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The majority of films in the Vancouver International Film Festival are unrated and you must be 18 and purchase a $2 VIFF membership to attend a screening. However, a selection of films are open to all ages.
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Trevor Mack
Two siblings endure the impact a residential school has on their relationship with themselves, one another and nature itself.
Courtney Mackerricher
These days, you don't need to be on TV to find fame and fortune as a musician.
Guy Maddin
A fever dream within a dream, the latest transmission from celluloid fetishist Guy Maddin (assisted by young co-director Evan Johnson) is part campy, whacked out tribute to vintage Hollywood melodrama, part anguished crypto-confessional and all brilliant: a passionate, virtuoso pastiche that is also perversely original and sui generis. The perfect date movie for mad cinephiles! "[An] inventive, audacious, and outright hilarious tour de force whatzit."—Cinema Scope
In the Canadian arctic, a man is haunted by a young girl that the rest of the country has forgotten. (This project was produced with the guidance of Reel Youth mentors at Inuvik Youth Centre.)
Michael Madsen
In a nonfiction work of tremendous vision, Michael Madsen pre-enacts how an alien invasion might unfold. Rather than wild speculation, this modern equivalent of Welles' War of the Worlds broadcast draws from erudite sources inside the United Nations' Office for Outer Space Affairs. Despite its factual foundations, Madsen's film still inspires wonder thanks to an enthralling interview technique that sees its subjects directly addressing the camera, putting us in the place of the otherworldly visitor and leaving us to question humanity's role in the universe.
Dusty Mancinelli
Joshua's dull afternoon is upended when his volatile older brother shepherds him through the countryside in search of adventure.
Emilie Mannering
Accompanying teen brothers on their daily routine of complicity and intimidation, Star tackles themes of identity and friendship.
Pietro Marcello
Pasolini's "cinema of poetry" as refracted through the lens of Italian neo-realism, Pietro Marcello's modern fairytale embodies myth and modernity in equal measure. The demi-god Pulcinella arrives in the Compania region to attend to the final wish of shepherd Tommaso: to save a young (talking) buffalo by the name of Sarchiapone. As Pulcinella and Sarchiapone wander the countryside in search of a new home for the latter, Italy and all its contradictions come alive…
Michelle Marquez
A fifteen-year-old filmmaker's award-winning neuroscience research correlates music and images with the selective triggering of emotional states. In this film she uses her discoveries to challenge the traditional division between science and art.
Tony Massil
Directors Tony Massil and Pablo Alvarez-Mesa's creative documentary follows Frank Furko, an 80-year-old eccentric living in a Pittsburgh suburb. The film focuses on Frank's celebrity, which derives from a deeply felt friendship with Pudgie Wudgie, his 20-pound performing house cat. Supported by Frank's 20 years of VHS video archives—mesmerizing footage that is strange, often hilarious and oddly beautiful—this is an intimate and thoughtful portrait of an older man struggling to come to terms with his very unusual past.
Matsubayashi Yoju
While he was presenting his Horses of Fukushima here last year, Matsubayashi shot some images of Vancouver—and he's fed them into this extraordinary wordless documentary. Shot in 17 cities across the globe, this uses only reflected images—seen in glass, mirrors, puddles and so on—to sketch a critique of a world gone wrong. It's poetic, affectionate and cynical in equal measure. Playing with an ace selection of animé shorts. Tony Rayns
Albert Maysles
Intimate, revealing, philosophical, spiced with dollops of whimsy—these are qualities associated with the work of the late, legendary documentarian Albert Maysles (Gimme Shelter, Grey Gardens), and his final film (co-directed with Lynn True, Nelson Walker, David Usui and Ben Wu) has them in spades. On a three-day train trip from Chicago to Seattle, the team—through encounters with other passengers—captures a snapshot of American life. "Lovely… A folk odyssey through northern landscapes that proves a fitting farewell to an American ethnographer."—Variety
Sean McAllister
A journey both physical and intensely emotional, Sean McAllister's five-year chronicle tells of the troubled love story between Amer, a Palestinian freedom fighter, and Raghda, a left-wing Syrian activist, who first met as Syrian political prisoners in the mid-90s, married and had four sons. As McAllister documents their struggles, he too is arrested, forcing the family to flee to Lebanon. He follows. The resulting story displays "heartbreaking candour… [and] furnishes a timely look behind the cover stories on Europe's immigration drama."—Hollywood Reporter
Kaleb McKenna
Having been nurtured and accepted as a gay man by his parents, Joshua finds the courage to confess that he's actually not…
Ryan McKenna
When her boyfriend stops making love with her, Jeannette (Marie Brassard) begins an affair with a young co-worker (Francis La Haye). Alas, it turns out that her heart problems are physical as well as metaphorical. When Jeannette inherits the heart of a deceased Malian woman, she's stalked by the donor's son (Youssef Camara) who's convinced that she's the reincarnation of his late mother… Ryan McKenna's stylized and nuanced film is sure to delight.
Ashley McKenzie
An overworked student is entangled in a wicked problem while trying to nurse a fledgling friendship with a troubled young drug addict.
Emma McKittrick
A teenaged boy uses time travel in a series of attempts to come out to his crush—but does practice make perfect? (This project was produced with Three Dollar Bill Cinema.)
Chelsea McMullan
An Alberta farm town wishes to be frozen in time, much like the taxidermied gophers in its lone tourist attraction.
The latest involving documentary from Chelsea McMullan (My Prairie Home) exemplifies excellent storytelling and artful execution. When two Canadian siblings travel to Thailand to find out what really happened to their murdered father, they discover that he fled Canada due to his involvement with a biker gang, only to land in deeper corruption in Thailand and the Philippines. Furthermore, he has two kids in Thailand with the same names as them. McMullan creates a creepy and subtly condemning portrait of foreigners doing very bad things.
Deepa Mehta
Mix propulsive bhangra beats, blazing AK-47s, bespoke suits, solicitous mothers and copious cocaine, and you have the heady, volatile cocktail that is Deepa Mehta's latest film, an explosive clash of culture and crime. Jeet Johar (Indian star Randeep Hooda) and his young, charismatic Sikh crew vie to take over the Vancouver drug-and-arms trade in this all-out action/drama. Blood is spilled, heads are cracked, hearts are broken and family bonds are pushed to the brink.


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A varied low-to-mid level trek around the Etive group of mountains bounded by Rannoch Moor, Loch Etive and Glen Kinglass, mainly on good paths and tracks.The outward eastern route follows a section of the West Highland Way (WHW) over the shoulder of Mam Carraigh to traverse Black Mount to Kings House and the foot of the Devil's Staircase.The north-western section ascends between the towering Buachaille Etive peaks through the Lairig Gartain, a fine old pass route linking Glen Coe and Glen Etive with a beautiful mountain view towards Loch Etive from its summit.The south-western section hugs the eastern shore of Loch Etive as far as Ardmaddy, flanked by Ben Starav and Beinn Trilleachan.The southern route returns along Glen Kinglass and ascends to a superb central section with a splendid mountain view to the north, reaching Loch Dochard and the Abhainn Shira.An extraordinary spell of weather for March mandated the investment of resources for a Scotland backpack: very warm sunny weather by day and freezing nights, only slightly marred by a thick haziness to the some of the mountain views. No complaints though, this was a splendid backpack with virtually nobody around, just a handful briefly in the vicinity of the Buachaille: from halfway up the Lairig Gartain to the end of the trip we saw only one walker, who was doing a similar route in reverse. Even the Black Mount section of the WHW was deserted. Very little snow remained on the mountains, just scattered pockets on the uppermost slopes and the odd corrie edge fringed with white.
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Very nice.
Many thanks all.
»GOF: ah work, I remember that, much better now being a full time grumpy able to take off anytime in the (probably only) good spell of weather for ages in sunshine, you know what retired folks are like...
»ed: Interesting thing about the yellow actually: in Spring the grass is like bleached straw and it definitely has an effect on the perception of the whole frame by the camera.
That must have been very enjoyable. Looks great.
nice walk made even better by the weather i had a few days in knoydart on the friday 23rd only saw night time lows of 6c at high camps and walked out to beach again on the sunday afternoon with a high of 23.9c and no midge......scotland cud be the new Lakes if they got rid off them evil midge ohh and moved it closer to the lakes for me
Indeed, a superb trek.
It must have been an inversion with lows of 6C at high level, it was really cold at night at low level. It could definitely do with moving closer, a trip up there is a significant investment.
......scotland cud be the new Lakes if they got rid off them evil midge ohh and moved it closer to the lakes for me
Well exactly. Wihout midgies, Scotland would be covered in holiday villages and Geoff would never have been able to enjoy the solitude that he did.
More midgies, that's what I say
Fantastic. I love reading about your trips and its something I'd love to do. Maybe one day
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France, who beat Germany in the quarter-finals, have opted to play the Sept 12-14 tie on the Philippe Chatrier clay court at Roland Garros for the first time since 2002.
The Roland Garros stadium was built in 1928 to host the Davis Cup final between France and the United States.
Since France beat the U.S. in the 2002 semi-final, the Fed Cup team has also played at Roland Garros, losing against Russia in the 2005 final.
Switzerland and Italy are contesting the other semi-final.
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They say the necessity is the mother of invention, but in this case, one smart mother gave birth to a new baby and one of the coolest inventions in the nursingwear industry. Having just delivered a beautiful baby daughter, Line Rothman created the Glamourmom Nursing Bra Tank out of sheer necessity. Like many mom's Ms. Rothman sought, but failed to find a nursing tank that had built-in support and easy breast access. And of course she wanted something that would actually cover that new mama belly too! Tired, cranky, and frankly disappointed with the lack of options, she designed a tank top with the support she so desperately needed built right in as a nursing bra. It wasn't long before her idea caught on and this wonderful company became a sensation around the world with moms.
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Daniel Meadows Professional Digital Retouching
Founded and owned by (would you believe it) Daniel Meadows; high quality digital retouching with a focus on fashion and beauty. Daniel has a lot of experience and is internationally renowned for his work.
Both run by the lovely Ian Hex. Design by Izo is his identity and branding design and typeface website, whereas Lightsweep is his exciting new venture into HDR photography, which I am extremely glad he has embarked upon as the world needs his photography.
Phil Meachem's film production company.
Chris Cronin is owner of Genesis Flux, film production company.
Jacob is a poet and educator based in London, but working internationally to create life changing experiences through literature. I work part time with Jacob on various initiatives such as the Shake the Dust slam poetry project.
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Definition of fermata in English:
1A pause of unspecified length on a note or rest.
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- The rests, fermatas and sudden dynamic changes help to provide an element of surprise.
- Unfortunately, most editors have tried to 'correct' Bach's 'inconsistencies' by adding fermatas where Bach did not indicate them.
- In movement four there should be a fermata over the last cluster in line two.
1.1A sign indicating a prolonged note or rest.
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- This also differs from the piano part in the transcription as the piano part indicates the fermata.
- Many of the extremely slow and lightening fast tempos we have become so accustomed to are automatically invalidated simply by honoring Bach's fermatas and implied tempo relationships.
- The final two bars, with their fermatas and sforzandos, are much more theatrical and formidable than Schubert's.
Italian, from fermare 'to stop'.
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"We (HUD) awarded $140 million to Chicanos Por La Causa and the NALCAB National Consortium to revitalize neighborhoods in 8 states and the District of Columbia. This award wasn't just a substantial sum of money, it is the single largest federal grant ever given to a Latino network in the history of the federal government," U.S. HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan. From Prepared Remarks of Secretary Shaun Donovan at the National Association for Latino Community Asset Builders National Conference
In 2013, the CPLC/NALCAB Consortium formally concluded its NSP2 Program. The Consortium received a $137 million NSP2 grant from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to address the impact of the foreclosure crisis on housing markets and neighborhoods, particularly in Latino communities. The end result was the creation of 1,500 housing units, 183 properties secured for future development and 2,300 jobs created or retained.
NALCAB's latest project--the National Neighborhood Stabilization Initiative--builds on the momentum, knowledge and experience gained during the NSP2 Program. Supported by a $6 million grant from JPMorgan Chase, this five-state pilot project focuses on job creation, affordable housing, and small business lending in predominantly Latino communities. It will also document and analyze the outcomes of the neighborhood stabilization strategies used by members of the Consortium.
Read below to learn more about the work of the CPLC/NALCAB NSP2 Consortium that provided the momentum for the National Neighborhood Stabilization Initiative.
SAN ANTONIO, November 2, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — Chicanos Por La Causa (CPLC) and NALCAB — National Association for Latino Community Asset Builders announced today that they have invested a total of $137 million dollars into predominantly Latino communities that have been hard hit by foreclosures. This effort has successfully restored neighborhoods and stabilized communities in eight states and the District of Columbia.
The initial investment of funds came from a grant from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and is the largest grant ever targeted by the federal government to predominantly Latino communities. See NSP2 overview infographic.
"Not only have we completed our task ahead of schedule and with the highest level of accountability, our market-based approach is generating revenues that we are reinvesting in these communities that were devastated during the recession," said Edmundo Hidalgo, CEO of CPLC in AZ.
"We are pleased with the NSP2 program results to date, but there is much more work to be done. We are committed to rebuilding our communities and contributing to the resurgence of the American economy," said Noel A. Poyo, Executive Director, NALCAB in TX.
In February 2010, through a highly competitive process, the Obama Administration awarded $137 million under the Neighborhood Stabilization Program (NSP) to CPLC, Inc., acting as the lead applicant for a national consortium of high capacity, nonprofit affordable housing developers, to revitalize neighborhoods that had been negatively impacted by foreclosure and abandoned properties.
The members of this consortium, all members of the NALCAB network, are anchor institutions in their communities and provide bilingual and bicultural services. This award recognized not only the demographic growth of Latinos, but also the extent to which Latinos have been disproportionately affected by the foreclosure crisis.
NSP2 is a program of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Administration.
NSP2 objectives are to:
NALCAB was instrumental in creating the consortium by selecting member organizations that are recognized in the community development industry as high capacity affordable housing producers. NALCAB as an NSP2 partner with CPLC is fulfilling its duties by managing the peer support component of the consortium and assisting with the administration, training, and monitoring requirements associated with the grant.
|Target Area
|Chicanos Por La Causa, Inc.
|Maricopa County and Santa Cruz, AZ
|Affordable Homes of South Texas, Inc.
|Hidalgo County, McAllen, TX
|Community Development Corporation of Brownsville
|Brownsville, TX
|El Paso Affordable Housing CUSO
|El Paso, TX and Las Cruces, NM
|Tierra del Sol Housing Development Corporation
|El Paso, TX and Las Cruces, NM
|Yes Housing, Inc.
|Albuquerque, NM
|The cities of Salinas, Gonzales, Soledad, Greenfield, King City, Hollister, CA
|New Economics for Women
|Areas of Los Angeles and San Fernando, CA (San Fernando Valley)
|Community Resources and Housing Development Corporation
|Suburban and rural counties in Colorado
|Del Norte Neighborhood Development Corporation
|Denver, CO
|NEWSED Community Development Corporation
|Denver, CO
|Northeast Denver Housing Center
|Denver, CO
|Mi Casa, Inc.
|Baltimore, MD and Washington, D.C.
|Norris Square Community Alliance
|Philadelphia, PA
|The Resurrection Project
|Chicago, IL
To learn more about the CPLC/NALCAB NSP2 National Consortium, read NSP2 is Working!
Christopher W. Sanchez
Program Director
National Association for Latino
Community Asset Builders
Phone: (210) 227-1010
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10 best San Diego sports teams ever
San Diego's best teams ever
The Eastlake All-Stars are playing for the 2013 Little League World Series championship and a place in our hearts. While our hearts are big, our list of great teams is painfully short. My ranking excludes the 2012 Xolos championship team because it played outside San Diego County and the Gulls title teams because they didn't capture much local attention, let alone national media. Did I miss one of San Diego's all-time great teams or get these out of order? Take our poll to pick the best yourself, write a comment or email me.
2009 Park View Little League
The 2009 Park View Little League team became the second ever local team to win the World Series, then went on to be lauded at Chargers practice, Padres games and outside San Diego County, including on Conan O'Brien.
Honorable mention: The 1961 Northern Little team of El Cajon won all three of its games in its last at-bat in the 1961 Little League World Series, twice by walk-off home runs from Mike Salvatore in the semi-finals and finals. Yes, that was before ESPN.
1987-1988 San Diego Sockers
This was the Sockers' sixth championship season in a run of 10 in 11 years. As a warmup, the team went 42-14 in the regular season and drew 9,000 people a game to the Sports Arena, then won a seven-game series in the playoff semi-finals down three games to one. It also had the league coach, defender and goalkeeper of the year and league legend Juli Veee, pictured, playing in his last season.
1969 San Diego State University Aztecs
The team, coached by legend Don Coryell, capped a perfect season by dominating Boston University in the Pasadena Bowl 28-7. It marked the second straight undefeated season, after a 1968 campaign of nine wins and one tie.
1963 San Diego Chargers
San Diego's only major professional sports championship came before the merger of two leagues created the National Football League and after a rough training camp in the desert. The Chargers' AFL coronation came after a 51-10 trouncing of the Boston Patriots before a crowd of 30,127 behind the skill sets of players nicknamed Bambi (Lance Alworth, right) and the Intellectual Assassin (Ron Mix, left).
1980 San Diego Chargers
Led by quarterback Dan Fouts and the receiving trio of John Jefferson, Charlie Joiner and Kellen Winslow, this team lost to the Oakland Raiders in the AFC championship game by a touchdown, then watched the dreaded division rival win the Super Bowl two weeks later.
2010-2011 San Diego State University Aztecs
This team reached the Sweet 16 for the first time in school history and compiled an impressive record of 34-3, during which it ranked in the top five of basketball programs in the country. Theirs was the hottest ticket in town that season but it all ended – just like that – against the Connecticut Huskies.
1984 San Diego Padres
Cub Busters but ultimately Tiger food, the team is the first Padres team to taste the postseason and only one of two to reach the World Series, beating Chicago in dramatic fashion before losing to Detroit.
1998 San Diego Padres
Perhaps the best Yankees team in history swept the Padres to win the 1998 World Series, but until then it was a magical season that featured 98 regular-season wins, dominant pitching, stellar hitting and the historic introduction of Hells Bells.
1994 San Diego Chargers
The team finished the regular season 11-5 then electrified San Diego by eking out dramatic second-half playoff victories. It won at home against the Miami Dolphins then in Pittsburgh before succumbing to the San Francisco 49ers in Super Bowl XXIX. It later earned a tragic reputation for being cursed because eight of its players have died.
2006 San Diego Chargers
Nine Pro Bowlers. Five All-Pros. The league MVP. An NFL-best 14-2 record. If there were ever a team to get San Diego its first modern-day championship, this was it. Except it wasn't. Four turnovers in the Chargers' only playoff game, three of which led to points by the New England Patriots, cost the team big time. Still, what could have been.
Did I miss one of San Diego's all-time great teams or get these out of order? Take our poll to pick the best yourself, write a comment or email me.


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I'm experiencing constant pain and numbness on the top of my left foot that seems to be getting worse. What could be causing this?READ MORE
Hi T. Kramer --
The best person to answer that question would be your doctor, since he/she will have your complete medical history and be able to evaluate your foot, leg, and hip to see what might be causing the issue. There are some conditions that can cause the pain you're describing; diabetic neuropathy, pinched nerves, and circulation issues come to mind. However, I'm not a medical doctor and can't diagnose the condition. It sounds miserable, though! I hope you've seen a doctor and found some relief.
Here are some links to those conditions and some other information that might be useful. Best of luck to you!
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Many of our video email users are naturals in front of the camera. Other users don't want to be seen on camera and prefer sending pre-recorded videos, or recording events and meetings instead of themselves.
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- Set aside a specific day/time in which you want to record your video messages. For example you can set Tuesday mid-morning as the best time on your schedule to make videos. Having a set time gives you confidence by letting you prepare in advance, wearing specific clothes and being in a specific location. Check your appearance prior to your video recording session. How does your hair look? What are you wearing? These are the first two questions many people ask as they want to look their best. If you tend to dress casually on Fridays, or work from home on specific days, you might want to wait until you are back in the office in professional dress.
- Designate a specific location for recording your video messages. The best location may be at your office desk. It might be in your home office. Some of our clients like to record their video messages outside on mailVU's iPhone video sharing app or our Android video sharing app. Both apps are free to download, and if you login to your account from the app your branding will be applied. If you know the location in advance, and are sure the background is suitable it will make you much more confident in your video recording.
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We've all endured lectures on efficient markets in graduate school: Prices are always right; humans are rational computing algorithms; beating the market is futile; and so forth. Enter behavioral economics, the study of economics when economic agents -- also known as "people" -- are no longer assumed to be 100% rational.
At Empiritrage, LLC we focus on turning academic insights into investment performance and many of our best trading ideas are focused on areas of the market where behavioral bias unduly influences price behavior. Interestingly enough, evidence for inefficient markets extend beyond stock markets. One market where this is true is in the market for athletic talent in the National Football League (NFL). Richard Thaler and Cade Massey conduct a wonderful research experiment analyzing the efficiency of NFL draft markets. The title of their paper is "The Loser's Curse: Decision-Making & Market Efficiency in the National Football League Draft" and a copy of the paper can be found at http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=697121.
Paper Summary
The paper analyzes decision-making during the NFL draft, an event where economic incentives are significant and outcomes are measurable. The authors develop the concept of surplus value for a given draft pick and show that teams consistently over-value the highest draft picks, indicating behavioral biases. Specifically, the authors conduct the following exercise:
- Estimate the market value of draft picks utilizing player trades.
- Compare the benefit of a using high drafts pick to the opportunity cost of trading for additional, lower picks.
- Calculate a surplus value equal to the draftee's performance value (regression of key performance statistics for veterans to veteran compensation) minus the draftee's salary.
The figure below shows a player's performance value, compensation, and surplus value by draft pick. Although performance and compensation both decrease monotonically, compensation does so at a greater rate. Thus, picks near the beginning of the second round of the draft have a greater surplus value than the highly desired first pick.
Paper Comments
Behavioral biases can lead to market inefficiencies, not only in stock markets, but also in athletic markets. One nitpick on this paper is that the analysis undervalues the new collective bargaining agreement (CBA) signed by the NFL in 2011, which actually makes top picks more valuable. For example, Andrew Luck and Robert Griffin III (2012, #1 and #2 picks, new CBA) are paid around $5 million a year, when both made the pro bowl last year. A market contract for such a player would be at least $10-12 million per year. In contrast, Sam Bradford (2010, #1 pick, old CBA) was paid more guaranteed money than anyone in NFL history, without playing an NFL game.
The evidence certainly suggests that top picks are overvalued, on average. However, there are a handful of top overall picks -- Elway, P. Manning, E. Manning, and Aikman -- who won a combined 8 championships. The value of a championship is hard to quantify, but my guess is that many NFL owners would mortgage the entire value of their team in order to win a championship. Similar to stock investing, on average, buying high-flying growth stocks is a terrible bet, but owners of Microsoft in the early 80's won the equivalent of the NFL championship. Try telling them that growth investing is a waste of time.
Wesley R. Gray, Ph.D. is a finance professor at Drexel University and the Executive Managing Member of Empiritrage, LLC, an SEC registered investment advisor. Wes is the co-author of Quantitative Value: A Practitioner's Guide to Automating Intelligent Investment and Eliminating Behavioral Errors. He has a BS from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, and an MBA and a PhD in finance from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.


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To the Editor:
I'm repeatedly annoyed each time the U.S. Open tennis anchors mention CiCi Bellis' California zip code when speaking about the young 15-year-olld's successful round yesterday.
Her zip code may be "fascinating" for some but it is a set-up to provoke backlash about "rich girl" talk. The girl is talented. Zip code or not. Keep the talk about the potential and rising U.S. tennis pool coming of age. The girl is homeschooled -- one of many tennis players -- she's "hungry" for competition and she's confident as well as aware of her growth needs.
The size of her diamond earrings -- comment by (broadcaster) Chris Evert, my longtime tennis idol -- has nothing to do with the 15-year-old's ability. It was made following the comment about the California zip code and the "$5 million" minimum home price range in the zip code.
Please share the need with anchors for comments that have to do with the game -- human interest comments are bountiful, character, dedication, love of the sport, commitment to practice, practice, practice -- staying healthy, etc., etc., etc.
Omit the "rich girl" asides. Rich girls, poor girls ... we all come from somewhere. It's about who we are and what we do with what we've been given.
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Morning MoneyBeat Europe: Mr. Draghi's Big Day Dawns at Last
Good Morning Europe
Well, here we are then, big Thursday, the day when the European Central Bank will finally stop telling us all about the infinite variety of stimulative monetary tools it has at its disposal and actually use a few of them. Or so the markets think.
The euro zone's economic picture is far brighter than it was in the depths of the debt crisis, but growth remains achingly patchy, pricing power terribly weak. The big question of course is over the form any ECB action will take. Simply trimming interest rates seems unlikely to impress, but full-blown quantitative easing may be a step too far for some euro zone member states (we can see you Germany), so some sort of half-way house seems the most likely destination for now.
The ECB is likely to be the only game in town for investors during the European day, although of course the latest U.S. jobless claims figures will be looked at, too, as the month's blue riband data release, official U.S. labor stats, will follow them on Friday. The Bank of England will also give us its monetary policy dispensation, a little before the ECB, but it's expected to be a rather dull curtain raiser to the main event, with no changes to the setting thought likely.
By David Cottle
Market Snapshot: U.S. stock markets (Wednesday close) DJIA up 0.1%, S&P 500 up 0.2%, Nasdaq up 0.4%. Nikkei now down 0.1%. June S&P down 0.1%, June FTSE flat. Brent crude down 20 cents at $108.20. Gold down 70 cents at $1243.60. EUR/USD now at $1.3602, just above $1.3599 late Wednesday in New York. USD/JPY at ¥102.54, below ¥102.75. Ten-year T-note yields 2.59%, Bund 1.43% and Gilt 2.70%.
Watch For: The European Central Bank's policy decision. The Bank of England's is up too, but no action is expected. Again.
What you may have missed from MoneyBeat:
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The ECB's Negative Deposit Rate – The Short Answer: In a groundbreaking policy move for a major central bank, the European Central Bank is widely expected to introduce negative deposit rates at Thursday's meeting.
As ECB Frets Over Deflation, Real Culprit Is Japan: As the European Central Bank's governing council prepares for new policy measures to combat the threat of deflation, its members might look jealously at their counterparts from the Bank of Japan.
Weakening the Euro, Easier Said Than Done: The market rule of thumb says that falling interest rates ought to result in a weakening currency.
The Market Says the ECB Will Act. What to Expect Next: Analysts have taken European Central Bank President Mario Draghi at his word. All but a tiny minority of investors or analysts think the central bank will cut interest rates Thursday.
Credit Suisse Near-Doubles Forecast for European Bank Legal Costs: With an apparently ceaseless supply of skeletons in the cupboards of European banks and an apparently insatiable appetite for enforcement action and fines among financial regulators, past misdeeds are now hitting the region's lenders where it hurts them most: in the wallet.
BIS Chief: Regulators Should Pay Closer Attention to Capital Market Risks: Regulators need to pay closer attention to the potential risks to financial stability that be lurking in capital markets, the head of the Bank for International Settlements said Wednesday.
Greenhill Adviser on LSE Deal Moves to Lazard: Lazard has hired a senior U.K. managing director from rival Greenhill & Co., who was part of the team advising the London Stock Exchange PLC on its potential acquisition of Russell Investments.
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This cottage, whilst smaller than many, is typical of the 'L' shaped terraced houses that make up much of the Victorian suburbs of London. With just two bedrooms (the original third had become the bathroom) it had become too small, and we were asked to provide another bedroom, second bathroom, and a bigger kitchen dining room.
The local council's planning rules would not have allowed enough space for a bathroom as well as 2 bedrooms in the loft, and 'Permitted Development' then set a total limit on extra volume that would also have been too small. But by working around the rules, we suggested that the extra bedroom and bathroom were built first as PD, with a separate planning application and second building contract for the ground floor extension.
Using the new, and as yet unfitted, loft spaces as a temporary living room and kitchen whilst the ground floor was altered saved the family the cost of moving out during the works.
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Hotel Belvedere, Izola
- Free hot/cold buffet breakfast and WiFi
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- 119 smoke-free guestrooms
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- Izola Marina (1.1 mi / 1.8 km)
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- Piran Harbour (4.7 mi / 7.6 km)
- Tartinijev Trg (4.8 mi / 7.8 km)
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- Pets allowed (dogs and cats only) *
- 2 per room (up to 30 kg)
- Free WiFi and wired Internet access in public areas
- Free WiFi in rooms
- Free beach shuttle
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- Smoke-free property
- Resort fee included
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- Free hot/cold buffet breakfast
- Restaurant
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- Beach bar
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- Tennis on site
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- Miniature golf on site
- Tennis lessons on site
- Hiking/biking trails nearby
- Sailing nearby
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- Front desk (limited hours)
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- Number of buildings/towers - 5
- Year Built 1957
- Safe-deposit box at front desk
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- Satellite TV channels
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Dr. Elizabeth Cavicchi
January IAP 2010
2010 marks the 400th anniversary of Galileo's astonishing sightings of features on the moon, stars, and moons around Jupiter that no one had seen before. Recreate these new ways of seeing and exploring from the materials and techniques Galileo had on hand, while you reflect on the times and works of Galileo. What was it like to improvise new ways of seeing and exploring from the materials and techniques on hand? What do we notice? What surprises us? How can we relate to past experience and ideas? What are we curious to research? How does our experimenting grow into our learning? Let your own curiosity drive your explorations.
Elizabeth Cavicchi. EC.050 Recreate Experiments from History: Inform the Future from the Past: Galileo, January IAP 2010. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology: MIT OpenCourseWare), http://ocw.mit.edu (Accessed). License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA
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NELSON, ROOD, & CALDON On the DC Executive Appointments
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Date: 18 February 2010 Time: 12:27 PM ET
DC Entertainment Pres. DIANE NELSON
Update 10:55 am- The Source has now also posted statements from new Executive Vice President Sales, Marketing and Business Development John Rood and new Executive Vice President, Finance and Administration Patrick Caldon. Those statements are also reprinted below.Over on DCU Blog THE SOURCE, a statement was released from DC Entertainment President Diane Nelson. Nelsonnotes her excitement over the new appointments of Jim Lee and Dan DiDio as Co-Publishers, thanks Paul Levitz for his interim service, and goes into a bit more detail on the announcement. The full letter from Nelson is reprinted below: A Note From Diane Nelson:


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Remains of collegiate dwelling of chantry priests, now ruin. Early C14, later medieval addition, gutted by fire mid C19. Blue lias random rubble. Plan: gabled block lying North South abutting Priory and Chantry Cottage (qv) is solar wing to the latter hall, contemporary chapel wing, gabled in South East corner with larger later medieval gabled addition in North East corner. Large stepped angle buttresses to wings, North East wing with chamfered plinth and altered square headed window on East front and square headed opening in gable end. The building is otherwise completely obscured by ivy and undergrowth at time of survey (August 1983). The college of chantry priests was founded under license 1329 and disolved late C14. Scheduled Ancient Monument (Somerset County No 480) (There are many early C19 watercolours of the building before the fire in the Local History Library Taunton; photograph in NMR; VCH Somerset, Vol 5 forthcoming). {1} {1}
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Joseph Brodsky, Exiled Poet Who Won Nobel, Dies at 55
By ROBERT D. McFADDEN
Published: January 29, 1996
Joseph Brodsky, the persecuted Russian poet who settled in the United States in the early 1970's, won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1987 and became his adopted country's poet laureate, died yesterday at his apartment in Brooklyn Heights. He was 55.
The cause was believed to be a heart attack, said Roger Straus, Mr. Brodsky's friend and publisher. Mr. Brodsky had open-heart surgery in 1979 and later had two bypass operations, and had been in frail health for many years.
The poetry of Joseph Brodsky, with its haunting images of wandering and loss and the human search for freedom, was not political, and certainly not the work of an anarchist or even of an active dissident. If anything, his was a dissent of the spirit, protesting the drabness of life in the Soviet Union and its pervasive materialist dogmas.
But in a land of poets where poetry and other literature was officially subservient to the state, where verses were marshaled like so many laborers to the quarries of Socialist Realism, it was perhaps inevitable that Mr. Brodsky's wark -- unpublished except in underground forums, but increasingly popular -- should have run afoul of the literary police.
He was first denounced in 1963 by a Leningrad newspaper, which called his poetry "pornographic and anti-Soviet." He was interrogated, his papers were seized, and he was twice put in a mental institution. Finally he was arrested and brought to trial.
Unable to fault him on his poetry's content, the authorities indicted him in 1964 on a charge of "parasitism." They called him "a pseudo-poet in velveteen trousers" who failed to fulfill his "constitutional duty to work honestly for the good of the motherland."
The trial was held in secret, though a transcript was smuggled out and became a cause celebre in the West, which was suddenly aware of a new symbol of artistic dissent in a totalitarian society. Mr. Brodsky was found guilty and sentenced to five years in an Arctic labor camp.
But amid protests from writers at home and abroad, the Soviet authorities commuted his sentence after 18 months, and he returned to his native Leningrad. Over the next seven years he continued to write, with many of his works translated into German, French and English and published abroad, and his stature and popularity continued to grow, particularly in the West.
But he was increasingly harassed, for being Jewish as well as for his poetry. He was denied permission to travel abroad to writers' conferences. Finally, in 1972, he was issued a visa, taken to the airport and expelled. He left his parents behind.
With the help of W. H. Auden, who befriended him, he settled in Ann Arbor, Mich., where he became a poet-in-residence at the University of Michigan. He later moved to New York, teaching at Queens College, Mount Holyoke College and other schools. He traveled widely, though never back to his homeland, even after the collapse of the Soviet Government. He became a United States citizen in 1977.
Meanwhile, his poems, plays, essays and criticisms appeared in many forums, including The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books and other magazines. They were anthologized in books in a growing canon that garnered the 1981 MacArthur Award, the 1986 National Book Critics Circle Award, an honorary doctorate of literature from Oxford University and, in 1987, the Nobel Prize in Literature.
The Swedish Academy, which awards the prestigious prize, said he had been honored for the body of his work and "for all-embracing authorship, imbued with clarity of thought and poetic intensity." It also called his writing "rich and intensely vital," characterized by "great breadth in time and space."
In 1991, the United States added to his honors, naming him poet laureate. The rumpled, chain-smoking Mr. Brodsky had for 15 years been the Andrew Mellon Professor of Literature at Mount Holyoke College, in South Hadley, Mass., and had been scheduled to return there today to begin the spring semester.
Joseph Ellis, a former faculty dean who brought Mr. Brodsky to the college in the early 1980's, recalled yesterday how his friend often was seen speeding around the campus in an old Mercedes. He would interrupt conversations with students and colleagues to jot down notes on bits of paper he carried in his pocket. "He thought out loud in front of his students in a way that was inspirational," Mr. Ellis said.
Mr. Brodsky, who wrote in English as well as in Russian, though his poems were composed in Russian and self-translated, was a disciple of the Russian poet Anna Akhmatova, whom he called "the keening muse." He was also strongly influenced by the English poet John Donne, as well as Mr. Auden, who died in 1973. One volume of Mr. Brodsky's poetry, "Elegy to John Donne and Other Poems," was published in London in 1967. His "Selected Poems" had a foreword by Mr. Auden.
But Mr. Brodsky was best known for three books published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux: a volume of poetry called "A Part of Speech" (1977); a book of essays, "Less Than One" (1986), which won the National Book Critics Circle Award, and a book of poems, "To Urania" (1988). Other recent works include a play in three acts called "Marbles" (Noonday Press, 1989) and a book of prose, "Watermark" (Farrar, Straus, 1992).
Mr. Straus remembered Mr. Brodsky as "very warm, very caring, very willing to give his friendship," especially to young writers and other exiles, some of whom he championed selflessly.


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March 2007
337 Pages
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Keeping it Real is the latest High Concept Fantasy by Justina Robson to appear on US shores, about a year after the UK published the book, reviewed by SFFWorld's Hobbit here. In this novel, the first of a series, Robson takes a cyborg bodyguard and assigns her to a rock band fronted by a High Elf. That's the TV Guide version, so to speak. Those who have read Justina Robson in the past (and quite frankly most of Pyr's output) should know, the words that support the snapshot description are far greater than any simple summation can provide.
In the not too distant future the Quantum Bomb changed reality, bridging the gap from the real world earth to worlds thought only to be fantasy. Earth, now known as Otopia, is connected to a number of fantastical worlds. These include a realm of Elementals, a realm of Elves, a realm of Demons, a world of Death, and the realm of Faery. Communication and relations across these worlds is tenuous, at best. As dicey as race relations are today, Robson extrapolates this tension onto her world and characters. While it is a serious issue, she adds humor along the way to keep the story relatively upbeat.
Sounds like a "crossover" fantasy with elements or people of our world traversing into "fantasy" worlds, but as I intimated earlier, there's more. Remember the cyborg bodyguard? Right, it seems technology has advanced enough in Otopia to allow for a cyborg that would give Arnold Schwarzenegger's Terminator a run for its money, except Lila Black is more human and has much more emotional baggage. One of Lila's major problems with being a cyborg is that her family thinks she is dead, she can have no contact with them because of the covert nature of her job. She was brought back to life as an atomic-powered cyborg, with limbs of metal. Once a beautiful woman, she is now more metal than flesh, so her mind is to say the least, a bit shuffled.
Lila is assigned by her government to guard the No Shows, specifically their front man, er front Elf Zal Ahrim. Zal is a prince and something of an expatriate and an outcast, on the surface; essentially the petulant royal youth. He has shunned life in Alfheim for the less magical world of Otopia as a rock star. It is something his racial brethren can't quite understand.
So Ms. Robson gives us two characters who are both out of sorts, in one way or another, and the inevitable happens. They find themselves attracted to each other and the Game ensues. This would all be well and good, but attempts are made on Zal's life, and a roller-coaster ride begins.
Clearly, Robson can pack quite a bit into the pages of her story; the book is less than 350 pages for all the cool ideas and twisting plot between the covers. On the surface, the story may seem like a slash fiction gone crazy, but somehow, Robson makes it work and presents a cohesive, if complex world. My only minor complaint is that in a few instances, the writing was uneven and less engaging than through the majority of the book. I also would have liked to see a bit more on the Quantum Bomb, but the story (rightfully so) was more concerned with the present of the Zal and Lila's life. With her star on the rise in the genre, Keeping it Real will only propel it further.
© 2007 Rob H. Bedford


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When I saw this for the first time I said to myself OMG! I have to build Thor god of thunder. Well this is going to be the build that I am shooting for. You get a ton of life resists and armor with this build. You will shock stack everything in sight and bring forth the power of lightning to your enemies!
Let the power of Thor and his lightning wielding awesomeness come forth and destroy Wraecrest!
Quick vid showing life and low life versions https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Vs7Ys-2RjM&feature=youtu.be
Gear you HAVE to have for this build!
also get ALL pure armor gear with life and res
109 point build
+393 to Strength
+24 to Dexterity
+205 to Intelligence
+142.5 to maximum Mana
+308.5 to maximum Life
Evasion Rating: 53
+3 Maximum Endurance Charge
+3 Maximum Frenzy Charge
+3 Maximum Power Charge
4% Additional Elemental Resistance per Endurance Charge
4% Physical Damage Reduction per Endurance Charge
5% Attack Speed Increase per Frenzy Charge
5% Cast Speed Increase per Frenzy Charge
50% Critical Strike Chance Increase per Power Charge
80% increased Mana Regeneration Rate
54% increased Elemental Damage
+34% to all Elemental Resistances
288% increased maximum Life
+4% to maximum Fire Resistance
+3% to maximum Cold Resistance
+4% to maximum Lightning Resistance
40% increased Elemental Damage with Weapons
3% increased Effect of Buffs on You
6.5% of Life Regenerated per Second
20% increased Shock Duration on enemies
20% chance to Shock
+12% to Chaos Resistance
Your hits can't be Evaded
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18% increased Attack Speed
154% increased Armour
8% increased Melee Physical Damage
+2 to Melee Weapon and Unarmed range
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5L/6L in Armor Lightning Strike > Multistrike > GMP > LMP > Chain > Faster Attacks (being that I'm on invasion I use Life again on Hit instead of Lmp)
4L Reduced Mana > Determination > Haste > Purity of Lightning (incase reflect)
4L Cast When Damage Taken lvl 1 > Enduring Cry lvl 5 > Curse of choice ( I use Enfeeble) > Decoy Totem/DD/??
4L Cast When Damage Taken lvl 8 > Immortal Call lvl 8 > Molten Shell lvl 10 > Increased Duration max lvl
3L in Mjolner Arc > Arc > Iron Will/Lightning Penetration (will be testing all other lightning spells with this including discharge)
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Definition of synthetic in English:
1(Of a substance) made by chemical synthesis, especially to imitate a natural product: synthetic rubber
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- The chemicals which comprise synthetic drugs are natural.
- When carried out in hydrocarbon solvent, this reaction produces a synthetic rubber similar to natural rubber.
- Mixtures of several synthetic dyes, or mixtures of natural and synthetic dyes, could produce more subdued colors.
1.1(Of an emotion or action) not genuine; insincere: their tears are a bit synthetic
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- While some musicians endeavor to muster whatever synthetic emotions their contract requires, he prefers to let things come naturally.
- And the fact they're guided by newspaper editors, who know very well what the real world is like, but choose to ignore this in favour of manufactured indignation and synthetic outrage.
- He loved her with all that he was; how could this emotion be synthetic?
artificial, fake, false, faux, imitation, mock, simulated, ersatz, substitute;
pseudo, sham, bogus, spurious, counterfeit, forged, pretended, so-called, plastic;
man-made, manufactured, unnatural, fabricated;
replica, reproduction, facsimile
informal phoney
2 Logic (Of a proposition) having truth or falsity determinable by recourse to experience. Compare with analytic.
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- Kant held that, even though most mathematical propositions are synthetic, they are knowable a priori - independent of sensory experience.
- The theory that existence is not a predicate implies, however, that all existential propositions are synthetic.
- Analytic propositions like synthetic propositions, can be believed for bad reasons, or for no reasons at all, and, when this occurs, we should deny that the believer knows the propositions in question.
3 Linguistics (Of a language) characterized by the use of inflections rather than word order to express grammatical structure. Contrasted with analytic and agglutinative.
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- Inflected languages are a variety of synthetic language in which a word takes various forms, most usually by the addition of suffixes, which show its role in the sentence.
- Albanian is a synthetic language that is similar in structure to most other Indo-European languages.
- Over time, synthetic languages have become more analytic, with the effect that inflexional morphology has repeatedly been simplified.
noun(usually synthetics)
A synthetic material or chemical, especially a textile fibre.
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- Twentieth century technology has opened up a treasure of textures and materials from space age synthetics to hand-woven straws.
- Surpluses persisted, however, thanks to greater foreign production and the increased use of synthetics in textile manufacturing.
- Knits are available in 100 percent cotton, blends and synthetics, including microfibers and performance fibers.
synthetical adjective
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- They are derived from a novel technique known as 'synthetical statistical estimation': they 'reflect expected values for the topics under investigation… and should not be regarded as absolute or exact'.
- Kant also agreed with Hume that synthetical a priori judgments could not be applied to metaphysics, but asking such question points to the fact that reason has a 'regulative' use.
- And thus the synthetical unity of apperception is the highest point with which we must connect every operation of the understanding, even the whole of logic, and after it our transcendental philosophy; indeed, this faculty is the understanding itself.
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- Originally made from the bark of a willow tree, today it is made synthetically.
- The pharmaceutical industry uses a lot of liquorice because it is one of the few products that can not be synthetically reproduced.
- He had developed a pill, containing synthetically produced versions of the hormones oestrogen and progestin, which would suppress ovulation apparently without side-effects.
Late 17th century: from French synthétique or modern Latin syntheticus, from Greek sunthetikos, based on suntithenai 'place together'.
Words that rhyme with syntheticaesthetic (US esthetic), alphabetic, anaesthetic (US anesthetic), antithetic, apathetic, apologetic, arithmetic, ascetic, athletic, balletic, bathetic, cosmetic, cybernetic, diabetic, dietetic, diuretic, electromagnetic, emetic, energetic, exegetic, frenetic, genetic, Helvetic, hermetic, homiletic, kinetic, magnetic, metic, mimetic, parenthetic, pathetic, peripatetic, phonetic, photosynthetic, poetic, prophetic, prothetic, psychokinetic, splenetic, sympathetic, syncretic, syndetic, telekinetic, theoretic, zetetic
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Voters have approved new town offices and a recreation center in a special election.
The result was 880-714 in favor.
The town will tear down the existing town offices and gymnasium on Main Street. The land would be bought by Middlebury College. In the buildings' place would be a park.
Voters also approved the plan on Town Meeting Day. Opponents gathered enough signatures to have the revote Tuesday.


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It is understood that four men armed with knives made their way into his north-west London home and held his wife and children forcefully before making off with personal possessions.
The former Arsenal striker is understood to have dashed back to the UK after learning the gang had held a blade to his wife Nancy's throat, and reportedly shouted "punch her, kill her!"
The gang are also said to have threatened to slice off the children's fingers if Nancy didn't hand over cash and jewellery, after forcing their way into her home when she answered the door around 9.20pm last night.
Steve Kutner, Wright's manager, told the Sun: "It was a terrifying ordeal. They marched Ian's wife from room to room. I would like to thank ITV for helping Ian to get home as quickly as possible."
The ITV football expert, who was at the World Cup in Brazil with the broadcasting team, last night tweeted: "You won't get away with it."
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A Scotland Yard spokesman said: "We are investigating an aggravated burglary at an address in north-west London after we were called at 9.20 last night.
"Personal possessions were stolen. The suspects are described as four black men aged between 18 and 25, with London accents, wearing dark clothing and hoodies obscuring their faces."
It has been reported by The Sun that the former Arsenal striker dashed back from the World Cup after learning the gang had held a blade to his wife Nancy's throat.
The 50-year-old is understood to have immediately left where he was staying in Brazil to get back home to join his family after the incident.
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Rethinking Coverage and Access In Health Care – Hepatitis C
Rethinking Coverage and Access In Health Care – Hepatitis C
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Hepatitis C impacts an estimated 3.2 million Americans. Between 60 and 70% of those with hepatitis C develop chronic liver disease, between 5 and 20% will eventually develop cirrhosis, and an estimated 12,000 die from hepatitis C related illness each year.
New and forthcoming medicines are providing greater hope for cures with a new class of medicines increasing cure rates from 50% to upwards of 90%, while reducing treatment duration from 48 weeks or more to as low as 12 weeks, and importantly for patients, side effects have gone from debilitating to few. These medicines are the most effective tools at our disposal today to stop the progression of the disease and for many patients to cure them of this disease.
None of this, however, is possible if these medicines don't end up in the hands of the patients who need them. Some insurance companies and state Medicaid programs are concerned about the cost of these new medicines. However, given the societal benefit of completely curing patients, the cost-benefit analysis on these drugs appears straightforward – insurance and society should pay for these life-saving drugs.
As leaders in health care, it's time that we start a conversation around how to provide patients with access to treatments that can halt the progression of disease and in some instances, provide an effective cure. This is preferable to delaying treatment until the disease has progressed when patients become much sicker and require more costly acute care, such as hospitalization or a major surgery. New treatments for hepatitis C effectively cure patients, whereas an untreated patient could develop end-stage liver disease and ultimately need a transplant that can cost over $500,000 on average and require many years of costly follow-up care. For hepatitis C patients that progress to end- stage liver disease, annual treatment is estimated to cost nearly $60,000 annually and for those with that progress to liver cancer, costs are estimated to be more than $112,000 annually. As more people are cured of the disease, we also reduce the number of future infections. When they do get sick, we should focus on early treatment to hopefully avoid lengthy suffering and acute care. We must focus on the best possible approaches to bring down systemic costs. And we must do all of this together.
New medicines today are providing patients with greater hope for cures. Today, however, individual patients are paying an average of 20 percent out-of-pocket for prescription medicines, and only four percent for inpatient care. Singling out sick patients who need specialty medicines and restricting their coverage by requiring them to pay disproportionately high out-of-pocket costs for their medicine goes against the basic concept of health insurance coverage. It's critical that we refocus our efforts and incentivize disease prevention and early treatment, not wait for more costly, acute problems to arise.
Similarly, singling out patients in the Health Insurance Exchanges by subjecting them to greater costs jeopardizes access to innovative medicines and likely increases overall health care costs. Patients deserve better.
Access to innovative medicines helps improve and save lives. For patients suffering from hepatitis C, new approaches mean they no longer face high annual costs and suffer from debilitating side effects. The same increasingly applies to cancer, diabetes, HIV/AIDS and many other diseases. Millions of patients are free to live their lives to the fullest. However, we need a health care system that works for all of us who rely on it.


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