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Trading ETFs: Seven rules of the road
August 2015
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The significant growth trajectory of the Australian exchange-traded fund (ETF) market is evidence that advisers and investors alike are gaining more confidence in trading ETFs. But how do you know if your trades are the most efficient and effective they can be?
Although ETFs effectively blend the investment characteristics of managed funds with the trading flexibility of individual stocks, they trade somewhat differently than either of those assets. Trading strategies are more important for ETFs than for managed funds: the timing and type of trade can affect the price at which the ETF is bought or sold, which is not the case for managed fund investors.
(Editor's note: To learn more about the features, benefits and risk of ETFs, take the free ASX online course on Exchange-traded funds and Exchange-traded products).
Vanguard's Investment Strategy Group recently published a research paper based examining how the ETF market works. The research delivered seven strategies that can help ensure your ETF trading is offering the best chance of investment success.
1. Use "marketable" limit orders instead of market orders
Limit orders involve selecting a certain execution price you are comfortable with. They offer advantages over market orders as they provide greater price control and protection. Using "marketable" limit orders ensures you are not buying above or selling below your set price. A "marketable" limit order is not a conventional or defined instruction in Australia, but is a form of a limit order (or a trading approach) that may offer a higher likelihood of execution.
2. Pay attention during volatile periods
Wide swings in the market can cause the prices of an ETF's underlying shares to move sharply, resulting in wider bid/ask spreads for the ETF or larger premiums and discounts to fair value. In these situations, the price control offered by limit orders becomes extremely beneficial.
3. Beware of the open and close
The ASX opening and closing prices for ETFs are determined by a complex calculation that factors in things such as overnight market moves and recent global news, so you need to be cautious when trading before 10.15am and after 3.45pm (Sydney time).
At market open, all the underlying securities in the ETF may not have started trading. This can potentially mean wider bid/ask spreads due to pricing uncertainty.
Similarly, as the market approaches close, an ETF may experience wider spreads and more volatility as market participants begin to limit their risk, leading to fewer firms "making markets" (i.e. supporting the ability to buy or sell a particular share at the quoted bid and ask price) in an ETF. This means you should avoid waiting until the last few minutes to wrap up buy or sell orders in the afternoon.
4. Tune out the volume
ETFs with substantial trading volume and narrow bid/ask spreads may appear to offer superior liquidity. However, an ETF's average daily volume (ADV) is not the only gauge of its liquidity. An ETF's bid-ask spread can be a better indication of liquidity because it factors in the liquidity of an ETF's underlying shares, as well as the associated costs for authorised participants (APs), whose role is to create and redeem the actual units of the ETFs on behalf of the ETF provider.
5. Your broking firm's institutional trading desk can help tackle a large trade
The on-screen volumes for ETFs are rarely a true representation of the trade size you are able to achieve. When trading ETFs in larger amounts (i.e. 10,000 units or more), your broker can help get the best execution by accessing additional liquidity.
For example, they may be able to find and access unseen liquidity in the market or complete the trade in smaller chunks.
6. For trading international ETFs, it's a matter of time
Where possible, it is better to trade international ETFs at times that coincide with the trading hours of the underlying shares' local markets. Prices of international ETFs traded in Australia tend to be closer to the value of the underlying shares and typically trade with narrower bid-ask spreads when their respective markets are open and overlap with Australian trading hours.
While Australian ETFs trade from 10.00am to 4.00pm (Sydney time), Asian markets open late in the Australian morning, and European and western hemisphere markets are not open during Australian trading hours. This means that spread levels may be wider for some international ETFs because of pricing uncertainty.
7. When in doubt, call for help
Keep in mind that assistance is available when trading ETFs. Investors may encounter issues or questions that are not covered by the trading best practices outlined here. They may also unknowingly face higher frictional costs when trading larger ETF unit amounts, and it is important for investors to focus on controlling these costs. Rather than go it alone, investors should consider reaching out to their brokerage platform or to the ETF provider for assistance.
About the author
Paul Chin is a Senior Investment Analyst, Vanguard Investment Strategy Group (Asia Pacific).
Paul Chin is a Senior Investment Analyst, Vanguard Investment Strategy Group (Asia Pacific).
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I have been serving as Senior Pastor at Ridgedale since June of 2013. Prior to serving at Ridgedale, I also served churches in Kentucky and middle Tennessee. After being born in Oneida, TN, my family moved to Chattanooga where we became members of Ridgedale. It was here at Ridgedale where,… View Staff member
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I began working at Ridgedale in 2000, first as the groundskeeper and currently as the head of facilities. Before coming to Ridgedale, I was in sales in the Chattanooga area. I was born and raised in Ringgold, Georgia, graduated from Ringgold High School and attended Dalton State College. I grew up… View Staff member
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Celtic clinch Christie deal but Van Dijk joins Saints
Ryan Christie has joined Celtic from Inverness Caledonian Thistle on a four-year contract, the Parkhead club have confirmed.
The 20-year-old midfielder will return to Inverness on loan, with the Scottish champions having the option of him returning in January 2016, an option which the Hoops are likely to exercise.
The Scotland Under-21 international has made almost 70 first-team appearances for Inverness.
Celtic manager Ronny Deila said: "Ryan is a hugely talented young player and it is great news that we have secured his long-term future with Celtic. He is someone who has so much in his game and he is a young player who will excite our fans."
News of Christie's arrival came after it was confirmed that Virgil van Dijk had signed for Southampton. The 24-year-old defender joined the Saints on a five-year deal for around £11million.
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The work continues…
These words have never rung more true for Jeff Austin.
After almost twenty years of live creation and endless joy seeking Jeff has returned to the scene with a new found sense of passion. Sharing the stage each night with a band of like-minded adventurers he attacks each performance with a fire and desire to move and shake everyone in sight.
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Saturday Night
Front Country
An acoustic band born in the land of tech innovation, Front Country was never going to be accepted as an authentic American roots band out of the gate. Cutting their teeth in progressive bluegrass jams in San Francisco's Mission District and rehearsing in the East Bay, they learned to play roots music their own way, with the tools they had on hand. A mandolinist with a degree in composition and classical guitar. A guitarist trained in rock and world music. A bassist equally versed in jazz and bluegrass. A violinist with technique that could seamlessly hop between honky tonk and electropop. A female lead singer with grit and soul that was also a multi-instrumentalist and songwriter. In a wood-paneled country dive bar in the shadow of the San Francisco skyline, Front Country forged a sound hell bent on merging the musical past with the future.
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Jeff began to play drums in the sixth grade. Then In 1975, Jeff's first stepping stone was attending the Shenandoah Conservatory of Music. — One of Jeff's dreams finally came true when he was accepted to Berklee in 1977. While at Berklee, Jeff studied under Bob Kaufman and Bill Norine, he attended clinics given by Alan Dawson and was taken under by his mentor Lee Venters. Jeff was lucky enough to attend Berklee with an impressive cast of musicians like Branford Marsalis, Bill Frisell, Mike Stern and Jeff Watts, Kevin Eubanks, Dean Parks, Steve Vai, just to name a few.
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Welcome to The Writer's Niche!
This is my personal website that hosts all my writing adventures and side projects that occupy my free time.
Whether it's a new book that I published or another short story on the Thousand Word Blog, all of my writing will be featured here on The Writer's Niche.
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Called the "rarest and greatest Holy Grail action figure in the world" by eBay seller RareStarWarsToys, this packaged, rocket-firing Boba Fett action figure is one-of-a-kind. It never made it to production, and this very item was only seen once at a 1979 toy fair.
To add it to your collection, you'll have to fork out at least $150,000. No one has bid on the item yet, and chances are no one will for this price, but it is THE prized collectible in Star Wars action figure circles. This particular item was just featured on the January 6 episode of History Channel's Pawn Stars.
What would you rather spend your money on? College? A house? A fast car? A Boba Fett toy? You can bid on the auction here.
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text: Fire increases ant-tending and survival of the Fender's blue butterfly larvaeNorah Warchola, Carole Bastianelli, Cheryl B. Schultz, Elizabeth E. CroneJournal of Insect Conservation2015Studies of fire as a management tool often focus on how fire alters microclimate and affects plant quality. While these processes are important, they may act on a target species indirectly through species interactions. Fender's blue [Plebejus (=Icaricia) icarioides fenderi] is an endangered butterfly found in fire dependent upland prairies in Oregon's… (More)


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Electric vehicles have been given their own category because they are typically so different—and appeal to a different audience— than regular gas-powered models in their respective segments.
More so than in any other class, the vehicles offered cover a wide range of sizes and prices. We're keeping only to those that are regular production models, though a couple barely make that cut, and many are only sold in certain states.
Also, we're including two that are not all-electric; they can run for several miles on just the electricity stored in their batteries, but when the charge gets low, a gas engine kicks on that turns a generator, which allows the cars to keep on going.
A fair amount of confusion still surrounds electric cars. We've heard several misconceptions being tossed around, and anyone who thinks of them as glorified golf carts is really behind the curve. In fact, we've been quite impressed with those we've driven, and we feel they fit the needs of far more people than have so far considered buying them.
First, those that have just a battery can typically run at least 60 miles or so on a full charge, but most can go farther. Secondly, they can easily keep up with around-town and highway-speed traffic, and in fact, the instant throttle response that is common to all electric cars can be a real boon in cut-and-thrust city driving.
Then there's the whole recharging debate.
Fully recharging a depleted battery on the most popular models can take nearly a day if done from a conventional 120-volt wall outlet (referred to as "Level 1" charging). But you typically wouldn't run the battery all the way down before recharging it, so if the battery is only half discharged, it could typically be brought up to full overnight. The best way to figure it is that you get about three miles of range for every one hour of charging.
But the time required to recharge a fully depleted battery can be cut to four to seven hours if you do 240-volt "Level 2" charging in your garage, or if you use a public charging station. A few public charging stations have 480-volt "Level 3" chargers, which can bring most batteries from nearly depleted up to 80% charge in just 30 minutes. However, these aren't very common yet, and most electric cars have to have an optional Level 3 charging port in order to make use of them.
One of the strongest arguments for electric cars is how cheap they are to drive. Depending on your electric rates (how much you pay per Kilowatt-hour), the electricity to run the car will probably cost only about 2 to 4 cents per mile. By contrast, a conventional car that gets 20 mpg on $4 gas is costing 20 cents per mile. Plus there's the convenience of being able to recharge your car in your garage rather than having to stop at a gas station, and nearly all electric cars allow you to pre-heat or pre-cool the interior before you get in.
Furthermore, there isn't as much maintenance to do on electric cars. There's no oil or filter to change, no radiator to flush, no belts to replace. And brakes also tend to last far longer, so that cost is usually reduced as well. The result is lower maintenance costs and fewer inconvenient trips to the dealer.
There's one other cost consideration regarding electric cars. Currently, there is a $7500 federal tax credit that applies to all vehicles on this list; most people would be eligible to receive the credit, but you should check with your accountant to be sure that you qualify. Furthermore, some states have their own tax credits, and some municipalities offer reduced-fee parking or city stickers.
The most significant addition to the electric-vehicle category for 2017 is the all-new Chevrolet Bolt, a 4-door compact hatchback that boasts an impressive 238-mile range rating from the EPA. Hyundai is introducing its first pure-electric vehicle this year as part of its new Ioniq model line, which will include hybrid, plug-in hybrid, and pure EV variants built on the same basic compact 4-door hatchback platform. The Ioniq EV includes a 28-kWh battery and has a claimed range of 105 miles on a full charge. The Smart ForTwo Electric Drive is redesigned on the same new-generation platform that its gasoline-engine sibling received when it was redesigned last year; full information on the U.S.-spec model has not yet been released. Volkswagen's e-Golf gets a refresh that includes increased battery capacity for improved driving range (124 miles instead of 83), a horsepower boost (134 hp instead of 115), redesigned front and rear fasciae, and new safety technology features. The slow-selling Cadillac ELR coupe is discontinued. Tesla's forthcoming Model 3 sedan is expected to go into production in late 2017 as a 2018 model; the company has taken more than 100,000 customer deposits worldwide, and is promising a driving range of more than 200 miles and a starting price of under $40,000.
Because electric cars vary so much in size, price, and range, next to each entry on this list is a description. Note that prices listed are general starting figures and do not include destination or any federal or state tax incentives. Range listed is according to the EPA. Other notes follow.
Because electric cars vary so much in size, price, and range, next to each entry on this list is a description. Note that prices listed are general starting figures and do not include destination or any federal or state tax incentives. Range listed is according to the EPA. Other notes follow.
BMW i3
Subcompact 4-door hatchback; optional range-extending 2-cylinder gas engine; about $42,000; electric-only models have a range of 114 miles, range-extended models have a combined gas/electric range of 180 miles
Compact 4-door hatchback; about $37,000; 238-mile range
Compact 4-door hatchback sedan with both electric and gas power; about $33,000; 53-mile range on electricity, up to 420 miles on electricity and gasoline
Subcompact 2-door hatchback; about $32,000; 87-mile range; limited availability
Compact 4-door hatchback; about $29,000; 100-mile range (up from 76 in 2016); limited availability
Compact 4-door hatchback; about $38,000 (est.); 110-mile range
Subcompact 4-door wagon; about $32,000; 93-mile range; limited availability (2017 model-year info unavailable as of this writing)
Compact 4-door wagon; about $40,000; 87-mile range; limited availability
MITSUBISHI i-MiEV
Subcompact 4-door hatchback; about $23,000; 59-mile range; limited availability
Compact 4-door hatchback; about $31,000; 107-mile range
Subcompact 2-door, 2-seat hatchback; about $25,000 (est.); 80-mile range (est.)
Premium Midsize 4-door hatchback; about $66,000; driving range varies from 219-315 miles, depending on trim level (2017 model-year info unavailable as of this writing)
Premium Midsize 4-door crossover SUV; about $74,000; driving range varies from 237-289 miles, depending on trim level (2017 model-year info unavailable as of this writing)
VOLKSWAGEN e-GOLF
Compact 4-door hatchback; about $29,000; 124-mile range; limited availability


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Guidance, Not Control
"Education demands you write the script of your own life with the help of people who love or care about you." ~John Taylor Gatto
One of the things that confounds people making the shift from schooling to school-free living is how much guidance and freedom to give children. Guidance, not control is the subject of many of the online conversations (and disagreements) among unschoolers, especially when the discussion moves beyond academics into the realm of general parenting philosophy.
I think that clarifying what we mean by control and guidance can help us decide how to live and learn with our children. The essence of life learning is to move away from controlling kids' learning (and lives, for that matter, but the dilemma is to figure out how much guidance our children need at various stages in their development, and what our role is in relation to that. Each child and each parent will differ in their needs.
The idea of controlling kids is well-established in our society. Adults routinely (and sometimes unthinkingly) make decisions for children and young people, create rules that govern their lives, and generally tell them what to study and do...and when, where, and how. At school, learning is regimented in a controlled manner, using a carefully sequenced third-party curriculum that sets out various subjects to be studied in a particular order, accompanied by lots of memorization, practice exercises, and testing.
Even those adults who believe they are treating children with respect, tact, and courtesy act in such a way. They think that children need enforced structure in order to learn, as well as limits in order to behave appropriately (the latter often relating to ways in which the former can be enforced).
As life learners, on the other hand, we try hard not to inflict our agendas onto our children, and to trust them to learn what they need to know. We understand that people learn best on an as-needed basis, and that when kids don't have their powerful curiosity stolen or arbitrary limits imposed they will be interested in much more than we might prescribe and will behave responsibly.
Nevertheless, and especially in the early days of life learning or under pressure from others, trusting the process can be difficult. And then there are all those scary words like "authority" and "coercion" that we definitely want to avoid. So the question becomes how and when to guide children without controlling them.
One of the things to remember as you learn the difference between control and guidance/assistance is that even the most neurotic parents won't be able to keep their kids one hundred percent safe and healthy, let alone ensure that they will learn what somebody thinks they're "supposed" to learn. Chances are that if we give kids trust and respect, along with time and support, those things will happen, but there are no guarantees, either at home or at school.
The good news is that even the most skeptical adults can increase their trust in children's abilities. Look for ways in which your kids have learned without your control, and examine your role (or lack of it!) in that learning. Walking and talking are the ones that are commonly cited, but there are so many more things that children learn informally.
Our children learn some of those things completely on their own. But we often are helping out, whether we realize it or not. Let's consider learning to walk. Most people don't force the process, or even direct it (and most wannabe toddlers wouldn't tolerate that anyway!). What we do is model the behavior, anticipate and trust that it will happen, create an encouraging and safe environment for it to develop, provide encouragement after the child has initiated the behavior, and celebrate success. In short, we provide guidance and help but take our cues from the child, who has already demonstrated an interest in learning the skill.
You might say we mentor our children to walk and to talk; they see us doing both, and those abilities must seem more efficient and effective than crawling and babbling. We provide guidance in the form of demonstration and inspiration. We also have a role of responsibility to keep them safe from dangers for which they don't yet have the experience to avoid – padding sharp corners, perhaps, when they're learning to walk, and locking up the household cleaning supplies closet, or holding their hands (or carrying them) when we're crossing the street until they're steady enough on their feet not to fall and are aware of traffic dangers and signals.
Guidance can also be manipulative if we're not careful. Dictionaries define guidance as the act of leadership and giving direction, advice, or counseling. That covers a broad spectrum of behaviors and at one end it can look like control rather than judiciously offered support. A child's resistance or disinterest might be your first clue that you've been confusing trustful and empathic support for a child's interest-led learning with well-meaning control about what you think they "should" be doing.
But what about a child who doesn't know (or seem to know at a particular moment) what she wants to learn, who doesn't communicate an interest to us, or seems to just be "doing nothing"? Surely providing guidance then isn't manipulative! Maybe or maybe not. When we trust our life learners and the learning process, we can more easily be patient with the inevitable downtimes (where information could be being processed, or the child just needs to rest and regroup). It also helps to know our children's style of learning and the direction of their interests. That can help us provide guidance by making suggestions and pointing out things they might not otherwise have known about.
The trick is not to invest ourselves in those suggested topics or activities. One of the signs that we are trying to control someone else is that we become upset when they aren't interested in our suggestions, or refuse to do or be what we want. In his book Unconditional Parenting, Alfie Kohn notes that "controlling parents" are actually conveying to their kids that they love them conditionally – that is, only when they "achieve" or behave in a certain approved way. Kids who live with trust and respect feel loved unconditionally and are comfortable in their own skins. Their intact self-esteem and confidence will allow them to ask us for guidance, help, or inspiration when they need it.
All parents influence their children by the mere fact of living with them, and that's a good thing. We want our children to be exposed to the richness of the world – music, literature, science, history, art, numbers, etc., and we use our influence to connect them to those possibilities. But we don't use that influence as a means of control to pressure them into studying something; instead, we trust the process of self-education, and respect their right to pick, choose, explore, and set aside.
In our life learning family, conversation was one of the many ways that influence was delivered. We didn't set up unnecessary conflicts by demanding things of our daughters that they chose not to accept; rather, through conversation, we learned about their interests, and what activities and choices would work for us all. Conversation was also the main means by which we learned when situations had become more than they could handle – and when we needed to offer help or to simply observe a less-than-ideal outcome becoming a learning experience. Writing in a 1990 book called Understanding Children, psychologist Jerome Bruner described pedagogy as an "extension of conversation." In homeschooling families, conversation is one of the opportunities for learning, not an extension of it. It doesn't have to be deep conversation. In fact, in the normal flow of talk that moves naturally from one topic to another, we pick up bits and pieces of information that we fit together as needed – either then or at another time – into the jigsaw puzzle of knowledge.
Schools create an atmosphere of coercion, mistrust, and manipulation, which undermines learning (among other things). Real, meaningful, lasting learning can only take place when the learner wants it to. No matter where we are on the unschooling spectrum (and the conventional notions of "permissiveness" and "authoritarianism" have no place there), we are designing new ways for our children to live and learn with our guidance and help. If you are confused, just take it one step at a time; with love, trust, respect, creativity, and empathy, you'll find your family's own unique way.
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"Principles Not Rules: Living & Learning in the Real World" by Robyn Coburn, Life Learning Magazine, November/December 2005
"Freedom or Control: Kids' Right to Live and Learn in Freedom" by Wendy Priesnitz, Life Learning Magazine, July/August 2004
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The countdown is on as Weymouth gets ready to welcome back it's close link to the Channel Islands.
There are two weeks to go until Condor Ferries start sailings again from Weymouth on the 17th of July.
The first voyages from Weymouth port to the Islands began in the 1850's when Great Western Railway began to offer trips in conjunction with the Weymouth & Channel Islands Steam Packet Company.
Condor Ferries began it's services in 1987.
Alicia Andrews, Sales and Marketing Director at Condor Ferries, told Wessex FM that, "Weymouth is the natural gateway to the Channel Islands as it offers the shortest crossing times, and we are proud to continue an historic tradition once services from Weymouth resume on the 17th. Over the past 26 years, Condor Ferries has been active in forging close ties between Weymouth and the Channel Islands, and our return later this month is a great way to further this relationship."
David de Carteret, Director of Tourism & Marketing at Jersey Tourism, added, "The summer holidays are the perfect time to visit Jersey, with some of the warmest weather in the British Isles and a host of great family attractions. We're looking forward to welcoming passengers travelling from Weymouth back to the island from July."
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I am in need of weep hole covers that are MISSING from each of my windows. I have attached a picture of the weep hole itself.
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"We have received the FBI's forensic report by email. A detailed report is still awaited. Once we get the full report, the medical board would examine it," Bassi told reporters here.
"Radiation levels in the samples were within the prescribed safety norms," he said.
Bassi said Delhi Police would proceed further after a medical board gives its opinion on the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) anaylsis report.
Reacting to the development, All India Institute of Medical Sciences forensic department head Sudhir Gupta said some poisons cannot be detected though these can cause death.
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Up until yesterday, my twin tots still drank out of a bottle. Yes, I know they're almost 19 months old; and yes, I know the bottle could do funky things to their teeth… but given that that was the only consequence of continued bottle usage that I've been able to come up with, I haven't really stressed it. I'm willing to bear the brunt of a little orthodontia later on.
You should see my son's pitiful little face when I try and make him drink his milk out of a cup. It just breaks my heart; and let's not even begin to talk about the tantrums my little diva throws. Her and I have had to box quite a few times over it. It's quite an ordeal. After playing with, changing, feeding, and entertaining those two little joker's all day, it's easier to just keep the peace.
My enabling came to an abrupt end yesterday when at the doctor's office I accidentally let it slip that my children still drank from a bottle. Her face tightened a bit at hearing this bit of information.
"Weeell. The bottle should have been gone when they hit 12 months. Then it really should have been gone when they hit 15 months. Then it REALLY should have been gone by 18 months," she explained in her usually animated voice.
"But my kids need it. You should see them when I try and take it away. It's like Armageddon."
"I hate to break the news to you," she replied "but they don't need it. They're emotionally attached to that bottle. It's like a security blanket."
I knew deep down that in the grand scheme of things I would eventually do something to screw up my children to some degree. You know – give them a complex about their clothes or make them mildly OCD, but I never expected it to happen this soon. This was a change that simply needed to happen – a part of growing up. The doctor was right. My children are addicted to their bottle. It's an object that has provided comfort to them for the majority of their short lives. You can see it in their faces when they get their regular morning bottle. Their little eyes roll back in their faces, and their tiny fist clinch as they suck away at that BPA free rubber goodness. I'm sure their tiny brains hold memories of breastfeeding and the comfort that it brought; But now the party is over. That ship has sailed. It is time to move on to a new chapter.
Oh what it means to grow older.
How to Transition From Bottle
I wasn't sure how to go about this. It wasn't as if I hadn't tried to ween them off of it before. They're just a tough sell when it comes to milk in a cup. 'Milk doesn't go in a cup. It goes in a bottle; and I want it now!' their little faces would say.
I decided to have a ceremony.
I washed their bottles for the last time and placed them gingerly inside a canvas shopping bag. I had the twins say 'bye-bye' to their bottles as I told them "no more" hoping that they would get the point.
You may find this scenario funny, and prior to having children I would have thought so too; but the funny yet true reality is that these bottles have been a fixture in our lives for well over a year. They've been the foundation for so many memories. (When they held their bottles on their own for the first time that symbolized their first small steps toward independence.) And they've also been the route of much debate. (Fighting over who's turn it was to wash them was a frequent occurrence in my household.)
Right now we're at a point of contention. We're all wondering who will break first. The twins aren't happy with this change, and they know that mommy has broken before; but I'm going to stick this one out. The bottles have gone bye-bye and an era has ended. I'm hoping they'll understand soon.
Maybe a small piece of the problem was me not wanting to let go.
Oh bottles… Who knew you could be so profound?
No one tells you about these things when you begin your journey as a parent. I'm anxious to see what's next.
For some fantastic tips on how to make the transition from bottle to cup, check out:
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• Stopping the Bottle – KidsHealth.org
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I recently blogged about the problems that business owners have as they grow and move into the "in-between-zone". If that sounds like your business, maybe it's time that you put your team "under the microscope"?
A couple of the common symptoms of those "in-between-zone" businesses is that they have good management but by their background they have not been trained to manage – combined with – great people but they don't always pull together as a team.
Unfortunately, the business owner is often "blind" to these issues. More accurately, the owner has got so used to working with and around these people that they just accept their behaviors as the norm ("that's just the way person X is").
Often by taking a new strategic approach we can provide the business owner with the opportunity not only to:
- clarify their business vision and build an effective change plan
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We achieve this by separating out the "left hand side strategy" from the "right hand side strategy".
Working with the business owner on Vision (their "right hand side"/ creative strategy) allows the owner to clarify what they want their business to look like into the future. It also allows them to identify the key ("strategic thrusts") change areas required to move the business forward in the shorter term.
The next step is to focus onto those detailed change areas ("left hand side" / practical strategy) with their management team, and build a detailed action plan. Once you have done that, individual areas of team accountability will become much more obvious (at least in so far as they relate to this particular strategic project).
At this point, rather than leading the change process (as they normally would), the business owner is better advised to just step back and watch their team in action on this particular project. Imagine you as the owner are just a "fly on the wall" or watching your team in action through a "secret curtain". What do you see?
The key question is – are your team all equally bought in? It's normal to see some of the team much more "engaged" or "enthusiastic" than others. It's also normal to be able to clearly see those at the other end of the spectrum – the "actively disengaged" (or "cynics" as I often call them).
In any change exercise I would expect to see a relatively small percentage of "zealot-like enthusiasts" and "cynics", with the majority of your team falling somewhere in between those extremes.
The key aspect that the owner needs to understand is the "dance" that happens between these groups will determine your speed of change. If the owner lets the "cynics win" / determine the speed of change, that will demonstrate to the rest of the team (those in the middle) that nothing really is going to change (and they will quickly revert to "business as usual" and the change process will stall).
However, the business owner with a strong desire to maximize their business value will recognize that they need to identify the "cynics" (having put them "under the microscope") – and then work with those "cynics" more closely to actively drive the change process.
Sometimes those "cynics" just need more help, guidance, training etc – and they will grow their skills and levels of motivation (ideal outcome).
Sometimes, the owner will come to the conclusion that more drastic action is required (operating under the principle of "3 strikes and you are out").
Importantly,(and either way) the rest of the team will recognize that the owner is serious about implementing necessary change. They will recognize that this is not going to be yet another of those projects that we start but don't properly finish (classic "in-between-zone" behavior).
By using the pretext of "we are working on business strategy" it will be much easier for the business owner to put their team "under the microscope". Essentially they will be able to clearly "see the wood for the trees" and this will help them to make the right decisions for their future business growth.
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Bersih is also concerned about the federal administration's continuous abuse of government resources for political campaigns.
KUALA LUMPUR: Bersih, a coalition of NGOs calling for free and fair elections, has offered to monitor police reports made by Malaysians on "political violence and electoral misconduct".
Speaking to reporters here today, Bersih spokesperson Irene Fernandez invited Malaysians to forward copies of the police reports they had lodged on such matters for Bersih's action.
"We are extremely disappointed with the police force.
"Instead of taking actions against violence and violations of law, they are resorting to scare tactics instead.
"We urge all Malaysians to report any incidents of political violence and electoral misconduct to the authorities immediately.
"A copy of police reports made can also be forwarded to Bersih 2.0 for our monitoring," said Fernandez.
Fernandez was responding to complaints that the police were not reacting to the lodged reports on political violence and electoral misconduct and were instead harassing the opposition politicians and supporters.
She said Bersih wanted the police to act immediately on the numerous reports made in the Lembah Pantai parliamentary constituency by Nurul Izzah Anwar, who is a PKR incumbent MP.
She also called on police to probe the April 13 case where a PKR campaign workers was allegedly threatened with a machete and other incidences which included the burning of flags belonging to PAS and PKR as well as an act of arson on PAS's polling centres (UPU) in Felda Nasarudin Perak.
Bersih, she said, wished to remind the police force to be neutral and ensure the safety of all Malaysians, including supporters and politicians of both sides.
She urged the police to emulate the Terengganu security forces who had swiftly apprehended four assailants who had slashed a campaign worker while he was putting up opposition flags in Kemaman last Friday.
"The police must be neutral, act responsibly and ensure the safety of all Malaysians and this includes supporters and politicians from both side.
"(Thus far) it is the BN party who is mostly involved in the political violence and we do not hear the other side harassing BN candidates, " she said.
Political campaigns
On a related issue, Fernandez also raised concerns over the federal administration's continuous abuse of government resources for political campaigns.
"Millions of taxpayers' money have been poured into schemes and allocations since the dissolution of the parliament.
"Raja Nong Chik (for instance) has been using the Kuala Lumpur City Hall, which functions independently as a venue for election campaigns," Fernandez added.
Bersih also questioned the reported spending of RM73 million by the Prime Minister's Office for advertisement and public relations exercises.
They also reminded all participants of the GE13 to hold themselves to the highest standards of behaviour.
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Explore the scenic views over the grapevines and get a taste of authentic rural Australia on the Safala Safari. You'll start from Gosford, then onto Safala and Hill End and back through the stunning Upper Hunter wine country. This is a great seven day trip with a number of free camps and interesting things to do every day. Even better with friends or family in a convoy of Ausventure Motorhomes!
Day 1: With keys to your modern four berth AusVenture motor home in hand, you head off through Mangrove Mountain passing a mix of small rural holdings and working properties which include orange plantations. Cross the Wisemens Ferry River on the free ferry and spend an afternoon exploring this quaint and iconic little Australian town. An opportunity to stock up on groceries, and a beautiful place to free camp, so pick your spot, put out the awning and camp chairs, crack a beer or pop a cork, relax in the afternoon sun and spend the night.
Day 2: After a leisurely breakfast your ready to head out again, towards Windsor and Richmond through scenic working properties and rural residences. Windsor is a town that played a huge role in the early development of the colony and the first inland route north. Head on through Richmond and up the Bell Line Road over the Blue Mountains West. This is Apple growing country so you'll want to stock up on their delicious apples at a roadside stand.
Off to the west and down the mountain into the historic mining town of Lithgow. From Lithgow you can either go west to Bathurst, or north to Ilford, a route that provides several views of the Great Dividing Range and Wollemi National Park. Sofala is 30 KMs south west and a good place to stop for the night. A profitable evening can be spent meeting locals in the stores and pub and sourcing sites to fossick the next day.
Day 3: Hill End is 30 Kms from Sofala so if you want to fossick for gold both spots are plausible sites. Both towns are interesting Gold Rush sites rich in stories of wealth found and lost. They can provide insights into an era in Australian history that changed the make up of the colonies economy. You might well spend the third night at Hill end. Up the road a bit is the village of Hargraves, named after the man who first discovered gold in Australa.
Day 4: Continue on to Mudgee, famous for its wineries, honey and kangaroo invasions during times of drought. Visit wineries, Museums, and perhaps a nice restaurant for Tea, and stay overnight in their caravan park to empty toilets, grey water, fill fresh water and have a nice shower. A nice RSL or Leagues Club dinner is a great way to savor the life in an Aussie country town.
Day 5: Travel through working sheep and farming properties, possibly through the town of Gulgong, or even Dunedoo, where the railroad ended at one time. And on down the Golden Highway and stop overnight at Sandy Hollow.
Day 6: Explore wineries in the Upper Hunter and free camp in the park at Broke. The store there often has good buys on local wine, and sometimes you find some real bargains. Be sure to pick up some fire wood and have a campfire in the evening to tell stories around.
Day 7: You have time to explore more wineries in the morning, before heading down the valley for lunch at the pub at Wollombi. The town is filled with motor cyclists on a Sunday who like the trip up the Great Northern road. After lunch, meander around the town before heading back to Mangrove Mountain and back to Gosford.
It's a great tour into country Australia and you'll have memories to cherish, unless of course you hit pay dirt at Hill End and suspend the rest of the trip to fill your AusVenture Motorhome with gold nuggets!!!


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Transfer news: Birmingham yet to decide on trialist Matty Pattison
Last Updated: 27/08/14 3:38pm
Birmingham City manager Lee Clark is yet to decide whether he will be putting terms to trialist Matty Pattison.
Clark has worked with the South African before during his time coaching in Newcastle United's academy system.
He admits the 27-year-old was a bit of a handful, especially when mixing with current Birmingham defender David Edgar and West Ham United striker Andy Carroll.
Clark is, however, aware that Pattison could be a useful addition to his ranks and will continue to cast an eye over him in training before ruling on his future.
He said in the Birmingham Mail of a player who figured in a U21 fixture against Leeds United on Monday: "We are still helping each other out.
"We are helping him train and get fit and see what we are about.
"I might be driving myself crazy if I was to reunite those two (Pattison and Edgar). Them and Andy Carroll gave us loads of problems when they were youngsters.
"He has been playing back home in South Africa. He was staying with Dave so we invited him in to have a look at him and see what he is about. We'll go from there."


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By Tom E. Curran
In 2000, the Patriots plucked a plummeting quarterback who came to the NFL with something to prove. It worked out pretty well for the Patriots and Tom Brady. Friday night, the Patriots made a similar bid - albeit with a player who has different concerns. New England took Arkansas quarterback Ryan Mallett with the 74th pick in the draft. One pick before, New England took LSU running back Stevan Ridley, a 5-10, 225 pounder. But Mallett has become the most interesting story of this Patriots draft. Why Mallett, Bill Belichick was asked. "Felt like he was a good player," said Belichick. "Good production. He's won everywhere he's been. He's been a successful quarterback everywhere he's been."Mallett's had a litany of off-field concerns including drug use. During the runup to the draft Pro Football Weekly's Nolan Nawrocki wrote that a source explained that Mallett "came clean" about drug usage. One G.M. said Mallett was the first quarterback ever to admit his drug usage to him in interviews, and his willingness to be honest about his past and acknowledge issues is viewed as a positive, Nawrocki wrote. Concerns about his history of use could impact his draft position, though.Nawrocki added, "Although Mallett did not produce an official positive test at Arkansas, he has been arrested for public intoxication and carries a reputation as a big party guy, per sources who have interviewed him. How much teams believe he has matured will weigh into his draft status.Asked about the off-field concerns, Belichick said, "Obviously we're comfortable with that."He added that, during the process, "We evaluate the total player. Height, work ethic, speed, whatever it is. Put it all together, try to put a grade or value on that player. Includes everything."Belichick praised Mallett as a student of the game, noting that - like Belichick, Mallett's father coaches the game."You either get sick of it or you marry into it and love it," Belichick explained. "Hehas a great thirst for knowledge for the position and for football."Mallett's arm strength, delivery and pocket presence are unquestioned. He's 6-foot-7 andthrows the ball with a remarkable amount of velocity.It will be fascinating to watch the progress of Mallett. The degree to which he's coddled or protected. The way teammates respond to him. The impact Brady has. And how his remarkable on-field abilities translate. A semi-boring draft just got a lot more interesting with Mallett.
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Airfoil suggestions for tailless FSW slope glider sought
Hello all, I'm in the pencil & paper stage on a tailless forward swept wing (FSW) slope glider design, and am seeking opinions regarding suitable airfoils.
This is the first plane I'm attempting to design completely from scratch, so it's a great learning experience for me. I do have a bit of experience flying tailless gliders (the Weasel to be precise) and have access to a very nice CNC foam cutter.
I plan to use a fiberglass fuse and balsa-sheeted EPS wings.
My current dimensions are as follows:
Span 60"
Length 27"
Root chord 10.5"
Tip chord 4.5"
Forward sweep at LE 1.5"
Fin length 12"
Fin height 6"
Apologies as I'm at work right now and don't have access to my pencil sketch of the proposed planform. I will post that later on today when I get back home. Hopefully the above information is adequate to give an idea of what I'm thinking about.
So, any airfoil suggestions?
Here's all the world's knowledge on flying wings...
Something in the MH series would probably fit your purposes.
See Bill Evan's Saracen at:
The airfoil is tried and true for your application. There are many other possibilities. You will need low pitching moment coefficient airfoils and wash-in or, positive pitching moment coefficient airfoils with no twist in the wing. See:
A swept forward wing is unstable in yaw and needs a large vertical tail volume coefficient to stabilize it in yaw.
Aerodynamically, the sweep angle is defined by the 25% chord line , not the leading or trailing edge.
The CG, taper, sweep, twist and airfoil selection are interdependent in a flying wing design. All five factors must be harmonized to achieve pitch stability and pitch trim. Since four of the factors are usually built in and not very adjustable, successful flying wing design rests more heavily on theoretical calculations than does the design of a conventional, tailed configuration. By guess or by gosh seldom works for flying wings. Just so you know what you are letting yourself in for.
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Scratch Design and airfoils
If your going to draw your own plans and need to
import your selected airfoil into the project you may
want to check out the Airfoil Design Workshop.
It's an easy-to-use piece of software that allows you to
display and interactively modify airfoil shapes. It can
import airfoil data files directly from a web site. You can
export the airfoils to either a DXF file or ASCII text.
If you don't have or need CAD software and just want
to view and print the airfoils you can use a free DXF
file viewer called CADView. (Link to this viewer
on the AFD web site.)
AFD Web Site - Free Demo
First up, thanks all for the advice. I'm aware of the special challenges associated with FSWs in general, and in specific when it comes to tailless designs. But I figure I get the most learning bang-for-my-buck this way!
Here's more detailed info, sorry for the introductory stuff, it was from memory while I was at work:
Wingspan 60.0" Root Chord 10.5" Tip Chord 4.5" Wing Area ~450 sq.in. Aspect Ratio 8.00 Taper Ratio 0.43 Sweep @ C/4 -5.62° Static Margin 3% / ~0.25" Neutral Point 1.30" C.G. 1.05"
I'm shooting for an AUW of around 20-22oz., and a wingloading of around 7oz./ft. A similar plane of about 51" span was built around this fuse, with FSWs and a V-tail. It came out to 16oz. balanced, so even with my rather noseweight-requiring large and rearward fin (to be from 1/8" competition balsa) I think I'll be OK with an estimated AUW of around 20-22oz.
I've been recommended to try to find an airfoil that is thin (~8% or so), with 1-1.5% camber, and an
average Cm of about +0.01. Apparently, EMX 07 might be a good candidate, although it might need a bit more reflex. In general, the recommendation has been to look at profiles for plank-type wings, as opposed to regular swept wings.
Thanks again for any feedback!
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Any thoughts on HS 2.0/8.0 from the Flying Wing database mentioned above? Here's the link:
Here's the info:
Class: Schlagprofile (Reflexed)
d[%]: 8.00
cm_0: +0.0120
a_0: -0.33°
Use: Plank, Slope
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I've decided to try it out with the HS 2.0/8.0...I've bounced that off my co-conspirator and we think it will work. Thanks all for your help, I'll be posting project progress reports to the Slope forum once it gets underway. Should be interesting, to say the least.
You, being an old slope hand, probably remember the Larry Renger Toucan, in a 1993 Model Airplane News construction article.
It was a very well done and attractive FS sloper. I ended up with a rather ratty DCU T60R (after buying someone out when they got out of the hobby), a developmental version of the Toucan kitted by DCU and Dreamcatcher.
Might be worth some research to see what airfoil Larry used.
There are some Toucan or T60R pics here on R/C groups, somewhere
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Hello and welcome to my first blog post. About a small (theoretical, if any) design flaw within the Fire Emblem game series.
I want to preface this post by saying this is exclusively about pure strategy games, and that I consider a pure strategy game to be a game with no elements of "Execution". Real-time or reaction-based elements are what I consider to be elements of execution.
In the game, your units have a certain percent chance to hit, and a certain percent chance to miss. Most units in most situations have a >85% Hit chance. But sometimes, bad decisions can result in your units having a 50% chance. You are able to see the hit chance before you start the attack, meaning you can back out if you don't like your odds.
Let's say I am in a position where my Unit has an 80% chance to hit. If my attack lands, I win the game. If my attack misses, the enemy retaliates and I lose the game. My options are to either attack or to run away. Most people would agree that attacking is a good idea, as the Risk-Reward is in your favour. Fire Emblem is a game where many such decisions are made, and so over the course of the game, someone who consistently attacked in that situation would be more often than not, successful. Picking the statistically best option is the optimal way of playing Fire Emblem.
Now, onto Schrodinger's Axe. The next situation is exactly the same, but now I have only a 50% Chance to hit. I have the same two options as before. The problem here, is that choosing to attack can only be severely rewarded, or severely punished. Despite being an average decision. Additionally, there is no statistically better option, which means that there is no best way to proceed. Since there is no best way to proceed, you are basically flipping a coin, and that is not healthy for its design.
This of course makes perfect sense within the scope of Risk-Reward. But within the context of Fire Emblem, a game designed from the ground up to reward statistically advantageous play, it falls flat. It is worth mentioning that over time, a player who consistently makes that decision will be rewarded with equal victories and defeats, and as such, the player will find their average result. But this is little comfort for the player faced with the situation.
Choosing to attack is a decision that is only proved intelligent or dumb after the event. This is similar to Schrodinger's cat, in the sense you only know the result after you open the box (or execute the attack), and since it cannot be an average of the two, it cannot be rewarded as such.
And so what can Fire Emblem do to fix this? Should they do something?
Truth be told, the situation of Schrodinger's Axe only rarely occurs, and is more a conceptual problem than a realistic one. If I was working on Fire Emblem and a fellow game designer explained the above to me, I would laugh and tell the programmers to change 50% accuracy to 51% (And thus restoring a statistically better option).
And so we reach an interesting conclusion. A game designed to reward good decisions must enable the player to make good decisions. If a player is capable of making good decisions that means they must also be able to make bad decisions. If a game allows good and bad decisions, that must mean there is an optimal way to play it (Picking 100% Good decisions). And if a game is optimised, that means there is a dominant strategy and the game is inherently unbalanced.
Strategy games are all unbalanced, and the essence of the game is finding out how?
This was honestly a bit of an experiment for me. I'll write more about real design problems in the future, I promise.


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Trying to fix this android os draining my battery, turned some things off, charged my phone and rebooted.. well now screen isn't reported as being on, and it's not showing up in the list of things using my battery. Plz halp.
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