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………. I hope you noticed the nice mix in the titles for this post – the classic false modesty from the comedian Jack Benny followed by my own unlimited arrogance and vanity in announcing "my book of the year awards!!!!"
In a way though starting this post with Jack Benny is rather appropriate – his first words on Ed Sullivan's radio show in the US in the early thirties was supposed to have been "This is Jack Benny talking. There will now be a short pause while you sit at home thinking – 'who cares?!".
It just fits perfectly for:-
"This is my Book Of The Year Awards" post and there will now be a gap of at least two lines…
……….while you have a chance to think – who the hell cares!!!!!
But if you reached this line you must be intrigued, so stick with it till the end – you won't be disappointed!
Well…..actually….. you might be disappointed at the end, but I'll leave a couple more empty lines so I can think "So you're disappointed! What the hell do I care?!"
And so my awards! I've read a lot of good books this year, heard some great music, seen some great gigs – and eaten some lovely pies! So here are my awards for 2012!
1. TV Programme Location of the Year
The award goes to BBC's "Waterloo Road" which is now filmed at "Greenock Academy", my old school in Scotland. It allows me to indulge in spotting familiar walls, corridors and pupil toilets – which instead of impressing my daughter actually bores her rigid!
If you can get over the fact that they moved the school from England to Scotland and took all the kids with them into a sort of cult-cum-boarding unit, then the best of all is that while the BBC have tarted the building up for the fictional school, the quality of the teaching in the fictional school looks just as shite as I remember it being in the real school!!!
2. Book Week Of The Year
Much as I enjoyed the Muriel Spark Reading Week, the award for me goes to the Beryl Bainbridge Reading Week, which Annabel's House of Books hosted back in June of this year. I'd not read any of Beryl Bainbridge's stuff before-hand – I loved it – quirky and sharp and just wonderful. It turned me from a Beryl-virgin to a Beryl-lover almost overnight!
3. The 'Well Bugger Me I Didn't Know That!' Award for 2012
Thanks to book blogs I read quite a bit about the centenary of Scott's ill-fated expedition to the South Pole in 1912. And through that I discovered that Birdie Bowers, who accompanied Captain Scott and was one of those who died alongside him at the end, originally came from my home town of Greenock in Scotland. We seem to make little of the connection which is odd to say the least as Greenock isn't exactly bustling with well known explorers, actors, sportsmen, politicians or well known anythings! Anyway it led me to read a bit about his life – truly amazing man!
4. Best Bit Of Poetry Learned Off By Heart This Year Award
I've loved several new collections this year but my favourite was Seamus Heaney's "Human Chain!". And from the poem 'Route 101' I loved learning the following lines (and love boring people to death reciting them!)
"In a stained front-buttoned shopcoat / Sere brown piped with crimson / Out of the Classics bay into an aisle / Smelling of dry rot and disinfectant / She emerges, absorbed in her coin count / Eyes front, right hand at work / In the slack marsupial vent / Of her change – pocket, thinking what to charge / For a used copy of Aeneid VI. / Dustbreath bestirred in the cubicle mouth / I inhaled as she slid my purchase / Into a deckle edged brown paper bag"
5. The "Terrific" Award (for books that aren't my book of the year but came bloody close and so deserve again the accolade of my favourite word!)
Song of Achilles by Madeleine Miller and The Museum Of Innocence by Orhan Pamuk were both
A Thousand Autumns Of Jacob De Zoet by David Mitchell and A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry were both
Nocturnes by Kazuo Ishiguro and 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami (Books One, Two and Three) were all
HHhH by Laurent Binet and If This Is A Man by Primo Levi were both
Heartburn by Norah Ephron and The Art Of Fielding by Chad Harbach were both
6. The "I'm Really Sorry But I Thought This Was Bloody Awful" Book Of The Year Award
Jennifer Egan's "A Visit From The Goon Squad". I just didn't get it! I guess I'm not clever enough. Sorry Jen!
7. The 'I Love Guy Garvey Of Elbow More Than Anyone Else Does' Award
With apologies to my mate Steve Smith in Thailand, who fancies himself as a big Elbow fan but can't be taken seriously as he chose to desert Guy and go live the life of Riley on the beaches of Thailand teaching people to dive (get a proper job you old fart!) and with my apologies to Guy Garvey's girlfriend, the writer Emma Unsworth, the award for the person who loves Guy Garvey more than anyone else does, goes to – ME!
8. The Album Of The Year
Dead easy – the beautiful, wonderful, gorgeous "Mid Air" by Paul Buchanan – have a quick listen!
9. Gig Of The Year
This is harder – I've seen Elbow a couple of times this year but I have to say we were absolutely awe-struck by the magnificent Bruce Springsteen at the Isle of Wight festival – we watched it knee deep in mud and didn't give a shit! Truly wonderful!
10. Dive Of The Year
This is a special category for my partner, my daughter and her family who are all Liverpool fans. The award goes to the Olympic medal-winning last gasp effort from Tom Daley!
But for the runner-up you can choose any of half a dozen or more spectacular dives from that muppet Luiz Suarez!
11. Pie Of The Year
There's nothing to beat Marks and Spencers! They have the gorgeous Twiggy in their ads, the fabulous sound of Dervla Kirwen doing the voiceover for the food commercials and their pies are great. This year my favourite was the individual Steak and Cornish IPA Ale pies – so fantastic if you gave me a choice between Twiggy, Dervla or the pie, it would be the pie every time!!!!!!!!!!!!!
12. Shite Gig But Chilli Con Carne Of The Year Award
We were unfortunate enough to see Coldplay at the Emirates earlier in the year – bloody awful! I should have known. I saw Coldplay when they were starting out, just after the Yellow album was released – they were at a lovely intimate venue at Brixton Academy – and yet they were bloody awful then as well! However we left the gig early and discovered the Chilli of The Year, washed down with Guinness, at a lovely little pub in Finsbury Park!
13. Comeback Of The Year
This is a close run thing between two of my favourite men of books – the mercurial genius that is Roy Race, scourge of every team on the planet in his role as Roy Of The Rovers – and the mercurial genius that is Detective Inspector John Rebus, scourge of every criminal and low-life in Edinburgh and it's environs in Iain Rankin's novels- and as a Glaswegian it's my job to say disparaging things about the good folk of Edinburgh! But since I thought Iain Rankin's 'Standing In Another Man's Grave' was brilliant, the winner for me is John Rebus! Plus as he has won it allows me to have a couple of pints and a couple of whiskies to honour his achievement! If Roy Of The Rovers had won I'd have been forced to go down the park, beat all the kids at "3 and you're in!" and then do at least 100 on keepie-uppie – and I'm much more of a five beers than a five-a-side man these days!
14. And finally, my Book Of The Year
I've read so many that have been terrific but one just noses ahead – not by much, but by enough to be the read of the year for me – the beautiful story of Jack and Mabel in The Snow Girl by Eowyn Ivey.
Now I'd said earlier in the year that I would choose a book of the year – and in my own version of the Costa Prize, that I'd buy the winning author a coffee. And I'd like to be true to my word – so if Eowyn Ivey ever reads this and fancies collecting this illustrious prize, I'll meet her any week day by the Cafe Nero coffee stall in Victoria Station – I'm in the queue most mornings around half past seven – the lattes are on me Eowyn!
And having started with the acerbic wit of Jack Benny on awards, I'd like to end with the acerbic wit of my partner. On the day that the New Year Honours were announced she initially amazed me by saying she'd love to be nominated for an award – and when I expressed astonishment as this didn't fit with her strong principles and said "Really???????????????????" she replied – "Yeah! So I could then tell them to stick their award up their arse!!!!!!" – That's my girl!
So if Eowyn Ivey tells me where to put my offer of a free latte as my Book Of The Year, I'll understand completely!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


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#65872 - 04/17/02 05:08 AM femme de trent ans
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browsing through a dictionary of foreign words and phrases the other day - as you do - I came across this phrase , attributed to Balzac, meaning literally "a woman of 30", but defined as "a woman who has passed the age at which romantic affairs are easily enjoyed".
Does that mean she can't get affairs easily, or she can't enjoy them when she does get 'em? Or does it mean that her hypothetical paramour doesn't enjoy it? Does anyone know?
#65873 - 04/17/02 07:57 AM Re: femme de trent ans
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she can't enjoy them when she does get 'em? Or does it mean that her hypothetical paramour doesn't enjoy it?
These possibilities both seem absurdly improbable, so by Sherlockian reduction I would go with the constraints of ease suggested by the other option!
#65874 - 04/17/02 08:02 AM Re: femme de trent ans
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I have never read Balzac so I may be talking through my hat here but in French Québec, when a woman reaches 30 she becomes a "vielle fille" an old girl.
In French the word fille does not only mean girl. It also means unmarried. When a woman is married she becomes une femme - a woman. The word wife is translated as femme in French.
This is an old expression that fell out of favour in the 70's when it became o.k. *not* to marry.
In my parent's generation (now in their 60's) and before, it was extremely rare for a woman past 30 to marry and she was generally called a vielle fille till the end of her days.
It was not considered an insult - just a name for a particular state of life.
Now, you wouldn't dare call a woman a vielle fille as you probably would get slugged. It morphed into an insulting term, usually meant to mean a woman is so difficult nobody would want to marry her (or if added with a wink, a nudge or wiggling eyebrows) it means the woman is gay.
Phewf, I'll take a breath now . Did ya manage to get all the way through that JJ?
P.S. JJ I don't really know you so I thought I'd add. I am French from Québec, Canada, and when I talk about French I only talk about this place. I really can't speak for the French from France since sometimes they have completely different terms/vocabularies.
#65875 - 04/17/02 08:02 AM Re: femme de trent ans
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I dunno - ask Joan Collins or Liza Minnelli - they might be able to help (but the black eye might not be worth it).
[Darn, Bel beat me by a few seconds]
#65876 - 04/17/02 08:02 AM Re: femme de trent ans
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well, 150 years ago, with out antibiotics, and birth control, and a host of other modern conveniences (hot and cold running water!) a woman of 30 could be old..
more common today, (at least in NY) is "a woman of a certain age" -- which is a mature woman.. how old? its not polite to ask a lady her age, but i think it safe to say, our WOW-- who has graceful grandmotherly look about her, is a woman of certain age-- she further betrays this when she speaks of being raised to use titles, Mr, Mrs, etc when speaking to adults.. (and in that matter, i to, though younger, am a grandmother, and share some of WoW's views..) how old am i? i am a woman of a certain age...
as for love affairs, a woman of certain age would never discuss her love life with a stranger.. what ever its state!--nor would a lady of any age!_________________________
my other obsession
#65877 - 04/17/02 11:25 PM Re: femme de trent ans
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Unless, of course, that lady of a certain age was also a lady of the night, Helen. One or two of them in NYC, as I recall!_________________________
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#65878 - 04/18/02 10:12 AM Re: femme de trent ans
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To cross threads, as an ancient euphemism "an unclaimed blessing."
#65879 - 04/18/02 11:03 AM Re: vielle fille
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Closest I can guess to this in English is: Old Maid.
Did anyone play this card game when young? The cards had sets of faces you traded during the game--and you hoped you wouldn't end up with the Old Maid, a single card that glared at you with warts all over her face?
Is there a card game in either Canada or France called "Vielle Fille"?
Card regards,
#65880 - 04/18/02 11:11 AM Re: vielle fille
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I played Old Maid with a special set of cards when I was little, though I suppose all you have to do is remove one card from a regular deck for the same effect. Since I'm an Anglo it was called "Old Maid" as you might expect!
#65881 - 04/18/02 11:12 AM Re: vielle fille
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Some of the very nices ladies I ever knew were technically "old maids". A pair of them lived next door to me, and I visited them often. One had a bit of money, the other had none and was a servant to the other. I was taught to call her "Auntie" and she read to me a lot, and taught me a lot. Life was even more cruel a hundred ;years ago than it is now.
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7-6-09 Citizens Bank Park
The Pirates are out of town until July 17th, which would mean 17 days without a baseball game for me. I decided to break up the drought by attending a game in Philadelphia.
I'd never been to a baseball game in Philly before, so I was interested to see what Citizens Bank Park had to offer.
I got to the stadium at 2:35, almost 2 full hours before the gates were to even open. I figured that I would give myself some extra time to account for traffic and to stop for lunch. (I ended up not stopping because my GPS directed me to a non-existent phantom Wendy's. Frustrated, I decided to eat at the stadium.) I was there so early, that the parking attendant thought I worked at McFadden's.
I approached the stadium and took a walk around the exterior.
It had a nice facade, nice landscaping, and was in a decent enough area.
The first matter of business was to find an open ticket window and buy a ticket for today's game. I walked past the first base entrance
then realized that the Reds had many more righties than lefties, and I'd have a better chance back in the packed left field seats.
Brandon Phillips put on a show in batting practice. One of his home runs came right to me, I was camped underneath it, ready to make the catch, when at the moment the ball was several feet from my glove, about 5 people's arms slammed into mine. My arm moved, and the ball tipped off my glove. I didn't get the ball. Fans in Philadelphia are much more agressive when it comes to going a
fter home run balls in batting practice than in Pittsburgh or Cleveland. In Pittsburgh, us ballhawks spread out and have our own little zones that we tend to stay in. We never run into each other or rob each other of home runs when another is camped under one. Next time I go to a game in Philly I'll be prepared.
I was shut out for the rest of batting practice and ended with 2 baseballs.
I walked around the concourse. I liked how the Phillies post their line up on a large brick wall at the entrance to the left field gate:
The Phillies top 2 stars for my money:
The Liberty Bell (which gongs after a Phillies player goes deep):
Here was my view from my seat:
The Phillies would go on to knock out starter Johnny Cueto in the first inning and score an amazing 10 runs in the first inning. They would go on to win the game 22-1. I don't think I've ever attended such a lopsided game.
I made my back to my hotel in Philadelphia. (Which didn't have Internet). Ran a few miles on the treadmill in the fitness center, did 31 floors on a stairmaster, and went to bed.
I then disappeared for the next week (which is why its taken me a week to get this entry up) to the shore.
Today's baseballs:
Sweet spots:
Game: 2 balls (2 hit)
Season: 226 balls (119 hit, 75 thrown, 32 device)
Games: 46 games (5 of which didn't have BP)
Average: 4.91 balls per game
Career: 392 balls
Attendance: 41,548
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why cant stadiums just open the whole stadium for all of batting practice.
-bettencourt http://yankeefaninri.mlblogs.com/
Hi Erik….
What hotel did you stay in? Just curious. Also, going to "the shore"…is that the same thing as going to the beach?
hey erik, nice meeting you and playing catch. wered u go the 2nd half of bp? It seemed like you just dissapeared. Im way behind on my new blog, that sucks so far, but should have this post up soon. Joe
Leigh- It was the Marriott Philadelphia Downtown. I wouldn't ever stay there again. No internet, rude staff.
Joe – Nice meeting you too. I went over to right for a bit and then back to left, but didn't see you either the second part of BP. You'll have to make it out to PNC Park sometime this year.
That grilled chicken sandwich looked like it would hit the spot. I see you (like me) lay off the beers before ballhawking. I haven't had good luck at Marriots as a whole. Overpriced in my book.


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He has been playing well...
But there is no way he wins Rookie of the Year. It's Tyreke Evans' to lose. 20/5/5 on the year.
Steph Curry that is...D'Antoni and Donnie must cringe and curse Don Nelson and the Golden State Warriors.
He's been playing really well lately and may win Rookie of the Year. Last night he had 29 pts, 9 assts, 0 turnovers, 5 rebs on 11-19 shooting and 5-9 from 3 point.
I admit, I was not very high in him during last year's draft. But damn!! He's still not a very good defender but his PG skills have impressed me. Imagine if we had drafted him. How different this offseason would/could be.
He's averaging 16.4 pts, 5.5 assts, with 42.4% from 3. His stats in the last month or two have been very good.
I am probably dreaming with this one, but do you think GS would go for Eddy Curry's expiring contract + Wilson Chandler for Corey Maggette + Steph Curry?
Or possibly Eddy Curry's expiring contract + Wilson Chandler + Toney Douglas + sign and trade Lee for Corey Maggette + Andres Biedrens + Steph Curry + Anthony Randolph?
Everybody knows GS is desperate to move Maggette and Biedrens. Maybe we can use that to our advantage and get something in return.
Would these deals be worth it in your opinion? Discuss.
He has been playing well...
But there is no way he wins Rookie of the Year. It's Tyreke Evans' to lose. 20/5/5 on the year.
I dont think Golden State would trade Curry for anyone on our team, but Ill say this...I was one of the few that was right about Curry all along. Before the season, i even predicted some of the stats he would have in certain games...my stats were very close with this lakers game. I predicted (once again, before the season started) that he would have 30 points and 8assists last night.
Ok, im full of ****, time for me to stop. I didnt think he would be anything that special except maybe an explosive scorer off the bench, but i didnt see him gettin all these assists and he actually goes for rebounds too. Hes a much better player then i though he would be, but still Tyreke Evans >>>>>
What a year for point guards though, the future of the NBA is in great shape
They might go for my second idea of Eddy Curry's expiring contract + Wilson Chandler + Toney Douglas + sign and trade Lee for Corey Maggette + Andres Biedrens + Steph Curry + Anthony Randolph.
This would still allow us to sign 1 max contract player and use the MLE to fill out the roster.
But then Jared Jefferies would still be on our team if we had drafted Curry because no way Donnie trades him even if it was to free up cap space!
But Yeah I like Curry now,I too wasnt impressed with this kid, but caught a G-State game on league Pass and I liked what I saw.
"I'd Rather Melo shoot with 3 men on him than Jefferies shotting wide open"
-Jeff Van Gundy
Doesn't matter if we had him this season.. he only would've been playing the last few games of the season under our idiot of a coach.
Plus realistically speaking, trading Curry will only result in us getting nothing in return since no one wants him and his almost untradeable until his contract expires.
You can't trade Curry with Chandler and/or Douglas and expect to get anything better in return like Steph Curry or Biedrins...no one will give up value for Curry...plain and simple.
"The Knicks are back" - Amare
Lol keep dreaming, Steph Curry is untouchable. He's as untouchable as Gallo is here while Mike D is our coach. Meaning don't plan on him going anywhere.
You weren't the only one.... A few posters were saying Curry was nothing. I was really hoping he fell into our laps. Thought we had a 50/50 shot. Figured he was the last prospect that was a lock to be a player (given where we were drafting).
I liked Curry a lot b/c the dude can shoot and has excellent court vision. People quertioned his size and his passing skills. I was leary of his size, but was confident he would excel running an offense. Plus, he has the heart and competitive spirit of a PF.
Anyway.... Having Gallo and Curry together.... is a wet dream for any superstar. You bring in Lebron and let these 2 sharp-shooters snap the net.... Man!
Still, I do think T-Evans was target #1. I realize he was a long shot to fall to NYK, but I think he was Donnie's #1 guy. Curry was obviously #2. I was so pissed when Nelson drafted him. I always hated that fool- now even more so! I was so happy when Minny passed on Curry. I felt we had a legit shot.
Then it came within one pick! I went from elation to depression, when in a span of 3 minutes, we hear GSW select Curry and NYK take Hill! I so wanted it to go the other direction.
BUT.... LET'S NOTY FORGET.... I was also pissed we missed out on Russell Westbrook. He was our target (after Mayo) last year. Gallo was our 3rd option. I so wanted Westbrook. A real PG who plays defense! He's really good. After that, I wanted Gordon. BUt I understand why we bet on Gallo's upside.
Still.... hard to swallow.... We were this to having a Gallo-Curry core!
NOW.... This Douglas kid has potential. He LOVES to play defense, and can create. He can score and shoot the ball. I think learning to pass will come with practice. I'm not sure about his court vision though. He'll never shoot like Curry, or see the floor like Curry. But I think his defense and his ability to create offense is better.
I love how Bill Simmons said NYK made one of NBA's worst draft day blunders taking Hill over Jennings! really? What about MEM taking Thibeat over Evans? What about MIN taking Flynn over Jennings? He just hates NYK (b/c he's from BOS). I so hope Douglas proves to be better than BJ!


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PRINCESS ANNE, MD-(April 17) Enjoy dinner and a show April 19 and 20 at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore's Dinner Theater production, "Do You Remember?: A Musical Revue." Tickets are still available.
Seating begins at 6 p.m. in the Richard A. Henson Center ballroom. Students and faculty of the Hotel and Restaurant Management program will present an expansive gourmet buffet dinner. Curtain time for the UMES Drama Society's musical revue is 8 p.m. and includes a dessert-filled intermission.
Ticket prices are $35 for Thurs., April 19 and $45 for Fri., April 20. A Saturday show is nearly sold out. Call 410-651-6230 to purchase tickets or for more information.
Above: Scene from the 2011 performance of "The Color Purple."
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The Floyd Jamboree will go on this year despite no one showing for Sunday's auditions, according to Floyd Lions Club Vice President and Jamboree Program Chairman Fred Patterson.
Patterson said he still expected to have a full slate of participants. There were about 30 participants at the 2011 event.
"I've already contacted everybody (from last year) and everybody's told me their plans are to be on the show," Patterson said. "There are even a few people who know they have conflicted schedules Saturday night, so they plan to be in the show Thursday and Friday."
Patterson said he knows of only one performer from last year who will not be able to attend this year.
Patterson said the audition was held to see if there was new talent to the area who wanted to participate and several people showed interest in auditioning, but were unable to attend the audition for varying reasons.
He said another audition will not be held for the event.
"There was one person who used to attend as part of a trio and they requested to come audition as a single act," Patterson said. "Since they were previous performers, we might listen to what they've got."
Patterson said this year's jamboree will be held March 29-March 31, with the Sunday gospel show April 1.
He said instead of opening the gospel show to anyone who wants to perform, the club will invite only certain performers to play at the event this year to keep it organized.
"It's going to be a good show," Patterson said. "Before, a lot of people just got together and played; there wasn't a lot of practice. This is going to be a little more polished, more like an actual jamboree."
Patterson said club members have a lot of work to do between now and the event.
"Some of the (house) band members that showed up for auditions seemed excited to get going again," Patterson said. "We stay so busy during this time that we don't really schedule a whole lot of other things."
Patterson and Lion's Club Secretary Paul Benoit said the event sticks strictly to country music but song selections are different every year with the exception of two or three favorites, which audience members request almost every year.
Patterson and Benoit said they hope to have local celebrity Will Banister return again for the show but are unsure if he will be able to attend.
"Every year, we get people who come from all over the state," Benoit said. "We're excited about the show. We know it's going to be the same quality as it is every year and we're ready to get started."


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Schoenbrunn has many faces - among others, a very family-friendly one! This package introduces you to the diversity of this World Heritage site. It focuses on the visit of the zoo and the visit of the Schoenbrunn Palace Concert at Schoenbrunn Palace Orangery. This package also includes dinner at the cozy restaurant "Tiroler Hof" located inside the zoo. We have also included a taxi transfer to the Orangery, allowing you to get to the concert without rushing.
Join us for an expedition that will delight parents and children alike!
Dinner is served at "Tiroler Hof", a typical Tyrolean farm rebuilt not far from Schoenbrunn's landmark Gloriette. A delicious three-course dinner awaits you....
Children's menu
Vegetarian dishes will be served at your request!
The so-called "Tiroler Hof" ("Tyrolean Farm") is located in the rear part of the zoo, just above the wolf enclosure, easily accessible by foot. After dinner, a taxi will pick you up at "Tiroler Hof" and take you to the concert exactly on time.
The concert takes place at a location that played an important role throughout Mozart's career: the elaborately restored Schoenbrunn Palace Orangery, located in close proximity to Schoenbrunn Palace. The Orangery was frequently used as the perfect location for sumptuous festivities back in the times of the royalty. We have decided to keep this tradition alive. The musical performance of the renowned Schoenbrunn Palace Festival Orchestra, accompanied by vocalists and ballet dancers, captivates the audience each and every evening.
On selected days, concerts may take place in the Great Gallery or the White Gold Room located inside Schoenbrunn Palace, at the Schoenbrunn Palace Theater or in other concert halls in Vienna. We will be happy to send you the detailed concert plan upon request.
April to September: 9:00 a.m. - 6:30 p.m.
October: 9:00 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.
We recommend that you start your visit at 3:00 p.m. at the latest. Regardless of the early closing hour in October, you can of course stay at the zoo until dinner!
You will receive all your documents at your hotel or at the zoo's main entrance. (Hietzing Entrance)
Schoenbrunn has many faces - each and every one being unique. This package gives you the opportunity of living the large variety of experiences the World Heritage site has in store for you. Start with visiting Vienna zoo located at Schoenbrunn. While being the oldest zoo in the world, it is a state-of-the-art facility that thousands of species call home - all of them living in their natural habitat.
Afterwards, a delicious three-course-dinner is served at restaurant "Tiroler Hof", located inside the zoo. The grand finale of the eventful day is a concert of classical music at Schoenbrunn Palace Orangery, including the most beautiful works written by Mozart and Strauss.
You can either pick up your documents from 9:00 a.m. onwards at the zoo's main ticket counter (Hietzing entrance) or you can have them mailed to you prior to your visit.
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|Visit of Vienna zoo*
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|Approx. 7:50 p.m.
|Taxi transfer from the restaurant to Schönbrunn Palace Orangery
|8:00 p.m.
|Admission into Schönbrunn Palace Orangery
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|Concert starts
|Approx. 10:15 p.m.
|Concert ends
*Please note the zoo's opening hours!
After the concert, taxis will be available right outside Schoenbrunn Palace Orangery. The subway runs until midnight in five to eight-minute intervals.
Available from April to October only due to weather conditions.
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Nuclear waste isn't greenJuly 02,2013
Nuclear waste isnt green
In his letter Keep Yankee Guy Page uses the standard nuclear is green claim as if carbon was all there was to it.
Green, like free, in this country is not what it is claimed to be. It makes all the sense in the world to remove a 40-year-old nuclear power station that is at the end of its life cycle as defined by the original specifications of the engineers who built it.
When an old carbon-spewing car is at the end of its life it is replaced without hesitation. The potential damage from that one car is not even on the scale of potential damage that a nuclear power station can cause, and yet people dont hesitate to claim it is needed. Even claim the risk is not real. After all, we have not had the big one yet. Well, California has not had the big one yet, but you can be sure it is coming. Why not eliminate the nuclear power stations? Money!
Corporate America makes big money off these power stations. Nuclear power corporate welfare makes the welfare program assisting people in this country pale. The cost overhead of $18.87 per kilowatt to store nuclear waste at Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Washington state verifies that. That waste site costs $2 billion annually; the combined power of nuclear in this country is 106 gigawatts. Hanford represents only one-third of the waste budget allocated to nuclear waste.
As for filling a gas tank with heating oil, filling a diesels gas tank with heating oil will work just fine. You must compare technologies properly if you want to replace one with another.
Base load produces power whether it is needed or not. You cant just fire up nuclear, coal or gas because a few extra kilowatts are needed. That is why wind is required to power down so the base load production can continue without overloading the grid. The issue is not what source produces the power, it is how to have the power available when the demand is there. I cited microgrid as one of many options that are in the mill.
The green energy paradigm is in its infancy. Storing solar power in something besides batteries is evolving rapidly. The natural world gets by just fine with intermittent power available. When we figure out how to do that with our insatiable demand for power we too will be able to live off the power of the sun.
An area 1.3 times the size of the city of Barre. So what? That waste site in the state of Washington covers an area which equals about 6 percent of the state of Vermont.
Vermont Yankee is not going to contribute one added kilowatt to that threefold increase you cite. Keeping it contributes, every 18 months, to the ever-growing radioactive waste problem. Radioactive waste is a problem that has had no solution for over 60 years now and is not likely to ever get a satisfactory solution.
Moving forward with green energy is exactly how we will develop the reliable alternative. Getting it up and running will not be an overnight deliverable any more than the national power grid was. At one time all the electricity used in this country came from one power generation station, Niagara Falls, N.Y. Demand grew and so did the sources. It will again if you have enough foresight to believe in this countrys ability to meet what is demanded of it as our previous generations did.
The bath water Vermont Yankee is already throwing out and it is 100 degrees. The fish and the Connecticut River will do just fine without it, and so will we.
Shut down Vermont Yankee now and mandate Entergy pay the decommissioning and radioactive waste cleanup cost.
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Brooklyn is finalizing a sign-and-trade deal with the Los Angeles Clippers for Reggie Evans, league sources tell Y! Sports
our front office needs to stop sitting on their a$$, daydreaming about Nash sure he would be nice to have but it ain't end of the world... it feels like everyone is making moves Minus us.
Brooklyn is instantly on same level as Miami, and the Knicks are on outside looking in.
I hear a vacuum and it's sucking the fans away from Garden.
Prediction: they tear Garden down within 10 years and Knicks are moved to Kansas.
Hahahahaha, nah, I don't really think the prediction will come through, but it's not going to be pretty for Fat Dolan.
That's a disgusting line-up. The rebounding is locked up between Wallace and DHowwww and Wallace is a good 1 on 1 defender, he'll shut them down man down hands down.
Plus they got the Bosnian we were talking about here, the Teletovic guy. If he comes in, drops a couple treys off the bench for them, that's ridiculous.
At the least they are equal to Miami, but you can easily make a case that they are stronger. DHowwww on Nets makes them my personal favorite for the next championship.
For next year, I am not assuming that we are going to be contenders, as Melo is on the team. It's the same on here each and every year. During offseason we talk ourselfs into that role, next come the season previews, evertybody gets agitated because we are ranked so low, in the end they turn out to be correct.
The point that New York is such a big market is our weakest point: They make enough money with us not winning. So the NBA, shoe companies etc. cash the NY money and some extra in a smaller market by turning them into championship calibre teams (e.g. OKC).
Melo is the ideal player for that: He arouses enough emotions to sell shoes but it's clear to anybody vaguely familiar with the game of basketball that with his style he is not going to be a real threat.
We can tweak our line up as much as we want, we are not going to win it all. We will stay in the race for the playoffs, we might even advance into the second round in order to keep people's hopes alive but in the end a smaller (not necessarily small) market team will win it all.
"Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand."
Kurt Vonnegut
Please please please knicks
@DeronWilliams made a tough decision today...
How do you guys feel about this?
Mavs' PG priorities from here, sources say, are Nash and Jeremy Lin and re-signing J-Kidd. Team has not yet decided if it'll pursue Dragic
Can Pelister @Can_SB
Jason Kidd will sign w/ New York Knicks, a source close to Kidd told me.
^^^ dont know who that is or how accurate it may be lol, hell if you read his twitter you wouldn't know half the $hit he's speaking on their unless you understand that language lol
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How to get ahead of the curve this spring
It was revealing that, in the course of researching this feature to determine which of the high street stores currently offer size 18 and over, the sizes most frequently sold out on the stores' websites - and we are talking brand new spring merchandise here - were the 18s, 20s and 22s.
Which demonstrates two things: one we already knew (though British retailers are in denial), that the average UK woman is not the borderline-anorexic size 6 seen in magazines and on the catwalks, but a somewhat curvier 18 or 20; and two: that curvier women are positively eager to splash their cash when they find gorgeous clothes that are made to fit them.
Actually, the earlier observation that "British retailers are in denial" is a tad unfair and no longer strictly accurate. The British high street has largely wised up to the fact that there is a whole demographic of curvy women who want clothes to fit them. It's just that, in general, while stores like Wallis, Dorothy Perkins, River Island, Next, New Look, M&S and Hobbs all offer sizes 18 in their mainstream collections - and some of them 20 and 22 - they do so with very little fanfare.
Whether this is for fear of putting themselves too squarely in the company of bigger girls, who, ludicrously, are still - despite the best efforts of gorgeous plus-size models like Crystal Renn and America's Next Top Model winner Whitney Thompson - not perceived as being as glamorous as the borderline anorexics, or whether these retailers are simply delinquent at marketing their more generous sizes, I really can't say.
But this failure among mainstream retailers to market their bigger sizes is odd, because all the evidence points to the fact that curvy women don't want to be forced into "specialist" retailers. They want to be able to buy in the same shops as those who are a size 8, 10 or 12. And in these difficult trading times, you might think that, if M&S offers most of its Autograph Collection up to size 22, and Debenhams offers much of its Designers At... collections up to size 20, they would be shouting about it.
At Debenhams, the best buys up to size 20 or 22 currently include a black leather biker jacket from Julien McDonald's Star Collection (now £137.50,), a one-shoulder diagonally pleated body-con black dress by Pierce II Fionda (£130) and a ladylike navy collarless mac by Ben de Lisi for Principles at £65.
At M&S, some of the best pieces available up to size 22 include a well-cut, Audrey Hepburn-esque, slash neck dress at £39.50, a hippy chic collarless lace-print blouse (£35), a horizontal stripe scoop neck dress at £39.50 and a flattering vertically panelled, semi-fitted dress at £59. M&S also has a plus-size shop for sizes 26 and 28. Next is another major high street name which offers much of its collection up to size 22, as well as a plus-size shop up to size 26. Some of the most alluring pieces from the mainstream collection include a tunic dress in a very on-trend abstract print (£18), a sleek blazer in cobalt, again a hot colour for spring, (£49), a pretty shift dress in red and cream with a waterfall frill (£45), and a brilliant, bracelet-sleeve jumpsuit from their Geri Halliwell range at £75 - all up to size 22.
Also on the high street, River Island goes to size 18; Wallis and Dorothy Perkins sizes 20 and 22; and M&Co offers most of its collection up to 22. New Look's Inspire range offers sizes 18 to 26 and H&M, which last year launched its Inclusive Collection, has now replaced it with H&M+, offering "modern essentials" in UK sizes 18-28. These currently include long sweaters and tops to wear with skinny jeans, a sharp blazer, white shirt and ankle-skimming trousers.
A little higher up the market, Banana Republic offers selected items up to size 18 and XL (18-20), and Hobbs sizing goes up to a nominal 18, but with measurements of 43" bust, 36" waist, and 46" lower hip, is equal to a very generous 20.
Fenwick's Bond Street has the collections of Ischiko and Annette Gortz, both of which go to size 20, while the Brent Cross branch offers Gerry Weber, Betty Barclay, Viyella and Joseph Ribkoff, which all go to size 20 and beyond.
Other mainstream brands which offer size 20 include Kaliko and Planet, while Alexon and Boden go to size 22 and Jacques Vert does size 24 in its frankly mumsy occasion ranges.
Among the specialists, Long Tall Sally's XL fits sizes 22 and 24, while Evans offers sizes 14 to 32, with some strong styling in a collection that still needs work. Websites with on-trend pieces for curvy girls include Yoursclothing.com, SimplyBe.co.uk, and ASOS Curve, while local plus-size specialists include Elaine in Redbridge, and Box 2 in King's Langley, which both offer a slew of strong UK and international brands.
The newly-opened Mitch, in England's Lane Belsize Park, is offering sizes 16 to 28, from brands which include Michele Jeans, Lucia, Evelin Brandt, Q'neel, Hanro and Spanx for shapewear and tights and Zandra Rhodes' clothing and jewellery, some of it exclusive to the shop.


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Knowing When It's Time to Sell
by Michael Kahn
Listen to Michael Kahn's presentation at the 2013 AAII Investor Conference!
Most investment sites, courses and gurus offer all sorts of ways to find stocks to buy. Whether they are fundamental, technical or dart throwing, there is no shortage of experts telling you where to put your money.
The problem is that buying is only half the job. Unless you plan to leave your portfolio to your children, at some point it will be time to sell some stocks and turn paper profits into actual cash.
In this article
- What Signals Are We Looking For?
- Watch the Trend
- Spotting the End of an Upward Run
- New Lows After a New High Is Not Reached
- Relative Performance and Fading Momentum
- Combine Charts and Fundamentals
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Aside from analyzing high valuations and dwindling business prospects, the market itself can be very forthcoming with clues on when to ring the register. By spotting changes in the price trend or even just changes from market-leading to market-lagging performance, individual investors can do just as well as the pros when it comes time to sell.
All that is needed is a chart with one or more of the readily available tools found on most free financial websites. The goal is to spot stocks that have stopped going up or are about to stop going up. To paraphrase humorist Will Rogers, "Buy stocks that go up; if they don't go up, don't buy them." Our goal is to determine when the stocks we already own have moved into the latter half of that dictum.
What Signals Are We Looking For?
There are two reasons stocks stop going up. The first is that they are tired and need to rest. Perhaps price action got too far ahead of the fundamentals. The second is that the bull trend is about to end and a new bear trend is about to begin.
This article is not concerned with the first reason, as the focus is not to trade around any short-term wiggles. Any stock that is just resting before its next push higher is clearly good to own and can be separated from stocks that are resting before turning lower with the methods outlined here.
Rather, I am talking about stocks and not companies. Companies produce value, but stocks are supposed to reflect that value. As we know, value and stock price are rarely the same on any given day, and there is a whole industry built around finding stocks that are undervalued based on the fundamentals. But stock prices swing from theoretically undervalued to overvalued and back again. A good company with a good product may not have a good stock because the market has already priced the stock well above where the stock "should" be.
Typically, overvaluation comes from too much excitement over the "next big thing." Stocks such as rare earth minerals miner Molycorp Inc. (MCP) in 2011 and Tesla Motors Inc. (TSLA) earlier this year come to mind. Apple Inc. (AAPL) also generated far too much enthusiasm given its sales and innovation pipeline just before it peaked in 2012, and countless investors wished they had some sort of method for spotting the pending bear market before it really got under way.
Watch the Trend
Charts do not tell us if a stock is fundamentally overvalued or undervalued. However, charts reflect the actions of all market participants, who each have their own view on valuation. It is the sum of their actions—buying, selling or doing nothing—that we use to make our determinations.
Remember, charts are tools used to gauge what market participants are doing with their money. They do not predict the future any more than reading tea leaves or chicken entrails do. Charts do show when investors are behaving in a way similar to what they have done before, however. History shows what tends to happen next.
The simplest way to spot a stock that is tired and ready to pull back, if not reverse course altogether, is to measure the trend. Even without any gadgets or computer drawing ability, a trend can be eyeballed as the stock price moves from a low in the past to a high in the present. We want to know when the series of higher highs and higher lows—the natural ebb and flow of a stock—changes to a series of lower highs and lower lows. Netflix Inc. (NFLX) provided a great example in 2011, as Figure 1 shows.
If a straight line connecting the lows that looks like it follows the trend is drawn and prices move below that line, then we have our first indication that something has changed. When a stock moves below its most recent low, confirmation is given. All else being equal, the change in trend signals time to sell.
How do you know the difference between a correction and a true end of the road for a stock? There are no guarantees, but when the trend changes from up to down and prices make a lower low, the odds that it is more than just a bump in the road are rather good.
How do I know that? History is on my side. Even though outside actions in recent years, such as the Federal Reserve's bond buying program (quantitative easing) made chart analysis more difficult, the principles still worked.
And they even worked ahead of non-market events such as scandals. In 1999, the chart of the now-defunct Enron yielded many clues near the top that something was not quite right. And just before the scandal broke wide open in 2000, the charts offered trend and technical pattern breaks to give investors a chance to save at least some of their holdings.
Spotting the End of an Upward Run
In early 2012, Apple could do no wrong. Every time it looked as if the stock was starting to stumble, it quickly came back to life and soon outrageous upside targets were being published by respected analysts. But in October 2012, the stock made a rather significant move to the downside and a plethora of technical sell signals fired, as Figure 2 shows. Something was different, even from the last time the stock seemingly fell apart just a few months earlier in April 2012.
Figure 3 shows the price action. The first clue that the stock was cooling off occurred in May 2013, when it failed to make a new high. Behind the scenes, the relative performance chart, which is simply the ratio of General Mills to the S&P 500 index, broke down. The stock moved from market leader to market laggard, which, of course, is not a positive development.
Market pundits were quick to exclaim that money was leaving consumer staples and moving into more aggressive areas such as technology. They called it a healthy rotation in leadership.
Such rotation does not mean General Mills was about to fall. The stock could have continued higher, but at a slower pace. The outlook changed when shares of General Mills moved to a new one-month low and broke its 50-day average to the downside. Within three weeks, the stock gave back nearly half of its gains to date and left investors scratching their heads. After all, the S&P 500 was still about 4% below all-time highs. Clearly, General Mills' generous dividend yield and relatively stable business (consumer staples) was not enough to protect investors from losses.
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Relative Performance and Fading Momentum
Relative performance and relative strength charts are very simple tools that can tell investors when a stock or sector is moving into and out of favor. I wrote about this in more detail in the June 2011 AAII Journal ("Picking the Right Stocks Using Charts").
Spotting these shorter-term tops allows more active investors to outperform the market, but for most investors spotting "the big one" is far more important. How can you determine if the market is about to form a major top such as the one seen in 2007?
The principles are the same: Look for fading momentum, more urgent sell-offs and failed attempts to recover. Let's look at Figure 4, which shows the performance of the S&P 500, and this will become clear.
In 2006 and early 2007, the market seemed to be firing on all cylinders. Housing was leading the way and all sectors were fully engaged in the rally. But over the course of 14 months, the market stopped going up and eventually rolled over. Wall Street wisdom points out that bottoms, such as the end of the bear market in 2009, are usually "events," while tops are usually "processes." Evidence that a bull market is ending builds gradually as more stocks and sectors start to change for the worse.
The first blow for the bulls was the initial news of the sub-prime mortgage crisis in August 2007. The stock market plunged and, although it recovered quickly, broke the string of higher highs and higher lows that mark a bull trend. Something had changed, although at the time the fundamentals, aside from the mortgage market, were still good.
The market moved back to new high ground but it did not last. Prices once again dipped back to the previous low—now called support—to signify more aggressive behavior by the bears. The balance of power, and supply and demand, shifted.
When the index sliced through its previous lows one more time, the technical sell signal was given. As I've come to expect, signals are never this clean and easy. After a 10% drop from support and a similar-sized recovery, the index touched that former support level one more time. It was the same kiss goodbye that occurred with Apple above but on a large, market-wide scale. The bear market raged for months thereafter.
An important point to remember is that the kiss goodbye occurred at the same price level for the S&P 500 that was seen in late 2006. The same price but with a different trend. One place was a buy signal, the other was a sell signal and it paid, quite literally, to know the difference.
Combine Charts and Fundamentals
Many investors use charts exclusively to make sell decisions, but most are likely more comfortable letting changing fundamentals tell them when it is time.
However, using charts in conjunction with other analyses can provide early warning for market changes so you can take profits and move either to other stocks or into cash to sit out market turmoil that may be on the way.
Paul Hervey from IA posted over 3 years ago:
could you do the charts for caseys please
William Hutchinson from AZ posted over 3 years ago:
It's hard to tell a dip from a trend until the trend has taken away much of the gain.
Toan Nguyen from CA posted over 3 years ago:
It's always easy to look back and see that certain analysis make sense.
Werner Emmerich from PA posted over 3 years ago:
The RSI in conjunction with the 50 day moving average is actually quite a good tool for defining a trend, if you learn how to use it, especially for the entire market, where there are not so many other comparisons available. Some professionals are so good that they can infer a trend just from looking at a performance chart. I am not one of them.
Harish Jethwa from MD posted over 3 years ago:
I use 10/20/50 day averages, bollinger bands
and MACD, also RSI at Yahoo finance, to buy or
sell. I think they give good signals.
what do you think?
Norton Waterman from KY posted over 3 years ago:
I agree with the two previous views.
James Grant from OH posted over 3 years ago:
First, I have to say that I am very happy to read another article in the AAII Journal that offers advice on how to "use" technical analysis indicators to make trading decisions, rather than "how they are calculated". --- However, I was disappointed that Mr. Kahn copped out in the last couple sentences of his article, implying that investors should take fundamentals analysis into account, too.
I read the article pretty closely twice. While there are section titles, the rules to sell are largely buried in the text. Here's a list of the ones I was able to identify.
1. Sell when a series of higher highs and higher lows changes over to lower highs and lower lows.
2. Sell when the momentum indicator (RSI 14) rises above the upper threshold and then starts to fall.
3. Sell when the price falls below the 50-Day Moving Average (MA).
4. Sell when the Relative Strength line heads down.
5. Sell when a new low occurs after a new high is not reached.
These leave me with some questions for Mr. Kahn.
(1) If you believe (and I do) these rules are good enough to base a sell decision on, is there any reason you would not propose using the opposite rules to base buy decisions on?
(2) Are you proposing that an investor sell if any one of the rules is met? All five are met? Two of five?
(3) In the spring of 2012, AAPL's price dropped below its 50-Day MA and its RSI 14 was heading down. Is there any reason you wouldn't have sold then?
(4) If an investor uses your sell rules, are you confident that over the long run, he/she will materially make more money than just investing in a professionally managed fund that invests in the S&P 500?
(5) In regard to #5, when a new low occurs, how many past days, weeks, months should be considered to determine that it is a new low?
(6) What is the difference between #1 and #5?
I also offer these opinions to other readers of these posts:
* 50-Day MA - Using that technical indicator, an investor could take a 20% loss, as happened with AAPL in the spring of 2012. That's too much for me. There are several other technical analysis indicators (not the least of with is the MLR (Moving Linear Regression) line that give earlier sell signals than a simple MA.
* Straight Trend Lines - I've always been troubled about drawing lines on charts. The rules for drawing them seem quite arbitrary. As anyone who remembers high school geometry remembers, any 2 points constitute a straight line. So, how many points are needed? What is the minimum number of days, weeks, or months that should be covered by the chart before straight trend lines can be applied? Every time I hear/read someone offer answers to questions like that, I get a different answer.
Steven Greenfield from NY posted over 3 years ago:
I find it is is easy to look back and suggest when a sell decision was correct. How about picking 5 stocks that meet your criteria today and advising us what action should be taken and then following the movement of the stocks over the next 90 days?
That would be instructive, I believe.
Robert Talambiras from NJ posted over 3 years ago:
I fully agree with Steven Greenfield above. 20-20 hindsight may be instructive, but it is not convincing. Let's see some predictions, and publish the mistakes too!
Raymond Gundersen from CA posted over 3 years ago:
I have found the Ichimoku Cloud indicator most useful for making sell decisions. You can find it on Freestockcharts.com or your broker web site might have it. Research Ichimoku Cloud on Google to learn how to read it. Between 11/21/11 to 9/10/12 I had 7 potential sell signals using moving averages, MACD, and RSI on Ross Stores (ROST). Thanks to the Ichimoku Cloud it advised me not to sell and I held on for an 80% gain.
Ken from CA posted over 3 years ago:
Author Kahn, as useful as his remarks are, neglects to discuss volume action as a prime factor, notwithstanding his reference to "supply and demand."
Contributions from AAII members much appreciated as well.
Thank you.
Anthony Babich from MA posted over 3 years ago:
It's easy to present a working hypothesis from specific archival data, and, as all disclaimers state - this is not a guarantee of future performance. What is missing in all these discussions are statistics on both the archival and follow-up results of using these hypotheses on a continuing basis. When using multiple hypotheses, must they agree, or is one better, or should you use a weighted combination? In the examples, what if you used 50 day averages (arithmetic or exponential?) instead of a trend line, or vice versa? If you are looking for speed, I would submit that both the Fast Stochastic Oscillator and MACD would be better, but you might get dizzy watching them. From an overall perspective on longer term trends I would even suggest considering Point and Figure charts. In the end, however, I think that the final decision is a subjective one. As I said above, we don't have any numbers on how good anything is - are my chances of being right 30%, 80%, or what? Finally, let's not forget that the majority of trading today is algorithmic, which doesn't necessarily follow any of these hypotheses. Experience is the best teacher?
Bob Samson from MD posted over 3 years ago:
I avree with earlie posts basically stating that cherry picking of histotical data dies not carry much weight in this forum. Come up with deterministic rules thst can be back tested. To dste, only the shadow stock portfolio expkicitly fies thus.
It is time for AAII to begin looking at combinations of stock screens on both the buy and sell sides to complete the picture when comparing strategies.
David E. from Washington, Not D.C. - Vancouver, Not B.C. posted over 3 years ago:
Some of you seem to have forgotten that market movement is a behavioral science, not a 'hard' science. So perhaps you should quit looking for concrete rules where there aren't any. These 'rules' are generalizations based on looking at past behavior suggesting patterns. Reading these patterns is an art if only b/c none of us can foretell the future.
I have great difficulty trying to determine when to sell. So I find the pattern IDs explained By Mr. Kahn above to be quite helpful. I've already bookmarked this page b/c I know I will be referring to it often as a starting point for my sell decisions.
Thanks, Mr. Kahn, for a great article. Timely, too, in today's market. Well done.
Enock Mwila from WA posted over 3 years ago:
The article from Mr. Kahn is a very useful instrument for me. It gives good information on stocks. Thank you Mr. Kahn for your educational article and please publish more of this nature.


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Gordon Ramsay's Latest Stunt Is a Pile of Crap
For those of you who haven't heard of him, Gordon Ramsay runs a restaurant and hosts a TV show in England, where celebrity chefs are worshipped as a form of minor deity. Despite having only 5 TV channels for the entire country, the Brits have more cooking shows even than they have antiques shows, and they have the highest number of celebrity chefs per capita in the entire world. So in England, Gordon Ramsay is a kind of a big deal. He's also a cold-hearted animal hater—which is where PETA UK comes in to the story. Evidently, Mr. Ramsay's latest stunt has been to encourage British people to eat more horse meat, even going so far as to feature a horse-meat barbeque on his show, The F-Word. PETA UK's response to his antics was as swift as it was smelly, and the pictures of their horse-manure dump outside Gordon's restaurant this morning have been going everywhere in the British media. You can check out some of the press coverage here.
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To the butthurt people complaining that "why are people who dont support animal rights even posting on this website": if you have the rights to support people who terrorize a restaurant KNOWING there are meat serving there, then people who disagree with peta/this action have the rights to say so in this disgusting site, knowing it's full of vegetarian/vegans. Don't be a hypocrite.
The episode I saw was how he wanted people to try horse milk. I really hope he didn't do one for horse meat.
i detest Ramsay but there's no call to slag off the UK…we don't "worship chefs" here having 5 terrestial tv channels can only be a good thing when I look at the junk that the US offers us. looks like Ramsay is more of a "big deal" in the US these days where his foul mouth aggression bullying seems to be popular with tv viewers…I wish he'd stay there he is an appalling person like so many other Brits popular in the US Cowell Morgan Osbourne is a terrible advert for Britain.
So..I have to say that I don't like the Ramsey show..he is quite a prick. And I don't agree with eating animals because of the way they are raised and all the pain they experience in their short life spans sure there are some who are raised humanely but they are few and far between..I also think that premoting the eating of horse meat on public t.v is a bad idea because there are already enough different animals being slaughtered for meat we don't need yet another!! C'mon!! I think PETA does do a lot of good work helping out animals but was it really necessary to dump manure in front of this guys restaurant?? I guess any attantion is good..so at least something was done to show disgust for eating horse meat but I wish PETA would start doing protests that get people interested without turning them off..
all i can say is each to there own if you want to eat meat whatever kind then do so same as vegetarians the problem with this country is were too bloody picky if you knew where half the stuff comes from you would all starve where would all the cows sheep pigs ect ect go if we didn't eat them so get off your moral high horse no pun intended by the way and let people decide for themselves what they do and don't want to eat
Peta sayz that people would not eat their family pet so they shouldn't eat any other animal. But horse are used for soap and dog food they are recycled nothing is wasted were as if you don't let natural go it becomes unbalecend but what i am trying to say is that we can't go around killing everything we see but we cant protect everything thats just how the world is. really people think that peta is a bunch of nutjobs because they have no construtive arguement and are really immature bunch of people they just stupid stunts and except the world to change because of it they have to take a look at the world around them.
I think that peta has nothing better to do but dump horse shit on a person that has there own openion i think that peta force their openion on people and they go about wrong how they spread their message
Why are people who dont support animal rights even posting on this website? Its a place for vegetariansvegans etc to gather not heartless supporters of the meat industry! no freedom of speech then? rather stay insular and forget the outside world exists? no point even commenting on non vegetariansnon vegans then is there?
Why are people who dont support animal rights even posting on this website? Its a place for vegetariansvegans etc to gather not heartless supporters of the meat industry!
i really fail to see how this will stop people eating horse meat. Won't it just make PETA seem like an immature group of hippies? This is nearly terrorism intimidating normal people in a normal place doing normal things to try convert people to believe what they believe. PETA will stop at nothing to get what they want and that means they're dangerous.


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FEMA approves Vt. hazard mitigation plan
MONTPELIER — Federal officials have approved Vermont's updated hazard mitigation plan, making the state eligible to receive more federal grants to prepare for the next big storm or man-made disaster.
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Vermont Emergency Management is going to post its hazard mitigation plan online sometime next week. But the executive summary says that climate change "will affect the severity and frequency of natural hazards" and the plan is needed to ensure the state is prepared.
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Students will host the winter semester Cardboard Challenge, giving participants an opportunity to play games while raising money for a nonprofit organization.
The challenge is set for Friday, February 21, from 9-11:30 a.m. in Henry Hall Atrium.
Cost to participate is $1. John Kilbourne, professor of movement science, said $250 was raised in the fall during the first Cardboard Challenge. Money goes to the Imagination Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to fostering and funding creativity and entrepreneurship.
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BETHEL, NY — Rivers and their piscine inhabitants—especially in the Upper Delaware region—form the theme of the Stray Cat Gallery's show "A River Runs through It," opening on Friday, October 11, with an artists' reception on Saturday, October 12 from 4 to 7 p.m.
Peter Kolesar, better known to many as an architect of, and advocate for, improved water flow management for the Upper Delaware (see page 4), was drawn into fly fishing a couple of decades ago in large part by the beauty of the fish. Photography is also a long-time fascination of his, and his camera is as common an accompaniment on his trips as his rod. The result is a series of highly stylized photographs that bring out the iconic design elements in his fish subjects, sometimes verging on the abstract in their use of composition and color, and always boldly decorative.
Jamie Williams Grossman specializes in landscapes in the Greater Hudson Valley region, including the Catskills, and waterways and waterfalls comprise one of her favorite subject matters. She writes of her work, "I am a self-proclaimed color junkie with an addiction to painting outdoors. Standing in the midst of nature's sights and sounds, and attempting to capture the experience in paint, is food for my soul… I hope those who view my work can feel some of the wonder that inspires me as my brushes drag across the surface laden with color." She is a signature member and former chairman of New York Plein Air Painters and current leader of their Lower Hudson Valley Chapter.
Kathe Frantz lives and works in the Upper Delaware Valley region, which provides her with constant inspiration. Less figurative than Grossman, she paints in oil and uses a colorful palette, conveying visual layers referencing complex systems of nature. Frantz has showed her work in solo and group exhibits throughout the region in venues including 80th Street Gallery (New York City), Chamot Gallery (Jersey City, NJ) and AFA Gallery (Scranton, PA).
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The final campaign push is on as Wisconsin's historic recall election is now just two nights away.
Neither candidate is eager to waste a moment of their final chances to make their case to Wisconsin voters. Gov. Scott Walker and Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett covered the entire state on Sunday to shore up support.
At a call center in Fitchburg on Sunday evening, Walker said volunteers on his behalf had made more than two and a half million calls during this recall campaign.
With rumors swirling about his role in the John Doe investigation, Walker said he's focusing his message on his reforms and job creation.
"We're going to continue to gain jobs, we're going to stay focused on that," said Walker. "We've answered all the other questions in the last days, we should get back to the core of what this election is about, it was about reforms, it was about jobs, we're succeeding at both. The other side doesn't have a plan and that's why they're desperately trying to bring up anything else."
Both Walker and Barrett kept their distance from each other as they both stopped by the Brown County Dairy Breakfast in De Pere on Sunday.
Barrett repeated his campaign promise to end the "political civil war" that he said Walker created. The mayor also stressed the concern he says voters are feeling over the John Doe investigation.
"There is something fundamentally wrong when you've got the only governor in this country who has a legal defense fund," said Barrett. "He refuses to say who's paying his criminal defense lawyers. He refuses to release emails that would either vindicate him or show his involvement in this secret illegal computer network that was operating 25 feet from his office."
U.S. Sen. Herb Kohl joined Barrett at a few campaign stops on Sunday.
Barrett is scheduled to be in Portage Monday afternoon while Walker will be back in Fitchburg Monday morning.
Earlier this weekend, Walker began Saturday by handing out yogurt and applesauce at the annual Rock County Dairy Breakfast on a farm just outside Evansville. Some people shook his hand and thanked him for the job he's done, but many simply thanked him as he put yogurt on their plates and moved on.
Walker also stopped at the Monroe County Dairy Breakfast in Norwalk Saturday morning.
The governor said while he stands by his policies concerning collective bargaining for public workers. He said he believes now he may have enacted those polices in the wrong manner.
"I talked about the abuses of collective bargaining through overtime, in places like Madison where a bus driver made $150,000," said Walker. "I think most people would have said, 'Fix it.' My challenge was I was so eager to fix it, I fixed it and then talked about it. Most politicians talk about it but never fix it. In the future, we are going to do both."
Barrett, meanwhile, mainly campaigned in the northern part of the state on Saturday.
The Milwaukee mayor stopped in Superior to rally supporters, telling the crowd they must get Walker out of office to save millions of dollars in interest from the governor's budget maneuvers.
"The fiscal bureau said that actually the state was in a deficit situation, so what Gov. Walker did, he said, 'Well, let's borrow some money.' And so he took some debt that was going to come through this year. He refinanced it, and put it on the credit card for future generations."
With both Democrats and Republicans seeing an increase in volunteers, workers for both candidates feel their campaign is doing the best job of rallying their supporters.
Virtually around the clock Walker volunteers are filling victory centers like one in Fitchburg to rally support for the current governor.
"This makes all the difference, making the calls and getting it out there, getting the information and the facts out there makes a huge difference," said Walker volunteer Ashley Kavalauskas.
Kavalauskas spends most of her nights at the center making phone calls.
The chairman of the Republican party of Dane County said they're concentrating their efforts at phone banks and making sure voters have a ride to the polls.
He also said they're seeing an increase in people wanting to volunteer during the final days of the campaign.
"I think it's a very good sign and people are very passionate about what's going on," said Mike Herl. "They're rooting for Governor Walker and Lieutenant Governor Kleefish. They want fiscal responsibility, and I think that's what this shows."
Meanwhile, over at the Labor Temple in Madison, volunteers with We are Wisconsin are rallying support for Tom Barrett.


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Anti-Apartheid Activist Warned of Rich-Poor Gap
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Frederik Van Zyl Slabbert, a scholar, author and former member of the anti-apartheid opposition, died this week at age 70 during treatment for liver and other problems.Before he died, he signaled the dangers of the growing gap between rich and poor. "I do know from talking to ordinary people that there is a great deal of anger at the conspicuous consumption of the new emerging elite," the former leader said in a press interview.
"The biggest gap at the moment is not between black and white, but between black and black in terms of access to economic opportunities."
Once the rugby-playing son of conservative Afrikaners, Slabbert turned towards multi-racial politics in the late 70s and 80s, opening up dialogue between Afrikaners and the exiled African National Congress.
Later, with rights advocate Alex Boraine, he helped formed the Institute for a Democratic Alternative in South Africa, known as Idasa, to organize meetings between whites and blacks in apartheid South Africa. The group is now the Institute for Democracy in Africa.
Meanwhile, in an unscheduled visit to a Johannesburg slum, President Jacob Zuma said he was nearly reduced to tears when he saw a family's living conditions in a shack he visited there. "You could swear no-one lived in that shack," Zuma told premiers and ministers at the President's Coordinating Council in Pretoria.
There is currently a 2.1 million housing backlog and more than 2,700 informal settlements.