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The Business of Phish
Over the past four years, the rock band Phish has generated over $120 million in ticket sales, handily surpassing more well known artists like Radiohead, The Black Keys, and One Direction. Since their start 30 years ago, Phish has consistently been one of the most popular and lucrative touring acts in America, generating well over a quarter billion dollars in ticket sales.
Yet, by other measures, the band isnt popular at all. Only one of their original albums has ever made the Billboard top 10 rankings. None of their 883 songs has ever become a popular hit on the radio. Theyve made only one music video to promote a song, and it was mocked mercilessly by Beavis and Butthead on MTV.
If the traditional band business model is to generate hype through the media and radio airplay, and then monetize that hype through album sales and tours, Phish doesnt fit the model at all. For a band of their stature, their album sales are miniscule and radio airplay non-existent. And so when the music business cratered in the 1990s because of file-sharing and radios importance declined because of the internet, Phish remained unaffected and profitable as ever.
Phish doesnt make money by selling music. They make money by selling live music, and that, it turns out, is a more durable business model. This wasnt some brilliant pre-calculated strategy by the band or its managers; its the business model that sprung forth from the kind of music the band makes. The band developed the kernel of this musical style during their first five years when they played almost exclusively in bars in Burlington, Vermont, and slowly, but organically, grew their audience.
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Thu Apr 18, 2013, 12:17 PM
bloomington-lib (946 posts)
1. Nice read
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Thu Apr 18, 2013, 12:21 PM
Bennyboy (10,440 posts)
has made it in America. And how they are evolved and embraced things that are not normal. Now they sell every show. So every night they play they sell 18,000 shows. tickets and the recordings. Then there is live streams that offer of a good number of shows as well and fans can purchase those as well, so their revenue now, even from live concerts, is coming off of Streams ales and recordings to a much larger audience than just those in the building.
I love them and they are one of the best bands I ever saw, but the model should be there for everyone.
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Thu Apr 18, 2013, 12:37 PM
Paul E Ester (952 posts)
3. You might like
"Backwards Down The Number Line", every tuesday from 8-10 pacific on the voice of the redwoods KMUD, coming to you from the heart of the emerald triangle. They are celebrating 15 years of phish playing shows from each year, they are currently on 1995.
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Archive: http://www.kmud.org/programs-mainmenu-11/kmud-audio-archive.html
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Thu Apr 18, 2013, 02:55 PM
Bennyboy (10,440 posts)
6. Cool.. I looked for a Phish at Mateeel date
and they never played there. odd. Almost every band has a at least one show history there. Some us that location to load up on a tours worth of supplies all in one stop "When we play this one in Humboldt it RAINS REEFER ON THE STAGE" Little Feat when they play "Willin'" in any venue not the Humboldt venues.
So many band now are like this> DMB, the same story> I saw DMB open for Phish in 84. T0
he What's left of the grateful Dead(FURTHUR) have tons of non commercial streams going it not funny. FURTHUR is in the middle of a NYC residency at the beginning of theri spring and summer, tour. the jsut announced more shows taking them to October. 15 bucks gets you the show. Stream, it for 15 bucks or less. Anyone anywhere. they allow streaming but not good enough to record..... enough to peak your interest in buying the show. Then there's Terrapoin landing. Phils restaurant that is going crazy with shows. When FURTHUR is off the road, shows every night with different players. like Levons rambles. And you can stream them as well for 15 bucks. And TRI does the same thing, sometimes free sometimes not, but it is in Bobs world, nobody else makes Bobs deal. Same with Sweetwwater. they can bring quality acts in, stream those shows at five bucks or whatever and that bar makes money.
the great thing is ther is manager mister there. they conquered it. All of the jambands can do that and do. Some of the mainstream guys can't do that becasuese they are the same night after night. U ahve three or four DVD's with Eric Clapton in which he doess essentially the same set . I don't need another one. but the dead, ad the jambands are different every night so that in itself creates a demand.
I am going to stream a WSP show when they do video on this tour because the lights look freaking amazing....
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Thu Apr 18, 2013, 12:53 PM
Champion Jack (5,116 posts)
5. Wide Spread Panic is doing the same thing
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Thu Apr 18, 2013, 03:16 PM
Bennyboy (10,440 posts)
8. Without the publicists...
Phish is not nor ever has been a DYI outfit completely.. Most of the jambands are though with the entire operation in house now. panic still has a outside label but pretty much only to provide a product. they stream and it is absolutely amazing every show and have the buy a show thing too.... Good model if you can lay people out every night.
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Thu Apr 18, 2013, 06:11 PM
Paul E Ester (952 posts)
9. My only beef with the articles history, were not to mention
The dead and the horde tour. Both played a big part in their business model and Horde was a breakout tour for the next gen jam bands.
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Thu Apr 18, 2013, 03:13 PM
Bennyboy (10,440 posts)
7. Everyone might like thIS:
http://www.phishtracks.com everyshow, every everything, all right there. Mind blowing.
And the complete every everything of the Grateful dead: https://listentothedead.com/
Every show, every know recording of every show and lots of ways to play it. An amazing resource.


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Nottinghamshire's Michael Lumb has backed captain Stuart Broad after he moved to criticise umpires after a thunderstorm washed out England's ICC World Twenty20 opener against New Zealand, handing the Kiwis a nine-run victory by virtue of the Duckworth-Lewis method.
A deluge ended the match after 5.2 overs, just long enough to for a result to be obtained, New Zealand benefitting from canny batting from captain Brendon McCullum.
Well behind in after four overs, McCullum, quickly went on the offensive in the fifth, his thunderous boundaries met with a backdrop of lightning.
Broad, however, cited safety concerns in his post-match comments aimed at umpires Aleem Dar and Paul Reiffel that have since seen him fined by the ICC.
Lumb is no stranger to the effects of lightning, his upbringing in South Africa punctuated by tragic tales courtesy of one of nature's most destructive forces.
"I grew up in Jo'burg, so I'm a bit scared of lightning, so I wasn't too happy about it," he said.
"When I was at school, the girls school went on a camp, and five of them died. A tree got hit and they were camping under the tree.
"At my primary school the tennis courts got hit, everyone on the field got knocked out, their shoes got burnt, the top of their heads got burned.
"At the local Bryanston Country Club, a father and son walking back from the driving range, it wasn't even raining, they got hit. They died.
"It's a regular thing over there. You just don't play with it. It's dangerous, it takes lives."
ICC regulations state that any decision to suspend play due to adverse weather conditions lies solely with the umpire, though the ECB have requested an overview into the regulations – pushing for play to be suspended at the first signs of lightning.
This is an especially prevalent issue in Bangladesh, where there are more fatalities because of lightning than any other country in the world.
"You just don't play with it. It's dangerous, it takes lives." Michael Lumb
"I was at deep square leg, I heard the rumble," said Lumb.
"I thought it was an aeroplane at first. Then the rumble got closer, and I thought 'oh, that's thunder'. Then there were a couple of flashes, and it got really close.
"I don't know the rules and regs, but from a safety point of view, you should have been off the field."
"It was a dangerous place to be. That's the long and the short of it.
You wouldn't be out there on a golf course. It's the reason they have those sirens, because it's dangerous.
"If this was a golf course, we wouldn't have been on the course. The siren would have gone off and we would have been sat in the clubhouse."
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Congratulations to the Jessup Moot Court Team
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A group of Marquette students just finished an extremely successful weekend at the Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition, which took place in Chicago and featured schools from across the midwest. The team of Matt Ackmann, Joel Chappelle, Solomon Gatton, and Colin Stephenson finished preliminary rounds ranked third out of twenty teams, advanced to quarterfinals, and received a trophy for writing the fourth-best briefs. In addition, out of eighty individual competitors, Colin and Joel received awards for being the fifth- and seventh-best speakers, respectively. Having watched a couple of their rounds, I can attest that they did a fantastic job.
Thanks to the efforts of these students, Megan O'Brien, and various alumni, Marquette has now placed teams in regional quarterfinals two years in a row. We look forward to extending this record of success in the coming years.
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Daniel arap Moi, supreme ruler of Kenya for 24 years and one of Africa's longest surviving leaders, is ceding power this month in an election that many see as a test not only of this spirited if struggling country, but of the viability of democracy across the continent.
Mr. Moi arrives in Washington on Thursday for a meeting with President Bush, one that is expected to touch on both the Nov. 28 terrorist attacks in Mombasa and the importance of the looming transition in Kenya. If all goes well and Mr. Moi steps gracefully aside, Mr. Bush is planning a trip to Kenya early next year, with one possible stop being the newly constructed American Embassy in Nairobi, which replaces the one destroyed by a terrorist bombing in 1998.
For Kenya, this is a campaign season unlike any other: while there is all the ferocious disagreement and sometimes deadly violence of past balloting, for most voters this will be the first election they have known in which the winner is not preordained.
The next president will be either Uhuru Kenyatta -- son of Kenya's first president, Jomo Kenyatta, and Mr. Moi's clear favorite -- or Mwai Kibaki, a veteran politician heading up an opposition coalition that increasingly appears to be the choice of a majority of Kenyans who are fed up with the corruption and crime that have eaten away at their country during Mr. Moi's rule. (Political experts say three other candidates, from minor parties, lack national reach and do not stand a chance.)
''We've never had an election this important,'' said John Githongo, a political expert who runs the offices of Transparency International, an anticorruption group, in the Kenyan capital. ''Not many African countries have been able to handle democratic transitions. If we can do it, peacefully and without controversy, it's an achievement. Our economy will still be in shambles but this could be the beginning of our turnaround.''Continue reading the main story
Despite severe economic woes and the steady decay of its once excellent infrastructure, Kenya remains a pillar of East Africa.
Relief operations to aid the suffering people of Sudan and Congo often being in Kenya. So do military actions to calm the killing frenzies of the region. United States Marines are currently involved in monthlong joint maneuvers along Kenya's coast. The country remains a banking and business center, a transportation hub and a zone of relative stability in a troubled part of the world.
The suicide bombing that leveled the Paradise Hotel here and the failed attempt to down a chartered aircraft leaving Mombasa for Israel only underscore the importance of Kenya. Many political experts believe Kenya, which has porous borders with largely lawless Somalia, has twice been picked as a terrorist target at least partly because of its pro-Western ways.
Still, it is not the country it once was or should be. ''If this country were a car, we'd be pushing it,'' said Gordon Yagomba, 52, an opposition supporter who, like most Kenyans, struggles each month to feed his family.
Over the last quarter century, Mr. Moi's election victories were rather scripted affairs, with his name the only one of the ballot for much of his reign.
After reluctantly agreeing to multiparty politics in 1991, Mr. Moi and his Kenya African National Union party, known as KANU, still managed to manipulate the system -- by fomenting ethnic clashes, exploiting state resources and outfoxing the divided opposition.
As Kenya's economy has shriveled and its suffering has grown, Mr. Moi has found his popularity at an all-time low. He probably would not have won the Dec. 27 election even if the Constitution did not require him to retire.
''Any change of the head of state after 24 years is itself a major event,'' said Edward Clay, the British high commissioner in Kenya, which was a British colony until 1963. ''The world is watching this election so closely because we all want Kenya to do better than it has been doing.''
The campaign has generated a frenzy among Kenyans. Rocks are lobbed at candidates on campaign stops; election-related brawls are common. At a bar in downtown Nairobi known for its political banter, a police officer in the governing party recently fired tear gas at patrons who were too effusive in their praise of the opposition.
Already, there have been reports -- hard, as always in Kenya, to verify -- of voter cards being bought and sold, of the names of perhaps a million dead people still on the voter rolls and of thugs intimidating those who might think of voting independently.
The biggest fear, however, is a last-minute round of the ethnic violence that marred the last two presidential contests. In all, thousands of people were killed in the 1992 and 1997 campaigns.
With a first name that means freedom in Swahili, Mr. Kenyatta, 42, is a political novice who regards that term as a badge of honor in a political system so full of rot. Yet Mr. Kenyatta has surrounded himself with some of Mr. Moi's closest cronies and he has promised to keep Mr. Moi's recently chosen vice president, Musalia Mudavadi, as his own.
''We have to forget the past, however bitter we may be,'' Mr. Kenyatta said as he kicked off his campaign recently in Nairobi.
Mr. Kibaki, by contrast, is 71. He once served Mr. Moi as vice president, but formed his own opposition party in 1991, citing electoral malfeasance by the governing party as well as the suspicious killing of the foreign minister at the time.
Both main candidates are Kikuyus, Kenya's largest tribe, which has helped diffuse some of the ethnic tension that surrounds any political contest here. But political rifts still bristle.
When Mr. Kibaki's Range Rover went into a ditch this week, many of his supporters instantly thought of sabotage; but the accident, which killed two people, has since been proclaimed by the opposition to be just that. Mr. Kibaki, who suffered some broken bones, is expected to return to the campaign trail soon.
Mr. Kibaki finished a close second to Mr. Moi in 1997, and a distant third five years earlier. This time, he is given a better chance because the opposition has united into what its members call the ''Rainbow'' coalition. Recent polling puts Mr. Kibaki, who has made a big issue of the corruption under Mr. Moi, ahead of Mr. Kenyatta.
''We don't want to be ruled anymore by those who dictate, declare orders and issue instructions,'' Mr. Kibaki said at a recent campaign appearance. ''We want to be ruled by the law. The word corruption doesn't capture what's going on here. You have to use the Kiswahili word wizi, which means stealing.''Continue reading the main story


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Two goals from Juan Sara ended Dundee's poor spell after Livingston were bizarrely reduced to nine men.
Livi's hopes of rekindling their Uefa Cup qualification challenge suffered a blow after Massimilano Caputo was shown a red card for what appeared to be an innocuous challenge on Massimo Beghetto before the break.
Visiting boss Jim Leishman was sent to the stand for the strength of his protests.
Sara headed the opener after 56 minutes.
And Livi's misery was complete when Steve Tosh was sent off for a high boot and Sara added his second in injury time.
Livingston needed the victory after being caught by Aberdeen in the race for third-top spot in the Scottish Premier League.
Javier Sanchez Broto took his place in the Livi goal after more than five months on the sidelines, with Nick Culkin relegated to the bench in one of five changes from the side defeated at the weekend.
Dundee wanted the win to lift themselves above third-bottom Hibernian.
Lee Wilkie made his first start since June after resolving his differences with the Dens Park management team and replaced David Mackay.
On-song Georgian Temuri Ketsbaia was Dundee's first-half dangerman, sending a couple of drives just over the crossbar.
Livi's Quino rattled the upright and goalkeeper Julian Speroni turned a David Fernandez effort over the bar.
But the game took a volatile twist after 32 minutes, when Livingston found themselves down to 10 men.
Caputo was shown a straight red card by referee John Rowbotham for a strong challenge on Beghetto.
The Livi striker was adudged to have punched his opponent, but the way the two hugged one another before Caputo wandered off the pitch suggested that the challenge might have been more accidental.
Leishman was sent to the stands but not before he too received a friendly arm around the shoulder from Dundee counterpart Ivano Bonetti.
But referee Rowbotham hastily retracted the card and replaced it with the yellow.
Dundee eventually made the extra man count after 56 minutes when Artero flighted a perfectly-weighted cross into the path of Sara, who left Broto helpless as he nodded home the opening goal.
Tosh had come on as a substitute after 68 minutes and lasted just five minutes after receiving a straight red card when his studs left Ketsbaia needing treatment for a hand injury.
Speroni prevented nine-man Livi snatching an unlikely point with a late double save from Barry Wilson and Fernandez.
And Sara settled the game 90 seconds into injury time as Livi pressed forward and were caught out by a Ketsbaia-inspired break.
Dundee: Speroni, Smith, Wilkie, Del Rio, Beghetto, Ketsbaia, Rae, Artero, Torres, Sara, Caballero. Subs: Langfield, Robertson, Garrido, MacKay, Kemas.
Livingston: Broto, Hart, Andrews, Santini, Bollan, Quino, Makel, Lovell, Toure-Maman, Fernandez, Caputo. Subs: Culkin, Wilson, Tosh, Bingham, Petersen.
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The 'One Tree Hill' star is preparing to run 13.1 miles to raise much-needed cash to help the victims of BP oil spill.
Actress Sophia Bush is in training to run a half-marathon to raise funds for the victims of the BP oil spill affecting the Gulf. The "One Tree Hill" star flew to New Orleans, Louisiana in June to survey the damage caused by the BP slick, which has been drifting ashore since a rig ruptured in April.
She was left angry by the lack of help for those living in the area and pledged to do all she could to aid them. And now she's preparing to run 13.1 miles to raise much-needed cash - but Bush admits she is worried about the massive race.
In a post on her blog, she writes, "I am going to run a half marathon this November. Yup. Me. The asthmatic with a years-old knee injury, who hasn't run a mile since Junior High. (But I) started to wonder. Could I run 13 miles? Would I make it? Would my lungs make it!? Would I be able to do this? I started to feel crazy and I started to feel scared. And then I told myself to go ahead and just shut up. 'You wanna run scared?' I asked myself. 'Well then you are RUNNING. THIS. RACE!' I strongly believe in doing things that scare you."
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Sept. 19, 2004 -- A civil settlement was reached between the Society for Prevention of Cruelty of Animals of Texas and a Hopkins County dog breeder in connection with two dozen dogs that were removed from the woman's residence one week ago.
"They settled out of court and turned the dogs over to SPCA," said Hopkins County Sheriff's Deputy Brandon Anderson Thursday afternoon.
According to Hopkins County Attorney Dusty Rabe, the dog owner's attorneys met with SPCA representatives Thursday morning just prior to a civil hearing in Precinct 1 Justice of the Peace Yvonne King's court, and reached an agreement by which the dog breeder released ownership of the dogs to SPCA of Texas for adoption. The breeder also reportedly agreed to meet the terms outlined in a specific list of instructions in regard to the management and proper operation of an animal kennel.
While the settlement is not a guaranty that the breeder will not face a Class A misdemeanor charge of animal cruelty, it is unlikely she will be charged, provided she follows the guidelines set by SPCA of Texas in the settlement, Rabe said.
"It is my opinion that she is guilty of cruelty on some level, but I don't think it is something that will rise to criminal charges instead of civil," Rabe said. "If she maintains the changes, we will probably have no problems with her in the future."
The 24 dogs which were removed from the County Road 2560 residence on Saturday, Sept. 11, by Anderson and SPCA representatives ranged in type from schnauzers and Scotties to dachshunds.
HCSO and SPCA of Texas launched an investigation of the dog breeder's location after deputies received an animal complaint call for the FM 2560 residence. Anderson and an SPCA investigator went to the location, where they spoke with the breeder. She then allowed them entry to the location to view and take photographs of the animals in their habitat.
When investigating animal cruelty cases, officials check to see that animals are provided with adequate food and water, given shelter and the general condition of that shelter, and that health care needs are met.
All potential adopters will be required meet their potential pet at the shelter, where they will fill out a questionnaire which will cover whether they have other pets, the animal's living arrangements and details concerning the residence. Three references will be required. The application process will take a few days, after which potential adopters will be notified whether or not they meet organization guidelines. Applications approved based on which application is the best match for the animal rather than on a first-come, first-serve basis, according to the SPCA of Texas Web site.
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SAN ANTONIO — Patricia Goudge lived by example, family members said. The first-generation American devoted her time volunteering and stayed active with her husband, children and grandchildren.
"She was a very loving and caring mother. She took fabulous care of us," daughter Cheri Snyder said.
Patricia Goudge died March 7. She was 86.
Her parents emigrated from Switzerland to Ukiah, Calif., to seek more opportunities for their family of nine.
Goudge graduated high school around 1945 and traveled to San Antonio to join one of her sisters at work as a bank teller. "She was young. She was with family. ... I think she wanted to go somewhere else and work for a while," Snyder said.
It was during a trip to Ukiah to visit her parents that Goudge came across her high school sweetheart, Don. He had enlisted in the Army after World War II and had returned home to attend college.
In 1950, the two married, moved to Oregon and soon after started a family that grew quickly.
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Don Goudge worked at a pump company but realized he needed another job to support their two children and a baby on the way. A job offer came from Texas and brought the family to San Antonio.
"There was a better financial opportunity in San Antonio for a growing family," Snyder said.
When settling in the new city, Patricia Goudge made sure she made time with her children, attending games and hosting guests.
"Our friends would always come over, and she loved having them around. She was very involved with anything we were doing," Snyder said. "She especially loved watching my brothers play sports. She was a huge sports fan."
Goudge also like to sing, Snyder said.
"She had a beautiful voice, but that was one of the things a lot of people didn't know. ... When I was a little girl, I remember her singing 'Somewhere Over the Rainbow.' She used to sing that around the house a lot."
As the Goudges' children grew up, Patricia Goudge dedicated more time to volunteer in her community.
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Born: Nov. 11, 1927
Died: March 7, 2014
Preceded by: Son John Goudge; parents George and Lena Wenglein; sisters Hulda Weger, Georgia Luby, Martha Wenglein, Rhea Lathrop
Survived by: Husband Don; daughter Cheri Snider; sons Jimmy Goudge and Bobby Goudge; sister Alice Southerland
Services: Memorial Service at 11 a.m., Tuesday, at Alamo Heights United Methodist Church, 825 E. Basse Road. A reception at the church will follow the service.
She delivered flowers at Methodist Hospital, planned the Alamo Heights Methodist Church Thursday Lunch Bunch and helped The Christian Assistance Ministry.
"She always thought it was so important to volunteer," Snyder said. "She even instilled that in her children. She thought everyone had something to give back."


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The pack to which these cards were added naturally bore Italian suitmarks and belonged to an experimental period of card design when queens were often added to the series of court cards previously consisting of only a king and two male figures (see playing card). In standard cards (but not in tarots), the four figures were subsequently reduced to three again by suppression of the queen, except in French cards, which suppressed the cavalier (knight).
The trionfi each bore a different allegorical illustration instead of a common suitmark. Such illustrations probably represented characters in medieval reenactments of Roman triumphal processions, similar to floats in a modern festival parade. They were originally unnumbered, so that it was necessary to remember what order they went in. Whether or not trionfi were originally produced independently of standard playing cards, their function, when added to the pack, was to act as a suit superior in power to the other four—a suit of triumphs, or "trumps."
The standard modern tarot deck is based on the Venetian or the Piedmontese tarot. It consists of 78 cards divided into two groups: the Major Arcanamajor arcana, which has 22 cards (, also known as trumps), and the Minor Arcanaminor arcana, which has 56 cards.
The cards of the Major Arcana major arcana have pictures representing various forces, characters, virtues, and vices. The 22 cards are numbered from I through XXI, with the Fool fool being unnumbered. The tarots of the Major Arcana major arcana are, in order, as follows: I Jugglerjuggler, or Magicianmagician; II Papesspapess, or Female Popefemale pope; III Empressempress; IV Emperoremperor; V Popepope; VI Loverslovers; VII Chariotchariot; VIII Justicejustice; IX Hermithermit; X Wheel wheel of Fortunefortune; XI Strengthstrength, or Fortitudefortitude; XII Hanged Man (see photograph)hanged man; XIII Death (see photograph)death; XIV Temperancetemperance; XV Devildevil; XVI Lightninglightning-Struck Towerstruck tower; XVII Starstar; XVIII Moon (see photograph)moon; XIX Sunsun; XX Last Judgmentlast judgment; XXI Worldworld, or Universeuniverse; and the Foolfool.
The 56 cards of the Minor Arcana minor arcana are divided into four suits of 14 cards each. The suits, which are comparable to those of modern playing cards, are as follows: wands, batons, or rods (clubs); cups (hearts); swords (spades); and coins, pentacles, or disks (diamonds). Each suit has four court cards (usually named king4 court cards—king, queen, knight, and page) and jack—and 10 numbered cards. In ascending order , the value progression in each suit is ace to 10, then page (knave, or jack), knight, queen, and king (though the ace is sometimes assigned a high value, as in modern playing cards).
The standard deck of modern playing cards was historically derived from that of the Minor Arcana (with the elimination of the knight).At first the tarot was probably used for playing games, though Gypsies may have used it for fortune-telling. From the 18th century, the cards began to take on esoteric associations, as certain European writers connected them to diverse traditions of mysticism, divination, alchemy, and ritual magic. The cards have retained these associations and are now widely used for fortune-tellingadaptation of tarots to occult and fortune-telling purposes first occurred in France about 1780. For fortune-telling , each tarot card is ascribed a meaning. The cards of the Major Arcana major arcana refer to spiritual matters and important trends in the questioner's life. In the Minor Arcana, minor arcana wands deal mainly with business matters and career ambitions, cups with love, swords with conflict, and coins with money and material comfort. The tarot deck is shuffled by the questioner, and then the fortune-teller lays out a few of the cards (either selected at random by the questioner or dealt off the top of the shuffled deck) in a special pattern called a "spread." The meaning of any card is modified according to whether or not it is upside down, its position in the spread, and the meaning of adjacent cards.


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|Josephine Laforge, Crow allottee. Land patent in fee granted to.
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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized to issue a patent in fee to Josephine Laforge (Sage Woman), Crow allottee numbered 1254, for land allotted to her under the provisions of the Act of June 4, 1920 (Forty-first Statutes at Large, page 751), and designated as homestead.
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by Jeff Reeves | February 3, 2012 7:37 am
There's a lot of bluster this election year about the economy and President Barack Obama's effect on jobs and the stock market. But what you may not realize is that many comparisons aren't exactly fair.
Yes, in November 2008 when Obama won the election, unemployment was just shy of 7%, and when he took office in January it was under 8%. But comparing our current unemployment rate of 8.3%[1] to what things were like when the president took office isn't so simple. After all, the financial crisis was really only beginning in late 2008, and the Great Recession didn't peak until mid-2009.
In many ways it's an accident of timing that Obama has presided over a rise in unemployment more than anything else. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to understand that a previous administration's policies were in action for those first readings and Obama's plans hadn't yet had time to take shape.
The same can apply, however, to the stock market. The bottom of the bear market in equities came in early March 2009. So, in many respects, President Obama "bought the bottom" of the stock market and has simply presided over the rebound. The stock market is up about 55% since January 20, 2009, and a handful of equities are up by dramatically more than that.
Of course, the five-year return for the S&P 500 as of this writing is a loss of 8%, so we haven't even gotten back to pre-crash levels yet. Let's not pretend Obama ignited a stock market boom.
Still, investors are addicted to crunching numbers and tracking time frames[2]. So I've decided to offer up some of the biggest winners since Obama took the oath of office in January 2009.
I could have included the losers too, but there would be too many tied for losses of 100% via bankruptcy — ranking from the recent failure of Borders to victims like General Motors (NYSE:GM[3]), which went to zero but then got a second life with its 2010 IPO after Chapter 11 reorganization.
Instead, here are the 10 biggest "winners" under Obama, even though the president personally deserves little credit for these success stories:
Keep in mind that these figures are as of the opening bell on Feb. 2, and just a little difference in share price can really alter these returns considering the long-term change.
I'm not sure whether there are any lessons to learn from this list, either. But at least I hope you find it interesting.
Jeff Reeves is the editor of InvestorPlace.com. Write him at editor@investorplace??.com, follow him on Twitter via @JeffReevesIP and become a fan of InvestorPlace on Facebook. Jeff Reeves holds a position in Alcoa, but no other publicly traded stocks.
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PARIS, Nov 7 (Reuters) - European stocks pared early gains and briefly turned flat around midday on Wednesday, as nagging worries over the euro zone crisis eclipsed an initial relief from U.S. President Obama's re-election.
At 1233 GMT, the FTSEurofirst 300 index of top European shares was up 0.1 percent at 1,115.52 points after surging to less than a point from a 16-month high in early trade.
The European Commission said on Wednesday the euro zone economy will barely grow next year, with Spain's economy expected to contract by 1.4 percent this year and by the same pace next year, much worse than the government's prediction.
"It's been those revised euro growth forecasts, general cuts in expectations for growth. That has provided the catalyst, or excuse if you like, for people to cut back a bit, but we would've expected some weakness after last night's run higher anyway," a London-based trader said.


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Britain, meanwhile, has deployed an E-3D early warning aircraft over Poland and Romania to monitor Ukraine.
Instead, Ford doubled down and asserted that Poland, Romania, and Yugoslavia were free of Soviet influence.
Next door in Romania, a historical figure nicknamed Vlad the Impaler inspired the first mainstream depiction of a vampire.
Some countries used ornate samps; Romania's stamp was just a cross.
Though vampire legends exist the world over, Romania and Bulgaria have born the brunt of the attention.
The Americanisation of the world was perceived to be the historical equivalent of the Pox Romania.
On the value of this Life, see an article by the same, "Romania," vol.
Their music is regularly performed in Romania and in some of the other communist countries, but it is not well known elsewhere.
Romania, futile expedition into, 59; union to Barbaricum, 137.
The poem was discovered by M. Paul Meyer, and published in Romania, 1892, p. 51.
Eastern European nation, name taken officially in 1861 at the union of Wallachia and Moldavia, from Latin Romani "people from Rome," which was used to describe the descendants of colonists there from Roman times; see Roman + -ia. In early use often Rumania, or, from French, Roumania. Related: Romanian; Rumanian; Roumanian.
Republic in southeastern Europe on the northeast Balkan Peninsula, bordered by Hungary to the northwest, Ukraine to the northeast, Moldova and the Black Sea to the east, Bulgaria to the south, and the former Yugoslavia to the southwest. Its capital and largest city is Bucharest.
Note: During World War II, Romania was allied to the Axis Powers but joined the Allies in 1944.
Note: Occupied by Soviet troops in 1944, Romania became a people's republic on the model of the Soviet Union in 1947.
Note: A former Eastern Bloc country, Romania was ruled in the 1970s and 1980s by communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu, who was overthrown and executed during a bloody revolution in 1989. (See collapse of communism.)


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While efficient market disciples will cringe, those seeking alpha recognize there are opportunities to exploit. And, one of the favorite opportunities is finding a stock ready to move and undervalued.
In my most recent weekly screening of stocks for my institutional clients, Trex Company (NYSE:TREX) once again reared its head. The company, which makes plastic - err, wood-alternative - decking appears poised to move higher as home building trends improve.
In the most recent quarter, Trex posted top line growth of 20%, good enough to produce $0.58 cents in earnings per share and keep it on target to post full year EPS of $1.58.
Trex is a small company with rapidly improving sales growth.
It only has 16.8 million shares outstanding, of which 15.5 million are floating. At current prices just shy of $30 per share, it boasts a market cap of only $500 million. Unlike larger, highly institutionalized stocks, Trex is a niche player traveling under many funds radar.
But, that's likely to change as investors begin to put more credence behind the early stage recovery occurring in homebuilding.
In July, new home sales were 25.3% above last year. More importantly, months of inventory fell to 4.6, down from 6.7 a year ago. Months for sale were 8.7, down from 9.4 in July 2011.
Overall, June construction spending increased 7% from last year, with total private construction climbing 13.1% - more than offsetting a -3.7% drop in public spend. We'll get July numbers on September 4th.
And, while July year over year new housing permit growth was revised lower to 29.3% from 29.5%, permit growth remains an impressive number and bullish for related housing stocks.
Analysts are looking for a big bump in earnings next year.
The consensus among analysts is for Trex to post $2.20 per share in earnings in FY13, 39% above 2012's projected haul. This gives Trex a PE of 13.53, well below its 5 year PE range low of 19.
Given the discounted valuation, it would seem investors under appreciate the company's growth and margin potential.
In the past two quarters, the company has seen its cost of sales fall to 63.8%, down from 68.4% a year ago. It's selling, general and administrative expenses fell to 20.7% of sales, down from 23.1%. Last quarter, a 22% lift in volume provided enough scale to boost gross margin to 35.6% from 30% last year.
Investors also don't seem to appreciate the company's low debt status and the $3.25 per share the company has in cash and equivalents.
Instead, they remain too focused on last year's housing challenges than this year's recovery. All in, short sellers are sitting on 8.8 days of average volume equal to 14.5% of the float. They're betting any inventory build in the channel tied to pre-season incentives will remain stuck there.
This bet could end up costing shorts handily. Particularly, if results at big chains like Home Depot (NYSE:HD) prompt investors to think of Trex more like highly shorted Lumber Liquidators (NYSE:LL), which I wrote about in February here, and is up 37% this quarter.
As for how much running room Trex may offer investors, a simple back of napkin calculation shows the gains could be significant. Using its current 19 multiple against its forward estimate gives you a target price north of $41, which would be good for a 40% gain.
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The availability of continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) sensors allows development of new strategies for the treatment of diabetes. In particular, from an on-line perspective, CGM sensors can become "smart" by providing them with algorithms able to generate alerts when glucose concentration is predicted to exceed the normal range thresholds. To do so, at least four important aspects have to be considered and dealt with on-line. First, the CGM data must be accurately calibrated. Then, CGM data need to be filtered in order to enhance their signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). Thirdly, predictions of future glucose concentration should be generated with suitable modeling methodologies. Finally, generation of alerts should be done by minimizing the risk of detecting false and missing true events. For these four challenges, several techniques, with various degrees of sophistication, have been proposed in the literature and are critically reviewed in this paper.
The knowledge of glucose concentration in blood is a key aspect in the quantitative understanding of the glucose-insulin system and in the diagnosis and treatment of diabetes. The use of signal processing techniques on glucose data started some decades ago, when glucose time-series in a given individual could be obtained in laboratories from samples drawn in the blood at a sufficiently high rate. In particular, an important body of literature of the 80s and 90s employed not only linear (e.g., correlation and spectrum analysis, peak detection), but also nonlinear (e.g., approximate entropy) methods to investigate oscillations present in glucose (and insulin) time-series obtained, during hospital monitoring, by drawing blood samples every 10–15 min for up to 48 h [
New scenarios in diabetes treatment were presented in the last ten years, when minimally invasive continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) sensors, able to monitor glucose concentration continuously for several days, entered clinical research [
Most of the commercial minimally invasive CGM systems, e.g., and the CGMS® (Medtronic Minimed Inc, Northridge, CA, USA) [
The existence of a BG-to-IG kinetics, however, is not able to explain some of the discrepancies which are evident along the y-axis, e.g., in the interval between 18–25 h. This difference is likely due to a change of behavior of the CGM sensor performance after its initial calibration.
The fact that CGM profiles can be affected by calibration problems can be critical in several applications, e.g., alert generation systems and artificial pancreas. For this reason, real-time "recalibration" of CGM data is desirable, where, for recalibration, we intend a step where the sensor output (in mg/dl) is processed by an algorithm (e.g., external to the device) in order to improve its accuracy. After recalibration, the difference between BG and CGM samples should be due to BG-to-IG kinetics only.
Several studies in the literature tried to cope with the recalibration problem, mostly retrospectively. A detailed study has been presented by the DirecNet Study Group [
A more recent recalibration procedure, thought for an off-line application, is that presented by King
None of the above recalibration algorithms consider explicitly the distortion introduced by BG-to-IG kinetics and the possibly time-varying behavior of sensor performance (the sensor gain is estimated only once for the entire monitoring). A first comprehensive description of the CGM measurement process is due to Knobbe and Buckingham [
Under these assumptions, a nonlinear state-space nonlinear dynamic model can be obtained, where the unknown IG(k) and α(k) represent two of the unknown states, which can be estimated by EKF. An example on real data (collected in a type 1 diabetic subject) is shown in
In addition to calibration errors, the CGM signal is also corrupted by a random noise component. The noise typically dominates the true signal at high frequency and is usually considered to be additive:
Given the expected spectral characteristics of noise, (causal) low-pass filtering [
Nonlinear pre-filtering like signal clipping, median filtering, and hard-bounding, are used in order to deal with e.g., spurious spikes which may occasionally occur during the monitoring (see e.g., the artifacts in the bottom panel of
As far as MA filtering is concerned, having fixed the so-called order M of the filter, the estimate of the signal at the k-th sampling time is a weighted sum of the last M measured samples:
It is clear that any optimization made on order and weights of MA filtering cannot be directly transferred from one sensor to another. For instance, CGM time series observed with different sampling rates must be processed by filters with different parameters (even when they exhibit the same SNR, as it happens in some portions of the recordings of
Some methods which can be used for denoising CGM signals with approaches more sophisticated than MA can be found in several works [
The variance of the noise component in these two time-series is clearly different. The application of the denoising procedure provides estimates of σ2 equal, respectively from top to bottom, to 21.4 and 1.8 mg2/dL2, in line with the intuition that the first time-series is more noisy than the second one, and suggesting that a suitable amount of smoothing is introduced by the filtering method (for sake of completeness, the correspondent estimates of λ2 are 0.14 and 0.06 mg2/dL2, respectively). Interestingly, considering the top panel time-series, the time-lag introduced by Kalman filtering in
In Facchinetti
A natural on-line application of CGM sensors is the prevention of hypo/hyperglycemic events. Only a few years after the appearance of CGM sensors in the market, some methods were proposed to generate alerts when the actual trend of the glucose concentration profile suggested that hypoglycemia was likely to occur within a short time. Such techniques are often termed projection methods. For instance, in Choleau
An improvement can be obtained by generating hypo-/hyper-alerts on the basis of ahead-of-time prediction of glucose concentration, which can be computed from past CGM data and suitable time-series models. The possibility of making a short term prediction of glucose concentration exploiting its past history was originally suggested in Bremer and Gough [
The necessity of having a time-varying
Assessing how much such a kind of predicted profiles can be useful for the prevention hypo-/hyper-glycemia events is critical, but crucial. A straightforward index which could be considered, especially for comparing the relative performance of different models (e.g., polynomial
A useful index is the energy of the second order differences of the predicted profile (ESOD), which reflects the presence of spurious oscillations in the predicted profile (oscillations are obviously undesirable, since they can facilitate the generation of false hypo-/hyper-alerts). Another index is the delay of the predicted profile with respect to the original curve. In fact, the difference between PH and this delay represents a measure of the "gain in time" for alert generation obtained thanks to the use of predicted, instead of measured, CGM time-series. Notably, a delay of the prediction profile comparable to PH (or larger) would make the prediction profile useless in practice. All the above indexes are useful in assessing CGM time-series prediction algorithms. Of note is that, they are all dependent on the chosen PH and forgetting factor μ. For instance, as well visible in
The problem of assessing the performance of a prediction algorithm has been presented by making reference to a specific prediction model, but it is completely general. As a matter of fact, how to optimally design a prediction algorithm for CGM data, e.g., model structure, order, prediction horizon, forgetting factor, is still an open issue. The work by Zanderigo
Another work using a low-order linear time-series modeling to predict CGM is that of Eren-Oruklu
In the approaches above, CGM time-series are described by a model with fixed structure, minimum complexity, but with time-varying parameters which, at each sampling time, are re-adjusted on the basis of the newly collected glucose sample. Since the model has to describe the time-series only "locally", its complexity can be kept modest, a crucial aspect for using prediction algorithms in real-time. Reifman
In Palerm and Bequette [
Recently, an artificial neural network model (NNM) has also been applied in the prediction of glucose concentrations using CGM data. The use of NNM for glucose prediction is appealing because it could facilitate the exploitation of information on meals and insulin administrations. In Pappada
A critical problem is the generation of alerts, see Heise
Generating alerts accurately is difficult, because CGM data are often inaccurate (
CGM sensors allow the development of new strategies for the treatment of diabetes. In this contribution, we have considered four specific issues which are crucial for a "smart" real-time application of CGM sensors, in both open-loop (alert generators) and closed-loop (artificial pancreas) systems: (re)calibration for enhancing the accuracy of CGM signals, filtering for the enhancement of the SNR, ahead-of-time prediction, and generation of hypo/hyper-alerts. The main achievements of the literature, and also some open issues, have been discussed.
Some of the algorithms for calibration, denoising, prediction and alert generation discussed in this paper have been deposited by the University of Padova [
Representative type 1 diabetic subject. Top: BG references (stars)
Representative type 1 diabetic subject (data taken from Kovatchev
Two representative type 1 diabetic CGM time series. Top: FreeStyle Navigator® time series (1 min sampling), taken from Kovatchev
Same data as in
Application of the Kalman filtering method of Facchinetti
FreeStyle Navigator® time-series in a type 1 diabetic subject taken from Kovatchev
Same data of
Risk of generating a false hypo-alert from the original CGM profile (blue line) at time 19.2 mitigated by employing an on-line filtered profile (green line) together with its confidence interval (shaded area).


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WSTDA 2012 Spring Meeting
June 5-7,
Chateau Lake Louise
Louise, Alberta, Canada
Travel Hints
and Tips
Here is information we've
received from Travel Alberta and Banff Lake Louise
Tourism to help with your planning:
Airport options (and distance from Fairmont Lake
Louise – estimated time and distance) – All attendees
should fly into the Calgary International Airport (there
are direct flights to Calgary from Chicago, Dallas,
Denver, Houston, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Minneapolis,
Newark, Orlando, Palm Springs, Phoenix, Portland, Salt
Lake San Diego, San Fran & Seattle). The Fairmont Lake
Louise is located about 2 ½ hours from Calgary.
Transportation from the airport to the resort
(rental cars, train – some people are taking train
across Rockies, taxi, etc.) - It's wonderful to have a
rental car to explore the area. The drive from Calgary
to Lake Louise is an easy drive – four lane paved
highway – and as there are so many beautiful sites to
see in the mountains it's nice to have a car to do a bit
of exploring pre/post. However, if attendees do not want
to rent a car there is an airport transfer service
(currently $69.95 plus taxes/park fees) by Brewster.
Here is the site -
The Banff Airporter also
provides shuttle service to Lake Louise with a
connection in Banff with the Banff Airporter® private
sedan service
Package Options or info re: taking Canadian Rockies
train into the area (some people are hopping on in
Vancouver) – Here is the link to the Rocky Mountaineer
for attendees who would like to consider taking the
train -
http://www.rockymountaineer. com/en_US/
Tour options with reference to distance from Fairmont
Lake Louise –
Area attractions – This link by the Fairmont lists the
top sightseeing attractions in the area -
and this link too
On-site and area restaurants – here is a link to
the Chateau Lake Louise's onsite restaurants -
There are not too many
restaurants in the hamlet of Lake Louise, however, here
is a link to the options
Lake Louise Station
Restaurant (Heritage Railway Building), 10 minute drive,
Baker Creek Bistro (20
minute drive)
Useful Links
for WSTDA's 2012 Spring Meeting
Fairmont Chateau Lake Louise
Rocky Mountaineer
Area Restaurants
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6th Annual Crystal Coast Boat Show Is Biggest Yet.
The 2013 Crystal Coast Boat Show taking place on the Downtown Morehead City waterfront on May 18th and 19th promises to have more boats, vendors, artists, vintage automobiles and entertainment than ever before. "We have so many boats this year, we're trying to figure out where to put them all" said Captain Steve Miller, the chairman of the Boat Show Committee. "That's a good problem to have!"
The Crystal Coast Boat Show features both new and used boats as well as showcasing a variety of marine products and services, outdoor gear, fishing tackle, outfitters, brokers, fishing clubs and resource conservation groups. The boat show is free and open to the public on Saturday, May 18, 10am to 5pm and on Sunday, May 19, 11am to 4pm. Food and beverages will be available at the Food Court at Jaycee Park on the waterfront.
For the first time ever, a Paddleboard Race will take place on Saturday at 2 pm in honor of Armed Forces Day and benefiting 'Heroes on the Water', Camp LeJeune Chapter. And over the course of the entire weekend, Flatwaters Paddling will present free demonstrations that will include SUP (Stand Up Paddleboard) Yoga and kayak fishing. For more information or to register for the race, go to www.flatwaterspaddling.com or call 252-269-3975.
Plans are underway for a bigger and better ARTrageous art event held all weekend on the waterfront in conjunction with the Arts Council of Carteret County. On Saturday, May 18th, at Katherine Davis Park, the Morehead City Chapter, Antique Automobile Club of America will hold its 40th annual car show. Then, on Sunday, May 19th at Katherine Davis Park, the Morehead City After Hours Rotary Club will host a regional Cornhole Tournament. For more information or to register call 919-274-7745.
The DMCRA is a non-profit organization dedicated to restoring Morehead City to a vibrant economic, cultural, historic, social and recreational center. In addition to the Crystal Coast Boat Show, the DMCRA hosts the Alive at Five concert series, the 4th of July fireworks display, and the Christmas Parade.
For more information, go to www.crystalcoastboatshow.com or www.downtownmoreheadcity.com or call 252-8080440.