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The Cog Golf Courses
From Disneys Online Worlds Guide (Wiki)
The Cog Golf Courses (CGCs) are located within Bossbot Headquarters. There are 3 different CGCs: Front 3, Middle 6 and the Back 9, with the Front 3 being the easiest. Since CGCs do take a lot of time to complete, it is advisable to have fully maxed gags.
The three course available, with a different amount of laff limits, are:
- Front 3 - 3 Golfing Holes that require approximately 20-25* minutes for completion.
- Middle 6 - 6 Golfing Holes that require approximately 40-50* minutes for completion.
- Back 9 - 9 Golfing Holes that require approximately 70-85* minutes for completion.
- *All Toons using sound
- Each course offers different amounts of stock options. Since many stock options are needed to move from promotion to promotion in higher cogsuit disguises, it is always advisable to wait for an invasion, especially after completing a Back 9.
Stock Options with no Cog invasion:
- Front 3: 386
- Middle 6: 953
- Back 9: 1,685
Stock Options with Cog invasion:
- Front 3: 764
- Middle 6: 1,874
- Back 9: 3,350
There are 2 sets of cogs for each golfing hole. There are also numerous amounts of V2.0 cogs in CGCs. It is always best to make sure to initiate the battle with the V2.0 Cog, because should you come to a situation where you have to defeat the cogs by gags other than sound, you would want that skelecog that spawns from the V2.0 cog to be fully susceptible to lure bonus (right-most position).
Also, since the Front 3 has the same exact repetitive cog sets as a Middle 6 or the Back 9 (just different in the amount of total cogs), the strategies discussed below will all be the same. Although there are many combinations of gags that can be utilized, using the least amount of fog horns on each set of cogs is the best strategy for the fastest completion time.
- Front 3: Contains a total of 6 sets of 4 Cogs (a total of 34 cogs including skelecogs).
- Middle 6: Contains a total of 12 sets of 4 Cogs (a total of 67 cogs including skelecogs).
- Back 9: Contains a total of 18 sets of 4 Cogs (a total of 100 cogs including skelecogs).
There are 3 major obstacles within each course: Whack-A-Mole, Maze, and Cog Golf puzzles. Each of these puzzles/games has its own objective. Successful completion of any puzzle/game gives automatic Toon-up (so there is no need to Toon-up someone in every cog round unless they are very low). In contrast, failure to complete any of the puzzles results in a reduction of 20 Laff.
The main objective of this obstacle is to try and catch (stomp) the red mole. You are given a time limit to try and stomp a total of 8, 12, or 16 red moles in Front 3, Middle 6 or Back 9, respectively. If the group fails to find the minimum amount of red moles results in a reduction of 20 Laff.
Careful: If you hit one (non-red) mole you'll hit about 3 in a row!
You do NOT have to jump on a mole to hurt it, the quickest way is to simply run into it, as you keep control and speed when you just run.
The mazes are the only part of the CGCs that require complete understanding of direction. Should you lose your directionality, you will find yourself running around in circles. The main purpose is to go into the entrance and find the cogs at the end of the maze. You are given a time limit to find the cogs. Failing to find the cogs, your Toon will automatically teleport to the cogs and will lose 20 Laff.
Cog Golf
This is the most interesting and stimulating game of them all in the CGCs. After approaching the green, each Toon is given a puzzle to solve. The main objective is to try and knock the Cog Ball off the playing area. Usually the Cog Ball is located at the end of the playing field and you have to use strategy to reach it by exploding each of the colored golf balls in front of it. This is achieved by matching 3 of the same colors together.
There are a certain number of puzzles that must be won within a specified time-frame. When someone on the team finishes a puzzle, that Toon will receive a random gag, and everyone else will either have their puzzle turned into a new one, or receive an explosive ball.
There are 5 types of ball in play at any given time during the game, and 2 more that can be received under certain conditions.
Task Tip:
- Use the "top down" view to see the ball you're about to shoot and the next ball coming!
Final reward/penalty
- In the end you will receive any gag you've won during the game, and Laff depending on you're success. If all puzzles were completed in time, you will receive 20 Laff, and if you do not complete them before time runs out you lose 20 Laff.
Gag Strategies
The strategies employed in this guide assume that maxed sound will be used by each Toon. Since there are many gag combinations possible by doing a soundless run, this guide will have limited information on running a soundless CGC.
The minimum sound gags that Toons should bring for the quickest CGCs are: 3 fog horns, 7 elephant trunks and 5 aoogahs.
Players that are planning on using fog horns will usually say out loud: "I'll get this one," "I got it," or "It's mine."
The Back 9 and Middle 6 Strategies
1st Set of cogs - Level 10s
The first set of cogs is made up of 4 level 10s, one being a V2.0 cog (Red Arrow). Initiate the battle with the V2.0 cog, so that the skelecog will be susceptible to lure bonus. It is best to use: 1 fog horn and 3 elephant trunks on this initial set of cogs. This will ensure that all 4 cogs are destroyed in one gag round. Once the skelecog emerges, it is best to lure with a $10 bill and use small gags such as 3 fruit pies or 3 fire hoses. Don't worry about Toon-up because each of the obstacles come with Toon-up rewards after completing the puzzle, so it is unnecessary to Toon-up a Toon after every battle (unless they are very low).
2nd set of cogs – Level 11s
The second set of cogs is at the far end of the course. This set is made up of 4 level 11s, two being V2.0 cogs (Red Arrows). The battle should be initiated with one of the V2.0 cogs, so that after the outer shell of the cogs is destroyed, both skelecogs will be susceptible to lure bonus once they emerge.
It is best to use 2 fog horns and 2 aoogahs on the second set of cogs. Once the cogs are destroyed, both skelecogs will be susceptible to lure bonus (if the battle was initiated with one of the V2.0 cogs). Since both cogs are fully susceptible to lure bonus any combination of gags will work: hypno-goggles followed by an organic birthday cake or two, a rain cloud with a fire hose, or 3 fire hoses. Trappers can use TNT on the left skelecog. If the left skelecog is not destroyed with a second organic birthday cake or TNT, this cog is also fully susceptible to lure bonus and 4 fire hoses can be used to destroy it.
The reason for incorporating 2 aoogahs is because you want to be able to utilize as many small gags as possible, especially once you begin doing lots of Back 9s. These strategies can be used in a Front 3, which may be a benefit because learning these strategies early and applying them to higher CGCs is a great asset. By the time you begin doing Middle 6s or Back 9s, picking gags comes second nature. Alternative methods (outlined below) can be used in a Front 3 because there are no worries of running out of gags.
Regardless what CGC you are in, each cog hole has the same repetitious levels of cogs: first set will be level 10s, while the second set will be level 11s. There is only one instance when there are 3 V2.0 cogs in the second set, and that is when you are battling the Club President (the last set of cogs). It is still advisable to use the strategies outlined above when battling the Club President.
The Back 9 and Middle 6 Overall Strategies
- First Set of Cogs
- Initiate battle with the V2.0 cog
- Use 1 fog horn and 3 elephant trunks on first set of cogs (level 10s)
- Use $10 bill and 3 small gags on the skelecog
- Second Set of Cogs
- Initiate battle with one of the V2.0 cogs
- Use 2 fogs horns and 2 aoogahs on the second set of cogs (level 11s)
- Use hypno-goggles, 2 organic birthday cakes for both skelecogs or TNT on the left skelecog and a rain cloud and fire hose on the right skelecog.
There are many gag combinations that may be used in defeating the remaining skelecogs.
The Front 3 Strategies
Since the Front 3 only has 3 golfing holes, the group can use 2 fog horns on each set of cogs. It is best for the group to use: 2 fog horns and 1 elephant trunk on the 1st set of cogs (level 10s), while the 4th Toon uses a piano on the V2.0 cog. The sound gags, including combo bonus, will destroy the level 10 cogs, while the piano destroys the skelecog once it emerges. The same strategies can be used for the second set of cogs as outlined above (The Back 9 and Middle 6 Strategies).
The Front 3 Overall Strategies
- First Set of Cogs
- Initiate battle with the V2.0 cog
- Use 2 fog horns and 1 elephant trunk on the first set of cogs (level 10s), while a piano is used on the V2.0 cog.
- Second Set of Cogs
- Initiate battle with one of the V2.0 cogs
- Use 2 fogs horns and 2 aoogahs on the second set of cogs (level 11s)
- Use hypno-goggles, 2 organic birthday cakes for both skelecogs or TNT on the left skelecog and a rain cloud and fire hose on the right skelecog.
One Soundless Toon
Should there be one soundless Toon in the group, it is best to use a similar strategy as outlined in the Front 3, regardless what CGC the group is in: 2 fog horns and 1 elephant trunk on the 1st set of cogs (level 10s), while the soundless Toon uses a piano on the V2.0 cog.
The second set of cogs can be eliminated by using many different gag combinations. Again it is best to initiate the battle with any one of the V2.0 cogs that are present. This will make that V2.0 cog line up on the right. A good strategy to use is, 1 fog horn, 2 elephant trunks, while the soundless uses lure. The cogs will not get destroyed and will retaliate for one round. On the second round of gag choices, 2 Toons can use elephant trunks, while the other two Toons drop on the V2.0 cogs.
Strategies with one soundless Toon
- First Set of Cogs
- Initiate battle with the V2.0 cog
- Use 2 fog horns and 1 elephant trunk on the first set of cogs (level 10s), while the soundless uses a piano on the V2.0 cog.
- Second Set of Cogs
- Initiate battle with one of the V2.0 cogs
- . Use 1 fog horn and 2 elephant trunks on the second set of cogs (level 11s)
- Use 2 elephant trunks and 2 pianos on the V2.0 cogs.
Sound Gags in The Back 9
Since the Back 9 has a total of 9 holes to complete, this CGC consumes the most amount of gags and time. It is very advisable to follow the above strategies of 1 fog horn and 3 elephant trunks on the first set of cogs, followed by 2 fog horns and 2 aoogahs on the second set so as to preserve the amount of larger sound gags. Should these strategies be used, the full group (assuming all have maxed sound, and all took turns using fog horns, elephant trunks and aoogahs accordingly) should be able to get to 4th golf hole without the need to restock sound. Because cog golf rewards you with random gags for completing puzzles, reaching the 6th or 7th hole with only sound is attainable. Below is a list of the number of sound gags that are required for a hypothetical fully sounded CGC course.
As you can see from the table, CGCs (especially the Back 9) require a lot of sound gags. It is best to follow a strategy and work in a coordinated fashion so that these long CGC may run as smoothly as possible.
Running multiple Middle 6s vs. Back 9s
When trying to achieve 23,300 stock options for the next promotion, it would seem evident that running multiple Back 9 courses is the best strategy. However, running multiple Middle 6s has some benefits considering:
- The group will run low on gags by the last few golfing holes in a Back 9.
- Running 2 Middle 6 courses gives a total of 3,748 with invasion (398 net stock options).
- Running 2 Middle 6 courses takes only a few minutes more than a single Back 9 course.
- The group is able to restock gags in between the 2 Middle 6s
- You get a little break from CGCs in between 2 Middle 6s
For a total of 23,300 stock options
Running groups of Middle 6 courses does cost some time as compared to running only Back 9 courses, but running multiple Middle 6 courses over multiple Back 9 actually saves you some some frustration, especially if an invasion ends just as the cogs are being defeated (easier to lose out in 937 stock options in a Middle 6 over losing 1,675 in a single Back 9). Plus, the little break you get from running multiple Middle 6 courses can help relieve the burnout of running Back 9s.


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If You Have Verizon, the NSA Has Been Secretly Collecting Your Phone Records
Apparently the Bush-era practice lives on.
The scandal over the Obama administration's surveillance of reporters hasn't really captured the attention of the American public, but perhaps this will do the trick. The National Security Agency has been collecting the telephone records of every Verizon customer in the United States, according to a secret court order obtained by The Guardian. The document directs Verizon to give the government information on all calls in its systems on an "ongoing, daily basis." The indiscriminate collection of phone records in bulk was implemented post-9/11 (and widely criticized when uncovered in 2006), but this is the first evidence that the practice has continued under the Obama administration.
The document states that Verizon must turn over "all call detail records or 'telephony metadata'," both "between the United States and abroad" and "wholly within the United States, including local telephone calls." Metadata includes the "originating and terminating number," the International Mobile Subscriber Identity (IMSI) number, calling card numbers, and the call's time and duration. It does not include the content of the calls or Verizon subscribers' names and addresses, though it may include data on the nearest cell tower used during the call.
The order, marked "top secret," is dated April 25 and allows the government to collect the data through July 19. It was granted by the secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, which states the order is justified under the controversial Section 215 of the Patriot Act, which allows the government to obtain various "business records." Verizon is banned from informing the public of the records request.
It's unclear if orders were issued to other cell-phone providers, or if collection went on for longer than three months. Though, it seems somewhat unlikely that throughout the Obama administration the NSA has only requested data from one carrier, and for one short period of time. So don't feel left out if you don't use Verizon, because your data is probably sitting in an NSA database somewhere too.

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2 cups cooked brown riceCook brown rice according to directions and set aside until ready to serve. Very thinly slice chicken. Lightly brown chicken over high heat. Turn down heat to medium and cook until done. Do not overcook chicken; when pricked with fork and juice runs clear the chicken is cooked. Remove to a plate and set aside. In food processor, finely chop garlic, ginger root, mint, basil, and cilantro, reserving some for top, if desired. Mix carrot juice w/ arrow root powder. Place all ingredients (except for peanut butter, coconut milk, and cashews) into a wok or large skillet. Cook on high heat, covered, stirring often, until vegetables are just tender and chicken cooked through about 10-15 minutes. Push vegetables aside and add peanut butter, stirring to blend with liquid. Toss to distribute. Add coconut milk and heat until hot. Place chicken on the brown rice, cover with vegetable mixture and top with chopped cashews. Also delicious topped with the fresh herbs. Serves 4.
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SaladPrepare all salad ingredients. Whisk dressing ingredients and toss with salad mixture and serve. Serves 2.
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This fantastic Blush dress is very unique and perfect for saying
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The U.S. Department of State is pursuing a unique and exciting opportunity to relocate its London Embassy from Mayfair to Nine Elms, Battersea
Current U.S. Embassy in Grosvenor Square, Mayfair
Current U.S. Embassy in Grosvenor Square, Mayfair
After long and careful consideration, the Department decided that the best way to create a modern, secure, and accessible new Embassy was to acquire a site and build anew. Following a detailed search of London, the Department was fortunate to find in Nine Elms a site that meets the needs of a modern Embassy.Nine Elms has been chosen for a variety of reasons, including:
- Its proximity to the heart of London
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- Its proximity to the river and the views both up and downstream
- The support for the regeneration of the whole area, including Wandsworth Borough Council, the Mayor and the Greater London Authority (GLA)
- The opportunity for the new Embassy to act as a catalyst for the wider regeneration of the area
The Design Competition
The Department is committed to creating an Embassy building which is not only iconic in appearance and a leader in sustainability, but is also welcoming to all its visitors and makes a positive contribution to the local community and the urban environment. The challenge is to design a building which fulfills all these criteria and provides enough space for all its functions to be carried out in a secure working environment.
In order to ensure that the design of the new Embassy is of the highest possible quality, the Department of State has launched a competition to find an architectural practice and lead team to design the new Embassy. This competition is being managed by a jury comprised of eight American and British leaders in the fields of architecture, diplomacy, sustainable building, urban design and regeneration.
Four architectural firms have been shortlisted for the final phase of the competition to design the new Embassy:
- Kieran Timberlake
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The finalists will now explore the symbolism of the Embassy, its image, and position in the cityscape of London. Their goal is to create a building that represents the United States appropriately in the UK. In January 2010, the four firms will present their plans to the expert jury who will then make a final recommendation to the Department of State. The selected firm will then undertake further consultation in London and draw up detailed design proposals for consideration by Wandsworth Council.
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Second-team All-Pac-10 selection ... Second-team All-Region selection by Soccer Buzz ... Started every match for the third year in a row, putting her on pace to break the UCLA career records for starts (95) and games played (98) ... Member of a UCLA defense that ranked No. 1 in the country in goals against average (0.23) ... Helped the team surrender just six goals in 25 matches ... Team also posted a school record 19 shutouts ... The Bruin defense never allowed more than one goal in any match ... The team's highest scoring defender, finishing the season with 13 points (3g, 7a) ... Assisted on the game-winning goal in a 2-1 victory over USC on Oct. 24 ... Also assisted on Christina DiMartino's goal in a 1-0 victory over Stanford on Oct. 31 ... Ended the season with 19 shots.
Started all 24 matches ... UCLA's top assist leader from the back line, ending the year ranked third on the team with nine ... Biggest assist of the season came in UCLA's 3-2 double-overtime victory over Portland in the NCAA Quarterfinals ... Lone goal on the season came in a 3-0 victory over Arizona on Nov. 4 ... Finished the season with 11 points ... Helped the Bruin defense surrender just 16 goals in 24 matches ... Also helped UCLA rank in the top 20 nationally (#17) in goals against average in 2007 (0.65) ... The Bruins ranked second in the Pac-10 in shutouts with 12.
Started all 25 matches ... Regarded as one of the top freshman defenders in the nation, earning second-team Freshman All-America honors from Soccer Buzz ... Helped the UCLA defense rank third in the Pac-10 in shutouts with 13 ... Member of a defense that held opponents to less than a goal per game (0.76) ... Contributed on the offensive side of the field as well, tallying a goal and two assists for four points ... Scored the game-winning goal in a 3-0 victory over Maryland on Aug. 27 ... Assisted on the game-winning goal in a 2-1 win over No. 3 Texas A&M on Sept. 8 ... Also had the game-winning assist in UCLA's 4-1 decision against No. 10 Cal ...
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Columbus Square Apartments Sold for $630 Million
In what is described as Manhattan's biggest residential real-estate purchase in four years, the Columbus Square complex of five apartment towers on the Upper West Side sold for $630 million Thursday to a joint venture between UDR Inc. and MetLife.
UDR, a Denver-based REIT, has been on a Big Apple buying spree. Last year, it spent more than $1 billion for Manhattan addresses including 95 Wall Street, which was once the corporate headquarters for J.P. Morgan. Company executives said they'd like to grow even more.
"Acquiring in New York continues to be part of our strategy," said Harry Alcock, UDR's senior vice president of asset management.
The seller of UDR's latest Manhattan purchase is a partnership of the Chetrit Group and Stellar Management, said Douglas Harmon, the Eastdil Secured senior managing director who brokered the deal.
UDR, one of the nation's largest apartment owners, is betting on the continued strength of the rental market, which is benefiting as more Americans decide to rent homes instead of own them. Manhattan boasts the nation's highest average monthly rents of $2,876, according to Reis Inc. The fourth-quarter vacancy rate was 2.4%, well below the national 5.2% rate.
UDR's latest deal includes 801 Amsterdam as well as 775, 795, 805 and 808 Columbus, which house 710 apartment units built between 2009 and 2011. The rental average is $3,924 a month, and the properties are 95.6% full, according to UDR.
The partnership continues a relationship with MetLife that previously acquired properties in Texas, Washington, Massachusetts and Pennsylvania.


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Michael Mann's latest bogus claim
Michael Mann, the Father of the Hockey Stick graph -- you know, the one where they had to "hide the decline" -- seems to have a predilection for making implausible claims. Mann has sued the Competitive Enterprise Institute and Mark Steyn for libel, under the legal theory that he should not be subject to "public figure" rules, because he was "an involuntary public figure." He explains the tragedy of his becoming a "target" in an essay published in The Scientist.


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I fondly remember checking the balances in my retirement accounts during the summer of 2007. I'd surf from my 401(k) to my IRAs, amazed that I'd made thousands since the week before by doing absolutely nothing. I'd spend the money in my head, wondering, Is 60 too early to retire? Is 55?
Then October rolled around, the markets plummeted, and as fast as that, a collective $2.7 trillion disappeared from the retirement accounts in this country, including mine. Unemployment soared, and it wasn't long before I—like women everywhere—was asking myself different questions. Can I still retire comfortably? Can I retire at all?
Surprisingly, the market is not what's likely to stop you. When economists at Dartmouth College and Texas Tech University analyzed the assets of people in their fifties, they reached an unexpected conclusion: The roller-coaster ride of 2007–08 will probably delay this group's retirement for only one and a half months on average; 10 percent will be forced to delay for a year or more. And this was determined before March's big rebound.
But that doesn't necessarily mean you're on track. Here are the other obstacles that could stand in your way and how to overcome them.
Roadblock 1: You don't have exact financial goals
Truthfully, it is impossible to predict your precise retirement needs. Sure, family history can help you guess how long you're going to live, and you can use economists' assumptions to make calculations about inflation and the rate of return on your portfolio. But there are so many variables (what will a pound of organic arugula cost in 2032, anyway?) that even experts such as Jack VanDerhei of the Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI) say there is no "correct" amount of money every woman should have for retirement.
The key is to get a realistic range, and the place to start is with a retirement calculator—or four. (I like the ones at T. Rowe Price, CNNMoney, the Motley Fool and choosetosave.org.) Because the math they employ varies, I suggest using several calculators until you see enough consistency to ensure that you're in the right zone. These calculators will ask you to make certain assumptions. For return on your portfolio, use 8 percent if you're in your forties or fifties and 6 percent if you're 60 or older. (You'll be taking on less investment risk as you age, so you'll see a smaller return.) For inflation, use 3 percent. When it comes to how much you'll need to spend—or the percentage of your preretirement income you'll need to replace—use at least 100 percent. If you plan to travel the world or if you have a troubling family or personal medical history, go with 120 percent. You'll also need to know how much you can expect from Social Security (go to ssa.gov to get your most recent benefits estimate).
Less than half of all workers have ever tried to calculate how much money they'll need in retirement. And that is an enormous problem: Unless you know where the bar is, you'll never be able to jump over it. So do yourself a favor and take a few hours this weekend to just get it done. Then write a note to yourself to repeat the exercise every year or two, because not only might the balances in your accounts shift but your plans might as well.
Roadblock 2: You're not saving nearly enough
Now that you have your goal, it may be clear that you're not socking away enough money to get there. You are not alone. "The overarching problem is not that the market went down," says financial adviser Frank Armstrong, author of Save Your Retirement. "It's that people haven't saved enough." This is truest for workers whose employers don't sponsor plans, says EBRI's VanDerhei. Women, too, have a particular problem. Even when we work full time, we're the ones who take months or years off to care for children or aging parents. During those sabbaticals we typically don't save for retirement, which is one reason the balances of 401(k)s owned by women ages 50 to 59 average only 54 percent of the balances of 401(k)s belonging to men of the same age.
So how do you make up the necessary ground? First, stash the full $16,500 you're allowed every year into your 401(k), 403(b) or other work-based retirement account. If you're 50 or older, you're eligible to make an additional $5,500 in catch-up contributions; do that, too. And because even $22,000 a year may not be sufficient when you're aiming for seven figures, look at supplementing these accounts with a nondeductible IRA contribution ($5,000 if you're under 50, $6,000 if you're 50 or over). If you can do more, put money in a nonretirement brokerage account.
Also, max out your contribution to a health savings account if you have one; these accounts are available to people enrolled in a high-deductible health plan. In 2010 the limits are $3,050 for singles and $6,150 for families, with an extra $1,000 for people over 55 not on Medicare. HSAs are really retirement accounts in disguise, because once you retire, you can use the money for things beyond health care. (Don't confuse HSAs with FSAs, or flexible spending accounts, which are funded with your pretax contributions to pay for unreimbursed health care or day care expenses—over-the-counter drugs, co-payments, glasses and the like. FSA dollars are use-it-or-lose-it each year.)
No matter where you're stashing your savings, put those contributions on autopilot. Auto-investing is the key to success, because it's easier. The balances in the retirement accounts of workers whose companies automatically enroll them in retirement savings plans add up to nearly 10 times their final incomes when the workers reach 65, according to researchers' simulations. The balances in accounts of people not auto-enrolled? Just 2.4 times their final incomes. If you can't automate at work, do it via your financial institution. Another tip: Bank your raises. Each time you get a salary bump, increase the money you're stashing away by the same amount. Windfalls, bonuses, tax refunds and birthday money also go right into IRAs.
Roadblock 3: You're tempted to raid your retirement stash too soon
One way to make your retirement accounts last longer is to avoid tapping into them until well after your official retirement date. Each year that you produce enough income to live on without touching your nest egg means another year that your retirement stash can grow tax deferred—until you reach age 70½ and start making mandatory withdrawals, in the case of a traditional IRA or 401(k). That doesn't necessarily mean staying in the job you have now. Armstrong cites clients who "retired," then joined the Peace Corps for several years. They didn't make a lot of money, but they didn't have to tap their retirement capital, they ultimately received more Social Security because they delayed taking it, and they had several fewer years of postretirement life to pay for.
If you don't feel qualified to nab a desirable nonretirement gig, it's better to retool now than 10 years down the road. "Constantly update your résumé, your skills, your appearance," says Jeri Sedlar, coauthor of Don't Retire, Rewire! Think about what the next opportunity might be and how you could transition into it. "Community colleges often offer certification programs that are less costly or time consuming than going back for an additional degree," Sedlar points out.
Roadblock 4: You don't know how to make your nest egg last
I was recently on a panel with superstar economist Burton Malkiel of Princeton University, author of A Random Walk Down Wall Street, among other books. We were asked about financial mistakes we'd made over the years. Malkiel talked about not rebalancing amid the bubble of 2000 when too much of his portfolio was in technology, particularly in Cisco—which, despite being "the backbone of the Internet," as Malkiel put it, cratered by 90 percent. His point: No one knows what the market is going to do. My point: Even superstar economists blow it sometimes.
But if your goal is to have 60 percent of your assets in stocks and 40 percent in bonds, you'll want to bring those percentages back in line every January, he suggests. "That's not easy," he says. "It means selling your winners and buying more of your losers." This is your protection for when the markets turn—and they always do.
Another challenge is achieving adequate diversification. The advice used to be to purchase in complementary sets: Buy small-cap stocks and large-cap stocks, growth and value, domestic and international. Why? Because these asset groups tended to move in opposition—when one was down, the other was up, and whatever happened, you were protected. But as the economy has become more global, those relationships have changed. One market isn't as likely to go down when another goes up anymore. That's not to say they are all moving in the same direction; it's just that the relationships are more complicated than they once were.
You can't simply hedge your bets by buying this way anymore—say, by purchasing European stocks to balance U.S. stocks. Malkiel's advice (which I plan to take) is to buy globally in the form of a low-cost world index fund, which will provide greater diversity. Vanguard just launched one that is 24 percent emerging markets, 46 percent Europe, 24 percent Pacific and 6 percent North America. You can access this fund through Vanguard directly as well as through many other brokerage firms. The other alternative (there aren't many of these yet) is iShares MSCI ACWI Index Fund, an all-world exchange-traded fund, which trades like a stock.
Finally, if you're inclined to take a hands-on approach to managing your money, I've always believed there is enough information available from the Internet and other media sources for you to tackle it. But if you feel overwhelmed trying to figure out your financial life, by all means get some help. You can find objective financial advice at the National Association of Personal Financial Advisors (napfa.org; advisers bill by the hour, by retainer or by assets under management) or garrettplanningnetwork.com (where you'll find consultants who bill by the hour). Remember, this isn't a vacation you're planning for, it isn't buying your first house, it isn't even four years of college—it's the last 30 or 40 or 50 years of your life. If financial advice isn't worth paying for now, then I don't know when it will be.
Originally published in the July/August 2010 issue of More. Read more of Jean Chatzky's columns here.


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Detroit will face an dramatic spike in heat related deaths by the end of this century. You know, this century, the one which has well over 80 years left in it. But oh yes, it will happen. Thus speaketh the Natural Resources Defense Council, and environmental watchdog group.
Of course, it's all based on computer simulations, and the presumption that global warming will continue unchecked for all of those eighty some years. That by itself should be a clue that we are talking about bad science, be real science and real scientists generally doesn't like to make sweeping predictions about the future, particularly the far future. You see, science lives in a combination of the past and the present, in things we know or can reasonably expect based on actual observation. It is not upon the projected results of whatever data we feed into a computer.
Bad science likes global warming. It likes the idea of promulgating scare stories because scare stories bring attention to it. Then we can have centers such as the NRDC, who, of course, in their position as self appointed guardians of nature and all things environmental, can tell us that more of our great grandchildren will die many years from now if we don't do something NOW. Yet a cursory glance at the NRDC website shows what it cares about: global warming, saving the oceans and endangered species, nuclear nonproliferation, clean energy, and of course the old bugbear, recycling. In short, if it's a leftist cause, they're in it up to their necks.
To be fair, their mission statement sounds good: To safeguard the Earth: its people, its plants and animals and the natural systems on which all life depends. But we nonetheless aren't comfortable with anything which puts Earth first. To be sure, we cannot survive without it. But the Earth is here for people, and not for its own sake or the sake of other life forms. People first, Earth second, that's our mantra.
As such, we are skeptical that the aims of the NRDC are really for the people, even when they issue warnings ostensibly for the people such as warnings of futuristic calamity. Too much of what they are in favor of or against (recycling, which is simply much ado about rubbish, which they favor; urban sprawl, which simply takes property rights away from owners, which they oppose) are in fact anti-people. Add in the fact that it is far too easy to warn of a disaster generations away (if it ever occurs at all) and far after they could be held accountable for any errors they might make (and costs they might incur on future generations) and we are quite comfortable mocking their fears. We believe in humanity enough that we believe it will overcome the heat of the coming years if it in fact comes, and will work things all the better if the temperatures in fact, as we believe, do not rise quite so fantastically or even gradually.
The future, if left to itself, will work itself out. That's a true belief in the person and humanity. All else environmentally is Chicken Little demagoguery.


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Ah … Today I tried on one of my old shirts that I haven't worn in a while and not only does it fit, I decided to wear it today because it matches my new pair of blue specs that came in yesterday.
It feels so good to pull out the old clothes that really didn't get to be that old before I outgrew them. I've been wearing a raincoat the past few days that I wore only once before it ended up in my closet of clothes that were too small.
The cool thing is I've been getting compliments on the coat since I've been wearing it this week.
Anyway, now I'm beginning to slowly raid that closet for things to wear and I can hardly wait to throw out my old clothes as I lose the weight.
I'm almost scared to do that though. It's a giant leap of faith! Especially with the one plus-sized clothing retailer in the area going out of business. Seriously, that freaks me out because now I'm going to have to travel to buy clothing until I lose enough weight to buy normal-sized clothing.
At least for now I can "shop my closet." That will keep me going for a little while.
But I can't help it. I'm struck with a little bit of fear with letting those big clothes go. Maybe it will get easier as I do it.
I have one skirt that's on it's way to being too big now. It's constantly sliding down and I keep having to adjust where it lands on my waist. I think that's the first item of clothing to go. It's a skirt I've been wearing all the time, so that might be one of the hardest things to get rid of. I could have it altered, but then again, there comes a point when a person just has to get rid of their clothes that don't fit.
Anyway, I've been on a roll with the weight-loss lately. Yesterday I attended my TOPS meeting and they recorded another weight-loss for the seventh week in a row. I added to my charm bracelet for last week's achievement of losing weight for 6 weeks in a row and also for being the TOPS top loser for the month.
It seems by the time I reach my goal, I'll have filled my bracelet up and then some!
Well, it's off to losing more weight and to getting over the idea that I may be throwing some clothes away, or donating them, or burning them, or who knows what. It's time to start taking giant leaps of faith!
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Week in Review : Blind Trust in Luck
August 11, 2013 · Print This Article
"In the air I can already feel the lateness of things, the way Autumn is waiting at the back of this month." Helen McClory,
This week on the podcast, we discuss David Linneweh's  podcast Studio Break and his kickstarter campaign "Remembering Place.†Linneweh has been described as one who paints "unpeopled, architectural landscapes always carefully rendered on bare wood supports. Sometimes the buildings are taken apart and reassembled – fractured almost beyond recognition. Other landscapes are left incomplete with empty spaces that demand completion in viewers' minds. What could this mean in early 21st century America?" Listen to it all here.
Monday began with Jeriah Hildwine's reflection on critical framework:
Metaphorically, then, the frame can serve more as an unconscious bias, changing an image indirectly, by the context of its presence, and without the viewer's conscious awareness. When you see something in a given frame, that frame alters what you are seeing, but does do without your knowledge or consent. It takes alertness and training to become aware of the influence of the frame, and even with this awareness, its influence may not be negated. To return to the initial example, seeing something in a Modernist frame may mean unconsciously minimizing the political, activist, Conceptual, gendered, or other meanings of a work, and perhaps emphasizing the rapturous and sublime, along with overt formal analysis which is the ostensible goal of this frame. If the intention is to directly change the meaning of the subject, then the frame may be the wrong metaphor; perhaps a lens is intended instead.
Word from Indianapolis this week comes with love from Wendy Lee Spacek. Spacek describes a series of events and art shows that she attended this month, including 4th of July fireworks, Ai Wei Wei's traveling exhibit at the Indianapolis Art Museum, an installation at 100 Acres Park at the IMAÂ called Flock of Signs by Kim Beck, a studio visit and much much more:
Later in the month I was lucky to be able to visit the studio of one of my favorite Indianapolis artists Kyle Herrington. Kyle has several shows coming up in September, so there was plenty of new work to see. One show is called Backyard Phenomenaand chronicles Herrington's struggle with being thrust into new found adulthood, which culminated in him turning thirty and buying a house. His anxieties about something catastrophic happening to his house has translated into sculptural pieces as well as paintings. We talked for quite a long time. I admire Kyle's commitment to making everysingleideathathehas. I think it is what has allowed him to make such a large body of work with what I see as having very consistent and complete conceptual ideas in relatively short time frame (just one year). Kyle's work makes reference to sci-fi logic, modern obsessions with the apocalypse and celebrity and mashes them altogether into a funny, but kind of scary reality.
Stephanie Burke's Top 5, y'all.
With regard to dreams and flags, Eric Asboe writes about Gamut Gallery's Flag Show curated by Lauren Thorson:
My favorite dreams these days are the ones closer to life, the walks down familiar streets, the supermarket with fluorescent lights. In the morning, they are clearly dreams too, but I wake to contemplation instead of surprise or relief. Those closer to life dreams linger in my brain longer, maybe because they are easier to remember, maybe because they blur the line between my waking and dreaming lives. The flashier dreams make more of an immediate impact, but the normal dreams burn much longer and slower.
Flags are meant to be visible and memorable, to represent some message, some place, someone. The artists in Flag Show use flags to call attention to the reality and complexity of waking life. Adam Setala's I Promise To Not Kill You layers visual and textual cues to confuse who is safe from whom. Brian Walbergh's White Flag for Misplaced Teenage Angst #1 and #2 carry the weight of personal and societal histories in their visibly heavy denim. Lea Devon Sorrentino questions the differences between long-distance and digital communication with #Semaphore.
Heralding from Brighton, UK, art writer Mark Sheerin posts about a group show in Reykjavik:
It is more than 1,000 miles from Luton, England, to Reykjavik, Iceland. But Dominic from the UK town appears to love a good caper. Why else would he put together a group show on very little money in one of the most far flung and expensive cities in Europe?
"It was done on a wing and a prayer,†he tells me on the phone from his Luton studio. "The art was just really, really ambitious considering we didn't have much money to play with. It's amazing what you can do with a cardboard tube and a delivery van.â€
Five artists took part. And the show has just run for a month at gallery Kling & Bang. Along with Dominic, the full bill included Gavin Turk, Mark Titchner, Laura White and Peter Lamb. The show went by the name London Utd. "It's kind of doing what it says on the tin,†says Dominic, whose eponymous town is just a twenty minute train ride from the UK capital.
Terri Griffith posted a little something on the Illinois Railway Museum:
Good public transit is the hallmark of a civilized city. One of the things I love most about Chicago is the train system. Both the Chicago Transit Authority's "L†and the Regional Transportation Authority's Metra are fantastic examples of how efficiently people can be transported from hither to yon. You can, if you wish, take this with a grain of salt seeing as I hail from the Pacific Northwest where public transportation is craptastic, save for the stellar ferry system. But it's more than just getting to work or the grocery store that makes me loves these trains—it's the history. Most people would find it impossible to conjure an image of Chicago without also envisioning the elevated train line that rings our downtown. This is why last weekend, my friends and I headed to Union, Illinois to visit the Illinois Railway Museum.
The week closed out with Saturday's Endless Opportunities.
1. Oxbow Development Coordinator
Ox-Bow is seeking a Development Coordinator. This full-time position based in downtown Chicago with occasional trips to the Saugatuck, Michigan campus.
The Development Coordinator works with the Executive Director and Development and Marketing Director to implement and support key initiatives (appeals, events, cultivation and stewardship activities, etc). This position's primary responsibility is to provide integral support for Ox-Bow's fundraising and donor marketing efforts (with annual targets of $1.5 million and growing) and join a vibrant, creative Ox-Bow team. The Development Coordinator reports directly to the Development and Marketing Director. (more here)
2. New Urban Arts in Providence, Rhode Island  is accepting applications for a new Director of Programs.
We seek a candidate who believes in the power of creative practice and lifelong learning. The complete job posting follows.
Founded in 1997 with seed funding from the Echoing Green Foundation and Brown University's Swearer Center, New Urban Arts is a nationally recognized arts studio and gallery for high school students and emerging artists in Providence, Rhode Island. Our mission is to build a vital community that empowers young people as artists and leaders to develop a creative practice they can sustain throughout their lives. We have been recognized as a national model for engaging underserved teenagers through the arts.
The President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities has given New Urban Arts a Coming up Taller Award, the nation's highest honor for youth arts and humanities programs. We were one of only nine organizations selected to participate in ARTOGRAPHY, a multi-year national Ford Foundation-initiative documenting and disseminating the artistic and organizational practices of exemplary diverse community-responsive arts organizations. Each year we serve over 300 high school students, 25 emerging artists and 2,000 visitors through free youth programs, professional development, artist residencies, public performances, workshops and exhibitions. We have a permanent staff of six and an annual operating budget of over $450,000.
The Director of Programs designs, manages and oversees year-round arts mentoring programs for high school students and emerging artists. S/he connects with the community (especially high school students, artist-mentors, parents, and school personnel) to create a learning environment that conveys a sense of belonging, risk, and responsibility. S/he works closely with the executive director to assess the effectiveness and ensure the feasibility of programs. S/he strives to foster a rewarding workplace that is stimulating, trusting, and results-oriented, where the mission of New Urban Arts can thrive. The Director of Programs reports to the Executive Director. (more here)
3. Go to Paris and get paid for it via The Georgia Fee Artist/Writer Residency. Application period closes August 16th.
The Residency is open to visual artists of all mediums, art writers and critics, 24 years or older. Recent graduates are especially encouraged to apply. The selection will be made based on the merit of past work and the potential for future success, the ability to independently develop new work, and the proposed project's relevance to the city of Paris. Recipients will be required to maintain a blog, which will be posted on ArtSlant.
The Georgia Fee Artist/Writer Residency in Paris provides the recipient with lodging for 2 months in an apartment in the 14th arrondissement, travel to and from Paris, and a stipend to be used for studio space, materials, and other costs.
For Frequently Asked Questions on eligibility, submission guidelines and materials, please check here.
3. a.pass is an artistic research environment that develops research on performativity and scenography, in an international artistic and educational context. Â NEXT CALL FOR PROJECTS: APPLY BEFORE THE 1st of SEPTEMBER 2013
a.pass offers a one-year artistic research training program at post-master level for artists and theoreticians, based on the principles of self-organization, collaboration and transdisciplinarity. a.pass participants develop an independent artistic research project, with a personalized curriculum in a shared and collectively created research environment.ÂÂThe a.pass artistic research center develops, documents and archives tools for qualitative and relevant artistic research practices. The research center uses this growing archive to communicate and interact with the artistic and educational field and functions as a forum for the development of a critical approach on artistic research. a.pass emphasizes the relation between the research practices and a broader societal field, and encourages engaged transdisciplinary practices.
In the context of its artistic research center, a.pass offers a tailor-made PhD trajectory for doctoral students that gives the possibility to develop the practice-based part of their PhD research in collective research environment. More info here.Â
Calle 13 #25 Col. San Pedro de los Pinos, 03800 Ciudad de México.  SOMA offers a two-year program for training contemporary artists based on continuous exchange between young artists and established professionals through courses, workshops, one-on-one critiques and studio visits. SOMA's faculty comprises artists, theorists, and curators with extensive experience in their fields, both nationally and internationally. This program is for students who have already completed a bachelors degree in visual arts or related studies. All students accepted into the program area are granted a scholarship of 80 percent of the total cost of attendance. Check it out here. (All classes are conducted in Spanish.) Â
Week in Review : Welcome to Content Town
August 4, 2013 · Print This Article
This week on the podcast Brian haunts the halls of the Anaheim Convention Center at SIGGRAPH 2013 conducting a series of interviews, then we talk to Greg Sholette! All that (and more) here.
Dana Bassett kicked things off to a good start with her bi-weekly column, "What's the T?" Among other delectable sundries, she wrote about a Monday opening at the Hills Esthetic Center:
This past Monday (yes, an opening on a Monday) evening at The Hills Esthetic Center "Jyson Deeder and Tim Rain†debuted "A Nerdier Redâ€, "community organized†by Josh Reames, at everyone's "favorite†Garfield Park "galleryâ€, The Hills. The collaborative exhibition came together as it opened with Reeder & Drain turning the notoriously useless loft above the gallery into the command center from which the art was generated and then incorporated into the official gallery space.
Contemporary art chat show:Â SoÂ
genius brilliant strange that it can only be art, let's agree to call it a serious WTF? You can find their youtube channel here.
Jaime Kazay's final installment on the subject of Barbies:
I'm on the porch rifling through Barbie posters and notes on what she would prefer when running away to a deserted island. I know Barbie would want to be with Ken. The way "Marianne,†played by Anna Karina in "Pierrot le fou†("Pete the madmanâ€), ran away with "Ferdinand,†played by Jean-Paul Belmondo, to live in the French Riviera. The couple ran away for two different reasons, and their fears kept them together. At the end of the film, I like to reinvent different outcomes. Perhaps they should have stayed in town.
I posted an announcement about Claudine Isé's talk at the Humboldt Park Library this Saturday. While the event has passed, I understand that series host, Philip VonZweck is putting together some more artist talks in the future, so keep your eyes peeled. You can read more about the series here. (You can also check out the history of Much Much More talks, that used to take place at a different location here).
Sarah Margolis-Pineo interviewed Sara Huston:
Recently, I was thrilled to learn about ruf·fle, an exhibition organized by Portland's League of Awesome Women Designers, (LAWD), that opened earlier this month at the University of Oregon's White Box Visual Laboratory. Even in a town like Portland, where inclusive design firms seem to outnumber coffee shops, women are underrepresented in the field—statistically in number and in rank, but perhaps more importantly, women are less visible as a driving force behind the innovation that Portland is celebrated for. In her essay "Men Explain Things to Me,â€Â cultural critic/historian Rebecca Solnit employs the phrase archipelago of arrogance to describe an inflated self-confidence—a distinctly masculine phenomena—that is so aggressively assured, it keeps women bound in self-doubt, inhibiting them from speaking up and, in turn, from being heard. In an essay written for GOOD, Alissa Walker seemingly responds to Solnit by encouraging women in design to use social media as a way to assert one's voice in the field. She writes, "in this age, women can't wait for someone else to organize the event or to curate the museum show… Creating a rich narrative, illustrated with videos, photos, blog posts, essays, is something I don't see nearly enough from women in the field. Their numbers may be small, but it's the responsibility of that 10% to tell at least 50% of the story.â€
New York City report this week comes from Juliana Driever. Driever interviewed Joseph Herscher about his kinetic Rube Goldberg machines:
My current project is taking me a year to complete and will be five minutes long. Most of my ideas come from playing with objects and discovering interesting things I can do with them. Then there is a LOT of trial and error to get it to work every time. Sometimes I will spend two weeks on something that only lasts four seconds. I don't move on until I see it work fifty times in a row. My biggest error was in using acetone one time, which looks just like water but reaches boiling point much faster. I forgot that it is also highly flammable. The first two attempts worked like a treat, but on the third it caught fire and most of The Page Turner caught alight, spraying melted sponge everywhere, which was really hard to get off. And it almost burned the house down.
Live from Kansas City, Carolyn Okomo writes about Gune Monster:
After losing his job and apartment on the same day a couple of years ago, Los Angeles-based street artist Gune Monster says he contemplated a suicide. Instead, he picked up a marker and begin drawing the toothy, ghoulish figures that would eventually become the hallmark of his monochromatic alter ego.
Do you ever feel like you're wading in the wake of symbolization? I have a post for you (follow the highlighted text below to read notes 1,2, and 1.5):
It's clear that our time and attention is limited, and there's too much going on in the world to pay attention to it all, especially now. Countless people are fighting for our attention and trying to convert this energy into political, social and economic power. Even inanimate things themselves can be thought of as competing for our attention (1)(2). This competition for attention has been turned into a highly skilled craft by plants, animals (1.5)and culture at large, which is especially evident in the battlefield of consumer products and advertisements.
Obviously, the week wouldn't be complete without Stephanie Burke's TOP 5.
And here, you can see a picture of Richard from 1995 while reading about life in London with Colleen Becker:
Colleen Becker is an American writer and academic living in London. Her published work spans fiction and non-fiction genres, including flash fiction, academic articles, journalism, art reviews, and essays, and she has read at numerous venues including Princeton University, the Tate Modern, and Foyles Bookshop. She holds PhD, MPhil and MA degrees from Columbia University and a MA from NYU, and she is a 2013-14 Visiting Fellow at the University of London, School of Advanced Studies, Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies. She has text based artwork included in an exhibition at the Anatomy Museum, King's College London. "Translation Gamesâ€Curated by Ricarda Vidal (KCL) and Jenny Chamarette (QM) which runs from 31st July to 2nd August 2013
Monica Westing posted a great interview with Melika Bass:
Bass has been quietly making rigorous and rigorously strange films for a decade, and in 2011 she created an installation for MCA's 12X12 based on her film Shoals, comprised of relics from the shoot that extended Shoals's imaginary pastoral-gothic world in the ambiguous space of a contemporary white cube gallery. She recently was commissioned to make a film for Sigur Rós, Varðeldur, conceived as a character study of "an unstable entity in a haunted vessel,†a gloss that can describe many of her half-created characters, both absolutely unknowable and archetypically suggestive of the heroes of fables and the antiheroes of fairy tales.
Finally, I posted some Endless Opportunities #BingoBangoBongo
1. Comfort Station 2014-2015 Call for Proposals. Scroll through their website for proper details and more info about the organization (they also invite music/event submissions). The deadline for proposals is: Saturday, August 31st, midnight.Â
Comfort Station is a turn-of-the-century structure turned multidisciplinary arts space in the heart of Chicago's Logan Square. Originally a shelter for trolley riders in the early 1900s, the building was eventually defunct and was used to store the city's lawn equipment for decades. The space was adopted and restored in 2010 by Logan Square Preservation and opened as its current incarnation as a community-focused art space in 2011. As the only structure of its kind still standing along the entire boulevard system, Comfort Station represents the preservation of a neighborhood rich in history, while playing host to exhibitions and events that promote its present culture.Â
2. Curate Award – Qatar Museums Authority / Fondazione Prada Curate, a global competition organized by Qatar Museums Authority and Fondazione Prada to find new curating talent, is accepting entries online at http://www.curateaward.org/ until 31 December 2013.
As stated by the Curate jury: "The notion of 'curating' no longer belongs just to the museum. With the development of digital and social media, it has now become possible for anyone to participate in the selection, editing and communication of ideas. We hope that people, whatever their age or background, will make the most of the opportunity offered by Curate to think about the future potential of exhibition making, where there are no imposed boundaries to media, scale, content and formats, and ideas, whether from the fields of science or the arts, can come from anywhere."
3. Audience Architects recently put out a call for Dance: A Moving Canvas, "a new program that seeks to expand dance audiences in Chicago by enabling select participants to deepen their understanding of the choreographic process." Deadline is Friday, September 6th. Visit their website here for more information about stipends and guidelines.
4. Play "Telephone" with strangers via this open call: Nathan Langston's Telephone Game at Satellite Collective. It's in the air apparently — Gallery 400's show "Whisper Down the Lane" has similar themes, so if you want some inspiration check that out. How to play in this iteration:
This game works almost exactly like the kids' game "telephone,†also known as operator, ear-to-ear, and many other names the world over. One player devises a message, and that message is whispered to the next person, who whispers it to the next and the next. The message evolves as it travels, surprising and confounding the players.
Rather than simply passing our message from person to person via language alone, Satellite Collective is passing it from art form to art form. A message in music might become a poem, which might become a film, and then a dance work, and so on. The process begins with a very specific message we're "whispering†from artist to artist, but each participant will have access only to the work directly preceding his own. None of the players will know the full evolution of the message until the end. As in the original game, the progression is a secret.
The threads will also branch out: A single painting may be assigned to two or three other artists. When we publish the final succession of works on Transmission, the viewer will be able to follow one thread to the end, go back to the beginning and choose a different route through the series of art works. (More info here)
5. Micro-grants for cartoonists: Sequential Artists Workshops's third round of grants to working cartoonists. SAW continues its commitment to offering small grants of $250 to practicing artists. Two small $250 grants will be awarded on or around September 30, 2013. Eligible artists must be developing and dedicated to a current project that fits within the mission of The Sequential Artists Workshop (basically anything that is high-quality comics, a graphic novel, comics journalism, etc.) More on that here.
6. and finally — the following is not so much an opportunity for you, per se, but rather an chance  for you to lend creative fodder to students at 826 Chi. Mail off an original postcard today to the address below. "826CHI is a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting students ages 6 to 18 with their creative and expository writing skills, and to helping teachers inspire their students to write." Here is the call:
HEY! SNAIL-MAIL LOVERS!Next week 826CHI is holding a workshop in which story-writing is based on the contents of postcards. Michael Light, the instructor/a former intern, NEEDS YOUR HELP….This Saturday, no matter where you live, send us a postcard. Its contents are up to you. Pictures. Salutations. Poems. Even a single word. You never know what might inspire a student.
The class is Tuesday (8/6), which means any postcards in the mail BY SATURDAY should make it in time. Please address them to:Â
Ann Onamoose
1331 N. Milwaukee Ave.
Chicago, IL. 60622
We can't wait to show you how the students transform your correspondence!
A link to the following essay was sent to us in response to The Letter to Goldsmiths that I posted last week. I have only included the very beginnings of the post, but you can carry on reading the rest if you follow the link at the end, (before the end notes).
All of human culture competes for our limited attention and resources, evolving and mutating over time. Everyone plays a role in shaping this behavior, although its clear some key players have more control. Each observation and action is an opportunity to contribute to the reproduction or demise of a thing or idea. The observer changes what it observes, and moreso when content producer and consumer are one in the same.
The Internet has accelerated the pace of feedback between creation and response, and one of the results has been a continued embrace of novelty and irony. Capital, currency and power are running rampant without checks and balances from truth, knowledge and beauty. Its time to more fully embrace directness, earnestness and sincerity. This applies to not only what we make and do, but what we support indirectly through our actions.
The following essay is a deconstruction of, and argument against, the post-internet condition. Specifically, I want to address the over use of irony, novelty, attention as currency, persona as product and the embrace of the spectacle of society.
The first four sections are meant as an introduction to the core argument, and offer a broader context which is often overlooked in such discussions of the post-internet condition. Supplemental notes and sources have been included which provide clarification, tangental ideas and some quotes where appropriate.
///Deconstructing the Image-Object ///Wading in the Wake of Symbolization
It's clear that our time and attention is limited, and there's too much going on in the world to pay attention to it all, especially now. Countless people are fighting for our attention and trying to convert this energy into political, social and economic power. Even inanimate things themselves can be thought of as competing for our attention (1)(2). This competition for attention has been turned into a highly skilled craft by plants, animals (1.5)and culture at large, which is especially evident in the battlefield of consumer products and advertisements.
This competition can be understood in terms of Attention Economics (A) which describes the finite nature of human attention in contrast to the vast and exponentially growing access to information. However, it may be more accurate to describe this situation as an attention based ecology rather than an economy. This ecology is an evolutionary system of richly complex interactions between limited resources (human attention), competing agents (corporations, other people, algorithms, ideas, aesthetic styles, cultures, objects themselves) and countless internal and external forces. The time between publishing information and audience response has nearly collapsed since the dawn of the Internet, further exacerbating this situation. The rapid feedback loop between production and consumption, when considered as a whole, can be thought of as vast synthetic brain evolving its ability to engage with humans and understand how we think (3). (read more)
(1) This can be seen in the material-semiotics of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari's (B) concept of the rhizome, the world as a horizontal networked structure of relations that seeks equilibrium and is constantly shifting. Michel Foucault, Donna Haraway and much of traditional 'eastern' philosophy also speak on this subject. The fields of cybernetics and chaos theory are scientific approaches to this subject, and I'll address them later on. (1.5) I'd also recommend Michael Pollans "Botany of Desire†regarding the coevolution of humans and plants.
(2)Also in Bruno Latour's Anthropological Matrix(C) which describes the world existing as a web of hybrid things that are both subject and object, between nature and culture, between agency and raw material. In the Anthropological Matrix all things are both real and imagined, both nature and culture. Latour has also extensively written about Actor-Network-Theory (ANT) (D) which describes existence as a network of 'actors' (human or nonhuman, essentially everything) engaged in a series of relationships. ANT disrupts the concept of differentiated individuals acting in the world and states that these things are really the sum of many other actors which reinforce each other.
(3) See Kevin Kelly's inspired book "What Technology Wantsâ€, and authors like Oliver Reiser, Buckminster Fuller, Dane Rudhayar, Sri aurobindo, N.A. Kozyrev, Teilhard de Chardin, Jose Arguelles, et al.


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I am trying to find if the ZFS filesystem has added support for Trim to Raid 5? I am setting up an SSD array in Raid 5. I also would like to know if there is any good software raid 5 alternatives to an LSI raid controller card? Keep in mind, I am using ZFS on Ubuntu.
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TRIM and DISCARD support for ZFS is currently in alpha. Pawel Dawidek wrote the initial code for FreeBSD and Etienne Deschamps ported it to Linux.
For ZoL, you need to compile the experimental code yourself and set the zfs_notrim=0 option.
This feature will be disabled by default for a long while on most ZFS systems, but it exists and it works.


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Football: Weekly Picks
Redskins +16.5 vs. PatriotsAt this point, if you cut open Tom Brady and found wires and computer chips instead of blood and bones, I wouldn't be the least bit surprised. I mean, 27 TD passes versus just two interceptions? What is this, the University of Hawaii? BYU circa 1992? Because I don't care if your last name is Manning, Marino, Montana, Elway, Unitas, Jurgensen, or Brady, that just does NOT happen in the NFL.
Of course, the entire Patriots team is playing on a completely different level — and by that I mean the All-Madden level on XBox. They're 7-0 both SU and ATS and winning by an average of 22.8 points. They've scored at least 34 points in every game, including tallying 49 and 48 the last two weeks, not a single team has gotten within 17 of this juggernaut.
So why in the world would I go against New England? They're obviously playing the role of schoolyard bully this season, mercilessly beating down every pipsqueak in their wake. Same reason I'm going against the Colts this week: The Pats are laying way too many points against a quality opponent the week before playing the latest Game of the Century.
See, unlike the majority of the Patriots' opponents this season, the Washington Redskins don't treat defense like it's a disease. In fact, the Redskins actually have better defensive numbers than New England. Washington is allowing 14.7 points and 276.8 total yards per game, including 80.7 rushing yards per outing, while the Patriots are giving up 17.1 points and 274.6 total yards per game (92.4 of which are on the ground).
Now, you could argue that the Patriots' defensive numbers are a bit skewed because they've built enormous first-half leads, which has allowed the D to play on cruise control. You could also argue that the Patriots' offense versus the Redskins' offense is akin to Carl Lewis in his prime racing a pregnant woman at the tail end of her third trimester. True and true. But the fact remains that Washington is off to a 4-2 start, with its only two losses coming by three points (at Green Bay) and seven points (against the Giants, and the Skins led 17-3 at the half). Also, the Skins have only once given up more than 20 points in six games.
Bottom line: The oddsmakers, who are simply tired of getting crushed by New England week after week, have finally set the "Patriots Tax" so high, a Clinton would blush. No, the Pats won't lose this game, but they'll finally get tested, which is something they need heading into Indy next week.
Prediction: Redskins
Penn State +4 vs. Ohio StateOK, I'll say it: Ohio State is a fraud. The only reason the Buckeyes are ranked No. 1 is because LSU, USC, Oklahoma, West Virginia, Florida, and Oregon — among many other teams that are better than Ohio State — have lost this year. Well, that and the fact that Ohio State hasn't played a single quality opponent to date.
Check out this slate: Youngstown State, Akron, Washington, Northwestern, Minnesota, Purdue, Kent State, and Michigan State. I mean, not only are there four non-conference opponents weaker than a mixed drink at a trendy big-city nightclub in there, but Ohio hasn't even faced an upper-echelon Big Ten opponent. Purdue, at No. 23, is the only ranked foe the Buckeyes have faced, and the Boilermakers have since proven to be a joke. And last week, Ohio State barely skated by Michigan State in the Horseshoe, scoring just 24 points on a team that allowed 48 and 27 points in its previous two games against Northwestern and Indiana at home!
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Mike Smith of the Phoenix Coyotes scored the 14th goal credited to an NHL goaltender when he shot the puck into the net an instant before the final horn of his team's 5-2 victory against the Detroit Red Wings on Saturday.
Smith shot the puck down the ice and it crossed the goal line with :00.1 remaining on the clock. He made 31 saves as the Coyotes rallied from trailing 2-0.
"Obviously I'm thrilled with the way we played," he said. "It's just a bonus to be able to score a goal.
"Everything has to work right and the clock has to slow down at the right time of the game to let it trickle in over the line."
Smith is the 11th goaltender to be credited with a goal in the regular season or Stanley Cup Playoffs. Martin Brodeur of the New Jersey Devils is tops with three; Ron Hextall had two while playing with the Philadelphia Flyers.
Brodeur was the previous goaltender credited with a goal when he was the last player to touch the puck before Jordan Staal of the Carolina Hurricanes backpassed it into his own net March 21, 2013.
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What is a more perfect place to launch the Vans Warped Tour Acoustic Basement Tour than in the best subterranean all ages venue? Nothing. Friday night that is exactly what happened. The tour kicked off in Hamden bringing members of the 2012 Acoustic Basement Stage to town. And all-ages it was. From the 14-30 segment of Warped's demographic to the 50+ who included those nearest and dearest to the artists. Audience members not only had a chance to meet the musicians but some of their parents, family and old neighbors.
This was a very local show for all the members of the tour. Brian Marquis, founder and producer also former member of Therefore I Am, has his roots in CT. He was born here and grew up in Oakville, Bethany, Woodbury, Watertown, Litchfield, and Morris. Geoff Rickly, although best known for his New Brunswick New Jersey cred, spent some time in his early years in Stratford and Stamford. A Loss for Words in from Boston and Koji waxed poetic about his Amtrak ride from Pittsburgh earlier in the day. Vinnie Caruana made the short jaunt across The Sound from Long Island.
These are artists shared many tracks they have written and recorded as solo artists but those who are known for other groups brought some of their music to the stage also. A Loss For Words also chose cover a song by some friends from 2012 Warped Tour, We Are In The Crowd who are also relatively local, hailing from Poughkeepsie. There were a few other interesting covers rolled out including two performed by Thursday frontman, Geoff Rickly. Rickly paid homage to "the patron saint of New Jersey" with The Boss's "Atlantic City. Later he took on an Usher track.
Based on just the title of the tour, one might assume a boring night of "wgwg's". Honestly singer/songwriter material along with punk rock which is where all these artists have their roots has never been big on musical composition or guitar skills. However, what the music that comes out of the "punk tribe" as Koji so aptly termed it, is about the words. The lyrics are the guts and they speak of the dark side of the current human condition. But it's not in a way to just whine about it. These musicians are trying to stir people's righteous indignation and get them out there to try to fix it. Sure there were songs about love lost and found. However, even those included lessons learned and picking back up and moving on.
As with opening night of any tour, there were a few glitches which were the source of the 4-star rating for the show. The nice thing about it being an acoustic tour though was that sound problems were easily worked over and around. Most of these guys are used to playing real basement shows, in people's houses so they know how to project without a mic. Obviously guitars still worked even without juice for the pick-ups. In a few situations where they couldn't play through the problems, they proved what commensurate storytellers they really are.
Special thanks to Brian Marquis for coming up with the idea for this tour and doing an amazing job producing it. Hopefully it will draw more attention to The Acoustic Basement Stage at VWT2013.
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BTN Big 10K: Interviews, features & more
The BTN Big 10K and 5K run/walk was held this past Saturday in Chicago with a post-race FanFest & Tailgate party taking place in front of the Adler Planetarium. Rick Pizzo, Mike Hall and Lisa Byington hosted a one-hour special full of interviews, fun with former Big Ten athletes and more. Watch an interview with the women's 10K winner now and dive inside for much more video.


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for the love of addiction
Yesterday I read For the Love of Money, and was really uninterested because he acted like being addicted to salary increases was new and interesting and original.
Hasn't he ever read David Foster Wallace? We're all addicted worshippers! For every twenty something New York City Banker addicted to bonuses there are too many fashion interns addicted to being asked if they're models, startup dudes addicted to the sound of their elevator pitch, and twenty somethings addicted to their own reflection and delusions of grandeur. And that's just New York! I mean LOOK AT SELFIES.
There's nothing wrong with certain types of addiction – especially the healthy, dedicated kind. But glamorizing addictions, the way he does, is just lame. Its like he never met anyone else crazy or passionate in his whole life.
Dude, stop complaining and get addicted to something more interesting.
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St. Edwards's University scored four first-half goals en route to a 7-0 win over McMurry University Sunday afternoon at Edward's Field.
Andrew Fox scored two goals in the opening 10 minutes to put the Hilltoppers up 2-0. Coleton Stymeist scored at the 35:11-mark, while Nate Coons scored two minutes before halftime to put St. Edward's up 4-0.
St. Edward's (4-1-1) outshot McMurry 20-2 and by a 7-0 margin in the first half.
Senior goalkeeper Neil O'Sullivan (Saffron Walden, England/Cloud County CC) had a busy day in the net with six saves.
McM (1-5-1) returns to action Oct. 5 and plays host to Dallas Baptist University.
Note: This match was scheduled as nonconference and won't reflect in conference standings.
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How Not to Crash as a Comic Artist
By Myka Santiago
Comics has succeeded in creating its own tradition in the Philippine Literature, owing history to Filipino artist-writers who contributed art and stories to Hapi, Holiday, Hiwaga, Aliwan, Tagalog Klasiks, Espesyal Komiks and other popular comic magazines of long-ago. And then, there were the likes of Alfredo P. Alacala, Nestor Redondo and Francisco V. Conching who became well recognized in the field. Now, young readers still choose to patronize the great works of Larry Alcala and Pol Medina Jr., as new names aspire to be included in the list of Filipino comic artists.
In contemporary days, a college barkada headed by Jescie James "Da Bhoss" Palabay started a Filipino Comic Magazine publication. "Ilabas ang utak ng Pinoy" was their art's primary thesis, and "Culture Shock" was the first title they came up with. After a short while, they changed it to "Culture Crash" which basically concerned the rowdy crash of cultures taking place in the Filipino system. Culture Crash Comics was launched in the year 2000, with the appearance of the very first issue on August. Issue No. 14, the last one to be sold in the market, was released in 2004. Culture Crash followers were disheartened when the group stopped their publications. The artists said, comic-making seems easy but it never is. Unsurprisingly, the biggest challenge they encountered was the lack of resources—time and finances.
Despite the breakup, each Culture Crash artist still has his presence felt in the comics industry. And to relate the stories of a few, Mark Navarro is now a creative director of Level Up and a freelance comic books seller, while Jon Zamar is a freelance graphic artist (concept art and digital art) for local and international companies.
And in line with their group and individual success, Jio Beltran, Jon, Mark, Melvin Calingo also known as Taga-Ilog and the rest of the gang willingly shared some tips for aspiring independent comic artists.
The popular artists behind Culture Crash Magazine continue to amaze their fans with their achievements in the arts. Perhaps, the legendary comic magazine has not suffered an upsetting crash at all. Kubori Kikiam is still in business and if only each of them would have enough reserves, more Indie komiks will be released under these well-liked names.
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Cute & Colorful Bobbies -- Just For FunI bought these brightly colored (2 ½ inch long) bobby pins to pull up the long layers of my thick, long blonde hair & add a little pop of color. These do not slip but since I have very thick hair, I need two to hold my hair back in a half up/half down undo. These hold well but they don't appear to be any better made or markedly different than the other brands I've owned & in time, I imagine they'll become less taut & reliable as they become stretched.
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While much of the world's focus has been on the civil war in Syria, the island kingdom of Bahrain continues to shake with anti-government protests that started in last year's "Arab Spring." While it has received less attention, human rights groups have documented ongoing government abuses.
Those concerns were enough to put a halt on a weapons sale from the U.S. to Bahrain last fall, but the Obama administration announced last Friday that it has decided to proceed with the sale, despite the ongoing upheaval and protests from both Congress and human rights groups.
"Bahrain is an important security partner and ally in a region facing enormous challenges," wrote Pentagon spokeswoman Victoria Nuland in an official statement announcing the sales. "Maintaining our and our partners' ability to respond to these challenges is a critical component of our commitment to Gulf security."
In a nod to the human rights concerns, the Pentagon said the weapons being sold to Bahrain will not include anything that could be used against protestors. Instead, it would be a package of equipment geared towards protecting the country from external threats, including engines for F-16 planes and harbor security boats.
"Sales of items that are sort of predominantly or typically used by police and other security forces for internal security, things used for crowd control, we're not moving forward with at this time," said an unnamed administration official on a conference call last Friday. "That would include things like tear gas, tear gas launchers, stun grenades – those ...