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Seven years after passing its stock of housing to Freebridge, West Norfolk Council is looking to buy property to rent out privately.
The council is planning to set up a separate business to own and manage the homes to side step restrictive rules over it owning houses, including having to offer right-to-buy to tenants.
A report to the council's resources and performance panel said: "There are a number of authorities looking at the potential of entering into the residential rental market by promoting house building and through purchasing built units from the private sector.
"In addition to the benefits of increasing supply into the rented sector where there is high demand the council will gain from improved investment returns."
The plan is being developed to give the council a fall-back plan if the 55 homes it is building in partnership with Norfolk County Council on the Nar Ouse Regeneration Area (NORA), in South Lynn, do not sell. The first of the houses is expected to be ready for sale next month.
The report said: "Although the housing market nationally is showing signs of improvement during 2013 it is considered prudent to set up a contingency should the finished housing units fail to sell within a reasonable period of time."
It is suggested that spending £1.5 million of the council's investment cash on 10 homes could reap higher returns. Currently it is getting about 0.8 per cent interest on cash deposits, but could get 6 to 7 per cent return on the houses when they are eventually sold, the report said. It is proposed to sell as soon as the market picks up.
The report said: "An alternative option would be to seek to sell the residual units at cost to a housing association for rental at affordable rents.
"This option was dismissed in light of the impact of increasing the percentage of affordable units on earlier phases of the NORA development which it is believed breached the council's well defined policy of pepper potting affordable units amongst new housing estates."
If the proposal is accepted at a meeting of the panel on Monday, a letting agency will oversee the properties.
In 2006-07, West Norfolk transferred 3,000 properties to Freebridge Community Housing. Similar transfers were happening all over the country at the time.


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Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound OffGood first review, well written.
This album has loads of the old funk sound they lost on By The Way.
Album Rating: 4.5
Album Rating: 4.5Alright thanks for clearing that up.
To think it was a decade ago that they were mourning the loss of guitarist Hillel Slovak and releasing a cover of a Stevie Wonder song!
1993 hit Mary Janeâs Last Dance
You mentioned almost as many songs from Californication as you did songs from Stadium Arcadium.
Album Rating: 3.0I'll take Patrick's comments one at a time.
1. I know but I only found that out after I posted and I don't think there's a way to edit it after it's been posted. If there is I'd like to know about it.
2. Tom Petty's Greatest Hits was released in 1993 (November 16th to be exact) and 'Mary Jane's Last Dance' was a single from the greatest hits. It was recorded during the making of his 1991 Wildflowers album but it wasn't on the album.
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Backbreaker PS3
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Backbreaker (PS3)
If the XFL was still around today, Backbreaker would be its videogame incarnation. It feels as though Natural Motion's first venture into the sports arena is trying to be over the top but isn't sure if it wants to leap head-first into the arcade realm. I think I would have been fine with the blend of arcade and simulation-style gameplay, but it's some of the game's poor design decisions that ultimately tackle it for a loss.
It's clear from the get go that Backbreaker has no intention of trying to be the next Madden. It doesn't feel like Madden, it doesn't look like Madden and it sure as hell doesn't have Madden's coveted NFL license. But not having the NFL license isn't Backbreaker's real problem. Instead, what hurts it is its insistence on deviating so heavily from the formula that has worked so well for past titles. Don't get me wrong, I'm all for switching things up from the norm, but there are tons of other ways to do it besides the methods attempted by Backbreaker.
First of all, these pro football players don't feel the way professional athletes should. Unless you're a defensive or offensive lineman, which are as sluggish as you'd expect, the rest of the players feel pretty much identical. Juking with a wide receiver should feel different from juking with a running back, but it doesn't. What's more, when you do juke with your running back, the moves take a split-second too long to pull off.


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AMSTERDAM – English Premier League outfit Sunderland have now seen one transfer offer for AZ Alkmaar forward Jozy Altidore knocked back before quickly following up with a second, MLSsoccer.com has learned.
Sources close to Black Cats manager Paulo Di Canio recently told MLSsoccer.com that he was intent on landing the US strike star. For now, the former EPL forward has the playing field to himself, as AZ technical director Earnie Stewart revealed that he had received no competing bids at this time.
"We've rejected one offer [from Sunderland]," former USMNT ace Earnie Stewart told MLSsoccer.com on Friday afternoon. "But we are still talking with them."
READ: Sunderland table official offer with AZ Alkmaar for USMNT striker Jozy Altidore
Meanwhile, multiple sources have indicated that previous suitors such as Fiorentina, Lazio, Napoli and Schalke have all dropped away, at least for the time being. Altidore still has interest from another Premier League side and a few clubs in Germany, according to his agent.
The 23-year-old, who has two years remaining on his AZ deal, continues to maintain that he would have no problem remaining with the Cheese Farmers for another season. If he does stay with the club, they will open the new campaign together with a July 27 duel away to rivals Ajax in the Johan Cruyff Schaal, the Dutch version of a Super Cup.


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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - A tax exemption projected to save Arkansas farmers millions in annual utility costs took effect today. Act 1401 of the 2013 legislative session created a state and local sales tax exemption on utilities used by a grain drying and storage facility. Utilities include electricity, liquefied petroleum gas and natural gas.
"Grain storage keeps the Arkansas rice industry globally competitive and helps farmers avoid selling grain when prices are low," said Arkansas Rice Executive Director Ben Noble. "This exemption will deliver tax relief to farmers across the delta as they continue to feel the financial squeeze from reductions in federal farm support as well as increasing input costs."
According to Arkansas Department of Finance and Administration fiscal projections, the tax exemption will save Arkansas farmers $3.89 million in 2015 and $4.01 million by 2016.
In order to receive the tax exemption, the utility must be separately metered and only used for on-farm grain storage or drying. Utilities used in irrigation do not apply. Farmers who want to claim this tax exemption must receive approval from the Arkansas Department of Finance and Administration (DFA) by filling out a form.
Arkansas is the nation's number one rice-producing state, accounting for almost 50 percent of the U.S. rice production. Rice is the state's second highest value commodity, top agricultural export, and contributes more than $6 billion to the state's economy annually.
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The Colossal African Solar Farm That Could Power EuropeThe minibus crosses the vast plateau on a newly paved road. Cracked fields stretch away towards the Moroccan desert to the south. Yet the barren landscape is no longer quite as desolate as it once was. This year it became home to one of the world's biggest solar power plants. Hundreds of curved mirrors, each as big as a bus, are ranked in rows covering 1,400,000 sq m (15m sq ft) of desert, an area the size of 200 football fields.
2016-11-30 | Morocco | Technology, Energy, Power | bbc.co.uk
Does Facebook Generate Over Half of Its Ad Revenue From Fake News?Fake news has been in the news. But one important question about fake news has not yet been answered: How much revenue would Facebook sacrifice if it purged fake news from its site? Sadly, I can't provide a reliable figure — but a BuzzFeed News analysis of top fake news traffic before the election suggests that the proportion of time that users spent on fake — as opposed to real news — on Facebook was considerable. In a November 26 interview, Harvard
2016-11-28 | United States | Technology, Facebook, False News | forbes.com
What We Talk About When We Talk About "The Uyghurs"In 1997 I watched a news report about a protest in a place that I'd never heard of. The newsreader probably hadn't heard of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in western China either; he certainly couldn't pronounce it, nor the name of the ethnic group—the Uyghurs—that were said to be protesting. But although the report had little to say about them, other than that they were Muslims, its message was clear: here was an ethnic minority that the Chinese government
2016-11-28 | China | News, Uyghur, Kashgar, Xinjiang | dissentmagazine.org
China-Pakistan Corridor Against India's Strategic InterestsThe much touted $46 billion, 3,000-km-long China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) links Gwadar port in the troubled state of Balochistan to China's restive autonomous region of Xinjiang. The project, which is an extension of China's ambitious One-Belt-One-Road scheme, passes through Gilgit and Baltistan areas which are part of Jammu and Kashmir which is Indian territory but illegally occupied by Pakistan. Hence, the CPEC is against the geographical and strategic interests of India. The Official press agency of China Xinhua News Agency,
2016-11-28 | Pakistan | Analysis, Business | eurasiareview.com
Election Theft and Racist Elitism"All great changes," said Deepak Chopra, "are preceded by chaos." That starts to get at it — how to understand, and start healing, the national wound inflicted on this country, and the world, by the 2016 presidential election. But I need to throw in a little John Oliver as well. "We are faced," he said on his TV show, "Last Week Tonight," "with the same questions as the guy who wakes up after a Vegas bachelor party deep in the desert, naked,
2016-11-24 | United States | Americas,Featured,Politics | islamicity.com
China and the U.S. are Approaching Dangerous SeasA combination of recent events, underpinned by long-running historical strains reaching back more than 60 years, has turned the western Pacific into one of the most hazardous spots on the globe. The tension between China and the United States "is one of the most striking and dangerous themes in international politics," says The Financial Times' longtime commentator and China hand, Gideon Rachman. In just the past five months, warships from both countries—including Washington's closest ally in the region, Japan—have done everything
2016-08-21 | China | Politics | fpif.org
Pigeon fancier receives lifetime ban for cheating in raceA pigeon-racing champion has received a lifetime ban from the sport after allegations that he cheated to win one of the most prestigious competitions in the sport's calendar. Eamon Kelly, 52, from Didcot, was accused of cheating by registering 14 birds for the Tarbes Grand National race but keeping them at home and sending decoys instead. The National Flying Club, where he was an official race controller, said in a statement that the ban "follows the falsification of [Kelly's] race entry for
2016-08-13 | United Kingdom | Society | guardian.co.uk
Divide and Rule: How Factionalism in Palestine Is Killing Prospects for FreedomAs Palestinians in the Occupied Territories begin preparations for local elections which are scheduled for October, division and factionalism are rearing their ugly head. Palestinian political platforms and social media are abuzz with self-defeating propaganda: Fatah supporters attacking Hamas' alleged failures, and Hamas' supporters doing the same. What is conveniently overlooked by all sides is that the performance of Palestinian municipalities is almost entirely irrelevant in the greater scheme of things. In the West Bank, local councils are governed by strict Israeli-PA arrangements.
2016-08-11 | Palestine | Politics | antiwar.com
Muslim women most common victims of hate crime campaigns on social media: UK studyIslamophobes are targeting Muslim women in online hate campaigns, according to a new study published Thursday by the International Business Times UK on its website. A Birmingham City University study examined hundreds of Facebook pages, posts and comments as part of an extensive survey of the spread of anti-Islam hate speech online, including those associated with far right groups Britain First and the English Defense league. They found 500 instances of Islamophobic abuse, in which Muslims were branded terrorists and rapists, alleged
2016-08-06 | United Kingdom | News | iinanews.org
41 Palestinian women, including 12 minors, currently held in HaSharon prisonSeveral dozen Palestinian women, including 12 minors, are currently being held in Israel's HaSharon prison, according to a statement released Thursday by the Palestinian Committee of Prisoners' Affairs. The committee said in the statement that 41 Palestinian women and girls are being held in the prison, with some suffering from deteriorating health conditions, adding that Israel's treatment of women prisoners is against international law, and requires "international institutions to end their silence" and to stop Israel's "perpetual crimes." The committee also called
2016-08-06 | Israel | News | maannews.com
China joins Afghanistan, Pakistan, Tajikistan in security allianceBEIJING — China is to set up an anti-terrorism alliance with Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Tajikistan, state media said on Thursday, as it seeks to boost coordination with neighbours to tackle what it says is a growing domestic militant threat. Fang Fenghui, a member of the powerful Central Military Commission which controls China's armed forces, hosted a meeting with his counterparts on Wednesday in Urumqi, capital of the western Xinjiang region, where officials say they are battling extremist militants. The four countries recognised
2016-08-05 | China | News | reuters.com
Europe of failure to keep migrant deal promisesISTANBUL - Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday lashed out at the European Union for dragging its feet in releasing promised funds for Syrian refugees as well as providing visa-free travel for Turks into the passport-free Schengen zone. Turkey and the EU signed a controversial deal in March, in which Ankara agreed to take back Syrian migrants landing on Greek islands in return for several incentives including 3 billion euros ($3.4 billion) in funds and visa-free travel. "Europe has not yet
2016-08-05 | Germany | News | afp.com
Indonesia joins Malaysian halal e-commerce businessJakarta - The Indonesian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Kadin) has registered with the Malaysian Trade Ministry's halal e-commerce portal ehalal.com to endorse Indonesian halal products. The portal serves not as an online store to sell products but rather as a catalogue, that lists halal products available for sale. The portal directs buyers to verified suppliers or its e-commerce partners, The Jakarta Post news reported. "Halal products account for 11 percent of total products in the world. Around 67 percent
2016-08-05 | Malaysia | Business | iinanews.org
British Muslim woman detained at airport for reading book in flightDoncaster, South Yorkshire, England (IINA) - A British Muslim, who works at the National Health Service (NHS), was detained at a UK airport and questioned under terror laws after a cabin crew member at Thomson Airways spotted her reading a Syrian culture book on board, according to media reports. Faizah Shaheen, the victim of yet another Islamophobia incident, works at the NHS in Leeds to help prevent teenage mental health patients from becoming radicalized. She was returning after honeymoon in Marmaris,
2016-08-05 | United Kingdom | News | iinanews.org
OPEC Says $10 Trillion Investment Needed To Avoid Massive Oil Price SpikeOPEC says that $10 trillion worth of investment will need to flow into oil and gas through 2040 in order to meet the world's energy needs. The OPEC published its World Oil Outlook 2015 (WOO) in late December, which struck a much more pessimistic note on the state of oil markets than in the past. On the one hand, OPEC does not see oil prices returning to triple-digit territory within the next 25 years, a strikingly bearish conclusion. The group expects
2015-12-31 | Saudi Arabia | Business | eurasiareview.com
Mercenaries in YemenLatin American mercenaries are leaving the ranks of the national armies of their countries to fight in the deserts of Yemen, wearing the uniform of the United Arab Emirates. They have been contracted by private US companies and in some cases directly by the government of the Arab country, which, thanks to vast oil reserves, has the second largest economy of the region. An article in the New York Times revealed that 450 Latin American soldiers, among them Colombians, Panamanians, Salvadorans
2015-12-26 | Yemen | News | counterpunch.org
China expels French journalist over reports questioning treatment of UighursChina is expelling a French journalist who questioned its treatment of its Muslim Uighur minority in the north-western region of Xinjiang, her employer, the weekly l'Obs news magazine, has said. Ursula Gauthier, the magazine's Beijing correspondent, needs to leave China by 31 December after authorities refused to renew her visa. Shortly after publishing a story that suggested China was using the Paris attacks to justify crackdowns on Uighur people, Gauthier was the subject of editorials in state-controlled media and even death threats,
2015-12-26 | China | News | atimes.com
Aung San Suu Kyi's inexcusable silenc"In awarding the Nobel Peace Prize ... to Aung San Suu Kyi," the Norwegian Nobel Committee announced in 1991, it wished "to honour this woman for her unflagging efforts and to show its support for the many people throughout the world who are striving to attain democracy, human rights and ethnic conciliation by peaceful means". Suu Kyi, the Committee added, was "an important symbol in the struggle against oppression". Fast forward 24 years, and the Rohingya Muslims of Myanmar might disagree with
2015-05-27 | Burma | News | aljazeera.com
The token Palestinian, inconvenient truthsI recall, with particular awkwardness, my first talk at a socialist student gathering at the University of Washington in Seattle nearly two decades ago. When I tried to offer an authentic view of the situation in Palestine from the viewpoint of a refugee, my hosts were hardly impressed. However, the head of the student group knew how to move the crowd. He spoke of Palestinian and Israeli proletariat classes, which, according to him were ultimately fighting against the same enemy,
2014-10-12 | Palestine | Politics | atimes.com
The right to fast: Why is China barring Xinjiang Muslims fasting during RamadanUighur Muslims in China's northwest province of Xinjiang face severe abuses in practicing their religion, including prohibition from the required fast during the holy month of Ramadan, according to religious rights watchdogs and news reports. The Chinese Communist Party has been ordering Muslims in the province to eat during the holy month, when they are normally required to fast, the Financial Times reported. In Xinjiang, "authorities view independent religious activities as evidence of 'extremism' and prohibit outward manifestations of Islamic piety
2013-07-25 | China | Religion | albawaba.com
Raise interest rates on old student loans, secret report proposesA confidential report commissioned by the government has proposed redrawing the terms of student loans taken out over the past 15 years, that would make them more expensive to pay back for 3.6 million borrowers in England alone. The proposal to increase the interest rates on the £40bn worth of loans is the most controversial of a series of options contained in a Whitehall-commissioned study examining how the coalition could privatise the entire stock of student loans issued since 1998. Increasing the
2013-06-14 | United Kingdom | Education | guardian.co.uk
Ethnic cleansing in Myanmar: A bloody road to apartheidMYANMAR'S government has reported that 82 people have died in the past week's ethnic violence in the western state of Rakhine, and 2,800 houses been razed by fire. Both figures are almost certainly underestimates. The whole length of the state, a narrow coastal strip whose northern end borders Bangladesh, has seen mounting tension and often fighting between the majority Rakhine population, who are mostly Buddhist, and the Rohingya minority, who are mostly Muslim and are seen by many Rakhines and
2012-10-30 | Myanmar | Politics | economist.com
Samsung wins in Apple battleA court in Japan has ruled that Samsung did not infringe on an Apple patent, in the latest episode of the global legal war between the technology giants. The Tokyo court's three-judge panel awarded legal costs to Samsung on Friday and refused Apple's claim that Samsung's Galaxy smartphones and tablets had infringed its patent. "The defendant's products do not seem like they used the same technology as the plaintiff's products so we turn down the complaints made by [Apple]," Presiding Judge Tamotsu
2012-08-31 | Japan | Technology | aljazeera.com
London Met and Paralympics 2012: a tale of hypocrisy in international policyDuring the inspiring (and often moving) opening ceremony of the London 2012 Paralympics, news began to filter through on Twitter that London Metropolitan University (LMU) had had its status as a Highly Trusted Sponsor for international student visas revoked by the UK Border Agency. Some might say it was a cynical attempt by government to bury bad news at a time of national celebration. Rumours had been rife that an announcement was due since the Sunday Times broke the story
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Weird Facts: Hares Can Get Pregnant While Pregnant
I remember rolling over laughing when I saw someone asking if her baby girl in her stomach can get pregnant if she have sex well, this one is not as stupid but did you know that hares can get pregnant if they mate during late pregnancy? I don't know why anyone would want to breed hares so quickly but apparently, researchers have found out this fact which can reduce breeding time from 42 days to 38 days and deliver up to 35.4% more offspring. They even have a high-resolution ultrasonography to demonstrate so. I say, stop with the animal abuse, the poor animal has already just given birth and you expect her to go through all that again in 38 days just so you can have, I don't know, more hares to sell? Claypot Hare Porridge?
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Actually, let's make a table of contents:
- Neural Nets in Rust: Starts with this post.
- Nobilis 3e Character Creation: Starts with this post.
Hey all! I enjoyed putting together the Let's Play over in the videogames forum, but I ended up getting a little frustrated with how much I had to rely on others for e.g. bug fixes. Ideally, I'd have the person responsible for fixing bugs in easy smacking distance.
At the same time as I do other things, I also work on various hobby coding projects. One that I recently started focusing on again lately is an attempt to roll my own neural net library, because the stuff I've looked at confuses me, so maybe I'll get some insight if I make one myself.
The story so far...
Several months ago, I read up on basic machine learning stuff, and put together a primitive autoencoder in Python. The design had some interesting ideas, which I'll try to carry forward, and some dodgy implementation details, which I'll try not to.
Crash course on the design: I ended up foundering in my attempts to understand tensor concepts. In order to have some concept of what nets are doing, I started translating the vector behaviors in the writeups into very localized descriptions of what happens to single units in the network, then worked back up from there.
The architecture that I ended up going for was a symbolic DAG (directed acyclic graph) of simple mathematical operations. To explain what this was like, consider an algebraic expression, like (5x + 3y)(56x-1)^5. That expression can be thought of as a tree structure:
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Now, there are a couple of issues here. One is that there could be a lot of repeated structure. If you're evaluating this, you'd like to reuse as much information as possible. Those efforts could, however, be hampered, if you can't actually tell whether two nodes are equal.
My solution to the latter problem was to develop a canonical form for the nodes. Equivalent node values will draw their arguments into a common form, making it trivial to confirm that two nodes are identical. This ability then feeds into solving the first problem: instead of a tree, the nodes are in a DAG, where any particular expression is only instantiated once. I'll get into how all this works in detail after I've posted the code.
First up, the concepts the library can express: addition, multiplication, hyperbolic tangent, inputs to the network, trainable values, and named constants. Each of these can be differentiated with respect to a trainable value, and the result expressed simply, solely in terms of the concepts that are already defined. Addition and multiplication work as in calculus, trainable values are 1 with respect to themselves, and 0 with respect to everything else, and similarly for the inputs and constants. The derivative of tanh(x) with respect to x is just 1-tanh^2(x), so that's no big deal either.
With all that said, here's the code I'm working with now: http://pastebin.com/B5tx7ekx. This is actually a rewrite of the first, more confusing iteration that tried to do performance hacks in Pypy. Now, you'll notice that this code is in Python, not Rust. So what gives? Well, this code is relatively strictly typed, and I'd like to see how it does, given the ability to take advantage of that, and also to get some hands-on experience with Rust. (You'll also notice that there's no code to actually evaluate a DAG on an input. That got stripped out in the rewrite, for the time being.)
For now, a quick tour of the code:
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class Environment:
This class serves the purpose of explicitly enforcing the node deduplication. It provides the intended constructors for node instances, and functions for deriving new nodes from them. I may look into creating a container class that bundles an environment with its Node, thereby allowing me to get rid of all those explicit passes of the environment. Prior to the rewrite, the methods lived at the module level, and there was a single implicit environment that I provided functions to manipulate for test purposes. Gross.
The methods contain some asserts. Some of those are useful, and some are from chasing down some absolutely shameful bugs introduced in the rewrite.
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def add(self, left, right):
def multiply(self, left, right):
def _combine_terms(self, left, right):
These heavyweight functions work by converting their arguments into Sum nodes, and doing basic operations to them, not too fancy. If you squint at add(), you can see how it leverages the canonical form: because the non-constant terms are sorted, it suffices to perform a modified merge of the lists, and this creates the correct, canonical merged list. I'll be looking for ways to cut down the verbiage in these functions, because it's a little over-the-top.
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def cmp(left, right):
This code was originally Python 2, and it's now Python 3. I tossed this in as a quick hack. It should be unnecessary in Rust.
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class State(collections.namedtuple('State', ['input variables parameters'])):
This is a remnant of the evaluation code. It represents an initial state of the network. I don't know what it'll end up looking like, but I assume somewhat close to this version. Rust won't need the weird method it has.
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class Node(tuple):
The base class for the read-only nodes in the DAG. Every node must offer a way to coerce to Sum, and to produce its partial derivative with respect to a trainable variable.
Then, a bunch of instantiations of the abstract class. In Rust, this is going to be accomplished with several traits and enums.
In any case, this is all we need to describe the structure of a neural network, including determining the gradient of a loss function, in order to perform gradient descent. Actually evaluating it is another matter, and I'd like to translate this code to Rust first, before trying to re-implement that.
So, where I stand now: I've got a bunch of Python code that passes the tests (not shown), and, aside from the complete lack of documentation and comments, I think looks pretty good. Next week I'm going to talk about trying to port it to Rust, and write about that. That's all for now. See you around!


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Does anyone have any good way to ripen green tomatoes? I picked 5 buckets of them as it's supposed to be a killing frost this week and quite frankly, I'm really tired of watering them.
Or if you have any good recipes for green tomatoes, please post them.
Ripening green tomatoes
Does anyone have any good way to ripen green tomatoes? I picked 5 buckets of them as it's supposed to be a killing frost this week and quite frankly, I'm really tired of watering them.
Easiest way I have found is to lay them in single layer on newspaper in cool room, check every day, and use as they ripen, or make green tomato preserves, fried green tomatoes or mincemeat.
I pulled up the entire plant, striped off the leaves and nonfruited branches, and hung it in the garage. It's fairly warm in there on a warm day but no direct sunlight. One has ripened already and tasted fine., Some loose ones I brought in the house and are on a baker's rack, slowly ripening.
Tried fried green tomatos and they were not good.
I talked to one of my sisters, she puts the green tomatoes in a paper bag with an apple, close the bag, she says she has done this for years and get really nice tomatoes in a few days
Ditto on the brown paper bag, but I've never used the apple and it worked great without it
Growing up in MN where my Mom would pick the last of the green tomatoes and we'd wrap them in newspaper and store them in the fruit cellar. They would be unwrapped and ripened on a kitchen windowsill as needed. The crop would usually last through Thanksgiving.
Oh my, Ruth, I haven't seen the name of your town in years. I agree with all of the above options. I have tried them all. A good use to green tomatoes and if you don't mind a little spice, I have been adapting over the years a green tomato salsa that is quite good if I do say so myself. I preserve about 30 pints a year and use every pint before the next season. I think I have posted it before but here it is again.
Green Tomato Salsa
2 Green Bell Peppers
1 Medium Onion
4 Cloves Garlic
3-4 lbs. Green tomatoes, quartered
4 four ounce cans of green chilies (I roast, peel and seed my own)
5 Jalapenos (less if desired but use at least 2) (Seeded and membrane removed to reduce the heat but heat is good for the soul, my opinion)
2 Tblsp Salt
1/3 C Apple Cider Vinegar
1 tsp Cumin
� C Cilantro (Fresh and chopped)
� C Italian Parsley (Fresh and Chopped)
Chop the tomatoes, onion, garlic, both peppers, cilantro, and parsley in a food processer and process until salsa consistency.
Place everything in a sauce pan and simmer for 30 minutes.
Place in sterile � pint jars and process in a water bath canner for 20 minutes, pint
jars for 30 minutes.
If you don't can/preserve it freezes quite well, after the 30 minute simmer and a cooling down period. Freeze in quart bags.
Green Chile' Chicken
Green Chile' Beef Burritos
Chile' Colorado
Green Chile' Nachos
Green Chile' Enchiladas
Chile' Relleno Casserole
Green Chile' Quesadillas
Yum, Yum is right ~ lol
Odd to see this thread pop up. I thought of it last night when reading through a cookbook and saw recipes for green tomato sauce and stuffed green tomatoes.
Some interesting ideas for green tomatoes here, if I ever get enough red ones, I will try some of these.
Thanks, Doug
Wish I would have seen your recipe while I still had green tomatoes. It sounds really good. I can a lot so it's right up my alley. Makes me hungry!!! ;)
I'll write it down and save it for next year. Do you have a recipe book that you get the other green tomato recipes from or do you concoct your own? Sounds like you have lots of good recipes.
So have you just seen the name of my town on DG or do you know someone from our part of the boonies??? ;)
I apologize for being about a month too late for the green tomato rush. Guess I was too busy with the preservation of the greenies. Ruth, I was born in SD and you might say I concoct. I have been engineering a cook book for more than ten years. Wonder if it will ever be finished??? If I weren�t an engineer I�d be a chef.
*Concoction with the green tomato salsa*
Chicken Relleno Casserole
4 Chicken breasts, skinless and boneless
1 Pint Green tomato salsa, divided
1/2 Cup Onion, diced
1 lb. Mexi-mix cheese, divided
1/4 Cup Maza Harina (Corn Flour)
1/2 Cup Corn Meal
5 Eggs, slightly beaten
1/4 Cup Milk
1/2 Cup Fresh Cilantro, chopped
Cook the chicken breasts until the internal temperature is about 165 degrees Fahrenheit. Cool slightly and shred the chicken. I like to boil the chicken for 15 to 20 minutes in water with a cup of red tomato salsa imparting a lovely flavor. But hey, fry them with a little olive oil on med-high heat for about 10 minutes on each side works fine too. Remember 165 degrees Fahrenheit is the target.
In a mixer combine half of the green tomato salsa, onion, maza harina, cornmeal, eggs, cilantro, and milk.
Place the shredded chicken and in a greased 9x13 baking dish. Scatter half of the cheese over the chicken. Pour the combined ingredients over the chicken and cheese. Top with the remaining cheese. Bake at 350 degrees for 30 to 40 minutes until the casserole becomes set.
Serve with the other half of the green tomato salsa, sour cream and some chopped cilantro.
I made your salsa with the last of my tomatoes the other day. Mostly green and a few just on the verge of ripening. Delicious! It's a keeper for sure. I used it in a chicken and rice bake dish and we loved it. Your Chicken Relleno Casserole sounds delightful, too. Will try it for sure.
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In the hours following the taking of Usama (Osama?) Bin Laden we heard all kinds of great pro-American/non-partisan words. Everyone from President Obama to former President George W. Bush. Good Stuff, and it made me proud to hear Americans with such different views on current issues coming together on this one, the taking out of the greatest mass murderer in American history. But now I just sat through most of The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell, and the thin-lipped expressionless-one who replaced Olbermann turned his entire show into a partisan pro Democrat/Bush attacking hate fest. Seriously? Where they heck do they get these people?!
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Now if one wanted to become partisan on this issue one could legitimately ask why it took until now to get Bin Laden if they've known where he . . . → Read More: In less than 24 hours the killing of Bin Laden became an MSNBC anti-Bush/pro Democrat party hate fest. Wow.


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Hodgkin Lymphoma
Hodgkin lymphoma is most prevalent in two age groups: in those between about 20 and 40 years of age and in those over 55. According to the American Cancer Society (ACS), about 9,000 people in the United States are diagnosed with Hodgkin lymphoma each year and about 1,300 people die of it.
There are many different theories concerning the cause of HL. Some think that a type of infectious agent, such as a virus, might be involved. Others think that a mutation in a cell is the cause. While this is an area of active research, specific causes have not yet been identified. Likewise, there is no clear understanding of why males seem to be slightly more susceptible to the disease.
HL can be subdivided based on the structure of the abnormal lymph node and the types of cells that are present. Lymph nodes may have a predominance of small lymphocytes, the presence of bands of scarring (fibrosis), a mixture of different cell types, or lymphocyte depletion. In HL, tumor cells (so-called Reed-Sternberg cells) are the minority, while the majority is a benign, often mixed, reactive cell population.
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Non-Hodgkin lymphoma represents just over 4% of all new cancer cases in the United States. It is slightly more common in men than women and more common in Caucasians. The incidence of NHL increases with age and is higher in those with HIV/AIDS and in people whose immune system is suppressed.
According to the ACS, non-Hodgkin lymphoma accounts for about 4% of all cancers. About 72,000 people are diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma per year and about 20,000 people die from it. Incidence rates of NHL have almost doubled since the 1970s. The reasons for this are not yet known, but the greatest increase has been in women. However, death rates from non-Hodgkin lymphoma have been decreasing since the late 1990s.
There are many types of non-Hodgkin lymphoma and as knowledge about them grows, the systems used to classify them has evolved. New methods of evaluating the cells involved in non-Hodgkin lymphoma have led to changes in classification systems.
In the 1990s, the Revised European American Lymphoma (REAL) classification was proposed by the International Lymphoma Study Group and adopted by many physicians. It looked at the function that the cell should be providing. B-lymphocytes are responsible for producing antibodies, for instance, while T-lymphocytes are responsible for cell-to-cell interactions. The newest method, the World Health Organization or WHO Classification, combines these characteristics with phenotypic and genetic studies of the cells. The WHO classification expanded on REAL and has been accepted by many as the current standard.
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from Larry Brooks of the New York Post,
The Rangers have come too far and have accomplished too much for the Stanley Cup finals to end in an ignominious sweep. They have done too much heavy lifting to simply be discarded onto the scrap heap of history and to be remembered — if remembered at all in the grand scheme of things — as a tomato can of an opponent on hockey's biggest stage.
The Rangers owe themselves better than that. Win or lose, they owe themselves a Game 4 performance at the Garden they will be able to reflect upon with pride. If the Blueshirts are going to go out, at least it should be on their shields.
"I really believe this is going to be our best effort," Brad Richards told The Post on Wednesday. "We have to be able to look at ourselves in the mirror."
They are going to have to be able to look at themselves in the mirror and equally to the point, they are going to have to be able to look each other in the eye when Game 4 is said and done, after which either the Kings will become the second visiting team to raise the Cup on Garden ice — joining the hated 1972 Bruins — or both the Kings and Rangers will be boarding their respective charters to L.A. for Game 5 on Friday.
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At least 24 people died when a gigantic tornado shredded Oklahoma City on Monday afternoon, local time.
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i really like blogging, it is all about information lah,, you see i never knew there was such a place called Sauk,, now i know..tq.ReplyDelete
hey have a great weekend ya
Hi Aunty Yan! ^0^ How are you doing?ReplyDelete
Hahaha April looks cute when she posed like that ;D She'll be a feminine I guess ;)
The foods seem good! I want to try the Claypot edible frog, I like frog/swikee ;P Too bad it's in Malaysia ha ha ha ^_^
The food looks delicious lerh... *drooling*ReplyDelete
haha...all princesses will held up their skirt that way ma.ReplyDelete
The frog and prawns ......drooling..
Pak so kong fish is one of my favourite. The flesh is white and smooth. The dish of assorted fishballs looks tempting too.ReplyDelete
Should make a trip to Sauk soon.....
Yeah~! Scrumptious foodie post! Hehe... I was wondering why you didn't have anything before you go back! Slurp~ the asam prawn and the claypot frog looked really nice!ReplyDelete
Have a wonderful school holiday Yan!
haha. your cute daughter want to look pretty in picture. gorjeuss picture of u all.ReplyDelete
that edible frog is call what chicken in chinese right ? i dun dare eat that. >.<
the steamed fish and other look nice.but uhh rm140, i wud hv to wait when i hv job b4 can indulge in food
Your mobile phone takes good pics. The fishballs look so freshh and delicious. Actually all the food looks yummy to me. April learned from Mummy lah..hehe..just kidding.ReplyDelete
frogs?????? *pengsan*ReplyDelete
Everything looks so yummy, esp the assorted fishballs! Your mobile phone takes better pics than my digital camera! :)ReplyDelete
This reminds me of food from china - not that they dont have it here - but it just tastes very different while I was at Guangzhou - miss those food!ReplyDelete
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Drooling over the "froggie" dish. Hahaha.. I love "Pak So Gong", ideal way of cooking.. Steaming.ReplyDelete
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|August 9, 2009, 06:44 PM
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In the Pittsburgh gym mass murder, I don't recall anyone dying because they fought back.
He'd attempted it before, but became indecisive and chickened out on a couple of occasions. Unfortunatly, he was effective enough.
Don't know what all the lesson stuff is about. Who among us figured that we're completely safe because we're armed, or need to be told there no truly safe environments out there after attacks at schools, universities, churches, offices, malls, parking lots, stores, streets, law offices, coffee shops, court houses--- in the stairwell, parking garage, when hiking, going to the laundry room, in our homes, taking out the garbage, getting the mail, etc.
Some good lessons for aerobics class members, perhaps.
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luck can make you not dead by chance. skill keeps you not dead longer through knowledge.
I still pick luck. all the skill in the world can be a waste if you are the unlucky guy of a lucky placed shot.
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OK here is my take on this.
Situational : Aerobics room of a gym. No cover, it is a large open floor. Lights were turned out. Some ambient light was coming through. He fires shots and it takes a moment for the ladies to figure out that some one is shooting people in the room. (Shock and Awe affect.) They then start to scrable out.
Time frame was less than a minute and a half. What I have gathered is he unloded both handguns as fast as he could pull the trigger. He then took out a revolver and killed hisself.
Subjective profile: (my personal opinion here) He was depressed and had the delusional thought that a girfriend or lover might help him to not be depressed any more. He bought his clothes, groomed himself, bought cologne, furnished his house, and chose his car all with hopes that it would have more appeal with women. He joined that very gym and started lifting weights in hopes of meeting a woman. When none of it seemed to work he decide life was just too miserable to go on. He decided he is gonna end it all and take out a few of his percieved tormentors. He could not go through with it before I feel because when it was lit it made it too personal for him to get past the thought of killing women. He goes home and keeps thinking of how can he cary it out. He stated in his journal "maybe this new idea will work this time" I personaly believe he decided to go back for the night class with the intentoin of turning out the lights and just opening fire. Thus being able to cary out his plan.
Aftermath: 3 dead several wounded, a couple of them criticly. Dead gunman by his own hand.
There are a lot of what ifs here. Honestly If one of those women had somehow say had a fanny pack and a handgun she may still have not been able to do much if anything. We all say get cover. Only way to get cover in that situaton is either behind a dead body, or get out of the room. Hoping you do not get one in the back on the way out. Or try to fire on him with the small amount of ambient light that was in the room.
Unfortuately There is no magic awnser to this.
No matter how many times you do it and nothing happens it only takes something going wrong one time to kill you.
|August 9, 2009, 11:39 PM
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Luck and skill exist in two different contexts which aren't sympatric (they don't live in the same environment).
Better to stick with reality. Luck chooses you. Not you it. Without skill, you may not last long enough to allow luck to intervene in your behalf in a good way or bad.
Of course, no doubt, some folks would argue that being killed because of lack of skill is bad luck.
|August 10, 2009, 01:14 AM
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|August 10, 2009, 01:40 AM
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My first lesson: Validation. I am not paranoid after all for having my pistol in a bag that follows me from station to station as I work out at the gym.
I find it hard to believe that a person attempting to intervene could have made this situation any worse. You have a guy intentionally killing people with multiple firearms. The chances of me being his next target are what, 1 in 20, or 1 in 40? (based on however many people were in the room).
I follow the movement of the muzzle flashes while moving low and fast into position. If the alternative is to wait my turn to be executed, or watch innocent people die one after the other, I am by God going on the offense. I think I stand a way better than 50/50 chance of stopping the guy before becoming the next target.
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|August 10, 2009, 03:05 AM
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Think outside the box WA. You should be endorsing Thunderwear. www.thunderwear.com Just don't fall and accidently blow off your tender vittles by mistake!
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|August 10, 2009, 05:09 AM
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a good question
Mmmmh, indeed that is a good question ( in the opening post)
I admit, I do not carry in some situations.
When I go to Gym I mostly swim, but even if I was doing other stuff, I do not think that I would carry.
the same applies when I go horse-riding ( I fear to think of what my mare would do if I let off a shot while being on her back, but I am pretty sure that it would end up with me taking sand out of my ears).
I also have not seen any skydivers carrying guns, we had a safe in the club where we would lock our guns while we were busy with the day's jumping.
At the end life is not B&W but several shades of gray, and I make it a point to asses the risk of everything I do and IMO, the chances of someone opening up while I am at the Gym or horse riding are rather slim and since carrying then is not very practical for me, I don't.
This does not make me feel bad or as if I am inconsistent.
|August 10, 2009, 07:13 AM
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Sad Ken comes to that conclusion. If everyone of those women had a 22lr Beretta, or, some sort of deep ccw, in thunderwear, the guy might have been met by a hail of 22 bullets, better then being shot up.
All it shows is when you go into a Free Fire Zone, where all guns are banned, your screwed...
|August 10, 2009, 11:50 AM
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I take martial arts. Do not ever let one of the instructors, or worse yet, the head man himself, find you packing a gun while you're on the mats working out.
There are situations where you can not carry a gun. You just have to deal with it and have a plan "B". Then have a plan "C".
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Who said guns were banned from the gym?
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|August 10, 2009, 12:14 PM
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Plan A) Carry a gun.
Plan B)Take the 300,000,000 to 1 chance that today won't be the day or the place.
Plan C) Be hard to hit.
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The problem, as you so eloquently put it, is choice.
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|August 10, 2009, 12:41 PM
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You know better than that, and you're just potstirring for the "fun" of watching online strangers get mad at you. Knock it off.
Just because all scenarios aren't survivable, does not mean that it's stupid or pointless to improve your odds by being prepared to cope with the ones that are survivable.
And as for fighting back somehow causing more harm than simply dying for the guy's sick pleasure, I don't see that in this situation. There are other situations where the best strategy might be to wait and see what happens before choosing to fight back, but I don't see anyone in this situation getting more dead simply because they tried to survive.
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|August 10, 2009, 01:03 PM
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At any rate, I think it is a legitimate issue. Sort of like being armed at the beach when wearing, as I do, skimpy attire..or in the swimming pool, or the shower.
I am not arguing for being prepared...I am arguing at the LEVEL of preparedness...something which I see many posters agree with...
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|August 10, 2009, 01:25 PM
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We all realize that action is faster than reaction. That is the reason that we wear a seatbelt while driving instead on trying to buckle up only when we see a accident comming. I try to live and enjoy life as normally and responsibly as possible. All I can do is to try and be reasonably prepared to midigate the likely dangers that are associated with life. There is no way that I can protect against everything and I dont try to.
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|August 10, 2009, 02:02 PM
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Safe, safer, safest...
I like the defensive driving analogy a lot better than notions about "warrior mindsets" and the like. It's just an everyday habit of awareness, of not letting someone sit in your blind spot, of scanning down the road for potential trouble... Is it a guarantee that you won't be the one who's blindsided? No, but it sure reduces the odds.
Another analogy: When my dog and I were taking obedience classes, one of the other students had a question: "My dog always comes when called when I'm training him, but he won't do it when I'm not -- what should I do?" Umm -- and the reason you're ever not training him is....?
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|August 10, 2009, 02:27 PM
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|August 10, 2009, 03:09 PM
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Perhaps if you have a free fire zone area like that, you need to be sued for such an act.
In the past, the action of a third party, violating the law, has been a barrier against the recovery for deaths they cause. Perhaps the case has to be made that if you have a Free Fire zone, like a court room, school, gym due to policy, that you have a duty to keep those people safe. This should mean as the courts do, metal detectors, police on hand, and taking any item that you are not supposed to have in the area.
If you fail to provide such services, the families of the dead should be allowed recovery, since your actions created a situation where they were helpless, unable to protect themselves from someone with a firearm.
|August 10, 2009, 03:10 PM
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Well... considereing someone saw the guy on a bus before hand holding a "grenade" and after the police had him the guy who saw him earlier couldnt identify him... so after the cops let him go apparently without searching him he went on to kill people... at least thats what im hearing on the news this morning...
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|August 10, 2009, 03:21 PM
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The real less on
Crazy people will somehow always find a way to get armed, it does not matter how many laws/barriers you put in front of them. It is the job of sane people to defend themselves when crazy people show themselves to be a threat and WE CANNOT DO IT IF THE GOVERNMENT TOUCHES OUR GUNS!!! I tell the government the same thing about my guns that I would tell Michael Jackson about a little boy... "NO TOUCHY!!!"
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|August 10, 2009, 03:22 PM
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about the subject and space bar slip up... cannot edit title... bloody typos
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|August 10, 2009, 03:28 PM
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Most of us are not trained to react in a dark environment with screaming, bullets flying, bodies running about everywhere against a shooter who has the advantage of surprise and position....
So how is that baiting...because some folks THINK they could do some good in that scenario and it hurts their feelings because they cant?
isnt it part of Tactics and training to know your limitations?
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|August 10, 2009, 04:09 PM
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good post....good question. kinda makes all those what holster should i use when taking a shower, or what gun should i choose when i'm at the beach wearing nothing but speedos questions look as stupid as they really are.
i knew a pres. of a national m/c club. he walked out of a bar filled with his friends one nite. he had a friend on either side, all were armed. one shot rang out and he was dead. the sniper disappeard without any return fire. if kings and presidents can be shot it is nothing but arrogance to think a concealed handgun and a few trips to the range will somehow make you invincible. i'm not saying to leave your guns at home, i'm just saying if you let fear dictate your life or you will never be more than arms length from your gun vault and there is alot of life that you will be missing out on. i say be careful, take precautions, don't act foolish or stupid but there is alot of good stuff out there. don't live as a prisoner of your own mind.
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UMAs also appeal to advisors, notes Celent, "because they gain complete visibility on all their client's financial assets ... No longer does the advisor have to worry if they have a significant share of the client's wallet."
Bredin says he prefers UMAs to SMAs because they allow him to focus more on advice and analysis than administration.
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For those reasons, UMAs that provide a single account and a single registration "are simply the best possible solution for high-end mass affluent and high-net-worth clients," asserts Ellis.
Still, a UMA is only as good as its overlay technology -- the system that manages the investment sleeves in the account to maximize their efficiency based on a big-picture plan or model. As the Celent report notes, there's room for overlay tools to improve. "Combining multiple asset classes and coordinating trades across all investment manager sleeves has proven to be a difficult, but not insurmountable, challenge. The difficulty of rebalancing and reporting across the asset and manager classes has also proven difficult."
While still aimed chiefly at ultra-high-net-worth and high-net-worth clients, UMAs are reaching a broader market, due in large part to strides being made with overlay technology. Improved technology "is making it practical to move down market, all the way to the lower reaches of the mass affluent market," observes Dunlap.
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