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Alejandra (Aley) Montel has lived in the Loudoun County area since 1994, and before becoming a member of the River Creek team, spent six years as a Design Consultant for K. Hovnanian Homes Design Gallery. When she isn't at River Creek, Aley and her daughter Isabella enjoy spending time outdoors and playing with their beagle, Bongo. Aley started in the River Creek Events Department in April 2006, and has been part of the event planning team since. Her passion for getting to know people on a personal level is what she enjoys most about her position at River Creek, and is truly dedicated to making our hosts feel as though they are guests at their own events.


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Uncharted: Fight For Fortune is an action-adventure turn-based card game featuring the heroes and villains from the Uncharted universe. The core gameplay in Uncharted: Fight for Fortune involves creating a team of Faction cards featuring heroes, villains, and mercenaries from the Uncharted universe, then using that team to defeat your opponent while defending yourself from their attacks. Each Faction card can be equipped with powerful Resource and valuable Fortune cards, which enhance their stats and give them special abilities. Once you've selected and equipped a card, it's time to head into battle! During combat, attacks either reduce the health of opposing Faction cards or the health of your opponent. Defeating an opposing Faction card removes it from play, while reducing the health of your opponent to zero wins you the game.
This downloadable game connects up with the hit PlayStation Vita game Uncharted: Golden Abyss for players who want to further expand their card set. Using the 300 artifacts that can be found within Golden Abyss, you can go to battle with other players as well as AI opponents. The game can also be played independently of Golden Abyss, so owning the PS Vita title is not required.
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Nortel Networks Corporation Investors Class Action Lawsuit 05/19/2009
On Tuesday, May 19, 2009, an investor in Nortel Networks Corporation (USA)(OTC: NRTLQ; formerly NYSE: NTL) has filed a prosposed securities class action lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York on behalf of purchasers of the securities of Nortel Corp. (NYSE: NTL) between May 2, 2008 and September 17, 2008 against certain of Nortel's former executives.
According to the complaint the plaintiff accuses that certain of Nortel's former executives violated the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 for their failure to disclose material adverse facts about Nortel's true financial condition, business and prospects. Nortel Networks Corporation is not named in this action as a defendant because it and its core operating subsidiaries filed for bankruptcy protection in January 2009. Then on September 17, 2008, Nortel Networks issued a press release announcing its "preliminary view on certain third quarter results", that it was engaging in a "comprehensive review" of Nortel Networks's business, and that it "planning" was "underway for further restructuring and other cost reduction initiatives." In response to these announcements, the price of Nortel stock declined from $5.30 per share to $2.68, on heavy trading volume, so the lawsuit. Nortel Networks Corporation supplies end-to-end networking products and solutions that help organizations enhance and simplify communications. Nortel Networks Corporation is located in Toronto, Canada and had $10.948billion in total revenue in 2007 and $10.421billion in total revenue in 2008. Nevertheless Nortel Networks Corporation filed for bankruptcy in January 2009 after losing $5.8 billion last year as phone companies curbed spending to cope with the slowing economy. It is expected that Nortel Networks Corporation at least will reduce 5,000 workers (15 percent of the staff). Nortel Networks Corporation's stock has dropped 97 percent in the past year.


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London Olympics: How have the last seven years treated Newham?
The borough of Newham has yet to see that many gains from hosting the Olympics.
By Alex Hern Published 03 July 2012 10:00The Olympics were sold, both in the bid to the IOC and in the promise to Britons and Londoners, as games of regeneration. This may have been over-ambitious from the start; Olympics which turn a profit are rare. For every Atlanta 1996 or LA 1984, games which turned a slim and not-so-slim profit, respectively, with the help of massive commercialisation, there are ones like the 1974 Montreal games, which left the city in debt to the tune of CA$1bn and took 20 years to pay off.
Nonetheless, in 2005, in that day of euphoria between winning the games on the sixth and the London bombs bringing the city crashing down to earth on the seventh, Jack Straw told the House of Commons that:
The games will transform one of the poorest and most deprived areas of London. They will create thousands of new jobs and homes. They will offer new opportunities for business in the immediate area and throughout London.
A new study, performed jointly between Elizabeth Finn Care and the LSE, aims to see whether the 2012 Games will live up to the lofty promises made about them. The research looks at the borough of Newham, within which much of the Olympic park, and the stadium itself, is situated, and although the full results won't be available until August 2013, preliminary results have been made available already.
Straw's focus on jobs and homes isn't reflected quite so well on the ground. Despite the megaproject being constructed on its doorstep, as well as the opening of Westfield Stratford City, the largest inner-city shopping centre in Western Europe, Newham was hit harder than the rest of London by the recession. Unemployment increased by 44 per cent in the borough, from an already-high base of 13.7 per cent; the city as a whole started from 8.8 per cent unemployment, which then increased by just over a fifth.
Employment may be down amongst residents, but employers are up; the borough saw an increase of 6 per cent in the number of enterprises over the period of 2008 to 2011, even while England was seeing a 4 per cent decrease.
When it comes to homes, there has been an ongoing decrease in council housing stock since 2005, from 22,992 down to 17,547 by 2012, and that offset by the increase in housing association stock, which rose by just over 2,200 to 13,065 homes. That situation at least is expected to improve markedly after the Olympics are through, when the Athlete's Village is converted 3,000 more local flats.
While more jobs and more homes are unabiguously good, there are other measures which resist an easy value judgement. Private rents in Newham remain much lower than the London average, and particularly low when compared to other Olympic boroughs. The mean monthly rent for a two bedroom property in the borough is £833, compared to £1196 in neighboring Tower Hamlets; but for the residents of Newham that news is obviously something to celebrate, even though it is assuredly an indicator of the borough's continuing poverty. Similarly, the increase in house prices in the borough has been a tenth of that London-wide; the average house is worth 3.5 per cent more than it was in 2005, but across the capital that figure is 32.5 per cent. Again, a mark of the continued problems the borough is having, but also a sign that, unlike many boroughs in the city, the children of Newham stand a chance of being able to live in the area they grew up in.
The lead researcher, LSE's Professor Anne Power CBE, agrees, saying:
We should be glad there are parts of London where prices are still modest... what we're trying to do [in improving the quality of life in Newham] is not displace people.
It is very easy to identify a borough with an geographical area – that is, after all, what they are – but improving Newham must mean more than just building homes for wealthier people to move into. The real test of the success of the Olympics will be if the people in Newham in 2005 are still there in 2013, and better off for it.
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We know that a certain part of the new Olympic housing schemes will be "affordable", but not only does the intended proportion fluctuate, we have no clear indication yet of what affordable will be taken to mean - it could still be beyond the pockets of many locals.
The local council (London Borough of Newham) is totally incompetent.
Their idea of regeneration is to let the local airport expand to 120,000 and drive people out.
The Mayor then had the cheek to say it was people fault for living near the airport, even though it only opened in 1987. We increases in fligths ever since.
All 60 Councillors form the Labour party (their grass root supporters are the poor).
May be I am nuts, but I suspect it is in their interest to keep the area poor.
The Olympics cost £9billion, but lets not forget all the new train stations which have been builts....
This council is playing a double game.... fix one thing, break something else.
It is about political control...


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DATES: JULY 6 to 8
ENTRY FEE: Rs. 20 for adults; Rs. 10 for children
TIME: 11 am to 9 pm
There are few things going in favour of Delhi when it comes to summers. After a pleasant yet testing winter and a blink-and-miss spring, the city goes on to experience four to five months of intense summers. The mercury hovers around 42 degrees Centigrade and the sun beats down on the capital. And yet summer is when Delhi is a riot of colours, fragrances and moods. It brings with it the heady aromas of khus and motiya; a deluge of shades of yellow when the amaltas blooms in the leafy neighbourhoods of South Delhi; the sight of happy youngsters diving into the shallow pools of India Gate, the city's iconic monument, and, last but certainly not the least, the taste of the king of fruits, mangoes!
The relish with which the city savours mangoes is a sight to behold. Braving the scorching sun, the young and the old flock to the thousands of markets peppered across Delhi's length and breadth, haggling with vendors and going home happy with a supply of mangoes. Restaurants are quick to cash in on this mango mania: turn the pages of any newspaper supplement and you will find announcements of food festivals and promotions centred around the mango. The fruit becomes the baker's favourite as most confectioneries dole out mango desserts; cafes churn out beverages with generous portions of the fruit, and even meals at home usually end with a platter of cut mangoes. The modest vanilla ice-cream is almost always sold out in summers, given its phenomenal compatibility with the succulent fruit.
Being in proximity with some of the country's highest producers of mangoes, Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, is a boon for the mango-loving populace of Delhi. This is not to say that mangoes from deep down South, Maharashtra, Gujarat and Bengal don't make it to Delhi. Just the variety of mangoes calls for a trip to Delhi this season. The culmination of Delhi's love affair with the fruit comes in the form of an exclusive festival, organised every year in July by Delhi Tourism. Eagerly awaited, the International Mango Festival is now in its 24th year. The benchmark of its popularity is the footfall it gets from Delhi residents, not just tourists. Attractive billboards go up all over the city weeks before the start of the festival, luring everyone with the prospect of this calorie-laden indulgence.
Once inside the venue, the attractively laid out open-air Dilli Haat in Pitampura, a medley of sights and sounds greet you. It's like walking into a mango market. Look in any direction and you will see piles and heaps of the fruit, in different hues, shapes and sizes. Decorated with mango motifs and colourful balloons, the atmosphere at the Festival is like that of a carnival. Walk ahead and you will hear rounds of thundering applause. The ovation is usually directed at a contestant with his/her face buried in the skin of a mango while trying to eat the pulp at lightning speed. Groups of enthusiasts are also found crowding stalls where you can learn a recipe or two with mango as the main ingredient. From the humble mango lassi to the more exotic mango salsa, there is a lot to learn about.
If you believe you know your fruit well, it's time you test your 'mango quotient' at this year's festival. The three-day mango bonanza also includes a spellbinding display of over 500 varieties of the fruit, as well as a slogan writing contest and a quiz.
Sampling the fruit as you wend your way through the maze of stalls and eager visitors is an experience that only this exclusive festival can offer you. This, however, may come for a small price but there are also many vendors who put out platters of freshly cut fruit for free sampling. And if you think you can grow your own mango, then there are saplings on sale for your kitchen garden. Until the first fruit appears, you can always feast on the delicious pickles, jams, chutneys and spreads on sale at the Festival.
Apart from the popular commercial varieties of dussehri, fazli, langda, sindhuri, kesar, chausa, banganpalli, totapuri, Neelam, safeda, Amrapali, Husnara and so on, there are several unheard of types on display. Some to make it to the last festival include sadabahaar, dakwala, elaichidana, angoori tapka and even Sheila, a fruit dedicated to Sheila Dikshit, the chief minister of Delhi.
If you still have room for more mango-related stories (this, after doing the rounds of the mind-boggling display), strike a conversation with veterans like Padmashri Haji Kaleemullah Khan of Malihabad, Uttar Pradesh. He is the man who is credited with growing more than 300 varieties on a single tree! Hailing from a family that is almost synonymous with growing the dussehri, Kaleemullah's experimentations in grafting began in his early teens. Needless to say, it's not just the fruit that is the essence of the Festival. Tales, trivia and legends go a long way in adding flavour to the overall picture.
So if you want to earn your stripes as a mango lover, the International Mango Festival of Delhi is where you should be headed. If you are staying in a homestay in Delhi as your hosts to arrange transport to the venue. Your host may be able to accompany you to the Festival, helping you choose the best variety of fruits on sale and even striking a good bargain. Back at the homestay, you can also request for a cooking demonstration of recipes using mangoes or even a meal with only mango delicacies.
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Ward 5 Neighborhood Planning Assembly Meeting
Wednesday, 17 February 2010 - 7:00pm
Department of Public Works Building, 645 Pine Street
Steering Committee: Elisa Nelson, Roger Marshall, Basil Vansuch
Candidates will be given one minute to make an introductory statement and then the floor will be opened to questions with each candidate allowed a two minute response with no rebuttals.
Introduction and Ground Rules - 5 min
We will start at 7pm SHARP. Please note that we will adhere closely to all time limits. Please arrive a few minutes early so we can start on time.
City Council Candidates - 20 min
Bill Keogh, Abigail Russell
School Board Candidates - 20 min
Amy Werbel, Robin Guillian
School budget - 15 min
Fred Lane, Jeanne Collins
Instant Runoff Voting - 20 min
Kurt Wright /League of Women Voters
BED Bond and Clean Energy Assessment district - 15 min
Airport Bond - 10 min
Fire Truck Bond - 10 min
Mayoral appointment charter changes - 5 min
Open Forum - 15 min
Open discussion on what "neighbors" are looking for from the NPA in the coming year. What are your concerns and what topics should the NPA discuss? Do you have an event to announce? Please limit yourself to 2 minutes per person.
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Stay to the end of the meeting and possibly win a door prize provided by Gardeners Supply!
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A CRAFT group is urging people to visit its display at Darwen Library.
Darren Crafters at Minerva is showing off some of its creations at the Knott Street library, including cardigans, hand-knitted jewellery and crocheted items, some of which are also on sale.
The society is also encouraging new members to join them for their session, which take place at the Minerva Craft Centre, in Atlas Road, on Thursdays from 1pm to 4pm.
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Autumn Pumpkin Festival and Scarecrow Avenue
Fun for all the family - its the pumpkin party of the year 2013!
12 October 2013
Adults £3 Children £1
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Our Autumn Pumpkin Festival and how it supports the work of the Jubilee Sailing Trust.
The aim of the Jubilee Sailing Trust (J.S.T.) is to promote the integration of people of all physical abilities through the challenge and adventure of Tall Ship Sailing.
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There needs to be more certainty for policymakers and the public if they are going to go along with such a deal. Americans deserve a bigger say in their future.
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The U.S. is facing a global crisis of confidence. We may not see a sudden flight of capital from the United States, but we are increasing the odds that we will see a sudden fall in the dollar.
We haven't heard much about currency manipulation lately, but according to my friend C. Fred Bergsten of the Peterson Institute for International Economics, it was and remains a major threat to the international monetary system.
On June 20, 2013, U.S. Rep. Dan Lipinski (D-IL-) introduced H.R. 2447, "The American Manufacturing Competitiveness Act of 2013,"a bill that would brin...
WASHINGTON, June 6 (Reuters) - A bipartisan group of over half of the members of the U.S. House of Representative have signed a letter urging Presid...
Hard as it may be to believe, there are forces in Washington that oppose the revival of the U.S. manufacturing sector. Who are they, and how do we counter their efforts? I think -- roughly -- they fall into five groups.
While we wait for our political leaders to stand up to a country that is clearly cheating at trade, American producers suffer from the hidden tax of currency manipulation, our unemployment rate remains frustratingly high, and our trade deficit with China grows a little wider each day.
A new bill was introduced in the House today to fight currency manipulation, including China's. This bill would treat undervalued currency as a subsidy under U.S. trade law, meaning we could apply tariffs to goods from countries that do this.
"Currency manipulator" is the insult of the moment. Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney said during Monday night's debate that he wo...
Here's a quick primer on what the candidates have been saying, and where American manufacturing can travel in the next few years. Expect a crescendo on China next week when the candidates spar at the next debate.
While the two leading presidential candidates play to America's worst political demons, the U.S. public supports a more measured approach to China.
Romney is heating up his offensive on the China trade issue. His campaign blog just released a page promising he "will ensure China plays by the rules," and blaming the Obama administration for not doing so, starting with currency manipulation.
Mitt Romney has certainly been making some pleasant noises about fixing America's trade mess, whose $500 billion a year deficit is probably the biggest unsung reason our economy isn't turning around. But does he really mean what he says?
The growing U.S. trade deficit with China has displaced millions of jobs in the United States and contributed heavily to the crisis in U.S. manufacturing employment.
For years, China deliberately diminished the value its currency. This artificially reduces the price of Chinese exports. Simultaneously, it artificially raises the price of U.S. exports to China. Dithering by the U.S. House of Representatives on this issue has reduced America to victim status.
Ten years after the United States officially ended its yearly review of China's trade status, no one can credibly argue that China is any freer or more attentive to human rights, nor can they claim the United States is better off economically.
The Association for Manufacturing Excellence (AME) is joining with leading organizations, such as the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM), and...
The following conversation did not take place... but wouldn't it have been interesting if it did? Geithner: Glad I found you. We really need to talk...
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration on Tuesday declined to label China a currency manipulator after seeing recent increases in the value of th...
We should address this clear and present danger to our economy and our sovereignty straight on and cut off Beijing's purchases of American debt. Shutting off China's access to this currency disposal site will break their sterilization system.
WASHINGTON -- President Obama submitted three long-awaited free trade agreements to Congress this month, which were quickly ratified Wednesday, but Re...
Our current trade imbalance with China will not be fixed by currency manipulation alone, because American economic vulnerability is not rooted simply in the relative strength of the dollar.
Small steps like Currency Exchange Rate Oversight Reform Act are the hard, boring stuff out of which significant political progress is made. It won't be easy, but clearly the political momentum is in favor of doing something about this problem.
If Romney truly understands the underlying economics of our present trade mess, he knows that the present order is unsustainable. And he -- and his backers -- probably calculate that they'd rather have a Republican clean it up than a Democrat.
The dollar needs to be dispassionately evaluated for the costs and benefits of any particular price it bears, not misunderstood as a totem of national vitality.
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Join Jeff and Julie's adventures through the Pantanal! Follow daily dispatches from February 25 to March 8 in 2002 to find out what conservation efforts are going on throughout the region, while learning about species, wildlife issues, and researchers in the Pantanal.
Pantanal Dispatch Day 1 Jeff reportingActivity | Issues | PeopleAfter months of planning, the trip starts with a snag: Julie, my Expedition co-reporter's, visa is delayed. Apparently, the Brazilian Consulate of Los Angeles is swamped with visa applications this time of year because Carnival is in February. Read the full dispatch >>
Pantanal Dispatch Day 2 Julie reportingActivity | Issues | SpeciesI arrived last night, and after some quick sight seeing with Jeff, I went to bed early to get caught up on sleep. This morning Erika Guimurães and Lysandre Ribeiro, both with Conservation International in Brazil, met us at the hotel and escorted us to the Center for the Rehabilitation of Wild Animals (CRAS). Read the full dispatch >>
Pantanal Dispatch Day 3 Jeff reportingTools | Issues | Species
I woke up this morning and had to say goodbye to my roommate Kermit – a tiny green tree frog that lives in the shower stall of my room at the Refugio da Ilha. Although I have a phobia about frogs and toads, this little guy didn't bother me. Read the full dispatch >>
Pantanal Dispatch Day 4 Julie reportingActivity | Issues | Species
Within an hour of arriving at the Fazenda last night, we took a short boat ride around the lodge, and not only did we see two families of capybara, but also a pair of adult hyacinth macaws, rheas, and four giant river otters! Read the full dispatch >>
Pantanal Dispatch Day 5 Jeff reportingPeople | Issues | SpeciesI woke today tired, after a bad night's sleep that I blame on the malaria pills and the late night "Invasion of the Frogs." The cuteness I found in my former roommate, little Kermit, is now gone, with the five million cousins he has living at the Fazenda. Read the full dispatch >>
Pantanal Dispatch Day 6 Julie reportingActivity | Issues | People
Last night, after looking and not finding any anteaters, we decided that we would try again today. Guilherme and Isis, two wildlife researchers, are planning a search first thing this morning, and we are joining them. Early morning is a great time of the day here. Read the full dispatch >>
Pantanal Dispatch Day 7 Jeff reportingActivity | People | Tools
Last night I took a boat ride on the Rio Negro with Patrick and Reinaldo. It was the best place to see a sunset yet! We fly out of the Pantanal in the mid-morning, surrounded by butterflies and dragonflies in the long-grasses near the make-shift runway, and two caiman near the river fighting over a piece of cloth stolen from a nearby clothesline. Read the full dispatch >>
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We decided to get up at 5:30 am this morning in an attempt to get a jump on the wildlife viewing. The only mammals we saw yesterday were pampas deer, one giant anteater in the distance, and human researchers – so we were determined to increase our count today. Read the full dispatch >>
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Late in the evening last night, we met up with two researchers who founded and run the largest research and conservation effort in Emas. Leandro Silveira and Anah Jacomo started Pro-carnivoros in 1996, and today the group has a professional staff of sixteen biologists and veterinarians, as well as a regular team of student volunteers who help conduct the research. Read the full dispatch >>
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Behavioral finance FAQ / Glossary (Rational expectation)
This is a separate page of the R section of the Glossary
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Year/month, d: developed / discussed,
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See the related page in the glossary
Rational bubble, expectations, bias
01/12i - 02/1i,4i,9i,10i - 03/10i- 04/8i,0i
- 05/11i - 08/2i + see expectations, cascades,
mimicry, greater fool, trend, utility + bfdef2
Are there such things as rational frenzies?
Should we use them or escape them?
The rational choice tenet
Are we interested by our ...interest?
There is / was the idea among some "classical" economists
that people usually take their economic decisions in a
a rational way, in which they are supposed to:
* analyse objectively the economic situation and prospects
* and serve their interest (what is called their "utility" see that word).
This "rational choice" (see that phrase) or "rational expectations" tenet
is one of the assumptions behind the "market efficiency" (see that phrase).Behavioral economics / behavioral finance findings show instead that people suffer individual
and collective behavioral biases (see that phrase), which lead to a "bounded rationality".This article takes the examples of trend following and market exuberance
In case of market exuberance, what is rational?
Is it rational to participate in exuberant decisions with most other investors?
Or is it a bias due to pure emotional herding?
Are those investor expectations (see expectation, beauty contest...) rational?
Or delusions?
When nearly everybody does the same, can we call "rational" the bubbles and
crashes this herd behavior might lead to?
Following the frenzy consciously: at the fringe of rationality?
Better be crazy with the crazies?
Binary questions usually lead nowhere.
We could better use gradual / fuzzy logic, a practice you often see in this site.
Then, the answer to the above questions about the rationality / irrationality
of a trend-following strategy (notably in financial matters, but also inordinary life) based on group / crowd mimicry is that it is:
1) Partly rational,
2) In other words it fits a "degree of rationality",
which evolves with the circumstances,
3) And that it can easily become irrational.
A case by case approach, keeping one's eyes open is needed.
How this works in investment matters
Expecting rational money?
One thing to observe, for example, is that usually, when there is a market bubble,
many experts deny there is one and give plenty of rationalization (see that
word) to stress their point.This is often a sign that they themselves caught the disease.
The rational side of
being a (trend / bubble) follower The irrational side of
(trend / bubble) following Trends (see that word) are market phenomena
Therefore a trend-following strategy, and
that tend to persist, a dent in the random
walk hypothesis.
specifically the bubble-playing one, might
work for a time for the players.
While being conscious of the risks
involved, they might believe they will be able
to leave the game early enough when it turns
bad.As the addict says! "I can stop tomorrow".
The follower strategy might be labeled
over-rationality / rational bias / greater
fool rational delusion.
When too many people adopt it, the
market enters pricing excesses, such
as bubbles (*) and crashes.For trend followers, the danger,
often overlooked, is that the
turning point comes with aliquidity squeeze that blocks
the exit from the game
Why not be generous and take the
exit from the mad pasture,
leaving some good or bad grass on the field
for other crazy beasts who want it so much?(*) Bubbles (see that word) might be called rational at their start (see cascades).
But usually after a while there is no more rational thinking behind them, they
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economic man, rational The rational choice economic theory is the main foundation of the EMH
(efficient market hypothesis, see that phrase).In its most glorified version, the idea is that...
...all of us are well informed and emotionless geniuses
...our economic decisions are about always the best.
To take an humbler version, that theory supposes that
economic agents, as a whole and most of the time, decide
and act smartly in their own interest
in the fashion of the "economic man" (see that phrase).
In other words the theory assumes that their decision-making process in economic
areas is working:
On the basis of a good knowledge of the situation and of consistent
anticipations (see rational expectation).
According to their economic utility (their risk vs. reward
attitude, linked to their own economic situation),
Here, rationality is taken in a narrow monetary sense, not taking into account
other preferences,Or at least, to take a broader approach) according to their scale / hierarchy
of preferences.
But it is far from proven that economic agents obey such criteria; behavioral biases are
all over the place.
Rational ignorance
08/3i + see ignorance, cognitive overload,
(bounded) rationality, (near) rationality (bounded) Rationality
(near) Rationality
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Memorial Day 2008
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O beautiful for heroes proved
In liberating strife,
Who more than self their country loved,
And mercy more than life!
America! America!
May God thy gold refine,
Till all success be nobleness,
And every gain divine.
Today, pay your respects to a fallen soldier, sailor, airman, Marine – and to their loved ones still with us. And don't forget to thank the troops you meet for their service to us all. Happy Memorial Day!
Other local Memorial Day written and visual remembrances from Michael at Best Destiny, Jim at Thinking Right, Joshua at View from a Height, and Rossputin.
From farther afield, Maggie Thurber shares the history of Memorial Day, Fort Hard Knox posts the President's Prayer for Peace, and Chuck Muth recounts the heroism of four recent Medal of Honor winners.
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It is pretty easy really.
We believe in just a few things. That government is not a god to be worshipped.
That government does not and can not fill the needs of all people. Free people CAN do for themselves.
Limited government is the best government.
History has shown that liberal policies fail most of the time. See Great Society "War on Poverty". Head Start and look at CA. A Blue State Utopia where the place is about to crash and people are leaving in droves!We do not worship government and we do not want government in every part of our lives.
Liberals want to be judged by their good intentions and not by results. They say "We just did not spend enough money".
That is what we reject. If the Blue State model is so great, why don't you send your money to CA? They could really use it.
Well first off you have to live in the real world. Nobody worships the federal government. As for states rights, state government have failed in the past and will continue to do so. Limited government is not the best government. I prefer to breathe clean air, drink clean water and want to live in a world where the working man has a chance. None of that would exist without government. The private sector has a much higher failure rate then the public sector and for the most part less efficient and more costly. For example the difference between private and public prisons. CA is the 7 th largest economy in the world, has a balanced budget and still has a net influx of people. They also rank far higher then say tennnessee in education, income or any other positive metric you care to claim. Furthermore more then 70% of our national debt came under republican presidents and our disastrous economy is the result of GOP policies. Propaganda is not a substitute for reality.
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Growth through suffering.
Posted by Arnessa on October 17, 1997 at 15:16:28:
In response to agreed and something darker, written by Sherry on October 17, 1997 at 10:38:35
] Agreed and something even darker can happen and that is the shattering of the soul when you think you have found the ideal man and lost him and along with him the very ideal of manhood you required in the first place. This might well kill you as it almost did Marianne.
That is so beautifully put, Lynne. It was a "shattering of the soul" for Marianne. But as they say, what does not kill you makes you stronger. JA rarely deals with that kind of suffering in the novels, which is part of what makes S&S so special.
As a fan of Dostoevsky (who does nothing but talk about suffering), I like to believe JA would have had a similar view. There is a cleansing in suffering which makes it something to be cherished in a way. Today, the culture teaches us shrink from situations that are likely to involve suffering (at least emotional suffering. physical punishment like lifting weights is very much in vogue) but in truth, that is the only way to grow. And Marianne did grow.
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This a New York Times article about President Obama. The man pictured is Corey Booker, mayor of Newark, New Jersey. To be honest, though, I'm cutting them some slack. Obama and Booker are two mixed-race politicians who are good at their jobs, enjoy popular support, and enjoy a sort of "cool/bad-ass" ethos. Mistaking one awesome guy for another awesome guy that he really does look like isn't so bad. Believe me, the New York Times has fucked up a lot worse.
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The last poem : Broken April 21, 2007
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Life is such a beautiful game, that time and again the legends leave us, the ordinary, crying for them and begging'em not to leave. This time, it's lara. Think of Poetry. Think of art. Think of magic. Then he is the legendary poet, artist, the musician and a lot more. And such an irony, I wanted to 'see' the last poem of his, I find myself undeserved. Watched some of his great(the greatest) innings today. What else can we do? Adore them, let them to be part of our lives, sing their stories. And all that they do in the end is leave us without even caring about the amount of pain. I cannot even dare to think of this to Sachin. It might be that I am and will be trying to deceive myself,that heroes as these should not go, no matter what, it might be that I am cheating myself. Let men go larger than the game. It might hurt the game. It might make me live me in an illusion. It might be so. So be it.
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God god! the flock is ready to rule! April 5, 2007
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Now, this is beauty! I thought of many to be living in dungeons, this time I was questioning myself where I was. I could not know about 'Flock' till someone else who is famous decided to imitate the flock. What a pity! Better late than never. This is my post from inside Flock. And for some of you like me-before-a-day, here is the news.
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I've always wanted this kind of feature, to mark information for blogging as soon as I see it, and to tag links whenever I find them. Flock makes it possible. I just cannot wait for my favourite to mozilla to implement this. Till then, I will flock the way to glory.
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Blogs themselves! February 23, 2007
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These days, blogs that write about blogs themselves are turning out to be too interesting for me to resist, one that is close to what I myself wanted to write and the second 'un that is answers section in the google's blogger help center.
While all of'em, teh tricks I mean, really sound intersting, I am still not convinced why and how I , at present, should push myself hard to get that daily update.
One more thing I am still unclear about is whether to add my recent blog reads to delicious or post them on my blog as suggested by the above blogs. Given the little time delicious takes and the minimal distraction it incurs, it seems to be a better solution.
In teh mean while, more than reading blogs and writing posts, somethin else really caught my attention and gulping in some of my precious time. Some part of the rest is taken over by Mr.Dilbert.
Half-Post! – The mess those two days – Part I February 18, 2007
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This was a story, I always wanted to write, but never did. All of a sudden, while managing folders on my computer .153 at IMG (this is gonna be temporary dot7 while we format that for the good of the world, more about this latter), I found this half-post well written, but never finished. Time to do it now. Here it goes -
"Well, I didn't write about'em until this long for quite a few reasons.First,I am lazy to write,its that simple and straightforward, and I don't try to make it an issue for I know that it's common.And then, almost all the time I set out to write a log, I find myself connected to the internetwork and no one can deny the distractions the net has up in its sleeves.Lastly, I felt that there are many other stints of higher priority and importance that need my immediate attention every minute.But realising that even after this much time since then, those two days are still clear in my memory evincing the fun they've created, I finally set out to document(or rather 'blog') it. You might as well ask me why I don't have those higher priority issues,the answer you can safely get though,is that I am sitting before this dumb screen now, yet not connected to the internet, I've my test series in a couple of days and I am not in any mood to prepare for them now.
So,now that the clarifications needed are dealt with it,let's get down to the fun section.I am still fumbling for words for summarizing those two days and of what happened then.It all started with one of the second yearites making a mess by deleting one of the programs of the news management system(:-o ).It is pretty good a system, conceived by ojha and properly taken to its completion by ankit, after some days of labour.I was particularly interested in the idea.Even if we forget about all that, deleting some of it means that many of the announcements and news posts from various departments and centers of the institute would come to a halt,either permanent or temporary(if only we succeeding in getting it back to operation in time).First he startled ankit and myself that he has deleted the files…"
……..(to be continued)
Hello! January 17, 2007
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An egg is an egg is an egg is…well… an egg! January 15, 2007
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Hello!! Welcome to new year ! (You might very well wonder whether I was living in a dungeon !)
There is something indifferent with this new year, no resolutions and no planned actions. Well, may be this itself is the plan of the year. And the reasons why I am back again after such long. Firstly, we now have computers at our rooms networked and connected to internet!!! Secondly, I've read an article(slashdotted) whick talked of a group discovering some damn formula for procrastination, and so here I am set to disprove their theory that they have a formula to determine my penchant for procrastination!
And the point of discussion. Oh yes! an egg. Hellow, I am talking of chicken eggs( though I wish to talk about others as well, I've never tried others and given an opportunity, I would like to have a 'mouth' at them also.). I just love them tooooooooo much!. One can only imagine about the degree of insipidity of our mess food. On an average, we do get some decent food on some days of the week, but at the end of the week if we look back and ask ourselves – o.k. how was last week's food, only one thing comes to mind – why don't we go out throwing eggs at these mess managers? But, as we all are trying hard be called true disciples of gandhigiri, most of us settle with eating eggs, instead of using them for extremism.
And yup.. you may ask me how we get over eating an egg every day. First point to be cleared is that we dont an egg a day, instead we have 2.5 eggs a day(OMG!). And what drives us? The variety! We have boiled eggs, fried/cooked eggs, omlets, bhujiya (egg fry), full/half fries(alternate versions of omlets) and then we have rice fried with egg bhujiya, with boiled eggs and the list just goes on. Missing all this variety in my opinion would just be curse. I still remember the grief and the travails I had gone thorough when this #$%^^ bird flu attacked, and I pray God, no other IITRian should ever suffer the same ever again. If I were to name one thing that can be regarded as the greatest gift given to us by God, I would term this very cute little oval shaped thing, and I am sure, every other student going to mess and eating the bland mess food would not hesitate to agree with me.
To finish it off, I just hope you wont resort to egging at me after this post! May every day of this new year be full of eggs and I wish a happy eggy day! So, that's it, its good bye for now, I am off for another mouth watering eggy dinner
Dragons… September 23, 2006
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1..2…3…and voila!! I'm back.O.K, this time, I happen to revisit before a month turned its back.In fact,the last few week,I kind of caught in a 'bloggers' block'.
Two weeks before, I's almost done with any more contemplation about my further studies, and was about to start the actual procedures one by one.It then happened to me,while I sat down for starting my SOP,that there is no way I can start it without having to dig myself deep into my past.Then the refulgent idea of taking the SOP 'project' all the way to an autobiography occured to me. There was no way I can mention any of my memoirs without my sir, Dr.Umadhar Patnaik, an extraordinary teacher (there is no extravagance of language meant here) who is virtually the only one reason,beside my family members,for whatever I am now.
I'm going to talk a lot about him in my future posts(in his words ad infinitum..,anything less said fails and falls short in describing his greatness).But for the time being,a small story from him. This particular narration is not firsthand,I heard it from one of my seniors who in turn heard from sir himself – one day he was teaching and somehow digressed from the actual topic of discussion,he started describing this story.
There is this "Dragon Masters" university where people are taught how to deal with dragons – dragons are perilous,it's hard to exert control over them, at the same time escaping adroitly from their anger flames.So,he says,all through their stay at that university,young men are taught about the tricks of the trade,how to become masters of their job,with the capital source of inspiration coming from the professors themselves.The way the professors proceed about their didactic business itself acts as a huge stimulus for the men being trained.But the real twist and turn evinces to a student after he graduates from the university,he is exposed to the real life, where there are in actuality no dragons !! So,as it turns out that the young man cannot do a living elsewhere with the knowledge he accumulated at the university(!) , he moves on to join the university back again,but this time as a person with highly reverent skills of managing dragons and who teaches to train many more young men aspiring to become 'dragon masters'!
After he is done with the story,he revealed the actual reason behind this raconteuse.While he was a student,he pursued math not just for studying purpose or to make a living out of that.He has always loved mathematics ,as it is.And then he went on with his graduation,travelled across the world,met with the best people of the field and finally after all this,now,he finds himself teaching to senior secondary level students,which he quotes as quite similar to the ways of those young people at Dragon university . He says he loves his job.But sir,we love you!!
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text: PARKER: But, you know, Eliot, let's remember, too- a lot of Americans did come through the back door- SPITZER: Yup- PARKER: Such as Alexander Hamilton. SPITZER: Yup- PARKER: He got off the boat from the West Indies, and all he did was write the Constitution and become the first Secretary of the Treasury- and, of course, what about the 'Terminator'? SPITZER: That's right. We've got to have Arnold, who is in his last days as the great governor of California- has a little bit of a deficit that he's leaving for his successor, the 'moonbeam,' Jerry Brown. So you got Arnold, you got Alexander Hamilton- can you imagine the two of them having dinner together?