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Even God Would Get Fired as an Active Investor
Empirical asset pricing research can sometimes get monotonous because you end up circling back relentlessly to the same conclusions: value works, momentum works, and yet, markets are remarkably efficient. But, sometimes, research uncovers absolutely stunning and counter-intuitive results–and this is where things get truly exciting. The study below is what we consider "exciting" research because the results are so profound (at least to us).
Our bottom line result is that perfect foresight has great returns, but gut-wrenching drawdowns. In other words, an active manager who was clairvoyant, and knew ahead of time exactly which stocks were going to be long-term winners and long-term losers, would likely get fired many times over if they were managing other people's money.
Question: if God is omnipotent, could he create a hedge fund that was so good that he could never get fired? No. It turns out even God would most likely get fired as an active investor.
Strategy Background
We compute the 5-year "look ahead" return for all common stocks for the 500 largest NYSE/NASDAQ/AMEX firms. For simplicity, we eliminate any firms that do not have returns for a full 60 months. We look at gross returns and all returns are total returns including dividends. Next we create decile portfolios based on the forward five-year compound annual growth rate (CAGR).
We rebalance the portfolio on July 1st every fifth year. The first portfolio formation is July 1, 1926 and is held until June 30, 1931. The second portfolio is formed on July 1, 1931 and held until June 30, 1936. This pattern repeats every fifth year. To be clear, we know with 100% certainty the performance of the top 500 stocks over the next 5 years.
We are explicitly engaging in look-ahead bias.
Returns are analyzed from 1/1/1927 to 12/31/2009. Portfolios are value-weighted returns for month t are weighted using the market capitalization at the end of month t-1. All returns are gross of transaction costs, taxes, and fees.
Decile Portfolios
We first look at the decile portfolios rebalanced every 5 years. These portfolios highlight what perfect foresight can achieve. The Decile 10 portfolios represent value-weighted portfolios sorted on future top 5-year performers and the Decile 1 represent value-weighted portfolios sorted on future bottom 5-year performers. The compound annual growth rates for the 10 decile look-ahead portfolios are mapped below:
As expected, a portfolio formed on the names that have the best 5 -year performance, have the best 5-year performance. Duh. But the details are interesting…
Summary Statistics
Here we investigate some statistics and charts on the performance of the 5-year look ahead portfolio.
First, the raw summary statistics (labeling Decile 10 above as High MOM VW):
The 29% CAGR is obviously awesome for the look-ahead portfolio. Expected.
But how about the drawdown associated with a perfect foresight portfolio? Can't be that bad if you know the future, right?
Wrong! The worst drawdown for the look-ahead portfolio is devastating: -76%! (Aug 1929 to May 1932). But the pain doesn't end there…here is a table of the top 10 drawdowns:
Clearly, even a "perfect" long portfolio can cause a long-only investor pain.
How About We Create the Ultimate Hedge Fund?
In the analysis above we highlight that the perfect long portfolio still can create massive pain. But perhaps we can create the ultimate hedge fund portfolio: 1) long the names we know will perform the best over the next 5 years and 2) short the portfolio of names that we know will perform the worst over the next 5 years. Surely, this would be a god-like hedge fund?
The long/short portfolio is constructed as follows:
- Fully funded long book and a short book that earns the risk-free rate on short proceeds.
- The long/short weights are rebalanced monthly.
The following portfolios are examined:
- 5 Year High MOM VW L/S = Long 5-Year winners; short 5-year losers
- SP500 = S&P 500 Total Return
Summary Statistics
Here are the high-level stats:
Yowza! Clearly, the ultimate hedge fund does amazingly well — 49% CAGRs would have you owning the world's stock market in short order. Obviously, this sort of return is not possible over a long period — even if someone had perfect "Biff-like" foresight.
Yet check out the worst drawdown on the PERFECT hedge fund — 60%+. Incredible. And it gets better…
Here are the top 10 drawdowns for the ultimate hedge fund and the associated returns on the stock market:
Let those numbers soak in a bit.
What the chart highlights is that even GOD HIMSELF would get fired multiple times over. The performance on the perfect hedge fund would get crushed many times over by the passive index.
These results highlight the fickle nature of assessing relative performance over short horizons. We've shown this quantitatively, but Ben Carlson talks about the challenge of short horizon thinking here, and Meb Faber recently highlighted that investors are terrible at timing active investments.
- Keynes was right: Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent
- Active investors MUST have a long-horizon…and few investors actually have horizon.
Good luck out there…
h.t., Arturo B. . An old Chicago PhD (1980) we met at the Nantucket Project, who suggested we explore this research question…
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It has just been brought to my attention from a recruiting company I have been working with, Hudson Recruiting, that someone in the HR Dept. has been giving false information concerning my "non-existant" employment interviews with Bisk. My resume was submitted to Bisk for an Online Marketing position you have open several days ago. When I followed up with Hudon, they were told by "Sheila" in HR that they already had a phone interview, and an on-site in person interview with them, and they had decided to pass on me, no reason given.
I have NEVER spoken with anyone at any point from Bisk concerning employment, or any other reason for that matter, and have certainly NEVER had a personal interview with anyone there. I have never even been anywhere near the Bisk campus!
I informed Hudson Recruiting yesterday of my complete lack of any contact with them, and they followed up today with "Sheila" at Bisk for clarification on this matter. "Sheila" once again refused to provide any feedback concerning my information, and simply stated again that they were "passing" on this matter, and hung up.
Well, despite "Sheila's" position, I am NOT passing on this matter. This is a blatant case of defamation of character, providing false information (we used to call it "lying"), as well as other invasion of privacy, identity theft and numerous other violations I'm sure any good attorney could provide.
I demand an immediate explanation as to who has been defaming me, and for what reason, as I asure you I will take all legal recourse available to me, both private and public, and all concerned parties at Bisk will be contacted concerning this matter as well. This illegal behavior will not be allowed to be swept under the rug by "Sheila", or anyone else at Bisk. I'm quite sure Mr. Bisk himself will be appalled at this unacceptable situation generated by a (until now) respected institution of higher learning.
Should I not receive an immediate, detailed response to this matter, ALL concerned parties will be notified concerning the lack of co-operation from Bisk employees, concerning very serious privacy matters.
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- 1/3 cup all-purpose flour seasoned with salt and cayenne
- 1 tablespoon vegetable oil
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- 2 tablespoons cider vinegar
- 1/2 teaspoon chili powder
- cayenne to taste
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- 1 tablespoon chopped dry-roasted peanuts
- 1 tablespoon minced fresh coriander
- Dredge the cutlets in the flour mixture, shaking off the excess, in a heavy skillet (preferably cast-iron) heat the oil over moderately high heat until it is hot but not smoking, and in it sauté the cutlets for 1 to 2 minutes on each side, or until they are golden brown on the edges and cooked through. Transfer 2 cutlets to each of 2 plates and keep them warm. To the skillet add the broth, the vinegar, the chili powder, the cayenne, and salt to taste, deglaze the skillet over moderately high heat, scraping up the brown bits, and stir in the tomatoes, the scallions, and the jalapeño. Cook the sauce until it is thickened, pour it over the cutlets, and sprinkle the cutlets with the peanuts and the coriander.__
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- Fat82 g(126%)
- Protein222 g(443%)
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UBS Banker May Plead Guilty in Tax Case
A former senior private banker at Swiss bank UBS (UBS), who is accused of helping wealthy clients evade U.S. taxes, is expected to plead guilty, according to a document filed on May 29 in U.S. District Court in Florida.
Bradley Birkenfeld's indictment earlier this month, along with an alleged co-conspirator, Mario Staggl, a specialist in trusts who is believed to be in Liechtenstein, has been widely viewed as part of a widening investigation by U.S. authorities into practices and other personnel at UBS (BusinessWeek.com, 5/23/08).
Birkenfeld is expected to enter his plea on June 9 before District Judge William Zloch in Fort Lauderdale. "Please advise your client Judge Zloch will ask for a full confession," states a notice of a change of plea attached to Birkenfeld's case file on May 29. A defendant is not considered guilty until a judge accepts a plea. Birkenfeld's lawyer, Peter Raben, who is on a cruise, could not be reached for comment.
Washington insiders and close observers of the U.S. Internal Revenue Service's enforcement activities, such as tax lawyers whose wealthy clients park and shuffle assets in offshore accounts, anticipate a broader crackdown on people who believe they can stash money overseas, away from U.S. tax collectors.
A Birkenfeld friend and current investment partner, David Schwedel, also could not be reached, though he has told BusinessWeek he believes prosecutors misjudged his friend. He says the indictment was only a first step and indicated that other UBS heads may roll. "This is not an isolated incident," says Schwedel, a Florida entrepreneur. "He won't be the last banker called in for questioning. There will be a lot of bankers called into this. They're going after others at UBS and any U.S. individuals involved with the bank."
Clouds on the Horizon
Among the world's biggest money managers for the rich, UBS stopped offering private banking to wealthy U.S. clients in January, and a number of private bankers have left the institution looking for other jobs. More recently, the bank reportedly offered some of them lawyers and urged them to avoid traveling to the U.S., an indication perhaps of concern that they could be detained.
In April authorities detained as a "material witness" a UBS chief of private banking, Martin Liechti—Birkenfeld's former boss. Even more troubling for customers, perhaps, is an anticipated expansive subpoena seeking information on other clients of Birkenfeld, Staggl, and UBS.
These have been tough times for UBS, which lost—and wrote down—$37 billion as a result of the subprime mortgage crisis. No other bank is believed to have been so severely affected. First-quarter losses: around €7 billion ($11 billion).
A $200 Million Tax Haven
Bank executives appear eager to move forward. "I definitely think the worst is behind us," CEO Marcel Rohner told the Swiss newspaper Le Temps on May 29, according to a report by Agence France-Presse. "There will certainly be plenty of things for banks to clear up over the next two years but as far as systemic risks are concerned, we've got over the hardest part." Rohner also told the newspaper that he blamed UBS's "imitation strategy" of trying to "catch up with our competitors in fixed income operations."
Rohner, in the Le Temps interview, noted that "we mentioned the American investigation in our quarterly report but we're not going to make another comment on the subject."
A wealthy client of Birkenfeld, Igor Olenicoff, has pleaded guilty to filing false tax returns and agreed to pay $52 million in back taxes. Both Olenicoff and Birkenfeld, the son of a brain surgeon who was born in Boston and lives in Switzerland, are believed to be cooperating in a continuing investigation. The case began with the discovery of $200 million allegedly concealed in European tax havens on behalf of Olenicoff, a Russian émigré-turned-California real estate developer.


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Untertitel: The Expert's Guide to the Best Resume for Today's Job Market. illustrations. Sprache: Englisch.
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|Tokyo Psycho
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|Directed by
|Ataru Oikawa
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|Shinsuke Yamazaki
|Written by
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Yumeaki Hirayama
Ataru Oikawa
Noriko Tanimura
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|September 11, 2004
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Tokyo Psycho (東京伝説 蠢く街の狂気 Tokyo Densetsu: Ugomeku Machi no Kyoki) is a 2000 Japanese film based on a Yumeaki Hirayama short story and directed by Ataru Oikawa.
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Doctor Spectrum
|Doctor Spectrum
|Publication information
|Marvel Comics
|First appearance
Avengers #69 (Nov. 1969)
Avengers #85 (Feb. 1971)
|Created by
|Roy Thomas (Writer)
John Buscema (Artist)
|In-story information
|Team affiliations
|Squadron Sinister
Squadron Supreme (Earth-712)
Squadron Supreme (Earth-31916)
|Via Power Prism:
Energy projection and manipulation
Ability to survive in space
|Marvel Comics Alternate Universes
|Marvel stories take place primarily in a mainstream continuity called the Marvel Universe. Some stories are set in various parallel, or alternate, realities, called the Marvel Multiverse.
|The Official Handbook to the Marvel Universe: Alternate Worlds 2005 designates the mainstream continuity as "Earth-616", and assigns other Earth numbers to each specific alternate reality.
|In this article the following characters, or teams, and realities are referred to:
|Kenji Obatu
|Billy Roberts
|Alice Nugent
|Joseph Ledger
|Joseph Ledger
Doctor Spectrum is the name of several fictional characters that appear in publications published by Marvel Comics. There have been five versions of the character to date - three supervillains from the mainstream Marvel Universe belonging to the team Squadron Sinister (Earth-616) and two heroes from different alternate universes. The two heroes each belong to a version of the team Squadron Supreme, the Squadron Supreme of Earth-712 and the Squadron Supreme of Earth-31916 respectively).
- 1 Publication history
- 2 Powers and abilities
- 3 In other media
- 4 References
- 5 External links
Publication history[edit]
Doctor Spectrum - the supervillains[edit]
Kenji Obatu[edit]
The first villainous version appears in the final panel of The Avengers #69 (Oct. 1969), the first chapter of a three-issue storyline by writer Roy Thomas and penciller Sal Buscema. The story arc introduced the supervillain team the Squadron Sinister, whose four members were loosely based on heroes in DC Comics' Justice League of America, with Doctor Spectrum based on Green Lantern.[1]
The Squadron Sinister are created by the cosmic entity the Grandmaster to battle the champions of the time-traveling Kang - the superhero team the Avengers. Doctor Spectrum battles the Avenger Iron Man, and is defeated when the hero deduces that the villain's Power Prism (a sentient entity called Krimonn) is vulnerable to ultra-violet light. The Avengers eventually defeat the Squadron and they in turn are abandoned by the Grandmaster.[2] Doctor Spectrum reappears in the title Iron Man and after a series of battles is defeated when Iron Man crushes the Power Prism. A powerless Obatu is arrested and deported back to his native Uganda.[3] During a subsequent battle with The Thing, Black Panther and Brother Voodoo, Obatu accidentally falls to his death.[4]
Billy Roberts[edit]
Unknown to Iron Man, the Power Prism reforms and is found by a sanitation worker, who eventually brings it to evangelist Billy Roberts, who after learning of the Prism's abilities becomes the second Doctor Spectrum.[5]
The Squadron reappear in the title Defenders, reunited by the alien Nebulon (although the team are unaware of the fact that this a new Doctor Spectrum). The villains receive greater power in exchange for the planet Earth, and create a giant laser cannon in the Arctic to melt the polar ice caps, thereby covering the entirety of the Earth's surface in water. The superhero team the Defenders prevent the scheme and defeat the Squadron (and Nebulon), with Doctor Strange defeating Doctor Spectrum.[6] After this defeat Doctor Spectrum and his two remaining team mates are teleported off world by Nebulon, returning with an energy-draining weapon. The Squadron Sinister plan to threaten the Earth again but are defeated once again by the Defenders and the Avenger Yellowjacket.[7]
The Power Prism is kept by Yellowjacket, who decides to modify the gem and present it to his wife Janet Van Dyne (also the Avenger known as the Wasp). The Power Prism seizes control of the character and transforms her into a mind-controlled female Doctor Spectrum, who battles several Avengers but is then defeated by the Vision's use of the Prism's ultraviolet weakness (Spectrum's own arrogance meant that s/he assumed that Iron Man had kept that information to himself rather than sharing it with others and thus 'giving up an advantage'). The Power Prism bonds to the Wasp in an attempt to save itself, but is eventually removed by Billy Roberts after he is located by the Avengers. Roberts becomes Doctor Spectrum once more, although on this occasion the Power Prism is in control and seeks to bond with the most powerful Avenger, the Thunder God Thor. The Power Prism succeeds in taking Thor as a host, infecting Mjolnir to use as a focal point to control him and defeat the other Avengers, but fails to take into account that to wield Mjolnir, Thor must be "worthy". No longer worthy to wield the hammer due to him being tainted by the gem, Thor drops Mjolnir and reverts to his mortal alter-ego Donald Blake during a fight with Iron Man, which results in the Power Prism losing control and becoming inert, apparently forever.[8]
Alice Nugent[edit]
The Grandmaster reappears and reforms the Squadron Sinister: an apparently resurrected Hyperion is joined by the Whizzer (now called Speed Demon); Nighthawk and a new Doctor Spectrum (complete with Power Prism) - Alice Nugent, former lab assistant of Henry Pym. Courtesy of a phenomenon known as the Wellspring of Power - an interdimensional source of superhuman abilities - the Grandmaster increases the Squadron Sinister's powers and they battle the New Thunderbolts. Thunderbolts team leader Baron Zemo defeats the Grandmaster, and in the ensuing chaos Doctor Spectrum and the members of the Squadron Sinister scatter and escape.[9]
Kenji Obatu II[edit]
An alternate version of the original Doctor Spectrum later appears on Battleworld. This version of the character is Japanese rather than Ugandan.[10]
Doctor Spectrum - the superheroes[edit]
Joseph Ledger (Earth-712)[edit]
Roy Thomas and penciller John Buscema created an alternate-universe team of heroes called the Squadron Supreme, who debut in The Avengers #85 (Feb. 1971). After an initial skirmish with four Avengers, the teams unite to stop a common threat.[11] The characters (including Doctor Spectrum) were identical in name and appearance to the Squadron Sinister, which caused confusion in Marvel's production department, as the covers of The Avengers #85 and #141 (Nov. 1975) "cover-blurbed" appearances by the Squadron Sinister, when in fact it was the Squadron Supreme that appeared in both issues.
The heroic Doctor Spectrum and the Squadron Supreme have another series of skirmishes with the Avengers engineered by the group the Serpent Cartel, but eventually team together and prevent the use of the artifact the Serpent Crown.[12] The character and his teammates briefly feature in the title Thor, when the evil version of Hyperion attacks the Earth-712 version and then Thunder God Thor.[13] The Squadron are mind-controlled by the entities the Over-Mind and Null the Living Darkness, but are freed by the Defenders and aid the heroes in defeating the villains.[14]
The character features with the Squadron Supreme in a self-titled 12-issue miniseries (Sept. 1985 - Aug. 1986) by writer Mark Gruenwald.[15] Gruenwald revealed each member's origin, with Joseph Ledger being a former astronaut who saves a Skrull in space. The grateful Skrull, called the Skrullian Skymaster, rewards Ledger with the Power Prism. The series also explains why the Squadrons Sinister and Supreme are similar: the Grandmaster creates the Squadron Sinister modelled on the already-existing Squadron Supreme of the Earth-712 universe.[16] Gruenwald, Ryan, and inker Al Williamson created a graphic-novel sequel[17] which maroons the team in the mainstream Marvel universe. Doctor Spectrum and teammates encounter the hero Quasar, and relocate to the government facility Project Pegasus. After another encounter with the Overmind and a visit to the laboratory world of the Stranger,[18] the group attempts to return to their universe,[19] and, alongside fellow members Hyperion and the Whizzer, battles the entity Deathurge.[20]
The entire Squadron Supreme appear in a two-part story with the Avengers that finally returns them to their home universe, where they disband for a time.[21] Doctor Spectrum rejoins his teammates to aid the interdimensional team the Exiles.[22]
Joseph Ledger (Earth-31916)[edit]
The mature-audience Marvel MAX imprint showcases the adventures of the Earth-31916 version of the Squadron Supreme. The title Supreme Power relates how Joseph Ledger, a soldier in the United States Army, accidentally bonds with a crystal found in the vessel that brings Hyperion to Earth.[23] The story continues in the limited series Doctor Spectrum, written by Sara Barnes and art by John Dell and Travel Foreman, with the experience placing Ledger in a coma, and after reliving his life in his mind for the benefit of the apparently sentient crystal, the character awakens and adopts the codename of Doctor Spectrum.[24] Operating in a military-style uniform as opposed to a prismatic costume, Doctor Spectrum encounters and battles Hyperion, forming a truce with him to hunt down a super-powered serial killer, Michael Redstone. Doctor Spectrum also begins a tentative romance with fellow superhuman Amphibian.[25] Both eventually join the US-backed Squadron Supreme in the 2006 title of the same name.[26] Joseph is later killed during a battle with Squadron Sinister after Whizzer slices his stomach open. The Squadron Sinister version of Nighthawk is later seen examining the crystal embedded in his corpse.[10]
Female Doctor Spectrum (Earth-4290001)[edit]
An alternate, female version of Doctor Spectrum later appears as a member of the Great Society, a team of Justice League analogues from Earth-4290001. During a conflict with the Illuminati, she is defeated by Black Bolt.[27] It has been confirmed that this version of Doctor Spectrum will be one of the leads in the upcoming Squadron Supreme relaunch.[28]
Powers and abilities[edit]
All versions of Doctor Spectrum derive their abilities from an alien gem called the Power Prism. The original prism, used by the Kenji Obatu and Billy Roberts versions of Doctor Spectrum, is a sentient being called Krimonn. Krimonn was originally a Skrull who, after failing to usurp the Skrull Emperor, was transformed into a living prism as punishment.[3] When the Grandmaster requires champions to battle the Avengers, he retrieves the prism and grants Krimonn several energy-based powers that can be used in conjunction with a host.[citation needed] Kenji Obatu is the first to coin the term "Power Prism", and discovers that although trapped in prism form, Krimonn remains aggressive and asserts his will via telepathy.[citation needed] Krimonn's mind is "muted" by Nebulon when the Power Prism is given to Billy Roberts, although Krimonn reasserts itself during the quest to find and bond with the character Thor.[citation needed] When the plan fails and the gem is shattered, Krimonn's consciousness apparently dissipated forever.
Krimonn could bestow on a host the ability to project and manipulate light energy in various colors;[citation needed] create light energy constructs of various shapes, sizes and colors;[citation needed] flight; protection from the rigors of space and the ability to become intangible.[citation needed] The Power Prism is vulnerable to ultra-violet light.[citation needed]
The Earth-712 Doctor Spectrum gains his power the Skrullian Power Prism given to him by the Skrullian Skymaster.[citation needed] When the Power Prism later exploded and fragments of it were embedded in Doctor Spectrum, his skin, hair, and costume were bleached chalk-white.[citation needed] The Earth-712 Power Prism possesses the same abilities as the Earth-616 version.
The Earth-31916 Power Prism is a sentient power source removed from the spacecraft that brings Hyperion to Earth.[citation needed]
In other media[edit]
- Doctor Spectrum appears in Avengers Assemble, voiced by Phil LaMarr. A member of the Squadron Supreme, this version is the Billy Roberts iteration but visually modeled after the original Kenji Obatu iteration. In the episode "Dark Avengers", he uses the Reality Stone for Nighthawk to invert history so that the Avengers are the villains but the Avengers eventually restore reality. The episode "Spectrums" revealed that Doctor Spectrum was someone that was sold Ant-Man's technology for the Power Prism. At his hideout, a fight with Ant-Man, Captain America, Iron Man and Thor results in the destruction of Ant-Man's technology which supposedly suppressed the Power Prism. Out of vengeance, he harvested the feelings of Thor, Captain America and Iron Man to create spectral copies of Loki, the Winter Soldier and Ultron. After the three Avengers each overcome their respective spectral nemesis, the other Avengers discover that Nighthawk and Hyperion attached the Power Prism to Doctor Spectrum in order to destroy the Squadron Supreme's own planet, and that Ant-Man's technology in question had allowed Doctor Spectrum to get control of the Power Prism. After Ant-Man manages to free Doctor Spectrum from the Power Prism with Falcon's information, he reverts to Billy. In the aftermath, Roberts is hooked up with a S.H.I.E.L.D. space program to help in space exploration and to find a suitable planet for Billy to reside on while the Power Prism, no longer needing a host and forms its own body modeled after Doctor Spectrum, makes its way back to Nighthawk. In the episode "Avengers' Last Stand", the Power Prism's Doctor Spectrum form is seen with the Squadron Supreme into enacting Nighthawk's plot against the Avengers. In the episode "Avengers Underground", the Power Prism's Doctor Spectrum form is defeated by Ant-Man as Captain America uses the Power Prism to turn the sun blue so that Black Widow can defeat Hyperion.
- ^ Interview with Roy Thomas and Jerry Bails in The Justice League Companion (2003) pp. 72 – 73
- ^ Avengers #69 - 71 (Oct. - Dec. 1969)
- ^ a b Iron Man #63 - 65 (Oct. - Dec. 1973) & 66 (Feb. 1974)
- ^ Marvel Two-in-One #41
- ^ Avengers Annual #8 (1978)
- ^ Defenders #13 - 14 (May - July 1974)
- ^ Giant-Size Defenders #4 (1974)
- ^ Avengers Annual #8 (1978)
- ^ New Thunderbolts #15 - 16 (Jan. - Feb. 2006) & Thunderbolts #102 - 108 (July 2006 - Jan. 2007)
- ^ a b Squadron Sinister #1
- ^ The Avengers #86 (Mar. 1971)
- ^ Avengers #141 - 144 (Nov. 1975 - Feb. 1976) & #147 - 149 (May - July 1976)
- ^ Thor #280 (Feb. 1979)
- ^ Defenders #112 - 114 (Oct. - Dec. 1982)
- ^ Squadron Supreme #1 - 12 (Sep. 1985 - Aug. 1986)
- ^ Squadron Supreme #8 (May 1986)
- ^ Squadron Supreme: Death of a Universe (1989)
- ^ Quasar #13 - 16 (Aug. - Nov. 1990)
- ^ Quasar #19 (Feb. 1991)
- ^ Quasar #25 (Aug. 1991)
- ^ Avengers/Squadron Supreme Annual '98 and the one-shot Squadron Supreme: New World Order (both Sept. 1998)
- ^ Exiles vol. 2, #77 - 78 (Apr. - May 2006)
- ^ Supreme Power #1 - 6 (Oct. 2003 - Mar. 2004)
- ^ Doctor Spectrum #1 - 6 (Oct. 2004 - Mar. 2005)
- ^ Supreme Power #7 - 18 (Apr. 2004 - Oct. 2005)
- ^ Squadron Supreme vol. 2, #1 (May 2006)
- ^ New Avengers (vol. 3) #16.NOW-21
- ^ Gavin Jasper (2015-06-30). "Squadron Supreme #1 to Assemble This Fall". Denofgeek.us. Retrieved 2015-07-15.


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BUT, I have to vote NO.
I have personal friends ,acquaintances, who I know should not carry a gun.
But maybe to own and keep a rifle or long gun in the closet would be ok ,just in case the redcoats are coming,lol.
A friend of mine and me had this debate thought it would be interesting to see your ideas. Generally speaking exception felons, psychologically or mental unstable, or criminals. Do you think everybody should own a gun?
Further debate in discussion, should everybody have a HANDgun? OR a rifle? What do you think and why?
BUT, I have to vote NO.
I have personal friends ,acquaintances, who I know should not carry a gun.
But maybe to own and keep a rifle or long gun in the closet would be ok ,just in case the redcoats are coming,lol.
The word "should" bothers me because it implies the next step; required. Granted a few places in the U.S. have proposed laws requiring private individuals to have guns available to them and one, Kennesaw, GA, passed just such a law in 1982. But they had good reason to do this.
Other good reasons would be if the social order in the nation really broke down and people banded together in small communities for their very existence. In a case like this, they should require all able members of their community to have arms and to go armed.
In my opinion, whether or not someone chooses to own and carry a firearm, except in extraordinary conditions, is totally up to them. If the area in which they live becomes a nightmare of crime and violence, then they may pay the price for their refusal should they not want to have firearms. I don't feel sorry or have compassion for people like this if the were in a position to see it coming and refused to take the necessary precautions.
So should in normal times and normal situations is a bit of a harsh word. I would say that it is prudent for folks to have arms.
just as gun control tries to keep me from my right to keep and bear arms... any law that requires you have a gun, violates by right to not be armed if i so choose... same evil of contol imo... i choose to carry, if you dont its your choice... just llike i choose not to hunt, but would if i needed to.... its your choice to hunt, great for you... i have no problem with that either.... im using the word YOU in general not directed at anybody on the forum or the original poster...
I don't mean it should be required par se, I just mean do you believe it is foolish to NOT have one? Maybe its obvious because since you guys do all have them obviously its uniform
Im not for the government requiring anything of any person in matters of being a private free citizen
To answer the question as asked, no.
question is not about the right to bear arms, but the ability and suitability of the individual and his/her rights.
I voted no. In my lifetime, I have known more than a few people who I would not be comfortable around, knowing they owned, possessed, or had access to, a firearm. Most had simple anger-management issues that they were never able to get a handle on; others had severe maturity problems or chemical addictions that would make firearms ownership or possession dangerous, for themselves or others nearby. A couple were just not intelligent enough; they were unable to follow simple instructions, and would probably shoot themselves or someone else in fairly short order.
Don't get me wrong, here; I also know better than to propose any way to screen folks like these out of owning/buying firearms, because I believe any law or other tool able to do so would rapidly be turned against ALL gun owners by ardent anti-gunners. Luckily, many folks of the types I listed above choose to NOT own firearms; I think that in many cases, they realize (consciously or unconsciously) that it would be a bad idea, so they don't do it.
I voted "no" as well. There are plenty of law abiding citizens out there who shouldn't own a gun. Anger issues and blatent stupidity among other reasons. I was in the checkout line at a local sporting goods store the other day purchasing ammo. The clerk politely asked me if I was sure this was the correct ammo. The guy behind me (also purchasing ammo) piped up and said, "if you unsure of the caliber of ammo you need then you should not own a gun."
You get an unbalanced view of the need for gun ownership by reading these forums. We are all interested in guns for hunting and/or target shooting in addition to self/home defense. As a youth I was interested in guns as a hobby - not for hunting and not for serious competition target shooting but just "how do they work?" "how hard is it to shoot accurately?" etc when I was in college (engineering). I had friends who were also interested and I joined a shooting club where I mainly did bench rest shooting at 200 yards or more. I was involved in hand loading to support the bench rest shooting. Then I got married to a woman who did not like guns, got a real job and moved to a state where shooting was not a popular sport. For 45 years the guns sat in the closet. One, a Browning .380, stayed in a dresser drawer in the bedroom in case someone broke in. Nobody did. Then I had a scare. At 11:30 on a Saturday night suddenly there was no water in my house. I stepped outside and heard sounds of people moving around and talking in whispers. I got my .380 and looked more extensively around the neighborhood. It was young people, drunk from a party and playing with the some city water valves. I learned you can be drawn out of the safety of your locked home by someone turning of your water supply. I also learned that my .380 had deteriorated requiring some work. I traded in my old guns that were no longer practical and bought some new modern guns.
So that got me into self/home defense guns. I also started noticing the high rate of home invasions where the victims were old white-haired people like me!
But many people who look young enough to handle themselves can live in a high level of safety and have no need of a gun. If people have no interest and no experience, they don't need to get a gun unless their status changes. Now I go to a local gun store and shooting range quite frequently. I see many old people getting instruction in shooting for the first time.
As gun owners we should answer people's questions about guns - where to get instruction, where to buy guns, etc. Not everyone should own guns but almost everyone should be able to get them if they want them.
I voted no for pretty much all the same reasons listed above: I too have friends I would not want to see with a gun.
I am for open carry and conceal carry, but I wouldn't want to see everyone doing it, just like ownership......
I votes "yes" but I mean only the people that are allowed by law to own them.
"Not everyone should own guns but almost everyone should be able to get them if they want them."
That's the way it is now,hit a certain part of town with cash and you're good.The problem is this isn't where the focus of gun control is being put.Nope,disarm the law abiding or total rule can't be achieved.
To the OP,no,as much as I want to say otherwise.
I also say no. There are far too many progressive "I want the government to everything for me" types that have no business owning a firearm. That would be most of my relatives. These stick their head in the sand, I know so much more than you stupid Republicans idiots, deserve all that comes to them when the SHTF actually does arrive. It probably includes 90% of the people in my city - oh joy.
I voted no due to the large amount of morons in our country.
Everybody has one in Switzerland and look how it's working for them. Did they get involved in WWII? Nobody messes with them.


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The Executive Brain: Frontal Lobes and the Civilized Mind. Elkhonon Goldberg. xx + 251 pp. Oxford University Press, 2001. $29.95.
The Executive Brain is an intriguing exploration of the most challenging topic in cognitive neuroscience, the executive function of the prefrontal cortex. Author Elkhonon Goldberg begins with an account of his early training with the great neuropsychologist A. R. Luria. Goldberg then relates the suspenseful story of his escape from the Soviet Union, elegantly weaving into this a description of the role of the prefrontal cortex in coordinating the difficult and risky decisions he had to make during the venture. To make the functions of the "executive lobe" easier to grasp, he compares it to an orchestra conductor.
Goldberg describes in detail the clinical manifestations of damage to the prefrontal cortex and explains the vulnerability of this structure to such conditions as Alzheimer's disease, schizophrenia, attention deficit (and hyperactivity) disorder and Tourette's syndrome. He also gives his views on the role of the prefrontal cortex in controlling our will and our social and ethical behavior, including its role in antisocial and even criminal acts.
The book has many strengths. For every topic, the author provides a story or vignette of an interaction with a patient to illustrate the points he is making. He also offers provocative challenges to several scientific notions. For instance, in a challenge to the current trend toward fixed mapping of function into structure, which attributes to the hemispheres a static role in cognition (with the left hemisphere linked to language and the right to spatial processing, for example), Goldberg suggests that the right hemisphere is important for the processing of novelty and the left for the processing of cognitive routines. "What is novel today becomes routine tomorrow," he explains, and the relationship between the two hemispheres must therefore be dynamic, with cognitive control over any task gradually shifting from the right hemisphere to the left.
Goldberg also discusses forms of decision making that are often overlooked in laboratory studies of the prefrontal cortex. In veridical decision making, the goal is finding the truth, and there is a single correct solution; in adaptive decision making, an individual is choosing what is best for himself or herself and there can be no one right answer, since people's priorities vary. Using the cleverly designed Cognitive Bias Task (see illustration), he has demonstrated that the prefrontal cortex is critical for adaptive but not veridical decision making. In addition, he notes that individuals making adaptive decisions (choosing which image they like best) are usually consistent in adopting a strategy that is either context-dependent or context-independent. It turns out that men as a group have a subtle preference for context-dependent strategy (they match their choice to the target image); women, however, are more likely to have stable preferences (for blue rather than red, say, or circles rather than squares) regardless of the target. The context-independent strategy can be thought of as an "all-purpose" or "default" approach, whereas the context-dependent approach could be characterized as "custom tailored." Goldberg cautions that neither approach is inherently superior. In a relatively stationary environment, a context-independent strategy may be more advantageous, whereas a context-dependent strategy is preferable in a highly unstable environment. But in very unfamiliar or inherently complex situations, a context-independent approach is probably more prudent.
The one weakness I see in this book is its failure to take into account the whole role of emotion and feeling in human judgment and decision making. Victor S. Johnston argues in Why We Feel: The Science of Human Emotions that although we like to believe that we are logical beings who weigh pros and cons, we can never escape from our feelings, because they specify what is or is not in our biological best interest.
Indeed, Elkhonon's description of his escape from the Soviet Union illustrates this role of emotion and feeling in decision making very clearly. Goldberg made a series of decisions, including whether to complete his Ph.D. defense and whether to tell Luria about his escape plan. With every decision, he had no clue what choice was best. But, guided by "hunches" and "gut feelings," he managed to make, consciously or unconsciously, the most advantageous decisions.
The Executive Brain is a very effective introduction to the frontal lobes for students of psychology, philosophy, psychiatry, neurology and neuroscience. I will also recommend it to my family members and friends. The language is simple, the writing is lively and accessible, and the insights and ideas, which are rooted in state-of-the-art advances in cognitive neuroscience, have important social implications. I concur with the assessment in the foreword by Oliver Sacks that this is a remarkable book that addresses central problems forcefully.—Antoine Bechara, Neurology, University of Iowa College of Medicine, Iowa City
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We consider convex relaxations for the problem of minimizing a (possibly nonconvex) quadratic objective subject to linear and (possibly nonconvex) quadratic constraints. Let \(\mathcal{F }\) denote the feasible region for the linear constraints. We first show that replacing the quadratic objective and constraint functions with their convex lower envelopes on \(\mathcal{F }\) is dominated by an alternative methodology based on convexifying the range of the quadratic form \(\genfrac(){0.0pt}{}{1}{x}\genfrac(){0.0pt}{}{1}{x}^T\) for \(x\in \mathcal{F }\). We next show that the use of "\(\alpha \)BB" underestimators as computable estimates of convex lower envelopes is dominated by a relaxation of the convex hull of the quadratic form that imposes semidefiniteness and linear constraints on diagonal terms. Finally, we show that the use of a large class of D.C. ("difference of convex") underestimators is dominated by a relaxation that combines semidefiniteness with RLT constraints.


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Australian Wine
Although the first settlers planted the first vines in Australia, it's only in the last 100 years that the Australian wine industry has really taken off, and only the last 25 or so that it's done so with any force. And what a force. Australia doesn't do anything by halves.
After a period of heavy investment, including developing some of the most modern wineries, using the most up to date wine producing techniques and forcing the Old World to revaluate their winemaking techniques and attitudes along the way, Australia had become the 4th largest wine exporter in the world by the late 00′s. Around the same time, it also overtook France as the UK's number one wine supplier.
Wine Growing Regions
Nearly half of all Australian wine comes from South Australia, with key wine growing regions around the Adelaide Hills, Barossa and Clare Valleys. Victoria offers a diverse range of wines and Hunter Valley in New South Wales is a great place to look for some delicious Shiraz and Semillon. Western Australia has earned a reputation for producing more expensive, boutique quality wines. Tasmania doesn't immediately spring to mind when you think of wine, most people think of small furry mammals instead. As well as Devils, cool-climate Tasmania is producing some fabulous sparkling wine, fine Pinot Noir and sweeter German or Alsace style Rieslings.
Subtle Semillon to Blockbusting Cabernet Sauvignon
You'll probably be surprised to hear that there are approximately 90 different grape varieties planted commercially in Australia. 16 of these, eight white and eight red are planted most widely, and these tend to be the more familiar international varieties. More and more winemakers are experimenting with unfamiliar types though, so watch out for more unusual styles, grapes and blends.
Shiraz is the classic grape variety most people associate with Australian wine. Years ago it used to be unfashionable but today things are far different. Producing a range of styles from soft and spicy through to leaner, more peppery versions, most Australian wine fans can't get enough of this tasty grape. Try it softened up and blended with a little Petit Verdot, Cabernet, or Viognier.
Cabernet Sauvignon
Cabernet Sauvignon is full of dark black fruit. It is an extremely robust, firm grape, which produces some very bold, powerful Australian wines, the fullest of these being from Coonawarra on the Limestone coast. Here the soil is rich and red, called Terra Rossa, and it infuses the wine with heat, spice, and a heck of a punch. If you like your red wines a little softer, look out for blends with Shiraz or Merlot.
Traditionally Chardonnay has been a popular Australian grape and is famed for its versatility. Oaked versions made their name a decade or so ago before becoming unfashionable after the market was flooded with overoaked gummy wine. As part of the backlash against these, unoaked versions are becoming increasingly popular.
For a citrussy fruity white why not try an Australian Riesling. Very different in style to the sweeter German versions, you'll be bowled over by these crisp refreshing wines.
In your quest for Australian wines, you'll probably come across Semillon. Often under-appreciated, this grape produces some delicious light bodied, crisp wines, with honey, nutty flavours. You may find it blended with Sauvignon Blanc for added zestiness. Semillon also produces fantastic sweet wine, so look out for late harvest botrytis Semillon for an unctuous sticky treat. These are most often sold in half bottles and are a perfect accompaniment to desserts.
Experimental Aussies
For a country producing some of the most homogenous wine in the world, Australia is also at the forefront of innovation. Anything tried in other countries is also tried here. Australian wine-makers are experimenting with styles, different grapes, and blends, and producing some very interesting wine. Look out for sparkling red wines, interesting and different, Australians drink it at Christmas!
Watch Out for the Big Brands
Most brands sold in the last 20 years have been largely aimed at the budget end of the market. They are crowd-pleasing fruit-filled, high-alcohol wines, which appeal to everyone, and unlike French or Italian wine, they don't have to accompany food to get the most out of them.
Land in Australia is plentiful and they don't have the restrictions of space that European wine producers do, nor do they have centuries of legislation to get around. This means that wine makers are free to experiment with blends and varieties. As the climate doesn't vary much from year to year wines don't tend to differ much between vintages. Australian wines have a degree of reliability impossible to guarantee from Old World countries, even if sometimes they lack subtlety. Typically, large-scale wineries will blend wine from various grape varieties and several regions to meet a price point and style sought. While you can be sure that the wine will have been produced according to rigorous quality standards, it also may have had other ingredients added to it to make sure it all tastes the same.
If you steer clear of the big supermarket names however, and do a bit of hunting around, there are increasing numbers of small innovative producers bucking the trend and producing Australian wines of quality rather than quantity. Look to the boutique producers and you'll find a wealth of interesting tasty wine easily as good as anything from the Old World. So if it's originality, soul and value for money that you are after, make sure you check out the smaller wineries.
Simple Labelling
Old World wine labelling can be confusing and it's sometimes hard to tell what it is you are drinking. In Australia, wine labels are much simpler, with the grape and region named so you can always tell what you are drinking, which has made it easier for even the beginner wine enthusiast to understand.
Price Rises
Australia has suffered the effects of several droughts, floods and fires in recent years, which hasn't done the wine crops any favours and Australian wines have been hit by price hikes as a consequence. However, there's still value to be found if you look off the beaten track.
So now you've read about it, why not stock up on a case? Choose from a selection of wines from Australia here.
- During droughts, Kangaroos become a major pest, as they eat the grapes and chew the irrigation lines.
- Durif is an inky black variety of grape which grows really well in Australia. It's like Shiraz, but bigger.
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