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MIDLAND, Texas, Dec 08, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Concho Resources Inc. (NYSE:CXO) ("Concho") today announced that it has priced an offering of 2,500,000 shares of common stock at a price to the public of $82.50 per share. Concho has granted the underwriters a 30-day option to purchase up to an additional 375,000 shares of common stock. Concho expects issuance and delivery of the shares to occur on December 14, 2010, subject to customary closing conditions. Concho intends to use the net proceeds from the offering to repay a portion of the outstanding borrowings under its credit facility. Any amounts repaid with proceeds from this offering may be reborrowed in the future.
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The foregoing contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. All statements, other than statements of historical facts, included in this press release that address activities, events or developments that the Company expects, believes or anticipates will or may occur in the future are forward-looking statements. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, forward-looking statements contained in this press release specifically include statements, estimates and projections regarding the Company's future financial position, liquidity and capital resources, operations, performance, business strategy, returns, capital expenditure budgets, oil and natural gas reserves, number of identified drilling locations, the timing and success of specific projects, outcomes and effects of litigation, claims and disputes, potential financing, levels of production, drilling program, derivative activities, costs and other guidance included in this press release. These statements are based on certain assumptions made by the Company based on management's experience, expectations and perception of historical trends, current conditions, anticipated future developments and other factors believed to be appropriate. Forward-looking statements are not guarantees of performance. Although the Company believes the expectations reflected in its forward-looking statements are reasonable and are based on reasonable assumptions, no assurance can be given that these assumptions are accurate or that any of these expectations will be achieved (in full or at all) or will prove to have been correct. Moreover, such statements are subject to a number of assumptions, risks and uncertainties, many of which are beyond the control of the Company, which may cause actual results to differ materially from those implied or expressed by the forward-looking statements. These include the factors discussed or referenced in the "Risk Factors" section of the Company's most recent Form 10-K and Form 10-Q filings and risks relating to sustained or further declines in the prices we receive for our oil and natural gas; uncertainties about the estimated quantities of oil and natural gas reserves; risks related to the integration of the Marbob assets and employees with our operations; the effects of government regulation, permitting and other legal requirements, including new legislation or regulation of hydraulic fracturing; drilling and operating risks; the adequacy of our capital resources and liquidity including, but not limited to, access to additional borrowing capacity under our credit facility; difficult and adverse conditions in the domestic and global capital and credit markets; risks related to the concentration of our operations in the Permian Basin of Southeast New Mexico and West Texas; potential financial losses or earnings reductions from our commodity price risk management program; shortages of oilfield equipment, services and qualified personnel and increases in costs for such equipment, services and personnel; risks and liabilities associated with acquired properties or businesses; uncertainties about our ability to successfully execute our business and financial plans and strategies; uncertainties about our ability to replace reserves and economically develop our current reserves; general economic and business conditions, either internationally or domestically or in the jurisdictions in which we operate; competition in the oil and natural gas industry; uncertainty concerning our assumed or possible future results of operations; our existing indebtedness, as well as the significant increase in our indebtedness as a result of the Marbob acquisition; and other important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those projected. Any forward-looking statement speaks only as of the date on which such statement is made and the Company undertakes no obligation to correct or update any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as required by applicable law.
About Concho Resources Inc.
Concho Resources Inc. is an independent oil and natural gas company engaged in the acquisition, development and exploration of oil and natural gas properties. The Company's operations are focused in the Permian Basin of Southeast New Mexico and West Texas. In addition, the Company is involved in a number of emerging plays. For more information, visit Concho's website at www.conchoresources.com.
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June 08, 2011
Steven Malanga
Over the past decade a handful of top government administrators and supervisors in San Jose, Calif., have left to take similar jobs in other cities, including two of the citys police chiefs and a fire chief.
Whats provoked local outrage, however, are press reports that these officials first retired and began collecting six-figure pensions, then went to work elsewhere at full salaries that boosted their total annual compensation to as high as $373,000 in one case, thanks to loopholes in California law that allow public administrators to retire early at virtually full salary and go right back to work in government.
The rich pay that former top San Jose supervisors are now hauling down is symptomatic of a growing national problem. Even as the face-off over pay and benefits between government unions representing rank-and-file workers and politicians like Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker continues, taxpayers are discovering that government supervisors and administrators have also been hauling in big paychecks, earning fat pensions and obtaining hefty severance packages, often by exploiting loopholes in the law.
Controlling the growth of public-sector pay and benefits will require that cities and states successfully rein in the salaries and perks of those who supervise our public-sector workforce, too. But reform wont come easily, if the battles over public-sector executive compensation taking place around the country are any indication.
In New Jersey, for instance, two successive governors have tried to contain the growth of pay and benefits of the states more than 600 schools superintendents and their administrative staffs, to little avail so far. In Jersey, more than 300 schools administrators earn salaries greater than Gov. Chris Christies annual pay of $175,000.
The effort to control their pay dates back to 2006 when, in the wake of revelations that a retiring superintendent of a low-income school district, Keansburg, received a $740,000 severance package, the State Commission of Investigation launched a statewide inquiry which found a "range of questionable and excessive practices" in superintendent pay that "collectively cost unsuspecting New Jersey taxpayers millions of dollars."
The report said the local school boards it examined were underreporting the actual amounts they were paying to superintendents by about $70,000 a year and employing dubious compensation techniques — like not fully accounting for all pay on federal W-2 forms — that probably violated tax laws.
Today, Gov. Christie has put in place salary caps on schools administrators based on district enrollment. Still, the battle continues as several school districts have tried to find loopholes in the Christie caps, prompting the pugnacious governor to decry the "greed" and "arrogance" of some superintendents in a state where Trenton sends nearly $8 billion a year to local schools.
Cozy relationships between elected officials and the administrators they employ are costing taxpayers dearly elsewhere, too, as Miami-Dade County residents recently discovered.
In March, voters outraged at a hefty 12% property tax increase engineered by Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Alvarez recalled the mayor in a landslide vote against him. Within days of Alvarez defeat, his close ally and the architect of many of the mayors controversial policies, county manager George Burgess, resigned with what later was revealed as a half-million severance package including $160,000 in unused vacation and sick time.
The revelations in Miami-Dade follow the well-publicized scandal in tiny Bell, Calif., where city manager Robert Rizzo, who had administered government in the municipality for 17 years, earned $1.5 million annually through automatic pay increases he engineered while city council members and the mayor looked on and did nothing. While the scandal provoked a series of California state reforms, including a ban on routine pay raises that exceed the rate of inflation, in Miami-Dade the outcry over the pay packages has prompted local reformers to push for a cap on administrator pensions and a smaller county bureaucracy.
Increasingly, top-level administrators take home lavish pensions that kick in at such early ages that these workers head right back into the workforce. In California, public safety workers can retire at 50 years of age with pensions totaling up to 90% of their final salaries. The system creates a perverse incentive to do that and then get another job.
As the former police chief of Oxnard, Calif., explained to the Ventura County Star newspaper after he retired then went back to work as an assistant county sheriff, he was "too young" at age 57 to sit around the house after leaving his Oxnard job. Now he collects a combined annual pension and salary of $396,955, according to the newspaper.
Double-dippers are a multistate phenomenon. In Rhode Island, the former superintendent of state police retired after 26 years on the force and now collects a pension of $104,101 while also getting paid $150,000 a year as the public safety director for the city of Providence, according to the Providence Journal.
Lawmakers also benefit from double-dipping. In New Jersey, those who have earned enough time to qualify for a state pension can retire while still serving in the state legislature and collect a pension and legislative salary simultaneously, as at least four lawmakers are currently doing, according to the Newark Star-Ledger.
Although such practices are mostly a state and local concern, Congress and federal regulators ought to look more closely at pay practices that potentially violate federal law, such as underreporting the true size of compensation packages. And taxpayers should demand states and cities eliminate some of the loopholes that officials have crafted to elevate retirement benefits above federal limits.
For instance, the tax code restricts payments that an individual can receive out of a pension system to $195,000 a year — and less if you retire before age 62. Still, hundreds of former supervisors and administrators in states are now earning more than federal pension limits, thanks to loopholes created by local governments in the form of special funds set up to pay supplemental benefits to workers above limit. But the extra benefits are more costly for taxpayers because these excess benefit funds dont enjoy the same tax advantages as traditional pensions.
Some governments are even paying additional benefits straight out of their current, cash-strapped budgets. In San Francisco, the top pensioner, former Police Chief Heather Fong, is receiving $195,000 annually from the citys retirement fund and another $69,247 in benefits directly from the police departments budget, according to the San Francisco Chronicle.
Its unseemly to watch as our own state and municipal officials do their best to craft loopholes to compensation laws. Taxpayers cannot have confidence that local governments will bring soaring pay and benefit costs under control if those who are responsible for overseeing and administering government workforces are exploiting the system for their own gain.
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Recent research suggests 90 percent of all existing data has been generated in the last three years, leaving telecom carriers to grapple with how to manage this data deluge effectively and still turn a profit. The answer may lie in Software Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Functions Virtualization (NFV). Based on Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS) hardware, one immediate benefit of both technologies is the potential to reduce cost, for vendors and their carrier customers. But the real value lies in the flexibility that virtualized network functions provide, and the agility that centralized software programmable control enables.
Gartner noted in its recent Magic Quadrant for Data Center Networking that search volume for the term "SDN" on gartner.com is now higher than searches for "WAN optimization," "MPLS," "router" and "application delivery controller." Nav Chander, research manager of Telecom Services and Network Infrastructure at IDC, states that the rapid growth of data and video traffic, increased public and private cloud use, and the desire for faster and more agile service, point inevitably toward network virtualization. Reduced cost, increased speed, agility and flexibility: all are wins for telecoms carriers.
However, a critical question remains: in what context will the agility and flexibility of SDN and NFV be used? What intelligence will be used to make decisions? Real-time insight is the answer. When this insight reveals network activity and performance, organizations will optimize the benefits of SDN and NFV.
Scalability and Efficiency
A primary benefit carriers expect from SDN and NFV is the ability to provision services quickly with as little dependency on the network as possible. With virtualized network functions and centralized switching and routing control, it should be possible to actually move bandwidth, processing and storage resources to where they are most needed. Building this infrastructure on COTS hardware helps to reduce cost while providing scalability and efficiency.
Enterprise networks and data centers have operated this way for several years, demonstrating the benefits to processing and storage resources. Virtualization is now pervasive and supports a vast range of cloud services. Even SDN has origins in the enterprise and data center world as a means to reduce cost and improve efficiencies.
The flexibility and agility that virtualization and centralized switching and routing control promise are of great interest to carriers, who have seen some of the benefits of virtualization such as an increase in the speed of new services deployment.
Changing Carrier Roles
Carriers are looking for an approach that will provision service in a more efficient and timely manner. SDN and NFV, if fully utilized, can do just that. However, key questions need to be asked: What will trigger changes to service and network configurations? When will the capabilities of SDN and NFV be called into action? And for what purpose?
The answers may seem clear at first, yet the full benefits of SDN and NFV cannot be realized unless these questions are understood fully and answered accordingly. The obvious answer is that telecom carriers will plan and create services and then use SDN and NFV to provision them.
The telecom world is undergoing a massive paradigm shift that challenges deeply held beliefs on the role of carriers as service providers. The reality is that carriers are no longer in control of the services that are offered on their networks. Once you accept this fact, you begin to realize that the obvious answer is not necessarily the correct one. Carriers are facing the dual challenge of provisioning increasingly complex services, and of adapting to the behavior of subscribers who are increasingly consuming services from third part providers over the carriers' networks.
Adaptation is Key
Many carriers have visions of providing more advanced services that can potentially compete with third party content sources, often termed "Over-The-Top" (OTT) providers. Meanwhile, the services from these OTT providers are increasingly driving mobile data growth.
Sandvine reports in the Global Internet Phenomena Report 2H2013 that Netflix and YouTube now account for more than 50 percent of Internet traffic on fixed networks in North America. Streaming video and a wealth of other innovations have been enabled by allowing services to be offered over the Internet, whether they are cloud services or apps for mobile devices. But the reality is that carriers, at best, will be one of a multitude of service providers running over the network.
Carrier networks face an additional challenge to supporting the rise in mobile data, as more devices are enabled to share data for machine-to-machine communications (M2M), and the Internet of Things (IoT); examples include cargo tracking, ambulance response systems, and agricultural equipment.
All the while, consumer and enterprise subscribers are becoming increasingly dependent on mobile services, using smartphones and tablets as their primary connected devices. In this environment it will be virtually impossible to control and predict how much bandwidth will be consumed, and when. Rapid adaptation to new situations is the key to survival.
Monitoring Behavior and Activity in Real Time
What services are being used, and by whom? How much bandwidth are they consuming? Real-time monitoring provides answers to these questions. The technology to do this exists today and operates at speeds up to 100 Gbps. It is also possible to capture this information to disk in real time. This allows a profile to be developed of normal network behavior over a given period of time. This profile can be used to establish thresholds or other triggers for detecting deteriorations in performance and quality, radical changes in consumption patterns or other anomalies.
By looking at both what is expected based on behavior profiles and what is actually happening in real time, the possibility exists that IT staff can determine if something unexpected has happened. While this does not provide a prediction on data consumption, it does provide a powerful capability to adapt to a change in real time.
Empowering SDN and NFV to Act
Real-time insight can improve reaction times. By monitoring network and service usage in real time and detecting anomalies, it is possible to react to unexpected situations. This is the front end to the management of SDN and NFV services. It provides the intelligence for SDN controllers and NFV management to act. This can be to reroute traffic, increase bandwidth in a certain area, change service parameters or even offer a new service or upgrade.
Wide-ranging benefits are available with this approach. The real-time information on network and service usage provides insight into Quality of Experience (QoE). This is crucial for services offered by carriers, but is also a service that can be sold to content providers utilizing the carrier network, such as OTT providers. A similar service can be offered for security, as the approach outlined above can detect anomalies that can be correlated with information from security appliances to determine if an attack is underway. The ability to offer better quality and more secure connections should be attractive to OTT service providers and their subscribers.
Answering the Skeptics
This aspect of real-time monitoring should already be solved in the SDN switches or the hypervisor, some would point out. For low speed networks, this will be possible. The challenge is implementing this capability in high-speed networks operating at 1, 10 or even 100 Gbps. There is a broad range of appliances available today that analyze real-time data for management, test, security and optimization of networks and services. These are stand-alone, physical devices with extreme processing requirements.
It is important for skeptics to keep in mind that this sort of functionality was originally available in switches and routers, but it was determined that separate dedicated network appliances were a better solution, as the processing requirements were too large for routers and switches to accommodate. With the move to COTS hardware envisioned in SDN and NFV, it is hard to see that these requirements have diminished, especially as the volume, variety and velocity of data is increasing.
Appliances can now be virtualized and run on virtual machines, skeptics may contend. This again is true for lower bandwidth applications, but at higher speeds, the virtual appliance will require significant processing resources that can threaten to consume CPU cycles that should be used by the other virtual clients the virtual appliance is supposed to be monitoring. This would seem to be counter-productive.
This should settle the argument for skeptics, as it demonstrates a definite need for physical appliances that can analyze large amounts of data in real time. To work in a virtualized environment, they will need to be virtualization-aware with the capability to distinguish virtual LANs. With these key devices in place, real-time insight into how the network and services are performing can be assured.
Positioning for Success
In a digital landscape that generates more than 2.5 quintillion bytes of data each day, telecom carriers do not need to—and cannot afford to—wait for technology that implements real-time insight. It already exists and is ready to be deployed. Applying this technology to SDN and NFV management is not a technical hurdle, but more of a conceptual step. It involves a rethink of the role of carriers and accepting that there is no longer control over what services are being consumed on the network. This involves an acceptance that rather than being the sole cradle-to-grave provider of all communication service needs, a modern carrier needs to partner with a growing ecosystem of OTT players with a focus on maintaining customer satisfaction. In other words, ensuring that subscribers are getting what they want, the way they want it.
It is a fact of today's interconnected ecosystem that carriers do not have control of the traffic that is running on their networks. But this is not by any means a death knell; on the contrary, it is a call to embrace all available resources to remain agile and flexible and to adapt via real-time insight. This insight into network and service usage enables organizations to create triggers that use SDN and NFV capabilities to better provide services and address issues. Real-time insights also can assure QoE and security, which can be sold as services to OTT service providers. Such integration of capabilities creates an all-encompassing approach that will position carriers for success.
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Daniel Joseph Barry is VP of Marketing at Napatech and has over 20 years experience in the IT and Telecom industry. Prior to joining Napatech in 2009, Dan Joe was Marketing Director at TPACK, a leading supplier of transport chip solutions to the Telecom sector.
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A Salt Lake City police officer who was out of his investigating a suspected DUI driver early Saturday, was injured when a second suspected DUI driver plowed into the scene.
He and another officer stopped a driver under suspicion of DUI near 800 South and 1300 East at about 2 a.m. During the stop, a second driver, also suspected of DUI, crashed into the sides of the two police vehicles, said Lt. Brian Purvis.
The crash knocked over one of the officers who was standing near his vehicle and he suffered minor leg injuries. The second driver also had minor injuries and was taken to the hospital, Purvis said. The officer was treated on scene.
Police are waiting to file citations or charges until the second driver is released from the hospital. The driver was still there as of Saturday afternoon, Purvis said.
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I'm not sure if this has been posted before, coz i can't see any youtube videos in the whole thread (school rules - youtube and few other sites not accessible from our rooms, so yeah..) but this is like too awesome to not share.
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Polsinelli Podcast - Telephone Consumer Protection Act and Consequences for Corporations
Government's Health Care Fraud "Cash Cow" Keeps Mooing
Investment Management Update- 2014 Election Impact
Trial by Jury: Why It Matters in a Democratic Society
Busy Days For Voting Rights Advocates, Thanks to SCOTUS
Polsinelli Podcast - Republicans Gain Control of the U.S. Senate - How That May Impact Health Reform
Karl Rove's Efforts to "Buy" Courts Harmed America, Says Legendary Attorney
Crisis at the Border Shows Problems in US Immigration Law
Are Criminal Laws the Right Response to Revenge Porn?
Why Does BigLaw Have So Few Black Partners?
Aquila on M&A: Dealmaking is Back
Schoenbrod: SCOTUS Ruling Helps EPA Deal With a "Stupid Statute"
ATL Law School Rankings: All About The Jobs
What Comes Next in Derivatives Regulation?
A More Perfect Union: Why Punish Russia for Crimea?
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How a Reluctance to Deport Pop Stars Strengthens US Immigration Policy
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Google�s music search service is expected to be officially announced next week and will include music from all four major labels. Further details remain sketchy at this point. As far as I can tell, Google will just be making it easier to find music that's legally available elsewhere on the web (and probably make some revenue-sharing deals) instead of directly competing with Apple�s iTunes and similar services -- sort of like Yahoo has been doing with RealNetworks� Rhapsody.
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For atherosclerosis ("hardening of the arteries") or high blood pressure, we expect nothing less than treatment at the earliest possible stage in order to prevent further problems. We advise these people to stop smoking, eat more healthy food, exercise more and we give them statins or beta-blockers. All in order to prevent them from suffering a heart attack or a stroke. According to Selkoe, we need to adopt the same strategy in order to be successful in the treatment of Alzheimer's disease: to act when the neurodegeneration has only just started. Perhaps we should switch from talking about "treatment" to talking about "prevention". Just as we currently use statins and beta-blockers to prevent a heart attack or stroke. We should treat neurodegeneration in the same manner in order to prevent loss of memory and other cognitive problems.
"We have the diagnostic instruments available for this", according to Selkoe. "Using biochemical tests, we can detect the early phases of neurodegeneration specific to Alzheimer's disease in the cerebrospinal fluid. This can also be done using a PET scan of the brain. These changes can be detected years possibly even decades before the first functional limitations occur."
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"This paradigm shift necessitates a thorough revision of the clinical research into Alzheimer's disease", according to Dennis J. Selkoe. "Although it will require significant efforts, prevention studies into Alzheimer's Disease are possible. Provided the studies are set up correctly and the patient population is chosen correctly. For example, by including people with a high genetic risk of the condition who are still in the pre-clinical phase."
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Prep basketball: Golden Gate girls looking to make more history
Golden Gate's quest to rewrite its girls basketball history started well before this year's record-breaking season.
This season is the culmination of seven years of hard work for the Titans' core group of juniors. Golden Gate heads into the postseason this week after setting a record for single-season wins, which includes beating two of Collier County's top girls basketball programs for the first time.
After already accomplishing a series of team firsts, the six players who have been together since sixth grade have their eyes set on their biggest one yet — a district championship.
"We want to make history again at Golden Gate," Rebecca Demosthenes said, "for the third or fourth time."
The first time came a year ago. With three sophomore starters, Golden Gate finished runner-up in Class 5A-District 12 to qualify for the regional playoffs for the first time since the school opened in 2004.
Last season's playoff run propelled the Titans to this year's success. Not only has Golden Gate (14-10) set a team record for wins heading into its district opener against Estero on Monday night, but the Titans have guaranteed the program's first winning season.
The heart of its team is its six juniors who have been a team since before they were teenagers. Tiarra Belle, Chanick Boileau, Fedia Gustave, Dasia Smith, Natisha Tanelus and Demosthenes started building a Titans renaissance while in middle school.
The six first came together at Golden Gate Middle School in 2007, many of them playing basketball for the first time. Only two of them made the school's competitive team as sixth-graders, and all six admit they were raw at the time.
The turnaround started that summer when local AAU coach Buddy Quarles took the girls under his wing. Quarles formed the group into a team which found success on the travel circuit, including finishing runner-up in the state.
"We weren't that good," Boileau said, "not until Coach Buddy came in randomly one day."
By the time the six-pack of scrappy ballers got to high school, they already had played together for three years. They took Collier County's junior varsity ranks by storm, losing just one game for Golden Gate's JV team in 2010-11, their freshman year.
"Since we'd been together so long, we knew how to play together as a team," said Belle, the most outgoing and talkative of the group. "We know where everyone is going to be (on the court) and what each other can do."
More impressive than the Titans' record this season is who they have beaten. After losing to Gulf Coast by 29 points early in the year, Golden Gate knocked off the Sharks for the first time in December. The Titans followed that up with the program's first win over perennial playoff team Naples this month.
Golden Gate also has beaten county rivals Immokalee, Lely, Palmetto Ridge and nearby opponent Estero. The Titans came within five points of Barron Collier, a benchmark girls basketball program in Southwest Florida.
The victory over Naples was particularly sweet because coach Karen Brotherton, in her first year as the Titans' head coach, was an assistant for the Golden Eagles for eight years. Brotherton, who replaced Sue Canterbury as the Titans' coach, said she was offered the Naples job when Dave Walker retired in the offseason, but she didn't want to give up on the Titans.
"I wasn't jumping ship," said Brotherton, who coached current Golden Eagles coach Daniella Rosset and Lely coach Kirsti Jones when they played at Naples. "I could see the vision we have for these girls."
The vision includes a district championship this season. The Titans are the No. 3 seed in this week's 5A-14 tournament, and they'll likely have to get past the top two teams to claim their first title.
Golden Gate will chase its championship dreams with its signature defense — the Titans allow less than 38 points a game — and the team chemistry that's been seven years in the making.
"We play as a team," Smith said. "Everybody's in this together. We're all friends, but on the court we're all business."
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Dear Secretary Salazar:
We write to draw your attention to two national security issues that have been raised in oversight hearings before the House Committee on Natural Resources in recent months.
Foreign-multinational energy companies currently hold development leases and operate in the American Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) and on Federal lands. One recent example is the move by China's National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) to takeover Nexen, Inc., which has significant holdings in the Gulf of Mexico. We are concerned that these companies, either directly or through their subsidiaries, are also choosing to operate in countries that have been designated as State Sponsors of Terrorism by the U.S. State Department. These activities run counter to U.S. national security interests.
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How many Tory MPs really want to leave the EU?
I do not believe that there are as many as 95 Conservative MPs who really want to leave the EU, but I have taken the dunderheadedness that gives the opposite impression as the subject of my column in The Independent today.
There may be about 20 Tory MPs who have publicly said that they think Britain should withdraw from the EU, and there may be as many again who secretly agree but don't say so because it would be a bar to promotion. But there are many, many more who don't like the EU much and who are reckless about threatening to leave as a way of getting the (unspecified) changes that David Cameron says he wants.
But then here comes Andrea Leadsom (pictured) to prove that some Eurosceptic Tory MPs have absolutely no idea about anything. Her argument is that voting for Britain to come out of the EU in the referendum in 2017 will help Britain to stay in the EU:
If Britain votes to leave the EU, we haven't left: we start negotiations. That set of negotiations to leave may even be more fruitful than the negotiations before the referendum.
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This summer I just let my geldings mane grow out, so now I'll be cutting it again. I have a pretty good system down for it, but I am curious as to how a couple others do it.
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"Freaks and Geeks"
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I tell it like it used to be.
About ten episodes of Hogan's Heroes. I'm still recovering from my hysterectomy and a marathon of Hogan's is just what the doctor ordered.
[QUOTE=V.C. Brunswick;1443461]Then there's my favorite episode of In Search Of...
They are here to try to prevent the dystopian society that is just around the corner. Welcome them.
Old counterculturists and young idiots think they are so rebellious and original, when really they are just banal, boring, dumb and smelly.
Oy vey.
Last show? Paula Deen. Why? Not sure.
"The story was always the thing, with the star next in importance." -- Buster Keaton
Supernatural, season four (we have the series so far 1 through 6).
No matter where you go, there you are...
Mad Men.
-Tom N.
I tell it like it used to be.
A made-for-television mini-series called Titanic, starring Tim Curry among others. The plot was a bit soap opera, but it was fun. The whole was considerably better than the James Cameron monstrosity, but then so's a kick in the teeth. Also, unlike Julian Fellow's recent effort for the UK's ITV channel, it correctly fingered the coward Ismay as being to blame for the ship sailing so quickly in ice-infested waters, rather than Captain Smith whom Ismay and his cronies cravenly scape-goated after the event, when the poor man was not around to defend himself.
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Find everything you need to know about your stay at Royal Palms Resort and Spa. Below are answers to frequently asked questions to help make your vacation planning as smooth as possible.
What are your core selling elements that set you apart from other competitive resorts?
Royal Palms is nestled at the base of Arizona's Camelback Mountain, between downtown Scottsdale, and the Biltmore corridor and is only 7 miles from Phoenix International airport.
Regal boardrooms, intimate salons, a stately library and lushly landscaped outdoor function areas are each distinctly decorated to provide a comfortable, estate-like ambiance.
The resort provides three employees for every guest and a Conference Services Manager for each group. The staff is highly trained in gracious service, attention to detail and flexibility.
A la minute food service for all meeting events. Every dish served at conference events is delivered directly from the chef's kitchen with no standard detours to warmers. The result is a highly unique restaurant-style table service.
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Royal Palms' ideal group size is 70 attendees.
What is your proximity to the airport and what is the average cost for transportation?
The resort is located 7 miles from Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport. One-way taxi fare is approximately $20.
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Yes, the resort fee is $30 per day and has been implemented to encompass the many convenient amenities made available to guests including:
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Additionally, in keeping with our residential ambience, the resort fee has enabled us to create a non-tipping environment. The $30.00 per night also includes all non-food and beverage gratuity such as bellmen and housekeeping.
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Navy To Change Command At Submarine School
June 4, 2013 10:44 AM
GROTON, Conn. (AP) _ The Navy is changing commanders at its Submarine School in Groton.
The Navy announced Tuesday that Captain Andrew Jerrett will relieve Captain David Roberts as commanding officer in July.
Roberts, who has been the commanding officer since August, 2011 is staying at the Submarine Base to take command of the Submarine Learning Center.
The learning center is responsible for coordinating training efforts at the Navy's six submarine training sites across the nation.
Captain Jerrett comes to the Submarine School from the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, where he is currently the deputy commandant of Midshipmen.
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No, Scottish Independence Would Not Guarantee Permanent Tory Rule
September 12, 2014
Contrary to conventional wisdom, Scottish independence would not usher in Tory rule. Instead, it could a disaster for political parties across the aisle.
CHART: Liberals Live in Cities and That's Bad for Liberalism
August 11, 2014
The lefties don't just live in San Francisco.
Are Republicans Afraid to Talk About Michael Sam?
February 11, 2014
It's been mostly cheers for Michael Sam, except on the right—where it's been mostly silence. Can that change?
A 31-Year-Old Is Tearing Apart the Heritage Foundation
November 24, 2013
Think Republicans Have been Making Fools of themselves? Blame Michael Needham.
Notes on a Trumped Up Scandal
May 15, 2013
The IRS fiasco shows that conservatives can be PC too.
The Real Scandal Behind the IRS Controversy
May 13, 2013
It wasn't the agency's targeting of conservative groups, but which of those groups it targeted.
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Brown College is the largest of the ten residential colleges and one dormitory at Rice University. Founded in 1965 as an all-women's college, it became coed in 1987 and continues to stand out as an exemplary community and home for over 350 undergrads.
Brown has consistently demonstrated exceptional athletic ability in winning the President's Cup for college sports and boasts vibrant theater and Associates programs. With a student population actively involved in campus-wide leadership roles and clubs, Brown also sponsors numerous community and social events throughout the year, including two of Rice's most anticipated public parties: Bacchanalia and Margaritaville.
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A bitter irony of the Nagasaki atomic bomb was that an all-Christian American crew used the steeple of Japan's most prominent Christian church as the target for an act of unspeakable barbarism, making a mockery of Christian teachings on non-violence, writes Gary G. Kohls.
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The Inconvenient Truth about Jesus
There is much religiosity in the U.S., with the Supreme Court's right-wing majority even approving Christian prayers at the start of government business. But there is little appreciation of the radical political and economic message at the center of Jesus's teachings, writes Rev. Howard Bess.
MLK and the Curse of 'Moderation'
When Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. went to jail to focus national attention on the injustice of segregation, he was stung by criticism from Christian clergy who feared upsetting the status quo and urged "moderation," prompting his historic rejoinder from the Birmingham jail, as Rev. Howard Bess recalls.
One 'Silent Night' in the Trenches
Dehumanizing the enemy is a key part of modern warfare, bolstered by the modern art of propaganda, often with the blessing of religious leaders. That was why the Christmas Truce of 1914 was so seditious, as Gary G. Kohls explains.
Mandela, MLK and Jesus
The death of Nelson Mandela offers Christians a chance to reflect on the great protest leader at the center of their religion, the historical Jesus, with his anger at ostentatious wealth and his disdain for social inequality, as Rev. Howard Bess reflects.
Warring Over the 'War on Christmas'
Despite America's over-the-top, month-long celebration of baby Jesus – topped off with a government holiday ignoring the Constitution's separation of church and state – Fox News and the Right have conjured up a "war on Christmas," now as much a tradition as eggnog, Nat Parry notes.
Jesus's Idea of God's Kingdom 'on Earth'
From the gospel accounts, Jesus was a fierce critic of the economic injustices of his day, demanding – within his Jewish tradition – a radical redistribution of wealth and a recommitment to Israelite teachings about caring for one another. That was his point about God's kingdom "on earth," writes Rev. Howard Bess.
Christianity's Contradictions on War
Though based on the pacifist teachings of Jesus, Christianity has been an accomplice to more wars and genocides than any other religion, a paradox reflected in the contradictory views of 16th Century protestant reformer Martin Luther and 20th Century civil rights martyr Martin Luther King Jr., as Gary G. Kohls explains.
Rethinking the Genesis Message
Since ancient times, mankind has struggled against chaos, often seeking to control differences and manage conflicts though violence and war. The Bible has played an insidious role in this history, though an alternate interpretation of its opening chapter would recognize an appeal to do good, not to harshly impose order, says Rev. Howard Bess.
Bearing Witness to Justice
Jesus's social teachings and America's founding ideals had common threads, particularly rejection of tyrannical rulers and promotion of the general welfare. But the Israelite society of Jesus's day, like America today, had lost connection to its ethical roots, writes Rev. Howard Bess.


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A Message From Our Environmental Coordinator
Outdoor recreation thrives on the beauty of pristine surroundings. Balancing recreation and environmental conservation is one of our most challenging tasks. It is also one of our most important. As a permit holder on the Deschutes National Forest we are devoted to preserving the quality of our environment.
Mt. Bachelor has been at the forefront of the environmental movement within the ski industry. Over the past decade we have developed a strong environmental presence that has brought us to a leading position within the industry. This year and for several years past, the Ski Area Citizen's Coalition awarded Mt Bachelor as one of the top 10 environmentally conscientious resorts in the USA.
We must be vigilant and forward thinking about the issues of solid waste, transportation, resource conservation and environmental impressions. Our work is ongoing with enhanced efforts this year. The team is analyzing the mountain's current environmental efforts including waste and recycle management, petroleum product use, renewable energy credit applications, retrofit of energy efficient lighting and reuse of materials among other studies. In addition, the Company hired a team of climatologists to conduct a study over Mt Bachelor that will help us determine a timeline and road map of what we need to do to reduce our carbon footprint and preserve winter.
Renewable Energy
Mt. Bachelor's use of Wind Power
Mt. Bachelor's parent company, Powdr Corporation, purchased 80 million kilo-watt hours of wind power in 2013 which makes Powdr the second-largest purchase of renewable energy among the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) partners in the recreation category and ranks 21st among all corporations in the USA that purchase 100% renewable energy.
Mt Bachelor offsets 100% of its electrical use with Renewable Energy Credits (RECs) from wind power. Since 2005, Mt. Bachelor has purchased 45,182,395 kWh of wind energy. These RECs have offset the carbon footprint of the resort by 27,316 tons.
During the 2013-2014 fiscal year, Mt. Bachelor reduced its carbon footprint by over 40%.
Mt. Bachelor's parent company, Powdr Corporation, is the second-largest purchaser of renewable energy among the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) partners in the recreation category and ranks 21st among all corporations in the USA that purchase 100% renewable energy. Since 2005, POWDR has purchased over 406 million kWh of wind energy. The purchase of wind power combined with other energy-saving measures has reduced the carbon footprint of POWDR-owned resorts by 243,000 tons:
- Equivalent to not consuming 513,456 barrels of oil
- Equivalent to not burning 24,843,713 gallons of gasoline
- Equivalent to no driving 525,681,134 miles in an average car
Environmental Awards
Green Power Leadership Award
The annual awards recognize the country's leading green power purchasers for their commitment and contribution to advancing the development of the nation's voluntary green power market. EPA presented Powdr Corp with the award at an event held in conjunction with the 2008 National Renewable Energy Marketing Conference in Denver, Colorado in October 2008.
NSAA Climate Challenge
Mt. Bachelor and the other POWDR Corp resorts have joined NSAA's Climate Challenge. The NSAA Climate Challenge is engaging ski areas across the country to take action and fight climate change. The Challenge will not only result in measurable, quantifiable results and benefits, it will also help participating ski areas make tangible progress each year to fight climate change while reducing utility bills and will convey results for the benefit of skiers and riders, ski areas, resort communities, and our planet. Through the Challenge, Mt. Bachelor will continually set goals and measure the success of the goals each season to ensure we are honoring our commitments we have made.
Mt. Bachelor recycles used cooking oil for the production of bio-fuel. The fuel is used regionally to help our area and neighboring counties to reduce the carbon footprint.
The use of bio-fuel at Mt. Bachelor has reduced our carbon footprint by 750 tons which has the same effect as not driving 1,558,760 miles in one year.
Sustainable Slopes
As members of the National Ski Areas Association (NSAA) we support Sustainable Slopes, the Environmental Charter of ski areas. According to the NSAA Environmental Mission Statement, "Ski areas across North America provide a quality outdoor recreation experience in a manner that complements the natural and aesthetic qualities that draw all of us to the mountains. We cherish the outdoors and respect the alpine environment in which we live and work. We are committed to improving environmental performance in all aspects of our operations and managing our areas to allow for their continued enjoyment by future generations."
Our efforts go far beyond supporting the NSAA Environmental charter or backing S.139 the McCain-Lieberman Climate Stewardship Act. At Mt Bachelor it begins with participation in the annual Sustainable Slopes self-assessment.
Keep Winter Cool
For a business based on winter sports, it is imperative that we do our part to Keep Winter Cool. A major cause of Global Warming is greenhouse gas, or increased carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide, in the atmosphere. Through the quantitative data we submit for the Sustainable Slopes Annual Report we can measure our success in reducing greenhouse gases:
- Mt Bachelor Shuttle runs on biodiesel and reduces more than seven million pounds of greenhouse gases annually by reducing the number of cars going to and from the resort.
- Shuttles diverted 1.7 million employee and guest vehicle miles annually from the road last season.
- On-mountain recycling by guests diverted 19 tons of garbage annually from area landfills last season.
- On-mountain recycling by employees diverted 30 tons of garbage annually from area landfills last season.
Other Mt. Bachelor endeavors to reduce the carbon footprint:
- Use of partially recycled paper products in all restrooms
- Recycling containers in F&B locations
- Use of non-petroleum based cleaners for housekeeping
- Use of wax-free recycled paper for insulated cups in F&B locations
- Reuse of existing signs and sign materials
- Use of "Green" cleaning agents for vehicles
- Retrofit of lighting to low power devices as lights are replaced
- Remodel of kitchen facilities to allow for china service
- F&B requires suppliers to supply company environmental policies as part of bid
- Use of bulk container food items for kids ski school lunches
- Bulk cardboard recycling at retail from supplier packaging
- Distribution of job applications via email instead of paper
- No idling program
No Idling Program
A professor at Dartmouth's Thayer College of Engineering found that for every hour spent idling, a vehicle discharges 9.7 pounds of carbon emissions (diesel engines emit 19 pounds). Multiply that by 15 or 20 cars, buses and SUV's in the drop-off area of most ski resorts and the carbon emissions add up!
Mt Bachelor instilled a No Idling program in December 2007 to reduce pollution, decrease health risks, save engine wear, and conserve fuel and money. Further consideration for this program was inspired by children, as the drop-off area is frequented by kids who are at higher risk as they inhale more air per body weight.


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Health Care Reform – An Independent Assessment
The Senate on Monday resumed debate on health care reform legislation. Senator Bernie Sanders offered an independent assessment of where the legislation stands, and what he sees as its pros and cons. "It is not insignificant that this bill provides insurance to 31 million Americans who have no insurance. That is a huge step forward for our country. It is not insignificant that this legislation provides for major health insurance reform and finally outlaws some of the problems of the private insurance companies. This bill is strong on disease prevention. It says to families that young people will get coverage until they are 26 years old. All of those are very important steps forward," Sanders said in a floor speech.
The Sanders identified some of the bill's weaknesses.
"Right now, we are spending almost twice as much per person on health care as any other major country on earth, despite the fact that our health care outcomes in many cases are not as good. Can I stand here with a straight face and say, we have got strong cost-containment provisions in this legislation, that if you're an ordinary person that has employer-based health care, that your premiums will not go up in the next year? I can't say that. It is just not accurate.
"At the very least, we must have a strong public option to provide competition to the private insurance companies, which are raising their rates outrageously every year. What is to prevent them from continuing to do that under this legislation? Not a whole lot, frankly. So the fight must continue for strong public options, not just to give individuals a choice about whether they have a public plan or a private plan, but also to provide competition to the private insurance companies.
Another concern that I have is that our primary health system in this country is on the verge of collapse. There are people all over this country who cannot get in to see a doctor. In fact, we have some 60 million people in medically underserved areas, most of them can't get to a doctor, and what they end up doing is going to the emergency room. They end up getting sicker than they should be and they go to the hospital. What I worry about, if we add 15 million more people into Medicaid, if we add another 16 million people into private health insurance, where are those people going to get the primary health care that they desperately need?
The good news is that in the House there is language put fought for by Congressman Jim Clyburn that would add $14 billion over a five-year period in order to see a significant expansion of community health centers and the national health service corps.
Community health centers today are providing dental care, low-cost prescription drugs, mental health counseling to some 20 million people. And what is in the House bill is language to greatly expand that program and also to expand the national health service corps, which provides debt forgiveness for medical students who are going to practice primary health care or dental care or nursing in underserved areas. We desperately need more primary health care physicians, certainly we have to change reimbursement rates. One way we can help is when medical school graduate students are graduating with $150,000 in debt, debt forgiveness service will help them. This is an absolutely essential provision that we have got to adopt. We have to do what the House did and provide at least $14 billion more for primary health care, expansion of community health centers, and the national health service corps.
Now, there's another issue. At the end of the day, we have got to understand that one of the reasons that our current health care system is so expensive, so wasteful, so bureaucratic, so inefficient is that it is heavily dominated by private health insurance companies whose only goal in life is to make as much money as they can. We have 1,300 private insurance companies administering thousands and thousands and thousands of separate plans, each one designed to make a profit. The result is, we are wasting about $400 billion a year on administrative costs, profiteering, high CEO compensation packages, and all the other stuff, which goes with the goal of private insurance companies to make as much money as we can. I will be offering on the floor of the Senate,I believe for the first time in history, a national single-payer program. And I look forward to getting a vote on that. I am not naive. I know that we will lose that vote. At the end of the day -- not this year, not next year -- but sometime in the future, this country will understand that if we're going to provide comprehensive quality care to all of our people, the only way we will do that is through a medical single-payer system.
But for now, we have language in this legislation which must be improved, which gives individual states the right, if they so choose, to go forward with a great deal of flexibility in order to provide quality care for all of their people. Many states may look at a single-payer, other states may look at other approaches, but I believe that it is absolutely imperative to give maximum flexibility to states to be able to take the money that otherwise would be coming into their state, to use that for their own innovative health care programs, designed to provide quality, universal, comprehensive health care in a cost-effective way. Some may choose to go single-payer. Some may choose to go another direction. We have language in there which must be improved, so that states can begin that process when the exchange comes into effect in 2014.
The bottom line here is this bill has a number of very important features which I think will make life easier for a lot of our fellow Americans.
There are many problems remaining, and I hope that in the coming weeks we will successfully address those problems.


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University Card Access
The University ID card was introduced in the fall of
2007 as part of a university-wide initiative to help safeguard the
campus and assure the safety of personal information. This card,
which replaced the Columbia Card, was created to allow automated,
authorized access to secured University locations; to allow access
to libraries and the gym, where applicable; and to enable students
to take advantage of cultural discount programs.
Building Access:
Morningside Campus
Many University buildings have
a card access system which is activated by the University ID Card. Building
access consist of academic building access and the University
residence halls. To request access to any academic building,
click here. If you would like more information about
Mornigside card access, contact: 212-854-8500.
To request access to
URH, contact the Housing and Dining Hospitality Desk: 118 Hartley Hall or 212-854-2779.
access issues related to the Dodge Physical Fitness Center,
contact 212-854-2548.
Building Access:
Medical Center
A valid
Columbia University ID is required at all times for entry to all
Medical Center buildings. To request
specifi access to CUMC facilities,
click here. If you would like more information about the
CUMC ID Office, including hours and other information, visit their
website, email
firstname.lastname@example.com or call 212-305-0238.
Dining Plans, Dining Dollars, and Flex Accounts
Library Borrowing Privileges
For information on how to get a
new CUID,
click here.
information on how to report a lost/stolen CUID,
click here.
If you would like to request
card access,
click here.
Miscellaneous information regarding the CUID,
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Berry Manor Inn Blueberry Soup
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Gubernatorial candidate Tom Tancredo (ACP-Colorado) took a final negative hit Tuesday, but it wasn't from another candidate. It was from a bird.
Tancredo's honk and wave early Tuesday morning on Wadsworth Boulevard and Bowles Avenue in Lakewood was briefly interrupted by a feathered friend who chose the candidate's back for a rest stop.
Click the video on the right to watch what the 9NEWS photojournalist saw.
(KUSA-TV © 2010 Multimedia Holdings Corporation)


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Florida Spring Sled Hockey Showcase/Tournament
Disabled athletes will travel from New York, Tennessee, Nebraska, and across the state of Florida to participate in the Florida Spring Sled Hockey Showcase. Sled hockey is an adaptive version of ice hockey, modified for athletes with disabilities. Players utilize a specialized sled, and use sticks not only for game play but also for propulsion. The Fort Myers-based Florida Ice will play at 9:30 pm on Friday March 1; and at 5:30 and 8 pm on Saturday March 2nd. The third place game will be played at 8:00 am on Sunday, March 3, with the tournament championship at 9:30 am. After the championship game, a free introduction to disabled hockey clinic will be held. Admission is free, donations accepted to the Florida Sled Hockey Association, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. Sponsored by Goodwill Industries of Southwest Florida, Millennium Physician Group, the City of Fort Myers, and USA Hockey.
Fort Myers Skatium
2250 Broadway, Fort Myers, FL 33901


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Trading: A Woman's World? How to Join the Successful 5%
Guest post by Zaheer Anwari, part of The NextWomen Finance Theme.
With the current economic climate in the dire situation that it is in, women are increasingly looking into other avenues to generate an income. This may be to supplement a salary that they are earning, or, for the more inventive and entrepreneurial amongst you, to find a way to earn an income which fits in with your lifestyle.
Forex trading is one such avenue that people are turning to but, as is a well-known fact in the trading world, only 5% ever make a success from it.
What is Forex Trading?
Forex stands for Foreign Exchange, or in other words the Currency market. It works in a similar way to the Stock Market, where instead of predicting whether the value of a particular company such as Apple or Google is going to go up or down, traders predict whether the value of a particular currency such as the Great British Pound, is going to go up or down in value against another currency such as the US Dollar. The Forex Market was established in the 1970s and introduced the current 'floating' exchange rate (rather than the old fixed rates which hindered trading).
How much money is in the Forex Market?
The Forex Market is now the largest market in the world with $4 trillion being traded on a daily basis. In comparison, the US Stock market, which is the second largest market in the world, has a value of only $400 billion.
How is the money traded?
Human emotions are what drive and move the market. The vast majority of traders are men, so this may come as a surprise to you.
Most men would hate to admit that the markets are driven in such a way - they are convinced it is based on rational calculation. Millions, possibly billions, of people trading on a daily basis are all trying to predict whether values of stocks and currencies are going to go up or down. Traders tend to fall into one of two camps – those that take trades based on fundamentals, or in other words news events such as wars and politics, or technicals where they look at a chart and analyses from the price data and patterns in front of them whether price will go up or down. Some traders use a combination of both.
Warren Buffet and George Soros are perfect examples of traders who used fundamentals to make billions, whereas John W. Henry and also the now infamous Turtle Traders showed the world how it was done using technicals. If you have not heard of the Turtle Traders, then I highly recommend reading the book, Way of the Turtle by Curtis Faith. It is a fascinating account of an experiment to discover whether traders are born or made although, interestingly, only 2 women were chosen against 21 men. Perhaps they foolishly felt women were less capable of becoming traders, or maybe it shows the huge imbalance between the number of women to men that applied.
The movement of a
currency is measured in pips. So if the value of the Great British Pound goes
up from 1.5634 to 1.5635 it has gone up by 1 pip or from 1.5634 to 1.5633 it
has gone down by 1 pip. Depending on the account a trader is using, the value
of a pip could be as little as 10p or hundreds to thousands of pounds. A
currency can move 100s of pips in a day both up and down. It is the lure of
such small movements equalling large values of cash that cause many to turn to
trading in hope of making financial freedom but it is exactly this huge
volatility and random daily movements that most novices underestimate that
cause most to come up disappointed against the market.
So who are the successful 5%?
The successful 5% that end up taking the money off the 95% are made up of the investment banks and hedge funds and top private traders who have learned to take advantage of the flexibility not available to institutional traders. However, you still need to be aware of how institutional traders work to take advantage of the differences. The 5% call themselves The Smart Money.
Trading is a male-dominated industry but are they really that good at it?
Almost 100% of traders are men and only 5% make any money, so I would say that they are not particularly good at it.
Men are attracted to the testosterone-fuelled environment where they can
play the alpha male and feed their ego with the adrenalin-rush of making money
from money. It is an environment where every man can make his
own rules.
Another misconception of trading is that you bet big on small moves and are in-and-out of the market within minutes or seconds, immediately ready to make another trade. Apart from being extremely stressful, this is not a good way to make money. Trend trading is where the Smart Money is, where trades are carefully thought out and mature over several days, weeks or months.
Can women cut it in trading today? More and more women are not only holding high-powered positions in companies but in recent years there has been a huge increase in successful female entrepreneurialism. Deborah Meaden of Dragon's Den fame for example. Yet trading has not yet caught the female imagination in any meaningful way.
As a male in the trading world for the last 5 years, I have always been intrigued to know why. Growing up with a loving mother and a determined sister, I know that the desire to succeed is not a gender issue. In addition, my trading success and knowledge has come from being mentored by an amazing and successful woman by the name of Anne Chapman and her equally amazing partner Javid Shaik. I find it hard to believe that there are few Annes in trading and for me to understand this I needed to get into the psyche of a woman and who better to speak to then Anne herself. After an in depth conversation with my mentor, this is what we concluded.
Why are there very few women in the trading world?
Women who are breaking the mould are setting up companies that reflect their values, generally more caring and nurturing environments with an emphasis on fair play. Trading doesn't appear to fall into that category as it's perceived as a city, male dominated testosterone fuelled industry. But really it's just about one company, or currency, doing better or worse than another and taking advantage of that to make money. And this is how any entrepreneur makes a living, male or female. You spot an opportunity and you take it.
Can women be better traders than men?
Women have the potential to make better traders than men but too many of them lack the confidence to take not only the first step but to persevere.
Trading is different to many
female-orientated job roles where they rely on their superior interpersonal
skills. Taking on trading is more about mastering one's inner personality. Men
tend to stick at something until they've mastered it; women are more likely to
only try something if they think they have a good chance of success. And
trading isn't something that women generally feel is something they will be
good at, partly due to the lack of role models.
What women need to remember is that most men don't make good traders. As mentioned, only 5% of mostly male traders make it. And the skills required are just as likely to be in a woman's arsenal as in a man's. If a woman has the tenacity to succeed then she is actually more likely to be a successful trader than a man because the other traits required are: a level head, ability to keep things simple, able to follow a few simple rules and great administrative organisational skills.
A possible reason there are no 'famous' female traders is because, unlike men, women don't feel the need to advertise their success. And the perception is that being a trader is about working in the city and boasting about every successful trade. But really, long-term success in trading can be likened to the Tortoise and the Hare - slow and steady wins the day.
How can women make a success of trading?
Whether male or female, the formula is the same. Take the time to learn the intricacies of trading and you will find that it is best to then take a step back and spend only a short time each day on identifying, setting up or managing trades. Less is more. You will have losing trades, this cannot be helped - no-one can predict the future - and women have the advantage that the 'need to be right' is not inbred. Nobody's perfect!
You will need to learn to take advantage of winning trades, and get out of losing ones at a predetermined level and how to identify the trades with the most likelihood of success. It can be a lonely and frustrating road for the self-taught so it is worthwhile to invest in a good course. Look for ones run by actual traders who successfully trade their own money, as this is what you want to achieve.
Finally, when you make it as a trader don't forget to shout about your success!
Zaheer Anwari is a Forex, Futures and Stocks trader who has been succesfully trading the markets for 5 years. His success he completely attributes to his excellent mentors and understands from experience that the in depth knowledge required to master the markets can only be passed on from person to person. His mission is to pay-it-forward and now empower like-minded individuals with the knowledge and strategies to extract regular profits through long-term trend trading. Check out his site here: http://www.TheTradersCosmos.com
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