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Questioning the Signaling Model of Education
I was an early adopter of the Higher Ed Bubble thesis. Like all early adopters, I've gotten skeptical now that it's popular. I recently attended a talk by Bryan Caplan where he discussed his thesis that higher education is about signaling good qualities, not about attaining them. This explains lots of puzzles in the education market, from "will this be on the final exam?" to choosing English Lit over Computer Science to 40% absentee rate in typical college classrooms. One of the most compelling pieces of evidence for the signaling model: on average, one more year of education predicts 10% higher income for an individual. But it predicts 2% higher GDP for a country. [Citation needed: Caplan mentions it in his talk, but it is surprisingly hard to Google for.]
The trouble with signaling is that it's too good. Signaling is always a possible explanation for phenomena that are visible but don't have an obvious cause, but like lots of other powerful explanations ("market price" or "survival of the fittest") it's also strong enough to explain counterfactuals. It's still valid and meaningful, but signaling is not necessarily a comprehensive model. And in this case there's another model that can explain some of the gains: accumulating lots of knowledge is disproportionately useful in fields where a) winners win big, and b) growth in that field is has an unusually small impact on GDP growth. Read the rest of this entry »11.10.14
Snapchat as a Value Investment: A Mild but Timely Tweak to Discounted Cash Flow
Snapchat most recently raised money at a rumored $10bn valuation. All good MBAs know that the current value of a company is the value of all of its future cashflows, discounted back to the present. So all good MBAs consider these VCs completely insane. Or they would, except that implicitly people use two valuation frameworks: either they think of an investment in terms of discounted cash flows, or they think of it as a "strategic" investment. "Strategic," in practice, means "clearly not the result of anyone's realistic estimate of Snapchat Inc.'s free cash flow generation circa 2029, but not strictly crazy, either."
But there is a fairly trivial way to square that circle. A company's current value is the net present value of all future cash flows it can generate, or the amount of cash flow it can cause a single prospective purchaser to lose, discounted to the present. Read the rest of this entry »10.30.14
In Search of Negative Carry
One working definition of a professional investor is: somebody who needs to care about "carry." The classic carry trade is the mid-90's best against the Yen (I'm going to borrow from this Mark Dow writeup, because I am a macro tourist—literally, my main macro trade is that I avoid traveling to Europe when the Euro is strong). The Yen bet: the BOJ intended to keep rates low; rates in the US were high. So a smart person could borrow Yen, invest in USD, and pocket the difference. A smart person with risk tolerance could do this several times over, and make a very nice return indeed.
As it turns out, one risk of carry trades in FX is that they are a pretty good deal most of the time, so lots of hedge funds get involved, so when something else blows up, they unwind their carry trades, too. So at any given time: a) the carry trade is earning a positive return from the interest rate differential, b) the trade also has a tailwind from more people making the trade (ie every new "borrow Yen / short USD" transaction, but c) at any given time, there's a possibility of a sudden and painful reversal.
Fortunately for anyone involved in such a trade, you earn your 2 and 20 on performance at a specific time, not on the expected contours of future performance. So for someone who wants pretty good odds of a pretty good return, a carry trade is a pretty good bet. Read the rest of this entry »10.29.14
Chicken-and-Egg Disruption: Misunderstanding YouTube, Uber, and AirBNB
AirBNB offers ubiquitous illegal rentals, says New York's Attorney General. Uber gets shut down or hobbled in new markets around the world. Viacom's legal department could have wiped out YouTube for ripping off their content.
At one level, you have to ask why somebody would build a business that's either always illegal or probably going to be used illegally. If you want to be really contrarian, you could try asking that but not rhetorically. Read the rest of this entry »10.28.14
Bitcoin from A to B
One sophisticated bitcoin argument goes like this: buying bitcoin speculatively just makes you a modern-day goldbug who can't handle the intricacies of the modern global financial system. The really cool thing is bitcoin as a platform—for money transfers, for record-keeping, for contracts, or voting.
That's a fair argument. Anyone who was reading the news in 2008 knows that nobody can handle the intricacies of the modern global financial system. That people whose full-time job was "Make sure it doesn't ever break" came within about a week of breaking it.
I don't buy it. Read the rest of this entry »02.27.11
What Stock Option Pricing Models Tell You about Courting Controversy
"There's no such thing as bad publicity" was surely coined by an otherwise bad publicist. Of course there's such a thing as bad publicity, if you're already famous.
If you're not famous, there's a tradeoff: at some point, it's better to piss off most of your audience and impress a few people, rather than having no audience at all.
The Black-Scholes model provides a helpful way to look at this. The Black-Scholes formula allows you to price a stock option knowing only a few data points—the current price of the stock, the strike price and maturity of the option, the risk-free interest rate, and the stock's volatility. Read the rest of this entry »
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How to Short the Higher Education Bubble
You know the return on investing in college is low and declining. You know there are better alternatives to college. You know that "college for all" harms students—Harvard says so!
Some day, the education bubble will burst. How can you trade this?
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LinkedIn's IPO Filing: Analyzing the S-1
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Last month, LinkedIn filed a prospectus with the SEC. It's a great case study: LinkedIn is one of the largest social networks, and it may be the most mature of the major social networking businesses. Like Facebook, LinkedIn has turned a profit; unlike Facebook, LinkedIn's profit is dependent on several known business models.
The filing itself was a better read than most. Among other risks, it cited the possibility that:
[O]ur initial public offering could create disparities of wealth among our employees, which could adversely impact relations among employees and our culture in general.
I guess that's what you get when your Chairman is an avowed "free-market socialist."
The hurdle LinkedIn's IPO faces is that the easy comparisons are completely wrong. LinkedIn shouldn't be valued like a job board: for a variety of reasons, it's a much more defensible model; LinkedIn is likely to stomp all over the traditional job boards (not so much traditional recruiters). But it's not a "social network" that can be valued like Facebook and Twitter. LinkedIn's business model is already in place, and its potential is a matter of execution, not innovation. Read the rest of this entry »02.7.11
Blogs are Here To Stay—Are Bloggers an Aberration?
It's hard to say when the "blogger" phenomenon peaked. In the runup to the 2004 election, the media meta-narrative centered around "the blogger"—a possibly psuedonymous individual whose commentary was upending the traditional news cycle.
In the next few years, something strange happened: blogs became ubiquitous. But "the blogger" lost influence; the personalities that originally defined blogging never became as influential as most people expected.
I suspect that three forces sapped the blogging trend of most of its strength:
•Social media sites replaced low-traffic blogs.
•The right economic unit for high-traffic blogs is the blog network or the content farm, not the blogger.
•The only use for a blog qua blog is as an extended résumé or biz-dev pitch. Read the rest of this entry »
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Will Disaggregation and Outsourcing Destroy the "Apprenticeship" Model?
Lawyers, consultants, and investment bankers follow a fairly similar career path: excessive hours and tedious work at the start of their careers, followed by vastly better compensation and marginally better hours later on.
This makes a certain amount of sense: the fastest way to get a decade of experience is do work double-time for five years.
The system works for people who are already in the industry: they get their grunt-work done. It works for people who are joining the industry: they learn everything they need to know, and the difficulty of the work allows the industry to keep an "up or out" structure along with a steady path for advancement.
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(US) Student Builds Contrabass Recorder
When Music Professor Ruth Griffioen suggested to Evan Callaway '12 that he spend his scholarship money building a six-foot-tall instrument that lost popularity after the 17th Century she was joking. However, the computer science major and music minor said he "took it more as a challenge than as a joke."
(BE) Course Manneristic Madrigals of Monteverdi
Fans of early music don't need an introduction of Claudio Monteverdi. For a long time, he was known for the first unsurpassed highlights of the early Western opera. Yet, his operas did not raise eyebrows, his madrigal bundles did. An example: in the foreword of his fifth Madrigal bundle, we read the discussion between Artusi and Monteverdi whether or not to use the new monidistic style.
(CA) Earthly and heavenly interests mingle in Nota Bene concert -- Concert Review (Oct. 19/2009)
"Live music blended with astronomy?
Not usually, but a great fit Sunday afternoon at the Registry Theatre when Nota Bene Period Orchestra (local Baroque music ensemble under the leadership of Borys Medicky) and the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada (Kitchener-Waterloo chapter) teamed up to present a most unusual performance — part concert, part lecture, part visual display.
(UK) The 2009 Greenwich International Early Music Festival and Exhibition (Nov. 13-15/2009)
"EXHIBITION - The Greenwich Exhibition of Early Musical Instruments is the largest Early Music Exhibition of its kind! A wide cross-section of early instrument makers from around the globe, shops, music publishers, societies, recording companies and early music forums all gathered under one roof.
(US) Diane Hubbard -- Remembered
"Taking piano lessons at the Longy School in the early 1960s, Diane Goetz was certainly no stranger to the music of centuries past. Then she met Frank Hubbard, a craftsman who with his friend William Dowd was spurring a revival of the harpsichord.
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But bombs sewn into clothing -- bombs sewn into undergarments, of all things? How far can they take the process of going over the rest of us?
Kip Hawley, head of the TSA during the Bush administration sees only one solution.
"The long term answers -- I don't see any way around it -- are the body scans that will detect whatever you have beneath your clothes," he said.
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- Introduction
- Influence and significance
- Old Testament canon, texts, and versions
- Old Testament history
- Old Testament literature
- Intertestamental literature
- New Testament canon, texts, and versions
- New Testament history
- New Testament literature
- New Testament Apocrypha
- Biblical literature in liturgy
- The critical study of biblical literature: exegesis and hermeneutics
The two- and four-source hypotheses
The two-source hypothesis is predicated upon the following observations: Matthew and Luke used Mark, both for its narrative material as well as for the basic structural outline of chronology of Jesus' life. Matthew and Luke use a second source, which is called Q (from German Quelle, "source"), not extant, for the sayings (logia) found in common in both of them. Thus, Mark and Q are the main components of Matthew and Luke. In both Matthew and Luke there is material that is peculiar to each of their Gospels; this material is probably drawn from some other sources, which may be designated M (material found only in Matthew's special source) and L (material found only in Luke's special source). This is known as the four-document hypothesis, which was elaborated in 1925 by B.H. Streeter, an English biblical scholar. The placement of Q material in Luke and Matthew disagrees at certain points according to the needs and theologies of the addressees of the gospels, but in Matthew the Marcan chronology is the basic scheme into which Q is put. Mark's order is kept, on the whole, by Matthew and Luke, but, where it differs, at least one agrees with Mark. After chapter 4 in Matthew and Luke, not a single passage from Q is in the same place. Q was a source written in Greek as was Mark, which can be demonstrated by word agreement (not possible, for example, with a translation from Aramaic, although perhaps the Greek has vestiges of Semitic structure form). A diagram might thus be:
In approximate figures, Mark's text has 661 verses, more than 600 of which appear in Matthew and 350 in Luke. Only c. 31 verses of Mark are found nowhere in Matthew or Luke. In the material common to all three Synoptics, there is very seldom verbatim agreement of Matthew and Luke against Mark, though such agreement is common between Matthew and Mark or Luke and Mark or where all three concur.
The postulated common saying source of Matthew and Luke, Q, would account for much verbatim agreement of Matthew and Luke when they include sayings absent from Mark. The fact that the sayings are used in different ways or different contexts in Matthew and Luke is an indication of a somewhat free way in which the editors could take material and mold it to their given situations and needs. An example of this is the parable in Matthew and Luke about the lost sheep (Matt. 18:10–14, Luke 15:3–7). The basic material has been used in different ways. In Matthew, the context is church discipline—how a brother in Christ who has lapsed or who is in danger of doing so is to be gently and graciously dealt with—and Matthew shapes it accordingly (the sheep has "gone astray"). In Luke, the parable exemplifies Jesus' attitude toward sinners and is directed against the critical Pharisees and scribes who object to Jesus' contact with sinners and outsiders (the sheep is "lost").
Another example of two passages used verbatim in Luke and Matthew is Jesus' lament over Jerusalem. In Luke (13:34–35; the lament over Jerusalem) Jesus refers to how they will cry "Blessed be the King who comes in the name of the Lord" when he enters Jerusalem (Lk. 19:38). In Luke, the passage is structured into the life of Jesus and refers to his triumphal entry into Jerusalem, "Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord"). In Matthew (23:37–39) this same lament is placed after the entry into the city (21:9) and thus refers to the fall of Jerusalem and the Last Judgment. Apparently, Luke has historicized a primarily eschatological saying.
Since the 1930s, scholars have increasingly refined sources, postulated sources behind sources, and many stages of their formation. The premise of the two- (or four-) source hypothesis is basic and provides information as to literary sources; further refinement is of interest only to the specialist. Another movement in synoptic research—and also research including John—is that which concentrates rather on the treatment of gospels as a whole, formally and theologically, with patterns or cycles to be investigated. It may be significant that the latest and best regarded Greek synopsis is that of the German scholar Kurt Aland, Synopsis Quattuor Evangeliorum (1964; Synopsis of the Four Gospels, 1972), which includes the Gospel According to John and, as an appendix, the Gospel of Thomas, as well as ample quotations from noncanonical gospels and Jesus' sayings preserved in the Church Fathers.
The Synoptic Gospels
The Gospel According to Mark: background and overview
The Gospel According to Mark is the second in canonical order of the Gospels and is both the earliest gospel that survived and the shortest. Probably contemporaneous with Q, it has no direct connection with it. The Passion narrative comprises 40 percent of Mark, and, from chapter 8, verse 27, onward, there is heavy reference forward to the Passion.
Though the author of Mark is probably unknown, authority is traditionally derived from a supposed connection with the Apostle Peter, who had transmitted the traditions before his martyr death under Nero's persecution (c. 64–65). Papias, a 2nd-century bishop in Asia Minor, is quoted as saying that Mark had been Peter's amanuensis (secretary) who wrote as he remembered (after Peter's death), though not in the right order. Because Papias was from the East, perhaps the Johannine order would have priority, as is the case in the structure of the Syrian scholar Tatian's Diatesseron (harmony of the Gospels).
Attempts have been made to identify Mark as the John Mark mentioned in Acts 12 or as the disciple who fled naked in the garden (Mark 14). A reference to "my son, Mark," in I Peter is part of the same tradition by which Mark was related to Peter; thus the Evangelist's apostolic guarantor was Peter.
The setting is a Gentile church. There is no special interest in problems with Jews and little precision in stating Jewish views, arguments, or terminology. Full validity is given the worship of the Gentiles. In further support of a Gentile setting and Roman provenance is the argument that Mark uses a high percentage of so-called Latinisms—i.e., Latin loanwords in Greek for military officers, money, and other such terms. Similar translations and transliterations, however, have been found in the Jerusalem Talmud, a compendium of Jewish law, lore, and commentary, which certainly was not of Roman provenance. The argument from Latinisms must be weighed against the fact that Latin could be used anywhere in the widespread Roman Empire. In addition, for the first three centuries the language of the church of Rome was Greek—so the Gentile addressees might just as well have been Syrian as Roman. The Latinisms—as well as the Aramaisms—are rather an indication of the vernacular style of Mark, which was "improved" by the other Evangelists.
Mark is written in rather crude and plain Greek, with great realism. Jesus' healing of a blind man is done in two stages: first the blind man sees men, but they look like trees walking, and only after further healing activity on Jesus' part is he restored to see everything clearly. This concrete element was lost in the rest of the tradition. It is also perhaps possible that this two-stage healing is a good analogy for understanding Mark theologically: first, through enigmatic miracles and parables in secret, and only later, after recognition of Jesus as the Christ, is there a gradual clarification leading to the empty tomb. In chapter 3, verse 21, those closest to Jesus call him insane ("he is beside himself"), a statement without parallel in the other Gospels.
In Mark, some Aramaic is retained, transliterated into Greek, and then translated—e.g., in the raising of Jairus' daughter (5:41) and in the healing of the deaf man with an impediment in his speech (7:34). The well-known abba, Father, is retained in Mark's account of Jesus' prayer in Gethsemane. In the two miracle stories, the Aramaic may have been retained to enhance the miracle by the technique of preserving Jesus' actual words. And a cry of Jesus on the Cross is given in Aramaized Hebrew.
The stories in Mark are woven together with simple stereotyped connectives, such as the use of kai euthus ("and immediately," "straightway"), which may be thought of as a Semitic style (as a typical simple connective in the Old Testament narrative style). More likely, however, this abruptness indicated that the compiler-redactor of Mark has used geography and people simply as props or scenes to be used as needed to connect the events in the service of the narrative.
Except for the Passion narrative, there is little chronological information. References in chapters 13 and 14 appear to presuppose that the Jerusalem Temple (destroyed in ad 70) still stood (in Matthew and Luke this is no longer the case); but the context of chapter 13, the "Little Apocalypse," is so interwoven with eschatological traditions of both the Jewish and Christian expectations in the 1st century that it cannot serve with certainty as a historical reference. To some extent, however, chapter 13 does help to date Mark—the priority of which has already been established from literary criticism—because it is in good agreement with the traditions that Mark was written after the martyrdom of Peter. Mark may thus be dated somewhere after 64 and before 70, when the Jewish war ended.


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What's the necessity of insulting? I chose those colors because they pleased ME! And are the same colors for my team. Not school btw.
Yo don't have exclusivity and I don't need to ask for your permission or give u credit in any way. I wanted orange and blue in my design. I had a couple of more designs, but those two are the ones I liked the most since white will get dirty way to fast! It's not like there is. trillion ways of customizing options given to us by Nike so that it's unique and original so it passes your Board of Approval
For originality.
Grow up, maybe when you mature up you'll understand that the world doesnt't revolve around you and/or your designs that you post on this forum.
Instead of hating why not just compliment that I did something similar to what you did and comment in a positive way.
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Parsimony networks of select Atlantic reef fishes. Statistical parsimony networks representing relationships between: A. cytochrome b sequences of Halichoeres bivittatus haplotypes; B. cytochrome b of Halichoeres radiatus and H. brasiliensis; C. combined 16s and 12s sequences of Sparisoma axillare and S. rubripinne; D. combined 16s and 12s sequences of S. chrysopterum, S. frondosum and S. griseorubra. Sizes of ovals are proportional to haplotype frequency. Small empty circles represent missing haplotypes. Arrows indicate points of support for either the center of origin or the center of accumulation hypotheses. Colors as in Fig. 2.
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Chagai Hills
The Chagai Hills is a range of granite hills in the Chagai District in Pakistan's Balochistan province.
The Chagai Hills lie in a desert area in the northernmost part of Chagai District north of Pakistan's Ras Koh Hills and south of Afghanistan's Helmand and Nimruz provinces.
The Chagai Hills are granite mountains, which, at their highest point, rise to a height of 9,367 ft (3,009m) above sea level. They stretch over an area that is approximately 175 km in length and 95 km in width.
The Chagai Hills lie in an arid zone, which is outside the main monsoon belt. The Chagai Hills receive scanty and irregular rainfall (an average of 4 inches (102 mm) annually). The temperature is extreme: very hot in summer and very cold in winter. The average minimum temperature is 2.4 °C (36.3 °F) in January and the average maximum temperature is 42.5 °C (108.5 °F) in July.[1]
Nuclear tests[edit]
Chagai Hills are often confused as being the location of Pakistan's nuclear tests of 28 May 1998, which were not carried out in the Chagai Hills but in the Ras Koh Hills, which is an entirely different range of hills to the south of Chagai Hills and separated from the Chagai Hills by a large valley. The confusion may arise from the fact that both the Chagai Hills and the Ras Koh Hills are situated in the Chagai District with the same name.[1][2]
Plans to conduct tests were begun by Münir Ahmad Khan, Chairman of the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC) in 1975. The PAEC's Directorate for Geological and Seismic Development (GSD) completed the survey finding a suitable locations for the weapon-testings site. In 1976, after the formal reported was submitted, Munir Ahmad Khan summoned dr. Ishfaq Ahmad, Director-General of Nuclear Physics Group (NPG) and Dr. Ahsan Mubarak, Director-General Geological and Seismic Development (GSD) and, tasked them for the selection of the nuclear test sites. In 1976, Bhutto directed an electronic telegram, through Army Generals Headquarter (GHQ), to Brigadier-General Muhammad Sarfraz, Chief of Staff of the 17th Mountain Brigade of the V Corps. The message was to make an availability of a Mil Mi-8, an army helicopter, to a forthcoming team of civilian scientists from PAEC for operational reconnaissance mission of some areas in Balochistan Province. At 4:00 a.m., the small teams of physicists and seismologist landed at the Samungli Air Force Base and at 06:00 hours, the Mil Mi-8 took off the teams under Ishfaq Ahmad and Dr. Ahsan Mubarak. Over a span of three days, the PAEC scientists reconnoitered, several times, the area between Turbat, Awaran and Khüzdar to the south, Naukundi to the east and Kharan to the west. One of the objective was to find a suitable place for an underground tests, preferably a mountain. After a hectic and careful survey, the mountain was discovered at Ras Koh Hills, an area completely independent from Chagai Hills. It is noted that Ras Koh Hills are not located in Chagai Hills and independent from the region. But, because Ras Koh Hills are located in Chagai District, it is often confused with Chagai Hills.[citation needed]
With incoming Martial Law Administrator General Rahimuddin Khan, the PAEC began to construct its iron-steel underground tunnels in 1977 and PAEC completed its construction in 1979. The task was undertaken by the Corps of Engineers's Special Development Works (SDW) and Frontier Works Organisation (FWO), the special units of military scientists and engineers, headed by Lieutenant-General Zahid Ali Akbar Khan and Brigadier-General Muhammad Sarfaraz, directly reporting to the Pakistan Army's Generals Headquarters (GHQ). The primary task of the organization was to prepare underground test sites (both horizontal and vertical shafts) for 20-kilotonne nuclear devices, with all the allied infrastructure and facilities. The sites had to be designed in such a way that they could be utilized at short notice (in less than a week) and were to be completed by December 1979 at the latest.[citation needed]
Long before the tests be concluded, American authors William E. Burrows and Robert Windrem, published their book, Critical Mass, in 1994.[3] Through this book, the Chagai Hills nexus with nuclear deterrent programme of Pakistan became the focus of international attention.[3] However, despite of its notoriety, none of the nuclear tests were conducted in the Chagai Hills.[citation needed]
However, because the related mountains in which the tests were performed were in the Chagai District, global intelligence agencies thought that the Chagai Hills were the test site for the weapon-testings. These tests were followed by India, which surprisingly conducted the tested its own nuclear devices —codename Operation Shakti — on May 11 and May 13, the Pokhran-II, in the Pokhran Army Test Range (PATR) located in the Rajasthan State, an eastern border of Pakistan. After Prime minister Nawaz Sharif attended the National Security Council's session, Sharif ordered and gave authorization to the academic scientists at the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC) to conduct a nuclear test operation of its own. Following the orders, scientists from Kahuta Research Laboratories (KRL), Defence Science and Technology Organization (DESTO), Corps of Engineers and Military Engineering Service (MES) also joined PAEC in the efforts. Ordered by Prime minister Sharif, No. 11 Squadron Arrows was put on high-alert and the No. 6 Squadron Globe Trotters flew the nuclear devices, in sub-assembly form, to the Chagai District. Meanwhile, the Ahsan Naval Base and the Naval Observatory was also at red-alert level providing electronic intelligence services to the Pakistan Armed Forces.[citation needed]
On May 25, the preparations were completed by PAEC, and the iron-steel tunnels were closed with mixed sand-cement. On May 26, the iron-steel tunnels were electronically plugged, and on May 27, after the cement had completely dried out due to the excessive heat of the summer desert, the engineers certified that the concrete had hardened and the site was fit for the tests. This was communicated to the Prime Minister via the GHQ notifying him that the site was ready. The Naval Observatory set the time and date for operation for 3:00 p.m. on 28 May 1998.[citation needed]
On May 28, the PAEC conducted a nuclear tests of five nuclear devices, exploded simultaneously, at 15:00 hours. This operation was named Chagai-I. All of the nuclear devices used HEU, evidently made from KRL, and had Beryllium reflectors.
After the tests, the Pakistan Government did not issue any additional details about exact locations of where the tests were performed. The Chagai District is an extensive and dangerous areas and the sites are not under the safeguards or inspections of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
See also[edit]
- ^ a b http://www.pakwatan.com/travel_detail.php?pageNum_rsNews=2&totalRows_rsNews=42&id=19
- ^ http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/world/pakistan/chagai.htm
- ^ a b Burrows, William; Robert Winderm (1994). Critical Mass''. Washington D.C.: Simon and Schuster. p. 384. ISBN 978-0-671-71096-5.


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California Chrome has the shine of a Derby champ
Colt, unlikely owners next have Santa Anita Derby on the way to Churchill Downs
ARCADIA Their purple jockey silks sport a jackass, symbolizing the name of their operation: DAP Racing. One of the co-owners, Steve Coburn, proudly says DAP stands for "Dumb Ass Partners."
Coburn and partner Perry Martin came up with the name after the groom for retired brood mare Love The Chase said anyone who bought that old girl was a "dumb ass."
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The Coburns and Martins already have been offered $6 million to turn over 51 percent of California Chrome, who traces his bloodlines to the likes of Secretariat and Seattle Slew — two Triple Crown winners — and Sir Ivor, who was by Sir Gaylord (Secretariat's half-brother out of Somethingroyal).
A win in the Santa Anita Derby against what figures to be a stout field would make the colt nicknamed "Junior" an even more valuable commodity. But don't look for the Coburns and Martins to divest any part of a horse that won his most recent race, the March 8 San Felipe Stakes, by 7¼ lengths.
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Audio Production Degree Programs in Washington with School Info
There are seven schools within Washington that have audio production programs. Read an overview of programs, requirements, tuition information, and program options for these seven schools to find out which program is right for you.
Essential Information
Out of the more than 130 colleges and universities in the state of Washington, only seven public and private non-profit institutions offer audio production programs. These programs may prepare individuals for creative careers, such as audio or sound specialist, audio mixer, or record mixer, or technical careers, such as sound engineer technician or AV equipment technician. These schools' programs range from minors and certificates to PhDs. Some schools offer classes in the evenings, while others include fieldwork or co-op experiences in the programs.
Read about these seven Washington schools, and consider the details highlighted in the school comparison table.
Bates Technical College
At Bates Technical College in Tacoma, Washington, students can enroll in a 49-credit certificate program in audio/sound technology. Of the credits earned in this program, 15 are in general education, while the remaining units cover topics such as studio acoustics, characteristics of sound, audio processing, and Musical Instrumental Digital Interface (MIDI).
The college also offers an Associate of Technology program in broadcasting/audio/video production with a concentration in audio/sound. It requires 118 credits, including general courses in electronics, video editing, and audio techniques. Specialized audio production coursework covers MIDI, console techniques, microphones, and digital recording techniques. Upon graduation, students can look for jobs in industries like audio, film, and multimedia.
- Programs Offered: Certificate of Competency in Audio/Sound Technology,
Associate of Technology in Broadcasting/Audio/Video Production
- Tuition & Fees (2012-2013): $5,151*
- School Type & Setting: 2-year, public; midsized city
Northwest University
There are three options for students who want to pursue audio production training at Northwest University in Kirkland, Washington. The Audio Production Certificate and undergraduate minor in audio production technology include courses in audio technology survey, the music business, and recording engineering. However, the 18-unit certificate program also provides general training in video production and lighting design, while the undergraduate minor incorporates three classes in recording engineering.
Northwest University also has a Bachelor of Arts program in contemporary music industry/recording arts technology that includes general education courses, as well as classes focused on audio production. Students are exposed to multi-track recording, post-production techniques, and sound basics, among other topics. They also have the opportunity to develop projects in conjunction with industry professionals. In addition, the campus houses two recording studios.
- Programs Offered: Audio Production Certificate,
Audio Production Technology Minor,
Bachelor of Arts in Contemporary Music Industry/ Recording Arts Technology
- Tuition & Fees (2012-2013): $24,706*
- School Type & Setting: 4-year, private not-for-profit; large suburb
Pierce College at Puyallup
The curriculum for the associate's degree program in music at Pierce College in Puyallup, WA, is designed to transfer to a 4-year program. Some of the many classes offered by the music department include beginning, intermediate and advanced audio production. According to the school's website, the school provides access to some of the top recording studios in the Pacific Northwest. These studios house such equipment and technology as mixing consuls, professional-grade microphones, DAT machines, and Mac computers with ProTools and Digital Performer.
- Programs Offered: Associate of Arts in Music
- Tuition & Fees (2012-2013): $3,825 (in-state); $9,015 (out-of-state)*
- School Type & Setting: 2-year, public; large suburb
Shoreline Community College
Shoreline Community College can be found in Shoreline, Washington. Audio production programs offered include an Associate in Applied Arts and Sciences in Music Technology with audio engineering and electronic MIDI/music production options, as well as a digital performer certificate. The 15-credit certificate program is offered typically during the summer session.
The associate's degree programs both require more than 100 credits. Coursework in the digital audio engineering program covers acoustics, sequencing, multi-track production, and MIDI, while the electronic MIDI program includes courses in MIDI synthesis and sequencing, digital performance, and classical piano. Both programs require students to create a portfolio of work. In addition, there are six sound studios and a Mac lab on campus, all of which are outfitted with industry-specific and up-to-date software and hardware.
- Programs Offered: Certificate of Completion in Digital Performer: Digital Audio,
Associate in Applied Arts and Sciences in Music Technology
- Tuition & Fees (2012-2013): $3,947 in-state; $6,595 out-of-state*
- School Type & Setting: 2-year, public; large suburb
Spokane Falls Community College
Students can pursue a Professional Certificate in Audio Technology or an Associate in Applied Science in Audio Engineering at Spokane Falls Community College in Spokane. These programs aim to prepare students for jobs as technicians in broadcasting, audio production, analog and digital recording, live sound engineering, or sound design. Topics covered by both programs include acoustics, microphone placement, songwriting, film scoring, location recording, and more.
For individuals seeking a shorter program, the 41-credit certificate can be completed in three quarters. The 2-year associate's program is primarily intended for students who plan to pursue an entry-level job in the music industry upon graduation. The first year of the associate's program covers sound recording basics, including exposure to current industry software and hardware. The second year includes a work experience opportunity, as well as coursework in MIDI arranging, audio engineering, and audio system maintenance.
- Programs Offered: Professional Certificate in Audio Technology,
Associate in Applied Science in Audio Engineering
- Tuition & Fees (2012-2013): $3,467 in-state; $8,657 out-of-state*
- School Type & Setting: 2-year, public; midsized city
University of Washington - Seattle Campus
The Seattle campus of the University of Washington is a 4-year, public institution offering undergraduate- and graduate-level degree programs. Students who want a brief introduction to audio production fundamentals can enroll in an audio production certificate program that incorporates courses in audio engineering, audio mixing, and audio mastering. Program courses are only available in the evenings.
Students who wish to study music, media, or communications can also consider the school's Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) and Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) programs in digital arts and experimental media. The bachelor's program is intentionally broad to allow for the exploration of new media, technology, and processes used in the visual and/or performing arts. Upon successful completion of the BFA or PhD, students can pursue further study or research in fields such as experimental media, digital music composition, interactive media production, or sound art.
- Programs Offered: Certificate in Audio Production,
Bachelor of Fine Arts in Digital Arts and Experimental Media,
Doctor of Philosophy in Digital Arts and Experimental Media
- Tuition & Fees (2012-2013): $3,741 (certificate program, 2013-2014)**; $12,383 in-state*;
$29,938 out-of-state*
- School Type & Setting: 4-year, public; large city
Western Washington University
Situated in the small city of Bellingham, this public, 4-year school has a 30-credit minor in audio technology, music, and society offered through its Fairhaven College, the liberal arts division of the school. Students take core classes in audio recording, music fundamentals, and ProTools, as well as two music and society lecture-based classes. In addition, the curriculum incorporates 7-11 elective credits, and students can choose from a broad range of topics, some of which include electroacoustical music, songwriting, and media advocacy. All students have access to both audio and video studios.
- Programs Offered: Audio Technology, Music, and Society Minor
- Tuition & Fees (2012-2013): $8,805 (in-state); $19,152 (out-of-state)*
- School Type & Setting: 4-year, public; small city
School Comparison: At a Glance
|School Name
|School Type & Setting
|Audio Production Programs Offered
|Undergraduate Tuition & Fees (2012-2013)
|Bates Technical College
|2-year, public; midsized city
| Certificate of Competency in Audio/Sound Technology,
Associate of Technology in Broadcasting/Audio/Video Production
|Northwest University
|4-year, private not-for-profit; large suburb
| Audio Production Certificate,
Audio Production Technology Minor,
Bachelor of Arts in Contemporary Music Industry/ Recording Arts Technology
|Pierce College at Puyallup
|2-year, public; large suburb
|Associate of Arts in Music
| $3,825 (in-state);
$9,015 (out-of-state)*
|Shoreline Community College
|2-year, public; large suburb
| Certificate of Completion in Digital Performer: Digital Audio,
Associate in Applied Arts and Sciences in Music Technology
| $3,947 in-state;
$6,595 out-of-state*
|Spokane Falls Community College
|2-year, public; midsized city
| Professional Certificate in Audio Technology,
Associate in Applied Science in Audio Engineering
| $3,467 in-state;
$8,657 out-of-state*
|University of Washington - Seattle
|4-year, public; large city
| Certificate in Audio Production,
Bachelor of Fine Arts in Digital Arts and Experimental Media,
Doctor of Philosophy in Digital Arts and Experimental Media
| $3,741 (certificate program, 2013-2014)**;
$12,383 in-state*;
$29,938 out-of-state*
|Western Washington University
|4-year, public; small city
|Audio Technology, Music, and Society Minor
|$8,805 (in-state); $19,152 (out-of-state)*
Sources: *NCES College Navigator, **University of Washington - Seattle.
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