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- Celebrities, World Leaders Unite To #BringBackOurGirls
Nearly a month after Islamists militants staged a mass kidnapping in the Nigerian state of Borno, more than 200 girls who were captured are still missing. The abductions as well as the so far limited efforts to rescue the girls have sparked outrage around the world and caused world leaders, international organizations, celebrities and activist to unify over one demand: #BringBackOurGirls.
"Access to education is a basic right and an unconscionable reason to target innocent girls. We must stand up to terrorism," former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton tweeted on May 4. "It's time to #BringBackOurGirls," said actress Reese Witherspoon on Thursday.
Who's next to join the call?
We are with you. MT @MalalaFund: #Malala stands in solidarity w/ Nigerians & ppl calling 4 action. #BringBackOurGirls pic.twitter.com/Dlv79wUH0J
— Girl Up (@GirlUp) May 7, 2014
Our prayers are with the missing Nigerian girls and their families. It's time to #BringBackOurGirls. -mo pic.twitter.com/glDKDotJRt
— The First Lady (@FLOTUS) May 7, 2014
Access to education is a basic right & an unconscionable reason to target innocent girls. We must stand up to terrorism. #BringBackOurGirls
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) May 4, 2014
.@cshuffington and I say it's time to #bringbackourgirls. pic.twitter.com/XHI2zaMVsD
— Arianna Huffington (@ariannahuff) May 9, 2014
It can't happen soon enough. #BringBackOurGirls pic.twitter.com/Jf97fQUd7N
— Ellen DeGeneres (@TheEllenShow) May 8, 2014
Shout! Participate! Show that you care! #BringBackOurGirls pic.twitter.com/ZBt7y7tXha
— AmyPoehlerSmartGirls (@smrtgrls) May 7, 2014
#BringBackOurGirls RT pic.twitter.com/cZRfaOxjnz
— Leona Lewis (@leonalewismusic) May 7, 2014
#UNHCR Special Envoy #AngelinaJolie calls Nigerian kidnappings "unthinkable cruelty" – http://t.co/Yxz3DvAJKV #BringBackOurGirls
— UNHCR United Kingdom (@UNHCRUK) May 7, 2014
#BringBackOurGirls NOW!! pic.twitter.com/lRnv6EZDTd
— Diddy (@iamdiddy) May 9, 2014
This needs serious attention: Join the global call. DEMAND their unconditional release: http://t.co/nWIQ9ruJ3f #BRINGBACKOURGIRLS #Nigeria
— Katy Perry (@katyperry) May 9, 2014
#bringbackourgirls A timeline of events along with ways you can continue to spread the word via @girlrising http://t.co/YRRGpkTZto RT! -krew
— kerry washington (@kerrywashington) May 9, 2014
We @UN_Women stand with parents & families of abducted Nigerian girls. #BringBackOurGirls! http://t.co/KzklcIVkeY pic.twitter.com/hYtCbJURx9
— UN Women (@UN_Women) May 9, 2014
Sending prayers to Nigerian families who are missing their daughters. It's time to #bringbackourgirls http://t.co/WV9AisBWxj
— Reese Witherspoon (@RWitherspoon) May 8, 2014
#BringBackOurGirls Sign the petition demanding action to bring them home: http://t.co/xIUCRJkMEb I've already signed… have you?
— Alicia Keys (@aliciakeys) May 9, 2014
- Pease Stop With The BuzzFeed Quizzes, Because Enough Is Enough
Seriously BuzzFeed, we get it. Quizzes are something you can do.
But now even the puppets from Glove and Boots are saying enough is enough!
Is it really important to know "What kind of potato you are?" And seriously, no one wants to know "How experienced in pooping you are," so don't share that sh** on Facebook.
All jokes aside, how can you resist those perfectly crafted quizzes with the right headline that draw you in? Sometimes it really is necessary to take a break from your busy day to find out which "Game of Thrones" character you are.
Because, why not?
- In Praise of Moogfest
The more I perform at music festivals, the more I'm baffled by what might compel a person to attend one. The blazing heat of the mid-afternoon sun over an open field, the less-than-favorable hygiene conditions — to say nothing of the cavernous stages, which showcase headlining acts and dwarf smaller bands, who try to create a lasting impression on a crowd always one frisbee game away from wandering off.
The exposure can be terrific, of course, and there is a certain glory in transcending the milieu, but much of the time, playing a music festival can be like having an art show at an airport: thousands of people see it, but nobody is there to see it. And you can't much control how they see it, either.
And then there's Moogfest, in Asheville, North Carolina.
Asheville is a college town tucked at the foot of the Blue Ridge Mountains. It was here that Bob (née Robert) Moog, inventor of the Moog Modular synthesizer, settled in the late 1970s. In the years since his death in 2005, Moog Music has continued to thrive. Even in the age of bootlegged Pro Tools and audio plugins, Moog workers still hand-solder their in-demand analog synths, like the Minimoog Voyager, from a homespun factory on the edge of town.
Moog synthesizers are a hybrid of technology and art. In the early years, when they were festooned with colorful patch cables, they made strange bedfellows with the usual kit of rock n' roll, but musicians flocked to them regardless. Keith Emerson of Emerson, Lake & Palmer played a custom modular Moog synthesizer the size of a refrigerator. The Beatles used a Moog on Abbey Road. It's hardware–an alchemy of analog circuits, electronic modules, and oscillators–but, when operated by the right person, it becomes something greater than the sum of its parts.
It makes sense, then, that Moogfest would become what it has: a place where technology and art interact, in wonky but undeniable synthesis. For me, Moogfest was the first occasion I've ever had to experience such synthesis. Besides playing music, I've been a science writer and science-fiction editor for many years. At Moogfest, I had the opportunity to present a panel, called "Science Fiction & The Synthesized Sound," which brought together an artist, two musicians, and a SETI researcher to discuss the music of the future, and the future of music. The same audience that thoughtfully took notes and asked probing questions of the panelists had been, only a day earlier, dancing like maniacs at my band's show. I can't imagine that this could happen anywhere else.
DJ Awesome Tapes From Africa
Moogfest was once a more traditional festival, but it metamorphosed this year into a celebration of art, science, music and technology — TED filtered through a distortion pedal, if you will. For five days, the festival proposed a cocktail of daytime talks to be chased by music late into the night. The day panels featured many old-school synth pioneers — Dave Smith, designer of the first programmable polyphonic synthesizer, and Herbert Deutsch, Bob Moog's closest collaborator — and a thoughtful variety of future-learning artists and thinkers: the cyborg activist Neil Harbisson, Oxford futurist Nick Bostrom, the pop android Janelle Monáe, and dozens more.
Escort at Asheville Music Hall
Geekery thrived everywhere. The festival's Modular Marketplace was a veritable science fair of home-brew analog and digital synthesizers from all over the country. Some festivalgoers could be seen sporting headset brainwave sensors, creating auditory maps of the streets of Asheville as they ogled a virtual-reality iPhone rendition of their locations. Others just rocked Google Glass at panels on cybernetics, alternative interfaces, and hardware hacking. Even Monáe, with whom I was fortunate enough to moderate a panel discussion, name-dropped Ray Kurzweil and the science fiction author Octavia Butler.
The programming was precisely engineered, it seemed, to create a far more inclusive Venn diagram between music and technology. Musicians were lured out into the daylight to twiddle knobs and soak up talks by electronic music pioneers, while scientists, artists, and philosophers found themselves, in the late hours of the night, at the temple of sounds both synthesized and not. In an age where increased access to tools and information allows us all to be Renaissance people, and specialization feels more and more isolating, such an open–to say nothing of fun–venue for cross-disciplinary engagement feels long overdue.
The Modular Marketplace, Moogfest's electronics pop-up shop
I commend Moogfest for its courage in creating this unorthodox, cheerfully intellectual festival. They have spotted a node in culture, where musicians teach themselves electronics to rewire keyboards and technologists create symphonies of data, that feels extremely relevant to our shared future. It's not an art show at the airport–if anything, it's an art show that is an airport. Or a spaceport. It takes you places. At Moogfest, every event is transportive, and behind every gate is something marvelous.
Photos courtesy of Nick Zinner
- FAA: U.S. Airliner Nearly Collided With Drone in March
A U.S. airliner nearly collided with a drone over Florida earlier this year, a federal official said, a near miss that highlights risks posed by the proliferation of unmanned aircraft in U.S. skies.
- 17 Mothers' Day Cards That Are Sure To Make Your Mom Laugh
Mothers' Day really snuck up on us, didn't it?
Just in case you forgot to get that card out in the mail, here are some funny e-cards you can send right away.
We went ahead and picked out the funniest Mothers' Day Someecards for you, so you can thank us later.
- Anchor Describes Apple's Beats Acquisition As Interest In 'Hip-Hop African American Cool' (VIDEO)
As reports continue to circulate regarding Apple's plan to purchase Beats Electronics for a reported $3.2 billion, many are skeptical about what would become the tech giant's biggest acquisition to date.
Today during an segment on CNBC's "Squawk on the Street" tech correspondent Jon Fortt shared his thoughts on why the deal could potentially result as a bust for Apple.
"Some would say Beats is cooler than Apple, but in what universe really. Especially outside of the U.S., it's not," Fortt declared. "Jimmy Iovine would be a nice addition to Apple maybe in theory, but culturally, no…Apple doesn't buy brands, generally, especially not hardware brands because it dilutes their own brand. There's actually potentially negative value here. Apple should buy either the biggest or the smartest in the space. Beats is neither."
"Squawk on the Street" co-anchor, Simon Hobbs refuted Fortt's commentary by describing Apple's interest in the Jimmy Iovine and Dr. Dre-founded company as interest to buy into "hip-hop African American cool."
"The company exists because Apple's headphones were so bad," Hobbs added. "That's the gap in the market…I find myself in a very odd situation. Don't you think there's a Hip-Hop, African-American cool about this that Apple may have not achieved in other ways. I mean, come on."
Check out more of CNBC's "Squawk on the Street" Beats segment in the clip above.
- Mark Ronson's TED Talk Challenges Everything You Thought You Knew About Music
Mark Ronson gave this TED Talk, "The Exhilarating Creativity of Remixing," back in March, but the full video is just available online now. Described as an "audio-visual omelette," the famed DJ's presentation follows the evolution of "La Di Da Di," Doug E. Fresh and Slick Rick's 1984 hit that made its way into dozens of songs from Biggie's "Hypnotize" to Miley Cyrus' "We Like To Party." The track is the fifth-most sampled track of all time and has appeared in 547 known samples, according to TED.
Ronson, who created dozens of hits and won three Grammy's for his work on Amy Winehouse's "Back to Black," begins the presentation by mashing up 15 different TED Talks to create his TED-inspired track. "We live in a post-sampling era," he says. "When we add something really original then we have a chance to be a part of the evolution of the music we love." Take a look below.
- Stonehenge Discovery 'Blows Lid Off' Old Theories About Builders Of Ancient Monument (VIDEO)
From who built it to what it was used for, Stonehenge is surrounded by many enduring mysteries — and researchers from the University of Buckingham in England now say they've solved one of them.
"For years people have been asking why is Stonehenge where it is, now at last, we have found the answers," David Jacques, an archaeology research fellow at the university, said in a written statement.
Last October, Jacques led an archaeological dig at a site 1.5 miles from Stonehenge. His team unearthed flint tools and the bones of aurochs, extinct cow-like animals that were a food source for ancient people. Carbon dating of the bones showed that modern-day Amesbury, an area that includes the dig site and Stonehenge itself, has been continuously occupied since 8820 B.C. Amesbury has now been declared the oldest continually occupied area in Britain.
The finding suggests that Stonehenge was built by indigenous Britons who had lived in the area for thousands of years. Previous theories held that the monument was built in an empty landscape by migrants from continental Europe.
"The site blows the lid off the Neolithic Revolution in a number of ways," Jacques said in the statement, referring to the assumption that those migrants drove Britain's transition from a hunter-gatherer to a farming society in the 6th Century B.C. "It provides evidence for people staying put, clearing land, building, and presumably worshipping, monuments."
The researchers say evidence suggests that before erecting Stonehenge, people living in the area set up gigantic timbers between 8820 and 6590 B.C. — a sort of wooden precursor to the stone monument. Jacques likened the area to a "Stonehenge Visitor's Center," where visitors from far and wide came to feast and tour the site with local guides.
"The area was clearly a hub point for people to come to from many miles away, and in many ways was a forerunner for what later went on at Stonehenge itself," he said.
- WARNING: Letting Your Doctor Define You Could Be Hazardous to Your Health
Click here to watch the TEDTalk that inspired this post.
I was twenty-two when I finally stopped letting other people define me. But when I began saying out loud what I'd been thinking for years-that I was male, not female like my body falsely indicated-I received major resistance. Not from my parents or sisters or friends. From my doctors.
Too scared to tell my family, I decided reaching out to a medical professional would be a good first step. But when it came to finding the right person, I had no idea where to begin. It was 1992. There was no Internet. I couldn't just type in "Doctors specializing in gender issues + MA" and get a list of names, numbers and addresses. I didn't even have a computer. So out of desperation I made an appointment with the only doctor I knew: my pediatrician.
It didn't occur to me until I was sitting in the waiting room surrounded by children ranging from toddlers to teens that, at 22, I would stick out like a sore thumb. Too old to be a patient and too young to be a parent (by white upper-class suburbia standards anyway), I clearly did not belong in this room. I felt all eyes were on me and was fairly certain the 8 year-old boy whispering to his mother was telling her I was really a man.
After what seemed like a lifetime, I was escorted to an exam room. A few minutes later my pediatrician appeared and abruptly closed the door behind her. She looked pretty much as I remembered: tall yet stocky with short dark hair, olive skin, and an accent I could never really place. She was visibly in a rush. I could tell this was not going to be a nurturing visit.
"So Kristin, what's going on?"
"I, um…I…"
And then the breakdown. Through sobs I managed to tell her I had always felt like I was a guy-ever since I was four. That I was only attracted to women and that I couldn't live this lie or this life anymore.
Even though I half-expected it, her lack of empathy surprised me. She curtly brushed off my concerns, telling me I was not a man, just a "masculine woman." I told her I had seen a guest on a talk show who was a male to female transsexual due to a chromosomal defect and asked if she would run a test on my chromosomes. I was certain that I was a man and the test would prove it. She said even if I was, the surgery for female to males was not medically possible yet so there was nothing I could do about it. I just had to face the fact that I was a masculine woman and probably a lesbian.
She gave me the name of a psychologist and sent me down the hall to schedule an appointment. On my way there I glanced at the referral form and noticed she'd written a diagnosis: hirsutism, which in case you didn't know, is defined as "the excessive growth of hair of normal or abnormal distribution." Really? That's your diagnosis? I may be hairy but I'm not stupid. Hair can be removed. My gender issue was not going away.
I had high hopes for the meeting with the psychologist. Surely she would listen and get where I was coming from. But instead of validating my feelings, she too tried to talk me out of them and discouraged me from even considering reassignment. "Have you done your research?" She asked. "You're better off the way you are."
I told her I found three gender clinics in the U.S. and planned to ask them all to send me information, but I was living with my parents and for obvious reasons didn't want giant envelopes to arrive for me marked "Center for Gender Reassignment." She graciously suggested I have them sent care of her office and that she'd call me when they arrived. Ok, maybe she wasn't so bad.
But when I came back to pick up the information, I discovered the envelopes had all been opened. Huh, last I heard mail tampering was a federal offense. Wait it gets better: she also read the material with a fine-tooth comb. How did I know this? Well, in order to scare me out of having surgery, she took the liberty of highlighting all the risks. Hellooooooo?
Clearly I needed a new therapist – someone who could be objective and had experience treating patients with gender identity issues. Someone who'd help me work through my feelings, not flat out reject them. And walk me through my options, not tell me I didn't have any. It took a lot of time and effort but eventually I found one. And it made all the difference in the world. Today I define myself as a happy, successful, devilishly handsome 44 year-old guy with a wonderful family and a bunch of great friends. Had I given up and let those first two doctors define me, I never would've made it past 23.
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- Startups: Surviving the Journey to Market
Yesterday marked a special day for the Euddle Media Group as we launched our first subsidiary company to the public — Active22. This milestone, for all that it was worth, was a very (and by that I mean very) long time coming.
Over the course of a year and half, our team laughed, cried, learned, listened, celebrated, built and shared some truly remarkable experiences. Most importantly, however, we survived. We survived a journey that could — and many a time perhaps even should — have broken us. The fact that we have gotten to where we are now is a marvel. And while our story has barely begun, we do hope that it can be one of inspiration for young companies around the world.
Startups Are Difficult
There is no getting around it: startups are difficult. It is though, as most of us know, meant to be that way. As a startup, your goal is — or at least should be — to try to do things that no one has ever done before. You are working to disrupt markets with the goal of making life better in some capacity for your target audience. Inevitably, mistakes will be made and — forgive me, but — you will fail. This may sound disheartening, however, failing is not only part of being a startup, but also an integral part of learning. What is important, therefore, is to make sure that your entire company understands and internalizes that startups are indeed meant to be difficult. Very early on, we made the blunder of promoting and marketing a product that had not yet been tested nor validated. Although what we had built was impressive, we naively overlooked the process of seeking feedback from our potential members. When we eventually decided to do so, we discovered very quickly that the platform was all too overwhelming and, in many respects, lacked focus. The result: we pivoted — and in doing so failed to deliver and fulfill a promise that we had made to so many. While we could easily have allowed this experience to set us back, we chose instead to learn from it. Testing is now a very large part of our working process — so much so, that it takes us unusually long to bring any of our products to market.
Stay True To Your Ideals, Even If Your Vision Changes
Startups often find themselves having to alter their approach, products and, in some cases, vision. This can be complicated, especially when time, effort and money have been spent to establish a particular presence. It is important, therefore, for the sake of preventing confusion — both internally and externally — to establish a set of founding ideals under which you will always operate. Our mantra at the Euddle Media Group has always been to be bold and different as we aim to help our members live better. Quite recently, our team spent a great deal of time quietly building and testing a location-based marketplace through which members could discover and buy healthy living services (i.e. fitness, dance, spa, beauty) at over 6,000 locations throughout the United States. As we gathered feedback and data, we eventually felt the need to offer a more compelling value proposition, and, at the same time, one that would continue to be meaningful and altogether unique. Active22 was born as we made the decision to re-imagine our approach and build a creative and authentic brand — with real personality — that uses a potent combination of commerce and content as a means of incentivizing young women to lead healthy lifestyles. While the scope of the original product certainly changed, our values remained constant. Our company, like yours, will continue to grow. As we do so, it is important never to lose sight of the core ideals established at the very beginning.
The Little Things Are The Big Things
I watch and at one point in my life played a great deal of soccer — oh, the glory days. During the past few years, a young man named Pep Guardiola has established himself as one of the great (if not greatest) coaches currently in the game. Almost anytime I read or hear about his methods, I am made aware of the same thing: he has an obsessive, almost sickening capacity to pay attention to every detail that concerns the way his teams play. The same concept should apply to any startup that is building a product. Fact: there is no such thing as a perfect product. But that certainly does not mean that a perfect product should not be that towards which you are striving. As we finished building our latest platform, we found ourselves fixated on every part of it's design and functionality. In all honestly, I have lost track of the number of times, particularly over the past month, we worked from and to the early hours of the morning making what may seem to be very small changes and improvements to the look and feel of our site. As we ran several demo sessions leading up to our launch, we were incredibly humbled to receive the same compliment over and over: flow and design. Indeed, building is a time-consuming, exhausting process. But do pay attention to the minute details, for it will all be worth it in the end.
Do Ever Not Give Up
This is a given, but I will state it regardless: IGNORE THE NAYSAYERS. Believe. Focus. With resources, time, and smart, motivated people you can do amazing things. As a startup, time is your most precious asset. With time you can learn, adjust, and figure things out so long you have the courage to do so.
Startups, change the world, it is what you are here for.
- The Latest (Hilarious) Thing Teens Are Doing To Get Out Of Taking Exams
Well, this is one way to get out of a final.
Texas high school senior Andrew Muennink has been gaining attention around the Internet this week, after he told ABC News that he struck a deal with his art teacher that would allow his class to get out of a final exam. He told the outlet his teacher said she would throw out the test if he got 15,000 retweets on Twitter.
The Round Rock High School senior said he has until May 23 at 12 p.m. to complete his challenge, per ABC. The tweet in question had more than 7,200 retweets as of Friday morning.
15,000 retweets and no art final. PLEASE RETWEET. pic.twitter.com/L9WlZFSkQI
— Total Drew Move™ (@Two_Drew2) May 7, 2014
However, representatives from the high school deny that the deal is actually in play.
"We are very disappointed in the fact that abcnews.com did not do any fact checking regarding the Round Rock High School exam story," district spokesperson JoyLynn Occhiuzzi said in a statement to local outlet KVUE-TV. "The art students at Round Rock High School will be taking their final exams at the end of the month."
On Twitter, the teen is still imploring followers to support his cause.
@KevinKlineNews I believe a deal should be honored. And I will see that through.
— Total Drew Move™ (@Two_Drew2) May 9, 2014
Half way there! We can do this
— Total Drew Move™ (@Two_Drew2) May 9, 2014
Regardless of whether or not Muennink actually gets out of his final exam, he seems to have started a trend. Around social media, similar challenges have been popping up in recent days.
PLEASE RT WE WILL ALL FAIL THIS AND NOT GRADUATE pic.twitter.com/DPLWFBgtIF
— Nick Varra (@NickVarra) May 7, 2014
PLEASE HELP I BARELY WENT TO THIS CLASS #Nofinal #government pic.twitter.com/pccbQOpniX
— Mackenzie Slagle (@themackenzzz) May 7, 2014
She said yes!! 50,000 RTs and no final for my trigonometry class!! #Retweet #Nofinal #Help #Ballislife #Pi #Minnesota pic.twitter.com/GVNJSMLQtG
— Mike Duginski (@MikeDugi) May 7, 2014
Muennink's art teacher was not immediately available to comment on the status of their deal.
- Michael Sam, Gay NFL Hopeful, Stars In New Visa Commercial (VIDEO)
College football star Michael Sam has signed his first endorsement deal with Visa as he volleys to become the first openly gay member of the NFL.
During the course of the advertisement, Sam is shown lifting weights and telling the viewer to judge him based on his performance on the field — not off of it.
"We felt that Michael's story was a perfect fit for our 'everywhere' campaign, which is meant to inspire people to reach their own personal goals and aspirations," Visa's Chief Marketing Officer Kevin Burke said in a statement. "We wish Michael the best on and off the field as he embarks on the next chapter of his life."
Sam came out as gay in February, poising him to become the first openly gay player in NFL History. It is projected that he will be drafted this upcoming Saturday.
(h/t Towleroad)
- Sun's 'Long-Lost Sibling' Star Identified By Texas Astronomers
The sun may no longer be considered an only child.
A University of Texas astronomer has identified a star 110 light-years from Earth as a probable "solar sibling." The star likely originated in the same star cluster as the sun, and that could yield fresh insights not only into how our home star was born about 4.5 billion years ago but also into how life on Earth got started.
"We want to know where we were born," the astronomer, Ivan Ramirez, said in a written statement. "If we can figure out in what part of the galaxy the sun formed, we can constrain conditions on the early solar system. That could help us understand why we are here."
Star HD 162826 is located in the lower leg of the constellation Hercules. Though not visible to the naked eye, the star — which is 15 percent more massive than the sun — can be seen with binoculars. Skywatchers can look toward the star Vega to spot the sun's sibling star.
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University of Texas at Austin astronomer Ivan Ramirez identified star HD 162826 as a probable "solar sibling." (Ivan Ramirez/Tim Jones/McDonald Observatory)
To find HD 162826, Ramirez and his team studied 30 stars that other astronomers had identified as potential solar siblings. Using the Harlan J. Smith Telescope at the McDonald Observatory in Fort Davis, Texas, and coordinating with researchers at Las Campanas Observatory in Chile, Ramirez narrowed the list by analyzing the orbit and chemical makeup of each star. Under the research, HD 162826 was the only star in the group that satisfied the team's "dynamical and chemical criteria for being a true sibling of the Sun."
Evidence suggests sibling stars may host Earth-like exoplanets that might be capable of supporting life — so by investigating the origins of the sun, researchers may also be advancing the search for extraterrestrial life.
"The idea is if a planet has life, like Earth, and if you hit it with an asteroid, it will create debris, some of which will escape into space," astronomer Mauri Valtonen of the University of Turku in Finland told Space.com in 2012. "And if the debris is big enough, like 1 meter across, it can shield life inside from radiation, and that life can survive inside for millions of years until that debris lands somewhere. If it happens to land on a planet with suitable conditions, life can start there."
Ramirez's findings are slated for publication in the June 1 issue of The Astrophysical Journal.
- Dr. Dre Just Declared Himself 'The First Billionaire In Hip Hop'
Dr. Dre is having a better week than you.
Almost immediately after news broke Thursday that Apple was closing in on a deal to buy headphone maker Beats Electronics for $3.2 billion, people started whispering about the possibility that Dr. Dre would become the first billionaire in hip hop as a result. Dre has close to a 25 percent stake in the company.
In a video posted on Instagram late Thursday night, the rapper appeared to confirm the deal and definitely, um, hinted at the billionaire thing. As his friend Tyrese Gibson exclaims: "They need to update the Forbes list!"
"The first billionaire in hip hop from the motherfucking West Coast," Dr. Dre, whose real name is Andre Young, says in the video, "Believe it." We sort of do!
The video has since been deleted from Instagram, but not before it was posted elsewhere. It's really fun, but there's a little NSFW language in there:
Dre co-founded Beats in 2008 with music mogul Jimmy Iovine. The company revolutionized the headphone industry and now accounts for a huge share of the market. It also recently launched a music streaming service.
Rappers touting themselves as billionaires is nothing new –- there are 293 results when you search the word on RapGenius –- but Dre may very likely be the real deal.
Still, it's unclear how much Young would earn from the deal, which would be Apple's largest-ever acquisition. Forbes, which published its 2014 list of billionaires in March, cast some doubt over whether this would propel Dre to a 10-figure net worth.
"A sale for $3.2 billion would nearly double the value of Dre's holdings, though capital gains taxes could take a bite out of his big payday, likely leaving him in the neighborhood of $800 million," Forbes staffer Zack O'Malley Greenburg wrote in a post early Friday morning. "It's not quite enough to land on the Forbes 400, but it would easily make him hip-hop's richest man."
At the very least, he has conquered his hip hop rivals: Sean Combs, known as Diddy, is worth $700 million and now-third place millionaire Shawn Carter (aka Jay-Z) is valued at $520 million, according to Forbes.
That said, money isn't everything, and Jay-Z is married to Beyoncé, so don't worry about him too much.
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G is for Gay
"Individuals who identify as gay or lesbian have a sexual orientation toward members of their own gender." -From: Else-Quest, Nicole. "Gender and Sexual Orientation." 21st Century Psychology: A Reference Handbook. 2007. SAGE Publications.
L is for Lesbian
"A lesbian is a woman or girl who is sexually or romantically attracted to females, or who engages in same-sex behavior or relationships." - From: Cardozo, Patricia R., et al. "Lesbians." Encyclopedia of Human Development. 2005. SAGE Publications.
B is for Bisexual
"...bisexuality is believed to indicate the potential to feel attracted to members of both sexes, regardless of whether the feelings are acted upon or not." - From: Bronson, Judith Conoyer. "Bisexuality." Encyclopedia of Human Development. 2005. SAGE Publications.
T is for Transgendered
"Transgendered persons exemplify the fluidity of gender and complexity of sexuality. Transgendered individuals assume a different gender identity than that which corresponds to their physiological sex." - From: "Introduction to Transgendereds and Transsexuals." Gender Issues and Sexuality: Essential Primary Sources. Ed. K. Lee Lerner, Brenda Wilmoth Lerner, and Adrienne Wilmoth Lerner. Detroit: Gale, 2006.
Q is for Queer & Questioning
"People who are uncomfortable claiming a sexual orientation identity are referred to as questioning . Many people have reclaimed the word queer as a term of empowerment. Some use it primarily as an inclusive term for all people who have a homosexual or bisexual orientation and for those who are intersexed or transgendered. Others use it to emphasize the complexity and fluid nature of human sexuality and gender, to deconstruct the dominant belief in a heterosexual/homosexual binary." - From: Graves, Karen. " Sexuality, Theories of." Encyclopedia of Educational Leadership and Administration. 2006. SAGE Publications.
I is for Intersexed
"Intersex is a term used to describe someone who has an anatomy that is not clearly either male or female." - From: Sherry, Mark. "Intersex." Encyclopedia of Disability. 2005. SAGE Publications.
Other helpful vocabulary
- CisgenderCisgender" replaces the terms "nontransgender" or
"bio man/bio woman" to refer to individuals who have a match between the gender they were assigned at birth, their bodies, and their personal identity. - From: Schilt, Kristen; Westbrook, Laurel (August 2009). "Doing Gender, Doing Heteronormativity: 'Gender Normals,' Transgender People, and the Social Maintenance of Heterosexuality". Gender & Society 23 (4): 440–464.
- AllyPart of the community that urges power "to confront the harassment, violence, and discrimination often directed toward LGBT and questioning students." - From: Blount, Jackie M. "Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/Transgender Issues in Education." Encyclopedia of Educational Leadership and Administration. 2006. SAGE Publications.
- Gender identity"Gender, the socially constructed roles, behaviors, and expectations regarding what it means to be male and female, shifts over time and between cultures and varies from person to person." - From: Graves, Karen. "Sexuality, Theories of." Encyclopedia of Educational Leadership and Administration. 2006. SAGE Publications.
Topic: Gay Marriage
For articles on the topic of same sex marriage or unions, see these entries from the database Academic Search Premier.
- Gay MarriagesAn overview of the issue of same-sex unions. From: Osborne, Danny, and Anne Duran. "Gay Marriages." Encyclopedia of Human Development. 2005. SAGE Publications.
- Same-Sex Marriage and Negative ExternalitiesThis article examines whether legally recognizing (or prohibiting) same-sex marriage has any adverse impact on societal outcomes specifically related to "traditional family values." From: Langbein, Laura, and Mark A. Yost. "Same-Sex Marriage and Negative Externalities." Social Science Quarterly (Blackwell Publishing Limited) 90.2 (2009): 292-308.
- Conversation on Marriage for Lesbian and Gay PeopleThis article provides a frame for the articles on same sex marriage presented in this issue of "Studies in Gender & Sexuality". From: Harris, Adrienne, and Gilbert W. Cole. "Conversation on Marriage for Lesbian and Gay People: Introduction to Lesbian and Gay Marriage Roundtable." Studies in Gender & Sexuality 9.2 (2008): 140-145.
Topic: Don't Ask Don't Tell
For articles on the topic of gays in the military, see these entries from the database Academic Search Premier.
- Don't Ask, Don't TellAn overview of the issue of gays in the military. From: "Don't Ask, Don't Tell." Encyclopedia of United States National Security. 2005. SAGE Publications.
- Gays in the militaryThis issue of from the Congressional Record provides a complete overview on the issue of gays in the military. Includes a Gay Rights Timeline and a legislative history of the issue. From: "Gays in the Military." Congressional Digest 89.4 (2010): 97
- Attitudes of Iraq and Afghanistan War Veterans toward Gay and Lesbian Service MembersThis study analyzes data from a 2006 survey of Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans that shows declining support for the policy of Don't Ask, Don't Tell. From: Moradi, Bonnie, and Laura Miller. "Attitudes of Iraq and Afghanistan War Veterans toward Gay and Lesbian Service Members." Armed Forces & Society (0095327X) 36.3 (2010): 397-419.
Topic: Homosexuality and Psychology
For articles on the topic of the view of homosexuality in professional psychology, see these entries from the database Academic Search Premier.
- Queer Diagnoses"This review explores how criticisms of the existing Gender Identity Disorder diagnoses parallel and contrast with earlier historical events that led American Psychiatric Association to remove homosexuality from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual in 1973." From: Drescher, Jack. "Queer Diagnoses: Parallels and Contrasts in the History of Homosexuality, Gender Variance, and the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual." Archives of Sexual Behavior 39.2 (2010): 427-460.
- Ethics of Gender Identity Disorder"Gender identity disorder is the only disorder in which treatment is designed to confirm, reinforce, and validate the belief that is the basis of the mental disorder. In all other diagnoses, the symptoms in the diagnostic criteria are viewed as pathological and the goal of treatment is to remove the symptoms. In gender identity disorder, however, the body is altered to match the belief that is said to be a symptom of mental disorder."
- DSM-IV"The DSM-III treated homosexuality as a personality disorder, but the DSM-III-R downgraded it to an ego-dystonic disorder. By the time the DSM-IV was published, homosexuality had been dropped as a mental disorder because of social and political pressure to treat homosexuality as a normal gender choice." - From: Sparrow, G. Scott. "Dsm-IV." Encyclopedia of Multicultural Psychology. 2006. SAGE Publications.
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Topic: Stonewall Riots
- Stonewall RebellionAn overview of the three-day period of rioting and protest that followed a 1969 police raid on New York City's Stonewall Inn. From: Glanville, Priscilla. "Stonewall Rebellion." Encyclopedia of Leadership. 2004. SAGE Publications.
- Movements and Memory: The Making of the Stonewall MythThis article provides a comparative-historical analysis of Stonewall and four events similar to it that occurred in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and New York in the 1960s. From: Armstrong, Elizabeth A., and Suzanna M. Crage. "Movements and Memory: The Making of the Stonewall Myth." American Sociological Review 71.5 (2006): 724-751.
- Notes on StonewallThis article from New Republic discusses the gay rights movement at the Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village around the planning of Stonewall 25 in 1994. From: Bawer, Bruce. "NOTES ON STONEWALL. (Cover story)." New Republic 210.24 (1994): 24-30.
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- Academic Search CompleteOne of the largest full-text databases of scholarly information. A good place to start searching for journal articles on any women's studies topic.
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But what is it really like to be part of this company? Here are some of the things that matter most to us. By no coincidence these are the things that also make us a world class manufacturing company - and a great place to work.
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For us, health and safety is an integral part of 'operational excellence'. In the last decade, we have steadily reduced the number of 'lost time' accidents and our health and safety performance has been consistently well above industry norms; 67% of our sites had no lost time accidents in 2013. We use an external audit to drive best practice across the group, supported by online reporting systems, detailed measures and indicators (including both lost time and incident rates), behaviourally based training programmes, recognition awards and intra group consultations.
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in the early 2000s, Rexam embraced Lean Enterprise as a primary route to operational excellence. Since then we have built a community of over a thousand people who are committed to continuous improvement and delivered more than £350m in efficiency savings. We are now applying Lean thinking and Six Sigma methods throughout the enterprise. Having seen and delivered the benefits of Lean Enterprise internally, we have now started to benchmark our performance externally and objectively against the best in the world through the Shingo prize for Operational Excellence. As well as offering a platform for growth and innovation across our business, Lean Enterprise offers immense scope for professional development. Rexam Business School offers a range of training programmes and exams up to and including Black Belt certification.
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In May 2010, Guatemala suffered two natural disasters within days of each other: first a volcano erupted, then the country was hit by tropical storm Agatha. Mudslides destroyed homes and hundreds of roads were closed. Our plant, a joint venture with Envases Universales de Mexico, resumed production within 48 hours - an extraordinary effort by an exceptional team. The plant was back to producing 3m cans per day at 90% efficiency. The plant manager Leopoldo Munguia has no doubt about the reasons behind this apparently miraculous bounce back: "There is an incredible bond between the people here, a visible pride in what the team does. This team will do anything it can to meet commitments, to keep customers satisfied and support each other."
Isn't a can just a can?
Beverage cans have been around for many, many years, so you may well think they couldn't be improved any further.During 2013, we further applied techniques to make our cans lighter (lightweighting) and saved 5,600 tonnes of aluminium across the Group. The new can is leaner and greener to make but, although we are using less aluminium, there is no loss in quality, production efficiency or customer approval. Regarding products, the introduction of our Editions technology for printing cans provides our customers with unrivalled printing options that give their brands great stand out on shelf and endless marketing opportunities.
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Career mobility is good for the business and it's good for the individual. By moving around the business, tackling new challenges and broadening their skills, Rexam managers develop the knowledge and flexibility to keep the business ahead in a fast changing world. That's why over a third of the people in our talent pools get a promotion or a change in role any one year - and that figure is rising steadily.
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What do a baby, a puppet show and dog poop have in common? Absolutely nothing—and that's the point of this oddball, wacky musical show playing at the Garner Galleria Theatre in Denver.
American tourist Steve (Derek Manson) randomly encounters each of these things and much more when his bike breaks down near a small village in France. He goes to a bike shop where the owners (Joe Liss and John Rubano who wrote the script with Dave Lewman) send him on a Francophile wild goose chase while he waits for the bike to get fixed. Steve is so naive and gullible that he endures a zany puppet show and an overnight stay at a youth hostel to wait out the repairs. At the hostel he shares a room with a Dutchman (Liss) who can only fall asleep by singing Japanese folk songs out loud. Huh? Yes, it's that non-sensical.
The third Frenchman Henri Broussard is played by Bruce Green, who plays two other characters as well. Liss and Rubano play the rest of the 15 total characters that include a loud-talking Texan called Austin Houston.
The play has a little Marcel Marceau and a lot of Second City humor, which is no accident as the writers hail from Second City backgrounds.
The cabaret comedy will have you laughing in spite of yourself and cringing in your seat at some of the silliest banter and antics you've ever seen on stage. The lyrics of the songs written by Mark Nutter are just as funny and sung with remarkable talent. These boys will do anything for a laugh, and they get lots.
The Bicycle Men is an added attraction to the Denver Center Attractions 2014/15 season. It plays The Garner Galleria Theatre through July 20. Performance dates are Thursday-Saturday at 7:30 p.m.; Saturday and Sunday at 2 p.m. and Sunday, July 20 at 7:30 p.m. For tickets, visit www.denvercenter.org or call 303-893-4100.
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Sunderland 3.9 | Draw 3.55| Spurs 2.14
The Black Cats will be in fine spirits for the early Saturday kick off against Spurs on Saturday, after an impressive victory against champions Manchester City.
Sunderland have a decent record at home against Spurs, having lost just once in the past five matches. The Black Cats have also been on a two game home win streak eight times since the 07/08 season and they lost the next game just once.
Sunderland look good value for the win at 3.9.
It's worth noting that Sunderland have been level at the break in four of their nine home games this season, with Spurs doing the same in their away games.
The Black Cats have scored in the first half just twice this term, but have scored after the break six times.
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Just in case you missed it, an extraordinary turn of events took place last week. It became official on June 9, 2014, Costello Tagliapietra started making menswear after alluding to the possibility of it for the past few years. Instead of diving in headfirst and blasting us all with an overwhelming collection of THINGS, C&T are gently wading in, testing the waters, if you will, with one special piece: The #PerfectCardigan.
If you are at all familiar with everybody's favorite American fashion bears, Jeffrey and Robert, you'd know that over the years they have cemented their signature look of plaid shirts, jeans, chinos, classic boat shoes, suspenders, and those absolutely fabulous cardigans. It only makes sense that one of these signature items would launch their line of menswear and they chose the #PerfectCardigan. The Perfect Cardigan is quite unlike any cardigan I have ever seen or owned. Instead of your run of the mill (pun not intended) knit jersey using large gauge yarn and a loose knit, the ponte (pon-tee) of the Perfect Cardigan is a tight double-knit interlock fabric composed of fine yarn that is completely opaque, and has a bit of stretch built into it. The Perfect Cardigan ponte is comprised of 62% rayon, 30% nylon, and 8% elastic and it has a dense, luxurious feel to it, that drapes softly with a subtle luster. It is at once luxury personified and yet quite casual.
In keeping with the balancing act between lux and casual, the Perfect Cardigan is beautifully appointed. An Ultrasuede (100% polyester) elbow patch with the CT Anchor emblem Airdyed on it is stitched to each sleeve giving the sweater a decidedly Ivy League look. To further set it apart, the Perfect Cardigan features three patch pockets and a four-snap concealed placket all of which is trimmed out with rayon grosgrain ribbon. Nice.
The #PerfectCardigan comes in two sizes: Size 1 (small-medium chest measurement 45") and Size 2 (large-xlarge chest measurement 50.5"), and three colors: Midnight, Lavender, and Garnet, and will set you back $245. For now, at least, the Perfect Cardigan is available in limited numbers, so if you want one, you might want to act sooner rather than later. For more information about the Perfect Cardigan, click here. To get social with C&T check them out on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.
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College Hockey:Canisius Drops Ninth Straight, 4-1, To Sacred Heart
BUFFALO, N.Y. — Two goals by forward Peter Giatrelis and 19 saves from goalie Jason Smith led Sacred Heart to a 4-1 victory over Canisius Friday evening at the Buffalo State Sports Arena.
Junior forward Jaymie Harrington scored the only goal for the Canisius (5-15-1, 3-11-1 Atlantic Hockey), his second of the season, and first since his game-winner on Oct. 22.
The Pioneers (12-8-1, 9-6-1) built a 2-0 lead after one period. Drew Sanders scored the game's first goal at 10:52 when Nick Kary brought the puck up the right boards and slid a cross-ice pass to an uncovered Sanders on the left side of the crease. Sanders sent the puck into a wide-open left side of the net when Canisius goalie Dan Giffin couldn't recover from the cross-ice pass quickly enough.
Sacred Heart scored its second goal when Giatrelis put a shot over the left shoulder of Giffin off of a pass from Kalen Wright.
Sacred Heart got its third goal at 2:51 of the second period when Giatrelis picked up a rebound and fired it into the right side of the net for his third goal of the season and second on the night. The Pioneers added their fourth goal at 8:46 of the third period when Pierre-Luc O'Brien made a series of moves to get an open look at the net and shot the puck into the top left corner for his 12th goal of the campaign.
Harrington made the game 4-1 at 11:15 when senior defenseman Brandon Irish-Baker got the puck off a faceoff win by freshman Tommy Flikeid. Irish-Baker sent one in from the blue line but Harrington tipped it in to get the Griffs on the scoreboard.
Smith improved to 11-7-1 with the win while Giffin made 28 saves and fell to 1-7-0 on the season.
Canisius killed all four Sacred Heart power plays, and hasn't allowed a power-play goal in the past five games and 26 straight opportunities.
The Blue and Gold lost for the ninth consecutive game, which is the longest losing streak since a school-record 10-game skid from Dec. 9, 1988 to Jan. 22, 1989.
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There was a time when storefronts, murals, banners, barn signs, billboards, and street signs were all hand-lettered with brush and paint. But, like many skilled trades, the sign industry has been overrun by the techno-fueled promise of "quicker and cheaper." Fortunately, there is a growing trend to seek out traditional sign painters and a renaissance in the trade. In 2010 filmmakers Faythe Levine (pictured), coauthor of Handmade Nation, and Sam Macon (pictured) began documenting these dedicated practitioners. The subsequent book and documentary Sign Painters is the first anecdotal history of the craft and features stories about more than two dozen sign painters working in cities throughout the United States.
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Strongly Regulate High Frequency Trading
In Regulation: Don't Throw the Baby Out With the Bathwater, Progress CTO John Bates illustrates the principle of advocating a position based on a natural conflict-of-interest and then wrapping "the package" in rhetorical phrases.
First of all, the US economy (read individual investors) would be much better off if financial services firms (or anyone) were not permitted to use computers next to stock exchanges to seek split second "get rich quick" opportunities that the normal, traditional investor does not have. The only "economy" that benefits are entities that participate in this type of activity and the technology firms selling the hardware and software to make "all the madness" possible.
Many technology companies make a living selling software that facilitates high frequency trading. This is the same type of trading that continues to destabilize stock markets and injure investors. But, investing in equities should mean investing in the companies, not electronic signals. Unfortunately, high frequency trading is not investing, it is a type of electronic game where the winners are the companies with better technology and the losers are individual investors, retirees, mom-and-pop businesses, and everyone else.
The stock market was created for the purpose of public ownership in businesses, not to be a tit-for-tat game of "who has the best technology to exploit signals". What we are seeing in high frequency trading is an abomination of the principles of investment. The poster's closing statement on the topic is revealing:
"[we need]…. new approaches to markets surveillance across fragmented markets and real-time pre-trade risk management."
Which simply translates to,
"We want to sell you more software."
Let's their be no mistake about it, companies working in the high frequency trading domain do not care about the economy, individual investors, or the principles of stock ownership. They care about making as much money as they can. They care about profit.
This is precisely the reason that I voluntarily stepped down from my active leadership role in CEP. CEP was originally based on the need to protect networks and computers. This is exactly what DARPA funded and academics like David Luckham were funded to research. Unfortunately in the marketplace, the term CEP was hijacked by software firms selling to financial services and has become a distasteful abomination of a once promising industry.
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peter Lin says:
Tuesday, May 25, 2010 at 12:59pm
I agree 100%. High frequency trading in black trading pools only benefits the corporations participating in it. The rest of the world gets screwed.
Colin Clark says:
Tuesday, May 25, 2010 at 6:15pm
Lot's of misinformation and knee jerk reactions are out there regarding HFT. Unfortunately, this is another one of them. Your posts are usually a bit inflammatory; that's why I like reading your blog. But you usually provide at least a shred or two of evidence to support your thesis.
I'd really like to see some examples of how HFT is damaging individual investors – I'm personally not aware of any and I've spent the last 20+ years in the field – even before CEP became a popular buzz word. If you've got some examples, I'd love to see them.
We went though this same controversy back in 1987 and many people blamed that crash on portfolio insurance and automated trading then – but they were wrong then, as they are now in blaming the recent flash crash on HFT. When there are no buyers, prices plunge. When there are no buyers, HFT stops – HFT firms aren't usually sending market orders blindly in a falling market. It's just stupid to do so.
The recent flash crash has to do more with market structure and too much global debt – NYSE halted (temporarily, I know they don't like that term) for what's referred to as a LRP, or liquidity replenishment point. The goal of an LRP is to put a symbol into auction mode when a bunch of orders come in on one side, resulting in an imbalance. When those symbols were halted, orders for those symbols went to other exchanges. Where there was no liquidity and those orders ended up crossing at what are referred to as stub quotes. Stub quotes are required by some crossing engines to open the symbol for trading. No one is putting real bids in at a penny. When those orders crossed at a penny, the index calculations picked up the crosses and the 'market' plunged when the index re-priced. If those sell orders that went off at a penny had been limit orders, this probably wouldn't have happened. This may be an example of SOR – Stupid Order Routing.
When NYSE re-opened those symbols, trading resumed and, magically, at the prices they were at before the LRP was activated. So that worked for NYSE. What didn't work was other exchanges not honoring NYSE's action. Knowing the rules is important; sending orders to off-primary exchanges can incur additional risk. We saw that during the flash crash.
So, this would have happened with or without HFT; with or without CEP; and with or without the vendors that sell all the hardware and software to make HFT possible. In fact, it could have happened with even 1 large sell order in an affected symbol. And HFT doesn't usually involved large orders.
In fact, in this day of lessened or no return for those who use to act as intermediaries in the market (specialists or market makers), it could be argued that those engaging in HFT are actually helping the individual trader (or investor) by providing more liquidity.
It's easy to blame HFT for the machinations we see in the market today – it's harder to blame your neighbor for taking on more debt than they can afford to buy more and more goods than they can afford. And, as we saw during the flash crash, consumerism and greed is no longer an American only obsession.
Some day, you've got to pay.
John Bates says:
Tuesday, May 25, 2010 at 9:44pm
Hi Tim — I respect your views as always and understand where you're coming from. My view on this is that HFT is not driving the market — fundamentals will still do that. So people still invest in companies driven by good economics. HFT makes the market more efficient. And yes it does accentuate movements.
The point I was trying to make is that you can protect investors from some of the rapid movements that HFT can accentuate by having electronic safeguards — like real-time pre-trade risk and real-time market surveillance.
Sure I want to sell people more software – but there's a bit more to it. If I didn't work for Progress I'd still feel the same way as I do.
Tim Bass says:
Wednesday, May 26, 2010 at 4:51am
Hi John and Colin,
It is pretty clear that HFT is problematic. I will reply with another blog post that cites an excellent article about this in the NYT.
Edit: Here it is:
Yours, Tim
Bart Schouw says:
Wednesday, May 26, 2010 at 6:29am
Hi Tim,
pitty to read that you became so bitter about CEP. I remember a question you put on LinkedIn some years ago about use case for CEP outside Capital Market. At Progress I had the luxury of pursuing those cases. We had some contacts and indeed there was not much outside the capital market. Since then we made some progress (pun intended).
We made CEP work at BGN, Boekhandels Groep Nederland in the Netherlands where it is making item based identification possible through RFID markers on every book. It improves customer satisfaction (they can tell exactly where which book is in the shop) and it reduces the stealing of books. We made CEP work at Royal Dirkzwager, who is using it to give better and detailed information about ship movements, help optimize ship operations, reduces risks of collisions and reduces fuel consumptions. H3G an Italian operation manages revenu assurance making sure that every phone call is handled correctly. A bank in Europe is using it now for Debit and Credit card fraud detection reducing response time to things like skimming from 1 hour to inflight transaction. Match2Blue is using it for improving the functioning of their Social Networking software.
So blaming one industry for misusing it and then condeming the technology seems to me that you are trying to reason like a quaker. Denying the advancements made and trying to get back to the life how it used to be,
Next to that, I am working for four years now in the CEP space. I have free access to all CEP licenses in the company and software made. I am able to run all kind of trading scenario's. If it was all that simple to make some money with CEP in the cap market then by now I should be a millionair right? I wished it was all that simple… If I wanted I could link up some of the realtime streams available and try to make some money….but I dont ….why? Because I miss one essential ingredient…understanding.
CEP is a lot but it is not artificial intelligence. It is triggering a response to a pattern set by a human. People tend to forget that when they start talking about something that looks from the outside as magic.
In the end all CEP does is repeating what the trader would had done, but faster…nothing else. I can't make money in the financial market with all technology in my laptop because I dont know where to look for. So in the end and that is also what I read in the comment of Collin it are the humans behind the system to blame and with or without the technology they would find a way.
Hope you step back in your role as CEP advocate…I really like your posts.
Tim Bass says:
Wednesday, May 26, 2010 at 6:45am
Hi Bart,
Thanks for your post. I would like to point out you don't need a "CEP engine" to do any of the things you have spoken about. The technology to do what you mention existed long before CEP became a marketing term. CEP does not really define any clear technical solution.
My earlier work in CEP was based on seeing a potential for advancement of the state-of-the-art, a movement forwards, not backwards. There has been no advance of the state-of-the-art based on these "simple event processing" IDEs, in my view.
In your post, when you call me a Quaker, you seem to be confusing "processing complex events" with the marketing hype of CEP vendors.
There many, many people doing great things in event processing, and most of the technological advances are happening outside of the so called commercial CEP space. In fact, there are few "self described CEP companies" that have moved beyond simple query engines with a design-time / run-time GUI wrapper.
Personally, I like the event processing that is going on at CERN's LHC, where complex events are detected, but mostly not at run-time, since the events are so (truly and very) complex.
There has been little progress in other areas, and the same software logic that was available 10 years ago, is easily used today for complex event processing. Of course, there has been cloud computing, distributed services, and more, but these advances are mostly unrelated to commercial CEP software.
So, I don't think I am bitter about "complex event processing". I am unhappy that "complex event processing" and the term CEP was hijacked by a bunch of marketing people who have little actual experience in actually processing / detecting complex events, which if course is a different (but similar) discussion than the misuse of the term in financial services and algo trading.
Yours, Tim
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Wednesday, May 26, 2010 at 1:10pm
From first hand experience building pre-trade compliance system and working with customers, many firms buy compliance software and then don't run it. That's no lie either. I was shocked to find out that was the norm and not the exception. The reality of pre-trade compliance is far from the rosy pictures technologists like to paint. Saying "pre-trade" compliance is a viable solution to moderating HFT is a flat out lie in my mind. A lot of business in the financial sector only buy pre-trade compliance because the government requires it, but they don't actually like it or want it. Once you get down and dirty, you'll see that many don't run pre-trade compliance in favor of paying fines. This is the dirty little secret about pre-trade compliance.
Even in the cases were a firm runs compliance, it's generally on a nightly job, or only simple restriction rules like "a sell cannot exceed 500 million dollars." Ask anyone with 10 yrs of experience implementing pre-trade compliance and you'll see the reality is far from rosy.
Whether HFT contributed to flash crash isn't the main issue. The main issue is having a level playing field. If only hedge funds can afford HFT, then it's not a level playing field. It should either be outlawed or available to everyone. Clearly black trading pools aren't available to everyone!
Tim Bass says:
Wednesday, May 26, 2010 at 1:37pm
Hi Peter,
Here is another manner of speaking what you just said… reworded by me:
HFT is like information system hacking. HFT hackers basically use regulatory loopholes to "hack" trading systems by getting information before outsiders and taking action before the outsiders are aware of what has happened. It is basically a not-yet-illegal form of white collar crime against investors-at-large.
For anyone to say that these not-yet-technically-illegal white collar criminals are going to install another system to monitor their hacking is nonsense. If they were going to be compliant, fair and ethical, they would not be hacking the system with HFT in the first place.
I really get bored with the overused "foxes guarding the hen house" metaphor, but common sense tells us that if you go to foxes who are devising ways to "acquire" more eggs from the hen house; you then don't say "hey foxes, install this system so you will get less eggs".
The foxes are looking for loopholes to get more eggs. If a fox installs a pre-steal-the-egg defensive system, then the foxes are only doing it to fool the hen house police.
"Hey, we are not stealing eggs, we got an anti-egg-stealing system in place… !!"
… as the foxes find another loophole to exploit. It is simply white collar crime which takes advantage of loopholes to defraud the markets.
This should be obvious to anyone, even if they have never worked on trading systems.
Yours, Tim
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Samsung Omnia 7 i8700 caught on video, Windows Phone 7 obviously included
It looks like the Samsung Omnia 7 is, indeed, the same device as the i8700 (appeared on the Web more than once until now).
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Most likely, some of Samsung's new Windows phones (including the Omnia 7 i8700) will be unveiled on October 11. Just recently, the company has officially announced that it would introduce several WP7 devices this year, so all we have to do now is to wait.
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Who Might Buy Hulu? Let the Guessing Begin!
After our Deal Journal colleagues brought us news of a possible sale of Web-video venture Hulu, a parlor game has begun.
Deal Journal readers, bankers and Wall Street analysts have been pulling names out of thin air — everyone from Yahoo and Apple to Wal-Mart and "no one" now has been mentioned as a possible new owner for Hulu.
And just a big dose of caution before we get to the guesses: All of this could be completely for naught. Hulu is in a bit of a pickle. Its owners aren't on the same page about what Hulu should be, and while a sale may be a tempting solution, it also may spark more problems that it could solve. Plus, the company's owners — which include Deal Journal parent company News Corp., Comcast Corp.'s NBCUniversal, Disney and private-equity firm Providence Equity– can barely agree on what to have for lunch. How will they agree on whether and for how much to sell Hulu? Lastly, Hulu mulled an initial public offering last year, again a tempting option to solve its ownership conundrum. That idea, if it ever was more than a negotiating ploy, is now on the back burner.
With the caveats out of the way, here is a a roundup of ideas for a possible sale of Hulu from Wall Street and across the Web:
Miller Tabak: While financial buyers could be likely, we would expect potential future strategics to take a hard look at the asset….The LA Times suggests that an offer has been made by Yahoo….[CEO] Carol Bartz needs to do something soon or else she could be out. Maybe DISH Network/Blockbuster could be considered, but they already have their distribution contracts with the programmers. We would also not count out eBay or Apple. Microsoft, which has been trying to migrate its Xbox gaming platform toward an interactive video service; Google which has also been trying to gain traction with its Google TV efforts, having also made a couple of tuck-in technology acquisitions recently; Amazon which has stellar consumer transaction relationships and has supposedly been readying a Netflix competitor; WalMart which has been important in the home entertainment space; AOL has been restructuring its platform toward online video viewership increases and monetization, but after HuffPo, has continued to say it will not make "Hail Mary" acquisitions…"
Los Angeles Times: "Yahoo Inc. recently approached Hulu to discuss a possible acquisition of the popular online video service, according to a person with knowledge of the matter…. On Tuesday afternoon, word of the unsolicited offer spread and was subsequently confirmed by people close to the company. It is not known whether the offer came from Yahoo or another entity."
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The men of multi-platinum R&B group Jagged Edge have been performing together for nearly 20 years, and are currently doing shows nationwide in support of their new single "Hope." The sexy track is the first release since their 2011 album, The Remedy, and since rejoining Jermaine Dupri's So So Def Records in 2013.
Original members Brian and Brandon Casey, Kyle Norman, and Richard Wingo will release a new album this fall—J.E. Heartbreak Too—a sequel to their chart-topping 2000 release, J.E. Heartbreak. Although their debut album, A Jagged Era, reached #11 on the Billboard R&B charts, it was J.E. Heartbreak that propelled the group to superstardom. "Let's Get Married," "Promise," "He Can't Love You," and other songs from that album are flawless examples of R&B music at its best.
Jagged Edge hopes to rekindle some of that magic on J.E. Heartbreak Too, and spoke exclusively to Examiner.com about their chemistry with Dupri, the secrets to their longevity, and being more than a "throwback."
EXAMINER.COM: How have you guys managed to stay together (keeping the original members) with label changes and nearly two decades in the industry?
JAGGED EDGE: This relationship is no different from any other relationship that you may have. I think the key to it is respecting each other's space, respecting each other's opinion and, number one, you got to have some type of love for each other. I think all of those things are why we've been able to stick together.
You reunited with So So Def last year – what keeps drawing you guys back to the label?
Number one, we have great chemistry with Jermaine. When we look back on our career, the time that we were most poignant, most powerful in the industry, was when we had our first team together. Like they say, 'If it's not broke, then don't fix it.'
There's certain things that happen that are out of your control. The whole separation between us and So So Def was really So So Def's separation from Columbia [Records]. It was always out of our control, and it was never a relationship that any of us sought to break up. So I guess that's why we always ended up finding our way back to each other.
What's the status of [your label] 581 Muzik Groupe? I also see a new imprint, Hard Case Records.
We still have the 581 imprint, but we switched it up – we're starting something different more in partnership with Jermaine. This is not an "artist deal," this is a partnership between us and Jermaine, an then between So So Def and BMG.
Are those imprints primarily for financial control of your own music or to sign artists?
For us it was always about bringing on artists. Sometimes young artists don't realize that this is a waiting game when it comes to getting started. Any artist [we] ever had, when they were ready to leave, [we] let them leave. Even though [we] might have had paperwork, whatever, whatever. Sometimes, as a company, that's a setback. But as [men, we] sleep good at night. At the end of the day, it's always about putting out artists. We don't want an imprint just for name's sake only.
On your last project, you had a single with Rick Ross ("Lipstick"). Will you collaborating with other hip-hop artists on J.E. Heartbreak Too, or are you strictly taking it back to the great R&B of the '90s and early 2000s?
Not even 'take it back,' because we're not going in the studio like, 'Let's make songs like we used to make.' But we are going in the studio and saying, 'Let's give people what they love.' It's not really about taking them back, but you do want to give them things, just like before, that evoked emotion – that may have had [them thinking] a little bit, that may have had [them diving] into some emotional things that they might not have known how to tackle, but then you heard it framed in a song and it's like, 'Oh wow.'
J.E. Heartbreak connected with a lot of people... and that's all we wanted to do by naming this album J.E. Heartbreak Too. This album will be just like that first album—examining relationships from all different angles.
You're performing around the country with a lot of great R&B groups like Blackstreet, Dru Hill, and 112. What's it like behind the scenes at the shows?
Honestly, on a good day it's a lot of love, it's camaraderie, it's all of that. On a bad day, everybody kind of just stays to [themselves]. You might get either one... there's no telling which one you're going to get.
All of those groups came out a while ago, [including yourselves], but you guys are still relevant, and the fans still love the music. How does your team plan to market the new album to communicate 'We're not just a throwback group'?
We never market ourselves to be on certain bills where there's all older artists on the bill. Most of the bills, the artists are even older than us. But those bills are put together for people who love real music. Sometimes the promoter doesn't know how to frame his thought process behind bringing all of those artists together, so they say 'throwback,' or they say '90s groups.' Truth of the matter is, Jagged Edge's first album came out in '98, so we're not really much of a '90s group.
At the end of the day, we make music that you can't put an age group on. We relate to a lot of different people, a lot of different age groups. You come to our shows now, you see younger women. It's not just 40-year-old women or 30-year-old women. It's women of all ages. All we have to do is keep making music that touches people, and people of all ages gravitate towards that.
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The Penn State Water Resources Extension is offering a free webinar on The Costs to Agriculture of Saving the Bay on Wednesday, 29 January. The webinar will highlight the recent study for the USDA Office of the Chief Economist on the costs of meeting the agricultural load allocations mandated by the US Environmental Protection Agency's Chesapeake Bay Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL).
The study addresses the agricultural costs of the Watershed Implementations Plans (WIPs) and the potential agricultural cost savings realized through Best Management Practices (BMPs). It also addresses the potential cost saving from nutrient trading.
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Animals have long been recognized as a positive addition to the healing process. In facilities, visits from therapy dogs have shown an increased happiness, calmness, and overall emotional well-being. Studies have shown a decrease in blood pressure and stress levels during therapy dog visits. Therapy dogs provide a break from the daily routine, like the dreaded semester finals.
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Nick Chapman, Program Chair of the Business Management Program at Athens Technical College is featured in the latest issue of Southern Distinction magazine. In his article, he promotes to Athens Technical College's Business Management Program and the opportunities available to those students who graduate from the program. Southern Distinction is a regional magazine that covers topics ranging from business and travel to sports and medical advances. To find out more about Southern Distinction, you can visit their website www.SouthernDistinction.com.
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Congratulations to the Athens Technical College members of the Alpha Beta Gamma, Business Honor Society as they capped off an impressive year of campus and community service. Their outstanding efforts were recognized at the recent annual National Leadership Conference in Santa Fe, New Mexico by winning several major National awards. The following is a list of awards won:
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The most relaxing scent to this examiner came in the form of the Relax scent of Pink Zebra Sprinkles that were tested recently.
With the scent reminiscent of baby powder mixed with a mild perfume /cologne. Mr. examiner said this was actually one of the better scents that has been tested in the home. In this house, that is saying a lot, since he is very sensitive to certain scents.
If you need a great way to relax from a chaotic week, or after an in-law visit, these sprinkles will do the trick , and bring you around back to center to realign your spirit.(Who could not use that every once and awhile though.)
In my final analysis of this scent of the Pink Zebra Sprinkles, I would say, that yes the scent is worth purchasing, and putting into your scent melting repertoire. You will really enjoy it.
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College Hockey:Gallery: Union, Providence win NCAA openers in Bridgeport
Here are photos from Friday's East Regional semifinals in Bridgeport, Conn., where Union beat Vermont 5-2 and Providence beat Quinnipiac 4-0.
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