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Duty of Brokers to Customers
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What Duties Does a Broker Owe to Their Customers?
A broker owes a duty of care to their customers that demands that the broker put the interests of the customer first. This means that the broker can trade stocks only when a customer orders it, and must follow that order precisely and try to get the best available price. The broker must disclose any important facts relating to potential investments and not make any misrepresentations. A brokerage firm has the duty to supervise their brokers and make sure they comply with securities laws and take proper actions if there are any violations.
What Would be Considered Violations of Securities Laws?
Federal securities laws, state "blue-sky" laws, and consumer protection statutes all act to protect customers from these various violations by brokers and brokerage firms:
- Fraud and misrepresentation - this occurs when a broker either knowingly did not disclose an essential piece of information to a customer, or knowingly lied in relaying important information to a customer. In either case, if the information (or lack thereof) worked to the detriment of the customer, the customer may be able to take legal recourse.
- Negligence and malpractice - a broker has a duty to adequately manage a customer's account in the best interest of the customer. When the broker fails to look out for the best interests of the customer, even if it was not an intentional act, the broker could be liable for negligence and malpractice. An example of this would be the broker failing to properly diversify the customer's portfolio when the broker had the authority and duty to do so.
- Breach of contract - this usually pertains to the New Customer or New Account Agreements the customer signs when an account in opened. When the broker does not follow the instructions of the customer, does not adequately manage the account, or does not operate in good faith, he may be in breach of contract.
- Unsuitable trading - it is considered to be the duty of the broker to "know the customer"based on the customer's financial situation, knowledge of investing, investing goals, and risk tolerance. When a broker makes any investing recommendations to the customer, he must keep these factors in mind. If the broker makes any recommendations that clearly would not be ideal for the customer, or even if the broker allows the investor to make his own decision that would not be in his own interest without informing the investor of the potential detriment, the broker could be liable to the customer.
- Churning - the broker cannot promote excessive trading in order to further his own interests in payment of commissions. The broker must keep in mind the character of the customer's account, and recommend trades to the customer only as often and only when it would be beneficial to the interest of the customer.
- Breach of fiduciary duty - because of the level of trust involved in a relationship between a broker and a customer, a broker is bound by a higher duty of care to operate in good faith and not take any actions or make any recommendations that would violate this trust.
- Failure to supervise - a brokerage firm must not only put into place protocol that operates to supervise brokers in making sure they do not violate any securities laws, but also be able to show that these procedures were reasonably effective in deferring any violations
What Should I Do if My Broker Has Violated His Duty to Me?
Make sure to file a complaint with the brokerage firm the broker is working for. You may also want to file a complaint with the Securities and Exchange Commission for any violation of securities laws. You may be entitled to money damages for any violations by your broker that resulted to your financial detriment, so you may want to contract an attorney who has experience in dealing with securities law and securities fraud.
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Wednesday, November 02, 2011
Glaring Asynchronous Development
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My daughter is 9 and it took until she was 7 for us to realize that we had to adjust our expectations. Now we just forget how old she is and work with her to improve those areas that need help. We have stopped worrying about what she SHOULD be able to do or handle. It's just not relevant.
The extremely high IQ child seems to come into the world with their cognitive ability there very early on and noticeable if you are paying attention. The rest of their development is still that of a very young human child going through the stages to become a human adult. My child is pacing in a very similar fashion that I experienced, so I know the stages and it is okay for me. I do have to protect my child, because most people have not even heard of asynchronous development, let alone understand it. I have found that adults are very uncomfortable around brilliant children, if they are not comfortable and secure within themselves. We were introduced to the book, Matilda, recently and are thinking that the author, Roald Dahl, has insights into the experiences of the gifted child. In the book, the gifted child is Matilda.
My 8 year old son reads at least two 300+ page books daily and is doing college level math, but he has difficulty tying his shoes and still loves Sesame Street. Asynchronous indeed.
When my son was 18 months, he made a multi-dimensional bar chart of his Primos (big, fat, rounded Duplos), showing quantities of size and color. He was excited to see an anomoly show up -- there was no 4-stud green one -- but his toddler speech couldn't express it. So he bounced up and down and giggled.
I'm glad to report that, at 12, his verbal skills have caught up to his math skills. And he's moved on to architectural Legos and building Lego representations of his favorite websites.
How about a perspective from an ex-gifted child?
I was that child you describe, who could have a fluent conversation with adult members of the family, but then scream with frustration (usually because I was trying to do something that I was physically too small or immature to manage). I am certain that I got unduly punished on many such occasions - other toddlers could have an age-appropriate tantrum and get away with it because they were "average" in every other respect. But because I had been having an "adult" conversation, I was now expected to behave like a young person twice my age.
If there is one frustration I think I carry forward from childhood, it is not that of being pushed academically (which my parents never did, and in many respects I wish they would have). It is the constant expectation to "grow up", i.e. behave more maturely than my years. Just because I had the intellectual capacity, doesn't mean I had the emotional maturity to match. I felt under constant pressure to behave like a much more mature child.
In fact, I have frequently wondered if the constant pressure from my family to press me to behave like someone much older than my chronological years actually stunted my emotional development and confused any natural "emotional intelligence" I might have developed. This latter point is a psychological study I seriously feel needs to be done by some research team.
(In response to comment 5.) I want to add that I find the most intelligent adults to be much different than the average adult with regard to innate ethics and morality. Is it possible society conditions average adults to think that a certain amount of deceit, cheating or other bad behavior is mature or acceptable? I prefer the honesty I find in the more intelligent adult. If 'growing up' means comprimising values, then I think society could be better off if humans retained at least some ideals or desire for standards in at least some aspects or areas of human life. For example, different people have a much different definition of what is considered 'excellent.' Our family knows of at least one school where many children are receiving high grades but the work submitted as a final copy is worse than the first draft done by a gifted child. (They share copies of their final work products, so that is how we know.) Now, we are very careful to observe for ourselves before we accept that a school is striving for excellence. Anyone can say that they strive for excellence, but, in my experience, it is the gifted people who actually achieve it on their own volition, self-study and self-motivation. The maturity level of an adult gifted person is different than that of an average adult person and the main difference is in the upholding of principles. The gifted adult refuses to compromise their principles and has a hard time respecting those who, for example, break the law. Honor and high standards are very important to a gifted adult.
My daughter is 13.5 and in the 7th grade. SHe looks, acts and is emotionally equivalent to a 14-15 year old. Her grades are excellent despite being totally bored. 12 and 13-year girls in her class are act so young she can't believe it. 8th grade will be an incremental challenge for her - same classes, just abit more to do. I would like the opportunity to have her skip 8th grade and enter 9th grade next year. Within 4 weeks she will be 14 and what I feel is on par with her peers. She had to wait an entire year because she did not meet the Aug 31st deadlien for kindergarten, so shortly after Kindergartne started she turned 6. She came home from her first day at public school kindergarten where the teacher wanted to know if she could spell her name. She couldnt believe it! She is 'gifted' by public school standards but she is truly a mature, smart girl. Will she cure cancer someday soon? Probably not, but she is simply above and beyond her grade, so its best and easiest if she just skips one - no?
-cognitive ability better than average adult
-maturity level of chronological age (often)
-teeth come in ahead of schedule
-height seems about two years ahead
-imagination of a younger child
-parent / child conflict sometimes mirrors what's expected during teen years
- Evan Adams said...
It is worth noting that often, gifted kids are ahead of age peers in maturity, just not as far ahead as in intellectual development. Having those adult conversations as a toddler requires social and emotional skills that most toddlers don't have. Sensory issues can sometimes get confused for a lack of maturity, because we see it as immature to be bothered to the point of tears by the tag in your shirt or a certain smell.

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What can I possibly tell you that you don't know already? After all this time, our God still dines with prostitutes and sinners. After all this time, still he calls us from the trees we hide and peer from, looks with love in our eyes and says, "Tonight I change your life." And yet, after all this time, he is still the mad, mad Creator God, who dances a dance incomprehensible to we who waltz the world, though exhilarating none the less. He is at once overwhelmingly outside of us, the supernatural and eternal Creator that I argue with atheists, and overwhelmingly personal, the God of the Eucharist, the God that sings through our songs, that alights upon us in prayer.
The Mass has always been as much the summation of this dichotomy – it is dinner with the Pharisees and the Last Supper. It is huge – we worship the God of the Universe – and so very small – he greets us by our little, unimportant baptismal names – and makes them important. I've mentioned it before, the Eucharist is at once small and simple, unleavened bread, and infinite majesty. But what does it mean?
It means that it doesn't make any sense for us to be filled with the Eucharist. There is a mathematical disconnect – we finite beings receive the infinite? That doesn't work. How could we, flesh and bone, hope to contain that which by infinite nature surpasses us? I suppose you could limit such a reception to to our souls, saying "it is our infinite souls that receive the infinite the Eucharist, so it all works out." But that amounts to heresy on two levels. First, it makes us but souls trapped inside bodies, when in actual fact our bodies and souls are inseparably intertwined – one cannot receive the Eucharist without the other. Secondly, it makes the Eucharist "spiritually God". It says that the bread that fills our souls is all well and good, but the stuff that slips down our throats and into our guts, the stuff that flows through our red, red blood, that stuff is just the carrier for that God.
So what to make of it? How can we be filled by God any more than we can our homes? The answer is that we can't. If we think that we will be perfectly filled to the brim, and no more, by the Infinite, then we are stupid and bad at math. No, God bursts out. He is not contained. He spills from our eyes, our mouths our lungs. The reason we are sent out from the Mass is so we can shine in the world, so we can overflow onto our cities, houses and streets. We cannot contain our God, and that is His purpose. We are to be around others; our family, our friends, our enemies, prostitutes and sinners, boiling over, radiating with the Holy Spirit, radiation therapy for this cancer-afflicted world. The consummation of the Eternal is here to bring us peace, to be sure, but also to make us explode. Dear Catholics, those two are not mutually exclusive, peace and explosions. Having received Him in our breast, we must share Him with a world ill with want.


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Top Teachers: Janet Givens
By Tom Lappas, Henrico Citizen Editor 02/18/11
Officially, Janet Givens teaches first grade at Echo Lake Elementary School. Unofficially, she teaches creativity.
Givens' classroom is a wonderland of ingenuity, a place where students learn the same lessons in a multitude of different ways. Students often lead their peers in lessons on her classroom Promethean board or create scrapbooks from field trip experiences. Mind-bender games challenge their knowledge.
During a popular lesson about the solar system, Givens takes her students outside to draw a 15-foot sun in chalk on the pavement, then uses a golf ball to represent the size of Earth.
"The visual perception of the concept will forever be embedded in my son's head," wrote one woman who nominated Givens.
Givens – who gave up a career in interior design and retail merchandising to become a teacher 15 years ago – traces the roots of her own creativity to her great aunt, an art teacher who instilled much of it in her at a young age.
"I like thinking of news ways to do things, or unusual ways – ways the kids relate to," she said. "I just really try to be me in my classroom, and part of me is, a lot of times, doing things a little bit differently."
Givens earned National Board Certified Teacher status in 2004 – an involved process that requires teachers to develop an extensive portfolio and complete several assessment exercises. She has taught first grade at Echo Lake since the school opened in 1999. She works to develop a personal connection with each student, believing that in turn they'll open up to her and be more eager to learn.
"I like to try to find that one little special thing that makes a child unique or challenging or special," she said.
Her efforts haven't gone unnoticed among parents.
"She recognizes the wide ability range of children in her class and manages to incorporate the advanced essentials of curriculum yet still meet the needs of those requiring a 'second helping,' one nominator wrote.
Givens is a regular participant in recess – "I'm usually the pitcher for kickball," she admitted – and considers one of her most meaningful teaching moments to be one that came outside the classroom. A student had earned the reward of running a mile with her after school, but he had difficulty convincing himself he could finish.
"That whole time I kept telling him, 'One foot in front of the other, you can do this – we're not going to stop, you can do this' – and he did," he recalled. "It was the best mile I ever ran with him. It's something that I carry with me."
Eyes in the sky
By Patty Kruszewski, Citizen Managing Editor 07/21/2017 General NewsGovernment
Members of the Henrico Citizens Police Academy Alumni (pictured) got a rare peek at the "high" side of law enforcement recently, with a trip to the Metro Aviation Hangar adjacent to Richmond International Airport.
About 25 academy alumni gathered at the hangar July 11 to hear Officer Shaun McCarthy describe a typical day aloft - and some not so typical – in a Cessna owned by the Metro Aviation Unit. > Read more.
Rock on!
By Patty Kruszewski, Citizen Managing Editor 07/21/2017 FeaturesGeneral News
The painted rocks craze is thriving in Henrico, as a walk around the grounds of local libraries and parks will demonstrate. This rock was spotted near Libbie Mill Library, and there's a slideshow of many more uniquely-painted stones on the RVA Rocks Facebook page (https://facebook.com/groups/RVARocks/).
Painting and hiding rocks is a family activity appropriate for all ages, and parents especially like the way it fosters creativity and gets kids outdoors. > Read more.
Goochland man arrested at RIC with gun
Citizen Staff Reports 07/20/2017 General NewsPublic Safety
A Goochland County man was arrested at Richmond International Airport July 19 after Transportation Security Administration officers found a loaded semi-automatic handgun in the traveler's carry-on bag.
A TSA officer detected the 9 mm caliber handgun inside the man's carry-on bag as it entered the security checkpoint X-ray machine. The handgun was loaded with 12 bullets. > Read more.
Kansas man struck, killed while crossing West Broad Street
Citizen Staff Reports 07/20/2017 General NewsPublic Safety
A 54-year-old Kansas man was struck and killed by a car while attempting to cross West Broad Street near Bethlehem Road in the Near West End at about 10:30 p.m., July 19.
Julius A. McBride of Overland Park, Kansas, was struck by a car traveling east on West Broad Street. > Read more.
Julius A. McBride of Overland Park, Kansas, was struck by a car traveling east on West Broad Street. > Read more.
Henrico Police warn citizens to 'Take it, Lock it or Lose it'
By Ashley Luck, Special to the Citizen 07/20/2017 General NewsPublic Safety
Eastern parts of Henrico County have witnessed a recent increase in larceny from automobiles, so Henrico Police officials are spreading the word to encourage citizens to lock their vehicles.
Police are handing out and posting fliers and putting message boards in neighborhoods to educate residents.
There usually is a rise of larceny from automobiles during Christmas, spring and summer break, said Henrico Police Officer James Bupp. > Read more.
Henrico Police warn citizens to 'Take it, Lock it or Lose it'
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My Favorite Video Game Characters
A list of my favorite video game chaacters
A list of my favorite video game chaacters
Sackboy, from LittleBigPlanet has a stitched look and a very basic design but he could just be one of the cutest video game characters of all time. The ability to dress him up in different outfits to completely customizing your personal sackboy makes this video game character irresistible and one of my top favorites.
The Solis Snake saga may have come to an end, but this character will forever be one of my favorites. I've grown up with the Metal Gear Solid games and been through alot with Mr. Snake. It's sad to see his time come to an end, but I'm excited to see what's in store for the Metal Gear franchise.
Pikachu is by far the best Pokemon there is. Hands down, he is my favorite.
When i used to play the old Pokemon Red/Blue, I always started with Charmander. He's not my favorite Pokemon, but definitely a keystone to my overall Pokemon experience.
I loved the game Uncharted: Drake's Fortune, so Nathan Drake is on my list.
The Kingdom Hearts franchise has always delivered fantastic games, in my opinion.
Riku plays a vital part in the story of Kingdom Hearts.
Kairi rounds out the group of friends in Kingdom Hearts.
I loved playing as Raiden in MGS:2.
I remember my first encounter with a Big Daddy. I won't soon forget it. This character made BioShock the most memorable video game I played last year.
Ok, so I read the first Mass Effect book, which is basically a prequel to the first game. Anderson is the main character... and a bad ass.
Mass Effect was an amazing game.
This is the first time I've actually liked the main character in a Grand Theft Auto game.
Thank you for making my childhood a happy one!
I'm not the biggest Zelda fan in the world, but I've played and enjoyed most of the games.
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For Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood-dominated government, more battle tanks and jet fighters are on their way from the United States.
Cairo's military link to Washington has remained intact, meaning the U.S. will continue to modernize the biggest military in Africa — even as President Mohammed Morsi has decreed near-absolute power for himself and his supporters and opponents battle outside his palace.
Analysts say Egypt's military buildup presents risks for Washington — and Israel — with the growing influence of the Brotherhood, whose overriding goal is to establish Shariah, or Islamic, law worldwide.
A Pentagon statement to The Washington Times on Thursday said: "We are always reviewing our foreign assistance to make sure foreign assistance advances U.S. objectives and is being used for the right purposes."
For now, Egypt is due 200 M1A1 Abrams battle tanks, the same mechanized firepower manned by American soldiers, bringing Egypt's inventory to a robust 1,200.
U.S. giving Muslim Brotherhood Egypt tanks and fighter jets
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The following individuals in the Princeton-Zimmerman area have been booked into the Sherburne County Jail for the alleged offenses:
Aug. 10
n Erik Soule, of 20th Street Southeast in Santiago Township, reported the theft of two trailer ramps that are 4 feet long and 18 inches wide and tractor tire chains from a property located on 319th Avenue Northwest in Blue Hill Township. The estimated value of these items is $350.
Aug. 12
n Thomas Hlivka, of Ham Lake, reported the theft of a copper-colored name sign from a residence located on 290th Avenue in Baldwin Township. The value of the sign is currently unknown.
Aug. 15
n An employee of Nelson Nursery, located on Main Street in Zimmerman, reported that the business had been burglarized and $16 was taken.
n An employee of Paradigm Residential Services, located on the 12600 block of Fremont Avenue in Zimmerman, reported that two sections of shingles had been removed from the roof. On Aug. 23, the same business reported that two windows had been damaged. The estimated cost to repair the damage is currently unknown.
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n Todd Maloney, of 269th Avenue Northwest in Livonia Township, reported that his residence had been damaged. A window was broken out and siding was damaged. The estimated cost to repair is currently unknown.


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From: Sylvie Brucher <>
Subject: Re: [Q-R] Question: French Canadian or Quebecois?
Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2002 12:05:43 -0500
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I understand your confusion, K!
In a nutshell, a Quûˋbûˋcois is indeed a native or inhabitant of Quebec. A Quûˋbûˋcois or Quebecker can talk any language s/he wants for as long as they were either born or live in Quûˋbec.
A French-Canadian is a bit more of an encompassing term, since its roots are as actual as historical. Before people were Quebeckers, they were Canadians, either French or English (Timeline being after England took Canada from France). The meanings of
French-Canadian, as we actual French-Canadians use them are :
1. 1) Today, any Canadian who's mother tongue is French (think of Manitoba or New Brunswick for example - many speak French only, without having been in Quûˋbec at all)
2. 2) historically, French-Canadians were the people who retained their language and culture after England took over from the French. Mainly the core of the population in Lower Canada. Also the poorest.
3. 3) was also used as a derogatory term, for non educated catholic Quebeckers - until around "La Rûˋvolution Tranquille". Sad, no?
I personally refer myself to being both.
Anyone else feel free to add to this list if needed!
kfrog wrote:
> Please could someone explain to me the difference between French Canadian and Quebecois? I am not sure I am using the terms correctly.
> Merriam Webster says:
> ***French Canadian: one of the descendants of French settlers in Lower Canada
> ***Quebecois: a native or inhabitant of Quebec; specifically : a French-speaking native or inhabitant of Quebec
> My dad was Norwegian (Olsen) and Irish (McGreevy) and he grew up speaking both French and English. He was raised in St. Anne's Ward in Montreal. He had no French blood at all in his background.
> My husband is English/Welsh (and maybe a bit of French because Pearsall *may* have come from Percivale) and English (Camden). He, too, grew up speaking both French and English. He was raised in Ste. Hyacinthe. He had a gggrandmother who was a Huron Indian.
> Both men were actually "French-speaking natives or inhabitants of Quebec".
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Spaghetti Carbonara (Minus the Heavy Cream)by Robin Miller in Uncategorized, December 29, 2013
A little like bacon and eggs with spaghetti instead of toast, this classic Italian dish is as simple as it is decadent. The traditional recipe is made with cured pork jowl (guanciale) or bacon. And although some recipes call for cream, true carbonara contains none.
The creamy, Parmesan-enhanced sauce is made by allowing whole eggs to gently heat in the just-cooked spaghetti. In this recipe, by eliminating cream and swapping ham for bacon, I was able to shave off 100 calories and 1,500 milligrams of sodium per serving. Not only delicious, the pasta is also an ideal last-minute dinner.
No-Cream Spaghetti Carbonara
Serves 4
1 pound multigrain spaghetti
2 teaspoons olive oil
½ pound baked or smoked ham, diced
2 large eggs
1 teaspoon garlic powder
1 teaspoon onion powder
1 teaspoon dried oregano
½ teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
Pinch freshly ground nutmeg
1/3 cup grated Parmesan cheese
2 tablespoons chopped fresh parsley
Cook the spaghetti according to the package directions. Meanwhile, heat the oil in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Add the ham and cook for 3 to 4 minutes, until golden brown on all sides, stirring frequently.
In a medium bowl, whisk together the eggs, garlic powder, onion powder, oregano, pepper and nutmeg. Remove the skillet from heat. Drain the spaghetti and immediately add it to the skillet with the ham. Add the egg mixture and toss to coat (the heat from the spaghetti will cook the eggs). Fold in the Parmesan cheese. Transfer to a serving platter and garnish with the parsley.
Nutrition Info Per Serving
Calories: 396
Total Fat: 8 grams
Saturated Fat: 2 grams
Total Carbohydrate: 53 grams
Sugars: 3 grams
Protein: 27 grams
Sodium: 527 milligrams
Cholesterol: 75 milligrams
Fiber: 3 grams


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Prime numbers
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The following is an elegant (and highly inefficient) way to generate a list of all the prime numbers in the universe:
primes = sieve [2..] where sieve (p:xs) = p : sieve (filter (\x -> x `mod` p > 0) xs)
With this definition made, a few other useful (??) functions can be added:
(Note the use of
is_prime n = n `elem` (takeWhile (n >=) primes) factors n = filter (\p -> n `mod` p == 0) primes factorise 1 = [] factorise n = let f = head $ factors n in f : factorise (n `div` f)
to prevent the infinite list of primes requiring an infinite amount of CPU time and RAM to process!)
The following is a more efficient prime generator, implementing the sieve of Eratosthenes:
merge xs@(x:xt) ys@(y:yt) = case compare x y of LT -> x : (merge xt ys) EQ -> x : (merge xt yt) GT -> y : (merge xs yt) diff xs@(x:xt) ys@(y:yt) = case compare x y of LT -> x : (diff xt ys) EQ -> diff xt yt GT -> diff xs yt primes, nonprimes :: [Int] primes = [2,3,5] ++ (diff [7,9..] nonprimes) nonprimes = foldr1 f . map g $ tail primes where f (x:xt) ys = x : (merge xt ys) g p = [ n*p | n <- [p,p+2..]]
effectively implements a heap, exploiting Haskell's lazy evaluation model. For another example of this idiom see the Prelude's
type, which again exploits Haskell's lazy evaluation model
to avoid explicitly coding efficient concatenable strings. This is generalized by the DList package.
Bitwise prime sieve
Count the number of prime below a given 'n'. Shows fast bitwise arrays, and an example of Template Haskell to defeat your enemies.
{-# OPTIONS -O2 -optc-O -fbang-patterns #-} module Primes (pureSieve) where import Control.Monad.ST import Data.Array.ST import Data.Array.Base import System import Control.Monad import Data.Bits pureSieve :: Int -> Int pureSieve n = runST ( sieve n ) sieve n = do a <- newArray (3,n) True :: ST s (STUArray s Int Bool) let cutoff = truncate (sqrt (fromIntegral n)) + 1 go a n cutoff 3 1 go !a !m cutoff !n !c | n >= m = return c | otherwise = do e <- unsafeRead a n if e then if n < cutoff then let loop !j | j < m = do x <- unsafeRead a j when x $ unsafeWrite a j False loop (j+n) | otherwise = go a m cutoff (n+2) (c+1) in loop ( if n < 46340 then n * n else n `shiftL` 1) else go a m cutoff (n+2) (c+1) else go a m cutoff (n+2) c
And places in a module:
{-# OPTIONS -fth #-} import Primes main = print $( let x = pureSieve 10000000 in [| x |] )
Run as:
$ ghc --make -o primes Main.hs $ time ./primes 664579 ./primes 0.00s user 0.01s system 228% cpu 0.003 total


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A HUGE task faces York Indoor Bowls Club in the final round of Yorkshire League division one matches on Saturday.
They play leaders Featherstone needing three winning rinks and an overall aggregate win after disappointingly only picking up 12 points from a 93-78 victory against bottom-placed Harrogate.
At home, Dave Stroughair's team were in top form. Ahead from the start, they only lost six ends to win 29-12.
Phil Emmerson's side dropped a single on their first end, then won six on the trot picking up 16 shots before their opponents came back by scoring 13 unanswered shots.
However, a four then a three set the home side en route to a 28-20 victory.
Away, Mark Clarke's team were disappointed after fighting from 18-17 down to lead 21-18 going into the last end.
But there they dropped a four to lose by a single shot.
Paul Humphreys' side gave themselves hope when they scored a four on the 16th end to reduce the score to 16-12.
But dropped threes on the 17th and 19th ends, and a two on the last, proved costly in a 24-15 loss.
Selby did York a good turn and virtually sealed their top league position when they became the first team this season to beat Featherstone.
They won 82-81, seizing 12 points to six to edge 17 points clear of second from bottom Huddersfield.
Selby play second-placed Scarborough, who have their own title aspirations, on Saturday.
If results go their way then the east coast team can overturn the eight-shot deficit by which they trail the table-toppers.
In division two, New Earswick upset Ryedale's title ambitions when they beat them 100-56, picking up 17 out of the 18 available points.
At home, Bill Waldie's team got off to a flier to lead 20-6 after only ten ends before triumphing 33-9.
Barry Johnson's team's 16-12 advantage with six ends to play was reinforced by a 22-15 victory.
Away, Barry Harrison's team stormed to a 25-12 conquest after leading 14-0 after only five ends.
Paul Dawson's team trailed 15-14 with six ends to play; were level at 17-17 with three to play and finally locked at 20-20 by the end.
If New Earswick repeat similar wins in their last two games against Thornaby on Saturday, and Redcar the week after, then they will have a good chance of attaining promotion.


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By Sharon L. Peters, Special for USA TODAY
A new presidential administration catapults many people — from policy advisers to fashion designers — to sudden higher profile. This may be the first time in history, however, that an association with the White House has landed a dog trainer in the white glare of fame.
Dawn Sylvia-Stasiewicz, a husky-voiced veteran trainer who kept the Obamas' puppy under wraps in her rural Virginia home for weeks to get him family-ready, has been besieged by dog lovers, the media and bloggers.
GALLERY: Other pups of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
"It's a little crazy, a little surreal," says Sylvia-Stasiewicz, 51, who has been training high-profile pets for years. Testimonials from the likes of Sens. Ted Kennedy and Chuck Hagel pepper her website, and she also has worked with the dogs of diplomats and media movers and shakers. But her work with Bo, the Portuguese water dog puppy that made his public debut April 13 after she handed the leash to the first family and watched from the distance, has kept her juggling e-mails, phone calls, client visits and classes at previously undreamed-of levels.
She's dealing with it all, but the spotlight isn't really her thing, says Sylvia-Stasiewicz, who left the capital city area five years ago for a modest house on 5 acres in rural Fauquier County, 65 miles away. "For me, it's always about the dogs. There have been times when I've worked with people for a long time before realizing they were famous or high-profile or connected in some way," she says. (Actress Sandra Bullock's late mother hired Sylvia-Stasiewicz to train her briard. The trainer didn't make the connection for months.)
Sylvia-Stasiewicz's low-key manner, devotion to dogs and oft-repeated training mantra — "start 'em young and get it right" — has enticed hundreds of dog owners to seek her out over the years and resulted in her being named one of the area's top dog trainers by WashingtonianMagazine.
A loyal following locally
The daughter of a British West Indies nurse and Portuguese father, she grew up in Rhode Island, Florida and Virginia. An adventurer with no interest in attending college, she landed in the Washington, D.C., area with her sister at 22, married a dentist, settled into a big house with a pool in Alexandria, Va., and set about fulfilling her dream: having a home full of children and animals.
She had three children in the '80s in fairly short order, and she acquired and showed dogs — a Pomeranian, a Boston terrier and, eventually, a Portuguese water dog, chosen after much research indicating the breed's temperament was child-friendly.
Her show dogs had trainers and handlers and groomers, but she was a hands-on owner and learned a great deal along the way. So when it became clear her "home life was undergoing some change," meaning a divorce seemed likely, she figured working with dogs was the logical career choice and escalated her learning.
Sylvia-Stasiewicz concluded that the command-and-control, choke-collar approach employed by most trainers of the time was less appealing and less effective than the newer positive-reinforcement approach, which rejects chokers and harsh corrections and relies on food and lures and seizing opportunities to reinforce desirable behaviors while largely ignoring undesirable ones. As one of the first in her area to use positive reinforcement, she developed a loyal following, and referrals flowed in.
Merit Puppy Training, the company she founded, offered a specialty focus on puppies and families learning and growing together.
"I love puppies and babies. I've had a lot of personal experience with puppies and babies," says Sylvia-Stasiewicz, who often took her kids with her to private-client training and group sessions and always welcomes children into her puppy-training classes. "I think people can sense that about me."
Coaching the humans, too
She helps her clients socialize their young dogs and teach them manners, such as not jumping on people, lunging against the leash or guarding their food and toys — all especially important when children inhabit a household. But she also coaches the humans on becoming what she calls "dog-savvy" so they'll know how her techniques should be modified for their pet, and so they'll be sensitive to their dog's limitations and adaptive ability.
She tells each client she's making a lifetime commitment to the dog, and she spends hours every month on the phone advising people who haven't attended one of her classes in years.
"She takes her commitment to the dogs and the idea that kids should be involved in the puppy training very seriously," says Jacqueline Eyl of Washington, who attended a recent puppy-training session with mixed-breed puppy Ruby and sons Jacob and Ethan.
The current attention she's getting won't, in the long run, alter the way she lives and conducts business, says Sylvia-Stasiewicz, whose family menagerie once included many cats, dogs, snakes, rabbits and ferrets and now consists of two dogs and two parrots. "What would I do, hire a secretary? No. That's not me."
She may add more classes to meet demand and may take on more private clients, but, she says, "that will be the extent of it.
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Solution to today's crossword in the New York Times
Solution to today's SYNDICATED New York Times crossword in all other publications
CROSSWORD SETTER: Patrick Berry
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COMPLETION TIME: 18m 39s
Today's Wiki-est, Amazonian Googlies
1. Semimonthly tide : NEAP
Tides of course are caused by the gravitational pull of the moon on the oceans. At neap tide, the smaller gravitational effect of the sun cancels out some of the moon's effect. At spring tides, the sun and the moon's gravitational forces act in concert causing more extreme movement of the oceans.
5. Mooring post on a ship : BITT
A bitt is a post mounted on the bow of a boat, used for fastening lines and cables. It is designed to be strong enough to hold a towline if necessary.
9. Head nurse on "Scrubs" : CARLA
The head nurse on the TV series "Scrubs" is a character called Carla Espinosa. Carla is played by Judy Reyes.
"Scrubs" is a comedy-drama TV show set in a fictional hospital. The show's main character is Doctor J. D. Dorian, played by Zach Braff. "Scrubs" ran from 2001 to 2010.
16. Nautical direction : ABEAM
The beam is the widest part of a vessel. Something pointed out as lying "abeam" is something that it is 90 degrees from a line through the bow and the stern, in other words off to the right or the left.
17. Pitcher of the only no-hitter in World Series history : DON LARSEN
Don Larsen is a former Major League Baseball pitcher. Larsen pitched the sixth perfect game ever (out of 20 in MLB history) back in game 5 of the 1956 World Series. That perfect game is the only one to have been pitched in a World Series, and was in a game in which the New York Yankees beat the Brooklyn Dodgers.
18. Small truck manufacturer : TONKA
The toy manufacturer today known as Tonka started out as a manufacturer of garden implements in Mound, Minnesota in 1946. By 1955, toys had become the main line for the company. At that time the owners decided to change the company name and opted for "Tonka", a Dakota Sioux word meaning "great, big".
19. Highly rated 1997 film with the song "Tupelo Honey" : ULEE'S GOLD
"Ulee's Gold" is a highly respected film from 1997 in which Peter Fonda plays the title role of Ulee. Ulee's "gold" is the honey that Ulee produced. It is a favorite role for Peter Fonda and he has shared that the role brought into mind his father, Henry Fonda, who himself kept a couple of hives. So if you see Peter Fonda in "Ulee's Gold" you're witnessing some characteristics that Peter saw in his father.
22. Like yoga instructors : LITHE
In the West we tend to think of yoga as a physical discipline, a means of exercise that uses specific poses to stretch and strengthen muscles. While it is true that the ancient Indian practice of yoga does involve such physical discipline, the corporeal aspect of the practice plays a relatively small part in the whole philosophy. Other major components are meditation, ethical behavior, breathing and contemplation.
29. ___ lane : HOV
In some parts of the country one sees high-occupancy vehicle lanes (HOV lanes), but out here in California, we call them carpool lanes.
36. "___ = Politics" (TV slogan) : CNN
CNN (Cable News Network) was launched in 1980, the first television channel in the world to provide news coverage 24 hours a day.
37. Inventor given a gold medal by Titanic survivors : MARCONI
Guglielmo Marconi was an inventor, famous for development of a radio telegraph design that was used across the world. Marconi did a lot of his early radio work in his native Italy, but moved to England as the British government was very interested in supporting his developments.
41. U.K. Triple Crown racecourse site : EPSOM
The Surrey town of Epsom in England is most famous for its racecourse, at which is run the Epsom Derby every year, one of the three races that make up the English Triple Crown. You might also have heard of Epsom salt. Epsom salt is magnesium sulfate, originally prepared by boiling down mineral waters. Epsom was indeed a spa town at one time.
42. Dance trio? : CHA-CHA-CHA
The cha-cha-cha is a Latin dance with origins in Cuba, where it was introduced by composer Enrique Jorrin in 1953.
49. Go on : PRATE
"To prate" is to talk idly and at length, a word that comes to us from Middle Dutch "praten", meaning to talk or chatter.
52. Colorful Amazon swimmer : NEON TETRA
The neon tetra is a freshwater fish, native to parts of South America. It is a very popular aquarium fish and millions are imported into the US every year. Almost all of the imported tetras are farm-raised in Asia and very few come from their native continent.
54. Mrs. Charles Lindbergh : ANNE
Anne Morrow Lindbergh was best known as an author although she was also an aviator like her husband, Charles Lindbergh.
55. "The Lucy-___ Comedy Hour" : DESI
Desi Arnaz was of course famous for his turbulent marriage to Lucille Ball. Desi Arnaz was a native of Cuba, and was from a privileged family. His father was Mayor of Santiago and served in the Cuban House of Representatives. However, the family had to flee to Miami after the 1933 revolution led by Batista.
2. Name on a famous B-29 : ENOLA
As we all know, the Enola Gay was the B-29 that dropped the first atomic bomb, on Hiroshima in August 1945. Enola Gay was the name of the mother of the pilot, Col. Paul W. Tibbets, Jr.
3. Mammy's son : ABNER
"Li'l Abner" was created and drawn by Al Capp for over 43 years starting in 1934. Al Capp stopped producing the strip in 1977, largely due to illness (he died from emphysema two years later). As the strip finished up, he went so far as to apologize to his long-standing fans saying that he should have stopped 3-4 years earlier as he felt that the quality of his work had gone down in those latter years.
4. Adjective applied to ginger ale : PALE DRY
The brand most closely associated with ginger ale is Canada Dry. "Canada Dry Pale Ginger Ale" was first formulated in 1904 by a Canadian chemist called John McLoughlin from Ontario. Prohibition in the United States helped sales of the drink as it was particularly effective in masking the taste of illegally-produced homemade liquor.
7. Certain lymphocyte : T CELL
T cells are a group of white blood cells that are essential components of the body's immune system. T cells are so called because they mature in the thymus, a specialized organ found in the chest.
12. North American home of 30,000 islands : LAKE HURON
Lake Huron takes its name from the Huron Native American people that lived by its shores. Early French explorers often called the lake "La Mer Douce", meaning "the freshwater sea".
13. Tiramisu ingredient, often : AMARETTO
Amaretto is an Italian liqueur with a sweet almond flavor. Even though the drink is sweet, it has a bitterness lent to it by the bitter almonds that are often used as a flavoring. The name "amaretto" is a diminutive of the Italian "amaro" meaning "bitter".
Tiramisu is an Italian cake. The name "tiramisu" translates from Italian as "pull me up".
15. Frequent photo prop for Will Rogers : LASSO
Will Rogers was so successful as an actor that he was the highest paid Hollywood star in the 1930s. His career was cut short sadly, when he died in a plane crash in 1935. Piloting the doomed plane was famed aviator Wily Post, the first person to fly solo around the world.
25. "___ furtiva lagrima" (Donizetti aria) : UNA
"L'elisir d'amore" is an opera by Donizetti, the title of which translates as "The Elixir of Love". The opera is performed quite often today, as is the beautiful aria from the work called "Una furtiva lagrima". "Una furtiva lagrima" translates from Italian as "A single furtive tear".
26. Bourbon enemy : BONAPARTE
Despite having gone through the turmoil of the French Revolution, Napoleon Bonaparte was able to reestablish a hereditary monarchy in France and took the name of Emperor Napoleon I. He crowned himself in Notre Dame de Paris in 1804, and then crowned his wife Josephine as Empress.
The House of Bourbon is a royal house in Europe that ruled France right up until the French Revolution. Famous French kings such as Louis XIV and Louis XVI all belonged to the House of Bourbon.
30. The Village ___ (musical group with the 1963 hit "Washington Square") : STOMPERS
The Village Stompers was a dixieland jazz group from Greenwich Village, New York (hence the group's name). They had a big hit in 1963 with an instrumental called "Washington Square".
32. Star of Ang Lee's "Hulk" : ERIC BANA
Eric Bana is an Australian actor who enjoyed a successful career in his home country before breaking into Hollywood playing an American Delta Force sergeant in "Black Hawk Down". A couple of years later he played the lead in Ang Lee's 2003 movie "The Hulk", the role of Dr Bruce Banner. More recently he played the Romulan villain Nero, in the 2009 "Star Trek" movie.
38. Leroux who created the Phantom : GASTON
Gaston Leroux was a French author and journalist best known for writing "The Phantom of the Opera", first published in 1910. As a journalist, Leroux was involved in an investigation into the Paris Opera. The basement of the opera house contained a cell that was used to hold prisoners in 1871, something that Leroux featured in his most famous novel.
39. Premium number : OCTANE
The difference between a premium and regular gasoline is its octane rating. The octane rating is measure of the resistance of the gasoline to auto-ignition, it's resistance to ignition just by virtue of being compressed in the cylinder. This auto-ignition is undesirable as multiple-cylinder engines are designed so that ignition within each cylinder takes place precisely when the plug sparks, and not before. If ignition occurs before the spark is created, the resulting phenomenon is called "knocking".
40. What a dickey simulates : SHIRT
A dickey is a false shirt-front that can be worn with a tuxedo. Dickeys were popular in the late 1800s and were actually made of celluloid plastic. The advantage to a dickey was that it was waterproof and stain resistant.
43. Lady of Paris : HELEN
In Greek mythology, Helen of Sparta was the daughter of Zeus and Leda. She became known as Helen of Troy, as the Trojan War started when she was abducted by Paris and taken from Sparta to Troy.
In Greek legend, Paris was the son of the king of Troy. He eloped with Helen, the queen of Sparta, and this act was a major trigger for the Trojan War. Also, it was Paris who fatally wounded Achilles by shooting him in the heel with an arrow.
46. "We're Madly for ___" (old campaign song) : ADLAI
Adlai Stevenson ran for president unsuccessfully against Eisenhower in 1952. Some years later he served under President Kennedy as Ambassador to the United Nations. He was always noted for his eloquence, and had a famous exchange in a Security Council meeting during the Cuban missile crisis. He bluntly demanded that the Soviet representative on the council tell the world if the USSR was installing nuclear weapons in Cuba, saying. "Don't wait for the translation, answer 'yes' or 'no'!" and then followed up with, "I am prepared to wait for my answer until Hell freezes over!"
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For the sake of completion, here is a full listing of all the answers:
1. Semimonthly tide : NEAP
5. Mooring post on a ship : BITT
9. Head nurse on "Scrubs" : CARLA
14. If you add up the pros and cons : ON BALANCE
16. Nautical direction : ABEAM
17. Pitcher of the only no-hitter in World Series history : DON LARSEN
18. Small truck manufacturer : TONKA
19. Highly rated 1997 film with the song "Tupelo Honey" : ULEE'S GOLD
20. Take in, possibly : ALTER
21. Flogs : HARD SELLS
22. Like yoga instructors : LITHE
23. Pink shade : ROSE
24. Secures every share from : BUYS OUT
26. Early man? : BOY
28. Had some inventory problems : RAN SHORT
29. ___ lane : HOV
30. Berate profanely : SWEAR AT
33. Court : WOO
34. What mansions rarely are : ONE-STORY
36. "___ = Politics" (TV slogan) : CNN
37. Inventor given a gold medal by Titanic survivors : MARCONI
38. "Goodness me!" : GOSH
41. U.K. Triple Crown racecourse site : EPSOM
42. Dance trio? : CHA-CHA-CHA
47. Suddenly took interest : SAT UP
48. Motivated : BESTIRRED
49. Go on : PRATE
50. Communion place : ALTAR RAIL
51. Abject : UTTER
52. Colorful Amazon swimmer : NEON TETRA
53. They're indispensable : NEEDS
54. Mrs. Charles Lindbergh : ANNE
55. "The Lucy-___ Comedy Hour" : DESI
1. "Well, of course" : NO, DUH
2. Name on a famous B-29 : ENOLA
3. Mammy's son : ABNER
4. Adjective applied to ginger ale : PALE DRY
5. Things towed along towpaths : BARGES
6. Expanse beneath an arch? : INSOLE
7. Certain lymphocyte : T CELL
8. Works behind a counter : TENDS BAR
9. Prompter : CATALYST
10. Get rid of : ABOLISH
11. Like some store furniture : RENT TO OWN
12. North American home of 30,000 islands : LAKE HURON
13. Tiramisu ingredient, often : AMARETTO
15. Frequent photo prop for Will Rogers : LASSO
25. "___ furtiva lagrima" (Donizetti aria) : UNA
26. Bourbon enemy : BONAPARTE
27. Blow out of proportion : OVERSTATE
28. Flat fish : RAY
29. Pleasantly rustic : HOMESPUN
30. The Village ___ (musical group with the 1963 hit "Washington Square") : STOMPERS
31. Walked away with : WON
32. Star of Ang Lee's "Hulk" : ERIC BANA
35. Looked for a phenomenon, maybe : SCOUTED
36. Blackened : CHARRED
38. Leroux who created the Phantom : GASTON
39. Premium number : OCTANE
40. What a dickey simulates : SHIRT
43. Lady of Paris : HELEN
44. Junk car : CRATE
45. Some funeral attendees : HEIRS
46. "We're Madly for ___" (old campaign song) : ADLAI
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Blue House Farm
Blue House Farm sits at the eastern end of the coastal agricultural valley behind Pescadero, California, 48 miles from Mission Pie and steps away from the entrance to Butano Canyon. Blue House Farm is a certified organic farm whose mild climate allows for an incredible diversity of crops for local markets. Ryan Casey takes special pride in producing the freshest greens, tasty strawberries, and dry-farmed tomatoes.
We have enjoyed a working relationship with Blue House farm since 2008, and have been most inspired by watching their young farm business grow in production and marketing breadth. We purchase about 1/3 of the season's strawberries from Blue House, and many vegetable ingredients for our savory menu, as well as flowers that bring summer beauty into our shop.
There are many benefits to sourcing produce directly from farms, and we have direct purchase relationships with several, though none more developed and multi-faceted than with Blue House Farm. Buying direct from a farm reduces the transit time for produce, and generally allows for harvest when fruits are at their ripest. Secondly, when we buy direct from a farm, that farmer gains a larger fraction of the food dollar, which can be particularly meaningful for smaller scale farmers with less access to the wholesale market. We enjoy buying from farms where the scale of our purchasing represents a meaningful contribution to the stability and health of that farm's economy.
We seek opportunities to take these direct market relationships a step further. For example, in late 2009, we committed to buy young rhubarb plants to support Blue House Farm in Pescadero to step into rhubarb production. It turned out that part of the reason we were having trouble sourcing rhubarb locally is because the investment in plants and/or time for them to reach maturity is an impediment for farmers. We realized we could commit to parking the resources in the ground and being patient while those plants grew to harvestable size – your loyalty as customers enables us to support our farmers in the same way. Spring 2012 will yield the reward – thousands of pounds of rhubarb grown only 50 miles away!
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Fraser might have voyaged far outside the orbit of a Liberal Party defined by the John Howard years of slavish devotion to the American alliance, a nativist approach to humanitarian issues and an innate resistance to the modernisation of the federation but, for better, or worse, he remained a totemic – if divisive – figure.
Now at the age of 80, he has in effect burned his draft card, turning his back on the party he served as backbencher, minister and prime minister between his election to the Victorian Western Districts seat of Wannon in 1955 and his resignation from Parliament after his defeat by Bob Hawke in 1983.
Fraser's decision is no great surprise – he would say the party left him, he did not leave the party – but it draws attention to an uncomfortable question for the party of Robert Menzies and, more distantly, Alfred Deakin, arguably Australia's greatest prime minister.
The question is: what remains of the "liberal" party of Menzies, or has it become, to all intents and purposes, a big "C" conservative party in the Thatcherite mould? Or is it conflicted about where it might be heading, torn between the Howard legacy and the need to modernise?
The efforts of British Prime Minister David Cameron to make his Conservative Party appear gentler and kinder, and, yes, more liberal, did not necessarily help his cause in the recent campaign. Cameron nearly lost the unloseable election.
Among Fraser's criticisms of the
What Fraser is saying is that the party no longer represents his "liberal" values on issues such as immigration, climate change (Fraser was appalled by Abbott's description of the phenomenon as "absolute crap''), asylum seekers and the need for Australia to assert its independence internationally, but his multitude of critics would say Fraser himself has migrated to the left on all these questions, leaving his party in his wake.
Abbott put the best – most gracious – face on the resignation, telling Alan Jones that Fraser was a "fine Liberal prime minister''. But the Opposition Leader could have done without such a diversion, however momentary, from his central task, which is to shape a compelling message to enable him to take the fight to Kevin Rudd.
This is not proving easy for someone with Abbott's conservative credentials (he may be the most socially conservative leader of an Australian political party since Joe Lyons in the 1930s) who is battling to reprogram himself to broaden his appeal to voters: all elections are won and lost in the centre ground, except in circumstances where a party in power implodes.
Abbott, Howard's protégé, also needs to put distance between himself and his unpopular mentor. Howard distinguished himself by being the first incumbent prime minister to lose his seat since Stanley Melbourne Bruce nearly a century ago.
Questioned last week by the AFR about points of differentiation with Howard, Abbott said that "because I'm younger, I'm almost by definition more contemporary''. He said his values were "very similar" to Howard's, "but I express them differently''.
He mentioned the paid parental scheme, under which investment bankers in the family way would receive similar benefits to those of the washerwoman, as an initiative which Howard would not have condoned.
Interestingly, Abbott was taken to task in the party room this week by drier members who are worried about the leader's welfarist "social fabric'' inclinations (Abbott described himself to the AFR as a "social fabric conservative'').
All of this shows how difficult it is proving for the Opposition Leader not only to find a way of improving his standing with female voters (he polls poorly with women) but also to fashion a credible message more generally that will bring his party along with him and appeal to the electorate at the same time.
Abbott told the AFR he regarded himself as a conservative in the "Burkian tradition" (after the Anglo-Irish philosopher-politician Edmund Burke), which was a "largely happy marriage between liberalism and conservatism''.
This has not proved to be the case with Fraser or, apparently, with some of Abbott's more conservative party colleagues. But the Opposition Leader might at least be given credit for trying to reconstruct a broader church after the depredations (for genuine liberals) of the Howard years.
His front bench includes small "l" liberals in prominent positions: such as Joe Hockey, Christopher Pyne and George Brandis. The latter is regarded – or regards himself – as leader of the party's Deakinite wing.
All of the above were overlooked, by and large, by Howard. Abbott, on the other hand, has drawn them into his inner circle.
Younger liberal thinkers outside the parliament, including John Roskam of the Institute of Public Affairs and Julian Leeser of the Menzies Institute, believe Abbott should be given the benefit of the doubt in his efforts to modernise the party.
"People are looking for a return to orthodoxy [after the Rudd experiment],'' says Leeser. "But at the same time Tony is reaching out to a newer constituency.''
Roskam says much the same thing, but puts it differently: "Because Abbott sees a richer textured, more diverse Australia, he therefore feels the importance of the ties that bind that diversity together.''
Fraser, on the other hand, does not discern the "ties that bind''. Rather he perceives a campaign that divides. He is appalled by the first television advertisements of the election season, which recall (for him) Australia's "racist past". The ads show Australia being overwhelmed by asylum seekers, depicted by red arrows from our north.
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Headlines I Wish I Hadn't Seen
ObamaCare covers prison inmates. HT: Chris Jacobs.
ER physicians spend more time with EMRs than on direct patient care.
ObamaCare website quietly deletes reference to "free health care."
A CEO who resisted NSA went to prison; now he feels vindicated.
MSNBC tried to enroll for ObamaCare on live TV. It didn't go very well.
Black and Hispanic children who go to an E.R. with stomach pain are less likely than white children to receive pain medication and more likely to spend long hours in the emergency room.


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Bush Was Right - we`ll have to fight them here
Liberal Idiots have been disputing President Bush's often repeated assertion that "we fight them there so we don't have to fight them here" as fear-mongering and that the fighting in Iraq is nothing more than native Iraqis fighting for power and turf.
But Muslim terrorists have exactly that very thing planned the moment we leave Iraq in defeat according to senior terrorist leaders interviewed by WND (1).
So, we are promised that if we turn tail and run from Iraq then those idle hands now flying to fight in Iraq will have no place to keep themselves busy and will turn their attention first to defeating Israel and then the US.
Seems Bush was right all along.
Other bloggers weighing in:
Political dishonesty - [defunct blog], DO NOT Let the Iraq Study Group's Report Fool You!
Am I the only person who sees how the Iraq Study Forfeit Group has to constantly slap you in the face with the term "bi-partisan" to make you believe their hype? Most of us knew what the report was going to say the minute the group was formed and the group knew what they were going to say before they did any research.
The report is sad, mostly because it is agenda-driven rather than reality-driven. In fact, I'm surprised these throwbacks didn't issue a Fatwa against President Bush.
Let's start at square one, congressional appropriations. This "study group" received 1.3 million dollars from Congress. They took one trip to Iraq and didn't even leave the green zone. Given the fact that a trip to Iraq doesn't cost 1.3 million dollars, that's a whole lot of library cards. I think we should form a study group on the Iraq Study Group to figure out where the hell our tax dollars went.
The Constitutional Matters Project, 22 Sep 2006,
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We Fight Them Over There So We Don't Have To Fight Them Over Here?
Something like 15,000 students from Saudi Arabia are enrolling on college campuses nationwide under a new educational exchange program that "will quintuple the number of Saudi students and scholars in the United States by the academic year's end, reports The Associated Press. "And big, public universities from Florida to Oregon are in a fierce competition for their tuition dollars."
Naturally, institutions of higher learning in this country care a lot about tuition dollars, and not so much about the safety of their student body. Any one of these Saudis could be the next Mohammed Reza Taheri-azar, the Iranian who deliberately plowed his SUV into a group of students at his alma mater, University of North Carolina, to "avenge the deaths of Muslims around the world."
Jihadi Du Jour - Terrorists rejoicing over new Baker report, Excerpt: ... Islam is the "new giant of the world."... There is nothing new about this giant...It has always been a giant boil on the face of the earth. And the American left has been part of the latest infection.
stop the aclu, Excerpt: I think in the end, no matter what direction we take, it will be blamed on Bush. If he gives in to the recommendations of "mitigating defeat" he will deserve the blame.
Hot Air, Excerpt: I leave you with this, from the executive summary. We need to solve the Israel-Palestinian issue. And we also need to engage in dialogue with Iran, which is committed to the destruction of Israel. Mazel tov.
point five blog - [defunct blog] - In Which My 6th Grade Principal Mr. Glassell Confronts The Iraq Study Group, Excerpt: Did any of you even crack open the material Mrs. Steidinger assigned? Do you have any idea who runs Iran and Syria, and what "right of return" implies?
Townhall - Al Qaeda will portray any failure by the United States in Iraq as a significant victory that will be featured prominently as they recruit for their cause in the region and around the world. Ayman al-Zawahiri, deputy to Osama bin Laden, has declared Iraq a focus for al Qaeda: they will seek to expel the Americans and then spread "the jihad wave to the secular countries neighboring Iraq." A senior European official told us that failure in Iraq could incite terrorist attacks within his country.
the scottish right - [defunct blog] - The Iraq Defeat And Retreat Commission, Excerpt: So what would Baker and Hamilton have us do? Strike a bargain with the Iranians and Syrians that allows the former to have nuclear weapons and the latter a free hand in Lebanon? As if that's going to stabilize the region? No thanks! Now that we've heard from the pessimists, let's get back to finding ways to actually win the war.
blue crab boulevard - Preliminary Analysis, Excerpt: There are a lot of people combing through that report right now trying to read the tea leaves. But it does not look at all promising at the moment. Coupled with rumors floating around that Baker wants Israel excluded from any regional conference, this "plan" may be more of a disaster than it looks already.
Outside the beltway has a conference call with two Iraq Study Group principals, former Senator Alan Simpson (R, WY) and Clinton SECDEF William "Not the Refrigerator" Perry.
Don Surber - Iraq Study Group: We cannot win, Excerpt: As to this report, I say it is spinach and to hell with it. Make adjustments. Stay the course. And be polite to those who say we cannot win.
Right Wing Guy - [defunct blog] - Excerpt: It seems I was correct in my thinking that the Iraq Study Group would call for a retreat, they have done so, but they are trying to use slick words to cover up their true meaning and pull the blind over the eyes of the American people.
WND'S JERUSALEM BUREAU, 6 Dec 2006, Terrorists rejoicing over new Iraq 'plan'
Reaction to Study Group: 'Allah and his angels' responsible, 'era of Islam and of jihad' declared
A high level U.S. commission's recommendations for an eventual withdrawal from Iraq and for dialogue with Iran and Syria proves "Islamic resistance" works and America can ultimately be defeated, according to senior terrorist leaders interviewed by WND.
The militants, from the largest Palestinian terror groups in the Gaza Strip and West Bank, welcomed the policies outlined by the Iraq Study Group, which they claim recognizes Islam is the "new giant of the world."
"The report proves that this is the era of Islam and of jihad," said Abu Ayman, a senior leader of Islamic Jihad in the northern West Bank town of Jenin.
"[With the Iraq Study Group report], the Americans came to the conclusion that Islam is the new giant of the world and it would be clever to reduce hostilities with this giant. In the Qur'an the principle of the rotation is clear and according to this principle the end of the Americans and of all non-believers is getting closer," Abu Ayman said.
According to Abu Abdullah, a senior leader of Hamas' so-called military wing, Baker's report is a victory for Islam brought about by "Allah and his angels."
"It is not just a simple victory. It is a great one. The big superpower of the world is defeated by a small group of mujahedeen (fighters). Did you see the mujahedeens' clothes and weapons in comparison with the huge individual military arsenal and supply that was carrying every American soldier?" exclaimed Abu Abdullah, who is considered one of the most important operational members of Hamas' Izzedine al-Qassam Martyrs Brigades, Hamas' declared "resistance" department.
"It is with no doubt that Allah and his angles were fighting with them (insurgents) against the Americans. It is a sign to all those who keep saying that America, Israel and the West in general cannot be defeated on the ground so let us negotiate with them," Abu Abdullah said.
Abu Abdullah said following a withdrawal from Iraq, the U.S. will be defeated on its own soil.
"The Iraqi victory is a great message and lesson to the revolutionary and freedom movements in the world. Just to think that this resistance is led by hundreds of Sunni fighters who defeated hundreds of thousands of Americans, British and thousands of soldiers who belong to the puppet regime in Baghdad. What would be the situation if the Shiites will decide to join the resistance?" commented Abu Nasser.
The Al Aqsa leader said his group learned from the "Iraqi resistance" that jihad will ultimately destroy Israel.
Islamic Jihad's Abu Ayman said after the U.S. "defeat" in Iraq is finalized, insurgents there should move to the West Bank and Gaza to help destroy Israel.
"We hope that after chasing the occupation from Iraq, these jihad efforts and experiences will be transferred to Palestine, and yes, I mean that we expect these fighters will come to Palestine as part of a big Islamic army."


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"The development and delivery of these EDUs represents a significant milestone as NASA enters the next arena of human space flight," said Jim Oschmann, vice president and general manager of antenna and video technologies for Ball Aerospace.
"This milestone puts us on track to deliver the PAA flight units for integration into the Orion flight test vehicle that will be in production at Kennedy Space Center next year."
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This fascinating little town is therefore the Herculaneum of feudality, less its winding sheet of lava.
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The lower hills were wrapped as in a winding sheet; dank and cold.
The old wedding gown was brought down from the attic and taken out of its winding sheet.
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Geometric Algebra: An Algebraic System for Computer Games and Animation
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The true power of vectors has never been exploited, for over a century, mathematicians, engineers, scientists, and more recently programmers, have been using vectors to solve an extraordinary range of problems. However, today, we can discover the true potential of oriented, lines, planes and volumes in the form of geometric algebra. As such geometric elements are central to the world of computer games and computer animation, geometric algebra offers programmers new ways of solving old problems.
John Vince (best-selling author of a number of books including Geometry for Computer Graphics, Vector Analysis for Computer Graphics and Geometric Algebra for Computer Graphics) provides new insights into geometric algebra and its application to computer games and animation.
The first two chapters review the products for real, complex and quaternion structures, and any non-commutative qualities that they possess. Chapter three reviews the familiar scalar and vector products and introduces the idea of 'dyadics', which provide a useful mechanism for describing the features of geometric algebra. Chapter four introduces the geometric product and defines the inner and outer products, which are employed in the following chapter on geometric algebra. Chapters six and seven cover all the 2D and 3D products between scalars, vectors, bivectors and trivectors. Chapter eight shows how geometric algebra brings new insights into reflections and rotations, especially in 3D. Finally, chapter nine explores a wide range of 2D and 3D geometric problems followed by a concluding tenth chapter.
Filled with lots of clear examples, full-colour illustrations and tables, this compact book provides an excellent introduction to geometric algebra for practitioners in computer games and animation.
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"The book's true value lies in describing important geometric transformations like reflection and rotation in a systematic way, and in listing many geometric primitives … . For people working in computer graphics or in game design, these topics could be of considerable value, and they certainly justify the book's title." (Rolf Klein, Zentralblatt MATH, Vol. 1226, 2012)
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The Archives Service Center is pleased to announce the largest update to its online Pittsburgh City Photographer Collection with the addition of nearly 2,000 digitized images. The new images are part of an initiative to reformat all the glass plate negatives in the Pittsburgh City Photographer Collection (AIS.1971.05) to facilitate preservation and access. The images found in the newest addition, which represent the earliest ones in the collection (1901-1908), document improvements to city infrastructure, such as the construction of the Aspinwall and Ross Pumping Stations, the development and condition of roads in many neighborhoods (e.g., Shadyside, Point Breeze, and Morningside, among others), and residents and construction workers in these neighborhoods.


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Steve Hansen, analyst with Raymond James Ltd., joined us for a live discussion Wednesday. Mr. Hansen was ranked No. 1 by StarMine in its 2011 awards for his accuracy in identifying winners and losers in the diversified industrials sector. He widely covers transportation and agriculture - and answered your questions on selecting stocks within those arenas.
The following is a full transcript of the discussion:
11:55 Darcy Keith - Good morning every one and welcome to this live Q&A discussion with Steve Hansen, analyst with Raymond James Ltd.
11:57 Darcy Keith - We'll be getting his picks and outlook for transportation and agriculture stocks - two hot areas on the TSX right now. It should be an interesting discussion.
11:57 Darcy Keith - Hello Steve, thanks for joining us today
11:57 [Comment From Steve Hansen]/b>
Good to be with you today.
11:59 Darcy Keith - We'll be starting in just a moment, but in the meantime, here's a link to the 2011 StarMine analyst winners.
11:59 Darcy Keith - And here's the link to Canada's top stock pickers by industry. You'll see that Steve was ranked as No. 1 for diversified industrials.
12:00 Darcy Keith - Just to start things off, I'm wondering if you have any general comments Steve on the equity market right now. Is the Canadian market reaching overvalued territory?
12:02 [Comment From Steve Hansen]/b>
Good question. The short answer is no, at least not within the broader Industrials universe. We continue to see a number of high quality enterprises within our landscape that still boast very attractive earnings multiples.
12:02 [Comment From Wes ]/b>
is CP looking like a value pick as a hold for the next 20 years?
12:03 [Comment From Steve Hansen]/b>
We are constructive on both CN and CP within the Canadian landscape. To be fair, CN is the better railroad. If I could only own one, it would be CN (without question). That being said, CP is currently beat up on a number of transitory issues that make the valuation very compelling.
12:04 [Comment From Steve Hansen]/b>
My colleague in the US is also very constructive on several of the US Class I railroads (KSU, CSX, etc.)
12:05 Darcy Keith - Just as a follow up: CP also announced a quarterly dividend hike a few days ago, following CN's hike several weeks ago. Do you think the railroads have further room to hike dividends at this juncture?
12:06 [Comment From Steve Hansen]
Over time, without question, but not in the near-term. CN, of course, has an impeccable reputation from this standpoint, having raised its divvy for 15 consecutive years...
12:06 [Comment From Steve Hansen]/b>
Both railroads boast an impregnable competive position that, when coupled with their pricing power, will lead to furthy divvy increases over time.
12:07 [Comment From Rick ]/b>
Hello Darcy and Steve. I would like to hear Steve's take on Mullen and ConAgra. Thanks.
12:07 [Comment From Steve Hansen]/b>
Remember that in a high fuel price environment (have you seen diesel prices lately???), railroads win out :)
12:09 [Comment From Steve Hansen]/b>
Mullen is a trucking outfit that my colleauge in Calgary covers given its heavy degree of leverage to the western O&G sector. That being said, it has gone through a great deal of change of late with recent acquisitions. Unfortunately
12:10 [Comment From Steve Hansen]/b>
In general, we view the name as fairly valued at current levels.
12:10 [Comment From Steve Hansen]/b>
ConAgra is not a name I cover specifically, but I can give you a sense for my view on the broader Ag complex if that helps.
12:11 Darcy Keith - Sure Steve, that would be great
12:11 [Comment From Steve Hansen]/b>
Our macro view is that the world will increasingly struggle with a number of large, often competing, secular forces that i tend to describe as 'the Clash of the Titans'
12:12 [Comment From Steve Hansen]/b>
That is the competing desires to Put Food on the Table, Feed in the Barnyard, and Fuel in the Gas tank.
12:12 [Comment From Steve Hansen]/b>
Unfortunately, for consumers, this is likely to lead to higher, sustained Ag commodity prices over time, with large doses of embedded volatility
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A Local water fall that is becoming shallow nearing the end of the year. fall leaves fell all around it making a really nice time to photograph :D the small amount of color with the smoothness of the running water ended up being a rather nice combo.
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Carl Edwards… enters the weekend third in the series points' standings. This season, Edwards has one win, six top-five, ten top-10 finishes and one pole. Edwards at Indianapolis… Edwards will make his ninth Cup start at the famed Indianapolis Motor Speedway this weekend. In his previous starts, Edwards has one top-five and three top-10 finishes. His average start is 22 and his average finish is 13.2. Edwards captured his best start (second) last year and best finish (second) at the Brickyard in 2008. In the Loop… According to NASCAR's loop data acquired over the past eight races at Indy, Edwards has turned 42 of the fastest laps in Cup competition. He has spent 583 laps in the top 15. The Car… The Blue Team will unload RK – 861 which is a new chassis for the 2013 season. The backup car is RK- 826 which last ran in Texas where Edwards landed a third place finish in the Fastenal Ford. Primary Sponsor Note… Fastenal will return as the primary sponsor of the No. 99 Ford, with supplier brands Metabo, JET, Norton and Rust-Oleum on the hood, TV panel, deck lid and B-post. Edwards quotes on the Brickyard 400: "The Brickyard is a big race for our Fastenal team. The track is very unique and fast and has a lot of history. It's a race on the schedule that neither Jimmy nor I have won. Because it's near Fastenal's biggest distribution center, a win there would be huge. Our goal is to go there to win the pole and the race." -Roush Fenway Racing PR
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