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Hi AJ community I thought it was about time I introduced myself. I started on AJ back in November but only really began in ernest in February. This warrants and explanation – maybe some of you can relate. I almost left AJ altogether in the beginning and removed a lot of my tracks because I thought their terms and the contract were lousy and I was being completely done over.
After trying some other sites with mixed success a number of factors caused me to reconsider and go exclusive with Audiojungle:
a). The community here is awesome! No joke I am so impressed with the mutual support here on the forums, plus helpful staff, with the added bonus of being able to network across envato marketplaces.
b). I weighed up less sales/higher cost vs more sales/el cheapo option and opted for the latter after seeing what is possible – there are many great artists here doing great things and making a decent to lucrative income.
c) green is my favourite colour
I am kind of kicking myself now because I lost a few months of sales even if I was non-ex, but I am in this now for the long haul.
So there you have it. I now have 30 tracks with more on the way and working hard on refining my craft, and really enjoying the experience and comraderie here. I promise to not stay so quiet from now on.
Welcome back, from a real Newbie
Well, wish you the best. And welcome back!
hey dBlever…
trust me, i did the same thing a year or so ago… 'spread my files' over many non-exclusive stock houses like a total slut !
But as soon as i decided to go exclusive, i found my sales increased remarkably and just got my Red Paw actually yesterday!!! (i initially thought it must be some hidden envato script code that makes exclusive authors items appear near the top of search list ??!) .. .hmmmm
no, only joking !
But for me, being exclusive really does show a commitment. A chance for me to really concentrate on the quality of my work, and build a brand here in the marketplace.
It's no wonder why 19 out of the top 20 best selling Elite authors are Exclusive.
Welcome back, and good luck and i wish you many sales
Welcome back dBlever – we started at the same time and I am trying to stick it out and ride through the good times as well as the quiet times. I completely agree with you that the community on AJ is fabulous and I have made some nice long distance mates. I sometimes consider other sites but AJ is working for me and what with my freelance work I get by – just.
Good luck for your return Graham
It's never too late Dale! Glad to have you back
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With that in mind, VMware introduced the following three new solution competencies to its partners:
The first is Virtualization of Business-Critical Applications (VBCA), designed by VMware to enable partners to provide guidance and solutions to help customers virtualize mission-critical applications such as Exchange, SQL, Oracle, or SAP. The new competency recognizes the extra challenges and efforts that are required to move a tier-one application into a virtualized or cloud environment. But this ability will help further differentiate one partner from another that doesn't yet also have this competency.
The second is infrastructure as a service (IaaS), a new competency designed to accelerate partner delivery of and extend expertise in VMware hybrid cloud solutions and services. VMware is making a huge push into the growing public and hybrid cloud markets, and it will need channel partners to help it expand within those markets.
The third competency is Management, and it is designed by VMware to enable and reward partners that help customers simplify and automate the operations of virtual and cloud environments with the VMware vCenter Operations Management Suite.
The VBCA and IaaS competencies are both currently available, but VMware said the Management competency wouldn't be made available until sometime later this quarter. These three new competencies will join VMware's existing set, which includes Infrastructure Virtualization, Business Continuity, and Desktop Virtualization.
Enhancements made to VMware's advantage+ and Solution Rewards incentive programs give partners the ability to double their existing incentives in 2012. VMware added that when partners register deals through advantage+ for net-new VMware customers, they will also be eligible for a new back-end bonus rebate. With the new Solution Rewards, partners with solution competencies will be eligible for a first-time sale bonus rebate when they sell a new solution outside the Infrastructure Virtualization solution competency to an existing customer for the first time.
Smaller partners may have a tougher time branching out in solution competencies. However, VMware, now more than ever before, realizes the importance of the small-business market for expanding the company's long-term revenue.
Because of that, VMware is also offering new tools and incentives designed to help speed the delivery of solutions for small businesses. These enhanced programs provide new demand creation tools, customer offers, on-demand access to free training videos, and increased incentives for small business-related sales -- all designed to enhance partner expertise in and delivery of small business solutions.
VMware also recently launched Solutions Exchange, a partner-to-partner and customer-to-partner online collaboration tool that can help smaller partners find the missing skills needed to help them close more deals.
Are you a partner? What do you think of the new competencies and requirements?
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I changed the recipe from a bread machine recipe book I have to make it a little healthier and taste a little better for the kids. This makes one EXTRA LARGE loaf. This bread is GREAT with honey, or toasted and add peanut butter, or for peanut butter and jelly sandwich. Also, makes a good dessert when toasted, buttered, and sprinkled with cinnamon and sugar! Try this sometime for breakfast when you are making french toast!!! :) Mmmmmmm....
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This was exactly what I was looking for! It was healthier than most raising bread recipes that I found, the one from my book called for 6 eggs! The texture that you get from the wheat flour makes for a wonderful texture, without feeling too heavy. And it was the perfect size. I didn't have to worry about adjusting the yeast and flour measurements to get a 2.5 - 3 lb. loaf. Delicious. Thank you!
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The immigration debate doesn't just affect those who come from south of the border. In the action drama Home Again, director Sudz Sutherland weaves a tale of three Jamaican citizens who were raised abroad since infancy and are deported back to the island, where they must fend for themselves in a strange land.
Tatyana Ali stars as Marva, a single mother from Toronto struggling to cope with being ripped from her children. Everton (Stephan James), an irresponsible British teen, desperately awaits word of his court appeal. And Dunston (Lyriq Bent), a New Yorker, tries to escape his criminal past. All must find a way to start anew on the rough streets of Kingston.
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Ted Nugent Concerts Keep Getting Cancelled
Last week, a Ted Nugent concert at the CDA Casino Resort in Idaho was cancelled. The casino made the call based on "Nugent's history of racist and hate-filled remarks."
Now, two more Nugent shows at casinos are being cancelled. Two dates at the Emerald Queen Casino in Tacoma, Washington have been cancelled. Once again, the casino is citing Nugent's controversial comments.
Nugent has been recording and touring since the 1960's. He released a string of platinum albums in the late 1970's. Earlier in July, Nugent released a new album called Shut Up & Jam!
It is unclear precisely what specific remarks the casinos considered when they cancelled the shows. It is also unclear why they were unaware of Nugent's outspoken comments.
Over the past few years, Nugent has gotten headlines for his political remarks. He infamously called President Barack Obama a "subhuman mongrel."
Interestingly, those comments led to a dialog with another outspoken guitarist, Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine. Morello's father, like the president's, is Kenyan.
Nugent recently explained to USA Today, "Tom and I, we get into it. We went round and round about the 'subhuman mongrel' thing. We had a genuine debate on that, and we ended up, even though it was by e-mail, shaking hands, hugging like we do when we do meet in person, and wishing each other godspeed. He's an intelligent guy. He makes a good point. And I can't wait to change him."


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Getting 'meta': reflexivity and literariness in a secondary English literature course
Macken-Horarik, Mary & Morgan, Wendy (2008) Getting 'meta': reflexivity and literariness in a secondary English literature course. English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 7(1), pp. 22-35.
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Tiny and swift, viruses are hard to capture on video. Now researchers at Princeton University have achieved an unprecedented look at a virus-like particle as it tries to break into and infect a cell. The technique they developed could help scientists learn more about how to deliver drugs via nanoparticles - which are about the same size as viruses - as well as how to prevent viral infection from occurring.
The video reveals a virus-like particle zipping around in a rapid, erratic manner until it encounters a cell, bounces and skids along the surface, and either lifts offagain or, in much less time than it takes to blink an eye, slips into the cell's interior. The work was published in Nature Nanotechnology.
"The challenge in imaging these events is that viruses and nanoparticles are small and fast, while cells are relatively large and immobile," said Kevin Welsher, a postdoctoral researcher in Princeton's Department of Chemistry and first author on the study. "That has made it very hard to capture these interactions."
The problem can be compared to shooting video of a hummingbird as it roams around a vast garden, said Haw Yang, associate professor of chemistry and Welsher's adviser. Focus the camera on the fast-moving hummingbird, and the background will be blurred. Focus on the background, and the bird will be blurred.
The researchers solved the problem by using two cameras, one that locked onto the virus-like nanoparticle and followed it faithfully, and another that filmed the cell and surrounding environment.
Putting the two images together yielded a level of detail about the movement of nano-sized particles that has never before been achieved, Yang said. Prior to this work, he said, the only way to see small objects at a similar resolution was to use a technique called electron microscopy, which requires killing the cell.
"What Kevin has done that is really different is that he can capture a three-dimensional view of a virus-sized particle attacking a living cell, whereas electron microscopy is in two-dimensions and on dead cells," Yang said. "This gives us a completely new level of understanding."
In addition to simply viewing the particle's antics, the researchers can use the technique to map the contours of the cell surface, which is bumpy with proteins that push up from beneath the surface. By following the particle's movement along the surface of the cell, the researchers were able to map the protrusions, just as a blind person might use his or her fingers to construct an image of a person's face.
"Following the motion of the particle allowed us to trace very fine structures with a precision of about 10 nanometers, which typically is only available with an electron microscope," Welsher said. (A nanometer is one billionth of a meter and roughly 1000 times smaller than the width of a human hair.) He added that measuring changes in the speed of the particle allowed the researchers to infer the viscosity of the extracellular environment just above the cell surface.
The technology has potential benefits for both drug discovery and basic scientific discovery, Yang said. "We believe this will impact the study of how nanoparticles can deliver medicines to cells, potentially leading to some new lines of defense in antiviral therapies," he said. "For basic research, there are a number of questions that can now be explored, such as how a cell surface receptor interacts with a viral particle or with a drug."
Welsher added that such basic research could lead to new strategies for keeping viruses from entering cells in the first place.
"If we understand what is happening to the virus before it gets to your cells," said Welsher, "then we can think about ways to prevent infection altogether. It is like deflecting missiles before they get there rather than trying to control the damage once you've been hit."
To create the virus-like particle, the researchers coated a miniscule polystyrene ball with quantum dots, which are semiconductor bits that emit light and allow the camera to find the particle. Next, the particle was studded with protein segments known as Tat peptides, derived from the HIV-1 virus, which help the particle find the cell. The width of the final particle was about 100 nanometers.
The researchers then let loose the particles into a dish containing skin cells known as fibroblasts. One camera followed the particle while a second imaging system took pictures of the cell using a technique called laser scanning microscopy, which involves taking multiple images, each in a slightly different focal plane, and combining them to make a three-dimensional picture.
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Speaking after the annual general meeting in Sydney on Thursday, Mr Segal said Caltex – Australia's only listed refiner – would look at any Australian refineries that came up for sale.
Shrinking refining margins and a growing capacity oversupply in Asia have prompted companies such as Royal Dutch Shell, Exxon-Mobil and Chevron to flag cuts to their global refining arms, raising the possibility they could sell their relatively small refining and marketing assets in Australia.
While Chevron's comments about exiting refining have fuelled speculation the US company could quit its 50 per cent stake in Caltex, Mr Segal said the restructuring had not affected its relationship with Caltex. Caltex's most recent efforts to consolidate the Australian sector by acquiring 300 Mobil-branded service stations for $302 million was blocked late last year by the ACCC.
It is yet to formally respond to the ACCC's decision, but Mr Segal said Caltex had studied the ruling closely and would announce its next course of action soon.
"We took time to understand the decision of the ACCC and we will be in a position to go public shortly with how we go about it," he said.
Mr Segal played down talk of improved trading conditions in the beleaguered refining sector, warning that the outlook for at least the rest of 2010 was tough.
While the refining industry in the region has been hit hard by a big increase in supply capacity coupled with stalled growth in consumption, analysts at Macquarie earlier this month suggested the global refining environment should improve faster than expected. The bullish view saw Macquarie increase its price target on Caltex by 12 per cent to $14 a share.
"Refiner margins will be weak for the short term, the fundamentals are still in a situation of imbalance, there is too much supply and too little demand," Mr Segal said.
"The issue is how long before demand is going to grow, and I don't believe it is going to happen this financial year."
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I bought these boots at the beginning of last season after extensively testing the Scarpa TX (which were too wide). Initially the boots were uncomfortable, the liners are pretty bad when compared to the initial comfort to the Scarpas. However, the boots are much more suited to those with narrow, small feet. I had custom liners built (Surefoot) to take up the extra space around my ankles and have been rocking them ever since. They tour great (I keep the buckles tightened). They also ski great (I teli a lot of trees and moguls).
I would definitely recommend them for ladies with smaller and narrow feet (Scarpas are a lot wider now than they used to be). But I would also recommend you ditch the liners for Intuition.


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Get motivated and stay motivated! Eight keys for pursuing long-term goals
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Setting a goal—and sticking to it—can be difficult for anyone. And whether you're a scientist, business leader or Olympic athlete, when it comes to work goals, giving up is not an option because one's career may depend on it. A new study co-authored by Vanderbilt management and sociology professor Bruce Barry examines how certain types of professionals sustain their motivation and enthusiasm over very long periods.
"People in contemporary economies seem to know that they should 'think long term,' when in fact they base their choices and behaviors primarily or even solely on short-term considerations," writes Barry, the Brownlee O. Currey Jr. Professor of Management at the Vanderbilt Owen Graduate School of Management in a forthcoming paper for the Journal of Organizational Behavior.
Barry and his co-author Thomas Bateman, of the University of Virginia's McIntire School of Commerce, write that long-term thinking is especially hard in American businesses because businesses are often pressed toward short-term success, even if that impedes on long-term planning or goals.
Also the authors write that there isn't much research out there to help business leaders with long-term goals. "The motivational psychology behind long-term pursuits is markedly understudied. We seek to begin filling that gap."
Professionals who are able to sustain the long-term pursuit of their work goals begin by focusing on a specific goal, expending some initial effort and show some perseverance over the short term. But then, these professionals enter "a complex set of cognitive and affective phenomena that implicate perceptions of self, the future, task activities, and a variety of other gratifications," Barry and Bateman write.
To understand the psychological forces at play when pursuing long-term goals, the co-authors identified and conducted in-depth interviews with 25 professionals in fields ranging from medical research to astronomy to Wall Street hedge funds. All the respondents' work goals included the following traits:
- Eventual success could take years, or perhaps generations
- Real progress comes very slowly
- There is a significant chance of failure
The researchers then distilled the key elements of the interviews into eight key sources of motivation that provide "psychological sustenance" in the pursuit of long-terms goals.
- Allegory: Figurative representations or abstractions that offer significant, consequential meaning. (e.g., comparisons to the Wright Brothers or the moon landing.)
- Futurity: Allusions to the long-term impact and possibilities associated with the ultimate outcomes that may result from the realization of a long-term goal. (e.g., setting the stage for my children and grandchildren.)
- Self: Statements that invoke personal identity, reputation or personal belief systems. (e.g., expressing my personal creativity.)
- Singularity: References to the perceived uniqueness of the endeavor. (e.g., the big exploration that nobody could have done before.)
- Knowledge: Statements that refer to skill development, new understanding, acquiring truth and finding ways to control events. (e.g., any knowledge that's created is good.)
- The Work: Allusions to the nature of the work, including challenges, methods, risks and uncertainties, as well as elements that are fun or surprising. (e.g., it's like a puzzle that you're solving.)
- Embeddedness: Ways in which individuals see their work situated within social contexts, as well as ways in which their work garners social legitimacy within their professions and in society. (e.g., an enjoyment from disproving the skeptics.)
- Progress: Statements that emphasize the notion of forward movement, often short term, in the direction of long-term goal pursuit. (e.g., advancements in tools and techniques that facilitate the work.)
In addition, all the subjects interviewed for this study mentioned the key role self-regulation plays in guiding one's progress and dealing with changes in circumstances.
"Effective self-regulation is associated with physical and psychological well-being, as well as better job performance," Barry and Bateman write.
The co-authors highlight multiple forms of self-regulation that include:
- Maintaining focus on goal-directed actions
- Controlling emotions
- Coping with failure
- Using failure as a basis for improvement rather than a setback
"Long-term goals arguably are at least as important as short-term goals in their ultimate consequences for individuals, organizations, and societies," Barry and Bateman write. "Now is the time to expand our field's search for theories and strategies that can help people and organizations pursue and achieve important long-term goals."
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BALTIMORE (Stockpickr) -- 2013's market climb has earned the moniker of the "most hated stock rally" -- and for good reason. Since stocks started their latest uptrend in November, sentiment has been pointed markedly away from U.S. stocks. But betting on the rally that everyone hated has paid off: the S&P 500 is up more than 14% year-to-date.
That same approach works well with the market's most hated individual stocks right now too.
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That's not just my opinion -- the data bears it out. Going back over the last decade, buying heavily shorted large and mid-cap stocks (the top two quartiles of all shortable stocks by market capitalization) would have beaten the S&P 500 by 9.28% each and every year. That's some material outperformance during a decade when decent returns were very hard to come by.
When I say that investors "hate" a stock, I'm talking about its short interest. A stock with a high level of shorting indicates that there are a lot of people willing to bet on a decline in its share price -- and not many willing to buy. One of the best indicators of just how high a short-squeezed stock could go is the short interest ratio, which estimates the number of days it would take for short-sellers to cover their positions. The higher the short ratio, the higher the potential profits when the shorts get squeezed.
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It's worth noting, though, that market cap matters a lot. Short sellers tend to be right about smaller names, with micro-caps delivering negative returns when the same method was used.
Today, we'll replicate the most lucrative side of this strategy with a look at five big-name stocks that short sellers are piled into right now. These stocks could be prime candidates for a short squeeze in 2013.
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It's been a rough year for Salesforce.com (CRM). While the broad market is up double-digits since the calendar flipped over to January, Salesforce is actually down 10% over the same time period. That's helped to add confidence to short sellers of the $22 billion technology firm, shoving CRM's short interest ratio up to 11.47. That means that at current volume levels, it would take more than two weeks of buying pressure for shorts to cover their positions.
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Salesforce.com's marquee product enables its 100,000-plus customers to run business applications that interact with their customer lists, doing everything from sending newsletters to tracking sales. That mission-critical nature of Salesforce's offering digs a big economic moat. So does the firm's position as one of the first major business application vendors to focus on the cloud. By pioneering the software-as-a-service model, the firm has a major lead on new rivals that are trying to enter the lucrative hosted CRM software market.
A cloud computing focus also gives the firm a sticky recurring revenue base from customers who have considerable resources invested into the firm's platform. The level of integration that Salesforce provides means that customer switching costs are very high. While CRM boasts an attractive balance sheet, it's struggled with profitability in recent quarters. That will have to change if it wants to show investors that it's serious about returning value to them. In the meantime, Salesforce remains in growth-mode -- and continued stair-step revenue increases should be a scary sight for short sellers.
I'd recommend keeping an eye out for earnings surprise when the firm announces second-quarter numbers in August.
Waste Management
Short sellers think that Waste Management (WM) is a garbage stock -- and while they're right in the literal sense, they're betting big against a name that rife with short seller kryptonite: dividends. Dividend payouts are poison to short sellers because they automatically decrease their returns, and because they're the only investment return number that's directly up to the companies that pay them out. WM's 3.5% yield tips the scales right now.
And that high payout makes the firm's short interest ratio look even higher at 10.37.
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Waste Management is the largest waste services firm in the country, with around 270 landfills and a massive fleet of vehicles that spans the U.S. The firm also owns 22 waste-to-energy plants that are designed to turn the waste that WM literally gets paid to collect into renewable energy that the firm gets paid for again. Garbage has a reputation for being a recession-proof business -- and while that's not exactly true (garbage volumes do suffer when the economy is in recession), it's more than fair to say that garbage collection in recession resistant. That defensive bent makes WM look all the more attractive as the broad market pulls back from all-time highs.
Size matters in the garbage collection business. That makes WM's unmatched scale a huge advantage, particularly in negotiating national corporate accounts, or in bidding the most efficiently (since it can spread major fixed costs like landfills across more operations). High levels of profitability and slowly growing sales make WM a prime short squeeze candidate in 2013.
AutoZone (AZO) is enjoying a strong year in 2013. Shares of the auto parts retailer have more or less matched the market, but record profitability continues to pile onto the fundamental argument behind shares. AZO owns a network of more than 4,600 stores here in the U.S., and another 321 in Mexico, making it the largest aftermarket car part seller in North America. That hasn't saved AZO from a short interest ratio of 10.38.
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Autozone has enjoyed some big economic tailwinds in recent years. As I write, the average car on the road is older than it's ever been before, and an aging national car fleet is fuelling more car part sales as consumers try to extend the lives of their vehicles. The firm's business isn't relegated to Do-It-Yourselfers -- AutoZone also boasts more than 3,000 commercial locations in its retail stores, providing parts for repair shops and service stations. Obviously, margins on the commercial side of the business don't match the profitability that AZO enjoys on the retail side, but volumes help make up for the shortfall.
Success in Mexico has been another welcome tailwind. As with the U.S., Mexican cars are expected to last longer than ever before, and aftermarket parts are enjoying strong demand. More importantly, a presence in Mexico opens up the possibility for more locations in the lucrative Latin American market -- and the firm's entrée into Brazil is a big next step. Once Latin American operations mature, it could mean leaps and bounds for AZO's financial performance, but a short squeeze isn't likely to take that long.
Outsourced HR firm Paychex (PAYX) provides small and medium-sized businesses with payroll and more specialized HR services -- working with around 550,000 clients in all. Paychex benefits from the complexity and administrative burden of payroll processing. Because of the bevy of tax and compliance issues involved in a small business paying its people, the firm is able to earn profits for its expertise. That gives PAYX a role that isn't easily replicated, but that also requires very limited capital to operate in.
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The firm has expanded that role in recent years, pulling out its massive customer rolodex to offer other ancillary HR services such as 401k management and worker's comp insurance. Adding new services onto its menu gives Paychex another big revenue driver from its existing client base, without the economic pressures of the job market. Historically, Paychex has earned considerable profits from its float portfolio -- the huge amount of cash it holds between the time employers deposit it and employees cash their paychecks. While extremely low interest rates have hurt PAYX's float income, there's a huge revenue stream waiting to be unlocked when rates perk back up.
Jobs numbers continue to be a black cloud over Paycheck. Because the firm's business is dependent on employment, the prolonged high levels of unemployment we've encountered since the Great Recession have piled up bets against it -- and pushed PAYX's short interest ratio up to 10.35. That makes this large-cap stock a short squeeze candidate.
Last up is IntercontinentalExchange (ICE), a firm that's been making some big moves after it announced plans to acquire NYSE Euronext (NYX), the parent of the New York Stock Exchange. Until now, ICE's business has been a lot more niche-focused: in total, it operates one of the largest exchanges for over the counter derivatives, or as I like to call them "less commoditized commodities". That nuanced core business gives ICE some attractive opportunities -- it doesn't compete quite as vigorously for trading flow on its platform, and it collects bigger profits as a result.
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The firm's clearing business adds onto IntercontinentalExchange's profit-making abilities. It essentially lets ICE fill a role that a third-party would normally take, and that vertical integration makes the firm much more attractive for investors. Because energy and agriculture are big markets for the firm (and its biggest customers are commercial hedgers), it's less impacted by lower trading volumes in a challenging market. Firms need to hedge their commodity risks in good times and in bad ones.
Right now, IntercontinentalExchange sports a short interest ratio of 16.9. At that rate, it would take more than three weeks of buying pressure for short sellers to cover their bets against the company. While it's fair to say that a lot of that shorting comes from merger arbitrageurs, the reason for the short bets don't really matter -- a short squeeze could still happen if they try to close their positions in one fell swoop.
To see these short squeezes in action, check out this week's Short Squeezes portfolio on Stockpickr.
-- Written by Jonas Elmerraji in Baltimore.
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Jonas Elmerraji, CMT, is a senior market analyst at Agora Financial in Baltimore and a contributor to TheStreet. Before that, he managed a portfolio of stocks for an investment advisory returned 15% in 2008. He has been featured in Forbes , Investor's Business Daily, and on CNBC.com. Jonas holds a degree in financial economics from UMBC and the Chartered Market Technician designation.
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Washington City Council members approved a change order request from Washington Engineering that will alter the timetable for improvements to the Phoenix Park Tennis Facility Monday night.
The change order provides a contract extension time of 49 days due to delays caused by the city.
Under this extension, the schedule allowed for the tennis courts to be paved the last week of June. The asphalt is being allowed to cure for 18 to 30 days before painting the courts. The paint would need 14 days to cure.
The new date of expected completion would be Aug. 12, said Director of Parks and Recreation Darren Dunkle in a letter to the council.


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These PC laptops from Cyberpower were powered by an Intel i7 2630QM 2 GHz quad core processor, 8 GB DDR3 RAM, a Seagate ST9500420AS 500 GB HDD, and an Nvidia GeForce GTX 460M running a 1080p display. Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit is the OS of choice. The sole difference between them is that one was connected to the network using the Killer Wireless-N 1102 NIC and the other was connected using an Intel Centrino Ultimate-N 6300 AGN NIC. Both were connected via mini PCI-Express.
We ran two synthetic benchmarks provided by Bigfoot Networks, plus a file transfer test. We also played some games online and at two LAN parties to test the network gaming performance.
For most of our benchmarking, both laptops were connected wirelessly to an ASUS RT-N56U dual-band Gigabit Wireless-N router. Both were reporting a 300 Mbps connection to router via the 5 GHz network. They were positioned approximately 10 feet from the router and had direct line of sight to it. All other wireless devices, including our smartphones, were turned off in order to reduce interference.
As a wired host for our tests, we used one of our standard high-end gaming desktop test rigs. It was connected directly to the ASUS RT-N56U router via Cat5e Ethernet cabling. Windows 7 reported a connection speed of 1.0 Gbps.
The first of the tests was GANE, BFN's Gaming and Network Efficiency test.
Directly from BFN:
- GANE measures and compares the latency between two networked PCs. It does this by sending 100 byte packets over the local network on a round trip every 50 ms. We selected 100 bytes as the packet size because this is the typical size of a game network packet.
- We selected 50ms as the interval for sending these packets because this is a typical interval time for most game traffic. These are important settings, because, as you'll discover in your evaluation, many network modules are not optimized for this sort of game network traffic.
First, we executed the GANE test with nothing running in the background. We ran it several times.
At its worst performance, the Killer laptop was 5.2% faster. At its best, though it was 83.7% faster.
Raw data!
Killer Ping
Avg of Worst 10%
Intel Ping
Avg of Worst 10%
|min run:
|8.19 ms
|5.2% faster, -27.4% less jitter
|avg run:
|6.22 ms
|36.8% faster. -23.9% less jitter
|max run:
|4.57 ms
|83.7% faster, 49.1% less jitter
You can see here that in the worst case, the min run, the jitter was higher. That means that the measure of latency for the Killer Wireless-N was more inconsistent than the Intel NIC. However, in the best case, it was 50% more consistent. Having low latency sporadically doesn't mean anything. Such can actually be more frustrating than a higher, yet consistent latency. having consistently low latency is what really matters, and the Killer NIC is king in that kingdom.
I conducted the same test again, but this time as the YouTube test! To simulate some multitasking, I watch a few videos during test, changing resolutions to 720p from 360p. I watched pieces of four videos. The Killer performance is spectacular, and really shows potential here. There are a lot of MMO gamers who play while doing other things — why should their ping suck because they want to listen to streaming audio or video while farming?
The Killer Wireless-N had a 4.733 ms mean ping, 21.04 ms average of the worst 10%, while the Intel card had a 6.854 ms mean ping, 19.78 ms average of the worst 10%. Thus, the Killer Wireless-N was 44.8% faster, with 41.4% less jitter.
To really understand the value of such lower jitter on at least a theoretical level, imagine a platform game like Mario or Sonic the Hedgehog. Imagine that you're trying to time a jump onto moving platforms, with lava or spikes beneath. If they're moving really quickly or really slowly, you can eventually time it right. If they're moving really quickly then suddenly slow or stop, then move slowly, then stop, then move really fast, then stop, then slow, and so on, you'll get frustrated by the inconsistency and probably throw the controller through the television.
The next test is the synthetic Netperf test. This test simply rams data down the pipe as fast as it can; it's a throughput test. The numbers presented below are measured in Mbps, each figure being one run.
TCP is the protocol used for transfers which must be 100% guaranteed to arrive, such as file transfers. UDP, on the other hand, is connection-less. That is, a packet is sent and forgotten about. This is useful in applications where timeliness is more important than complete data, such as gaming and streaming media.
– TCP, 20 secs
– TCP, 120 secs
– UDP, 20 secs
– UDP, 120 secs
It's clear to see that the Killer NIC tops the Intel by 36 Mbps in the TCP tests. However, the astounding factor here is the UDP performance: the Killer Wireless-N is more than 10 times more performant than the Intel card.
The file transfer test focuses on upload throughput. The numbers are listed in Mbps, with three indicative runs shown.
FTT write
98.01 97.45 97.64
106.45 109.93 107.38
Here, we can see that the Intel card is still king of straight-up file transfers. This has always been the case in such comparisons. It's important to note that with each release of the Killer NIC drivers or hardware revision, the gap continues to close.


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How Communities Can Better Support Parents: Findings from an Effective Parenting Expo
Miller, Evonne, Heffernan, Maree E., Hall, Carly, & Buys, Laurie (2005) How Communities Can Better Support Parents: Findings from an Effective Parenting Expo. In Social Change in the 21st Century Conference, 28 October 2005, QUT Carseldine, Brisbane.
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This article focuses on identifying how communities can better support parents, families and young people. Participants at an Effective Parenting Expo (n=57) were surveyed about the value of the event, the challenges facing them as parents, and the changes that would significantly improve life for their family. This paper focuses on responses to one open-ended question, "Thinking of your community, what ONE change could be made to significantly improve life for your family?" Responses were coded into three key categories: Improved Sense of Community, Increased Support for Families and Safer Communities. These responses clearly demonstrate the importance that parents place on having a safe, cohesive and friendly community in which to raise their children. Unfortunately, with social capital, community interactions and connectedness declining, the challenge is how to reverse this trend and foster a stronger sense of community. Participants identified several changes they believed would build better communities, believing that free community activities, meeting places and practical parenting courses would better connect them with families in their own community. This research highlights the importance of community for family well-being, with parents identifying changes they believe will significantly improve life in their community for their family.
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text: I thought I'd be a glass case of emotion, crying and snottering for days. In fact the overwhelming feeling this whole week has been relief. Weird huh? Not at all what I expected on such a milestone as the wee man's first birthday. Everyone kept saying "God it's been a quick year, hasn't it?" No, I really don't think so. I have never learned so much in such a short space of time. I've never had to adapt more completely to a new situation – and I've lived in two foreign countries. All the cliches about becoming a new mum are true and so I reckon the feeling of relief is down to the fact that I feel like I've passed. The wee man is thriving, the house is still standing, my business is still going, my husband hasn't been completely neglected and my waist is actually 2 inches smaller than it used to be! I'm doing OK. The precarious balance of our new life as responsible adults feels sturdier every day. And man am I smitten. I'm sorry, but I have the cutest baby in all the land. He never stops smiling! He sleeps all night, naps regularly, eats well and entertains me from the minute his wee pudgy arms reach for me and wrap around my neck until his wee thumb goes in after his teeth are brushed at night. So Happy First Birthday angel, thank you for turning our lives upside down, the ceiling is much more fun.


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Health advantages of Yoga Asanas
Before we go to examine what are the advantages of Yoga and why it is superior to standard gym workout it needs appropriate understanding of the basics of Yoga Asanas, which in extensive phrase is named Hatha Yoga.
Yoga is a wide phrase that identifies any kind of straightforward exercises that shows physical poses. When a Yoga category is placed on as Hatha yoga, it usually ensures that you will get a light initiation to the most elementary yoga asanas. According to the' Yoga Sutras', Yoga asana is defined as one which offers security, stability and joy for the doctor. Out of this definition, it is obvious that unlike workouts, you can not do asanas with pressure or stress. It should bring about serenity and sense of happiness and has to be accomplished in a constant and calm approach. You're improbable to perspiration in Yoga sessions somewhat you'd find yourself leaving the Yoga course more stimulating.
The five basic concepts of Asanas, that are suitable rest, appropriate exercises, right breathing, proper diet and positive-thinking, plainly suggest that Yoga Asanas are qualitatively better than normal gymnasium exercises in terms of both emotional and bodily health advantages. Nevertheless, there are lots of people that plan to take yoga exercises up frequently like to understand {exactly why Yoga'. The debate that follows could expose how health benefits of yoga rating over gym that is standard workouts in amount of techniques.
Many studies on Yoga asanas as well as their health advantages have exposed that, when executed prior to the above five basic principles, straightforward Yoga exercises could reduce signs of many widespread and perhaps important ailments like diabetes, asthma, arthritis, persistent fatigue, obesity and even products. Various Hatha Yoga Asanas postures could enhance muscle tissue and give versatility for your physique and also decrease fat-building. It has already been conclusively established that we now have several asanas and poses, which are directed at greater performing of certain areas of one's physique and improving your blood flow, may fully cure many chronic lethal deceases.
Yoga scores over gymnasium workouts?
Lots of you must have noticed that at around 50/55 years or even earlier we commence to encounter slow failing injuries in several areas of the body from exercise and physical activities repeatedly carried out by us and consider support of drugs in a attempt to find relief from them. You should not contemplate such aches and pains to not be atypical of our process that is aging. Health benefits of Asanas may be obviously observed in such instances where we can easily standard. Unlike traditional real workouts, that will be an action that features muscle building routines seeking utilization of body energy, yoga exercises indicates a body placement that is cozy, tranquil and continuous.
These things wouldn't only present whatever the advantages of yoga and but also plainly establish how actual benefits produced from straightforward yoga exercises are different from normal workouts and qualitatively rating them.
There's less dependence on air from your physique while training yoga asanas than during physical activity.
During physical exercise your heart works harder and its particular beat fee increases dramatically while during Hatha Yoga exercises your blood pressure and heartrate noticeably reduces;
During exercise your joints work way too hard which might trigger problems aches and also rheumatism in the long haul while Yoga for you personally advances the flexibility, durability and strength of the {bones and muscles. One of the proven health benefits of yoga asanas is that it's most effective while in the administration of persistent low-back ache;
Physical activity will build-up contaminants in the body from imperfect metabolism due to inadequate air offer while yogic exercise removes them completely by greater liver function on account of improved oxygen delivery for the cells from deep breathing which helps prevent poisons from arriving inside the system.
Unlike yogic exercises, quick breathing usually brought on by speed of actual exercises pushes the the respiratory system to perform harder;
Lots of the exercises that are bodily comprise muscle-building routines. Bigger they want oxygen and nutrition from acquiring adequate level of air and diet in the body which deprives different organs. About the other hand, one of many main health advantages of simple yoga exercises is the fact that it can help most of the areas to get greater share of oxygen and nutrition;
The individuals exercising physical exercise wants more food compared to those who practice yoga for good health.
During yogic exercises the body temp drops while in case of physical activity it rises.
Another many critical health benefits of Yoga exercises is that it encourages the foundation of your relaxation result i.e. the parasympathetic nervous system of the body that helps to relax your muscles, lower blood pressure and slow-down the rate of the breathing whenever any hazard or anxiety happens to you. It is what helps to decrease the strain levels permitting the body to mend itself the injuries induced inside by strains or from the prolonged tense trip to work. In addition it helps to reduce the levels of our psychological depression, if any , dramatically. for operating our muscles while, physical activity invokes the system that is worried about vitality productivity needed. We start feeling stressed and thrilled when this method is aroused;
It has been seen that yoga includes a substantial affect hormonal system of the body. The release from our unique vital hormonal glands has immediate influence on quality insurance and our health of life. Malfunction of these glands can result in numerous diseases and ailments. Practicing yogic exercises that are basic helps to activate performing of those hormonal glands. Physical exercise to the other hand, doesn't have such stimulating influence on the essential hormone-producing glands of our body.
Unlike frequent exercise, yoga exercises are conducted slowly easily and leisureliness, which helps you to stability feelings and mature a positive attitude alive.
From your items reviewed within the foregoing sentences explaining what are some great benefits of Yoga' and why yoga is much better than all the types of exercise in every way of measuring health, it'd be clear that the frequent exercise of Yoga Asanas at a particular degree of strength provides our body with all essential specifications what we need for many spherical excellent health possibly at a sophisticated age.The simple variations between the two types of workouts in the list above evidently demonstrate that the effect of yoga moves beyond the human body. Great things about yoga contain not simply biological and mental health and solidity of the human body, but also energy.


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Cumbria Women's Hockey League
IT WAS a case of hit and hope for Penrith but they couldn't quite score despite their possession against Kendal 2XI.
After nine minutes there was a short corner for Kendal and the ball came to Vicky Atkinson, but she missed.
Shortly after Atkinson had another chance, her shot was deflected off a Penrith player and Catharine Niblock blasted into the back of the net to put Kendal in front.
At the end of the match there was a brilliant shot from a Penrith player but her effort went wide of the post, and Kendal held on to a superb 1-0 success that helps them leapfrog Penrith into sixth.
Kirkby Lonsdale reigned supreme over Carlisle in the battle of the top two sides, who went into the weekend unbeaten.
They prevailed with an excellent 3-1 away victory to go three points clear at the top of the table.
South Lakes kept up the pressure and moved within one point of Carlisle in third as they eased to a 9-0 win at Wigton Seconds, while Kirkby Stephen Thirds lost 2-0 at home to Keswick.
Carlisle Seconds remain bottom of the division as they lost 4-2 against Dalston.
The game between Kirkby Stephen Seconds and Ambleside was called off.


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I was recently watching a [household hacker] video, and they talked about http://prankdialer.com/index.php
Now. It really works, before I sent one to a friend, I tried it on myself.
it says its free, and there's no sign up, no "give me your number", no "this will be on your bill" or anything else. Without the coins, you have to wait 10 minutes between every call. It takes about ten seconds for the call to go through, which is good.
I love it (:
I sent the barney song to my brother, then I spied to see his reaction. he just hung up -____-
I was all giddy though. yuppp.