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(WOMENSENEWS)--There's only one rule that matters, one rule that I have not seen written in any book, article or Web site.
That one rule is: Every woman must always play on the women's team.
Because every time any woman succeeds in business, your chances of succeeding in business increase. And every time a woman fails in business, your chances of failure increase.
Women aren't playing in the same team with each other right now. We don't talk to each other. We don't support each other. We don't rainmake for each other. We act as though we were a minority at work (which is barely true) with no hope of ever changing that situation (which isn't true at all).
Like it or not, women are indeed treated like a minority in the world of business. But are we really? Women constitute a healthy (and growing) 47 percent of the work force. But we make up only 12 percent of the upper executive ranks. And female enrollment in business schools has plummeted over 15 percent in the past five years--in part because women are being given the message that while a business school education can help for the first ten or so years of a career, after that the playing field stops being level.
There's more. Women comprise only 12.5 percent of corporate officers and only 12.4 percent of the board seats, in 500 of America's largest companies. We represent only 4 percent of the top earners and only 6.2 percent of the clout titles (chairman, chief executive officer, chief operating officer, vice chairman, president, senior executive vice president, and executive vice president). There are just four women CEOs in the entire Fortune 500.
Even Women in Top Ranks Earn Comparatively Less
Comparatively, we don't make enough money, either. Women who work full-time, year-round in 2000 earned only 73 percent of what men who also worked full-time, year-round earned, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. The wage gap has narrowed by about 10 percentage points during the last 17 years, with only slight improvements in the most recent years.
A recently released Congressional study shows that the difference in managerial salaries for men and women actually increased from 1995 to 2000, despite the fact that the country was experiencing an economic boom. In certain key industries where women are supposedly making great strides (entertainment, communications, finance, insurance, and retailing), the gap increased by as much as 21 cents for every dollar.
There is a widely held perception that in the not-for-profit world women do much better than men, but the reverse is true. A new study from GuideStar, a national database on not-for-profit organizations, shows that over three quarters of the larger organizations are run by men. Alarmingly, even when women hold top positions, they earn, on average, significantly less than their male counterparts -- $170,180 compared to the men's $264,602.
Some of this lack of financial parity occurs because, as I said, women don't band together in ways that create power.
But it's also because women have been reluctant to admit that by banding together, we are more likely to succeed.
As a result, we are constantly being forced to second-guess ourselves, even when we decide to follow all the male rules. We are always expected to jump through hoops without understanding why. That's because our own way isn't the expected way. The female psyche is not the role model for the business psyche; the male's is -- and if you don't believe me now, read "Play Like a Man, Win Like a Woman" and see how men have written all the rules of business, and why the rest of us need to learn them.
Because women think we have to succeed in the way men want us to, we have spent too much time looking in the wrong places: We keep trying to improve ourselves, we keep trying to reinvent ourselves, we keep learning more; we keep thinking if we try harder, somehow things will change.
Unfortunately, change hasn't happened. We need to know the male rules of business. But we must create and play by our own rules. We should be talking to each other; we should be planning with each other; we should be working to improve the situation for every one of us, not for just one of us. We should launch a new strategy to advance our careers as a whole, rather than advance our own careers at the expense of other women.
Gail Evans is the author of "Play Like A Man, Win Like A Woman," a New York Times Business Bestseller. She was a former White House aide and CNN's first female executive vice president. She currently lectures around the country, mentoring and teaching women on how to get ahead in today's corporate world.


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The school's sixth-grade class studied the importance of efficiency and renewable resources in conjunction with National Fuel's Energy Detectives Program. For their hard work the 200 students received a special visit from National Fuel, the Buffalo Sabres and Sabretooth.
"We've been studying energy for the last several months, as a core part of our curriculum," said Bonnie Majda, a sixth-grade science teacher at Amherst Middle School. "But they really learn so much more from these opportunities and having this kind of assembly… It just added to the excitement of it and I know that they are going to go home and talk this and really put what they are learning to use."
National Fuel's Assistant GM of Corporate Communication Julie Coppola Cox talked about saving resources and fielded questions from the students. Sabretooth helped with a green trivia game and handed out prizes – including two autographed hockey sticks signed by Green Team spokesperson Paul Gaustad.
The students also shared their knowledge with the class, presenting posters demonstrating easy ways to go green at home – such as collecting water with a bucket while waiting for the shower to heat up, to use on household plants.
"We think kids are the best messengers for bringing these kind of pieces of information home and we know that what they learn here, they are going to bring home to there parents and family," Coppola Cox said. "They are going to grow up with these good habits, so that when they get older… these will be second nature to them.
To help them get started each student received a National Fuel energy kit – complete with foam insulation, window kits and aerators for faucets – as well as Green Team stickers from the Sabres.
"There is no sense in teaching something if it just ends in the classroom," Majda said. "We need this to go home and become part of their daily living and the community and a piece of the world around them…it brings learning to life and that's what makes everything meaningful to the children here."

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The Charge of the Light Brigade
by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
The Charge of the Light Brigade Theme of Duty
The men in the Light Brigade are just doing their job; they're soldiers and it's their duty to fight. That's the core of what makes them appealing and heroic, but it's also the thing that makes their deaths tragic. The Brigade doesn't need to go on a suicide mission and charge their enemies (some commander seems to have given a bad order), and the Brigade knows that, but they do it anyway. That's the code of a soldier, and it's definitely what Tennyson is celebrating here – the last word in loyalty, in living up to your promises.
Questions About Duty
- Why don't we hear more about the way the individual soldiers are feeling, or who they are?
- Do you think there's a limit to duty? Is there a point past which you should refuse to do your job?
- Have you ever been in a situation where it was your duty to do something even though you thought it was the wrong thing to do?
- Why doesn't Tennyson give the names of the commanders? Why don't the guys giving the orders show up in the poem as characters?
Chew on This
By leaving out the names of the individual soldiers, Tennyson focuses our attention on what they accomplished as a group, and on their unity and strength.
The commanders are almost completely erased from this poem. This makes them seem irrelevant and foolish, and allows us to give all our attention to the brave men of the Light Brigade.


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- Aug 14:
- Robin Williams had Parkinson's disease, wife reveals
- Robin Williams: Bay Area made him feel normal
- Marin sheriff defends release of Robin Williams' death details
- Aug 13:
- Robin Williams' daughter deletes Twitter and Instagram accounts over online bullying
- Bay Area comics react to Robin Williams' death
- Robin Williams tribute by emotional Jimmy Fallon
- Quoted: Trolls drive Robin Williams' daughter away from Twitter, Instagram
- Aug 12:
- Marin residents share stories, fond memories of comedian Robin Williams
- Robin Williams' death makes public the usually private agony of suicide
- Contra Costa Times editorial: With Robin Williams, depression and bipolar claim another life
- Robin Williams remembered by Ben Affleck, Pam Dawber, Sally Field and more
- Robin Williams could appear in four films after his death
- Robin Williams death confirmed as suicide
- Did Robin Williams hang himself over financial troubles?
- Obama calls Robin Williams 'one of a kind'
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- Robin Williams fans flock to 'Mork and Mindy' house
- 'We knew him as a neighbor': Marin remembers Robin Williams
- Robin Williams suicide was 'selfish,' says Todd Bridges
- Apple ad was one of Robin Williams' final productions
- Obituary: Comedian Robin Williams dead of suspected suicide at 63
- Appreciation: Robin Williams, not a faster brain on the planet
- Robin Williams dies; sheriff investigating as suicide
NEW YORK -- The casts of "Aladdin" -- both the 1992 film and the current Broadway hit -- are honoring Robin Williams, who played the manic, fast-talking, unforgettable Genie.
Scot Weinger, who played Aladdin in the animated film, said Wednesday that working with his hero was surreal and magical, adding the world has "lost a bright light."
Weinger described himself as a lifelong Willams fan who had a "Mork" doll as a kid and a poster of "Dead Poets Society" on his wall as an emerging actor. Working with his hero was surreal and magical, he said.
Linda Larkin, who voiced Princess Jasmine in the movie, called Williams a "wild, soulful, boundless spirit," characterizing his Genie character from the movie as "the best gift ever."
Their reaction came a day after the cast of Broadway's hit show "Aladdin" created their own tribute. James Monroe Iglehart, who won a Tony Award as the Genie, led the crowd at the New Amsterdam Theatre on Tuesday in a rousing version of "Friend Like Me" after the curtain went down. The show's Playbills had been stuffed with the song's lyrics and everyone was encouraged to sing along.
The Broadway community honored Williams by dimming marquee lights for one minute Wednesday at 7:45 p.m. Eastern.
Williams, who died of an apparent suicide in his San Francisco Bay Area home this week, had been on Broadway several times, most recently as a restless tiger ghost in 2011 in "Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo."


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A Whoosh From Windows 95?
If the economy picks up steam during the rest of the year, Microsoft Corp. Chairman William H. Gates III will deserve a modicum of credit, says economist Charles Lieberman of Chemical Securities Inc. That's because hundreds of thousands of computer owners will be switching over to Windows 95.
Industry reports indicate that U.S. and Canadian consumers snapped up some $90 million worth of Win95 in the first four days. And that includes neither the sales of updated software products and computers with Win95 already installed nor the big bucks that computer users will spend for hard disks and memory to bring their hardware up to snuff.
Add it all up, and there's a good chance that computer-related sales will hype August's final nonauto retail number by at least 0.3%, says Lieberman. And with school starting and Christmas a few short months away, the surge is only beginning.


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And a cute little tree rat it is, too.
Ha ha. I'm sure by the time this posts someone will have beaten me.
Got a job offer, but it was such low pay it didn't cover my expenses, which are cut to the bone. I felt awful about turning it down because I really liked the people and under better circumstance it might have been a good opportunity, but I had no choice. I know it was the right decision.
Hot out these next few days. I plan to use the pool a bit and continue culling and purging and trying to figure out what to sell in another garage sale. Anyone have any cool plans for the weekend?
Oh that sounds so disappointing–it's a shame that they couldn't offer you more. :(
They said the same thing, but it was a county job, and the pay is dependent on the budget. They also said there haven't been raises in four or five years, and it doesn't look like there will be anytime soon with the economy the way it is. If I had a second income in this household, it would not have been a problem. But there is no way to make up the shortfall. :(
It's nice to know I COULD have been hired, though.
Get a roommate?
I would, but my house is so small I don't think it would be feasible. Also, the only roommate I really want is my bf.
Before anyone says anything about affording a house, my payment is cheaper than the rent around here.
Well I'm in the same boat as you hopefully you'll find something good, also I'm jealous of your pool good thing the heat is supposed to break tonight.
It's just a little quikset pool, only big enough to sit in and float, but BOY does it feel good after mowing.
Going camping at a creek – will spend the days in the creek for sure since it will be 90+ degrees out!
Ooh fun! I love camping. :) When I have the money I wanna get a tent and go. It's been a long time since I did!
Besides being fun it's one of the cheapest ways to spend a weekend, maybe you can justify the tent purchase that way!
sorry the job offer wasn't a better one. may the next one have excellent benefits and reasonable pay
See what I just posted. Oh please oh please oh please.
I just got a call for another interview, I think it's a state job, pays much more. Oh please oh please oh please.
Good luck!
crossing my toes for you!
**squints eyes and wishes really hard for good luck**
I've been watching Frasier reruns on We TV recently. They keep running text on top of the screen, informing watchers that Dish Network is dropping them.
I find their argument rather funny.
"If you want to continue seeing orginal programming such as Kendra On Top, Bridezillas, Braxton Family Values, and My Fair Wedding, call…"
With a lineup like that, I bet they are getting literally dozens of calls.
As of the last message, the call-in efforts have been for naught. Shocking.
I spent a good portion of the week before last catching up on Bridezillas on Netflix. So you're not missing much.
I've noticed a trend since that show started, from whiny baby tantrum brides to outright vicious and violent ones. I mean, this last bunch was SCARY.
Well, it's also reality TV, so there's likely a bunch of coaching and creative cuts.
I'm sure you're right about that. But I don't remember that much hitting and calling their friends "bitches." I wouldn't hang out one second with someone who treated me like that, show or no show.
Actually, they're dropping about 30 channels, including AMC.
We're on the 350 channel plan. The other day I sat with the remote and counted the number of channels we actually get. 117. Called them about it, and their reply was "We're currently sorting the lineups for all our packages, and should be done in March. If you're missing a favorite channel, you can always upgrade to the Unlimited package.."
Screw them, I'm dropping Dish soon as I get a Roku set up.
When my internet cooperates, I LOVE my Roku. And Netflix keeps getting stuff I like or have always wanted to see. Here's hoping any further price increases will hold off until I'm gainfully employed again.
They have the original L&O on Netflix now! I ended up watching 3 episodes last night…
Paul Sorvino FTW
Oh dear, I didn't need to know that. I end up getting sucked into hours of L&O when they have it on TNT on the weekends.
in MARCH?
Oh, I'd call about AMC.
They have original programming that's worth saving.
Walking Dead
Mad Men
The Killing
Breaking Bad
All fantastic (or at least very good)
Don't forget Comic Book Men. I was on it for a whole ten seconds! http://www.twitvid.com/W7RMA
a few new channels a week on roku, although a couple fail occasionally too. currently just about 750 roku channels and at least a couple dozen of them appeal to more than a specific group.
many of the channels that used to be paid are moving to ad supported models, which is a win for everyone.
I must live under a rock. I've heard of Bridezilla's, and watched a few minutes once, but the other shows? Never heard of them. Not a clue.
Bit of a busy weekend for me. Planning to go see Safety Not Guaranteed tonight, tomorrow night is gaming, and then Sunday morning I get up early to drop my flatmate at the airport and then the film discussion group I'm part of has their monthly meetup, this month to discuss love stories on film. I don't plan to sleep much, but it's almost all fun stuff, at least.
10 days to wedding.
Just got fitted for my ball and chain.
Someone help me!
You'll be fine.
I envy you.
You haven't seen my future wife yet!
Hi-O! Bu-dum ching!
*pulls at tie
No respect, I tell ya.
The only answer is to fake your death & flee to Mexico*
*I have never been married YMMV
PPS. congratulations hope the big day goes well.
You should donate all your gifts to the Obama campaign!
I'm going wedding dress shopping tomorrow!! We signed the contract for our venue on Wednesday. It's getting very real and very exciting. My fiance keeps encouraging me to spend about twice as much on a dress as I plan to, he's being sweet and really wants everything to be awesome, but I know I can get a dress I'll love in my budget and have more money to spend on photography and flowers and such. We're very lucky, my dad is contributing a large sum of money towards the wedding, but we're still trying to be very mindful of how we're spending and make sure we're getting the best deals we can.
I recently got married, but mine was a courthouse deal – no special dress or ceremony. Mr. J says that we'll do the formal wedding next year, but I'm not so sure we'll be able to afford it. We just finished paying off one loan, but now we're talking about doubling up on the truck and mortgage payments – makes saving up a few thousand dollars a bit of a trick.
I hope you find a beautiful dress – that's within your original budget and 40% off to boot! :)
Thanks so much!! I hope you guys figure out an awesome way to celebrate exactly how you want to. Hell, if it weren't for family, I probably would have just done Vegas or something easy like that, but I find I'm starting to actually get into the whole wedding planning thing.
Usually I seem to find the greatest deals and sales shopping when my fiance is with me, but this is definitely one trip he won't be on :) I'm sure it'll be great though, mostly I'm just so excited to get married to my wonderful fiance.
Getting married in 10 days myself. Be sure you make this YOUR wedding – meaning special to you and your future spouse.
We're throwing in very small additions, all personal to us, that make it special to us and don't add much to the cost.
We're both musicians, so the cake is music-themed. Because it's fun, I'm wearing full tails, a top hat, and the groomsman and I are using canes, and the grooms gift is a silver pocketwatch to use at the wedding.
I'm a lego fanatic, so the wedding toppers are a wedding couple (you can purchase this!).
Just make it memorable to you, and don't let family dictate to you how it should be.
Those are neat ideas! I hope everything goes smoothly for you!
Thanks for the advice! I hope everything goes awesome for you! That's neat that you are both musicians, my fiance and I are as well (although not currently by profession). I love the idea of a lego cake topper!
So far it seems like family is going to be pretty cool about not trying to dictate things, at least not openly. The only thing I'm a little worried about is that we're having a civil, non-religious ceremony (google humanist wedding ceremonies if you want an idea), and we both come from big Southern Baptist families. It should be fine though, my dad suggested letting his parents and my fiance's parents know that there will be no God talk and an open bar, so they can spread the information to the rest of the family and let people make their own decisions about how offended they'd be coming to a heathen wedding.
really looking forward to staying in and avoiding the heat this weekend. it's been a heck of a week. i know now what the inside of an ambulance is like first hand. this is what i get for hating my primary care physician and not bothering to get a new one.
i put off following up on a persistent cough for too long and ended up getting hauled out of work when i couldn't breathe and they called 911. not my idea of a good time but it was an interesting comparison.
my roommate has crap insurance and has been in the ER a couple of times this year. she has to go to one specific hospital, spend up to an hour in the waiting room, deal with a rushed and overworked staff in an overly full emergency room. registration is done in the waiting room and must be done before you are seen.
i have excellent insurance. my ER visit was actually sort of pleasant, for what it was. there was a choice of 4 hospitals and i picked the newest one, but mostly because it was closest to work. registration was done by a polite guy in a suit and tie who waited for the nurses to get me stabilized. it was a freestanding ER with 12 beds [i asked later] and one dedicated nurse per room. since there were three beds occupied, i had 4 nurses. the doctor didn't seem overworked and was actually able to sit down and talk to me about my condition. i got in to xray right away. the respiratory therapists [there were two] didn't have to make me wait for a breathing treatment.
nurses actually checked on me frequently, took my vitals every hour and paid attention to my symptoms.
my checkout went smoothly, i was able to use my FSA to pay my copay. they sent me home with medication and i know my insurance covered that, no worries about a massive bill later.
her bills this year for ER visits, with her poor insurance, are already over $17,000.00.
it's amazing how different the experience is between the underinsured treatment and the reasonably insured treatment.
I hope you're feeling better. And I hope your roommate is too. The disparate care thing is awful and unfair. Why can't we come up with something better? It's long past due.
Well duh if you poors would just pull yourselves up by those bootstraps you'd be rich & have good insurance, anything to the contrary is socialist drivel. 'Murica!
the fun part? the company she works for has many many more employees than mine and probably makes a LOT more money. her premiums are higher and her coverage is nearly nonexistent.
Sorry to hear you're ill. Glad to hear you had as pleasant an ER experience as possible.
Get well soon!
Wow, spent only up to an hour in the waiting room? I once spent 6 hours in the ER waiting for the doctors to get around to me.
slight advantage on the location – there are 9 hospitals in about a 30 mile area here.
I had plans on going to Virginia this weekend for a very rare concert opportunity. One of my favorite bands is doing a house party for members of their streetcrew (ie, the fans that go out and pass out fliers and posters for them). There were only about 40 people signed up to go, but unfortunately, my BF's job sent him out of town this week and he's getting back too late for us to turn around and drive 11 hours. I'm really bummed about it…but I'm hoping that they do more events like this for us.
Since we aren't able to make our concert, my BF made reservations at a local bed and breakfast so we can at least get away for a night and relax. So that'll be nice. There'll only be one cute guy there as opposed to the concert, but it significantly increases my chances of getting some. XD
Who were you going to see
Family Force 5…not a very big band, but ultra fun music and shows.
The name is pretty cool I'll give them that
Well, I was rejected for the job in Los Angeles, which is a huge bummer since it was a permanent job, would have gotten me back to California, and would have meant some security and stability for my fiance and I. (And to say nothing of the $900 I spent to go out there.)
I have an interview in San Francisco the first week of July. It's only a one year gig, but I'd be happy to get it. I am going to send out more applications to see if I can secure another interview or two while I am out there.
Good luck! *fingers crossed for you*
is it normal for the interviewee to pay for the trip?
I've had several interviews at remote locations, and each time the company paid for the airfare and hotel.
So my cat, Chloe, had surgery yesterday to have some bladder stones removed. I've known she's had them for awhile, but never brought her in to have them removed, since the surgery is, well, a little pricey! Lately, she was really straining when trying to use the restroom, I felt so bad for her as I knew how uncomfortable she was.
All went well and she's doing great. I pick her up this afternoon.
Has anyone had a pet that was prone to having stones? What was the after care like (if they've had surgery)? What kind of food do you feed them? They hate that Science Diet stuff (I don't like it either – I am not thrilled with the ingredients), but do want a good quality food for her to prevent another stone. I had been feeding her Blue Buffalo brand and she likes that. Any suggestions and advice will be appreciated :)
No advice but I'm glad she's better. :)
I present you with my favorite grunge shirt, acquired nineteen years ago: http://www.flickr.com/photos/29844234@N05/7420933434/in/photostream
That's cool is that a Les Miserables shirt?
Indeed it is. Great musical.
I'm guessing you wear it on Sundays, as it's holey.
I'm moving to a new apartment again. Luckily they're letting us move in early so we have a whole week to slowly pack and move things.
Hopefully this place will work out. I'm sick of the hot water running out, the dryer venting back into the apartment, the dryer ruining my clothes, and the management not wanting to fix anything.
Good riddance!
Otherwise, I recently started DJing on an internet radio station once a week. It's going pretty well and I'm enjoying it!
I probably won't post next Friday since that will be the biggest moving day.
I hope you all have a great weekend!
You too! Enjoy your new digs! :)
didn't you know you are supposed to use the heat from the dryer vent to heat the water?
may your move be as pleasant as possible, nothing broken, nothing lost
At quitting time today, I'm going to be on staycaction until July 5. I CANNOT WAIT!!! I'm gonna go to bed when i want, get up when I want, go to the river with my dog (see avatar) when I want, and be a bum. My main goals: read a book, go to yard sales to get stuff for my soapmaking project, visit the mom & pop hardware store in town to buy lye (for same project), and play with Blackcat on the back porch.
Enjoy your, well deserved I'm sure, vacation
I haven't had this much time off since I was on maternity leave, 26 years ago. Needless to say, my brain is tired.
you are making lye soap? sounds fun. i've been saving the ashes from the junk mail i burn to try to make my own lye for lye soap.
enjoy your staycation!
Yes, real homemade soap. I bought a book about it, and also found a good recipe on "Chickens in the Road" blog. My neighbor butchers, so I can get lard from him.
There's a hot process method that uses a crock pot, and my Mom has one she doesn't want any more, so I'm going to use it. I'm gathering all the stuff I need. Another consumerist recommended a website for dyes and scents a while back, so I ordered a few things, plus some shea butter & I'm waiting for that to arrive.
I'm hoping it's theraputic and my neighbors don't think I'm cooking meth outside when I do this :)
Oh, and the book is called "smart soapmaking" by Anne L Watson.
Enjoy! :)


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John and Mary had a fight. It was intense and neither is speaking to each other. Their relationship is suffering. Can they fix this? Both said some awful things and now feelings are hurt. They aren't talking.
But, they can fix this if they practice a skill that healthy couples use–relationship repair. Relationship repair is important because it says, this relationship is more important than winning an argument. Relationship repair means you are willing to do something to make things better. A repair is a fix!
A repair begins by acknowledging your part of the problem. You take ownership of your emotions, thoughts and actions. This is the part you control. For example, did you bring the issue up in a respectful manner–not blaming or name calling? Did you stay calm and try to listen? In John's case, he was accusing and blaming his wife for something he thought she did. This accusation shut her down and she stopped listening.
John wanted to fix their fight so he took the lead. When a fight or argument happens, don't wait to see who goes first. You go first and make the repair.
When you contribute to a fight with unhealthy responses like John did (blame, criticism, defensiveness, silent treatment, etc.), apologize and ask for forgiveness. This is a step of repair. Acknowledging that you were wrong to talk or behave a certain way, begins the healing. Hopefully, the other person will accept your apology. There are times when people do not. Then, there is little you can do. Most times, however, an apology and plea for forgiveness opens the door to talk. Once John apologized, so did Mary. They were ready to re-engage.
After the apology,pray together. This usually calms the atmosphere. It distracts from the emotional upset and focuses your attention on God's help in order to engage differently. It's hard to stay mad at each other when you pray together!
Then try to revisit the issue with the knowledge of correcting what caused the fight (tone, anger, disrespect, etc.). Work on solutions, compromises or different ways to think about the problem. Use the word "we" rather than "I." This communicates that you are in this together and want to have a solution.
You may not solve the issue, but you will repair the relationship. And that is the point. Couples don't always agree and solve problems, but the way they treat each other in the process matters. And relationship repairs send the message that you are more important than me being right!
Controlling? No. He is jealous and loves me.
Yes, he wants to know where I go all the time but it's just because he cares.
She doesn't want me spending time with my friends but it's because she wants to be with me.
Do any of these comments raise a red flag? They should! These are the actions of a controlling person. And your tendency might be to justify controlling actions rather than see them as a relationship problem.
A sign of over control is someone who is constantly jealous of your other relationships. The person tries to control who you see, how often you see them and then tries to guilt you into spending time with him or her rather than others. And to top it off, the reason given is because they care and want you all to themselves. This is not healthy.
Run from this type of relationship if you can. Controlling people don't become less controlling when they become more intimate in their relationships. They usually escalate to more control. Control builds over time if you don't address it when it begins.
If you confront a controlling person and he or she refuses to acknowledge what you see and feel, this is a bad sign. If, on the other hand, there is some awareness about the behavior, suggest getting help. A person can work on this, especially if they understand what is driving the behavior. Change takes time, but if the person is willing to improve the relationship, there is hope.
When bringing up an issue, stay calm and don't accuse. Be specific as to what the behavior was and how it made you feel. Then ask what motivated this behavior. Is there a way to reassure or get a need met that doesn't require this type of control? Try to stay confident that you want to work this out, but won't allow this type of treatment. Sometimes it helps to reverse the situation and ask how that person would feel.
Avoid being manipulated with well intended behavior. You need to see change in the action. Controlling behavior may not be intentional and born out of deep insecurity. When that is the case, the person needs help feeling more secure or coping in a better way.
Always assess your safety when dealing with a controlling person. Most often, counseling is needed to work through the underlying issues and make change.
You don't consider yourself too strict. You simply expect a lot from your children. In fact, some people call you a perfectionist. Yes, you are demanding. At times, you do push because you want things to be right.
But is there a dark side to high pressure, high performing pushes? Does perfectionism cause relationship problems?
A study in the Journal of Personality provides insight into parents who drive their kids to perfection. In the study, researchers followed 263 seven-year-old grade school children for 5 years. They wanted to assess the impact of a perfectionistic parenting style on their children.
They found that those children whose parents were rated as intrusive (perfectionistic) by the researchers had children who were were overly critical of themselves. When parents corrected, took over and did for their kids, these behaviors undermined their children' feelings of being good enough. And those negative feelings of not measuring up translated to depression and anxiety later.
Perfectionism may produce high functioning people in terms of their skills or talent, but it can also create people who are afraid of making mistakes and then engage in self-blame. Researchers call this "maladaptive perfectionism." The concern is that this type of perfectionism may result in a person's negative well-being, with self-criticism, symptoms of depression, anxiety and even possible suicide.
The bottom line then is to encourage children, not pressure them to the point of creating insecurities. So if you tend towards perfectionism, pay attention to how you translate this tendency to others. Are you pushing too much, overcorrecting, not allowing others to learn from their mistakes? Are you contributing to negative well-being by wanting things done right and your way?
Take a step back. Recalibrate and allow grace. You don't want to push to the extent that your children or others resent you, even if they become good at what they do.
Newsweek online recently posted an article entitled, Age 5 is too late: Public schools must focus on early learning. The author pleaded for education reform. She said a "coordinated curriculum between both the early childhood education program and the elementary school program is crucial; thus, creating a public school system beginning at the age of 2, or at the latest, age 3." She then defended her position with brain research, informing us that the optimal window of learning is ages 0-5 for a child. The quality of care during that time sets the stage for later learning. I would agree that the brain is forming new connections and learning daily.
I disagree, however, in terms of where that learning should take place. The author wants kids in public education during those early years. Send them to a preschool where their minds can be stimulated. But what about early childhood education in the home?
A two-year-old does not need to go to a public school to bridge the learning gap. Three-year-olds don't need to start reading or writing their name. Children can learn at home with parent interaction, while developing a strong attachment to their parents. A secure attachment also sets the stage for learning. When the home is a safe place with a caring parent who loves on their child, learning takes place.
I was my children's early childhood teacher. I rearranged my career to do this, sacrificed income and did what I needed to do to be there during this critical developmental time. I'm not a saint, nor an elite. I did have a working husband, so yes, I could stay home and change shifts with him for a few hours of night work. For income, I worked when my kids napped or went to bed. It wasn't ideal for my career, but their needs during this critical period of development were more important.
My classroom was parks, playgrounds, field trips and nature walks. We would swing, run, look at exotic bugs and plants. I was teaching, creating curiosity, and providing active learning by doing. There was no classroom structure–just the exploration of new things and new experiences. And during that process, I was imparting my values.
I am perfectly aware that some parents have to work to survive, but maybe this is where we should rethink how to support families -find ways to keep parents and children together during this critical development period. It would strengthen attachment. I don't believe sending a two-year-old to a public school can do that.
To learn, a child needs a sense of security and a home base that provides safety. This is where we need to put our efforts in early childhood development. What can we do to support parents who need to work, who are stressed, whose family problems are causing instability and chaos in the home? How can we strengthen the parent-child attachment in order to prevent future problems?
Rather than send a two-year-old off to a public school, I would rather find ways to keep that child in the home of a nurturing parent who can teach through relationship. That would be a program to get behind.


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Among some of the many comments:
"I don't know. I sort of always liked playing them that second game because you could always count on them having two or three key players suspended."
His thoughts on Nick Saban and what he's done at Alabama.
"He's got a nice little gig going, a little bit like (John) Calipari. He tells guys, 'Hey, three years from now, you're going to be a first-round pick and go.' If he wants to be the greatest coach or one of the greatest coaches in college football, to me, he has to go somewhere besides Alabama and win, because they've always won there at Alabama."
His thoughts on who's the best coach in the SEC.
"I think it's Saban. He's considered the best. Les Miles is considered one of the best, when you look at number of wins. I believe you're as good as your record. You are whatever your record is. Don't give me any excuses or that you can't win at this place."
His thoughts on Lorenzo Ward taking over as the Gamecocks' defensive coordinator.
"I hope we'll be a little sounder than we have been. Obviously, Ellis (Johnson) did a heck of a job here. But at times, we'd have some coverage breakdowns. I don't know if we were doing too much or this guy was making mistakes. We got a lot better during the course of the year after we simplified some things."
His thoughts on Will Muschamp's challenge at Florida.
"I told Will that he had one of the hardest jobs in America because of what's happened down there prior to him coming. I don't know that they have that much greater a team than most others in the SEC now. They're pretty good. But it's a tough job because of what Urban (Meyer) has done and prior history. Those fans are expecting 10 to 12 wins every year. Our fans are going to expect nine to 11, which is fair, and that's good. I hope our players expect it, too."
His thoughts on when he might retire.
"I used to think 60. When I was 55, I'd say four or five more years. When I got to 60, I'd say four or five more. And when I got to 65, I started saying three or four more. I'll tell you what. We had a good-looking quarterback come through on Junior Day, and I wrote him a letter and said, 'If you come here, you might extend my coaching career two or three years.' "
His thoughts on going out on his terms.
"Let me ask you this: How many coaches do you know that have retired in the last 10 or 15 years, and I'm talking honestly retiring, guys who had a good job, were winning and stepped aside on their own ? There aren't many. They all got fired. Who would have ever thought that Bobby Bowden and Joe Paterno would have to get forced out? When I leave, they're not going to pay me $4 million because I had another five years on the deal and got fired. I ain't going to be one of those guys. I just have too much pride. That's not going to happen."
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Hungary May Launch Global Bond as Early as Next Week
Hungary looks set to launch its first global bond in more than a year and a half as early as next week, taking advantage of investors' upbeat appetite for riskier assets to show it can fund itself without relying on a bailout from the International Monetary Fund.
Hungarian officials are scheduled to finish investor meetings next Tuesday, and some market watchers say a deal may launch quickly afterwards, possibly for a size between $2 billion and $3 billion. Hungary is expected to do a dollar-denominated deal, as it did in its last similar deal in May 2011. Since then it has successfully financed itself in the local-currency market.
"I would expect them to do one or two big-ticket deals, probably totaling over $2 billion if there is demand. Hungary may offer clients a couple of maturity preferences, but the aim will be to get as much cash in the bank as early in the year as possible," said Timothy Ash, an economist at Standard Bank.
Citigroup strategists Wike Groenenberg and Luis Costa said in a note to clients that "we believe investors will welcome the deal" as Hungary's dollar-denominated bonds offer a reasonable return relative to other comparable countries'. The larger the transaction, the better, the bank said "as Hungary struggles with a high foreign currency debt refinancing bill".
Hungary's debt rollover–the amount of debt that has to be refinanced–in 2013 totals 5.1 billion euros ($6.92 billion), while it plans to raise EUR4 billion to EUR4.5 billion in foreign-currency issuance.
The country received IMF financial help to the tune of EUR16 billion in late 2008, under the previous Socialist government, when capital markets froze for Hungary amid the global financial market crisis. Hungary repaid EUR607 million to the IMF last week, two weeks ahead of schedule.
It financed the early repayment from a euro-denominated bond program aimed primarily at domestic retail investors, which also drew strong institutional demand.
Market sentiment toward Hungary has improved markedly in recent days as a result of Economy Minister Gyorgy Matolcsy's comments in an interview with the Wall Street Journal that there's no room for "shock therapy" in monetary policy.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban will replace the governor of the National Bank of Hungary March 3, when his six-year mandate expires, and markets feared that monetary policy may become radically loose to help the government's growth agenda. Mr. Matolcsy's comments firmed the forint 2.7% to a two-week high against the euro, and yields on a 12-month treasury bill the government auctioned Thursday fell to a two-and-a-half-year low.
Hungary has been in talks with the IMF about further support for more than a year. While financial markets consider Hungary's IMF loan talks as practically over without resulting in a loan pact, "the talks are not finished as Hungary is waiting for final word" from the IMF, Mr. Orban said in an interview on state radio Friday. Hungary has been vying for a flexible credit line from the IMF, which would have preferred to consider a standby credit agreement.
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Cliff Diving
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By Jerry Wagner
December 18, 2012
My dad was a swimming pool builder so he always had a good part of the winter off. In the early 1960′s, my parents started going to Acapulco each year for first one week, then two, and finally the trips would last for about three weeks. They loved escaping the blustery Midwestern winters for days in the warm Mexican sun.
Acapulco was a hot spot then, the first of what would become many Mexican tourist destinations. It was a frequent watering hole for the Rat Pack and other celebrities of that time, and Mom and Dad would come back from their stay at the El Mirador Hotel with tales of celebrity sightings, exotic food (or so we thought in that pre-Taco Bell time), and the world famous cliff diving.
Each day, cliff diving, as Mom and Dad described it, would begin with the solitary figure of a young Mexican boy clad only in his Speedo making his way, ancient handhold to tiny, rock outcropping, up the face of the La Quebrada cliffs overhanging the blue Pacific. Once at the top, a prayer to a small shrine, then a spider-like scramble across the stone face of the towering cliffs, a quick sign of the cross, both hands thrust to the sky and then the 125-foot plunge in a perfect swan dive into the rocky gulch and foaming surf below.
The water ranged from six feet deep (and certain death) to sixteen feet, depending on the wave action. The divers not only needed the courage to take the trend, but the knowledge of when to leave their rocky perch. Like we used to say here at Flexible Plan – timing is everything.
Today we face a different kind of cliff. A "fiscal" cliff potentially to be caused not by the confluence of divers, swirling ocean and towering cliffs, but by a huge impending tax increase and self-imposed unspecified cuts that must be made automatically at year end to essential defense and social welfare programs, all to deal with a tidal wave of government spending, resulting in a nation drowning in debt.
While the second part of the "cliff" problem – government spending – would cause two-thirds of the "cliff's" economic impact, the country's leaders and media have chosen to focus almost exclusively on the tax side of the equation. This, despite the fact that the latest government figures for November show, as they did in October, that government revenues (tax collections) are amazingly already up 10% ($30 billion) over the same period last year.
Yet the so far unaddressed spending side of the government budget is up 16% ($87 billion) in the same report, and no meaningful cuts in spending to replace the automatic, draconian cuts have been suggested. The result is that for just the first two months of the Federal government's new fiscal year, the deficit is $57 billion higher. That takes the two-month deficit to $292 billion, well on its way to boosting the national debt to its $17.5 trillion 2013 projection.
Why is this important beyond the obvious? Because a year and a half ago we were facing a crisis. Bond ratings for US government debt were being lowered. This was being done because responsible people charged with the duty to gauge investment risk were appalled by the size of the US government debt and were becoming concerned with our ability to ultimately repay it with dollars that were actually worth something.
To deal with this, we imposed a deadline when a responsible budget cutting spending and reducing the debt would be in place. If we failed to do that, unthinkable cuts in essential services would be automatically imposed. Here we are a year and a half later, the unthinkable has now become a real possibility and the only thing we are talking about is the need to have the Republicans cave and increase taxes on the top 2% of wage earners (saving eight days of government spending) while restoring tax cuts for the other 98% at an additional cost in the trillions of dollars.
And when it comes to government spending, no meaningful cuts are even being discussed – yet they are the reason why we are facing the unthinkable automatic cuts. All that has been proffered are essentially cuts that were already counted in the spending "savings" the last time we went through this, accounting gimmicks and Medicare savings that have been announced before and deferred before. As to reforming entitlements that threaten to break the bank, they are either "off the table " or can only be dealt with in another chapter of this bad story somewhere down the road.
Others see these same worrisome signs. While the latest University of Michigan Consumer Confidence Index (released a week ago) was extremely negative in and of itself, few have noticed that the Current Conditions portion of the survey was actually just flat. Instead, as the folks at the Bespoke Investment Group point out, it was the Expectations portion of the survey that fell so heavily. In other words, it's the future that concerns most of us, not how we are doing right now. It's what happens after the cliff dive, not before, that bothers us.
Source: Bespoke Investment Group
As further evidence, on Tuesday the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) Small Business Optimism Index headline reading fell 6%. Since the NFIB began releasing the results of this survey on a monthly basis in 1986, there has never been a larger monthly drop.
Source: Bespoke Investment Group
The reasons given for the record decline were many, but 42% of the responses cited Taxes and Government Requirements and Red Tape.
That's my opinion, so you can guess that I'm not too enthused when we have what I really do feel is a Boehner-delivered breakthrough in the budget process. I see one side moving, offering solutions, and the other side doing nothing and ignoring the problems. Until both sides truly bargain in good faith, I find it difficult to see the safe water at the cliff's bottom and instead can only spot the jagged rocks below.
Despite my pessimistic view of the likelihood of truly avoiding a fiscal cliff, I do believe that, absent a complete breakdown in talks, the outlook in the short term (through year end) for stocks is positive. We continue to benefit from low interest rates, positive year-end seasonality, and economic reports that are more good than bad (nine were better than expected and four were worse last week).
Looking farther out into the first quarter of 2013, I'm more concerned. Investor optimism has been rising to levels where on a contrarian basis it can be worrisome, and the first year of the Presidential election cycle is notoriously weak. In addition, we will soon be in the next earnings reporting period and prospects are rapidly deteriorating on the earnings front. We have reported for quite some time that revision of individual company earnings prospects has been more negative than positive in the last six months.
Now look at the trend for overall earnings per share growth of the S&P 500 as a whole. Each week it seems to be cut lower.
Source: Bespoke Investment Group
This is not likely to be good for stocks, even though they remain at positive levels. A significant slowdown of some kind seems likely in the future.
Combine this with the costs (both anticipated and unanticipated) of complying with a new regulatory insurance scheme for one-sixth of the economy (Obamacare) and the aftermath of the fiscal cliff, whatever the result, and it's easy to see why there might be a pause in an already slow economy.
In anticipation of this, we have introduced a number of new strategies and have quite a few in the wings awaiting an unveiling in the new year. In addition, despite generally positive 2012 performance for the FPI strategies, our research department has been engaged in its annual review and update process. As always, improvements are in store.
In any event, like the cliff divers, let's say a little prayer before we jump into the next two weeks of fiscal cliff discussions, and add a prayer for those who have lost so much in Newtown, CT and for our nation in these often trying times.
Like the stock market that seems able to divorce itself from the usual earnings and economic reports to enjoy a Santa Claus rally each year no matter what the longer term outlook, we here at Flexible Plan wish each of you a week full of Christmas joy, Holiday good cheer, and family love in this blessed season. Enjoy!
All the best…
Jerry Wagner
PS: If you'd like to get whisked away to cliff side for a little bit of Mexican vacation – (and also to work on your Spanish) – tune in to this YouTube video of the cliff divers at the El Mirador.
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SHEPHERDSTOWN - In postseason play, there's no room for a bad start, no room for falling behind.
One bad performance can end your season.
The Shepherd volleyball team had that on its mind heading into Tuesday's game against Virginia-Wise in the opening round of the Mountain East Conference tournament.
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Kayla Motheral of Shepherd spikes the ball past Kelsey Smith of Virginia-Wise during the third set of their first-round MEC?tournament game Tuesday in Shepherdstown.
With a strong effort, the Rams got their tournament off to a good start with a 3-0 (25-9, 25-16, 25-15) win over the Cavaliers.
"They played with a purpose and with energy," Shepherd coach Sarah Smith said.
"We definitely prepared for them in (Monday's) practice. I feel like we were really prepared and came out with a lot of energy," Shepherd middle hitter Kayla Motheral said. "It's always important to start well."
All three sets were similar in structure, with Shepherd pulling away early to midway through the set en route a trio of big-margin wins.
In the first set, the Rams' biggest win at 25-9, Shepherd took off with the game tied at 4-4, scoring the next seven points to take an 11-4 lead. During the stretch, Motheral notched three of her team-high 11 kills, and Kayla Walker recorded a pair of aces.
Later in the set, up 14-6, the Rams again put a big run together, reeling off six straight points to extend their lead to 20-6. Motheral added another kill, and Lauren Summa capped off the run with back-to-back aces.
Shepherd won five of the next eight points to take the first set, one in which the Rams worked their system efficiently.
"We break down each set down into segments - the first to eight, 16 and then 25. We practice that way, and that's key for us," Smith said. "I thought we did a great job tonight all-around."
The third and final set also saw Shepherd jump out to a sizable lead, this time a 7-2 advantage.
With the score 7-4, the Rams won three straight points to take a 10-4 lead, with Motheral recording three more kills. Shepherd eventually extended the lead to nine points on four separate occasions before settling the final margin at 10 points.
Anna Roper and Kayla Walker, who each had eight kills, combined for four kills down the stretch. Roper's kill down the middle made the score 19-10 and another kill toward the center, which deflected off a Virginia-Wise player, made the score 20-11.
Walker's two kills made the score 18-10 and 23-15.
The Cavaliers held close for a good portion of the second set, holding the lead twice, at 5-4 and 9-8, the last lead for Virginia-Wise. The serving of Brittni Altmann helped the Cavaliers get to the final lead.
At 9-9, the Rams put together several small runs to take and maintain the lead. Katie Beecher notched three kills to help Shepherd build leads of 12-9 and 13-11.
The Rams put the set away with a 7-0 streak to extend the lead to 23-13, before winning 25-16.
Shepherd will play West Virginia Wesleyan next, a 5 p.m. contest Thursday.
"They came in a few weeks ago and beat us 3-0 on our home court. It's definitely a revenge match," Smith said.
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Jake Boss told News Ten on Wednesday that he is stepping down as head coach at Lansing Catholic High School after seven seasons as baseball coach. Boss will join his son, Jake, Jr., on the staff at Eastern Michigan University, where junior completed his first season this spring and was named the Mid American Conference coach of the year. Jake junior's dad will coach the catchers and teach a baseball class two days a week. Jake senior spent 30 years as a high school coach in the area, including 23 at Lansing Everett where he won three Diamond Classic titles. His record at Lansing Catholic was 172-74. Lansing Catholic finished this last season with a 30-8 record, the second best in Jake's tenure at the school. The Cougars were eliminated in the quarter-finals of the division three state tournament, 6-4 by Niles Brandywine on Tuesday. Before the new EMU gig begins-- a 40th wedding anniversary trip with his wife-- 12 days in Greece and the couple departs at the end of next week.
Pat O'Keefe ends the Grand Ledge season with 972 career wins through 40 seasons. The Comets finished 36-3 this spring. Grand Ledge might well win at least 28 games next year, good enough for O'Keefe to hit the 1,000 milestone. Only Blissfield's Larry Tuttle, who is still active with 1,004 wins, is ahead of O'Keefe for all time victories by a state high school baseball coach.
If Williamston wins the state soccer title on Saturday the Hornets become the third team at the school this spring to win a state title. Only three times in state history has one school one three state titles in the same season, Ann Arbor Pioneer doing it a year ago. But prior to that it was done in 1934 and 1939.


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1The action or state of going regularly to or being present at a place or event: my attendance at church was very patchy
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- In our house, there were a handful of books, mainly given as prizes for perfect attendance at Sunday School.
- The racecourse is offering half price entrance to anyone who also books attendance at any other York raceday.
- His increasing workload had made attendance at council meetings and ward duties impossible.
presence, appearance, attending, being there
informal turning up, showing up, showing
1.1 [count noun] The number of people present at a particular place or event: she is being blamed for the museum's low attendances
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- Lower attendances mean less money; less money means no new players etc.
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audience, turnout, number present, house, gate;
crowd, throng, congregation, assembly, gathering
Australian/New Zealand informal muster
in attendance
- Santa Claus was as usual in attendance with plenty of presents for the large number of children.
- There was a big crowd in attendance including present, past and future pupils of the school.
- An ambulance service and clinic, with doctor and nurse in attendance, are available.
- The earl of Sussex was in attendance on the queen during her progress in September and October 1574.
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1Present at a function or a place: some 200 were in attendance at the fourteenth reunion
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present, here, there, near, nearby, at hand, by one's side, available;
assisting, giving assistance, helping, aiding;
supervising, monitoring, on guard
2Accompanying a member of royalty or other important person as an assistant or servant: Her Royal Highness travelled in an aircraft of The Queen's Flight, with Viscountess Campden in attendance
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Late Middle English: from Old French, from atendre 'give one's attention to' (see attend).
Palabras que riman con attendancedependence, interdependence, overdependence, resplendence, superintendence, tendance, transcendence
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Pacific Gas & Electric took the Unit 2 reactor at the twin-reactor plant out of service on Sunday.
The Unit 1 reactor completed a two-month refueling and upgrade project last summer. It included installation of a new digital control system.
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The Pacific Gas and Electric Co. plant will also upgrade a crane system that allows movement of large components and a digital control system will be installed.
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Risk modellers are preparing many updates to their models worldwide, which could have an effect on pricing. But are insurance and reinsurance firms over-reliant on them?
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Catastrophe models
have become invaluable tools for the insurance and reinsurance
industry, giving underwriters a scientific understanding of
natural perils, in order for them to accurately estimate
potential catastrophe losses to their portfolios and manage
their exposures. The problems arise, however, when large,
unexpected events happen. Real-life events such as September
11, Hurricane Katrina have taught the industry that models only
know what has already been and this has frequently led to
In the past, risk modellers have suffered from the syndrome
of workmen blaming their tools. Following Katrina, for example,
many insurers and reinsurers complained that flood risk was not
included in the models, meaning losses were far higher than
they expected.
So with forecasters predicting an above average season for
the number of tropical storms and hurricanes forming in the
Atlantic basin this year, how seriously should the industry
take the forecasts and risk model loss calculations and what
influence will the latest risk models have on the market?
What the models offer the industry is the ability to
estimate potential losses for a number of different uncertain
events and a combination of variables. There has been much
advancement in catastrophe models - both in the technology
used to build the models and the data used to feed the
models - that have improved companies' understanding of
risk and loss potential.
According to Karen Clark, president and CEO of risk
modelling consulting firm Karen Clark & Company and founder
of AIR Worldwide, most of the recent risk model developments in
the US have been with earthquake models. New studies by the US
Geological Survey, a source of data for all risk modellers, has
resulted in a "significant decrease in the earthquake risk,
particularly in states such as California," says Clark. She
says, while not decreasing pricing for every reinsurance
treaty, this held down potential price increases for
earthquake-exposed business.
A new RMS US earthquake model released in 2009 led to a
reduction in US earthquake insured loss estimates and changed
the industry's understanding of the geographical distribution
of exposure. The effects of this have largely been digested by
the market and now companies are waiting to see what the latest
model developments will bring.
Most of the new models in the pipeline relate to wind and
storm risk. In the coming year, Eqecat is releasing a
basin-wide Asia typhoon model, AIR is launching updated models
for US hurricane, European extra-tropical cyclone, and typhoon
models for Asia, and Risk Management Solutions (RMS) is
releasing a new Europe windstorm model and is in the process of
building a new Atlantic hurricane model.
According to Neena Saith, senior catastrophe response
manager at RMS, her firm's new Atlantic hurricane model will
combine a large amount of high resolution data with a great
number of claims forensics. Using historical data of hurricane
activity, Saith says RMS will be able to run advanced numerical
models to understand particular hurricane processes, such as
the interaction between a storm and the surface upon making
Beyond this, RMS is looking to build a US flood model that
will allow risk models to be run at a much higher
In June, AIR's latest US hurricane model was certified by
the Florida Commission on Hurricane Loss Projection
Methodology. The model incorporates "the latest research and
scientific understanding of hurricane structure as well as
detailed modelling for risk differentiation at a high
resolution," Jayanta Guin, senior vice-president of research
and modelling at AIR, told Reactions.
And in Europe, AIR's updated European cyclone fourth
generation model is built upon numerical weather prediction
technology that produces high resolution wind data. The updated
model has been validated against a large database of surface
wind observations and is ideal for use in parametric
transactions. "In addition, the model introduces a novel
approach to modelling clustering behaviour for storm activity
over Europe, which is crucial for a complete view of risk,"
said Guin.
Eqecat's and AIR's development of Asia typhoon models is an
interesting sign of the growing necessity for an awareness of
insured property losses in an area of many fast growing
Eqecat's models previously covered the individual countries
of China, Japan, Philippines, Thailand, South Korea and
Malaysia. "What we are doing now is building a basin-wide event
set that allows our clients to understand the correlation among
the risks that they have in those countries,†Bill
Keogh, senior vice-president of Eqecat's strategic initiatives,
told Reactions. "It is giving the market a new perspective on
typhoon risk in Asia that they have never had before."
According to Keogh, Asia typhoon has three components to it.
"It is not just about wind, it is also about storm surge and
typhoon-induced rainfall that creates flooding. So the typhoon
risk in Asia actually presents us with three different hazards,
each of which needs to be modelled and understood, and then
He adds: "We incorporate all three of those in our model and
we believe we are the first ones to do that. What this is
providing to the market now is a full view of risks in
For Eqecat, the exceptional rate of economic growth in Asia
over the past two decades has called for a comprehensive view
of insured risk in Asia.
In July, it will also release a new earthquake model that
implements three-dimensional vulnerability.
"We recognise through examining thousands of pieces of
claims data from earthquakes that the way buildings respond to
earthquakes can change during an earthquake," says Keogh.
"After the initial ground motion and damage to a building, the
building becomes more vulnerable to additional ground shaking.
So as an event occurs for a longer duration it has the
potential to be more vulnerable than we thought."
So how reliant should companies be on these models, and do
they have a tangible effect on the market?
The financial impact of an updated model is hard to quantify
because models are one among several components that determine
pricing. However, as AIR points out, model enhancements do lead
to improved risk differentiation. In the past this has led
insurers to become more aware of exposure, which had a direct
impact on insurance and reinsurance underwriting and portfolio
According to Tatsuhiko Hoshina, director and chief
underwriting officer at Tokio Millennium Re, the Bermudian
reinsurance operation of Japanese insurer Tokio Marine,
companies do react to these models and this presents a threat
to the market.
"It's a strange phenomenon from the cedents' point of view
as the risk exposure is exactly the same, but just because the
models change it has an effect. I think that's one of the
biggest threats that we have in the market," Hoshina told
Reactions. "Also companies are just relying on the output from
these models and not knowing what has actually gone in.
Whatever comes out from the different models they take an
average and that is the threat that we have.
"There is a big uncertainty within the models especially if
you blend it like that â€" you are just adding more
uncertainty by using multiple models," he adds.
Bryon Ehrhart, CEO of Aon Benfield Analytics and chairman of
Aon Benfield Securities, is less convinced that people have
such a knee-jerk response to model changes.
Speaking on a catastrophe management panel at a Standard
& Poor's insurance conference in New York in June, Ehrhart
said: "People still take the models and make a judgement about
what they need to do. Do you see people actively reducing their
PMLs [probable maximum loss] and reducing the amount of cover
because of the earthquake model? Not really."
He pointed out instead that market pressure has a pronounced
effect, using the example of a European wind risk model change
a few years ago. "The estimate of European wind went down
pretty dramatically and people initially held the coverage that
they had, but as pressure mounted in the past year and half
people did start to reduce coverage," he said.
Ehrhart said it is interesting to see how dependent the
industry has become on these models considering that "almost
all of the volatility and vulnerability estimates are made by
people that have zero capital risk."
However, Heike Trilovszky, head of corporate underwriting at
Munich Re, says the industry reaction to models in the US
differs from the rest of the world. "In the other [non-US]
markets it's not that there is one model provider who comes up
with a new version and then everybody uses that model and all
of a sudden has a new view on the risk," Trilovszky told
Reactions. "Some non-US markets don't have models at all, or if
there are models, there are many models. It is not yet as
standardised as in the US.
"RMS has a very strong position in the market and many
people measure their exposure on the basis of that model. That
is why in the US the RMS influence on prices is so
Forecasters are predicting an above-average season in terms
of the number of tropical storms and hurricanes forming in the
Atlantic basin this year.
However, Clark questions the usefulness of the scientific
forecasts that predict the number of tropical storms and
hurricanes that form in the Atlantic each year, calling it a
very "uncertain science".
"There does seem to be a consensus between the forecasters
in that most of the predictions are well above average for the
season; they tend to line up as they are based on the same
indicators. However, predictions are typically wrong," she
"What matters to the insurance industry is: if it makes
landfall, where does it make landfall?" says Clark. "When
it comes to a major hurricane hitting land, no one can predict
that and so you don't know if it will hit a highly populated
Clark points out that when Hurricane Andrew hit in 1992, it
was a low frequency year for hurricanes in the Atlantic. The
same was seen back in 1938 with the Great New England Hurricane
that also occurred in a low frequency year. "Some of the worst
loss years have been in low frequency years," says
Clark. "It's just a random major event hitting a highly
populated area and that is what is important to the industry.
Losses are what are important."
Predicting if and where hurricanes might make landfall is a
very challenging task that involves much higher levels of
uncertainty than the predictions of storm and hurricane counts.
As a result, only a few of the organisations that provide
seasonal forecasts include landfall forecasts.
Clark believes there is too much uncertainty around
year-to-year hurricane activity and insured losses to make
credible short-term predictions.
According to a Karen Clark & Company report on the
performance of the near-term models that have been designed to
project insured losses in the US from Atlantic hurricanes for
the five-year period ending in 2010, the losses for the
cumulative 2006 through 2009 seasons have often been
overestimated. As such, Clark recommends insurers, reinsurers
and regulators evaluate the efficacy of the near-term models in
light of this uncertainty.
Keogh says Eqecat's initiatives for education and training
related to uncertainty remains the single most important
resource that Eqecat has for its clients. "For many people when
they think about uncertainty they think about the mathematical
expression of uncertainty and numbers part of it," says
Eqecat tries to hammer home the message that similarly built
structures, subject to same peak gust wind speed or same ground
motion, can have very different responses and experience
dissimilar damage profiles.
"What we call that is real physical uncertainty and it's a
way for people to understand that the uncertainty isn't just
about mathematics. The uncertainty of the model is about the
physical uncertainly about how buildings respond to different
physical responses and to external forces. We have a lot of
information about that and we use that information to inform
how our models treat uncertainly," he says.
Keogh says with risk modelling, it is vital to understand
that models are tools and should be used as such. He does not
claim that Eqecat holds a crystal ball and urges practitioners
to have a high appreciation for the underlying uncertainly in
the models.
So what does Keogh say models have to offer? "Our models, at
best, will provide our clients with realistic expectations
about risk," says Keogh.
Looking ahead, Keogh expects that models will become more
accurate with regards to knowing what the uncertainties
involved are. Although he notes: "Accuracy is not a word we
tend to use in modelling. The underlying sciences, physics and
engineering that go into the model get better, but at the end
of the day the output you are getting will always have
uncertainly in it.
"That is something that we want practitioners to embrace and
understand so they are able to use them as tools as opposed to
thinking that they have the answer when they get the
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Risk models could help reduce poverty
The use of catastrophe models is not just about protection for
the beach house owner in Florida or a homeowner on a fault line
in California. Recently, insurance concepts of extreme risk
modelling and risk sharing across finance, development and
other industries have been extended to help development and aid
organisations look for new solutions help poorer nations and
emerging economies cope with catastrophes.
According to Rowan Douglas, chairman of the Willis Research
Network (WRN), an academic and the insurance industry
collaboration project funded by the reinsurance arm of Willis,
the use of catastrophe models and the management of extreme
risks are vital to sustainability, financial security and
poverty reduction.
The methods employed by insurers to model extreme risks can
be important in helping the world's most vulnerable communities
cope with the social and economic impacts of floods, droughts
and other climate-related threats.
Speaking at the World Bank's inaugural 'Understanding Risk'
conference, held in Washington, DC in June, Douglas noted that
the scientific models used by the insurance industry to assess
the financial risks of extreme weather events could help
governments and aid agencies develop new approaches for
sustainable development and poverty alleviation.
During a keynote speech, Douglas illustrated how the tools,
models and techniques used to help insurance companies sustain
1-in-200-year shocks could help deliver sustainability and
financial security, and combat poverty in those regions most at
risk to extreme weather.
According to research conducted by the World Bank, it is the
poorest regions in areas such as south-east Asia that will be
most affected by extreme weather events, including floods,
cyclones and drought. India alone could see a 30% to 40%
decline in agriculture productivity as a direct result of more
extreme weather.
"We tend to manage for normality, but it is the extreme
events that often matter most," said Douglas. "Whether it's in
our financial institutions, societies or environment,
sustainability is achieved by avoiding or managing the impacts
of undesirable extremes within tolerable parameters. Therefore,
we are proposing a new lens through which we look at the issue
of sustainability, one which repositions the fundamental
concepts and roles of insurance at the heart of delivering
sustainability, financial security and poverty reduction."
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(Port Angeles) Garbage rates are going up in Port Angeles to help pay for fixing a collapsing bluff at the city's old landfill site.
The city council this week agreed to a five-year increase package, increasing rates five percent a year from 2015-2018 and then a four percent increase in 2019.
The added revenue will be used to pay more than 16 million dollars in bonds for the project to remove old garbage and shore up a failing bluff at the landfill.
City Chief Financial Officer Byron Olson says the city will be selling two types of bonds to fix the landfill bluff.
The Port Angeles city council approved a new flow control ordinance this week dealing with garbage coming to the regional transfer station.
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The game is provisionally titled Arturem Online and it's going to be an online multiplayer 3D graphical virtual world. I'm deliberately not calling it an MMO because the concept is more multiplayer than massively multiplayer. What I want to do is focus on some of the more niche gameplay areas like role-playing, politics and PvP that while common in MUDs are currently not so well represented in graphical MMOs.
I think this type of gameplay will work better with server populations scaled in the hundreds rather than the thousands so I'm deliberately aiming for a small scale world. Besides, a traditional MMO with heavy PvE based gameplay and a massive world is just not feasible for a small team, nevermind a solo developer, so I'm not even going to attempt to go there.
I'm producing the game under the umbrella of Bantam Cricket Games as I think it looks a bit more professional and makes it easier to bring in other people further down the line if necessary. For now though it's mostly just me with a couple of friends I've roped in to help out with a few things. Yes the name is a bit odd, but trivia fans should note it's what the "bc" in bc-dev has always stood for.
I'm using BigWorld MMO middleware which should take care of a lot of the backend requirements for the game. It was a toss up between BW and Hero Engine, and while a lot of people seem to be moving over to Hero for me BW was the best option (a topic for another post maybe!)
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Lake Erie Monsters
The Monsters headed into the AHL All-Star break winning six of their last eight contests and four of there last five dating back to Jan. 12 against Houston. Lake Erie currently sits tied for second place with Toronto in the North Division of the Western Conference with 50 points (23-16-2-2), trailing the Abbotsford Heat by one-point.
Michael Sgarbossa leads the team with 36 points (16g/20a) and is tied for the most goals and power play goals (6) on the club. He has eight points (3g/5a) in his last four games.
Sgarbossa and teammate Andrew Agozzino represented Lake Erie at the 2013 AHL All-Star Classic in Providence, R.I. on Jan. 27-28. In Monday's all-star game, Sgarbossa had a plus-2 rating while Agozzino had an assist and a plus-1 rating.
In the Monsters Jan. 24 win against Toronto; Sgarbossa had two goals, including the game-winning score in overtime. David Van Der Gulik tallied one goal for the Monsters and now has 12 on the year to go with 12 assists (24 points). Thomas Pock had one goal and an assist to help Lake Erie with the victory. Pock has 26 points (7g/19a) on the season, the most among current Lake Erie defensemen.
Lake Erie suffered a 2-1 shootout loss on Jan. 26 against Hamilton, which snapped their four-game win streak. The team is 3-1-0-1 against Hamilton this year and 9-7-1-1 at home.
Other Avalanche prospects of note on the Monsters' roster include Markus Lauridsen and Gabriel Beaupre, both of whom were called up from the Denver Cutthroats (CHL) earlier in the month. Lauridsen has played in nine games for the Monsters this season (0g/2a), while Beaupre has 18 penalty minutes and two points (0g/2a) in 13 games for Lake Erie.
The Monsters have two important games against Abbotsford on Thursday and Friday of this week as first-place in the division will be on the line.
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Feb. 5 vs. Hershey
Denver Cutthroats
Denver is looking to finally come home from a rough 12-game road trip after they play Tulsa on Tuesday, Jan. 29. The Cutthroats are 3-6-2 on the road trip and are 1-2 in their last three games after beating Missouri (4-1) and losing twice to Wichita (0-7, 1-7).
In the Cutthroats' 4-1 victory over Missouri on Jan. 25, Kieran Millan stopped 36 shots and earned the win. Millan is 9-9-4 and has a 2.81 goals-against average and a .917 save percentage on the season. Denver's other rookie netminder, Kent Patterson, is 12-8-3 on the year with a 3.10 goals-against average and a .910 save percentage.
The Jan. 27 loss to Wichita ended a three-game weekend for the Cutthroats.
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Feb. 1 vs. Bloomington
Feb. 2 vs. Bloomington
Colin Smith (Kamloops Blazers) remains in third place in the league for points with 76 (32g/44a). He has continued his successful year in the last four games by tallying two goals and five assists (seven points). He leads the team in goals, assists, points, and plus/minus (+30).
Troy Bourke (Prince George Cougars) has added two points (1g/1a) in his last two games. Bourke is second on the Cougars with 32 points (8g/24a). He leads his team in assists with 24.
Duncan Siemens (Saskatoon Blades) has a plus-8 rating on the season and has accumulated 77 penalty minutes, the second most on Saskatoon. Siemens has 15 points on the year (1g/14a).
Michael Clarke (Peterborough Petes) has two assists (2 points) in eight games with the Petes. He was acquired from Windsor on Jan. 10.
Garrett Meurs (Plymouth Whalers) has tallied three goals and an assist (four points) in his last two contests against Sarnia. He has helped Plymouth (25-14-5-4) move into first-place in the West Division, passing the Sarnia Sting.
Mitchell Heard (Plymouth Whalers) was the first-star of the Whalers' victory against Sarnia on Jan. 26, where he scored two goals and had an assist. On the season, Heard has 13 points (5g/8a) in 12 games played with Plymouth.
Joseph Blandisi (Ottawa 67's) has three points (1g/2a) in his last three games for Ottawa. On Jan. 27 against Mississauga, Blandisi had a goal, an assist and finished with a plus-4 rating in the game. In eight games with Ottawa, Blandisi has five points (1g/4a).
Dillon Donnelly (Quebec Remparts) has two points (0g/2a) and 68 penalty minutes on the season. In the 12 games since being acquired by Quebec, Donnelly has already accumulated 40 penalty minutes.
Nathan Condon (University of Minnesota) has tallied eight points (3g/5a) in his previous four games. In 26 games for the Gophers, Condon has scored nine goals and dished out 15 assists (24 points). Minnesota (18-4-4) remains No. 1 in the USA Today/USA Hockey Magazine poll for the fifth consecutive week.
Luke Moffatt (University of Michigan) has 12 points (3g/9a) in 25 games for the Wolverines this season.
Gus Young (Yale University) has 22 penalty minutes and five points (1g/4a) in 20 games for Yale.
Denis Parshin (Salavat Yulaev Ufa) has had two game-winning goals and 11 points (5g/6a) with Salavat.
Joachim Nermark (Linkoping HC) still has four points (1g/3a) on the year. He has played in 42 games.
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