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A Funny Note On MPT Inspiered By Larry Swedroe Vs. Amalogoli Discussion (Feb. 1, 2012) 48 commentsFeb 2, 2012 2:24 PM
This Note inspiered by comments to the good SA article "Larry Swedroe (Passively) Positions For 2012: Avoiding Stock And Sector Picking, Economic Forecasting, And All Other Forms Of Speculation"
Modern portfolio theory (MPT) is cornestone of traditional finance. I'm a simple minded person. To me MPT is an attempt to show that "investing is a tradeoff between risk and expected return" (bit.ly/yxHZ1z). According to the same source (bit.ly/xeb0c0) "In finance, risk is the probability that an investment's actual return will be different than expected." If I combine these 2 definition I get investing is a tradeoff between real and expected returns. Hence, if my real return is equal to my expected return I do not invest.
Let me give an example. When I buy a stock at 10$ and decide to sell it at 25$ my expected return is 15$. When later on I indeed sell the stock at 25$ my real return is 15$. Fine I happy with 15$ and because I did not invest according to the definitions.
Aliluya, now I know that to tell IRS about my capital gains !!!!
Well return can be measured (15$) and risk is not. So the MPT attempt is not successful (at least for me as a physicist). OK, at least do not call it " theory ".
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SDS (Seductive Dividend Sto..., contributorWell I took wikipedea definitions.
Regard (someone) as likely to do or be something."
SDS (Seductive Dividend Sto..., contributor
SDS (Seductive Dividend Sto..., contributorI asked you to define. Expected in engineering might be different from expected in finance. But in both (and all other) fields a theory must explain the simplest case. Let look again:
SDS (Seductive Dividend Sto..., contributor
OK let us go back to MPT.
SDS (Seductive Dividend Sto..., contributorOK, thanks for the expected return definition. As far as I know inf is infinite time. I guess a linearly causal arrow of time is presumed in calculations with "inf" in finance. This might be not only the case for infinite time. Also from symmetry & thermodynamics points of view data for infinite past time might be required and we know that such data cannot exist because of 2 simple limits: our Universe has finite history, humans and their financial activities have even shorter history.
As pointed out your problem is your inorrect definition of expected return--which is not GUARANTEED. It is only the mean of the potential disperion of returns, with many other alternative outcomes possible. If that was not true there would be no risk.
And of course this relationship is only one part of MPT.
But I would add that this relationship is part of ALL ECONOMIC THEORY, not just MPT, or better I would suggest using modern financial theory.
Note the word theory is appropriate, it is a hypothesis, not a LAW, like gravity. We don't say the theory of gravity.
SDS (Seductive Dividend Sto..., contributorLarry,
I'm biased by physics terminology. In physics and mathematics theory is well-defined term and when I read a regular MPT paper my instincts reject to consider it as "a theory" similar to let's say quantum mechanics. Just personal..... As soon as you say "It is a model" I kind of accept it better but being a scientists my instincts force me to propose a better model. For example FF 3-factor is obviously destruction of model beauty and better model might make more sense. Again in physics we operate with models but know their limits and sometime unproven assumption we made in order to describe something. A good theory should be bullet proof and not only explain but predict. I don't like to "open kimono" to much but one of my professional achievements was demonstration that one field I work in with long-lasting label "theory" is just methodology. My book about this field is admitted as the best book. Therefore I'm quite sensitive to word "theory".
SDS (Seductive Dividend Sto..., contributor
Will write this up but high growth in div strategy, top quintile reformed every year, 82-11 beat S&P 500 by just 0.1 percent. Think we can agree this is statistically insignificant difference. Also note the loading on size and value was IDENTICAL, not even virtually, but IDENTICAL to the S&P 500. There is no there there as they say. Want higher returns simply load up on SV, then can take less beta risk if you prefer. Also would be far more diversified by number of stocks and also can do it globally as well
SDS (Seductive Dividend Sto..., contributorLarry,
I (and some other DGI) do NOT want higher returns if they are unstable at intermediate ( below ~5 years) time scale. I rather satisfy with modest more consistent positive income (that I can re-invest and retires can take for living) without record spikes in both positive and especially negative directions. (Remember - human reaction to loss is ~ 3X stronger than to gain).
I use famous in almost any engineering discipline rule of thumb "It takes 20% of effort to achieve 80% of result and it takes 80% of effort to achieve 20% of result". Based on long-term data I initially found in James Montier book "Value Investing: Tools and Techniques for Intelligent Investment" I can get more than 80% of long-term (in my classification above 10 years) returns via dividend components such as yield and growth (see http://seekingalpha.co...) even without value-type screen for high initial yield stocks.
The old Wall Street sayings goes as "the only thing that goes up in a bear market is correlation". I'd add from 2008-2011 experience and numbers presented in the tables above another thing that goes up in a bear market is the number of dividend cuts and omissions.
One more fact against dividend investment I aware of - dividends (in $$$) of several respectful quasi-index mutual funds (I analyzed about dozen from Vanguard, Fidelity, etc) DECREASE slowly but steady with time between ~ 1985 and 2010. In order to protect myself from this trend I invest in DG stocks but not exclusively and tend to buy small-cap dividend stocks at good historical value. So I mimic SV fund with restriction for non-zero dividends and this choice came from prior studies which forced FF wrote 1992 paper (although I'm not sure that these 2 factors will be important in future because now everybody /and I consider myself as a person at the end of informational chain/ knows).
Basically we are in agreement
The bottom line is IMO that the dividend growth guys totally ignore the risks that divs can be cut or even eliminated, especially if we have severe economic times. Thus they are NOT in anyway a substitute for high quality FI. This is just IMO are really bad idea.
Far better to simply tilt the portfolio to SV, and do it globally, and then can lower exposure to beta because of the higher expected return. This cuts the tail risk.
Also what is missing in the analysis is that not all correlations rise in severe bear markets, the correlation to safe FI goes WAY DOWN, and that helps reduce volatility, and with the higher expected return of SV allowing one to hold more safe FI then you get another benefit there.
If you look at the data this has been/is far superior strategy.
The high div growth strategy IMO has nothing to offer that cannot be achieved in more efficient manner.
Also if the laws change on taxes on divs this will further add to the issues for this strategy
SDS (Seductive Dividend Sto..., contributorLarry,
The high div growth strategy IMO has nothing to offer that cannot be achieved in more efficient manner."
I'm not aware about a "superior strategy" that allows me to achive the goal I outlined in my previous comment to this post with effort I can handle. Hope to find it in your book.
SDS (Seductive Dividend Sto..., contributor
Well the answer depends on how much bonds you hold and whether they were munis or faxables, but for the EQUITY portion it might be something like, (whether stocks in taxable or not (different funds used) and how you rebalanced, but using annual rebalancing
35% DFA ISV and
So that return would have been 10% with SD of 27
SDS (Seductive Dividend Sto..., contributor"Also what is missing in the analysis is that not all correlations rise in severe bear markets, the correlation to safe FI=fixed income goes WAY DOWN"
Larry please read the maxim ""the only thing that goes up in a bear market is correlation" carefully - it is not about correlations, it is about up movement during bear market.
So the maxim as stated is wrong, what it should say is that the correlation of RISKY assets goes up in bear markets. The correlation of safe to risky assets collapses
shows the most important diversification is to safe fixed income making the dividend strategies poor diversifiers and certainly not substitutes for fixed income. IT amazes me that people even debate this.
SDS (Seductive Dividend Sto..., contributorYes, my point was to show that stock prices AND dividends go down in bear market.
35% DFA ISV = international small value (?)
15% EMV = emerging market value (?)
By the way the main feature of Larry's portfolio that makes its risk adjusted performance measures so attractive is not the small cap portion of it, but the fact that it allocates 70% to essentially risk free FI.
SDS (Seductive Dividend Sto..., contributorVaran/Larry,
If I drop a stone from roof it come to ground because of gravity - this is the fundamental source. So my question is:
Did financial science find a fundamental source why small and value stocks will always outperform grown and large stocks? I'd not buy FF92 arguments - IMO this is attempt to save existing probably incorrect model.
As a quantum physicist, you should know better than that. The stone will drop, but even in vaccuum, the acceleration will neither be uniform, nor will its history be the same each time you drop it. The Unified Field theory to explain this has not been developed.
Very simple the correlation between risk and EXPECTED return, Small and value stocks are stocks of riskier companies and thus MUST have higher expected returns, just as stocks have higher expected returns than bonds, but not guaranteed
This is the point you seem to keep missing. There is no guarantee. There are plenty of studies as I have stated showing the very simple and logical risk stories.
Best wishes
SDS (Seductive Dividend Sto..., contributorLarry,
You are right that expected return isn't guaranteed return. You use FF92 argument with fuzzy terminology about risk for SV premium.
Everybody knows about SV premium so I don't think it is correct explanation. Recent "abnormal" bonds/stocks yields ratio IMO makes the concept questionable.
I don't know why you think there is funny terminology for risk premium.Nothing fuzzy about it at all. It is a risk premium with risks generated by very common and simple logical explanations, see the studies. And don't know what you think is "abnormal" now. I don't see anything abnormal nor has there been anything abnormal in last several years.
BTW-the FF model works extremely well at explaining the differences in returns of diversified portfolios, tstats very high, and it works all over world. Is it perfect, NO? The four factor model does even better, adding momentum. Is it a very good model that helps us explain how world works, emphatically yes. Does basically the whole academic community use now the four factor model to analyze markets and investments, yes. It is the standard. So the whole academic community is wrong and you are right? Possible, but ask yourself seriously if that is likely. Note also that FF use the four factor model themselves in analyzing things
Best wishes
SDS (Seductive Dividend Sto..., contributorLarry,
Thousands of papers with 3 or 4 factor produced thousands of different coefficients (numbers) for these factors. Isn't it fuzzy?
Probability that I'm right is too close to zero for somebody to care but as far as I know NOT whole academic community consider FF model or modern portfolio theory correct.
IMO (again I'm not an expert in finance) a better job should be done to make finance more scientific. For example, econophysics is an attempt to improve understanding but as far as I can conclude from couple books I read their model isn't perfect and robust.
Another attempt is behavioral finance. I definitely understand behavioral finance.less than econophysics but it seems /again from few books rather than from scholar papers which are prime source of any science/ that they are in the stage which any educated person can grasp. IMO, unfortunately, behavioral finance as in any social science faces with problems of representativeness and shift of base with time. I just wonder how folks in algorithmic trading (e.g. HFT) deal with behavioral finance.
I would agree, and it can happen due to bubbles, like when e/p was less than TIPS yield at height of internet related bubble.
SDS (Seductive Dividend Sto..., contributorLarry
"Have no clue what you are talking about in the second sentence"
Sorry probably my pure English. Let me rephrase
Almost any curve can be fitted with 5 parameters model.
In several papers coefficients for "size and value risks" within 3 factor FF model were calculated. Isn't it fuzzy that numerically these coefficients are different? I'd expect that a theory gives almost the same coefficient for all publications.
All the model does is state that the exposure to the risk factors explains the vast majority of the difference in returns between diversified portfolios
And remember it is not physics were there are laws. This is just a model of how the world works and like all models by definition it is not perfect.
BTW-adding momentum as the fourth factor increases the explanatory power up into mid to high 90s. I would say it is pretty good model, though not perfect (:-))
SDS (Seductive Dividend Sto..., contributor
Of course, but question is which is best
And you are clearly confusing two issues, MPT and the EMH are theories about how markets work, again not laws
Note we do have a two factor credit model, term and default risk.
SDS (Seductive Dividend Sto..., contributorLarry,
Yes, somebody will trade elegance for fitness as FF started but my point that this is not the way a good science is going. In science laws are axioms for a theory and a good theory (as well as a really good model) not only explains and but also PREDICTS with minimal number of axioms (assumptions).
That quote is simply wrong, Just have to define outperform. If you simply index, doing exactly what millions are doing you are GUARANTEED to outperform the vast majority of investors if yo ucan stay the course.
SDS (Seductive Dividend Sto..., contributorLarry,
I guess I need quote exactly because you misunderstand. Index perform as the market by definition, index-fees underperform. Quote is more or less in favor contrarians who as far as I know outperform market vs. indexers.
IMO, risk is badly defined in finance. As far as I know I'm not along in this opinion.
Physics is about behavior of natural and artificial objects and systems, so market is within its scope.
no evidence that contrarians outperform anything
Again, risk cannot be defined as simply as you like with one figure, there are many types of risks and how the risks correlate matters also
We have good definitions for example of SD, kurtosis, skewness, etc. But the problem is investing is all about UNCERTAINTY which is very different than risk. One is where you cannot measure the odds, the other is where you can. Then you have science. That seems to be point you miss.
Best wishes
SDS (Seductive Dividend Sto..., contributorLarry,
"no evidence that contrarians outperform anything" - they claim so in books (Dreman, etc). Any serious analysis?
Jean-Philippe Bouchaud, Economics needs a scientific revolution, Nature 455, 1181 (2008) available at
SDS (Seductive Dividend Sto..., contributorWell are titles of Dreman's books wrong? I'd agree that contrarian and value strategies have huge overlap but in this case we should forget about any nuances in investment styles (which is not so bad for first approximation).
"active "contrarians" don't outperform passive value funds"
Examples, please.... Who are active contrarians? I think we are on the same page about any active stock investors: "less trading - better outcome". I can mathematically proof this statement differently than indexers did it but many traders don't care - they even decline invest in "new long-term US Treasure bond with 200% annual yield"! - see http://seekingalpha.co...
Basically yes, people call them contrarian strategies so they can sell their skills, marketing hype, when it is nothing more than value strategy. You can see that in any loading analysis, bunch of BS.
There are countless studies showing value active managers underperform. No different than any asset class.
SDS (Seductive Dividend Sto..., contributorFor everybody:
The article I sent Larry is "The quest for yield" by Elroy Dimson, Paul Marsh and Mike Staunton / the authors of excellent book "Triumph of the Optimists" (2002)/ appeared in Credit Suisse 2011 yearbook.
I do not think that the paper is wrong at least facts are as solid as data-sources in the paper (I think they are the same as in their book). If Ken French has data ONLY for the period 1928–2011 the "London Trio" probably used another dataset for older results.
It isn't that the divs were not the highest component. It is that the assumption if dividends were lower returns would have been lower that is implied. If divs were zero the returns would have been the same, basically.
Stocks that have the same loading factors to beta, size and value have the same expected return regardless of their dividends. Dividends don't explain returns or we would need four factor model.
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Phospholamban pentamer
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Phospholamban, also known as PLN or PLB, is a protein that in humans is encoded by the PLN gene.[3] Phospholamban is a 52-amino acid integral membrane protein that regulates the Ca2+ pump in cardiac muscle and skeletal muscle cells.[4]
This protein is found as a pentamer and is a major substrate for the cAMP-dependent protein kinase (PKA) in cardiac muscle. The protein is an inhibitor of cardiac muscle sarcoplasmic reticulum Ca++-ATPase (SERCA) in the unphosphorylated state, but inhibition is relieved upon phosphorylation of the protein. The relief of inhibition on Ca++-ATPase leads to faster Ca++ uptake into the sarcoplasmic reticulum, thereby contributing to the lusitropic response elicited in heart by beta-agonists. The protein is a key regulator of cardiac diastolic function . Mutations in this gene are a cause of inherited human dilated cardiomyopathy with refractory congestive heart failure.[5]
When phospholamban is phosphorylated by PKA its ability to inhibit the sarcoplasmic reticulum calcium pump (SERCA) is lost.[6] Thus, activators of PKA, such as the beta-adrenergic agonist epinephrine (released by sympathetic stimulation), may enhance the rate of cardiac myocyte relaxation. In addition, since SERCA is more active, the next action potential will cause an increased release of calcium, resulting in increased contraction (positive inotropic effect). When phospholamban is not phosphorylated, such as when PKA is inactive, it can interact with and inhibit SERCA. The overall effect of phospholamban is to decrease contractility and the rate of muscle relaxation , thereby decreasing stroke volume and heart rate, respectively.[7]
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Phospholamban was discovered by Arnold Martin Katz and coworkers in 1974.[10]
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A Texas Panhandle rancher's too-good-to-be-true life story is the focus of a new book detailing the art of the con.
Hale Center rancher J. Frank Norfleet, who died in 1967 at age 102, learned first-hand how confidence artists operated when, in 1919, he lost $45,000 — the equivalent of more than a half-million dollars — to con men in Dallas in two swindles.
But, not willing to slink back home to the Panhandle, Norfleet took off after the crooks, eventually tracking five of the six con men down and bringing them to justice. The sixth died before Norfleet found him.
Norfleet wrote about his adventures in two separate autobiographies, written three years apart in the 1920s.
And now, he's the focus of "The Mark Inside: A Perfect Swindle, a Cunning Revenge, and a Small History of the Big Con," hitting stores Tuesday.
Author Amy Reading ran across Norfleet's memoirs while researching autobiographies by con men for her dissertation at Yale University. But she didn't buy into Norfleet's story at first.
"I thought, I know exactly what this is. This is nothing but a con," Reading said. "This is someone who's a professional liar. ... It's clearly too good to be true."
But it was.
"That made me feel so foolish and so much like a dupe, and yet I was also delighted by having been duped by this man from the grave," Reading said.
The con pulled on Norfleet was "a classic," Reading said.
He was roped in by talking about mules while on a trip to Dallas, but the con artists quickly maneuvered him into risking greater sums of money on the cotton market.
"They lifted the money right out of his wallet ... but then he deviates from the script," Reading said.
"He decided to go undercover back into the con, so everything he does from then on is like the con in X-ray, seeing it from the underside, in black and white."
Norfleet "had to learn the game better than them," she said. "Following him along, it reveals the hidden structure of the con, its psychological moments, the way it presses on people's desires and motivations."
Because the con pulled on Norfleet was so classic, and because the victim then reversed the con himself, the rancher's story worked as a strong base for Reading to work from in her examination of the history of confidence artistry.
But why would Norfleet risk his life and whatever money he had left in what turned into a four-year, cross-country quest?
"He had this sense of justice, coming from his heritage in the Texas Panhandle," Reading said. "He couldn't stand to see that happen to him when he could do something about it."
It also appealed to his sense of adventure and self-
"He kept telling that story over and over. It became his spiel," Reading said. "There are a lot of copies of his books out there, and they are all signed. He went around selling and signing his books his whole life."
Indeed, his obituary in the Oct. 16, 1967, edition of the Amarillo Globe-Times focuses on his "nationwide reputation as the nemesis of confidence men."
Norfleet's story is cinematic in scope and, in fact, Reading said talks are ongoing about the sale of film rights to her book.
But she's concerned what makes Norfleet's story special might be lost in translation.
"We've gotten some feedback that producers want Norfleet to extract bloody revenge," she said, "which to me is the exact opposite of what's interesting about him."


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This senior honors thesis, submitted to the Department of Government at Harvard University on March 13, explores the conditions that dictate when distributive justice might apply. In the first chapter, the author challenges so-called "relational" approaches to global justice, represented by Michael Blake, Thomas Nagel, and Andrea Sangiovanni, who each argue that justice can only apply when individuals share an institutionally-mediated relationship. The second chapter explores the possibility of a "non-relational" approach. This particular approach seeks to find a political basis for justice that is nevertheless not institutionalized. Physical interdependence among individual persons, the author argues, is sufficient to ground concern for global justice. The third chapter weighs in on the agents of justice, emphasizing the role of the basic global structure in parsing out associative and general duties.
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Surgical resection of isolated pulmonary metastatic melanoma improves overall survival in a highly select group of patients. However, the devil is in the details. By that, I mean that a critical examination of how these "selected" patients are identified needs to be made to ensure a benefit from the surgical intervention while sparing those patients with poor outcomes the complications of a thoracic operation. Peterson et al1 reported a series of more than 1700 patients with pulmonary metastasis from cutaneous melanoma; less than 20% underwent resection of the metastatic disease to the lung. From this and other studies, those patients most likely to benefit harbor solitary lesions; furthermore, incomplete resection offers minimal improvement in survival. Chua et al2 recently reported a single-institution series of 292 consecutive patients; the median survival for patients undergoing resection of a solitary melanoma metastasis was 35 months, decreasing to 21 months for 2 or 3 melanoma metastases and 10 months for more than 3 distinct lesions,2 which is not different from the median survival of 8 months for those patients who did not undergo resection of pulmonary metastatic melanoma.1 Therefore, the preoperative selection of patients is essential to identify those patients most likely to benefit from thoracic surgery and to spare an unnecessary and potentially morbid operation for those who will not benefit.
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Frank Wilbur "Spig" Wead was a U.S. Navy aviator turned screenwriter who helped promote United States Naval aviation from its inception through World War II.
Learn about the memorable moments in the evolution of Frank Wead.
1895 Birth Born on October 24, 1895.
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A 1916 graduate of the United States Naval Academy, Wead began to promote Naval Aviation after World War I through air racing and speed competitions. … Read More
1919 23 Years Old LT(j.g.) Frank Wead requested orders for naval aviation flight training at Naval Air Station Pensacola, Florida. His request was approved. The orders stated to report for "Class 1" (the first class of regular officers sent to NAS Pensacola after the commencement of World War I), on 15 September 1919. … Read More
1921 25 Years Old On 21 April 1921, LT Frank Wead reported to USS Aroostook (CM-3), homeported at Naval Air Station North Island, San Diego, California. … Read More
1923 27 Years Old In the spring of 1923, Wead reported to NAS Anacostia, Washington DC (today, known as the Naval Support Facility Anacostia) for shore duty assignment.
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On the 22nd and 23 June 1924 in Anacostia, D.C., as a lieutenant, Wead along with Lieutenant John Dale Price, using a Curtiss CS-2 with a Wright T-3 Tornado engine, set new Class C seaplane records for distance (963.123 miles), duration (13 hours 23 minutes 15 seconds), and three speed records (73.41 mph for 500 kilometers, 74.27 mph for 1000 km, and 74.17 mph for 1500 km).
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1942 46 Years Old Wead returned to the Navy during World War II and helped integrate the use of escort carriers to support the main battle line and beach landings. In his syndicated column In Hollywood, on 13 January 1942, Newspaper Enterprise Association (NEA) service staff correspondent Paul Harrison released an article on a recent interview with Spig Wead titled "No Weeds Growing Under Wead's Feet" (NEA supplied daily features to many newspapers; United Media). … Read More
1943 47 Years Old The story of CDR Wead's sea-duty during World War II began when USS Yorktown (CV-10) arrived in Pearl Harbor on 24 July 1943. … Read More
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CDR Frank Wead was relieved of active duty on 21 July 1944, and was processed through the Personnel Department at NAS Alameda receiving his discharge papers and a train ticket for Los Angeles, California. … Read More
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I don't have a picture to go with this story, but it's a story worth telling. So, get a drink, get comfortable and let me tell you about my bus ride home.
In 2009, I lived in downtown Seattle. I rode the bus to work each day and then back. Public transportation is REAL interesting depending on when you get on it. At business times, it's all suits and skirts going to work. Dolled up people making impressions, decisions and making the world go round. If you leave a little earlier the busses are empty and if you leave a little later you get to meet people of differing backgrounds, professions and mindsets.
I have seen everything on the public transportation. The buses in downtown Seattle are free during the day so the breadth of people that make use of the system is wide and diverse. Construction workers, city workers, dock workers, crazy people, homeless people, prostitutes, hippies, you name it… I have seen it all.
One day I was on my way home. It was later than usual, but I made the last bus. We were going through our stops (like every 10 feet) and a construction worker got on the bus. He was a tall man, about 6'-3" thin, covered in dust wearing his safety vest and bright yellow hat. He had a paper sack with a bottle in it and something from the market in the other hand. His gate was small and purposeful despite his heighth as he maneuvered onto the bus, sporting a smile from ear to ear.
The ladies on the bus in their fancy outfits looked at this dirty black man, with his bottle and odd grin and shuddered at the thought of him setting next to them. You could see the repugnance in their eyes as he looked for a place to sit…. While wearing a huge smile… he was oblivious to the looks, the quite snide remarks. He finally sat… directly across from me.
Two ladies immediately got up and moved. Shaking their heads in disgust and frustration, the man continued to smile, seemingly oblivious to his surroundings, the bus driver looked back in his mirror with a disapproving scowl. As the ladies migrated to the back of the bus the man nodded his head as to acknowledge their departure.
I had my headphones one while on the bus. I do it on purpose. It allows me the ability to watch people and listen while providing me the excuse of not paying attention. Urban Stealth Mode is that I call it. (yes, if you have kids they do this to you all the time)
I watched the man for a long time. He was now rocking in place, smiling while people continued staring and whispering about him under their breath. I let it go… there was nothing else. Odd perhaps, but he was at least polite. No scene today, no drama. At about the time I realized that indeed people were making much to do over nothing, this man… oblivious, smiling, stopped nodding and rocking, sat up straight and looked directly at me.
"How you doing brother?" he asked.
Caught completely off guard I paused. I certainly wasn't expecting him to talk to me and we had made at least 20 stops by now so I figured he had settled in for a long ride like the rest of us.
"I'm doing good… a bit tired, but I can't complain" I replied.
As soon as my mouth opened, several people on the bus looked at me as if I had just committed a mortal sin. Why in G_d's name am I talking to this man? Everyone looked simply astonished and somewhat insulted that I would encourage him to speak.
We stopped again… more people file on the bus, and nobody sits next to him. He has two empty seats to his left and right and the bus is packed. There was a pause; he went back to rocking and smiling. After a few passing moments he said,
"That's good… tired means ya worked hard and done good for the day."
Now, I am intrigued.
"Well good enough I suppose, how was your day?"
At this very moment, everyone within ten feet of me gave me the most horrified look they could muster. What had I done, I was now conversing with this man. Don't I know they want quite, to be left alone and want him to remain calm..??? I ignored the look.
"Well, I got a raise today. I work one of the cranes for the buildings going up" he said followed by a brief pause. "Yep, good day. I've been off heroin for 8 months now, I'm working the crane, I got a raise and now I am going to go home, make my steak and drink my soda" as he pointed to his paper bag with the bottle in it, removing it just a bit to reveal that it was indeed Mountain Dew.
I resisted the urge to fire a look back to everyone around me. They had judged and condemned this man before he even sat down and now… now they knew why he was happy.
"Man that's great! Good for you! 8 months is an achievement plus a job and now a raise. That is a good day" I shared, watching his smile get bigger.
He was quite for a long time and as the bus stopped he got up, walked over to me, leaned over and gave me a hug. Smile across his face. He turned and went to the front of the bus, looked back at the door and yelled, "God bless you" and stepped off.
Everyone stared, they couldn't believe that I talked to him, and their jaws all but hit the floor when he hugged me.
It was quite for a long time on the bus.
I put my headphones back on and rode for several more stops. This little ride taught me a real valuable lesson in judgment, support and kindness. All he wanted was to share his good news with someone….. ANYONE. He wanted to be acknowledged; he wanted to feel good about himself. And without even trying I accidently gave him what he was looking for and felt better than I had felt in months in doing so.
I rode that same bus at that time for three weeks hoping I would see him again just so I could see how things were going. I never did. A few months after, I moved to the burbs and out of downtown and lost my chance to meet and witness the random encounters that life sometimes brings.
Sometimes there is a great peace in the randomness of life. It is said that all of our encounters in life are predestined. The relationships we form the people we touch and interact with. That it all has a purpose, even for the briefest of encounters. When I think of this man, his work and the progress he had made, I would like to think that these predestined encounters are true. I say that because I got as much from that conversation as he did and when the next one happens I want to do it right again.
In the end of the hectic, fast paced world that I live in, the stress, the pressure, the heartache …. It was a good day.
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I detest Fluorescent lights and this just makes me detest them more. Compact fluorescent lamps, which will gradually replace traditional incandescent bulbs, are a fire hazard that could burn down your home, experts have warned.
The lamps (CFLs) use electricity to heat an element in the lamp's base that leads the mercury vapor gas in the coils to emit light.
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142 Weeks I've Spent Pregnant. No Wonder I'm Sick of IT!Molly Thornberg
Today, sitting here at 23 weeks – I have a confession:
I am sick of being pregnant.
The clothes are no longer cute.
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Being sick while being pregnant just makes me insane.
And wait, I just had a baby a year ago!
I realized that since July 2009 – I've been pregnant 62 weeks. 62 WEEKS PEOPLE!
Then I started thinking, wait I am in my 4th pregnancy. I have 3 other kids. This is my 4th, how long have I really spent pregnant?
+ 39 Weeks Pregnant with Z
+ 39 Weeks Pregnant with I
+ 23 Weeks to Date with #4
142 Weeks Total of Pregnancy
I am trying to keep my eye on the goal. The goal being the cute little thing that will be here in 17ish weeks. I must remember to embrace the little things (like baby hiccups in my belly) and laugh at the annoying things like peeing ALL THE TIME.
But really? 142 weeks of pregnancy? (Michelle Duggar, GOD BLESS YOU!)
No wonder I am sick of being pregnant! (Trying to adjust my attitude and lose the Debbie the Downerness.)
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PATIENTS HAD TO BE TRANSFERRED - AFTER THE BACKUP GENERATOR FAILED TO TURN ALL THE LIGHTS BACK ON. ACTION SEVEN NEWS REPORTER MELISSA COLORADO JOINS US NOW WITH MORE. ROYALE, RIGHT NOW - POWER IS BACK ON FOR ALL PNM CUSTOMERS. INCLUDING PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL. BUT THE QUESTION IS - WHAT WENT WRONG WITH THE HOSPITAL'S EMERGENCY BACKUP GENERATOR? PATSY JARAMILLIO WAS ABOUT TO SEE HER HUSBAND - WHOSE BATTLING CANCER AND IN DESPERATE NEED OF A BLOOD TRANSFUSION WHEN - patsy Jaramillo: im in there, talking to the doctor who is on call, and we look up, because it went . All the lights were gone. They're dead AROUND TEN A-M SATURDAY, DARKNESS FELL ON PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL. A P-N-M FEED TO DOWNTOWN ALBUQUERQUE FAILED, LEAVING MORE THAN 12-HUNDRED HOMES IN THE DARK. NEARBY TRAFFIC LIGHTS AROUND CENTRAL AND EDITH WENT BLACK. BUT WHEN THE HOSPITAL'S BACKUP GENERATOR WAS SUPPOSED TO KICK IN.... clay Holderman: the power surge caused some of our circuits not to transfer correctly so we lost significant amount of power to the hospital THE HOSPITAL SAYS ONLY FIFTEEN PERCENT OF THE EMERGENCY POWER WAS BACK ON. THREE PATIENTS WHO WERE ABOUT TO GO INTO SURGERY WERE TRANFERRED ELSEWHERE. ONE CRITICAL CARE PATIENT WAS TRANSFERRED TO U-N-M. THE HOSPITAL CONFIRMS THE POWER ALSO WENT OUT IN THE NEONATAL INTENSIVE UNIT. BUT THANKFULLY, PLAN B WORKED. all of our babies in their iselets have local battery backup on each iselet AS FOR JARAMILLO - NO A-C, AND NO ACCESS TO ELEVATORS WASN'T ENOUGH TO STOP HER FROM BEING AT HER HUSBAND'S SIDE. patsy Jaramillo: so I had to go five flights to get to him! AS OF RIGHT NOW - POWER IS BACK ON AT PRESBYTERIAN. STAFFERS ARE WORKING ON FINDING OUT WHY THE BACKUP GENERATOR DID NOT RESTORE POWER BACK TO ONE HUNDRED PERCENT. BUT THE HOSPITAL SAYS - WORKERS UNDERGO DRILLS SEVERAL TIMES A YEAR AND ARE WELL TRAINED TO HANDLE EMERGENCIES LIKE THIS. ROYALE, BACK TO YOU. P-N-M SAYS THE POWER OUTAGE WAS CAUSED BY MALFUNCTIONING EQUIPMENT.
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This is a discussion on RE: [fw-wiz] Re: Biometrics - Firewalls ; The overall lesson I get from this is that one needs to do a true cost-benefit analysis of every authentication scheme. Don't just take the "it is more secure" mantra and apply it indiscriminately. We all agreed that the value ...
The overall lesson I get from this is that one needs to do a true
cost-benefit analysis of every authentication scheme. Don't just take the "it is
more secure" mantra and apply it indiscriminately. We all agreed that the value
of the owner's finger is greater than the value of the Mercedes, so a security
technology that can cost the finger while protecting the Merc is not a valid
cost-benefit trade-off. This seems obvious in hindsight, but it probably was not
considered in creation of the biometric authentication device for the Mercedes.
This is one problem with nearly all biometric devices. Since they depend on
biological characteristics for providing the authenticity check, they are
bypassed/breached by subverting those processes. But subversion of a biologic
process can have far more catastrophic consequences than bypass of other
processes such as binary processes.
This also gets back to the meaning of security. Although some have used the
Confidentiality, Integrity, Availability triad as a definition, a better
definition would be that an asset is secure when it is protected so the expected
value of the disclosure, corruption, or loss of that asset (in statistical, risk
sense) is significantly less than the value of that asset. In this case, the
biometric secured one asset, but exposed another (the finger) to a much greater
security exposure.
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The whole point (and why I think it's important to continue this thread a
bit past its due date) is that in the case of biometric authentication,
the authenticator is *probably* more important to the user than the thing
being protected- especially when the attack is a denial-of-service attack
(be it as a precursor to a new attack, or malice because the attacker
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Wow; terrific image.
The traditional part of me says: as presented, there are two pictures: the sky & the hills/land. The sky is so dominate it demands attention (as the obvious subject). However, the land(scape) is so compelling it, too, demands attention; but, not in a harmonious way. Initially, for me, a visual & mental shift was required: I couldn't enjoy the sky & the land at the same time/I had to bounce back & forth. The nearly white upper 1/5 kept pulling my attention w-a-y up & the bright, but essentially featureless, LR corner pulled my attention down; yet, there was little to enjoy in either area. I thought: if this image was mine, & I wish it was, I'd crop all the semi-solid white top: right to the first large section of blue sky; and, I'd crop the bottom: removing the entire bright semi-triangle of light area–leaving a more harmonious but less startling (more ordinary) image.
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