals. The initial level requirements seemed to support the lore. The training, as it stands currently, does not.
A possible explanation is that Night Elves shun arcane magic. However, they do accept the portal trainer within their city, so this argument doesn't seem to work for me. If they let that first mage in there to create the portals in the first place, why would it be more difficult for other mages to do so? Is there some sort of other explanation that I'm missing as to why there is such a level discrepancy with both the teleport and the portal spells to Darnassus?
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Layouts - Why bother?
by Joe Gillespie
The last two editorials covered some of the more practical considerations of Web page layouts - static vs. liquid layouts, tables vs. CSS-P. This time, I'll ignore the "how" and concentrate on the "why".
How important is "layout" anyway? Does it really matter?
Some people will tell you that it doesn't really matter what a page looks like as long as the information is presented in a logical manner. They say, "Keep the content and the style separate. A Web page should be readable on any device capable of displaying it - a computer, a television, a PDA, a WAP phone."
That is like saying that it doesn't matter what you wear as long as your hat is on your head, your shirt on your torso and your socks and shoes on your feet. Yes, it makes sense logically, and sometimes you have to do it that way - but not always. Logic can be very restrictive if followed blindly. If you are travelling fast in an open-top sports car, your head is probably not the best place for your hat. If you are going to paddle in the sea, it might make more sense to have your socks and shoes under your arm.
What you are wearing definitely does matter as well as where. Putting aside the impracticalities of wearing a diving suit for dinner, the more subtle aspects of dress require you to dress appropriately for a job interview, a funeral or a disco.
The purpose of page layout design is to present information not only in a logical order but also in an appealing way that tempts the reader to get involved.
Regardless of what the text matter says, its presentation and delivery can communicate "tedious", "exciting", "important", "informative", "waffle" or a host of other things. Just like your attire, a page communicates something even before you start to read it. This can colour your attitude to the content without you even being aware of the fact.
The signals contained in that communication won't necessarily mean the same to everyone. As a graphic designer, you have to be in control of these subliminal undertones. Used with skill, they can can condition the reader's attitude to your advantage. At a more basic level, they should at least avoid sending negative messages.
An ill considered or badly laid out page is like an untidy person in a moth-eaten, badly fitting suit. Were it more akin to a person in casual, comfortable attire, it wouldn't be a problem - unless, of course, the subject demands a more formal approach.
If someone is trying to sell you something and they look scruffy, then you don't have much confidence in what they are selling. If it's something cheap and cheerful, then your expectations may not be so high.
Trying to sell something off a tatty Web page is less likely to produce the desired results than one that exudes care and confidence. As with anything, it's the attention to details that makes the difference.
The layout of a traditional hand-written letter is quite different from that of a typed business letter.
We are all introduced to the basic principles of layout at school when taught to write a letter or essay. Typists learn the fundaments of laying out business documents as part of their training. Where these basics cover the more practical issues, the strict rules that are laid down actively discourage creativity, just as straying from the straight and narrow structure and grammar of written English is considered wrong.
Well, okay, I can accept that you should at least know the rules before you start bending them. Rules are there to keep people in line but sometimes they are right and sometimes they are wrong! It is wrong to drive up the left hand side of a road "for creative reasons" - unless you live in England or Australia!
Layouts on paper or screen.
You are probably aware of most of the significant differences in page layouts for print and Web. Once you've created a print layout and it has been published, that's it. The reader will see exactly what you had in mind when you designed the page.
On a Web page, your layout will be relatively low in resolution, restricted in typestyles, inexact, and will shift and change depending on the reader's computer, monitor and browser.
You can either live with this fact, or fight it, but working with the medium rather than against it will cause less frustration and give better results in the end.
Information priority
When you read a novel, the information is delivered in an absolutely linear fashion. There is a title page, maybe some preamble, various chapters and some vaguely related stuff after the end of the story. You start at the beginning and finish up at the end. Each page will look pretty much like every other page with only a few minor distractions here and there. In layout terms, a book like this assumes a top-down approach and the typography assists by leading the eye from left to right and from the top to the bottom of the page without compromise.
A cinema or TV movie is similar - a sequence of individual frames presented to you one after the other, but we will stick with the concept of "pages" for the time being.
A reference book is quite different. It is dipped-into without necessarily going from front to back. You usually want some kind of shortcut to the information you are looking for - chapter headings or an index. Even when you get to the section you want, it might not be just a sub-section of continuous text, there could be one or more blocks of text, illustrations, photographs, captions to these images and references for further reading.
Newspapers and magazines are also broken up into smaller sections or articles that you can read or skip as you wish. Although you could read them from front to back, it is just as likely that you flick through them from back to front without it mattering too much. This is called "random access". You are looking for something of interest to you and you are just as likely to find it randomly as you are if it was presented sequentially because it is essentially "unordered".
The order that you are seeking is local to the article itself. First, a picture or headline will catch your attention, perhaps taking you to a caption or sub-head. If that manages to hold your attention, then you will be led into the main body of the text. The important thing to notice here is that top-down is no longer of any great importance. The photo you see first could be below the headline or the headline could be at the bottom right of the introductory text. It gains its prominence in some other way, size or colour of type, or through some visual trickery that leads the eye to it in much the same way that an artist composes a picture to bring attention to the main subject.
Now, if you start thinking about page layout as pictorial composition you will start to see what it is all about.
Newspaper layouts are about getting as much information onto a page as possible, magazine layouts can be whatever the designer wants them to be - crowded pages, virtually blank pages, only type, only pictures or type and pictures in any possible combination.
Now ask yourself, is your Web site a newspaper or a magazine, a photostatted price list or a glossy brochure?
Read more about information priority in the typography section of this site.
A common exercise for student typographers is to take a number of related lines of text and to present them in a prioritised order, but in doing so, they must only use one technique. They can use size of type, but not change the weight. They can use a variety of type weights, but the size and colour must remain constant. They can use colour, space, position on the page, rotation, whatever they like, but only one trick at a time!
Here are a few possibilities. Click on the pictures to enlarge them.
Emphasis through type size
Generally, large type has greater emphasis than smaller - no big surprise there - but it's not always so. If type is too big for comfortable reading at a given distance, a more appropriate size will take precedence. This will happen on a large newspaper or magazine spread but rarely on a Web page. It is all to do with breaking outside the eye's normal field of view. Enlarge image
Emphasis through type weight
Body text weight variation on a Web page is restricted by the availability of fonts on the reader's system. Very few common Web fonts come in more than two weights, regular and bold. Arial does have a black variant but if you want to play tricks with type weight on Web pages, you have to use GIFs or Flash images with embedded outline fonts. Very fine fonts such as thin and light are likely to break up at the low resolution of a Web page, especially at smaller sizes. Enlarge image
Emphasis through type colour or tone
Colour or tonal values with very low contrast against their backgrounds become diminished in emphasis. Warm colours seem to come forward whilst cool colours are recessive. Where Web typography is somewhat restricted by lack of type weight variants, tone and colour can be used to add or reduce relative emphasis. Enlarge image
Emphasis through type position
We normally read from left to right, top to bottom but you can override this natural flow. There are dominant positions for type on a page and other areas - "backwaters", if you like - where text is less likely to be read. A conjurer can ask you to pick any card from a deck and then force a particular card on you. You can play the same trick with type using space and position. Enlarge image
In the real world, designers are not restricted to using such academic exercises to establish priority although they will learn a lot in the process of trying. All these tricks are there to be used however you wish. What were once rules are now playthings. The purpose of the exercise is not only to present the information in the correct order, but to do so in a creative way.
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Kraanspoor Office Building Hovers Above Repurposed Craneway in Amsterdam Harbor
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The solid gantry stretches 885 feet across the shipyard [7]. OTH utilized the elevated base as a foundation for Kraanspoor, having the building span its entire length. The office building "hovers" strikingly above the concrete craneway [8] by three meters on a steel frame. One side of the building cantilevers over the waterway of the River Ij, just as a revolving crane had in the past.
OTH created a dazzling double-glass façade [9] for Kraanspoor, with a motorized moveable outer layer of delicate lacey glass. The inner layer features functional floor-to-ceiling hinged windows, which allow for natural ventilation. The timber lined windows also block heat in the summer, and the winter cold. An internal pump utilizes water from the Ij to aid in climate control in the building.
OTH repurposed as much of the original structure [10]as possible. The original stairwells remain and now house elevators and new emergency stairs. Catwalks that were used by crane operators have been updated to become Kraanspoor's fire escape. The original space [11] below the gantry has been repurposed as a massive storage facility.
At night, the illuminated Kraanspoor appears as a celestial body floating [12] above the water. A fusion of old and new architecture, Kraanspoor brings new life to the wharf, while preserving its original shipping history [13].
Via Core 77 [14]
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"Despite all the negative news, the flavor is excellent. That's our positive in a year that hasn't had many positives," Galone said.
California growers have said that despite damage there is still a lot of fruit to sell.
"There is still sufficient volume to fill orders, although we may see an earlier end to the season. We'll be meeting demand until the end of the season, which could be several weeks earlier than normal," Blakely said.
"We usually go through the middle of July, but I'm not sure we'll get past early June this year. We'll just have to wait and see," he said.
Harvey Phillips, a salesman for Johnston Farms, Bakersfield, Calif., said damage could be more extensive than some estimates he has heard so far.
"My estimate is that we could have lost 60% of the crop before it's all said and done," he said.
So far, pricing for the larger fruit has gone up a little bit, according to Phillips, but smaller fruit, which was hit harder, has seen bigger increases.
"It's rare when smaller fruit is quoted at a higher price than larger fruit," he said.
Texas has seen a slight increase in supply, according to the USDA.
Grapefruit estimates are up about 3.5% and oranges are up about 4%.
Trent Bishop, vice president of sales for Mission, Texas-based Lone Star Citrus Growers said the state has seen a really good growing season this year.
"We had some timely rains that caused some short-term panic but that really were a true benefit in the long run," Bishop said.
Rain had delayed harvest at the end of last year, he said.
The added moisture hasn't been enough to really affect reservoir levels, he added, although it has allowed growers to refrain from accessing that water, so it's still a positive result.
"It has positively affected the water supply up north slightly," he said.
Bishop said LoneStar's volume is up considerably this year, and they expect to offer a lot of promotions in the next 120 days or so for the state's grapefruit and orange crop.
"We have an excellent quality this year, with no reason to expect that will change," he said.
Although Texas has seen good weather, potential challenges remain as the state battles to keep citrus greening from creeping further into the state.
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Hey! Secret Moon Base is back for 2013 and we're recording a brand new episode tomorrow night! Usually we gather our questions on Twitter but we wanted to give some our non-Twitter friends here on the Cblogs a chance to join in on the fun too.
We won't necessarily be discussing a specific topic tomorrow. We'll just be catching up with each other, maybe talking about some recent news and (of course) answering anything you guys and gals want ask us! It can be videogame related, which is cool, or non-videogame related, which is badass too. Either way, we'll do our best to satisfy your query and you can catch our answers when we post the new episode!
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Matali Crasset has officially made it into my book of the most out-there designers with the most-difficult-to-navigate websites, but peeping her user-configurable seating is well worth enduring the torturous interface. Since the '90s, the experimental designer has conceived of her work as "a research movement, made of hypotheses more than principles."
We'll start off simple. Her 1997 Il Capriccio di Ugo armchair featured armrests that could be flipped down into trays:
Crasset's Decompression Chair from 2000 featured a "backpack" of sorts made from a parachute-like material, and could be inflated to turn the entire thing into an armchair:
Her Digitspace seating from 2003, designed for public spaces, consists of one simple, repeatable shape that lends itself to a variety of configurations:
More recently her Dynamic Life sofa, done last year for Campeggi, goes from sofa to lounge to daybed, depending on which sections the user chooses to flip outwards.
Crasset designs a lot more than furniture; dive into her site (hopefully you'll have an easier time of it than I did) to investigate her other projects here.


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A little shine and a few twists on tradition inject a lot of style in this kitchen in Rye, New York, designed by Louise Brooks. "The house is a traditional center-hall Colonial, and the kitchen comes as a surprise," she says. "It gives the house a lot of panache."
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Alessandra Ambrosio is in a Bikini
Posted in response to "Hey, did you hear Miranda Kerr got married?"
Photos: Fame
Posted in response to "Hey, did you hear Miranda Kerr got married?"
Photos: Fame
i get the c-section scar above her right hipbone, but what's up with the scarring around her bellybutton?
Am I the only one that wishes this photo was taken from the other direction to get a good close look between her legs?
Yes congratulations!! You're the first LOSERDOUCHE of the day!!!
Get over it.
Que like.
Que, u always give me a run for my money..
she looks old, bitchy, and like she had a baby
and I miss the other banner girl. This one is not hot.
Get over it.
She has no fat and looks better than me but I still fail to see the alleged "perfection" of this woman.
Get over it?
What a sleeper! You asses are extremely desperate to post JC Penney catalog pics. Continue showing more, and lots more of KK's whopper ASS especially spreading it WIDE with gaping bunghole. And I guess her boobies, face and twat with hair galore!!! Hell, I'm gettin' a woody just thinking of KK's ASS.
Yeah, Miranda and Orlando got married. I considered suicide when I read that last night, but then I decided I'd be better off just being happy for (despite being jealous of) Orlando. And for both of them.
Alessandra's cute but to me Miranda's cuter.
I don't think she's 'too skinny' per se, but her body is built so straight up and down and her face is just blah, and slightly manish. Don't get why people rave about her.
I wish that i had you
Where can I find a woman like that?
i get the c-section scar above her right hipbone, but what's up with the scarring around her bellybutton?
The belly button scars could be the result of a tummy tuck. Wouldn't surprise me that much. I think Alessandra is a good coat hanger type model because she is tall and very thin. She makes clothes look good in photos or on a runway. Never understood why they keep putting her in bikinis though because those, many others do much better (e.g. women with sexy curves but not too much fat like Jessica Alba, Halle Berry, etc). Alessandra is not the prettiest or most feminine looking in the facial department either. Will look a lot like Steven Tyler in a few more years.
i dont find this girl that hot, Idk…she looks the same as any other generic model…now if it was Ellen Page or something..then yes!
LOL @ Ellen Page over this woman. She's not like all the other models, in my opinion. And this chick had a baby. How!? I love her.
Ellen Page looks like a 14yr old boy sometimes. Cool…if that's what you're into.
Dude, Ellen Page? Are you fucking serious? And you have the nerve to call Ambrosio generic? Ellen Page is the blandest person — both in looks and personality — that I have ever seen. Now I don't particularly think this girl is that attractive (Adrian Lima, Ana Beatriz Barros, Miranda Kerr, Candice Swanepoel, Nicole Trunfio, Isabel Goulart, Irina Shayk, etc are all hotter), but she is hotter than Ellen fucking Page that's for damn sure.
borderline tranny, dogface, super super bitchyface. the body is good tho. severly overrated model.
She isn't hot. She kind of has a man face. Her chin is too pointy, and her body is like a beanpole — absolutely no curves at all. Miranda Kerr is much hotter. She has such a more prettier face than this dog.
She'd resemble a Greek statue.
She makes enough money to afford a boob job. Why has it not happened yet?
Supposedly she is afraid of plastic surgery due to a botched ear pinning as a child. Seriously, that's what she has said. Someone else pointed out belly button scarring though so who knows? I agree that she would look so much better with bigger boobs.
the irony..she ALREADY HAS had one…
Maybe she has an IQ above 90?
Compared to most non Western, non-Oriental nations, an IQ of 90 would actually be considered smart. I mean, the average African's IQ is 70.
^^^^ This comment doesn't make any sense. I think you mean "Unlike most non Western, non-Oriental nations, an IQ of 90 would actually be considered smart. I mean, the average African's IQ is 70." Because an IQ of 90 compared to Western or Oriental nations would not be considered smart.
When you try to sound smart, at least organize your sentence properly.
I meant for my IQ comment to go under Mark's comment about why MS Ambrosio has not gotten a "boob job." IOW, I don't think getting a boob job is a smart thing to do to one's body.
Nothing special here . Where is Kelly Brook ?
AGREED. Kelly Brook puts this "female" to shame lol. If she wasn't a model, I wouldn't really care. But how…does something like this define the word, "model"? Ick.
………..she must hate "EATING"?
99.9 percent of the american people DON'T!!
Ugly, masculine face….man, that JAW. And her body is…anything but perfection. If by perfection you mean skinny and shapeless then okay, fine.
She has no curves. I don't mean fat; I mean sexy hips, hourglass, cleavage etc.
These pics are planned so she looks good. She has to twist, arch her back to create the illusion, wrap her hands around her chest to get cleavage.
Here's her real bod in the unscripted pics (and these are the "meatier" ones):
Dude, who does your web design? Why do I have to have the full page reload just to see the next picture. Can't your half-wit designer copy some code from a site that actually works? In all seriousness, I love this website. I love your horribly offensive editorials and asides. I love the awesome pictures. Basically I love the content, but I loathe the way it's arranged. Please spring for someone that knows what they're doing.
I started copying the image url and manually editing the number of picture to go through the photos attached to the post. It's actually faster to do that than to use the site itself. WTF!!!
her belly button kind of looks like a piercing scar…thats what mine looks like after it migrated :(.
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Alisyn Camerota
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Alisyn Lane Camerota is an American television news journalist who had many roles at Fox News Channel over her 16 year career at the network. She is currently at CNN and CNN International and was the co-host of CNN Tonight. Alisyn currently co-anchors on CNN's New Day.
Camerota graduated from American University, in Washington, D.C., from the university's School of Communication, with a degree in broadcast journalism.
Early broadcasting career[edit]
Before joining Fox, Camerota worked at a number of different stations, including WHDH in Boston and WTTG in Washington D.C., and for America's Most Wanted. She also did some work for Koppel Communications, where she worked on Ted Koppel's primetime documentaries.
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Based in New York City, Camerota began co-hosting America's News Headquarters, with Bill Hemmer, beginning on September 30, 2013, in the Monday to Friday 1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. ET time slot.[1] Camerota co-hosted Fox & Friends Weekend along with Clayton Morris. Her final broadcast on that program was September 28, 2013. She previously was a co-host on Fox & Friends First. In October 2007, Camerota started her own blog on the Fox & Friends page on Fox News Channel's website called, In The Greenroom. In November 2007, Fox & Friends began an Internet-only segment called, The After the Show Show. The segment features Fox & Friends anchors of Brian Kilmeade, Steve Doocy and Gretchen Carlson, sometimes along with earlier guests or crew members from the cable show and a toy monkey at the end of the Internet segment. This is done live after the main show has finished while, America's Newsroom, is shown on the cable channel. These videos are available later on the Fox & Friends page on Fox News Channel's website.[2] Prior to her maternity leave, she was a co-host of the weekend edition of the same program, in addition to regularly appearing on the Friday edition of Fox & Friends 1st. She has been a guest-panelist on Fox News late-night satire show Red Eye w/Greg Gutfeld.
Prior to becoming a program host, Camerota was a correspondent for the network's Boston bureau since joining the network in February 1998, reporting on a number of different stories and contributing to the network's affiliate service, Fox News Edge.
At the end of the afternoon broadcast on March 14, 2014, Camerota marked the end of her 16-year run with the network in a teary-eyed farewell to her afternoon audience.
On July 14, 2014, CNN and CNN International announced that Camerota has joined the CNN news team to serve as a TV anchor with a time slot to be announced in the coming months. [3] Alisyn co-anchored on CNN's "New Day" the morning of Friday, July 25, 2014 and Monday, August 25, 2014. In 2015 Alisyn became a permanent co-anchor of "New Day"
Personal life[edit]
Camerota and her husband have fraternal twin daughters born in 2005, and a son who was born in 2007. Camerota is originally from Shrewsbury, New Jersey.[4]
- ^ Weprin, Alex. "'The Real Story with Gretchen Carlson' To Debut At 2 PM On Fox News September 30". mediabistro.com. Retrieved 28 September 2013.
- ^ Lauren Green leaves Fox and Friends, Inside Cable News
- ^ [1] Alisyn Camerota Joins CNN as Anchor
- ^ TV Insider: Alisyn Camerota - BostonHerald.com
External links[edit]
- Official website
- Blog on FoxNews.com
- Bio on FoxNews.com
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Given two boxes, and told that one contains double the amount of money of the other. When one box is chosen at random and opened, there were 200 dollars. Most would reason that the other box will contain either 100 or 400, and therefore the expectation is 250, and hence it is superior to the first box.
Since the first box was chosen at random, is there a fallacy in applying probability considerations here? Thanks.
To use the expectation of 250 as a definition of what is in the box is the fallacy. Consider the two options, as compared to taking the first box. If you choose the second rather than the first, you might lose 100 dollars. On the other hand, you might gain 200 dollars. By choosing the other box, you have a 50% chance of losing $100 and a 50% chance of gaining $200. If the same option with the first box containing $200 comes up 10,000 times, always choosing the first box results in a gain of $2,000,000. Always choosing the second box results in a gain of $2,500,000. A person who likes risks will choose the second box because he stands to win more than he can possibly lose.
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This apparent paradox is resolved by: 1. recognizing that the information "one contains double the amount of money of the other." removes the condition that amounts of money are randomly distributed. and 2. the proper statement of the "expectation value" is that "There is a 50% chance that the second box will contain either $100 or $400."
That there is a misapplication of the term "expectation value" consider the analogous "experiment". A coin has a 50% chance of landing "heads" or "tails". If the coin is tossed again there is still a 50% chance of the coin landing "heads" or "tails". The events must also be independent, which is not the case if you know the amounts in the second box.
Finally, restate the problem, "The second box contains either $1 or $999." You have a 50/50 chance of getting either $1 or $999. It is the "boxes" you are averaging, not the "amounts" in the boxes. That has no relevance regarding the probability of choosing the second box.
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Friday Five: My Favorite Macrobiotic Blogs
I haven't done a Friday Five in a while, but it's definitely time for one.
When I embarked on Macrobiotic March, one of the first things I did was look for new macrobiotic blogs. Here are my current (new) favorites.
Maggie's Favorite Macrobiotic Blogs
1. Macrobiotic Magic in the Kitchen. This is mostly a recipe blog, and with recipes like Winter Stew and Pumpkin with a Maple Miso Sauce, who could resist? Well – who can resist pumpkin ever? (Certainly not me.)
2. No Dairy No Sugar. This is a simple, pretty blog with lots of ideas for macrobiotic meals. I want to try her Quinoa Amaranth Veggie Mix.
3. She Cooks Macro. This blog is beautiful and truly professional. I wish I had found it in time to join the Chewathon! (I have been neglecting my chewing, again.)


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Yesterday, Gensler unveiled its design for the Museum of Bond Vehicles and Espionage, which is slated to open in Momence, IL, in 2012, on the 50th anniversary of the first James Bond movie, Dr. No. The 14,000 sq ft museum will house the exclusive collection of the Ian Fleming Foundation, including the world's largest collection of vehicles used in Bond films. A partnership between the Ian Fleming Foundation, the Kankakee County Museum and the City of Momence, this Gensler-designed museum will also feature cultural artifacts of espionage with exhibits exploring contemporary culture's impact on the Bond films as well as Bond's influence on popular culture.
With projections of 20,000 visitors per year, the museum hopes to revitalise Momence, Illinois, a historic 'border town' located 50 miles south of Chicago. Gensler Design Director Brian Vitale said: "The project itself is a bit of a double agent. At face value, we've designed a showcase for a world-class collection of James Bond vehicles and the culture that surrounds them. But its real mission is to become a powerful catalyst for the revitalisation of a once-vibrant city."
With a limited budget, Gensler focused on a single bold design move to make a statement against a simple backdrop. The result is the '007' window (named so because the window's angled jamb resembles a '7'), located at the building's prominent corner. The window does quadruple-duty, providing exhibit display space, signage, a day lit interior, and an iconic backdrop for photographs. The remainder of the building is clad in black horizontal corrugated metal. "It's a mysterious silhouette that reveals very little of the museum's content, much like James Bond himself," said Vitale.
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21 Aug, 2014
VoL in your radio
you can listen to the Variety of Loud (with Guy Pratt, Stefan Pasborg, Qarin Wikström and Pat Mastelotto) show from Nefertiti, Gothenburg online for free for some time on swedish national radio P2. Just click here. Our show starts around 1:37:30 in the program.
5 Jul, 2014
just got a couple of hand built fuzz and distortion boxes from KTW, Gävle, Sweden. If you play an amplified instrument I highly recommend you to get one too… they sound great! check out his website here
4 Feb, 2014
"If twang existed on another planet"
intergalactic Copenhagen based duo Orbit Stern just released the vinyl "Inde i Skoven, Ude i Byen" (also available digitally) -
we are on social media, if you'd like to follow us there. Otherwise just go to the website of ours. Cheers!
6 Jan, 2014
Variety of Loud; Rhythm n' Loud tour
Guy Pratt, Qarin Wikström, Stefan Pasborg, Pat Mastelotto and I will perform in DK and SWE soon; please check the shows page for schedule.
30 Sep, 2013
Dear all,
My new album Return to Center is featured on progstreaming.com, and it's up for 6 weeks. Normally I don't say this, but I'll try for once: if you've got Facebook and like what you hear – feel free to press the "like"-button.
1 May, 2013
new album – Return to Center
will be released on BoogiePost Recordings/Plugged june 4 (the very same date as last years "Variety of Loud"). The disc contains music from Center, recorded in Berlin last year. It will also feature brand new exciting duos, Korda (Chord), with trumpet player Yazz Ahmed, violin player/vocalist Elena Setien and drummers Morgan Ågren and Pat Mastelotto. Looking forward!
24 Feb, 2013
And of course! You're most welcome to visit and/or follow my sounds on Soundcloud – just click here


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Bladder Cancer In-Depth: Risk Factors
A risk factor is something that increases your chances of getting a disease or condition.
It is possible to develop bladder cancer with or without the risk factors listed below. However, the more risk factors you have, the greater your likelihood of developing bladder cancer. If you have a number of risk factors, ask your doctor what you can do to reduce your risk.
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Treatment with the drug cyclophosphamide can also increase your risk of bladder cancer. This drug is used in chemotherapy and to treat certain autoimmune disorders, such as lupus .
Pioglitazone also increases the risk of bladder cancer. This medication is used to treat type 2 diabetes.
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Conditions that allow your bladder to be chronically irritated over a long period of time can increase your chance of developing bladder cancer. Irritating conditions include the following:
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Euro Rises as German Lawmakers Vote to Approve Expansion of Bailout Fund (Bloomberg)
The vote in Berlin on changes to the EFSF allows the fund to buy the bonds of distressed member states and offer emergency loans to governments, raising Germany's guarantees to 211 billion euros from 123 billion euros.
Bernanke says Fed would act if inflation falls (Reuters)
In his first public remarks since the Fed launched a fresh measure aimed at keeping down long-term borrowing costs, Bernanke indicated a willingness to push deeper into the realm of unconventional policy if economic growth remains anemic. … "If inflation falls too low or inflation expectations fall too low, that would be something we have to respond to because we do not want deflation," Bernanke said.
Greek debt holders object to new deal threat (FT)
A person intimately involved in the deal accuses officials in countries such as Germany and the Netherlands who want to increase the haircuts of engaging in activity that is "pretty close to market manipulation". He argues that prices have collapsed because politicians have increasingly talked of default and bigger losses.
An Investment Banker's Fortunes Rise With Brazil's (NYT)
Yet possibly no one embodies the financial ascent of Brazil better than Mr. Esteves. At 43, he has built BTG Pactual into Brazil's largest independent investment bank and has amassed a fortune estimated at $3 billion by Forbes magazine. Still, he has driven the same Mercedes pickup for four years and takes only two weeks of vacation a year. … The BTG in BTG Pactual stands for banking and trading group. But Mr. Esteves says it also stands for "back to the game," because he bought the company back from UBS. When someone suggested that it could mean "better than Goldman," he just laughed.
Crook busted after robbing same bank for third day in row (NYP)
After the second heist, the suspect's security-camera photo was put up in police stations and published in yesterday's Post. Still, he couldn't resist taking a third shot at the bank yesterday. Just after 9 a.m. he passed a demand note that said, "I have a gun put all the money in the bag." "It was the same dumbass who hit us yesterday," said one worker. "He was huge."
Business attacks transaction tax plan (FT)
The British government said a financial transaction tax could only work if it were implemented globally. The UK CBI employers' group attacked the tax plan as a "crude instrument" that would divert trading activity to New York and Hong Kong. "The Commission's decision to press ahead with a financial transaction tax is completely misguided at a time when it's clear that Europe needs a relentless focus on growth," said Neil Bentley, the CBI's deputy director-general.
H-P Hires Banker In Defense Move (WSJ)
Goldman was recently brought on board to help H-P formulate defenses in case it becomes the target of shareholders seeking change, the people added. Typically, companies with such a concern put in "poison pills" – shareholder rights' plans that make takeovers more difficult for activist investors. … Analysts have said H-P's seeming lack of direction, the management-related instability, as well as the potential for restructuring its portfolio of hardware and software assets, make the company an attractive target for investor activism.
Pepper-spray videos spark furor as NYPD launches probe of Wall Street protest incidents (NYDN)
NYPD Commissioner Raymond Kelly said Internal Affairs and the Civilian Complaint Review Board will investigate. He was skeptical the video snippets show the whole story. "In my experience, proponents of a certain position would show you just what they want to show you," Kelly said. "Hopefully, [probers] will look at the totality of the information that they will gather."
Fund Goes Down Blind Alley (WSJ)
Real-estate developer Stephen Ross and his partners spent more than a year digging into U.S. banks, including more than 100 with loans to local bakeries, gas stations and amusement parks. They hoped to spend about $1.1 billion buying or investing in lenders. But the deeper they went, the worse things looked. As a result, Related Cos., the New York firm in which Mr. Ross is chief executive, gave back the money it raised from roughly 150 investors, including hedge-fund manager David Einhorn.
Interns, Unpaid by a Studio, File Suit (NYT)
One plaintiff, Alex Footman, a 2009 Wesleyan graduate who majored in film studies, said he had worked as a production intern on "Black Swan" in New York from October 2009 to February 2010. He said his responsibilities included preparing coffee for the production office, ensuring that the coffee pot was full, taking and distributing lunch orders for the production staff, taking out the trash and cleaning the office. "The only thing I learned on this internship was to be more picky in choosing employment opportunities," Mr. Footman, 24, said in an interview. " 'Black Swan' had more than $300 million in revenues. If they paid us, it wouldn't make a big difference to them, but it would make a huge difference to us."
Wrong Button Sends ANA Jet Upside Down (WSJ)
All Nippon Airways Co. narrowly escaped a catastrophe earlier this month when its plane almost flipped over after a co-pilot hit the wrong button while trying to open the cockpit door for the plane's captain, returning from the restroom.
Chris Christie: Is New Jersey Governor Too Overweight to Become President? (ABC)
Political scientists and strategists said they could not recall a truly heavy American politician finding great national success in the television age. "Our candidates tend to be tall, they tend to have great hair," said Russell Riley, a presidential scholar at the University of Virginia's Center of Public Affairs. "This doesn't seem to be a business that, at the presidential level, willingly accepts people who are demonstrably overweight.
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Hate to break it to you "Russell Riley" but if Chris Christie runs (or walks), I plan on voting for him.
Does the chic in the stick-up story always do that thing with her mouth? I'd like to meet and mount her.
If that hoe was ma bank teller with her mouth wide open like dat Id b robbin dat bank every mutha fuckin day.
Ray & Mike,
Suck my balls.
Larry & Mark
What's your complaint? That the job was unfulfilling (welcome to internships) or that you didn't get paid (you signed up for it and/or welcome to internships)?
Either way, coffee wallah, I'll take it iced, one splenda and non-fat milk.
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Fucking women. Always crying about something. I pepper-sprayed myself and you didn't see me cry. Hell, I even shot myself in the chest, and not one tear.
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Can we get an article posted please? Did Bess go on another vacation and leave Matty in charge again?
I still read the Baby Sitters Club.
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no Boston shoutout? http://www.businessinsider.com/red-sox-lose-2011-…
demonstrably overweight or unfuckable lard ass?
Next time please bring your A game when talking shit.
– Silvio
Glad to see Emilio Esteves is finding work. Only if more Americans had his tenacity…
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"pretty close to market manipulation". He argues that prices have collapsed because politicians have increasingly talked of default and bigger losses.
I wonder what thinks QE 1-3 are, or regulations for that matter. It's all market manipulation
Anyone read the article and realize he was a FORTY TWO YEAR OLD accounting intern?
Are you really that oblivious?
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What's wrong with that?
-Sixty-two year old UBS Analyst Intern -
- UBS Global Automotive Quant
"What I am concerned with is detail. I asked you to go get me a packet of Sweet-N-Low. You bring me back Equal. That isn't what I asked for. That isn't what I needed and that shit isn't going to work around here."
How's the yogilates and colon cleansing working out for you?
What bank will be the first to change its name to BTUBS: Better than UBS
Some unpaid internships are a great way to get a foot in the door, some are pure exploitation. That being said, I thought it was pretty common knowledge that most entertainment internships consisted of getting people coffee. *shrugs*
Yes and I will ask that question if they don't post articles on Diwali, Hanukkah, Christmas, Kwanzaa and Thanksgiving as well since my butt will be working in the office on those days too and I need something to do other than work…
UBS buys for 3.1bio > 3 years > UBS sells for 2.45bio > 2 years > It is worth 10bio
I am glad Matt is of Italian extraction.
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My new column, "How Much Can Clients Spend in Retirement? A Test of the Two Most Prominent Approaches" is now available at Advisor Perspectives. In the column, I simulate and describe the spending paths created by two of the best known variable withdrawal strategies: Jonathan Guyton's Decision Rules and the actuarial approach developed by Larry Frank/John Mitchell/David Blanchett as it culminated in David's September article providing a spreadsheet to calculate sustainable withdrawal rates on a year-by-year basis throughout retirement.
In other news, yesterday's Wall Street Journal webcast panel discussion with Bill Bengen, David Blanchett, and I went well and has over 10,000 views already. The replay is available. I must say, 30 minutes is just not enough time to build any momentum for the discussion, but a lot was covered nonetheless. Hopefully there can be more of these in the future.
Let me clarify one point, as I know some people will be confused about why Bill Bengen speaks of the 4.5% rule instead of the 4% rule. The answer is based, again, on worst-case scenarios in US history. When the historically much more volatile small-cap stock index is added (and overweighted as about 40% of the overall portfolio) to the investment mix along with large-cap stocks and intermediate term government bonds, the worst-case withdrawal rate in history was 4.58%. However, I am less confident than him about whether it is appropriate to consider this as a forward-looking safe withdrawal rate for today's retirees.
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