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It isn't going to be an end of the world storm. Not a lot of ice, not a lot of snow, but a little bit, plus winds blowing maybe up to 55 or 60 mph at times, plus a lot of drunk drivers has the potential to not be very pretty.
Worst of it will be north, but a lot of this will be moving through right at midnight/1am, as people are leaving or right before they head home.
Here are the maps:
Winter Weather Advisory
High Wind Warning
With the wind, even just a little bit of snow or ice will make it tough, even in Des Moines/Ames with the worst staying north.
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No worries...I'll be sleeping
It was 75 degrees. Oh yeah!
Originally Posted by Goothrey
It was 75 degrees. Oh yeah!
Times like this, I love living in the south. And I will continue feeling that way until summer hits and we are suddenly in triple digit temperatures.
You can't die. That would upset the equilibrium in the Cave.
Prohman Empire.
Not planning on going anywhere out of town tonight or tomorrow.
My plane best not be delayed!
Awesome heavy, wet snow west of Minneapolis!
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Awesome heavy, wet snow west of Minneapolis!
Nice avatar... spent countless hours in that building! :)
Not quite to me yet, but it soon will be. Winds are going to be awfully strong tonight and tomorrow, and still quite breezy for Monday too. Not a ton of snow, but the combo wind/snow isn't fun. Expecting some low visibilities / blowing snow in Minnesota and northern Iowa.
"Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it." -- Albert Einstein
Had a few friends and fellow meteorologists in northern Iowa and southern Minnesota state they had thundersnow over the past hours as the cold front pushes through. As said above, even though there isn't a lot if snow the winds with this system are definitely going to create hazardous travel conditions.
Wind is picking up in Des Moines.
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Actresses Nina Dobrev and Emma Waston brought their A-game to the red carpet for the premiere and after party for The Perks Of Being A Wallflower on Saturday (September 8, 2012) at the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival.
Emma was wearing a floral embroidered dress by Erdem while Nina opted for a striking black and white backless gown from Monique Lhuillier.
The two were joined by their cast mates, Logan Lerman, Mae Whitman, Johnny Simmons and Ezra Miller.
Prior to the premiere, Nina took to Twitter.
Getting ready for #perksofbeingawallflower premiere at #tiff… In the car on my way to @WallflowerMovie #tiff.
Co-star Emma Watson was quiet on Twitter, but that might have something to do with the fact that she's the most dangerous celebrity on the internet.
According to internet security firm McAfee, "searching for the latest Emma Watson pictures and downloads yields more than a 12.6% chance of landing on a website that has tested positive for online threats, such as spyware, adware, spam, phishing, viruses and other malware."
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Serious pucker factor here.....
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I know next to nothing. I am frequently wrong.
40 miles on the ST today. When you're blasting up the freeway @ 88 mph and it feels like Satan's Blowdryer, it's a hot day. All backroads on the return loop, which was more like 30+ miles. The Orange County backroads are what motorcycling is all about, they're the best. I was using the ST's top secret stowaway highway pegs much of the time today (they hide in the tipover blisters, see photo below, they fold out like batwings). On hot days, that bike would be much harder to ride for a couple of reasons.
Bicycles rule.
Men who can't climb mountains ride motorcycles to feel young.
What do BF cycle-with-motors riders like for winter and cold weather gear?
Prefer non-electric, budget.
Years ago, I had an Aerostitch Roadcrafter 1pc a size too big so I could layer with an electric vest and wool/synthetics.
If familiar with Aerostitch Riderwearhouse product, what is the not so pricey alternative to a Darien jacket/pants combo, insulated?
I know next to nothing. I am frequently wrong.
If I was buying new winter textile gear, I would just shop the bargain bins online and hope they had my size.
I'm more into Alpinestars these days, but the above set-up appears to be quality and fairly reasonably priced.
For uber cold, I add a Gerbing liner jacket under the leather, and their heated pants. Toasty!
New to the forum as I'm getting ready to join the cycling community. Looking at cyclocross bikes to begin off season training for my main hobby of motorcycles. Getting tired of my legs burning out halfway thru a trackday session or race. I'm wanting to keep money local, so most likely going with a leftover '13 Bianchi Zurigo the shop has in stock that seems to be the correct size for me. Test riding it on Sat. :-)
Anywho, this is my motorized 2 wheeler. 2008 Ducati 848 that I've had for 2 years now. Triple-duty for street, trackdays, and actually got my CRA novice race license in June on it.
Action shots (courtesy of Nick Campbell/SDE....who also shoots a TON of BMX events here in the upper Midwest):
So do you change out all that skins, tank, etc between race and road days? How involved of a process is that? If you do, take a few photos next time you do the transistion from road to track. Would like to see that.
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Cat 6 going on PRO....
Yep, I switch out everything and can get it all done in 50 min full track to full street when I'm motivated. Most of the time when I only had a week or two between track events I'd rock a 'half&half' look: put mirrors/turn signals & license plate on, and swap the race tail out with the carbon street one (w/brake lights/integrated rear turns). No headlight or kickstand, so I usually don't go far in this mode. Maybe a 2-3 hours at most since I have to sit on the bike for fuel stops.
Random shot a friend took the day after the ZARS trackday season finale @ BIR. Had no clue it was him until I got home and saw an FB tagged pic with the caption "Fine, don't say hi. Lol"
Here's the bike in between the swap.
Nice bike you got there...but I'll point out that last post isn't exactly interpretive dance as was asked for.
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Just picked up a second set of wheels for my bike so I don't have to swap tires, just wheels. Also will go with better brakes and pads for track. Next step race plastics, and better engine covers.
Bicycle racing definitely limits amount of track days I can do. Specially since I am chasing upgrade points.
I see hills.... Bring them on!!!
Stay calm and bring a towel.
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Nice bike! I love the sound of those, that's what a vee twin should sound like.
Here's my new to me retro standard bike. It's a 2011 Suzuki TU250, still the only one I've ever seen. I paid half the price of a new one,but check the odo:
I added more miles riding home than he put on in 3 years!
Here's the chromey side:
Here's the other side, and my beautiful dog 'Merckx':
This bike looks like an old Triumph or CB, but it's modernized, with fuel injection and such. It feels like a lot of value for a very low price. I'm not out to race or tour, so it suits me just fine. It brings back great memories for me every time I'm out, and draws interest from a lot of the old school riders that had a similar bike back in the day.
Campione Del Mondo Immaginario
That's a nice simple looking motorcycle, no frills, just good transportation.
"Normal" is just a setting on a washing machine.
"Normal" is just a setting on a washing machine.
Just found this thread! Longtime rider, mostly ducs, presently riding a 13 ducati multistrada GT and 14 MV agusta brutale 800. Just sold my streetfighter.
I do a fair number of track days, mostly at Barber in Birmingham AL a magnificent track.
I ride the MCs all year round for work and do about 20k miles a year.
Just recently gotten into cycling which I really love.


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If anybody has gone on a plane with two toddlers under 2 years old do you have any good advice? Also how can i make a safety fight for my little ones, and a calm one for my husband and i?
Thanks :)
I flew with my husband, 1yo & 2yo just before Christmas. The 2yo is mandated to have their own seat, and they are mandated to be in a car seat approved for use in airlines. Flying all the way to Hawaii, I'd advise a seat for your 1yo as well. I had mine in my lap in an Ergo carrier. Our longest flight was about 3.5hrs and I was really uncomfortable by the end; of course, I was also 19wk pregnant. You're going to need to transport your car seat anyway, so you might as well use it.
Ask to preboard; not all airports will let you do that, but those that don't are stupid *insert bad name here* who don't care about the comfort and convenience of those with children or their fellow passengers' heads. It is so much easier to get those car seats down the aisle and in place when you're not trying to avoid people's heads and arms. Plus, it makes sure you get in the right place so you don't have to bump someone out of "their" seat. Gate check your stroller so you have it as soon as you get off the plane.
Go ahead and give your kids some Tylenol, and if they have allergies that will let you justify it, Benedryl too. My 1yo was teething and I was told flying could increase that pain, and my 2yo is allergic to peanuts so I gave her Benedryl prophylactically in case our fellow passengers decided to open a package of peanut butter crackers.
Visit the dollar store and stock up on some new toys. My kids loved things with flashy lights inside, stretchy or positionable figures... stickers, pipe cleaners, snacks, new crayons, mini-magna doodles. DVD player also helped; I didn't even bother with headphones.
LPN, currently SAHM to Toddler KM & Toddler KD.
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October 5, 2015
The Death of Superman
by Jurgens, Dan and Jerry Ordway, Louise Simonson & Roger Stern
At Haughville Branch, we just recently had literary classics on display. This got me thinking about classics in other areas – for example, some of the classic graphic novels.
The Death of Superman was a great graphic novel. The story is the titanic battle between Superman and one of his most powerful foes: Doomsday. This compilation of several comics depicts the unleashing of Doomsday, his battle with the Justice League, and his encounter with the Man of Steel. The action does not stop.
If you like the graphic novel, the novel – The Death and Life of Superman – is also good.
--Recommended by Keith Dinnage, Haughville Library
September 28, 2015
Every Day I Fight
by Scott, Stuart
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Every Day I Fight is a resounding biography regarding the Sports Center Anchor Stuart Scott. Scott was initially diagnosed with cancer in 2007 while undergoing an appendectomy and learned that his appendix was cancerous. After going into remission for several years, he was again diagnosed with cancer in 2011 and 2013. The book is an emotional journey through his life with cancer, which took his life a few months before publication. Scott talks about growing up in North Carolina, his early years at ESPN and his battle to fight cancer. Personal setbacks aside, Scott went on to become one of the favorite voices of ESPN with catchphrases such as "Call him butter, 'cause he's on a roll!" "He's as cool as the other side of the pillow!" And so on. Every Day I Fight is a quick read and I highly recommend it.
— Recommended by Gregory Hill, previously Manager of the Decatur Library, now Manager of the Lawrence Library
September 21, 2015
The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir
by Yang, Kao Kalia
B Yang, K.K. YAN
What is Hmong?
Where is your country?
What are you doing here, in America? Are you ever going home again?
These were questions that were asked of the author, Kao Kalia Yang, since she came to the United States when she was six. Have you in your mind at least the curiosity about this people?
This book uniquely tells the story of Hmong people through the journey of the author's family from escaping genocide in the Lao's jungle to refugee camp in Thailand to coming to United States and their survivorship in a whole new set of hardships in this new country.
The story comes alive through different angles approached from the author's experience to her mother's to her paternal grandmother's. It is a moving account of a family, a people, their resiliency and triumph. The interwoven Hmong folk tales and customs told through grandma's story added texture to the Hmong culture.
It also reveals some facts about the Vietnam War unknown to many people, for example, the so-called "Secret War" where CIA recruited the Hmong to fight the communists and attack North Vietnamese supply lines. One third of Hmong men died during the war, another third were killed in the aftermath by the Lao Communist government in collaboration with the Vietnam People's Army during the ensuing Hmong insurgency.
This book gives a new understanding of the Hmong people at the least. It could also provoke thoughts and discussions on wars, politics, ethnic identity, survivorship and pertinent subjects. Reading groups might also find this a good candidate for discussions.
The Latehomecomer is also available as a downloadable e-book, a downloadable audiobook, and an audiobook on CD.
--Recommended by Sailan Liang, Glendale Library
September 14, 2015
Turtleface and Beyond: Stories
by Bradford, Arthur
Arthur Bradford's short story collection Dogwalker (2001) featured bizarre, slightly surreal tales told in a straightforward and earnest manner. Bradford's second short story collection, Turtleface and Beyond (2015), is much the same. The main difference is that this time all of the stories, while technically unrelated, feature a common narrator named Georgie. Georgie is a young man who seemingly does nothing but wander around the world and find himself in a number of strange situations, yet, despite numerous mistakes and errors in judgment, manages to come out emotionally unscathed and able to recount his exploits to the readers. Georgie has an affair with an Israeli woman in Thailand, loses part of his leg in a wood chipper, and watches the NBA Finals in a shack in a remote area of Vermont. Throughout the book he relates these stories in a charming, simple manner that is completely devoid of irony or cynicism.
--Recommended by Adam Todd, Spades Park Library
September 7, 2015
Dreamer's Pool: A Blackthorn & Grim Novel
by Marillier, Juliet
Growing up, I loved tales of mystery and magic. A well-crafted fairy tale was a treasure, and Dreamer's Pool is just such a story. In this first book of her new series "Blackthorn and Grim," well-established author Juliet Marillier entices the reader with elements of action, romance, vengeance, and morality. Set in the fictional kingdom of Erin, loosely based on medieval Ireland, main characters Blackthorn and Grim aren't your typical hero and heroine. Both have literally tortured pasts that have left deep scars on their bodies and psyches. At the eleventh hour, Blackthorn is offered a deal by the fey nobleman Conmael. He will free her from prison and imminent execution, in exchange for her promise to use her skills as a healer in a small village, helping any in need who may come to her. She must also put aside her desire for vengeance against her tormentors for seven years. Though skeptical of Conmael's motives, Blackthorn accepts the deal freeing both herself and Grim to make a new life in a faraway hamlet with more than its share of excitement. Enter a scholarly prince, villainous baker, traumatized lap dog, and an enigmatic giant whose stories are seamlessly woven into the main storyline of Blackthorn's attempts fulfill her geas. I highly recommend this book for lovers of fantasy, dark fairy tales, historical fiction mystery, suspense, or anyone looking for a good yarn.
Dreamer's Pool is also available as a downloadable e-book.
--Recommended by Katherine McFarland, Lawrence Library


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My little sister Courtney graduated from college with an interior design degree a couple of weekends ago and I couldn't be more proud of her! It's so crazy to think that we are both college grads. From babies to graduates in a flash!A rare photo of all of us (aka the best family ever).
So happy to be able to call my sister one of my best friends. She's the most hilarious, kind, beautiful person I know. Seriously don't know what I'd do without her!
I am just the luckiest in the sibling department. Love them both to pieces.
Congrats on graduating, Court! May all your interior design dreams come true.


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Who is the greatest comic book villain of all time? There's no doubting the ruthlessness and uncalculating way the Joker operates. When it comes to Batman villains, he clearly holds the top spot among them. He is the only character that has hit so close to Batman's home. He's already shot and crippled Batgirl and brutally killed Robin. Both may have gotten 'better' but the fact he managed and did so remains. Since the beginning of the "New 52," there really hasn't been much of the Joker seen, aside from his face. The big question on all of our minds is where will he turn up next?
Today DC has announced that the Joker will return in October's "Death in the Family" story arc and it will be in a "horrifying, unnerving and huge way."
Who will be responsible for bringing the Joker back? How about Scott Snyder, Greg Capullo and Jonathan Glapion in the pages of BATMAN? It seems it will be more than just Batman dealing with Joker. Batman will also have to fight to protect his secret identity along with those who fight alongside him.== TEASER ==
We've heard Scott Snyder talk about his affection and fascination with Batman. How does he feel about Joker? Snyder shared a few words on DC's blog.
Joker is my favorite villain of all time. Not just in comics. In everything - film, books, TV. He's the greatest, hands down. So this story is something extremely important and personal to me - something I've been building in my head ever since I started working in Gotham. Basically, this is my big exploration of the Joker, my ARKHAM ASYLUM or THE KILLING JOKE, only bigger in scope. Bottom line: it's the biggest, baddest, most shocking Joker story I could tell. This is Joker completely unleashed. He has been away for a full year planning this revenge, watching, plotting, setting things up. And now he's back. He has his traps set, his knives sharpened... And wait 'til you see him. Greg's sketches literally gave me chills. Point blank: This is Joker like you've never seen him before. He has a mission. He has a secret. And he has a serious axe to grind with Batman. It isn't going to be pretty, but it's going to be a wild ride. Thanks for taking it with us.
Scott's not the only one excited. Here's what Greg Capullo had to say:
When Scott told me that he'd written a Joker story for our next arc, I couldn't contain my excitement. Talk about a dream come true! For me, the Joker is the ultimate rogue and the villain I most wanted to draw. I gotta tell you, after hearing what the story is about, this isn't a dream come true. It's a nightmare! A macabre and bloody, flesh crawling nightmare. We hope you'll have the nerve to face what's coming. Warning: It ain't for the faint of heart!
If those words aren't enough to get you excited, I'm not sure why you're reading this news. As exciting as this is, there clearly is a reason to be a little scared. This isn't going to be a fun romp in the park for Batman. Snyder and Capullo already put Batman through the ringer with the Court of Owls. This sounds like it's going to be an encounter unlike any the two have had before.
The Joker makes his return on October 10 in Batman #13. Mark your calendar.


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ROCKFORD (WIFR) – No matter which company the city decides should pick up our garbage, it sounds like we will be paying more to have our trash removed from the curb.
The city's current garbage disposal contract is up at the end of this year and right now, council members are looking at four options, that all end with us paying more.
Right now we pay just under $11 for garbage pick-up alone. Over $15 a month total for sanitation, but some alderman say disposal costs are rising and companies are asking for more money. Right now, there are two bidders for a contract with the city. The current contract holder, Rock River Disposal, is going up against Advance Disposal, a company based in Davis Junction some folks say the higher rates don't sit well with them.
"Living check to check is hard, every month or every year something is going up, the city is always out to get a buck here or there, a lot of the leaders today it's all about that dollar bill," said Rockford homeowner Moria Anthony.
The four options are:
-Garbage service stays the same, $2.56 more a month
-Unlimited Garbage pick-up, company supplies garbage and recycling totes, $3.92 more a month
-Unlimited garbage pick-up, company supplies a recycling tote, $2.90 more a month.
-Unlimited garbage pick-up, with 32 gallon recycling can supplied by company, $3.36 more a month.
The city's finance and planning committee will go over the plans next Tuesday.
Alderman Tim Durkee tells us he's expecting both companies to go back and forth a bit with their offers, as it's still early in the process. It could still be weeks before the council gets a chance to approve a new contract.


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I'm loving all of the winter squash inspiration I've been seeing lately! Loving it so much that I wanted to gather together recipes that I want to try. To see some of my picks – and to add your own, if you have some – check out my post at the Cafe Zupas blog today!
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Rosa says:
So pretty!
Heidi @foodiecrush says:
Love the b-nuts! And pretty pic lady. Thanks for including me in your roundup!
Kristy says:
I'm loving winter squash too – soups, spicy veggie dishes and now I'm trying to work up something of an assortment for Thanksgiving. 🙂
Monet says:
Will do! I just made some butternut squash bread. Thank you for always bringing me such delicious treats. I hope you are having a wonderful and relaxing evening. My stomach is full of Mexican food and I'm off to dream yummy dreams!
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text: I have "started to work out" a dozen times over the past two years, including two days ago. I've always been told to give your muscles a day to rest so they're not sore when you work out again. Problem is, they've had a day of rest but my pecs are still sore. I probably was lifting too high of weights and shocked my body, so I'll definitely keep it a little easier next time. But should I wait an additional day until the soreness leaves, or go ahead and lift today to keep the one-day-on-one-day-off principle going? Or maybe lift on everything except pecs?


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Updated: Mar 2, 2016 Published: Jun 1, 2014
Ian is an experienced business journalist and editorial director of Crimson's business websites Startups.co.uk, Growing Business, MyBusiness.co.uk and Is4profit.com.
Previously, he created Entrepreneur TV – exclusive video interviews with more than 60 household name entrepreneurs such as Sir James Dyson, Specsavers' Dame Mary Perkins and Kwik-Fit's founder Sir Tom Farmer.
He was recognised as a member of the Courvoisier Future 500 in 2009, has contributed to The Guardian and Daily Telegraph's business sections, and has edited a number of business books as well as publications for the likes of Barclays, the Department of Business, Innovation & Skills, and Sony.


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I have been looking into get a bent so I can start riding after a 2 year layoff. A car accident left me with injuries that prevent me from riding my DF bike, and I love riding, so it looks like a recumbent is going to be the answer to my riding needs.
I am currently 6'4" and 290lbs (and losing). When I was riding my DF, I had gotten to where I could comfortably ride a metric century with plans of attempting my first century. I would like to keep at my goals.
I live down in Huntington Beach. Any help on where I can find a shop or two so I can test ride would be greatly appreciated.
Any tips or advice would also be helpful.


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Just as Jonathan Borofsky's "Hammering Man" is celebrating his 21st birthday, Seattle Art Museum is set to unveil its brand-new public art commission: Doug Aitken's "Mirror," a permanent LED installation that wraps around the museum's northwest corner, that will monitor changes in SAM's immediate vicinity and reflect them in ever-changing imagery.
"Mirror" has been imagined not only specifically for our Emerald City — the beating urban heart of some of the wildest and most spectacular natural terrain on the continent — but for the very corner where Union meets First Avenue. Virginia Wright, the widow of Bagley Wright who had commissioned "Mirror" shortly before he died, puts it like this: "Something was needed to mark the building as a museum rather than an office building."
" 'Mirror' came about through a sense of curiosity and frustration," says Aitken, a Los Angeles- and New York-based artist. "We all occupy urban spaces: gray corridors surrounded by structures with little or no life to them. I was interested in the idea of urban spaces that could live in relationship to what was happening around them, as opposed to being fixed and rigid." He intends "Mirror" to transform the experience, as if you were facing the museum and then turned and looked in the opposite direction. Immediately the "gray corridor" of First Avenue is replaced by vistas of Puget Sound and Bainbridge Island and the Olympics.
Aitken's ambition for "Mirror" is extraordinary. Just like he finds architecture's fixed nature frustrating, he intends this new piece to escape the static condition of most artworks. He wants it to be a "living system," genuinely timeless and constantly changing.
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He points out that art history narratives depend on works of art that "leave the studio fixed and remain inanimate for the rest of their existence" and that serve as indicators of the particular moment when they were made. This is every bit as true of the "Hammering Man," despite the repetitive slow-motion of his rigid left arm, as it is for the 1665 Rembrandt self-portrait that's currently visiting Seattle Art Museum from Kenwood House. Instead Aitken sees "Mirror" as something that won't be fixed in time: "I wanted to create a work that I could walk away from and let it live on its own."
But what is fascinating about "Mirror" is that it doesn't live altogether on its own. Aitken might have walked away from it, but he has left it in the company of everything else that happens around it: the light in the sky above it, the number of passers-by and the speed of cars driving down First Avenue, even how warm the air is. These are the stimuli that "Mirror" responds to in composing the unique sequences of images that appear on its LED screen and shoot up and down the exterior of the building.
The visual elements that make up these sequences took Aitken "hundreds and hundreds of hours of filming." He imagined the museum at the center of a series of concentric circles — the first encompassing only the immediate vicinity, the next the whole of downtown Seattle and then, after a number of others radiating further and further afield, a final huge circle reaching as far as the Pacific Coast and Mount Rainier. Then, as Aitken explains, "I used this as a dividing system and filmed as much as I could within each ring. And I wasn't looking for the 'greatest hits' or visual clichés, but for what I happened to find there, because a texture or a surface can be just as important as a silhouetted mountain ridge."
As though to reflect the particular nature of Seattle's artistic heritage, Aitken conceives "Mirror's" processes in musical terms — "There was no real blueprint that I knew of in any visual art," he says — and he parallels the way in which "Mirror's" imagery evolves to "structures within music, especially minimalist music." (It's not coincidental that Sunday's "happening" to introduce "Mirror" to the public will feature an appearance and performance of work by minimalist composer Terry Riley.) "These are repetitious structures that in the end turn out not be repetitious at all," is how he puts it. And the appeal of music connects to Aitken's most basic intentions for his new work. "Music is like a liquid. You can never hold on to it, and you can never freeze it. With 'Mirror,' I wanted to make liquid architecture."
Virginia Wright is delighted with the results: "I think Doug Aitken is that rare combination, an artist who is both critically esteemed and, at the same time, popular with the general public. I have no doubt 'Mirror' will become a Seattle landmark."
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September 17, 2012
Chair Hilley said she had no specific items to report since this was the first meeting of the year. She then introduced the following student representatives on the Council:
Chair Hilley encouraged members to review the Faculty Council Primer on the Council's website to familiarize themselves with procedures and to look at the membership list. She also encouraged members to get to know their fellow Council members and put faces with names. After noting that most Faculty Council members were also on General Faculty Standing Committees, she asked that the members follow the progress of any legislation that may be forwarded from the standing committees to the Faculty Council and to make sure that issues proceed through the approval process. Next, Chair Hilley asked Council members to consider nominating a colleague for the Civitatis Award, to acknowledge those who have provided outstanding service to the University. She recalled her own good feelings upon receiving the award last year.
- Thor Lund, Student Government President (engineering/engineering honors)
- Wills Brown, Student Government Vice President (psychology)
- Simeon Bochev, Student Government Representative (electrical and computer engineering)
- Michael Morton, Senate of College Councils President (journalism)
- Andrew Clark, Senate of College Councils Vice President (international relations and global studies)
- Michael Redding, Graduate Student Assembly President
- Joel Simmons, Graduate Student Assembly Vice President, who was unable to attend the meeting.
Chair Hilley announced that she and Chair Elect Hart would be attending a UT System Faculty (SysFac) Advisory Council meeting later in the week, where representatives from all the other UT campuses would come together to meet with the Commissioner of the Higher Education Coordinating Board and Representative Tryon Lewis of the Texas House of Representatives. The group would also hear presentations and discuss issues with UT System administrators, including Executive Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs Pedro Reyes and Legal Council Dan Sharphorn. She asked Faculty Council members to forward to her any concerns or issues they would like addressed at that meeting.
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This Week In Home Entertainment: True Blood Season 5, The Last Stand And More
By Jessica Rawden 2013-05-21 10:39:10 comments
Beautiful Creatures Blu-ray
Its difficult to bring a teen franchise to the big screen that will have a broad enough appeal to entice fans from different age groups to show up. Warner Bros. recently attempted the feat with Beautiful Creatures, a warm teen romance offering witchcraft and high end fashion displays, as well as plenty of the usual teen tropes. Beautiful Creatures box office take wasnt close to enough to justify moving forward with a full franchise release, but even so, the script is a huge leap forward from its source material, and offers audiences reasons to invest.
Richard LaGraveneses film tells a story of a young romance between a boy named Ethan (Alden Ehrenreich) and a girl named Lena (Alice Englert ). The two meet at school in a small southern town where Ethan is smitten immediately. Lena, on the other hand, is busy being ostracized as the relative of a recluse and doesnt notice Ethan right away. Eventually, the romance is able to blossom, just in time for a loud, proud family of casters and a curse that has lasted for generations to come into play. If that plotline sounds campy, it is, but its also a fun and enjoyable piece of fluff led by an all-star cast that also includes Emmy Rossum, Jeremy Irons, Emma Thompson, Viola Davis, and Margo Martindale.
This isnt to say Beautiful Creatures is the perfect film. It runs long, and while I personally didnt feel it dragged, I have heard others relate that theory. Additionally, the film may sorely disappoint anyone who enjoyed the characters and the detail present in the book. Theres still plenty of detail in the movie, but it comes in the form of CGI and costume choices while many of the books subplots and eccentricities are shortened or cut out completely. Anyone who enjoys soapy drama and can dig the occasional supernatural romance should be able to find plenty to like about Beautiful Creatures, but those who dont fit that description may want to look elsewhere.
Beautiful Creatures is available via Amazon.
Best Special Feature: Even the introductions to the bonus features are melodramatic on the disc. Most of the segments are short, behind-the-scenes takes on certain aspects of the film, including adapting the book and telling a tale of young love. While, each of these could have been included in an extended Making of segment, I especially enjoyed the Designing the Costumes segment, which takes a look into the wild costume design in the series. If you are a fan of period looks and especially lacy, Victorian looks, youll probably like this segment, as well.
Other Special Features:
Book To Screen
Between Two Worlds
Forbidden Romance
Alternate Worlds
Beautiful Creatures: Designing the Costumes
Deleted Scenes
Theatrical Trailers
Book Trailer for Icons
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From left: Ramil Mariano, Ala Aeldien Mohamed, Mohamed Abu-Mussa, Abdul Hameed Mohammad Ameen, Rashid Andaila, Mounir Fahmi, Abdulrahman Al Bakri, Roberto Perez and Abdalla Abdelgadir at the event.
DOHA: A member of the ambulance team at Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC) has been honoured with a prestigious award for his efforts in guiding a man to assist his pregnant wife deliver their baby.
Abdul Hamid Mohamed Ameen, Emergency Medical Dispatcher (EMD), won 'Dispatcher of the Year' awarded by the International Academy of Emergency Dispatch's (IAED) annual Middle East Navigators conference in Doha recently.
Ameen won the award for his efforts in helping a man assist his pregnant wife deliver their baby by walking him through the crucial instructions during an emergency call.
Fellow dispatcher Mohamed Abu Mussa was also lauded for his excellence and commitment to his job, having scored the highest compliance scores, which are part of quality initiatives at the Ambulance Service, for nine months in a row.
IAED covers more than 3,100 emergency centres across the world and its members annually receive more than 70 million emergency calls. It also offers internationally accredited training courses for dispatchers and other emergency professionals.
Rashid Andaila, Director of Public Relations at Ambulance Services, said the organisation works tirelessly to deliver a timely response in all emergency cases and the case involving Ameen highlights the critical role the community can play in an emergency.
"It is important when calling 999 to give as much information as possible, including a detailed location and other crucial details to our medical dispatchers to enable them to get assistance to you as soon as possible. You must help us help you," he said.
People are being urged to dial 999 immediately in case of an emergency as part of HMC's new campaign to raise awareness of the critical role the Ambulance Service plays in the community.
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Be-Rad Entertainment has the rights to the official WarGames – WOPR mobile game for iOS and Android devices. This is the third game from Be-Rad Entertainment. Below is the description from their website:
"Step into the role of the iconic WOPR computer as you wage intense battles of Global Thermonuclear War against characters from the movie. Take on David Lightman (played by Matthew Broderick), Jennifer Mack (played by Ally Sheedy), McKittrick (played by Dabney Coleman), and others."
This brings to mind a variety of questions about this game. What type of game-play will it be? Are you serious that I get to battle against the characters from the game? Global Thermonuclear War on my mobile device? How awesome is that! When launching this game you are greeted with the familiar and spooky sounds of David Lightman's computer asking you, "Shall we play a game?"
The game-play is nothing what I was expecting. I was pleasantly surprised to find out that it was a match-type game. Not your typical match 3, but match up to however many like-items you can in a row. I would have to compare this to the PS Mobile game Loot The Land as the game-play is very similar in the fact that you drag and select multiple matches any way you can. This is done by dragging your finger across the touch-screen. The more you match the more you get to either heal yourself, add to your radar which if you reach 100% of the blue radars you get to choose a power-up to attack your enemy, heal yourself or attack enemy pieces on the playfield for x amount of damage. It may not seem like there is too much strategy involved in this type of game, but I found myself thinking about what move I make now and how will that affect me in future turns.
After winning a "round" you are awarded with kb, the games "currency" and depending on how well you did determines the amount of "kb" you receive. This can then be used to purchase MODS or TACTICS that add to your strategy during game-play You can alternatively purchase more "kb" in-game from Be-Rad, but the game is winnable by just choosing to try to win the "kb" so you can upgrade and/or purchase more MODS/TACTICS. There are mini-games along the way, one that I encountered was a Poker style game where you had to match suits of a deck of cards with missiles mixed in with timers counting down the amount of time until you are attacked. The idea in this mode is to get the "missiles" to the bottom of the play field before the counter reaches zero. It was a nice addition to the match style and quite difficult to master as I played it on Hard Difficulty and took me about 5 attempts to pass it. Some of the TACTICS that I used were a missile, when used costs $20 in-game and it gathers together all available missiles on the play-field and attacks my opponent with them equaling -1 HP for every missile used. The TANK TACTIC removes a whole row from the play-field and the GRENADE TACTIC destorys everything within 1 space of where you place it. MODS are used when your BLUE RADAR reaches 100% you get to select a MOD to use against your opponent. There is quite a bit to do in this game and strategy sure does come into play.
The final outcome is to unlock the Launch Codes as it was WOPR's main objective in the movie. There is no mulit-player option for this game. There is an "ENDLESS MODE" that pits you against each character in succession and every time you beat one of the characters the hit points for the next challenger increases by 1. So your first enemy has a 1/1 hit point and the next level is 2/2 etc. This is a nice welcome change to the STORY mode.
Graphics are presented to show what I remember from the "Protovison" graphics from the movie, as Be-Rad Entertainment has gotten the rights from MGM Studios to produce this game. The presentation is exactly what I would have expected from WOPR including the sounds of text going across the screen. The background music was enjoyable and only added to the tension of the moment while I was playing. The only omission is voice acting, but it is presented as old-school style text adventure with a "skip" button for those that do not nor want to follow the story. I used the skip option after I had a hard time passing a level.
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I would have to say I was very surprised at the level of detail and immersion I felt playing this game. I have taken to playing a level or two when I get a chance during the day. This is probably one of the best Officially Licensed games I've played in a long time. Your return on investment with this is high, as it costs less than a dollar. I've played some mobile games on my phone and this is by far one of the best I've gotten my hands on. This is highly recommended if you enjoy Bejeweled type games and replay value is high as well.
Publisher/Developer: Be-Rad Entertainment
Release Date: JUNE 15, 2012
Platforms: iOS, Android – Digital: Yes
Available on the
Apple App Store, Google Play and Amazon AppStore
Game Cost: $0.99
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Your intuition serves you well when you believe this is wrong and should not be happening. A person loses their rights to carry a driver's license when they lose their license; nothing more, nothing less. The police aren't able to come and remove your license plates simply because you no longer have a valid driver's license. This would be akin to them doing such for an individual who simply allows their license to lapse, but keeps their car in their garage.
Unfortunately, it does not sound as though the police in your town will give you the plates back just by you saying "please." Here is what you need to do; and you don't even need an attorney although having one would be easier:
File a motion for return of property with your local court clerk or prothonotary. This can be done at your local courthouse. State the facts in the motion (i.e., you lost your license and the police came and took your plates). The State will then have an opportunity to tell the judge why they feel taking your plates was a legally viable option. The judge will then order the police to (a) give you back the plates or (b) that they have acted according to law.
As stated before, it is my opinion the police have absolutely no legal rights to your plates and, thus, you should be able to win this in court with little argument.
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Wenger urges Arsenal to turn on the style against Fulham
16:47 09 November 2012
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Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger has challenged his side to lift the "flat" atmosphere at the Emirates Stadium with a strong performance against Fulham.
The Gunners head into the clash with the Cottagers looking to bounce back from last weekend's defeat at Manchester United, and build on the midweek Champions League draw away at Schalke.
Wenger admits recent lacklustre displays have left the Arsenal fans less than impressed, but maintains it will be the team's duty to get them off their seats again tomorrow.
"We just have to play good games. The atmosphere comes from the team, not the fans, and we have to think like that," Wenger said.
"The vibes come out with the quality of our game, the fans are behind the team. That is what is about us.
"I agree we had one or two flat games at home, especially against Schalke, even the game against QPR.
"I believe that it is down to the quality of our game - that is our responsibility."
While Arsenal may be struggling for consistency to climb up into the top four, Fulham head into the weekend on the back of a four-match unbeaten run, with only one defeat in the last seven league games, and are level on points with the seventh-placed Gunners.
Wenger knows Martin Jol's side will represent another stern test of his squad's character.
"Fulham are very efficient going forward," the Frenchman said.
"They have 1/8Hugo 3/8 Rodallega, they have of course 1/8Dimitar 3/8 Berbatov, and offensively they are a side who creates many chances and who scores goals - 21 goals is quite impressive in 10 games."


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Diagnostic Testing
Many procedures and tests are used to see if and where cancer cells are present in the body. The exact combination of tests that are used to diagnose a patient depends on the symptoms that are present and the type of cancer that is suspected. In order to decrease pain during and/or discomfort during tests and procedures doctors and nurses may recommend local anesthesia (simply numbing the skin with medicine), conscious sedation or deep sedation/general anesthesia. Some of the most commonly-prescribed diagnostic tests and procedures include:
A biopsy is a test in which a small piece of tumor or tissue is taken out of the body to be examined for cancer cells. Biopsies are done to determine the exact type of cancer that is present, if any. A biopsy can be performed using a small needle to obtain a piece of the lump, or it may be done during surgery. This procedure may require the use of anesthesia or numbing medicine (a local anesthetic) in the area to be biopsied. The exact procedure depends upon the area that needs to be biopsied, and the age of the child.
A test called a bone marrow aspirate is done to see if cells in the bone marrow are healthy. Bone marrow is the liquid/spongy part inside bone, where blood cells are made. For this test, a needle is placed in a bone (usually the hipbone) and a small amount of bone marrow is pulled into a syringe. It is sent to the laboratory to be tested for cancer cells. The child may feel some pain when the needle is placed in the bone, and may feel pressure when a syringe removes the bone marrow cells.
While a bone marrow aspirate is performed to look at the blood cells in the bone marrow, a bone marrow biopsy is used to study an actual piece of the bone. It may be completed at the same time as a bone marrow aspirate. For this test, a needle is placed in a bone (usually the hipbone); a small piece of bone is removed and sent to the pathology laboratory to be tested. The child may feel some pain when the needle is placed in the bone and may feel pressure or "tugging" when the needle removes a small piece of bone.
A lumbar puncture (also known as a spinal tap) is performed to see if there are cancer cells or an infection in the fluid around the brain and spinal cord. The child will usually lay on his or her side during this test, with the chin tucked to the chest and knees pulled up to the chest. When the back is in a curved position, a needle is placed between the bones of the spine (vertebrae) below the level of the spinal cord. Fluid from the spinal canal is then removed through the needle and collected into a tube that is sent to the laboratory for testing. For some types of cancer, chemotherapy may be given into the spinal canal through the same needle after the cells are removed for testing.
A CT scan (Computerized Axial Tomography scan) is a special x-ray that uses a computer to make a three-dimensional picture of the inside of the body. These scans are performed in the department of radiology. The patient lies still on a table while the scanner takes pictures around the body. Some children need sedation to be able to relax and lie still for the whole test. Contrast day may be given through the bloodstream or by mouth.
An MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging) uses a special machine to take pictures of the inside the body. The scanner uses magnetic waves to create an image of the inside of the body. The MRI can take from 30 minutes or up to two hours. Some children may need sedation to lie still for the whole test.
An ultrasound works by bouncing sound waves off solid parts of the body. The sound waves create an image of the tissue or organ that is being studied. The image can be seen on a screen on the ultrasound machine. Clear jelly is placed on the part of the body that is being studied. A small round handle is then placed on the jelly and moved around to get a clear picture of the tissue or organ that is being studied.
A bone scan looks at the bones to see if there is a tumor or infection present. A special dye called a radioactive marker is given through an IV before the pictures are taken. This dye contains a small amount of radiation, about the same amount as an x-ray. The dye goes to the spots in the bones that are not normal. It may take up to an hour to take the pictures and because it is important for the child to lie still during this test some children may need sedation. This test must be done in the Nuclear Medicine Department. Other Nuclear Medicine tests include PET scans, Gallium scans and MIBG scans.
An echo (echocardiogram) test helps doctors evaluate the strength and function of a child's heart. The test uses sound waves to create a picture of the heart. In preparation, a clear jelly is placed on the chest. The person doing the test will apply a small round handle to the chest, to send sound waves to the heart. A picture of the heart will be seen. Echo tests are conducted by the Division of Pediatric Cardiology.
Pulmonary function tests (PFT) evaluate how well the lungs are working. The test measures how much air the lungs can hold, and how well your child can let air out of his or her lungs. The machine that performs the PFT is a confined space with clear walls and a seat inside. The child is be asked wear a nose plug and blow into a plastic mouthpiece connected to the machine. The machine measures the amount of air breathed in and the force of the air breathed out. The child will probably be asked to repeat the test a few times to get an accurate reading. PFTs are conducted by the Pediatric Pulmonary Division.
An audiogram is a hearing test. Since some chemotherapy drugs can affect hearing, patients may be periodically monitored throughout treatment. For this test, earphones will be placed on the child. He/She will be asked to raise the right hand when the sound is heard in the right ear and the left hand when the sound is heard in the left ear. The child will be asked to repeat a list of words to test speech. Very young children will not wear headphones. If the child is too young to communicate, play audiometry is used. For example, the child may be asked to throw a block into a box. This test takes 10 to 15 minutes and parents may stay in the room during the test.


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This page contains a selection of sites that contain information related to health expectancy.
Links to REVES
EU links
Healthy Life Years Statistics (Eurostat Statistics explained)
European Innovation Partnership on Active and Healthy Ageing
European Innovation Partnership on Active and Healthy Ageing
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Site hosted by the Technologie Informatique et Gestion des Ressources TIGR MRI & BioCampus Montpellier
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Equity Analysts: "In A Bull Market, You Don't Need Them. In A Bear Market, They'll Kill You"
From bull market gods and goddesses of the 1980s and 1990s, stock analysts now preside over a much more modest kingdom. Nic Colas, of ConvergEx notes that the world has moved on to new golden calves, from currencies (with great leverage) to exchange traded funds (with generally less volatility) to macro analysts (the current Zeuses and Heras). This even extends to the world of the retail investor – there are far more Google searches in the U.S. for "Storage auctions" (246,000/month) than for "stock research" (just 33,000/month), and the rate of decline resembles a fast-decaying radioactive particle. Yet the rebirth of the business is already underway. Analysts now focus on developing useful proprietary datasets, exclusive expert resources, channel-checking contacts, and deeper management relationships. The public's attention to active money management and stock picking will always be linked to overall market performance, but when the next bull market arrives those analysts who remain – and innovate - will be well-positioned to climb back to the top of the food chain.
Nic Colas, ConvergEx: Death (and Rebirth) of a Stock Analyst
Suppose for a moment that you are a money manager with just one client, whose investment more than covers your day-to-day expenses at your customary 2% management fee. The catch to this happy arrangement is that this investor wants a 10% absolute return and will pull his capital if you do not achieve it. On the plus side, he will keep the money with you for as long as you achieve this bogey. Drawdowns don't matter; just make 10%. Oh, and the performance fee is 50% of anything over that target.
One more catch – you can only use one external resource in your investment process. Our mystery client wants you focused. Your choices are:
- Unlimited access to one major broker's sell side research and investment conferences.
- Top-customer status at one expert network of your choice.
- All the quantitative research resources you would like. The catch here is that you can only hire a few programmers to exploit this content.
- Unlimited access to a top-tier macro research firm, with resources deep in every major central bank around the world.
In the current investment environment, the last choice is the lay-up answer. With asset price correlations near 90% for a wide range of investment choices, the on-off switch to market direction sits in Washington, Frankfurt, Beijing, and other centers of political and central bank power. The other choices would give you little insight here. Even those brokerages with excellent macro research and alumni in high places don't seem to be able to call the twists and turns of macro policy.
That little case study is just one reason for the declining interest in single-stock research, especially in the United States. There is, of course, the range-bound equity market of the last +10 years as well. There is an old saying about analysts among the grey hairs of Wall Street: "In a bull market, you don't need them. In a bear market, they'll kill you." And in a flat market, it seems, both apply. A few datapoints to highlight the decline of stock research in American capital markets:
- Most surveys of institutional investors – mutual fund and hedge fund managers, mostly – find that these major clients of Wall Street firms pay their brokers for management access far more than the insights of their analysts. The most commonly surveyed percent of commissions for access to conferences and 1:1 meetings is 60%. The buy-sell-hold recommendations, written reports and visits from analysts are collectively worth more like 20% of the commission pool.
- Retail investors have a similar level of ennui at the moment when it comes to equity research. If you look at Google Adwords search count data for the term "Stock Research" you'll find that the average month only registers about 33,000 searches for the term. Thanks to several reality TV shows, the term "Storage auction" – the business of buying abandoned storage lockers to resell their contents at a profit – gets 246,000 searches per month. At the crudest level of comparison, this means the average American thinks wading through bedbug infested storage lockers is preferable to sorting out the winners and losers in their portfolios.
- Google Trends data shows the rate of decline in the search for "Stock research," and the decline since 2006 looks like some fast-decaying radioactive isotope. Interest in the term saw a 50% reduction from 2006 to 2008, and a further reduction of like amount since then. That essentially means that searches for the term now sit 75% lower than just six years ago. By contrast, the search term "ETF" is exactly where it was in 2006, which may sound like a pyrrhic victory save the tough investment environment of the last five years.
It is, however, too soon to put the stock research business in the same receptacle as buggy whips, road atlases and the yellow pages. First of all, brokerage firm analysts are the single most efficient billboards available for those companies' thought leadership in a given sector. An analyst that "Shows well" to the firm's investment clients and corporate customers is still a valuable franchise. How else do you think all those management meetings come to be in the first place?
Even outside the narrow confines of brokerage research, enterprising independent analysts are remaking the single stock research game along a new set of parameters. And some that aren't so new, but have fallen into disrepair. Some examples here:
- Quantitative data sets and surveys. When I first started as a stock analyst at First Boston in 1991, my mentor was a 20 year veteran named John McGinty who covered the machinery sector. Every quarter he would call all the Caterpillar dealer around the world – there were about 350 at the time, I believe – and ask how business was going. Sales trends, inventory levels, and the like. He published the findings, which were always well received since no one else did the work.
The world has moved on a bit since those surveys. Many U.S. listed companies take a dim view of analysts calling their store locations – even those that are franchised - or trying to wheedle information about of mid level executives. And the Securities & Exchange Commission looks on such leaks with an equally discouraging eye.
Against those forces of containment you have the expansive push of technology. Credit cards companies now have purchase data for hundreds of millions of consumers. The Internet makes certain business models – think online booking of airplane tickets – entirely transparent to anyone who can ping travel websites every hour and look up the average seat cost for every flight.
When you dovetail this newfangled way to collect information with an increasingly computer-based trading architecture in the U.S., the future of stock research and analysis comes into sharp focus. While quantitative investors and high frequency trading operations currently have remarkably short-duration investment holding periods, there's really nothing in their platforms that limits them to 15-second periods of stock ownership. As more data about consumer spending and behavior goes online or into corporate data centers, that information will be sold to Wall Street. It's already happening.
- Narrow industry focus/select distribution. At ConvergEx we have a robust business promoting select research providers to institutional clients, and in this particular area the single-stock analyst is still welcomed – on their merits – into the investment workflows of hedge funds and long-only shops. Prospective clients want to see a small client list (less than 20 is ideal), a definable edge (usually in health care or technology) and a strong compliance process. Connect those three dots, and stock research is still alive and well on Wall Street. The downside: those are three hard-to-connect dots.
- Novel sourcing. Imagine that you have a lead on a great investment opportunity in West Africa - a new group of highly experienced mining professionals for the region has identified a promising new diamond field. How do you tell if the managers are on the up-and-up? You hire a team of ex-CIA and British intelligence officers to check it out. In less than a week they can ping their resources in the region and given you a written report detailing everyone involved in the venture. Where they went to school, any history of corruption, the whole ball of wax. This won't assure success, of course, but it does limit the possibility of fraud.
In short, stock research will make a comeback, and that return journey will likely come from two directions. The first will be technological. Any product that can systematically deliver quantitative business information in real-time to the increasing legions of automated trading systems and algorithmic investors will grow. The second path is more cyclical in nature. I can't but think old-school stock research, with sector analysts, is ultimately tied to the fortunes of the equity market. When those recover, interest in stock picking will as well. And for analysts and stock market investors, that inflection point cannot come too soon.
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Where have all those flowers gone? Remember Mary Meeker?
Evidently someone does......and just junked your ass.
Hi Mary! Where ya been?
It's a marketing game.
Will your favorite portfolio manager see the crash coming? The answer is 'no'.
The markets involving humans aren't coming back without the jailing of CORZINE, the return of structural career employment, and the death of skynet (...and sound money, and the end of trillion upon trillion of debt and unfunded liabilities and...).
Now gambling - that being the second oldest profession in the world - will still be around.
I'm pretty sure the second oldest profession is politician, or is that encompassed in protstitute?
Not sure that they are Ho's, cause it always feels like the politicians are Fuck'n ME! and not in any manner I prefer.
Even though I voted up, I can imagine this being offensive to prostitutes.
Prostitutes are far more noble than stock gurus....at least you get what you paid for.
With equities analysts you get screwed.....but it's not the good kind.
Exactly right. The Bankster's Scam continues on. Price is NOT truth. The HFTs, Goldman, JPMorgan Barclays along with other fraudulent banks rig it all.
The Banksters control interest rates, comodity prices and equity prices. It is all rigged and manipulated to be whatever price they want it to be.
Ever notice how short interest gets high and then the markets ramp up while nobody is actually buying anything. Where the hell is the SEC.
They front run all honest trades and then manipulate price to make it a bad trade. Unbelievable the worst I've seen in thirty years of trading.
I quit long ago. Own some PM's bought three or more years ago and thats it until it has a honest real crash. Let them steal somebody else's money.
Dark Pools own the markets from this date forward. We no longer have investable markets. It's Gone Forever because nobody wants to fix it.
What good is equity analysis anymore when traditional factors of value don't matter anymore, when stocks rise on central bank money injections and nothing else?
What good is equity analysis anymore when stocks rise 30% on central bank money injections while the currency those stocks are priced in loses 30% of it's value, leaving the investor with no real profit?
Equity analysis must have a stable monetary base to be worthwhile. The printing press must stay off.
"In short, stock research will make a comeback, and that return journey will likely come from two directions."
Dream on. It's like saying that well designed cars and girls with even a modicum of shame or men with at least a dollop of masculinity will return.
OVER. At the end of this shit-show is a wreck. Being in or out of it is a choice.
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The current econ/market thinking is symtomatic of a headwind little understood. Trying to cope with old tools, and inadequate theory, fighting to save old myths.
Look who is blamed. Bernank, and other things they know little of. Voicing the cure of returning to what got us here. Their defense against declining resources, cheap money, unbalanced wealth, is to buy another a shotgun or tank.
Your ignorance is your real enemy.
"Storage auctions"?? WTF??
Obviously everyone is in a desperate search for supposedly-underpriced assets - if any such still exist in a ZIRP world...
Just like the fools buying real estate now. Eternal optimists.
everybody expects to find 10k in each storage box and also thinks that in every box there are precious antiques or other second hand stuff.
the series looks funny but it's looking in the trash, nothing more.
so now we've become a society where people prey on other peoples junk and hope to sell it. clearly a lot of people buy second hand stuff also so that's even another story.
my god... what's next? golddiggers? crab fisherman? no... not the last one, that looks like real work.
You talking about common golddiggers or people who actually put shovel to dirt?
i'm talking about the kind of golddiggers on television who have no clue about what they're doing but hope to strike it rich in a month and who are totally bankrupt if things turn for the worst. look at the anger those guys have!
and than you have your generational golddiggers who work like beasts and who are succesfull and who think working hard is normal, and yet, they're not interesting enough to put on the show.
"The second path is more cyclical in nature. I can't but think old-school stock research, with sector analysts, is ultimately tied to the fortunes of the equity market."
tyler has put up several pieces about high cross-asset and cross-sector correlation saying that it's gotta change, too
ZIRP = flat = 1
altho this may not end well, it ain't over yet, BiCheZ!
everybody take the week off; with pay
The irony of this all is that the same stock analysts who tell you they would never invest in gold...would do wonderfully under the gold standard...for only under this standard, do relative prices matter in terms of productivity, of fundamentals of the assets. Only under the true gold standard, where Wicksell's natural rate of interest could be observed, would we need stock analysts to outperform. The rest, will only be a waste of time and will depend, with greater or lesser degree on the leveraging of the system and its counterpart: correlation.
I've been enjoying visiting left-wing sites to see the outrage over the Supreme Court's recent Citizens United decision. I'm particularly struck by one recurring trope--that the decision places the country squarely on the road to fascism; see, for example, the Huffington Post, but an internet search using the terms "Citizens United," "Supreme Court," and "fascism" yielded some 86,000 hits. Yes, I know that the whole "fascism-as-capitalism" theme was pushed hard by the Communists in the 1930s and 1940s, but it surprised me that marginally intelligent people believe it today. In fact, big business barely existed in the semi-industrialized economy of Mussolini's Italy, and it didn't fare well at all in Hitler's Germany. In fact, a couple of recent economic histories of Nazi Germany--Adam Tooze's The Wages of Destruction and Goetz Aly's Hitler's Beneficiaries--show how corporations were subjected to bureaucratic micromanagement, constant threats of expropriation, or imprisonment of their managers, and, in particular, crushing taxation. Aly points out that, from 1933 to 1939, the only tax that the Nazis significantly increased was the corporate income tax, which reached 60 percent by the final years of the war. Much of this, it should be added, went to fund a cradle-to-grave welfare state.
So where is the line about "corporate fascism" coming from? It seems that many of them have hit on this alleged quote by Mussolini: "Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power."
On the surface this would seem to be pretty damning; however, there's no evidence that Mussolini ever said it. A reading of his most important writing, "The Doctrine of Fascism", yields all sorts of references to a "corporative" system and a "corporate" state, but he clearly wasn't talking about business organizations. Rather, he was claiming that the role of the state was to play a harmonizing or balancing role among the various interests in the nation. In other words, fascism looks a lot more like progressivism than it does anything the Roberts Court mentioned in Citizens United. At the very least, the willingness of the Left to make such breathless claims gives the lie to the accusation that Tea Party-types are uniquely prone toward hyperbolic Hitler comparisons.
Fascism IS the corporate merger with the Nation State, PERIOD. Mussolini invented it and that's HOW he invented it.
Not that I disagree with the overall sentiment, but nobody (outside of 33K idiots) researches stocks by googling "STOCK RESEARCH". While "storage auctions" is a clear cut search description people looking for analysts or brokers can use 20 different search terms.
Millions have been forced to pull their investment money out of the market because they lost their jobs, their houses, their businesses, or they needed the money for their children who have also been driven to the wall.
Down to their last few hundred, or thousand dollars, they look around for a way to make a buck. On TV they see storage auctions, pawn shops, why not give it a try?
Next stop, scavenging for recycleable scrap.
It's probably more profitable more often to re-sell stuff left for junk that's actually good quality tools, gold, silver, jewelry and furniture. You still can't be a dimwit in picking and you need capital to invest (time & dollars) but you don't have someone DELIBERATELY falsifying the valuation (stocks, financials in particular) and the markup is WHAT YOU CHOOSE. You want a higher mark-up then DO NOT over-bid. It's that simple.
Fascism = national socialism. Communism = international socialism.
I don't think you know what that word means.
Fascism is CORPORATE governance merged into the Nation State. It is not ANY kind of socialism.
Socialism is NOT corporate control of any sort, it is the collective action of the people, PERHAPS with a government, PERHAPS without, PERHAPS CENTRALIZED, hopefully NOT centralized.


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OK...Can you tell me where I can find the steps and forms to dissolve it?
The process to dissolve a trust is usually quite simple. All you need to do is execute an amendment to the trust, simply stating that the trust is terminated on whatever effective date decide upon. Of course, that should be done after all the assets are transferred and the purpose of the trust has been fully met.
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On Lifetime's fashion reality TV competition, Project Runway, the final four designers go home to start working on a 10 piece collection to show the judges. Who will make it through to compete in the Mercedes Benz Fashion Week and who will go home? There's a twist tonight–keep reading to find out what happens!
Host, Heidi Klum tells the final four Anya Ayoung-Chee, Joshua McKinley, Kimberly Goldson, and Viktor Luna that they will be given $9,000 to create a 10 piece collection and only three designers will be able to compete in Fashion Week.
It's been three weeks and it's now time for mentor, Tim Gunn to hit the road and check on the status of the designers and their collections. He first travels to White Plains, Maryland to visit Kimberly. When he arrives, she shows him her work space and explains to him that the inspiration for her collection is an edgy urban girl. Tim likes what he sees and tells her to keep up the good work.
Next, Tim travels to Maraval, Trinidad to see Anya. After seeing pictures of a neighboring island, which is serving as her inspiration Tim asks to see some of her garments and she tells him she is having trouble drawing shapes. Tim advises her that from this point forward she needs to begin the construction phase because time is ticking.
Back in New York, NY Tim visits Viktor. His collections is called "Urban Coast" which is inspired by his trip to Mexico paired with a modern look. Tim is very impressed with Viktor's collection.
Finally, Tim checks in with Joshua also in New York. After seeing the pieces Joshua has designed for his collection, Tim suggests that some of the fabrics are "sad" and "homely" looking prompting Joshua to scrap them. Joshua now has to come up with a different inspiration for his collection as time is running out.
It's now time for New York Fashion Week. In order to select the three designers that will be showing at the Mercedes Benz Fashion Week, the judges want to see three looks from the contestants. After the four contenders meet for the first time since departing to go home and work on their collections, they unveil their designs in the work room. Tim meets with all of the designers again to see the three looks they're showing the judges. Tim is satisfied with what Viktor has selected, he tells Kimberly she needs to center herself and decide what she wants to use, he explains to Joshua that he needs to produce a cohesive look and tells Anya she has a lot of the same look.
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The judges are Michael Kors, Nina Garcia and Heidi. After watching three looks from the final four designers the judges bring them back out to talk about their looks. Three of the designers will be competing at Fashion Week and one person will be out. The judges deliberate and choose to send Joshua, Viktor, Kimberly and in a twist–Anya to Fashion Week. Therefore, no one goes home and the final four continue on in the competition!
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text: This is not new, on RF. It is actually from an old thread I began a few years ago. But when Vicki read it for the first time today it caused her to dissolve in tears. You see, even though I entitled it My Testimony in Verse, it is actually the testimony of ALL who ever turned from darkness to light, from self to Christ. Since we have so many new members, I thought I would share it with them. Not because of any poetic talent I may possess but in testimony to the amazing grace that our Lord bestows on us in love. May all who read it recall their own conversion and treasure even more their personal relationship and commitment to the God of their salvation. A SHORT TESTIMONY IN VERSE I thought upon the seep of time, the rush of all my days, And wondered why I hadn't stopped to think upon my ways Until the rod of His great love He placed into my life. By sadness and affliction, through suffering and strife, He brought me to the place in which I had to seek His will Or sink down even lower, and in my sin live still. I turned in fear and trembling and fell upon my face Before His throne, repenting, hoping for His grace. I wailed and wept—bemoaning the blackness of my sin! He heard me and He touched me and He gave me peace within. "My child," He said. "I've heard your cry. Your heart is now made pure By My Son's blood. You are made new: your destiny's now sure. If you hold fast to what you'll learn of Me and of My will And stand for Me—then through each storm I'll keep you standing still. My Word is truth, feed on it deep, and hide it in your heart. Walk in its light and from the path it lights do not depart. And as you grow in grace and strength and knowledge gleaned from Me. Do not allow your heart to swell, but keep humility, For I'm the Potter and you're the clay. My thoughts are far too high For you to grasp and understand and know all reasons why. But one thing hold tight to your heart—this must be understood: That all I bring into your life, I purpose for your good. Know all you have and all you hold is given by my hand That you might use it for the good of all your fellow man. To help the poor and orphans, the weak and those in chains To share with those whose lot is hard, and ease the sufferers' pains. That's what it means to know Me (that's written in my Word): So show your faith in actions and do that which you have heard. My Word can set the captives free and make the blind ones see Your mission is to share that Word so all may hear of Me. It's not your job, nor in your power, to save a single soul For it is I—and I alone—who makes a sinner whole. Just preach the good news of My Son to all I send you to, And you shall be a servant who is profitable and true. Now walk the course I've set for you and turn your eyes no more; But walk in faith, your gaze fixed firm on my celestial shore. And when your life is over and when your course is run, I'll take you home, I'll hold you close, and say, "My child, well done."


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"Congress' latest crack at a new assault weapons ban would exempt more than 2,200 specific firearms, including a semi-automatic rifle nearly identical to one of the guns used in the bloodiest shootout in FBI history," the AP reports. "President Obama has called for restoring a ban on military-style assault weapons and limiting the size of ammunition magazines. Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein has introduced a bill that would ban 157 specific firearms designed for military and law enforcement use and exempt those made for hunting. One model of the Ruger Mini-14 — used in the deadly 1986 FBI shootout — is on the list of banned guns. A different model is on the list of exempted firearms. Gun experts say the two firearms are equally deadly." Just what are they trying to say here? Whatever it is, exactly, I don't like it. And the fact that foxnews.com republished this ditty doesn't make me happy either. You?42