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#1 Thu 05 Apr 07 9:58pm
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Collapsed Meringue!!
I tried makin meringue many times.but I stoped coz I wasted alot of egg whites. My mixture was 2 egg white, whisked with a table spoon sugar and a pinch of salt. Every Single time I make it, it browns on the top with a nice colour n all. But when I touch it, its like cotton. There are no crisps what so ever. The most unbelievable part is that it sinks right after a few minutes from a lovely bloated shape to almost as thin as a pan cake.
What gives? I wisk them by hand in room temp and add sugar n salt as soon as they start to become a little stiff. My oven however cannot be adjusted as much coz my oven is somewhat 10 years old. Im a college student and cant afford 1. However do know that my oven is 150 deg C.
Is that enough or is there nythin I am doing wrong?
#2 Thu 05 Apr 07 10:25pm
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Re: Collapsed Meringue!!
Hi Calvyn....
You need to use more sugar. The ratio should be 2oz / 50gr of caster sugar to every egg white.
Have a look on the link below.....lots of useful information.
http://www.helpwithcooking.com/egg-guid … ingue.html
Hope you have better luck next time!!
#3 Thu 05 Apr 07 11:40pm
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Re: Collapsed Meringue!!
And also - drop your oven temperature.
Crisp meringues should not brown, but remain a pristine white!
Set your oven to the lowest possible temperature, put your meringues at the bottom of the oven, and leave the door slightly ajar.
#4 Fri 06 Apr 07 4:34am
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- Member since Tue 03 Aug 04
Re: Collapsed Meringue!!
If you want a chewy texture, add a teaspoon of vinegar.
#5 Fri 06 Apr 07 7:18am
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- From Philadelphia, PA, USA
- Member since Tue 22 Jun 04
Re: Collapsed Meringue!!
Cream of Tartar and Water (a pinch of the former and a tablespoon per egg white for the latter) will also help to prevent over coagulation of the proteins and thus stabilize your meringue.
As for the browning, it does add nice flavor, but take Geoff's advice and cook the meringue blond first, and then if you want to brown it use a torch or the broiler to get the job done once it sets.
#6 Fri 06 Apr 07 10:56am
Senga B
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Re: Collapsed Meringue!!
Make sure your whisks and bowl are spotlessly clean. Any grease and you'll have trouble. I also find it best to leave it in the oven with the door left slightly ajar, after it's cooked, to cool down completely. Happy Easter.
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Nice, clean and big apartment with an amazing view! See you soon
The apartment was very nice and both Kate and Paula were very helpful with everything we needed. Spacious, comfortable and centrally located. The only downside was that the air-conditioning didn't seem to work very well, and so it got rather warm. Other than that, definitely a great place to stay in and wonderful hosts. We hope to stay with them again :)
The apartment is very lovely and is nicely located close to everything. The interior design is very pleasing, whoever the kitchen appliances are somewhat spare; few plates, few cups, few glasses, only one tea towel etc. -But this is only a small problem and it is easy to get around.
The host who greeted us there was very forthcoming and nice and was very informative.
The only reason the apartment doesn't get five stars is that a cleaning lady came during our stay without our knowledge, which made us a bit uncomfortable when we returned to the apartment later that day.
-Had we known, there would have been no problem, and the apartment review would read five stars instead.
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Due to terrible weathter conditons (Carlsbridge was closed, politics recommended strongly tourist should not enter the city due to flood of Moldow) we had no chance enjoying the loft. Sad to say we had no chance on a refund and Wimdu not even did answer our mail concerning the necessary deletion of the booking.
We booked again 1 month later. The appartment has a wonderful view (two windows towards bridge an castle). Beds are not very comfortable, the second room is small and not very cosy. The kitchen is well equipped, they even serve you a dishwasher and coffee machine. And the manager was extraordinary friendly and helpful. All in all it has been a great experience. Nevertheless a little bad taste is left due to WIMDU who did not really care on our emails before and served us with informations on the loft that made it almost impossible to spot the location (they even did not serve us a street number). But thats another story. So far WIMDU 1 Star - Appartment 4
Great view, nice apartment and location
Clean and comfortable appartement - a fantastic location just in the middle of Prague
Nice flat, good Location close to Karls bridge and centre.
1 bedroom for 2 persons.
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Perfect, exactly what's offered and what you can see in the photos. I will not search for any other place next time I visit Praga. Location also great
The view AMAZING, the location again AMAZING.
The reason I'm giving it only 3 stars is a couple things. A few days before arriving via email they confirmed there would be a drive for me at the airport when I exited, I waited 40 minutes for a driver to show up but no one did, eventually i had to just get a taxi.
When I arrived the apartment was not ready, it was 19:15. The lady was super apologictic about it and didn't know why it wasn't ready. So I had to go walk the city for an hour or so. The next day someone came over to apologize about the place not being ready and even brought wine.
The pub in the courtyard has great food for a great price. It does get a bit nosing in the evenings so if you go to bed before 20:00 bring earplugs.
This is the second time we stayed there. We highly recommend this place because it is in a great location (with an amazing view), it is clean and very comfortable.
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The X230t's 6-cell battery offers **up to 8 hours unplugged, or pair with an optional external slice battery and get **up to 18 hours.
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What's Up With Brad Pitt's LBD Obsession? Both Angelina Jolie & Jennifer Aniston Have The Same Sexy Style On The Red Carpet!
Jen and Angie may be as different as night and day, but Brad isn't the only thing these A-listers have in common!
Is it just me, or does Brad Pitt love a sexy black dress on the red carpet? Considering the two main women in his life, his ex-wife Jennifer Aniston and his partner, Angelina Jolie, both have a penchant for getting all glam in black dresses I sure think so! While the two ladies couldn't be any more different, their super similar style seems suspicious to me. From strapless gowns to fun sequins, it looks like the women raid each other's closets and coordinate their outfits! Imagine if the two ladies got together for a sleepover where they dish on Brad and try on their fave designer dresses? (I think it's a pretty funny scenario!).
While sure, some guys have a type they're attracted to, from the way they look to their lifestyles Jen and Angie are totally different — but not when it's comes to getting glam! What do you think? Is it a simple coincidence or does Brad go crazy for a lady in a black frock?
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- Omg! Jen got a restraining order against a stalker!
- Angelina, You Aren't The Only One Who Can Work An Itty Bitty Mini! Jen Steps Out Looking Super Sexy For Her Fragrance Launch
- Jen left town before the SALT premiere, she couldn't take the heat
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I think the Impala name is wrong, since people expect SO much from an Impala, It'd be better to revive a forgotten name. Although this version gets the LS2 and RWD, plus 6 speed tranny(auto and manual too).Before:After(95% freehand):
Love the design, but the Corsica has such a bad rep...
Good design. bad Idea.trust me. the corsica lookes good and will not die easy. but that car sucked. trust me. My dad owned one. my naiborgs owned one. a few friends of mine own them. and the corsica really is more of a Malabu size not impala size.
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I know it sucked, but I'm still in love with the 2.8 EFI V6 + 3 speed auto combo. But I mean people will expect so much from an Impala. I remember the crappy interior it had, PERFECTLY. But being a Corsica, people will be like... ...That's a Corsica?!?!?!? It's time for the Corsica to do something for It's mistakes.
Not a bad-looking design. The wheels are a bit lopsided, but otherwise nice job.I think it's better, though, that the Corsica name stay dead. Most people associate that with a negative image. Besides, the Impala is getting RWD and a 6-speed in about 2 years.
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This morning our friends Jay & Laura Lafoon from Celebrate Your Marriage stopped by to talk about the secret to a happy marriage. More on their ministry, including marriage conferences and Ultimate Date Nights available here.
Peter & Shannyn – Tuesday, 2/25
Peter's granddaughter Sabrina has published her first book – at just 7 years old! Titled "Oh No! Pig Eats A Birthday Party", it comes from the Sock Monkey & Pig stories that Grampa Sir Peter has shared with her. Find out more here.
This morning our first ever Hope Hero Mary Juengel joined us for a praise party, as she has had her final chemo treatment!
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Homecoming 2009 to bring students, alumni, community together
Homecoming 2009 will take place on the Binghamton University campus Friday - Sunday, October 2-4. The weekend will include many opportunities for alumni to reunite with classmates, faculty and staff members.
The general public is invited to attend a tailgate party in the Events Center parking lot, starting at 4 p.m., Saturday, October 3. Attendees are welcome to reserve a tailgate spot and bring their grills and food to this outdoor barbecue. Tailgate leads into the annual Homecoming parade, and a men's soccer game against Rhode Island in the Bearcats Sports Complex at 7 p.m., followed by a fireworks display.
Homecoming will have special activities for the classes of 1959, 1969, 1979, 1984, 1989, 1999 and 2009, as well as gatherings for young alumni (2004-08), and geology and philosophy majors. Alumni reunion weekend will celebrate the 50th anniversary of Dickinson Community, the 30th anniversary of the Caribbean Student Association, the 25th anniversary of the apartment communities, and the 20th anniversaries of Pi Lambda Phi and the African Student Organization. Telefund callers, call center student information assistants and the Rosefsky scholars will also hold reunions.
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Federated Farmers' mid-season Farm Confidence Survey shows farmers' confidence both in the wider economy and in their own prospects is improving, but there is a strong divergence between dairy farmers' sentiment and other farming sectors. It is very much a case of for better - dairy - and for worse - the rest.
Overall, the survey shows an improvement in most indicators since the July 2012 new-season survey. Farmers remain negative about the wider economy's prospects, but are less gloomy than in July. Similarly, despite a slight improvement, farmers remain pessimistic about their own profitability. Farmers are generally positive about production, but are evenly split on whether they will increase or reduce spending. More expect to reduce rather than increase debt, but this intention is less strong than at any time in the last three years. Meanwhile, farmers continue to find it hard to find skilled and motivated staff.
While the overall results seem to indicate a modest improvement in the farming economy, there has been a major divergence between dairy farmers and the rest. Last July, dairy farmers' confidence, like all farmers, was at a low ebb. Improved commodity prices in the second half of 2012 saw payout forecasts increase which has improved dairy farmers' view of their profitability and the wider economy - albeit off very negative bases.
More dairy farmers also expect to increase production and spending and there is only a small drop in those expecting to reduce debt.
In contrast, sheep and beef farmers have not seen improved world commodity prices and the strong dollar further eroded their return on products. Compared to July, sheep and beef farmers have actually become more pessimistic about their profitability and only slightly less negative about the wider economy.
Sheep and beef farmers are also less optimistic about production, partly due to weather concerns in drier areas, and more expect to reduce spending. A large increase in sheep and beef farmers expecting to increase debt is presumably to get through the tough season. Grain farmers' sentiment is similar to sheep and beef.
One area where there has not been diverging views is the difficulty of finding skilled and motivated staff. While dairy farmers are finding it especially hard to find good staff, the labour market remains tight for sheep and beef and grain farmers despite relatively high unemployment nationally.
On the whole, this survey shows farming in a two-speed environment. While it is encouraging that dairy farmers are more positive than six months ago, the ongoing and deepening pessimism in the rest of the farming community is concerning. They will be hoping for a much better second half of the season.
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Financial advisors are hardly lacking for talking points these days. There are wars, earthquakes, tsunamis and a nuclear catastrophe. The dollar is plunging and commodities are soaring. Cities and states are running out of cash, and the federal government isn't far behind. That's to say nothing of the explosion of new financial products, from exchange-traded funds to a grab-bag of alternative assets, and the rise of trading that happens in milliseconds rather than minutes.
The extraordinary combination of events isn't just setting the agenda for advisor-client meetings; it's putting advisors' skills to the test and shaking up the industry. Advisors with the know-how and tools are clearly making the most of it, as you can see on our annual listing of America's top 100 financial advisors. (To see the complete ranking click here.)
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Here's how the Top 100 look as a group.
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Twenty-five advisors not on last year's roster have earned spots on the new one, and some repeaters have scored huge gains. Sanjan Dhody of Deutsche Bank Alex. Brown, for instance, shot from No. 24 last year into the top 10. Robert Inbody of Morgan Stanley, No. 100 last year, has vaulted to No. 55. When the going gets cataclysmic, there's no telling how far a good advisor might go.
Our ranking is based on each advisor's assets under management, revenue generated for his or her firm, and the quality of the practice. We don't explicitly consider investment performance, in part because advisors pursue such a wide range of investment objectives. Preserving the family fortune is often more important for a customer than scoring big gains. But advisors with an impressive amount of assets under management are probably meeting the objectives -- or else clients would be leaving and new ones wouldn't be joining.
This listing differs markedly from the Top 1,000 report we published in February. That list showed the leading advisors in each state; this one identifies the leaders without regard to location. Most work at big brokerage houses, though smaller firms are also represented.
The No. 1 advisor is Gregory Vaughn of Morgan Stanley Private Wealth Management. Working from Menlo Park, Calif., he and his team oversee accounts totaling some $9.7 billion. These aren't just any accounts, either; the average size is $75 million. Vaughn has been finding some opportunities well off the beaten trail; he thinks the Norwegian market offers some great resources plays. Closer to home, he's buying certain types of California municipal bonds, undaunted by the state's fiscal woes.
The top advisors are focused intently on making sense of the big picture -- not only of world events but clients' entire financial positions, from cash needs to philanthropy. But some also take pride in their profession's historical backbone, stock-picking. Deutsche Bank's Bruce Treitman loves to scour for companies with strong balance sheets and histories of dividend hikes.
Like Vaughn, most advisors on our list are looking for smart, safe ways to play the tumult in municipal bonds, long a cornerstone of wealthy investors' portfolios. And, with fears of inflation mounting, the advisors are keeping a close eye on the spectacular run-up in commodities prices (see story "Time for Commodities?").
Mark Curtis, veteran advisor with Morgan Stanley, is in many ways the embodiment of the advisors who made this year's list -- a conservative practitioner with a sophisticated knowledge of how markets work and the vast panoply of investment possibilities to offer.
Curtis joined E.F. Hutton in Palo Alto in 1982. While the name of the firm on his business card has changed repeatedly to reflect Wall Street's successive mergers, he has never thought of leaving his post or even planning for his own retirement. "My father's best year in this business was the year before he died," Curtis points out. "I wanted to do this for all of my life, to follow in his footsteps and be as important to my clients as he was to his. And I want to keep doing it for the rest of my life."
He also takes a long-term view in investing. "It's a mistake to think investment themes change quickly," says Curtis. That's sound advice in a world that seems to be spinning faster with each passing day.
Bruce Treitman was always intrigued by money, but after a stint as an accountant for Coopers & Lybrand right out of college, he realized that burrowing into corporate ledgers wasn't how he wanted to spend the rest of his professional life. "My roommate at the time was a broker, and he seemed to have much more fun, so I ended up going to work at Merrill Lynch," he recalls. "Every day seemed to offer something new and exciting.
Unlike many of his peers, the 52-year-old Treitman maintains a link to those days by managing money himself, rather than turning it over to managers he selects. "Most brokers don't do that any more, but while we might use separate accounts or ETFs, the crown jewel of our group is the money we manage ourselves," he says.
Treitman seeks out companies with impressively strong balance sheets and histories of dividend growth, and then sells call options against them to enhance returns. He has also set up municipal-bond ladders, enabling him to combine the higher returns available from longer-duration securities with the certainty of having money coming due every year. He isn't rattled by the dire predictions of muni-bond bears because he seeks out the safest choices. Example: certain types of school-district bonds, especially in wealthy areas with few home foreclosures. He's so intent on ensuring these holdings stay safe that he pores over the current regulatory filings from each of the 400-plus different bonds in his clients' portfolios.
"I want to help people not blow it," Treitman says. Just as he says he will only buy a municipal bond "if I can't figure out any scenario where it will go bad." He also reminds people of the need for low volatility in other types of investments, even in runaway bull markets.
Today, with the employment picture improving and GDP rising for six straight quarters, there are lots of reasons to be optimistic about the U.S. economy, but Treitman isn't allowing himself to get carried away, just as he didn't during the run-up to the 2008 crash. (In the wake of that, Treitman says, his average client lost only about 15%, compared with market losses of 40% or more.)
"I'm limiting risk by sticking with high-quality risk assets, even if I'm not as worried as some others by things like inflation," he says. Treitman acknowledges the inflationary impact of commodity prices but points out that the economy still has plenty of excess capacity, and housing prices have yet to recover.
"Yes, there's a lot of volatility, and that can arise at anytime so I'm not going to be dogmatic about anything," he says. "As an advisor, my job is to build portfolios that take into account the possibility of both good and bad things happening down the road."
Mark Curtis not only lives in the Silicon Valley house where he grew up, he is following in his father's footsteps as a financial advisor. "Because of the way my father worked with and felt about his clients, he was vital to their lives," he says. "I liked the fact that he was so important to them that they would call at night or come around the house on weekends." So it was an easy decision for Curtis to move into a job with the former E.F. Hutton in Palo Alto after his graduation from Stanford. "The name has changed, but I've never left the firm."
He is similarly straightforward when it comes to helping his own clients manage their assets. He points out that before the market crash, a "pitch book," or report packed full of charts and quantitative analyses, was a common way to convince clients that an advisor was sophisticated and on top of the latest trends in asset management. "Now, in 2011, we earn client trust by simplifying the complicated," the 54-year-old Curtis says. "We put the presentations and pitch books away."
Something else that has changed in recent years: Clients have become more focused on getting a global perspective on the big game-changing trends than they are on the quarterly quantitative perspective. That doesn't mean he can take his focus off what's happening right now; he is currently on the lookout for inflation. "I have had the luxury of never having had to worry about inflation for the nearly 30 years I've been doing this," he explains. Less important than trying to gauge when it might materialize or how bad it will be is to get clients accustomed to the idea that this is indeed a risk. The danger of inflation is one reason he's been allocating part of his clients' money to hard assets–including everything from agricultural products and metals to water and an exchange-traded fund tied to the performance of rare-earth manufacturers. He's not speculating on these, he stresses: "It's much better to be a long-term investor."
"The best way to make money is not to lose it in the first place." That's the lesson Bill Greco learned in his first year out of college, working for a private money manager responsible for investing millions of dollars of pension-fund assets. Even though Greco stayed there only a year or so before moving on to work with retail investors -- first at E.F. Hutton, and later at Paine Webber and UBS -- those words remain at the heart of his approach to his business.
"My clients have become wealthier over time, and I've added a lot of experience, of course," the 47-year-old advisor says. "But I've remained a believer in finding holistic solutions for my clients as well as in convincing them that the way to deal with risk is to understand it and not run away from it."
That, Greco says, can be a challenge in the wake of the 2008 market crisis. Many investors remain wary and fearful of future upheavals, and Greco spends a significant part of his time helping them grasp the nature of risk and understand how much of it to take. In some cases, ultra-rich clients can avoid taking on much risk because their wealth has reached a level that doesn't require it. They can afford to stay in assets like stable blue-chip stocks and strong bond funds.
But even when a client's needs and objectives dictate risk-taking, Greco is quick to point out that they don't need obscure and incomprehensible products. "People complicated the process too much in the late 1990s and into the last decade," he says. "Increasing returns and yields doesn't mean having to venture into the realm of the esoteric."
These days some high-yielding securities can look deceptively straightforward; the trick becomes figuring out what risks may lie hidden in the simplest of structures. "For a while, people thought munis were more plain vanilla than they were," he says. "Nowadays, if you own a high-yielding muni fund, you need to be sure you understand why that is -- whether the fund has a longer duration than its peers or that it is moving further down in quality to pick up yield."
Greco's client base is made up of business executives and business owners, many of whom may have a significant portion of their net worth tied up in their company or their company's stock. To help curb what he describes as a casino mentality that still dominates the financial markets, Greco tries to get investors to think about their portfolios the same way that they might view their own business -- not focusing on quarterly swings, but on the long-term trajectory.
His own role within his 16-person team is as a stock-investing specialist. While he is intrigued by the growth potential of emerging- markets equities, he is also acutely aware of the risk they can add to a portfolio, so he's approaching them warily. "Some of my international clientele who work and live in these environments are more concerned about the return of their capital than the return on it," Greco says.
Back in 1979, when Robert Waldele finally convinced Merrill Lynch to hire him in the firm's fixed-income marketing division, the job was to sell clients a product. Now, as head of a six-person team within the same firm's advisory business, he is marketing his services as a solution-provider to corporate executives, professional athletes, hedge-fund managers and other wealthy individuals who make up his client base. "These days we have to have trust, service, solutions and performance all in place, day in and day out," the 54-year-old Waldele says. "I tell my clients I want to know them better–financially speaking–than they know themselves."
He wants to win his clients' first phone call whenever they have a question about finances, and that requires doing all kinds of things that weren't part of his practice even a decade ago. "If I want to win that phone call, I need to be able to work with all the other members of their team on questions about insurance, trusts and estate plans," he adds. He also makes a point of building a rapport with the children of his clients.
But the main way Waldele wins the loyalty of his clients and their heirs is through investment performance. For instance, while other investors may shun municipal bonds after hearing the warnings of Meredith Whitney and other high-profile bears, Waldele doesn't rule them out altogether. "Not every muni bond was really a triple-A five years ago; they just looked that way because of the muni-bond insurance," he points out.
In addition to investments such as munis and stocks of companies that have a history of raising their dividend payout at regular intervals, Waldele is steering clients into some more-offbeat investments, such as private-equity investments in funds offered by Blackstone and Carlyle, as well as a Lone Star Funds investment vehicle specializing in commercial mortgages. "A typical client might have 5% of his assets in an alternative portfolio that includes funds like these," Waldele says.
"At the end of the day," he says, "if I don't bring in performance numbers at a level that matches whatever the market is offering, based upon the risk being taken, then I'm not doing my job. I haven't earned that trust and that first call on their next financial decision."
When Brian Ward was pondering a career, he went about the process methodically. "I wanted something that could grow, that would scale. I also knew I didn't want to get trapped in a bureaucracy but to work in a meritocracy that combined an entrepreneurial dimension with the ability to draw on the resources of a bigger firm," he explains. Puzzling his way through this led him to the investment business, where he saw no limit to the creativity he could deploy on behalf of his clients.
The changes he has seen in his chosen career since he joined the now-defunct Kidder Peabody nearly two decades ago have only strengthened his conviction that he made the right call. "Back then, people had a collection of investments scattered among different advisors, rather than a portfolio that would act as a whole to get them where they want to be," Ward says. Now, managing the portfolio is what his business is about, and clients are looking for advisors who make the whole process feel smooth and straightforward.
"If all I am doing is pitching a stock or shaving a few points off a mortgage, I'm not doing justice to a client's needs," he says. "My clients need me to tell them if they're on track or not -- and if not, to come up with solutions to get them moving in the right direction again."
Ward, 42, argues that this kind of service approach can even trump investment returns in importance to clients. "You can't control what the markets do; you can control the service you provide to your clients," he says. That means having direct conversations about the market environment and the level of risk, as well as seeking out protection from those risks. During the recent crisis, Ward says, his clients fared comparatively well thanks to a decision to hedge exposure to the markets. "We were blessed by being early to the alternatives-strategy game; we weren't just long the index."
Still, he says, it hasn't become any easier to convince a client to think like a contrarian. "Stocks are the only things most Americans don't want to buy on sale," he says. "They'll drive 15 miles to save on toilet paper, but assume that a market price is always the correct valuation." By contrast he's been scouring the landscape for discounted, value-priced securities and finding them in industrial and materials stocks.
Still, Ward insists that the way any financial advisor can add true value to a client's portfolio is by making the right calls when it comes to the big picture. He doesn't want to get distracted by such chatter as how gold is doing today. "Avoiding big drawdowns or losses is just as important or more important than deciding whether or not to make a 5% bet on crude oil," he says.
That means anything from getting a client's estate plan sorted out to minimizing the number of "what if?" scenarios that need to be borne in mind with investments. "That's what makes a real, material difference to their lives," Ward says.
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Just like you and me, our paintball markers need air to live -- and by live, we mean shoot tons of faces and help you capture the flag. Even pump paintball guns and pistols need air, usually in the form of little CO2 capsules affectionately known as 12-grams. Whether you need a monster tank or enough 12-grams to last the season, we've got the air tank you need to play the game you love.
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Both OU basketball programs also now boast new offices, plush locker rooms, theater-style film rooms, a state-of-the-art training room, a spa/sauna room and a full-sized weight room.
With the project, the OU athletics department has become a national leader in creating equal and outstanding facilities for both its men's and women's basketball programs.
The addition of the practice facilities and the new and upgraded team and coaching facilities have already had a tremendous impact on the success of both programs, particularly in the areas of recruiting top players and providing unparalleled facilities for training. Proof positive is the pair of Final Four trips the OU men's and women's teams made in 2001-02, the new facility's first year of existence.
"We are very proud to be the home of world class facilities for both men's and women's basketball," President David L. Boren said. "Thanks to the generosity of Sooner fans and alumni, our facilities are second to none in the United States."
ESPN college basketball analyst Jay Bilas echoed, "Oklahoma's basketball facilities are magnificent -- second to none. Everything is top of the line and very well conceived. These facilities communicate the same message the Sooners do through their play -- a commitment to pursuing excellence."
Film Rooms
The state-of-the-art team film rooms are used on a daily basis during the season. The rooms seat 40-plus and feature the most recent projection technology.
Weight & Training Rooms
The Lloyd Noble Center houses weight and training rooms specifically for basketball. The programs can complete all basketball-related activities at one location.
Sports Medicine Center
The Fred and Mary Eddy Jones Foundation Sports Medicine Center is located in the Lloyd Noble Center. The facility is fully equipped with state-of-the-art modalities, hydrocollators, sunken whirlpools, stationary bikes, elliptical machines and a full complement of rehabilitation equipment. The training room also has a stocked and functioning physician's office with x-ray capabilities.
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posted at 9:01 pm on April 21, 2012 by Allahpundit
"Whitmire is an angry man. He is among a group of voters most skeptical of President Obama: noncollege-educated white males. He feels betrayed — not just by Obama, who won his vote in 2008, but by the institutions that were supposed to protect him: his state, which laid off his wife; his government in Washington, which couldn't rescue homeowners who had played by the rules; his bank, which failed to walk him through the correct paperwork or warn him about a potential mortgage hike; his city, which penalized him for somebody else's error; and even his employer, a construction company he likes even though he got laid off. 'I was middle class for 10 years, but it's done,' Whitmire says. 'I've lost my home. I live in a trailer now because of a mortgage company and an incompetent government.'
"Whitmire is a story of Muncie, and Muncie is the story of America. In this place—dubbed 'Middletown' by early 20th-century sociologists—people have lost faith in their institutions. Government, politics, corporations, the media, organized religion, organized labor, banks, businesses, and other mainstays of a healthy society are failing. It's not just that the institutions are corrupt or broken; those clichés oversimplify an existential problem: With few notable exceptions, the nation's onetime social pillars are ill-equipped for the 21st century. Most critically, they are failing to adapt quickly enough for a population buffeted by wrenching economic, technological, and demographic change…
"When people trust their institutions, they're better able to solve common problems. Research shows that school principals are much more likely to turn around struggling schools in places where people have a history of working together and getting involved in their children's education. Communities bonded by friendships formed at church are more likely to vote, volunteer, and perform everyday good deeds like helping someone find a job. And governments find it easier to persuade the public to make sacrifices for the common good when people trust that their political leaders have the community's best interests at heart. 'Institutions — even dysfunctional ones — are why we don't run amok in the woods,' Hansen says."
"People in politics talk about the right track/wrong track numbers as an indicator of public mood. This week Gallup had a poll showing only 24% of Americans feel we're on the right track as a nation. That's a historic low. Political professionals tend, understandably, to think it's all about the economy — unemployment, foreclosures, we're going in the wrong direction. I've long thought that public dissatisfaction is about more than the economy, that it's also about our culture, or rather the flat, brute, highly sexualized thing we call our culture.
"Now I'd go a step beyond that. I think more and more people are worried about the American character — who we are and what kind of adults we are raising.
"Every story that has broken through the past few weeks has been about who we are as a people. And they are all disturbing…
"The leveling or deterioration of public behavior has got to be worrying people who have enough years on them to judge with some perspective.
"Something seems to be going terribly wrong."
"[S]omething fundamental seems to have changed in the political marketplace. The winning strategy is no longer to be more moderate than your opponent, to offer a bigger tent. Instead, it is to be more zealous and committed to your party's ideology…
"The irony is that the politicians who prevail in these gladiator contests inherit a system so bitter, so partisan and so ideologically polarized that they can't accomplish anything. They know that they and their constituents would be better off if they cooperated and compromised more, but they just can't. If they try, they face a serious risk of being run out of office, either in the next primary by someone who better appeals to the party's political base, or in the general election by an opponent whose extremism has allowed him or her to energize the other side's core voters.
"Politics has become a tragedy — a tragedy of the commons, that is. The individual pursuit of rational self-interest by parties and politicians, which in political and economic theory is supposed to generate the best outcome, has instead led to a cycle in which extremism, partisanship and stalemate all beget more of the same. We keep thinking it can't continue like this, but it only gets worse…
"Arms races, free riding, tragedies of the commons — these failures in economic markets are well understood. The solutions usually involve some form of government action or regulation. But when similar failures occur in political markets, there are no institutions capable of stepping in and forcing the necessary collaboration or collective action."
"'There is a crisis of authority, and we're not prepared to think about it in these terms,' said Fukuyama. 'When Americans think about the problem of government, it is always about constraining the government and limiting its scope.' That dates back to our founding political culture. The rule of law, regular democratic rotations in power and human rights protections were all put in place to create obstacles to overbearing, overly centralized government. 'But we forget,' Fukuyama added, 'that government was also created to act and make decisions.'…
"Indeed, America today increasingly looks like the society that the political scientist Mancur Olson wrote about in his 1982 classic 'The Rise and Decline of Nations.' He warned that when a country amasses too many highly focused special-interest lobbies — which have an inherent advantage over the broad majority, which is fixated on the well-being of the country as a whole — they can, like a multilimbed octopus, choke the life out of a political system, unless the majority truly mobilizes against them.
"To put it another way, says Fukuyama, America's collection of minority special-interest groups is now bigger, more mobilized and richer than ever, while all the mechanisms to enforce the will of the majority are weaker than ever. The effect of this is either legislative paralysis or suboptimal, Rube Goldberg-esque, patched-together-compromises, often made in response to crises with no due diligence. That is our vetocracy."
"There is a certain malaise lingering in the air, and I can think of at least two possible contributing factors.
"On one hand (and liberals are sure to agree here) there is a downside to 'creative destruction.' It is good, of course, that the automobile replaced the horse and buggy, but surely some Americans were hurt in the process. To be sure, it would have been silly for the nation not to adapt to modern technology, but that doesn't mean some people weren't left behind. Times of economic change and technological advancement are sure to create stress and dislocation. That's part of what we're going through today…
"As you might have guessed, I'm arguing that there is a politically underrepresented 'populist' constituency in America. Demographically, they are noncollege-educated whites. Philosophically, they are generally Christian conservatives who are also skeptical of big business. They are pro-gun and pro-union. They are pro-life and pro-tariff. They believe in God and government…
"So far, this group has not equaled electoral success. That might change, though, if times get even tougher."
Via Gallup.
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Neighborhood on the Far South Side of Chicago infested with white trash. There's a high prevalence of city workers here - mostly cops and firefighters. Mainly middle class. Full of obnoxious teenagers whose activities include drinking in the park, hanging out in the park, vandalizing, throwing snowballs and hiding (like pussies), smoking, drinking in the streets, walking around in herds, drinking in their parents garage, drinking, being racist, beating up mentally disabled kids, beating up black kids, grouping together to fight one kid, drinking, and essentially just acting like a bunch of dickweeds. Chicks sometimes typpp lkkk diss;; and are predominantly skanks. Like people from Oak Lawn, Evergreen Park, Beverly, and etc, they think that people genuinely give a shit about what neighborhood you live in. No, you are not hard because you are MTG BORN N RAISED. You are not hard because 10 of you beat up one kid. You are not hard because you have MTG REPRESENT - NO NIGGERS on your myspace. In fact, you have probably been an ignorant douchepacker since your daddy forgot to pull out.
Can't wait to move out of here.
Can't wait to move out of here.
*group of hard ass Mount Greenwood kids*
one kid: HOLY SHIT FUCK FUCK IT'S A NIGGER
the rest: OH FUCK YES LET'S ALL FUCKING GANG UP ON THE FUCKING NIGGER COS IT TAKES A MOB OF US TO BEAT ON ONE FUCKING PERSON FUCK
one kid: HOLY SHIT FUCK FUCK IT'S A NIGGER
the rest: OH FUCK YES LET'S ALL FUCKING GANG UP ON THE FUCKING NIGGER COS IT TAKES A MOB OF US TO BEAT ON ONE FUCKING PERSON FUCK
by angryoldman January 14, 2010
A town in chicago that is full of hillbillys who live in trailers. They have many town bumbs, one of whichs name is Fred Morris who is a sex offeder. One of the main places to chill at is the "Agg Hill" it is a pretty fun place. Mount Greenwood people have fun dipping, hanging out in alleys, and getting wasted. Last year at the Agg Hill there was an event known as the "black attack" where a girl called black people who live in the projects on us to beat the shit out of us. Some of us fought back and some got held up. They ran away. Everyone called the cops while others called older brothers and older reletives to brawl them. It became the summer of 07's biggest event. The best eating place is Bennys Pizza but the hillbillys changed it to Wiseguys and it now sucks.
I partied in Mount Greenwood yesturday and it was gnarly becasue we got crunk,rocked out and fought the black kids.
by Seany O'brien June 28, 2008
A racist neighborhood in Chicago's southside. They hate on blacks because those Mountgreenwood hoes suck toes. They racist cuz they not use to being in schools with blacks. So they feel shity and act racist. They get mad cuz they have no color.
Mount Greenwood=====Cracker,Red Necks, Poor White Trash
by discrazy May 10, 2011
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A place where only self centered boys hang out. The kids who go to schools in it think they rule the place.If they really did then how come they always hang with the girls from other schools. The reason they dont hang with other boys is because they have a ruler.
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text: The fact of the matter is we relax at home and we will play harder on the road, and I can almost guransheed a win out of the 2 games in Cleveland. Predictable Pistons will come home and game 5 will be a toss-up. We all know this team is mega-talented when are they gonna realize it themselves and attain their rightful spot as the greatest team in the past 5 years. That's the only reason I get so down on this team at times because I can see our potential as a truly dominant team when we want to be. Like I stated in chat 2-0 is 2-0, whether down to the wire or by blowout. 10-2 in the playoffs looking for win 11. Lets get r done.


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Having captured killing on tape, cameraman fears for his life
Abdul Salam Somroo is in danger. He is the Awaz TV cameraman who took the June 9 video footage of the pointblank murder of a young man, Sarfaraz Shah, in southern Karachi. That's the same part of the city where militants beheaded American Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl in 2002. Only when Somroo got back to the offices of the Sindhi-language TV station and played back his full tape did he realize he had the most explosive footage he had ever recorded. Explosive, and dangerous.


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But to your real point - I don't think discussing Kwan, Sasha, Irina, etc. undermines any other skater - it just adds flavor and historical context to the conversation. I will always love Kwan best, because I'm an uber fan - but that doesn't or shouldn't take away from the current generation.
Us ol' school fans had to live through "yeah, she's talented, but she can't jump Midori" or "yeah, she's talented but she can't compete like Katt." Figure skating is a sport of passion - passion of the skaters and passion of the fans - with a long and rich history of outstanding achievement by a select few. And those select few have their fans and their detractors. So what? It doesn't diminish the accomplishments of Michelle's 9-time US championships or 5 world championships to say that Janet Lynn was the greatest of all time.
And you mark my words - if you stay engaged for another 10 years, you too will get caught up in a conversation about how "yeah, she can spin but she doesn't have the talent of Yuna! Now there's a skater's skater!!"
Until then, just enjoy the conversation and share your opinions and passion while we all Monday Morning Quarterback the athelets we love!
Last edited by Kwanford Wife; 10-19-2009 at 04:53 PM.
If anyone expected every person that watched her (or any skater's) new free FOR THE FIRST TIME to make immediate connections and gain understanding of the music and her intentions and etc, he/she shouldn't have.
Like you said, she tried something different she'd never done before, so it will take time for me and some others to get used to it as well.
My earlier comment that the other poster quoted (stopping short of accusing me of expecting a striptease or something ) just prior to this conversation was part of a longer post where I thanked one of our very knowledgeable posters who had explained how intricate and difficult all Yuna's elements were presented in her long program, which helped me understand what I should look for when watching it next time.
I'm a bit tired that all this "overscoring" issue is still here. If you have any clear evidence that she was overscored, just show it. But you won't find it, because it doesn't exist. She skated better than at Worlds and received 3 additional points to her score. Nothing more.
Actually she was surprised that she got so high score.
Blades of Passion
I think you're exaggerating here. It's not like she sells it, she's just amazingly beautiful and the last season she was sexy as well.Sex sells...and Yu-Na is selling it. She is presenting herself as a desirable, artistic, powerful young woman. That is what everyone wants to see in the Olympic Champion.
I find all this talk of people wanting Yu-Na to retire to give others a chance actually pretty funny. It wasn't all that long ago people were saying the same things about Michelle.
The more skating changes, the more it stays the same...
If you're tired of reading posts complaining about skaters being overscored now, then you're in for a long season here at GS or FSU or any figure skating message board out there. It's called the sport of Figure Skating under COP and it's going to happen again and again and again and again this season.
I'd also like to throw in there that Kim has only won one world title... she might want more. Its shocking to me how everyone forgets the one true-ism of skating - success cannot be assumed. success must be earned on the ice.
Two years ago, everyone needed to fear Mighty Mao! Four years ago, Irina should just be mailed her OGM and save everyone the trouble. Eight years ago, Sarah Hughes would be very successful if she finished fifth. It goes on and on...
And that's why we play the game.
Bond girls are pure sex. That is their only purpose and that is the SP she has chosen. She is CLEARLY trying to portray such a thing.
That aside, the idea of desirability is always a factor. If you know nothing at all about someone, but they appeal to you visually, then that is automatically going to be a plus. Even when Yu-Na isn't specifically trying to have sexy choreography, it comes across. That is part of why she receives the scores she does. She presents herself in a more appealing manner than any other female skater out there right now. People want her, or want to be her. This is the definition of "star quality".
Also, she didn't skate better at TEB than she did at Worlds? Her programs at Worlds were more refined. Yu-Na receives too much +GOE for her spins and her PCS are also too high (although, at the moment, she certainly deserves the highest PCS of any lady). She gets marks that represent masterpiece performances, when she is simply skating very good rather than OMG BEST PROGRAM EVER!!
Blades of Passion
I wouldn't look so deep in this. It's just a skating program.
In my opinion, she skated her LP better at TEB. And SP was of the same quality.Also, she didn't skate better at TEB than she did at Worlds?
Last edited by Daniel5555; 10-19-2009 at 07:03 PM.
I agree with the GOEs on the spins (she only got one Lv4 for her LP spins, as I recall) and I've never been blown away by her spirals, and no, she's not perfect, but I also think she gets more schtick than she deserves.
Where's your sense of humor?
I'm sure you would feel awkward if someone asked you, "How were you able to fit into Lambiel's suitcase?"
What I meant was, even the most casual skating fan, someone who watched figure skating for the first time in his/her life, after Yu-na's LP, could not have looked around the room and said "...so that's it?", unless he/she was expecting some kind of nudity.
Cuz it was pretty, if not beautiful, for any set of eyes.
Since when did a "storyline" become a necessity for a good skating performance, really.
Last edited by silverlining; 10-19-2009 at 07:26 PM.
So, do these threads always get this interesting?
Tigger, you are being overly sensitive and taking a fairly mild, general comment personally. Many of us are visually challenged, including me. Since you are calling me "arrogant" and offensive" you are personally attacking me. But here's the reality, I don't care what you think.
Daniel, I understand your points and they were nicely stated. Yu Na Kim is a brilliant skater. So is Mao Asada. Miki, Yukari and Joanne are also very fine skaters. I appreciate them for what/who they are. But I see a decline in the programs across the board. Yes, they are loaded with difficulty. But because the coaches and skaters are trying to pack difficulty into the program, they are sacrificing the overall beauty and choregraphy that used to make them works of art. During the golden epoque of Michelle, skating was an art form as well as a sport. Since then, it has become a checklist of "to do items." All the programs have a definite sameness about them. Michelle, herself, was doing some of that towards the end of her career. But the vast majority of her career and Sasha's and Irina's was spent putting unique and new competitive programs before the public. it was always exciting to see what they would come up with.
I also think Yu Na's scores are inflated. Her spins are o.k but not great. her spirals o.k. but I have seen better. Her layback not so good. Her jumps ARE textbook. I think Mao and Yu Na should be closer score wise. In the old days, this would have been the case. You need a road map to navigate the scoring system and if you are a casual viewer, it is impossible. Scores SHOULD NOT HAVE TO BE EXPLAINED AND DISSECTED. That says it all.
As someone who has watched skating for a very long time, I see changes that worry me. I see a day when it will not be watched in the U.S. if this continues. Since I live in the U.S. and I have always loved skating, this is somewhat troubling to me. It may go the way of women's soccer and that would be a sad day indeed. Soccer is the number 1 sport in Europe, but not so here. I don't want that to happen to skating.


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A system that includes the variable of local climate provides a fairer measure of carbon dioxide emissions
Michael Sivak, Brandon Schoettle
To attain a measure of emissions that incorporates climate, we used three variables for each of 157 countries: carbon dioxide emissions per capita, GDP per capita (adjusted for differences in purchasing power between countries) and a population-weighted average of the total heating and cooling degree days. For the first two variables, we used data from 2008; the third is based on average annual heating and cooling degree days calculated for various recent time periods. These variables allowed us to calculate rankings of carbon dioxide emissions based on three measures: per capita; per capita and GDP; and per capita, GDP, and heating and cooling degree day.
The 15 lowest and highest emitters on each measure are shown in the figure at right. Using emissions per capita, GDP, and heating and cooling degree day, the 10 lowest emitters (in ascending order) are Chad, Afghanistan, Mali, Niger, Burkina Faso, Burundi, the Central African Republic, Kiribati, Sweden and Iceland. Six of these countries are in Africa, two in Europe and one each in Asia and Oceania. The 10 biggest emitters (in descending order) are South Africa, Uzbekistan, the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, Turkmenistan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Iraq, Australia, Syria, Jordan and Kazakhstan. Six of these countries are in Asia, and one each is in Africa, the Caribbean, Europe and Oceania.
Taking climate into account improves emissions rankings for countries with relatively high heating and cooling degree days. For example, the United States moves from the 110th spot (when only population size and economic output are included) to the 100th spot (when climate demands are considered as well); the United Kingdom moves from 63 to 58, Germany from 75 to 55, Sweden from 27 to 9, China from 149 to 147 and India from 125 to 116. But not everyone comes out for the better under the new approach. Countries with relatively low heating and cooling degree days get a less favorable ranking when climate is added into the equation. Among the countries with a substantial worsening are Australia (which goes from 126 to 151), Brazil (52 to 75), Israel (48 to 76) and Mexico (93 to 117). Changes in ranking for the seven countries with the largest improvement in ranking, the seven with the largest worsening, and seven additional countries of general interest are shown in the figure at left.
Comparing different countries' respective emissions yields intriguing differences. South Africa (the highest emitter) produces about 61 times more emissions per capita, GDP, and heating and cooling degree day than does Chad (the lowest emitter). This range is comparable to the range of emissions per capita and GDP: Using the latter measure, the highest emitter, Uzbekistan, produces 55 times more emissions than does the lowest emitter, Afghanistan. Both of these ranges are substantially smaller than the range considering population alone: The highest emitter, Qatar, produces 2,397 times more emissions per capita than does the lowest emitter, Burundi.
Our results suggest that taking climate into account makes a significant difference in how countries fare in carbon dioxide emissions rankings. Because people respond to the climate they live in by heating and cooling indoor spaces, an index that incorporates climate provides a fairer yardstick than an index that does not. We hope that our approach will stimulate others to further refine this index to reflect even better the complexities involved in ranking countries on emissions.
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