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GOMA, Congo (AP) — Rwandan support for rebels in neighboring Congo has waned but not ended in the past six months, according to a United Nations group of experts report.
In their mid-year report to the U.N. Security Council's Congo sanctions committee that became public Saturday, the group says the M23 rebel movement has continued recruiting in Rwanda "thanks to assistance from some sympathetic Rwandan officials." Some M23 deserters who fled to Rwanda also have been sent back to the rebels, it said.
But the group also reports "no evidence of full Rwandan army units supporting M23" since November when the rebels briefly occupied Goma, one of eastern Congo's biggest cities.
In 2012, the group of experts alleged that Rwanda's defense minister had been commanding the rebellion and that Rwandan army units had supported M23 at critical stages. Rwanda's government has vigorously denied the accusations.
The experts' latest findings suggest that insurgents in Congo are collaborating with the Congolese military as well as with Rwandan officials.
They report "enhanced collaboration" since November between some FARDC (Congolese army) units and the FDLR (Rwandan rebel Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda) in areas close to the M23.
In the past Rwanda has justified military intervention in Congo to protect itself against the FDLR, some of whose core members took part in the Rwandan genocide in 1994.
The experts say they have written to the governments of Rwanda and Congo asking for clarification about the reports of support to M23 and collaboration with FDLR and are awaiting replies.
The report found that M23 has been weakened weakened after fighting between rival factions, led by Bosco Ntaganda and Sultani Makenga.
Ntaganda's forces ran out of ammunition and fled to Rwanda where their leader handed himself in at the U.S. Embassy in March, asking to be transferred to the International Criminal Court which had issued a warrant for his arrest.
The experts say a majority of M23 combatants supported Ntaganda. His defeat, they say, has left the movement low on men and morale, and less able to raise recruits and funds after losing the support of Ntaganda's clan network.
"M23's failed attempt at the end of May 2013 to recover a key FARDC position near Goma illustrates the movement's current inability to carry out large-scale coordinated military operations," the report says.
It cites M23 deserters as saying that despite that defeat Makenga is preparing further operations against Goma.
The large United Nations peacekeeping force in the Congo, MONUSCO, is being reinforced by an intervention brigade of 3,000 troops with an offensive mandate to neutralize armed groups. Most of this force has now arrived in the Goma area.
It is not expected to take immediate action against the M23, which is in peace talks with the Congolese government in Kampala. Local observers say Congolese armed groups that recently reoccupied towns in Masisi, a territory close to Goma, could be the brigade's first target.


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BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Documents show state officials lobbied for sharp limits on federal protections for gray wolves in the lead-up to the Obama administration's recent proposal to take the animals off the endangered list across most of the Lower 48.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service documents reveal that state officials pressed their federal counterparts to exclude millions of acres in Colorado and Utah from wolf recovery efforts.
Service biologists earlier identified those states as suitable for wolves. The administration plan unveiled this month retains protections only in a small area of the Southwest.
The internal agency documents were obtained through a Freedom of Information lawsuit filed by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility and provided to The Associated Press.
A Fish and Wildlife official insisted that science, not politics, drove the administration's proposal.
Flesher reported from Traverse City, Mich.

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ROME (AP) — The organizer of Italy's Miss Italia beauty pageant is criticizing the state-run television network's decision not to broadcast this year's contest, a step that comes as audiences for the show have dwindled and amid pressure to improve how women are portrayed in the Italian media.
Miss Italia's finals have been shown on RAI in September for 25 years. But the broadcaster's general director, Luigi Gubitosi, was quoted as saying Tuesday by the Italian news agency ANSA that "the format by now has become outdated."
Scantily-clad women are a mainstay of much of Italian TV, with everything from quiz shows to talk shows featuring leggy showgirls on state channels as well as on private networks. The formula was championed by media mogul Silvio Berlusconi on the nation's three main private networks before he became a political leader.
On Monday, the president of the Chamber of Deputies, Laura Boldrini, hailed the decision to abandon the traditional transmission of the contest finals as a "civilized and modern choice."
"I hope that Italian young women will have the chance to be appreciated, even on television, in a different way than by parading with numbers on them," she told a conference on violence against women.
But Patrizia Mirigliani, the organizer of the contest, blasted RAI's decision, saying the broadcaster, which is funded partially by taxpayers, should instead try to modernize the show's format. She insisted that the pageant doesn't degrade women.
"In the past years, I've worked hard to change the competition, keeping it up-to-date," she told The Associated Press in a telephone interview. "Miss Italia is about a woman who is beautiful, but also complete and eager for challenges. But this idea hasn't come through" on TV, she contended.
For example, Mirigliani said, TV emcees have clung to the format of asking the contestants what she called "silly questions."
Francesca Giammaria, a Roman, applauded the decision by RAI as a first step toward changing how young women like her are viewed.
"It's true that there are more serious problems" surrounding the image of women in Italy, "but let's start from the small things," she said as she enjoyed a quick meal with friends near the Pantheon.
But others might miss the annual TV show. Silvana Contristano, a middle-aged Roman, said she "always watched Miss Italia. It didn't do any harm. It was a tradition."
Her husband, Ugo Nocentini, disagreed. "I totally understand the doubts about the program's value for public service. It's farcical," he said.
Boldrini suggested there was a clear connection between sexism on television and physical abuse against women. "If women are made into objects, the distance from there to violence is small," she said.
But Mirigliani called Miss Italia a "show for families" and noted that such pageants are shown on television around the world.
The Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano jumped into the fray, with a commentary Tuesday praising RAI's decision to pull the plug on the program. It called the pageant a "miserable bandwagon" that has become "unsuitable for public service."


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Comparison of Collegial Individual and Group Reviews of General Practice Multiple Choice Questions
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Aims: In most German medical faculties, credits in general practice can be earned via exams using multiple-choice questions (MCQ). Measures such as peer-reviews may help assure the quality of these exams. In order to use time and personnel intensive peer reviews effectively and efficiently, the procedures used are key. Therefore, we wanted to find out whether there are differences between group and individual reviews regarding defined parameters.
Methods: We conducted a controlled cross-over study with three GP reviewers from four different German universities. Each reviewed 80 MCQs, 40 individually and 40 within a group, including external assessments by a panel of experts. Furthermore all reviewers were asked to evaluate the review process and the time spent carrying out these reviews.
Outcomes: We found no significant differences between the reliability and the validity of individual reviews versus group reviews. On average slightly more time was spent on group reviews compared with the individual reviews. The subjective assessments of the study participants regarding their satisfaction with the process and the efficiency and effectiveness of the reviews suggest a preference for group reviews.
Conclusions: Based on this study, there are no definite recommendations for or against either approach. When choosing between the two, the specific work structures and organisation at the local faculty should be taken into account.
Introduction and objectives
The Medical Licensure Act of 2002 [1] introduced the requirement for graded student performance records in each subject of the clinical study section in human medicine. For practical reasons, this is usually done in the form of written exams using multiple choice questions (MCQ), which are considered to be of satisfactory reliability and objectivity [2]. The literature contains general rules for creating "good" MCQs, both regarding form and content [3], [4], [5]. To date, many authors of MCQs have not been trained in the application of these rules at German medical schools and, in many cases, no standardised review process for the questions used exists either [6]. Accordingly, there is no quality assurance of the MCQs in use.
To ensure an adequate standard of MCQs in use, a standardised peer-review process in addition to examiner training would appear suitable. The range of possible review process is wide, including individually reviewing questions or multiple individuals reviewing questions, moderated, un-moderated, face to face and virtual reviews [7].
Optimal effectiveness and efficiency of the peer reviews which are rather time and labour intensive depend on several factors. In this, the question of validity and reliability of the assessments play a central role. If one wants to strengthen the motivation of reviewers, they should be satisfied with the review process and they should be convinced of the effectiveness as well as the importance of it. Another important factor is the time required.
Since November 2008 the general medicine subject area at the University of Freiburg has been drawing upon a web-based digital exam system in the preparation of MC exams, developed by the "Centre of Excellence for Medical Exams in Baden-Württemberg" at the University of Heidelberg. The pool of questions for the general medicine subject area is held in this item management system (IMS) and used as the basis for creating exams at Freiburg.
In Germany, 15 departments now rely on the IMS as a digital tool in the preparation and evaluation of exams. While the system already significantly simplifies the organisational processes, a much more vital added benefit is that, in theory, a faculty can draw upon the exam questions of other faculties and use them for their own exams. Such access on the one hand requires the willingness of each faculty to share their questions with other faculties. On the other hand all users of the system had agreed that questions can only be placed in the public pool which can be accessed by other users if they have gone through a defined review process.
In the context of this study, individual reviews were compared with un-moderated face-to-face group reviews to investigate the following:
- Are there differences between individual and group reviews in (a) the frequency of errors found (consistency of review forms: reliability) and (b) compared to a standard review by designated experts (consistency with a standard: validity)?
- Does the review process influence the satisfaction of the reviewers with the process, their assessment of the effectiveness and importance of the reviews carried out?
- Is there a difference in the time required for implementing individual or group reviews?
Four general medical departments at German universities who declared their willingness to participate in the study were selected for the study: Dresden, Freiburg, Heidelberg and LMU Munich, hereinafter referred to in random order as Uni 1-4 for the sake of anonymity. Each site provided three employees who deal with the design and review of MCQs within their departments.
Item Sample
For the study, 2 x 40 MCQs (Group A and B) were randomly selected from the question pool of the general medicine subject area at the University of Freiburg. They were all so-called Type A questions (single positive or negative selection from five answer choices).
Materials and technical prerequisites
One of the functions of the IMS is that all recorded exam questions can be reviewed online using a ten-criteria evaluation form (see Table 1 [Tab. 1])1. An input field for free text comments makes it possible to record criticisms and to make specific suggestions for corrections.
The basis for assessing all reviews in this study was the "Short Guide to Reviewing MC Questions" by the competence centre, which in turn is based on the relevant literature on this subject [3], [4], [5].
For evaluating satisfaction with the review process, its effectiveness and the subjective assessment of its importance, a short questionnaire was created. Answers were given using a 6-point Likert scale (see Figure 1 [Fig. 1]). In addition, there were two open questions: "Which part of the review did I like best?" and "Which part of the review caused me the most problems?".
The first step was creating a comparative standard for the assessment of study participants through a review of all 80 MCQs by experts. The four-member committee, all of whom had appropriate experience (MME or employee of the Centre of Excellence), was composed of three specialist representatives and a non-specialist colleague. The "Centre of Excellence for Exams in Medicine in Baden-Württemberg" subjected all 80 MCQs which were going to be part of the study to a group review.
The "Brief Guide to Reviewing MC Questions", which explains the checklist criteria for the review (see Table 1 [Tab. 1]), was made available to all study participants. No further training of the reviewers took place. According to the study design (see Table 2 [Tab. 2]), each site the three reviewers then assessed 40 MCQs 40 individually and 40 MCQs in review groups.
For the group reviews, the study participants agreed dates when all 40 MCQs were assessed in a single session. In dealing with the individual reviews, the reviewers had the opportunity to work to their own timetable.
Following both the individual and the group reviews, the study participants were required to fill in the short questionnaire.
Through a review of all MCQs used in this study by a panel of experts, a reference assessment, a gold standard, was set for each question. The assessments of this study were compared to this external reference to check its validity. The reliability was tested by comparing the identified deficiencies at the four different sites.
All of the 3200 individual assessments carried within this study's reviews (80 MCQs × 10 assessment criteria x 4 sites) were dichotomized as follows: 0 = no deviation from the expert review and 1 = deviation from the expert review and 0 = no defect and 1 = slight or severe defect and thus subjected to statistical analysis. For the individual reviews, the rounded average of the three individual assessments was used for comparison.
The variables "Number of deviations from the gold standard" and "Number of errors found" were analysed using variance analysis (linear mixed model [8]) with the fixed factors "review form" (single/group), "location" (Uni 1 - Uni 4), "question group" (MCQ Group A/MCQ Group B) and "pass" as well as the random factor "MCQ" (i.e. it is assumed that the MCQs represent a random selection from the MCQ pool). Of primary interest were the factors "review form" and "location", the other factors were used as control variables.
The variables for the individual categories are binary (values 0 and 1) and were therefore analysed with a similar non-linear mixed model with a logistic link function (logistic-normal model [9], [10]).
The statistical analysis of the questionnaires accompanying the study was done descriptively.
Sample Composition
Twelve GPs from four German universities, eight women and four men, took part in the study. The participants' ages ranged from 24 to 61 years, the average age was 41 years (SD=14.6).
The results of the deviations of the study reviews from the expert reviews are presented in Table 3 [Tab. 3]. There were no statistically significant differences, either between the type of review (single vs. group review), or between Pass 1 and Pass 2, or between Question Group A and Question Group B. A significant difference was found only between the individual reviewer groups of the different locations.
The number of deficiencies identified as part of the review study are shown in Table 4 [Tab. 4]. Overall, no significant differences between the nature of the review (single vs. group review), the pass and the question group were found for all the 3200 criteria. The only significant difference was also found to be between the sites.
In response to the question regarding satisfaction with the review process, following the individual reviews the study participants responded with an average of 4.92 (SD=0.69), following the review group with 5.17 (SD=0.83). The question on effectiveness was answered as follows: following individual reviews with an average of 4.92 (SD=0.69), following group review with 5.58 (SD=0.67). The importance of the review following individual reviews was rated 5.75 (SD=0.45) on average, following group review 6.00 (SD=0).
The free text comments on the questions "Which part of the review did I like best?" and "Which part of the review caused me the most problems?" can be summarised as follows:
From the perspective of the reviewer, the most positive aspect of the individual reviews was the freedom in time-planning, where for the group reviews it was the collegial exchange of ideas and the associated learning effects. Commonly cited problems in individual review were complaints of vague evaluation criteria in the absence of opportunities for asking questions, whereas in the group reviews it was timing problems, as it is often not easy to produce consensus in carrying out assessments and the long sessions associated with this type of review and the resulting concentration problems.
Time Expenditure
The average processing time for the 40 questions in individual reviews was 113 minutes (SD=44), 139 minutes (SD=48) in group reviews.
There is already sufficient evidence in German-speaking countries that the systematic collegial review of MCQs improves the quality of exam questions [11], [12], [13]. There are only a few indications as to the advantages and disadvantages of different review process [7]. This study was intended to help clarify the practical questions about the advantages and disadvantages of individual vs group reviews.
The results of this study show that are review processes are equally valid. There is therefore no basis upon which we could recommend one over the other.
Statistically significant differences in the assessments of MCQs were found, however, between the reviewers of the four individual sites. The "Short Guide to Reviewing MC Questions" alone, although based on the same basis as the knowledge of the "experts", apparently is not suitable for ensuring homogeneous assessments across the four university sites. In terms of the deviations from expert's review, there was one significant difference across all checklist items. The result suggests that in addition to author training required elsewhere [4] and wide-scale introduction of a standardised review process, reviewer training should be recommended [13].
The deficiencies observed at the four locations not dependent on whether the questions were assessed individually or in groups were viewed across all checklist items. There is therefore, again, no basis for deciding for a particular version.
In contrast, the comparison of university sites with each other revealed statistically significant differences for all items which could be statistically analysed. The demand for reviewer training can thus be affirmed.
If the goal is to ensure that throughout Germany as many tutors participate in a mutual and sustainable review of MCQs, it must be ensured that they are convinced of the necessity of such an approach and that the methodology is effective and subjectively satisfactory from their point of view. For this reason, the individual reviews were accompanied by questionnaires which queried these parameters.
Averaged across all four sites, for both the question regarding satisfaction, the effectiveness of the review process and the importance of the review, slightly higher approval was awarded following group reviews compared to individual reviews. When analysing the questions for each site separately, the higher approval following group reviews is replicated almost consistently. Only at one site (Uni 1), was the question regarding satisfaction with the review process ranked higher following individual reviews. In this case too, group dynamics should be considered, as the Uni 1 site took the longest of all review sessions, with 210 minutes of processing time in group reviews. This could suggest problems when trying to come to decisions with joint responsibility.
The free text comments on individual and group reviews reflect the expected advantages and disadvantages of both methods once again, juxtaposing the freedom to plan in individual reviews with of the lack of feedback opportunities from colleagues. It becomes obvious that in group reviews the timing issues are in contradiction with the often mentioned (and positively seen) collegial exchange of ideas and the associated learning effects.
Time Expenditure
If we consider only the pool of questions of general medicine in Freiburg which includes approximately 280 MCQs (though other sites may have much larger pools), we can guess the enormous amount of time necessary for reviewing the entire set for all general medical departments and subject areas. In this respect, the timings found by this study may be considered when discussing the more practical review process. Group reviews of 40 MCQs on average took 26 minutes longer than individual reviews. If one followed this criterion alone, there would have to be a pronounced recommendation of individual reviews. Interestingly, this extra need for time is not raised in the free text answers.
The relatively small sample of reviewers, which for feasibility reasons was not a random sample also limits the generalisability of the study results. As employees of general medical departments and subject areas were consciously selected (i.e. people who in their daily routine are tasked with creating and/or reviewing exam questions without special additional training) this meant that inevitable discrepancies in medical experience and prior theoretical knowledge had to be accepted. Both factors limit the comparability.
The ten-item checklist against which the MCQs were judged did not reflect all criteria for the creation of "good" MCQs given in the literature [3], [4], [5]. Some items must be considered redundant while other criteria, such as the important question of the relevance of MCQs [11], are missing.
The results of this study do offer some help when trying to reach a decision about which review process may be recommended as the better.
As was shown in the results section and explained in the discussion, no statistically significant difference regarding validity and reliability of both procedures could be found which means that it will not be possible to decide for one or the other solely based on these factors.
Against this background, the subjective assessments of the study participants on the reviews gain in weight. These tended more towards group reviews. It would appear that the time factor is subordinated to the satisfaction and the subjective assessment of the effectiveness of the process by the study participants.
The specifics of the situation on the ground can understandably play a crucial role when selecting a method. If the reviewers are scientific or clinically-based staff who usually work together in a department, the selection will tend towards group reviews which are relatively easy to terminate. If the reviews will tend to be carried out by established lecturers (as is common in general medicine), individual reviews at their own workplace could seem more reasonable and practicable.
For practical reasons this study only looked at Type A questions. But essentially, the results should be transferable to other question formats.
1 In the IMS this evaluation form is based on an algorithm for which no further details are available which either makes the questions available to the public folder or refers them to the authors for correction.
My special thanks for support with the statistical aspects of this project goes towards Dr. Andreas Möltner, at the Competence Centre for Exams in Medicine - Baden Württemberg, University of Heidelberg
Competing interests
The authors declare that they have no competing interests.
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Jaden & Willow Smith: Nobel Peace Pals
Jaden Smith and Willow Smith sing alongside mom Jada Pinkett Smith on stage during the Nobel Peace Prize Concert held at the Oslo Spektrum in Oslo, Norway on Friday evening (December 11).
The concert was hosting by Willow and Jaden's parents, Jada and Will Smith and honored this year's Nobel Peace Prize winner — President Barack Obama.
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FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. | The No. 4 University of Alabama gymnastics team tied with No. 19 Arkansas with both teams posting scores of 197.100 Friday night.
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. | The No. 4 University of Alabama gymnastics team tied with No. 19 Arkansas with both teams posting scores of 197.100 Friday night.
It was the Crimson Tide's highest road score of the season and the second highest score of the season.
"I'm so pleased with how our ladies stepped up tonight," Alabama coach Sarah Patterson said. "It was our second highest score of the season and our second 197 in a row. I definitely think we're moving in the right direction. "
Despite the score, the Crimson Tide experienced some adversity at the end of its floor exercise rotation when senior Marissa Gutierrez had an awkward landing on her first tumbling pass and had to be carried off the floor.
"We'll have our doctor's evaluate Marissa's injury when we get home," Patterson said. "We certainly appreciate Arkansas having a physician here. It was a bad landing and her foot was a little turned. We held Diandra (Milliner) out of the floor lineup because of a strained muscle in her hip. At the end of the day, I control the things what I can control. I never would have guessed that Marissa would have had a landing like that."
Alabama got things started with a 49.175 on the uneven bars, led by junior Sarah DeMeo's 9.9, which ties her career-best mark. Gutierrez scored her second 9.95 vault of the season, tying her career best and pacing Alabama to a 49.425.
Alabama scored a 49.2 on the floor exercise, led by junior Kim Jacob's 9.9. It was her sixth consecutive 9.9 or better score on the floor exercise this season.
Alabama came fighting back after Gutierrez's injury, posting a 49.3 on the balance beam paced by 9.9s from junior Diandra Milliner, DeMeo and senior Ashley Priess.
Alabama returns home to take on No. 5 UCLA on March 1 at 7:30 p.m. The Crimson Tide and Bruins last faced off in the NCAA Championship Super Six team finals when Alabama took first and UCLA third.


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Perusing the Adventures of Frog and Toad the other night, I was drawn to a tale titled "Shivers."
During a dark, cold night, Frog tells Toad about losing his way home and encountering the Old Dark Frog—an amphibian version of the bogeyman who wants to eat the young toad.
Throughout the telling of the story, Toad keeps asking: "Are you making this up?" "Maybe yes and maybe no," Frog replies.
After finding a way to tie up the Old Dark Frog, Frog manages to escape as his would-be captor "roared and screamed."
When the story ends, teacups shake in the trembling hands of Frog and Toad.
"They were having the shivers. It was a good, warm feeling."
For me, it's been eons since I've gotten goose bumps from a creepy story.
During childhood, one memorable shiver happened around a fire at Cedar Point Girl Scout Camp. Singing along to a guitar, under a star-strewn sky, was sometimes followed by a spooky story.
"Did you hear about the boy and girl parked on a lonely road?" the counselor asks.
"No," we shriek as we lean closer to the fire.
One condensed version is that a police officer stops and tells the couple that a convict is on the loose. Soon, they hear a scraping noise on the roof of the car.
"Did this really happen?" a small voice squeaks.
"Maybe yes and maybe no," the counselor answers.
We hear the boy tell his girlfriend to lock the doors while he leaves to investigate.
She begins to worry after he's gone a long time. The scraping sound starts up again and she doesn't know what to do.
By now, we are holding hands and barely breathing. Our eyes look as big as marshmallows.
The counselor tells us that the girl unlocks the door and slowly exits the car. What she sees is too horrible to comprehend.
"Tell us, tell us," we scream, jumping to our feet.
The shoeless boyfriend swings from a rope tied to an overhead branch. His toenails scrape the roof of the car.
Perhaps we were too old to hear the monster-under-the-bed story Frog told Toad where the Old Dark Frog threatens to gobble Frog but never does.
Instead we experienced an adolescent kind of ghost story where we saw death, in a gruesome way, unfold through dancing spires of fire.
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January 02. 2013 11:50PM
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By NANCY BEAN FOSTER
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NEW IPSWICH - A wind farm developer has taken its plans to install five wind turbines in New Ipswich and Temple directly to the state, bypassing the planning and zoning boards in both towns.
Timbertop Wind, a subsidiary of Pioneer Green Energy of Texas, has proposed a wind farm on contiguous land in Temple and New Ipswich. The $25 million project would include five, three-megawatt Siemens wind turbines - two in New Ipswich and three in Temple.
According to Tim Drew, administrator of the Department of Environmental Services Public Information and Permitting Unit, it's not unusual for a developer to take its case to the state, bypassing town land use boards. In some cases, it's mandatory. Any project over 30 megawatts fall immediately under the jurisdiction of the Site Evaluation Committee (SEC), he said. The Temple/New Ipswich project is only 15 megawatts, so Timbertop Wind had to petition the Site Evaluation Community to take jurisdiction.
According to documents filed with the DES by attorney Thomas B. Getz of Devine Millimet, the request arises from town ordinances requiring setbacks, lighting requirements and noise limitations.
Those ordinances, according to Getz, "impose substantive requirements inconsistent with SEC precedent and state law."
Getz also argued that because the two towns have different ordinances, the case becomes a regional one, and should fall in the domain of the state.
But Ed Dekker, member of the New Ipswich Planning Board, said Timbertop's move to bypass the towns is intended to thwart the will of the people who voted overwhelmingly to pass tight restrictions on wind farms in their communities.
"The will of the people of New Ipswich was made clear by their votes, and it's inappropriate for the state to override the people of New Ipswich," Dekker said.
Drew said if the state does agree to take the case, the process will begin with public hearings, and will include hearings in which both sides will be required to present evidence. The Attorney General's Office represents local communities in the proceedings.
Ed Cherian of Iberdola Energy, the group responsible for both the Lempster wind farm project that went online four years ago and the Groton wind farm - which just started feeding power into the grid Friday - said the state process is arduous.
"Having gone through the process twice, I can say that it's extremely comprehensive and they leave no stone unturned," said Cherian.
In Lempster, the 24-megawatt project started with the local land use boards but became so overwhelming to both the planners and the town, that both parties petitioned the state to step in, Cherian said. And in Grafton, the size of the farm - 48 megawatts - placed it immediately in the state's purview.
"It's a very long, very costly process, almost like going to trial," said Cherian. "And anyone who's interested can have a seat at the table."
Drew said if the state agrees to take jurisdiction, public hearings could begin as soon as February or March.
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A shaken Oz stag party reveller has recounted how he was left "battered and bloodied" after taking a head shot from a flying dildo.
According to a very silly NT News report, 31-year-old Darwin architect Jure Skumavc joined groom-to-be Peter Rolih and around eight other pals in a Brisbane pad on 28 December for the traditional pre-nuptial blokes' knees-up.
Evidently, it wasn't just the revellers who got their knees well and truly up, because "a scantily clad exotic dancer" entertained the chaps with her party piece - "shooting dildos at the guests".
Suffice it to say, regular Bootnotes readers will not require a technical description of how this works, but for those of you who've never caught a Bangkok floorshow, Skumavc likened it to the "infamous ping-pong ball scene" in Priscilla, Queen of the Desert.
Skumavc explained that the entertainer was firing the artificial todger from one side of the room to the other - an estimated seven metres with a peak altitude of around two metres - apparently targetting guests with the "pink projectile".
He said: "Other people got it in their chest and knees. I was the only one bleeding. It was my turn and it landed straight on my forehead.
"She started apologising straight away but I just said it was fine... then I touched my forehead and there was blood."
As regards the velocity of the "darting dildo", Skumavc noted: "It wasn't a strong shot. It probably just landed on an awkward sort of angle."
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Born in Moscow, Russia and raised in Zurich, Switzerland from the age of eight, 'iPod' was fortunate to have easy access to snowboard in the world-renowned Swiss Alps with some of the best snowboarders out there.
Being able to shred with his homies Podladtchikov, who had represented Russia at the 2006 Olympics in Torino placing 37th decided to change his citizenship after his Olympic debut as he was training with his Swiss friends already.
Driven by his perfectionism and competitive soul he constantly aimed to push his limits ever since.
Being consistent and smooth, while also going big in great style, he then quickly emerged as one of the world's best halfpipe riders.
At the 2010 Olympics he was close to reap the fruits of his labour but missed out the podium as unfortunate fourth.
However, being bumped off the podium made him work even harder.
Podladtchikov hired former Swiss national team coach Marco Bruni as private coach and manager and kept progressing his halfpipe riding.
Relying on his never-ending stocks of energy and impressive talent his passion made him land the first ever switch backside double cork 1260 and also the first ever cab double cork 1440 which became his signature trick called 'Yolo flip' (acronym for you only live once).
In 2013 he won the FIS Snowboard World Championships in Stoneham, Canada underlining that he was on fire on his road to Sochi where he finally got the redemption for his Vancouver result.
He nailed his second run in the men's finals winning his first Olympic Gold and the second halfpipe medal for his new home country since Gian Simmen took the title in Nagano back in 1998.
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D-Day flag is a treasured memento for Mass. family
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CHELMSFORD, Mass. (AP) — When American troops were storming the beaches of Normandy on D-Day, the American flag in the hallway of the Bartos home was there, flying over an infantry ship as it made 11 crossings of the English Channel.
The history and importance of the weathered flag may not have been considered much in the decades later. Evidence suggests it might have been used in front of a vehicle's radiator or vent, based on parallel markings that can't be erased.
It was wrapped in a sheet and stored in a closet.
Matt Bartos, an English teacher at Chelmsford High School, never forgot about it.
"Growing up, it was always just sort of neat that that was our grandfather's flag," he said. "It was one of those things that we knew it was in the house but didn't think about it all that much."
Nearly a lifetime after the flag flew in World War II, it has been carefully conserved by Museum Textile Services, an Andover company that specializes in working on flags, quilts, old sports jerseys, dresses and more. Accumulated soot was removed and creases were smoothed, but edges are still tattered from years of being flown, and the wool will never again have its original off-white stripes.
After all, it is conservation, not restoration, said Camille Myers Breeze, founder and director of Museum Textile Services. Other chemicals that would have been needed for restoration could have been harmful to the flag, she said.
"What remains behind is a permanent chemical change in the form of discoloration," Breeze said.
Bartos' grandfather, Stanley Piotrowski, who died in 2007 at age 86, gave the flag to his mother, Barbara, to hold. For years, the Bartos family would only occasionally take the flag out. They considered having it folded into a triangle in the traditional military style and framed, but didn't. When Piotrowski died, Barbara Bartos had the flag draped over his coffin.
Piotrowski, a U.S. Navy petty officer first class who worked in the ship's engine room, was given the flag because he was close to the ship's captain, Bartos said. Piotrowski then gave the flag to his daughter who lived nearby, in the Hartford, Conn., area, where Piotrowski worked as a foreman and inspector for Pratt & Whitney, an aerospace manufacturer.
The flag — 81 inches by 44 inches, with 48 stars for the then-48 states — hangs in an upstairs hallway, behind UV-protected glass on acid-free material in an 80-pound case.
Conserving a flag can take from 20 to 200 hours, Breeze said, but Bartos' flag was not a major project.
"Despite its obvious damage, the flag is in good condition," she said.
Wool can become brittle after time, so Museum Textile Services played it safe, cleaning the flag in conservative stages instead of using chemicals that could be harmful. The company used vulcanized rubber sponges and de-ionized water to get out whatever they could.
That's why the flag still looks like something that's been through decades of use and haphazard storage. The only difference may be that the flag's white stripes are now grayish, instead of yellowish as before.
The flag's tattered ends show it was flown for a long time, said Breeze, who liked that the flag was well-worn after its war days. "It's a great example of the flag doing its job," she said.


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A storm uprooted trees, damaged homes and wreaked havoc on a gas station as thousands of people lost power in Ocala Wednesday evening.
A storm uprooted trees, damaged homes and wreaked havoc on a gas station as thousands of people lost power in Ocala Wednesday evening.
Ocala Utility Services reported that 4,400 customers lost power. As of 11:35 p.m. Wednesday, officials said only 1,600 of those customers were still without power, with crews planning to work through the night.
As of 8 a.m. Thursday, 584 customers were still without power.
Kate Guillett, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Jacksonville, said the affected area, which was mostly in the southeast section of Ocala, experienced what's called a downburst – a mixture of wind and rain – with wind gusts up to 55 mph.
The weather phenomenon was slow moving – about 5 mph – which accounts to some extent for the significant damage.
Guillett said the weather service received no calls about a tornado hitting the area. If it had been a tornado, she said, there would likely have been a more a twisting pattern and things would have been scattered throughout.
When the storm came through shortly before 6 p.m. Wednesday, Dawn Soucey, her three young children and her parents, Jeffrey and Sharon Jones, were in the den at her father's house at 20 NE 50th Ave.
As the storm raged, a large tree in the front yard was uprooted and crashed into the den. Soucey was hit in head, and her mother had scrapes on her arm. But no one received serious injury.
The tree caused substantial damage to the home, crushing the garage and damaging one side of the house.
At a rental property one street over, at 100 NE 50th Court, a large tree in the front yard split in three sections, damaging portions of the vacant home's roof and the garage.
Neighbors said the previous tenants had moved out a day or two ago.
Next-door neighbor Bob Schwed said he was inside his home when he heard the crash and came outside. He said that he and several neighbors began cleaning up as well as they could, removing debris from the middle of the street.
Other neighbors, armed with chainsaws, began removing limbs from the house.
At 5790 NE Seventh St., a Diamond Oil gas station was seriously damaged by the storm. Wind flipped the metal canopy that sheltered the pumps. The storm also wrecked two of the pumps.
Marion County firefighters on scene said the gas station was fortunate there was no fire. They said valves shut off automatically when the pipes were ruptured.
Danny Patel and Rahul Patel, who were working inside the store when the incident occurred, said they didn't see the canopy crash but heard a loud noise.
Trees were down elsewhere in Marion County, but a Sheriff's Office supervisor said there were no reports of serious damage.
Between the city and county, fire rescue personnel said they responded to nearly 100 incidents during an 1�-hour timespan, which began around 6 p.m.
Among the calls for service were fire alarms, downed power lines and trees, trees in roadways and yards, and traffic accidents.
Surrounding communities, such as Dunnellon and Belleview, had no significant damage, officials there said.
For Thursday afternoon, Guillett, the meteorologist, said the area should see some showers after 2 p.m., with temperatures in the low to mid-90s. Highs for Friday should be about the same, low to mid-90s, with showers expected in the mid-afternoon.
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Hi Roger
I was sailing my ff158 with a sailworks 10.4nx3 last weekend (195lbs, 70cm fin, +/-10 knots some chop) and I had a really hard time keeping any front foot pressure when in the front strap, especially on the upwind.
I was wearing booties and I didn't bother to open up the straps so they were set a little tight.
My boom was at chin level. The mast foot was as far back as I can move it - I moved it to the middle but the lack of front pressure did not change much. My footstraps are front --> forward and inside - back --> back and outside.
Would moving my front straps back and outside help?
Any tips on 'adjusting' the weight on my feet to a more balanced stance?
When I previously sailed this board I noticed some lack of front pressure but not quite as much - only some when cranking upwind. This time it seemed to be present evn on a reach.
As always thankss for your help!
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RE: Front Foot Pressure
Hi Joe,
I'm not sure why you "want" more front foot pressure.
Are you trying to take some pressure off your rear leg?
Yes, I think for the max. performance moving all your footstraps as far outboard and back as possible, so try that first.
If you have too much back foot pressure you can change your boom height
and move the mast foot a bit more (just a bit) forward and perhaps move a little pressure off the rear leg.
Changing to a smaller fin can give you less rear foot pressure with better top speed and handling.
Learn to use your front foot to control the roll axis attitude of your board. Your front foot may be "loaded" but you may be pulling up rather than pushing across the board.
It almost seems you arn't getting all of your weight on the rig and this is
placing some weight on the rear foot that could be transferred up to the rig and forward as mas foot pressure to drive your board forward.
I'd really have to sail your exact setup to give you a more comprehensive answer than this.
Perhaps even a minor change in downhaul or outhaul could help your situation by moving the CE of your rig slightly.
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of Carson City, Nevada, died Wednesday, Oct. 6, 2010. She was the wife of the late Lawrence (Larry) Scott for 60 years.
Born in Stratton, Ontario on June 6, 1918, she was the daughter of the late Anna Corina Beckman and Horace MacGregor Carnahan. She grew up in NW Ontario, graduating from Fort Frances High School, where she played on the basketball team. She received her nursing degree from McKeller Hospital in Fort William (now Thunder Bay) Ontario in 1941, and emigrated to the United States soon afterwards, later becoming a naturalized US citizen. She worked as a nurse at University Hospital in Ann Arbor, Mich.
After World War II, Vivian's primary focus was her family. She was a loving mother, gourmet cook, and consummate housewife. She enjoyed hiking and camping in the Sierras and Cascades and fishing from cabins in the Sierras and northwest Ontario. She was an avid bird watcher, gardener, golfer, bridge player, bowler, dog trainer and rock hound. She loved to dance and enjoyed opera, ballet, and all types of music, taking up piano lessons in her late sixties.
She had a life-long interest in nursing, and was certified in several states, and was an active volunteer at Planned Parenthood, Carson Tahoe Hospital, RSVP, FISH, and with many other organizations. She was a member of the Carson City First Methodist Church.
She is survived by son Bruce Scott, and wife Beth, of Carson City, daughters Kathy Sylvia, and husband Dave, of Carson City and Jamestown; and Linda Scott and husband Jamie Bennett of Jamestown. Also survived by a sister, Frances Shelfantook of Ontario, seven grandchildren, five greatgrandchildren, and a multitude of loving family and friends. She was predeceased by her husband, six siblings, and one grandson.
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When baby was born, she had a short tongue and recessed chin. She was not able to latch properly and lost 7% of her body weight in 24 hours so we were told to put her on formula. My milk came in on day 4 and we immediately started bottle feeding her this. She was getting what little colostrum I could get before that. On day 6 our peditrician's lactation consultant suggested trying a nipple shield to get her to the breast. It worked and I cried I was so happy to be able to breastfeed my baby. Her weight gain was still slow and, in retrospect, I think she was fighting with slow flow through the shield. When the doctor started talking about exclusively bottle feeding, I worked on weaning her off of the shield and directly onto the breast. It took several nerve-wracking days but we got there. It was a sore start, as her suck was still impaired from her anatomy. She started dramatically gaining weight and I knew we were finally on the right track. We have been straight at the breast for the last 3 weeks.
It used to be that baby always ate at both breasts. It was clear to me when she was ready to switch and she would usually eat about 15 minutes or so at each. Lately though, she has started confusing me. I should mention that we are also suddenly dealing with a bit of a forceful letdown over the last week. Sometimes she will eat about 13 minutes on one side, get fidgety, and I will put her on the other side. She will only eat for 3 - 5 minutes. I started to worry that this was not the best of her and read up on feeding only on one breast. Is this okay? Does it reduce supply? I'm happy to offer her both breasts, but she tends to latch even when she is just tired and then gets irritated at the milk flow (I think she just wants to comfort nurse). So, how do I know when to offer her the second breast? Just now she fell asleep at breast one, I burped her and she woke up. I was going to put her on the other side, but my husband recommended sticking with one side. So confused! She seems to be overtired today and getting fussy at the breast when she gets sleepy. She latches and then fusses as she fights falling asleep.
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LONDON (AP) — Since graduating in fashion over the summer, dissatisfied with how her university prepared her for real life, Lucy Nicholls has tried to make it in the freelance world — trying out a variety of short-term gigs from merchandising to photo shoots.
Jobs came to her, but she found she wasn't so good at going after jobs — a vital skill to succeeding in the competitive environment of London freelance fashion.
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So she plunged into trying to find a full-time job that would give her the experience she needed to succeed. She tried online job hunting sites and scanned Twitter feeds for openings, but found they weren't much help. She says her best chances came tracking individual companies' in-house websites.
She applied for vacancies at a trendy online fashion shop called Asos. Eventually she was invited to interview for a job as a merchandising and editorial assistant.
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Malaysians4Change Video Part 2 (En) - The Matrix.
Understand that the Matrix is a system of Economic Exploitation that works on keeping people in a mental state known as the Boiled Frog, keeping people in ignorance and asleep.
The Matrix is commonly known as the Rat Race System which is described in more detail here:
Start with the Rat Race Parts I to III and continue from there.
The section on Malaysia is: THE RAT RACE PART V - THE MALAYSIAN RAT RACE.
The Matrix depends on CashFlow to survive and Banks are the intermediaries to facilitate it. Without banks, the system will crash.
That is why governments go to great lengths to protect and save the banks when they get into trouble. Hence the reason why the US Federal Reserve has printed trillions of US dollars to save Wall Street.
But the bankruptcies of Bear Sterns and Lehman Brothers in 2008 is fatal and the financial system will come crashing soon. Protect yourselves by exchanging your cash for gold or silver.
In Malaysia, the banks are also vulnerable due to their extreme leverage. The Bank of International Settlement mandate an 8% reserve ratio, meaning banks should keep 8% of their deposits and lend out a maximum of 92%. That's a leverage of 12 1/2 times. Today, Bank Negara mandate a reserve ratio of 1% as shown in the video above, meaning the banks have loaned out 100 times the deposit.
These deposits are loaned out long-term whereas bank deposits are short-term. When there is a loss of confidence in the banking system and people withdraw their deposits, there is a bank run. Invariably, banks fail and require a government bailout. This is the Achilles Heel of the modern banking system and by correlation, the Matrix.
When governments become oppressive and greedy, extreme inequality results
The solution is not in street protests.
It's in controlling them through squeezing the financial system. Politicians understand the stick. The stick is our financial power.
Study history. We will learn that the British left India because it was no longer profitable to stay. Likewise, they did the same in Malaya. They left behind a proxy (UMNO) to manage their former colony (Malaya) on their behalf as they still had up to 80% of the local economy in their hands. Unfortunately, their proxy has mutated into a very malignant colonial power that cheats during elections to stay in power.
We will talk more about this in Part 3.
Powerpoint version available as attachment.
See here for Video Part 1.
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We said that the KLSE is a casino in which the Rats are exploited. Read how predatory High Frequency Trading Programs do just that. The simplest solution is to get out of the market and buy gold or silver.
Wednesday, 20 July 2011 00:10
The age of Flash Crash and HFT: Why we should worry about our EPF
Written by Sam Chee Kong, Malaysia Chronicle
Markets are purely about Speculations. There is no more such thing as Investing in the markets. It is just Speculation on different timeframes.
This is the truth, the real truth and nothing but the market truth. Those who have headed the currency or money desks in the big foreign banks will tell you, life sometimes is like a Datuk T sex video plot. You have to think of moves and how to generate waves in order to make big killings!
Now, in these tech-boosted days, speed or High Frequency Trading is the new leading-edge, special weapon of the big boys versus the small boys. To some of the older folk in the market, this is is Cheating! It used to be called front-running, but tell it to the Gen Y geeks!
Just like derivatives are made of nothing and yet they dominate the world's financial markets, HFT is now part of this new fuzzy-wuzzy hi-speed landscape. Life is indeed getting scarier by the moment or in HFT terms - by the nano second or even pico-second!
So, for Malaysians, the first question they need to ask is whether their pension fund, i.e. the Employee Provident Fund, is up to mark will all the new 'gimmicks' out there waiting to entrap our money. You can call these financial chicanery and so forth, but techniques such as these are already entrenched in the US, Europe and spreading through Asia. Unless, they are outlawed - and can anyone imagine what would happen if derivatives are illegalised like the Bersih T-shirt - our public fund managers will just have to get more savvy.
This means that the investment Boards at places like EPF, KWAP, the big GLCs and so on, must also upgrade their knowledge and skills. We don't want rogue traders blaming unfair systems for losing billions of the people's money, do we?
This is the purpose of this article, to provide some information on a fairly recent, extremely exhilirating and also potentially dangerous development in computerised program trading.
Here and Now, no longer Buy and Hold
Traditionally we have the market that is made up of retail and institutional investors together with the market makers that facilitates these investors. In the last couple of years, there have been much changes in the landscape of investment and that is High Frequency Trading or HFT for short. HFT accounted for about 70% of daily trading volume in NYSE, 60% in Europe and 50% in Asia. In other words there is a paradigm shift in the traditional Investors Buy and Hold market to a Traders market.
HFT or High Frequency Trading refers to large and very fast execution of quote orders by computers programs, which will create cascade-like buying and selling.
Trading cycles what seems to be days and weeks now are being done in milliseconds and nanoseconds. In other words market has shifted from the traditional (fundamental and technical analysis) with long term holding for equity appreciation to short term trading that benefit only the speculators. The strategy of investing today refers to here and now rather than buy and hold.
As we know HFT is the main culprit in the May 6, 2010 Flash Crash, where the Dow plunge more than 700 points in just a few minutes only to recover a few minutes later. The whole process was initiated by the sale of $4.1 billion of security by US money manager Waddell & Reed Financial Inc and was accelerated by other HFT traders.
The multiple orders coming from multiple locations and multiple HFTs had resulted in what they called the QUOTE STUFFING. The number of quotes coming in simultaneously from the HFTs just overwhelms the computers at the exchange and basically jammed it. That is why during that time there are a lot of stocks that are trading with the absence of buyers or buyers bidding at very low prices and this is one of the main contributor to the Flash Crash of 2010.
Shavings: how to beat the queue
The new trendy word in HFT trading is SHAVING. It refers to the use of ultra high speed computers to engage in high speed computing so as to shave off the time in buying and selling of stocks, often within nanoseconds.
Just to give you a glimpse of what technology are available in the financial markets nowadays. People like Nanex who developed the NxCore which is a streaming WHOLE MARKET data feed (ticker plant) and comes with an API (Application Programming Interface) for developing your own trading software. It essentially brings the whole market, like the hyperactive US Options Market (OPRA) which transmits over 1.7 million quotes per second to your desktop. NxCore only requires a low end Pentium 1.0 Ghz with 80Mb hard drive to receive and database 1.4 million quotes per second or over 6 billion quotes per day and with a CPU usage of less than 5%. It can accomplish this task is because of its award winning proprietary data compression technology. It is basically like Co-Locating your PC next to the Data Farm Servers in NYSE.
NYSE is known to have leased space INSIDE their data warehouse for HFT platforms. This is also called Co-Locate. The closer you are to the data center, the more picoseconds you will likely shave off. In other word the big boys are practically trading directly from the exchange lock-ups! And of course these exchanges are making a killing out of renting these spaces. Forget about the exchange imposing rules to deter HFT because they themselves are in it as well.
India is also on the way to promoting full scale HFT, as a senior official from one of Indias Stock Exchange said that its bourse is allowing large brokerages/fund managers to place their terminals inside the bourse so as to speed up their orders.
A few years ago, trading firms are talking about milliseconds. 1 millisecond is 1000 of a second, however milliseconds is already history. In the past 2 years trading speed had been shaved down from milliseconds to microseconds and now nanoseconds. Recently they are talking about reducing the speed of execution down to picoseconds. A picoseconds is one trillion of a second or put it rather naively it is like one second in 31,700 years.
According to Donal Byrne, CEO of Corvil, a high speed trading technology company specialize in providing low latency network management, suggested that in a not too distant future trading speed will be reduced to picoseconds.
A good example of a Flash Crash generated by HFT can be seen in the stock chart of Brown Forman. It took only one second to bring down the price of Brown Forman from $70 to $16.64, a 75% or $7.5 billion loss for a $10 billion dollar company.
Race to Zero or what used to be called front-running
The reason for the competition to race to zero, is because it enable them to front run their competitors. By front running it means it effectively put them at the front of the queue and have priority over other orders and help them react faster than others. According to some people in the know, Citadel which is one of the HFT heavyweights receives order flow from brokers like TOS. When they receive orders, they can decide whether or not to fill your order according to your price. If they fill you up then they will know exactly what are the small players buying, their market sentiment and momentum. By totaling the retail orders they are able to judge market sentiment on a particular price and also the pain threshold of the weak holders.
Predatory HFT programs are design to block retail investors from making successful trades against the house or Wall Street. An example in the following shows how the game of front running being played. Say stock ABC is being traded at the bid of $1.00 and ask $ 1.02. As a retail investor key in an order to buy at $1.02, normally it will get filled. But HFT programs which is able to see, will automatically raise the ask price to $ 1.03. So the next bid price will be higher and automatically set as $1.01, so that the HFT programs make the human investor to buy higher at $ 1.03 instead of $ 1.02.
According to Themis Trading Analysis white paper the profits generated by HFT and Algorithmic (algos) trading can go as high as $ 3 billion a year even though margins generated from each trade ranges from $0.01 - $ 0.02. Although they are not making much money from such spreads but they are making a killing from liquidity or Volume rebates of 0.005/share from the exchange. It is reported that Goldman Sachs HFT trading alone revved up something like 2 billion shares a week and you times that with $0.005/share and times again 52 for the rest of the year and the figure surely adds up!!
In short, HFT trading is just basically latency arbitrage and those with ultra high speed computer hardware will always stays on top. And with its predatory HFT programs which is design to trigger cascade like buying and selling and also front running the chances of them losing in the market is minimal
HFT already in Asia
Sad to say that HFT have already made its presence in Asian markets. If you pick any top five counters in any Asian bourse especially the Indonesian JSX. Just go to the ticker tracking and you will be able to see some action of HFT.
As an example, say counter ELTY trading at 156 rupiah, when you click the stock tracking you will be able to see many transactions done at 156 with similar lots size say 20 lots per transaction. Sometimes there will be 200-500 transactions of 20 lots at 156 rupiah done within 2-3 seconds. This is the footprint of HFT because there is no way any human can key in so many transactions within 2-3 seconds.
In essence financial markets are rigged like the casinos. In the game of Black Jack, if the casino loses money on a particular table it will first attempt to change the deck of cards. If the table continues to lose then they will change the croupier and if it still loses then eventually they will close the table. They will always change the rules as in financial markets.
The main reason the exchanges are not banning HFT is because it is providing liquidity to the market, tighten the spreads and hence lowers brokerage costs.
Only big boys benefit, not average Joes
In financial markets, if you win consistently the big boys will deploy predatory HFT programs that will allow them to step in front of a trade which they are able to see and front run the retail investors and thus reducing their profits.
At the end of the day the markets are design to benefit the FEW and not the majority average Joes. In order to make money and survive, you need to understand the rules of the game and also learn how to exploit the weakness of the big boys.
This article is to provide more information to the public about HFT. As you can see, it is dangerous and can be awesomely destabilizing for the financial markets.
This article is also to highlight the nature of the beast in the deposits with the pension funds in Malaysia like the EPF and also the many other Mutual Funds.These are Not savings account or fixed deposits, but a speculative gamble into equity markets, which in future may or may not be able to redeem at their original value like what is happening to 401,000 investors in the US.
For the moment the traditional method of investing using due diligence in fundamental data and technical analysis may still work for the retail investors. But they have to expose themselves to frequent bouts of 40-60% decline in markets.
- Malaysia Chronicle
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In this game, field goals just weren't going to cut it. So with 4.4 seconds left in the second quarter and Natick on the 5-yard line, Redhawks coach Mark Mortarelli was aggressive. Quarterback Troy Flutie hit a wide-open Alex Hilger in the flat and the junior receiver walked into the end zone, the score giving Natick a 28-14 lead at the half in a shootout won by the Redhawks, 38-33, in the Eastern Mass. Division 2A semifinals Tuesday night.
Mark Mortarelli had his options as the first half ended.
With the ball at the 5-yard line and just 4.4 seconds to go, the safe way for the Natick coach seemed to be to kick the chip-shot field goal with reliable kicker Sam Lensen.
With the way Troy Flutie and the Natick offense was moving the ball, there was no need to take the easy way out. And in this game, field goals just weren't going to cut it.
Flutie hit a wide-open Alex Hilger in the flat and the junior receiver walked into the end zone, the score giving Natick a 28-14 lead at the half in a shootout won by the Redhawks, 38-33, in the Eastern Mass. Division 2A semifinals Tuesday night.
"That's just kind of what we've been doing," Mortarelli said of the end-of-half score. "We been aggressive and it's been working. We didn't want to switch up our philosophy now. … With Troy and Brian (Dunlap) and some of the guys we have, we feel we have just as good a chance to punch it in than kick it, so we went for it."
The Redhawks (11-1) will play Beverly (12-0) in the Super Bowl on Saturday at Gillette Stadium at 3:30 p.m. It's the Redhawks' first Super Bowl appearance since 2009, and they'll be going for their fourth title, the first since 2005.
"It was a great overall team win for us," said Flutie, the omnipresent force of the Redhawks offense. "I think we all played well."
Playing in his first playoff game, Flutie couldn't be stopped, let alone contained. The junior quarterback completed 16-of-24 passes for 284 yards and four touchdowns, while running for 85 yards and a score. Flutie now has 47 total touchdowns this fall.
Dunlap, the sophomore receiver, was once again his favorite target, racking up eight catches for 161 yards and three TDs, giving him 19 on the season.
"Troy was so accurate," Mortarelli said. "He threw it on the seam when he had it. We're so spoiled with him right now."
The Redhawks duo beat out the one-man running show of Plymouth South junior running back Dylan Oxsen. Oxsen rumbled his way through the Natick defense time and time again for 272 rushing yards and five touchdowns on 25 carries. He ends the season with a state-leading 40 TDs.
"(Oxsen) gave us nightmares," said Mortarelli, "and hopefully we never see him again."
After Oxsen's fifth TD with 59.5 seconds left, Natick's Mike Abbruzzese recovered an onside kick to seal the win.
The drive before the half was perhaps Natick's most impressive of the night. Taking over with 2:20 left, the Redhawks were backed up on third-and-25 after back-to-back sacks of Flutie.
But then Justin Robinson picked up 27 yards on a pass in the flat to keep the drive alive with 29.4 seconds left. A 23-yard pass to Hilger and 14-yard connection with Dunlap got the Redhawks down to the 19 with 14 seconds left. After another connection with Hilger, Mortarelli was faced with his decision.
Mortarelli kept his offense on the field, and the call paid off, giving the Redhawks momentum — not to mention a two-touchdown lead — into halftime.
"We definitely felt we could get it," Dunlap said. "We've got a great offensive line, a bunch of seniors, and they've worked so hard all year and they deserved that. That was huge."
After a slow start, Natick's offense found its stride. Flutie pushed in for a 1-yard score late in the first quarter after a Panther fumble, then hit Dunlap on the next possession for a 15-yard score, Flutie's 30th TD pass of the season (he now has 33).
Later he hit Dunlap on a 73-yard score on a go-route, the sophomore never getting touched.
"They had an inside linebacker underneath a slant, but the cornerback was playing off," Dunlap said. "Me and Troy just read a post and he gave me a nod and we knew what we were going to do. He just threw a perfect ball, it couldn't have been more perfect."
The only damper on a wet night for Natick was the loss of running back Nick Lee, who reinjured his ankle in the first half and didn't return. Mortarelli wasn't optimistic the senior would return by Saturday.
Flutie and the rest of the Redhawks did just fine without him, though.
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Question: My wife and I got married over the summer.
Her family lives three hours away, and my family lives four hours away in the opposite direction.
Both families want us to come home for Christmas, and we're literally caught in the middle. Help!
Answer: We hear from many couples who struggle with this dilemma.
The wife's parents might insist on having their little girl at home on Christmas morning.
But the husband's mom is fixing a huge turkey dinner and says she'll be hurt if he isn't there to share it. Just wait until you have kids— things can get downright ugly when grandchildren are involved!
To help navigate this minefield, it's important to remember two principles: be fair, and be flexible.
When it comes to being fair, try to come up with a solution that works for both of your extended families.
That might mean spending Thanksgiving with one family and Christmas with the other, and then switching off the next year.
When it comes to being flexible, think about what is in the best interests of those around you.
Perhaps spending half the holidays on the road is not what your budget can handle right now.
Don't be afraid to tell your extended family that it's honestly not a good idea for you to travel this year.
There's nothing wrong with you and your wife having Christmas at home and starting some traditions of your own.
Just be sure to communicate your decisions early so your family members can plan accordingly. Don't wait until the last minute to tell them.
Whatever you decide, just make sure that you and your wife are engaging in healthy communication on the subject.
Don't let pressure from extended family members undermine the fact that you and your wife are on the same team!
Question: My husband and I were recently married.
We're very happy and have a great relationship, except for one thing: I don't get along with his friends.
This has led to arguments and tension between us. Is there a way to solve this problem?
Dr. Greg Smalley, executive director of marriage and family formation: Many newlyweds find themselves faced with challenges of this nature soon after the wedding, and their ability to work through them together is an important measure of the strength of their relationship.
This issue can provide you and your husband with a great opportunity to learn what it means to compromise and be flexible.
You didn't mention what it is about your husband's friends that bothers you.
Are they engaging in behavior that is immature, irresponsible or immoral?
If so, we'd suggest that your husband has a responsibility to confront this issue.
He needs to ask himself whether these friendships are truly good for him and for your marriage.
However, if the issue is simply that you have different tastes and interests than your husbands' friends, we would challenge you to do the hard work of finding common ground with these folks.
For example, let's say this group loves football and monster truck rallies — things that don't interest you in the slightest.
Would you consider biting the bullet and learning a little bit about the NFL and oversized trucks — if only for the sake of your marriage?
To do so would certainly represent a compromise on your part, but it would also send a signal to your husband that you're willing to set your interests aside once in a while for the sake of his.
Hopefully he'll do the same thing for you on occasion — perhaps by letting his friends go to the next event without him, and instead taking you out on a quiet date.
Jim Daly is a husband and father, an author, and president of Focus on the Family and host of the Focus on the Family radio program. Catch up with him at www.jimdalyblog.com or at www.facebook.com/DalyFocus.


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Vish boy...after all the work i did to lift the ranks of a B14, you just undoing it .....sigh!!.... (kidding)
Looking forward to Dex 6...the finale....
If we can finish early we may just have time for a grudge match after ....so come on time folks and lets see if we can have some call outs! ....
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Roxanne Dishman, 55 - February 18, 2009
Roxanne Larae Dishman, 55, of Gothenburg died Friday, Feb. 13, 2009, at Hilltop Estates of Gothenburg.
A memorial service was held on Monday, Feb. 16, at Blase-Strauser Memorial Chapel of Gothenburg. Burial took place at the Gothenburg Cemetery.
Dishman was born May 11, 1953, at Gothenburg, to Joseph Doyle and Ruth Joyce (LaValley) Anderson. She grew up at Brady and attended Brady High School.
She had resided in Brady and in Gothenburg, and was employed with Monroe's.
Dishman was an avid bingo player and enjoyed playing cards, gambling with family and friends and spending time with her grandchildren, according to family members.
She was preceded in death by: her parents, Joseph and Ruth; and her husband.
Survivors include: her children—Adam Dishman (Brieanda Sabin), and Laura (Stacey) Stephen, all of Gothenburg; four grandchildren—Keyan Anderson, Holdan Stephen, Trevin Stephen and Summer Auld; three brothers—Mark Anderson of North Platte, Gregg (Jeannie) Anderson of Omaha, and Billy (Tiffany) of Phoenix, AZ; two sisters—Sandra (Fred) Peters of Anchorage, AK, and Linda (Burton) Slack of Gothenburg; many nieces, and nephews.
Memorials are suggested to the family: 76330 Hwy. 47, Gothenburg, NE 69138.
Online condolences may be sent to the family at www.blase strauser.com.
Arrangements have been placed in the care of Blase-Strauser Memorial Chapel of Gothenburg.
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A three day workshop held in India and attended by the IUCN SSC Asian Wild Cattle Specialist Group has identified methods of protecting the Wild Asian Buffalo (Bubalus arnee), a species listed as Endangered on The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™.
Wild Asian Buffalo are considered to be economically important animals as they are the original source of domestic buffalo. Threatened by poaching and loss of habitat, the population of Wild Asian Buffalo (Bubalus arnee) in Assam state numbers about 3,000 individuals.
Hosted by the State Governments of Maharashtra and Chhattisgarh; the Wildlife Trust of India; the Satpuda Foundation; and the IUCN SSC Asian Wild Cattle Specialist Group, the conservation planning workshop was held 5-7 November 2012. Participants identified actions on how to jointly protect the Wild Asian Buffalo in central India and there was agreement that the population size there needs to be increased. There was also special focus on how to ensure that there is effective management of the new Kolamarka sanctuary.
Now the workshop has been completed, the participants will produce an action plan titled "Status Review and National Recovery Programme for Wild Buffalo in India". Information collected during the workshop about the current status and distribution of the Wild Asian Buffalo will also be used to update information about this species on The IUCN Red List.
The workshop was supported by Government of Maharashtra; Wildlife Trust of India; IUCN SSC Sub-Committee for Species Conservation Planning; Environment Agency Abu Dhabi; Givskud Zoo; the Government of Chhattisgarh; the Satupda Foundation; and Earthwatch.
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Ken Schultz, an English Literature & Writing major with a concentration in Text:Image at Marylhurst University, recently completed a 25-credit portfolio through Prior Learning Assessment — CONGRATULATIONS, Ken!
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