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- Sound: 8
- Overall Impression: 9
- Reliability & Durability: 10
- Action, Fit & Finish: 9
- Features: 9
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Price paid: A$ 1600
Purchased from: second hand
Sound — 8
I love this bass, particularly becuase it's 5 string, so I can have that lower sound for a lot of the metal I play. It's versitile and the action is great on this bass, so you can go from thrashing it out to playing some slap-funk in a heart beat. It's got a good bit of growl without getting too mid-heavy with a nice high end. You can achieve warm and mellow tones by turning down the treble and/or putting on some flat-wounds. I play my bass through a GK 700H head through a GK 115RBH cab.
Overall Impression — 9
I play anything from metal, punk and rock. So this bass is perfect for all of my music needs. I have been playing for over 2 years and I also play on a Fender '62 reissue P-Bass and a OLP MM2 through a GK 700 H Head and 115RBH cab. I love this bass more than my Fender and if it was lost or stolen I would deffinitely buy this bass again.
Reliability & Durability — 10
This is a solid bass, it takes a good thrashing and I have been playing it almost everyday since I got it about a year ago and it's still working fine. I am still careful of it, only because (apart from the previous damage) she is beautiful. The strap buttons are solid, it's hardware like the rest of it is hardy and I can see myself still playing this bass far into the future.
Action, Fit & Finish — 9
This was second hand so can't really comment on the set-up. However, apart from some cracks in the finish there is nothing wrong. No signs of any factory flaws. It's a solid bass, with good action and the finish seems like it would of been perfect when original bought.
Features — 9
The Spector euro 5LX is made in Czech Rebulic in 2003 (according to serial number). It has two EMG-DC pickups and Spector TonePump circuit. The bass features the fully carved and curved original NS body shape. The body is of solid alder and the wings have 3 layers: figured maple on top, a slice of walnut, and an alder back for a stronger fundamental. The fretboard is 24-fret in rosewood with crown mother of pearl inlays. My bass is black cherry with high gloss finish.


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Artists Sama Alshaibi and Michael Rakowitz join moderator Prerana Reddy to discuss the history of Iraqi art and its relationship to contemporary art. Alshaibi and Rakowitz describe their artwork and how it has been affected by the recent turmoil in Iraq. This program is presented as part of Iraq Now! Contemporary Iraqi Culture.
Recorded March 10, 2013
This program is generously supported by the Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art and is presented by The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Alwan for the Arts.

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My first individual explorations into the world of music took the form of surreptitious MTV viewings in the attic of my house in third grade. Aside from the pretty amazing collection of animated shows (Beavis and Butthead, Aeon Flux, The Oddities, etc.), MTV was most memorable for offering me the titillating medium of the music video, a form of experiencing music I only used from the years 1993-1999. In retrospect, music videos of the era (and any era really) were half-baked visualizations of the already half-baked lyrics or tone of the song. The results of these concoctions can be amazing, so I've decided to create a weekly dedication to my favorite hamhanded creations of the mid-nineties.Temple of the Dog's "Hunger Strike" is the quintessential 90s music video. Chris Cornell and Eddie Vedder moan about sociopolitical concerns on a beach (presumably on the Pacific Northwest coast). This performance is interspersed with stock footage of a lighthouse flashing its cautionary light and a foreboding (yet hopeful!) cloudy sky. Is this song protesting American excess? Is it a confessional about conceding to said excess? Do Cornell and Vedder know if "farming babies" is metaphor or literal? Such are the mysteries of a classic third grade throwback.
I don't mind stealing bread
From the mouths of decadence
But I can't feed on the powerless
When my cup's already overfilled,
But it's on the table
The fire is cooking
And they're farming babies
While slaves are working
Blood is on the table
And the mouths are choking
But I'm growing hungry


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2014 Porsche Cayenne Diesel
Price: $65,500 base, $74,300 as tested.
Engine: 3.0-L turbo-diesel V6.
Power/torque: 240 hp/406 lb.-ft.
Fuel consumption L/100 km: 10.8 city, 6.7 hwy.
Competition: Jeep Grand Cherokee Diesel, Mercedes-Benz ML 350 BlueTec, Audi Q7 TDI, BMW X5 xDrive35d, VW Touareg TDI.
What's Best: fuel economy, dynamics, driving position.
What's Worst: options add up.
What's Interesting: 20 per cent of the Cayennes sold in Canada are diesel.
Luxury diesel SUV makes easy, frugal work of journey to Delta Grand
I heaved my guitar and amp into the back of the ol'truck, fired up the diesel engine and pointed 'er south in search of the blues.
Old Blue, my one-eyed mutt rode shotgun. With my left arm baking in the sun, and smoke from the filterless Camel stinging my eyes, Muddy Waters Crackled front the tired AM radio.
Oh, sorry. Got a bit carried away there.
Actually, the audio in the 2014 Porsche Cayenne Diesel (hardly an ?ol truck) is really quite good, and no, I wasn?t heading for the Mississippi Delta.
I was headed to the Grand River delta and an outdoor gig in Dunnville, Ont., where I was to back up two of Canada?s finest blues harp players.
I also don?t smoke, and the guitar in question is a bass guitar ? gosh, where?s the romance in that? Know any famous blues bass guitarists? Didn?t think so. We?re the diesels of the band ? steady, efficient and reliable. No flash.
So I can relate to this Porsche SUV ($65,500) that gets its life juice from the yellow hose. It may not be as glamorous as its sportier gas-powered siblings, but it sure gets the job done.
And it works for cheap. At the end of the 200-km road trip that took me from Oakville through Niagara wine country, over the escarpment to Dunnville and then home, the trip computer read an astonishing 7.5 L/100.
That is economy-car fuel consumption. If this SUV was a slug, that figure might make more sense, but the 240-hp VW/Audi-sourced 3.0-L turbo diesel V6 is a strong, smooth and largely silent partner. It effortlessly wafts the Cayenne down the road on a 406-lb.-ft wave of torque.
Select Sport mode, keep your foot in it and the 8-speed Tiptronic S auto puts the engine right in the fat of the power, hurtling you forward with a determined urgency.
Of course, keeping your foot in it is not how to conserve fuel, so I adopted an easy truckin? shuffle for this Saturday summer road trip. Think Joe Walsh and Rocky Mountain Way.
I ducked off the Niagara-bound QEW at Fifty Road and jumped on 81, which cuts through the heart of wine country.
There are close to 80 wineries in the region and, although every trip here invites a visit to an untried vintner, I stopped at one of my faves: Organized Crime. Not only does this boutique winery whip up a fine Gewurztraminer and Pinot Noir, the label on the bottle fits well into the theme of this trip.
Organized Crime does not refer to Mafioso activities. Early in the past century, a rivalry between a couple of Mennonite congregations in the area came to a head when one group stole the organ out of the other?s church and chucked it down a ravine. Had the organist been playing the blues?
Jan Tarasewicz, the owner of Organized Crime, was very interested in the Cayenne, as he?s in the market for a Euro-diesel SUV.
I extolled the virtues of its direct steering, form-fitting seats and fine handling that do indeed carry more than a few strands of Porsche DNA.
He liked the intimate, cockpit feel of the driver?s environment, but thought the sunroof was pretty skimpy in size, and was quite surprised that, with an as-tested price of $74,300, there was no back-up camera. Or satellite radio. That?s another $860.
Well, the world of Porsche is a funny place. The base Cayenne Diesel comes with navigation, but to get a back-up camera, you have to buy the $10,990 Premium Plus Package, which also bestows heated rear seats, ventilated front seats, lane-change assist and a few other goodies that could be considered default gotta-haves in this segment.
Granted, you?ll likely get more stuff for less money with the other German marques (and certainly the Jeep Grand Cherokee Diesel), but that wasn?t really bothering me as I worked my way over the escarpment, thoroughly enjoying the Cayenne?s poise and pace.
Decently comfortable ride, too, surely helped by the 18-inch wheels with their relatively high-profile tires.
Cutting through the farmlands, a roar overhead alerted me to one of the incredible aspects of living in this region.
The silhouette and sound of a 1945 Lancaster bomber, based at the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum in Hamilton, is quite common here in the summer. One of only two operational Lancasters (the other is in Britain), the drone of those four Packard Merlin V12 engines never fails to give me chills.
If you come into Dunnville from the east on Highway 3, you?ll be greeted by Muddy, which, at 50 feet, is the world?s largest catfish statue. Lots of big catfish in the Grand River, apparently.
Just outside of town is another aviation museum: the No 6 RCAF Dunnville Museum. This was the site of a WWII pilot training centre ? only a few remain of the 28 built in Canada. It operated from 1940 to 1944, and standing guard is a yellow Harvard trainer.
After a fine dinner of perch at a local marina, I made my way to the Shared Harvest Community Farm ? host of a blues harp educational workshop and site of this evening?s concert.
I pulled the Cayenne Diesel up in front of a makeshift stage and hopped out. It was hot, humid, and the bugs were ravenous. An ancient willow with its massive canopy offered some respite.
Just over yonder was a weatherworn 19th-century log house, with a sprawling porch from which the plaintive strains of some fellas playing the harmonica convinced me that, yes, I had found the blues.
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College Football's Week 1 Upset Predictions
There have been several September shockers over the last few college football seasons. Appalachian State beating Michigan in 2007 still gets a lot of talk, and there were early stunners last year with Jacksonville State blindsiding Ole Miss, Kansas losing to North Dakota State 6-3, and James Madison topping Virginia Tech in Blacksburg. There may not be a surprise of that level during the opening weekend, but interesting storylines always seem to happen early in the season.


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Joe Nathan was fine taking a back seat to the game's greatest closer of all-time heading into Tuesday night's All-Star Game.
Even though the Texas Rangers' veteran closer did take a metaphorical back seat to future Hall of Famer Mariano Rivera, he did close the 2013 All-Star Game out in relatively stress-free fashion on Tuesday as the American League won for the first time in four tries with a 3-0 win over the National League.
Rivera entered the game in the eighth inning instead of the ninth, as expected, as AL manager Jim Leyland made the call to insert the Yankees closer in eighth because, as the visitor, the AL could have potentially not had to pitch in the bottom of the ninth if the NL made a comeback. Improbable? Yes, but impossible? No. And if Rivera hadn't gotten into the game, heads would've rolled.
So as Metallica's Enter Sandman was played, Rivera trotted in from the bullpen as the teams both paid their respects from their dugouts and left Rivera as the lone man standing on the diamond. It was a pretty special moment for everyone, including Nathan.
"I think we all wanted to see him in the ninth to be honest with you," Nathan told ESPN's Tim Kurkjian after the game. "I wanted to hear `Enter Sandman' in the ninth."
Nathan said he was surprised to learn he would be pitching the ninth instead of Rivera.
"My heart has never beat so fast," said Nathan, making his sixth All-Star appearance. "I didn't know I was getting the ninth 'til the ninth.
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Book Title: Broken Trust by Thomas Maurin
Category: Adult fiction, 285 pages
Genre: Thriller
Publisher: Cultivating Change LLC
Published: November 2014
Available in: Print and E-book format: mobi (for Kindle)
Will send books: USA and Canada
Tour dates: Jan 7 to 28, 2015
Category: Adult fiction, 285 pages
Genre: Thriller
Publisher: Cultivating Change LLC
Published: November 2014
Available in: Print and E-book format: mobi (for Kindle)
Will send books: USA and Canada
Tour dates: Jan 7 to 28, 2015
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
I was provided with a digital copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.
The story revolves around three college-time friends, thrown back together in life by destiny. Pursuing completely different tangential careers, the three form an unlikely partnership to solve some horrid crimes. What starts as an interesting investigation soon unravels into a very deep and far-sounding powerful problems, involving political conspiracies, underworld dealings, murder, artifacts from the world war and above all, battle for survival. Will the three friends manage to stay alive, leave alone solving the mysteries, is what the book takes us through.
The book was bewilderingly pacy! Each page had nail-biting suspense and I had to finish it one go. The numerous twists and turns in the plot add to the intrigue factor. At times, as the reader, I couldn't help wishing for a slight more depth into the characters of the three protagonists, only to help me empathise with them better. But that said, the authors have done a brilliant job churning out a superb suspense piece of work!
My rating: 4 stars
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They get caught up in the hunt for a corrupt Swiss banker intent on finally unloading the last of the gold stolen by his father in World War II; a violent, narcissist leader of a Mexican drug cartel making his move to take over as the head of all cartels in Central America; and the daughter of a murdered Bulgarian arms dealer making the deal that will give her mother financial stability and get them both out of the increasingly unstable arms business.
The plot unfolds as financial crimes committed by insiders put common criminal activities to shame in a world where technology has increasingly insinuated itself into our lives to good and bad effects.
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WASHINGTON – Military dogs get homesick too.
At least that's what the folks at MoveAmericaForward.org believe. Officials from the conservative action group this week are sending two dozen care packages to military mutts serving in Afghanistan, in an effort to show appreciation for the work they and their handlers perform in the war effort.
The packages include a few bags of dog treats, a set of dog boots (to keep out sand and dust) and a pair of dog goggles (again, sand and dust). Organizers also included, for the handlers, some coffee, cookies, beef jerky, gatorade, and toiletries, along with thank-you notes.
"We've been seeing stories about military dogs here and there for a long time now, and we had never done anything special for them or the troops they serve with," group spokesman Danny Gonzalez said in an email. "Military dogs are critical to our missions' success in Afghanistan because they can find explosives that even some of our high-tech detection equipment misses."
The group hopes to send additional packages in the near future, and is taking donations at www.moveamericaforward.org. More information is also available on their Facebook page.


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As South Beach slowly filled with New Year's Eve revelers looking to ring in the millennium underneath a glitter ball, a far more curious spectacle was unfolding deep within the Everglades swamp. There, on a swath of semidry land inside the Seminole Indian Reservation, nearly 80,000 folks from across America converged for an old-fashioned campout-cum-rock fest, complete with an on-site radio station to remind them not to feed the alligators. The soundtrack (and the magnetic draw that saw a virtual city appear overnight on a scrubby field) was the little cult phenomenon that could, Vermont's premier improvisatory neohippie outfit, Phish. While news choppers buzzed overhead and newspaper critics scratched their brows, Phish's devout fans gleefully settled in for two days of Little Feat-style guitar play and whimsical freeform jamming. A Porta Potti even was rolled out onto the stage to enable a midnight-to-dawn uninterrupted set, a supreme test of endurance. After all, what better way was there for a jam band to properly christen the century turnover? Pundits may have argued over the concert's cultural significance and made tiresome Woodstock references, but Phish's flock was much more concerned with boogying.
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Theory Issues………and lots of LINKS!!
Music theory is SUPER important to the beginning piano student. However, I think that sometimes it is easy to slack off and either 1) not leave enough time for it, or forget about it entirely, or 2) make it the most boring part of the lesson.
I'd like to briefly address these two problems with theory in our lessons (at least in my experience – I know a lot of you already are great at teaching theory in a fun, exciting way! Share your secrets with us!;)):
1) Forgetting to do theory, or not leaving enough time for it
Sometimes it can be so hard to find the time to open up that theory book during the lesson. I truly hope that as teachers we don't really forget to teach theory (because honestly, how could you? As I mentioned in an earlier post, there should be a technique reason and a theory reason for everything you teach.) – but it truly can be a challenge to fit everything your student needs to know to be a well-rounded musician into one weekly half-hour lesson.
A few options (just off the top of my head) to help remedy this:
-set up a computer in your studio and purchase some fun music theory software for your students to use for 15-20 minutes prior to their lesson. Definitely would help fit more into the lesson!
-assign your student to use some online theory resources at home – there really are a ton of great ones available
-do theory FIRST at the lesson, even if it's just for a few minutes. That way you'll keep right on track!
-whether you have the time to go over theory a lot or not, make sure the student always has some type of theory assignment to work on each week
-address the NEXT issue (theory is boring) and you won't WANT to leave it out of the lesson because it is the best part of the lesson!…..
2) Theory is boring
Well then something has got to change! I am just as guilty at this as the next person. It's so easy to just open up that theory book, see which concept should be taught next, go over the page with the student (in a non-exciting way) and assign them the page to do at home. Sure this works, they usually get the concepts alright. But seriously, it can be very boring. And non-memorable. And did I mention boring?
I am not pretending to be some super resource for theory games – because honestly, I could use just as many ideas as the next teacher! My list of "theory games" would be rather short…and maybe a little boring….here is one idea (hey at least it's something!)….
-flashcard games: actually this would probably be my one fun game that really sticks out in my mind as something that the students get into and enjoy, and that is really helpful. It is nothing too fancy, but we make it fun by using a stopwatch. I time the student to see how long it takes to go through the stack and name and play each note on the cards. I think it is helpful to have the student first name the note without looking at the keyboard (to avoid counting up keys and other shortcuts, to make sure they really know the note by sight), then turn to the keyboard and play the key in the correct octave. Any flashcards that the student does not get right, I put in a separate stack and we go through those again at the end. We count up how many cards they got right on the first try, and see how long it took. The students love trying to beat their time each week, and get really into it. It's great to make them go for speed because it forces them to name the notes as quickly as possible.
Ok, enough of my ideas (or lack thereof)…..let's turn to some AWESOME online resources! And please, if you know of other great resources, we'd love to hear about them to add to the list!
Online Theory Trainers, Games, and Quizzes
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AWESOME website with free printable worksheets, fun composer bios/crossword puzzles, etc.
lots of free printable worksheets!
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free downloadable resources
fun & creative printable worksheets and certificates, teaching ideas
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resources for music educators, lots of fun game ideas
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Determinants of regional variations in the rate ofl profit. An empirical analysis for Austrian manufacturing 1972-1992
The rate of profit represents a central concept in economics and is commonly seen as one of the most accurate indicators for economic vitality of firms, industries, and regions. The level of profit rates is supposed to guide investment shifts between sectors and over space, the speed and direction of technological change, and the development of economic activity in the long run. Differentiales in regional profit rates may therefore be a major source for differences in regional economic development and regional competitiveness. While neoclassical regional economic theory postulates a tendency towards an equalisation in regional rates of profit, empirical studies show considerable and persistent regional differences in profitability. The aim of the paper is to analyse the pattern of profitability over time and space for Austrian manufacturing on a highly disaggregated regional level for the time period 1972-1992. An eclectic model is employed in order to analyse major sources for regional variations in profit rates. The model distinguishes four groups of determinants: production technology, capital-labour-relations, market competition, and spatial variables such as transport costs and agglomeration economies.
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Clare Town Council is to crank up a campaign to reduce the number of heavy good vehicles (HGVs) that pass through its streets.
For more than a year Clare resident Bob Verguson has run a campaign to highlight the issue of the number of HGVs that pass through the centre of Clare and the damage they cause to buildings, the roads, other vehicles and the services that run beneath the roads.
While the town council has supported Mr Verguson and the action group, it now wants to take a more proactive role, including appealing to the borough and county councils to do more.
Councillor Peter Phillips, chairman of the town council's highways committee, said: "Clare is a residential area. It is a very old town with narrow roads and pavements not designed for large, articulated HGVs.
"Clare Town Council suggests that an environmental weight restriction would require many of these vehicles to use the designated Stragetic Lorry Route rather than the Zone Distributor Route and Local Access Lorry Route.
"It might also encourage investment in vehicles of a more appropriate size for the rural roads of Suffolk."
Articulated lorries cause the most problems when passing through the tightest points of Clare, such the corner where the Bell Hotel stands and Well Lane, which is just 14ft wide at its narrowest.
They are also a problem for other villages on the route from Sudbury to Haverhill, including Cavendish and Stoke by Clare.
Cllr Phillips outlined some of the issues, saying: "Listed buildings and other properties are being damaged in collisions.
"The Bell Hotel has been hit twice by HGVs recently, roof tiles have been dislodged from buildings, plaster shaken from walls.
"Pedestrians and pedal cyclists are being drenched in filthy water by vehicles driving through the resulting puddles.
"Residents living in the vicinity of Bell Corner are frightened to use their front doors. Other residents cower in fear at the approach of these monsters."
Cllr Phillips encouraged anyone with concerns over the problem to contact the town council at firstname.lastname@example.com or attend its meetings.
He added: "If we were to have a tragedy in Clare caused by an HGV, and this possibility is increasingly likely given recent incidents, then appropriate action would probably follow. Our intention is to act before this happens."


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The story behind Kodak's first digital camera in 1975
What you see above is Kodak's first digital camera, that is a camera that didn't require any film. Developed by talented people in their Apparatus Division Research Laboratory in Rochester and unveiled in December 1975, this Frankensteinian device utilized scavenged parts, such as the lens from a Super 8 movie camera. Visionary Steve Sasson, the inventor of the digital camera, explains:
It was a camera that didn't use any film to capture still images – a camera that would capture images using a CCD imager and digitize the captured scene and store the digital info on a standard cassette. It took 23 seconds to record the digitized image to the cassette. The image was viewed by removing the cassette from the camera and placing it in a custom playback device. This playback device incorporated a cassette reader and a specially built frame store. This custom frame store received the data from the tape, interpolated the 100 captured lines to 400 lines, and generated a standard NTSC video signal, which was then sent to a television set.
My favorite part of Sasson's piece is this bit at the end:
It is funny now to look back on this project and realize that we were not really thinking of this as the world's first digital camera. We were looking at it as a distant possibility. Maybe a line from the technical report written at the time sums it up best:
"The camera described in this report represents a first attempt demonstrating a photographic system which may, with improvements in technology, substantially impact the way pictures will be taken in the future."
But in reality, we had no idea …
What will be the digital camera of today in 30 years…? I, for one, am still hoping for the hoverboards.


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Many men wonder why women try to look skinny. May be the 'super slim' supermodel look has been popularised by the media way too much; many women are trying to look like that.
They take up so many diet and exercise programs to look skinny as they think its hot. But on the contrary, men always vote for someone who isn't so skinny.
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In fact, some men go to an extent of saying that plus size women are the hottest according to them in a survey. Here are some more opinions from such surveys...
Fact #1
In a survey, nearly 65 % of the women admitted that they started getting more attention from men after they gained weight.
Fact #2
Nearly 74% of men said that they would love to cuddle with someone who is soft. Skinny women are not so cuddle-freindly according to them.
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Fact #3
Almost all men agreed that they would love women who eat healthy compared to women who starve themselves.
Fact #4
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Gambler or Investor? The Truth About Why We Trade
Getting at the 'Thrill,' From Neuropsychology to Gamblers Anonymous
It is a well-worn cliche. The stock market is the capitalist casino, a place where gambling wears a thin mask called investing.
It is a place where "buy gold" or "buy Pandora" can sound a lot like "come on, seven!"
The idea, of course, is that we so-called investors aren't actually putting our money to work. We are engaging in a socially acceptable version of the lotto. We are betting the odds. Like a player at the craps table, we are trying to get hot—riding the momentum of a bull market, pulling back when the wheel of fortune goes cold.
And, just as anyone who goes to Las Vegas knows that the house usually wins, investors know that trading can be a cruel game.
There is some truth to that analysis, of course. But is it the whole truth? Is Warren Buffett simply playing a more respectable version of Texas hold 'em? Is John Paulson counting mortgages like card counter in a game of single-deck blackjack?
The answer to a large degree depends on whom you ask. Investors, academics, gambling addicts and psychologists all have their own take. Neurologists have their own observations about pleasure centers in the brain. A common thread runs through the different opinions: We get in trouble when we trade for thrills.
"In gambling, the act is done for the love or 'thrill' of it," said Prakesh Deeriya, a finance professor at the University of North Texas.
In that way, the thrill of gambling differs from trading, Mr. Deeriya said , because "the 'thrill' itself is the reward. In speculation, the return on investments is the reward, or at least the expectation of getting a return is the reward."
The distinction changes, he said, when a trader gets the thrill from pushing the button, when the high comes from playing the game, rather from winning it. "If it is there," he said, "then one can say that is gambling."
Not surprisingly, investors have a different take depending on their discipline. Elie Rosenberg, who runs the ValueSlant.com blog is a value investor. He sees the distinction between gambling and investing as a distinction between buy-and-hold investing and speculation.
Mr. Rosenberg quotes American economist Ben Graham, who argued that "investment is most successful when it is most businesslike. An investment operation is one which, upon thorough analysis, promises safety of principal and a satisfactory return."
Anything else, Mr. Rosenberg says, is probably gambling.
Gambling addicts would probably agree. A Gamblers Anonymous member told me that investing is a common topic in the group's discussions. Some members share stories about how obsessive trading disrupts lives and leads to financial and personal ruin.
The group has a general rule that members should hold a stock for at least 18 months—if they invest in stocks at all. Commodities and options trading seem to be a particular problem.
The link between gambling and trading isn't just a personal one, said Steven Weisman, a professor who teaches entertainment and gambling law at Bentley University in Boston. Recent Internet gambling laws have excluded day trading which, he said, "is as much of a gamble as any throw of the dice or bet on a horse."
Mr. Weisman seems to agree that long-term investing is different from speculative trading, which is more akin to gambling. He notes that the brokerage firm Cantor Fitzgerald launched a mobile gaming device for casino use that piggybacks on technology developed for the markets.
Sometimes, the line between investing and gambling can be hard to see. Tony Emerson, an investor and gambler in Austin, Texas, said that what starts out as research-driven investing can turn into a blind gamble quickly.
"Consumer sentiment is impossible to predict," Mr. Emerson said. "Models and analyses that once seemed to work to predict stock movement failed when the economy crashed."
Still, it doesn't take a market collapse for the similarities to show themselves.
"The losses and gains are generally less dramatic than craps, blackjack, roulette or poker. But just like gambling, the more you risk, the more you stand to gain," Mr. Emerson said.
The real problem, according to Todd Tresidder, a former hedge-fund manager who is now a financial coach, is that most people don't understand the odds. He argues what sounds like card-counting the markets: knowing the math takes gambling out of the equation.
"If you invest like most people, there is no difference," Mr. Tresidder said. Investors, he argues, understand the odds. "The only way you will profit over time is either by sheer luck or by betting on positive mathematical expectancy situations," he said.
Mr. Tresidder has a point about knowing the odds, but don't a lot of gamblers know the odds? They pull the trigger, make the wager, or trade anyway. It is the thrill of betting that they love.
Maggie Baker, a clinical psychologist in Philadelphia, said that the neurological similarities between traders and gamblers are striking. Whether they are about to make a trade or plunking down a bet, the pleasure center in the brain lights up, Ms. Baker said.
It says: "Oh, boy, I'm going to do something that's going to make me money."
It isn't too different from the anticipation for sex, Ms. Baker added. "In some ways, it's better to hope than get," she said.
Of course, this kind of stimulation can be dangerous. And that is why Ms. Baker said it is important to be mindful of two major factors in our control: environment and motivation. A trading floor isn't that much different from a floor of a casino in that regard. There is a lot of social support for addictive behavior.
And what are our motives? Are we trying to impress people? Empower ourselves? Is it tied to our self-esteem?
Ultimately, the difference between healthy investing and gambling comes back to the thrill. When that becomes the sole purpose of buying and selling securities, investors have crossed the line. They are gamblers.
They will be until the thrill and, likely the money, is gone.
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Bill Radke: The giant government-owned mortgage company Fannie Mae is taking action to prevent homeowners from walking away from their mortgages when they could afford to make the payments. Homeowners use these strategic defaults because their home is worth less than they owe the bank. Fannie Mae has a plan to discourage the praice. Here live with us to explain is Marketplace's Mitchell Hartman. Good morning, Mitchell.
Mitchell Hartman: Hi, Bill.
Radke: How does Fannie Mae plan to crack down on "strategic defaults"?
Hartman: Well they'll begin "locking out" these borrowers from getting new mortgages for seven years. They'll also go after strategic defaulters for the money they owe in states where that's allowed. A top executive is quoted by the Wall Street Journal as saying "Walking away from a mortgage is bad for borrowers and bad for communities." And of course it is from the lender's perspective, because it leaves them holding the bag -- they've got a foreclosed house they have to sell probably at a loss and it makes all mortgages more risky.
Radke: Well how big a problem is this?
Hartman: Well, it used to be pretty rare. Mortgages were pretty much sacrosanct. Even when they got in financial trouble, they tried to keep paying their mortgage so they wouldn't foreclosed and lose any equity. But nowadays, a lot of people don't have any equity. One in four homeowners now owe more on their house than they can sell it for. Some of them can afford to keep paying, they just don't want to anymore. A recent report by Morgan Stanley found that about 12 percent of foreclosures are "strategic" at this point, and the trend's likely to increase since home prices are still going down.
Radke: You know Mitchell, it's a controversial thing, but there's a reason they call these defaults "strategic" -- you can see the logic. Why keep throwing good money after a bad mortgage?
Hartman: Well you know that's true, and there are academics actually who are arguing that this is sort of perfectly economically rational. Of course as long as you can handle this penalty of a seven-year lockout at this point. And some big real estate developers clearly think it's also fine, since we've been seeing them walk away from billion-dollar mortgages that they don't want to pay out anymore.
Radke: Yes. Marketplace's Mitchell Hartman. Thank you.
Hartman: You're welcome.


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This post is aimed especially at my European readers, or any readers who have traveled in Europe. As I have mentioned before, Cuttleson is going to be in Europe (Denmark) soon, for roughly 4 months. At one point (I need to ask him the specific dates, but it is in Spring) he has 2 weeks free to travel. For some of that, he may be traveling with friends, but perhaps not all of it.
Anyway, he is looking for ideas. At this point, he claims to be less interested in, say, ruins than in natural beauty. The sites he mentioned to me included things like Croatia's Plitvice Lakes, and Meteora in Greece. He thought the idea of climbing Mt. Olympus was wonderful. He is clearly not opposed to making a long trip from Denmark. His current ideal would be to find a place to stay as a base for at least a few days, while he explores several different nearby areas.
So… I am asking for your advice, your ideas, your experience. Do you have a favorite place that is unlikely (or is very likely) to be found in a tour guide? Any places he really ought to avoid, if (as he claims) he'd rather see the French countryside than the Eiffel Tower?
I know I have quite a few European readers, from across the whole of the continent. Please don't be shy; post in the comments, or (if you really want your special place to remain a secret) that's my email address over there to the right.
From the North, with the cold and the ice,
To the South, where the beaches are nice,
To the East, to the West,
If your country's the best
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Mornin' everyone.
We went to the official town tree lighting ceremony with a neighbor last night. It was very Norman Rockwell-ish: Lots of town people mingling in Santa hats; roasted chestnuts over here, hot cider over there; carolers and horse-drawn wagon rides; and then the countdown that ended with the lighting of a beautiful tree in the town center gazebo. What a wonderful evening!
I'm heading out this morning for a racewalking training session at a small (12 laps/mile) indoor track. I'll get there an hour early so I can get my workout in before the trainees come. After the session, I'll meet up with DW so we can head north a few miles for the first indoor farmer's market of the season (with a side trip to Trader Joe's), and then we have to hurry back for the town's Christmas parade. It's a mixed up kind'a day, but it's all good stuff.
Have a greta day!
Without ice cream there would be darkness and chaos.
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Jay - that sounds like a lovely event! There was a tree-lighting in a nearby town last night that I was tempted to go to, but DH and I opted to stay home and watch a movie instead. Man on a Ledge, btw, pretty good, but then I love Sam Worthington.
No run yet, just finished my coffee after sleeping in very late (for me). I'll head out in a bit for a few and check back in later.
Happy Saturday!
Life is a headlong rush into the unknown. We can hunker down and hope nothing hits us or we can stand tall, lean into the wind and say, "Bring it on, darlin', and don't be stingy with the jalapenos."
Up and out early for 6 miles this morning. Just waiting for the little kid to wake up so we can go out to breakfast. She'd be mad if we left without her.
Humanity runs on coffee.
No running for me. I wake up Friday afternoon,work all night,then stay up Saturday all day. So Saturday is my day off.
Have a good weekend people.
10.1 easy miles. I ran it on a familiar out and back route that is starting to grow a little old so I ran it in reverse today.
DW leaves shortly for Milwaukee. DD and I will get our Christmas shopping for her done today.
Hope everyone has a greta weekend.
...Tennesse HS Football PlayOff's in town today.......
we will run thru 6-PlayOff Games in 48-hours......at.11-3-7PM
is Amazing.......also impossible to go out to Eat.
.........28min poolrun
FlareUp in progress,
poolrunning usually helps
today it didn't
..........Pickles wants to goto a Movie, and then Shopping
this ain't gonna be pretty.
....................good running guys...............Enjoy the Gift.......
..nothing takes the place of persistence.....
Tap, tap, tap, waiting for it to get light out, so that I don't have to run in the dark with my headlamp. Would be a nice change ya know? It is after 7 and still dark... and raining....
Then I'll pack and head to the cabin with a friend.
"During a marathon, I run about two-thirds of the time. That's plenty." - Margaret Davis, 85 Ed Whitlock regarding his 2:54:48 marathon at age 73, "That was a good day. It was never a struggle."
Good morning all!
11.6 miles in light snow with Iron J. Fun run and probably about 8:30 pace---slower at the end as the roads got a bit slippery.
Heading off to Open Studios soon ---all gifts will be from local artisans or homemade this year.
lamerunner, I was in Wolfeboro, but will be in touch soon about Manchester and Durham travel. We could meet up and run together and/or go find coastwalker!
Good Luck TW, or maybe I should be saying that to Pickles?
Snow? ouch! 45 degrees for my run this morning felt like a gift.....
6.6 easy-paced miles in the unseasonably warm December morning. "Monkey leg" is mostly healed up, just a little stiffness remaining. Now the only reminders are two black toenails and one that fell off.
DD's first basketball game is this afternoon. With the age range of 3rd, 4th and 5th graders, and DD is a 5th grader, I think she will enjoy being the "big kid" even though she is not very tall. I know a couple of the other players on the team, and I suspect her team will have a great season.
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Nice easy 5 miler this morning; temp about 40ish. Unseasonably warm for central Illinois. So much so I am playing golf this afternoon...another bonus round.
Neighborhood white elephant party tonight, so I have no idea what I will do tomorrow. I was thinking I may get the bike out and do a 20 miler...haven't been on it since September.
Good morning!
Just back from a very easy 9 miles. We ran part of this along the route a half mile trail race we're running in January, so that was fun. And it rained here yesterday and last night, so the trail was wet and muddy. Even more fun!
Today, we are putting up our Christmas decorations... My 7 year old is excited. I'll be excited tonight, when it's done.
King of PhotoShop
Well, I won my AG today at this 3-mile trail run in my town, but it was just awful! 25:45 or something like that, 8:35 a mile. I knew I was going into it on tired legs after 3 40-mile weeks and no days off and every minute was very hard. Up and down short hills, very soft surfaces, down a set of stone steps, then running through a stream on stones, stuff like that. I felt like I was running like the Roadrunner, with the feet going, but I just wasn't moving. I suck at running trails.
OTOH, I achieved my goal of getting good quality work in, and on a soft surface where I wouldn't be likely to get hurt. My RP won the women's Masters with a 21:28 (7:09's). And here is what was fun: the trophies were compasses! Kind of a neat idea.
Met a guy today who knew who I was but I didn't know him. He told me he lurks on RA and has the handle "Huff and Puff" so it was fun to meet an RA buddy today. Spareribs
Beautiful sunny day around here as well. It is about 50F now yummie weather for a run.
Congrats to Spareribs on his age win. Did your RP's shoes get all wet and messy? She is one speedy girl!
Enkephalin, enjoy your weekend at the cabin.
Craneium, cool, way too cool picture of you and your student in kilts. Great seeing you around here, btw.
Jay, enjoy our Christmas parade. Ours is next week and my Fit4Life Community Coalition decided at the last minute to organize a 2 miler "Jingle Bell Jog" prior to the parade. It should be fun.
Holly, I am glad to see that you are feeling better.
Well, it is not going to get any warmer today, unless I decided to do a TM run, so off to trot I go.
See you all later.
BTW, where is Troy?
"Champions are everywhere; all you need is to train them properly..." ~Arthur Lydiard
Look at that! Spareribs the trail runner! Who'da thunk it? Good job on the AG win, and I love the compasses!
I hope all you folks with that crazy warm weather are enjoying yourselves. You damn well better NOT be treadmill running when it's so nice like that! We had one of the coldest Novembers in the records (I think 4th or 5th coldest?) and it's not getting any better. -31° in town right now, and something like -15° here which is about the coldest it's been this winter. We'll be losing our "inversion effect" this weekend so it's gonna get colder up here in the hills. Drat.
I'll do something on the treadmill later. When I get really tired of it and start to fall into that "I hate the TM" funk, I think of how fortunate I am that I have this tool that helps me get some sort of mileage when the temps are so icky.
Gotta get in here early before we're on page 4!
R.I.P. Koko
We had to put down our 16-year old dog this morning (shown above a few years ago). Koko was rambunctious in her youth (we used to refer to "moments of goodness" ), scary smart (too smart sometimes), and a mellow sweetheart in her older years (she developed a funny technique where she'd gently put her head against your leg and then start leaning into you with increasing pressure until she got petted). She was my DW's dog from the start (when she brought the stinky, days-old puppy home in a shoe box from the dump; a stray) but she long ago wormed her way into my daily routine and my affections (she always sat to watch me stretch outside after a run and then began wagging, knowing she'd get petted). She had a good life with lots of attention, good care, plenty of room outside to run and explore, and many, many naps stretched out on the grass in the sunshine (I was sometimes envious).
This was no surprise given her age and erratic health recently. But things took a quick turn for the worse overnight and we brought her into the vet first thing this morning, knowing what the likely outcome would be. The procedure was quick and quiet. Afterwards we brought her back home and buried her in the back yard next to her buddy/nemesis, Billie, who died last year. During one of her runs on a cold winter morning, DW found Billie shivering and abandoned. The dog clearly had been abused and it took a couple of months for her to stop cowering when we approached and learn that she'd be petted, not hit. Usually, Billie was funny and endlessly enthusiastic but she was always a little neurotic, too. She and Koko were constant companions—Koko serious, Billie silly—but sometimes Billie would be mean to Koko for no reason.
We're left with a 16 year old cat, Taylor (another stray), who has health issues of her own but is still enjoying the good life, sleeping on my desk as I type this.
Needless to say, I didn't get my planned long run in this morning but I did manage to squeeze in an 8-miler before it was time to go to the vet's. Knowing I wouldn't be able to run long, I threw in a few MP-pace miles towards the end.


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I look back to the year of 1958 with nostalgia and delight. I was in my second year as an undergraduate in Cambridge, living a life of hitherto unimagined privilege and freedom, surrounded by new friends, new ideas and beautiful buildings – buildings to which I gave scant attention, regarding some of the most celebrated architectural views in Europe merely as a short cut to a college rehearsal room. My social life centred on the Amateur Dramatic Club. I was in love with Cambridge theatre. I loved my studies, but I loved the theatre more.
Cambridge was at that time a hothouse of dramatic activity and talent. The literary scene was still transfixed by the inhibiting spell of the great Dr Leavis, but the ADC Theatre and the Marlowe Society had recently been revitalised by Peter Hall and John Barton , two lastingly influential directors, and my contemporaries included Ian McKellen, Derek Jacobi, Eleanor Bron, Corin Redgrave and Clive Swift. I fell in love with Clive in my first year while I was playing an Ibsen ingénue and he a pompous vicar in Pillars of the Community. His part was unsympathetic, his performance brilliant. I watched everything he did with amazement and admiration.
In the following year, the highlight of my brief theatrical career, Clive invited me to play Electra in his production of Sartre's The Flies. This was his first (and last) attempt to take on the role of director. I agreed at once, of course, as Electra is a showy and heavily tragic part with lots of lines and some dancing about in a white dress. But in my arrogant youth I took against the authorised translation, which was indeed full of unplayable phrases like, "Well I never" and, "The devil take you," and offered to re-translate it myself, which I did. It wasn't difficult, but I can't now say whether it was any good. We had to get permission from Sartre's agent to use it, and he didn't veto our efforts. Samuel Beckett (whose Waiting for Godot had just been introduced to English audiences by Peter Hall) was much trickier about amateur and indeed professional productions of his work. Sartre clearly didn't care.
Sartre's play reworks the Electra myth from Aeschylus and Euripides, but we knew, or thought we knew, that it was based on the activities of the French resistance in Paris during the war. We also knew that it was existential. Existentialism was fashionable in England in the 1950s, and we all read Sartre and parroted the view that "Existence precedes essence." Dadie Rylands, the ageing but still cherubic protégé of Bloomsbury and the guru of Shakespeare verse speaking, could be heard to mutter, "Existence precedes essence? Nonsense, dear boy. Love precedes hate, love precedes hate."
We quoted Sartre and Camus, and more visibly we adopted the fashions of the Parisian Left Bank, where some of us used to hang about in the sidewalk cafés in the vacation, hoping to glimpse Sartre or Simone de Beauvoir. The men smoked Gauloises, the women sported Juliette Gréco hairstyles, and we all wore the cheap and becoming uniform of black sweaters with polo necks.
We were fortunate, in our 1959 production of The Flies, to have as our leading man an outstanding embodiment of existential style in the person of the extremely handsome Richard Marquand, son of Labour MP Hilary Marquand. Richard looked the part to perfection – rugged, slightly scowling, charming, romantic, a touch of the James Dean or Marlon Brando. He was also a fine performer. He gave an excellent Orestes, and I rejoiced as his incestuously inclined sister Electra, intent on murdering our stepfather Aegisthus, played with gloomy panache by Tom Rosenthal. Tom was a great thespian in his early days. I never saw his Jew of Malta, which was a year before my time, but it is still spoken of with reverence by those who did. He later became the successful managing director of Thames & Hudson, Secker & Warburg and other eminent publishing companies.
Clive found directing more problematic than acting, and he called in the experience of John Barton, who organised the choruses and gave us all much sound advice. John Bird, now of Bird and Fortune fame, wrote the music for the choruses. I know he complained in vain about the scansion of some of the lines of verse I translated. They were the lines I liked best, and I can remember one of them, which went, "Cry, the sad multitudes of our house!" That gives you the flavour of the period, I think. Bird also had the cheek to review our production in the university magazine, Broadsheet, which we all took as seriously as the Sunday Times, in a piece that began "There's no zip in Clive Swift's Flies."
We thought we were all full of zip, and destined for fame, fortune and eternal life. This was not to be. Marquand's undergraduate acting career was dazzling, but he gave up the stage to direct films, and subsequently went to Hollywood, where he made Return of the Jedi in the Star Wars sequence. But he died suddenly, shortly afterwards, in 1987, tragically young, at the age of 49. Who knows what more he would have achieved had he lived?
Those years were important to me in many ways. Clive and I married in 1960, when he was a member of Peter Hall's Royal Shakespeare Company at Stratford, and the early years of my marriage were spent, by default, writing novels instead of working as an actress. I did join the RSC for a couple of seasons as walk-on and understudy, but felt I was there on sufferance. I missed the stage, but, shortly, children and novels took over the centre of my attention.
Richard Marquand remained part of my life, and in the 60s he used me as the vehicle for one of his early BBC documentaries, One Pair of Eyes. I was then a promising feminist novelist and should have known my own mind, but Richard dominated me mercilessly, forcing me to be filmed in a nightclub which I had never before attended (was this still the Left Bank mirage?), to be pictured watching a brass band for a wholly inauthentic "northern touch", and to climb up on a crane for an aerial view. I enjoyed making this film, but one of its odd by-products has been the way that clips of it pop up now and then in serious programmes about the contemporary novel, showing me in a mini-skirt cycling round Cambridge or walking round the gallery of Newnham College library. I never watch. It is all too long ago and too sad. TV programmes depend on available footage. Richard knew this then and now I know it, too.
Clive's career continued to flourish and I follow it closely, although we were divorced decades ago. He retains, as do I, a deep affection for those Cambridge days and the invaluable training they gave to young actors who were offered the opportunity of appearing in first-class plays before first-class and highly critical audiences, with the expert guidance of directors like Hall and Barton. Now, he says, such opportunities for young actors have almost vanished. Repertory companies have folded, and drama schools are wary about trying out work before the public.
The training that the RSC offered – in speech, singing, movement – no longer exists within the profession. To remedy this growing trend, and in recognition of the value of his time with the ADC, Clive came up with the remarkable concept of the Actors Centre, active now for 30 years. This venue in Covent Garden offers classes and studio space to the up-and-coming and to the established. I saw there recently a stunning two-hander in a programme of experimental new work called Ignition. The Actors Centre, like all arts organisations these days, is short of cash, but keeps going and Clive hopes the great and the good of Cambridge days will support it. The show must go on. ■
Margaret Drabble will be speaking at the Royal Society of Literature event "What's so great about Proust?" at Europe House, London SW1 on 9 December (rslit.org)


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Despite Checklists, Wrong-Site Surgery Still Occurs. Why?
Not long ago, two California hospitals were cited by the state for wrong-site surgery.
At one hospital, a skin incision was made in the right groin of a patient who was to have had a left orchiectomy. Fortunately the error was discovered, and the skin was closed. The correct testicle was removed. To his credit, the surgeon told the patient and his wife what happened immediately after the operation.
An investigation found that the patient's groin had not been marked. The time out did not prevent the error because the OR team did not verify the operative site as the protocol mandates. In other words, they had gone through the motions.
The hospital was fined $75,000.
The other California case did not turn out as well. Instead of removing a cancerous left kidney, surgeons did a right nephrectomy. The error was not discovered until the pathology report was reviewed. A number of assumptions and misunderstandings contributed to this error for which the hospital was fined $100,000.
Both hospitals made the usual system and protocol corrections that are precipitated by any state investigation. But these were human errors and will likely happen again. The existing policies were adequate. They simply were not followed.
Another case that occurred in July is from Florida. A surgeon performed a vascular procedure on the wrong leg. Apparently, a nurse anesthetist noticed the error during the case and spoke up, but the surgeon didn't stop. He finished the wrong leg and then did the correct leg too.
When the patient awoke, the surgeon asked her to sign a consent form for the wrong leg and told her that she had needed that surgery anyway.
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Confession: We're kind of obsessed with Orlando Jones.
Seriously, the Sleepy Hollow star is putting all other TV actors to shame when it comes to his social media presence. Not only is he constantly engaging with the Fox hit's fans (aka Sleepyheads) on Twitter, he runs his own Tumblr dedicated to the show. (Oh, he also takes to live-tweeting other cult shows, such as Supernatural.)
In anticipation of Sleepy Hollow's season one finale, airing tonight at 8 p.m. on Fox, we asked Jones to pen a guide on fangirling. Consider this Fangirl 101, with Dr. Jones schooling you in all things shipping and feeling.
1. Pick a fandom (or many) and get to know the other people who are involved (and who will either end up being your close friends or mortal enemies depending on who you ship).
2. Learn how to speak Fandomese. (Can I Ship It, Yes You Can.)
3. Show us the flair: Write fan fiction, make fan art, create any transformative works inspired by your passion/obsession.
4. Troll It Likes It's Hot: Be critical, discuss the things that are wrong with the program you love to the point of getting on everyone's nerves.
5. Be Respectful/Don't Tag Your Hate: You can have opinions just don't be a dick to others when sharing them.
6. So. Much. Feels: Get overly emotional about your ships, how to make them canon and why the creators are problematic and generally get swept up in the majesty of the story world you've embraced.
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7. Protect the celebs and OTPs you love from any outside intrusion by "people who don't understand what the show is really about."
8. Always have snacks (especially popcorn) at the ready.
9. Attend any conventions where your fandom is representing and commence maximum squees.
10. Don't take anything personally in fandom because it's NOT. THAT. SERIOUS. (But it is A LOT of fun.)
And a bonus tip (because...these go to 11): If you want to master post-graduate level fangirling read the works of:
1. Dr. Henry Jenkins (Provost's Professor of Communication, Journalism, Cinematic Arts and Education - USC Annenberg)
2. Professor Anne Jamison (Author of Fic: Why Fanfiction Is Taking Over the World)
3. Flourish Klink - (Chief Participation Officer at The Alchemists Transmedia Storytelling Company and co-founder of FictionAlley.org)
Make sure to get your fangirl on when you watch Sleepy Hollow's season one finale tonight at 8 p.m. on Fox.


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China says new supersonic sub would reach San Francisco in 100 minutes
China claims it has found a way to create a supersonic underwater vessel that could travel from China to San Francisco in less than two hours using new developments in supercavitation. This could be extremely useful for travel—but also for the development of underwater weapons. In fact, this is a military project.


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Cleveland holds off Wilson; Juanita sent home | 3A Girls Basketball
Sophomore Myzhanique Ladd's 17 points helped Cleveland overcome 20 second-half turnovers to reach the quarterfinals with a 46-41 win over No. 3 Wilson.
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PUYALLUP — The young Cleveland High School girls basketball team is moving on. At this point, how the Eagles did it is unimportant.
Myzhanique Ladd supplied 17 points as Cleveland overcame 20 second-half turnovers to advance to the state quarterfinals with a 46-41 win over No. 3 Wilson in Saturday's Class 3A regional at Rogers High School.
The Eagles (20-6) have just one player — Olivia Smith — who was on the school's 2010 Class 3A state-title team. Despite lacking a finishing kick and some poise, they're headed back to the Tacoma Dome.
"That (state title) is old news and that's a team that isn't here anymore," said coach Stephenie Wheeler-Smith, whose team blew all but one point of a 14-point lead in the second half. "That title really isn't our focus. That's over. This team is trying to figure out how they can play together and win together. They are very young.
"They are going up and down in their composure battle. It's just a process of learning on the fly."
Somehow, the Eagles made enough plays and free throws — 15 of 25 — to cling to victory against Wilson. Cleveland overcame 24 turnovers and 27-percent shooting (13 of 48). They had one field goal in the final 4:56.
"I knew we'd have some turnovers, because that's just what you give away when you play the way we play," Wheeler-Smith said. "I didn't intend on us having that many in the second half, particularly the third quarter. I'm still proud of the way they stuck together and fought."
Ladd, a sophomore point guard, also had eight rebounds, five steals and three assists, and Cleveland hit 4 of 8 free throws in the final 48.4 seconds.
It was 44-41 when Wilson's Kaysha Fox sank two free throws with 22 seconds left. Makayla Roper, a sophomore who added nine points, hit 1 of 2 free throws with 15.5 showing and Joyce Harrell added 1 of 2 with five seconds to go.
Cleveland is already one step farther this season after losing in the Round of 16 last year.
"We had some good defense and key rebounds down the stretch," Wheeler-Smith said. "We had a lot of hustle plays. We had a rough district run, and we lost a little confidence. We kept fighting. We just have to be positive."
Wilson (20-4) endured a costly scoreless stretch of 7 minutes, 24 seconds in the first half. Dejah Rogers' layin 4:07 before halftime ended the drought.
During that stretch, Cleveland built a 14-point lead at 24-10. The Eagles' lead was 25-14 at intermission as Roper, Carsen Stanley and Jayde Christopher all made second-quarter three-pointers.
Brionna Hart grabbed seven rebounds for Cleveland.
There will be a draw on Sunday to determine first-round matchups for state, which begins Thursday in the Tacoma Dome.
Tia Briggs and Dejah Rogers led Wilson with 11 points apiece. Leading scorer Bethany Montgomery (15 points per game) was limited to four.
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Prairie 65, Juanita 28
The backcourt duo of Jackie Lanz (18) and Megan Lindsley (16) combined for 34 points as the top-ranked Falcons (24-1) moved within two victories of the school's 12th appearance in a state-title game. It was Prairie's 24th consecutive win.
The Rebels (21-6) played without leading scorer Kate Cryderman (17.2 ppg) after she suffered a high ankle sprain in practice last Tuesday. The 6-foot Cryderman, the school's career scoring leader and KingCo 3A/2A Player of the Year, sat on the bench in street clothes.
Juanita fell behind 17-4 in the first five minutes, thanks to a rash of turnovers.
"We knew that our chances went down a big bunch without Kate," Rebels coach Sam Lee said of Cryderman, who also averages eight rebounds and three blocks. "You didn't see much about (not having Cryderman) until today. When we got ready to get on the bus today, I knew we were in for a long evening.
"I don't mind losing to a great team, and they're a great team."
Lee said Cryderman will have her right foot in a boot for six to eight weeks.


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LONDON, Ont. -- There was no way one of the best teams in the history of junior hockey was going to have one final practice together without a little bit of fun.
As their workout at Western Fair wound down yesterday, the London Knights, losers of a mere nine games of the 89 they have played since the 2004-05 season began, hunted down and tackled assistant coach Jacques Beaulieu.
The Knights held Beaulieu down, taped him from head to toe, put him on a net and taped him to the top. They then put snow in his face and down his trousers. Beaulieu had no choice but to lay on top of the net for a few minutes until he was cut down and freed by trainer Don Brankley.
"That's just a year-end thing we normally do," Knights forward David Bolland said. "My first year here, we shaved off his moustache. This year we got him with the tape. We play pranks on the coaches and they do it back to us. There's a lot of respect but no grudges."
The shenanigans don't suggest the Knights were not thinking about achieving their biggest goal this season.
Their successful journey, which has included a combined record of 78-9-2 in the regular season, playoffs and Cup round-robin, will end not long after the dinner hour tonight. The Knights' combination of skill, experience and depth leads the majority of observers to believe captain Danny Syvret will hoist the first Memorial Cup in Knights history tonight.
"There have been a lot of memories," forward Corey Perry, the most talented player here not named Sidney Crosby, said.
"We want to make sure we go out on top."
Knights such as Syvret and Perry have won world junior gold medals, but none have been through the pressure Dan Fritsche has endured. Not only did Fritsche win a junior gold medal with the United States in 2004, he played in 19 games for the Columbus Blue Jackets in 2003-04.
"I think playing in the NHL, the excitement and the adrenaline rush of being there helps," Fritsche said.
"We're ready for (today)."


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Sqoop currently only exports at the granularity of a table. This doesn't work well on systems with large tables, where the overhead of performing a full dump each time is significant. Allowing the user to specify a where clause is a relatively simple task which will give Sqoop a lot more flexibility.
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I have this working except for in the case of optimized local importing. Not sure why this is failing ATM because the same command line statement succeeds, but I expect to have a patch by the end of the weekend.
This patch adds the ability to specify a "where" clause to sqoop, in the form
<normal sqoop command> --where "my_row > 0 and my_text like '%sqoop%'"
It also works with sqoop's mysql-specific --local flag, using mysqldump's -w flag.
+1 – patch looks good to me. Thanks for cleaning up my dangling imports.
I wouldn't mind if you felt like being ambitious and cleaned up that TODO in TestWhere.java by either pushing code down into ImportJobTestCase or subclassing it for more specific behavior. But I think this is good as-is, too.
Updated the patch to be against the mapreduce svn tree now that it's split. No code changes since the original patch otherwise.
-1 overall. Here are the results of testing the latest attachment
against trunk revision 790971.
+1 @author. The patch does not contain any @author tags.
+1 tests included. The patch appears to include 9 new or modified tests.
+1 javadoc. The javadoc tool did not generate any warning messages.
+1 javac. The applied patch does not increase the total number of javac compiler warnings.
+1 findbugs. The patch does not introduce any new Findbugs warnings.
+1 release audit. The applied patch does not increase the total number of release audit warnings.
-1 core tests. The patch failed core unit tests.
-1 contrib tests. The patch failed contrib unit tests.
Test results: http://hudson.zones.apache.org/hudson/job/Mapreduce-Patch-vesta.apache.org/352/testReport/
Findbugs warnings: http://hudson.zones.apache.org/hudson/job/Mapreduce-Patch-vesta.apache.org/352/artifact/trunk/build/test/findbugs/newPatchFindbugsWarnings.html
Checkstyle results: http://hudson.zones.apache.org/hudson/job/Mapreduce-Patch-vesta.apache.org/352/artifact/trunk/build/test/checkstyle-errors.html
Console output: http://hudson.zones.apache.org/hudson/job/Mapreduce-Patch-vesta.apache.org/352/console
This message is automatically generated.
Integrated in Hadoop-Mapreduce-trunk #15 (See http://hudson.zones.apache.org/hudson/job/Hadoop-Mapreduce-trunk/15/)
. Sqoop should allow a "where" clause to avoid having to export entire tables. Contributed by Kevin Weil.


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Sinn Fein politician battered by IRA husband
Crazed ex-Provo assaulted wife, wrecked her home and then tried to torch her car
A Sinn Fein politician was beaten up by her estranged IRA gunman husband in a brutal Christmas Day assault that finally ended their 30-year relationship.
Paul Norney -- who served 20 years in an English jail for the attempted murder of a policeman -- also wrecked terrified Breige Brownlee's west Belfast home and tried to torch her car.
The crazed 57-year-old will be sentenced on Thursday after pleading guilty to assault, arson, criminal damage and threats to damage property.
He has been held on remand in Maghaberry Prison since the frightening festive attack.
Like her husband Norney, ex-Sinn Fein councillor Breige, 54, is also a former IRA prisoner.
The mother-of-three was jailed for eight years in 1977 for possession of fire-bombs.
The paramilitary turned politician is still too upset to talk about her ordeal at the hands of childhood sweetheart who she separated from some years ago.
Liaising on her behalf, a Sinn Fein spokesman said Breige did not wish to comment on the case.
Norney showed up at Breige's home in the St James' area of west Belfast last Christmas Day spoiling for a fight. She pleaded with him to leave but her cries fell on deaf ears.
Norney grabbed his wife's mobile phone and tried to smash it fearing she was calling the police.
He then repeatedly hit the front door of her house after she managed to force it closed.
Three days later Norney, who has an Open University degree in social sciences, repeated his campaign of harassment against Breige.
This time he set fire to her Hyundai Matrix car.
He also threatened to burn down the home of Bernadette Irwin, who is a friend of the Sinn Fein member.
Norney was later arrested and charged with arson and assault.
He has spent the last 10 months on remand in Maghaberry Prison and is now awaiting sentencing.
During that time he wrote a ridiculous letter to Sunday Life moaning about how an Ulster fry is not available on the jail dinner menu because it is not considered healthy.
Breige Brownlee and Paul Norney's bitter fall-out shows how the most rock-solid of republican relationships can fall apart.
The couple, who first met as teenagers in west Belfast, married in Parkhurst Prison on the Isle of Wight in September 1987.
Norney was 12 years into a minimum 20 year sentence for the attempted murder of a policeman in England.
Breige had been released from Armagh Women's Prison just three years earlier after doing a seven year stretch for possession of an IRA fire-bomb. Prison chiefs allowed just eight guests to attend their wedding ceremony at which only two photographs were permitted.
Speaking about her love for Norney, Breige said at the time: "The first time I saw him it was at my granny's house. He was 15.
"I looked at him and I just knew that was it. To tell you the truth it is hard to put in words. Yes, he is attractive, tall with dark blue eyes.
"Over the years I went with others, one better looking, but there has never been anyone else for me but Paul.
"There is something about him that is very strong, very genuine."
Norney -- who was freed from jail in 1996 after serving 21 years behind bars -- joined the IRA in west Belfast as a teenager.
He went on the run aged 15 after an attack on a factory left three soldiers dead.
The young Provo was eventually arrested, but later escaped from a juvenile detention centre.
He made his way to England, where aged 17, he was involved in the attempted murder of a policeman.
Norney was jailed for a minimum 20 years before his release in 1996.
After tying the knot with Breige in 1987 it was a further nine years before their marriage was consummated.
She touched on this in a media interview in 1995, saying: "I know it seems strange to other people to get married to someone in prison, to have a marriage of nearly eight years that has never been consummated.
"But we have grown together rather than apart. He is my best friend. It doesn't make us any less together, we're just on a different level."
Although the couple remained together for some time after Norney's release from jail they have spent the last number of years apart.
In that time Breige Brownlee's political career in Sinn Fein took off and she was co-opted onto Belfast City Council in 2009.
But she lost her seat in the Lower Falls in the 2011 elections to the SDLP. Despite this she remains an active member of Sinn Fein in west Belfast.
Republican sources told Sunday Life she plans to stand for election to the council in 2015.
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Speaking at a joint media briefing with captain Graeme Smith
at Newlands here on Wednesday following the triumphant tour of Australia,
Kirsten, who boasts 101 Test caps of his own over an 11-year period between
1993 and 2004, said: "This a team South Africa can be proud of.
"They go about their business in a very humble way and
they've achieved success in different ways and in different conditions.
"They're a very mature bunch of individuals ... they play
for the Proteas badge in a way I've never seen before."
Asked by Sport24 how good their prospects were, considering
the current Test landscape worldwide, of staying top of the pile for a really
significant period, he said: "It's certainly something we've set our sights on.
"It's been an incredible year and it requires time now for
the players to reflect on it for a period – albeit very short because we're
playing again in a few weeks.
"We wanted to become No 1 team in the world and then to hold
that position. We accomplished two very big targets this year which was England
and Australia; just a massive performance from the players and now we will set
our sights on how we can hold that position.
"It is important to us – we do want to leave a legacy
behind. What this team has achieved over a pretty sustained period now has been
nothing short of remarkable.
"Credit to the players for stepping up in high-pressure
situations to not only save Test matches but also play the sort of dominant
cricket we are capable of playing."
Smith, asked to explain why his charges seemed to play more
comfortably away from home than any other side, replied: "I think there's a
maturity around the group. Having the players to perform around the world is a
key factor; the guys who have the games to adapt to all conditions.
"There's a maturity in our preparation and knowledge of how
to be successful away from home – that is the biggest thing.
"When you go to someone else's country you've got to figure
out 'OK, how do we win here?' and 'how do I deal with the pressures of
performing in front of their media, their crowds?'
"I think the group we've got has certainly handled that
very, very well."
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on his batting for the first time in many years, Smith joked when asked if
there had been a change of heart more recently.
"I was telling Gary I've also opened the batting too many
times now and it is time to shift to No 5 (something Kirsten did at the
tail-end of his career) soon!
"But on a serious note, I'm not setting any long-term goals;
just taking things as they come. As long as I feel as a captain I can add value
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reason to walk away.
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I work as a sales associate for a cellphone retailer. I receive 10 percent commission on the gross profit of every sale I make, and 8 dollars per hour. The owner of the retailer has been charging me money out of my paychecks whenever we do not receive commission on a sales contract due to someone not paying their bill, or if someone leaves the company in during contract. We signed a waiver when we were hired stating that we could lose the commission on any sale we make due to a contract default in the first 6 months of the contract. We did not sign anything stating he could charge us more than the commission we made on the sale, and he has been for some time. Is this legal? I also work many weeks over 40 hours and he has told me that he does not have to pay overtime if I make any commission. Is this true as well? Thanks!
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Overtime is required for anyone in a non-exempt position. If you are not an exempt employee then the employer must pay overtime. In some situations it is very clear that an employee is not exempt, in others it takes a very careful look at the law and facts to figure out if overtime is due.
Deductions from paychecks are extremely limited and an employer can get in trouble if they deduct something the law does not allow.
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