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PALO ALTO ISSUESTunnels to be considered for high-speed rail
As Palo Altans continue to define their love-hate relationship with the high-speed-rail project, residents and city officials...Original post made on Feb. 18, 2009
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ISSUES BEYOND PALO ALTOThe world's strangest laws
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ISSUES BEYOND PALO ALTONew Game: How many unConstitutional acts will Obama support?
Here is an opinion by Senator Byrd about the unconstitutional power grab by Obama through Czars http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0209/19303.html Not...Original post made by Perspective on Feb. 25, 2009
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SCHOOLS & KIDSNew Gunn building threatened by budget cuts
A planned, new industrial arts building at Gunn High School may be delayed because of cuts in the state budget, Palo Alto...Original post made on Feb. 25, 2009
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PALO ALTO ISSUESHigh-Speed-Rail Authority extends deadline
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SPORTSPaly boys reach CCS finale, Gunn boys do not
The first-ever Gunn-Palo Alto showdown for a Central Coast Section boys' soccer championship will have to wait, as the Titans...Original post made on Feb. 25, 2009
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ISSUES BEYOND PALO ALTOThe Chronicle is going the way of the NYT
Another socialist bastion biting the dust, along with the NYT. What a shame...eh? http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Troubled-San-Francisco-paper-apf-14459615.html ...Original post made by Gary on Feb. 24, 2009
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PALO ALTO ISSUESPalo Alto wants civility
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PALO ALTO ISSUESAlbert Hopkins Jr. dead at 63
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AROUND TOWNCapitol Steps are BACK!!! The concert to benefit Gunn Robotics Team
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ISSUES BEYOND PALO ALTOGod Bless the United States of America
Pres. Obama made a speech on prime time TV tonight, ending in his usual "God Bless the United States of America". A CNN...Original post made by Greg on Feb. 24, 2009
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CRIMES & INCIDENTSGleim the Jeweler in Stanford Shopping Center
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SCHOOLS & KIDSGunn Girls & Boys Basketball Seeded into Quarters
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SCHOOLS & KIDSEn plein air
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ISSUES BEYOND PALO ALTOA Banker's Analysis of the Financial Crisis
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ISSUES BEYOND PALO ALTOStanford professor to work for President Obama
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ISSUES BEYOND PALO ALTOBarron Park to discuss global warming tonight
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SCHOOLS & KIDSChild hit at Intersection of Barbara Drive and N. California
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ISSUES BEYOND PALO ALTODOW continues to plummet in spite of BHO "Stim" plan...
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AROUND TOWN"Police Plan Public Meeting" Tonight, Tuesday at Cubberley Community Center. 6:30 p.m.
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HFT Trader Busted For Spoofing Nearly Cheated His Way To The Top Of CNBC's Million-Dollar Challenge
On Friday, we reported that in the latest in a long series regulatory crack downs of low grade high frequency traders - because obviously nobody will touch the big boys - the "SEC busted HFT firms for "tricking people into trading at artificial prices." What is notable is that the owner of one of the charged firms, Joseph Dondero who was the head of Visionary Trading, and who agreed to a $1.9 million settlement and to be barred from the securities industry for spoofing order flow which is a low-grade form of quote stuffing, has had an extended track record of run ins with the law.
As BusinessWeek reported back in 2007, according to NASD records Dondero was the subject of the regulator's inquiry letters because of "wash" trades, among other things. Wash trading is when someone buys and sells the same security simultaneously—or in quick succession—to create the appearance of active trading. It can be done to generate commissions for a broker or for tax purposes. This is quite comparable to the "spoofing" which Dondero was busted and barred for at his latest firm, Visionary Trading.
BusinessWeek adds that the New Jersey Bureau of Securities records pertain to Dondero's time at a day-trading firm in Iselin, N.J. called Evolution Financial Technologies. The records say that, "As a result of his trading activity, Mr. Dondero was on heightened supervision and probation which resulted in his changing from a proprietary trading to a customer. This did not involve customers or a loss." Dondero, who attended the College of New Jersey until 1999, has worked at a series of small financial firms. One of them, Heartland Securities, was sued by the Securities & Exchange Commission for alleged stock manipulation and falsifying records. Heartland closed in 2003 after two executives, Sheldon Maschler and Jeffrey Citron, paid $29.2 million and $22.5 million, respectively, without admitting or denying wrongdoing. (Citron went on to found the Internet phone company, Vonage Holdings (VG)). Dondero was at the firm after the alleged wrongdoing, but before the settlement.
Needless to say, Dondero had quite a "track record" of illegal trading activity before he was finally busted for one last time engaging in HFT spoofing.
However, it is not his FINRA brokercheck record that is of interest, but the fact that back in 2007, in the first ever CNBC Million-Dollar challenge, it was none other than Dondero who almost won. And yes, he nearly manipulated his way to the $1 million prize money then too. Only, the way he did fudged his winning percentage was not as most other competition participants had, by abusing the widely known system glitch that allowed contestants to see which stocks were rising in after-hours trading and then to buy those stocks at the lower, 4 p.m. EST closing price, but using a far more devious scheme. One which is reminiscent of the crime that last week just ended his trading career in the real world as well.
[Dondero's] trades drew criticism from other finalists, nonetheless, with at least three contestants complaining about his choices early in the final round. Because Dondero was picking thinly traded stocks in the CNBC contest, the other finalists worried that he could be manipulating the prices of those stocks in real-world markets. "He only picked stocks that could be manipulated," says Jim Kraber, one of the finalists who says he flagged CNBC. Kraber emphasizes that he has no way of knowing whether Dondero was indeed manipulating stocks.
CNBC took somewhat-belated action to prevent such manipulation. BusinessWeek has learned that on May 18, midway through the final two-week round of CNBC's contest, the cable channel asked each of the 20 finalists to sign a statement that any real-world trades they made were not "for the purpose of, or with an intent to, affect or manipulate the price" of the stocks they were picking in the contest. The penalty for failing to sign was stiff: "If you fail to return the attestation or your attestation is not truthful, you may be disqualified from the contest," wrote CNBC Vice-President of Marketing Tom Clendenin in an e-mail.
A close examination of Dondero's trading in the CNBC contest raises questions about his approach, but offers few definitive answers. The primary concern of other finalists was that Dondero was buying stocks in his CNBC portfolio and then driving up the price by buying the same stocks in the real market the next day. That's easier to do with thinly traded stocks than heavily traded ones. Dondero did pick some thinly traded stocks, but not all of those trades were successful. He also made other kinds of purchases that contributed to his portfolio returns.
In the final round of the CNBC contest, Dondero saw nice gains on picks of BioProgress (BPRG), a British pharmaceutical company, and Hanarotelecom (HANA), a Korean telecom company, which both trade on Nasdaq (NDAQ).
On a typical day, neither stock sees much action in the real world. BioProgress trades an average of 3,100 shares a day on Nasdaq, while Hanarotelecom averages 7,400 trades a day. But both saw huge jumps in volume in the days after Dondero picked them. Hanaro soared from close to 19,000 shares on May 14, to well over 27,000 the next day. Dondero realized a 6.4% gain for his contest portfolio, as the stock rose. The following day, when Dondero chose BioProgress, more than 5,000 shares changed hands, compared with zero shares the previous day. Again, Dondero saw a healthy gain of 4.5%.
In retrospect a brilliant strategy: picking microcap, illiquid, and ultra-thinly traded stocks in a virtual portfolio and then manipulating these stocks in real life using oddblocks to reap giant profits, without much capital at stake (so unwinding the trade wouldn't cost him much in the end), then rinsing and repeating, all the way until the $1 million prize.
To be sure, Dondero was smart, and inbetween the manipulated blocks, he injected some normal-course winners and losers.
But Dondero didn't always make money on his thinly traded stocks. On May 21, he again picked BioProgress, and again volume spiked, this time to 23,000 shares from 1,400 the previous day. But Dondero lost 2.64% on the trade.
Other thinly traded stocks Dondero picked included Velcro (VELC), the famous fastener maker, and Macronix International (MXIC), a Taiwan-based manufacturer of computer memory. Neither were big winners for him in the final round.
Indeed, Dondero's biggest winner during the finals was Fremont General (FMT), the subprime mortgage lender whose stock trades an average of 4 million shares a day. Dondero picked the stock on May 22 and after the market closed that day, the company said that it would sell its commercial real estate business for $1.9 billion. The news drove shares up 26.7%, a huge one-day gain in the contest.
Of course, when one strings a series of 9 "sure" winners in a row, the 10th one is not nearly as relevant, and can be left to chance, especially if it is subsequently used as the alibi to claim Dondero never cheat or manipulated the game. And speaking of manipulation, 2007 appears to have been one of the last years in which CNBC actually cared about something called "integrity":
Dondero's picks in CNBC's contest could be examined as part of the cable channel's investigation into "unusual trading." Beyond looking at traders who may have benefited from its own software glitch, CNBC says that it has retained an "independent securities expert" to look into allegations of market manipulation. CNBC declined to comment for this story. But it previously said, "Integrity is paramount to CNBC. We are taking all allegations of improprieties very seriously."
Whether it did or not is unclear. Dondero finished fourth in the contest with a total 32% return, while some or all of the contestants above Dondero were likewise accused of rigging the competition.
But the final outcome was negative: Dondero did not win, and whatever capital losses he may have suffered while "spoofing" the thinly traded stocks he used as picks for his virtual portfolio he had to fill out of his own wallet.
Incidentally, the winner of that particular CNBC stock-picking challenge: it was an Ohio waitress who had never bought a stock in real life.
We wonder which HFT shop she works at now?
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heros of western culture... theives, hustlers, crooks and psycopaths...
He started with a bank in Colorado, in the pocket of his vest, derivates he had. And his age, and his size, took the public by surprise. And word spread, of Jamie the Kid.
If you're not cheating in a CNBC contest, you're doing it wrong.
his mama said "that boy would fuck a snake ifin he could hold it still long enough"
Only unregulated markets are free markets!
Remove the evil state and it's regulators!
It's all so fucking crooked that it's hard to give even half a fuck, let alone a whole one.
They're all fake sign-language translators
<---- "Its not rigged."
<---- "Shame on you for saying its rigged."
these guys
can't even cheat fairly ...
One has to keep a low profile in the mafia.
Yeah, The Good Reverand Al Sharpton just did that and finally got ratted on.
What a corrupt government, we have..
meh, i pumped preformed line products (plpc...and yes i still recommend buying it) all the way to 90 last fall. and had zero skin in that game personally.
unlike other companies it actually is legit btw.
the question however is twofold: "to what extent is there intent" (obviously if you're HFT'ing there is INTENT to gain an unfair advantage...more than just a wash sale) and secondly "to what extent is the intentional act damaging the marketplace as a whole" (and of course the answer to that is the difference between being fined a huge sum...and barred for life.)
the "ultimate" fine of course is the Fed finding itself in need of bursting another bubble (it has already done so one year ago folks...so get your head in the game.)
"Now the Ruskies have attacked."
Should I act surprised?
Should I be surprised?
I know for a fact Gazpromia IS liquidity.
That says to me even with this sell off "short this market at your own risk." (the State of Russia might be the other side of that trade!)
I can see the debt markets getting crushed here. But not necessarily the equity...or even the "money" (in the form of currency OR "other receivables." that does include cash on the balance sheet folks!)
I definitely think we might get a major nationalization in Europe of some sort (or many.) Obviously United Bank of Switzerland is too big to nationalize...so you might want to tread carefully with that name if the Russians go all in on say...Romania. Other than that..."just another walk in the park."
This all Reminds me of the guys from Drexel rigging the horse racing Pick 6s. The one guy worked at Tote and could change the picks of the first 4 races before the tickets were sent to main track. So they played 1-1-1-1-A-A. Guaranteed winning ticket. But the dopes played the winning ticket 3 times on breeders cup , of all fucking days and of course had the only 3 winning tickets on an impossible string of long shots. They probably would still be hitting pick 6 today, if they didn't want it all so quickly.
Skim a little is the key to riches.
Another think I remember. All the racetrack executives came right out and said the winning tickets were legit. They always lie, until they can't.
those guys were railroaded, the other handicappers were just jealous.
Pam Martens' perspective: "If The New York Stock Exchange Is A "High-Frequency Brothel" Then The SEC Is Its Pimp"
FUCK YOU, JIM KRAMER!!!! punk ass bitch!!! lol
anything within 10 miles of Citron or Maschler should have been barred by the sec 15 years ago.
Always said- thieves, whores and psychopaths control the world.
The rest of us are indentured servants.
The penalty for failing to sign was stiff: "If you fail to return the attestation or your attestation is not truthful, you may be disqualified from the contest.
"Fuckin perfect. Why didn't we come up with that."
Mary Shapiro.
Incidentally, the winner of that particular CNBC stock-picking challenge: it was an Ohio waitress who had never bought a stock in real life.
Even more perfect. I was guessing it was Dondero's secretary, who also picked the winning NCAA bracket.
Same basic game really.
TAX HFT, ... OBAMA or Tax computer trading
FUCK it, ... let's just tax the fuck out of the stock market and kill the bitch ...
'Flash Boys' Fuels More Calls for a Tax on Trading New York Times - The day's trading numbers on May 6, 2010, when high-speed computing was blamed for a "flash crash" of more than 600 points on the Dow Jones industrial average, which partly recovered.


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Affirmative action, as courts and administrative agencies define it, is a temporary, flexible policy of limited preferences for qualified individuals in order to remedy serious gender and racial imbalances. Affirmative action, as conservative politicians and media leaders describe it, is something else again: a system of rigid quotas that incorporates the very biases society should be seeking to eliminate.
During the early days of the Clinton administration, efforts to diversify presidential appointments raised lots of eyebrows. Caricatures of Clinton officials as "bean counters" ran in all the leading newspapers. One Boston Globe cartoon pictured an anxious president studying a spreadsheet of potential cabinet nominees with a few boxes checked ("Hispanic Males," "Black Females") but many left blank: "Icelandic Americans," "Gay Ambidextrous Americans," and "Lesbian Chess-Playing BeerDrinking Americans." Yet these critics rarely challenged the asserted "meritocracy" of past administrations, when presidents parceled out cabinet positions to friends, brothers, and campaign contributors, or when politicians "balanced" party tickets with the right mix of Irish Catholics and Episcopalian WASPs. As a Newsweek article, aptly titled "White Male Paranoia," pointed out, conservatives often objected that the Clinton administration's "insistence on appointing the best female attorney general baldly and publicly violated the canons of fair play and equal opportunity. So, of course, does the ratio of male to female attorneys general in American history: counting Janet Reno, it now stands at seventy-seven to one ...." Clinton's widely criticized efforts put women in only three of fourteen cabinet seats and almost no key White House advisory positions.
Bean counting is not exactly new in American political life or in other employment and educational contexts. But some things are new: the type of beans, the willingness to count out loud, and the backlash that results. The handwringing over Clinton's commitment to diversity typifies our current dilemma. Given the persistence of racial and gender bias, many women and men of color would never even get auditions for desirable positions without affirmative action. But when these individuals receive more than walk-on opportunities, they pay a substantial price: their qualifications, credibility, and self-confidence are subject to continual challenge.
Such mixed results have much to do with affirmative action's practical successes and political failures. The most effective initiatives have also been the most controversial: those that incorporate temporary preferences for qualified individuals. Social science research generally finds that such affirmative action programs have been moderately successful in increasing opportunities for underrepresented groups. Yet public opinion polls indicate that most forms of preferential treatment provoke substantial resistance. Although results vary somewhat depending on how questions are asked, about three-fourths of white men, two-thirds of white women, and two-fifths of people of color oppose preferences on the basis of race or gender.
Fueling this opposition is a range of concerns, some more explicit than others. Most critics claim a moral high ground; they maintain that sex- and race-based remedies subvert the premise of equal opportunity that they are seeking to establish. But underlying such objections are also less defensible assumptions and unstated anxieties. One widespread view is that women no longer need and seldom benefit from affirmative action. As participants in a recent survey put it, there may have been a problem "a hundred years ago." But that was then, and this is now. Qualified women can make it without special help. "After all, I did." Or "she did." A related assumption is that white women have more to lose than to gain from affirmative action. Many of these women "stand by their man," and oppose preferential-treatment programs that might jeopardize opportunities for their husbands or sons. …


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Mumbai, Sep 16 (IANS) After delivering two hits in a row, Riteish Deshmukh isn't signing any films because he wants to pay attention to his architectural firm.
'I've decided to take a three-month sabbatical from work. I'll be back shooting in November for Sujoy Ghosh's 'Alladdin',' Riteish, who has a degree in architecture, told IANS.
'Currently, I'm paying some attention to my architectural firm that's been neglected for a while. The only film I have on the anvil is E. Niwas' 'De Taali'. My architectural business is completely removed from my film career. I don't take my other profession on the sets,' he added.
The quiet achiever is currently basking in the back-to-back success of 'Heyy Babyy' and 'Dhamaal'.
Commenting on his two consecutive successes, he said: 'I never expected anything when I started out. I just chose the roles that came my way. Today, if I've carved a modest niche for myself I hope to carve a door. That can't happen if I do repetitive roles.'
When he returns after the break, he will finally have a film where he plays the title role. But the actor rightly sounds a word of caution.
'I may be playing 'Alladin'. But let's not forget, Amitabh Bachchan is playing the djinn. And he's there in almost every frame of the narrative. When Bachchan is around, nobody looks at anyone else on the screen. But just the thought of sharing screen space with him gives me the biggest kick.'
Another exciting role coming up is the sequel to 'Dhamaal'. Riteish and the rest of the 'Dhamaal' gang are all set to encore their roles.
'Who knows?' chuckled Riteish. 'This time we may go abroad for 'Dhamaal 2'.'
'The making of the sequel wasn't prompted by the success of 'Dhamaal'. Even before its release our producer Ashok Thakeria and director Indra Kumar had decided to do a sequel.'
Though he is happy with the success of the two films, he refuses to badmouth 'Cash' and its director Anubhav Sinha, as some other members of the cast have done. 'Sometimes a film works, sometimes it doesn't. No need to disown it.'
The actor is also busy toning up his physique for his role in 'Alladin'.
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23:18 on Saturday, July 24, 2010
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I have a student who just got braces and he's totally miserable, won't play and is skipping lessons. So . . . I did a little google search for help. I found an article about a trumpet player, John Colson, who actually wrote the book on it: "Braces & Brass." I haven't see or heard of this before. It looks very interesting to me. He's a link to the article.
Valerie Wells
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15:03 on Monday, July 26, 2010
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I have seen that book. I'm not going to say Colson is wrong but I will say I don't agree with is school of thought. I have been playing and teaching for over 30 years and I don't have issues with any of my students when they get braces on or get braces off.
Although there is an adjustment period of about 4 days to get back to normal playing tone and range there are no other side effects and certainly nothing so dibilitating as "premanent calluses" that destroy a tone forever. ALL my students have nice good quality sounds. If they don't then that is what we work on, tone. If there is not a good tone there is no reason to study anything else.
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21:02 on Tuesday, July 27, 2010
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You know, if you've got a struggling student with braces, I would just work him/her on stuff out of this book. That's what I've done with mine.
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00:17 on Wednesday, July 28, 2010
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Well, I haven't read "Braces & Brass" yet, so I'll reserve judgement. But I think he's a little uninformed on human pathology. There's no such thing as a callus inside the mouth. Calluses can only form on external skin where there's keratin. But there are other permanent lesions that can form inside the mouth from constant irritation such as dental appliances, jagged teeth, biting, etc.
Fibromas and mucoceles can form and the only way to remove them it through surgery. Fibromas are very common and unless they form in the exact wrong spot, they most likely will not interfer with embouchure function. A cluster of scar tissue can form in an area where multiple cuts form. This can "feel" like a callus because it's firmer than surrounding tissue. Over time, however, most scars in the mouth soften and diminish to the point that they are usually imperceptible.
I think Prof. Colson may have been referring to fibromas or clusters of scars when he talked about calluses. Regardless of the terms, Colson's obviously had some experience with one or more players who never recovered after wearing braces due to changes in their mouth.
I personally believe there's always hope and room for improvement as long as we have lips & can breath... but I believe I can learn something from Prof. Colson even if he did misstate something of a technical nature.
Anyway, I'm mainly interested in this book so I can learn more about the specific protective measures that can be taken. My student who's new to braces needs a "gimmick" to give him the confidence he needs to continue.
Re: "Foundations for Superior Performance" I use that book every day. I love it! It was recommended to me by a horn player who still uses it every day even though he's a professional that's played horn for over 50 years! Great idea; great book! I don't know why I never thought of starting my students on that book. Thanks.
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09:24 on Wednesday, July 28, 2010
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Good points Valerie! I agree with you that he may be talking about fibromas instead of Calluses. I love your point about your professional friend still using "Foundations for Superior Performance". I have heard several top notch Horn experts talk about "begining Horn" and unlike some other instrumentalists us brass players really do have to start from the begining each and every day. Foundations, warm ups, scales, all the basics need to be reviewed by us every day we practice and play.
I only object to one point, ". .Colson's obviously had some experience with one or more players who never recovered after wearing braces due to changes in their mouth." I don't think it is obvious; there is the possibility they were doing something wrong. I picked up a new student last night who happens to have braces. She sounded not very good when I showed up. 45 minutes later she has a great tone and her range is now A above thw treble clef and B 2nd line bass clef.
It's not the braces, it's not the shape of the teeth, it's not the tongue piercing, it's not any dental appliance. It's proper embouchure and embouchure development. I personally don't allow my students to use gimmicks or aides. Horn playing is a natural process, using these crutches only hinders the students and develops bad habits. (ex: wax on the braces to prevent cutting the lip does not keep the student from using too much pressure it allows for the bad habit to continue.)
Regardless of appliances and gadgets Colson does use a number of exercises that I also use. I believe we have both gotten them from the same teachers. The exercises in the book are great and well thought out. So I do suggest the book on that account.
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02:56 on Sunday, August 01, 2010
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One of my friends has a rare condition (unfortunately it has a very long and hard to remember name that I can't recall) that causes her lips to be sort of... constantly swollen.
I believe it's not painful, just inconvenient.
Anyway, she has recently shown in interest in playing a brass instrument (she is an extremely talented woodwind player) but cannot make a sound.
Does anyone have any suggestions?
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09:19 on Sunday, August 01, 2010
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Would it happen to be Melkersson-Rosenthal Syndrome? Just a guess.
With brass playing your mind and body get used to making a sound by buzzing a small area of the lips. It becomes a 'learned' process. With the lip changing constantly it would be very difficult to learn how to buzz correctly for each pitch. This would be especially difficult on French Horn. As the smaller mouthpiece leaves little room for error. This is not to say it can't be done though.
What your friend would need to do is learn to play with an 'einsetzen' style embouchure. She should think about buzzing with only the fleshy center part of the lips. If she trie to fit her lips into the mouthpiece this will change radically every time her lips change size. Setting the mouthpiece on the inner flesh will allow for change in lip size.
I would recoommend just gettign any note out of the horn for a while. Don't worry about fingerings or anything just get used to getting some buzzing going, lower notes will be best. As these notes become easier to do and consistent then move on to the scales etc.
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23:43 on Monday, August 02, 2010
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HAH! I was going to suggest just the opposite -- a rolled-in ansetzen type embouchure! Players with very full lips often find success with that type of set up. However, I don't know her personal architecture full or thin ... and there's really no way to predict what would work even if it did! Whatever she does, it's going to take a lot of experimentation to find something that works.
Please share a link to my blog with her. BE offers lots of opportunity for experimenting with extreme embouchure set ups & lip shapes so the player can discover what works best for them as an individual. If anything can help her, I believe it would be The Balanced Embouchure.
Valerie Wells
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11:29 on Tuesday, August 03, 2010
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Valerie I thought about Ansetzen also, but since the lip is in constant flux an Ansetzen would constantly change the amount of lip rolled inside. So I'm thinking Einsetzen would be better and more consistent day to day regardless of the swelling.
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22:36 on Tuesday, August 03, 2010
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You're probably right, John. Ansetzen takes quite a while to develop into a flexible functioning set up... at least it did for me. But I love it for endurance and consistent tone throughout the registers. But, IMHO, einsetzen is more intuitive and better suited to many horn players.
Check out Steve Park's chops.
He's the one that inspired me to work on developing ansetzen.
I'd sure appreciate hearing back about this gal. I'd like to find out how she progresses with this swollen lip condition.
Valerie Wells
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20:25 on Friday, August 20, 2010
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I might get braces for a terrible cross bite. So from reading this post it probobly won't effect my playing after a few days. But my question is i would take the bands that connect my upper and lower jaw right?
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08:56 on Saturday, August 21, 2010
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There are so many different type of crossbites that the type of braces, or other dental apparatus and the manner of connections vary greatly. Feel free to ask your orthodondist any questions you have; they really don't mind answering questions.
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Due to the fact that the franchise has been around for 15(?)years, id say that nintendo should be running out of ideas at this point.
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He notes the 10% drop he's looking for is worse than research firm IDC's projected 9% decline.
For 2015, he now sees total industry volume of 277.2 million units, down from a prior 287.2 million forecast. His tablet computer estimate goes to 213.7 million, which is up from his prior forecast of 205.1 million. That' still a 7% decline in tablet sales.
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Lenovo shipped 16 million PCs in the quarter, writes Canalys, which was about a quarter of a million more units than Apple. Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) and privately held Dell followed Apple in third and fourth place, and Samsung Electronics (005930KS) was fifth.
The firm argues that Lenovo is benefitting from its strength in China while Apple is suffering from the slowing of the tablet market, as articulated by ,' Canalys senior analyst Tim Coulling:
Apple and Lenovo lead the market in their home countries of the US and China respectively. But Apple is heavily reliant on worldwide iPad shipments, which totaled 10.9 million units this quarter. iPads represented 70% of Apple's total PC shipments in Q2, and these shipments have been falling year on year since peaking in Q4 2013. Apple remains exposed to the fortunes of the worldwide tablet market, which has experienced annual declines for three consecutive quarters. Lenovo controls almost 30% of the Chinese PC market and is steadily building its share in the US. With a more diverse product portfolio, Lenovo is in a stronger position than Apple to cement its lead in the market. But it is not without its own challenges, and has recently had to take steps to clear a significant build-up of PC inventory in EMEA.
Disk drive maker Western Digital (WDC) this afternoon reported fiscal Q4 revenue just shy of analysts' expectations, but beat on the bottom line, saying it continues to contend with a weak PC market.
Revenue in the three months ended in June fell nearly 13%, year over year, to $3.19 billion, yielding EPS of $1.51 per share.
Analysts had been modeling $3.26 billion and $1.45.
Cash from operations was $488 million, the company said, boosting its cash and equivalents on the balance sheet to $5 billion, after $198 million worth of buybacks.
The company said the total industry demand for drives in the quarter was 111 million units, down from 138 million a year earlier, and that Western had grabbed 43.7%. That included shipments into 15.5 million notebook computers and 11.6 million desktops, down from 22.9 million and 16.18 million a year earlier.
More detailed financial information is available in a supporting document online.
CEO Steve Mulligan said he was "satisfied with our execution and performance in the fourth fiscal quarter in light of the weak PC market."
Management will host a conference call with analysts at 5 pm, Eastern time, and you can catch the webcast of it on the company's investor relations Web site.
Western's main competitor, Seagate Technology (STX), is scheduled to report results this Friday before market open.
Update: On the call, the company forecast revenue this quarter of $3.2 billion to $3.3 billion, and EPS of $1.50 to $1.60, below consensus for $3.5 billion and $1.75.
Milligan said the company was staying "cautious" about PCs:
We believe it is prudent to remain cautious in the near term, given the timing of the Windows 10 and Skylake launches. That being said, we are seeing early signs of market stabilization, leading us to believe that PC market demand could pick up toward the end of this calendar year. A more stable PC market demand environment, coupled with continued strength in our enterprise business, provides the opportunity for improving financial performance as we move through the fiscal year. In the meantime, we will continue to be disciplined in the management of our business, while being ready to address unanticipated upside, if it materializes.
More bad news for Intel (INTC), Hewlett-Packard (HPQ), Seagate Technology (STX) and others in the personal computer ecosystem today, as Gartner reported a short while ago that Q2 shipments fell 9.5%, "the steepest PC shipment decline since the third quarter of 2013," according to the firm.
However, Gartner thinks there's been no structural change to the PC market, and that it will return to "steady growth in 2016."
Gartner projects a 4.4% decline in shipments this year, which is consistent with a downward revision offered Monday of 4.5%, following a revenue warning by Intel competitor Advanced Micro Devices (AMD).
Three factors are weighing, says Gartner analyst Mikako Kitagawa: the rising U.S. dollar making PCs more pricey outside the U.S.; touch comparisons to last year's increase in PCs as a result of the end-of-life transition of Microsoft's (MSFT) Windows XP; and customers holding off until the next version, Win 10, arrives as a free update later this month.
Desktop PC shipments fell by double digits, Gartner notes, while notebooks eked out a small gain.
Among vendors, Lenovo (0992HK) held onto the top spot, with 19.7% share, a jump from last year's 19.1%, despite seeing units decline 6.8% to 13.5 million.
This was Lenovo's first unit decline since 2013:
Lenovo maintained the top position in worldwide PC shipments, but the company suffered a year-on-year shipment decline for the first time since the second quarter of 2013. EMEA, Latin America and Japan were tough regions for Lenovo, as the company experienced double-digit shipment declines.
HP's share held steady at 17.4%, despite a 9.5% drop in units.
HP also experienced a shipment decline after five consecutive quarters of PC shipment growth. HP showed a steep decline in EMEA, which was potentially due to the currency impact. The company was also impacted by tight inventory controls in the consumer market before the Windows 10 launch.
Dell saw a 4.9% decline, but increased share slightly, to 14%. Asustek Computer (2357TW) saw a 10% decline, and shaved a fraction off its share, at 6.8%. Coming up close behind was Acer (2353TW), with 6.7%, though that was down from 7.6% after Acer experienced a 20% unit shipment decline.
In the U.S. market, Apple (AAPL) was fourth behind HP, Dell, and Lenovo, with 12.7%, share, which was actually up slightly from 12.3% share. Apple was one of two firms gaining share in the U.S. market, along with Asus, despite Apple seeing a 2.5% shipment drop.
The only one of the stocks mentioned that appears to be responding to this adversely in after-market trading is Microsoft, down 7 cents at $44.45.
Here are some things going on today in your world of tech:
First, a big thank you to my esteemed colleague Teresa Rivas, who did a superb job, as usual, filling in for me last week while I was on vacation.
Now, on with the news.Tech stocks are trading lower with the overall market weakness amidst fears of a potential Greek default. The Nasdaq Composite Index is down 105 points, or 2%, at 4,975.20.
Apple (AAPL) shares are going down as well, despite both RBC and Citi saying that their estimates for iPhone sales this quarter are rising as the latest model appears to be holding consumers' interest longer than normal.
COntiued iPhone demand could help shares of Avago Technologies (AVGO), Qorvo (QRVO), and Skyworks Solutions (SWKS), wrote Pacific Crest analyst John Vinh in his own note to clients today.
More lousy PC trends
The PC market doesn't appear to be recovering yet from its ongoing sales slump. DigiTimes Aaron Lee and Joseph Tsai write that notebook computer shipments will decline 5% this year, or perhaps even by double digits. Write the authors, "The sources noted that their brand clients have all been reducing their orders for the second half recently and this could seriously impact the notebook industry's overall performance in the second half."
A second article by the site's Rebecca Kuo and Alex Wolfgram states that notebook demand is not seeing any lift from the impending commercial availability of Microsoft's (MSFT) Windows 10 operating system next month.
Even some bulls are getting more cautious: Pac Crest's Michael McConnell, who has an Overweight rating on shares of Intel (INTC), cut his price target to $35 from $37, based on "sub-seasonal PC demand outlook in Q3, coupled with a delayed launch of Skylake processors."
But some see a silver lining. Jefferies & Co.'s James Kisner cuts his own PC estimates today, writing, "We're now looking for PC unit sales to decline 7% in CY15 vs. 5% previously; for CY16, we're now looking for a 2% decline vs. flat previously."
Howevever, he reiterates Buy ratings on Western Digital (WDC) and Seagate (STX), writing that the companies are getting more and more of their revenue from cloud computing, not PCs.
Anotehr defender of Western is Keith Bachman of BMO Capital, who reiterates an Outperform rating on the shares, even though he lowered his own hard drive estimates, writing "We think the quarter end was weak, and we believe that the HDD vendors were reducing inventory levels. Our TAM estimate changes are primarily driven by PC unit volumes."
Western Digital stock today closed down $2.49, or almost 3%, at $81.96.
More M&A fireworks
One stock bucking the downtrend is Amphenol (APH), maker of a myriad of parts that connect different computing systems, which is up $1.57, or 2.8%, at $57.25 after it said it would buy fellow connector maker FCI Asia Pte Ltd., for $1.28 billion. Both bulls and bears lauded the advantages of the deal.
Shares of telecom equipment vendor Alcatel-Lucent (ALU) are down 15 cents, or almost 4%, at $3.66, despite the prospect activist investors Elliott Management may call for a higher price from the buyout of the company by Nokia (NOK).
Selected downgrades
Networker F5 Networks (FFIV) is down $2.96, or 2.4%, at $120.61, after its shares were cut to Neutral from Overweight by Piper Jaffray's Troy Jensen, who thinks the shares are fully valued.
Wireless chip giant Qualcomm's (QCOM) shares are down $1.77, or 2.7%, at $62.91, after Drexel Hamilton's Rick Whittington cut the stock to Sell from Hold, claiming that Apple and other customers are asking for discounts on its chips and that competition is rising.
Shares of chip maker Nvidia (NVDA) are down 37 cents, or 1.7%, at $21.49, after Nomura's Sanjay Chaurasia cut his rating to Neutral from Buy, and cut his price target to $18 from $23, writing that shipments of desktop and notebook chips will be hurt by a variety of factors including new parts from Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), and a lack of lift from Microsoft's (MSFT) forthcoming Windows 10.
Chaurasia thinks Nvidia is "one of the most innovative companies in our coverage universe with a strong grip on the GPU market and remains uniquely positioned to benefit from opportunities in virtualized GPUs (GRID), HPC (Tesla), and IP licensing."
But none of that can balance multiple factors weighing on GPU shipments the rest of this year:
That said, we see several issues that could impact graphics shipments in 2H. Specifically, 1) Currency/macro issues in Europe (Euro down ~18% vs. USD since Aug-14), Japan (down ~20%) and in several Latin American countries (Brazilian down >40%). These regions combined represent roughly 30% of Nvidia's discrete graphics sales; 2) Changes in competitive performance dynamics from AMD's industry first HBM integrated GPU and upcoming FinFET node transitions are likely to cause an air pocket in 2H. We expect meaningful performance improvements from the launch of HBM integrated GPUs from AMD in 2H15, ahead of Nvidia (1H16). In addition, both companies are likely to move to FinFET nodes next year after shipping 28nm GPUs for more than two years now; and 3) We do not see DX12/Win10 launch as a refresh driver. Unlike prior optimizations, key focus in DX12 (graphics API) is on reducing CPU overhead and improving CPU multi-core scaling. Due to significant improvement in graphics benchmarks with DX12 (Figure 4 & 5), we think discussions could shift to upgrading CPUs (to 4 cores and higher) to improve gaming performance in existing systems.
Chaurasia cut this year's estimates to $4.29 billion in revenue and 86 cents EPS from a prior $4.36 billion and 92 cents.
For 2016, Chaurasia goes to $4.25 billion and 90 cents from a prior $4.49 billion and $1.13.
Analysts John Donovan and Paul Peterson with boutique research firm BlueFin this evening write that their "checks" with people in the personal computer industry suggest the outlook for this year's sales has worsened, with April and May results coming up below what PC makers expected.
PC makers — Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) and Dell, and no doubt Intel (INTC) and Microsoft (MSFT) are holding out hopes will rebound, but the latest data is not encouraging, they write:
PC OEMs endured another tough month in May according to our industry checks, likely setting up for another disappointing quarter. We believe PC OEMs planned for Q2 shipments of approximately 71M PCs, and we estimate that April and May combined totals are as much as 3M short of plan. The OEMs are already bracing for a heavily back-end loaded quarter, similar to Q1 where nearly 50% of quarterly shipments were slated for the final four weeks. We are hearing that heavy June builds are planned for early Back to School shipments by boat in order to minimize freight costs, but even the most ambitious of forecasts will not prevent another sequential quarterly decline in shipments. We have cut our Q2 projections to 67-69M, down 4% sequentially at the midpoint from the 71M shipped in Q1.
The authors see full-year PC unit sales falling possibly as much as 7%, worse than previously thought:
Our latest reads suggest another disappointing PC environment in Q2, although PC OEMs are still planning on a very strong month of June which could propel results to near 70M. Based on current market conditions, we are adjusting 1H:15 expectations from 142-144M down to the 138-140M range, a 2-3% correction. When paired with a 2H 2015 outlook of 155-157M, this puts CY2015 totals now in the 293M-297M range, a 6-7% decline from CY 2014 levels.
Also lighter than expected were hard-disk drive shipments in April and May, consistent with tough reports of late from Western Digital (WDC) and Seagate Technology (STX), the authors write. However, "Business critical and mission critical enterprise HDD demand has stood firm in the face of the weak PC environment."
The authors note that Quanta is the sole bright spot among so-called original design manufacturers, because it builds for Apple's (AAPL) new 12-inch MacBook with Retina display:
Quanta is the one outlier that we expect to remain strong, with notebook builds expected to be up 15% sequentially thanks to demand for the new 12-inch MacBook.
However, "most component suppliers are expecting a flattish demand environment despite the sequential unit growth in builds, because of a modest inventory overhang entering the quarter."
The authors end up suggesting Intel and Western are the best stock picks:
We continue to believe INTC and WDC are the best investments in this sector (see yesterday's INTC Update), and think that the PC weakness is largely baked into these stocks. With regards to WDC, the present environment is certainly challenging. While we still have a favorable view on the company, we caution investors of the choppy road ahead. WDC remains a favorite of ours based on continued enterprise success as the Cloud build-out continues. We do expect a pick-up in notebook sales in the second half of 2015 and our growing expectation for a positive conclusion to the MOFCOM sanctions in the near future bolsters our conviction that the upside opportunity for WDC in late 2015 remains fertile.
BlueFin's view is decidedly more negative than some others. For example, BMO Capital's Keith Bachman on Friday wrote that shipments of notebook computers this quarter have been running below expectations, but even so, he believes shipments will, indeed, rebound in the second half with the arrival of Microsoft's Windows 10 operating system upgrade in late July.
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this is an once in a lifetime experience. don't miss it just because of price tag. you will come away with 'wow'.
The tour is absolutely amazing... just to clarify i thought the tour was the glacier plus the dogsled and its not... so future clients make sure that if you want to go and stand on the glacier and drink the water and so on this tour will not do it...
STILL, its absolutely amazing i loved it and would do it again
Although the dogsledding portion of this excursion was cancelled due to weather, this was a very incredible experience! Sean, the pilot, was great and the scenery was breathtaking! Although very pricey, this is worth every penny!!!
It was awesome! I was hesitant to book it because it was so expensive, but it was so worth it. Our pilot, Casey, was friendly and funny and informative. Our Musher, Jess, was good too. The dogs were great and we will never forget the experience.
The best tour I took in Alaska. This is well worth it! The company is prepared and has boots, jackets and waterproof pants you can use at the camp. The dogs are well behaved and are owned by the guides. Nick our guide was wonderful and his beloved Chase was adorable. The ride there was SMOOTH. Our pilot had been flying for 25 years! The views are unbelievable and breathtaking. BOOK THIS...you will not regret it.
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Amazing!, once in a life time experience
We loved it. The helicopter pilot was superb, taking us up and to the glacier as if we were in a 3-D movie. The guide who took us for the dog sledding experience was an intelligent young man, w a great compassion for the dogs. We learned a lot, and we came away with an excellent appreciation for the landscape, the sledding, and the dogs.
We felt like the only people on the top of the world. Heath our pilot was a friendly and informative guide; he also takes good photos and flues a helicopter well! Sadly dogsled ride cancelled due to wether, but no one can fix that! The glacier was stunning. Highly recommended
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Chopper ride a bit bumpy at times but certainly not uncomfortable.
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AWESOME! Had a great guide on the helecopter(Jaimie) and a wonderful musher (Jordan). I learned a lot and had a lot of fun.
This was an awesome experience, however the cost was quite prohibitive!! The helicopter trip is highly recommended especially flying over and landing on the glacier. If I were to choose again I would probably select the Mendenhall glacier walk only and not do the dogsledding. The latter doubles the cost and I actually felt quite sorry for the dogs living on the glacier chained to their kennels.
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It was raining and so helicopter ride was short and could not get good views. However the staff were extremely friendly. Once we got on the glacier, it was once in a lifetime experience. Crew were extremely nice and informative. We land on Hubbard glacier and did not get a good view of Mendenhall glacier.
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Is there a digital zoom on the nx1000 as i have only just got this camera and haven,t found one yet.
I have not looked for it myself, only just got the camera. Personally, I would avoid digital zoom, not a good option for quality photos, if you need to zoom in closer than your lens will let you, either get closer, of crop it in photoshop afterwards.
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The following faculty are full-time administrators of the DTC program at WSU Tri-Cities. In any given semester, other faculty also participate by helping to teach courses and run programs in the departments of Anthropology, Business, Computer Science, English, Fine Arts, History, Humanities and Psychology.
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Peter Christenson
Assistant Professor, Fine Arts
Peter Christenson (2012) earned a M.S.W. from the University of Michigan and his M.F.A. in Intermedia from Arizona State University. Christenson is a multidisciplinary artist, writer, and filmmaker. He is co-founder and Artistic Director of Left of Centre, a guerrilla-marketing firm and artist collective started in Detroit, MI, and he is the recent recipient of a Fulbright Scholar Award in Art & Design. His current practice and research are rooted in interventionist, social art, and institutional critique theories and significantly influenced by his past experiences working as a licensed psychotherapist and social worker. Christenson's research focuses on New Media and Digital Culture, Installation and Immersive Environments, Performance, Institutional Critique and Interventionist Theory, Relational Aesthetics, and Psychosocial Art.
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Sena Clara Creston is an exhibiting interactive installation artist from New York City. Creston earned her MFA in electronic art from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 2012 and her BFA from NYU for photography and imaging in 2005. Creston uses a combination of old and new technology to construct immersive electronic, kinetic and interactive sculptural installations as well as photographic environments. Her research and creative practice focus on the impact materials, process and mythology can have on interactive art and reflect on alternative associations with what is considered natural.
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