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In John Madden's last film, 2011's "The Debt," Tom Wilkinson played a retired Mossad agent struggling to contain a shocking historical secret. In "The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel," the Academy Award-winning director's latest film, Mr. Wilkinson, 64, plays a retiree struggling to revive his joie de vivre.
His character, a former high court judge named Graham, "lived a life of integrity and success, but he realizes it is all sort of a sham," says Mr. Wilkinson. So, together with a group of retirees—played by a who's-who list of British actors such as Maggie Smith, Judi Dench and Bill Nighy—he moves to Jaipur "to regain his life and reclaim himself."
Based on a 2004 novel called "These Foolish Things" by British author Deborah Moggach, "Marigold Hotel" will be released in the U.S. on May 4. It has already been a runaway hit overseas, where it has generated $66 million thus far.
Speakeasy caught up with Wilkinson at the Plaza Hotel last week, where he was battling a cold while conducting press interviews for the film. He had just flown in from New Mexico, where's he's shooting a long-awaited Jerry Bruckheimer production of "The Lone Ranger," with Johnny Depp as Tonto. (Wilkinson plays the villain, Latham Cole.) Excerpts from the conversation with the Oscar-nominated actor below:
Had you read the book on which this film is based?
My wife had read it. She said, "It's not very good." She didn't like it at all. It is like No. 3 on the best-seller lists now [in the U.K.] because of the movie.
You had never been to India before this – what was that like?
I was just struck by it afresh, every single day, walking through it, driving through it. We had to travel quite considerably every day to get to the set. It was striking: riches beyond the dreams of avarice. Women washing their children in puddles in the road. And then of course there were stories in the news every day about all types of corruption. These big, monolith societies like India and China and others are prone to this. And you think, well "If you claim to be a democracy you should be trying to lift people out of poverty. That is the duty of democracy." But most of them just want to get their hand in the till. However, things are better than they were. There is emerging a middle class that will necessarily change the society. So I am not going to give up hope.
What was it like getting around?
Everything gets done, not in a conventional way—there's bribery, there are no laws for traffic. Notionally you travel on the right hand side, but forget it. It's never going to happen. A herd of cattle will be coming up against traffic on your side, and then there will be a truck.
So that scene in the movie, when the group is traveling to the hotel from the airport, is pretty accurate?
Yes. At no point did I ever see a truck with lights on the back. They were there, but they had been smashed and were never repaired. So it's a truly dangerous place to be.
Was there any point you truly felt in danger?
Yes. The driving. Many times, you think "Oh —-, this is it." Somehow the driver maneuvered through it. We each had our own four-wheel drive vehicle and a driver and a guide. They looked after us very well. The drivers were great. They had to be.
It sounds like you're not too keen to go back.
If I got another job there, I suppose I wouldn't avoid it. I wouldn't retire there.
What was it like hanging out with this cast?
We would have supper together, all of us, almost every night. It was like an old English rep, set in the provinces, where there's nothing to do except sit in a pub and have a meal. It's a pretty small scene, the British acting scene. So we all knew each other. The shoot was nine weeks. The hotels we stayed at were stupendous. I can't remember the name, but they were royal palaces. One was the royal palace in Jaipur. It was the last word in luxury. There was some local princeling's wedding there. It was weird actually, because there were all these elephants. And Sting was there and Trudy Styler, and Bob Geldof. And I thought, "How do you know these people?" There must have been 1000 people there.
Were you surprised by how well this film is doing overseas?
It wasn't in any way predictable. It may do well [in America too.] I see no reason why it shouldn't get people into theaters here.
What do you think it is that's resonating with people about this film?
It's been so long since I've seen the movie. I need to see it again to remind myself. When I first saw it I thought, "Well, OK, we'll see." I haven't a clue.
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A Western Adventure - Exercise your pilot privileges on a scenic trip
By Colleen Back
Private pilot Philippe Archambault lives in Hong Kong and enjoys flying light aircraft throughout the world. One of his favorite memories is of his first day of flying on a Parkwest Air Tour in the southwestern United States. "I felt like I was leaving for a fantastic adventure— like the first visitors to the Southwest might have felt a couple centuries ago," recalled Archambault. "We took off from Grand Junction, Colorado, and flew over a high concentration of [national] parks—Arches, Canyonlands, Natural Bridges, Monument Valley. Flying over the rocks of Monument Valley will remain one of my best flying memories ever."
"My favorite day has to be the day we flew over Glacier National Park," said Rick Kelty, beaming. "Flying around Glacier, I was soaring like the world's biggest eagle out there. Just wonderful."
Archambault, AOPA 3519941, and Kelty, AOPA 667468, are typical "non-typical" pilots who have participated in different vacations operated by Parkwest Air Tours. The company runs all-inclusive flying tours throughout the western United States and Mexico.
Consider this: Kelty is 56, lives near Los Angeles, and flies his 1973 Beechcraft Bonanza F33A for recreation. He has 1,300 hours and is an instrument-rated commercial pilot. By contrast, Archambault is a 30-year-old Frenchman living in Hong Kong. He got his certificate in Florida two years ago, has about 170 hours, and rents Cessna 172s when he flies on vacations throughout the world.
"We really don't have a 'typical' pilot who flies with us," said Collin Fay, who owns Parkwest Air Tours with his wife, Marisa. "Most of our clients have not flown in the West, but they have wanted to, and chose us to help them make it happen. They range in experience from 100 hours to 14,000 hours."
The Fays founded Parkwest Air Tours in 1999. Collin is a soft-spoken, 44-year-old mining engineer by trade and a CFII and 14-year veteran of flying in the West. Marisa is a private pilot, and, at 34, is full of drive and energy. The two met in 1993 in Arizona. They began dating and taking flying trips, which encouraged Marisa to buy an AOPA Air Safety Foundation Pinch-Hitter® video to learn the basics of flying. Her continued interest led to more lessons and later, her certificate. In 1997, the couple lived in Uruguay and took a flying trip in Australia—this proved to be their inspiration to start a business. They relocated to Grand Junction and began earnestly researching destinations and services for their fledgling business. The tours they created range from the "Southwest Safari," which highlights Grand Canyon National Park, Bryce Canyon National Park, and Death Valley National Park, to the "Rocky Mountaineer"—an introduction to fun, safe mountain flying. They also have the "Beyond the Border" trip highlighting Mexico's Copper Canyon and a 16-day "Grand Expedition," which includes stops from northern Arizona to Glacier National Park on the Canadian border. Each tour has a very different focus and flavor—but all are designed around national parks.
"Once we decided to start the business, the biggest thing we needed was a theme," said Marisa, who handles business operations and logistics. "We saw a real opportunity to showcase the national parks all around the West, which proved to be a good way to center our destinations. When you stop to think that more than 90 percent of U.S. pilots live outside the prime national park states, you realize there are lots of pilots who are potentially missing out on some wonderful flying experiences. Pilots from other parts of the United States or abroad generally would not consider doing a 10-day flying trip on their own out here—so our job is to take away the stress and fear of the unknown by providing good briefings and training and by handling those 'yucky' things like reservations and cars and planning activities. The tour group generally does the rest—they fly and bond and have a great time."
Tours basically work like this: Pilots select a trip from the Parkwest Air Tours Web site (www.parkwestair.com); pay a fee and provide certificate, medical, and logbook copies; and then show up in Grand Junction on the appointed day. Parkwest handles all logistics, including aircraft rental (if desired), maps, route planning, briefings, GPS equipment and programming, training, lodging, meals, and ground activities. Each tour has a preplanned route that generally entails two to four hours in the air on flying days. All flying is done VFR in groups limited to seven airplanes, but the flying is done individually (it's not formation flying). There are also non-flying days so participants can enjoy the sights at a reasonable pace. An air-to-air frequency allows participants to share weather information or point out interesting scenery.
The group gathers at about 7 a.m. for breakfast and the day's briefing and weather discussions. If the weather is questionable, the group makes a go/no-go decision. Flying tends to be done early, when turbulence is at a minimum. This also allows the most time for everyone to enjoy the sights upon landing. At a new destination, the average day includes lunch, followed by a professional tour inside the national park, hiking, relaxing, horseback riding, whitewater rafting, or other activities. The group gathers for dinner at a historic or notable place. Parkwest mixes scheduled activities with free time for clients to explore on their own.
But before the group takes off into the wild blue yonder, Parkwest plans time in Grand Junction for trip briefings and activities. "They definitely have great organizational skills," commented Michelle Paluck, AOPA 1083521, of Plano, Texas. She and her husband, Bob, AOPA 1706625, brought their Mooney Ovation2 on a recent Grand Expedition tour, which visits six national parks and seven states. "Weeks ahead of time, Parkwest sent us the marked charts, GPS coordinates, and routing information for the tour and for getting to Grand Junction, which helped us pre-plan for the flight up. It also let us know they knew what they were doing," she said. "When we arrived, we met the other pilots for dinner, and the next day we had a full-scale briefing on high-altitude flying—things like leaning on the ground, density altitude, runways, airspeed, and the like. Then we got information on what to expect once we got to the destination," she said.
Pilots renting an airplane from Parkwest receive a one- to two-hour checkout and training (included in the trip cost). The rental airplanes are generally Skyhawks or Piper Cherokees. Most are equipped with VOR/DME, and all have a panel-mount GPS or yoke-mount Garmin 195 GPS.
"We fly strictly VFR, and the GPS just helps everyone keep track of each other while we're on tour," Collin said. "The preprogrammed route keeps people out of trouble with special-use airspace, and following it also gives the pilot the most spectacular visual route. We brief pilots on flying responsibly in and around the national parks and ask pilots to do position reports regularly so that we have a picture of how things are moving."
Pilots bringing their own airplanes are not required to have a checkout, although flight training is available. Depending on the tour, some training may be provided to the entire group.
For example, the Rocky Mountaineer trip goes through the Rocky and Sawtooth mountains and includes a mountain-flying ground school and three hours of flight training before the tour begins. The flight training includes a flight to Aspen and Leadville, arguably America's highest airport at just under 10,000 feet. "This trip is an introduction to mountain flying. We're not bush pilots, and we certainly don't teach people how to be bush pilots," Collin said firmly. "We instill basic principles of flying at high altitudes—we cover performance considerations, airflow patterns in the mountains, safe ways to cross mountainous terrain, and how to generally read the weather."
After the briefings, checkouts, and trip discussions, the group tours the Colorado National Monument on 20,000 acres of craggy sandstone cliffs and beautiful rock formations. Later, they visit a local winery and enjoy dinner overlooking the spectacular scenery. The next day, the group departs on the air tour.
The Fays spent months mapping out the routes and lodging choices for their tours. "We came up with some ideal leg distances and then took many trips to scout everything on the ground to see how we could make it all come together," remembered Marisa. "We needed to check tiedown availability, fuel prices, the right kinds of lodging, good meals, and transportation."
The result is relatively easy flying with spectacular views—the Grand Canyon is a highlight for many. "I had one pilot tell me that he had been thinking of flying over the Grand Canyon for six months since he booked the trip, and how exciting it was for him to be doing it that morning. It is such a blessing to have this as my job," said Marisa.
Poor weather rarely poses a problem—Grand Junction enjoys an average of 347 VFR days a year. "We had days with the horizon 70 to 80 miles away, and we could pick out landmarks 35 miles away. It was really special," Kelty said.
But when weather does interfere, the Fays have contingency plans, and a bit of group flexibility and good humor certainly helps. If an extra overnight is needed at a given destination, Parkwest makes adjustments to ensure people get back to Grand Junction on schedule. The biggest weather challenge Parkwest has faced on tour was the "storm of the century" in Death Valley. Scheduled to stay one night at a desert inn, the group stayed three nights because of high winds, thunderstorms, and lightning. "They say that there is standing water in Death Valley only once in a hundred years. Well, we happened to be there for it, which certainly made it unique!" Marisa said.
Each pilot has varying levels of experience and different ideas about what is unique or challenging on the tours. For Les Paul, a 68-year-old British pilot who lives near London, the two- to three-hour flying legs and high-elevation airports of the Southwest Safari were a new challenge. "That first day was a three-hour leg over some gorgeous scenery," he remembered. "But I've never flown a three-hour leg — I fly short trips in England. I've never relied on a GPS throughout a trip, and I've never had to lean an engine before takeoff. Each day brought something we hadn't done before. One day we took off from below sea level [minus 211 feet] in Death Valley, and then landed at 7,586-foot-elevation Bryce Canyon. With my age, I doubt I'll ever experience that kind of flying ever again."
Kelty also had new experiences. "I learned that thunderstorms in the West come up in the afternoon—and then they just dissipate—it's pretty predictable. Just because one comes along doesn't mean you can't launch in the evening when it's calm. I gained some confidence. I also learned a bit more about cockpit organization. The whole experience helped inspire me to continue working on my commercial, which I now have."
Collin confirms that many pilots take away more than great photos and memories. "One of my favorite things about this business is being able to see people improve their skills and expand their horizons. Some of our clients used to just fly IFR all the time doing the same thing. Now these same people are enjoying their planes and their licenses much more."
Michelle and Bob Paluck are good examples of the phenomenon. "Bob and I have always flown in 'flat country'—I learned in Chicago and he learned in Texas. We had done a bit of flying to local places, but the Parkwest trip was our first really big trip. That was the trip that really helped break us out of the box and now we use the plane for really fun longer trips," she said.
Although everyone seems to learn something, the real focus is on enjoying the flying and sights with the fun of a group and the safety of guides. "Make no mistake about it, this is a vacation first," said Gene Badal, AOPA 1301134, a 64-year-old pilot from Skokie, Illinois, with 550 hours. He brought his two adult sons on the 2001 Rocky Mountaineer tour in his refurbished 1965 Piper Comanche. "It's not principally an education, but you do learn things. I went because I didn't want to consume my energy in being a 'charter pilot' with my sons. I wanted to enjoy the vacation, the sights, and no hassles while enjoying the flying aspect."
Nonpilot companions seem to approve of the trips as well. "It was awesome to be in the mountains, and the flying was exciting," said Badal's 22-year-old son John, who doesn't typically fly with his father on trips. "It wasn't like we were flying all day long, either. For someone from the Midwest, it was neat. The wine tasting, rafting, hiking, it was all great! Some of the places for dinner were gourmet, and then some places in the middle of nowhere were comical." He went on to describe how one small restaurant in the mountains served Collin a steak "the size of a boogie board," which provided a laugh for the group and a challenge for Collin to finish.
Guests typically stay in historic lodges within the national parks or in other uncommon inns. "The places we stayed were all unique, in keeping with the character of the area. For instance, we flew into the grass strip at Smiley Creek, Idaho. We stayed above a trading post and the views were incredible from every angle. And you could've also stayed in a tepee if you wanted. It was just one unique experience after another on that tour," said Badal.
Although an all-inclusive trip isn't cheap, the money goes a long way. Participants can expect to pay about $265 per person per day if they bring their own airplane. For renters, trips cost about $340 per person per day. "We'd go on another trip of theirs in a minute," said Michelle Paluck. "Yes, you add everything up and it ends up being a big number, but to me, it's worth every dollar."
"Sometimes we hear people say, 'Well, I can do this on my own for less, so I won't go on your trip,'" remarked Collin. "That's fine if they want to do that. But I think very few who don't live in this region go and do it on their own. The planning takes a lot of time, and weather and lack of local knowledge can be intimidating for those not from here. For example, Crater Lake is nearly impossible for an individual to do like we do it, because the ground logistics are so difficult. We actually hire a yellow school bus at Crater—it's funny to clients, but it's often their favorite spot of that trip because it's just so beautiful. We feel good because clients who have gone with us have told us that the service and safety we provided is a huge value to them."
The sights are among the most beautiful in the world and relatively few people get to experience them from light aircraft. Ask a Parkwest tour participant to describe his or her favorite day on the tour, and you will likely get multiple answers from the same person. Michelle Paluck gave the question some consideration, and said, "Glacier (National Park) was fabulous. But how can you pick one favorite when you have gone over Grand Canyon, Glacier, Crater Lake, Yellowstone, and Monument Valley in the same trip? It's really unfair." Enough said.
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Articles 2013
Volume 7, Issue 54 - December 31, 2013
Volume 7, Issue 53 - December 24, 2013
Volume 7, Issue 52 - December 17, 2013
Volume 7, Issue 51 - December 10, 2013
How Much Can Clients Spend in Retirement? A Test of the Two Most Prominent Approaches
2 Unconventional Options in a Low Rate Environment
A Framework for Understanding Bond Portfolio Performance
How Service Screw-ups Can Create Happier Clients
Low Demand Will Depress Oil Prices
Six Things Every Advisor Must Have on Their LinkedIn Profile
Volume 7, Issue 50 - December 3, 2013
Jeremy Siegel - The Market is 10% to 15% Undervalued
Why You Should Be Thinking About Quality Small-Caps
Active Share. Toward a Stock Picker's Market?
What Matters More When Investing: A Good Company or Good Price?
How to Keep Prospects from Stealing Your Ideas
Why Does the U.S. Have High-Cost Low-Quality Healthcare?
Coping with Sudden Power Syndrome
Volume 7, Issue 49 - November 26, 2013
Volume 7, Issue 48 - November 19, 2013
Howard Marks: Equities are Under-owned and Un-loved
New Research on How Much Clients can Spend in Retirement
Research from Yale on Commodities
The Quality that Predicts Success
Asset Class Allocation and Portfolios: Critique and Complication
Some New Ideas for Holiday Gifts
Thoughts from Top Advisors on Building a Physician Niche
Volume 7, Issue 47 - November 12, 2013
Beware of Financial Plannings Misguided Rules-of-Thumb
Investing Megatrends: New Technology
The Bomb Shelter Portfolio: Maximum Income with the Least Risk
Three Ways to Turn Casual Contacts into Clients
What Twitter's New Millionaires Can Learn From Google
Volume 7, Issue 46 - November 5, 2013
The Advisory Professions Best Web Sites
Three Trends That Will Change the Game for Advisors
Combating Climate Change - And Responding to Skeptics
Three Articles to Help Clients to Happy Retirements
The Key Issues in Today's Muni Bond Market
How to Help Clients Who Hate the Holidays
Volume 7, Issue 45 - October 29, 2013
Defining the EM Corporate Bond Opportunity
Can Financial Engineering Cure Cancer?
Puerto Rico: Always the money owing
How One Advisor Boosted His Team's Performance
Seven Resources to Make You a Better Writer
Six Tips for Better Communication
Volume 7, Issue 44 - October 22, 2013
How Many Monkeys Does it Take to Find a Successful Strategy?
Rolling Returns: A Better Way to Measure Performance
Bond Legend Dan Fuss on Rising Rates
Revisiting the Debate Over the DFA Research
Is Your Website Sending the Wrong Message?
Recession-Proof Your Marketing
Volume 7, Issue 43 - October 15, 2013
Investing in the U.S. Energy Revolution
A Better Way to Measure Risk Tolerance
A Q3 client letter: Mike Tyson on Sticking to Your Plan
Five Ways Robo-advisors Will Change the Way Advisors Work
Why Customized Content Beats Canned Content
Why You Need Video on Your Web Site
Volume 7, Issue 42 - October 8, 2013
Volume 7, Issue 41 - October 7, 2013
Volume 7, Issue 40 - October 1, 2013
Volume 7, Issue 39 - September 24, 2013
William Bernstein ? "Stocks for the Long Run"
ENERGY MLPs: A Suitable and Sustainable Asset Class
Why Retirees Should Choose DIAs over SPIAs
Michael Aronsteins Warning to Fund Investors
Four Ways to Attract Affluent Clients
How the Roll-Down Effect Now Helps Bond Investors
Why Bond Funds are Toxic for Your Portfolio
The Elements of a Successful Succession Plan
Volume 7, Issue 38 - September 17, 2013
Gundlach ? Where to Expect the Next Crisis
Charles de Vaulx: "We Have Never Been as Cautiously Positioned"
How One Advisor Attracts HNW Clients
Where, Oh Where, is Ferdinand Pecora?
The Fiduciary Pyramid: Demystifying the Fiduciary Landscape
Dealing with Unmotivated Advisors
Volume 7, Issue 37 - September 10, 2013
Volume 7, Issue 36 - September 3, 2013
Volume 7, Issue 35 - August 27, 2013
Volume 7, Issue 34 - August 20, 2013
Volume 7, Issue 33 - August 13, 2013
Envisioning the Planning Firm of the Future
Why Clients Don't Give You Credit for Your Hard Work ? And What to do About it
A Better Way to Measure Systemic Risk
Asking for Referrals when Your Performance is Lagging
Spooks, Romans, Lumberjacks, Lend Me Your Filters
Quantitative Easing for Regular Folks: Three Lessons from the New York Times
Volume 7, Issue 32 - August 6, 2013
Volume 7, Issue 31 - July 30, 2013
The Power of Diversification and Safe Withdrawal Rates
How to Fix the Flaws in Financial Planning
Five Web Metrics Advisors Should Be Tracking
Revisiting "The Cost of Socially Responsible Investing"
A Strategy for Reducing Volatility While Increasing Returns
Volume 7, Issue 30 - July 23, 2013
Volume 7, Issue 29 - July 16, 2013
Nassim Nicholas Taleb: To Prevail in an Uncertain World, Get Convex
How a Teenager and Skype Deepened Client Relationships
Venerated Voices? Awards for the Second Quarter of 2013
Is Your Firm Name Having an Identity Crisis?
Dealing with Over-needy Clients
Volume 7, Issue 28 - July 9, 2013
The Five Best New Investment Ideas: New Age Paradigms for the Post-MPT World
ENERGY MLPs: A Suitable and Sustainable Asset Class
Retirement Portfolios: Fears over Rising Rates are Overblown
A Mid-Year Letter to Clients: A Positive Outlook on America
Assessing Healthcare Expenses in Retirement
Business Building for Advisors
Volume 7, Issue 27 - July 2, 2013
Gundlach's One-Word Explanation for June's Decline
Becoming the Safe Choice for Your Target Clients
Avoiding the Interest Rate Freight Train with Individual Bonds
Recent Volatility ? Noise, not Signal
The Practical Application of Behavioral Finance
Insiders Forum Conference Names Advisor Perspectives Exclusive Media Partner
Volume 7, Issue 26 - June 25, 2013
Volume 7, Issue 25 - June 18, 2013
GMO's Montier on Why to Hold Cash
Help Clients Fill the Income Void
Retirement Income Designations ? Which Should You Choose?
Three Time Bombs that Threaten Retirement Plans
What Advisors Need to Know about Health-Care Planning
Cash, Profits and Misplaced Priorities
Getting Your Team to Communicate Your "Story"
Volume 7, Issue 24 - June 11, 2013
Volume 7, Issue 23 - June 4, 2013
Woody Brocks Challenge to Krugman and the Keynesians
Vincent Reinhart on Debt and Growth in the U.S. and Japan
How a Golf Outing Led to a $2 Million Client
Exposing False Claims about Socially Responsible Investing A Response to Adler and Kritzman
Bob Pozen's Secrets for Managing Clients, Time and Productivity
An Advisor's Perspective on Prophets and Profits
When You Have to Fire an Employee
Volume 7, Issue 22 - May 28, 2013
Six Reasons You're Charging the Wrong Fees
Economic Climate Change & the Long-Term View on Yields
State and Local Pensions: What Now?
The Perfect Team Meeting to Start Your Week
Decisive: How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work
Solving the Public Pension Plan Funding Crisis
When Your Coworkers Don't Measure Up
The Retirement Savings Shortfall ? Are Financial Advisors at Fault?
Volume 7, Issue 21 - May 21, 2013
Measuring the Cost of Socially Responsible Investing
A Cry for Help from Income Investors
Do Annuities Reduce Bequest Values?
How Responding to Client Requests is Like Returning a Sweater to Sears
Social Media Best Practices: Slow and Steady Wins the Race
Five Tips for Winning in the "Trust and Value" Economy
Volume 7, Issue 20 - May 14, 2013
Is Kyle Bass Wrong About Japan?
David Rosenberg ? My Love Affair with Bonds is Over
Nouriel Roubini: Four Reasons Investors Should be Worried
Nassim Taleb on the Anti-Fragile Portfolio and the Benefits of Taking Risks
Mohamed El-Erian: The Three-Speed Global Economy
Framing the Referral Discussion
Volume 7, Issue 19 - May 7, 2013
Niall Ferguson: Four Reasons Why the U.S. is Failing
Breakaway Brokers: What the Data Really Say
How to Construct a Low-Cost Conservative Portfolio
Mutual Fund Companies Need to Prepare for a Changing Environment Fund Industry Turbulence Ahead
Meredith Whitney ? State-issued GO Muni Bonds are Safe
The Satisfaction Gaps that Cost You Clients
Establishing the Matriarch of the Family Legacy
Eight Ways to Improve Your Relationship with Your Boss The Art of Managing Up
Volume 7, Issue 18 - April 30, 2013
The Most Underappreciated Threat to the Advisory Business
The Best Solution for Protecting Retirement Portfolios: Put and Call Options versus GLWBs
Stockman to America: Sinners, Repent!
Electric Vehicles: The Devil is in the Battery
Implementing Behavioral Portfolio Management
How to Make a Big Impact in the First 10 Minutes of Your Day
Best Practices for Following Up After a Prospecting Event
Volume 7, Issue 17 - April 23, 2013
The New Challenges to Reinhart and Rogoff
Looking Back at Peak Oil: The Coming Crisis in Energy Supplies
How to Help Your Middle-Class Clients Retire
Investment Risk is the Chance of Underperformance
Enforcing an Office Dress Code
Create Mission and Vision Statements That Drive Your Business
Volume 7, Issue 16 - April 16, 2013
Michael Pettis - Can China Save Itself?
Will Germany Lead the World's Energy Revolution?
Why Landing Clients is Like Dating ? and Seven Other Rules for Prospecting
Using Behavioral Data to Earn Superior Returns
Dealing with an Obnoxious Wholesaler
Take Two Tylenol and Call Me in the Morning
Volume 7, Issue 15 - April 9, 2013
John Hussman ? Why Prospective Returns Are Low
MLPs: Winning Streak Broken, Growth Story Intact
Four Bold Innovations that will Revolutionize Financial Planning
The Myth of the Casually Competent Investor
Four Steps to Becoming the Primary Advisor for Top Clients
The Evidence that Emotion Dominates Market Pricing
Tips for Building a Compelling Web Site
Volume 7, Issue 14 - April 2, 2013
Choosing an Actively Managed Fund: What Works and What Doesn't
The Most Important Practice Management Challenge
Bernanke's Motives Behind Quantitative Easing
New Research on Investor Behavior
A Q1 Letter to Clients: Why Warren Buffett is Bullish on Stocks
The Online Advantage: Findings from the Advisor Perspectives Mutual Fund-Site Survey
Volume 7, Issue 13 - March 26, 2013
Volume 7, Issue 12 - March 19, 2013
Putting GMO's Ideas to Work: Protected Leveraged Investing
Five Steps to Demonstrate Your Value Today
Understanding the Role of SPIAs in a Retirement Portfolio
Paul Matlack from Delaware Investments on the Direction of the Bond Market
How My Firm Hires Great Employees
Volume 7, Issue 11 - March 12, 2013
Volume 7, Issue 10 - March 5, 2013
Breaking Free from the Safe Withdrawal Rate Paradigm: Extending the Efficient Frontier for Retiremen
What Economists can Learn from Downton Abbey
Selecting Truly Active Equity Funds
What to Say When a Friend Doesn?t Want to be a Client
You?re The Cream of the Crop: Key Findings from the 2012 Advisor Perspectives Reader Survey
Increasing Center-of-Influence Referrals
Volume 7, Issue 9 - February 26, 2013
Volume 7, Issue 8 - February 19, 2013
Tough Times for Classic Value Investors
Alan Greenspan on the Market and the Global Economy
The Three Minutes that Cost a Million-Dollar Prospect
Six Recommendations for Working with Widows
Kyle Bass on Inflation and How to Protect Against It
How to Improve Your Presentation Skills
Asset Class Allocation and Portfolios
Volume 7, Issue 7 - February 12, 2013
The Milton Friedman Centenary: One Hundred Years of Surprisingly Little Solitude
The Best Tool You?ve Never Heard Of
Ten Minutes that Uncovers What?s Really Important to Prospects
Two Things about High-Yield Bonds Investors Must Understand Today
Staying Active on Social Media: Ten Ways to Generate Relevant Content on a Frequent Basis
Manage Your Time More Effectively with a Model Week
Volume 7, Issue 6 - February 5, 2013
Volume 7, Issue 5 - January 29, 2013
Volume 7, Issue 4 - January 22, 2013
Dylan Grice: Witch Hunts, Inflation Fears, and Why I?m Bearish in 2013
Sunglasses and Cockroaches ? Six Rules for Surviving in a Bear Market
Wally Weitz on Value Investing in the Post-Crisis Era
How Being Efficient Makes You Less Effective
Shoulder Pads and Supply Chains
Volume 7, Issue 3 - January 15, 2013
Gundlach?s Predictions for 2013
Demographics and the Decline of Equity Mutual Funds
Template for a Year-End Client Letter 2012 in Review: Learning from the Past, Looking to the Future
Five Key Marketing Trends for Advisors in 2013
Dealing with an Unreasonable Compliance Department


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There are currently over four hundred eleven statutorily created judicial positions in Massachusetts. The Supreme Judicial Court[1] consists of seven justices and the Massachusetts Appeals Court has twenty five justices with some limited additional provisional appointments of retired justices serving as recall justices. The Massachusetts Trial Court system has an additional three hundred seventy nine justices throughout its seven departments[2] with the majority of those positions serving in the District Court Department. Similar to the Appeals Court, the Trial Court also has a limited number of recall justices serving on a provisional basis. Recall justices are selected by the Chief Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court for the Supreme Judicial Court, the Chief Justice of the Appeals Court for the Appeals Court and the Chief Justice of Administration and Management for the Trial Courts. Recall justices are appointed for ninety-day periods for a single assignment.[3]
In Massachusetts, judges enjoy "life time" appointments as members of the judiciary. In 1972, voters passed a constitutional amendment, Article XCVIII, requiring judges to retire at age seventy. Although, there is not a constitutional requirement that a judge be an attorney there has not been a non-attorney appointment in modern history. Further, as you will see below, various gubernatorial administrations have promulgated executive orders indicating that only attorneys would be appointed.
In addition to judges, Massachusetts also has eighty five statutorily created clerk-magistrate positions. Clerk-magistrates serve throughout the District Court, Housing Court, Juvenile Court and Boston Municipal Court. Included in this number is the position of Recorder of the Land Court. All of these positions are gubernatorial appointments, and they enjoy true life time appointment not having a set mandatory retirement age. Clerk-magistrates are judicial officers primarily responsible for the management and administration of the court's business. Clerk-magistrates also serve as judicial hearing officers on procedural criminal matters such as show cause hearings and in civil small claims sessions.[4] There are many non-attorneys who serve as clerk-magistrates. Although recently, given the increased judicial responsibilities of clerk-magistrates, there has been a gubernatorial trend of appointing primarily attorneys to these positions.
[1] The Supreme Judicial Court is one of the few (the Constitution also recognizes the Probate Court and Justices of the Peace) constitutionally created courts in the Commonwealth (see Massachusetts Constitution, Part the First, Article XXIX). However, the Supreme Judicial Court's members are set by statute [see G.L. c. 211, §1 (2004 ed.)]
[2] The seven departments of the Trial Court are: Superior; District; Boston Municipal; Probate and Family; Juvenile; Housing; and Land.
[3] See General Laws c. 211, § 24, c. 211A, §16, and c. 211B, §14 (2004 ed.).
[4] Historically, there have been a number of statutory amendments that have increased the breadth of clerk magistrate powers, e.g. Chapter 379 of the Acts of 1992, the Court Reform Act, greatly expanded the powers of clerk-magistrates [see also G. L. c. 221 § 62 (c) (2004 ed.)]. Additionally, recent amendments have been made to the Massachusetts Rules of Criminal Procedure, which have broadened the role of clerk-magistrates and assistant clerk-magistrates in determining probable cause to issue complaints in criminal cases.


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She Matters
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Susanna Sonnenberg's 2013 memoir, She Matters: A Life in Friendships, will be discussed by the library's book group, Memoirs & Coffee, on Tuesday, April 22, at 10:30 a.m. The group will meet in the Community Room for their discussion led by Pat Kennedy-Grant. Copies of the book are now available at the front desk. Publisher's Weekly writes that Sonnenberg's book is a "tribute to her lifelong fortress of friendship" and that "her strikingly honest depictions of tumultuous female alliances and … Continue reading
The Past is Present in Our Local History Room
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Thanks to the dedicated work of some Bernardsville Public Library volunteers, a large trove of Somerset Hills family histories, artifacts, photographs, and books have been preserved in the library's Edwin S. Spinning Local History Room. Significant collections in the Local History Room include the Fred Pitney Crater negatives from the early 20th century. Hundreds of these negatives have now been scanned and are viewable on our website. These negatives document town life in the early 1900's and include … Continue reading
Son of a Gun
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Memoirs and Coffee book group will discuss Justin St. Germain's memoir Son of a Gun on Tuesday, March 25, at 10:30 a.m. in the Community Room. Memoirs and Coffee is one of two library book groups which meet once a month. The other book group, Saturday Samplers, reads assorted literature, short stories and nonfiction and meets on a Saturday afternoon. Both book groups welcome new members. For more information about Son of a Gun, please refer to our catalog entry here. Copies … Continue reading
VITA Appointments Being Taken
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Bernardsville Public Library continues to provide complimentary tax assistance to community residents through the VITA program. VITA stands for Volunteer Income Tax Assistance, and this service has been offered free of charge for over 15 years at our library. Volunteers are trained to assist with state and federal tax preparation as well as to help with estimated taxes and the filing of tax extensions. We are especially pleased to offer translation for Spanish language speakers who request this service. Free … Continue reading
The Astronaut Wives Club
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When the United States initiated its space program, two things were certain; men would fly the spacecrafts and their wives back home would "be" the perfect spouses that an adoring public expected. The Astronaut Wives Club by Lily Koppel tells the personal stories of the wives of the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo astronauts as these women formed a complicated bond of friendship and mutual support for over fifty years. Library Journal notes that the author has created "an exceptional story … Continue reading
Two Books, One Discussion
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Members of Saturday Samplers, a Bernardsville Library book discussion group, are currently reading two works of fiction by author Julie Otsuka for their upcoming meeting on Saturday, Feb. 1, at 3:30 p.m. Ms. Otsuka's first novel, When the Emperor Was Divine, will be discussed in tandem with her more recent book, The Buddha in the Attic, published in 2012. Both novels describe significant aspects of the Japanese-American experience. The Buddha in the Attic presents the point of view of Japanese … Continue reading
The Cooked Seed
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Anchee Min's 2013 biography, The Cooked Seed, will be discussed at the next meeting of Memoirs and Coffee on Tuesday, Jan. 28, 10:30 a.m. in the Community Room. Memoirs and Coffee is a Bernardsville Public Library book discussion group led by staff member Pat Kennedy-Grant and is open to newcomers. Copies of the book are available at the circulation desk. The Cooked Seed recounts further developments in Ms. Min's life since her debut personal narrative, Red Azalea, became a smash hit in … Continue reading
Handmade Baby Blankets Are Donated By Saturday Crafters
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Saturday Crafters, the Bernardsville Public Library crafting group, has just completed yet another charity project, this one benefiting premature infants at Overlook Hospital in Summit, New Jersey. As you can see, the project certainly brought out the creative talents of everyone involved! Each of the baby blankets was a unique creation demonstrating a joyful choice of color, pattern, and technique. Not only will the blankets brighten up the neonatal ward at Overlook, but once the infants are released from … Continue reading
New Year, New Executive Director
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The Board of Trustees of Bernardsville Public Library is pleased to announce that it has selected April L. Judge as the new permanent Executive Director of the library. Her position will start on January 2, 2014. Currently serving as West Caldwell Public Library's Director, a position she held for 15 years, Ms. Judge has worked in numerous libraries over her career as well as serving in the role of President of the New Jersey Library Association. She is active in … Continue reading
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Saturday Samplers will discuss Amy Ephron's novella, A Cup of Tea, on Dec. 7th at 3:30 p.m. in the library. Copies of the book are available to borrow, and new members are encouraged to attend meetings of this library book discussion group. Ms. Ephron based her book on a short story of the same title published in 1922 by Katherine Mansfield. Beginning with the same premise as Mansfield's story, A Cup of Tea by Amy Ephron takes the characters in an … Continue reading


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DIRECTOR Ross Hosking had just 10 weeks to produce Batemans Bay High School's first blockbuster – and the show goes on.
A theatrical tradition established on the fly in the school's first year has prevailed and Mr Hosking is in the mood to party for the school's 25th anniversary on April 12.
The school's founding English and History head teacher wants anyone with memories of that first year, back in 1988, to write them down. And he wants as many as possible to celebrate at Club Catalina on the big day.
Mr Hosking transferred from Queanbeyan to teach at the new high school, but spent the first term in "a ghetto" of demountables within the grounds of Moruya High School.
The school parents had worked so hard for was finally finished in time for term two and everyone from Year Seven to 11 headed north, with teachers ferrying tables and chairs in their cars for the staff room.
"We split the textbooks with Moruya, because they had too many," he said.
"It was all very exciting and clean and good. A lot of things happened that year, in the spirit of the whole new thing. We had balls and fashion parades, people like Barbara Gellatly put on shows. It was a honeymoon."
Mr Hosking decided to celebrate with a melodrama, Egad, the Woman in White, based on the Wilkie Collins novel.
"I desperately got that on," he said.
"It was a tough year, I am not going to whinge about it, but there were so many things to do. But if you don't get a tradition of something happening, you have a tradition of nothing happening.
"From then on something happened every year. A lot of things started that year and that was one of them."
However, industrial bans intervened and the show could not get moving until last term.
"It was a scramble," he said.
The show was a hit, with a young Nina White playing the Woman in White, and pictures can still be seen in the school hall.
"I would love the kids from that time to come along on April 12," Mr Hosking said.
Two other original head teachers still live in the area: Bob Soper and Keith Armstrong.
Mr Hosking hopes the parents "who worked so long and hard" to have a high school will attend.
There was "a heck of a lot of enthusiasm, from staff, parents and kids".
"I remember the kids wearing their new sweaters, even though it was as hot as hell, just because they could."
Anyone who wants to get involved in the anniversary can contact Mr Hosking on 4471 5103.


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If you've missed word of Dead Island: Epidemic before today, it is – deep breath – a free-to-play multiplayer action hack and slash arena game. It's pursuing a cartoony look and feel and, from a trailer voiceover, it's making no bones about trying to be funny (although I hope the game itself aims a little higher than a silly voice).
There's a little more info on this kinda-sorta-maybe-MOBA in a post we ran all the way back in June, although details will have changed since then. Epidemic has just reached open beta and there's a new trailer to celebrate.


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Not only am I planning a wedding, going back to school, attempting to become domesticated and trying not to lose my mind. I am also helping with my bridal shower that will be hosted at my house two days before my wedding. (help!)
Luckily there are sites like Pinterest. While searching for DIY ideas, I came across this super fun idea. A bouquet of kitchen goods. How cute! And it looks pretty simple.
I am going to start searching every home store for the kitchen goods and I plan on putting at least three together to give out as gifts at the bridal shower.
Happy planning! xoxo


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Sodaro Estate Winery
2008 Felicity Cabernet Franc
Cabernet Franc
California: Coombsville (Napa)
Mission Briefing
Final Final
Today marks the long awaited return of Sodaro Estate. This time around, with a very exclusive and limited allocation of their unreleased 2008 Cabernet Franc. When Agent Red found out that there were only a handful of cases of this wine available in the winery's private library, he rushed to secure every last case for our Franc-loving operatives.
Today's 2008 Sodaro Estates Cabernet Franc is an extraordinary wine. With layers of lush aromatics this wine had our entire tasting panel inhaling the wine for ages before ever even tasting the wine. Flavors, which are absolutely delicious, are bold but perfectly balanced.
There is very little of this wine available, relative to the demand that we anticipate, so please rush to secure your bottles of this very highly recommended wine.
Tasting Profile
Beautiful deep magenta hues transition to a wide band of pure ruby at the edge.
Lush notes of chocolate covered cherry and blueberry, briar patch, sweet tobacco, black tea leaf, and hard leather.
Velvety soft mouth feel ushers in flavors of blackberry juice, black cherry, dark baker's chocolate, dried Virginia tobacco leaf, and subtle brown spice.
Velvet-smooth and ultra long, with lingering fruit flavors that gradually give way to sweet tobacco, spice and a hint of black pepper at the tail end.
Our agents paired this Cabernet Franc with a juicy New York strip steak with a side of bacon-loaded mashed potatoes. Vegetarians may enjoy artichokes stuffed with breadcrumbs, aged gouda, lemon, and black pepper.
What the Winery Says
- Climate
- Sodaro Estate Winery is situated within the Coombsville AVA which is recognized for having a climate that is more moderate than other parts of the Napa Valley. The San Pablo Bay influences temperatures in Coombsville by minimizing the extremes of heat and cold, thus extending the growing season and increasing the potential for flavor and color maturation.
- Soil
- Bale Clay, Forward Gravelly, and Sobrante Loam
- Vinification
- All Sodaro Estate wines are crafted by Bill and Dawnine Dyer from our own estate grown fruit. Aged in 100% French Oak, this wine is a single vineyard 100% Cabernet Franc.
- Vintage Details
- The 2008 growing season was marked by dramatic variances in weather conditions. Periods of thick frost in the Spring lead to extraordinary heat spikes in the late Summer, with low overall rain totals throughout the maturation period. These challenging conditions handed to us by Mother Nature gave us a harvest half the size of 2007's total yield, yet produced fruit with fine balance, great concentrations of flavor, and fragrant aromatic qualities, resulting in a spectacular outcome and a truly epic 2008 vintage.
- Tasting Notes
- Our 2008 Sodaro Felicity Cabernet Franc projects deep, limpid hues of brilliant garnet and ruby. This marvelous wine delights with aromas of bright cherry, sweet red pepper and ripe green olive. Our lively and exuberant 2008 Cabernet Franc is medium bodied offering smooth tannins that provide structure and a satisfying finish.
- Alcohol
- 13.8%
About the Winery
Evolution—the exact word that describes our efforts at Sodaro Estate Winery and that of 13,000 of the finest vines planted in one of the best wine growing soils and climates in the world. As you can see by the dictionary definition, evolution is a gradual process. This is particularly true in wine making; a process that takes years.


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ROCKFORD — The Rock River Valley Blood Center received the High-Performer Award for their autologous T-cell collection in the support of patients being treated for stage-4 prostate cancer.
The national award recognizes RRVBC's award-winning performance based on collection metrics in the last year.
For information: rrvbc.org.
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This article is about two common problems with "statistical significance" in medical research. Both problems are particularly rampant in the study of massage therapy, chiropractic, and alternative medicine in general, and are wonderful examples of why science is hard and "why most published research findings are false":
Stats are hard and scary, of course — everyone knows that. But there will be comic strips, funny videos, and diagrams. I'll try to make it worth your while, and I'll try to simplify dramatically without butchering underlying math. Angels fear to tread here!
Research can be statistically significant, but otherwise unimportant. Statistical significance on its own is the sound of one hand clapping. But researchers often focus on the the positive: "Hey, at least we've got statistical significance! Maybe!" So they summarize their findings as "significant" without telling us the size of the effect they observed, which is a little devious or sloppy. Almost everyone is fooled by this — except 98% of statisticians — because the word "significant" carries so much weight. It really sounds like a big deal, like good news.
But it's like bragging about winning a lottery without mentioning that you only won $25.1
Statistical significance without other information really doesn't mean all that much. It is not only possible but common to have clinically trivial results that are nonetheless statistically significant. How much is that statistical significance is worth? It depends … on details that are routinely omitted.
Which is convenient if you're pushing a pet theory, isn't it?
Imagine a study of a treatment for pain, which has a statistically significant effect, but it's a tiny effect: that is, it only reduces pain slightly. You can take that result to the bank (supposedly) — it's real! It's statistically significant! But … no more so than a series of coin flips that yields enough heads in a row to raise your eyebrows. And the effect was still tiny. So calling these results "significant" is using math to put lipstick on a pig.
There are a lot of decorated pigs in research: "significant" results that are possibly not even that, and clinically boring in any case.
Just because a published paper presents a statistically significant result does not mean it necessarily has a biologically meaningful effect.
Science Left Behind: Feel-Good Fallacies and the Rise of the Anti-Scientific Left, Alex Berezow & Hank Campbell
If you torture data for long enough, it will confess to anything.
Ronald Harry Coase
Statistical significance is boiled down to one convenient number: the infamous, cryptic, bizarro and highly over-rated P-value. Cue Darth vader theme. This number is "diabolically difficult" to understand and explain, and so p-value illiteracy and bloopers are epidemic (Goodman identifies ""A dirty dozen: twelve p-value misconceptions""2). It seems to be hated by almost everyone who actually understands it, because almost no one else does. Many believe it to be a blight on modern science.3 Including the American Statistical Association4 — and if they don't like it, should you?
The mathematical soul of the p-value is, frankly, not really worth knowing. It's just not that fantastic an idea. The importance of scientific research results cannot be jammed into a single number (and nor was that ever the intent). And so really wrapping your head around it no more important than learning the gritty details of the Rotten Tomatoes algorithm when you're trying to decide whether to see that new Godzilla (2014) movie.5
What you do need to know is the role that p-values play in research today. You need to know that "it depends" is a massive understatement, and that there are "several reasons why the p-value is an unobjective and inadequate measure of evidence"6 Because it is so often abused, it's way more important to know what the p-value is NOT than what it IS. For instance, it's particularly useless when applied to studies of really outlandish ideas. Because it is so often abused, it's way more important to know what it's not than what it is. For instance, it's particularly useless when applied to studies of really outlandish ideas.7 And yet it's one of the staples of pseudoscience,8 because it is such an easy way to make research look better than it is.
Above all, a good p-value is not a low chance that the results were a fluke or false alarm — which is by far the most common misinterpretation (and the first of Goodman's Dirty Dozen). The real definition is a kind of mirror image of that:9 it's not a low chance of a false alarm, but a low chance of an effect that actually is a false alarm. The false alarm is a given! That part of the equation is already filled in, the premise of every p-value. For better or worse, the p-value is the answer to this question: if there really is nothing going on here, what are the odds of getting these results? A low number is encouraging, but it doesn't say the results aren't a fluke, because it can't10 — it was calculated by assuming they are.
The only way to actually find out if the effect is real or a fluke is to do more experiments. If they all produce results that would be unlikely if there was no real effect, then you can say the results aren't probably real. The p-value alone can only be a reason to check again — not statistical congratulations on a job well done. And yet that's exactly how most researchers use it. And most science journalists.11
Head hurting already? Time for the stick people to take over this tutorial.
Geeky web comic xkcd illustrated the trouble with statistical significance better than I can with my paltry words.
A "5% chance of coincidence" is actually a fairly strong chance of a coincidence. That's one in twenty. That can happen. Something with a one in twenty chance of happening each day is going to happen more than once per month.
Randall Munroe hides an extra little joke in all his comic strips (mouse over his comic strips on his website, wait a moment, and they are revealed). This time it was:
'So, uh, we did the green study again and got no link. It was probably a--' 'RESEARCH CONFLICTED ON GREEN JELLY BEAN/ACNE LINK; MORE STUDY RECOMMENDED!'
A great deal of crap science is presented in exactly this way. It's one of the main ways that "studies show" a lot of things help pain that aren't actually do no such thing. It's one of the easiest ways for the "controversy" over many alternative treatments can be extended: by citing "significant" evidence of benefit, with data exactly as absurd as in the comic strip above.
It's actually statistically normal for studies to make bad treatments look good. It happens regularly.
A classic real world example of "statistically significant but clinically trivial" is the supposedly proven benefit of chiropractic adjustment: how much benefit, exactly? "Less than the threshold for what is clinically worthwhile," as it turns out, according to Nefyn Williams, author of a 2011 paper in International Musculoskeletal Medicine.12 I have been pointing out that spinal adjustment benefits seem to be real-but-minor for many years now, and I explore that evidence in crazy detail in my low back pain and neck pain tutorials. It's a big topic, with lots of complexity.
Williams' paper offers an oblique perspective that is quite different and noteworthy: his paper is not about chiropractic adjustment, but about the concept of clinical significance itself. There are various ways of measuring improvement in scientific tests of treatments, and, as Williams explains, "when an outcome measure improves by, say, five points it is not immediately apparent what this means." How much improvement matters? After explaining and discussing various proposed standards and methods, Williams needed a good example to make his point. It's quite interesting that he picked spinal manipulative therapy.
Chondroitin sulfate is a "nutraceutical" — a food-like nutritional supplement that is supposedly "good for cartilage" (because it is major component of cartilage). It has been heavily studied, but there has never been any clear good scientific news about it, and it bombed a particularly large and good quality test in 2006 (see Clegg).
So it was a bit hard to believe my eyes when I read the summary of a 2011 experiment claiming that chondroitin sulfate "improves hand pain."13 Really?!
No, not really. On a 100mm VAS (a pain scale, "visual analogue scale"), the treatment group was 8.77mm happier with their hands. With a p=.02 (a middlin' p-value, neither high nor low). So basically what the researchers found is a chance that chondroitin makes a small difference in arthritis pain. It's not nothing, but it is an incredibly unimpressive result — pretty much the definition of clinically insignificant. The authors' interpretation is like taking the dog to the end of the driveway and saying you took him for a walk. Technically true ...
So that is a lovely demonstration of the abuse of statistical significance!
The first significance "problem" is almost like a trick or truth bending. It works well and fools a lot of people — sometimes, I think, even the scientists or doctors who are using it — because the usage of the term "significant" is often technically correct and literally true, but obscures and diverts attention away from the whole story. Thus it is more like a subtle and technical lie of omission than an actual error.
That's pretty bad! But it's not the half of it. It gets much worse: a lot of so-called significant results aren't even technically correct. Problem #2 is an actual error — something that would get you a failing grade in a basic statistics course.
This bomb comes from a recent analysis of neuroscience research.14 A number of writers have reported on this already. It was described by Ben Goldacre for The Guardian as
a stark statistical error so widespread it appears in about half of all the published papers surveyed from the academic neuroscience research literature.
Dr. Steven Novella also wrote about it for ScienceBasedMedicine.org recently, adding that
there is no reason to believe that it is unique to neuroscience research or more common in neuroscience than in other areas of research.
And it is not. Dr. Christopher Moyer is a psychologist who studies massage therapy:
I have been talking about this error for years, and have even published a paper on it. I critiqued a single example of it, and then discussed how the problem was rampant in massage therapy research. Based on the Nieuwenhuis paper, apparently it's rampant elsewhere as well, and that is really unfortunate. Knowing the difference between a within-group result and a between-groups result is basic stuff.
Clinical trials are all about comparing treatments. To be considered effective, a real treatment has to work better than a fake one — a placebo. A drug must produce better results than a sugar pill. If that difference is big enough, it is "statistically significant." There are a lot of details, but that's the beating heart of a fair scientific test: can the treatment beat a fake?
What you can't do is just compare the treatment to nothing at all and say, "See, it works: huge difference! Huge improvement over nothing!" The problem is that both effective medicines and placebos can beat nothing — it just doesn't mean much until you know the treatment can also trounce a placebo. On its own, a "statistically significant" difference between treatment and nothing at all is the sound of one hand clapping. A meaningful comparison has to be a statistical ménage à trois, comparing all three to each other (analysis of variance, or ANOVA).
The error is the failure to do this. And, shockingly, Nieuwenhuis et al reported that more than half of researchers were making this mistake: comparing treatments and placebos to nothing, but not to each other.
Studies of massage therapy (and others, like chiropractic15) are particularly plagued by this error. Why? Because massage is so much "better than nothing." The size of that difference looms large, and so it's all too easy to mistake it for the one that matters — and fail to even compare the treatment to a placebo. And it's really hard to come up with a meaningful placebo. It's notoriously difficult to give a patient a fake massage. (They catch on.)
Statistics does not care about these difficulties: you still can't compare massage to nothing, stop there, and call the difference "significant." You still have to do your ANOVA, and massage still has to beat some kind of placebo before it can be considered more effective than pleasant grooming.
This research problem is not limited to massage, but massage is probably be the single best example of it. It crops up when you're studying any treatment that involves a lot of interaction. The more interaction, the worse the problem gets. It's a big deal in massage research because massage involves a lot of interaction, much of which is pleasant and emotionally engaging. It's notoriously difficult to give a patient a fake massage. (They catch on.)Interaction with a friendly health care provider has a lot of surprisingly potent effects: people react strongly and positively to compassion, attention, and touch. The problem is that those benefits have nothing to do with any specific "active ingredient" in a massage. Grooming is just nice. It's like pizza: even when it's bad, it's pretty good.
Much of the good done by therapists of all kinds is attributable to potent placebos driven by their complex interactions with patients, and not by anything in particular that they are doing to the patient. To find out how well a therapy works, it must be compared to sham treatments which are as much like the treatment as possible. This is hard to do, and it has rarely been done well. It's much more typical to compare therapy to something too lifeless and "easy to beat," to much like comparing it to nothing at all instead of a real placebo. And there's the difference error: comparison to the wrong thing, statistical significance of the wrong difference.
I am a science writer, former massage therapist, and assistant editor of ScienceBasedMedicine.org. I have had my share of injuries and pain challenges as a runner and ultimate player. My wife and I live in downtown Vancouver, Canada. See my full bio and qualifications, or my blog, Writerly. You might run into me on Facebook and Google, but mostly Twitter.
Let's spell that out a bit: a friend approaches you, and excitedly reports that he had won some money — but rather than telling you how much, he brags only about the odds: "It was a twenty to one!" he says happily, and goes for a high five. You indulge him with a high five, and then demand to know how much he actual won.
"Um, three dollars. But I won!"
This is how silly it is to declare statistical significance without clear reference to effect size.BACK TO TEXT
P values have always had critics. In their almost nine decades of existence, they have been likened to mosquitoes (annoying and impossible to swat away), the emperor's new clothes (fraught with obvious problems that everyone ignores) and the tool of a "sterile intellectual rake" who ravishes science but leaves it with no progeny. One researcher suggested rechristening the methodology "statistical hypothesis inference testing", presumably for the acronym it would yield.
Misuse of the P value — a common test for judging the strength of scientific evidence — is contributing to the number of research findings that cannot be reproduced, the American Statistical Association (ASA) warns in a statement released today. The group has taken the unusual step of issuing principles to guide use of the P value, which it says cannot determine whether a hypothesis is true or whether results are important.BACK TO TEXT
Reporting p values from statistical significance tests is common in psychology's empirical literature. Sir Ronald Fisher saw the p value as playing a useful role in knowledge development by acting as an "objective" measure of inductive evidence against the null hypothesis. We review several reasons why the p value is an unobjective and inadequate measure of evidence when statistically testing hypotheses. A common theme throughout many of these reasons is that p values exaggerate the evidence against H0. This, in turn, calls into question the validity of much published work based on comparatively small, including .05, p values. Indeed, if researchers were fully informed about the limitations of the p value as a measure of evidence, this inferential index could not possibly enjoy its ongoing ubiquity. Replication with extension research focusing on sample statistics, effect sizes, and their confidence intervals is a better vehicle for reliable knowledge development than using p values. Fisher would also have agreed with the need for replication research.
The authors illustrate the difficulties involved in obtaining a valid statistical significance in clinical studies especially when the prior probability of the hypothesis under scrutiny is low. Since the prior probability of a research hypothesis is directly related to its scientific plausibility, the commonly used frequentist statistics, which does not take into account this probability, is particularly unsuitable for studies exploring matters in various degree disconnected from science such as complementary alternative medicine (CAM) interventions. Any statistical significance obtained in this field should be considered with great caution and may be better applied to more plausible hypotheses (like placebo effect) than that examined - which usually is the specific efficacy of the intervention. Since achieving meaningful statistical significance is an essential step in the validation of medical interventions, CAM practices, producing only outcomes inherently resistant to statistical validation, appear not to belong to modern evidence-based medicine.
Like a German word with no exact English translation, there really is no way to properly define p-value without some jargon. (Or at least that's how I justify my own past erroneous definitions.) So here's a proper definition now, including the essential jargon — specifically the "null hypothesis" — here's Goodman's definition: "The probability of the observed result, plus more extreme results, if the null hypothesis were true."
The null hypothesis is basically the bet there's actually no effect for the experiment to find. If that bet is right, then you're only going observe the appearance of an effect due to a fluke or error. The null hypothesis is difficult but really interesting idea, and I cover it in some detail in Why So "Negative"? Answering accusations of negativity, and my reasons and methods for debunking bad treatment options for pain and injury.BACK TO TEXT
P values are the most commonly used tool to measure evidence against a hypothesis or hypothesized model. Unfortunately, they are often incorrectly viewed as an error probability for rejection of the hypothesis or, even worse, as the posterior probability that the hypothesis is true. The fact that these interpretations can be completely misleading when testing precise hypotheses is first reviewed, through consideration of two revealing simulations. Then two calibrations of a ρ value are developed, the first being interpretable as odds and the second as either a (conditional) frequentist error probability or as the posterior probability of the hypothesis.


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FC Botosani and FC Brasov will meet today in the first match of the day in Liga I.
Very difficult time for FC Botosani, which has no less than 11 consecutive matches without a win in Liga I. Also Botosani began as weak in 2014, with a defeat on the field of a rival to avoid relegation.
On the other hand, FC Brasov produced a little surprise in the previous round, managing to draw against those of Petrolul, a team that fights for championship.
FC Brasov is more valuable, more experienced in the first league and should get at least a point in this trip, especially as they have high morale after the last result.


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By Rhonda Apple, Pentagram Staff Writer June 21, 2013
JOINT BASE MYER-HENDERSON HALL, Va. - Headquarters Marine Corps, with facility assistance from Headquarters & Service Battalion, Headquarters Marine Corps Henderson Hall's Education and Career Center, hosted a two-day conference on Marine Corps voluntary education June 18-19. The conference was held in Bldg. 29, classroom 105, on the Henderson Hall portion of Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall.
The two-day event was attended by 25 Marine education service officers from Marine Corps Base Camp S.D. Butler, Okinawa, Japan; Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni, Japan; Marine Corps Base Hawaii; Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, Calif.; Marine Corps Air Station Miramar and Marine Corps Recruit Depot, San Diego, Calif.; Marine Corps Logistics Base, Barstow, Calif.; Marine Corps Base Twentynine Palms, Calif.; Marine Corps Air Station, Yuma, Ariz.; Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, N.C.; Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point, N.C.; Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort, S.C.; Marine Corps Logistics Base, Albany, N.Y.; Marine Corps, New Orleans, La.; Marine Base Quantico, Va. and H&S Bn., HQMC Henderson Hall. This was the first time the annual meeting was held at Henderson Hall.
"The sole focus of the conference was training and information seminars that deal with virtually every topic concerning U.S. Marine Corps voluntary secondary education and the challenges of financing these academic and vocational/technical pursuits," said Henderson Hall Education and Career Specialist Bart MacMillan.
Representatives of various organizations gave presentations on educational services, including the Marine Corps Voluntary Education Program; Servicemembers Organizations Opportunity Colleges Marine Corps (SOCMAR); Veterans' Program American Council on Education/Joint Service Transcript; Marine Corps Career College Program (MCCCP) and the United Services Military Apprenticeship Program (USMAP) credentialing initiatives.
Tuition assistance and personal and professional development were also a focus of the conference.
"We wanted to look at each installation and compare what is successful ... discussing recommendations and positive outcomes from ESOs around the Marine Corps," added Henderson Hall's Personal and Professional Development Branch Manager Sam Bagwell.
A visit to the U.S. Department of Education in Washington, D.C., June 19 was included as part of the conference training.
"We had training there with an awareness and outreach specialist about financial aid, including grants and the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA)," said Bagwell. "Since military education benefits may not cover the entire cost of getting a post-secondary education, FAFSA may help fill any gaps in funding through available benefits from the federal government, state and school-funded levels."
MacMillan said servicemembers have civilian resources for financial aid and benefits unique to the military available - a topic the ESOs discussed to ensure they were doing everything possible to help Marines with voluntary education needs and concerns.
"The purpose of the education and career center is dealing with academic and financial counseling for those pursuing college and the issue of financing education. This includes vocational and technical to graduate-level education," MacMillan said.
"We want to make sure as ESOs, we offer the best possible service we can to our Marines," added Bagwell. "There are a lot of options available and we want to ensure we counsel Marines to provide all the information that's available to them."
MacMillan said it was exciting and inspirational to have all the ESOs on the Henderson Hall portion of JBM-HH for the annual conference.
"I want Marines to know the greatest advocates they have on behalf of their education and their use of education benefits are the education service officers attending this training. Only positive results will come from this conference," said MacMillan.
For more information about the educational services offered at Henderson Hall, call 703-614-9104.


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Carapods, a Beverley-based business established by cousins Leigh Hardy and James Spooner, is looking to change the future of the traditional caravan with a new concept in teardrop caravan design and manufacture.
Supported by East Riding of Yorkshire Council's Business Services Team, Leigh and James made the move into self-employment about a year ago and have already started to expand their fledgling business, moving to new premises on Beverley Business Park and touring trade shows across the country.
Small and medium sized enterprises, like Carapods, are essential to the lifeblood of the East Riding economy, with more than 12,500 operating in the area, providing jobs and generating wealth.
Following a recommendation from a neighbouring business, Leigh and James made contact with the East Riding Business Centre, In Annie Reed Road, Beverley, and have undertaken a range of courses offered, including a Chartered Institute of Marketing seminar in how to write a marketing plan, and workshops looking at marketing and selling, financial forecasting and business planning.
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Leigh said: "It's good having Darren as that first point of contact by email, over the phone or in person when he visits the business. He keeps us on track, making sure we are prepared for trade shows and is always encouraging us to consider what to do next, such as advertising and promoting the business."
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Most of the materials used by Carapods are sourced locally with components also assembled in East Yorkshire.
James said: "Our ethos is to keep things local. The aluminium, which is the main core of the pod itself, comes from Hull, the CNC, the process of cutting out the side panels and furniture using a larger computersied router, is done in Wawne, our wood supplier is from Hull and the painting and upholstering are done here in Beverley."
Leigh and James are now looking to the future and, as well as increasing their number of orders, are considering the possibility of taking on further staff in order to concentrate time on developing new designs.
Councillor Jane Evison, cabinet portfolio holder for economy, investment and inequalities at East Riding of Yorkshire Council, visited Carapods and was impressed by how far the company had come in just one year.
She said: "The council takes its role as a driver of economic growth very seriously and, through its business services team, provides practical support and guidance to help future entrepreneurs develop their business ideas and get them off the ground.
"As this week is Humber Business Week, the world's largest festival of business, it seems fitting to share a local success story and encourage more people to consider running their own business.
"Carapods is a fantastic example of a start up business and Leigh and James have done remarkably well over the past 12 months with support from Darren.
"Their product is innovative and they have plans in place to grow and develop their business going forward. It is also pleasing to see that they use local material and local labour, wherever possible, which helps support a thriving local economy."
For further information about the range of business services offered by the council, visit www.eastriding.gov.uk/business or contact your local business centre.
For more information about Carapods, visit www.carapods.com


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ELLSWORTH — The following individuals recently were booked into the Hancock County Jail:
May 5
Galen Bagley, 22, Machias, sentenced to 48 hours in jail for operating while under the influence (OUI).
Joseph Knight, 30, Ellsworth, OUI, bailed.
Ryan Maddocks, 22, Dedham, OUI, bailed.
Wesley Pullen, 25, Hancock, obstructing a public way, bailed.
Charles Rayner, 46, Sullivan, probation violation.
Nicholas Sosa, 21, Trenton, disorderly conduct, refusing to sign summons, bailed.
Craig Strout-Desmond, 26, Ellsworth, operating after suspension (OAS), violating conditions of release, bailed.
Thomas Williams, 60, Fletcher's Landing, OUI.
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Brittany Carter, 26, Trenton, sentenced to 15 days in jail for unlawful possession of a scheduled drug, OAS.
Kenneth Stilwell III, 32, Sullivan, probation revocation.
Peyton Webster, 20, Bucksport, probation violation.
Brendan Wentworth, 21, Bucksport, violating conditions of release, bailed.
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Dustin Carey, 27, Ellsworth, domestic violence assault, leaving the scene of a personal injury accident, bailed.
Ashton Romer, 26, Trenton, sentenced to 48 hours in jail for OUI.
Jean Smith, 46, Deer Isle, violating a protection order, bailed.
Scott Trundy, 24, Hancock, bail revocation, bailed.
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