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Miley Cyrus in ELLE: Can She Really Have the Best of Both Worlds?
The youngsters love Disney's Hannah Montana, but what kind of message is Miley Cyrus sending them about how to act in real life? Whether she is wearing thigh-high boots or clutching a sheet to her naked torso (as she was in last year's Vanity Fair), 16-year-old Miley has been shown in very adult poses.
These provocative photos, mixed with the fact that her fame comes from her popularity with the tweens and pre-tweens, results in another attempt to link youth with sexiness. Unfortunately, Miley's image is falling pray to the pull toward a more "sexy" persona.
Case in point is her photo shoot in the August issue of ELLE magazine
Short skirt, legs spread, hair tousled — take this image in while keeping in mind that most of her fan base is still in elementary school. It is true that ELLE is a magazine aimed at adults with more mature content. Why, then, did they choose to feature Miley to attract their adult audience?
The answer is in our culture's fixation with youth being seen as "sexy." Think back to the Spring 1999 Rolling Stone cover featuring Britney Spears in her underwear talking on the phone and clutching a Teletubby doll. This is a much more blatant attempt to mix youth with sex appeal, but the photo spreads Miley Cyrus has been involved with are much the same.
Novelist Nicholas Sparks is quoted in the ELLE article as saying:
"…she's growing up, as much as we wish she wouldn't… I think everybody, when they watch Home Alone, wishes Macaulay Culkin were nine years old, but he's not. People grow up!"
What Mr. Sparks fails to see here is that while Miley might be growing up, the decisions she and the people around her (i.e. her manager father, Billy Ray Cyrus) make have a direct impact on the young people that watch and sometimes imitate her every move. However popular Macaulay Culkin was, he didn't send droves of fans running to the stores to imitate his latest outfits.
If these types of images bother you, take action. Don't underestimate the power you have on the kids around you. Talk to the young people who may or may not be Miley fans about why she might be taking photos like the ones in ELLE. Ask them questions about what they think of Miley's new photos. Opening this door can help people of all ages see though the hype of marketing campaigns.
If you want to let Miley Cyrus know your feelings on her photo spread in ELLE, you can send her a letter to Miley Cyrus, P.O. Box 1459, Santa Monica, CA 90406.
You can also send feedback to ELLE using the form on their contact page.
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Amanda on 08-04-2009I think this was for older adults to see. Pretty usual modelling i see there. This is ok, not going overboard, this is how you model.
Alex on 08-06-2009I don't necessarily think the pictures in Elle spread is going over board. But I do think that when a star like Miley Cyrus takes pictures like that it means something more than your average model. Because she is a Disney star with young fans her taking more adult pictures sexualizes being young, which is problematic in many ways.
payday advance on 08-11-2009Picture is just toooo much! Then last night on the Teen Awards show she is pole dancing. Come on --- What's up with that and her parents were watching and I guess approving the hole thing. What a shame,
Nicole on 08-13-2009I think Elle is an adult magazine and if she wants to take more adult pictures, that's fine. It's up to the parents of young children to say "no you cannot buy that adult magazine just because it has Miley on it".
Next she might pose for Cosmo. And it's up to the parents to say NO she's not a kid anymore.
saroj on 08-14-2009She is a pretty model and the picture is too much abuse.
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sabrina on 09-03-2009I look at Miley and think that she is just following a precedent that has been set by pretty much every former female Disney star. Can you blame her for wanting to look sexy and be seen in this way? Our world keeps saying that that's the way women can become successful, so until we change that, this will be the norm.
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I really loved both games I just got distracted while playing Book II and have not gone back to it yet. I am happy to hear it was designed as a trilogy though, and look forward to the last installment (and what comes next for Basilisk on a new engine, that sounds ace).
I like the idea of a boxed version of the trilogy, maybe sold direct on the website? I would certainly pre-order such a boxed set despite having digital copies of Book I and Book II.
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"Anthony Wright is the starter for an undetermined period right now due to injury. Kyle Boller is our starting quarterback. If I left it open to interpretation, if I left that in a way that led to speculation that we did not have the faith in Kyle, that our faith is wavering, that was not my intent."
"We both want that nasty, foul taste out of our mouths from last Sunday. All but early in the season, there's a lot riding on it right now."
"I see Steve McNair. I still see Keith Bulluck. I see those safeties and that
big offensive line, ... They just kind of fire-cracked it. I don't
know if they blew it up."
"Hopefully, we can run the ball equally as well, ... I'm sure
Tennessee is focused on not letting that happen again."
"We've had a lot of success with a certain profile, ... I'm not sure that as much as we've tried to change the profile a little bit -- and I think we have enhanced it, I think we've thrown the ball a little bit better -- it hasn't been as productive. I think we can build on that, but our profile should remain the same: Play good defense and run the ball well, which we haven't done in two games. That certainly has to be a focus."
"If we're going to win, we're going to have to run the ball more, ... Therefore we'll have to be in games that are more controllable that we don't put ourselves in a position where we have to throw to catch up."
"Alan has not been healthy, in my opinion, ... Alan is just now, with this bye week, ought to be fully healthy. That will be an asset we'll have to utilize."


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From: "jeh" <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] Back-up puzzle
Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2003 07:18:17 +0100
References: <firstname.lastname@example.com> <firstname.lastname@example.com> <001101c37332$eb38c0b0$d183dc0c@Sarles1> <001f01c370b8$c98f4910$4502a8c0@Cheasa> <000401c370bb$33e189c0$d183dc0c@Sarles1> <email@example.com> <email@example.com>
I don't have any problems backing up directly (from both TMG4 and TMG5) to a
CD-R disc. I can restore it directly on another machine with a CD-R/RW
drive. To read it on a CD-ROM drive the disk needs to be "closed" after
BTW I've given up using a CD for routine transfer of backup files between
machines in favour of a USB "pen" drive, far quicker and easily portable in
my shirt pocket. Actually I'm thinking of reversing the process and using
the pen drive as the master drive for the TMG project and backing up onto
the hard disk of whichever macine I'm using. Has anyone tried this?
John Heckels
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> At 09:51 PM 9/4/2003 -0500, Darrell A. Martin wrote:
> >I have Roxio DirectCD ver. 5.10 loaded and running on my PC, which has a
> >CD-RW drive. Neither TMG 4.0d nor TMG 5.09 are the least bit successful
> >backing up to a blank CD-R disc. It may be technically possible to
> >a CD-R disc in a CD-RW drive (leaving it "open") so an application
> >can write directly to it, but my impression is either that it is not
> >possible, or that it creates discs that cannot be read by anything but a
> >CD-RW drive.
> You can on my drive...in fact the free CD that came with the system was a
> CD-R, I initially started out using it for tmg backkups, this was Dec
> 2001-Jan 2002 but switched to the CD-RW discs....I can't remember for sure
> whether I was backing up directly to the disc or backing up to hard drive
> and then drag and dropping....tried to test but the one CD-R disc I have
> appears to be damage
> > The geekish distinction is between UDF 1.5 and ISO 9660 formats.
> >
> >I am *not* talking about backing up first to a hard drive, and then
> >dragging and dropping the resulting file to a CD. That is a different
> >situation entirely, and its success will depend on the hardware and
> >software that one has installed.
> Paul E. Lawrence
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The US and Spanish American Revolutions
If one says "American Revolution" in the United States today, it is assumed that what is being referred to is the North American liberation struggles against the British Empire in the late eighteenth century. But the British North Americans were not the only group of European colonists in the Americas to rebel against their distant rulers in this era. Beginning in 1808, those in Spain's vast American empire—spanning from Mexico in the north to Buenos Aires in the south; Peru in the west to the present-day coast of Venezuela in the east—rose up against Spanish rule. As in North America, a combination of ideology, geopolitics, and material interests motivated the revolutionaries. The Spanish American revolutions were protracted and complex. They are better thought of in the plural than the singular given their chronological progression and disparate geographical centers of action.
Of all the revolutions in modern history, those in Spanish America in the early nineteenth century might be most closely related to eighteenth-century revolution that created the United States. In both cases, centuries-old transatlantic colonial ties were severed in wars of independence. Both revolutionary movements were also civil wars of sorts, pitting pro-independence factions against those who fought for the continuation of the colonial connection. Historical actors in the United States and in Spanish America were alive to witness the revolutions in both regions. Consider Thomas Jefferson, who authored the US Declaration of Independence in 1776 and lived until 1826, the year most historians cite as the end of the Spanish American revolutions; or José de San Martín, the Argentine revolutionary leader, who was born in 1778 during the American Revolution. Finally, both independence movements began a protracted and contentious process of postcolonial nation-building. In time, a single United States emerged from the ashes of British colonialism. In Spanish America, several new states came into being, led by Mexico, Gran Colombia (whose territory included present-day Colombia, Panama, Venezuela, and Ecuador), Peru, Buenos Aires (present-day Argentina), and Chile.[1]
Contemporaries often commented upon these affinities. Revolutionaries in Spanish America pointed to the United States as an example of a successful rebellion against Old World colonial rule. In the United States, observers viewed the revolts in Spanish America as validation of their own revolution. "Our example has animated the South-American provinces to declare themselves independent!" exclaimed the North American Review reporting on the conflict in Pernambuco in 1817.[2] There is no question that the inhabitants of North and Spanish America were deeply aware of the similarities of their revolutions. But can the US Revolution be said to have influenced those in Spanish America several decades later, as the North American Review contended?
The answer to this question hinges upon historical method. Assessing influence is a notoriously tricky business. One way forward is to explore the circulation of revolutionary ideas from North to Spanish America. The work of historian Peggy K. Liss provides a model study. Liss found that Thomas Paine's Common Sense—a publication crucial to promoting the revolutionary cause in North America in the 1770s—was circulated widely in Spanish America.[3] Translated into Spanish by Venezuelan Manuel Garcia de Sena in 1811 and published in a volume that included translations of the founding national documents of the United States, this text was popular in Spanish America during the revolutionary struggles of the 1810s.
The influence of the US revolution in Spanish America can be traced in other ways. The political ideas and practices of the new US republic, as well as the constitutions of the individual states in the Union, can be found in the political documents and institutions of the new Spanish American republics. Venezuela's assertion of independence in 1811 so closely resembled that of 1776 that a Spanish official believed its author was none other than Thomas Jefferson. George Washington posthumously became a celebrity figure in Spanish America, often serving as the archetype of a successful revolutionary. Other connections can be found within the United States. Spanish American diplomats and envoys, for example, traveled to the United States to lobby for support. Philadelphia, where US independence was declared, became an important center of activity for Spanish American revolutionaries and their North American sympathizers.
These networks and texts provide empirical evidence that links the North American 1776 to the subsequent revolutions in Spanish America. The North American example undoubtedly inspired and influenced the independence movements in Spanish America. Yet influence should not be confused with causation. The international event that most directly triggered the revolts in Spanish America was the French invasion of Spain in 1808, not the US Declaration of Independence. In stark contrast to North America in the 1770s, it was the crumbling of central imperial power in Spain, not the exercise of it, that precipitated revolution.[4] Furthermore, Spanish American invocations of the North American revolutionary model should not be seen as straightforward attempts at mimicry. Rather, when Spanish Americans invoked 1776 or the writings of Thomas Paine, they sought not only to learn from the US example, but also to validate their own actions, to appeal to wavering allies, or to communicate their determination to achieve independence to foreign audiences—not least the United States, which did not recognize Spanish American independence until 1822. Political utility, as well as ideological inspiration, accounts for the prominence of references to the United States during the Spanish American revolutions.
When assessing external influences in the Spanish American revolutions, it is also important to place the role of the United States in a broader, international context. If it is true that this era witnessed the forging of new links between the inhabitants of the Americas, these were not the only international connections of significance. Many—indeed, most—Spanish Americans continued to look primarily across the Atlantic for external reference points. Tracts from the French Revolution also were translated into Spanish and widely circulated. That the violence and bloodshed in France in the 1790s often led Spanish American elites to present it as a negative model does not diminish its importance as an external influence.
The most important foreign reference point was Britain. It should come as no surprise that Spanish American revolutionaries looked to Britain for support. Boasting the world's greatest navy and serving as the Atlantic economy's financial center, Britain had more to offer the cash-strapped Spanish American rebels than did any other foreign power. But Spanish American elites also looked to Britain for political inspiration. Suspicious of fundamental social change and wary of US-style democracy, elite revolutionaries like Simón Bolívar found in Britain a model polity that balanced conservative institutions, such as monarchy, with the rule of law and a tradition of gradual reform. Though he greatly admired the United States—declaring after his visit there in 1806 that "for the first time in my life I saw national liberty"—Bolívar doubted that its political system would flourish in Spanish America. "I think it would be better for [Spanish] America to adopt the Koran than the government of the United States, although it is the best in the world," Bolívar asserted. Britain's constitutional monarchy, in contrast, held greater appeal: "England is the envy of all Countries in the world, and the pattern all would wish to follow in forming a Constitution and Government."[5]
The potential that the new republics in Spanish America might gravitate toward the British caused much concern in the United States. The revolutions that had been seen as validation of its own independence movement threatened to play into the hands of the United States' former colonial master. No US politician trumpeted the Spanish American cause more than did Henry Clay. But for as much as Clay presented the revolutions as a triumph of the anti-imperialism of 1776, he also viewed them through the hard-headed lens of US national interest. Clay argued that an independent Spanish America would become an important US export market, as well as enhance US security by pushing European powers out of the western hemisphere. Like many of his compatriots, Clay viewed the revolutions in Spanish America as an opportunity for the United States to enhance its geopolitical position by countering the designs of the British.
The famous Monroe Doctrine of 1823, which was largely the work of Secretary of State John Quincy Adams, struck a similar note. The document expressed solidarity with Spanish Americans, but did not extend concrete support to them at a moment in which it was feared that reactionary European powers might intervene to re-establish colonial authority. Instead, it was crafted to advance the unity of the United States, as well as to counter British advances in Spanish America. In time, the Monroe Doctrine became less a symbol of a shared, pan-American anti-imperial ideology than a nationalist justification for US territorial expansion across North America and imperialist intervention in the Caribbean.
Developments such as the evolution of the Monroe Doctrine from anti-imperial symbol to imperialist instrument changed the way in which Spanish Americans viewed the American Revolution. By the late nineteenth century, memories of 1776 were less a model for Spanish Americans to follow than they were a mirror to hold up to the increasingly powerful United States. Anticolonial nationalists such as José Martí, who was a leader in Cuba's struggle against Spain in the late nineteenth century, romantically looked back at US history. But Martí's purpose was less to use 1776 as a model for Cuban independence than it was to remind US statesmen to live up to their nation's anti-imperial founding.
[1] Lester Langley, The Americas in the Age of the Revolution, 1750–1850 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996); Wim Klooster, Revolutions in the Atlantic World: A Comparative History (New York: New York University Press, 2009).
[2] "Revolution in Pernambuco," North American Review and Miscellaneous Journal, July 1817, 226.
[3] Peggy K. Liss, Atlantic Empires: The Network of Trade and Revolution, 1713–1826 (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1983), 210.
[4] J. H. Elliot, Empires of the Atlantic World: Britain and Spain in America, 1492–1830 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006).
[5] John Lynch, Simon Bolívar: A Life (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006), 216–217; Liss, Atlantic Empires, 203, 219.
Jay Sexton is University Lecturer in American History at Corpus Christi College, Oxford. He is the author of The Monroe Doctrine: Empire and Nation in Nineteenth-Century America (2011) and Debtor Diplomacy: Finance and American Foreign Relations in the Civil War Era, 1837–1873 (2005) and co-editor, with Richard Carwardine, of The Global Lincoln (2011).
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Davis, Calif. Rabbit Semiconductor, Inc.'s Rabbit 4000 microprocessor is available in two RoHS compliant packages, 128-pin LQFP and 128-pin TFBGA configurations.
Among the features of the unit are integrated 10Base-T Ethernet, hardware DMA, 16-bit memory device support, and page-mode memory device support. There is also hardware security features, variable-phase PWM, and up to 40 GPIO with up to 4 levels of alternate pin functions. More than 500 new instructions were added over previous Rabbit MPUs to increase the processing speed and efficiency.
Programming the Rabbit 4000 microprocessor is simple with the Dynamic C software development system. In addition, the microprocessor is programmable in-circuit without costly in-circuit emulators, using a simple programming cable provided with the Rabbit 4000 development kits.
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We know how to divide, by paper. Or, we can just try to solve the problem using the calculator. Now, can you divide in Excel? Well, multiplication is the opposite of division, and it does not mean you enter =PRODUCT(number1-number2). So, what is the formula? How do I do it? Well, let's see below.
1Open Excel 2007 or 2010.
2On any cell, type =QUOTIENT(numerator,denominator).
- Replace numerator and denominator with the numbers you want to divide.
3On the right of that cell, type =QUOTIENT(numerator,denominator) again.
- Replace numerator and denominator with 2 numbers.
4Now, on the right of the second cell, type the formula again. This time, type the two cells that you want to divide.
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The conference co-organised by the Covenant of Mayors, the Abruzzo Region and the FEDARENE proposed a "follow-up" regarding the Paris Agreement particularly focused on climate adaptation and mitigation measures. The event was held in both English and Italian, and was moderated by Piero Pelizzaro, Climalia. Take a look at the agenda of the event.
First session Sustainable Adaptation Plans
Welcoming speeches from Iris Flacco, Head of Service of Territory Resources and Mining (Abruzzo Region), and Sabatino Belmaggio, Head of Service Energy Policy, Air quality, National Environmental Information System (Abruzzo Region) provided some introductory data about the Abruzzo Region.
- Alessandra Sgobbi, European Commission, DG Climate Action, presented the EU adaptation strategy and shed light on the new developments of the Covenant of Mayors..
- Maurizio Pernice, Director, Italian Ministry of the Environment, Directorate General for Climate and Energy describes the overall national adaptation actions taken in Italy.
- Mario Mazzocca, Under Secretary for Environment of Abruzzo Region and current FEDARENE Vice President for Climate Change gave an overview of the regional climate adaptation plans.
- Julien Hoyaux (Agence Wallonne de l'air et du climat – AWAC) provides the Walloon Plan air-climate-energy
Second session: Tools, methodologies and examples at local and regional levels on how to develop an adaptation
- Julien Hoyaux, Agence Wallonne de l'air et du climat – AWAC, presents the adaptation tool for municipalities
- Patrick Biard, Rhônalpénergie-Environnement gave examples coming from the Region of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
- Massimo Gattolin, Città Metropolitana di Venezia, shared his insight from the Metropolitan City of Venice
- Giulio Conte, Ambiente Italia, presents the adaptation approach of Bologna
Third session: local and regional energy efficiency policies and their financing
Paul Kenny, Tipperary Energy Agency, presented to the audience the top 7 Best Practices selected in the framework of PUBLENEF – Support Public Authorities for Implementing Energy Efficiency Policies. The selection was based on level of efficiency obtained, type of technology, type of financial mechanisms, project delivery structure, cost-effectiveness, and level of reproducibility. The good practice assessment was performed by all PUBLENEF partners and will enable national, regional and/or local implementing bodies to explain and share the critical success factors for their good practice experiences for developing and implementing EE policies (including policy planning and evaluation).
Marie-Laure Falque-Masset, ARENE Ile-de-France, presented an assessment of national, regional and local needs for EE policy implementation and improvement. This assessment was developed in the framework of PUBLENEF – Support Public Authorities for Implementing Energy Efficiency Policies.
Nicola Labia, Italian national energy agency ENEA, presented the skills building project called BRICKS.
Financing energy efficiency and the implementation of a support-facilitation services for energy efficiency investments in Municipalities was debated by five panelists, experts with experience in ELENA and MLEI project:
- Graziano D'Eustachio, AGENA Teramo, MLEI, PARIDE
- Massimo Gattolin, Città Metropolitana di Venezia, ELENA, Amica-e
- Julije Domac, REGEA, ELENA, Newlight, County of Zagreb and Krapina Zagorje
- Antonio Di Nunzio A.L.E.S.A. , ELENA, Energy Efficiency in Province of Chieti
- Vlasta Krmelj, ENERGAP, Municipalities involved in the Streetlight-EPC project
The debate was moderated by Prof. Sergio Zabot, Politecnico di Milano and former ELENA project director at the Province of Milan.
Learn about the projects they discussed here and read the summary report of the debate.
Following the debate, Catalin Czasar, Energy Agency of Ploiesti-Prahova, presented the EmBuild project which supports public authorities in Southeast European countries to prepare a long-term strategy for mobilising investment in the energy sector (presentation available here).
To conclude the conference, the President of FEDARENE and of REGEA, North-west Croatia Regional Energy Agency, Julije Domac addressed the topic of increasing the role of local and regional authorities in the EU Energy Union policies.


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A year of ups and downs for mathematics, 1994 began with the awareness of a serious gap in Andrew Wiles's proof of Fermat's last theorem. In June 1993 Wiles, a Princeton University mathematician, had claimed a proof, by relating the problem to a deep conjecture in algebraic number theory, of Pierre de Fermat's famous 350-year-old assertion that xn + yn = zn has no solutions for which x, y, and z are whole numbers if n is three or more. The gap emerged in late 1993 in a review of the proof and lingered until October 1994, when Wiles sent colleagues a revised proof that he hoped would finally lay the problem to rest. At year's end the jury remained out on the validity of the new proof.
More encouraging news was the solution, by Krystyna Kuperberg of Auburn (Ala.) University, of the Seifert conjecture, a problem about the topology of dynamic systems. According to the celebrated hairy ball theorem, it is impossible to comb a hairy ball smoothly; somewhere at least one hair must stand up on end. The theorem is one of dynamics because such an arrangement of "hairs" is a description of the way the states of a system, represented by points on the sphere, change with time, or flow along the directions of the hairs. The hairy ball theorem was proved long ago, but its higher-dimensional cousins have been more elusive. The most notorious is a question asked in 1950 by Herbert Seifert of the University of Heidelberg, Germany, about a three-dimensional analogue of the surface of a sphere--a kind of curved space called a 3-sphere. If one defines a "flow" by filling the 3-sphere with curved lines that fit smoothly together like the flow lines of a fluid, most of the flow lines will wander around in a complicated way. Occasionally, however, one of them may close up into a loop. It is easy to find a flow with only two closed loops but, as Seifert asked, can one be found with no closed loops at all?
Kuperberg's surprising answer is "yes." All earlier approaches to the problem had used the same basic idea, that of inserting a "plug" into a given flow to change it and eradicate a selected closed loop. The plug is a small region of flow lines in which some of the lines that enter the region never exit but get trapped inside. Specifically, one starts with a known flow that has only two closed loops and then removes them both by inserting two plugs that trap the lines of the loops and render them no longer closed. The central difficulty is to ensure that no new loops are created inside the plugs themselves. Kuperberg succeeded with a seemingly outrageous idea; she made each plug "eat its own tail" like a snake so that closed loops get trapped in a kind of infinite regress. The solution is a geometric gem, and it changes forever mathematicians' most basic ideas about dynamics in three dimensions.
On the borderline with mathematical physics but clearly on the mathematical side came a fundamental breakthrough in the quantum mechanics of many-particle systems. According to quantum mechanics, the electrons of an atom can occupy only a discrete sequence of energy levels. In particular, there is a minimum energy level, the ground state, below which an atom cannot go. In effect, the ground state is a barrier that prevents atoms from evaporating. In 1981 the U.S. physicist Julian Schwinger (see OBITUARIES) devised an accurate approximation for the way in which the ground-state energy of an atom varies with atomic charge; i.e., with the number of protons in the nucleus. His conjectured formula for the ground-state energy of an atom having charge Z is approximately -aZ7/3+ 1/8 Z2-bZ5/3, in which a and b are particular constants. In the past year Schwinger's conjecture was given a rigorous proof by Charles Fefferman of Princeton University and L.A. Seco of the University of Toronto. Their achievement represented an important step toward a more nearly complete understanding of the way in which chemistry derives from the laws of quantum mechanics. The next step would be to extend the work from atoms to molecules.
New mathematics does not have to be complicated and technical; it can also be based on very simple ideas. Near the end of the year, Charles Radin of the University of Texas at Austin published a very strange tiling of the plane: a finite set of tiles that can be assembled only in a highly complex way. Most simple tilings are periodic, repeating the same basic unit over again at regular intervals. In 1961, while investigating questions about decidability in mathematical logic, the philosopher Hao Wang introduced the idea of aperiodic tiles, which can cover the plane but not in any periodic way. Radin's tiles, which are based on an idea of John Horton Conway of Princeton, are aperiodic. In fact--and this is the great novelty--the tiles must appear in infinitely many orientations. Lying at the heart of this exotic tiling is a simple right triangle, formed from a domino cut in half along a diagonal.
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Correctional Officer Jose Rivera was stabbed to death by two inmates at United States Penitentiary Atwater in Atwater, California. The inmates stabbed Officer Rivera with homemade knives as he was locking cell doors in preparation for the 4:00 pm headcount.
Other officers immediately responded to the location and restrained both suspects. Officer Rivera was transported to a local hospital where he succumbed to his wounds several hours later.
One inmate, serving a life sentence for a third robbery, was convicted of murder and received a new life sentence. The other inmate, serving a life sentence for murder, is to be tried in April of 2015.
Officer Rivera was a U.S. Navy veteran and had served with the Federal Bureau of Prisons for only 10 months. He is survived by his mother, two sisters, and brother.


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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - Police arrested a man accused of exploiting a 90-year-old woman for $79,000.
Police charged 51-year-old Rickie Velie with theft from a person 65 years of age or older and exploitation of an elderly person.
Velie had a business relationship with the victim, according to a police report. He got her to buy him a truck, altered at least 13 checks written in her name, and used her money to pay his own personal bank account.
Velie also convinced the victim to sell her home and rent one where they both live, police said. He agreed to pay the rent in alternating months, but has failed to pay any other expenses.
Some of the victim's neighbors agree with what Fort Lauderdale police are saying about Velie and his relationship with her.
"I believe this man took advantage of her," said one neighbor. "When she was down, she was not in her right mind."
Velie bonded out of jail Wednesday. Local 10's Baron James caught up with him at the house located at 1612 Northeast 18th Avenue in Fort Lauderdale.
According to a police affidavit, Velie coerced the elderly woman into renting the home to live in together, he as her lawn and garden guy turned personal care giver, after he allegedly conned her into selling a different house for $160,000.
That home had been paid off by the victim, who had called it home since the late 1940's.
"This house was her pride and joy," said a neighbor.
Meanwhile, her longtime neighbors said they haven't seen the victim since last Thanksgiving.
"She had fallen and gotten hurt. I don't know if she were on medication, if dementia were starting to set in," said a neighbor. "I don't know."
Some of the victim's new neighbors around the recently rented house told Local 10's Baron James they have never seen her.
"I never saw a woman ever," said Lisa Gordon.
"Actually, I've never seen another person in that house," said Nate Houri.
But the neighbors said they have seen Velie.
"I had a few words with him. He was just like a regular guy," Houri said.
They've also seen a 2013 Ford F-150 pickup truck, the same make and model that Velie is accused of conning the victim into buying for him, which cost $51,000.
Friends of the elderly woman, however, expressed their concern.
"She would never, ever, ever in a million years give up her house and her possessions," said a neighbor.
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text: On 10/15/2011 06:56 AM, Roman Leshchinskiy wrote: > On 15/10/2011, at 11:11, Ian Lynagh wrote: > >> On Sat, Oct 15, 2011 at 11:56:27AM +0200, Bas van Dijk wrote: >>> On 15 October 2011 00:01, Ian Lynagh<igloo at earth.li> wrote: >>>> Removing the Num superclass of Bits was also mentioned, but that would >>>> need its own proposal. >>> >>> Ok, I would like to propose removing the Num superclass of Bits. >> >> Would we just remove default methods like >> bit i = 1 `shiftL` i >> x `testBit` i = (x .&. bit i) /= 0 >> ? > > The Num superclass is only needed to be able to say 0 and 1. Perhaps we should just add the methods zero and one to Bits? As others observed, "one" is only useful for the "bit" method default, and might be meaningless for an "instance () Bits" (whereas the rest of the class makes sense for () as a zero-bit instance, albeit a use doesn't come to mind). Or, similarly to (), a bit-vector which contains its length statically in its type: it would be simpler if length zero was just as valid as any other length. And it would be a bit strange to define 'one' as a value equal to 'zero'. But proposed member 'zero' is plain and simply "all bits zero". I can imagine users of Bits using that method, too. (Side note: are there other classes that want to call things zero? e.g. there is mzero in MonadPlus. Bits is designed to import unqualified easily. Hoogle doesn't find anything currently named 'zero', so it may be fine.) (Horrible side note: 'bit' could default to bit i = one `shiftL` i where one = complement ((complement zero) `shiftL` 1) [/end experienced-C-bit-twiddler confession] ) ~Isaac


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2001 - Present:
Professor and Chairman, Engineering Technology Department, Middle Tennessee State University. Primary duties include departmental administration, teaching construction materials and construction administration courses, cooperative education coordination, accreditation, and curriculum development. Research interests include in situ resource utilization for planetary exploration and development, educational program development, and energy efficiency.
1996 - 2001:
Associate Professor, Eastern Kentucky University - Richmond, Kentucky - Construction Management Program, Department of Technology. Primary duties include teaching introduction to construction, construction materials and methods, and student advising. Research interests included lunar excavation methods, range estimating construction costs, agricultural fiber uses for residential construction, and automation. Other interests included graduate curriculum development.
1991 - 1996:
Assistant Professor and Director of the Construction Automation and Lunar Soil Simulant Laboratories in the Constructed Facilities Division of the Department of Civil Engineering, Texas A&M University - College Station, Texas - Primary duties included teaching graduate and undergraduate courses in project management, construction engineering, construction equipment and methods, productivity improvement, engineering economics, estimating construction costs, construction operations simulation, construction automation, project development, and project risk management. Research interests include construction in space (especially lunar excavation methods and lunar soil simulants), construction automation and robotics, and electronic data integration and management for construction. Administrative activities included budgeting, personnel recruitment and supervision for research projects, and redesign of the construction engineering and management curriculum.
1988 - 1990:
Graduate Student Researchers Program, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Fellowship Grant, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas. Primary duties included research for a dissertation titled "Lunar Base Construction." Accomplishments included major contribution to a construction operations study sponsored by NASA in conjunction with the Army Corps of Engineers' Construction Engineering Research Laboratory, significant contribution to the Construction Operations portion of the FY 89 Annual Report by the Office of Exploration at Johnson Space Center, participation in the Planetary Surface Systems Planning Team at Johnson Space Center in the areas of operations analysis and construction for the 1989 "Ninety-Day Study."
1987 - 1988:
Graduate Research Fellow, Large Scale Programs Institute - Austin, Texas - Primary duties included mathematical modeling, computer programming, and lunar base construction research. Accomplishments included primary responsibility for the construction portion of a systems integration tool called the Lunar Base Model, significant contribution to a NASA-sponsored study titled "Lunar Surface Construction and Assembly Equipment" by Eagle Engineering of Houston.
1978 - 1987:
Project Engineer, Subcontracts Manager, Project Manager, and Sales Manager
Cives Steel Company - Winchester, Virginia and Thomasville, Georgia - Primary responsibilities included engineering design and coordination, subcontracts award and management, overall project management including erection, project planning, estimating, proposal preparation, and marketing for multi-million dollar contracts. Administrative duties included planning, budgeting, scheduling, and conflict resolution.
1969 - 1973:
Aircraft Radio Repairman, The United States Air Force - various domestic and foreign assignments - Primary duties included both flight-line and in-shop analysis and repair of vacuum-tube and solid-state systems circuitry.
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Vasco Nuñez de Balboa (1475–1517) was a Spanish conquistador and explorer who was the first European to see the Pacific Ocean. Balboa first went to the New World in 1500 and spent several years on Hispaniola. In 1509, he founded the settlement of Darien and soon led a journey across Panama. By 1513, Balboa had crossed the isthmus and become the first European to reach the Pacific.


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The effect of Alibernet red wine extract (AWE) treatment on total nitric oxid synthase (NOS) activity (a) and eNOS protein expression (b) in the left ventricle (LV) of Wistar Kyoto rats (WKY) and spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR).
as compared to respective control. WKY-C: control group; WKY + AWE: animals treated with the Alibernet wine extract; SHR-C: control group; SHR + AWE: animals treated with the Alibernet wine extract.


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Good Vibrations screening
A SCREENING of the movie Good Vibrations will take place in The Spirit Store on Friday, September 6.
The George's Quay pub was used for shooting many scenes in the movie in 2011 and the wrap party which took place afterwards has become the stuff of legends.
The hero of the story is Terri Hooley, played by Richard Dormer of 'Game of Thrones', who at the bleakest time in Belfast's history, decided to open a record store in a derelict building on Great Victoria Street, within 'the most bombed half-mile in Europe'.
Terri himself will attend the screening and take on the role of DJ for the night. Tickets (€10) are on sale.
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A Lake Elsinore man who strangled his girlfriend, stuffed her body inside a suitcase and left it at a Poway motel last year was sentenced Friday to 56 years to life in prison.
Joseph David Dorsey, 29, was convicted by a jury in Riverside County Superior Court in June of first-degree murder in the death of Christine Stewart.
The 47-year-old Canyon Lake woman was reported missing Aug. 6, 2012, after she failed to show up for work.
A day before Stewart was reported missing, Dorsey had checked into a Best Western on Poway Road with a large rolling suitcase. He never checked out.
On Aug. 8, motel employees discovered Dorsey was gone but had left the 3-foot long case behind.
The body of Stewart — who was 5 feet 2 inches and 100 pounds — was found inside.
A search of Dorsey's apartment turned up Stewart's purse, and her vehicle was parked nearby. Dorsey could not be found.
In October, Mexican authorities arrested Dorsey in Rosarito Beach and handed him over to U.S. officials.


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William Grant Still
Often referred to as "The Dean of African-American Composers," William Grant Still was an important and influential figure in 20th century American classical music. His oeuvre encompasses more than 150 compositions, and he was the first African-American to conduct a major American orchestra, have a symphony performed by a leading orchestra, an opera staged by a major opera company, and an opera performed on national television.
Born in Woodwille, Mississippi on May 11, 1895, Still's father died just three months later. His mother relocated to Little Rock, Arkansas, where she married Charles B. Shepperson. Still's mother and grandmother was influential in kindling his interest in music and the arts, and Shepperson helped further develop it by taking him to see operettas and buying him recordings of classical music. Still began violin lessons at the age of fifteen and later taught himself to play saxophone, oboe, double bass, cello and viola. At the age of sixteen, he entered Wilberforce University where he conducted the university band and became interested in composition and orchestration. He later won a scholarship to the Oberlin Conservatory of Music where he studied by Friedrick Lehmann and George Whitefield Chadwick; he also studied with Edgard Varèse.
Following a brief period in the United States Navy during World War I, Still found work producing arrangements for W. C. Handy and Paul Whiteman. He began a fruitful relationship with radio, writing and arranging for various programs. His first prominent success as a composer, however, came in 1931 when his first symphony "Afro-American" premiered in Rochester, New York. "Afro-American" remains Still's most well-known work today. In 1934, he moved to Los Angles and began film scores, among which are Lost Horizon and Pennies from Heaven. Later, Still worked on several television shows including Perry Mason and Gunsmoke.
While working as a film composer, Still also began working on much more ambitious and large-scale works, including the ballet Lenox Avenue and the operas, Blue Steel and Troubled Island. In 1949, Troubled Island, based on the first Emperor of Haiti with a libretto provided by Langston Hughes, premiered at the New York City Opera to positive reviews. Throughout the 1940s, Still's works continued to be influenced by political and racial themes. In the 1950s, he turned to the composition of music for children. William Grant Still died on December 3, 1978.
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WASHINGTON, Dec. 18 (UPI) -- James Clapper, the director of national intelligence, has indicated he will remain in his position, a U.S. official knowledgeable of Clapper's plans said.
The official said Clapper will remain as chief of the Office of Director of National Intelligence "for the foreseeable future" after President Obama asked that he stay, CNN reported Monday.
Obama is preparing to fill several key posts, including secretaries of State and Defense, early in his second term, the official said.
Clapper has been a safeguard for the Obama administration in the wave of Republican criticism about the response to the attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, particularly after he said the intelligence community was responsible for major changes made to talking points used by government officials who spoke publicly about the attack in which U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens and three diplomatic staffers died.
An independent review of the handling of security, intelligence and other issues surrounding the attack has been completed and was given to the State Department Monday. The DNI office also reviewed a draft of the report, the official said.
"There were no grumblings on that draft," from DNI, the source told CNN.
The review examined the intelligence known before the Benghazi attack, intelligence that either was or might have been available during the attack, and the intelligence available in its wake.
The intelligence community maintains it had no information that was timely and specific enough to indicate an attack on the consulate was imminent, the official said.


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Welcome to Research Magazine's first annual ETF Hall of Fame. The three advisors who have won our competition not only use ETFs but are long-time fans whose ETF assets under management have large and impressive roles in their practices.
Further, our honored FAs employ disciplined, proven strategies with these flexible investments -- now totaling more than 500 -- which shine at bringing diversification to portfolios.
The number of nominations we received was indeed impressive and the quality of advisors high, which doubtless made choosing the top three challenging to judge Ronald L. DeLegge, our monthly ETF Reporter correspondent and editor of www.etfguide.com.
Congratulations to our inaugural-year ETF honorees. Here's a little of what they're about:
Brian T. FenelonSenior Vice President-Wealth Management & Senior Portfolio Management Director for Citigroup Smith BarneyAdvisor Since: 1984Home Base: Jackson, Miss.ETF AUM: $100 million AUM in ETFs out of $300 million total AUMDiversions: Golf, Skiing, Hockey
Call it serendipity -- or even fate -- but when Brian Fenelon set out five years ago to design a better process to manage portfolio risk, he hit upon a way to both grow his practice and bolster client relationships.
To be sure, with exchange-traded funds, the advisor found the ideal tool to achieve all three happy scenarios. Now managing ETFs constitutes Fenelon's core business.
One of Smith Barney's Top 10 advisors in ETF management, he uses the strategy he created for his own team's clients in partnering with other SB advisors to look after their clients' ETF-based portfolios.
"ETFs help me make the investment process more understandable to clients. As they understand the process better, they value me as their advisor more -- and our relationship becomes stronger," says Fenelon, 48, a St. Paul, Minn., native.
Fenelon has been a member of the firm's Directors Council -- Top 5 percent of producers -- since 1991. His is a broad-based clientele, though mostly high-net-worth individuals. "ETFs are well suited even for the smaller investor too," he says. "They're fully scalable for a $50,000 account up to a $10 million one."
The FA's ETF strategy pivots on tactical asset allocation: He and his team analyze asset classes, sectors and broad markets around the world. Then they drill down to study the precise composition of each ETF under consideration.
Fenelon sticks with major providers and limits the number of ETFs to between 30 and 40, to reduce risk. Right now, he has 15 ETF holdings representing about 6,500 underlying stocks -- "a gigantic diversification," he notes.
At press time, Fenelon was growth-oriented and in large-cap ETFs only. He was long on technology, consumer staples and aerospace, among other sectors. "But we've really trimmed back a lot," he says. "Our mantra is to participate in the upside and protect on the downside."
In the 2001-2002 market slide, a comment from a disappointed client with a separately managed account prompted Fenelon to find an improved way to allocate among managers to control market risk. He wound up discovering that using ETFs was an effective method to rebalance among asset classes.
"With ETFs, what you see is what you get -- and that's the beauty of it," says the FA, who shifted a number of clients out of managed accounts and mutual funds, and into ETFs. "It was [usually] less expensive for the client [because of ETFs' lower costs] and to me, just a better way. It isn't a conversation about a mutual fund or fund manager or individual stock. There's nothing in between the client and me."
ETFs allow Fenelon to construct portfolios that are adaptable to each client and market cycle chiefly because of their ease and efficiency in the asset allocation process. "ETFs let us identify those areas we want to be in according to sector or asset class or country or region," he notes.
He started his career in a bank's commercial loan department, then became a PaineWebber financial advisor, based for a while in New York City. In 1985, he and wife Kelley, a former advisor, settled in Jackson, Miss. -- population: 300,000 -- Kelley's hometown.
Fenelon ascribes much of his success to giving clients "an understandable investment process that helps them achieve goals while, hopefully, reducing risk. ETFs fit hand-in-glove -- and it's where many referrals come from."
His best advice to advisors: "You have to know what you're buying. Not all ETFs are created equal. There are new ones that pop up all the time, and a lot are [hyped as] 'the hot thing going' [because] that's what the issuers can sell. But many [such] ETFs carry a specific strategy like a money manager has. To me, that's getting away from what I'm trying to accomplish with ETFs."
He continues. "ETFs are the best tool I can use for my process. The end result is really client-focused, and that's what's cool about it. ETFs' transparency is the secret. Clients 'get' it."
Now that he's been at it for five years -- quite a while in the ETF new frontier -- Fenelon says: "ETFs have grown organically with our practice. I feel like a grandpa doing this!"
Michael McClaryPrincipal, ValMark Securities, Director of Investment Advisor ServicesAdvisor Since: 2003Home Base: Akron, OhioETF AUM: 95% of $315 million firm-wide AUM in ETFs; 100% of $15 million in McClary clients' AUM in ETFsCivic Affiliation: Organized $480,000 donation to Akron's Haven of Rest Rescue Mission
At age 20, 6'5" Michael McClary took over coaching a lackluster high school basketball team and, in tandem with his dad, turned it around to become a respected group of players that won more games.But Michael was just getting warmed up. The next year, as a rookie financial advisor, he took a big insurance broker-dealer's struggling ETF program in hand and soon turned it around to become a national RIA leader in ETF investments.
"I believe in ETFs. I hit the phones to tell the ETF story to all our advisors one by one and get them to believe in ETFs too. With active management and stock picking, it's a crap shoot. With ETFs, you can tell a story of a sound investment strategy that will work," says McClary, now 25.
In 2001, ValMark was about to chuck its five-month-old ETF program, which had only six accounts and $5 million in assets. Young McClary persuaded the firm to let him take a crack at making a success of the program by telling its 300-plus advisors facts about ETFs related to modern portfolio theory and the funds' advantages of low costs and tax efficiency.
Today the program manages assets of $315 million, and its six portfolios have outperformed their benchmarks for five years. "I tell advisors: If you're not already using ETFs, you'd better start because your clients are going to come after you about them. If you go into a sales situation where you're selling mutual funds and the other person is selling ETFs, you're going to get burned.
"The story is a hard one to beat," adds McClary, who joined ValMark while in grad school. He sparked to ETFs at the University of Akron, from which he graduated magna cum laude with a bachelor's in financial services. By 22, he'd earned his MBA there.
McClary's ETF strategy starts with developing an asset allocation using 14 or 15 different asset classes, then researching ETFs to find the appropriate indices and correct providers at the right costs. He pays attention to ETF liquidity, and "we keep a keen eye on tracking error -- the performance of the ETFs [against] the indices we're trying to track," he notes. The FA favors "the more traditional" ETFs; that is, those available for at least a decade.
He believes that ETFs are here to stay, though he's concerned about the mutual fund industry's marketing thrust that he says attacks index strategies and ETF efficiencies. It is like "a grassroots political smear campaign to stomp the momentum. Now that the ETF world has opened the door to criticism with [some expensive or misleading] new offerings, the mutual fund industry has gone on the offensive."
Actively managed ETFs worry him too. "You're taking something very pure and clouding it by adding active management. I think there'll be a lot of confusion about what's active and what's passive."
Born and bred in Akron, McClary grew up in a basketball family: Both his parents coached high school basketball, and his paternal grandfather is in the basketball coach Ohio Hall of Fame. Michael took his year-long coaching job just to get a taste.
"I didn't like that so many variables were involved coaching 17- and 18-year-olds: Stomach aches and girlfriends can make you lose more games!" he says.
Perhaps the most valuable part of McClary's basketball heritage is that it gave him a fine work ethic. "I had a lot of tough talks and good guidance," he says. "I took the inspiration from basketball and just moved it into what I do now."
Two years ago McClary, together with Alliance Benefit Group, became pioneers in putting ETFs in 401(k) plans by developing ETF Collective Investment Funds. "They unitize our entire ETF portfolio so that individual investors can participate," he says.
Apart from their investment benefits, ETFs are great for prospecting, McClary has found. "When people know you're an ETF advisor, you build credibility from Day One. They see a level of expertise. We've had doors open that weren't open before."
Daniel S. SchwartzSenior Vice President-Financial Advisor & Senior Portfolio Manager, Schwartz/Epstein Group, Morgan StanleyAdvisor Since: 1989Home Base: Ridgewood, N.J.ETF AUM: 65% of $250 million AUM in ETFs and 65% of $400 million in transferring AUM in ETFsCivic Affiliation: Co-Founder, Institute for Educational Achievement in New Milford, N.J., for children with autism
Newark, N.J.-born Schwartz, 43, has been using ETFs exclusively to build stock and taxable bond portfolios for six years now -- and they've been a big reason for the FA's success with his roster of high-net-worth clients.
"ETFs have led to tremendous consistency in what we do. The margin of error has really shrunk because we're not making mistakes in trying to pick individual managers who pick stocks. We don't have things blow up. There are no surprises. Clients don't have to worry that if the market is doing well, are they doing well? They know they're doing well. We're virtually guaranteeing the return," says Schwartz, who heads a group of five that includes three advisors.
He introduced ETFs into portfolios out of frustration with the performance of clients' managed accounts, which, he says, "weren't even delivering market returns. When ETFs came out, it was a huge change: They allowed us to execute our strategy in a very simple fashion. And we're using our expertise to highlight different areas at different points to add alpha to portfolios."
Schwartz has a disciplined, in-depth strategy for the lowest cost, highest after-tax returns that first looks at broad market sectors, analyzes the economy, considers interest rates, then determines attractive market segments. After that, he researches individual styles and uses sector analysis to highlight those sectors that are particularly appealing.
Schwartz primarily focuses on iShares and Vanguard ETFs. Right now, he likes large-cap growth and the technology, health and international sectors. "ETFs are hard to beat for that portion of the portfolio that needs to be in growth," he says. "If you invest in large-cap growth and it does well, you're guaranteed to do well."
Specialty ETFs, "designed to capture double the daily return of a particular index or sector, are very intriguing," says the FA. Indeed, "there are lots of tools and applications now available through ETFs that were not here five years ago." And for advisors who are too pressed for time to conduct much research, firms now offer "off-the-shelf solutions," he adds.
"ETFs are good for every client I have. It just depends on how you use them. The traditional low-cost ETF is very hard to beat for the average investor, and they're also super-attractive to institutional investors and very high-net-worth investors," he says.
ETFs' ease of use is a major plus. "In this business, you try to keep things simple and elegant -- ETFs really fit that. Sometimes advisors think that things need to be complicated in order to be good for a client. But the clients I work with are looking for something easy to understand and to be shown why it should work. I can't imagine anything easier than ETFs," says Schwartz. "If you need to buy or sell anything, they're traded instantly. They have the liquidity of stock.
"Some people, though, think they can successfully trade ETFs day to day. I have yet to meet anybody who does."
Perhaps the advantage that excites Schwartz the most is what ETFs do for diversification. "You can get commodities exposure now. You can get currency exposure. ETFs offer you a way to get exposure to virtually anything you want. But you have to know what you're doing in how to allocate them."
And he warns: "Be very careful with the new actively managed fundamental-type indexes that create an index by coming up with their own models. As soon as you start moving into the actively managed world, you're taking away some ETFs benefits. Then, instead of being assured of a certain type of return, you're back to the word 'maybe' -- maybe it works, maybe it doesn't."
Freelance writer Jane Wollman Rusoff is a Los Angeles-based contributing editor of Research and is the founder of Family Star Productions.
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MBL Cap Hike Picks Up Tea Party Support
Credit unions and the Tea Party movement haven't historically been allies, but this week several conservative, libertarian-leaning organizations expressed their support for S. 2231, the bill that would raise the member business lending to 27.5% of assets.
The Heartland Institute, Competitive Enterprise Institute and Grover Norquist's Americans for Tax Reform, among others, sent a letter to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) urging them to support the legislation.
"It simply boggles the mind to suggest that the banking industry as a whole would suffer any damage from this bill: banks currently have a 95% market share," the letter stated.
Credit unions also picked up kudos last week from the Consumer Federation of America, which expressed support for raising the MBL cap.
"Credit unions are especially deserving of this opportunity," CFA Executive Director Stephen Brobeck wrote in a letter to senators. "They have a strong record of serving consumers and communities, especially moderate-income areas that have been particularly hard-hit by the recession. They have had much past success in providing low-cost, sustainable credit to consumers and small businesses."
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T-Mobile USA Scores AWS Spectrum, UMTS Roaming from AT&T
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Talk about getting a lot of something for nothing.
Pretty awesome for T-Mobile.
Pretty awesome for T-Mobile.
It's called mutual respect. A great way to behave.
Tmobile must of known from the start that the merger would have failed because thru the whole process they were really quiet. They were better off with the merger failing than succeeding.
And customers are better off with the "4G" HSPA+ instead of LTE? Since DT is looking to get rid of this, do not expect investing in LTE.
of course they were quiet
if they weren't quiet and the merger failed, they couldn've lost the breakup fees
if they weren't quiet and the merger failed, they couldn've lost the breakup fees
Looks like the HSPA+ 1900 band will be put on their upcoming 3G phones
How will T-Mobile take advantage of the UMTS roaming agreement from AT&T? Majority of T-Mobile's 3G phones do not have 1900MHz 3G. I know they might have the OEMs start putting them in, for next years phones.
When pentaband phones become more common it will make a difference. And not only TMO. For both GSM carriers.
Then again all is speculation.
Then again all is speculation.
The majority of AT&T's 3G network has been switched from the 1900MHz to their 850Mhz band for better coverage. I'm guessing thats how T-Mo will be able to utilize it.
my vibrant phone has 3G on 1900/2100 and AWS 1700/2100 as do all other smart phones i've considered buying


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I kid you not, Raw Story has the story. Everyone's favorite wingnut Bryan Fischer knows why we should burn every last drop of oil and coal: because God-eh will be hurt if do not:
Link — Fischer likened the situation to a birthday present he was given at the age of six. "I opened up a birthday present that I didn't like, and I said it right out, 'Oh, I don't like those,'" the radio host recalled. "And it just crushed — and the person that gave me gift was there. You know, I just kind of blurted it out, 'I don't like those.' And it just crushed that person. It was enormously insensitive of me to do that… And you think, that's kind of how we're treating God when he's given us these gifts of abundant and inexpensive and effective fuel sources," Fischer added. "And we don't thank him for it and we don't use it."
Evil Doug makes a good point in comments: "How does Fischer know this god thing isn't po'd because we were given solar energy and we can't do a good job of using it? I think the stories include something about creation of the sun, but I don't think they make any mention of coal or oil or natural gas. Anyway, all those things are obtained from the traditional direction of Hell, not Heaven."


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Finite Mixture Analysis of Beauty-Contest Data from Multiple Samples
This paper develops a finite mixture distribution analysis of Beauty-Contest data obtained from diverse groups of experiments. ML estimation using the EM approach provides estimates for the means and variances of the component distributions, which are common to all the groups, and estimates of the mixing proportions, which are specific to each group. This estimation is performed without imposing constraints on the parameters of the composing distributions. The statistical analysis indicates that many individuals follow a common pattern of reasoning described as iterated best reply (degenerate), and shows that the proportions of people thinking at different levels of depth vary across groups.
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Polanco eyes 2,000-hit milestone
Polanco eyes 2,000-hit milestone
PHILADELPHIA -- There are, according to the best available research, 17,788 souls who have played in the Major Leagues. Only 267 of them have amassed 2,000 base hits in their careers. Just 16 are currently active.
Phillies third baseman Placido Polanco needs just one hit to join that select group.
"It means a lot," he said. "I've been lucky enough to have played since 1998. I've played in good organizations. It means a lot and maybe someday I'll look back at all the hits and really appreciate it."
Polanco didn't start Sunday against the Padres but as a pinch-hitter in the seventh, he ripped a line drive right at third baseman James Darnell. He'll try again Monday night against the Astros. And yes, he's already picked out the spot in his Miami home to display the baseball.


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July job cuts in Florida totaled 719 compared with 785 during the same month last year, Challenger, Gray & Christmas said Thursday.
But the global outplacement firm said cuts year-to-date rose to 14,720, compared with 13, 165 during the same period in 2013.
In South Florida, Calder Casino & Race Course in Miami Gardens announced the most job cuts -- 246. The state recently agreed to let Gulfstream Racing & Casino in Hallandale Beach to buy race dates from Calder, the Sun Sentinel reported in mid-July.
Other major job cuts in Florida were due to closures of an ice cream factory in Pinellas Park and a Nordstrom store in Orlando, Challenger said.
Nationwide, the unexpectedly large layoffs announced by Microsoft pushed July job cuts into the second-highest level of the year.
"A large portion of the Microsoft job cuts were related to its acquisition by Nokia in 2013. However, like Hewlett-Packard, the tech giant is attempting to streamline in order to become more nimble and competitive in an industry that is constantly changing," said John Challenger, chief executive officer.
U.S. employers reported plans to reduce payrolls by 46,887 during the month. It was 24 percent higher than the 37,701 cuts recorded in July 2013.


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For the fourth time in his 14-year coaching career, UNC head men's tennis coach Sam Paul captured the Intercollegiate Tennis Association/Wilson Mideast Regional Coach of the Year Award as announced Tuesday by the ITA national heaquarters. Paul is now one of eight selections for regional coach of the year awards who will be eligible for national coach of the year accolades which will be announced at the end of this year's NCAA Championships. (Tar Heel Blue)
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Dirk Nowitzki scored 11 of his season-high 41 points in overtime and the short-handed Dallas Mavericks held on to beat the injury-depleted San Antonio Spurs 99-94 on Wednesday night.
Nowitzki's three-point play with 2:28 left in overtime put Dallas in front for good, 92-91.
After Jason Terry hit a 15-footer, Nowitzki made a 3-pointer on Dallas' next possession to stretch the lead to 97-91.
Drew Gooden added 17 points and 11 rebounds before fouling out late in the fourth quarter to help Dallas extend its winning streak to four games.
Gooden, who finished last season with the Spurs before signing with the Mavericks on July 20, started at center with Erick Dampier out because of an unknown illness. Dallas was also without starters Josh Howard and Shawn Marion because of left ankle injuries.
Tim Duncan had 22 points and 14 rebounds for the Spurs, winless in four road games this season.
The Spurs were without starting guard Tony Parker, who aggravated his sprained left ankle in Saturday night's loss to Oklahoma City. San Antonio also lost guard Manu Ginobili in the first quarter due to a strained left groin.
With the game tied at 80, Gooden was credited with a basket on a goaltending call against Antonio McDyess with 1:58 left in regulation to put Dallas ahead.
Duncan drove to the basket on the next possession and Gooden picked up his sixth foul. Duncan converted both free throws to knot the score at 82 with 31 seconds remaining.
Nowitzki's tip-in 17 seconds later gave Dallas an 84-82 lead, but Duncan's jump-hook with 2.3 seconds remaining drew San Antonio even.
Dallas had a shot to win in regulation, but Duncan blocked Terry's 19-footer at the buzzer.
Dallas held 37-35 a lead at the break after a cold-shooting first half by both teams. San Antonio converted 13 of its 38 field goal attempts, while Dallas went 16 for 43.
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NOTES: Ginobili started and scored two points in eight minutes of the first quarter, then went to the locker room before the start of the second quarter and was done for the night. ... Marion was hurt in a game at Milwaukee on Monday night. ... Howard missed his eighth game as he recovers from offseason surgery. ... Dampier has been undergoing tests to determine the nature of the illness, and results won't be known until next week. ...Thomas made his debut for Dallas after sitting out the first 11 games while he completed his recovery from offseason surgery on his right knee. Thomas, who finished with two points in 14 minutes, was signed as a free agent on July 28. ... Dallas returned after a 3-1 trip.


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Will he run in a derby prep race? Or is he out of trail?
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Virtus Oil and Gas f/k/a Curry Gold Corp (VOIL) – A Punt On An Old School Oil Exploration Play
Posted by: Emerging Opportunities (IP Logged)
Date: July 20, 2014 10:53AM
To be successful in the hunt for emerging opportunities you need to look where nobody else is looking. Virtus Oil and Gas (VOIL) isn't doing just that, it is also looking for something nobody else is looking for these days.
Virtus Oil and Gas is on the hunt for a big oil discovery (rather than a shale play) inside the United States.
American oil production has been rocking and rolling for half a decade.
The source of all of that new oil production is the development of shale oil using fracking.
While fracking booms, the amount of oil being produced from old school vertical wells inside of the United States continues to decline. The reason for that is not because oil companies prefer shale oil, it is because over the past century the industry has drilled up virtually every old school oil opportunity.
Given the opportunity oil companies would much rather be developing an old school oil property instead of shale oil. That is because old school oil costs $20 to $30 to find and develop while the average shale play costs $70 plus.
When it comes to oil it is all about take what you can get, not get what you want.
Virtus Oil and Gas is a small company that is looking for one of those old school, big barrel, non-shale oil plays. These boys appear to be hunting for something significant.
Headquartered in Houston, Texas, Virtus Oil and Gas was founded in 2013 with the mission of acquiring and developing onshore oil and gas working interests in proven basins in the United States, such as the Central Utah Thrust Belt Region.
The Virtus Oil and Gas corporate strategy is based on the following fundamental principles:
· Acquire oil and gas properties that give them a majority working interest and operational control
· Maximize the value of their properties by increasing production and reserves while controlling costs
· Utilize a highly experienced team of geologists, engineers, and landmen
· Remain focused on proven reserves located in major basins in North America
It sounds like a great plan, but at this point it is really nothing more than that…a plan.
The company has drilled zero wells, has zero barrels of booked reserves and has yet to disclose how it will finance those efforts. There are lots of questions yet to be answered.
What the company has accomplished is assemble a decent team to lead its efforts:
Brett A. Murray
Brett A. Murray worked for Gunnison Energy Corporation an Oxbow Company owned by William Koch in 2012 as Land Manager. Prior to GEC, Mr. Murray spent time with Phil Anschutz's private company, Anschutz Exploration Corporation where he was heavily involved in the $1.4B divestiture of the company's Southern Bakken properties and as well as its $114MM Northern Bakken property sale. Murray went to work at Sundance Energy, Inc. in 2008, and was promoted to Land Manager at age 27. While at Sundance, he was involved with multiple divestitures and business development of nearly 150,000 acres and nearly $80MM in transactions. At Anadarko he was a company landman that worked on curative issues before drilling in the Wattenberg Basin. Murray started his land career as a field landman in Northeastern Colorado. He was the main lease buyer for Tecton Energy where he had leased near 100,000 acres in the Albuquerque Basin, New Mexico.
Dr. Robert Benson (Bob)
Dr. Robert Benson has had nearly forty years of exploration, development and management experience in the energy industry. He obtained his BSc in Geophysical Engineering and his MSc and PhD in Geophysics from the Colorado School of Mines in 1976, 1984 and 1997, respectively. A major focus of Benson's work includes seismic data acquisition, processing and interpretation, in both the Rocky Mountains and worldwide. He has worked extensively in reservoir characterization with emphasis on multi-component, 3-D and 4-D seismic methods.
In addition to having a decent looking team Virtus Oil and Gas has (on paper at least) an interesting looking prospect to drill.
Here is how Virtus Oil and Gas describes its main asset:
The prospect is comprised of a 55,477 acre tract in the Central Utah Overthrust (CUO) region of southwestern Utah, in Iron County.
The prospect is located approximately 80 miles south of Wolverine Gas and Oil's Covenant Oil Field, also located in the CUO region, which has produced 3.1 million barrels of oil (MMBO) in Utah from structures and reservoir horizons. Potential for the discovery of a similar field within this southern portion of the overthrust belt is suggested by structural interpretation of a large seismically-mapped 4-way structural closure.
The Covenant Oil Field exhibits closure over approximately 11,000 acres with about 400 feet of pay in the Navajo, thus allowing a projection of nearly one billion barrels of oil within that field. A similar structure lies on the Parowan Prospect Iron County leases, with a potential for an oilfield of similar order of magnitude, particularly when multiple prospective horizons are considered.
Virtus Oil and Gas Corporation controls 55,477 acres in the Iron County section of the thrustbelt play. It has agreed to drill a 12,000 foot deep test well to evaluate the Navajo, Kaibab, and Permian Queantoweap Sandstone within 2 years.
Virtus plans to complete an analysis of the potential reservoir rocks, source rocks, structural traps, and reservoir sealant horizons, leads to a recommendation to refine structural parameters with a review of seismic work, and possibly some more geological detail and gravity surveying, followed by drilling of a test well.
Test well drilling is tentatively scheduled to commence by September 2015.
There aren't any typos in the above description. The company is claiming to be chasing something that could have close to a billion barrels of oil. A person would likely want to make note of the word claim and the word could in the preceding sentence. Again, this is very early days for this company.
On a first look it is hard to know what to conclude about Virtus Oil and Gas. The people involved and the numbers that the company is throwing about are certainly interesting. Whether any of this ever amounts to anything of true value is however completely unknown.
Either way Virtus is an emerging opportunity worth watching. In a world where a barrel of oil fetches $100 an old school oil discovery is very valuable. Especially if it is a big one.
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Re Virtus Oil and Gas A Punt On An Old School Oil Exploration Play
Posted by: LailaG (IP Logged)
Date: July 20, 2014 01:35PM
I have been watching Virtus Oil and Gas company closely and recently read the research report by Gustavson Associates detailing the potential for oil in the Utah land. I have hopes for this company but am a little nervous that they only plan to drill just one well. However, it is a proven basin and many say that contrary to my anxiety, it's the right move to go with the one well. They do have a completion date for Sept 2015.
Its obviously a risky stock. Keep in mind the company has limited assets and no historical revenue. Yet, despite the fact that investors have abandoned most natural resources, oil continues to hold about $100 per barrel. Personally, I am intrigued by the high returns and think the company will tap into a sizable reservoir. I also think they have a solid business plan and are led by an outstanding team. However, I am a risk taker.
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Re Virtus Oil and Gas A Punt On An Old School Oil Exploration Play
Posted by: DAnderson (IP Logged)
Date: July 21, 2014 07:00AM
It is common knowledge that most old-school gas opportunities are dried up, and that is the first thing that comes to mind when hearing of this company. Once you dig deeper into its composition, however, this is an impressive crew of folks who certainly know better than common knowledge. The likelihood of finding old-school oil may be slim, but the rewards were there to still be a resevoir waiting to be tapped would be enormous. It will naturally be quite tempting for risk takers.
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Re Virtus Oil and Gas A Punt On An Old School Oil Exploration Play
Posted by: Jolene10 (IP Logged)
Date: July 21, 2014 03:20PM
This is interesting because Virtus Oil and Gas is a company that is going to go out of their way to do old school oil properties. If they are successful, it will be quite cheaper to find and develope than shale oil. Although, no wells have been drilled yet, they a team put together and a prospect to drill. We will just have to wait to see what becomes of it.
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Re Virtus Oil and Gas A Punt On An Old School Oil Exploration Play
Posted by: [email protected] (IP Logged)
Date: July 21, 2014 07:42PM
I have had a lot of concerns about fracking, and I think a lot of other people do, too. I can see where this company might be able to drum up a lot of interest in their old school approach. My father in law is a geologist who has told me a lot of good things about the Colorado School of Mines, so it seems to me that Dr. Benson has a trustworthy background. I will be curious to read more about Virtus in the next months.
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Re Virtus Oil and Gas A Punt On An Old School Oil Exploration Play
Posted by: JessTw91 (IP Logged)
Date: July 22, 2014 03:19PM
I would be interested to see where this company is in a couple years. For such a young company, they do seem rather confident, don't they? It certainly doesn't seem like other companies are using the same tactics as Vitrus. It would also be interesting to hear from extremists from both sides on this.
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Re Virtus Oil and Gas f k a Curry Gold Corp VOIL A Punt On An Old School Oil Exploration Play
Posted by: briana (IP Logged)
Date: July 26, 2014 01:06AM
I'm not surprised if the American oil production has been rocking and rolling for half a decade. It is due to continuous productions of vehicles and machines that use oil for the sake of evolving world economy and technology. Even if this can symbolize improvement, not everybody takes it positively especially when it comes to fracking for oil. Fracking for more oil can help us in our oil demands but are we doing something good for the environment? Environmentalists are against fracking but it could not be stop due to overwhelming oil demands. The discovery for oil substitute such as bio-fuel discovery is still going so that fracking will be avoided.
VOIL has given the opportunity to be one of the booming companies in the oil industry. They are creating more space for their business growth. Their innovative characteristics and the choice to use non-shale oil will hopefully lead to company growth and success. The one year of VOIL in the industry is something that can lead into future growth and more ventures using the strategies that they have acquired for more than a year. The achievement of this company is impressive too despite the fact that the competition is high and they are new. Although as the innovation of bio-fuel is coming for the next few years, I will not be surprise if VOIL will someday make it as one of the top in the oil industry.
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Re Virtus Oil and Gas f k a Curry Gold Corp VOIL A Punt On An Old School Oil Exploration Play
Posted by: bjbig69 (IP Logged)
Date: August 8, 2014 11:29AM
Look at the Google Streetview of VOIL world headquarters.
1517 San Jacinito St., Houston TX
It is the basement of a used bookstore. Scam? Pump n Dump? "invest" wisely my friend
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Re Virtus Oil and Gas f k a Curry Gold Corp VOIL A Punt On An Old School Oil Exploration Play
Posted by: GeoDubyahLozer (IP Logged)
Date: September 10, 2014 04:40PM
I have worked hard for my money - I plan on keeping it. I will pass on this opportunity.
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